New Funded Research in Q4 of FY2025

In the third quarter of FY 2025, GSO received $8.5 million in research funding. GSO researchers also submitted and/or participated in more than $66.3 million in proposals during this quarter, including $45.4 million for the Year 7 increment of the NOAA Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute.

This table shows individual new awards made to GSO in Q4:

Investigator(s)AmountSourceProject Title
Roxanne Beinart$34,448Rhode Island Space Grant - Brown UniversityComputational approaches for uncovering microbial symbioses in extreme environments with implications for astrobiology
Eliza Berry, Jennifer McCann$56,467Providence Resilience Partnership, IncCatalyzing citizen engagement in Seekonk River climate resilience and habitat restoration
Robert Campbell, Alessandra D'Angelo$75,000National Science FoundationCollaborative Research: EAGER: Impact of freshwater input and stratification on ecological and biogeochemical regimes from shelf to basin in the Siberian Arctic
Keisuke Inomura, Christopher Kincaid, Mingxi Zhou$80,000R.I. Science and Technology Advisory CouncilPredicting elemental stoichiometry and macromolecular allocation in Narragansett Bay
Kris Lewis$292,500R.I. Department of Environmental ManagementRENEWAL: URI Weekly Fish Trawl
Colleen Mouw$157,695Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionURI-CINAR: Development of hyperspectral remote sensing products for fisheries, 2024-2029
Melissa Omand$845,581Schmidt SciencesOcean Margins Initiative
Nicholas Pizzo$33,085Scripps Institution of OceanographyCoupling between the ocean and the atmosphere from meso- to submeso-scales
Rebecca Robinson$31,272Columbia UniversityUSSSP IODP Expedition 501
Rebecca Robinson, Bethany Jenkins$109,669National Science FoundationRAPID: Linking gene expression, silicification, and diatom-bound nitrogen isotopes in field isolated diatom species from the Southern Ocean
Heather Stoffel$9,945Restore America's EstuariesSNEP Mini Grant: Equipment for NBFSMN
D Randolph Watts$4,200University of BremenPIES SN362 Repair and Preparation