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Chemical Oceanography

Description

The Chemical Oceanography Program supports research into the chemical components, reaction mechanisms, and geochemical pathways within the ocean and at its interfaces with the solid earth and the atmosphere. Major emphases include: studies of material inputs to and outputs from marine waters; orthochemical and biological production and transformation of chemical compounds and phases within the marine system; and the determination of reaction rates and study of equilibria. The Program encourages research into the chemistry, distribution, and fate of inorganic and organic substances introduced into or produced within marine environments including those from estuarine waters to the deep sea.

Typically structured as three-year continuing commitments, these grants support the new and seasoned research scientists, postdoctoral associates, technical staff, and students who collectively define the cutting-edge of marine chemistry. In one way or another, all other activities supported by the Program are viewed in the context of the fundamental importance of these core activities.

The Program includes:
  • Equilibria and physical chemistry of solutes and colloids in seawater and at seawater-particle interfaces
  • Material transfers, transformations, and fluxes at the air-sea, land-sea, and seafloor interfaces
  • Marine biogeochemical processes, including those exerting major impacts on global-scale processes
  • Characterization and development of tracers to study large-scale oceanographic processes.
Like the other oceanographic subdisciplines, Chemical Oceanography is inherently interdisciplinary in its scope and practice and regularly cooperates with other Programs in the Division of Ocean Sciences to jointly fund cutting-edge research. For example, chemical studies related to the development of conservative tracers of mesoscale and regional circulation enjoin the Program with the Physical Oceanography Program to jointly fund tracer measurements for the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE). The intimate two-way relationship between marine biology and marine chemistry dictate that multiple points of contact between this Program and the Biological Oceanography Program are always in place. A similar situation is reflected in the common interest in diagenesis and sedimentary geochemistry shared by Chemical Oceanography and the Marine Geology and Geophysics Program .

Chemical Oceanography Related Programs:

Target Dates and Deadlines

Target dates for proposal submission are 15 February and 15 August.

Program Contact(s)

Don Rice
Program Director
Phone: 703.292.8582
Fax: 703.292.9085
Email: drice@nsf.gov

Fred Lipschultz
Associate Program Director
Phone: 703.292.8582
Fax: 703.292.9085
Email: flipschu@nsf.gov

Emilie Flemer
Science Assistant
Phone: 703.292.8582
Fax: 703.292.9085
Email: eflemer@nsf.gov

Joann King
Program Assistant
Phone: 703.292.8582
Fax: 703.292.9085
Email: jking@nsf.gov





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