Project Grant 2420483

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $312,259 to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) to conduct collaborative research on the last interglacial period approximately 130,000 to 115,000 years ago, when temperatures were naturally warmer than today. The project aims to better understand when and how much the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets melted during this period, as well as the climate conditions and ice dynamical processes that drove their mass loss. The research will involve a combination of fieldwork, laboratory analyses, and modeling to reconstruct past sea level, ice sheet, and climate histories. The resulting data products, including a comprehensive database of paleoclimate records and new sea-level records, will help improve predictions of future ice sheet change and contribute to international efforts informing policymakers on climate change through the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The project will also engage local researchers and communities to understand regional impacts of sea-level change. No sub-awards are planned under this grant, which has an award date of September 1, 2024 and an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2029.