Project Summaries

For proposal information and guidelines, please review proposal preparation guidelines.

The most recent regular NSF proposal deadline for R2K science was August 15, 2011. If you submitted a proposal for R2K science, please send a PDF file that includes Title, Project Investigators, and Project Summary to the Ridge 2000 Program Office.

Submitted Project Summaries

Project Summaries submitted for Aug. 2011 are listed below.

Lead PI Name

Institution/Affiliation

Project Title

David Fike and Dionysis Foustoukos

Wash. U. and Carnegie

Collaborative Research: Kinetics and stable isotopic fractionation for abiotic and microbial transformations of elemental sulfur at seafloor hydrothermal environments

Katriona Shea, Adam Miller, and Chuck Fisher

Pennsylvania State University

Stability and structure of hydrothermal vent communities: a theoretical study of life-history and functional tradeoffs under disturbance