Project Grant N000142512253

This two-year, $339,657 National Science Foundation project grant will support the analysis of thirty years of surface current mapping data from high-frequency radar along the U.S. West Coast. The University of California Santa Cruz will acquire historical radar datasets from multiple sources, conduct quality control procedures, and pair the current data with high-resolution wind field analyses from the Coupled Ocean/Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System atmospheric circulation model. The...

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) for the "ANALYSIS AND MODELING FOR TASK FORCE OCEAN NEW ENGLAND SEAMOUNTS EXPERIMENTS AND ONR ARCTIC EXPERIMENTS" program under CFDA 12.300, the Basic and Applied Scientific Research grant program. This 3-year award, effective November 1, 2024, will support WHOI's oceanographic research and technology development focused on areas such as ocean circulation, climate...

This $101,358 federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Climate and Atmospheric Research program (CFDA 11.431), aims to develop and validate a regional implementation of the MOM6 ocean model for simulating climate-related biophysical mechanisms that drive fisheries variability in the Northeast Pacific and Northwest Atlantic regions. The key products of this 3-year project include: Forcing two marine ecosystem models (BOATS...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research to investigate the interactions between internal waves and submesoscale currents in the ocean's bottom boundary layer. The total award is $418,382 over a period of 3 years, from June 1, 2024 to May 31, 2027. The research will combine theoretical concepts, analyses of existing measurements, and computer modeling to assess how these wave-current interactions affect mixing and...

This $296,858 National Science Foundation project grant supports research into the dynamics of near-surface ocean velocity structures through the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The University of Maine will collaborate with other institutions to elucidate upper-ocean hydrodynamics using observational data, numerical modeling, and fieldwork. Specifically, the grantee will pair existing high-frequency radar measurements with upward-looking current profilers to investigate the influence of...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences program award of $478,920 to Trustees of Boston University will support a 3-year research project to gain a more complete understanding of the dynamics of coastal upwelling. The study will use mathematical models and 3D numerical simulations to explore the 3-dimensional pathways and coupling of processes underlying this widespread ocean phenomenon, which has significant impacts on marine ecosystems and fisheries. The research aims to advance...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences provides $468,282 in funding to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution from October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2025. The award supports research into elucidating the processes that influence near-surface velocity structure in the coastal ocean through observations, numerical modeling, and comparisons to model results. Specifically, the award will fund research using existing HF radar measurements...

This $313,825 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research into submesoscale instabilities and energy cascades in seamount wakes. The University of Maryland, College Park will use large eddy simulations and Reynolds-averaged modeling to investigate how submesoscale processes impact dissipation, mixing, and the representation of seamount energetics in climate models. Specifically, the awardee will examine the forward energy...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $340,885 to Oregon State University to study tidally rectified flows in multiple inlet/lagoon systems and their consequences for transport and residence times. The research will use idealized and realistic modeling with the Regional Ocean Modeling System combined with observations to quantify both Stokes and Eulerian transport, which sum to the Lagrangian transport through multiple inlets in...

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...