Project Grant N000142612514

The Office of Naval Research awarded Scripps Institution of Oceanography, a division of the University of California San Diego, $2.644 million on October 1, 2025, under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) to develop and deploy a distributed network of internal wave resolving moored arrays for assessing nonlinear internal wave processes in operational forecast models. The award runs through September 30, 2028, with place of performance in California. Scripps delivers...

The University of California San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography will analyze the temporal and spatial variability of near-inertial energy and flux modified by background vorticity under a $169,802 Project Grant from the Department of the Navy Secretary of the Navy Office of Naval Research. The grant supports applied research that has the potential to improve naval operations under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA #12.300). This program aims to stimulate basic...

This Project Grant from the Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research provides $152,997.60 to support multidisciplinary observations for the study of vertical velocities and subduction in Italy. Funded under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300), the award will support Lagrangian, microstructure and microplastic observations from December 2021 through February 2025. The Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche - CNR, through its Ismar-Cnr Istituto DI Scienze Marine...

This Project Grant from the Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research provides $143,600 to support the development of modules for low-power time-synchronized vector sensor data acquisition from autonomous platforms. The award was made on February 1, 2023 to the University of California San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300). The CFDA program aims to stimulate basic and applied research at educational institutions...

The Office of Naval Research awarded San Diego State University Research Foundation $140,507 on April 1, 2026, under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) to conduct physics-based turbulence processing research from simulation to mitigation. Work is performed in California, USA, with a period of performance through March 31, 2029. The award funds research and development activities that contribute to naval operations and capability development for the Navy and Marine...

The University of California, San Diego received a two-year, $180,000 Project Grant from the Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research to support research on submesoscale currents in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea. The grant is part of ONR's Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300), which aims to stimulate basic and applied research with potential to improve naval operations. Specifically, UC San Diego will conduct applied research on vertical transport processes...

The University of California San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography (UCSD Scripps) was awarded a $787,995 Project Grant from the Department of the Navy Secretary of the Navy Office of Naval Research (ONR) to support the development of networked sensor technologies for observing the air-sea interface under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300). The grant will fund UCSD Scripps' "NETWORKED SENSORS FOR OBSERVING THE AIR-SEA INTERFACE" project through...

The Office of Naval Research awarded Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution $587,779.46 on December 1, 2025, under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) to conduct submesoscale observations of surface currents over nearshore canyons to enhance operational support of Troia Bay, Portugal. The work is performed in Massachusetts, with a period of performance through December 31, 2028. The award funds oceanographic research and data collection activities supporting Naval...

The Office of Naval Research awarded the University of New Hampshire $1.641 million on August 1, 2026, under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) to establish a test-bed for deep-water seafloor and ocean mapping sonar innovation. The award supports research and development activities in sonar technology intended to advance naval operational capabilities. Performance occurs in New Hampshire, with a completion date of July 31, 2027. This is a project grant supporting...

The Office of Naval Research awarded $200,000 to Sveuciliste U Zagrebu Fakultet Elektrotehnike I Racunarstva (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing) on September 22, 2025, under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) to develop electromagnetic tracking technology for autonomous underwater vehicle high-precision close-range docking. Work performance occurs in Croatia with a period of performance through September 21, 2028. The EM-DOCK...