Project Grant N629091612206

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...

This $304,999 SBIR Phase I grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of a high-frequency multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) underwater acoustic communication system. The project aims to create a real-time, high-data-rate wireless communication technology that minimizes noise pollution and interference with marine life, enabling improved environmental monitoring and safer underwater operations....

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $116,727 Project Grant under the Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) program to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) for the project "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: EAGER: ENERGY FOR PERSISTENT SENSING OF CARBON DIOXIDE UNDER NEAR SHORE WAVES". This project aims to utilize an unexplored energy source based on the nonlinear interaction of nearshore surface waves with the seafloor to enable long-term, uninterrupted CO2 flux measurements across...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) provides $450,000 to The Regents of the University of California, Berkeley to build an international partnership to advance marine autonomy and train the next generation of engineers. The project involves undergraduate students from the United States traveling to Norway to collaborate with researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) on...

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...

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 (NSF) awarded a $880,490 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Washington (UW) to test a new type of distributed acoustic sensing technology. The project aims to extend the range of this technology, which can detect signals such as earthquakes, ocean waves, whale songs, and ship movements, by enabling it to operate across the optical repeaters of submarine telecommunications cables. Over 3 months, the project will collect...

This $622,016 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports the collaborative development of a novel self-powered, multimodal pH, pressure, and temperature MEMS sensor system for marine carbon dioxide removal (MCDR) monitoring. The project involves researchers from the University of North Texas, University of Michigan, and University of California San Diego working to design, fabricate, and test this innovative sensor array to provide...

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...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $195,725 Project Grant under its Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) to deploy and operate two current and pressure recording inverted echo sounders (CPIES) over the continental slope north of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. The goal is to study the multi-scale processes associated with the Gulf Stream's separation from the continental margin, complementing data from the adjacent Pioneer Array ocean...