Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

MANAGEMENT AND OPERATION OF THE OCEAN OBSERVATORIES INITIATIVE (OOI)

RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE: MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS OF THE OCEAN OBSERVATORIES INITIATIVE (OOI 2.5) -THE OCEAN OBSERVATORIES INITIATIVE (OOI) IS A COMMUNITY-INSPIRED AND COMMUNITY-SERVING RESEARCH OBSERVATORY. ITS MISSION IS TO SAFELY OPERATE AND MAINTAIN SOPHISTICATED ARRAYS OF INSTRUMENTS AND ASSOCIATED INFRASTRUCTURE THAT COLLECT, ARCHIVE, AND DISTRIBUTE QUALITY OCEANIC AND MARINE ATMOSPHERIC DATA TO THE OCEAN AND EARTH SCIENCE COMMUNITIES. OOI MEASUREMENTS PROVIDE COMPREHENSIVE INSIGHTS INTO THE EARTH, OCEAN, AND ATMOSPHERE FOR SCIENTISTS, EDUCATORS, STUDENTS, LAYPERSONS, INDUSTRY, AND POLICYMAKERS. OOI DATA AND DERIVED PRODUCTS IMPROVE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE PROCESSES THAT IMPACT CLIMATE VARIABILITY, ECOSYSTEMS, FISHERIES, GEOHAZARDS, AND THE SUBSEAFLOOR ENVIRONMENT, WHICH IN TURN ADVANCE THE CAPABILITIES OF DECISION-MAKERS CHARGED WITH THE STEWARDSHIP OF OCEAN RESOURCES. COMMON AND OPEN ACCESS TO OOI DATA AND RESOURCES FOSTERS PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC AND NON-ACADEMIC ORGANIZATIONS. ALL OOI DATA ARE BACKED UP BY DOCUMENTED PROCEDURES AND METADATA, DISTRIBUTED FREELY TO USERS VIA A COMMON WEB PORTAL (AT WWW.OCEANOBSERVATORIES.ORG), AND ARCHIVED. OOI?S OPEN DATA POLICIES SUPPORT EARLY CAREER SCIENTISTS AND INVESTIGATORS AS WELL AS AN ARRAY OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS. THE BREADTH AND DEPTH OF CAPABILITIES PROVIDED BY THE OOI PROVIDE TRANSFORMATIVE SCIENTIFIC AND EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE. OOI MANAGES AND OPERATES FIVE OCEAN ARRAYS LOCATED AT SCIENTIFICALLY STRATEGIC LOCATIONS IN THE OPEN OCEAN (GLOBAL ARRAYS), SHELF WATERS (COASTAL ARRAYS), AND ON THE SEABED (CABLED ARRAY). THE GLOBAL IRMINGER SEA ARRAY (OFF GREENLAND) PROVIDES PHYSICAL, BIOLOGICAL, AND CHEMICAL MEASUREMENTS OF THE WATER COLUMN. IT CAPTURES MESOSCALE VARIABILITY AND AIR-SEA FLUXES IN A REGION OF DOCUMENTED DEEP-WATER FORMATION, WHICH IMPACTS THE ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATION AND CHANGES IN OCEAN HEAT TRANSPORT. THE STATION PAPA ARRAY (GULF OF ALASKA) QUANTIFIES WATER COLUMN PROPERTIES AND MESOSCALE VARIABILITY IN A REGION OF LONGSTANDING SCIENTIFIC INTEREST FOR STUDIES RANGING FROM OCEAN CIRCULATION AND AIR-SEA FLUXES TO CARBON CYCLING AND BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTIVITY AMONGST OTHERS. IN 2024, THE PIONEER ARRAY WILL BE RELOCATED TO THE MID-ATLANTIC BIGHT WHERE IT WILL ENABLE NEW SCIENCE AND EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES IN A HIGH-ENERGY CONTINENTAL SHELF ENVIRONMENT. ITS DESIGN WILL ADDRESS THE INFLUENCE OF THE STRONG WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT IN THIS PART OF THE ATLANTIC AS WELL AS TERRESTRIAL FRESHWATER INPUTS TO THE BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE AND DIVERSE ECOSYSTEMS FOUND THERE. THE REGIONAL CABLED ARRAY BRINGS HIGH-POWER AND HIGH-BANDWIDTH CAPACITY, WHICH ALLOWS REAL-TIME, TWO-WAY COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE OCEANS. IT WILL CONTINUE TO PROVIDE NEW INSIGHTS INTO INTERLINKED SEISMIC, VOLCANIC, AND HYDROTHERMAL PROCESSES OPERATING OFF THE OREGON COAST, THE FLUX OF METHANE FROM THE SEAFLOOR, AND THE SEAFLOOR BIOSPHERE. THE ENDURANCE ARRAY PROVIDES INTERDISCIPLINARY OBSERVATIONS WITHIN THE COASTAL UPWELLING REGION OF THE OREGON AND WASHINGTON COASTS, PROVIDES OBSERVATIONS OF THE EASTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT REGIME AT BOTH SHORT AND LONGER, CLIMATE-RELEVANT TIME SCALES THAT LEAD TO NEW INSIGHTS INTO SHELF/SLOPE NUTRIENT EXCHANGE, AIR-SEA PROPERTY EXCHANGE, CARBON CYCLING, AND OCEAN ACIDIFICATION. THIS RENEWAL AWARD TO WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION (WHOI), FOR CONTINUED OPERATIONS AND MANAGEMENT, BUILDS UPON THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE INITIAL AWARD AND INCORPORATES NEW OPERATIONAL AND OUTREACH CHANGES IN RESPONSE TO COMMUNITY INPUT. WHOI, THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON (UW), AND OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY (OSU) WILL CONTINUE TO PROVIDE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL MANAGEMENT AND OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE FOR THE NEXT PHASE OF THE OCEAN OBSERVATORIES INITIATIVE. THE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF THE INITIAL AWARD WILL BE RETAINED WITH THE PROGRAM MANAGEMENT OFFICE (PMO) RESIDING AT WHOI UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION. EACH OF THE THREE INSTITUTIONS WILL CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN THE MARINE AND COMPUTING ASSETS FOR WHICH THEY ARE CURRENTLY RESPONSIBLE; WHOI WILL OPERATE THE PIONEER ARRAY, AND THE TWO GLOBAL ARRAYS IN THE IRMINGER SEA AND AT STATION PAPA, UW WILL OPERATE THE REGIONAL CABLED ARRAY, AND OSU WILL OPERATE THE ENDURANCE ARRAY AND THE CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS, INCLUDING DATA INGESTION AND DELIVERY. PERFORMANCE METRICS FOR OOI INCLUDE QUANTIFICATION OF SCIENTIFIC OUTPUT, PROGRAM MANAGEMENT, SYSTEMS PERFORMANCE, DATA USAGE, DATA QUALITY, AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

NATIONAL DEEP SUBMERGENCE FACILITY (2022-2026) -THIS AWARD PROVIDES FUNDS TO THE WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION (WHOI)/ NATIONAL DEEP SUBMERGENCE FACILITY, WHICH OPERATES THE HUMAN OCCUPIED VEHICLE (HOV) ALVIN, THE REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLE (ROV) JASON II, AND THE AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLE (AUV) SENTRY AS A NATIONAL FACILITY (NDSF). THE AWARD IS FOR OPERATIONAL FUNDS FOR THE DEEP SUBMERGENCE SCIENCE VEHICLES, LISTED ABOVE, IN SUPPORT OF NSF-SPONSORED RESEARCH FOR CALENDAR YEARS 2022-2026. THE NATIONAL FACILITY, OF WHICH THE ALVIN, JASON AND SENTRY ARE THE MAJOR VEHICLES, IS SUPPORTED PRIMARILY BY NSF, BUT ALSO BY AWARDS FROM THE OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH (ONR), THE NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION (NOAA) AND OTHER FEDERAL AND NON-FEDERAL SOURCES. ALL USERS OF THE FACILITY CONTRIBUTE EQUALLY TO ANNUAL OPERATIONS THROUGH A CONSISTENT, VEHICLE-SPECIFIC, DAY RATE. NSF IS THE COGNIZANT AGENCY WITH RESPECT TO DEVELOPING NDSF VEHICLE DAY RATES. THE VEHICLES PLAN A COMBINED 489 OPERATING DAYS IN 2022: ALVIN 106; JASON 218; AND SENTRY 165. NSF PLANS TO SUPPORT 440 OF THESE DAYS: ALVIN 105; JASON, 194; AND SENTRY 141. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.

CINAR: A COOPERATIVE INSTITUTE FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC REGION

R/V ATLANTIS OPERATIONS

NATIONAL DEEP SUBMERGENCE FACILITY (CY16-CY20)

RENEWAL: COOPERATIVE INSTITUTE OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC REGION

SHIP OPERATIONS- R/V ATLANTIS OPERATIONS

CINAR: COOPERATIVE INSTITUTE FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC REGION

ONR SHIPTIME OPERATIONS, TECHNICIAN & NSDF SUPPORT 2015-2019

ONR SHIP TIME, TECHNICIAN & NDSF SUPPORT 2021-2026

NATIONAL DEEP SUBMERGENCE FACILITY (CY10 - CY14)

SHIP OPERATIONS: R/V KNORR

R/V ATLANTIS OPERATIONS

CICOR - BASIC RESEARCH SUPPORT

R/V ARMSTRONG OPERATIONS

AN OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMIC INSTRUMENT CENTER AT WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION

STC: CENTER FOR CHEMICAL CURRENCIES OF A MICROBIAL PLANET

CINAR WILL SERVE A CRITICAL FUNCTION AT THE JUNCTURE OF THE INTERDEPENDENT GLOBAL AND REGIONAL OBSERVING SYSTEMS IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN AND THOSE OF THE NORTHEAST U.S. SHELF LARGE MARINE ECOSYSTEM (NEUS LME). IN SO DOING, THE INSTITUTE WILL LINK BASIN SCALE CLIMATE OBSERVATIONS TO ECOSYSTEM-SCALE MONITORING, ASSESSMENTS, AND DECISION MAKING. BROAD SCALE CLIMATE OBSERVATIONS WILL ALSO BE INTEGRATED INTO TO THE GLOBAL OCEAN OBSERVATION SYSTEM. CINAR WILL EXPAND AND IMPROVE OUR ABILITY TO COLLECT, DELIVER, AND USE OCEAN INFORMATION TO STUDY THE EFFECT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON VARIOUS SPATIAL SCALES INCLUDING REGIONS, LMES, AND THE NATION.

A PHASED ENGINEERING PROGRAM TO BUILD A NEW 6500-M RESEARCH SUBMERSIBLE FOR THE U.S. SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY: THE NEW ALVIN

OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVICES, WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION, 2018-2022

R/V ATLANTIS 5 YEAR PROPOSAL 2024-2028 -THE RESEARCH PROGRAMS SUPPORTED BY R/V ATLANTIS WILL PROVIDE NEW INSIGHTS AND INVALUABLE DISCOVERIES THAT WILL CONTINUE TO ENHANCE THE UNDERSTANDING OF OUR GLOBAL OCEAN AND ADDRESS A BROAD RANGE OF SIGNIFICANT SCIENTIFIC QUESTIONS IN THE NEXT DECADE. THE GOAL OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO PROVIDE FUNDING SUPPORT TO CONTINUE TO OPERATE AND MAINTAIN R/V ATLANTIS TO SUPPORT ITS PLANNED LIFE CYCLE SAFELY AND PRODUCTIVELY. AN INCREASED AWARENESS OF OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO SCIENCE FROM THE CLASSROOM AND TO THE PUBLIC HAS RESULTED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW AVENUES TO SHARE THESE SCIENTIFIC FINDINGS. EDUCATIONAL AND OUTREACH PROGRAMS WILL CONTINUE TO BE AN INTEGRAL PART OF FUTURE EXPEDITIONS ON THE R/V ATLANTIS. THESE EFFORTS INCLUDE SHIP ACCESS FOR MIT-WHOI GRADUATE STUDENTS, WHOI POSTDOCS, AND EARLY CAREER SCIENCE PROGRAMS. TELEPRESENCE CAPABILITIES ON THE SHIP, EXPEDITION WEB SITES AND SOCIAL MEDIA, ALLOW FOR EFFECTIVE INTERACTION WITH CLASSROOMS, PROVIDING REAL-TIME IMAGES AND VIDEO, DATA AND TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION BETWEEN SCIENTISTS AND STUDENTS IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS, AND OUTREACH TO THE PUBLIC THROUGH THE WHOI WEBSITE. IN ADDITION TO WHOI'S IMPACT IN THE CLASSROOM AND BRINGING RESEARCH TO THE PUBLIC, WHOI AND R/V ATLANTIS WAS ALSO INSTRUMENTAL IN TWO RESCUE MISSIONS IN 2023. THESE MISSIONS RESULTED IN SAVING 14 LIVES, FURTHER DISPLAYING OUR DEDICATION TO THE PUBLIC?S SAFETY, AND PROVIDING AID AT SEA. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

SHIP OPERATIONS- R/V KNORR OPERATIONS

ONR SHIPTIME, TECHNICIAN, AND NDSF SUPPORT

DEEP SUBMERGENCE OPERATIONS - 2005 (YEAR 1 OF 5)

SHIP TIME TECHNICIANS AND SUBMERSIBLE SUPPORT

R/V NEIL ARMSTRONG 5 YEAR PROPOSAL 2024-2028 -THE RESEARCH PROGRAMS SUPPORTED BY R/V NEIL ARMSTRONG WILL ENHANCE UNDERSTANDING OF THE OCEANS AND ADDRESS A BROAD RANGE OF IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC QUESTIONS INCLUDING SIGNIFICANT INSIGHTS INTO THE IMPACTS OF GLOBAL OCEAN CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE NEXT DECADE. THE GOAL OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO PROVIDE FUNDING TO CONTINUE OPERATING AND MAINTAINING THE R/V ARMSTRONG AND TO SUPPORT ITS PLANNED LIFE CYCLE SAFELY AND PRODUCTIVELY. AN INCREASED AWARENESS OF OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO SCIENCE FROM THE CLASSROOM AND TO THE PUBLIC HAS RESULTED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW AVENUES TO SHARE THESE SCIENTIFIC FINDINGS. EDUCATIONAL AND OUTREACH PROGRAMS WILL CONTINUE TO BE AN INTEGRAL PART OF FUTURE EXPEDITIONS ON THE R/V NEIL ARMSTRONG. THESE EFFORTS INCLUDE MIT-WHOI GRADUATE STUDENT INTRODUCTORY CRUISES, TELEPRESENCE CAPABILITIES ON THE SHIP, EXPEDITION WEB SITES AND SOCIAL MEDIA, WHICH ALLOW FOR EFFECTIVE INTERACTION WITH CLASSROOMS, PROVIDING REAL-TIME IMAGES AND VIDEO, DATA AND TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION BETWEEN SCIENTISTS AND STUDENTS IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS AND OUTREACH TO THE PUBLIC THROUGH THE WHOI WEBSITE. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

RENEWAL OF THE OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMIC INSTRUMENT CENTER AT WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION -THIS PROJECT SUPPORTS THE OPERATION OF THE OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER INSTRUMENT CENTER (OBSIC) AT THE WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION. THIS FACILITY PROVIDES INSTRUMENTATION AND PERSONNEL TO ACQUIRE SEISMOMETER DATA THROUGHOUT THE WORLD?S OCEANS TO NSF-FUNDED INVESTIGATORS. SEISMOLOGY IS THE PRIMARY TOOL THAT SCIENTISTS USE TO INVESTIGATE EARTH'S STRUCTURE AND DYNAMIC PROCESSES, SUCH AS EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANISM. ABOUT 70% OF EARTH'S SURFACE IS COVERED BY WATER, AND MANY QUESTIONS RELATED TO THE NATURE OF MID-OCEAN RIDGES, HOT-SPOTS, SUBDUCTION ZONES, AND CONTINENTAL MARGINS CAN ONLY BE ADDRESSED BY DATA ACQUIRED WITH OCEAN-BOTTOM SEISMOMETERS. THIS AWARD SUPPORTS THE CONTINUED OPERATION OF OBSIC AT THE WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION AND BUILDS UPON THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE FACILITY?S INITIAL 5 YEARS. OBSIC WILL CONTINUE TO PROVIDE STATE-OF-THE-ART OCEAN-BOTTOM SEISMOMETERS THAT MEET THE NEEDS OF USERS FOR A MIX OF INSTRUMENTS THAT ENABLE HIGH-FIDELITY RECORDING ACROSS THE FREQUENCY SPECTRUM EXTENDING FROM THAT OF LONG-PERIOD SURFACE WAVES TO SHORT-PERIOD AIRGUN-GENERATED BODY WAVES. THE OBSIC DATA METRICS HUB WILL PROVIDE QUANTITATIVE AND READILY COMPREHENDED ASSESSMENTS OF DATA QUALITY, AS WELL AS DATA PRODUCTS SUCH AS SEISMOMETER ORIENTATIONS, COMPLIANCE, AND TILT CORRECTIONS, THAT WILL SPEED UP DATA ANALYSIS FOR ALL USERS. KEY COMPONENTS OF OBSIC INCLUDE STANDARDIZATION OF INSTRUMENTATION, ENHANCED COMPONENT TRACKING, THE MAINTENANCE OF INSTRUMENTATION AT A HIGH READINESS STATE, AND SUSTAINING A SURGE CAPACITY OF NON-OBSIC TECHNICIANS FROM OTHER INSTITUTIONS SUCH AS THE UNOLS MARINE TECH POOL TO AUGMENT OBSIC PERSONNEL AT SEA WHERE NECESSARY. THE FACILITY MAINTAINS A WEBSITE THAT PROVIDES DETAILS ON OCEAN-BOTTOM SEISMOMETER CAPABILITIES, OBS SCHEDULING AND AVAILABILITY, SUMMARIES OF ON-GOING, FUTURE, AND COMPLETED EXPERIMENTS, LINKS TO DATA ACQUIRED WITH OBSIC INSTRUMENTATION AT THE EARTHSCOPE DATA MANAGEMENT CENTER, AND A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PAPERS ENABLED BY OBSIC SERVICES. ADDITIONAL OUTREACH AND INFORMATION WILL BE PROVIDED THROUGH OPEN MEETINGS SUCH AS AT THE AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION ANNUAL FALL MEETING. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.

BCO-DMO: ACCELERATING SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY THROUGH ADAPTIVE DATA MANAGEMENT

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: OVERTURNING IN THE SUBPOLAR NORTH ATLANTIC PROGRAM

OPERATION OF THE OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMIC INSTRUMENTATION POOL AT WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION FOR THE MARINE GEOSCIENCES COMMUNITY

BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY DATA MANAGEMENT OFFICE (BCO-DMO): A SYSTEM FOR ACCESS TO ECOLOGICAL AND BIOGEOCHEMICAL OCEAN DATA

2012-2016 FLEET BROADBAND SUPPORT PROGRAM

R/V OCEANUS OPERATIONS

GOMTOX: DYNAMICS OF ALEXANDRIUM FUNDYENSE DISTRIBUTIONS IN THE GULF OF MAINE: AN OBSERVATIONAL AND MODELING STUDY OF NEARSHORE AND OFFSHORE SHELLFISH

OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVICES, R/V ATLANTIS AND R/V KNORR, 2012 - 2016

OPERATION OF A NATIONAL OCEAN SCIENCES ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY FACILITY AT THE WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION

OPERATION OF A NATIONAL OCEAN SCIENCES ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY FACILITY AT THE WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION

WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION.

REVISED PROPOSAL: NEW ENGLAND SEAMOUNTS ACOUSTICS (NESMA): PHYSICS-BASED ACOUSTIC FIELD ANALYSIS WITH INTEGRATED NETWORKS

SAVI: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: OVERTURNING IN THE SUBPOLAR NORTH ATLANTIC - LABRADOR BASIN AND FLOATS

IMPROVING HIGH RESOLUTION OFFSHORE WIND RESOURCE ASSESSMENTS AND FORECASTS USING OBSERVATIONS IN THE MA/RI LEASE AREAS

OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVICES, 2009-2011, R/V ATLANTIS, R/V KNORR, R/V OCEANUS

OPERATION OF A NATIONAL OCEAN SCIENCES ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY FACILITY AT THE WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS THEORY AND LAGRANGIAN DATA ASSIMILATION IN 4D GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS

USGS/WHOI COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT DATED 02/01/2010

AON COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CONTINUATION OF LONG-TERM BEAUFORT GYRE OBSERVATIONS IN 2020-2024 TO ENHANCE UNDERSTANDING OF THE ARCTIC'S ROLE IN CLIMATE VARIABILITY

LTER: LINKING PELAGIC COMMUNITY STRUCTURE WITH ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS AND PRODUCTION REGIMES ON THE CHANGING NORTHEAST US SHELF

BCO-DMO: STREAMLINING THE OCEAN DATA LIFE CYCLE TO ADVANCE INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND EDUCATION -THE CREATION, SYNTHESIS, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA ARE ESSENTIAL ACTIVITIES OF THE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH PROCESS. BEYOND THEIR INTENDED ANALYSES, RESULTANT DATA HOLD GREAT POTENTIAL TO ACCELERATE SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY THROUGH THEIR REUSE. OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PRODUCES DATA THAT ARE HIGHLY HETEROGENEOUS IN TYPE, SCALE AND FORMAT, AND ARE OFTEN COLLECTED AT GREAT COST AND EFFORT, MAKING THEM PARTICULARLY VALUABLE BUT CHALLENGING TO MANAGE. THE BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY AND DATA MANAGEMENT OFFICE (BCO-DMO) IS A DISCIPLINARY REPOSITORY CREATED TO ADDRESS OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CHALLENGES BY ASSEMBLING, CURATING, AND PUBLISHING DATA AND RELATED PRODUCTS RESULTING FROM MARINE AND LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH. BCO-DMO ASSEMBLES, CURATES, AND PUBLISHES RESEARCH-READY GLOBAL MARINE (AND INLAND WATERS) DATA AND METADATA RESULTING FROM OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH. THE REPOSITORY EMPLOYS LEADING STANDARDS, PRACTICES AND TECHNOLOGIES TO INCREASE THE FINDABILITY, ACCESSIBILITY, INTEROPERABILITY AND REUSABILITY (FAIRNESS) OF ITS PROVISIONED DATA AND TO FEDERATE ITS CONTENT WITH OTHER DATA INFRASTRUCTURES ACROSS RELEVANT DOMAINS. BROADER IMPACT ACTIVITIES INCLUDE THE CURATION OF AN OPENLY-ACCESSIBLE CATALOG THAT FACILITATES REUSE FOR RESEARCH, EDUCATION, RESOURCE MANAGEMENT. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BCO-DMO SYSTEM, INCLUDING RELATED RESOURCES, ENABLES DISCOVERY AND INTEGRATION OF DIVERSE DATASETS TO ACHIEVE A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF COMPLEX OCEAN ECOLOGICAL AND BIOGEOCHEMICAL SYSTEMS NECESSARY TO ADDRESS GLOBAL SCALE INTERDISCIPLINARY CHALLENGES. EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES, SUCH AS SOFTWARE CARPENTRY AND HACK-A-THON EVENTS, ARE PLANNED TO LEVERAGE OPPORTUNISTIC VENUES TO ENGAGE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS AND EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS, TRAINING THEM IN GOOD DATA PRACTICES AND THE USE OF COMPUTATIONAL NOTEBOOKS FOR OPEN SCIENCE WHILE PROVIDING REAL-WORLD DATA EXPOSURE. THESE EXPERIENCES ALSO PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF METADATA WITHIN THE BCO-DMO DATABASE WHILE FOSTERING A MORE DATA SAVVY OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH WORKFORCE. BCO-DMO IS PROVIDING DATA MANAGEMENT SERVICES TO THE OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH COMMUNITY WHILE MAKING FOCUSED TECHNOLOGICAL IMPROVEMENTS THROUGHOUT THE DATA LIFE CYCLE THAT ARE GREATLY ADVANCING OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY, IMPROVING END-USER EXPERIENCE, AND FACILITATING SYNTHESIS SCIENCE. OBJECTIVES INCLUDE: 1) CONTINUING THE CORE MISSION DATA MANAGEMENT SERVICES FOR NSF BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY AND OFFICE OF POLAR PROGRAMS PROJECTS, 2) OPTIMIZING THE EFFICIENCY OF DATA MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS, 3) DEVELOPING OUTREACH AND EDUCATION EFFORTS THAT PROMOTE DATA REUSE AND INTEREST IN OCEANOGRAPHIC SCIENCE, AND 4) IMPROVING DISCOVERABILITY AND INTEROPERABILITY OF THE BCO-DMO CATALOG FOR REUSE. THE PROJECT IS ALSO ENGAGING IN CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE RESEARCH TO EVALUATE THE APPLICATION OF TECHNOLOGIES, STANDARDS AND LEADING PRACTICES TO IMPROVE THE MANAGEMENT AND PROVISION OF OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA AND INFORMATION. THE PROJECT IS EXPLORING MULTI-FACETED APPLICATIONS OF AI AIMED AT STREAMLINING DATA SHARING, DISCOVERY AND ACCESS, ENABLING RESEARCHERS TO DOCUMENT THEIR OWN DATA FOR SHARING, LOCATE DATA OF INTEREST, AND INCORPORATE DESIRED DATA INTO AUTOMATED RESEARCH WORKFLOWS MORE EFFECTIVELY. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

USGS/WHOI COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT FOR SUBMISSION TO THE WOODS HOLE SCIENCE CENTER

MID-SCALE RI-1 (M1:DP): DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW GENERATION OF OCEAN-BOTTOM SEISMOGRAPHS FOR THE U.S. ACADEMIC COMMUNITY

OPERATION OF A NATIONAL OCEAN SCIENCES ACCELERATOR MASS SPEC -THE NATIONAL OCEAN SCIENCES ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETER (NOSAMS) WAS ESTABLISHED TO PROVIDE ANALYSES OF 14C AT NATURAL LEVELS. NOSAMS PLAYS AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE OCEANOGRAPHIC COMMUNITY BY GENERATING HIGH ACCURACY, HIGH PRECISION 14C DATA IN A TIMELY MANNER FOR SEAWATER, GROUNDWATER, ORGANIC CARBON (OC), CARBONATES, SEDIMENTS, INDIVIDUAL COMPOUNDS, AND OTHER MATERIALS. THE THREE-PRONGED MISSION OF NOSAMS IS TO MAKE HIGH QUALITY RADIOCARBON MEASUREMENTS ACCESSIBLE TO THE OCEAN SCIENCES COMMUNITY, TO CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVE AND DEVELOP NEW MEASUREMENT CAPABILITIES, AND TO SERVE AS AN EDUCATIONAL AND OUTREACH RESOURCE. NOSAMS PROVIDES SIGNIFICANT TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES FOR EARLY CAREER SCIENTISTS, AND ESPECIALLY GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS. GRADUATES ARE OFFERED INTERNSHIPS THAT WILL LEAD TO EXPERIENCE GAINED FROM RUNNING THEIR OWN SAMPLES, AND PUBLICATION OF THE RESULTS. POSTDOCS WILL BE SUPPORTED FOR 2-YEAR TERMS THROUGH THE AWARD, AS WELL AS A WHOI POSTDOC AT NO COST TO THIS AWARD. THE PIS PLAN TO HOLD A SERIES OF ONE-DAY SHORT COURSES EVERY YEAR AT EITHER OSM OR AGU FALL MEETINGS. NOSAMS IS UNIQUE IN OFFERING COMPREHENSIVE RADIOCARBON SERVICES AND EXPERTISE TO A DIVERSE COMMUNITY OF USERS. NOSAMS HAS PROVIDED DATA THAT IS CRITICAL TO UNDERSTANDING GEOPHYSICAL PROCESS IN THE EARTH'S SURFACE ENVIRONMENT, FOR EXAMPLE PAST AND PRESENT OCEAN CIRCULATION, AND BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING OF CARBON. WATER SAMPLES COLLECTED AS PART OF TWO MAJOR NSF-FUNDED EXPERIMENTS KNOWN AS THE CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND PREDICTABILITY (CLIVAR) AND GLOBAL OCEAN SHIP-BASED HYDROGRAPHIC INVESTIGATIONS PROGRAM (GO-SHIP) HAVE COMPRISED A SIGNIFICANT FRACTION OF SAMPLES ANALYZED BY NOSAMS TO DATE. NOSAMS WILL CONTINUE TO PROVIDE 14C ANALYSIS FOR THE OCEANOGRAPHIC COMMUNITY FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS AND WILL CONTINUE TO RESEARCH NEW METHODS FOR 14C DATING. OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS NOSAMS PLANS TO CAPITALIZE ON THE NEW CAPABILITIES OF THE RECENTLY INSTALLED MINI CARBON DATING SYSTEM (MICADAS) AND TO STREAMLINE OPERATIONS BY INCREASING AUTOMATION. THE HYBRID GAS INTERFACES OF THE MICADAS OFFER NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR RAPID MEASUREMENTS, NEW PROCEDURES, AND NEW SAMPLE TYPES. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.

A DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND PORTAL FOR ACCESS TO ECOLOGICAL AND BIOGEOCHEMICAL OCEAN DATA - BCO-DMO

R/V ARMSTRONG OPERATIONS- CY 16

OBJECTIVES: THIS PROPOSAL WILL ENHANCE THE SCIENTIFIC BASIS UPON WHICH NASA FORMULATES AND IMPLEMENTS SEARCH-FOR-LIFE STRATEGIES ON OCEAN WORLDS. ANTICIPATING THAT THE DIVERSITY OF OCEAN WORLDS MAY VARY GREATLY IN THE ABUNDANCE AND PRODUCTIVITY OF LIFE THEY COULD SUPPORT (THEIR BIOLOGICAL POTENTIAL) AND THE NATURE AND ABUNDANCE OF EVIDENCE FOR LIFE THEY COULD MANIFEST (THEIR BIOSIGNATURE POTENTIAL) WE ASK: ON WHICH OCEAN WORLDS AND WITH WHAT MEASUREMENTS WILL WE HAVE THE GREATEST POTENTIAL TO SUCCESSFULLY DETECT THE PRESENCE OF LIFE? WE WILL INTEGRATE ASTROBIOLOGY OCEAN SYSTEM AND PLANETARY SCIENCES TO PURSUE THIS QUESTION GUIDED BY TWO BASIC PRINCIPLES:(I) BOTH BIOLOGICAL POTENTIAL AND BIOSIGNATURE POTENTIAL ARE GOVERNED BY A NETWORK OF GEOPHYSICAL AND (BIO) GEOCHEMICAL PROCESSES NOT JUST STATIC CONDITIONS;(II) TO BE OF GREATEST UTILITY EFFORTS TO QUANTIFY BIOLOGICAL POTENTIAL AND BIOSIGNATURE POTENTIAL MUST IDENTIFY WHICH OBSERVABLE FEATURES ARE MOST DIAGNOSTIC OF THAT NETWORK OF PROCESSES. WITH THIS BASIS OUR PRINCIPLE OBJECTIVES ARE TO (1) CONSTRUCT AND EMPLOY A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK TO QUANTIFY THE DEPENDENCE OF BIOLOGICAL AND BIOSIGNATURE POTENTIAL ON GEOPHYSICAL AND (BIO)GEOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; (2) CONDUCT AN EXTENSIVE SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS TO IDENTIFY WHICH OBSERVABLE FEATURES WOULD BE MOST POWERFULLY DIAGNOSTIC OF PROCESSES THAT DETERMINE BIOLOGICAL AND BIOSIGNATURE POTENTIAL. THE LATTER ANALYSIS WILL IDENTIFY HIGH PRIORITIES FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT TO SUPPORT THE SEARCH FOR LIFE ON OCEAN WORLDS PARTICULARLY SPACECRAFT MEASUREMENT CAPABILITIES THAT CAN BEST RESOLVE BIOLOGICAL AND BIOSIGNATURE POTENTIAL AND UNDERSTUDIED OCEAN SYSTEM PROCESSES AND SETTINGS FOR WHICH EARTH ANALOGS SHOULD BE SOUGHT. IMPLEMENTATION: WE WILL ADDRESS THESE OBJECTIVES BY CONSTRUCTING A COMPREHENSIVE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK INFORMED AND GROUNDTRUTHED BY EXPERIMENTAL EFFORTS THAT CONNECTS THE BROAD SPECTRUM OF PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROCESSES THAT COULD GOVERN THE FLUXES OF MATERIAL AND ENERGY WITHIN AN OCEAN SYSTEM AND THEREBY DETERMINE BIOLOGICAL AND BIOSIGNATURE POTENTIAL. THE PROCESSES ACTIVE WITHIN ANY OCEAN ARE INTEGRATED AT THE SYSTEM SCALE RESPECTING NO DISCIPLINARY BOUNDARIES. CONSEQUENTLY WE HAVE ASSEMBLED A TEAM WITH A DIVERSITY OF EXPERTISE IN ASTROBIOLOGY TOGETHER WITH LEADERS IN THE STUDY OF PROCESSES ACROSS THE VARIOUS INTERFACES OF THE EARTH-OCEAN-LIFE SYSTEM. OUR TEAM MEMBERS WILL WORK ACROSS A NETWORK OF SIX INTERCONNECTED INVESTIGATIONS. EACH INVESTIGATION IS INHERENTLY INTERDISCIPLINARY IN ITSELF BUT AS IN EARTH S OCEANS WE PREDICT THAT IT WILL BE AT THE INTERFACES BETWEEN THESE DIFFERENT SETS OF INVESTIGATIONS THAT OUR MOST EXCITING AND ORIGINAL DISCOVERIES WILL BE MADE. OUR GOAL IS THUS TO MOVE BEYOND THE MODELING AND EXPERIMENTAL EFFORTS PLANNED FOR EACH COMPONENT OF THE SYSTEM TO EXPLORE THE FEEDBACKS AND INTERCONNECTIONS AMONG THOSE COMPONENTS. WE WILL DO SO WITH DEDICATED SYNTHESIS ACTIVITIES THAT ENGAGE BOTH WITHIN AND BEYOND OUR TEAM TO DEVELOP A FLEXIBLE INTERPRETIVE FRAMEWORK THAT INTEGRATES A DIVERSITY OF GEOPHYSICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL OBSERVATIONS TO QUANTIFY BIOLOGICAL AND BIOSIGNATURE POTENTIAL OF ANY OCEAN WORLD. SIGNIFICANCE: OUR PROJECT AIMS TO DEVELOP A NEW CULTURE AT THE INTERSECTION OF ASTROBIOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY WHERE BOTH DISCIPLINES CAN BUILD ON INSIGHTS AND METHODOLOGY GAINED FROM EACH OTHER. WE ARE DIRECTLY RESPONSIVE TO MAJOR TOPIC 5 OF THE NASA ASTROBIOLOGY STRATEGY 2015 IDENTIFYING EXPLORING AND CHARACTERIZING ENVIRONMENTS FOR HABITABILITY AND BIOSIGNATURES AND OUR WORK WILL BOTH BROADEN AND DEEPEN COLLABORATION WITHIN THE NAI PARTICULARLY THROUGH BRIDGING BETWEEN AND ADDING BROADER CONTEXT TO CAN 7 TEAMS: ROCK POWERED LIFE AND ICY WORLDS. OUR WORK WILL IMPROVE THE CONFIDENCE WITH WHICH WE CAN INTERPRET EXISTING AND PLANNED OBSERVATIONS (E.G. CASSINI EUROPA CLIPPER) AND HELP PRIORITIZE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW MEASUREMENT CAPABILITIES FOR OCEAN WORLD EXPLORATION.

A MAJOR DIFFICULTY IN SIMULATING EARTH S CLIMATE SYSTEM IS THAT THERE ARE INTERACTIONS ACROSS SCALES SO THAT THE LARGE TIME AND SPACE SCALES CAN BE SENSITIVE TO PROCESSES ON SMALL SCALES. AS THE COMPUTATIONAL RESOLUTION OF GLOBAL OCEAN MODELS HAS IMPROVED SCIENTISTS HAVE BEGUN TO SUSPECT THAT KILOMETER-SCALE EDDIES AND FRONTS CALLED SUBMESOSCALE VARIABILITY HAVE A NET EFFECT ON OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE HEAT EXCHANGE THAT IS LARGER THAN THE HEATING FROM THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT (SU ET AL. 2018). STATE-OF-THE-ART COMPUTER MODELS AGREE IN PREDICTING THAT THESE EDDIES HAVE IMPORTANT LONG-TERM EFFECTS ON THE UPPER-OCEAN BUT THEIR PREDICTIONS ARE SENSITIVE TO RELATIVELY SMALL DETAILS IN MODEL PHYSICS AND IMPLEMENTATION. THE RESOLUTION AND DETAIL OF THESE SIMULATIONS HAS SURPASSED OUR ABILITY TO GROUND TRUTH THEM WITH SPACEBORNE OR IN SITU SENSORS. THERE IS THUS A PRESSING NEED FOR A COMPREHENSIVE BENCHMARK DATA SET ON THESE SUBMESOSCALE MOTIONS TO ADDRESS THIS IMPORTANT SOURCE OF UNCERTAINTY IN SIMULATING THE GLOBAL OCEAN. THIS IS A PROPOSAL TO TEST THE HYPOTHESIS THAT SUBMESOSCALE OCEAN DYNAMICS MAKE IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO VERTICAL EXCHANGE OF CLIMATE AND BIOLOGICAL VARIABLES IN THE UPPER OCEAN. THIS WILL REQUIRE COORDINATED APPLICATION OF NEWLY-DEVELOPED IN SITU AND REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES AND IT WILL PROVIDE AN UNPRECEDENTED VIEW OF THE PHYSICS OF SUBMESOSCALE EDDIES AND FRONTS AND THEIR EFFECTS ON VERTICAL TRANSPORT IN THE UPPER OCEAN. THE SUB-MESOSCALE OCEAN DYNAMICS EXPERIMENT (S-MODE) WILL USE MEASUREMENTS FROM A NOVEL COMBINATION OF PLATFORMS AND INSTRUMENTS) ALONG WITH DATA ANALYSIS AND MODELING TO TEST THE HYPOTHESIS.

LINE W: A SUSTAINED MEASUREMENT PROGRAM SAMPLING THE NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT AND GULF STREAM AT 39ON

WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION SEA GRANT OMNIBUS PROPOSAL, 2014-2018

INTEGRATED RAPID-RESPONSE OBSERVATIONS AND OCEAN ENSEMBLE OPTIMIZATION TO IMPROVE STORM INTENSITY FORECASTS IN THE NORTHEAST U.S.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: OVERTURNING IN THE SUBPOLAR NORTH ATLANTIC - LABRADOR BASIN AND FLOATS

WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION SEA GRANT OMNIBUS PROPOSAL, 2018-2022

AON: CONTINUING THE BEAUFORT GYRE OBSERVING SYSTEM TO DOCUMENT AND ENHANCE UNDERSTANDING ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE IN THE ARCTIC

INTEGRATED MODELING AND ANALYSIS OF PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHIC AND ACOUSTIC PROCESSES

LTER: SCALES OF VARIABILITY IN ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS AND PRODUCTION ON THE CHANGING NORTHEAST U.S. SHELF (NES II) -THE NORTHEAST U.S. SHELF (NES) IS THE REGION OF THE NORTHWEST ATLANTIC OCEAN THAT OVERLIES THE CONTINENTAL SHELF FROM NORTH CAROLINA TO MAINE. THE NES HAS A LONG HISTORY OF INTENSE HUMAN UTILIZATION AND PROVIDES AN ARRAY OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES INCLUDING SHIPPING, RECREATION, CONSERVATION, AND ENERGY DEVELOPMENT. THE NES ALSO COMPRISES A SEASONALLY DYNAMIC AND PRODUCTIVE ECOSYSTEM, SUPPORTING RENOWNED FISHERIES, WHOSE INTEGRITY IS CRITICAL TO THE HEALTH OF THE NORTHEAST U.S. ECONOMY. THE NES ECOSYSTEM?S PRODUCTIVITY IS FUELED BY PLANKTONIC ORGANISMS THAT INTERACT WITH EACH OTHER IN COMPLEX FOOD WEBS WHOSE STRUCTURE DEPENDS ON ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS (E.G., TEMPERATURE, LIGHT, AND NUTRIENT LEVELS). THESE CONDITIONS ARE RAPIDLY CHANGING BECAUSE OF CLIMATE-CHANGE-RELATED WARMING AND HUMAN UTILIZATION. FOR EXAMPLE, THE NES IS SEEING THE LARGEST DEVELOPMENT OF COASTAL WIND FARMS IN THE U.S. TO DATE. PHASE II OF THE NORTHEAST U.S. SHELF LONG-TERM ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH PROGRAM (NES-LTER II) ADVANCES OUR ABILITY TO PREDICT HOW ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACTS WILL AFFECT THE DYNAMICS OF THE SHELF?S PLANKTONIC FOOD WEBS AND THEIR ABILITY TO SUPPORT THE PRODUCTIVITY OF HIGHER TROPHIC LEVELS, FROM FISH TO WHALES AND HUMANS. BECAUSE THE NES IS SUBJECT TO LONG-TERM CHALLENGES THAT WILL IMPACT MANY PEOPLE, THE PROJECT EMPHASIZES AN ACTIVE EDUCATION COMPONENT FOR HELPING TO TRAIN THE NEXT GENERATION OF MARINE SCIENTISTS AND OUTREACH ACTIVITIES TO INCREASE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. THE PROJECT TEAM CONDUCTS EDUCATION AND OUTREACH VIA THREE MAIN COMPONENTS: (1) TRAINING AND MENTORING FOR EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS FROM UNDERGRADUATES TO POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS IN LTER RESEARCH; (2) AN LTER SCHOOLYARD PROGRAM THAT ENGAGES MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS AND STUDENTS; AND (3) PUBLIC OUTREACH THROUGH TARGETED EVENTS, THE PROJECT WEBSITE, AND SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS. PATTERNS OF ECOSYSTEM CHANGE OVER SEASONS TO DECADES HAVE BEEN DOCUMENTED IN THE NES, BUT THE KEY MECHANISMS LINKING CHANGES IN THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT, PLANKTONIC FOOD WEBS, AND HIGHER TROPHIC LEVELS REMAIN POORLY UNDERSTOOD. AS A RESULT, PREDICTIVE CAPABILITY IS LIMITED AND MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES ARE LARGELY REACTIVE. TO ADDRESS THESE NEEDS, NES II IS TARGETING A MECHANISTIC UNDERSTANDING OF HOW FOOD WEB STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION RESPONDS TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS, NATURAL VARIABILITY AND HUMAN INDUCED CHANGES. NES II COMBINES OBSERVATIONS THAT PROVIDE REGIONAL-SCALE CONTEXT, PROCESS CRUISES ALONG A HIGH GRADIENT CROSS-SHELF TRANSECT, HIGH-FREQUENCY TIME SERIES AT AN INNER-SHELF LOCATION, COUPLED BIOLOGICAL-PHYSICAL FOOD WEB MODELS, AND TARGETED POPULATION MODELS. IN ADDITION, THE RESEARCH TEAM IS INVESTIGATING HOW COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AND TROPHIC TRANSFER ARE IMPACTED BY DISTURBANCES INCLUDING (I) THE INCREASING PREVALENCE OF HEAT WAVES, (II) INTRUSIONS OF OFFSHORE WATER ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASING INSTABILITY IN THE GULF STREAM, AND (III) OFFSHORE WIND FARMS NOW UNDER CONSTRUCTION ON THE NES. THE LONG-TERM RESEARCH PLAN IS GUIDED BY THE OVERARCHING SCIENCE QUESTION: ?HOW IS CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTING THE PELAGIC NES ECOSYSTEM AND, IN PARTICULAR, AFFECTING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COMPOSITIONAL (E.G., SPECIES DIVERSITY AND SIZE STRUCTURE) AND AGGREGATE (E.G., RATES OF PRIMARY PRODUCTION, AND TRANSFER OF ENERGY TO HIGHER TROPHIC LEVELS) VARIABILITY?? THE INVESTIGATORS ARE ASSESSING THE EXTENT TO WHICH THE NES ECOSYSTEM POSSESSES A BIODIVERSITY RESERVOIR THAT IS RESILIENT TO DRAMATIC CHANGES IN THE ENVIRONMENT AND THAT WILL ALLOW THE ECOSYSTEM TO MAINTAIN OVERALL PRODUCTIVITY. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

WOODS HOLE CENTER FOR OCEANS AND HUMAN HEALTH

SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPPORT EQUIPMENT: OCEANOGRAPHIC CABLE -THE WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION, ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY-NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC LABORATORY SYSTEM (UNOLS), PROPOSES TO HOST THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION WIRE POOL AND UNDERTAKE THE PROCUREMENT OF ELECTRO-MECHANICAL OCEANOGRAPHIC CABLES, TORQUE-BALANCED WIRE, AND SYNTHETIC ROPE TO MEET THE NEEDS OF UNOLS SHIPS FOR A FIVE-YEAR PERIOD BEGINNING 15 APRIL 2022. CURRENTLY, THE WIRE POOL MAINTAINS TWO STORAGE LOCATIONS TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE FLEET. ONE IS LOCATED ON THE EAST COAST OF THE UNITED STATES AT THE WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION AND THE OTHER IS ON THE WEST COAST AT THE SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY MARINE FACILITY. IN 1992 THE PROCEDURE OF ALLOCATING THE DELIVERY OF ALL NEW PROCUREMENTS TO EITHER THE EAST COAST OR WEST COAST CABLE POOL LOCATIONS WAS INITIATED. THE RESULT IS THAT ALL CABLES ARE ALLOCATED TO UNOLS VESSELS FROM THE NEAREST STORAGE LOCATION AS THE NEED ARISES. THIS PROCEDURE WILL CONTINUE. THE POOL WILL REMAIN UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION. FURTHER, ON BEHALF OF UNOLS, THE WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION PROPOSES TO CONTINUE TO PROVIDE COORDINATION OF THE WIRE POOL BY OVERSEEING THE INSPECTION, ACCEPTANCE, MAINTENANCE, TESTING AND ASSOCIATED RECORDKEEPING OF THE CABLES AND ROPES. BROADER IMPACTS THE PRINCIPAL IMPACT OF THE PRESENT PROPOSAL IS UNDER MERIT REVIEW CRITERION 2 OF THE PROPOSAL GUIDELINES (NSF 19-602). IT PROVIDES INFRASTRUCTURE SUPPORT FOR SCIENTISTS TO USE THE VESSEL AND ITS SHARED-USE INSTRUMENTATION IN SUPPORT OF THEIR NSF-FUNDED OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PROJECTS (WHICH INDIVIDUALLY UNDERGO SEPARATE REVIEW BY THE RELEVANT RESEARCH PROGRAM OF NSF). THE ACQUISITION, MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION OF SHARED-USE INSTRUMENTATION ALLOWS NSF-FUNDED RESEARCHERS FROM ANY US UNIVERSITY OR LAB ACCESS TO WORKING, CALIBRATED INSTRUMENTS FOR THEIR RESEARCH, REDUCING THE COST OF THAT RESEARCH, AND EXPANDING THE BASE OF POTENTIAL RESEARCHERS. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.

NSF CONVERGENCE ACCELERATOR TRACK E: DIGITAL REEFS: A GLOBALLY COORDINATED, UNIVERSALLY ACCESSIBLE DIGITAL TWIN NETWORK FOR THE CORAL REEF BLUE ECONOMY -CORAL REEFS SUPPORT ALMOST ONE BILLION PEOPLE WORLDWIDE, YET DEVELOPMENT OF A THRIVING CORAL REEF BLUE ECONOMY IS THREATENED BY UNPRECEDENTED GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE AND LACK OF UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO THE DATA AND TOOLS NEEDED TO ADDRESS 21ST CENTURY CHALLENGES. DIGITAL REEFS LEVERAGES DIGITAL TWIN TECHNOLOGY, GAMING ENGINE PLATFORMS AND CLOUD ANALYTICS TO TRANSFORM THE WAY HUMANS? ACCESS, INTERACT WITH, AND USE SCIENTIFIC DATA AND MODELS TO SOLVE SOCIETIES? MOST PRESSING ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS. DIGITAL REEFS DELIVERS INTUITIVE, IMMERSIVE 4-DIMENSIONAL VISUALIZATIONS OF EACH CORAL REEF ECOSYSTEM AND A SUITE OF INTERACTIVE USER-INSPIRED TOOLS TO EMPOWER MILLIONS OF STAKEHOLDERS AROUND THE WORLD WITH THE MOST EFFECTIVE DECISION-MAKING TOOLS IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING OCEAN. WITHIN 5 YEARS, DIGITAL REEFS, SCALED TO THE GLOBALLY INTERCONNECTED DIGITAL REEFS NETWORK, WILL BE THE GO-TO TOOL FOR EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT, CONSERVATION, AND RESTORATION OF CORAL REEFS IN THE 21ST CENTURY, AND FOR COMMUNICATING AND SHARING DATA, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE. ULTIMATELY, THE DIGITAL REEFS TECHNOLOGY FRAMEWORK WILL PROVIDE THE BLUEPRINT FOR EXPANSION OF DIGITAL TWIN TECHNOLOGY OCEANWIDE. OCCUPYING LESS THAN 1% OF THE OCEAN SURFACE, CORAL REEF ECOSYSTEMS PLAY A DISPROPORTIONATELY LARGE ROLE IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY, WITH AN ESTIMATED ANNUAL VALUE OF $1 TRILLION. IN THE US, 4 MILLION ACRES OF CORAL REEF SUPPORT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF JOBS AND PROTECT VAST EXPANSES OF COASTAL PROPERTY, INCLUDING STRATEGIC MILITARY INFRASTRUCTURE. YET THE SUSTAINABLE GROWTH OF THE CORAL REEF BLUE ECONOMY IS THREATENED BY UNPRECEDENTED CLIMATE CHANGE AND A LACK OF ACCESS TO INTUITIVE, ACTIONABLE DATA THAT CAN HELP TO SOLVE PROBLEMS. THE PROJECT BRIDGES THIS GAP, LEVERAGING 21ST CENTURY DIGITAL TWIN TECHNOLOGIES TO BUILD DIGITAL REPLICAS OF ACTUAL CORAL REEF ECOSYSTEMS, CONTINUOUSLY UPDATED IN NEAR-REAL TIME BY SENSOR AND SATELLITE DATA TRANSMITTED FROM THE PHYSICAL REEF. THE DIGITAL REEFS PLATFORM EMPLOYS VISUALIZATION SOFTWARES AND GAMING ENGINES TO CREATE INTUITIVE, IMMERSIVE, INTERACTIVE 4-D VISUALIZATIONS OF EACH REEF, AND A SUITE OF USER-INSPIRED DECISION-MAKING TOOLS VIA AN EASILY NAVIGABLE USER-INTERFACE. OUR FULLY FUNCTIONAL, INTERACTIVE DIGITAL REEFS PROTOTYPE OF PALMYRA ATOLL, DELIVERED IN TWO YEARS, WILL INCLUDE 4 DATA LAYERS (3-D REEF BATHYMETRY, TEMPERATURE, CURRENTS, AND BENTHIC COMMUNITIES AND CHANGES THROUGH TIME) AND 4 USER TOOLS THAT FACILITATE CLIMATE RISK ASSESSMENT, ECOSYSTEM SERVICE OPTIMIZATION, EFFECTIVE RESTORATION DESIGNS AND INVASIVE SPECIES AND PLASTICS MONITORING. A MODULAR PLATFORM DESIGN WILL ALLOW EASY INTEGRATION OF ADDITIONAL DATA AND TOOLS, GUIDED BY USER-INSPIRED RESEARCH CONDUCTED THROUGHOUT THE PROJECT. APPLICATION OF GAMING ENGINES TO CREATE IMMERSIVE, VIRTUAL REALITY EXPERIENCES WITH SCIENTIFIC DATA WILL DELIVER LIVING CORAL REEF ECOSYSTEMS INTO HOMES, CLASSROOMS AND BOARDROOMS ALIKE, TO TRANSFORM OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE OCEAN AND THE BLUE ECONOMY. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.

WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: NEW MARINER AWARD. CONTROL NUMBER: 1726-1516 TITLE: ''INTEGRATED SEAWEED HATCHERY & SELECTIVE BREEDING TECH FOR SCALABLE OFFSHORE SEAWEED FARMING''

MERHAB: GOM-ESP: INCORPORATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLE PROCESSOR TECHNOLOGY INTO GULF OF MAINE HAB MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT

AON: SUSTAINED OBSERVATION AND ANALYSIS OF THE ARCTIC UPPER OCEAN THERMOHALINE STRATIFICATION

FIVE YEAR REQUEST FOR EAST COAST WINCH POOL FACILITY (CY16-20) YEAR 1

FIVE YEAR REQUEST FOR EAST COAST WINCH POOL FACILITY (CY22-26) YEAR 1 -A REQUEST IS MADE BY THE WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION TO FUND THE OPERATION OF THE EAST COAST WINCH POOL FOR AN ADDITIONAL FIVE YEARS. THE INVESTMENT IN OVERBOARDING EQUIPMENT IS AN EXPENSIVE UNDERTAKING DUE TO THE HIGH COST OF PURCHASE, MAINTENANCE AND SHIPPING OF THESE SYSTEMS. IN AN EFFORT TO NOT ONLY ENSURE THAT THESE SYSTEMS ARE AVAILABLE TO RESEARCHERS FOR THEIR WORK BUT TO ALSO ENSURE THAT THAT THEY ARE PROPERLY MAINTAINED AND AVAILABLE TO THE ENTIRE SCIENCE COMMUNITY WITH EXPERT SUPPORT, NSF CREATED THE EAST COAST WINCH POOL. THIS ?POOL? WAS CREATED TO OFFER SCIENTISTS A CONVENIENT SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT FOR ALL OF THEIR OVERBOARDING EQUIPMENT NEEDS AS WELL AS THE EXPERTISE TO PROVIDE THEM WITH CREATIVE ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS FOR THEIR UNIQUE REQUIREMENTS WHILE AT THE SAME TIME REDUCING COST BY POOLING EQUIPMENT FOR USE BY THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY. BROADER IMPACTS THE PRINCIPAL IMPACT OF THE PRESENT PROPOSAL IS UNDER MERIT REVIEW CRITERION 2 OF THE PROPOSAL GUIDELINES (NSF 19-602). IT PROVIDES INFRASTRUCTURE SUPPORT FOR SCIENTISTS TO USE THE VESSEL AND ITS SHARED-USE INSTRUMENTATION IN SUPPORT OF THEIR NSF-FUNDED OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PROJECTS (WHICH INDIVIDUALLY UNDERGO SEPARATE REVIEW BY THE RELEVANT RESEARCH PROGRAM OF NSF). THE ACQUISITION, MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION OF SHARED-USE INSTRUMENTATION ALLOWS NSF-FUNDED RESEARCHERS FROM ANY US UNIVERSITY OR LAB ACCESS TO WORKING, CALIBRATED INSTRUMENTS FOR THEIR RESEARCH, REDUCING THE COST OF THAT RESEARCH, AND EXPANDING THE BASE OF POTENTIAL RESEARCHERS. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.

AUTONOMOUS UNMANNED SYSTEMS FOR ACOUSTIC DETECTION, LOCALIZATION, AND CLASSIFICATION

AON: CONTINUATION OF THE OF ICE-TETHERED PROFILER CONTRIBUTION TO THE ARCTIC OBSERVING NETWORK

CY 2005-2006 USGS / WHOI COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT DATED 1/18/05, AMENDED 2/10/05

THE WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION (WHOI) SEA GRANT (SG) PROGRAM PLAYS A CRUCIAL ROLE IN ADVANCING MARINE AND COASTAL RESEARCH, CONSERVATION, AND EDUCATION IN THE COASTAL REGIONS OF MASSACHUSETTS (MA). AS PART OF THE BROADER SEA GRANT NETWORK, WHOI SEA GRANT LEVERAGES ITS AFFILIATION WITH ONE OF THE WORLD'S PREMIER OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTIONS TO ADDRESS PRESSING CHALLENGES FACING MA COASTAL COMMUNITIES AND MARINE ECOSYSTEMS. WITH A STRONG COMMITMENT TO SCIENTIFIC EXCELLENCE, STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT, SUSTAINABLE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, AND DEIJA (DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION, JUSTICE, AND ACCESSIBILITY), WHOI SEA GRANT IS DEDICATED TO PROMOTING THE HEALTH AND RESILIENCE OF COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS WHILE SUPPORTING THE ECONOMIC WELL-BEING OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES. THROUGH ITS RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND OUTREACH EFFORTS, WHOI SEA GRANT STRIVES TO FOSTER A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF OUR OCEANS, DRIVE INNOVATION IN MARINE SCIENCE, AND EMPOWER COASTAL STAKEHOLDERS TO MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS FOR THE BENEFIT OF BOTH PRESENT AND FUTURE GENERATIONS.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: AON: CONTINUING THE BEAUFORT GYRE OBSERVING SYSTEM TO DOCUMENT AND ENHANCE UNDERSTANDING OF THE BEAUFORT GYRE FRESHWATER RES

OCEAN CARBON BIOGEOCHEMISTRY PROJECT OFFICE

WHCOHH: HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOM DYNAMICS AND EPIGENETIC MECHANISM OF TOXIN ACTION

MARINE RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT: WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION (WHOI)SEA GRANT OMNIBUS, 2010-2012

OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVICES 2006-2008, R/VS ATLANTIS, KNORR AND OCEANUS

WOODS HOLE CENTER FOR OCEANS AND HUMAN HEALTH

SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPPORT EQUIPMENT: OCEANOGRAPHIC CABLE

UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC PROPAGATION AND COMMUNICATIONS: A COUPLED RESEARCH PROGRAM (TOPIC# 4)

DENSE WATER PATHWAYS FEEDING THE FAROE BANK CHANNEL OVERFLOW -THE OVERFLOW OF DENSE WATER ACROSS THE GREENLAND-SCOTLAND RIDGE (GSR), AND ITS SUBSEQUENT ENTRAINMENT, IS A FUNDAMENTAL COMPONENT OF THE ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATION (AMOC) WHICH HELPS MAINTAIN EARTH?S CLIMATE. IT IS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT TO DETERMINE THE MECHANISMS, FORCING, AND VARIABILITY OF THE AMOC. THE PROPOSED COLLABORATIVE PROGRAM, INCLUDING A MOORING ARRAY, HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS AND MODELING, WILL PROVIDE A MAJOR CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS THIS GOAL. THIS PROJECT WILL DETERMINE WHERE THE DENSEST WATER IS FORMED IN THE NORDIC SEAS, HOW THIS WATER PROGRESSES TO THE GSR, AND HOW IT IS MODIFIED ALONG THE WAY, INCLUDING THE ROLE OF ATMOSPHERIC FORCING. THIS IN TURN WILL PROVIDE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE MEANS BY WHICH THE WARMING CLIMATE MAY IMPACT THE AMOC. THE PROJECT IS PART OF A SEPARATELY FUNDED LARGE INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM. IT WILL FUND A POST-DOCTORAL INVESTIGATOR AND TWO PART-TIME GUEST GRADUATE STUDENTS. AN OUTREACH PROGRAM WILL BE UNDERTAKEN THAT INCLUDES A PROJECT WEBSITE AND A HOST OF ACTIVITIES ENGAGING THE PUBLIC IN THE FIELDWORK. A PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER/FILMMAKER/ILLUSTRATOR/WRITER WILL PARTICIPATE ON ONE OF THE SHIPBOARD SURVEYS. THIS PROJECT WOULD MAINTAIN A ONE YEAR HIGH-RESOLUTION MOORING ARRAY TO MEASURE THE ICELAND-FAROE SLOPE JET, WHICH APPEARS TO BE THE MAIN SOURCE OF DENSE WATER FEEDING THE FAROE BANK CHANNEL OVERFLOW, AND WHICH IN TURN ACCOUNTS FOR ROUGHLY HALF OF THE TOTAL OVERFLOW TRANSPORT ACROSS THE GREENLAND SCOTLAND RIDGE. ACCOMPANYING SHIPBOARD HYDROGRAPHIC/VELOCITY SURVEYS WILL TRACE THE FLOW UPSTREAM TO ITS SOURCE REGION(S), AND ALSO DOCUMENT ITS DOWNSTREAM EVOLUTION TO WHERE IT OVERFLOWS IN THE FAROE BANK CHANNEL. THE USE OF A GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL, IDEALIZED MODEL, AND SIMPLE THEORY WILL PUT THE OBSERVATIONS INTO A DYNAMICAL CONTEXT. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.

WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION, NEW AWARD PROJECT TITLE: SCALEABLE, MULTIPARAMETER CHIP-SIZE CARBON SENSORS FOA: DE-FOA-0002989 CONTROL# 2989-1505 WOODS HOLE IS PROPOSING TO DEVELOP SMALL, LOW-COST, MULTIPARAMETER CARBON SENSORS (I.E. SENSOR MOTES) THAT CAN BE FABRICATED AT SCALE WHILE STILL MEETING CURRENT STATE OF THE ART ACCURACY METRICS. OUR SENSORS WOULD ENABLE COST-EFFECTIVE, DISTRIBUTED SENSING ARRAYS THAT COULD CHARACTERIZE THE EVOLUTION AND FATE OF MARINE CARBON OVER THE BROAD SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALES NEEDED FOR MONITORING, VERIFICATION AND REPORTING (MRV) OF MARINE CARBON DIOXIDE REMOVAL (MCDR).

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: MEASUREMENTS AND MODELLING OF THE INDONESIAN THROUGHFLOW INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENT (MINTIE)

VENTILATION OF DENMARK STRAIT OVERFLOW WATER IN THE ICELAND AND GREENLAND SEAS

AON: OBSERVING THE EVOLVING CENTRAL ARCTIC OCEAN WITH ICE-TETHERED PROFILERS

DEVELOPMENT OF THE NORTHEASTERN REGION COASTAL OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEM

SAVI: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: OVERTURNING IN THE SUBPOLAR NORTH ATLANTIC--THE IRMINGER AND ICELAND BASINS

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: THE INTERNAL WAVE SPECTRUM AND BOUNDARY MIXING IN THE SUB-TROPICAL SOUTH ATLANTIC -THE RESEARCH WILL EXAMINE THE CAPABILITY OF GLOBAL SCALE OCEAN CIRCULATION MODELS (OCMS) TO REPRESENT INTERNAL GRAVITY WAVES, THEIR DYNAMICS AND MIXING WITH CHARACTERIZING THE OCEANIC INTERNAL WAVEFIELD AT REGIONAL SCALES THROUGH A TARGETED FIELD CAMPAIGN AND NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS. THE PROJECT WILL OBTAIN NEW OBSERVATIONS THROUGH A FIELD CAMPAIGN AND TARGETED NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS AND WILL LEVERAGE EXISTING DATA. THIS PROJECT IS JOINTLY FUNDED BY NSF AND THE OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH (ONR) THROUGH THE NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM (NOPP). A MOORED ARRAY WILL BE DEPLOYED IN THE BRAZIL BASIN TO QUANTIFY NEAR BOUNDARY FLOW DISTORTIONS DUE TO FINITE AMPLITUDE TOPOGRAPHY, NEAR BOUNDARY INTERNAL WAVE BREAKING, AND MOMENTUM AND BUOYANCY FLUXES IN BOTH TURBULENT AND INTERNAL WAVEBANDS. EXTANT DATA OBTAINED AS PART OF A TRACER RELEASE EXPERIMENT IN THE SAME DOMAIN AND DATA FROM THE GLOBAL DRIFTER PROGRAM WILL BE USED TO CREATE A REGIONAL STATISTICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE OCEANIC INTERNAL WAVEFIELD IN THE SUB-TROPICAL SOUTH ATLANTIC. THIS CHARACTERIZATION WILL BE COMPARED TO A HIERARCHY OF FIVE MODELS: AN OPERATIONAL FORECAST MODEL (HYCOM), O(1-3) KM HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION ROMS-CROCO, A NONHYDROSTATIC ROMS-CROCO ?MOUNTAIN SCALE? SIMULATIONS WITH 50 M RESOLUTION, A REALISTIC LARGE EDDY SIMULATIONS (LES), AND A QUASI-ANALYTIC SPECTRAL REPRESENTATION OF THE INTERNAL WAVE ENERGY SPECTRUM. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.

SHALLOW WATER ACOUSTIC EXPERIMENTS AND PRELIMINARY PLANNING FOR FY06 FIELDWORK

AON: SUSTAINED OBSERVATION AND STUDY OF THE RAPIDLY EVOLVING ARCTIC OCEAN ENVIRONMENT -CLIMATE MODELS PREDICT THAT THE ARCTIC WILL EXPERIENCE THE GREATEST AMOUNT OF WARMING ON THE PLANET IN THE COMING DECADES. SEEMINGLY CONSISTENT WITH THOSE MODELING RESULTS, ARCTIC SEA ICE EXTENT AND TOTAL VOLUME HAVE DECREASED MARKEDLY SINCE THE TURN OF THE CENTURY. THE EXPANDED AREAS OF THE SEA SURFACE EXPOSED TO THE ATMOSPHERE IN SUMMER ARE WARMING AND OCEAN CURRENTS ARE CARRYING THAT HEAT BELOW THE ICE-COVERED REGIONS TO DRIVE ADDITIONAL ICE MELTING FROM BELOW. SUSTAINED OBSERVATIONS OF THE RAPIDLY-EVOLVING ARCTIC OCEAN ARE VITAL FOR DOCUMENTING ONGOING CHANGES AND EXPLORING THE RESPONSIBLE MECHANISMS, RESEARCH THAT WILL ULTIMATELY LEAD TO IMPROVED ABILITY TO FORECAST THE FUTURE STATE OF THE ARCTIC. THIS AWARD WILL SUPPORT ANNUAL DEPLOYMENTS OF AUTONOMOUS, EXPENDABLE INSTRUMENT SYSTEMS (CALLED ICE-TETHERED PROFILERS, ITP) THAT SAMPLE AND REPORT IN REAL TIME THE SEA WATER TEMPERATURE AND SALINITY OF THE UPPER OCEAN AS THE BUOYS DRIFT WITH THEIR SUPPORTING SEA ICE FLOES, CONTINUING AN OBSERVATIONAL RECORD INITIATED IN 2004. THESE DATA HAVE PROVEN TO BE A VALUABLE RESOURCE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, STUDENT PROJECTS, AND OPERATIONAL FORECASTING; TO DATE, APPROXIMATELY 275 RESEARCH PAPERS HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED AND NUMEROUS STUDENT DISSERTATIONS WRITTEN THAT HAVE UTILIZED ITP DATA. OVER THE DURATION OF THIS 5-YEAR AWARD, A TOTAL OF 18 ITP SYSTEMS WILL BE CONSTRUCTED, TESTED AND DEPLOYED IN THE ARCTIC ON CRUISES OF OPPORTUNITY WITH THE RESULTING DATA BEING MADE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE AND PRESERVED IN NATIONAL DATA ARCHIVES. IMPROVED FORECAST SKILL BASED ON THESE AND OTHER POLAR OBSERVATIONS WILL ALLOW MORE EFFICIENT PLANNING FOR RESILIENT COASTAL INFRASTRUCTURE, FISHERY AND RESOURCE EXTRACTION, NAVIGATION, SEARCH AND RESCUE ACTIVITIES AND DEFENSE SYSTEMS. BEGUN IN 2004, THE ICE-TETHERED PROFILER PROGRAM HAS ANNUALLY FIELDED INSTRUMENT SYSTEMS DISTRIBUTED THROUGHOUT THE DEEP ARCTIC THAT RETURN YEAR-ROUND DAILY VERTICAL PROFILES OF SEA WATER TEMPERATURE AND SALINITY, AND OTHER WATER PROPERTIES AT SUB-METER VERTICAL RESOLUTION OVER DEPTHS OF ~5 M TO ~750 M AS THE BUOYS DRIFT WITH THEIR SUPPORTING ICE FLOES. A NEW VARIANT OF THE ITP, THE TETHERED OCEAN PROFILER, TOP, FOCUSES ON WATERS FROM ~200 M DEPTH UP TO WITHIN 15 CM OF THE ICE-OCEAN INTERFACE. THE PRESENT AWARD WILL CONTINUE AND IMPROVE THE ITP/TOP OBSERVING PROGRAM FOR ANOTHER 5 YEARS. A THREE-PRONGED EFFORT IS PLANNED TO CONSIST OF (1) ANNUAL DEPLOYMENTS OF OPERATIONAL ITPS AND TOPS FROM ARCTIC CRUISES OF OPPORTUNITY AND DISSEMINATION OF THE RESULTING DATA, (2) ONGOING ENGINEERING EFFORTS TO KEEP ABREAST OF THE EVOLVING SUPPLY CHAIN FOR ITP/TOP COMPONENTS, AND (3) QUALITY CONTROL AND SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS OF THE RESULTING DATA WITH RESULTS PUBLISHED IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS. DATA FROM THESE AUTONOMOUS INSTRUMENTS WILL BE PUBLICLY DISTRIBUTED VIA THE PROJECT WEBSITE, THE GLOBAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM (GTS) NETWORK, THE ARCTIC DATA CENTER, AND THE NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.

PURPOSE: THE GOAL OF THIS RESEARCH IS TO IMPROVE THE DETECTION OF NORTH ATLANTIC RIGHT WHALES ALONG THE NORTHEAST AND MID-ATLANTIC U.S. COAST. FOR THIS PROJECT, RESEARCHERS WILL USE A DIGITAL ACOUSTIC MONITORING (DMON) INSTRUMENT AND THE LOW-FREQUENCY DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM (LFDCS), A COMBINED HARDWARE (DMON) CAPABLE OF DETECTING AND REPORTING LOW-FREQUENCY THAT CAN DETECT AND REPORT A WIDE VARIETY OF CALLS FROM AUTONOMOUS PLATFORMS, INCLUDING SLOCUM OCEAN GLIDERS AND MOORED BUOYS. THESE TECHNIQUES WILL ENABLE NOAA TO SIGNIFICANTLY ENHANCE ITS RESEARCH AND MONITORING EFFORTS USING REAL-TIME DETECTION INFORMATION TO IDENTIFY AREAS OF PERSISTENT WHALE OCCURRENCE AND TO DIRECT AIRPLANE- OR SHIP-BASED SURVEYS TO REGIONS THAT REQUIRE ADDITIONAL VISUAL SURVEILLANCE. RECENT ADVANCES IN AUTOMATED DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUES HAVE MADE DETERMINING OCCURRENCE IN REAL-TIME FROM IN-SITU ACOUSTIC INSTRUMENTATION FEASIBLE

SHELF BREAK ACOUSTICS: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH FOR STUDYING UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC SENSITIVITY, LOCALIZATION AND INVERSION

RESOLVING THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE OF ESTUARINE FRONTS

FIVE YEAR REQUEST FOR EAST COAST WINCH FACILITY

OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVICES, R/V ATLANTIS AND R/V NEIL ARMSTRONG -THE WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION (WHOI) PROPOSES TO SUPPORT OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVICES ON R/V ATLANTIS AND R/V NEIL ARMSTRONG OPERATED AS PART OF THE U.S. ACADEMIC RESEARCH FLEET (ARF), WHICH IS SCHEDULED BY THE UNIVERSITY-NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC LABORATORY SYSTEM (UNOLS). AS PART OF THEIR BASIC OPERATIONS, WHOI WILL PROVIDE SHIPBOARD TECHNICIANS ON EACH SEAGOING RESEARCH PROJECT TO SUPPORT BASIC SERVICES. TECHNICIANS WILL MAINTAIN, CALIBRATE AND PROVIDE FOR QUALIFIED USERS, ITEMS FROM THEIR POOL OF SHARED-USE RESEARCH INSTRUMENTATION. RESEARCH VESSELS IN THE ARF PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR RESEARCHERS FROM A VARIETY OF FEDERAL AND STATE AGENCIES, AS WELL AS SOME PRIVATE SPONSORS. ALL USERS (OR THE APPROPRIATE FUNDING AGENCIES) SHARE SUPPORT COSTS FOR BASIC TECHNICAL SERVICES ON THE VESSEL EQUALLY, VIA A DAY-RATE, WITH EACH PAYING A SHARE OF THE COSTS BASED ON FRACTIONAL USAGE OF THE VESSEL. THE PRINCIPAL IMPACT OF THE PRESENT PROPOSAL IS UNDER MERIT REVIEW CRITERION 2 OF THE PROPOSAL GUIDELINES (NSF 23-525). IT PROVIDES INFRASTRUCTURE SUPPORT FOR SCIENTISTS TO USE THE VESSEL AND ITS SHARED-USE INSTRUMENTATION IN SUPPORT OF THEIR NSF-FUNDED OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PROJECTS (WHICH INDIVIDUALLY UNDERGO SEPARATE REVIEW BY THE RELEVANT RESEARCH PROGRAM OF NSF). THE ACQUISITION, MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION OF SHARED-USE INSTRUMENTATION ALLOWS NSF-FUNDED RESEARCHERS FROM ANY US UNIVERSITY OR LAB ACCESS TO WORKING, CALIBRATED INSTRUMENTS FOR THEIR RESEARCH, REDUCING THE COST OF THAT RESEARCH, AND EXPANDING THE BASE OF POTENTIAL RESEARCHERS. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

BTO OFFICE-WIDE SOLICITATION - OCEAN-SIP: OCEAN SUPPLIES INSTRUMENT POWER (BLUE PROGRAM)

MANIPULATING NEARSHORE MORPHOLOGY TO DETERMINE THE COUPLING AND FEEDBACK BETWEEN WAVES, CURRENTS, AND BATHYMETRIC CHANGE

PLANNED IMPROVEMENTS TO REMUS A VSW MCM SEMI-AUTONOMOUS HYDROGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE VEHICLE SYSTEM

STUDIES OF TURBULENCE AND MIXING IN THE ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT, A CONTINUATION OF DIMES

PURPOSE: THE NATIONAL SEA GRANT COLLEGE PROGRAM WAS ESTABLISHED BY THE U.S. CONGRESS IN 1966 (AMENDED IN 2008, PUBLIC LAW 110-394) TO BE A HIGHLY LEVERAGED FEDERAL AND STATE PARTNERSHIP TO HARNESS THE INTELLECTUAL CAPACITY OF THE NATION'S UNIVERSITIES AND RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS TO SOLVE PROBLEMS AND GENERATE OPPORTUNITIES IN COASTAL COMMUNITIES. FOR OVER 50 YEARS, THE NATIONAL SEA GRANT COLLEGE PROGRAM HAS SUPPORTED COASTAL AND GREAT LAKES COMMUNITIES THROUGH RESEARCH, EXTENSION AND EDUCATION. SEA GRANT'S MISSION IS TO ENHANCE THE PRACTICAL USE AND CONSERVATION OF COASTAL, MARINE AND GREAT LAKES RESOURCES IN ORDER TO CREATE A SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY AND ENVIRONMENT. THIS GRANT IS THE VEHICLE THROUGH WHICH WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION (WHOI) SEA GRANT LAYS OUT ITS PLAN TO IMPLEMENT THE GOALS LAID OUT IN IN THEIR FY2018-23 STRATEGIC PLAN, WHICH CAN BE FOUND AT: HTTPS://SEAGRANT.NOAA.GOV/INSIDESEAGRANT/PLANNING IN ADDITION TO REQUIRED GRANT PROGRESS REPORTING, THE RECIPIENT WILL REPORT DEFINED MEASURES AND METRICS AS WELL AS SUCCESS STORIES ANNUALLY AND WILL BE EVALUATED ON PERFORMANCE DURING A SITE REVIEW EXPECTED IN 2024 OR 2025. ACTIVITIES TO BE PERFORMED: EACH UNIVERSITY-BASED SEA GRANT PROGRAM CONTRIBUTES TO THE NATIONAL FOCUS AREAS AND GOALS, AND WHOI SEA GRANT IS NO DIFFERENT, ALIGNING THEIR FOCUS AREAS WITH THE NATIONAL SEA GRANT STRATEGIC PLAN'S FOCUS AREAS OF: HEALTHY COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS, SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE, RESILIENT COMMUNITIES AND ECONOMIES, AND ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. ACTIVITIES WITHIN EACH OF THESE FOCUS AREAS INCLUDE RESEARCH, EXTENSION AND EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS THAT AIM TO FURTHER THE NATIONAL SEA GRANT COLLEGE PROGRAM'S STATED MISSION. EXPECTED OUTCOMES: NOAA PROVIDES FUNDING TO SEA GRANT INSTITUTIONS TO INCREASE THE UNDERSTANDING, ASSESSMENT, DEVELOPMENT, MANAGEMENT, UTILIZATION, AND CONSERVATION OF THE NATION'S OCEAN, COASTAL, AND GREAT LAKES RESOURCES. THESE IMPORTANT EFFORTS PROMOTE A STRONG EDUCATIONAL BASE, RESPONSIVE RESEARCH AND TRAINING ACTIVITIES, BROAD AND PROMPT DISSEMINATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNIQUES, AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS, IN ACCORDANCE WITH 33 U.S.C. 1121(B). SPECIFIC OUTCOMES IDENTIFIED BY THE RECIPIENT INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO: STAKEHOLDERS ARE PROVIDED WITH LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES AND RESOURCES THAT SUPPORT SUSTAINABLE USE OF WATERSHED, COASTAL, AND MARINE RESOURCES. NATURAL RESOURCE AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS, AS WELL AS BUILDING OFFICIALS, UNDERSTAND, SYNTHESIZE, AND APPLY BEST AVAILABLE SCIENCE AND INFORMATION TO IMPROVE COASTAL RESILIENCY. COASTAL COMMUNITIES CAN ACCESS AND UNDERSTAND LONG-TERM MONITORING DATA AND LEADING EDGE RESEARCH TO IMPROVE COASTAL DECISION-MAKING. DIVERSE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY ARE AWARE OF CHANGING CLIMATIC, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS AND USE THIS INFORMATION TO IMPROVE COASTAL RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY. SUPPORT AND EDUCATE COMMUNITIES IN THEIR EFFORTS TO IMPROVE COASTAL RESILIENCE THROUGH FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT. COOPERATIVE RESEARCH, MONITORING, AND EDUCATION PROGRAMS ENGAGE WITH AND ASSIST THE AQUACULTURE INDUSTRY WITH MAINTAINING AND ENHANCING PRODUCTION AND ADAPTING TO CHANGING CONDITIONS COMMUNITIES ARE PROVIDED WITH UNBIASED INFORMATION ON LOCAL SEAFOOD, HOW IT IS HARVESTED AND GROWN, AND ITS HEALTH BENEFITS. COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES THAT SERVE STUDENTS FROM UNDERSERVED AND UNDERREPRESENTED POPULATIONS ARE BETTER REPRESENTED IN WHSG'S FUNDED RESEARCH PORTFOLIO. INTENDED BENEFICIARIES: RESIDENTS, STAKEHOLDERS, AND DECISION-MAKERS OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS AS WELL AS THROUGHOUT THE NORTHEAST REGION. SUBRECIPIENT ACTIVITIES: THE RECIPIENT PLANS TO SUBAWARD FUNDS TO PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS WHO SUCCESSFULLY COMPETED FOR FUNDING FOLLOWING THE NATIONAL SEA GRANT COLLEGE PROGRAM'S COMPETITION POLICY. ADDITIONALLY, FUNDING MAY BE SUB-AWARDED FOR EXTENSION OR EDUCATION WORK.

AN INVESTIGATION OF ABYSSAL MIXING AND INTERIOR TRANSPORTS IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC

COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT WITH WHOI - FAC-1

WHAT LIES BENEATH? USING REMOTE SENSING TO DETERMINE CURRENTS, FEATURES, AND TURBULENCE BELOW THE SURFACE

ECOHAB19: TROPHIC TRANSFER AND EFFECTS OF HAB TOXINS IN ALASKAN MARINE FOOD WEBS

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DIMES, DIAPYCNAL AND ISOPYCNAL MIXING IN THE SOUTHERN OCEAN

A CROSSROADS OF THE ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATION: THE CHARLIE-GIBBS FRACTURE ZONE

2010 - 2012 FLEET BROADBAND OPERATING SUPPORT PROGRAM PROPOSAL

MERHAB19: HABON-NE, AN ADAPTIVE OBSERVING NETWORK FOR REAL-TIME, IN SITU HAB MONITORING AND DATA SHARING ACROSS NEW ENGLAND

WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION NEW AWARD CONTROL# 2989-1503 FOA: (SEA CO2) PROJECT TITLE: QUANTIFICATION OF ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE REMOVAL USING AN AUTONOMOUS OCEAN SENSOR THAT MEASURES SINKING PARTICULATE CARBON FLUX WHOI PROPOSES TO DESIGN, BUILDS, AND FIELD TESTS A UNIQUE IN-SITU RADIOCHEMICAL SENSOR, OCCAM (OCEAN CARBON CAPTURE AUTONOMOUS MONITOR, THAT INTEGRATES SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL MEASUREMENTS OF SINKING POC BY QUANTIFYING A WELL-UNDERSTOOD NATURALLY OCCURRING RADIOCHRONOMETER, THORIUM-234 (1C).

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: BOTTOM BOUNDARY LAYER TURBULENT AND ABYSSAL RECIPES

EAST COAST WINCH POOL FACILITY

SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPPORT EQUIPMENT: OCEANOGRAPHIC CABLE

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: U.S. CROSSROADS?CONNECTIVITY OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT THROUGH THE SUBPOLAR-SUBTROPICAL TRANSITION ZONE -THE SUBPOLAR-SUBTROPICAL TRANSITION ZONE IN THE WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS POTENTIALLY KEY TO ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATION (AMOC) VARIABILITY ON DECADAL TIME SCALES. AT THIS CROSSROADS OF THE AMOC, THE SOUTHBOUND DEEP WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT (DWBC) MEETS THE NORTHBOUND NORTH ATLANTIC CURRENT (NAC), AND THEIR INTERACTION SETS THE PROPERTIES OF THE DEEP WATERS EXPORTED TO THE REST OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN AND BEYOND. THE GLOBAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATION?OF WHICH THE AMOC IS AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT?HAS PROVEN TO BE A FAR MORE COMPLEX SYSTEM THAN PERHAPS IMAGINED WHEN IT WAS FIRST LIKENED TO A GREAT OCEAN CONVEYER IN THE 1980S. PROGRESS IN DEVELOPING A MECHANISTIC UNDERSTANDING OF THE RESPONSE OF THE AMOC TO VARIOUS FORCINGS IS ACCELERATING AS DIRECT CONTINUOUS OBSERVATIONS OF ITS STRUCTURE AND VARIABILITY ARE BEING SUSTAINED AT A FEW LATITUDES FOR MULTIPLE YEARS AND EVEN DECADES. OF INTEREST HERE IS THE SOUTHWARD PROGRESSION OF WATER MASS ANOMALIES, GENERATED AT HIGH NORTH ATLANTIC LATITUDES, ALONG THE WESTERN BOUNDARY, PARTICULARLY FOR OVERFLOW WATERS CROSSING THE SUBPOLAR-SUBTROPICAL TRANSITION ZONE. RECENT OBSERVATIONS OF A DECLINE IN AMOC STRENGTH AT 26?N HAVE BEEN ATTRIBUTED IN PART TO OVERFLOW WATER DENSITY ANOMALIES AT THE WESTERN BOUNDARY. TRACKING DOWN THE UPSTREAM ORIGIN AND PATHWAYS OF THESE ANOMALIES, AND HAVING THEM REALISTICALLY REPRESENTED IN MODELS, IS KEY TO BEING ABLE TO PREDICT FUTURE AMOC CHANGES. THIS PROJECT WILL MEASURE THE PATHWAYS OF OVERFLOW WATERS WITH THE DEPLOYMENT OF 80 ACOUSTICALLY TRACKED FLOATS AND VIRTUAL FLOATS IN A HIGH-RESOLUTION MODEL. THE FLOAT MEASUREMENTS WILL FILL A CRITICAL GAP IN OBSERVATIONS NEEDED FOR MODEL EVALUATION AND CONTRIBUTE NEW UNDERSTANDING OF THE PATHWAYS AND PROCESSES IMPACTING THE PROPERTIES OF OVERFLOW WATERS AS THEY TRANSIT FROM THE SUBPOLAR TO SUBTROPICAL NORTH ATLANTIC. AMOC VARIABILITY HAS BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH A LONG LIST OF CLIMATE IMPACTS WITH SOCIETAL RELEVANCE. U.S. CROSSROADS IS FOCUSED ON A REGION THAT HAS BEEN PROPOSED TO SET THE VARIABILITY OF THE AMOC ON DECADAL TIME SCALES, AND THEREFORE HAS IMPLICATIONS BEYOND A REGIONAL PROCESS STUDY. U.S. CROSSROADS IS HIGHLY SYNERGISTIC WITH TWO CONCURRENT EUROPEAN-LED PROGRAMS WITH SIMILAR AIMS AND COMPLEMENTARY TOOLS, NAMELY EXPLAINING AND PREDICTING THE OVERTURNING CIRCULATION (EPOC) AND FRENCH CROSSROADS. THE PARTNERSHIPS WITH EUROPEAN PROGRAMS WILL FOSTER INTERNATIONAL RESOURCE SHARING AS WELL AS EXCHANGE OF IDEAS. THE PROJECT WILL ALSO SUPPORT TRAINING AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT FOR A POST-DOC, WHO WILL SPEND TIME AT BOTH WHOI AND FSU TO GAIN EXPERIENCE IN THE ANALYSIS OF BOTH OBSERVATIONS AND MODEL OUTPUT. THE PROJECT WILL ALSO EXTEND OCEANINSIGHT, A LONG-STANDING OUTREACH PROGRAM FOR BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED STUDENTS, WITH SUPPORT FOR DEVELOPMENT OF AN ACCESSIBLE REMOTE FIELD TRIP KIT TO HELP FOSTER INTEREST AND EXCITEMENT IN OCEAN SCIENCE FOR A GROUP UNDERREPRESENTED IN STEM. MOST ATTENTION HAS TO DATE BEEN FOCUSED ON LABRADOR SEA WATER (LSW) EXPORT AND ITS IMPACT ON AMOC VARIABILITY, REVEALING WEAK CONNECTIVITY ACROSS THE SUBPOLAR-SUBTROPICAL BOUNDARY. MODELED PARTICLE TRAJECTORIES SUGGEST A GREATER CONNECTIVITY FOR THE DEEPER OVERFLOW WATERS (LOWER NADW) PASSING THROUGH THE TRANSITION ZONE VIA THE DWBC COMPARED TO LSW, BUT EQUIVALENT LAGRANGIAN OBSERVATIONS IN OVERFLOW WATERS ARE LACKING. THIS PROJECT WILL BUILD ON PREVIOUS OBSERVATIONAL AND MODELING WORK WITH NEW FLOAT OBSERVATIONS OF OVERFLOW WATER PATHWAYS AND NEW PARTICLE SIMULATIONS USING STATE-OF-THE-ART, HIGH-RESOLUTION, MULTI-DECADE NORTH ATLANTIC SIMULATIONS. A TOTAL OF 80 ACOUSTICALLY TRACKED FLOATS WILL BE RELEASED IN OVERFLOW WATERS IN THE DWBC TO MEASURE THEIR PATHWAYS THROUGH THE TRANSITION ZONE AND IDENTIFY PROCESSES THAT LEAD TO BOUNDARY-INTERIOR EXCHANGE. ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE MORE MODELED PARTICLE TRAJECTORIES WILL BE GENERATED USING 1/12? (6 KM) AND 1/50? (1.5 KM) CONFIGURATIONS OF HYCOM (HYBRID COORDINATE OCEAN MODEL) NORTH ATLANTIC SIMULATIONS TO AMPLIFY THE NECESSARILY LIMITED FLOAT OBSERVATIONS, TEST THE SENSITIVITY OF OVERFLOW WATER PATHWAYS TO MODEL RESOLUTION AND INVESTIGATE DECADAL VARIABILITY IN THOSE PATHWAYS RELATED TO NAC AND AMOC VARIABILITY. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

A DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND PORTAL FOR ACCESS TO ECOLOGICAL AND BIOGEOCHEMICAL OCEAN DATA

USGS/WHOI RESEARCH COOP

WOODS HOLE CENTER FOR OCEANS AND HUMAN HEALTH -THE WOODS HOLE CENTER FOR OCEANS AND HUMAN HEALTH IS A FIVE-YEAR EFFORT AIMED AT ADDRESSING HOW CHANGING CLIMATE COULD INFLUENCE HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOM (HAB) DYNAMICS AND HUMAN EXPOSURE TO HAB TOXINS, A SERIOUS AND GLOBAL HUMAN HEALTH THREAT. THE OVERALL OBJECTIVE IS TO PROTECT PUBLIC HEALTH THROUGH ENHANCED UNDERSTANDING OF HOW CLIMATE AND OCEANIC PROCESSES AFFECT THE INTENSITY AND DISTRIBUTION OF TOXIN-PRODUCING HABS AND TO UNDERSTAND THE POTENTIAL HEALTH RISKS FROM EXPOSURE EVEN TO LOW LEVELS OF THEIR POTENT NEUROTOXINS, ESPECIALLY DURING SUSCEPTIBLE STAGES OF LIFE. THREE DISTINCT RESEARCH PROJECTS WILL EXPLORE ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS OF BLOOM OCCURRENCE, CREATE NUMERICAL MODELS TO PREDICT THE EXPOSURE OF HUMAN POPULATION TO TOXINS UNDER CHANGING CLIMATE CONDITIONS, AND STUDY THE EFFECTS OF HAB TOXINS ON THE BRAIN. THE ADMINISTRATIVE CORE OF THE CENTER WILL CONNECT THESE PROJECTS, ENCOURAGING OPEN DISCUSSION OF PLANNING, INTEGRATION, COMMUNICATION AND ENHANCING DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES, AND PROVIDING RIGOROUS EVALUATION OF PROGRESS IN ALL ASPECTS OF THE PROGRAM. THE CENTER?S COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT CORE WILL FACILITATE INTEGRATION OF THE RESEARCH WITH EDUCATION AND ENGAGEMENT OF RESOURCE MANAGERS AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS. THE CENTER WILL IMPROVE AWARENESS OF EMERGING HAB ISSUES FOR THE PUBLIC HEALTH COMMUNITY AND DEVELOP NEW EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS AND INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES FOR K-12 CLASSROOMS, AND FOR HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS. THE CENTER IS JOINTLY SUPPORTED BY NSF?S DIVISION OF OCEAN SCIENCES AND BY THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES (NIEHS). THE CENTER WILL FOCUS ON TWO KEY HAB TAXA: ALEXANDRIUM CATENELLA, WHICH PRODUCES THE SAXITOXINS RESPONSIBLE FOR PARALYTIC SHELLFISH POISONING (PSP), AND PSEUDO-NITZSCHIA SPP., WHICH PRODUCE DOMOIC ACID RESPONSIBLE FOR AMNESIC SHELLFISH POISONING (ASP) SYNDROME; BOTH ARE EXPANDING GEOGRAPHICALLY. NOVEL, TARGETED, EFFICIENT, AND DATA-RICH SAMPLING APPROACHES DEVELOPED BY THE APPLICANTS AND APPLIED IN SITU IN NATURAL SETTINGS HAVE REVEALED NEW CONTROLS OF A. CATENELLA POPULATION DYNAMICS, AND HAVE IDENTIFIED POSSIBLE NEW CLIMATE LINKS REGARDING TOXIC PSEUDO-NITZSCHIA SPECIES. PROJECT 1 WILL EXAMINE FURTHER THE PHYSIOLOGICAL AND CLIMATIC VARIABLES AFFECTING THESE HABS, WHICH MAY UNDERLIE POPULATION ADAPTATION IN DIFFERENT HABITATS AND DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTAL REGIMES. PROJECT 2 WILL INCORPORATE THESE NEW AND FUNDAMENTAL INSIGHTS ON BLOOM REGULATION INTO COUPLED CLIMATE-POPULATION MODELS TO PREDICT HAB THREATS UNDER FUTURE CLIMATE SCENARIOS, A KEY STEP TOWARD BEING ABLE TO QUANTIFY FUTURE RISKS FROM THIS RECURRENT PUBLIC HEALTH THREAT. IN BIOMEDICAL STUDIES WITH THE ZEBRAFISH MODEL, PROJECT 3 HAS IDENTIFIED MYELINATION IN THE DEVELOPING BRAIN AS A TARGET OF DOMOIC ACID. THIS PROJECT WILL USE TRANSGENIC ZEBRAFISH AND SINGLE-CELL RNA-SEQUENCING TO IDENTIFY THE CELL-SPECIFIC MECHANISMS UNDERLYING EFFECTS OF DOMOIC ACID, SAXITOXIN, AND THE CYANOTOXIN ANATOXIN-A IN ZEBRAFISH EMBRYOS IN VIVO AND WILL USE HUMAN IPSC-DERIVED 3D BRAIN SYSTEMS IN VITRO TO ELUCIDATE TOXIN EFFECTS ON NEURAL AND GLIAL CELL DIFFERENTIATION IN HUMAN CELLS. EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT HAB TOXIN CO-EXPOSURES WILL BE EXAMINED IN EARLY LIFE STAGES AND ADULTS. THROUGH THIS MULTIDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATIVE AND INTEGRATED APPROACH, ALL THREE PROJECTS WILL LINK OCEANIC PROCESSES TO HUMAN EXPOSURE, HELPING TO DEFINE THE EXPOSURE OF SUSCEPTIBLE HUMAN SUBPOPULATIONS AND PREDICT THE EFFECTS OF A CHANGING CLIMATE. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: THE INFLUENCE OF INCOMING PLATE STRUCTURE AND FLUIDS ON ARC MELT GENERATION AT THE LESSER ANTILLES SUBDUCTION SYSTEM -SUBDUCTION ZONES, WHERE ONE TECTONIC PLATE IS PUSHED BENEATH ANOTHER, ARE KNOWN AREAS OF ABUNDANT VOLCANIC AND SEISMIC HAZARD. THE ANTILLES ISLANDS ARE THE RESULT OF SUCH VOLCANIC ACTIVITY AT A SUBDUCTION ZONE. AS THE ATLANTIC SEAFLOOR IS PUSHED DOWN INTO THE EARTH, IT SINKS, CARRYING WITH IT A LARGE, BUT UNKNOWN VOLUME OF WATER THAT IS RELEASED, EITHER SQUEEZED FROM CRACKS, OR LOST FROM MINERALS AS THEY HEAT UP IN THE WARMER INTERIOR OF THE EARTH. RELEASED FLUIDS PLAY A ROLE IN CONTROLLING EARTHQUAKE GENERATION AND ENHANCING THE PROCESS OF MAGMA GENERATION, WITH THE MAGMA FORMED MOVING UPWARDS AND FEEDING THE VOLCANOES THAT CREATE THE ISLANDS. THIS PROJECT WILL USE ELECTROMAGNETIC METHODS TO IMAGE THE ANTILLES SUBDUCTION SYSTEM. THESE DATA WILL BE USED TO IDENTIFY AREAS OF HIGH FLUID CONTENT INCLUDING BOTH WATER AND MAGMA IN THE OCEANIC PLATE THAT IS SUBDUCTING BENEATH THE ANTILLES. BROADER IMPACTS INCLUDE INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS WITH GERMANY AND FRANCE AND SUPPORT FOR EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS GRADUATE STUDENTS, AND UNDERGRADUATES. STUDENTS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO WILL PARTICIPATE IN THE FIELD PROGRAMS. THE ANTILLES IS VIEWED AS AN END-MEMBER SYSTEM WITH SUBDUCTION OF OCEANIC CRUST FORMED AT THE SLOW SPREADING MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE EXPECTED TO CARRY LARGE VOLUMES OF WATER BOUND WITHIN SERPENTINIZED UPPER-MANTLE. SEISMIC IMAGING OF THE INCOMING PLATE SHOWS A HIGH DEGREE OF STRUCTURAL VARIABILITY THAT SUGGESTS THAT HIGH FLUXES OF FLUIDS INTO THE MANTLE WEDGE WILL BE LOCALIZED. THIS PROJECT WILL LINK THESE LOCALIZED AREAS OF HIGH FLUID FLUX TO THE GENERATION OF MELTS THAT FEED THE VOLCANIC ARC. ELECTROMAGNETIC (EM) METHODS ARE IDEAL FOR CHARACTERIZING THE TRANSPORT OF FLUIDS INTO A SUBDUCTION SYSTEM AND THE SUBSEQUENT RELEASE OF THOSE FLUIDS INTO THE OVERLYING DECOLLEMENT AND MANTLE WEDGE. EM METHODS BROADLY FALL INTO TWO CATEGORIES: THE PASSIVE MAGNETOTELLURIC (MT) METHOD, WHICH USES NATURALLY OCCURRING SIGNALS TO LOOK TO GREAT DEPTH (UP TO 200 KM OR MORE); AND CONTROLLED SOURCE ELECTROMAGNETIC (CSEM) SOUNDING, IN WHICH A TRANSMITTER IS TOWED BEHIND A SHIP AND GENERATES AN ARTIFICIAL EM SIGNAL THAT IS RECORDED BY AN ARRAY OF SEAFLOOR INSTRUMENTS. CSEM IS USEFUL FOR QUANTIFYING FLUIDS IN THE CRUST AND UPPERMOST MANTLE. THIS PROJECT WILL ACQUIRE A MT/CSEM SURVEY ACROSS THE ANTILLES SUBDUCTION SYSTEM THAT WILL TEST THE HYPOTHESIS THAT HIGHER FLUID CONTENTS STORED IN THE INCOMING PLATE RESULTS IN A SUBSTANTIAL WATER FLUX INTO THE FOREARC CRUST AND ARC MANTLE WEDGE ABOVE THE DOWNGOING SLAB. VARIATIONS IN FLUID INPUT ALONG STRIKE WILL BE MANIFESTED AS VARIATIONS IN MANTLE CONDUCTIVITY, WITH REGIONS OF HIGH FLUX BEING SUBSTANTIALLY MORE CONDUCTIVE AS A RESULT OF THE LARGER VOLUME OF FLUIDS RELEASED AND HYDROUS MELTS GENERATED. THE FIELD PROGRAM WILL CONSIST OF TWO RESEARCH CRUISES AND LAND ACQUISITION. THIS PROJECT IS SUPPORTED BY THE MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS PROGRAM IN THE DIVISION OF OCEAN SCIENCES AND THE GEOPHYSICS PROGRAM IN THE DIVISION OF EARTH SCIENCES. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: INTEGRATED STUDIES OF EARLY STAGES OF CONTINENTAL EXTENSION: FROM INCIPIENT (OKAVANGO) TO YOUNG (MALAWI) RIFTS

DETECTING BURIED MINES WITH UUV'S IN THE LITTORALS

SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPPORT EQUIPMENT: OCEANOGRAPHIC CABLE

MECHANISMS CONTROLLING SENSITIVITY AND RESISTANCE TO DIOXIN-LIKE COMPOUNDS: ROLE OF AIP - PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT THE ARYL HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR (AHR) PLAYS AN ESSENTIAL ROLE IN THE MECHANISMS OF TOXICITY OF NUMEROUS CHEMICAL CONTAMINANTS, INCLUDING CHLORINATED DIOXINS SUCH AS 2,3,7,8-TETRACHLORODIBENZO-P-DIOXIN (TCDD), SOME POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS (PCBS), AND POLYNUCLEAR AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS (PAHS). THERE IS INTER- INDIVIDUAL VARIATION IN SENSITIVITY TO EFFECTS OF THESE COMPOUNDS, BUT THE MECHANISMS ARE POORLY UNDERSTOOD. VARIATION IN THE HUMAN AHR SEQUENCE DOES NOT FULLY EXPLAIN INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN RESPONSE TO AHR LIGANDS, SUGGESTING THAT OTHER COMPONENTS OF THE AHR PATHWAY ARE INVOLVED IN CONTROLLING SENSITIVITY. RECENT GENOME- LEVEL RESEARCH IN FISH POPULATIONS WITH EVOLVED RESISTANCE TO PCBS, TCDD, AND PAHS HAS IDENTIFIED THE AHR- INTERACTING PROTEIN (AIP) AS A CANDIDATE RESISTANCE GENE. AIP IS AN AHR CHAPERONE THAT INFLUENCES THE STABILITY AND NUCLEAR TRANSLOCATION OF AHR, BUT ITS EXACT ROLE IS POORLY DEFINED. IN HUMANS, MUTATIONS IN AIP PREDISPOSE PATIENTS TO FAMILIAL ISOLATED PITUITARY ADENOMAS (FIPA), EVIDENCE THAT AIP SEQUENCE VARIATION HAS FUNCTIONAL CONSEQUENCES. WHETHER AIP VARIATION ALTERS THE SUSCEPTIBILITY TO EFFECTS OF AHR AGONISTS IN VIVO IS NOT KNOWN. THE GOAL OF THIS BASIC RESEARCH IS TO ELUCIDATE THE ROLE OF AIP AND ITS SEQUENCE VARIANTS IN CONTROLLING SENSITIVITY TO DIVERSE AHR AGONISTS, INCLUDING ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS AS WELL AS NATURAL AHR LIGANDS. THE CENTRAL HYPOTHESIS IS THAT VARIATION AT THE AIP LOCUS AFFECTS THE INTERACTION BETWEEN AIP AND AHR, LEADING TO ALTERED SENSITIVITY TO CHEMICALS THAT CAUSE TOXICITY AND ALTERED GENE EXPRESSION THROUGH THE AHR. THIS HYPOTHESIS WILL BE TESTED USING COMPLEMENTARY STUDIES INVOLVING ZEBRAFISH (DANIO RERIO) IN VIVO AND HUMAN CELLS IN VITRO. IN AIM 1, AIP-NULL ZEBRAFISH GENERATED USING CRISPR-CAS9 GENOME-EDITING WILL BE USED TO DETERMINE THE ROLE OF AIP IN CONTROLLING THE SENSITIVITY TO DEVELOPMENTAL TOXICITY AND ALTERED GENE EXPRESSION CAUSED BY DIVERSE AHR AGONISTS IN VIVO. IN AIM 2, THE HUMAN LIVER CELL LINE HEPARG WILL BE USED TO INVESTIGATE THE MOLECULAR MECHANISMS BY WHICH AIP AND ITS VARIANTS, INCLUDING MUTATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH FIPA, AFFECT AHR FUNCTION. IN AIM 3, TARGETED KNOCK-IN OF AIP SNPS INTO ZEBRAFISH WILL BE USED TO DETERMINE HOW VARIATION IN THE AIP PROTEIN AFFECTS THE SENSITIVITY TO DIVERSE AHR LIGANDS IN VIVO. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH REPRESENTS A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO USE INSIGHTS FROM ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURES IN WILD FISH POPULATIONS ALONG WITH MECHANISTIC STUDIES IN HUMAN CELLS AND ENGINEERED ZEBRAFISH EMBRYOS TO UNDERSTAND FUNDAMENTAL MECHANISMS UNDERLYING INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN SUSCEPTIBILITY TO CHEMICALS THAT ACT THROUGH THE AHR. THE STUDIES ADDRESS GOALS OF THE NIEHS 2018-2023 STRATEGIC PLAN, INCLUDING BASIC RESEARCH ON MOLECULAR PATHWAYS INVOLVED IN MEDIATING EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURES, RESEARCH ON DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESSES, AND UNDERSTANDING MECHANISMS UNDERLYING INDIVIDUAL SUSCEPTIBILITY.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DEEP MADAGASCAR BASIN (DMB) EXPERIMENT: A QUEST TO FIND THE ABYSSAL WATER PATHWAYS IN THE SOUTHWEST INDIAN OCEAN

DEVELOPMENT OF A ROBUST, HIGH SPEED, UNDERWATER OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM FOR OCEAN SCIENCE

COMMUNITY SEDIMENT TRANSPORT MODEL

CYP GENES AND THE GENERATION OF OXIDATIVE STRESS

DENMARK STRAIT OVERFLOW WATER: A NEW PARADIGM FOR THE ORIGIN OF THE DEEP WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DIMES, DIAPYCNAL AND ISOPYCNAL MIXING IN THE SOUTHERN OCEAN

OPERATION OF A NATIONAL OCEAN SCIENCES ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY FACILITY AT THE WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION

ACCELERATING MARITIME AUTONOMOUS TECHNOLOGY WITH A ROBOTICS VEHICLE PORT (RPV)

OCEAN CARBON & BIOGEOCHEMISTRY (OCB) PROJECT OFFICE -THIS AWARD WILL SUPPORT THE ACTIVITIES OF THE OCEAN CARBON AND BIOGEOCHEMISTRY (OCB) PROJECT OFFICE, BASED AT THE WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION. THE OCB PROGRAM WAS CREATED IN 2006 AS ONE OF THE MAJOR ACTIVITIES OF THE U.S. CARBON CYCLE SCIENCE PROGRAM. OCB SUPPORTS A LARGE SCIENTIFIC NETWORK THAT FOSTERS INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION, INFORMS NEW PROJECTS AND FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES, AND ADVANCES UNDERSTANDING OF THE OCEAN?S ROLE IN THE GLOBAL CARBON CYCLE AND THE RESPONSE OF MARINE ECOSYSTEMS TO PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES. THE OCB PROJECT OFFICE SUPPORTS THIS NETWORK BY COORDINATING INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS AND ACTIVITIES; SERVING AS A COMMUNICATION HUB VIA WEB, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND NEWSLETTERS; LEADING AND SUPPORTING COMMUNITY SCIENCE PLANNING INITIATIVES; AND SUPPORTING CAPACITY BUILDING AND NETWORKING. HIGH-LEVEL OCB SCIENCE FOCI FOR THIS AWARD PERIOD INCLUDE CHANGING OCEAN CHEMISTRY; OCEAN CARBON UPTAKE AND STORAGE; ESTUARINE AND COASTAL CARBON FLUXES; CHANGING MARINE ECOSYSTEMS; BIOLOGICAL PUMP; AND OCEAN OBSERVATORIES. OCB WILL CONTINUE TO PROVIDE COORDINATION AND LEADERSHIP TO ADVANCE PROGRESS ON CRITICAL OCEAN SCIENCE AND OBSERVING INITIATIVES IN SUPPORT OF ITS MISSION. WITH RESEARCH PRIORITIES THAT TRANSCEND OCEANOGRAPHIC DISCIPLINES AND A DEMONSTRATED TRACK RECORD OF BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER TO ACCELERATE BIG IDEAS, OCB IS WELL POISED TO BREAK NEW GROUND IN MANY AREAS OF CONVERGENT SCIENCE. FOR EXAMPLE, EXTREME EVENTS AND MARINE CARBON DIOXIDE REMOVAL (MCDR) ARE CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES THAT WILL REQUIRE OCB NETWORK EXPERTISE AND BROAD COLLABORATION ACROSS DISCIPLINES AND SECTORS. PROJECT OFFICE ACTIVITIES INCLUDE COORDINATING OCB'S ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY SUMMER WORKSHOP AND COMMUNITY-DRIVEN SCOPING WORKSHOPS, SMALL GROUP, TRAINING, AND CAPACITY BUILDING ACTIVITIES, WHICH ARE GRASSROOTS, COMMUNITY-DRIVEN EFFORTS DETERMINED THROUGH AN ANNUAL OPEN COMMUNITY SOLICITATION. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSES OF ODONTOCETES TO PLAYBACK OF ANTHROPOGENIC AND NATURAL SOUNDS

OASES FOR LIFE AND PRE-BIOTIC CHEMISTRY: HYDROTHERMAL EXPLORATION USING ADVANCED UNDERWATER ROBOTIC

NANSEN AND AMUNDSEN BASINS OBSERVATIONAL SYSTEM (NABOS) 2023 MOORING DESIGN AND CRUISE SUPPORT -THE NANSEN AND AMUNDSEN BASINS OBSERVATIONAL SYSTEM (NABOS) IS A MULTIDISCIPLINARY OBSERVATIONAL PROGRAM THAT INCLUDES PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHIC, ATMOSPHERIC, AND ICE OBSERVATIONS, COMPLEMENTED BY SERVICING OF MOORINGS AND DEPLOYMENTS OF DRIFTING BUOYS TO ASSESS THE OCEAN'S ROLE IN CLIMATE CHANGE. THESE OBSERVATIONS ARE CRITICAL TO THE ARCTIC OCEAN OBSERVATIONAL NETWORK. THE NABOS PROJECT?S GOAL IS TO UNDERSTAND THE ROLE OF THE EASTERN EURASIAN BASIN, INCLUDING ITS SHELVES, IN REDISTRIBUTING ICE AND THE BULK OF ARCTIC RIVERINE WATERS BETWEEN THE EASTERN AND WESTERN ARCTIC. MONITORING OF THE PARTITIONING OF FRESHWATER IN THE EASTERN EURASIAN BASIN ALLOWS RESEARCHERS TO STUDY THE ROLE OF DIFFERENT ATMOSPHERIC REGIMES IN DISTRIBUTING FRESHWATER TO DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE BASINS AND FURTHER DOWNSTREAM TO THE CENTRAL ARCTIC OCEAN. THE CURRENT PROJECT WILL SUPPORT THE RECOVERY OF NINE EXISTING MOORINGS AND THE DESIGN, FABRICATION, SHIPPING, AND DEPLOYMENT OF NINE NEW MOORINGS TO SUPPORT AN ADDITIONAL PERIOD OF TIME-SERIES OBSERVATIONS. THE WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION?S (WHOI) MOORING OPERATIONS AND ENGINEERING (MOE) GROUP WILL PROVIDE EXPERTISE AND TECHNICAL SERVICES TO ACCOMPLISH THE DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF NINE (9) DEEP-WATER, UNDER-ICE, SUBSURFACE MOORINGS FOR USE BY THE NANSEN AND AMUNDSEN BASINS OBSERVATION SYSTEM (NABOS) PROJECT. THESE MOORINGS WILL BE DEPLOYED IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN DURING A CRUISE THAT WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE LATE SUMMER OF 2023. THIS AWARD WILL FACILITATE THE MOBILIZATION OF NINE MOORINGS ONTO THE DESIGNATED VESSEL AT THE DEPARTURE PORT. THE MOORINGS WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR RAPID DEPLOYMENT DURING A CRUISE TO THE EASTERN EURASIAN BASINS OF THE ARCTIC OCEAN. THE MOORING LOCATIONS PROVIDE AN EAST-WEST ARRAY OF OBSERVATIONS DESIGNED TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE ROLE OF FRESH WATERS IN REGULATING VERTICAL OCEAN MIXING ACROSS AND ALONG THIS REGION AND THE TRANSPORT OF HEAT FROM THE OCEAN INTERIOR TOWARDS AREAS OF SEA ICE IN THE EURASIAN AND MAKAROV BASINS AND THE NORTHERN LAPTEV AND EAST SIBERIAN SEAS. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.

MONITORING THE WESTERN ARCTIC BOUNDARY CURRENT IN A WARMING CLIMATE: ATMOSPHERIC FORCING AND OCEANOGRAPHIC RESPONSE -DUE TO THE CHANGING CLIMATE, THE ARCTIC OCEAN IS EXPERIENCING PROFOUND CHANGES. PACK-ICE IS MELTING, WATER IS WARMING, STORMS ARE BECOMING STRONGER AND MORE FREQUENT, AND BASIC CIRCULATION PATTERNS ARE BEING ALTERED. THIS PROJECT FOCUSES ON THE FATE OF THE PACIFIC WATER THAT ENTERS THE ARCTIC OCEAN THROUGH THE BERING STRAIT, THE NARROW PASSAGE BETWEEN THE US AND RUSSIA. PACIFIC WATER PLAYS A CRITICAL ROLE IN THE WESTERN ARCTIC ECOSYSTEM. IN WINTERTIME THE COLD INFLOWING WATER PROVIDES NUTRIENTS THAT SPUR THE GROWTH OF PHYTOPLANKTON AT THE BASE OF THE FOOD CHAIN. IN SUMMERTIME, THE WARM WATER MELTS PACK ICE AND PROVIDES FRESH WATER TO THE ARCTIC OCEAN. AFTER THE PACIFIC-ORIGIN WATER CROSSES THE CHUKCHI SEA, NORTH OF BERING STRAIT, SOME OF IT FORMS A CURRENT THAT FLOWS EASTWARD ALONG THE EDGE OF THE ADJACENT BEAUFORT SEA. AS PART OF THE PROJECT, A MOORING WILL BE MAINTAINED IN THE CENTER OF THIS CURRENT TO MEASURE ITS PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES. THE MOORING HAS BEEN DEPLOYED (WITH A FEW GAPS) SINCE 2002. BY EXTENDING THE MEASUREMENTS FOR ANOTHER FOUR YEARS, THIS PROVIDES THE CHANCE TO DOCUMENT AND UNDERSTAND HOW THIS IMPORTANT PART OF THE ARCTIC SYSTEM IS RESPONDING TO THE DRASTIC ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES ? INCLUDING THE VARYING ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS AND EVOLVING SOURCE WATERS FROM BERING STRAIT. THE DATA OBTAINED BY THE MOORING, ALONG WITH THE SHIPBOARD MEASUREMENTS COLLECTED WHEN THE MOORING IS SERVICED, WILL CONTINUE TO BE WIDELY USED BY THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY IN BOTH OBSERVATIONAL AND MODELING STUDIES. A GRADUATE STUDENT WILL BE SUPPORTED BY THE PROJECT, AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH WILL BE UNDERTAKEN DURING ONE OF THE EXPEDITIONS IN ORDER TO ENGAGE THE PUBLIC. THE AON MONITORING MOORING IS SITUATED AT 152?W NEAR THE BEAUFORT SEA SHELFBREAK, ROUGHLY 150 KM DOWNSTREAM OF BARROW CANYON ? THE MAIN PACIFIC WATER OUTFLOW POINT FROM THE CHUKCHI SEA. IT WILL BE DEPLOYED FROM FALL 2022 TO FALL 2026, WHICH WILL EXTEND THE TIMESERIES TO 21 YEARS. THE MOORING MEASURES THE VELOCITY OF THE WATER COLUMN, THE THICKNESS AND VELOCITY OF THE PACK ICE, AND THE TEMPERATURE, SALINITY, AND PRESSURE THROUGHOUT THE WATER COLUMN. CHLOROPHYLL FLUORESCENCE AND NITRATE ARE MEASURED AT THE TOP OF THE MOORING, AND A PASSIVE ACOUSTIC RECORDER DOCUMENTS MARINE MAMMAL CALLS. ZOOPLANKTON CONCENTRATION IS ESTIMATED USING THE ADCP BACKSCATTER DATA. COLLECTIVELY, THIS INFORMATION ENABLES DETERMINATION OF HOW MUCH WATER, HEAT, NUTRIENTS, CHLOROPHYLL, AND FRESHWATER ARE TRANSPORTED BY THE CURRENT, AND ASSESSMENT OF HOW MUCH EXCHANGE OCCURS BETWEEN THE INTERIOR OF THE ARCTIC OCEAN AND THE BOUNDARY WATERS. THIS INCLUDES WIND-DRIVEN UPWELLING AND DOWNWELLING THAT TAKE PLACE THROUGHOUT THE YEAR ALONG THE BEAUFORT SLOPE, AND APPEAR TO BE INCREASING AS THE CLIMATE WARMS. DURING THE BIENNIAL CRUISES TO SERVICE THE MOORING, A HYDROGRAPHIC/VELOCITY SURVEY OF THE BOUNDARY CURRENT SYSTEM IS CARRIED OUT TO OBTAIN A LARGE-SCALE CONTEXT FOR THE MOORING TIMESERIES. THE SHIPBOARD SAMPLING INCLUDES OCCUPATIONS OF SOME OF THE DISTRIBUTED BIOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY TRANSECTS. AS IN THE PAST, THE BIENNIAL CRUISES WILL PROVIDE A PLATFORM FOR A BROAD ARRAY OF INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECTS. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.

THE OCEAN CARBON AND BIOGEOCHEMISTRY (OCB) PROJECT OFFICE

OCEAN CARBON BIOGEOCHEMISTRY PROJECT OFFICE

COLLABORATIVE PROPOSAL: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY MONITORING MOORING IN THE WESTERN ARCTIC BOUNDARY CURRENT: CLIMATIC FORCING AND ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE

SBP29 R/V ARMSTRONG

WAVE PROPAGATION ACROSS MUDDY SEAFLOORS

PCMHAB20: APPLICATION OF CLAY FLOCCULATION FOR REMOVAL OF KARENIA BREVIS CELLS AND TOXINS IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA COASTAL WATERS

OCEAN CARBON AND BIOGEOCHEMISTRY PROJECT OFFICE

MEASURING WESTWARD RECIRCULATION IN THE SUBPOLAR GYRE OF THE SOUTHEASTERN INDIAN OCEAN

AHR SIGNALING IN MAMMALIAN AND NON-MAMMALIAN MODELS

WHCOHH: HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOM DYNAMICS AND EPIGENETIC MECHANISM OF TOXIN ACTION

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SHELFBREAK FRONTAL DYNAMICS: MECHANISMS OF UPWELLING, NET COMMUNITY PRODUCTION, AND ECOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS

THIS RESEARCH SEEKS TO BETTER QUANTIFY THE SEASONALITY AND VARIABILITY IN THE RIVERINE CONTRIBUTION OF ORGANIC CARBON INTO ARCTIC OCEAN COASTAL MARGINS. RIVERS FEEDING THE COASTAL ARCTIC OCEAN DRAIN SEVERAL TYPES OF BIOMES AND REPRESENT A MAJOR SOURCE OF PARTICULATE AND DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON (POC AND DOC) TO ARCTIC COASTAL MARGINS. CLIMATE-DRIVEN CHANGES TO ARCTIC TERRESTRIAL BIOMES WILL ALMOST CERTAINLY ALTER THE MAGNITUDES AND RELATIVE CONTRIBUTIONS OF POC AND DOC THAT DIFFERENT RIVERS TRANSPORT INTO THEIR ADJACENT COASTAL OCEANS. DIRECT ASSESSMENT OF RIVER-SPECIFIC BASELINES FOR THIS TERRESTRIAL CARBON INPUT HAS BEEN CHALLENGING BECAUSE MUCH OF THIS CARBON IS DELIVERED BY THE SPRING FRESHET THAT OCCURS WHILE THE COASTAL OCEAN IS STILL COVERED BY LAND FAST SEA ICE. THIS PROJECT WILL EXAMINE THE SEASONALITY AND MAGNITUDE OF THIS CARBON TRANSPORT AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO COASTAL HYDROGRAPHY AND CIRCULATION THE SPRING FRESHET SEASONAL ICE DYNAMICS AND REMOTE SENSING VARIABLES AVAILABLE DURING THE FRESHET SUCH AS SEA ICE COVER AND ICE MORPHOLOGY. THIS RESEARCH INVOLVES A TWO-YEAR OBSERVATIONAL STUDY ON THE ALASKAN BEAUFORT SHELF USING BIO-OPTICAL MOORINGS AND DIRECT THROUGH ICE MONITORING TO ASSESS THE MAGNITUDE AND TIMING OF RIVERINE POC AND DOC CONTRIBUTION INTO THE COASTAL ARCTIC. SIX MOORINGS WILL BE DEPLOYED NEAR PRUDHOE BAY AT THE MOUTHS OF TWO RIVERS THAT DRAIN TERRESTRIAL BIOMES WITH DIFFERENT VEGETATION AND PRECIPITATION CHARACTERISTICS: THE KUPARUK RIVER WHICH DRAINS A PRIMARILY TUNDRA BIOME AND THE SAGAVANIRKTOK RIVER WHICH DRAINS THE COASTAL PLAIN AND THE NORTH SLOPE OF THE BROOKS RANGE. SENSORS WILL MEASURE OPTICAL PROXIES FOR POC AND DOC OVER TWO FULL ANNUAL CYCLES MOST CRITICALLY IN THE PERIOD ENCOMPASSING THE SPRING FRESHET WHEN RIVERINE TRANSPORT OF POC AND DOC IS LARGEST BUT WHEN THESE COASTAL WATERS REMAIN ICE-COVERED AND THUS NOT YET DIRECTLY OBSERVABLE BY REMOTE SENSING. MONTHLY-SCALE FIELD STUDIES WILL BE CONDUCTED IN THE LATE SPRING IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO THE FRESHET TO DEPLOY SENSOR CLUSTERS THROUGH THE SEA ICE TO DIRECTLY MEASURE THESE OPTICAL PROXIES OVER THE COURSE OF THE FRESHET UNTIL SEA ICE COVER DEGRADES AND COASTAL WATERS BECOME VISIBLE TO REMOTE SENSORS. THESE TWO OBSERVATIONAL EFFORTS WILL GENERATE UNIQUE AND VALUABLE TIME SERIES OF PROXIES FOR POC AND DOC AS WELL AS KEY ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS RELATED TO COASTAL CIRCULATION SEA ICE COVER AND RIVER DISCHARGE DYNAMICS. THESE WILL BE USED IN A SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS TO QUANTIFY HOW THE SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL EVOLUTION OF RIVERINE DOC AND POC INJECTION BY THESE TWO RIVERS RELATE TO PHYSICAL FACTORS SUCH AS RIVERINE SEASONAL FLOW AND FRESHWATER RUNOFF COASTAL HYDROGRAPHY AND CIRCULATION AND IMPORTANTLY SEASONAL SEA ICE COVER. BY EXAMINING TWO REPRESENTATIVE RIVERS THAT DRAIN DIFFERENT TYPES OF TERRESTRIAL BIOMES THIS STUDY WILL PROVIDE INSIGHT INTO POSSIBLE SOURCE-RIVER DIFFERENCES IN ORGANIC CARBON TRANSPORT INTO THESE SEASONALLY ICE-COVERED ARCTIC COASTAL MARGINS. HAVING SUCH DIRECT LONG-TERM OBSERVATIONS OF PROXIES FOR THE POC AND DOC DELIVERED BY THE SPRING FRESHET IS ESSENTIAL FOR REDUCING UNCERTAINTIES ABOUT KEY ASPECTS OF THE ORGANIC CARBON CYCLE ON THE ALASKAN ARCTIC COASTAL MARGIN: WHAT IS THE TIMING AND MAGNITUDE OF POC AND DOC INJECTION INTO ARCTIC COASTAL MARGINS? HOW CAN AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS HELP TO ASSESS DIFFERENCES IN POC-DOC CONTRIBUTIONS BY RIVERS THAT DRAIN SUCH DIFFERENT TYPES OF BIOMES (E.G. TUNDRA VS. ALPINE)? HOW DO ICE COVER HYDROGRAPHY CIRCULATION WINDS AND FRESHWATER INPUT AFFECT THE AREAL DISTRIBUTION OF WATER COLUMN POC AND DOC ON THIS SHELF DURING THE FRESHET? HOW MIGHT AVAILABLE REMOTE SENSING VARIABLES DURING THIS TIME OF YEAR BE USED TO BETTER UNDERSTAND SIMILAR RIVERINE CONTRIBUTIONS OF POC AND DOC MORE BROADLY ACROSS ARCTIC COASTAL MARGINS IN THE BEAUFORT SEA AND BEYOND?

HIGHLY PRODUCTIVE SHELLFISHERIES IN THE NORTHEAST US HAVE BEEN CHALLENGED BY THE EMERGENCE OF AMNESIC SHELLFISH POISONING (ASP), A SYNDROME CAUSED BY PSEUDO-NITZSCHIA DIATOMS THAT PRODUCE THE NEUROTOXIN DOMOIC ACID (DA). ENHANCED MONITORING HAS STRONGLY ASSOCIATED ASP WITH THE SPECIES P. AUSTRALIS THOUGH SEVERAL OTHER TOXIGENIC PSEUDO-NITZSCHIA TAXA ALSO COMMONLY OCCUR. MONITORING CHALLENGES ARE COMPLEX AND DISTINCT FROM OTHER US REGIONS BECAUSE AMBIENT DA LEVELS THAT CAUSE ASP ACTION LEVELS TO BE EXCEEDED ELSEWHERE HAVE FAILED TO CONTAMINATE NORTHEAST SHELLFISH TO DETECTABLE LEVELS. MANAGEMENT IS FURTHER COMPLICATED BY A GENERAL ASP MONITORING PROBLEM, THAT TOXICITY BETWEEN AND WITHIN PSEUDO-NITZSCHIA SPECIES CAN VARY GREATLY OVER TIME AND SPACE. AS A RESULT, PSEUDO-NITZSCHIA CELL ABUNDANCE BY ITSELF IS A POOR PREDICTOR OF SHELLFISH TOXICITY AND SIGNIFICANT WORK IS NEEDED TO CHARACTERIZE FACTORS REGULATING DA LEVELS AND SHELLFISH UPTAKE. RECENT OCEANOGRAPHIC INVESTIGATIONS I

MOORING SUPPORT FOR THE CANADA BASIN ACOUSTIC PROPAGATION EXPERIMENT (CANAPE)

MARINE RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT: WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION (WHOI) SEA GRANT OMNIBUS, 2006-2008

AUTONOMOUS WIDE APERTURE CLUSTER FOR SURVEILLANCE: EXPLOITING MESOSCALE OCEAN ACOUSTICS USING ADAPTIVE, MOBILE ARRAYS WITH ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATION LIN

OUR PROPOSAL SEEKS TO DEMONSTRATE NEW METHODS FOR EXPLORATION USING COORDINATED HETEROGENEOUS VEHICLE PLATFORMS. THESE METHODS RELY ON REAL-TIME AUTO

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ROLE OF DE NOVO DNMTS IN TOXICANT INDUCED ALTERATIONS IN DNA METHYLATION

STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION OF THE UPPER OCEAN IN THE BAY OF BENGAL

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: INTERACTIONS BETWEEN INCIPIENT CONTINENTAL RIFTING, FLUVIAL SYSTEMS, AND REGIONAL CLIMATE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA: THE OKAVANGO-MAKGADIKGADI COMPLEX, BOTSWANA

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: ANNUAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE BIOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL MARINE ENVIRONMENT IN THE CHUKCHI AND NEARSHORE BEAUFORT SEAS NEAR BARROW

MRI: DEVELOPMENT OF A LIGHT-TETHERED UNDERSEA ROBOTIC VEHICLE FOR SEAFLOOR INTERVENTION IN ICE-COVERED ENVIRONMENTS AND SHIP OF OPPORTUNITY DEPLOYMEN

UNDERSTANDING THE ORIGINS AND MECHANISMS OF ARYL HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR PROMISCUITY - PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT THE ARYL HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR (AHR) IS A BHLH-PAS PROTEIN THAT IN VERTEBRATE ANIMALS IS A LIGAND-ACTIVATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR THAT PLAYS ESSENTIAL ROLES IN THE REGULATION OF XENOBIOTIC-METABOLIZING ENZYMES AND IN THE MECHANISMS OF TOXICITY OF NUMEROUS ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS, INCLUDING CHLORINATED DIOXINS SUCH AS 2,3,7,8-TETRACHLORODIBENZO-P-DIOXIN (TCDD), SOME POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS (PCBS), POLYNUCLEAR AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS (PAHS), AND SOME EMERGING CONTAMINANTS. THE AHR IS ALSO INVOLVED IN A VARIETY OF PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES INCLUDING DEVELOPMENT, HEMATOPOIESIS, IMMUNITY, HOST-MICROBIOME INTERACTIONS, AND BARRIER ORGAN FUNCTION. IN CONTRAST TO MOST LIGAND-ACTIVATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS THAT HAVE NARROW LIGAND- SPECIFICITY, THE VERTEBRATE AHR IS HIGHLY PROMISCUOUS, RECOGNIZING A DIVERSE ARRAY OF CHEMICALS. IN ADDITION TO THE WELL-KNOWN XENOBIOTICS, AHR LIGANDS INCLUDE DIETARY PHYTOCHEMICALS, MICROBIOME-DERIVED MICROBIAL METABOLITES, AND ENDOGENOUS METABOLITES SUCH AS TRYPTOPHAN CATABOLITES, ALL OF WHICH COLLECTIVELY CONTRIBUTE TO THE INTERNAL CHEMICAL EXPOSOME. A COMPREHENSIVE MECHANISTIC UNDERSTANDING OF AHR’S ROLE IN THE RESPONSE TO ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURES HAS BEEN HINDERED BY THE COMPLEXITY OF ITS PHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS AND THE BEWILDERING DIVERSITY OF ITS LIGANDS. HERE, WE PROPOSE A SET OF INNOVATIVE MOLECULAR STUDIES TO ELUCIDATE THE SEQUENCE-STRUCTURE-FUNCTION DETERMINANTS OF AHR LIGAND-DEPENDENCE AND THE ORIGIN OF ITS LIGAND DIVERSITY. EVIDENCE SUGGESTS THAT THE AHR EVOLVED FROM A LIGAND-INDEPENDENT (CONSTITUTIVELY ACTIVE) ANCESTOR. THE PROPOSED BASIC RESEARCH WILL EXPERIMENTALLY DETERMINE THE EVOLUTIONARY TRAJECTORY AND UNDERLYING GENETIC AND STRUCTURAL MECHANISMS THAT DROVE THE EVOLUTION OF AHR LIGAND-DEPENDENCE AND PROMISCUITY. IN AIM 1, WE WILL ESTABLISH THE LIGAND-SPECIFICITY OF AHRS FROM PRESENT-DAY SPECIES THROUGH A SYSTEMATIC EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF PHYLOGENETICALLY DIVERSE METAZOAN AHRS, INCLUDING NEW INVERTEBRATE AND EARLY VERTEBRATE AHRS. IN AIM 2, WE WILL USE ANCESTRAL SEQUENCE RECONSTRUCTION (ASR) TO “RESURRECT” ANCESTRAL AHR PROTEINS AND THEN DETERMINE THEIR LIGAND-BINDING SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY, REVEALING THE IDENTITIES OF ANCESTRAL AND DERIVED LIGANDS. IN AIM 3, WE WILL USE PHYLOGENETIC AND PROTEIN STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS TO IDENTIFY CANDIDATE HISTORICAL AMINO ACID CHANGES THAT CAUSED THE ACQUISITION OF LIGAND-BINDING AND EVOLUTION OF PROMISCUITY. WE WILL TEST THESE HYPOTHESES BY ENGINEERING ANCESTRAL AND EXTANT PROTEINS CONTAINING THESE SUBSTITUTIONS AND EXPERIMENTALLY ASSESSING THEIR FUNCTION. UNDERSTANDING THE ANCESTRAL PROPERTIES OF THE PRIMORDIAL LIGAND- ACTIVATED AHR AND THE MECHANISMS THAT DROVE THE EVOLUTION OF PROMISCUITY WILL PROVIDE ESSENTIAL NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE NATURAL PHYSIOLOGICAL LIGANDS AND BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS OF EXTANT AHR, REVEAL THE GENETIC AND STRUCTURAL MECHANISMS UNDERLYING AHR LIGAND RECOGNITION, AND ELUCIDATE HOW AND WHY AHR FUNCTION IS DISRUPTED BY ANTHROPOGENIC ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS.

EMC EXPERIMENT: EXAMINING THE FATE OF THE EAST MADAGASCAR CURRENT

MRI-R2 CONSORTIUM: ACQUISITION OF MULTIPLE ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLE PROCESSORS (ESPS) AND SUPPORTING MOORING AND COMMUNICATIONS HARDWARE

AON: CONTINUATION OF LONG-TERM OBSERVATIONS OF THE BEAUFORT GYRE ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES IN 2019-2020 TO ENHANCE UNDERSTANDING OF THE ARCTIC'S IMPACT ON CLIMATE VARIABILITY

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: MICROSTRUCTURE AND MIXING MEASUREMENTS DURING SPURS

ACCELNET - IMPLEMENTATION: DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR THE STUDY OF OCEAN METABOLISM AND NUTRIENT CYCLES ON A CHANGING PLANET (BIOGEOSCAPES) -MICROORGANISMS PLAY IMPORTANT ROLES IN THE BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES OF THE OCEANS AND HELP MAINTAIN THE FUNCTIONING OF EARTH?S ECOSYSTEMS. YET MUCH REMAINS UNKNOWN ABOUT WHAT DETERMINES THEIR OCCURRENCE AROUND THE GLOBE, AND WHAT CONTROLS OCEAN METABOLISM. HUMAN ACTIVITIES AND CLIMATE CHANGE ARE AFFECTING OCEAN MICROBES AND BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES IN MANY WAYS; BEING ABLE PREDICT AND UNDERSTANDING THOSE CHANGES IS NEEDED TO INFORM MANAGEMENT AND DECISION-MAKING. AN INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY EFFORT IS BUILDING A GLOBAL, MARINE MICROBIAL BIOGEOCHEMISTRY NETWORK, ?BIOGEOSCAPES: OCEAN METABOLISM AND NUTRIENT CYCLES ON A CHANGING PLANET?, THAT COMBINES BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL SAMPLING TO MAP MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES AND STUDY OCEAN METABOLISM AND THEIR EFFECTS ON ECOSYSTEM HEALTH AND BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES. THIS ACCEL-NET PROJECT DRAWS UPON EXPERTISE AND INFRASTRUCTURE ACROSS MULTIPLE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS TO LAY THE GROUNDWORK FOR THE BIOGEOSCAPES PROGRAM. BIOGEOSCAPES IS AN INTERDISCIPLINARY EFFORT THAT COMBINES BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL MEASUREMENTS THROUGH A COORDINATED INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM. NETWORK ACTIVITIES CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF BIOGEOSCAPES THROUGH A COMBINATION OF VIRTUAL AND IN-PERSON MEETINGS, WORKSHOPS, WORKING GROUPS, STUDENT AND POSTDOC EXCHANGES, AND SUMMER SCHOOL EVENTS. LARGE WORKSHOPS FOCUS ON: SCIENCE INTEGRATION AND PLANNING; INFORMATICS AND DATA MANAGEMENT; INTERCALIBRATION REVIEW AND ASSESSMENT; AND SCIENCE IMPLEMENTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE. SMALLER WORKSHOPS/MEETINGS INCLUDE A MODELING AND DATA INTEGRATION WORKSHOP, TWO SUMMER SCHOOLS, AND TWO SCIENTIFIC STEERING COMMITTEE MEETINGS. THESE COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES CONTRIBUTE: AN INTERCALIBRATION ASSESSMENT; METHODOLOGICAL AND SAMPLING BEST PRACTICES; DATA MANAGEMENT AND INFORMATICS PLANNING; DATA-MODEL INTEGRATION STRATEGIES AND RECOMMENDATIONS; AND PLANNING FOR THE LAUNCH OF AN INTERNATIONAL BIOGEOSCAPES PROGRAM. TO SUPPORT EARLY CAREER ENGAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT, THIS ACCEL-NET INCLUDES INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCES ACROSS INTERNATIONAL NETWORK PARTNERS VIA: IN-PERSON SUMMER SCHOOLS DESIGNED TO BUILD SCIENTIFIC, TECHNICAL AND DATA INTEGRATION EXPERTISE; INTERNATIONAL EARLY CAREER RESEARCH EXCHANGES; VIRTUAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS; AND A CROSS-NETWORK MENTORING PROGRAM. THE PROPOSED CAPACITY BUILDING ACTIVITIES FOR EARLY CAREER SCIENTISTS (PARTICIPATION IN ACCEL-NET LEADERSHIP, RESEARCH EXCHANGES, SUMMER SCHOOLS, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS, MENTORING) PROVIDE THE TRAINING AND TOOLS NEEDED TO TRANSCEND DISCIPLINES AND UTILIZE ?BIG DATA? SETS IN NOVEL WAYS TO UNDERSTAND HOW MARINE MICROBES INTERACT WITH THEIR CHANGING ENVIRONMENT. THESE ACTIVITIES FACILITATE PARTICIPATION ACROSS NETWORKS AND DIVERSE GROUPS, FOSTER NEW COLLABORATIONS ACROSS CAREER STAGES AND NATIONS, AND CULTIVATE LEADERSHIP SKILLS. THE ACCELERATING RESEARCH THROUGH INTERNATIONAL NETWORK-TO-NETWORK COLLABORATIONS (ACCELNET) PROGRAM IS DESIGNED TO ACCELERATE THE PROCESS OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY AND PREPARE THE NEXT GENERATION OF U.S. RESEARCHERS FOR MULTITEAM INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS. THE ACCELNET PROGRAM SUPPORTS STRATEGIC LINKAGES AMONG U.S. RESEARCH NETWORKS AND COMPLEMENTARY NETWORKS ABROAD THAT WILL LEVERAGE RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES TO TACKLE GRAND SCIENTIFIC CHALLENGES THAT REQUIRE SIGNIFICANT COORDINATED INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS. THIS PROJECT IS FUNDED BY THE OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (OISE). THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.

RE-ACQUISITION, MARKING, AND NEUTRALIZATION OF BURIED MINES

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ASSESSING REALISM AND UNCERTAINTIES IN NAVY DECISION AIDS

RESPONSE OF THE BACTERIAL METALLOPROTEOME TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS

CAPITALIZING ON A SEPARATELY FUNDED OCEAN ALKALINIZATION FIELD TRIAL IN THE GULF OF MAINE, THIS PROJECT WILL MEASURE CARBON REMOVAL AND ECOSYSTEM RESPONSES. SPECIFICALLY, FIVE OCEAN GLIDERS WILL TRACK THE ALKALINITY RELEASED BY THE FIELD TRIAL BY FOLLOWING DYES AND CHANGES IN PH (MEASURE OF HOW ALKALINE OR ACIDIC THE WATER IS). THE GLIDERS CAN IDENTIFY THESE CHANGES FROM BASELINE DATA COLLECTED SEVERAL WEEKS PRIOR TO THE START OF THE TRIAL AS WELL AS OTHER MEASUREMENTS AND MODELED DATA COLLECTED AS PART OF THE LARGER EXPERIMENT. IN ORDER TO MAKE THESE MEASUREMENTS, THE TEAM WILL INTEGRATE IMPORTANT SENSORS INTO THE GLIDERS. THIS ENGINEERING PROJECT WILL INCLUDE HOUSING MODIFICATIONS AND ELECTRICAL INTEGRATION OF THE PH AND DYE SENSORS INTO THE GLIDER BODY, AS WELL AS THE DEVELOPMENT OF FIRMWARE THAT CONTROLS THE GLIDER AND THE INCORPORATED SENSORS. RESEARCHERS WILL TEST INTEGRATION OF THESE COMPONENTS ON SHORT DEPLOYMENTS THE YEAR BEFORE THE MAIN ALKALINITY ADDITION EXPERIMENT. IN ADD

MECHANISMS OF EMBRYO RESPONSE TO OXIDATIVE STRESS

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: AN OBSERVATIONAL AND MODELING STUDY OF THE PHYSICAL PROCESSES DRIVING EXCHANGES BETWEEN THE SHELF AND THE DEEP OCEAN AT CAPE

CONSTRUCTION AND FIELD-TESTING OF 16 BROADBAND OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOGRAPHS FOR THE OBSIC FLEET

THE WOODS HOLE CENTER FOR OCEANS AND HUMAN HEALTH

ALVIN HANDLING SYSTEM MODIFICATIONS ON R/V ATLANTIS

CNH-L: COASTAL PROCESSES AND HUMAN RESPONSE TO SHORELINE CHANGE

ORIGIN AND FATE OF HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOMS IN THE WARMING CHUKCHI SEA

SAMPLING AUTONOMY FOR UUV-BASED MEASUREMENTS OF TURBULENT NONLINEAR INTERNAL WAVE ANOMALIES IN THE UPPER OCEAN

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: ASW RESEARCH AT WHOI AND SIO

SHELF BREAK ACOUSTICS ENVIRONMENTAL AND BIOLOGICAL VARIABILITY AND ITS IMPACT ON ACOUSTIC PROPAGATION

PROPOSAL TITLE: HAB TOXIN ACCUMULATION, EXPOSURE RISKS, AND IMPACTS IN ALASKAN ARCTIC MARINE SUBSISTENCE RESOURCES (ECOHAB-AMSR) ALL ASPECTS OF THE PROPOSED WORK WILL BE COMPLETED IN DIRECT COLLABORATION WITH THE TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS OF MULTIPLE ALASKA NATIVE VILLAGES (SEE TRIBAL RESOLUTIONS). THE OBJECTIVES ARE TO: 1) IDENTIFY SUBSISTENCE FOOD RESOURCES UTILIZED BY COASTAL COMMUNITIES THAT ACCUMULATE PSTS, 2) ESTABLISH TWO IMAGING FLOWCYTOBOT (IFCB) INSTALLATIONS CAPABLE OF PROVIDING REAL-TIME ESTIMATES OF ALEXANDRIUM BLOOM AND TRANSPORT DYNAMICS AT KEY LOCATIONS SUCH AS LITTLE DIOMEDE ISLAND (A SITE CHOSEN DUE TO ITS CENTRAL LOCATION IN THE BERING STRAIT DIRECTLY IN THE NORTHERN PATHWAY FOR TRANSPORTED ALEXANDRIUM BLOOMS) AND KOTZEBUE SOUND AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE CHUKCHI SEA, 3) USE LABORATORY STUDIES AND FIELD COLLECTIONS TO QUANTIFY UPTAKE AND DEPURATION RATES, AND PST TISSUE DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS IN KEY SPECIES HARVESTED FOR SUBSISTENCE PURPOSES TO ASSESS RISKS TO FOOD SAFETY AND SECURITY, 4) IDENTIFY HEALTH IMPACTS OF PST EXPOSURE IN MARINE MAMMALS HARVESTED FOR SUBSISTENCE PURPOSES, 5) DEVELOP MODELS TO DETERMINE ALEXANDRIUM BLOOM DENSITIES, TOXICITIES, AND DURATIONS THAT RESULT IN HARMFUL DOSES TO MARINE MAMMALS AS WELL AS THE ACCUMULATION OF PSTS AT CONCENTRATIONS ABOVE SEAFOOD REGULATORY LIMITS IN MARINE RESOURCES HARVESTED FOR SUBSISTENCE PURPOSES, AND 6) DISSEMINATE THE FINDINGS IN OBJECTIVES 1 - 5 BROADLY TO COASTAL COMMUNITIES THAT ARE COMPLETELY RELIANT ON MARINE RESOURCES FOR SURVIVAL.

PHYSICAL CONTROL OF ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE FLUX IN ESTUARIES -THE OVERARCHING GOAL OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP A COMPREHENSIVE UNDERSTANDING OF HOW PHYSICAL AND BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESSES INTERACT IN ESTUARIES TO MODULATE ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE (CO2) EXCHANGE. MEASUREMENTS OF THE PARTIAL PRESSURE OF CO2 (PCO2) AND DISSOLVED OXYGEN (DO) IN THE HUDSON RIVER ESTUARY FROM A MOORED ARRAY AND FROM SHIP-BASED SURVEYS, WILL BE USED TO RESOLVE VARIABILITY IN TIME AND IN THE ALONG- AND ACROSS-ESTUARY DIRECTIONS. THESE MEASUREMENTS WILL INCLUDE BOTH THE SURFACE AND SUB-SURFACE DISTRIBUTION OF DISSOLVED GASES, AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION WILL BE RELATED TO VARIATIONS IN VERTICAL DENSITY STRATIFICATION AND ESTUARINE CIRCULATION. DIRECT COVARIANCE ATMOSPHERIC CO2 FLUX AND WATER COLUMN TURBULENCE MEASUREMENTS WILL BE MADE FROM A FIXED PLATFORM THAT SPANS THE AIR-SEA INTERFACE AT A LOCATION WHERE NEAR SURFACE TURBULENCE IS LIKELY IMPACTED BY WIND, WAVES, AND TIDES, AND IS SIGNIFICANTLY MODIFIED BY VARIATIONS IN VERTICAL DENSITY STRATIFICATION. THESE DATA WILL PROVIDE A QUANTITATIVE MODEL FOR THE GAS TRANSFER VELOCITY, WHICH WILL BE USED TO ESTIMATE ATMOSPHERIC FLUXES FROM THE SPATIALLY RESOLVED MEASUREMENTS OF SURFACE PCO2. IT IS HYPOTHESIZED THAT THE HIGH OUTGASSING OF CO2 COMMONLY INFERRED IN THE UPPER REGIONS OF MANY ESTUARIES IS STRONGLY CONTROLLED BY THE UNDERLYING ESTUARINE CIRCULATION. THE MEASUREMENTS WILL ADDRESS TWO LONG-STANDING RESEARCH NEEDS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE LARGE UNCERTAINTIES IN ESTUARINE CO2 EMISSIONS: 1) SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL HETEROGENEITY IN SURFACE PCO2 VALUES, AND 2) POORLY CONSTRAINED GAS TRANSFER VELOCITIES. THE RESEARCH ADDRESSES THESE TWO FUNDAMENTAL UNCERTAINTIES, BOTH OF WHICH ARE STRONGLY MODULATED BY PHYSICAL PROCESSES, AND A NEW CONCEPTUAL MODEL FOR GAS EXCHANGE THAT IS HYPOTHESIZED TO BE APPLICABLE TO A WIDE RANGE OF ESTUARIES WILL BE TESTED. MOORED INSTRUMENTATION WILL QUANTIFY THE IMPORTANCE OF TEMPORAL VARIABILITY AT A RANGE OF TIME SCALES, NOT RESOLVED IN MOST PREVIOUS STUDIES. DIRECT COVARIANCE ATMOSPHERIC CO2 FLUX MEASUREMENTS COMBINED WITH OBSERVATIONS OF WATER COLUMN TURBULENCE, WAVES AND VERTICAL DENSITY STRATIFICATION WILL RIGOROUSLY QUANTIFY THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TURBULENCE IN THE AQUEOUS SURFACE BOUNDARY LAYER AND SURFACE GAS EXCHANGE. THIS ADDRESSES A FUNDAMENTAL INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEM OF SIGNIFICANT SOCIETAL IMPORTANCE AND WILL SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVE ESTIMATES OF CO2 EMISSIONS FROM ESTUARIES. THIS PROJECT WILL PROVIDE INTERDISCIPLINARY TRAINING FOR A GRADUATE STUDENT, WHO WILL BE INVOLVED IN ALL ASPECTS OF THE PROJECT. RESULTS FROM THIS RESEARCH WILL BE COMMUNICATED TO THE PUBLIC AND SCIENTIFIC AUDIENCES, AND TO INTERESTED STAKEHOLDERS THROUGH PUBLIC SEMINARS HOSTED BY ORGANIZATIONS THAT FOCUS ON HUDSON RIVER SCIENTIFIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES AND THROUGH PRESENTATIONS AT NATIONAL MEETINGS. SEVERAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS WILL GAIN HANDS ON EXPERIENCE BUILDING AND TESTING NEW SCIENTIFIC SENSORS, WHICH WILL BE DEPLOYED IN THE HUDSON RIVER. DATA FROM THESE SENSORS WILL BE DISPLAYED AT THE CENTER FOR THE URBAN RIVER AT BECZAK AND USED TO DEVELOP EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS FOR VISITORS TO THIS CENTER ON THE HUDSON RIVER. THIS PROJECT WILL TEST THE CONCEPTUAL MODEL THAT THERE IS AN ESTUARINE GAS EXCHANGE MAXIMUM (EGM), WHOSE LOCATION IS CONTROLLED PRIMARILY BY THE UNDERLYING ESTUARINE DYNAMICS. ANALOGOUS TO THE ESTUARINE TURBIDITY MAXIMUM (ETM), THE LOCATION OF THE EGM IS HYPOTHESIZED TO BE CONTROLLED BY THE CONVERGENCE IN THE LANDWARD ESTUARINE CIRCULATION NEAR THE LIMIT OF SALT AND OCCURS BECAUSE VERTICAL DENSITY STRATIFICATION PREVENTS THE RESPIRATORY DEMAND OF SUB-PYCNOCLINE WATERS IN FROM EXCHANGING WITH THE ATMOSPHERE. THIS DEPENDENCE ON STRATIFICATION WILL LIKELY RESULT IN LARGE ASYMMETRIES IN ATMOSPHERIC FLUX BETWEEN SPRING AND NEAP TIDES, WHICH MAY FUNDAMENTALLY CONTROL THE ALONG-ESTUARY LOCATION OF THE EGM. SIGNIFICANT ACROSS-ESTUARY VARIABILITY ALSO IS EXPECTED, POTENTIALLY DRIVEN BY LATERAL UPWELLING OR STRONG LATERAL GRADIENTS IN STRATIFICATION. IN THE LIGHT-LIMITED HUDSON RIVER ESTUARY, FORTNIGHTLY VARIATIONS IN STRATIFICATION AND MIXING LIKELY INFLUENCE PHYTOPLANKTON DYNAMICS, WHICH ALSO MAY CONTRIBUTE TO THE SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATIONS IN ATMOSPHERIC EXCHANGE. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.

THE BIOPHYSICS OF CORAL REEF RESILIENCE: HYDRODYNAMIC AND ECOLOGICAL DRIVERS OF CORAL SURVIVAL UNDER EXTREME HEAT

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IMPLEMENTATION OF AN OPERATIONAL MODEL FOR PREDICTION OF ALEXANDRIUM FUNDYENSE BLOOMS IN THE GULF OF MAINE

MULTISCALE AUTONOMOUS SURVEYS IN SUPPORT OF SPURS

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