The awards made by the Office of Polar Programs have been divided into antarctic and arctic programs. This page features awards made by the Division of Arctic Sciences (ARC).

Division of Arctic Sciences
	Arctic Cyberinfrastructure		Arctic Research Support and Logistics
	Arctic Natural Sciences		Arctic Social Sciences
	Arctic Observing Network		Arctic System Science
	Arctic Research and Education

DIVISION OF ARCTIC SCIENCES

Arctic Cyberinfrastructure

Award	Investigator	Institution	IPY $	Title
0856292	Rigor, Ignatius	University of Washington	$    1,000,000	International Arctic buoy program
0632354	Parsons, Mark	University of Colorado at Boulder	$      469,112	International Polar Year data and information service
			$    1,469,112

Arctic Natural Sciences

Award	Investigator	Institution	IPY $	Title
0732713	Harlow, Henry	University of Wyoming	$      732,924	Adaptive long-term fasting in land- and ice-bound polar bears: coping with ice loss in the Arctic
0817967	Post, Eric	Pennsylvania State Univ University Park	$        10,000	After the melt: an international conference on the ecology of Arctic climate change
0856479	Toole, John	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	$    4,622,113	AON: ice-tethered profiler for sampling meteorological, sea ice, and ocean mixed layer
0856868	Stanton, Timothy	Naval Postgraduate School	$    2,099,512	Autonomous ocean flux buoys to observe turbulent vertical fluxes of heat, salt, and momentum
0732668	Grebmeier, Jacqueline	University of Tennessee Knoxville	$      151,611	Bering ecosystem study: benthic ecosystem response to changing ice cover
0714605	Moore, James	University Corp. for Atmospheric Res	$      224,841	Bering ecosystem study: data management
0808853	Moore, James	University Corp. for Atmospheric Res	$      608,758
0612380	Shull, David	Western Washington University	$      411,945	Bering ecosystem study: denitrification and global change in Bering Sea shelf sediments
0612436	Devol, Allan	University of Washington	$      540,287
0813985	Sonnerup, Rolf	University of Washington	$      128,789	Bering ecosystem study: hydrographic structure and nutrients during summer
0732359	Lomas, Michael	Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences	$      381,179	Bering ecosystem study: impact of changes in sea ice extent on primary production, phytoplankton, and export
0732680	Moran, S. Bradley	University of Rhode Island	$      418,950
0611967	Zhang, Jinlun	University of Washington	$      460,127	Bering ecosystem study: impact of changes in sea ice on physical forcings of the ecosystem
0732640	Sonnerup, Rolf	University of Washington	$      538,343	Bering ecosystem study: impacts of sea-ice on hydrographic structure and nutrients
0732772	Whitledge, Terry	University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus	$      210,966
0732773	Whitledge, Terry	University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus	$      121,839
0732430	Sonnerup, Rolf	University of Washington	$      784,838	Bering ecosystem study: impacts of sea-ice on the distribution of chlorophyll-a
0810459	Whitledge, Terry	University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus	$      117,689
0722448	Hunt, George	University of Washington	$      164,697	Bering ecosystem study: impacts of sea-ice on the hydrographic structure, nutrients, and mesozooplankton
0816805	Coyle, Kenneth	University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus	$      220,154	Bering ecosystem study: mesozooplankton population and biomass
0732301	Sherr, Evelyn	Oregon State University	$      786,421	Bering ecosystem study: mesozooplankton-microbial food web in a climatically changing sea ice environment
0732362	Campbell, Robert	University of Rhode Island	$      432,268
0732382	Ashjian, Carin	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	$      608,159
0612198	Sigman, Daniel	Princeton University	$      466,135	Bering ecosystem study: nitrogen supply for new production and its relation to climatic conditions
0612427	Sambrotto, Raymond	Columbia University	$    1,219,495
0612538	Wu, Jingfeng	University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus	$      273,098	Bering ecosystem study: role of ice melting in providing available iron to the surface water
0732767	Gradinger, Rolf	University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus	$    1,061,747	Bering ecosystem study: sea Ice algae, a major food source for herbivorous plankton and benthos
0732389	Lessard, Evelyn	University of Washington	$      644,558	Bering ecosystem study: trophic role of euphausiids: ecosystem responses to changing sea-ice conditions
0732667	Harvey, H.	U. Maryland Ctr Environmental Sciences	$      583,456
0732428	Aagaard, Knut	University of Washington	$      673,882	Bering Shelf stratification and its consequences for nutrients and the ecosystem
0732771	Weingartner, Thomas	University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus	$      920,308
0612636	Warren, Stephen	University of Washington	$      925,687	Black carbon in Arctic snow and ice and its effect on surface albedo
0632139	Shaver, Gaius	Marine Biological Laboratory	$    1,398,345	Carbon, water, and energy balance of the Arctic landscape at flagship observatories and in a pan-Arctic network
0632264	Bret-Harte, Marion	University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus	$    1,939,401
0632233	Kirchman, David	University of Delaware	$      417,466	Chemolithoautotrophy in the Arctic Ocean--environmental genomics and functional analyses
0743972	Minnett, Peter	U. Miami Rosenstiel School	$        82,090	Cloud radiative forcing in the high Arctic
0732431	Curchitser, Enrique	Rutgers University New Brunswick	$      246,678	Downscaling global climate projections to the ecosystems of the Bering Sea with nested biophysical models
0732534	Bond, Nicholas	University of Washington	$      802,861
0732538	Hedstrom, Katherine	University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus	$      263,635
0611991	Geiger, Cathleen	U.S. Army CRREL	$      386,169	Dynamic component of sea ice mass balance
0612105	Geiger, Cathleen	University of Delaware	$      525,149
0612527	Hutchings, Jennifer	University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus	$      439,327
0632332	Taylor, Donald	University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus	$      743,697	Genomics investigation of fungal adaptation to cold
0649006	Roof, Steven	Hampshire College	$      924,974	Holocene and modern climate change in the high Arctic
0855828	Stafford, Kathleen	University of Washington	$      271,917	Interdisciplinary mooring in the western Arctic Boundary Current: climatic forcing and ecosystem response
0856210	Mathis, Jeremy	University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus	$      195,417
0856244	Pickart, Robert	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	$    2,317,495
0732925	Persson, Ola P	University of Colorado at Boulder	$      299,852	Macro- and microphysical structure of Arctic clouds
0714045	Nolan, Matt	University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus	$    1,141,030	Mass balance and glacier dynamics modeling on Arctic glaciers for better prediction and hindcasting
0632105	Laird, Claude	University of Kansas	$      150,221	NEEM deep ice core
0632222	White, James	University of Colorado at Boulder	$      169,996
0806339	Baker, Ian	Dartmouth College	$      254,987
0806377	Severinghaus, Jeffrey	Scripps Institution of Oceanography	$      316,442
0806387	White, James	University of Colorado at Boulder	$      776,627
0806407	Sowers, Todd	Pennsylvania State Univ University Park	$      437,690
0806414	Brook, Edward	Oregon State University	$      515,392
0611992	Perovich, Donald	U.S. Army CRREL	$      385,021	O-buoy project: deployment of a network of Arctic Ocean chemical sensors
0612047	Shepson, Paul	Purdue University	$      507,518
0612331	Matrai, Patricia	Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences	$      413,994
0612457	Simpson, William	University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus	$      349,330
0631713	Weingartner, Thomas	University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus	$      552,805	Pacific gateway to the Arctic: quantifying and understanding Bering Strait oceanic fluxes
0632154	Woodgate, Rebecca	University of Washington	$    1,071,793
0425387	Pfeffer, W. Tad	University of Colorado at Boulder	$          8,000	Participation of graduate students in the annual Arctic workshops 2005-2007
0612289	Baldwin, Mark	NorthWest Research Associates, Inc.	$        65,638	Polar stratosphere and vertical coupling
0632310	Csatho, Beata	SUNY at Buffalo	$      204,762	POLENET-Greenland: using bedrock geodesy to constrain past and present day changes in Greenland's ice mass
0632320	Bevis, Michael	Ohio State U. Research Foundation	$    1,234,621
0631309	Ballantyne, Ashley	Ballantyne, Ashley P.	$      238,000	Postdoctoral research fellowship
0732885	Tweedie, Craig	University of Texas at El Paso	$      747,684	Resampling old research sites to assess change in high latitude terrestrial ecosystem structure and function
0714088	Zender, Charles	University of California-Irvine	$      518,482	Snow process studies and modeling to improve Arctic climate prediction
0856377	Perovich, Donald	U.S. Army CRREL	$      603,615	State of the Arctic sea ice cover: sustaining the integrated seasonal ice zone observing network
0856867	Eicken, Hajo	University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus	$    1,419,891
0520578	Romanovsky, Vladimir	University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus	$      375,021	Thermal state of permafrost: U.S. contribution to the international permafrost observatory network
0732954	Goetz, Scott	Woods Hole Research Center	$      796,041	Tundra ecosystem responses to climate change
0732948	Pearson, Richard	American Museum of Natural History	$      145,320
0830146	Hunt, George	University of Washington	$      119,172	U.S. liaison activity for international ecosystem studies of sub-Arctic seas
			$  46,318,342

Arctic Observing Network

Award	Investigator	Institution	IPY $	Title
0856421	Shiklomanov, Nikolay	University of Delaware	$    1,662,201	Active layer monitoring network: long-term observations on the climate - active layer - permafrost system
0633979	Proshutinsky, Andrey	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	$        76,260	Aerial hydrographic surveys: tracking change and understanding seasonal variability
0634097	McPhee, Miles	McPhee Research Company	$      118,991
0634122	Collier, Robert	Oregon State University	$      289,384
0634167	Guay, Christopher	Pacific Marine Sciences & Technology	$        74,989
0634226	Morison, James	University of Washington	$      703,627
0732522	Holmes, Robert	Woods Hole Research Center	$      369,223	Arctic great rivers observatory
0732583	Raymond, Peter	Yale University	$      331,366
0732821	McClelland, James	University of Texas at Austin	$      190,690
0732985	Peterson, Bruce	Marine Biological Laboratory	$      653,314
0424864	Proshutinsky, Andrey	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	$    2,422,948	Beaufort gyre system: flywheel of the Arctic climate?
0634079	Gofman, Victoria	Aleut International Association	$      677,816	Bering Sea subnetwork: community-based observation alliance for Arctic Observing Network
0856305	Alessa, Lilian	University of Alaska Anchorage Campus	$      545,143
0856774	Gofman, Victoria	Aleut International Association	$    2,499,989
0632177	Walden, Von	University of Idaho	$      197,559	Cloud properties across the Arctic basin from surface and satellite measurements
0632187	Shupe, Matthew	University of Colorado at Boulder	$      184,340
0632312	Drobot, Sheldon	University of Colorado at Boulder	$        35,429	Collaborative, interdisciplinary relationships among the new generation of polar researchers
0632296	Fetterer, Florence	University of Colorado at Boulder	$      681,497	Cooperative Arctic data and information service
0632313	Moore, James	University Corp. For Atmospheric Res	$    1,526,962
0336450	Bales, Roger	University of California - Merced	$      381,803	Core measurements at Summit, Greenland, environmental observatory
0856634	Gearheard, Shari	University of Colorado at Boulder	$    1,968,016	Data management support for community-based observations
0612452	Eloranta, Edwin	University of Wisconsin-Madison	$      466,647	Data products for the University of Wisconsin high spectral resolution lidar
0732726	Pfeffer, W. Tad	University of Colorado at Boulder	$      615,449	Dynamic controls on tidewater glacier retreat
0732739	Conway, Howard	University of Washington	$      117,217
0632201	Timmermans, Mary-Louise	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	$      204,406	Dynamics of the deepest waters in the Arctic Ocean
0632144	Klein, Julia	Colorado State University	$        52,707	Ecosystem-change studies using the International Tundra Experiment
0632184	Welker, Jeffrey	University of Alaska Anchorage Campus	$      270,173
0632263	Hollister, Robert	Grand Valley State University	$      172,152
0632277	Oberbauer, Steven	Florida International University	$      651,394
0632345	Gearheard, Shari	University of Colorado at Boulder	$      658,093	Exchange for local observations and knowledge of the Arctic
0732556	Shepson, Paul	Purdue University	$      543,661	Halogen chemistry and ocean - atmosphere - sea ice - snowpack chemical exchange
0612391	Richter-Menge, Jacqueline	U.S. Army CRREL	$      869,766	Ice mass-balance buoy network: coordination with DAMOCLES
0631951	Toole, John	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	$    1,735,332	Ice-tethered profilers to sample the upper ocean water properties
0520287	Rigor, Ignatius	University of Washington	$      600,000	International Arctic buoy program
0638408	Kruse, John	University of Alaska Anchorage Campus	$      894,556	Is the Arctic human environment moving to a new state?
0638413	Hamilton, Lawrence	University of New Hampshire	$      200,708
0352687	McPhee, Miles	McPhee Research Company	$        27,584	North Pole Station: a distributed long-term environmental observatory
0352754	Morison, James	University of Washington	$    4,416,807
0352984	Collier, Robert	Oregon State University	$      198,924
0632231	Lee, Craig	University of Washington	$    2,339,463	Observational network for critical Arctic gateways -- understanding exchanges through Davis and Fram straits
0633343	Kwok, Ronald	NASA	$      188,000	Observing system in the Switchyard region of the Arctic Ocean
0633878	Schlosser, Peter	Columbia University	$    1,421,665
0633885	Steele, Michael	University of Washington	$    2,444,666
0722694	Proshutinsky, Andrey	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	$    1,439,952	Oceanographic instrumentation to enhance the Arctic Ocean Observing Network
0907819	Bernhard, Germar	Biospherical Instruments Inc	$        64,111	Recent changes of solar ultraviolet radiation in the Arctic
0842779	Cooper, Lee	U. Maryland Ctr Environmental Sciences	$        48,827	Science plan and workshop support for Bering Strait environmental observations
0632041	Stanton, Timothy	Naval Postgraduate School	$    1,090,150	Surface buoys to sample turbulent ocean heat and salt fluxes
0856330	Morison, James	University of Washington	$    4,100,675	Sustained observations of the North Pole environment to characterize ongoing Arctic change
0856808	Collier, Robert	Oregon State University	$      575,552
0645895	Byers, Albert	National Science Teachers Assoc	$        33,359	Symposia and web seminars
0622406	Tweedie, Craig	University of Texas at El Paso	$      750,126	Terrestrial circum-Arctic environmental observatories network
			$  42,783,669

Arctic Research and Education

Award	Investigator	Institution	IPY $	Title
0700233	Sturm, Matthew	U.S. Army CRREL	$      119,960	Alaska-Canada barrenlands traverse
0632324	Weiler, C. Susan	Whitman College	$      206,929	Collaborative, interdisciplinary relationships among the new generation of polar researchers
0829225	Byers, Albert	National Science Teachers Assoc	$        39,616	Conferences on science education
0723343	Pfirman, Stephanie	Columbia University	$        27,928	NYC international polar weekend
0806509	Pfirman, Stephanie	Columbia University	$        40,218
0806933	Borrero, Roberto	American Museum of Natural History	$        34,410
0632360	Tweedie, Craig	University of Texas at El Paso	$      457,444	Research and educational opportunities in Antarctica for minorities
			$      926,505

Arctic Research Support and Logistics

Award	Investigator	Institution	IPY $	Title
0718422	Virginia, Ross	Dartmouth College	$        42,714	Arctic science summit week 2007
0738306	Karlqvist, Anders	Swedish Polar Research Secretariat	$    3,663,977	Icebreaker Oden: support to NSF/OPP funded research
0618885	Fox, Susan	Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S.	$    6,440,175	Organizational support to the U.S. Arctic science program
0647022	Elfring, Chris	National Academy of Sciences	$      135,000	Polar Research Board
0520837	Craft, Gary	CH2M Hill Constructor, Inc.	$  14,000,000	Research support and logistics
0902165	Helmig, Detlev	University of Colorado at Boulder	$        98,554	Surface and boundary-layer profiling of ocean, atmosphere, sea ice, and snowpack using tethered balloons
			$  24,380,420

Arctic Social Sciences

Award	Investigator	Institution	IPY $	Title
0611978	John, Mark	Calista Elders Council	$      597,487	Bering ecosystem study: Nelson Island natural and cultural knowledge project
0755832	Beach, Hugh	Portland State University	$      805,000	Circumpolar land use and ethnicity: social impacts of policy and climate change
0733929	Sider, Gerald	CUNY College of Staten Island	$          5,996	Crises and vulnerability: historical perspective on contemporary problems in Labrador Innu and Inuit communities
0732787	Krauss, Michael	University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus	$    1,408,380	Documenting Alaskan and neighboring languages
0732973	Salzman, Hal	Urban Institute	$      574,355	Employment and sustainability in a time of transition
0903589	Salzman, Hal	Rutgers University New Brunswick	$      212,901
0631970	Ziker, John	Boise State University	$      375,365	Home, hearth, and household in Siberia and northern Canada
0732620	LeMoine, Genevieve	Bowdoin College	$      210,276	Inglefield land archaeology project: dynamic social systems at the entrance to Greenland
0732850	Darwent, Christyann	University of California-Davis	$      195,837
0711965	Wheelersburg, Robert	Elizabethtown College	$        70,000	International directory of Arctic social scientists
0732327	McGovern, Thomas	CUNY Hunter College	$      896,724	Long term human ecodynamics in the Norse North Atlantic: cases of sustainability, survival, and collapse
0802390	Snodgrass, James	University of Oregon Eugene	$      166,860	Metabolic adaptation among indigenous Siberians: causes and consequences
0705654	Heleniak, Timothy	University of Maryland College Park	$      330,873	Moved by the state: perspectives on relocation and resettlement in the circumpolar North
0713896	Schweitzer, Peter	University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus	$      695,364
0755966	Alessa, Lilian	University of Alaska Anchorage Campus	$      865,815	Municipal water systems and the resilience of Arctic communities
0754787	Kral, Michael	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	$      254,206	Negotiating pathways to adulthood: social change and indigenous culture in four circumpolar communities
0755348	Wexler, Lisa	University of Massachusetts Amherst	$      500,139
0756211	Allen, James	University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus	$      413,806
0631419	Koester, David	University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus	$      621,495	New religious movements in the Russian north: competing uses of religiosity after socialism
0638897	Ogilvie, Astrid	University of Colorado at Boulder	$      285,000	Northern narratives:  social and geographical accounts from Norway, Iceland and Canada
0732846	O'Rourke, Dennis	University of Utah	$      552,543	Reconstruction of human genetic history along the North Slope
0732857	Hayes, Geoffrey	Northwestern University at Chicago	$      504,819
0838678	Schweitzer, Peter	University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus	$      120,000	Sixth international congress of Arctic social sciences
0631230	Zubrow, Ezra B.	SUNY at Buffalo	$      174,256	Social change and the environment in Nordic prehistory: evidence from Finland and Northern Canada
0804290	Martin, Patrick	Michigan Technological University	$        21,999	Social perspectives on the industrial archaeology of the Arctic
0639211	Huskey, Terry	University of Alaska Anchorage Campus	$      381,452	Understanding migration in the circumpolar North
0756122	Matland, Richard	Loyola University of Chicago	$      374,986	Women candidates in regional Russia: religion and culture as barriers to women's participation
0724229	Kruse, John	University of Alaska Anchorage Campus	$        19,766	Workshop for comprehensive release of SLICA results
			$  11,635,700

Arctic System Science

Award	Investigator	Institution	IPY $	Title
0852396	Vorosmarty, Charles	CUNY City College	$      403,770	Arctic community-wide hydrological analysis and monitoring
0732650	Walsh, John	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	$      328,260	Arctic system reanalysis, a blend of modeling and observations
0732986	Serreze, Mark	University of Colorado at Boulder	$      359,799
0733023	Bromwich, David	Ohio State U. Research Foundation	$    1,142,474
0733058	Kuo, Ying-Hwa	University Corp. For Atmospheric Res	$      944,075
0732168	Post, Eric	Pennsylvania State Univ University Park	$        85,893	Ecological consequences of Arctic climate change
0856516	Hollister, Robert	Grand Valley State University	$      502,600	Ecosystem-change studies using the International Tundra Experiment
0856628	Tweedie, Craig	University of Texas at El Paso	$      400,471
0856710	Oberbauer, Steven	Florida International University	$    1,200,070
0856728	Welker, Jeffrey	University of Alaska Anchorage Campus	$      591,914
0732735	Walter, Katey	University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus	$      646,940	Impacts of icy permafrost degradation and thermokarst-lake dynamics on carbon cycling, CO2 and CH4 emissions
0335941	Kane, Douglas	University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus	$      594,558	Long-term measurements and observations on the Kuparuk River basin, Alaska
0733074	Schimel, Joshua	University of California-Santa Barbara	$      904,623	Microbial winter survival physiology: a driver on microbial community composition and carbon cycling
0632387	Collins, Richard	University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus	$      803,668	Pan-Arctic studies of the coupled tropospheric, stratospheric, and mesospheric circulation
0632400	Romanovsky, Vladimir	University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus	$      945,276	Permafrost observatories in North America and Russia
0805703	Eicken, Hajo	University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus	$        49,946	Polar sea-ice information needs: training, outreach, and legacy products through a system services approach
0632131	Sturm, Matthew	U.S. Army CRREL	$      571,342	Prototype network for measuring Arctic winter precipitation and snow cover
0632133	Liston, Glen	Colorado State University	$      351,000
0632160	Kane, Douglas	University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus	$      537,565
0632130	Perovich, Donald	U.S. Army CRREL	$      458,321	State of the Arctic sea ice cover: sustaining the integrated seasonal ice zone observing network
0632398	Eicken, Hajo	University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus	$      891,329
			$  12,713,894