Project Grant 80NSSC24K1281

This Project Grant award of $367,031.00 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports a collaborative research effort to observe and analyze experimental systems focused on understanding the evolution of frictional interfaces, which is critical for improving assessments of seismic and glacial hazards. The research team, led by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, will conduct experiments using transparent ice samples to directly observe...

This $460,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support a comprehensive computational and experimental investigation to elucidate the key mechanisms and energies associated with the stability of liquid carbon dioxide (CO2) dispersions in brine. The primary objectives are to: 1) develop a coarse-grained model of cellulose nanocrystals and predict their aggregation and morphology on liquid interfaces, 2) correlate predicted...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) provides $118,081 to the Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, operating through the University of Nevada, Reno, to conduct collaborative research on understanding the relationship between microstructure and creep in polar firn, which is the transition phase between snow and glacial ice. The research aims to develop a comprehensive physics-based model of firn densification by...

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 $325,213 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York will investigate the role of meltwater in governing the geophysical properties of deforming icy systems. The project aims to create new flow laws that explicitly incorporate the effects of meltwater on ice flow, which is a key factor in modeling glacial mass loss and sea level rise. The research will employ...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award, totaling $920,715, aims to elucidate the roles of gravity on the freezing dynamics of sessile drops in the presence of soluble and insoluble particles. The research will be conducted at the University of Illinois and involve several key tasks: fabricating samples and solutions for experiments on the International Space Station (ISS), coordinating with NASA to prepare the experimental rig, overseeing...

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...

This National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs Project Grant, totaling $241,139, will fund research from March 1, 2022 to February 29, 2024 to better understand the hydraulic permeability of temperate ice. Iowa State University will conduct laboratory and field experiments to measure, for the first time, the permeability of temperate ice as a function of grain size, water content, and foliation. In the laboratory, experiments will examine how grain size and water content affect...

This $389,334 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports the development of an open-source, user-friendly toolkit and database to improve temperature measurements in high-pressure laser-heated diamond anvil cell experiments. The goal is to reconcile long-standing discrepancies in high-pressure melting curves by accounting for wavelength-dependent optical absorption of relevant planetary materials. This 4-year project will fund a...

This $1,263,530 National Science Foundation award through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will fund research into the dynamics of melting ice. New York University will investigate ice melting through laboratory experiments, numerical simulations, mathematical modeling, and analysis. Researchers will study melting in idealized settings and increasingly complex situations involving changing geometry, temperature, and salinity. Experiments will precisely measure...