International Research Fellowship Program: Variability of Arctic Ocean and Dovekie Foraging Ecology and Reproductive Success

卡诺夫斯基国际研究奖学金计划使美国科学家和工程师能够在国外进行三到二十四个月的研究。该项目的奖项提供了联合研究的机会，并提供了使用国外独特或互补的设施、专业知识和实验条件的机会。该奖项将支持由Nina J.Karnovsky博士提供的为期24个月的研究奖学金，该奖学金将与波兰索波特波兰科学院(IOPAN)海洋研究所北极生态组负责人Jan Marcin Weslawski博士以及挪威特罗姆索挪威极地研究所(NPI)的Geir Wing Gabrielsen博士和Stig Falk-Petersen博士合作。这位研究员将研究北极海鸟鸽子如何应对它们在斯皮茨卑尔根殖民地附近洋流的变化。那里有两股主要的水流，一股来自大西洋，有小型浮游动物，另一股来自北极，有大型浮游动物。北极洋流的盛行取决于气候变化驱动的天气模式。PI将研究鸽子如何调整它们的觅食以适应这些洋流分布的变化。这项研究将为天气驱动的洋流变化如何影响海鸟提供证据。

0301469KarnovskyThe International Research Fellowship Program enables U.S. scientists and engineers to conduct three to twenty-four months of research abroad. The program's awards provide opportunities for joint research, and the use of unique or complementary facilities, expertise and experimental conditions abroad. This award will support a twenty-four month research fellowship by Dr. Nina J. Karnovsky to work with Dr. Jan Marcin Weslawski, Head of the Arctic Ecology Group at the Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences (IOPAN) in Sopot, Poland, and Drs. Geir Wing Gabrielsen and Stig Falk-Petersen at the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI) in Tromso, Norway.This Fellow will investigate how dovekies, Arctic seabirds, respond to changes in ocean currents passing near their colonies at Spitsbergen. There are two major currents there, one from the Atlantic with small zooplankton and one from the Arctic with large zooplankton. Prevalence of Arctic currents depend on weather patterns that are driven by climate change. The PI will study how dovekies adjust their foraging to variations in the distribution of these currents. This study will provide evidence of how weather-driven changes in currents may impact seabirds.