Project Grant 2627308
- The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded Northeastern University $348,826 on October 1, 2026, for collaborative research on energy-aware deployment and scheduling for sparse ocean sensor networks under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The project develops mathematical tools and optimization strategies to improve how drifting ocean sensors are deployed and operated. Rather than using rule-of-thumb placement and reporting schedules that...
- 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 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) received a $187,493 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) awarded June 15, 2025, with completion targeted for May 31, 2028. The project delivers research and development services for a cyber-physical system (CPS) comprising networked autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) configured to perform machine...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $116,727 Project Grant under the Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) program to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) for the project "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: EAGER: ENERGY FOR PERSISTENT SENSING OF CARBON DIOXIDE UNDER NEAR SHORE WAVES". This project aims to utilize an unexplored energy source based on the nonlinear interaction of nearshore surface waves with the seafloor to enable long-term, uninterrupted CO2 flux measurements across...
- 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...
- The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution was awarded a $807,034 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences. The grant is supporting research titled "Collaborative Research: Towards a More Comprehensive Understanding of Eulerian and Lagrangian Transport of Active and Passive Tracers in the Ocean" from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024. The research is being conducted under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA #47.050), which aims to strengthen the...
- The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution received a $948,034 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences on January 1, 2022 to support research and development of submersible humidity sensors for measuring surface air humidity and evaporation flux on autonomous ocean floats through December 31, 2024. Funded under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA #47.050), which aims to expand fundamental knowledge of the integrated Earth system through basic research in...
- 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 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution received a $632,546 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences on September 1, 2021 to complete work by August 31, 2024. The grant is part of the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research to expand understanding of the integrated Earth system. Through this award, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will conduct research on the importance of topographic complexity for estuarine...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution $299,990 on August 15, 2025, under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to establish an open-source ecosystem for marine robotics. This Phase I POSE (Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems) project addresses the unique technical challenges of marine environments, including extreme conditions, GPS limitations, and communication constraints. The...
The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution $263,236 on October 1, 2026, for a collaborative research project on energy-aware deployment and scheduling for sparse ocean sensor networks. The project develops mathematical tools and control engineering methods to optimize how drifting ocean sensors (drifters) are deployed and operated across a connected network fleet. Rather than using rule-of-thumb placement and transmission schedules that waste battery power, the research will determine optimal sensor release locations and transmission timing to reveal ocean transport structures—including eddies, jets, and transport pathways—while reducing overall device count and energy consumption. The work models drifters as nodes in dynamic time-evolving similarity graphs, where connections reflect how similarly two drifters move, and applies graph Laplacian mathematics to encode key ocean transport structures. The project addresses three central challenges: developing optimal deployment strategies to recover transport structures within fixed energy budgets while accounting for sensor losses and transmission gaps; designing energy-efficient transmission scheduling; and creating provable guarantees that scientific accuracy is preserved under tight energy constraints. Deliverables include new theory linking network science, control engineering, and ocean physics; open-source software; publicly available course materials; and applications to oil-spill response, search-and-rescue operations, and climate observation records. Performance occurs in Woods Hole, Falmouth, Massachusetts, with a period of performance from October 1, 2026, through September 30, 2029. The funding falls under NSF Engineering (CFDA 47.041).
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $263.2k | 8/5/26 |