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 $359,899 Project Grant was awarded on September 1, 2023 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences under the Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) program. The grant supports a collaborative research project between researchers at Vanderbilt University and other institutions to reconstruct climate variability in the southern Caribbean region using coral and speleothem (cave) paleoclimate proxy records. Key objectives include: Generating geochemical records of...
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 $749,164 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research to reconstruct climate linkages across the tropical oceans over the last millennium. The University of California, Santa Barbara will collaborate with researchers to produce records of tropical sea surface temperature variability using geochemistry from long-lived corals in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. Comparing multi-century coral data from these ocean basins...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $228,107 project grant to the Berkeley Geochronology Center to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: P2C2--WESTERN UNITED STATES HYDROCLIMATE DURING THE LAST INTERGLACIAL: DEVELOPING PROXY RECORDS AND USING MODEL INTERCOMPARISON TO GLIMPSE THE FUTURE." The three-year award, issued on September 1, 2021 under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will fund the development of proxy records and model intercomparison to study...
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...
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 awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support collaborative research to study climate variability in the central tropical Pacific over the last millennium. The project will assemble radiocarbon-dated coral samples from the central equatorial Pacific to reconstruct monthly records of sea surface temperature and salinity conditions during the Medieval Climate Anomaly (850-1300 CE) and the Little Ice Age (1400-1850...
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...
The National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences awarded $851,808 to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) for a project grant running from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025. The grant will support research analyzing tectonic degassing as a potential driver of the mid-Miocene climate transition approximately 14 million years ago, when the Earth experienced sustained cooling. Key products include new biomarker-based sea surface...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences awarded the Berkeley Geochronology Center (BGC), a non-profit organization, a $138,373 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to reconstruct southern Caribbean climate variability using coral and speleothem proxies. This 3-year grant, awarded on September 1, 2023, will support BGC's research to generate precisely dated records of local temperature and aridity from reef ecosystems and cave environments on the island of Curaçao. The goal is to better understand how Caribbean sea climates have varied over the past ~20,000 years and their role in mediating global climate change. The research will involve geochemical analyses, environmental monitoring, numerical modeling, and integration with other regional and global climate proxies. Broader impacts include disseminating findings through curriculum development and student training, including an exchange program for University of Curaçao students to work with the multi-institutional research team.