Life and Environments Through Time
The LET program funds research on Earth's climate, environments, life, and sedimentary record from the Archean Eon to the Holocene epoch for predicting and planning for global change and ecosystem maintenance.
This grant is no longer accepting proposals
U.S. National Science Foundation has archived this opportunity.
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation
Due Dates: No current deadline (archived; proposals not accepted)
Funding Amounts: $14 million anticipated program funding; approximately 50 awards
Summary: Supports research on the origins and evolution of Earth’s climate, environments, life, and sedimentary record.
Key Information: Only specified U.S. institutions of higher education and nonprofit, non-academic research or education organizations may submit proposals.
Description
The U.S. National Science Foundation’s Life and Environments Through Time (LET) program is administered by the Division of Earth Sciences in the Directorate for Geosciences. It supports research into patterns and processes shaping Earth’s climate, environments, life, and sedimentary record, from the Archean Eon through the Holocene epoch and from molecular to global scales. Findings may help inform planning for future global change and the maintenance of ecosystem services and human societies.
LET brings together geobiology, geochemistry, paleobiology, paleoecology, sedimentology, and sedimentary geology. Its scope includes the evolution of life, sedimentary materials, paleoclimate, research proxies and models, critical minerals, geohealth, conservation paleobiology, and geological hydrogen. Projects may combine field, laboratory, and computational work.
