Project Grant N000142212172

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...

Northeastern University was awarded a $1,279,032 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) to upgrade and test the Passive Ocean Acoustic Waveguide Remote Sensing (POAWRS) system. POAWRS is a 160-element coherent hydrophone array technology developed for long-range directional sensing and real-time detection, localization, and mapping of various ocean sound sources over continental shelf scales. Under...

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) awarded a $600,000 Cooperative Agreement titled "SHELFBREAK OCEAN ACOUSTICS AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES ON THE SOUTHERN MID-ATLANTIC BIGHT" to the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography on Aug 27, 2024. The award, funded under BOEM's Environmental Studies Program (CFDA 15.423), supports scientific research and environmental monitoring to understand and mitigate potential impacts from offshore energy and...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $304,255 from the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) supports a two-year project under the Sea Grant Support program (CFDA 11.417) to study the impact of offshore wind farm noise on American lobster. The project will gather data on lobster physiology and behavior in response to anthropogenic noise from offshore wind development. Key activities include deploying hydrophones on commercial lobster traps in control and...

This $249,924 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports the development of a long-lived, continuously operating seafloor geodesy reference station capable of operating in deep water. The grantee, Princeton University, will investigate using acoustic signals that only need to travel from the sea surface to the seafloor, removing the prior 3,000 meter depth limitation of existing seafloor geodesy techniques. This new approach involves...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $195,725 Project Grant under its Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) to deploy and operate two current and pressure recording inverted echo sounders (CPIES) over the continental slope north of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. The goal is to study the multi-scale processes associated with the Gulf Stream's separation from the continental margin, complementing data from the adjacent Pioneer Array ocean...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $880,490 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Washington (UW) to test a new type of distributed acoustic sensing technology. The project aims to extend the range of this technology, which can detect signals such as earthquakes, ocean waves, whale songs, and ship movements, by enabling it to operate across the optical repeaters of submarine telecommunications cables. Over 3 months, the project will collect...

This federal Project Grant award from the Office of Naval Research (CFDA 12.300 - Basic and Applied Scientific Research) provides $750,000.00 to the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography for the "NEW ENGLAND SEAMOUNTS ACOUSTICS: EXPERIMENT DATA ANALYSIS AND MODELING" project. The award period runs from December 1, 2024 to November 30, 2027. The project aims to conduct fundamental and applied research on seamount acoustics, with a focus on data...

This two-year, $389,704 National Science Foundation project grant will support the development of a reference model describing the shear-wave velocity structure of oceanic crust and upper mantle for crustal ages of 0 to 9 million years. Funded through NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will leverage 2012 ocean bottom seismometer data collected across the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate to constrain shear-wave velocities through advanced seismic modeling and...

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will use a $475,435 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to measure abyssal warming with seismic Scholte waves. The institution will employ a novel method using Scholte waves excited by repeating natural submarine earthquakes to monitor global large-scale abyssal ocean warming. This will be done by systematically searching for shallow submarine repeating earthquakes since the 1980s. Scholte waves...