Project Grant 2051861

This two-year, $163,559 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will support the development of high-resolution records of paleomagnetic secular variation (PSV) in the Western North Atlantic Ocean between 380,000-780,000 years ago. Specifically, the grantee will reanalyze PSV records including directions, relative paleointensity, and evidence of six magnetic field excursions recorded in deep-sea sediments at...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $127,684 Project Grant under its Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Florida to conduct a collaborative research project investigating the history of the Earth's magnetic field strength over the last five million years, with a focus on the Southern Hemisphere. The research team, consisting of scientists from the University of California San Diego, University of Florida, and Liverpool University, will employ innovative...

Berkeley Geochronology Center will provide collaborative research on mammal evolution after the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event through a $183,887 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). Over three years from August 2023 to July 2026, the Center will generate and integrate fossil mammal and climate proxy records across the first seven million years of the Paleocene in eastern Montana. A diverse team of geologists...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $248,863 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for research entitled "Collaborative Research: Ear Climate - Pairing Calcium and Clumped Isotopes to Inform Carbon Cycle and Climate Dynamics at the Onset of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age." The research will develop novel isotope proxies to understand the role of land plant evolution on organic carbon burial, atmospheric carbon dioxide,...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $330,177 project grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for collaborative research titled "High Temporal Resolution Paleomagnetism of Speleothems." The award period is from April 15, 2021 through March 31, 2024. The funding supports the Geosciences program, which aims to expand fundamental knowledge of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Specifically, the grant will fund...

This $282,421 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will fund collaborative research by the Colorado School of Mines to develop a new geological framework for studying key Asian fossil mammals and climate events from the Early Paleogene period (approximately 66-48 million years ago). The researchers will apply advanced geochronological methods, including magnetostratigraphy, chemostratigraphy, and radiometric dating, to precisely date and...

This $265,102 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports collaborative research to improve understanding of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), a significant paleoclimate event that occurred 56 million years ago. The primary objective is to construct detailed records of individual foraminiferal geochemistry and morphology across the PETM onset at International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Site U1580 on the...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will fund collaborative research to develop an integrated framework for understanding the Late Devonian mass extinctions and associated changes in ocean chemistry and climate. The $231,421 award to Texas A&M University aims to: Establish a new geologic framework linking Late Devonian mass extinctions to the formation of epeiric black shale deposits across North and South America using...

This Project Grant award of $381,740.00 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports a collaborative research project led by George Mason University to disentangle paleoclimate signals using individual foraminiferal analyses from a new record of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM). The project will construct records of individual foraminiferal geochemistry and morphology across the PETM at International Ocean Discovery Program Site U1580 to produce...

This $195,036 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research analyzing paleomagnetic data from sediment and basalt core samples extracted during the International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 391. A team of researchers led by The Leland Stanford Junior University will study samples cored from the Walvis Ridge in the South Atlantic Ocean to develop a paleolatitude record for Late Cretaceous and early Cenozoic volcanoes...