Project Grant 2524852
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences awarded $1,036,512 to the University of Washington under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) on October 1, 2026, for a collaborative research initiative examining convective and shear instability pathways to turbulence in internal solitary waves. The project, led by a U.S.-Taiwan research team, will deliver high-resolution oceanographic observations and advanced numerical simulations of...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Oregon State University received a $580,031 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), awarded September 1, 2025, with completion targeted for August 31, 2028. The primary deliverable is the development of novel statistical methods and computational techniques to characterize and distinguish different three-dimensional turbulence and mixing regimes in the upper ocean. This...
- 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...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences (Geosciences program, CFDA 47.050) awarded $440,902 to the Regents of the University of Michigan for a three-year project grant (August 1, 2025 – July 31, 2028) focused on developing wave kinetic theory to estimate turbulent dissipation in ocean environments. The primary deliverable is a process-based computational tool that parameterizes turbulent dissipation generated by internal gravity waves using...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Washington's Office of Sponsored Programs received a $1.09M Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) on October 1, 2026, with a completion date of September 30, 2029. This research project addresses intermittency in wave-breaking turbulence and its impacts on ocean surface layer predictability. The award funds sustained, high-resolution measurements...
- 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...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences awarded $762,428 to the University of Rochester under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) for a three-year collaborative research project spanning September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028. This project generates fundamental scientific research and educational outputs examining potential energy generation and release within oceanic circulation systems at gyre scales exceeding 1,000 kilometers....
- Federal Grant Award Summary Cornell University's Office of Sponsored Programs received a $541,181 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), awarded April 15, 2026, with completion targeted for March 31, 2029. The research investigates how Atlantic tropical cyclone activity responds to changes in equatorial Pacific sea-surface-temperature gradients across different timescales, specifically...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences awarded $598,349 under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Maryland, College Park for a three-year project (September 1, 2025 – August 31, 2028) investigating how coupled air-sea interactions modify near-inertial waves (NIWs). The primary research deliverables include high-resolution coupled ocean-atmosphere modeling outputs and observational analyses that characterize the lifecycle of...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences program Project Grant award, with a total funding of $438,734, supports a collaborative research effort to study the turbulence in the stratified layer at the air-water interface caused by waves and wind. The research will be conducted through a combination of controlled laboratory experiments and state-of-the-art numerical simulations, with the goal of improving the representation of the ocean surface boundary layer in Earth-system models....
Cornell University received a $488,792 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), effective October 1, 2026, through September 30, 2031. This collaborative research initiative will deliver high-resolution observational data and advanced numerical simulations to characterize ocean turbulence and mixing processes associated with shoaling internal solitary waves in the South China Sea. The project will employ a 600-meter long, depth-adjustable towed sensor chain equipped with temperature, conductivity, pressure, and velocity instrumentation to capture fine-scale measurements of water mass properties and turbulent mixing during convective and shear instabilities. In conjunction with observational fieldwork conducted by an international team of U.S. and Taiwanese researchers, the award will fund the development and execution of high-accuracy, turbulence-resolving massively parallel numerical simulations to model the detailed structure and dynamics of instabilities within shoaling internal solitary waves. The combined observational and computational analysis, incorporating wave-tracking capabilities, will advance understanding of convective and shear instability onset and evolution while quantifying entrainment, turbulent mixing, and mass transport processes critical to marine ecosystem prediction and ocean energy dissipation modeling. No sub-awards are planned under this project grant.Federal Project Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $488.8k | 7/7/26 |