This $325,213 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York will investigate the role of meltwater in governing the geophysical properties of deforming icy systems. The project aims to create new flow laws that explicitly incorporate the effects of meltwater on ice flow, which is a key factor in modeling glacial mass loss and sea level rise. The research will employ...
This $354,576 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) will fund a postdoctoral research project at Cornell University to investigate the potential impacts of brine firn aquifers on the stability of Antarctic ice shelves. The project aims to: (1) map the extent of brine aquifers across Antarctic ice shelves using airborne ice-penetrating radar data; (2) estimate the liquid water volume in these aquifers; (3) determine how seawater infiltrates the...
The National Science Foundation's Division of Polar Programs awarded a $899,856 project grant to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, on August 15, 2023. The funding supports a collaborative U.S./U.K. research project investigating the direct influence of meltwater on the dynamics of the Antarctic ice sheet. The key activities include a field campaign on Flade Glacier and a continent-wide remote sensing survey to test hypotheses related to how surface meltwater reaching...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs, under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078), provides $269,022 to support research aimed at improving ice shelf instability and breakup modeling. Specifically, the University of California, Los Angeles will develop a new component for the continental-scale Ice Sheet and Sea Level System Model to simulate surface meltwater-induced flexure, fracture, and large-scale ice shelf breakup. To achieve...
The National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs awarded a $176,184 Project Grant to the Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines, doing business as the Colorado School of Mines, to conduct collaborative research on improving projections of future Antarctic sea level rise. The key products and services under this CFDA 47.078 Polar Programs grant include: Integrating paleoglaciological observations from the Holocene period into an advanced ice sheet model (BISICLES) to establish the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences awarded a $750,000 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Colorado (UC Boulder) to study the groundwater connection between melting glaciers and mountain streams under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The project will characterize two glaciated watersheds in Colorado and Montana, analyze relevant environmental data, and conduct numerical modeling to understand how glacier meltwater affects aquifer...
This $362,718 National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs Project Grant will support research to improve model representations of Antarctic ice-shelf instability and break-up due to surface meltwater processes. The Regents of the University of Colorado will receive funding from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2025 to develop a new component for the continental-scale Ice-Sheet and Sea-Level System Model (ISSM) capable of simulating surface meltwater-induced flexure, fracture,...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs, under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078), provides $371,742 to the University of Washington from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2025. The funding will support development of a new modeling component for the continental-scale Ice Sheet and Sea Level System Model (ISSM). This new component aims to simulate surface meltwater-induced flexure, fracture, and large-scale ice shelf break-up in...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $126,121 Project Grant under the Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) to The Regents of the University of Colorado (CU) for a 3-year collaborative research project to study temporal variations in glacial and subglacial structures of Antarctica. The project aims to leverage existing seismic data to better understand how the physical properties of the Antarctic ice sheet change over time, including seasonal variations in subglacial hydrological systems....
This $452,989 National Science Foundation (NSF) award, funded through the Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) grant program, supports a collaborative research project to investigate the disappearance of the Laurentide Ice Sheet over the last 20,000+ years. The researchers at Columbia University will use a state-of-the-art ice sheet and sea-level model to simulate the complete retreat of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, which once covered much of North America. This research aims to better understand the...