Who funds glacier and ice sheet research?

We count 87 funded glacier and ice sheet projects, active between 2020 and 2032, from 4 funders. The most came from EU · ERC (25 projects), NSF · Office of the Director (21 projects) and EU · MSCA (17 projects). The median award is $600K, across the 85 of 87 projects that list an amount.

Funded projects

87

Funders

4

Median award

$600K

Open calls now

0

Top funders of glacier and ice sheet research

Projects whose title or summary mentions glacier and ice sheet. Median award: of the projects that list an amount, in US dollars; “—” when fewer than 3 do.

Open glacier and ice sheet funding calls

No open call mentions glacier and ice sheet in our listings today. We add new calls twice a day; create a free account to get an alert when one opens.

Funded glacier and ice sheet projects

A sample, latest start first, at most three per program.

• CAREER: Feedbacks and Tipping Dynamics in Earth System Models with Interactive Ice Sheets
  NSF · Office of the Director · $797,727 · ends 2031
• CAREER: Transport of air pollutants between mid-latitudes and the polar regions: an 800-year perspective from a Russian Arctic ice-core record.
  NSF · Office of the Director · $780,358 · ends 2030
• CAREER: Bridging the Gap: AI-Driven Antarctic Basal Temperature Mapping for Advancing Ice Sheet Modeling and Polar Education
  NSF · Office of the Director · $770,209 · ends 2030
• NERC. HYDRO-RIFT: Observing and modelling hydrofracture across the Antarctic Peninsula
  UKRI · NERC · £820,470 · ends 2030
• Impact of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions on Greenland’s Ice Melting Rates
  UKRI · NERC · £794,219 · ends 2029
• NSF-SNSF: Hydrology from Genes: Resolving snow and ice contributions to streamflow using environmental DNA (eDNA)
  NSF · GEO · $439,997 · ends 2029
• CSSI Elements: Community software for data-driven inference of ice-sheet physics
  NSF · CISE · $600,000 · ends 2029
• CONNECTing past, present and future: hindcast and forecast of ice-sheet loss between 2000 and 2300
  UKRI · UKRI FLF · £590,756 · ends 2029
• NERC-NSF-GEO InsPIRE - Investigating Peatland Initiation in Retreating glacier Environments
  UKRI · NERC · £693,127 · ends 2029
• Collaborative Research: CAIG: Physics-informed Machine Learning of Ice Calving and Sliding
  NSF · GEO · $600,397 · ends 2028

How we count

Funded projects come from public award records (NIH RePORTER, NSF, EU CORDIS, UKRI Gateway to Research, Wellcome, the Gates Foundation, DOE, NASA and USDA NIFA) whose title or summary matches “glacier or glaciers or ice sheet”. NIH lists each budget year separately; one project counts once. Amounts are as the funder lists them; medians use only projects that list one, in US dollars. Open calls and forecasts are from our listings of October 28, 2026. A project can mention a topic without being mainly about it, so treat the counts as a guide to who funds the area.