Project Grant 2102931

This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences totals $417,928 to fund research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: P2C2--CORAL PROXY AND CLIMATE MODEL COMPARISON TO UNDERSTAND CLIMATE VARIABILITY IN THE INTRA-AMERICAS SEA REGION." The research will be performed by Louisiana State University under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system. Specifically, the grant aims to compare climate proxy records from corals against climate model outputs to better understand climate variability in the Intra-Americas Sea region through collaboration between paleoclimatologists and climate modelers. The project's findings have the potential to advance knowledge of past climate changes through improved validation of climate models against coral-based climate reconstructions.