This Project Grant award, valued at $220,000.00, was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines, doing business as Colorado School of Mines. The award funds a collaborative research project to investigate the coupled dynamics of fluid-solid systems with mass and momentum flux, focusing on auto-rotating devices that respond to the injection or withdrawal of fluid. The work combines...
Colorado State University was awarded a $795,202 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences. The award is part of the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Under the three-year award beginning September 1, 2021, Colorado State University will research the influence of climate change on temperature persistence. The...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences provides $332,306 in funding to Colorado State University from March 1, 2022 to February 28, 2025 under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The funding supports research to advance understanding of diapycnal mixing induced by breaking internal waves over underwater topography through numerical modeling and field observations. Specifically, the university will conduct highly resolved direct numerical simulations...
The Regents of the University of Colorado received a $123,303 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences on December 15, 2021 to support research under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) until November 30, 2022. The grant funds collaborative research titled "RAPID: Extreme Disturbances/Perturbations to Coastal Deposition Systems" to strengthen understanding of integrated Earth system processes through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research to investigate the interactions between internal waves and submesoscale currents in the ocean's bottom boundary layer. The total award is $418,382 over a period of 3 years, from June 1, 2024 to May 31, 2027. The research will combine theoretical concepts, analyses of existing measurements, and computer modeling to assess how these wave-current interactions affect mixing and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award in the amount of $353,715 will fund a collaborative research project to study the turbulence in the stratified layer at the air-water interface, as driven by waves and wind. The project will utilize a combination of controlled laboratory experiments and advanced numerical simulations (large-eddy simulations) to test the hypothesis that coupling between waves and wind-driven currents is necessary to...
The Colorado School of Mines received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences on September 1, 2021 to complete the project by August 31, 2024. The grant supports analytical and numerical methods in collisionless kinetic theory research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). This program aims to promote progress in mathematical and physical sciences to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through...
This three-year, $358,347 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will support research to determine the role of ocean dynamics in Atlantic sea surface temperature variations using coupled climate models. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will lead a collaborative effort to develop a hierarchy of coupled climate models within the Community Earth System Model version 2 platform. Comparisons between model pairs that disable specific oceanic...
This $708,182 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research at Colorado State University from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. The research aims to advance understanding of the causal pathways governing the interocean exchange between the Indian, South Atlantic, and Southern Oceans south of Africa. The project will utilize state-of-the-art nonlinear data assimilation, ocean modeling, observational datasets, and causal discovery...
The National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences awarded a $405,037 Project Grant to the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) for research from February 1, 2022 to January 31, 2025. The award will support collaborative research to better understand how the depth of magmatic processes in the mid-ocean ridge system varies based on tectonic setting. Researchers will analyze melt inclusions and crystals in ocean floor basalts from a...