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News Release 14-137
Computing innovations for a sustainable society
NSF awards $12.5 million to advance the science of sustainability through innovations in computing and communication technologies
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Intertidal community at low tide in Yachats Bay, Oregon. The picture shows seastars (Pisaster ochraceous), which are keystone predators, climbing out of a tidepool and onto the side of a large rock in order to reach and feed on their preferred prey, namely barnacles (grey) and mussels (blue).
Credit: Tarik C. Gouhier, Marine Science Center, Northeastern University
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Ocean waves are an abundant and under-utilized resource of renewable energy. An interdisciplinary team from Lehigh University will study and optimize the operations of future wave farms, which will produce electricity across an array of wave energy conversion devices. The solutions will enable an energy future in which ocean waves are a key component of the energy supply mix.
Credit: Andrew Schmidt, PublicDomainPictures.net
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Students at the Dolan DNA Learning Center explore the contents of one cubic foot of Cold Springs Harbor, N.Y.
Credit: David Liittschwager. onecubicfoot.com
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