The University of California Irvine was awarded a $492,382 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences. The grant falls under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to expand fundamental knowledge of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Specifically, the grant will fund research from December 2021 through November 2024 to predict impacts of coastal species redistribution in a changing climate....
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) was awarded a $139,554 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 expand understanding of the integrated Earth system. Under the award, Caltech will conduct a collaborative research project on particle scavenging controls on trace element distributions. The three-year project beginning September 1, 2021 will...
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...
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 received a $525,782 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on July 1, 2021 to support research activities under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) through June 30, 2024. The grant funds borylative heterocyclization reactions research to advance scientific knowledge and understanding of major problems in chemistry. As the awardee, UC Irvine will conduct the proposed chemistry research and deliver related products or...
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 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...
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...
The University of California Irvine received a three-year, $814,240 National Science Foundation project grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct research understanding the multi-year dynamics of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), including its El Niño and La Niña asymmetries and climate impacts from September 2021 through August 2024. As part of the Geosciences program's goal of expanding fundamental knowledge of the integrated Earth system through atmospheric, earth,...
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...