Andreas Schmittner's Research Projects

• OC3
• Completed Projects

Current Projects

• Investigating Antarctic Ice Sheet-Ocean-Carbon Cycle Interactions During the Last Deglaciation

  Funded by: National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs
  Award: 2103032
  Period: 09-01-2021 to 08-31-2024
  Amount: $772,265
  PIs: Schmittner, Clark, Haight
  

• Collaborative Research: Mixing and the Meridional Overturning Circulation in the Modern and Glacial Ocean

  Jointly funded by: National Science Foundation's Physical Oceanography and Marine Geology and Geophysics Programs
  Award: 2049357
  Period: 06/15/2021 to 05/31/2024
  Amount: $612,636
  PIs: Schmittner, Danabasoglu, Bachman
  

• Modeling the Ocean Distribution of Neodymium Isotopes: Testing the Bottom-Up Hypothesis

  Jointly funded by: National Science Foundation's Chemical Oceanography and Marine Geology and Geophysics Programs
  Award: 2022461
  Period: 08/01/2020 to 07/31/2023
  Amount: $599,881
  PIs: Schmittner, Haley
  

• NSFGEO-NERC: Quantifying the Modern and Glacial Ocean’s Carbon Cycle Including Isotopes

  Funded by: National Science Foundation's Chemical Oceanography Program
  Award: 1924215
  Period: 09/01/2019 to 08/31/2022
  Amount: $431,527
  PIs: Schmittner, Khatiwala
  

Completed Projects

• Investigating Past Ocean Dynamics (IPODs)

  Funded by: International Quaternary Association (INQUA)
  

• The Biological Pump During the Last Glacial Maximum and Early Deglaciation

  Funded by: National Science Foundation's Marine Geology and Geophysics Program
  Award: 1634719
  Period: 09/01/2016 to 08/31/2019 (NCE to 2020)
  Amount: $497,913
  PIs: Schmittner, Mix
  

• Collaborative Research: Assessing the Impact of Tidal Mixing on the Meridional Overturning Circulation of the Last Glacial Maximum

  Funded by: National Science Foundation's Physical Oceanography Program
  Award: 1559153
  Period: 02/01/2016 to 01/31/2018
  Amount: $275,964
  PIs: Schmittner, Danabasoglu
  

• Effects of Acidification and Warming on Long-Term Ocean Carbon Cycling Constrained by Observations

  Funded by: National Science Foundation's Ocean Acidification Program
  Award: 1416700
  Period: 07/01/2014 to 06/01/2017
  Amount: $259,788
  PI: Schmittner
  

• Modeling Effects of Greenland Ice Sheet Melting on AMOC Variability and Predictability

  Funded by: National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
  Award: NA13OAR4310133
  Period: 09/01/2013 to 08/31/2016 (NCE to 2017)
  Amount: $364,686
  PIs: Schmittner, Hu, Mernhild
  

• Quantifying the Effect of the Lunar Nodal Tide on North Pacific Climate Variability

  Funded by: National Science Foundation's Physical Oceanography Program
  Award: 1260680
  Period: 03/15/2013 to 02/28/2015 (NCE to 2018)
  Amount: $234,761
  PIs: Schmittner, Egbert, Spitz
  

• Estimating Climate Sensitivity From Temperature Reconstructions of the Last Glacial Maximum

  Funded by: National Science Foundation's Paleoclimate Perspectives on Climate Change (P2C2) Program
  Award: 1204243
  Period: 05/01/2012 to 04/28/2015 (NCE to 2017)
  Amount: $345,345
  PI: Schmittner
  

• Assessing Climate Model Simulations of Last Glacial Maximum Ocean Circulation With Carbon Isotopes

  Funded by: National Science Foundation's Marine Geology and Geophysics Program
  Award: 1235544
  Period: 09/01/2012 to 08/31/2015 (NCE to 2016)
  Amount: $95,391
  PI: Schmittner, Khatiwala
  

• Reconstructing Glacial Nitrogen and Carbon Cycling Using Isotopes

  Funded by: National Science Foundation's Marine Geology and Geophysics Program
  Award: 1131834
  Period: 08/01/2011 to 07/31/2014
  Amount: $508,279
  PI: Schmittner, Mix
  

• PALEOVAR: Past Climate Variability

  Period: 2006 to 2011
  PIs: Pisias, Bartlein, Brook, Clark, Hostetler, Mix, Schmittner
  

• Ocean Circulation, Oxygen and Nutrient Cycles During the Last Glacial

  Period 2007 to 2010