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 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 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...
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 University of Washington was awarded a two-year, $232,025 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will support research into the equatorial transport of nitrous oxide from the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. As part of its mission to strengthen the national scientific enterprise's understanding of the integrated Earth system, the Geosciences program aims to expand fundamental knowledge 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...
The University of Washington will receive $740,633 in funding from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences through the agency's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to support the project "WAVES, RAIN, AND SURFACE ROUGHNESS AT OCEAN STATION PAPA" from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. Under this three-year Project Grant, the University of Washington will collect and analyze oceanographic data related to waves, rainfall, and sea surface roughness conditions at...
The University of Washington was awarded a two-year, $317,268 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will fund research into the coupling between strong ligands and dissolved iron in hydrothermal systems. As the prime awardee, the University of Washington will leverage its expertise in geochemistry and hydrothermal systems to strengthen understanding of integrated earth processes. The research aims to expand fundamental knowledge...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $194,660 Project Grant to the University of Washington under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) to fund collaborative research characterizing the evolving distribution of radiocarbon in the world's oceans. The five-year project, beginning in February 2021, will involve sampling and analysis of radiocarbon levels during research cruises conducted via the Global Ocean Ship-based Hydrographic Investigations Program and ships of...
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...