ARCSS Announces Awards for Seasonality Research
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Awards were announced in July and August 2009 for the Arctic System Science (ARCSS) Program's most recent solicitation, Changing Seasonality in the Arctic System (CSAS). NSF received 71 individual proposals in response to the solicitation, representing approximately $30 million in requested funding—40 awards totaling $14.3 million were made. More than 85% of the funding for the 17 projects was provided through funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Information on these projects is listed below.
Awards were also recently announced for ARCSS research funded through the Arctic Research Opportunities solicitation. A total of 19 awards were made totaling $5.6 million—all of the funds for these awards were provided through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Information on these projects appears in the next article, "2009 ARCSS Projects Funded through Arctic Research Opportunities Solicitation," and more information about the Arctic Research Opportunities solicitation is available at:
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5521&org=OPP.
Other recent ARCSS activities include discussions with the Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH) Science Steering Committee about improved integration between ARCSS and SEARCH activities.
For more information, go to:
www.arcus.org/arcss/index.html,
or contact Neil Swanberg (nswanber [at] nsf [dot] gov), Josh Schimel (schimel [at] lifesci [dot] ucsb [dot] edu), or Helen Wiggins (helen [at] arcus [dot] org).
2009 Changing Seasonality in the Arctic System (CSAS) Awards
A Change of Seasonality of the Upper Arctic Ocean in Response to Atmospheric and Sea Ice Forcing.
Jiayan Yang (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution [WHOI]). #0902090, $497,366.
Changing Seasonality of the Arctic: Alteration of Production Cycles and Trophic Linkages in Response to Changes in Sea Ice and Upper Ocean Physics.
Jinlun Zhang, Michael Steele (University of Washington [UW]). #0901987, $391,639.
Yvette Spitz (Oregon State University). #0901924, $248,347.
Carin Ashjian (WHOI). #0901131, $152,342.
Robert Campbell (University of Rhode Island). #0901926, $108,539.
Diamonds and Oil from the Tundra: A System Study on the Impact of Changing Seasons on Mining and Oil Exploration.
Matthew Sturm, Thomas Douglas (U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory [CRREL]). #0902130, $250,164.
Michael Goldstein (Babson College). #0902066, $173,191.
Effects of Lengthening Growing Season and Increasing Temperature on Soil Carbon Fluxes and Stocks in Arctic Tundra.
Jianwu Tang (Marine Biological Laboratory [MBL]). #0902109, $99,879.
How Does Changing Seasonality Affect the Capacity of Arctic Stream Networks to Influence Nutrient Fluxes from the Landscape to the Ocean?
William Bowden (University of Vermont). #0902106, $549,581.
Michael Gooseff (Pennsylvania State University [PSU]). #0902029, $373,268.
Wilfred Wollheim (University of New Hampshire). #0902113, $340,920.
How the Timing of Summer Precipitation Affects the Responses of Boreal Forest to Climate Change.
Daniel Mann, T. Scott Rupp, Paul Duffy (University of Alaska Fairbanks [UAF]). #0902169, $797,130.
Elise Pendall (University of Wyoming). #0902180, $149,961.
Andrea Lloyd (Middlebury College). #0902088, $143,937.
Impacts of the Changing Seasonality of Wind-Driven Mixing on the Arctic System.
Luc Rainville, Rebecca Woodgate, Muyin Wang (UW). #0901407, $518,993.
Amala Mahadevan (Boston University). #0901650, $201,559.
Patricia Matrai (Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences). #0901438, $104,337.
Pan-Arctic Climate and Ecosystem Response to Historical and Projected Changes in the Seasonality of Sea Ice Melt and Growth.
Bonnie Light (UW). #0902040, $279,690.
Donald Perovich (CRREL). #0902020, $197,188.
Marika Holland (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research [UCAR]). #0902068, $134,733.
Jefferson Moore (University of California Irvine). #0902045, $91,955.
Seasonality of Circumpolar Tundra—Ocean and Atmosphere Controls and Effects on Energy and Carbon Budgets.
Howard Epstein (University of Virginia). #0902152, $358,777.
Uma Bhatt, Donald Walker (UAF). #0902175, $369,016.
Michael Steele (UW). #0902042, $192,833.
Seasons of Change in the Arctic Environment.
Mark Serreze, Tingjun Zhang, Andrew Slater, Oliver Frauenfeld, Kevin Schaefer (University of Colorado Boulder [CU]). #0901962, $862,974.
Shifting Seasonality of Arctic River Hydrology Alters Key Biotic Linkages Among Aquatic Systems.
Linda Deegan, Bruce Peterson (MBL). #0902153, $1,317,687.
Alexander Huryn (University of Alabama Tuscaloosa). #0902126, $307,269.
Shifting Seasonality of Northern Forest Response to Arctic Environmental Change.
Rosanne D’Arrigo, Kevin Anchukaitis (Columbia University). #0902051, $381,154.
Scott Goetz, Pieter Beck (Woods Hole Research Center). #0902056, $221,838.
The Changing Seasonality of Tundra Nutrient Cycling: Implications for Ecosystem and Arctic System Functioning.
Michael Weintraub (University of Toledo). #0902096, $461,684.
Heidemarie Steltzer, Matthew Wallenstein (Colorado State University). #0902030, $409,117.
Joshua Schimel (University of California Santa Barbara). #0902038, $313,386.
Patrick Sullivan (University of Alaska Anchorage). #0902184, $225,072.
Edward Rastetter (MBL). #0902102, $180,926.
The Seasonal Response of the Arctic and Global Climate System to Projected Sea Ice Loss within the Context of GHG-Induced Climate Change.
Clara Deser, Marika Holland, David Lawrence (UCAR). #0902065, $670,103.
Andrew Slater (CU). #0902057, $114,868.
Timing is Everything: Seasonality and Phenological Dynamics Linking Species, Communities, and Trophic Feedbacks in the Low- vs. High-Arctic.
Eric Post, Mads Forchhammer (PSU). #0902125, $363,137.
Tracking the Seasonal Contribution of Algal Fatty Acids to the Arctic Marine System.
Matthew Wooller, Rolf Gradinger, Gay Sheffield, Katrin Iken, Larissa Dehn (UAF). #0902177, $617,856.
Understanding Climate-Driven Phenological Change: Observations, Adaptations, and Cultural Implications in Northeastern Siberia and Labrador/Nunatsiavut.
Susan Crate (George Mason University). #0902146, $620,822.
Astrid Ogilvie (CU). #0902134, $566,517.