Air Sea Interactions Laboratory - Matrai

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Current Research Projects

• 2022-2025 (NSF NNA) “Collaborative Research: NNA Research: Global changes, local impacts: Study of glacial fjords, ecosystems and communities in Greenland”
• 2017-2022 (NSF PLR ANS) “Collaborative Research: Marine Aerosols in the Arctic: Linking surface water chemistry and biology with primary particle production”
• 2016-2022 (NSF PLR ANT) "Microbial Community Structure and Expression of Functional Genes Involved in the Seasonal Cycling of DMSP in the Southern Ocean"
• 2016-2021 (NSF PLR ANS) "Collaborative Research: Responses of atmospheric oxidants and CO2 to dramatic changes in Arctic sea ice"

Selected Community Efforts

• 2014-2019 (NASA OBB) "Arctic-COLORS: COastal Land-Ocean inteRactionS in the Arctic: An Integrative Field Campaign to Assess the Impacts of Natural- and Anthropogenic Changes to Coastal Ocean Biology, Biogeochemistry and Biodiversity"
• 2015 (NSF PLR Arctic RSL) "Sweden-US Planning Workshop on joint Arctic Research using the I/B Oden"
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• 2013-2014 (NSF OCE) "A Collaborative International Research Program on the Coupled North Atlantic-Arctic System"
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Selected Previous Research Projects

• 2016-2020 (NASA OBB) "Primary production changes across the Subarctic Atlantic: The physical and ecological roles of surface advection"
• 2020-2020 (SeaGrant-Maine and Bigelow Laboratory Sash A. and Mary M. Spencer Entrepreneurial Fund) “Effects of microplastic fibers presence and ingestion on American
• 2014-2018 (NSF PLR ARCSS) "Collaborative Proposal: Understanding Arctic Marine Biogeochemical Response to Climate Change for Seasonal to Decadal Prediction Using Regional and Global Climate System Models"
• 2013-2018 (NSF GEO OCE) "Influence of Ocean Acidification on Biotic Controls of DMS Emissions"
• 2013-2017 (NASA OBB) "Net Primary Productivity Algorithm Round Robin for the Arctic Ocean: The relative roles of nutrients, light, and CDOM, as modulated by sea ice"
• 2010-2013 (NASA OBB) "The Autonomous Polar Productivity Sampling System (APPSS)"
• 2007-2010 and 2010-2017 (NSF PLR AON) "Collaborative Project: The O-Buoy Network of Chemical Sensors in the Arctic Ocean"
• 2007-2010 (NSF OPP ANS) "Collaborative Research: Marine Microgels: A Microlayer Source of Summer CCN in High Arctic Open Leads"