The National Science Foundation awarded a $495,676 Project Grant to the University of Delaware from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2024. The grant is part of NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system. Under this award, the University of Delaware will conduct collaborative research to advance knowledge of neodymium isotopes and rare earth element systematics in the South Pacific Ocean. The research...
The University of Delaware was awarded a $192,648 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences. The grant falls under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system. Through this funding, the University will conduct collaborative research from July 2021 to June 2023 exploring the importance of the subtropical gyre and North Atlantic Current in past periods of interglacial warmth. The...
The University of Delaware was awarded a $298,034 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences. The grant is part of the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) and will support research examining the Zonal Overturning Circulation. Over a three-year period from September 2021 through August 2024, the University of Delaware will conduct basic research to further understanding of the integrated Earth system and atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences as outlined...
This Project Grant award, totaling $226,865.00, was provided by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Delaware. The purpose of the award is to collect high-resolution carbon isotope data on GO-SHIP cruises in the Indian and Pacific Oceans in order to better constrain ocean carbon uptake and storage. Specifically, the project will measure the ratio of carbon-13 to carbon-12 in dissolved inorganic carbon in seawater using a new, less expensive...
The University of Delaware was awarded a $516,429 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will fund the University's Summer REU Program in Marine Science from April 2021 through March 2024. As part of the Geosciences program's goal of expanding knowledge of the integrated Earth system through basic research, the University will deliver research experiences for undergraduate students in...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $198,306 Project Grant under its Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Delaware. The grant, which runs from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027, supports collaborative research to synthesize polymer ionophores and fabricate potentiometric sensors for detecting carbonate ions in the ocean. The research aims to develop sensor devices with improved selectivity, response time, and long-term stability for monitoring ocean acidification...
The University of Delaware received a $105,485 project grant award from the National Science Foundation on March 15, 2021 to support research activities concluding on July 31, 2022. The funding supports the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to strengthen fundamental knowledge and understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Specifically, the award will support the RV Sharp Swallow SSSE project. This likely refers...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050), will fund a 5-year research project at the University of Delaware to investigate the cycling of organic carbon in aging oceanic crust. The $145,392 award, which began on March 1, 2025, aims to: (1) expand observations of fluid discharge sites on seamounts to better understand organic carbon dynamics in cool, aging oceanic crust; (2) develop new analytical tools for characterizing...
The National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences awarded a $574,550 Project Grant to the University of Delaware under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) for the period March 1, 2022 through February 28, 2025. The award will support research examining the Lagrangian transport and patchiness of buoyant material in estuarine systems through an integrated program employing conceptual models, observations, and simulations. Key objectives include assessing and advancing...
This $350,334 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Delaware. The grant will support a research project to reconstruct changes in deep ocean circulation and water mass geometry in the South Pacific Ocean over the past 2 million years, with a focus on the Mid-Pleistocene Transition period. The project will use neodymium isotopes preserved in fossil fish teeth and foraminifera as proxies to investigate the relationship...