Project Grant N629092512056

This $525,359 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) aims to improve the fundamental understanding of the phase speed of Kelvin waves, a prominent mode of deep convection in the tropics. The 3-year project, effective September 1, 2024, will use gridded data products and satellite observations to document how Kelvin wave phase speed varies under different background conditions, such as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation and the Madden-Julian...

This $465,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will fund the "REU SITE: THE PHYSICS OF WAVES FROM THE NANOSCALE TO THE COSMIC SCALE" program at Washington State University (WSU). The program will provide 10 undergraduate students per summer with 10-week research internships to conduct cutting-edge work on gravity waves, shock physics, low-dimensional materials, and quantum phenomena under the...

This $287,769 National Science Foundation award through the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research into lee waves and their interactions with sheared ocean flows and topography. Northwest Research Associates, Inc. will use regional numerical modeling with the Process Study Ocean Model to simulate lee wave generation, propagation, interaction and dissipation under varying conditions. The research aims to examine why observed dissipation downstream of flow-topography interactions...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences program has awarded a $259,253 Project Grant to the University of New Hampshire (UNH) to investigate the impacts of sea breeze and steep surface gravity waves on nearshore air-sea fluxes. The overarching goal is to advance understanding of how ocean surface waves mediate the exchange of momentum and heat between the atmosphere and ocean, especially over spatial and temporal scales that are currently under-resolved by observations and models....

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences provides $757,404 under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The award will support collaborative experimental and numerical studies of the effects of wind, wave scale, and salinity on bubble entrainment by breaking waves. Researchers will leverage the Scripps Ocean-Atmosphere Research...

This $339,994 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports research to advance the fundamental theoretical understanding of wave turbulence in the atmosphere and oceans. The award to New York University (NYU) will fund a multi-pronged effort combining theory and numerical modeling in three key areas: 1) investigating how broadband wave spectra can emerge from monochromatic wave sources through interactions with mean...

This $222,606 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program aims to drive convergence of ocean wave energy research for empowering remote coastal communities. The 5-year project, beginning September 2024, brings together a multidisciplinary team from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to develop a roadmap and screen leading wave energy converter (WEC) design concepts. Through...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded Calwave Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of goods based in Berkeley, California, a $200,000 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The grant, with a performance period from July 22, 2024 to July 21, 2025, supports the development of innovative "CalWave Spring and Pre-Tension Systems for Wave Energy Converters." Calwave Inc. specializes in clean energy technology, focusing on advancing...

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 $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...