It took a small experiment to calculate how deep into the ice the iron meteorites travel, The article says nothing about a separate grant. This is probably something they did in a day or two. Pretty clever approach.
It’s the trip down south (at $500,000.00 per person per session) plus transportation and training and the research grants for two years that brings their climate change request into the 92 billion in three years that Obola has been spending.
I think it is a neat project they did. This will perhaps be one of those things no one really thought about before that will seem obvious after the fact.