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SOLAS Projects with Significant US Participation


List of Individual US SOLAS Projects

These are projects funded individually by US organizations. There has been plenty of international SOLAS collaborations with the US.  Please email you US SOLAS-related projects to Wade McGillis.


  1. Chromophoric DOM – A Photoactive Tracer of Biogeochemical Process. National Science Foundation, OCE-0648541, Nelson, Siegel, Carlson, 4/1/06-3/31/09 - Provides support to assess CDOM and CDOM composition (by amino acid assays and EEMS) on the CLIVAR repeat hydrography surveys I8/I9 and P18.
  2. Parameterization of gas flux at high wind speed. National Science Foundation, D'Asaro and McNeil. Hurricane hunting in 2008 and 2009. Neutrally buoyant floats, equipped with acoustics in addition to dissolved gases. Measurements of wave breaking and bubbles on the floats to complement the gas flux measurements.
  3. O-Buoy (part of OASIS). First buoy assembled (CO2, BrO, O3 & met sensors, controlling hardware and software, communications, batteries); to be cold tested on 12 may ’08; field tested in fall ’08 in Barrow, Alaska; 1-2 buoys deployed in Barrow winter 08-late spring 09.
  4. DMS Biocomplexity, Final publication phase; field seasons in Sargasso Sea ‘04 and western Antarctic Peninsula ’05-06.
  5. ASCOS, Arctic Ocean field work (89N) in aug-sept ’08; surface microlayer as source of marine primary organic aerosols; deployment of OOTI-light (with J. Bottenheim, J. Abbatt for continuous BrO, O3 over snow and pack ice); bubble spectra and abundance for transfer of organics (with G. van de Leuw). Many other collaborations among EU scientists.
  6. VOCALS, Stratocumulus cloud re-seeding with natural, marine aerosol precursors (DMS, DMSP) as a function of incoming solar irradiance and DMS fluxes (vs anthropogenic aerosols). Field work in SE Pacific (20N) in Oct & Nov ’08.
  7. CO2 release by respiration in coastal waters: a semi-empirical satellite algorithm search Quantifying seasonal CO2 release versus uptake in coastal waters in order to test and validate 3 algorithms; establishment of a new, large database for respiration and associated parameters.
  8. Photochemical Production of Radical Oxidants and Hydroperoxides from Organic Matter and Nitrate in Sea-Salt Aerosols, National Science Foundation, Atmospheric Chemistry Program, 2004-2008 (PI for UVA component - Keene; other PIs:  Dave Kieber, SUNY Syracuse; Xianliang Zhou, Wadsworth Center, NY; and Hal Maring, NASA)
  9. Parameterization of Sea-Salt CCN Production for 3-D Earth System Models, National Science Foundation, Climate and Large Scale Dynamics Program, 2006-2008 (PI - Keene).
  10. The Impact of Primary Marine Aerosols on Atmospheric Chemistry, Radiation and Climate:  A CCSM Model Development Study, U.S. Department of Energy, Biological & Environmental Research, 2007-2010 (PI - Keene).
  11. UK-DOGEE: United States Participation in SOLAS experiment off Portugal 2007, National Science Foundation.
  12. UK-DOGEE: Comparison on waterside covariance O2 fluxes from floats and O2/N2 budgets against 3He/SF6, shipboard CO2/DMS covariance. McNeil and D’Asaro:
  13. Autonomous water-side biogeochemical measurements during DOGEE, National Science Foundation. DeGrandpre and Drennan.
  14. Near-Surface Controls of Air-Sea CO2 Exchange: A Contribution to the UK-SOLAS “Deep Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment", National Science Foundation, Oct 01 2006 to Sep 30 2009.
  15. Quantifying air-sea gas exchange at high wind speeds using a dual gas tracer (3He/SF6) technique during the Southern Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment: Southern Ocean Air-Sea Gas Exchange Experiment, National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration, Ho, Schlosser, Wanninkhof.
  16. Southern Ocean air-sea carbon dioxide exchange: Southern Ocean Air-Sea Gas Exchange Experiment: Southern Ocean Air-Sea Gas Exchange Experiment, National Science Foundation, McGillis, Zappa, Edson, Vlahos.
  17. Measurement and parameterization of air-sea DMS transfer over the Southern Ocean in GasEx-III: Southern Ocean Air-Sea Gas Exchange Experiment, National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration, Huebert and Blomquist.
  18. Measurement of seawater DMS during SO GasEx: Southern Ocean Air-Sea Gas Exchange Experiment, National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration, Archer.
  19. CO2 and hydrographic measurements during the GasEx-III Experiment: Southern Ocean Air-Sea Gas Exchange Experiment, National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration, Feely, Sabine, Johnson, Wanninkhof, Baringer.
  20. Measurement and parameterization of air-sea gas transfer over the Southern Ocean in GasEx-III: Southern Ocean Air-Sea Gas Exchange Experiment, National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration, Fairall and Hemlig.
  21. Quantifying the surface physical controls on CO2 transfer during the Southern Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment: Southern Ocean Air-Sea Gas Exchange Experiment, National Science Foundation, Drennan.
  22. Autonomous multi-parameter measurements from a drifting buoy during the SO GasEx Experiment: Southern Ocean Air-Sea Gas Exchange Experiment, National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration, Sabine, DeGrandpre, McGillis, Zappa.
  23. Closing the mixed layer carbon budget during Southern Ocean GasEx: Southern Ocean Air-Sea Gas Exchange Experiment, National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration, Hales, Strutton, Hebert, Ullman.
  24. Measurement of nutrients during the Southern Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment (GasEx III): Southern Ocean Air-Sea Gas Exchange Experiment, National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration, Zhang.
  25. Gas tracers of productivity and bubble-mediated gas exchange during the SO GasEx Experiment: Southern Ocean Air-Sea Gas Exchange Experiment, Hamme, Bender, Emerson.
  26. On the distribution of colored dissolved organic matter in the Southern Ocean and the potential for photoproduction of CO2 and CO: Southern Ocean Air-Sea Gas Exchange Experiment, National Aeronautics Space Administration, Del Castillo, Miller, Gregg, Haine, Monaldo, Thompson.
  27. Optical properties in the Southern Ocean: In situ and satellite observations in support of Southern Ocean Carbon Program: Southern Ocean Air-Sea Gas Exchange Experiment, National Aeronautics Space Administration, Lee, Weidemann, Martinolich, Goode.
  28. Optical properties in the Southern Ocean: In situ measurements of phytoplankton absorption using the pFPT-TR instrument in support of the Southern Ocean Carbon Program: Southern Ocean Air-Sea Gas Exchange Experiment, National Aeronautics Space Administration, Bruce Hargreaves.
  29. Differentiating sources of backscattering in the Southern Ocean: Calcite, bubbles, and other optical constituents: Southern Ocean Air-Sea Gas Exchange Experiment, National Aeronautics Space Administration, Dierssen, Balch, Twardowski, Vlahos.
  30. Phytoplankton absorption and carbon dioxide drawdown in the Southern Ocean: A consortium of observations: Southern Ocean Air-Sea Gas Exchange Experiment, National Aeronautics Space Administration, Marra, Vaillancourt, Subramaniam.
  31. Satellite Assessment of CO2 Distribution, Variability and Flux and Understanding of Control Mechanisms in a River Dominated Ocean Margin. National Science Foundation, Lohrenz and Cai.
  32. Measuring Surface Water pCO2 in the Polar Oceans: Outfitting and Initial Operation of a pCO2 System on the Chinese Icebreaker Snow Dragon. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Wanninkhof and Cai.
  33. Coastal CO2 Measurements and Databases for the North American Carbon Program. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Group proposal, lead PI, R. Feely.
  34. Satellite Assessments of Regional pCO2 Distributions and Air-Sea Fluxes of Carbon Dioxide in a River-Dominated Margin. National Aeronautic and Space Administration. Lohrenz and Cai.
  35. Marsh-Dominated Ocean Margins as a Source of CO2 to the Atmosphere and Open Oceans: A Field Study in the U.S. Southeastern Continental Shelf. National Science Foundation. Cai.
  36. D’Asaro et al. and others are using drifting profiling floats, and gliders that run around them, equipped with biochemical sensors and optics to study the North Atlantic Bloom right now: http://bloom.apl.washington.edu

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