Funded Projects

The Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing Program funds research projects that improve our understanding of the global ocean.

We work with researchers at NOAA’s programs and labs, such as the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) and the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL), as well as researchers from institutions across the country. Learn more about the variety of research we fund from the tropics to the Arctic in the table below.

* These projects received funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act)
** These projects received funding from the Disaster Relief Supplemental Act

Funded Projects

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Fiscal Year (FY)	Project Name	Progress Report	Principal Investigator(s)	Affiliation(s)	Category
FY22	University of Hawaii Sea Level Center		Phil Thompson	University of Hawaii	Sea Level Rise
FY22	NOS Tide Gauge Network: Tide Station Operations		Peter Stone, Robert Loesch	NOAA National Ocean Service - CO-OPS	Sea Level Rise
FY22	CLIVAR and Carbon Hydrographic Data Office (CCHDO)		Karen Stocks, Sarah Purkey	Scripps Institution of Oceanography	Data
FY22	Bringing Environmental DNA Monitoring to the Global Ocean Ship-based Hydrographic Investigations Program (GO-SHIP)		Luke Thompson	NOAA AOML	Marine Ecosystems
FY22	Global Ocean Observing Coordination Activities		Don Anderson	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	Coordination & Leadership
FY22	User Interface for Observing System Monitoring Center (OSMC)		Eugene Burger	NOAA PMEL	Coordination & Leadership
FY22	Observing System Monitoring Center (OSMC) Project Management		Kevin Kern	NOAA National Weather Service - National Data Buoy Center	Coordination & Leadership
FY22	Making Data Count		Eugene Burger	NOAA PMEL	Coordination & Leadership
FY22	Ocean Observing System Experiments for Tropical Pacific Observing System		Arun Kumar, Jieshun Zhu	NOAA National Weather Service - Climate Prediction Center	Ocean & Climate
FY22	Climate Prediction Center Analyses and Monitoring in Support of the Ocean Observing System for Climate		Arun Kumar, Caihong Wen, Pingping Xie	NOAA National Weather Service - Climate Prediction Center	Ocean & Climate
FY22	Ocean Observing System Analyses & Experiments for Tropical Pacific Observing System		Xiaosong Yang	NOAA GFDL	Ocean & Climate
FY22	** Observing System Experiments in support of the EEOOTT Integrated Field Campaign (CHAOS)		Matthieu Le Henaff, Hyun-Sook Kim, HeeSook Kang, Lew Gramer	CIMAS / NOAA AOML	Extreme Events
FY22	** Targeted Aircraft-Based Measurements of the Air-Sea Transition Zone for Understanding Tropical Cyclone Intensity Change		Jun Zhang, Joe Cione, Joshua Wadler, Johna Rudzin, Nick Shay	CIMAS / NOAA AOML, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Mississippi State University, University of Miami	Extreme Events
FY22	** Gulf of Mexico Essential Features and Tropical Cyclone Air-Sea Interaction Gulf of Mexico		Stephan Howden, Kevin Martin	University of Southern Mississippi	Extreme Events
FY22	** Glider Based Observations of Upper Ocean Mixing Under Hurricanes		Travis Miles	Rutgers University	Extreme Events
FY22	** Remote Sensing of the Ocean Surface Winds and Waves and 3-D Atmospheric Winds in Hurricanes		Paul Chang, Zorana Jelenak, Joe Sapp	NOAA NESDIS STAR	Extreme Events
FY22	** Profiling Float Observations for the EEOOTT Integrated Field Campaign (CHAOS)		Steve Jayne, Pelle Robbins, Alex Gonzalez	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	Extreme Events
FY22	** Concurrent Observations of Directional Properties of Waves, Ocean Temperature and Air Pressure Under Hurricanes from Innovative Expendable Drifting Buoys		Luca Centurioni, Martha Schonau	Scripps Institution of Oceanography	Extreme Events
FY22	** Integrated Observations of the Air-Sea Transition Zone of Atlantic Hurricanes in 2023 Using Combined Uncrewed Systems		Chidong Zhang, Greg Foltz	NOAA PMEL	Extreme Events
FY22	** AOML Glider Project Support / Partnership with IOOS		Gustavo Goni	NOAA AOML	Air-Sea Interactions
FY22	World Ocean Database Updates and Seasonal Estimates of Ocean Temperature, Salinity, Heat Content, and Steric Sea Level		Tim Boyer	NOAA NCEI	Products & Outreach
FY22	GODAE Server and Argo GDAC at Monterey		Mike Frost	Office of Naval Research	Data
FY22	Development of Global Heat and Freshwater Anomaly Analyses		Greg Johnson	NOAA PMEL	Products & Outreach, Ocean Heat
FY22	Hurricane Gliders		Robert Todd	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	Extreme Events
FY22	California Current Gliders		Daniel Rudnick	Scripps Institution of Oceanography	Ocean & Climate
FY22	PMEL Ocean Climate Stations		Meghan Cronin	NOAA PMEL	Ocean & Climate
FY22	Climate Variability in Ocean Surface Turbulent Fluxes		Mark Bourassa	Florida State University	Air-Sea Interactions
FY22	OceanSITES data curation and tools for transforming deployment files into easily accessible		Eugene Burger, Meghan Cronin	NOAA PMEL	Data
FY22	State of the Climate: Quarterly Reports of the Meridional Heat Transport in the Atlantic Ocean		Shenfu Dong	NOAA AOML	Ocean & Climate
FY22	High Resolution Climate Data from Research and Volunteer Observing Ships		Chris Fairall	NOAA PSL	Ocean & Climate
FY22	NDBC OceanSITES GDAC		Karen Grissom	NOAA National Weather Service	Data
FY22	AOML's Contribution to PIRATA		Greg Foltz	NOAA AOML	Ocean & Climate
FY22	Enhanced Ocean Products from NCEP		Daryl Kleist	NOAA National Weather Service	Data
FY22	Global Tropical Moored Buoy Array		Michael McPhaden	NOAA PMEL	Ocean & Climate
FY22	Moored Climate, Carbon, Biogeochemical, and Ecosystem Observations in the Southern California Current (CCE)		Uwe Send	Scripps Institution of Oceanography	Ocean & Climate
FY22	Integrated Boundary Current Observations in the Global Climate System (CORC)		Uwe Send	Scripps Institution of Oceanography	Ocean & Climate
FY22	Ocean Reference Stations		Robert Weller	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	Ocean & Climate
FY22	Global Ocean Surface Heat Flux Analysis		Lisan Yu	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	Ocean & Climate
FY22	Profiling floats equipped with rainfall, wind speed, and biogeochemical sensors for use in the Tropical Pacific Observing System		Stephen Riser, Jie Yang	University of Washington	Technology Development
FY22	Surface drifter program, including technological development		Luca Centurioni	Scripps Institution of Oceanography	Technology Development
FY22	Surface Drifter Program		Rick Lumpkin	NOAA AOML	Ocean & Climate
FY22	Surface Current Products		Rick Lumpkin	NOAA AOML	Products & Outreach
FY22	U.S. Research Vessel Surface Meteorology Data Assembly Center		Shawn Smith	Florida State University	Data
FY22	Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean (POGO)		Sophie Seeyave	POGO Secretariat, Plymouth Marine Laboratory	Coordination & Leadership
FY22	Observing System Research Studies		Chidong Zhang	NOAA PMEL	Ocean & Climate
FY22	New Sustained Observations for Arctic Research (NSOAR)- formerly Arctic Glider Project		Jessica Cross	NOAA PMEL	Technology Development
FY22	Support for the Dissertations Symposium in Chemical Oceanography XXVII (DISCO) and the Physical Oceanography Dissertations Symposium XII (PODS)		Chris Sabine	University of Hawaii, NOAA PMEL	Coordination & Leadership
FY22 & FY23	* BIL Enhancing the OneArgo Infrastructure		Susan Wijffels, Alison Gray, Sarah Purkey	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, University of Washington, Scripps Institution of Oceanography	Ocean & Climate
FY22 & FY23	The Argo Project: Global Observations for Understanding and Prediction of Climate Variability		Sarah Purkey, Susan Wijffels, Steve Riser, Greg Johnson, Molly Baringer	Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, University of Washington, NOAA PMEL, NOAA AOML	Ocean & Climate
FY22 & FY23	* Western Boundary Time Series in the Atlantic Ocean		Molly Baringer	NOAA AOML, University of Miami CIMAS	Ocean & Climate
FY22 & FY23	* South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (SAM)		Renellys Perez	NOAA AOML	Ocean & Climate
FY22 & FY23	AOML's Contribution to PIRATA		Greg Foltz	NOAA AOML	Ocean & Climate
FY22 & FY23	Climate Variability in Ocean Surface Turbulent Fluxes		Mark Bourassa	Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies	Air-Sea Interactions
FY22 & FY23	Global Ocean Surface Heat Flux Analysis		Lisan Yu	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	Ocean & Climate
FY22 & FY23	High Resolution Climate Data from Research and Volunteer Observing Ships		Chris Fairall	NOAA PSL	Ocean & Climate
FY22 & FY23	Integrated Boundary Current Observations in the Global Climate System (CORC)		Uwe Send	Scripps Institution of Oceanography, CIMAS	Ocean & Climate
FY22 & FY23	* Meridional Overturning Variability Experiment (MOVE)		Uwe Send	Scripps Institution of Oceanography, CIMAS	Ocean & Climate
FY22 & FY23	Moored Climate, Carbon, Biogeochemical, and Ecosystem Observations in the Southern California Current (CCE)		Uwe Send	Scripps Institution of Oceanography, CIMAS	Ocean & Climate
FY22 & FY23	U.S. Research Vessel Surface Meteorology Data Assembly Center		Shawn Smith	Florida State University Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Florida State University Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science Dept	Ocean & Climate
FY22 & FY23	OceanReference Stations		Robert Weller	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	Ocean & Climate
FY22 & FY23	OceanSITES data curation and tools for transforming deployment files into easily accessible		Eugene Burger / Meghan Cronin	NOAA OAR, NOAA PMEL, University of Washington CICOES	Data
FY22 & FY23	South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (SAM)		Renellys Perez	NOAA AOML	Ocean & Climate
FY22 & FY23	PMEL Ocean Climate Stations		Meghan Cronin	NOAA PMEL, University of Washington CICOES	Ocean & Climate
FY22 & FY23	State of the Climate: Quarterly Reports of the Meridional Heat Transport in the Atlantic Ocean		Shenfu Dong	NOAA AOML	Ocean & Climate
FY22 & FY23	Enhanced Ocean Products from NCEP		Darryl Kleist	NOAA National Weather Service, National Centers of Environmental Prediction, Environmental Modeling Center	Ocean & Climate
FY22 & FY23	NDBC OceanSITES GDAC		Karen Grissom	National Buoy Data Center	Data
FY22 & FY23	State of the Climate: Quarterly Reports of the Meridional Heat Transport in the Atlantic Ocean		Shenfu Dong	NOAA AOML	Ocean & Climate
FY22 & FY23	The AOML XBT Network		Shenfu Dong	NOAA AOML	Ocean & Climate
FY22 & FY23	SIO High Resolution XBT Transects		Janet Sprintall, Dean Roemmich, Bruce Cornuelle, Nathalie Zilberman	Scripps Institution of Oceanography	Ocean & Climate
FY22 & FY23	Global Repeat Hydrographic/CO2/Tracer surveys in Support of CLIVAR and Global Cycle objectives: Carbon Inventories and Fluxes		Richard Feely, Zachary Erickson, Calvin Mordy, Rolf Sonnerup, Rik Wanninkhof, Jia-Zhong Zhang, Rick Lumpkin, Chris Langdon	NOAA PMEL, CICOES/University of Washington, NOAA AOML, CIMAS / University of Miami	Ocean & Climate
FY22 & FY23	Surface Water pCO2 Measurements from Ships		Denis Pierrot, Simone Alin, Colm Sweeney, Nick Bates, Leticia Barbero	NOAA AOML, NOAA PMEL, NOAA GML, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, University of Arizona, CIMAS / University of Miami	Ocean Carbon
FY22 & FY23	High-Resolution Ocean and Atmosphere Time-Series Measurements		Adrienne Sutton	NOAA PMEL	Ocean Carbon
FY22 & FY23	Enhancing Ocean Observation Capabilities by Incorporating Emerging Technologies		Chidong Zhang, Scott Stalin	NOAA PMEL	Technology Development
FY22 & FY23	Global Carbon Data Management and Synthesis Project		Brendan Carter, Richard Feely, Rik Wanninkhof, Kevin O'Brien	CICOES / University of Washington, NOAA PMEL, NOAA AOML	Data
FY22 & FY23	NCEI Ocean Carbon and Acidification Data System (OCADS)		Alex Kozyr	University of Maryland, NOAA NCEI	Data
FY22 & FY23	Preparation and testing of a standard operating procedure for the production of limited quantities of secondary CO2 in seawater reference materials		Andrew Dickson	Scripps Institution of Oceanography	Ocean Carbon
FY22 & FY23	Developing an autonomous biogeochemical profiling float to monitor biological productivity, ocean-atmosphere CO2 fluxes and hypoxia in the Tropical Pacific Ocean		Sarah Purkey, Todd Martz, Lynne Talley, Dean Roemmich, Matthew Mazloff, Daniel Rudnick, Arianne Verdy, Kenneth Johnson, Neil Bogue	Scripps Institution of Oceanography, MBARI, MRV Systems, LLC	Technology Development
FY22 & FY23	Improvements to profiling float technology in support of equatorial Pacific biogeochemical studies		Steve Riser, Kenneth Johnson, Thomas Mitchell	University of Washington, MBARI, SeaBird Scientific	Technology Development
FY22 & FY23	Biogeochemical Argo synthesis products of oxygen, nitrate, and pH for increased community		Seth Bushinsky, Andrea Fassbender	University of Hawaii, NOAA PMEL	Data
FY22 & FY23	Global Open Ocean Data-Products for Biogeochemical Argo Research		Brendan Carter, Richard Feely, Andrea Fassbender	CICOES / University of Washington, NOAA PMEL	Data
FY22 & FY23	Bio-GO-SHIP - A global analysis of large-scale changes to ocean plankton systems		Adam Martiny, Harriet Alexander, Jason Graff, Sophie Clayton, Nicole Poulton	UC Irvine, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Oregon State, Old Dominion, Bigelow	Marine Ecosystems
FY22 & FY23	In Situ and Satellite Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Observations, Analyses and Data Management		Huai-min Zhang	NOAA NCEI	Data
FY22 & FY23	Distribution and Prevalence of Harmful Algal Blooms in Arctic Waters		Don Anderson	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	Marine Ecosystems
FY22 & FY23	The Distributed Biological Observatory (DBO) – Northern Chukchi Integrated Study (NCIS): Hydrography, Sediment, and Macrofaunal Population Dynamics Project		Jackie Grebmeier, Lee Cooper	University of Maryland, Chesapeake Bay Laboratory	Marine Ecosystems
FY22 & FY23	Arctic Change Detection		Jim Overland, Muyin Wang	NOAA PMEL	Ocean & Climate
FY22 & FY23	Ocean Acidification Observations on DBO		Jessica Cross / Natalie Monacci	NOAA PMEL	Ocean Carbon
FY22 & FY23	Distributed Biological Observatory – Northern Chukchi Integrated Study (DBO-NCIS)		Bob Pickart	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	Ocean & Climate
FY22 & FY23	Ecosystem Fisheries Oceanography Coordinated Investigations (EcoFOCI)		Phyllis Stabeno	NOAA PMEL	Marine Ecosystems
FY22 & FY23	U.S. Arctic Observing Network		Sandy Starkweather	University of Colorado CIRES, NOAA PSL	Products & Outreach
FY22 & FY23	Thermodynamic processes and forecasting in the coupled ocean-ice-atmosphere system		Chris Cox	NOAA PSL	Sea Ice
FY22 & FY23	Arctic Report Card		Matthew Druckenmiller, Twila Moon	University of Colorado, Boulder	Products & Outreach
FY22 & FY23	Arctic Report Card		Rick Thoman	University of Alaska, Fairbanks - ACCAP	Products & Outreach
FY22 & FY23	Coordination and Data Management of the U.S Interagency Arctic Buoy Program (IABP)		Ignatius Rigor	University of Washington, Applied Physics Lab	Sea Ice
FY22 & FY23	Building a forecast system for ocean and ice conditions along Northeast Passage and High latitude Sea Route in the Arctic Ocean		Jia Wang	NOAA GLERL	Sea Ice
FY22 & FY23	Arctic Sea Ice Observations: Seasonal Ice Mass Balance Buoys		Don Perovich	Dartmouth College Thayer School of Engineering	Sea Ice
FY22 & FY23	The Global Drifter Program		Luca Centurioni	Scripps Institution of Oceanography	Ocean & Climate
FY22 & FY23	Evaluating the Ocean Observing System: Surface Currents		Rick Lumpkin	NOAA AOML, NOAA Physical Oceanography Division	Products & Outreach
FY22 & FY23	Global Tropical Moored Buoy Array		Michael McPhaden	NOAA PMEL, Atlantic Meteorological and Atmospheric Laboratory	Ocean & Climate
FY22 & FY23	Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean (POGO)		Sathyendranath Shuba Sophie Seeyave	Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Centre for Marine and Environmental Research	Coordination & Leadership
FY22 & FY23	Observing System Research Studies		Chidong Zhang	NOAA PMEL, University of Washington CICOES	Extreme Events
FY22 & FY23	Surface Drifter Program		Rick Lumpkin	NOAA AOML	Extreme Events
FY22 & FY23	The Assimilation, Analysis and Dissemination of Pacific Rain Gauge Data: PACRAIN		J. Scott Greene	University of Oklahoma	Ocean & Climate
FY22 & FY23	* Global Tropical Moored Buoy Array (PIRATA, RAMA, and Flux moorings)		Mike McPhaden	NOAA PMEL	Ocean & Climate
FY23	NOS Tide Gauge Network: Tide Station Operations		Peter Stone, Robert Loesch	NOAA National Ocean Service - CO-OPS	Sea Level Rise
FY23	University of Hawaii Sea Level Center		Phil Thompson	University of Hawai‘i	Sea Level Rise
FY23	CCHDO -CLIVAR and Carbon Hydrographic Data Office		Karen Stocks	Scripps Institution of Oceanography	Ocean & Climate
FY23	User interface for observing system monitoring center (OSMC)		Eugene Burger	NOAA PMEL	Data
FY23	Observing System monitoring center (OSMC) Project Management		Kevin Kern	NOAA National Weather Service - National Data Buoy Center	Data
FY23	Global Observing Coordination Activities		Don Anderson	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	Data
FY23	Ocean Observing System Experiments for Tropical Pacific Observing System		Arun Kumar	NOAA National Centers of Environmental Prediction (NCEP), Climate Prediction Center (CPC)	Ocean & Climate
FY23	Building Capacity and Advancing The Next Generation of Tropical Cyclone Scientists		Travis Miles	Rutgers University	Extreme Events
FY23	Early Career Ocean Professional (ECOP) participation in Observing Air-Sea Interactions Strategy (OASIS) UN Ocean Decade activities		Nick Rome, Meghan Cronin	University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) Center for Ocean Leadership (COL), NOAA PMEL	Coordination & Leadership
FY23	Climate Center Analyses and Monitoring in Support of the Ocean Observing system for Climate		Arun Kumar	NOAA National Centers of Environmental Prediction (NCEP), Climate Prediction Center (CPC)	Products & Outreach
FY23	World Ocean Database Updates and Seasonal Estimates of Ocean Temperature, Salinity, Heat Content, and Steric Sea Level		Tim Boyer	NOAA NCEI	Products & Outreach
FY23	GODAE Server and GOMO contribution to Argo GDAC at Monterey		Michael Frost	U.S. Naval Research Laboratory	Ocean & Climate
FY23	Development of Global Heat and Freshwater Anomaly Analyses		Greg Johnson	NOAA PMEL	Ocean & Climate
FY23	California Current Gliders		Daniel Rudnick	Scripps Institution of Oceanography	Ocean & Climate
FY23	Enabling Glider-based Monitoring of pH and CO2 Uptake in the Gulf Stream		Robert Todd, Yuichiro Takeshita	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute	Technology Development
FY23	Glider Surveys of the Gulf Stream during Atlantic Hurricane Season		Robert Todd	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	Extreme Events
FY23	Multiscale observing system simulation experiments for iron fertilization in the Southern Ocean, Equatorial Pacific, and Northeast Pacific		Dennis McGillicuddy, Ken Buesseler, John Dunne, Kristen Krumhardt, Matthew Long, Weifeng (Gordon) Zhang, Charles Stock,	NOAA GFDL, NCAR, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,	Ocean Carbon
FY23	Arctic Air		Calvin Mordy, Jiaxu Zhang	NOAA PMEL, University of Washington	Technology Development
Fiscal Year (FY)	Project Name	Progress Report	Principal Investigator(s)	Affiliation(s)	Category

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