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The awards made by the Office of Polar Programs have been divided into antarctic and arctic programs. This page features awards made by the Division of Arctic Sciences (ARC).

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DIVISION OF ARCTIC SCIENCES

Arctic Cyberinfrastructure

Award Investigator Institution IPY $ Title
0856292 Rigor, Ignatius University of Washington  $    1,000,000 International Arctic buoy program
0632354 Parsons, Mark University of Colorado at Boulder  $      469,112 International Polar Year data and information service
 $    1,469,112

Arctic Natural Sciences

Award Investigator Institution IPY $ Title
0732713 Harlow, Henry University of Wyoming  $      732,924 Adaptive long-term fasting in land- and ice-bound polar bears: coping with ice loss in the Arctic
0817967 Post, Eric Pennsylvania State Univ University Park  $        10,000 After the melt: an international conference on the ecology of Arctic climate change
0856479 Toole, John Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution  $    4,622,113 AON: ice-tethered profiler for sampling meteorological, sea ice, and ocean mixed layer
0856868 Stanton, Timothy Naval Postgraduate School  $    2,099,512 Autonomous ocean flux buoys to observe turbulent vertical fluxes of heat, salt, and momentum
0732668 Grebmeier, Jacqueline University of Tennessee Knoxville  $      151,611 Bering ecosystem study: benthic ecosystem response to changing ice cover
0714605 Moore, James University Corp. for Atmospheric Res  $      224,841 Bering ecosystem study: data management
0808853 Moore, James University Corp. for Atmospheric Res  $      608,758
0612380 Shull, David Western Washington University  $      411,945 Bering ecosystem study: denitrification and global change in Bering Sea shelf sediments
0612436 Devol, Allan University of Washington  $      540,287
0813985 Sonnerup, Rolf University of Washington  $      128,789 Bering ecosystem study: hydrographic structure and nutrients during summer
0732359 Lomas, Michael Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences  $      381,179 Bering ecosystem study: impact of changes in sea ice extent on primary production, phytoplankton, and export
0732680 Moran, S. Bradley University of Rhode Island  $      418,950
0611967 Zhang, Jinlun University of Washington  $      460,127 Bering ecosystem study: impact of changes in sea ice on physical forcings of the ecosystem
0732640 Sonnerup, Rolf University of Washington  $      538,343 Bering ecosystem study: impacts of sea-ice on hydrographic structure and nutrients
0732772 Whitledge, Terry University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus  $      210,966
0732773 Whitledge, Terry University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus  $      121,839
0732430 Sonnerup, Rolf University of Washington  $      784,838 Bering ecosystem study: impacts of sea-ice on the distribution of chlorophyll-a
0810459 Whitledge, Terry University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus  $      117,689
0722448 Hunt, George University of Washington  $      164,697 Bering ecosystem study: impacts of sea-ice on the hydrographic structure, nutrients, and mesozooplankton
0816805 Coyle, Kenneth University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus  $      220,154 Bering ecosystem study: mesozooplankton population and biomass
0732301 Sherr, Evelyn Oregon State University  $      786,421 Bering ecosystem study: mesozooplankton-microbial food web in a climatically changing sea ice environment
0732362 Campbell, Robert University of Rhode Island  $      432,268
0732382 Ashjian, Carin Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution  $      608,159
0612198 Sigman, Daniel Princeton University  $      466,135 Bering ecosystem study: nitrogen supply for new production and its relation to climatic conditions
0612427 Sambrotto, Raymond Columbia University  $    1,219,495
0612538 Wu, Jingfeng University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus  $      273,098 Bering ecosystem study: role of ice melting in providing available iron to the surface water
0732767 Gradinger, Rolf University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus  $    1,061,747 Bering ecosystem study: sea Ice algae, a major food source for herbivorous plankton and benthos
0732389 Lessard, Evelyn University of Washington  $      644,558 Bering ecosystem study: trophic role of euphausiids: ecosystem responses to changing sea-ice conditions
0732667 Harvey, H. U. Maryland Ctr Environmental Sciences  $      583,456
0732428 Aagaard, Knut University of Washington  $      673,882 Bering Shelf stratification and its consequences for nutrients and the ecosystem
0732771 Weingartner, Thomas University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus  $      920,308
0612636 Warren, Stephen University of Washington  $      925,687 Black carbon in Arctic snow and ice and its effect on surface albedo
0632139 Shaver, Gaius Marine Biological Laboratory  $    1,398,345 Carbon, water, and energy balance of the Arctic landscape at flagship observatories and in a pan-Arctic network
0632264 Bret-Harte, Marion University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus  $    1,939,401
0632233 Kirchman, David University of Delaware  $      417,466 Chemolithoautotrophy in the Arctic Ocean--environmental genomics and functional analyses
0743972 Minnett, Peter U. Miami Rosenstiel School  $        82,090 Cloud radiative forcing in the high Arctic
0732431 Curchitser, Enrique Rutgers University New Brunswick  $      246,678 Downscaling global climate projections to the ecosystems of the Bering Sea with nested biophysical models
0732534 Bond, Nicholas University of Washington  $      802,861
0732538 Hedstrom, Katherine University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus  $      263,635
0611991 Geiger, Cathleen U.S. Army CRREL  $      386,169 Dynamic component of sea ice mass balance
0612105 Geiger, Cathleen University of Delaware  $      525,149
0612527 Hutchings, Jennifer University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus  $      439,327
0632332 Taylor, Donald University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus  $      743,697 Genomics investigation of fungal adaptation to cold
0649006 Roof, Steven Hampshire College  $      924,974 Holocene and modern climate change in the high Arctic
0855828 Stafford, Kathleen University of Washington  $      271,917 Interdisciplinary mooring in the western Arctic Boundary Current: climatic forcing and ecosystem response
0856210 Mathis, Jeremy University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus  $      195,417
0856244 Pickart, Robert Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution  $    2,317,495
0732925 Persson, Ola P University of Colorado at Boulder  $      299,852 Macro- and microphysical structure of Arctic clouds 
0714045 Nolan, Matt University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus  $    1,141,030 Mass balance and glacier dynamics modeling on Arctic glaciers for better prediction and hindcasting
0632105 Laird, Claude University of Kansas   $      150,221 NEEM deep ice core
0632222 White, James University of Colorado at Boulder  $      169,996
0806339 Baker, Ian Dartmouth College  $      254,987
0806377 Severinghaus, Jeffrey Scripps Institution of Oceanography  $      316,442
0806387 White, James University of Colorado at Boulder  $      776,627
0806407 Sowers, Todd Pennsylvania State Univ University Park  $      437,690
0806414 Brook, Edward Oregon State University  $      515,392
0611992 Perovich, Donald U.S. Army CRREL  $      385,021 O-buoy project: deployment of a network of Arctic Ocean chemical sensors
0612047 Shepson, Paul Purdue University  $      507,518
0612331 Matrai, Patricia Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences  $      413,994
0612457 Simpson, William University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus  $      349,330
0631713 Weingartner, Thomas University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus  $      552,805 Pacific gateway to the Arctic: quantifying and understanding Bering Strait oceanic fluxes
0632154 Woodgate, Rebecca University of Washington  $    1,071,793
0425387 Pfeffer, W. Tad University of Colorado at Boulder  $          8,000 Participation of graduate students in the annual Arctic workshops 2005-2007
0612289 Baldwin, Mark NorthWest Research Associates, Inc.  $        65,638 Polar stratosphere and vertical coupling 
0632310 Csatho, Beata SUNY at Buffalo  $      204,762 POLENET-Greenland: using bedrock geodesy to constrain past and present day changes in Greenland's ice mass
0632320 Bevis, Michael Ohio State U. Research Foundation  $    1,234,621
0631309 Ballantyne, Ashley Ballantyne, Ashley P.  $      238,000 Postdoctoral research fellowship
0732885 Tweedie, Craig University of Texas at El Paso  $      747,684 Resampling old research sites to assess change in high latitude terrestrial ecosystem structure and function
0714088 Zender, Charles University of California-Irvine  $      518,482 Snow process studies and modeling to improve Arctic climate prediction
0856377 Perovich, Donald U.S. Army CRREL  $      603,615 State of the Arctic sea ice cover: sustaining the integrated seasonal ice zone observing network 
0856867 Eicken, Hajo University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus  $    1,419,891
0520578 Romanovsky, Vladimir University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus  $      375,021 Thermal state of permafrost: U.S. contribution to the international permafrost observatory network
0732954 Goetz, Scott Woods Hole Research Center  $      796,041 Tundra ecosystem responses to climate change
0732948 Pearson, Richard American Museum of Natural History  $      145,320
0830146 Hunt, George University of Washington  $      119,172 U.S. liaison activity for international ecosystem studies of sub-Arctic seas 
 $  46,318,342

Arctic Observing Network

Award Investigator Institution IPY $ Title
0856421 Shiklomanov, Nikolay University of Delaware  $    1,662,201 Active layer monitoring network: long-term observations on the climate - active layer - permafrost system
0633979 Proshutinsky, Andrey Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution  $        76,260 Aerial hydrographic surveys: tracking change and understanding seasonal variability
0634097 McPhee, Miles McPhee Research Company  $      118,991
0634122 Collier, Robert Oregon State University  $      289,384
0634167 Guay, Christopher Pacific Marine Sciences & Technology  $        74,989
0634226 Morison, James University of Washington  $      703,627
0732522 Holmes, Robert Woods Hole Research Center  $      369,223 Arctic great rivers observatory 
0732583 Raymond, Peter Yale University  $      331,366
0732821 McClelland, James University of Texas at Austin  $      190,690
0732985 Peterson, Bruce Marine Biological Laboratory  $      653,314
0424864 Proshutinsky, Andrey Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution  $    2,422,948 Beaufort gyre system: flywheel of the Arctic climate?
0634079 Gofman, Victoria Aleut International Association  $      677,816 Bering Sea subnetwork: community-based observation alliance for Arctic Observing Network
0856305 Alessa, Lilian University of Alaska Anchorage Campus  $      545,143
0856774 Gofman, Victoria Aleut International Association  $    2,499,989
0632177 Walden, Von University of Idaho  $      197,559 Cloud properties across the Arctic basin from surface and satellite measurements
0632187 Shupe, Matthew University of Colorado at Boulder  $      184,340
0632312 Drobot, Sheldon University of Colorado at Boulder  $        35,429 Collaborative, interdisciplinary relationships among the new generation of polar researchers
0632296 Fetterer, Florence University of Colorado at Boulder  $      681,497 Cooperative Arctic data and information service
0632313 Moore, James University Corp. For Atmospheric Res  $    1,526,962
0336450 Bales, Roger University of California - Merced  $      381,803 Core measurements at Summit, Greenland, environmental observatory
0856634 Gearheard, Shari University of Colorado at Boulder  $    1,968,016 Data management support for community-based observations
0612452 Eloranta, Edwin University of Wisconsin-Madison  $      466,647 Data products for the University of Wisconsin high spectral resolution lidar
0732726 Pfeffer, W. Tad University of Colorado at Boulder  $      615,449 Dynamic controls on tidewater glacier retreat
0732739 Conway, Howard University of Washington  $      117,217
0632201 Timmermans, Mary-Louise Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution  $      204,406 Dynamics of the deepest waters in the Arctic Ocean
0632144 Klein, Julia Colorado State University  $        52,707 Ecosystem-change studies using the International Tundra Experiment
0632184 Welker, Jeffrey University of Alaska Anchorage Campus  $      270,173
0632263 Hollister, Robert Grand Valley State University  $      172,152
0632277 Oberbauer, Steven Florida International University  $      651,394
0632345 Gearheard, Shari University of Colorado at Boulder  $      658,093 Exchange for local observations and knowledge of the Arctic
0732556 Shepson, Paul Purdue University  $      543,661 Halogen chemistry and ocean - atmosphere - sea ice - snowpack chemical exchange
0612391 Richter-Menge, Jacqueline U.S. Army CRREL  $      869,766 Ice mass-balance buoy network: coordination with DAMOCLES
0631951 Toole, John Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution  $    1,735,332 Ice-tethered profilers to sample the upper ocean water properties
0520287 Rigor, Ignatius University of Washington  $      600,000 International Arctic buoy program
0638408 Kruse, John University of Alaska Anchorage Campus  $      894,556 Is the Arctic human environment moving to a new state?
0638413 Hamilton, Lawrence University of New Hampshire  $      200,708
0352687 McPhee, Miles McPhee Research Company  $        27,584 North Pole Station: a distributed long-term environmental observatory
0352754 Morison, James University of Washington  $    4,416,807
0352984 Collier, Robert Oregon State University  $      198,924
0632231 Lee, Craig University of Washington  $    2,339,463 Observational network for critical Arctic gateways -- understanding exchanges through Davis and Fram straits
0633343 Kwok, Ronald NASA  $      188,000 Observing system in the Switchyard region of the Arctic Ocean
0633878 Schlosser, Peter Columbia University  $    1,421,665
0633885 Steele, Michael University of Washington  $    2,444,666
0722694 Proshutinsky, Andrey Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution  $    1,439,952 Oceanographic instrumentation to enhance the Arctic Ocean Observing Network
0907819 Bernhard, Germar Biospherical Instruments Inc  $        64,111 Recent changes of solar ultraviolet radiation in the Arctic
0842779 Cooper, Lee U. Maryland Ctr Environmental Sciences  $        48,827 Science plan and workshop support for Bering Strait environmental observations
0632041 Stanton, Timothy Naval Postgraduate School  $    1,090,150 Surface buoys to sample turbulent ocean heat and salt fluxes
0856330 Morison, James University of Washington  $    4,100,675 Sustained observations of the North Pole environment to characterize ongoing Arctic change
0856808 Collier, Robert Oregon State University  $      575,552
0645895 Byers, Albert National Science Teachers Assoc  $        33,359 Symposia and web seminars
0622406 Tweedie, Craig University of Texas at El Paso  $      750,126 Terrestrial circum-Arctic environmental observatories network 
 $  42,783,669

Arctic Research and Education

Award Investigator Institution IPY $ Title
0700233 Sturm, Matthew U.S. Army CRREL  $      119,960 Alaska-Canada barrenlands traverse
0632324 Weiler, C. Susan Whitman College  $      206,929 Collaborative, interdisciplinary relationships among the new generation of polar researchers 
0829225 Byers, Albert National Science Teachers Assoc  $        39,616 Conferences on science education
0723343 Pfirman, Stephanie Columbia University  $        27,928 NYC international polar weekend
0806509 Pfirman, Stephanie Columbia University  $        40,218
0806933 Borrero, Roberto American Museum of Natural History  $        34,410
0632360 Tweedie, Craig University of Texas at El Paso  $      457,444 Research and educational opportunities in Antarctica for minorities
 $      926,505

Arctic Research Support and Logistics

Award Investigator Institution IPY $ Title
0718422 Virginia, Ross Dartmouth College  $        42,714 Arctic science summit week 2007
0738306 Karlqvist, Anders Swedish Polar Research Secretariat  $    3,663,977 Icebreaker Oden: support to NSF/OPP funded research
0618885 Fox, Susan Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S.  $    6,440,175 Organizational support to the U.S. Arctic science program
0647022 Elfring, Chris National Academy of Sciences  $      135,000 Polar Research Board
0520837 Craft, Gary CH2M Hill Constructor, Inc.              $  14,000,000 Research support and logistics
0902165 Helmig, Detlev University of Colorado at Boulder  $        98,554 Surface and boundary-layer profiling of ocean, atmosphere, sea ice, and snowpack using tethered balloons
 $  24,380,420

Arctic Social Sciences

Award Investigator Institution IPY $ Title
0611978 John, Mark Calista Elders Council  $      597,487 Bering ecosystem study: Nelson Island natural and cultural knowledge project
0755832 Beach, Hugh Portland State University  $      805,000 Circumpolar land use and ethnicity: social impacts of policy and climate change
0733929 Sider, Gerald CUNY College of Staten Island  $          5,996 Crises and vulnerability: historical perspective on contemporary problems in Labrador Innu and Inuit communities
0732787 Krauss, Michael University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus  $    1,408,380 Documenting Alaskan and neighboring languages
0732973 Salzman, Hal Urban Institute  $      574,355 Employment and sustainability in a time of transition
0903589 Salzman, Hal Rutgers University New Brunswick  $      212,901
0631970 Ziker, John Boise State University  $      375,365 Home, hearth, and household in Siberia and northern Canada
0732620 LeMoine, Genevieve Bowdoin College  $      210,276 Inglefield land archaeology project: dynamic social systems at the entrance to Greenland
0732850 Darwent, Christyann University of California-Davis  $      195,837
0711965 Wheelersburg, Robert Elizabethtown College  $        70,000 International directory of Arctic social scientists
0732327 McGovern, Thomas CUNY Hunter College  $      896,724 Long term human ecodynamics in the Norse North Atlantic: cases of sustainability, survival, and collapse
0802390 Snodgrass, James University of Oregon Eugene  $      166,860 Metabolic adaptation among indigenous Siberians: causes and consequences
0705654 Heleniak, Timothy University of Maryland College Park  $      330,873 Moved by the state: perspectives on relocation and resettlement in the circumpolar North
0713896 Schweitzer, Peter University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus  $      695,364
0755966 Alessa, Lilian University of Alaska Anchorage Campus  $      865,815 Municipal water systems and the resilience of Arctic communities
0754787 Kral, Michael University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign  $      254,206 Negotiating pathways to adulthood: social change and indigenous culture in four circumpolar communities
0755348 Wexler, Lisa University of Massachusetts Amherst  $      500,139
0756211 Allen, James University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus  $      413,806
0631419 Koester, David University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus  $      621,495 New religious movements in the Russian north: competing uses of religiosity after socialism 
0638897 Ogilvie, Astrid University of Colorado at Boulder  $      285,000 Northern narratives:  social and geographical accounts from Norway, Iceland and Canada
0732846 O'Rourke, Dennis University of Utah  $      552,543 Reconstruction of human genetic history along the North Slope
0732857 Hayes, Geoffrey Northwestern University at Chicago  $      504,819
0838678 Schweitzer, Peter University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus  $      120,000 Sixth international congress of Arctic social sciences
0631230 Zubrow, Ezra B. SUNY at Buffalo  $      174,256 Social change and the environment in Nordic prehistory: evidence from Finland and Northern Canada
0804290 Martin, Patrick Michigan Technological University  $        21,999 Social perspectives on the industrial archaeology of the Arctic
0639211 Huskey, Terry University of Alaska Anchorage Campus  $      381,452 Understanding migration in the circumpolar North
0756122 Matland, Richard Loyola University of Chicago  $      374,986 Women candidates in regional Russia: religion and culture as barriers to women's participation
0724229 Kruse, John University of Alaska Anchorage Campus  $        19,766 Workshop for comprehensive release of SLICA results
   $  11,635,700

Arctic System Science

Award Investigator Institution IPY $ Title
0852396 Vorosmarty, Charles CUNY City College  $      403,770 Arctic community-wide hydrological analysis and monitoring 
0732650 Walsh, John University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign  $      328,260 Arctic system reanalysis, a blend of modeling and observations
0732986 Serreze, Mark University of Colorado at Boulder  $      359,799
0733023 Bromwich, David Ohio State U. Research Foundation  $    1,142,474
0733058 Kuo, Ying-Hwa University Corp. For Atmospheric Res  $      944,075
0732168 Post, Eric Pennsylvania State Univ University Park  $        85,893 Ecological consequences of Arctic climate change
0856516 Hollister, Robert Grand Valley State University  $      502,600 Ecosystem-change studies using the International Tundra Experiment
0856628 Tweedie, Craig University of Texas at El Paso  $      400,471
0856710 Oberbauer, Steven Florida International University  $    1,200,070
0856728 Welker, Jeffrey University of Alaska Anchorage Campus  $      591,914
0732735 Walter, Katey University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus  $      646,940 Impacts of icy permafrost degradation and thermokarst-lake dynamics on carbon cycling, CO2 and CH4 emissions
0335941 Kane, Douglas University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus  $      594,558 Long-term measurements and observations on the Kuparuk River basin, Alaska
0733074 Schimel, Joshua University of California-Santa Barbara  $      904,623 Microbial winter survival physiology: a driver on microbial community composition and carbon cycling
0632387 Collins, Richard University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus  $      803,668 Pan-Arctic studies of the coupled tropospheric, stratospheric, and mesospheric circulation
0632400 Romanovsky, Vladimir University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus  $      945,276 Permafrost observatories in North America and Russia
0805703 Eicken, Hajo University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus  $        49,946 Polar sea-ice information needs: training, outreach, and legacy products through a system services approach
0632131 Sturm, Matthew U.S. Army CRREL  $      571,342 Prototype network for measuring Arctic winter precipitation and snow cover
0632133 Liston, Glen Colorado State University  $      351,000
0632160 Kane, Douglas University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus  $      537,565
0632130 Perovich, Donald U.S. Army CRREL  $      458,321 State of the Arctic sea ice cover: sustaining the integrated seasonal ice zone observing network
0632398 Eicken, Hajo University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus  $      891,329
   $  12,713,894