The Kuril Biocomplexity Project
The Kuril Biocomplexity Project – Second Annual Report: Cumulative for 2005-2007 NSF 0508109, PI: Fitzhugh; co‐PIs: Anderson, Bitz, Bourgeois, and Holman University of Washington Report for Project Years 1 and 2: September 15, 2005 to June 15, 2007 Report Date: 6/15/2007 Activities and Findings: 0. Acknowledgements: In addition to NSF grant 0508109, including two supplements from NSF‐OPP‐ARL, this research was also supported by an SGER grant EAR‐Geophysics # 0715360 (PI, Kogan) supporting the Kuril GPS project, and EAR‐IF grant # 0549269 (PI Kogan) to purchase GPS systems for the project. Both are grants to Columbia University. Ship costs for the IMGG expedition in early July 2007 were provided by the Russian Academy of Sciences through IMGG. I. General Overview In the first two years of the Kuril Biocomplexity Project, efforts were divided between building the simulation model structure, planning and conducting the 2006 and 2007 field seasons, and processing data from the 2006 field season. At the date of this annual report the field team has only just returned from the 2007 field expedition, and is preparing for the processing of data from this second research expedition. Collaborators from the University of Washington (UW) and intermittently from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) spent four academic quarters (Winter and Spring 2006 and Winter and Spring 2007) working together in seminars and meetings to refine the structure and approach for interdisciplinary modeling simulations, to identify mechanisms for integration of interdisciplinary data, and to develop a more complete understanding of the physical, biological, and cultural parameters relevant to modeling the Kuril Island system.
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