This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences awarded $267,100 to Oregon State University from November 15, 2021 through October 31, 2022. The award supports research titled "Ocean Seismic Survey Impacts on the Movement and Distribution of Nearshore Temperate Marine Species" under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). This program aims to expand fundamental knowledge of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and...
Oregon State University was awarded a $680,529 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The award will fund research from August 2021 through July 2024 to study the environmental consequences of expanded recruitment of an ecosystem engineer on a hypoxia-influenced continental shelf. The Geosciences program supports basic research to strengthen understanding of Earth's integrated systems through atmospheric,...
Oregon State University was awarded a $1,223,276 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences on October 1, 2021 to complete the project by September 30, 2024. The award is being used to support collaborative research on plankton size spectra and trophic links in a dynamic ocean environment under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). This program aims to strengthen the national scientific enterprise through expanded fundamental knowledge and...
The National Science Foundation awarded Oregon State University a $150,982 project grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to acquire a vibracorer for marine sediment sampling. The grant had a performance period from March 15, 2021 to February 28, 2022. The Geosciences program supports basic research to strengthen understanding of Earth's integrated system through atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Funds from this award allowed OSU to obtain oceanographic instrumentation necessary...
Oregon State University was awarded a three-year, $452,842 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences through the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will fund collaborative research examining tradeoffs between phenology and geography constraints in species' responses to climate change across life cycles. As part of its mission to strengthen the national science enterprise through expanded fundamental knowledge of the integrated Earth system, the NSF...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award of $146,195 to Oregon State University (OSU) will quantify the role of pressure gradients in nearshore sediment mobility and transport using distributed fiber-optic sensing techniques. The two-year project will leverage laboratory experiments, geophysical modeling, and field observations to enhance understanding of how waves drive sediment transport and influence coastal evolution. The research will...
The University of Oregon was awarded a $349,438 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences. The grant falls under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to expand fundamental knowledge of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. The three-year award, issued on October 1, 2021 and set to conclude on September 30, 2024, will support collaborative research examining plankton size spectra and trophic...
Oregon State University will receive $107,358 under a Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences' Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to host a Research Experiences for Undergraduates site program from April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023. As part of the program, ten undergraduate interns will be mentored by Oregon State University faculty in ocean ecology, biogeochemistry, physical oceanography, and marine geology and geophysics research. Interns will have...
The University of Washington was awarded a $132,500 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA #47.050). The grant funded a one-year project to test distributed acoustic sensing on the Ocean Observatories Initiative regional cabled array. The goal was to strengthen understanding of integrated Earth systems through basic research supporting atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences as outlined in the Geosciences...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $227,396 to Colorado State University to conduct collaborative research on analyzing global seismic data to understand and quantify the evolution of ocean wave activity and its impact on Earth systems. The project aims to advance the understanding of long-term observational records of Earth's microseism field, investigate geophysical source processes driving seismic signals generated...