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This $499,225 National Science Foundation award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund a collaborative research project between Old Dominion University Research Foundation and the United States Department of Geological Survey to decipher drivers and variability in salt marsh lateral carbon export. Over three years, the researchers will investigate how elevation within the tidal frame influences dissolved inorganic carbon, total alkalinity, and dissolved organic carbon export...

This three-year, $489,998 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences aims to advance understanding of lateral carbon export from salt marshes. Under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research in the atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will investigate drivers of dissolved inorganic carbon, dissolved organic carbon, and total alkalinity fluxes across six New England marsh sites. Researchers...

This three-year, $234,022 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research at the University of South Carolina to quantify the effects of different nitrogen forms on salt marsh resilience to sea level rise. The research team will conduct paired nutrient enrichment experiments at two eastern U.S. coastal locations to measure the effects of added nitrate and ammonium on marsh plants, microbes, and carbon and nitrogen cycling....

The National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology awarded $350,698 under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) federal grant program to The Marine Biological Laboratory of Woods Hole, Falmouth, Massachusetts. This three-year Project Grant will support collaborative research quantifying the effects of different nitrogen forms on salt marsh resilience to environmental change. Specifically, the research team will conduct paired nutrient enrichment experiments across two coastal...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems provides $148,959 to support the development of real-time data collection and downscaled climate risk models to improve water quality and sustain salt marshes in the Buzzards Bay watershed. Under the official federal grant program "Computer and Information Science and Engineering" (CFDA 47.070), which supports investigator-initiated research and education in computing and...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences awarded a $383,646 Project Grant to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey to conduct collaborative research on hydrogeophysical monitoring and modeling of soil salinization processes in coastal transition zones. The research aims to improve understanding of how subsurface heterogeneity regulates gradual and rapid saltwater intrusion driven by climate change and sea level rise. Key project activities include: Applying...

This $421,138 project grant from the National Science Foundation will fund the development of a predictive mathematical model for the transport of flocculated mud in rivers by a research team from the California Institute of Technology, University of New Orleans, and Water Institute of the Gulf. The project aims to advance understanding of freshwater flocculation processes and their impact on sustaining floodplains and deltaic wetlands through semi-empirical modeling and field data analysis....

The National Science Foundation (NSF), under its Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), awarded a $499,095 Project Grant to the University of Maryland, College Park. This award aims to develop a novel, miniature, fiber-optic multiparameter sensor (FOMS) capable of long-term, under-ice deployment to monitor greenhouse gas cycling within lakes. The FOMS will simultaneously measure parameters critical for understanding a lake's influence on climate change, ecosystem health, and human impacts, including...

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 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $340,885 to Oregon State University to study tidally rectified flows in multiple inlet/lagoon systems and their consequences for transport and residence times. The research will use idealized and realistic modeling with the Regional Ocean Modeling System combined with observations to quantify both Stokes and Eulerian transport, which sum to the Lagrangian transport through multiple inlets in...