Project Grant N629092512059

This $100,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Cooperative Institute (Inter-Agency Funded Activities) program (CFDA 11.405) supports Oregon State University's (OSU) Center for Integrative Marine Ecosystem Research (CIMERS) in developing acoustic tools, technologies and services to address a wide variety of NOAA's research priorities. The key objectives are to maintain and enhance the Ocean Noise Reference Station Network...

This $599,738 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports research and development of a novel scalable acoustic Internet of Things (IoT) technology. The project aims to enable distributed, on-the-fly beamforming with low-power acoustic tags to deliver significant performance gains in range, throughput, and energy efficiency for indoor smart IoT applications. The research seeks to...

This federal Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $135,310.00, was provided by the Office of Naval Research under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300). The grant will support research by Aarhus Universitet, a Danish educational institution, to quantify beaked whale echolocation click parameters. This research aims to inform passive acoustic monitoring and facilitate sonar mitigation efforts. The award period is from September 1, 2024 to August 31,...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.074 - Biological Sciences) to Cornell University totals $421,321 and runs from January 15, 2024 to December 31, 2026. The grant funds research to investigate the function of acoustic fine structure (AFS) in natural zebra finch communication, with the goal of better understanding the perceptual abilities and communicative behaviors of birds compared to humans. Key research activities include: (1) determining whether perception...

This Project Grant award of $430,605, made by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), supports research to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying vocal learning and sensorimotor auditory memory formation in songbirds. The primary goal is to develop a mechanistic model for how the brain stores and recalls an auditory template used to guide vocal imitation during...

This $661,152 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support research on the aeroacoustics of hunting owls at the University of California, Riverside. The key products and services to be delivered under this three-year award include: Experiments to test hypotheses on how owl wing features reduce flight sounds, focusing on ameliorating aerodynamic turbulence versus frictional feather sounds. This will involve...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology Project Grant for $146,066 awarded to Furman University will leverage machine learning techniques to better understand biodiversity patterns measured through passive acoustic sampling. The key activities and deliverables include: Advancing the analysis of acoustic data from diverse ecosystems to address three lines of inquiry: i) how noise affects bird vocalizations and communications, ii) quantification of acoustic indices...

This $147,486 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) will support research into neural mechanisms underlying spatial auditory attention. The project aims to investigate how interaural level difference (ILD) magnification can improve sound source segregation and spatial selection for individuals with bilateral cochlear implants, who lack...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Cooperative Institute (Inter-Agency Funded Activities) program (CFDA 11.405) provides $2,316,075.00 in funding to the University of Colorado to support active acoustic and passive acoustic monitoring research. The primary objectives are to: 1) Collate and format annotated acoustic data for advanced analytical echo-classification models; 2) Organize co-variate data for input to these models;...

This federal Project Grant award of $448,687, awarded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), funds research at Baylor University to investigate the role of calcium regulation in outer hair cells in mitigating responses to cochlear injury. Specifically, the research aims to determine how the deletion of the protein oncomodulin, which buffers calcium in outer hair...