Cooperative Agreement DESC0021845

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $1,354,056 to the University of California San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography to jointly implement a new measurement technique called distributed acoustic sensing. This technique will generate high-resolution (10 m in space, minutes in time) images of ocean temperature and current velocity fields above a 34-km cable laid on the seafloor off the Azores islands. The goal is to...

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $335,000 Project Grant under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) to Oregon State University (OSU). The goal of this 3-year project is to (1) characterize and leverage two existing open-source wave energy conversion systems (WECs) for long-term use by the marine energy community; (2) demonstrate co-design informed pathways to improve power capture and reduce levelized cost of...

This $634,514 National Science Foundation Engineering grant funds research at Florida Atlantic University from February 2022 to January 2027. The university will develop physics-reinforced data-driven prognostics and co-design tools to advance monitoring and design of marine hydrokinetic energy systems such as marine current turbines and wave energy converters. Researchers will address data scarcity, quality, and concept drift challenges through knowledge transfer and graph learning models...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $400,000 over 3 years to the Regents of the University of Michigan to develop a novel self-powered multimodal MEMS sensor system that can simultaneously detect pH, pressure, and temperature in marine environments. The researchers aim to create an innovative, highly sensitive, and energy-efficient sensor to support marine carbon dioxide removal (MCDR) efforts by providing uninterrupted,...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $3,904,266 Cooperative Agreement to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) to develop small, low-cost, multiparameter carbon sensors that can be fabricated at scale. The 3-year project, starting on June 7, 2024, aims to create sensor "motes" that can cost-effectively monitor the evolution and fate of marine carbon dioxide across broad spatial and temporal scales. The sensors will...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $255,558 Project Grant to Ocean Motion Technologies Inc. under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084). The grant supports the company's efforts to leverage machine learning techniques to optimize the efficiency and energy capture of ocean-based renewable power generation. Specifically, the company will utilize reinforcement learning to develop an advanced control model that adjusts wave energy capture device hardware based...

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087), will provide $800,000 to Florida Atlantic University (FAU) to conduct a preliminary feasibility study for a U.S. grid-connected ocean current test facility (OCTF). The project aims to evaluate current energy converters (CECs) in the open ocean offshore Palm Beach County, Florida, in order to...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $550,000 to Northeastern University is for the development of compact, coherent hydrophone array systems for real-time, wide-area ocean acoustic monitoring. The project aims to translate the Passive Ocean Acoustic Waveguide Remote Sensing (POAWRS) technology, which uses advanced hydrophone arrays to provide continental-scale ocean sensing capabilities, into...

This $690,650 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports the development and testing of a field-ready, cost-effective sound playback system for conducting eco-acoustic and marine larval settlement studies. The system will enable researchers to easily manipulate and introduce sound cues in field experiments to investigate how sound impacts diverse marine fauna, with a focus on coral reef ecosystems. The 2-year effort will build,...

This $1,000,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (CFDA 81.087 - Renewable Energy Research and Development) supports technology development and end-to-end laboratory testing and integration of open-source wave energy conversion systems (WECS) with a novel autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) docking and recharging system. The key technological developments include: (1) full system performance analysis of the WECS and AUV...