Collaborative Research: Facility Support: Building the INTERFACE Facility for Cm-Scale, 3D Digital Field Geology
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Charles M Meertens($350,144), UNAVCO, Inc., Boulder
2. Carlos L. V Aiken($252,754), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
3. J Ramon Arrowsmith($186,840), Arizona State University, Tempe
4. John S Oldow($154,054), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
5. James D Walker($131,877), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Software Tools, Available, Equipment, Establish, Establishment, Facility, Obtaining, Surface, TLS, UNAVCO, Users.

Collaborative Research: Water Balance of Western North America: Dynamics of the Miocene Summer Monsoon
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2006; Program: BE-UF: WATER CYCLE

1. Mitchell W Lyle($160,792), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Climate Conditions, Miocene Time, Middle, Regional, SST, Water, Western.

Collaborative Research: An Interdisciplinary Investigation of Groundwater-Carbon Coupling in Large Peat Basins and its Relation to Climate Change
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: BE: CARBON & WATER IN ES

1. Andrew S Reeve($239,020), University of Maine, Orono
2. Lee Slater($96,164), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
3. Jeffrey P Chanton($493,448), Florida State University, Tallahassee
4. Donald I Siegel($416,166), Syracuse University, Syracuse
5. Paul H Glaser($1,491,670), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Groundwater-peat Accumulation Model, Broader Impacts, Greenhouse Gases, Groundwater-peat Accumulation, Interdisciplinary Investigation, Northern Minnesota, Peat Basins, Remote Sensing, Visualization Exhibits, Calibrated, Carbon, Climate, Close, Ecosystems, Field, Fluxes, GLAP, Globally, Interpretive, Methane, Models, Peatland, Peatlands, Public, Regional, Source, Transient.

Collaborative Research: Delivery and Burial of Particulate Organic Carbon (POC) on Ocean Margins Dominated by Small, Mountainous Rivers: the Role of Effective Discharge
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: BE: CARBON & WATER IN ES

1. Gregory B Pasternack($407,242), University of California-Davis, Davis
2. Jeffry C Borgeld($66,273), Humboldt State University Foundation, Arcata
3. Jonathan A Warrick($171,259), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
4. Miguel A Goni($932,310), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Delivery And Burial, Magnitude And Composition, Coastal Ocean, Event-response Sampling, Mountainous Rivers, River Basins, River Discharge, West Coast, Carbon, Collected, Controlling, Global, Importance, Information, Investigate, Land-derived, Margins, Organic, POC, Particulate, Sediment, Stations, Transport, Widespread.

Extending Persistent Scatterer InSAR to Heavily Vegetated Regions Using Information Theoretic Analysis
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: BE: INSTRUM DEVELOP FOR ENV AC

1. Howard A Zebker($306,931), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Active, Crust, Deformation, Earthquakes, Fault, Geodetic, Information, Insar, Landslides, Natural, Processes, San, Technique, Techniques, Volcanic, Volcanoes.

CAREER: The Biogeochemical Controls on Hydrogen-Isotope (D/H) Fractionations in Lipids
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: CATALYZING INTERDISCIP ACTIVIT

1. Alex Sessions($598,606), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Biochemical Basis, Dh Fractionations, Dh Ratios, Organic Dh, Organic Substrates, Wide Range, Analyses, Approach, Biogeochemical, Biosynthesis, Climate, Environmental, Estimates, Exchange, Experimental, Generation, Has, Heterotrophic, Hydrogen, Identifying, Importance, Isotopic, Lipid, Lipids, Local, Net, Own, Paleoclimate, Particular, Photosynthetic, Produce, Rapid, Schools, Seek, Serve, Sources, Students, Teachers, Unknown, Useful, Variety, Water.

Southern California Earthquake Center
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: CATALYZING INTERDISCIP ACTIVIT

1. Thomas H Jordan($15,035,000), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Natural Laboratory, Scec's Mission, Southern California, Aspects, Center, Diversity, Earthquake, Hazard, Physics, Risk, Scecs, Seismic.

Collaborative Research: Lithospheric removal: The Sierra Nevada as the prototype of a fundamental process in mountain building
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. None($88,583), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
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: How Is Rifting Exhuming the Youngest High-pressure and Ultrahigh-pressure (HP/UHP) Rocks on Earth?
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2007; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Laura E Webb($1,282,742), Syracuse University, Syracuse
2. Terry A Plank($3,656), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
3. Bradley R Hacker($312,317), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
4. Brian K Horton($334,353), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
5. Roger Buck($604,358), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Tectonic Evolution, Uhp Exhumation, Uhp Rocks, Depth, Involves, Objective.

Collaborative Research: Deep Structure of the Northeast Tibetan Collision Zone- INDEPTH IV
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2007; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Eric Sandvol($329,502), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
2. Larry D Brown($1,282,350), Cornell University, Ithaca
3. Thomas M Hearn($755,003), New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
4. Simon Klemperer($525,674), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Existence And Nature, Continent-continent Collision, Continental Lithosphere, Geophysical Surveys, Indepth Iv, Plateau Boundary, Plateau Formation, Tibetan Plateau, Asian, Beneath, Continent-continent, Crust, Deep, Faults, Flow, II, III, Integrated, Mantle, Mountain, Seismic, Tectonic, Zone.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: ST. Elias Erosion/tectonics Project (STEEP)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Terry L Pavlis($267,606), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
Key terms: Mountain Range, Oblique Collision, Broad, Continent, Convergence, Crust, Deformation, Development, Elias, Erosion, Exhumation, Geodynamics, Glacial, Has, Implications, Intense, Oceanic, Orogen, Orogeny, Partitioning, Pis, Rapid, Regional, St, Subduction, Tectonic, Uplift, Versus.

CZO: Boulder Creek Critical Zone Observatory--Weathered Profile Development in a Rocky Environment and Its Influence on Watershed Hydrology and Biogeochemistry
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Noah Fierer($4,775,003), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Critical Zone, Intrinsic Properties, Niwot Ridge, Bcczo, Boulder, Climate, Contrast, Coupled, Developed, Development, Ecological, Field, Graduate, Instrumentation, LTER, Meetings, Observatory, Processes, Range, Rock, Site, Watershed.

Water Cycle Dynamics in a Changing Environment: Advancing Hydrologic Science Through Synthesis
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Murugesu Sivapalan($956,258), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Water Cycle Dynamics, Changing Environment, Synthesis Activities, Synthesis Activity, Challenges, Climate, Disciplines, Focused, Has, Hydrologic, Outcomes, Predictability, Range, Serve.

MRI: Acquisition of 15 High-rate GPS Units for Developing a Broadband Earthquake Observation System in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Guoquan Wang($247,300), University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Mayaguez
Key terms: Puerto Rico Strong, Rico Seismic Network, Rico Strong Motion, Strong Motion Program, Gps Network, Gps Observations, True Magnitude, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Engineering, Fault, Ground, Integrated, Long-period, Mayaguez, Minutes, Mw, Rate, Region, Seismometers, Sites, Tsunami, UNAVCO, UPRM, Useful.

2008 Bi-Lateral Workshop Under the Sino-US Earthquake Studies Protocol, May 20-23, 2008, Boulder, Colorado
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2007; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. E.Robert Engdahl($152,474), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Earthquake Studies, Agreed, Beijing, Ceremony, China, Chinas, Chinese, Collaboration, Consider, Evolution, Exchange, Extended, Focus, Has, Natural, Office, Protocol, Successful, Technology, Various, Was, Workshop.

CNH: Coupling Hydrologic, Economic, and Social Network Models to Improve Understanding of Surface Water-Groundwater Interactions for Protection of Instream Flows
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2007; Program: DYN COUPLED NATURAL-HUMAN

1. Nicholas Brozovic($998,977), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Coupled Surface Water-groundwater, Natural And Human, Instream Flows, Policy Design, River Basin, Socially Acceptable, Stakeholder Conflict, Surface Water-groundwater, Activities, Analysis, Behavior, Complex, Components, Decision, Development, Economic, Environmental, Feedbacks, Habitat, Hydrologic, Information, Management, Model, Models, Policies, Processes, Resulting, Source, Spatial, Stream, Uncertainty, World.

Headwater Stream Processes Revealed by Continuous Ultra-high Resolution Thermal Measurement
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: EAPSI

1. Sherri L Johnson($314,809), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Heat And Solute, Invertible Numerical Model, Natural And Imposed, Headwater Stream, Hj Andrews, Phd Student, Solute Transport, Stream Temperature, Based, Carry, Collaboration, Critical, DTS, Development, Exploration, Flow, Function, Gauges, Has, Heterogeneous, Hydrologic, Hydrology, Interactions, International, Nine, Processes, Resolution, Selker, Stations, Streams, Students, Temperatures, Testing, Thermal, Tracer, Tracers, Training, Useful.

REU-Site: Comparative Analysis of Glacial Sediments, Minnesota and Brazil
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: EAPSI

1. James F P Cotter($165,453), University of Minnesota Morris, Morris
Key terms: Late Paleozoic, Sao Paulo, West-central Minnesota, Age, Analysis, Brazil, Deposits, Facies, Faculty, Features, Field, Focus, Gain, Geologic, Glacial, History, Individuals, Origin, Program, Quaternary, REU, Sediment, Sedimentary, Sediments, Students, UMM, West-central, Women.

Planning, Products and the Public: An EarthScope National Office at Oregon State University
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Paul Vincent($1,913,476), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Earthquakes And Volcanic, Education And Outreach, San Andreas Fault, Earthscope Education, Assist, COAS, Continent, Deep, Director, Duties, ENO, GEO, Has, Instruments, Interpretive, Millions, North, OSU, Observatory, Organizations, Planning, Processes, Public, Structure, Surface.

Whither the Transportable Magnetotelluric (MT) Array: Proposal for an EarthScope Community Workshop to Prioritize Targets for Transportable MT Deployments
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Philip E Wannamaker($28,392), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Composition, Conductivity, Deployed, Earthscope, Instruments, Magnetotelluric, Physicochemical, Transportable.

SGER: EarthScope--Texas Gulf Coast Pilot Study
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Robert J Pulliam($22,767), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Active Margins, Geophysical Model, Deployment, Passive, Pilot, Techniques.

Making Strainmeter Data Straightforward: Tools, Techniques, and Results to Assist the EarthScope User Community
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Duncan Carr Agnew($110,661), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Available, Borehole, Loading, Methods, Models, Signals, Strainmeter, Strainmeters, Tides.

Workshop on the Role of Controlled Source Seismology in the EarthScope Project; San Antonio, Texas; September 2007
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. George R Keller($29,952), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Gathering, Was, Workshop.

The EarthScope Automated Receiver Survey, Phase II: Product Integration, Accessibility, and Expansion
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2007; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Thomas J Owens($102,342), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Crust, Estimates, Prototype, Usarray.

Workshop: Development of Community Finite Element Models for Fault Systems Studies; Golden, Colorado; June 2007
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Yehuda Ben-Zion($15,000), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Geophysical Challenges, Building, Colorado, Crust, Workshop, Workshops.

Collaborative Research: Characterizing North American Upper Mantle Structure with Integrated Inversions of USArray Surface Wave and Scattered Body Wave Data
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Karen M Fischer($316,349), Brown University, Providence
2. Barbara A Romanowicz($369,190), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Permanent Backbone Network, Continental Lithosphere, Developed Methods, Seismic Velocity, Transportable Array, Upper Mantle, Anisotropy, Approach, Constraints, Development, Discontinuity, Does, Earthscope, Focus, Incorporate, LAB, Modeling, Models, North, Resolution, Scattered, Sharp, Smooth, Stations, Structure, Tectonic, Teleseismic, Tomographic, Waves.

Collaborative Research: Influence of Structure, Composition and Fluid-Rock Chemistry on Mode of Slip in the San Andreas Fault Zone at SAFOD
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Judith S Chester($201,398), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
2. David L Kirschner($98,846), Saint Louis University, Saint Louis
3. James P Evans($115,777), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Andreas Fault Zone, Optical And Electron, San Andreas Fault, Seismic And Aseismic, Electron Microscopy, Energy Budget, Fluid-rock Interactions, Addressing, Analyses, Architecture, Characterize, Constraints, Deformation, Drilling, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Faults, Fluid-rock, Presentations, Processes, SAFOD, Strength, Structure, Techniques.

Collaborative Research: How is Strain of the Eastern California Shear Zone Transferred Across the Garlock Fault?
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2007; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. James D Walker($113,979), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
2. Eric Kirby($129,642), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Eastern California, Garlock Fault, Trending Strike-slip, Complicated, Continuous, Critical, Crust, Deformation, ECSZ, Faults, Information, Interaction, Mapping, Motion, Particular, Rates, Strike-slip.

Collaborative Research: Resolving Structural Control of Episodic Tremor and Slip Along the Length of Cascadia
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2007; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Richard Allen($291,650), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. Michael R Brudzinski($225,777), Miami University, Oxford
Key terms: Cascadia Subduction Zone, Tremor And Slip, Episodic Tremor, Flexible Array, Station Coverage, Dense, Deployment, Investigate, Northern, Overriding, Plate, Potential, Segmentation, Seismic.

Refining Upper Mantle Models Beneath the Western United States
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Donald V Helmberger($223,221), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Green's Functions, Assist, Broadband, Etc, Generated, Greens, Modeling, Models, Seismic, Source, Techniques, Tomographic.

GeoFrame: A Science Workshop on the Lewis & Clark Megaswath (Cascadia-Northern Rockies-Black Hills)
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2007; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Basil Tikoff($59,893), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Crust, Deployment, Geologic, Initiative, Spacing, Swath, Usarray.

Collaborative Research: Making the San Andreas Fault at the Mendocino Triple Junction
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Eugene D Humphreys($289,104), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
2. Robert M Nadeau($70,751), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
3. Alan R Levander($74,236), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Mendocino Triple Junction, San Andreas Fault, Mtj Region, Subduction Zone, Asthenospheric, California, Cascadia, Control, Crust, Gorda, Lithosphere, Mantle, Mass, Near, North, Plate, Processes, Seismic, Site, Slab, Structure, Transform, Upper.

Collaborative Research: Laboratory Study of the Mechanics and Physical Properties of the San Andreas Fault and 3D SAFOD Volume
Award Effective Date: 08/13/2006; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Harold J Tobin($72,216), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Fault Slip Behavior, San Andreas Fault, 3-d Volume, Energy Budget, Fault Mechanics, Fault Zone, Frictional Strength, Host Rock, Pore Pressure, Safod Core, Borehole, Constraints, Critical, Dependence, Designed, Earthquake, Faulting, Fluid, Generation, Geophysical, Heat, Investigate, Long-term, Models, Observations, Processes, Properties, Seismic, Shallow, Stability, Stress, Subsurface, Thermal, Transport, Velocity, Wave.

RUI: Paleomagnetic Study of Transitional Fields Recorded Throughout the Cenozoic by Australasian Lavas
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2006; Program: EAST ASIA AND PACIFIC PROGRAM

1. Kenneth A Hoffman($112,941), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Cenozoic Period, Flux Feature, Aspects, Australasia, Australia, Concentration, Earth, Field, Found, Has, Magnetic, Mantle, Paleomagnetic, Past, Span, Time, Transitional, Volcanics.

International GeoBiology Summer Course - A Renewal
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. William M Berelson($120,000), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Green River Formation, Catalina Island, Summer Course, Visiting Faculty, Colorado, Field, Interactions, Lab, Modern, Sites, Students, Time.

Acquisition of High Resolution Ground Penetrating Radar for Volcanological, Hydrogeological, and Very Near Surface Investigations
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Erin H Kimmerle($173,188), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Laser Positioning, Antennas, GPR, Near, Tephra, Time.

CAREER: Estimating Temperature and Water Content of the North American Mantle from Geophysical Observations
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Suzan van der Lee($514,176), Northwestern University, Evanston
Key terms: Temperature And Hydrogen, Hydrogen Content, Mantle Temperature, Centered, Components, Developed, Education, Explore, Interactive, K-, Kiosk, Models, North, Parameters, Plate, Products, Seismic, Students, Teaching, Tectonic, Viscosity.

EarthScope Panorama: Informal Geoscience Education for Young People
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2007; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. James L Davis($204,874), Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge
Key terms: Target Audience, Challenges, Content, Earthscope, Education, Enhance, Interactive, People, Producing, Testing, Wide.

CAREER: Integrating Seismic Constraints on Continental Upper Mantle
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Aibing Li($450,712), University of Houston, Houston
Key terms: Body And Surface, Continental Cratons, Regional Seismic, Southern Africa, Surface Wave, Surface Waves, Wyoming Craton, Activities, Anisotropy, Cratonic, Developing, Eastern, Education, Geophysics, Inversion, Models, North, POLARIS, Regions, SASE, Seismology, Shwave, Students, Usarray.

Acquisition of Portable Field Spectrometer for Research in Cryosphere Processes and Remote Sensing Education
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2007; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Derrick J Lampkin($69,989), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Electromagnetic Spectrum, Remote Sensing, Seasonal Snowpack, Climate, Coupled, Cover, Cryosphere, Demonstrated, Development, Earth, Function, Has, Melt, Operating, Portable, Potential, Radiometer, Regions, Surface, Thermal, Water.

REU Site: Rates, Processes, and Implications of Big Changes in the Shape and Style of the Missouri River
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2007; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. John M Holbrook($342,930), University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington
Key terms: Morphology And Profile, Drainage Basin, Missouri River, River Morphology, Undergraduate Students, Andor, Impart, Interact, Long-term, Lower, Processes, Rates, Reach, Rivers, Signals, Transmission, Trunks.

REU Site: Undergraduate Research in the Geosciences
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2007; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Stephen A Gramsch($58,575), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Campus, Carnegie, Leading, Personal, Program, Programs, Staff, Student, Students, Summer, Washington, Week.

REU-site: The Keck Geology Consortium--Providing Collaborative Yearlong Opportunities for Undergraduates
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Lori Bettison-Varga($650,000), Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster
Key terms: Keck Geology Consortium, Consortium Program, Proceedings Volume, Annual, Contributions, Culminating, Experiences, Students, Summer.

REU Site: SCEC Undergraduate Studies in Earthquake Information Technology (SCEC/UseIT)
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Thomas H Jordan($381,900), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Earthquake Information Technology, Diverse Backgrounds, Scec Useit, Southern California, CSIT, Collaborative, Computer, Environment, Interdisciplinary, Interns, Natural, Scecuseit, Students, Team-based, Tools, USC, Undergraduates, Visualization.

CAREER: Using Upper Mantle Circulation Models to Evaluate the Role of the Asthenosphere: Tectosphere Contrast and Subduction Dynamics for Global Plate Tectonics
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2007; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Thorsten W Becker($511,291), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Educational Efforts, Mantle Circulation, Plate Boundaries, Plate Tectonics, Asthenosphere, Constraints, Contrast, Control, Dynamics, Flow, Global, Model, Models, Motions, Numerical, Plates, Quantitative, Realistic, Seismology, Slabs, Structure, Students, Tomography, Tools, Useful.

RUI: Measurement and Microtomographic Imaging of the Air-Water Interface in Unsaturated Porous Media
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. None($209,700), Middlebury College, Middlebury
Key terms: Grain Shape, Influence Fluid, Porous Media, Synchrotron X-ray, Vadose Zone, AI, APS, AWI, Adsorption, Air-water, Characteristics, Continue, Critical, Has, Imaging, Individual, Interdisciplinary, Interface, Interfacial, Laboratory, Methods, Middlebury, Objectives, Opportunities, Processes, Quantify, Recently, Specifically, Students, Surface, Sw, Transport, Uct, X-ray.

Collaborative Research: Constraining the Timing and Nature of Proterozoic Metamorphism in the Northwest U.S. Cordillera
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. William McClelland($56,090), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
2. Jeffrey D Vervoort($167,077), Washington State University, Pullman
3. Helen M Lang($86,111), West Virginia University Research Corporation, Morgantown
Key terms: Crustal Thickening, Late Mesoproterozoic, Metamorphic Assemblages, Western Margin, Ages, Belt, Billion, Continent, Cordillera, Current, Fabrics, Garnet-bearing, Geochronologic, Geochronological, Geochronology, Grenville, Information, Laurentia, Metamorphism, Northwest, Northwestern, Occurred, Pressure-temperature, Produced, Reconstructions, Require, Rock.

CAREER: Exploring the Geologic Record of Major Climate Transitions
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Tracy D Frank($583,816), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln
Key terms: 9th-10th Grade Students, 9th-10th Grade, Earth's Transition, Education Activities, Late Paleozoic, Unl Students, Annual, Climate, Course, Designed, Directly, Field, Geoscience, History, Nebraska, Public, Rocks, School, Significance, Teachers, Th-th.

Chlorine Isotope Geochemistry of Volcanic Systems
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Jaime Barnes($138,924), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Isotopic Composition, Isotopic Fractionation, Aqueous, Cl, Gases, Lavas, Mantle, Oceanic, Recycling, Subduction, Volcanic, Volcanoes.

Collaborative Research: Climatic and Tectonic Controls on Sedimentation and Incision in the Marginal Basins of the Southern Puna Plateau
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Barbara Carrapa($138,189), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Climate Versus Tectonics, Erosion And Sedimentation, Pliocene Conglomerates, Puna Plateau, Sedimentation Rates, Argentina, Basins, Climatic, Constraining, Debate, Deposition, Global, Has, History, Incision, Increase, Northwestern, Observed, Processes, Source, Structural, Time.

Elasticity and the Chemistry of the Earth's Inner Core
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Boris Kiefer($228,087), New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
Key terms: Earth's And Planetary, Earth's Inner Core, Alloying Light, Earth's Core, Earth's Inner, Elastic Properties, Planetary Interiors, Stable Phase, Advance, Allows, Alloys, Approach, Based, Chemical, Conditions, Cores, Density, Iron, Metallic, Portions.

Collaborative Research on Fluid Pathways, and Metal Transport and Deposition in Carlin-Type Gold Deposits: Insights From the Getchell System
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2007; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. John L Muntean($162,544), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
2. Jean Cline($295,868), University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas
Key terms: Carlin-type Gold Deposits, Isotopic And Trace, Quartz And Pyrite, Time And Space, Carlin-type Gold, Chemical Analyses, Fluid Pathways, Hydrothermal Fluid, Micro Analytical, Mining Companies, Modeling Software, Composition, Compositions, Deduce, Fingerprints, Fluids, Gold-bearing, Government, High-grade, Holes, Industry, Knowledge, Minerals, Nevada, Ore, Origin, Situ, Varied, Various, World.

Collaborative Research: Glacial Erosion in the Patagonian Andes: Testing the Buzzsaw
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Jonathan Tomkin($69,982), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Glacial Buzzsaw, Glacial Erosion, Model Predictions, Mountain Ranges, Orogenic Topography, Orogenic Wedge, Patagonian Andes, Active, Behavior, ELA, Erosional, Feedbacks, Following, GAEMP, Glaciation, Greenhouse, Has, Height, History, Involved, Match, Maximum, Moderating, Opportunity, Process, Program, Rates, Spatial, Strong, Students, Summit, Surface, Tectonic, Weak, Weathering.

Predicting Lahar Evolution and Runout Behavior
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Stephen M Baloga($293,906), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Crater Lake, Forecasting Tool, Hazard Forecasting, Breakout, Complex, Downstream, Flow, Hazards, Lahar, Lahars, Model, Models, Mount, Processes, Responsible, Rock, User-friendly, Volcanic, Volcanoes, Water, Wide, Zealand.

Collaborative Research: Evolution of an Early Enriched Reservoir in the Northern Wyoming Province: Evidence from Ancient Zircons
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Darrell J Henry($76,099), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
2. Paul A Mueller($194,034), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Continental Crust, Crust-mantle Evolution, Lu-hf Systematics, Analyses, Analysis, Approach, Characterized, Crust-mantle, Elemental, Enriched, Ga, Geochemical, Geologic, Has, Insights, Isotopic, Lu-hf, Probe, Provided, Reservoir, Reservoirs, Rock, Students, Via, Zircons.

An Experimental Study to Elucidate PGE, Base Metal Sulfide and Au Fractionation in Mafic Layered Intrusions
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2007; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Adam C Simon($164,398), University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas
Key terms: Bms And Au, Cu And Au, Mafic Layered Intrusions, S-bearing Dolerite Melt, S-free And S-bearing, Analytical Chemistry, Aqueous Fluid, Graduate Student, Mafic Silicate, Magmatic Ptx, S-bearing Dolerite, Silicate Crystals, Undergraduate Student, Collaboration, Deposits, Duke, Gain, Hypothesizes, Metal, Model, Modeling, Ore, PGE, Partitioning, Pd, Perform, Pges, Phases, Produce, Quantitatively, Solidification, Sulfide, Sulfides, Techniques.

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: 08/31/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Shanaka L de Silva($255,618), Oregon State University, Corvallis
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.

The State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR)
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2007; Program: ERE General

1. Diane Wickland($30,000), NASA, Washington
Key terms: Carbon, Current, Expected, Government, Report, Serve.

Effects of Environmental Growth Conditions on the Composition and Morphology of Bacterial Magnetosome Crystals and on the Subsequent Dissolution and Preservation of Magnetofossils
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: GEOBIOLOGY

1. Dennis A Bazylinski($314,056), University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas
Key terms: Environmental Conditions, Environmental Indicators, Fe3o4 Crystals, Meteorite Alh84001, Synthesize Fe3o4, Advance, Ancient, Andor, Bacteria, Based, Biogeochemical, Cells, Chemical, Cycling, Dissoluted, Evidence, Examine, Feo, Habitats, Life, MB, Magnetic, Magnetite, Magnetofossils, Magnetosome, Magnetosomes, Marine, Mars, Meteorites, Minerals, Oxidation, Public, Released, Sediments, Transformed.

Geoinformatics 2007 Conference; La Jolla, California; May 17-18, 2007
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2007; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Akhaury K Sinha($20,000), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Broad, Conference, Emerging, Geoinformatics, Opportunity, Technology.

Workshop Support: Envisioning a National Geoinformatics System for the United States; Denver, CO
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. James D Walker($53,384), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: National, Progress, Workshop.

A Workshop on the Role of State Geological Surveys and US Geological Survey in a Geological Information System for the Nation
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Tamara L Dickinson($15,000), Association of American State Geologists, Denver
Key terms: Geological Survey, Geological Surveys, Workshop.

GeoInformatics: Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc (CUAHSI) Hydrologic Information Systems
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2007; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. David R Maidment($4,737,900), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Cuahsi Hydrologic Information, Distributed Network, Hydrologic Scientists, Information Model, Water Information, Web Services, Building, Computer, Connected, Cyberinfrastructure, Developed, Domain, Environmental, Has, Integrate, Integrates, Intellectual, Models, NSF, Phase, Published, Sources, Technology, Wateroneflow.

Workshop for Education and Outreach Managers of NSF Funded Large Projects, Centers, and Facilities; Arlington, Virginia; March 13-14, 2007
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: GEOSCIENCE EDUCATION

1. Susan C Eriksson($39,774), UNAVCO, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: Collaborations, Discussion, Eando, Education, Future, GEO, Input, Meeting, NSF, Organizations, Outreach, Participants, Programs, Provided.

Collaborative Research: The Impact of Late Cenozoic Himalayan-Tibetan Uplift on C4 Plant Expansion, Climate and Mammalian Evolution in Northern China
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2008; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Xiaoming Wang($25,000), Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation, Los Angeles
2. Yang Wang($50,231), Florida State University, Tallahassee
3. David R Pilbeam($24,996), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: C4 Expansion, C4 Grasses, Late Cenozoic, Late Miocene, Northern China, Oxygen Isotopic, Asia, Basins, Carbon, Climate, Climatic, Coverage, Ecosystems, Fossil, Fossils, Gap, Global, Himalayan-tibetan, Local, Localities, Mammalian, Plants, Seen, Terrestrial, Uplift.

Predicting Chemical Transformations of Extracellular Biochemicals: The Role of Iron and Manganese (Hydr)Oxides
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Alan T Stone($199,998), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Iron And Manganese, Pathways And Rates, Biochemical Structure, Chemical Reactions, Predicting Pathways, Arrangement, Biochemicals, Chemistry, Compounds, Engineering, Environmental, Extracellular, Functional, Geochemical, Hydroxides, Oxidation, Pis, Prevalent, Produced, QS, Seek, Soils, Students, Trajectories.

SGER: A Search for the Oldest Metazoan Trace Fossils in the Northern Hemisphere
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Claudia Johnson($9,999), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Metazoan Life, Age, Byrs, Evidence, Molecular, Organic, Rock, Simpson, Traces, Was.

SGER: Collection and Exploratory Analysis of Molecular and Microbial Samples during the Acid Neutralization and Redox Chemistry Injection
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Gregory D O'Mullan($13,549), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Aquifer Microbial, Carbon Sequestration, Acidification, Exploratory, Groundwater, Has, Injection, Pilot.

Collaborative Research: Comparative Geochemistry of the Late Cambrian (SPICE) and Toarcian (Jurassic) Positive Carbon Isotope Excursions: New Perspectives on Paleozoic OAEs
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Timothy W Lyons($164,803), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
2. Ariel D Anbar($74,517), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Black Shale Deposition, Epicontinental Black Shale, Positive Carbon Isotope, Geochemical Proxies, Isotope Excursions, Mo Isotope, Shale Geochemistry, Alum, Analogous, Anbargill, Behavior, Cambrian, Candidate, Carbonate, Coastal, Concept, Conditions, Deep, Deep-ocean, Deltac, Euxinia, Evidence, Extinction, Extrapolate, Fe, Global, Globally, Has, Intervals, Local, Metal, Nature, OAE, Ocean-scale, Organic, Paleozoic, Redox, SPICE, Sweden, Toarcian.

Collaborative Research: Biogenic Cave Carbonates: Identifying Surface Carbon Input to Subsurface Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Penelope J Boston($64,465), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
2. Leslie Melim($72,553), Western Illinois University, Macomb
3. Diana E Northup($140,357), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Carbonate Pool Precipitates, Cave Pool Precipitates, Biogenic Carbonate, Carbonate Precipitates, Carbonate Precipitation, Pool Carbonate, Abiotic, Active, Biosignatures, Caves, Characterize, Ecosystem, Education, Episodic, Flow, Fuel, Geochemistry, Graduate, Has, Incorporated, Input, Linkages, Melim, Microbial, Microorganisms, Minority, Multidisciplinary, NMT, Paleoclimate, Pools, Processes, Speleothems, Students, Subsurface, Surface, UNM.

Collaborative Research: In Situ Examination of Hydrogen Peroxide Sources and Sinks in a Slightly Alkaline Stream
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Durelle T Scott($115,808), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln
2. Bettina M Voelker($134,192), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: Contaminants And Natural, Natural Organic Matter, Sources And Sinks, Surface And Subsurface, Hydrogen Peroxide, Hydroxyl Radical, Nitrogen Cycling, Agricultural, Biodegradation, Biogeochemical, Carbon, Controls, Flowpaths, H-O, HO, Mechanism, Modeling, Particular, Processes, Reduction, Storage, Stream, Streams, Substrates, Sunlit, Tracer, Water, Waters.

Collaborative Research: Geochemical Controls on the Microbial Regulation of Arsenic Cycling in Geothermal Systems
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. William P Inskeep($161,594), Montana State University, Bozeman
2. Anna-Louise Reysenbach($138,407), Portland State University, Portland
Key terms: Yellowstone National Park, Arsenic Cycling, Geothermal Environments, Biological, Chemical, Conditions, Controls, Earth, Geochemical, Natural, Specific, Transformation, Watersheds.

Collaborative Research: Biogeochemical Controls on the Dynamics of Organoarsenic Transformation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Madeline Schreiber($131,979), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
2. Partha Basu($103,469), Duquesne University, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Biogeochemical Conditions, Organoarsenic Compounds, Organoarsenic Transformation, Poultry Litter, Water Quality, Agricultural, Application, Environment, Examine, Feed, Has, Industry, Land, Mgkg, Microbial, Organoarsenicals, Range, Roxarsone.

SGER: Novel Approach to Arid Soil Dating: Extraction and 40Ar/39Ar Geochronology of Pedogenic Sepiolite and Palygorskite
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Brenda J Buck($29,936), University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas
Key terms: Affect Crystal Integrity, Sepiolite And Palygorskite, 40ar39ar Geochronology, Ar Content, Authigenic Clays, Authigenic Sepiolite, Dating Petrocalcic, Extracted Clays, Mormon Mesa, Petrocalcic Horizons, Petrocalcic Soil, Arar, Carbonate, Enhance, Fibrous, Graduate, Intracrystalline, NIGL, Pedogenic, Soils, Stage, Student, Surfaces, Training, Worldwide.

Sulfur Cycling Through the Neoproterozoic Interglacial Interval: An Integrated Field and Geochemical Study of the Abenab Subgroup in Northern Namibia
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Matthew T Hurtgen($190,000), Northwestern University, Evanston
Key terms: Carbon And Sulfur, Sturtian And Marinoan, Sulfur Isotope Composition, Sulfur Isotope Evolution, Geochemical Cycles, Middle Neoproterozoic, Ocean Redox, Sulfur Cycle, Trigger Mechanisms, Aftermath, CAS, Climatic, Conditions, Constrain, Ds, EXCITE, Establish, Feedbacks, Field, Generated, Geochemistry, Glacial, Glaciation, Glaciations, Global, Gradients, Has, Interglacial, Lateral, Marine, Onset, Pyrite, Sediments, Snowball, Student, Sulfate.

Testing Molecular Mechanisms for Growth and Dissolution Reactions on Calcite Surfaces
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Andrew G Stack($219,385), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Formation And Activation, Growth And Dissolution, Kink Site Formation, Mineral Surface Reactions, Activation Energies, Activation Energy, Calcium Ions, Crystal Growth, Growth Inhibitors, Reaction Mechanisms, Step Edge, Step Movement, AFM, Ability, Aspartate, Biomineralization, Bulk, Calcite, Compared, Design, Difficult, Dissertation, Environmental, Equilibrium, Estimated, Experimentally, Fit, Functional, K-, Limiting, Main, Measured, Model, Molecular, Phd, Predict, Principles, Processes, Quantitative, Rate, Simulated, Teacher, Techniques, Tested, Water.

Numerical Modeling of the Greenhouse-Icehouse Transition: Eocene-Oligocene Boundary
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2007; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. David Pollard($250,266), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Biogeochemical Components, Climate Modeling, Coupling Techniques, E-o Transition, Graduate Student, Ice Sheet, Temporally Resolved, Atmosphere, Available, Concerning, Constraining, Developed, E-O, Eocene-oligocene, Involved, Isotopic, Kump, Long-term, Million, Models, Numerical, Ocean, Penn, Students, Studying, Terrestrial, Time, Undergraduate, Weathering, Workshop.

SGER: Exploratory Research in Isotope Hydrology
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Neil C Sturchio($12,400), University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Liquid-water Isotope Analyzer, Davis Ranch, Hydrologic Cycle, Intellectual Merit, Isotope Ratio, Liquid-water Isotope, Los Gatos, Application, Applications, Approach, Capabilities, Conventional, Cost, Has, Instrumentation, Isotopic, Monitoring, Real-time, Substantially, Waters.

Marine Biogeochemical Cycles Deep Time: An Improved Reservoir Model
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Louis A Derry($181,184), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Marine Biogeochemical Cycles, Coupled Cnpos, Deep Time, Model Development, Ancient, Appropriate, Developing, Dynamics, Enable, Exchange, Expect, Function, GENIE, Gyre, Isotopic, Models, Ocean, Particular, Plan, Predictions, Processes, Rapidly, Readily, Representation, Resolution, Sedimentary, Sets, Simulate, Simulation, Structure, Testable, Testing, Upwelling, Variety, Vertical, Workers, Zone, Zones.

Collaborative Research: Actualistic Calibration of the Sphaerosiderite Paleoclimate Proxy
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Greg Ludvigson($254,680), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
2. None($118,628), Baylor University, Waco
Key terms: Circulation Model Simulations, Field And Laboratory, Sphaerosiderite Paleoclimate Proxy, Field Investigations, Laboratory Characterizations, Modern Pedogenic, Nsf-atm Program, Pedogenic Siderite, Selected Sites, Siderite Formation, Warm Periods, Application, Dating, Deltao, Eastern, Empirical, Forming, Groundwater, History, Isotope, NSF-ATM, Processes, Soils, Stable.

Iron isotope fractionation in solution
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Edwin A Schauble($184,376), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Modern And Ancient, Dissolved Species, Iron Isotope, Iron-isotope Geochemistry, Aqueous, Create, Equilibrium, Experimental, Experiments, Fecl-, Fefe, Fractionations, Iron-isotope, Isotopic, Measuring, Natural, Signatures, Solution, Solutions, Theoretical.

FAR-DEEP: Fennoscandian Arctic Russia Drilling Early Earth Project
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2007; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Lee R Kump($76,250), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Continental Drilling Program, International Continental Drilling, Modern Aerobic, Effort, Emergence, Eon, History, Interval, NASA, Time, Transition, Various.

Collaborative Research: Testing Hypotheses of Global Warming during Three Major Mass Extinctions
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Peter D Ward($87,329), University of Washington, Seattle
2. John M Eiler($242,107), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Constrain Temperature, Mass Extinctions, Soil Carbonates, Approach, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Based, Caltech, Climate, Consequences, Deltao, Environment, Fossils, Global, Grew, Hypothesized, Independently, Isotope, Marine, Ocean, Quantitative, Student, Summer, Surface, Thermometer, Widely.

Collaborative Research: An Interdisciplinary Study of Chiral Molecular Adsorption on Mineral Surfaces
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Edward P Vicenzi($3,000), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
2. Dimitri A Sverjensky($253,459), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Experimental And Theoretical, Molecules And Crystalline, Surfaces And Aqueous, Crystalline Surfaces, Microarray Technology, Mineral Surfaces, Organic Molecules, Adsorption, Advance, Application, Applications, Atomic-scale, Biomineralization, Broad, Chiral, Combinatorial, Document, Experiments, Formation, Has, Interactions, Lectures, Life, Minerals, Principles, Requested, Species, Techniques, Technological, Topics.

Stable Isotope Profiles in Modern Desert Soils
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2007; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Leslie D McFadden($95,007), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Deltac13 And Deltao18, Nasa Sharp Students, Analytical Techniques, Deltao18 Values, Pedogenic Carbonate, Pedogenic Carbonates, Soil Carbonate, Soil Co2, Soil Water, Stable Isotope, Albuquerque, Benefit, Biomes, Climate, Designated, Distinct, Formation, Geochemistry, Has, Information, Isotopic, Measuring, Neoform, SNWR, Serving, Soils, Undergraduate.

Partial Support to Short-Course on Medical Mineralogy and Geochemistry
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Nita Sahai($22,111), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Mineralogy And Geochemistry, Human Body, Medical Mineralogy, Edit, Emergent, Field, Interactions, Operate, Society, Tremendous.

Characterization of defect energy levels due to As, Co, and Ni impurities in pyrite: A step toward understanding charge transfer kinetics at the semiconductor/electrolyte interface
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Kaye Savage($79,089), Vanderbilt University, Nashville
Key terms: Charge Transfer Kinetics, Charge Transfer Mechanisms, Doped And Undoped, Observed Oxidation Rates, Ac Voltammetry, Atomic Environment, Bulk Defect, Donor Levels, Electroactive Impurities, Electronic Structure, Energy Levels, Mineral Processing, Pyrite Oxidation, Undoped Pyrite, Acceptor, As-doped, Band, Behavior, Characterize, Concentration, EIS, EPS, Electrochemical, Environmental, Experiments, Fe, Information, Interface, Measure, Mining, Models, Ni, Risk, Spectroscopy, Suggest, Surface, Synthetic, Valence.

Collaborative Research: Sea-Level Changes along the Atlantic Coast of the United States: Implications for Glacial Isostatic Adjustment Models and Current Rates of Sea-Level Change
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. David F Hill($38,408), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Torbjorn E Tornqvist($51,597), Tulane University, New Orleans
3. Benjamin P Horton($131,018), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Key terms: Atlantic Coast, Access, Contribution, Database, GIA, Glacial, Government, Mentoring, Models, Pennsylvania, RSL, Range, Sea, Sea-level, Students, Unique.

New Tools for Quantitative Geomorphology: Extraction and Interpretation of Stream Profiles from Digital Topographic Data; Boulder, Colorado; July 1-December 31, 2007
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Cameron W Wobus($3,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Geomorphology And Tectonics, Short Course, Available, Backgrounds, Bringing, Broader, Collaborations, Computer, Continue, Developed, Dissemination, Ensuring, Faculty, Geomorphic, Has, Methodologies, Participants, Potential, Set, Software, Students, Tools, Varied, Variety.

SGER: Integrated Petrophysical and Seismological Investigation of Crustal Fabric and Seismic Anisotropy of a Major Crustal Suture Zone, the Cheyenne Belt, Wyoming
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Vera Schulte-Pelkum($69,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Crustal Anisotropy, Receiver Function, Seismic Anisotropy, Analysis, Anisotropic, Crustal-scale, Deep, Detailed, Developed, Earthquakes, Fabric, Faults, Geological, Highly, North, Observations, Presentations, Structure, Zone.

Collaborative Research: Assessing Climatic Controls on Intervals of Stability and Deposition on Alluvial Fans
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Tammy M Rittenour($82,158), Utah State University, Logan
2. Warren D Sharp($77,319), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
3. Jennifer Pierce($134,914), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Students And Faculty, Boise State's, Fan Surfaces, Action, Field, Funding, Idaho, Interactions, Landscape, Programs, Rates, Sediment, Semi-arid, Transport, USU, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Probing the Role of Rock Type in the Evolution of Glacial Landscapes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Robert S Anderson($106,260), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. David L Shuster($54,923), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
Key terms: Erosion Rates, Glacial Erosion, Control, Focus, Glaciers, Hehe, Processes, Public, Range, Rock.

SGER: Examining the Evidence for a Recent Acceleration in the Rate of Sea-level Rise Using Combined Instrumental and Proxy Data, Morbihan Golfe, Brittany France
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Benjamin P Horton($10,080), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Key terms: Bretagne Sud, Relative Sea-level, Sea-level Rise, Tide Gauge, Brittany, Climate, Coastal, Evidence, France, Geological-based, Historical, Local, Pennsylvania, Rates, Regional, Sea-level, Students.

SGER: Photogrammetric/Media Camera Support for Alaska Glacier Observations
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. W. Tad Pfeffer($74,954), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Columbia Glacier, Time Lapse, Camera, Complex, Imagery, Information, Newly-developed, Outreach, Public, Rapid, Retreat.

Collaborative Research: Quantifying Feedbacks between Groundwater Decline, Wind Erosion, and Ecological Change in Desert Vegetation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Andrew J Elmore($241,176), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
2. James M Kaste($124,992), Dartmouth College, Hanover
3. Gregory S Okin($43,449), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Air Quality, Dust Generation, Groundwater Management, Soil Loss, Wind Erosion, Desert, Deserts, Gain, Has, Information, Regions, Vegetation, Water.

Collaborative Research: Co-Organization of River Basin Geomorphology and Vegetation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Rafael Bras($322,429), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe($238,618), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Landscape Morphology, River Basins, River Network, Climate, Co-organization, Ecosystem, Erosion, Forcing, Global, Grasslands, Organization, Stochastic, Structure, Topography, Uplift, Vegetation, Water.

Collaborative Research: The Role of Debris Flows in Shaping Mountainous Terrain
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Gregory E Tucker($147,583), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Stephen T Lancaster($107,538), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Landscape Evolution Model, Oregon Coast Range, Debris Flows, Process Monitoring, Steep Mountain, Tectonic Forcing, Topographic Analysis, Apennines, Channels, Database, Debris-flow, Development, Dynamics, Models, Nature, Processes, Rates, School, Shaping, Studying, Terrain, Testing, Uplift, Valley.

Collaborative Research: Complexity in Geomorphology Symposium: Binghamton 2007; Durham, North Carolina; October 5-7, 2007
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Brad Murray($30,644), Duke University, Durham
2. Mark A Fonstad($5,151), Texas State University - San Marcos, San Marcos
Key terms: Complex-systems Approaches, BGS, Backgrounds, Changing, Complex-systems, Facilitate, Geomorphologists, Geomorphology, Interactions, International, Land, Leading, Methods, Papers, Range, Showcase, Symposium, Various.

Workshop: Climate over Landscapes; Boulder, Colorado; September 19-21, 2007
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Gerard H Roe($73,570), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Landscape Dynamics, Remote Sensing, White Paper, Advances, Atmospheric, Challenge, Climate, Crust, Earth, Future, Geomorphology, Landscapes, Paradigm, Processes, Shaped, Spatial, Surface, Temporal, Unprecedented, Workshop.

CAREER: Land Use, Geologic and Climatic Controls on Stream Processes in Northern New England Using Airborne Laser Swath Mapping
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Noah P Snyder($438,806), Boston College, Chestnut Hill
Key terms: Field Surveys, Numerical Models, Restoration Projects, ALSM, Ecological, Efforts, England, Ensure, Fluvial, Habitat, Land, Landscape, Maine, Mapping, Methods, Non-profit, Northern, Past, Processes, Regions, Salmon, Spatial, Stream, Strong, Student, Students, Transport, Watershed, Watersheds.

Collaborative Research: The Pleistocene Erosion History of Glaciated Alpine Valleys Interrogated by Apatite 4He/3He Thermochronometry
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Kurt M Cuffey($46,465), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. David L Shuster($141,557), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
Key terms: Erosion And Relief, Mountain Ranges, Relief Development, Relief Generation, Applications, Climate, Constitute, Geochemical, Histories, Increased, Information, Technique, Tectonic, Thermochronometry, Valley, Valleys.

Morphodynamics of Actively Migrating Headcuts in Rills and Gullies
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2007; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Sean J Bennett($93,711), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Actively Migrating Headcuts, Upland Concentrated Flows, Localized Erosion, Soil Erosion, Soil Loss, Critical, Degradation, Gullies, Management, Primary, Resources, Rills, Sediment, Seeks.

Collaborative Research: Timing and Controls on Plio-Pleistocene Erosion in the Eastern Peninsular Ranges, Southern California
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Michael E Oskin($49,526), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
2. Rebecca J Dorsey($22,752), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
3. Bernard A Housen($27,500), Western Washington University, Bellingham
Key terms: Cosmogenic Nuclide Concentrations, Basinal Sediments, Erosion Rates, Nuclide In-growth, Ages, Ago, Application, Bedrock, Climate, Detrital, Forcing, In-growth, Million, Modern, Relief, Source, Stratigraphic, Tectonic, Time, Versus.

SGER: Preliminary Instrumentation Study of Rates and Mechanisms of Crack Initiation and Mechanical Weathering
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2007; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Kimberly A Warren($24,929), University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte
Key terms: Acoustic Emission Devices, Cracking, Fractures, Initiation, Man-made, Mechanism, Process, Responsible, Rock, Strain, Surface, Weathering.

Patterns of Precipitation and Their Control on Landscape Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2007; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Gerard H Roe($311,410), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: River Discharge, Atmospheric, Available, Challenge, Erosion, Flow, Gauges, Has, Mountain, Network, Output, Plays, Precipitation, Tackles, Topography, Weather.

SGER: Terrestrial in situ Cosmogenic Nuclides (TCN), Grain Size, and the Processes of Erosion
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Frank J Pazzaglia($24,600), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
Key terms: Grain Size, Lemhi Range, Alluvial, Channel, Diverse, Erosion, Field, Hillslope, Implications, Processes, Quantify, Rates, Regolith, Rock, Sediment, TCN, Technique, Transport.

Humans Transforming the Water Cycle: Community-Based Activities in Hydrologic Synthesis
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Charles J Vorosmarty($375,000), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Hydrologic Synthesis, Synthesis Activities, Water Cycle, Benefits, Biodiversity, CUAHSI, Capacity, Climate, Consolidated, Consortium, Emerging, Enormous, Focus, Human, Land, Management, Model, National, Natural, Northeast, Policy, Predictability, Processes, Produce, Public, Purpose, Regional, Strategic, Synergistic, Themselves, WG.

Where does desert dust originate? Geomorphic and climatic control on the evolution of dust sources in the Mojave Desert, USA.
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2007; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Mark R Sweeney($80,165), University of South Dakota Main Campus, Vermillion
Key terms: Dust Sources, Wind Erosion, Age, Control, Desert, Environments, Formation, Lake, Landforms, Landscape, Past, Playas, Sand, Soil, Soils, Technology.

Facility Support: Organizational Infrastructure for the Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. James P Syvitski($4,654,052), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Surface Dynamics Modeling, Educational Packages, Modeling Environment, Models Tailored, Sedimentary Basins, Application, Broad, CSDMS, Computational, Development, Earth-science, Earth-surface, Evolution, Landscapes, Linked, NSF, Rapid, Specific, Students, Teaching, Time, Tools, Transport.

Climatic and Erosional Effects on Chemical Weathering Rates, Measured Using Steep Climatic Gradients in Mountainous Terrain
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. James W Kirchner($130,937), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Chemical Weathering Rates, Erosion And Chemical, Long-term Chemical Weathering, Long-term Climatic Evolution, Climate Transects, Climatic Effects, Cosmogenic Nuclide, Erosion Rates, Long-term Chemical, Long-term Climatic, South Fork, Analyses, Bedrock, Biogeochemical, Canyon, Confounding, Difficult, Gradients, Individual, Laboratory, Landscapes, Lithology, Mean, Measured, Methods, Mineralogy, Natural, Processes, Quantify, Relief, Sediment, Soil, Soils, Steep, Temperature, Varies.

Collaborative Research: Tectonics and Topography in the Transverse Ranges: Landscapes Response to Rock Uplift Rate across the Transition from Soil-Mantled to Rocky Slopes
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Kelin X Whipple($220,735), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: San Gabriel Mountains, Cosmogenic 10be, Critical, Erosion, Field, Hillslopes, Landscape, Processes, Rate, Specific, Systematically.

Seismic and Geodetic Response to the 2007 Natron-Lengai Seismo-Magmatic Crisis, East African Rift, Tanzania
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Eric Calais($20,000), University of Rochester, Rochester
Key terms: East African Rift, Continent, Magmatism, Rifting, Students, Training.

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: 10/01/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Anne H Peslier($112,785), 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.

10th International Workshop on the Modeling of Mantle Convection; Carry-le-Rouet, France; September, 2007
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Jeroen E Ritsema($15,500), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Lithospheric Dynamics, Mantle Convection, Evolution, Modeling.

Elasticity of Iron-bearing Mantle Minerals
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Evan H Abramson($400,000), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Lower Mantle, Conditions, Elastic, Electronic, Ferro-periclase, HSLS, Pressure, Temperature, Transition, Undertake, Velocity.

In Situ Study of Fe-FeS Melt System at High Pressures and Temperatures
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Jiuhua Chen($270,002), Florida International University, Miami
Key terms: Density Deficit, Earth's Core, Newly Developed, Synchrotron X-ray, Anvil, Candidates, Composition, Current, Experimental, Fe-fes, Has, Iron, Light, Melts, National, Pressure, Pressures, Sources, Structure, Students, Techniques, View, X-ray.

Collaborative Research: Laboratory Investigations of the Origin of Fault-Zone Pulverized Rock
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Terry E Tullis($274,386), Brown University, Providence
2. Vikas Prakash($167,000), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland
Key terms: Damaging Ground Motions, Active Faults, Dynamic Fault, Dynamic Loading, Fault Zone, High-speed Weakening, Pulverized Rocks, San Andreas, Stress Drops, Weakening Mechanism, Allow, Conditions, Depth, Diagnostic, Earthquakes, Experienced, Experiments, Formation, Found, Fragmentation, High-speed, Particular, Process, Pulverization, Rapid, Rupture, Slip, Strain, Surface, Traces, Variety.

Optical Study of Thermal Conductivity of the Mantle Minerals at High Pressure and Temperature
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Alexander F Goncharov($270,000), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Pressure And Temperature, Earth's Mantle, Earth's Minerals, Extreme Conditions, Heat Transfer, Laser Heating, Lower Mantle, Thermal Conductivity, Thermal Diffusivity, Benefit, Carnegie, Conduction, Direct, Effects, Evolution, Experimental, Extract, Lattice, Measured, Models, Optical, Postperovskite, Processes, Radiation, Radiative, Range, Rate, Situ, Students, Technique.

Elasticity of Selected Deep Earth Phases Under Simultaneous High P-T Conditions Using Nuclear Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Jennifer M Jackson($275,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Chemically Complex, Lower Mantle, Seismic Complexities, Conditions, Deep, Density, Determined, Effort, Methods, Nrixs, P-T, Properties, Scattering, Seismological, Shear, Velocities, X-ray, Xrd.

Dynamic Weakening and Melt Generation Along Mature Faults
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Alan Rempel($201,000), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Finite Shear Zone, Mature Fault Zones, Fault Strength, Melt Onset, Melt Products, Shear Heating, Accommodated, Actually, Behavior, Consideration, Crystal, Dynamic, Dynamics, Earthquakes, Effective, Energy, Estimates, Evolution, Examination, Field, Fraction, Frictional, Gouge, Layers, Macroscopic, Melting, Models, Range, Seismic, Slip, Solids, Stress, Surfaces, Temperature, Thermal, Transition, Typical.

Time-Dependent Earthquake Forecasts with a Tectonic Basis
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. David D Jackson($417,399), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Earthquake Forecasts, Earthquake Probabilities, Based, Basis, Clustering, Compared, Controls, Earthquakes, Forecasting, Global, Magnitudes, Model, Particular, Rate, Resolve, Seismic, Seismicity, Slip, Social, Tectonic, Testing, Time.

Three-Dimensional Distinct Element Simulations of Dynamic Process of Fault Gouge Evolution
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Julia K Morgan($148,000), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Gouge Zone Development, Fault Gouge, Fault Zone, Fault Zones, Gouge Evolution, Surface Roughness, Affect, DEM, Dynamic, Earthquake, Faults, Field, Frictional, Laboratory, Natural, Numerical, Observations, Previous, Process, Processes, Range, Rock, Shear, Simulations, Slip, Strength, Thickness.

Collaborative Research: An Experimental Study of the Effects of Off-Fault Damage on Earthquake Rupture Mechanics
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Ares J Rosakis($142,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
2. Charles G Sammis($187,999), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Crack Tip, Fault Plane, Initial Damage, Larger Damage, Larger Plates, Marble Plates, Off-fault Damage, Slip Pulse, Allow, Cm, Extend, Finite, Has, Inch, Interaction, Laboratory, Limiting, Model, Off-fault, Polymer, Predicts, Required, Rice, Rupture, Speed, Uniform, Zone.

An Observational Study of Microearthquakes on a Bimaterial Interface
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Allan M Rubin($248,000), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Aftershock Asymmetry, Bimaterial Interface, Failure Threshold, Rupture Front, San Andreas, Slip Pulse, Tensile Stress, Aftershocks, Below, Carried, Catalog, Context, Contrast, Directivity, Elastodynamic, Evidence, Fault, Has, Mainshock, Microearthquakes, Models, Nearly, Northwest, Observations, Region, Ruptures, Searching, Seismic, Southeast.

Contemporary Strain and Stressing Rates in Central and Southern Alaska Through the Earthquake Cycle
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Andrew Freed($151,961), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Central And Southern, Earthquake Cycle, Interseismic Loading, Past Century, Southern Alaska, Subduction Zone, Upper Plate, Broad, Calculations, Earthquakes, Enable, Evolution, Fault, Faults, Mantle, Model, Postseismic, Processes, Rates, Regions, Slab, Slip, Strain, Stress, Tectonic, Velocity, Viscoelastic.

Deformation and Seismicity Accompanying Effusive Silicic Eruptions
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Paul Segall($135,000), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Deformation And Seismicity, Current Eruption, Deformation Models, Magma Chamber, Mount St, Activity, Compared, Constrain, Coupled, Depth, Dome, Effect, Effusive, Erupting, Exsolution, Gas, Has, Helens, Involves, Little, Medium, Mt, Near, Processes, Rate, Stress, Surrounding, Swarms, Tilt, Transient, Volcanic, Volcano, Volcanoes.

Constraints on Mantle Fluids and Hydrous Phases from High Pressure Diamond Anvil Cell Experiments
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Elise Knittle($278,214), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Aqueous, Behavior, Characterize, Fluids, Planet, Pressures, Temperatures.

Collaborative Research: Waveform Analysis of Repeating Earthquakes - Implications for Fault Damage and Healing Processes
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. John E Vidale($91,399), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Zhigang Peng($130,350), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Damage And Healing, Fault Zone Properties, Fault Zones, Repeating Earthquakes, Critical, Information, Near, Processes, Rupture, Source, Subtle, Waveforms.

Mechanical Anisotropy from Gravity/Topography Coherence: A Global Study
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Frederik J Simons($275,000), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Continental Lithosphere, Gravity Anomalies, Mechanical Anisotropy, Seismic Anisotropy, Analysis, Anisotropic, Coherence, Comparing, Dependence, Depth, Geological, Methods, Modeling, Models, Structure, Tectonic, Topography.

Toward Seismic Tomography Based Upon Adjoint Methods
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Jeroen Tromp($333,014), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Earthquake Rupture, Global Seismic, San Diego, Analyses, Constraints, Discontinuities, Earthquakes, Lead, Mantle, Methods, Modeling, Models, Resolve, Structure, UC, Variety.

Rheology of Mantle Rocks at High Pressure
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Donald J Weidner($450,002), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Deep Focus Earthquakes, Flow Properties, Quantitative Flow, Available, Behavior, Developed, Diffraction, Effects, High-pressure, Images, Minerals, Obtained, Olivine, Plastic, Pressure, Rheology, Strain, Stress, Students, Synchrotron, Temperature, Time, Tools, X-ray, Zone.

Fault Surface Bumps: Prevalence, Causes and Consequences
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Emily E Brodsky($200,000), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Bumps, Earthquake, Fault, Faults, Field, Has, Mature, Measuring, Mechanics, Occurrence, Rock, Surround.

Dynamic Subduction Zone Thermal Modeling
Award Effective Date: 06/22/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Scott D King($127,626), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Slab Thermal Structure, Thermal Structure Calculations, Thermal Structure Models, Density Structure, Slab Deformation, Available, Constraints, Critical, Current, Dynamically, Effect, Estimates, Fields, Flow, Generation, Inconsistent, Kinematic, Motion, Plan, Plate, Resolution, Seismic, Subduction, Tool, Tools, Variety.

Ambient Noise and Teleseismic Tomography to infer the Physical State and Structure of the Crust and Upper Mantle in the Western United States
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Yingjie Yang($276,554), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Ambient Noise Tomography, Crust And Upper, Dispersion Curves, Dispersion Maps, Phase Velocity, Surface Wave, Transportable Array, Upper Mantle, ANT, Available, Beneath, Complementary, Earthscope, Elsewhere, Has, Inversion, Methods, Model, Models, Period, Regional, Sec, Seismic, TA, TPWT, Teleseismic, Track, Unprecedented, Vision, Wavefield, Western.

High Resolution Seismic Experiments Aimed at Mapping Dynamical Processes within Earth's Interior
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Edward J Garnero($270,366), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Discontinuity Structure, Inner Core, Transition Zone, Upper Mantle, Analyses, Beneath, Boundary, Centering, Characterized, Chemistry, Deep, Dense, Dynamics, Migration, Pacific, Period, Reflections, Regions, Relate, Resolution, Sets, Velocity, Waveform.

Toward Understanding the Relation Between Volcanic Eruptions, Seismicity, and Infrasound
Award Effective Date: 05/19/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Jeffrey B Johnson($57,428), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Seismic And Acoustic, Elastic Waves, Volcanic Activity, Volcanic Eruptions, Energy, Explosive, Hampshire, Radiated, Relation, Seismicity, Video, Volcano, Volcanoes.

SGER: Kilauea Volcano Dynamics from Microgravity Pilot Project
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Anahita Tikku($61,862), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
Key terms: Seismic Emissions, Analysis, Continuous, Deformation, GPS, Gravity, Microgravity, Monitoring, Predictive, Signals, Volcano.

SGER: Resolving Coseismic Stress Drop, Afterslip, and Viscous Relaxation Caused by Mw=8.3, November 15, 2006 Kuril Earthquake: Evidence from GPS
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Mikhail Kogan($38,973), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Kuril Arc, Pacific Plate, CGPS, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Islands, Kamchatka, Kurils, North, November, Stations, Subduction.

Collaborative Research: GPS Study of the Kinematics of the India-Eurasia Convergence Zone across the Pamir and Adjacent Terrain
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Peter H Molnar($58,659), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Rebecca O Bendick($523,368), University of Montana, Missoula
Key terms: Oceanic Subduction Zones, South Tien Shan, Continental Deformation, Continental Subduction, Crustal Blocks, Gps Observations, Gps Sites, Intracontinental Subduction, Tajik Depression, Tibetan Plateau, Asia, Continuous, Direct, Especially, Forces, Has, Instruments, Involve, Lithosphere, Models, Pamir, Region, Regions, Single, Strain, Surface, Tajikistan, Tectonic, Velocity.

Archeomagnetism of Metallurgical Slag Deposits in Israel and Jordan: Constraints for Secular Variation Models for the last 7000 Years
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Lisa Tauxe($221,394), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Ancient Geomagnetic Field, Earth's Magnetic Field, Geophysics And Archeology, Radiocarbon Calibration Curves, Earth's Magnetic, Laboratory Experiment, Solar Activity, Age, Archaeology, Archeological, Behavior, Collected, Context, Copper, Dated, Has, Jordan, Lack, Model, Obtain, Paleointensity, Past, Secular, Slag, Strength, Time, Vector.

SGER Collaborative Research: Seismic and Geodetic Deployment in Anticipation of a Predicted Slow Earthquake at Kilauea Volcano
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Cecily J Wolfe($29,929), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Clifford H Thurber($25,540), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Earthquake, Experiment, Geodetic, Kilauea, Periodic, SE, Seismic, Ses, Slow, Triggered, Western.

Numerical Modeling of Earthquake Source Dynamics Workshop; Smolenice Castle, Slovakia; September 2-6, 2007
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Ralph Archuleta($19,608), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Dynamics, Earthquake, Numerical, Simulations, Workshop.

Mantle Discontinuity Structure From 3D ScS Reverberation Mapping
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Justin Revenaugh($145,593), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Seismograph Stations, Transition Zone, Composition, Deep, Fabric, Imaging, Information, Japan, Layer, Mantle, Maps, Pacific, Reflectors, Structure, Subduction, Surface, Targets, Tomography, Tool, Waves.

Collaborative Research: Quantum Mechanical Modeling of Major Mantle Materials
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Lars P Stixrude($305,279), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. Renata M Wentzcovitch($420,000), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Mantle Phases, Broader, Continue, Has, Investigations, Origin, Predictions, Principles, Properties, Towards.

Refining Tomographic Models Beneath the Pacific and Margins
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Donald V Helmberger($230,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Lower Mantle, Multiple Scs, Pacific Superplume, Shallow Structure, Structure Determined, Upper Mantle, Array, Arrays, Beneath, Dense, Especially, Global, Has, IRIS, Images, Mapping, Methods, Models, Multiples, Near, Phase, Regional, Seismic, Stations, Tomographic, Trinet, Triplications, Waveform.

In-situ Acoustic Velocity Measurement on Mantle Phase Transitions
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Baosheng Li($240,181), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Candidate Mantle, Mantle Phases, Phase Transitions, Believed, Compositions, Conditions, Discontinuities, Elasticity, Observed, Responsible, Ringwoodite, Seismic, Velocities, Velocity, Wadsleyite.

Collaborative Research: Magma-Tectonic Processes in an Active Transitional Rift from Seismic, GPS, and Modelling Studies in Afar
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Roger Buck($175,999), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: East African Rift, Continental Rupture, Earthquake Activity, Magma Injection, Molten Rock, Plate Stretching, Rift Zones, Active, Beneath, Brittle, Cracks, Deformation, Dike, Directly, Earthquakes, Episode, Episodes, Eruption, Faults, Gt, Heating, Intense, Km-long, Less, Monitoring, Narrow, Process, Rate, Rise, Sheet, Stresses, Surface, Volcanic, Was.

Collaborative Research: Magma-Tectonic Processes in an Active Transitional Rift from Seismic, Global Positioning System (GPS), and Modelling Studies in Afar
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Eric Calais($213,059), Purdue University, West Lafayette
2. Cynthia J Ebinger($220,933), University of Rochester, Rochester
Key terms: East African Rift, Continental Rupture, Earthquake Activity, Magma Injection, Molten Rock, Plate Stretching, Rift Zones, Active, Beneath, Brittle, Cracks, Deformation, Dike, Directly, Earthquakes, Episode, Episodes, Eruption, Faults, Gt, Heating, Intense, Km-long, Less, Monitoring, Narrow, Process, Rate, Rise, Sheet, Stresses, Surface, Volcanic, Was.

Fault Slip and Seismicity in Geometrically Complex Fault Systems
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. James H Dieterich($330,004), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Slip And Earthquake, Yielding And Stress, Background Seismicity, Normal Stress, Secondary Faults, Stress Relaxation, Through-going Faults, Accommodate, Aftershocks, Component, Development, Earthquakes, Formulation, Interactions, Occurrence, Off-fault, Processes, Represent, Through-going.

High P-T Elasticity of Deep Earth Materials With New Gigahertz-Ultrasonic Techniques
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2006; Program: Geophysics

1. Steven D Jacobsen($159,970), Northwestern University, Evanston
Key terms: Cvd Diamond, Elastic Tensor, Anisotropy, Determined, Diamond-anvil, Earth, Elasticity, Experiments, Gem, Methods, P-T, Shear, Ultrasonic, Velocity.

Collaborative Research: Chemotaxis in Porous Media--Experimental Observations and Upscaling for Development of a Descriptive Theory
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Brian D Wood($267,289), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Roseanne M Ford($240,132), University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville
Key terms: Effective Dispersion Tensor, Local Chemical Gradients, Bacterial Populations, Bacterial Transport, Biological Degradation, Chemical Contaminants, Driving Force, Engineering Correlations, Length Scales, Mathematical Modeling, Microfluidic Devices, Porous Media, Spatial Variance, Chemotactic, Chemotaxis, Concentration, Darcy-scale, Design, Experimental, Field-scale, Groundwater, Has, Laboratory, Migration, Mixing, Pore-scale, Predict, Quantify, Relate, Student, Students, Theory.

Foundations for Physically-based, Multi-Dimensional River Hydrodynamic Models at the Watershed Scale
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Ben R Hodges($254,428), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Aquatic Habitat, Coarse Grid, Field Studies, Grid Cell, Hydrodynamic Models, Model Grid, Water Quality, Approach, CGS, Calibration, Catchment-scale, Effects, Empirically, Engineers, Equations, Existing, Explicitly, Gap, Grid-dependent, Knowledge, Methodology, Modeling, Simulation, Small-scale, Society, Student, Turbulence, UT, Up-scaling, Velocity.

Generalizing Riparian Zone Function at the Landscape Scale: New Tools, New Approaches, Gaps in Knowledge and Future Research Directions; Bloomington, Indiana; November 2007
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Philippe Vidon($28,374), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Climatic And Land, Riparian Zone Function, Riparian Zone Management, Synthesize Current Knowledge, Cumulative Effect, Landscape Hydrogeomorphic, Nutrient Fluxes, Nutrientcontaminant Sinks, Riparian Zones, Water Quality, Biogeochemical, Characteristics, Conditions, Critical, Decision, Developing, Functioning, Gaps, Government, Human, Hydrological, Involved, Objectives, Private, Strategies, Students, Terrestrial, Vegetation, Watershed, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Groundwater Dynamics of a Barrier Island
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Willard S Moore($374,094), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
2. Samantha B Joye($199,932), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Barrier Island, Chemical Exchange, Coastal Groundwater, Fluid Flow, Groundwater Dynamics, Groundwater Flow, Sapelo Island, Coastline, Developed, Interface, Processes, Quantify, Resource, Settings, Storm, Transport.

Collaborative Research: A Comparison of Local and Nonlocal Transport Theories
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. David A Benson($345,288), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
2. Eric M LaBolle($36,726), University of California-Davis, Davis
3. Yong Zhang($50,912), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Advection-dispersion Equation, Conservative Solute, Non-local Methods, Non-local Terms, Accuracy, Advection-dispersion, Andor, Apply, Governing, Information, Model, Non-local, Site.

Quantifying Controls on Snow Distribution in the Sierra Nevada Using Ground-based and Remotely Sensed Observations within an Ensemble Kalman Smoother
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Noah P Molotch($200,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Snow Cover Depletion, Temporal And Spatial, Remotely Sensed, Sierra Nevada, Snow Accumulation, Snow Distribution, Based, Capabilities, Distributed, Energy, Gradients, Modeling, Models, Observations, Processes, Reconstruction, Seasonal, Similarly, Snowmelt.

Collaborative Research: Hydrogeophysical Quantification of Hydraulic Conductivity from Electrical Measurements of the Effective Properties of Porous Media
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2007; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Lee Slater($318,471), Rutgers University Newark, Newark
2. Warren Barrash($127,004), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Capillary Tube Models, Grain Size Distribution, Hydraulic Conductivity, Interconnected Pore, Percolation Theory, Pore Length, Pore Radius, Pore Volume, Prediction Based, Available, BHRS, Campus, Comparison, Complex, Datasets, Deposits, Electrical, Estimated, Estimates, Examine, Exhibit, Explore, Flow, Frequency, HUG, Honors, Hydrogeophysics, Hydrologic, Images, Parameters, Peak, Polarization, R-N, Relation, Sigma, Sigmaw, Soils, Spor, Strategies, Surface, Via.

Evaluation of Storage in Fractured-Rock Aquifer Systems
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Thomas J Burbey($151,902), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Fractured And Faulted, Primary And Secondary, Storage And Porosity, Analytical Modeling, Faulted Crystalline-rock, Pipe Extensometer, Secondary Fracture, Storage Properties, Stressed Conditions, Accurate, Allow, Analysis, Aquifer, Costly, Coupled, Crystalline-rock, Detailed, Device, Elusive, Estimates, Flow, Fractures, Hydraulic, Matrix, Permeability, Quantification, Strain, Stress-strain, Techniques, Yield.

SGER: Modeling Transpiration and Water-Stress from Leaf-Level to Catchment-Scale: A Supplement for Graduate Study
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Howard E Epstein($50,118), University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville
Key terms: Stringer Creek Watershed, Growing Season, Plant Water-stress, Scales Ranging, Soil Water, Stomatal Conductance, Coupled, Entire, Estimate, Estimates, Evapotranspiration, Independent, Mechanistic, Model, Modeling, Parameters, Process-based, Relations, September, Spatial, Temporal, Transpiration, Vegetation, Water-stress, Watershed-scale.

Percolation Approach to Find Hydraulic Conductivity in Realistic Geologic Media
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2007; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Allen G Hunt($36,790), Wright State University, Dayton
Key terms: Critical Path Analysis, Digital Model, Hydraulic Conductivity, Numerical Routine, Arbitrary, Architecture, Based, Deposit, Detailed, Distribution, Has, Heterogeneity, Isolation, Media, Percolation, Range, Realistic, Sedimentary, Simulations, Spatial, Theory, Upscaling.

Collaborative Research: The Role of Flocculent Organic Sediment Transport as a Feedback Mechanism that Controls Landscape Dynamics and Restoration Success in the Everglades
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. John P Crimaldi($209,933), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Floc Transport Mechanics, Laboratory And Field, Ridge And Slough, Sediment Transport Dynamics, Forest Hill, Landscape Dynamics, Magnet Program, Sediment Redistribution, Slough Landscape, Vegetated Environments, Aggregate, Critical, Efforts, Environmental, Everglades, Evolution, Experiments, Flocculent, Floccules, Florida, Flow, Implications, K-, Magnitude, Model, Open-water, Organic, Policy, Publication, Restoration, Resulting, Ridgeslough, School, Sedimentation, Set, Shear, Size, Special, Topographic, Turbulence, USGS, Velocities, Water, Wetlands.

Snow Metamorphism, Near Surface Faceting
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Edward E Adams($158,586), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Energy Balance, Field Sites, Imaging Camera, Surface Temperature, Albedo, Buried, Conditions, Conductivity, Controlled, Examined, Faceted, Faceting, IR, Influence, Laboratory, Layers, Measure, Measured, Metamorphism, Model, Monitored, Nsurface, Optical, Potential, Properties, Recrystallized, Rounded, Snow, Strength, Thermal.

A Novel Method for Assessing Impacts of Urbanization on Watershed Processes
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Jay L Banner($39,848), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Flow And Water, Sr Isotope Values, Elemental Concentrations, K-12 Teachers, Natural Streamwater, Predictive Tool, Time Scales, Urban Watersheds, Urbanization Impacts, Water Quality, Watershed Flow, Watershed Management, Analytical, Approach, Chemical, Environment, Environmental, Factors, Field, Graduate, Growing, Growth, Hydrologic, Incorporated, Isotopic, Land, Land-use, Method, Methods, Minimize, Municipal, Ongoing, Rings, Srsr, Streams, Students, Temporal, Texas, Thresholds, Tree, Tree-ring, Trees, Undergraduate, Urbanized.

Collaborative Research: Data Source and Data Quality Effects on Vadose Zone Transport Modeling
Award Effective Date: 05/08/2007; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Marcel Schaap($132,337), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Hydraulic Properties, Soil Hydraulic, Methods, Model, Site.

Flow-Induced Redox Geochemistry Within Fractured/Macroporous and Layered Vadose Zone
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2007; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Binayak P Mohanty($476,726), Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, College Station
Key terms: Norman Landfill Site, Natural Attenuation, Pore Water, Conceptual, Education, Evolutionary, Experiments, Geochemical, Hydrologic, Linked, Modeling, Models, Oklahoma, Ongoing, Predict, Processes, Redox, Soil, Students, Transport, Various, Zone.

Quantitative Characterization of the Vibratory Enhancement of Organic-Fluid Flow in Porous Media: Integrated Experimental and Theoretical Approach
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2007; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Igor A Beresnev($294,858), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: Underlying Pore-scale Process, Chemical Engineering, Elastic Waves, Entrapped Ganglia, Pore-scale Process, Underlying Pore-scale, Achieved, Approach, Benefit, Bulk-flow, Capillary, Completed, Created, Developing, Development, Disciplines, Dynamics, Education, Effort, Enhancement, Experimental, Flow, Fluid, Forces, Ganglion, Geometries, Geophysics, Has, Integrated, Laboratory, Level, Liberation, Mechanism, Model, NAPL, NSF, Numerical, Objective, Organic, Phase, Physics, Pis, Porous, Previous, Recently, Technologies, Theoretical, Tubes, Undergraduate, Verifying, Vibrations, Vibratory, Vibratory-stimulation.

SGER: How Do Hillslope-to Catchment-Scale Flowpaths Develop in Response to an Extreme Drought Followed by Record Precipitation
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2007; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Peter A Troch($25,894), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Advantage, Aspect, Catchment, Catchments, Development, Dry, Eight, Flow, Has, Mexico, Models, Precipitation, Residence, Site, Streams, Sub-catchments, Water.

Collaborative Research: SGER--Dynamical Origins of Statistical Scaling in Floods on Real Networks-An Exploratory Diagnostic Analysis
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Harihar RAJARAM($53,218), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Peter Furey($42,888), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Mass Conservation Equation, Statistical Power Laws, Flood Predictions, Global Warming, Hillslope-channel Links, Natural Terrain, Scaling Exponents, Scaling Theory, Water Resources, Annual, Assumptions, Developing, Drainage, Equations, Floods, Flow, Foundations, Framework, Has, Hillslope-channel, Hydro-climate, Hydrologic, Individual, Management, Networks, Non-stationary, Observed, Processes, Real, Set.

Determination of Soil Water Content at Intermediate Spatial Scale Using Cosmic-Ray Neutrons: Field Application
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Darin Desilets($345,332), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Soil Water Content, Field Sites, Controlled, Detector, Experiments, Extensive, Hydrologic, Means, Method, Neutron, Performed, Tucson.

Colloid Retention in Unsaturated Porous Media due to Capillary Forces
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Bin Gao($190,135), Cornell Univ - State: AWDS MADE PRIOR MAY 2010, Ithaca
Key terms: Movement And Retention, Unsaturated Porous Media, Colloid Retention, Colloid Transport, Colloidal Transport, Groundwater Contamination, Capillary, Colloids, Governing, Mechanisms, Microscopy, Observations, Properties, Quantify, Typically, Water.

CAREER: Linked Hydrologic and Atmospheric Fluxes from Riparian Biogeochemical Hotspots
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Todd M Scanlon($449,802), University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville
Key terms: Stream Water Mercury, Water Mercury Concentrations, Interacting Timescales, Stream Discharge, Atmospheric, Biogeochemical, Class, Emissions, Fluxes, Gas, Hotspots, Hydrological, Interface, LTER, Model, Modeling, Monitoring, Process-based, Program, Riparian, Students, Technology, Transformations, Virginia, Watershed.

Collaborative Research: Understanding the Hydrologic Implications of Landscape Structure and Climate -- Towards a Unifying Framework of Watershed Similarity
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Murugesu Sivapalan($42,000), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
2. Thorsten Wagener($159,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
3. Peter A Troch($158,788), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Unifying Similarity Theory, Hydrologic Models, Ungauged Basins, Watershed Hydrology, Climate, Hydrological, Landscape, Landscapes, Processes, Structure, Watershed-scale.

Ecohydrologic Controls on Convective Rainfall Triggering and Space-Time Development
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Amilcare Porporato($338,664), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Summertime Convective Precipitation, Convective Rainfall, Hydrologic Models, Soil Moisture, Characteristics, Complex, Conditions, Description, Forcing, Information, Interface, Land, Land-surface, Measures, Meteorological, Meteorology, Processes, Space-time, Surface, Timberland, Turbulent, Water.

Collaborative Research: Paleohydrology of the Illinois Basin--Effects of Glaciation on Fluid Flow, Solute Transport, and Microbial Methane Generation
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Jennifer C McIntosh($351,210), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Mark A Person($35,717), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Adjacent Regional, Albany Shale, Ice Sheet, Illinois Basin, Microbial Methane, Solute Transport, Aquifers, Basins, Constrain, Deep, Flow, Fluid, Fractured, Freshwater, Gas, Groundwater, Hydrologic, Isotope, Late, Margins, Model, Noble, Organic-rich, Pennsylvanian, Permafrost, Recharge, Salinity, Shales, Waters, Zones.

CAREER: Microtopography-Controlled Puddle-filling to Puddle-merging (P2P) Overland Flow Mechanism: Discontinuity, Variability, and Hierarchy
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Xuefeng Chu($241,911), Grand Valley State University, Allendale
Key terms: Computer-guided Self-learning Center, Enhanced Visualization Capabilities, Generation And Evolution, Overland Flow Generation, Overland Flow Modeling, Overland Flow Process, P2p Teaching-learning Software, Soil Surface Roughness, Tools And Databases, User-friendly Windows Interface, Computer-guided Self-learning, Hydrology Education, Modeling Techniques, Multi-scale Methods, P2p Overland, P2p Teaching-learning, Self-learning Center, Teaching-learning Software, User-friendly Windows, Challenges, Characterizing, Developed, Discontinuity, Dynamic, Effects, Field, Hierarchy, Hydrologic, Interactive, LTER, Levels, Micro-scale, Microtopography, Multi-scale, PP, Puddle, Quantify, Rainfall, Soils, Students.

Coastal Wetland Hydroecology: Multi-scale Links Between Near-surface Hydrologic Processes and Vegetation
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2007; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Steven M Gorelick($407,232), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Wetland Hydroecology, Baylands, Coastal, Controls, Ecology, Environmental, Environments, Field, Fields, Fluxes, Heat, Hydrologic, Local, Marine, Models, Nshore, Plant, Processes, Restoration, Salt, Salt-marsh, Vegetation, Water.

Collaborative Research (SGER): Wildfire Impacts on Catchment Hydrochemistry: Metal and Nutrient Transport after the Day Fire, 2006
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2007; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Laura K Rademacher($30,008), University of the Pacific, Stockton
2. Terri S Hogue($87,617), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Collection And Analysis, Nutrient And Metal, Burned Watersheds, Day Fire, Metal Transport, Post-fire Watersheds, Pyramid Lake, Undergraduate Students, Water Quality, Water Supply, California, Chemical, Effects, Field, Fires, Fluxes, Has, Immediate, Managers, Natural, Objective, Pacific, Parameters, Post-fire, Rates, Region, Reservoirs, Sediment, UCLA.

Impacts of Acid Mine Drainage on Dissolved Inorganic Carbon Cycling in Receiving Streams
Award Effective Date: 11/10/2006; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Eliot A Atekwana($141,373), Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
Key terms: Acid Mine Drainage, Amd Impacted Groundwater, Amd Impacted Streams, Amd Impacted Watersheds, Field And Laboratory, Stream Water Dic, Anthropogenic Forcing, Carbon Cycling, Carbon Dynamics, Isotope Ratio, Assessing, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Chemical, Component, Controls, Exchange, Processes, Reactions, Reservoir, Students, Terrestrial, Transfer.

Collaborative Research: Experimental and Numerical Characterization of Thin Films in Three-Dimensional Porous Media
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Marcel Schaap($24,770), University of Arizona, Tucson
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.

ITR Collaborative Research: GEON: A Research Project to Create Cyberinfrastructure for the Geosciences
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: ITR FOR NATIONAL PRIORITIES

1. George R Keller($268,509), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Disciplinary Databases, Center, Collaboration, Creating, Cyberinfrastructure, Evolution, Foundation, GEON, Geoinformatics, Geoscience, Geosciences, Information, Interdisciplinary, National, Represent, Sets.

Upgrade of the Duke University Electron Microprobe
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. A. E Boudreau($14,975), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: North Carolina, Allow, Duke, Electron, Microprobe, Upgrade.

Studies of Global and Regional Seismicity
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Goran Ekstrom($280,534), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Analysis, CMT, Catalog, Detected, Earth, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Global, Information, Investigated, Systematic.

Facility Support: Multi-User Facility Support for U-Th-Pb Geochronology at the Arizona LaserChron Center
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Joaquin Ruiz($609,114), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: U-th-pb Geochronologic Information, U-th-pb Geochronologic, ALC, Development, Drive, Facility, Geology, Instrumentation, LA-MC-ICPMS, Nsf-supported, Techniques, Tectonic.

Acquisition of a Ground Penetrating Radar Environmental Imaging System
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Thomas K Manahan($51,675), Kent State University, Kent
Key terms: GPR, Graduate, International, Undergraduate.

MRI: Acquisition of a High Resolution Analytical Transmission Electron Microscope for the Miami University Electron Microscope Facility
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Richard E Edelmann($616,055), Miami University, Oxford
Key terms: Capabilities, EMF, Electron, Essential, Focus, Instrument, Miami, Primary, Resolution, Students, TEM.

Acquisition of a Solid-State 193-nm Laser-Ablation System
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. William D Carlson($97,500), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Ages, Applications, Isotopic, Laser, Permit, Resolution, Rock, Sedimentary, Solid-state, Technology.

Upgrade of Research Equipment: Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Rochester
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Asish R Basu($67,250), University of Rochester, Rochester
Key terms: National And International, Upgraded Instrument, Acquisition, Faculty, Geochemical, Graduate, Price, Rochester, Students, TIMS, Undergraduate, Unit.

Development of Nanoelectrophoresis Cell for Studying the Surface Properties of Minerals in Hydrothermal Environments
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Mark V Fedkin($233,900), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: High-temperature Nanoelectrophoresis, Analysis, Cell, Design, Environmental, Flow-through, High-temperature, Hydrothermal, Instrument, Mineral, Technique.

Collaborative Research: Facility Support for the CALIPSO Borehole Observatory, Soufriere Hills Volcano, Montserrat
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Barry Voight($77,672), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Glen S Mattioli($300,154), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
3. Alan T Linde($5,997), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Calipso Facility, Andesitic, Deformation, Dynamics, Features, Magma, Magmatic, Processes, Reveal, SEA-CALIPSO, SHV, Seismic, Students, UK, Was.

MRI: Acquisition of Multicollector Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer (MC-TIMS) for Earth, Environmental, and Cross-disciplinary Research
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Andrew D Jacobson($847,219), Northwestern University, Evanston
Key terms: Radiogenic Isotope, Acquisition, Activities, Aqueous, Chicago-area, Department, EAPS, EXCITE, Geochemistry, Graduate, Instrument, MC-TIMS, NU, Program, School, Students, Underrepresented.

MRI: Acquisition of Hydrodynamic Equipment and a Laser Grain Size Analyzer to Investigate the Lake Erie Seiche and Its Impact on Sedimentation in the Buffalo River
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Patricia L Manley($324,980), SUNY College at Buffalo, Buffalo
Key terms: Buffalo River, Lake Champlain, Lower Reaches, Acquisition, Bottom, Dynamics, Equipment, Hydro, Hydrodynamic, Impacted, Middlebury, Observational, Sedimentary, Surface, Undergraduate, Vermont.

Facility Support: The University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) National Ion Microprobe
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Timothy M Harrison($1,092,978), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Ion Microprobe, Ucla Scientists, Access, Continue, Methods, SIMS.

Acquisition of Geophysical Instrumentation for Enhancing Peatlands Research and Training of a Diverse Student Population in New Jersey
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Lee Slater($118,334), Rutgers University Newark, Newark
Key terms: Geophysical Equipment, Allow, Carbon, Fluxes, Gas, NJCU, Northern, Peatlands, Reservoirs, Students, Subsurface.

Technician Support for the Multiple Collector Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (MC-ICP-MS) Laboratory at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Craig C Lundstrom($90,000), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Ages, Determining, Instrument, Laboratory, Processes, Students, Technician, Tracing, UIUC.

Acquisition of an Elemental Analyzer for Geological and Biological Research
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Matthew E Kirby($37,499), CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation, Fullerton
Key terms: CSUF, Collaborative, EA, Ecology, Environment, Equipment, Faculty, Pis, Students, Theses.

Acquisition of a Bench-top GC-MS System for Biogeochemical Research
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Arndt Schimmelmann($92,000), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Isotopic Compositions, Analyses, Biogeochemical, GC-MS, Molecular, Organic.

Internal Flow, Extrusion and Exhumation History of the Greater Himalayan Slab
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Richard D Law($340,480), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Pure Shear Component, Spatial And Temporal, Crystalline Core, Everest Region, Himalayan Slab, Lengthen Parallel, Mid-crustal Rocks, Mountain Chain, Shearing Motion, Simple Shear, Tibetan Plateau, Along-strike, Amount, Analyses, Base, Beneath, Channel, Collision, Deformation, Driven, Exhumation, Extruded, Extrusion, Flow, Hence, Mid-crustal, Models, Movement, Playing, Progressive, Rates, Requires, Similar, Surface, Techniques, Top, Towards, Transport-parallel, Traverse, Vertical, Vorticity, Wont.

MRI: Acquisition of 40Ar/39Ar Facilities at NM Tech
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Matthew T Heizler($672,361), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Mexico Tech, Nm Tech, Noble Gas, Continue, Finer, Forward, Geochronological, Mass, NSF, Processes.

2007 EnviroSync Workshop: Assessing Synchrotron Radiation Capabilities and Future Needs for Molecular Environmental Science and Low-Temperature Geochemistry
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Jody Shumpert($24,000), Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge
Key terms: Mes And Geochemistry, Nsls Ii, Sr Facilities, APS, Current, Expected, Funding, Future, Report, Workshop.

Upgrading of the Computer Equipment at the Geophysical Computing Laboratory, UC-Berkeley
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Roland Burgmann($75,000), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Global Climate, Earthquake, Faculty, GCL, Modeling, Processes, Seismic, Students, Upgrade.

A Composite Steens Mountain Reversal Record and the Very-Rapid-Field-Change Hypothesis
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Robert S Coe($186,904), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Columbia River Basalt, Yellowstone Hotspot Volcanism, Basalt Flows, Flood Basalt, Polarity Transition, Steens Mountain, Broader, Ccr, Chron, Earth, Eruption, Evidence, Extent, Field, Focus, Geomagnetic, Information, Lava, Mantle, Occurred, Reversal, Reversed-to-normal, Stacks, Time, Timing.

Accomplishment Based Renewal: Experimental Studies of the PTX Properties of Immiscible Fluids at Crustal PT Conditions
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Robert J Bodnar($378,110), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Fluid Inclusions Trapped, Liquid And Vapor, Broader Impacts, Coexisting Fluids, Fluid Immiscibility, Synthetic Fluid, Vapor Phases, Behavior, Compositions, Conditions, Crust, Deposits, Determined, Environments, Experimental, Field, Geochemical, Metamorphic, Microthermometric, P-T, Plays, Students, Temperature, Undergraduate.

Development of New Instrumentation for Laser Atom-Trap Analysis of Radiokrypton
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Andrew M Davis($412,216), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Generation Instrument, Half-life =, ATTA, ATTA-, Applications, Counting, Demonstration, E-, Efficiency, Geophys, Groundwater, Half-life, Kr, Lett, Measure, Method, Radiokrypton, Range, Res, Was.

Acquisition of Intrinsic Ge Gamma Spectrometers
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. James M Kaste($95,400), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Fine Sediment, Half Lives, Residence Time, Sediment Dynamics, T12 =, Activity, Bed, Dartmouth, Equipment, Fallout, Fluvial, Mm, Pb, Pis, Reactive, Riverine, Short, Transport, Undergraduate, Women.

Technician Support: The NEPTUNE Multi-Collector ICP-MS in the WHOI ICP Facility
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink($89,343), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Analytical Protocols, Funding Period, Isotope Analysis, Development, ICPMS, Low-level, NEPTUNE, Situ.

Development of Automated In Situ 14C Extraction Systems at the University of Arizona
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Jeffrey S Pigati($267,950), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Situ 14c, Additional, Arizona, Automated, Control, Existing, Extraction, Graphitization, Outside, Upgrades.

Acquisition of Analytical Instrumentation for Interdisciplinary Biogeochemical Research
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Jennifer C Latimer($80,000), Indiana State University, Terre Haute
Key terms: Environmental Geochemistry, Acquisition, Existing, Housed, ICP-OES, ISU, Instrumentation, Laboratory, Undergraduate.

Experimental Investigation of Non-Traditional Stable Isotope Fractionation in Geological Materials
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Craig E Manning($331,764), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Iron And Magnesium, Stable Isotope Ratios, Experimental Products, Isotope Fractionation, Stable Isotopes, Achieved, Advances, Advantage, Afforded, Distribution, Distributions, Equilibrium, Experiments, Fe, Geological, Geoscientists, Mass, Mg, Mineral, Minerals, Oxygen, Partitioning, Predictions, Quantitative, Rock-forming, Tracers.

Acquisition of A Dionex ICS-2000 Ion Chromatograph at Ball State University
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Jeffry D Grigsby($33,042), Ball State University, Muncie
Key terms: Faculty And Students, Ion Chromatograph, Activities, BSU, Departments, Education, Indiana, Instrument, Student-led, Teachers, Teaching.

COMPRES: Community Facilities and Infrastructure Development for High-Pressure Mineral Physics and Geosciences
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Robert Liebermann($7,233,376), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: High-pressure.

Acquisition of a New Electron Imaging Facility
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. James M Mattinson($299,745), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Continuing, Coupled, Diffraction, Energy-dispersive, Facility, Geochronology, Ii, Iii, Imaging, Methods, UCSB, Visitors.

Acquisition of a Broadband Oscilloscope for Gigahertz-Ultrasonic Studies of Mineral Elasticity in the Diamond Anvil Cell
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Steven D Jacobsen($54,500), Northwestern University, Evanston
Key terms: Elastic Properties, Geophysics, Ghz-ultrasonic, Has, Laboratory, Mantle, Minerals, Oscilloscope, Seismic, Water.

Upgrade of the Electron Microprobe Laboratory, University Of Oklahoma
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. George B Morgan($133,060), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Private Sector, Aging, EMPL, Ensure, Has, Instrument, NSF, OU, OVPR, Upgrade, Was.

Acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Plasma-Atomic Emission Spectrometer for Environmental and Material Sciences at Penn State
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Susan L Brantley($43,692), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Analysis, Concentration, Department, Encourage, Environmental, Faculty, ICP-AES, Instrument, PSU, Penn, Students, Waters.

Development of a High Ionization Efficiency Molten Glass Ion Emitter
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Carl A Koval($122,348), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Glass Ion Emitters, Molten Borosilicate Glasses, Thermal Ionization Mass, Anodic Currents, Electrochemical Techniques, Ion Emission, Mass Spectrometer, Metal Dopants, Metal Ion, Molten Glasses, Precision Elemental, Conditions, Determinations, Efficiency, Experiments, Generated, Geologic, Liquid, Pb, Ratio, TIMS, Vacuum.

Acquisition of a Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer to Map Water in the Earth's Mantle
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Anne H Peslier($0), University of Houston, Houston
Key terms: Earth, FTIR, Geosciences, Link, Mantle, Pis, Planet, Rock, Students, Tectonic, Tool, Water.

Acquisition of a Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer with Positive and Negative Ion Capability for Geologic Research
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. James N Connelly($308,712), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Mass Spectrometer, Ut Austin, Wide Range, Analysis, Department, Differentiation, Geologic, Geological, Isotopic, Mantle, Processes, Ranging, Timing, Utilized.

Acquisition of a High Performance Liquid Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer (HPLC-MS)
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. James M Russell($162,522), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Organic Geochemistry, Undergraduate Students, Brown, Enhance, Experience, HPLC-MS.

Upgrade of Brown Computing Facilities for Integrated Studies of Mantle Structure, Dynamics and Melting
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Yan Liang($75,000), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Cluster, Codes, Facilities, Mantle, Seismic.

Acquisition of a Surface Area Analyzer for Undergraduate Research and Teaching in the Earth Sciences
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Christopher S Kim($33,613), Chapman University, Orange
Key terms: Mine Wastes, Chapman, Environmental, Fractions, Geochemistry, Independent, Metal, Nanoparticles, Size, Subsequent, Surface.

Modernization of Existing Long-Base Strainmeters at Pinyon Flat and Durmid Hill
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Duncan Carr Agnew($74,500), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Laser Strainmeter Instruments, Pfo And Dh, Plate Boundary Observatory, Laser Strainmeters, Upgraded Instruments, California, Deformation, Existing, Installed, Onsite.

Aquisition of a fine thermal demagnetizer and AC susceptibility system for paleomagnetic and rock-magnetic studies
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Robert S Coe($59,474), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Geomagnetic Field, Instruments, Magnetic, Paleointensity.

Upgrade of Computing Facilities for Global Seismology at the University of Arizona
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. George Zandt($75,000), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Lithospheric Structure, Acquire, Computational, International, Students, Upgrade.

Acquisition of a DC-SQUID magnetometer
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Joshua M Feinberg($436,994), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Freely Available, Magnetic Remanence, Rock Magnetic, Rock Magnetism, Sediment Cores, Squid Srm, Acquisition, Characterization, Continuous, Detection, Environmental, Facilitated, Facility, IRM, Minnesota, Natural, Paleomagnetism, Remanent, Sediments, Specimens, U-channel.

Acquisition of a Computational Facility, Geological Sciences, University of Oregon
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. David A Schmidt($75,000), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Computational Upgrade, Department, Dynamics, Faculty, Geological, Oregon, Processes, Range, Student, Students.

Acquisition of a PC Cluster for Geophysical Modeling
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Michael H Ritzwoller($75,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Pc Cluster, CIG, Colorado, Convection, Geodynamics, Geophysics, Mantle, Modeling, Seismic, Seismology, Structure, Tomography, Wave.

Acquisition of a Linux Cluster for Seismological and Geodynamical Modeling
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Jeroen E Ritsema($75,000), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: 3d Models, Van Keken, Cluster, Geodynamical, Seismic, Seismological, Structure.

Acquisition of Electromagnetic and Resistivity/IP Imaging Systems for Neotectonics, Hydrogeology, and Biogeophysics Research
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Todd Halihan($117,590), Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
Key terms: Cenozoic Extension, Central Core, Menderes Massif, Neotectonic Activity, Normal Faults, Biogeophysics, Botswana, CSAMT, Determining, Experience, Field, Geometry, Geophysical, Imaging, Instrumentation, International, Interplay, Microbial, Neotectonics, Oklahoma, Processes, Region, Rift, Rifting, Students, Subsurface, Surficial, Turkey, WAET, Zambia.

Acquisition of a Reaction Cell/Quadropole ICP-MS System
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Thomas Pichler($260,000), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Courses, Environmental, Geochemistry, Geography, Geology, ICP-MS, Policy, USF.

Facility Support: National Lacustrine Core Repository and Initial Core Analysis Laboratory (LacCore)
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Bryan N Shuman($848,008), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Core Analysis, Core Description, Core Repository, Initial Core, Facility, Laboratory, Laccore, Lake, Methods, Minnesota, Staff.

Facility Support: High-Resolution X-ray Computed Tomography Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. William D Carlson($729,000), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: X-ray Source, X-ray Tomography, CCD, Density, Geological, Images, Imaging, Resolution, Table, UTCT, Was, X-ray.

The NSF-Arizona Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) Laboratory: Research and Operations
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Warren Beck($524,927), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Radiocarbon.

Facility Support: The Arizona State University Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer (SIMS) Laboratories
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Richard L Hervig($710,062), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Asu Sims Facility, Nominally Anhydrous Phases, Analytical Services, Graduate Students, Hydrous Phases, Ims 6f, Isotope Ratio, Isotope Ratios, Outside Users, Sims Technique, Technique Developments, Volcanic Glasses, Wide Range, Analyses, Analysis, Capability, Clay, Contents, Dedicated, Established, Hydrogen, Ion, Isotopic, Laboratory, Light, Mantle, Minerals, Silicate, Standards, Time, Training, Vintage.

Technician Support: Management of Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometry and Isotope Geochemistry Clean Labs
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Elisabeth Widom($239,991), Miami University, Oxford
Key terms: Isotope Geochemistry, Mass Spectrometry, Accommodate, Diverse, Graduate, In-house, Lab, Labs, Miami, Position, Student, Students, Technical, Technician, Undergraduate, Users.

Imaging Earthquakes from Optical Images and Seismic Waveforms Analysis
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Jean-Philippe Avouac($449,495), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Co-seismic Slip Distribution, Main Fault Trace, Co-seismic Slip, Co-seismic Static, Fault Geometry, Optical Images, Source Models, Accuracy, Constrained, Correlation, Deformation, Detail, Displacements, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Field, Geodetic, Measured, Particular, Software, Sub-pixel.

Development of a Feedback Syringe Pump Method for the Automated Determination of Unsaturated Hydraulic Conductivity Characteristics
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Marcel Schaap($22,961), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Salinity Laboratory, Activities, Development, FSPM, Riverside.

Acquisition of an Electron Microprobe
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Michael O Garcia($530,800), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Manager's Salary, Cameca, Cover, EMP, Facility, Hawaii, Managers, Planetary, Students, UH.

Collaborative Research: Understanding the Role of Landcover and Landform in the Spatial Organization of Orographic Clouds and Rainfall
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Ana P Barros($394,890), Duke University, Durham
2. Miles R Silman($127,307), Wake Forest University, Winston Salem
Key terms: Clouds And Precipitation, Tropical Mountainous Regions, Central Andes, Convective Activity, Diurnal Cycle, Ecosystem Function, Lower Troposphere, Orographic Precipitation, Soil Moisture, Water Resources, ABERG, Array, Basis, Biodiversity, Climate, Does, Dominant, Evapotranspiration, Existing, Forest, Freshwater, Instrumented, Intensive, Investigate, Land-useland-cover, Landform, Leaf, Monsoon, Plot, Plots, Rainfall, Satellite, Spatial, Supply, Surface, Topography, Tree, Vegetation, Versus.

Holocene Paleomagnetic Secular Variation (Directions and Intensity) from Southast Alaska
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Joseph S Stoner($325,000), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Cosmic Ray Bombardment, Jumbo Piston Cores, Magnetic Field Shields, Persistent Geomagnetic Features, Transient And Persistent, Atlantic Hemisphere, Decay Rate, Dipole Decay, Geomagnetic Field, Global Ecosystems, Human Health, Paleomagnetic Secular, Past Climate, Practical Implications, South Atlantic, Spherical Harmonic, Abrupt, Available, Chronologies, Contribute, Cosmogenic, Dating, Developed, Dynamics, Flux, Historical, Long-term, Methods, North, Observations, PSV, Pacific, Radiocarbon, Recently, Region, Relative, Society, Solar, Students, Telecommunications, Terrestrial, Variety.

Emergent Behavior of Coupled Human-Landscape Systems
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Brad Werner($314,746), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Barrier Island Resorts, Individualized And Classroom, Barrier Islands, Classroom Instruction, Debris Flows, East Coast, Hotel Owners, Los Angeles, Public Outreach, Urban-wildland Boundary, Attributes, Based, Beach, Broader, Build, Connects, Course, Developed, Developers, Development, Developments, Dunes, Erosion, Fires, Floods, Human, Interactions, Investigated, Landscapes, Landslides, Management, Managers, Margins, Market, Mitigate, Model, Modeled, Natural, Policy, Projected, Residences, Respond, Sand, Size, Stabilization, Storms, Students, Urban-wildland, Vacation, Vegetation.

Seismological Investigation of Earthquakes and Deep Earth Structure
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Peter M Shearer($525,001), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Seismic Wave Propagation, 3d Inverse, Model Parameters, Adjoint, Calculation, Calculations, Capabilities, Demonstrated, Earthquake, Inversions, Models, Numerical, Ocean, Signals, Simulations, Source, Thousands.

Environmental Phylogeny, Physiology, and Evolutionary Significance of Polycyclic Triterpenoids
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Ann Pearson($279,587), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Evolutionary History, Lipid Biomarkers, Aerobic, Compounds, Environments, Hope, Organisms, Primary.

Morphology, Stability and Paleointensity of the Early Geomagnetic Field as Recorded by 2.9-2.4 Ga Mafic Rocks in Western Australia
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: International Research Collab

1. Aleksey V Smirnov($234,450), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: Geomagnetic Field, Inner Core, Pilbara Craton, Proterozoic Geodynamo, Analyses, Characteristics, Constraints, Earth, Estimates, Ga, Interval, Late, Mafic, Paleointensity, Strength, Time.

Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Episodic Tremor and Slip
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: International Research Collab

1. Gregory C Beroza($279,793), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Low Frequency Earthquakes, Central California, Deep Tremor, Analysis, Applied, Boundary, Cascadia, Episodes, Ground, Has, Japan, Methods, Segment, Zone.

Collaborative Research: Volcanic Material in Triassic Sedimentary Units of Southwestern North America: Understanding the Initiation of Arc Magmatism
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: International Research Collab

1. Nancy R Riggs($185,549), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
2. Andrew P Barth($67,273), Indiana University, Bloomington
3. James D Walker($84,994), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Remnant Plutonic Arc, Southern And Western, Chinle Formation, Colorado Plateau, Detrital Zircons, Western Arizona, Age, Ash, California, Clastic, Clasts, Complete, Continent, Formations, Information, Margin, Mesozoic, Mexico, Moenkopi, North, Retroarc, Rock, Triassic, Units, Volcanic.

A Wide-aperture Geodetic Experiment in the Divergent Oceanic Plate Boundary Zone of Iceland
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: International Research Collab

1. Sigrun Hreinsdottir($299,989), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Central Iceland, Surface Erosion, Volcanic Zone, Broad, CGPS, Collaboration, Complex, Constraints, Crust, Deformation, Elastic, GPS, Glacial, Loads, Magma, Network, Oceanic, Past, Processes, Ridge.

The Record of Recharge, Assimilation, and Storage in the Popocatepetl Magma System from Sr Isotopes and Glass Inclusions in Phenocrysts and Experimental Petrologic Constraints
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: International Research Collab

1. James E Gardner($254,388), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Mexico City, Plinian Eruptions, Via Detailed, Collaboration, Factors, Magma, Students, Temporal, Tephrochronology, Volatile, Volcano, Volumes.

Collaborative Research: Stratigraphic Signatures of Orogeny: Assessing the Timing of Initial Andean Crustal Shortening
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: International Research Collab

1. Brian K Horton($128,931), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Jay Quade($110,525), University of Arizona, Tucson
3. Barbara Carrapa($133,717), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Initial Mountain Building, Mountain Building Owing, Shortening And Thickening, Zircon And Apatite, Andean Orogeny, Central Andes, Crustal Shortening, Mountain Belts, Northwestern Argentina, Ages, Application, Aspect, Based, Basin, Development, Estimates, Evolution, Foreland, Methods, Models, Paleogene, Provenance, Stratigraphic, Subsidence, Tectonic, Thermal, Timing, U-pb.

Collaborative Research: High-Precision Teleseismic Relocation and Tomography for the M 9 and M 8.7 Sumatra Great Earthquake Sequences
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: International Research Collab

1. Heather R DeShon($45,056), University of Memphis, Memphis
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.

Wood Loading in Headwater Neotropical Forest Streams
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: International Research Collab

1. Ellen E Wohl($239,624), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Geomorphic And Ecological, Broader Impacts, Drainage Network, Management Guidelines, Neotropical Headwater, Residence Time, Spatial Distribution, Stream Ecologists, Temperate Regions, Tropical Streams, Undergraduate Students, Wood Distribution, Wood Loading, Wood Retention, Channels, Drainages, Dynamics, Field, Forest, Function, Gradient, Knowledge, Objectives, Portions, Processes, Selected, Site, Training.

Extrusion, Extension and Exhumation in an Emerging Mountain Belt, Taiwan
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: International Research Collab

1. Timothy B Byrne($236,874), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Continental Crust, Philippine Sea, Collision, Document, Exhumation, Extension, Fast, GPS, Initiated, Orogen, Orogenic, Plates, Processes, Rates, Relatively, Rock, Southern, Structural, Structures, Surface, Taiwan, Uplift, Zone.

Testing Pangea Reconstructions with New Late Permian - Early Triassic Paleomagnetic Studies
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: International Research Collab

1. Rob Van der Voo($249,000), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Gondwana And Laurasia, Appalachian Margin, Favor Pangea-b, Late Permian, Late Triassic, Northwestern South, Pangea-a Fit, Pangea-b Reconstruction, Triassic Paleomagnetic, Triassic Time, Adjacent, Available, Evidence, Existed, Geologists, Mega-shear, Movements, Pangea-a, Pangea-b, Surprisingly, Was.

Collaborative Research: Earthquake Geology of the Pakistani Himalaya: Characterizing Slip Rates and Recurrence of Potentially Devastating Earthquake Sources
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: International Research Collab

1. John D Yule($261,729), The University Corporation, Northridge, Northridge
2. Andrew J Meigs($297,768), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: India-asia Plate Boundary, Active Faults, Devastating Earthquakes, Earthquake History, India-asia Plate, Internal Faults, Kashmir Earthquake, Million People, Population Centers, Scientists Trained, Thrust Front, Characterization, Convergence, Deaths, Disaster, Future, Hazard, Himalaya, Himalayan, Magnitude, Northwest, Pakistan, Pakistani, Seismic, Surface, Techniques, Threatening, Unknown, Was, Widely.

Collision of the Burma Arc Accretionary Prism and Foldbelt with the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta in Bangladesh
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: International Research Collab

1. Michael S Steckler($353,702), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Burma Arc Foldbelt, Delta And Foldbelt, Enormous Sediment Pile, Oceanic Accretionary Prism, Sediment And Crustal, Continental Margin, Crustal Structure, Ganges-brahmaputra Delta, Seismic Hazard, Subduction Zone, Active, Bangladesh, Building, Choked, Columbia, Critical, Deformation, Earthquake, Earthquakes, GPS, Ganges-brahmaputra, Geometry, Has, Infrastructure, Overpressured, Sediments, Seismological, Sumatran, Tectonic.

Collaborative Research: Surface Uplift and Climate Change in the Southern Altiplano: Evaluating Mechanisms for Surface Rise and the Effects of Tectonics on Climate
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2007; Program: International Research Collab

1. Carmala N Garzione($185,905), University of Rochester, Rochester
Key terms: Carbon-12 And Oxygen-18, Elevation Rainfall Amount, Andean Plateau, Delta Oxygen-18, Elevation History, Late Miocene, Low Elevation, Mantle Lithosphere, Middle Miocene, Stable Isotope, Surface Uplift, Altiplano, Andes, Approach, Based, Broader, Carbonate, Carbonates, Climate, Clumped, Composition, Conventional, Crust, Examine, Magnitude, Method, Modern, Mountain, Paleoelevation, Past, Precipitation, Processes, Reconstruct, Regional, Removal, Similar, Source, Southern, Spatial, Subandes, Temperature, Temporal, Thickening.

CMG: Mathematical and Experimental Analysis of Reactive Transport in Discontinuous Porous Media
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Dorthe Wildenschild($421,743), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Highly Heterogeneous Media, Transport And Reaction, Contaminant Transport, Mathematical Models, Particle Models, Predict Contaminant, Contaminants, Engineers, Groundwater, Methods, Movement, Reactive, Represent, Representations, Resources, Subsurface.

Collaborative Research: CMG --Quantifying Tectonic and Geomorphic Interpretations of Thermochronometer Data with Inverse Problem Theory
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Kenneth A Farley($189,069), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
2. Gang Bao($217,167), Michigan State University, East Lansing
Key terms: Building And Erosional, Computer Modeling, Mountain Building, Mountain Topography, Development, Developments, Equation, Evolution, Forefront, Geochemical, Has, Interdisciplinary, Inverse, Mathematical, Mathematics, Paleotopography, Processes, Progress, Rock, Surface, Techniques, Tectonic, Thermochronometer, Topographic.

MRI: Acquisition of Mobile Facility for Providing High-Resolution Input to Hydrologic Observatories
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Anton Kruger($1,360,230), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Meteorological And Hydrologic, Mobile Radar Network, Pixel Resolution, Remote Sensing, AGEP, Available, Basins, Ca, Civil, Effects, Engineering, Hydrology, Iowa, Lidar, Meteorology, Mounted, Processes, Rainfall, Range, Soil, Storm, Students, X-band.

MRI: Acquisition of a High Performance Computing System for Undergraduate Geoscience Research
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Christian Poppeliers($51,000), AUGUSTA STATE UNIVERSITY, Augusta
2. Joseph I Satterfield($51,000), Angelo State University, San Angelo
Key terms: Seismic Wave Propagation, Compute Cluster, Undergraduate Student, ASU, Applied, Faculty, Mathematics, Physics.

MRI: Development of a Confocal Instrument for Spatially Resolved Luminescence Measurements in Geologic and Archaeological Dating and Radiation Dosimetry
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Regina DeWitt($446,258), Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
Key terms: Optically Stimulated Luminescence, Osl Dating Technique, Confocal Osl, Radiation Dose, Allow, Application, Archaeological, Available, Date, Deposition, Emitted, Instrument, Light, Oklahoma, Sediments, Time.

MRI: Acquisition of Modern Analytical X-Ray Diffraction Instrumentation at the University of Alaska Fairbanks
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Jing Zhang($250,000), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Phase Identification, Powder Xrd, Alaska, Engineering, Laboratory, Range, Structure, UAF.

MRI: Acquisition of Instrumentation for Organic Molecular Research
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Gaboury Benoit($130,861), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Organic Compounds, Stable Isotopic, Analysis, Complex, Development, GC, Instruments, Mass, Proxies, Temperature, Time.

MRI: Acquisition of Major Instrumentation for Watershed Biogeochemistry Research
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. David P Gillikin($116,552), Vassar College, Poughkeepsie
Key terms: Biogeochemical, Instrumentation, Instruments, Local, Multiple, Nutrient, Storage, Student, Undergraduate, Vassar, Water.

MRI: Acquisition of a Field Emission Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope to Enhance Research and Teaching at Oklahoma State University
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2007; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Charlotte L Ownby($605,000), Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
Key terms: Microscopy Laboratory, Cell, Colloidal, Electrical, Electron, Equipped, FE-SEM, Faculty, Investigations, Nanowire, Oklahoma, Outreach, Pis, Pressure, Serve, Students, Techniques.

MRI: An Ultra High Resolution Mass Spectrometer to Identify Novel Protein Sequences and Modifications from Extinct Organisms Such as Tyrannosaurus Rex
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2007; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. John M Asara($200,000), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston
Key terms: Amino Acids, Extinct Organisms, Sequence Information, Ability, Acquired, Approach, Available, Collagen, Fossils, Instrument, Mass, Molecular, Organic, Pis, Protein, Remains, Resolution, Sequenced, Sequences, Sufficiently.

MRI: Acquisition of a Powder X-Ray Diffractometer for Multidisciplinary/Multi-institutional Research and Training
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2007; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. John A Luczaj($180,000), LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, Appleton
Key terms: Instrument, Lawrence, XRD.

MRI: Acquisition of an X-Ray Diffractometer to Enhance Faculty and Undergraduate Collaborative Research
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2007; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. James G Schryver($95,439), University of Minnesota Morris, Morris
Key terms: Activities, Campus, Glacial, Identification, Morris, Organic, Undergraduate, XRD.

Upgrade of Noble Gas Mass Spectrometer (VG5440) for Use in the Earth and Environmental Sciences
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. David R Hilton($145,463), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Groundwater Recharge, Isotope Systematics, Neon Isotope, Nitrogen Isotope, Noble Gas, Geochemistry, Has, Mantle, OIB, Plan, Training, Upgrade.

Collaborative Research: MARGINS--The Relationship Between Water, Trace Elements and Slab Dehydration Across the Mariana and Izu-Bonin Arcs
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Alison M Shaw($397,533), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Erik H Hauri($50,510), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Ion Microprobe Techniques, Stable Isotopes, Subduction Zones, Water Contents, Arc, Arcs, Ba, Back-arc, Behavior, Cl, Dehydration, Fluid, Fluid-mobile, Glasses, IBM, Izu-bonin, Lavas, Marianas, Melt, Rb, Release, Slab, Systematic, Trace, WHOI.

MARGINS: Collaborative Research: Experimental Investigation of Water Solubility in Arc Magmas at Upper Mantle Conditions
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Erik H Hauri($75,000), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
2. Glenn A Gaetani($339,092), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Subducted Oceanic Lithosphere, Mantle Wedge, Melt Generation, Partial Melting, Silicate Melt, Approach, Combination, Concentration, Conditions, DTM, Experimental, Experiments, Fellow, HO, MARGINS, Melts, Peridotite, Students, Techniques, Transport, Volatiles, WHOI.

Acquisition of a 2G Enterprises Superconducting Rock Magnetometer Optimized for U-Channel Samples at Oregon State University
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Joseph S Stoner($440,450), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Drilling Program, Cores, Instrument, Magnetic, Marine, OSU, Oregon, SRM, Serve, Superconducting.

Acquisition of a Laser Diffraction Particle Size Analyzer for Research in Sedimentology and Biogeochemistry
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. David J DeMaster($62,600), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Grain Size Distributions, Laser Diffractometer, Biogeochemical, Carbon, Conditions, Global, Marine, NCSU, Paleoenvironmental, Processes, Students, Transport.

Development of a Broadband Optical Seismometer: Phase 2
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Mark A Zumberge($641,530), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Laser Light, Electronics, Mass, Seismic, Seismometer, Seismometers, Sensor, Waves.

CZO: Susquehanna/Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2007; Program: Other Global Learning & Trng

1. Susan L Brantley($5,004,688), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Critical Zone Observatory, Susquehannashale Hills, Time Scales, Anthropogenic, Bedrock, Biologic, CZ, Climate, Cyberinfrastructure, Datasets, Evolution, Geochemical, Importance, Mechanisms, Observational, Opportunity, Perturbation, Perturbations, Predict, Processes, Rates, Regolith, SSHO, Satellite, Shale, Site, Soil, Students, Water, Weathering.

Iceland Geodynamics: Magma-Tectonic Interactions in South Iceland
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Other Global Learning & Trng

1. Peter LaFemina($198,777), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Central Volcanoes, Magmatic Segmentation, Plate Boundary, World's Mid-ocean, Accommodating, Crust, Fissure, GPS, Iceland, Increase, Mid-ocean, Ridges, Strain, Worlds.

Model Development for Two-Phase Thin Layer Flows and Validation Using Debris Flows at Tungurahua, Ecuador and Ruapehu, New Zealand
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. E Bruce Pitman($273,834), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Computer Model, Field Studies, Heavy Rainfall, Actual, Analysis, Basis, Breakout, Colleagues, Collected, Ecuador, Elsewhere, Flow, Flows, Forecast, Hazards, March, Massey, Models, Mudflows, Process, Ruapehu, Sediment, Similar, Statistical, Testing, Volcano, Zealand.

SGER: In-situ Volcanic Plume Characterization Using Controlled Meteorological Balloons
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2007; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Adam J Durant($48,371), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: Ground-based Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing Techniques, Ground-based Remote, Plume Dispersion, Plume So2, So2 Concentration, So2 Flux, Volcanic Emissions, Volcanic Gases, Volcanic Plume, Accurate, Aerial, Atmosphere, Balloons, CMET, Carried, Chemical, Considered, Continuous, Eruption, Evolution, Fluxes, Function, Generate, HO, Has, Indicator, Investigation, Models, Platform, Properties, Sampling, Sensors, Situ, Source, Thermal, Time, Unmanned, Validate.

SGER: Preliminary Experiments on the Grain Boundary Diffusivity of Water
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2007; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Rhea Workman($13,851), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Equilibration Times, Grain Boundary, Olivine Aggregates, Upper Mantle, Diffusion, Diffusivity, Experiments, Limit, Magnitude, Rates, Water.

Magma Differentiation Time Scales in Carbonatite -Silicate Systems
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Axel K Schmitt($90,356), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Carbonatite And Silicate, Ion Microprobe, Silicate Magmas, Age, Contribute, Differentiation, Isotope, Isotopic, Laacher, Mass, Origins, Processes, Students, Time, U-th, Volcanic, Xenoliths, Zircon.

Volcano-Pluton Connections: The Record in Crystal Populations of Rhyolites and Granites of the Colorado Extensional Corridor, Nevada
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Alfred T Anderson($201,786), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Colorado River Extensional, Plutons And Volcanic, River Extensional Corridor, Volcanic And Plutonic, Extensional Corridor, Plutonic Rocks, Correlated, Crystal, Crystals, Eruption, Fingerprints, Granites, Magma, Rhyolites.

Collaborative Research: Understanding the Dynamics of Magmatic Processes in the Crust: A Case Study of Volcán Quizapu, Chile
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. George W Bergantz($230,693), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Kari M Cooper($65,349), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Magma Reservoir, Magma Reservoirs, Approach, Behavior, Chemical, Continuous, Crystals, Difficult, Erupted, Eruption, Infer, Magmatic, Models, Natural, Numerical, Particular, Process, Processes, Produce, Products, Snapshots, Specific, Trace-element.

The Thermodynamic Properties of MgCO3-CaCO3-FeCO3-Na2CO3-K2CO3-Li2CO3 Liquids: New Measurements
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Rebecca A Lange($214,467), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Caco3 And Mgco3, Various Carbonate Phases, Carbonate Liquids, Heat Capacity, Melt Compressibility, Partial Melting, Carbonated, Density, Fusion, Mantle, Models, Mol, Perform, Rock, Thermodynamic.

Pathways and Processes of Ocean-Crust-Mantle Nitrogen Cycling
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Gray E Bebout($233,266), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
Key terms: Partial Melting, Developed, Fractionation, Isotope, Isotopes, Minerals, Organic, Rock, Transfer.

Multi-Mineral Geochronology and REE Geochemistry of High- and Ultrahigh-Pressure Metamorphic Rocks: North Qaidam Terrane, Northwest China
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Dennis K Bird($179,601), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Exhumation Rates, Mineral Assemblages, Ree Geochemistry, U-pb Geochronology, Analysis, Based, Collaboration, Collision, Continent, Depths, Enhancing, Exposed, Facility, Growth, Metamorphism, Previous, Processes, Qaidam, Rock, Thermobarometry, U-pb, UHP, Zircon.

Collaborative Research: Origin and Significance of High Potassium Volcanism: Insights from the Ancestral Cascades, California
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Keith D Putirka($157,804), California State University-Fresno Foundation, Fresno
2. Cathy J Busby($162,194), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Ancestral Cascades Arc, Central Sierra, Csu Fresno, Plate Boundary, Potassium Volcanism, Sierra Nevada, Activity, Birth, California, Female, Geologic, Geology, Has, Hispanic, Invaluable, Magmatism, Origin, Potential, RUI, Rock, Students, UCSB, Uplift, Women.

Hydrous Magmatic Processes: An Experimental Study of Structure and Properties of Hydrous Silicate Melts, In-Situ, at High Pressure and Temperature
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Bjorn O Mysen($153,155), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Glass Structure, Hydrous Glasses, Hydrous Melts, Melt Structure, Physicochemical Properties, Silicate Melts, Characterization, Experimental, FTIR, HO, Involve, Magmatic, Metal, Pressure, Processes, Program, Raman, Students, Temperature.

Infrared Spectroscopy of Silicic Glasses and Melts: Deriving Volcano-Scale Processes from Laboratory-Scale Measurements
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Michael S Ramsey($266,721), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
Key terms: 8-12 Micrometer Region, Composition And Percentage, Active Lava, Glassy Crusts, Lava Dome, Lava Domes, Micrometer Region, Tir Emission, Absorption, Camera, Cm-, Collect, Collected, Commonly, Directly, Emitted, Eruption, Field, Field-based, Flows, Glasses, Hazardous, Helens, Inactive, Information, Infrared, Instrument, Laboratory, Matrix, Melts, Mineral, Monitoring, Mt, Natural, Range, Satellite, Silicate, Silicic, Space, Specifically, Spectrometer, Spectroscopy, St, Structure, Style, Surface, Task, Temperature, Thermal, Time, Volcanoes, Wavelength.

Mineral Dissolution in Silicate Melts
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Youxue Zhang($308,267), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Convective Dissolution Rates, Crystal Dissolution Experiments, Diffusive Crystal Dissolution, Diffusivity And Solubility, Melt And Mineral, Predict Convective Dissolution, Temperature And Pressure, Predict Convective, Silicate Melts, Convection, Density, Extracted, Function, Minerals, Models, Parameters, Relative, Theory.

Secular Variation in the Cordilleran Continental Arc: Implications for Arc Geodynamics
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Andrew P Barth($176,647), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Regional And Temporal, Arc Plutons, Magma Source, Plate Collision, Activity, California, Colliding, Crust, Education, Extinct, Field, Igneous, Independent, Knowledge, Large-volume, Long-lived, Plates, Process, Processes, Rock, Sources, Students, Volcanic, Volcanoes.

Volcanic Probe of Batholith Assembly and Maturation: Age and Source of Crystal Cargo in the Aucanquilcha Volcanic Cluster, Central Andes
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Anita L Grunder($299,642), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: AVC, Crust, Crystal, Evolution, Isotopic, Long-lived, Magma, Magmas, Populations, Reservoir, Rock, Sources.

Melt Generation Below Continents in Diffuse Igneous Provinces
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Kevin D McKeegan($129,777), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: East Asia, East China, Igneous Provinces, Melt Generation, Se Tibet, U-th Disequilibrium, Continent, Excesses, Lavas, Mantle, U-th, UCLA.

Water in the Mantle: Effects of Hydration on Physical Properties of Mantel Minerals
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Joseph R Smyth($330,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Crystal X-ray Diffraction, Single Crystal X-ray, Crystal X-ray, Earth's Mantle, Elastic Properties, Nominally Anhydrous, X-ray Diffraction, Collaboration, Compressibility, Effect, Experiments, Hydration, Increases, Measure, Measured, Minerals, Poorly, Pressure, Ringwoodite, Silicates, Single-crystal, Wadsleyite.

Oxygen and Multiple S Isotope Investigation of Magma-Country Rock Interaction During Early Stages of Magmatism in the Midcontinent Rift System: Constraints From the Eagle Deposit
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Edward M Ripley($153,553), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Mass Independent Fractionation, Archean Rocks, Country Rocks, D33s Values, D34s Values, Eagle Deposit, Igneous Rocks, Proterozoic Rocks, Sulfide Mineralization, Analyses, Collaboration, Contained, Ds, Found, Ga, Graduate, Industry, Investigation, Isotope, Isotopes, MIF-S, Magmatic, Mil, Range, Rift, Sulfides, Times.

The Importance of Diffusion in Understanding Mineral Reaction During Metamorphism
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. John M Ferry($210,000), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Carbon Isotope Composition, Individual Calcite Crystals, Carbon Dioxide, Crust, Diffusion, Duration, Estimate, Formation, Involve, Mass, Metamorphic, Metamorphism, Newly, Ore, Reactions, Release, Rock, Spatial, Temperature, Transport.

Collaborative Research: Subduction and Subduction Initiation Processes: Geochemical Investigations of Franciscan High-Grade Blocks and Coherent Metamorphic Rocks
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Asish R Basu($123,270), University of Rochester, Rochester
2. John Wakabayashi($69,689), California State University-Fresno Foundation, Fresno
Key terms: Continental Sediments, Fluids Derived, Franciscan Complex, Geochemical Exchange, Geochemical Fluxes, Mid-ocean Ridge, Oceanic Crust, Parent Rocks, Subduction History, Subduction Zone, Subduction Zones, Ages, Arc, Basalt, Basalts, Evidence, Examine, Formed, Generation, Geochemistry, Geochronologic, Inception, Initiation, Insight, Island, Lack, Limited, MORB, Mantle, Metamorphic, Metamorphosed, Mid-ocean, Million, Ongoing, Plate, Process, Processes, Spreading, Subducted, Suggest, Thesis, Time.

Collaborative Research: Rejuvenescent Volcanism on Mauritius
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Debajyoti Paul($60,778), University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio
2. William M White($229,336), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Indian Ocean, Main Volcanic, Mantle Plume, Rejuvenescent Volcanism, Shield-building Stage, Volcanic Evolution, Volcanoes Evolve, Water Resources, Activity, Analogous, Composition, Constructed, Cores, Cornell, Graduate, Has, Hawaii, Hawaiian, Intermediate, Island, Lavas, Mauritius, Million, Model, Oceanic, Opportunity, Phase, Post-erosional, Shield-building, Time, Trace.

Particle Trajectories in Volcanic Plumes: Model Development and Testing at Inyo Craters, California, United States
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2007; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Marcus I Bursik($184,570), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Eruption Deposits, Field Portion, Tephra Fall, ATHAM, Convergence, Degree, Development, Distributions, Ground, Hazards, Inyo, Model, Module, Particles, Paths, Plume, Potential, Produce, Proximal, Pyroclast, Pyroclasts, Simulation, Thickness, Volcanic.

Aqueous Aluminosilicate Complexing in Deep-Crustal and Upper-Mantle Fluids
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Craig E Manning($303,214), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Corundum Solubility, Dense Fluids, Experimental Studies, Polynuclear Complexes, Si Concentration, Aqueous, Chemistry, Complexing, Concentrations, Deep, Determination, Effects, Environments, HO, High-pressure, High-temperature, Investigation, Metamorphic, Minerals, Polymerized, Settings, Species, Target.

The Timing and Geometry of Lithosphere Removal Beneath the North China Craton
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Richard J Walker($200,969), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: North China Craton, Cratonic Root, Late Cretaceous, Mantle Xenoliths, Analyses, Archean, Beneath, Crust, Detailed, Isotopic, Latter, Lithosphere, Lithospheric, Loss, Mechanism, Mesozoic, Peridotites, Presence, Re-os, Recycling, Refractory, Removed, Rock, Roots, Tertiary, Was.

Experimental Investigation of Potential Pathways for Abiotic Organic Synthesis on the Early Earth
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Thomas M McCollom($249,643), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Abiotic Organic Synthesis, Carbon Compounds Found, Reduced Carbon Compounds, Abiotic Synthesis, Ancient Rocks, Isotopic Composition, Reaction Pathways, Characteristics, Conditions, Define, Earth, Experiments, Geologic, Has, Invoked, Laboratory, Life, Non-biological, Origin, Source.

Molecular Simulation of Silicate Melts: Structure-Property Relations and the Influence of Volatiles
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. James A Van Orman($219,791), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland
Key terms: Cations, Diffusion, Diffusivity, Experiments, Gpa, Ionic, Mantle, Minerals, Oxygen, Periclase, Perovskite.

The Fingerprint of Water in Mantle Melting
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2007; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Henry J Dick($199,739), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Volatiles And Hydrous, Water And Hydrous, Hydrous Melt, Hydrous Melts, Josephine Peridotite, Mantle Melting, Mantle Wedge, Abyssal, Arc, Arc-related, Attributed, Clinopyroxene, Composition, Constrain, Directly, Dry, Introduction, Local, Magmatism, Mineral, Ocean, Peridotites, Residue, Ridge, Ridges, Rock, Trace, Volcanism.

Explosive Volcanism Workshop. Integrating Numerical and Laboratory Models of Explosive Eruptions with Field Observations: Understanding Pyroclastic Transport
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Amanda B Clarke($29,957), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Experimental And Field-based, Explosive Volcanism, Pyroclastic Flows, Arizona, Computational, Designing, Model, Numerical, Quantitative, Workshop.

Fluorine-Hydroxyl Diffusion in Fluorine-Bearing Rock-Forming Minerals
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Jonathan D Price($300,000), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
Key terms: Hydroxyl And Fluorine, Serido Fold Belt, Southern Oklahoma Aulacogen, Earth's Crust, Alteration, Amphibole, Common, Component, Components, Concentration, Depth, Development, Diffusivities, Evaluating, Excess, Function, Geologic, Incorporation, Information, Metamorphism, Mica, Million, Mineral, Minerals, Pressure, Processes, Profile, Temperature, Titanite, Useful, Volatile, Volatiles, Water.

The Role of Sulfide in Mantle Pb Geochemistry
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2007; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Glenn A Gaetani($349,991), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Ce And Pb, Ridge And Hotspot, Constant Cepb, Fe-ni-cu Sulfide, Mantle Melting, Silicate Melt, Solid Sulfide, Sulfide Melt, Sulfide Melts, Sulfide Phases, Sulfide Relative, Basalts, Behavior, Deep, Diffusion, Evolution, Experiments, Fe-ni-cu, Implying, Indeed, Networks, Partitioning, Processes, Range, Trace.

MARGINS: Collaborative Research: 3-D Tomography of the Crust and Upper Mantle Beneath the Gulf Extensional Province and Baja California
Award Effective Date: 01/11/2007; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Brian K Savage($64,576), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
2. Donald W Forsyth($106,157), Brown University, Providence
3. Brian K Savage($64,576), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: 3-d Model, Baja California, Crustal Thickness, Extensional Province, Magma Generation, Receiver Function, Seismic Refraction, Upper Mantle, Array, Beneath, Continent, Gulf, Involved, Lithosphere, Lithospheric, MARGINS, Mapping, Maps, Process, Regions, Rifting, Seismograms, Structure, Subducted, Surface, Velocity, Wave.

Collaborative Research: Timescales of Magmatic Differentiation and Crustal Assimilation Beneath Iceland: Combined U-Series and Oxygen Isotope Studies
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Kari M Cooper($26,497), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Crustal Assimilation, Graduate Student, Magma Mixing, Plagioclase Separates, Applied, Balance, Compositions, Crustally-derived, Crystals, Eruption, Iceland, Information, Involved, Krafla, Lava, Lavas, Liquids, Magmatic, Mantle-derived, Mass, Oxygen, Processes, Relatively, Reservoir, Whole-rock.

Development of an Ultra-violet Digital Camera for Volcanic S02 Imaging
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2004; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Matthew Patrick($179,945), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: Gas Flux, So2 Fluxes, Active, Allow, Behavior, Degassing, Efforts, Emitted, MVO, Magnitude, Monitoring, SHV, Seismic, Timing, Volcanic, Volcano.

CAREER: Integrating Geoscience Research on the Neogene of the Dominican Republic with the Science Education of Dominican-American Teachers and Students in New York City
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: SCEC

1. Ross H Nehm($163,515), Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE, Columbus
Key terms: Evolution And Development, Increase Minority Participation, Size And Shape, Developmental Evolution, Dominican Republic, Morphological Structures, Teacher Preparation, Approach, City, Component, Composition, Compositional, Constructed, Construction, Constructional, District, Does, Dominican-american, Education, Educational, Fossil, Gastropods, Geoscience, Has, Integrate, International, Invertebrate, Marginellid, Modules, Morphometric, NSF, NYC, Near, Neogene, Paleontological, Paleontology, Pis, Processes, Program, Quality, Similarity, Teachers.

Collaborative Research: CSEDI--Grand Challenge for Experimental Study of Plastic Deformation Under Deep Earth Conditions
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Pamela C Burnley($168,142), University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas
2. Shun-ichiro Karato($429,073), Yale University, New Haven
3. Harry W Green($271,554), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
4. Yanbin Wang($265,409), University of Chicago, Chicago
5. Donald J Weidner($637,797), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
6. Shenghua Mei($214,976), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
7. Pamela C Burnley($56,158), Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc., Atlanta
Key terms: Quantitative Deformation Experiments, Experimental Studies, Planetary Interiors, Rheological Properties, Water Fugacity, Broad, Challenge, Conditions, Controlled, Effort, Gpa, Ii, Iii, Limited, Mantle, Obtained, Pressure, Pressures, Previous, Range, Techniques.

The Formation of Long-wavelength Mantle Structure and Its Relationship to Supercontinent Cycles and True Polar Wander
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Shijie Zhong($230,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Long-wavelength Platforms, Mantle Convection, Long-wavelength, Process, Processes, Rodinia, Supercontinent, Supercontinents, TPW.

2007 Interior of the Earth Gordon Conference
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Nancy R Gray($23,500), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Deeper Mantle, Earth's Crust, Surface Observations, Asthenosphere, Composition, Conference, Conferences, Connections, Dynamics, Evolution, Formal, Frontiers, Gordon, Interact, Interior, Lithosphere, Meeting, Previous, Structure, Unresolved.

Collaborative Research: CSEDI--The Dynamics of Plume-Trench Interaction: Samoa-Tonga
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Magali I Billen($139,214), University of California-Davis, Davis
2. Christopher R Kincaid($207,713), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
3. James G Hirth($365,232), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Deep Mantle, Fracture Tectonics, Plume-driven Hotspot, Seismic Stations, Tonga Slab, Back-arc, Central, Chain, Context, Dynamics, Experimental, Flow, Has, Hinge, Interaction, Model, Modeling, Models, Northward, Participants, Plate, Plume-driven, Plumes, Propagation, Putative, Samoa, Samoan, Scheduled, Schools, Students, Thickness, Visits, Volcanic, Volcanism, WHOI, Zone.

Collaborative Research: CSEDI--Interdisciplinary Investigation of Geodynamo Reversal Mechanisms
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2007; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Paul H Roberts($99,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2. Peter L Olson($104,033), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
3. Gary A Glatzmaier($164,999), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Liquid Outer Core, Boundary Conditions, Core-mantle Boundary, Dynamo Model, Earth's Core, Geomagnetic Field, Magnetic Field, Numerical Dynamo, Numerical Models, Polarity Reversal, Polarity Reversals, Reversal Behavior, Core-mantle, Fluid, Geodynamo, Geophysical, Paleomagnetic, Process, Reversing, Solid, Structure, Time, Uniform.

Collaborative Research: CSEDI--Integrating Numerical and Experimental Geodynamo Models
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Bruce Buffett($323,000), University of Chicago, Chicago
2. Daniel P Lathrop($346,000), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Imposed Magnetic Field, Spherical Couette Flow, Convection Experiments, Experimental Observations, Liquid Metal, Numerical Models, Subgrid-scale Models, Conditions, Core, Earth, Flows, Geodynamo, Insights, Interactions, Large-scale, Predictions, Realistic, Sophisticated, Strong, Subgrid-scale, Tested, Turbulence.

CSEDI: A Joint Seismological and Mineral Physics Approach to Unravel the Origin of Lower Mantle Heterogeneity
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Quentin Williams($211,069), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Core-mantle Boundary, Fast Anomalies, Fast Features, Lower Mantle, Seismic Characteristics, Travel Times, Basalt, Behavior, Core-mantle, Has, Mid, Models, Oceanic, Regions, Require, Seismically, Slow, Temperature, Thermo-chemical, Velocity, Waves.

Collaborative Research: Biogeochemistry of Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth and Its Aftermath in South China
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Gordon D Love($254,588), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
2. Alex Sessions($50,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Sturtian And Marinoan, Basal Animals, Biomarker Lipid, Marinoan Glaciations, Molecular Biomarker, Nanhua Basin, Redox Structure, South China, Thermal Maturity, Aftermath, Allow, Biogeochemical, Chu, Climatic, Course, Cycling, Detailed, Detect, Effects, Essentially, Evidence, Experience, Fossils, Has, Inorganic, Low, Marine, Neoproterozic, Neoproterozoic, Proxies, Sections, Signals, Significantly, Strata, UCR.

Collaborative Research: Exploration of the Interplay between Contaminant Partitioning and Biotransformation in Multiphase Porous Media
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Andrew Ramsburg($274,070), Tufts University, Somerville
Key terms: Fate And Transport, Napl Source Zones, Transfer And Biotransformation, Air Force, Chloroethene Napls, Degradation Products, Mass Transfer, Multiphase Subsurface, Subsurface Environments, Aimed, Bioavailability, Biological, Center, Chloroethenes, Containing, Contaminated, Descriptions, Interplay, Kinetics, Levels, Processes, Rates, Students, Technologies, Tufts, Undergraduate.

Challenges and Opportunities in Earth Surface Processes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Anthony R de Souza($426,800), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Earth's Surface, Societal Issues, Advance, Challenges, Committee, Costs, Council, Field, Host, Human, NRC, National, Processes, Range, Report, Staff, Wide.

Collaborative Research: Effects of a Regional Plio-Pleistocene Extinction Event on the Escalation of Predator-Prey Interactions
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Gregory P Dietl($70,500), Paleontological Research Institute, Ithaca
2. Gregory S Herbert($70,502), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Fighting Conchs, Adaptation, Biological, Environmental, Escalation, Evolution, Extinction, Hazards, Particular, Pliocene, Predation, Species.

Collaborative Research: The Evolution of Extremely Acid Lakes and Groundwaters in Western Australia
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Francisca E Oboh-Ikuenobe($199,980), Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla
2. Kathleen C Benison($268,203), Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant
3. Brenda B Bowen($114,407), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Acid Saline Waters, Past Surface Water, Southern Western Australia, Water And Groundwater, Diagenetic Minerals, Extreme Environments, Yilgarn Craton, Chemical, Cores, Depositional, Evolution, Gypsum, Lake, Ph, Pis, Quaternary.

Workshop on Integrated Scientific Coring on the Colorado Plateau: Early Mesozoic History of West Pangea; St. George, Utah; November13-16, 2007
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Paul E Olsen($29,265), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Colorado Plateau, Biotic, Classic, Coring, Evolution, Global, Has, Interval, Mesozoic, Paleogeographic, Section, Tectonic, Western, Workshop.

Deep Time Paleoclimate Liaison Position to Support Community Use of the Paleoclimate CCSM
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Jeffrey Kiehl($468,679), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Deep Time Ccsm, Deep Time Climate, Climate Simulations, Climates, Liaison, Model, Output, Specific, Tools, Unique.

Collaborative Research: Paleohydrology of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: A Multiple Proxy Reconstruction
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Francesca A McInerney($110,001), Northwestern University, Evanston
2. Jonathan I Bloch($103,001), University of Florida, Gainesville
3. Mary J Kraus($55,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
4. Scott L Wing($37,110), Smithsonian Institution, Washington
Key terms: Climate And Life, Hydrologic Cycle, Isotope Ratios, Plant Lipids, Teacher Training, Temporal Resolution, Conjunction, Ecosystems, Fossil, Has, Leaves, Moisture, Natural, PETM, Paleosols, Period, Precipitation, Program, Reconstruct, Reconstructing, School, Site, Students, Terrestrial, Vertebrates, Wyoming.

SGER: Deccan Volcanism Implicated in K-T Mass Extinction
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Gerta Keller($70,000), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: K-t Mass Extinction, Biotic Recovery, Deccan Trap, Deccan Volcanism, Intertrappean Sediments, K-t Mass, Lava Flows, Caused, Cn, Consequences, Cr, Danian, Eruption, India, Main, Marine, Occurred, Phase, Pis, Volcanic.

SGER: Salvaging Clues to Tsunami Recurrence in Southern India
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Lisa L Ely($19,835), Central Washington University, Ellensburg
Key terms: Tsunami Deposits, Environments.

SGER: A New Triassic Plant Locality in Northern China with Gondwanan Affinities
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Nicholas C Fraser($11,415), Virginia Museum of Natural History Foundation, Martinsville
Key terms: Beds, Collected, Corystosperms, Excavation, Field, Fossils, GMC, Locality, Museum, Pis, Plant, Remains, Specimens, Sphenophytes, Terrestrial, Triassic, Umkomasia.

Collaborative Research: Exploring the Links among Climate, Ecology, and Evolution in Paleogene Marine Faunas of the U.S. Gulf Coastal Plain
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Warren Allmon($101,795), Paleontological Research Institute, Ithaca
2. Linda C Ivany($189,727), Syracuse University, Syracuse
3. Rowan Lockwood($52,010), College of William and Mary, Williamsburg
Key terms: Mollusk Faunas, Climate, Evolution, Evolutionary, Fossil, Pis, Respond, Temperature, Time.

Workshop: Sino-US Collaborative Research on Critical Transitions In History Of Life; Denver, Colorado; October 5-14 2007
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Xiangdong Wang($41,309), Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver
Key terms: Climatic And Evolutionary, Extinction And Subsequent, Cenozoic Uplift, Critical Transitions, Tibetan Plateau, China, Chinese, Collaboration, Collaborative, Collections, Create, Cretaceous-tertiary, Discoveries, Faunas, Focused, Has, Held, History, Life, Marine, Ordovician, Paleontological, Paleontologists, Province, Recovery, Sites, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Integrated Study of an Exceptional Avifauna from the Eocene Green River Formation: New Data on Avian Evolution and Taphonomy
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Richard O Prum($34,973), Yale University, New Haven
2. Lance Grande($49,994), Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
3. Julia Clarke($150,000), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Paleogene Avian, Assemblage, Assemblages, Biodiversity, Birds, Deposits, Evolution, Fossil, Fossils, Lake, Systematic, Taphonomic, Timing.

Community Sedimentary Model Science Plan for Carbonate Systems Workshop; Golden, Colorado; February 27-29, 2008
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. J Frederick Sarg($50,000), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: Numerical Models, Time Scales, Advances, CSDMS, Carbonate, Carbonates, Decide, Incorporate, Modeling, Process, Strategy, Traditional, Workshop.

Non-destructive High Resolution CT-scanning of a Crocodilian-bearing Vertebrate Fossil-Lagerstatte from a 110 Ma Mid-Pacific Drowned Atoll, Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 865
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. John V Firth($6,136), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Reptilian Remains, Vertebrate Remains, Archive, Austin, CT, Cm, Continent, Core, Cores, Cretaceous, Crocodilian, Deposit, Fauna, Fish, Half, Images, Imaging, Island, Lagoonal, Marine, ODP, Ocean, Oceanic, Ostracods, Pacific, Pis, Stored, Teeth, Terrestrial, Texas, Unique, View.

Collaborative Research: Testing Orbital Forcing of Terrestrial Greenhouse Climate? U/Pb Zircon Geochronology from the Eocene Green River Formation of Wyoming
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Malka L Machlus($191,180), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: U-pb Zircon Geochronology, Earth's Orbit, Eocene Climate, Green River, Highly Resolved, Orbital Forcing, U-pb Zircon, Age, Allow, Ca, Cycles, Cyclicity, Debate, Detailed, History, Interval, Ky, Million, Models, Origin, Past, Periodic, Precision, Rock, Sediment, Solar, Strata.

Paleontological Powers of Ten: Issues of Scale in Paleoecology Workshop; Washington, D.C.; September 13-16, 2007
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. William A Dimichele($12,564), Smithsonian Institution, Washington
Key terms: Ecological, Paleoecological, Paleoecology, Terrestrial, Th, Workshop.

Testing the Utility of Geochemical Proxies for Interpretation of Reduced Oxygen Sediments Using Body and Trace Fossil Data from Devonian Black Shales
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Timothy W Lyons($90,596), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Reduced Oxygen Settings, Trace And Body, Dysoxic Settings, Paleo-oxygen Levels, Sedimentary Rocks, Bioturbation, Devonian, Modern, Paleo-oxygen, Precambrian, Proxies, Widely.

Collaborative Research: An Astronomical-Calibrated Time Scale for the Mesozoic Era
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. James G Ogg($134,800), Purdue University, West Lafayette
2. Linda A Hinnov($396,587), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
3. Andreas S Spanias($125,000), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: ATS, Accessible, Ago, Cenozoic, Continuous, Era, International, Mesozoic, Million, Past, Stratigraphic, Techniques, Time.

SGER: Scientific Drilling for Human Origins: Exploring the Application of Drill Core Records to Understanding Hominin Evolution
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Craig S Feibel($145,423), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Critical Time Intervals, Critical Importance, Drill Core, Drilling Program, Human Origins, Lake Beds, Central, Climate, Close, Continent, Cores, Correlating, Direction, Efforts, Environmental, Evolution, Evolutionary, Focused, Has, History, Local, Obtain, Opportunities, Periods, Pis, Regional, Sediment, Species, Students, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Response of Mammalian Survivors to the Late Pleistocene Extinction Event
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Elizabeth A Hadly($190,000), Stanford University, Stanford
2. Anthony D Barnosky($50,785), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Pleistocene-holocene Transition, Species Richness, Analyses, Climatic, Composition, Extinction, Fossil, Genetic, Investigate, Pis, Pleistocene-holocene, Population, Populations, Quaternary, Stratigraphic, Survived, Survivors, Techniques, Tracing.

Collaborative Research: Dating Sedimentary Sequences: In Situ U/Th-Pb Microprobe Dating of Early Diagenetic Monazite in Neoproterozoic Black Shales
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2007; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Karl E Karlstrom($29,156), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
2. Michael J Jercinovic($41,952), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Dating, Neoproterozoic, Technologies.

Collaborative Research: AUTOMATED SEQUENCING OF THE FOSSIL RECORD: IMPROVED METHODS AND INSIGHTS FROM MOHAWKIAN (ORDOVICIAN) GEOCHRONOLOGY, TEPRHOCHRONOLOGY, & BIOSTRATIGRAPHY
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Stephen A Leslie($43,238), James Madison University, Harrisonburg
Key terms: Conodonts And Graptolites, Ordovician And Silurian, Eastern North, Temporal Sequencing, Ash, Basin, CHRONOS, Correlation, Facies, Faunas, Fossil, Global, Information, Integrate, K-bentonites, Local, Margin, Minority, Mohawkian, Pieces, Pis, Regions, Secondary, Strata, Stratigraphy, Students, Successions, Teacher, Techniques, Time, Tools.

Collaborative Research: Effects of Climatic/Environmental Change on the Early Eocene Mammal Fauna of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. None($76,397), Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona
Key terms: Central Bighorn Basin, Willwood Formation, Climaticenvironmental, Eocene, Faunal, Faunas, Intervals, Mammals, Paleoceneeocene, Turnover.

Collaborative Research: Glacial Lake Ojibway Chronology to Test the 8,200 yr Cold-Event Trigger
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Thomas V Lowell($186,442), University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati
Key terms: Laurentide Ice Sheet, Abrupt Climate, Glacial Lake, Lake Drainage, Lake Ojibway, Cold, Final, Framework, Graduate, Meltwater, Mercyhurst, Nature, Resolution, Rhythmite, Sequence, Sequences, Stratigraphy, Teaching, Time, Trigger, Via.

SGER: Rapid Response to the 1 April, 2007 Solomon Islands Tsunami
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Brian McAdoo($25,000), Vassar College, Poughkeepsie
Key terms: Solomon Islands, Additional, Aim, April, Calibrating, Collect, Earthquake, Evidence, Grain, Models, People, Sediment, Survey, Tsunami, Wave.

Paleoflora of the Citronelle Formation: A Unique Window on the Pliocene Vegetation and Climate of the Southeastern United States
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Brian J Axsmith($172,000), University of South Alabama, Mobile
Key terms: Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Dioxide Levels, Citronelle Formation, Fossil Plants, Stomatal Analysis, Climate, Flora, Global, Importance, Leaves, Living, Mid-pliocene, North, Relative, Time, Warmth.

Abrupt Climate Change During Marine Isotope Stage 3 in Southern Tropical Africa: Multiproxy Reconstructions from Lake Tanganyika
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. James M Russell($282,274), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Abrupt Climate, Lake Tanganyika, Millennial-scale Climate, Southern Tropics, Tropical Africa, Controls, Hemisphere, Insight, Investigate, Lakes, Limnology, MIS, Mechanisms, Millennial-scale, Poorly, Productivity, Propagating, Spatial, Triggering.

Tracking Atmospheric and Vegetation Change Across Cenomanian-Turonian Oceanic Anoxic Event II
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Bradley B Sageman($181,356), Northwestern University, Evanston
Key terms: Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Marine Carbon Burial, Atmospheric Co2, C-t Interval, Carbon Cycle, Enhanced Marine, Oae Ii, Organic Carbon, Biogeochemical, C-T, Climatic, Cuticle, Dispersed, Distinguish, Fluctuations, Has, Mainly, Online, Pco, Plant, Preservation, Proxy, Regional, Sections, Shifts, Temperature, Terrestrial, Tested, Time.

The Revolution in Evolution: The Origin of Predation and the Cambrian Explosion
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Kevin J Peterson($311,398), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Cambrian Explosion, Common Ancestor, Eumetazoan Gut, Gut-specific Genes, Calcisponges, Causality, Ecological, Eukaryotes, Eumetazoans, Evolution, Evolved, Feed, Gut-specific, Life, Orthologues, Paraphyletic, Paraphyly, Phylogenetic, Porifera, Precambrian, Sponge, Sponges.

Environmental and Climatic Change Across the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary in the Continental Interior of North America
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2007; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Ross Secord($194,048), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Canopy Effect, Canopy Structure, Carbon Isotope, Closed Canopy, Global Warming, Neotropical Faunas, Vegetation Growing, Vegetation Structure, Atmospheric, CC, Constrained, Database, Dispersal, Earliest, Forests, Has, Implications, Isotopic, Mammalian, Modern, PETM, Public, Ratios, Teeth, Understory, Ungulates.

Collaborative Research: High-Resolution Calibration of the Maastrichtian to Paleocene of the Western U.S.: Integration of Geochronology, Magnetostratigraphy and Paleontology
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2007; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. William C Clyde($100,235), University of New Hampshire, Durham
2. Kirk R Johnson($77,481), Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver
Key terms: Cretaceous And Paleocene, Rocky Mountain Region, Greenhouse Climate, Basins, Biostratigraphy, Biotic, Dynamics, Fossil, Framework, Geochronology, High-resolution, Magnetic, Magnetostratigraphy, Mammals, Marine, Massive, Ocean, Reversals, Sedimentary, Temporal, Terrestrial, Time.

Miocene Land Mammals from Panama: Refugium or Cradle of Biodiversity?
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2007; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Michael X Kirby($151,950), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Ancient Neotropical, Cucaracha Formation, Panama Canal, Activities, Allow, Arar, Assemblage, Biodiversity, Cradle, Deer-like, Fauna, Field, Fossil, Fossils, Involve, Mammalian, Mammals, Million, Miocene, North, Paleomagnetic, Posed, Public, Refugium, Resolve, Rodents, Species.

Collaborative Research: The Tropical Temperature History of the Cretaceous Greenhouse Interval Inferred from Tanzanian "Glassy" Foraminifera
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2007; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Brian T Huber($223,334), Smithsonian Institution, Washington
2. Kenneth MacLeod($253,066), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Climate Model Experiments, Earth's Temperature, Late Cretaceous, Tropical Temperature, Analyses, Coastal, Composition, Delta-o, Exceptionally, Foraminifera, Glacial, Greenhouse, Has, History, Improvement, Intervals, Mgca, Parallel, Ratios, Seawater, Tanzania, Tanzanian.

Detrital Mineral Thermochronology of the Indus Molasse, Northwestern Indian Himalaya
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Kip V Hodges($233,400), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: 40ar39ar Biotite, Epizonal-anchizonal Metamorphism, Post-depositional Metamorphism, Age, Ages, Arar, Boundary, Chronometer, Detrital, Education, Epizonal-anchizonal, India, Indus, Laser, Low, Molasse, Post-depositional, Principal, Range, Sediments, Sequence, Temperature, Thermal, Thermochronology, Time, Zircon.

Collaborative Research: Calibrating Rates and Duration for Isotopic Variability During the Early Cambrian Radiation of Animals, Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Adam Maloof($170,000), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Calcified Animals, Delta 34s, Global Carbon, Age, Amplitude, Appearance, Boundary, Cambrian, Cycles, Deltaccaco, Extinction, Importance, Myr, ND-T, Permil, Upb.

Joint U.S.-Croatian Cooperative Research Project: Greenhouse and Transitional Climates in 50 m.y. Carbonate Record of the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous Dinaric Platform Croatia
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. James F Read($182,139), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Sea Level Fluctuations, Waxing And Waning, Global Climate, Global Greenhouse, Ice Sheets, Level Fluctuations, Carbon, Cooler, Document, Isotopes, Million, Platform, Sedimentary, Succession, Time, Times.

Consolidation and Calibration of the New England Varve Chronology (NEVC): An Annual Continental Record of Ice Dynamics and Terrestrial Change, 18-11.5 kyr BP
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. John C Ridge($338,752), Tufts University, Somerville
Key terms: England Varve Chronology, Ice Recession Rates, Glacial Chronologies, Glacial Varve, Ice Sheet, Meltwater Discharge, Rapid Climate, Accuracy, Accurate, Ages, Analysis, Atlantic, BP, Calibration, Comparisons, Complete, Continuous, Critical, Deglacial, Deglaciation, Floods, Formulate, Glacier, Interactions, Join, Linked, North, Ocean, Opportunity, Precise, Regions, Resolution, Sequences, Serve, Southeastern, Terrestrial, Was.

The Bighorn Basin Coring Project (BBCP) Phase I: Workshop; Northwest College, Powell, WY; Summer 2007
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. William C Clyde($44,838), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Bighorn Basin, Biotic, Carbon, Continent, Discuss, Industry, Interval, Isotopes, PETM, Paleogene, Representatives, Students, Workshop.

Experiments and Observations Based on the Finding that Scleractinian Corals Secrete Calcite Instead of Aragonite in Cretaceous Seawater
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Steven M Stanley($25,857), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Late Cretaceous Seas, Growth Rates, High-magnesium Calcite, Magnesiumcalcium Ratio, Magnesiumcalcium Ratios, Reef Builders, Skeletal Growth, Aragonite, Biomineralization, Calcium, Chemistry, Corals, Dominant, Has, High-magnesium, Influence, Instead, Low, Mineral, Ocean, Precipitates, Precipitation, Reef-building, Seawater, Suggest, Time, Volcanism, Weak.

Timing, Conditions, and Rates of Thrust Transport in the Nepalese Himalaya
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: Tectonics

1. Matthew J Kohn($44,817), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Arun Region, Thrust Movement, Ages, Conditions, Cooling, Determination, Erosion, Himalayan, Million, Nepal, Rate, Rates, Rock, Sheet, Timing, Via.

Quantifying the Stability of Continents Using Advances in (U/Th)/He, 4He/3He and U/Pb Apatite Thermochronometry
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Tectonics

1. Rebecca M Flowers($193,144), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Burial And Unroofing, 4he3he Apatite, Churchill Province, Continental Interiors, Kimberlite Pipes, Phanerozoic Cover, Phanerozoic Reburial, Slave Craton, Cratonic, Degrees, Episodes, Evidence, Hehe, Portions, Recognition, Source, Surface, Tectonic, Temperatures, Thermal, Thermochronological, U-thhe, Western.

Collaborative Research: Lithospheric Weakening, Deep Crustal Flow and the Initiation of Orogenesis at a Noncollisional Convergent Margin in the Andes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Tectonics

1. Stuart N Thomson($76,992), Yale University, New Haven
2. Keith A Klepeis($271,955), University of Vermont & State Agricultural College, Burlington
Key terms: Formation And Destruction, Thermal And Structural, Darwin Complex, Deep Crust, Structural Evolution, Andes, Basin, Continent, Contraction, Extension, Extensional, Intraplate, Mechanical, Noncollisional, Orogen, Pre-orogenic, Region, Southernmost, Tectonic.

Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Deformation Band Formation
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Tectonics

1. Kathleen A Issen($391,131), Clarkson University, Potsdam
Key terms: Intermediate Principal Stress, Approximate Value, Deformation Band, Deformation Bands, Dilation Bands, Fluid Flow, Principal Stresses, Stress Conditions, Theoretical Framework, True Triaxial, Act, Allows, Applications, Compaction, Field, Formation, Infer, Maximum, Oil, Orientation, Porosity, Produced, Reduced, Relative, Required, Sandstones, Shear, Suggest.

The Deformation History of the India-Asia Suture Zone, Lopukangri Rift, South-Central Tibet
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Tectonics

1. Thomas J Lapen($299,829), University of Houston, Houston
Key terms: Deep Suture Zone, Geologic And Geophysical, India And Asia, Suture Zone Rocks, Deep Rocks, Deformation History, Isotope Geochemistry, Tibet-himalayan Orogen, Analysis, Chinese, Collaboration, Collision, Conceptual, Continent, Crust, Evolution, Exploits, Exposure, Geochronology, Indian, Mapping, Models, Mountain, Predictions, Processes, Regions, Rift, Shallow, Techniques, Tibet-himalayan.

Collaborative Research: Using Pore Fluid Pressure Gradients to Test the Relative Importance of Hydrologic Versus Mechanical Heterogeneity in Fracture Formation
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Tectonics

1. Laurel B Goodwin($86,970), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. David F Boutt($140,780), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Fluid Pressure Gradient, Pore Fluid Pressure, Extension Fractures, Mechanical Heterogeneities, Mechanical Properties, Analyses, Bulk, Common, Conditions, Controlling, Detailed, Diffusivity, Experiments, Fluids, Formation, Fracturing, Geologic, Grain-scale, Heterogeneity, Heterogeneous, Hydraulic, Hydrologic, Pathways, Relative, Rock, Sandstone, Spatial, Subsurface.

Collaborative Research: An Integrated Tectonic Study of the Jamaica Strike-slip Restraining Bend and Gonave Microplate Using GPS, Geomorphologic, Seismic, and Gravity Data
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Tectonics

1. Dennis C DeMets($150,532), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Paul Mann($209,696), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Earthquake Hazard Assessment, Gonave Microplate Motion, Fault Slip, Plate Motion, Seismological Network, Slip Rates, Budget, Caribbean, Country, Establish, Geomorphologic, Gravity, Has, Island, Jamaica, Jamaican, Models, Near, Populated, Seismic, Southern.

SGER: A Novel Paleoaltimetry Proxy: Calibration of Plant Biomarker Delta-D (dD) Values
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2007; Program: Tectonics

1. Katherine H Freeman($53,433), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Hydrogen Isotope Composition, Hydrogen Isotope Ratios, Plant-wax Hydrogen Isotope, Plant-wax Hydrogen, Application, Based, Biomarkers, Climate, Elevation, Estimates, Evaluation, Hydrology, Isotopic, Lake, Leaves, Modern, Paleoaltimeter, Paleoaltimetry, Precipitation, Representing, Tectonic, Terrestrial.

Geologic Constraints on Landscape Evolution of the Sierra Nevada, California: Paleochannels, Magmatism and Structure
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2007; Program: Tectonics

1. Cathy J Busby($257,748), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Ancestral Cascades Arc, Central Sierra Nevada, Intrusive Rocks, Uplift History, Age, Ago, Basin, Cenozoic, Complex, Considered, Dating, Evolution, Faulting, Faults, Has, Landscape, Mapping, Million, Mountain, Occurred, Onset, Paleochannels, Present-day, Range, Range-front, Rest, Sedimentary, Tectonic, Tertiary, Volcanic, Volcanism.

Testing Models for Incision and Neotectonics of the Grand Canyon Region: Field Studies, Ar-Ar Dating of Neogene Basalts, and Detrital Zircon and Monazite
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2007; Program: Tectonics

1. Karl E Karlstrom($159,964), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Lower Colorado River, Accurate Incision, Age Spectra, Colorado Plateau, Detrital Monazite, Detrital Zircon, Grand Canyon, Quartzite Cobbles, Combined, Dated, Dating, Eastern, Faults, Flows, Geochemical, Gravels, Has, History, Million, Model, Movement, Neotectonic, Normal, Provenance, Public, Rates, Relative, Source, Uplift, Verify, Western.

Extensional Fault Systems in the Ama Drime Range, Southern Tibet
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Tectonics

1. Kip V Hodges($294,002), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: East And West, South Tibetan Fault, Ama Drime, Channel Flow, Exhumation History, Tibetan Plateau, Climate, Controversial, Coupling, Deformation, Establish, Extrusion, Has, Himalayan, Massif, Miocene, Monsoon, Orogenic, Southern, Southward, Structural, Tectonic.

Collaborative Research: Spatial and Temporal Evolution of an Active Blind-Thrust Fault from Inception to the Most Recent Earthquake
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Tectonics

1. John H Shaw($253,909), Harvard University, Cambridge
2. James F Dolan($196,700), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Hills Blind-thrust Fault, Puente Hills Blind-thrust, Regional Earthquake Hazards, Blind-thrust Fault, Hills Blind-thrust, Los Angeles, Seismic Reflection, Analysis, Borehole, California, Cycles, Deep, Define, Directly, Faults, Fold, Folding, Folds, Growth, Paleo-earthquake, Past, Scarps, Segments, Slip, Strata, Surface.

Rates of Loading and Exhumation in Convergent Magmatic Arcs: Tectonic History of the Swakane Gneiss, North Cascades Washington
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Tectonics

1. Harold H Stowell($181,018), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
Key terms: Rapid Vertical Motion, Garnet Sm-nd, Rapid Exhumation, Swakane Gneiss, Age, Arc, Arcs, Burial, Cooling, Cordillera, Cretaceous, Crust, Detrital, Fault, Loading, Metamorphic, Metamorphism, North, Origin, Permit, Processes, Rates, Rock, Select, Sm-nd, Subduction, Techniques, Terranes, Was, Zircon.

Collaborative Research: Slip-per-event Rupture History of the San Andreas Fault in the Carrizo Plain: Was the 1857 Earthquake Characteristic?
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Tectonics

1. J Ramon Arrowsmith($158,387), Arizona State University, Tempe
2. Lisa Grant Ludwig($270,116), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: San Andreas Fault, Southern San Andreas, Carrizo Plain, Carrizo Section, Recurrence Times, Seismic Hazard, California, Dates, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Magnitude, Methods, Mmyr, Rupture, Ruptures, Slip, Slip-per-event, Strain.

Collaborative Research: The Effects of CO2-H2O Fluids on the Deformation of Quartzite and Marble in the EJB Aureole, California
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Tectonics

1. Peter I Nabelek($149,709), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
2. James J Student($120,291), Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant
Key terms: Deformation And Recrystallization, Eureka Valley-joshua Flat-beer, Quartzites And Marbles, Valley-joshua Flat-beer Creek, Continental Crust, Eureka Valley-joshua, Flat-beer Creek, Fluid Composition, Fluid Compositions, Laboratory Experiments, Metamorphic Aureole, Natural Laboratory, Recovery Mechanisms, Rock Deformation, Strain Rates, Valley-joshua Flat-beer, White Mountains, California, Dioxide, Ductile, Emplacement, Experienced, Flowed, Fluids, Has, Influence, Influenced, Lithologies, Lithosphere, Magma, Nature, Pluton, Plutons, Rheology, Seen, Shown, Strength, Temperature, Variable, Water.

Mid-Crustal Structure of Strike-Slip Systems from a Down-Plunge Exposure in the Chugach Metamorphic Complex, Alaska
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Tectonics

1. Terry L Pavlis($228,784), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
Key terms: Versus Top-driven Detachment, Deeper Levels, Lower Crust, Strike-slip Fault, Top-driven Detachment, Versus Top-driven, Attachment, Behavior, Characterize, Deformation, Deformational, Deformed, Development, Earthquake, Eocene, Examine, Exposure, Faults, Flow, Lithosphere, Mechanical, Middle, Motion, Near, Particular, Processes, Produced, Regions, Remains, Strain, Strike-slip, Structural, Temperature, Transferred, Upper.

Kinematic Response of the Argentine Precordillera Fold-and-thrust Belt to Erosion
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: Tectonics

1. George Hilley($315,860), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Precordillera Fold-and-thrust Belt, Analogue Models, Erosional Conditions, Fold-and-thrust Belt, Mountain Belt, Precordillera Fold-and-thrust, Rock Types, Strongly Influenced, Acting, Aspects, Belts, Climate, Cordillera, Deep, Development, Establish, Exposure, Factors, Field, Kinematics, Plate, Processes, Specific, Surface, Tectonic.

Conference on "Extending a Continent: Architecture, Rheological Coupling and Heat Budget"; Island of Naxos, Greece; FAll 2007
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: Tectonics

1. Brian P Wernicke($32,616), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Continental Extension, Rheological Coupling, Computational, Conference, Examine, Geodetic, International, Processes, Structural.

Evolution of a Long-Lived, Supra-Subduction Accretionary Complex (Baker Terrane, NE Oregon): A Study of Structural Development and Crustal Growth During an Arc-Arc Collision
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: Tectonics

1. Carol D Frost($183,635), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Blue Mountains Province, Accretionary Complex, Accretionary Complexes, Accretionary Wedges, Ancient Accretionary, Baker Terrane, Geophysical Surveys, Marine Geophysical, Subduction-related Accretionary, Andor, Belts, Broad, Collisional, Composite, Crust, Deformation, Development, Geologic, Graduate, History, Involve, Lithospheric, Long-lived, Microstructural, Model, Processes, Reflect, Rock, Structural, Students, Supra-subduction, Tectonic.

Collaborative Research: A Paleoseismic Record of Repeated Great Earthquakes on the Sunda Subduction Megathrust, Northern Sumatra
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: Tectonics

1. Harvey M Kelsey($44,535), Humboldt State University Foundation, Arcata
2. Charles M Rubin($66,606), Central Washington University, Ellensburg
Key terms: Earthquake And Tsunami, Main Coseismic Subsidence, Subduction Zone Earthquakes, Sumatran Subduction Zone, Northern Sumatra, Northernmost Sumatra, West Coast, Chronology, Components, Define, Documentation, Establish, History, Long-term, Megathrust, Offshore, Past, Sunda, Thousand.

Collaborative Research: Active Rifting Along the Red Sea, Afar Triple Junction and Main Ethiopian Rift: Implications for Continental Rheolology and Lithosphere Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: Tectonics

1. Rebecca O Bendick($163,982), University of Montana, Missoula
Key terms: Continuous Gps Stations, Survey Gps Sites, Active Rifting, Continental Lithosphere, Crustal Deformation, Saudi Arabia, Triple Junction, Afar, Central, Constrain, Danakil, Driving, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Existing, Geodetic, Magmatic, Mechanics, Observations, Plate, Processes.

Collaborative Research: Earthquake Dynamics and Frictional-Plastic Coupling at Hypocentral Depths: Insights From Pseudotachylyte Systems
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: Tectonics

1. Joseph L Allen($69,690), Concord University, Athens
2. Colin A Shaw($162,668), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Detailed Field, Plastic Creep, Sawatch Range, Colorado, Concord, Crust, Deformation, Depths, Direct, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Electron, Empirical, Exposed, Fault, Faulting, Faults, Generation, Geologic, Investigate, Laboratory, Linkage, Mechanics, Mechanisms, Mid-crustal, Models, Mylonite-ultramylonite, Observations, Processes, Produced, Program, Pseudotachylyte, Rupture, Seismic, Shear, Structures.

Collaborative Research: Cenozoic Tectonics and Surface Uplift in North-Central Tibet
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: Tectonics

1. Bradley D Ritts($39,015), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Oxygen Isotopes, Tibetan Plateau, Uplift History, Ago, Assess, Basins, Climate, Collision, Crust, Million, Paleoaltimetry, Predict, Processes, Raised, Region, Relative, Tectonic, Time, Timing, Vesicularity.

REU Site: Digital Mapping, Geographic Information System (GIS) Database Construction and Geospatial Analysis of Regional Strike-slip Shear Zone Deformation
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2007; Program: nan

1. Matthew Bampton($300,000), University of Southern Maine, Portland
Key terms: Database Construction, Digital Mapping, Field Survey, Late Paleozoic, Northern Appalachians, Participating Students, Analysis, Experience, Geologic, Home, Prepare, Program, Technologies.

NSF-GEO-EAR Awards for 2007

Collaborative Research: Facility Support: Building the INTERFACE Facility for Cm-Scale, 3D Digital Field Geology Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

Collaborative Research: Water Balance of Western North America: Dynamics of the Miocene Summer Monsoon Award Effective Date: 11/01/2006; Program: BE-UF: WATER CYCLE

Collaborative Research: An Interdisciplinary Investigation of Groundwater-Carbon Coupling in Large Peat Basins and its Relation to Climate Change Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: BE: CARBON & WATER IN ES

Collaborative Research: Delivery and Burial of Particulate Organic Carbon (POC) on Ocean Margins Dominated by Small, Mountainous Rivers: the Role of Effective Discharge Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: BE: CARBON & WATER IN ES

Extending Persistent Scatterer InSAR to Heavily Vegetated Regions Using Information Theoretic Analysis Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: BE: INSTRUM DEVELOP FOR ENV AC

CAREER: The Biogeochemical Controls on Hydrogen-Isotope (D/H) Fractionations in Lipids Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: CATALYZING INTERDISCIP ACTIVIT

Southern California Earthquake Center Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: CATALYZING INTERDISCIP ACTIVIT

Collaborative Research: Lithospheric removal: The Sierra Nevada as the prototype of a fundamental process in mountain building Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Collaborative Research: How Is Rifting Exhuming the Youngest High-pressure and Ultrahigh-pressure (HP/UHP) Rocks on Earth? Award Effective Date: 07/15/2007; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Collaborative Research: Deep Structure of the Northeast Tibetan Collision Zone- INDEPTH IV Award Effective Date: 02/15/2007; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: ST. Elias Erosion/tectonics Project (STEEP) Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

CZO: Boulder Creek Critical Zone Observatory--Weathered Profile Development in a Rocky Environment and Its Influence on Watershed Hydrology and Biogeochemistry Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

Water Cycle Dynamics in a Changing Environment: Advancing Hydrologic Science Through Synthesis Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

MRI: Acquisition of 15 High-rate GPS Units for Developing a Broadband Earthquake Observation System in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

2008 Bi-Lateral Workshop Under the Sino-US Earthquake Studies Protocol, May 20-23, 2008, Boulder, Colorado Award Effective Date: 12/01/2007; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

CNH: Coupling Hydrologic, Economic, and Social Network Models to Improve Understanding of Surface Water-Groundwater Interactions for Protection of Instream Flows Award Effective Date: 08/15/2007; Program: DYN COUPLED NATURAL-HUMAN

Headwater Stream Processes Revealed by Continuous Ultra-high Resolution Thermal Measurement Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: EAPSI

REU-Site: Comparative Analysis of Glacial Sediments, Minnesota and Brazil Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: EAPSI

Planning, Products and the Public: An EarthScope National Office at Oregon State University Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

Whither the Transportable Magnetotelluric (MT) Array: Proposal for an EarthScope Community Workshop to Prioritize Targets for Transportable MT Deployments Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

SGER: EarthScope--Texas Gulf Coast Pilot Study Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Making Strainmeter Data Straightforward: Tools, Techniques, and Results to Assist the EarthScope User Community Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Workshop on the Role of Controlled Source Seismology in the EarthScope Project; San Antonio, Texas; September 2007 Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

The EarthScope Automated Receiver Survey, Phase II: Product Integration, Accessibility, and Expansion Award Effective Date: 08/15/2007; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Workshop: Development of Community Finite Element Models for Fault Systems Studies; Golden, Colorado; June 2007 Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Characterizing North American Upper Mantle Structure with Integrated Inversions of USArray Surface Wave and Scattered Body Wave Data Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Influence of Structure, Composition and Fluid-Rock Chemistry on Mode of Slip in the San Andreas Fault Zone at SAFOD Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: How is Strain of the Eastern California Shear Zone Transferred Across the Garlock Fault? Award Effective Date: 05/15/2007; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Resolving Structural Control of Episodic Tremor and Slip Along the Length of Cascadia Award Effective Date: 05/01/2007; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Refining Upper Mantle Models Beneath the Western United States Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

GeoFrame: A Science Workshop on the Lewis & Clark Megaswath (Cascadia-Northern Rockies-Black Hills) Award Effective Date: 02/15/2007; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Making the San Andreas Fault at the Mendocino Triple Junction Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Laboratory Study of the Mechanics and Physical Properties of the San Andreas Fault and 3D SAFOD Volume Award Effective Date: 08/13/2006; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

RUI: Paleomagnetic Study of Transitional Fields Recorded Throughout the Cenozoic by Australasian Lavas Award Effective Date: 12/01/2006; Program: EAST ASIA AND PACIFIC PROGRAM

International GeoBiology Summer Course - A Renewal Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Acquisition of High Resolution Ground Penetrating Radar for Volcanological, Hydrogeological, and Very Near Surface Investigations Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER: Estimating Temperature and Water Content of the North American Mantle from Geophysical Observations Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

EarthScope Panorama: Informal Geoscience Education for Young People Award Effective Date: 07/15/2007; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER: Integrating Seismic Constraints on Continental Upper Mantle Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Acquisition of Portable Field Spectrometer for Research in Cryosphere Processes and Remote Sensing Education Award Effective Date: 05/15/2007; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

REU Site: Rates, Processes, and Implications of Big Changes in the Shape and Style of the Missouri River Award Effective Date: 05/01/2007; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

REU Site: Undergraduate Research in the Geosciences Award Effective Date: 05/01/2007; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

REU-site: The Keck Geology Consortium--Providing Collaborative Yearlong Opportunities for Undergraduates Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

REU Site: SCEC Undergraduate Studies in Earthquake Information Technology (SCEC/UseIT) Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER: Using Upper Mantle Circulation Models to Evaluate the Role of the Asthenosphere: Tectosphere Contrast and Subduction Dynamics for Global Plate Tectonics Award Effective Date: 01/15/2007; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

RUI: Measurement and Microtomographic Imaging of the Air-Water Interface in Unsaturated Porous Media Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: Constraining the Timing and Nature of Proterozoic Metamorphism in the Northwest U.S. Cordillera Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

CAREER: Exploring the Geologic Record of Major Climate Transitions Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Chlorine Isotope Geochemistry of Volcanic Systems Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: Climatic and Tectonic Controls on Sedimentation and Incision in the Marginal Basins of the Southern Puna Plateau Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Elasticity and the Chemistry of the Earth's Inner Core Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research on Fluid Pathways, and Metal Transport and Deposition in Carlin-Type Gold Deposits: Insights From the Getchell System Award Effective Date: 02/15/2007; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: Glacial Erosion in the Patagonian Andes: Testing the Buzzsaw Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Predicting Lahar Evolution and Runout Behavior Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: Evolution of an Early Enriched Reservoir in the Northern Wyoming Province: Evidence from Ancient Zircons Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

An Experimental Study to Elucidate PGE, Base Metal Sulfide and Au Fractionation in Mafic Layered Intrusions Award Effective Date: 01/15/2007; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

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: 08/31/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

The State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR) Award Effective Date: 02/15/2007; Program: ERE General

Effects of Environmental Growth Conditions on the Composition and Morphology of Bacterial Magnetosome Crystals and on the Subsequent Dissolution and Preservation of Magnetofossils Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: GEOBIOLOGY

Geoinformatics 2007 Conference; La Jolla, California; May 17-18, 2007 Award Effective Date: 04/15/2007; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

Workshop Support: Envisioning a National Geoinformatics System for the United States; Denver, CO Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

A Workshop on the Role of State Geological Surveys and US Geological Survey in a Geological Information System for the Nation Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

GeoInformatics: Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc (CUAHSI) Hydrologic Information Systems Award Effective Date: 01/15/2007; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

Workshop for Education and Outreach Managers of NSF Funded Large Projects, Centers, and Facilities; Arlington, Virginia; March 13-14, 2007 Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: GEOSCIENCE EDUCATION

Collaborative Research: The Impact of Late Cenozoic Himalayan-Tibetan Uplift on C4 Plant Expansion, Climate and Mammalian Evolution in Northern China Award Effective Date: 01/15/2008; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

Predicting Chemical Transformations of Extracellular Biochemicals: The Role of Iron and Manganese (Hydr)Oxides Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

SGER: A Search for the Oldest Metazoan Trace Fossils in the Northern Hemisphere Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

SGER: Collection and Exploratory Analysis of Molecular and Microbial Samples during the Acid Neutralization and Redox Chemistry Injection Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Collaborative Research: Comparative Geochemistry of the Late Cambrian (SPICE) and Toarcian (Jurassic) Positive Carbon Isotope Excursions: New Perspectives on Paleozoic OAEs Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Collaborative Research: Biogenic Cave Carbonates: Identifying Surface Carbon Input to Subsurface Ecosystems Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Collaborative Research: In Situ Examination of Hydrogen Peroxide Sources and Sinks in a Slightly Alkaline Stream Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Collaborative Research: Geochemical Controls on the Microbial Regulation of Arsenic Cycling in Geothermal Systems Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Collaborative Research: Biogeochemical Controls on the Dynamics of Organoarsenic Transformation Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

SGER: Novel Approach to Arid Soil Dating: Extraction and 40Ar/39Ar Geochronology of Pedogenic Sepiolite and Palygorskite Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Sulfur Cycling Through the Neoproterozoic Interglacial Interval: An Integrated Field and Geochemical Study of the Abenab Subgroup in Northern Namibia Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Testing Molecular Mechanisms for Growth and Dissolution Reactions on Calcite Surfaces Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Numerical Modeling of the Greenhouse-Icehouse Transition: Eocene-Oligocene Boundary Award Effective Date: 07/15/2007; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

SGER: Exploratory Research in Isotope Hydrology Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Marine Biogeochemical Cycles Deep Time: An Improved Reservoir Model Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem