Project Grant 2615941
- The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution $562,811 on September 1, 2026, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to analyze long-term oceanographic data from the Ocean Observatories Initiative on the U.S. East Coast and study warming trends on the Northwest Atlantic continental shelf. The recipient will apply machine learning algorithms to glider data from the Pioneer–New England Shelf Array to identify and characterize...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science received a $705,374 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028. This collaborative research initiative will develop novel deep learning methodologies to predict vertical distributions of biogeochemical and physical properties in ocean systems, with particular focus on...
- The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded Northeastern University $435,082 on October 1, 2026, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to develop artificial intelligence tools that estimate nearshore bathymetry, waves, and currents from remote sensing data. The project, titled "Collaborative Research: CAIG: Transforming Understanding and Prediction of Nearshore Processes via AI-Powered Simultaneous Mapping of Bathymetry, Waves, and Currents," will...
- Federal Project Grant Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities awarded $374,799 to the University of Maryland Baltimore County under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028. This collaborative research project will develop physics-informed deep learning models to predict vertical distributions of biogeochemical and physical properties in ocean environments, with particular focus on detecting deep chlorophyll...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded The Johns Hopkins University $300,000 on July 1, 2026, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to develop a machine learning-based framework for reconstructing Earth's geomagnetic field during magnetic storms and substorms. The project will create advanced empirical geomagnetic field algorithms that leverage machine learning to identify measurements from past storms similar to a given event, enabling...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded The Johns Hopkins University $520,028 on October 1, 2026, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for research developing mathematical foundations that integrate machine learning with discrete optimization algorithms. The research investigates the fundamental interplay between mixed-integer optimization, discrete geometry, and machine learning. The project will develop new mathematical tools...
- The National Science Foundation awarded The Johns Hopkins University a $466,423 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) for work spanning March 15, 2023 through February 28, 2026. The university will utilize ocean models to understand how melting Arctic ice and precipitation influence ocean currents in the North Atlantic. Researchers will track Arctic waters using novel approaches including artificial intelligence to determine the fate of Arctic water and sources of unusually...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences awarded Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution $699,975 on August 1, 2026, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to develop a physics-informed artificial intelligence method for estimating seafloor topography in coastal surf zones using remotely sensed drone imagery and surface current observations. The research addresses the limitation that accurate seafloor depth measurements are difficult to obtain during coastal storms, which...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities awarded $871,084 to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2028. This collaborative research project develops an innovative observing system that integrates artificial intelligence with multiple autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to characterize three-dimensional flow structures in tidally-driven coastal...
- The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded North Carolina State University $800,013 on October 1, 2026, for a collaborative research project applying physics-informed deep learning to understand and predict coastal hypoxia formation mechanisms, particularly the summer dead zone along the Louisiana-Texas shelf. The project develops a multi-architecture physics-informed neural network framework integrating U-Net and DeepLabV3+ semantic-segmentation networks to map...
The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded The Johns Hopkins University $1.146 million on August 1, 2026, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to accelerate ocean data assimilation using machine learning techniques. The project will develop methods to integrate ocean observations with computer models of ocean currents through machine learning, with the aim of reducing computational cost and improving reliability of data assimilation predictions. The work includes transforming high-dimensional ocean dynamics variables into lower-dimensional space to make numerical computation more robust, while using conformal inference to characterize and propagate uncertainty introduced by the machine-learning-powered transformation. The project will also develop new conformal inference methods to handle small datasets and variables from heavy-tailed distributions. The research supports workforce development by engaging graduate and undergraduate students in interdisciplinary work spanning ocean dynamics, data assimilation theory, and machine learning. Performance takes place in Baltimore, Maryland, with a period of performance from August 1, 2026 through July 31, 2029. No subawards are planned for this award.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $1.1m | 8/5/26 |