Project Grant N000142612063

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...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences provides $118,677 to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: AN AUTONOMOUS PROFILING VEHICLE FOR CONCURRENT ACOUSTIC, VISUAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEASUREMENTS IN THE MESOPELAGIC OCEAN." The award runs from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The funding will allow researchers at Stony Brook University, working through the university's Research Foundation, to develop an autonomous...

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...

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...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences awarded $267,100 to Oregon State University from November 15, 2021 through October 31, 2022. The award supports research titled "Ocean Seismic Survey Impacts on the Movement and Distribution of Nearshore Temperate Marine Species" under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). This program aims to expand fundamental knowledge of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Ocean Acidification Program (CFDA 11.017) will enhance the adaptive capacity of the Atlantic sea scallop fishery to ocean acidification. The $1,133,554 project, which runs from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028, will integrate oceanographic modeling, industry engagement, and socio-economic research to develop actionable adaptation strategies. Key objectives include developing seasonal...

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...

This three-year, $358,347 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will support research to determine the role of ocean dynamics in Atlantic sea surface temperature variations using coupled climate models. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will lead a collaborative effort to develop a hierarchy of coupled climate models within the Community Earth System Model version 2 platform. Comparisons between model pairs that disable specific oceanic...

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,...