The University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography was awarded a $641,593 project grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct research modeling internal waves from inception to dissipation under the agency's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The four-year award beginning March 1, 2021 will support collaborative research among ocean scientists to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research investigating the generation,...
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'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 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...
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...
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...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences, under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050), provides $197,506 to support collaborative research on rapid pilot observations of enhanced near-bottom equatorial turbulence in the deep Pacific Ocean. The University of California San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography, as awardee, will leverage an existing mooring array at 140°W to add instrumentation to moorings planned for 0.5°N and 3°N...
This $596,100 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research led by the University of California San Diego's (UCSD) Scripps Institution of Oceanography to understand the large-scale effects of shallow cloud formations on Earth's climate. The research aims to develop a global climate model that can simulate the interactions between small-scale cloud dynamics and large-scale climate processes, addressing three key questions:...
This federal Project Grant award of $127,081 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the Science Mission Directorate (CFDA 43.001) will fund research by the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography to study global marine gravity bathymetry and small-scale ocean interactions using data from the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission. The research will advance scientific understanding of Earth systems, develop new...