Funded Research Awards

GSO Research Awards — Q3 (Q1 FY2021)

InvestigatorSourceAmountTitleComments
Robert Ballard, Dwight ColemanUS Dept of Commerce NOAA$15,428,507NOAA Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute (OECI)
Jeremy CollieUS Dept of Commerce NOAA$351,485Early Life History of American Lobsters in Coastal Southern New England Waters
Peter CornillonNatAeronautics & Space Admin$24,318A Framework for the Deconvolution of Oversampled Fields of Geophysical Parameters Obtained from Satellite-Borne Passive Microwave Radiometers
Brian Crawford, Karen KentUS Agcy for International Dev.$786,987Women Shellfishers and Food Security Project
Kathleen Donohue, D Randolph WattsNational Science Foundation$988,212Eddy Fluxes Across the Southern Antarctic Circumpolar Current Front Near Southeast Indian Ridge
Katherine Kelley, Robert Pockalny, Steven CareyNational Science Foundation$204,203Origin and Evolution of Intraplate Magmatism at the Revillagigedo Archipelago, Mexico
Katherine Kelley, Rebecca Robinson, Steven CareyNational Science Foundation$366,968Acquisition Upgrade of Micro-Analytical Tools for Geochemistry
Robert KenneyUS Dept of Commerce NOAA$67,312RENEWAL: Maintain and Curate the North Atlantic Right Whale Sightings Database
John KingUS Dept of Interior$109,999Benthic Habitat Characterization and Mapping for Assateague National Seashore and Acadia National Park
Brice Loose, Laura GlastraNASA Space Grant-Brown University$37,824Envisioning Ocean World Habitats and Bio-geochemistry at Analogous air-Ice-Ocean Interfaces on EarthNASA Space Grant Fellowship
Colleen Mouw, Virginie SonnetNatAeronautics & Space Admin$44,999NASA FINESST: Linking Hyperspectral Optical Properties with Morphology and Taxonomy for Improved Phytoplankton Composition DiscriminationGraduate student fellowship
Veronique Oldham, Rebecca RobinsonNational Science Foundation$892,732Manganese as a Key Reactant in the Expanding Low Oxygen Zones of the Gulf of Mexico, USA
Jaime Palter, Kelton McMahon, Christopher KincaidUS Dept of Commerce NOAA$449,900Understanding Dramatic Warming and Altered Fisheries on the US Continental Shelf through Observations and Multi-Scale Models
Jaime Palter, Sarah NickfordNASA Space Grant-Brown University$52,400Improving our Understanding and Quantification of Wintertime Air-Sea CO2 Exchange in the Gulf Stream and Subtropiical Mode Water Formation RegionNASA Space Grant Fellowship
Christopher RomanNaval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC)$77,454Constraining the Relationship Between Oceanographic Features and Deep Scattering Layer Biology for Improved Tactical CapabilitiesNon-GSO PI, total award is $232,594
Malia SchwartzNOAA CINAR (Woods Hole Oce Institution)$8,293URI-CINAR: Analysis of Nutrient Samples from the Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf
John (J.P.) WalshNational Science Foundation$124,441Assessment Framework for Successful Development of Viable Ocean Multi-Use Systems
D Randolph WattsUniversity of Miami$157,815Three PIES for CIMAS - Meinen, South Atlantic MOC Project
Meng (Matt) Wei, Yang ShenNational Science Foundation$243,825Using Machine Learning Method to Detect Slow Slip Events in Ocean Bottom Pressure Data

GSO Responds to COVID-19

As this issue of Aboard GSO went to press, the nation was well into month three of its struggle to contain the Coronavirus. The global pandemic has affected every aspect of daily life, and life and work at GSO is no exception. Extraordinary steps have been called for to help navigate extraordinary times. From a […]

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Change of Watch

By Dr. Barclay P. Collins, Chair, Dean’s Advisory Council Before a new dean takes the helm later this year, it is important and exciting to review Bruce Corliss’ achievements during his seven-plus years as dean of the Graduate School of Oceanography, and how the initiatives and programs implemented during his tenure will impact the future […]

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Cooperative Institutes Arrive

NOAA-funded applied research to deliver foundational knowledge for healthy, sustainable growth of blue economies. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has formed two new institutes for oceanographic exploration, collaborative research and discovery. The Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute (OECI) will be hosted by URI/GSO at the Narragansett Bay Campus. GSO will also join the Cooperative […]

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Exploring a Changing Arctic

By Holly Morin The Arctic is considered a region of extremes with acute shifts in seasonal daylight, intense cold, and high winds. As average air temperatures in this polar region are rising more rapidly than other parts of the world, it is now also a region of extreme climatic warming. The changes happening on land […]

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Endeavor makes it home

At sea during the outbreak of the COVID-19 global pandemic, Endeavor returns to Narragansett Bay in April. When University of Rhode Island oceanographers Rainer Lohmann and Rob Pockalny flew to Barbados in February to board the research ship Endeavor for the beginning of a 22-day expedition across the Atlantic, their only health concern was whether […]

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