Project Grant 2524962
- This $860,751 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports a research project conducted by the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) to identify "biological hotspots" - areas of high marine productivity - in the open ocean. The project uses Northern elephant seals fitted with tracking devices as "ocean explorers" to map the 3-dimensional distribution of these hotspots, estimate fish biomass in the ocean's...
- This Project Grant award of $166,238 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) supports a collaborative research project titled "ULTRA-DATA: Harmonizing At-Sea Seabird Surveys at Three Marine LTER Sites to Uncover Community Responses from the Subarctic to Antarctic." The project, led by the University of California, Santa Cruz, aims to harmonize ecological data from three Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites representing temperate, subpolar, and...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) supports a collaborative research effort titled "ULTRA-DATA: Harmonizing At-Sea Seabird Surveys at Three Marine LTER Sites to Uncover Community Responses from the Subarctic to Antarctic." The $109,371 project, set to run from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028, aims to harmonize ecological data from three Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites representing temperate, subpolar, and...
- Triple HS, Inc. was awarded a $307,602 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs to support collaborative research titled "Predators to Plankton - Biophysical Controls in Antarctic Polynyas" from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2024. Under this award made through the NSF's Polar Programs, which supports basic research in the polar regions under Assistance Listing Number 47.078, Triple HS will conduct research exploring biophysical controls on...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) provides $170,879 to the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography to study the relationship between oceanographic conditions and the occurrence of cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) near the South Shetland Islands from 2014-2016. The project will leverage previously collected passive acoustic monitoring data and satellite imagery to examine how environmental...
- The National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences awarded a $310,630 Project Grant to the Farallon Institute under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) for the collaborative research project "ULTRA-DATA: Harmonizing At-Sea Seabird Surveys at Three Marine LTER Sites to Uncover Community Responses from the Subarctic to Antarctic." This 3-year project, running from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028, aims to harmonize long-term ecological data from three marine Long-Term...
- This $329,446 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support research to understand how ocean physics and animal social behaviors interact to drive predator-prey aggregations in the pelagic ocean. The project will focus on endangered blue whales and their krill prey, leveraging recent high-resolution observations of their behavior and physical oceanographic dynamics, as well as biophysical and evolutionary simulations. The...
- This three-year, $337,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund the development of zooplankton distribution models for the Antarctic Peninsula through machine learning techniques. The award recipients, the University of California Santa Cruz, will analyze long-term survey data from the Palmer Long-Term Ecological Research program to generate functional relationships between five key zooplankton species distributions and environmental...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs awarded a $128,716 Project Grant to Point Blue Conservation Science of Petaluma, California. The grant supports collaborative research titled "Predators to Plankton - Biophysical Controls in Antarctic Polynyas" from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2024. Under the grant, Point Blue Conservation Science will conduct research to strengthen understanding of the polar regions as part of the NSF's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078)....
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant awarded under the Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) federal grant program provides $666,910 to support research on the environmental drivers of giant petrel energetics and population trends in the Southern Ocean. The project, a joint effort between the NSF's Directorate for Geosciences and the UK's National Environment Research Council, aims to better understand how mechanisms such as organism interactions and physiological traits shape seabird...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078), aims to complement and validate the use of biologging data to identify trophic and biodiversity hotspots in the Southern Ocean. The $332,658 grant, awarded on September 1, 2025, will be executed by Triple HS, Inc. (doing business as H.T. Harvey & Associates) and is set to be completed by August 31, 2026. The project will use at-sea survey data and biologging data collected on marine mammals and seabirds in the Ross Sea to validate and refine how biologging information can predict the distribution of indicator species and identify areas of importance for biodiversity. This work is intended to support Antarctic marine conservation strategies by establishing protected ocean areas where fishing is either excluded or tightly controlled, based on the prevalence and distribution of seabirds and marine mammals as ecological indicators.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $332.7k | 8/21/25 |