Cooperative Agreement 96285100

This $399,843 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will fund a collaborative research project to study the transformation of soil minerals in estuarine wetlands. The primary awardee is Rutgers, The State University, which will partner with the New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority to conduct field studies in the New Jersey Meadowlands. The research aims to improve understanding of how estuarine water chemistry affects the...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under CFDA Program 47.050 - Geosciences provides funding of $151,952 to Temple University for a collaborative research project studying the transformation of soil minerals in estuarine wetlands. The project aims to investigate how estuarine water chemistry controls the rate and end-products of this geochemical process, with a focus on the New Jersey Meadowlands area. The research involves incubating common soil minerals in the wetland...

This National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology Project Grant award to Indiana State University will fund a collaborative research project to quantify the response of biodiverse freshwater ecosystems to abrupt and progressive environmental changes, such as marine water inundation due to sea-level rise. The $338,197 project, running from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2028, will use the Izabal/Golfete system in eastern Guatemala as a natural laboratory to investigate how...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), provides $508,608 to Rutgers, The State University for collaborative research titled "Tidally Rectified Flows in Multiple Inlet/Lagoon Systems: Consequences for Transport and Residence Times." The research will study shallow lagoon systems with multiple inlets using idealized and realistic numerical modeling combined with field observations. Focusing on...

This three-year $292,300 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research to advance understanding of estuarine transport processes through a Lagrangian framework. Principal investigators from Rutgers, The State University will examine transport of buoyant material in estuaries, specifically the Delaware Estuary, including its aggregation within estuaries and the effects of resulting patchiness on transport. Researchers will address...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $360,269 will fund research into the chromatographic separation and degradation of dissolved and particulate organic matter in permeable shelf sediments. The award was made on June 1, 2022 to Florida State University's Sponsored Research Administration under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) and is scheduled to be completed by May 31, 2025. The research will study how sandy sediments influence the carbon cycle through their ability to...

Federal Grant Award Summary The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection received a $640,442 Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Interjurisdictional Fisheries Act (CFDA 11.407), awarded January 1, 2026, with a completion date of December 31, 2030. The grant funds two primary deliverables: a comprehensive surf clam inventory survey in New Jersey state waters and abundance estimates for finfish and crustaceans within the Raritan-Sandy...

This $154,779 National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences project grant supports collaborative research on tidally rectified flows in multiple inlet/lagoon systems and their consequences for transport and residence times. The awardee, Stockton University, will conduct idealized and realistic numerical modeling studies of lagoon systems with multiple inlets using the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) model. Field observations will also be collected and combined with modeling to...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the USGS Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808) will fund a $150,000 research project at the University of South Alabama (USA) from July 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026. The project aims to investigate the role of plant complexity in facilitating species introductions via the "hitchhiking" pathway, where exotic species are unintentionally transported alongside imported aquatic plants, algae, and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $228,753 to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) to conduct collaborative research on the identification and characterization of petrogenic compounds that persist in aquatic environments following crude oil and petroleum spills. The key objectives of this 3-year project are to: i) determine the chemical variability of oxygen-containing organic compounds (OCOCs) formed from different...