This $1,006,501 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will support a collaborative research effort to understand the processes that shape climate and biotic recovery following major carbon cycle perturbations driven by large igneous province volcanism. The project aims to develop high-resolution records of volcanism, climate, and weathering, and to integrate these with models of mantle geodynamics, magma transport, and outgassing....
This $162,061 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Directorate for Geosciences (CFDA 47.050 - Geosciences) to The Trustees of Princeton University to conduct a collaborative, multi-disciplinary research effort. The project aims to investigate the processes that shape climate and biotic recovery following major carbon cycle perturbations caused by large igneous province volcanism events. Key objectives include developing high-resolution records of volcanism and...
This $304,716 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will support a collaborative research effort between U.S. and U.K. institutions to study the effects of large igneous province volcanism on climate and environmental recovery. The University of California, Davis is the primary grantee, with no planned sub-awards. The project aims to develop high-resolution records of volcanism, climate, and weathering, as well as coupling models of mantle...
This $303,642 National Science Foundation project grant will fund research to quantify global carbon cycle feedbacks during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, a past period of global warming. Led by the University of California Santa Cruz, the research team will measure how volcanism contributed to atmospheric carbon dioxide rise during this event and constrain total carbon emissions through new ocean acidification records. They will also develop novel carbon cycle modeling to compare...
This $494,982 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports a multidisciplinary research effort to reexamine the precursory activity leading up to the catastrophic Mount Mazama eruption in Oregon approximately 7,700 years ago. The research team, led by the University of Oregon, will track changes in the chemistry and physical properties of the magmatic system over time by analyzing ash, pumice, and lava samples from the precursor...
The National Science Foundation awarded a two-year Project Grant of $174,000 to researchers at the California Institute of Technology to develop a new technique for determining eruption timescales applied to Large Igneous Provinces and climatic events over Earth's history. The grant is part of the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Researchers will receive funding from...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), provides $493,422 over 3 years to The Trustees of Columbia University for a collaborative research project to diagnose global climatic responses to large volcanic eruptions. The key products or services to be delivered through this funding include: Providing proxy-based global estimates of spatiotemporal changes in temperature and...
This National Science Foundation Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) project grant award of $292,742 to the University of Houston System will fund collaborative research to re-evaluate magma storage depths and the origin of chemical variability in volcanic systems in the Cascade region. The key products of this 3-year project include: Measuring the volatile contents, including CO2, in olivine-hosted melt inclusions to better constrain magma storage depths in the Cascade region and gain insights into...
The University of Oregon was awarded a $308,426 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will support collaborative research investigating the role of topography and magma properties on dike pathways beneath stratovolcanoes. Researchers will utilize field data, analogue experiments, and modeling to further the understanding of integrated Earth system processes. The grant period is...
This $429,298 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports collaborative research to develop an integrated framework for understanding the Devonian mass extinctions and their impact on Earth's climate and biosphere. The key products and services to be delivered under this grant include: Establishing a new integrated geologic framework that links late Devonian mass extinctions to the expansion of anoxic conditions in epeiric seas across...
This $597,328 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports a collaborative, multi-disciplinary research effort to investigate the long-term impacts of large igneous province volcanism on climate and biological recovery. Key objectives include: 1) developing high-resolution records of volcanism, weathering, climate, and life; 2) modeling the coupled processes of mantle dynamics, magma transport, and volcanic outgassing; 3) assimilating these data into climate-biogeochemical modeling to constrain volcanic carbon dioxide fluxes; and 4) integrating paleobiological data to understand the factors shaping post-event recovery. The project leverages field observations and data from three major large igneous province events to test the hypothesis that cryptic degassing of carbon dioxide, rather than just eruption rates, is a key control on recovery. The University of Oregon is the primary grantee, with no sub-awards planned.