Bering Sea Ecosystem Research

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The following Bering Ecosystem Study (BEST) awards have been made through NSF solicitations 05-618 and 07-533.

The Role of Ice Melting in Providing Available Iron to the Surface Water of the Eastern Bering Sea Shelf

• Award Number: 0612538
  Principal Investigator: Jingfeng Wu, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  Award Amount: $273,098

  
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Denitrification and Global Change in Bering Sea Shelf Sediments

• Award Number: 0612436
  Principal Investigator: Allan Devol, University of Washington
  Award Amount: $498,572

  
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• Award Number: 0612380
  Principal Investigator: David Shull, Western Washington University
  Award Amount: $367,764

  
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Nitrogen Supply for New Production and its Relation to Climatic Conditions on the Eastern Bering Sea Shelf

• Award Number: 0612427
  Principal Investigator: Raymond Sambrotto, Columbia University
  Award Amount: $1,075,009

  
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• Award Number: 0612198
  Principal Investigator: Daniel Sigman, Princeton University
  Award Amount: $466,135

  
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The Impact of Changes in Sea Ice on the Physical Forcings of the Eastern Bering Ecosystem: Retrospective Investigation and Future Projection

• Award Number: 0611967
  Principal Investigator: Jinlun Zhang, University of Washington
  Co-Principal Investigator: Rebecca Woodgate, University of Washington
  Award Amount: $460,127

  
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Nelson Island Natural and Cultural Knowledge Project

• Award Number: 0611978
  Principal Investigator: Mark John, Calista Elders Council
  Co-Principal Investigator: Ann Fienup-Riordan, Calista Elders Council
  Award Amount: $221,024

  
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Impacts of Sea-ice on the Hydrographic Structure, Nutrients, and Mesozooplankton over the Eastern Bering Sea Shelf

• Award Number: : 0722448
  Principal Investigator: George Hunt, University of Washington
  Award Amount: $164,697

  
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Bering Ecosystem Study Data Management

• Award Number: 0714605
  Principal Investigator: James Moore, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
  Co-Principal Investigator: Gregory Stossmeister, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
  Award Amount: $224,841

  
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Mesozooplankton-microbial food web interactions in a climatically changing sea ice environment

• Award Number: 0732301
  Principal Investigator: Evelyn Sherr, Oregon State University
  Co-Principal Investigator: Barry Sherr, Oregon State University
  Award Amount: $227,852

  
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• Award Number: 0732362
  Principal Investigator: Robert Campbell, University of Rhode Island
  Award Amount: $119,808

  
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• Award Number: 0732382
  Principal Investigator: Carin Ashjian, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
  Award Amount: $167,081

  
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Stratification on the Bering Shelf and its consequences for nutrients and the ecosystem: The effects of ice and coastal water advection

• Award Number: 0732428
  Principal Investigator: Knut Aagaard, University of Washington
  Award Amount: $132,642

  
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• Award Number: 0732771
  Principal Investigator: Thomas Weingartner, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  Award Amount: $251,492

  
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The Trophic Role of Euphausiids in the eastern Bering Sea: Ecosystem Responses to Changing Sea-ice Conditions

• Award Number: 0732389
  Principal Investigator: Evelyn Lessard, University of Washington
  Award Amount: $157,374

  
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• Award Number: 0732667
  Principal Investigator: H. Harvey, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences
  Award Amount: $189,279

  
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A Service Proposal to Examine Impacts of Sea-ice on Hydrographic Structure and Nutrients over the Eastern Bering Sea Shelf

• Award Number: 0732430
  Principal Investigator: Rolf Sonnerup, University of Washington
  Co-Principal Investigator: Calvin Mordy, University of Washington
  Award Amount: $238,312

  
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• Award Number: 0732772
  Principal Investigator: Terry Whitledge, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  Award Amount: $47,999

  
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A Service Proposal to Examine Hydrographic Structure and Nutrients over the Eastern Bering Sea Shelf During Summer

• Award Number: 0732640
  Principal Investigator: Rolf Sonnerup, University of Washington
  Co-Principal Investigator: Calvin Mordy, University of Washington
  Award Amount: $136,510

  
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• Award Number: 0732773
  Principal Investigator: Terry Whitledge, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  Award Amount: $24,930

  
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BEST: Sea Ice algae, a major food source for herbivorous plankton and benthos in the eastern Bering Sea

• Award Number: 0732767
  Principal Investigator: Rolf Gradinger, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  Co-Principal Investigator: Katrin Iken, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  Co-Principal Investigator: Bodil Bluhm, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  Award Amount: $283,502

  
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Downscaling global climate projections to the ecosystems of the Bering Sea with nested biophysical models

• Award Number: 0732534
  Principal Investigator: Nicholas Bond, University of Washington
  Co-Principal Investigator: Albert Hermann, University of Washington
  Award Amount: $178,203

  
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• Award Number: 0732431
  Principal Investigator: Enrique Curchitser, Rutgers University
  Award Amount: $51,639

  
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• Award Number: 0732538
  Principal Investigator: Katherine Hedstrom, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  Co-Principal Investigator: Georgina Gibson, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  Award Amount: $27,935

  
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The Impact of Changes in Sea Ice Extent on Primary Production, Phytoplankton Community Structure, and Export in the eastern Bering Sea

• Award Number: 0732680
  Principal Investigator: S. Bradley Moran, University of Rhode Island
  Award Amount: $107,642

  
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• Award Number: 0732359
  Principal Investigator: Michael Lomas, Bermuda Biological Station For Research
  Award Amount: $89,176

  
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BEST: Benthic Ecosystem Response to Changing Ice Cover in the Bering Sea

• Award Number: 0732668
  Principal Investigator: Jacqueline Grebmeier, University of Tennessee Knoxville
  Co-Principal Investigator: Lee Cooper, University of Tennessee Knoxville
  Award Amount: $151,611

  
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