Maximum award:    £800,000

Publication date:    7 March 2024

Opening date:    12 March 2024 9:00am UK time

Closing date:    2 May 2024 4:00pm UK time

Through this funding opportunity NERC aims to de-risk the rapid integration and deployment of sensors into marine autonomous platforms for future marine research. The sensors should focus on biogeochemical Essential Ocean Variables, such as oxygen and nitrogen concentration, pH, Chlorophyll a concentration.

This funding opportunity will support the later stages of marine sensor development and bridge the gap between ‘prototype’ and ‘successful product with potential for commercial deployment’. The result will be novel marine sensor capabilities that have been proven in their operating environment and are ready to be included in future national research infrastructure. This will enhance UK’s marine research capability by demonstrating the advanced abilities of autonomous research infrastructure.

The objectives of the funding opportunity are to:

1. Support up to four, two-year projects to develop biogeochemical sensors for integration into autonomous platforms available within the UK’s National Marine Equipment Pool
2. Develop autonomous research infrastructure that enables novel approaches to addressing current and future scientific priorities
3. Accelerate the adoption of innovative measurement systems and enhance best practice methodologies for the integration and use of novel sensors across a range of autonomous platforms

Please find more information on eligibility criteria and application details here: 

FMRI: Accelerating adoption of marine sensor innovation

Apply for funding to enhance marine biogeochemical sensors for integration and validation with autonomous underwater vehicles.

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