Project Grant N629092612001

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will provide $249,414 to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) to conduct collaborative research on seismic reflection imaging of volcanic cycles at the East Pacific Rise. The project aims to investigate how the magmatic and hydrothermal systems beneath the seafloor spreading axis have changed over the past decade through a time-lapse 3D seismic survey, building on previous data...

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 National Science Foundation project grant of $323,283 will fund research investigating bubble-mediated gas exchange in the Labrador Sea from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. As part of the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), Louisiana State University will lead an international collaborative effort called the Bubble Exchange in the Labrador Sea Experiment. Researchers will collect detailed atmospheric and oceanic measurements using autonomous vehicles to better understand bubble...

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 Project Grant award of $655,938 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will fund a collaborative research project to conduct 3D multichannel seismic surveys at the East Pacific Rise volcanic system. The goal is to create high-resolution imagery that can be used to investigate how the magmatic and hydrothermal systems have changed over the past decade, providing insights into volcanic cycles on decadal timescales. The project will partner with industry...

This $375,036 National Science Foundation project grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund the development of a unified numerical model for bubble nucleation and growth in volcanic systems. Led by Lehigh University, researchers will conduct targeted experiments to inform a novel formulation capturing homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation processes. They will also create an ensemble bubble growth model using stochastic, iterative assignment of nucleation events within a 3D...

This National Science Foundation award provides $333,856 under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Texas at Austin from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The funding will support the development of a unified numerical model for bubble nucleation and growth in volcanic systems through collaborative research between US and UK investigators. Specifically, the award will combine novel experiments with theoretical modeling to address current knowledge gaps in nucleation...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $299,987 to the University of Washington to develop "Bobberone", a low-cost, portable float that will use acoustic sensing to detect regionally important zooplankton, fish, and marine mammals in near real-time. The float will integrate active and passive acoustic sensing with edge processing and cloud connectivity to support cross-trophic biological observation in...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences, under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050), provides $479,989 to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to analyze marine seismic data along the Cascadia subduction zone offshore Vancouver Island to southern Oregon. The award aims to constrain variability in subducting sediment thickness, water content of the downgoing plate, and topography of the sediment-basement interface from January 1, 2023 to...

The Tampa Deep Sea Xplorers LLC (TDSX) will develop a compact underwater light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system for integration into small remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) under a $128,918 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The Phase I SBIR project will prove the feasibility of reducing the size and weight of a LIDAR system for internal installation in...