The following is a list of all active NOPP projects.  Principal Investigator (PI) reports are co-located with project overviews and can be found via the links below, or by visiting Projects by Year, or the searchable Project Table.

2017

• Deepwater Atlantic Habitats II: Continued Atlantic Research and Exploration in Deepwater Ecosystems with Focus on Coral, Canyon, and Seep Communities (DEEP Search)
  Lead PI: Dr. Erik Cordes, Temple University

• Gulf of Mexico Marine Assessment Program for Protected Species (GoMMAPPS)
  Lead PI: Rebecca Green, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

2016

• Atlantic Deepwater Ecosystem Observatory Network (ADEON) – An Integrated System
  Lead PI: Jennifer Miksis-Olds, University of New Hampshire

2015

• Improving Global Surface and Internal Tides through Two-Way Coupling with High Resolution Coastal Models
  Lead PI: Maarten Buijsman, University of Southern Mississippi

• Modeling Intrinsic Variability and Connectivity in Shelf and Littoral Circulation
  Lead PI: Jim McWilliams, University of California, Los Angeles

• Linking Surf Zone to the Inner-Shelf: Parameterizing Breaking-Wave Eddy Forcing and Effects of Transient Rip Currents
  Lead PI: Falk Feddersen, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

• Arctic Shell and Large Rivers: Seamless Nesting in Global HYCOM
  Lead PI: Eric Chassignet, Florida State University

• Oceanic Energy Cascade from Global to Regional Predictive Models
  Lead PI: Bruce Cornuelle, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

• Russian Dolls: Nesting a Turbulent Large Eddy Simulation within a Nonhydrostatic Adaptive Grid Model within a 1/25 HYCOM Model
  Lead PI: Alberto Scotti, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• Seamless Multiscale Forecasting: Hybridizable Unstructured-mesh Modeling and Conservative Two-way Nesting
  Lead PI: Pierre Lermusiaux, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• A Multiscale Nested Modeling Framework to Simulate the Interaction of Surface Gravity Waves with Nonlinear Internal Gravity Waves
  Lead PI: Oliver Fringer, Stanford University

• Towards the Development of a Coupled COAMPS-ROMS Ensemble Kalman Filter and Adjoint with a Focus on the Indian Ocean and the Intraseasonal Oscillation
  Lead PI: Dr. Andrew Moore, University of California, Santa Cruz

• An Integrated Hydrological Modeling System for High-Resolution Coastal Applications
  Lead PI: Dr. Teddy Holt, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey

2014

• Accelerated Prediction of the Polar Ice and Global Ocean (APPIGO)
  Lead PI: Dr. Eric Chassignet, Florida State University

• An Integration and Evaluation Framework for ESPC Coupled Models
  Lead PI: Dr. Ben Kirtman, University of Miami, RSMAS

• NPS-NRL-Rice-UIUC Collaboration on Navy Atmosphere-Ocean Coupled Models on Many-Core Computer Architectures
  Lead PI: Dr. Lucas Wilcox, Naval Postgraduate School

• RRTMGP: A High-Performance Broadband Radiation Code for the Next Decade
  Lead PI: Dr. Eli Mlawer, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc.

• Marine Arctic Ecosystem Study (MARES) – Ecosystem Dynamics and Monitoring of the Beaufort Sea: An Integrated Science Approach
  Lead PI: Dr. Francis Wiese, Stantec Consulting Services, Inc.

• Initiating an Arctic Marine Biodiversity Observing Network (AMBON)
  Lead PI: Dr. Katrin Iken, University of Alaska, Fairbanks

• National Marine Sanctuaries as Sentinel Sites for a Demonstration Marine Biodiversity Observation Network
  Lead PI: Dr. Frank Muller-Karger, University of South Florida
• Demonstrating an Effective Marine Biodiversity Observation Network in the Santa Barbara Channel
  Lead PI: Dr. Bob Miller, University of California, Santa Barbara

2013

• Gulf of Mexico Shipwreck Corrosion, Hydrocarbon Exposure, Microbiology, and Archaeology Project (GOM-SCHEMA)
  Lead PI: Dr. Leila Hamdan, School of Ocean Science and Technology, University of Southern Mississippi