NSF-GEO-OPP Awards for 2020

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Collaborative Research: Regional impacts of increasing fire frequency on carbon dynamics and species composition in the boreal forest
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2020; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Melissa S Lucash($174,020), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Frequency And Climate, Black Spruce, Boreal Forest, Boreal Forests, Elementary Schools, Fast Pace, Fire Frequency, Fire Regime, Forests Worldwide, Hands-on Activities, Species Composition, Vegetation Types, Above-, Affect, Alaska, Amounts, Atmosphere, Belowground, Carbon, Causing, Conifer, Cycling, Disrupt, Ecosystems, Emergence, Field, Fires, Grasses, Hands-on, Has, Landscape, Long-term, Past, Permafrost, Projected, Quantify, Release, Shifts, Sink, Soil, Spatially, Stocks, Stored, Students, Thawing, Threatens, Warming, Worlds.

Collaborative Research: How fast do tidewater glaciers melt? Quantifying the processes that control boundary layer transport across the ice-ocean interface
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2020; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Meagan E Wengrove($1,963,346), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Rebecca H Jackson($414,312), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Salinity And Temperature, Warmer Ocean Water, Boundary Layer, Boundary Layers, Ice Melt, Ice Morphology, Melt Rates, Sea-level Rise, Acoustic, Buoyant, Calving, Control, Currents, Details, Directly, Discharge, Dynamics, Feedbacks, Fjord, Flows, Forcing, Glacier, Glaciers, High-resolution, Ice-ocean, Interface, Local, Marine-terminating, Measure, Measured, Melting, Meltwater, Mentorship, Model, Models, Near, Nvertical, Observations, Observe, Observed, Optical, Parameters, Predictions, Process, Processes, Program, ROV, Realistic, Relate, Small-scale, Space, Strength, Strong, Students, Theory, Tidewater, Time, Turbulent, Underwater, Velocity, Women.

Greenland Ice Sheet dynamic response to inland expansion of a hydrologically-active ice-sheet bed
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2020; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Jonathan Kingslake($722,623), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Controlling Water Access, Greenland Ice Sheet, Lakes And Moulins, Supraglacial Lake Formation, Surface And Englacial, Englacial Strain, Ice Sheet’s, Ice-sheet Bed, Ice-sheet Surface, Sea-level Rise, Supraglacial Lakes, Surface Deformation, Surface Melt, Surface-to-bed Meltwater, Upper-ablation Zone, York City, Dynamic, Flow, Hydro-fracture, Ice-sheet, Inland, Mid-, Observations, Postdoctoral, Predicting, Processes, Regions, Sea-level, Stress, Stresses, Surface-to-bed, Upper-ablation, Velocity.

Determining the future of polar bears in a warming world Understanding the occurrence and cost benefit of terrestrial foraging and the implications of increased land use
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2020; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Charles T Robbins($741,985), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Energy Expenditure Measured, Fat And Protein, Sea Ice Habitat, Sea Ice Loss, Access Seals, Arctic Food, Doubly Labeled, Energy Coming, Isotopic Water, Land-based Foods, Polar Bear, Polar Bears, Allow, Amount, Available, Behavior, Body, Changing, Climate, Critical, Degree, Difference, Distribution, Effects, Energetic, Feeding, Implications, Information, Land-based, Lose, Meet, Mobilized, Prey, Primary, Rates, Species, Techniques, Warming, Weight.

Collaborative Research: GreenDrill: The response of the northern Greenland Ice Sheet to Arctic Warmth - Direct constrains from sub-ice bedrock
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2020; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Gisela Winckler($1,522,711), Columbia University, New York
2. Robert M DeConto($449,265), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
3. Jason P Briner($576,568), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
4. Sridhar Anandakrishnan($458,887), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Greenland Ice Sheet, Mechanisms And Climate, Sea Level Rise, Climate Forcing, Cosmogenic Nuclides, Northern Greenland, Past Periods, Bedrock, Future, Greendrill, Gris, Inform, Scenarios, Sites, Students.

Collaborative Research: CHemistry in the Arctic-Clouds, Halogens, and Aerosols (CHACHA)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2020; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Kerri A Pratt($664,051), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. Christine A Hrycyna($274,656), Purdue University, West Lafayette
3. William R Simpson($325,007), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
4. Jose D Fuentes($316,399), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
5. Paul B Shepson($398,226), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Atmospheric Halogen Chemistry, Rapidly Changing Arctic, Atmospheric Chemistry, Chemical Composition, North Slope, Sea Ice, Size Distributions, Activities, Aerosol, Aircraft, Alaska, Atmosphere, CHACHA, Cloud, Downwind, Gases, Leads, Mentor, Models, Observations, Outreach, Particle, Photochemical, Plans, Pollutants, Regions, Students, Surface, Various, Water.

Collaborative Proposal: CHemistry in the Artic: Clouds, Halogens and Aerosols (CHACHA) Field Campaign
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2020; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Sara Lance($410,295), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Atmospheric Halogen Chemistry, Rapidly Changing Arctic, Atmospheric Chemistry, Chemical Composition, North Slope, Sea Ice, Size Distributions, Activities, Aerosol, Aircraft, Alaska, Atmosphere, CHACHA, Cloud, Downwind, Gases, Leads, Mentor, Models, Observations, Outreach, Particle, Photochemical, Plans, Pollutants, Regions, Students, Surface, Various, Water.

EAGER SitS:Collaborative Research:Projecting Arctic soil and ecosystem responses to warming using SCAMPS: A stoichiometrically coupled, acclimating microbe-plant-soil model
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Seeta Sistla($97,432), California Polytechnic State University Foundation, San Luis Obispo
Key terms: Future Carbon Balance, Arctic Soils, Arctic Terrestrial, Experimental Manipulations, Acclimation, Advance, Approach, Ecosystems, Microbial, Plant, Processes, Release, Tundra, Undergraduate, Warming.

Collaborative Research: A North Pacific ice core record of summer climate and wildfire history during the last 1500 years
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Erich Osterberg($142,031), Dartmouth College, Hanover
2. Eric S Saltzman($205,084), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
3. Cameron P Wake($85,894), University of New Hampshire, Durham
4. Dominic A Winski($137,419), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Climate And Wildfire, Denali Ice Core, Medieval Climate Anomaly, North Pacific Region, Pacific Fire Regime, Summer Atmospheric Circulation, Ice Cores, Summer Climate, Activity, Alaska, Archive, Biomass, Black, Compilation, Conditions, Developed, Especially, Fire-related, Increase, Instrumental, Kits, MCA, Paleoclimate, Paleofire, Participation, Regional, Students, Time, Unique, Warm.

Seasonality of Abrupt Climate Change over Greenland: Direct Tests for the Younger Dryas and 8.2 ka event using Paleolimnology
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Magdalena R Osburn($640,580), Northwestern University, Evanston
Key terms: Future Abrupt Climate, Ice Sheet Retreated, Leaf Wax Δ2h, Air Temperatures, Climate Models, Greenland Ice, Ice Cores, North Atlantic, Resolving Seasonality, Wax Δ2h, Annual, Assess, Build, Calibration, Clarify, Cold, Comparisons, Diverse, Evidence, Glacier, Insect, Ka, Methods, Outreach, Past, Proxies, Quantitative, Rare, Reconstructions, School, Season-specific, Sediment, Skills, Students, Summer, Teachers, Terrestrial, YD, Δh.

Collaborative Research: The Demise Of The World's Largest Piedmont Glacier
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. John W Holt($299,706), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Kristin M Timm($841,051), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
3. Douglas J Brinkerhoff($300,580), University of Montana, Missoula
Key terms: Elias National Park, Malaspina Glacier, Mass Balance, Alaska, Climate, Coastal, Coastline, Effects, Evolution, Future, Has, Ice, Lakes, Landscape, Largest, Main, Marine, Model, Modern, Moraine, Ocean, Ongoing, Online, Potential, Proglacial, Retreat, Retreats, Scenarios, Surface, Terrestrial, Thickness, Thinning, Uncertainties, Underside, Visitor, Wrangell-st.

Flexural Fatigue of Saline Ice
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Erland M Schulson($528,477), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Sea Ice Cover, Fatigue Failure, Fatigue Life, Ocean Waves, Paper Clip, Antarctic, Behavior, Bending, Cycles, Degrees, Flexing, Hz, In-situ, Increase, Increases, Laboratory, Micro-cracks, Oceans, Owing, Rate, Stress, Time.

Collaborative Research: Freeze-on of Subglacial Sediments in Experiments and Theory
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2020; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Alan Rempel($92,468), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
2. Lucas K Zoet($275,101), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
3. Colin R Meyer($330,715), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Ice Infiltration, Ice-sediment Interface, Laboratory Experiments, Sea-level Rise, Central, Experimentally, Glacier, Ice-sediment, Ice-sheet, Mathematical, Models, Premelting, Pressure, Sea-level, Sediments, Subglacial, Summer, Temperature, Theoretically, Uncertainty.

Collaborative Research: Initiation, Propagation, and Termination: Understanding coupled hydrologic and glacier dynamic instabilities from the surge of Turner Glacier
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2020; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Ellyn M Enderlin($529,627), Boise State University, Boise
2. Timothy C Bartholomaus($671,486), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
Key terms: Glacier Flow, Glacier Hydrology, Glacier Loss, Glacier Surge, Ice Flow, Turner Glacier, Broad, Controls, Dramatic, Glaciers, Glaciology, Global, Hydrologic, In-situ, Initiation, Insights, Instabilities, Modeling, Models, Propagation, Rapid, Termination, Water.

Collaborative Research: A High Resolution Multi-Tracer Biogeochemical Study of the Pacific Arctic
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2020; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Miguel A Goni($601,347), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Dean A Stockwell($375,841), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Particulate Organic Matter, Carbon Dioxide, Pacific Arctic, Composition, Dissolved, Distribution, Observations, Oxygen, Phytoplankton, Processes, Productivity, Region, Simultaneous, Size.

Understanding Firn Rheology Through Laboratory Compaction Experiments and Radar Data
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2020; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Rob M Skarbek($824,833), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Axial Stress, Firn Compaction, Firn Rheology, Grain-size Evolution, Ice Cores, Ice Sheets, Ice-penetrating Radar, Laboratory Experiments, Past Climate, Altimetry, Antarctica, Compacts, Density, Estimates, Grain-size, Ice-core, Ice-penetrating, Ice-sheet, Lab-based, Mass, Measure, Model, Numerical, Rate, Sea-level, Temperature, Temperatures.

Collaborative Research: The physical and chemical dynamics of groundwater flow across the land-sea interface in Arctic lagoon ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2020; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Matthew A Charette($527,644), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Meinhard B Cardenas($794,976), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Alaskan Beaufort Sea, Beaufort Sea Coast, Mechanisms And Pathways, Groundwater Flow, Land-lagoon Interface, Arctic, Biogeochemical, Coastal, Content, Field, Inorganic, Knowledge, Lagoons, Land-lagoon, Modeling, Organic, Processes, Students, Transport.

Emergence of beavers as ecosystem engineers in the New Arctic
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2019; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Benjamin V Gaglioti($800,000), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Arctic Tundra, Beaver Expansion, Beaver Habitat, Satellite Imagery, Temperate Ecosystems, Tundra Regions, Alaska, Altering, Beavers, Compare, Document, Effects, Field, Forest, Local, Permafrost, Ponds, Riparian, Stream, Streams.

Design Development of Innovative High Throughput CMB Telescope for the South Pole
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2020; Program: ANT Astrophys & Geospace Sci

1. Bradford Benson($2,031,009), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Cosmic Inflation, South Pole, Background, CMB, Detection, Development, Larger, Mirror, PGW, Pgws, Physics, Primary, SPTMA, Search, Signal, Telescope, Universe.

Antarctic and Conjugate Research using SuperDARN
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: ANT Astrophys & Geospace Sci

1. William A Bristow($376,349), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Ionospheric Convection, Magnetic Field, Polar Caps, Polar Regions, Solar Wind, Superdarn Radars, Coupling, Currents, Dayside, Earth, Flow, Geospace, Ionosphere, Nsf-funded, Observe, Plasma, Respective, Strong, Structures, Via.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Orbital-scale Variability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and the Formation of Bottom Water in the Ross Sea during the Pliocene-Pleistocene
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Jeanine L Ash($79,851), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
2. Molly Patterson($125,661), SUNY at Binghamton, Binghamton
3. Denise K Kulhanek($57,598), Texas A&M University, College Station
4. Brian Romans($203,475), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Antarctic Ice Sheet, Ice Sheet-ocean Interactions, Aabw Outflow, Global Warming, Grain Size, Ice Sheet-ocean, Ice Sheets, Orbital Forcing, Organic Matter, Ross Sea, Sheet-ocean Interactions, Southern Ocean, Time Period, AIS, Abundance, Antarctica, Carbon, Climate, Core, Current, Description, Directly, Export, Extent, Future, History, Imaging, Insolation, Integrated, Knowledge, Layer, Led, Levels, Marine, Million, Obliquity, Offshore, Orbital-forcing, Past, Pliocene, Processes, Properties, Regime, Respond, Rise, Sediment, Sedimentary, Sets, Unified.

Collaborative Research: Reconstructing Temperatures during the Mid-Pliocene Warm Period in the McMurdo Dry Valleys with Cosmogenic Noble Gases
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2020; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Darryl E Granger($281,913), Purdue University, West Lafayette
2. Jennifer L Lamp($161,436), Columbia University, New York
3. Gregory A Balco($29,736), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
Key terms: Cosmogenic Noble Gas, Ice Sheet Melting, Indirect Geologic Observations, Mcmurdo Dry Valleys, Mid-pliocene Warm Period, Rock And Air, Air Temperatures, Climate Models, Climate Substitute, Cng Paleothermometry, Cosmogenic 3he, Erosion Rates, Ice Sheets, Mid-pliocene Warm, Polar Amplification, Polar Regions, Sea Level, Surface Temperatures, Thermal Histories, Ago, Antarctica, Constraints, Cosmic-ray, Current, Diffusion, Earth’s, Exposed, Exposure, Future, Global, Interval, Low, Magnitude, Million, Past, Quantify, Radiative, Respond, Sensitivity, Similar, Suggest, Time, Via, Warming, Was.

Collaborative Research: Unearthing Antarctica's role in the Late Cretaceous Evolution of Flowering Plants
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2020; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Selena Y Smith($311,318), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. Brian A Atkinson($488,934), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Angiosperm Reproductive Structures, Flowering Plant Evolution, Flowers And Fruits, James Ross Basin, Cretaceous Diversification, Flowering Plants, Late Cretaceous, Late Cretaceous-aged, Modern Ecosystems, Phylogenetic Framework, Southern Hemisphere, West Antarctica, Western Antarctica, Ago, Angiosperms, Antarctica’s, Biogeographic, Context, Cretaceous-aged, Description, Discoveries, Elucidate, Essential, Evolutionary, Fossil, Fossils, Frameworks, Has, Indicate, Million, Period, Placed, Placing, Species.

Collaborative Research: Seismic Investigation of the Sub-ice Environment and Crustal Composition of Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Douglas A Wiens($119,218), Washington University, Saint Louis
2. Weisen Shen($262,933), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Antarctic Ice Sheet, Ice Sheet Sets, Noise And Earthquakes, Receiver Function Waveforms, Thickness And Poissons, Ambient Noise, Chemical Composition, Crustal Architecture, Geological Evolution, Poissons Ratio, Rayleigh Wave, Sedimentary Layer, Seismic Stations, Silica Content, Underlying Crust, Wave Dispersion, Analysis, Anisotropy, Antarctica, Base, Beneath, Boundary, Condition, Contact, Continent, Detailed, Determination, Determining, Geology, HV, Ice-sheet, Information, Isotropic, Maps, Modeling, Moving, Notably, Past, Porous, Produce, Properties, Ratios, Sites, Speed, Structure, Sub-ice.

EAGER: Collaborative Research: Mapping Melting Glacial Surfaces with GNSS Reflectometry
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Alison F Banwell($192,313), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Seebany Datta-Barua($344,675), Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
Key terms: Navigation Satellite, Surface Water, Characterizing, Continuously, Effective, Environment, Firn, GNSS, GNSS-R, GPS, Glaciated, Global, Ice, Mcmurdo, Method, Monitoring, Near, Positioning, Radar, Receiver, Reflections, Reflectometry, Signal, Signals, Snow, Specifically, Surfaces, Wet.

EAGER: Lowering the detection threshold of Antarctic seismicity to reveal undiscovered intraplate deformation
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. JENNY S NAKAI($246,017), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Moderate Magnitude Earthquakes, Antarctic Rift, Current Catalog, Earthquake Detection, Earthquakes Missing, Field Expedition, Interior Antarctica, Seismic Deployments, Continent, Discovered, Distribution, East, Future, Girls, Has, Permanent, Previously, Rock, Seismicity, Stations, Techniques, Tectonic, Temporary, West.

Collaborative Research: Multi-Parameter Geophysical Constraints on Volcano Dynamics of Mt. Erebus and Ross Island, Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2020; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Ronni Grapenthin($25,735), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Mount Erebus Volcano, Existing Gps, Ross Island, Abstract, Activity, Antarctica, Available, Campaign, Consistent, Continuous, Crust, Decades, Deformation, Dynamics, Inform, Interactions, Lava, Magmatic, Models, Time, Underlying, Volcanic, Volcanoes.

Collaborative Research: Testing the Linchpin of WAIS Collapse with Diatoms and IRD in Pleistocene and Late Pliocene Strata of the Resolution Drift, Amundsen Sea, Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2020; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Reed P Scherer($324,889), Northern Illinois University, Dekalb
2. Christine S Siddoway($55,449), Colorado College, Colorado Springs
Key terms: Antarctic Ice Sheet, Diatom And Ird, Ice Sheet Collapse, West Antarctic Ice, Amundsen Sea, Graduate Students, Iceberg Rafted, Southern Ocean, Analysis, Analyzing, Antarctica, Conditions, Contribute, Cores, Deep, Deep-sea, Diverse, Evidence, Future, Glacial-interglacial, Icebergs, Indicate, Intervals, Million, Models, Occurred, Oceanographic, Outreach, Past, Pebbles, Productivity, Public, Sediment, Sites, Time, Timing, Undergraduate, WAIS, Warming.

Improving the Resolution of Heat Flux Estimates Across Antarctica Using Recent-Generation Seismic Models
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2020; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Michael H Ritzwoller($235,888), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Basal Heat Flux, Infer Heat Flux, Models And Heat, Subglacial Heat Flux, Heat Flow, Seismic Models, Accuracy, Antarctica, Based, Bases, Canada, Central, China, Crust, Europe, Extrapolation, Glacial, Global, Ice, Improvements, Indirect, Information, Mantle, Map, Method, Methods, Notably, Past, Properties, Regional-scale, Solid, World.

Collaborative Proposal: Miocene Climate Extremes: A Ross Sea Perspective from IODP Expedition 374 and DSDP Leg 28 Marine Sediments
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2020; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Justin P Dodd($125,601), Northern Illinois University, Dekalb
2. Amelia Shevenell($434,524), University of South Florida, Tampa
3. Robert M Leckie($352,081), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Antarctica’s Ice Sheets, Geochemical And Micropaleontologic, Heat And Moisture, Prograding Ross Sea, Ross Sea Continental, Sea Continental Shelf, Antarctic Ice, Antarctica’s Glaciers, Antarctica’s Ice, Atmospheric Temperature, Ice Expansion, Late Miocene, Marine Ecosystems, Middle Miocene, Miocene Climate, Ocean Circulation, Ocean Temperature, Site U1521, Ago, Assess, Deposited, Depth, Earth’s, Expanded, Extent, Glacial, Global, High-latitude, IODP, Immediately, Input, Integrated, Interactions, Interval, Intervals, Legacy, MCO, MMCT, Melting, Mud, Ocean-ice, Oceanic, Ongoing, Optimum, Orbital-scale, Past, Program, Recovered, Regional, Required, Respond, Retreat, Sediments, Sequences, Students, Unit, Warm, Warming, Was, Water, Weathering.

A Non-amniote Perspective on the Recovery from the End-Permian Extinction at High Latitudes: Paleobiology of Early Triassic Temnospondyls from Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2020; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Christian A Sidor($322,279), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Shackleton Glacier Region, Fossil Amphibians, Fremouw Formation, Mass Extinction, Permanent Ice, Remarkable Collection, Antarctic, Antarctica, Evolution, Exhibit, Fossils, Identification, Insights, Interval, Light, Lower, Overall, Pangea, Previously, Recovered, Rock, Southern, Species, Temnospondyls, Terrestrial, Tetrapod, Triassic, Vertebrate, Washington.

Collaborative Research: The Magmatic and Eruptive System of Mount Erebus Volcano, Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Ronni Grapenthin($226,033), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Noise And Eruption, Ambient Noise, Cutting Edge, Ross Island, Seismic Network, Activity, Allow, Analyzed, Archived, Broadband, Catalog, Coda, Conduit, Continuous, Crust, Deeper, Developed, Edifice, Erebus, Existing, Frequency, GPS, Has, Imaging, Magmatic, Methods, Monitoring, Real-time, Scattering, Short-period, Signal, Signals, Stations, Structural, Structure, Techniques, Volcanic, Volcano, Volcanos, Yround.

Collaborative Research: Reconstructing Late Holocene Ecosystem and Climate Shifts from Peat Records in the Western Antarctic Peninsula
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2018; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Robert K Booth($384,404), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
Key terms: Coastal Low-elevation Terrestrial, Ecosystem And Climate, Western Antarctic Peninsula, Coastal Low-elevation, Late Holocene, Low-elevation Terrestrial, Peat Deposits, Terrestrial Ecosystems, AP, Assess, Cores, Cryosphere, Dynamics, Glacial, Has, Ice, Insight, Observed, Past, Rate, Region, Sediments, Time, Transformations.

Collaborative Research: EAGER: Development of a Method for Paired Potassium/Argon Geochronology and Strontium-Neodymium-Lead Radiogenic Isotope Geochemistry of Dust in Ice Cores
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2020; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Steven L Goldstein($82,691), Columbia University, New York
2. Bess G Koffman($126,498), Colby College, Waterville
Key terms: Lead Isotopes, Sediment Provenance, Approach, Colby, Compositions, Cores, Dust, Geochemical, Has, Ice, Ocean, Past, Potassiumargon, Potential, Resetting, Rock, Sediments, Sites, Sources, Southern, Value.

A New Instrument and Measurement Approach to Cryo-Seismogeodesy: Monitoring Antarctic Ice Shelf Stability Using Ice Penetrators
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Pedro Elosegui($939,631), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Antarctic Ice Sheet, Antarctic Ice Shelves, Ice Shelf Near, Ross Ice Shelf, Seismogeodetic Ice Penetrator, Land-based Ice, Satellite Link, Sea-level Rise, Single Instrument, Air-dropped, Atmospheric, Challenges, Climate, Conditions, Critical, Discharge, Dropped, Engineering, Helicopter, Ice-shelf, Instruments, Land-based, Mass, Mcmurdo, Melting, Ocean, Onto, Physics, Reference, Sea-level, Season, Sensors, Stability, Time.

Collaborative Research: An Ice Core from Hercules Dome, East Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2020; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Murat Aydin($128,686), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
2. Tyler J Fudge($520,925), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Antarctic Ice Sheet, West Antarctic Ice, Hercules Dome, Ice Core, Interglacial Period, Sea Level, Antarctica, Conditions, Deep, Degrees, Ice-core, Ice-sheet, Obtained, Recovery, Warm, Was.

NSFGEO-NERC:Collaborative Research: A New Mechanistic Framework for Modeling Rift Processes in Antarctic Ice Shelves Validated through Improved Strain-rate and Seismic Observations
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2020; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Brent Minchew($521,780), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Bradley P Lipovsky($362,278), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Brunt Ice Shelf, Tabular Iceberg Calving, Active Rift, Grounded Ice, Ice Sheet, Ice Shelves, Ice-flow Models, Ice-shelf Rifting, Mass Loss, Rift Propagation, Sea-level Rise, Tabular Icebergs, Agreement, Aims, Antarctica, Budget, Collected, Combination, Confidently, Detailed, Drivers, Floating, Has, Ice-flow, Ice-shelf, Inform, Joint, Knowledge, Modeling, Observations, Processes, Projections, Proportion, Rifts, Sea-level, Stresses, Tips, Vicinity.

Collaborative Research: Water on the Antarctic Ice Sheet: Quantifying Surface Melt and Mapping Supraglacial Lakes
Award Effective Date: 09/24/2019; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Luke D Trusel($63,840), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Antarctic Surface Melt, Antarctic Ice, Climate Model, Supraglacial Lakes, Conditions, Formation, Future, Ice-shelf, Numerical, Observations, Sea-level, Spatial, Time.

EAGER: Collaborative Research: Shallow Cased Drilling Capabilities in Extreme Environments
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2020; Program: ANT Instrum & Facilities

1. Robert L Woodward($128,727), Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Washington
2. Glen S Mattioli($19,578), Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Washington
Key terms: Extreme Environments, Helicopter-portable Drilling, Mt Erebus, Seismic Sensors, Abstract, Antarctica, Benefit, Capability, Conditions, Demonstration, Difficult, Helicopter-portable, Install, Installations, Less, Nuances, Particular, Posthole-style, Quality, Regions, Seismologists, Seismometers, Signals, Sites, Suitable, Summit, Vibrations, Volcano, Volcanoes.

Collaborative Research: Laser Cutting Technology for Borehole Sampling
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2020; Program: ANT Instrum & Facilities

1. Merlin L Mah($318,164), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
2. Andrei V Kurbatov($49,812), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Ice Core, Ice Sheets, Polar Ice, Borehole, Coring, Drilled, Drills, Existing, Ice-core, Instrument, Laser, Laser-cut, Past, Rapidly, Retrieve, Retrieved, Sampling, Technology.

Collaborative Research: EAGER: A Dual-Band Radar for Measuring Internal Ice Deformation: a Multipass Ice-Penetrating Radar Experiment on Thwaites Glacier and the McMurdo Ice Shelf
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2020; Program: ANT Instrum & Facilities

1. Fernando Rodriguez-Morales($216,082), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
2. Knut Christianson($81,876), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Future Ice-sheet Behavior, Past And Future, Future Ice-sheet, Glacier Geometry, Ice-sheet Behavior, Map Internal, Repeat Profiles, Sea Level, Uhf Antenna, Array, Developed, Displacement, Enable, Flow, Frequency, Layer, Mhz, Phase, Radar, Simulations, VHF, Velocities, Vertical.

EAGER: Pilot Fiber Seismic Networks at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2020; Program: ANT Instrum & Facilities

1. Zhongwen Zhan($299,994), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Amundsen-scott South Pole, Distributed Acoustic Sensing, South Pole Station, Amundsen-scott South, Glacial Ice, Structurally Image, Ambient, Array, Cable, Crust, DAS, Explore, Fiber, Firn, Local, Mantle, Natural, Noise, Polar, Seismic, Signals, Technology, Variously.

ANT LIA: Collaborative Research: Genetic Underpinnings of Microbial Interactions in Chemically Stratified Antarctic Lakes
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2020; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. Brandon R Briggs($443,157), University of Alaska Anchorage Campus, Anchorage
2. Rachael M Morgan-Kiss($306,748), Miami University, Oxford
3. Cristina D Takacs-Vesbach($267,253), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Microbial Network Complexity, Ecosystem Function, Microbial Interactions, Summer Vs, Activities, Activity, Antarctic, Approaches, Biogeochemical, Description, Dry, Ecosystems, Environmental, Factors, Field, Gradients, Influence, Lake, Light, Metabolic, Microbes, Models, Nutrients, Outreach, Oxygen, Participation, Program, Seasons, Single-cell, Specific, Sulfur, Teacher, Training, Valley, Winter.

Collaborative Research: Building Geologically Informed Bed Classes to Improve Projections of Ice Sheet Change
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2020; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. David F Porter($657,466), Columbia University, New York
2. Atsuhiro Muto($174,216), Temple University, Philadelphia
Key terms: Antarctic Ice Sheet, Amundsen Sea, Antarctic Continent, Bed Classes, Ice-sheet Models, Antarctica, Faults, Flow, Framework, Geologic, Geological, Geology, Geophysical, Has, Ice-sheet, Knowledge, Regional, Rely, Tested, “bed.

Uncertainty and Mechanisms of Antarctica's Changing Snowfall and its Role in Sea Level Change
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2020; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. Jan Lenaerts($606,798), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Antarctic Precipitation, Atmospheric Circulation, Climate Model, Ice Sheet, AIS, CESM, Conditions, Does, Driven, Ensemble, Forced, Internal, Ocean, Particular, Present-day, Processes, Resolution, Snowfall, Spread, Surface, Uncertainty, Warming.

Seasonal Primary Productivity and Nitrogen Cycling in Photosynthetic Mats, Lake Fryxell, McMurdo Dry Valleys
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2020; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. Dawn Y Sumner($954,271), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Benthic Mats, Gene Expression, Install Environmental, Lake Fryxell, Pore Water, Analyses, Antarctic, Field, Geochemical, Insights, Interact, Leaders, Measure, Microbial, Oxygen, Ranging, Removed, Seasonal, Shades, Spring, Summary, Summer, Techniques, Winter.

NSFGEO-NERC Pliocene Sea Level Amplitudes (PLIOAMP)
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. Robert M DeConto($294,998), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Antarctic Ice Sheet, Future Sea-level Projections, Future Sea-level, Sea Level, Sea-level Estimates, Sea-level Projections, Sea-level Rise, Simulate Ice-volume, Agreement, Aims, Amplitude, Budget, Cycles, Failure, Ice-sheet, Ice-volume, Joint, Marine, Model, Models, Pliocene, Proportion, Required, Sectors, Shorelines, Uncertain, Validate.

NSFGEO-NERC: Integrating Individual Personality Differences in the Evolutionary Ecology of a Seabird in the Rapidly Changing Polar Environment
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. Stephanie Jenouvrier($630,998), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Life History Strategies, Personality And Foraging, Reproduction And Survival, Changing Environment, Eco-evolutionary Model, Foraging Behaviors, Future Global, Phenotypic Plasticity, Population Dynamics, Southern Ocean, Wandering Albatross, Breeding, Characterize, Climate, Conditions, Continuum, Description, Differences, Eco-evolutionary, Effort, Has, Heritability, Individual, Individuals, Link, NSF, Personalities, Projections, Public, Resources, Species, Students, Traits.

ANT LIA Collaborative Research: Interrogating Molecular and Physiological Adaptations in Antarctic Marine Animals.
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2020; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. Joseph F Ryan($138,552), University of Florida, Gainesville
2. Scott Santagata($152,204), Long Island University, Greenvale
Key terms: Disparate Environments, Environmental Conditions, Marine Environments, Phylogenetic Framework, Adaptations, Animals, Antarctic, Bryozoan, Bryozoans, Computational, Critical, Enzymes, Found, Genes, Genetic, Genomic, Invertebrate, Involved, Life, Organisms, Polar, Potential, Taxa, Unique, Workshops.

The Antarctic Ice Sheet Large Ensemble (AISLENS) Project: Assessing the Role of Climate Variability in Past and Future Ice Sheet Mass Loss
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2020; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. Alexander A Robel($430,595), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Antarctic Climate Forcing, Antarctic Ice Loss, Antarctic Ice Sheet, Sea Level Rise, Climate Forcing, AISLENS, Analysis, Atmospheric, Attribution, Context, Engineering, Evolution, Future, Ice-sheet, Interdisciplinary, Internal, Melt, Model, Modeling, Observations, Output, Past, Range, Realizations, Simulations, State-of-the-art, Student, Uncertainty, Undergraduate.

LTER Palmer, Antarctica (PAL): Land-Shelf-Ocean Connectivity, Ecosystem Resilience and Transformation in a Sea-Ice Influenced Pelagic Ecosystem
Award Effective Date: 01/28/2020; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. Hugh W Ducklow($1,726,837), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Palmer Antarctica Lter, Foodweb Structure, Sea Ice, Biogeochemical, Climate, Cover, Cycling, Duration, Ecosystem, Has, Influence, Local, Marine, Oceanographic, Responding, Site, Stratification, Time.

Collaborative Research: Polynyas in Coastal Antarctica (PICA): Linking Physical Dynamics to Biological Variability
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. Yun Li($52,658), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Antarctic Coastal Polynyas, Local And Large-scale, Biological Productivity, Large-scale Environmental, Polynya Ecosystems, Activities, Analysis, Biophysical, Ecology, Examine, Forcing, Formation, Growth, Ice, Interdisciplinary, Modeling, Ocean, Overall, Penguin, Penguins, Phytoplankton, Population, Sea-ice, Set, Survival, Timing, Water.

Collaborative Research: The Antarctic Circumpolar Current: A Conduit or Blender of Antarctic Bottom Waters?
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Sarah G Purkey($64,774), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Andrew F Thompson($263,756), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
3. Andrew L Stewart($344,969), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Global Circulation, Global Ocean, Northern Basins, AABW, ACC, Antarctic, Coast, Collaborative, Extreme, Formed, Has, Northward, Sea, Suggested, Transport.

High Resolution Underway Air-Sea Observations in Drake Passage for Climate Science
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2020; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Teresa K Chereskin($676,633), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Describe And Relate, Seasonal And Long-term, Drake Passage, ACC, ADCP, Antarctic, Current, Gould, Laurence, Ocean, Time, Underway.

CAREER: The Transformation, Cross-shore Export, and along-shore Transport of Freshwater on Antarctic Shelves
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2020; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Carlos F Moffat($734,550), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Coastal Currents, Water Mass, Antarctic, Component, Continent, Field, Freshwater, Ice, Inputs, Lectures, Outputs, Outreach, Polar, Public, Sources.

COLLABORATIVE: Population Growth at the Southern Extreme: Effects of Early Life Conditions on Adelie penguin Individuals and Colonies
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2020; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Rachael Orben($802,648), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Annie E Schmidt($3,713,304), Point Reyes Bird Observatory, Petaluma
Key terms: Juvenile Adélie Penguins, Colony Growth, Environmental Conditions, Foraging Behavior, Penguin-borne Sensors, Polar Regions, Ross Sea, Sea Ice, Activities, Assess, Biologging, Demographic, Description, Effects, Efforts, Gt, Influence, Level, Life, Literacy, Multiple, Natal, Penguin-borne, Population, Post-fledging, Relative, Salinity, Season, Students, Survival, Temperature, Track.

RAPID: Monographing the Antarctic and Subantarctic Cumacea
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Sarah A Gerken($71,397), University of Alaska Anchorage Campus, Anchorage
Key terms: Comma Shrimp, Animals, Antarctic, Benthic, Charismatic, Common, Cumaceans, Description, Ethanol, Exist, Monograph, Sampling, Species, Vertebrates.

Collaborative Research: Exploring the Functional Role of Antarctic Plants during Terrestrial Succession
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Becky A Ball($333,489), Arizona State University, Tempe
2. Todd N Rosenstiel($520,768), Portland State University, Portland
Key terms: Glacial Succession Gradients, Microbial And Invertebrate, Plant Functional Traits, Antarctic Peninsula, Early-colonizing Plants, Glacial Retreat, Greening Antarctica, Relative Effects, Succession Sites, AIM, Abundance, Aims, Alter, Biogeochemistry, Century, Climate, Comprehensive, Continue, Early-colonizing, Expansion, Experiment, Interactions, Lichens, Manipulative, Measure, Newly-exposed, Nutrient, Organisms, Process, Processes, Properties, Referred, Soil, Students, Surveys, Training, Warming, Water.

2021 Polar Marine Science GRC and GRS
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2020; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Patricia A Matrai($19,180), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Polar Marine, Polar Regions, Ample, Aspects, Challenges, Emphasis, GRC, GRS, Gordon, Held, International, Participation, Students, Topic.

RAPID: Meta-genomic and Transcriptomic Investigation of Complex Organic Matter Degradation in Antarctic Benthic Sediments
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2020; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Deric Learman($98,380), Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant
Key terms: Antarctica Degrade Complex, Complex Organic Matter, Benthic Microbial, Coastal Shelf, Genetic Potential, Marine Sediments, Activity, Alter, Chemical, Chemistry, Create, Current, Degradation, Directly, Enzymatic, Enzyme, Examine, Function, Knowledge, Life, Metagenomic, Microbes, Sea, Temperature.

ANT LIA: Collaborative Research: Evolutionary Patterns and Mechanisms of Trait Diversification in the Antarctic Notothenioid Radiation
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Matthew Harris($144,988), Children's Hospital Corporation, Boston
Key terms: Antifreeze Glycoproteins, Genetic Mechanisms, Kidney Glomeruli, Southern Ocean, Biology, Bone, Buoyancy, Dataset, Description, Evolution, Evolutionary, Fish, Genomic, Gt, Loss, Notothenioid, Notothenioids, Reduction, Species, Students, Teaching, Traits, Undergraduate.

CAREER: Foraging Ecology and Physiology of Emperor Penguins in the Ross Sea
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Birgitte I McDonald($935,931), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
Key terms: Ecology And Habitat, Inter And Intra-individual, Acquire Food, Critical Periods, Emperor Penguins, Foraging Behavior, Foraging Efficiency, Foraging Energetics, Graduate Students, Habitat Preference, Integrate Penguin, Intra-individual Behavioral, Late Chick-rearing, Life History, Penguin Foraging, Camp, Chick-rearing, Colony, Constrained, Designed, Diet, Ecological, Ecosystem, Environment, Environmental, Essential, Feed, Framework, Inter-, Investigate, Knowledge, Loggers, Marine, Mechanisms, Molt, NSF, Physiological, Predators, Reproduction, Success, Survival, Target, Training, Underrepresented, Video.

Quantifying Processes Driving Interannual Variability in the Biological Carbon Pump in the Western Antarctic Peninsula
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2020; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Michael R Stukel($163,549), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Biomass And Taxonomic, Palmer Lter Program, Sea Ice Retreat, Western Antarctic Peninsula, Organic Carbon, Particle Flux, Primary Productivity, Surface Ocean, Taxonomic Composition, Analyses, Approach, Biological, Climate, Concepts, Cruises, Designed, Export, Increasing, Investigate, Marine, Modeling, Multiple, Quantify, Region, Students, Th, Time-series, WAP.

EAGER: Origin and Physiological Consequences of a Neoplasm Outbreak in Antarctic Fish
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2020; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. John H Postlethwait($254,782), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Affects Cell Function, Antarctic Fish, Biological Origins, Affected, Aim, Animals, Cells, Disease, Examine, Neoplasia, Neoplasias, Outbreak, Physiology, Previously, Reported, Skin, Tumor, Tumors.

EAGER: An On-ice GNSS Research Experimental Network for Greenland
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2021; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Robert L Hawley($258,525), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Greenland Ice Sheet, Gps Stations, Static Stations, Chipsets, Collecting, Cost, Coverage, Excellent, Extensive, Generation, Network, On-ice, Power, Resolution, Spatial, Student, Temporal, Traverses.

Collaborative Research: Bridging the scale gap between local and regional methane and carbon dioxide isotopic fluxes in the Arctic
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2021; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. John Langford($805,625), Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, Manassas
2. Roisin Commane($1,847,696), Harvard University, Cambridge
3. Praveena Krishnan($581,829), Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge
Key terms: Methane And Carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Eddy Covariance, Net Flux, North Slope, Transport Model, Air, Aircraft, Alaska, Analysis, Arctic, CH, Combination, Concentrations, Coupling, Current, Direct, Estimates, Fluxes, Gases, Global, Greenhouse, Level, Local, Measuring, Modeling, Models, Observations, Predict, Quantities, Regional, Sources, Tower, Towers, Warming.

NSF Support for the 16th International Circumpolar Remote Sensing Symposium
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Benjamin M Jones($19,942), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Polar Regions, Remote Sensing, Resource Managers, Brings, Critical, Current, Disciplines, Engineers, Exchange, Future, ICRSS, Ice, Information, International, Knowledge, Local, Occurring, Platforms, Regional, Stakeholders, Students, Techniques, Th, World.

An AON-USArray observing network in Arctic Alaska
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Martin Stuefer($5,484,665), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Aon-usarray Stations, Sea Ice, Sensor Capabilities, Soil Temperature, Track Environmental, Alaska, Aon-usarray, Arctic, Beyond, Context, Evaluation, Facility, Fill, Increasing, Landslides, Long-term, Multi-sensor, Network, Observations, Partnerships, Platforms, Real-time, Remote, Seismic, Sensors, Solid, Stakeholders, Thawing.

RAPID: Quantifying turbulent mixing and heat flux in the Mackenzie Canyon and across the Beaufort continental slope in the Arctic Ocean
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2020; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Amy F Waterhouse($71,299), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Arctic Ocean, Atlantic Water, Atlantic Waters, Beaufort Sea, Dissipation Rate, Heat Flux, Heat Fluxes, Mackenzie Canyon, Pacific Water, Sea Ice, Turbulent Heat, Turbulent Mixing, Warm Atlantic, AON, AW, Act, Conduit, Drawn, Dynamics, Energy, Flow, Fresher, Heavy, Influence, Instrumentation, Mechanisms, Processes, Salty, Shallow, Slope, Sources, Surface, Tides, Topography, Transects, Winds.

Multi-decadal year-round CO2 and CH4 fluxes to understand long-term impact of climate change on the Arctic carbon balance
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Donatella Zona($1,149,347), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
Key terms: Arctic Eddy Covariance, Co2 And Ch4, Arctic Ecosystems, Carbon Loss, Ch4 Fluxes, Cold Season, Greenhouse Gas, Organic Carbon, Zero Curtain, Allow, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Climate, Concentration, Controls, Critical, Current, Emissions, Future, GHG, Increase, Increased, Local, Long-term, Network, Northern, Period, Seasons, Sparse, Students, Summer, Tundra, Utqiagvik, Yround, °C.

Collaborative Research: Tracking Carbon, Water, and Energy Balance of the Arctic Landscape at Flagship Observatories in Alaska and Siberia
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2020; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. George W Kling($530,006), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. Alexander Kholodov($2,934,606), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Alaskan And Russian, Dioxide And Methane, Carbon Dioxide, Eddy Covariance, Energy Balance, Greenhouse Gas, Greenhouse Gases, Imnavait Creek, Permafrost Thaw, Russian Arctic, Ameriflux, Cherskii, Climate, Collected, Continue, Ebullition, Ecosystems, Ice, Lake, Measured, Near, Network, Outreach, Plant, Potential, Release, Released, Society, Thawing, Warming.

Collaborative Research: Research Networking Activities for Sustained Coordinated Observations of Arctic Change
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2020; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Henry W Loescher($323,429), Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus
2. Craig M Lee($460,836), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Advance Coordination, Arctic Observing, Food Security, Information Product, Marine Ecosystems, Pacific Arctic, Pan-arctic Observing, Shared Benefits, Sustained Observations, AOS, Activities, Alaska, Assessment, Collaborative, Context, Design, Development, Draws, Engineering, Experts, Has, Indigenous, International, Jointly, Modeling, National, Organizations, Pan-arctic, Process, RNA, ROADS, Resource, SAON, Sector, Specifically.

Collaborative Research: Research Networking Activities in Support of Sustained Coordinated Observations of Arctic Change
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2020; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Craig E Tweedie($169,234), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
2. Olivia A Lee($2,264,304), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
3. An T Nguyen($262,126), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
4. Matthew B Jones($283,001), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
5. Alice Bradley($156,880), Williams College, Williamstown
6. William G Ambrose($5,226), Coastal Carolina University, Conway
Key terms: Advance Coordination, Arctic Observing, Food Security, Information Product, Marine Ecosystems, Pacific Arctic, Pan-arctic Observing, Shared Benefits, Sustained Observations, AOS, Activities, Alaska, Assessment, Collaborative, Context, Design, Development, Draws, Engineering, Experts, Has, Indigenous, International, Jointly, Modeling, National, Organizations, Pan-arctic, Process, RNA, ROADS, Resource, SAON, Sector, Specifically.

Collaborative Research: Coordination, Data Management and Enhancement of the International Arctic Buoy Programme (IABP), and US Interagency Arctic Buoy Programme (USIABP)
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2020; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Cy E Keener($164,840), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
2. Ignatius G Rigor($2,090,008), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Arctic Observing Network, Arctic Buoy, Arctic Ocean, Sea Ice, Academy, Aircraft, Buoys, Center, Climate, Global, IABP, Maintain, Models, Observations, Opportunities, Polar, Surface, USIABP, Validation, Washington, Weather.

AON Collaborative Research: Continuation of long-term Beaufort Gyre observations in 2020-2024 to enhance understanding of the Arctic's role in climate variability
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2020; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Mary-Louise E Timmermans($524,027), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Arctic And Global, Beaufort Gyre, Beaufort Gyre’s, Global Climate, Sea Ice, Accumulation, Analysis, BGOS, Evolving, Extensive, Freshwater, Gyre’s, Heat, Long-term, Marine, Observing, Ocean, Program, Properties, Sea-ice, Students.

An Arctic Ocean sea surface observing network for the partial pressure of carbon dioxide (pCO2), acidity, and dissolved oxygen (DO)
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2020; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Michael DeGrandpre($890,378), University of Montana, Missoula
Key terms: Arctic Ocean, Canada Basin, Carbon Cycle, Ocean Acidification, Sea Surface, AON, Atmosphere, Changing, Environment, Formation, Ice, Moorings, Observing, Pco, Ph, Sensors, Warming, Ylong.

The Eastern Eurasian Basin: Rerouting fresh water between the Eastern and Western Arctic in response to atmospheric and oceanic forcings
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2020; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Claudine Hauri($7,187,363), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Eastern And Western, Eastern Eurasian Basin, Ice And Fresh, Arctic Ocean, Arctic Riverine, Fresh Water, Graduate Student, Sub-polar Seas, Western Arctic, Atmospheric, Critical, Cruises, Deep, EEB, Following, Freshwater, Future, Observations, Program, Public, Rivers, Sampling, Sea-ice, Sub-polar, Summer, Transports.

Collaborative Research: Arctic time series measurements of atmospheric O2/N2 ratio, CO2 concentration, and CO2 isotopes in relation to changing carbon cycling and biogeochemistry
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2020; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Cynthia D Nevison($48,821), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Ralph F Keeling($2,128,927), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Atmospheric Trace Gases, Alaska, Arctic, Carbon, Comprise, Ecosystems, Flask, Flasks, Installation, Isotopes, Land, Latitudes, Long-term, Models, Situ, Species, Utqiagvik.

Greenland Ice Sheet Monitoring Network (GLISN) Operations
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Robert L Woodward($1,272,724), Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Washington
Key terms: Ice Sheet, Allow, Analysis, Capability, Estimation, GLISN, Greenland, IRIS, Network, Observations, Outreach, Stations.

Ship-based Technical Support in the Arctic (STARC)
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2020; Program: ARC Rsch Support & Logistics

1. Terry B Appelgate($2,307,012), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Coast Guard, Marine Technicians, Shipboard Technical, Technical Services, Academic, Activities, Annual, Appropriate, Arctic, Coordinate, Coordinator, Cruise, Dissemination, Healy, Maintenance, Manner, NSF, Oceanographic, STARC, Sea, Submitted, UNOLS, USCG, USCGC, Vessels.

Collaborative Research: Permafrost climate feedbacks: How interactions among plants, microbes, and minerals affect biogeochemical projections in a changing Arctic
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2021; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Caitlin E Hicks Pries($380,780), Dartmouth College, Hanover
2. William R Wieder($347,143), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
3. Jessica G Ernakovich($888,775), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Carbon Cycle, Carbon Stored, Growth Chamber, Permafrost Soils, Permafrost Thaw, Addressing, Affect, Arctic, Carrying, Climate, Feedbacks, Frozen, Global, Laboratory, Land, Microbes, Microbial, Minerals, Model, Models, Plant, Training, Vegetation, Vulnerability.

Collaborative Research: Fire Influences on Forest Recovery and Associated Ecosystem Feedbacks in Arctic Larch Forests.
Award Effective Date: 08/16/2020; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Heather D Alexander($82,276), Auburn University, Auburn
Key terms: Increased Fire Activity, Larch Recruitment Failure, Post-fire Larch Recruitment, Regional And Global, Trigger Forest Loss, Boreal Forests, Climate Feedbacks, Climate Warming, Fire Regime, Forest Recovery, Forest Recruitment, Global Climate, Larch Forest, Larch Forests, Post-fire Larch, Regional Climate, Seed Sources, Statistical Modeling, Successional Trajectories, Albedo, Arctic, Climateand, Consequences, Cover, Critical, Dominated, Future, Grasses, Lead, Limit, Observations, Primary, Remain, Shift, Shrubs, Storage, Students, System-level, Treeline, Via.

Significance of Ice-loss to Landscapes in the Arctic: SILA (Inuit concept of the physical world and weather)
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Cynthia L Barnett($2,244,966), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Solute And Gas, Effective Communication, Environmental Civics, Gas Fluxes, Glacial Meltwater, Glacial Retreat, Periglacial Watersheds, Stream Chemistry, Stream Water, Weathering Extent, Amounts, Arctic, Chemical, Compositions, Control, Cycling, Discharge, Ecosystems, Greenland, Greenlandic, Ice, Interdisciplinary, Non-glacial, Past, Plant, Processes, Schools, Sediments, Skills, Streams.

Understanding the effects of above- and belowground linkages on carbon cycling in a high latitude, coastal wetland
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Trisha B Atwood($1,548,878), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Carbon Dynamics, Grazing Birds, Greenhouse Gases, River Deltas, Yukon-kuskokwim Delta, Affect, Biogeochemical, Ecosystem, Effects, Examining, Experiment, Experiments, Field, Future, Geese, Herbivory, Local, Microbes, Microbial, Models, On-line, Plant, Predict, Produce, School, Soil, Students, Yukon-kuskokwim.

Collaborative Research: Patterns and processes of abrupt Arctic warming based on paleoclimate observations and models
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Michael P Erb($527,906), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
2. Elizabeth K Thomas($665,013), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Abrupt Warming, Global Climate, Paleoclimate Database, Arctic, Based, Components, Existing, Model, Moisture, Multiple, Past, Rate, Simulations, Students, Temperature, —.

Collaborative Research: Bugs to clouds: Thawing permafrost, its microbes, and their possible role in Arctic climate feedbacks
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2020; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Christina S McCluskey($100,000), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
2. Jessie M Creamean($792,294), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Arctic Clouds, Cloud Ice, Ice Crystals, Permafrost Thaw, Thawing Permafrost, Aerosols, Assess, Climate, Formation, Has, INP, Inps, Lakes, Microbes, Particles, Released, Rivers, Shipborne, Soil, Source, Sources, Water, World.

Collaborative Research: Mercury Dynamics from the Holocene to the Anthropocene: Tracking Aleutian Mercury in Ocean Species important to Native Alaskan Diets
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2020; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Caroline L Funk($427,377), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
2. Lorrie D Rea($2,389,066), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Ecosystem Sentinels, Marine Species, Mercury Contamination, Aleutian, Arctic, Coastal, Cod, Commercial, Contaminants, Critical, Dynamics, Economic, Food, Global, Has, Health, Historical, Implications, Sources, Students, Timing, Top, Traditional.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Patterns, Dynamics, and Vulnerability of Arctic Polygonal Ecosystems: From Ice-Wedge Polygon to Pan-Arctic Landscapes
Award Effective Date: 02/29/2020; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Anna K Liljedahl($316,927), Woodwell Climate Research Center, Inc., Falmouth
Key terms: Differential Ground, Ice-wedge Degradation, Ice-wedge Polygon, Tundra Landscape, Alaska, Arctic, Carbon, Ecosystem, Evolution, Extent, Field, Global, Gradual, Ground-ice, Ice-wedge, Ice-wedges, Imagery, Maps, Numerical, Observations, Pan-arctic, Permafrost, Ponds, Processes, Rapid, Recently, Shallow, Spatial, Summer, Via, Warming, Water.

Collaborative Research: Ecosystem Response to a Warming Arctic: Deciphering the Past to Inform The Future.
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Morten E Allentoft($1,772,485), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Canadian Arctic, Assistants, Based, Climate, Current, DNA, Developed, ECA, Ecosystems, Female, Graduate, Increase, Interglacial, Inuit, Lake, Lakes, Modern, Nearby, Partnership, Plant, Relation, Sedadna, Sediment, Soils, Strong, Students, Summer, Surface, Temperature, Vegetation, Warmer, Warming, Water.

Collaborative Research: Nutritional Landscapes of Arctic Caribou: Observations, Experiments, and Models Provide Process-Level Understanding of Forage Traits and Trajectories
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Jennifer M Mullinax($335,440), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Cap And Cae, Future Nutritional Landscapes, Spatial And Temporal, Alaska Native, Caribou Available, Caribou Foraging, Migratory Caribou, Secondary Compounds, Amounts, Analysis, Arctic, Biomass, Climate, Consumers, Depend, Digestibility, Examines, Experimental, Food, Function, Herbivore, Herbivores, Humans, Hunter, Integrative, Interactions, Long-term, M-, Modeling, Multiple, Plant, Scenarios, Species, Students, Vegetation.

Understanding the Origins and Institutionalization of Social and Economic Hierarchies through Archaeological Settlement Survey
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2021; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Gudny Zoega($297,362), University of Massachusetts Boston, Dorchester
Key terms: Archaeological, Coring, Development, Excavations, Farm, Hjaltadalur, Hólar, Iceland, Inequalities, International, Sequence, Site, Sites, Social, Students.

Food Knowledge and Place Name Documentation on the Kuskokwim River
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2021; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Mark P John($480,149), Calista Education and Culture, Inc., Anchorage
Key terms: Middle Kuskokwim River, Archaeological Survey, Ecological Knowledge, Field Survey, Food Security, Alaska, Context, Elders, Fishing, Food-related, Geography, Local, Participatory, Sharing, Site, Sites, Topics, Traditional, Visits, Yup’ik.

EAGER: Archaeological Investigation of Site Form and Function during the Settlement Period
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2021; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Kathryn A Catlin($197,832), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Archaeological, Coring, Discovery, Excavation, Iceland, Initial, Nature, Settlement, Site, Sites, Subsistence, Testing.

Understanding Gender Equality and Empowerment in the Arctic
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Marya Rozanova-Smith($58,706), George Washington University, Washington
Key terms: Equality And Empowerment, Gender Equality, Arctic, Collect, Development, Documents, Economic, Political, Public, Stakeholders.

RAPID: Stabilization, Curation, Digitization and Data Management of the Wales, Alaska, Archaeology Project (1996-2006) Collections
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Joshua D Reuther($278,503), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Accessible, Activities, Alaska, Archaeological, Arctic, Artifacts, Available, Collections, Database, Human, Inupiaq, Produced, Remains, Sediment, Site, Wales, Was.

Doctoral Dissertation: Indigenous Land Defense: Emerging Networks of Survival
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2020; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Anne Spice($37,280), CUNY Graduate School University Center, New York
Key terms: Social Networks, Conflicts, Contexts, Document, Emerge, Emerging, Indigenous, Land, Resettlement, Traditional.

RAPID: Mobilization of Rural Alaska Cultural and Community Resources during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2020; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Igor Pasternak($199,993), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Covid-19 Pandemic, Alaska, Galena, Gambell, Healthcare, Indigenous, Life, Water.

RAPID: Collaborative Research: Impact of COVID-19 on Food Access in Indigenous Communities in the Arctic and Southwest U.S.
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2020; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Stephanie R Carroll($99,916), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Noor Jehan Johnson($97,619), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Food Access, Food Security, Alaska, COVID-, Directly, Existing, Indigenous, Knowledge, Obstacles, Participants, Participatory, Southwest.

RAPID: COVID-19, Knowledge and Health in Remote Alaska Native Communities
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Laura P Eichelberger($198,549), Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Anchorage
Key terms: Public Health Officials, Alaska Native, Daily Life, Qualitative Interviews, Rural Alaska, COVID-, Experience, Guidelines, Leaders, Pandemic, Remote, Risk, Survey, Surveys, Tribal.

Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG): Institutional Legitimacy and the Halibut Fishery in Greenland
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Christopher S Sneddon($49,988), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Small-scale Fisheries, Access, Arctic, Arrangements, Fishers, Legitimacy, Perceived, Regulatory, Small-scale, Variables.

RAPID: Collaborative Research: Local Government Response to COVID-19: Juneau Alaska, a case study in adaptive governance, risk management, communication, and decision-making
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2020; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. James E Powell($72,015), University of Alaska Southeast Juneau Campus, Juneau
2. Hana Akselrod($58,297), George Washington University, Washington
3. Charles S Topkok($43,000), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Real Time, Adaptive, Alaska, Broad, Capacity, Communication, Crisis, Disaster, Effective, Isolated, Knowledge, Limited, Local, Remote.

RAPID: Collaborative Research: COVID-19 Preparedness in Remote Fishing Communities in Rural Alaska
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2020; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Guangqing Chi($119,868), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Kevin C Berry($154,599), University of Alaska Anchorage Campus, Anchorage
3. Davin Holen($80,915), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Characterize Risk Perception, Health Care Resources, Bristol Bay, Epidemiological Modeling, Fishing Season, Social Distancing, Alaska, COVID-, Compliance, Dynamics, Employed, Existing, Limited, Pandemic, Region, Scenarios, Surveys.

Broadening Participation in the 10th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS X)
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2020; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Andrey Petrov($305,102), University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls
Key terms: Arctic Social, Congress, Development, Exchange, ICASS, Indigenous, Interact, Looking, Northern, Participation, Particular, Students, World.

RAPID: Tracking the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Arctic
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2020; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Mark R Welford($387,675), University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls
Key terms: Accounts, Analysis, Arctic, Available, COVID-, Collected, Collection, Datasets, Experience, Geography, Hub, Mitigation, Pandemic, Rates, Spread, Variables.

RAPID: Survey Study of COVID-19 Responses in Southeast Alaska
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2020; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Ron A Heintz($430,839), SITKA SOUND SCIENCE CENTER INC, Sitka
Key terms: Attitudes And Behaviors, Southeast Alaska, COVID-, Crisis, Current, Engagement, Existing, Leverages, Pandemic, Participation, Presentations, Public, Risk, Rural, Survey.

WOWCLAN People: Workshop on Water, Culture, Language, and Native People in the Arctic
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2020; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Jonathan Waterhouse($26,757), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
Key terms: Indigenous Knowledge, Water Quality, Advancing, Collection, Cultural, Discuss, Environmental, Human, Participants, Regions, Techniques, Various, Workshop.

DDRIG: Knowledge Production and Arctic Environmental Futures
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2020; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Scott Schnur($12,434), Emory University, Atlanta
Key terms: Greenlandic Scientists, Participant Observation, Arctic, Collaborations, Collect, Contribute, Cultural, Differences, Environmental, Ethnographic, Interpret, Interviews, Non-scientists.

Charting Arctic and Global Interconnections: Workshops on Physical, Digital, and Social Infrastructures
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2020; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Michael J Watts($49,997), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Arctic, Arctic’s, Changing, Cultural, Effects, Environmental, Global, Infrastructures, Interconnections, Knowledge, Shifts, Social, Workshops, World.

Doctoral Dissertation Research: Understanding Indigenous Contributions to Arctic Biodiversity Conservation Efforts
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2020; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Victoria Q Buschman($49,999), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Arctic Biodiversity, Conservation Efforts, Conservation Projects, Content Analysis, Focused Comparison, Indigenous Knowledge, Approaches, Collection, Comparative, Diverse, Engaged, N=, Participation, Participatory, Peoples, Planning, Via.

REU Site: Collaborative Research: Architecture of Earthquakes in the Deep Crust: International Arctic Expedition Science for Students
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Joseph L Allen($200,326), Concord University, Athens
2. Colin A Shaw($197,731), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Aasivissuit Nipisat Unesco, Mapping And Sampling, Nipisat Unesco World, Unesco World Heritage, World Heritage Site, Heritage Site, Earthquake, Experience, Field, Geologic, Greenland, International, Local, Multi-fault, REU, Rupture, Students, Unique.

Freeze or famine: do uncoupled temperature and light regimes drive unique seasonal production-demand relationships in arctic spring-stream ecosystems?
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2021; Program: Ecosystem Science

1. Carla L Atkinson($990,040), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
Key terms: Intensely Seasonal Arctic, Light And Temperature, Arctic Spring-streams, Bioenergetic Costs, Dolly Varden, Gross Primary, Relatively Warm, Seasonal Light, Stable Temperatures, Winter Habitat, Winter Temperatures, Affect, Alaska, Annual, Cycles, Degrees, Demand, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Examine, Flow, GPP, Otherwise, Processes, Range, Rates, Regimes, Seasons, Species, Spring-streams, Summer, Thermal, Unable, Uncoupling, Unique, Widespread.

Collaborative Research: Increasing wildfires and the loss of legacy carbon from boreal and tundra ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: Ecosystem Science

1. Xanthe J Walker($653,119), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
2. Brendan M Rogers($170,381), Woodwell Climate Research Center, Inc., Falmouth
Key terms: Legacy Carbon Combustion, Arctic Ecosystems, Carbon Sink, Carbon Source, Carbon Storage, Climate Warming, Fire Managers, Increasing Wildfires, Northern Arizona, Northern Ecosystems, Soil Carbon, Alaska, Atmosphere, Burning, Citizens, Engage, Global, Has, Local, Release, Rural, Share, Shift, Soils, Sometimes, Stakeholders, Store, Stored, Youth.

Collaborative Research: Environmental and biological controls on carbon uptake phenology in permafrost affected boreal forests
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: Ecosystem Science

1. Jennifer Watts($516,338), Woodwell Climate Research Center, Inc., Falmouth
2. Howard E Epstein($476,284), University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville
3. Nicholas Parazoo($132,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Boreal Forests, Carbon Dioxide, Environmental Conditions, Photosynthetic Phenology, Alaska, BONA, CARDAMOM, Climate, Driven, Ecosystem, Estimates, Framework, Functional, GPP, Growing, Indicator, Moisture, Observations, Plant, Program, Regional, Soil, Temperature, Uptake, Vegetation, Warming, Water, Watershed.

Icy landscapes from the Brooks Range to the Beaufort Sea: Quantifying the mobilization, transport and deposition of sediment and carbon in Arctic Alaska
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Irina Overeem($1,306,498), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Sediment And Carbon, Soil And Carbon, Canning River, River Corridors, Sediment Transport, Arctic, Coasts, Collection, Computer, Decomposition, Deposition, Effect, Frozen, Future, Insights, Integrated, Landscapes, Modeling, Models, Numerical, Organic, Program, Service, Students, Warming, Water.

Collaborative Research: EHR-Polar DCL: Addressing the Technical and Narrative Challenges in the Undergraduate Science Classroom
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2020; Program: IUSE

1. Matthew Oliver($256,754), University of Delaware, Newark
2. Joseph S Levy($41,823), Colgate University, Hamilton
Key terms: Colgate, Context, Course, Demonstrate, Education, Evaluations, Geoscience, Media, Narrative, Pair-programming, Pedagogy, Polar, Skills, Student, Students, Technical, UD.

Collaborative Research: EHR-Polar DCL: Polar Space and Place: Using GIS and interactive environments to bring polar science to the classroom
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: IUSE

1. Twila A Moon($215,497), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Spruce W Schoenemann($53,666), The University of Montana-Western, Dillon
Key terms: Increase Polar Knowledge, Geoscience Curriculum, Innovative Teaching, Polar Space, Activities, Advance, Center, Course, Education, Enhance, GETSI, GIS, Ice, Instructional, Integrate, Methods, Module, National, Primary, SERC, STEM, Spatial, Technology, Tools, Undergraduate, Western.

High Resolution Observing of Arctic Net Community Productivity with Ships of Opportunity
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2020; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Laurie W Juranek($627,176), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Air-sea Co2, Arctic Ecosystems, Arctic Ocean, Carbon Dioxide, Observing Gap, Air-sea, Atmosphere, Biologically-facilitated, Collected, Coverage, Exchange, Future, Gas, Growth, High-resolution, NCP, Net, Observations, Obtain, Period, Potential, Rapid, Region, Resolution, Warming.

Collaborative Proposal: A High-Latitude Conjugate Area Array Experiment to Investigate Solar Wind - Magnetosphere - Ionosphere Coupling
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2018; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Zhonghua Xu($1,166,060), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Space Weather, Antarctic, Array, Complex, Deployed, Earth, Energy, Institute, Investigate, Magnetometers, Models, Polar, Processes, Regions, Southern.

Constraining Greenland's Surface Mass Balance using an Aggregated Dataset for Community Use
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Polar Cyberinfrastructure

1. Jan Lenaerts($293,791), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Arctic Sea Ice, Greenland Ice Sheet, Remote Sensing Algorithms, Sea Level Rise, Constrain Smb, Cyber Objective, Ice Loss, Mass Balance, Access, Aggregated, Broad, Current, Dataset, Discovery, Education, Field, Model, Models, Occurring, Polar, Predictions, Processes, Public, Surface.

Collaborative Research: Polar (NSF 19-601): RUI: Computational Polar ENgagement through GUided INquiry (Computational PENGUIN)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: Polar Special Initiatives

1. Steven Neshyba($95,874), University of Puget Sound, Tacoma
2. Penny M Rowe($203,585), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Guided Inquiry, Knowledge Gains, Undergraduate Courses, Active, Analysis, CGI, Climate, Computational, Development, Directly, Education, Educational, Literacy, Modules, Pedagogical, Pis, Polar, Range, Student, Students, Variety, Via.

Becoming Joey: Promoting Informal Learning through Embodiment in an Adelie Penguin Virtual Reality Experience
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2020; Program: Polar Special Initiatives

1. David Gagnon($300,000), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Adelie Penguins, Jean Pennycook, Actions, Antarctica, Collaborative, Experience, Has, Information, Lives, Outcomes, Participant’s, Polar, Public, Shown, Story, Users, VR, Virtual, Wealth, Wisconsin.

RUI: EHR-Polar DCL: Collaborative Research: Polar Space and Place: Using GIS and interactive environments to bring Polar science to the classroom
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Polar Special Initiatives

1. Alia L Khan($85,763), Western Washington University, Bellingham
Key terms: Increase Polar Knowledge, Geoscience Curriculum, Innovative Teaching, Polar Space, Activities, Advance, Center, Course, Education, Enhance, GETSI, GIS, Ice, Instructional, Integrate, Methods, Module, National, Primary, SERC, STEM, Spatial, Technology, Tools, Undergraduate, Western.

GP-IN: SOARING: Sharing Opportunities, Approaches, and Resources in New Geo-teaching
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2020; Program: Unallocated Program Costs

1. Spencer Clark($339,573), Kansas State University, Manhattan
Key terms: Rural Secondary Students, Teachers And Students, Diverse Rural, Geoscience Degrees, Remote Sensing, Rural Schools, Rural Students, Rural Teachers, Students’ Desire, Activities, Applications, Center, Cresis, Engage, Geosciences, Geotechnology, Hispaniclatinx, KSU, Kansas, Pis, Populations, Pursue, REC, Resources, SOARING, STEM.

Collaborative Research: Resolving Earth Structure Influence on Ice-Sheet Stability in the Wilkes Subglacial Basin (RESISSt)
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2020; Program: Unallocated Program Costs

1. Andy Aschwanden($140,928), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
2. Thorsten W Becker($114,952), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
3. April Binder($174,379), Central Washington University, Ellensburg
4. Samantha E Hansen($136,657), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
Key terms: Rate And Magnitude, Wilkes Subglacial Basin, East Antarctica, Future Ice-sheet, Future Sea-level, Global Sea-level, Heat Flow, Ice Sheets, Ice-sheet Behavior, Ice-sheet Stability, Mantle Flow, Mantle Viscosity, Tectonic Model, Warming Climate, Assess, Based, Beneath, Collapse, Constrain, Control, Critical, Density, Efforts, Estimates, Existing, Geologic, Geological, Geology, Geophysical, Has, Highlight, Ice-sheet, Ice-sheets, Indicates, MISI, Marine, Modeling, Models, Observations, Paleotopography, Parameters, Past, Potential, Properties, Region, Regions, Rise, Sea-level, Seismic, Significantly, Structure, Susceptible, WSB.

A Mid-Term Assessment of NSF Progress on the 2015 ‘Strategic Vision for Antarctic and Southern Ocean Research’
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: Unallocated Program Costs

1. Laurie Geller($398,520), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Cosmic Microwave Background, Evolution And Adaptation, Organisms And Ecosystems, Activity, Addressing, Advancing, Antarctic, Challenges, Changing, Committee, Current, Ice, Knowledge, NSF, Opportunities, Process, Progress, Recommendations, Report, Strategies, Topics.

U.S. annual dues support for the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) and the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) – 2020-2022
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2020; Program: Unallocated Program Costs

1. Laurie Geller($87,854), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: International Arctic, International Cooperation, Activities, Advance, Advanced, Annual, Antarctic, Assessment, Committee, Countries, Efforts, Fellowship, IASC, Iasc’s, Initiatives, National, Opportunities, Organizations, Partnerships, Planning, Polar, Policy, Programs, SCAR, Scar’s.

Collaborative Research: Antarctic Meteorological Research and Data Center
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2020; Program: Unallocated Program Costs

1. Lee J Welhouse($1,514,354), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Jeffrey F Havens($878,395), Madison Area Technical College, Madison
Key terms: Antarctic Meteorological, AMRDC, Center, Datasets.

Support of US Participation in the Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2020; Program: Unallocated Program Costs

1. Joseph Souney($1,228,625), University of San Francisco, San Francisco
Key terms: Antarctic, Collaborations, Committee, Funding, International, National, PRB, Participation, Polar, Program, SCAR, US-SCAR.

SitS NSF-UKRI: Collaborative Research: Sensors UNder snow Seasonal Processes in the evolution of ARctic Soils (SUN SPEARS)
Award Effective Date: 10/29/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Trevor P Irons($421,085), Montana Technological University, Butte
Key terms: Arctic Soils, Glacier Retreat, Repeated Field, Rural Colorado, Agriculture, Classrooms, Climate, Collaborative, Contribute, Council, Development, Effects, Effort, Evolution, Extent, Following, Model, Monitoring, Processes, Remote, Seasonal, Sensors, Students, Summer, Training, Utah, Via, Yround.