Project Grant 2446505
- This $650,637 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports collaborative research at the University of California, San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography to quantify and predict wind-driven internal wave shear in the ocean. The research aims to synthesize existing observations, theory, and models to create a global prediction system for near-inertial waves (NIWs), which are dominant in the ocean's kinetic energy and vertical shear...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award in the amount of $353,715 will fund a collaborative research project to study the turbulence in the stratified layer at the air-water interface, as driven by waves and wind. The project will utilize a combination of controlled laboratory experiments and advanced numerical simulations (large-eddy simulations) to test the hypothesis that coupling between waves and wind-driven currents is necessary to...
- 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...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), awarded a $311,449 Project Grant to Northwest Research Associates, Inc. (dba Nwra) to study the global distribution of two key ocean properties related to wind-driven internal wave energy. The award will fund a high-resolution, process-based numerical modeling effort to determine the mechanisms associated with "transmissivity" (the fraction of wind-induced energy that propagates into the ocean...
- This $598,349 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support fundamental research to determine how coupled air-sea interactions modify the lifecycle of near-inertial waves (NIWs) in the ocean, from generation at the surface to dissipation in the interior. The research will use high-resolution coupled ocean-atmosphere models and recent observations to improve understanding of the relevant physical mechanisms and the impact on ocean...
- The University of Minnesota will receive $446,973 from the National Science Foundation under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct experimental and numerical studies of bubble entrainment by breaking waves from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The research aims to advance understanding of the physical processes controlling bubble generation and dispersal in ocean waves and their dependence on factors like wave scale, slope, wind forcing, and salinity. Researchers will leverage...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences awarded a $260,172 Project Grant to The University of Southern Mississippi for the collaborative research project "PROBING INTERNAL GRAVITY WAVE DYNAMICS AND DISSIPATION USING GLOBAL OBSERVATIONS AND NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS." This project under the NSF's Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) program will map the space-time geography of internal gravity wave (IW) dissipation and mixing, and the underlying dynamics, using high-resolution...
- Northwest Research Associates, Inc., dba Nwra, was awarded a $700,510 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences on March 1, 2021, with a completion date of February 28, 2025. The award is part of the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research in the atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences to strengthen and enhance the national scientific enterprise through the expansion of fundamental knowledge and increased understanding of the integrated...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under CFDA 47.050 - Geosciences program provides $181,787 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to study the role of wind and waves in mixing the upper ocean. The 3-year project, effective July 1, 2024, will carry out simulations with laboratory experiments and computer models to test the hypothesis that coupling currents and waves is necessary to reliably represent the deepening of the ocean surface layer. The research aims...
- This $440,902 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will use theoretical and computational methods to investigate the turbulent mixing generated by internal gravity waves in the ocean. The research aims to improve the parameterization of turbulence in ocean models by developing a process-based tool for estimating and modeling turbulent dissipation using wave kinetic theory. The project will include computational simulations of internal...
This federal Project Grant award for $215,143.00 was provided by the Division of Ocean Sciences, part of the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050), to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, Duluth. The award will fund collaborative research to quantify and predict wind-driven internal-wave shear in the ocean. The project aims to synthesize existing observations, theory, and numerical models to create a global near-inertial wave prediction system, which will help answer key questions about the dynamics of near-inertial waves and their impact on ocean mixing and climate. The research will be conducted from September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028 and will support a PhD student and undergraduate summer interns, as well as public outreach activities.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $215.1k | 8/5/25 |