Project Grant 1947562

This Project Grant award, valued at $703,638.00 and provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078), aims to advance the understanding of the dynamic interaction between mantle flow, crustal deformation, and topography beneath Antarctica. The research, conducted by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, will develop a high-resolution geodynamic model using the ASPECT mantle convection code to simulate mantle flow and crustal dynamics from...

This $477,793 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) funds a research project at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) to investigate the impacts of climate change on the biological carbon pump in the West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) region. The goal of the project is to develop a novel hybrid modeling framework that integrates observational data from long-term research programs with advanced artificial intelligence and...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Polar Programs awarded a $356,436 Project Grant to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Scripps Institution of Oceanography to study the temperature history of Antarctica during the last ice age. The project aims to calibrate the water isotope thermometer in East Antarctica using an improved gas thermometer based on nitrogen and argon isotopes from air bubbles in ice cores. This will help predict the magnitude of future warming in...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Polar Programs awarded a $303,968 Project Grant to the University of Connecticut from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2025. The grant supports research to investigate the impacts of climate change and sea ice loss on phytoplankton blooms and carbon cycling in the West Antarctic Peninsula region. Key objectives include analyzing shifts in the seasonal timing (phenology) of phytoplankton, evaluating changes in phytoplankton community...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) Project Grant award to the University of Washington is valued at $575,572 and supports research to understand the response of two of East Antarctica's most vulnerable glaciers, Totten and Denman, to ocean warming and the resulting impact on sea level rise. The project will use numerical models constrained by oceanographic and remote sensing observations to determine how these glaciers will respond to increased melting. This...

The University of California San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography will receive $363,261 under a three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs. The grant will fund collaborative research titled "Peripheral East Antarctic Ice as a Unique Recorder of Climate Variability During the Last Interglacial" from August 2021 through July 2024. The research aims to strengthen understanding of polar regions by expanding knowledge of climate...

The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) has awarded a $770,209 Project Grant to Georgia Tech Research Corp, doing business as the Office of Sponsored Programs, to create the first comprehensive map of basal temperatures across the entire Antarctic continent. This 5-year project will combine decades of radar data with cutting-edge artificial intelligence techniques to provide essential information for improving ice sheet models and sea level projections. The...

This $626,292 Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078), aims to investigate the patterns of carbon outgassing in the Southern Ocean and its connection to the three-dimensional meridional overturning pathways. The project will utilize the Biogeochemical Southern Ocean State Estimate (B-SOSE) model to construct an Eulerian isopycnal carbon budget and analyze local carbon outgassing. This work will provide a better understanding of the...

This $250,771 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Polar Programs to Colorado State University to conduct collaborative research on the interaction between Antarctic low clouds and natural aerosols. The research aims to improve global climate model simulations over Antarctica and the Southern Ocean by better representing low-level cloud physics, which have significant impacts on ice surface melt and solar energy transmission. The 4-year project will...

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...