NSF convergence accelerator track e: backyard buoys: equipping underserved communities with ocean intelligence platforms
Ended Cooperative Agreement Awarded Last action
- Award ID
- 2230479
- Recipient
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University Of Washington UEI HD1WMN6945W6 Part of University Of Washington
- Awarding agency
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National Science Foundation
- Obligated
- $4,981,779
Award facts
- Assistance listing
- 47.084 NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships
- Completion date
- Originally
- Place of performance
- Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Award details come from USAspending.gov.
Description
- Abstract
- This project, titled backyard buoys, empowers indigenous and other coastal communities to collect and use ocean data to support their blue economy: maritime activities, food security, and coastal hazard protection. Innovations for this project include a sustainable process for community-led stewardship of affordable ocean buoys and a web-based application that renders data easy to understand and bridges to indigenous knowledge. An additional benefit of getting wave buoys in the water at diverse and under-measured sites is the generation of data from highly-localized coastal areas available for large scale scientific research to improve climatology and predictions, especially important in light of climate change. Backyard buoys empowers indigenous and other coastal communities to collect and use ocean data to support their blue economy: maritime activities, food security, and coastal hazard protection. We bring together regional ocean observing networks of the U.S. Integrated ocean observing system (ioos), underserved indigenous communities, and a sensor company to work collectively to democratize local wave measurements and provide a solution to the existing hurdle of observing technologies that are too expensive to purchase and to sustain. Through CO-design of an implementation and stewardship plan, as well as low-fidelity data servicing apps formulated in phase i of the NSF convergence accelerator, this project seeks to to revolutionize status QUO by using lower-cost tools and deepening the human and data connections that collectively will allow for an effective system that has a focus on the hyper-local scale ? Sorely lacking in the design of existing ocean observing systems ? While assuring IT is within a globally-connected network. This is critical for effective advanced planning to ensure a safe blue economy for the communities. This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
Transactions
| Action | Obligated | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Amendment | $0 | |
| Amendment | $0 | |
| Amendment | $1,998,755 | |
| Amendment | $0 | |
| Amendment | $0 | |
| Amendment | $0 | |
| Amendment | $0 | |
| Original award | $2,983,024 |
Subawards
| Subrecipient | Amount | Awarded |
|---|---|---|
| South Seas Consulting LIMITED | $3,058 | |
| South Seas Consulting LIMITED | $3,041 | |
| Western Washington University | $52,060 | |
| Western Washington University | $10,175 | |
| University Of Hawaii | $507,417 | |
| Sofar Ocean Technologies, Inc. | $54,985 | |
| South Seas Consulting LIMITED | $24,599 | |
| Alaska Ocean Observing System | $690,022 | |
| Western Washington University | $24,532 |
Quick answers
Who received award 2230479?
2230479 was awarded to University Of Washington by National Science Foundation on September 15, 2022.
How much is award 2230479 worth?
$4,981,779 has been obligated on 2230479.
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