This $115,664 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) funds critical infrastructure upgrades and equipment for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's (WHOI) research vessels R/V Atlantis and R/V Armstrong. The award will be used to: Upgrade the degraded particle board benchtops on R/V Armstrong to chemical-resistant laminate and stainless-steel sinks. Provide two electro-optical slip rings to support operations of the deep...
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution received a $143,821 project grant award from the National Science Foundation under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) for the period of March 15, 2021 through February 28, 2023. The award will support oceanographic research services to be conducted aboard the Institution's research vessel Atlantis. As described in the program description, the Geosciences program seeks to expand fundamental knowledge of the integrated Earth system through basic research...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $1,500,000.00 in funding to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) to support oceanographic technical services on the research vessels R/V Atlantis and R/V Neil Armstrong. Under this award, WHOI will provide shipboard technicians to maintain, calibrate, and make shared-use research instrumentation available to scientists conducting NSF-funded oceanographic research...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences provides $211,007 to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for equipment to support oceanographic research aboard the R/V Atlantis. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to expand understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research, the award will acquire a Sonardyne USBL repair and spare unit for the vessel. This shared-use equipment will allow NSF-funded researchers...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), provides $250,743 to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for oceanographic instrumentation on research vessels R/V Atlantis and R/V Armstrong from April 1, 2022 through March 31, 2024. Specifically, the funding supports the acquisition of four Teledyne-RDI lowered acoustic Doppler current profilers costing $154,860 total; one Autosal salinometer and accessories from...
This $125,327 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences (CFDA 47.050 Geosciences) supports the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in maintaining and enhancing critical oceanographic instrumentation and shared-use resources for NSF-funded researchers. The key products and services provided under this award include: Replacing cracked windows on the acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) mounts on the R/V Armstrong research vessel and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $8,550,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) under the NSF Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to continue operating and maintaining the research vessel R/V ATLANTIS over a 5-year period from 2024-2028. The funding will support the research programs conducted onboard R/V ATLANTIS, which are expected to provide new insights and discoveries to enhance understanding of the global ocean and address significant...
This $9,487,420 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will provide funding to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) to continue operating and maintaining the research vessel R/V Neil Armstrong from 2024-2028. The award will support a broad range of scientific research programs focused on enhancing understanding of the oceans and addressing key questions related to the impacts of global ocean climate change. The...
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution received a $1.3 million project grant award from the Department of the Navy Secretary of the Navy Office of Naval Research under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research federal grant program (CFDA 12.300). The funding will support the upgrade of the R/V Atlantis research vessel from February 2021 through February 2022. The Basic and Applied Scientific Research program aims to stimulate naval-relevant scientific innovation and train future researchers,...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $176,168 to the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) to purchase oceanographic instrumentation and equipment in support of research vessel operations and multidisciplinary oceanographic research. The award will fund the acquisition of Seapoint fluorometers, meteorological sensors, and refrigeration/freezer equipment for the R/V Atlantic Explorer, a 168-foot general-purpose...