The University of Michigan will receive $263,675 under a two-year Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences. The grant will support collaborative research titled "Laminated Soil Carbonate Rinds as a Tool for Investigating Late Quaternary Climate-Vegetation Links" under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The Geosciences program aims to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $295,350 project grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the period of September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant aims to advance earth science learning through cross-cultural knowledge exchange. Key activities include place-based experiential learning to recruit and retain geoscience students from diverse backgrounds and foster connection to Earth. The grant also evaluates impacts on teacher...
The University of Michigan will receive $331,413 under a three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences to develop precipitation, evaporation and temperature records from tropical lake sediments and cave deposits for the last 700,000 years. The grant will support basic research in the atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences awarded a $444,296 project grant to the Regents of the University of Michigan (University of Michigan) to conduct collaborative research on improving the understanding of how two types of copper ore deposits form and developing methods to find undiscovered deposits. The grant, funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will support a graduate student and several undergraduates in mapping, logging, sampling, and...
The Regents of the University of Michigan were awarded a $331,331 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth 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 grant will fund a research project at the University of Michigan from January 2022 through December 2024 to simulate partial oxidation and secondary...
The Regents of the University of Michigan was awarded a $131,619 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will fund a collaborative research project studying Paleozoic echinoderms as model systems for understanding evolutionary modes. The research team will analyze changes in ecology, biogeography, and heterochronic shifts in ancient echinoderm groups through extreme climate events...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), provided $189,933 to Grand Valley State University from February 2021 through January 2023. The funding supports collaborative research on the biogeochemistry of diurnal vertical migration in microbial mats within Lake Huron's sinkholes. The Geosciences program aims to strengthen the national scientific enterprise through expanding fundamental knowledge and understanding of the integrated...
The University of Michigan will receive $360,667 from the National Science Foundation under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct research titled "Digging into Soil Carbonate Formation Processes with Triple Oxygen Isotopes" from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2023. The Geosciences program supports basic research to expand understanding of Earth's integrated system through atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. It is reasonable to conclude the...
The Regents of the University of Minnesota received a three-year, $343,273 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant funds a collaborative research project titled "Sustainable Land and Water Resources - A Community Based Participatory Research Experience for Undergraduates." The project aims to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research and provide...
This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities provides $173,236 to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater for its "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: GP-IN: CONNECTED TO EARTH: CROSS-CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE FOR ADVANCING EARTH SCIENCE LEARNING" program. The funding supports the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to strengthen the national scientific enterprise through expanded fundamental knowledge and understanding of the...