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Deployment	Synonyms	Project	Start Date	Chief/Co-chief Scientist
NBP-94-06	Ross_Sea, NBP9406, NBP94_6	Ross Productivity U.S. JGOFS Antarctic Environment and Southern Ocean Process Study	11/03/1994	Walker O. Smith
NBP-96-04A	NBP9604A, NBP96_4A	A Tracer Kinetics Approach to the Production Ecology of Oligotrophic Oceans (PRPOOS) ARLINDO Circulation, A Study of the Indonesian Ocean Circulation and Mixing Biowatt Experiment: Bioluminescence and Optical Variability of the Sea (Biowatt I) Biowatt Experiment: Bioluminescence and Optical Variability of the Sea (Biowatt II) Coordination and Logistics For the Prpoos Program. Planktonic Rate Processes in the Central Oligotrophic Oceans Development of new solar radiation and primary production products from MODIS ocean-color measurements Marine Light-Mixed Layer Experiment Optical and Nutrient Dependence of Quantum Efficiency Photo-Ecological Investigations in the Arabian Sea Piimary Production Measurements for the 20-West Program (NABE) Primary Production in the Arabian Sea Primary Production in the Southern Ocean Ross Productivity U.S. JGOFS Antarctic Environment and Southern Ocean Process Study U.S. JGOFS Arabian Sea U.S. JGOFS North Atlantic Bloom Experiment U.S. JGOFS: Response of Arabian Sea Phytoplankton Biomass, Pigmentation, Growth Rates, and Community Structure To Seasonally Varying Physically Forcing Upgrade the KD(490) product to the normalized diffuse attenuation coefficient at 490 nm (NKD(490)) for SUOMI NPP	10/02/1996	Walker O. Smith
NBP-96-4	NBP9604, NBP96_4	U.S. JGOFS Antarctic Environment and Southern Ocean Process Study	08/30/1996	Robert F. Anderson
NBP-96-5	NBP9605, NBP96_5	U.S. JGOFS Antarctic Environment and Southern Ocean Process Study	11/11/1996	Jack Dymond
NBP-96-6	ROAVERRS, NBP9606, NBP96_6	U.S. JGOFS Antarctic Environment and Southern Ocean Process Study	12/11/1996	Robert B. Dunbar
NBP-97-01	NBP9701, NBP97_1	A Tracer Kinetics Approach to the Production Ecology of Oligotrophic Oceans (PRPOOS) ARLINDO Circulation, A Study of the Indonesian Ocean Circulation and Mixing Biowatt Experiment: Bioluminescence and Optical Variability of the Sea (Biowatt I) Biowatt Experiment: Bioluminescence and Optical Variability of the Sea (Biowatt II) Coordination and Logistics For the Prpoos Program. Planktonic Rate Processes in the Central Oligotrophic Oceans Development of new solar radiation and primary production products from MODIS ocean-color measurements Marine Light-Mixed Layer Experiment Optical and Nutrient Dependence of Quantum Efficiency Photo-Ecological Investigations in the Arabian Sea Piimary Production Measurements for the 20-West Program (NABE) Primary Production in the Arabian Sea Primary Production in the Southern Ocean Ross Productivity U.S. JGOFS Antarctic Environment and Southern Ocean Process Study U.S. JGOFS Arabian Sea U.S. JGOFS North Atlantic Bloom Experiment U.S. JGOFS: Response of Arabian Sea Phytoplankton Biomass, Pigmentation, Growth Rates, and Community Structure To Seasonally Varying Physically Forcing Upgrade the KD(490) product to the normalized diffuse attenuation coefficient at 490 nm (NKD(490)) for SUOMI NPP	01/13/1997	John F. Marra
NBP-97-03	NBP9703, NBP97_3	A Tracer Kinetics Approach to the Production Ecology of Oligotrophic Oceans (PRPOOS) ARLINDO Circulation, A Study of the Indonesian Ocean Circulation and Mixing Biowatt Experiment: Bioluminescence and Optical Variability of the Sea (Biowatt I) Biowatt Experiment: Bioluminescence and Optical Variability of the Sea (Biowatt II) Coordination and Logistics For the Prpoos Program. Planktonic Rate Processes in the Central Oligotrophic Oceans Development of new solar radiation and primary production products from MODIS ocean-color measurements Marine Light-Mixed Layer Experiment Optical and Nutrient Dependence of Quantum Efficiency Photo-Ecological Investigations in the Arabian Sea Piimary Production Measurements for the 20-West Program (NABE) Primary Production in the Arabian Sea Primary Production in the Southern Ocean Ross Productivity U.S. JGOFS Antarctic Environment and Southern Ocean Process Study U.S. JGOFS Arabian Sea U.S. JGOFS North Atlantic Bloom Experiment U.S. JGOFS: Response of Arabian Sea Phytoplankton Biomass, Pigmentation, Growth Rates, and Community Structure To Seasonally Varying Physically Forcing Upgrade the KD(490) product to the normalized diffuse attenuation coefficient at 490 nm (NKD(490)) for SUOMI NPP	04/04/1997	Hugh W. Ducklow
NBP-97-08	NBP9708, NBP97_8	A Tracer Kinetics Approach to the Production Ecology of Oligotrophic Oceans (PRPOOS) ARLINDO Circulation, A Study of the Indonesian Ocean Circulation and Mixing Biowatt Experiment: Bioluminescence and Optical Variability of the Sea (Biowatt I) Biowatt Experiment: Bioluminescence and Optical Variability of the Sea (Biowatt II) Coordination and Logistics For the Prpoos Program. Planktonic Rate Processes in the Central Oligotrophic Oceans Development of new solar radiation and primary production products from MODIS ocean-color measurements Marine Light-Mixed Layer Experiment Optical and Nutrient Dependence of Quantum Efficiency Photo-Ecological Investigations in the Arabian Sea Piimary Production Measurements for the 20-West Program (NABE) Primary Production in the Arabian Sea Primary Production in the Southern Ocean Ross Productivity U.S. JGOFS Antarctic Environment and Southern Ocean Process Study U.S. JGOFS Arabian Sea U.S. JGOFS North Atlantic Bloom Experiment U.S. JGOFS: Response of Arabian Sea Phytoplankton Biomass, Pigmentation, Growth Rates, and Community Structure To Seasonally Varying Physically Forcing Upgrade the KD(490) product to the normalized diffuse attenuation coefficient at 490 nm (NKD(490)) for SUOMI NPP	11/05/1997	Walker O. Smith
NBP-97-9	ROAVERRS, NBP9709, NBP97_9	U.S. JGOFS Antarctic Environment and Southern Ocean Process Study	12/20/1997	Robert B. Dunbar
NBP-98-2	NBP9802, NBP98_2	U.S. JGOFS Antarctic Environment and Southern Ocean Process Study	02/25/1998	Susumu Honjo
NBP0101		CAREER: Nitrate Isotopes and Biogeochemistry; A Plan for coupling	01/30/2001	Cindy Pilskaln Amy Leventer
NBP0103	GLOBECI	GLOBEC: Winter Distribution and Success of Southern Ocean Krill U.S. GLOBEC Southern Ocean	04/24/2001	Peter H. Wiebe
NBP0104	GLOBECII	GLOBEC: Sea Ice Microbial Communities GLOBEC: Winter Distribution and Success of Southern Ocean Krill U.S. GLOBEC Southern Ocean	07/22/2001	Peter H. Wiebe
NBP0202	GLOBECIII	GLOBEC: Winter Distribution and Success of Southern Ocean Krill U.S. GLOBEC Southern Ocean	04/09/2002	Peter H. Wiebe
NBP0204	GLOBECIV	GLOBEC: Sea Ice Microbial Communities GLOBEC: Winter Distribution and Success of Southern Ocean Krill U.S. GLOBEC Southern Ocean	07/31/2002	Peter H. Wiebe
NBP0305A	IVARS Year 3	Ross Productivity	12/18/2003	Walker O. Smith
NBP0501	IVARS Year 5	Ross Productivity	01/28/2005	Walker O. Smith
NBP0601	CORSACS I	Controls of Ross Sea Algal Community Structure Rising climatic temperatures impact on antarctic microzooplankton growth and grazing Ross Productivity	12/17/2005	Giacomo DiTullio
NBP0601A		Interannual Variability in the Antarctic-Ross Sea (IVARS): Nutrients and Seasonal Production	01/30/2006	Walker O. Smith
NBP0606	R/V Palmer, NBP, (July 2006)	Blue Water Zone Plankton Community Structure and Iron Distribution in the Southern Drake Passage and Scotia Sea	07/01/2006	B. Gregory Mitchell
NBP0608	CORSACS II	CAREER: Nitrate Isotopes and Biogeochemistry; A Plan for coupling Controls of Ross Sea Algal Community Structure Rising climatic temperatures impact on antarctic microzooplankton growth and grazing Ross Productivity	11/01/2006	Giacomo DiTullio
NBP0805	NBP08-05	Nitrogen isotopic (d15N) composition of carbonate-bound organic nitrogen in Deep Sea Corals: A new, high resolution proxy for N cycle studies	04/19/2008	Ian Dalziel
NBP0901	DynaLiFE	IPY: Shedding dynamic light on iron limitation: The interplay of iron limitation and dynamic irradiance in governing the phytoplankton distribution in the Ross Sea	01/05/2009	Stanley Jacobs
NBP1002		Micronekton of the Cariaco Basin: Adaptation to a severe oxygen minimum Possible climate-induced change in the distribution of Pleuragramma antarcticum on the Western Antarctic Peninsula Shelf	03/16/2010	Joseph J. Torres Alexander Simms Kenneth O. Buesseler
NBP1005	ASPIRE, OSO 2010-11	Amundsen Sea Polynya International Research Expedition Collaborative Research: Investigating the Role of Mesoscale Processes and Ice Dynamics in Carbon and Iron Fluxes in a Changing Amundsen Sea (INSPIRE)	11/26/2010	Patricia L. Yager
NBP1103	NBP11-03	Nitrogen isotopic (d15N) composition of carbonate-bound organic nitrogen in Deep Sea Corals: A new, high resolution proxy for N cycle studies	05/09/2011	Laura F. Robinson
NBP1201		Processes Regulating Iron Supply at the Mesoscale - Ross Sea	12/24/2011	Dennis J. McGillicuddy
NBP1207		The Microbial Carbon Pump and Bacterial Carbon Sequestration in the Ocean	08/01/2012	George Watters
NBP1210		Genetic connectivity and biogeographic patterns of Antarctic benthic invertebrates Penguin Foraging Reveals Phytoplankton Spatial Structure in the Ross Sea The effects of ocean acidification and rising sea surface temperatures on shallow-water benthic organisms in Antarctica	01/06/2013	Kenneth M. Halanych
NBP1302	TRACERS 2013	TRacing the fate of Algal Carbon Export in the Ross Sea	02/12/2013	Dennis Hansell
NBP1305		Biogeochemistry of nitrous oxide cycling in the eastern tropical South Pacific	06/24/2013
NBP1310B	PHANTASTIC	Phaeocystis antarctica adaptive responses in the Antarctic ecosystem	12/03/2013	Kevin R. Arrigo
NBP1409	PHANTASTIC II	Phaeocystis antarctica adaptive responses in the Antarctic ecosystem	10/26/2014	Kevin R. Arrigo Gert van Dijken
NBP1601	NPB16-01	Organic Carbon Oxidation and Iron Remobilization by West Antarctic Shelf Sediments	01/08/2016	David J Burdige
NBP1608		Collaborative Research: Investigating Iron-binding Ligands in Southern Ocean Diatom Communities: The Role of Diatom-Bacteria Associations	09/07/2016	Bethany D. Jenkins
NBP1702		Water Mass Structure and Bottom Water Formation in the Ice-age Southern Ocean	01/23/2017
NBP1704	PIPERS	Impact of Convective Processes and Sea Ice Formation on the Distribution of Iron in the Ross Sea: Closing the Seasonal Cycle	04/10/2017	Steven Ackley
NBP1707			08/20/2017	Rolf Sonnerup Brendan Carter
NBP1801	CICLOPS	Collaborative Research: Cobalamin and Iron Co-Limitation Of Phytoplankton Species in Terra Nova Bay Collaborative Research: Defining the Role of Biologically Produced Reactive Oxygen Species in Dark Mercury Cycling Using Bio-acoustics on an Autonomous Surveying Platform for the Examination of Phytoplankton-zooplankton and Fish Interactions in the Western Ross Sea	12/16/2017	Robert B. Dunbar Giacomo DiTullio
NBP9508	Ross Sea MIZ	Ross Productivity	12/11/1995	David L. Garrison

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