The National Science Foundation awarded a $194,660 Project Grant to the University of Washington under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) to fund collaborative research characterizing the evolving distribution of radiocarbon in the world's oceans. The five-year project, beginning in February 2021, will involve sampling and analysis of radiocarbon levels during research cruises conducted via the Global Ocean Ship-based Hydrographic Investigations Program and ships of...
The University of Washington was awarded a two-year, $232,025 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will support research into the equatorial transport of nitrous oxide from the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. As part of its mission to strengthen the national scientific enterprise's understanding of the integrated Earth system, the Geosciences program aims to expand fundamental knowledge of...
The University of Washington will receive $296,508 under a two-year Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences. The grant will support research into the vertical transport of buoyant, non-spherical particles in the wind-mixed ocean surface boundary layer from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2023. This work falls under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to strengthen the national scientific enterprise through expanded fundamental knowledge and...
The University of Washington was awarded a three-year, $381,199 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation through its Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to study the role of the Southern Ocean meridional overturning circulation in the oceanic distributions of nitrous oxide (N2O). The grant aims to advance fundamental understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Specifically, the University will conduct research from July...
The University of Washington will receive $399,588 from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences through July 2023 to reconstruct past ecologies using peptidomics under the federal Project Grant award. The funding supports the university's efforts to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in ocean sciences, as outlined in the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) of providing $399K to expand fundamental knowledge in this area. Specifically,...
The National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences awarded a $260,366 Project Grant to the University of Washington's Office of Sponsored Programs to support collaborative research under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The research aims to conduct shipboard measurements of dissolved aluminum, iron, and manganese to trace inputs to the South Pacific Gyre and Southern Ocean from September 2021 through August 2024. The Geosciences program seeks to expand fundamental knowledge of...
The University of Washington was awarded a three-year, $533,419 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences. The grant supports research titled "Precipitation and Coalesence Scavenging in Shallow Southern Ocean Clouds" under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The Geosciences program aims to expand fundamental knowledge of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. This Project...
The University of Washington was awarded a $271,960 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will support collaborative research to study constraints on interseismic locking near the trench on the Oregon segment of the Cascadia Subduction Zone using seafloor geodesy (GNSS-A). As the awardee, the University of Washington will leverage its expertise in ocean sciences and geosciences...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences provides $109,710 to the University of Washington from June 2021 through May 2024. The grant supports collaborative research to improve the accuracy and uncertainty associated with estimated levels of carbon dioxide partial pressure (pCO2) from pH sensors on autonomous profiling platforms. This work falls under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to strengthen the national scientific enterprise...
The University of Washington will receive $920,171 from the National Science Foundation under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct research on convection, clouds, and sea surface temperature from November 2021 through October 2024. As part of the Geosciences program's goal of expanding fundamental knowledge of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences, this three-year Project Grant will support the University's study of...