FY2025 Funded Projects

The following is a list of projects (showing the project title and the lead PI and institution) funded under the National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) in FY2025. Discussions on the contractual details of each award were initiated at the appropriate funding agency.

For abstracts of each project and the partners involved, click on the project title.

• Expendable air-deployable floats for upper ocean measurements
  • PI: Streitlien, Knut (Apeiron Labs, Inc.)
• Air-deployed microFloats for profiling the ocean submesoscale: a systems-level design approach and demonstration
  • PI: Harrison, Trevor (University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory)
• CALANOID: A Modular, Air-Deployable Ocean Profiler
  • PI: Nawaz, Anuscheh (University of Washington)
• Development of a Low-Cost, Air-Deployable Ocean CTD Profiler for In-Situ Investigation of Sub-Mesoscale Eddies
  • PI: Wang, Xueju (Sophie) (University of Connecticut)
• The Low-Cost Profiler (LCP): Enabling ocean science at scale
  • PI: Lawrence-Slavas, Noah (NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory)
• Diagnosing and validating nonlinear internal wave processes in idealized, regional, and global ocean simulations
  • PI: Buijsmann, Maarten (University of Southern Mississippi)
• Improving the representation of internal wave processes in the Navy data assimilative forecasting system
  • PI: Chassignet, Eric (Florida State University)
• A distributed network of internal wave resolving moored arrays for assessing nonlinear internal wave processes in operational forecast models
  • PI: Lucas, Andrew (UC San Diego Scripps Institute of Oceanography)
• From the shelves to the deep: satellite-derived profiles for operational ocean heat content applications in the North Atlantic and Pacific Ocean
  • PI: Trossman, David (University of Maryland, College Park)
• Assessing decadal-scale variability and trends in Arctic Ocean surface topography with high latitude altimetry
  • PI: Farrell, Sinead (University of Maryland, College Park)
• Mapping coastal currents in midlatitudes and the Arctic
  • PI: Carton, James (University of Maryland College Park)
• Towards the unification of radar altimetry processing approaches for different surface types
  • PI: Buchhaupt, Christopher (University of Maryland, College Park)