Gulf of Mexico Loop Current Research Receives $7.6M Funding Boost

A Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution compare team has been awarded US$7.6 million (~€6.98 million) to toughen its Gulf of Mexico Loop Unique compare.

The funding is from the Gulf Examine Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Treatment (NASEM).

The compare will be share of the third section of the Realizing Gulf Ocean Techniques program (UGOS-3), which targets to pork up our understanding of the currents in the Gulf of Mexico. There are three consortia underrating section 3 compare, including WHOI, Texas A&M University and Florida Notify University. The complete funding dedicated for the mission is $22 million (~€20.2 million) thus far.

Undersetting the Loop Unique is of important importance to weather forecasters and industry. The deep warming eddies in the Gulf customarily energy tropical storms in the set, not to indicate its outcomes on any oil spills in the Gulf.

The WHOI team is being led by Amy Bower, Senior Scientist and Division Chair of the Division of Bodily Oceanography, who commented about the funding:

“We are honored to receive such a superior grant from the NASEM, supporting well-known compare on Loop Unique circulate and the diagram it performs in greater understanding the Gulf of Mexico. Our team looks ahead to supporting well-known, interdisciplinary work to abet solve a unfold of Gulf forecast factors.”