Project Grant 19122413423

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences program Project Grant award of $122,152 to the CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation (CSU Fullerton ASC) will fund the acquisition of a carbon dioxide and methane cavity ringdown spectrometer. This instrumentation will support research and educational activities to promote a better understanding of the carbon cycle and how carbon is converted into different materials across Earth's atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere. The...

This $204,278 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) will support research by the University of Chicago to investigate how Arctic sea ice attenuation affects ocean swell, microseisms, and the potential to use seismology as a method for observing sea ice conditions. The key activities include: Analyzing seismic data from stations along the northern coasts of Alaska, Canada, and Greenland to detect seasonal and annual changes in microseisms as a...

This $303,642 National Science Foundation project grant will fund research to quantify global carbon cycle feedbacks during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, a past period of global warming. Led by the University of California Santa Cruz, the research team will measure how volcanism contributed to atmospheric carbon dioxide rise during this event and constrain total carbon emissions through new ocean acidification records. They will also develop novel carbon cycle modeling to compare...

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, supports the development of a light-based, energy-generating carbon removal process. The $274,094 award to Banyu Carbon Inc. aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by sequestering or reusing captured carbon dioxide. Key objectives include improving the resistance of the proprietary photoacid catalyst to degradation and replacing expensive...

This $750,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research to develop a simplified version of the reductive TCA cycle for carbon fixation in plants. The goal is to increase the yield of C3 plants by supplementing their carbon fixation. Key components include: Analyzing the temperature-dependent activity and dynamics of thermophilic enzymes in the cycle using variable temperature cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM)...

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) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award totaling $567,283 provides funding to the University of Arizona (Arizona Board of Regents) from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027 to study the fate of subducted carbonate platforms in the Earth's sub-arc mantle. The key objectives are to: Obtain geochemical and isotopic data on subducted marbles to identify potential signatures in arc volcanic rocks, indicating the source of the subducted carbon. Conduct...

This $169,869 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will support the development of an intermediate complexity Earth system model to simulate the cycling of carbon dioxide and methane between vegetation, soils, the atmosphere, and oceans during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, approximately 56 million years ago. The Regents of the University of California at Riverside will couple representations of the terrestrial and marine carbon cycles...

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 $116,693 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports collaborative research to illuminate fundamental climate processes that influenced terrestrial ecology in western Pangea during Earth's previous icehouse period. Key goals combine paleontology, isotope geochemistry, and magnetostratigraphy to: identify the stratigraphic position of the Carboniferous-Permian boundary in Utah's Cutler Group sedimentary rocks; determine the pace and...