Ted Schuur received a one million dollar grant from the Terrestrial Ecosystems Program, Department of Energy for a proposal entitled “Effects of Warming the Deep Soil And Permafrost on Ecosystem Carbon Balance in Alaskan Tundra: A Coupled Measurement and Modeling Approach”. This project is aimed at understanding the influence of the Arctic on the pace of global climate change through impacts on the plant and soil processes that control ecosystem carbon cycling. This was done in collaboration with mathematical modeling done with collaborators at Oklahoma University.