ADVANCE Fellows Award: Developing a Program in Hydrologic Education and Research at Rutgers University
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2004; Program: ADVANCE - FELLOWS

1. Ying Fan Reinfelder($219,968), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Water Table, Wide Range, Academic, Bring, Broad, Build, Campus, Climate, Component, Core, Courses, Education, Flow, Groundwater, Hydrologic, Issues, Levels, Model, Pis, Plan, Processes, Program, Programs, Regional, Various.

ADVANCE Fellows Award: Potential Soil Inorganic Carbon Sequestration as a Result of Cultivation in Mollisols
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2004; Program: ADVANCE - FELLOWS

1. Elena A Mikhailova($234,500), Clemson University, Clemson
Key terms: Inorganic Carbon Storage, Pedogenic Carbonate Formation, Soil Inorganic Carbon, Agricultural, Cultivation, Global, Mollisols, Soils.

Studies of Crust and Upper Mantle Structure, Mantle Flow, and Geodynamics of the Chile Ridge Subduction
Award Effective Date: 06/30/2004; Program: AMERICAS PROGRAM

1. Raymond M Russo($363,885), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Mantle Flow Field, Nazca And Antarctic, Beneath South, Chile Ridge, Ridge Subduction, Seismic Attenuation, Slab Window, Triple Junction, Upper Mantle, Crust, Dip, Formed, Gaps, Lithosphere, Morphology, Nazca-antarctica-south, Plate, Region, Seismicity, Southern, Spreading, Structure, Subducted, Subducting, Tectonic, Vicinity.

Collaborative Research: Biogeochemical Exploration of Acidic and Neutral Hypersaline Environments of Australia
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

1. Melanie R Mormile($269,252), Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla
2. Kathleen C Benison($208,070), Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant
Key terms: Acidic Saline Lakes, Extremely Acidic Saline, Lakes And Groundwaters, Evaporite Minerals, Planetary Bodies, Water Chemistry, Western Australia, Basic, Biological, Climatic, Compare, Conditions, Depositional, Entrapped, Environmental, Environments, Evaporites, Findings, Fluid, Following, Found, Life, Mars, Microbial, Microorganisms, Neutral, Past, Possibly, Ranging, Sediments, Settings, Students, Waters.

Microbial Controls on the Mobilization and Speciation of Arsenic from Newark Basin Shale
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2004; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

1. John R Reinfelder($445,396), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Mobilization And Speciation, Arsenic Mobilization, Drinking Water, Iron Oxides, Iron Oxidizers, Newark Basin, Red Shale, Rift Basin, Active, Andor, Black, Distribution, Environment, Essential, Gl, Gray, Has, Hematite, Involved, Jersey, Mgl, Microbes, Microbial, Microorganisms, Minerals, North, Organisms, Play, Processes, Pyrite, Reducers, Release, Specific, Structure, Weathering.

Groundwater Ecosystems: The Interdependence of Microbial Mineral Weathering and Population Diversity
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2004; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

1. Rachel O'Brien($393,746), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Nutrients And Metals, Colonizing Microbial, Geologic Time, Groundwater Ecosystems, Microbial Weathering, Mineral Weathering, Weathering Reactions, Biodiversity, Composition, Forest, Influence, Organisms, Phenomena, Population, Processes, Subsurface, Temperate, Tropical, Wetland.

C-RUI: Geomicrobial Processes in an Ancient Methane Seep Deposit: Resolving Temporal and Spatial Shifts in Localized Microbial Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

1. Karla M Parsons-Hubbard($70,700), Oberlin College, Oberlin
2. Timothy W Lyons($77,193), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
3. Russell Shapiro($84,969), Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter
Key terms: Localized Microbial Ecosystems, Isotope Geochemistry, Methane Seeps, Microbial-sediment Interactions, Stable Isotope, Tepee Buttes, Allow, Applying, Approach, Bacterial, Biogeochemical, Broad, Carbonate, Collaborative, Complex, Depth, Development, Experience, Field, Formation, Fossil, Gain, Has, Individual, Involving, Laboratory, Microbial-sediment, Model, Modern, Mounds, Pis, Precipitation, Ratios, Students, Teaching, Time, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Preservation and Long-Term Bacterial Survival in Quaternary Age Salt from Death Valley, Chile and Bolivia
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

1. Russell H Vreeland($185,714), West Chester University of Pennsylvania, West Chester
2. Tim K Lowenstein($308,037), SUNY at Binghamton, Binghamton
Key terms: Bu And Wcu, Fluid Inclusion, Fluid Inclusions, Halite Crystals, Microbial Life, Salar De, Undergraduate Students, Ancient, Brines, Chemistries, Cores, DGGE, Distribution, Diversity, Environments, Geological, Interdisciplinary, Isolate, Lab, Methods, Microbes, Microbiological, Microbiology, Microorganisms, Obtain, Original, PCR, Periods, Precipitated, Saline, Salt, Summer, Surface, Survival, Temperatures, Training.

Collaborative Research: Active subsurface methanogenesis and anaerobic organic matter decomposition in a Devonian black shale
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

1. Klaus Rudolf L Nuesslein($441,614), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
2. Anna M Martini($145,770), Amherst College, Amherst
Key terms: Acetate And H2, Shale Formation Waters, Antrim Shale, Gas Reserves, Methane Generation, Organic Matter, Activity, Carbon, Chemical, Closely, Controls, Diversity, Energy, Environment, Environments, Fermentation, Field, Geochemistry, Has, Metabolic, Methanogenesis, Methanogenic, Michigan, Microbial, Molecular, Natural, Nutrients, Opportunities, Organisms, Origin, Region, Reservoirs, Reveal, Rock, Sedimentary, Sediments, Sequences, Signatures, Subsurface, Unusual.

Collaborative Research: Mercury isotope fractionation during microbial and abiotic redox transformations
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

1. Joel D Blum($219,210), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. John R Reinfelder($237,246), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Abiotic Redox Transformations, Microbial And Abiotic, Fractionate Hg, Hg Isotope, Hg Isotopes, Hg Redox, Hg-microbe Interactions, Isotope Fractionation, Isotope Geochemistry, Preliminary Experiments, Allow, Amu, Analytical, Assist, Bacterial, Biogeochemistry, Demonstrated, Deposits, Environment, Environmental, Exposure, Fits, Geological, Geology, Groundwork, Has, Hg-microbe, II, Intersection, Klaue, Mass, Mehg, Mercury, Michigan, Pathways, Permil, Pis, Processes, Program, Proxy, Reduction, Rutgers, Specialization, Student, Techniques, Various.

Abiotic arsenic mobilization in Bangladesh groundwater aquifers?
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

1. Yan Zheng($99,430), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Bangladesh Groundwater, Local Recharge, Nsf Criterion, Shallow Aquifers, Wide Range, Accumulation, Available, Concentrations, Depth, Distribution, Elevated, Experiments, Fe, Incubation, Irrigation, Levels, Magnitude, Mobilization, People, Rate, Relatively, Release, Simple, Solutes, South, Spatial, Weathering.

Radiocarbon Experiments in Boreal Forests to Assess Roles of Fungal Species in Decomposition
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: BE-UF: CARBON CYCLE

1. Kathleen K Treseder($263,145), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Forest Fires, Fungal Species, Recalcitrant Compounds, Recalcitrant Substrates, Woody Debris, Ability, Alaska, Carbon, Competitives, Conditions, Decomposition, Estimate, Examine, Expect, Fungi, Indicate, Labeled, Labile, Microbial, Mushrooms, Natural, Partitioning, Perform, Predict, Rates, Respired, Ruderals, Shifts, Signatures, Soil, Sources, Uptake, Versus.

Collaborative Research: Assessing the Variability and Modification of Age, Character and Reactivity of Organic Carbon Delivered by Rivers and Estuaries to an Ocean Margin
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2004; Program: BE-UF: CARBON CYCLE

1. Nina F Caraco($322,904), Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Inc., Millbrook
2. Peter Raymond($298,031), Yale University, New Haven
3. Steven T Petsch($229,650), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
4. James E Bauer($388,221), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
Key terms: Rivers And Estuaries, Oc Ages, Ocean Margins, Organic Carbon, Budget, DOC, Discharge, Flux, Global, Isotopic, Losses, Net, POC, Prior, Processing, Riverestuarine, Terrestrial, Transport.

Composition and Fluxes of Organic Carbon Species from the Yukon River Basin
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: BE-UF: CARBON CYCLE

1. Laodong Guo($397,285), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Colloidal And Particulate, Composition And Flux, Composition And Reactivity, Organic Carbon Species, Yukon River Basin, Yukon River, Climate, Dissolved, Environmental, Ice, Influenced, Partitioning, Pristine, Transformation.

Stability of the Ocean Clathrate Reservoir to Anthropogenic Climate Perturbation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: BE-UF: CARBON CYCLE

1. Bruce Buffett($217,014), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Steady-state Clathrate Reservoir, Temperature And Oxygenation, Deep Ocean, Deep Sea, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, Methane Clathrate, Methane Release, Steady-state Clathrate, Carbon, Clathrates, Climate, Condition, Conditions, Future, Model, PETM, Paleocene, Sediment, Sediments, Size, Stability, Time, Water.

Collaborative Research: Episodic, ENSO-Orchestrated Carbon Sequestration in Amazonian River Basins by Erosion-Sedimentation Processes
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2004; Program: BE-UF: CARBON CYCLE

1. Anthony K Aufdenkampe($217,176), Stroud Water Research Center, Avondale
2. Rolf E Aalto($239,042), University of Washington, Seattle
3. Peter J Hernes($42,556), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Amazonian Foreland, Carbon Sink, Deep Burial, Foreland Basins, Organic Carbon, Sediment Transport, Via Sorption, Analysis, Benefits, California, Close, Collaboration, Collaborations, Collaborative, Current, Deposited, Dynamics, Effort, Erosion-sedimentation, Extreme, Fresh, Furthermore, GIS, Geochemical, Hillslope, IRD, Interdisciplinary, International, Migration, Nina, OC, Process, Processes, Public, Quantities, Rates, Represent, River, Sediments, Sequestration, Sources, Storms, Students, Turnover, Univ.

Collaborative Research: Are Carbon Fluxes from Marine Sediments Enhanced by Submarine Ground Water Discharge?
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: BE-UF: CARBON CYCLE

1. Jaye E Cable($213,546), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
2. Jonathan B Martin($268,582), University of Florida, Gainesville
3. Jennifer Cherrier($279,395), Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Temporal And Spatial, 222rn Activity, Cl Concentration, Marine Sediments, Meteoric Water, Organic Carbon, Surface Water, Water Column, Aquifers, Cl-, Coastal, Conductivity, Depending, Depleted, Discharge, Florida, Flow, Hydrologic, Information, Mixed, Mixing, Processes, Pumping, Remineralization, SGD, Sources, Tracers.

Collaborative Research: Watershed Carbon Distribution and Flux Across Environmental Gradients
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: BE-UF: CARBON CYCLE

1. Howard E Epstein($151,836), University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville
2. Brian L McGlynn($346,953), Montana State University, Bozeman
3. Daniel L Welsch($100,937), Frostburg State University, Frostburg
Key terms: Soil Air Co2, Spatial And Temporal, Atmospheric Exchange, Co2 Efflux, Doc Export, Fellows Program, Graduate Students, Soil Co2, Soil Respiration, Stream Water, Topographic Controls, Accumulation, Activity, Available, Biogeochemical, Carbon, Catchment, Central, Climatic, Combining, Concept, Critical, Dataset, Dissolved, Driving, Environmental, Experience, Extensive, Factors, Field, Findings, Flux, Frostburg, Gradients, Has, Inclusion, Information, Integral, Landscape, Links, Model, Modeling, Opportunities, Poorly, Primary, Processes, Public, Quantify, Set, Similarity, Soils, Streamwater, Surface, Time, Training, Transport, Undergraduate, Undergraduates, Watershed.

The Role of Meso-Scale Processes in Controlling the Upper Ocean Carbon Cycle in the Coastal Environment - An Integrated Study in Santa Monica Bay, CA
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: BE-UF: CARBON CYCLE

1. Nicolas P Gruber($645,234), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Meso And Submesoscale, Ocean Carbon Cycle, Santa Monica Bay, Upper Ocean Carbon, Coastal Environment, Coastal Ocean, Activities, Budget, Challenges, Contribution, Cruises, Educational, Exchange, Existing, Ii, Iii, Integral, Meso-, Mesoscale, Modeling, Mooring, Net, Observational, Observations, Particular, Platform, Process, Processes, Program, Quantify, Time-series, UCLA, Water.

(Non-TEP) Abiotic Particle Formation From Dissolved Organic Matter in Marine Environments: Possible Shunt to the Microbial Loop
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2004; Program: BE-UF: CARBON CYCLE

1. James P Cowen($224,541), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Filtered And Poisoned, Abiotic Formation, Microbial Loop, Organic Matter, Organic Particles, Abiotically, Alternate, Bacteria, Benefit, Carbon, Components, DOM, Deep, Derived, Dissolved, Faculty, Found, Has, Incubation, Incubations, Involved, Labile, Local, Magnitude, Microparticles, Nutritional, Ocean, Outreach, POM, Pacific, Particulate, Pathway, Process, Program, Rate, Refractory, Sea, Similar, Size, Source, Students, Teachers, Traditional, UH, Undergraduate.

Quantifying the Role of Mixing Interfaces in Biogeochemical Cycling in a Contaminated Aquifer-Wetland System: Linking Hydrogeological, Microbiological and Geochemical Processes
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: BE: COUPLED BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYC

1. Jennifer T McGuire($1,064,815), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Fate And Transport, Water And Ecosystem, Drinking Water, Electron Acceptors, Hydrologic Conditions, Mixing Interfaces, Numerical Models, Teap Dynamics, Terminal Electron, Activity, Complex, Contaminants, Controls, Coupled, Delivery, Developed, Expected, Geochemical, In-situ, Integrate, Kinetic, Limiting, Microbial, Microbiological, Nutrients, Potential, Processes, Public, Quantify, Rates, Redox, Small-scale, Subsurface, Teaps, Widely, Zones.

Dynamical Change in Global Biogeochemical Cycles Accompanying Early Animal Evolution
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: BE: COUPLED BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYC

1. Roger Summons($1,699,430), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Global Carbon Cycle, Cambrian Explosion, Accompanied, Animal, Animals, Biosphere, Education, Efforts, Evolution, Evolutionary, Geochemical, History, Increased, Influenced, Life, Organic, Seeks, Specific, Theory, Transition.

Nonlinear Feedbacks in Coupled Element Cycles During Eutrophication of Shallow Coastal Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2004; Program: BE: COUPLED BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYC

1. Roxanne M Marino($1,699,977), Cornell Univ - State: AWDS MADE PRIOR MAY 2010, Ithaca
Key terms: Marine Ecosystems, Benthic, Coastal, Cycles, Eutrophication, Experiment, External, Feedbacks, Loading, Pollution, Severely, Shallow, Stages.

Collaborative Research: Characterizing Land Surface Memory to Advance Climate Prediction
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2003; Program: BE: NON-ANNOUNCEMENT RESEARCH

1. Courtney A Schlosser($96,494), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Global Water Cycle, Land Surface Memory, Land-atmosphere Water Recycling, Climate Models, Empirical Correction, Global Prediction, Land Memory, Land-atmosphere Predictability, Land-atmosphere Water, Soil Moisture, Systematic Errors, Water-cycle Prediction, Advance, Analysis, Anomalies, Below, Effort, Final, Has, Original, Originally, Plan, Post-doc, Reduced, Regions, Sensitivity, Strong, Water-cycle.

Deformation, Fluid Generation, and Seismogenesis in a Transitional Subduction Environment, the Marlborough Region, New Zealand, Revealed with a Magnetotelluric Resistivity Transect
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Philip E Wannamaker($394,164), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Strike Slip Fault, Fault Zones, Geophysical Instrumentation, Plate Convergence, Subduction Interface, Controls, Coupling, Crust, Electrical, Faults, Field, Fluids, Island, Lower, Marlborough, Methods, Near, Plates, Slab, Solid, Upper, Zealand.

Support for ISES Forum II: Rheology of the Continental Lithosphere
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2004; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Michael Brown($31,732), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Culture, Education, Forum, Integrated, Integration, Solid, Summer.

Natural Earthquake Laboratory in South African Mines (NELSAM)
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Ze'ev Reches($1,596,778), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Active, Activity, Chemical, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Fault, Faults, Instruments, Laboratory, Life, Microbial, Mine, Mines, Monitor, Monitoring, Natural, Processes, South, Three-dimensional.

Collaborative Research: ST. Elias Erosion/tectonics Project (STEEP)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2004; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Phaedra Upton($298,556), University of Maine, Orono
2. Kenneth D Ridgway($354,184), Purdue University, West Lafayette
3. Ronald L Bruhn($331,430), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
4. Gerard H Roe($406,920), University of Washington, Seattle
5. Gail L Christeson($769,119), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
6. Peter K Zeitler($227,673), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
7. James A Spotila($164,727), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
8. Gary L Pavlis($178,371), Indiana University, Bloomington
9. Laura F Serpa($210,500), University of New Orleans, New Orleans
10. Jeffrey T Freymueller($1,082,282), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Mountain Range, Oblique Collision, Broad, Continent, Convergence, Crust, Deformation, Development, Elias, Erosion, Exhumation, Geodynamics, Glacial, Has, Implications, Intense, Oceanic, Orogen, Orogeny, Partitioning, Pis, Rapid, Regional, St, Subduction, Tectonic, Uplift, Versus.

Collaborative Research: Taiwan Integrated Geodynamics Research
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Francis T Wu($1,727,645), SUNY at Binghamton, Binghamton
Key terms: Philippine Sea Plate, Arc-continent Collision, Continental Lithosphere, Mountain Building, Subducting Beneath, Subduction Zone, Active, Arc-continent, China, Cmyr, Collaboration, Crust, Deformation, Does, Eurasian, Evolution, Geodynamic, Happening, Integrated, Involve, Mantle, Margin, Mode, Modeling, Oblique, Orogen, Orogeny, Pis, Possibility, Program, Recording, Resulting, School, Seismic, Subducted, Surface, Taiwan, Temporal, Texas, Thickening, Transects, Vertically.

Collaborative Research: Taiwan Integrated Geodynamics Research (TAIGER)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Nikolas I Christensen($255,910), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Philippine Sea Plate, Arc-continent Collision, Continental Lithosphere, Mountain Building, Subducting Beneath, Subduction Zone, Active, Arc-continent, China, Cmyr, Collaboration, Crust, Deformation, Does, Eurasian, Geodynamic, Happening, Integrated, Involve, Margin, Mode, Modeling, Oblique, Orogen, Orogeny, Pis, Possibility, Program, Recording, Resulting, School, Seismic, Subducted, Surface, Taiwan, Temporal, Texas, Thickening, Transects, Vertically.

Collaborative Research: Multi-disciplinary Experiments for Dynamic Understanding of Subduction under the Aegean Sea (MEDUSA)
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Stephane Rondenay($2,346,454), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Thorsten W Becker($179,489), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
3. Thorsten W Becker($22,751), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Upper Plate Lithosphere, Hellenic Subduction, Subduction Rate, Density, Dynamic, Geometry, Pis, Processes, Slab.

SGER: Tectonic and Environmental Change Near 8 Ma In and Near Tibet: A Proposal for a Reconnaissance Field Trip
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2004; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Peter H Molnar($29,484), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Chinese, Environmental, Field, Geodynamic, Global, Investigation, Million, Pis, Processes, Suggestive, Tibet.

Yunnan-Indochina Continental Dynamics Planning Workshop
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2004; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Martin Flower($15,000), University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: China, Continent, Workshop.

Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure and Science Education, April 18-20, 2004
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2004; Program: CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE

1. Mary Marlino($113,368), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Cyberinfrastructure, Education, Explore, Geoscience, Workshop.

Electromagnetic Workshop in India - October 2004
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Catalyzing New Intl Collab

1. George R Jiracek($20,000), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
Key terms: EM, Hyderabad, India, International, Workshop.

CAREER: Investigation of Regional Land-Atmosphere Interactions Using a Hierarchical Modeling and Data Assimilation Approach
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Steven A Margulis($421,022), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Rootzone Soil Moisture, Soil Moisture Fields, Education Plan, Environmental Education, Surface Heterogeneity, Assimilation, Awareness, Diurnal, Engineering, Interactions, Investigate, Knowledge, Land-atmosphere, Models, Regional, Representation.

Collaborative Research: Integrated Investigation of the Geodynamics of the Taiwan Orogeny (TAIGER)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: EAPSI

1. David A Okaya($428,519), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2. Harm J Van Avendonk($814,928), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
3. Steven W Roecker($200,020), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
Key terms: Philippine Sea Plate, Arc-continent Collision, Continental Lithosphere, Mountain Building, Subducting Beneath, Subduction Zone, Active, Arc-continent, China, Cmyr, Collaboration, Crust, Deformation, Does, Eurasian, Evolution, Geodynamic, Happening, Integrated, Involve, Mantle, Margin, Mode, Modeling, Oblique, Orogen, Orogeny, Pis, Possibility, Program, Recording, Resulting, School, Seismic, Subducted, Surface, Taiwan, Temporal, Texas, Thickening, Transects, Vertically.

Lavakas: investigating extreme erosion in Madagascar
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2004; Program: EAPSI

1. Rónadh Cox($225,230), Williams College, Williamstown
Key terms: Erosion Rates, Geological Controls, Lavaka Distributions, Lavaka Formation, Sediment Generation, Achieved, Analysis, Anthropogenic, Direct, Education, Environmental, Field, GIS, Has, Human, Issue, Landscape, Lavakas, Madagascar, Madagascars, Malagasy, Mapping, Opportunities, Origin, Planning, Relevance, Strategies, Students, Training, Volumes.

Collaborative Research: Earthscope-Acquisition, Construction, and Facility Management (Earthscope Facility Office)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2003; Program: EARTH SCOPE

1. Gregory E van der Vink($4,421,459), Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Washington
Key terms: Earthscope Facility, Plate Boundary, Academic, Broad, Const, Continent, Deformation, Derived, Geological, Has, Infrastructure, Installed, Means, National, Natural, Oandm, Observatory, Opportunity, Outreach, Participation, Processes, Program, Public, Real-time, Schools, Students.

EarthScope Education and Outreach
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

1. Gregory E van der Vink($1,737,116), Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Washington
Key terms: Activities, Earthscope, Education, Educational, Students.

Collaborative Research: A Workshop Proposal for Integrated EarthScope Research and Education in the Northern Rocky Mountains
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

1. David W Mogk($38,749), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: EO, Earthscope, Meet, Meeting, Montana, NRM, Northern, Objectives, Participants, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Workshop for Integrated EarthScope Research and Education in the Northern Rocky Mountains
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

1. Paul A Mueller($22,250), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: EO, Earthscope, Meet, Meeting, Montana, NRM, Northern, Objectives, Participants, Workshop.

SAFOD: 2004 sample analysis workshop
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

1. Ben A van der Pluijm($15,500), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Characterization, Coordinate, Efforts, Fault, Processes, Rock, SAFOD, Seismic, Various, Workshop.

Workshop on Community Finite Element Models for Fault Systems and Tectonic Studies
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

1. Thomas H Jordan($15,000), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Wide Range, Earthscope, Effort, Meshing, Models, Processes, Workshop.

USArray FlexArray augmentation of a seismic study of the extension paradox at the northwest margin of the Basin-&-Range Province
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

1. Elizabeth L Miller($113,315), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Beneath Northern Nevada, Crust Beneath Northern, Central Nevada, Crustal Thickness, Earth's Crust, Amount, Believe, Detail, Earthscope, Elevation, Elevations, Equipment, Expect, Extending, Extension, Has, Lower, Mountain, Public, Region, Seismic, Seismographs, South, Valleys, Waves.

Ultra-low frequency electromagnetic monitoring of earthquakes within the Earthscope Plate Boundary Observatory
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

1. Simon Klemperer($189,514), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Detect Tiny, Electromagnetic Sensors, Magnetic Field, Monitoring Stations, Pre-seismic Transients, Recording Sites, Ultra-low Frequency, Anomalies, Basis, California, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Electric, Faults, Instruments, Network, PBO, Physics, Potential, Pre-seismic, Predictable, Public, San, Separated, Signals, Societal, Spatially, ULF-EM, Ultra-low.

Organizational structure for Rocky Mountain EarthScope: science and education planning
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

1. Karl E Karlstrom($60,412), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
2. Richard C Aster($10,774), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Rocky Mountain Earthscope, Rocky Mountain Region, Activities, Decadal, Education, Educational, Effort, Efforts, Geodynamic, Geologic, Integrate, Joint, Mexico, Processes, Regional, Serve, Tectonic, Unique, Vision.

Collaborative Research: RUI: Testing the Stress/Heat-Flow Paradox of the San Andreas Fault with Fission-Track and U+Th/He Data from Zircon from the SAFOD Drill Hole
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

1. David L Kirschner($32,101), Saint Louis University, Saint Louis
2. John I Garver($22,909), Union College, Schenectady
Key terms: Andreas Fault Near, Fault Near Parkfield, San Andreas Fault, Computer Model, Damaging Earthquakes, Drill Hole, Stress Heat-flow, Time-temperature History, Weak Faults, Ages, Aliquot, Analyzed, Anomalously, Collected, Crust, Fission-track, Has, Heat-flow, Laboratory, Phase, Predict, SAFOD, Seismogenic, Strength, Time-temperature, U-thhe, Zircons.

Collaborative Research: Probing the Thermal Evolution of the San Andreas fault at Parkfield: Thermochronology in the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD)
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

1. Kenneth A Farley($30,043), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
2. Roland Burgmann($139,618), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
3. Ann E Blythe($97,047), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Apatite And Zircon, San Andreas Fault, Andreas Fault, Abandoned, Active, Dating, Faults, Frictional, SAFOD, Salinian, Thermal, Thermochronometry.

Collaborative Research: The Cenozoic history of the western US - a data integration strategy for Earthscope
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

1. Alan R Levander($59,049), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
2. Suzan van der Lee($114,104), Northwestern University, Evanston
3. Douglas R Toomey($200,072), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
4. Francis A Dahlen($149,247), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Available, Create, Image, Images, Quality, Seismic, Structure, Usarray, Western.

SAFOD: Mineral Transformations and Fabrics
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

1. Ben A van der Pluijm($129,192), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Protolith And Fault, Electron Microscopy, Exhumed Fault, Fabric Development, Fault Rock, Fault Rocks, Fault Zones, Safod Hole, Behavior, Characterization, Chemistry, Comparison, Fabrics, Faults, Microstructure, Mineral, Nearby, Processes, Quantify, Transformation, X-ray.

Collaborative Research: Seismic Tomography and Location Calibration Around the SAFOD Site
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

1. Clifford H Thurber($196,429), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Steven W Roecker($166,895), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
Key terms: Analysis Techniques, Downhole Sensors, Drill Site, Permanent Stations, Rupture Patch, Accuracy, Available, Depth, Drilling, Earthquake, II, Level, PASO-DOS, PASO-TRES, Phase, Previous, Reduction, Require, Required, SAFOD, Seismic, Significantly, Temporary, Uncertainties.

Collaborative Research: Brittle fracture, deformability, permeability, and seismic anisotropy adjacent to and inside the San Andreas Fault Zone through SAFOD
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

1. Bezalel C Haimson($192,932), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Teng-fong Wong($160,261), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Andreas Fault Zone, San Andreas Fault, Brittle Fracture, Mechanical Properties, Pore Pressure, Seismic Anisotropy, Adjacent, Available, Borehole, Brook, Conditions, Core, Country, Damage, Geophysical, Hole, Information, Laboratory, Mechanisms, Permeability, Rock, SAFOD, Stress, Systematic.

Earthscope: A New View of Earth and Earth Science
Award Effective Date: 03/05/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

1. Michelle K Hall($38,039), Science Education Solutions Inc, Los Alamos
Key terms: Public Relations, Activities, Broad, Continent, Dynamic, Earthscope, Educators, Information, K-, Models, Print, Real-time, Resources, Sheets, Streams, Technology, Tools, Web.

Towards Characterizing Depth and Lateral Variations of Anisotropy Across the North American Continent
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

1. Barbara A Romanowicz($124,047), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Upper Mantle Anisotropy, Azimuthal Anisotropy, Body Waves, Radial Anisotropy, Seismic Anisotropy, Surface Wave, Waveform Modelling, Andor, Approach, Axis, Broadband, Consider, Continent, Developed, Global, Has, Information, Lithosphere, Orientation, Parametrization, Past, Period, Regional, Relation, Splitting, Symmetry, Upper-mantle, Usarray.

Receiver Reference Models: A prototype for automated production of EarthScope/USArray data products
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

1. Thomas J Owens($149,118), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Usarray.

Collaborative research: Determination of time-dependent velocity and velocity gradient fields for Earthscope
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

1. William E Holt($118,164), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
2. Richard A Bennett($54,641), Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge
3. Richard A Bennett($125,770), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Achieved, Analysis, Crust, Earthscope, Four-dimensional.

Workshop: Planning for EarthScope in the Great Basin and its Margins, Spring 2004
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

1. John G Anderson($70,000), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Basin, Contributions, Earthscope, Education, Knowledge, Participants, Review, Workshop.

``````Duke Participation in SAFOD: Two Collaborative Seismic Profiling Studies using the Geophone Array in the SAFOD Pilot Hole
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

1. Peter E Malin($276,700), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: San Andreas Fault, Geophone Array, Pilot Hole, Safod Site, Collect, Downhole, Effects, Monitoring, Properties, SWD, Time-lapse.

Seismic Characterization of Core Structure of the San Andreas Fault at Parkfield, California Using Fault-Zone Guided Waves
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

1. Yong-Gang Li($207,135), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Fault-zone Trapped Wave, San Andreas Fault, Drilling Site, Dynamic Rupture, Fault Zone, Fault-zone Trapped, Guided Waves, Main Saf, Trapped Waves, Analysis, Arrays, Damage, Damaged, Dense, Depth, Depths, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Experiment, Experiments, Extent, FZGW, Field, Low-velocity, Magnitude, Microearthquakes, Modeling, Parkfield, Pis, Program, Repeated, SAFOD, SWS, Seismic, Shots, Structure, Various, Velocities, Velocity.

Earthscope Workshop on Thermal Processes
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

1. Robert N Harris($41,879), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Heat Flow, Earthscope, Initiative, Integrating, Processes, Strategies, Thermal, Univ, Utah, Workshop.

Earthscope Scientific Workshop for Mid-America, Summer 04
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

1. Mitchell M Withers($53,000), University of Memphis, Memphis
Key terms: Advance, Articles, Brief, Earthquake, Earthscope, Experiments, Objective, Products, Read, Seeks, Widely, Workshop.

Research Frontiers in Appalachian Geology: A Pre-EARTHSCOPE (USArray) Workshop Proposal
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

1. Akhaury K Sinha($33,500), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Final Workshop Report, Appalachian Orogen, Array Component, Lithospheric Structure, Plenary Sessions, Suture Zones, Virginia Tech, Accretionary, Appalachians, Breakouts, Buried, Continent, Current, Deformation, Development, Earthscope, Evolution, Geologic, History, Imaging, Initiative, Knowledge, Lithosphere, Ma, Margins, Mid-plate, North, Opportunities, Paleozoic, Passive, Process, Province, Recommendations, Region, Seismic, Terrane, Terranes, Vision.

Collaborative Proposal: Map Tools for EarthScope Science and Education
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

1. Glenn A Richard($75,139), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Global Strain Rate, Strain Rate Map, Finite Strain, Mapping Tools, Time Steps, Animations, Developed, Earthscope, GPS, Interactive, Rates, Resources, Voyager.

Collaborative Research: Development of Automated Quality Control and Processing for Earthscope Magnetotelluric Data
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

1. Gary D Egbert($154,654), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Stephen K Park($88,620), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Electrical Conductivity, Partial Melt, MT.

Earth Live! - The Earthscope Video
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

1. Diane LaMacchia($167,675), EARTH IMAGES FOUNDATION, Oakland
Key terms: Classroom, Continent, Documentary, Earthquakes, Earthscope, Education, Educational, Knowledge, Outreach, Representatives, Resource, Television, Video, Videos, Volcanoes.

Collaborative Research: Map Tools for EarthScope Science and Education
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

1. Michael W Hamburger($138,617), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Global Strain Rate, Strain Rate Map, Finite Strain, Mapping Tools, Time Steps, Animations, Developed, Earthscope, GPS, Interactive, Rates, Resources, Voyager.

Workshops for Establishing a Stable North American Reference Frame (SNARF) to Enable Geophysical and Geodetic Studies with EarthScope
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

1. James L Davis($44,136), UNAVCO, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: America-pacific Plate Boundary, North America-pacific Plate, Plate Boundary Observatory, Stable Plate Interior, Terrestrial Reference Frame, America-pacific Plate, Earth's Crust, North America-pacific, Reference Frames, Stable North, Accurate, Axes, Common, Define, Definition, Deformation, Development, Earthscope, Evolution, Geodetic, Has, Intra-plate, Measure, Models, Motions, PBO, Precise, Processes, Region, Relative, Requires, SNARF, Slow, Spanning, Tectonic, Time, Workshops.

Understanding Volcanic Sources Through Improved Inversion of Deformation and Gravity Data
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

1. Paul Segall($225,301), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Magma Chamber, Deformation, Developing, Eruption, Estimate, Evolution, Fluids, Inversion, Magmatic, Methods, Model, Reservoirs, Shape, Size, Sources, Surface, Unrest.

Optimal Network Geometry for PBO
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

1. David A Schmidt($90,018), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Extended Network Inversion, Network Inversion Filter, Network Design, Network Geometry, Plate Boundary, Source Process, Additional, GPS, Geodetic, Model, Models, Optimal, PBO, Resolution, Station, Synthetic, Transient.

REU Site: Interpreting Paleoenvironments -- A Mulidisciplinary, Field and Laboratory Study of Florida's Late Neogene Record
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2004; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Eric A Oches($348,828), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Field, Laboratory, Mentoring, Multidisciplinary, Students.

Scientific Inquiry for Scientists: Workshops, Resources, and Research to Support the Professional Development of Scientists Involved in K-12 Education
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2004; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Sandra L Laursen($131,196), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: K-12 Education, Development, Knowledge, Participating.

SGER-Support for exploratory initial year of campus work for Masters International students in Geological Natural Hazards
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Gregg J Bluth($104,244), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: Natural Hazards, Peace Corps, Component, Country, Potential, Program, Students, Substantial.

Making the Earth and Space Education Revolution Real: Revolution II Workshop Proposal
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Dan Barstow($168,720), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Approach, Issues, Nationally, Policy, Teaching, Workshop.

Erosion Study of the Rodeo-Chediski Fire Area, Arizona: Model for a High-School Student-Based Research Program
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Wendy Woodward($50,627), Show Low Unified School District, Show Low
Key terms: Forest Management, Environmental, Erosion, Inquiry, Logging, Students, Wildfires.

DLESE Climate Change Collection
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Mark S McCaffrey($69,899), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Climate, Collection, DLESE, Effort.

The Continental-Scale Education and Outreach Puzzle: Putting the Pieces Together -- an Earthscope Education & Outreach workshop in Tucson, AZ, August 2002
Award Effective Date: 06/30/2004; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Michelle K Hall($19,333), Science Education Solutions Inc, Los Alamos
Key terms: Eando Steering Committee, Eando Program, Program Plan, August, Discussion, Draft, Earthscope, Educators, Workshop.

The 2004 Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) Annual Meeting
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2004; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Steven A Ackerman($219,076), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: DLESE, Meeting, Participants, Teaching.

Collaborative Proposal: Geoscience Departments: Developing Pathways to Strong Programs for the Future
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2004; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. P. Geoffrey Feiss($28,503), College of William and Mary, Williamsburg
2. Cathryn A Manduca($128,020), Carleton College, Northfield
Key terms: Describing Geoscience Departments, Faculty And Students, Building Strong, Program Supporting, Supporting Departments, Activities, Complete, Departmental, Development, Efforts, Initial, Leaders, On-line, Opportunities, Pilot, Programs, Set, Sharing, Survey, Workshop.

Comparative Analysis of Glacial Sediments, Minnesota and Brazil
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. James F P Cotter($71,254), University of Minnesota Morris, Morris
Key terms: Glacial History, Sao Paulo, Age, Analysis, Brazil, Deposits, Minnesota, Origin, Paleozoic, Program, Quaternary, Sediments, UMM.

Late Cenozoic and Active Uplift of a Restraining Bend along a Continental Transform -- the Dead Sea Fault in Lebanon
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Francisco G Gomez($17,967), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Plate Boundary, DSFS, Episodes, LRB, Lebanese, Neotectonic, Past, Tectonic, Uplift.

REU Site: Digital Mapping and Strain Analysis of Deformed Veins and Intrusions
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Matthew Bampton($269,689), University of Southern Maine, Portland
Key terms: Precision Digital Mapping, Initial Training, Sea Kayak, Analysis, Coastal, Deformed, Exposures, Field, GIS, GPS, Instruments, Intrusions, Lab, Maine, Mapped, Maps, Sites, Strain, Structural, Students, Summer, Survey, Total, Veins, Wk.

Teachers on the Leading Edge, workshop June 2004
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Robert F Butler($51,765), University of Portland, Portland
Key terms: Continent, Field, Geologic, Geology, Limited, Problem-solving, Teachers, Workshops.

A Workshop Proposal For Developing A DLESE Quality Assurance Plan, September 2004
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Michelle K Hall($117,382), Science Education Solutions Inc, Los Alamos
Key terms: Digital Library, Quality Assurance, Comprehensive, Consensus, DLESE, Plan, Policies, Procedures, Workshop.

The Keck Geology Consortium: A Core Undergraduate Research Program
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2004; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Beth A Palmer($552,732), Carleton College, Northfield
Key terms: Keck Geology Consortium, Undergraduate Students, Assessment, Development, Nation, Symposium.

REU: Summer Research Experience in the Mammoth Cave/Upper Green River Watershed
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2004; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Rezaul Mahmood($253,556), Western Kentucky University Research Foundation, Bowling Green
Key terms: National Conference, Student Participants, Western Kentucky, Academic, Environmental, Experience, Faculty, Graduate, Hands-on, Meaningful, Mentor, Participating, Poster, Program, Pursue, Students.

An REU Site for Undergraduate Research Training in the Geosciences
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2004; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Stephen A Gramsch($401,513), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Branch Road Campus, Broad Branch Road, Advisor, Carnegie, Paths, Personal, Program, Programs, Sites, Staff, Student, Students, Summer, Trips, Undergraduates, Washington, Week.

REU Site Investigation: Paleoenvironmental characterization of a dinosaur site in the Morrison Formation of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2004; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Timothy M Demko($232,513), Hope College, Holland
Key terms: Pale Environmental Setting, Bighorn Basin, Morrison Formation, Cluster, Comparisons, Dinosaur, Environments, Fossils, Has, Site, Sites.

Meeting of Young Researchers in the Earth Sciences MYRES: A Conference Series and Community Development Initiative
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Cin-Ty A Lee($63,180), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Myres Meeting, Allow, Educate, Educational, Expected, International, Primary, Solid, Specific.

Acquisition of equipment for direct observation of colloid attachment-detachment dynamics and direct measurement of colloid-substratum interaction and adhesion forces
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2004; Program: ELECTROCHEMISTRY & SURFACE CHE

1. Jan D Miller($314,442), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Attachment-detachment Dynamics, Acquisition, Attachment-detachment, Capability, Colloidal, Determination, Direct, Interactions, Surfaces, Transport.

Collaborative Research: Silicate Reactions Kinetics in a Major Groundwater Aquifer
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2004; Program: ENVIRO GEOCHEM AND BIOGEOCHEM

1. Chen Zhu($106,918), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Watersheds And Soil, Soil Profiles, Weathering Rates, Aquifer, Derived, Discrepancy, Global, Nm, Sandstone, Silicate, Time.

Evolution of Intraplate Volcanism in a Diffuse Igneous Province: A Case Study of the Pribilof Islands, Alaska
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Todd C Feeley($159,947), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Mantle And Crustal, 40ar39ar Dating, Geologic Evolution, Pribilof Islands, Volcanic Fields, Volcanic Rocks, Arar, BSBP, Composition, Constrained, Contrasting, Differences, Factors, Faulting, Geochemical, Human, Isotopic, Magmas, Petrologic, Populations, Province, St, Timing, Volcanism, Wildlife.

Internal Carbon Cycling in Tropical Deltaic Sediments
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Andrei Y Chistoserdov($247,326), University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette
Key terms: Mobile Mud Belts, Carbon Cycle, Chemolithotrophic Carbon, Co2 Fixation, Deltaic Brenvironments, Mobile Sediments, Relative Importance, Rubisco Ii, Tropical Mobile, Activity, Bacteria, Biogeochemical, Biological, Biomass, Dehydrogenase, Diagenetic, Environments, Experiments, Fixed, Global, Heterotrophic, Involved, Involves, Massive, Matter, Organic, Overall, Oxidation, Play, Primary, Processes, Processing, Radiotracer, Reactions, Specific, Student, Suboxic, Wave.

A Natural Experiment to Examine Hafnium Mobility in Subduction Zones
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Kirsten P Nicolaysen($114,334), Kansas State University, Manhattan
Key terms: Hf Isotopic Compositions, Sediment And Fluid, Aleutian Arc, Fracture Zone, AFZ, Aleutians, Atka, Collaborations, Examine, Graduate, HFSE, Has, Islands, KSU, Lavas, National, Pulse, Seguam, Spike, Students, Training, Yunaska.

Tephra Dispersal From Basaltic Plinian Eruptions: The Case Study of the Fontana Lapilli Scoria-Fall Deposit (>20ka BP), Masaya Caldera Complex, Nicaragua
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Costanza Bonadonna($97,531), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Fontana Lapilli Eruption, Deposit, Scoria-fall.

MRI: Acquisition of a Scanning Electron Microscope with an Energy Dispersive Spectrometer for Multi-Disciplinary Research and Education
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Sean T O'Keefe($263,400), Morehead State University, Morehead
Key terms: Acquisition, Benefit, Campus, Education, Faculty, Industry, Instrument, Local, MSU, Morehead, Region, SEM, Students, Technologies.

Re-evaluation of the late Paleozoic ice age in eastern Australia
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Christopher R Fielding($140,000), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln
Key terms: Sedimentological And Geochemical, Eastern Australia, Numerical Models, South Wales, Activities, Climate, Contribute, Experience, Field, Glacial, Global, Gondwanan, Late, Paleozoic, Participation, Past, Pis, Students.

ID-TIMS U-Pb ZIRCON RADIOMETRIC AGES FOR THE PENNSYLVANIAN-CISURALIAN TIME SCALE: IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL CORRELATION AND RATES OF PROCESSES
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2004; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Mark D Schmitz($364,009), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Age Calibration, Geologic Time, Late Paleozoic, Late Pennsylvanian, Principal Reference, Aspects, Assigned, Biostratigraphic, Control, Directly, Global, History, House, Interval, Permian, Precise, Radiometric, Sections, Southern.

CAREER: Rheology of Materials of Earth's Mantle: High-end Computational/Visualization Research and Education
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2004; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Bijaya B Karki($465,144), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Access, Activities, Computational, Computer, Dynamics, Environment, LSU, Louisiana, Mantle, Mechanical, Minerals, Properties, Simulations, Students, Underrepresented.

Sulfate 17O Anomalies in Cenozoic Volcaniclastic Deposits in the Northern High Plains, North America
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2004; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Huiming Bao($200,000), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Extreme Dry Fogs, Sulfate 17o Anomalies, 17o Anomalies, Ash Beds, Gering Formation, Sulfate 17o, Sulfate Deposition, Abnormal, Diagenetic, Examine, Isotope, Locality, Nebraska, Northern, Past, Plains, Sedimentological, Sequence, Students, Volcanic.

Experimental Studies of Garnet-Melt Trace Element Partitioning
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2004; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Charles K Shearer($293,263), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Planetary Interiors, Controls, Critical, Evolution, Experimental, Garnet, Garnet-melt, Mantle, Melt, Melting, Partitioning, Pressure, Trace.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Hydrological linkages between landscapes and streams: Transferring reach and plot scale understanding to the network and catchment scales
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2004; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Brian L McGlynn($222,003), Montana State University, Bozeman
2. Michael N Gooseff($50,173), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Field Investigations, Landscape Analysis, Topographic Analysis, Approaches, BSI, Catchment, Catchments, Combine, Context, Controls, Dynamics, Empirical, Hydrologic, Larger, Link, Linking, Method, Plot, Process, Processes, Reach, Reach-scale, Riparian, Scale-up, Scaled, Scaling, Source, Stream, Transfer.

High Performance, Multiple Resolution Modeling of Semi-Arid Hydrology at Regional Scales
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2004; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Enrique R Vivoni($130,076), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Water Management, Climate, Coupled, Effort, Fine-resolution, Hispanic, Hydrologic, Integration, Knowledge, Local, Model, Modeling, Multiple, Program, Rainfall-runoff, SAHRA, Semi-arid, Spatial.

Collaborative Research: Acquisition of a Dual, Complementary Ground Penetrating Radar System for Geoscience Research and Teaching in South Carolina
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2004; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Michael S Harris($63,475), Coastal Carolina University, Conway
2. Camelia C Knapp($61,966), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Carolina, Faculty, GPR, Geoscience, USC.

Acquisition of computers and support for geodynamic modeling within an existing shared UNIX facility
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2004; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Mousumi Roy($42,750), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Computational Equipment, CPU, Dual.

Biogeochemical Cycling of Heavy Metals in Lake Coeur d'Alene Sediments: The Role of Indigenous Microbial Communities
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2004; Program: ERE General

1. Timothy R Ginn($1,223,620), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Lake Coeur D'alene, Spatial And Temporal, Coeur D'alene, Heavy Metal, Lcda Sediments, Metal Contaminated, Metal Cycling, Metal Stress, Toxic Metal, Activity, Biogeochemical, Complex, Dalene, Diversity, Dynamic, Dynamics, Environment, Environments, Historically, Human, Inhibition, Integrate, Metals, Microbial, Microorganisms, Model, Molecular, Objectives, Observations, Public, Quantify, Quantitative, Significantly, Species, Subjected, Techniques, Transport.

Collaborative Research: Controls on hyporheic nitrate retention - discriminating among transport, reaction-rate, and substrate limitation
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2004; Program: Ecosystem Science

1. Steven M Wondzell($258,201), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Michelle A Baker($191,792), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Oregon And Wyoming, Residence Time Distributions, Biotic Assimilation, Experimental Reaches, Field Experience, Groundwater Flow, Hyporheic Denitrification, Hyporheic Zone, Hyporheic Zones, Linx Ii, Nitrate Retention, Nitrogen Cycling, Stream Reaches, Urban Streams, Access, Activities, Agricultural, Allows, Courses, DOC, Examine, Factors, Forested, Gain, Geochemical, Haggerty, Hydrology, Low, OSU, Potential, Quantify, Rate, Sampling, School, Students, Substrate, Total, Transport, Transport-limited, USU, Water.

Analysis of River Restoration Hydrologic Function: Meadows as Macro-Hyporheic Zones
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2004; Program: Ecosystem Science

1. Steven M Gorelick($296,824), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Feather River Watershed, Degraded Meadows, River Restoration, Analysis, Assess, Channels, Energy, Environment, Environments, Has, Hydroecological, Hydrologic, Initiated, Involves, Natural, Set, Vegetation, Was.

Upscaling of Reactive Transport Equations in Porous Media; Biologically Mediated Iron Reduction, and the Effect of Humic Materials on the Scaling Process
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2004; Program: GEOBIOLOGY

1. Peter R Jaffe($307,314), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Iron Reducing Bacteria, Column Experiments, Electron Schedule, Humic Substances, Iron Reducer, Iron Reduction, Iron Surface, AQDS, Arsenate, Biogeochemical, Biomass, Contact, Dynamics, Experimental, Humics, Obtained, Presence, Rates, Reaction, Scaling.

Workshop: High-precision Intercalibration of U-Pb and Ar-Ar Geochronometers
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Samuel A Bowring($45,000), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: U-pb And 40ar39ar, Geological Timescale, U-pb Geochronology, Allowing, Application, Arar, Dates, Differences, Interlaboratory, Laboratories, Lead, Potential, Precision, Previously, Workshop.

Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics, CIG
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Michael Aivazis($6,940,561), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Computational Geodynamics, Computational Infrastructure, Software Development, Strategic Partnerships, Benefit, CIG, Codes, Computing, Core, Dynamics, Efforts, Geoinformatics, Has, Initiative, Larger, Layer, Leverage, Means, Modeling, Multiple, Open-source, State-of-the-art, Training, Workshops.

Cyberinfrastructure Summer Institute for Geoscientists
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2004; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Dogan Seber($70,016), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Center, Institute, Participants, Serve, Topics, Web.

A Workshop and Report on Computational Geoinformatics
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2004; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Ronald E Cohen($70,000), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Workshop.

Workshop in Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics (CIG)
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2004; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Louise H Kellogg($25,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Allow, Alter, Balance, CIG, Computational, Geophysics, Hold, Participants, Participation, Plan, Students, Time, Toolkits, Tools, Workshop.

The Relationship Between Post-Little-Ice-Age Isostatic Rebound and Active Tectonics in Southern Alaska
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2004; Program: GEOSCIENCE EDUCATION

1. Jeffrey T Freymueller($371,416), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Generate Three-dimensional Predictions, Glacial Isostatic Rebound, Isostatic Rebound Models, Crustal Deformation, Generate Three-dimensional, Raised Shoreline, Seismic Potential, Three-dimensional Predictions, Alaska, Current, Dynamics, Evaluating, Fault, GPS, Has, Horizontal, Induced, Numerical, Observations, Rates, Region, Regional, Set, Sites, Strain, Tectonic, Unloading, Uplift, Velocity.

Collaborative Research: Understanding Carbon Isotope Excursions in the Paleozoic: An Integrated Chemostratigraphic & Modeling Approach
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2004; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Lee R Kump($61,946), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Matthew R Saltzman($152,269), Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE, Columbus
3. Timothy W Lyons($88,073), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Organic Carbon Burial, Paleozoic Time Slices, 87sr 86sr, Box Models, Carbon Cycling, D13ccarb Excursions, Late Cambrian, Organic Matter, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Climate, Compositions, Contents, Critical, Cycles, Dccarb, Dcorg, Dssulfate, Earth, Feedback, Field, Geochemical, Global, Involved, Isotopic, Mass, Mississippian, Missouri, Modeling, Ohio, Penn, Rate, Student, Students.

Collaborative Research: Spatial and temporal evolution of the Panoche-Tumey Hills Paleoseep, western San Joaquin Valley, California
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2004; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Hilde L Schwartz($108,672), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
2. James C Sample($118,052), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: Appropriate Age, Graduate Student, Lipid Biomarkers, Analyses, Attention, China, Dc, Diversification, Environmental, Evolution, Existing, Forward, Geochemical, Glacial, Glaciations, Has, Leading, Neoproterozoic, Oceans, Organic, Organic-rich, Particular, Pis, Previously, Public, Rock, Snowball, Students, Time, USC, Undergraduate, Unusual.

Measuring long-term, mineral-specific weathering rates in diverse climatic settings
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. James W Kirchner($96,552), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Actively Eroding Soils, Chemical Weathering Rates, Earth's Long-term Climatic, Individual Mineral Phases, Long-term Climatic Evolution, Long-term Denudation Rates, Mineral Weathering Rates, Cosmogenic Nuclides, Earth's Long-term, Long-term Climatic, Long-term Denudation, Mineral Supply, Silicate-weathering Rates, Bedrock, Bulk, Climate, Composition, Effects, Erosion, Extent, Field, Geochemistry, Hence, Measure, Measured, Methods, Parent, Previous, Processes, Quantify, Range, Require, Silicate-weathering, Sites, Temperature.

Collaborative Research: Biogeochemistry of the Snowball Earth
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Frank A Corsetti($109,426), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Appropriate Age, Graduate Student, Lipid Biomarkers, Analyses, Attention, China, Dc, Diversification, Environmental, Evolution, Existing, Forward, Geochemical, Glacial, Glaciations, Has, Leading, Neoproterozoic, Oceans, Organic, Organic-rich, Particular, Pis, Previously, Public, Rock, Snowball, Students, Time, USC, Undergraduate, Unusual.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Presaging Paleoproterozoic Global Change: Geobiology of the Late Archean Eon
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Ariel D Anbar($74,624), Arizona State University, Tempe
2. Andrew H Knoll($50,000), Harvard University, Cambridge
3. Roger Summons($164,661), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
4. Alan J Kaufman($64,874), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
5. Timothy W Lyons($64,562), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
6. Roger Buick($79,930), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Drill Core, Drilling Program, Hamersley Basin, Kerogenous Sediments, Late Archean, ADP, Analysis, Astrobiology, Biogeochemical, Biomarkers, Broader, Characterize, Collaboration, Compounds, Cyanobacteria, Environmental, Examination, Future, Redox, Relative, Students.

Collaborative Research: The Effect of Atmospheric Humidity on the Susceptibility of Dry Soils to Wind Erosion
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Paolo D'Odorico($140,672), University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville
2. Thomas M Over($73,581), Eastern Illinois University, Charleston
Key terms: Erosion And Dust, Humidity And Temperature, Soil Erosion Potential, Surface Soil Moisture, Threshold Wind Velocity, Adsorbed-layer Bonding, Air Humidity, Air-dry Soils, Dryland Landscapes, Interparticle Bonding, Interparticle Forces, Soil Erodibility, Surface Moisture, Water Content, Wind Erosion, Wind Tunnel, Adsorbed-layer, Air-dry, Approach, Argued, Arid, Atmospheric, Capillarity, Conditions, Contributes, Dependence, Effect, Equation, Existing, Function, Predict, Range, Recognizes, Regions, Theoretical.

Time-Resolved Diffraction Studies of Aqueous Cation Exchange and Hydrothermal Synthesis of Metal Oxide Clay Minerals
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Jeffrey Post($334,930), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Layer And Tunnel, Experiments Involving, Mn Oxide, Mn Oxides, Tunnel Topologies, Actively, Aqueous, Cation, Environments, Exchange, Hope, Hydrothermal, Metal, Molecules, Natural, Perform, Phases, Pis, Processes, Reactions, Soil, Solutions, Structures, Synthesis, Time-resolved.

Collaborative Proposal: Biogeochemistry of the Snowball Earth
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Alex Sessions($74,263), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Appropriate Age, Graduate Student, Lipid Biomarkers, Analyses, Attention, China, Dc, Diversification, Environmental, Evolution, Existing, Forward, Geochemical, Glacial, Glaciations, Has, Leading, Neoproterozoic, Oceans, Organic, Organic-rich, Particular, Pis, Previously, Public, Rock, Snowball, Students, Time, USC, Undergraduate, Unusual.

Processes of Channel Bifurcation in Fluvial Systems
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Rudy L Slingerland($134,874), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Unconfined Channel Bifurcations, Bifurcate Channels, Bifurcating Channels, Conceptual Model, Factors Set, Secondary Circulation, Sediment Transport, Alluvial, Based, Basic, Braid, Capability, Discharge, Experiments, Flow, Geometries, Growth, Hydrodynamics, LES, Observations, Process, Processes, Stability, Statistics, Stream, Three-dimensional, Undergraduates, Water.

SGER: A Novel Dinosaurian Tissue Exhibiting Unusual Preservation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Mary H Schweitzer($60,301), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Avian Medullary Bone, Red Blood Cells, Bone Tissue, Bone Types, Cortical Bone, Extant Bone, Internal Contents, Analyses, Birds, Chemical, Consistent, Demineralization, Demineralized, Dinosaur, Distinct, Has, Increased, Matrix, Microstructures, Molecular, Observed, Phylogenetic, Potential, Produced, Revealed, Structurally, Tissues, Vessels.

Enamel Maturation in Mammals and Implications for Stable Isotope Analysis for Diet and Climate Signals
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Thure E Cerling($181,984), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Forward And Inverse, Intra-tooth Isotope Method, Primary Input Signals, Temporal And Spatial, Enamel Mineral, Intra-tooth Isotope, Inverse Models, Maturation Parameters, Tooth Enamel, Accumulation, Allow, Ancient, Animal, Animals, Based, Developing, Ecosystem, Environmental, Environments, Evaluation, Isotopic, Knowledge, Laboratory, Measured, Microct, Modeling, Range, Reservoir, Seasonal, Species, Teeth, Uncertainty, Wide.

Theoretical Stable Isotope Geochemistry of Alkaline-Earth Elements
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Edwin A Schauble($247,951), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Equilibrium Stable Isotope, Simple Electronic Structures, Stable Isotope Geochemistry, Ab Initio, Computational Chemistry, Isotopic Fractionations, Systematic Theoretical, Theoretical Studies, Accurate, Advance, Alkaline-earth, Aqueous, Barium, Basic, Crystals, Database, Education, Geochemical, Heavy, Laboratory, Merit, Mineral, Modeled, Modeling, Molecules, Natural, Observed, Strontium, Sulfur, Techniques, Vibrational.

Time scales across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary: A new approach
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Sujoy Mukhopadhyay($178,178), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: 3he-based Sedimentation Rates, Cretaceous-early Tertiary Sediments, Late Cretaceous-early Tertiary, 3he-based Sedimentation, Bedding Couplets, Cretaceous-early Tertiary, Late Cretaceous-early, Milankovitch Forcing, Agost, Boundary, Carbonate, Climate, Concentration, Constrain, Continent, Cycles, Cyclostratigraphy, Distribution, Driving, Duration, Estimate, Following, Helium, Idps, Individuals, Investigate, K-T, Limestone-marl, Mass, Pace, Particles, Precessional, Recovery, Represent, Resolution, Spain, Thousand, Time, Timescales.

CAREER: Generation of Sediment Heterogeneity by Macrophytes and Macrofauna and Consequences for Redox Chemistry and Trace Metal Speciation
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Carla M Koretsky($522,520), Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
Key terms: Bioavailability And Mobility, Coastal And Inland, Metal And Nutrient, Metal Speciation Resulting, Mineralogy And Trace, Trace Metal Speciation, Inland Wetland, Rapidly Growing, Undergraduate Students, Assess, Chemistry, Course, Development, Education, Experiments, Fauna, Field, Flora, Freshwater, Graduate, Innovative, Laboratory, Michigan, Models, Opportunity, Organic, Oxygen, Populations, Redox, Roots, Sediment, Sediments, Sensitive, Surrounding, WMU, Wetlands.

Workshop: Curation of Terrestrial Scientific Cores, Samples and Collections
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Shirley P Dutton($25,000), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Terrestrial Cores, Academic, Access, Collections, Geologic, Rock, Space, Storage, Workshop.

RUI: Paleohydrology of the Great Lakes region since the most recent glaciation
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. James A Clark($105,290), Calvin University, Grand Rapids
Key terms: Ice Sheet, Inverse Model, Lake Levels, Lakes Region, Stream Networks, Undergraduate Geology, Affecting, Caused, Changing, Deformation, Dems, Digital, Elevation, Entire, Exact, Field, Freshwater, GIS, Geoid, Glacial, History, Hydrologic, Models, Nature, Numerical, Outlets, Paleo-topography, Predictions, Relative, Simulate, Southern, Surface, Thickness, Viscous.

Understanding the Role of Clay Mineral Surface Interactions in Pressure Solution
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Norma A Alcantar($384,978), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Binding And Exchange, Carbonate Crystals, Clay Minerals, Fluid Composition, Mica Cleavages, Pressure Solution, Quartz Surface, Surface Interactions, AFM, Colloidal, Conditions, Corrosion, Diffusion, Directly, Dissolution, Electrolyte, Experimental, Fields, Geologic, Geological, Geology, Growth, Has, Interfaces, Ions, Laboratory, Levels, Measure, Natural, Observed, Processes, Prof, Rate, Rates, SEM, SFA, Step, Students, Surfaces, Theoretical, Various, XPS.

GeoSystems: Probing Earth's Deep-Time Climate and Linked Systems
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2004; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Gerilyn S Soreghan($77,973), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Deep-time Climate, Deep-time Perspective, Earth's Climate, Time Scales, Deep-time, Geosystems, Initiative, Modeling, Operate, Variety, Viewed, Workshop.

CAREER: Mineral Surface Mediated Organization of Biological Macromolecules
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Nita Sahai($674,225), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Charge And Hydration, Educational Initiative, Geology Museum, Mineral Surface, Surface Charge, Adsorption, Anatase, Biogeosciences, Biological, Calculations, Cell, Centre, Chemical, Collaboration, Compared, Department, Energies, Exhibit, Experiments, Natural, Oxides, Phospholipid, Phospholipids, Processes, Prof, Quartz, Self-assembly, Silica, Spectroscopy, Surfaces, UW.

Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System(CSDMS) Implementation Plan Workshop
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2004; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Christopher Paola($40,743), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Surface Dynamics Modeling, Earth's Surface, Implementation Plan, White Paper, CSDMS, Forecasting, Initiative, Management, Models, NSF, Rationale, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Bedrock and Sediment Controls on River Incision, Henry Mountains and Navajo Mountain, Utah
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2004; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Leonard S Sklar($45,899), San Francisco State University, San Francisco
2. Kelin X Whipple($192,847), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Lithologic And Sediment, Mountains And Nearby, Nearby Navajo Mountain, Percent Rock Exposure, River Incision Model, Rock Mass Quality, Channel Morphology, Henry Mountains, Incision Rate, Orogen Evolution, Sediment Controls, Sediment Load, Substrate Erodibility, Advances, Analyses, Bedrock, Canyonlands, Climate, Dietrich, Digital, Erosional, Experimental, Field, Focused, Generic, Has, Interactions, Landscape, Landscapes, Lithology, MIT, Models, Opportunity, Play, Predictions, Progress, Public, Quantitative, SFSU, Saltation-abrasion, Set, Student, Suitable, Tectonic, Theoretical, Undergraduates, Utah.

Geomorphic and geochronologic study in and near Grand Canyon: Testing landscape responses to climate change and exploring the paleo-longitudinal profile of the Colorado River
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Joel L Pederson($248,913), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Aggradation And Incision, Eastern Grand Canyon, Mainstem Colorado River, Alluvial Stratigraphy, Complex Linkages, Conceptual Model, Incision Rates, Quaternary Stratigraphy, Sediment Supply, Tributary Streams, Active, Antiphasing, Catchment, Climate, Complete, Dating, Detailed, Emerging, Evolution, Geochronologic, Hand, Has, Landscape, Length, Local, Methods, Passing, Regional, Signal, Sites, Spectacular, Variable, Via.

A Collaborative Proposal: Late Quaternary Glacial and Paleoclimate Record in the Southern Uinta Mountains, Northeastern Utah
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. David M Mickelson($228,215), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Cosmogenic Surface-exposure Dating, North And South, Cosmogenic Surface-exposure, Lake Bonneville, Surface-exposure Dating, Uinta Mountains, Uinta Range, ANF, Alpine, CIRTL, Central, Climate, Current, Eastern, Excellent, Extent, Extents, Geology, Glacial, Glaciation, Glacier, Glaciers, Graduate, Has, History, LGM, Laabs, Late-quaternary, Methods, Moraines, Munroe, National, Objectives, Opportunity, Paleoclimate, Pleistocene, Pursuit, Student, Timing, Uintas, Uw-madison.

Collaborative/RUI: Late-Quaternary Glacial and Paleoclimate History of the Uinta Mountains, Northeastern Utah
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Jeffrey S Munroe($101,317), Middlebury College, Middlebury
Key terms: Cosmogenic Surface-exposure Dating, North And South, Cosmogenic Surface-exposure, Lake Bonneville, Surface-exposure Dating, Uinta Mountains, Uinta Range, ANF, Alpine, CIRTL, Central, Climate, Current, Eastern, Excellent, Extents, Geology, Glacial, Glaciation, Glacier, Glaciers, Graduate, Has, History, LGM, Laabs, Late-quaternary, Methods, Moraines, National, Objectives, Opportunity, Paleoclimate, Pleistocene, Pursuit, Student, Timing, Uintas, Uw-madison.

Detection of Magma Chamber at Mt. Fuji, Japan
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Jonathan M Lees($141,208), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Below Mt, Magma Storage, Melt Accumulation, Seismic Imaging, Active, Analysis, Conduits, Constrain, Correlation, Crust, Deep, Fuji, Geometry, Modeled, Region, Set, Transport, Volcano.

Collaborative Research: Imaging the Upper Mantle Beneath the Western Tibetan Plateau
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Peter H Molnar($113,198), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Vadim L Levin($248,112), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
3. Steven W Roecker($583,659), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
Key terms: Mantle Beneath Tibet, Frequency Arrivals, Bureau, Dynamics, Masses, Period, Plateau, Recording, Relatively, Seismology, Students, Substantial, Techniques, Tibetan, Wavespeed, Western.

High Resolution Upper Mantle Structure beneath the Tibetan Plateau and Its Surroundings from Studies of Seismic Waveforms
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Lupei Zhu($113,530), Saint Louis University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Collision Models, Structure Beneath, Tibetan Plateau, Upper Mantle, Has, Process, Region, Resolution, Seismic, Upper-mantle.

High-Pressure Elasticity of Mantle Minerals
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Thomas S Duffy($299,720), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Brillouin Scattering, Elastic Properties, Mantle Minerals, Composition, High-pressure, Knowledge, Pressure, Pressures, Structure, Temperature.

The Nature of the Mid-Archean Geomagnetic Field
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. John A Tarduno($185,535), University of Rochester, Rochester
Key terms: Archean, Field, Geomagnetic, Grains, Laboratory, Magnetometer, Million, Ofthe, Paleointensity, Range, Rock, Time.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Finite Element Modeling of a Subducted Topographic High: Determining Regional Stress Changes Due to Subducting Features
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Carolina R Lithgow-Bertelloni($35,553), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. Susan L Bilek($132,235), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Rica And Nankai, Costa Rica, Plate Interface, Stress Conditions, Subduction Zone, Subduction Zones, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Environment, Features, Regions, Rupture, Seismicity, Structures, Subducted, Subducting, Triggering.

Collaborative Research: Understanding Fault Zone Compliance by Seismic Probing of InSAR Anomalies
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Peter M Shearer($91,991), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Yong-Gang Li($144,716), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
3. John E Vidale($260,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Fault Zone, Fault Zones, Deeper, Deformation, Deploy, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Experiment, Faults, Map, Measure, Programs, Rock, Strength, Structure.

ABR: Experimental Studies of Thermo-Chemical Convection in the Mantles of Terrestrial Planets
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Mark A Richards($233,940), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Temporal Evolution, Thermo-chemical Convection, Characterize, Compositional, Entrainment, Experiments, Flow, Focus, Heterogeneity, Mantle, Observations, Planets, Processes, Spatial, Thermo-chemical, Transfer.

Frequency Sweep Acoustic Interferometry: Measurement of Silicate Melt Compressibility and Density at High Temperature and Pressure
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Rebecca A Lange($400,002), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Magmatic Liquids, Partial Melting, Compressibility, Crust, Density, Mantle, Models, Pressure, Quantitative, Spectroscopic, Velocity.

Harnessing Sample Geometry to Measure Equation of State of Deep Earth Minerals
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Abby Kavner($20,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Diamond Cell, Laser Heating, Phase Stability, Thermoelastic Properties, X-ray Diffraction, Ability, Behavior, Chamber, Compressibility, Constrain, Density, Inside, Marker, Mgsio, Pressure, Pressures, Stress, X-ray.

Collaborative Research: Paleomagnetism and Geochronology of the Mono Lake Event [?] Recorded in the Lava Section at Santa Maria Volcano, Guatemala
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Bradley S Singer($50,092), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Lava Flows Exposed, Maria Lava Flows, Santa Maria Lava, Santa Maria Volcano, 40ar39ar Ages, Crater Wall, Geomagnetic Excursion, Geomagnetic Field, Michigan Tech, Mono Lake, Volcanic Rocks, Arar, Dating, Extent, Global, Guatemalan, Has, Hazards, Instability, Laboratory, Normal, Paleomagnetic, Periods, Precisely, Reversed, Short-lived, Volcanologist, Volcanologists, Wisconsin-madison.

Collaborative Research: Paleomagnetism and Geochronology of the Mono Lake Event [?] Recorded in the Lava Flow Sequence of Santa Maria Volcano, Guatemala
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Jimmy F Diehl($126,062), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: Lava Flows Exposed, Maria Lava Flows, Santa Maria Lava, Santa Maria Volcano, 40ar39ar Ages, Crater Wall, Geomagnetic Excursion, Geomagnetic Field, Michigan Tech, Mono Lake, Volcanic Rocks, Arar, Dating, Extent, Global, Guatemalan, Has, Hazards, Instability, Laboratory, Normal, Paleomagnetic, Periods, Precisely, Reversed, Short-lived, Volcanologist, Volcanologists, Wisconsin-madison.

Rupture Propagation and Arrest in Geometrically Complex Fault Systems: Bends, Stepovers, and Damaged Border Zones
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Renata Dmowska($500,000), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Branches And Stepovers, Complex Fault, Rupture Paths, Alaska, Bends, Complexities, Dynamic, Dynamics, Earthquakes, Field, Fracture, Kinks, Propagation, Ruptures, Seismic, Stress, Student, Theory, Zones.

ABR: Mantle Circulation Models: Development and Application to Geophysical and Geochemical Observables
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2004; Program: Geophysics

1. Richard J O'Connell($396,532), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Flow And Convection, Mantle Flow, Plate Motions, Allow, Applied, Development, Dynamical, Evolution, Geochemical, Heterogeneity, Models, Phenomena, Plumes, Processes, Relate.

The Precessionally-Driven Dynamo
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2004; Program: Geophysics

1. Paul H Roberts($410,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Earth's Core, Magnetic Field, Rotationally Flattened, Bullards, Code, Convectively-driven, Development, Dynamo, Dynamos, Fluid, Geodynamo, Has, Investigate, Method, Objects, Power, Precession, Precessionally-driven, Strength.

CAREER: Frontiers of Continuum and Fracture Mechanics in Geology and Geophysics
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2004; Program: Geophysics

1. Yuri Fialko($508,000), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Geodetic Observations, Rock Deformation, Brittle, Geological, Geophysical, Laboratory, Lithosphere, Mechanisms, Properties, Rheologic, Volcanic.

Seismic Study of the Offshore Portion of the Cameroon Volcanic Line, Gulf of Guinea, West Africa
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2004; Program: Geophysics

1. Robert J Pulliam($95,364), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Bioko, CVL, Cameroon, Continent, Convection, Crust, Half, Islands, King, Line, Mantle, Meyers, Offshore, Principe, Seismic, Volcanic, Volcanism.

High P-T Elasticity of Deep Earth Materials With New Gigahertz-Ultrasonic Techniques
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2004; Program: Geophysics

1. Steven D Jacobsen($298,671), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Cvd Diamond, Elastic Tensor, Anisotropy, Determined, Diamond-anvil, Earth, Elasticity, Experiments, Gem, Methods, P-T, Shear, Ultrasonic, Velocity.

Paleosecular Variation in the Southern Hemisphere: A Regional Study in Southern Patagonia
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2004; Program: Geophysics

1. Laurie L Brown($262,118), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Lava Flows, Magnetic Field, Particular Emphasis, Southern Patagonia, Degrees, Directional, Extensive, Future, GAD, Geologic, Geoscience, Investigate, Model, Modeling, Myr, Paleomagnetic, Region, Sediments, Students, TAF, Undergraduate, Wider.

Frictional Constitutive Behavior of Natural Fault Gouge Materials: Effects of Mineralogy
Award Effective Date: 09/30/2004; Program: Geophysics

1. Demian M Saffer($69,500), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Experimentally Deformed Gouges, Fault Behavior, Fault Gouge, Characterization, Composition, Constitutive, Define, Exhibit, Faulting, Frictional, Microstructures, Natural, Properties, Stable, Step, Synthetic, Unstable.

Collaborative Research: Wave Equation Tomography and Data Assimilation: A New Approach to Estimating P and S Speed Variations in Earth's Lower Mantle
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2004; Program: Geophysics

1. Maarten V de Hoop($43,167), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: Earth's Deep Interior, Parameterization And Regularization, Wave Propagation Theory, Earth's Deep, Earth's Structure, Elastic Parameters, Global Tomography, Sensitivity Kernels, Accurate, Aspects, Automated, CSM, Coverage, Essential, Estimates, Exploit, Frequency, Fusion, Images, Integration, Inversion, Joint, MIT, Mantle, Measured, Models, Multi-grid, Multi-resolution, Observational, Pis, Produce, Properties, Quality, Quantitative, Sampling, Seek, Sensitivities, Sets, Spatial, Temperature, Theoretical, Time, Waveforms, Waves.

Collaborative Research: Holocene Geomagnetic Field Variability from the High-latitude Southern Hemisphere
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Geophysics

1. Joseph S Stoner($62,322), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Spherical Harmonic Models, Directional Psv, Holocene Psv, Southern Chilean, Southern Hemisphere, Adjacent, Assess, Carry, Cores, Database, Detailed, Dynamo, Earth, Field, Gap, Magnetic, Margin, Paleointensity, Properly, Recover, Replicate, Student.

Dynamic Subduction Zone Thermal Modeling
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2004; Program: Geophysics

1. Scott D King($210,000), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Slab Thermal Structure, Thermal Structure Calculations, Thermal Structure Models, Density Structure, Slab Deformation, Available, Constraints, Critical, Current, Dynamically, Effect, Estimates, Fields, Flow, Generation, Inconsistent, Kinematic, Motion, Plan, Plate, Resolution, Seismic, Subduction, Tool, Tools, Variety.

2004 ACES International Workshop: Understanding Earthquake Physics
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Geophysics

1. Andrea Donnellan($25,000), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: ACES, Earthquake, Joint, Meetings, Progress, Ranging, Students.

Collaborative Research: The Effects of Melt Depletion on Mantle Density and Velocity
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2004; Program: Geophysics

1. Charles E Lesher($38,541), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Melt Depletion, Composition, Compositional, Convection, Density, Depleted, Effects, Flow, Mantle, Models, Peridotite, Rock, Temperature, Velocities, Velocity, Wyoming.

Collaborative Research: Elasticty of Hot-Pressed Polycrystalline High-Pressure Minerals of the Earth's Transition Zone
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2004; Program: Geophysics

1. Gabriel D Gwanmesia($93,689), Delaware State University, Dover
Key terms: Earth's Interior, Elastic Properties, High-pressure Phases, Mineral Phases, Polycrystalline Specimens, Temperature Effects, Transition Zone, Collaboration, Composition, Developed, Elasticity, High-pressure, Investigate, Measuring, Models, Processes, RUS, Special, Surface, Technique, Techniques.

Collaborative Research: Seismic Imaging of Aseismic Transients
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2004; Program: Geophysics

1. Paul G Silver($199,678), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
2. Fenglin Niu($84,394), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Airborne Laser Swath, Laser Swath Mapping, San Andreas Fault, Photography Obtained, ALSM, Accuracy, Aircraft, Center, Deformation, Detailed, Digital, Earthquake, Facility, Field, Flown, GPS, Ground, Imagery, LIDAR, Low, NCALM, National, Nfield, OSU, Positioning, Resolution, SAF, Sets, Survey, Topographic, USGS.

Renewal-Experimental Studies of Elasticity, Rheology, and Phonon Dynamics of Materials at Pressure-Temperature Conditions of Earth's Mantle and Core
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2004; Program: Geophysics

1. Russell J Hemley($625,000), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Deep, Dynamic, Knowledge, Modulus, Orientation, Parameters, Phonon, Pressures, Properties, Shear, Technology.

Studies of Terrestrial Gravity Using Superconducting Gravimeters
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2004; Program: Geophysics

1. David J Crossley($189,999), Saint Louis University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Density Jump, Intellectual Merit, Broader, Considerably, Core, Earth, Europe, Extremely, Field, GGP, GRACE, Graduate, Gravity, Ground, IC, ICB, Inner, Modes, Outer, Precision, Sets, Signal, Stations, Student, Time, Triplet, Water.

Collaborative Research: Seismic and Geodetic Imaging of Subducting Terranes Under North America
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Geophysics

1. Jeffrey T Freymueller($531,840), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
2. Geoffrey A Abers($173,381), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Broadband Seismographs, Thickened Crust, Thrust Zone, Accretion, Alaska, Asperity, BEAAR, Coast, Collision, Continuous, Deformation, Depth, Drive, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Effect, Experiment, GPS, Geodetic, Image, Imaged, Integrated, Largest, Plate, Region, Rupture, Seismic, Seismicity, Shallow, Size, Structure, Subducted, Subducting, Subduction, Terrane, Terranes, Top.

Paleomagnetism of Archean Batholiths and Hadean Zircons in Australia
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Geophysics

1. Benjamin P Weiss($200,000), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Magnetic Field, Shaw Batholith, Ancient, Core, Earth, Evolution, Geomagnetic, Pilbara, Rock.

Seismic Study of Deep Eclogitic-Granulitic Crust and Moho in the Bergen Arcs, Norway
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Geophysics

1. Elena Morozova($191,318), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Eclogite Terrane, Mountain Building, Seismic Recorders, Bergen, Classic, Crust, Deep, Density, Eclogites, Eclogitization, Fluid, Formation, Image, Land, Localities, Surface, Unique, Was.

The Long-Term Dynamics and Evolution of Geometrically Complex Fault Systems
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Geophysics

1. David D Oglesby($162,327), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Geometrically Complex Fault, Multiple Earthquake Cycles, Slow Tectonic Loading, Earthquake Rupture, Fault Geometry, Ground Motion, Aid, Developed, Dynamic, Dynamics, Earthquakes, Effects, Faults, Integrated, Models, Processes, Relaxation, Slip, Stress.

Earthquake Probabilities Derived from Earthquake Interactions and Tectonic Stresses
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Geophysics

1. David D Jackson($323,886), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Dynamic Stress, Stress Calculations, Stress History, Stress Model, ETAS, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Models, Rate-and-state, Static, Triggering.

Collaborative Research: Deformation and stress modeling of the 2001 Kokoxili earthquake, western China
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Geophysics

1. Yuehua Zeng($42,469), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
2. David D Jackson($97,525), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Crust And Mantle, Crust And Upper, Broadly Distributed, Fault Slip, Fault Zone, Kokoxili Earthquake, Lower Crust, Postseismic Deformation, Slip Rates, Stress Evolution, Upper Mantle, Alaska, Block-like, Debate, Directly, Ductile, Earthquakes, GPS, MW, Mechanisms, Model, November, Processes, Require, Rheology, Solve, Strong, Surrounding, Tibet, Time, Unique.

Collaborative Research: Asymmetry in Gouge and Fault Zone Damage as an Indicator of Preferred Rupture Direction: In-Situ Test of Theoretical Models
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Geophysics

1. Yehuda Ben-Zion($139,926), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2. Thomas Rockwell($127,210), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
Key terms: Gouge And Damage, Fault Zone, Rupture Propagation, Direction, Earthquake, Faults, Observations, Propagate, Ruptures, San, Seismic, Slip, Theoretical, Unidirectional.

Real-Time and Retrospective Analyses of Volcanic Earthquakes
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Geophysics

1. Clifford H Thurber($297,090), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Active Volcanoes, Eruption Warning, Seismic Stations, Velocity Model, AVO, Alaska, Analysis, Analysts, Crises, Crisis, Development, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Errors, Has, Magma, Main, Methods, Models, Monitoring, Networks, Processing, Real-time, Seismicity, Simple, Structure, Targets, Time, Tomography, VDAP, Volcanos, Wisconsin-madison.

Probing the Earth's Core and Lowermost Mantle
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Geophysics

1. Xiaodong Song($195,448), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Differential Times, Inner Core, Lowermost Mantle, Innercore, PKP, Particular, Rotation, Structure.

Two Tests to Investigate the Causes of Aftershocks
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Geophysics

1. Emily E Brodsky($158,265), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Dynamic Stress, Dynamic Stresses, Dynamic Triggering, Stress Shadows, Aftershock, Aftershocks, Basic, Determination, Directionality, Distances, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Estimation, Expected, Fault, Has, Magnitudes, Mainshock, Mainshocks, Mechanism, Static.

The Mechanics of Subduction in Japan from High-Precision Earthquake Location and Tomography
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Geophysics

1. Gregory C Beroza($257,893), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Downgoing Plate, Earthquake Monitoring, Intermediate-depth Earthquakes, Oceanic Crust, Subduction Zone, Subduction Zones, Velocity Structure, High-precision, Honshu, Intermediate-depth, Japan, Largest, Mechanics, Nearly, Seismic, Trying, World.

Measuring Co-seismic Deformation from Optical Images. A Proposition for Methodological Improvements.
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Geophysics

1. Jean-Philippe Avouac($57,768), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Coseismic Slip, Fault Ruptures, Optical Images, Satellite Attitude, Satellite Optical, Slip Distribution, Spot Images, Stereoscopic Effects, Account, Advances, Constrain, Deformation, Displacements, Earthquake, Geometric, Measured, Methodological, Seismic, Source.

RUI: Rapid Variation of the Geomagnetic Field in Reversal: Evidence from the Sheep Creek Range, North Central Nevada
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Geophysics

1. Jonathan M Glen($128,879), Occidental College, Los Angeles
Key terms: Geomagnetic Field, Lava Flow, Polarity Reversal, Remanence Direction, Rock Magnetic, Experience, Flows, Future, Has, Magnetized, Occidental, Properties, Rapid, Remagnetization, Similar, Students, Vertical, Was.

The Structure and Mechanical Significance of Off-Fault Fracture Damage
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Geophysics

1. Charles G Sammis($148,627), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Damage Mechanics Model, Dynamic Slip Pulse, Prominent Slip Surface, Slip Pulse Model, Dynamic Friction, Fracture Damage, Model Parameters, Process Zone, Slip Surfaces, Slip Vectors, Slip-pulsedamage Model, Spatial Extent, Stress Field, Wall Rock, Analytical, Breccia, Calculate, Calculated, Core, Crack, Density, Developed, Distance, Earthquakes, Effect, Explored, Fault, Gouge, Growing, Layer, Observable, Observations, Orientation, Permeability, Possibility, Propagating, Regional, Rice, Seismological, Slip-pulsedamage, Was.

Dynamics of the Base of the Lithosphere
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Geophysics

1. Norman H Sleep($160,062), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Chemically Buoyant, Cratonal Lithosphere, Platform Lithosphere, Stagnant-lid Convection, Temperature Range, Active, Base, Basin, Basins, Beneath, Billion, Continent, Cratons, Effect, Effects, Flow, Has, Implication, Implications, Interior, Involves, Layer, Less, Mantle, Ocean, Oxygen, Platforms, Plume, Ridge, Situation, Tectonic, Thick, Time, Was, Water, Xenoliths.

2004 Rock Deformation Gordon Research Conferences, August 8-13,2004 at Mount Holyoke College
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2004; Program: Geophysics

1. Nancy R Gray($26,500), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Conference, Deformation, Directions, Examining, Fluid, Fluids, Future, Mineral, Participants, Physics, Rock, Theme.

Characterizing Radial Heterogeneity in the Mid Mantle
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: Geophysics

1. Justin Revenaugh($164,619), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Seismic Imaging, Approach, Array, Arrays, Chemical, Developed, Dynamics, Evidence, Extensively, Heterogeneity, Mantle, Methods, Mid-mantle, Regional, Structure, Subduction, Velocity, Waves.

Collaborative Research: Canadian Northwest Seismic Experiment
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: Geophysics

1. James B Gaherty($163,496), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Lower Mantle, Arm, BC, Broadband, CANOE, CMB, Canadian, Construction, Continent, Dynamic, Earth, Earthquakes, Experiment, IRIS, Opportunity, Processes, Program, Seismic, Transition, Unsurpassed, Via.

Collaborative Research: Anisotropy and Mantle Flow Beneath Japan from Seismological Observations and Geodynamical Modeling
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2004; Program: Geophysics

1. Maarten V de Hoop($28,399), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: Anisotropy And Flow, Flow Models, Seismic Anisotropy, Shear Wave, Tectonic Deformation, Tectonic Regions, Upper Mantle, Beneath, Challenge, Dense, Has, Inversion, Japan, Modeling, Particular, Powerful, Splitting, Tools, Volcanic.

Collaborative Research: Mapping Crustal Tectonic Structure Using Seismic Anisotropy
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2004; Program: Geophysics

1. Anne S Meltzer($121,130), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
2. Nikolas I Christensen($114,524), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
3. David A Okaya($126,359), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Deformation And Metamorphism, Crustal Tectonic, Nanga Parbat, Seismic Anisotropy, Tectonic Deformation, Wave Propagation, Anisotropic, Field, Local, Objectives, Observations, Observed, Proxy, Regional, Rock, Set, Structure.

Theoretical Analysis of Joint Friction
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2004; Program: Geophysics

1. Joseph B Walsh($90,000), Walsh Joseph B, Adamsville
Key terms: Natural Faults, Analysis, Behavior, Disparity, Experiments, Laboratory, Length, Observed, Shear, Simulate, Slip, Stress, Studying, Surfaces, Time.

Collaborative Research: High Sample-Rate GPS: A New Tool for Earthquake Studies
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2004; Program: Geophysics

1. Kristine M Larson($148,532), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Denali Fault Earthquake, Ground Motions, High-rate Gps, Public Safety, Rupture Process, Seismic Waves, Accelerometers, Benefits, Building, Details, Displacement, Distances, Dynamic, Earthquakes, Frequently, Has, High-rate, Increasing, Insar, Observations, Phase, Required, Resolution, Resolving, Resulting, Source, Strong, Surface, Trigger.

Collaborative Research: High Sample-Rate GPS - A New Tool for Earthquake Studies/University of Colorado, University of Memphis, and Purdue University
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2004; Program: Geophysics

1. Jennifer S Haase($64,388), Purdue University, West Lafayette
2. Paul A Bodin($53,817), University of Memphis, Memphis
Key terms: Denali Fault Earthquake, Ground Motions, High-rate Gps, Public Safety, Rupture Process, Seismic Waves, Accelerometers, Benefits, Building, Details, Displacement, Distances, Dynamic, Earthquakes, Frequently, Has, High-rate, Increasing, Insar, Observations, Phase, Required, Resolution, Resolving, Resulting, Source, Strong, Surface, Trigger.

A Geomagnetic Instability Timescale for the Pleistocene
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2004; Program: Geophysics

1. Bradley S Singer($302,596), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Lava Flows, Marine Sediment, Ago, Chron, Collaborations, Core, Dating, Excursions, Field, Frequency, Geologic, Geomagnetic, International, Models, Observed, Paleointensity, Planned, Radioisotopic, Thousand.

Forward and Inverse Modeling of Rupture Dynamics in Three Dimensions
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2003; Program: Geophysics

1. Kim B Olsen($177,107), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
Key terms: Flexible And Efficient, Dynamic Rupture, Rupture Dynamics, Rupture Propagation, Conditions, Earthquakes, Field, Heterogeneous, Lead, Method, Modeling, Parameters, Propagate, Start, Stress.

Low-Frequency Attenuation in Polycrystalline Silicates and Silicate Partial Melts
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2003; Program: Geophysics

1. Reid F Cooper($220,624), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Attenuation Behavior, Partial Melts, Aggregates, Engineered, Loading, Microstructures, Phase, Polycrystalline.

The Role of Fluctuating Fluid Forces on the Initiation of Sediment Motion
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Clinton L Dancey($379,973), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Turbulent Motion, Conditions, Entrainment, Existing, Experiments, Forces, Impulse, Inertia, Measured, Methods, Particle, Sediment, Spherical, Threshold.

AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF FINE-PARTICLE DEPOSITION TO PERMEABLE STATIONARY AND WEAKLY-MOBILE SAND BEDS UNDERLYING TURBULENT FLOWS
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. William B Dade($211,162), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Fine-particle Deposition, Affects, Benthic, Particles, Processes, Rates, Sediment, Transport.

Collaborative Research: Upscaled Mass Transfer Coefficients for Modeling Dissolution of Nonaqueous Phase Liquids in Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Porous Media in the Field
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Matthew W Farthing($196,494), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
2. Paul T Imhoff($193,913), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Computational Approaches, Mass Transfer, Napl Dissolution, Active, Assessment, Based, Centimeter-scale, Contamination, Developed, Educational, Effect, Engineering, Experimental, Extend, Field-scale, Fingers, Has, Heterogeneity, Intended, Issues, Laboratory, Model, Models, Modules, Napls, Nonlinear, PBL, Process, Rate, Realistic, Risk, School, Students, Subsurface, UD, Undergraduate.

CAREER: Movement of Air-Water Interface Across Fracture Intersections
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Maria I Dragila($440,069), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Fracture Intersections, Intersection Dynamics, Advance, Control, Designed, Development, Educational, Ensure, Field-scale, Flow, Fluid, Future, Governing, Models, National, Nations, Pedagogical, Phd, Physics, Processes, Students, Supply, Transport, Undergraduate.

Evaluating Fracture Roughness and its Effect on Fluid Flow
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Richard A Ketcham($347,467), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Fluid Flow, Surface Roughness, Aperture, Exceed, Fracture, Fractures, Hydraulic, Natural, Petrology, Rock.

Upstream Hydrologic Effects of Dam Installation and Removal
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Keith Loague($297,099), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Sediment Transport Algorithm, Dam Removal, Searsville Dam, Surface Water, Augmented, Based, Catchment, Caused, Channel, Climate, Dams, Deposition, Erosion, Existing, Flow, Flux, Fully-coupled, Has, Hydrologic, Inhm, Long-term, Model, Near, R-, Regime, Reservoir, River, Simulate, Site, Wetland.

Field-scale study to evaluate the role of bacterial chemotaxis in natural attenuation of groundwater contaminants
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Roseanne M Ford($250,923), University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville
Key terms: Bacterial Chemotaxis, Chemotactic Bacteria, Conductive Regions, Field-scale Investigations, Sand Box, Chemical, Contaminant, Contaminants, Degradation, Design, Enhance, Field-scale, Flow, Groundwater, Hydrology, Mechanism, Natural, Source, Students.

Coping With Conceptual Uncertainty: A Maximum Likelihood Bayesian Model Averaging Approach
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Shlomo P Neuman($364,403), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Bayesian Model Averaging, Explore And Demonstrate, Optimum Hydrologic Predictions, Quantity And Quality, Based Solely, Collected Earlier, Conceptual-mathematical Model, Geological-geostatistical Models, Hydrologic Analyses, Maximum Likelihood, Model Probabilities, Pneumatic Injection, Predictive Capabilities, Predictive Uncertainty, Prior Information, Theoretical Basis, ALRS, Air, Alternative, Approach, Assessment, Available, BMA, Beven, Boreholes, Choice, Committing, Comparison, Complex, Conceptual-mathematical, Criterion, Cross-hole, Error, Examine, Feasible, Firm, Focus, Geological-geostatistical, Hydrogeologic, Implement, Inadequate, Log, MLBMA, Means, Method, Methodology, Objective, Observed, Parameter, Permeability, Porosity, Posterior, Practice, Pressure, Processes, Prone, Reliance, Rendering, Single, Site, Space, Stage, Theory, Typically, Various, Via.

Spatial and Temporal Changes in Arsenic, Iron, and Sulfur Speciation in a Shallow Aquifer
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2004; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Peggy O'Day($270,000), University of California - Merced, Merced
Key terms: Molecular And Macroscopic, Arsenic Mobility, Arsenic Speciation, Chemical Speciation, Dissolved Arsenic, Iron Phases, Macroscopic Modeling, Subsurface Arsenic, Water Table, Advance, Approach, Attenuation, Campus, Concentrations, Employ, Environment, Field, Fluctuations, Formation, Graduate, Has, Laboratory, Mechanisms, Methods, Million, Natural, Observations, Rates, Release, San, Seasonal, Seeks, Serve, Site, Storm, Undergraduate, Uptake.

Colloid-Filtration Theory for Vadose-Zone Systems
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. James E Saiers($208,046), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Air-water And Solid-water, Unsaturated Porous Media, Capillary Pressure, Colloid Deposition, Colloid Transport, Colloid-deposition Kinetics, Partially Saturated, Pore-scale Simulations, Porewater Concentrations, Power-law Equations, Solid-water Interfaces, Vadose Zone, Analysis, Colloid-deposition, Colloid-filtration, Colloids, Contaminants, Deriving, Experiments, Grain-size, Knowledge, Movement, Pore-scale, Power-law, Processes, Quantitative, Rates, Theory, Towards, Velocity.

Process-Based Characterization of Near-Surface Hydrologic Response and Hydrologically Driven Slope Stability
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2004; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Keith Loague($249,681), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Flow And Solute, Pore Water Pressure, Slope Stability Models, Water Pressure Distributions, Coast Range, Debris Flows, Inhm Simulations, Near-surface Hydrologic, Slope Failure, Solute Transport, Sprinklertracer Experiments, Based, CB, Catchment, Characterization, Characterize, Comprehensive, Coupled, Discharge, Dominant, Head, Hillslopes, Hydrologic-response, II, Initiation, Nsurface, Oregon, Phase, Phases, Steep, Times.

Collaborative Research: Small-Scale Variability of Rainfall: Experimental Studies with Implications for Rainfall Estimation
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Witold F Krajewski($242,161), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Spatial And Temporal, Land Surface, Radar Rainfall, Rain Gage, Rainfall Rate, Temporal Scales, Analytical, Baltimore, Below, Control, Developed, Especially, Estimates, Experimental, Field, Hydrologic, Iowa, Observational, Observations, Observed, Processes, Properties, Radars, Resources, Responsible, Scaling, Storm, Structure, Technology.

Prediction of hyporheic exchange and solute transport dynamics in a headwater tributary of the Illinois and Mississippi River systems
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Judson Harvey($359,983), Northwestern University, Evanston
Key terms: Geomorphic Conditions, Hyporheic Exchange, Mississippi River, Sand-bed Streams, Solute Transport, Sugar Creek, Unprecedented Level, Ability, Agricultural, Approaches, Assess, Critical, Current, Cycling, Denitrification, Dynamics, Flow, Gulf, Has, Headwater, Hyporheicexchange, Intensive, Low-gradient, Models, Nitrate, Nutrient, Pis, Predict, Predictive, Process, Processes, Reach, Sand-bed, Seek, Site, Sub-reaches, Tracer, Uncertainty, Upscaling.

Collaborative Proposal: Probing the Reductive Potential of Wetland Sediments and Pore Waters
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2004; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Samuel J Traina($171,385), University of California - Merced, Merced
Key terms: Natural Organic Matter, Nitroaromatic And Azo, Organic Compounds Susceptible, Azo Compounds, Azo Probes, Natural Reductants, Reductive Potential, Wetland Sediments, Adsorbed, Biogeochemical, Bonded, Buried, Capable, Driven, Environmental, Experiments, Feii, Involved, Isolated, Microbial, NOM, Pathways, Phases, Pollutants, Porewaters, Processes, React, Reaction, Reactions, Reactive, Reactivity, Reduction, Site, Species, Transformation.

Collaborative Research: Probing the Reductive Potential of Wetland Sediments and Pore Waters
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2004; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Yu-Ping Chin($249,289), Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE, Columbus
Key terms: Natural Organic Matter, Nitroaromatic And Azo, Azo Compounds, Azo Probes, Natural Reductants, Wetland Sediments, Adsorbed, Biogeochemical, Bonded, Buried, Capable, Driven, Environmental, Experiments, Feii, Isolated, Microbial, NOM, Pathways, Phases, Pollutants, Porewaters, Processes, React, Reaction, Reactions, Reactive, Reactivity, Reductive, Site, Species, Transformation.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Development of Informatics Infrastructure for the Hydrologic Sciences
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2004; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Richard P Hooper($133,500), Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sci, Arlington
2. David R Maidment($1,156,059), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
3. Michael Piasecki($217,161), Drexel University, Philadelphia
4. Praveen Kumar($233,444), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Cuahsi Hydrologic Information, Diego Supercomputer Center, San Diego Supercomputer, Digital Watersheds, Hydrologic Scientists, Advance, Available, Broader, Built, Datasets, Developed, Enable, Intellectual, Long-term, Model, Planning, Prototype, Sources, Synthesizes.

Collaborative research: Restricted plasticity of canopy stomatal conductance: A conceptual basis for simpler models of forest transpiration
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2004; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. David S Mackay($178,278), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
2. Eric L Kruger($47,215), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
3. Brent Ewers($163,467), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Conceptual Model, Northern Wisconsin, Adjusting, Assimilation, Assuming, Canopy, Combines, Control, Explicitly, Global, Has, Modeling, Models, Students, Water.

SGER: Geomorphic Effects of a Jokulhlaup
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2004; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Ellen E Wohl($61,474), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Erosional And Depositional, Gradient And Geometry, Jokulhlaup Stream Power, Normal Seasonal Peak, Wind River Mountains, Wyoming's Wind River, Depositional Features, Geomorphic Effects, Ice-dammed Lake, Outburst Floods, Valley Gradient, Wyoming's Wind, Calculate, Channel, Discharge, Downstream, Environments, Examine, Existence, Flow, Flows, Glacial, Glacier, Grasshopper, High-altitude, Ice-dammed, Jokulhlaups, Path, Quantitatively, Recession, Relate, September, Sites, Survey, Unique, Wyomings.

Collaborative Research: The Use of Ground Penetrating Radar Data in the Development Of Facies-Based Hydrogeologic Models
Award Effective Date: 03/29/2004; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Richelle Allen-King($64,491), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Lithofacies And Hydrofacies, Radar Facies, Subsurface Model, Facies-scale, Hydrogeologic, Link, Method, Models, Objective, Properties, Site, Structure.

Pore-scale processes fundamentally influencing the transport of colloids in porous media
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Jan D Miller($399,997), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Interaction And Adhesion, Internal Reflection Fluorescence, Total Internal Reflection, Adhesion Force, Allow Direct, Pore Domain, Attachment, Characterization, Colloid, Colloids, Detachment, Determination, Effects, Field, Flow, Graduate, Levels, Pis, Processes, Three-dimensional, Transport, Utilized, Water, XRMT.

Collaborative Research: Vertical control of groundwater arsenic concentrations in shallow Bangladesh aquifers
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Steven L Goodbred($60,874), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
2. Alexander van Geen($177,232), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Nsf Criterion, Shallow Aquifers, Spatial Distribution, Spatial Scales, Surface Geology, Araihazar, Bangladesh, Caused, Complex, Concentrations, Deposits, Elevated, Fluvio-deltaic, GBMD, Groundwater, Has, Hydrology, Irrigation, Pis, Redox, Time, Tube, Water.

Collaborative research: Vertical control of groundwater arsenic concentrations
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Yan Zheng($60,686), CUNY Queens College, Flushing
Key terms: Nsf Criterion, Shallow Aquifers, Spatial Distribution, Spatial Scales, Surface Geology, Araihazar, Bangladesh, Caused, Complex, Concentrations, Deposits, Elevated, Fluvio-deltaic, GBMD, Groundwater, Has, Hydrology, Irrigation, Pis, Redox, Time, Tube, Water.

Collaborative SGER: Investigation of Spatial and Temporal Patterns in the Concentrations of Redox-Active Chemical Species at a USGS NAWQA Cycle II Site
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Thomas C Harmon($34,938), University of California - Merced, Merced
2. Janet G Hering($34,909), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Groundwater-surface Water Interactions, Sensor Network Deployment, Chemical Compounds, Environmental Cyberinfrastructure, Groundwater-surface Water, Hyporheic Zone, Nitrogen Species, Uc Merced, Usgs Sampling, Array, Biogeochemistry, Buffer, Determining, Effort, Flux, Investigation, Nitrate, Planned, Redox, Resolution, Reveal, SGER, Site, Spatial, Temporal.

Model Structure Reduction and Robust Experimental Design for Constructing Reliable and Cost-Effective Groundwater Models
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2004; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. William W-G. Yeh($306,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Complex And Unknown, Prediction And Decision-making, Complex Model, Experimental Design, Groundwater Modeling, Highly Complex, Model Calibration, Model Error, Model Structure, Algorithm, Aquifer, Attempts, Difficulties, Fit, Identifying, Limited, Models, Quality, Real, Reliable, Robust, Sufficient, Theoretical, Usually, Water.

Collaborative Research: Pleistocene Hydrogeology of the Atlantic Continental Shelf, New England
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2004; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Mark A Person($281,469), Indiana University, Bloomington
2. Denis O Cohen-corticchiato($91,768), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: Confining Units, Continental Shelf, Ice Sheet, Land Surface, Mgl Salinity, Nantucket Island, Sea Level, C-, Clay, Coastal, Conditions, Constrain, Diffusion, England, Environmental, Flow, Freshwater, Groundwater, Isotope, Isotopic, Loading, Local, Offshore, Pleistocene, Reactions, Recharge, Sea-level, Sediments, Transport, Vertical.

Collaborative Research: Late Pleistocene and Earliest Holocene Evolution of the Lower Mississippi Valley
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2003; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Michael D Blum($146,438), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Discharge And Sediment, Landforms And Deposits, Ice Margin, Lmv Correlate, Mississippi Valley, Pro-glacial Lakes, Sea Level, Sediment Load, Downstream, Evolution, Gulf, Mexico, Pro-glacial, Rearrangements, Upstream.

ITR Collaborative Research: GEON: A Research Project to Create Cyberinfrastructure for the Geosciences
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2003; Program: ITR FOR NATIONAL PRIORITIES

1. Charles M Meertens($335,994), UNAVCO, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: Disciplinary Databases, Center, Collaboration, Creating, Cyberinfrastructure, Evolution, Foundation, GEON, Geoinformatics, Geoscience, Geosciences, Information, Interdisciplinary, National, Represent, Sets.

CAREER: Energetics of Mantle Convection and Physics of Earth's Evolution
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Jun Korenaga($549,265), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Convection, Dissipation, Earth, Energetics, Energy, Evolution, Following, Global, Lithosphere, Mantle, Observations, Ocean, Physics, Potential, Stress, Tectonic, Theoretical.

Technician Support: (U-Th)/He laboratory at the University of Kansas [Phase I]
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Daniel F Stockli($203,376), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Full-time Technician, Visiting Scientists, Analytical, Demand, Full-time, KU, Laboratory, Students, U-thhe.

Facility Support: Northeast National Ion Microprobe Facility at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink($249,921), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Ion Microprobe Technology, Ims 3f, Aimed, Analyses, Analytical, Available, Facility, Formal, Trace, Users.

Continental Crustal Composition and Evolution: Constraints from Receiver Function Analysis
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Kelly H Liu($192,688), Kansas State University, Manhattan
Key terms: Beneath, Broadband, Composition, Continent, Crust, Evolution, Lower, Ratio, Seismological, Set, Stations, Velocities.

Technician Support: Phase I for MC-ICPMS Isotope Facility, Washington State University
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Peter B Larson($225,000), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Isotopic Analyses, Benefit, Benefits, Bring, Collaborations, Development, Essential, Facility, Faculty, Funding, Isotope, MC-ICP-MS, Perform, Students, Technician, Techniques, Visitors, WSU, Washington.

Proposal for a High Precision Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometry Workshop ("Reinvigorating TIMS")
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Lang Farmer($35,294), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Intent, TIMS, USA, Workshop.

Development of a High Pressure Mineral Physics and Chemistry Laboratory at UCLA
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Abby Kavner($147,174), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: DAC, Laboratory, Laser, Mineral, Pressure, Situ, Temperature.

Development of new instrumentation and techniques for real-time spatial interferometry of geophysical processes
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Kasper van Wijk($139,600), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: Measure Elastic Waves, Interferometric Techniques, Allow, Imaging, Laser, Non-destructive, Scales, Seismology, Spatial, Temporal, Ultrafast.

Technician Support for Real-Time Hydrologic Sensor Systems within the Penn State Experimental Forest
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Christopher J Duffy($225,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Experimental Forest, Technician Position, Water Resources, Approach, Atmospheric, Coherent, Existing, Facility, Groundwater, Information, Infrastructure, Long-term, Manage, Network, PSIE, Penn, Real-time, Rthnet, Sensor.

Upgrading of Infrastructure for Computational Geophysics
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Peter M Shearer($214,614), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Center, Common, Computing, IGPP, LAN, Local, Network, Seismic, Sets, Students.

Acquisition of new paleomagnetic lab equipment for Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Arlo B Weil($114,447), Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr
Key terms: Remanent Magnetizations, Undergraduate Students, Acquisition, BMC, Enhance, Equipment, Facilities, Geology, Interdisciplinary, Magnetic, Paleomagnetic, Rock, Supporting, Tectonic.

Technician Support for Stable Isotopic Research Facility (SIRF) at Indiana University
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Edward M Ripley($217,014), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Analytical Techniques, Isotopic Analyses, Laboratory Facilities, Laser Fluorination, Mass Spectrometers, Stable Isotope, Carbon, Chromatographic, Development, Devices, Essential, Extraction, Gas, Hydrogen, Lines, On-line, Position, Preparation, SIRF, Sulfur, Technician, Training.

Technician support for geoscience research in transmission electron microscopy
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Peter R Buseck($150,000), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Phase Ii, Biogeochemistry, C-bearing, Carbonaceous, Environmental, Geochemical, Interactions, Microscopy, Nanometer, Organic, Particles, Properties, Structure, TEM, Techniques.

Collaborative Research: Tectonothermal History of the Acatlán Complex, Southern Mexico: A Record of the Closure of the Rheic Ocean?
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Brent V Miller($92,982), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Acatlan Complex, Accretionary History, Granitoid Bodies, Late Mesoproterozoic, Metasedimentary Sequences, Oaxacan Complex, Precise Age, Structural-kinematic Analysis, Tectonic History, Tectonothermal Evolution, Affinity, Appalachians, Ar, Aspects, Clarify, Closure, Complexs, Development, Geology, Has, Insight, International, Investigation, Mafic-ultramafic, Mexico, Mexicos, Ocean, Paleozoic, Rheic, Targeted, Tectonostratigraphic, Uncertain.

Technician Support for the laboratories for stable isotope geochemistry at Caltech / Period 2
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. John M Eiler($97,832), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Stable Isotope Geochemistry, Analytical, Apparatus, Contributions, Laboratories, Laboratory, Technician.

Development of a Pressure Vessel for Hydrothermal Control in Biaxial Deformation Experiments at the Penn State Rock Mechanics Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Chris J Marone($192,186), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Fault Zone, Apparatus, Conditions, Earthquake.

Diffusional Constraints Affecting Microbial Distribution and Activity in Unsaturated Porous Media
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Barth Smets($329,575), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Kt2440 And Paw85, Porous Surface Model, Unsaturated Porous Media, Bacterial Cells, Diffusion Pathways, Experimental Methods, External Contamination, Glass Plates, Microbial Activity, Microbial Adhesion, Microbial Diversity, Microbial Growth, Microbial Species, Mineral Surfaces, Natural Environments, Pore Space, Unsaturated Soils, Unwanted Bacteria, Vadose Zone, Abundance, Affecting, Air, Aquatic, Behavior, Believe, Beyond, Biofilms, Biological, Characterization, Coexistence, Colonies, Conceptual, Conditions, Consider, Control, Cycles, Diffusional, Direct, Distribution, EPS, Estimate, Estimates, Experiments, Extend, Features, Found, Framework, Gaseous, Geometry, Habitats, Has, Heterogeneity, Insights, Limits, Liquid, Mobility, Modeling, Modifying, PSM, Plan, Plays, Pore-scale, Potential, Processes, Prokaryotic, Properties, Rough, Roughness, Serve, Spatial, Strains, Structural, Substrate, Supported, Unparalleled, Wetting-drying.

Facilities Support: Amino Acid Geochronology Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Darrell S Kaufman($99,737), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: Amino Acid Geochronology, Geochronological Tool, Shared Facility, Aimed, Analyses, Apply, Bright, Has, Information, Laboratory, Rate, Services, Timing, Users, Variety, Was.

Facility Support: The UCLA National ION Microprobe
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Timothy M Harrison($1,157,772), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Education And Outreach, Ion Microprobe, Facility, Fields, National, Processes, Program, UCLA, Unique.

Acquisition of a Multi-Collector Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer for the AIRIE Program
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Judith L Hannah($499,822), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Multiple Ion Counters, Airie Program, Single-collector Instruments, Acquisition, Analyses, Capabilities, Has, Isotopic, Mineral, Molybdenite, Os, Re, Single-collector.

Technical Support for the New MC-ICP-MS Laboratory at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Craig C Lundstrom($225,000), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Determining Ages, Outside Users, Analyses, Efforts, Enable, Facility, Instrument, Limited, MC-ICP-MS, Own, Performing, Processes, Students, Technician, Tracing, UIUC.

Collaborative Research: Multi-cycle Rupture History of the San Andreas Fault in the Carrizo Plain
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Lisa Grant Ludwig($240,247), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
2. J Ramon Arrowsmith($90,987), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Multi-cycle Rupture History, San Andreas Fault, Bidart Fan, Carrizo Plain, Fault Behavior, Multi-cycle Rupture, Paleoseismic Site, Proven Paleoseismic, Seismic Hazard, Slip Rate, Surface Ruptures, Answered, California, Chronology, Dates, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Five, Length, Models, SAF, Seismicity, Sites, Space-time, Spatial, Target, Temporal, Testing, Trenches, World.

St. Lawrence University Acquisition of Instrumentation for Monitoring Climate, Atmospheric, and Aquatic Environmental Processes in Northern New York
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Carolyn E Johns($194,476), Saint Lawrence University, Canton
Key terms: Acquisition And Installation, Air Quality, Ambient Air, Caam Facility, Caam Program, Chemical Species, Quality Monitoring, Weather Stations, Wide Range, AAS, Additional, Available, Climate, Collaborative, Collected, Existing, Faculty, Instrumentation, Lakes, Local, Network, Portable, Replace, SLU, Sensors, Student, Water.

TECHNICIAN SUPPORT: Watershed Studies at Dartmouth College [Phase II]
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Carl E Renshaw($149,503), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Stable Isotope, Stable Isotopic, Technical Position, Analytical, Dartmouth, Faiia, Funding, Has, Supported.

Predicting Physical Properties of Fluid-Containing Rocks from Percolation Model Results
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Herbert F Wang($50,000), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Elastic Wave Velocities, Contaminated Aquifers, Evaporative Drying, Percolation Model, Water Clusters, Air, Bulk, Capillary, Displacement, Distribution, Electrical, Fluid, Forces, Gas, Geophysical, Invading, Laboratory, Modeling, Pore, Predict, Process, Properties, Remediation, Rock, Simulate, Throat, Useful.

Acquisition of an Excimer Laser System for Syracuse University Noble Gas Isotope Research Laboratory (SUNGIRL)
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Laura E Webb($77,340), Syracuse University, Syracuse
Key terms: Automated Extraction Line, Graduate And Undergraduate, Spectrometer And Automated, Excimer Laser, Mass Spectrometer, Noble Gas, Undergraduate Students, Analysis, Conjunction, Out-gassing, SUNGIRL, Syracuse, Technology, Thermochronology, U-thhe.

Collaborative Research: Have Ridge Volumes Changed Over the Past 160 Ma?
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Christopher R Scotese($159,988), University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington
2. Michelle A Kominz($119,561), Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
Key terms: Eustatic Sea Level, Plate Tectonic Reconstructions, Age Vs, Continental Crust, Depth Relation, Ocean Volume, Available, Base, Calculations, Changing, Evolution, Global, Maps, Ridge, Stratigraphy, Time.

Rheological and Thermodynamic Properties of Subduction Zone Magmas and Lavas - An Integrated Experimental and Observational Study
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Alan G Whittington($219,968), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Lava Flows, Emplacement, Guatemala, Heat, Hydrous, Liquids, Models, Rheological, Santiaguito, Silicic, Techniques, Viscosity, Volcano, Water.

Directional Behavior of Remanent Magnetizations at Low Temperatures
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. John A Tarduno($206,523), University of Rochester, Rochester
Key terms: Low Temperature, Magnetic Minerals, Remanence, Rock, Transition, Transitions.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: A GIS DATABASE FOR STUDYING AND VISUALIZING TETHYAN PLATE COLLISIONS
Award Effective Date: 07/13/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Mohamed I Sultan($62,350), Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
Key terms: Abundances, Database, GIS, Geoscience, High-speed, Illinois, National, TETHYS.

Refurbishment of a VG Sector Mass Spectrometer to Gain Negative Ion Capability
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Samuel B Mukasa($61,520), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Geological And Environmental, Ionization Mass Spectrometer, Osmium And Boron, Sr And Nd, Thermal Ionization Mass, Isotopic Ratios, Negative Ion, Electronegative, Faraday, Geochemistry, Instrument, N-TIMS, Precision, Require, Skills, Students.

In Situ Raman Spectroscopy Study for Phase Diagrams of Mantle Minerals at High Pressure and Temperature
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Sang-Heon Shim($255,829), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Spectroscopy And Laser, Transitions And Thermodynamic, Laser Heating, Mantle Minerals, Newly Developed, Phase Transitions, Thermodynamic Properties, Combined, Experimental, Laboratory, MIT, Mgsio, Perovskite, Raman, Sio, Situ, Students, Training, Undergraduate.

Technical Support for the Stable Isotope Facility at the GL at UMCP
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Alan J Kaufman($225,000), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Stable Isotope Facility, Laboratory Technician, Contribute, Cycles, Earth, Maryland, Mass, Students, Studies.

Acquisition of a 193 nm laser ablation system for ICP-MS and (U-Th)/He chronometry
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Peter W Reiners($106,750), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Laser Ablation, Ages, Analyses, Dating, ICP-MS, Isotopic, Trace, U-thhe, Undergraduate, Yale, Zircon.

Upgrade of the Paleomagnetism/Rock Magnetism Laboratory at the University of Southern California
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Scott R Paterson($156,135), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Alternating, Current, Equipment, Facilities, Lund, Magnetism, Model, Pieces, Rock, Significantly.

Development of "Smart" Scanning Probe Microscopy Instrumentation for Studies of Mineral-Water Interfaces
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Steven R Higgins($197,208), Wright State University, Dayton
Key terms: Surface Features, Ability, Development, Dynamics, Electronics, Feedback, Follow, Imaging, Increase, Instrument, Molecular, Reactivity, ST-SPM.

Collaborative Research: How Constant are Fault Slip Rates in Time and Space? An Analysis of the North and East Anatolian Faults, Turkey
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. James F Dolan($282,990), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2. Robert C Finkel($112,927), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Anatolia-eurasia-arabia Plate Boundary, Fault Slip Rates, Time And Space, Anatolia-eurasia-arabia Plate, Fault Loading, Strain Release, Time Scales, Constant, Faults, Geomorphic, Relatively, Surface, Turkey, Variety.

Collaborative Research: A Test of the Existence of the Bering Plate
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Mikhail Kogan($330,781), Columbia University, New York
2. Jeffrey T Freymueller($347,216), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Aleutian Arc, Bering Plate, Bering Sea, Tectonic Plate, Crust, Eastern, North, Relative.

Laboratory Experiments on Rock Friction Focused on Understanding Earthquake Mechanics
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Terry E Tullis($498,939), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Constant Load, Friction Laws, Frictional Sliding, Microstructural Analyses, Rock Surfaces, Basis, Behavior, Contact, Contacts, Described, Earthquakes, Indentation, Indenter, Laboratory, Lack, Mechanisms, Rate, Specimen, Static.

The Assembly of East Gondwana: A Proterozoic Perspective from India
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Joseph G Meert($174,527), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: 'snowball' Glaciations, Allow, Biological, Breakup, Cambrian, Continent, Explosion, History, India, Interval, Period, Preceded, Rodinia, Time.

Airborne Laser Swath Mapping of the Southern San Andreas Fault
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Charles K Toth($379,206), Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE, Columbus
Key terms: Airborne Laser Swath, Laser Swath Mapping, San Andreas Fault, Photography Obtained, ALSM, Accuracy, Aircraft, Center, Deformation, Detailed, Digital, Earthquake, Facility, Field, Flown, GPS, Ground, Imagery, LIDAR, Low, NCALM, National, Nfield, OSU, Positioning, Resolution, SAF, Sets, Survey, Topographic, USGS.

Krypton Isotope Hydrology
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Neil C Sturchio($197,399), University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Argonne National Laboratory, Trace Kr Isotopes, Atta Technique, Hydrologic Investigations, Residence Time, Residence Times, Water Resources, Application, Applications, Colleagues, Enhanced, Establish, Groundwater, Groundwaters, Has, Hydrology, Ideal, Krkr, Little, Management, Nearly, Nsf-funded, Performed, Range, Routine, Student, UIC, Was.

Air Circulation Within Beds of Hot Fragments and Mobility of Pyroclastic Flows
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Michael Manga($180,877), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Interstitial Fluid, Pyroclastic Flows, Run-out Distances, Affect, Airflow, Andor, Ash, Beds, Fines, Fluidise, Fragments, Generation, Graduate, Hot, Larger, Lead, Plumes, Pressure, Processes, Run-out, Velocities, Volcanic.

High-Precision Isotopic Analysis of Nanomole Quantities of Silicate Nitrogen
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Gray E Bebout($119,813), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
Key terms: Crust, Investigation, Methods, N-isotope, Silicate.

The impact of physical heterogeneity and connectivity on LNAPL entrapment and dissolution
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Stephen E Silliman($144,026), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
Key terms: Coarse Sand Lenses, Fine Sand Matrix, Fluctuating Water Table, Dissolved-phase Lnapl, Fine Sands, Lnapl Behavior, Lnapl Entrapped, Numerical Experiments, Numerical Model, Permeability Distributions, Porous Media, Region Bounding, Based, Connectivity, Degree, Dissolution, Dissolved-phase, Dunn, Extension, Fringe, Laboratory, Lnapls, PSF, Random, Remediation, Standpoint, Structure, Transport, Utilized, Van, Volume.

Collaborative Research: Interfacial Dynamics in Multi-Phase Flow and Transport Processes
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Dorthe Wildenschild($243,527), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. William G Gray($62,300), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
3. Marcel Schaap($51,977), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Theory And Numerical, Averaging Procedure, Interfacial Characteristics, Multi-phase Flow, Numerical Models, Complex, Description, Developing, Equations, Features, Fluids, Geometry, Insight, Multi-phase, Pore, Pore-scale, Sound.

An Experimental Investigation of Water- Magma Phase Mingling in Sub-aqueous Volcanic Eruptions
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Peter D Friedman($256,400), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth
Key terms: Massachusetts Dartmouth, Conditions, Image, LIF, PIV, Phase.

RUI: Integrated Strain and Fluid Composition, Temperature and Pressure Histories of Orogens
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Arthur G Goldstein($238,426), Colgate University, Hamilton
Key terms: Inclusions And Stable, Stable Isotope Analyses, Carbonate Dissolution, Fluid Composition, Fluid Conditions, Fluid Inclusion, Fluid Inclusions, Fluid Pressure, Incremental Strain, Ion Microprobe, Laser Fluorination, Stable Isotopes, Strain Fringes, Allow, Analysis, Avenues, Determining, Difficult, Fluids, Formation, Information, Mineral, Orogenic, Pis, Plan, Quartz, Strong, Taconics, Temperature, Undergraduates, Unusually, Utility.

Impurities, Stoichiometry, Heterogeneity: Influences on Pyrite Crystal Properties, Oxidation Mechanisms, and Kinetics
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Kaye Savage($189,350), Vanderbilt University, Nashville
Key terms: Pyrite Oxidation Models, Electron Transfer, Chemistry, Concentration, Conductivity, Contribute, Crystals, Electrical, Mechanisms, Properties, Pyrites, Rates, Reaction, Reactor, Release, Semiconducting, Trace.

Orogeny, orography, and the origin of the first rainforests: Paleobotany of the temporally-calibrated synorogenic Denver Basin, Colorado
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Robert G Raynolds($659,132), Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver
Key terms: Denver Basin, Front Range, Laramide Orogeny, Tropical Rainforest, Ancient, Conditions, Ecosystems, Evolution, Extinction, Fans, Floras, Hydrology, Influence, K-T, Rainfall, Regression, Synorogenic.

Collaborative Research: Developing a Methodology for Imaging Stress Transients at Seismogenic Depth
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Paul G Silver($40,619), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
2. Fenglin Niu($4,455), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Tides And Barometric, Barometric Pressure, Crack Properties, Pilot Hole, Seismic Velocity, Stress Dependence, Advances, Calibration, Experiment, Exploiting, Means, Measuring, Parkfield, Phase, Precision, Reliable, Seismogenic, Sources, Subsurface.

GEORAMAN 2004: 6th International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy Applied to the Earth & Planetary Sciences, Honolulu, HI
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Li Chung Ming($10,000), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Raman Spectroscopic Analysis, Graduate Students, Raman Spectroscopy, Remote Raman, Ambient, Applications, Conference, Developments, Field, GEORAMAN, Hawaii, June, Micro-, Minerals, Planetary.

The NARS-Baja Seismic Array: Continued Operations and Research
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Jeroen E Ritsema($225,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Mantle Structure, Broadband, California, Center, Crust, De, Gulf, Network.

Acquisistion of a Gas Source Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer for the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Rochester
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Robert J Poreda($173,156), University of Rochester, Rochester
Key terms: Geological And Environmental, Organic Matter, Stable Isotope, Analysis, Applications, Carbonate, Department, Enabling, Equipment, Gas, Graduate, IRMS, Isotopes, Processes, Rochester, Students, Tectonic, Training, Undergraduate, Water.

Microbially Induced Sedimentary Structures from the 2.9 Ga old Pongola and Witwatersrand Supergroups, South Africa
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Nora K Noffke($150,763), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Induced Sedimentary Structures, Microbially Induced Sedimentary, Body Fossils, Earth's Earliest, Microbial Mats, Sandy Marine, South Africa, Ages, Ancient, Archean, Bacteria, Characteristic, Conditions, Cyanobacteria, Environments, Layers, Life, MISS, Modern, Rock, Sediments.

Technician Support: Request for Phase 1 for MC-ICP-MS Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Clark M Johnson($194,559), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Radiogenic Isotope, Technician Position, Water Chemistry, Evolution, Involve, Required.

Evolution and Environment of Tropical American Cupuladriid Bryozoa
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Jeremy B Jackson($325,540), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Evolution And Environment, Reproduction And Dominance, Cupuladriid Bryozoans, Eastern Pacific, Life Histories, Abundant, Asexual, Biological, Caribbean, Conditions, Cupuladriids, Environmental, Fossils, Genus, Million, Oceans, Pis, Predominantly, Productivity, Seasonal, Sexual, Temperature, Time, Tropical, Upwelling.

Development of an Integrated Superconducting Gravity Meter Sensor System for Subsurface Water Storage
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Bridget R Scanlon($494,258), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Superconducting Gravimeter, Water Storage, Appropriate, Aquifer, Arizona, FSG, Field, GWR, Humidity, Inc, Pressure, Sampling, Sensitivity, Sites, Temperature.

Improved Estimation of Evapotranspiration and Recharge from a Dynamic SVAT Model through Assimilation of Microwave Brightness
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Jennifer M Jacobs($401,000), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Growing Season, Microwave Observations, Recharge Estimates, Soil Moisture, Svat Model, Coupled, Dynamic, Fluxes, Models, Processes, Sensitive, Zone.

Facility Support: High-Resolution X-ray Computed Tomography Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. William D Carlson($903,147), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Continue, Geology, Imagery, Industrial, Tomographic, UTCT.

Acquisition of a Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) System
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Georgios P Tsoflias($61,467), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Collaborations, GPR, Subsurface.

The Linkage between Copper Speciation and Nitrogen Cycling in Stratified Lakes
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Gaboury Benoit($230,915), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Biogeochemical Cycles, Broader Impacts, Fresh Waters, Nitrogen Cycle, Stratified Lakes, Trace Metals, Bioavailability, Chemical, Cu, Denitrification, Environmental, Function, Global, Influence, Issues, Limitation, Limiting, Masters, Micronutrient, Principles, School, Speciation, Starting, Students, Teaching.

Upgrading of the Vibrational Spectroscopy Laboratory at Virginia Tech
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Peter J Vikesland($296,010), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Fluid Inclusions, Modern Raman, Analysis, Energy, Instruments, Laser, Nm, Visible.

Acquisition of an Electron Microprobe for Geological and Materials Research at Caltech
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Edward M Stolper($332,198), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Capabilities, Dispersive, EMP, Elemental, Mineral, Precision, Spectrometer.

Upgrading of Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) System to Allow Simultaneous Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF)
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Peter D Friedman($33,000), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth
Key terms: Massachusetts Dartmouth, Settling Velocity, Conditions, Flow, Has, Image, Images, LIF, PIV, Particles, Phase, Volcanologists.

Acquisition of an Unsaturated Flow Apparatus (UFA) with Technical Support to Investigate Hydrologic Processes in the Vadose Zone
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Randall W Gentry($160,294), University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville
Key terms: Porous Media, Flow, Hydraulic, Measure, UFA, Unsaturated.

Acquisition of Geophysical Field Instrumentation and Computers for Integrated Studies of Continental Geodynamics
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Francisco G Gomez($148,113), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Continent, Earthquake, Eastern, Field, Geodynamics, Instruments, Ongoing, Pis, Students, Tectonism, UMC.

Acquisition of a New Electron Microprobe
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Paul Wallace($547,851), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Camcor Facilities, Electron Microprobe, Capabilities, Geology, Graduate, Instrument, Oregon, Petrology, Programs, Students, Technical, Volcanology.

Coupled Heat and Water Transfer in Soil
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Tyson Ochsner($350,187), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: Heat And Water, Texture And Wettability, Boundary Conditions, Continuum Models, Coupled Heat, Coupled Transfer, Mean Temperature, Network Model, Soil Column, Soil Columns, Soil Surface, Soil Texture, Water Content, Advection, Breathing, De, Drives, Effects, Examine, Experiments, Measuring, Properties, Range, Sealed, Thermal.

Acquisition of a Combined Micro-Raman Spectroscopy and Laser Heating System for In Situ High Pressure and High Temperature Studies
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Sang-Heon Shim($185,244), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Pressure And Temperature, Mineral Physics, England, Facility, Generation, Has, In-situ, Lab, MIT, Reducing, Spectroscopy, Students, Undergraduate.

Acquisition of Replacement Equipment for the Experimental and Analytical Geochemistry Laboratory EAGL
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Ingrid L Hendy($194,684), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Ion Chromatograph, Acquisition, Analytical, Contributions, Dionex, EAGL, Eagls, Generation, Geochemistry, Has, Instrumentation, Laboratory, Marine, Natural, Replacement, Societal, Spectrophotometer, Training, UIC, Walters.

An autonomous freshwater pH sensor: development and applications
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Christopher H Gammons($300,239), University of Montana, Missoula
Key terms: Field Studies, Spectrophotometric Ph, Weakly Buffered, Activity, Chemical, Design, Development, Environment, Freshwater, Indicator, Loading, Metal, Natural, Quantify, Range, Rigorously, Sami-ph, Sensor, Technology, Utilizes, Waters.

Upgrading of Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer For Automated Hydrogen and Oxygen Isotope Analysis of Water
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Robert E Criss($58,014), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Stable Isotopic Analysis, Device, Facility, Flow, Storm.

Development of a 'Real 3-D' GPR System for Geoscientific Imaging
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Mark Grasmueck($271,284), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: GPR, Involve.

Lower Crustal Deformation and Vertical Coupling and Decoupling in the Continental Lithosphere During Late Orogenic Extension
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Keith A Klepeis($238,953), University of Vermont & State Agricultural College, Burlington
Key terms: Continental Crust, Continental Lithosphere, Crustal Levels, Lower Crust, Behavior, Characteristics, Column, Deformation, Depth, Direct, Evolving, Extension, Extensional, Formed, Involves, Magmatism, Middle, Million, Orogen, Structures, Thick, Upper, Vertically, Was, Western, Zealand.

Collaborative Research (USC and UCSB): Direct Observation of Depth Variation in Fault Zone Structure Through and Below the Seismogenic Crust
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Bradley R Hacker($116,316), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
2. James F Dolan($341,880), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Semp Fault Zone, Earthquake Mechanics, Electron Microscopy, Fault Zones, Fault-zone Structure, Seismogenic Crust, Analysis, Austria, Detailed, Exhumation, Exhumed, Exposed, Fault-zone, Faulting, Geometry, Has, Issues, Laboratory, Lower, Nsurface, Nucleation, Pis, Range, Seismic, Single, Structural, USC.

Facilities Upgrades to the Geomicrobiology and Electron Microscopy Laboratory at Portland State University
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Sherry L Cady($80,990), Portland State University, Portland
Key terms: Electron Microscope, Extreme Environments, Beam, Department, Equipment, Gatan, Geology, Microbial, Resolution, Techniques.

Acquisition of a Carbon-Nitrogen-Sulfur Analyzer
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Shimon Anisfeld($32,130), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Riverine Suspended Sediment, Analyzer, Assess, CHN, Content, Marsh, Soil, Vegetation.

Upgrading the ARL-SEMQ Electron Microprobe at North Carolina State University
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Ronald V Fodor($49,000), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Students And Faculty, North Carolina, Terrestrial Sediment, Analytical, Electron, Imaging, Instrument, Metamorphic, Microprobe, NCSU, NSF, Rock, Software, Upgraded, Upgrading, Xenoliths.

Water in the Mantle: Effects of Hydration on Physical Properties of Mantle Minerals
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Joseph R Smyth($340,165), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Advanced Photon Source, Bavarian Geological Institute, Mantle And Transition, Weight Percent H2o, Neutron Diffraction, Percent H2o, Single-crystal X-ray, Transition Zone, Upper Mantle, APS, Collaboration, Colorado, Earth, Electron, Enstatite, Geophysics, HO, Has, Hydrous, Minerals, Olivine, On-going, Perovskite, Phases, Ringwoodite, Silicate, Single-crystal, Students, Wadsleyite, Water, X-ray.

Acquisition of an integrated scanning probe, scanning laser, optical microscope
Award Effective Date: 11/20/2003; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Steven K Lower($44,813), Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE, Columbus
Key terms: Laser Scanning Microscopy, Biomolecules, Cells, Force, Instrument, Mineral, Optical, Pis, Surfaces.

Renovation and Upgrading of Fluid Inclusion Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2003; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Lawrence D Meinert($26,071), Smith College, Northampton
Key terms: Fluid Inclusion Laboratory, Fluid Inclusions, Ore Deposits, Equipment, Facility, Geology, Past, Washington.

Collaborative Research: SEA-CALIPSO: An Offshore/Onshore Tomography and Magma-Chamber Seismic Imaging Experiment on Montserrat
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: International Research Collab

1. Barry Voight($96,620), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Glen S Mattioli($26,092), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
3. Peter E Malin($109,845), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Soufriere Hills Volcano, Seismic Experiment, Airgun, Dynamics, Imaging, MVO, Magma, Magmatic, Modeling, Montserrat, NSF, Observatory, Onshoreoffshore, Students, UK, Volcanoes.

Collaborative Research: Mapping the Rivera Subduction Zone
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2004; Program: International Research Collab

1. James Ni($195,729), New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
2. Stephen Grand($305,758), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Rivera Plate, Analysis, Colima, Depth, Has, Image, Jalisco, Mantle, Mexican, Mexico, Overriding, Postulated, Region, Subduction.

Collaborative research: Robust estimation of biodiversity dynamics: Global versus regional patterns in the end Ordovician mass extinction of graptolites
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: International Research Collab

1. Charles E Mitchell($480,018), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
2. H. David Sheets($70,000), Canisius College, Buffalo
Key terms: Heterochrony And Integration, Ceratopsian Evolution, Based, Biology, Clade, Constrained, Cranial, Detailed, Developmental, Dinosaur, Dinosaurs, Display, Diversity, Evolutionary, Feeding, Growth, Incorporated, Methods, Ontogeny, Phylogeny, Pis, Relative, Synapomorphies.

Collaborative research: Retreating-trench, extension, and accretion tectonics (RETREAT): a multidisciplinary study of the northern Apennines
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: International Research Collab

1. Richard A Bennett($520,942), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Northern Apennines, Orogenic Wedge, Subducting Plate, Syn-convergent Extension, Accessible, Active, Continent, Convergence, Deformation, Dynamic, Has, Horizontal, Ma, Mantle, Motion, RETREAT, Specific, Syn-convergent, Tectonic.

Collaborative Research: Stratigraphic, Geomorphic, and Paleoseismologic Record of Coseismic Fold Growth in Western Argentina
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: International Research Collab

1. Thomas Rockwell($146,282), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
2. Andrew J Meigs($156,037), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Seismic Hazard Assessment, Geomorphic Surfaces, Growth Strata, Thrust Earthquake, Thrust Faults, Earthquakes, Folding, Folds, Frequency, Individual, Past, Recognition, Size.

Collaborative Research: The Record of Recharge and Storage in the El Chichon Magma System through Ar Isotopic and Experimental Petrologic Constraints
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: International Research Collab

1. Paul W Layer($148,724), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
2. James E Gardner($91,923), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: El Chichon, Activity, Behavior, Conditions, Eruption, Injection, Magma, Mexico, Time, Volcano.

Evaluating the Detrital Record of Continental Collision in the Songpan-Ganzi Complex, Central China, the World's Largest Pre-Cenozoic Turbidite System
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: International Research Collab

1. Stephan A Graham($284,329), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Bengal And Indus, Chinasouth China Suture, North Chinasouth China, Continental Blocks, Himalayan Collision, Suture Belt, Analytical, Comparable, Erosion, Fan, Largest, Modern, SGC, Sediment, Sedimentary, Sediments, Songpan-ganzi, Sources, Submarine, Turbidite, Volume.

When did the Altiplano Form? A Coupled Thermochronometer and Numerical Model Test
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: International Research Collab

1. Todd A Ehlers($298,879), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Aft And Zhe, Andean Plateau Formation, Apatite Fission Track, Fold And Thrust, Rock Cooling Histories, Tectonic And Erosion, Bolivian Fold, Computer Models, Erosion History, Mountain Belt, Sampling Transect, Surface Uplift, Thrust Belt, Ages, Crust, Deformation, Quantify, Rates, Strength, Structural, Thermal, Timing, Zircon.

Volcanic Time Scales, Eruption Rates, and Compositional Diversity at a Continental Arc
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: International Research Collab

1. Rebecca A Lange($288,015), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: 40ar39ar Dating, =, Arar, Eruption, Field, History, Mexico, Output, UNAM, Vents, Volcanic.

Collaborative Research: Implications of Active Tectonics in Morocco for the Kinematics and Dynamics of Africa-Eurasia Plate Interactions in the Western Mediterranean
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: International Research Collab

1. Francisco G Gomez($144,636), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Gps And Insar, African Plate, Active, CGPS, Collision, Crust, Deformation, Earthquake, Models, Morocco, Motions, Mountains, Observations, Ongoing, Paleoseismic, Stations, Structures.

Kinematic Linkages Among Extrusion, Fold-thrust Shortening, and Foreland Basin Evolution During Early Continental Collision, Zagros Mountains, Iran
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2004; Program: International Research Collab

1. Brian K Horton($387,621), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Collisional Mountain Belts, Continental Collision, Fold-thrust Belt, Age, Dating, Deformation, Fold-thrust, Geologic, History, Plate, Processes, Structural, Tectonic, Zagros.

Building the Eurasian Supercontinent: Paleomagnetic Study of Kazakhstan to Assess its Role in Uniting Baltica with Siberia
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2004; Program: International Research Collab

1. Rob Van der Voo($274,330), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Late Paleozoic, Mountain Belts, Paleozoic Mountain, Strongly Curved, Ural-mongol Belt, Ages, Amalgamation, Ancient, Assembly, Eurasia, Eurasian, Europe, Kazakhstan, Large-scale, Million, Motions, Prior, Rock, Structures, Tarim, Tectonic, Units, Ural-mongol.

Present-day Kinematics and Dynamics of the Eastern Mediterranean and Caucasus
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2004; Program: International Research Collab

1. Robert E Reilinger($639,126), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: East Anatolian Fault, Hellenic Subduction Zone, Caucasus Thrust, Forces Driving, Geophysical Information, North Anatolian, Regional Deformation, Strain Accumulation, Subduction Zone, Boundaries, Character, Constraining, Continent, Control, Earthquake, Faults, GPS, Interact, Models, Plates, Present-day, Triple.

Collaborative Research: Forearc Extension in a Strongly Coupled Subduction System, Northern Chile
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2004; Program: International Research Collab

1. Francisco G Gomez($72,257), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Coastal Escarpment, Continental Slope, Extensional Structures, Normal Faults, Plate Boundary, Tension Fractures, Coupling, Depth, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Field, Forearc, Magnitude, Nature, Oceanic, Strongly.

Lithospheric Evolution in the Tanzanian Craton and Adjoining Mozambique Belt, East Africa: Perspectives From the Lower Crust
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2004; Program: International Research Collab

1. Roberta L Rudnick($321,210), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Belt, Continent, Crust, History, Mountain-building, Mozambique, Orogeny, Plate, Rifting, Site, Weakness.

Collaborative Research: CMG: Toward Understanding the Transfer of Genetic Information in Subsurface Hydrology
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Timothy R Ginn($65,510), University of California-Davis, Davis
2. Cindy H Nakatsu($213,917), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Horizontal Gene Transfer, Micromodel Experiments, Paired Residence, Porous Media, Residence Time, Solid Surfaces, Bacterial, Biology, Combining, Engineering, Host, Kinetics, Mathematics, Microbial, Microbiology, Microorganisms, Model, Molecular, Natural, Organisms, Pis, Processes, Program, Recipient, Soils, Subsurface, Times, Transport, Via, Women.

CMG: Improved Seismic Inference via Better Spectrum Estimation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Frank L Vernon($250,230), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Earthquake Source, Reliable Estimates, Analysis, Applications, Development, Participation, Physics, Presentations, Resolution, Seismic, Seismology, Sophisticated, Spectra, Spectrum, Theory, Transient, Waves, Web.

Collaborative Research - CMG: Development and Application of Inference Methods for Imaging Neighborhoods of Earth's Core-Mantle Boundary With Broad-Band Scs and SKKS Coda Waves
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2004; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Maarten V de Hoop($167,758), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
2. Gunther Uhlmann($122,000), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Core Mantle Boundary, Outer Core, Outermost Core, Based, CMB, Deep, Earth, Gathers, Generalized, Igs, Ii, Iii, Liquid, Operators, Singularities, Statistical, Students, Techniques.

CMG: Mathematical Modeling of the Dynamics of Multi-scale Phenomena During Folding and Fracturing of Sedimentary Rocks
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. David D Pollard($1,210,019), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Airborne Laser, Computational Mechanics, Differential Geometry, Folding Process, M-scale Fractures, ALSM, Applications, CMG, Expertise, Folded, Folds, Geosystems, Investigation, Km-scale, M-scale, Mapping, Modeling, Precision, Promise, Reservoirs, Shapes, Strata, Unprecedented.

2004 High Pressure, Research at Gordon Conference
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2004; Program: METAL & METALLIC NANOSTRUCTURE

1. Nancy R Gray($15,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Extreme Conditions, Gordon Conference, High-pressure Field, Acoustic, Advances, Conferences, Directions, Discussion, Experiments, GRC, Generate, Has, Held, High-pressure, Hispanic, Invited, Junior, Larger, Meet, Metals, Neutron, Newcomers, Participation, Physics, Scattering, Shock, Speakers, Students, Techniques, Woman, Women, X-ray.

Development of the Single-Crystal Diamond from Chemical Vapor Deposition for the Next Generation High-Pressure Devices
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2004; Program: MPS DMR INSTRUMENTATION

1. Russell J Hemley($350,124), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Uniform Temperatures, Allow, Anvils, Available, Capabilities, Cells, Diamond, Enlarged, High-pressure, Larger, Pressures, Required, Techniques, Ultrahigh-pressure, Volumes.

Acquisition of a millimeter wave vector network analyzer : seismology without seismometers
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Manoja D Weiss($231,000), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: Network Analyzer, Applications, Detection, Ghz, Imaging, Laser, Method, Non-contact, Thz, Waves.

Acquisition of a Microanalysis System for a Scanning Electron Microscope at Carleton College.
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Bereket Haileab($92,420), Carleton College, Northfield
Key terms: Enhance, Microanalysis.

Acquisition of an Excimer-Laser Based Laser Ablation ICP-MS System
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Robert J Bodnar($400,866), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Fluid And Melt, Melt Inclusions, Analysis, Available, Chemical, Environments, Quantitative.

Acquisition of a Powder X-ray Diffraction System for Earth Science Research and Education
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Thomas H Naehr($120,000), Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi
Key terms: Authigenic Seafloor Deposits, Phase Analysis, X-ray Diffractometer, Activities, Analyses, Co-pis, Courses, Diagenetic, Enhance, Gas, Gulf, Mexico, Mineralogical, Minority, Qualitative, Seep, Sites, Students, TAMU-CC, Texas, Undergraduate, X-ray, XRD.

MRI: Acquisition of an X-ray Diffraction Instrument: Developing an Interdisciplinary Research/Teaching X-ray Diffraction Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Zhi Wang($148,421), California State University-Fresno Foundation, Fresno
Key terms: Asbestiform Minerals, Central Valley, Csu Fresno, Csu Stanislaus, Dust Particles, Mineral Content, Natural Clinopyroxenes, Xrd Analysis, Affect, Agricultural, Allow, CA, Department, Dusts, Identification, Instrument, Operations, PM-, Powder, Rock, Sierra, Soil, Soils, Suspected, Undergraduates, Volcanic, X-ray.

Development by the Consortium for Advanced Radiation Sources of a New X-Ray Beamline for High Pressure and Interface Earth Science Research at the GeoSoilEnviroCARS APS Sector
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Peter Eng($550,001), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Access, Advance, Advancing, Analytical, Beamline, Composition, Core, Facility, GSECARS, Instrumentation, Knowledge, Opportunities, Processes, Properties, Station, Students, Surfaces, Synchrotron, X-ray.

Acquisition of an ICP-Optical Emission Spectrometer for Undergraduate Research in the Natural Sciences
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Scott Slough($106,167), University of Houston - Downtown, Houston
Key terms: Clays, ICP-OES, Metal, Minority, Program, Students, UHD, Western.

Acquisition of Gravity Surveying Equipment for Tectonic and Applied Geology Studies
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Phillip A Armstrong($99,356), CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation, Fullerton
Key terms: Acquisition, Buried, Cal, Fullerton, Gravimeter, Gravity, Northern, Students.

Acquisition of a Vibrating Sample Magnetometer for the Paleomagnetism Laboratory, Western Washington University
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Bernard A Housen($196,019), Western Washington University, Bellingham
Key terms: Deformed, Efforts, Lakes, Lines, Magnetic, Physics, Plate, Properties, Rock, Sediments, Tool, VSM, WWU.

Acquisition of a CHN Elemental Analyzer, Particle Size Analyzer, and KappaBridge to investigate the origin of rhythmites in the Finger Lakes of New York
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. John D Halfman($152,152), Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva
Key terms: Particle Size Analyzer, Elemental Analyzer, Finger Lakes, Organic Matter, Automated, Climate, Dynamics, Environmental, HWS, Holocene, Instruments, Kappabridge.

Acquisition of a scanning electron microscope optimized for elemental analysis for geologic research and teaching at Northern Arizona University
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Mary R Reid($237,127), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: Analysis, Analytical, Arizona, Capabilities, Chemical, Department, Electron, Evolution, Existing, Facility, Faculty, Geology, Graduate, Instrument, Margins, NAU, Processes, Program, Programs, SEM, Students, Tool, Training, Undergraduate.

Acquisition of a Scanning Electron Microscope for Environmental, Biological, and Materials Research and Education at UC Merced
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Valerie J Leppert($323,743), University of California - Merced, Merced
Key terms: Scanning Electron, Anticipate, Basic, Campus, Education, Engineering, Environmental, Faculty, Growth, IMF, Microscopy, Mission, Population, SEM, Teaching, UC, UCM, User.

ACQUISITION OF A NEW X-RAY MICRODIFFRACTION SYSTEM
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. James (Tony) Frantz($231,000), American Museum Natural History, New York
Key terms: Natural History, Art, Artifacts, Conservation, Crystalline, Diffraction, Microdiffraction, Museum, Museums, Objects, Techniques, Time, X-ray.

Acquisition of an X-ray Diffraction System for Research at an Undergraduate Woman's College
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Rebecca K Ambers($73,057), Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar
Key terms: Clay Mineralogy, Bank, Explore, Streams, Watershed, XRD.

Acquisition of a high resolution ICP & XRD for environmental, Earth, & material science research in biology, Chemistry, Geology, & Physics at Southern Oregon University
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. William S Elliott($219,538), Southern Oregon University, Ashland
Key terms: Acid Mine Drainage, Single Phase, Southern Oregon, Capability, Environmental, Faculty, ICP, Minerals, Preparation, Program, Students, XRD.

Collaborative Research: Variations of sedimentary input to magma genesis across the Kurile arc
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Julie D Morris($118,339), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Kurile Arc, Rear-arc Lavas, Volcanic Front, Beneath, Characterize, Excess, Fluid, Fluxes, Isotope, Mantle, Melt, Melting, Processes, Radiogenic, Rarc, Trace.

Seismic and Geodynamic Investigation of the Interaction Between the Oceanic Lithosphere and Upper Mantle
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Michael H Ritzwoller($230,318), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Cooling History, Pacific Lithosphere, Upper Mantle, Boundary, Controls, Geodynamical, Instabilities, Oceanic, Particular, Plumes, Processes, Seismological, Structure, TBI, Temperature, Thermal.

Acquisition of an Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer System for the University of California, Davis
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Howard J Spero($208,223), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Continuous Flow Interface, Oxygen Isotopic Composition, Mass Spectrometer, Mass Spectrometers, Stable Isotope, Temperature Pyrolysis, Allow, Equipped, Faculty, Gas, Micro, Micromass, SIRMS, Students.

Technician Support for the WHOI ICPMS Facility
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink($224,200), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Diverse User Base, Analytical Protocols, Lary Ball, Broad, Facility, Has, ICP, ICPMS, Involved, Manager, NEPTUNE, Skills, Technician, WHOI.

Rhenium-Osmium Isotope and Platinum Group Element Systematics of Lower Oceanic Crust
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Peter B Kelemen($299,725), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Lower Oceanic Crust, Drill Holes, Alteration, Chemical, Investigating, Lavas, Ophiolite, PGE, Sections, Subduction.

NER: Biologically Inspired Lithography
Award Effective Date: 11/19/2003; Program: NANOSCALE: EXPLORATORY RSRCH

1. Steven K Lower($8,678), Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE, Columbus
Key terms: Biomolecules And Inorganic, Inorganic Surfaces, Force, Forces, Nanoscale, Proteins.

NIRT: Nanoparticle-Environment Interfaces: Interactions in Natural Systems
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: NANOSCALE: INTRDISCPL RESRCH T

1. Udo Becker($1,499,748), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Interface Properties, Chemistry, Courses, Development, Electron, Engineering, Environment, Environmental, Graduate, Metal, Methods, Michigan, Mineral, Mineralogy, Nanoparticle, Nanoparticles, Nuclear, Public, Students, Surface, Transport, Undergraduate.

Technical Support for a New ICP-MS Laboratory for Earth and Ocean Science Research at the University of Florida
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Michael R Perfit($217,901), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Laboratory Manager, Acquisition, Facility, Florida, ICP, Initial, Instruments, Nm, Period, Primary, Quality, Relocation, Students, Users.

Production of high-purity 229Th for analyses of U- and Th-series isotopes in geological materials
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2004; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Aaron J Pietruszka($210,583), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
Key terms: Active Volcanoes, High-purity Th-229, Mass Spectrometry, Th-229 Tracer, Future, Groundwater, High-purity, Isotope, Isotopes, Isotopic, Long-term, Magmatic, Potential, Processes, Quaternary, U-.

Development of a New Broadband Optical Seismometer
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Mark A Zumberge($455,927), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Optical Fiber Interferometry, Observatory-class Seismometer, Developed, Development, Displacement, Global, Market, Networks, Observatory-class, Quality, Range, Requirements, Seismic, Seismology, Sufficient.

25th International Conference on Mathematical Geophysics
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Marc W Spiegelman($10,000), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Geophysics, Senior Scientists, Conference, Current, IGERT, International, Meeting, Students, Techniques, Theoretical.

Growth of Early Continental Crust and Chemical Evolution of Cratonic Lithosphere
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Robert P Rapp($267,259), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Continental Crust, Subcratonic Lithosphere, Terrestrial Planets, Appropriate, Archean, Chemical, Cratonic, Cratons, Evolution, Experiments, Granitoid, Mantle, Mineral, Peridotite, Rock, Roots, Slab, Solar, TTG, Unique, Was.

Accessory Minerals and Crustal Processes
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. E. Bruce Watson($577,236), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
Key terms: Accessory Minerals, Geologic Time, Migration Rates, Theoretical Models, Age, Atomic, Atoms, Circumstances, Combination, Conditions, Crust, Crystal, Crystallization, Crystals, Deep, Defects, Degassing, Diffusion, Direct, Experimental, Focuses, Has, Helium, Helium-, History, Impurity, Information, Involves, Isotopes, Isotopic, Knowledge, Laboratory, Natural, Processes, Properties, RPI, Radioactive, Rock, Rutile, Strategies, Sub-project, Temperature, Temperatures, Thermal, Zircon, Zircons.

Collaborative Research: Flood Basalt Magma Genesis and Dynamics: Application of Crystal Isotope Stratigraphy and Igneous Componentry to the Columbia River Basalt Group
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Frank C Ramos($36,241), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
2. John A Wolff($182,888), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Continental Flood, Flood Basalt, Flood Basalts, Crystals, Erupted, Geochemical, Isotope, Magma, Magmas, Mantle, Ratios, Rock, Sources, Volcanism.

RUI: Collaborative Research: The Time Scales of Magmatic Differentiation and Their Relationship to Eruptive Style
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Karen S Harpp($133,536), Colgate University, Hamilton
2. Dennis J Geist($172,587), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
Key terms: Melt Inclusions, Analyses, Colgate, Designed, Differentiation, Eruption, Evolution, Extent, Hekla, Historical, Idaho, Isotopic, Magmatic, Phenocrysts, Repose, Student, Students, Time, Undergraduates, Water, Zoned.

Stable Isotope Geochemistry
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Robert N Clayton($331,207), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Atmosphere, Effects, Evolution, NMD, Ozone, Photochemistry, Sulfur.

Collaborative Research: Magma-Host Rock Interaction Processes of Assimilation in the Mid-Crustal Hortavaer Intrusive Complex, North Central Norway
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Carol D Frost($167,557), University of Wyoming, Laramie
2. Aaron S Yoshinobu($229,235), Texas Tech University, Lubbock
Key terms: Host Rocks, Silicate Assimilation, Assimilated, Calc-silicate, Carbonate, Evolution, Hortavar, Involve, Magma, Magmas, Middle, Norwegian, Situ, Students.

Collaborative Research: Internally-Consistent Model for Trace and Major Element Evolution in Open System Magma Bodies: Merging EC-RAFC and MELTS
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Wendy A Bohrson($196,830), Central Washington University, Ellensburg
2. Frank J Spera($197,133), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Crustal Assimilation, Fractional Crystallization, Magma Bodies, Computational, Evolution, Exercises, Geochemical, MCS, Magmatic, Mass, Modeling, Petrological, Petrology, Quantitative, Recharge, Students, Subject, Tool.

Collaborative Research: Measurement of Transport Properties of Silicate Melts with Application to Crustal Anatexis
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Anne M Hofmeister($66,737), Washington University, Saint Louis
2. Alan G Whittington($141,289), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Crustal Melting, Silicate Melts, Thermal Conductivity, Thermal Structure, Transport Properties, Lithosphere, Lithospheric, Models, Rock, Viscosity.

Energies of Mineral, Rock, and Magma Processes
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Guy L Hovis($204,002), Lafayette College, Easton
Key terms: Energetic Effects, Solution Calorimetric, Undergraduate Participation, Basis, Conditions, Energetics, HO, Laboratory, Minerals, Mixing, Processes, Specifically, Students, Substitution, Thermodynamic, Various.

Quantitative Modeling of Gas Migration in Layered Intrusions
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. A. E Boudreau($168,875), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Layered Intrusions, Quantitative Modeling, Cr, Deposits, Formation, Gas, PGE.

Lithium Isotope Variation in Ocean Island Basalts: A Study of Magma Source and Mantle Heterogeneity
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Lui-Heung Chan($159,829), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Enriched Mantle, Isotope Compositions, Lithium Isotope, Mantle Geochemistry, Ocean Islands, Compositional, Evolution, Investigation, Magmatism, Reservoirs, Source.

Collaborative Research: Volatile Recycling and Magma Genesis in a Hot, Dry Subduction Zone: A Case Study of the Cascade Arc
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Roger L Nielsen($260,892), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Paul Wallace($90,665), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Magma Types Found, Cascade Arc, Magma Genesis, Mass Transfer, Subduction Zone, Subduction Zones, Cascades, Composition, Cycling, Environments, Lavas, Magmas, Melting, Oregon, Primitive, Volatile.

Consequences of Changing Topography on Pyroclastic Flow Dispersal During the Current Active Cycle of Tungurahua, Ecuador
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Michael F Sheridan($245,297), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Volcanic Flows, Activity, Ecuador, Eruption, Hazards, Simulations, Students, Valley.

Collaborative Research: Using Melt Inclusions to Unravel Lithospheric Mantle and Crustal Contributions to Gondwana Flood Basalts and to Determine Pre-Eruptive Volatile Contents
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Adam Kent($122,819), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Ingrid A Ukstins Peate($225,858), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Flood Basalt, Melt Inclusions, Compositions, Earlier, Eruption, Global, Magma, Means, Melts, Plumbing, Pressures, Processes, Source, Volatile.

Integrating Computational Volcanology With Natural Deposits: An Investigation of Over-Water and Over-Land Volcanic Transport of the Kos Plateau Tuff
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. George W Bergantz($267,085), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Pyroclastic Deposits, Volcanic Hazards, Activity, Eruption, Field, Modeling, Multiphase, Processes, Range.

The Group 5A Pathfinder Elements: Experiments in Magma-Volatile Systems
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Philip M Piccoli($229,649), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Behavior, Bi, Candela, Crust, Experiments, Oc, Partitioning, Porphyry, Serve, Students.

Resolving the Paradox of fO2 in Arcs Using V/Sc Systematics of Primitive Lavas as a Proxy for Mantle fO2: Towards an Internally Consistent Dataset
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Cin-Ty A Lee($179,999), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Arc Lavas, Magmatic Differentiation, Mantle Wedge, Mid-ocean Ridges, Oxygen Fugacity, Vsc Ratios, Behavior, Estimating, Magmas, Mid-ocean, Oxidizing, Primitive, Processes, Significantly, Source, Straightforward, Subduction.

Studies of the Evolution of the Terrestrial Mantle Using Neon Isotopes in Ocean Island and Island Arc Basalts
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. David R Hilton($281,913), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Isotope Characteristics, Neon Isotope, Neon Isotopes, Subduction Zones, Terrestrial Mantle, Consider, Contributions, Extent, Facility, Geochemical, Mass, Noble, OIB, Primary, Students, Training, VG, Via, Visitors, Volatile.

Disorder and Dynamics in Silicate and Aluminosilicate Liquids, Glasses, and Crystals Relevant to Geochemical Processes: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Jonathan F Stebbins($839,999), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Critical.

Characterization of Hydrogen Diffusion in Volcanic Feldspars
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Elizabeth A Johnson($150,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Incorporation And Retention, Anhydrous Minerals, Hydrous Species, Magmatic Temperatures, Melt Inclusions, Oxygen Fugacity, Water Content, Coefficient, Concentrations, Crystallization, Diffusion, Eruption, Feldspar, Feldspars, Histories, Hydrogen, Mechanisms, OH, Phenocryst, Phenocrysts, Plagioclase, Rate, Zoning.

Collaborative Research: Dendrochronological, Volcanological, and Archaeological Study of Cinder Cone Eruptions of Paricutin and Sunset Crater
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2004; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Mark D Elson($20,518), Desert Archaeology, Inc., Tucson
2. Michael H Ort($59,530), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
3. Paul R Sheppard($99,879), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Northern Arizona, Sunset Crater, Affected, CE, Eruption, Geochemical, Geosciences, Historic, Human, Interactions, Multidisciplinary, Populations, Prehistoric, Students, Volcanic.

Nanoscale Structure and Chemistry of Minerals and Mineral Coatings
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. David R Veblen($293,552), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Advanced, Aquifers, Minerals, Reactions, TEM.

Collaborative Research: The Lu-Hf Composition of the Earth and Implications for the Future of Hf Isotope Geochemistry
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Jeffrey D Vervoort($56,291), Washington State University, Pullman
2. P. Jonathan Patchett($163,868), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Decay Constant, Hf Isotopic, BSE, Chondrites, Constrain, Lu, Lu-hf, Mineral, Powders.

Platinum Group Element Geochemistry of High-MgO Lavas
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Munir Humayun($165,807), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Komatiites And Picrites, Core-mantle Interaction, Graduate Student, High-mgo Lavas, Isotopic Studies, Core-mantle, Establish, High-mgo, Os, PGE, Pges, Phases, Rock.

Insight into Mantle Melting and Crustal Differentiation of Ocean Island Volcanoes: An Isotopic and Trace Element Study of Waianae Volcano, Hawaii
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. John J Mahoney($74,932), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Magma Supply, Partial Melting, Components, Contribute, Development, Evolution, Hawaiian, Isotopic, Plume, Trace, Volcanic.

Validation of a Numerical Granular Flow Simulation Model for Pyroclastic Flows and Debris Avalanches
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Barry Voight($275,178), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Hazards And Risk, Hazards Assessments, Aid, Code, Contribute, Effective, Flow, Hazardous, Model, Physics, Processes, Reliable, Slope, TITAND, Validation, Volcanic.

Structure of the Hawaiian Mantle Plume: Geochemical-Isotopic Mapping Using Post-Shield Lavas
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Donald J DePaolo($321,482), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Mantle Plume, Aspects, Dynamics, Experience, Flow, Fluid, Geochemical, Geochemistry, Has, Hawaiian, Isotope, Lavas, Nature, Planetary, Students, Women.

4He/3He Thermocronometry and Noble Gas Diffusion Behavior via Proton Irradiation
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Kenneth A Farley($270,742), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Age Spectrum, Bulk Age, Applications, Caltech, Dating, Developed, Facility, Fault, Geochronology, Grain, Hehe, Infrastructure, Magnitude, Method, Proton, Supported, Timing.

The Tristan-Gough Plume Source and Constraints on the Composition of Recycled Sediment
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Steven L Goldstein($368,336), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Mantle Plume Sources, Recycled Sediment Component, Ocean Floor, Tristan-gough Plume, Analytical, Composition, International, LDEO, Negative, Oceanic, Presence, Sediments, Trace, Tristan-gough, UCT.

Collaborative Research: Elucidating Physical Processes In Upper Crustal Magma Systems - Evidence From Miocene Intrusive And Extrusive Sequences In Southern Nevada
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Jonathan S Miller($138,892), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
2. James Faulds($85,036), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
3. Calvin F Miller($190,693), Vanderbilt University, Nashville
Key terms: Fluid Dynamic, Lab Experiments, Magma Chambers, Upper Crust, Analytical, Broad, Contribute, Dikes, Erupt, Eruption, Experience, Fed, Field, Geochemistry, Informal, Internal, Intrusive, Magmas, Magmatic, Modified, Particle, Plutons, Processes, Products, Relatively, Rock, Students, Surface, Transport, Volcanic.

Collaborative Research: First Principles Investigation of Silicate Liquids at Mantle Conditions
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Bijaya B Karki($150,684), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
2. Lars P Stixrude($197,967), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Ab Initio Predictions, Silicate Liquids, Approach, Bond, Composition, Diopside, Mantle, Mgo-sio, Mixing, Properties, Range, Simulations.

Collaborative Research: Volatiles in Aleutian-Alaska Arc Magmas
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Peter B Kelemen($48,447), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Terry A Plank($87,892), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
3. Erik H Hauri($47,571), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Aleutian-alaska Volcanoes, Arc Magmas, Subduction Zones, Water Content, Aleutian-alaska, Central, Microprobe, Origin.

Collaborative Research: Phenocrysts and Bubbles in the Bishop Tuff Rhyolitic Magma
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Paul Wallace($39,588), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
2. Alfred T Anderson($94,690), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Continental Crust, Silicic Magma, Water Plays, Accumulation, Bishop, Bubbles, Crystallize, Depth, Erupt, Eruption, Extent, Formation, Gas, Granite, Igneous, Intrusive, Magmas, Mixing, Motion, Pis, Poor, Pre-eruptive, Requires, Rhyolite, Rhyolitic, Rich, Rock, Silica, Students.

Defining the Role of Mixed H2O-CO2 Fluids in the Petrogenesis of Subduction-related Lavas
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Gordon M Moore($153,562), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Arc, Effect, Experimental, Magmas, Melt, Mixed, Phase.

Numerical Modeling of Reaction-Enhanced Fluid Flow and Isotopic Exchange in Contact Aureoles
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Mian Liu($162,465), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Fluid Flow, Magma-driven Hydrothermal, Metamorphic Reactions, Chemical, Complex, Contact, Evolution, Examine, Fluids, Guide, Magma-driven, Magmatic-hydrothermal, Mass, Mineralogic, Processes, Rock, Student, Time.

Collaborative Research: Crystal Chemistry of U,Th and Other Radionuclides in Apatite: Environmental and Geochemical Implications
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Christopher L Cahill($46,766), George Washington University, Washington
2. John F Rakovan($199,996), Miami University, Oxford
Key terms: X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy, Apatite Formation, Crystal Chemistry, Environmental Concern, Metal Sequestration, X-ray Absorption, X-ray Diffraction, Accomplished, Chemical, Conditions, Fate, Focuses, Geochemical, Has, II, Implications, Incorporation, Metals, Parameters, Phases, Phosphate, Precursor, Presence, Radionuclide, Radionuclides, Sediments, Situ, Solid, Structural, Substituents, Surface, Surprisingly, Synthesis, Th, Waste.

High-Pressure Behavior of Framework Minerals
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Ross J Angel($294,767), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Earth, Feldspars, Framework, Perovskites.

Experimental Quantification of the Solubility of SiO2 and H2O in Clinopyroxene Versus Pressure
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Larissa Dobrzhinetskaya($379,727), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Earth's Mantle, Clinopyroxene, Eclogites, Has, Mechanisms, Minerals, Water.

Structure and Solubility of H2O and Silicate in Silicate Melts and Aqueous Fluids in the Earth's Deep Crust and Upper Mantle
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Bjorn O Mysen($109,994), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Melt And Glass, Pressure And Temperature, Silicate-rich Aqueous Fluids, Deep Crust, Metal Oxide, Silicate Melts, Silicate-rich Aqueous, Terrestrial Planets, Upper Mantle, Aluminosilicate, Application, Behavior, Crystallization, Energy, Experimental, Govern, HO, Mass, Processes, Properties, Solubility, Structure, Transfer.

Collaborative Research: On the Origins of Primitive Magmas in the Cascade Volcanic Arc
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2004; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. John T Chesley($37,276), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Basaltic Magmatism, Mantle Wedge, Oceanic Lithosphere, Relative Contributions, Slab Contributions, Slab-derived Fluids, Subduction Zone, Arc, Basic, Beneath, Cascades, Compositional, Contribute, Convergent, Define, Depths, Diversity, Dynamics, Extent, Investigate, Isotopes, Knowledge, Lavas, Magmas, Melting, Origins, Prevailing, Primitive, Processes, Significantly, Slab-derived, Subducting, Underpinning, Washington.

Zircon Geochronology and REE Geochemistry of High- and Ultrahigh-Pressure Metamorphic Rocks: North Qaidam and South Altun Terranes, Northwest China
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2004; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Dennis K Bird($143,348), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Graduate Student Chris, Earth's Surface, Altun, Analysis, Continent, Enhancing, Exhumation, Exposure, Field, International, Mattinsons, Metamorphic, Metamorphism, Mineral, Pressure, Processes, Qaidam, REE, Responsible, Rock, Terranes, UHP.

Calibration and Application of a Ti-in-Quartz Geothermometer
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2004; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Frank S Spear($198,088), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
Key terms: Activity, Application, History, Quartz, Rock, Thermal, Thermometer, Ti, Tio.

Mass Redistribution in Continental Magmatic-Hydrothermal Systems
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2004; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Greg B Arehart($15,000), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Mass Transfer, Mineral Deposits, Penrose Conference, Allow, Contribute, Crust, Experts, Future, International, Magmatic-hydrothermal, Organizers, Participants, Processes.

CAREER:Earth System Science Perspective on the Sulfur Cycle
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. James Farquhar($532,359), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Mass-independent Sulfur Isotope, Sulfur Isotope Fractionations, Mass-independent Sulfur, Sulfur Cycle, Earth, Evolution, Investigation, Maryland, Multiple, Program, Proterozoic, Students.

Workshop for Metamorphic Petrology Database
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Frank S Spear($12,882), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
Key terms: Metamorphic Petrology, Collaborative, Construction, Database, Development, Efforts, Enhance, Ensure, Functionality, Geological, Geosciences, Global, Metpetdb, Plan, Serve, Similar, Sponsored, Workshop.

Characterizing an Active Magma Chamber at South Sister Volcano, Oregon: Constraints From Gravity and GPS Measurements
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Daniel J Johnson($78,186), University of Puget Sound, Tacoma
Key terms: Magma Chamber, Magma Injection, Depth, GPS, Gravity, Has, Modeling, USGS, Uplift.

U.S.-German Conference on Earth, Fire, Water, Air and Life
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2004; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Bruce D Marsh($38,600), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Human Habitat, Conference, Future, Joint, Meeting, Presentations, Processes, Water.

Integrated Petrologic and Volcanologic Studies of the 1991 Eruption of Hudson Volcano
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2004; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Steven Carey($117,851), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Argentina, Dispersal, Erupted, Eruption, Graduate, Hudson, Investigate, Magmatic, Models, Pis, Potential, Tephra, Volcano, Volcanological.

Partitioning of Noble Gases Between Crustal Minerals: Implications for Geochronology
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Ethan F Baxter($155,102), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Common Crustal, Crustal Phases, Excess Ar, Noble Gas, Andor, Experiments, Minerals, Models, Partitioning, Quartz.

Collaborative Research: Petrogenesis of Jadeitite and Other High-Pressure Rocks in Serpentinites, Motagua Fault Zone, Guatemala
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2004; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Hans G Ave Lallemant($92,134), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
2. Sidney Hemming($216,047), Columbia University, New York
3. George E Harlow($127,885), American Museum Natural History, New York
Key terms: Hplt Rocks, Blueschist, Blueschists, Collisional, Conditions, Crystallization, Eclogite, Eclogites, Fluid, Guatemala, Guatemalan, High-pt, Host, Investigate, Investigation, Jade, Jadeitite, Jadeitites, Low-temperature, MFZ, Ma, Pairing, Processes, Remnants, Serpentinites, Sources, South, Tectonic, Terranes, Zones.

A New Generation of Timescales for Arc Magmatic Processes
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2004; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Brian L Beard($427,036), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Arc Volcanoes, Crustal Thickness, Andes, CIRTL, Chile, Differentiation, Eruption, Evolution, Geochronology, Long-term, Magma, Magmatic, Outreach, Processes, Quantifying, Students, Timescales, Volcanic.

Mineralogic and Isotopic Studies of Cu-Ni Sulfide Mineralization Associated with the Duke Island Ultramafic Complex, Southeastern Alaska
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2004; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Edward M Ripley($240,000), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Duke Island Complex, Alaskan-type Complexes, Country Rocks, Drill Cores, Sulfide Mineralization, Alaskan-type, Analyses, Cu-ni-pge, Deposits, Environments, Evolution, Field, Formed, Hydrothermal, Involved, Isotopic, Nature, Ni, PGE, Portions, Potential, Processes, Source, Subduction, Tectonic, Ultramafic.

RUI: An Investigation of the Mauna Kea Magma Plumbing System: Insights From Mineral Composition From the HSDP Core
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2004; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Keith D Putirka($105,652), California State University-Fresno Foundation, Fresno
Key terms: Kea Magma Plumbing, Mauna Kea Magma, Transport And Liquid, Liquid Evolution, Magma Conduit, Magma Transport, Phenocryst Compositions, Analysis, Conditions, Graduate, HSDP, Hawaii, Students, Undergraduate, Undergraduates, View.

Student Support for the North American Paleontological Convention -- 2005
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: SCEC

1. William I Ausich($25,125), Paleontological Society, Mc Lean
Key terms: Organizing Committee, Field, Fossils, June, Meet, Meeting, NAPC, Opportunity, Paleontological, Paleontologists, Past, Presentations, Students.

Landscape-Scale Morphology and Dynamics of Some Bahamian Ooid Shoals
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2004; Program: SCEC

1. Eugene C Rankey($271,645), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Ancient Analogs, Fluid Flow, Ooid Shoals, Remote Sensing, Approach, Bahamian, Bathymetric, Bodies, Broadly, Carbonate, Conditions, Depositional, Environment, Environments, Examining, Facies, Framework, GIS, Geobodies, Geomorphic, Geomorphic-depositional, Grain, Grains, Landscape-scale, Linked, Links, Lobes, Modern, Processes, Quantitative, Represent, Sedimentologic, Sediments, Size, Sorting, Stratigraphic, Students, Tidal, Tide-dominated, Tools.

Collaborative Research: Testing the Methane Hydrate Hypothesis for the Aftermath of Severe Neoproterozoic Ice Ages
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: SCEC

1. Nicholas Christie-Blick($12,330), Columbia University, New York
2. Martin J Kennedy($229,283), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Cap Carbonates, Carbon Isotopic, Ice Ages, Methane Release, Ancient, Climate, Destabilization, Evidence, Global, Hydrates, Locally, Ma, Modern, Neoproterozoic, Seeps, Warming.

SGER: Geological and Geomorphic Investigations of Impacts of Rapid Fall of Lake Powell at the Colorado River Delta
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: SCEC

1. James P Evans($9,800), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Base, Delta, Lake, Line, Opportunity, Sediments, Short.

SGER - Genesis and Diagenesis of an Enigmatic Precambrian Carbonate cement: an Investigation using Microanalytical and Experimental Techniques
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: SCEC

1. Linda C Kah($20,000), University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville
Key terms: Nucleation And Growth, Graduate Students, Growth Mechanisms, Mt Microspar, Unusual Carbonate, Aims, CL, Chemical, Collaboration, Constrain, Crystal, Deciphering, Encouraging, Environments, Equant, Formation, Has, Imaging, Marine, Mesoproterozoic, Morphology, Neoproterozoic, Opportunities, Participation, Precipitation, Spectroscopy, Uniform, Volumetrically.

Collaborative Proposal: Molybdenum Isotopes as Paleoredox Proxies
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: SCEC

1. Ariel D Anbar($147,256), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Black Sea, Black Shale, Euxinic Conditions, Euxinic Sediments, Isotopically Lighter, Laboratory Experiments, Mcarthur Basin, Mo Isotope, Mo Isotopes, Ocean Redox, Approaches, Barling, Bottom, Boundary, Complementary, Composition, Consistent, Devonian, Expected, Findings, Fractionated, Fractionation, Geochemical, Importance, Indicators, Mn-oxyhydroxides, Modeling, Oceans, Oxic, Paleoredox, Periods, Seawater, Sequences, Similar, Specifically, Stratigraphic, Time, Uptake.

Collaborative Research: The Role of Development and Life History Traits in the Evolution of Ceratopsian Dinosaurs
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: SCEC

1. Peter J Makovicky($99,292), Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
2. Gregory M Erickson($155,000), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Heterochrony And Integration, Ceratopsian Evolution, Based, Biology, Clade, Constrained, Cranial, Detailed, Developmental, Dinosaurs, Display, Diversity, Evolutionary, Feeding, Growth, Incorporated, Methods, Ontogeny, Phylogeny, Pis, Relative, Synapomorphies.

Quantifying Sedimentary Capture of Biological Information
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2004; Program: SCEC

1. Susan M Kidwell($287,864), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Bio-data Capture, Biological Information, Death Assemblages, Bio-data, Coastal, Ecological, Environmental, Evaluation, Factors, Meta-analysis, Neontologic, Numerical, Past, Quantitative, Sampling, Sedimentary, Shell, Species.

Collaborative Research: Antiquity of Life in Salt Deposits? A Rb-Sr Age-Dating Study
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: SCEC

1. Juske Horita($80,000), University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville
2. Tim K Lowenstein($70,041), SUNY at Binghamton, Binghamton
Key terms: Permian Salado Formation, Brine Inclusions, Cretaceous Muribeca, Virgibacillus Sp, Absolute, Ages, Binghamton, Crystals, Cultured, Dating, Fluid, Halite, Halites, Life, Ma, Microorganisms, Purported, Rb-sr, Students, Was.

Taphonomy and Paleoecology of Ediacaran Assemblages (Flinders Ranges, South Australia): Do we Have a Census?
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: SCEC

1. Mary L Droser($145,000), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Body And Trace, Late Proterozoic Trace, Proterozoic Trace Fossils, Bedding Planes, Body Fossils, Ediacaran Assemblages, Ediacaran Biota, Problematic Structures, Stratigraphic Succession, Australia, Beds, Detail, Detailed, Distribution, Examination, Examined, Excavated, Excavation, Field, Focussed, Has, Information, Inorganic, Nature, Numerous, Preservation, Respect.

Glacial-Interglacial Variations in Late Paleozoic Atmospheric Circulation Inferred from Loessite-Paleosol Couplets of Western Equatorial Pangea
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: SCEC

1. Michael J Soreghan($174,995), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Pis And Students, Western Equatorial Pangea, Age Constraints, Atmospheric Circulation, Climate Models, Earth's Climate, Late Paleozoic, Monsoonal Circulation, Wind Direction, Accordingly, Analysis, Aspects, Climatic, Conditions, Continue, Couplet, Couplets, Dating, Detail, Durations, Enable, Geologically, Glacial-interglacial, Has, Interglacials, Interval, Loessite-paleosol, MJS, Modern, Permian, Shift, Shifts, Strength, Target, Teaches, Training, Undergraduate, Zonal.

Formation of Kaolinite in Inorganic and Organic Low-Temperature Systems
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: SCEC

1. Kathryn L Nagy($70,801), University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Organic Molecules, Dissolved, Formation, Industrial, Investigated, Kaolinite, Mineral, Natural, Sandstones, Soils.

Late Paleozoic Stratigraphy and Intraplate Tectonics of the Greater Ancestral Rocky Mountains
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2004; Program: SCEC

1. Gerilyn S Soreghan($35,550), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: Ancestral Rocky Mountains, Intraplate Tectonics, Late Paleozoic, Natural Laboratory, Biosphere, Climate, Eustasy, GARM, Geological, Icehouse, Integrated, Various, Workshop, World.

SGER: Development and Provision of Critical Triassic Marine Faunal Data to the Paleobiology Database: A Unique Opportunity Within a Limited Time Frame
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2004; Program: SCEC

1. David J Bottjer($26,000), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Informatics Approaches, Paleobiology Database, Allow, Assemble, Experience, Fill, Future, Gap, Individuals, Opportunity, PBDB, Paleobiological, Paleontological, Students, Summer, Teaching, Triassic.

Evaluation of Carbonate Platform Records to Track Greenhouse, Transitional and Icehouse Worlds through the Paleozoic
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2004; Program: SCEC

1. James F Read($165,000), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Global Ice Volume, Carbonate Platforms, Global Climate, Sea Level, Driven, Fields, Geological, Giant, Has, Periods, Rock, Roughly, Thousand, Transitional.

COLLABORATIVE PROPOSAL: Silicified Paleocene Plants from North Dakota: Phylogenetic and Biogeographic Significance
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2004; Program: SCEC

1. Kathleen B Pigg($160,001), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Late Paleocene, North Dakota, Temperate Families, Almont, Anatomy, Biogeographic, Floras, Gcandsus, History, Information, Opportunity, Outreach, Plant, Ranunculaceae, Time.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Silicified Paleocene Plants from North Dakota: Phylogenetic and Biogeographic Significance
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2004; Program: SCEC

1. Melanie L DeVore($24,429), Georgia College, Milledgeville
Key terms: Late Paleocene, North Dakota, Temperate Families, Almont, Anatomy, Biogeographic, Floras, Gcandsus, History, Information, Opportunity, Outreach, Plant, Ranunculaceae, Time.

Integrated stratigraphic, geomorphic, sedimentologic, numeric, and experimental study of hangingwall ramp architecture in continental half grabens
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2004; Program: SCEC

1. John W Geissman($151,966), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Hangingwall Ramp, Stratigraphic Methods, Architecture, Basin, Basins, Continent, Controls, Development, Experimental, Extensional, Field, Geomorphic, Half, Sediment, Sedimentologic.

Diffusive Soil Transport and Hillslope Evolution
Award Effective Date: 08/08/2003; Program: SCEC

1. David J Furbish($174,652), Vanderbilt University, Nashville
Key terms: Mixing And Sorting, Transport And Hillslope, Advanced Computational, Hillslope Evolution, Hillslope Geomorphology, Particle Dispersal, Soil Thickness, Soil Transport, Activity, Biological, Catena, Center, Clarify, Conditions, Constitutive, Demonstrating, Diffusive, Focus, Gradient, Ii, Ingredients, Land-surface, Laws, Nonlinear, Pis, Processes, Rainsplash, Simulating, Soil-depth, Subsurface, Surface, Theoretical, Theory.

Collaborative Research: Small-Scale Variability of Rainfall: Experimental Studies
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: STC CENTERS-ESTABLISHED

1. James A Smith($166,730), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Spatial And Temporal, Land Surface, Radar Rainfall, Rain Gage, Rainfall Rate, Temporal Scales, Analytical, Baltimore, Below, Control, Developed, Especially, Estimates, Experimental, Field, Hydrologic, Iowa, Observational, Observations, Observed, Processes, Properties, Radars, Resources, Responsible, Scaling, Storm, Structure, Technology.

Density of Silicate Liquids at the Core-Mantle Boundary
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2004; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Paul D Asimow($318,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Molten Silicates, Shock-induced Melting, Compression, Extend, Gpa, Has, Mantle, Minerals, Partially, Pressure, Pressures, Previous, Previously, Projectile, Range, Shock-induced, Structures, Temperature, Temperatures, Velocity.

Collaborative Research: Elasticity of Hot-Pressed Polycrystalline Minerals of the Earth's Transition Zone
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2004; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Donald G Isaak($205,953), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Earth's Interior, Elastic Properties, High-pressure Phases, Mineral Phases, Polycrystalline Specimens, Temperature Effects, Transition Zone, Collaboration, Composition, Developed, Elasticity, High-pressure, Investigate, Measuring, Models, Processes, RUS, Special, Surface, Technique, Techniques.

CSEDI: Whole-Mantle Convection and the Transition-Zone Water Filter
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Shun-ichiro Karato($780,001), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Basalts, Chemical, Circulation, Deep, Experimental, Filter, Incompatible, Interdisciplinary, Involves, MORB, Mantle, Melt, Melting, Mineral, Model, Raises, Water-filter.

A Workshop to Develop a New CSEDI Science Plan, February 2004
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2004; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. T. Guy Masters($60,994), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Csedi Program, Decade, Deep, Multidisciplinary, Workshop.

Mechanisms and Rates of Preservation of Biogenic Remains in Continental Shelf and Slope Environments
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Karla M Parsons-Hubbard($396,883), Oberlin College, Oberlin
Key terms: Shelf And Slope, Continental Shelf, Fossilization Potential, Repeated Sampling, Sea Floor, Sediment-water Interface, Slope Environments, Carbon, Experiment, Has, Long-term, Molluscan, Porewater, Processes, Remains, SSETI, Sediment-water, TAZ.

SGER: An online registry for unique sample identification in the solid Earth Sciences (SESAR)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Sritharan Vinayagamoorthy($134,770), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Ability, Build, Identifiers, Information, Interoperability, Management, Name, Registry, SESAR, Sample-based, Solid, Unique, Uniquely.

SGER: Development of Community Networking and Outreach for GeoSystems
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Gerilyn S Soreghan($173,196), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Earth's Climate, Education, Effort, Efforts, Geoinformatics, Geosystems, Initiative, Outreach.

SGER: Brazos River, Texas: Drilling the K-T and Chicxulub Event Strata
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Gerta Keller($42,128), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Brazos River, K-t Transition, Chicxulub, Iridium, K-T, Sequence.

RUI: Taphonomic Character of Plant Fossil Assemblages at the Permian-Triassic Boundary, Karoo Basin, South Africa
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Robert A Gastaldo($93,572), Colby College, Waterville
Key terms: Transitional And Post-boundary, Allochthonous Assemblages, Karoo Basin, Ptr Boundary, South Africa, Allow, Analysis, Andor, Basis, Biodiversity, Dispersed, Ecosystem, Field, Fluvial, Fossil, Isotaphonomic, Localities, Megafloral, Permian, Plant-fossil, Sections, Sequences, Set, Taphonomic, Triassic, Vertebrates.

Detrital Zircon Geochronology of Colorado Plateau Mesozoic Strata: Implications for Continental Paleogeography and Paleotectonics
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Peter G DeCelles($219,024), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Bedrock Sources, Colorado Plateau, Sand Grains, Ages, Continent, Highlands, Mesozoic, North, Strata, Time, Zircon.

Penrose Conference: Kinematics and Geodynamics of Intraplate Dextral Shear in Eastern California and Western Nevada
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Tectonics

1. Jeffrey Lee($27,000), Central Washington University, Ellensburg
Key terms: Intraplate Dextral Shear, Eastern California, Intraplate Deformation, Shear Zone, Conference.

Tectono-Thermal Evolution and Exhumation in Transpressional Orogens: the Deep Crust of the Damara Orogen
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Tectonics

1. David A Foster($228,779), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Kaoko Zone, Rock Deformation, Boundary, Crust, Fault, Highly, Histories, Modern, Plate, Processes, Tectonic, Thermal, Transpressional.

Collaborative Research: A Record of the Timing, Nature and Geometry of the Rheic Ocean in the Appalachian Carolina and Avalon Zones
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Tectonics

1. James P Hibbard($192,869), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
2. Brent V Miller($134,104), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Carolina And Avalon, Detrital Zircon Age, Zircon Age Spectra, Crustal Blocks, Precision U-pb, Rheic Ocean, Appalachian, Conjunction, Constrain, Constraints, Continent, Elucidating, Evolution, Field, Geologic, Geometry, Global, Gondwana, Mapping, Mode, Objectives, Original, Paleozoic, Peri-gondwanan, Rifted, Rifting, Rock, Source, Time, Timing, U-pb, Zone, Zones.

Quantification of Extensional Fault Processes and Landscape Response using Surface Exposure Dating
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Tectonics

1. Deirdre Commins($188,128), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Fault Array Evolution, Surface Exposure Dating, Displacement Accumulation, Fault Growth, Seismic Risk, Analysis, Bedrock, Complete, Cycle, Deformation, Detailed, Drainage, Erosion, Exposed, Extensional, Faulting, Has, In-situ, Interaction, Involves, Linkage, Mapping, Models, Propagation, Quantitative, Rates, Time, Timing.

Coupled Deformation and Metamorphism, Fabric Development, Rheological Evolution and Strain Localization
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Tectonics

1. Scott E Johnson($239,279), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Crenulation Cleavage, Mountain Chains, Rheological Evolution, Rock Fabric, Shear Strain, Common, Commonly, Deformation, Deformed, Development, Formation, Mechanical, Minerals, Students.

Localization of Deformation in Lithologically Heterogeneous Lower Crust, Arunta Block, Central Australia
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Tectonics

1. Basil Tikoff($315,577), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: 'weak Element' Concept, Lower Crustal Deformation, 'weak Element', Upper Crust, Upper Mantle, Analysis, Arunta, Back-scattered, Conditions, Depths, Electron, Integration, Latter, Mechanical, Primary, Range, Recognized, Relatively, Rheology, Rock, Strain, Tectonic, Tools, Typical, Zones.

Three-Dimensional Modeling of Continental Subduction and the Evolution of Ultra High Pressure Metamorphism
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Tectonics

1. Phaedra Upton($159,503), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Continental Subduction, Driving Forces, Particle Histories, Ultra High-pressure, Basic, Behavior, Collision, Collisional, Consequently, Crust, Dynamic, Evolution, High-pressure, Information, Mechanical, Model, Modeling, Natural, Norway, Oblique, Observations, Process, Represent, Rheological, Strain, Structural, Temperature, Thermal, Zones.

The Stress Path of Post-Solidus Granite Within the Crystalline Core of the New England Appalachians
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Tectonics

1. Terry Engelder($144,212), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Cooling And Isothermal, Minimum Horizontal Stress, Isobaric Cooling, Isothermal Decompression, Rift Developed, Stress Components, Vertical Stress, Approach, Brittle, Cracks, Direction, Drive, Exhumation, Granite, Leads, Microcrack, Microcracks, Orientation, Paths, Post-solidus, Processes, Splitting.

Collaborative Research: A Multidisciplinary Study of an Exhumed Active Continental Margin: The Wrangell Transect, SE Alaska
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Tectonics

1. Robert F Butler($7,403), University of Portland, Portland
Key terms: Cretaceous And Tertiary, Coast Mountains, Cretaceous Plutons, Geologic Observations, Igneous Rocks, Insular Superterrane, Paleomagnetic Directions, Prince Rupert, Se Alaska, Structural Geologic, Tectonic Development, Transect Indicate, Wrangell Transect, Ar, Barometric, Crust, Discordant, Evolution, Experienced, Geochronologic, Investigations, Margin, Multidisciplinary, Pis, Zircon.

Collaborative Research: Co-evolution and Dynamic Interplay of the San Jacinto and Southernmost San Andreas Fault Zones
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Tectonics

1. Richard A Bennett($16,535), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Fault Evolution Models, Sjfz And Safz, Cosmogenic Dating, Fault Zone, Fault Zones, Offset Alluvial, Slip Rate, Time Scales, Visco-elastic Finite, Affects, Approach, California, Competing, Dynamics, Faults, Geodetic, Integrated, Partitioning, Pis, Precision, Present-day, Range, Relative, San, Sets, Station, Strength, Technique, Trade-offs, Visco-elastic.

Uplift History of the Cordillera Occidental, Southern Peru, from Canyon Geomorphology
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2004; Program: Tectonics

1. Kip V Hodges($341,480), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Colca And Cotahuasi, Cotahuasi River, River Incision, Altiplano, Andes, History, MIT, Methods, Models, Reconstructions, Remnants, Terraces, Uplift, Volcanic, Western.

Collaborative Research: Exhumation of the Colorado Plateau - Spatial and Temporal Distribution and Implications for Landscape Evolution
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2004; Program: Tectonics

1. Joel L Pederson($49,599), Utah State University, Logan
2. Daniel F Stockli($115,182), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
3. Shari Kelley($98,307), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
4. Mousumi Roy($47,034), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Colorado Plateau Region, Southern Rocky Mountains, Rock Exhumation, Thermal History, Uplift History.

Collaborative Research: High-Resolution Deformation Rates, Spain
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2004; Program: Tectonics

1. David J Anastasio($160,817), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
2. Josep M Pares($42,589), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Long-term Deformation Rates, Growth Strata, Long-term Deformation, Magnetic Susceptibility, Remanent Magnetization, Anticline, Climate, Cyclicity, Deposited, Driven, Fold, High-resolution, Horizons, Layers, Milankovitch, Processes, Rock, Stratigraphic, Time.

Collaborative Research:Reconciling Geologic and Geodetic Rates of Deformation: The Role of Distributed Strain in the Upper Crust
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Tectonics

1. Nancye H Dawers($116,151), Tulane University, New Orleans
2. Eric Kirby($156,897), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Pace And Tempo, Fault Networks, Fault Slip, Geologic Slip, Owens Valley, Strain Release, Surface Deformation, Arrays, Behavior, California, Diffuse, Discrepancy, Distributed, Exploiting, Geodetic, Geomorphic, Insight, Markers, Particular, Rates, Region, Temporal, Timescales.

Collaborative Research: Timing and Geodynamic Significance of Mesozoic Basement Tectonism and Basin Evolution in the Southwestern North American Cordillera
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Tectonics

1. Andrew P Barth($122,163), Indiana University, Bloomington
2. Carl E Jacobson($91,953), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: Fold And Thrust, Mccoy Mountains Formation, Retroarc Foreland Basins, Batholith Emplacement, Foreland Shortening, Granitic Rocks, Ion Microprobe, Lithospheric Thickening, Maria Belt, Thrust Belt, Volume Batholith, Age, Arc, Arizona, Continent, Dating, Deformation, Deposition, Detrital, Has, Magmatic, Magmatism, Million, Nature, Previous, Sediments, Southeastern, Southwestern, Suggest, Techniques, Time, Timing, Unit, Was, Zircon.

Collaborative Research: Determining Mantle Rheology from Field and Microstructural Observations of Naturally-deformed Peridotites
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Tectonics

1. Julie Newman($89,146), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
2. Basil Tikoff($263,534), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Dun Mountain Ophiolite, Red Hills Section, Twin Sisters Dunite, Bulk Rheology, Lithospheric Mantle, Mantle Deformation, Mantle Rocks, Tectonic Plates, Allowing, Behavior, Experimental, Field, Geologic, Markers, Mineral, Olivine, Spatial, Strain-rates, Strength, Students, Zealand.

Collaborative Research: RUI: Intergrated Isotopic Provenance Analysis: Constraining the Dynamic Linkage between Orogenic Exhumation and Basin Evolution
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Tectonics

1. J. Brian Mahoney($186,451), University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire
2. David L Kimbrough($92,812), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
Key terms: Batholithic Source Regions, Dispersal And Accumulation, Basement Exhumation, Basin Subsidence, Derivative Sedimentary, Exposed Adjacent, Peninsular Ranges, Sediment Dispersal, Age, Analyses, Analysis, Application, Arar, Arc, Basins, California, Collaborators, Continent, Detrital, Exhumed, Geochronology, Heterogeneity, History, Indicate, Investigation, Isotopic, K-feldspar, Method, Orogenic, Provenance, Respective, Rock, Spatial, Stratigraphic, Successions, Techniques, Temporal, U-pb, Zircon.

Collaborative Research: Comparison of Numerical, Physical and Natural Extensional Fault Systems
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Tectonics

1. Roger Buck($213,315), Columbia University, New York
2. Martha O Withjack($68,614), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Asymmetric Boundary Conditions, Sand And Clay, Book-shelf Geometry, Clay Models, Horst-and-graben Geometry, Mechanical Behavior, Numerical Models, Book-shelf, Clay-like, Commonly, Extension, Fault, Faults, Has, Horst-and-graben, Inclined, Nature, Neighboring, Observed, Produce, Reproduce.

Collaborative Research: GPS Measurements and Deformation Modeling of Oblique Subduction and Strain Partitioning in the Northeastern Caribbean
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Tectonics

1. Andrew Freed($286,291), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Converging Plates, Deformation Models, Northeastern Caribbean, Oblique Subduction, Overriding Plate, Plate Interface, Seismic Hazard, Strain Partitioning, Strike-slip Faults, Arc, Convergence, Coupling, Earthquakes, Factors, Forearc, GPS, Magnitude, Margin, Margins, Neighboring, Republic, Shear, Stress, Strike-slip, Tectonic, Western, Zones.

Collaborative Research: Three-Dimensional Kinematic History of the Wyoming Salient: Implications for Development of Curved Orogens
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2004; Program: Tectonics

1. W.A. Yonkee($89,513), Weber State University, Ogden
2. Arlo B Weil($136,466), Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr
Key terms: Curved Mountain Belts, Strain And Rotation, Carry Multiple, Cross Sections, Deformation Histories, Fault Slip, Initial Studies, Layer-parallel Shortening, Paleomagnetic Components, Thrust Faults, Thrust Trends, Wyoming Salient, Complex, Curvature, Deformed, Degrees, Directions, Display, Factors, Folds, Incorporating, Layer-parallel, Mesoscopic, Minor, Model, Models, North, Northern, Orogenic, Processes, Range, Regional, Responsible, Reveal, Rotations, South, Southern, Stratigraphic, Structural, Structures, Three-dimensional.

Micorstructural Analysis of Late Holocene Sediments Deformed by the San Andreas Fault at Point Arena, California
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2004; Program: Tectonics

1. Susan M Cashman($75,302), Humboldt State University Foundation, Arcata
Key terms: San Andreas Fault, Active Faults, Coseismic Rupture, Fault Zone, Faulted Sand, Image Analysis, Surface Ruptures, Absence, Aseismic, Assessing, Commonly, Creeping, Degree, Describing, Earthquake, Evaluating, Features, Grain, Individual, Information, Past, Presence, Recurrence, Segment, Site, Strain, Structures.

Collaborative Research: Rheology of Altered Oceanic Lithosphere
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2004; Program: Tectonics

1. None($54,231), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. James G Hirth($291,583), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Pressure And Temperature, Altered Lithosphere, Dehydration Reactions, Down-going Slab, Mantle Wedge, Reaction Products, Rheological Properties, Subduction Zones, Conditions, Constrain, Constraints, Deformation, Down-going, Experiments, Feedbacks, Fine-grained, MARGINS, Plastic, Released, Rheology, Seismicity, Serpentine, Serpentinites, Strength, Transport, Water.

SGER: Lake Sediment Cores and Surface Exposure Dates Near the Epicenter of the 1872 Washington Earthquake
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2004; Program: Tectonics

1. Juliet G Crider($46,502), Western Washington University, Bellingham
Key terms: Blind Thrust, Columbia River, Lake Chelan, Deformation, Earlier, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Glacial, Lower, Produced, Relocation, Stratigraphic, Washington.

Collaborative Research, RUI: Geodetic and Geologic Study of the Kinematics of Late Cenozoic Displacement Transfer, Central Walker Lane, Western Great Basin
Award Effective Date: 03/12/2004; Program: Tectonics

1. Joseph I Satterfield($29,719), Angelo State University, San Angelo
Key terms: Active Displacement Transfer, California Shear Zone, Central Walker Lane, Earthquake Focal Mechanisms, Eastern California Shear, Geodetic And Geologic, Deformation Kinematics, Displacement Field, Fault-slip Inversion, Gps Geodesy, Gps Geodetic, Mojave Desert, Seismic Belt, Sierra Nevada, Structural Analysis, Transcurrent Faults, Velocity Field, Accommodated, Basin, Compare, Complex, Consistent, Derived, Detailed, Differential, Distributed, Document, Establish, Estimates, Exposed, Fault-slip, History, Integrated, Linking, Magnitude, Mapping, Mmyr, Motion, Network, North, Observed, Pis, Plate, Present-day, Primary, Stepover, Structures, Tasks, Tectonic, Transtensional, West, Western.

Collaborative Research: Fabric and Seismic Anisotropy within the Lithospheric Mantle: Magnetic and Petrofabric Studies of Shear Zones in the New Caledonia Ophiolite
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: Tectonics

1. Basil Tikoff($77,768), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Eric C Ferre($61,899), Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale
Key terms: Electron Backscatter Diffraction, Lattice Preferred Orientation, High-field Anisotropy, Magnetic Susceptibility, Deformation, Degree, Fabric, High-field, Mantle, Method.

Collaborative Research: Thermochronometry and Evolution of the Taiwan Fold and Thrust Belt
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2004; Program: Tectonics

1. Donald M Fisher($76,102), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Sean D Willett($315,340), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Fault Motion, Fold-and-thrust Belt, Thermal Modeling, Apatite, Cooling, Crust, Dating, Deformation, Fold-and-thrust, Mountain-building, Rates, Software, Structural, Taiwan, Temperature.

Collaborative Research: Are Plutons Assembled Over Long Periods of Time Through Amalgamation of Small Ephemeral Magma Chambers?
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2004; Program: Tectonics

1. John M Bartley($25,001), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
2. Drew S Coleman($144,925), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Half Dome Pluton, Cryptically Composite, Magma Chambers, Pluton Emplacement, Plutons Represent, Basic, Bears, Crust, Emplaced, Geochronology, Growth, Intrusions, Intrusive, Longevity, Magmatic, Mechanisms, Million, Plutonic, Single, Techniques, Tuolumne, Was, Whitney.

Collaborative Research: Kinematics and Geochronology of the Gold Hill Shear Zone: Implications for Accretion of the Peri-Gondwanan Carolina Zone in the Southern Appalachians
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2004; Program: Tectonics

1. Brent V Miller($4,805), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Gold Hill Shear, Hill Shear Zone, Carolina Zone, Original Suture, Laurentia, Margin, Timing, Western.

Support for a U.S. InSAR Community Workshop
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Unallocated Program Costs

1. Andrea Donnellan($44,374), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: California, Insar, Radar, Workshop.

Long Term Ecological Research: The Landscape Continuum Model: A Biogeochemical Paradigm for High Elevation Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2004; Program: nan

1. Mark W Williams($5,666,546), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Niwot Ridge, Virtual Field, Alpine, Appropriate, Benchmark, Climate, Continent, Ecosystems, Feedbacks, Included, LCM, LTER, Landscapes, Long-term, Multidisciplinary, NWT, North, Opportunities, Paradigm, Processes, Program, Real-time, Site, Synthesis, Teachers, Theme, Transport, Unifying.

Crustal Dynamics Research in Western North America: Data Acquisition for the WInSAR Consortium
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2004; Program: nan

1. Yuri Fialko($97,900), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Insar Imagery, Sar Scenes, Western North, Winsar Consortium, Available, Deformation, ESA, Has, Insight, Mw, Surrounding.

Committee on Hydrologic Science
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: nan

1. Stephen D Parker($223,509), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Scientists And Managers, Ground-based Observations, Academic, Biogeochemical, Board, COHS, Committee, Ecological, Global, Government, Has, Hydrologic, International, Land-based, National, Priority, Timely, Water.

Patterns and Processes in Natural and Managed Fluvial and Riparian Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: nan

1. David A Franzi($167,583), SUNY College at Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh
Key terms: Reu Program, Institute, Interdisciplinary, Miner, Natural, PSU, Plattsburgh, Riparian, Student, Students, Watershed.

NSF-GEO-EAR Awards for 2004

ADVANCE Fellows Award: Developing a Program in Hydrologic Education and Research at Rutgers University Award Effective Date: 02/01/2004; Program: ADVANCE - FELLOWS

ADVANCE Fellows Award: Potential Soil Inorganic Carbon Sequestration as a Result of Cultivation in Mollisols Award Effective Date: 02/01/2004; Program: ADVANCE - FELLOWS

Studies of Crust and Upper Mantle Structure, Mantle Flow, and Geodynamics of the Chile Ridge Subduction Award Effective Date: 06/30/2004; Program: AMERICAS PROGRAM

Collaborative Research: Biogeochemical Exploration of Acidic and Neutral Hypersaline Environments of Australia Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

Microbial Controls on the Mobilization and Speciation of Arsenic from Newark Basin Shale Award Effective Date: 11/15/2004; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

Groundwater Ecosystems: The Interdependence of Microbial Mineral Weathering and Population Diversity Award Effective Date: 11/01/2004; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

C-RUI: Geomicrobial Processes in an Ancient Methane Seep Deposit: Resolving Temporal and Spatial Shifts in Localized Microbial Ecosystems Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

Collaborative Research: Preservation and Long-Term Bacterial Survival in Quaternary Age Salt from Death Valley, Chile and Bolivia Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

Collaborative Research: Active subsurface methanogenesis and anaerobic organic matter decomposition in a Devonian black shale Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

Collaborative Research: Mercury isotope fractionation during microbial and abiotic redox transformations Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

Abiotic arsenic mobilization in Bangladesh groundwater aquifers? Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

Radiocarbon Experiments in Boreal Forests to Assess Roles of Fungal Species in Decomposition Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: BE-UF: CARBON CYCLE

Collaborative Research: Assessing the Variability and Modification of Age, Character and Reactivity of Organic Carbon Delivered by Rivers and Estuaries to an Ocean Margin Award Effective Date: 09/15/2004; Program: BE-UF: CARBON CYCLE

Composition and Fluxes of Organic Carbon Species from the Yukon River Basin Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: BE-UF: CARBON CYCLE

Stability of the Ocean Clathrate Reservoir to Anthropogenic Climate Perturbation Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: BE-UF: CARBON CYCLE

Collaborative Research: Episodic, ENSO-Orchestrated Carbon Sequestration in Amazonian River Basins by Erosion-Sedimentation Processes Award Effective Date: 08/15/2004; Program: BE-UF: CARBON CYCLE

Collaborative Research: Are Carbon Fluxes from Marine Sediments Enhanced by Submarine Ground Water Discharge? Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: BE-UF: CARBON CYCLE

Collaborative Research: Watershed Carbon Distribution and Flux Across Environmental Gradients Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: BE-UF: CARBON CYCLE

The Role of Meso-Scale Processes in Controlling the Upper Ocean Carbon Cycle in the Coastal Environment - An Integrated Study in Santa Monica Bay, CA Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: BE-UF: CARBON CYCLE

(Non-TEP) Abiotic Particle Formation From Dissolved Organic Matter in Marine Environments: Possible Shunt to the Microbial Loop Award Effective Date: 06/15/2004; Program: BE-UF: CARBON CYCLE

Quantifying the Role of Mixing Interfaces in Biogeochemical Cycling in a Contaminated Aquifer-Wetland System: Linking Hydrogeological, Microbiological and Geochemical Processes Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: BE: COUPLED BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYC

Dynamical Change in Global Biogeochemical Cycles Accompanying Early Animal Evolution Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: BE: COUPLED BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYC

Nonlinear Feedbacks in Coupled Element Cycles During Eutrophication of Shallow Coastal Ecosystems Award Effective Date: 08/15/2004; Program: BE: COUPLED BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYC

Collaborative Research: Characterizing Land Surface Memory to Advance Climate Prediction Award Effective Date: 11/01/2003; Program: BE: NON-ANNOUNCEMENT RESEARCH

Deformation, Fluid Generation, and Seismogenesis in a Transitional Subduction Environment, the Marlborough Region, New Zealand, Revealed with a Magnetotelluric Resistivity Transect Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Support for ISES Forum II: Rheology of the Continental Lithosphere Award Effective Date: 12/15/2004; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Natural Earthquake Laboratory in South African Mines (NELSAM) Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Collaborative Research: ST. Elias Erosion/tectonics Project (STEEP) Award Effective Date: 09/15/2004; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Collaborative Research: Taiwan Integrated Geodynamics Research Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Collaborative Research: Taiwan Integrated Geodynamics Research (TAIGER) Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Collaborative Research: Multi-disciplinary Experiments for Dynamic Understanding of Subduction under the Aegean Sea (MEDUSA) Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

SGER: Tectonic and Environmental Change Near 8 Ma In and Near Tibet: A Proposal for a Reconnaissance Field Trip Award Effective Date: 06/15/2004; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Yunnan-Indochina Continental Dynamics Planning Workshop Award Effective Date: 06/01/2004; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure and Science Education, April 18-20, 2004 Award Effective Date: 06/01/2004; Program: CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE

Electromagnetic Workshop in India - October 2004 Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Catalyzing New Intl Collab

CAREER: Investigation of Regional Land-Atmosphere Interactions Using a Hierarchical Modeling and Data Assimilation Approach Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Collaborative Research: Integrated Investigation of the Geodynamics of the Taiwan Orogeny (TAIGER) Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: EAPSI

Lavakas: investigating extreme erosion in Madagascar Award Effective Date: 08/15/2004; Program: EAPSI

Collaborative Research: Earthscope-Acquisition, Construction, and Facility Management (Earthscope Facility Office) Award Effective Date: 09/01/2003; Program: EARTH SCOPE

EarthScope Education and Outreach Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

Collaborative Research: A Workshop Proposal for Integrated EarthScope Research and Education in the Northern Rocky Mountains Award Effective Date: 09/15/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

Collaborative Research: Workshop for Integrated EarthScope Research and Education in the Northern Rocky Mountains Award Effective Date: 09/15/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

SAFOD: 2004 sample analysis workshop Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

Workshop on Community Finite Element Models for Fault Systems and Tectonic Studies Award Effective Date: 08/15/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

USArray FlexArray augmentation of a seismic study of the extension paradox at the northwest margin of the Basin-&-Range Province Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

Ultra-low frequency electromagnetic monitoring of earthquakes within the Earthscope Plate Boundary Observatory Award Effective Date: 05/15/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

Organizational structure for Rocky Mountain EarthScope: science and education planning Award Effective Date: 05/15/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

Collaborative Research: RUI: Testing the Stress/Heat-Flow Paradox of the San Andreas Fault with Fission-Track and U+Th/He Data from Zircon from the SAFOD Drill Hole Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

Collaborative Research: Probing the Thermal Evolution of the San Andreas fault at Parkfield: Thermochronology in the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD) Award Effective Date: 04/01/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

Collaborative Research: The Cenozoic history of the western US - a data integration strategy for Earthscope Award Effective Date: 04/01/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

SAFOD: Mineral Transformations and Fabrics Award Effective Date: 04/01/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

Collaborative Research: Seismic Tomography and Location Calibration Around the SAFOD Site Award Effective Date: 03/15/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

Collaborative Research: Brittle fracture, deformability, permeability, and seismic anisotropy adjacent to and inside the San Andreas Fault Zone through SAFOD Award Effective Date: 03/15/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

Earthscope: A New View of Earth and Earth Science Award Effective Date: 03/05/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

Towards Characterizing Depth and Lateral Variations of Anisotropy Across the North American Continent Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

Receiver Reference Models: A prototype for automated production of EarthScope/USArray data products Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

Collaborative research: Determination of time-dependent velocity and velocity gradient fields for Earthscope Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

Workshop: Planning for EarthScope in the Great Basin and its Margins, Spring 2004 Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

``````Duke Participation in SAFOD: Two Collaborative Seismic Profiling Studies using the Geophone Array in the SAFOD Pilot Hole Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

Seismic Characterization of Core Structure of the San Andreas Fault at Parkfield, California Using Fault-Zone Guided Waves Award Effective Date: 02/15/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

Earthscope Workshop on Thermal Processes Award Effective Date: 02/15/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

Earthscope Scientific Workshop for Mid-America, Summer 04 Award Effective Date: 02/15/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

Research Frontiers in Appalachian Geology: A Pre-EARTHSCOPE (USArray) Workshop Proposal Award Effective Date: 02/15/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

Collaborative Proposal: Map Tools for EarthScope Science and Education Award Effective Date: 02/15/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

Collaborative Research: Development of Automated Quality Control and Processing for Earthscope Magnetotelluric Data Award Effective Date: 02/15/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

Earth Live! - The Earthscope Video Award Effective Date: 02/15/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

Collaborative Research: Map Tools for EarthScope Science and Education Award Effective Date: 02/15/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

Workshops for Establishing a Stable North American Reference Frame (SNARF) to Enable Geophysical and Geodetic Studies with EarthScope Award Effective Date: 02/01/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

Understanding Volcanic Sources Through Improved Inversion of Deformation and Gravity Data Award Effective Date: 01/15/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

Optimal Network Geometry for PBO Award Effective Date: 01/15/2004; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

REU Site: Interpreting Paleoenvironments -- A Mulidisciplinary, Field and Laboratory Study of Florida's Late Neogene Record Award Effective Date: 12/01/2004; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Scientific Inquiry for Scientists: Workshops, Resources, and Research to Support the Professional Development of Scientists Involved in K-12 Education Award Effective Date: 12/01/2004; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

SGER-Support for exploratory initial year of campus work for Masters International students in Geological Natural Hazards Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Making the Earth and Space Education Revolution Real: Revolution II Workshop Proposal Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Erosion Study of the Rodeo-Chediski Fire Area, Arizona: Model for a High-School Student-Based Research Program Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

DLESE Climate Change Collection Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

The Continental-Scale Education and Outreach Puzzle: Putting the Pieces Together -- an Earthscope Education & Outreach workshop in Tucson, AZ, August 2002 Award Effective Date: 06/30/2004; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

The 2004 Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) Annual Meeting Award Effective Date: 06/15/2004; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Collaborative Proposal: Geoscience Departments: Developing Pathways to Strong Programs for the Future Award Effective Date: 06/01/2004; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES