Project Grant 2136729
Award Date
12/15/21
Completion Date
11/30/22
Dollars Obligated
$256K
Federal Agency
Division of Industrial Innovation
Federal Grant Program
47.041
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Fairfax Station, VA, USA
Similar Awards
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $998,320 Cooperative Agreement under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) to Applied Ocean Sciences, LLC to develop an innovative ultrasound-based sensor for real-time detection and characterization of microplastics in water. This project aims to revolutionize microplastics monitoring capabilities by creating a rapid, cost-effective solution compared to existing optical-based methods. The sensor leverages...
This $287,941 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to develop a novel biochemical sensor technology that can quantify small plastic particles in human blood serum samples. The research project will leverage quantum-coherent light-matter interactions on engineered photonic metasurfaces to advance the analytical performance of mid-infrared absorption spectroscopy. Key objectives include: 1) developing new sensor chips, 2)...
The National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation awarded Sequoia Scientific, Inc. a $254,110 Project Grant under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant funds the STTR PHASE I project "BIO-OPTICAL SENSOR FOR THE DIRECT DETECTION OF SINKING MARINE PARTICLES" from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022. The project will develop a bio-optical sensor to directly detect sinking marine particles, advancing understanding of the ocean's biological carbon...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $449,936 Project Grant to the University of Washington under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to study particle dynamics at the ocean surface from February 1, 2023 through January 31, 2028. The award will support research to observe microplastic particles in laboratory-generated ocean flows and develop a modeling framework describing the vertical mixing and transport of plastics near the ocean surface. The investigator will partner...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences awarded a $346,823 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Colorado (doing business as the University of Colorado) to conduct research under the NSF Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). This research project aims to better understand how transformations to microplastics in coastal environments impact their regional-scale transport and fate. The study will use Lagrangian tracers and existing hydrodynamic modeling to quantify...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences, under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050), provides $262,534 to develop a novel carbon nanotube-based phosphate sensor for oceanographic use from June 1, 2022 to May 31, 2023. The University of Washington, through its Office of Sponsored Programs, will build and characterize a prototype potentiometric phosphate sensor using carbon nanotubes to test the sensor's response, sensitivity, lower...
This $399,836 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research to examine the sources and spatial distribution of microplastics in rivers. The project at Texas A&M University will characterize the extent of microplastic pollution in different watersheds and analyze how human activities and land use patterns impact the geographical distribution of these particles. The research...
This $274,916 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of an innovative, scalable ocean carbon sensing grid by Subtidal, Inc. The goal is to enhance measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) capabilities for ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) strategies, which have the potential to extract up to 5 gigatons of CO2 annually from the atmosphere. The research objectives include...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to quantify macro, micro, and nano plastic flows in order to design effective strategies for managing plastic waste. The $412,318 grant awarded on December 1, 2024 will enable the Colorado School of Mines to build a probabilistic material flow analysis (MFA) model to track plastic movement and accumulation across different geographic regions in the U.S. and Caribbean. The...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $199,999 Project Grant to the University of Rhode Island (URI) Research Office Division, doing business as URI - Research. The award titled "ERI: A MICROFLUIDIC APPROACH FOR MONITORING MICROPLASTICS IN SEAWATER" aims to develop effective methods for sampling and identifying microplastics in seawater as global pollution concerns grow. The project will run from Jul 1, 2024 to Jun 30, 2026 and leverage URI's...