In the first quarter of FY 2023, GSO received $30.1 million in research funding. Roughly half of that total ($14.6 million) was the annual incremental funding to the NOAA Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute (OECI). The following are individual new awards to GSO:
| Investigator(s) | Source | Amount | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roxanne Beinart | National Science Foundation | $893,566 | CAREER: Assessing local adaptation in the chemosynthetic symbionts of hydrothermal vent animals. |
| Rainer Lohmann | National Institutes of Health/DHHS - NIH | $1,909,600 | RENEWAL: Sources, Transport, Exposure and Effects of PFAS (STEEP) Center |
| Rainer Lohmann, Jitka Becanova | Exxon-Mobil Upstream Research Company | $122,060 | CI-Initial evaluations of passive sampling for PFAS substances in support of monitoring activities, and bioavailability assessments |
| Brice Loose | National Science Foundation | $156,497 | U.S. GEOTRACES GP17-OCE and GP17-ANT: Properties and processes impacting other TEI cycles using noble gas and stable isotope tracers |
| Jennifer McCann | R.I. Coastal Res. Mgt.Council | $100,000 | Minimizing conflict with recreational fishing in Narragansett Bay |
| Melissa Omand | National Science Foundation | $255,901 | An open, platform-agnostic sediment trap controller and sensor integration |
| Melissa Omand | The National Philanthropic Trust | $535,454 | Platforms for distributed and persistent quantification of particulate carbon fluxes in the ocean |
| Melissa Omand, Sarah Lang | R.I. Space Grant—Brown University | $26,130 | Quantifying the submesoscale dynamics of phytoplankton carbon using airborne hyperspectral imagery, scatterometry, and in situ observations |
| Christopher Roman | Office of Naval Research | $100,000 | Ambient biological soundscape characterization and localization near Atlantis II seamount cluster |
| Tatiana Rynearson, Erin Jones | R.I. Space Grant—Brown University | $31,000 | Eco-genomics to examine phytoplankton loss processes from the surface ocean during the North Atlantic EXPORTs campaign |
| Gail Scowcroft | Office of Naval Research | $171,499 | Expanding the reach of the Discovery of Sound in the Sea project |
| Kerri Smith | Office of Polar Programs/NSF | $325,773 | Reconstructing baleen whale movement and foraging ecology using archived natural history collections. |
| Hongjie Wang | Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences | $70,000 | Evaluate the potential ocean acidification mitigation effects from sugar kelp growth in a Point Judith, R.I., kelp farm |
| D Randolph Watts | Pusan National U. | $3,826 | Release rearming kits for Jeon-PNU |
| D Randolph Watts | U. of Bremen-DEU | $208,332 | Three-Plus-Two CPIES and kits for Bremen U. |
| D Randolph Watts | U. of California, San Diego | $3,450 | Repair PIES SN236 for Scripps PIES group |
| Mingxi Zhou | National Science Foundation | $483,386 | Advancing underwater robots in complex environments |
| Mingxi Zhou, Christopher Roman | National Science Foundation | $1,044,134 | NRI: robotic iceberg sentinels |