Project Grant 2202712
- The University of South Florida was awarded a $537,362 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) for the period of July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025. The grant aims to advance understanding of global mean sea level variations over the last 130,000 years through geological records preserved in coastal cave deposits from multiple locations. Researchers will reconstruct past sea level history and study sea level high stands during prior warm periods. They...
- This $221,255 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research to better understand spatial variability in sea level change during the last interglacial period approximately 120,000 years ago. The grantee will develop high-resolution global models of mantle flow to predict dynamic topography change across the greater Caribbean region over this timeframe. They will also compile a comprehensive dataset of interglacial sea level indicators...
- This $129,726 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will fund a collaborative research project to develop a 500,000-year speleothem growth history near the southern margin of the Laurentide Ice Sheet in New York State. The research aims to determine if the ice sheet reached New York during each of the past five ice ages, which will provide insights into the consistency of ice sheet response to climate change drivers and improve estimates...
- This $786,904 National Science Foundation project grant supports research to measure absolute paleo-surface temperatures for important past climate periods in the southwestern and northern United States. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the award will provide quantitative paleoclimate reconstructions using dual clumped isotope and strontium isotope analyses of speleothem samples from multiple caves. Researchers from the University of New Mexico and the University of Michigan...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will provide $358,322 to the University of Florida to research sea-level changes during the last interglacial period. The project aims to better understand how quickly and how high sea levels rose during this warmer period, around 129,000 to 116,000 years ago, in order to improve future projections of sea-level rise and inform coastal planning efforts. The researchers will collect and analyze fossil...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $286,967 to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to conduct collaborative research on deciphering sea-level changes during the last interglacial period. The project aims to better constrain the sensitivity of ice sheets to future melting by examining fossil coral reefs and cave deposits in the Yucatan Peninsula, which preserve an exceptional record of sea-level...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $162,339 to Trustees of Boston College, doing business as Boston College, for a research project titled "Developing a 500 kyr Speleothem Growth History near the Southern Laurentide Ice Sheet Margin in New York State." The project will use speleothem (cave formation) data to determine if the Laurentide Ice Sheet advanced to near its Last Glacial Maximum extent during each of...
- This $234,972 National Science Foundation project grant, awarded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will fund research to develop new paleotemperature records for North America. The University of Michigan, in collaboration with the University of New Mexico, will analyze cave deposits known as speleothems collected from various caves across the continental U.S. Using clumped isotope and strontium isotope analyses on approximately 200 mg subsamples, the researchers aim to determine...
- This $200,000 National Science Foundation project grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research at the University of Michigan from September 2022 to August 2025 to investigate the importance of sea-level feedbacks in stabilizing marine-based ice sheets during retreat. The research will combine new late Pleistocene/Holocene relative sea-level data from Scotland with glacial isostatic adjustment models to understand sensitivity of the former Minch Ice Stream to local...
- This $732,120 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences will fund research into the effects of three-dimensional and non-Newtonian mantle viscosity on relative sea-level changes and deglaciation history since the Last Glacial Maximum approximately 26,000 years ago. The University of Colorado will deliver three key products under this award. First, the research team will further develop their open-source computational modeling package CITCOMSVE to more...
This $696,926 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) funds collaborative research between the University of New Mexico, University of South Florida, and Harvard University to advance understanding of global mean sea level variations and the relative contributions of polar ice sheets and glaciers. The researchers will use geological records preserved in coastal cave deposits to reconstruct global mean sea level history over the past 130,000 years from multiple locations. They will directly estimate past sea levels using phreatic overgrowths on speleothems, which form in partly submerged caves and provide precise indicators of local sea level changes. The project aims to analyze existing records and identify new cave sites to expand the archive. Through statistical and geophysical modeling combined with uranium-series dating and isotope analysis of samples, the team seeks to develop a near-continuous global mean sea level curve for warm climate intervals. Numerical simulations will also correct records for glacial isostatic adjustment impacts. The grant period is from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $348.5k | 6/27/22 |