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Funded Projects2022-01-21T16:37:57-05:00

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FUNDED PROJECTS

COLLABORATIONS

2016 to present
Paul Joyce, Audrey Meyer, Georgianna Zelenak, “Instrument Calibration for Sea Education Association,” $39,300, National Science Foundation, 2019-2021

Jenna Jambeck, Kara Lavender Law, Peter Ceglinski and Sergio Ruiz-Halpern: “Marine Debris Tracker Community Expansion and Partnership with Seabin and Sea Education Association,” $12,000, 11th Hour Racing/Schmidt Family Foundation, 2018.

Deb Goodwin and Paul Joyce: “Oceanographic Instrumentation: Sea Education Association (SSV Corwith Cramer and SSV Robert C. Seamans),” $16,462, National Science Foundation, 2017-2018.

Deb Goodwin and Paul Joyce: “Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment: Sea Education Association (SSV Corwith Cramer and SSV Robert C. Seamans),” $19,465, National Science Foundation, 2017-2018.

Jessica Donohue and Kara Lavender Law: “How Deep are Microplastics in the Sea? Understanding Wind-Driven Vertical Mixing,” $4,120, Experiment.com Crowdfunding Platform, 2017.

Deb Goodwin, Paul Joyce and Erik Zettler: “Sea Education Association/SSV Corwith Cramer and SSV Robert C. Seamans Oceanographic Equipment,” $87,731, National Science Foundation, 2016-2017.

Kara Lavender Law, Erin Bryant, Mark Long, Danie Kinkade, Jill Holdren, Jenny Allen and Sierra Munoz: “Towards Creating a Social Norm: A Student-Designed Program to Reduce Marine Debris through Behavior Change,” $242,148, NOAA Marine Debris Program, 2016-2018.

2011 to 2015
Paulinus Chigbu, Reza Khanbilvardi, Michael Abazinge, Vernon Morris, Ali Ishaque and Erik Zettler: “Strengthening Pathways into Geosciences Through Linkages Between Summer Bridge and Undergraduate Training Programs,” $474,909, National Science Foundation, 2015-2018.

Amy N. S. Siuda: “In Support of the 2016 SEA Semester: Marine Biodiversity and Conservation Culminating Student Symposium,” $15,000, Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation, 2015.

Jan Witting, Joel Llopiz, Simon Thorrold and Randi Rotjan: “Larval Tuna Research in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA),” $108,128, Phoenix Islands Protected Area Conservation Trust, 2015-2017.

Amy N. S. Siuda: “In Support of the 2015 SEA Semester: Marine Biodiversity and Conservation Culminating Student Symposium,” $15,000, Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation, 2014.

Amy N. S. Siuda and Annette Govindarajan: “Population Connectivity of the Sargassum Epibiont Clytia noliformis in the Sargasso Sea: Supporting Evidence for Conservation Measures,” $7,537, New England Aquarium Marine Conservation Action Fund, 2014-2016.

Amy N. S. Siuda: “In Support of the 2014 SEA Semester: Marine Biodiversity and Conservation Culminating Student Symposium,” $15,000, Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation, 2013.

Amy N. S. Siuda, Anthony Andrady, and Kara Lavender Law: “Investigating Selective Grazing by Copepods of Virgin and Weathered Microplastics Contaminated with PBT Substances,” $117,751, NOAA Marine Debris Program, 2013-2015.

Kara Lavender Law, Anthony Andrady and Giora Proskurowski: “Physical and Chemical Degradation of Plastics in the Marine Environment,” $575,135, National Science Foundation, 2013-2016.

Amy N. S. Siuda: “In Support of the 2013 SEA Semester: Marine Biodiversity and Conservation Culminating Student Symposium,” $15,000, Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation, 2012.

Amy N. S. Siuda: “New Initiative Project – The Biogeography of Leptocephali Species in the Sargasso Sea,” $2,368, Woods Hole Sea Grant, 2012.

Erik Zettler, Tracy Mincer and Linda Amaral-Zettler: “Collaborative Research: Microbial Interactions with Marine Plastic Debris: Diversity, Function and Fate,” $300,311, National Science Foundation, 2012-2015.

Jeff Schell, Amy N. S. Siuda and Deb Goodwin: “Enhancing a Multidisciplinary Curriculum with Innovative Cross-Disciplinary Teaching,” $66,566, Davis Educational Foundation, 2012-2014.

Amy N. S. Siuda: “In Support of the 2012 SEA Semester: Marine Biodiversity and Conservation Culminating Student Symposium,” $15,000, Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation, 2012.

Giora Proskurowski, Kara Lavender Law and Tobias Kukulka: “The Effect of Wind-Driven Mixing on Observations of Plastic Marine Debris: Modeling, Verification and Reanalysis,” $61,521, NOAA Marine Debris Program, 2012-2013.

Amy N. S. Siuda, Linda Amaral-Zettler, Erik Zettler, Caleb McClennen and John Jensen: “Biodiversity in the Global Ocean – Incorporating Molecular Biology in Field-Based Approaches to Undergraduate Studies of Marine Conservation,” $203,247, National Science Foundation, 2011-2014.

Amy N. S. Siuda: “Environmental Trends in the Sargasso Sea Detectable through the Multi-Decadal Series of SEA Neuston Tows,” $13,282, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Sargasso Sea Alliance, 2011.

2005 to 2010
Kara Lavender Law and Giora Proskurowski: “Measuring Plastic Debris in the North Atlantic Ocean,” $152,294, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and NOAA Marine Debris Program, 2010-2011.

Erik Zettler, Paul Joyce and Mary Engels: “Sonar Electronics Replacement for Vessels Corwith Cramer and Robert Seamans,” $10,450, National Science Foundation, 2010-2011.

Paul Joyce: “2009 Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment,” $18,000, National Science Foundation, 2009-2011.

Christopher Reddy and Kara Lavender Law:“Exploring a Long-term Record of Plastic Pollution in the North Atlantic,” $33,090, National Science Foundation, 2008-2010.

David Hyrenbach and Kara Lavender Law: “North Pacific Plastic Debris and Seabird Research Cruise,” $39,863, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and NOAA Marine Debris Program, 2008-2009.

Erik Zettler: “Documenting Inherent Optical Properties along Repeated Cruise Tracks in the Atlantic and Pacific by SEA Vessels,” $68,050, NASA, 2007-2010.

2000 to 2005
Paul Joyce: “Acquisition of Oceanographic Sampling Equipment for the Sea Education Association’s Research Vessel, SSV Corwith Cramer,” $378,394, 2002-2004.

Paul Joyce: “Scientific Equipment for Sea Education Association’s New Oceanographic Research Vessel,” $450,000, National Science Foundation, 2001-2003.

Prior to 2000
Paul Joyce, Cheryl Peach and Audrey Meyer:“Research at SEA: Teaching Science Through Investigative Learning Experiences,” $431,850, National Science Foundation, 1998-2004.

Paul Joyce, Audrey Meyer and John Wigglesworth: “Sea Experience: A Theoretical and Practical Summer Program of Teacher Enhancement in Marine Sciences,” $1,017,028, National Science Foundation, 1993-1999.

Paul Joyce: “Sampling Equipment for the Vessels Corwith Cramer and Westward,” $46,386, National Science Foundation, 1993-1995.

Beth Schwarzman, John Wigglesworth and Gretchen Rollwagen-Bollens: “Investigating the Feasibility of SEA Providing a Program for Preservice Teachers,” $47,152, National Science Foundation, 1992-1994.

Paul Joyce:“Sea Experience: A Theoretical and Practical Summer Program of Teacher Enhancement in Marine Sciences,” $329,433, National Science Foundation, 1990-1993.

Susan Humphris: “Upgrading the Oceanographic Gear of the R/V Westward: A Multi-User, Multi-Component System,” $186,381, National Science Foundation, 1988-1990.

Susan Humphris: “SEA Experience: A Theoretical and Practical Summer Program of Teacher Enhancement in Marine Sciences,” $155,000, National Science Foundation, 1987-1990.

Susan Humphris: “A Multi-User, Multi-Component System of Oceanographic Gear for the New Vessel, the Corwith Cramer,” $215,000, National Science Foundation, 1987-1989.

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