The University of Michigan will receive $263,675 under a two-year Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences. The grant will support collaborative research titled "Laminated Soil Carbonate Rinds as a Tool for Investigating Late Quaternary Climate-Vegetation Links" under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The Geosciences program aims to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and...
The University of Michigan will receive $331,413 under a three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences to develop precipitation, evaporation and temperature records from tropical lake sediments and cave deposits for the last 700,000 years. The grant will support basic research in the atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through...
The Regents of the University of Michigan were awarded a $331,331 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth 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 grant will fund a research project at the University of Michigan from January 2022 through December 2024 to simulate partial oxidation and secondary...
The Michigan Technological University was awarded a $296,686 project grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) to support research, learning, and inclusion efforts advancing interdisciplinary Earth science from November 1, 2021 to October 31, 2023. The grant funding will support the university's "EAGER: Geoheritage and Two-Eyed Seeing" initiative which aims to strengthen foundational knowledge...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $425,014 project grant to the University of Michigan under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) for research titled "Collaborative Research: Organosulfate Multiphase Chemistry and Physicochemical Properties--Oxidation and Sulfate Recycling in Aerosols and Cloud Droplets." The three-year award beginning March 1, 2021 will support research into the oxidation and sulfate recycling processes within atmospheric aerosols and cloud droplets. The...
This $174,000 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences will fund research to advance understanding of carbonate diagenesis using the triple oxygen isotope system. The grant was awarded on February 1, 2021 under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) with completion by January 31, 2023. The Geosciences program aims to strengthen fundamental earth science knowledge and understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research support in...
The Regents of the University of Minnesota were awarded a three-year, $299,017 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will support collaborative research exploring new roles for reactive oxygen species in mediating carbon fluxes at the terrestrial-aquatic interface. The research aims to strengthen fundamental understanding of the integrated Earth system by expanding knowledge of atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences processes....
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences awarded a $444,296 project grant to the Regents of the University of Michigan (University of Michigan) to conduct collaborative research on improving the understanding of how two types of copper ore deposits form and developing methods to find undiscovered deposits. The grant, funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will support a graduate student and several undergraduates in mapping, logging, sampling, and...
The Regents of the University of Michigan was awarded a $131,619 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will fund a collaborative research project studying Paleozoic echinoderms as model systems for understanding evolutionary modes. The research team will analyze changes in ecology, biogeography, and heterochronic shifts in ancient echinoderm groups through extreme climate events...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), provided $189,933 to Grand Valley State University from February 2021 through January 2023. The funding supports collaborative research on the biogeochemistry of diurnal vertical migration in microbial mats within Lake Huron's sinkholes. The Geosciences program aims to strengthen the national scientific enterprise through expanding fundamental knowledge and understanding of the integrated...