Project Grant 2140395

The National Science Foundation awarded a $184,999 project grant to the Consortium For Ocean Leadership, Inc. to support the Program Support Office for the Interagency Ocean Observation Committee under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant provides funding from October 1, 2021 through October 31, 2022 to operate the Program Support Office, which coordinates federal ocean observing activities across multiple agencies. The Geosciences program aims to expand understanding of the...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded The Ocean Foundation $500,000 under the Climate and Atmospheric Research program (CFDA 11.431) for a project grant running from February 1, 2022 to January 31, 2024. The Ocean Foundation will support NOAA's public-private partnership to build broad support in the U.S. for the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030) among philanthropic groups, civil society organizations, and the general public. The...

This $636,904 National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities project grant funds the MARISCO (Marine Research and Innovation for a Sustainable Management of Coasts and Oceans) program through January 2024. The grant supports the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to expand fundamental knowledge of integrated Earth systems through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Under this award, the University of California, Santa Barbara will lead collaborative...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE) awarded a $1.9 million project grant to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) under the OISE program (CFDA 47.079). The grant funds the Accelerating Research through International Network-to-Network Collaborations (ACCELNET) program to develop the international Biogeochemical Cycles and Ecosystems on a Changing Planet (BIOGEOSCAPES) network from 2022-2027. Under the award, WHOI will...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research Coastal Ocean Program (CFDA 11.478) to the World Resources Institute (WRI). The purpose of this 1-year award, with a performance period from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2024, is for WRI to build on the previous success of the Ocean Panel in raising the importance of creating a sustainable ocean economy. WRI will work with the 16 Ocean Panel...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System (SCCOOS) received a $1.26M Cooperative Agreement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) program (CFDA 11.012) for the period June 1, 2025 through May 31, 2028. As NOAA's regional association for Southern California, SCCOOS delivers science-based decision-support products and services focused on coastal ocean data collection,...

HISEASNET: Continuous Internet Connectivity for Oceanographic Research The University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography received a $1,956,645 Cooperative Agreement from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) awarded August 1, 2025, with a completion date of July 31, 2030. This award supports the HISEASNET project, which provides mobile communication infrastructure and connectivity services for the U.S. Academic Research Fleet...

The Ocean Foundation will receive $460,782 through a cooperative agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Unallied Science Program. Work will continue the Foundation's electronic tagging research program through acoustic, archival and satellite tagging of marine species, as well as movement ecology, genetic stock identification, and fisheries modeling from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2024. The Unallied Science Program aims to support biological,...

The World Resources Institute (WRI) was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), under the Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research Coastal Ocean Program (CFDA 11.478). The grant will support WRI's continued work with 16 Ocean Panel countries on initiatives focused on sustainably growing the ocean economy, reducing inequality, and restoring ocean health. Key deliverables include providing scientific and knowledge support; raising the...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of International Science and Engineering supports the implementation of a deep ocean observing strategy under the ACCELNET-IMPLEMENTATION: IMPLEMENTING A DEEP OCEAN OBSERVING STRATEGY (IDOOS) program. Awarded on October 1, 2021 for $1,992,928 over four years, this grant funds the University of Texas at Austin to lead efforts to strengthen international partnerships and advance scientific discovery through deep ocean...