Old Dominion University Research Foundation was awarded a $320,219 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) for the period of January 15, 2022 through December 31, 2024. The grant will support the development of a new paleosalinity proxy based on sodium-calcium ratios in the planktonic foraminifera Trilobatus sacculifer and Globigerinoides ruber. This work will strengthen understanding of the...
The National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences awarded Old Dominion University Research Foundation a $337,734 Project Grant under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) to support collaborative research measurements of dissolved aluminum, iron, and manganese in the South Pacific Gyre and Southern Ocean from September 2021 through August 2024. This funding will allow Odurf to provide shipboard trace metal sampling and analysis services as part of the US GEOTRACES GP17-OCE...
Old Dominion University received a $180,320 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on April 1, 2021 to support work concluding December 31, 2021. The grant funds the development of a synthetic conducting cable for trace metal-clean sampling on a winch system, in alignment with the NSF's Geosciences program and its goals of expanding fundamental earth science knowledge and understanding integrated earth systems through basic research support. The University will leverage the...
Old Dominion University Research Foundation was awarded a $465,383 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 in the atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences to strengthen the national scientific enterprise. Specifically, the funding will support the "US GEOTRACES GP17-OCE: HYDROGEN SULFIDE AS A STRONG LIGAND AFFECTING THE SPECIATION AND SOLUBILITY OF KEY TRACE...
Old Dominion University Research Foundation was awarded a $383,637 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The grant funds an undergraduate research opportunities program in chemistry for community college students at Old Dominion University from January 2022 through December 2024. The program aims to promote progress in the mathematical and physical...
The University of Washington will receive $296,508 under a two-year Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences. The grant will support research into the vertical transport of buoyant, non-spherical particles in the wind-mixed ocean surface boundary layer from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2023. This work falls under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to strengthen the national scientific enterprise through expanded fundamental knowledge and...
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...
Oregon State University was awarded a $1,223,276 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences on October 1, 2021 to complete the project by September 30, 2024. The award is being used to support collaborative research on plankton size spectra and trophic links in a dynamic ocean environment under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). This program aims to strengthen the national scientific enterprise through expanded fundamental knowledge and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences awarded a $298,228 Project Grant to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) under the Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) federal grant program. This two-year grant funds research to investigate how marine diatoms use proton-pumping rhodopsins as an alternative energy source under conditions of high light and low iron that hinder photosynthesis. The research aims to provide insight on how diatoms, which are responsible for a...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences provides $934,762 to Oregon State University under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) from July 15, 2022 to June 30, 2025. The funding supports collaborative research to better understand the geochemistry of neodymium isotopes and rare earth elements in the North Atlantic Ocean and their influence on deep water circulation patterns. The researchers hypothesize that ocean sediments are a major source of...