Project Grant N629091612232

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) federal grant program provides $299,911 to the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography to develop and test a new generation of autonomous ocean platforms called "wave gliders" for conducting research in harsh polar environments. The overarching objective is to enable improved understanding and quantification of fine-scale air-sea interactions in...

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,...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs, under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078), provides $598,206 to support a multi-day conference titled "Enhancing Arctic Science and Engineering (EASE) Workshop." The University of Alaska Fairbanks will host the workshop from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023 to bring together participants from agencies, universities, non-profits, private sector, local officials, students, and Indigenous...

This $304,752 National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs award will fund research to improve climate model simulations of sea ice physics and feedbacks through analysis of observations from the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate field campaign. The University of Washington will integrate spatially and temporally coordinated field observations with single column and global climate modeling to develop parameterizations that more accurately...

This $184,750 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs, under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078), will support the Interdisciplinary Antarctic Earth Science Conference in 2022 and 2024. The Conference and associated planning workshop will bring together U.S. researchers from bio-, cryo-, geo- and atmospheric sciences conducting Antarctic research. Over a 2.5 day hybrid format, the Conference will facilitate collaboration and data sharing...

This National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs project grant, awarded under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078), provides $857,209 to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego to characterize warm water flow through the Pine Island Thwaites West Trough region of the Amundsen Sea shelf. From January 2023 through December 2025, the award will support ship-based observations and instrumentation deployments to directly measure...

This Project Grant award of $231,050 from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) will fund research to investigate the mechanisms that relate ocean circulation in the open ocean to ice sheet melt in Antarctica. The primary objectives are to: 1) Quantify the pathways of Circumpolar Deep Water from its origin in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current to the Antarctic continental slope, and 2) Determine the physical mechanisms that govern the variability of these pathways. The...

This three-year, $411,911 National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs project grant will fund research to advance sea ice floe-size distribution and wave-ice interaction modeling capabilities within fully-coupled Earth system models. The University of Washington will receive funding to incorporate prognostic floe-size distribution components into widely-used sea ice and wave models, and parameterize wave attenuation in sea ice through data assimilation methods. Model code improvements...

This $477,793 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) funds a research project at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) to investigate the impacts of climate change on the biological carbon pump in the West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) region. The goal of the project is to develop a novel hybrid modeling framework that integrates observational data from long-term research programs with advanced artificial intelligence and...

The National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs awarded a $245,046 Project Grant to Stanford University under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078) to develop and field test community-driven ice penetrating radar systems for observing complex ice sheet structure and flow. Specifically, the award will support developing a snowmobile-towed radar and unmanned aerial vehicle radar system based on shared software and post-processing tools. Both systems are designed to...