Project Grant N000142412681

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078), supports a scientific study to observe and measure the ice-ocean interface at a glacier in Greenland. The $160,021 award to Trustees of Tufts College will deploy advanced optical fiber instruments to measure acoustic and temperature data and better understand the effects of sub-glacial melt and discharge on glacial calving. The project aims to generate novel measurements using...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) provides $335,701 to the University of Alaska Fairbanks to study how the ocean affects landfast sea ice, especially during the spring and autumn seasonal transitions, in Alaska's Arctic coastal communities. The research aims to improve forecasting and understanding of landfast ice breakup and freeze-up events, which are critical for safe hunting and travel activities. The project will collect ocean...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) Project Grant award of $497,704 to the University of Washington supports a collaborative research study called the "GREENFJORD-FIBER" project. The goal of this project is to use advanced instrumentation, including distributed temperature sensing (DTS) and distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) systems, to better understand how Greenlandic glaciers interact with the ocean, particularly the processes by which icebergs detach...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) supports collaborative research on physical processes during freeze-up of landfast ice along the coastal Alaskan Arctic region. The $497,749 award to the University of Washington will utilize observations from seafloor instruments, ships, and novel low-cost telemetered sensors to examine how waves, storms, and sediment interact during the fall freeze-up period. The goal is to improve predictions of...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs, under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078), provides $214,041 to the University of Washington from April 15, 2022 to March 31, 2024. The funding will support persistent measurements of surface waves in landfast ice using fiber optic telecommunication cables. Researchers will measure waves along a seafloor cable and with surface buoys over week-long periods in spring, summer, and fall of 2022....

This $204,278 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) will support research by the University of Chicago to investigate how Arctic sea ice attenuation affects ocean swell, microseisms, and the potential to use seismology as a method for observing sea ice conditions. The key activities include: Analyzing seismic data from stations along the northern coasts of Alaska, Canada, and Greenland to detect seasonal and annual changes in microseisms as a...

This $705,367 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) will support a collaborative research project investigating the physical feedbacks in the coastal Alaskan Arctic during the landfast ice freeze-up period. The research will utilize a variety of instruments, including moorings, autonomous systems, and seafloor cables, to capture the spatial and temporal variability in the freeze-up processes along the Alaskan Beaufort shelf. The project...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $379,007 Project Grant under its Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) to Oregon State University (OSU). The 3-year grant, which runs from May 1, 2024 to April 30, 2027, will fund collaborative research to study physical feedbacks in the coastal Alaskan Arctic during the landfast ice freeze-up period. The research aims to better understand how waves, storms, and sediment interact during the fall freeze-up in the region, which has experienced rapid...

This Project Grant award of $317,795 from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) supports research by the Colorado School of Mines to disentangle the internal and basal processes that influence ice sheet flow and contribute to sea-level rise. The project combines satellite remote sensing data with ice-penetrating radar observations to partition the contributions of internal and basal friction within the ice sheet. Key efforts include developing open-source...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant, awarded to the University of Wisconsin-Madison on August 1, 2024, provides $201,306 in funding over 3 years for a collaborative research project investigating seismic hazards along the Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone. The project aims to combine data from a traditional land-based broadband seismic deployment and a distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) experiment along the Cook Inlet in Alaska to model the...