Project Grant 2409327
- The National Science Foundation awarded a three-year, $338,836 Project Grant to the University of Colorado Boulder under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078). The grant will support collaborative research titled "Moving Beyond the Margins: Modeling Water Availability and Habitable Terrestrial Ecosystems in the Polar Desert of the McMurdo Dry Valleys." The research aims to strengthen fundamental understanding of the polar regions through expanding knowledge of water...
- This $184,750 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs, under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078), will support the Interdisciplinary Antarctic Earth Science Conference in 2022 and 2024. The Conference and associated planning workshop will bring together U.S. researchers from bio-, cryo-, geo- and atmospheric sciences conducting Antarctic research. Over a 2.5 day hybrid format, the Conference will facilitate collaboration and data sharing...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) will fund research to constrain biomass mobilization within and out of Lake Fryxell in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys during a period of unprecedented ice thinning. The $159,765 award, effective September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2024, will support the University of New Mexico's efforts to 1) understand how changing regional climate and seasonal loss of lake ice cover will affect...
- This $560,876 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs, under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078), will support collaborative research exploring interlinked physical, biological, and geochemical properties of seafloor sediments around Antarctica. Led by three early-career women principal investigators at the Colorado School of Mines, the research team will analyze archived marine sediment cores housed at Oregon State University to...
- This $776,963 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs, under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078), will fund collaborative research analyzing marine sediment cores from around Antarctica. Led by three early-career women principal investigators at the University of Virginia, the project team will leverage archived sediment cores housed at Oregon State University to examine physical, biological, and geochemical properties indicating past...
- 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...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded the University of California, Davis a $605,073 Project Grant under the Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) federal grant program to conduct research on the effects of environmental change on microbial self-organized patterns in Antarctic lakes. The 3-year project, running from March 2024 to February 2027, will advance understanding of the spatial structure and relationships of benthic microbial communities in Lake Vanda, Antarctica, and how they respond...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs awarded a $137,045 Project Grant to the University of Tennessee under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078) to conduct collaborative research investigating microbial degradation of complex organic matter in Antarctic benthic sediments from July 2022 to June 2025. The research aims to combine genomics methods with estimates of enzyme abundance and activity to determine rates of carbon degradation by microbes in...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) provides $525,000 to establish a Research Coordinating Network (RCN) focused on the Ross Sea Marine Protected Area (MPA) in Antarctica. The RCN aims to create an international, interdisciplinary network to support policy-relevant research and monitoring that could be implemented in other large-scale international MPAs. The award period is from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2029. The grant recipient...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs awarded a $132,303 project grant to Columbia University under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078). The grant will support collaborative research to improve understanding of past variability in glaciation in the Weddell Embayment and Antarctic Peninsula regions. Eleven investigators from seven U.S. institutions and Argentine collaborators will study sediment cores from the International Ocean Discovery Program as well...
This federal Project Grant award of $141,340.00 from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) will fund an international workshop on environmental stewardship of the McMurdo Dry Valleys region in Antarctica. The workshop aims to assess the efficacy of ongoing environmental practices, their influence on the environmental integrity of the region, and develop greater coordination among international Antarctic scientists and logisticians to update best practices for minimizing the impacts of human activity in the McMurdo Dry Valleys. Key topics to be addressed include aging infrastructure, the COVID-19 pandemic, increased tourism, and dynamic climate changes in the region. The award will support the convening of scientists, logistic contractors, and managers to make recommendations for future scientific, management, and logistical activities in the McMurdo Dry Valleys. The workshop will be the fifth in a series, building on prior workshops held in 1991, 1995, 1998, and 2016.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $141.3k | 4/5/24 |