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NSF program PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY (161000): 259 awards, $168.4M to 73 organizations
259 NSF awards ($168.4M) under the program element PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY (161000) to 73 organizations, fiscal years 2022 to 2026, read 2026-11-03.
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Awards
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| Award | Agency | Institute or division | Fiscal year | Amount in window | Start | End | Principal investigator | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii Ocean Time-series (HOT): 2023-2028 | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $8,070,532 | August 1, 2023 | July 31, 2028 | Angelicque E White | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $4,893,936 | April 1, 2025 | January 31, 2027 | Fiammetta Straneo | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Frameworks: TURBO: Towards Ultra-high Resolution Community Earth System Model (CESM) with MOM6 and Ocean Biogeochemistry | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2025 | $4,499,035 | July 1, 2025 | June 30, 2030 | Gokhan Danabasoglu | nsf.gov |
| A Global Distributed Observing Program for Shear, Energy Flux, and Mixing by Internal Waves | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $4,224,637 | January 1, 2023 | December 31, 2026 | James B Girton | nsf.gov |
| Dense water pathways feeding the Faroe Bank Channel Overflow | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $3,956,860 | January 1, 2023 | December 31, 2027 | Robert S Pickart | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: The Internal Wave Spectrum and Boundary Mixing in the Sub-Tropical South Atlantic | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $3,553,342 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Kurt L Polzin | nsf.gov |
| CCHDO: serving easily accessible, global, high-quality hydrographic data for research, climate monitoring, and education | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $3,499,264 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2028 | Karen I Stocks | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Frameworks: A community platform for accelerating observationally-constrained regional oceanographic modeling | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2023 | $3,358,308 | September 15, 2023 | August 31, 2028 | Daniel E Amrhein | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Measuring the East Greenland Coastal Current on the Northeast Greenland Shelf | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $3,094,375 | December 1, 2024 | November 30, 2028 | Nicholas P Foukal | nsf.gov |
| Towards two decades of ocean mass and heat transports at 26.5N: Extension of the RAPID-MOCHA Array | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $3,084,570 | March 15, 2022 | February 28, 2027 | Shane Elipot | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: NSFGEO-NERC: QUICCHE: Quantifying Interocean fluxes in the Cape Cauldron Hotspot of Eddy kinetic energy | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $2,880,996 | April 1, 2022 | March 31, 2027 | Lisa M Beal | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: U.S. Crossroads—Connectivity of the North Atlantic Deep Western Boundary Current through the Subpolar-Subtropical Transition Zone | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $2,693,635 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2028 | Amy S Bower | nsf.gov |
| Continued Observations of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: the RAPID-MOCHA Array | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2026 | $2,392,829 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2031 | Shane Elipot | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: NSFGEO-NERC: QUICCHE: Quantifying Interocean fluxes in the Cape Cauldron Hotspot of Eddy kinetic energy | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $2,062,112 | April 1, 2022 | March 31, 2027 | Kathleen A Donohue | nsf.gov |
| Physical Control of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Flux in Estuaries | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $1,756,201 | June 1, 2023 | May 31, 2027 | Malcolm E Scully | nsf.gov |
| Characterizing the warm water flow through Pine Island Thwaites West Trough | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $1,714,418 | January 1, 2023 | December 31, 2027 | Nicole Couto | nsf.gov |
| Vertical Velocity in the Upper Ocean | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2026 | $1,652,616 | October 1, 2026 | September 30, 2030 | Eric D'Asaro | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Frameworks: A community platform for accelerating observationally-constrained regional oceanographic modeling | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2023 | $1,615,487 | September 15, 2023 | August 31, 2028 | David Nicholson | nsf.gov |
| The Oleander Project: High-resolution observations of the dynamic ocean between New Jersey and Bermuda | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $1,388,432 | March 15, 2023 | February 28, 2027 | Magdalena Andres | nsf.gov |
| NSFGEO-NERC: Collaborative Research: Direct comparison of ocean temperature and velocity structure from in-situ measurements and distributed optical fiber sensing | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $1,354,056 | May 1, 2024 | April 30, 2027 | Matthew H Alford | nsf.gov |
| NSFGEO-NERC: How well can we constrain past changes in ocean heat and freshwater content? | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $1,288,555 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Donata Giglio | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Elucidating the Ocean Dynamics Governing Melt at Glaciers Using Lagrangian Floats | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $1,263,894 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2027 | Jesse M Cusack | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Nonlocal Second Moment Upper Ocean Boundary Layer Modeling | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $1,219,253 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Ramsey R Harcourt | nsf.gov |
| Exploration of Anisotropy and Inhomogeneity of Ocean Boundary Layer Turbulence | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $1,195,922 | April 15, 2024 | March 31, 2027 | Andrey Shcherbina | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Exploring the Kermadec Trench --- Residence time, spatial gradients, and insights into ventilation | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $1,183,856 | November 1, 2023 | October 31, 2027 | Glenn Carter | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Interannual variability and connectivity of the oxygen supply to the deep ocean from the Labrador and Irminger Seas | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $1,119,712 | August 15, 2025 | July 31, 2028 | Isabela A Le Bras | nsf.gov |
| Intermittency in Wave-breaking Turbulence and Impacts on the Predictability of the Ocean Surface Layer | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2026 | $1,086,994 | October 1, 2026 | September 30, 2029 | Kristin Zeiden | nsf.gov |
| Canyons Influence on Cross-shelf Exchange - When Dense Water Goes Down, Warm Water Comes Up | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $1,083,600 | March 1, 2022 | February 28, 2026 | Claudia Cenedese | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: The Internal Wave Spectrum and Boundary Mixing in the Sub-Tropical South Atlantic | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $1,074,403 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Joseph J Kuehl | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Convective and Shear Instability as Pathways to Turbulence in Internal Solitary Waves | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2026 | $1,036,512 | October 1, 2026 | September 30, 2031 | Barry B Ma | nsf.gov |
| SWEL: Surface Wave effects on upwelling and Ecosystems Linkages | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $968,823 | February 1, 2024 | January 31, 2027 | Delphine J Hypolite | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Small Fronts in the Vast Sea - Multiscale Dynamics and Impact of Submesoscale Density Fronts | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $913,292 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2030 | Caitlin Whalen | nsf.gov |
| Where is the origin of the abyssal circulation? | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $909,097 | July 15, 2024 | June 30, 2027 | Paola Cessi | nsf.gov |
| Will the Agulhas extension tend towards a barrier or blender in a changing climate? | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $895,896 | March 1, 2025 | February 29, 2028 | Igor V Kamenkovich | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Reseach: Investigating Bubble-Mediated Gas Exchange in a Strongly Convective Ocean during the Bubble Exchange in the Labrador Sea (BELS) Experiment | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $890,902 | October 1, 2022 | September 30, 2025 | Craig L McNeil | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Probing internal gravity wave dynamics and dissipation using global observations and numerical simulations | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $884,427 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2026 | Kurt L Polzin | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Narrowing the Spread: Process Understanding for Reduced Uncertainty in Future El Nino/Southern Oscillation Projections | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $879,396 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2027 | Samantha Stevenson | nsf.gov |
| The Cold Fresh Pulse: A Recent Extreme Event in the Northwest Atlantic Shelf-Slope Region | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2026 | $878,706 | July 15, 2026 | June 30, 2029 | Ke Chen | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Dynamics of Cross-Shelf Plumes under Upwelling Wind Conditions | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $877,023 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Alexander E Yankovsky | nsf.gov |
| A direct modeling approach to momentum, heat and mass exchange at the ocean-atmosphere interface at high wind speed | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $844,671 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2027 | Luc Deike | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Probing internal gravity wave dynamics and dissipation using global observations and numerical simulations | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $834,607 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Brian Arbic | nsf.gov |
| Improving understanding of coupled impacts of oceans and waves on air-sea fluxes in the US Northeast Coast | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $831,828 | March 1, 2022 | February 28, 2027 | Carol Anne Clayson | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Elucidating the Ocean Dynamics Governing Melt at Glaciers Using Lagrangian Floats | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $818,950 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2026 | Trevor W Harrison | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: The impact of eddies, fronts, and horizontal stirring on exchange across the southern MAB Pioneer Array using high-resolution HFR surface currents | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $803,060 | August 15, 2025 | July 31, 2029 | Anthony Kirincich | nsf.gov |
| Recent Changes of Sea Level and Circulation around the Grand Banks: Local Dynamics and Broader Connections | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $795,643 | March 15, 2023 | February 28, 2027 | Ke Chen | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Unraveling connectivity constraints and pathways of Sargassum and the nature of their variability by building on a Maxey-Riley framework for drift modeling | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $780,028 | July 1, 2022 | October 31, 2025 | Maria J Olascoaga | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Potential Energy Generation and Release in the Oceanic Circulation | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $762,428 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Hussein Aluie | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Exploring the Kermadec Trench --- Residence time, spatial gradients, and insights into ventilation | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $760,962 | November 1, 2023 | October 31, 2027 | Steven L D'Hondt | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Experimental and numerical studies of the effects of wind, wave scale, and salinity on bubble entrainment by breaking waves | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $757,404 | October 1, 2022 | September 30, 2026 | Grant B Deane | nsf.gov |
| Surfzone Vorticity | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $738,922 | June 1, 2024 | May 31, 2027 | Steve L Elgar | nsf.gov |
| Observations and Analysis Throughflow Indonesian Seas, Upwelling, and Mixing Physics (TRIUMPH) Data | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $736,628 | April 15, 2023 | March 31, 2027 | Raden D Susanto | nsf.gov |
| Sustainability: Long-term Deployment Sustainability Strategy for Argovis | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2023 | $722,547 | September 15, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Donata Giglio | nsf.gov |
| Directional Phase-Resolved Broadband Observations of Breaking Waves | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $712,215 | August 1, 2023 | July 31, 2027 | Leonel Romero | nsf.gov |
| The causal pathways of the Indian-Atlantic interocean exchange | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $708,182 | September 1, 2022 | February 28, 2027 | Petrus Johannes van Leeuwen | nsf.gov |
| Fate of Freshwater and Heat in Baffin Bay: Basin-scale Circulation and Shelf/slope Processes | NSF | Office of Polar Programs (OPP) | 2022 | $706,057 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2025 | Robert S Pickart | nsf.gov |
| Large-scale variation of deep cycle turbulence in the equatorial oceans and their influences on the SST and heat transport | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $702,603 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Suyang Pei | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Response of the upper tropical Pacific Ocean to greenhouse gas forcing in observations and models | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $701,821 | August 15, 2022 | July 31, 2026 | Richard Seager | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Understanding surfzone dynamics using observations and artificial intelligence | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2026 | $699,975 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2029 | Britt Raubenheimer | nsf.gov |
| Dynamics of contrasting pattern formation of thermocline and mixed layer temperature in the Pacific Ocean across interannual, decadal and climate change timescales | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $687,689 | August 15, 2025 | July 31, 2028 | Richard Seager | nsf.gov |
| Evolution of water mass transformation and overturning in the western Nordic Seas in a warming climate | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $686,707 | February 1, 2023 | January 31, 2027 | Michael A Spall | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Signals from the deep: the influence of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge on the ocean and climate | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $683,123 | May 1, 2024 | April 30, 2029 | Elizabeth Maroon | nsf.gov |
| Improving the representation of eddy-topography interactions in ocean models | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2026 | $677,933 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2029 | Kendall S Smith | nsf.gov |
| Icelandic Coastal Current interactions with peninsulas, bays, winds, and ocean currents controlling freshwater export and retention | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $671,610 | April 1, 2023 | March 31, 2027 | Michael M Whitney | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: The role of wind and waves in mixing the upper ocean | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $663,712 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2027 | Luc Lenain | nsf.gov |
| Conference: Physical Oceanography Dissertations Symposium (PODS) XIII & XIV and DIssertations Symposium in Chemical Oceanography (DISCO) XXIX & XXX | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $657,239 | February 15, 2024 | January 31, 2027 | Glenn Carter | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Evaluating and parameterizing wind stress over ocean surface waves using integrated high-resolution imaging and numerical simulations | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $652,118 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Christopher J Zappa | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Quantifying and predicting wind-driven internal-wave shear in the ocean | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $650,637 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Amy F Waterhouse | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Understanding surfzone dynamics using observations and artificial intelligence | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2026 | $648,690 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2029 | Ju Sun | nsf.gov |
| The boundary current system of the eastern Labrador Sea based on a decade of mooring measurements | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $644,088 | February 15, 2025 | January 31, 2028 | Robert S Pickart | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: New Measurements of Turbulent Fluxes in the Upper Ocean | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2026 | $637,381 | July 15, 2026 | June 30, 2031 | Seth Zippel | nsf.gov |
| Recent Regime Shift in the Kuroshio Extension and North Pacific Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere System | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $635,123 | March 1, 2025 | February 29, 2028 | Bo Qiu | nsf.gov |
| Physical and Biogeochemical Controls on the Equatorial Pacific Carbon Cycle at the Mesoscale | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $632,314 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Yassir Eddebbar | nsf.gov |
| RAPID-Evolution | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $625,027 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2026 | Shane Elipot | nsf.gov |
| Ocean Dynamics Impacting Shelf Sea Level in Eastern Atlantic (ODISSEA) | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $624,127 | December 1, 2023 | November 30, 2027 | Xiaobiao Xu | nsf.gov |
| Shelf/Open-Ocean Interactions in the South African Region | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $623,876 | April 1, 2022 | March 31, 2027 | Ricardo P Matano | nsf.gov |
| Investigating ocean stratification changes with global warming by long-range internal tides | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $615,534 | April 1, 2022 | March 31, 2027 | Zhongxiang Zhao | nsf.gov |
| ALPACA - Advancing the Long-range Prediction, Attribution, and forecast Calibration of AMOC and its climate impacts | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $615,117 | January 1, 2024 | March 31, 2027 | Stephen G Yeager | nsf.gov |
| Modification of near-inertial waves by coupled air-sea interaction at the mesoscale and submesoscale | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $598,349 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Jacob Wenegrat | nsf.gov |
| Revisiting linkages between large-scale and regional ocean processes: Slope Sea variability in the Northwest Atlantic and connections to recent observed trends | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $593,385 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Svenja Ryan | nsf.gov |
| Coral reef hydrodynamics from unmanned aerial vehicles | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $589,309 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Thomas DeCarlo | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Oligohaline dispersion: transport processes at the estuary-tidal river transition | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $586,313 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Robert J Chant | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Quantifying Wind-driven Wave Tearing and its Impacts on Hurricane Air-Sea Drag | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2026 | $582,816 | July 1, 2026 | June 30, 2031 | Milan Curcic | nsf.gov |
| Characterizing the Energetics and Anisotropy of Upper Ocean Turbulence | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $580,031 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Brodie Pearson | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Enhancing MPOWIR to Build a Diverse and Inclusive Oceanography Workforce | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $579,183 | April 1, 2022 | April 18, 2025 | Colleen B Mouw | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Lagrangian transport and patchiness of buoyant material in estuarine systems | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $574,550 | March 1, 2022 | February 28, 2026 | Tobias Kukulka | nsf.gov |
| Demography Of Mesoscale Eddies (DOME) | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $574,439 | August 1, 2025 | July 31, 2028 | Ian G Grooms | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Swash zone dynamics driven by obliquely incident waves | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $574,331 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Nimish Pujara | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Investigating the impacts of sea breeze and steep surface gravity waves on nearshore air-sea fluxes | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $568,853 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2029 | Nathan Laxague | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Surfzone Eddy Dynamics | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $568,531 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Steve L Elgar | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Tracing the physics of submesoscale entrainment and subduction | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $568,415 | May 1, 2022 | April 30, 2026 | Jacob Wenegrat | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Interactions of internal waves with submesoscale currents in the bottom boundary layer | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $567,136 | June 1, 2024 | May 31, 2027 | Leif N Thomas | nsf.gov |
| Observing and modeling the spatiotemporal variability of the seasonal cycle in sea level | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $563,324 | April 1, 2023 | March 31, 2027 | Rui M Ponte | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Caribbean through-flow water mass transformation processes | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $560,690 | December 1, 2024 | November 30, 2027 | Travis Miles | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Swash zone dynamics driven by obliquely incident waves | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $554,173 | September 1, 2022 | July 31, 2026 | Jack A Puleo | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: The impact of eddies, fronts, and horizontal stirring on exchange across the southern MAB Pioneer Array using high-resolution HFR surface currents | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $553,139 | August 15, 2025 | July 31, 2029 | Michael Muglia | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Lee Waves and Sheared Mean Flow: Interactions and Impacts of Topography | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $545,490 | March 15, 2022 | February 28, 2023 | Yue Wu | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Lee Waves and Sheared Mean Flow: Interactions and Impacts of Topography | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $545,490 | October 1, 2022 | February 28, 2027 | Yue Wu | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: A new pathway of Indonesian Throughflow in the Indian Ocean: Mechanisms and role in transporting the excess heat and freshwater of the recent hiatus decade | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $537,675 | April 15, 2023 | March 31, 2027 | Weiqing Han | nsf.gov |
| Oceanic Constraints on Global Surface Warming Across Timescales | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $531,189 | October 1, 2024 | September 30, 2027 | Andrew F Thompson | nsf.gov |
| Quantification of energy cascade of internal gravity waves with varying spectral slopes | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $523,335 | March 15, 2023 | February 28, 2027 | Yulin Pan | nsf.gov |
| Advancing understanding of interannual variability and extreme events in the thermal structure of large lakes under historical and future climate scenarios | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $519,517 | January 1, 2024 | December 31, 2027 | Ayumi Fujisaki-Manome | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: The Internal Wave Spectrum and Boundary Mixing in the Sub-Tropical South Atlantic | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $514,985 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Jean Lynch-Stieglitz | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Flocculation dynamics in estuarine boundary layers - advancing new understanding through an integrated field, laboratory, and computational study | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $511,905 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Tian-Jian (Tom) Hsu | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Tidally rectified flows in multiple inlet/lagoon systems: Consequences for transport and residence times | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $508,608 | August 15, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Robert J Chant | nsf.gov |
| Exploring extreme vertical currents in the Western Mediterranean Sea | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $506,356 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2027 | MARIA E CAPO TRUYOLS | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Towards the closure of a classic problem: The role of vertical and lateral transport in driving estuarine exchange flow and salt flux | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2026 | $501,223 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Tobias Kukulka | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Frameworks: TURBO: Towards Ultra-high Resolution Community Earth System Model (CESM) with MOM6 and Ocean Biogeochemistry | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2025 | $500,727 | July 1, 2025 | June 30, 2030 | Ping Chang | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Internal tide decay mechanisms and their effects on the heat budget in the equatorial Pacific | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $498,929 | May 1, 2025 | April 30, 2028 | Maarten C Buijsman | nsf.gov |
| Potential vorticity dynamics of the meridional overturning circulation | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $496,716 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Michael A Spall | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Convective and Shear Instability as Pathways to Turbulence in Internal Solitary Waves | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2026 | $488,792 | October 1, 2026 | September 30, 2031 | Peter J Diamessis | nsf.gov |
| Shelf/Deep-Ocean Frontal Interaction in the Southwestern Atlantic | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $485,580 | April 1, 2022 | March 31, 2026 | Ricardo P Matano | nsf.gov |
| Mixing in the Indonesian Throughflow: Analysis of Lagrangian observations of shear, watermass modification, and internal wave climates | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $482,834 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2026 | James B Girton | nsf.gov |
| The relationship between Gulf Stream path and atmospheric forcing | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2026 | $482,159 | July 15, 2026 | June 30, 2029 | Young-Oh Kwon | nsf.gov |
| INTeRnal waves In angular momeNtum StratifICation (INTRINSIC) | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $480,694 | January 15, 2023 | December 31, 2027 | Amit Tandon | nsf.gov |
| Toward a more complete understanding of coastal upwelling dynamics | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $478,920 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2027 | Xiaozhou Ruan | nsf.gov |
| Investigating the impacts of wave-driven Langmuir turbulence on the estuarine circulation | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $477,707 | April 1, 2025 | March 31, 2028 | Tobias Kukulka | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Measuring abyssal warming with seismic Scholte waves | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $475,435 | May 15, 2023 | October 31, 2026 | Daniel Lizarralde | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Tracing the Missing Physics of Submesoscale Entrainment and Subduction | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $473,907 | May 1, 2022 | March 31, 2027 | Baylor Fox-Kemper | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: The Dynamics of Near-Surface Velocity Structure in the Coastal Ocean from Observations and Models | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $468,282 | October 1, 2022 | September 30, 2026 | Anthony Kirincich | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Investigating Bubble-Mediated Gas Exchange in a Strongly Convective Ocean during the Bubble Exchange in the Labrador Sea (BELS) Experiment | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $466,900 | October 1, 2022 | September 30, 2027 | David T Ho | nsf.gov |
| Impacts of Arctic freshwater export on the subpolar North Atlantic Ocean circulation | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $466,423 | March 15, 2023 | February 28, 2027 | Thomas Haine | nsf.gov |
| Drivers and Impacts of North Atlantic freshwater and heat fluxes unsettling modern-day climate (DIMSUM) | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $463,487 | December 1, 2023 | March 31, 2027 | An T Nguyen | nsf.gov |
| MOMS: a Minimal Ocean Mixing System | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $458,136 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2026 | Alberto D Scotti | nsf.gov |
| Internal tides in straits and small ocean basins: resonant modes vs. propagating waves | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $456,261 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | James Lerczak | nsf.gov |
| Impacts of coastal corners on river plume behavior and wind-driven freshwater transports | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2026 | $452,472 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2029 | Michael M Whitney | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Measuring the East Greenland Coastal Current on the Northeast Greenland Shelf | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $451,779 | December 1, 2024 | November 30, 2028 | Thomas Haine | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Oligohaline dispersion: transport processes at the estuary-tidal river transition | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $449,343 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | David K Ralston | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Detached Eddy Simulation of Nearshore Langmuir Circulation | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $447,531 | December 1, 2024 | November 30, 2027 | Andres E Tejada-Martinez | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Experimental and Numerical Studies of the Effects of Wind, Wave Scale, and Salinity on Bubble Entrainment by Breaking Waves | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $446,973 | October 1, 2022 | September 30, 2025 | Lian Shen | nsf.gov |
| Quantifying and comparing internal variability, shift, and emergence of trends in Arctic Ocean properties and transports in CMIP6 models | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $445,721 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2027 | Hannah Zanowski | nsf.gov |
| Wave Kinetic Theory for Estimating Turbulent Dissipation: From Theory to Realistic and Evolving Spectra | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $440,902 | August 1, 2025 | July 31, 2028 | Yue Wu | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Towards the closure of a classic problem: The role of vertical and lateral transport in driving estuarine exchange flow and salt flux | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2026 | $439,959 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Robert J Chant | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Flocculation dynamics in estuarine boundary layers - advancing new understanding through an integrated field, laboratory, and computational study | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $439,620 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Kyle Strom | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: The role of wind and waves in mixing the upper ocean | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $438,734 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2027 | Nick E Pizzo | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: A Coordinate-Free Framework for Improving Eddy Parameterizations | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $438,368 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2026 | Baylor Fox-Kemper | nsf.gov |
| Investigating Multi-Scale Dynamical Processes Amplifying Storm Surges | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $429,311 | March 1, 2024 | February 28, 2027 | Jiayan Yang | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Quantifying the Effects of Langmuir Turbulence on Sea Ice and the Arctic Ocean | NSF | Office of Polar Programs | 2022 | $423,336 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2026 | Brodie Pearson | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Dynamics of Cross-Shelf Plumes under Upwelling Wind Conditions | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $420,533 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Diane B Fribance | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Interactions of internal waves with submesoscale currents in the bottom boundary layer | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $418,382 | June 1, 2024 | May 31, 2027 | Jacob Wenegrat | nsf.gov |
| Interactions between winds and sea surface temperature at timescales of several days | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $416,771 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2027 | Ana Beatriz Villas Boas | nsf.gov |
| Weddell Gyre Mean Circulation and Eddy Statistics from Floats | NSF | Office of Polar Programs (OPP) | 2022 | $413,932 | March 15, 2022 | February 28, 2026 | Cathrine Hancock | nsf.gov |
| Strain and symmetric instabilities in submesoscale fronts: effects on energetics | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $410,828 | August 15, 2025 | July 31, 2028 | Tomas Chor | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Exploring the Kermadec Trench --- Residence time, spatial gradients, and insights into ventilation | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $409,623 | November 1, 2023 | October 31, 2027 | James B Girton | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: A global assessment of annual to decadal sea level predictability | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $409,185 | February 15, 2022 | January 31, 2026 | Christopher Little | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: NSFGEO-NERC: MEZCAL: Methods for Extending the horiZontal Coverage of the Amoc Latitudinally and back in time (MEZCAL) | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $406,911 | December 15, 2023 | March 31, 2027 | Daniel E Amrhein | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Submesoscale frontal dynamics and exchange at an upwelling bay | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $406,381 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Ryan Walter | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Submesoscale frontal dynamics and exchange at an upwelling bay | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $406,274 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Christopher Edwards | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Submesoscale frontal dynamics and exchange at an upwelling bay | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $405,861 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Piero Luigi Fernandes Mazzini | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Submesoscale frontal dynamics and exchange at an upwelling bay | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $405,733 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Thomas P Connolly | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Caribbean through-flow water mass transformation processes | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $403,556 | December 1, 2024 | November 30, 2027 | William D Wilson | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: The Heated Wind- and Wave-Driven Ocean Surface Boundary Layer: Synergistic Analyses of Observations and Simulations | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $399,900 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Tobias Kukulka | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Prospects and limitations of predicting a potential collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $399,211 | February 1, 2024 | January 31, 2027 | Till J Wagner | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: The influence of subglacial discharge on the oceanic fate of meltwater from the Greenland ice sheet | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $399,105 | October 1, 2022 | September 30, 2026 | Renato M Castelao | nsf.gov |
| Spray-mediated air-sea gas exchange of carbon dioxide in high winds | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $385,388 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Penny Vlahos | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Nonlinear Wake Observations at a Kuroshio Seamount (NOKS) | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $383,008 | January 1, 2024 | December 31, 2027 | Anda Vladoiu | nsf.gov |
| The role of turbulent coherent structures on the evolving seabed | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2023 | $380,940 | May 15, 2023 | April 30, 2026 | Tian-Jian (Tom) Hsu | nsf.gov |
| Continued Observations at the Panularis Hydrographic Station | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2026 | $364,361 | October 1, 2026 | September 30, 2031 | Nicholas R Bates | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: The impact of irregular small-scale topography on large-scale circulation patterns | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $361,707 | August 1, 2023 | July 31, 2026 | Xiaobiao Xu | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Determining the Role of Ocean Dynamics in Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature Variations Using a Hierarchy of Coupled Models | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $358,347 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Young-Oh Kwon | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: The role of wind and waves in mixing the upper ocean | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $353,715 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2027 | Fabrice Veron | nsf.gov |
| Transport Dynamics of the Northeast Pacific In a Changing Climate | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2023 | $352,512 | October 1, 2022 | February 28, 2026 | Emanuele Di Lorenzo | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: U.S. Crossroads—Connectivity of the North Atlantic Deep Western Boundary Current through the Subpolar-Subtropical Transition Zone | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $350,631 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2028 | Xiaobiao Xu | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: The influence of mesoscale eddies on deep-sea dynamics and implications for larval connectivity along mid-ocean ridges | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $345,186 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2027 | Guangyu Xu | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Tidally rectified flows in multiple inlet/lagoon systems: Consequences for transport and residence times | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $340,885 | August 15, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | James Lerczak | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Alongshelf Currents Driven by Obliquely Incident Shoaling Internal Bores | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $340,730 | July 15, 2025 | June 30, 2028 | Walter I Torres | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: The Internal Wave Spectrum and Boundary Mixing in the Sub-Tropical South Atlantic | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $339,925 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Jacob Wenegrat | nsf.gov |
| Analysis of Multi-Year Surface Current Mapping Data from HF Radar: Cross Validation of Submesoscale Divergence and Wind Stress Curl | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $339,657 | October 1, 2022 | September 30, 2026 | Jeffrey D Paduan | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: A Coordinate-Free Framework for Improving Eddy Parameterizations | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $334,786 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2026 | Jonathan M Lilly | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Internal tide decay mechanisms and their effects on the heat budget in the equatorial Pacific | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $334,378 | May 1, 2025 | April 30, 2028 | Roy Barkan | nsf.gov |
| Mesoscale Eddies in the Brazilian Continental Margin | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $333,004 | March 15, 2022 | February 28, 2027 | J. Evan Ward | nsf.gov |
| Diapycnal mixing induced by breaking internal waves over topography | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $332,306 | March 1, 2022 | February 28, 2027 | Paul Heyliger | nsf.gov |
| Towards a theory of the abyssal circulation | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $326,726 | February 1, 2022 | January 31, 2026 | Jörn Callies | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Evaluating and parameterizing wind stress over ocean surface waves using integrated high-resolution imaging and numerical simulations | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $323,315 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Kianoosh Yousefi | nsf.gov |
| The role of wave and wave breaking directionality in modulating the wave-induced drift at the ocean surface | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $319,927 | September 1, 2022 | December 31, 2024 | Nick E Pizzo | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Determining the Role of Ocean Dynamics in Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature Variations Using a Hierarchy of Coupled Models | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $319,597 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2026 | Martha W Buckley | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Advancing Observation of Coastal Winds with High Frequency Radar | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $314,829 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Brian Emery | nsf.gov |
| Submesoscale instabilities and the forward energy cascade in seamount wakes | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2023 | $313,825 | March 1, 2023 | February 28, 2026 | Tomas Chor | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: The influence of mesoscale eddies on deep-sea dynamics and implications for larval connectivity along mid-ocean ridges | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $311,553 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2027 | Xinfeng Liang | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Evolution and fate of wind-derived internal wave energy | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $311,449 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Jeffrey J Early | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Effects of wind events on circulation and salinity dynamics in a curved estuary | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $309,560 | August 15, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Johanna H Rosman | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Assessing the causes of the pyrosome invasion and persistence in the California Current Ecosystem | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $308,631 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2027 | Christopher Edwards | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: The Heated Wind- and Wave-Driven Ocean Surface Boundary Layer: Synergistic Analyses of Observations and Simulations | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $307,384 | September 1, 2022 | May 31, 2023 | Seth Zippel | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: The Heated Wind- and Wave-Driven Ocean Surface Boundary Layer: Synergistic Analyses of Observations and Simulations | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $307,384 | October 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Seth Zippel | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Surfzone Eddy Dynamics | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $307,226 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Derek J Grimes | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: A global census of submesoscale energetics using in-situ drifter observations and a high resolution ocean model | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $306,943 | June 1, 2023 | May 31, 2027 | Dhruv Balwada | nsf.gov |
| The influence of subglacial discharge on the oceanic fate of meltwater from the Greenland ice sheet | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $305,901 | October 1, 2022 | September 30, 2026 | Hilde Oliver | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: The influence of mesoscale eddies on deep-sea dynamics and implications for larval connectivity along mid-ocean ridges | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $305,576 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2027 | Lauren S Mullineaux | nsf.gov |
| An Observational Study to Quantify the Impact of Nearshore Processes on Air-Sea Momentum Transfer | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $302,035 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Henry Potter | nsf.gov |
| Ocean Surface Skin Temperature Measurements using an Optimal Spectral Band | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2023 | $299,423 | April 1, 2023 | March 31, 2025 | Andrew T Jessup | nsf.gov |
| Nonlinear internal wave generation by tidal flow over complex topography | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $297,566 | May 1, 2024 | April 30, 2027 | Julie Crockett | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: The Dynamics of Near-Surface Velocity Structure in the Coastal Ocean from Observations and Models | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $296,858 | October 1, 2022 | September 30, 2026 | Gregory Gerbi | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Lagrangian transport and patchiness of buoyant material in estuarine systems | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $292,300 | March 1, 2022 | February 28, 2026 | Robert J Chant | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Interannual variability and connectivity of the oxygen supply to the deep ocean from the Labrador and Irminger Seas | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $290,552 | August 15, 2025 | July 31, 2028 | Jaime B Palter | nsf.gov |
| Subinertial variability across and around the Greenland-Scotland Ridge and its impacts on the ocean circulation | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $289,618 | April 1, 2022 | March 31, 2026 | Thomas Haine | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Diagnosing the Role of Ocean Eddies in Carbon Cycling from a High-resolution Data Assimilating Ocean Biogeochemical Model | NSF | Office of Polar Programs (OPP) | 2022 | $288,380 | March 1, 2022 | February 28, 2026 | Don P Chambers | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Lee Waves and Sheared Mean Flow: Interactions and Impacts of Topography | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $287,769 | March 15, 2022 | February 28, 2025 | Eric Kunze | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Evolution and fate of wind-derived internal wave energy | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $286,885 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | James Lerczak | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Prospects and limitations of predicting a potential collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $284,446 | February 1, 2024 | January 31, 2027 | Dylan McNamara | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Advancing Observation of Coastal Winds with High Frequency Radar | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $276,182 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Anthony Kirincich | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Using models and historical data to guide effective monitoring and enhance understanding of deep ocean oxygen variability | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $275,935 | May 1, 2023 | April 30, 2027 | Paige D Lavin | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Caribbean through-flow water mass transformation processes | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $271,612 | December 1, 2024 | November 30, 2027 | Ruoying He | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Response of the upper tropical Pacific Ocean to greenhouse gas forcing in observations and models | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $267,901 | August 15, 2022 | July 31, 2026 | Christina Karamperidou | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Probing internal gravity wave dynamics and dissipation using global observations and numerical simulations | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $260,172 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Maarten C Buijsman | nsf.gov |
| Ventilation and mixing of surface and intermediate waters in the tropical Atlantic: perspectives from Lagrangian particles and tracers | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $256,224 | January 1, 2023 | December 31, 2027 | C Spencer Jones | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: A new pathway of Indonesian Throughflow in the Indian Ocean: Mechanisms and role in transporting the excess heat and freshwater of the recent hiatus decade | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2023 | $254,105 | April 15, 2023 | March 31, 2026 | Arnold L Gordon | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Coupled Ocean Mixed Layer Processes Driving Sea Surface Temperature | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $247,784 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Leah Johnson | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: A new pathway of Indonesian Throughflow in the Indian Ocean: Mechanisms and role in transporting the excess heat and freshwater of the recent hiatus decade | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $247,351 | April 15, 2023 | March 31, 2027 | Toshiaki Shinoda | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Nonlocal Second Moment Upper Ocean Boundary Layer Modeling | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $246,142 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Amrapalli Garanaik | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: The impact of eddies, fronts, and horizontal stirring on exchange across the southern MAB Pioneer Array using high-resolution HFR surface currents | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $243,224 | August 15, 2025 | July 31, 2029 | Harvey E Seim | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Evolution and fate of wind-derived internal wave energy | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $242,731 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Jonathan M Lilly | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: A global census of submesoscale energetics using in-situ drifter observations and a high resolution ocean model | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $229,234 | June 1, 2023 | May 31, 2027 | C Spencer Jones | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: NSFGEO-NERC: MEZCAL: Methods for Extending the horiZontal Coverage of the Amoc Latitudinally and back in time (MEZCAL) | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $217,938 | December 15, 2023 | March 31, 2027 | Isabela A Le Bras | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Quantifying and predicting wind-driven internal-wave shear in the ocean | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $215,143 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Samuel M Kelly | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Determining the Role of Ocean Dynamics in Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature Variations Using a Hierarchy of Coupled Models | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $207,801 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Sarah M Larson | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Investigating Bubble-Mediated Gas Exchange in a Strongly Convective Ocean during the Bubble Exchange in the Labrador Sea (BELS) Experiment | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $206,051 | October 1, 2022 | March 31, 2026 | Junhong Liang | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: RAPID: Pilot observations of enhanced near-bottom equatorial turbulence | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2023 | $197,506 | February 15, 2023 | January 31, 2025 | Lynne D Talley | nsf.gov |
| RAPID: A Cost-Effective Approach for Characterizing Variability at High Temporal Resolution for Long Duration on the Continental Slope of the Southern Mid-Atlantic Bight | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2024 | $195,725 | February 1, 2024 | January 31, 2025 | Magdalena Andres | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: CALANOID: A Modular, Air-Deployable Ocean Profiler | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $195,406 | September 1, 2025 | December 31, 2026 | Anuscheh Nawaz | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: A global assessment of annual to decadal sea level predictability | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $191,762 | February 15, 2022 | January 31, 2027 | Stephen G Yeager | nsf.gov |
| NSFGEO-NERC: Collaborative Research: Direct comparison of ocean temperature and velocity structure from in-situ measurements and distributed optical fiber sensing | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $185,424 | May 1, 2024 | September 30, 2025 | Oleg A Godin | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: The role of wind and waves in mixing the upper ocean | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $181,787 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2027 | Gregory L Wagner | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Nonlinear Wake Observations at a Kuroshio Seamount (NOKS) | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $181,378 | January 1, 2024 | December 31, 2026 | Mariona Claret | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Quantifying the effects of Langmuir Turbulence on Sea Ice and The Arctic Ocean | NSF | Office of Polar Programs (OPP) | 2022 | $174,658 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2025 | Christopher Horvat | nsf.gov |
| Physical Oceanography Dissertations Symposium XII and XIII | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $172,610 | February 15, 2022 | December 31, 2024 | Glenn Carter | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: A global census of submesoscale energetics using in-situ drifter observations and a high resolution ocean model | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $158,992 | June 1, 2023 | May 31, 2027 | Shane Elipot | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Tidally rectified flows in multiple inlet/lagoon systems: Consequences for transport and residence times | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $154,779 | August 15, 2022 | July 31, 2026 | Anna Pfeiffer-Herbert | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Enhancing MPOWIR to Build a Diverse and Inclusive Oceanography Workforce | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $147,021 | April 1, 2022 | April 18, 2025 | Mona Behl | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Investigating meso- and submeso-scale variability in air-sea CO2 exchange in the Gulf Stream region with autonomous platforms | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $143,210 | April 15, 2022 | March 31, 2024 | Jaime B Palter | nsf.gov |
| The role of wave and wave breaking directionality in modulating the wave-induced drift at the ocean surface | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $129,932 | November 15, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Nick E Pizzo | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Using models and historical data to guide effective monitoring and enhance understanding of deep ocean oxygen variability | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $125,722 | May 1, 2023 | April 30, 2027 | Helen Pillar | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Mechanistic Modeling of Turbulent Bubbly Flows in the Ocean Surface Boundary Layer | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2026 | $125,097 | March 1, 2026 | June 30, 2027 | Junhong Liang | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Alongshelf Currents Driven by Obliquely Incident Shoaling Internal Bores | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $124,523 | July 15, 2025 | June 30, 2028 | Shuwen Tan | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Potential Energy Generation and Release in the Oceanic Circulation | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $124,226 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Alison Gray | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Investigating Bubble-Mediated Gas Exchange in a Strongly Convective Ocean during the Bubble Exchange in the Labrador Sea (BELS) Experiment | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2026 | $117,232 | December 15, 2025 | September 30, 2027 | Junhong Liang | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Investigating meso- and submeso-scale variability in air-sea CO2 exchange in the Gulf Stream region with autonomous platforms | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $104,895 | April 15, 2022 | March 31, 2024 | Alison Gray | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: The impact of irregular small-scale topography on large-scale circulation patterns | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $101,305 | August 1, 2023 | September 30, 2026 | Timour Radko | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Swash zone dynamics driven by obliquely incident waves | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2026 | $100,724 | December 15, 2025 | August 31, 2027 | Jack A Puleo | nsf.gov |
| Conference: Salt contamination of water supplies in tidal rivers | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $99,999 | February 15, 2023 | January 31, 2027 | Ming Li | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Measuring abyssal warming with seismic Scholte waves | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $95,906 | May 15, 2023 | April 30, 2026 | Jörn Callies | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Tracing the Physics of Submesoscale Entrainment and Subduction | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $89,875 | May 1, 2022 | April 30, 2026 | Genevieve Brett | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Using models and historical data to guide effective monitoring and enhance understanding of deep ocean oxygen variability | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $83,413 | May 1, 2023 | April 30, 2027 | Nathalie V Zilberman | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Exploiting Geomagnetic Records to Describe Past and Present Ocean Variability | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2024 | $78,382 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2025 | David S Trossman | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Lee Waves and Sheared Mean Flow: Interactions and Impacts of Topography | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $76,551 | March 15, 2022 | February 28, 2026 | Amit Tandon | nsf.gov |
| Thermohaline Interleaving on Baroclinic and Barotropic Fronts: Dynamics and Transport | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $72,685 | October 1, 2024 | September 30, 2028 | Justin M Brown | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Coupled Ocean Mixed Layer Processes Driving Sea Surface Temperature | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $71,185 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Simon P de Szoeke | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Effects of wind events on circulation and salinity dynamics in a curved estuary | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $68,375 | August 15, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | James L Hench | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: Understanding Water Circulation in Semi-Enclosed Coastal Basins | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2026 | $57,096 | March 15, 2026 | February 28, 2027 | Arnoldo Valle-Levinson | nsf.gov |
| Conference: Training the Next Generation of Physical Oceanographers in Seagoing Methods | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2026 | $54,232 | May 15, 2026 | April 30, 2027 | Lilian A Dove | nsf.gov |
| Conference: 2026 Ocean Mixing GRC/GRS: Competing Energy Cascades and Their Implications for Ocean Mixing Across a Spectrum of Environments | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2026 | $49,940 | May 1, 2026 | April 30, 2027 | Leif N Thomas | nsf.gov |
| Conference: 2025 Coastal Ocean Dynamics GRC/GRS | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $49,788 | July 1, 2025 | June 30, 2026 | Melanie R Fewings | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Global eddy-driven transport estimated from in situ Lagrangian observations | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2023 | $47,509 | October 1, 2022 | June 30, 2025 | Harper L Simmons | nsf.gov |
| Conference: 2024 Gordon Research Conference on Ocean Mixing: Understanding the Role of Ocean Mixing Across Scales on Climate, Ecosystems, and Ocean Solutions to Societal Problems | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2024 | $44,810 | March 1, 2024 | February 28, 2025 | Sonya A Legg | nsf.gov |
| Travel: Symposium on Advances in Ocean Observation | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $40,303 | March 1, 2022 | February 28, 2023 | Ajit Subramaniam | nsf.gov |
| 2022 Gordon Research Conference on Ocean Mixing: The Impact of Ocean Mixing on the Earth, Ocean and Atmosphere Systems, Climate and Society | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $40,000 | May 1, 2022 | October 31, 2022 | Jonathan D Nash | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Coupled Ocean Mixed Layer Processes Driving Sea Surface Temperature | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $37,264 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2025 | Aneesh C Subramanian | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: Ocean Circulation in the Amundsen Sea Embayment over the 20th Century | NSF | Office of Polar Programs | 2023 | $30,000 | October 1, 2023 | March 31, 2027 | LuAnne Thompson | nsf.gov |
| Conference: 2023 Coastal Ocean Dynamics: Coastal Ocean Physics and its Connections to Marine Ecosystems | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2023 | $26,050 | June 1, 2023 | May 31, 2024 | Kristen A Davis | nsf.gov |
| Conference: The Middle Atlantic Bight Physical Oceanography and Meteorology (MABPOM) Meeting 2022 | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2023 | $8,304 | November 1, 2022 | October 31, 2023 | Tobias Kukulka | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: RAPID: Pilot observations of enhanced near-bottom equatorial turbulence | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2023 | $1,205 | February 15, 2023 | January 31, 2024 | Caitlin Whalen | nsf.gov |
Organizations
Funding by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | NIH awards | NIH amount | NSF awards | NSF amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | $0 | 24 | $14,894,480 |
| 2025 | 0 | $0 | 58 | $36,429,380 |
| 2024 | 0 | $0 | 59 | $32,212,758 |
| 2023 | 0 | $0 | 78 | $43,702,309 |
| 2022 | 0 | $0 | 81 | $39,348,444 |
Open federal funding opportunities
From Grants.gov: notices that funded awards in this table, and open notices on the same agency and assistance listing.
| Open opportunity | Number | Agency | Listing | Closes | Award ceiling | Why it matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unlocking Dataset Value for AI-Enabled Scientific Discovery (AI Datasets) | 26-512 | NSF | 47.050 | November 4, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 259 awards here |
| National Science Foundation Translation to Practice (NSF TTP) | 25-540 | NSF | 47.050 | November 17, 2026 | $2 million | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 259 awards here |
| Oceanographic Facilities and Equipment Support | 23-525 | NSF | 47.050 | January 11, 2027 | $47.5 million | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 259 awards here |
| Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 23-520 | NSF | 47.050 | January 21, 2027 | $1 million | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 259 awards here |
| EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Focused EPSCoR Collaborations (FEC) | 24-573 | NSF | 47.050 | January 26, 2027 | $1.5 million | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 259 awards here |
| GROWING CONVERGENCE RESEARCH (GCR) | 24-527 | NSF | 47.050 | February 8, 2027 | $3.6 million | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 259 awards here |
| Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 | 24-598 | NSF | 47.050 | February 8, 2027 | $20 million | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 259 awards here |
| NSF Dynamic Language Infrastructure - NEH Documenting Endangered Languages (DLI-DEL) | 22-615 | NSF | 47.050 | February 16, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 259 awards here |
| Mid-Career Advancement (MCA) | 22-603 | NSF | 47.050 | March 1, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 259 awards here |
| Pathways to Enable Secure Open-Source Ecosystems (PESOSE) | 26-506 | NSF | 47.050 | March 2, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 259 awards here |
| EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII): EPSCoR Research Fellows | 24-528 | NSF | 47.050 | April 13, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 259 awards here |
| Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable Open Science (FAIROS) | 25-533 | NSF | 47.050 | April 14, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 259 awards here |
| EPSCoR Graduate Fellowship Program (EGFP) | 24-588 | NSF | 47.050 | June 1, 2027 | $3.2 million | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 259 awards here |
| Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) | 22-586 | NSF | 47.050 | July 28, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 259 awards here |
| Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) | 23-601 | NSF | 47.050 | August 18, 2027 | $500,000 | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 259 awards here |
| Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Excellence in Research (HBCU - EiR) | 23-598 | NSF | 47.050 | October 19, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 259 awards here |
| National Science Foundation National Innovation Corps Teams (NSF National I-CorpsTM Teams) Program | 25-549 | NSF | 47.050 | October 6, 2076 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 259 awards here |
| Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (AGS-PRF) | 22-639 | NSF | 47.050 | October 7, 2076 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 259 awards here |
| Facilitating Research at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions: (RUI and ROA-PUI) | 14-579 | NSF | 47.050 | October 14, 2076 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 259 awards here |
| Geosciences Core Research: Atmospheric, Geospace, Earth and Ocean Sciences (GEO Core) | 26-516 | NSF | 47.050 | October 27, 2076 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 259 awards here |
Updated November 3, 2026. Read from NIH RePORTER ExPORTER and NSF Award Search. Published by NIH and NSF as U.S. government data. NIH awards are fiscal years 2021 to 2025 (NIH files published to 2026-07-09); NSF awards are fiscal years 2022 to 2026 (NSF files published to 2026-11-02). NIH amounts are the total cost of each fiscal year in the window; NSF amounts are the funds obligated in the window. Organizations are matched on the UEI. Open opportunities come from Grants.gov and match on agency and assistance listing number, and on the notice number NIH prints on an award. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.