BE FY 2006 Awards

CARBON AND WATER IN THE EARTH SYSTEM

Principal Investigator	Title	Institution	Total Awarded
Dennis Baldocchi	Understanding the Coupling of Greenhouse Gases (CH4, CO2, H2O) and Energy Fluxes over a Vulnerable Ecosystem: The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Peatland	University of California at Berkeley	$1,291,261
Inez Fung	Collaborative Research: Carbon-Climate Interactions with Increasing Water Demand	University of California at Berkeley	$785,143
Steve Frolking	Collaborative Research: Identifying Hydroclimatic Regimes of Carbon Stability in Northern Peatlands: Holocene Data Analysis and Process-Based Modeling	University of New Hampshire	$720,561
Eric D'Asaro	Collaborative Research: Autonomous Measurements of Carbon Fluxes in the North Atlantic Bloom	University of Washington	$2,072,812
Galen McKinley	Collaborative Research: The carbon balance of Lake Superior: Modeling lake processes and understanding impacts on the regional carbon budget	University of Wisconsin at Madison	$894,964
Burke Hales	Collaborative Research: Net Carbon Transport and Reaction in the bottom Boundary Layer of an Upwelling Margin	Oregon State University	$1,893,778
Praveen Kumar	Interactions Between Water, Energy and Carbon Dynamics as Predictors of Canopy to Ecosystem Scale Vegetation Pattern and Function in a Changing Environment	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	$1,650,000
Steven Emerson	Collaborative Reserach: Mechanisms Controlling Upper Ocean Carbon Fluxes in the North Pacific	University of Washington	$2,520,015
Ken Buesseler	Collaborative Research: Carbon Flux Through the Twilight Zone - New Tools to Measure Change	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute	$1,639,361
James Randerson	Collaborative Research: Fire at the Intersection of Global Carbon and Water Cycles	University of California at Irvine	$595,689
Gabriel Katul	De-convolving the effects of rising atmospheric CO2, solar dimming, and afforestation on usable water and carbon sequestration potential in the Southeastern U.S.	Duke University	$445,475
James Zachos	Collaborative Research: Dynamics of carbon release and sequestration: Case studies of two early Eocene hyperthermals	University of California at Santa Cruz	$419,500
Mike DeGrandpre	Collaborative Research: Autonomous pH and Alkalinity Sensors: in situ Testing and Carbon Cycle Research	University of Montana	$550,642