Southern Ocean Science
Funding

USF College of Marine Science (USF CMS) funding for research in the Southern Ocean
| USF Investigators | Funding Agency | Title | Start Date & Length | Total Amount | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kristen Buck (PI) | NSF | Collaborative Research: Investigating iron-binding ligands in Southern Ocean diatom communities: The role of diatom-bacteria associations | July 2015 3 years | $276,593 | 
| Don Chambers (PI) | NASA | Quantifying Decadal Transport Variations of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation using GRACE and GRACE Follow-on Observations | March 2016 4 years | $494,000 | 
| Brad Rosenheim (PI) | NSF | Collaborative Research: Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Scientific Access (SALSA): Integrated Study of Carbon Cycling in Hydrologically-active Subglacial Environments | September 2015 5 years (1 NCE) | $395,644 | 
| Brad Rosenheim (PI) Amelia Shevenell (PI) | NSF | Collaborative Research: Time Matters – A Comparison of Diatom 14C and Thermochemical 14C Dating Methods in Sediment Records of Ice Retreat from the East and West Antarctic Margins | March 2017 3 years | $488,390 | 
| Don Chambers (PI) | NOAA | Analysis of kinetic energy and structure functions from along-track and crossover altimeter data | June 2017 4 years | $597,000 | 
| USF Investigators | Funding Agency | Title | Start Date & Length | Total Amount | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amelia Shevenell (PI) | NSF | Totten Glacier System and the Marine Record of Cyrosphere-Ocean Dynamics | 2013-2016 | $166,285 | 
| Kristen Buck (PI) | NSF | Collaborative Research: Investigating iron-binding ligands in Southern Ocean diatom communities: The role of diatom-bacteria associations | August, 2012 4 years | $153,965 | 
| Amelia Shevenell (PI) | NSF | Late Quaternary Evolution of the Lambert Glacier/Amery Ice Shelf System, Prydz Bay, Antarctica | March 2013 3 years | $267,712 | 
| Kendra Daly | NSF | Benthic-pelagic coupling in an intact ecosystem: The role of top predators in McMurdo Sound | June 2011 4 years | $374,459 | 
| Don Chambers (PI) | NASA | Investigating low-frequency barotropic transport fluctuations in the Southern Ocean, North Pacific, and Atlantic using GRACE | August 2012 4 years | $349,000 | 
| Don Chambers (PI) | NASA | Improved Estimates of Southern Ocean Transport by Combining Satellite Altimetry and Temperature /Salinity Profile Data | March 2013 4 years | $349,000 | 
| Don Chambers (PI) | NASA | An Earth System Data Record of Earth’s Surface Mass Variations from GRACE, Geodetic Satellites, and GPS | June 2013 5 years | $251,000 |