Project Grant NNX09AW30G

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $517,526 to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to quantify uncertainties in air-sea CO2 flux variability and the background ocean carbon sink, and determine data requirements to reduce these uncertainties. Key objectives include: 1) Quantifying regional-scale uncertainties in the background ocean carbon sink using a...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences program Project Grant award of $122,152 to the CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation (CSU Fullerton ASC) will fund the acquisition of a carbon dioxide and methane cavity ringdown spectrometer. This instrumentation will support research and educational activities to promote a better understanding of the carbon cycle and how carbon is converted into different materials across Earth's atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere. The...

This $191,127 Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Climate and Atmospheric Research program (CFDA 11.431) supports research to quantify the value of individual carbon dioxide (CO2) observations from the Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT) database for improving machine learning-based interpolation algorithms used to estimate global air-sea CO2 fluxes. The project aims to develop approaches to assign a specific value to each data point in the...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 4-year, $490,570 Project Grant under its Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) program to the University of New Hampshire (UNH) to develop an autonomous eddy covariance air-sea CO2 flux measurement system for use on moored ocean buoys. This system is designed to provide accurate, low-power measurements of atmospheric and oceanic carbon dioxide exchange, which is critical for improving the predictive capabilities of climate models. As part of this project,...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $3,371,587 Cooperative Agreement to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) to quantify atmospheric carbon dioxide removal using an autonomous ocean sensor that measures sinking particulate carbon flux. The project, titled "Quantification of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Removal Using an Autonomous Ocean Sensor that Measures Sinking Particulate Carbon Flux," will run from June 2024 to...

This $142,205 Project Grant award from the Science (CFDA 43.001) Federal Grant Program, administered by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), will fund research at Colorado State University to reduce biases in satellite measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide (XCO2) by optimizing aerosol modeling schemes in physics-based retrieval algorithms. The 3-year project aims to improve the accuracy of satellite-derived XCO2 measurements, which are critical for monitoring global...

The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (RF-SUNY) has been awarded a $407,090 project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The goal of this 4-year project is to 1) design, build, and field-demonstrate a next-generation infrared gas analyzer engineered to effectively remove motion interference for air-sea CO2 flux measurements, and 2) develop a compact, robust, and low-power eddy covariance...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) provides $533,913 to the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography to continue a long-term atmospheric observing system that tracks changes in Arctic biogeochemistry. The project will measure key carbon and oxygen cycle tracers, including atmospheric CO2 concentration, CO2 isotopic composition, and O2/N2 and Ar/N2 ratios, at three Arctic sites over the award period from...

The University of California, Berkeley has been awarded a $250,000 Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Climate and Atmospheric Research Program (CFDA 11.431) to investigate changes in urban methane emissions. The 3-year project will involve operating a stationary flux tower to characterize multi-year trends in San Francisco Bay Area methane, as well as conducting mobile monitoring to identify and quantify specific methane emission sources across the...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $508,160 in funding to Rutgers, The State University to conduct collaborative research on long-term changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels during past warm periods. The project aims to reconstruct the movement of the Southern Westerly Winds and evaluate its impact on the Southern Ocean's biological carbon pump and atmospheric CO2 concentrations over the last 900,000 years. The...