The Trustees of Princeton University were awarded a $100,344 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences. The grant falls under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research in the atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences to strengthen the national scientific enterprise.
Specifically, the award will fund collaborative research between October 1, 2021 and September 30, 2024 to study export and remineralization rates of bioactive and particle reactive trace elements in the ocean using Thorium-234. The research aims to advance understanding of integrated Earth system processes by quantifying the biological pump's role in exporting carbon from the surface ocean to depth. The Trustees of Princeton University will lead the effort, which involves collaboration between U.S. GEOTRACES programs to conduct sampling in the global ocean and Southern Ocean.
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