Project Grant 2445768
- This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050), supports a collaborative research study on the impact of physical oceanographic features on the exchange of nutrients and organisms across the continental shelf in the southern Mid-Atlantic Bight region. The $553,139 award to East Carolina University, with an end date of July 31, 2029, will fund the installation and operation of a high-frequency radar array to collect high-resolution...
- This $803,060 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support collaborative oceanographic research by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) to examine the role of small-scale eddies and horizontal stirring across the southern Mid-Atlantic Bight region. The research will deploy an array of high-frequency radar systems to provide high-resolution surface current observations over a 3-year period. These datasets will be integrated...
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will conduct collaborative research on combined waves and currents over multi-scale topography from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2024 through a $313,734 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences. Under the grant, UNC-Chapel Hill will investigate boundary layer dynamics and parameterization to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system, as outlined in the objectives of the NSF's Geosciences program...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $195,725 Project Grant under its Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) to deploy and operate two current and pressure recording inverted echo sounders (CPIES) over the continental slope north of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. The goal is to study the multi-scale processes associated with the Gulf Stream's separation from the continental margin, complementing data from the adjacent Pioneer Array ocean...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research to investigate the interactions between internal waves and submesoscale currents in the ocean's bottom boundary layer. The total award is $418,382 over a period of 3 years, from June 1, 2024 to May 31, 2027. The research will combine theoretical concepts, analyses of existing measurements, and computer modeling to assess how these wave-current interactions affect mixing and...
- This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences provides $644,147 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research titled "Collaborative Research: North Atlantic Dynamics - Developing and Exploiting a Long-Term Cape Hatteras Gulf Stream Time Series." The funding supports basic research under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through atmospheric, earth,...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences provides $468,282 in funding to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution from October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2025. The award supports research into elucidating the processes that influence near-surface velocity structure in the coastal ocean through observations, numerical modeling, and comparisons to model results. Specifically, the award will fund research using existing HF radar measurements paired...
- This two-year, $339,657 National Science Foundation project grant will support the analysis of thirty years of surface current mapping data from high-frequency radar along the U.S. West Coast. The University of California Santa Cruz will acquire historical radar datasets from multiple sources, conduct quality control procedures, and pair the current data with high-resolution wind field analyses from the Coupled Ocean/Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System atmospheric circulation model. The...
- The University of North Carolina at Wilmington (UNCW) has received a $307,226.00 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to study recirculating flows at the nearshore zone where waves break, the surf zone. The project will use mathematical models and existing measurements to explore three hypotheses: (A) that the recirculations can be identified from shore-based images, (B) that the recirculating...
- This $296,858 National Science Foundation project grant supports research into the dynamics of near-surface ocean velocity structures through the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The University of Maine will collaborate with other institutions to elucidate upper-ocean hydrodynamics using observational data, numerical modeling, and fieldwork. Specifically, the grantee will pair existing high-frequency radar measurements with upward-looking current profilers to investigate the influence of...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $243,224 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) on August 15, 2025. The grant supports a 3-year collaborative research project to examine the role of sub-mesoscale eddies and horizontal stirring in exchanging nutrients, larvae, and water masses across the southern Mid-Atlantic Bight region. The project will install a coastal high-frequency radar array to provide high-resolution (2 km, 30-minute) surface current observations, which will be integrated with data from the OOI Pioneer Array, glider observations, and satellite data. The research aims to resolve the physical oceanography components of these cross-shelf exchanges and provide benchmark datasets for numerical model verification. The project also incorporates the research methods and results into K-12 STEM education programs and will train 2 students and a post-doctoral investigator. The curated surface current dataset will be shared broadly to enable a range of scientific and societal applications.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $243.2k | 8/15/25 |