Project Grant 2049351

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences program award of $478,920 to Trustees of Boston University will support a 3-year research project to gain a more complete understanding of the dynamics of coastal upwelling. The study will use mathematical models and 3D numerical simulations to explore the 3-dimensional pathways and coupling of processes underlying this widespread ocean phenomenon, which has significant impacts on marine ecosystems and fisheries. The research aims to advance...

This $750,000 project grant awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Climate and Atmospheric Research program (CFDA 11.431) focuses on understanding diapycnal upwelling in the eastern equatorial Pacific using autonomous drifters. The grant was awarded on September 1, 2025 to the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and is scheduled for completion by August 31, 2028. The project aims to leverage state-of-the-art platforms...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $1,354,056 to the University of California San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography to jointly implement a new measurement technique called distributed acoustic sensing. This technique will generate high-resolution (10 m in space, minutes in time) images of ocean temperature and current velocity fields above a 34-km cable laid on the seafloor off the Azores islands. The goal is to...

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 two-year, $286,876 National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences project grant funds research into bi mediated corrosion of methane-derived authigenic carbonates in deep ocean environments and its implications for carbon fluxes from methane seeps. The University of California, Los Angeles will investigate the amount of carbon released into seawater through biological processes that dissolve the carbonate rock structures formed at oceanic methane seeps. The research will quantify...

This three-year, $294,092 National Science Foundation project grant will fund research at the University of Rochester to improve understanding of open ocean methane sources and sinks. The research aims to determine dominant biological sources of methane in surface waters through modeling of methane concentration data. The model will quantify methane supply from seafloors in low-oxygen zones and whether this methane is consumed before escaping to the atmosphere. The optimized global model will...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $517,526 to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to quantify uncertainties in air-sea CO2 flux variability and the background ocean carbon sink, and determine data requirements to reduce these uncertainties. Key objectives include: 1) Quantifying regional-scale uncertainties in the background ocean carbon sink using a...

This four-year, $420,533 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research into the dynamics of coastal buoyant plumes under upwelling wind conditions in the Winyah Bay region of South Carolina. Coastal Carolina University will collaborate with another institution to investigate the linkage between land-derived river waters and open ocean waters via buoyant plumes, assessing the role of river discharge, tides, and...

This three-year, $563,324 National Science Foundation project grant funds research by Atmospheric & Environmental Research Inc. on observing and modeling the spatiotemporal variability of the seasonal cycle in sea level. The awardee will analyze satellite and in situ data, as well as output from global ocean models, to examine the seasonal cycle in sea level over global oceans and coastal regions. Specific objectives include analyzing the seasonal cycle's mean and year-to-year variability...

This three-year, $406,381 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. A team of four researchers from different institutions will conduct high-resolution measurements of turbulent mixing using ship surveys and moorings to collect hydrographic, velocity, and microstructure profile data. They will...