This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $374,918 to The Regents of the University of Colorado to investigate the role of fjords in the global carbon cycle. The research aims to quantify the amount of organic carbon stored in Iceland's fjord systems and reconstruct past variations in organic carbon burial, climate, and redox conditions to decipher the controls on warm period carbon storage. The team will use a range of geochemical proxies and lipid biomarkers from sediment cores to improve understanding of how carbon storage in fjords may change in a warmer world. This research will benefit the scientific community by providing new data on carbon cycling in fjordic systems, a critical component of climate change research. The project also includes educational and outreach activities to broaden participation in Colorado and Iceland.
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