The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), doing business as the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), received a three-year, $446,899 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs on September 1, 2021. The grant supports collaborative research to constrain uncertainty in Arctic climate variability, change, and impacts through process-based understanding. This work directly aligns with the goals of the Polar Programs' CFDA #47.078...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $396,216 project grant to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078) for the period of February 1, 2021 through January 31, 2024. The grant supports collaborative research titled "Interactions Between Arctic Cyclones, Atmospheric Rivers, and Sea Ice in a Warming Climate." The Polar Programs grant program aims to strengthen understanding of polar regions through basic research...
The National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs awarded a $299,817 project grant to Atmospheric & Environmental Research Inc. to conduct collaborative research from November 2021 through October 2024. The research aims to improve understanding of how amplified Arctic warming may influence extreme weather patterns in midlatitudes, as supported by the NSF Polar Programs CFDA #47.078. This program seeks to strengthen polar research and understanding through basic science best...
The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), operating as the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), received a two-year, $343,969 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences. The grant falls under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA #47.078), which supports basic research in the polar regions. Through this funding, NCAR will conduct research on the biogeochemistry of the Southern Ocean and its control on short-lived...
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 Division of Polar Programs awarded The Ohio State University a $844,359 Project Grant under the Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) federal grant program. The grant supports applying observations from the Year of Polar Prediction - Southern Hemisphere targeted observing periods to advance winter numerical weather forecasting for the U.S. Antarctic Program. Specifically, The Ohio State University will conduct atmospheric modeling experiments leveraging special radioosonde...
The National Science Foundation awarded $199,704 under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078) to The Regents of the University of Colorado for the period of July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024. The University of Colorado will lead an international collaboration to characterize atmospheric turbulence processes impacting climate in coastal Antarctica. Researchers will deploy high-altitude balloons equipped with custom turbulence instrumentation, in coordination with radar sensing from...
The Virginia Institute of Marine Science received a $344,427 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs to conduct collaborative research titled "Predators to Plankton - Biophysical Controls in Antarctic Polynyas" from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2024. The award falls under the NSF's Polar Programs CFDA #47.078, which supports basic research best or only conducted in polar regions to strengthen understanding of those environments....
This $1,237,840 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs, under CFDA Program 47.078, will fund research by the University of Colorado to quantify climate variability and extremes over the past 100,000 years. The research team will use high-resolution measurements from ancient polar ice cores to statistically analyze changes in climate variability and the frequency of extreme events as the Earth's average climate has fluctuated over...
This $199,162 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) will support collaborative research on the geospace environment and its interactions with the solar wind at the U.S. Antarctic research stations of South Pole, McMurdo, and Palmer. The funding will enable the deployment and maintenance of a suite of geospace instruments, including magnetometers, receivers, riometers, and optical systems. The research aims to advance understanding of...