The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution received a three-year, $669,196 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will support collaborative research to probe the ventilation efficiency of the deep ocean using conservative dissolved gas tracers in archived samples. As part of its mission to strengthen the national scientific enterprise through expanding fundamental knowledge of the integrated Earth...
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution received a $598,499 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences on October 1, 2021 to complete the project by September 30, 2023. The grant supports research into cobalt biogeochemical cycling and phytoplankton protein biomarkers in the Pacific and Southern Oceans under the Geosciences program (CFDA #47.050). This program aims to expand fundamental Earth systems knowledge through basic research in atmospheric,...
This three-year, $177,799 National Science Foundation Project Grant through the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research to advance understanding of glacial-age western North Atlantic hydrography. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will synthesize existing sediment property data from 30% more deep-sea sediment cores collected between 1994 and 2021. Isotopic and radiocarbon analyses of microfossils from cores spanning the upper 2 km of the region will provide new insights into...
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will receive $294,992 under a three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences. The grant will support collaborative research to analyze 150 years of sea surface and subsurface observations in order to map whole-ocean temperature and detect circulation changes. This work aligns with the goals of the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 3-year, $909,843 Project Grant through its Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. This grant provides continued support for the Oceanic Flux Program (OFP), which has been measuring the export of particles from the surface to the deep ocean in the Sargasso Sea near Bermuda since 1978. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: Extending the long-term time...
This $496,716 federal Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) to conduct research on the dynamics of the meridional overturning circulation (MOC) in the global ocean. The primary objective is to develop a theoretical framework to better understand how water parcels transit from low to high latitudes as part of the MOC, a critical component of the global climate system. The research...
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution received a $676,644 renewal project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) to continue operating the WHOI Sea Floor Samples Laboratory. The laboratory provides curation and distribution services for marine samples collected from the ocean floor to support marine science and education. The award period is from June 1, 2021 through May 31, 2023. As part of the...
The National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences awarded a $378,315 Project Grant to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for research activities under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The two-year award, beginning February 1, 2022 through January 31, 2024, will support research to detect signatures of multigenerational plasticity in a marine forage fish. The Geosciences program seeks to expand fundamental knowledge and understanding of the integrated Earth system through...
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution was awarded a $807,034 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences. The grant is supporting research titled "Collaborative Research: Towards a More Comprehensive Understanding of Eulerian and Lagrangian Transport of Active and Passive Tracers in the Ocean" from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024. The research is being conducted under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA #47.050), which aims to strengthen the...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, awarded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), provides $658,901 to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027 to conduct research characterizing the production, cycling, and environmental impacts of abundant organic osmolytes in the ocean. The research will: Identify differential osmolyte production by microbial taxa in response to nitrogen stress using osmolyte measurements and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $3,991,849 Project Grant to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to support the Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO) from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2029.
The BCO-DMO project aims to streamline the ocean data life cycle by assembling, curating, and publishing research-ready global marine and inland water data and metadata resulting from oceanographic research. The project will optimize data management operations, develop outreach and education efforts to promote data reuse and interest in oceanographic science, and improve the discoverability and interoperability of the BCO-DMO catalog to facilitate data reuse. Additionally, the project will explore the application of emerging technologies, such as AI, to enhance data sharing, discovery, and access. These efforts are intended to advance interdisciplinary research and education by enabling greater discovery and integration of diverse oceanographic datasets.