Project Grant 1941308
- The National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs awarded a $153,987 Project Grant to The Regents of the University of Colorado under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078) for the period of August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2024. The grant funding will support the collaborative research project "Accelerating Thwaites Ecosystem Impacts for the Southern Ocean (ARTEMIS)". The University of Colorado, as the awardee, will deliver research focused on strengthening...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs awarded a $218,256 Project Grant to Texas A&M University to support collaborative research linking marine and terrestrial sedimentary evidence for variability in glaciation of the Weddell Embayment and Antarctic Peninsula regions. The three-year award beginning September 1, 2021 will fund analysis of sediment cores to strengthen understanding of Pliocene-Pleistocene climate dynamics in Antarctica under the NSF's Polar Programs...
- 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...
- The Virginia Institute of Marine Science received a three-year, $157,463 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs through the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078). The grant supports the collaborative research project "Accelerating Thwaites Ecosystem Impacts for the Southern Ocean" (ARTEMIS), which aims to strengthen understanding of the polar regions through expanding fundamental knowledge of the Thwaites Glacier region of Antarctica....
- The National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs awarded Dartmouth College a $654,264 project grant under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078) to conduct research titled "PROCESSES, DRIVERS, PREDICTIONS: MODELING THE RESPONSE OF THWAITES GLACIER OVER THE NEXT CENTURY USING ICE/OCEAN COUPLED MODELS (PROPHET)." Dartmouth College will utilize ice/ocean coupled models to model the response of Thwaites Glacier over the next century to better understand the...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs, under the Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) federal grant program, provides $2,374,386 to Rutgers, The State University for ecological research related to disturbances and sea ice trends along the West Antarctic Peninsula. The award period is from May 15, 2021 to April 30, 2023. Sub-awards totaling $2,374,386 were provided to nine research institutions, including the University of Virginia, University of Delaware,...
- The Utah State University received a $642,524 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs on February 1, 2022 for collaborative research under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078). The research aims to study the effects of climate-induced sea-level rise, warming and herbivory on vegetation and greenhouse gas emission in coastal western Alaska. The Polar Programs program supports basic research in the polar regions to further fundamental...
- The National Science Foundation's Division of Polar Programs awarded a $899,856 project grant to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, on August 15, 2023. The funding supports a collaborative U.S./U.K. research project investigating the direct influence of meltwater on the dynamics of the Antarctic ice sheet. The key activities include a field campaign on Flade Glacier and a continent-wide remote sensing survey to test hypotheses related to how surface meltwater reaching...
- The University of Wyoming received a $297,116 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs on November 1, 2021 for collaborative research under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078). The research aims to establish an Arctic observing network to monitor the transformation of the Greenland ice sheet's firn layer through October 31, 2026. The Polar Programs grant program supports basic research best conducted in or about the polar regions to...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $283,923 project grant under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078) to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation from June 1, 2021 to May 31, 2024. The grant funds the "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: GLACIOME: DEVELOPING A COMPREHENSIVE MODEL OF THE COUPLED GLACIER-OCEAN-MELANGE SYSTEM" project. This project will develop a new comprehensive model of the interactions between glaciers, ocean waters, and ice mélanges. The model will provide a...
The National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs awarded Texas A&M University a $252,830 project grant under the Polar Programs CFDA 47.078 program. The three-year grant, running from August 2021 through July 2024, will support the "Accelerating Thwaites Ecosystem Impacts for the Southern Ocean" collaborative research project. As part of the Polar Programs' mission to strengthen fundamental polar research, the grant funding will enable Texas A&M University researchers to study the Thwaites Glacier region of Antarctica and better understand its potential impacts on the Southern Ocean ecosystem. The university will deliver research examining the connections between the glacier's instability and climate change effects throughout the region.
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| Not listed | $126.4k | 9/8/21 | ||
| Not listed | $126.4k | 6/23/21 |