Project Grant 1744850

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) provides $325,757 to the University of Maine System to investigate the erosional landscapes of the Transantarctic Mountains and the past behavior of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. The research aims to determine the age and reasons for a significant expansion of the ice sheet over the mountains, which may have involved substantial subglacial meltwater. This information will help improve understanding of...

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...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Polar Programs awarded a $359,717 Project Grant to Bowling Green State University to conduct collaborative research on "Heat Source and Flux Distributions in the Western Ross Sea Seafloor." The goal of this 3-year project is to identify and document the distribution of heat sources and heat flux within the seafloor of the southwestern Ross Sea in Antarctica. The research will involve a shipboard survey to collect seafloor heat...

This $343,298 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) supports research to evaluate whether the Coats Land crustal block in East Antarctica is a tectonic tracer linking the Laurentia and Kalahari continents during the formation and breakup of the Rodinia supercontinent around 1 billion years ago. The University of Texas at Austin is the prime grantee, and the project will further existing geochemical and geochronological studies of rock samples...

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...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Polar Programs awarded a $627,264 Project Grant to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY), operating as Stony Brook University, to conduct a comprehensive seismic investigation of the Earth's crust and upper mantle beneath the South Pole in East Antarctica. The 5-year project, titled "CAREER: A Comprehensive Seismic Investigation to the Crust and Uppermost Mantle Beneath the South Pole, East...

The National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs awarded a $132,303 project grant to Columbia University under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078). The grant will support collaborative research to improve understanding of past variability in glaciation in the Weddell Embayment and Antarctic Peninsula regions. Eleven investigators from seven U.S. institutions and Argentine collaborators will study sediment cores from the International Ocean Discovery Program as well...

The Colorado School of Mines received a $317,470 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs on August 15, 2021 to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: INVESTIGATING FOUR DECADES OF ROSS ICE SHELF SUBSURFACE CHANGE WITH HISTORICAL AND MODERN RADAR SOUNDING DATA." The research is being conducted under the NSF's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) to strengthen understanding of the polar regions through expansion of fundamental knowledge....

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) provides $184,798 to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (Stony Brook University) to conduct collaborative research on temporal variations in glacial and subglacial structures of Antarctica. The research aims to better understand how seismic properties within and beneath the Antarctic ice sheets change over time, which can provide insights into ice sheet dynamics and responses to...

This $400,757 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078 - Polar Programs) to the University of Wisconsin-Madison will fund a research project to determine the fundamental processes that control the geometry of subglacial cavities formed as glaciers slide over bedrock. The research will use a novel experimental device to systematically assess how factors like effective stress, sliding speed, and bedrock bump geometry affect cavity...