Project Grant N000142412468

The Department of the Navy, through its Office of Naval Research, awarded a $1,201,374 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Austin Applied Research Laboratories to support research measuring and analyzing temporal variations in acoustic propagations as part of the Northern Ocean Rapid Surface Evolution experiment from September 2021 through September 2025. The grant funding will support the University of Texas at Austin Applied Research Laboratories' applied scientific research efforts...

The Department of Defense awarded a $174,999 Cooperative Agreement to the University of Washington under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630) to conduct modeling and analysis of acoustic fields using OpenFOAM software to determine navigation impacts. The award period is from September 27, 2024 to September 26, 2026. The University of Washington subcontracted a portion of the work to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University...

This Project Grant award of $304,999 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of a high-frequency multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) acoustic communication system for underwater applications. The project aims to address technical hurdles associated with real-time, high-data-rate wireless underwater communication, which currently faces limitations due to low data rates, high power consumption, and...

The University of Texas at Austin received a three-year, $867,805 Project Grant from the Department of the Navy to measure three-dimensional propagation effects at the Atlantis II Seamount Complex during the Transoceanic Fluctuation Observatory pilot experiment. Funded under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300), the grant will support applied research at the university's Applied Research Laboratories from June 2021 to May 2024. The program aims to stimulate basic and...

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) awarded a $212,200 Project Grant under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research (CFDA 12.300) program to the University of Rhode Island (URI) Research Office Division, doing business as URI - Research. The award, entitled "ESTIMATION OF SEAFLOOR PROPERTIES USING LOW FREQUENCY ACOUSTIC SIGNALS," will support research and development to study the use of low-frequency acoustic signals for characterizing seafloor properties. The project will be performed...

This federal Project Grant award from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) provides $285,315.00 to the University of Delaware to conduct research on the "IMPACT OF OCEANOGRAPHY ON BROADBAND SIGNAL PROPAGATION IN INHOMOGENEOUS ACOUSTIC WAVEGUIDES". The research project will be performed over a 3-year period from December 2, 2024 to December 1, 2027. The goal of this research is to advance scientific understanding and...

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 the Navy's Office of Naval Research awarded a $149,996.88 Project Grant to the University of Washington under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) to support research improving predictions of mid-frequency sound propagation and reverberation in a deep ice-covered ocean. The grant aims to advance scientific understanding of underwater sound transmission to potentially enhance naval operations. The University of Washington will conduct applied...

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,...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $600,000 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the CFDA program "Computer and Information Science and Engineering" to develop fundamental technologies that advance the ability for scalable ocean sensing. The goal of this 3-year project is to design, build, and evaluate a low-power, long-range underwater backscatter communication network. The proposed research seeks to overcome the range limitations of...