This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences provides $278,236 to fund collaborative research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: US GEOTRACES GP17-OCE: SIZE-FRACTIONATED PARTICLE COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS FROM ULTRA-OLIGOTROPHIC TO ANTARCTIC WATERS." The research will be conducted under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA #47.050), which supports basic research in the atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences to strengthen understanding of the...
This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences provides $197,659 to the University of Georgia Research Foundation to characterize the composition, scavenging efficiency, and bioavailability of size fractionated particles through collaborative research under the official federal grant program titled "Geosciences" (CFDA #47.050). The research aims to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system by supporting basic research in...
The University of California Santa Cruz will receive $398,673 in funding from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences through July 2024 to conduct collaborative research that will illuminate the Cenozoic alkenone pCO2 record. This Project Grant was awarded on August 1, 2021 under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research to expand understanding of the integrated Earth system through atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. UC Santa Cruz, doing...
The University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) was awarded a $181,080 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) federal grant program. The grant will fund UCSC's project to decipher the role of the subantarctic South Pacific Ocean in Pleistocene climate evolution using sediment cores recovered from the JOIDES Resolution drilling expedition. UCSC will generate high-resolution climate proxy time series over the past two...
The University of California Santa Cruz received a $320,799 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences on July 1, 2021. The project grant is part of the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) and will support research to reconstruct global ice volumes over the last glacial cycle using models of Bering Strait flooding. The funding will allow UC Santa Cruz to conduct basic research expanding understanding of the integrated Earth system by strengthening...
The National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences awarded a $260,366 Project Grant to the University of Washington's Office of Sponsored Programs to support collaborative research under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The research aims to conduct shipboard measurements of dissolved aluminum, iron, and manganese to trace inputs to the South Pacific Gyre and Southern Ocean from September 2021 through August 2024. The Geosciences program seeks to expand fundamental knowledge of...
The University of California Santa Cruz will receive $849,702 through August 2024 from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) to study microbial control of dissolved organic nitrogen in the ocean. Using new amino acid tracers, the University will conduct research on bacterial sources and cycling of refractory dissolved organic nitrogen. This project grant aims to strengthen fundamental understanding of the integrated...
The University of California Irvine was awarded a $735,683 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences. The grant is part of the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system. Under the award, UC Irvine will conduct collaborative research on particle scavenging controls of trace element distributions from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2024. The research aims to expand fundamental...
The University of California Santa Cruz received a two-year, $142,510 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant funds collaborative research to uncover marine carbon chemistry dynamics during deglaciation through the use of boron isotopes and radiocarbon dating. The research aims to expand fundamental knowledge of the integrated Earth system by increasing understanding of atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences processes. The grant...
The University of California Santa Cruz received a three-year, $543,521 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will fund collaborative research to quantify nitrogen fixation rates of non-cyanobacterial diazotrophs and determine environmental controls on their activity. As part of the Geosciences program's goal of expanding knowledge of the integrated Earth system through basic research,...
This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences provides $366,697 to the University of California Santa Cruz to conduct research characterizing the composition, scavenging efficiency and bioavailability of size fractionated particles under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The Geosciences program aims to strengthen the national scientific enterprise through expanding fundamental knowledge and understanding of the integrated Earth system by supporting basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Specifically, the University of California Santa Cruz will collaborate on research cruises to the Antarctic region to collect and analyze samples of ocean particles of varying sizes to better understand their role in biogeochemical cycles and nutrient transport within the ocean environment. The research is expected to provide insights with applications to broader Earth system processes through March 2024.