Project Grant 2503665
- 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 $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 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...
- 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,...
- The University of California Santa Cruz received a three-year, $395,376 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will fund research into the intensification of the hydrologic cycle during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum period through the completion date of June 30, 2024. As described under the Geosciences program, the funding will support basic research to expand understanding of the...
- 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 $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...
- 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...
- 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...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences awarded a $561,018 project grant to the University of South Carolina under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct collaborative research examining three decades of foraminiferal assemblages in the Santa Barbara Basin. Over the three-year period from July 2022 to June 2025, the University will create a thirty-year record of planktic foraminifera abundances from stored samples collected in the Santa Barbara Basin, California....
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 simulations from an ocean model. This work will advance the understanding of how the intensity of past ENSO events is recorded in coral oxygen isotope values, enabling better inference of ENSO-related hydrologic anomalies from this data. The project period runs from August 1, 2025 to July 31, 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $382.5k | 8/4/25 |