Project Grant 80NSSC25K8004

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $100,000.00 to the Regents of the University of Michigan to conduct collaborative research on the oxidation of planetary mantles and its relation to planetary habitability. The key objectives are to study how iron redox reactions in magma oceans during the early formation of rocky planets, like Earth, can lead to...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support research to investigate the behavior of moderately volatile elements during silicate evaporation, such as in tektites and volcanic glass from the moon. The $376,781 award to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has an expected completion date of December 31, 2027. The research aims to create a volatility scale ranking how easily different trace elements evaporate, and...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $101,004 Project Grant under the Science Mission Directorate (CFDA 43.001) to the Berkeley Geochronology Center, a non-profit research institution, for a project titled "Stable Neon and Argon Isotope Constraints on Past Atmospheric Pressures on Mars". The award, effective from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027, will support research aimed at studying Earth's geological and climate history through the analysis of...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050), provides $263,928 to fund collaborative research involving novel sampling and isotopic characterization of upper stratospheric to mesospheric photochemistry. Specifically, the award supports experimentation with a zero-carbon emission rocket to obtain air samples from the mesosphere at 37km and 70km altitudes. Four atmospheric samples...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $248,863 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for research entitled "Collaborative Research: Ear Climate - Pairing Calcium and Clumped Isotopes to Inform Carbon Cycle and Climate Dynamics at the Onset of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age." The research will develop novel isotope proxies to understand the role of land plant evolution on organic carbon burial, atmospheric carbon dioxide,...

This Project Grant award, valued at $281,066.00 and spanning from December 1, 2024 to November 30, 2026, was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. The primary objective of this award is to precisely quantify the carbon content and isotopic signature (δ13C) in the Earth's upper mantle. The research will involve two key activities: 1) conducting high-pressure/high-temperature experiments...

The Regents of the University of Minnesota, through its Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, received a $286,561 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The award, entitled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: GLOW: IRON REDOX REACTIONS IN MAGMA OCEANS AND DIFFERENTIATION OF ROCKY PLANETS," will support experiments to study how planets become habitable through mantle oxidation during the...

This Project Grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the Science Mission Directorate Federal Grant Program (CFDA 43.001) provides $196,368.00 to Northern Arizona University (NAU) to investigate the compositional, thermophysical, and geological variabilities of ancient volcanic materials on Mars. The award period runs from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027. The objectives of this research are to expand scientific knowledge through new discoveries using a...

This $523,946 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research linking helium isotope ratios with eruptive behavior at recent volcanoes in Hawaii, Iceland, and the Canary Islands. The awardee, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, will extract helium from lava samples spanning eruptions at Kilauea volcano (2018), Fagradalsfjall volcano (2021), and Cumbre Vieja volcano (2021) to establish time series of helium isotope ratios. The researchers...

This $340,199 Project Grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center under the Science Mission Directorate (CFDA 43.001) Federal Grant Program. The grant was awarded to Aeolis Research Inc., a for-profit research company in Chandler, Arizona, to conduct research on "Modeling Contaminant Transport to Mars Special Regions" from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2027. The research project aims to advance scientific understanding of...