A Workshop to Focus on Strategies for Improving the Public Understanding of Science
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: AISL

1. David R Lindberg($32,715), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Campaign And Network, Regain Public Endorsement, National Campaign, Procedural Plan, Achieved, Activities, Americas, Articulate, Broad, Business, Characteristics, Concern, Development, Discussions, Education, Effort, Efforts, Engagement, Enterprise, Focus, Government, Leadership, Media, Re-engage, Recommendations, Set, Strategies, Workshop.

Acquisition of a Scanning Electron Microscrope at Montclair State University
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Julie Farnum($264,579), Montclair State University, Montclair
Key terms: Electron, Faculty, Instrument, Interdisciplinary, Investigating, Jersey, K-, MSU, Marine, Mathematics, Molecular, Partner, Program, Programs, SEM, Training.

Upgrade of a Helium Isotope Mass Spectrometer
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2006; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Mark D Kurz($200,638), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Gas Mass Spectrometer, Noble Gas Mass, Detection Limit, Ion Source, Available, Components, Dedicated, Has, Helium, Mantle, Minerals, Replacement, Upgrade, Upgraded, Upgrading, Vacuum, WHOI.

Collaborative Research: Holocene Drought in the North American Interior
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: ARC Rsch Support & Logistics

1. Paul A Baker($172,562), Duke University, Durham
2. Eric C Grimm($173,293), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln
3. Yongsong Huang($185,154), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Northern Rocky Mountains, Continental Settings, Entire Holocene, Lake Sediments, Assessment, Atlantic, Climate, Decadal, Drought, Exhibit, Geochemical, History, Millennia, Multi-decadal, Pacific, Paleoclimatic, Past, Persistent, Plains, Potential, Reconstruction, Relatively, Resolution, Severe, Societal, Span, Temperature, Time, Versus.

Support of Student Participation in the Second International Palaeontological Congress (IPC-2006); June 17 - 21, 2006; Peking University; Beijing, China
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: ASSEMBLING THE TREE OF LIFE

1. David J Bottjer($25,000), Paleontological Society, Mc Lean
Key terms: Paleontological Society, Countries, Field, IPC, International, June, Meet, Meeting, Opportunity, Presentations, Students.

Composition and Fluxes of Organic Carbon Species from the Yukon River Basin
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: BE-UF: CARBON CYCLE

1. Laodong Guo($335,896), University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Key terms: Colloidal And Particulate, Composition And Flux, Composition And Reactivity, Organic Carbon Species, Yukon River Basin, Yukon River, Climate, Dissolved, Environmental, Ice, Influenced, Partitioning, Pristine, Transformation.

Collaborative Research: Impact of Permafrost Degradation on Carbon and Water in Boreal Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: BE: CARBON & WATER IN ES

1. Robert Striegl($323,384), Geological Survey-Menlo Park, Menlo Park
2. Qianlai Zhuang($756,578), Purdue University, West Lafayette
3. Yuri L Shur($613,921), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Carbon And Water, Current Modeling Approaches, Various Thaw Regimes, Boreal Forest, Impounds Water, Isolated Wetlands, Lowland Landscapes, Organic Carbon, Permafrost Affects, Permafrost Degradation, Thaw Regime, Accumulation, Alaska, Biogeochemistry, Characterize, Climate, Drainage, Ecosystem, Effects, Export, Field, Fire, Global, Increases, Loss, Meetings, Models, Purdue, Quantify, Runoff, Soil, Soils, Spatial, Surface, Table, Thermokarst, Time, Uncertain, Upland, Varying, Vegetation.

Collaborative Research: Dynamics of carbon release and sequestration: Case studies of two early Eocene hyperthermals
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: BE: CARBON & WATER IN ES

1. Gabriel J Bowen($179,989), Purdue University, West Lafayette
2. Mark Pagani($240,002), Yale University, New Haven
3. Heather M Stoll($179,261), Williams College, Williamstown
4. Kenneth A Farley($228,936), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
5. Richard E Zeebe($214,495), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
6. James C Zachos($419,500), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
7. Timothy J Bralower($474,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
8. Arne M Winguth($307,481), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Ocean Carbonate Chemistry, Anthropogenic Co2, Carbon Cycle, Model Simulations, Observational Database, Ocean Acidification, Atmosphere, Biogeochemical, Biota, Climate, Consequences, ELMO, Educational, Emissions, Experienced, Extreme, Feedbacks, Global, Has, Highly, Hyperthermals, Input, Insight, Interdisciplinary, Levels, Long-term, Million, Models, Mya, Opportunities, Opportunity, PETM, Pgc, Refinement, Rise, Sense, Unabated, Warming, Was.

De-convolving the effects of rising atmospheric CO2, solar dimming, and afforestation on usable water and carbon sequestration potential in the Southeastern U.S.
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: BE: CARBON & WATER IN ES

1. Amilcare Porporato($445,475), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Water And Carbon, 20th Century, Atmospheric Co2, Carbon Sequestration, Continental Runoff, Solar Dimming, Afforestation, Climate, Ecosystem, Exchange, Gc, Increase, Increases, Light, Lower, Mechanisms, Models, Past, Play, Precipitation, Rapid, Region, Southeastern, Sub-continental.

Microbial Mediation of Manganese Cycling: Formation of Biogenic Mn Oxides, Oxide Scavenging of Toxic Metals, and Coupled Fates Subject to Predation by Protozoan Grazers
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2003; Program: BE: NON-ANNOUNCEMENT RESEARCH

1. None($653,513), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Controlled Laboratory, Metal Speciation, Mn Oxides, Bacterial, Bioaccumulation, Biological, Chemical, Conditions, Coupled, Cu, Enzymes, Experimental, Extracellular, Fate, Formation, Influence, Mnii, Model, Oxidation, Pb, Rate, Responsible.

Collaborative Research: Geomorphic-Geodynamic Coupling at the Orogen Scale: A Himalayan Transect in Central Nepal
Award Effective Date: 11/08/2006; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Kip V Hodges($100,367), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Climate, Climatic, Controls, Deformation, Erosion, Geomorphic, Himalaya, Integrated, Interactions, Modeling, Orogen, Orogenic, Processes, Spatial, Structural, Tectonic, Untested.

Collaborative Research: Colorado Rockies Experiment and Seismic Transects (CREST): Time-space Patterns of Cenozoic Uplift-magmatism and their Correspondence to the Aspen Anomaly
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2006; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Eric Kirby($210,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Matthew T Heizler($474,992), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
3. Colin A Shaw($69,996), Montana State University, Bozeman
4. Karl E Karlstrom($326,930), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
5. Kenneth G Dueker($302,789), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Aspen Anomaly, Low Mantle, Magmatic History, Mantle Beneath, Caused, Cenozoic, Connection, Define, Pis, Rocky, Surface, Tectonic, Topography, Uplift, Velocity.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: The CALIPSO Project: Imaging the Magma Chamber on Montserrat
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. I. Selwyn Sacks($75,003), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
2. Charles J Ammon($585,209), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
3. Glen S Mattioli($348,589), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
4. Peter E Malin($319,027), Duke University, Durham
5. Amanda B Clarke($165,068), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Seismic Experiment, Airgun, Analyses, Analysis, Borehole, CALIPSO, Cgps, Deep, Deformation, Dome, Dynamics, Efforts, Explosions, Facility, Imaging, Involving, Magma, Magmatic, Modeling, Montserrat, NSF, Observatory, Phase, Pis, SEA-CALIPSO, SHV, Strainmeter, Tomographic, UK, Voight, Volcano, Was.

Collaborative Research: Post-Impact Studies of the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure: Quantifying Continental Margin Evolution
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Michelle A Kominz($14,995), Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
2. James V Browning($85,383), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Global Sea Level, Passive Continental Margin, Global Sea-level, Analysis, Backstripping, CD, Coreholes, Crater, Drilled, Effects, Has, Involved, Isotopic, Logging, Pis, Regional, Relative, Sea-level, Sediment, Stratigraphic, Stratigraphy, Subsidence, Tectonic.

High-resolution Mapping of Seismic Structures in the Lower Mantle
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Lianxing Wen($249,998), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Features And Velocity, African Anomaly, Geographic Extent, Lower Mantle, Pacific Anomaly, Structural Features, Velocity Structures, Anomalies, Base, CMB, China, Composition, Constraining, Dynamics, Geochemical, Mapping, Principal, Prominent, Regions, Section, Seismic, Thermal-chemical.

Collaborative Research: Lithospheric removal: The Sierra Nevada as the prototype of a fundamental process in mountain building
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2006; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Jeffrey R Unruh($124,051), William Lettis & Associates Inc, Walnut Creek
2. Peter H Molnar($530,137), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
3. Jason B Saleeby($159,503), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
4. Stephen K Park($349,858), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
5. Linda T Elkins-Tanton($3,955), Brown University, Providence
6. Mihai N Ducea($194,999), University of Arizona, Tucson
7. Allen F Glazner($141,100), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
8. Marin K Clark($111,802), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Mt And Seismic, Joint Analysis, Mantle Lithosphere, Pis Seek, Sierra Nevada, Southern Sierra, Based, CD, Central, Crust, Delamination, Difficult, Drips, Earthscope, Process, Region, Regions, Removal, Removed, SNEP, Seismological, Structures.

Collaborative Research: Uplift and faulting at the transition from subduction to collision - a field and modeling study of the Calabrian Arc
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Alberto Malinverno($1,764,627), Columbia University, New York
2. Luc L Lavier($291,182), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
3. Robert C Finkel($103,926), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
4. Stuart N Thomson($40,631), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Rapid Uplift, Subduction Zones, Analysis, Calabria, Collision, Deformation, Field, Forces, Has, Horizontal, Implications, Mediterranean, Motion, Motions, Observations, Plate, Processes, Surface, Time, Upper.

Collaborative Research: Crust-Mantle Interactions at an Oblique Arc-Continent Collision Zone: The SE Caribbean Plate Boundary
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. James E Wright($99,105), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
2. Frank L Vernon($57,659), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
3. Maria Beatrice Magnani($40,116), University of Memphis, Memphis
4. Gary L Pavlis($109,000), Indiana University, Bloomington
5. Fenglin Niu($319,473), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
6. Gail L Christeson($182,471), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Accretion, Active, BOLIVAR, Continent, FUNVISIS, Has, Investigating, Passive, Seismic, Venezuelan.

Collaborative Research: Understanding the Causes of Continental Intraplate Tectonomagmatism: A Case Study in the Pacific Northwest
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. George R Keller($764,396), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Continental Crust, Lithospheric Structure, Does, Intraplate, Magmatic, Magmatism, Play.

Support for the Penrose Conference on Arc Crustal Genesis and Evolution; July 9-15, 2006; Valdez, Alaska
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2006; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Peter B Kelemen($15,000), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Arc Crustal Sections, Genesis And Evolution, Continental Dynamics, Talkeetna Arc, Accessible, Active, Alaska, Arcs, Complement, Conference, Depth, Ladakh-kohistan, Mantle, Melt, Moho, Rock, Volcanic.

Planetary Impacts and Physics of Planetary Interiors Ahrens Symposium
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Jeroen Tromp($10,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Mineral Physics, Planetary Interiors, Planetary Surfaces, Ahrens, Atmospheres, Has, Planets, Prof, Properties, Students, Symposium.

18th International Workshop on Electromagnetic (EM) Induction in the Earth (EM) Workshop; El Vendrell, Spain; September 17-23, 2006
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

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

Physics of Earthquakes Kanamori Symposium
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2006; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Jeroen Tromp($20,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Crust, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Has, Hiroo, Hiroos, Medal, Physics, Prize, Seismology, Students, Symposium.

International Research and Education Planning Visit Cyberinfrastructure-Based Water Research - Toward the Next Generation of Environmental Observatories
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Catalyzing New Intl Collab

1. Marian Muste($27,000), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Planning Visit, Advance, Collaboration, Collaborative, Cyberinfrastructure, Efforts, Engineering, Environmental, Institute, International, Knowledge, Leading, Observatories, Opportunities, Progress.

SOTA 2007 and GSA Field Forum in Chile: Support for Graduate Student and Latin American Participation
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Catalyzing New Intl Collab

1. Anita L Grunder($50,000), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Magmatism And Volcanism, Students And Postdoctoral, Arc Magmatism, Field Forum, Graduate Students, Postdoctoral Fellows, Countries, GSA, Geochemistry, International, Latin, Meeting, Meetings, Purpose, SOTA, Subduction, Usscientists, Volcanic, World.

Coseismic Uplift of Nias Island, Sumatra: Permanent versus Recoverable Components
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Catalyzing New Intl Collab

1. Kerry Sieh($200,152), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Batu Islands, Coseismic Deformation, Coseismic Uplift, Nias Island, Permanent Deformation, Sunda Megathrust, Coral, Earthquake, Elastic, Evaluating, Hazards, Rose, Seismic, Subduction, Terraces.

Collaborative Research: Saltwater and Freshwater Fluxes through Coastal Aquifers: Multiple Time Scales of Terrestrial and Oceanic Forcing
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Charles F Harvey($351,323), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Saline Groundwater Circulation, Coastal Aquifers, Coastal Waters, Fresh Groundwater, Freshwater Discharge, Groundwater Flow, Inland Recharge, Saline Inflow, Seawater Circulation, Seawater Exchange, Water Table, Affect, Combine, Cycles, Detailed, Dispersive, Drive, Driving, Dynamics, Flux, Fluxes, Freshwater-saltwater, Has, Interface, Magnitude, Mechanisms, Models, Nutrient, Ocean, Processes, Regions, Seasonal, Simulation, Timing, Unknown.

Collaborative Research: Freshwater and Saltwater Fluxes Through Coastal Aquifers: Multiple Time Scales of Terrestrial and Oceanic Forcing
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Ann Mulligan($113,756), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Saline Groundwater Circulation, Coastal Aquifers, Coastal Waters, Fresh Groundwater, Freshwater Discharge, Groundwater Flow, Inland Recharge, Saline Inflow, Seawater Circulation, Seawater Exchange, Water Table, Affect, Combine, Cycles, Detailed, Dispersive, Drive, Driving, Dynamics, Flux, Fluxes, Freshwater-saltwater, Has, Interface, Magnitude, Mechanisms, Models, Nutrient, Ocean, Processes, Regions, Seasonal, Simulation, Timing, Unknown.

National Requirements for Precision Geodetic Infrastructure
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2006; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. David Feary($150,001), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Geodetic Infrastructure, Activity, Administration, NAS, National, Planning, Provided.

2006 UJNR Workshop/Tokushima, Japan: Travel Support for Early Career US Scientists
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2006; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Thomas H Jordan($22,608), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Deep, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Focus, Panel, Shikoku, Tsunamis.

IRIS: Cornerstone Facilities for Seismology and Earth Sciences
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. David W Simpson($68,050,382), Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Washington
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Acquisition, Affiliates, Core, Eando, Earth, Earthquake, Educational, Experiments, Facility, Field, GSN, IRIS, Interior, International, Long-term, National, Network, PASSCAL, Partners, Power, Program, Programs, Seismic, Seismology, Sensors, Source.

Development of Giant Diamonds from Chemical Vapor Deposition for High-Pressure Research
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Chih-shiue Yan($958,544), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Mantle And Core, Ct Diamond, Dac Experiments, Diamond Anvils, Flawless Natural, Lower Mantle, Megabar Pressures, Single Crystal, Allow, Available, CVD, Carat, Cell, Cells, Chemical, Classes, Demonstrated, Designer, Development, Diamonds, Electrical, Experimentation, Extreme, Extremes, Generation, Geoscience, Gt, High-pressure, Increase, Larger, Limited, Optical, Phases, Properties, Situ, Successful, Techniques, Temperature, Thermal, X-ray.

Collaborative Research: Strike-Slip History of the East Gobi Fault Zone, Mongolia: Modes of Intraplate Deformation, Sedimentary Basin Evolution, and Regional Fault Linkages
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: EAPSI

1. Laura E Webb($267,223), Syracuse University, Syracuse
2. Cari L Johnson($244,001), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: East Gobi Fault, Gobi Fault Zone, Sedimentary Basin, Southeastern Mongolia, Asia, Cenozoic, Collaboration, Collisions, Continent, Deformation, Development, Evolution, Field, Has, History, Initiation, Left-lateral, Linkage, Mechanisms, Mesozoic, Models, Nature, Paleozoic, Region, Shear, Slip, Structural, Students, Tectonic, Timing.

CAREER: Integrating Multidisciplinary Geophysical Studies Via the EarthScope Initiative
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Matthew J Fouch($573,812), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Advanced, Available, Directly, Earthscope, Efforts, Integrated, Modules.

Imaging Science Workshops for USArray
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2006; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

1. Alan R Levander($99,892), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Academic And Industrial, Field And Synthetic, Scattered Wave Imaging, Scientists And Students, Virtual Center, Advance, Designed, Development, Exchange, Images, Involved, Workshops.

Using EarthScope Data in Secondary Classrooms: A Pilot Workshop to Engage Teachers and Scientists in Cascadia Curriculum Development
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2006; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Becca A Walker($43,640), UNAVCO, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: Curriculum Developers, Earthscope, Educational, Engage, Instructional, Nucleus, Student, TERC, Teachers, Workshop.

Mantle Composition and Dynamics as Inferred from the Structure of the Upper Mantle Discontinuities
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

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

Collaborative Research: Mapping Upper-Mantle Anisotropy in Western U.S.: Constraints on Crust-Mantle Coupling
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. James B Gaherty($337,311), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Flow And Crustal, Crustal Deformation, Flow Models, Mantle Fabric, Mantle Flow, Surface Deformation, Anisotropy, Beneath, Buoyancy, Constraints, Continent, Control, Coupling, Estimates, Forces, Lithosphere, Numerical, Observations, Processes, Produced, Seismic, Strength, Structure, Travel-times, Upper-mantle, Western.

Seismic Indicators of Time-Varying Deep Deformation along the Central San Andreas Fault
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Robert M Nadeau($55,474), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: San Andreas Fault, Time-varying Deep Deformation, Active Tectonics, Plate Boundary, Seismic Indicators, Time-varying Deep, Tremor Activity, California, Central, Component, Course, Education, Eps, Geodetic, Information, Large-scale, Occurrence, Public, Region, SAF, Students, Undergraduates, Vertical.

Collaborative Research: Mapping upper-mantle anisotropy in the western US: Constraints on crust-mantle coupling
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Mousumi Roy($141,764), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Flow And Crustal, Crustal Deformation, Flow Models, Mantle Fabric, Mantle Flow, Surface Deformation, Anisotropy, Beneath, Buoyancy, Constraints, Continent, Control, Coupling, Estimates, Forces, Lithosphere, Numerical, Observations, Processes, Produced, Seismic, Strength, Structure, Travel-times, Upper-mantle, Western.

Collaborative Research: New Heat Flow Values at PBO Borehole Strain Meter Sites: Implications for Deformation
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Robert N Harris($277,843), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. David S Chapman($36,123), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Plate Boundary, Rock Properties, San Andreas, Subsurface Thermal, Boreholes, Continent, Deformation, Drilling, Earthscope, Lithosphere, Logged, North, Objectives, PBO, Pacific, Processes, Scheduled, Strain, Strainmeter.

Workshop Support: GeoFrame Walker Lane
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2006; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Daniel F Stockli($29,933), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Geophysical And Geological, Focus Site, Source Seismic, Walker Lane, Building, California, Complementary, Continent, Earthscope, Efforts, Evolution, Geodynamic, Geoframe, Gulf, Has, Initiative, Integration, Integrative, Investigations, Modification, Nevada, North, Regions, Time, Usarray, Workshop.

Microstructural analyses of gouge from the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD) borehole in relation to brittle fault mechanics: A collaborative study
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Giulio DiToro($489,423), University of Louisville Research Foundation Inc, Louisville
Key terms: Fault Gouge, Numerical Simulations, Particle Size, Analysis, Behavior, Brittle, Databases, Deformation, Experiments, Fracture, Gouges, Knowledge, Microstructural, Models, Rock, SAFOD, Seismic.

Development of a 4-D Model of Crustal Evolution in the Northern Rocky Mountains
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Paul A Mueller($216,480), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Northern Rocky Mountainsgreat, Rocky Mountainsgreat Plains, 4-d Framework, Geological Survey, Ancient, Billion, Continent, Critical, Crust, Deployment, Developed, Distribution, ES, Episodes, Evolution, Florida, Formation, GFTZ, Geochemical, Geochronologic, Has, Integrated, Magmatism, Mantle, Modern, Montana, Region, Resources, Seismicity, Via.

Collaborative Research: Determination of Time Dependent Velocity and Velocity Gradient Tensor Fields for EarthScope
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Richard A Bennett($179,515), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Analysis, Crust, Earthscope, Four-dimensional.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Determination of time-dependent velocity and velocity gradient fields for EarthScope
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. William E Holt($161,981), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Analysis, Crust, Earthscope, Four-dimensional.

Seismic Travel Times and Attenuation Measurements: An Earthscope Data Product
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Michael E Wysession($215,135), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Attenuation, Earthscope, Products.

Community Access to Visualizations of EarthScope Focus Sites: Collaborative Construction of Virtual 3-D Models
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Deborah L Kilb($355,523), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Visual Objects, Ability, Datasets, Earthscope, On-line, Visualization.

Seismic Anisotropy and Rock Texture within the Cascadia Megathrust Zone
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Vadim L Levin($129,552), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Plate Interface, Rocks Lining, Seismic Observatories, Seismic Properties, Seismic Wave, Seismic Waves, Coast, Deformation, Depth, Earthquakes, Mantle, Motion, North, Region, Sliding, Specific, Strain.

Piloting an Interdisciplinary Watershed Field Camp
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Gregory K Druschel($151,522), University of Vermont & State Agricultural College, Burlington
Key terms: Field Camp, Approach, Days, Disciplines, Education, Educators, Erosion, Flow, Geologic, Landscape, Management, Natural, Skills, Societal, Specific, Students, Training, Variety, Water, Watershed, Watersheds.

Toward Dynamic Models of Contemporary Plate Boundary Deformation with Application to the Taiwan Collision Zone
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Kaj M Johnson($105,543), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Creeping And Locked, Fault Slip Rates, Active Faults, Fault Geometry, Future Earthquakes, Locked Fault, Plate-boundary Deformation, Arc-continent, Constrained, Crust, Distributing, Distribution, Dynamic, Estimates, GPS, Geologic, Geomorphic, Lithospheric, Model, Models, Motions, Paleoseismic, Plate-boundary, Play, Seismic, Sets, Spatial, Taiwan, Various.

C-RUI: Geomicrobial Processes in an Ancient Methane Seep Deposit: Resolving Temporal and Spatial Shifts in Localized Microbial Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. None($8,993), Chico State Enterprises, Chico
2. Timothy W Lyons($72,783), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Localized Microbial Ecosystems, Isotope Geochemistry, Methane Seeps, Microbial-sediment Interactions, Stable Isotope, Tepee Buttes, Allow, Applying, Approach, Bacterial, Biogeochemical, Broad, Carbonate, Collaborative, Complex, Depth, Development, Experience, Field, Formation, Fossil, Gain, Has, Individual, Involving, Laboratory, Microbial-sediment, Model, Modern, Mounds, Pis, Precipitation, Ratios, Students, Teaching, Time, Undergraduate.

REU Site: An integrated assessment of physical, ecological and socio-economic aspects of a watershed system
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2006; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Christine Mayer($171,097), University of Toledo, Toledo
Key terms: River And Lake, Lake Erie, Maumee River, Reu Program, Water Quality, Analysis, Biological, Environmental, Faculty, Focused, Gain, Has, Health, Issues, Lakes, Soil, Specific, Streams, Students, Techniques, Watershed, Watersheds.

Enhancing Use of Data in Education: Bridging the Scientific and Educational Communities
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. LuAnn Dahlman($999,266), TERC Inc, Cambridge
Key terms: Teachers And Students, Digital Library, Educational Modules, Exploration Toolbook, Professionally Diverse, Available, Bringing, Capabilities, Chapters, Colleagues, Developers, Development, Expertise, Facilitate, Featured, Information, Integration, Participants, Tools.

Collaborative Research: Building Strong Geoscience Departments II- Developing Resources and Networks to Address Priority Challenges
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Randall M Richardson($22,645), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Cathryn A Manduca($119,088), Carleton College, Northfield
3. P. Geoffrey Feiss($40,515), College of William and Mary, Williamsburg
Key terms: Departments Nationwide, Geoscience Departments, Individual Departments, Successful Strategies, Activities, Challenges, Characterize, Creating, Developed, Faculty, Has, Information, Issues, Network, Opportunities, Program, Programs, Website, Widespread.

Collaborative Research: REU site in Dominica, West Indies: Integrated Examination of Dynamic Volcanic Systems Using Field Volcanology, Satellite Geodesy, and Modeling
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Glen S Mattioli($153,172), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
2. Joan E Fryxell($154,799), University Enterprises Corporation at CSUSB, San Bernardino
Key terms: Disaster Coordinator, Surface Deformation, Analysis, CSUSB, Dominica, Field, GPS, Geodesy, Geothermal, Hazard, Individual, Island, Magmatic, Modeling, Office, Period, Post-fieldwork, REU, Significantly, Students, UA, Volcanic, Weeks.

REU Site: Interdisciplinary Watershed Studies at the College of William and Mary
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Randolph M Chambers($186,290), College of William and Mary, Williamsburg
Key terms: Aquatic And Terrestrial, Channel Incision, Riparian Corridor, Budgets, Current, Disciplines, Effectiveness, Environmental, Faculty, Issues, Land, Management, Population, Protection, Sediment, Status, Stormwater, Structure, Students, Training, Undergraduates, Water, Watershed, Watersheds.

REU Site: Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates in Water Resources
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Kathleen Kavanagh($239,470), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
Key terms: Existing Reu Site, Women And Ethnic, Ethnic Minorities, Overall Average, Water Resources, Achieve, Activities, Faculty, Graduate, Mentors, Participating, Students, Summer, Undergraduates, Underrepresented.

The South Bay Geo-Diversity Project: Phase II
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2006; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Richard Sedlock($65,785), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
Key terms: Quantity And Quality, Geoscience Taught, National Hispanic, San Jose, Geosciences, Middle, NHU, Schools, Students, Teachers, Underrepresented.

Workshop on Data Access and Usability in Education; Los Alamos Research Park, Los Alamos, New Mexico
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2006; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Tamara S Ledley($17,410), TERC Inc, Cambridge
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Access, Concerning, Education, Educational, Effective, Establish, Facilitate, Framework, Metadata, Recommendations, Required, Review, Sites, Space, Usable, Workshop.

Rural Alaska Honors Institute (RAHI) Geoscience Course
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Daniel J Solie($53,878), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Undergraduate And Graduate, Alaska Native, Alaska Natives, Geologic Issues, Geoscience Majors, Native Undergraduate, Faculty, Geology, Program, RAHI, Students, UAF.

A Workshop to Achieve Broader Impacts of Geophysical Research
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Michelle K Hall($83,883), Science Education Solutions Inc, Los Alamos
Key terms: Model And Toolkit, Broader Impacts, Educational Seismology, Workshop Model, Efforts, Engage, Involved, Scientists, Spinet, Teachers, Workshops.

Geoscience Education and Public Outreach Network (GEPON) Workshop; Boulder, CO; March 22-24, 2006
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Mary Marlino($57,312), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Geoscience Education, Management Models, Network Model, Successful Network, Articulate, Characteristics, EPO, Educators, GEPON, Outreach, Public, Recommendations, Recommended, Representatives, Strategies, Workshop.

Investigation of Radiation and Radionuclides in the Four Corners Region Environment
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Paula Watt($51,638), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Background Levels, Corners Region, Chemistry, Concentrations, Concern, Contribute, Disposal, Environmental, Extraction, Gallup, Geology, Instruments, Involvement, Plants, Population, Processing, Radiation, Radioactive, Radionuclides, Rock, Sampling, Sediments, Soils, Students, Uranium, Waste, Water.

Collab. Res: The 2004-2005 giant earthquakes and the seismic cycle along the Sumatra subduction zone: A multidisciplinary investigation from geodesy, seismology and paleogeodesy.
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Jean-Philippe Avouac($363,803), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
2. Richard L Edwards($104,009), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Giant Earthquakes, Coast, Educational, Prior, Sumatran.

ScienceQuest: A South Carolina Geoscience Initiative
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Claudia R Benitez-Nelson($153,641), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Increase Minority Student, Graduate Students, Inner City, Middle School, South Carolina, Th Grade, Activities, Development, Exposure, Geoscience, Geosciences, Has, Increasing, K-, Program, SQ, Scores.

Collaborative Research: Episodic Construction of Magma Chambers: Multidisciplinary Investigations at a Field Laboratory (Tuolumne Intrusion, Sierra Nevada)
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Scott R Paterson($225,736), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2. Roland Mundil($174,857), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
Key terms: Constructed, Episodically, Evolution, Flow, Formation, Magma, Millions, Models, Park, Plutons, Thermal, Variety.

A Planning Workshop for Engaging the Scientific Community in Improving the Public Understanding of Science
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2006; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. David R Lindberg($10,895), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Sustained National Effort, Confusion, Create, Growing, Identifying, Misinformation, Programs, Public, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Mechanisms Producing Variation in Lake Salinity in Dune Environments: Nebraska Sand Hills
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Todd Halihan($32,000), Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
2. Mark A Person($70,000), Indiana University, Bloomington
3. Vitaly A Zlotnik($219,958), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln
Key terms: Sand Hills Aquifer, Groundwater Flow, Australia, Lake, Lakes, Methods, Models, Nebraska, Salinity, Shallow, Solute, Spatial, Students, Temporal, Water.

From Landscape to Flood Plain: An Examination of Dissolved and Colloidal Trace Elements in the Yukon River Basin
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Alan M Shiller($237,829), University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Key terms: Dissolved And Colloidal, Yukon River Basin, Colloidal Trace, Organic Matter, Stream Chemistry, Yukon Basin, Affect, Allow, Analogy, Character, Chemical, Climate, Collaboration, Concentrations, Controlling, DOC, Dissemination, Examine, Examined, Factors, Fluvial, Fluxes, Glacial, Glaciated, Importance, Indicate, Information, Landscape, Latitude, Mobilization, Monitoring, Natural, Permafrost, Permafrost-dominated, Pis, Required, Sampling, Serve, USGS, Useful, Watersheds, Wetlands.

CSEDI: Collaborative Experimental and Fluid-Dynamical Study on Core Formation of the Earth
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Oliver Tschauner($110,164), University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas
2. Paul D Asimow($76,316), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Fluid Dynamic Modeling, Earth's Core, Liquid Silicate, Accretion, Conditions, Core-formation, Effort, Evolution, Experimental, Experiments, Geochemical, Highly, Mantle, Metal, Parameters, Partitioning, Planetary, Processes, Siderophile, Theoretical.

Investigating the Surface Structure and Reactivity of Bulk and Nanosized Manganese Oxides
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Michael J Borda($329,572), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Redox Chemistry, Birnessite, Broader, Chemical, Citizens, Collaboration, Delaware, Environment, Environmental, Environmentally, Exist, Held, Interdisciplinary, Mn, Mn-oxide, Mn-oxides, Outreach, Oxidation, Particular, Ph, Phase, Play, Range, Reaction, Reactivity, Resources, Size, Soil, Soils, Spectroscopy, Structure, Student, Surface.

Orogen Hinterland Evolution: Testing Hypotheses using the Cretaceous to Eocene Stratigraphic Record in Eastern Nevada, USA
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Andrew D Hanson($164,077), University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas
Key terms: Sheep Pass Formation, Angular Unconformities, East-central Nevada, Geologic History, Late Cretaceous, Late Eocene, Megabreccia Deposits, Sevier Hinterland, Undergraduate Students, Academic, Additionally, Allows, Analysis, Benefit, Collaboration, Critical, Dating, Deposition, Development, Druschke, East-central, Extension, Fossil, Geochronology, Isotope, Isotopic, Opportunities, Orogenic, Particular, Pertaining, Reconstruct, Regional, Relate, Setting, Shortening, Stratigraphic, Structural, Tectonic, Time, Timing, Variety, Volcanism.

Quasi-Block Modeling of Walker Lane Tectonic Deformation, Using Geodetic and Geologic Data to Constrain System Complexity and Time-Variable Behavior
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Cornelis Kreemer($236,776), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Geologic And Geodetic, Modeling Quantitative Framework, Geologic Constraints, Quantitative Framework, Rigorously Integrates, Slip Rates, Tectonic Deformation, Walker Lane, California, Continent, Discrepancy, Earthquakes, Fault, Faults, GPS, Inferred, Sudden, Time.

Integrated Studies of Eruption Processes in Basaltic and Andesitic Volcanoes
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Milton A Garces($291,531), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Mount St, Audible, Eruption, Helens, Infrasonic, Infrasound, Models, National, Placed, Processes, Signals, Tremor, Viscosity, Volcanoes.

Biological and Geochemical Influences on Arsenic Speciation in a Geothermal Environment
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Scott A Wood($189,522), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
Key terms: Speciation And Mobility, Arsenic Mobility, Arsenic Solubility, Arsenic Speciation, Arsenite Oxidation, Arsenite Oxidizing, Geothermal Environments, Geothermal Fluids, Geothermal Waters, Biological, Controls, Faculty, Field, Furthermore, Geochemical, Has, Interdisciplinary, Investigating, Investigations, Means, Microbial, Microorganisms, Occurring, Ph, Pis, Populations, Primary, Processes, Program, Rapid, Recognized, Spring, Springs, Surface, Temperature.

Collaborative Research: Explosive Volcanism: Further Perspectives on Controls on Style and Dynamic of the 79AD Plinian Eruption at Vesuvius
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Bruce F Houghton($237,955), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Jessica F Larsen($72,623), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Column Collapse, Eruption Dynamics, Leucite Crystallization, AD, Complex, Density, Exchange, Famous, Herculaneum, Highly, Incorporated, Magma, Phreatomagmatism, Plumes, Processes, Students, UAF, Vesicle, Vesuvius.

MARGINS: Hydrothermal Circulation Within Subducting Ocean Crust: Implications for Subduction Zone Temperatures
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Glenn A Spinelli($105,300), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Subduction Zone Temperatures, Hydrothermal Circulation, Subducting Crust, Controlling, Effects, Examining, Fluid, Has.

Acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Plasma-atomic Emission Spectrometer and an Ion Chromatograph
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Dennis J Geist($121,711), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
Key terms: Icp-aes And Ic, Natural Waters, Geochemistry, Idaho, Instruments, Metals, Radionuclides, Soils, Washington.

26th International Conference on Mathematical Geophysics: Student and Early Career Scientist Support; Tiberias, Israel; June 4-8, 2006
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: ERE General

1. Marc W Spiegelman($27,680), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: 26th International Conference, 26th International, Mathematical Geophysics, Natural Hazards, Applied, Computational, Costs, Coupled, Interactions, Meeting, Processes, Students, Techniques, Travel.

Biogeochemical Cycling of Heavy Metals in Lake Coeur d'Alene Sediments: The Role of Indigenous Microbial Communities
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: ERE General

1. Brent M Peyton($925,849), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Lake Coeur D'alene, Spatial And Temporal, Coeur D'alene, Heavy Metal, Lcda Sediments, Metal Contaminated, Metal Cycling, Metal Stress, Toxic Metal, Activity, Biogeochemical, Complex, Dalene, Diversity, Dynamic, Dynamics, Environment, Environments, Historically, Human, Inhibition, Integrate, Metals, Microbial, Microorganisms, Model, Molecular, Objectives, Observations, Public, Quantify, Quantitative, Significantly, Species, Subjected, Techniques, Transport.

The American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Robert T Downs($399,308), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Crystal Structure Database, Mineralogist Crystal Structure, Accessible, Collection, Compute, Distributions, Minerals, Properties, RRUFF, Search, Software.

Collaborative Research: Continued Support for Development of a Distributed Computing Infrastructure for Computational Thermodynamics in Petrology
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Mark S Ghiorso($130,992), OFM Research, Seattle
2. Victor C Kress($183,732), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Consistent Thermodynamic Database, Internally Consistent Thermodynamic, Computational Thermodynamics, Ct Server, Distributed Computing, Mineral Solid, Remote Clients, Server Capabilities, Silicate Liquids, Thermodynamic Properties, Ability, Applet, Applications, CFD, Calculations, Code, Development, Environment, Equilibria, Execution, Funding, Global, Infrastructure, Internet, MELTS, Methods, Mixed, Models, Molten, Objective, Perform, Phases, Prototype, Provided, Reliable, Resource, Software, Specific, Tools, Usage, User, Users, Utilize.

A Petascale Cyberfacility for Physics-Based Seismic Hazard Analysis
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Carl F Kesselman($2,088,011), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Psha Computational Pathways, Computational Platforms, Ground Motions, Physics-based Psha, Advanced, CME, Computing, Cyberfacility, Deterministic, Dynamic, Execute, Investigating, Manage, Objectives, Petascale, Physics-based, Seismic, Simulation, Simulations, Volumes.

Development of a Database System for Metamorphic Geochemistry
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Frank S Spear($711,688), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
Key terms: Chemical Analyses, Based, Browsing, Database, Development, Globe, Images, Incorporate, Information, Interpretative, Metamorphic, Metpetdb, Model, Robust, Serve, Students.

Collaborative Research: Facility Support: Completing the Western North American Volcanic and Intrusive Rock Database (NAVDAT)
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2006; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. James D Walker($166,242), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
2. Allen F Glazner($90,019), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
3. Lang Farmer($80,534), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
4. Mark D Barton($98,261), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Cenozoic And Mesozoic, Earthchem Effort, Web Portal, Western North, Age, Based, Chemical, Complete, Continuing, Database, Datasets, Efforts, Expand, Geographical, Intrusive, Management, Mexico, Migration, NAVDAT, Rock.

Geoinformatics 2006
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2006; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Chaitanya K Baru($38,986), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Information Technology, Cyberinfrastructure, Forum, GEON, Geoinformatics, Geosciences, Held, Meeting, USGS.

Collaborative Research in Geoinformatics: Building a Cyberinfrastructure for the Critical Zone Exploration Network
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2006; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Douglas A Miller($250,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Critical Zone, CZEN, Collaboration, Created, Cyberinfrastructure, Disciplines, Integrative, Interdisciplinary, Meet, Ontology, Processes, Promote.

Collaborative Research: Building a Cyberinfrastructure for the Critical Zone Exploration Network
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2006; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Daniel D Richter($49,804), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Critical Zone, CZEN, Collaboration, Created, Cyberinfrastructure, Disciplines, Integrative, Interdisciplinary, Meet, Ontology, Processes, Promote.

Collaborative Research: A New Experimental Database for Improving and Extending MELTS
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Mark S Ghiorso($98,138), OFM Research, Seattle
Key terms: Software Package, Calibration, Database, Experimental, MELTS, Thermodynamics.

Earth's Density and Inner Core Rotation after the great Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: GEOSCIENCE EDUCATION

1. Gabriele Laske($288,601), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Core Rotation Rates, Earth's Free Oscillations, Hot Abyssal Layer, Inner Core Rotation, Bolivia Earthquake, Earth's Free, Earth's Geodynamo, Internal Structure, Neighboring Disciplines, Sumatra-andaman Earthquake, Allows, Analyses, Analysis, Constraints, Contribute, Coupling, Dense, Density, Difficult, Earthquakes, Excited, Fidelity, Found, Has, Heterogeneity, Image, Laterally, Level, Mantle, Modes, Nearly, Observed, Planet, Relatively, Seismic, Seismologists, Significantly, Sumatra-andaman, Super-rotation, Symmetric, Time, Varying, Was.

Tracing the Late Quaternary Record of the Asian Monsoon System: Paleoclimate History from the Qinghai Lake Drilling Project
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Steven M Colman($325,341), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Asian Interior, Asian Monsoon, Continental Climate, Ice Cores, Lake Qinghai, Late Quaternary, Loess Plateau, Tibetan Plateau, Accumulation, Analyses, China, Chinese, Compared, Detailed, Dynamics, Global, Graduate, Marine, Paleoclimate, Past, Previous, Sea, Sediments, Sequences, Summer.

Collaborative Research: Millennial Scale Arctic Climate Change for the last 3.6 My: Scientific Drilling at Lake El'gygytgyn, NE Russia
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Julie Brigham-Grette($1,650,953), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
2. Matt Nolan($203,201), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
3. Jeffrey Snyder($121,821), Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green
4. Steven L Forman($53,168), University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Arctic Climate, Terrestrial Arctic, Unique Arctic, Allow, Asian, Core, Cores, Deepest, Glacial, ICDP, IPY, International, Ka, Lake, Marine, Millennial-scale, Periods, Retrieved, Sediments, Sensitivity, Sites.

Collaborative Research: High-Resolution, Low-Latitude Paleoclimatology From Newly Acquired Sediment Drill Cores From Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Jonathan T Overpeck($244,687), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. John A Peck($207,323), University of Akron, Akron
3. Christopher A Scholz($268,687), Syracuse University, Syracuse
4. John W King($271,901), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: West African Monsoon, Lake Bosumtwi, Multiple Glacial, Climate, MIS, Terminations, Tropics, Was.

SGER: Exploratory seismic reflection and gravity coring survey of Lakes Mantano and Towuti, Indonesia
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. James M Russell($81,415), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Mantano And Towuti, Reflection And Gravity, Gravity Coring, Indonesian Climate, Lakes Mantano, Seismic Reflection, Basis, Canadian, Core, Drought, ENSO, Environmental, Exploratory, Future, Geochemical, History, Paleoclimate, Preliminary, Sedimentation.

Holocene Water Balance of the Northeastern Great Basin
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Gabriel J Bowen($401,894), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Stable Isotope, Water Cycle, Basin, Climate, Cores, Datasets, Environmental, Future, GSL, Global, Holocene, Hydroclimatological, Mechanisms, Participation, Policy, Publication, Purdue, Regional, Student, Western.

Collaborative Research: The Lake Malawi Drilling Project - A long, high-resolution record of abrupt climate change in the southern tropics of East Africa
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Kristina R Beuning($45,358), University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire
2. John W King($199,604), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
3. David L Dettman($224,027), University of Arizona, Tucson
4. Christopher A Scholz($340,525), Syracuse University, Syracuse
5. Christina D Gallup($349,902), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: African Rift Valley, East African Rift, Initial Core Descriptions, Deep Site, Effective Moisture, Lake Malawi, Analyses, Aridity, Basin, Broader, Climate, Coincide, Continent, Cored, Cores, Depth, Direction, Drilling, Duration, Evidence, Evolution, High-resolution, History, Human, Ice, Intervals, Lakes, Magnitude, Millennial, Million, Observed, Paleoclimate, Past, Period, Periods, Reconnaissance, Signals, Sites, Southern, Temperature, Tropical, Tropics, Was.

Collaborative Research/RUI: Assessing Multi-scale Holocene Climate Variability in Western North America Using Sediments from Lake Elsinore (Southern CA)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Matthew E Kirby($104,741), CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation, Fullerton
2. Steven P Lund($47,896), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Holocene Climate, Lake Elsinore, Natural Climate, Southern California, Water Management, Western North, Assess, Basin, Cores, Critical, Dynamics, Evolution, Future, Hydrologic, Indicates, Proxy, Region, Sediment, Site, Terrestrial, Total.

Collaborative Research: Sub-Millennial Hydroclimatic Variability in the Northeastern United States during the Holocene
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Jeffrey Donnelly($128,570), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Bryan N Shuman($135,464), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
3. Thompson Webb III($92,287), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Future Climate Warming, Past Hydroclimatic, Climatic, Detailed, Drought, Effects, Frequency, Histories, Humid, Hydrologic, Indicate, Insight, Lake, Lakes, Northeastern, Pollen, Poorly, Potential, Regional, Regions, Resource, Risk, Sediment, Sedimentary, Sub-millennial, Time, Water.

In Search of Past Analogs to the Current Interglacial: MIS 11 Climate Record
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Alexander A Prokopenko($76,666), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Climatic Trend, Continental Eurasia, Interglacial Climate, Lake Baikal, Mis 11holocene, Northern Hemisphere, Age, Based, Carbon, Continuous, Detailed, Diatom, Drill, Future, Multi-proxy, Orbital, Section, Sediments.

RUI: Heavy Metal Sorption/Co-precipitation Interactions with Nanoscale Iron Oxyhydroxides
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Christopher S Kim($150,223), Chapman University, Orange
Key terms: Iron Oxyhydroxide Nanoparticles, Natural Iron Oxyhydroxide, Synthetic And Natural, Aggregation-based Growth, Bulk Phases, Heavy Metal, Heavy Metals, Long-term Stability, Metal Sorption, Metal Uptake, Precise Mode, Aggregation-based, Aging, Assess, Asv, Characterized, Compared, Contaminants, Coprecipitation, Cuii, Differences, Effects, Environment, Environmental, Evidence, Experiments, Exposure, Extent, Hgii, Independent, Long-term, Macroscopic, Mechanisms, Metal-bearing, Methods, Mobility, Modes, Nanoscale, National, Particles, Powerful, Precipitates, Previously, Processes, Reactivity, Relative, Speciation, Structure, Students, Surface, Time, Time-resolved, Undergraduate, Znii.

SGER: Carbon Isotope Fractionation by Fungal Microorganisms
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Hope Jahren($23,000), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Carbon Isotope Fractionation, Carbon Stable Isotope, Soil Organic Matter, D13corg Values, Fungal Microorganism, Fungal Microorganisms, Isotopic Enrichment, Specific Compounds, Terrestrial Organic, Unicellular Fungi, Aspects, Biochemical, Biology, Cell, Cerevisiae, Cycling, Dcorg, Establish, Examine, Extension, Fossil, Fossilization, Glucose, Growth, Metabolism, Microbial, Net, Paleoenvironmental, Pathway, Potential, Quantify, Reconstruction, SOM.

Ancient environments and the geochemistry of low temperature Fe(III) and Al oxides
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Crayton J Yapp($231,766), Southern Methodist University, Dallas
Key terms: Dh And 18o16o, Graduate And Undergraduate, Goethite Crystallization, Stable Isotope, Thermodynamic Models, Warm Intervals, Ambient, Analyses, Ancient, CC, Chemical, Climate, Combination, Component, Continent, Degree, Earth, Environments, Experimental, Fecooh, Geochemical, Gibbsite, Goethites, Information, Interactions, Isotopic, OO, Paleoenvironmental, Ph, Phanerozoic, Predictions, Radiometric, SMU, Selected, Spatial, Substitution, Surface, Temperature, Temperatures, Temporal, Warming, Water, Waters, Weathering, Wet.

Unraveling the Complexity of Biosilicification Processes: Kinetic and Thermodynamic Controls of Organic Substrates on the Nucleation of Amorphous Silica
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Patricia M Dove($219,767), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Nucleation And Growth, Biochemical Interfaces, Hydrated Silicas, Mineral Nucleation, Silicifying Organisms, Activity, Amorphous, Biogenic, Biological, Biosilicification, Conditions, Control, Controls, Direct, Environments, Factors, Focus, Forefront, Formation, Highly, Kinetic, Kinetics, Membranes, Methods, Mineralization, Minerals, Model, Nanoscale, Onset, Processes, Promote, Silicification, Silicon, Step, Thermodynamic, Unique.

First Principle Simulations and Thermodynamic Models of Aqueous Aluminum Chemistry for Geochemical and Environmental Applications
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. John H Weare($300,000), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Acid Rain Effects, Geochemical And Environmental, Nwchem Software Package, Aimd Simulation, Al-si Interactions, Aluminosilicate Mineral, Molecular Level, Simulation Software, Soil Fluids, Soil Formation, Thermodynamic Model, Thermodynamic Models, Wide Range, =, Activities, Al-si, Aluminum, Application, Aqueous, Available, Chemistry, Cl, Concentration, Concentrations, Define, Developed, Development, EXAFS, Evolution, Experimental, Ga, HO, Has, Hydrolysis, Hydroxyl, Information, Low, Methods, Mononuclear, NMR, Na, Natural, OH, PNNL, Ph, Polynuclear, Predict, Processes, Products, Program, Silica, Sio, Solution, Solutions, Speciation, Species, Structural, Temperature, Toxicity, Treat, Waters.

An Experimental Investigation of U(IV) Organic Aqueous Complexation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Johnson R Haas($95,415), Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
Key terms: Fuel And Spent, Nuclear Reactor Fuel, Complexation Reactions, Ore Mineral, Reactor Fuel, Thermodynamic Values, Acid, Activity, Citrate, Conditions, Distribution, Experimental, Geochemical, Graduate, Initially, Ligand, Obtained, Organic, Oxide, Presence, Productive, Properties, Solubility, Stability, Student, Students, UIV, UO, Uiv-organic, Undergraduate, Uoam, WMU.

RCN: Global Soil Change Community Networking Chronosequence Studies and Long-term Soil Experiments
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Daniel D Richter($425,000), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Long-term Soil Experiments, Ltses And Chronosequence, Chronosequence Studies, Earth's Soil, Long-term Soil, Soil Experiments, CMS, Changing, Human, Processes, Public, Quality, RCN, Rate, Remarkably, Significantly, Sites, Students, Teachers, WSSC, Water, Website.

The Kinetics of Microbial Sulfuric Acid Speleogenesis
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2006; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Philip C Bennett($67,821), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Sulfuric Acid Speleogenesis, Limestone Weathering, Microbial Ecology, Accelerate, Aquatic, Aquifer, Carbonate, Cave, Central, Characterize, Chemolithotrophic, Combined, Development, Directly, Ecosystem, Energy, Examine, Field, Geochemistry, Geologic, Geomicrobiology, Graduate, Habitat, Has, Implications, Importance, Influence, Karst, Karstification, LKC, Laboratory, Mechanisms, Microbes, Mineralogy, Molecular, Oxidation, Population, Populations, Previous, Rate, Reactors, SAS, Subsurface, Sulfide, Sulfidic, Techniques, Texas.

Paleothermometry of Sedimentary Carbonates in the Andean Plateau, and the Timing and Lateral Extent of Surface Uplift
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2006; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. John M Eiler($46,920), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Soil Carbonates, Altiplano, Clumped, Isotope, Plateau, Thermometry.

The Riverine Fluxes of Rhenium and Molybdenum to the Ocean
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2006; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink($149,807), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Hudson River Estuary, Re And Mo, Stable Mo Isotope, Anthropogenic Contamination, Conservative Behavior, Mississippi River, Mo Concentrations, Radiogenic Re-os, Re Concentrations, River Water, Riverine Fluxes, Collaborators, Feature, Indicate, Indicators, Kits, Method, Nm, Oxic, Pm, Profile, Re-os, Salinity, Seawater, Sediments, Source, Standardized, Time, World-average.

The Rates and Mechanisms of Calcium Isotope Transport in Aquifers
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Andrew D Jacobson($91,035), Northwestern University, Evanston
Key terms: Ca Isotope Composition, Ca Isotope Cycling, Ca Isotope Fractionation, Ca Isotope Values, Dissolved Ca Isotope, Ca Cycle, Chemical Weathering, Dissolved Ca2, Fluid Transport, Isotope Geochemistry, Madison Aquifer, Wacb Aquifer, Aquifers, Carbonate, Climate, Coal, Continent, Controls, Downgradient, EXCITE, Examining, Groundwater, Highly, ISP, Increase, Information, Ion-exchange, Isotopes, Marine, Mathematics, Minority, NU, Program, Rapidly, Rock, Student, Undertake, Waters.

Computational Studies of Isotopic Fractionation of B, O, S, Cu and Mo
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. John A Tossell($249,599), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Isotopic Fractionation Equilibria, Equilibrium Constants, Quantum Chemical, Available, Calculated, Calculating, Considered, Cu, Employ, Experimental, Extended, Geochemistry, Geosciences, Heterogeneous, Involving, Mineral, Mo, Processes, Properties, Reactions, Species.

Wilford Gardner IUSS Congress Fellowship Program; Philadelphia, PA; July 9-15, 2006
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Lois E Peterson Kent($12,434), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Fellowship Program, Graduate Students, Intellectual Merit, National Committee, World Congress, Congresses, Development, Enable, Exchange, Future, Held, Information, Soil, Strengthen, Was.

Pilot Study of the Formation of Floating Mixed-valent Fe Hydroxide Films
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Georg H Grathoff($34,655), Portland State University, Portland
Key terms: Environmental Conditions, Fe Film, Fe Oxide, Hexavalent Chromium, Iron Film, Mixed-valent Fe, Mixed-valent Iron, Natural Environments, Oil Film, Reductive Capacity, Alternative, Characterize, Coastal, Contaminants, Feii, Ferrihydrite, Field, Lab, Mixed-valent, Nutrient, Phase, Precursor, Public, Remedial, Riparian, Settings, Soils, Solubility, Stability, Wetlands.

Soft Tissues and Cellular Features in Fossil Vertebrates
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Mary H Schweitzer($200,000), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Tissues And Cells, Tissues And Cellular, Fossil Specimens, Molecular Information, Popular Media, Soft Tissues, Applying, Bone, Characterize, Components, Degradation, Fall, Fossils, Indicate, Informative, Less, Lifespan, Models, Museum, Original, Potential, Preservation, Primary, Processes, Public, Source, Structures, Students, Vertebrate, Via.

Working Group Activity on Molecular- and Nano-Environmental Geochemistry
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Michael F Hochella($7,856), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Behavior, Biological, Early-career, Field, Fields, Geochemistry, Geoscience, Has, Nature, Particular, Phases, Relatively, Subject, Terrestrial.

A Stratigraphically Resolved Sulfur Isotope Record of the Oxygenation of Earth's Atmosphere and its Correlation with C, Fe, and Mo Geochemical Cycles in the Early Paleoproterozo
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2006; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Andrey Bekker($150,001), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Atmosphere And Ocean, Banded Iron Formations, Middle And Upper, Non-mass Dependent Fractionation, Non-mass Dependent Signal, Atmospheric Oxygen, Brockman Supersequence, Drill Core, Non-mass Dependent, Sedimentary Pyrites, Western Australia, ASU, Analyses, Anbar, Colleagues, Composition, Conditions, Cycle, Farquhar, Fe, GSU, Ga, Gap, Glaciation, Interval, Isotope, Isotopes, Krogstad, Lyons, Measure, Mo, Oxygenation, Paleoproterozoic, Redox, Requested, Resolution, Rise, Rouxel, S-, Scott, Shales, Stratigraphic, Sulfur, UCR, Was.

A Graduate Student Travel Assistance Program for the 2006 V. M. Goldschmidt Conference; Melbourne, Australia; August 27 - September 2006
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Johnson R Haas($30,000), The Geochemical Society, Alexandria
Key terms: Travel Assistance Program, Broader Impacts, Goldschmidt Conference, Graduate Students, Students Attending, Abstract, Basis, Benefit, Colleagues, Conferences, Costs, Dedicated, Educational, Field, Geochemical, Geologic, Meeting, Melbourne, Opportunity, Own, Range, Seeking, Senior, Sessions, Short, Talks, Venue, World-class.

RUI: Paleohydrology of the Great Lakes region since the most recent glaciation
Award Effective Date: 02/08/2006; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. James A Clark($75,013), Wheaton College, Wheaton
Key terms: Ice Sheet, Inverse Model, Lake Levels, Lakes Region, Stream Networks, Undergraduate Geology, Affecting, Caused, Changing, Deformation, Dems, Digital, Elevation, Entire, Exact, Field, Freshwater, GIS, Geoid, Glacial, History, Hydrologic, Models, Nature, Numerical, Outlets, Paleo-topography, Predictions, Relative, Simulate, Southern, Surface, Thickness, Viscous.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Presaging Paleoproterozoic Global Change: Geobiology of the Late Archean Eon
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Timothy W Lyons($64,562), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Drill Core, Drilling Program, Hamersley Basin, Kerogenous Sediments, Late Archean, ADP, Analysis, Astrobiology, Biogeochemical, Biomarkers, Broader, Characterize, Collaboration, Compounds, Cyanobacteria, Environmental, Examination, Future, Redox, Relative, Students.

Collaborative Research: Understanding Carbon Isotope Excursions in the Paleozoic: An Integrated Chemostratigraphic and Modeling Approach
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Timothy W Lyons($123,598), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Organic Carbon Burial, Paleozoic Time Slices, 87sr 86sr, Box Models, Carbon Cycling, D13ccarb Excursions, Late Cambrian, Organic Matter, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Climate, Compositions, Contents, Critical, Cycles, Dccarb, Dcorg, Dssulfate, Earth, Feedback, Field, Geochemical, Global, Involved, Isotopic, Mass, Mississippian, Missouri, Modeling, Ohio, Penn, Rate, Student, Students.

Laboratory Studies of Contact Forces Between Basal Clasts and Bedrock
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Denis O Cohen-corticchiato($138,715), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: Crack Growth, Quarrying Rates, Sliding Speed, Water Pressure, Bed, Bedrock, Caused, Erosion, Field, Fluctuating, Glacial, Lee, Models, Rock, Step, Stoss, Stresses, Subglacial, Surface, Was, Water-pressure.

Collaborative Research: Clinker Geochronology and Geomorphic Evolution of the Powder River Basin, Wyoming
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Peter W Reiners($115,990), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Coal Burning, Ages, Clinker, Formation, Landscape, Surface.

Where does desert dust originate? Geomorphic and climatic control on the evolution of dust sources in the Mojave Desert, USA.
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Mark R Sweeney($80,165), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Dust Sources, Wind Erosion, Age, Control, Desert, Environments, Formation, Lake, Landforms, Landscape, Past, Playas, Sand, Soil, Soils, Technology.

The dynamics of high relief transitional landscapes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. William J Reinhardt($25,008), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Apparatus, Development, Experiments, Landscape, Topography, Transient, Via.

RUI and COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Impact of Extrafluvial Events on River Valley Evolution
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Peter K House($117,108), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
2. Lisa L Ely($154,665), Central Washington University, Ellensburg
3. Elizabeth Safran($78,184), Lewis and Clark College, Portland
Key terms: River Channel, CWU, Contribute, Creating, Dams, Evolution, Field, Geologic, Processes, Program, Rivers, Students, Undergraduate, Valleys.

WORKSHOP: Tibetan Plateau: Exploring aspects of uplift and climate change.
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Lewis A Owen($10,000), University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati
Key terms: Tectonics And Landscape, Chinese Academy, Landscape Evolution, Main Workshop, Qinghai Institute, Tibetan Plateau, China, Climate, Denudation, Dynamics, Examine, Glaciation, INQUA, Links, Participants, Salt, Topics, USA.

Field Characterization of the Hydraulics of Steep Channels
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Brian P Bledsoe($306,736), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Reach-scale Total Resistance, Channel Types, East St, Estimate Flow, Field Sites, Lookout Creek, North St, Reach-scale Total, Steep Channels, Water-surface Slope, Discharge, Discharges, Equation, Estimation, Focus, Function, Hydraulic, Ii, Louis, Management, Measures, Objectives, Parameters, RD, Range, Reaches, Regression, Relation, Roughness, Stream, Techniques, Variables, Various, Velocity, Vrain, Water-surface.

WORKSHOP: Convening the first symposium-workshop on landslide Ecology - A perspective from tropical mountainscapes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Carla E Restrepo($5,000), University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras, San Juan
Key terms: Geomorphic Process, Landslide Ecology, Audience, Diverse, Ecologists, Ecosystems, Field, Has, Influence, Landslides, Large-scale, Meeting, Mountain, Symposium-workshop, Time, Tropical.

2006 Gilbert Club Meeting to be held in Berkeley, California.
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. William E Dietrich($14,956), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Gilbert Club, Berkeley, Has, Individuals, Meeting, NSF, Participants, Request.

Imaging a Natural Experiment in Drainage Divide Migration
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Gregory E Tucker($4,948), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Based Landscape Evolution, Drainage Divide Migration, Landscape Evolution Models, Physically Based Landscape, Baselevel Control, Boundary Section, Broader Impacts, Differential Baselevel, Natural Experiment, Topographic Signatures, Acquire, Altimetry, Budget, Center, Colorado, Denver, Digital, Document, Importance, Incised, Landform, Larger, Mission, NCALM, Process, Public, Requested, Site, Soil, Surfaces, Testing, Topography, Unique.

SGER: Using 4He/3He thermochronometry to quantify the rate and timing of Canadian Shield fjord incision
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2006; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Jason P Briner($49,849), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Ice Sheet Dynamics, 4he3he Thermochronometry, Canadian Shield, Clyde Inlet, Clyde River, Erosional History, Glacial Erosion, Landscape Evolution, Climate, Configuration, Continue, Critical, Feedbacks, Fjord, Fjords, Generation, Has, Hehe, Incision, Inserted, Margins, National, Onset, Public, Quantify, Quaternary, Rate, Rates, Relief, Simulations, Spatial, Students, Timing, Topography.

Glacier Seismicity and High Resolution Motion Records: Relation to Glacier Erosion
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Christopher F Larsen($110,389), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Basal Motion, Bering Glacier, Glacier Basal, Ice Velocity, In-ice Seismometer, Seismic Network, Allow, Array, Bed, Deployment, Dynamics, Elias, Erosion, GPS, Glacial, In-ice, Laid, Mechanisms, Models, Multi-disciplinary, Processes, Recording, STEEP, Seismometers, St, Tectonic, Unprecedented.

2005 Gilbert Club meeting
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. William E Dietrich($7,200), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Gilbert Club, Berkeley, Charge, Costs, Covered, Day, Evening, Grown, Has, Individuals, Meeting, Participant, Participants, Students.

Collaborative Research: Deglaciation Chronology of the Des Moines Lobe - implications for Ice Sheet Dynamics and Climate Change
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Timothy G Fisher($29,989), University of Toledo, Toledo
2. Lewis A Owen($29,974), University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati
Key terms: Des Moines Lobe, Laurentide Ice Sheet, Lake Agassiz, Stone Moraine, Age, Chronology, Climate, Deglaciation, Establish, Formed, Has, History, Implicated, Recession.

A Field and Theoretical Study of Sediment Transport near the Basal Thermal Transition of a Polythermal Glacier
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Denis O Cohen-corticchiato($198,682), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: Basal Thermal Transition, Debris-rich Ice Bands, Flow And Sediment, Debris-rich Ice, Glacier Surface, Glacier Wastage, Ice Flow, Ice Sheets, Ice Temperature, Normal Stress, Sediment Transport, Sliding Speed, Surface Velocity, Vertical Strain, BTT, Bed, Borehole, Carry, Deformation, Deposited, Engineering, Glaciers, Measured, Model, Near, Objective, Processes, Regelation, Regions, Sediments, Shear, Storglaciaren, Upstream.

SGER: Geomorphic and Human Consequences of the October 8, 2005, Northern Pakistan Earthquake
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Lewis A Owen($29,150), University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati
Key terms: Topographic And Human, Geomorphic Effects, Hazard Mitigation, Human Consequences, Landscape Evolution, Northern Pakistan, Assessment, Determining, Development, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Examine, Furthermore, Future, Himalaya, Himalayan, Immediate, Landforms, Local, Nature, October, People, Processes, Region, Relief, Remediation, Seismic, Strategies, Surface.

Future Directions in Karst Research: A Workshop Proposal
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Jonathan B Martin($23,375), Karst Water Institute, Leesburg
Key terms: Workshop Conveners, Current, Disciplinary, Disciplines, Discussions, Draft, Expenses, Funding, Gaps, Interdisciplinary, Investigated, Karst, Knowledge, Leaders, Meeting, Microbiology, Participants, Plenary, Primary, Report, Requested, Resources, Sessions, Tightly, Travel, Write.

SGER: Geomorphological Effects of the 2005 Flood of the Saskatchewan River, Cumberland Marshes, Saskatchewan
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2006; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Norman D Smith($6,000), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln
Key terms: Channels, Dam, Effects, Flood, Observations, River, Saskatchewan, Sediment, Surveys.

Evolution of Plateaus in Western North America: The Roan Plateau Example
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2006; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Robert S Anderson($280,054), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Cliff Retreat, Colorado River, Landscape Evolution, River Incision, Roan Plateau, Beyond, Cliffs, Constrain, Dissection, Documentation, Landscapes, Models, Processes, Rate, Rates, Responding, Wave, Western.

Sediment Storage at the Transition Between Debris-Flow and Fluvial Processes
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Stephen T Lancaster($316,456), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Debris-flow And Fluvial, Exploitation And Conservation, Oregon Coast Range, Debris Flows, Debris-flow Deposition, Debris-flow Scour, Evacuation Mechanisms, Sediment Storage, Strath Terraces, Affected, Characteristics, Climate, Debate, Deposits, Downstream, Forest, Geomorphic, Ground-based, Headwater, Mapping, OCR, Processes, Rates, Retention, Sedimentology, Streams, Valley, Valleys, Volumes.

The First Asian Conference on Permafrost.
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Tingjun Zhang($31,800), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Mountain Regions, Permafrost Studies, Asian, Climatic, Conference, Contribute, Development, Engineering, Engineers, Environmental, Environments, Especially, International, Plateau, Railroad, Thawing, Warming.

Quantifying Changes in Erosion and Relief with Detrital Apatite (U-Th)/He Thermochronlogy and Cosmogenic Nuclides
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Greg M Stock($147,230), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Southern Sierra Nevada, Thermochronometry And Cosmogenic, Broader Significance, Cooling Ages, Cosmogenic Nuclides, Detrital Apatite, Geochemical Tools, River Sediments, Approach, Belts, California, Catchment, Caves, Deposits, Development, Distribution, Education, Erode, Erosion, Evolution, Integrated, Investigate, Line, Million, Mountain, National, Quantifying, Rates, Relief, Settings, Steep, Technique, Temporal, Topographic, Training, U-thhe, Valleys.

SGER: Hurricane Katrina Storm Surge Deposition on Deltaic Wetlands
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Robert E Turner($29,999), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Collect Sediments Deposited, Formerly Levee-free Mississippi, Hurricane Storm Surge, Katrina And Rita, Levee-free Mississippi River, Net Annual Accumulation, Coast Demonstrates, Coast Wide, Degraded Coast, Formerly Levee-free, Funding Instruments, Hurricanes Katrina, Hurricanes Leave, Inorganic Concentration, Levee-free Mississippi, Overbank Flooding, Post-deposition Studies, River Diversions, Sediment Cores, Wetland Stability, Amount, Amounts, Analyses, Analysis, Arrived, Built, Coincidence, Collection, Conservative, Discrete, Documented, Estimate, Exploratory, Has, Meant, Million, Movement, Nutrients, Peaks, Plant, Plants, Post-deposition, Quantify, Ratios, Restoration, Restore, Size, Soil, Soils, Subsequent, Sufficient, Trace, Volume, Wetlands.

SGER: Character and preservation of hurricane Rita storm surge sedimentation in Louisiana coastal marshes.
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Harry F Williams($19,932), University of North Texas, Denton
Key terms: Long-term Marsh Sedimentation, Louisiana Coastal Marshes, Storm Surge Deposits, Storm Surge Sedimentation, Coastal Marsh, Hurricane Rita, Long-term Marsh, Marsh Growth, Tsunami Deposits, Description, Effective, Internal, Mechanism, Structures, Technical.

WORKSHOP: UINTAS 2006--The Uinta Interdisciplinary Assessment Symposium
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Jeffrey S Munroe($7,000), Middlebury College, Middlebury
Key terms: Forest Service Land, Land Managers, Landscape Evolution, Uinta Mountains, Academic, Active, Aspects, Climate, Collaboration, Collaborations, Communication, Conference, Focused, Funding, Has, Innovative, Interdisciplinary, Inthe, Past, Potential, Presentations, Topics, Uintas.

Summit Meeting for Surficial Earth Process Cyberinfrastructure
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Christopher Paola($36,289), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Critical Zone, Jim Reichman, Management Center, National Center, Tim Ahern, Arizona, Barbara, CI, CLEANER, CSDMS, CUAHSI, CZEN, David, Dynamics, IRIS, Invitees, LTER, Lehnert, Matt, Meeting, Mexico, Minn, NCAR, NCEAS, NCED, NSF, Network, Penn, SAHRA, Surface, Texas, UC, Various.

Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility and Remanence
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Ramon Egli($232,944), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Bulk Magnetic Properties, Complex Set, High-temperature Deformation, Magnetic Anisotropy, Magnetic Fabrics, Magnetostatic Interactions, Anhysteretic, Arrays, Controlled, Development, Effects, Experimental, Experiments, Grains, High-temperature, Interparticle, Lithography, Magnetite, Magnetization, Measured, Mechanisms, Microstructures, Particle, Particles, Process, Produced, Remanence, Reorientation, Rock, Synthetic.

Collaborative Research: Utilizing GPS Measurements of Postseismic Deformation to Infer Spatial Distribution of Frictional Properties on Faults
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Paul Segall($55,252), Stanford University, Stanford
2. Kaj M Johnson($92,096), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Typically Seismogenic Depths, Friction Laws, Frictional Properties, San Andreas, Slip Behavior, Velocity Weakening, Afterslip, California, Creeping, Distribution, Does, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Fault, Faults, Following, GPS, Inversions, Investigate, Lead, Locked, Models, Observations, Parkfield, Stable, Tokachi-oki, Transition, Unstable.

Collaborative Research: Imaging the Continental Lithosphere with Earthquake Sources
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Wang-Ping Chen($138,999), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
2. Robert L Nowack($132,999), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Undergraduate And Graduate, Broadband Seismic, Collision Zone, Continental Lithosphere, Earthquake Sources, Hi-climb Array, Public Domain, Seismic Imaging, Academic, Active, Advances, Approach, Arrays, Central, Dataset, Distance, Exciting, Expected, Exploration, Furthermore, Geologic, Has, Hi-climb, High-quality, Himalayas, Illumination, Image, Images, Leading, Migration, Natural, Potential, Primary, Seismogenic, Structures, Targets, Techniques, Tibet, Timely, Usarray, World.

Collaborative Research: Pleistocene Geomagnetic Field Variability from the High-Latitude Southern Hemisphere
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Joseph S Stoner($170,042), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Steven P Lund($165,000), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Excursional Field Behavior, Unprecedented Temporal Resolution, Accumulation Rates, Geomagnetic Field, Laschamp Excursion, Paleomagnetic Secular, Paleomagnetic Studies, Relative Paleointensity, Sediment Sequences, Southern Hemisphere, Water Depth, Based, Cmkyr, Complete, Degrees, Dynamo, Excursions, Extreme, Global, HSV, Has, High-resolution, Historic, Holocene, Independent, Ka, Late-pleistocene, Leg, Magnetic, Normal, Observational, Observations, PSV, Pleistocene, Process, Quality, Rarely, Recovered, Required, Sediments, U-channel, Undertaken.

Shear-Induced Fabric and Weakening of Olivine and Dependence on Pressure and Water
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Andreas K Kronenberg($190,000), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Lattice Preferred Orientations, Molten Salt Assembly, Deformation Experiments, Deformation Mechanisms, Gas Apparatus, Olivine Aggregates, Olivine Fabrics, Seismic Anisotropy, Seismically Fast, Shear Direction, Solid Medium, Strengths Measured, Upper Mantle, Wet Conditions, Accurate, Aligned, Characterize, Deformed, Developed, Experimental, Geodynamic, Gpa, Lower, Methods, Mpa, Observed, Obtained, Oceanic, Performed, Pressure, Pressures, Resolution, Slip, Stress, Water.

Collaborative Research: Field and Modeling-Based Tests of the Role of Water in Nominally Anhydrous Minerals in Controlling the Strength/Stability of Continental Lithospheric Mantle
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Cin-Ty A Lee($190,717), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
2. Anne H Peslier($112,907), University of Houston, Houston
3. Stephen J Mackwell($24,245), Universities Space Research Association, Washington
Key terms: Simple Dynamic Models, Lithospheric Mantle, Mantle Xenoliths, Observed Deformation, Water Content, Water Contents, Adjacent, Bound, Concentration, Constitutive, Continent, Course, Effects, Experiments, Has, Incorporated, Independent, Linked, Lithosphere, Nature, Olivine, Olivines, Planets, Pre-eruptive, Predictions, Pyroxene, Pyroxenes.

Seismic Imaging of Southern Californian Crust Using Deformable-Layer Tomography and Prestack Depth Migration
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Hua-Wei Zhou($88,999), University of Houston, Houston
Key terms: P-wave And S-wave, Prestack Depth Migration, San Andres Fault, Crustal Velocity, Lateral Velocity, Reflection Images, Seismic Imaging, Southern California, Geometry, Geophysics, Indicate, LARSE, Mantle, Resolution, Significantly, Structure, Techniques, Tomography.

Broadband Seismological Investigations of Earth Structure and Earthquake Sources
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Thorne Lay($523,791), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Stacking And Migration, Core-mantle Boundary, Upper Mantle, Analysis, Complexity, Core-mantle, Deep, Earthquake, Effort, Near, Processes, Properties, Rupture, Seeking, Seismic, Seismological, Source, Structure, Subduction, Wave.

Elasticity of High Pressure Phases of Mantle Minerals
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Robert Liebermann($359,993), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Abundant Mineral, Elastic Properties, National Laboratory, Stony Brook, Apparatus, Developed, Earth, Experiments, Facilities, High-pressure, Mantle, Minerals, Multi-anvil, NSF, NSLS, Pressure, Pressures, Previous, Seismic, Sound, Source, Temperature, Temperatures, Velocities.

High Pressure-Temperature Equations of State, Oxygen Fugacity, and Earth's Core
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Andrew J Campbell($299,513), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Pressure Volume Temperature, Experimentally Determined, Oxygen Fugacity, Buffers, Cell, Coexisting, Comparison, Conditions, Core, Earth, Equations, Gpa, Interior, Measure, Metal-oxide, Oxide, Phases, Precise, Pressures, Relative, Volumes.

Constraints on core composition from nuclear resonant scattering and x-ray diffraction studies on Fe-light-element compounds
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Jie Li($337,405), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Density And Sound, Nuclear Resonant Scattering, Pressure And Temperature, Sulfur And Carbon, Core Composition, Earth's Core, Pure Iron, X-ray Diffraction, Alloys, Compounds, Effects, Has, Iron-rich, Knowledge, Light, Models, Pressures, Range, Velocities, Velocity.

Deformation Mechanics of an Asperity under Hydrothermal Conditions
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Brian J Evans($423,000), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Laboratory Experiments, Natural Conditions, Asperities, Calculations, Coupling, Crust, Deformation, Electron, Granular, Investigate, Kinetics, Numerical, Predict, Processes, Quartz, Sapphire, Solution, Transport.

Effects of Deformation-Induced Microstructure, Texture and the Spatial Distribution of Phases on the Steady-State Rheology and Attenuation Response(s) of Mantle Materials
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Reid F Cooper($372,000), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Earth's Upper Mantle, Accumulated Strain, Deformation-induced Microstructure, Earth's Upper, Mineral Assemblages, Spatial Scaling, Steady-state Rheology, Aggregates, Appropriate, Attenuation, Characterization, Correlation, Direct, Dynamic, Effects, Emphasizes, Experimental, Factors, Function, Isolate, Issues, Minerals, Olivine, Physics, Plastic, Plasticity, Polycrystalline, Predicated, Properties, Rock, Seismic, Seismological, Specifically, Stress, Stress-relaxation, Structure, Theoretical, Thermodynamic, Variety.

CAREER:Education and Research in Earthquakes and Volcanic Directed Blasts
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Emily E Brodsky($215,556), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Blasts, Bringing, Earthquake, Fluid, Measuring, Physics-based, Students, Triggering, Undergraduate, Volcanic.

Do Old Faults Ever Die? Deep Earthquakes, Directivity, and Differential Duration
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Linda M Warren($120,270), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Intermediate And Deep-focus, Deep Earthquakes, Deep-focus Earthquakes, Dehydration Embrittlement, Fault Plane, Fault Planes, Fault-plane Orientations, Rupture Propagation, Subduction Zone, Differential, Direction, Duration, Expected, Fault-plane, Faults, Has, Intermediate-, Mechanism, Method, Oceanic, Outer-rise, Prior, Procedure, Process, Seismograms, Slab.

Collaborative Research: Quantifying the Dynamics of Asia Using GPS, Geologic and Shear-Wave Splitting Data, and Large-Scale Flow Models
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Scott D King($255,944), Purdue University, West Lafayette
2. Zheng-Kang Shen($48,320), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Buoyancy Forces, Continental Deformation, Eastward Migration, Entire Continent, Strain Rate, Velocity Field, Asia, Driven, Eastern, Estimate, Feature, Female, Flow, GPE, GPS, Gradients, Kinematic, Lithosphere, Models, Motions, Observations, Plate, Resulting, Rigid, Set, Surface, Treated.

Seismic Interferometry; Validation with the TRex Shaker and Application to SAFOD
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Roel Snieder($165,958), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: San Andreas Fault, Seismic Interferometry, Application, Monitor, Natural, Receivers, SAFOD, Sources, Was, Wave, Waves.

Fine Structure of Fault Zones from Modeling High-frequency Body-wave Waveforms of Aftershocks
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Lupei Zhu($154,969), Saint Louis University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Fz Structure, Design, Earthquake, Fault, Models, Obtained, Sets, Velocity, Width.

Continental Crustal Composition and Evolution: Constraints from Receiver Function Analysis
Award Effective Date: 08/24/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Stephen S Gao($17,232), Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla
Key terms: Beneath, Broadband, Composition, Continent, Crust, Evolution, Lower, Ratio, Seismological, Set, Stations, Velocities.

Long-term Strength of the Geomagnetic Field Based on Thellier Analyses of Plagioclase Crystals
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. John A Tarduno($188,774), University of Rochester, Rochester
Key terms: Frequency And Paleointensity, Single Plagioclase Crystals, Geomagnetic Field, Geomagnetic Reversal, Polarity Superchron, Reversal Frequency, Ago, Alteration, Based, Features, Formed, Lavas, Less, Million, Strength, Suggest, Thellier.

Transient Deformation in Guerrero, Mexico
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Kristine M Larson($188,946), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Numerical Models, Seismic Hazard, Subduction Zones, Aseismic, Collaboration, Earthquake, GPS, Geodesy, Guerrero, Has, Occurred, Region, Seismology, Slip, Transients, Tremor, UNAM.

Theoretical Analysis of Joint Friction
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Joseph B Walsh($81,450), Walsh Joseph B, Adamsville
Key terms: Disparity, Effect, Force, Friction, Has, Laboratory, Length, Natural, Parameters, Rock, Sliding, Time, Velocity.

Collaborative Research: Studies of Elastic and Anelastic Structure of the Earth's Mantle
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Goran Ekstrom($24,000), Columbia University, New York
2. Adam M Dziewonski($83,000), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Elastic And Anelastic, Beneath Eurasia, Earth's Mantle, Elastic Structure, Large-scale Elastic, Long-period Waveforms, Tomographic Models, Upper Mantle, Wave Amplitude, Account, Anisotropic, Attenuation, Collections, Composition, Constrained, Developed, Development, Direct, Effects, Heterogeneity, Inversion, Large-scale, Long-period, Mapping, Products, Rayleigh, Resolution, Three-dimensional.

Studies of Global and Regional Seismicity
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Goran Ekstrom($203,816), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Systematic Analysis, CMT, Catalog, Detection, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Effort, Global, Information, Specific.

Development and Application of the Back-Projection Techinque for Detailed Earthquake Rupture Modelling
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Miaki Ishii($162,701), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Seismic Array, Back-projection, Duration, Earthquake, Earthquakes, High-quality, Method, Models, Propagation, Properties, Rupture.

Collaborative Research: High-Precision Teleseismic Relocation and Tomography for the M 9 and M 8.7 Sumatra Great Earthquake Sequences
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Michael R Brudzinski($22,595), Miami University, Oxford
2. Felix Waldhauser($126,566), Columbia University, New York
3. E.Robert Engdahl($59,685), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
4. Clifford H Thurber($135,920), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Compressional And Shear, Prior Regional Seismicity, Shear Wave Speed, Wave Speed Models, Aftershock Sequences, Subduction Megathrust, Subduction Zone, Sumatra Region, Sumatra-andaman Islands, Analysis, Available, Catalog, Damage, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Generated, Global, High-precision, Involves, Local, Methods, Mw, Posed, Processes, Rupture, Sumatra-andaman, Teleseismic, Tomography, Tsunami, Waveform.

Collaborative Research: The role of viscosity heterogeneity in plate-mantle coupling
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Clinton P Conrad($207,250), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
2. Carolina R Lithgow-Bertelloni($179,827), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Earth's Tectonic Plates, Earth's Surface, Earth's Tectonic, Elastic Lithosphere, Mantle Flow, Plate Motions, Surface Deformation, Upper Mantle, Beneath, Collaboration, Continent, Controls, Coupling, Female, Forces, Geological, Influence, Interaction, Lithospheric, Models, Numerical, Observations, Pis, Plate-mantle, Predict, Shear, Stresses, Viscosity.

Long-period source characteristics of the great 1964 Alaska earthquake
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Meredith Nettles($12,352), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Alaska Earthquake, Available, Hand-digitized, Inversion, Moment, Obtained.

Numerical Simulation of Plumes and Small-Scale Dynamics in the Earth's Fluid Core
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Paul H Roberts($210,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Heat And Light, Chemical Inhomogeneities, Earths Surface, Electric Currents, Ferric Alloy, Fluid Core, Geodynamo Simulations, Geomagnetic Field, Inner Core, Magnetic Field, Magnetic Fields, Small-scale Dynamics, Accepted, Conductor, Diffusivities, Dynamo, Electricity, Flow, Main, Mantle, Motion, Motions, Parcels, Plausibly, Plumes, Power, Process, Scenario, Scenarios, Successful.

Collaborative research: Testing a new empirical law relating the efficiency of thermoremanent magnetization (TRM) and saturation magnetization (Ms).
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Gunther Kletetschka($200,000), Catholic University of America, Washington
2. Emilio Herrero-Bervera($250,000), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Demagnetizing Factor, Irms Normalization, Laboratory Techniques, Scaling Law, ARM, Acquisition, Application, Distributions, Domain, Efficiency, Empirical, Eventually, Factors, Field, Fields, Interactions, Magnetism, Magnetization, Means, Multidomain, Observations, Paleointensity, Particles, Power, Relatively, Remarkable, Rock, Susceptibility, Synthetic, TRM.

Reassessment of the Mono Lake Excursion
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Steven P Lund($155,000), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Mono Lake Excursion, Deep-sea Sediments, Lacustrine Sediments, Laschamp Excursion, Spherical Harmonic, Ago, California, Deep-sea, Field, Global, Has, High-resolution, North, Ocean, Oxygen-isotope, Paleointensity, Paleomagnetic, Student.

A Structural and Dynamic Model of Subduction at the Middle American Trench, Central Mexico
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Robert W Clayton($295,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Dynamic Models, Flat Slab, Geodynamic Models, Instantaneous Geodynamic, Mantle Wedge, Slab Structure, Analysis, Collaboration, Consistent, Does, MASE, MAT, Mexican, Plate, Seismic, Subduction, Time-dependent, Viscosity.

Investigation of the Causes of Geomagnetic Dipole Moment Change
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Peter L Olson($329,930), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Geomagnetic Dipole Moment, Numerical Dynamo Models, 1-100 Thousand, 1-1000 Million, Core-mantle Boundary, Dipole Tilt, Earth's Core, Geomagnetic Field, Magnetic Field, Rapid Decrease, Scaling Relationships, Core-mantle, Energy, Evidence, Growth, Intermediate, Investigate, North, Oscillations, Paleomagnetic, Present-day, Regions, Reversed, Theories, Time-scales.

Collaborative Research: Paleomagnetic investigation of Quaternary Volcanics from Kenya and the Galapagos Islands: In Search of the Time-Averaged Magnetic Equator
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Dennis V Kent($160,381), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
2. Neil D Opdyke($155,082), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Time-averaged Geomagnetic Field, Time-averaged Magnetic Equator, Galapagos Islands, High-quality Paleomagnetic, Lake Turkana, Lava Flows, Time-averaged Geomagnetic, Time-averaged Magnetic, Axial, Deg, East, Ecuador, High-quality, Kenya, Lavas, Mt, North, Obtain, Shore.

Effects of Topographic Boundary Heterogeneity on Earth's Core Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Jerome Noir($280,933), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Core-mantle Boundary, Earth's Core, Heterogeneous Boundary, Core-mantle, Effects, Experiments, Heterogeneity, Jault, Kuang, Laboratory, Olson, Processes, Suggest, Topographic.

Linking geodetic observations with gas emissions to characterize magmatic activity at a subduction zone volcano: Mt. Baker (Washington)
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Juliet G Crider($107,039), Western Washington University, Bellingham
Key terms: Gas Emissions, Magmatic Activity, Mount Baker, Seismic Unrest, Collect, Degassing, GPS, Geodetic, Gravity, Has, Processes, Quiescent, Shown, Surface, Temperatures, Thermal, Volcanic, Volcano, Volcanoes, Washington.

Interrogation of global seismic models with 3D wave simulations
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Jeroen E Ritsema($174,127), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Body Wave Traveltimes, 3-d Seismic, Amplitude Ratios, Shear Velocity, Tomographic Models, Velocity Heterogeneity, Wave Propagation, Analyzing, Constrain, Constraining, Investigate, Komatitsch, Mantle, SEM, Seismological, Simulations, Small-scale, Structure, Theories.

Effects of hydrogen on the electrical conductivity in upper mantle and transition zone minerals
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Shun-ichiro Karato($260,027), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Earth's Upper Mantle, Grain-size And Water, Mantle And Transition, Controlled Grain-size, Earth's Upper, Electrical Conductivity, Oxygen Fugacity, Transition Zone, Water Content, Determined, Distribution, Infer, Investigated, Temperature.

Analysis of Unusual Seismic Events and Constraints on the Active Tectonics and Rheology of the San Andreas Fault System: The Mendocino Triple Junction and Parkfield-Cholame, CA
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Robert M Nadeau($154,255), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Mendocino Triple Junction, Repeating Earthquake Activity, San Andreas Fault, Active Tectonics, Deep Fault, Accurate, Activities, Analysis, California, Contrasting, Information, Plate, Public, Seismic, Tremor, Unusual.

Travel Support for 2006 Workshop on Seismic Anisotropy and Geodynamics of the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere System; Czech Republic
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Jeffrey J Park($15,015), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Czech Republic, Seismic Anisotropy, Held, Mantle, Students, Workshop.

SGER: The effect of pressure on the strength of olivine aggregates
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Basil Tikoff($19,885), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Deformation Mechanisms, Flow Laws, Piezometer Relations, Experiments, Lithospheric, Lpos, Mantle, Pressure, Strength.

Post-diking Response to the Sept-Oct. 2005 Boina Event, Afar Depression, Ethiopia
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Eric Calais($3,253), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Mid-oceanic Ridges, Afar, Emplacement, Floor, Mid-oceanic, Observations, Rifting.

What is the Relationship Between Mineral Fabric, Seismic Anisotropy, and Mantle Flow in Partially Molten Regions? The Ethiopian Rift as a Testing Ground
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Charles K Wilson($49,999), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Mantle Fabric, Mantle Flow, Melt-rich Region, Shear Direction, Andor, Anisotropy, Apparently, Conditions, Deformation, Laboratory, Melt-rich, Models, Observations, Observed, Olivine, Presence, Rock, Seismic, Simple, Water.

Two Tests to Investigate the Causes of Aftershocks
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Emily E Brodsky($93,916), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Dynamic Stress, Dynamic Stresses, Dynamic Triggering, Stress Shadows, Aftershock, Aftershocks, Basic, Determination, Directionality, Distances, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Estimation, Expected, Fault, Has, Magnitudes, Mainshock, Mainshocks, Mechanism, Static.

Constraining 3-D Shear Velocity and Anisotropy Structure Beneath the Tien Shan from Shear Wave Splitting and Surface Wave Tomography
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Aibing Li($121,364), University of Houston, Houston
Key terms: Central Tien Shan, Shear-wave Splitting, Surface Wave, Analyses, Crust, Lithosphere, Mountain, Network, Regional, Shwave, Stations.

Dynamically Self-Consistent Contstraints on the Long-Term Strength of Faults in Western North America
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. William E Holt($120,000), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Interactive Web Site, Long-term Deformation Field, Plate Boundary Zone, Quaternary Fault Database, Dynamic Models, Earthquake Rupture, Graduate Student, Long-term Deformation, Long-term Frictional, Long-term Strength, Principal Axes, Visualization Tools, Western North, Activities, Constrain, Constrained, Crust, Cycle, Deviatoric, Directions, Faults, GPS, Holds, Lateral, Magnitudes, Mantle, Mechanisms, Style, Thicknesses, Topography.

Meeting of Young Researchers in Earth Sciences (MYRES II): Dynamics of the Lithosphere
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Laurent Montesi($69,688), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Junior Scientists, Designed, Discussion, Focus, Held, Lithosphere, MYRES, Meeting, Review, Sessions, Talks, Training.

The lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary: integrated modeling of scattered wave observations and mantle dynamics
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Karen M Fischer($380,000), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Flow And Melting, Seismic Velocity Gradients, Adiabatic Decompression, Broadband Stations, Eastern North, Lab Gradients, Mantle Flow, Ocean Islands, Partial Melt, Southern Africa, Volatile Content, Asthenosphere, Beneath, Composition, Consistent, Constrain, Degree, Depleted, Depletion, Explained, Factors, Imaging, Less, Lithosphere, Near, Observed, Ps, Scattered, Settings, Steep, Tectonic, Temperature, Tested, Transition.

Seismic Imaging of the Inner Core Boundary Region
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Keith D Koper($193,871), Saint Louis University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Precritical Pkikp Coda, Ray Parameter Estimates, Icb Region, Inner Core, Lower Mantle, Outer Core, Applied, Boundary, Constraints, Corresponding, Differential, Discussed, Earth, Heterogeneities, Models, Pkpcdiff, Seismic, Topography, Travel, Various, Waves.

Origin of the Columbia River Basalts and Uplift of the Wallowa Mountains
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Eugene D Humphreys($235,000), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Basalt Eruption, Ne Oregon, Yellowstone Hotspot, Array, Continent, Geodynamic, Models, Observations, Occurred, Processes, Range, Region, Resolution, Set, Teleseismic, Uplift, Usarray, Wallowa.

Two-Phase Damage Theory and the Generation of Plate Tectonics
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. David Bercovici($335,000), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Plate Tectonics Arises, Shear Localization, Boundaries, Boundary, Complex, Convection, Damage, Deformation, Development, Dynamics, Energy, Etc, Evolution, Failure, Flow, Fluid, Focused, Generation, Grain, Grainsize, Lithospheric, Mantle, Mechanics, Models, Phase, Physics, Reduction, Rock, Surface, Theory, Two-phase.

Three-dimensional modeling of interseismic, co-seismic, and post-seismic deformation in Taiwan
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Jean-Philippe Avouac($199,961), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Chi-chi Earthquake, Earthquake Cycle, Internally Consistent, Time Scales, Visco-elasto-plastic Models, Aims, Building, Chi-chi, Construct, Coseismic, Effort, Elastic, Faults, Geodetic, Geometry, Interseismic, Mountain, Mw, Spanning, Strain, Structures, Taiwan, Tools, Visco-elasto-plastic.

A Global Study of Anisotropy and Composition in Earth's Mantle
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. T. Guy Masters($380,001), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Global Seismic Tomography, Anisotropy, Detailed, Flow, Focus, Main, Mantle, Model, Observations, Structure, View.

2006 ACES Workshop: Simulating and Forecasting Earthquakes and Tsunamis with Information Technology; Maui, Hawaii; April 2006
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Andrea Donnellan($15,000), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: ACES, April, Countries, Earthquake, International, Progress, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Seismological and Geodynamic Investigations of Mantle Anisotropy
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Goran Ekstrom($40,000), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Seismologic And Geodynamic, Azimuthal Anisotropy, Geodynamic Models, Mantle Flow, Seismological Models, Upper Mantle, Convection, Regional, Resolution, Robustness, Synthetic.

Kinematic Constraints on Mantle-Lithosphere Interactions in Eastern Africa
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Lucy Flesch($423,250), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: East African Rift, Continental Rifting, Mantle Flow, Prime Setting, Seismic Anisotropy, Basins, EAR, Entire, GPS, Interactions, Kinematics, Lithospheric, Mantle-lithosphere, Possibly, Tectonic, Western.

Himalayan Seismotectonics at Deep Structure
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Vera Schulte-Pelkum($189,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Lower Tibetan Crust, Surface Wave Analysis, Teleseismic Receiver Functions, Broader Impacts, Collision Zone, Decoupling Zone, Focal Mechanisms, Lithospheric Thickness, One-day Workshops, Seismic Experiment, Attenuation, Available, Based, Broadband, Colorado, Combined, Decollement, Deep, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Eastern, Geometry, HIMNT, Himalayan, Local, Mantle, Modeling, Nepal, One-day, Plateau, Program, Ramp, Southern, Structure, Students, Subduction, Teachers, Tomography, Upper.

High Sample-Rate GPS: A New Tool for Earthquake Studies
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Kristine M Larson($275,050), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: High-rate Gps, Public Safety, Rupture Process, Seismic Waves, Accelerometers, Benefits, Details, Displacement, Dynamic, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Efforts, Frequently, Ground, Has, High-rate, Increasing, Insar, Monitoring, Motion, Required, Resolution, Resolving, Source, Strong, Trigger.

Intrusion and Eruption Dynamics on Active Galapagos Volcanoes
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Dennis J Geist($224,000), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
Key terms: Galapagos Shield Volcanoes, Gps Campaign, Magma Chamber, Magma Reservoir, Network Installed, Sierra Negra, Strain Field, Caldera, Circumferential, Constraints, Continue, Degassing, Edifice, Erupting, Eruption, Failure, Fernandina, Fissure, Inflation, Intrusion, Monitoring, Radial, Shallow, Storage, Trapdoor, Volcanic, Volume, Was.

Elastic Stress Transfer at Mauna Loa Volcano, Hawaii: Constraints from InSAR and Gravity Measurements
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Falk Amelung($357,000), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Analysis, Complemented, Earthquake, Field, Gravity, Hawaii, Imagery, Insar, Magma, Magmatic, Models, Pis, SAR, Stress, Volcano.

Collaborative Research: Deformation Processes in the Central Andaman Islands
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Anthony R Lowry($199,972), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. John P Puchakayala($209,981), University of Memphis, Memphis
Key terms: Brandaman And Nicobar, Northward Motion, Plate Boundary, Sumatra Earthquake, Accommodate, Andaman, Catastrophic, Damage, Earthquakes, Flooded, Frequently, Has, Islands, Land, Mw=, Reversed, Tilting, Time, Was.

New Heat Flow Values Along the San Andreas Fault System
Award Effective Date: 12/31/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Robert N Harris($15,269), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: San Francisco Bay, Heat Flow, Plate Boundary, Rock Properties, Boreholes, Component, Deformation, Field, Investigate, Thermal, Transients.

Collaborative Research: Anisotropy and Mantle Flow Beneath Japan from Seismological Observations and Geodynamical Modeling
Award Effective Date: 08/20/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Maarten V de Hoop($4,248), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Anisotropy And Flow, Flow Models, Seismic Anisotropy, Shear Wave, Tectonic Deformation, Tectonic Regions, Upper Mantle, Beneath, Challenge, Dense, Has, Inversion, Japan, Modeling, Particular, Powerful, Splitting, Tools, Volcanic.

Collaborative Research: Wave Equation Tomography and Data Assimilation: A New Approach to Estimating P and S Speed Variations in Earth's Lower Mantle
Award Effective Date: 08/20/2005; Program: Geophysics

1. Maarten V de Hoop($29,422), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Earth's Deep Interior, Parameterization And Regularization, Wave Propagation Theory, Earth's Deep, Earth's Structure, Elastic Parameters, Global Tomography, Sensitivity Kernels, Accurate, Aspects, Automated, CSM, Coverage, Essential, Estimates, Exploit, Frequency, Fusion, Images, Integration, Inversion, Joint, MIT, Mantle, Measured, Models, Multi-grid, Multi-resolution, Observational, Pis, Produce, Properties, Quality, Quantitative, Sampling, Seek, Sensitivities, Sets, Spatial, Temperature, Theoretical, Time, Waveforms, Waves.

Travel Support for Students and Underrepresented Stakeholders at Managing Drought and Water Scarcity in Vulnerable Environments -- Creating a Roadmap for Change in the U.S.
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2006; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Deborah I Nelson($15,000), The Geological Society of America, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: Developing Drought Science-based, Drought Science-based Policies, Finite Water Supplies, Policies And Programs, Policy-based Briefing Document, Public Policy Decision-making, Reliable And Usable, Stimulate National Debate, Usable Technical Basis, Drought Management, Drought Science-based, Interactive Forum, Mounting Pressure, Paradigm Shift, Policy Decision-making, Policy-based Briefing, Risk-based Approach, Science-based Policies, Water Scarcity, Activity, Approaches, Attend, Collaborative, Consider, Convened, Create, Disciplines, Discussions, Efforts, Imperative, Integrated, Meeting, Perspective, Perspectives, Promising, Purpose, Regions, Risk-based, Roadmap, Stakeholders, Successful, Travel, Underrepresented, Unique, Users.

A Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science: The Evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2006; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Christopher J Duffy($172,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Susquehanna River Basin, Water And Energy, Soil Moisture, Tools Developed, Water Resources, Water Table, Ability, Advance, Affect, Aid, Boundary, Chesapeake, Climate, Collaborations, Contribute, Design, Digital, Dynamics, Effort, Environmental, Federal, Flow, Groundwater, Hydrologic, Local, Modeling, Promote, Regional, SBL, SRB, SRBHOS, Strategies.

Collaborative Research: CUAHSI/CLEANER Project for Demonstration and Development of a Test-Bed Digital Observatory for the Susquehanna River Basin and Chesapeake Bay
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2006; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. William P Ball($20,000), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
2. Kevin A Dressler($20,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
3. Michael Piasecki($160,000), Drexel University, Philadelphia
Key terms: Susquehanna River Basin, Beta-testing Mode, Chesapeake Bay, Ci Components, Digital Observatory, Environmental Digital, Gap Analysis, Observatory Region, Beta-testing, CB, CLEANER, CUAHSI, Carried, Current, Cybercollaboratory, DES, Demonstrate, Design, Development, Developments, EDL, EDO, Educational, Effort, Existing, Feedback, Fluxes, Future, Hydrologic, Inclusion, Information, Investigate, Meet, Missing, Nutrient, Objectives, Partners, Purpose, Quality, SRB, Sets, Step, Technology, Test-bed, Tools, Upstream, Water.

Design and demonstration of a distributed sensor array for predicting water flow and nitrate flux in the Santa Fe Basin
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2006; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Kenneth C Slatton($359,960), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Water And Environmental, Engineering Approaches, Santa Febrriver, Suwannee River, Algorithm, Available, Capabilities, Characteristics, Collected, Developed, Dynamics, Feriver, Florida, Frequency, Generic, Has, Level, Newly, Nitrate, Require, Sampling, Sensor, Stores, Temporal, Time, Uncertainty, Watershed, Watersheds.

SGER: Experimental Study of Bed Load Sediment Sorting around Spur Dikes
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2006; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Jennifer G Duan($28,339), University of Arizona, Tucson
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.

Quantifying Urban Groundwater in Environmental Field Observatories: A Missing Link in Understanding How the Built Environment Affects the Hydrologic Cycle
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2006; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Lawrence E Band($405,000), University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore
Key terms: Baltimore County, Baltimore Ecosystem, Environmental Observatory, Field Studies, Groundwater Fluxes, Urban Environments, Urban Groundwater, Urban Infrastructure, Urban Landscapes, Urban Water, Assistants, BES, Budget, Contribute, Critical, Curriculum, Development, Education, Efforts, Estimate, Flow, Flowpaths, Future, Graduate, Hydrologic, Information, Mining, Modeling, Monitoring, Network, Numerical, Ongoing, Program, Quantify, Resources, Schools, Seepage, Set, Spatial, Students, Synoptic, Tools, Umbcs, Undergraduate, Wastewater.

Linking Time and Space Scales of Snowmelt Runoff: Crown of the Continent Hydrologic Observatory
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2006; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Joel T Harper($128,979), University of Montana, Missoula
Key terms: Temporal And Spatial, Broader Impacts, Snow Water, Basins, Climate, Conditions, Current, Dominated, Ecologic, Education, Field, Formal, Future, Hydrologic, Hydrology, Instrumental, Integrated, Involved, Landscapes, Local, Model, Modeling, Models, Natural, Past, Processes, Program, Region, Regional, Runoff, Snowpack, Tribal, Watershed, Watersheds.

Light-Transmission Visualization of Colloid Transport at the Meso Scale under Heterogeneous Conditions
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. John S Selker($240,000), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Capillary Fringe, Colloid Transport, Colloidal Transport, Meso-scale Heterogeneity, Colloids, Contaminant, Contaminants, Effects, Explored, Flow, Has, Media, Meso-scale, Migration, Processes, Regime, Textural, Transitions, Ubiquitous.

Scale Effects and Heterogeneity in Land-atmosphere Interactions: Large Eddy Simulation Studies, Parameterizations and Field Validations
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2006; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Marc B Parlange($310,600), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Atmospheric Boundary Layer, Geography And Environmental, Baltimore Md, Dynamic Model, Environmental Engineering, Heat Flux, Johns Hopkins, Land Surface, Mechanical Engineering, Turbulent Flow, ABL, Behavior, Blending, Broader, Classical, Components, Dept, Evaporation, Fluxes, Has, Heterogeneous, Human, LES, Models, Parameterizations, Parametric, Program, Properties, Public, Regional, Roughness, Simulations, Stratification, Temperature, Terrain, Tested, Theory, Transport, Turbulence, Various.

A Hydrogeophysical Study of Northern Raised Bogs: Implications for Generic Models of Peatland Formation, Vegetation Patterning, Pool Formation and Biogenic Gas Generation
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Xavier Comas($50,000), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Ground Penetrating Radar, Caribou Bog, Conceptual Models, Electrical Imaging, Geophysical Methods, Peatland Scientists, Peatlands Scientists, Strikingly Similar, Subsurface Characteristics, Surface Hydrology, Surface Vegetation, Bogs, Carbon, Correspondingly, Cycling, Datasets, Encountered, Enhance, Formation, Global, Has, Implications, Maine, Patterning, Previously, Raised, Unique, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Experimental and Numerical Characterization of Thin Films in Three-Dimensional Porous Media
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Marcel Schaap($24,770), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
2. Dorthe Wildenschild($142,267), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Numerical And Experimental, Thin Film Characteristics, Capillary Condensed, Experimental Analyses, Film Formation, Geometrically Simple, Pore Geometries, Porous Media, Vapor Pressure, Arbitrary, CMT, Crushed, Dimensional, Distribution, Distributions, Extent, Films, Gap, Images, Interfacial, Measured, Microtomography, Model, Pore-scale, Subsequently, Three-dimensional, Tuff, Two-, Two-dimensional, Water, Zone.

Collaborative Research: Characterization of Fractured Rock Aquifers Using Hydromechanical Well Tests
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Lawrence Murdoch($250,000), Clemson University, Clemson
2. Leonid N Germanovich($130,000), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Displacement And Pressure, Flow And Deformation, Field Techniques, Fluid Flow, Fractured Rock, Rock Aquifers, Theoretical Analyses, Characterization, Disposal, Efforts, Estimate, Fractures, Groundwater, Hydromechanical, Initiate, Mechanics, Methods, Pumping, Storativity, Students, Testing, Wastes.

Integrated Structural and Hydrologic Charactrization of Fault Zone Permeability at Well Field to Regional Scales
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Shemin Ge($229,361), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Conceptual And Numerical, Fault Permeability, Fault Zone, Fault-zone Permeability, Hydrogeologic Testing, Hydrogeology Class, Numerical Modeling, Resource Management, Thrust Fault, Undergraduate Students, Aquifer, Boreholes, Characterize, Characterizing, Cross-fault, Direct, Fault-zone, Faults, Field, Geologic, Observations, Plan, Regional, Regional-scale, Scientifically, Structural.

Wireless Technologies and Embedded Networked Sensing: Application to Integrated Urban Water Quality Management
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Nihar Jindal($210,000), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Embedded Networked Sensing, Mean And Variance, Restoration And Management, Spatial And Temporal, Urban Water Quality, Water Quality Management, Water Quality Parameters, Emerging Contaminants, Management Practices, Residence Time, Sensor Network, Streams Draining, Urban Land, Wireless Network, Approach, Chemical, Concentrations, Developed, Educational, Effective, Field, Focus, Frequency, Health, Hydrologic, Hydrological, Impervious, In-stream, Integration, Monitoring, Networks, Non-linear, Overall, Presence, Processes, Resolution, Sampling, Scaling, Stormwater, Sustainable, Traditional, Transform, Watershed, Watersheds.

Collaborative Research: Stream-Sediment Bed Exchange of Colloids and Colloid-Associated Metals in Acid Mine Drainage-Affected Environments
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Jianhong Ren($84,341), Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Kingsville
2. Joseph N Ryan($219,365), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Acid Mine Drainage, Colloids And Colloid-associated, Mine Drainage-affected Streams, Colloid-associated Metals, Drainage-affected Streams, Hyporheic Zone, Mine Drainage-affected, Environmental, Examine, Exchange, Importance, Remediation, Sediments, Service, Surface, Transport, Water.

Hydrodynamic and Geochemical Interactions Between Formation Waters of Varying Salinity
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Jeffrey A Nunn($220,000), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Dissolving Salt Structure, Pore Fluid Density, Variable Salinity Interact, Water And Sediment, Co2 Sequestration, Fluid Flow, Formation Water, Formation Waters, North Slope, Offshore Gulf, Pore Fluids, Simplifying Assumptions, Solute Transport, Affect, Alaska, Basin, Brine, Brines, Buoyancy, Chemical, Drive, Driven, Field, Geopressured, Gl, Hazardous, Hypersaline, Interacting, Louisiana, Meteoric, Mexico, Oil, Pathways, Physically, Pressure, Properties, Recharge, Remediation, Sets, Spatial, Subsurface, Viscosity.

Faults as Conduit-Barrier Systems-Tracing Fluid Migration Along Faults in the Lower Rhine Embayment
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Leonard N Plummer($344,567), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Lower Rhine Embayment, Roer Valley Rift, Vertical Fluid Flow, Fault Permeability, Fault Seal, Fault Zone, Groundwater Flow, Algorithm, Aquifer, Aquifers, Assessment, Basins, Contaminant, Cut, Developed, Enhanced, Existing, Extensional, Faulted, Faults, Geochemical, Increased, Main, Methods, Models, Resolution, Risk, Sedimentary.

Mapping Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity of Lake Seepage
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Laura Toran($289,212), Temple University, Philadelphia
Key terms: Spatial And Temporal, Clay Content, Electrical Resistivity, Groundwater Conductivity, Lake Water, Water Budgets, Balance, CRP, Calculated, Collected, Contaminants, Continuous, Difficult, Educational, Geologic, Geophysical, Groundwater-lake, Influence, Interactions, Lakes, Modeling, Porosity, Sediment, Sediments, Seepage, Sites, Students, Temple, Transfer, Uscm, Utility.

Predicting Hydraulic Properties from Pressure-Saturation Curves
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Thomas E Skinner($60,000), Wright State University, Dayton
Key terms: Pore Size Distribution, Hydraulic Conductivity, Analysis, Critical, Dominated, Equilibration, Low, Moisture, Percolation, Pore-size.

SGER: Phosphorus release and metal redox cycling associated with sediment reworking in the Colorado River Delta, Lake Powell, Utah
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Janet G Hering($70,192), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Colorado River Delta, Metal Redox Cycling, Previously-deposited Delta Sediments, Release And Metal, Trace Metal Dynamics, Bottom Water, Inflows Cut, Lake Powell, Phosphorus Dynamics, Phosphorus Release, Previously-deposited Delta, Reductive Dissolution, River Inflows, Sediment Reworking, Suspended Sediment, Anoxia, Conditions, Current, Development, Drought, Environmental, Examine, Graduate, Has, Iron, Phases, Primary, Reservoir, SGER, Sampling, Specifically, Wildman.

Collaborative Research on Reactive Transport: Modeling Spatial Cross-Correlation between Hydraulic and Reactive Aquifer Attributes as Determined by Sedimentary Architecture
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. David F Dominic($101,446), Wright State University, Dayton
2. Richelle Allen-King($267,577), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Hydraulic And Reactive, Reactive Transport Models, Field Studies, Reactive Attributes, Sedimentary Deposits, Spatial Co-variability, Unit Types, Activity, Architecture, Aspects, Co-variability, Composite, Correlation, Cross-correlation, Developing, Enhance, Function, Has, Hierarchical, Kd, Limitation, Modeling, Negative, Observations, Observed, Positive, Represent, Representation, Transitioning.

CAREER: Developing New Methodologies to Investigate the Thermal, Tectonic, and Climatic History of Continental Settings - An Integrated Educational and Research Project
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2006; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. M. Clara Castro($451,100), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Heheat Flux Ratios, Continental Regions, Ice-covered Regions, Ngt Determination, Noble Gas, Advantage, Crust, Groundwater, Ice-covered, Low, Mantle, Ngts, Particular, Steady-state, Tectonothermal, Tracers, Transport, Undergraduate, Was.

Sintering in Snow and the Possible Role of Soluble Impurities
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Jeff Dozier($150,000), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Scanning Electron Microscopy, Activated Sintering, Grain Boundary, Sintering Process, Sintering Theory, Vapor Diffusion, Dominant, Energy, Geometry, Grains, Has, Ice, Identifying, Laboratory, Mechanisms, Observations, Pore, Processes, Properties, Quantities, Snow, Snowpack, Surface.

Collaborative Research: Combined Cathodoluminescence Microscopy and Silicate Microsample Sr Isotopic Studies of Paleogroundwater Hydrology in the Western United States
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Lang Farmer($110,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. James R Rougvie($90,000), Beloit College, Beloit
Key terms: Upper Lemitar Tuff, Harcuvar Mountains, Local Precambrian, Secondary Adularia, Sr Isotopic, Tertiary Volcanic, Analyses, Colorado, Driven, Flow, Fluid, Fluids, Formation, Interactions, Involves, K-metasomatized, Low-t, Matrix, Meteoric, Microsampling, Paleogroundwater, Pathways, Phases, Planned, Rock, Surface, Undergraduates, Western.

Towards a Hydrochemical Transport Model for Rare Earth Elements in Groundwater Flow Systems: Coupling Field, Laboratory, and Computational Techniques
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Karen H Johannesson($274,000), University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington
Key terms: Solution And Scm, Adsorption Experiments, Aquifer Sediments, Carrizo Sand, Complexation Model, Dicarbonato Complex, Dispersive Transport, Flow Paths, Groundwater Flow, Surface Complexation, Upper Floridan, Advective, Aquifers, Association, Changing, Characterize, Coatings, Composition, Concentrations, Environment, Existing, Fraction, Fractionation, Geochemical, Increased, Investigations, Laboratory, Linked, Mineral, Modeling, Naturally, Organic, Ph, REE, Redox, Rees, Solutes, Transuranics.

Heat Budget in the Hyporheic Zone of a Large, Gravel-Bed River
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Stephen T Lancaster($80,000), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Daytime Water, Gravel Bar, Heat Flow, Heat Fluxes, Hyporheic Cooling, Hyporheic Zone, Andor, Beneath, Cooled, Deeper, Measure, Modeling, Preliminary, River, Seismic, Site, Storage, Warm, Zones.

SGER: Particle Incorporation of PAH in Aquatic Environments: Implications to Fate and Transport
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Teofilo Abrajano($33,600), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
Key terms: Nature And Origin, Aquatic Environments, Hudson River, Lower Hudson, Association, Broader, Contaminants, Fate, Molecular, Organic, Pah-particle, Pahs, Particle, Particulates, Remediation, Sediments, Size, Transport, Water.

CAREER: Stream Restoration, Ecological Engineering, and Nutrient Retention of Streams in Urban and Agricultural Settings
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Brian P Bledsoe($462,694), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Impacted And Restored, Intensive Structural Approach, Undergraduate And Graduate, Urban And Agricultural, Agricultural Settings, Csu Campus, Ecological Engineering, Geomorphic Complexity, Grazed Vs, Headwater Streams, Linx Ii, Natural Recovery, Nutrient Retention, Restored Streams, Stream Restoration, Allow, Basins, Colorado, Education, Enhance, Experiments, Nitrate, Outdoor, Plan, Process-based, Students, Water.

A Framework for Testing Distributed Hydrologic Models at the Hillslope Scale
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Stephen J Burges($322,082), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Distributed Hydrologic Models, Distributed Model Testing, Space And Time, Distributed Modeling, Distributed Models, Flow Pathways, Hypothetical Realities, Hypothetical Reality, Inhm Simulations, Approach, Available, Bed, Complexity, Comprehensive, Database, Detailed, Evaluation, Field, Framework, Has, Information, Lack, Limitations, Links, Particular, Representations, Simple, Simpler, Simulating, Step, Structure, Subsurface, Tarrawarra, Tools, Transport, Useful, Water.

Silica Sources and Water Flowpaths in a Tropical Watershed: A Combined Ge/Si, Oxygen Isotope, and Hydrometric Study
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Andrew C Kurtz($161,315), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Si Concentrations Observed, Puerto Rico, Stream Water, Streamwater Si, Catchment, Flow, Gesi, Hydrologic, Hydrology, Reflect, Shallow, Silicon, Soil, Streams, Tool, Tracer.

Collaborative Research: CO2 Springs and Travertines of the Southwestern US: Hydrologic Pathways Linking Tectonism to Water Quality
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Karl E Karlstrom($142,304), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
2. Abraham E Springer($47,124), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: Colorado Plateau, Mantle Inputs, Education, Gas, Hehe, Hydrologic, Modeling, Native, Quaternary, Shallow-sourced, Springs, Tectonic, Trace, Travertine-depositing, Travertines, Water, Western.

Lumped System Models of Karstic Aquifers
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Carol M Wicks($79,768), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: First-stage Models, Fluid Flow, Graduate Students, Karst Hydrology, Karstic Aquifers, Development, First-stage, Future, Heat, Mass, Modeling, Processes, Thoughtful, Training, Transfer, Water.

129I/127I Ratios and Iodine Speciation in Surface and Groundwaters: Link Between Speciation and Retardation
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Peter H Santschi($210,000), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Biogeochemical Tracer, Intellectual Merit, Iodine Isotopes, Molecular Weight, Organic Matter, Organo-iodine Species, Retardation Factors, River Water, Surface Environments, Aquifers, Biophilic, Concentrations, DOI, Dissolved, Environmental, Groundwater, Has, I-DOI, Iodide, LMW, Long-lived, Long-term, Modulated, Nuclear, Organo-iodine, Processes, Releases, Rivers.

CAREER: Integrated Stratigraphic and Hydrogeologic Aquifer Analysis: Toward Improved Multi-scale Characterization of Alluvial Aquifer Systems
Award Effective Date: 11/21/2005; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Gary S Weissmann($93,531), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Alluvial Fan, Contaminant Transport, Groundwater Flow, Hydrostratigraphic Units, Mature Paleosols, Activities, Aquifer, Assess, Assessment, Bounded, Core, Distributions, Exist, Framework, LLNL, Model, Modeling, Models, Sequence, Sequences, Site, Stratigraphic, Stratigraphy, Students.

Collaborative Research: Vertical control of groundwater arsenic concentrations in shallow Bangladesh aquifers
Award Effective Date: 07/31/2005; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Steven L Goodbred($31,273), Vanderbilt University, Nashville
Key terms: Nsf Criterion, Shallow Aquifers, Spatial Distribution, Spatial Scales, Surface Geology, Araihazar, Bangladesh, Caused, Complex, Concentrations, Deposits, Elevated, Fluvio-deltaic, GBMD, Groundwater, Has, Hydrology, Irrigation, Pis, Redox, Time, Tube, Water.

RUI: Raman Spectroscopy and Stable Isotope Investigations of Graphite in Marble
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: Info Integration & Informatics

1. Steven R Dunn($168,243), Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley
Key terms: Earth's Crust, Isotopic Exchange, Isotopic Fractionations, Laser Raman, Organic Matter, Temperature Dependent, Ancient, CM, Calcite, Carbon, Carbonaceous, Chemical, Conversion, Environments, Graphite, History, Isotopes, Life, Marble, Metamorphism, Processes, Rock, Sedimentary, Structural.

Development of the CA-TIMS method: Refining U-Pb Zircon Geochronology
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. James M Mattinson($240,919), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Pb Loss, CA-TIMS, Detailed, Geochronology, International, Method, Students, Zircon.

Acquisition of a Stable Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer System for Environmental and Paleoclimatic Research
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2006; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. David L Fox($250,136), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Stable Isotopic Analysis, Mass Spectrometer, Implications, Investigations, Isotope, Modern, Paleoclimate, Students.

Collaborative Research: Development of a High Resolution Vector Scanning SQUID Microscope for Paleomagnetism
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2006; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Franz J Baudenbacher($250,440), Vanderbilt University, Nashville
2. Benjamin P Weiss($115,507), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Magnetic Field, Magnetic Remanence, Spatial Resolution, Available, Caltech, Component, Components, Developed, Development, Instruments, Measure, Microscope, Rock, SQUID, Scanning, UHRSSM, VSSM, Was.

Acquisition of A High-Sensitivity Gravity Meter for Studies in Continental Lithosphere Structure/Tectonics
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2006; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. John W Geissman($56,000), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Rio Grande Rift, Colorado Plateau, Acquisition, Controls, Crust, Department, Gravimeter, Investigations, Mexico, Planetary, Roy, Teaching.

Acquisition of a PIV system for quantifying geophysical flows
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2006; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Christina W Tsai($238,897), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Fluid Dynamics, Geophysical Fluid, Requested Piv, Sediment Transport, Bedform, Flows, Instrument, Processes, Resolution, Turbulent, Upland.

Instrument and Technique Development: Trace Element Analysis and Geochronology by Electron Microprobe
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2006; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Michael J Jercinovic($311,866), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Age Information, Electron Microprobe, Electron Probe, Epma Dating, Microprobe Dating, Accepted, Ages, Analysis, Aspects, Available, Cameca, Characterize, Development, Efficient, Establish, Geochronologic, Geochronology, Geologic, Has, Intimately, Massachusetts, Microanalysis, Monazite, Optimal, Procedures, Processes, Rock, Standards, Students, Technique, Techniques, Trace, Umass, Widely.

Acquisition of a Multi-Anvil High Pressure Apparatus
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. James A Van Orman($149,640), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland
Key terms: Allow, Diffusion, Earth, Equipment, High-pressure, Multi-anvil, Range.

Collaborative Research: Post-Katrina Re-Survey of Key Geodetic Benchmarks in Coastal Louisiana
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Timothy Dixon($85,356), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Michoud Fault, Mmyr Relative, Southward Motion, Additional, Deformation, Delta, GPS, Horizons, Listric, Mass, Minus, Orleans, Pis, Plus, Rate, Suggest.

Post-Katrina re-survey of key geodetic benchmarks in coastal Louisiana
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Roy K Dokka($85,783), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Michoud Fault, Mmyr Relative, Southward Motion, Additional, Deformation, Delta, GPS, Horizons, Listric, Mass, Minus, Orleans, Pis, Plus, Rate, Suggest.

Facilities Support: Amino Acid Geochronology Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Darrell S Kaufman($302,501), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: Amino Acid Geochronology, Multi-user Facility, AAGL, Analyses, Cores, Foraminifera, Half, Has, Multi-user.

Technical Support: Laser Ablation and Inductively Coupled Plasma Laboratories - Renewal
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Ethan F Baxter($160,000), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Laser Ablation, Boston, Department, External, Facilities, ICP, Laboratories, Marine, Students, Userbase, Weathering.

GeoSoilEnviroCARS: A National Resource for Earth, Planetary, Soil and Environmental Science Research at the APS
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Mark L Rivers($9,787,356), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: High-pressurehigh-temperature Crystallography, Synchrotron Radiation, Applications, Beamtime, Detector, Diffraction, Experiments, Facility, GSECARS, High-pressurehigh-temperature, Operation, Processes, Spectroscopy, Stability, Structure, Synchrotron-based, Upgrades, Users, X-ray.

Acquisition of Single-grain-luminescence-dating Instrument Systems
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Glenn W Berger($437,917), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Accurate, Arctic, Automated, DRI, Dating, Determining, Equipment, Grains, Histories, Luminescence, Nevada, Paleoenvironmental, Reno, Students.

Acquisition of a Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer for Enhancement of Research and Teaching of Microspectroscopy of Crystals, Glasses, and Organic Compounds
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Sheila J Seaman($183,291), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Educational Levels, Amherst, Basis, Compounds, Design, Experiments, FTIR, Faculty, Five, Geologic, Geologists, Hampshire, Holyoke, Independent, Instrument, Interaction, Machine, Massachusetts, Promote, Sediments, Smith, Student, Students, Tool, Undergraduate, Volatiles, Water.

Acquisition of Data Storage RAID Systems for the WInSAR Distributed Archive
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Mark Simons($50,980), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Subsurface Fluid, Western North, Acquisition, Archive, Capacity, Consortium, Deformation, Earthquake, Focus, Has, Insar, On-line, Requested, SAR, Scenes, Server, Traditional, Upgraded, Volcanic, Winsar.

Acquisition of a High-Performance Computing Cluster for the Penn State "Earth System Science Center (ESSC)"
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Michael E Mann($100,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Climate Modeling, Computational Resources, Computing Cluster, Approach, Center, EESI, ESSC, Has, Penn, Process, Required, Students.

Acquisition of Sample Preparation and Imaging Equipment for Use in Analyses of Preserved Fossil Soft Tissues
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2006; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Mary H Schweitzer($100,000), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Soft Tissues, Equipment, Fossil, Museum, Preparation.

Acquisition of a High Resolution Small Bore 3-Component DC SQUID Magnetometer for Paleomagnetic Research
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. John A Tarduno($288,600), University of Rochester, Rochester
Key terms: Superconducting Rock, Acquired, Bore, Existing, Facilitated, Field, Magnetic, Rochester, SRM.

Acquisition of Electrical and Electromagnetic Instrumentation for Hydrogeophysical Research
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2006; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Ming-Kuo Lee($41,095), Auburn University, Auburn
Key terms: Contaminated Groundwater, Geophysical Methods, Bioremediation, Courses, Engineering, Equipment, Geology, Liquefaction, Students.

Collaborative Research: Development of Improved Zircon Standards for SIMS and LA-ICP-MS-U-Pb Geochronology using CA-TIMS Pre-Treatment
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2006; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. James M Mattinson($26,708), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
2. Jeremy K Hourigan($35,656), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Sims And La-icp-ms, Amongst Sims, La-icp-ms Labs, Zircon Standards, Aliquots, Analyses, Analytical, Behavior, CA-TIMS, Dissolution, External, Steps, TIMS.

Collaborative Research: A Proposal for the Cosmic-Ray prOduced NUclide Systematics on Earth (CRONUS-Earth) Project
Award Effective Date: 05/18/2006; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Robert C Finkel($169,000), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
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.

Facilities Support: National Lacustrine Core Repository and initial Core Analysis Laboratory (LacCore)
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Bryan N Shuman($285,402), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Core Analysis Laboratory, Initial Core Analysis, Lacustrine Core Repository, National Lacustrine Core, Core Description, Lake Sediment, Facility, Field, Laccore, Methods, Minnesota.

Upgrading of Computer Facility for Research in Seismology
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2006; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Goran Ekstrom($93,251), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Earth's Interior, Activities, Component, Harvard, Imaging, Sets, Supported, Upgrade.

Integrated Studies of Transient Volcano Deformation in Hawaii
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Howard A Zebker($408,828), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Kilauea And Mauna, Dike Intrusion, Mauna Loa, P'u 'o'o, Rift Extension, Silent Earthquakes, Spatial Resolution, Time Dependent, Accompanying, Analyzed, Collaborative, Combines, Deflation, Deformation, Eruption, Extends, Factors, GPS, Geodetic, HVO, Hawaii, Induced, Inflation, Insar, Interactions, Magmatic, Mechanical, Modeling, Models, Observations, Oo, Past, Processes, Pu, Seaward, Seismic, Seismicity, Six, Sources, Students, Summit, Transient, Volcano.

Acquisition of Laser Ablation System to Quantify Matrix and Grain-boundary Trace Element Partitioning in Olivine and Pyroxenes: an Integrated Bulk and In Situ Approach
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Cin-Ty A Lee($115,100), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Matrix Partition Coefficients, Olivine And Orthopyroxene, Contamination Effects, Upper Mantle, Boundaries, Clinopyroxene, Grain, Laser, Melt, Melting, Mineral, Minerals, Partitioning, Phases, Rice, Subsolidus, Tools, Trace.

Continued Development, Distribution, And Maintenance of the Isoplot Computer Program
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Kenneth Ludwig($41,699), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
Key terms: Computer Code, Teaching Tool, Development, Geochronology, Isoplot, Versions.

Acquisition of a State-of-the-Art Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Igor Puchtel($265,000), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Putative Plume Sources, Ultra-high Precision Analysis, Ultra-high Precision, Allow, Core, Incorporation, Instrument, Mass, Ppm, Pursue, Ratios, Rock, Via.

Preservation of Lake Sediment Cores and Associated Data: Benefits of Proper Curation
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2006; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Bryan N Shuman($22,457), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Access, Core, Cores, Discussion, Workshop.

Acquisition of a Microwave Digestion System for Geochemical and Geochronological Applications
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2006; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Elisabeth Widom($31,500), Miami University, Oxford
Key terms: Mass Spectrometry, Microwave Digestion, Alternative, Digestions, Dissolution, Diverse, Isotope, Students, Techniques, Trace.

Acquisition of an Isotope Ratio Gas Source Mass Spectrometer
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2006; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Paul Wallace($249,581), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Mass Spectrometer, Stable Isotope, Stable Isotopic, Analysis, Department, Facility, Gas, Geological, LHF, Magmatic, Methods, Oregon, SIRMS, Training, Volcanic.

Compressibility and Structure of Silicate Melts at High Pressure
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Murli H Manghnani($348,930), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Diamond Anvil Cell, Hydrated And Anhydrous, Anhydrous Alkali, Elastic Properties, Light Scattering, Silicate Melts, Brillouin, Compressibility, DAC, Expected, Experiments, P-T, Pressure, Simultaneously, Structural, Structure, Technique, VP.

Support for GeoCAMS: An Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility for Earth Science Research
Award Effective Date: 11/10/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Robert C Finkel($46,027), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Levels Found, Ca, Capabilities, Cl, De, Facility, Geocams, Has, NSF, Operation, Past, Students, Surface, Targets, Time, Trained.

Magmachronology and the Chemical Dynamics of Rhyolites
Award Effective Date: 08/23/2005; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Mary R Reid($19,539), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: Coso Volcanic, Evolving Rhyolite, Ion Microprobe, California, Crystals, Differentiation, Investigate, Rhyolites, Toba, Tuff, Valley, Yellowstone.

Building an Understanding of Science
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: Integrtv Ecological Physiology

1. David R Lindberg($521,943), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Claims, Disciplines, Enterprise, Grade, Has, K-, Levels, Nature, Process, Public, Resources, Spans, Strategies, Students, Teacher, Teachers, Teaching, Tools, Website.

Collaborative Research: NorthEast China Extended seiSmic Array (NECESS Array): Deep Subduction, Mantle Dynamics, and Lithospheric Evolution Beneath Northeast China
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: International Research Collab

1. Stephen Grand($440,000), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Fenglin Niu($319,991), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
3. James Ni($50,000), New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
Key terms: Archean Mantle Lithosphere, Beneath Northeast China, Intraplate Continental Magmatism, Mantle Beneath Northeast, Mantle Transition Zone, Archean Lithosphere, Broadband Seismometers, Lower Mantle, Pacific Plate, Seismic Image, Subducted Slab, Active, Border, Boundary, Constraints, Crust, Deploy, Depths, Does, Earthquake, Experiment, Extension, Flat, Flow, Has, Instruments, Mineralogy, Modification, Modified, Processes, Rock, Roughly, Subduction, Tectonic, Top, Undergone.

Collaborative Research: Lithospheric Dynamics in the Southernmost Andean Plateau
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: International Research Collab

1. Eric Sandvol($329,429), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Central Andean Plateau, Continental Crust, Lithospheric Dynamics, Southern Puna, Degrees, Evolution, Geodynamic, Geophysical, International, Lithosphere, Mantle, Modern, Orogenic, Removal, Seismic, Structure, Wave.

SGER: Excavation of a novel titanosaurian sauropod from the Late Cretaceous of southern Patagonia, Argentina
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: International Research Collab

1. Kenneth J Lacovara($30,000), Drexel University, Philadelphia
Key terms: Field Season, Academy, Argentina, Complete, Cretaceous, DU, Deposits, Dinosaur, Dinosaurs, Discovery, Drexel, Excavation, Extraction, Found, Funding, Half, Has, Individual, Late, Massive, Nearly, Northern, Patagonia, Philadelphia, Previous, Public, Region, Remaining, Reported, Sauropod, South, Species, Specimen, Students, Taxa, Undergraduates, Visitors, Was.

CMG: Studies of Sediment Gravity Flows
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: International Research Collab

1. E Bruce Pitman($488,956), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Flows And Surges, Hazard Risk Maps, Mathematical And Computational, Pyroclastic Flows, Accurate, Analysis, Based, Basis, Density, Field, Geophysical, Laboratory, Method, Modeling, Mount, Predictive, Public, Simulations, Speed, Squares, Tested, Volcanic, Volcano, Water.

Collaborative Research: Is the Holocene Slip Rate along the Altyn Tagh Fault 10 mm/y, 30 mm/y, or Both? Infilling a 2-6 ka Data Gap Using 14C, OSL, and Stream Reconstructions
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: International Research Collab

1. Eric S Cowgill($285,062), University of California-Davis, Davis
2. J Ramon Arrowsmith($195,494), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Altyn Tagh Fault, Displaced Fluvial, Holocene Slip, Indo-asian Collision, Intracontinental Fault, Paleoseismological Studies, Slip Rate, Slip Rates, Active, Ago, Behavior, Central, Constant, Continent, Debate, Gap, Indo-asian, Mmyr, Models, Slip-rate, Thousand, Time.

Collaborative Resarch: A Comparative Study of Carbonate Weathering Mechanisms and Fluxes in Carbonate-Rich, Mid-Latitude Watersheds Across Landscape and Landuse Types
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: International Research Collab

1. Lynn M Walter($215,847), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Dissolved Inorganic Carbon, Atmospheric Co2, Carbonate Geochemistry, Carbonate Mineral, Global Warming, Mineral Weathering, Net Effect, Reaction Rates, Riverine Export, Weathering Rates, Agricultural, Agriculture, Brings, Carbonates, Collaboration, Dissolution, Effects, Exchanges, Feedbacks, Fluxes, Groundwaters, Hamilton, Has, Increase, Increasing, Influence, LTER, Land, Lime, Liming, Michigan, Midwest, Minerals, Opportunities, Ph, Previous, Regions, Row, Silicate, Slovenia, Soil, Soils, Surface, Watersheds, World.

Collaborative Research: Did the Altyn Tagh Fault Continue Beyond the Northern Margin of Tibet? Implications for Strain Accommodation During Continent-Continent Collision
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2006; Program: International Research Collab

1. Bradley D Ritts($153,875), Indiana University, Bloomington
2. Brian J Darby($29,935), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Altyn Tagh Fault, Atf And Require, Alxa Region, Candidate Structures, Lateral Extrusion, Left-lateral Faults, Models Predict, Oligocene-early Miocene, Tibetan Plateau, Accommodated, Analysis, Basin, Beyond, Cenozoic, Central-eastern, Collaboration, Collision, Continent, Cretaceous-cenozoic, Crust, Deformation, Distribution, India, Indiana, Influence, Left-lateral, Magnitude, Mid-miocene, Mountain, NSF, Natural, Oligocene-early, Processes, Rates, Sedimentary, Shortening, Slip, Thickening, Was.

Pliocene Kinematic History of the Northern Gulf of California
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: International Research Collab

1. Joann M Stock($100,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Baja California Peninsula, Isla Angel De, San Andreas Fault, Basement Rocks, Geochemical Analyses, Guarda Crustal, Northern Gulf, Plate Boundary, Tiburon Island, Volcanic Rocks, Adjacent, Ago, Caltech, Correlation, Distribution, IAG, Isolated, Mexican, Mexico, Million, Pacific-north, Past, Position, Program, Regions, Rest, Separated, Started, Stratigraphy, Students, Studying, Was.

Earthquake Geology Along the Himalayan Frontal Thrust of India: Insight to Mechanics Earthquakes Along a Continental Convergent Plate Boundary
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2006; Program: International Research Collab

1. Steven G Wesnousky($287,807), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Frontal Thrust Fault, Himalayan Frontal Thrust, Convergent Plate, Earthquake Process, Himalayan Arc, Plate Boundary, Seismic Hazard, Bounds, Continent, Convergence, Define, Earthquakes, Entirety, India, Information, Largest, Length, Level, Observational, Occurrence, Potential, Range, Scarps, Size, Southern, Worlds.

SGER: Chlorine Isotopes as Tracers of Subduction Zone Fluids
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: International Research Collab

1. Tobias P Fischer($82,163), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Cl Isotopic Composition, Chlorine Isotope, Fumarolic Gases, Allowing, Arc, Ash, Central, Deltacl, Effect, Fluids, Geochemical, Glasses, Hand, Has, Postdoctoral, Student, Subduction, Volcanic, Waters.

The Keel of the Amazonian Craton
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: International Research Collab

1. Suzan van der Lee($203,220), Northwestern University, Evanston
Key terms: Formation And Evolution, Lateral And Vertical, Blsp02 Network, Precambrian South, Combination, Crust, Experiment, Imaging, Keel, Seismic, Seismometers.

Quantifying Changes in Hydrologic Cycle Fluxes over the Americas During the Mid-Cretaceous (Albian) Greenhouse World
Award Effective Date: 01/04/2003; Program: International Research Collab

1. Greg Ludvigson($265,722), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Coastal Plain Deposits, Sampling And Analyzing, Dry-belt Region, Mid Latitudes, Northern Hemisphere, Paleoprecipitation 18-o, Precipitation Deficit, Precipitation Rates, Albian, Carbonate, Constrain, Coverage, Cretaceous, Determined, Dry-belt, Estimates, Gcms, Global, Isotope, KWIB, Mexico, Mid-cretaceous, Model, Models, Modern, Paleolatitude, Proxy, Quantify, Regions, Sphaerosiderites, Sub-tropical, Temperature, Tropical-equatorial, Utilized.

Collaborative Research: CMG--Toward Understanding the Transfer of Genetic Information in Subsurface Hydrology
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. John H Cushman($336,000), Purdue University, West Lafayette
2. Timothy R Ginn($317,489), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Gene Transfer, Natural Geologic, Porous Media, Bacteria, Bacterial, Cell, Conditions, Describe, Environment, Genetic, Has, Mathematics, Mechanisms, Organisms, Public, Subsurface, Transport.

CMG: Modeling River Basin Dynamics: Parallel Computing and Advanced Numerical Methods
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Scott D Peckham($900,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: River Basins, Advances, Applied, Collaborative, Equations, Evolution, Geoscience, Lidar, Mathematical, Mathematics, Models, Natural, Numerical, Surface, Time.

Collaborative Research: CMG: Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations of Deep Earth Materials
Award Effective Date: 08/17/2006; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Richard G Hennig($134,828), Cornell University, Ithaca
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.

Collaborative Research-CMG: Development and Application of Inference Methods for Imaging Neighborhoods of Earth's Core-Mantle Boundary With Broad-Band Scs and SKKS Coda Waves
Award Effective Date: 08/20/2005; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Maarten V de Hoop($146,420), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Core Mantle Boundary, Outer Core, Outermost Core, Based, CMB, Deep, Earth, Gathers, Generalized, Igs, Ii, Iii, Liquid, Operators, Singularities, Statistical, Students, Techniques.

MRI: Acquisition of a Variable Pressure Scanning Electron Microscope
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Ronald B Bucinell($298,620), Union College, Schenectady
Key terms: Analysis, Engineering, Faculty, Laboratory, Microscopy, SEM, Training, Undergraduate, Undergraduates.

Acquisition of LA-ICP-MS for the Integration of Research, Research Training, and Education at Colgate University
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Karen S Harpp($295,680), Colgate University, Hamilton
Key terms: Essential Component, Analysis, Analytical, Colgate, Courses, Environmental, Facility, Geochemistry, ICP-MS, Instrument, Instrumentation, Laser, Petrology, Regional, Students, Training.

Acquisition of a Noble Gas Thermochronometry Laboratory at Berkeley Geochronology Center
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2006; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. David L Shuster($149,757), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
Key terms: Graduate And Postdoctoral, Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer, Timescales And Rates, Earth's Surface, Gas Extraction, Noble Gas, Thermal Histories, Analysis, Build, Components, Constraining, Degrees, Diffusion, Establish, Laser, NGTL, Planetary, Purification, Quantifying, Residence, Temperatures, Thermochronometry, Vacuum.

Development of a Water-Balance Instrument Cluster for Mountain Hydrology, Biochemistry and Ecosystem Science
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Martha H Conklin($578,171), University of California - Merced, Merced
Key terms: Sierra Nevada Mountains, Instrument Cluster, Soil Moisture, Southern Sierra, Water Balance, Water Cycle, Water Resources, Comprehensive, Development, ECT, Has, Hydrologic, Hydrology, Measured, Network, Planned, Poorly, Prototype, Quantitative, Snow, Spatial, Students, Temperature, Uc-merced.

Acquisition of a Powder X-ray Diffractometer for Environmental and Materials Research at UC Merced
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Valerie J Leppert($187,407), University of California - Merced, Merced
Key terms: Environmental Chemistry, Uc Merced, Applications, Campus, Characterization, Detector, Engineering, Graduate, Instrument, Instrumentation, Nanoparticles, Phase, Population, Properties, Serve, Solid-state, Supported, Undergraduate, Users, X-ray, XRD.

Acquisition of Electron Microprobe Microanalyzer
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. David R Gaylord($630,000), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Analysis, Analytical, EMP, Genesis, Graduate, Idaho, Phases, Soil, Students, WSU, Washington.

Acquisition of a stable isotope ratio mass spectrometer for climate change research
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Matthew J Kohn($260,000), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Stable Isotope, Acquisition, Climate, Focus, IRMS, Pis, Training.

EOR: Reactive Melt Migration in the Lower Oceanic Crust in IODP Hole U1309D at the Atlantis Core Complex, 30°N, Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2006; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Eric Hellebrand($395,323), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Geochemical And Petrologic, Infiltration And Melt, Magma Infiltration, Melt Migration, Oceanic Crust, Education, Germany, Hawaii, IODP, International, Levels, Lower, Plan, Recovered, Ridge.

SGER: Collaborative Research: A Rapid Geophysical Response to the Great 2006 Tonga EQ
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Douglas A Wiens($24,614), Washington University, Saint Louis
2. Frederick W Taylor($19,667), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Broadband Seismic Array, Shallow Plate Tearing, Backarc Spreading, Island Arc, Postseismic Deformation, Subduction Zones, Aftershocks, Convergence, Coseismic, Coupling, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Established, Focal, GPS, Geophysicists, Has, Marianas, Megathrust, Movements, Rapid, Survey, Tonga.

Acquisition of a Multi-Collector ICP-MS for Marine and Terrestrial Geochemical Research
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Douglas G Pyle($700,000), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Isotopic Analyses, Isotopic Analysis, Analytical, Applications, Capabilities, Educational, Environmental, Geochemical, Instrument, Ionization, Local, MC-ICP-MS, MC-ICPMS, Mass, Nd, Ocean, Pb, Plasma, Recognized, SOEST, TIMS, UH, Volcanic.

Collaborative Research: Biogeochemical Controls on Antimony and Arsenic Mobility in a Siliceous Hydrothermal System
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: Other Global Learning & Trng

1. Philip C Bennett($129,956), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Annette S Engel($109,452), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Biogeochemical Controls, El Tatio, Precipitation Experiments, Toxic Metals, Water Quality, Water Resource, Biogeochemistry, Chemical, Composition, Discharge, Endolithic, Extreme, Geochemical, Geyser, Geyserite, Habitat, Hydrothermal, Influence, Insight, Laboratory, Methods, Microbial, Mobility, Natural, Parameters, Regional, Sb, Silica, Unknown, Villages.

Collaborative Research: Experimental Determination of Iron (Fe) Isotope Fractionations in Sulfide Minerals
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Brian L Beard($149,834), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Gregory K Druschel($149,725), University of Vermont & State Agricultural College, Burlington
3. Martin A Schoonen($150,869), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Aqueous And Mineral, Fe Isotope Compositions, Fe Isotope Fractionations, Kinetic And Equilibrium, Exchange Kinetics, Experimental Program, Fractionation Mechanisms, Isotope Geochemistry, Permil Range, Sulfide Minerals, Determining, Explore, Fe-s, Has, Hydrothermal, Iron, Isotopic, Species, Sulfides, Temperature.

Fluorine in Nominally Anhydrous Minerals from the Upper Mantle
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Richard L Hervig($149,769), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Behavior, Coefficients, Contents, Distribution, Experiments, Fluorine, Magmas, Mantle, Measure, Minerals, Nams, Olivine, Processes, Terrestrial, Trace, Volatile.

Temporal Evolution of Highly Siderophile Element Abundances in Earth's Mantle
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Igor Puchtel($220,968), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Absolute Abundances, Hse Characteristics, Mantle Sources, Attempt, Core, Earth, Evolution, Ga, Gorgona, Komatiite, Komatiites, Late, Oceanic, Osos.

Collaborative Research: Volatile Contents of Komatiites
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Erik H Hauri($73,033), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
2. Adam Kent($98,367), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Komatiite Water Contents, Broader Impacts, Greenstone Belt, Komatiite Magmas, Mantle Sources, Mass Spectrometry, Melt Inclusions, Volatile Contents, Abundances, Belingwe, CIW, Cl, Constraints, Degassing, Estimates, Evolution, Facilities, Foster, Geochemical, Involve, Komatiites, Low, OSU, Oregon, Pis, Potential, Primary, Thermal, Undergraduate, Undergraduates.

Volcanic-Plutonic Evolution Evaluated Using Zircon Growth Histories at Mt. St. Helens Volcano
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Calvin F Miller($189,635), Vanderbilt University, Nashville
Key terms: Mount St, Undergraduate Students, Analysis, Aspects, Behavior, Collaboration, Consequence, Critical, Crust, Dating, Elemental, Erupted, Eruption, Experience, Field, Gain, Has, Helens, Histories, History, Magma, Magmatic, Melt, Monitoring, Phd, Plumbing, Plutonic, Processes, Products, Time, Volcanic, Volcano, Zircon, Zircons.

Phase Relations in Aleutian Basaltic Andesites at 1 atm, 1, and 2kbar: The Effects of Changing XH2O
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Pavel E Izbekov($283,983), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Arc Basaltic Andesite, Basaltic Andesite Magmas, Prior Experimental Studies, Storage And Ascent, Fluid Compositions, Initially H2o-saturated, Magma Storage, Magmatic Fluid, AVO, Alaska, Changing, Compared, Crystallization, Decompression, Differentiation, Disseminated, Electron, Eruption, Experiments, Fraction, HO, Ho-saturated, Ho-undersaturated, Okmok, Phase, Processes, Student, Textures, Volcanoes, Westdahl, XHO.

Exploring the Hadean Earth
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Timothy M Harrison($320,347), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Hadean Eon, Akin, Billion, Lead, Million, Planets, Rock, Undertake, Zircons.

Rates and Mechanisms of Intracrystalline and Intergranular Diffusion
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. William D Carlson($232,796), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Diffusion Rates, Diffusional Modifications, Intergranular Diffusion, Metamorphic Reactions, Molecular-dynamics Simulation, Time Scales, Ability, Atoms, Chemical, Crystal, Crystals, Equilibration, Garnet, Geologic, High-temperature, Histories, Information, Knowledge, Mantle, Mechanisms, Minerals, Modeling, Objective, Processes, Produce, Read, Solid, Special, Structure, Temperatures, Theories, Trace.

Calorimetry Under Extreme Conditions
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Alexandra Navrotsky($549,999), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Heat Capacities, Berkeley, Calorimeters, Chip, Davis, Heats, Leading, Measured, Measuring, Mineral, Phase, Phases, Pressure, Processes, Properties, Reactions, Rely, Temperature, Thermodynamic, Transitions, UC.

Nb/Ta Fractionations as Tracer of Subduction
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Michael Bizimis($299,076), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Nb And Hf, Island Arc, Mass Balance, Oceanic Crust, Subduction Process, Analyses, Especially, Fractionate, Fractionation, Hidden, Mantle, Nbta, Precision, Reservoir, Students, Subducted, Ta, Teachers.

Rapid Decompression of Pressurized Magma and Laterally-Directed Blasts: Determining Required Initial Conditions and Predicting Hazards Using 3D Multi-Phase Numerical Simulations
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Barry Voight($240,056), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Numerical Models, Assessments, Behavior, Blast, Directed, Future, Hazards, Mt, Populations, Volcanic, Volcanoes, Volcanology.

Assessing Mechanisms and Rates of Crustal Assimilation and Fractionation From Compositional Heterogeneity in Monogenetic Eruptions
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Ingrid A Ukstins Peate($256,765), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Partially-melted Crustal Xenoliths, Basaltic Magmas, Crustal Assimilation, Laser Ablation, Melt Inclusions, Monogenetic Eruptions, Partially-melted Crustal, Pb Isotopes, AD, Composition, Compositional, Compositions, Constrain, Differentiation, Disequilibria, Extent, Fractionation, Iowa, Mantle, Processes, Rates, Rock, Stages, Students, Summer, Trace, Volcanic.

SGER: Reconciling U-series Ages of Major and Accessory Phases
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Kari M Cooper($35,601), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: 238u-230th Ages, Crystal Ages, Accessory, Domes, Exploratory, Magma, Phases, Processes, U-series, U-th, Zircon.

CAREER: Innovative (U-Th)/He Chronometry and Integration with Student Teaching and Research
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Peter W Reiners($77,146), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Faculty Mentors, Summer Workshops, Wide Range, Analytical, Applications, Approaches, Chronometric, Chronometry, Dating, Development, Experience, Facilitate, Innovative, Integration, Student, Students, Technique, U-thhe, Undergraduate, Yale.

Geochemical Consequences of Melt Channelization: Exploring New Models for U-Series Variability
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Marc W Spiegelman($154,980), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Melt And Solid, Chemical Transport, Computational Models, Melt Transport, Systematically Explore, Behavior, CIG, Channelized, Components, Coupled, Engineering, Extend, Extremely, Generation, Geophysical, Implications, Mantle, Melting, Nuclides, Observations, Observed, Processes, Promise, Reactive, Source, Stable, Trace, U-series.

Collaborative Research: Volatiles in Aleutian Arc Magmas
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Terry A Plank($165,370), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
2. Erik H Hauri($104,630), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Aleutian Volcanoes, Melt Inclusions, Subduction Zone, Water Contents, Alaska, Augustine, Boston, Collect, Crystals, HO, Magma, Magmas, Primary.

A Study of Magma Dynamics Using Short-Lived Radionuclides
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Mark K Reagan($69,425), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Magma Chamber, Mount St, Tectonic Settings, Volcanic Eruptions, Activity, Analyses, Chart, Collaboration, Crust, Crystallization, Degassing, Determined, Differences, Erupted, Helens, Information, Initial, Iowa, Kilauea, Lavas, Lead, MSH, Magmas, Mineral, Models, Nuclides, Pb, Plagioclase, Po, Processes, Ra, Time, Timing.

Collaborative Research: Cosmogenic 3He Dating of Accessory Minerals
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Douglas W Burbank($26,385), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
2. Kenneth A Farley($123,615), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Sphene And Zircon, Cosmogenic Dating, Dating Tool, Age, Apatite, Exposure, Glacial, Histories, Isotopes, Rate, Single, Time.

Evaluating the Processes and Timescales of Rhyolitic Differentiation
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Frank C Ramos($153,725), Central Washington University, Ellensburg
Key terms: Magmatic Timescales, Silicic Magmas, Activity, Assessment, Baitoushan, Combination, Effects, Eruption, Evolution, Future, Generation, Has, International, Involved, Isotopes, Isotopic, Korea, Processes, Volcanic, Volcano.

Volcanic Processes in Volatile-Rich Magmas: High Pressure Experiments on Amphibole-Plagiclase-Melt Equilibria and C-O-S-Cl-H
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Malcolm J Rutherford($215,931), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Gas Phase, Mount St, Subvolcanic Magma, Analytical, Arc, Assemblage, Composition, Compositions, Eruption, Helens, Information, Mafic, Magmas, Mpa, Obtained, Pressures, Previous, Rock, Task, Volcanic.

Origin of Very Voluminous, Strongly 18-O Depleted, High-Temperature Rhyolites of the Snake River Plain
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Peter B Larson($199,991), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Snake River Plain, Strong 18o Depletion, 18o Depletion, Strong 18o, Yellowstone Hotspot, Continent, Crust, Erupted, Formation, Granite, Magmas, Magmatic, Origin, Origins, Processes, Rhyolite, Rhyolites, Rock, Volcanic, Volume.

Assessing Diffusive Differentiation During Igneous Intrusion Using Integrated Theoretical, Experimental and Field Studies
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Stephen Marshak($269,816), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Igneous Plutons, Laboratory Experiments, Magma Differentiation, Thermal Gradient, Ability, Allow, Anisotropy, Chemical, Chemically, Conditions, Constrain, Crust, Crystals, Designed, Diffusion, Diffusion-reaction, Fe, Gradients, Has, Isotope, Isotopes, Isotopic, Li, Magmas, Mg, Models, Occurring, Presence, Processes, Ratios, Supercritical, Time.

Experimental Petrology of Planetary Materials
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. David Walker($483,630), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Core And Mantle, Outer Core, Planetary Differentiation, Planetary Interiors, Behavior, Chemically, Chemistry, Effects, Liquid, Partitioning, Pressure, Separation, Solubility, Solutions, Trace.

Collaborative Research: Diffusion of Helium in Calcite
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Peter Copeland($143,297), University of Houston, Houston
2. E. Bruce Watson($53,606), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
Key terms: Limestones And Marbles, Sedimentary Basins, Calcite, Diffusion, History, Investigations, Mineral, Potential, Rock, Temperature.

Collaborative Proposal: A Study of Experimental and Theoretical Electron Density Distribution and Bonded Interactions for Sulfide Minerals
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Charles T Prewitt($224,000), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Gerald V Gibbs($245,832), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Sulfide Crystal Chemistry, Bonded Interactions, Electron, Properties, Sulfides.

Development of Thermo-Kinetic Interpretative Models for Detrital Thermochronology
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Oscar M Lovera($175,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Arc Crust, Detrital Thermochronology, Southern Gulf, Thermal History, Baja, Basic, Benefits, CICESE, California, Capable, Code, Collaborators, Comprehensively, Constrain, Continent, Direct, Employ, Faulting, Graduate, Grove, Margin, Methods, Mexican, NAU, Numerical, Ongoing, Optimization, Program, SDSU, Students, Thermochronologic, Thesis, Time, Transient, U-thhe, UABCS, UCLA.

Defining the Hydrous Petrogenetic Grid: Experimental Constraints on Primitive Hydrous Magmas
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Gordon M Moore($300,539), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Melting Process, Silica Activity, Volatile Components, Arcs, Conditions, Contents, Experimental, HO, Hydrous, Influence, Initial, Knowledge, Magmas, Mantle, Melts, Processes, Range, Resulting, Rock, Significantly, Temperature, Volcanic, Volcanoes.

Experimental Investigation of the Blueschist to Greenschist Facies Transition
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. David M Jenkins($181,068), SUNY at Binghamton, Binghamton
Key terms: Quartz =, Albite, Blueschist-facies, Chlorite, Define, Earth, Glaucophane, Kyanite, Model, Paragonite, Pressure-temperature, Reaction, Reactions, Rock, Stability, Talc, Transition, Water, Water-conserving.

Physical Properties of Bubble- and Crystal-Bearing Melts and their Implications for Eruption Dynamics: Theoretical, Experimental and Field-Based Studies
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Michael Manga($173,818), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Bubbles, Conduit, Controls, Degassing, Dynamics, Effects, Effusive, Eruption, Experimental, Explosive, Features, Flow, Fragmentation, Magma, Modeling, Models, Processes, Products, Rheology, Vesiculation, Volatile, Volcanic.

Causes of Re-Os Isotopic Variations in High-Temperature Sulfide Mineral Assemblages: Insights From the Duluth Complex-Virginia Formation System
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Edward M Ripley($240,715), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Magmatic Sulfide Mineralization, Re-os Isotopic Studies, Contact Aureole, Country Rock, Duluth Complex, Ore Deposits, Re-os Isotopic, Sulfide Minerals, Assimilation, Broader, Characterized, Contamination, Cores, Crust, Crustally, Essential, Fluid, Fluids, Formation, Found, Has, Interaction, Intrusive, Mafic, Magmas, Mantle-derived, Radiogenic, Sulfur.

Expanding the Capabilities of Ar-Ar Dating Using Ne Isotopes
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Chris M Hall($72,226), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Argon-argon Dating Method, Argon Isotopes, Argon-argon Dating, Neon Isotopes, Nuclear Reactions, Analyzing, Chemical, Detected, Directly, Extension, Feldspar, Fluorine, Has, Looking, Magnesium, Methods, Mineral, Minerals, Modern, Potassium, Potential, Powerful, Quantities, Sodium, Time, Tool.

Multiphysics Modeling and Terascale Simulations of Volcanic Blasts Over Complex Terrains
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Andreas Haselbacher($285,000), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Volcanic Eruptions, Catastrophic, Developed, Model, Resulting.

Determining the Processes Responsible for Lithium Isotope Fractionation
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. William F McDonough($290,000), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Isotope Fractionation Accompanying, Lithium Isotope Fractionation, Lithium Isotopic Fractionation, Granite Differentiation, Isotopic Composition, Lithium Diffusion, Lithium Isotopes, Regional Metamorphism, Crust, Fluid, Fractionations, Grades, Granulite, Has, Mantle, Potential, Processes, Rock, Temperatures, Terrains, Unclear, Xenoliths.

Support for an International Conference: Granulites and Granulites 2006
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Michael Brown($10,000), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Brasilia, Brazil, Conference, Countries, Crust, Evolution, Field, Granulites, Metamorphic, Opportunity, Region, Students.

Experimental Study of HC1 in Magmatic-Hydrothermal Systems
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Mark R Frank($161,754), Northern Illinois University, Dekalb
Key terms: Influence Mineral, Mineral Alteration, Ore Deposits, Activity, Experimental, Extent, Fluid, Graduate, Hcl, High-temperature, Igneous, Magmatic-hydrothermal, Metal, Metals, Phase, Phases, Student, Supercritical, Temperatures, Volatile.

Experimental Investigations on the Role of H2O in Magmatic Processes
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Timothy L Grove($359,565), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Arc Magmas, Basaltic Melts, Experimental Studies, Fractional Crystallization, H2o Content, Allow, Amounts, Broad, Composition, Conditions, Crust, Earth, Effects, Experiments, HO, Has, Importance, Influence, Information, Liquidus, Magmatic, Mantle, Melting, Meltingcrystallization, Mineral, Models, Pre-eruptive, Pressure, Processes, Quantitative, Range, Temperature, Time.

Collaborative Research: Crystal-Scale Histories of Magma Evolution from Zircon T-X-t
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Mary R Reid($119,867), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
2. Jorge A Vazquez($118,516), The University Corporation, Northridge, Northridge
Key terms: Silicic Magmas, Crust, Crystal, Crystals, Eruption, Evolution, Geothermometer, Growth, Has, History, Magmatic, Prior, Students, Tree-rings, Zircons, Zoning.

Understanding the Diverse Isotopic Record of Volcanism in Kamchatka
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Ilya N Bindeman($279,610), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Oxygen Isotope Depletions, Radiogenic Isotope, Allow, Caldera-forming, Centers, Constrain, International, Investigation, Kamchatka, Largest, Pleistocene, Rock, Student, Subarctic, Volcanic, Volcanism.

OH in Rutile: An Oxygen and Water Barometer
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Elizabeth A Johnson($249,090), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Nominally Anhydrous Minerals, Diffusion Experiments, Fluid Composition, Mineral Assemblages, Oxygen Fugacity, Water Activity, Difficult, Has, Hydrogen, Hydroxyl, Mantle, Model, OH, Oxidation, Rutile, Structure, Ti.

Collaborative Research: Spatiotemporal Evolution of the Neogene Ignimbrite Flare-up in the Altiplano-Puna Volcanic Complex, Central Andes: Insights into the Development of Large
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Bradley S Singer($100,355), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Shanaka L de Silva($191,994), University of North Dakota Main Campus, Grand Forks
Key terms: 40ar39ar Geochronology, Correlation Techniques, Volcanic Complex, APVC, Activity, Arar, Colleague, Disseminated, Episodic, Eruption, Explosive, Framework, Ignimbrite, International, Knowledge, Magmatic, Paleomagnetic, Program, Student, Students, Training, Was.

MARGINS: Cl Isotope Systematics of Neogene Izu Arc Volcanic Rocks
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Susanne M Straub($107,569), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Izu Bonin Arc, Arc Volcanoes, Cl Isotopes, Deep-sea Trenches, Explosive Eruptions, Oceanic Crust, Serpentinite Formation, Subduction Factory, Subduction Zones, Analysis, Arcs, Atmosphere, Chemistry, Components, Cycle, Deep-sea, Destruction, Fluxes, Geosciences, HO, Indonesia, Influence, MARGINS, Mantle, Potential, Processing, Promote, Rock, Serpentinization, Slab, Susanne, Volatile, Volcanic, Water.

MARGINS: Dynamics of the Mariana Subduction Factory Determined From Seismic Observations and Geodynamic Modeling
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Douglas A Wiens($201,579), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Arc And Backarc, Shear Wave Splitting, Geodynamic Modeling, Mantle Flow, Mantle Wedge, Mariana Arc, Analysis, Available, Body, Development, Female, Has, LPO, Magma, Melt, Models, Observations, Obtain, Phd, Processes, Regions, Seismic, Seismological, Structure, Students, Temperature, Thermal, Tomographic, Water.

40Ar/39Ar K-feldspar Thermochronology: Exploring Argon Transport
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Matthew T Heizler($199,949), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Argon Systematics, Argon Transport, Continued Evaluation, K-feldspar Thermochronology, Western Usa, Analysis, Arar, Ca, Characterization, Domains, Effort, Episodes, Extensive, Graduate, Growing, Growth, Has, K-feldspar, MDD, Method, Microtextures, Mineralogical, Model, Numerous, Parsons, Pis, Regional, Towards.

Collaborative Research: Violent Basaltic Explosive Volcanism II: Constraints and Conditions of Basaltic Plinian Eruptions
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Bruce F Houghton($184,958), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. James E Gardner($105,000), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Basaltic Magma, Future Eruptions, Plinian Eruptions, Ascent, BC, Conditions, Constrain, Etna, Experimental, Explosive, Hawaii, Italy, Melt, Population, Subplinian, Techniques, Texas, Workshop.

Li Isotope Studies of Mantle Xenoliths From the SW USA
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. David R Bell($250,000), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Li Isotope, Composition, Contribute, Determined, Fluids, Individual, Lili, Mantle, Minerals, Processes, SIMS, Student, Xenoliths.

Volcanic Sources of Volatile Platinum Group Elements
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink($270,000), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Pge Abundance, Pge Concentrations, Pge Sources, Urban Air, Volatile Pge, Volcanic Aerosols, Vulcan Masaya, Analyses, Environment, Extraterrestrial, Geochemical, Indicate, Magmatic, Nicaragua, Os, Particles, Preliminary, Reospge, Typical, Unique, Volatility, Volcano.

Collaborative Research: The Nitrogen Isotope Systematics of the Icelandic Mantle
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. David R Hilton($180,000), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Tobias P Fischer($239,340), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Nitrogen Isotopic Composition, 3he4he Ratios, Abundant Gas, Deep Mantle, Earth's Atmosphere, Earth's Mantle, Ocean Island, Cycles, DMM, Degassing, Depleted, Dn, Gases, Glasses, Has, Hehe, Interior, Isotopes, MORB, Mil, Mixing, OIB, Positive, Primordial, Recycling, Signature, Signatures, Submarine, Surface, Time, Values, Volatile.

Cities On Volcanoes 4: Advanced Understanding of Volcanic Hazard Mitigation for Graduate Students
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Bruce F Houghton($28,300), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Conference, Context, Emergency, Gain, Hazard, Managers, Meeting, Monitoring, Opportunity, Participation, Students, Unique, Volcanology.

Development of an Intelligent Aid in Lithostratigraphic Correlation
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Marcus I Bursik($204,318), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Aid, Broad, Correlation, Eruption, Intelligent, Layers, Organize, Stratigraphers, Stratigraphic, Techniques, Tephra.

Collaborative Research: Using the Products of Volcano-Ice Interaction to Constrain Paleo-Ice Conditions
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Benjamin R Edwards($155,745), Dickinson College, Carlisle
2. Ian Skilling($197,958), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Pleistocene Ice Conditions, British Columbia, Volcano-ice Interaction, Analysis, CIS, Constrain, Deposits, Glaciovolcanic, Glaciovolcanism, Intermediate-silicic, Mafic, Methodology, Volcanic, Volcano-ice.

CAREER: Rates and Timescales of Metamorphic Reactions at Convergent Plate Boundaries
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Ethan F Baxter($522,996), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Rates And Timescales, Metamorphic Reactions, Outreach Program, Robot Program, School Students, Subduction Zone, Volatile Release, Zoned Garnets, Analytical, Appreciation, BU, England, Experience, Facility, Field, Field-based, Involves, Mineral, Modeling, Own, Plan, Predictions, Processes, Quantification, Settings, Teaching, Transport, Undergraduate, Undergraduates.

A Laser Ablation ICPMS-Based Study of Postcumulus Processes in Hydrous and Dry Mafic Cumulates
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. William P Meurer($0), University of Houston, Houston
Key terms: Crystal Pile, Analyses, Apatite, Chemical, Compositional, Crystallized, Cumulates, Eriksberg, Evolution, Formed, Host, Interstitial, LA-ICPMS, Liquid, Mineral, Minerals, Oikocrysts, Postcumulus, Processes, Resources, Rock, Stillwater, Trace, Trace-element, Volatile.

Collaborative Proposal: Molybdenum Isotopes as Paleoredox Proxies
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: SCEC

1. Timothy W Lyons($21,738), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Black Sea, Black Shale, Euxinic Conditions, Euxinic Sediments, Isotopically Lighter, Laboratory Experiments, Mcarthur Basin, Mo Isotope, Mo Isotopes, Ocean Redox, Approaches, Barling, Bottom, Boundary, Complementary, Composition, Consistent, Devonian, Expected, Findings, Fractionated, Fractionation, Geochemical, Importance, Indicators, Mn-oxyhydroxides, Modeling, Oceans, Oxic, Paleoredox, Periods, Seawater, Sequences, Similar, Specifically, Stratigraphic, Time, Uptake.

"COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Compositional and thermal variations in the mantle transition zone from integrated seismological and petrological investigations"
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Yingwei Fei($172,382), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
2. Yang Shen($264,171), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Mantle Transition Zone, Continental Roots, High-pressure Experiments, Phase Transformation, Seismic Discontinuities, Seismic Observations, Velocity Structure, Analyses, Approaches, Beneath, Composition, Depth, Has, High-pressure, Hotspot, Images, Method, Near, Southern, Tectonic, Temperature, Thickness, Water.

Density of Silicate Liquids at the Core-Mantle Boundary
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Paul D Asimow($600,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Core-mantle Boundary, Lower Mantle, Melting Curve, Constrain, Constraint, Core-mantle, Determinations, EOS, Equation, Experimental, Liquids, Mgo, Mgsio, Molten, Perovskite, Phase, Pressure, Pressures, Program, Shock, Shocked, Silicate, Sufficient, Velocity, Zones.

Collaborative Research: A Study of Deep Subduction Integrating Broadband Seismology and Mineral Physics
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Michael R Brudzinski($203,820), Miami University, Oxford
2. Harry W Green($325,000), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
3. Wang-Ping Chen($165,021), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Mantle Transition Zone, Computer Simulations, Deep Earthquakes, Earth's Interior, Lower Mantle, Plate Subduction, Rapidly Subducting, Seismic Observations, Subducted Plates, Subducting Plates, Subduction Zones, Cold, Collaborative, Component, Context, Density, Depth, Experimental, Focused, Focusing, Has, Interaction, Investigating, Issues, Laboratory, Natural, Nature, Properties, Rock, Training, Travel.

CSEDI Collaborative Research: Geochemical Structure and Dynamics of the Mantle Below the East African Rift System
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Peter E van Keken($84,073), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. Julia G Bryce($72,178), University of New Hampshire, Durham
3. Tanya Furman($95,459), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
4. David W Graham($44,035), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Geochemical And Isotopic, Dynamical Models, Isotope Geochemistry, Upper Mantle, African, Collaboration, Deep, Depth, Distribution, EARS, Formation, Generation, Information, Melt, Numerical, Observed, Plume, Predict, Temperature, Timing, Volcanism.

Participant costs for the 10th Symposium of SEDI
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Catherine Constable($25,005), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Earths Deep Interior, Core-mantle Boundary, Lower Mantle, Contribute, Core-mantle, Dynamics, Dynamo, Evolution, Interdisciplinary, International, Meeting, Plumes, SEDI, Structure, Surface.

CSEDI Collaborative Research: Optical investigations of a mantle plume laboratory model
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Stanley R Hart($191,772), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Aline Cotel($320,978), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Mantle Plumes, Ocean Island, Particle Image, Plume Breakup, Composition, Concept, Experiments, Flow, Fluid, Flux, Geochemical, Isotopic, Issues, Large-scale, Measure, Pis, Relates, Remain, Signatures, Structure, Surface, Thermal.

Salvage Excavation of an Extraordinary Pliocene Fossil Deposit in Florida
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Richard C Hulbert($55,000), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Finding, Florida, Has, Increasing, Individuals, Pis, Pliocene, Produced, Rare, Recovered, Site, Skeletons, Taxa.

SGER: Fringelites: Fossil Organic Molecules as a Proxy for Phylogeny in Paleozoic Crinoids
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. William I Ausich($19,790), Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE, Columbus
Key terms: Biomarker Molecules, Crinoid Phylogeny, Fossil Crinoids, Organic Molecules, Phylogenetic Analysis, Species-specific Coloration, Analyzed, Europe, Extracts, Fossils, Mississippian, Modern, North, Paleozoic, Presence, Species-specific, Trees, Trends.

Generation of a Late Cambrian-Early Carboniferous conodont-based ?18O curve: Paleozoic climates, phosphate ?18O diagenesis, and conodont paleobiology
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Kenneth MacLeod($125,000), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Compare D18o Values, Compare D18o, Conodont D18o, D18o Values, Housed, Missouri, Multiple, Oxygen, Paleozoic, Phosphate, Pis, Preservation, Robust, Spanning, Taxa, Times.

Productivity, stability, and geomorphological evolution of New England salt marshes: Plum Island case study
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Lincoln F Pratson($120,685), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Salt Marshes, Sea Level, Sea-level Rise, Storm Abatement, Tidal Currents, Changing, Developed, Ecological, Erosion, Evolution, Habitat, Influence, Influences, Land, Model, Networks, Ranging, Rates, Region, Sea-level, Sediment, Societal, Supply, Vegetation, Water.

Establishing a Critical Zone Exploration Network: A Proposal to Fund People and Sites
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Timothy S White($339,956), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Critical Zone Scientists, Weathering And Critical, Zone Exploration Network, Field Observatories, Request Funding, Seed Grants, Allow, Aspect, CZEN, Chemists, Collect, Developed, Eight, Government, Groundwater, Has, Investigate, Observatory, Processes, Specialists, Students, Systematic, Travel, WSSC.

An Exploration of the Role of Mountain River Sinuosity in Landscape Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Niels Hovius($317,842), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Japan And Taiwan, Mountain Landscapes, Bedrock, Broad, Climatic, Discharge, Effects, Evolution, Flood, Frequency, Morphology, Pursue, Range, Rivers, Sinuosity, Typhoon.

Collaborative Research: Development of Informatics Infrastructure for the Hydrologic Sciences
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2004; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Ilya Zaslavsky($1,271,221), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Cuahsi Hydrologic Information, Diego Supercomputer Center, San Diego Supercomputer, Digital Watersheds, Hydrologic Scientists, Integrative Hydrologic, Advance, Available, Broader, Built, Datasets, Developed, Enable, Intellectual, Long-term, Model, Planning, Prototype, Sources, Synthesizes.

Constraining Geological and Macroevolutionary Patterns and Processes during the Phanerozoic
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Shanan E Peters($75,093), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Temporal And Spatial, Diverse Array, Entire Geologic, Gap-bound Packages, Animal, Comprehensive, Database, Environmental, Fossil, Gap-bound, History, Information, North, Objectives, Primary, Processes, Quantifying, Resolution, Rock, Sedimentary, Web.

SGER: A Method to Sequence Novel Peptides from Unsequenced Taxa: Soft tissue of the 68M Year Old Tyrannosaurus rex
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. John M Asara($112,736), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston
Key terms: Mass Spectrometry Based, Tandem Mass Spectra, Genomic Content, Protein Sequences, Analysis, Bioinformatics, Database, Fossil, Fossils, Generated, Has, Information, Levels, Method, Molecular, Organisms, Peptide, Peptides, Phylogeny, Proteins, Rex, Sequenced, Sequencing, Taxa, Taxon, Unique.

Collaborative Research: Effects of Climatic/Environmental Change on Early Eocene Mammal Fauna of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Kenneth D Rose($147,031), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
2. Amy Chew($84,963), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Central Bighorn Basin, Willwood Formation, Climaticenvironmental, Eocene, Faunal, Faunas, Intervals, Mammals, Paleoceneeocene, Turnover, Wyoming.

Did Deep Waters Form at High Latitudes During the Late Cretaceous Greenhouse?
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Deborah J Thomas($155,585), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Deep Waters Formed, Intermediate And Deep-water, Pole Thermal Gradients, Poleward Heat Transport, Climate Intervals, Deep-water Provenance, Greenhouse Climate, Late Cretaceous, Southern Ocean, Activities, Atmospheric, Circulation, Climates, Composition, Drilling, Equator, Extreme, Fish, Global, Intermediate-, Isotope, Latitudes, Low, Meridional, Oceanic, Periods, Students, Targeted, Warm, Warmth.

Geoinformatics: Collaborative Research: Late Neogene Terrestrial Ecosystem Database
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. John W Williams($435,010), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Eric C Grimm($162,595), Illinois State Museum Society, Springfield
Key terms: Late Neogene Terrestrial, Neogene Terrestrial Ecosystem, Terrestrial Ecosystem Database, Existing Databases, Web Servicing, Archive, Context, Critical, Facilitate, Fossil, Infrastructure, Management, Modern, Paleobiological, Suitable.

Closing the African Gap-Cretaceous and Paleogene Paleontology in the Rukwa Rift Basin, Southwestern Tanzania
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Eric M Roberts($265,163), Ohio University, Athens
Key terms: Cretaceous And Paleogene, Rukwa Rift Basin, Gondwanan Vertebrates, Analysis, Audiences, Biogeographic, Competing, Concerning, Cretaceous-tertiary, Deposits, Developing, Discoveries, Distribution, Evolution, Exhibit, Expeditions, Field, Fossil, Fossils, Framework, Paleobiogeographic, Phylogenetic, Resources, Strata, Students, Tanzania, Tertiary, Testing.

High-resolution chronostratigrahic studies of the Triassic-Jurassic biotic crisis
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Roland Mundil($59,932), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
Key terms: Upb And 40ar39ar, Biotic Crisis, Marine Sections, Realistic Evaluation, Accurate, Arar, Calibration, Environments, Extinction, Geochronology, Land, Minerals, Ocean, Potential, Terrestrial, Time, Tr-j, Triassic-jurassic, Was.

GEOINFORMATICS: Morphobank, Web-Based Systematics Software and Archive for Transforming the Study of Fossils in Contemporary Geoscience Research
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Maureen A O'Leary($196,335), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Fossil And Living, Homology Statements, Matrix Editor, Archive, Characters, Collaborative, Collection, Features, Formats, Image, Images, Matrices, Morphobank, Morphological, Morphology, Organisms, Paleontological, Paleontologists, Phylogenetics, Pis, Species, Systematics, Time, Tools, Web, Workspace.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Testing climate-controlled endemism in equatorial Pangea
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Christian A Sidor($194,216), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Neil M Tabor($70,009), Southern Methodist University, Dallas
Key terms: Middle And Upper, Central Pangea, Climate Models, Lower Permian, Permian Rocks, Permian Terrestrial, South Africa, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Upper Permian, Constrain, Exist, Fossil, Has, Niger, Paleoequator, Pis, Plant, Region, Regions, Represent, Russia, Tetrapod, Texas.

Collaborative Research: Segment development in select trilobite species - glimpses into the evolution of body organization in an early arthropod clade
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Nigel C Hughes($178,000), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
2. H. David Sheets($20,870), Canisius College, Buffalo
Key terms: Aulacopleura Konincki, Body Patterning, Apparently, Arthropod, Clade, Control, Controls, Development, Developmental, EDH, Euarthropod, Euarthropoda, Has, Involve, Mature, Ontogeny, Region, Segmentation, Segments, Shape, Trilobite, Trunk, Was.

The Earth System Context for Hominin Evolution
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. David Feary($470,240), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Hominin Evolution, Context, Council, Describe, National, OCE, Priority, Program, SBE, Strategies.

The Importance of Deep-Time Geologic Records for Understanding Climate Change Impacts
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. David Feary($367,305), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Deep-time Geologic, Particular Emphasis, Council, Deep-time, Knowledge, National, Opportunities, Paleoclimate, Priority, Program.

Quantitative estimates of paleo-aridity using stable isotopes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Francis H Brown($175,000), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Water Deficit, Amount, Compared, Enriched, Evaporated, Evaporation, Giraffe, Highly, Hippopotamus, Isotope, Method, Non-evaporated, Paleo-aridity, Past, Regions, Represent, Source, Stable, Water-deficit.

A Geosystems Approach to Paleobotany, Isotope Geochemistry, and Paleoecology of the Late Oligocene Chilga Deposits, Northwest Ethiopian Plateau
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Bonnie F Jacobs($322,133), Southern Methodist University, Dallas
Key terms: Paleosols And Isotopes, Plant Fossils, Vertebrate Fossils, Africa, Ago, Assemblages, Available, Chilga, Climate, Co-funded, Document, Ecology, Engineering, Estimates, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Field, Forests, International, Landscape, Leaf, Million, Office, Past, Pis, Precipitation, Site, Students, Tropical, Wood.

Middle and Upper Devonian Black Shales: Testing the Productivity-Anoxia Feedback and Land Plant-Weathering Rate Hypotheses
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Lorenz Schwark($189,999), University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati
Key terms: Land Plant-weathering Rate, Land Plant-weathering, Model Invokes, Plant-weathering Rate, Primary Productivity, Productivity-anoxia Feedback, Alberta, Algeo, Based, Controls, Development, Devonian, Elevated, Marine, Middle, Models, Nutrients, Pis, Processes, Productivity-anoxia, Public.

MicroRNAs and Metazoan Evolution
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Charles N Cole($128,806), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Complex Body Plans, Non-coding Rna Molecules, Acoel Flatworm, Non-coding Rna, Animal, Annelid, Cnidarian, Cnidarians, Evolution, Found, Metazoan, Micrornas, Mirnas, Mollusc, Organs, Pis, Set, Shared, Specific, Sponges.

Collaborative Research: Radiocarbon Dating of North American Terrestrial Gastropod Shells
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Jeffrey S Pigati($81,384), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Jason A Rech($93,400), Miami University, Oxford
3. Jeffrey C Nekola($33,346), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Reliable 14c Ages, 14c Ages, Avoid Limestone, Environmental Conditions, Gastropod Shells, Reliable 14c, Remain Closed, Terrestrial Gastropods, Building, Carbon, Dead, Diverse, Ecological, Fossil, Jeffrey, Local, North, Pis, Regardless, Sediments, Species, Taxa, Taxonomic.

RUI: Widespread Onshore Effects of Early Late Devonian, Marine Alamo Impact Event, Central Great Basin, Western U.S.
Award Effective Date: 08/10/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Jared R Morrow($95,965), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
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.

Developing and Integrating Online Taxonomic Databases for 21st Century Paleobiology; Durham North Carolina; August 24-26, 2006
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Patricia G Gensel($37,500), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Taxonomic Databases, Biological, Developed, Developing, Fossil, Information, Interoperability, Living, Organisms, Paleontological, Promote, Time, Workshop.

Experimental Mudstone Sedimentology: Evolving Methodology, Measuring Thresholds and Rates, Investigating Processes
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. John B Southard($270,993), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Mud Deposition, Ancient, Clay, Conditions, Flume, Mudstones, Parameters, Pis, Rock, Sedimentary.

Transport times and ages of Quaternary fine-grained terrestrial sediments using U series isotopes
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Donald J DePaolo($195,046), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Advanced, Climate, Deposits, Education, Graduate, Has, Processes, Sediment, Sedimentary, Sediments, Students, Time, Transport, Women.

Collaborative Research: Response of Mammalian Survivors to the Late Pleistocene Extinction Event
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Elizabeth A Hadly($63,120), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Pleistocene Extinction, Biodiversity, California, Climatic, Fossil, Future, Human, Investigate, Perspective, Public, Species, Survived, Survivors.

SGER: Timely Excavation of an Upper Cretaceous Fossil-Lagerstatte, Eastern Alabama
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Ronald D Lewis($24,878), Auburn University, Auburn
Key terms: Extremely Rare, Ingersoll Shale, Plant Macrofossils, Rare Fossils, Upper Cretaceous, Abundant, Amber, Assemblage, Biota, Deposit, Discovery, Diverse, Excavation, Exists, Feather, Feathered, Feathers, Flora, Found, Has, Marine, Preservation, Property, Proteinaceous, Remains, Specimens, Vertebrates, Well-preserved, Yielded.

Collaborative: The Paleontology Portal
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Robert M Ross($56,535), Paleontological Research Institute, Ithaca
2. Dale A Springer($37,773), COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Bloomsburg
Key terms: Collections Portal Search, Portal Search Software, Multiple Audiences, Access, Additional, Building, Content, Database, Development, Effort, Format, Functionality, Has, Information, Interactive, Museum, Paleontological, Paleoportal, Resources, Sites, Students, Teachers.

Dental Morphology and Variation in Theropod Dinosaurs
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Joshua B Smith($0), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Bones And Teeth, Predatory Dinosaur Teeth, Dental Morphology, Isolated Bones, Isolated Tooth, Particular Species, Standard Dataset, Animals, Compare, Confidently, Correlate, Facilitate, Fossils, Has, Means, Methods, Quantitative, Serve, Vertebrate.

Collaborative Proposal: The Paleontology Portal
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. David R Lindberg($428,598), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Collections Portal Search, Portal Search Software, Multiple Audiences, Access, Additional, Building, Content, Database, Development, Effort, Format, Functionality, Has, Information, Interactive, Museum, Paleontological, Paleoportal, Resources, Sites, Students, Teachers.

Stratigraphy and sedimentology of South American foreland basin lakes: Keys to deciphering climatic and tectonic controls on lacustrine deposition in ancient foreland basins
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Peter G DeCelles($30,000), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Lacustrine Stratigraphic Architecture, Foreland Basin, Foreland Basins, Topographic Closure, Accumulate, Ancient, Andean, Approach, Characterization, Collaborators, Detail, Evolution, Excellent, Expertise, Handling, Hypersaline, Input, Integrated, Lake, Lakes, Modeling, Modern, Panel, Pis, Prior, Quickly, Rates, Sampling, Sedimentologic, Simulation, Synthesis, Tectonic, Time.

"COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Understanding Climate Change During the Final Stages of Late Paleozoic Gondwanan Glaciation - An Integrated Data-Model Study"
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Mark D Schmitz($362,495), Boise State University, Boise
2. Christopher J Poulsen($221,109), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
3. Neil M Tabor($135,231), Southern Methodist University, Dallas
4. Isabel P Montañez($319,283), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Late Paleozoic Climate, Late Paleozoic Gondwanan, Global Climate, Ice Sheets, Volcanic Tuffs, Atmospheric, Basins, Comparison, Continent, Dating, Davydov, Designed, Eastern, Evolution, Existing, Framework, Greenhouse, Link, Linkages, Marine, Multiple, Pco, Proxy, Quantitative, Recently, Resolution, Students, Successions, Terrestrial, Transition, Undergraduate, Unprecedented.

Collaborative research: Paleobiology and exinction of mammoths in northern Siberia and Wrangel Island
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. David L Fox($210,000), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
2. Daniel C Fisher($215,000), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Ice Age, Mammoth Tusks, Reproductive History, Wrangel Island, Ago, Analyses, Aspects, Climate, Collaborative, Conditions, Cores, Diet, Dramatic, Environmental, Extinction, Layers, Mammoths, Michigan, Migratory, Minnesota, Multiple, Northeast, Process, Siberia, Specimens, Typical, Univ.

Collaborative Research: The Paleontology Portal
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. John Flynn($52,560), American Museum Natural History, New York
Key terms: Collections Portal Search, Portal Search Software, Multiple Audiences, Access, Additional, Building, Content, Database, Development, Effort, Format, Functionality, Has, Information, Interactive, Museum, Paleontological, Paleoportal, Resources, Sites, Students, Teachers.

SGER: Salvage Excavation of the Tarkio Valley Ground Sloth, Page County, Iowa
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. David J Brenzel($8,114), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Caudal, Complete, Dig, Has, Iowa, Media, Megalonyx, Phases, Recovery, Remains, Sloth, Specimen, Was.

Fossil Microbes from the Rhynie Chert Lagerstatte
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Thomas N Taylor($385,000), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Rhynie Chert Lagerstatte, Fossil Microbes, Ancient, Associations, Cyanobacteria, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Examine, Functions, Fungal, Fungi, Interaction, Interactions, Levels, Microorganisms, Organisms, Organs, Pis, Plant, Plants, RC, Various.

Collaborative Research: RUI: Stratigraphic test of the tectonic assembly of equatorial peri-Gondwanaland: a Himalayan perspective
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Paul Myrow($121,396), Colorado College, Colorado Springs
2. Nigel C Hughes($159,494), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Analysis, Burma, Eastern, Field, Graduate, Himalaya, Outboard, Peri-gondwanan, Regions, Students, Terranes, Thailand, Vietnam, Western.

Collaborative Research: Late Devonian Tetapodomorph Fishes and the Origin of Tetrapods
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Neil H Shubin($325,001), University of Chicago, Chicago
2. Edward B Daeschler($274,568), Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia, Philadelphia
Key terms: Ellesmere Island, Fish-tetrapod Transition, Late Devonian, Limbed Animals, Additional, Biological, Diversity, Earliest, Environmental, Evolutionary, Field, Fish-tetrapod, Fishes, Fossils, Habitats, Origin, Pennsylvania, Pis, Plants, Relatives, Tetrapods, Vertebrates.

Ediacara Fossils Preserved in Ediacaran Bituminous Limestone
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Shuhai Xiao($49,992), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Bituminous Limestone, Complex Macroorganisms, Dengying Ediacara, Dengying Formation, Ediacara Assemblage, Ediacara Fossils, South China, Yangtze Gorges, Ago, Earliest, Ediacaran, Evolution, Has, Investigation, Million, Morphological.

Collaborative Research: An Absolute Chronology of the Southernmost Advances of the Laurentide Ice Sheet
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. John O Stone($91,854), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Cosmogenic Nuclide, Advances, Climate, Continent, Correlating, Dated, Dating, Extensive, Glaciations, Has, Ice, Information, Little, Mapping, Technique, Tills.

Interpreting the Dispersal Characteristics of Widespread Volcanic Ash Marker Horizons in the Geologic Record
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. John T Merrill($165,396), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Widespread Volcanic Ash, Stratospheric Transport, Toba Tuff, Account, Carried, Critical, Deposition, Dispersal, Distribution, Eruption, Formation, Geologic, Horizons, Layers, Model, Particle, Simulations.

SGER: Search for a Indian Ocean Paleotsunami Record Along the Andaman Coast, Thailand
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Matthew E Kirby($19,475), CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation, Fullerton
Key terms: Andaman Coast, Indian Ocean, Paleotsunami Deposits, Previous Tsunamis, Rapidly Developing, Resort Development, Sumatran Trench, Tsunami Hazard, CSUF, Chronology, Coastal, Core, Cores, Environments, Existence, Expertise, Has, Holocene, International, Phuket, Pis, Region, Sedimentary, Sites, Suitable, Thai, Thailand, Threatens, Traps, Variety, Warning, Was.

Funding for Workshop on Paleoenvironmental Proxies; San Francisco, CA
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Clark M Johnson($26,289), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Approaches, Cores, Directions, Future, Modern, Proxy, Requested, Workshop.

Simulating the Response of High-Rise Buildings to Great and Giant Subduction Earthquakes
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: Structural and Architectural E

1. Thomas H Heaton($138,398), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Cascadia Subduction Zone, Ground Motions, High-rise Buildings, Strong Motion, Tokachi-oki Earthquake, Current, Earthquakes, Expected, Greens, Has, High-rise, Hokkaido, Simulate, Steel, Strongly, Tokachi-oki, Waves.

Using 230Th/U Dating of Pedogenic Carbonate to Provide a Time-Axis for Slip on the Elsinore Fault, Southern California
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: Tectonics

1. Warren D Sharp($121,660), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
Key terms: Fault Slip Rates, San Andreas Fault, Dating Geologically, Seismic Hazards, Southern California, Unprecedented Insight, Crust, Deformation, Determining, Earthquakes, Extend, Faults, Geodetic, Landforms, Offset, Past, Plate, Regions, Societal, Strata, Time, Timescale, Timescales.

Integrated Geologic and Geodetic Study of Strain Accumulation and Release in the Northern Walker Lane
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: Tectonics

1. Cornelis Kreemer($334,853), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Basin And Range, Northern Walker Lane, San Andreas Fault, Eastern California, Intra-continental Setting, Plate Boundary, Strain Accumulation, Western Basin, Complete, Difference, Earthquake, Earthscope, Faults, Geodetic, Geologic, Intra-continental, Lake, Motion, Neotectonic, Nevada, Obtain, Rates, Region, Relative, Release, Seen.

Collaborative Research: Identifying the Limitations and Expanding the Utility of Detrital Mineral U-Pb Geochronology to Tectonic Studies
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: Tectonics

1. Scott D Samson($149,806), Syracuse University, Syracuse
2. David P Moecher($147,465), University of Kentucky Research Foundation, Lexington
Key terms: Detrital Mineral, Detrital Minerals, Detrital Zircon, Age, Ages, Analyzing, Available, Belt, Compared, Conventional, Cycle, History, Metamorphic, Orogen, Orogenic, Potential, Tectonic.

A Four-Dimensional Geodynamic Reconstruction of Cenozoic Tectonics in the Western United States
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: Tectonics

1. Youqing Yang($111,839), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Basin And Range, Diffuse Continental Deformation, Various Critical Stages, Boundary Conditions, Crustal Deformation, Diffuse Deformation, Plate Boundaries, Plate Boundary, Range Extension, Strain Localization, Cenozoic, Computer, Control, Developed, Evolution, Geodynamic, Lithospheric, Models, Tectonic, Three-dimensional, Western, Widespread.

2006 Rock Deformation Conference (to be held at Big Sky, Montana, September 3-8, 2006).
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: Tectonics

1. James G Hirth($25,398), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Rock Deformation, Conference, Directions, Future, Mechanics, Participants, Processes, Temporal, Theme.

Extension and Volcanism During Propagation of the Northwest Basin and Range into Southeastern Oregon
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Tectonics

1. Anita L Grunder($209,997), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Basin And Range, Degrees North, Normal Faults, Range Province, Southeastern Oregon, Volcanic Rocks, Ago, Basins, Constrain, Controlled, Development, Extension, Faulting, Grew, Landscape, Million, Nevada, Occurred, Ongoing, Propagated, Ranges, Rate, Southern, Spectacular, Volcanism, Was, Western.

Collaborative Research: Miocene Climate Change West of the Central Andes: Cause or Consequence of Uplift?
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Tectonics

1. Jason A Rech($146,525), Miami University, Oxford
Key terms: Andes Mountains, Atacama Desert, Central Andes, Global Climate, Mountain Belts, Surface Uplift, Western Margin, Ancient, Aridification, Carbonate, Caused, Chile, Competing, Feedback, First-order, Geodynamic, Graduate, History, Miocene, Models, Occurred, Paleoclimate, Participation, Phenomena, Plate, Precipitation, Properties, Regional-scale, Rise, Soil, South, Spatial, Students, Temporal, Was.

Cenozoic Migration of Topography in the North American Cordillera Recorded in Coupled Basin-Detachment Systems
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2006; Program: Tectonics

1. C. Page Chamberlain($287,803), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Basin And Range, Metamorphic Core Complexes, Driving Forces, Mountain Ranges, Northern Basin, Stable Isotope, Surface Uplift, Tectonic Models, Western North, Basins, Cenozoic, Climate, Competing, Cordillera, Critical, Earth, Extension, Growth, History, Lithosphere, Paleoaltimetry, Paleoelevation, Region, Topographic.

Studies of Plateau Uplift using 4He/3He Apatite Thermocronometer and 13C-18O Carbonate Paleothermometer
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Tectonics

1. John M Eiler($225,037), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Erosional Unroofing, Grand Canyon, Isotope Thermometry, Sea Level, Apatite, Carbonate, Cenozoic, Century, Constrain, Conventional, Craton, Current, Elevation, Has, Helium, Isotopic, Mesozoic, Million, Oxygen, Plateau, Rock, Surface, Time, Timing, Topographic, Units, Uplift.

Collaborative Research: Testing Theories of Synconvergent Extension in the Hinterland of the Sevier Orogen
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Tectonics

1. Thomas D Hoisch($146,677), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
2. Michael L Wells($198,701), University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas
3. Jeffrey D Vervoort($64,503), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Luticium-hafnium And Samarium-neodymium, Funeral Mountains, Sevier Orogen, Synconvergent Extension, Analysis, Collaborative, Continent, Contribute, Creek, Crust, Dating, Field, Garnet, Geochronology, Geology, Graduate, Hinterland, Integrated, Leading, Mantle, Mesozoic, Metamorphic, Methods, Numerical, Paths, Processes, Structural, Tectonic, Thermal.

Collaborative Research: Testing Models of Tibetan Plateau Uplift Using Stable Isotope-Based Paleoaltimetry
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Tectonics

1. Brian S Currie($162,509), Miami University, Oxford
2. David Rowley($285,000), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Southern And Central, Central Tibet, Elevation History, Pre-collisional Topography, Strain Accommodation, Tibetan Plateau, Age, Carbonates, Convective, Crust, Eocene, Evolution, Has, Himalaya, Himalayas, India-asia, Mantle, Margin, Models, Paleo-elevation, Paleosol, Play, Pre-collisional, Region, Sections, Thickening, Various.

Collaborative Research: Lower Crustal Flow, Shallow Fabric Development, and Craton Assembly -East Athabasca Granulite Terrane, Canada
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Tectonics

1. Michael L Williams($203,463), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Athabasca Granulite Terrane, East Athabasca Granulite, Lower Continental Crust, Lowermost Continental Crust, Crustal Flow, Deep Crust, Lower Crustal, Sub-horizontal Fabric, Collaborative, Controls, Deformation, Exposure, Field, Geologic, Laboratory, Largest, Massachusetts, Metamorphic, Middle, Models, Nature, Portion, Processes, Region, Rock, Student, Students, Sub-horizontal, Tectonic.

Along-Strike Variation of the Uplift and Exhumation of the Pyrenean Orogen: Constraining the Evolution of an Intraplate Collisional Orogen
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Tectonics

1. Suzanne L Baldwin($315,146), Syracuse University, Syracuse
Key terms: Relict Extensional Structures, Denudation History, Intraplate Orogenic, Across-strike, Amount, Apatite, Basin, Central, Convergence, Decreases, Deformation, Formation, Formed, Mountain, Plate, Processes, Pyrenean, Pyrenees, Range, Shortening, Training, Trend, Was, West.

Constraining the Influence of Tectonics Versus Climate on Orogensis in the North Cascades (Washington and British Columbia)
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: Tectonics

1. Juliet G Crider($62,597), Western Washington University, Bellingham
Key terms: Inferred Onset, Mountain Building, North Cascades, Okanogan Range, Pacific Northwest, Western North, Climate, Elevation, Elevations, Eocene, Erosion, Flexural, History, Initial, Million, Modern, Northern, Paleotopography, Peak, Peaks, Proxy, Region, Relief, Suggest, Surface, Thermochronology, Topography, Uplift, Washington.

SGER: Exploratory Thermochronology of Synorogenic Deposits as a New Tool to Constrain the Long-Term Erosional History of Mountain Belts
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: Tectonics

1. Jeffrey M Rahl($21,027), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Common Thermal History, Tectonic And Climatic, Climatic Forces, Erosional History, Forces Interact, Mountain Belt, Mountain Belts, Source Terrane, Thermochronologic Ages, Approach, Assess, Conglomerate, Control, Cooling, Dating, Detailed, Establish, Exhumation, Exploratory, Grains, Histories, Long-term, Orogenic, Paired, Rate, Share, Single, Syn-orogenic.

Collaborative Research: Plate Boundary Reconstructions in the Northern Cordillera: Revisiting the Paleomagnetism of a Paleocene Trench-ridge-trench Triple Junction
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: Tectonics

1. Bernard A Housen($179,001), Western Washington University, Bellingham
2. Sarah M Roeske($121,781), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Tectonic And Magmatic, Broad Field, Cordilleran Margin, Degrees North, Geologic Evidence, Late Cretaceous, Magnetic Field, Plate Boundary, Plate Motion, Southern Alaska, Spreading Centers, Triple Junction, Age, Ago, Continent, Deposited, Involves, Kodiak, Kula-farallon-north, Latitude, Methods, Million, Models, Orientation, Paleomagnetic, Paleomagnetism, Passage, Plates, Present-day, Processes, Respect, Rock, Specific, Structural, Volcanic, Was, Workers.

Collaborative Research: How Constant are Fault Slip Rates in Time and Space? An Analysis of the North and East Anatolian Faults, Turkey
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: Tectonics

1. Robert C Finkel($149,149), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Anatolia-eurasia-arabia Plate Boundary, Fault Slip Rates, Time And Space, Anatolia-eurasia-arabia Plate, Fault Loading, Strain Release, Time Scales, Constant, Faults, Geomorphic, Relatively, Surface, Turkey, Variety.

Tectonomagmatic Evolution of the Paleogene Arc System of Iran
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: Tectonics

1. John M Eiler($208,981), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Core Complexes, Fault Zone, Southeastern Iran, Extension, Paleomagnetic.

Evolution of the SW Laurentian Margin: Implications for Proterozoic Crustal Growth and Geodynamics
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Tectonics

1. Paul A Mueller($230,000), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Continental Crust, Global Period, Late Paleoproterozoic, Rapid Growth, Southwestern Margin, Ago, Archean, Billion, Commonly, Complete, Critical, Existing, Generated, Geologic, Integrated, Laurentia, Laurentian, Mapping, Modern, Montana, Mountains, On-line, Proterozoic, Rates, Rock, Supercontinent, Supporting, Undergraduate, Unique.

Collaborative Research: Testing Models of Mesozoic Arc Collision and Accretion in the Northwest U.S. Cordillera, Eastern Oregon, Using Sedimentary Provenance and Basin Analysis
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Tectonics

1. Rebecca J Dorsey($196,104), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
2. Jeffrey D Vervoort($132,000), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Blue Mountains Province, Graduate And Undergraduate, Late Jurassic Time, Protracted Arc-arc Collision, Arc-arc Collision, Basin Evolution, Collisional Basin, Eastern Oregon, Late Triassic, Mountain Building, Protracted Arc-arc, Western North, Accretion, Cordilleran, Crust, Growth, Izee, Mesozoic, Provenance, Region, Regional, Rock, Sedimentary, Stratigraphic, Structural, Students, Tectonic, Terranes, Testing.

Finite Plate Model of Western United States Tectonics
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Tectonics

1. Robert McCaffrey($91,196), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
Key terms: Fault Slip Rates, Finite-thickness Plate Models, Geodetic And Geologic, Geologic Fault Slip, Continents Deform, Finite-thickness Plate, Plate Models, Deformation, Earthquake, Elastic, Hazard, Inversion, Lead, Long-term, Tectonic, Velocities, Western.

Collaborative Research: Determination of Slip Rates on the Death Valley-Fish Lake Valley Fault System: Toward an Understanding of the Spatial & Temporal Extent of Strain Transi
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Tectonics

1. Robert C Finkel($92,427), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. Lewis A Owen($52,458), University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati
3. James F Dolan($93,000), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: California Shear Zone, Death Valley-fish Lake, Eastern California Shear, Geologic Slip Rates, Lake Valley Fault, Valley Fault Zone, Valley-fish Lake Valley, Death Valley-fish, National Park, Plate Boundary, Short-term Geodetic, Strain Accumulation, Valley-fish Lake, Allow, Determined, Geomorphic, Mojave, Northward, Region, Release, Short-term, Swath, Temporal, Time, Transient.

The Past Global Changes (PAGES) Project
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: nan

1. Julie Brigham-Grette($1,086,692), Past Global Changes, Bern 3012
Key terms: Developing, IPO, International, National, PAGES.

REU Site: Research Experiences for Undergraduates - Program in Water Research at Colorado State University
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: nan

1. Jorge A Ramirez($316,551), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Water Resource Issues, Reu Program, Annual, CSU, Ethics, Graduate, Invited, Programs, Students, Undergraduate.

REU Site: Integrated Watersheds from Urban Centers to Estuaries
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2006; Program: nan

1. Jay L Banner($213,534), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Activities, Development, Faculty, Individual, Interdisciplinary, Objectives, Program, Programs, REU, Seminar, Social, Strong, Students, Undergraduates, Watershed.

NSF-GEO-EAR Awards for 2006

A Workshop to Focus on Strategies for Improving the Public Understanding of Science Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: AISL

Acquisition of a Scanning Electron Microscrope at Montclair State University Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

Upgrade of a Helium Isotope Mass Spectrometer Award Effective Date: 06/15/2006; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

Collaborative Research: Holocene Drought in the North American Interior Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: ARC Rsch Support & Logistics

Support of Student Participation in the Second International Palaeontological Congress (IPC-2006); June 17 - 21, 2006; Peking University; Beijing, China Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: ASSEMBLING THE TREE OF LIFE

Composition and Fluxes of Organic Carbon Species from the Yukon River Basin Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: BE-UF: CARBON CYCLE

Collaborative Research: Impact of Permafrost Degradation on Carbon and Water in Boreal Ecosystems Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: BE: CARBON & WATER IN ES

Collaborative Research: Dynamics of carbon release and sequestration: Case studies of two early Eocene hyperthermals Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: BE: CARBON & WATER IN ES

De-convolving the effects of rising atmospheric CO2, solar dimming, and afforestation on usable water and carbon sequestration potential in the Southeastern U.S. Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: BE: CARBON & WATER IN ES

Microbial Mediation of Manganese Cycling: Formation of Biogenic Mn Oxides, Oxide Scavenging of Toxic Metals, and Coupled Fates Subject to Predation by Protozoan Grazers Award Effective Date: 09/01/2003; Program: BE: NON-ANNOUNCEMENT RESEARCH

Collaborative Research: Geomorphic-Geodynamic Coupling at the Orogen Scale: A Himalayan Transect in Central Nepal Award Effective Date: 11/08/2006; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Collaborative Research: Colorado Rockies Experiment and Seismic Transects (CREST): Time-space Patterns of Cenozoic Uplift-magmatism and their Correspondence to the Aspen Anomaly Award Effective Date: 11/01/2006; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: The CALIPSO Project: Imaging the Magma Chamber on Montserrat Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Collaborative Research: Post-Impact Studies of the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure: Quantifying Continental Margin Evolution Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

High-resolution Mapping of Seismic Structures in the Lower Mantle Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Collaborative Research: Lithospheric removal: The Sierra Nevada as the prototype of a fundamental process in mountain building Award Effective Date: 08/15/2006; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Collaborative Research: Uplift and faulting at the transition from subduction to collision - a field and modeling study of the Calabrian Arc Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Collaborative Research: Crust-Mantle Interactions at an Oblique Arc-Continent Collision Zone: The SE Caribbean Plate Boundary Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Collaborative Research: Understanding the Causes of Continental Intraplate Tectonomagmatism: A Case Study in the Pacific Northwest Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Support for the Penrose Conference on Arc Crustal Genesis and Evolution; July 9-15, 2006; Valdez, Alaska Award Effective Date: 06/15/2006; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Planetary Impacts and Physics of Planetary Interiors Ahrens Symposium Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

18th International Workshop on Electromagnetic (EM) Induction in the Earth (EM) Workshop; El Vendrell, Spain; September 17-23, 2006 Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Physics of Earthquakes Kanamori Symposium Award Effective Date: 01/15/2006; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

International Research and Education Planning Visit Cyberinfrastructure-Based Water Research - Toward the Next Generation of Environmental Observatories Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Catalyzing New Intl Collab

SOTA 2007 and GSA Field Forum in Chile: Support for Graduate Student and Latin American Participation Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Catalyzing New Intl Collab

Coseismic Uplift of Nias Island, Sumatra: Permanent versus Recoverable Components Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Catalyzing New Intl Collab

Collaborative Research: Saltwater and Freshwater Fluxes through Coastal Aquifers: Multiple Time Scales of Terrestrial and Oceanic Forcing Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Freshwater and Saltwater Fluxes Through Coastal Aquifers: Multiple Time Scales of Terrestrial and Oceanic Forcing Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

National Requirements for Precision Geodetic Infrastructure Award Effective Date: 12/15/2006; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

2006 UJNR Workshop/Tokushima, Japan: Travel Support for Early Career US Scientists Award Effective Date: 08/15/2006; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

IRIS: Cornerstone Facilities for Seismology and Earth Sciences Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

Development of Giant Diamonds from Chemical Vapor Deposition for High-Pressure Research Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

Collaborative Research: Strike-Slip History of the East Gobi Fault Zone, Mongolia: Modes of Intraplate Deformation, Sedimentary Basin Evolution, and Regional Fault Linkages Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: EAPSI

CAREER: Integrating Multidisciplinary Geophysical Studies Via the EarthScope Initiative Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

Imaging Science Workshops for USArray Award Effective Date: 02/15/2006; Program: EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE

Using EarthScope Data in Secondary Classrooms: A Pilot Workshop to Engage Teachers and Scientists in Cascadia Curriculum Development Award Effective Date: 08/15/2006; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Mantle Composition and Dynamics as Inferred from the Structure of the Upper Mantle Discontinuities Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Mapping Upper-Mantle Anisotropy in Western U.S.: Constraints on Crust-Mantle Coupling Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Seismic Indicators of Time-Varying Deep Deformation along the Central San Andreas Fault Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Mapping upper-mantle anisotropy in the western US: Constraints on crust-mantle coupling Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: New Heat Flow Values at PBO Borehole Strain Meter Sites: Implications for Deformation Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Workshop Support: GeoFrame Walker Lane Award Effective Date: 05/15/2006; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Microstructural analyses of gouge from the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD) borehole in relation to brittle fault mechanics: A collaborative study Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Development of a 4-D Model of Crustal Evolution in the Northern Rocky Mountains Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Determination of Time Dependent Velocity and Velocity Gradient Tensor Fields for EarthScope Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Determination of time-dependent velocity and velocity gradient fields for EarthScope Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Seismic Travel Times and Attenuation Measurements: An Earthscope Data Product Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Community Access to Visualizations of EarthScope Focus Sites: Collaborative Construction of Virtual 3-D Models Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Seismic Anisotropy and Rock Texture within the Cascadia Megathrust Zone Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Piloting an Interdisciplinary Watershed Field Camp Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Toward Dynamic Models of Contemporary Plate Boundary Deformation with Application to the Taiwan Collision Zone Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

C-RUI: Geomicrobial Processes in an Ancient Methane Seep Deposit: Resolving Temporal and Spatial Shifts in Localized Microbial Ecosystems Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

REU Site: An integrated assessment of physical, ecological and socio-economic aspects of a watershed system Award Effective Date: 06/15/2006; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Enhancing Use of Data in Education: Bridging the Scientific and Educational Communities Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Collaborative Research: Building Strong Geoscience Departments II- Developing Resources and Networks to Address Priority Challenges Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Collaborative Research: REU site in Dominica, West Indies: Integrated Examination of Dynamic Volcanic Systems Using Field Volcanology, Satellite Geodesy, and Modeling Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

REU Site: Interdisciplinary Watershed Studies at the College of William and Mary Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

REU Site: Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates in Water Resources Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

The South Bay Geo-Diversity Project: Phase II Award Effective Date: 05/15/2006; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Workshop on Data Access and Usability in Education; Los Alamos Research Park, Los Alamos, New Mexico Award Effective Date: 04/15/2006; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Rural Alaska Honors Institute (RAHI) Geoscience Course Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

A Workshop to Achieve Broader Impacts of Geophysical Research Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Geoscience Education and Public Outreach Network (GEPON) Workshop; Boulder, CO; March 22-24, 2006 Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Investigation of Radiation and Radionuclides in the Four Corners Region Environment Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Collab. Res: The 2004-2005 giant earthquakes and the seismic cycle along the Sumatra subduction zone: A multidisciplinary investigation from geodesy, seismology and paleogeodesy. Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

ScienceQuest: A South Carolina Geoscience Initiative Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Collaborative Research: Episodic Construction of Magma Chambers: Multidisciplinary Investigations at a Field Laboratory (Tuolumne Intrusion, Sierra Nevada) Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

A Planning Workshop for Engaging the Scientific Community in Improving the Public Understanding of Science Award Effective Date: 01/15/2006; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Collaborative Research: Mechanisms Producing Variation in Lake Salinity in Dune Environments: Nebraska Sand Hills Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

From Landscape to Flood Plain: An Examination of Dissolved and Colloidal Trace Elements in the Yukon River Basin Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

CSEDI: Collaborative Experimental and Fluid-Dynamical Study on Core Formation of the Earth Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Investigating the Surface Structure and Reactivity of Bulk and Nanosized Manganese Oxides Award Effective Date: 08/15/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Orogen Hinterland Evolution: Testing Hypotheses using the Cretaceous to Eocene Stratigraphic Record in Eastern Nevada, USA Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Quasi-Block Modeling of Walker Lane Tectonic Deformation, Using Geodetic and Geologic Data to Constrain System Complexity and Time-Variable Behavior Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Integrated Studies of Eruption Processes in Basaltic and Andesitic Volcanoes Award Effective Date: 07/15/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Biological and Geochemical Influences on Arsenic Speciation in a Geothermal Environment Award Effective Date: 07/15/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: Explosive Volcanism: Further Perspectives on Controls on Style and Dynamic of the 79AD Plinian Eruption at Vesuvius Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

MARGINS: Hydrothermal Circulation Within Subducting Ocean Crust: Implications for Subduction Zone Temperatures Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Plasma-atomic Emission Spectrometer and an Ion Chromatograph Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding