Project Grant 2119926
- The University of Rhode Island will receive $894,792 under a three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences. The grant will fund the collaborative research project "An Autonomous Profiling Vehicle for Concurrent Acoustic, Visual and Environmental Measurements in the Mesopelagic Ocean" from September 2021 through August 2024. This award is part of the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research in the atmospheric,...
- The University of Rhode Island received a $250,644 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) for research titled "ADVANCES IN UNDERSTANDING THE BIOGEOCHEMICAL EVOLUTION OF SERPENTINITES (AUBES)" from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2024. The Geosciences program seeks to expand fundamental knowledge of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Under this award, URI researchers in Kingston, Rhode...
- The University of Rhode Island will receive $395,696 over two years through a Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will support the Marine Geological Samples Laboratory at the University's Graduate School of Oceanography to provide curation services for marine sample collections. As part of the Geosciences program's goal of expanding knowledge of the integrated Earth system through basic research, the...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation provided $236,079 to the University of Rhode Island from February 2021 through October 2021. The funding supported the "VIRTUAL SEQUENTIAL LABS FOR SELECTION OF THE NEXT OOI PIONEER ARRAY LOCATION" project under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The Geosciences program aims to expand understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. For this award, URI...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Rhode Island received a $3.94 million Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) on July 15, 2025, to support the E-RISE RII (Enhancing Research Infrastructure and Science Education Research Instrumentation) initiative addressing the socio-ecological impact of microplastics in coastal ecosystems through June 30, 2029. This multidisciplinary research incubator project,...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Rhode Island, Research Office Division, received a $290,552 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) effective August 15, 2025, with completion scheduled for July 31, 2028. This collaborative research initiative will recover, calibrate, and analyze dissolved oxygen sensor data from a six-year moored array deployed across the Labrador and Irminger Seas in the North...
- This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program, totaling $739,133, supports collaborative research on sources and transformations of export production from coral and plankton bioarchives. The University of Rhode Island will receive funding through February 2024 to conduct a novel 50-year record of pelagic-benthic coupling by analyzing coral and plankton samples. The Geosciences program aims to expand fundamental knowledge of the integrated Earth system...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Rhode Island received a $848,602 CAREER (Faculty Early-Career Development Program) Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) on June 15, 2025, with a completion date of February 28, 2029. This award funds fundamental research investigating fitness trade-offs associated with female-biased sexual size dimorphism in leopard seals, a large Southern Ocean predator exhibiting extreme size...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Rhode Island has been awarded $307,921 under a Collaborative Research Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, operating under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070). The award, effective March 15, 2026 through February 28, 2029, funds the development and testing of MEDFORD (a specialized metadata language and supporting toolset) designed to...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences provides $299,306 to the University of Rhode Island for science verification activities for the 6500m human occupied vehicle (HOV) Alvin. The award period is from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022. The funding supports basic research within the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to expand understanding of the integrated Earth system through atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Specifically, the award...
The University of Rhode Island was awarded a $288,890 project grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) for the period of January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2024. The grant funding will support the ACREUS project, which will provide authentic cruise and research experiences for underrepresented students through experiential learning opportunities aboard research vessels operating out of Point Judith, Rhode Island. As described in the program objectives, the Geosciences grant program aims to strengthen the national scientific enterprise through expanding fundamental knowledge and increased understanding of the integrated Earth system via support of basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $288.9k | 8/5/21 |