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

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。该计划的奖励为联合研究提供了机会，并利用独特或互补的设施、专业知识和国外的实验条件。该奖项将支持Nina J. Karnovsky博士与Jan Marcin Weslawski博士（位于波兰索波特的波兰科学院（IOPAN）海洋学研究所北极生态小组负责人）和Jan Marcin Weslawski博士开展为期24个月的研究。Geir Wing Gabrielsen和Stig Falk-Petersen在挪威特罗姆瑟的挪威极地研究所（NPI）工作。这名研究员将研究鸽鸽，一种北极海鸟，如何对经过斯匹次卑尔根群岛附近的洋流变化做出反应。那里有两股主要的洋流，一股来自大西洋，携带着小型浮游动物，另一股来自北极，携带着大型浮游动物。北极洋流的流行取决于由气候变化驱动的天气模式。PI将研究鸽鸽如何根据这些洋流分布的变化调整觅食。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.