Project Grant N001741910004

This $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will support research at the University of Michigan to develop new capabilities for marine robotic systems to autonomously map, visualize, and navigate underwater environments. The project will leverage innovative machine learning methods to fuse acoustic and visual data from the robots, enabling improved mapping and localization in...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will develop a method to enable autonomous underwater robots to accurately estimate the flow around them and use this information, along with novel localization algorithms, to determine their position relative to the environment. The goal is to improve inertial navigation systems for autonomous underwater operations, benefiting applications such as aquatic monitoring, oil and gas...

This three-year National Science Foundation Project Grant of $300,000 will support the development of omnidirectional 3D spatial reconstruction capabilities using consumer-grade mobile phone audio sensors. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, the award to the University of Michigan aims to advance computational modeling of sound perception and effective sound-vision integration. Researchers will collect a large-scale audio-visual dataset using sensor rigs...

The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $945,291 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The three-year award running from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2026 will support research to develop novel capabilities for autonomous underwater robotic perception and navigation. Specifically, the university researchers will work to enhance...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $550,000 to Northeastern University is for the development of compact, coherent hydrophone array systems for real-time, wide-area ocean acoustic monitoring. The project aims to translate the Passive Ocean Acoustic Waveguide Remote Sensing (POAWRS) technology, which uses advanced hydrophone arrays to provide continental-scale ocean sensing capabilities, into...

The Regents of the University of Minnesota will receive $136,475 under a three-year Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 to develop acoustic sampling methods for coregonine fish populations in the Great Lakes. The project will acquire data on the current distribution and depth patterns of species such as bloater, shortjaw cisco, and lake whitefish during stratified and isothermal periods in Lake Superior and northern Lake Huron....

This is a Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities, funded under the NSF Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The $308,540 award, effective January 1, 2024 through December 31, 2025, will support the University of Washington in using machine learning to investigate the temporal dynamics of methane seep fauna at the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Regional Cabled Array off the coast of Oregon. The project aims to develop multi-taxon...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $400,000 over 3 years to the Regents of the University of Michigan to develop a novel self-powered multimodal MEMS sensor system that can simultaneously detect pH, pressure, and temperature in marine environments. The researchers aim to create an innovative, highly sensitive, and energy-efficient sensor to support marine carbon dioxide removal (MCDR) efforts by providing uninterrupted,...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to develop a fiber optic multiparameter sensor (FOMS) capable of long-term, under-ice monitoring of critical climate components in lakes. The goal is to simultaneously measure parameters like carbon dioxide, methane, temperature, pH, salinity, and...

This federal Project Grant award of $206,500.00 was provided by the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Loggerhead Instruments Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of advanced acoustic monitoring and sensing technologies. The grant supports the development of integrated marine buoys for real-time passive acoustic monitoring of birds, bats, and whales using neural networks. The project aims to deliver novel artificial intelligence-driven acoustic...