This Project Grant award, valued at $359,487, was provided by the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) to The Trustees of Princeton University. The funding will be used to develop advanced analytical methods for high-resolution chemical imaging and dating of ancient ice cores from Antarctica's Blue Ice Areas, which contain climate records spanning over 1 million years. Specifically, the project will utilize cryo-cell laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass...
This $240,377 project grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078) will fund the development and testing of a new capability to couple unreinforced single-mode optical fiber with melt probe technology. The goal is to greatly expand the number and distribution of temperature and geothermal flux observations from the Greenland and East Antarctic ice sheets. Specifically, the University of Washington will augment the capability of melt probes...
This two-year, $249,851 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs supports research to advance paleoclimate reconstruction techniques for thin or disturbed ice core sections. The University of Maine will collaborate with other institutions to test next generation measurement methods for resolving annual layers at sub-centimeter scales in ice cores. Researchers will integrate precisely co-registered electrical conductivity, hyperspectral imaging, laser ablation...
This $254,639 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs, under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078), will fund research to advance paleoclimate reconstruction techniques using thin or disturbed ice core sections. The University of Washington will develop new instrumentation and data workflows at the National Science Foundation Ice Core Facility to investigate sub-centimeter chemical and physical variations in polar ice cores. Researchers will...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Polar Programs awarded a $627,264 Project Grant to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY), operating as Stony Brook University, to conduct a comprehensive seismic investigation of the Earth's crust and upper mantle beneath the South Pole in East Antarctica. The 5-year project, titled "CAREER: A Comprehensive Seismic Investigation to the Crust and Uppermost Mantle Beneath the South Pole, East...
This $129,726 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will fund a collaborative research project to develop a 500,000-year speleothem growth history near the southern margin of the Laurentide Ice Sheet in New York State. The research aims to determine if the ice sheet reached New York during each of the past five ice ages, which will provide insights into the consistency of ice sheet response to climate change drivers and improve estimates...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Polar Research (CFDA 47.078) program provides $755,980 to the University of Rochester to obtain and analyze new ice cores from Antarctica's Dome C. The research aims to improve understanding of the history of galactic cosmic ray flux and the global methane budget over the Holocene period. Key activities include: Measuring in-situ cosmogenic carbon-14 in the ice cores to test the assumption of a constant galactic cosmic ray flux,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Polar Programs awarded a $356,436 Project Grant to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Scripps Institution of Oceanography to study the temperature history of Antarctica during the last ice age. The project aims to calibrate the water isotope thermometer in East Antarctica using an improved gas thermometer based on nitrogen and argon isotopes from air bubbles in ice cores. This will help predict the magnitude of future warming in...
This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), provides $626,036 to the University of Cincinnati to conduct research on the role of seasonality in abrupt climate change during the last ice age. The researchers will map and date glacial landforms in Maine to reconstruct the pattern and timing of recession of an ice cap that persisted in the region through the end of the last ice age. They will also...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $162,339 to Trustees of Boston College, doing business as Boston College, for a research project titled "Developing a 500 kyr Speleothem Growth History near the Southern Laurentide Ice Sheet Margin in New York State." The project will use speleothem (cave formation) data to determine if the Laurentide Ice Sheet advanced to near its Last Glacial Maximum extent during each of...