EXPORTS Science Team Projects
First Step - Linking Remotely-Detectable Optical Signals, Photic Layer Plankton Properties, and Export Flux
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Principal Investigator:
Behrenfeld, Michael (Oregon State University)
Co-Pi(s):
Emmanuel Boss (UMaine)
Jason Graff (OSU)
Lionel Guidi (LOV)
Kim Halsey (OSU)
Lee Karp-Boss (UMaine)
Project Funding:
NASA
Elucidating Spatial and Temporal Variability in the Export and Attenuation of Ocean Primary Production using Thorium-234
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Principal Investigator:
Buesseler, Ken (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute)
Co-Pi(s):
Claudia Benitez-Nelson (USC)
Laure Resplandy (Princeton)
Project Funding:
NASA
Isotopic Indicators for Mechanisms of Organic Matter Degradation in the Northeast Pacific
Principal Investigator:
Hilary G. Close (RSMAS, University of Miami)
Co-Pi(s):
Brian N. Popp, University of Hawaii at Manoa, SOEST, Department of Earth Sciences
Kanesa Duncan Seraphin, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii Sea Grant Center for Marine Science Education
Project Funding:
NSF
Evaluating the Controls of Dissolved Organic Matter Accumulation, its Availability to Bacterioplankton, its Subsequent Diagenetic Alteration and Contribution to Export Flux
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Principal Investigator:
Carlson, Craig (University of California Santa Barbara)
Co-Pi(s):
Dennis Hansell (RSMAS)
Project Funding:
NASA
Linking sinking particle chemistry and biology with changes in the magnitude and efficiency of carbon export into the deep ocean
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Principal Investigator:
Margaret Estapa (Skidmore College)
Co-Pi(s):
Ken Buesseler (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Colleen Durkin (Moss Landing Marine Laboratories)
Melissa Omand (University of Rhode Island)
Project Funding:
NASA
Constraining Upper-Ocean Carbon Export with Biogeochemical Profiling Floats
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Principal Investigator:
Fassbender, Andrea (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI))
Project Funding:
NSF
Diatoms, Food Webs and Carbon Export - Leveraging NASA EXPORTS to Test the Role of Diatom Physiology in the Biological Carbon Pump
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Principal Investigator:
Jenkins, Bethany (University of Rhode Island)
Co-Pi(s):
Kristen Buck (USF)
Mark Brzezinski (UCSB)
Project Funding:
NSF
Collaborative Research: Estimation of particle aggregation and disaggregation rates from the inversion of chemical tracer data
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Principal Investigator:
Lam, Phoebe (University of California Santa Cruz)
Co-Pi(s):
Olivier Marchal (WHOI)
Jong-Mi Lee (UCSC)
Project Funding:
NSF
Autonomous Investigation of Export Pathways from Hours to Seasons
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Principal Investigator:
Lee, Craig (University of Washington)
Co-Pi(s):
Eric D’Asaro (UW)
David Nicholson (WHOI)
Melissa Omand (URI)
Mary Jane Perry (UMaine)
Andrew Thompson (Caltech)
Project Funding:
NASA
In Situ Optics and Biogeochemistry in Support of EXPORTS Science
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Principal Investigator:
Mannino, Antonio (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Project Funding:
NASA
Quantifying the Carbon Export Potential of the Marine Microbial Community: Coupling of Biogenic Rates and Fluxes with Genomics at the Ocean Surface
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Principal Investigator:
Marchetti, Adrian (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Co-Pi(s):
Nicolas Cassar (Duke)
Scott Gifford (UNC)
Project Funding:
NASA
Quantifying Plankton Predation Rates, and Effects on Primary Production, Phytoplankton Community Composition, Size Spectra and Potential for Export
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Principal Investigator:
Menden-Deuer, Susanne (University of Rhode Island)
Co-Pi(s):
Tatiana Rynearson (URI)
Project Funding:
NASA
Phytoplankton community structure, carbon stock, carbon export and carbon flux: What role do diatoms play in the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans?
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Principal Investigator:
Roesler, Collin (Bowdoin College)
Co-Pi(s):
Heidi Sosik (WHOI)
Project Funding:
NASA
Surface Versus Subsurface Controls on Microbial Attenuation of Sinking Particulate Flux in the Mesopelagic Ocean
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Principal Investigator:
Santoro, Alyson (University of California Santa Barbara)
Co-Pi(s):
Philip Boyd (University of Tasmania)
Project Funding:
NASA
Synthesizing Optically and Carbon Export-Relevant Particle Size Distributions for the EXPORTS Field Campaign
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Principal Investigator:
Siegel, David (University of California Santa Barbara)
Co-Pi(s):
Adrian Burd (UGA)
Andrew McDonnell (UAF)
Norm Nelson (UCSB)
Uta Passow (UCSB)
Project Funding:
NASA
Zooplankton-Mediated Export Pathways: Quantifying Fecal Pellet Export and Active Transport by Diel and Ontogenetic Vertical Migration in the North Pacific and Atlantic Oceans
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Principal Investigator:
Steinberg, Deborah (William & Mary - VIMS)
Co-Pi(s):
Amy Maas (BIOS)
Project Funding:
NASA
Environmental Lipidomics of Suspended and Sinking Particles in the Upper Ocean
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Principal Investigator:
Van Mooy, Benjamin (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Project Funding:
NSF
Optically Resolving Size and Composition Distributions of Particles in the Dissolved-Particulate Continuum from 20 nm to 20 mm to Improve the Estimate of Carbon Flux
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Principal Investigator:
Zhang, Xiaodong (University of North Dakota)
Co-Pi(s):
Deric Gray (NRL)
Lionel Guidi (LOV)
Yannick Huot (Sherbrooke)
Project Funding:
NASA
