The University of New Mexico was awarded a $113,228 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct research evaluating the origins of multidecadal variability in late Holocene Indian summer monsoon rainfall in Nepal. The three-year award, issued on June 1, 2021 with a completion date of May 31, 2024, will support collaborative research between the University of New Mexico and researchers in Nepal to strengthen understanding of the...
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution received a three-year, $149,067 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will support collaborative research to evaluate the origins of multidecadal variability in late Holocene Indian summer monsoon rainfall in Nepal. The Geosciences program seeks to expand fundamental knowledge and understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $119,293 to James Madison University for collaborative research on quantitative paleoclimatology of the East African monsoon from August 15, 2021 to July 31, 2024. The grant supports basic research to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through expanded knowledge of atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Specifically, the university will conduct collaborative research to...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will provide $417,242 to The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (RF-SUNY) from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026 to conduct collaborative research on the 50,000-year history of the Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM). The research will focus on analyzing sediment cores from Loktak Lake in northeast India to reconstruct past changes in the...
The National Science Foundation awarded Cornell University a $775,595 project grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) for the period of January 15, 2021 through December 31, 2023. The grant funds basic research exploring the role of boundary layer microbial remineralization in flavivirus-host dynamics. The Geosciences program supports fundamental knowledge and understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Cornell...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences awarded a 3-year, $461,546 Project Grant to the University of Pittsburgh to conduct collaborative research on a 50,000-year continuous record of the Indian Summer Monsoon from Loktak Lake in northeast India. The project aims to improve understanding of the relative importance of factors like greenhouse gas concentrations, ocean circulation patterns, and climate variability in driving gradual and abrupt changes in the Indian...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences awarded a $274,028 Project Grant to The Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri to conduct "Collaborative Research: A 50,000-Year Continuous Record of the Indian Summer Monsoon from Loktak Lake, NE India" under the NSF Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). This three-year project aims to study the paleo-lake system of Loktak Lake in northeastern India to improve understanding of past, present, and projected changes in...
This two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences provides $190,000 to leverage high-resolution modeling and dynamical theory to elucidate changes in extreme precipitation in a monsoonal regime. The funding will support basic research from October 2021 through September 2023 aimed at strengthening understanding of the integrated Earth system, as outlined in the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) of enhancing fundamental knowledge and...
The University of Arizona was awarded a two-year, $416,602 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences. The grant falls under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research in the atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences to strengthen the national scientific enterprise. Specifically, the University will conduct a collaborative research project titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: P2C2--SUBDECADAL PLEISTOCENE INDIAN...
This National Science Foundation project grant award of $327,974 provides funding from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2025 to Purdue University under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The award will support collaborative research between US and UK researchers to reconstruct a high-resolution record of the South Asian monsoon over the past 20 million years. Modeling studies will help interpret the records to better understand variability and future changes in the crucial monsoon...