This $274,916 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of an innovative, scalable ocean carbon sensing grid by Subtidal, Inc. The goal is to enhance measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) capabilities for ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) strategies, which have the potential to extract up to 5 gigatons of CO2 annually from the atmosphere. The research objectives include...
This NOAA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $523,791, was made to Subtidal, Inc. to develop the Ocean Carbon Flux Grid technology. This technology aims to transform three-dimensional, high-frequency carbonate chemistry sensor data into continuous volumetric carbon flux measurements, enabling accurate and scalable measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) of ocean carbon dioxide removal (CDR) strategies. The key products...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $249,995 Project Grant to Carbon Ridge, Inc., a for-profit organization based in Santa Monica, California, to support research and development of carbon capture and storage technologies for maritime vessels. The funding, awarded on July 22, 2024 under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), will enable Carbon Ridge to advance innovative solutions that can potentially transform scientific understanding and...
This $250,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science, under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), will fund research on non-optical in-situ measurement of phosphorous in marine environments. TDA Research, Inc. of Wheat Ridge, CO will deliver the key products and services for this award from February 14, 2022 through November 13, 2022. The Office of Science's mission includes transforming understanding of nature and advancing U.S. energy and...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $3,371,587 Cooperative Agreement to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) to quantify atmospheric carbon dioxide removal using an autonomous ocean sensor that measures sinking particulate carbon flux. The project, titled "Quantification of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Removal Using an Autonomous Ocean Sensor that Measures Sinking Particulate Carbon Flux," will run from June 2024 to...
This $294,759 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) supports the development of an advanced, GPU-optimized ocean modeling platform to enhance trust, transparency, and accuracy in the emerging marine carbon dioxide removal (MCDR) industry. The core innovation involves integrating the cutting-edge Oceananigans ocean simulation framework with AI-driven automation to streamline complex modeling workflows...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science has awarded a $199,979 Project Grant to Ocean Renewable Power Co Inc. in Portland, Maine to develop "Embedded Instrumentation for Detection of Flow Separation." The funding, which runs from July 22, 2024 to July 21, 2025, supports the company's research and development of advanced instrumentation and technologies for detecting flow separation in marine energy systems. This work aligns with the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program...
The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded a $3,152,650 Cooperative Agreement under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program to Overseas Shipholding Group Inc. The objective of the "Carbon Ocean and Storage Transport 20" (COAST20) project is to prove the technical feasibility and cost-effectiveness of a marine transport system for transporting captured carbon dioxide (CO2) within the United States for permanent underground...
This federal Project Grant award of $249,998 from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) supports the development of a new carbon capture system for ships. The funding will be used by the prime awardee, TDA Research, Inc., a for-profit subchapter S corporation located in Golden, Colorado, to advance innovative carbon capture technologies that can be deployed on maritime vessels. TDA Research, Inc. has an established track record of successfully...
The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded Terracoh Inc. a $199,904 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to quantify the limits for acceptable variances between time-lapsed logging and reservoir simulations of CO2 plume migration. The Office of Science's mission is to deliver scientific discoveries and major scientific tools to transform our understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy and economic security. This Project Grant funding...