Project Grant N000142612369

This $320,899 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will support the 2022 Underwater Ideas Lab conference organized by the American Society for Engineering Education. The conference aims to foster transformative ideas and interdisciplinary teams to advance sensing, communication, and data transmission technologies for diverse underwater environments, including marine, freshwater,...

The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded Northeastern University $348,826 on October 1, 2026, for collaborative research on energy-aware deployment and scheduling for sparse ocean sensor networks under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The project develops mathematical tools and optimization strategies to improve how drifting ocean sensors are deployed and operated. Rather than using rule-of-thumb placement and reporting schedules that...

The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution $263,236 on October 1, 2026, for a collaborative research project on energy-aware deployment and scheduling for sparse ocean sensor networks. The project develops mathematical tools and control engineering methods to optimize how drifting ocean sensors (drifters) are deployed and operated across a connected network fleet. Rather than using rule-of-thumb...

The Tampa Deep Sea Xplorers LLC (TDSX) will develop a compact underwater light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system for integration into small remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) under a $128,918 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The Phase I SBIR project will prove the feasibility of reducing the size and weight of a LIDAR system for internal installation in...

The Office of Naval Research awarded Massachusetts Institute of Technology four hundred thousand dollars on January 1, 2026, for cooperative detection, recognition and localization of underwater objects by diver-AUV teams under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300). Work is performed in Massachusetts and concludes December 31, 2027. The project advances naval operations through collaborative human-autonomous vehicle detection and localization capability, supporting...

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...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of International Science and Engineering supports the implementation of a deep ocean observing strategy under the ACCELNET-IMPLEMENTATION: IMPLEMENTING A DEEP OCEAN OBSERVING STRATEGY (IDOOS) program. Awarded on October 1, 2021 for $1,992,928 over four years, this grant funds the University of Texas at Austin to lead efforts to strengthen international partnerships and advance scientific discovery through deep ocean...

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...

Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc. was awarded a $249,948 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop Distributed Sensor-Modulated Transistors for Hydro-Biogeochemical Monitoring. The Office of Science aims to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and economic competitiveness through scientific discoveries and tools. This award will support Intelligent Optical...

The University of Florida (UF), through its Division of Sponsored Research, was awarded a $299,752 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program. The grant, with a performance period from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2026, will fund research to develop novel optical technologies for accurate underwater robot localization and navigation without relying on GPS or acoustic guidance. Key innovations include using...