The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution received a three-year, $669,196 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will support collaborative research to probe the ventilation efficiency of the deep ocean using conservative dissolved gas tracers in archived samples. As part of its mission to strengthen the national scientific enterprise through expanding fundamental knowledge of the integrated Earth...
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution was awarded a $502,442 project grant from the National Science Foundation under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct collaborative research on insights into fungi and their metabolic interactions with other microorganisms in deep subsurface hydrothermal sediments from January 15, 2021 through December 31, 2023. The Geosciences program supports basic research in the earth sciences to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system....
The National Science Foundation awarded a $448,935 Project Grant to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for research investigating the source and flux of dissolved organic carbon released from methane seeps to the deep ocean. The three-year award, made under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will support collaborative research from April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2024. The Geosciences program seeks to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in...
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution was awarded a $181,914 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences. The grant falls under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research to expand understanding of the integrated Earth system.
Through this three-year award beginning July 1, 2021, Woods Hole will conduct collaborative laboratory and theoretical research on geyser dynamics. The institution will leverage its expertise in earth...
The National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences awarded a $634,711 Project Grant to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for collaborative research characterizing and quantifying carbon sequestration processes across the Andean convergent margin. The award period runs from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2024. Under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to expand fundamental knowledge and understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in...
This $167,576 National Science Foundation project grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) funds research into constraining nitrogen sources and recycling efficiency in subduction zones. The Williamstown, MA-based awardee, President and Trustees of Williams College, will conduct research at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to quantify nitrogen outputs from Central American and Chilean volcanoes and identify nitrogen sources in arc magmas. Using fluid inclusions in mineral...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $6.5 million Project Grant to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to design and construct a new generation of ocean-bottom seismographs for the U.S. academic community from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024. The Geosciences program aims to expand fundamental knowledge of the integrated Earth system through basic research support. Under this award, Woods Hole will deliver new ocean-bottom...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $728,181 Project Grant to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will fund research from July 2023 through June 2026 to study the coupling of organic nutrient cycling to methane production in the oligotrophic North Pacific Ocean. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will collaborate with U.S. and Israeli scientists to conduct interdisciplinary research involving oceanography, isotope...
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution was awarded a $364,098 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences on September 15, 2021 to complete the project by August 31, 2024. The grant was awarded under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system.
Specifically, the grant will fund collaborative research to elucidate brine-dominated, segment-scale hydrothermal discharge...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences awarded a $343,290 Project Grant to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) for a 2-year Postdoctoral Fellowship. The grant, funded under the NSF Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) program, will support research to characterize the composition of the Pacific mantle using nitrogen and noble gas isotopes. Specifically, the project will analyze oceanic basalt samples from seamounts near the East Pacific Rise to identify recycled and...