Project Grant 1929991

The National Science Foundation awarded a $803,694 Project Grant to the University of Georgia Research Foundation under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078) to support the collaborative research project "Accelerating Thwaites Ecosystem Impacts for the Southern Ocean (ARTEMIS)" from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2024. The grant aims to strengthen understanding of polar regions through expanding fundamental knowledge of the Thwaites Glacier region of Antarctica and...

This $354,576 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) will fund a postdoctoral research project at Cornell University to investigate the potential impacts of brine firn aquifers on the stability of Antarctic ice shelves. The project aims to: (1) map the extent of brine aquifers across Antarctic ice shelves using airborne ice-penetrating radar data; (2) estimate the liquid water volume in these aquifers; (3) determine how seawater infiltrates the...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $126,121 Project Grant under the Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) to The Regents of the University of Colorado (CU) for a 3-year collaborative research project to study temporal variations in glacial and subglacial structures of Antarctica. The project aims to leverage existing seismic data to better understand how the physical properties of the Antarctic ice sheet change over time, including seasonal variations in subglacial hydrological systems....

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Polar Programs award provided $362,278 to the University of Washington from July 2021 to May 2023 to support collaborative research titled "A New Mechanistic Framework for Modeling Rift Processes in Antarctic Ice Shelves Validated Through Improved Strain-Rate and Seismic Observations." The NSF Polar Programs' CFDA number 47.078 aims to strengthen understanding of polar regions through basic research. Under this project grant, the University of...

This Project Grant award of $317,795 from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) supports research by the Colorado School of Mines to disentangle the internal and basal processes that influence ice sheet flow and contribute to sea-level rise. The project combines satellite remote sensing data with ice-penetrating radar observations to partition the contributions of internal and basal friction within the ice sheet. Key efforts include developing open-source...

This $663,419 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs will fund research at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution investigating the role of coastal polynyas in modulating Antarctic marine-terminating glacier drawdown. The research will analyze observational data including ice-penetrating radar, radar and laser altimetry, and in situ hydrographic data in conjunction with ocean and ice sheet modeling to examine the interaction between polynya circulation and...

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...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Polar Programs awarded a $594,929 Project Grant to Temple University-Of The Commonwealth System Of Higher Education (Temple University) to conduct collaborative research on the role of the Antarctic Slope Current (ASC) in tracer exchange at the Antarctic margin. The research will utilize observationally-constrained Southern Ocean state estimates and climate model simulations to investigate the ASC's climatological state, variability, and impact...

The National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs awarded a $421,624 project grant to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research to conduct collaborative research titled "Under What Climate Conditions Does the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapse?" from August 15, 2021 through July 31, 2024. The grant funds research by the National Center for Atmospheric Research to strengthen understanding of the polar regions through expanding knowledge of the conditions leading to...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Polar Programs awarded a $162,982 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, through the Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, to conduct a collaborative US-Korean research project titled "RAPID: US-KOREAN COLLABORATION TO BUILD A ROSS-AMUNDSEN ICE CORE ARRAY (RAICA) ALONG THE WEST ANTARCTIC COASTLINE". The purpose of this grant is to retrieve a 150-meter ice core from an ice rise along the rapidly changing West...