Project Grant NA20OAR0210077

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Ocean Exploration (CFDA 11.011) federal grant program provides $1,396,839 to Florida State University to develop advanced analytical technology and methodologies to rapidly characterize deep-sea meiofaunal (microscopic) communities. The project aims to create a transformative method for processing deep-sea sediment samples, allowing for automated identification of invertebrates using...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology, under CFDA Program 47.074 Biological Sciences, is providing $103,398 to Florida International University (FIU) to develop a novel seafloor sensor/sampler system and associated machine learning control systems. The goal is to better understand how tidal pumping and subsurface currents influence seafloor oxygenation and sedimentary carbon cycling. The project will provide mentoring and field...

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 Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $715,490 Cooperative Agreement under the Ocean Exploration program (CFDA 11.011) to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) for the period of Aug 1, 2023 to Jul 31, 2025. The project aims to develop artificial intelligence-integrated control algorithms and machine learning models to enable large-scale deployments of uncrewed underwater vehicles and expanded biological observations in the...

This is a Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities, funded under the NSF Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The $308,540 award, effective January 1, 2024 through December 31, 2025, will support the University of Washington in using machine learning to investigate the temporal dynamics of methane seep fauna at the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Regional Cabled Array off the coast of Oregon. The project aims to develop multi-taxon...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences provides $118,677 to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: AN AUTONOMOUS PROFILING VEHICLE FOR CONCURRENT ACOUSTIC, VISUAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEASUREMENTS IN THE MESOPELAGIC OCEAN." The award runs from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The funding will allow researchers at Stony Brook University, working through the university's Research Foundation, to develop an autonomous...

This $193,500 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) funds the development and validation of an AI framework that can leverage a broad array of image data, including satellite, drone, and online imagery, to automate and accelerate the generation of interpretable environmental science hypotheses at a planetary scale. The overarching goal is to overcome limitations of traditional...

This $524,676 NOAA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program award to Beamsea Associates LLC will develop a fluorescence-enhanced, autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) mounted, high-resolution 3D laser imaging system for coral reef ecosystem management and research. The system will provide enhanced automated discrimination of coral reef bottom cover types, detection and counting of coral recruits, and direct measurement of 3D reef structure. This capability will enable more comprehensive,...

This $350,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 11.021) to Marinesitu Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business and division of the University of Washington. The grant will fund the development of a low-cost, unmanned underwater survey system featuring stereo-camera enabled remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) and AI-powered software for automated detection of coral...

This Project Grant award of $525,000 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program to Tcarta Marine LLC aims to advance research on changing ocean ecosystems through the development of innovative methods for mapping and analyzing seagrass habitats using high-resolution hyperspectral satellite imagery. The key technical objectives include identifying optimal sensor bands, determining water column properties, and developing...