The Global Climate Change Foundation focuses on postdoctoral and graduate student research grants that advance climate science while contributing to a dialogue about the big questions that remain in the field of abrupt climate science.
| Project | Principal Investigator(s) | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Varnish Microlamination Dating of an Early Human Presence in North America | Tanzhuo Liu Sidney Hemming | Columbia University |
| Investigating Mercer’s Paradox | Aaron Putnam | The University of Maine |
| Drone-based LiDAR Mapping System | Douglas Boyle | The University of Nevada, Reno |
| Late-Glacial Behavior of the Southeastern Margin of the Laurentide Ice Sheet and Local Glaciers, Katahdin, Maine | Brenda Hall | The University of Maine |
| New Modes of Greenland Glacial Climate Variability | Christo Buizert | Oregon State University |
| Big Winds and Big Ice | Joellen Russell Aaron Putnam George Denton | The University of Arizona |
| The Last Glacial Maximum and Termination in the Australian Alps | Aaron Putnam | The University of Maine |
| The Last Glacial Maximum in Monsoonal Asia Aaron Putnam | Aaron Putnam | The University of Maine |
| Fieldwork in the Rwenzori Mountains of Uganda: Sample Collection for Understanding the Controls on Tropical Temperatures | Meredith Kelly | Dartmouth College |
| Atmospheric O2 concentrations from soil carbonate-hosted fluid-vapor inclusions: A potential new proxy for paleo-atmospheric pO2 | Morgan Schaller | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| Provenance of the Marlboro Clay, a unique formation deposited during the PETM in eastern North America | Steven Goldstein | Columbia University |
| Searles Lake Core Drilling: Paleoclimate | Tim Lowenstein David McGee | University of Minnesota (grant administrator) |
| Distal Impact Ejecta at the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary | Morgan Schaller | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| The Last Glacial Termination at the Heart of Asia in the Mongolian Altai | Aaron Putnam | The University of Maine |
| Be ages of Last Glacial Maximum to early Holocene-age moraines in the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda-Democratic Republic of Congo | Kayla Carroll | Dartmouth College |
| Rock Varnish Record of Holocene Millennial-Scale Wetness Variations in the Lake Turkana Basin of Kenya, East Africa | Tanzhuo Liu | |
| Spatial-latitudinal shifts of the East Asian Summer Monsoon recorded by paleo-shorelines Dleafwax from Dali Nou’er Lake, Inner Mongolia, China | Pratigya J. Polissar | Columbia University |
| Populus euphratica and Tamarix ramossissima ð C tree-ring chronologies from the Taklamakan Desert, Xinjiang, China | Laia Andreu-Hayles | Columbia University |
| 17O excess in the Deep Ocean and Innovative System for Accurate Measurements of DIC in the Deep Sea | Boaz Luz | Columbia University |
| Radiocarbon As a Reactive Tracer for Tracking Geologic CO2 Storage at the Carbfix Injection Site, Iceland | Martin Stute Juerg Matter | Columbia University |
| In situ 10 Be Production-rate Calibration for North America From the Early Holocene Marquette Moraine, Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Aaron Putnam | Columbia University |
| Holocene Snowline Changes in the Bhutanese Himalaya | Aaron Putnam | Columbia University |
| Continuing Global Pluvial Lake Studies | Jay Quade | The University of Arizona |
| Millennial-scale climate variability during the Pleistocene | Stephen Barker | Cardiff University |
| Rock varnish record of a Younger Dryas-age wet event in northern Tian Shan, western China | Tanzhuo Liu | Columbia University |
| Cosmogenic Multi-isotope Approaches to Better Understand Holocene Glacier Fluctuations | Joerg Schaefer | Columbia University |