U.S. JGOFS Synthesis and Modeling Project

Research Projects Funded by NSF (FY99)

Michael Lizotte (Wisconsin) and Giacomo DiTullio (Charleston) JGOFS Synthesis: The Role of Phytoplankton Community Structure in Determining Particulate Elemental Composition, Carbon Fixation, and Bio-Optical Properties

36 months

Raleigh Hood (CEES), Julian McCreary (NOVA), Sharon Smith and Don Olson (RSMAS)

Development, Validation and Improvement of a Coupled Biological/Chemical/Physical Model for the Arabian Sea

36 months

Robert Key and Christopher Sabine (Princeton), Louis Gordon (OSU)

Determination of the Redfield Remineralization Ratios Based on Neutral Surface Analysis of the New Global Data Set

36 months

William Martin and Frederick Sayles (WHOI)

The Cycling of Organic carbon and Calcium Carbonate in Marine Sediments: Determination of Parameters for Use in Global Models

24 months

James Murray, Bruce Frost and Harilaos Loukos (UW), Suzanne Strom (WWU)

Food-Web Regulation of Particulate Flux in High Nitrate-Low Chlorophyll Regions

36 months

Hugh Ducklow (VIMS), Michael Fasham and Thomas Anderson (Southampton Oceanography Centre)

Constraining and Understanding Bacterial Biomass and Production Variability in Ocean Ecosystems

36 months

Paul Robbins and Andrew Dickson (SIO)

An Assessment of Anthropogenic Carbon in the Pacific Ocean with Specific Application to Diagnostic Inverse Models of the Circulation

36 months

Raymond Sambrotto (LDEO), Mary-Lynn Dickson (URI)

Collaborative Research: Quantifying the Relationship Between Nitrogen Uptake and Net Community Production Using a Synthesis of JGOFS Data and 1-D Modeling

36 month

Jorge Sarmiento and Christopher Sabine (Princeton), Nicholas Bates (BBSR)

Assessment of Temporal Variability in Global Inorganic Carbon Distributions

36 months

Peter Verity (Skidaway) (ONGOING NEGOTIATION)

Budgets of Biogenic Elements in the NW Atlantic Ocean Margin: A Synthesis and Modelling Project

24 months