The National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences awarded $636,362 under the Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) federal grant program to the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. The three-year project grant will support laboratory experiments and theoretical modeling to better understand the mechanisms and rates of calcium carbonate dissolution in seawater. Specifically, the principal investigators and graduate student will conduct controlled experiments varying saturation...
This $374,395 National Science Foundation project grant through the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research at Rutgers University and Princeton University from December 2022 through November 2024. The grant supports the identification of silicate diagenesis processes controlling pore fluid chemistry in marine sediments and their influence on the geochemical budgets of magnesium, strontium, lithium, and boron through analysis of pore fluid samples from the Mid-Norwegian Margin....
This $442,114 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will fund collaborative research to determine changes in pelagic ecosystem function and their impact on the carbon cycle from the Eocene to Oligocene periods (56-33.9 million years ago). The research will reconstruct changes in the South Atlantic subtropical gyre ecosystem and evaluate how these changes affected carbonate production and preservation at the seafloor. Key objectives include...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $652,604 project grant to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) for research titled "Collaborative Research: Glacial Deep Pacific Carbon Storage and Effects on CacO3 Preservation" from June 1, 2021 to May 31, 2024. The grant will support research into glacial deep Pacific carbon storage and its effects on calcium carbonate preservation. The Geosciences program seeks to expand fundamental...
This $174,000 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences will fund research to advance understanding of carbonate diagenesis using the triple oxygen isotope system. The grant was awarded on February 1, 2021 under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) with completion by January 31, 2023. The Geosciences program aims to strengthen fundamental earth science knowledge and understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research support in...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences awarded a $802,309 project grant to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York, doing business as Stony Brook University, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). This grant will fund a 3-year research project to advance the understanding and quantitative modeling of how complex patterns of oxidation-reduction and acid-base reactions within the bioturbated zone of ocean sediments impact biogeochemical...
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution was awarded a two-year, $280,414 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will support research to synthesize and re-evaluate existing coral-based reconstructions of surface ocean pH over the last 300 years. The Geosciences program aims to expand fundamental knowledge of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. The products of this funding...
This $300,785 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports a research project to characterize the chemical composition and bioavailability of dissolved organic matter released by marine nitrifying microorganisms. The project aims to determine how this material contributes to carbon cycling in the deep ocean, which may help improve biogeochemical models and inform potential marine carbon dioxide removal activities. The research will...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $448,935 Project Grant to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for research investigating the source and flux of dissolved organic carbon released from methane seeps to the deep ocean. The three-year award, made under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will support collaborative research from April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2024. The Geosciences program seeks to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in...
This three-year, $564,168 National Science Foundation project grant supports research exploring the impacts of altered seawater chemistry on calcification and behavior in coastal invertebrates. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the award will allow the University of California, Davis to investigate the responses of mussels and snails to decoupled components of the seawater carbonate system. The research aims to disentangle the drivers influencing calcification and behavioral...