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

0301469 Karnovsky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。 该计划的奖项提供了联合研究的机会，以及使用国外独特或互补的设施，专业知识和实验条件。 该奖项将支持Nina J. Karnovsky博士与位于波兰索波特索波特的波兰科学院（IOPAN）海洋学研究所北极生态组负责人Jan Marcin Weslawski博士以及挪威特罗姆瑟的挪威极地研究所（NPI）Geir Wing Gabrielsen和Stig Falk-Petersen博士进行为期24个月的研究。对经过它们在斯匹次卑尔根群岛附近的洋流的变化做出反应。 那里有两股主要的洋流，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。 北极洋流的流行取决于气候变化驱动的天气模式。 PI将研究如何调整它们的觅食，以适应这些电流分布的变化。 这项研究将提供证据，说明天气驱动的海流变化如何影响海鸟。

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.