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Recent meteorological data clearly demonstrate that Dome A is the highest, driest, and coldest site on the plateau, which directly translates into the best atmospheric transmission in the far-infrared and submillimeter atmospheric windows. Indeed, Dome A is likely the only site on Earth where the crucial 1.9 THz window becomes accessible for any length of time. Optimized for operation from Dome A, HEAT can routinely access one of the least explored regions of the electromagnetic spectrum and provide new, fundamental knowledge about the distribution and state of matter in the Galaxy. The high degree of automation within HEAT may significantly reduce operation costs and increase efficiency. To succeed, HEAT must be robust and capable of remote, low-power, operation for a year at a time. In many ways HEAT is more like a space-based observatory than a ground-based one. HEAT is an IPY Joint Committee approved, multi-national project, with contributions from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), the Space Research Organization of the Netherlands (SRON), the University of Cologne, as well as NASA and several U.S. universities. The funds are requested to perform a detailed design, cost, and logistical study of the HEAT project. A comprehensive report will be produced and presented to the NSF upon completion of the study.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5438", "attributes": { "award_id": "0542797", "title": "Malpighian Tubule Transport Physiology: Mechanism and Regulation", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Biological Sciences (BIO)", "Physiolgcl Mechnsms&Biomechnsm" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 18986, "first_name": "Steven", "last_name": "Ellis", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2006-02-15", "end_date": "2013-01-31", "award_amount": 650000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18987, "first_name": "Klaus", "last_name": "Beyenbach", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 1408, "ror": "", "name": "Cornell Univ - State: AWDS MADE PRIOR MAY 2010", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 1408, "ror": "", "name": "Cornell Univ - State: AWDS MADE PRIOR MAY 2010", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This proposal aims to bring genetics, molecular biology and classical physiology to bear on questions of epithelial transport in Malpighian tubules, the kidneys of insects. Studies of adult mosquito Malpighian tubules in the lab of the principal investigator Beyenbach have uncovered new transport phenomena that stimulate research of epithelial transport in biological systems beyond insects. For example, his finding in Malpighian tubules of a) the energizing of diverse epithelial transport systems with the V-type H+ ATPase and not the Na/K ATPase, b) the channel-like behavior of septate (tight) junctions, and c) the rapid regulation of paracellular permeability in the astonishing time domain of seconds, are motivating searches for similar phenomena in vertebrate tissues. The present proposal is a logical extension of the above findings. Hypothesis-driven experiments promise to discover new transport systems while exploring new ideas in transport physiology. In Aim 1, the functional characterization of NHE8 (a Na-H transport protein) he has already cloned in Aedes Malpighian tubules may uncover the first electrogenic Na/H exchanger in any tissue, vertebrate or invertebrate. Aim 2 applies proteomics and highly sensitive mass spec methods with the promise of identifying not only NHE8 but also new proteins, and potentially important new transporters in the apical membrane of the adult Malpighian tubule. In Aim 3 he seeks to a) identify gap junctions, b) determine size and charge selectivity, c) explore the role of gap junctions in cell-to-cell transmission of Ca2+ waves that may mediate the signal transduction of leucokinin, and d) test the novel idea of the metabolic regulation of gap junctions. Three collaborators with an international reputation in molecular biology (Wieczorek), intracellular Ca2+ imaging (Walz), and proteomics (Schooley) have committed their labs to the success of this project. What has motivated this collaboration is the deep understanding that derives from illuminating important research questions from diverse perspectives. \n\nBroader Impact. The PI is an enthusiastic teacher and mentor whose lab attracts some of the most gifted and motivated undergraduates. Many make a lifetime commitment to research. As many as 46 undergraduates have been trained in his lab alongside graduate students and post-docs; 19 undergraduates share authorship in refereed journals. Many undergraduates have been accepted in MD-PhD programs, and some have now their own research laboratories. Wanting to know is a powerful drive, perhaps the strongest motivation of the PI and his students. The PI teaches a popular elective Biology course on campus- Mammalian Physiology -to seniors and graduate students. He serves as Director of the Cornell program of study Undergraduate Physiology. The PI is active in international education, helping US students secure summer research positions in Germany, and assisting German students find research opportunities or clinical rotations in the US. The PI is a founding member of the Alexander von Humboldt Association of America (www.avhaa.org). He has received the highest German civilian award, the Bundesverdienstkreuz, for fostering international cooperation in education and research.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5443", "attributes": { "award_id": "0545312", "title": "Patterns of Ecosystem Function and Trophic Status in Well-mixed Subtropical Estuaries Undergoing Anthropogenic Modification", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2006-04-01", "end_date": "2012-03-31", "award_amount": 445645, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18992, "first_name": "Marc", "last_name": "Frischer", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 1409, "ror": "https://ror.org/03hjqxp26", "name": "Skidaway Institute of Oceanography", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "GA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 1409, "ror": "https://ror.org/03hjqxp26", "name": "Skidaway Institute of Oceanography", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "GA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The long-term goal of this project is to understand how warm, well-mixed, subtropical estuaries vary their plankton community structure, function, and net ecosystem metabolism in response to increasing anthropogenic nutrient loading and natural environmental forcing. The approach is to continue a unique, long-term (19 years), temporally intensive (sampling twice per week) record in the Skidaway River estuary (Georgia, USA) of hydrography, nutrients, plankton and microbial communities, dissolved oxygen, and important living and non-living components of particulate matter. The record to date documents changes caused by cultural eutrophication throughout the food web from bacteria to copepods; independently collected evidence shows major declines in commercial catches of fin- and shellfish. Commonly accepted conceptual models and limited local evidence support the notion that gelatinous predators may benefit from the enhanced microbial food web and from decreased competition from vertebrates and invertebrates. These data will be used to evaluate estuarine biological and chemical responses to, and potential recovery from, the by-products of increasing human occupation of the coast, as well as chronic (long-term warming, rising sea level, extended drought or wet periods) and stochastic (tropical storms) patterns in natural phenomena. Questions to be addressed fall into two basic categories: (a) how do plankton communities (individual taxa and bulk properties) respond in structure and function to early stages of eutrophication that include changes in concentrations and ratios of all major inorganic and organic nutrients, and (b) are such changes consonant with accepted ecological theory for estuarine ecosystems?\n\nThe working hypothesis is that changes in nutrient loading have altered the competitive balance among phytoplankton, bacteria, and associated microbial communities, thus impacting higher trophic levels. A major corollary is that changes in food web structure at the lower levels are driving a long-term shift from oxic towards hypoxic conditions, i.e. from autotrophy to net heterotrophy. These lower oxygen concentrations may facilitate the development of gelatinous predators communities to fill the void caused by declines in fin- and shellfish. This study aims to provide sound scientific data on historic and contemporary patterns in plankton community structure, ecosystem function, and relationships to environmental variables, including trends in dissolved oxygen, as well as the quantitative basis to evaluate basic ecological hypotheses regarding estuarine ecosystems. \n\nBroader impacts include an active outreach program, which will use the scientific results to improve science teacher and classroom education, as well as to increase the representation of African Americans and other minorities in aquatic sciences. These project components, fully integrated into the proposed research activities, will facilitate community awareness of linkages between population development, environmental quality, ecosystem operation, and resource conservation.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5463", "attributes": { "award_id": "0551010", "title": "JILA AMO Physics Frontier Center", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)", "PHYSICS FRONTIER CENTER" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 19038, "first_name": "Jean", "last_name": "Allen", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2006-08-01", "end_date": "2012-07-31", "award_amount": 16167800, "principal_investigator": { "id": 19041, "first_name": "Eric", "last_name": "Cornell", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 19039, "first_name": "William C", "last_name": "Lineberger", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 19040, "first_name": "Deborah S", "last_name": "Jin", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 172, "ror": "", "name": "University of Colorado at Boulder", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CO", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "JILA, an institute jointly operated by the University of Colorado and the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), is one of the nations leading research institutes in the physical sciences. The funds provided to JILA through the Physics Frontiers Centers (PFC) program support a collection of 19 senior investigators working at JILA in the broad area of atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) physics and closely related topics. The PFC-supported activities encompass four major themes that are identified as focus components: ultracold atom science, cold molecules, novel spectroscopies, and education and outreach. In each of the four components, the proposed program builds upon past successes while at the same time allowing the participation of five new young investigators. The research components have strong overlap and are intimately connected in their technology base as well as their scientific goals. Moreover, each of the AMO research components includes both a number of related experimental projects and associated theoretical activities. The unity of the efforts in JILA is reflected in the fact that most of the JILA investigators lead projects in more than one of the components.\n\nJILAs success has and will continue to be driven by the powerful combination of state-of-the-art technology development coupled with fundamental scientific advances. Work in ultracold atoms science will build on JILAs expertise in both Bose-Einstein condensation and quantum degenerate Fermi gases. Future efforts will continue to explore and take full advantage of tools such as magnetic-field Feshbach resonances and optical lattices that allow for exquisite control over these systems. In work on cold molecules, JILA will continue to lead efforts to develop and apply novel tools for the manipulation and quantum control of molecules on varying scales of size and complexity. Broad goals include selectively encouraging one outcome of a chemical reaction over another, producing molecules in desired (perhaps exotic) states, tracking the flow of energy among molecular constituents, and assessing the influence of solvent molecules by adding them one at a time. Work on novel spectroscopy will advance JILAs technical capabilities with objectives that include the development of novel femtosecond spectroscopies and high-resolution photoelectron instruments. In addition, JILA will apply its AMO expertise to a few scientific challenges that go beyond the study and control of atoms and simple molecules. This work includes the application of laser technology and spectroscopic techniques to the study of more complex and biologically important molecular systems, and in addition an investigation of quantum coherence in nanoscale devices. JILAs education and outreach efforts will include human resource development and outreach activities, as well as a new physics education research effort that will utilize the expertise of the JILA investigators and seeks to develop better ways to convey AMO science to all students. Partial funding for the education research efforts is provided by the Division of Research, Evaluation and Communication.\n\nThe JILA program conducted through this support will have many different broader impacts. It will enhance the technical infrastructure by developing many new laser-based tools and techniques, and by producing many graduates who are highly trained not only in AMO physics but also in technical communication and teaching skills. It will also attract more students into science, particularly from under-represented groups, through a vigorous undergraduate research program and a summer research program for faculty and students from predominantly minority-serving institutions. It will contribute to general science interest and literacy through a variety of programs that include presenting the very popular science Wizards show for school children, developing exhibits on light and color for a new science museum, and having suitably trained graduate students present science topics to Colorado 8-10th grade science classes. It will also research, develop, and broadly disseminate better ways to teach AMO science to all students, particularly through on-line interactive simulations.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5444", "attributes": { "award_id": "0554749", "title": "U.S. Japan Workshop on Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "Catalyzing New Intl Collab" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2006-03-15", "end_date": "2009-02-28", "award_amount": 52800, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18997, "first_name": "K. Dale", "last_name": "Noel", "orcid": null, "emails": "[email protected]", "private_emails": null, "keywords": "[]", "approved": true, "websites": "[]", "desired_collaboration": "", "comments": "", "affiliations": [ { "id": 439, "ror": "https://ror.org/04gr4te78", "name": "Marquette University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "WI", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 439, "ror": "https://ror.org/04gr4te78", "name": "Marquette University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "WI", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "OISE-0554749 \n(K. Dale Noel, Marquette University)\nU.S.-Japan Workshop on Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation\n\n\nThis proposal, from Dale Noel of Marquette University, will organize a U.S.-Japan workshop titled Genomics, Molecular Mechanisms and Evolution of Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation. The workshop, jointly organized with Professor Shigeyuki Tajima of Kagawa University, will take place outside Tokyo, Japan on August 15-19, 2006. Sixteen U.S. participants, including at least five graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, will join 11 Japanese researchers and their students for the meeting. Meeting sessions will explore the following topics: 1) bacterial genetic and genomic-proteomic approaches to understanding symbiosis; 2) evolution and horizontal phylogenetic distribution of plant-microbe associations; 3) biochemistry and molecular interactions during symbiotic development; 4) molecular genetics and genomics-proteomics of two model legumes; and 5) from model legumes to soybean and other crop legumes.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5471", "attributes": { "award_id": "0602350", "title": "Collaborative Research: The Lake Malawi Drilling Project - A long, high-resolution record of abrupt climate change in the southern tropics of East Africa", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Geosciences (GEO)", "GLOBAL CHANGE" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2006-09-15", "end_date": "2010-08-31", "award_amount": 224027, "principal_investigator": { "id": 19071, "first_name": "Andrew", "last_name": "Cohen", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 438, "ror": "https://ror.org/03m2x1q45", "name": "University of Arizona", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "AZ", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 19069, "first_name": "David L", "last_name": "Dettman", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 19070, "first_name": "Peter N", "last_name": "Reinthal", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 438, "ror": "https://ror.org/03m2x1q45", "name": "University of Arizona", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "AZ", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Drilling the large rift lakes of the East African Rift Valley has been a high priority goal since the 1980s. In 2005 the Lake Malawi Scientific Drilling Project acquired more than 623 m of core at two sites (92% recovery), in seven holes, including one hole in 600 meters of water that reached a subbottom depth of 380 m. The project triple-cored a high-resolution site in the north basin, which extends back 80kyr, double cored the deep site in the central basin covering the past 200 kyr, and single-cored the deep site to 380 m, dated at 1.5 million years at the base. These drill-cores represent the longest, continuous record of high-resolution climate change available in the continental tropics, and they offer the potential to secure high-fidelity signals of East African effective moisture and temperature at a scale of decades/centuries over the length of the core. Located at the southern end of the East African Rift Valley (9S-14S), Lake Malawi's great depth (max. of 700 m), extent (more than 580 km long), and prolonged stratification with anoxic bottom waters assure well preserved, at times laminated, sediments recording regionally-significant southern hemisphere climate signals. This grant 1) addresses specific paleoclimate questions posed below, and 2) completes the initial core descriptions over the full duration of the cored interval. The research will address these paleoclimate questions: What was the direction, magnitude and timing of effective moisture, wind, and temperature change of this southern tropical setting, on a millennial scale, during the past two glacialinterglacial cycles? Do the observed shifts coincide in a consistent manner with SST variability in the tropical oceans, or with the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation? What is the lake level history of Malawi, and how does it compare with the methane record of the polar ice cores, which is interpreted to be a globally averaged measure of tropical moisture on the continents? Does the observed evidence for abrupt climate change in the Lake Malawi and other parts of East Africa coincide with known events from other regions on Earth, e.g., Heinrich or Dansgaard/Oeschger events? What are the direction, duration and magnitude of these changes? What was the tropical climate behavior during earlier periods of global warmth (e.g. Marine Isotope Stage 5e, or alternatively MIS 11), and how abruptly did these periods begin and end?\nThe secondary objective is to complete the initial core descriptions, including reconnaissance sampling and analysis at low resolution over the past 1.5 million years. Did the climate of this site in the southern tropics respond only to changes in low-latitude precessional insolation (23-19 kyr) or also to high-latitude ice volume (100 kyr and 41 kyr) forcing, in the last part of the Pleistocene? Completing the reconnaissance, lowresolution analyses of this unique set of samples serves the greater scientific community, positioning it to undertake more elaborate studies on these cores in the future. Sampling and analyses are limited to key proxies, focused on quantifying past effective moisture, dust and temperature. Proxy analyses are carried out on a decade-century scale in the time intervals of selected events, and on a millennial scale over the broader intervals.\nThe broader impact of this research addresses the role of climate on human evolution, assists in interpreting the tectonic history of the East African Rift, and leads to a better understanding of the controls of climate on species evolution in lakes. For instance, new Malawi records as well as those from other African sites indicate a period of pronounced aridity prior to ~75 kyr. Was this aridity crisis responsible for the early human population bottleneck in evidence for that period? This collaborative project engages scholars in-training at the postdoctoral, graduate, and undergraduate levels, as well as African colleagues, and involves outreach components both in Africa and the U.S.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5480", "attributes": { "award_id": "0602404", "title": "Collaborative Research: The Lake Malawi Drilling Project - A long, high-resolution record of abrupt climate change in the southern tropics of East Africa", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "GLOBAL CHANGE" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2006-09-15", "end_date": "2009-08-31", "award_amount": 45358, "principal_investigator": { "id": 19092, "first_name": "Kristina", "last_name": "Beuning", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 1022, "ror": "", "name": "University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "WI", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 1022, "ror": "", "name": "University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "WI", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Drilling the large rift lakes of the East African Rift Valley has been a high priority goal since the 1980s. In 2005 the Lake Malawi Scientific Drilling Project acquired more than 623 m of core at two sites (92% recovery), in seven holes, including one hole in 600 meters of water that reached a subbottom depth of 380 m. The project triple-cored a high-resolution site in the north basin, which extends back 80kyr, double cored the deep site in the central basin covering the past 200 kyr, and single-cored the deep site to 380 m, dated at 1.5 million years at the base. These drill-cores represent the longest, continuous record of high-resolution climate change available in the continental tropics, and they offer the potential to secure high-fidelity signals of East African effective moisture and temperature at a scale of decades/centuries over the length of the core. Located at the southern end of the East African Rift Valley (9S-14S), Lake Malawi's great depth (max. of 700 m), extent (more than 580 km long), and prolonged stratification with anoxic bottom waters assure well preserved, at times laminated, sediments recording regionally-significant southern hemisphere climate signals. This grant 1) addresses specific paleoclimate questions posed below, and 2) completes the initial core descriptions over the full duration of the cored interval. The research will address these paleoclimate questions: What was the direction, magnitude and timing of effective moisture, wind, and temperature change of this southern tropical setting, on a millennial scale, during the past two glacialinterglacial cycles? Do the observed shifts coincide in a consistent manner with SST variability in the tropical oceans, or with the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation? What is the lake level history of Malawi, and how does it compare with the methane record of the polar ice cores, which is interpreted to be a globally averaged measure of tropical moisture on the continents? Does the observed evidence for abrupt climate change in the Lake Malawi and other parts of East Africa coincide with known events from other regions on Earth, e.g., Heinrich or Dansgaard/Oeschger events? What are the direction, duration and magnitude of these changes? What was the tropical climate behavior during earlier periods of global warmth (e.g. Marine Isotope Stage 5e, or alternatively MIS 11), and how abruptly did these periods begin and end?\nThe secondary objective is to complete the initial core descriptions, including reconnaissance sampling and analysis at low resolution over the past 1.5 million years. Did the climate of this site in the southern tropics respond only to changes in low-latitude precessional insolation (23-19 kyr) or also to high-latitude ice volume (100 kyr and 41 kyr) forcing, in the last part of the Pleistocene? Completing the reconnaissance, lowresolution analyses of this unique set of samples serves the greater scientific community, positioning it to undertake more elaborate studies on these cores in the future. Sampling and analyses are limited to key proxies, focused on quantifying past effective moisture, dust and temperature. Proxy analyses are carried out on a decade-century scale in the time intervals of selected events, and on a millennial scale over the broader intervals.\nThe broader impact of this research addresses the role of climate on human evolution, assists in interpreting the tectonic history of the East African Rift, and leads to a better understanding of the controls of climate on species evolution in lakes. For instance, new Malawi records as well as those from other African sites indicate a period of pronounced aridity prior to ~75 kyr. Was this aridity crisis responsible for the early human population bottleneck in evidence for that period? This collaborative project engages scholars in-training at the postdoctoral, graduate, and undergraduate levels, as well as African colleagues, and involves outreach components both in Africa and the U.S.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5477", "attributes": { "award_id": "0602453", "title": "Collaborative Research: The Lake Malawi Drilling Project - A long, high-resolution record of abrupt climate change in the southern tropics of East Africa", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "GLOBAL CHANGE" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 19087, "first_name": "Paul", "last_name": "Filmer", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2006-09-15", "end_date": "2011-08-31", "award_amount": 340525, "principal_investigator": { "id": 19088, "first_name": "Christopher", "last_name": "Scholz", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 579, "ror": "https://ror.org/025r5qe02", "name": "Syracuse University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 579, "ror": "https://ror.org/025r5qe02", "name": "Syracuse University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Drilling the large rift lakes of the East African Rift Valley has been a high priority goal since the 1980s. In 2005 the Lake Malawi Scientific Drilling Project acquired more than 623 m of core at two sites (92% recovery), in seven holes, including one hole in 600 meters of water that reached a subbottom depth of 380 m. The project triple-cored a high-resolution site in the north basin, which extends back 80kyr, double cored the deep site in the central basin covering the past 200 kyr, and single-cored the deep site to 380 m, dated at 1.5 million years at the base. These drill-cores represent the longest, continuous record of high-resolution climate change available in the continental tropics, and they offer the potential to secure high-fidelity signals of East African effective moisture and temperature at a scale of decades/centuries over the length of the core. Located at the southern end of the East African Rift Valley (9S-14S), Lake Malawi's great depth (max. of 700 m), extent (more than 580 km long), and prolonged stratification with anoxic bottom waters assure well preserved, at times laminated, sediments recording regionally-significant southern hemisphere climate signals. This grant 1) addresses specific paleoclimate questions posed below, and 2) completes the initial core descriptions over the full duration of the cored interval. The research will address these paleoclimate questions: What was the direction, magnitude and timing of effective moisture, wind, and temperature change of this southern tropical setting, on a millennial scale, during the past two glacialinterglacial cycles? Do the observed shifts coincide in a consistent manner with SST variability in the tropical oceans, or with the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation? What is the lake level history of Malawi, and how does it compare with the methane record of the polar ice cores, which is interpreted to be a globally averaged measure of tropical moisture on the continents? Does the observed evidence for abrupt climate change in the Lake Malawi and other parts of East Africa coincide with known events from other regions on Earth, e.g., Heinrich or Dansgaard/Oeschger events? What are the direction, duration and magnitude of these changes? What was the tropical climate behavior during earlier periods of global warmth (e.g. Marine Isotope Stage 5e, or alternatively MIS 11), and how abruptly did these periods begin and end?\nThe secondary objective is to complete the initial core descriptions, including reconnaissance sampling and analysis at low resolution over the past 1.5 million years. Did the climate of this site in the southern tropics respond only to changes in low-latitude precessional insolation (23-19 kyr) or also to high-latitude ice volume (100 kyr and 41 kyr) forcing, in the last part of the Pleistocene? Completing the reconnaissance, lowresolution analyses of this unique set of samples serves the greater scientific community, positioning it to undertake more elaborate studies on these cores in the future. Sampling and analyses are limited to key proxies, focused on quantifying past effective moisture, dust and temperature. Proxy analyses are carried out on a decade-century scale in the time intervals of selected events, and on a millennial scale over the broader intervals.\nThe broader impact of this research addresses the role of climate on human evolution, assists in interpreting the tectonic history of the East African Rift, and leads to a better understanding of the controls of climate on species evolution in lakes. For instance, new Malawi records as well as those from other African sites indicate a period of pronounced aridity prior to ~75 kyr. Was this aridity crisis responsible for the early human population bottleneck in evidence for that period? This collaborative project engages scholars in-training at the postdoctoral, graduate, and undergraduate levels, as well as African colleagues, and involves outreach components both in Africa and the U.S.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5481", "attributes": { "award_id": "0602454", "title": "Collaborative Research: The Lake Malawi Drilling Project - A long, high-resolution record of abrupt climate change in the southern tropics of East Africa", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Geosciences (GEO)", "GLOBAL CHANGE" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 19097, "first_name": "Paul", "last_name": "Filmer", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2006-09-15", "end_date": "2009-08-31", "award_amount": 349902, "principal_investigator": { "id": 19100, "first_name": "Tom", "last_name": "Johnson", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 740, "ror": "", "name": "University of Minnesota Duluth", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MN", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 19098, "first_name": "Christina D", "last_name": "Gallup", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 19099, "first_name": "Erik T", "last_name": "Brown", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 740, "ror": "", "name": "University of Minnesota Duluth", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MN", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Drilling the large rift lakes of the East African Rift Valley has been a high priority goal since the 1980s. In 2005 the Lake Malawi Scientific Drilling Project acquired more than 623 m of core at two sites (92% recovery), in seven holes, including one hole in 600 meters of water that reached a subbottom depth of 380 m. The project triple-cored a high-resolution site in the north basin, which extends back 80kyr, double cored the deep site in the central basin covering the past 200 kyr, and single-cored the deep site to 380 m, dated at 1.5 million years at the base. These drill-cores represent the longest, continuous record of high-resolution climate change available in the continental tropics, and they offer the potential to secure high-fidelity signals of East African effective moisture and temperature at a scale of decades/centuries over the length of the core. Located at the southern end of the East African Rift Valley (9S-14S), Lake Malawi's great depth (max. of 700 m), extent (more than 580 km long), and prolonged stratification with anoxic bottom waters assure well preserved, at times laminated, sediments recording regionally-significant southern hemisphere climate signals. This grant 1) addresses specific paleoclimate questions posed below, and 2) completes the initial core descriptions over the full duration of the cored interval. The research will address these paleoclimate questions: What was the direction, magnitude and timing of effective moisture, wind, and temperature change of this southern tropical setting, on a millennial scale, during the past two glacialinterglacial cycles? Do the observed shifts coincide in a consistent manner with SST variability in the tropical oceans, or with the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation? What is the lake level history of Malawi, and how does it compare with the methane record of the polar ice cores, which is interpreted to be a globally averaged measure of tropical moisture on the continents? Does the observed evidence for abrupt climate change in the Lake Malawi and other parts of East Africa coincide with known events from other regions on Earth, e.g., Heinrich or Dansgaard/Oeschger events? What are the direction, duration and magnitude of these changes? What was the tropical climate behavior during earlier periods of global warmth (e.g. Marine Isotope Stage 5e, or alternatively MIS 11), and how abruptly did these periods begin and end?\nThe secondary objective is to complete the initial core descriptions, including reconnaissance sampling and analysis at low resolution over the past 1.5 million years. Did the climate of this site in the southern tropics respond only to changes in low-latitude precessional insolation (23-19 kyr) or also to high-latitude ice volume (100 kyr and 41 kyr) forcing, in the last part of the Pleistocene? Completing the reconnaissance, lowresolution analyses of this unique set of samples serves the greater scientific community, positioning it to undertake more elaborate studies on these cores in the future. Sampling and analyses are limited to key proxies, focused on quantifying past effective moisture, dust and temperature. Proxy analyses are carried out on a decade-century scale in the time intervals of selected events, and on a millennial scale over the broader intervals.\nThe broader impact of this research addresses the role of climate on human evolution, assists in interpreting the tectonic history of the East African Rift, and leads to a better understanding of the controls of climate on species evolution in lakes. For instance, new Malawi records as well as those from other African sites indicate a period of pronounced aridity prior to ~75 kyr. Was this aridity crisis responsible for the early human population bottleneck in evidence for that period? This collaborative project engages scholars in-training at the postdoctoral, graduate, and undergraduate levels, as well as African colleagues, and involves outreach components both in Africa and the U.S.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5447", "attributes": { "award_id": "0612103", "title": "Summer School on Computational Number Theory and Applications to Cryptography", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)", "ALGEBRA,NUMBER THEORY,AND COM" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 19003, "first_name": "Tomek", "last_name": "Bartoszynski", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2006-06-01", "end_date": "2007-05-31", "award_amount": 20000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 19004, "first_name": "Andreas", "last_name": "Stein", "orcid": null, "emails": "[email protected]", "private_emails": null, "keywords": "[]", "approved": true, "websites": "[]", "desired_collaboration": "", "comments": "", "affiliations": [ { "id": 1046, "ror": "https://ror.org/01485tq96", "name": "University of Wyoming", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "WY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 1046, "ror": "https://ror.org/01485tq96", "name": "University of Wyoming", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "WY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The University of Wyoming Mathematics Department will be host to a Summer School entitled \"Summer School on Computational Number Theory and Applications to Cryptography\". This workshop will follow the successful style of the summer schools of the Rocky Mountain Mathematics Consortium that has been running successful summer conferences for twenty-four years. The conference is scheduled to last 19 days, from Monday June 19, 2005 to Friday July 7, 2006. Lectures will only take place during weekdays. Weekends and Friday afternoons are planned to be free for social activities. Each day of the meeting will begin with two plenary lectures by the main lecturers. It is planned to have two main lecturers per week. Each afternoon will also include 1-2 hours of talks of invited lecturers and presentations from the participants. In addition to the lectures, the conference will consist of student projects, group discussions, question and answer times, problem sessions and workshop periods. The objective of the summer school is to educate graduate students and faculty about the most recent developments in computational number theory and mathematical cryptography. The summer school will provide participants a cutting-edge survey of computational number theory and the consequences in modern day cryptography. Topics to be covered include: Primality and Integer Factorization, Arithmetic of Algebraic Number Fields and Algebraic Function Fields, the Discrete Logarithm Problem and related algorithms, Public Key Cryptography, Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography, Pairings, and Multivariate Cryptography. Plenary lecturers include Eric Bach, Dan Bernstein, Renate Scheidler, Joseph H. Silverman, and Hugh C. Williams.\n\nThe impact of the program and further goals are to enhance the general population's understanding of the important role that mathematics plays in their lives through information security in practice, and to help middle school and high school teachers develop lessons for their classrooms. This will help students begin to understand and enjoy some of the basic mathematical and computational issues that arise in cryptography. The summer school will be a ideal for graduate students and junior faculty who intend to participate in future thematic programs such as the one at IPAM in Fall 2006 or at the Fields Institute in Fall 2006.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } } ], "meta": { "pagination": { "page": 1, "pages": 1392, "count": 13920 } } }