The University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography was awarded a $596,824 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) for the period of July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2024. The grant funds research to enhance understanding of integrated Earth system processes through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Specifically, the award supports research to improve knowledge of how ocean surface gravity...
The National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) awarded a $663,712 Project Grant to the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. This grant will fund a 3-year collaborative research project to study the role of wind and waves in mixing the upper ocean. The project will conduct controlled laboratory experiments and state-of-the-art numerical simulations to test the hypothesis that coupling between waves and wind-driven currents is necessary...
The University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography was awarded a $482,252 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences. The grant will support research from July 2021 through June 2024 under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research. Specifically, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography will conduct collaborative research on the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences awarded a $260,172 Project Grant to The University of Southern Mississippi for the collaborative research project "PROBING INTERNAL GRAVITY WAVE DYNAMICS AND DISSIPATION USING GLOBAL OBSERVATIONS AND NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS." This project under the NSF's Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) program will map the space-time geography of internal gravity wave (IW) dissipation and mixing, and the underlying dynamics, using high-resolution...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $968,823 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to advance research on the impacts of surface waves on ocean chemistry and ecosystems. The 3-year project, titled "SWEL: Surface Wave Effects on Upwelling and Ecosystem Linkages", will utilize advanced computer models and real-world data to investigate small-scale ocean phenomena, such as currents and wave dynamics, and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $314,306 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. This 2-year grant, effective October 1, 2024, will support a postdoctoral fellowship to investigate the oceanographic and ecological factors affecting the abundance and distribution of mesopelagic organisms in the California Current ecosystem. The research aims to improve understanding of how...
The National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences awarded a $776,679 Project Grant to the University of California San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography on August 1, 2021 for seismological investigations of earthquakes and deep earth structure. The grant is funded through the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) and will support basic research in the atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences through July 31, 2024. As the prime awardee, Scripps Institution of Oceanography will...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences provides $757,404 under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The award will support collaborative experimental and numerical studies of the effects of wind, wave scale, and salinity on bubble entrainment by breaking waves. Researchers will leverage the Scripps Ocean-Atmosphere Research...
The University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography was awarded a three-year, $635,163 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct research titled "Collaborative Research: Transient Response of Regional Sea Level to Antarctic Ice Shelf Fluxes." Under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA #47.050), which supports basic research in the atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences to strengthen the national scientific enterprise's understanding of the...
This $197,651 Project Grant was awarded by the Office of Naval Research under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) to the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The grant will fund a research project focused on developing a Shipboard Acoustic Source Transmission/Monitoring System, with a performance period from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025. As a renowned center for ocean and earth science research, Scripps will leverage its...