Project Grant N000142612469

This $636,904 National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities project grant funds the MARISCO (Marine Research and Innovation for a Sustainable Management of Coasts and Oceans) program through January 2024. The grant supports the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to expand fundamental knowledge of integrated Earth systems through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Under this award, the University of California, Santa Barbara will lead collaborative...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Congressionally Identified Awards and Projects program (CFDA 11.469) will provide $1,325,000 to the College of Charleston to conduct coastal ecosystem research and education activities at the Grice Marine Laboratory. The project will monitor water quality, microbial community composition, and develop remote sensing techniques to assess changes in the Charleston coastal waters due to climate...

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Cooperative Institute (Inter-Agency Funded Activities) program (CFDA 11.405), will develop a novel framework for coupling climate/ocean models with cross-regional ecosystem/biological models. The $425,000 award will support research objectives including determining best practices for climate model selection and validation, generating regional marine ecosystem future projections,...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has awarded a $963,000 Cooperative Agreement to Florida International University (FIU) under the Congressionally Identified Awards and Projects program (CFDA 11.469). The project, titled "NOAA Living Shoreline Project: Community-wide Biscayne Bay Restoration, Conservation, and Education Program," focuses on developing eco-friendly coastal infrastructure to mitigate the effects of rising sea levels and support marine...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences totaling $114,000 will support the installation of a sensor on an ecotourism ship to continuously measure surface water carbon dioxide concentrations in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific region among the Galapagos Islands. The specific goals of the project are to complete installation of a General Oceanics PCO2 sensor on a Galapagos ecotourism ship operated by Lindblad Expeditions and initiate a time series of...

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 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research Coastal Ocean Program (CFDA 11.478) to the World Resources Institute (WRI). The purpose of this 1-year award, with a performance period from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2024, is for WRI to build on the previous success of the Ocean Panel in raising the importance of creating a sustainable ocean economy. WRI will work with the 16 Ocean Panel...

This $165,488 National Science Foundation project grant supports the 28th and 29th Dissertations Symposium in Chemical Oceanography (DISCO XXVIII and DISCO XXIX). The University of Hawaii at Manoa will organize DISCO XXVIII in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii in October 2022. The biennial conference provides recent and soon-to-be Ph.D. graduates in chemical oceanography an opportunity to present dissertation research results and participate in professional development activities. Symposium attendees will...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Symbioseas, a non-profit marine research organization based in Carolina Beach, North Carolina, received a $100,000 Cooperative Agreement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Cooperative Research Program (CFDA 11.472), effective October 1, 2025, through June 30, 2028. The award funds the development of accessible reporting products that translate complex scientific data on coastal ecosystem status and trends in Hawaii into...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $2,399,838 Cooperative Agreement under the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 11.012) to Ocean Discovery League, Inc., a non-profit organization, to develop the Modular Ocean Discovery System (MODS). This customizable deep-sea exploration system aims to reduce financial and technical barriers to ocean research by providing affordable access to depths of 1,500 meters. MODS will integrate...