Project Grant 2337075
- This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078), aims to complement and validate the use of biologging data to identify trophic and biodiversity hotspots in the Southern Ocean. The $332,658 grant, awarded on September 1, 2025, will be executed by Triple HS, Inc. (doing business as H.T. Harvey & Associates) and is set to be completed by August 31, 2026. The project will use at-sea survey data and biologging data collected on marine...
- This $329,446 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support research to understand how ocean physics and animal social behaviors interact to drive predator-prey aggregations in the pelagic ocean. The project will focus on endangered blue whales and their krill prey, leveraging recent high-resolution observations of their behavior and physical oceanographic dynamics, as well as biophysical and evolutionary simulations. The...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs awarded a $128,716 Project Grant to Point Blue Conservation Science of Petaluma, California. The grant supports collaborative research titled "Predators to Plankton - Biophysical Controls in Antarctic Polynyas" from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2024. Under the grant, Point Blue Conservation Science will conduct research to strengthen understanding of the polar regions as part of the NSF's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078)....
- This NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Project Grant award under CFDA Program 43.001 (Science) aims to enhance the management and conservation of the Ross Sea Region Marine Protected Area (RSRMPA) through the implementation of the "Big Blue Cloud", a cloud-based data science platform developed by Ocean Motion Technologies Inc. The $249,105 award will integrate NASA Earth observation data with in-situ datasets to provide critical support for evidence-based decision-making,...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) provides $525,000 to establish a Research Coordinating Network (RCN) focused on the Ross Sea Marine Protected Area (MPA) in Antarctica. The RCN aims to create an international, interdisciplinary network to support policy-relevant research and monitoring that could be implemented in other large-scale international MPAs. The award period is from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2029. The grant recipient...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) supports a collaborative research effort titled "ULTRA-DATA: Harmonizing At-Sea Seabird Surveys at Three Marine LTER Sites to Uncover Community Responses from the Subarctic to Antarctic." The $109,371 project, set to run from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028, aims to harmonize ecological data from three Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites representing temperate, subpolar, and...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Polar Programs awarded a $303,968 Project Grant to the University of Connecticut from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2025. The grant supports research to investigate the impacts of climate change and sea ice loss on phytoplankton blooms and carbon cycling in the West Antarctic Peninsula region. Key objectives include analyzing shifts in the seasonal timing (phenology) of phytoplankton, evaluating changes in phytoplankton community...
- This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs, titled "Collaborative Research: Site Survey for Subglacial Bedrock Exposure Dating at the Margin of the Wilkes Basin in Northern Victoria Land," provides $116,342 to support basic research activities that are best conducted in Antarctica's polar regions. Funded under the NSF's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) to expand fundamental polar knowledge and understanding, the award will allow the...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) provides $170,879 to the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography to study the relationship between oceanographic conditions and the occurrence of cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) near the South Shetland Islands from 2014-2016. The project will leverage previously collected passive acoustic monitoring data and satellite imagery to examine how environmental...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Polar Programs grant program (CFDA 47.078) supports a collaborative research effort to investigate how physical oceanographic processes, such as water circulation and mixing, shape the productivity of fjord ecosystems in Greenland. The $1,038,209 award, effective from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027, will fund field observations, computer modeling, and analysis to elucidate the linkages between physical transport...
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Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $1 | 8/25/25 |