This $179,700 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) will support the Distributed Biological Observatory (DBO) - a long-term collaborative research effort to observe changes in the Pacific Arctic region. The award to Trustees of Clark University will fund an array of strategies, including shipboard, autonomous, laboratory, and satellite platforms, to collect data on environmental conditions and biological communities across five transect lines...
The National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs awarded a $612,747 Project Grant to the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science under the Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) federal grant program. The grant will fund synthesis of marine time series data to detect, understand, and predict benthic community responses to rapid Arctic warming from 2023 to 2026. Specifically, the award will support analysis of multi-decadal biological and physical observation time series collected...
The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), awarded a $1,159,178 Project Grant to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to establish a year-round long-term observational program studying phytoplankton populations, hydrography, and nutrient concentrations in the waters around Kotzebue, Alaska. This community-based research effort will measure water column characteristics and phytoplankton at six sites during the ice-free season and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) Project Grant award of $358,622 to the University of Illinois from March 1, 2024 to February 28, 2026 aims to characterize the evolution of proteins that integrate signals of warming, changing pH, and oxidation in the sensory systems of three species of Arctic and sub-Arctic fish. The research will provide insight into the sensitivity and responses of these fish to climate change through the generation and analysis of...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences provides $335,468 to Princeton University from December 2021 through November 2023. The funding supports research titled "Quantifying the Chukchi Sea's Role in Modulating Present and Future Changes of Pacific Waters in the Arctic" under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The Geosciences program aims to expand fundamental Earth systems knowledge through basic research support. This award will...
This Project Grant award, worth $905,118, was provided by the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs under CFDA Program 47.078 to the University of Rhode Island Research Office. The funding will support a collaborative research project examining how the chemistry of fossil diatoms (a type of plankton) can be used as proxies to reconstruct past changes in ocean nutrients and biological productivity, which are linked to global climate change. The research will involve field...
This $194,921 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) will fund collaborative research to constrain and understand regional modes of variability in the Atlantic Arctic over the next two years. The overarching goal is to quantitatively study climate patterns and their long-term changes in the Atlantic Arctic and sub-Arctic regions using a variety of data sources, including meteorological measurements, historical observations, and climate...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) provides $160,021 to Trustees of Tufts College to conduct a collaborative research study titled "GreenFjord-Fiber: Observing the Ice-Ocean Interface with Exceptional Resolution." The project aims to use advanced measurement techniques, including distributed temperature sensing (DTS) and distributed acoustic sensing (DAS), to better understand how Greenlandic glaciers are changing...
This $358,499 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will fund research to understand the impact of warming on the structure and function of marine communities in the Northwest Atlantic Shelf region, including the Gulf of Maine and Mid-Atlantic Bight. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, through its Office of Sponsored Research, will characterize the composition and features of plankton and fish...
This $879,520 National Science Foundation award through the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) funds a collaborative research project examining the implications of rapid Arctic change for fisheries and fishing communities in the western North Atlantic. Led by the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, the project builds a network to develop a climate vulnerability assessment and predictive models evaluating how changes in the Arctic cryosphere and ocean circulation affect ecosystem and fishery...