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This Project Grant award from the Office of Naval Research (CFDA 12.300 - Basic and Applied Scientific Research) provides $267,000.00 to the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) to support research, education, and outreach activities focused on increasing the representation of underrepresented minority (URM) students in ocean science-related careers. Key activities include: 1) Providing summer experiential learning programs at USM for URM undergraduate students, including field camps,...

The University Corporation At Monterey Bay was awarded a two-year, $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will support the project "BUILDING A DIVERSE OCEAN SCIENCE COMMUNITY THROUGH COLLABORATION: REFRAMING THE R1-MSI RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP MODEL," to be conducted in Seaside, California from July 2021 through June 2023. The Geosciences program seeks to strengthen the national scientific enterprise and expand...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $299,958 provides funding for the Strengthening Traineeships and Research Opportunities for Next Generation Geoscientists at MSIs (STRONG at MSIs) project. The project will train ten Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and allied early career geoscience faculty, called Geoscience Faculty of the Future (GEOFFs), to effectively mentor and train STEM students from Minority Serving Institutions to thrive in geoscience graduate...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $141,142 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for the period April 1, 2023 through March 31, 2025. The award will support planning for the Bringing Together Allies in Diversifying Climate and Marine Careers Alliance workshop. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will lead efforts to foster new research and education partnerships between eight Minority-Serving Institutions with marine and...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $104,679 to Claremont McKenna College from June 1, 2023 to July 31, 2024 to conduct collaborative research on reconstructing a 250-year history of environmental conditions in the Gulf of Maine. The research team will use geochemical proxies in marine climate archives, such as growth bands in clams and crustose coralline algae, to generate multi-centennial,...

This $657,239 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences program provides organizational and logistical support for the Physical Oceanography Dissertations Symposium (PODS) and Dissertations Symposium in Chemical Oceanography (DISCO) biennial meetings in 2024 and 2026. These symposia will create cohorts of early-career professionals in the fields of geochemistry and physical oceanography, facilitate networking and collaboration, and enable the participants to...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) Project Grant award of $208,972 to Morgan State University, a Historically Black College and University (HBCU), aims to develop a "Grow Your Own" model for training HBCU personnel in research administration and scientific research. The overarching goal is to enhance research capacity across HBCUs by producing a cadre of skilled research administrators and scientists. The 3-year project will be...

The National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences awarded a $561,018 project grant to the University of South Carolina under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct collaborative research examining three decades of foraminiferal assemblages in the Santa Barbara Basin. Over the three-year period from July 2022 to June 2025, the University will create a thirty-year record of planktic foraminifera abundances from stored samples collected in the Santa Barbara Basin, California....

Old Dominion University Research Foundation was awarded a $320,219 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) for the period of January 15, 2022 through December 31, 2024. The grant will support the development of a new paleosalinity proxy based on sodium-calcium ratios in the planktonic foraminifera Trilobatus sacculifer and Globigerinoides ruber. This work will strengthen understanding of the...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $1,312,490 project grant to the University of Colorado Boulder under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to support the Global Sustainability Scholars for Sustainable Oceans initiative from November 1, 2021 through October 31, 2024. The grant will fund the development of a transdisciplinary network of scientists and practitioners focused on building understanding of integrated Earth systems and oceans through basic research. Specifically, the...