The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology awarded Chapman University a $106,449 project grant under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) federal grant program to study the cycling of dissolved organic matter in blue carbon ecosystems. The research will focus on measuring the amount and composition of dissolved organic matter flowing out of salt marshes and eelgrass beds in Padilla Bay, Washington, to better understand the role of these ecosystems in coastal...
The University of Washington was awarded a $685,684 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences to support the research project "BEYOND SALT: EFFECTS OF ESTUARINE CIRCULATION AND MIXING TIMESCALES ON BIOGEOCHEMISTRY." The grant period runs from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2024. The funding supports basic research within the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA #47.050), which aims to expand understanding of the integrated Earth system through...
This $499,225 National Science Foundation award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund a collaborative research project between Old Dominion University Research Foundation and the United States Department of Geological Survey to decipher drivers and variability in salt marsh lateral carbon export. Over three years, the researchers will investigate how elevation within the tidal frame influences dissolved inorganic carbon, total alkalinity, and dissolved organic carbon export...
This three-year, $489,998 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences aims to advance understanding of lateral carbon export from salt marshes. Under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research in the atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will investigate drivers of dissolved inorganic carbon, dissolved organic carbon, and total alkalinity fluxes across six New England marsh sites. Researchers...
This $177,268 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology, under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074), will fund research at Washington State University from January 2023 through December 2025. The research aims to better understand the role of trees in the global water and methane cycles by simultaneously measuring radon, methane, and water fluxes across a wetland-upland gradient. Field data will be used to develop numerical...
The University of Washington was awarded a $290,149 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences. The grant supports the research project "Ecological Consequences of Seawater Chemistry Modification by Ecosystem Engineers" being conducted from September 2021 through August 2023 in Friday Harbor, Washington. The project aims to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in ocean sciences, as outlined in the NSF's...
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...
The National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems awarded a $392,981 Project Grant to the University of Washington's Office of Sponsored Programs for the research project "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: IMAGINE: QUANTIFYING DIATOM RESILIENCE IN AN ACIDIFIED OCEAN." The three-year award, issued on June 15, 2021 with a projected completion date of May 31, 2024, will fund research under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The Biological Sciences program aims...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Award under the Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports fundamental research to characterize the physiological and environmental cycling of abundant osmolytes, which are small carbon-containing molecules produced by marine microorganisms. The $519,767 award to the University of North Carolina at Wilmington aims to quantify how environmental conditions, such as nutrient availability and temperature, impact the abundances and cycling rates of these...