The National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences awarded a $681,045 Project Grant to the University of California, Santa Barbara under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) to evaluate Southern Ocean control of global marine silicon isotope distribution from June 1, 2021 to May 31, 2024. Through this award, UC Santa Barbara will conduct basic research to strengthen understanding of integrated Earth system processes and expand fundamental knowledge of factors influencing...
This $406,274 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will fund research examining submesoscale frontal dynamics and exchange processes in San Luis Obispo Bay, California. The University of California Santa Cruz will conduct high-resolution measurements of turbulent mixing using ship surveys, moorings, and hydrographic profiling to study how persistent thermal fronts are generated and dissipated downstream of...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $1,312,490 project grant to the University of Colorado Boulder under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to support the Global Sustainability Scholars for Sustainable Oceans initiative from November 1, 2021 through October 31, 2024. The grant will fund the development of a transdisciplinary network of scientists and practitioners focused on building understanding of integrated Earth systems and oceans through basic research. Specifically, the...
The National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences awarded a $561,018 project grant to the University of South Carolina under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct collaborative research examining three decades of foraminiferal assemblages in the Santa Barbara Basin. Over the three-year period from July 2022 to June 2025, the University will create a thirty-year record of planktic foraminifera abundances from stored samples collected in the Santa Barbara Basin, California....
The University of California Irvine was awarded a $492,382 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences. The grant falls under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to expand fundamental knowledge of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Specifically, the grant will fund research from December 2021 through November 2024 to predict impacts of coastal species redistribution in a changing climate....
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $1,275,001.00 to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to conduct research on the "Environmental Drivers and Ecological Consequences of Kelp Forest Dynamics on a Changing Planet." The goal is to advance understanding of the sustainability of coastal oceanic ecosystems and the processes affecting foundation species like giant kelp. The research will integrate long-term...
This $405,861 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences, under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050), will fund research examining physical processes associated with fronts that develop off the coastline in San Luis Obispo Bay, California. The award supports collaborative research between four researchers from different institutions to derive information on flows, temperature, salinity, and dissolved oxygen from ship-based and ocean-bottom...
This $1,599,937 National Science Foundation project grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research at the University of California, Davis and Humboldt State University from July 2021 through June 2026. The grant funds ecological and social science research to develop a socio-environmental systems framework for informing coastal habitat restoration decisions under climate change. At UC Davis, the grant supports coordination of scuba diving research at multiple northern...
This $708,182 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research at Colorado State University from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. The research aims to advance understanding of the causal pathways governing the interocean exchange between the Indian, South Atlantic, and Southern Oceans south of Africa. The project will utilize state-of-the-art nonlinear data assimilation, ocean modeling, observational datasets, and causal discovery...
This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences provides $366,697 to the University of California Santa Cruz to conduct research characterizing the composition, scavenging efficiency and bioavailability of size fractionated particles under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The Geosciences program aims to strengthen the national scientific enterprise through expanding fundamental knowledge and understanding of the integrated Earth system by...