Project Grant 80NSSC23K1597

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $517,526 to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to quantify uncertainties in air-sea CO2 flux variability and the background ocean carbon sink, and determine data requirements to reduce these uncertainties. Key objectives include: 1) Quantifying regional-scale uncertainties in the background ocean carbon sink using a...

This three-year, $563,324 National Science Foundation project grant funds research by Atmospheric & Environmental Research Inc. on observing and modeling the spatiotemporal variability of the seasonal cycle in sea level. The awardee will analyze satellite and in situ data, as well as output from global ocean models, to examine the seasonal cycle in sea level over global oceans and coastal regions. Specific objectives include analyzing the seasonal cycle's mean and year-to-year variability...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will support a collaborative research effort totaling $559,349 over 3 years to better understand the thermal balance of Earth's upper atmosphere. The key products and services to be delivered include: Laser-based laboratory studies of collisions between carbon dioxide (CO2) and atomic oxygen to measure the rate and temperature...

This two-year, $297,190 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Michigan Technological University to investigate drivers of carbon storage in temperate forests over successional time. The Biological Sciences program aims to advance biological science knowledge and address major problems facing the nation. The grantee is measuring forest structure, soil nutrients, and carbon fluxes in six experimentally cut and burned forest stands representing different disturbance dates...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) aims to develop a new continental-scale data tool that integrates a variety of ground-based, remote sensing, and modeling data to better understand the variability and predictability of the North American terrestrial carbon cycle. The $929,221 award to Trustees of Boston University, with a project period of August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2028, will support the generation and analysis of...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $796,213 to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, to assess and understand the sensitivity of tropical orographic precipitation to climate variations. The research aims to further develop the theory of tropical orographic precipitation and investigate its response to environmental factors like wind speed, temperature, and...

This $126,270 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) aims to develop new capabilities to monitor and understand forest carbon dynamics in the Earth system. The key products and services to be delivered include: Cross-platform and cross-region learning frameworks to enable fine-scale carbon dynamics monitoring at large geographic scales. High-fidelity fast approximations of theory-based carbon forecasting models using new meta-learning...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Project Grant award to Colorado State University (CSU) is for $254,826 over 3 years, starting on July 1, 2023. The award is funded under the NSF Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research to expand fundamental knowledge and understanding of the integrated Earth system. The project focuses on examining the relationship between the trade wind inversion layer and the seasonal development of...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded a $440,764 Project Grant to Washington State University to study the influences of large turbulent eddies on the validity of the constant flux layer assumption in the unstable atmospheric surface layer. The 3-year project will leverage a field experiment over a large water body in Mississippi to collect a unique dataset that minimizes the influence of advective terms, enabling a more precise examination...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $769,637 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to the Smithsonian Institution, doing business as the Office of Sponsored Projects, for a 5-year collaborative research project. The project aims to study spatial and temporal patterns of carbon dioxide and methane emissions across tropical wetland ecosystems in the Brazilian savanna (Cerrado). Researchers will collect high-resolution field data on greenhouse gas fluxes,...