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Collaborative Research: Obtaining paleomagnetic time-series records from corals — NSF Award to University of Texas at Austin (TX,

Magnetic storms have caused major damage to communications and energy infrastructure in the past. Such storms have the potential to cause trillions of dollars of damage in the United States. Society is more vulnerable to these risks in areas where the Earth’s magnetic field is weak. Continent-scale weak regions have gr

Award titleCollaborative Research: Obtaining paleomagnetic time-series records from corals
Award ID2545428
AwardeeUniversity of Texas at Austin
CityAUSTIN
StateTX
Amount obligated$420,000
Principal investigatorCraig Martin
ProgramMarine Geology and Geophysics, SPSE-Study of Physics of Earth
Start date06/01/2026
AbstractMagnetic storms have caused major damage to communications and energy infrastructure in the past. Such storms have the potential to cause trillions of dollars of damage in the United States. Society is more vulnerable to these risks in areas where the Earth’s magnetic field is weak. Continent-scale weak regions have grown over the past century. Studying ancient magnetic fields will help society understand how magnetic storm risks change and evolve. This has been very challenging due to the time-
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