Nick Foukal receives NASA SWOT funding to study circulation along Northwest Atlantic Shelf

Nick Foukal, who started at the UGA Skidaway Institute of Oceanography in August, will collaborate on the project with scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. (Photo by Jackson K. Schroeder)

University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (SkIO) physical oceanographer Nick Foukal, along with two collaborators from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), have received $919,000 in funding from the NASA Surface Water Ocean Topography (SWOT) program to study the ocean circulation of the Northwest Atlantic continental shelf using data collected by the NASA SWOT satellite.  

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