FY2000 Funded Projects

The following is a list of projects (showing the project title and the lead P.I. and institution) funded under the National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) in FY2000. Discussions on the contractual details of each award were initiated at the appropriate funding agency (at ONR, NSF, NASA, NOAA, or the Sloan Foundation).

For abstracts of these projects and the partnerships involved in each one, click on the title of the project.

Goal 1. Achieve and Sustain an Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS)

• Application of an Integrated Monitoring and Modeling System to Narragansett Bay & Adjacent Waters Incorporating Internet-Based Technology
  PI: M. Piasecki, Drexel University & M. Spaulding, University of Rhode Island
• Limited Area Coastal Ocean Models: Assimilation of Observations from Fixed Platforms on the Continental Shelf & Far-Field Forcing from Open Ocean Models
  PI: D. Lynch, Dartmouth College
• Modeling the Central California Coastal Upwelling System: Physics, Ecosystems and Resource Management,
  PI: F. Chavez, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
• HYCOM Consortium for Data-Assimilative Ocean Modeling
  PI: E. Chassignet, University of Miami, RSMAS [Phase B]

Goal 3. Modernize Ocean Infrastructure and Enhance Technology Development

• Biogeoinformatics of Hexacorallia (Corals, Sea Anemones, and their Allies): Interfacing Geospatial, Taxonomic, & Environmental Data for a Group of Marine Invertebrates
  PI: D. Fautin, University of Kansas
• A Biotic Database of Indo-Pacific Marine Mollusks
  PI: G. Rosenberg, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
• Census of Marine Fishes (CMF): Definitive List of Species and Online Biodiversity Database
  PI: W. Eschmeyer, California Academy of Sciences
• Development of a Dynamic Biogeographic Information: A Pilot Application for the Gulf of Maine
  PI: D. Kiefer, University of Southern California, Wrigley Institute of Environmental Studies
• Development of an Integrated Regional, National & International Data System for Oceanography [VODHub]
  PI: P. Cornillon, University of Rhode Island
• Diel, Seasonal, and Interannual Patterns in Zooplankton and Micronekton Species Composition in the Subtropical Atlantic
  PI: D. Steinberg, Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (The grant was awarded when Dr. Steinberg was with the Bermuda Biological Station for Research.)
• Expansion of CephBase as a Biological Prototype for OBIS
  PI: P. Lee, University of Texas Medical Branch
• The Fishnet Distributed Biodiversity Information System
  PI: E. Wiley, University of Kansas, Natural History Museum
• ZooGene, a DNA Sequence Database for Calanoid Copepods and Ephausiids: An OBIS Tool for Uniform Standards of Species Identification
  PI: A. Bucklin, University of New Hampshire