Project Grant 2126193

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 understanding of the integrated Earth system, including the atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Specifically, the university will conduct basic research into the behavior of particles in the ocean's surface waters to gain a better understanding of transport processes in this critical environmental layer.