Project Grant 2202818

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences, under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050), provides $726,244 to Rutgers, The State University for research correcting seasonal biases in sea surface temperature proxies. The research aims to improve paleoceanographic reconstructions by developing approaches to extract seasonal and mean annual temperature records from proxies. It will test these approaches in climate models under different forcings like greenhouse gases and ice sheets. The work will also produce new paired foraminifera-magnesium/calcium and alkenone sea surface temperature records from seven locations during the Holocene, Last Interglacial, and Marine Isotope Stage 9. This will explore stability of biases and drivers of seasonal and mean climate change across warm interglacials. The funding supports the project from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025.