The National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences awarded a $306,943 Project Grant to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York Sponsored Projects Administration Division under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2026. The grant will support a collaborative research project to conduct a global census of submesoscale energetics using in-situ drifter observations and a high-resolution ocean model. Specifically, Columbia...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $229,234 project grant to Texas A&M University under the Geosciences (47.050) federal grant program. The three-year award beginning June 1, 2023 will support research to conduct a global census of submesoscale ocean energetics using in-situ drifter observations and high-resolution ocean modeling. Key products include quantifying global submesoscale kinetic energy content and transfers across spatial scales to provide the first observational...
The University of Miami (UM) has been awarded a $1,459,657 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences CFDA program. The 3-year grant will fund research to determine the metabolic carbon incorporation rate in fish carbonates and its implications for the global carbon cycle. Key objectives include refining production rate estimates and conducting detailed compositional analyses of carbonate minerals produced by marine fish species. The...
The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth will receive $396,233 from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences under the agency's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2025 to conduct collaborative research on global estimates of energy pathways and stirring by internal waves and vortical modes. The Geosciences program supports basic research in the atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth...
The University of Miami received a $481,510 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences on August 1, 2021 to complete work by July 31, 2024. The grant supports collaborative research titled "Isotopic Indicators for Mechanisms of Organic Matter Degradation under High Productivity and High Carbon Flux Conditions (EXPORTS)" through the agency's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The Geosciences program aims to strengthen understanding of the...
The University of Florida was awarded a three-year, $285,458 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will fund collaborative research on combined waves and currents over multi-scale topography, from boundary layer dynamics to parameterization. As outlined in the program description, the Geosciences program aims to strengthen the national scientific enterprise through expanded fundamental...
This $313,825 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research into submesoscale instabilities and energy cascades in seamount wakes. The University of Maryland, College Park will use large eddy simulations and Reynolds-averaged modeling to investigate how submesoscale processes impact dissipation, mixing, and the representation of seamount energetics in climate models. Specifically, the awardee will examine the forward energy...
This Project Grant award, valued at $786,467.00 and provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), is focused on advancing the understanding of mesoscale air-sea coupling and its impact on climate variability over the Southern Ocean. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: The University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) will lead a collaborative research effort using a...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $476,876 project grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Miami on September 1, 2021 for work completing August 31, 2024. The grant funds the CloudDrift project to develop a platform for accelerating climate research using Lagrangian data. Key products include identifying an efficient cloud-optimized data format for Lagrangian datasets tailored to community needs. An open-source library will be created to convert legacy...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $597,248 supports research into applying novel approaches to link microbial growth efficiency, function, and energy transfer in the ocean. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the award will further understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in ocean sciences. Specifically, the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science will conduct research from September 2023 to August 2026 to...