Project Grant 2530839
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $374,799 to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) for a collaborative research project titled "CAIG Deep Learning for Deep Chlorophyll Maxima: Predicting Vertical Distributions of Biogeochemical and Physical Properties". The project aims to leverage satellite data and observations from the Biogeochemical-Argo float network to develop physics-informed deep...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $320,000 Project Grant under the Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Delaware. The funding will support collaborative research to empower artificial intelligence (AI) to reveal phytoplankton community dynamics in coastal oceans. The project aims to address the scarcity of in-situ data for estuarine-coastal phytoplankton by constructing a large-scale database of phytoplankton observations, enabling global data sharing. It will...
- This $554,004 Project Grant was awarded on October 1, 2025 by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Washington. The grant will fund collaborative research to use statistical neural networks to analyze ocean flow cytometry data and reveal patterns in the geographical distribution of phytoplankton and how environmental factors shape these patterns. The research will develop computationally efficient neural network models to automatically...
- This Project Grant award for $529,636 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will enable the University of Louisiana at Lafayette to develop innovative artificial intelligence methods to analyze hyperspectral satellite imagery and construct a large-scale database to better understand phytoplankton community dynamics in coastal waters. The key products and services to be delivered include: Establishing a comprehensive database of phytoplankton observations to...
- This Project Grant award of $592,981 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support collaborative research at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) to develop advanced machine learning models for analyzing flow cytometry data and mapping the geographic distribution of ocean microbes. The project aims to combine large datasets of flow cytometry measurements with novel neural network models to reveal patterns in the geographical distribution...
- This National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $221,015 to the University of New Hampshire from February 2022 to January 2024 to investigate changes in Arctic Ocean phytoplankton and track the vertical export of organic carbon they produce. Working with optical oceanography experts at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the University will analyze data from 2010-2021 field campaigns measuring inherent and apparent optical...
- This Project Grant award of $602,244 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports collaborative research to investigate the large-scale nutritional ecology of diverse marine phytoplankton. The research aims to better understand how different phytoplankton species respond to variations in nutrient availability across ocean environments. The team is leveraging a funded oceanographic research cruise and combining genomic analysis, laboratory experiments, field...
- This $908,131 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), supports research to better understand how changing phytoplankton elemental use efficiencies may impact global ocean biogeochemistry as temperatures rise. A team of U.S. and U.K. researchers, led by the University of Southern California, will conduct laboratory experiments and field work to quantify the effects of temperature on nutrient elemental use...
- This National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $734,947 in funding to the University of Rhode Island to conduct collaborative research on the life cycle of phytoplankton blooms in coastal ecosystems. The research team will analyze a unique set of samples and data collected in 2021-2022 to better understand the metabolic, functional, and taxonomic interactions between phytoplankton and associated bacteria that influence the timing and...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $1,274,370 to support collaborative research on how the world's most abundant vertebrates, lanternfishes and bristlemouths, are adapting to rapidly changing ocean conditions. The research will investigate the impacts on these crucial links in the marine food web, including changes to their populations, diets, and contribution to carbon storage in the deep ocean. The project will...
This $705,374 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports collaborative research conducted by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) to develop deep learning models for predicting the vertical distribution of biogeochemical and physical properties related to marine phytoplankton. The project will leverage satellite data, validated with observations from autonomous ocean floats, to detect signatures of ocean stratification, deep fluorescence, and deep biomass maxima. The research aims to improve understanding of phytoplankton biomass, nutrient limitation, and net primary production beneath the ocean surface, including in regions with sparse direct observation coverage. The project will run from September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $705.4k | 7/16/25 |