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Workshop On U.S.-Hungarian Research Collaboration To Address It Challenges For 21st Century Society, Anthony Stefanidis Aug 2005

Workshop On U.S.-Hungarian Research Collaboration To Address It Challenges For 21st Century Society, Anthony Stefanidis

University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports

This collaborative grant workshop lays a foundation for building joint US-Hungarian research projects. The proposed set of activities is an outgrowth of ongoing discussions between NSF program managers and Hungarian Research Scientists visiting NSF in the Fall of 2002. These discussions culminated in Hungarian researchers attending and participating in the annual meeting of digital government PI's and their government agency partners in May 2003 (dgo2003). Two US researchers who organized an International Digital Government Research Collaborations panel at dgo2003, in discussion with the Hungarian participants, accepted an invitation by the Hungarians to organize a small group of US researchers to …


Aquaculture-Based Calibration Of The M.Edulis Isotope Paleothermometer, Karl J. Kreutz, Harold Borns, Douglas Introne, Bruce Barber, Sven Funder Aug 2005

Aquaculture-Based Calibration Of The M.Edulis Isotope Paleothermometer, Karl J. Kreutz, Harold Borns, Douglas Introne, Bruce Barber, Sven Funder

University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports

Oxygen isotopic analysis of marine carbonate shells (δ18Oc) is a standard paleoceanographic technique used to document the chronology of seawater temperature change. Shell δ18Oc depends not only upon seawater temperature, but also upon the isotopic composition of the seawater (δ18Ow; related to salinity) and any species-specific fractionation that occurs during biomineralization. In the past, the interpretation of shell δ18Oc has been based upon theoretical studies of chemical equilibrium and kinetics, or laboratory experiments involving the inorganic precipitation of CaCO3 from solution. Other methods have employed …


Glacial History Of The Amundsen Sea Shelf, Thomas B. Kellogg, Daniel Belknap, Davida Kellogg, Terence Hughes Jul 2005

Glacial History Of The Amundsen Sea Shelf, Thomas B. Kellogg, Daniel Belknap, Davida Kellogg, Terence Hughes

University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports

This award, provided by the Antarctic Geology and Geophysics Program of the Office of Polar Programs, supports a marine geological investigation of the Amundsen Sea region toward a better understanding of the deglaciation history of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS). The WAIS may be inherently unstable because it is the last marine-based ice sheet in the world. Unlike other embayments in West Antarctica, major ice streams draining into the Amundsen Sea from the interior of the WAIS lack buttressing ice shelves. Mass balance data for the distal portions of these ice streams (Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers) appear to …


Expansion And Renovation Of The Darling Marine Center Library, Kevin Eckelbarger Mar 2005

Expansion And Renovation Of The Darling Marine Center Library, Kevin Eckelbarger

University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports

This award provides partial funding for expansion and modernization of the library at The Darling Marine Center. The library currently contains more marine-related holdings than any other library in Maine, and is an important resource for researchers and students interested in the biology of the Gulf of Maine and the Maine coast. Because of current space limitations, a third of the library's holdings are stored in other buildings and attic spaces. The library is not wheelchair accessible, has no significant study space, and provides only limited access to electronic databases. The proposed changes include: 1) construction of a 1,500 sq. …