This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050), aims to reconstruct rainfall intensity and variability in mainland Southeast Asia over the last 200,000 years. The $476,878 project, with a performance period from August 1, 2025 to July 31, 2028, will use geochemical measurements of cave deposits from Laos and Vietnam to understand the mechanisms driving variability in the Asian Summer Monsoon and Asian Winter Monsoon. The research,...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will provide $289,672.00 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to reconstruct rainfall intensity and variability in mainland Southeast Asia over the last 200,000 years. The project will use geochemical measurements of cave deposits from Laos and Vietnam, along with climate model simulations, to improve understanding of the mechanisms driving variability in the Asian Summer Monsoon and...
This $495,062 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will fund research examining interpretations of the oxygen isotopic composition of Asian cave calcite at abrupt, millennial, and orbital timescales. Specifically, the grantee will further explore the previously constructed 640,000-year high-resolution record of oxygen isotopic composition in Chinese cave calcite affected by the Asian monsoon...
This $146,700 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports a collaborative research project to synthesize existing tree-ring proxy data in Southeast Asia and compare it to paleo-streamflow estimates generated by a hydrological model. The goal is to create a seasonal-resolution paleo-streamflow reconstruction for the region and illuminate the mechanisms driving observed streamflow dynamics. The project includes support for two early...
This National Science Foundation project grant award of $327,974 provides funding from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2025 to Purdue University under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The award will support collaborative research between US and UK researchers to reconstruct a high-resolution record of the South Asian monsoon over the past 20 million years. Modeling studies will help interpret the records to better understand variability and future changes in the crucial monsoon...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will provide $417,242 to The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (RF-SUNY) from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026 to conduct collaborative research on the 50,000-year history of the Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM). The research will focus on analyzing sediment cores from Loktak Lake in northeast India to reconstruct past changes in the...
This two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences provides $190,000 to leverage high-resolution modeling and dynamical theory to elucidate changes in extreme precipitation in a monsoonal regime. The funding will support basic research from October 2021 through September 2023 aimed at strengthening understanding of the integrated Earth system, as outlined in the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) of enhancing fundamental knowledge and...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $119,293 to James Madison University for collaborative research on quantitative paleoclimatology of the East African monsoon from August 15, 2021 to July 31, 2024. The grant supports basic research to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through expanded knowledge of atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Specifically, the university will conduct collaborative research to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $101,087 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Illinois for a collaborative research project titled "Ultra-High Resolution Paleostreamflow in Southeast Asia--Proxy/Model Comparison". The goal of this 2-year project, with a performance period from October 1, 2024 to December 31, 2026, is to synthesize existing tree-ring proxy data to create a seasonal-resolution paleo-streamflow reconstruction for...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $526,171 to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF-SUNY) to develop an isotope-enabled data assimilation system for studying the South American summer monsoon over the last millennium. The key objectives are to: 1) quantify the spatiotemporal characteristics of the South American summer monsoon and its relationship with the Atlantic Intertropical Convergence Zone...