Table 1. Summary of PIs, primary research interest, and proposed measurements and models.
PI PRIMARY RESEARCH INTEREST MEASUREMENT/MODEL
Glenn Flierl (MIT) modeling the effects of eddies/
flows on biology
Bob Beardsley and circulation and water property moored, drifter, and float
Dick Limeburner evolution measurements of current and temperature
(WHOI)
Robin Muench and mesoscale circulation, tides, shipboard ADCP, CTD/LADCP/tidal modeling
Lawrence Padman and mixing and analysis
(ESR)
Eileen Hofmann, John hydrography/bio-phys modeling shipboard CTD/ADCP/circulation, bio-
Klinck, and Ricardo optical and krill models
Locarnini (ODU)
Tom Powell small scale mixing and krill microstructure profiling/krill swarm
(UC-Berekley) behavior model
Doug Martinson (LDEO), snow/ice/water optical properties/ snow and sea ice measurements/models;
Ray Smith (UCSB), and radiative transfer bio-optical and sea ice thermodynamics
Don Perovich (CRREL)
Chris Fritsen (DRI) distribution, activity, and productivity (autotrophic and heterotrophic)
dynamics of sea ice microbiota and net growth yields of sea ice biota;
Chl a, POC, and PON production assays
Gary Griggs [Dave sea ice biota distribution and calculated carbon in each taxonomic group
Garrison] and Angela community composition
Gibson (UCSC)
Maria Vernet (SIO) water column productivity and pigments, POC, PON, and chemical composition
community composition
Kent Fanning (USF) nutrient analysis hydrocasts, experiments
Robin Ross and krill association with under-ice behavior observations, grazing experiments
Langdon Quetin (UCSB) habitat including behavior; of larval krill
characterization of under-ice
habitat including contrasts with
water column
Meng Zhou (U MN) and krill distribution, physiology, net tows, experiments, predator net tows,
T. Hallam [Kenda Daly] and predation; copepod prey ADCP krill dist., experiments/krill swarm
(U TN) abundance model
Carin Ashjian, Cabell zooplankton distribution, ROV, BIOMAPER, net tows
Davis, Scott Gallager, abundance--water column and
and Peter Wiebe (WHOI) under-ice
Rodger Harvey (CBL) age/dietary history
Jose Torres (USF) krill physiology and fish net tows, experiments, diving surveys, acoustics
ecology
Bill Fraser (MSU) seabird ecology diet samples
Chris Ribic (U WI) seabird distribution and strip-transect survey
abundance
Dan Costa, Jennifer seal ecology, seal foraging satellite tracking of seals, seal diet
Burns, and Dan Crocker
(UCSC)
John Hildebrand (SIO), whale acoustic census
Sue Moore, and Mark
MacDonald (NOAA)