Project Grant 2028421
- The Trustees of Dartmouth College received a $1,740,512 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on February 1, 2021 to develop ICE MASS BALANCE BUOYS FOR THE ARCTIC OBSERVING NETWORK. The goal of the project is to observe and understand changes to the Arctic sea ice cover through January 31, 2026. The grant is funded through the NSF's Polar Programs, which aims to strengthen understanding of polar regions through basic research best or only conducted in these environments....
- The Trustees of Dartmouth College were awarded a $966,896 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs' Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078) for the period of September 15, 2021 through August 31, 2025. The grant funds a collaborative research effort titled "A New Approach to Firn Evolution Using the Taylor Dome Natural Laboratory." The project will strengthen understanding of polar regions by expanding knowledge of firn, the porous...
- Trustees of Dartmouth College received a two-year, $550,133 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs Federal Grant Program titled "Polar Programs" (CFDA #47.078). Under the award, Dartmouth College will conduct collaborative research on the watershed-scale geomorphic response to climate change in the Aklavik Range region of the Northwest Territories, Canada from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2024. The research is intended to...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation supports collaborative research titled "Global Changes, Local Impacts: Study of Glacial Fjords, Ecosystems and Communities in Greenland" from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2026 with funding of $326,947. The research is conducted under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Trustees of...
- The Trustees of Dartmouth College were awarded a $241,434 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will support collaborative research to evaluate snowlines across the tropics and examine the geomorphic imprint of tropospheric cooling and drying during the Last Glacial Maximum. Specifically, Dartmouth College researchers will work to strengthen fundamental knowledge of integrated...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs awarded Dartmouth College a $175,229 Project Grant under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078) to conduct research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: GRATE - INTEGRATING DATA AND MODELING TO QUANTIFY RATES OF GREENLAND ICE SHEET CHANGE, HOLOCENE TO FUTURE" from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2025. Under this award, Dartmouth College will integrate data and modeling to quantify historical and future rates...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Dartmouth College's Office of Sponsored Projects received a $528,369 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) awarded July 1, 2025, with completion targeted for June 30, 2028. The research deliverables focus on developing a physics-based firn densification model through collaborative mechanical testing and microstructural characterization of polar firn cores collected from four locations at Taylor...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Dartmouth College received a $259,978 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) awarded on August 1, 2025, with a completion date of July 31, 2028. This jointly-funded award, administered through the NSF/GEO-NERC Lead Agency Opportunity in partnership with the United Kingdom's National Environment Research Council, supports the "BISTO: Better Ice Sheet Forecasts via Transient...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Dartmouth College's Office of Sponsored Projects received a $922,103 CAREER (Integrating Research and Education) Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) awarded September 1, 2025, with completion targeted for August 31, 2030. The award supports research to advance understanding of subglacial hydrology and thermomechanics—specifically how water moves beneath glaciers and ice sheets and how this affects ice...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) awarded $160,021 to Trustees of Tufts College effective April 1, 2025, through March 31, 2027, to conduct collaborative research on glacier-ocean dynamics in Greenland. The project, titled "GREENFJORD-FIBER: Observing the Ice-Ocean Interface with Exceptional Resolution," will deploy advanced optical fiber instrumentation—specifically Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) and...
The Trustees of Dartmouth College were awarded a two-year, $258,525 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Polar Programs to conduct the research experiment "EAGER: AN ON-ICE GNSS RESEARCH EXPERIMENTAL NETWORK FOR GREENLAND" from March 1, 2021 through February 28, 2023. The NSF's Polar Programs aim to strengthen fundamental understanding of the polar regions through support of basic research best conducted in or unique to the polar environments according to the program's CFDA description. Under this award, Dartmouth College will leverage its expertise to deliver an on-ice GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) network experimental platform for Greenland, providing researchers novel geospatial data to advance knowledge of the Arctic. The project will be performed at Dartmouth College's campus in Hanover, New Hampshire.