The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution received a $632,546 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences on September 1, 2021 to complete work by August 31, 2024. The grant is part of the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research to expand understanding of the integrated Earth system. Through this award, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will conduct research on the importance of topographic complexity for estuarine...
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution received a $300,009 cooperative agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Sea Grant Support federal grant program (CFDA 11.417) for the period of August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2023. The award will support two partnership-based programs to increase consumer awareness and acceptance of seafood products in Massachusetts following impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the seafood industry. The first program,...
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution received a $453,110 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences. The grant was awarded on September 1, 2021 under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to support research examining the Zonal Overturning Circulation through August 31, 2024. Funding will allow Woods Hole to conduct basic research investigating ocean circulation patterns and dynamics as part of efforts to strengthen understanding of Earth's integrated...
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution received a three-year, $1.75 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will fund research from October 2021 through September 2024 to study the biophysics of coral reef resilience and identify hydrodynamic and ecological drivers of coral survival under extreme heat. As part of its mission to expand fundamental knowledge of the integrated Earth system through...
This $125,327 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences (CFDA 47.050 Geosciences) supports the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in maintaining and enhancing critical oceanographic instrumentation and shared-use resources for NSF-funded researchers. The key products and services provided under this award include: Replacing cracked windows on the acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) mounts on the R/V Armstrong research vessel and...
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution was awarded a $516,784 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences on May 1, 2021 to study ocean heat uptake over the last 20,000 years. The award is part of the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research to expand understanding of the integrated Earth system. Through this funding, Woods Hole will conduct research on how the ocean has absorbed heat from the atmosphere over the past 20,000 years....
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution was awarded a two-year, $599,798 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will support research examining Holocene upper Atlantic temperature trends and variability in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation. Funding will enable analysis of paleoclimate records to better understand potential links between anomalous heat uptake and past fluctuations in ocean...
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution was awarded a $807,034 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences. The grant is supporting research titled "Collaborative Research: Towards a More Comprehensive Understanding of Eulerian and Lagrangian Transport of Active and Passive Tracers in the Ocean" from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024. The research is being conducted under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA #47.050), which aims to strengthen the...
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution received a $143,821 project grant award from the National Science Foundation under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) for the period of March 15, 2021 through February 28, 2023. The award will support oceanographic research services to be conducted aboard the Institution's research vessel Atlantis. As described in the program description, the Geosciences program seeks to expand fundamental knowledge of the integrated Earth system through basic research...
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution received a three-year, $237,524 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences to conduct collaborative research on morphodynamic simulations of coastal storms and overwash to characterize back-barrier lake stratigraphies. The research funded under this award will strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences as outlined under the National Science...