Project Grant 0732771

The University of Alaska Fairbanks was awarded a $1.7 million project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs to conduct research titled "Submarine Basins, Steppe, and Sea Ice: Paleoclimate and Paleoecology of the Late Pleistocene and Holocene Bering Sea Shelf" from August 2021 through July 2024. The research funded under this award will investigate the paleoclimate and paleoecology of the Bering Sea shelf through the late Pleistocene and Holocene...

The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), awarded a $1,159,178 Project Grant to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to establish a year-round long-term observational program studying phytoplankton populations, hydrography, and nutrient concentrations in the waters around Kotzebue, Alaska. This community-based research effort will measure water column characteristics and phytoplankton at six sites during the ice-free season and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) provides $335,701 to the University of Alaska Fairbanks to study how the ocean affects landfast sea ice, especially during the spring and autumn seasonal transitions, in Alaska's Arctic coastal communities. The research aims to improve forecasting and understanding of landfast ice breakup and freeze-up events, which are critical for safe hunting and travel activities. The project will collect ocean...

This two-year, $159,271 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs will support research into microstructure observations of vertical mixing and heat fluxes in the Arctic Ocean. Funded through the NSF's Polar Programs CFDA 47.078, which supports basic research in the polar regions, this award will analyze an existing dataset of 264 shipboard turbulence profiles collected on two Arctic Observing Network cruises. Researchers at the Scripps Institution of...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $1,822,863 to the University of Georgia Research Foundation to conduct collaborative research on measuring the East Greenland Coastal Current on the Northeast Greenland Shelf. The research aims to quantify the volume, heat, and freshwater transports of this current and compare them to the nearby East Greenland Current, in order to better understand Arctic-subarctic exchange and the...

This $211,412 National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs award under the Polar Programs (47.078) federal grant program will fund a collaborative research project between Oregon State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill examining Arctic shelf sediment pathways and morphodynamic feedbacks. The award period is from December 15, 2022 through August 31, 2023. Specifically, the researchers will conduct field measurements of sediment fluxes and seabed properties...

This $248,140 project grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Polar Programs will fund research into the role of ice sheet instability in marine carbon and nutrient cycling in the Eurasian Arctic. Over three years, Kent State University researchers will investigate links between past climate change events and land-sea-ice exchange pathways of carbon and nutrients using sedimentary records from the Yermak Plateau and Barents Sea slope. The project will determine how glacial retreat and...

This $304,752 National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs award will fund research to improve climate model simulations of sea ice physics and feedbacks through analysis of observations from the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate field campaign. The University of Washington will integrate spatially and temporally coordinated field observations with single column and global climate modeling to develop parameterizations that more accurately...

This $358,499 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will fund research to understand the impact of warming on the structure and function of marine communities in the Northwest Atlantic Shelf region, including the Gulf of Maine and Mid-Atlantic Bight. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, through its Office of Sponsored Research, will characterize the composition and features of plankton and fish...

This $705,367 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) will support a collaborative research project investigating the physical feedbacks in the coastal Alaskan Arctic during the landfast ice freeze-up period. The research will utilize a variety of instruments, including moorings, autonomous systems, and seafloor cables, to capture the spatial and temporal variability in the freeze-up processes along the Alaskan Beaufort shelf. The project...