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Programs and associated projects
Arctic Summer Cloud Ocean Study
(ASCOS)
Marine microgels: A microlayer source of summer CCN in high Arctic open lead
(Marine Microgels)
Census of Marine Life
(CoML)
Census of Marine Zooplankton-2004-2010
(CMarZ_2004-2010)
International Indian Ocean Expedition
(IIOE)
Nishida-Pacific-Oithona
(Nishida-Oithona)
ORI-Historical
(ORI_Historical)
Climate Research Investment - Ocean Acidification
(CRI-OA)
A mechanistic understanding of the impacts of ocean acidification on the early life stages of marine bivalves
(Mechanisms of bivalve response to acidification)
An Investigation of the Role of Nutrition in the Coral Calcification Response to Ocean Acidification
(OA,Nutrition & Coral Calcification)
Horizontal and Vertical Distribution of Thecosome Pteropods in Relation to Carbonate Chemistry in the Northwest Atlantic and Northeast Pacific
(OA-Pteropods)
Impact of ocean acidification on survival of early life stages of planktonic copepods in the genus Calanus
(CRI-OA Calanus Survival)
Ocean Margin Ecosystems Group for Acidification Studies: Acclimation and adaptation to ocean acidification of key ecosystem components in the California Current System
(OMEGAS)
Comparative Analysis of Marine Ecosystem Organization
(CAMEO)
An Integrative Approach to Managing the Dewatering of Estuaries
(DewaterEst)
Building the Foundation in N. California Current Shelf-Slope-Oceanic Ecosystems
(CalCurEco)
CAMEO: Building the Foundation: An End-to-End Modeling Workshop
(CAMWkshp)
Comparative Dynamics of Ecosystem Components from the Northeast Atlantic Shelf and Pacific Coast: New Approaches to Forecasting and Understanding Variability and Structure in Marine Ecosystems
(EcoCompDyn)
Mechanisms for low-frequency variability of forage fish: A comparative analysis of North Pacific sardine systems
(ForageFish)
New statistical tools for analyzing community dynamics with applications to marine zooplankton
(StatsCommDyn)
Role of predator-prey interactions in marine ecosystem organization: development of a new toolbox and a comparison of key interactions in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska ecosystems.
(RolePredPrey)
Dimensions of Biodiversity
(Dimensions of Biodiversity)
Biological Controls on the Ocean C:N:P ratios
(Biological C:N:P ratios)
Dimensions: The Role of Viruses in Structuring Biodiversity in Methanotrophic Marine Ecosystems
(Viruses in Methanotrophic Marine Ecosystems)
Dimensions: Uncovering the novel diversity of the copepod microbiome and its effect on habitat invasions by the copepod host
(Copepod Microbiome)
Emerging Topics in Biogeochemical Cycles
(ETBC)
Amazon iNfluence on the Atlantic: CarbOn export from Nitrogen fixation by DiAtom Symbioses
(ANACONDAS)
Gulf of Mexico - Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
(GoMX - DHOS)
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Snow and Sedimentation
(DHOS - Marine Snow and Sedimentation)
NGOMEX - Living Marine Resources of the Northern Gulf of Mexico
(NGOMEX)
RAPID Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: The Microbial response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
(Microbial Response)
Spatially-explicit, High-resolution Mapping and Modeling to Quantify Hypoxia and Oil Effects on the Living Resources of the Northern Gulf of Mexico
(GoMX - Hypoxia and Oil Effects)
Historical datasets
(Historical)
Clarke-Bumpus Georges Bank
(CBGB)
Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research -US
(IMBER-US)
Amazon iNfluence on the Atlantic: CarbOn export from Nitrogen fixation by DiAtom Symbioses
(ANACONDAS)
Iron Synthesis
(FeSynth)
European Iron Enrichment Experiment
(EISENEX)
European Iron Fertilization Experiment
(EIFEX)
Iron Experiment I
(IronExI)
Iron Experiment II
(IronExII)
Southern Ocean Iron Experiment
(SOFeX)
Southern Ocean Iron Release Experiment
(SOIREE)
Sub-Arctic Ecosystem Response to Iron Enrichment Study
(SERIES )
Subarctic Pacific Iron Experiment for Ecosystem Dynamics Study II
(SEEDS II)
Subarctic-Pacific Iron Experiment for Ecosystem Dynamics Study I
(SEEDS I)
Surface-Ocean Lower-Atmosphere Studies Air-Sea Gas Exchange (Experiment)
(SAGE)
Long Term Ecological Research network
(LTER)
California Current Ecosystem Long Term Ecological Research site
(CCE LTER)
Palmer Antarctica Long Term Ecological Research site
(Palmer LTER)
NACP-OCB Coastal Synthesis
(NACP-OCB Coastal)
Gulf of Mexico NACP-OCB Coastal Synthesis
(GoMX NACP-OCB)
National Marine Fisheries Service / Northeast Fisheries Science Center
(NMFS/NEFSC)
EcoMon Zooplankton
(EcoMon Zooplankton)
Hydrography
(Hydrography)
North American Carbon Program
(NACP)
Gulf of Mexico NACP-OCB Coastal Synthesis
(GoMX NACP-OCB)
NorthEast Consortium
(NEC)
Northeast Consortium: Cooperative Research
(NEC-CoopRes)
Northeast Consortium: Project Development
(NEC_ProjDev)
Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry
(OCB)
A new center for ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry in the geosciences
(OCB-011)
A study of the sensitivity of Sub-Antarctic Zone waters to global change
(SAZ-SENSE)
Aerosol Deposition Impacts on Phytoplankton Productivity and Ecosystem Structure
(OCB-010)
Amazon iNfluence on the Atlantic: CarbOn export from Nitrogen fixation by DiAtom Symbioses
(ANACONDAS)
An Investigation of the Role of Nutrition in the Coral Calcification Response to Ocean Acidification
(OA,Nutrition & Coral Calcification)
Application of novel satellite carbon biomass to develop ecosystem models capable of predicting climate change
(OCB-001)
Atlantic Meridional Transect programme
(AMT)
Atmospheric aerosol deposition rates and chemistry in western Atlantic trade winds
(OCB-033)
Australian Integrated Marine Observing System Facility-Southern Ocean Time Series
(IMOS-SOTS)
Autonomous pH and alkalinity sensors: In situ testing and carbon cycle research
(OCB-005)
Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study
(BATS)
BErmuda ocean Acidification and COral reef iNvestigation
(BEACON)
Biological Controls on the Ocean C:N:P ratios
(Biological C:N:P ratios)
California Current Ecosystem Long Term Ecological Research site
(CCE LTER)
Carbon cycling in the North Atlantic from regional to basin scales: Satellite data, in situ observations, and numerical models
(OCB-022)
Carbon Dioxide Dynamics in Mode Water of the North Atlantic Ocean
(CarboMODE)
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center - Global Ocean CO2
(CDIAC Ocean CO2)
CArbon Retention In A Colored Ocean Project
(CARIACO)
Carbon-climate interactions with increasing water demand
(OCB-006)
Cobalt, Iron and Micro-organisms from the Upwelling zone to the Gyre
(CoFeMUG)
Coccolithophores of the Patagonian Shelf 2008
(COPAS08)
Controls of Ross Sea Algal Community Structure
(CORSACS)
Coral Reef Primary Production and Calcification
(CRPPC)
Decadal Changes in the Equatorial Pacific Planktonic Ecosystem Structure and Functioning
(OCB-046)
Determining rates of group-specific phytoplankton and bacterial uptake of inorganic and organic nitrogen by means of stable isotope techniques
(Marine Nitrogen Cycling by Stable Isotope Probing)
DIMES, Diapycnal and Isopycnal Mixing in the Southern Ocean
(DIMES)
Diversity of biogeochemical processes: Modeling multiple biomes on multiple flow scales in the eastern Pacific Ocean
(OCB-007)
Do coupled climate models correctly simulate the upward branch of the deep ocean global conveyor?
(OCB-034)
Do interactions between vertically and horizontally transported particles measurably affect particle composition and flux to the sediments? A mechanistic approach.
(BaRFlux)
Does competition for nitrogen between autotrophs and heterotrophs control carbon fluxes in the western coastal Arctic?
(OCB-051)
Early detection of ocean acidification effects on marine calcification and deep-sea carbonate dissolution
(OCB-047)
Eastern Tropical Pacific
(ETP)
Eastern U.S. Continental Shelf Carbon Budget: Modeling, data assimilation, and analysis
(OCB-016)
Eddies Dynamics, Mixing, Export, and Species composition
(EDDIES)
Estuarine air-sea CO2 fluxes: Evaluating the impact of climatological drivers spanning multiple temporal scales using ships-of-opportunity and remote sensing
(OCB-030)
FeCycle II- Natural variability in plankton iron quotas during an unamended Lagrangian experiment
(FeCycle II)
Gulf of Mexico NACP-OCB Coastal Synthesis
(GoMX NACP-OCB)
High-resolution modeling of the Southern Ocean carbon cycle based on ECCO state estimates
(OCB-018)
Horizontal and Vertical Distribution of Thecosome Pteropods in Relation to Carbonate Chemistry in the Northwest Atlantic and Northeast Pacific
(OA-Pteropods)
Impact of ocean acidification on survival of early life stages of planktonic copepods in the genus Calanus
(CRI-OA Calanus Survival)
Improved observations and understanding of northeast Pacific coastal CO2 fluxes
(OCB-039)
In situ measurements of oxygen and nitrate with profiling floats deployed at ocean time-series stations
(OCB-019)
Investigation of the Effects of CACO3 Saturation State & Temperature on the Calcification Rate & Skeletal Properties of Benthic Marine Calcifiers
(Ocean Acidification & Warming Impact on Calcification)
Iron in the Equatorial Undercurrent
(OCB-028)
LIDAR Studies of Lateral Dispersion in the Seasonal Pycnocline
(LatMix)
Lipid lubrication of oceanic carbon and sulfur biogeochemistry via a host-virus chemical arms race
(Lipid lubrication of carbon cycle)
Macrophyte-induced variability in coastal ocean pH and consequences for invertebrate larvae
(Kelp pHOx)
MedFlux collaborative research project
(MedFlux)
Modeling ocean particle export flux by combining particle aggregation and biogeochemical models
(OCB-002)
Modeling the carbon cycle and climate: Ocean processes to global predictions
(OCB-023)
Near-surface controls of air-sea CO2 exchange
(OCB-004)
Nitrogen fixation and its coupling with denitrification in the eastern tropical North Pacific
(OCB-032)
North Atlantic Bloom Experiment 2008
(NAB 2008)
Ocean circulation, oxygen and nutrient cycles during the last glacial
(OCB-037)
Oceanic diazotroph community structure and activities in a high carbon dioxide world
(DIAZOTROPHS-CO2)
On the importance of submesoscale processes for ocean productivity
(OCB-050)
Optical and Nutrient Dependence of Quantum Efficiency
(ON DEQUE)
Organic Matter Composition, Recycling Susceptibility, and the Effectiveness of the Biological Pump
(OCB-031)
Palmer Antarctica Long Term Ecological Research site
(Palmer LTER)
Particle Transport and Carbon Export over the Northwest Atlantic Margin
(Carbon Transport)
Plankton Community Composition and Trophic Interactions as Modifiers of Carbon Export in the Sargasso Sea
(Trophic BATS)
Primary Production Model Intercomparison: Primary Production Algorithm Round Robin 4
(PPARR4)
Primary Productivity Analysis and Predictions from an Assimilative Biogeochemical Ocean General Circulation Model
(OCB-012)
Processes Regulating Iron Supply at the Mesoscale - Ross Sea
(PRISM-RS)
Processes, feedbacks and air-sea carbon dioxide exchange in the land-coastal ocean system
(OCB-021)
Quantification of Trichodesmium spp. vertical and horizontal abundance patterns and nitrogen fixation in the western North Atlantic
(Trichodesmium)
Quantifying and understanding the impacts of large-scale climate variability on the global carbon cycle
(OCB-040)
Quorum-sensing and the Carbon Cycle: Identifying Cell-density Dependent Organic Carbon Degradation among Marine Bacteria in Sinking Particles
(Quorum-sensing and the Carbon Cycle)
Reducing the global carbon cycle uncertainties: Understanding the tropical ocean-atmosphere CO2 fluxes
(OCB-045)
Remote sensing of Southern Ocean air-sea CO2 fluxes
(OCB-038)
Satellite assessment of CO2 distribution, variability and flux and understanding of control mechanisms in a river dominated ocean margin
(OCB-003)
Seasonal to decadal variations of the oceanic pCO2 and air-sea flux of CO2 in the equatorial Pacific
(OCB-044)
Simulating and assessing the carbon cycle off the west coast of North America
(OCB-025)
Simulating and assessing the carbon cycle off the west coast of North America
(OCB-048)
Sources and Biogeochemical Cycling of Intact Membrane Lipids in the Upper Ocean
(Microbial Lipid Concentrations and Turnover Rates)
Sources of Iron to the EasterN tropical Atlantic
(SIRENA)
Southern Ocean Climate Process and Modeling Team
(SO-CPT)
Southern Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment
(SO_GasEx)
Southern Ocean Iron Experiment
(SOFeX)
Stoichiometry of Oceanic Remineralization by Non-Linear Global Optimization on an Improved Data Set
(OCB-036)
The carbon balance of Lake Superior: Modeling lake processes and understanding impacts on the regional carbon budget
(OCB-024)
The Hawaii Ocean Time-series (HOT): Sustaining ocean ecosystem and climate observations in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre
(HOT)
The influence of large scale environmental changes on carbon export in the North Pacific Ocean: A comprehensive study using shipboard and remote sensing data
(OCB-013)
The role of mesoscale processes in controlling the upper ocean carbon cycle in the coastal environment: An integrated study in Santa Monica Bay, CA
(OCB-014)
The role of phytoplankton ballast material in deterring copepod grazing
(OCB_049)
Twilight Zone EXplorer
(TZEX)
U.S. Global Repeat Hydrographic/CO2/Tracer Surveys: Deep ocean DOM distribution and dynamics
(OCB-015)
VERtical Transport In the Global Ocean
(VERTIGO)
U. S. Climate Variability and Predictability
(U.S. CLIVAR)
Global Ocean Survey of Dissolved Iron and Aluminum and Aerosol Iron and Aluminum Solubility Supporting the Repeat Hydrography (CO2) Project
(CLIVAR AEROSOL)
U.S. GEOTRACES
(U.S. GEOTRACES)
Cobalt, Iron and Micro-organisms from the Upwelling zone to the Gyre
(CoFeMUG)
GEOTRACES InterCalibration
(GEOTRACES IC)
U.S. GEOTRACES North Atlantic Transect
(U.S. GEOTRACES NAT)
U.S. GLOBal ocean ECosystems dynamics
(U.S. GLOBEC)
U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank
(GB)
U.S. GLOBEC Northeast Pacific
(NEP)
U.S. GLOBEC Southern Ocean
(SOGLOBEC)
U.S. Joint Global Ocean Flux Study
(U.S. JGOFS)
U.S. JGOFS Antarctic Environment and Southern Ocean Process Study
(AESOPS)
U.S. JGOFS Arabian Sea
(Arabian Sea)
U.S. JGOFS Equatorial Pacific
(EqPac)
U.S. JGOFS North Atlantic Bloom Experiment
(NABE)
U.S. JGOFS Synthesis and Modeling
(SMP)
United States Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study
(U.S. SOLAS)
Southern Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment
(SO_GasEx)
Surface-Ocean Lower-Atmosphere Studies Air-Sea Gas Exchange (Experiment)
(SAGE)
Projects not associated with a program
Anammox, denitrification and nitrogen fixation in the Black Sea
(Anammox Black Sea)
Aplysina Red Band Syndrome: Investigating the etiology, pathogenesis, and ecology of an emerging marine disease
(Etiology of ARBS sponge disease)
B-307: Salpa thompsoni in the Southern Ocean
(SouthernSalps)
Biocomplexity of Aquatic Microbial Systems
(BAMS)
Biogeochemical Impact and Fate of Non-phosphorus Membrane Lipids in the Sargasso Sea
(Non-phosphorus Membrane Lipids)
Biological response to regime shifts and ENSO events in the Peruvian Humboldt Current ecosystem
(PCE)
Biology and Ecology of Newly Discovered Diazotrophs in the Open Ocean
(DIAZOTROPHS)
Blue Water Zone
(BWZ)
Bodega Ocean Acidification Research
(BOAR)
CAREER: Nitrate Isotopes and Biogeochemistry; A Plan for coupling
(CAREER)
Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education
(C-MORE)
Chemo-Denitrification Reactions in Suboxic Environments
(Suboxic Black Sea)
CO2 control of oceanic nitrogen fixation and carbon flow through diazotrophs
(CO2 control of nitrogen fixation and carbon flow through diazotrophs)
Cold Core Rings
(CCR)
Determining growth rates of specific bacterioplankton
(Assessing Roseobacter activities)
Dispersal and Life History Dynamics in Benthic Foraminifera
(Foram Dispersal)
Diversity and dynamics of planktonic ciliates – what can next-generation sequencing technologies tell us?
(Diversity of planktonic ciliates)
Diversity and ecology of marine RNA viruses
(Diversity and ecology of marine RNA viruses)
Does larval transport or physiological tolerance set the southern range boundary of a northern blue mussel?
(MuLTI)
DOP Utilization in the Sargasso Sea: Quantifying Taxon-specific Rates of Hydrolysis and Uptake
(ATP3)
ECOHAB - Pacific Northwest
(ECOHAB-PNW)
Ecotypic Diversity and Adaptation of Prochlorococcus in the Stratified, High Temperature Waters of the Western Pacific Warm Pool
(WP2)
El Nino and the controls of marine virus diversity
(El Nino and virus diversity)
Establishing Radionuclide Levels in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans Originating from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Facility
(Fukushima Radionuclide Levels)
Evolution in the North Atlantic Basin
(ENAB)
Experimentally linking identification and function of marine bacteria
(Marine Bacteria)
Function, activity, and adaptation of microbial communities in geochemically diverse subseafloor habitats
(AXIAL)
Gulf of Maine Krill
(Krill GoME)
How important is "old" Carbon in Lake Superior? A Radiocarbon Investigation
(Lake Superior Radiocarbon)
Icebreaker Oden: ASPIRE (Amundsen Sea Polynya International Research Expedition)
(AntarcticASPIRE)
Impact of Climate Warming and Ocean Carbonation on Eelgrass (Zostera marina L.)
(Impact of Climate on Eelgrass)
Importance of Winter Upwelling to California Current Ecosystem Dynamics
(Importance of winter upwelling)
Influence of continental margin iron on phytoplankton species composition and production in the northern Gulf of Alaska
(Northern Gulf of Alaska Phytoplankton)
Initiation of a pH/pCO2-sensing mooring platform on the Oregon coast
(PISCO)
Investigations into the Physiological State of DHAB Metazoans
(DHAB Metazoans)
Investigations of Alexandrium fundyense dynamics in the Gulf of Maine
(ALEX-GoME)
Kelp forest interaction webs in the Aleutian Archipelago: patterns and mechanism of change following the collapse of an apex predator
(Aleutian Archipelago - collapse of an apex predator)
Long Bay Wintertime Bloom
(Long Bay Bloom)
New Production During Winter Convective Mixing Events
(NP)
Nitrogen fixation, nutrient supply and biological production in the Gulf of Mexico
(GoMX - N2 Fixation)
North Atlantic Spring Bloom 2005
(NASB 2005)
Oceanographic control and global distributions of subseafloor microbial life and activity
(Subseafloor Microbial Life)
Phosphorus Bioavailability and its Effect on the Role of Trichodesmium in Elemental Cycling
(Phosphorus Bioavailability)
Pickled Protists or Community Uniquely Adapted to Hypersalinity?
(Pickled Protists)
Plankton Community Structure and Iron Distribution in the Southern Drake Passage and Scotia Sea
(Ant2006)
Population ecology of Salpa thompsoni based on molecular indicators
(Salpa thompsoni and molecular indicators)
Protistan Abundance, Diversity and Activity in the Deep-Sea and at Hydrothermal Vents
(PROTISTS)
Quantifying the role of Group I Crenarchaeota in the marine nitrogen cycle using cultures and environmental monitoring of ammonia oxidation, 16S rRNA genes and lipid biomarkers
(Marine Nitrogen Cycle)
Regional Ecology And Coastal Hydrography
(REACH)
Relating Microbial Biodiversity to Biological Oceanographic Processes
(BACT_DISTR)
Relative Influence of Turbulence and Waves on Larval Behavior
(Turbulence and Larval Behavior)
Resolving the physiological basis for fluorescence diagnostics of iron stress in natural phytoplankton populations
(Iron stress in phytoplankton)
Response of European Intertidal Communities to the Severe Winter of 2009-2010
(EUROWINTER )
River Influences on Shelf Ecosystems
(RISE)
Salp Swarm Dynamics
(SalpSwarmDyn)
Short-term colonization processes at Costa Rica methane seeps
(Seep Carbonate Ecology CROCKS II)
Silica Cycling and the Role of Diatoms in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre
(Silica Cycling)
Skidaway River Monitoring Program
(SRiMP)
Sources and Sinks of Stoichiometrically Imbalanced Nitrate in the Laurentian Great Lakes
(Lake Superior Chemistry)
Structure, Function and Evolution of Authigenic, Methane-Derived Carbonate Ecosystems
(Authigenic Carbonate Ecosystems)
The Ecology of Prochlorococcus: Toward a Model System for Microbial Oceanography
(Prochlorococcus )
Trophic ecology of small hydromedusae: a new perspective on their function in coastal ecosystems
(Hydromedusae trophic ecology)
Unveiling the contributions and regulation of picoeukaryotic phytoplankton in oceanic environments
(PHYTO_GENOME)
Vertical Transport and Exchange
(VERTEX)