Project Grant N629092612011

The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $116,098 Cooperative Agreement to the University of Washington to address the need to maintain and advance technology for the NOAA Ocean Acidification Observing Network (NOA-ON). The project will contribute to the development of an autonomous, embedded, low power, modestly priced, mass-producible, climate-quality surface ocean combined pCO2-dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) system deployable on a variety...

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...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $2,399,838 Cooperative Agreement under the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 11.012) to Ocean Discovery League, Inc., a non-profit organization, to develop the Modular Ocean Discovery System (MODS). This customizable deep-sea exploration system aims to reduce financial and technical barriers to ocean research by providing affordable access to depths of 1,500 meters. MODS will integrate...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research Coastal Ocean Program (CFDA 11.478) to the World Resources Institute (WRI). The purpose of this 1-year award, with a performance period from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2024, is for WRI to build on the previous success of the Ocean Panel in raising the importance of creating a sustainable ocean economy. WRI will work with the 16 Ocean Panel...

This Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $249,991.00, was granted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) program (CFDA 11.012) on March 1, 2024. The National Offshore Wind Research & Development Consortium (NOWRDC), in collaboration with Xodus Group and Karp Strategies, will establish the National Ocean Renewable Power Accelerator (Ocean RePoweR) program. Ocean RePoweR aims to create a national framework for...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $1,849,288 Cooperative Agreement to The Ocean Foundation under the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 11.012). The purpose of this 3-year project is to advance technology for low-cost and portable monitoring of ocean acidification, particularly in the US Caribbean region. Key activities include: Developing the "PCO2 to Go" - a handheld sensor system that can cost-effectively measure...

Cooperative Agreement Summary The University of Delaware received a $2.7 million cooperative agreement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) program (CFDA 11.012) for the period June 1, 2025 through May 31, 2028. The award supports seven integrated tasks designed to modernize aging coastal observation infrastructure and enhance marine data collection capabilities in the Mid-Atlantic Regional Association Coastal...

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;...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded Rutgers, The State University a $2.06 million Cooperative Agreement under the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) program (CFDA 11.012) effective July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2028. This three-year Phase 2 effort funds development of the East Coast Community Ocean Forecast System (ECCOFS), a Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS)-based nowcast and forecast platform designed to deliver...

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) was awarded $694,062 on September 1, 2025, under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate and Atmospheric Research program (CFDA 11.431) for a three-year project extending through August 31, 2028. The project will directly measure vertical advection contributions to heat balance in the Pacific equatorial cold tongue region near 140 degrees west longitude using an array of six uncrewed wave gliders. These autonomous vehicles...