The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (RF-SUNY) has been awarded a $407,090 project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The goal of this 4-year project is to 1) design, build, and field-demonstrate a next-generation infrared gas analyzer engineered to effectively remove motion interference for air-sea CO2 flux measurements, and 2) develop a compact, robust, and low-power eddy covariance...
The National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences awarded a $296,671 Project Grant to the University of Virginia to develop a novel approach for measuring greenhouse gas emissions from coastal marine ecosystems. The two-year award, made under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will support the Principal Investigator's research combining upside-down aquatic eddy covariance measurements of oxygen fluxes at the air-water interface with new sensor technologies to extract greenhouse...
This $622,016 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports the collaborative development of a novel self-powered, multimodal pH, pressure, and temperature MEMS sensor system for marine carbon dioxide removal (MCDR) monitoring. The project involves researchers from the University of North Texas, University of Michigan, and University of California San Diego working to design, fabricate, and test this innovative sensor array to provide...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $400,000 over 3 years to the Regents of the University of Michigan to develop a novel self-powered multimodal MEMS sensor system that can simultaneously detect pH, pressure, and temperature in marine environments. The researchers aim to create an innovative, highly sensitive, and energy-efficient sensor to support marine carbon dioxide removal (MCDR) efforts by providing uninterrupted,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF), under its Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), awarded a $499,095 Project Grant to the University of Maryland, College Park. This award aims to develop a novel, miniature, fiber-optic multiparameter sensor (FOMS) capable of long-term, under-ice deployment to monitor greenhouse gas cycling within lakes. The FOMS will simultaneously measure parameters critical for understanding a lake's influence on climate change, ecosystem health, and human impacts, including...
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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $116,727 Project Grant under the Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) program to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) for the project "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: EAGER: ENERGY FOR PERSISTENT SENSING OF CARBON DIOXIDE UNDER NEAR SHORE WAVES". This project aims to utilize an unexplored energy source based on the nonlinear interaction of nearshore surface waves with the seafloor to enable long-term, uninterrupted CO2 flux measurements across...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $523,014 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) to develop computational models of global carbon dioxide (CO2) fluxes from inland waters. The research aims to provide robust, physically-constrained estimates of CO2 emissions from rivers, streams, lakes, and reservoirs by coupling hydrologic and hydraulic routing systems with a stream network CO2 model. The project will validate the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $183,246 Project Grant to The Johns Hopkins University under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to support "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: EAGER: ENERGY FOR PERSISTENT SENSING OF CARBON DIOXIDE UNDER NEAR SHORE WAVES". The project aims to utilize theory and at-sea measurements to investigate an unexplored energy source based on the nonlinear interaction of nearshore surface waves with the seafloor, in order to enable long-term,...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $508,160 in funding to Rutgers, The State University to conduct collaborative research on long-term changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels during past warm periods. The project aims to reconstruct the movement of the Southern Westerly Winds and evaluate its impact on the Southern Ocean's biological carbon pump and atmospheric CO2 concentrations over the last 900,000 years. The...