This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050), supports research to investigate the response of primary production, dissolved oxygen, and carbon in the global oceans to anthropogenic climate change. The project, awarded to Middlebury College, will quantitatively analyze sedimentary biomarkers to reconstruct past changes in ocean biogeochemistry over the last two glacial-interglacial cycles. The $106,573 award, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2026, will generate new data to refine climate models and improve understanding of carbon cycle dynamics. This research also broadens participation in the Earth sciences by providing research and professional development opportunities for an early career investigator and an undergraduate student from an underrepresented background, and by supporting K-12 student engagement through an educational outreach program.
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