Project Grant 2503664
- The University of California, Santa Barbara received a $382,468 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct collaborative research on the hydrologic expression of the El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in the tropical Pacific Ocean. The researchers will create a detailed map or "isoscape" showing how oxygen isotope values in seawater and rainfall vary across the modern tropical Pacific during ENSO events, and couple this with...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award of $230,326 to Brown University supports collaborative research to improve understanding of how the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is recorded in oxygen isotope data from tropical Pacific Ocean corals. The researchers will create detailed maps of oxygen isotope variations in seawater and rainfall across the tropical Pacific during ENSO events, which will be coupled with ocean model simulations. This...
- This $332,944 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research at Rowan University from September 2022 through August 2025 to study how the spatial patterns of El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) variability changed during colder background climate conditions approximately 20,000 years ago. The grantee will analyze geochemistry from planktic foraminifera shells collected from sediment cores at key locations in the central and eastern...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $1,227,787 Project Grant under its Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Texas at Austin to reconstruct changes in El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and tropical Pacific decadal variability over time periods such as the last glacial period and deglaciation. The project will utilize fossil corals and speleothems from locations in the South Pacific to generate paleoclimate records, which will be compared to climate model simulations to...
- This $440,785 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research at the University of Miami to model how El Niño-Southern Oscillation patterns may change under future climate conditions and how those changes could alter related terrestrial impacts across North America. Over a three-year period ending in October 2025, the grantee will use sophisticated computer simulations to systematically test scenarios of potential ENSO variability and...
- This $749,164 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research to reconstruct climate linkages across the tropical oceans over the last millennium. The University of California, Santa Barbara will collaborate with researchers to produce records of tropical sea surface temperature variability using geochemistry from long-lived corals in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. Comparing multi-century coral data from these ocean basins...
- This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050), supports research to explore the dynamics and predictability of coastal El Niño events and their relationship to the broader El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon. The $644,460 award, which commenced on June 1, 2024, will be led by the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The research investigates the underlying mechanisms driving coastal El Niño events, which can cause heavy...
- This $415,924 federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050), will support collaborative research to investigate the large-scale dynamics of the tropical Indo-Pacific region during the Last Glacial Maximum. The project aims to reconstruct the tropical thermocline structure and wind patterns using ocean modeling and geochemical analysis of foraminifera sediment samples. This research will lead to a better understanding of how the...
- The University of California Irvine received a three-year, $814,240 National Science Foundation project grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct research understanding the multi-year dynamics of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), including its El Niño and La Niña asymmetries and climate impacts from September 2021 through August 2024. As part of the Geosciences program's goal of expanding fundamental knowledge of the integrated Earth system through atmospheric, earth,...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences Project Grant awarded $442,344 to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, to conduct research under the NSF's Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) program. The research aims to evaluate the emergence of an anthropogenic signal in the tropical Indo-Pacific region by leveraging long-term, seasonal coral data, instrumental observations, and climate model...
This $363,235 Project Grant was awarded on August 1, 2025 by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Illinois. The grant supports a collaborative research project to investigate the hydrologic expression of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in the tropical Pacific Ocean. The research aims to create a detailed "isoscape" mapping oxygen isotope values in seawater and rainfall across the modern tropical Pacific during ENSO events. This will be coupled with ocean model simulations to better understand how the intensity of past ENSO events is recorded in coral oxygen isotope data. The ultimate goal is to advance the scientific community's ability to infer ENSO-related hydrologic anomalies from oxygen isotope data in the tropical Pacific. The research combines analysis of rain/seawater, climate models, and fossil coral data to address this scientific question. The University of Illinois, as the primary awardee, has extensive experience in federal research contracts and grants across multiple scientific domains.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $363.2k | 8/4/25 |