Project Grant 2503978
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $183,561 to The Regents of the University of Colorado for the "Collaborative Research: Orbital Forcing of Andean Hydroclimate from the Legacy Drill Cores of Lake Titicaca" research project. The research aims to analyze sediment cores from Lake Titicaca in South America to reconstruct past climate conditions and water resource availability in the Andes region over the...
- The University of Pittsburgh received a $397,549 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences on July 15, 2021 to develop a 700,000-year record of tropical precipitation, evaporation, and temperature from Lake Junin sediments and regional speleothems. The funding supports basic research under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to expand understanding of the integrated Earth system through atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences research....
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $826,537 Project Grant under the Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) program to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin). The grant, titled "Collaborative Research: Connecting the Past, Present, and Future Climate of the Lake Victoria Basin Using High-Resolution Coupled Modeling", aims to investigate the role of Lake Victoria in the climate change over the surrounding basin. The research project involves using a nested climate modeling...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports a research project to understand tropical rainfall patterns in northern South America during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs. The $349,971 award to Brown University will fund measurements of chemical signals in a sediment core to reconstruct past rainfall, which will provide insights into the hydrological cycle during times of sustained global warmth similar to projected...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $542,834 Project Grant to the University of Arizona under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct collaborative research reconstructing Southern Rocky Mountains warm season temperatures over the past 2,000 years. The research aims to develop a temperature reconstruction using bristlecone pine from the Rio Grande headwaters region, augmented with updated hydroclimate reconstructions, to evaluate long-term regional temperature and hydroclimate...
- The Regents of the University of Minnesota received a $142,947 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences on July 15, 2021 to support research investigating inter-hemispheric phasing of tropical Andean hydroclimate in response to Holocene orbital forcing. The grant will fund a collaborative research project through June 30, 2024 examining how changes in the Earth's orbit and axis have impacted tropical South American climate over the past 12,000 years....
- This $289,672 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will support collaborative research to reconstruct rainfall intensity and variability in mainland Southeast Asia over the past 200,000 years. The research team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will analyze geochemical data from cave deposits in Laos and Vietnam, along with climate model simulations, to understand the mechanisms driving changes in the Asian Summer...
- This National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) totaling $322,038 will support research to generate temperature, precipitation and vegetation records spanning the past 13,600 years from Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan. The University of Massachusetts Amherst will conduct a multi-proxy organic geochemical study of the lake's sediment cores to test hypotheses about past climate variability in arid Central Asia. Specifically, the awardee will produce...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $192,386 Project Grant through its Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Arizona for a 3-year collaborative research project to reconstruct tropical rainfall patterns over the last 200 years. The project aims to use stable oxygen isotopes measured in tree ring cellulose from sites across Central and South America to study variations in the position and width of the Intertropical Convergence Zone and understand how these changes...
- This National Science Foundation Geosciences program Project Grant award to Purdue University, totaling $138,645, supports the collection and analysis of rainwater samples from the western slopes of the Peruvian Andes. The goal is to measure the isotopic composition of the water to determine the source regions and travel pathways of moisture that feeds the South American summer monsoon, particularly during the strong 2023-2024 El Niño event. This research is expected to improve understanding...
This Project Grant award of $519,887.00 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research at the University of Texas at Austin to analyze sediment cores from Lake Titicaca in the Andes region of South America. The goal is to develop a 370,000-year record of precipitation, isotopes, temperature, and lake levels to understand how the regional environment has changed and the long-term availability of water resources in the Andes. The research will use geochemical and isotopic signals preserved in the sediments, combined with computer model simulations and AI-assisted methods, to reconstruct environmental responses to past climate shifts. This work aims to help regional planners and communities better understand and address future risks to water resources in the Andes, with findings to be shared through a bilingual website, public presentations, and open access to all data and models.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $519.9k | 8/14/25 |