FY2022 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 FY2022. 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.

• Wildlife and Offshore Wind (WOW): A Systems Approach to Research and Risk Assessment for Offshore Wind Development from Maine to North Carolina
  • PI: Douglas P. Nowacek, Duke University
• Cost‐Effective Environmental Monitoring of Offshore Wind Installations with Automated Marine Robotics
  • PI: Richard Camilli, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI)
• Baseline Data Collection on Cetaceans and Seabirds in the Outer Continental Shelf and Slope of Northern California and Oregon to Inform Offshore Wind Energy Development
  • PI: Lisa T. Ballance, Oregon State University
• Surveying commercial fish species and habitat in wind farm areas using a suite of non-lethal survey methods
  • PIs: Liese Siemann, Tasha O’Hara, Farrell Davis & Luisa Garcia, Coonamessett Farm Foundation (CFF)
• Establishing Baseline Data on Bat Activity in The Offshore Environment: Developing Tools and Models to Quantify Risk of Offshore Wind Energy Development
  • PI: Christian Newman, Electrical Power Research Institute (EPRI)
• Electrochemical Acid Sequestration to Ease Ocean Acidification (EASE-OA)
  • PI: Brendan Carter (University of Washington & NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory)
• A distributed network of internal wave resolving moored arrays for assessing tide-resolving model fields and improving forecasts in the coastal ocean
  • PI: Amy Waterhouse (University of California, San Diego, SCRIPPS)
• The internal wave spectrum and boundary mixing in the sub-tropical south Atlantic
  • PI: Kurt Polzin (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
• A global distributed observing program for shear, energy flux, and mixing by internal waves
  • PI: James Girton (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
• Improving the representation of internal waves in the Navy and NOAA data assimilative forecasting systems
  • PI: Eric Chassignet (Florida State University)
• Diagnosis and validation of the time and spatial variability of remotely generated internal waves in global ocean simulations
  • PI: Maarten Buijsman (University of Southern Mississippi)
• The Southeast US Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON): Toward Operational Marine Life Data for Conservation and Sustainability
  • PI: Frank Muller-Karger (University of South Florida)
• AMBON (Arctic MBON) – linking biodiversity observations in the Arctic
  • PI: Katrin Iken (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
• Louisiana Deltaic Estuaries MBON: Sea Level Rise Sentinels
  • PI: Cassie Glaspie (Louisiana State University)
• Quantifying marine biodiversity through movements and feeding: Assessing coastal marine ecosystem dynamics near estuary mouths
  • PI: Nathan Furey (University of New Hampshire)
• The CeNCOOS MBON: Marine biodiversity information in support of a healthy Blue Economy in the central California Current
  • PI: Francisco Chavez (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)
• Enhancing the Realism of MOM6-SIS2 Simulations with Ocean Tides
  • PI: Edward Zaron (Oregon State University)
• Offshore Analysis of Seafloor Instability and Sediments (OASIS Partnership) with Applications to Offshore Safety and Marine Archaeology
  • PIs: Samuel Bentley & Jason Chaytor ((Louisiana State University (through the Cooperative Agreement) & U.S. Geological Survey (through the Interagency Agreement))