Project Grant N629091712128

This $663,419 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs will fund research at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution investigating the role of coastal polynyas in modulating Antarctic marine-terminating glacier drawdown. The research will analyze observational data including ice-penetrating radar, radar and laser altimetry, and in situ hydrographic data in conjunction with ocean and ice sheet modeling to examine the interaction between polynya circulation and...

The National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs awarded a $660,800 project grant to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation to develop new models of glacier-ocean boundary layer interactions through laboratory experiments and numerical modeling. The award falls under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA #47.078), which supports basic research in the polar regions. Specifically, the grantee will conduct comprehensive laboratory experiments using laser-based techniques to gather...

This is a Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) in the amount of $104,749 on July 15, 2024. The grant will support a research project to study the collapsing ice and ocean ecosystem of Milne Fiord in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. The key activities under this grant include collecting in-situ hydrographic profiles and water samples across the Milne Fiord to better understand the spatial distribution of ocean forcing and glacial melting. These...

This Project Grant award of $231,050 from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) will fund research to investigate the mechanisms that relate ocean circulation in the open ocean to ice sheet melt in Antarctica. The primary objectives are to: 1) Quantify the pathways of Circumpolar Deep Water from its origin in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current to the Antarctic continental slope, and 2) Determine the physical mechanisms that govern the variability of these pathways. The...

This $254,639 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs, under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078), will fund research to advance paleoclimate reconstruction techniques using thin or disturbed ice core sections. The University of Washington will develop new instrumentation and data workflows at the National Science Foundation Ice Core Facility to investigate sub-centimeter chemical and physical variations in polar ice cores. Researchers will...

The National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs awarded a $543,728 project grant to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to support research understanding drivers of inert gas saturation in ice cores. The grant's objectives align with the Polar Programs CFDA #47.078 to strengthen fundamental polar region knowledge. Under the August 2021 through July 2024 award, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution researchers will conduct collaborative research with their international partners to...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs, under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078), provides $269,022 to support research aimed at improving ice shelf instability and breakup modeling. Specifically, the University of California, Los Angeles will develop a new component for the continental-scale Ice Sheet and Sea Level System Model to simulate surface meltwater-induced flexure, fracture, and large-scale ice shelf breakup. To achieve...

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 $304,752 National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs award will fund research to improve climate model simulations of sea ice physics and feedbacks through analysis of observations from the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate field campaign. The University of Washington will integrate spatially and temporally coordinated field observations with single column and global climate modeling to develop parameterizations that more accurately...

This $686,707 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will support research into the evolution of water mass transformation and overturning in the western Nordic Seas amid climate change. Over three years, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will apply theoretical modeling, high-resolution coupled ocean-atmosphere-ice modeling using the SKRIPS system, and analysis of observational data from the Resilient Northern Overturning in a Warming Climate...