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