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,...
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 Barbara will research what controls the marine refractory dissolved organic carbon reservoir through a $389,988 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences' Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). This three-year award beginning July 15, 2021 will fund collaborative research to strengthen understanding of the integrated earth system through basic research of the ocean sciences. Specifically, the university will investigate the...
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 (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 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 will receive $154,536 under a three-year Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences. The grant will support research titled "Collaborative Research: Tradeoffs Between Phenology and Geography Constraints in Response to Climate Change Across Species Life Cycles" from September 2021 through August 2024. The research funded under this award seeks to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system...
The National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences awarded a $681,045 Project Grant to the University of California, Santa Barbara under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) to evaluate Southern Ocean control of global marine silicon isotope distribution from June 1, 2021 to May 31, 2024. Through this award, UC Santa Barbara will conduct basic research to strengthen understanding of integrated Earth system processes and expand fundamental knowledge of factors influencing...
The University of California San Diego received a $297,994 National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences Project Grant under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct research predicting oxygen minimum zone and seasonal microbial activity from community structure using machine learning and novel measurements of ATP turnover. The two-year award beginning September 1, 2021 will support development of new techniques to analyze relationships between microbial...