This $394,692 federal Project Grant award from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 4 under the Geographic Programs - South Florida Geographic Initiatives Program (CFDA 66.484) will fund the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) to modernize the Biscayne Bay Simulation Model (BBSM). The project involves converting the BBSM's Fortran 77 code to the Fortran 2018 standard and adding NVIDIA ISO Fortran parallel computing capabilities to enable graphical processing unit computations. This will allow RSMAS to generate monthly spatial distribution maps of key water quality metrics like nitrite-nitrate, total nitrogen, total phosphorus, and chlorophyll in Biscayne Bay and adjacent coastal waters. The data and analysis results will be synthesized into easily interpretable information to support resource managers and policymakers in South Florida. The award period runs from Apr 1, 2024 to Mar 31, 2026.
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