Cooperative Agreement 80NSSC26M0064

This $268,676 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund analysis of approximately 4 km of sediment cores recovered from the Guaymas Basin in the Gulf of California through the International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 385. Over a three-year period, the award will support a research team of three master's degree students mentored by two female professors to conduct lithofacies and petrofacies analyses of the cores. This work aims to...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center awarded Trustees of Dartmouth College $363,844 on February 2, 2026, under the Science program (CFDA 43.001) to execute a balanced science program based on discipline-specific guidance from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine and administration priorities and direction from Congress, participating as a key partner and enabler in the agency's strategic objectives. Work is performed in Hanover, New...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $180,000 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to Dr. Marion McKenzie of Colorado School of Mines. The two-year award beginning September 2023 will support pairing onshore and offshore observations to better understand the dynamics of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet during the last deglaciation approximately 20,000 years ago. Dr. McKenzie will leverage sedimentology, geochronology, geophysics, and glaciology techniques to constrain the...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities provides $202,295 to Unavco, Inc. to engage community college students in geoscience career pathways under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The funding will support Unavco's COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: GP-UP: GEO-LAUNCHPAD project from September 2021 through August 2024. As the primary awardee and vendor, Unavco will deliver engagement activities to strengthen students' understanding of the...

The National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences awarded Lafayette College $476,890 under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) for the project "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: WHAT LIES BENEATH: AN INVESTIGATION OF SUBGLACIAL SILICIC MAGMA SYSTEMS (VATNAJOKULL, ICELAND)" from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The goal of this project is to explore the origin, evolution, age, and longevity of magmas beneath the Vatnajökull ice cap in Iceland to better understand the country's...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities provides $173,236 to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater for its "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: GP-IN: CONNECTED TO EARTH: CROSS-CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE FOR ADVANCING EARTH SCIENCE LEARNING" program. The funding supports the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to strengthen the national scientific enterprise through expanded fundamental knowledge and understanding of the...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $117,832 awarded on July 1, 2022 will support research into the geological processes that have shaped the continental lithosphere beneath New England through time. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the investigators from Williams College and research institutions will conduct seismic imaging of the crust and upper mantle using data from deployments of seismometers in New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine....

The National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded $441,470 under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Massachusetts Office of Grant & Contract Administration in Hadley, MA. This three-year Project Grant will support the continuing COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: P2C2--MADAGASCAR CAVES AND PALEOCLIMATE II (MADCAP II) study analyzing climate variability in the southern hemisphere of the Western Indian Ocean. The research aims to...

This $776,963 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs, under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078), will fund collaborative research analyzing marine sediment cores from around Antarctica. Led by three early-career women principal investigators at the University of Virginia, the project team will leverage archived sediment cores housed at Oregon State University to examine physical, biological, and geochemical properties indicating past...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, awarded under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), provides $300,000 to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) to investigate wind-induced noise in seismic data collected by future Venus lander missions. The research aims to acquire high-quality experimental data on the nonlinear dynamic features of the Venusian surface environment, where wind and seismic vibrations may become coupled and generate significant interference...