The National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs awarded a $218,256 Project Grant to Texas A&M University to support collaborative research linking marine and terrestrial sedimentary evidence for variability in glaciation of the Weddell Embayment and Antarctic Peninsula regions. The three-year award beginning September 1, 2021 will fund analysis of sediment cores to strengthen understanding of Pliocene-Pleistocene climate dynamics in Antarctica under the NSF's Polar Programs...
The University of California San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography will receive $363,261 under a three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs. The grant will fund collaborative research titled "Peripheral East Antarctic Ice as a Unique Recorder of Climate Variability During the Last Interglacial" from August 2021 through July 2024. The research aims to strengthen understanding of polar regions by expanding knowledge of climate...
The National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs awarded a $151,786 three-year Project Grant to Stony Brook University under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078). The grant will support collaborative research linking marine and terrestrial sedimentary evidence to better understand variability in glaciation of the Weddell Embayment and Antarctic Peninsula regions from the Pliocene to Pleistocene epochs. As the awardee, Stony Brook University will leverage its expertise...
The National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs awarded a $132,303 project grant to Columbia University under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078). The grant will support collaborative research to improve understanding of past variability in glaciation in the Weddell Embayment and Antarctic Peninsula regions. Eleven investigators from seven U.S. institutions and Argentine collaborators will study sediment cores from the International Ocean Discovery Program as well...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Polar Programs awarded a $356,436 Project Grant to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Scripps Institution of Oceanography to study the temperature history of Antarctica during the last ice age. The project aims to calibrate the water isotope thermometer in East Antarctica using an improved gas thermometer based on nitrogen and argon isotopes from air bubbles in ice cores. This will help predict the magnitude of future warming in...
The University of California Santa Cruz received a three-year, $679,267 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078). The grant will fund collaborative research to reconstruct East Antarctica's past response to climate change using subglacial precipitates. The research aims to strengthen fundamental understanding of the polar regions by exploring how subglacial minerals and sediments preserved...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $299,055 Project Grant under the Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) federal grant program to the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) to investigate how variations in Earth's orbital patterns influence surface melting and the climate of Antarctica. The researchers will identify and date past periods of ice melting on the Antarctic continent using uranium-thorium dating of pedogenic carbonates deposited by meltwater, with the goal of correlating...
The University of California, Santa Barbara received a $308,547 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078) for the period of April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2023. The grant funding supports research into the role of epigenetic DNA methylation mechanisms in the tolerance and resistance of Antarctic pteropods to ocean acidification and warming. The Polar Programs grant program aims to strengthen fundamental polar region research that is...
This $560,876 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs, under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078), will support collaborative research exploring interlinked physical, biological, and geochemical properties of seafloor sediments around Antarctica. Led by three early-career women principal investigators at the Colorado School of Mines, the research team will analyze archived marine sediment cores housed at Oregon State University to...
The University of California San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography received a $1,247,478 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Polar Programs under the Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) grant program. This 4-year award funds a collaborative research project titled "Antarctic Low Cloud Interaction with Natural Aerosol (ALCINA)". The project will collect comprehensive field data on aerosol properties and cloud optical characteristics at Palmer...