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, earth, and ocean sciences. Specifically, the University of Rhode Island will develop an autonomous underwater vehicle to conduct acoustic, visual and environmental measurements in the mesopelagic zone of the ocean located between depths of 200-1000 meters. This technology and data collection will expand understanding of the integrated Earth system and further the goals of the Geosciences program.
Generated 1/6/24, 5:17 PM