CICOES

Oregon State University, the University of Washington and University of Alaska, Fairbanks will receive up to $300 million to lead a new institute focused on climate, ocean and coastal challenges that demand collaboration and sharing of scientific resources.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chose the three universities to form the Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean and Ecosystem Studies, or CICOES.

Read the full announcement.

This Cooperative Institute was formed in 2020 through a consortium among the University of Washington, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and Oregon State University. Researchers from all three universities contributed to the proposal, whose goal was to showcase our capacity within nine research themes specified by NOAA.

Research Themes

  • Aquaculture science
  • Climate and ocean variability, change, and impacts
  • Earth systems and processes
  • Environmental chemistry and ocean carbon
  • Environmental data science
  • Human dimensions in marine systems
  • Marine ecosystems: Observation, analysis, and forecasts
  • Ocean and coastal observations
  • Polar studies

CICOES Internal Research Grant Program

Overall Eligibility:

Postdoctoral Scholar Principal Investigators must meet the UW College of the Environment’s Postdoc eligibility criteria:

  1. applicants must be in their third year of postdoctoral experience (the first two years of experience can be at another institution) at the start of the project; and
  2. the proposed project is not used to extend the Postdoctoral Scholar’s appointment.

For Partnered Project Proposals:

Postdoctoral Scholar Principal Investigators must have departmental/unit appointments that are affiliated with CICOES-affiliated departments/units.

For CICOES-UW Project Proposals:

Postdoctoral Scholar Principal Investigators must be employed by CICOES (this includes CICOES Task I and grant funded Postdocs).

Allan, Andrea
Large-scale atmospheric circulation and dynamics, present and future climatology, and global and regional climate modeling and statistical analysis
 
Barth, Jack
Coastal ocean dynamics, coastal marine ecosystems, hypoxia, inner continental shelf dynamics
 
The gas chemistry of hydrothermal vents and methane seeps with a special interest into the carbon cycle and noble gas chemistry
 
Becker, Larry
Rural livelihoods, food security, and agricultural policy in the global South, with a focus on Africa
 
Becker, Laurie
Sustainability and Resilience in Land Use Planning, Conservation GIS, Public Participation GIS, and Biomimicry
 
Bernard, Kim
Polar zooplankton ecology
 
Biedenweg, Kelly
The human dimensions of natural resource management
 
Boiteau, Rene
Organic biogeochemistry, mass, spectrometry, trace metal cycling
 
The responses of aquatic organisms to endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) and other environmental stressors
 
Brook, Ed
Paleoclimatology, geochemistry, ice core trace gas records, cosmogenic isotopes, extraterrestrial dust
 
Buizert, Christo
Paleoclimate, ice cores, abrupt climate change, firn processes
 
Water resources management; water resources in developing regions
 
Fisheries oceanography, spatial ecology, fish early life stages, statistical analysis of catch and survey data
 
Clark, Peter
Dynamics of glaciers and ice sheets, sea level change, paleoclimatology, abrupt climate change
 
Colwell, Rick
Microbial ecology, subsurface microbiology, geomicrobiology
 
Conway, Flaxen
Natural resource policy and management
 
Community resilience to coastal hazards, including tsunami and hurricane surge and waves inundation in the built and natural environments
 
Creveling, JC
Geology, Earth history, sedimentology, stratigraphy, sea-level change
 
Crump, Byron
Aquatic microbial ecology in marine, estuarine and freshwater ecosystems
 
de Silva, Shan
Volcanology, Aeolian geomorphology, supervolcanism
 
de Szoeke, Simon
Atmosphere-ocean interaction, stratiform clouds, tropical meteorology
 
Dever, Ed
Cross-shelf exchange processes, analysis and prediction of Lagrangian transport, air-sea interaction
 
Doyle, Jamie
Local and state-wide coastal issues, marine policy, marine science, ocean literacy, stewardship ethics
 
Dundas, Steve
Environmental and resource economics, non-market valuation, coastal ecosystem services, climate change adaptation, and policy evaluation
 
Durski, Scott
Coastal ocean modeling
 
Egbert, Gary
Geophysics, physical oceanography, electromagnetics, ocean tides, imaging of continental structure
 
Emard, Kelsey
Land use and livelihood change, resource access, Latin America
 
Fehrenbacher, Jennifer
Trace element and stable isotope geochemistry, biomineralization, and marine biology
 
Fewings, Melanie
Observational coastal physical oceanography and meteorology
 
Fleishman, Erica
Biogeography, conservation, ecological responses to climate and land-use change
 
Fram, Jonathan
Ocean Observatories Initiative
 
Goldfinger, Chris
Marine geology, geophysics, paleoseismology, subduction earthquakes, accretion and erosion of active margins
 
Goñi, Miguel
Cycling of natural organic matter in the earth's surface, mainly in aquatic environments
 
Gosnell, Hannah
Rural land use change; water resource policy, management and law; environmental governance; sustainability
 
Hacker, Sally
The ecology of natural and managed coastal communities
 
Hales, Burke
Coastal ocean carbon cycles, ocean acidification, measurement and experimental manipulation technology
 
Haller, Merrick
Nearshore remote sensing, surface wave transformation, rip currents, sediment transport
 
Harte, Michael
Marine geography, natural resource management and planning
 
Joe Haxel
Ocean acoustics
 
Hommel, Annie
Human-environment interaction, health disparities, critical policy analysis
 
Hommel, Demian
Human dimensions of global change; environmental security and resource conflicts
 
Sea ice dynamics and mechanics
 
Jones, Julia
Land use, climate change and disturbance effects on hydrology, geomorphology, water quality, spatio-temporal statistics
 
Juranek, Laurie
Dissolved gases, isotope biogeochemistry, marine biological pump, and marine carbon cycle
 
Kavanaugh, Maria
Seascape ecology, remote sensing, global change
 
Keller, Randy
Marine geology, igneous geochemistry
 
Kennedy, Robert
Satellite remote sensing using time series imagery, pattern and processes of landscape change, "Landtrendr"
 
Kent, Adam
High temperature geochemistry, igneous petrology, In-situ elemental and isotopic analysis
 
Kling, David
Natural resource economics, bioeconomics, non-market valuation, marine resource economics, forest economics
 
Koppers, Anthony
Isotope geochemistry of hotspot volcanism, plate tectonic theory, mantle geodynamics
 
Kosro, Mike
Coastal oceanography, shelf/deep-sea exchange processes, remote sensing, ocean acoustics, ocean circulation
 
Lancaster, Stephen
Fluvial geomorphology, hydrology
 
Langdon, Chris
Aquaculture; nutrition of oysters and other bivalves; microencapsulation; polyculture of abalone; genetic selection of oysters
 
Lerczak, Jim
Coastal physical oceanography
 
Letelier, Ricardo
Marine pelagic microorganisms, biogeochemical cycles, nitrogen fixation, photosynthesis, chlorophyll passive (solar-induced) fluorescence
 
Lomónaco, Pedro
Physical and numerical modelling of wave generation and propagation, wave-structure interaction, stability of coastal and submarine structures, hydrodynamics
 
Lubchenco, Jane
Oceans, climate change, and interactions between the environment and human well-being
 
Matano, Ricardo
Large-scale ocean circulation, the dynamics of western boundary currents, ocean modeling, geophysical fluid dynamics. the circulation in the Southern Ocean
 
Matsumoto, Haruyoshi
Ocean acoustics
 
Meigs, Andrew
Active tectonics, tectonic geomorphology, structural geology
 
Mix, Alan
Paleoceanography and paleoclimatology, micropaleontology, isotope geochemistry
 
Moum, Jim
Turbulence dynamics; small-scale ocean physics; upper-ocean dynamics; equatorial oceanography; ocean mixing
 
Nabelek, John
Seismology, faulting processes, tectonics of mid-ocean ridges
 
Nash, Jonathan
Physics of turbulence and ocean mixing
 
O'Neill, Larry
Air-sea interactions, satellite meteorology and oceanography, atmospheric boundary layer and ocean mixed layer dynamics
 
Full-waveform lidar, topographic-bathymetric lidar, hyperspectral imagery, uncertainty modeling, and UAVs for coastal applications
 
Pearson, Brodie
Physics of mixing processes (i.e. turbulence) in the ocean
 
Pettit, Erin
Glacier and ice sheet dynamics, ice/ocean interactions, ice rheology and deformation, ice-core climate history
 
Raleigh, Mark
Remote sensing, digital image processing, snow processes in mountain environments, hydroclimatology, cryosphere-climate interactions
 
Reimers, Clare
Benthic biogeochemistry; chemical sensor development; redox conditions in natural waters and sediments, carbonate chemistry
 
Robertson, Byron
Wave, tidal and offshore wind energy resource assessments; optimizing energy harvesting technologies; numerically integrating marine power into the electrical grid
 
Ruggiero, Peter
Coastal geomorphology, coastal hazards, nearshore processes
 
Rupp, David
Climate variability, anthropogenic influences on climate and hydrology, streamflow processes
 
Samelson, Roger
Fluid dynamics and thermodynamics of the ocean and atmosphere, coastal and arctic meteorology, nonlinear dynamics of geophysical fluids
 
Santelmann, Mary
Wetlands ecology, biogeography
 
Schmittner, Andreas
Climate change, ocean biogeochemical cycles, interactions in the climate system, paleoclimate, ocean circulation
 
Schultz, Adam
Geophysical imaging to study the structure and composition of Earth’s interior
 
Selker, John
Development of instrumentation, the characterization of vadose zone and hyporheic processes, and analytical/numerical representations of hydrological processes
 
Share, Pieter-Ewald
Nature of structure and strain along major faults making up the southern California plate boundary
 
Shearman, Kipp
Physical processes in coastal ocean, Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs)
 
Shell, Karen
Climate dynamics, general circulation of the atmosphere, interactions between radiative transfer and the dynamics of the atmosphere and ocean, climate modeling
 
Shiel, Alyssa
Geochemical tracer development, transport and fate of metals/metalloids
 
Shroyer, Emily
Small-scale ocean dynamics, such as turbulent mixing, internal gravity waves, and upper ocean processes
 
Siler, Nick
Mountain precipitation and hydrology, global hydrologic cycle, regional climate change and variability
 
Skyllingstad, Eric
Upper ocean turbulence, mesoscale coastal internal waves, ocean-atmosphere coupling
 
Smyth, Bill
Turbulence in geophysical flows, thermohaline processes, nonlinear waves
 
Sousa, Frank
Geomorphology
 
Spalding, Ana
 Integrated coastal management, resource use and property regimes, international marine policy, and marine protected areas
 
Spitz, Yvette
The main pathways in marine ecosystems, coupled physical-biological models
 
Stanley, Ben
Geology and geophysics
 
Stoner, Joe
Sediment magnetism, stratigraphy, paleoclimatology
 
Sullivan, Pam
Ecohydrology; interactions of climate, vegetation and geology
 
Tepley, Frank
Igneous petrology, isotope geochemistry, electron probe microscopy
 
Thurber, Andrew
Microbe-metazoan Interactions, deep-sea and polar ecology, food web dynamics, deep-sea habitats, annelid ecology
 
Tilt, Jenna
Community resilience to chronic and acute hazards; wildland-urban interface social vulnerability and resilience
 
Torres, Marta
Cold seepage, gas hydrate dynamics, geochemical tracers for fluid flow, transport mechanisms, analytical geochemistry of sediments, microbial communities in early diagenetic processes
 
Tréhu, Anne
Geodynamic processes along plate boundaries, gas hydrate dynamics
 
Tufillaro, Nick
Water remote sensing, dynamical analysis of ocean processes, design of instrumentation for environmental monitoring
 
Van Den Hoek, Jamon
Geospatial intelligence, remote sensing, spatial programming, digital image processing, conflict ecology, land use/land cover change
 
Walczak, Mo
Paleoceanography, ocean circulation, ocean-glacier interactions
 
Waldbusser, George
Ocean acidification effects on bivalves, benthic ecology and sediment biogeochemistry, tidal flat ecology
 
Watson, James
Complex adaptive systems, environmental science, social-ecological systems, quantitative analyses, seascape ecology, marine spatial planning, coastal vulnerability
 
Wengrove, Meagan
Hydraulics, coastal engineering, sediment transport, turbulence and boundary layers, and engineering nature based features
 
Wettstein, Justin
Large-scale and long-term climate and atmospheric dynamics, climate variability and change, climate impacts and responses in natural and human-managed systems
 
Wheatcroft, Rob
Land - ocean connectivity, sediment and carbon fluxes from small, mountainous rivers, stratigraphic fidelity, estuarine and continental margin sedimentation, carbon burial
 
White, Will
Population dynamics, nearshore fisheries oceanography, marine protected areas, adaptive management, ecological forecasting, climate change effects on fisheries
 
Wilson, Greg
Physics of the nearshore coastal ocean including waves, currents, and sediment transport
 
Wolf, Aaron
Transboundary water conflicts and conflict resolution
 
Wrathall, David
Climate hazards, climate change adaptation, social vulnerability, migration, and political ecology
 
Yalcin, Kaplan
Distance and online education, paleoclimatology
 
Yalcin, Rebecca
Geology and geophysics
 
Yeh, Harry
Hydrodynamics associated with natural hazards, especially those in a wide variety of tsunami-related problems
 
Zaron, Ed
Ocean modeling and data assimilation, satellite altimetry, and geophysical fluid dynamics