The University of Virginia received a $233,058 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: MICROSCALE INTERACTIONS OF FOUNDATION SPECIES WITH THEIR FLUID ENVIRONMENT: BIOLOGICAL FEEDBACKS ALTER ECOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS OF MUSSELS" from February 1, 2021 to January 31, 2024. The grant funding will support research examining the microscale interactions between foundation species like mussels and...
The University of Washington received a $319,295 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences on December 1, 2021 to support research understanding substrate mobility as a disturbance in hard rock marine communities. The grant-funded research is being conducted 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. Specifically, the...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $695,977 project grant to the University of Washington for research titled "Nearshore Plume Dynamics: Airborne Observations and Modeling of Surf-Shelf Exchange." The three-year award runs from June 1, 2021 to May 31, 2024 under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The University of Washington will utilize the funding to conduct airborne observations and modeling of the exchange between surf zone and continental shelf waters. This work will...
The University of Washington was awarded a $290,149 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences. The grant supports the research project "Ecological Consequences of Seawater Chemistry Modification by Ecosystem Engineers" being conducted from September 2021 through August 2023 in Friday Harbor, Washington. The project aims to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in ocean sciences, as outlined in the NSF's...
The University of Washington was awarded a three-year, $137,893 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct collaborative research on the experimental and numerical study of bed shear stress and turbulent boundary layer structure induced by breaking-wave-generated vortices. The research funded through this award will strengthen understanding of integrated Earth system processes through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean...
The University of Washington was awarded a $685,684 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences to support the research project "BEYOND SALT: EFFECTS OF ESTUARINE CIRCULATION AND MIXING TIMESCALES ON BIOGEOCHEMISTRY." The grant period runs from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2024. The funding supports basic research within the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA #47.050), which aims to expand understanding of the integrated Earth system through...
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...
This $290,422 federal project grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program to Washington State University (WSU). The grant will support research exploring how environmental stress, specifically changes in body temperature, can alter the physiological functional diversity of individuals within animal populations over time. The research team will combine experiments on California mussels with comprehensive protein expression...
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...
The University of Washington was awarded a two-year $436,735 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will support the numerical investigation and validation of stratified up-side down Langmuir turbulence from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2023. As part of its mission to strengthen the national scientific enterprise's understanding of the integrated Earth system, the Geosciences program aims to expand...