This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $1,078,024 will fund research to reconstruct climate linkages across the tropical oceans over the last millennium through May 2025. Under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences, the University of Michigan will produce new paleoclimate records of sea surface temperature using the geochemistry of long-lived corals from the tropical North Atlantic and western Indian Ocean....
This $482,354 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports a collaborative research project to study central tropical Pacific climate variability over the last millennium. The award, made on June 15, 2024, will fund the assembly and analysis of radiocarbon-dated ancient coral segments recovered from the central equatorial Pacific to reconstruct monthly records of seawater temperature and salinity conditions. The research aims to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $588,786 project grant under the Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (Columbia University) to develop replicated coral geochemical reconstructions to understand dynamics of the South Pacific Convergence Zone (SPCZ) in the context of climate change. The project aims to analyze temperature-sensitive elements preserved in coral cores from American Samoa, Fiji, and Tonga to reconstruct...
This NSF Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award of $396,820 to Brown University will be used to produce up to 20 new monthly-resolved records of sea-surface temperature and hydrological variability in the central tropical Pacific from 1800-1950 CE. The project will use oxygen isotope and trace element measurements in modern and fossil corals from Kiritimati Island to reconstruct this climate history. The research aims to improve understanding of long-term trends and variability in...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences Project Grant awarded $442,344 to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, to conduct research under the NSF's Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) program. The research aims to evaluate the emergence of an anthropogenic signal in the tropical Indo-Pacific region by leveraging long-term, seasonal coral data, instrumental observations, and climate model...
This Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to support collaborative research on reconstructing past climate variability in the Southern Caribbean region. The $146,581 award to Princeton University will fund a project that uses coral and speleothem (cave) carbonates as climate proxies to generate long-term records of local temperature and hydroclimate changes since the Last Glacial Maximum. The...
This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences totals $417,928 to fund research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: P2C2--CORAL PROXY AND CLIMATE MODEL COMPARISON TO UNDERSTAND CLIMATE VARIABILITY IN THE INTRA-AMERICAS SEA REGION." The research will be performed by Louisiana State University under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences to...
The National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences awarded a $561,018 project grant to the University of South Carolina under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct collaborative research examining three decades of foraminiferal assemblages in the Santa Barbara Basin. Over the three-year period from July 2022 to June 2025, the University will create a thirty-year record of planktic foraminifera abundances from stored samples collected in the Santa Barbara Basin, California....
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences program Project Grant, CFDA 47.050, provides $303,755 in funding to Georgia Tech Research Corporation to conduct collaborative research on reconstructing climate variability in the Southern Caribbean using coral and speleothem paleoclimate records. The 3-year project from September 2023 to August 2026 will generate high-resolution, precisely dated proxy records of temperature and hydroclimate from the arid Southern Caribbean region, which has...
This $415,924 federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050), will support collaborative research to investigate the large-scale dynamics of the tropical Indo-Pacific region during the Last Glacial Maximum. The project aims to reconstruct the tropical thermocline structure and wind patterns using ocean modeling and geochemical analysis of foraminifera sediment samples. This research will lead to a better understanding of how the...