FY2018 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 FY2018. 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.

• HABsat-2 – Multi-resolution, Radiation Resistant, VNIR Hyperspectral Imaging 6U CubeSat Constellation for Littoral Ocean, Great Lakes and Tributary Inland Water Studies
  – Lead PI: Beck, Richard
• Small-Sat Lidar Sea Surface Vector Winds and Height Measurements System
  – Lead PI: Boyraz, Ozdal
• CubeSat Fully-Polarimetric Imaging Radiometer
  – Lead PI: Freebury, Gregg
• Development of a Carbon Seaglider for ocean acidification Monitoring and Inorganic Carbon Processes Studies
  – Lead PI: Hauri, Claudine
• Rainbow: a multistatic space lidar constellation
  – Lead PI: Jossett, Damien
• Membrane-free In-situ Underwater Gas Analyzer Using Laser Spectroscopy in a Compact Hollow Fiber Cell
  – Lead PI: Kriesel, Jason
• FLOC, a Folded-Optic CubSat Sensor for Littoral Observations
  – Lead PI: Landis, David
• Development of Drifting Buoys to Measure Dynamic Ocean Topography and Precipitable Water Vapor
  – Lead PI: Morison, James
• Minions: A Low-cost Float for Distributed, Langrangian Observations of the biological Carbon Pump
  – Lead PI: Omand, Melissa
• Developing a Compact 670-GHz Polarmetric Radiometer for CubeSat with Novel Spatial Light Modulator Imaging System
  – Lead PI: Racette, Paul
• Spray 2.0: Development and technology transition of a next-generation underwater glider
  – Lead PI: Rudnick, Daniel
• Laboratory and Field Evaluation of a new Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) Sensor for use on Unmanned Underwater Vehicles and Platforms
  – Lead PI: Toole, John
• High Quality Littoral Ocean and Aerosol Characterization from a CubeSat With Novel Spatial Light Modulator Imaging System
  – Lead PI: Twardowski, Michael
• Cellular Ocean Altimetry/Scatterometry Technology (COAST)
  – Lead PI: Yunck, Thomas
• Improving the Technology Readiness Level of the 6000-m capable Conductivity Temperature Depth sensor mounted on Deep Argo floats
  – Lead PI: Zilberman, Nathalie
• Multi-Modal Oceanographic Sensing with Hybrid Soft Electronic Skin
  – Lead PI: Majidi, Carmel (Carnegie Mellon University)