This $691,259 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support a collaborative research project to better understand the relationship between the oceanic cycles of iron and carbon. The award, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: NSFGEO-NERC: THE COLLOIDAL SHUNT AS A CRITICAL NEXUS OF THE OCEAN IRON AND CARBON CYCLES," will be performed by researchers at Oregon State University. The project aims to characterize the "colloidal...
Oregon State University was awarded a $680,529 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The award will fund research from August 2021 through July 2024 to study the environmental consequences of expanded recruitment of an ecosystem engineer on a hypoxia-influenced continental shelf. The Geosciences program supports basic research to strengthen understanding of Earth's integrated systems through atmospheric,...
Oregon State University was awarded a three-year, $644,095 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences. The grant aims to directly determine and model the elemental stoichiometry of phytoplankton from the Oregon coast through the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). This program supports basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences to strengthen the national scientific enterprise and increase understanding of the integrated Earth system. Under the...
Oregon State University was awarded a three-year, $452,842 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences through the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will fund collaborative research examining tradeoffs between phenology and geography constraints in species' responses to climate change across life cycles. As part of its mission to strengthen the national science enterprise through expanded fundamental knowledge of the integrated Earth system, the NSF...
This Project Grant award for $540,281 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports a collaborative research project between U.S. and U.K. scientists to better understand the linkages between the oceanic cycles of iron and carbon. The research aims to characterize the "colloidal shunt" mechanism, whereby dissolved iron forms aggregates with organic carbon to create particulate matter that sinks out of the upper water column. The project will...
Oregon State University was awarded a $1,223,276 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences on October 1, 2021 to complete the project by September 30, 2024. The award is being used to support collaborative research on plankton size spectra and trophic links in a dynamic ocean environment under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). This program aims to strengthen the national scientific enterprise through expanded fundamental knowledge and...
Oregon State University was awarded a $612,636 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences on June 15, 2021, with a completion date of May 31, 2024. The award will support collaborative research titled "Mixing and the Meridional Overturning Circulation in the Modern and Glacial Ocean" under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The Geosciences program seeks to expand fundamental knowledge and understanding of Earth's integrated system through basic...
Oregon State University was awarded a $211,668 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to develop a computer model and conduct simulations quantifying the effects of Langmuir turbulence on sea ice and the Arctic Ocean. The model will be used to improve predictions of heat and salt transport in the ocean and shared publicly to aid other scientists and support education. The award will also support five...
Oregon State University will receive $107,358 under a Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences' Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to host a Research Experiences for Undergraduates site program from April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023. As part of the program, ten undergraduate interns will be mentored by Oregon State University faculty in ocean ecology, biogeochemistry, physical oceanography, and marine geology and geophysics research. Interns will have...
The National Science Foundation awarded Oregon State University a $513,499 project grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) on March 15, 2023 to complete the work by April 30, 2025. The grant will fund research investigating how groundwater discharge delivers important nutrients like dissolved organic nitrogen and iron to the coastal ecosystems of the West Florida Shelf. Oregon State University will sample offshore groundwater wells, river and estuarine waters, and conduct two...
Oregon State University was awarded a $104,268 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will fund collaborative research between U.S. and U.K. researchers to use time-series field observations from the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study region to constrain an ocean iron model. Leveraging known seasonal physical, chemical, and biological changes in the study region and existing models of regional circulation, the research aims to improve understanding of atmospheric iron input, biological uptake, regeneration, and scavenging removal in the ocean water column. The project includes educational and outreach contributions at various levels. Research outcomes will provide mechanistic insight into the governing processes that control dissolved iron distribution and dynamics in the upper ocean.