Aquisition and Development of a Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer Facility at Boston University
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Ethan F Baxter($683,770), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: External Users, Timsmicromill Facility, Analysis, BU, Department, Limits, Pis, Precision, Pushing, Region, Resolution, Size, Spatial, Wide.

Upgrading the Earthquake Seismology Computing Facility at Penn State
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2005; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Andrew A Nyblade($40,022), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Ammon, Apple, Compute, File, Macintosh, Upgrade, Xserve.

Bering Sea Volcanic Province: Eruption History, Source Characteristics, Melting Processes and Plate Tectonic Context
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: ARC Rsch Support & Logistics

1. Samuel B Mukasa($253,697), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Bering Sea, Concentrations, East, Geochemical, Isotopic, Measured, Melt, Melting, Model, Program, Source, Student, Was.

Acquisition of a Stable Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer for Biogeochemical Research
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Antarctic Operations Support

1. Jeffrey F Kelly($225,000), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Analysis, Facility, Isotopic, North, SIRMS.

Microbial Activity in Solid Ice: Implications for Modifying the CO2 Record in Ice Cores
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

1. Mark Skidmore($381,766), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Frozen Conditions, Glacial Ice, Ice Cores, Macromolecular Damage, Microbial Activity, Active, Bacteria, Based, Cells, Entrapped, Environments, Examine, Fraction, Information, Library, Metabolic, Montana, Program, Remain, Students, Viable.

Assessing Microbial Nitrogen Fixation in Ancient Euxinic Basins
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

1. Michael A Arthur($428,688), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Black Shales, Carbon Preservation, Internship Program, Isotopic Signatures, Low Dissolved, Nitrogen Fixation, Nitrogen Isotope, Organic Nitrogen, Oxygen Depletion, Primary Nitrogen, Analysis, Ancient, Anoxia, Biomass, Bulk, Compounds, Conditions, Deep, Denitrification, Derived, Ecosystems, Environments, Euxinic, Microbial, Modern, NY, Ocean, Phosphate, Relative, Rich, Sediment, Sediments, Students, Times, Upper, Water, Waters.

Collaborative Research: Ecophysiology of Deeply-Branching Bacterial and Archaeal Communities
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

1. Jan P Amend($49,238), Washington University, Saint Louis
2. Everett L Shock($40,311), Arizona State University, Tempe
3. Roger Summons($282,877), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Hydrothermal Fluids, Aquificales, Basis, Biofilm-forming, Biosignatures, Carbon, Directly, Energy, Geochemical, Geomicrobial, Interface, Life, Methods, Microbes, Molecular, Opportunities, Oxidizing, Park, Physiological, Processes, Strategies, Theories, Thermophilic, Training, Undergraduates.

Collaborative Research: Unravelling the Bacterium-Mineral Interface-Nanoscale Structures and Forces
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

1. James P Lewis($169,182), Brigham Young University, Provo
2. Steven K Lower($319,142), Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE, Columbus
Key terms: Aeruginosa And Silicate, Acid-base Reactivity, Atomic Force, Mineral Surface, Molecular Modeling, Silicate Minerals, Acid-base, Allow, Bacteria, Bacterium, Beveridge, Bickmore, Cell, Combination, Common, Cues, Environments, Experiments, Forces, Functional, Geochemistry, Interface, Interpreted, Light, Lives, Lower, Microorganisms, Microscopy, Mineralogy, Models, Particles, Scanning, Soil, Solid, Specific, Students, Subsurface.

Collaborative Research: Adaptive response of microbial communities and Fe biomineralization pathways to anaerobic redox cycling of Fe and N in sediments
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

1. Huifang Xu($253,520), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Juergen Schieber($246,552), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Fe Redox Cycling, Energy Available, Environmental Microbiology, Fe Biomineralization, Microbial Populations, Numerical Simulation, Uw Ph, Activities, Anaerobic, Biogeochemical, Development, Dynamics, Environments, Experimental, Explore, FAST, Fellow, IU, Influence, Natural, Phd, Physiology, Processes, Public, RET, Relative, Sediment, Sediments, Shallow, Specifically, Structure, Student, Subsurface, Surface, Techniques.

Mechanisms of Fe isotope fractionation during biological Fe(III) reduction
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

1. Eric E Roden($319,414), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Fe Isotope Fractionations, Ferric Fe Minerals, Aqueous Fe, Fe Isotopes, Isotope Geochemistry, Isotopic Exchange, Basis, Biological, Carbonates, Comparison, Compositions, Conditions, Cycling, DIR, Effects, Experiments, Feii, Feiii, Interface, Magnetite, Pathways, Processes, Produced, Redox, Reduction, Rock, Substrate.

Collaborative Research: Assessment of Rates and Microbial Pathways for Arsenate Reduction in Sediments
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

1. Janet G Hering($240,105), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
2. Chad W Saltikov($206,672), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Biological And Geochemical, Environmental Conditions, Hfo Suspension, Molecular Biological, Redox Cycling, Sediment Environment, Situ Rates, ANA-, Andor, Arra, Arsc, Asv, Detoxification, Development, Expression, Factors, Feiii, Gel, Genes, Influence, Microbial, Mobilization, Model, Natural, Pathways, Processes, Reduction, Respiratory, Track, Unresolved.

Biogeochemistry of Desert Crusts: Organic Carbon and Trace Element Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

1. Hilairy E Hartnett($389,334), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Biological Soil Crusts, Water And Nutrients, Organic Compounds, Soil Crusts, Bioessential, Biogeochemistry, Carbon, Desert, Distributions, Metal, Metals, Microbes, Specific, Spectrometry, Trace, Unique.

The molecular signature of sulfide: Biomarkers of sulfur-oxidizing autotrophs
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

1. Jennifer L Macalady($458,107), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Anoxic Environments, Molecular Fossils, Redox Gradients, Undergraduate Students, Biogeochemical, Ecological, Evolution, Geologic, Global, Information, Lipid, Microorganisms, Modern.

Collaborative Research: Impacts of Vegetation Change on Stabilization and Microbial Accessibility of Soil Organic Matter: A Microbiological, Isotopic, and Molecular Study
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

1. Thomas W Boutton($196,816), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
2. Timothy Filley($258,719), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Global Carbon Cycle, Storage And Dynamics, Woody Plant Invasion, Organic Carbon, Organic Matter, Soil Organic, Som Fractions, Activity, Additionally, Biogeochemistry, Budgets, Chemical, Chronosequence, Climate, Composition, Contribute, Control, Ecosystem, Following, Grassland, Largest, Mechanisms, Microbes, Microbial, Plants, Potential, Processes, Relate, Respiration, SOC, Specific, Stabilized, Structure, Students, Terrestrial, Time.

Collaborative Research: Groundwater Dynamics and Arsenic Contamination in the Ganges Delta: Irrigated Agriculture, Subsurface Chemical Transport, and Aquifer Flushing
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: BE-UF: WATER CYCLE

1. Charles F Harvey($428,494), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Shafiqul Islam($155,145), Tufts University, Somerville
Key terms: Dissolved Arsenic Concentrations, Flow And Recharge, Drives Water, Ganges Delta, Groundwater Flow, Irrigation Water, Altered, Aquifers, Bangladesh, Characteristics, Continue, Cycle, Decades, Detailed, Exchange, Field, Flow-paths, Flushed, Geochemical, Geochemistry, Has, Input, Methods, Models, Numerical, Rice, Source, Subsurface, Successful, Times.

Collaborative Proposal: WCR - Hydrologic Regulation of Dissolved Organic Matter Biogeochemistry from Forests through River Networks
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: BE-UF: WATER CYCLE

1. George M Hornberger($152,309), University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville
2. Louis A Kaplan($608,776), Stroud Water Research Center, Avondale
Key terms: Carbon Cycle, Organic Carbon, Information, Molecules, Movement, River, Rivers, Soils, Streams, Transported, Water, Watersheds.

Collaborative Proposal: On The Causes of Recent Trends in Precipitation over La Plata Basin and Their Impact on the Basin's Hydrology
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: BE-UF: WATER CYCLE

1. Ernesto H Berbery($192,004), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Buenos Aires, Educational Component, Eta Model, Local Effects, Local Forcings, Plata Basin, River Discharge, Water Cycle, Atmospheric, Climate, Coupled, Experiments, Has, Hydrologic, Hydropower, Land, Largest, Life, Precipitation, Reasons, Region, Regional, South, Southern, Streamflow, Surface, VIC.

Collaborative Research: on the causes of recent trends in precipitation over La Plata basin and their impact on the basin's hydrology
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: BE-UF: WATER CYCLE

1. Dennis P Lettenmaier($120,000), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Buenos Aires, Educational Component, Eta Model, Local Effects, Local Forcings, Plata Basin, River Discharge, Water Cycle, Atmospheric, Climate, Coupled, Experiments, Has, Hydrologic, Hydropower, Land, Largest, Life, Precipitation, Reasons, Region, Regional, South, Southern, Streamflow, Surface, VIC.

A Hierarchical and Patch Dynamics Paradigm for Modeling Complex, 3D Groundwater Systems Across Multiple Scales
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2005; Program: BE-UF: WATER CYCLE

1. Qun Liu($124,930), Michigan State University, East Lansing
Key terms: Hierarchical Inverse Environment, Multi-scale Inverse Modeling, Optimal Parameter Values, Hierarchical Modeling, Multi-scale Inverse, Adding, Calibration, Complex, Field, Fluxes, Graphically, PEST, Patch, Program.

Collaborative Research: River Stage Tomography for Automatic Characterization of Fluxes between Surface and Groundwater Reservoirs: A Pilot Study
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2005; Program: BE-UF: WATER CYCLE

1. Tian-Chyi J Yeh($62,500), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Walter Illman($62,500), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Synthetic Heterogeneous Unconfined, Temporally And Spatially, Hydraulic Tomography, Hyporheic Zone, River Stage, River Stages, Spatially Varying, Unconfined Aquifers, Varying River, Approach, Basinwatershed, Characterization, Concept, Demonstrate, Existing, Fluxes, Groundwater, Heterogeneity, Inversion, Modeling, Near, Subsurface, Surface, Technology, Valid, Water.

Water flux and nitrogen cycling in the hyporheic zones of a semi-arid watershed: Hydrologic and geomorphic driving forces in a transitional climate
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2005; Program: BE-UF: WATER CYCLE

1. Andria Costello Staniec($744,069), Syracuse University, Syracuse
Key terms: Branson Geology Field, Canyon Creek Watershed, Geology Field Camp, Red Canyon Creek, Beaver Dams, Field Experiments, Flow Paths, Hyporheic Exchange, Hyporheic Flux, Hyporheic Interaction, Hyporheic Zone, In-stream Tracer, Nitrogen Uptake, Build, Characteristics, Collaborations, Degree, Extent, Geochemistry, Geomorphic, Hydrologic, In-stream, Independently, Instrumentation, Intermountain, Models, Nitrate, Nstream, Numerical, Potential, Quantify, Rates, Reaches, Regions, Sediments, Semi-arid, Sites, Solutes, Storage, Streams, Students, Tracers, Watersheds, Wyoming.

Collaborative Research: Water Balance of western North America: Dynamics of the Miocene summer monsoon
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2005; Program: BE-UF: WATER CYCLE

1. Annette M Olivarez Lyle($284,558), Boise State University, Boise
2. Matthew Huber($230,060), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Climate Conditions, Miocene Time, Middle, Regional, SST, Water, Western.

Summer Dryness under a Warmer Climate over North America
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2005; Program: BE-UF: WATER CYCLE

1. Courtney A Schlosser($492,153), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Corresponding Increase, Global Warming, Soil Hydrology, Soil Moisture, Summer Evaporation, Analysis, Climate, Conditions, Drying, Dryness, Has, Hydrologic, Initial, Interactions, Land, Limited, Manabe, Mechanisms, Mid-latitudes, Model, Models, North, Observations, Potential, Prediction, Process, Processes, Rainfall, Set, Skill, Surface, Water.

Biocomplexity of Hydrologically-Controlled Vegetation Dynamics: Quantitative Comparative Analysis-Everglades&Cerrado Ecosystems under Soil Moisture&Nutrient Spatiotemporal
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: BE: COUPLED BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYC

1. None($886,206), Florida International University, Miami
Key terms: Field Experimental, Aggregate, Brazil, Eco-hydrological, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Education, Focuses, Framework, Has, Interactions, Processes, Quantifying, Spatial, Temporal, Vegetation.

BE/CBC: Complex Interactions Among Water, Nutrients and Carbon Stocks and Fluxes Across a Natural Fertility Gradient in Tropical Rain Forest
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: BE: COUPLED BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYC

1. Deborah Lawrence($1,638,730), Florida International University, Miami
Key terms: Soil Fertility Levels, Tropical Rain Forest, Broad Range, Carbon Balance, Carbon Budget, Carbon Cycling, Climatic Factors, Costa Rica, Forest Carbon, Graduate Students, Tropical Forest, World's Tropical, Annually, Assistants, Biocomplexity, Biology, Build, Children, Complementary, Complex, Components, Cycles, Ecosystem, Education, Effects, Feedbacks, Field, Findings, Forests, Gaps, Global, Has, Integrated, Interactions, Model, Nutrient, Nutrients, On-going, Processes, Public, Selva, TRF, Thousands, Tropics, Undergraduate, Water, Worlds.

The Role of Protozoa in the Carbon Cycle of a Subterranean Estuary
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: BE: NON-ANNOUNCEMENT RESEARCH

1. Elizabeth B Kujawinski($383,470), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Bacterial And Protozoan, Carbon And Nutrient, Active Bacterial, Aquatic Environments, Carbon Remineralization, Nutrient Cycles, Nutrient Regeneration, Protozoan Species, Subterranean Estuary, Acids, Aquifer, Columns, Composition, Freshwater, Groundwater, Has, Isotopically-labeled, Label, Marine, Methods, Microbes, Microbial, Organic, Play, Ranging, Saline, Sediments.

Develop and Maintain a Web Site to Serve and Advance the Biogeoscience Community, www.biogeosciences.org
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2005; Program: BE: NON-ANNOUNCEMENT RESEARCH

1. Deborah I Nelson($42,331), The Geological Society of America, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: Achieve, Activities, Biogeoscience, Biogeosciences, Biogeosciencesorg, Current, Funding, GSA, Independent, Information, Potential, Site, Source, Students, Was.

International Geobiology Summer Course: Providing Focus for an Emerging Field
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: BE: NON-ANNOUNCEMENT RESEARCH

1. William M Berelson($354,693), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Summer Course, Academic, Departments, Development, Difficulty, Disciplinary, Emerging, Field, Focus, Generation, Geobiology, Graduate, Interdisciplinary, Molecular, Network, Promote, Real, Students, Tenure.

Seismic Attenuation and Anisotropy in the Carpathians and Adjacent Basins: Upper Mantle Role in the Last Stages of Tethyan Closure
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE PROGR

1. Raymond M Russo($57,569), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Shear Wave Splitting, Carpathian Arc, Flow Directions, Seismic Attenuation, Tethyan Oceanic, Upper Mantle, Asthenosphere, Continent, Distribution, European, Lithosphere, Moesian, Remnant, Tectonic, Tethys, Volcanism, Zone.

Support for ISES Forum III: Growth of a Continent in Space and Time, San Francisco, CA, December 2005
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2005; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Michael Brown($35,444), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Integrated Solid, Continent, Directions, Forum, Future, Summer.

Collaborative Research on the Iceland Deep Drilling Project: An Investigation of a High-Temperature Mid-Ocean Ridge Hydrothermal System in a 5 km Deep Borehole
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Peter Schiffman($315,010), University of California-Davis, Davis
2. Wilfred A Elders($2,077,524), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
3. Mark H Reed($371,751), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
4. Dennis K Bird($344,798), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Drilling Program, Ocean Drilling, Temperature Reaction, Active, Core, Cores, Crust, Deep, Depth, Fluid, Fluids, Has, Hydrothermal, IDDP, Iceland, Icelandic, Industry, Interactions, Processes, Sampling, Site, Temperatures.

Collaborative Proposal: Upward and Outward: Tibetan Plateau Growth and Climatic Consequences
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Kenneth A Farley($248,478), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Balanced Cross Sections, Gravity And Seismic, Structures And Balanced, U-thhe Dating, Analysis, Atmospheric, Climate, Deformation, GPS, Magnetostratigraphy, Modeling, Oxygen, Plateau, U-pb, U-thhe, Uplift, Zircons.

Proposal for a workshop on understanding the formation of the Siberian Traps and its effects on climate and life
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Linda T Elkins-Tanton($20,075), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Siberian Flood Basalts, Chemistry, Disciplines, Effects, Eruption, Extinction, Extinctions, Feasibility, History, Largest, Multidisciplinary, Processes, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Upward and Outward: Tibetan Plateau growth and climatic consequences
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Eric Kirby($358,742), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Peter H Molnar($1,071,877), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
3. Gerard H Roe($285,646), University of Washington, Seattle
4. Carmala N Garzione($279,053), University of Rochester, Rochester
Key terms: Balanced Cross Sections, Gravity And Seismic, Structures And Balanced, U-thhe Dating, Analysis, Atmospheric, Climate, Deformation, GPS, Magnetostratigraphy, Modeling, Oxygen, Plateau, U-pb, U-thhe, Uplift, Zircons.

The Great Plume Debate Chapman Conference
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. James H Natland($20,000), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Mantle Plumes, Alternative, Arranging, Debate, Discussion, Field, Meeting, Participants, Participation, Pro-plume, Scotland, Students, Theory.

Collaborative Research: Upward and Outward: Growth of the Tibetan Plateau and Climatic Consequences
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Marin K Clark($265,386), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Balanced Cross Sections, Gravity And Seismic, Structures And Balanced, U-thhe Dating, Analysis, Atmospheric, Climate, Deformation, GPS, Magnetostratigraphy, Modeling, Oxygen, Plateau, U-pb, U-thhe, Uplift, Zircons.

Collaborative Proposal: Understanding the Causes of Continental Intraplate Tectonomagmatism: A Case Study in the Pacific Northwest
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Anita L Grunder($480,828), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Continental Crust, Lithospheric Structure, Does, Intraplate, Magmatic, Magmatism, Play.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Post-Impact Studies of the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure: Implications for Continental Margin Evolution and Groundwater Resources
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Michelle A Kominz($6,701), Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
2. James V Browning($95,111), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Cape Charles, Central Basin, Geological Survey, Post-impact Section, Post-impact Studies, Upper Eocene, Analyses, CBIS, Crater, Delaware, Drilling, Effects, Jersey, Pis, Post-impact, USGS.

Plate Boundary Geodynamics - The New Zealand Observatory: A Workshop Proposal
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Kevin P Furlong($21,260), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Planning Workshop, Plate Boundary, Contrasting, Focused, Funding, NSF, NZ, Region, Segments, Substantial, Transpressional, Zealand.

Collaborative Research: The CALIPSO Project: Imaging the Magma Chamber on Montserrat
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. I. Selwyn Sacks($3,533), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
2. Glen S Mattioli($14,036), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
3. Charles J Ammon($77,990), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Boreholes, CALIPSO.

Collaborative Proposal: The CALIPSO Project: Imaging the Magma Chamber on Montserrat
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Peter E Malin($34,843), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Boreholes, CALIPSO.

Collaborative Research: Subduction and Exhumation of Ultrahigh-pressure Rocks: Field and Drilling Petrotectonic Studies in Eastern China
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2005; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Juhn G Liou($430,477), Stanford University, Stanford
2. Douglas Rumble($59,376), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Drill Core, Belt, Borehole, Chinese, Continent, Dabie-sulu, Depths, Drilling, Processes, Rock, Shallow, Terrane.

Collaborative Research: Constraining Mantle Rheology, Mantle Flow, and Crust/Mantle coupling Beneath New Zealand
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Peter H Molnar($369,483), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. James G Hirth($480,936), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Relative Plate Motions, Deformation Mechanisms, Dislocation Creep, Seismic Anisotropy, Upper Mantle, Constrain, Constraints, Crust, Rheology, Strain, Stress, Strong, Surface, Times, Variety, Weak, Zealand.

Workshop to Prepare a Summary Volume for the Geophysical Investigation of a Modern Continent-Continent Collisional Orogen, The Southern Alps, New Zealand
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Thomas L Henyey($49,256), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Continental Dynamics, NZ, Papers, Preparation, Students, Volume, Was, Workshop, Writing, Zealand.

Impacts and Consequences of Predicted Climate Change on Andean Glaciation and Runoff
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Mathias Vuille($217,602), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Regional Climate Model, Tropical Andean Glaciers, Future Climate, Future Water, Glacier Retreat, Mass Balance, Tropical Andes, Water Shortage, Adaptation, Affect, Anticipated, Availability, Century, Consequences, Evident, Gain, Gcms, ITGG, Input, Knowledge, Mitigation, Observational, Predict, Projections, Resolution, Runoff, Simulate, Strategies, Warming.

Collaborative Proposal: Fostering Cross-Disciplinary Relationships and Early-Career Development to Advance Interdisciplinary Research on Climate Change and Impacts
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Ronald B Mitchell($591,271), Whitman College, Walla Walla
2. Ronald B Mitchell($141,591), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Ability, Climate, Complex, DISCCRS, Difficult, Disciplinary, Graduates, Interactions, Interdisciplinary, Mitigate, Natural, Program, Social.

Secondary Hawaiian Hotspot Volcanism: What, When, Where, and Why?
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Discovery Research K-12

1. Garrett T Apuzen-Ito($680,986), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Secondary Volcanism, Ages, Chains, Compositions, Database, Establish, Hawaii, Hawaiian, Hotspots, Interactive, Kaua`i, Main, Mantle, Marine, Mechanisms, Modeling, O`ahu, Onshore, Phase, Students, Submarine, Volcanic, Volcano, Volcanoes, Volumes.

Travel Support for Students and Early-Career Professionals to Backbone of the Americas--Patagonia to Alaska, April 3-7, 2006, Mendoza Argentina.
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2005; Program: EAPSI

1. Deborah I Nelson($30,000), The Geological Society of America, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: Common Tectonic, Orogenic Belt, Attend, Meeting, Program, South, Students, Travel.

Collaborative Research: Africa Array--Imaging the African Superplume
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: EAPSI

1. Charles J Ammon($148,913), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: African Superplume, Body Wave, Lower Mantle, Receiver Functions, Southern Africa, Africaarraywill, Chemical, Geophysics, Origin, Processes, Region, Seismic, Structure, Summer.

Collaborative Research: Earthscope integrated investigation of Cascadia subduction zone tremor, structure and process
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Geoffrey A Abers($180,106), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
2. Timothy I Melbourne($69,460), Central Washington University, Ellensburg
3. Kenneth C Creager($589,557), University of Washington, Seattle
4. Stephane Rondenay($320,785), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
5. Bradley R Hacker($138,744), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Tremor And Slip, Broadband Imaging, Cascadia Subduction, Down-going Plate, Episodic Tremor, Mantle Wedge, Seismic Imaging, Source Regions, Allow, Analysis, Arc, Array, Arrays, Constraints, Crust, Designed, Down-going, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Experiment, Fluids, GPS, Integrated, Investigation, Phases, Primary, Slab, Structure, Transient, Transport, Waves.

Workshops to Establish a Stable North America Reference Frame for EarthScope
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Geoffrey Blewitt($40,314), UNAVCO, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: America-pacific Plate Boundary, North America-pacific Plate, Terrestrial Reference Frame, America-pacific Plate, Canadian National, North America-pacific, Plate Interior, Stable North, Accurate, Axes, Broad, Common, Datum, Definition, Deformation, Earth, Earthscope, Evolution, Geodetic, Joint, Measure, Models, Motions, PBO, Precise, Processes, Region, Relative, Requires, SNARF, Spanning, Tectonic, Time.

Northern California Plate Boundary Evolution: Workshop Focused on Defining LIDAR (ALSM) Targets and Priorities
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Kevin P Furlong($28,400), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Andreas Plate Boundary, Lidar Derived Dems, San Andreas Plate, Active Tectonics, Northern California, Wide Range, Consortium, Critical, Development, Earthscope, Land, Resolution, Users, Workshop.

GeoTraverse: A Geologic Framework for USArray - workshop
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Basil Tikoff($50,000), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Continent, Earthscope, Essential, Explore, Geologic, Geotraverse, Public, Regional, Steering, Usarray, Workshop.

Stalking Cascadia Episodic Tremor and Slip with Enhanced GPS and Seismic Arrays
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Kenneth C Creager($16,985), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Olympic Peninsula, ETS, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Slip, Zone.

Collaborative Research: High Resolution Imaging of Deep Mantle Structure Using USArray Data
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Edward J Garnero($216,770), Arizona State University, Tempe
2. Thorne Lay($195,476), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Deep Mantle Structure, Arrival Time, Central Pacific, Tomographic Models, Alaska, Analysis, Anisotropy, Applied, Array, Beneath, Deployment, Developed, Exploit, Flow, Imaging, Initial, Methods, Mid-, Migration, North, Procedures, Regional, Slab, Spatial, Structural, Structures, Subduction, TA, Usarray, Velocity, Zone.

Mantle Composition and Dynamics as Inferred from the Structure of the Upper Mantle Discontinuities
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Hersh J Gilbert($47,165), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Upper Mantle Discontinuities, Compositional Models, Transition Zone, Anisotropy, Constraints, Depths, Discontinuity, Seismic, Sharpness, Structure, Techniques.

A pre-EarthScope ground velocity map for the Basin and Range Province based on InSAR
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Falk Amelung($76,276), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Basin And Range, Insar Velocity Field, Western Basin, Deformation, European, Ground, SAR, Time, Vertical.

Collaborative Research: Structural-Petrologic Characterization of the San Andreas Fault in the SAFOD Drill Holes
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. James P Evans($93,457), Utah State University, Logan
2. David L Kirschner($46,536), Saint Louis University, Saint Louis
3. Judith S Chester($119,982), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Deformation, Earthquake, Fault, Geochemistry, Integrated, SAFOD, Structure.

EarthScope National Meeting - 2005
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2005; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Gregory E van der Vink($159,162), Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Washington
Key terms: Earthscope National Meeting, Education, Talks, Workshops.

Native American Perspectives and Preferences Bearing on EarthScope Deployments in the Southwest, Spring 2005 workshop
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2005; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Edward J Garnero($29,998), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Education And Outreach, Permitting And Access, Perspectives And Preferences, Earthscope Deployments, Native Experts, Preferences Bearing, Activities, Arizona, Cultural, NAPP-ES, Semken, Southwest, Workshop.

Seismic Observations from the Random Wavefield: A New Tool for High-Resolution Seismology in the Context of EarthScope
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2005; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Nikolai Shapiro($245,856), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Background Seismic Noise, Anomalies Corresponding, National Seismic, Seismic Network, Surface Wave, Analogous, Apply, Arrays, Based, Beneath, Broad-band, California, Component, Crust, Dispersion, Emerging, Experiments, Images, Method, Obtained, Principal, Surface-wave, USARRAY.

Collaborative Research: Developing a Methodology for Imaging Stress Transients at Seismogenic Depth: Data Analysis and Interpretation
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Fenglin Niu($157,298), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Delay Time Estimates, Barometric Pressure, Elastic Properties, Numerical Modeling, Poroelastic Medium, Seismic Properties, Seismic Velocity, Stress Dependence, Stress Sensitivity, Active-source, Based, Calibration, Coda, Constraints, Corresponding, Crust, Datasets, Decades, Experiments, Field, Final, LBNL, Laboratory, Observed, Parkfield, Pis, Precision, RFS, S-wave, SAFOD, Sources, Spacing, Surface, Time-varying, Wave.

Collaborative Research: Targeting the Phase III SAFOD Drilling
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Clifford H Thurber($183,250), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Phase Iii Drilling, San Andreas Fault, Borehole String, Rupture Patch, Accuracy, Earthquake, Models, Recording, SAFOD, Set, Target, Temporary, Zone.

Scientific Drilling into the San Andreas Fault: Fluid Transport Analysis - Rare Gas "Ages" of Matrix Porosity Fluids in Drill Core
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Gisela Winckler($179,986), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Low Friction Slip, Rare Gas Concentrations, San Andreas Fault, Drill Core, Fault Zone, Fluid Flow, Fluid Transport, Noble Gas, Pore Fluids, Rare Gases, Ar, Columbia, Decades, Deep, Drilling, Establish, Has, Integration, Methodology, Ne, Obtained, Pressure, Rates, Recovered, Rock, SAFZ, Source, Stute, Time, Timescales, Wide, Xe.

Collaborative Research: Targeting the Phase lll SAFOD Drilling
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Steven W Roecker($172,855), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
Key terms: Phase Iii Drilling, San Andreas Fault, Borehole String, Rupture Patch, Accuracy, Earthquake, Models, Recording, SAFOD, Set, Target, Temporary, Zone.

Imaging the Deep Roots of the San Andreas Fault
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Stephen K Park($179,073), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Plate Motion, Earthquakes, Examine, Global, Has, Method, Processes, SAFOD, Structure, Surface.

Making Effective Use of GPS and Strainmeter Data: A PBO Pilot Project
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Duncan Carr Agnew($171,657), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Existing, GPS, Methods, Strain, Strainmeters, Tools.

PBO Nucleus: Support for an Integrated Existing Geodetic Network in the Western U.S.
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Frederick Blume($4,546,408), UNAVCO, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: Construction, Decade, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Earthscope, Existing, Faulting, Flow, GPS, Geodetic, Has, Maintenance, Motion, Network, Operation, PBO, Phase, Resolution, Slow, Sources, Standards, Stations, Tectonic, Time, Transients, Trigger.

Collaborative Research: Lithospheric Foundering Beneath the Sierra Nevada
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Hersh J Gilbert($380,525), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Thomas J Owens($346,151), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
3. Craig H Jones($299,796), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Transportable Array, California, Crust, Deep, Deployment, Earthscopeusarray, Foundered, Nevada, Spacing, Structure.

New Orleans, the Mississippi Delta, and Katrina: Lessons from the Past, Lessons for the Future
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2005; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Craig Colten($48,434), University of North Texas, Denton
Key terms: Mississippi Delta, Societal Challenges, Addressing, Devastation, Directions, Disciplines, Engineering, Ethics, Fields, Humanities, Integration, Interdisciplinary, Katrina, Knowledge, Lessons, Natural, Orleans, Policy, Public, Social, Themes, Workshop, World.

ISES - Integrated Solid Earth Sciences
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2005; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Basil Tikoff($234,734), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Integrated Solid, Summer Schools, Annual, Disciplines, Integration, Lectures, Students, Topics.

Landscape Change Imagery: preparing a DLESE-ready and easily searchable resource
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Christine A Massey($24,489), University of Vermont & State Agricultural College, Burlington
Key terms: Formal And Informal, Program Archive, Ability, Builds, Collection, DLESE, Directly, Education, Has, Image, Imagery, Images, Inclusion, Landscape, Past.

Grand Research Questions in the Solid-Earth Sciences
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Anne Linn($50,001), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Basic, Beyond, Challenge, Congress, Driving, Field, Highly, National, Public, Solid-earth, Stated, Sub-disciplines.

Teachers on the Leading Edge: 2005 Teacher Workshop
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2005; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Charles R Ault Jr($25,350), Lewis and Clark College, Portland
2. Robert F Butler($77,718), University of Portland, Portland
Key terms: Active Continental Margin, Engage K-12 Teachers, Geologic Hazards, Leading Edge, Margin Geology, Pacific Northwest, Development, Plate, Processes, Program, Students, TOTLE.

REU Site: A Field-Based Study of Landscape Evolution in Western Colorado
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2005; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Lawrence S Jones($362,586), Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction
Key terms: Natural Field Laboratory, Landscape Evolution, Msc Faculty, Undergraduate Geology, Western Colorado, Activities, Aspects, Field-based, Processes, Student, Students, Surficial, Typically.

Geoscience Graduate Research Grants
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Diane C Lorenz($506,700), The Geological Society of America, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: Costs, Funding, GSA, Geoscience, Graduate, NSF, Program, Students.

River Basins Research Initiative NSF REU-Site
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. C. Brannon Andersen($323,244), Furman University, Greenville
Key terms: Faculty, Field, Meetings, Participant, Period, Presentations, RBRI, REU, Spent, Time, Week, Weeks.

Research Experience for Students of Earth & Environmental Science Journalism: 2005-2009
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Kim A Kastens($551,659), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Course, Environmental, Journalism, Program, Semesters.

REU Site: Integrated geological and geophysical research focused on understanding the landscape history of the Fish Lake Plateau, central Utah
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Michael S Harris($148,034), College of William and Mary, Williamsburg
Key terms: Fish Lake Plateau, William And Mary, Coastal Carolina, Reu Site, Student Participants, Summer Program, Collection, Directors, Field, GIS, Geophysical, Home, Processes, Students, Surficial, Tectonic, Volcanic.

Outreach Workshop for Geoscientists
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. David R Lindberg($46,440), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Effective Outreach, Geoscientists Struggling, Criterion, Detracting, Geoscience, Guidance, Models, NSF, Network, Resourcesupport, Successful, Workshop.

The DLESE 2005 Annual Meeting
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Ashanti Johnson($229,856), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Annual Meeting, DLESE, Demonstrate, Developers, Development, Discuss, Diverse, Education, Educators, Issues, Levels, Library, Meetings, Opportunity, Participants, Representing, Users.

Undergraduate Summer Research in Seismology - REU Site
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. John Taber($292,164), Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Washington
Key terms: Reu Model, Create, Development, Distance, IRIS, Internship, Opportunity, Resources, Students, Technology, Telecommunications.

The Earth Science Storybook Project: An Intervention Strategy for Teaching Science to Pre-service Elementary School Teachers
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2005; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Richard D Hull($217,602), Brigham Young University, Provo
Key terms: Pre-service Elementary Teachers, Content Knowledge, Elementary School, Poor Attitudes, Pre-service Elementary, Academic, Education, Educational, Free, Inadequate, Internet, Local, Outreach, Program, Students.

Board on Earth Sciences and Resources and Its Activities
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2005; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Anthony R de Souza($495,000), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Activities, Boards, Committees, Requested.

The Keck Geology Consortium: A Core Undergraduate Research Program
Award Effective Date: 10/29/2004; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Lori Bettison-Varga($440,184), College of Wooster, Wooster
Key terms: Keck Geology Consortium, Undergraduate Students, Assessment, Development, Nation, Symposium.

ADVANCE Fellows Award: Patterns of Biomineralization and Isotopic Variations in the Teeth and Bones of Modern Bison
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Kathryn A Hoppe($88,605), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: D13c Values, Environmental Conditions, Fossil Bison, Modern Bison, Analyses, Annual, Based, Biomineralization, Dc, Enamel, Has, Herbivores, Isotope, Isotopic, Local, Precisely, Precision, Quantify, Reconstruct, Reconstructing, Seasonal, Temperature.

Acquisition of an X-Ray Diffractometer for a Shared-Use Facility Serving the University and the Region
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Harold Rowe($289,497), University of Kentucky Research Foundation, Lexington
Key terms: Thin Films, Analysis, Kentucky, Phase, Students, Temperature, UK, Undergraduate, X-ray, XRD.

Aquisition of the Rigaku Ultima III X-ray Diffractometer for Undergraduate Research and Education at Northern Kentucky University
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Janet L Bertog($139,995), Northern Kentucky University, Newport
Key terms: X-ray Diffractometer, Analysis, Mineral, X-ray, XRD.

Collaborative Research: Crustal Deformation Measurements and a Multidisciplinary Geophysical Investigation of the Rio Grande Rift
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Mousumi Roy($124,214), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
2. Robert S Nerem($481,069), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Earthquake And Volcanic, Rio Grande Rift, Tectonic Plates Undergo, Volcanic Hazards, Boulder, Character, Colorado, Crust, Datasets, Extension, GPS, Geologic, Local, Mantle, Measured, Mexico, Motion, Processes, Rates, Region, Rifting, Sites, Stretching, Surface, Training.

Bridging the Gap: Reconstructing the Evolution of the Grand Canyon from the Dating of Speleothems
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Carol Hill($234,812), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Grand Canyon Caverns, U-series And U-pb, Basalt Flows, Colorado River, Incision Rates, Mammillary Coatings, Redwall Limestone, Thebrgrand Canyon, Water Table, Benefit, Caves, Chronology, Coeval, Dated, Dating, Deposits, Evolution, Exists, Expertise, Exposed, Field, Formed, Geologic, Groundwater, Half, Has, Isotopic, Local, Million, Particular, Southwestern, Speleothem, Speleothems, Thegrand, Uranium-series, Value.

Understanding H20 Degassing in Natural Phonolite Melts: An Experimental Study
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2005; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Jessica F Larsen($195,530), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Nucleation And Growth, Alkalic Magmas, Bubble Nucleation, Dynamical Models, Eruption Dynamics, AD, Ascent, Composition, Degassing, Experimental, Experiments, Function, HO, Melt, Melts, Phonolite, Processes, Publications, Rates, Rhyolites, Super-saturation, Textures, Vesuvius.

Collaborative Research: Distribution and Kinematics of Late Paleozoic Deformation from Southeastern California to Northeast Nevada
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2005; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Patricia H Cashman($241,052), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
2. Wanda J Taylor($156,930), University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas
Key terms: Late Paleozoic Deformation, Contractional Deformation, Paleozoic Time, Western North, Evolution, Extent, Has, Kinematics, Mapping, Models, Nevada, Range, Structures, Tectonic, Workers.

Physical and Chemical Processes in the Shallow Plumbing Systems of Monogenetic Volcanoes
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Craig M White($55,118), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Basaltic Volcanoes, Flow Differentiation, Flow Directions, Lava Flows, Shallow Plumbing, Snake River, Chemical, Contribute, Crystal, Dikes, Magmas, Tephra.

Static Compression of Hydrous Silicate Liquids
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Carl B Agee($249,999), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Density And Compressibility, Hydrous Silicate Liquids, Earth's Mantle, Deep, Experiments, Has, High-pressure, Magmas, Magmatism, Pressure, Pressures, Programs, Sink, Sinkfloat, Water, Water-bearing.

Collaborative Research: Bacterial Controls on Mineral Dissolution and Precipitation and Aqueous Geochemistry of Natural Arsenic-Contaminated Groundwater, Bangladesh
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. None($199,985), University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville
2. Ashraf Uddin($214,979), Auburn University, Auburn
Key terms: River Floodplain Aquifers, Arsenic Contamination, Developing Nations, River Floodplains, Shallow Groundwater, Solid Aquifer, Stream Sediments, Sulfate-reducing Conditions, Anaerobic, As-bearing, Bacteria, Bangladesh, Collection, Exploited, Ferb, Field, GBH, Geochemistry, Glacial, HFO, Has, Holocene, Human, Indicates, Lead, Previous, Process, Processes, SRB, Sulfate-reducing, Thematic, Transport, USA, Water, Weathering, World.

Collaborative Research: Extensional Unroofing of the Central Menderes Metamorphic Complex, Southwestern Turkey
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2005; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Elizabeth J Catlos($216,197), Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
2. Matthew J Kohn($50,319), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Aegean Region, Ion Microprobe, Menderes Massif, Multi-diffusion Domain, Anatolian, Argon-argon, Caused, Continent, East, Experienced, Extension, Fieldwork, Geochemical, Geochronology, Geological, K-feldspar, Lithosphere, Multi-diffusion, Plate, Rock, Single, Tectonic.

Capturing Mauna Loa's Current Reawakening - Integrated Geodetic and Numerical Investigations of Magmatic and Volcanotectonic Processes, Mauna Loa, Hawaii
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2005; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Benjamin A Brooks($328,774), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Propagation And Flank, Dike Propagation, Mauna Loa, Mauna Loa's, Rift Zone, Rift Zones, Summit Eruption, Summit Inflation, CGPS, Conditions, Deformation, Fields, GPS, Geodetic, Insar-derived, Investigation, Loas, Prior, Processes, Spatial, Surface, Time, Volcano, Volcanotectonic.

Microbial Community Controls on Sulfide Oxidation Rates and Cave Formation in a Subsurface Biogeochemical System
Award Effective Date: 11/03/2004; Program: GEOBIOLOGY

1. Jennifer L Macalady($139,355), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Electron Donors, Microbial Diversity, Ph 0-1, Sulfuric Acid, Aims, Assembly, Available, Biological, Cave, Frasassi, Function, Geochemical, Methods, Neutral, Quantify.

Collaborative Project: Facility Support: EarthChem - Advancing Data Management in Solid Earth Geochemistry
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. James D Walker($988,815), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Access, Databases, Datasets, Earthchem, Geochemical, Holdings, Online, Solid, Tools, Users, Visualization.

The CHRONOS System: Geoinformatics for Deep-time Earth Processes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Cinzia Cervato($1,069,303), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: CHRONOS, Electronic, Geochemical, Geoinformatics, Information, Literature, National, Processes, Sedimentary.

Updating the ArArCALC Software Package for Advanced Data Reduction in 40Ar/39Ar Geochronology
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Anthony Koppers($98,593), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: 40ar39ar Dating Technique, 40ar39ar Dating, 40ar39ar Geochronologists, 40ar39ar Geochronology, Age Calculation, Age Dating, Add, Ages, Algorithms, Arar, Ararcalc, Complete, Ensure, Has, Laboratories, Program, Single, Software, Stored, Students, Updates, Widely.

Collaborative Research: Development of middleware/software to allow visualization and analysis of large and complex 4-D geoscience data sets.
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. David A Yuen($221,916), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
2. Gordon Erlebacher($220,599), Florida State University, Tallahassee
3. Shrideep B Pallickara($199,020), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Analysis, Interfaces, User, Visualization.

THE EARTHTIME NETWORK: Developing an Infrastructure for High-Resolution Calibration of Earth History
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2005; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Samuel A Bowring($1,285,862), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Systematic Differences, Analytical, Evolution, Geochronology, Geological, Has, History, Labs, Past, Planet, Precision, Public, Rock, Techniques.

SESAR Workshop: Designing Interoperablility for Sample-based Data Management via the International Geo Sample Number IGSN
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Kerstin A Lehnert($19,963), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Link Disparate, Ability, Build, Cyberinfrastructure, Development, Geosciences, Identifiers, Information, Interoperability, Management, Name, Registry, SESAR, Sample-based, Solid, Unique, Uniquely.

Collaborative Research: A New Experimental Database for Improving and Extending MELTS
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2005; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Mark S Ghiorso($98,138), University of Chicago, Chicago
2. None($146,686), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Software Package, Calibration, Database, Experimental, MELTS, Thermodynamics.

Quantifying the Physical and Chemical Controls on Permeability Evolution in Sheared Fractures
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2005; Program: GEOMECHANICS & GEOMATERIALS

1. Chris J Marone($367,745), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Ambient Stresses, Chemical Potential, Evolving Topology, Mineral Mass, Particulate Mechanics, Accommodate, Broad, Constrain, Controlled, Controls, Define, Destruction, Displacement, Dissolution, Effects, Engineering, Evolution, Field, Flow, Fluid, Fracture, Fractures, Generation, Mechanical, Models, Mpa, Normal, Observations, Paths, Permeability, Porosity, Precipitation, Processes, Properties, Rates, Rock, Shear, Temperatures, Transport, Via.

Possible Health Effects of Hurricane-Deposited Sediments: the Role of Pyrite
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Martin A Schoonen($40,922), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Human Lung Cells, Framboidal Pyrite, Health Effects, Hydrogen Peroxide, Sediment Deposited, Acids, Affected, Assessment, Citizens, Effort, Exposed, Fields, Flooding, Rapid, Returning, USGS, Workers.

SGER: Offshore mobilization of aged floodplain organic matter in response to Hurricane Katrina
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2005; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Elizabeth S Gordon($40,000), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Carbon, Collected, Composition, Contribute, Delta, Demand, Examining, Floodplain, Katrina, Microbial, Mobilization, OM, Offshore, Organic, Sediment, Sediments, Storm, West.

Mass Dependence of Strontium Isotope Fractionation
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Jugdeep K Aggarwal($15,347), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Sr Isotope, Biological, Examine, Isotopes, Mass.

Trace metal signatures in continental sedimentary systems: Isotope constraints, biogeochemistry, and potential as a paleoclimatic tracer
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. James McManus($230,087), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Organic Carbon Cycling, Water Column Sulfide, Broader Impacts, Lake Tanganyika, Mo Isotope, Mo Isotopes, Overlying Water, Accumulation, African, Behavior, Biogeochemical, Climate, Exciting, Field, Fractionation, Has, Hypothesize, Lakes, Metal, Nyanza, Opportunities, Opportunity, Participating, Potential, Predict, Program, Programs, Resource, Rift, Sedimentary, Sediments, Student, Students, Targeted, Trace, Tracers, Waters.

The Reactivity of Subcolloidal Iron Clusters
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. William H Casey($403,933), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Accurate, Aliii, Allow, Bound, Chemistry, Clusters, Enormous, Exchange, Experiments, Fe, Feiii, Geochemistry, Geochemists, Hydroxide, Ii, Iii, Isotope-exchange, Level, Methods, Molecules, NMR, Predict, Representation, Similar, Solids, Structure, Students, Surfaces, Via, Water.

Collaborative Research: Testing Potential of Paired Lakes on the NE Tibetan Plateau for Studying Interaction Between Hydrochemical Evolution and Environmental Change
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Emi Ito($48,501), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
2. None($48,835), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
Key terms: Fresh And Saline, Chemically-contrasting Lakes, Complex Interactions, Evaporative Concentration, Multidisciplinary Approach, Past Environmental, Regional Climate, Time Scales, Water Flux, Ability, Arid, Benefit, Chemically-contrasting, Composition, Cycles, Determined, Especially, Evolution, History, Hydrochemical, Hydrological, International, Investigate, Isotopic, Lacustrine, Minerals, Modern, Monsoon, Northern, Paired, Processes, Sediment, Solute, Waters, Watershed.

Interactions of Mercury and Other Metals with NOM: Binding by Dissolved OM, Inhibition of Metal Sulfide Precipitation, and Enhancement of Metal Sulfide Dissolution
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. George R Aiken($320,399), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Kathryn L Nagy($148,915), University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Binding Constants, Geological Survey, Mercuric Sulfide, Metal Binding, Metal Speciation, Organic Matter, Speciation Models, Strong Binding, Aquatic, Boulder, Co-pis, Colorado, Concentration, Concentrations, DOM, Dissolution, Dissolved, Effects, Environmentally, Functional, Geochemical, Hg, Hgii, Hgs, Interactions, Ligands, Mercury, Metals, Moieties, Nature, Precipitation, Selected, Toxic.

Collaborative Research: Investigation of Fe and Mo isotope fractionation during weathering
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Laura Wasylenki($230,000), Arizona State University, Tempe
2. Susan L Brantley($230,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Geochemists And Soil, Soil Formation Rates, Terrestrial Low-temperature Geochemists, Environmental Biogeochemistry, Human Society, Low-temperature Geochemists, Soil Resource, Terrestrial Low-temperature, Backbone, Consortium, Coordinated, Current, Developed, Development, Earth, Ecosystems, Estimates, Following, Funding, Importance, Investigate, Multi-pi, Natural, Node, Plan, Processes, Range, Set, Sites, Variety, WSSC, Weathering, Zone.

The Surface Structure and Reactivity of Mn-Oxides and Their Impact on As Transformation in the Environment: A Multi-Scale Approach
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Michael J Borda($50,000), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Redox Chemistry, Benefit, Birnessite, Broader, Chemical, Environment, Environmental, Environmentally, Exist, Interdisciplinary, Mn-oxide, Mn-oxides, Oxidation, Particular, Ph, Phase, Play, Range, Reaction, Reactivity, Size, Soil, Structure, Surface.

Enhanced Terrestrial Weathering in the North American Interior across the Paleocene/Eocene Boundary
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. D C Kelly($114,096), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Global Warming, Greenhouse Gases, Atmospheric, Basin, Bighorn, Biogeochemical, Climate, Climatic, Field, Geochemistry, IETM, Information, Interdisciplinary, Levels, Marine, Methane, Rapid, Rates, Release, River, Sediment, Sedimentary, Students, Sub-continental, Subsequent, Temporal, Terrestrial, WB, WIB, Was, Weathering, Well-preserved, Williston.

CAREER:Geochemical Energy for Thermophilic Archaea and Bacteria
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2005; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Jan P Amend($538,975), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Hydrothermal Ecosystems, Chemical, Compounds, Course, Diversity, Energy, Future, Geobiology, Geochemical, Geochemically, Geochemistry, Geologic, Interface, Metabolic, Microbiology, Microorganisms, Plan, Processes, Quantitative, Reaction, Schools, Situ, Students.

Stable sulfur isotope composition of organic matter: Cambrian to Recent
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2005; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Michael H Engel($100,000), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Inorganic Sulfur Isotope, Stable Sulfur Isotope, Sulfur Isotope Composition, Amino Acid, Complex Interplay, Organic Matter, Stable Carbon, Approach, Biosphere, Chemistry, Detailed, Has, Louise, Minerals, Organisms, Phanerozoic, Probe, Processes, Protein, Reflect, Shell, Time, Undergraduate.

SGER:A test for modern carbon in Paleozoic paleosols
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Douglas E Crowe($20,149), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Wisconsin And Iowa, Modern Carbon, Neda Formation, Paleo-pco2 Proxy, Soil Minerals, Assumptions, Found, Goethite, Isotope, Laboratory, Modeling, Paleo-pco, Paleosols, Previous, Reconciled.

Collaborative Research: Towards a Weathering Science Consortium: Two Conferences on Biogeochemistry of the Critical Zone
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Donald L Sparks($122,592), University of Delaware, Newark
2. Susan L Brantley($74,010), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Geochemists And Soil, Soil Formation Rates, Terrestrial Low-temperature Geochemists, Environmental Biogeochemistry, Human Society, Low-temperature Geochemists, Soil Resource, Terrestrial Low-temperature, Backbone, Coordinated, Current, Developed, Development, Disciplines, Earth, Ecosystems, Estimates, Following, Funding, Importance, Investigate, Multi-pi, Natural, Node, Plan, Processes, Range, Set, Sites, Variety, WSSC, Weathering, Zone.

Integrative studies of post-glacial cap carbonates in Namibia and Canada
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Daniel P Schrag($369,782), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Hoffman And Dan, Sulfur And Oxygen, Cap Carbonates, Northern Namibia, Northwest Canada, Oxygen Isotopes, Paul Hoffman, Sedimentary Structures, Comprehensive, Continuous, Dolomite, Geochemical, Glaciation, Kirschvink, Marinoan, Modeling, Neoproterozoic, Observations, Obtained, Origin, Phd, Post-glacial, Proxy, Sequence, Sequences, Snowball, Stratigraphic, Sulfate, Transect, Unique, Website.

Collaborative Research: Clinker geochronology and geomorphic evolution of the Powder River Basin, Wyoming
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Catherine A Riihimaki($32,000), Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr
2. Peter W Reiners($120,000), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Coal Burning, Ages, Clinker, Formation, Landscape, Surface.

Collaborative Research: Tectonics and Topography in the Transverse Ranges: Landscapes Response to Rock Uplift Rate across the Transition from Soil-Mantled to Rocky Slopes
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Kelin X Whipple($137,302), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Arjun M Heimsath($140,038), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: San Gabriel Mountains, Cosmogenic 10be, Critical, Erosion, Field, Hillslopes, Landscape, Processes, Rate, Specific, Systematically.

The Linkage of Chemical and Mechanical Processes in the Evolution of High Surfaces of the Front Range Crest, Colorado
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Suzanne P Anderson($198,689), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Conceptual Models, Landscape Evolution, Laser Altimetry, Regolith Thickness, Undergraduate Students, Alpine, Attention, Bedrock, CU, Chemical, Cosmogenic, Development, Documented, Empirical, Field, Graduate, Hillslopes, Long-term, Mechanical, Numerical, Parabolic, Pis, Process, Processes, Public, Rate, Rates, Rock, Shape, Sites, Steady, Surfaces, Transport, Water.

Monitoring Mountain Rivers From Space: A Pilot Study of Bedrock River Flow Measurement Using Ultra-High Resolution Optical Satellite Imagery
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Colin P Stark($34,990), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Mountain River, Mountain Rivers, Rating Curves, Archive, Assessment, Bedrock, Broad, Channel, Channels, Daily, Discharge, Enormous, FORMOSAT-, Gauging, Has, Hazard, Image, Imagery, Images, Landscape, Low, Mapped, Mean, Method, Pilot, Processes, Selected, Shear, Space, Stage, Station, Taiwan, Taiwanese, Time.

SGER: Glacial Response to an Outburst Flood, Kennicott Glacier, Alaska
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Suzanne P Anderson($35,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Subglacial Drainage Network, Bench Glacier, Glacier Surface, Hidden Creek, Kennicott Glacier, Outburst Flood, Snowmelt Input, Water Pressures, Water Storage, Advantage, Annual, Association, Continuous, Control, Differential, Evolution, Field, GPS, Generated, Glacial, Glaciers, Increases, Inputs, Landscape, Melt, Multiple, Near, Primary, Public, Sliding, Students, Thick, Thickness, Time, Times, Total, Was, Wrangell.

Landsliding and the Evolution of Mountainous Landscapes
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Joshua J Roering($154,010), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Spatial And Temporal, Redwood Creek, Slope Instability, Terrain Roughness, ALSM, Activity, Affect, Analyses, Analysis, Catchment, Channel, Climate, Climatic, Deformation, Direct, Document, Dynamics, Earthflows, Erosional, Establishing, Failures, Forcing, Geomorphic, Hillslope, Hillslopes, Historical, Land, Land-use, Landscape, Landslide-prone, Landslides, Landsliding, Linkages, Long-term, Morphology, Predict, Process, Processes, Properties, Quantifying, Quantitative, Rates, Sediment, Serve, Style, Tectonic, Topographic, Valley, Via.

Collaborative Research: Quaternary Environmental History of the Lake Qinghai Basin, Northeastern Tibet
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Stephen C Porter($70,754), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Catherine A Rigsby($164,874), East Carolina University, Greenville
Key terms: Lake Qinghai, Landscape Evolution, Climate, Climatic, Deposits, Developed, Environmental, Eolian, Fluvial, Glacial, History, Quaternary, Watershed.

Collaborative Research: Ice and Rock Processes in Cirques
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Kurt M Cuffey($120,624), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. Kelly MacGregor($69,316), Macalester College, Saint Paul
Key terms: Cirques, Flow, Flux, Glaciers, Rock, Sediment, Topographic, Topography.

Collaborative Research: Facility Support to Renew Operation of the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM)
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. William E Carter($2,080,170), University of Florida, Gainesville
2. William E Dietrich($558,000), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Fault Structures, ALSM, Applications, Available, California, Center, Coastal, Dems, Developed, Developing, Digital, Dynamics, FIU, Features, Florida, Flown, Has, Investigations, Management, NCALM, Processes, Program, Resolution, SC, Software, Topographic, UF.

Collaborative Research: Glacial Erosion in the Patagonian Andes: Testing the Buzzsaw
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Mark T Brandon($293,951), Yale University, New Haven
2. Jonathan Tomkin($90,632), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Glacial Buzzsaw, Glacial Erosion, Model Predictions, Mountain Ranges, Orogenic Topography, Orogenic Wedge, Patagonian Andes, Active, Behavior, ELA, Erosional, Feedbacks, Following, GAEMP, Glaciation, Greenhouse, Has, Height, History, Involved, Match, Maximum, Moderating, Opportunity, Process, Program, Rates, Spatial, Strong, Students, Summit, Surface, Tectonic, Weak, Weathering.

SGER: Channel incisions produced by tsunami waves along the coasts of Indonesia and Thailand
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Sergio Fagherazzi($14,717), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Indonesia And Thailand, Tidal Channels, Tsunami Waves, Analysis, Coastal, Concentrate, Concentrated, Currents, December, Developed, Environments, Erosion, Fluxes, Incisions, Local, Mechanisms, Morphological, Producing, Scour, Selected, Water.

Sediment Transport by the Laurentide Ice Sheet: Testing the Bed-Deformation Hypothesis Using Till Microstructural Characteristics
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Neal R Iverson($207,032), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: Till Microstructural Characteristics, Bed Deformation, Fabric Strength, Ice Sheets, Shear Strain, Strain Magnitude, Subglacial Till, Bed-deformation, Beneath, Benefit, Education, Fast, Flow, Geologic, Geology, Has, Indices, Lake, Lobe, Magnitudes, Maximum, Measured, Sediment, Sheared, Strains, Students, Tills, Transport.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Coasts in Motion: Quantifying the patterns of coastal change using LIDAR
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2005; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Sarah F Tebbens($117,568), Wright State University, Dayton
2. Stephen M Burroughs($34,983), University of Tampa, Tampa
3. Brad Murray($107,062), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Erosion And Accretion, Regional Wave Climate, Alongshore Transport, Coastline Segments, Previous Analysis, Time Interval, Time Intervals, Analyses, Angles, Ashton, Basic, Distribution, Expected, Function, Length, Magnitudes, Model, Observations, Observed, Perturbations, Predictions, Ranging, Relative, Shoreline, Smooth, Statistics, Subtle, Surveys, Zones.

Collaborative Research: Quantitative Reconstruction of Paleohydraulics of the Kayenta Formation - Implications for Paleoclimate Reconstruction
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Paul L Heller($52,639), University of Wyoming, Laramie
2. David Mohrig($36,597), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Fluvial Deposits, Kayenta Formation, Ancient, Application, Applying, Approach, Aspects, Center, Climate, Demonstrate, Dry, Flux, Load, Long-term, MIT, Method, Objective, Paleoclimate, Paleoflow, Paleoslope, Reconstructing, Reconstruction, River, Sandy, Utility, Water.

Collaborative Research: A Proposal for the Cosmic-Ray prOduced NUclide Systematics on Earth (CRONUS-Earth) Project
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Janet M Sisterson($144,665), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
2. Marek G Zreda($594,061), University of Arizona, Tucson
3. Robert C Reedy($90,001), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
4. John M Clem($70,000), University of Delaware, Newark
5. Brian Borchers($1,632,824), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
6. Kunihiko Nishiizumi($763,250), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
7. Mark D Kurz($308,673), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
8. Nathaniel A Lifton($1,159,325), University of Arizona, Tucson
9. Joerg M Schaefer($615,108), Columbia University, New York
10. Marc W Caffee($202,915), Purdue University, West Lafayette
11. Devendra Lal($115,500), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
12. Terry W Swanson($346,679), University of Washington, Seattle
13. Daniel L Farber($105,150), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
14. Robert C Finkel($83,000), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Cosmic-ray Fluxes, Cosmogenic Nuclide, Mass Spectrometry, Neutron Monitor, Tcn Methods, Accuracy, Application, Approach, Basis, Beyond, Calibration, Cl, Components, Coordinated, Cosmic-ray, Criterion, Cronus-earth, Demonstrated, Distribution, Effort, Factors, Formulations, Has, Ii, Iii, Intellectual, Intercomparison, Methodological, Modeling, Nuclides, Parameters, Preparation, Progress, Rapid, Rates, Rigorous, Sites, Six.

Experimental Flume Study of Bedrock Incision by Abrasion: Interface Evolution
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Kelin X Whipple($314,535), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: River Incision, Sediment Load, Sediment Transport, Bed, Bedrock, Conditions, Erosion, Erosional, Flow, Quantitative, Rates, Rivers, Set.

CAREER: Global Assessment of Aseismic Faulting: The Search For a Common Mechanism Among the World's Faults
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. David A Schmidt($459,320), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Fault Exhibits Aseismic, Synthetic Aperture Radar, Aseismic Behavior, Aseismic Slip, Fault Creep, Fault Movement, Allow, Catalogue, Characteristics, Faults, Field, Global, Has, Insar, Perform, Sets, Stress, Students.

CAREER: Integrated Program of Multidisciplinary Education and Research in Mechanics and Physics of Earthquakes
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Nadia Lapusta($609,024), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Constitutive Laws, Earthquake Source, Earthquake Studies, Applied, Based, Behavior, Broader, Disciplines, Dynamic, Engineering, Fault, Frictional, Models, Multidisciplinary, Phenomena, Processes, Seismic, Students.

Laboratory Studies of Spontaneous Earthquake Ruptures: Influence of Inhomogeneities
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Hiroo Kanamori($200,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Rupture Process, Basic, Design, Earthquake, Exist, Fault, Inhomogeneities, Interdisciplinary, Phenomena, Program, Seismology.

Constraining Thermo-Chemical Mantle Convection from Observations of Mantle Plumes and Upper Mantle Temperature
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Shijie Zhong($125,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Internal Heating Rate, Plume Excess Temperature, Plume Heat Flux, Upper Mantle Temperature, Layered Mantle, Mantle Convection, Model Calculations, Top Layer, Composition, Cooling, Geochemical, Isochemical, Layering, Models, Observations, Overlying, Parameter, Required, Thermochemical.

The Geomagnetic Field During the Holocene
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Catherine Constable($310,001), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Geomagnetic Field, Atlantic, CALSK, Dipole, Has, Holocene, Magnetic, Models, Sediments, Temporal, Time.

Collaborative Research: Laboratory Study of the Mechanics and Physical Properties of the San Andreas Fault and 3D SAFOD Volume
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Demian M Saffer($226,327), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Harold J Tobin($74,977), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Fault Slip Behavior, San Andreas Fault, 3-d Volume, Energy Budget, Fault Mechanics, Fault Zone, Frictional Strength, Host Rock, Pore Pressure, Safod Core, Borehole, Constraints, Critical, Dependence, Designed, Earthquake, Faulting, Fluid, Generation, Geophysical, Heat, Investigate, Long-term, Models, Observations, Processes, Properties, Seismic, Shallow, Stability, Stress, Subsurface, Thermal, Transport, Velocity, Wave.

The Seismology of Shallow Intraplate Subduction Earthquakes: From Outer Rise to Interface
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Jarmila Polet($106,961), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Bathymetric And Seismic, Outer Trench Wall, Temporal And Spatial, Earthquake Cycle, Interplate Coupling, Intraplate Earthquakes, Intraplate Seismicity, Normal Faulting, Outer Rise, Subducting Lithosphere, Subducting Plate, Subduction Zone, Weak Zones, Analysis, Behavior, Catalog, Deformation, Depths, Development, Earlier, Found, Generation, Hilde, Interface, Isacks, Mechanism, Mode, Oceanic, Prior, Profiles, Similar, Source, Step, Stress, Strike.

Collaborative Research: Origin of Magnetite and Magnetic Remanence in Submarine Basaltic Glass and Implications for Glass Paleointensities
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Jeffrey S Gee($126,544), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Reid F Cooper($169,392), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Basaltic Glass, Field Intensity, Geomagnetic Field, Magnetic Remanence, Paleointensity Estimates, Paleointensity Experiments, Synthetic Glass, Allow, Characterization, Composition, Conditions, Glasses, Magnetite, Magnetization, Natural, Origin, Process, Synthesized, Techniques.

Earthquake nucleation on rate and state faults: Theory (mostly) and some observations
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Allan M Rubin($194,000), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Effective Fracture Energy, Accelerating Slip, Aging Law, Earthquake Nucleation, Evolution Laws, Laboratory Values, Nucleation Zone, Rapid Increase, Slip Law, Slip Speed, Ab, Classes, Detectable, Earthquakes, Effects, Empirical, Experiments, Fault, Faults, Friction, Has, Length, Pertaining, Rate, Region, Size, Useful, Variable.

Melting Temperatures and Diffusion Coefficients of Iron to 130 GPa
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Wendy R Panero($221,622), Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE, Columbus
Key terms: Diamond Anvil Cell, Laser-heated Diamond Anvil, Inner Core, Laser-heated Diamond, Melting Temperature, Melting Temperatures, Anisotropy, Boundary, Coefficients, Diffusion, Earth, Gpa, High-precision, Iron, Pressure, Pressures, Properties, Self-diffusion, Solid, Surface.

Collaborative Research: A Study of Transient Aseismic Slip and Non-Volcanic Tremor in Southern Mexico With Large Aperture Seismic and GPS Arrays
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Michael R Brudzinski($143,939), Miami University, Oxford
2. Dennis C DeMets($165,682), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Continuous And Campaign, Geodetic And Seismic, Guerrero Seismic Gap, Seismic And Gps, Tremor And Slip, Broader Impacts, Campaign Gps, Continuous Gps, Episodic Slip, Episodic Tremor, Gps Array, Gps Network, Seismic Array, Seismic Observations, Subduction Interface, Cabral, Combined, Demets, Deployment, Expansion, Faculty, Field, Geophysics, Locked, Miami, Middle, Months, Non-volcanic, Oaxaca, Originate, Phenomenon, Portion, Region, Seismogenic, Stations, Transients, Transitional, Tremors, Uw-madison.

SGER - Ash Flow Tuffs: a New Material for Reliable Paleointensities
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Jeffrey S Gee($47,434), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Ash Flow Tuffs, Ash Flows, Bishop Tuff, Field Intensity, Magnetic Mineralogy, Paleointensity Determinations, Reliable Paleointensities, Absolute, Cooling, Determined, Ignimbrites, Suited, Yield.

SGER: Interactions Of Hotspots and the Lithosphere: An Integrated Study of the Newberry Hotspot
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Richard Allen($20,000), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Lithospheric And Asthenospheric, Mantle Plume Model, Newberry Hotspot, Preliminary Seismic, Beneath, Datasets, Existing, Flow, Formation, Hotspots, Observations, Oregon, Processes, Region, Source, Stationary, Suggest.

SGER: Magnetic Inclusions in Diamonds
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Bradford M Clement($18,039), Florida International University, Miami
Key terms: Florida International, Magnetic Properties, Carried, Diamonds, FIU, Inclusions, Magnetizations, Minerals, Paleomagnetism, Program, Pyrrhotite.

Random Seismic Waves and Laboratory Ultrasonics
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Richard L Weaver($30,000), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Earth's Crust, Earthquakes, Experiments, Illinois, Information, Random, Seismic, Theories, Ultrasonic, Ultrasonics, Waves.

SGER: Field Surveys of the 2004 Tsunami in the Western Indian Ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Emile A Okal($22,000), Northwestern University, Evanston
Key terms: Tsunami.

Collaborative Research: Continuation Of A GPS and Seismic Study of the Subduction Earthquake Cycle: Jalisco, Mexico
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Joann M Stock($197,424), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Elastic Strain Accumulation, Aseismic Slip, Gabriel Reyes, Gps Network, Graduate Student, Local Seismic, Subduction Interface, Subduction Interfaces, Tecoman Earthquake, Viscoelastic Flow, Afterslip, Analysis, Characterize, Colima-jalisco, Continuous, Coseismic, Earthquakes, Effects, Field, Geodetic, Interseismic, M=, Magnitude, Mexican, Mexico, Modeling, Mw=, Numerous, Phase, Plate, Postseismic, Recently, Requested, Transient.

Collaborative Research: Continuation of a GPS Study of the Subduction Earthquake Cycle: Jalisco, Mexico
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Dennis C DeMets($307,376), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Elastic Strain Accumulation, Aseismic Slip, Gabriel Reyes, Gps Network, Graduate Student, Local Seismic, Subduction Interface, Subduction Interfaces, Tecoman Earthquake, Viscoelastic Flow, Afterslip, Analysis, Characterize, Colima-jalisco, Continuous, Coseismic, Earthquakes, Effects, Field, Geodetic, Interseismic, M=, Magnitude, Mexican, Mexico, Modeling, Mw=, Numerous, Phase, Plate, Postseismic, Recently, Requested, Transient.

Towards a High Resolution, Three-component Velocity Field for the Central Andes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Matthew E Pritchard($328,270), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Inter-seismic Deformation Field, Central Andes, Inter-seismic Deformation, Previous Studies, Crust, Earthquakes, Insar, Movements, Resolution, Scenes, Shallow, Spatial, Subduction, Three-component, Velocity.

Fine Scale Structure of the Upper Mantle Using Array Technologies
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Sebastian Rost($132,713), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Noise Ratios, Seismic Array, Transition Zone, Upper Mantle, Analysis, Arrays, Australia, Beneath, Characterization, Depth, Discontinuities, Discontinuity, Earth, Fine, India, Intermediate, Internal, Region, Resolution, Signal, Structure.

Studies of Global and Regional Seismicity
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Goran Ekstrom($382,000), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Systematic Analysis, CMT, Catalog, Detection, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Effort, Global, Information, Specific.

Simultaneous Inversion For Mantle Conductivity And Source Field: Towards A 3-D Global Reference Model
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Adam Schultz($99,992), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Magnetospheric And Ionospheric, 'response Functions', Earth's Interior, Electrical Conductivity, Electrical Current, Geomagnetic Observatory, Global 3-d, Mantle Conductivity, Reference Model, Source Currents, Source Fields, Characterization, Crust, Deep, Electromagnetic, External, Interpreting, Lateral, Magnetic, Modeling, Program, Resolution, Satellite, Temperature, Upper, View.

Collaborative Research: Seismological and Geodynamic Investigations of Mantle Anisotropy
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Goran Ekstrom($40,000), Harvard University, Cambridge
2. Thorsten W Becker($195,000), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Seismologic And Geodynamic, Azimuthal Anisotropy, Geodynamic Models, Mantle Flow, Seismological Models, Upper Mantle, Convection, Regional, Resolution, Robustness, Synthetic.

Modeling Body and Surface Wave Anisotropy in 3-D Media with a Case Study in Iceland
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Aibing Li($30,000), University of Houston, Houston
Key terms: Body And Surface, Azimuthal Anisotropy, Pseudo-spectral Method, Rayleigh Wave, Shear-wave Splitting, Sks Phases, Surface Waves, Applied, Discrepancy, Heterogeneity, Mantle, Modeling, Pseudo-spectral, Shwave, Synthetic.

Thermal Equations of State of Mantle Minerals
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Yingwei Fei($271,999), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Perovskite And Magnesiowustite, Static Compression Experiments, Lower Mantle, P-t Conditions, Thermal Equations, Broad, Directly, Earth, Gpa, High-pressure, Mineralogy, P-T.

An Investigation into Thermochemical Piles beneath Africa and the Pacific
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Allen McNamara($199,942), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Program Announcement Nsf, Beneath Africa, Lower Mantle, Thermochemical Piles, Anomalies, Comprehensive, Constraints, Dense, Development, Geodynamical, Has, Models, Pacific, Parameter, Seismology, Sets, Tomography.

Incorporating Amplitude Constraints in High Resolution Surface Wave Tomography of California
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Donald W Forsyth($169,870), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Surface Waves, Velocity Structure, Amplitude, Amplitudes, Anisotropic, Beneath, California, Carries, Earthscope, Employed, Focusing, Information, Inversion, Models, Nevada, Phase, Resolution, Site, Stations, Students, Vicinity.

Physically-Based Fault Zone Constitutive Responses and Consequences for Earthquake Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. James R Rice($111,999), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Fault Core, Fault Zone, Slip Rates, Thermal Mechanisms, Allow, Arrest, Consequences, Constitutive, Crust, Dynamic, Dynamics, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Energy, Faults, Fracture, Frictional, Gouge, Has, Heating, Highly, Low, Modeling, Observations, Processes, Rupture, Shear, Stable, Strength, Strong, Thin, Underlying, Weakening.

Rheology and Densities of Silicate Melts in the Upper Mantle
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Charles E Lesher($325,614), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Viscosity And Density, Experimental Program, Marker Spheres, Melt Viscosity, Synchrotron Radiation, Fiber, Mantle, Melts, Methods, Silicate.

Aseismic Transients in Subduction Zones: Physical Basis and Possible Seismic Consequences
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Renata Dmowska($188,000), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Fault Zone, Fluid Release, Subduction Zone, Subduction Zones, Aseismic, Component, Downdip, Earthquakes, Episodes, Episodic, GPS, Involve, Loading, Locked, Metamorphic, Model, Observations, Pore, Region, Regions, Slip, Strike, Tectonic, Transient, Transients.

Relating Earthquake Mechanics to Fault-Zone Structure
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Charles G Sammis($164,216), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Gouge And Breccia, Damage Zone, Earthquake Rupture, Off-fault Damage, Rupture Velocity, Stress Field, Active, Allow, Caltech, Collaboration, Core, Does, Dynamic, Energy, Experiments, Extent, Feedback, Flaws, Homalite, Laboratory, Layers, Model, Nucleate, Off-fault, Predict, Producing, Rice, Rosakis, Shown, Theoretical, Wide.

Models of sub-grid scale turbulence in the Earth's core and the geodynamo
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Bruce Buffett($126,153), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Current, Dynamics, Earth, Field, Geodynamo, Method, Model, Models, Nature.

Characterization of the Cretaceous Normal Superchron
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Robert S Coe($470,002), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Brcretaceous Normal Superchron, Average, CNS, Collect, Cretaceous, Dispersion, Field, Geodynamo, Geomagnetic, Intensity, Non-reversing, Paleomagnetic, Time, Unusually, Was.

Investigations of the 2004 Parkfield Earthquake Sequence
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Douglas S Dreger($144,021), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Continuous Gps, Fault Slip, Ground Motion, Postseismic Slip, Aftershocks, Behavior, Deformation, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Has, High-resolution, Mainshock, Model, Obtained, Occurrence, Parkfield, Process, Rupture, Surface, Time.

Mantle Flow and the Development of Sub-Lithospheric Seismic Anisotropy
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Mark D Behn($81,482), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Global Convective Flow, Flow Field, Global Flow, Mantle Flow, Plate Boundaries, Plate Motions, Regional Flow, Seismic Anisotropy, Strike-slip Faults, Beneath, Constraints, Convection, Derived, Direct, Interacts, LPO, Models, Preferred, Strike-slip, Structure, Tectonic.

Measurements of Thermal Conductivity of Deep Earth Minerals
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Abby Kavner($215,783), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Earth's Deep Interior, Coremantle Boundary, Diamond Cell, Earth's Deep, Heat Flow, Heat Transport, Mineral Physics, Thermal Conductivity, Approach, Convection, Experimental, Gradients, Heating, Laser, Measure, Models, Pressures, Style, Temperature, UCLA.

Liquid Sodium Models of the Earth's Outer Core
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Daniel P Lathrop($350,000), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Activities, Earth, Experiments, Field, Geodynamo, Magnetic, Primary, Public, Seeks.

Full Vector Studies of Polarity Transitions and Excursions Recorded in Long Sequences in the Koolau Volcano, O'ahu, Hawai'i.
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Emilio Herrero-Bervera($232,169), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Reversals And Excursions, Lava Flow, Polarity Intervals, Undergraduate Students, Volcanic Sequences, Activity, Detailed, Determinations, Field, Generation, Geodynamo, Geomagnetic, Huckleberry, Information, Koolau, Ma, Paleointensity, Paleomagnetic, Periods, Real, Reunions, Successive, Time.

A New Method for Measuring Time-Dependent Deformation: Persistent-Scatterer INSAR
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Howard A Zebker($273,037), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Natural Terrains, Analysis, Earthquakes, Existing, Geophysical, Has, Hazards, Landslides, Method, Methods, Persistent, Proven, Radar, Scatterer, Scatterers, Successful, Volcanoes.

Resolution, Robustness and Dynamics Based on Inversions of Seismic and Geodetic Data of the 2004 Parkfield Earthquake
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. PengCheng Liu($289,500), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Indiana And Solnhofen, Stress-induced Permeability Anisotropy, Mechanical Compaction, Porous Limestones, Solnhofen Limestones, Stress-induced Permeability, Compression, Conventional, Crust, Evolution, Experimental, Extension, Failure, Hybrid, Rock, Students, Temperature, Triaxial.

Studies in Western U.S. Geodynamics
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Eugene D Humphreys($160,000), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: San Andreas Fault, Computer Simulations, Regional Studies, Behavior, California, Consistent, Constrain, Deformation, Driven, Faults, Focus, Interaction, Plate, Processes, Shear, Strength, Tectonic.

Constraining Asthenospheric and Lithospheric Seismic Structure along the Yellowstone Hotspot
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Kenneth G Dueker($50,679), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Nearest Neighbor, Upper Mantle, Yellowstone Hotspot, Algorithm, Analysis, Broadband, Crust, Has, Pds, Student, Velocity.

Study of Inner Core Motions using Seismic Waveform Doublets
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Paul G Richards($225,000), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Inner Core, Waveform Doublets, Approach, Based, Earth, Features, Has, Object, Planet, Seismic, Seismology, Signals, Stories, Time, Travel-time.

AGU Chapman Conference on Radiated Energy and the Physics of Earthquake Faulting
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Brenda L Weaver($18,900), American Geophysical Union, Washington
Key terms: Conference, Earthquakes, Energy, Meetings, Seismic.

SGER: Coseismic Uplift and Submergence in Aceh, Sumatra
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Kerry Sieh($49,999), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Giant Aceh-andaman Earthquake, Uplift And Submergence, Aceh-andaman Earthquake, Giant Aceh-andaman, Living Coral, Sea Level, Elevation, Island, Mainland, Map, Measured, Rupture, Simeulue, Southern, Sumatran.

SGER: Coseismic/Postseismic GPS Field Surveys in Response to the 26 December 2004 Mw 9.0 Sumatra Earthquake
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Yehuda Bock($35,000), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Banda Aceh, Geodetic Monuments, Global Positioning, Mentawai Islands, Subduction Zone, Sumatra Fault, Sumatran Fault, BAKOSURTANAL, Calais, Closest, Constraints, Deformation, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Epicenter, Genrich, Geophysical, Journal, Mccaffrey, Northern, Oblique, Postseismic, Pp, Prawirodirdjo, Puntodewo, Rais, Region, Resurvey, South, Stations, Stevens, Subarya, Survey, Surveyed, Zwick.

SGER: Tectonics of the Andaman Plate: Postseismic Response to the M9 Northern Sumatra Earthquake of 2004
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. John P Puchakayala($20,155), University of Memphis, Memphis
Key terms: Continuous And Campaign, Campaign Gps, Crustal Deformation, Real Time, Activity, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Ephemeral, Largest, Post-seismic, Region, Seismic, Tectonic, Tsunami.

Collaborative Research: Africa Array - Imaging the Africa Super Plume
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Stephen Grand($53,743), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: African Superplume, Body Wave, Lower Mantle, Receiver Functions, Southern Africa, Africaarraywill, Chemical, Geophysics, Origin, Processes, Region, Seismic, Structure, Summer.

Continued Investigation of Rheological Behavior of Clinopyroxene and Clinopyroxene-Olivine Aggregates Under Hydrous Conditions: Implications for Crustal and Mantle Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. David L Kohlstedt($237,734), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Clinopyroxene And Clinopyroxene, Crust And Upper, Clinopyroxene Olivine, Continental Lithosphere, Lower Crust, Strong Upper, Upper Mantle, Water Concentration, Water-weakening Effect, Aggregates, Analyses, Anhydrous, Behavior, Deformation, Depth, Electron, Environments, Experiments, Investigation, Lies, Model, Relative, Rock, Strength, Stronger, Viscosity, Water-weakening.

Toward Understanding the Relation Between Volcanic Eruptions, Seismicity, and Infrasound
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Jeffrey B Johnson($291,521), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Seismic And Acoustic, Elastic Waves, Volcanic Activity, Volcanic Eruptions, Energy, Explosive, Hampshire, Radiated, Relation, Seismicity, Video, Volcano, Volcanoes.

Effects of Water on Electrical Conductivity in Majorite
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Shun-ichiro Karato($72,022), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Electrical Conductivity, Hydrogen-related Defects, Transition Zone, Water Content, Basis, Chemistry, Determined, Experimental, Hydrogen-related, Majorite, Sensitive, Temperature.

SGER: Rock Magnetism and Paleomagnetism of Corals From Pacific Volcanic Islands: A Feasability Study
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Emilio Herrero-Bervera($50,991), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Coral, Corals, Field, Islands, Magnetic, Paleomagnetic, Possibility, Time, Volcanic.

Effect of Spatial Organization of Surface Properties on Land-Atmosphere Fluxes using a New Generation Large-Eddy Simulation
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Fernando Porte-Agel($331,197), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Atmospheric Boundary Layer, Operational Forecast Models, Tuning-free Dynamic Subgrid-scale, Weather And Climate, Wind Tunnel Experiments, Climate Models, Dynamic Subgrid-scale, Educational Tool, Land Surface, Numerical Models, Similarity Theory, Surface Heterogeneity, Surface Properties, Tuning-free Dynamic, Ability, Account, Achieved, Developed, Effects, Fluxes, Furthermore, Graduate, Hydrologic, LES, Moisture, Parameterizations, Roughness, Simulations, Spatial, Students, Substantial, Temperature, Turbulent.

Collaborative Research: Solute Transport in Aquifers Containing Connected High-Conductivity Networks: Theory Founded on Laboratory and Field Data
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Chunmiao Zheng($230,040), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
2. Steven M Gorelick($137,205), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Connected High-k Networks, Flow Channel Networks, Aquifers Containing, Connected High-k, High-k Networks, Mass Transfer, Solute Transport, ADM, Alternative, Animal, Based, Comprehensive, Conductive, Conduits, Controlling, Distribution, Embedded, Field, Fluvial, Geometry, Groundwater, Has, Heterogeneity, Heterogeneous, Hydrology, Laboratory, Mass-transfer, Matrix, Migration, Model, Models, Preferential, Premise, Solutes, Theoretical, Value.

USA PUB Workshop
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2005; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Jeffrey J McDonnell($79,671), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Potential Template, Ungauged Basins, Approaches, Broad, CUAHSI, Consensus, Debate, Effort, Hydrologic, Hydrological, Hydrology, IAHS, Manner, PUB, Participants, Reach, Speakers, USA, Workshop, Workshops.

SGER: Hydrological, Chemical and Microbial Data Related to the Hurricane Katrina Flooding in New Orleans, LA
Award Effective Date: 10/15/2005; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. William M Moe($33,320), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Chemical And Microbial, Hurricane Katrina, Remote Sensing, Water Quality, Access, Catalog, Characteristics, City, Collect, Conditions, Contaminants, Contamination, Exploratory, Field, Flooding, Following, Has, Hydrologic, Information, Months, Orleans, Perform, Potential, Quantify, Sources, Time, Waters.

Geophysical Monitoring of Groundwater-Lake Interactions
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Laura Toran($51,090), Temple University, Philadelphia
Key terms: Groundwater-surface Water Interactions, Clay Content, Groundwater Discharge, Groundwater Recharge, Groundwater-surface Water, Spatial Coverage, Water Budgets, Balance, Contaminants, Educational, Geology, Geophysical, Groundwater-lake, Indicate, Lake, Outseepage, Pore, Porosity, Resistivity, Seepage, Sites, Students, Temple, Transfer.

A Study of Temporal Variations of Groundwater Level, Recharge, and Baseflow: Does Scaling Exist in These Processes?
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. You-Kuan Zhang($175,898), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Recharge And Discharge, Temporal And Spatial, Fractal Scaling, Groundwater Level, Groundwater Levels, Groundwater Recharge, Hydrological Variables, Numerical Simulations, Stochastic Analyses, Temporal Fractal, Temporal Scaling, Water Cycle, Water Levels, Water Resources, Aquifers, Attention, BF, Baseflow, Current, Effects, Existence, Fluctuations, Has, Hydrology, IHM, Invariance, Investigate, Knowledge, Longterm, Management, Measure, Merits, Methods, Modeling, Monitoring, Nature, Objectives, Original, Panel, Preliminary, Process, Processes, Relatively, Rivers, Searching, Streamflow, Time, Trying, USGS, Various.

SGER: Fate and Transport of Sewage-derived Pathogens and Indicators in Association with Severe Storms
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. William J Blanford($29,931), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Chemical And Microbial, Hurricane Katrina, Remote Sensing, Water Quality, Access, Catalog, Characteristics, City, Collect, Conditions, Contaminants, Contamination, Exploratory, Field, Flooding, Following, Has, Hydrologic, Information, Months, Orleans, Perform, Potential, Quantify, Sources, Time, Waters.

Collaborative Research: geophysical evaluation of biogenic gases in peatlands
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Paul H Glaser($23,609), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
2. Lee Slater($138,038), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
3. Andrew S Reeve($67,838), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Biogenic Gas Release, Biogenic Gas Stored, Caribou Bog, Dielectric Permittivity, Gas Content, Northern Peatlands, Shadow Zones, Surface Gpr, Atmosphere, Carbon, Collaboration, Complete, Distribution, Ebullition, Emission, Fieldwork, Frequently, HUG, Honors, International, Monitoring, Outreach, Rutgers-newark, Students, Supported.

Testing the Existence of a Threshold Discharge in Bedrock Channels
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Ellen E Wohl($203,617), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Bedrock Channel Segments, Channel Geometry, Coarse Sediment, Hydraulic Variables, Threshold Discharge, Canyon, Discharges, Drainage, Existence, Field, Flow, Movement, Resistance, River, Rivers, Substrate.

Hydrogeochemical Evolution of Arsenic Concentrations and Speciation Along Groundwater Flow Paths: Linking Aqueous and Solid Phase Arsenic Speciation in Sedimentary Aquifers
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Karen H Johannesson($325,689), University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington
Key terms: Aquifer Solid Phases, Groundwater Flow Paths, Drinking Water, Ganges Delta, Aquifers, Asiii, Asv, Conditions, Cycling, DOC, Dissolved, Microbial, Mineral, Mobility, Mobilization, Model, Models, Poisoning, Processes, Quantify, Reactions, Redox, Responsible, Speciation, Surface, Via.

RUI: Using Stable Isotopes to Characterize the Soil Water Budget Across a Climate Gradient
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Carey A Gazis($206,616), Central Washington University, Ellensburg
Key terms: Soil Physics Monitoring, Soil Water Budget, Central Washington, Climate Gradient, Local Schools, Outreach Program, Soil Properties, Stable Isotope, Water Movement, CWU, Characteristics, Climatic, Cm, Combined, Evaporation, Flow, Fluxes, Precipitation, Rates, Snow, Transpiration, Versus.

Impacts of Acid Mine Drainage on Dissolved Inorganic Carbon Cycling in Receiving Streams
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Eliot A Atekwana($153,177), Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla
Key terms: Acid Mine Drainage, Amd Impacted Groundwater, Amd Impacted Streams, Amd Impacted Watersheds, Field And Laboratory, Stream Water Dic, Anthropogenic Forcing, Carbon Cycling, Carbon Dynamics, Isotope Ratio, Assessing, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Chemical, Component, Controls, Exchange, Processes, Reactions, Reservoir, Students, Terrestrial, Transfer.

Collaborative Research Project: Pilot Hydrologic Measurement Facility
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Richard P Hooper($336,990), Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sci, Arlington
Key terms: Hydrologic Synthesis Facility, Single River Basin, CUAHSI, Chosen, Facilities, Has, Hydrology, Initiate, Management, Observatories, Prototype, Set.

Collaborative Research Proposal: Pilot Hydrologic Measurement Facility
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Rosemary J Knight($536,744), Stanford University, Stanford
2. John S Selker($63,725), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Hydrologic Synthesis Facility, Single River Basin, CUAHSI, Chosen, Facilities, Has, Hydrology, Initiate, Management, Observatories, Prototype, Set.

Experimental Investigation of Interfacial Geometry associated with Multiphase Flow within Two- and Three- Dimensional Porous Medium
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Laura J Pyrak-Nolte($324,400), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Capillary Pressure, Flow Conditions, Hands-on Experiments, Interfacial Geometry, Porous Medium, Three-dimensional Micro-models, Activity, Affects, Applications, Behavior, Directly, Distributions, Evolution, Fluid, Fluids, Hands-on, Local, Macroscopic, Micro-models, Micro-scale, Microscopic, Objective, Phases, Porousmedia, Pressures, Properties, Saturation, Students, Three-dimensional, Time, Volume, Water.

Thermally-Driven Exchange Flows in Regions of Vegetation
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Heidi M Nepf($451,736), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Chemically Distinct Regions, Chemistry And Ecology, Emergent And Submerged, Littoral And Pelagic, Exchange Flows, Hydrodynamic Link, Lake-scale Chemistry, Submerged Vegetation, Surface Water, Thermally-driven Exchange, Water Temperature, Considered, Depth, Differences, Gradients, Heat, Lake-scale, Penetration, Presence, Spatial, Thermally-driven, Vegetated, Zone.

Integrated Physical and Chemical Observations of Water-rock Interactions and Coupled Matrix-conduit Flow in the Karstic Floridan Aquifer
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Elizabeth J Screaton($321,983), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Low Intergranular Porosity, Floridan Aquifer, Flow Field, Karst Aquifers, Characterization, Chemical, Compared, Component, Components, Conduits, Diffuse, Fractures, Graduate, Has, Head, Matrix, Matrixporosity, Models, Nested, Porous, Previous, Recharge, Resources, Sources, Student, Surface, Water.

Cyclic Processes Within Surface-exposed Fractures Affecting Evaporation and Salinization Mechanisms
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Abraham S Grader($349,740), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Moist Fracture Air, Salt Crust Formation, Convective Venting, Fracture Walls, Teaching Kit, Vadose Zone, Waste Facilities, Accelerated, Arid, Basin, Climate, Concept, Conditions, Convection, Educators, Enhanced, Enhancing, Evaporation, Field, Fractures, Gradients, Groundwater, Has, Hydrology, International, Investigate, Investigated, Mechanisms, Natural, Nighttime, Nsurface, Osmotic, Parameters, Potential, Process, Processes, Recently, Resulting, Rock, Site, Solutes, Students, Surface, Unit, Vapor, Various.

Lattice Boltzmann Methods for Concentration- and Temperature-Induced Density Driven Flows
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Michael C Sukop($219,468), Florida International University, Miami
Key terms: Density Driven, Ground Water, Porous Media, Solute Transport, Aquifers, Available, Benefit, Coastal, Computing, Conventional, Coupled, Density-driven, Dispersion, Enhanced, FIU, Flow, Flows, Graduate, Has, Lbms, Methods, Modeling, Models, Non-linear, Numerical, Post-doc, Seawater, Solutions, Students.

Understanding Temporal Variations in Fault-Controlled Fluid Flow
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2005; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Jerry Fairley($157,921), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
Key terms: Environmental Forcing, Seismic Activity, Thermal-convective Instability, Fault, Faults, Geothermal, Has, Springs, Subsurface, Temperature, Thermal-convective.

SGER: Experimental Study of Bed Load Sediment Sorting around Spur Dikes
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Jennifer G Duan($49,870), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Anthony Falls Laboratory, Bed Load Transport, Load Sediment Sorting, Experimental Dataset, Flow Field, Pi's Salary, Sediment Transport, Spur Dikes, Transport Models, Turbulent Intensity, Complex, Financial, Hydrodynamic, Minnesota, NCED, Pis, Processes, St, UM.

Coupled Silicate Reaction Kinetics in an Aquifer
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Chen Zhu($240,001), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Weathered Feldspar Surfaces, Clay Precipitation, Feldspar Dissolution, Groundwater Chemistry, Laboratory Experiments, Reaction Kinetics, Silicate Dissolution, Aquifer, Aquifers, Close, Complex, Derived, Discrepancy, Environmental, Equilibrium, Feldspars, Field, Hence, Measure, Modeling, National, Nature, Pis, Program, Rate, Rates, Reactions, Saturation, Situ, Strategies, Undergraduate, Water.

Modeling Hierarchical Aquifer Architecture From Centimeter to Kilometer Scales
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. David F Dominic($210,714), Wright State University, Dayton
Key terms: Flow And Transport, Digital Deposit, Hydraulic Properties, Models Containing, Sedimentary Architecture, Algorithms, Computational, Created, Depositional, Deposits, Developing, Entropy, Field, Gravel, Heterogeneity, Hierarchical, Processes, Range, Realistic, Simulation, Spatial, Statistics, Storage, Structures, Time, Units.

Sediment Transport and Morphological Evolution In Rivers In Response to Catastrophic Dam-Break Floods
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Christina W Tsai($109,829), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Concerning Bed Elevation, Dam-break Induced Floods, Flow And Sediment, Laboratory And Field, Unsteady Sediment Transport, Bed Elevation, Dam-break Induced, Highly Unsteady, Rapidly Changing, Sediment Concentration, Sediment Equations, Sediment Movement, Steady Flow, Uniform Flow, Unsteady Flow, Approach, Basic, Compared, Coupled, Design, Estimation, Evaluation, Flows, Inflow, Kuai, Mathematical, Modeling, Morphological, Natural, Phase, Rivers, Time.

Quantifying the Complex Hydrologic Response of an Ephemeral System
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. None($120,430), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Distinct Geomorphic Surfaces, Arid Catchment, Arid Lands, Graduate Student, Seasonal Precipitation, Yuma Wash, ARO, Appendix, Army, CSU, Center, Complex, Disseminated, Effort, Evapotranspiration, Field, Focus, Has, Hydrologic, Instrumentation, Local, Meteorological, Military, Objectives, Office, Post-doctoral, Program, Provided, Quantifying, Questionsobjectives, Regional, Relate, Soils, Southwestern, Students, Vegetation, Vegetative, Water, YPG.

Collaborative Research: Hydrological linkages between landscapes and streams: Transferring reach and plot scale understanding to the network and catchment scales
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2005; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Michael N Gooseff($143,080), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
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.

Collaborative Research: Multi-tracer Investigation of Interbasin Groundwater Transfer in the Lowland Rainforest of Costa Rica
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2005; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. D. Kip Solomon($234,702), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Conceptual Hydrologic Model, Lowland Rainforest Watersheds, Hydrologic Process, Regional Groundwater, State-of-the-art Tracer, Trace Gases, Activities, Ecosystems, IGF, Ions, Management, Mixing, Season, State-of-the-art, Tracers.

SGER: Surveying the Southern California Flash Floods of January 2005
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Konstantine P Georgakakos($92,066), Hydrologic Research Center, San Diego
Key terms: Flood Control Districts, Water And Flood, Flash Flood, Flash Floods, Southern California, Approach, Collection, Damage, Database, Development, Field, Freight, January, Lost, Regional, Surface, Survey.

Noninvasive Imaging of Near-Surface Preferential Flow Pathways and Dynamics in Carbonate Vadose Zone
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Mark Grasmueck($377,991), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: 3d Gpr Surveys, Flow And Transport, Pathways And Dynamics, Vadose Zone Flow, 3d Gpr, Field Sites, Flow Pathways, Carbonate, Efficient, Environment, Hydraulic, Hydrological, Methods, Modeling, Processes, Quantify, Repeated, Stage, Water.

Interdisciplinary Modeling for Aquatic Ecosystems Curriculum Development Workshop, Granlibakken Conference Center at Lake Tahoe July 17-22, 2005
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Laurel S Saito($89,302), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Aquatic Ecosystem Issues, Aquatic Ecosystems, Interdisciplinary Modeling, Approaches, Course, Disciplines, Implementation, Knowledge, Models, Students, Successful.

Climate Variability and Its Impacts on Hydrology of Small Mid-Continent Lakes and Wetlands
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2005; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. None($374,993), Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE, Columbus
Key terms: Lakes And Wetlands, 5th Grade, Nonfiction Writing, Altimetry, Approaches, Appropriate, Basis, Century, Climate, Deluge, Developed, Drought, Droughts, Focus, Function, Hydrologic, Icesat, Literacy, PPR, Period, Processes, Reading, Region, Regions, Satellite, TP, Tremendous, Website.

Joint Stochastic Non-Linear Inversion of Hydrogeophysical Data for Improved Vadose Zone Characterization and Monitoring
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2005; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Yoram Rubin($270,000), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Flow And Geophysical, Geophysical And Hydrological, Non-linear Mathematical Models, Strength And Limitations, Flow Equation, Geophysical Inversion, Geophysical Surveys, High-resolution Imaging, Joint Inversion, Non-linear Mathematical, Prior Information, Probability Distributions, Soil Moisture, Target Parameters, Vadose Zone, Ability, Allows, Approach, Based, Broader, Capabilities, Carried, Challenge, Characterization, Combined, Conditions, Consider, Constraints, Current, Direction, Error, Hanford, High-resolution, Hydrogeological, Hydrogeology, Inverse, Iterative, Linearization, Methods, Minimum, Modeling, Outside, Perspective, Pressure, Procedure, Processes, Promising, Recently, Sequential, Soils, Sources, Spatial, Stochastic, Subjectivity, Synthetic, Treatment, Uncertainty.

Collaborative Research: Data Source and Data Quality Effects on Vadose Zone Transport Modeling
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2005; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Peter J Wierenga($177,246), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Marcel Schaap($176,218), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Hydraulic Properties, Soil Hydraulic, Methods, Model, Site.

CAREER: Wavelet Analysis of Scale Effects on Subsurface Flow and Transport
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Roseanna M Neupauer($318,665), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Flow And Transport, Aquifer Heterogeneity, Aquifer Properties, Dominant Scales, Multiple Scales, Solute Transport, Subsurface Flow, Underrepresented Minorities, Activities, Analysis, CWT, Design, Effects, Engineering, Fields, Information, Movement, Practical, Predictions, Sets, Spatial, Uncertainty, Women.

Post-Fire Hydrology, Biogeochemistry, and Vegetation Response
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2004; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Thomas Meixner($94,236), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Dimas Experimental Forest, Hydrologic And Biogeochemical, San Dimas Experimental, Fire History, Frequent Fires, Nitrogen Export, Post-fire Environment, Southern California, Water Quality, Watershed Hydrology, Burned, Control, Deposition, Detailed, Disturbance, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Ground, Indicates, Influence, Information, Investigate, Network, Observation, Opportunity, Populations, Post-fire, Process, SDEF, Unique, Vegetation, Watersheds.

Collaborative Project: Facilities Support: Earthchem: Advancing Data Management in Solid Earth Geochemistry
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: ITR FOR NATIONAL PRIORITIES

1. Kerstin A Lehnert($1,062,311), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Access, Databases, Datasets, Earthchem, Geochemical, Holdings, Online, Solid, Tools, Users, Visualization.

ITR/IM/AP: Websim 3D - A web-based system for generation, storage and dissemnination of earthquake ground motion simulations.
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: ITR SMALL GRANTS

1. Kim B Olsen($71,215), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
Key terms: Ground Motion, Los Angeles, Southern California, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Ground-motion, Model, Scenario, Simulation, Simulations.

Technician Support: Phase I: A Multi-purpose Environmental Analytical Laboratory at UC Merced
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Martha H Conklin($224,979), University of California - Merced, Merced
Key terms: Environmental And Biological, Analytical Methods, Interdisciplinary Environmental, Laboratory Manager, Campus, EAL, Faculty, Graduate, Investigations, Transformations, UC, UCM, Undergraduate.

Technician Support for the Stable Isotope Laboratory at Florida State University - Phase I
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Yang Wang($215,791), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Stable Isotope Laboratory, Elemental Analyzer, Mass Spectrometer, Peripheral Instruments, Carbon, FSU, Florida, Operation, Program, Technician, Users.

Acquisition of a Multi-Anvil Press
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. David M Jenkins($148,016), SUNY at Binghamton, Binghamton
Key terms: Multi-anvil Press, Stability Field, Uhp Metamorphism, Assemblage, Boundary, Coesite, Eclogites, Examined, Multi-anvil, Pressures, Reaction, Reactions, Upper-pressure, Zoisite.

Technician Support: Laser Ablation ICP-MS Facility
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Robert J Bodnar($150,000), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Ablation Icp-ms Laboratory, Fluid And Melt, Laser Ablation Icp-ms, Ablation Icp-ms, Full-time Technician, Icp-ms Laboratory, Inclusion Analysis, Melt Inclusions, Virginia Tech, Access, Department, Designed, Full-time, Future, Geosciences, Has, Specifically, Was.

Acquisition of Capability for Single-Compound AMS Measurement of Organic Matter at the W.M. Keck Carbon Cycle Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility at UC Irvine
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Kathleen K Treseder($411,163), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Individual Organic Compounds, Micrograms Carbon, Organic Matter, AMS, Cycling, Environmental, PCGC, Techniques.

Acquisition of a Versatile Scanning Electron Microscope
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. John H Fournelle($260,000), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Electron Images, Geology Museum, Stable Isotope, Activities, Analysis, Applications, Back-scattered, Carbon, Chemistry, Critical, EBSD, Equipment, Experience, Geologic, Ion, Lab, SEM, State-of-the-art, Students, Training, Wisconsin.

Technician Support for a Stable Isotope Ion Microprobe
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Noriko Kita($224,930), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Ion Microprobe, Stable Isotope, Analysis, Facility, Situ, Wiscsims.

WORKSHOP TO IDENTIFY GROUND-BASED DIGITAL AQUISITION, ANALYSIS, AND VISUALIZATION NEEDS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SCIENCE COMMUNITY
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. John S Oldow($38,697), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
Key terms: Field Mapping Tools, Digital Acquisition, Digital Field, Access, Analysis, Archiving, Challenge, Database, Development, Equipment, Geologic, Imagery, Information, Meeting, Methods, Outline, Planned, Processing, Requirements, Technologies, Training, Visualization, Workshop.

Upgrading of USSA-2000 Multi-anvil facility
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Donald J Weidner($142,820), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Polycrystal Synthesis, Anvils, Apparatus, Current, Education, Elasticity, Force, Larger, Loading, Operator, Pressure, Pumping, Tons, Upgrade.

Technical Support for a Dual Beam Focused Ion Milling System for TEM Foil Preparation + 3D Chemical Analysis
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Krassimir N Bozhilov($225,000), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Fibsem Instrument, Specimen Preparation, Uc Riverside, COMPRES, Cost, Costs, Geophysics, Has, NSF, Operate, Partnership, Program, Significantly, TEM, Technician, Users.

Acquisition of microsampling equipment and peripherals to create the NAU Earth Materials Microanalytical (EMMA) Facility
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Michael E Ketterer($190,566), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: Continuous Flow, Desolvation Nebulizer, Mass Spectrometer, Uv Laser, Crust, Evolution, Existing, Isotope, Microdrill, Microscale, Radiogenic, Stable, Trace.

Technician Support: Geochemistry Laboratories at the University of Pittsburgh, Phase II
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Brian W Stewart($95,313), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Collaborators, Evolution, Geochemistry, Laboratories, Laboratory, Spectrometer, Technician, Undergraduate.

Facility Support for the CALIPSO Borehole Observatory, Soufriere Hills Volcano, Montserrat
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Glen S Mattioli($99,999), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Key terms: Calipso Borehole, Acquisition, Active, Dynamics, Montserrat, Observatory, Program, Real-time, SHV, Seismic, Volcano.

Technician Support: Phase II for the University of Wisconsin Rare Gas Geochronology Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Bradley S Singer($88,006), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Laboratory Activities, Arar, Assistant, Dating, Geochronology, History, Oversight, Preparation, Rock, Salary, Students, Training.

Technician Support: ICP-MS research in the W. M. Keck Foundation Laboratory for Environmental Biogeochemistry, Arizona State University. Phase I.
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Laurie A Leshin($224,994), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Mass Spectrometry, ASU, Chemistry, Development, Enhance, Isotope, Isotopes, Planned, Position, Program.

Evaluation of Biogeochemical Watershed Models: How Do We Know When A Model is Wrong?
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Thomas Meixner($14,043), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Biogeochemical Watershed Models, Evaluation Tools, Model Calibration, Agricultural, Available, Course, Development, Distributed, Education, Methods, Modeling, Multi-criteria, Processes, Spatial, Techniques, Testing, Time.

Acquisition of an X-ray Diffractometer
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Eric McDonald($269,163), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Aerosols, Benefit, Dusts, Effects, Ice, Investigations, Snow, XRD.

Upgrading the Syracuse University Earth Sciences JEOL 6300 SEM
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Marion E Bickford($128,333), Syracuse University, Syracuse
Key terms: Elemental Compositions, Allow, Analysis, Department, EDS, Electron, Imaging, Instrument, Internal, Minerals, Modern, Upgrade, WDS, X-ray, Zoning.

Development of a New Safe, Simple and Rapid Technique for Silicate and Oxide d18O Analyses
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Greg B Arehart($78,454), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Petrology And Geochemistry, Temperature Elemental Analyzer, Analytical Technique, D18o Analyses, Oxygen Isotope, Analysis, Brf, Existing, Hazardous, Low, Measure, Perform, Promote, Reagents.

Acquisition of an ICP-OES for Geoscience Research at the University of New Mexico
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Abdul-Mehdi Ali($162,582), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Analyzing, Elemental, Geochemistry, ICP-OES.

Acquisition of a Vibrating Sample Magnetometer for the Rock Magnetism Laboratory at Southern Illinois University
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Eric C Ferre($162,160), Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale
Key terms: Magnetic Susceptibility, Anhysteresis, Facilitate, HFAMS, Rock, Students, VSM.

Technician Support: Phase I Technician Support for AIRIE Program TIMS Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Judith L Hannah($225,000), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Re And Os, Carbonaceous Shales, Mineral Industry, Molybdenite Geochronometer, Re-os Systematics, AIRIE, Application, CSU, Collaborations, Continent, Crust, Dating, Development, Exploration, History, Implications, Increased, Lower, MC-TIMS, Opportunities, Program, Re-os, Testing.

Acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometer for Interdisciplinary Geochemical and Microbiological Research and Education
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Carla M Koretsky($89,031), Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
Key terms: Field Studies, Wide Range, Aqueous, Emission, ICP-OES, Investigations, Landfills, Leading, Levels, Metal, Salinization, Student, WMU.

Development of an ultrasonic acoustic interferometer for silicate liquids in an internally heated pressure vessel
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Rebecca A Lange($281,284), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Measure Liquid, Silicate Liquids, Sound Speed, Compressibility, Density, IHPV, Method, Pressure, Techniques.

Upgrading of Single-Crystal X-Ray Diffraction Facility
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Joseph R Smyth($145,806), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Single-crystal X-ray Diffraction, P4 Diffractometer, Powder Diffraction, Single-crystal X-ray, X-ray Detector, X-ray Diffraction, X-ray Guide, CCD, Equation, Existing, Facilities, Pressure, Source, Structure, Upgrade, Upgrades.

Upgrading the MIT Experimental Petrology Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Timothy L Grove($87,837), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Experimental Petrology Laboratory, Mit Experimental Petrology, Chemical Differentiation, Core Formation, Experimental Studies, Piston Cylinder, Allow, Continue, Equipment, Failing, Hydraulic, Instrumentation, Mars, Processes, Replace, Requested, Upgrade.

Acquisition of a Multi-use Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry System: Upgrade of Isotope Biogeochemistry Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Elizabeth G Nichols($211,126), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Blair, Carbon, Department, Forestry, Gas, MEAS, Organic, SIRMS, Stable.

Phase II Technician Support: Syracuse University Noble Gas Isotope Research Laboratory (SUNGIRL)
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Paul Fitzgerald($150,000), Syracuse University, Syracuse
Key terms: Automated Extraction Line, Gas Mass Spectrometer, Noble Gas Mass, Spectrometer And Automated, Analysis, Arar, Laser, Minerals, Position, SUNGIRL, Syracuse.

Technician Support: Stanford/USGS Ion Microprobe Facility
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. C. Page Chamberlain($220,096), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Demand, Geochronology, Geological, Ion, Laboratory, Meet, Salary, Stanford, Technical.

Technician Support: Ohio State University, Radiogenic Isotopes Laboratory - Phase II
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Kenneth A Foland($150,000), Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE, Columbus
Key terms: Radiogenic Isotope Laboratory, Applied, Arar, Current, Diverse, Geochemical, Geochronologic, Methodological, Objectives, Ohio, Pb, Rb-sr, Sr, Varied, Water.

Upgrading of high-pressure experimental petrology laboratory at University of New Mexico
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. David Draper($15,519), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Existing, Facility, Interiors, Multi-anvil, Piston-cylinder, Press, Pressures, Processes, Studying.

Upgrading of Binghamton University Geoscience Microscopy/Fluid Inclusion Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Tim K Lowenstein($97,242), SUNY at Binghamton, Binghamton
Key terms: Microscopyfluid Inclusion Laboratory, Brine Inclusions, Fluid Inclusions, Salar De, Ancient, Binghamton, Equipment, Facilitate, Geobiology, Instruction, Involves, Microorganisms, Periods, School, Students, Training, Workshops.

GPS Data Processing Support for the UNAVCO Community
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Thomas A Herring($173,004), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Development, Dynamics, GAMITGLOBK, GPS, Processing, Software, Training.

Facility Support: Multi-User Facility for U-Th-Pb Geochronology Utilizing a Laser-Ablation Multicollector ICPMS
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Joaquin Ruiz($346,472), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: U-th-pb Ages, Generating, Laser, Monazite, U-th-pb, Zircon.

Plastic Deformation and Lattice-Preferred Orientation in Wadsleyite: Experimental Constraints on the Rheology and Dynamics of Mantle Transition Zone
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Shun-ichiro Karato($609,947), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Flow Geometry, Quantitative Rheological, Seismic Anisotropy, Transition Zone, Apparatus, Convection, Deformation, Interaction, Mantle, Region, Wadsleyite.

Collaborative Research: Acquisition of Continuous GPS and Borehole Geophysical Networks for Invertigations of Seismogenic Processes at the Costa Rica Subduction Zone
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Timothy Dixon($104,570), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. Susan Y Schwartz($153,705), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Borehole Seismic, Costa Rican, Nicoya Peninsula, Seismic Tremor, Slow Slip, Subduction Zone, CGPS, Colleagues, Earthquake, Fault, GPS, Investigate, Network, Networks, Processes, Responsible, Stations.

Collaborative Research: Testing a Dynamical-Hortonian Scaling Theory for Flood Events on Whitewater Basin, Kansas
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Grzegorz J Ciach($413,478), University of Iowa, Iowa City
2. Bruce T Milne($63,359), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
3. Jason W Kean($360,558), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Multifractal Analyses, Radar Rainfall, Random Errors, Abstract, Access, Authors, Bus, Capabilities, Cell, Database, Designed, Distributed, Effects, Factors, Fields, Flexible, Interfacing, Kruger, Little, Logger, Management, Network, Onboard, Products, Properties, RR, Sets, Spatial, Storage, Systematic, Transmission, Web.

Facility Support: AfricaArray
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Andrew A Nyblade($191,482), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Seismic Network, South Africa, Africaarray, African, Allow, Broadband, CG, Continent, Existing, Mantle, Partially, Stations, Structures, Superplume, Technician, Training.

Facility Support: The Purdue Rare Isotope Measurement Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Darryl E Granger($2,724,081), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Cosmogenic Nuclides, AMS, Application, Capabilities, Concentrations, Demand, Erosion, Measure, Measured, Numerous, PRIME, Processes, Radionuclides, Variety.

Acquisition and Upgrade of Instruments for Research on Water-rock Interaction and Sediment Transport
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Mark W Williams($56,335), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Faculty, IC, Students.

Development of a Rapid-Quench, Cold-Seal Hydrothermal Laboratory with Automated Pressure Cycling for Petrologic, Volcanologic, and Ore Deposits Research
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. A. Dana Johnston($66,621), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Stable Isotope, Andor, Cycling, Decompression, Development, Hydrothermal, Melts, Ore, Pressure, Static, Volcanic.

Modernization of Existing Long-Base Strainmeters: Instrument Upgrades for Improved Data
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Duncan Carr Agnew($43,905), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Plate Boundary, Continuous, Instruments, Observatory, Operation, Strain.

NSF Arizona AMS Laboratory: Research and Operational Support
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Gregory W Hodgins($659,286), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Nsf-arizona Ams Facility, Broader Impacts, Nsf-arizona Ams, Activities, Diversity, Has, Pathways, Processes, Radiocarbon, Service, Students, Time, Training.

Acquisition of a Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectroscopy System: Measuring Volatiles in Magmatic and Ore-Forming Systems
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. James E Gardner($107,400), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Acquisition, FTIR, Magmatic, Ore, Volatiles.

Acquisition of a DGC Maceral Separation Laboratory: The Key to Maceral-specific Isotopic and Geochemical Analysis
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Harold Rowe($82,661), University of Kentucky Research Foundation, Lexington
Key terms: Dgc Facility, Organic Matter, Allow, Centrifugation, Coal, Equipment, Isotopic, Rimmer, Specific, Students.

Technician Support: Geomicrobiology and Electron Microscopy Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Richard C Hugo($195,960), Portland State University, Portland
Key terms: Electron Microscopy Laboratory, Faculty And Students, Geomicrobiology And Electron, Education, Efforts, JEOL, Outreach, Portland, Preparation, SEM, TEM, Technician.

CAREER: Framework for Investigating Physical Evolutionary Constraints Using 3-dimensional Data with Application to the Plesiosaurian Neck
Award Effective Date: 09/30/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Ryosuke Motani($439,474), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Motion Analyses, Approximate, Constraints, Equations, Establish, Evolution, Experiments, FEA, Flume, Framework, Mechanical, Model, Neck, Printing, Properties, Students.

Structure, Thermoelasticity and T race-Element Hosting Properties of High-Pressure Silicate Minerals
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2004; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Barbara A Romanowicz($203,733), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Rare Gases, Approach, Deep, Effects, Examine, Geochemical, Mechanisms, Microscopic, Minerals, Model, Perovskites, Processes, Properties, Silicate, Sio, Thermoelastic.

SGER: International Collaboration for Study of Deep Subduction Using Seismic Arrays in New Caledonia and Vanuatu
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: International Research Collab

1. Michael R Brudzinski($35,302), Miami University, Oxford
Key terms: Abundant Seismicity, Limited Means, Subducted Lithosphere, Subduction Zone, Subduction Zones, Caledonia, Cavascope, Deep, Developing, Examine, Has, Interaction, Mantle, Pillet, Process, Subducting, TZ.

Field, Remote Sensing and Geochemical Studies of Neoproterozoic Banded Iron Formation in the Eastern Desert of Egypt
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: International Research Collab

1. Robert J Stern($43,589), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
Key terms: Igneous Rocks, BIF, Composition, Contribute, Deposits, Egypt, Egypts, Graduate, NMC, Phd, UTD.

Lithospheric Structure and Deformation of the Flat Slab Region of Argentina
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: International Research Collab

1. George Zandt($547,513), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Flat Slab, Flat Subduction, Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina, Belts, Deformation, Earthquakes, Has, Processes, Seismic, Western.

Collaborative Research: Erosional Forcing of Late Quaternary Compressive Strain, West Central Taiwan
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: International Research Collab

1. Karl J Mueller($243,700), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Phaedra Upton($71,172), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Compressive Orogens, Fold-thrust Belt, Thrust Belt, West-central Taiwan, Concept, Dating, Deformation, Embayment, Exist, Fold-thrust, Geochronologic, Geodetic, Laws, Rates, Responds, Steady-state, Strain, Stream, Structural, Topographic, Topography, Wedge, West-central.

An Integrated Study of the Chuacus Metamorphic Belt (Guatemala): A UHP Terrane Along the North America-Caribbean Plate Boundary?
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: International Research Collab

1. Michael O McWilliams($89,996), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Caribbean, Collision, Continent, Eclogitic, Exhumation, Field, Formation, Gneissic, Guatemala, Involve, Methods, Plate, Rock, Subduction, Terrane, Terranes, Training.

Paleomagnetism of Neoproterozoic to Lower Paleozoic Rocks on Microcontinents of Central Asia: Implications for the Precambrian Glacial Paradox and Amalgamation of Eurasia
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2005; Program: International Research Collab

1. Joseph G Meert($267,484), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Microcontinents Prior, Age, Ancient, Climate, Constraints, Eurasia, Geochronologic, Glacial, Global, Period, Rock, Snowball.

Tectonic and Climatic Controls on Rapid Exhumation Along the Altiplano-Eastern Cordillera Boundary, Bolivia
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: International Research Collab

1. Brian K Horton($172,667), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Narrow Mountain Range, Central Andes, Erosional Exhumation, Northern Bolivia, Altiplano, Amazon, Andean, Basin, Climate, Conditions, Cooling, Deformation, Drainage, Effects, Isotopic, Plateau, Rapid, Structures, Tectonic, Thermochronological, UCLA, Watershed.

SGER- Assessment of Tsunami Impacts on Coastal Aquifers in Sri Lanka
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: International Research Collab

1. Tissa H Illangasekare($40,000), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: Assessment And Restoration, Short-term And Long-term, Coastal Aquifers, Coastal Regions, Future Strategies, Groundwater Resources, Southern Coastlines, Sri Lanka, Water Supplies, Activities, Affected, Effort, Existing, Field, Findings, Has, Impacted, Information, Local, Natural, Non-governmental, Northeast, Panel, Panels, Past, Recommendations, Technical, Technologies, Tsunami, Visit, Visiting.

Role of Rainfall on the Geochemical Evolution of Soils: The Atacama Desert of Chile
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: International Research Collab

1. Kunihiko Nishiizumi($468,343), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Atmospheric Deposition, Atmospheric Solutes, Decreasing Precipitation, Geological Time, Graduate Students, Humid Regions, Soil Formation, Arid, Balance, Chemical, Chemistry, Chile, Chilean, Chronological, Climate, Combined, Exchange, Gradient, Inputs, Integrated, Losses, Mass, Perspective, Pervasive, Reveal, Soils, Techniques, Undergo, Volumetric, Weathering.

The Colima Deep Seismic Experiment: Imaging the Magmatic Root of Colima Volcano
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2005; Program: International Research Collab

1. Michael E West($255,365), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Colima Volcano, Deep Crust, Deep Crustal, Arc, Array, Conditions, Control, Eruption, Evolution, Explosive, Geochemical, Has, Magma, Monitoring, Observatorio, Processes, Seismic, Seismicity, Subduction, Volcanoes, Wedge.

Collaborative Research: CMG: Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations of Deep Earth Materials
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Ronald E Cohen($575,000), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
2. Eric de Sturler($320,000), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
3. Richard G Hennig($159,707), Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE, Columbus
Key terms: Quantum Monte Carlo, Computational Techniques, Electronic Structure, Phase Transitions, Qmc Techniques, Accuracy, Accurate, Applicability, Applicable, Applied, Bring, Current, Determinant, Developed, Efficient, Evaluation, Graduate, Lead, Level, Mathematical, Methods, Obtain, Physics, Precise, Properties, Simulations, Solid.

Acquisition of an X-Ray Fluorescence Scanner for Paleolimnological Studies at the Large Lakes Observatory
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Erik T Brown($325,274), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Xrf Core Scanner, Lacustrine Sedimentary, LLO, Lake, Lakes, Paleolimnological, Resolution, Sediments.

The Acquisition of a Multi Collector Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer and Laser Ablation System for Earth and Ocean Sciences at Florida State University
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. William M Landing($287,294), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Allows, Analyses, Geochemistry, Instrument, MC-ICP-MS, Mantle, NHMFL, Plasma, Program.

Upgrade of a Pool of Highly Portable Seismic Recorders for Use by the Seismological Community
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Kate C Miller($431,992), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
Key terms: Seismic Recorders, Usb Port, Access, Download, Hispanic, Instrument, Instruments, Memory, Pool, Proprietary, Reftek, Replacement, Student, Texan, UTEP.

Acquisition of a Variable Pressure Scanning Electron Microscope
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Paul Wallace($260,181), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Scanning Electron Microscope, Oregon, Petrology, VP-SEM.

Upgrades to AMNH-LDEO SX100 Electron Microprobe
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Charles Mandeville($190,259), American Museum Natural History, New York
Key terms: Amnh Emp Facility, Allow, Analysis, Annual, Cameca, Chemical, Control, Enhanced, Multiple, Program, Serves, Software, Spectrometer, Stage, Students, Upgrades, York.

Acquisition of a 864-node PC cluster for Caltech Computational Geoscience
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Tapio Schneider($1,531,724), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Atmospheric, Caltech, Challenges, Climate, Cluster, Computational, Computer, Dell, Earthquakes, Education, Facility, Images, Intel, Lead, NSF, Planetary, Rupture, Seismology, Simulations, Wide.

Acquisition of a Vibrating Sample Magnetometer at Montclair State University
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Zhaodong Feng($197,649), Montclair State University, Montclair
Key terms: Capabilities, Enhance, Gt, Investigating, MSU, Montclair, Population, Range, Sediment, Studying, VSM.

Acquisition of a Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer for Investigations in High-precision Geochronology and Isotope Geochemistry
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Mitchell W Lyle($621,000), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Analysis, Boise, Climate, Facility, Geosciences, High-precision, Idaho, Initiative, Isotope, Laboratory, Million, National, Play, Regional, Volcanic.

Acquisition of an X-Ray Diffractometer for Materials Characterization in Multidisciplinary Research and Training
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Thomas D Varberg($147,537), Macalester College, Saint Paul
Key terms: Keck Lab, Macalester, XRD.

Upgrade of an XRF Spectrometer and Acquisition of an Ultrasonic Nebulizer Aerosol Deposition System for Research & Research Training in Environmental Geochemistry & Biogeoc
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Timothy T Allen($116,516), Keene State College, Keene
Key terms: Generation And Deposition, Aerosol Generation, Analysis, Environmental, Equipment, KSC, Spectrometer, Students, Studies, Trace, Training, XRF.

Acquisition of a Stable Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer for Earth Systems Science Research at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Matthew S Lachniet($248,520), University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas
Key terms: Isotope Ratio Mass, Past Rainfall Histories, Ratio Mass Spectrometer, Stable Isotope Ratio, Undergraduate And Graduate, Graduate Students, Central, El, Evidence, Promote, SIL, UNLV.

Accomplishment Based Renewal: Geochemical Evolution of the Mantle
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Stanley R Hart($581,834), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Analytical, Control, Dynamics, Facility, Half, Hotspot, Infrastructure, Mantle, Melt, Melting, Processes, Samoan, Seismic, Students, Volcanism, WHOI.

Collaborative Research: Seismic, Aseismic, and Slow Transient Deformation at the Costa Rica Seismogenic Zone
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Timothy Dixon($237,369), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. Susan Y Schwartz($165,357), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Strain And Seismic, Aseismic Creep, Costa Rica, Creep Episodes, Plate Boundary, Seismogenic Zone, Subduction Zones, Close, Earthquake, Failure, Nicoya, Occurrence, Processes, Stress.

Distinguishing Tectonic Mechanisms of Extension and Forearc Translation near the Central American Volcanic Arc by High-Resolution Seismic Profiling in Lakes Nicaragua and Managua
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Paul Mann($311,059), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Forearc Sliver Model, Seismic Hazard Mitigation, Deformation Models, Nicaragua Depression, Oblique Convergence, Volcanic Arc, Active, Aligned, Boundary-parallel, Central, Chain, Convergent, Earthquakes, Fault, Faulting, Faults, Has, Lakes, Managua, Margin, Margins, Million, Near, Northern, Orientation, Rotation, Sediments, Shearing, Southwest, Strike-slip.

Imaging the Northern Costa Rica Subducted Slab With Broadband Receiver Functions
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Susan Y Schwartz($63,145), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Costa Rica Seismogenic, Rica Seismogenic Zone, Seismogenic Zone Experiment, Degrees Centigrade, Geodetic Locking, Interplate Earthquakes, Oceanic Crust, Plate Boundary, Plate Interface, Slab Dehydration, Subducting Lithosphere, Velocity Structure, Converted, Depth, Down-dip, Has, Hydration, Microseismicity, Moho, Onset, Phases, Producing, Reactions, Region, Subducted, Weakening.

CSEDI: Dynamics and Melting of a Heterogeneous Mantle: Importance to the Geochemical Variability of Hotspot and Mid-Ocean Ridge Magmas
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Garrett T Apuzen-Ito($208,133), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Mid-ocean Ridge, Upper Mantle, Basalts, Compositionally, Conditions, Convection, Determining, Flow, Geochemical, Geochemistry, Geographic, Hotspot, Hotspots, II, Melting, Mid-ocean, Models, Morbs, Observed, Oibs, Origin, School.

Acquisition of a Laser Diffraction Particle Analyzer for Volcanological and Sedimentological Research
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Kathryn Moran($52,625), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Laser, Size.

NIRT: Nanoparticle Fe as a Reactive Constituent in Air, Water, and Soil
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: NANOSCALE: INTRDISCPL RESRCH T

1. Clark M Johnson($1,400,000), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Atmospheric Fe Mineral, Environmental And Industrial, Fe Mineral Dust, Fe Oxide Nanoparticles, Microbial Fe Respiration, Nanometer Size Range, Redox Reactions Occurring, Bacterially Driven, Fe Isotope, Fe Oxides, Innovative Combination, Oxide Particles, Activity, Air, Analytical, Aqueous, Behavior, Biogeochemical, Chemistry, Conditions, Cycling, Expertise, Geology, Heterogeneous, Interdisciplinary, NIRT, Nanoscale, Nature, Oxidation, Presence, Processes, Reactivity, Soil, Spectroscopic, Spectroscopy, Students, Surface, Surfaces, Techniques, Via, Water.

Purchase of combined Alternating Gradient Magnetometer (AGM) / Vibrating Sample Magnetometer (VSM) system
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2005; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. James E Channell($82,267), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Size And Domain, Grain Size, Hysteresis Behavior, Magnetic Mineralogy, Carriers, Magnetometer, Parameters.

Inputs to the Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone: Effects of Large-scale Lateral Variations in Basement Topography and Sediment Thickness
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2005; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Gregory F Moore($187,796), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Accretionary Prism, Basement Topography, Nankai Trough, Seismogenic Zone, Analysis, Drilling, Has, JAMSTEC, Ocean, Planned, Regional, Seismic, Set.

Upgrading of Linux Computing Facility for Research in Climate-Change, Glacier Dynamics, and Fluid Flow
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Sridhar Anandakrishnan($44,087), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Seismic Investigations, Antarctic, Computational, Continent, Dual, Equipment, Existing, Sun, Switch, Ultra, Workstations.

Experimental Investigations on the Role of H20 in Magmatic Processes
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2005; Program: PETROLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY

1. None($119,091), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Content And Pressure, Basaltic Melts, Chemical Evolution, Fractional Crystallization, H2o Content, Amounts, Arc, Composition, Constraints, Crust, Cycling, Differentiation, Earth, Experimental, Experiments, HO, Influence, Information, Interior, Life, Magmas, Mantle, Melting, Meltingcrystallization, Mineral, Models, Oceans, Origin, Quantitative, Temperature, Water.

Collaborative Research: Understanding the Causes of Continental Intraplate Tectonomagmatism: A Case Study in the Pacific Northwest
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: PetaApps

1. Richard W Carlson($845,981), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
2. Matthew J Fouch($751,578), Arizona State University, Tempe
3. Steven H Harder($134,846), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
4. None($409,473), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
5. Christopher R Kincaid($259,451), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Continental Crust, Lithospheric Structure, Does, Intraplate, Magmatic, Magmatism, Play.

H2O Speciation, Reaction Kinetics and Viscosity of Hydrous Silicate Melts
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Youxue Zhang($300,001), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Explosive Volcanic Eruptions, Bubble Growth, Magma Fragmentation, Silicate Melts, Critical, Dissolved, Furthermore, Hydrous, Powered, Processes, Viscosity, Water.

Collaborative Research: Storage Duration of Giant Plagioclase Basalts, Deccan Traps, India
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. John A Wolff($22,020), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Compositional Zones, Eruption Lasted, Boundary, Crystals, Deccan, Erupted, FIU, India, Individual, Involve, Lava, Magma, Methods, Phenocrysts, Plagioclase, Potential, Profiles, Rate, Recharge, Successive, Voluminous.

RUI: Collaborative Research: The Roles of Incremental Input, Magma Chamber Processes and Eruption on the Construction of the Bimodal Vinalhaven Plutonic-Volcanic Complex, Maine
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Robert A Wiebe($125,514), Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster
2. David P Hawkins($109,719), Denison University, Granville
Key terms: Coeval Volcanic Rocks, Epsilon Nd =, Plutonic And Volcanic, Hf Isotopic, Isotopic Composition, Isotopic Compositions, Magma Chamber, Source Region, Combined, Complex, Crystallization, Eruption, Evolution, Granite, History, Input, Insights, Mafic, Magmatic, Processes, Rejuvenation, Relative, Replenishment, Rhyolite, Silicic, Sr, Vinalhaven, Whole-rock, Zircon.

Collaborative Research: Evaluating the Competing Roles of Garnet and Fluid in Controlling U-Th Disequillibria in Lavas of the Aleutian Island Arc
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Gene M Yogodzinski($165,187), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
2. Kenneth Sims($69,974), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Nd And Hf, Magnesian Andesite, South Carolina, Aleutian, Arc, Chemistry, Isotopic, Main, Pb, Piip, Sr, Subduction, U-series, Undergraduate, Volcanoes.

Density, Structure and Chemistry of Iron in Silicate Melts
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Victor C Kress($245,137), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Predict Iron Redox, Temperature And Bulk, Bulk Composition, Iron Speciation, Silicate Melts, Compositional, Dependence, Ferrous, Function, Iron-bearing, Laboratory, Lead, Natural, Pressure, Reactions, Resolve, Spectroscopic, Structure.

Crystal Structures of Minerals at Ultrahigh Pressures and Temperatures
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Thomas S Duffy($328,112), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Mantle And Core, Perovskite And Post-perovskite, Deep Mantle, Carry, Conditions, Earth, Equation, Examine, Geophysics, Gpa, Interior, Interiors, Iron, Knowledge, Laboratory, Melting, Phase, Phases, Physics, Planets, Pressures, Properties, Structure, Synchrotron, Temperatures, X-ray.

Thermodynamic Measurements and Phase Equilibria of High-Pressure Silicates
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Eric J Essene($269,190), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Heat Capacity, Low-temperature Heat, Phase Equilibria, Volcanic Rocks, Allow, Assemblages, High-pressure, Low-temperature, Mantle, Measure, Phases.

Nanoscale Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Arsenian Pyrite in Ore Deposits
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Stephen E Kesler($215,222), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Arsenian Pyrite, Ore Deposits, Ag, Amounts, Analyses, Arsenic, Au, Cd, Clarify, Concentrations, Cu, Economically, Environmental, Factors, Growth, Has, Hg, Limit, Mass, Metals, Methods, Nanoparticles, Ni, Processes, Sb, Se, Similar, Soils, Solubility, Source, Te, Trace, Zones.

Support for teachers to attend AGU Geophysical Information for Teachers (GIFT) Workshop
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Vincent J Salters($12,000), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Gift Workshop, AGU, Activities, Attend, Attendance, Available, CIRL, Center, Classroom, Development, Discovery, Fall, Geophysical, Implement, Presenters, Programs, School, Share, Teachers, Time.

Kinetics of Melt-Rock Reaction in the Mantle
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Yan Liang($273,416), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Dunite-harzburgite-lherzolite Sequences, Grain Growth, Grain Size, Melt Migration, Melt-rock Reaction, Reactive Dissolution, Constrain, Development, Dunite-harzburgite-lherzolite, Experience, Experimental, Experiments, Geological, Kinetics, Laboratory, Mantle, Melt-rock, Ophiolites, Responsible.

Collaborative Research: Geochemical Processes in Forearc Peridotites: Depletion, Enrichment, and Melt Reactions in the Mantle Wedge
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Samuel B Mukasa($81,335), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. John W Shervais($85,949), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Nature And Extent, Arc Volcanism, Geochemical Flux, Island Arc, Lithospheric Mantle, Melt Extraction, Subduction Zone, Analyses, Commonly, Composition, Crust, Evolution, Examine, Extracted, Fluid, Initiative, Interactions, Mineral, Processes, Source, Subsequent, Time, Underlie, Wedge.

SGER: Exploring Vulcanian Explosions and Sedimentation Patterns Leading to Pyroclastic Density Currents Using Scaled Laboratory Experiments and Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV):
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Amanda B Clarke($35,000), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Particle Image Velocimetry, Plume And Pdc, Application, Concentration, Dynamics, Experimental, Jet, Overall, PIV, Source, Volcanological.

Zoning of Oxygen Isotope Ratio Within Single Zircons
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. John W Valley($408,538), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Continental Crust, Growth Zoning, Analysis, Archean, Diffusion, Ga, Information, Magma, Maturation, Oxygen, Situ, Wisconsin, Zircon, Zircons.

Determining Large-Scale Permeability of Magma From its Bubble and Crystal Microstructure - A Multiphase Percolation Theory Approach
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Martin O Saar($291,456), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Bubble And Crystal, Volatile Degassing Rates, Bubble Networks, Eruption Dynamics, Computer, Conduit, Flow, Gases, Magma, Magmas, Microstructure, Permeabilities, Permeability.

Collaborative Proposal: Bubble Size Distributions as a Diagnostic Tool for Volcanic Processes
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Dork L Sahagian($24,513), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
2. Alexander A Proussevitch($282,485), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Bubble Size Distributions, Vesicular Volcanic Products, Remote Sensing, Simulated Bsds, Vesiculation Conditions, Volcanic Eruptions, History, Infer, Magma, Magmatic, Observed, Processes.

Raman Spectroscopy Under Simultaneous High Pressure - High Temperature in a Laser Heated Diamond Cell: Thermal Pressure, Heat Capacity, Entropy, Thermal Expansivity, and Anharmonic
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Anastasia Chopelas($249,255), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Capacity And Entropy, Diamond Anvil Cell, Pressure And Temperature, Heat Capacity, Laser Heating, Vibrational Modeling, X-ray Diffraction, Allow, Conditions, Consists, Current, Determined, Equation, Equations, Has, Laboratory, Minerals, Phases, Physics, Pressures, Properties, Raman, Simultaneous, Situ, Temperatures, Thermal, Thermodynamic, X-ray.

RUI: How is the Granite Melt Flow Network Recorded in Migmatites and by Associated Granite Plutons?
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Gary S Solar($153,650), SUNY College at Buffalo, Buffalo
Key terms: Melt Flow, Allows, Approach, Bodies, Conduits, Controlled, Crust, Deformation, Detailed, Exposures, Focused, Geometry, Granite, Granites, Larger, Migmatites, Migmatitic, Network, Outcome, Smaller-volume, Students, Undergraduate.

A New Look at Violent Strombolian Eruptions - Past Behavior and Future Potential
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Paul Wallace($329,880), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Violent Strombolian Eruptions, Hazard Assessment, Activity, Ash, Disruption, Extensive, Italy, Lava, Mexico, Prof, VS.

Textures and Tectonics of Metamorphic Crystallization
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Donna L Whitney($200,863), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Metamorphic Textures, Analysis, Boundaries, Chemical, Deformation, Electron, Focuses, Garnet, Garnets, Grow, Growth, Microstructural, Mineral, Minnesota, Modeling, Module, Porphyroblasts, Zoning.

RUI: Polybaric Partial Melting of Peridotite
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Brandon E Schwab($194,485), Humboldt State University Foundation, Arcata
Key terms: Mantle Melting, Partial Melting, Compositions, Formation, Glass, Gpa, Laboratory, Peridotite, Polybaric, Processes, Range, Resulting, Starting, Students, Undergraduate, Varying.

Zr-Mineral Aqueous Solubilities and Zircon/(Fluid-Melt) Partitioning
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Calvin F Miller($284,680), Vanderbilt University, Nashville
Key terms: Zircon And Baddeleyite, Aqueous Fluids, Fluid Ph, Hydrothermal Zircons, Partitioning Experiments, Solubility Systematics, Ages, Conditions, Date, Environmental, Fo, MS, Measured, Phd, Students, Trace, Variable.

Testing Paleozoic vs. Cenozoic Metamorphism in the Greater Himalaya, Nepal
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Matthew J Kohn($35,693), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: P-t Conditions, Garnet, Has, Himalayan, Implications, Isotope, Lu-hf, Matrix, Metamorphic, P-T, Separates, Via.

Physical Aspects of Magma Degassing - An Accomplishment-Based Renewal
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Katharine V Cashman($230,157), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Chemical, Eruption, Gases, Movement, Porous, Processes, Renewal, Structure, Volatile, Volatiles, Volcanic.

Evolution of Large Volume Silicic Magmas of the Yellowstone Hotspot: The Record of the Bruneau-Jarbidge Eruptive Center
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Barbara Nash($220,895), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Eruptive Center, Yellowstone Hotspot, Ages, Bruneau-jarbidge, CPT, Chronology, Determination, Differentiation, Erupted, Eruption, Glass, Magma, Magmas, Modern, Silicic, Volume, Zircon.

Testing For 'Wet' (Rapid) Oxygen Diffusion in Igneous and Metamorphic Zircon During Regional Metamorphism
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Desmond E Moser($230,968), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Zircon Oxygen Isotope, Field Analysis, Metamorphic Zircon, Oxygen Diffusion, Situ U-pb, Analytical, Behavior, Common, Comprehensive, Cross-section, Crust, Evolution, Metasediment, Nature, Precise, Rapid, Rock, Skills, Trace, U-pb, Wet, Widely.

Origin of Mantle Heterogeneity in the Azores
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Elisabeth Widom($207,548), Miami University, Oxford
Key terms: Azores Plume, Mantle Heterogeneity, Undergraduate Students, Core-mantle, Enriched, Geochemical, Nature, Origin, Origins, Os, Sources.

Rapid Decompression of Bubble-Bearing Magma and Implications for Eruption Style and Explosive Potential: An Experimental Study With Analogue Fluids
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Michael Manga($139,480), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Fragmentation And Degassing, Explosive Eruption, Magma Bodies, Rapid Decompression, Allow, Berkeley, Bubble, Bubbles, Control, Experimental, Exsolved, Fluids, Hazard, Lead, Magmas, Processes, Transition, Viscous, Volcanology.

Renewal: Chemistry of the Earth's Deep Mantle and Core
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Russell J Hemley($386,514), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Deep Mantle, Lower Mantle, Neutron Diffraction, Phase Relations, Spectroscopic Techniques, Synchrotron X-ray, X-ray Diffraction, Additional, Alloys, Chemical, Chemistry, Composition, Conditions, Core, Development, Earth, Evolution, Examined, Experimental, Extreme, Fe, Fe-ni, Gt, Interior, Methods, Microanalytical, P-T, Phases, Planets, Pressures, Properties, Range, Situ, Spectroscopy, Structural, Variety, X-ray.

Solid State Geochemistry: High-Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy of Minerals
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Peter R Buseck($480,000), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Grain Boundaries, Analysis, Determined, Dislocation, Dislocations, Elastic, Geophysical, Properties, Provided, Regions, Strain, Studying.

Virunga Volcanic SO2 Emissions Research (VISOR) Project
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Simon A Carn($299,913), University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore
Key terms: Nyamuragira And Nyiragongo, Alkaline Volcanoes, Excess Sulfur, Remote Sensing, So2 Emissions, African, Collaborative, Collected, Congo, Date, Degassing, Efforts, Eruption, GVO, Goma, Has, Investigate, Lava, Magma, Non-arc, Petrological, Satellite, Virunga, Volcanic.

Testing Models of Crustal-Scale Fluid Flow and Isograd Development During Orogenesis in the Barrovian Zones, Scotland
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Jay J Ague($300,059), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Barrovian, Books, Connecticut, Critical, Crust, Evolution, Exhibition, Field-, Fluid, Formation, Geochemical, Heat, Laboratory-based, Metamorphic, Metamorphism, Processes, Produced, Rock, Scotland, Transport, Visitors.

Melt Inclusion Study of Water and Chlorine Abundances in HIMU- and EM-type Mantle
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. John C Lassiter($212,923), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Recycled Oceanic Crust, Earth's Interior, Earth's Surface, Mantle Reservoirs, Melt Inclusions, Volatile Species, Abundance, Abundances, Austral, Chlorine, Cl, Derive, Distribution, Genesis, Involved, Lavas, Net, Plate, Processes, Subduction, Trace, Volatiles, Water.

Helium Isotopic Measurements From Raivavae and Rapa, Cook-Austral Islands: New Insights into the Nature of the HIMU Component
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Sujoy Mukhopadhyay($51,944), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Helium Isotopic Composition, Himu Ocean Islands, Low 3he4he Ratios, 3he4he Ratios, Cook-austral Islands, Himu Basalts, Low 3he4he, Cook-austral, Crust, Hehe, Isotopes, Lavas, Mantle, Nd, Origin, Os, Pb, Raivavae, Rapa, Recycled, Sr, Strong.

Search for Hadean Protocrust in Modern Mantle
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Mukul Sharma($118,338), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Subcontinental Lithospheric Mantle, Earth's History, Graduate Students, Continent, Crust, Depleted, Effects, Hadean, Has, Laboratory, Latter, Magma, Million, Nd-, Primordial, Protocrust, Rock, Scenario.

The Oxidation State of Hawaiian Magmas
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. John M Rhodes($141,068), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Kea And Loihi, Basaltic Magma, Basaltic Magmas, Earth's Mantle, Hawaiian Magmas, Hawaiian Volcanoes, Loihi Volcanoes, Mantle Plume, Mantle Source, Mauna Kea, Mauna Loa, Oxygen Fugacity, Quenched Lavas, Rapidly Quenched, Vigorous Debate, Attempt, Buffer, Composition, Degassing, Erupted, Eruption, Estimate, FMQ, Feo, Has, Iron, Kilauea, Lower, Margins, Melt, Oxidation, Oxidized, Situation, Sulfur.

Model of Earth and Planetary Chemistry: Prediction of Solid/Liquid/Gas Equilibria in Aluminosilicate, Evaporite and Carbonate Systems to High Concentration and Temperature 0- 250C
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. John H Weare($120,000), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Aluminosilicate Minerals, Aqueous Chemistry, Natural Fluids, Solution Species, Aluminum, Concentration, Contact, Feldspars, Model, Models, Pitzer, Planned, Predict, Properties, Rock, Solubility, Solutions, TEQUIL.

2005 Inorganic Geochemistry Gordon Conference
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Jean Cline($14,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Junior Level Scientists, Attendance, Conference, Deposit, Deposition, Future, Geochemistry, Gordon, Metal, Ore, Ore-forming, Process.

SGER: Geochemical Analysis of S-bearing Species Using Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (DOAS) and Infrared Imaging at Cerro Negro's Fumarole Field
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Michael S Ramsey($52,382), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: Active Site, Cerro Negro, Field Experiment, Nicaraguan Scientists, DOAS, Environment, Female, Has, Industry, Interaction, Involves, Local, Potential, Redox, Student, Subsurface, Temperature, Trained, Volcano.

Collaborative Research: Improvements in the Application of the Mossbauer Effect to Studies of Minerals
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Martha W Schaefer($116,997), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
2. Melinda D Dyar($76,939), Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley
Key terms: Moessbauer Spectroscopy, Analyses, Capabilities, Designed, Fe, Has, Iron, Mineral, Minerals, Set, Technique.

Collaborative Research: Pressure Decrease as a Cause of Quartz and Molybdenite Vein Mineral Precipitation in Magmatic-Hydrothermal Systems
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Mark H Reed($209,789), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
2. Scott A Wood($151,335), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
Key terms: Magmatic Hydrothermal, Molybdenite Solubility, Numerical Modeling, Pressure Drop, Quartz Veins, Vein Quartz, Analytical, Compositions, Decrease, Experimental, Experiments, Explore, Function, Future, Geochemistry, Geothermal, Laboratory, Methods, Mineral, Process, Processes, Temperature, Trace.

Development and Calibration of Rutile (U-Th)/He Geo- and Thermochronometry
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Daniel F Stockli($174,122), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Metamorphic Rocks, Date, Dating, Developed, Especially, Geo-, Mineral, Range, Rutile, Students, Thermochronometry, U-thhe, Widely.

Complex Episodic Explosive Volcanism: Eruption Dynamics of the 1959 Kilauea Iki Eruption, Hawaii
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Bruce F Houghton($240,000), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Hawaii Volcanoes National, Volcanoes National Park, Individual Eruptive, Kilauea Iki, Basaltic, Constrain, Contrasting, Dispersal, Episodes, Eruption, Explosive, Fire-fountaining, Formed, HVNP, Hawaiian, Lava, Nature, Phases, Products, Range, Visitors.

In Situ d18-O and U-Pb Studies of Single Zircons in the Franciscan
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. John W Valley($136,008), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Ion Microprobe Analysis, Pressure Metamorphic Rocks, Zircon Crystals, Age, Employ, Exhumation, Franciscan, Inclusions, Isotope, Minerals, Protoliths, U-pb, Wisconsin, Zircons.

CAREER: Crystallization Kinetics in Volcanology
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Julia E Hammer($535,786), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Graduate Students, Conditions, Crystal, Electron, Evolution, Experience, Experimental, Magma, Teachers, Techniques, Transport, Undergraduates.

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($71,660), Central Washington University, Ellensburg
Key terms: Continental Flood, Flood Basalt, Flood Basalts, Crystals, Erupted, Geochemical, Isotope, Magma, Magmas, Mantle, Ratios, Rock, Sources, Volcanism.

SGER: 210Po-210Pb Constraints on Time-Scales of Degassing and Crystallization for Young Lavas and Tephras
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Mark K Reagan($37,805), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Mount St, Analyses, Analyzed, Arc, Compositions, Eruption, Helens, Longer-lived, Magma, Magmatic, Pb, Po, Processes, Volcanic.

Modeling Magma Dynamics and Degassing in Volcanic Eruptions
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Dork L Sahagian($41,180), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
Key terms: Bubble Growth, Magma Ascent, Volcanic Eruptions, Analysis, Computer, Conditions, Mathematical, Model, Processes, Sensitivity, Specific.

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

1. Peter B Kelemen($48,447), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Aleutian-alaska Volcanoes, Arc Magmas, Subduction Zones, Water Content, Aleutian-alaska, Central, Microprobe, Origin.

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

1. Cin-Ty A Lee($193,477), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
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, Extent, Investigate, Isotopes, Knowledge, Lavas, Magmas, Melting, Origins, Prevailing, Primitive, Processes, Significantly, Slab-derived, Subducting, Underpinning, Washington.

CSEDI: Development of a Cooperative Institute for Deep Earth Research
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Barbara A Romanowicz($694,331), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Cider Summer, Kavli Institute, Santa Barbara, Summer Program, Theoretical Physics, CA, Held, Involve, Mantle, Stay, Theme, Tutorial, Weeks, Workshop.

CSEDI WORKSHOP in Tokyo on the Post-perovskite Phase transition
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. David A Yuen($10,000), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Discovery, Graduate, Meeting, Program, Tokyo.

CSEDI: Fine Structure of the Lower Mantle
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Jeroen Tromp($228,246), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: 3d Dynamic, Dynamic Models, Lower Mantle, Post-perovskite Structure, Velocity Gradient, Beneath, Boundary, Dynamics, Effects, Fast, Generates, Global, History, Jump, Mineral, Plate, Positive, Post-perovskite, Regions, Sampling, Seismic, Strong, Structures, Subduction, Triplication, Zones.

9th InternationalWorkshop on Numerical Modeling of Mantle Convection and Lithospheric Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. David Bercovici($25,000), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Convection And Lithospheric, Scientists And Students, Students And Postdoctoral, Junior Scientists, Lithospheric Dynamics, Mantle Convection, Benefit, Colleagues, France, Germany, Has, Held, IWNMC, International, Meetings, Th, Workshop, World.

CSEDI Collaborative Research: Experimental Constraints on the Chemistry and Evolution of Earth's Core
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Andrew J Campbell($92,121), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Alloy And Melt, Fe-rich Hcp Alloy, Earth's Core, Fe-rich Hcp, Outer Core, Application, Chemical, Composition, Convection, Evolution, Experimental, Iron-rich, Isotopic, Partitioning, Phase, Pressures, Stimulate, Trace.

2005 Interior of the Earth Gordon Conference
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Nancy R Gray($23,500), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Initial Stress Conditions, Earthquake Source, Kinematic Description, Propagating Fracture, Allow, Caused, Dynamic, Dynamics, Fault, Faulting, Features, GPS, Inverting, Maps, Model, Models, Northwest, Opportunity, Parkfield, Process, Robust, Rupture, Sites, Southeast.

CSEDI Collaborative Research: 3D Temperature and Composition Structure of the Upper Mantle Using Seismological and Mineral Physics Constraints
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Carolina R Lithgow-Bertelloni($130,210), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. Barbara A Romanowicz($153,695), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Mineral Physicists, Partial Derivatives, Seismic Waveforms, Upper Mantle, Amplitudes, Approach, Attenuation, Character, Composition, Constraints, Focusing, Inversion, Invert, Obtained, Parameters, Resolution, Step, Strong, Temperature, Theoretical, Uncertainties.

CSEDI Collaborative Research: Investigating the Relationship Between Plume Dynamics and ULVZ Geometry
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Michael Manga($86,510), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. Allen McNamara($178,946), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Melting And Chemical, Numerical And Laboratory, Chemical Heterogeneity, Isolated Pockets, Mantle Plumes, Boundary, Characterized, Core, Determining, Layer, More-dense, Reduction, Region, Regions, Resolution, Source, ULVZ, Was, Wave.

CSEDI: Collaborative Research: Experimental and SIMS Investigation of H2O Storage Capacity of the Mantle
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2005; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Laurie A Leshin($80,891), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: H2o Storage, Lower Mantle, Phase Transitions, Storage Capacities, Storage Capacity, Upper Mantle, Arizona, Deep, Determined, Discontinuity, Effect, Experimental, Experiments, Gpa, HO, Influence, Melting, Minnesota, Oceanic, Partitioning, Performed, Peridotite, Pressure, Properties, Temperature.

Testing Mineralogical Models of the Mantle Transition Zone Using Seismic Data
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Lianxing Wen($172,315), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Compositional And Thermal, Earth's Transition Zone, Compositional Models, Earth's Transition, Mantle Composition, Mantle Mineralogy, Mineral Physics, Seismic Structures, Seismic Velocity, Thermal Models, Based, Collaborative, Density, Dynamics, Modeling, Profiles, Quantitative, Various.

Coupled Core-Mantle Thermal Evolution and the History of the Geodynamo
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. W H Francis Nimmo($147,223), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Mantle Convection, Core, Earth, Evolution, Geodynamo, History, Observations, Planetary.

SGER: A Geochronological and Paleoenvironmental Framework for the Nanxiong Basin, Guangdong Province, South China
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. William C Clyde($20,000), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Asian Land Mammal, Land Mammal Ages, Paleocene Asian Land, Fossil Localities, Nanxiong Basin, South China, Vertebrate Fossil, Boundaries, Development, Mark, North, Turnovers.

ORIGIN AND EARLY EVOLUTION OF WHALES IN EOCENE TETHYS (PAKISTAN)
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2005; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Philip D Gingerich($235,000), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Articulated Skeletons, Central Pakistan, Skeletal Remains, Stage Represented, Whale Evolution, Archaeocete, Archaeocetes, Corroborated, Enhance, Eocene, Evidence, Expeditions, Field, Interval, Land, Living, Mammals, Methods, Million-yold, Morphologically, Preparation, Primitive, Protocetids, Recovery, Sea, Stages, Strata, Swimming, Tested, Transition, Upper, Whales.

Evolution of Marine Mammal Foraging Behavior Based on Ca and C Isotope Ratios in Bioapatite
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. David L Fox($154,998), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Ca Isotope Composition, Ca Isotope Ratios, Seawater A44ca Values, A13c Values, A44ca Values, Ancient Marine, Broader Impacts, Foraging Habitat, Marine Ecosystems, Marine Mammals, Seawater A44ca, Single Individual, Trophic Level, Trophic Structure, Ac, Aca, Analyzed, Analyzing, Applied, Bioapatite, Cetacean, Development, Energy, Evolution, Extinct, Factors, Fossil, Has, History, Impacted, Influence, Knowledge, Means, Modern, Oligocene, Paleoecological, Potential, Proxy, Reflect, Sirenians, Species, Stronger, Terrestrial, Time, Vertebrate, Whale, Whales.

Bivalve Richness and Ecological Diversity of the End-Triassic Mass Extinction: Faunal Analyses from the West-Tethyan Lombardy, La Spezia and K?ssen Basins (Italy and Austria)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Christopher A McRoberts($50,900), SUNY College at Cortland, Cortland
Key terms: Spezia And Kossen, Kossen Basins, Late Triassic, Triassicjurassic Boundary, Abundance, Affected, Analyses, Austria, Biotic, Bivalve, Bivalves, Ecologic, End-triassic, Extinction, High-resolution, Ii, Involve, Isotope, Italy, Lombardy, Magnitude, Mode, Precise, Richness, Sections, Surrounding, Survival, Taxonomic, Timing, Triassic-jurassic, Western.

RUI: Widespread Onshore Effects of Early Late Devonian, Marine Alamo Impact Event, Central Great Basin, Western U.S.
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Jared R Morrow($97,258), University of Northern Colorado, Greeley
Key terms: Continental-margin Marine, Marine Impacts, Alamo, Assistants, Continental-margin, Deposits, Distal, Effects, Evidence, Future, Interdisciplinary, Model, Nevada, Onshore, Serve, Shallow-water, Students, Western.

Using oxygen isotopes from apatitic conodonts to understand the origins of Paleozoic-Triassic 3rd-order (My-scale) sea-level changes
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Zachary Sharp($220,183), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Del 18-o Values, 18-o Values, Del 18-o, Facies Trends, Climate, Conodonts, Marine, My-scale, Observed, Orbital, Ordovician, Origin, Responsible, Sea-level, Sequences, Systematic, Techniques, Time, Transgressive-regressive, Triassic.

Collaborative Research: RUI: An Integrative Paleontological And Paleoenvironmental Study Of The Middle Cambrian Spence, Wheeler, And Marjum Soft-Bodied Faunas
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Robert R Gaines($50,256), Pomona College, Claremont
2. Bruce S Lieberman($110,000), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
3. Derek Briggs($52,002), Yale University, New Haven
4. Mary L Droser($48,332), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Cambrian Burgess Shale-type, Cambrian Soft-bodied Faunas, Burgess Shale-type, Cambrian Soft-bodied, Precise Locality, Soft-bodied Faunas, Accompanied, Collections, Contribute, Enigmas, Evolution, Factors, Framework, Geology, KU, Kansas, Marjum, Microstratigraphic, Multiple, Objectives, Paleoenvironmental, Phylogenetic, Preservation, Processes, Spence, Taphonomic, Taxa, Techniques, Training, Utah, Wheeler.

Collaborative Research: Exploring Lata Holocene Sedimentary Archives of Extreme Storms in the Northeastern United States
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Thompson Webb III($130,973), Brown University, Providence
2. Jeffrey Donnelly($201,485), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Intense Hurricane Activity, Intense Hurricane Strikes, Intense Hurricanes, North Atlantic, Storm Surge, Storm-induced Deposits, Climate, Coastal, Environments, Frequency, Has, Instrumental, Jersey, Landfalls, Lives, Long-term, Managers, Past, Potential, Reconstruct, Resources, Sedimentary, Sediments, Storm-induced, Storms, Tropical.

Collaborative Research: Automated sequencing of the fossil record: improved methods and insights from Mohawkian (Ordovician) geochronology, tephrachronology and biostratigraphy.
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Peter M Sadler($78,000), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
2. Scott D Samson($169,999), Syracuse University, Syracuse
3. Charles E Mitchell($40,777), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Conodonts And Graptolites, Ordovician And Silurian, Eastern North, Temporal Sequencing, Ash, Basin, CHRONOS, Correlation, Facies, Faunas, Fossil, Global, Information, Integrate, K-bentonites, Local, Margin, Minority, Mohawkian, Pieces, Pis, Regions, Secondary, Strata, Stratigraphy, Students, Successions, Teacher, Techniques, Time, Tools.

An Integrated Paleomagnetic, Isotopic, and Stratigraphic Test of the Inertial Interchange True Polar Wander Hypothesis, Bitter Springs Stage, Australia
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Adam Maloof($239,995), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Bitter Springs Stage, Inertial Interchange True, Interchange True Polar, Level And Paleomagnetic, True Polar Wander, East Svalbard, Neoproterozoic Paleogeography, Sea Level, Spin Axis, Ancient, Australia, Carbon, Circulation, Collaborations, Continent, Documenting, Earth, Field, Geologic, Global, Has, IITPW, Ideal, Imin, Interval, Isotopic, Laboratory, Light, Magnetic, Models, Plate, Relative, Rock, Shifts, Stratigraphy.

Paleontological Society Workshop on Future Directions in Paleontology held on September 10-11, 2005 at the Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. David J Bottjer($25,000), Paleontological Society, Mc Lean
Key terms: Paleontological Society, Decades, FRDP, Forums, Has, Initiatives, Integrative, Past, Towards, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Late Wenlock-Ludlow (Silurian) Oceanic Episodes and Events, Southern Laurentia
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. James E Barrick($166,109), Texas Tech University, Lubbock
Key terms: Detailed Documentation, Additional, Baltica, Basins, Biotic, Geochemical, Global, Laurentia, Models, Oceanic, Sections, Silurian, Southern, Span.

RCN: The Colorado River Delta Research Coordination Network
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Karl Flessa($499,955), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Colorado River Delta, Biotas, Human, Landscapes, Mexico, Natural, Network, Water.

Workshop: Sino-US Collaborative Research On Critical Transitions In History Of Life
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Yu-Gan Jin($70,542), Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Isotope And Organic, Chinese Scientists, Critical Transitions, Organic Geochemistry, China, Collaborative, Countries, Create, Geochronology, History, Integrated, Life, Network, Origins, Paleontology, Workshop.

Workshop Proposal: Paleoclimates and human evolution: Integrating continental drilling research with paleoanthropology and other geological records
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Craig S Feibel($25,000), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Human Evolution, Paleoenvironmental Framework, Archaeologists, Bring, Climate, Continent, Drilling, Fall, Geologists, Gt, History, Hominin, Integrate, Interdisciplinary, Involved, Local, Million, Normally, Paleoanthropological, Paleoanthropologists, Sites, Time, Variety, Workshop.

High Resolution Sequence and Event Stratigraphy of Mid Silurian Strata in Eastern Laurentia and Avalonia
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Carlton E Brett($194,901), University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati
Key terms: Laurentia And Avalonia, Cincinnati Arch, Eastern North, Late Llandovery-wenlock, Sea Level, Beds, Biotic, Controls, Correlation, Correlations, Detailed, Eustatic, Evidence, Global, History, K-bentonite, K-bentonites, Llandovery-wenlock, Niagaran, Paleogeography, Permit, Position, Pulses, Regional, Sequence, Similar, Stratigraphic, Synchroneity, Tectonic, Various.

Collaborative Research: Calibration of the Late Triassic-Early Jurassic Timescale Using U-Pb Dating of the High-Resolution Magnetostratigraphy of the Newark Supergroup
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2005; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Dennis V Kent($86,210), Columbia University, New York
2. Emma T Rasbury($117,351), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Newark Supergroup, Orbital Forcing, U-pb Dating, Age, Ages, Ashes, Basalts, Boundary, Carbonates, Date, Dated, Distribution, Has, MIT, Ma, Potential, Precise, Precision, Rock, Sedimentary, Sequence, Sequences, Students, Time, U-pb, Uncertainty.

NSF Workshop: Tsunami Deposits and their Role in Hazard Assessment, June 2005
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Joanne Bourgeois($80,000), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Asia, Assessment, Bring, Coastal, Deposits, Directorate, East, Education, Engineering, Experts, Geologists, Geology, Importance, Leaders, Mitigation, NSF, Priorities, Tsunami, Tsunamis, Workshop.

Mutiple proxy approach to Terrestrial Paleoclimate - The Late Triassic Ischigualasto Basin, NW Argentina
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2005; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Neil M Tabor($84,996), Southern Methodist University, Dallas
Key terms: Geochemical Proxies, Late Triassic, Minerals Contained, Paleoclimate Proxies, Terrestrial Paleoclimate, Atmospheric, Basin, Climate, Composition, Debate, Geological, Global, Mineralogical, Paleosols, Past, Pedogenic, Robust, Single, Temporal.

The Mahajanga Basin Project: Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from Madagascar and Their Implications for the Biogeographic History of Gondwana
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2005; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Scott D Sampson($503,453), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Late Cretaceous Vertebrates, Terrestrial And Freshwater, Cretaceous Age, Freshwater Vertebrate, Graduate Students, Mahajanga Basin, Northwestern Madagascar, Southern Hemisphere, Southern Supercontinent, Upper Cretaceous, Vertebrate Fauna, Vertebrate Fossils, Biogeographic, Complete, Context, Continue, Diversity, Faunas, Gondwana, History, Particular, Past, Phylogenetic, Pis.

Collaborative Research: A Depositional and Paleoecological Model of Neogene Reef Development in the Dominican Republic: Integrating Taxonomic and Chronostratigraphic Databases
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2005; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Donald F McNeill($253,804), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. Ann F Budd($102,421), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Shallow Marine Benthic, Stratigraphic And Environmental, Environmental Framework, Caribbean, Chronostratigraphic, Composition, Coral, Corals, Ecological, Evolutionary, Extinct, Ifhow, Information, NMITA, Reef, Regional, Sequence, Speciation, Species, Structure, Taxonomic, Turnover.

National Workshop: Collaborative Research in Engineering and Geoscience: Process-driven Risk Assessment and Mitigation in the Context of Sustainable Development
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. David J Furbish($51,236), Vanderbilt University, Nashville
Key terms: Engineering And Geoscience, Risk And Reliability, Mitigation Strategies, Workshop Organizers, Advances, Applied, Behavior, Collaboration, Cross-disciplinary, Current, Decades, Disciplines, Ecological, Efforts, Environmental, Expertise, Future, Involve, Knowledge, Modeling, Natural, Processes, Resources, Societal, Theme, Time, Unprecedented, Vanderbilt, Worldwide.

Developing a Record of Quaternary Climatic Oscillation for the Eastern Sahara through Analysis of Fossil-spring Tufas and Lacustrine Deposits, Western Desert, Egypt
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Jennifer R Smith($216,451), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Climate Chronology, Eastern Sahara, North Africa, North African, Pluvial Phases, Carbonates, Climatic, Comparison, Conditions, Cores, Course, Detailed, Field, Fluctuations, Generate, Lacustrine, Lakes, Models, Obtained, Orbital, Quaternary, Survey, Techniques, Tufas, Via.

RCN: PEATNET-Globalization of Northern Peatland Ecosystem Research
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Dale Vitt($498,905), Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale
Key terms: Education And Training, Functions And Values, Peatnet Virtual Resource, Produce And Post, Virtual Resource Center, National Meetings, Northern Peatland, Northern Peatlands, Peatland Ecosystem, Peatland Functions, Peatnet Activities, Steering Committee, Carbon, Climate, Coupled, Days, Ecosystems, Effort, Establish, Focuses, Future, Generation, Importance, International, Mechanism, Network, Peat-land, Promote, Public, Website.

Experiments and Observations Based on the Finding that Scleractinian Corals Secrete Calcite Instead of Aragonite in Cretaceous Seawater
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Steven M Stanley($80,000), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Late Cretaceous Seas, Growth Rates, High-magnesium Calcite, Magnesiumcalcium Ratio, Magnesiumcalcium Ratios, Reef Builders, Skeletal Growth, Aragonite, Biomineralization, Calcium, Chemistry, Corals, Dominant, Has, High-magnesium, Influence, Instead, Low, Mineral, Ocean, Precipitates, Precipitation, Reef-building, Seawater, Suggest, Time, Volcanism, Weak.

Collaborative Research: Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoenvironments of the Richest, Endemic-Dominated Fossil Assemblage in Cenozoic of Tibetan Plateau (Qaidam Basin, China)
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Yang Wang($80,408), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Qaidam Basin, Tibetan Plateau, Ago, Cenozoic, Climate, Evolution, Faunas, Fossil, Fossils, Grassland, Mammalian, Million, Sedimentary.

Collaborative Research: Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoenvironments of the Richest, Endemic-Dominated Vertebrate Assemblage in Cenozoic of Qaidam Basin, Tibetan Plateau, China
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Bradley D Ritts($249,994), Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation, Los Angeles
Key terms: Qaidam Basin, Tibetan Plateau, Ago, Cenozoic, Climate, Evolution, Faunas, Fossil, Fossils, Grassland, Mammalian, Million, Sedimentary.

Collaborative Research: Investigating Early Triassic Ocean Chemistry, Stratigraphy, and Paleobiology During the Protracted Biotic Recovery from the Permo-Triassic Mass Extinction
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Frank A Corsetti($150,001), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2. Alan J Kaufman($80,023), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Mass Extinction, Dc, Ds, Features, Geologic, Isotopic, Marine, Million, Nature, Period, Seawater, Srsr, Time, Triassic, Western.

The 2.67 Ga Orogeny in the Teton and Wind RIver Ranges: One of the Oldest Himalayan Orogenies on Earth
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: Tectonics

1. B. Ronald Frost($215,939), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Modern Style Plate, Modern-style Plate Tectonics, Northern Teton Range, Wind River Range, High-pressure Gneisses, Isotopic Analyses, Modern-style Plate, Age, Archean, Basin, Billion, Geologic, High-pressure, Hotter, Marked, Metamorphic, Petrologic, Presence, Rock, Structural, Wyoming.

Collaborative Research: Integrated Tectonic and Paleomagnetic Study of the Early Cenozoic Rotation and Extrusion of Asian Crust Around the Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2006; Program: Tectonics

1. John W Geissman($180,430), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis, Extruded Indochina Crustal, Lanping Simao Fold, Simao Fold Belt, Crustal Fragments, Lanping-simao Belt, Lower Tertiary, Southeast Asia, Close, Define, Deformed, Entire, Exposed, Extrusion, Has, Jurassic, Lanping-simao, Lithosphere, Observations, Process, Processes, Region, Regions, Remains, Rotation, Structures, Syntaxial, Tectonic, Translation, Vietnam, West, Western, Yunnan.

Influence of Strain Symmetry and Vorticity of Flow on Thrust Sheet Evolution at Mid-Crustal Levels in the Caledonides of NW Scotland: Implications for Transport-Parallel Extrusion
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Tectonics

1. Richard D Law($229,996), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: British Geological Survey, Nappe And Underlying, Strain And Vorticity, 'apparent' Strains, 3d Strains, Along-strike Extension, Moine Nappe, Moine Thrust, Plane Strain, Pure Shear, Shear Deformation, Simple Shear, Tectonites Indicate, Vorticity Analysis, Along-strike, Assuming, Belts, Collaboration, Component, Contraction, Dimensional, Field, Flow, Has, Mapping, Mid-crustal, Modeling, Models, Mountain, Natural, Orogenic, Petrofabric, Real, Rock, Space, Transport-parallel, Well-constrained, Wide.

Testing a New Model of the Tertiary Evolution of the Colorado Plateau Based on Constraints from Magmatic Patterns, Xenoliths, Geologic, and Geophysical Data
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Tectonics

1. Mousumi Roy($99,994), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Rock And Surface, Colorado Plateau, Surface Uplift, Affected, Available, Chemical, Comparing, Evolution, Geodynamic, Geologic, History, Lithosphere, Long-standing, Mechanism, Model, Models, Region, Stability, Tectonic, Tertiary, Timing.

Collaborative Research: An Integrated GPS and Structural Study of the Cocos-Caribbean Boundary in Nicaragua and El Salvador
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Tectonics

1. Dennis C DeMets($272,164), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Glen S Mattioli($197,561), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Key terms: Crustal Thickening, Earthquake Cycle, Forearc Sliver, Leading Edge, Oblique Convergence, Subduction Interface, Volcanic Arc, Bend, Combination, Deformation, El, Faulting, Finite, GPS, Modeling, Region, Salvadoran, Stretching, Structural, Studying, Subductionforearc, Three-dimensional, Trench, Wedge.

Geodynamic Framework for the Tectonic Trigger of Late Neogene Deformation in Southern Alaska
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Tectonics

1. Magali I Billen($229,961), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Alaska Range, Continental Interior, Observational Constraints, Plate Boundary, Southern Alaska, Deformation, Geodynamic, Margins, Models, Motion, Narrow, Plates, Regional, Regions, Relative, Structures, Tectonic, Three-dimensional, Transfer, Uplift, Weak.

Mechanics of Sheeting Joints and Near-Surface Stresses
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Tectonics

1. Stephen J Martel($304,228), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Yosemite National Park, Existing Stress, Groundwater Flow, Near-surface Stresses, Sheeting Joints, Tensile Stresses, Bedrock, Compression, Convex, Curvature, Digital, Earth, Field, Fractures, LIDAR, Measured, Nsurface, Perpendicular, Processes, Rock, Slope, Students, Textbooks, Topography, Widely.

Collaborative Research: Testing the Timescale and Geometry of Incremental Pluton Assembly Through 3-D Modeling and Thermochronology
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Tectonics

1. John M Bartley($59,000), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
2. Drew S Coleman($285,984), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Biotite And Potassium-feldspar, Incremental Pluton Assembly, Argon-argon Dates, Catastrophic Eruption, Cooling Histories, Incremental Assembly, Magma Bodies, Magma Chambers, North Carolina, Potassium-feldspar Argon, Thermal Histories, Wall Rocks, Argon-argon, Contacts, Development, Evolution, Feed, Field, Geochronologic, Growth, Hornblende, Increments, Intrusions, Millions, Modeling, National, Park, Plutons, Potential, Rates, Suggested, Uranium-lead, Utah, Volcanoes, Zircon.

The Co-evolution of Thin- and Thick-skinned Deformation Associated with Flat Subduction, Western Argentina
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2005; Program: Tectonics

1. Matthew E Pritchard($331,523), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Flat Slab Subduction, Deformation Rates, Thin-skinned Thrusting, Foreland, Kinematic, Magmatism, Maps, Million, Region, Thick-skinned, Thin-skinned, Velocity.

U-Pb Geochronology of the Wildhorse Gneiss Complex, Pioneer Mountains Core Complex, South-Central Idaho
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Tectonics

1. Paul Karl Link($26,517), Idaho State University, Pocatello
Key terms: Pioneer Mountains, Ages, Has, Idaho, Rock, Strata, Unusual.

Paleoseismology along Earthscope-PBO Dense Array of GPS Stations Across the Interior of the Great Basin
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Tectonics

1. Steven G Wesnousky($303,144), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Earthquake Process, Geographic Position, Plate Boundary, Aimed, Basin, Continent, Deformation, Encompasses, Evolution, Field, Hazards, Instruments, Measuring, Pacific-north, Physics, Seismic, Strain, Structure, Style, Western.

Collaborative Research: Quantifying the Dependence of Fabric and Rheology on Finite Strain for Naturally Deformed Rocks
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: Tectonics

1. Basil Tikoff($67,554), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Dyanna M Czeck($114,318), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
Key terms: Finite Strain Gradient, Progressive Finite Strain, Clast Population, Clast Populations, Deformation Behavior, Preferred Orientation, Rock Rheology, Analysis, Conglomerates, Constrain, Deformed, Detailed, Evolution, Fabric, Geological, Initial, Rates, Relative.

CAREER: Giant Nonmarine Sedimentary Basins of China and Intracontinental Tectonics - an Integrated Research and Education Plan in Asia and Western North America
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Tectonics

1. Bradley D Ritts($285,292), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Cenozoic Qaidam Basin, Intraplate Deformation, Mesozoic Ordos, Ordos Basin, Affect, Analysis, Basins, Characterized, China, Chinese, Combination, Distribution, Evolution, Geologic, History, Margins, Mechanisms, Models, Provenance, Sediment, Sedimentary, Sedimentation, Structural, Style, Subsidence, Thick, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Using Well-dated Paleomagnetic Poles from the Kalahari and Congo Cratons to Constrain Rodinia Configurations and the Assembly of Central Gondwana
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Tectonics

1. Wulf A Gose($78,530), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Richard E Hanson($257,687), Texas Christian University, Fort Worth
Key terms: Congo And Kalahari, Kalahari Cratons, Relative Positions, Africa, African, Ago, Assembly, Central, Collaborative, Continent, Gondwana, Magnetization, Million, Namibia, Paleomagnetic, Poles, Present-day, Rock, Rodinia, Southern, Subsequent, Supercontinent, Tanzania, Texas, Was.

Holocene Seismicity of the Northern San Andreas Fault Based on Precise Dating of the Turbidite Event Record
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Tectonics

1. Chris Goldfinger($168,787), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Northern San Andreas, San Andreas Fault, San Francisco, Submarine Landslides, Direct, Earthquake, Earthquakes, History, Holocene, Information, Linkages, Margin, Rupture, Turbidite.

Timing, Conditions, and Rates of Thrust Transport in the Nepalese Himalaya
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2005; Program: Tectonics

1. Matthew J Kohn($129,993), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Arun Region, Thrust Movement, Ages, Conditions, Cooling, Determination, Erosion, Himalayan, Million, Nepal, Rate, Rates, Rock, Sheet, Timing, Via.

Where Did the STD Go in the NW Indian Himalaya: Implications for Emplacement History of the Greater Himalayan Crystalline Complex
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Tectonics

1. An Yin($126,971), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Himalayan, Himalayas, Mountain.

Collaborative Research: Linking Deep and Shallow Crustal Processes in a Continental Arc, North Cascades, Washington
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Tectonics

1. Robert B Miller($94,926), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
2. Donna L Whitney($128,888), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Basin Formation, Crustal Flow, Mountain Belt, Mountain Belts, North Cascades, Partial Melting, Ago, Arc, Arcs, Basins, Continent, Dating, Deep, Deformation, Depths, Dikes, Directions, Eocene, Exhumation, Exhumed, Faults, Field, Large-scale, Migmatites, Million, Occurred, Range, Rock, Sedimentary, Structural, Structures, Trip.

Collaborative Research: Syncollisional Delamination: A Test of Crustal-scale Tectonic Wedging Exposed in the Avalon Terrane of New England
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Tectonics

1. Robert P Wintsch($173,314), Indiana University, Bloomington
2. Michael J Dorais($43,605), Brigham Young University, Provo
Key terms: Avalon And Gander, Gander Zone Rocks, Neodymium And Lead, Avalonian Rocks, Gander Basement, Igneous Rocks, Tectonic Wedging, Analysis, Coastal, Cover, Crust, Derived, England, Field, Indenting, Interpenetrating, Lower, Outcrop, Terrane, Terranes, Wedges.

Collaborative Research: Constraining Fault Displacement Histories and Lithospheric Dynamics using Geology and Geophysics
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Tectonics

1. Richard A Bennett($122,455), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Luc L Lavier($79,850), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Andreas Fault Zone, San Andreas Fault, San Jacinto Fault, Displacement Rate, Displacement Rates, Total Displacement, California, Crust, Dynamics, Faults, Formation, Indicate, Thousand, Time, Time-scales.

Geologic Constraints on Fracture Energy of the San Andreas Fault
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Tectonics

1. Judith S Chester($303,096), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: San Andreas Fault, Specific Fracture Energy, Earthquake Rupture, Exhumed Faults, Fault Zones, Particle Size, Active, Contribute, Propagation, Reduction, Surface.

Request for Joint Sponsorship of a MSA-GS Workshop on 'Thermochronology' - October 2005
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Tectonics

1. Todd A Ehlers($10,000), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Workshop Participants, Field, Students, Thermochronology.

Dislocation Creep in Calcite Rocks with Evolving Microstructure
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Tectonics

1. None($381,543), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Dislocation Creep, Grain Size, Metamorphic Reactions, Shear Zones, Calcite, Chemistry, Common, Complex, Containing, Detailed, Effect, Equation, Evolution, Features, Loading, Localized, Mechanical, Microstructure, Nappes, Natural, Observations, Optical, Orogenic, Porosity, Rate, Recrystallization, Rock, Second-phase, Similar, Strain, Strength, Structural, Tectonic, Variables.

Significance of Underplated Oceanic Melange in the Tectonic Evolution and Crustal Structure of Central Tibet
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2005; Program: Tectonics

1. George E Gehrels($224,885), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Continental Margin Strata, Central Tibet, Detrital Zircon, Jinsha Suture, Qiangtang Melange, Qiangtang Region, Qiangtang Terrane, Undergraduate Students, Belt, Crust, Detailed, Geologic, Low-angle, North, Processes, Songpan-ganzi, Structural, Tectonic, Tibetan, Underplated, Underthrust.

Collaborative Research: Metamorphic Fluid Evolution and Rock Rheology
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: Tectonics

1. Jan Tullis($107,083), Brown University, Providence
2. Jane Selverstone($131,740), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Analytical Studies, Aqueous Fluids, Carbonic Fluids, Deformation Experiments, Deformation Microstructures, Graphitic Schists, Quartz-rich Rocks, Quartzite Deformed, Alps, Behavior, C-O-H, Composition, Control, Crust, Depths, Documenting, Ductile, Effect, Embrittlement, Field, Mechanisms, Metamorphism, Mixed, Presence, Progressive, Quartz-rich, Rheology, Structure, Structures, Versus.

Variations in Deformation and Kinematics Along and Across the Himalayan Arc through Time: Insights from the Darjeeling-Sikkim-Tibet Transect
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: Tectonics

1. Gautam Mitra($200,968), University of Rochester, Rochester
Key terms: Eastern Himalaya, Himalayan Arc, Mountain Belt, Building, Continent, Convergence, GPS, Himalayas, Rates, Shortening, Structural, Techniques, Tibet.

A Critical Evaluation of Hypotheses for Fluid Overpressure Along the San Andreas Fault, California: Implications for the Stress-Heat Flow Paradox
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: Tectonics

1. Demian M Saffer($33,300), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: San Andreas Fault, Fluid Pressures, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Stress, Trigger.

Workshop on Geodynamic Modeling of Tectonic Processes
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: Tectonics

1. None($32,111), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Tectonic Modeling Studies, Workshop Participants, Developing, Identifying, Issues, Report, Tools, Various.

Workshop Proposal: Comparison and Integration of Paleoelevation Measurement Approaches
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: Tectonics

1. Dork L Sahagian($25,052), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
Key terms: Analysis, Coordinated, Etc, Paleoelevation, Proxies, Time.

A Field-based Test of Remagnetization Hypothesis for the Ecstall Pluton, Coast Mountains Batholith, British Columbia
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: Tectonics

1. Paul R Renne($265,412), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
Key terms: Ecstall Pluton, Continent, Has, Magnetism, Origin, Process, Reheating, Rock, Unmixing.

Collaborative Research: Crustal Deformation and Earthquake Behavior in the Lebanese Restraining Bend of the Dead Sea Fault System (Lebanon and SW Syria)
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: Tectonics

1. Francisco G Gomez($225,922), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Dead Sea Fault, Earthquake Cycle, Fault Slip, Plate Motions, Restraining Bend, Assess, Continent, Geodetic, Historical, Investigating, Kinematics, Lebanon, Rates, Region, Strain, Syria, Tectonic, World.

Collaborative Research: Investigation of Syncollisional Extension and Basin Development in the High Himalaya
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2005; Program: Tectonics

1. Peter G DeCelles($290,708), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Michael A Murphy($193,453), University of Houston, Houston
Key terms: Arc-parallel Extension, Sutlej River, Zada Basin, Analysis, Arc-parallel, Contraction, Crust, Developed, Elevation, Himalaya, Himalayan, History, Kailas, Miocene, Paleoelevation, Thrust, Transition.

Thermal Structure of the Central New England Acadian-to-Alleghenian Metamorphic High, Through Regional Correlation of Accessory-Phase Paragenesis
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2005; Program: Tectonics

1. Joseph Pyle($156,793), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
Key terms: Monazite Rim Ages, Asthenospheric Underplating, Heat Sources, Lithospheric Delamination, Metamorphic Rocks, Monazite Growth, P-t-t Paths, Peak Monazite, Appalachians, Beneath, Central, Co-workers, Correlation, Date, England, Episodes, Evidence, Evolution, Hampshire, High-grade, Length, Melting, Metamorphism, Million, Orogen, P-t-t, Pluton, Pressure, Reactions, Temperature.

Caves As Recorders of River Incision, Tectonics, and Landscape Evolution In the Sierra Nevada California
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Tectonics

1. Robert S Anderson($47,290), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Late Mesozoic, Sierra Nevada, Arc, Elevations, Evolution, Has, River.

Uplift History of the Colorado Plateau Since the Late Miocene: Analysis Using Vesicular Basalts as a Paleoaltimeter
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: Tectonics

1. Dork L Sahagian($33,718), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
Key terms: Atmospheric Pressure, Colorado Plateau, Differential Uplift, Io Ma, Lava Flow, Measure Vesicle, Modal Size, Paleoatmospheric Pressure, Rocky Mountains, Size Distributions, Uplift History, Vesicle Population, Vesicle Sizes, Analysis, Base, Detailed, Details, Deten-nining, Developed, Difference, Elevation, Elevations, Exploratory, Factors, Field, Flows, Has, Internal, Lavas, Measured, Method, Paleoelevation, Paleopressure, Pis, Recently, Reconstruct, Sampling, Software, Sources, Subject, Technique, Thickness, Time, Timing, Tools, Top, Various.

REU Site - Undergraduate Research Experiences in High Pressure Geophysics
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: nan

1. Donald J Weidner($181,648), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: MPI, Opportunity, Program, Students.

NSF-GEO-EAR Awards for 2005

Aquisition and Development of a Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer Facility at Boston University Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

Upgrading the Earthquake Seismology Computing Facility at Penn State Award Effective Date: 07/15/2005; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

Bering Sea Volcanic Province: Eruption History, Source Characteristics, Melting Processes and Plate Tectonic Context Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: ARC Rsch Support & Logistics

Acquisition of a Stable Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer for Biogeochemical Research Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Antarctic Operations Support

Microbial Activity in Solid Ice: Implications for Modifying the CO2 Record in Ice Cores Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

Assessing Microbial Nitrogen Fixation in Ancient Euxinic Basins Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

Collaborative Research: Ecophysiology of Deeply-Branching Bacterial and Archaeal Communities Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

Collaborative Research: Unravelling the Bacterium-Mineral Interface-Nanoscale Structures and Forces Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

Collaborative Research: Adaptive response of microbial communities and Fe biomineralization pathways to anaerobic redox cycling of Fe and N in sediments Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

Mechanisms of Fe isotope fractionation during biological Fe(III) reduction Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

Collaborative Research: Assessment of Rates and Microbial Pathways for Arsenate Reduction in Sediments Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

Biogeochemistry of Desert Crusts: Organic Carbon and Trace Element Dynamics Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

The molecular signature of sulfide: Biomarkers of sulfur-oxidizing autotrophs Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

Collaborative Research: Impacts of Vegetation Change on Stabilization and Microbial Accessibility of Soil Organic Matter: A Microbiological, Isotopic, and Molecular Study Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

Collaborative Research: Groundwater Dynamics and Arsenic Contamination in the Ganges Delta: Irrigated Agriculture, Subsurface Chemical Transport, and Aquifer Flushing Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: BE-UF: WATER CYCLE

Collaborative Proposal: WCR - Hydrologic Regulation of Dissolved Organic Matter Biogeochemistry from Forests through River Networks Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: BE-UF: WATER CYCLE

Collaborative Proposal: On The Causes of Recent Trends in Precipitation over La Plata Basin and Their Impact on the Basin's Hydrology Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: BE-UF: WATER CYCLE

Collaborative Research: on the causes of recent trends in precipitation over La Plata basin and their impact on the basin's hydrology Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: BE-UF: WATER CYCLE

A Hierarchical and Patch Dynamics Paradigm for Modeling Complex, 3D Groundwater Systems Across Multiple Scales Award Effective Date: 05/15/2005; Program: BE-UF: WATER CYCLE

Collaborative Research: River Stage Tomography for Automatic Characterization of Fluxes between Surface and Groundwater Reservoirs: A Pilot Study Award Effective Date: 05/15/2005; Program: BE-UF: WATER CYCLE

Water flux and nitrogen cycling in the hyporheic zones of a semi-arid watershed: Hydrologic and geomorphic driving forces in a transitional climate Award Effective Date: 05/15/2005; Program: BE-UF: WATER CYCLE

Collaborative Research: Water Balance of western North America: Dynamics of the Miocene summer monsoon Award Effective Date: 02/15/2005; Program: BE-UF: WATER CYCLE

Summer Dryness under a Warmer Climate over North America Award Effective Date: 02/01/2005; Program: BE-UF: WATER CYCLE

Biocomplexity of Hydrologically-Controlled Vegetation Dynamics: Quantitative Comparative Analysis-Everglades&Cerrado Ecosystems under Soil Moisture&Nutrient Spatiotemporal Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: BE: COUPLED BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYC

BE/CBC: Complex Interactions Among Water, Nutrients and Carbon Stocks and Fluxes Across a Natural Fertility Gradient in Tropical Rain Forest Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: BE: COUPLED BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYC

The Role of Protozoa in the Carbon Cycle of a Subterranean Estuary Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: BE: NON-ANNOUNCEMENT RESEARCH

Develop and Maintain a Web Site to Serve and Advance the Biogeoscience Community, www.biogeosciences.org Award Effective Date: 06/15/2005; Program: BE: NON-ANNOUNCEMENT RESEARCH

International Geobiology Summer Course: Providing Focus for an Emerging Field Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: BE: NON-ANNOUNCEMENT RESEARCH

Seismic Attenuation and Anisotropy in the Carpathians and Adjacent Basins: Upper Mantle Role in the Last Stages of Tethyan Closure Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE PROGR

Support for ISES Forum III: Growth of a Continent in Space and Time, San Francisco, CA, December 2005 Award Effective Date: 11/01/2005; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Collaborative Research on the Iceland Deep Drilling Project: An Investigation of a High-Temperature Mid-Ocean Ridge Hydrothermal System in a 5 km Deep Borehole Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Collaborative Proposal: Upward and Outward: Tibetan Plateau Growth and Climatic Consequences Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Proposal for a workshop on understanding the formation of the Siberian Traps and its effects on climate and life Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Collaborative Research: Upward and Outward: Tibetan Plateau growth and climatic consequences Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

The Great Plume Debate Chapman Conference Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Collaborative Research: Upward and Outward: Growth of the Tibetan Plateau and Climatic Consequences Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Collaborative Proposal: Understanding the Causes of Continental Intraplate Tectonomagmatism: A Case Study in the Pacific Northwest Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Post-Impact Studies of the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure: Implications for Continental Margin Evolution and Groundwater Resources Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Plate Boundary Geodynamics - The New Zealand Observatory: A Workshop Proposal Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Collaborative Research: The CALIPSO Project: Imaging the Magma Chamber on Montserrat Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Collaborative Proposal: The CALIPSO Project: Imaging the Magma Chamber on Montserrat Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Collaborative Research: Subduction and Exhumation of Ultrahigh-pressure Rocks: Field and Drilling Petrotectonic Studies in Eastern China Award Effective Date: 07/15/2005; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Collaborative Research: Constraining Mantle Rheology, Mantle Flow, and Crust/Mantle coupling Beneath New Zealand Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Workshop to Prepare a Summary Volume for the Geophysical Investigation of a Modern Continent-Continent Collisional Orogen, The Southern Alps, New Zealand Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Impacts and Consequences of Predicted Climate Change on Andean Glaciation and Runoff Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Collaborative Proposal: Fostering Cross-Disciplinary Relationships and Early-Career Development to Advance Interdisciplinary Research on Climate Change and Impacts Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Secondary Hawaiian Hotspot Volcanism: What, When, Where, and Why? Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Discovery Research K-12

Travel Support for Students and Early-Career Professionals to Backbone of the Americas--Patagonia to Alaska, April 3-7, 2006, Mendoza Argentina. Award Effective Date: 12/15/2005; Program: EAPSI

Collaborative Research: Africa Array--Imaging the African Superplume Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: EAPSI

Collaborative Research: Earthscope integrated investigation of Cascadia subduction zone tremor, structure and process Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Workshops to Establish a Stable North America Reference Frame for EarthScope Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Northern California Plate Boundary Evolution: Workshop Focused on Defining LIDAR (ALSM) Targets and Priorities Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

GeoTraverse: A Geologic Framework for USArray - workshop Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Stalking Cascadia Episodic Tremor and Slip with Enhanced GPS and Seismic Arrays Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: High Resolution Imaging of Deep Mantle Structure Using USArray Data Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Mantle Composition and Dynamics as Inferred from the Structure of the Upper Mantle Discontinuities Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

A pre-EarthScope ground velocity map for the Basin and Range Province based on InSAR Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Structural-Petrologic Characterization of the San Andreas Fault in the SAFOD Drill Holes Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

EarthScope National Meeting - 2005 Award Effective Date: 05/15/2005; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Native American Perspectives and Preferences Bearing on EarthScope Deployments in the Southwest, Spring 2005 workshop Award Effective Date: 05/01/2005; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Seismic Observations from the Random Wavefield: A New Tool for High-Resolution Seismology in the Context of EarthScope Award Effective Date: 05/01/2005; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Developing a Methodology for Imaging Stress Transients at Seismogenic Depth: Data Analysis and Interpretation Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Targeting the Phase III SAFOD Drilling Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Scientific Drilling into the San Andreas Fault: Fluid Transport Analysis - Rare Gas "Ages" of Matrix Porosity Fluids in Drill Core Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Targeting the Phase lll SAFOD Drilling Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Imaging the Deep Roots of the San Andreas Fault Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Making Effective Use of GPS and Strainmeter Data: A PBO Pilot Project Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

PBO Nucleus: Support for an Integrated Existing Geodetic Network in the Western U.S. Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Lithospheric Foundering Beneath the Sierra Nevada Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

New Orleans, the Mississippi Delta, and Katrina: Lessons from the Past, Lessons for the Future Award Effective Date: 11/15/2005; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

ISES - Integrated Solid Earth Sciences Award Effective Date: 11/01/2005; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Landscape Change Imagery: preparing a DLESE-ready and easily searchable resource Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Grand Research Questions in the Solid-Earth Sciences Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Teachers on the Leading Edge: 2005 Teacher Workshop Award Effective Date: 06/15/2005; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

REU Site: A Field-Based Study of Landscape Evolution in Western Colorado Award Effective Date: 05/01/2005; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Geoscience Graduate Research Grants Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

River Basins Research Initiative NSF REU-Site Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Research Experience for Students of Earth & Environmental Science Journalism: 2005-2009 Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

REU Site: Integrated geological and geophysical research focused on understanding the landscape history of the Fish Lake Plateau, central Utah Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES