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 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 $596,100 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research at the University of California, San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The research aims to develop a new climate modeling approach that can better capture the interactions between small-scale cloud processes and large-scale climate dynamics. Key objectives include: 1) understanding how climate-scale adjustments may buffer the radiative effects of aerosols on...
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 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 $709,953 Project Grant by the Office of Naval Research under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300). The grant, titled "MULTI-RESOLUTION ENSEMBLE ASSESSMENT OF SOURCE UNCERTAINTIES IN ATMOSPHERIC RIVER EVOLUTION (MEASURE)", will fund research to advance scientific understanding of atmospheric river phenomena and their evolution, with potential applications for enhancing...
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 Scripps Institution of Oceanography (UCSD Scripps) received a $981,596 Project Grant award from the Department of the Navy Secretary of the Navy Office of Naval Research (ONR) under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300). The grant will support UCSD Scripps's work to characterize rapidly evolving Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layers from February 1, 2023 through January 31, 2024. The Basic and Applied Scientific Research program...
This $632,314 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support a research project led by the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The project aims to provide a better understanding of the physical and biogeochemical processes driving carbon cycling in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Using a combination of ocean models, autonomous observations, and satellite data, the project will characterize...