Collaborative Proposal: WCR - Hydrologic Regulation of Dissolved Organic Matter Biogeochemistry from Forests through River Networks
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: BE-UF: WATER CYCLE

1. George M Hornberger($64,146), Vanderbilt University, Nashville
Key terms: Carbon Cycle, Organic Carbon, Information, Molecules, Movement, River, Rivers, Soils, Streams, Transported, Water, Watersheds.

Collaborative Research: Dynamics of carbon release and sequestration: Case studies of two early Eocene hyperthermals
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: BE: CARBON & WATER IN ES

1. Arne M Winguth($192,994), University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington
Key terms: Ocean Carbonate Chemistry, Anthropogenic Co2, Carbon Cycle, Model Simulations, Observational Database, Ocean Acidification, Atmosphere, Biogeochemical, Biota, Climate, Consequences, ELMO, Educational, Emissions, Experienced, Extreme, Feedbacks, Global, Has, Highly, Hyperthermals, Input, Insight, Interdisciplinary, Levels, Long-term, Million, Models, Mya, Opportunities, Opportunity, PETM, Pgc, Refinement, Rise, Sense, Unabated, Warming, Was.

Collaborative Research: Foreland basin development and biotic change in Late Ordovician trilobite faunas of eastern North America
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: CATALYZING INTERDISCIP ACTIVIT

1. Stephen R Westrop($130,000), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
2. Matthew R Saltzman($100,000), Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE, Columbus
3. Carlton E Brett($85,000), University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati
4. Lisa Amati($83,000), SUNY College at Potsdam, Potsdam
Key terms: Appalachian Foreland Basin, Late Ordovician Trilobite, Ordovician Trilobite Faunas, Eastern North, Minor Extinctions, Biosphere, Biotic, Broader, Development, Environmental, Environments, Global, Habitat, Oklahoma, Pis, Regional, Univ.

Life history of modern elephants as a model for fossil proboscideans
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: CATALYZING INTERDISCIP ACTIVIT

1. David Podlesak($200,000), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Fossil Mastodonts, Isotope Analysis, Life History, Single Individual, Stable Isotope, Collected, Detailed, Elephant, Elephants, GPS, Hair, Ivory, Mammoths, Model, Molars, Observations, Reconstruct, Tissues, Tusk.

Legacy Database of the Panama Paleontology Project
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2008; Program: CATALYZING INTERDISCIP ACTIVIT

1. Anthony G Coates($167,108), Florida International University, Miami
Key terms: Age Information, Brbrthe Main, Future Updates, Panama Paleontology, Relational Database, Activities, Ages, Assigning, Available, Based, Biostratigraphers, Collections, Environmental, Fossils, Geologic, International, Links, Model, PPP, Publications, Sites, Time, Tropical, Updated, Web, World.

CDI-Type I: Geometric image analysis for computational knowledge discovery in geosciences
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: CDI TYPE I

1. Guillermo Sapiro($467,567), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Analysis, Channel, Combined, Computational, Control, Differential, Exploited, Features, Geometric, Landslide, Methodologies, Roads, Specifically, Theory, Topography.

CIG Workshop on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Solid Earth Geosciences
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: CESER-Cyberinfrastructure for

1. Marc W Spiegelman($49,786), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Computer Scientists, Advanced, CIG, Collaborative, Computational, Coupled, Critical, Developing, Dynamics, Flow, Focus, Issues, Mathematicalcomputational, Mathematicians, Methods, Modeling, Multi-scale, Opportunities, Progress, Range, Software, Solid, Studying, Subsurface, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: PICASSO: Program to Investigate Convective Alboran Sea System Overturn
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Robert L Evans($743,499), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Cin-Ty A Lee($721,798), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
3. Thorsten W Becker($862,002), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
4. Eugene D Humphreys($1,584,500), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Uplift And Subsidence, Alboran Sea, Convective Thinning, Gibraltar Arc, Western Mediterranean, Active, Delamination, Drips, European, Field, Has, Iberarray, Mantle, PICASSO, Process, Subduction, Was.

Subduction and Exhumation of Ultrahigh-Pressure Rocks: Field and Drilling Studies in Eastern China
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Juhn G Liou($153,476), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Drill Core, Garnet Peridotites, Analyzed, Chinese, Completed, Continental, Craton, Crust, Depth, Drilling, Found, Holes, Isotopes, JG, Mantle, Minerals, PP, Published, Recognized, Subduction, Terrane, UHP, Was.

TROPICS Science Plan Development Workshop at Rutgers University
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Vadim L Levin($5,345), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Arc Magmatism, Continental Crust, Costa Rica, Basalt, Formation, Has, Oceanic, Pis, Program, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: The Siberian Traps and the end-Permian Extinction: Coincidence and Causality
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Samuel A Bowring($653,323), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Stephane Rondenay($358,209), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
3. Jonathan Payne($370,055), Stanford University, Stanford
4. Linda T Elkins-Tanton($1,327,246), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
5. Lee R Kump($373,492), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Flood Basalts, Eruption, Extinction, Film, Geochemistry, LIP, Modeling, Paleontology, Pis, Quantify, Rock, Siberian, Volatile.

Imaging the Upper Crust at Newberry Volcano Using Large-Offset Reflections
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Emilie E Hooft Toomey($102,478), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Lava Plains Experiment, Continental Magma, Crustal Magma, Image Shallow, Magma Chamber, Newberry Volcano, Active, Extend, Recently, Seismic, Sills.

International Workshop on Electromagnetic (EM) Induction in the Earth, October 23-29, 2008 in Beijing, China
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

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

Test of 3C recording with 1C instruments in association with High Lava Plains field program, for crustal shear-wave velocity, anisotropy, and lithology.
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Simon Klemperer($49,976), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Lava Plains Experiment, Active-source, Anisotropy, CD, Crust, Existing, Experiments, Observations, Oregon, Pis, Recorders, Recording, Resolution, Velocity, Wave.

Arc-continent Collisions and the Evolution of Continental Crust - A Mini-Workshop
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2008; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Timothy B Byrne($5,000), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Synthetic View, Crustal-scale, Evolution, International, Orogenic, Processes, Taiwan, Workshop.

International Continental Scientific Drilling Program, ICDP
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2008; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Rolf Emmermann($3,650,000), HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM POTSDAM - DEUTSCHES GEOFORSCHUNGSZENTRUM GFZ, Potsdam
Key terms: Management And Operation, Additional Five, Agreed, Agrees, Annual, Arrangements, August, Cooperation, Countries, Drilling, Federal, Funding, GFZ, Has, ICDP, IODP, International, Join, Joint, MOU, Membership, Memorandum, NSF, Overall, Paid, Planning, Program, Renewed, Review, Signed, Was.

Collaborative Research: How Is Rifting Exhuming the Youngest High-pressure and Ultrahigh-pressure (HP/UHP) Rocks on Earth?
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Geoffrey A Abers($1,063,824), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Tectonic Evolution, Uhp Exhumation, Uhp Rocks, Depth, Involves, Objective.

Out of Africa: Geophysical Monitoring and Capacity Building around the World, Boston Massachusetts Workshop, February 18-19, 2008
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: Catalyzing New Intl Collab

1. David W Simpson($56,326), Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Washington
Key terms: Capacity Building, Collaborations, Countries, Developing, Development, Has, International, Monitoring, Network, Networks, Regional, Seismic, Seismological, Workshop.

INTEROP - Geoscience Information Network
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: DATA INTEROPERABILITY NETWORKS

1. Stephen M Richard($624,974), Arizona Geological Survey, Tucson
Key terms: Geoscience Information Network, National Geoscience Information, Geological Surveys, Databases, Development, GIN, Interoperable, Protocols, Standards, Workshop.

Unlocking the Inner Life of Cascadia Tremor with an Array of Arrays
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Kenneth C Creager($652,556), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Subduction Zones, Array, Arrays, Cascadia, Deformation, ETS, Earthquake, Faults, Has, Locked, Months, Seismic, Set, Slip, Tremor.

Flexarray 3D Passive Seismic Imaging of Core-complex Extension in the Ruby Range, Nevada
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Simon Klemperer($136,197), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Core Complexes, Crustal Flow, Earthscope's Flexarray, Extending Regions, Lower Crust, Metamorphic Core, Adjacent, Allow, Allowing, Array, Basins, Continent, Deformation, Depth, Detailed, Earthquake, Earthscopes, Evolution, Extension, Extensional, Features, Geologic, Geophysical, Imaging, Involved, Nevada, Processes, Reconstruction, Resolution, Rock, Ruby, Surface, Two-dimensional, Underpinnings, Upper, Valley, Volume.

New Insights into the Fine-scale Behavior of Subducted Slab Around the Transition Zone and in the Deep Mantle
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Jun Korenaga($266,795), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Chemical Evolution, Global Framework, Mantle Convection, Mantle Dynamics, Migration Imaging, Migration Methods, Oceanic Crust, Seismic Array, Subducted Slab, Central, Continent, Distribution, Has, Namely, North, Progress, Signature, Style, Tomographic, Usarray.

SEIDCAR: Seismic Investigation of Edge-Driven Convection Associated with the Rio Grande Rift
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Stephen P. Grand($481,030), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Edge Driven Convection, Southern Rockies, Tectonic Activity, Density, Downwelling, Eastern, Effects, Farallon, Foundering, Has, Ma, Mantle, Occurring, Plains, Region, Rift, Rio, Ristra, SIEDCAR, Surface.

Collaborative Research: Modeling of the Byerly's False S Phase for the Earthquakes off the Coast of Northern California
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. David Dolenc($54,621), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
2. Douglas S Dreger($19,230), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Geometry And Velocity, Subducting Gorda Plate, Northern California, Seismic Network, Velocity Structure, Constraints, Crust, False, MTJ, Modeling, Observation, Observations, Offshore, Region, Source, Stations, Structures.

Wave Gradiometry for EarthScope Seismic and Strain Data
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Charles A Langston($129,381), University of Memphis, Memphis
Key terms: Plate Boundary Observatory, Borehole Strain, Observed Strains, Pbo Strain, Seismic Waves, Wave Gradiometry, Earthscope, Reference.

Collaborative Research: Thermal Evolution of North American Lower Crust: U-Pb Thermochronological Constraints on the Seismic Properties of the Lithosphere
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Kevin H Mahan($108,638), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Samuel A Bowring($202,453), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Archean Core, Closure Temperature, Continental Lithosphere, Lower Crust, Lower Crustal, Thermal Evolution, Thermal History, Thermal Structure, Time-temperature History, Accretionary, Age, Apatite, Assembly, Constrained, Deep, Degrees, Depth, Formation, Gt, Lithospheric, Lt, Mantle, Minerals, North, Properties, Rates, Recording, Rock, Rutile, Seismic, Stabilization, Tectonic, Temperatures, Time-temperature, Xenoliths.

Collaborative Research: Using Mineral Physics to Interpret Seismic Anisotropy of the Basin and Range Crust
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. George Zandt($162,838), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Bradley R Hacker($279,279), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Basin And Range, Km-scale Elasticities, Lower Crust, Anisotropy, Field, Five, Interpret, Km-scale, Purpose, Rock, Sites.

Strain Rates and Tectonic Processes in the Track of the Yellowstone Hotspot
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. None($59,858), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Basin And Range, Snake River Plain, Northern Basin, Strain Rates, Yellowstone Hotspot, Assess, Crust, Deformation, Extensional, Has, Processes, Regions, Track, Volcanism.

Collaborative Research: Making the San Andreas Fault at the Mendocino Triple Junction: Part II
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Richard Allen($165,600), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. Alan R Levander($165,498), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
3. Eugene D Humphreys($199,223), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Mendocino Triple Junction, San Andreas Fault, Mtj Region, Subduction Zone, Array, Asthenospheric, Broadband, Control, Crust, Degrees, Deployed, Gorda, Lithosphere, Mantle, Mass, Near, North, Plate, Processes, Seismic, Site, Slab, Structure, Transform, Upper.

Collaborative Research: Teachers on the Leading Edge: Linking K-12 Earth Science Teachers to EarthScope
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Frank D Granshaw($13,610), Portland Community College, Portland
2. Beth Pratt-Sitaula($162,651), Central Washington University, Ellensburg
3. Robert F Butler($144,437), University of Portland, Portland
4. Jill M Whitman($127,006), Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma
Key terms: Active Continental Margin, K-12 Teachers, Leading Edge, Pacific Northwest, Earthscope, Educators, Geology, Program, Students, TOTLE, Usarray.

Scientific Drilling into the San Andreas Fault: Rare Gas 'Ages' of Matrix Fluids in Drill Core and Fluid Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Gisela Winckler($193,116), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Safod Phase Iii, Fault Zone, Gases Released, Matrix Fluid, Matrix Fluids, Noble Gas, Noble Gases, Pore Fluid, Solid Phase, Age, Collected, Container, Core, Determined, Direction, Drillcore, Flow, Function, Intofrom, Produced, Recovered, Removed, Time, Transport, Was.

Towards Better InSAR Event Detection: Modeling Atmospheric Artifacts
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2008; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Michael P Poland($247,315), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Atmospheric Water Vapor, Deformation Mapping Technique, Psinsar Deformation Mapping, Atmospheric Phase, Phase Delay, Processing Techniques, Analyses, Analysis, Atmosphere, Estimates, Geodetic, Images, Independent, Insar, Interferograms, Noise, Produced, Range, Ratio, Reducing, Resolution, SAR, Scenes, Signal, Signals, Sources, Time, Wavelength, Weather.

Collaborative Research: Earthscope Integrated Investigation of Cascadia Subduction Zone Tremor, Structure and Process
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Geoffrey A Abers($196,181), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Tremor And Slip, Broadband Imaging, Cascadia Subduction, Down-going Plate, Episodic Tremor, Mantle Wedge, Seismic Imaging, Source Regions, Allow, Analysis, Arc, Array, Arrays, Constraints, Crust, Designed, Down-going, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Experiment, Fluids, GPS, Integrated, Investigation, Phases, Primary, Slab, Structure, Transient, Transport, Waves.

Collaborative Research: Laboratory Study of the Mechanics and Physical Properties of the Active San Andreas Fault Zone From Phase III SAFOD Cores
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Demian M Saffer($284,270), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Harold J Tobin($96,888), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Active San Andreas, San Andreas Fault, Fluid Flow, Friction Experiments, Rock Properties, Safod Experiment, Situ Conditions, Sliding Stability, Elastic, Experimental, Faulting, Faults, Frictional, Geophysical, Intact, Laboratory, Long-term, Penn, Permeability, Phase, Range, Strength, Stress, Triaxial, Uniaxial, Wisconsin-madison, Zone.

Collaborative Research: Mantle Dynamics and Magmatism Across the Basin and Range
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Cin-Ty A Lee($98,664), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
2. Donald W Forsyth($293,167), Brown University, Providence
3. Terry A Plank($290,701), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Magmas And Xenoliths, Mantle Temperature, Water Content, Attenuation, Integrated, Inversion, Melt, Melting, Petrologic, Region, Seismic, Velocities, Velocity, Waves, Western.

EAR-PF: The Source and Composition of Refractory Dissolved Organic Matter Accumulating in Aquatic Environments
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Stuart J Goldberg($160,000), Goldberg Stuart J, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Graduate Students, Organic Matter, School Students, Age, Aquatic, Carbon, Composition, Contribute, Education, Isotopes, Origin, Plants, Terrestrial.

EAR-PF: Evaluating Strain Localization, Melt Localization, and Mantle Rheology in the Twin Sisters Ultramafic Body, Washington: A Multi-Scale Approach
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Seth C Kruckenberg($160,000), Kruckenberg Seth C, Minneapolis
Key terms: Wisconsin Madison, Compositional, Inform, Mantle, Melt, Rich, Undergraduate.

EAR-PF: Biogeochemistry of Nitrogen Associated with Discharge of Coal Bed Methane Production Water: Transport and Fate in Western Watersheds
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Rebecca T Barnes($160,000), Barnes Rebecca T, Boulder
Key terms: Coal Bed Methane, Cbm Extraction, Stream Waters, Based, Boulder, Effects, Field, Nitrogen, Watershed.

EAR-PF: Nanochronology and Moho Topography: Towards Precise and Accurate Constraints on the Evolution of North American Continental Lithosphere
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Gregory Dumond($160,000), Dumond, Gregory, Amherst
Key terms: Mineral Grains, Age, Evolution, Graduate, Isotopes, Lead, Sections.

EAR-PF: The Role of Diking in the Evolution of Continental Rift Systems
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Patricia M Gregg($160,000), Gregg Patricia M, Woods Hole
Key terms: Contribute, Investigation, Rift.

EAR-PF: The Geomorphic Response to Active Deformation in the Siwaliks of Northwest India: Implications for Seismic Hazard
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Jason B Barnes($160,000), Barnes Jason B, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Examine, Geologic, Hazards, India, Landscape, Maps, Measure, Topography.

SGER: Earth Science Literacy Initiative - Broad Community Review of Draft Documents, Consensus Building and Community Development
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Peter D Tuddenham($85,592), The College of Exploration, Sterling
Key terms: Comments, Conversation, Document, Facilitate, Online, Process, Review, TCOE.

Collaborative Research: Tectonic and Magmatic Implications of a Mid-Crustal, Sheeted Complex in a Tilted Arc Section, California
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Scott R Paterson($173,989), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2. Andrew P Barth($106,231), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Crustal Plutons, Sheeted Plutonic, Boundaries, Complex, Continent, Education, Field, Formed, Forming, Interpretive, Intrusive, JTNP, Magma, Mid-crustal, Outreach, Park, Parks, Plumbing, Public, Section, Staff, Structural, Upper, Vertical, Volcanic.

EAR-PF: Modeling the Effects of Variable Recharge and Conduit Geometry on Flow Through Karstic Aquifers
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Matthew D Covington($80,000), Covington Matthew D, Woodside
Key terms: Recharge And Discharge, Computer Models, Aquifers, Conduit, Geometry, Karstic, Level, Missouri, Program, Water.

EAR-PF: Insect Damage on Leaves Through the Cenozoic in East Africa: The Impact of Geologic and Climatic Change at Multiple Temporal and Spatial Scales
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Ellen D Currano($80,000), Currano Ellen D, Washington
Key terms: Education, Ethiopia, Fossil, Insects, Leaves.

Acquisition of field geophysical equipment for teaching and research at Cornell University
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Larry D Brown($98,672), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Cornell, Equipment, Field, Geophysical, Student.

EAR-PF: Calibrating the Paleosol CO2 Barometer by Monitoring Modern Calcic Soils
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Daniel O Breecker($80,000), Breecker Dan O, Albuquerque
Key terms: Carbon Cycle, Co2 Concentrations, Arizona, Soils, Students.

Collaborative Research: The Earth Science Literacy Initiative Workshops
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Peter D Tuddenham($29,621), The College of Exploration, Sterling
2. John Taber($50,093), Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Washington
3. Michael E Wysession($128,181), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: In-person Writing Workshop, In-person Writing, Online Workshop, Organizing Committee, Current, Document, Effort, Field, Final, Focus, Held, Outcome.

Undergraduate Research Experiences in High Pressure Geophysics
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Donald J Weidner($66,075), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: MPI, Program, Students.

CAREER: Seismic Imaging of the Earth's Mid-Mantle, the Deep Inner Core and Stress Transients
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Fenglin Niu($548,728), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Awareness And Readiness, Earthquakes And Tsunamis, Formation And Evolution, Raise Public Awareness, San Andreas Fault, Deep Earthquakes, Earth's Interior, Imaging Techniques, Inner Core, Middle Mantle, Promote Seismology, Reference Phase, Seismogenic Depths, Active, Activities, Array, Experiments, Focus, Found, Has, Heterogeneities, Images, Innermost, Less, Local, Observations, PKIIKP, Plan, Processes, Reflectors, Relatively, SAFOD, Seismic, Seismograph, Source, Stress, Structure, Students, Thermal, Tomography, Undergraduates, Velocity, Zones.

CAREER: Enhancing Thermodynamic Applications and Learning in Petrology (EnThALPy)
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Alan G Whittington($438,960), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Basaltic Liquids, Magma Chamber, Active, Arc, Behavior, Dynamics, Effects, Experience, Gain, HO, Heat, Igneous, Processes, Students, Teaching, Undergraduate, Viscosity, Volatiles, Volcanoes.

REU Site: Summer of Applied Geophysical Experience (SAGE)
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Warren S Baldridge($525,000), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Applied Geophysics, Follow-up Workshop, Reu Students, Additional, Collection, Experiences, Field, Follow-up, Included, Meeting, Oral, Program, SAGE, Summer.

REU Site: River and Coastal Restoration
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Kimberly M Hill($265,050), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Coastal Louisiana, Coastal Restoration, Marmot Dam, Sandy River, Center, Critical, Delta, Ecological, Field, Focused, Geomorphic, Issues, June, Minnesota, NCED, Opportunity, Participates, Posters, Processes, Removal, SAFL, Students.

A Workshop to Focus on Regional Strategies for Improving the Public Understanding of Science, Tampa Bay Florida, spring 2008
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Roy L Caldwell($16,525), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Thematic Hub, Activities, COPUS, Developing, Focus, Network, Public, Regional, Strategies, Workshop.

REU Site: Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Biodiversity Conservation
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Gregory P Dietl($369,905), University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington
Key terms: Biodiversity Conservation, Anthropogenic, Approaches, Archeological, Continue, Current, Degree, Diverse, Ecosystem, Extinction, Fossil, Health, Issues, Marine, Modern, Multidisciplinary, Natural, Prior, Site, Societal, Structure, Students.

CAREER: Effects of Hydration on the Physical Properties of Mantle Materials from Atomic to Geophysical Scales
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Steven D Jacobsen($509,328), Northwestern University, Evanston
Key terms: Deep Water, Experimental Studies, Silicate Minerals, Water Cycle, Atomic, Broader, Depth, EXCITE, Effects, Enigmatic, Evanston, Focus, Geophysical, HO, Hydration, Hydrogen, Lead, Mantle, Minority, Program, Properties, Relatively, Reservoir, School, Seismic, Structures, Students, Techniques.

Board on Earth Sciences and Resources and Its Activities
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Anthony R de Souza($585,000), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Ad Hoc, Federal Government, Activities, Advice, BESR, Board, Committee, Committees, Geographical, Issues, Meetings, National, Resources, Specific.

Geoscience Graduate Research Grants
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Diane C Lorenz($621,060), The Geological Society of America, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: Mexico And Central, Graduate Students, Grants Program, Amount, Awarded, Basis, Canada, GSA, Level, Masters.

CAREER: When Subduction Fails - Dynamical Models of Oceanic Plateau Collision and Crustal-Fragment Accretion
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Magali I Billen($488,314), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Cross Section, Surface Plate, Visualization Software, Actual, Allows, Create, Directly, Does, Exercise, Fail, Field, Mapped, Model, Models, Numerical, Oceanic, Processes, Slab, Structure, Structures, Students, Subduction, Subsurface, Sufficiently, Synthetic.

Collaborative Research: Investigating the soil-earthworm-litter system controls on the stabilization of soil organic matter in Eastern deciduous forests
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Clifford T Johnston($408,467), Purdue University, West Lafayette
2. Melissa McCormick($104,849), Smithsonian Institution, Washington
3. Katalin Szlavecz($150,952), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Soil Organic Matter, Carbon Cycling, Earthworm Activity, Ew Activity, Feeding Habit, Litter Chemistry, Organic Carbon, Organic Horizons, Soil Carbon, Som Stabilization, Additionally, Biochemical, Biopolymer, Casts, Chemical, Composition, Decay, Detailed, Differences, Dynamics, Earthworms, Ecological, Ecologist, Factors, Forest, Forests, Gradient, Importance, Interact, Interdisciplinary, Isotopic, Mechanisms, Mechanistic, Microbial, Mineral, Modeling, Molecular, North, Northern, OM, Physically, Plant, Potential, Processes, Protected, Source, Stability, Stable, Structure, Students, Terrestrial.

Collaborative Research:Refinement of Techniques for Estimating Evapotranspiration from Narrow Riparian Zones - Water Balance and Atmospheric Measurements
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. William Eichinger($614,165), University of Iowa, Iowa City
2. Harihar RAJARAM($313,398), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
3. Donald O Whittemore($219,277), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Water Vapor, COPON, Dimensional, Landscape, Lidar, Method, Riparian, Theory.

ETBC: Hidden Iron Oxide Redox Processes During Biogeochemical Iron Cycling: Controls on Nanoscale Transformations and the Fate of Contaminants
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Jeffrey G Catalano($340,505), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Biogeochemical Iron Cycling, Aqueous Fe, Contaminant Fate, Surface Redox, Abiotic, Affect, Coexist, Complex, Contaminants, Crystalline, Dissolution, Expected, Feii, Feiii, Future, Geochemical, Graduate, Growth, Hematite, Methods, Oxidation, Oxides, Presence, Process, Processes, Reactions, Secondary, Solution, Speciation, Species, Surfaces, Training, Transferring, Undergraduate.

ETBC: Collaborative Research: "The Effect of Climate on the Terrestial Sulfur Cycle"
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Ronald Amundson($901,943), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. Mark H Thiemens($275,000), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Czen Network, Rainfall Gradient, Climate, Collaborators, Cycle, Cycling, Ecosystems, Expertise, Geochemistry, Has, Illustrate, Involved, Life, Nature, Planet, Plants, Quantify, Sites, Sulfur, Terrestrial, Uniqueness, Via.

Collaborative Research: A Precipitation Dipole in Eastern North America: Issues of Space-Time Variability and Physical Mechanisms
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Mathew Barlow($174,584), University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell
2. Shafiqul Islam($269,854), Tufts University, Somerville
Key terms: Eastern Canada, Hydrologic Budget, Large-scale Climate, Moisture Transport, Precipitation Dipole, Underlying Dynamics, Analysis, Atmospheric, Barotropic, Builds, Circulation, Conditions, Considerable, Contrary, Decadal, ENA, Flow, Forcing, Hydrology, Increased, Investigate, Large-scale, Local, Long-term, Mechanisms, Model, Models, Observational, Range, Regional, Storm, Structure, Students, Timescales, Trend, Trends, Tropical, Usual, Via, Water.

Predicting In-Canopy Velocity and Retention Time for Aquatic Canopies
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2008; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Heidi M Nepf($383,430), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Rigid Canopy Models, Submerged And Emergent, Emergent Canopies, Flexible Canopies, Flexible Canopy, Mathematical Models, Outdoor Streamlab, Rigid Models, Aquatic, Coastal, Diversity, EAR, Field, Finite-canopy, Flow, Habitat, Lab, Morphologies, Plants, Simultaneously, Step, Testing, Vegetation, Was, Waves, Width, Zones.

Collaborative Research: Evolution of dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) from the headwaters to the catchment outlet: sources, variation with scale, and differences with DOC
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Shreeram P Inamdar($331,920), University of Delaware, Newark
2. Myron J Mitchell($70,256), SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse
3. Durelle T Scott($138,458), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln
Key terms: Fair Hill Nature, Hill Nature Center, Undergraduate And Graduate, Various Catchment Sources, Dissolved Organic, Don Export, Forest Service, Instrumented Watershed, Actively, Archive, BDON, Baseflow, Bioavailable, Catchments, Characterize, Conditions, DOC, DOM, Delaware, Differences, Dynamics, Educational, Environmental, Influence, Interdisciplinary, Investigate, Relative, Resources, Responsible, Seasonal, Site, Soil, Staff, Storm, Student, Students, Teachers, Terrestrial, Watersheds.

MRI: Acquisition of an SEM-EDS-EBSD-CL Microanalytical System for Solid Earth and Climate Change Research
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Christopher C Gerbi($457,584), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Scanning Electron Microscope, Capability, Facility, Faculty, Instrument, Maine.

Empirical and Theoretical Integration of Geochemical and Morphologic Evolution of Soil-Covered Hillslopes: Responses to Channel Incision
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Kyungsoo Yoo($333,257), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Basal Channel Incision, Soil Chemical Weathering, Stream Channels, Age, Field, Hillslope, Hillslopes, Laboratory, Mineral, Processes, Properties, Rate, Rates, River, Soils, Spatial, Topography.

Collaborative Research: Determining Triggers for Subduction Accretion and Tectonic Erosion in a Mesozoic Accretionary Complex, Alaska
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Jeffrey M Amato($188,033), New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
2. Terry L Pavlis($78,331), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
Key terms: Accretionary Prism, Accretionary Prisms, Accreted, Alaska, Erosion, Geology, Has, History, Interior, Pis, Plate, Processes, Sediment, Subducting, Subduction, Tectonic.

Collaborative Research: REU SITE: Coal Mining Impacts on Soil Carbon Storage and Impacts in Appalachian Headwater Streams: a Research Experience for Undergraduates
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Harold Rowe($246,294), University of Kentucky Research Foundation, Lexington
Key terms: Carbon And Nitrogen, Soils And Sediments, Carbon Cycling, Coal Mining, Eastern Kentucky, Kentucky Appalachian, Advancement, Environmental, Erosion, Field, Isotope, Mined, Participants, Storage, Undergraduate, Watersheds.

Collaborative Research: REU Site: Coal Mining Impacts on Soil Carbon Storage and Erosion in Appalachian Headwater Streams: A Research Experience for Undergraduates
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Alice L Jones($303,400), Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond
Key terms: Carbon And Nitrogen, Soils And Sediments, Carbon Cycling, Coal Mining, Eastern Kentucky, Kentucky Appalachian, Advancement, Environmental, Erosion, Field, Isotope, Mined, Participants, Storage, Undergraduate, Watersheds.

Experimental constraints on contributions of mycorrhizal symbioses to bedrock weathering of calcium and magnesium
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Erik A Hobbie($154,901), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Calcium And Magnesium, Biological Tissues, Elemental Cycles, Fungi Dominant, Weathering Process, Abiotic, Arbuscular, Assess, Bedrock, Biogeochemistry, Continent, Contributions, Cycling, Ecosystems, Ectomycorrhizal, Experiments, Fractionation, Fungal, Geochemical, Influence, Isotope, Isotopic, Maple, Organisms, Pine, Relative, Reservoirs, School, Seedlings, Symbioses, Temperate, Terrestrial, UNH.

First-Principles Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Silicate Liquids: Structure, Diffusion and Viscosity at Mantle Conditions
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Bijaya B Karki($283,726), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Planetary Evolution, Silicate Liquids, Silicate Melts, Approach, Bonding, Composition, Compositions, Compression, Computational, Density, Diffusion, Earth, Expected, Experimental, First-principles, Gain, History, Insight, Investigate, Magma, Mechanisms, Pressure, Processes, Properties, Range, Structure, Temperature, Transport, Viscosity, Visualization.

Elasticity of Pyrope-Almandine-Grossular Garnet Solid Solution Series at High Pressure and Temperature using Ultrasonic Interferometry in Conjunction with Synchrotron Radiation.
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Gabriel D Gwanmesia($379,066), Delaware State University, Dover
Key terms: Pressure And Temperature, Temperature Conditions, Transition Zone, Upper Mantle, Direct, Discontinuities, Earth, Elastic, Information, Interior, Laboratory, Minerals, National, Seismology, Structure, Velocity.

Collaborative Research: Testing Mechanical Models of Himalayan Orogenesis in NW India
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Delores M Robinson($254,261), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
2. Matthew J Kohn($274,969), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Channel Flow Model, Critical Taper Model, Lower Crust, Accurate, Analysis, Argues, Concert, Define, Development, Erosion, Evolution, Front, Himachal-uttaranchal, Himalayan, India, Kinematic, Models, Mountain, Nepal, Orogen, Pressure-temperature-time, Rock, Stratigraphic, Structural, Tectonic, Thrust, Via, Weak.

Organic Acid Promoted Dissolution of Phosphate as Affected by its Solid State Speciation in Single and Mixed Fe, Al, Ca Mineral Systems: Implications for Phosphorus Bioavailability
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Nadia Adam($222,423), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Acid Mediated Phosphate, Binary And Tertiary, Individual Mineral Phases, Mediated Phosphate Dissolution, Organic Acid Mediated, Binary Mixtures, Containing Minerals, Phosphate Bonding, Single Mineral, Surface Precipitation, Tertiary Mixtures, Wet Chemical, Xanes Based, Adsorption, Bioavailability, Ca, Cells, Concentration, Current, Furthermore, Geochemical, Has, Khare, Limited, Main, Mode, Molecular, Natural, Plants, Predict, Release, Soils, Solid, Speciation, Ternary, Uptake, Water.

Collaborative Research: Constraining the Timing and Nature of Proterozoic Metamorphism in the Northwest U.S. Cordillera
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. William McClelland($45,589), University of Iowa, Iowa City
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, Rodinia.

Collaborative Research: Near-Field Volcano Infrasound: Three-dimensional Seismo-Acoustic Wave Propagation
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Jeffrey B Johnson($177,399), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
2. Jonathan M Lees($309,820), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Wave Propagation, Acoustic, Detailed, Effects, Explosions, Field, Model, Realistic, Source, Theoretical, Three-dimensional, Volcano.

Stable Isotopes of Dissolved Oxygen as Tracers of Chemical and Biological Processes In Groundwater.
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Christopher H Gammons($177,297), Montana Technological University, Butte
2. Richard Hauer($34,344), University of Montana, Missoula
3. Simon R Poulson($106,700), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Chemical And Biological, Dissolved Oxygen, Fractionation Factors, Isotopic Composition, Nyack Aquifer, Stable Isotopes, Abiotic, Biotic, Butte, Characterized, Component, Concentration, Consume, Consumption, Current, Depletion, Equilibrium, Field, Groundwater, Has, Influenced, Inorganic, Kinetic, MT, Mechanisms, Microbial, Microbiology, Natural, Oxidation, Processes, Progress, Published, Reactions, Set, Subsurface, Sulfide, Various, Äc-dic, Äo-do.

REU Site: Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates in Sustainable Water Resources
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Robert L Mahler($336,000), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
Key terms: Reu Site, Water Resources, Achieve, Experiences, Field, Graduate, Idaho, NSF, Programs, Students, Watersheds.

An investigation of Peramorphosis in isorophinid edrioasteroid echinoderms
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Michael L McKinney($137,697), University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville
Key terms: East Tennessee, Isorophid Edrioasteroids, Undergraduate Students, Via Heterochrony, Adult, Characteristics, Dominant, Evolution, Investigate, Isorophids, Phylogenetic.

Pilot Proposal: Connecting methane oxidation rates to mineral sources of copper
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. David W Graham($40,000), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Methane Oxidation Rates, Mineral Dissolution Rates, Copper-binding Molecule, Greenhouse Gas, Methanotrophic Activity, Mineral Phases, Concentrations, Controls, Copper-binding, Experiments, Has, Influences, Investigate, Laboratory, Link, Methanobactin, Pilot, Pis, Specific.

Behavior of Marine Sulfate in the Early Paleozoic: Extending the Trace Sulfate Proxy
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Linda C Kah($190,281), University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Analysis, Argentine, C-S, CAS, Carbon, Continue, Cycles, Detailed, Driven, Field, Geochemical, Geochronological, Has, History, Integrated, Involving, Isotopic, Linkages, Local, Marine, Modeling, Opportunity, Oxygenation, Phd, Poor, Precambrian, Rate, Represent, Reservoirs, S-isotope, SS, Size, Student, Students, Successions, Sulfate, Sulfur, Time, Training.

Collaborative Research: Extensional Unroofing of the Central Menderes Metamorphic Complex, Southwestern Turkey
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Matthew J Kohn($23,340), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Aegean Region, Ion Microprobe, Menderes Massif, Multi-diffusion Domain, Anatolian, Argon-argon, Caused, Continent, East, Experienced, Extension, Fieldwork, Geochemical, Geochronology, Geological, K-feldspar, Lithosphere, Multi-diffusion, Plate, Rock, Single, Tectonic.

SGER: Iowa Flood Mapping by Airborne Laser Swath Mapping
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: EnvS-Environmtl Sustainability

1. Ramesh Shrestha($98,952), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Drainage Channel, High-resolution Mapping, Iowa River, Midwestern Flood, Flooded, Flooding, Gulf, High-resolution, Managers, Maps, Mexico, Models, Morphology, Products, Refine, Watershed.

A Community-based Consortium for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2003; Program: EnvS-Environmtl Sustainability

1. David Kirschtel($6,277,025), Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sci, Arlington
Key terms: Hydrologic Synthesis Facility, Single River Basin, CUAHSI, Chosen, Facilities, Has, Hydrology, Initiate, Management, Observatories, Prototype, Set.

Geoinformatics: Collaborative Research: Proposal to enhance the experimental petrology database LEPR and to develop interoperability between LEPR and EarthChem
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Mark S Ghiorso($159,836), OFM Research, Seattle
2. James D Walker($62,970), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Database, Earthchem, Enable, Igneous, Interoperability, LEPR, Lepr-earthchem, Process, Rock, Sources.

Geoinformatics: GEON 2.0: A Data Integration Facility for the Earth Sciences
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Dogan Seber($1,260,923), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Information Technology, Remote Sensing, Upper Mantle, Access, Collaboration, Collaborations, Continent, Cyberinfrastructure, Developed, Developing, Development, Efforts, Facility, Framework, Functionality, GEON, Integration, Knowledge, Modeling, Models, Multidimensional, Multidisciplinary, Natural, OEF, Pis, Resources, Services, Serving, Set, Sets, Substantial, Time, Via, Workshops.

Collaborative Research: Geoinformatics: Cyberinfrastructure developments for the Magnetics Information Consortium (MagIC)
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Anthony Koppers($251,276), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Rock And Paleomagnetic, Magic Database, Archive, Continued, Databases, Development, Existing.

Collaborative Research: Cyberinfrastructure developments for the Magnetics Information Consortium (MagIC)
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Catherine Constable($850,823), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Rock And Paleomagnetic, Magic Database, Archive, Continued, Databases, Development, Existing.

Geoinformatics: A Petascale Cyberfacility for Physics-Based Seismic Hazard Analysis (PetaSHA-2)
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Thomas H Jordan($1,765,067), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: 3d Waveform Tomography, 3d Waveform, Structural Models, Increase, Petaflops, Petasha-, Petashake, Physics, Plan, Platform, Simulations.

Collaborative Research: Geological and Geophysical Data Analysis Using a Virtual Globe
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2008; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Steven J Whitmeyer($40,432), James Madison University, Harrisonburg
2. Declan G De Paor($50,665), Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester
Key terms: Virtual Globe, Create, Development, Mapping, Pis, Software, Undergraduate, Visualization.

Geoinformatics: Toward Developing a National Geoinformatics System (NGS) Workshop Series
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. James D Walker($90,405), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Databases, Development, Geoinformatics.

Collaborative Research: COMPRES Grand Challenges for Experimental Study of Plastic Deformation
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: GEOSCIENCE EDUCATION

1. Pamela C Burnley($5,257), University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas
Key terms: Lattice Preferred Orientation, Mineral And Rock, Deformation-induced Microstructures, Rheological Properties, Rock Physics, Apparatus, Conditions, D-DIA, Deformation-induced, Facilities, High-pressure, Inter-institutional, MA, Mantle, Program, Quantitative, RDA, Strain, Unique.

Collaborative research: Coupled glacial and lacustrine evidence for decadal- to millennial-scale variability in the climatologic Aleutian low, southern Alaska
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Yarrow Axford($25,671), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
2. Darrell S Kaufman($474,161), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: Aleutian Low, Glacier Size, North Pacific, Oxygen-isotope Ratios, Past Climate, Summer Temperature, Winter Precipitation, Alaska, Annually, Arctic, Assess, Broader, Chironomid, Climatic, Complementary, Depends, Diatoms, Generate, Gulf, Holocene, Indicators, Lake, Lakes, Laminated, Lamination, Low-frequency, Monitoring, Multi-proxy, Oxygen-isotope, Primary, Program, Prominent, Proxies, Reconstruct, Time, Varved, Warm, West, Wildlife.

RUI: High-resolution sediment records of late Holocene paleohydrology from the summer and winter rainfall regions of South Africa.
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Jay C Stager($334,246), Paul Smith's College of Arts and Sciences, Paul Smiths
Key terms: Lake Sediment Cores, African Rainfall, Late Holocene, Polar Latitudes, Rainfall Dynamics, Solar Influences, South Africa, Temporal Resolution, Undergraduate Students, Clarify, Climate, Continuous, Detailed, Equatorial, Evidence, Fluctuations, Global, Has, History, Limitations, Models, Nature, Paleohydrological, Past, Reconstructions, Region, Relation, Southern, Temperature, Time.

SGER: Use of Novel Biogeochemical Techniques on Core Sediments from the Tibetan Plateau
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Richard D Ricketts($22,948), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Sediment Cores, Analyses, Biogeochemical, High-resolution, Lake, Peiku, Preliminary, Sedimentary, Techniques, Tibetan.

SGER: Accessing climate- and lake-monitoring equipment, southern Alaska
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Darrell S Kaufman($13,986), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: Climate And Lake-monitoring, Southern Alaska, Allow, Annual, Climate-, Collection, Installed, Lakes, Paleoclimate, Remote, Sediments, Stations, Time, Time-series.

Quantifying the Cenozoic Oxygen Isotopic Variability of Precipitation on the Andes: A Test of Stable Isotope Paleoaltimetry and Plateau Uplift
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Christopher J Poulsen($402,183), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Ancient Soil Carbonates, Andean Plateau, Atmospheric Circulation, Climate Models, Estimates Based, Isotope Paleoaltimetry, Mountain Building, Oxygen Isotope, Oxygen Isotopic, Paleoelevation History, Plateau Uplift, Ago, Andes, Composition, Concentration, Delta-o, Effects, Elevation, Formation, Fractionation, Geodynamic, Inferences, Isotopes, Million, Modern, Past, Poorly, Precipitation, Predict, Processes, Quantifying, Rapid, Rate, Rates, Regional, Surface, Technique, Timing, Tool, Validated.

Student Travel Scholarships for the SES-IV Conference, December 11-13, 2008, San Francisco, California
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. John R Bargar($3,501), Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley
Key terms: Environmental Health, Post Doctoral, Conference, Energy, Facility, Graduate, Interact, SES-IV, Students, Synchrotron.

Biomaterials in Ancient Salt Formations: Examination of Primary Crystals for Biological Materials
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Russell H Vreeland($110,000), West Chester University of Pennsylvania, West Chester
Key terms: Ancient Biomaterials, Fluid Inclusions, Intellectual Merit, Long-term Survival, Primary Halite, Salt Formations, Age, Ages, Attempt, Bacterial, Brines, Crystals, Current, DNA, Duplicate, Examine, Geological, Has, Isolated, Live, Long-term, MYA, Microbial, Microorganisms, NSF, Original, Planet, Salts, Tasch, Time, Training, Trapped, Various, Viruses.

Evaluating the Influence of Salinity on Lipid D/H Fractionation in Saline Lakes
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Julian P Sachs($244,400), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Hydrogen Isotope Fractionation, Lipid Dh Fractionation, Chesapeake Bay, Christmas Island, Lipids Decreases, Strong Inverse, Algae, Algal, Andd, Biomarkers, Dinosterol, Environmental, Geologic, Highly, Lake, Microbial, Ppt, Range, Saline, Salinities, Salinity, School, Schouten, Students, Surface, Undergraduates, Values, Water.

Nano-scale biogeochemistry of organic carbon across a long-term mineralogical gradient
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Johannes Lehmann($299,454), Cornell Univ - State: AWDS MADE PRIOR MAY 2010, Ithaca
Key terms: Micro And Nano-scale, Analytical Approaches, Long-term Stabilization, Organomineral Assemblages, Applications, Biogeochemical, Build, Climate, Earth, Effort, Environmental, Features, Functionalities, Global, Information, Innovative, Interactions, International, Local, Long-term, Mechanisms, Micro-, Microscopic, Minerals, Molecular-level, Organic, Particular, Plan, Process-oriented, Soil, Soils, Spatial, Spectromicroscopic, Surficial, Synchrotron-based, Techniques, Underlying.

Beyond the Monod Equation: Developing a New Theory of Geomicrobial Kinetics
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Qusheng Jin($300,000), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Geobiology And Biogeochemistry, Diverse Microorganisms, Geological Environments, Geomicrobial Kinetics, Microbial Diversity, Microbial Metabolisms, Monod Equation, Rate Law, Rate Laws, Thermodynamic Control, Activities, Approach, Carbon, Comparing, Developing, Energy, Field, Inquiry-based, Integrates, K-, Methanogenesis, Model, Models, Natural, Oregon, Primary, Program, Rates, Sediments, Students, Theoretical, Theory, Undergraduate, Unit, Via.

Establishing the Kinetics of Aqueous Reactions at Fe(III) Molecules and Minerals
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. William H Casey($383,092), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Bond Lengths, Funding Period, Surface Structures, Aliii, Aqueous, Chemistry, Clusters, ESI-MS, Establish, Exchanges, Experimental, Experimentally, Extend, Feiii, Follow, Geochemistry, Geochemists, Impossible, LFER, Ligand, Ltfeiii-ohgt, Metals, Method, Methods, Nanometer-size, O-NMR, Oxygens, Population, Rates, Reactions, Simulation, Toxicants, Transformative, UCD.

How phosphate is incorporated into carbonate minerals and its dependence on crystal growth conditions
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Brian L Phillips($287,381), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Calcite And Aragonite, Crystal Growth Conditions, Carbonate Minerals, Cave Deposits, Deep-sea Corals, Dissolved Phosphate, Experimental Program, Graduate Students, Nmr Spectroscopy, Phosphate Concentration, Phosphate Incorporation, Solid-state Nmr, Undergraduate Students, Chemical, Content, Crystalline, Deep-sea, Distribution, Environment, Geochemistry, Incompatible, Incorporated, Natural, Nature, Paleoenvironmental, Precipitates, Processes, Recently, Remove, Solid-state, Speleothems, Surface, Trace, Varies.

Towards a chemical weathering rate chronometer: A U-series investigation of catena development in Kruger Park, South Africa
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Andrew C Kurtz($27,663), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Catena Sequence, Chemical Weathering, Soil Age, U-series Disequilibria, U-series Isotopes, Weathering Profiles, Applicable, Applications, Approach, Collected, Development, Environment, Future, Geochemical, Geomorphic, Ka, Measure, Pilot, Processes, Redistribution, River, Sensitive, Set, Soils, South, Surface, Th, Timescales, Trace, U-series, Well-characterized.

Defining a novel photochemical pathway for the oxidation of manganese by microbes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Colleen Hansel($110,000), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Light Enhanced Mn, Oxidative Mechanisms, Surface Environments, Undergraduate Student, Undergraduate Students, Azwk-b, Bacteria, Contaminants, Cycling, Degradation, Diverse, Environmental, Findings, Geochemical, Has, Introduce, Involved, Mine, Mnii, Model, Objectives, Oxidation, Pathway, Photo-active, Postdoctoral, Process, Products, Rates, Reaction, Redox, Roseobacter.

Using a Critical Zone Exploration Network to Quantify Controls on Earth's Regolith
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Timothy S White($239,557), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Arkosic Alluvium, Critical Zone, Regolith Depth, Request 20k, Basalt, CZEN, Chemistry, Climate, Funding, Gradients, Granite, Implementation, Lithology, Nature, Network, Shale, Share, Site, Sites, Surface.

Collaborative Research: Black Carbon Remineralization in the Environment: Physical and Chemical Controls
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Andrew R Zimmerman($190,707), University of Florida, Gainesville
2. William T Cooper($59,209), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Enhance Bc Degradation, Global Carbon Cycle, Considering Bc, Degradation Rates, Labile Organic, Om Adsorption, Organic Carbon, Brazil, Chemical, Combustion, Commonly, Cycling, Experiments, Has, Incubations, Laboratory, Measured, Microbial, Poorly, Range, Soil, Soils, Sorptometry, Structure, Surface, Value.

Time-Resolved Diffraction Studies of Soil-Forming Mineral Reactions
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Jeffrey Post($280,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Nucleation And Growth, Rate Laws, Ray Diffraction, Reaction Cells, Structural Transitions, Tr Xrd, Birnessite, Critical, Cu, Cus, Explore, Fractionation, Minerals, Mn, Molecular, Pis, Reactions, Soil, Surface, Timeandresolved, Xandray.

Expanded Calibrations and Standardization of the Phosphate Oxygen Isotope System
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Ruth E Blake($226,406), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Dissolved Inorganic Po4, Phosphate Oxygen Isotope, Silver Phosphate Standards, Yale Peabody Museum, Controlled Laboratory, Ionic Strength, Isotope Analysis, Isotope Fractionations, Lisa Stout, Applications, Archaea, Bacteria, Benefit, Calibrations, Comparisons, Cycling, Dop, Environments, Future, Growing, Isotopic, K-, Metabolism, Methods, Microorganisms, Natural, O-isotope, Postdoctoral, Published, Range, Sponsored, Synthesize, Temperature, Undergraduate, Various, Water, Wide.

The Ca isotope geochemistry of chemical weathering in the New Zealand Southern Alps
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Andrew D Jacobson($60,000), Northwestern University, Evanston
Key terms: Atmospheric Co2 Levels, Ca Isotope Composition, Ca Isotope Geochemistry, Marine Ca Isotope, Zealand Southern Alps, Delta 44ca, Mineral Weathering, Carbonate, Climate, Concerning, Continent, Controls, Erosion, Experiences, Has, Low, Processes, Rates, Rivers, Rock, Seawater, Tectonic, Uplift.

Collaborative Proposal: The Genetics Underlying Prokaryote-Antimony Interactions, with Emphasis on Antimony Oxidation.
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Corinne R Lehr($149,319), California Polytechnic State University Foundation, San Luis Obispo
2. Timothy R McDermott($199,999), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Sb Mobility, Sb Redox, Capable, Characterization, Cultures, Cycling, Environment, Environmental, Experiments, Focus, Followed, Functions, Generated, Genes, Identifying, Immediate, Information, Involve, Levels, Little, Microbial, Mutagenesis, Mutants, Occurrence, Oxidation, Particular, Pis, Putative, Reports, Respect, Sbiii, School, Speciation, Thorough, Tolerance, Transconjugants, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Carbon Monoxide Dynamics in Geothermal Mats and Earth's Early Atmosphere
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Albert S Colman($189,650), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Consumption Rates, Fluorescent Reporters, Hot Spring, Hot Springs, Spring Sediments, Uzon Caldera, Anaerobic, Atmosphere, Carbon, Carboxydotrophic, Chicago, Collaboration, Concentrations, Dissolved, Field, Fluxes, Gradients, Kamchatka, Laboratory, Metabolism, Microbes, Microbial, Oxidation, Partial, Public, Relation, Russian, Situ, Source, Supported, Zone.

Accessing mineral surfaces: A role for chemotaxis?
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Alan T Stone($80,521), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Educational Plans, Johns Hopkins, Mineral Surfaces, Molecular Biology, Chemotactic, Chemotaxis, Class, Engineering, Engineers, Essential, Facilities, Feiii, Future, Has, Microbes, Minerals, Pis, School, Shewanella, Society, Students.

SGER: Extending Aspects of the CRONUS-Earth Project at the University of Delaware
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. John M Clem($70,000), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Monitor Count Rates, Neutron Monitor Count, Cosmogenic Nuclide, Scaling Models, Situ Cosmogenic, Accurate, Altitude, Atmosphere, Component, Continue, Cosmic, Counts, Critical, Cronus-earth, EM, Effects, Function, Observed, Photonuclear, Primary, Rays, Source.

Validation of the MBT paleotemperature proxy in lakes
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Josef P Werne($199,360), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Annual Air Temperature, Mbt Paleotemperature Proxy, Mean Annual Air, Watershed Mean Annual, Branched Gdgt, Broader Impacts, Lake Sediments, Nrc Committee, Selected Sites, Temperature Reconstructions, AD, Additional, Application, CBT, Century, Climate, Confidence, Degrees, Difficult, Environmental, Factors, Furthermore, Future, Global, Has, Index, Information, Instrumental, Lacustrine, Less, Lipids, Modern, Past, Potential, Prior, Proxies, Reflect, Seasonal, Soils, Sub-environments, Surface, Temperatures, Warming.

Graduate Student Travel Support Program for the 2008 V.M. Goldschmidt Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, July 13-18, 2008
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2008; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Maureen D Feineman($30,000), The Geochemical Society, Alexandria
Key terms: Goldschmidt Conference, Graduate Student, Graduate Students, Benefit, Diversity, Ensure, Experience, Funding, Geochemical, Geochemistry, Home, Interact, International, Mantle, Meetings, Networking, Opportunity, Range, Senior, Travel, Under-represented, Vancouver, World.

SGER: Storm Surge Deposition in Coastal Wetlands
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2008; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Robert E Turner($29,648), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Sediment Deposition, Storm Surges, Amount, Coastal, Deposited, Has, Hurricane, Hurricanes, Sediments, Wetlands.

SGER: Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, Microfossil Content and Preservation of Hurricane Ike Storm Surge Deposits in Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana.
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2008; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Harry F Williams($12,185), University of North Texas, Denton
Key terms: Coastal Environment, Hurricane Strikes, Storm Surge, Deposits, Effects, Sediments.

Relating Glacier-Generated Seismicity to Ice Motion, Basal Processes and Iceberg Calving
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Christopher F Larsen($733,639), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Glacier Erosion, Glacier-generated Seismic, Iceberg Calving, Icy Bay, Seismic Methods, Alaska, Basal, Dynamic, Geometry, Glacier-generated, Glaciers, Highly, Motion, Multi-disciplinary, Processes, Source, Tidewater.

Collaborative Research: Geomorphic transport laws, landscape evolution, and fractional calculus
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Efi Foufoula-Georgiou($195,114), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
2. Colin P Stark($99,671), Columbia University, New York
3. Mark M Meerschaert($99,232), Michigan State University, East Lansing
Key terms: Adapting And Extending, Breadth And Richness, Broad-tailed Probability Distributions, Build And Solve, Extending Fractional Calculus, Fractional Calculus Allows, Generalized Geomorphic Transport, Geomorphic Transport Laws, Hops And Storage, Predictions And Modeling, Rivers And Hillslopes, Simply And Directly, Single Particle Hops, Solve Generalized Geomorphic, Transport Distances Seen, Transport Laws Towards, Treatments And Numerical, Write Differential Equations, Analytical Treatments, Broad-tailed Probability, Calculated Regionally, Classical Calculus, Concise Treatment, Differential Operators, Grain Size, Landscape Dynamics, Mathematical Tools, Model Variables, Multi-scale Heterogeneity, Natural Landscapes, Natural Rivers, Numerical Methods, Particle Fluxes, Particle Sizes, Realistic Description, Sediment Motion, Sediment Transport, Spatiotemporal Heterogeneities, Storage Times, Achieve, Bed, Does, Fail, Incorporate, Means, Models, Multi-scale, Non-locality, Non-locally, Space, Task, Velocities.

SGER:Portable In-situ Wind ERosion Lab (PI-SWERL): Testing and validation
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Vicken Etyemezian($23,798), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Dust Emissions, Soil Surface, Soil Surfaces, Wind Erosion, Arid, Aspects, Collected, Indicate, Information, Models, PI-SWERL.

Collaborative Research: A Field and Numerical Study of the Morphology, Flow, Sedimentary Processes, and Stability of Sand-Bed Fluvial Bifurcations
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. James L Best($135,532), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
2. Rudy L Slingerland($136,381), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Channel Bifurcations, Distributary Channel, Numerical Experiments, Sediment Transport, Bed, Behavior, Boundary, Conditions, Field, Flow, Model, Morphodynamic, Morphology, Predict, Processes, Promote, River, Saskatchewan, Sedimentation, Stability, Stable, Students, Topography.

Workshop: Studying Earth-Surface Processes with High-Resolution Topographic Data
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Ronald G Martin($100,000), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Future Directions, Climate, High-resolution, Landscape, Landscapes, Opportunities, Participants, Posters, Processes, River, Surface, Topographic, Topography, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: On Topographic Imprint of Hillslope Aspect: Deciphering Aspect Controls on Vegetation and Landforms in Central New Mexico
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. James B Harrison($109,581), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
2. Erkan Istanbulluoglu($117,599), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln
Key terms: National Wildlife Refuge, Sevilleta National Wildlife, Landscape Evolution, North-facing Slopes, Sediment Yields, South-facing Slopes, Aspect, Central, Critical, Ecohydrological, Ecosystem, Efforts, Erosion, Holocene, Investigate, Land-use, Mexico, Modeling, Monitoring, North-facing, Numerical, Precipitation, Rates, Runoff, Semiarid, Site, South-facing, Southwest, Vegetation.

Vegetative Roughness Controls on Aeolian Sediment Transport
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Jack A Gillies($300,063), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Regional Wind Erosion, Wind Erosion Models, Wind-driven Sediment Transport, Desert Environments, Sand Transport, Wind-driven Sediment, Aid, Characteristics, Climate, Critical, Degradation, Distribution, Dominated, Dust, Environmental, Exacerbate, Increase, JER, Knowledge, Plant, Processes, Properties, Roughness, Sites, Solid, Stability, Subsequently, Vegetation.

SGER: Quantifying subglacial erosion rates and Timing of Holocene warm periods by in-situ 14C/10Be - A proof of concept
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Joerg M Schaefer($40,864), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Climate, Glacier, Glaciers, Has, Information, Periods, Quantify, Tool, Warm.

SGER: Cosmogenic 10-Be inventory of landslide debris in the steep Rio Chagres basin, Panama
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Kyle K Nichols($10,600), Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs
Key terms: Basin-wide Erosion Rates, Mass And Nuclide, Basin-wide Erosion, Landslide Debris, Nuclide Input, Affected, Collected, Grain-sizes, Inventory, Model, Processes, Sediment, Sediments, Sources.

Long-term Record of Hurricane Landfalls in Southwest Louisiana: A New Approach to Paleotempestology.
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Harry F Williams($69,503), University of North Texas, Denton
Key terms: Date Hurricane Storm, Hurricane Risk Assessment, Hurricane Storm Surge, Louisiana's Chenier Plain, Southwest Louisiana's Chenier, Storm Surge Deposits, Coastal Plain, Explore Linkages, Hurricane Frequency, Long-term Hurricane, Louisiana's Chenier, Southwest Louisiana's, Aim, Beyond, Climatic, Examine, Extend, Field, Has, Historical, Hurricanes, Layers, Long-term, Louisianas, Module, North, Rita, Sediments, Texas.

Collaborative Research: Quantifying Feedbacks between Groundwater Decline, Wind Erosion, and Ecological Change in Desert Vegetation
Award Effective Date: 08/12/2008; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. James M Kaste($149,121), College of William and Mary, Williamsburg
Key terms: Air Quality, Dust Generation, Groundwater Management, Soil Loss, Wind Erosion, Desert, Deserts, Gain, Has, Information, Regions, Vegetation, Water.

Collaborative Research: Facility Support to Renew Operation of the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM)
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. William E Carter($1,495,444), University of Florida, Gainesville
2. William E Dietrich($1,062,869), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Spatial Resolution, ALSM, Airborne, Aircraft, Applications, Available, Center, Coastal, Dems, Digital, Features, Flown, Khz, Laser, Management, Mapping, NCALM, Processes, Program, SC, Software, Topographic, UC-B, UF.

Collaborative Research: Orogeny, orography, and unsteady erosion: evolution of the Himalaya
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Jeremy K Hourigan($189,020), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
2. Douglas W Burbank($280,000), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Cooling Ages, Erosion Rates, Mountain Belts, Stream Power, Time Scales, Topographic Relief, Advection, Catchments, Deformation, Differences, Himalaya, Himalayan, Himalayas, Influence, Models, People, Predict, Rainfall, Rapid, Reliable, River, Spatial, Tectonic, Topography, Transects, Valleys.

Collaborative Research: A Southern Mid-Latitude Perspective on the Last Ice Age Based on Be-10 Moraine Chronologies
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2008; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Robert C Finkel($45,840), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. Joerg M Schaefer($138,159), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Glacial And Climate, Ice Ages, Northern Hemisphere, Compare, Geomorphic, High-resolution, Modeling, Southern, World, Zealand.

MYRES III: Dynamic Interactions of Life and its Landscape Workshop in New Orleans, LA
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Karen M Campbell($82,568), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Myres Iii, Available, Biological, Center, Conference, Day, Days, Discussion, Dynamics, Feedbacks, Global, Interactions, Interdisciplinary, Life, NSF, Orleans, Processes, Spatial, Surface, Workshop.

Soil-grain transport and dispersal by rainsplash, with implications for plant-soil interactions in deserts
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. David J Furbish($182,706), Vanderbilt University, Nashville
Key terms: Dispersal And Sequestration, Transport And Dispersal, Desert Shrubs, Grain Splash, Beneath, Clarifying, Describing, Formulation, Involves, Nutrients, Pathogens, Process, Rainsplash, Relation, Soil, Soil-grain, Students, Supported, Vegetation.

SGER: Fate and Transport of Carbon and sediments During a Mississippi River High Water Event
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2008; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Alexander S Kolker($29,658), Tulane University, New Orleans
Key terms: Mississippi River, Organic Carbon, Environmental, Peak-flow, Rivers.

Collaborative Research: A theoretical framework for the evolution of distributary networks on wave-influenced deltas
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2008; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. John B Swenson($71,099), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
2. Douglas J Jerolmack($213,272), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Key terms: Natural And Human, Predict And Mitigate, Channel Networks, Human Disturbances, Mississippi Delta, River Deltas, Ability, Center, Distributary, Dynamics, Evolution, Guide, Home, Model, Modeling, Sediment, Theoretical.

SGER: Influence of postglacial rebound on river longitudinal profiles in Sweden
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2008; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Ellen E Wohl($34,986), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Stream Power Law, Longitudinal Profile, Drainage, Incision, Influence, Knickpoints, Rapids, Riparian, River, Rivers, Thresholds, Uplift.

Collaborative Research: Testing latest Pleistocene and Holocene glacial chronologies in the western United States with cosmogenic-nuclide and radiocarbon dating and models
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2008; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. P.Thompson Davis($23,907), Bentley University, Waltham
2. Steven W Hostetler($195,098), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Alpine Glaciation, Alpine Glaciers, Radiative Forcing, Water Resources, Climate, Contributions, Controls, Deposited, Employed, Fluctuations, Future, Holocene, Large-scale, Modeling, Moraines, Sensitivity, Strategy, Strong, Western.

Collaborative research: Enhancement of wind erosion by fire-induced water repellency
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Thomas M Over($109,720), Eastern Illinois University, Charleston
2. Paolo D'Odorico($170,000), University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville
Key terms: Burned And Unburned, Fire-induced Water Repellency, Soil Water Repellency, Adjacent Bare, Field Sites, Fire-induced Water, Interparticle Forces, Soil Erodibility, Soil Surface, Theoretical Framework, Wind Erosion, Wind Tunnel, Ability, Affecting, Developed, Directly, Effect, Enhancement, Experimental, Fires, Has, Hydrophobicity, Processes, Properties, Redistribution, Significantly, Soils, Threshold, Vegetation, Velocity.

SGER: Long-term hurricane landfall records derived from marine microfossils in freshwater lake bed sediments
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Harry F Williams($7,359), University of North Texas, Denton
Key terms: Atlantic And Gulf, Hurricane Storm Surges, Ponds And Lakes, Conference Presentations, Freshwater Ponds, Gulf Coasts, Hurricane Activity, Hurricane Risk, Hurricane Strikes, Paleotempestology Studies, Approach, Benefits, Climate, Dating, Deposits, Field, Has, Layers, Long-term, Previously, Sediments, Sites, Suitable, Texas, Unstudied, Viable.

CAREER: Quantifying Erosional Processes on Upland Landscapes
Award Effective Date: 04/05/2008; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Arjun M Heimsath($94,136), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Sediment Transport, Soil-mantled Landscapes, Erosion, Field, Laws, Mechanical, Methodologies, Nuclides, PECASE, Parent, Processes, Quantify, Rates, Sites, Soil-mantled, Specific, Was.

SGER: Dam removal and the response of gravel-bed rivers to sediment pulses
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Andrew C Wilcox($29,923), University of Montana, Missoula
Key terms: Collection And Analysis, Transport And Deposition, Broader Impacts, Clark Fork, Dam Removal, Gravel-bed Rivers, Million M3, Milltown Dam, Sediment Pulses, Sediment Transport, Channel, Downstream, Field, Fluvial, Geochemistry, Geomorphic, Graduate, Gravel-bed, Largest, MT, Montana, Processes, Reservoir, Undergraduate.

Small Grant for Exploratory Research: Mapping the November 2006 Periglacial Debris Flows on Mount Hood and Mount Rainier
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Stephen T Lancaster($18,000), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Periglacial Debris Flows, Aerial Photos, Glacier Drainages, Lidar Altimetry, Satellite Imagery, Satellite Orthoimagery, Acquired, Amounts, Aspect, Below, Combined, Distinguish, Examine, Extent, Glaciers, Hood, Initiation, Mapping, Mt, November, Orthorectified, Perform, Quickbird, Rainfall, Rainier, Region, Step, Visibleninfrared.

Experimental Flume Study of Bedrock Incision by Abrasion: Interface Evolution
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Kelin X Whipple($106,641), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: River Incision, Sediment Load, Sediment Transport, Bed, Bedrock, Conditions, Erosion, Erosional, Flow, Quantitative, Rates, Rivers, Set.

Collaborative Research: Tectonics and Topography in the Transverse Ranges: Landscape Response to Rock Uplift Rate across the Transition from Soil-Mantled to Rocky Slopes
Award Effective Date: 08/31/2007; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Arjun M Heimsath($153,106), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: San Gabriel Mountains, Cosmogenic 10be, Critical, Erosion, Field, Hillslopes, Landscape, Processes, Rate, Specific, Systematically.

Melt Geometry in Partially Molten Olivine: The Influence of Grain Size and Water
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Ulrich Faul($310,004), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Partially Molten Regions, Wetted Two-grain Boundaries, Melt Geometry, Melting Process, Two-grain Boundaries, Upper Mantle, Wetted Two-grain, Amounts, Effects, Examined, Generated, Imaging, Particular, Rock, Seismic.

Modes of Extension, Magmatism and Crustal Scale Fluid Pathways in the Great Basin province, USA, from a Magnetotelluric Transect
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Philip E Wannamaker($382,604), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Magnetotelluric Soundings, Modern Methods, Modoc Plateau, Basin, Basins, California, Continent, Crust, Earthquakes, Eastern, Electrical, Fault, Geothermal, Graduate, Inversion, Lithosphere, Magmatic, Nevada, Potential, Provided, Rifting, Section, Student, Transect, Utah, Western.

Electronic Spin Transition of Iron in the Earth's Lower Mantle
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Jung-Fu Lin($309,443), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Electronic Spin, Lower Mantle, Mineral Assemblage, Silicate Perovskite, Spin Transitions, Earth, Emphasis, Ferropericlase, Geodynamics, Gpa, Iron, Lower-mantle, Minerals, Modeling, Models, Post-perovskite, Pressures, Properties, Structure, Temperatures.

Development of a Teleseismic Viscoelastic Waveform Tomography Algorithm with Application to Broadband Seismograms from the Tien Shan
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Steven W Roecker($200,157), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
Key terms: Arrival Time Tomography, Active Source, Receiver Functions, Tien Shan, Waveform Tomography, Acoustic, Algorithm, Approach, Beneath, Developed, Distances, Earthquakes, Environment, Evolution, Features, Has, Images, Incorporating, Information, Involved, MANAS, Modeling, Past, Region, Seismograms, Sources, Subsurface, Unusual.

Evaluating the Trench Parallel Flow Hypothesis with Numerical Models of Convection
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Scott D King($250,253), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Perovskite Plus Ferropericlase, Slab Parallel Flow, Trench Parallel Flow, Lower Mantle, Mantle Flow, Numerical Models, Seismic Observations, Strong Slabs, Subducting Slab, Subduction Zones, Tank Experiments, Anticipate, Component, Discontinuity, Increase, Laboratory, Phase, Ringwoodite, Shear, Vicinity, Viscosity, Waves.

Connecting long and short-range earthquake triggering with strain
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Emily E Brodsky($182,172), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Earthquake Triggering, Amplitude, Comparing, Dynamic, Earthquakes, Function, Measured, Nucleation, Observed, Preliminary, Rate, Seismic, Seismicity, Strain, Triggered.

Probing Depth-dependent Heterogeneities under Japan Using Transmitted Seismic Waves
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Yingcai Zheng($49,339), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Heterogeneity Spectrum, Random Media, Seismic Tomography, Seismic Wave, Small-scale Heterogeneities, Statistical Information, Wave Propagation, Wave Scattering, Coherence, Convective, Crust, Depth, Depths, Deterministic, Developed, Distribution, Dynamics, Earth, Fluctuations, Has, Japan, Length, Mantle, Mathematical, Methods, Network, Regions, Resolution, Small-scale, Surface, Theory, Time, Waves.

Collaborative Research: The role of viscosity heterogeneity in plate-mantle coupling
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Clinton P Conrad($145,561), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Earth's Tectonic Plates, Earth's Surface, Earth's Tectonic, Elastic Lithosphere, Mantle Flow, Plate Motions, Surface Deformation, Upper Mantle, Beneath, Collaboration, Continent, Controls, Coupling, Female, Forces, Geological, Influence, Interaction, Lithospheric, Models, Numerical, Observations, Pis, Plate-mantle, Predict, Shear, Stresses, Viscosity.

Collaborative Research: Rock Friction, Nanoindentation, and Atomic Force Microscope Experiments Focused on Understanding Earthquake Mechanics
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Terry E Tullis($308,352), Brown University, Providence
2. Robert W Carpick($191,648), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Key terms: Atomic Force, Earthquake Process, Evolution Effect, Friction Experiments, Length Scales, Microscopic Contacts, Adhesion, Allow, Asperity, Basis, Behavior, Creep, Earthquakes, Empirical, Environmental, Equations, Fault, Faults, Frictional, Isolate, Laboratory, Macroscopic, Mechanisms, Nano-scale, Nanoindentation, Nature, Phenomena, Processes, Remain, Rock.

Collaborative Proposal: Laboratory Experiments to Understand Dynamic Slip Weakening in Rocks and Analog Materials
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. None($250,000), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland
Key terms: Dynamic Friction, Earthquake Physics, Experimental Configurations, Fault Mechanics, Fault Strength, Normal Stress, Undergraduate Students, Accelerations, Alterations, Aspects, Available, Benefit, CWRU, Earthquakes, Employ, Faculty, Information, Interdisciplinary, Laboratory, Modeling, Processes, Program, Rapid, Seismic, Shear, Slip, Source, Strengthened, Techniques, Unique.

Collaborative Research: Integrating Observations of Low-Velocity Fault Zones With Models of Spontaneous Dynamic Earthquake Rupture
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Yong-Gang Li($50,000), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2. Benchun Duan($75,000), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Dynamic Rupture Models, Near-field Ground Motion, Nearby Coseismic Ruptures, Spontaneous Dynamic Ruptures, Dynamic Stress, Elastoplastic Off-fault, Fault Zone, Near-field Ground, Source Models, Accurately, Code, Complex, Deformation, Earthquake, Examine, FEM, Faults, Friction, Geodetic, Has, Kinematic, Lvfzs, Nfield, Observations, Off-fault, Parameters, Pis, Rock, Seismic, Velocities, Velocity, Wave.

Collaborative Research: Laboratory Experiments to Understand Dynamic Slip Weakening in Rocks and Analog Materials
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. David L Goldsby($50,000), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Dynamic Friction, Earthquake Physics, Experimental Configurations, Fault Mechanics, Fault Strength, Normal Stress, Undergraduate Students, Accelerations, Alterations, Aspects, Available, Benefit, CWRU, Earthquakes, Employ, Faculty, Information, Interdisciplinary, Laboratory, Modeling, Process, Processes, Program, Rapid, Seismic, Shear, Slip, Source, Strengthened, Techniques, Unique.

Collaborative Research: A Paleoseismic Record of Great Earthquakes on the Sunda Subduction Megathrust, Northern Sumatra
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Harvey M Kelsey($166,426), Humboldt State University Foundation, Arcata
2. Charles M Rubin($244,209), Central Washington University, Ellensburg
3. Benjamin P Horton($150,368), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Key terms: Earthquake And Ensuing, Earthquakes And Tsunamis, Subduction Zone Earthquakes, Sumatran Subduction Zone, Average Time, Ensuing Tsunami, Land Level, Northern Sumatra, Realistic Estimates, Sumatran Coastal, Sunda Megathrust, Based, Chronicle, December, Deposits, Establish, Holocene, Long-term, Magnitude, Microfossils, Northernmost, Preliminary, Reconstruction, Sea-level, Similar, Wetland.

2008 Rock Deformation Gordon Research Conference at Tilton School, New Hampshire, August 3-8, 2008
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. James G Hirth($24,825), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Rock Mechanics, Assess, Brittle, Conference, Coupling, Crust, Directions, Dynamics, Field, Future, Geothermal, Participants, Rheology, Students, Time.

Collaborative Research: Imaging Subcontinental-Scale Slip Events near the Moho
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. James L Davis($199,934), Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge
2. Brian P Wernicke($103,559), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: 'slow Slip Events', Basin And Range, Plate Boundary Deformation, Range Geodetic Network, 'slow Slip, Broad Zones, Continuous Gps, Gps Sites, Pbo Sites, Plate Boundaries, Range Province, Subduction Interface, Subduction Megathrusts, Tectonic Velocity, BARGEN, Behavior, Decade, Earthquakes, Existing, Generate, Geophysical, Has, Megadetachment, Motions, Nevada, Observed, Physics, Plates, Processing, Region, Regional, Relative, Release, Revolutionizing, SSE, Similar, Situated, Slowing, Sses, Strongly, Theory, Time, Was.

Effect of Phase Transitions on Bulk Modulus and Bulk Attenuation: Mantle P-T Laboratory Study at Seismic Frequencies
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Li Li($218,745), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Elastic And Anelastic, P-t And Seismic, Anelastic Properties, Mantle P-t, Phase Transformations, Phase Transition, Phase Transitions, Pilot Experiments, Seismic Frequencies, Seismic Velocities, Seismic Wave, Amount, Attenuation, Controlled, Define, Depth, Equilibrium, Lower, Measured, Mineral, Minerals, Model, Models, Modulus, Period, Phases, Reduced, Regions, Significantly, Stress, Time, Velocity, Volume, Waves, Zone.

Mapping seismic anisotropy in the mantle transition zone
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Ying Zhou($179,999), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Bullen Transition Zone, 2-d Boundary, Finite-frequency Theory, Mantle Convection, Multi-mode Surface-wave, Obtain High-resolution, Radial Anisotropy, Seismic Anisotropy, Sensitivity Kernels, Surface Waves, Account, Anisotropic, Depth, Does, Earth, Finite-frequency, Following, Global, High-resolution, Model, Models, Multi-mode, Structure, Surface-wave, Velocity.

Collaborative Research: Combined Seismological and Geodetic Constraints on 3-D Mantle Structure
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Miaki Ishii($247,563), Harvard University, Cambridge
2. James L Davis($107,437), Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge
Key terms: Earth's Mantle, Previous Studies, Amplitudes, Assumption, Density, Especially, GPS, Geodetic, Global, Has, Information, Love, Model, Network, Resolution, Seismic, Seismological, Sites, Spectrum, Speed, Structure, Three-dimensional, Tidal, Yield.

Joint Inversion of Surface Waves and Teleseismic Body Waves to Study the Formation of the High Lava Plains in Eastern Oregon
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Lara S Wagner($119,620), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: De Fuca Plate, Juan De Fuca, Lava Plains, Teleseismic Body, Wave Tomography, Beneath, Datasets, East, Eastern, Factors, Flow, Inversion, Mantle, Methodology, Oregon, Seismic, Surface, Upper, Volcanism, Waves.

Dynamics of Earthquake Rupture on Heterogeneous Faults
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Daniel Lavallee($250,000), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Earthquake Source, Ground Motion, Initial Stress, Spatial Heterogeneities, Dynamics, Has, Models, Physics, Properties, Random, Sources.

Observations and Modeling of Shallow Fault Creep Along the San Andreas Fault Zone
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Yuri Fialko($298,000), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Earthquake Hazard, Fault Creep, ALOS, Activities, Analysis, C-band, California, ENVISAT, Graduate, Insar, Interferograms, Investigation, L-band, Methods, Rate, SAF, Shallow, Slow.

Thermal Equations of State of Mantle and Core Materials
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Yingwei Fei($279,999), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Inner Core, Laser Heating, Conditions, Directly, Earth, Experimental, High-pressure, Interior, Mantle, Models, Observations, Obtain, Pressure, Properties, Techniques, Temperature.

Toward Seismic Tomography Based Upon Adjoint Methods
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Jeroen Tromp($542,206), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Earthquake Rupture, Global Seismic, San Diego, Analyses, Constraints, Discontinuities, Earthquakes, Lead, Mantle, Methods, Modeling, Models, Resolve, Structure, UC, Variety.

Collaborative Proposal: The Effect of Dislocations on Magnetic Properties of Small Titanomagnetite Minerals
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Joshua M Feinberg($44,784), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Dislocations And Magnetization, Magnetite Crystals, Micromagnetic Model, Paleointensity Methods, Stress Fields, Acquisition, Calculate, Calculations, Core, Coupling, Effect, Experiments, Lead, Magnetic, Minerals, Partnership, Protocols, Reliable, Stresses, TEM, TRM, Temperature, Variety.

Collaborative Research: Deformation Processes in the Andaman Islands
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. John P Puchakayala($256,257), University of Memphis, Memphis
Key terms: Re-equilibrate Stress Following, Fault Slip, Near-field Deformation, Postseismic Deformation, Re-equilibrate Stress, Slip Stability, Slow Slip, Sumatra-andaman Earthquake, Unusual Slow, Andaman-nicobar, Boundary, Capture, Combined, Continuing, Cycle, Earthquakes, Evidence, Examine, Flow, GPS, Illuminate, Indian, Largest, Memphis, Modeling, Network, Nfield, Nonlinear, Operating, Processes, Rock, Rupture, Ruptured, Shallow, Sites, Sumatra-andaman, Thrust, Was.

Collaborative Research: The Effect of Dislocations on Magnetic Properties of Small Titanomagnetite Minerals
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Andrew J Newell($160,304), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Dislocations And Magnetization, Magnetite Crystals, Micromagnetic Model, Paleointensity Methods, Stress Fields, Acquisition, Calculate, Calculations, Core, Coupling, Effect, Experiments, Lead, Magnetic, Minerals, Partnership, Protocols, Reliable, Stresses, TEM, TRM, Temperature, Variety.

Development of a new method for determining the proximal cause of cryptovolcanic earthquake swarms
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. John Power($83,584), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Cryptovolcanic Earthquake Swarms, Field Analytical Techniques, Independent Stress Field, Stress Field Analytical, Magma Ascent, Analysis, Assessing, Eruption, Intrusions, Mid-crust, Mid-crustal, Orientation, Processes, Tectonic, Volcanic.

Collaborative Research: The Generation of Triggered Tremor
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Zhigang Peng($143,978), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
2. John E Vidale($150,851), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Slow Slip, Triggered Tremors, California, Earthquakes, Elsewhere, Involve, Occurrence, SAF, Students, Survey, Systematic, Teleseismic, Threshold, Triggering, Waves.

Collaborative Research: Deformation Processes in the Andaman-Nicobar Islands
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Anthony R Lowry($59,999), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Re-equilibrate Stress Following, Fault Slip, Near-field Deformation, Postseismic Deformation, Re-equilibrate Stress, Slip Stability, Slow Slip, Sumatra-andaman Earthquake, Unusual Slow, Andaman-nicobar, Boundary, Capture, Combined, Continuing, Cycle, Earthquakes, Evidence, Examine, Flow, GPS, Illuminate, Indian, Largest, Memphis, Modeling, Network, Nfield, Nonlinear, Operating, Processes, Rock, Rupture, Ruptured, Shallow, Sites, Sumatra-andaman, Thrust, Was.

Experimental Constraints on the Rheology of the Lower Continental Crust
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. James G Hirth($260,000), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Lower Continental Crust, Dislocation Creep, Lower Pressure, Plagioclase-rich Rocks, Rheological Properties, Andor, Appropriate, Cavitation, Conditions, Deformation, Differences, Dry, Experimental, Experiments, Flow, Geologic, Mafic, Mantle, Plagioclase-rich, Produced, Range, Rheology, Water.

Collaborative Research: Coseismic slip, afterslip, and viscous relaxation in response to great 2006-2007 Kuril earthquakes: Evidence from the regional GPS network
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Jeffrey T Freymueller($27,617), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
2. Mikhail Kogan($121,311), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Kuril Subduction Zone, Central Kurils, Coseismic Slip, Gps Stations, Kuril Arc, Postseismic Deformation, Space Geodesy, Subduction Zones, Compare, Consistent, Continuous, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Following, Installed, Kamchatka, Long-lived, Mechanism, Model, Models, Phase, Rapid, Seismic, Sites, Southern.

Shock Wave Studies of Mineral and Melt Physics at Deep Mantle Pressures
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Paul D Asimow($900,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Deep Interior, Lower Mantle, Magma Ocean, Melting Curve, Relative Buoyancy, Shock Temperature, Shock Velocity, Shock Wave, Sound Speed, Chemical, Composition, Conditions, Consequences, Constraints, Define, Evolution, Existing, Experimental, Geophysical, Limits, Liquid, Liquids, Mgo, Mgsio, Models, Phase, Properties, Quantities, Single, Solids, Techniques, Thermodynamic, Uncertain, Zones.

Workshop for Advancing Numerical Modeling of Mantle Convection and Lithospheric Dynamics at U.C. Davis on July 9-11, 2008
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Magali I Billen($30,000), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Convection And Lithospheric, Mantle And Lithospheric, Boulder Workshop, Lithospheric Dynamics, Mantle Convection, Numerical Modeling, Broader, Evolution, Hold, Incorporate, Issues, Methods, Modelers, Quantitative, Serve, Spherical.

Upgrade to the continuous GPS network on Sierra Negra volcano, Galapagos
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. William W Chadwick($28,626), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Sierra Negra, Trapdoor Faulting, Additional, CGPS, Caldera, Deformation, Eruption, Faults, Inflation, Intrusion, Network, October, Stations, Uplifted, Volcano, Was.

Deformation of Directionally Solidifying Alloys, and the Earth's Inner Core
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Michael I Bergman($114,403), Simon's Rock of Bard College, Great Barrington
Key terms: Directionally Solidifying Alloys, Elastic And Attenuation, Attenuation Anisotropies, Deformation Mechanism, Directionally Solidified, Grain Size, Hexagonal Close-packed, Inner Core, Seismic Properties, Temperature Deformation, Alignment, Anisotropy, Castings, Close-packed, Columnar, Complex, Crystals, Dendritic, Earth, Examine, Explanations, Has, Insight, Microstructure, Orientation, Primary, Slice, Solidification, Strain, Structure, Texturing, Tin, Undergraduates.

The Geomagnetic Field during the past Million Years
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Catherine L Johnson($479,999), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Field Models, Geomagnetic Excursions, Geomagnetic Field, Outer Core, Time Varying, Assess, Compositional, Construct, Distinct, Earth, Geodynamo, Geographic, Heterogeneities, Insight, Lava, Paleomagnetic, Paleosecular, Past, Processes, Sediments, Statistical, Temporal, Thermal.

Probing the Deep Rheology of Tibet
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Roland Burgmann($95,318), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Crust And Upper, Altyn Tagh, Kunlun Fault, Lower Crust, Rapid Motion, Upper Mantle, Active, Beneath, Contribute, Debate, Deformation, Depth, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Faults, Following, Insar, Plate, Plateau, Properties, Rheological, Rock, Signal, Stress, Tibet, Various, Viscous.

Collaborative Research: Toward an Understanding of the Long Term Deformation in the Mississippi Embayment
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Kirk D McIntosh($51,581), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Maria Beatrice Magnani($60,534), University of Memphis, Memphis
Key terms: Madrid Seismic Zone, High-resolution Seismic, Mississippi Embayment, Mississippi River, Acquisition, Continent, Deformation, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Enigmatic, High-resolution, Historic, Low, Marine, Memphis, Occurred, Past, Plate, Seismicity, Techniques, Tectonic, Topography, Water.

Faulting under High Confinement: Experimental Investigation and Model Development
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Erland M Schulson($65,000), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Brittle-like Failure, Compressive Failure, Dehydration Embrittlement, Failure Mode, Plastic Faulting, Transformational Faulting, Brittle-like, Confinement, Depths, Discovery, Earthquakes, Experiments, Frictional, Ice, Low-confinement, Mechanism, Mechanisms.

Collaborative Research: The Growth of the Tibetan Plateau - A Seismic Investigation of the Qilian Shan and Surrounding Tectonic Blocks
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Aibing Li($120,527), University of Houston, Houston
2. Eric Sandvol($129,913), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
3. Yang Shen($224,953), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Crust And Mantle, Northeast Tibetan Plateau, Seismic Observations, Climate, Competing, Continent, Earthquake, Expansion, Has, Processes, Rise.

The Far Reach of Megathrust Earthquakes: Evolution of Stress, Deformation and Seismicity Since the Sumatra-Andaman Rupture
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Roland Burgmann($234,841), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Deformation And Stress, Plate Boundary Zone, Regional Deformation Field, Localized Afterslip, Postseismic Deformation, Sumatra-andaman Earthquake, Upper Mantle, Adjoining, Finite, Magnitude, Models, Months, Processes, Relaxation, Ruptures, Seismicity, Subduction, Sumatra-andaman, Techniques, Viscoelastic, Was.

Elasticity of Mantle Minerals at High Pressures by Brillouin Scattering
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Thomas S Duffy($374,719), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Brillouin Scattering, Crystal Structure, Elastic Properties, Olivine Polymorphs, Upper Mantle, Amounts, Composition, Constrain, Corresponding, Deep, Earth, Effects, Elasticity, Evolution, Geophysical, Gpa, High-pressure, Hydrogen, Incorporation, Measuring, Minerals, Pressure, Pressures, Seismic, Stishovite, Students.

Structures and Densities of Silicate Liquids Under High Pressure
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Guoyin Shen($300,186), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Heated Dac Technique, Magmatic Liquids, Silicate Liquids, Synchrotron X-ray, Absorption, Densities, Density, Developed, Experimental, Experiments, Mantle, Post-doctoral, Pressures, Structures, Temperatures, X-ray.

Equation of State and Phase Boundary of Post-Perovskite
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Sang-Heon Shim($259,803), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Mineral Physics, Ppv Transition, Al-bearing, Determination, Experimental, MIT, Mantle, Phase, Pure, Students, Undergraduate, XRD.

Collaborative Research: Seismic and Geodetic Imaging of Subducting Terranes Under North America
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Geoffrey A Abers($208,760), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Broadband Seismographs, Thickened Crust, Thrust Zone, Accretion, Alaska, Asperity, BEAAR, Coast, Collision, Continuous, Deformation, Depth, Drive, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Effect, Experiment, GPS, Geodetic, Image, Imaged, Integrated, Largest, Plate, Region, Rupture, Seismic, Seismicity, Shallow, Size, Structure, Subducted, Subducting, Subduction, Terrane, Terranes, Top.

SGER: Coral uplift associated with the Sumatran earthquakes of September 2007
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Kerry Sieh($33,200), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Sea Level, Earthquakes, Heads, Megathrust, Uplift.

Collaborative Research: Probing the Effect of Volatiles and Temperature on Thermal Diffusivity: Implications for Upper Mantle and Lithospheric Processes
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Anne M Hofmeister($199,201), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Upper Mantle, Accurate, Available, Characterized, Content, Dependence, Effect, Effects, Fe, Flow, Glasses, Has, Heat, Hydration, Klat, LFA, Melts, Mineral, Minerals, Rock, Students, Temperature, Thermal, Training, Volatiles, ºC.

Theoretical Investigations of Mantle and Core Materials
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Ronald E Cohen($260,000), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Transition Metal Oxides, Band Theory, Iron Metal, Mean Field, Methods Based, Quantum Fluctuations, Theory Predicts, Transition Metals, AFM, Basic, Behavior, Believed, Conventional, Core, DMFT, Developed, Discrepancies, Dynamical, Earth, Equation, Experiment, Experimental, Experiments, Fe-ni, Feo, Gap, Input, Interpreting, LDAU, Light, Magnesiowüstite, Magnetism, Minerals, Model, Modeling, Paramagnetic, Physics, Predictions, Properties, Spin, Structure, Techniques, Temperature, Theoretical, Via, Wüstite.

Collaborative Research: Theoretical and Experimental Investigations on the Role of Iron in the Physics and Chemistry of the Lower Mantle
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Dane Morgan($109,543), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Jie Li($158,866), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Lower Mantle, Site Occupancy, Composition, Conditions, Electronic, Ferropericlase, Iron, Phases, Pressure, Properties, Spin, Temperature, Valence.

Collaborative Research: Properties of Melts and Supercooled Liquids at High Pressure by In Situ X-ray Computed Tomography and Absorption
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Yanbin Wang($133,956), University of Chicago, Chicago
2. Charles E Lesher($360,937), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Melt Compositions, Absorption, Thermal, Tomography, X-ray.

Deuterium-Hydrogen Interdiffusion in Mantle Materials
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. James A Tyburczy($329,588), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Deuterium And Hydrogen, Earth's Interior, Electrical Conductivity, Hydrogen Diffusion, Mantle Minerals, Plate Tectonics, Self Diffusion, Amounts, Coefficients, Collaboration, Contribute, Detailed, Distribution, Effects, Enable, Experimental, Interdiffusion, Interpreted, Ionic, Mechanisms, Meetings, Olivine, Performed, Planets, Processes, Properties, Rates, Students, Techniques, Temperature, Water.

Investigations into the Mechanics of Faulting at Parkfield Integrating Coseismic Slip, Post-Seismic Deformation and Micro-Earthquake Behavior
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Robert M Nadeau($240,000), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Advantage, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Fault, Micro-earthquakes, Parkfield, Rupture, Slip, Stress, Studying.

A New Paradigm for Analyzing Detection Capabilities of Seismic Networks:
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Danijel Schorlemmer($150,000), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Space And Time, Completeness Estimates, Gutenberg-richter Distribution, Probability Distributions, Recording Completeness, Catalogs, Combining, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Estimating, Gutenberg-richter, Information, Network, Particular, Seismic, Station.

2007 ACES Workshop: Forecasting Methodology for Earthquakes and Tsunamis Using Simulations and Information Technology during Spring 2008 in Australia
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Andrea Donnellan($27,608), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: ACES, APEC, Australia, Computing, International, Meeting, Workshop.

Simultaneous inversion for mantle conductivity and source field: towards a 3-d global reference model
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Gary D Egbert($318,000), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: External Source, Composition, Conductivity, Earth, Elastic, Electrical, Fields, Geomagnetic, Images, Inversion, Joint, Knowledge, Magnetic, Mantle, Model, Modeling, Models, Modes, Parameters, Satellite, Significantly, Sources, Spatial, Structure, Temperature, Upper, Useful.

Testing the hypothesis of pervasive two-layer azimuthal anisotropy beneath North America
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Kelly H Liu($122,728), Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla
Key terms: Earth's Deep Interior, Shear-wave Splitting Parameters, Structure And Dynamics, Broadband Stations, Earth's Deep, Pervasive Two-layer, Shear-wave Splitting, Added, Amount, Anisotropy, Asthenosphere, Coherent, Comprehensive, DMC, Database, Geoscientists, IRIS, Lithosphere, Model, North, Past, Produced, Shwave, Time, Two-layer, Wide.

Solidification Texture of the Uppermost Inner Core
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Vernon F Cormier($299,999), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Liquid Outer Core, Solid Inner Core, Fluid Flow, Magnetic Field, Seismic Waveforms, Cooling, Earth, Evolution, Lateral, Mantle, Near, Rotation, Texture.

Triggering of earthquakes over long times and distances: models for the June 2000 sequence in Iceland
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Clifford H Thurber($211,809), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Fault Ruptured, Seismic Waves, Step Produces, Stress Transfer, Superstition Hills, Water Level, Activity, Boreholes, CGPS, Compared, Disciplines, Distance, Dynamic, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Epicenter, FEM, Field, Geodesy, Hydrology, INSAR, Iceland, Junior, Magnitude, Model, Modeling, Models, Pressure, Process, Processes, Receiver, Recordings, SISZ, Seeks, Seismology, Separation, Slip, Source, Space, Techniques, Time, Triggered, Triggering.

Detecting Aseismic Stressing Transients using Stochastic Seismicity Models
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Jeffrey J McGuire($223,300), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Allow, Collaboration, Controlling, Crust, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Law, Namely, Occurrence, Sensitive, Space-time, Stress, Stressing-rate, Swarms, Technique, Timing, Triggered.

Geophysics of Iron in the Earth's D" Layer and Core
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Wendy L Mao($315,903), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Inelastic X-ray Scattering, Iron And Iron-rich, Core-mantle Boundary, Inelastic X-ray, Radial Xrd, Seismic Anisotropy, Synchrotron X-ray, X-ray Scattering, Conditions, Core-mantle, Earth, Elasticity, Experimental, In-situ, Layer, P-T, Properties, Silicate, Velocity.

Sound Velocities and Elasticity of Deep-Earth Materials at High Pressures and Temperatures
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Jay D Bass($580,000), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Subducting Tectonic Plates, Deep Interior, Elastic Properties, P-t Conditions, Sound Velocities, Actual, Brillouin, Chemical, Constraints, Depth, Earth, Experimental, Experiments, Gpa, Information, Mantle, Measure, Minerals, Models, P-T, Phases, Pressure, Pressures, Range, Seismic, Students, Temperature, Velocity.

Renewal Proposal: Investigation of Global Scale Seismic Mantle and Core Structure Using Forward and Inverse Approaches
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Barbara A Romanowicz($755,000), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Anisotropic Structure, Approach, C-SEM, Core, Deep, Forward, Global, Inverse, Mantle, Mechanisms, Models, Program, Seismic, Structures, Upper, Wavefield.

Seismic Imaging of Southern Californian Crust Using Deformable-Layer Tomography and Prestack Depth Migration
Award Effective Date: 12/31/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Hua-Wei Zhou($70,286), Texas Tech University, Lubbock
Key terms: P-wave And S-wave, Prestack Depth Migration, San Andres Fault, Crustal Velocity, Lateral Velocity, Reflection Images, Seismic Imaging, Southern California, Geometry, Geophysics, Indicate, LARSE, Mantle, Resolution, Significantly, Structure, Techniques, Tomography.

The Seismology of Shallow Intraplate Subduction Earthquakes: From Outer Rise to Interface
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: Geophysics

1. Jarmila Polet($74,187), Cal Poly Pomona Foundation, Inc., Pomona
Key terms: Bathymetric And Seismic, Outer Trench Wall, Temporal And Spatial, Earthquake Cycle, Interplate Coupling, Intraplate Earthquakes, Intraplate Seismicity, Normal Faulting, Outer Rise, Subducting Lithosphere, Subducting Plate, Subduction Zone, Weak Zones, Analysis, Behavior, Catalog, Deformation, Depths, Development, Earlier, Found, Generation, Hilde, Interface, Isacks, Mechanism, Mode, Oceanic, Prior, Profiles, Similar, Source, Step, Stress, Strike.

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

1. Derek L Schutt($95,219), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Melt Depletion, Composition, Compositional, Convection, Density, Depleted, Effects, Flow, Mantle, Models, Peridotite, Rock, Temperature, Velocities, Velocity, Wyoming.

CAREER: Microtopography-Controlled Puddle-filling to Puddle-merging (P2P) Overland Flow Mechanism: Discontinuity, Variability, and Hierarchy
Award Effective Date: 11/03/2008; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Xuefeng Chu($378,509), North Dakota State University Fargo, Fargo
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.

Diagnosing the Climatic Causes and Consequences of Snow Depth Variability
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Gavin Gong($309,070), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Climate Relationships, Snow Depth, Snow Extent, Broader, Climatic, Distinct, Doctoral, Dynamic, Existing, Facets, Furthermore, Hold, Information, Involving, Linkages, Literature, Model, North, Overall, Processes, Relatively, Remote, Resource, Spatial, Student, Students, Thermodynamic.

SGER: Anatomy of the 2008 Iowa Flood: Exploring the Interplay Between Successive Storms and Basin Drainage Topology
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Ricardo Mantilla($52,514), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Eastern Iowa, Geophysical Theory, Probable Maximum, River Network, Analysis, Basin, Effect, Extreme, Flood, Flooding, Floods, Revealed, Storm, Storms, Was.

Collaborative Research: Time-Dependent Hydrothermal Convection within the Great Basin Nevada
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Mark A Person($243,826), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
2. Martin S Appold($59,167), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Hot Springs Deposits, Modern And Fossil, Basin Geothermal, Fluid Circulation, Fossil Hydrothermal, Heat Flow, Hydrothermal Models, Meteoric Water, Temperature Profiles, Active, Age, Beowawe, Carlin, Constrain, Crust, Dating, Driven, Exhibit, Fault, Geochemical, Gold, Gt, Hope, Isotopic, Low, MWL, Mechanisms, Mineralization, Nature, Permeability, Reduction, Region, Relatively, Restricted, Shallow, Shifts, Silica, Sites, Three-dimensional, Äo.

Determining Soil Water Evaporation and Subsurface Evaporation Zones
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Joshua L Heitman($382,351), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: Evaporation And Transpiration, Heat Balance Method, Sensible Heat Balance, Soil Water Evaporation, Transpiration And Soil, Environmental Monitoring, Evaporation Process, Field Experiments, Latent Heat, Mass Balance, Soil Layers, Soil Surface, Below, Climate, Current, Demand, Enable, Energy, Estimates, Evaporative, Flux, Hydrological, Large-scale, Measure, Nsurface, Poor, Processes, Properties, Quantify, Sensors, Situ, Subsurface, Testing, Via.

SGER: The Impact of Extreme Flooding on Mussel and Microbial Nutrient Dynamics at the Water-Sediment Interface
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Nathan Young($75,613), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Particulate Organic Matter, Upper Mississippi River, Extreme Flooding, Food Quality, Highly Perturbed, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Processing, Baseline, Conditions, Deposition, Ecosystem, Feet, Floods, Freshwater, Gulf, Human, Influence, Iowa, Mussels, Nearly, Nitrogen, Nutrients, Pool, Rates, Resulting, Sediment, Theory, UMR.

Collaborative Research: Linking scales of geomorphology and solute transport in river corridors
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. None($206,891), UNITED STATES DEPT OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, Reston
2. Douglas J Jerolmack($138,713), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
3. Aaron Packman($248,852), Northwestern University, Evanston
Key terms: Human Resource Development, Spatial And Temporal, Fluvial Morphodynamics, Geomorphic Dynamics, Long-term Average, River Corridors, Scaling Relationships, Solute Transport, Surface-groundwater Interactions, Temporal Scales, Wide Range, Activity, Behavior, Biogeochemical, Broad, Broader, Complex, Contribute, Contributions, Critical, Efforts, Environmental, Facilitate, Flow, Geomorphology, Hydrologic, Hydrology, Integrated, Linkage, Long-term, Management, Migration, Model, Morphology, Numerous, Observations, Observed, Pore, Predict, Processing, Realize, Resources, Rivers, Set, Stream, Students, Supporting, Surface-groundwater, Synergistic, Synthesis, Theory, Unique, Variety.

SGER: Hydrometeorological Studies of the 2008 Flooding in Iowa
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. James A Smith($74,243), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Extreme Flooding, Flood Episode, Flood Episodes, Flood Region, Heavy Rainfall, Iowa Flooding, Organized Thunderstorm, Analyses, Carried, Cedar, Center, Examine, Hydrometeorological, June, Mechanisms, Period, Processes, River, Utilize, WRF.

Dispersion in Heterogeneous Porous Media Through Advection
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Thomas E Skinner($57,343), Wright State University, Dayton
Key terms: Porous Media, Compare, Compatible, Diffusion, Dispersion, Distribution, Experimental, Modeling, Parameters, Partly, Percolation, Pis, Predict, Predictions, Scaling, Simulations, Spreading, Students, Theoretical, Theory, Time, Times, Wt.

Collaborative Research: Control of Arsenic in Groundwater by Microbial Arsenate Reduction
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Qusheng Jin($229,757), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Microbial Arsenate Reduction, Arsenic Concentrations, Aquifer, Aquifers, Biogeochemical, Field, Groundwater, Lesson, Modeling, Oregon, Public, Quantitatively, Schools.

Collaborative Research: Microbial Arsenate Reduction Control on Arsenic in Groundwater
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Lisa M Pratt($98,590), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Microbial Arsenate Reduction, Arsenic Concentrations, Aquifer, Aquifers, Biogeochemical, Field, Groundwater, Lesson, Modeling, Oregon, Public, Quantitatively, Schools.

CAREER: Mass Transport in Groundwater: an Integration of Research and Experiential Education
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Kamini Singha($350,455), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Immobile Porosity, Mass Transfer, Pore Space, Behavior, Bicontinuum, Combine, Complex, Concentration, Control, Controlling, Curves, Described, Diffusion, Domain, Estimating, Field, Heterogeneity, Hydraulic, Hydrologic, Less, Mobile, Models, Natural, Parameters, Predict, Processes, Properties, Tailing, Transport, Versus, Zones.

Proof of Concept of a Hydrologic Multiphysics Model
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Lawrence Murdoch($48,167), Clemson University, Clemson
Key terms: Hydrologic Modeling Platform, Graduate Students, Hydrologic Models, Hydrologic Multiphysics, Wide Range, Applications, Approach, Benchmark, Broad, Capabilities, Developing, Evaluation, Exploratory, Feasibility, Forward, Has, Hydrology, Intellectual, Option, Package, Packages, Processes, Software, Solve, Value, Variety, Workshops.

Collaborative Research: Physics-Based Modeling of Bridge Foundation Scour: Numerical Simulations and Experiments
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Clinton L Dancey($74,036), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
2. Fotis Sotiropoulos($300,000), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Fluctuating Hydrodynamic Forces, Bedload Transport, Flow Structures, Model Capable, Numerical Model, Scour Hole, Stream Restoration, Wide Range, Account, Advance, Army, Bridge, Computational, Conditions, Development, Evolution, Experiments, Has, Infrastructure, Instantaneous, Laboratory, NSF, Pier, Potential, Pressures, Reynolds, SAFL, Sediment, Tool, Unsteady, Validation.

Collaborative Research: Linking Hydrogeomorphology And Denitrification in the Tidal Freshwater Region of Coastal Streams
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2008; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Craig R Tobias($89,826), University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington
2. Michael F Piehler($54,643), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
3. None($151,343), UNITED STATES DEPT OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, Reston
Key terms: Streams And Rivers, Aquatic Continuum, Aquatic Habitats, Nutrient Loading, Tidal Freshwater, Water Quality, Attenuation, Chemical, Coastal, Denitrification, Enhanced, Estuaries, Extensive, Foundation, Has, Hydrologic, Hydrology, Increasing, Margins, Natural, Nitrogen, Reactivity, Removal, Resources, Restoration, Sources, Southeastern, Students, Unique.

Investigating Contaminant Transport in Large Watersheds with New Methods for Automatic Calibration, Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis Including Application to Design of Sensor
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2008; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Christine A Shoemaker($299,862), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Calibration And Uncertainty, Automatic Calibration, Computationally Feasible, Intellectual Merit, Uncertainty Analysis, Watershed Model, Aim, Cannonsville, Collection, Developed, Focus, Methods, Models, Sensors, Watersheds.

Collaborative Research: Paleohydrology of the Illinois Basin--Effects of Glaciation on Fluid Flow, Solute Transport, and Microbial Methane Generation
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Mark A Person($35,717), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Adjacent Regional, Albany Shale, Formation Waters, 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, Pleistocene, Recharge, Salinity, Shales, Zones.

SGER: Response of Alum Rock springs to the magnitude 5.6 Alum Rock earthquake on October 30, 2007
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Michael Manga($10,000), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Alum Rock Springs, Fault Zone, Discharge, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Following, Hydrologic, Level, Local, Models, Monitoring, Origin, Park, Processes, Unique, Water.

SGER: Preliminary Investigation of Flow and Non-uniform Sediment Transport in Meandering Channels
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2008; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Jennifer G Duan($79,613), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Experimental And Numerical, Numerical Modeling, Sediment Transport, Facilities, Flow, Flume, Meandering.

Collaborative Research: High-resolution Dynamic Characterization of Transport Pathways: Providing New Insights into Subsurface Processes
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2008; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Gaisheng Liu($169,607), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
2. Chunmiao Zheng($151,200), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
3. David W Hyndman($151,645), Michigan State University, East Lansing
Key terms: Highly Heterogeneous Aquifers, Detailed Characterization, Hydraulic Conductivity, Predictive Models, Predictive Transport, Solute Transport, Spatial Distribution, Demonstrate, Describe, Developed, Has, High-resolution, Insights, Level, Methods, Modeling, Previously, Principal, Site, Subsurface, Tracer, Univ, Value.

A CUAHSI Scoping Workshop on a Community Hydrologic Modeling Platform in Washington, DC
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Venkat Lakshmi($40,600), Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sci, Arlington
Key terms: Hydrologic Modeling Activity, Hydrologic Modeling Platform, Integrated Water Cycle, Water Cycle Modeling, Follow-on Workshops, Chymp, Development, Follow-on, Hydrology, Outcome, Requirements, Scoping, Simulation, Tools, Vision.

Workshop for Coordination of OpenMI and HIS Development in England, spring 2008
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Jonathan L Goodall($19,306), Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sci, Arlington
Key terms: Hydrologic Simulation Models, Integrating Hydrologic Simulation, European Scientists, Hydrologic Information, Hydrologic Scientists, Modeling Platform, Modeling Platforms, Access, CUAHSI, Challenges, Collaboration, Developing, Experience, Hydrologists, Openmi, Report, Resulting, Workshop.

CAREER: Integrating Research and Education to Advance the Use of Heat as a Tracer of Surface-Ground Water Interaction at Multiple Spatial and Temporal Scales
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Laura K Lautz($83,859), SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse
Key terms: Spatial And Temporal, Heat Transport, Sw-gw Interaction, Temporal Scales, Water Quality, Application, Broad, Characterize, Developed, Flux, Fluxes, Graduate, Has, Hydrologic, Industry, Integrate, Non-profit, Observations, SW-GW, Streams, Students, Temperature, Tracer, Undergraduate, Variety.

Workshop: The Cadillac Desert 25 years later, at the National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. John L Sabo($30,000), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Analysis And Synthesis, Ecological Analysis, National Center, Regional Synthesis, Water Projects, Agricultural, Future, Identifying, Incipient, Journalistic, Policy, Reisners, West, Western, Workshop, Workshops.

CAREER: STOCHASTIC MODELING AND UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS OF SEDIMENT TRANSPORT IN REGULAR AND EXTREME SURFACE FLOW ENVIRONMENTS
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Christina W Tsai($407,920), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Flow And Sediment, Jump Diffusion Process, Regular And Extreme, Sediment Transport Modeling, Stochastic Jump Diffusion, Extreme Flow, Minority Students, Activities, Based, Creative, Education, Equation, Flows, Innovative, Particle, Particles, Processes, Quality, Quantify, Quantitative, Risk, Scientifically, Sedimentation, Teaching, Uncertainty, Water.

Collaborative Research: Snowpack Energy and Mass Balance: Implications for Biogeochemical Feedbacks in Alpine Basins
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. James Sickman($47,804), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
2. Thomas Meixner($91,617), University of Arizona, Tucson
3. Mark W Williams($46,838), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
4. Noah P Molotch($89,906), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Future Climate Scenarios, Coming Century, Hydrochemical Fluxes, Sierra Nevada, Alpine, Biogeochemical, Colorado, Control, Cycling, Does, Hydrologic, Models, Mountain, Processes, Rates, Rocky, Snow, Snowmelt, UC.

Proof of Concept: Coupling Between Skin Temperature and Evapotranspiration
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Jan Kleissl($35,181), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Heat Flux, Skin Temperature, Surface Temperature, Yoichi Shiga, Air, Allow, Analysis, Dataset, Engineering, Experiences, Mechanical, Temperatures, Undergraduate.

SGER- Impact of the Angora Fire on Colloidal Black Carbon in Lake Tahoe and Fallen Leaf Lake
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Alan Heyvaert($75,727), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Fallen Leaf Lake, Tahoe And Fallen, Angora Fire, Black Carbon, Lake Tahoe, Aquatic, BC, Bccolloids, Chemistry, Collect, Colloids, Cycle, Fresh, Global, Marine, Sampling, Time, Water.

Collaborative Research: Humics and Iron Redox Reactions in Bangladesh Aquifer
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Yan Zheng($143,808), CUNY Queens College, Flushing
2. Diane M McKnight($367,895), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Electron Shuttling, Humic Substances, Shallow Aquifer, Aquifers, Bangladesh, Chemical, Concentrations, Fe, Feiii, Feiii-oxide, Feiii-oxides, Field, Has, Human, Humics, Hypothesized, Influencing, Mechanisms, Microbes, Microbial, Rates, Recharge, Redox, Reduction, Release, Seasonal, Sediment.

Mobilization of Residual NAPL by Seismic Waves
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Markus Hilpert($215,298), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Groundwater Remediation, Immiscible Fluids, Napl Blobs, Oscillatory Flow, Phd Student, Porous Media, Resonant Frequency, Seismic Waves, Aquifers, Contamination, Excitation, Experiments, LB, Mobilization, Phase, Pump-and-treat, Resonance, Trapped.

Pore-scale investigation of abiotic and biotic mass transfer
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. William M Moe($34,692), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Pore-scale Mass Transfer, Pore-scale Mass, Porous Media, Synchrotron X-ray, Ability, Biomass, Demonstrated, Distinguish, Has, High-resolution, Image, Imaging, Microbial, Microorganisms, Presence, Processes, Techniques, Water.

Experimental and Theoretical Investigations of Fundamental Processes Relevant to Chemical Oxidation of Dense Nonaqueous Phase Liquids in Fractured Rock
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2008; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Harihar RAJARAM($230,484), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Fractured Rock Masses, Fracture-matrix Interactions, Oxidation-reduction Reactions, Rock Matrix, Carried, Colorado, Complex, Computational, Consequences, Developed, Diffusion, Dissolved, Educational, Environmental, Experimental, Fracture-matrix, Fractures, Front, Influence, Objective, Oxidant, Oxidation-reduction, Processes, Pursued, Remediation, Site, Synergy, Theoretical, Transport.

Turbulence Driven Hyporheic Exchange Processes with Highly Permeable Channel Beds
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2008; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Thorsten Stoesser($249,789), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Coherent Flow Structures, Driven Hyporheic Exchange, Instantaneous Flow Field, Permeable Channel Beds, Turbulence Driven Hyporheic, Gravel-type Bed, Hyporheic Zone, Accurate, Analysis, Created, Effect, Explicitly, Flows, Gravel-type, Induced, Large-scale, Obstruction, Processes, Transport.

Towards a Hydrochemical Transport Model for Rare Earth Elements in Groundwater Flow Systems: Coupling Field, Laboratory, and Computational Techniques
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Karen H Johannesson($287,577), Tulane University, New Orleans
Key terms: Solution And Scm, Adsorption Experiments, Aquifer Sediments, Carrizo Sand, Complexation Model, Dicarbonato Complex, Dispersive Transport, Flow Paths, Groundwater Flow, Surface Complexation, Upper Floridan, Advective, Aquifers, Association, Changing, Characterize, Coatings, Composition, Concentrations, Environment, Existing, Fraction, Fractionation, Geochemical, Increased, Investigations, Laboratory, Linked, Mineral, Modeling, Naturally, Organic, Ph, REE, Redox, Rees, Solutes, Transuranics.

Hydrogeochemical Evolution of Arsenic Concentrations and Speciation Along Groundwater Flow Paths: Linking Aqueous and Solid Phase Arsenic Speciation in Sedimentary Aquifers
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Karen H Johannesson($110,530), Tulane University, New Orleans
Key terms: Aquifer Solid Phases, Groundwater Flow Paths, Drinking Water, Ganges Delta, Aquifers, Asiii, Asv, Conditions, Cycling, DOC, Dissolved, Microbial, Mineral, Mobility, Mobilization, Model, Models, Poisoning, Processes, Quantify, Reactions, Redox, Responsible, Speciation, Surface, Via.

Instrumentation for Rapid Temperature Measurement at Depth on the Wenchuan Fault
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Emily E Brodsky($39,011), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Borehole, Drill, Earthquake, Fault, Upgrade.

Collaborative Research: Acquisition of Equipment to Upgrade and Expand the AfricaArray Seismic Network
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Andrew A Nyblade($134,498), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Stephen Grand($99,849), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Upgraded And Expanded, African Superplume, Mantle Convection, Seismic Network, Southern Africa, Africaarray, Does, Dynamics, Structure.

Acquisition of a Fiber-Optic Distributed Temperature Sensing for Ecohydrology Education and Research
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Alan J Rabideau($130,599), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Fiber Optic Cable, Temperature Sensing, Thermal Bars, Backscatter, Contaminant, DTS, Distributed, Flow, Groundwater, IGERT, Instrument, Lakes, Proxy, Recharge, Replacement, Required, Requires, Scattering, Stream, Unknown, Water.

Acquisition of a state-of-the-art, shallow water multibeam echo-sounding system at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC MBES)
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Bruce W Fouke($456,706), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Allowing, Channel, Committee, Conditions, Fluid, Has, High-resolution, Lakes, MBES, Rivers, Serve, Spatial, Temporal, USGS, °X°.

Upgrade of Shock Wave Laboratory for Research in High-Pressure Mineral and Melt Physics
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Paul D Asimow($119,312), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Launch Tube, Caltech, Capability, Conditions, Experiments, Found, Melting, Metals, Pressures, Shock, Silicates, Upgrade.

Acquisition of a Sensitive Magnetic Susceptibility System and a Thermal Demagnetization Device
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Jimmy F Diehl($119,288), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: Acquisition, Controlled, Equipment, Equipped, Field, MTU, Magnetic, Paleointensity, Rock, Sediments, Susceptibility, Variable.

Upgrade of the University of Kentucky ARL SEMQ Electron Probe Microanalyzer
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. David P Moecher($202,379), University of Kentucky Research Foundation, Lexington
Key terms: Imaging Capabilities, Wavelength Dispersive, Analysis, BSE, CL, Components, Computer, Crystal, Detector, EDS, Existing, Geochronology, Instrument, Service, Software, Upgrade, Upgrades.

Acquisition of a 213nm laser and cathodoluminescence detector for microanalysis of zircon and other Earth materials
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. James L Crowley($137,842), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Cl Detector, Digital Imaging, Paleonutrient Distributions, Zoning Analysis, Affixed, Carbonate, Coupled, Dating, Department, Efforts, Existing, Fossil, Funding, Garnet, Housed, ICP-MS, Incorporated, Instrumentation, LA-ICP-MS, Laboratory, Laser, Monazite, Outreach, Physics, Quartz, Rock, SEM, Subsequent, Technician, Training, U-th-pb, Usage, Zircon.

Upgrade of ICP-MS Facilities at the University of Southern Mississippi
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Alan M Shiller($49,130), University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Key terms: Methane Introduction, Allow, Analysis, Commercial, Existing, Facility, Government, Has, ICP-MS, Inlet, Instrument, Oceanic, Outside, Sensitivity, Sources, Student, Throughput, Trace, USM, Upgrades, Users.

Facility Support: The Global CMT Project
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Goran Ekstrom($411,269), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Cmt Analysis, Moment Tensors, Activity, Archive, Assistants, Catalog, Considered, Distributed, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Funding, Global, Magnitude, Maintain, Pis, Seismic, Widely.

Acquisition of a Kinetic Phosphorescence Analyzer for Uranium-focused Research and Education
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Larry D Stetler($48,750), South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City
Key terms: Contamination, Dissimilatory, Environmental, Fate, Groundwater, Instrument, KPA, Metal, Particles, Sani, Training, Transport, UIV, Unit, Uranium, Via.

SGER: Evaluation of the Rating Curve Hysteresis Due to Unsteady Channel Flows Using Non-Intrusive Measurements Acquired During the Iowa 2008 Flood
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Marian Muste($56,869), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Flow And Discharge, River Discharge Estimates, Stage And Discharge, Accurate Flood, Flow Regimes, Midwestern Flood, Rating Curve, Rating Curves, River Stage, Ability, Basis, Conceptual, Developed, Extreme, Hysteresis, LSPIV, Natural, Processes, Stream, Technique, Testing, Uncertainty, Unique, Unsteady.

Acquisition of an X-ray diffraction unit for earth science research and education at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Nita Sahai($148,346), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Current Instrument, Lab Manager, X-ray Diffraction, Has, Mineral, Planetary, Redox, Requested, Water, X-ray, XRD.

Upgrade of Weighing Lysimeter Facility for Studying Ecosystem and Vadose Zone Dynamics in Arid Environments
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Travis E Huxman($296,074), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Arid Environments, Soil Hydrological, Coupled, Create, Desert, Ecosystem, Environmental, Facility, IEO, Outreach, Processes, Rates, Southwest, Upgrade, Water.

MRI: Acquisition of a Quadrupole ICP-MS
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Paul B Tomascak($246,414), SUNY College at Oswego, Oswego
Key terms: Quad Icp-ms, Analysis, Based, Congo, Experimental, Heavy, ICP-MS, Investigations, Metal, Metals, Natural, Precision, Public, Soils, Suny-oswego, Trace, Water, Waters.

Facility Support: Continental Scientific Drilling
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Dennis L Nielson($249,547), DOSECC Inc, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Drilling Projects, Climate, Continent, DOSECC, Education, Has, History, Human, Increase, Management, Processes, Sampling, Students, Subsurface.

MRI: Aquisition of an Advanced Fluid and Melt Inclusion Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Mona-Liza C Sirbescu($71,378), Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant
Key terms: Fluid And Melt, Chemical Characterization, Fluid Inclusions, Equipment.

Acquisition of a Fourier transform infrared spectrometer to map water in the Earth's mantle
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Anne H Peslier($123,453), Universities Space Research Association, Washington
Key terms: Electron Microprobe, Map Oh, Access, Acquisition, Allow, Content, FTIR, Houston, Hydrogen, Instrument, LPI, Mantle, Microscope, Mineral, Pis, Regions, Space, Spectrometer, Texas, UH, Various, Versus, Water.

Acquisition of a Quadrupole Inductively-Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (ICP-MS) for Earth and Related Sciences
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Maureen D Feineman($66,254), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: East African Rift, Quadrupole Icp-ms, Analysis, Facility, Fluids, ICP-MS, Instrument, Laser, Maintenance, Melts, Minerals, Oversee, PSU, Provided, Requested, Staff.

Acquisition of instrumentation for volatile analyses in Earth Sciences
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Tobias P Fischer($183,381), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Analyses, Analyzing, Ar, CH, Capabilities, Efforts, HS, Instrument, Involved, Mantle, Mass, Students, Thesis.

The Sumatra volcano-triggering experiment: Contributions from Space Geodesy
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Falk Amelung($300,000), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Surface Deformation, Volcanic Activity, Analyzed, Decompression, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Eruption, ITB, Imagery, Interaction, Month, Phase, Satellite, Survey, Volcano.

Point Defects and Transport Properties of a Lower Mantle Phase (Mg,Fe)O: The Role of Hydrogen and Ferric Iron
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Shun-ichiro Karato($491,018), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Lower Mantle, Transport Properties, Controlling, Earth, Hydrogen, Mgfeo.

Upgrade of the Petrofabrics and Paleomagnetics Laboratory of the University of Hawaii
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Emilio Herrero-Bervera($209,000), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Foster, Rock, Upgraded.

Liquid Sodium Geodynamo Models
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Daniel P Lathrop($426,000), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Earth's Magnetic Field, Earth's Core, Earth's Magnetic, Magnetic Fields, Conditions, Dynamics, Experiments, Flow, Laboratory, Liquid, Models, Play, Unique.

Collaborative Proposal: Development of a replacement for the STS-1; Mechanical Sensor Development and Test
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Barbara A Romanowicz($225,550), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. Thomas R VanZandt($534,407), Metrozet, LLC, Torrance
Key terms: Berkeley, Current, Manufactured, STS-, Seismic, Seismometer, Sensor, Sensors, VBB.

Acquisition of an Analytical Spectral Devices (ASD) FieldSpec3: Field Spectroscopy in Support of Aeolian Geomorphology, Snow Hydrology, and Teaching
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Noah P Molotch($88,898), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Snow Grain Size, Desert Soils, Snow Pack, Spectral Properties, Albedo, Composition, Distribution, Dynamics, Emission, Implications, Mineral, Okin.

3rd International SF-ICP-MS Meeting
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Michael P FIeld($27,500), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Early-career Scientists, Senior Scientists, Early-career, Instrumentation, Workshop.

Acquisition of an Automated Nutrient Analyzer
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. W. Berry Lyons($64,800), Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE, Columbus
Key terms: Climate, Dynamics, Effects, Nutrient, Ohio, Rivers.

Development of New Features for the PyLith Finite Element Code to Enable Innovative Research In Multiple Earthquake Cycle Simulations
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Charles A Williams($118,903), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
Key terms: Code Enhancements, CIG, Crust, Development, Dynamic, Dynamics, Maintained, Modeling, Pylith, Simulation, Supported.

Student Support for Electron Backscattered Diffraction Topical Conference
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. John H Fournelle($5,000), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Conference, Diffraction, EBSD, Has, Information, Students, Technique, Variety.

Technician Support: New Utah State University Luminescence Geochronology Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Joel L Pederson($183,022), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Luminescence Geochronology Lab, Applications, Burial, Dating, Geomorphology, OSL, USU.

Support of BGSW5: the 5th Biennial Geochemical SIMS Workshop; June 13-15, 2008 at the UW Conference Center, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Noriko Kita($18,731), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Geochemical Sims, Angeles, BGSW, Developments, Isotope, Labs, Los, Meeting, Pis, Students.

Acquisition of a Direct Mercury Analyzer
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Thomas M DeSutter($36,900), North Dakota State University Fargo, Fargo
Key terms: Analytical, Burning, Coal, Instrument, Mercury.

Upgrade of the University of Alabama JEOL 8600 Electron Probe Microanalyzer
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Harold H Stowell($97,660), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
Key terms: Analysis, EMP, Existing, Petrology.

Acquisition of an acoustic doppler current profiler and gauging station to study processes and deposits associated with the evolution of gravel point bars, Mad River, Ohio
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Michael J Zaleha($46,300), Wittenberg University, Springfield
Key terms: Deposits, Engineering, Gravel, River, Students.

Acquisition of cathodoluminescence detectors for analysis of diagenesis, provenance, geo-thermochronology and petrology
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Matthias Bernet($142,100), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: CL, Cathodoluminescence, Electron, Massachusetts, Rock.

Facility Support: The Wisc-SIMS National Ion Microprobe
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Noriko Kita($799,682), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Stable Isotope Geochemistry, Ion Microprobe, Analysis, Precision, Revolutionized, Situ, Wiscsims.

Acquisition of an Electron Probe Microanalyzer
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Shun-ichiro Karato($385,500), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Computer, Current, EPMA, Instrument, Mapping, Teaching, Wavelength-dispersive, Yale.

Technician Support (Years 4 and 5) for Radiogenic Isotope and Geochronology Facility, Washington State University.
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Jeffrey D Vervoort($90,000), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Lab Manager, Radiogenic Isotope, Facility, Laboratory, Techniques.

Acquisition of a multi-collector mass spectrometer for the University of Wisconsin Rare Gas Gechronology Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Brian Jicha($370,000), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Multi-collector Mass Spectrometer, 40ar39ar Dating, Multi-collector Mass, Rare Gas, Arar, Diverse, EARTHTIME, Geochronology, Involves, Pis, Precise, Primary, Students, Technology.

Technician Support: Arizona Radiogenic Helium Dating Lab and HR-ICP-MS Lab
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Peter W Reiners($299,998), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Internal And External, Lab Managertechnician, User Training, Analyses, Applications, Arizona, Dating, ICP-MS, Labs, Maintenance, Processing, Sector, Tectonic, U-thhe, Users.

Collaborative Research: Rheology of Altered Oceanic Lithosphere
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. James G Hirth($53,658), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Pressure And Temperature, Altered Lithosphere, Dehydration Reactions, Down-going Slab, Mantle Wedge, Reaction Products, Rheological Properties, Subduction Zones, Conditions, Constrain, Constraints, Deformation, Down-going, Experiments, Feedbacks, Fine-grained, Initiative, MARGINS, Plastic, Released, Rheology, Seismicity, Serpentine, Serpentinites, Strength, Transport, Water.

The Nature of the Archean Geomagnetic Field
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. John A Tarduno($255,722), University of Rochester, Rochester
Key terms: Graduate And Undergraduate, Single Silicate Crystals, Geomagnetic Field, South Africa, Approach, Archean, Atmosphere, Degrees, Earth, Nature, Paleointensity, Rock, Techniques.

Acquisition of Geophysical Computing Facility, University of Colorado/CIRES
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Peter H Molnar($75,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Crust, Dynamics, Facility, Geodynamics, Mantle, Numerical, Structure, Students.

Development of an experimental system for analyzing the rheology of dense granular materials and fault gouge under seismic conditions
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Ze'ev Reches($243,790), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Slip Velocity, Conditions, Device, Earthquake, Granular, Instrument, Loading.

Acquisition of a Linux PC Cluster for Joint Geodynamical and Seismological Research at Arizona State University
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Allen McNamara($75,000), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Codes, Mantle, Running.

Testing the Generality of Macroevolutionary Patterns with Bellerophont Molluscs
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Peter J Wagner($14,447), Smithsonian Institution, Washington
Key terms: Asymmetrical Gastropods, Bellerophonts, Character, Characters, Parameters, Similar.

SGER: Collaborative Research: Development of a Prototype Field-deployable Isotope-ratio Mass Spectrometer for Biogeochemistry
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Nathaniel E Ostrom($50,029), Michigan State University, East Lansing
2. David T Young($149,972), Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio
Key terms: Isotope Analyses, Isotopic Composition, Mass Spectrometer, Stable Isotope, Trace Gases, Undergraduate Students, Wide Range, Abundances, Array, CFMS, Compounds, Design, Determinations, Ecosystem, Enable, Enables, Engineering, Exchange, FIMS, Instrument, Measures, Rapid, Situ, TGSIS.

Technician Support for Stable Isotopic Research Facility (SIRF) at Indiana University
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Edward M Ripley($90,000), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Laser Fluorination, Mass Spectrometers, Analyses, Analytical, Carbon, Chromatographic, Development, Extraction, Gas, Graduate, Hydrogen, Laboratory, Lines, Methods, On-line, Preparation, Sulfur, Technician, Training.

Acquisition of a Thermal Camera for Volcano Hazard Research and Student Development
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Matthew Patrick($72,812), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: Collaborative, Eruption, FLIR, MTU, Students, Volcanic.

Facility Support: Institute for Rock Magnetism
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2007; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Joshua M Feinberg($1,258,763), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Magnetic Minerals, Analysis, IRM, Methods, Natural, Origin, Properties, Technical, Techniques.

Partial Support of the International Seismological Centre
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Dmitry Storchak($603,836), International Seismological Centre, Thatcham
Key terms: Isc Web Site, Hard Copy, Isc Bulletin, Analysis, Available, CD-ROM, Earthquake, Global, Has, Hypocenters, Information, International, Maintenance, Networks, Operations, Parameters, Period, Phase, Seismic, Seismologists, Via, Worldwide.

Collaborative Research: The Pulse of Holocene Glaciations in New Zealand's Southern Alps
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Joerg M Schaefer($290,786), Columbia University, New York
2. Robert C Finkel($85,074), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Little Ice Age, Glacial Chronologies, Holocene Climate, Holocene Glacial, Southern Alps, Southern Mid-latitudes, Allowing, Available, Continent, Cosmogenic, Dating, Detailed, Developed, Directly, Driving, Flank, Fluctuations, Glaciations, Glacier, Glaciers, Human, Inter-hemispheric, Involved, Lamont-doherty, Landform, Landforms, Maps, Mid-latitudes, Moraines, Natural, Paleoclimate, Period, Public, Regional, Reliable, SED, Valley, York, Zealand, Zealands.

CAREER: Integrating Research, Education, and Heterogeneity into Groundwater Models of Glaciated Urban Areas
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Lawrence D Lemke($418,246), Wayne State University, Detroit
Key terms: Deterministic And Stochastic, Flow And Contaminant, Geology And Environmental, Allostratigraphic Correlation, Contaminant Transport, Groundwater Flow, Heterogeneous Aquifer, Minority Students, Activities, Alternative, Define, Education, Expanding, Expected, Glaciated, Growing, Hybrid, Hydrostratigraphic, Methods, Model, Models, Numerical, Predict, Quantify, Single, Uncertainty, Underrepresented, Units, Urban, Wayne.

Late Holocene ITCZ Shifts from Sedimentary Lipids on Tropical Pacific Islands
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Julian P Sachs($593,625), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Little Ice Age, Medieval Warm Period, North And South, Hydrogen Isotope, Warm Period, Washington Island, AD, Basins, Climate, Findings, Galapagos, ITCZ, Modern, Pacific, Palau, Position, Rainfall, Reconstruct, Saline, Suggest, Tropics, °E, °N, °S, °W.

Collaborative Research: Magnitude and timing of shortening in the Greater Caucasus: Locus of Late Cenozoic Arabia-Eurasia convergence?
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: International Research Collab

1. Eric S Cowgill($267,567), University of California-Davis, Davis
2. Nathan A Niemi($267,809), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Arabia-eurasia Collision, Arabia-eurasia Convergence, Caspian Seas, Caucasus Mountains, Continental Deformation, Late Cenozoic, South Caspian, Strain Localization, Accommodating, Arabia-eurasia, Azerbaijan, Basin, Belt, Black, Central, Earthquake, Earthquakes, East, Eastern, Extend, Faults, Formation, Formed, GPS, Georgia, Has, Margin, Million, Mmyr, Range, Region, Shortening, Structural, Students, Total, West.

SGER: A Pilot Study on Imaging Bimaterial Interfaces Along the North Anatolian Fault With Fault Zone Head Waves
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: International Research Collab

1. Yehuda Ben-Zion($14,415), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: North Anatolian Fault, Fault Zone, Contribute, Creeping, Earthquake, Faults, Faultthe, Istanbul, Kandilli, Microseismicity, Program, Section, Seismic.

Collaborative Research: Geochemical Consequences of Slab Breakoff and Lithospheric Delamination: Examples From Turkish Neo-Volcanic Zones
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: International Research Collab

1. Barry B Hanan($97,963), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
2. Tanya Furman($86,834), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Anatolian Volcanic, Lithospheric Removal, Source Regions, Asthenospheric, Development, Evolution, Geochemical, Geochemistry, Geophysical, Has, Isotopic, Turkish.

SGER: Collaborative Research in Volcano Monitoring, CSU Chico and Universidad Nacional/ OVISCORI, Costa Rica
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2008; Program: International Research Collab

1. David L Brown($17,741), Chico State Enterprises, Chico
Key terms: Costa Rican Volcanoes, Lassen Volcanic Center, Hydrothermal Activity, Magmatic Activity, Volcanic Activity, Following, Has, Methods, Program, Students, Temperature.

SGER: The 2007 - 2008 Explosive Eruption of the World's Only Active Carbonatite Volcano: Gas Emissions From Oldoinyo Lengai, Tanzania
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: International Research Collab

1. Tobias P Fischer($38,609), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Active Carbonatite Volcano, Oldoinyo Lengai, Tanzanian Scientists, Upper Mantle, Volcanic Gases, Activity, Characterized, Collaboration, Crater, Effusive, Episode, Eruption, Explosive, Lavas, Low, Magmas, Mid-ocean-ridge, SGER, Tourists, Transition.

SGER: An Unusual Explosive Basaltic Eruption: Llaima 2008
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2008; Program: International Research Collab

1. Eliza S Calder($25,083), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Llaima Volcano, Passively Degassing, Basaltic, Effusion, Eruption, Explosive, Field, Jan, Particular, Phd.

Collaborative Research: Structure of the Nazca slab and Sierras Pampeanas
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: International Research Collab

1. Megan Anderson($195,425), Colorado College, Colorado Springs
2. Hersh J Gilbert($178,142), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Eastern Sierras Pampeanas, Sierras De Cordoba, Central Argentina, International Component, Mountain Range, Nazca Plate, Overriding Plate, Shallowly Subducting, Subduction Zones, Angle, Beneath, Deformation, Descends, Dynamics, Influence, Investigate, Lithosphere, Mantle, Region, Slab, Slabs, South, Structure, Subducts, Transferred, Western.

Deformation, Fragmentation and Seismic Hazards on the Western Edge of India
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: International Research Collab

1. Roger G Bilham($540,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Damaging Earthquakes, Death Toll, Indian Plate, Los Angeles, Catastrophic, City, East, Edge, Engineers, Future, Has, History, Information, International, Karachi, Largest, Locked, Mw, Nature, Occurred, Pakistan, Past, Plates, Reasons, Region, Seismic, Was, Western.

CAREER: The protein-mineral bond
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: International Research Collab

1. Steven K Lower($497,647), Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE, Columbus
Key terms: Mtrc And Omca, Putative Mineral-binding Motifs, Putative Mineral-binding Proteins, Celestial Objects, Educational Outreach, Gravitational Force, Intermolecular Forces, Mineral-binding Domains, Mineral-binding Motifs, Mineral-binding Proteins, Molecular Simulations, Putative Mineral-binding, Affinity, Bacteria, Camp, Children, Class, Create, Define, Dissociation, Elementary, Energy, Enrolled, Experiments, Graduate, Gravity, Humans, Influence, Lab, Lecture, Lives, Living, Organisms, Pair, Particular, Peptide-mineral, Peptides, Phage, Planet, Portion, Rate, School, Specific, Specimens, Students, Transition, Undergraduate.

Significance of the Damara Orogen in Gondwana Assembly: an Evaluation of Detrital Zircon Ages and Isotopic Compositions of Neoproterozoic Metasedimentary Rocks
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: International Research Collab

1. Paul A Mueller($291,023), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Congo And Brkalahari, Rodinia And Gondwana, Supercontinent Cycle, Accretion, Continent, Cratons, Detritus, Dispersal, Kalahari, Life, Orogenic, Rock, Shallow, Supercontinents, Time, Was, Zone.

Collaborative Research: Magma Dynamics in Sill and Dike Systems - Constraints From Magnetic Fabrics and Paleomagnetism in the Karoo Large Igneous Province
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2008; Program: International Research Collab

1. John W Geissman($84,072), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
2. Stephanie M Maes($33,473), College of Saint Rose, Albany
3. Eric C Ferre($161,851), Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale
Key terms: Flow Direction, Magma Flow, Magma Transfer, Magnetic Susceptibility, Mineral Fabric, Anisotropy, Broader, Dike, Experiments, Igneous, Magmatic, NSF, Participation, Program, South, Technique.

Testing the Processes of Melt Differentiation in the Mexican Volcanic Belt
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2008; Program: International Research Collab

1. Susanne M Straub($234,155), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Arc Magmas, Magma Formation, Mexican Arc, Ni-rich Olivines, Peridotite Mantle, Subduction Zones, Aleutians, Arcs, Cascades, Crust, Depth, Flux, Has, Lithology, Melts, Methods, Mexico, Ni-rich, Process, Processes, Recently, Slab, Unusual, Volatiles, Volcanic, Volcanoes, Was.

Collaborative Research: Forearc Cracks and the Rupture Segments of Great Earthquakes, N. Chile and S. Peru
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: International Research Collab

1. Jason A Rech($82,911), Miami University, Oxford
2. Matthew E Pritchard($329,189), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Average Slip Distribution, Chile And Southern, Plate Boundary Earthquakes, Northern Chile, Objective Criteria, Southern Peru, Arica, Crack, Cracks, Dating, Formation, Formed, Iquique, Length, Margin, NSF, Rupture, Segment, Soil, Thousands, Time, Tsunami.

Collaborative Research: Active, Upper Plate Deformation in Response to Migration of the Panama Triple Junction, Pacific Coast, Panama and Costa Rica
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: International Research Collab

1. Peter LaFemina($279,550), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Thomas W Gardner($97,318), Trinity University, San Antonio
Key terms: Cocos Ridge Collision, Costena Thrust Belt, Fila Costena Thrust, Panama Fracture Zone, Elastic Strain, Plate Boundary, Upper Plate, Assessment, Costa, Dating, Deformation, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Excellent, Indicators, Long-term, NSF, Quaternary, Short-term.

Andean Back Arc Processes in Argentina
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: International Research Collab

1. John R Booker($199,116), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Electrical Conductivity, Ocean Plate, Active, Argentina, Continent, Depth, Edge, Exploration, Flat-slab, Has, Interior, Inversion, MT, Mineral, Nazca, Slab, Volcanic, Water, Zone.

Tectonic and Climatic Controls on Rapid Exhumation Along the Altiplano-Eastern Cordillera Boundary, Bolivia
Award Effective Date: 10/16/2007; Program: International Research Collab

1. Brian K Horton($43,512), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Narrow Mountain Range, Central Andes, Erosional Exhumation, Northern Bolivia, Altiplano, Amazon, Andean, Basin, Climate, Conditions, Cooling, Deformation, Drainage, Effects, Isotopic, Plateau, Rapid, Structures, Tectonic, Thermochronological, UCLA, Watershed.

Cross-scale modeling of magma migration and storage
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Saswata Hier-Majumder($220,000), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Partially Molten Rock, Partially Molten Rocks, Tubules And Melt, Deep Interior, Melt Pockets, Melt Tubules, Seismic Signature, Distribution, Forces, Shape, Storage.

Rupture Propagation and Arrest in Geometrically Complex Fault Systems: Branches, Stepovers, and Damaged Border Zones
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. James R Rice($540,000), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Fault Border Zones, Theory And Modeling, Geometric Complexities, Homestead Valley, Lab Experiments, Rupture Paths, Rupture Propagation, Affects, Branching, Chosen, Current, Damage, Damaged, Deformations, Directivity, Earthquake, Elastic-plastic, Evolving, Extent, Faults, Fluids, Follows, Highly, Inelastic, Interactions, Localizations, Methodology, Onto, Past, Procedures, Ruptures, Seismic.

Collaborative Research: CSEDI--Multi-scale Analysis of Mantle Discontinuities Using Inverse Scattering of SS Waves and Experimental Mineral Physics
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Maarten V de Hoop($82,000), Purdue University, West Lafayette
2. Robert D van der Hilst($299,999), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Lateral Extent, Mineral Physics, Transition Zone, Upper Mantle, Aim, Composition, Depth, Estimates, Global, Interfaces, Olivine, Parameters, Phase, Radial, Seismic, Seismological, Situ, Temperature, Transitions, Water.

Nonequilibrium Transport and Transport-Controlled Reactions
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Peter K Kitanidis($380,000), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Biochemical Reactions, Mathematical Expressions, Porous Media, Applicability, Approach, Approaches, Based, Chemical, Coefficients, Controlled, Describing, Effectiveness, Experiments, Field, Kinetics, Measured, Microorganisms, Mixing, Parameters, Plume, Practical, Processes, Rates, Significance, Sites, Transport, Usually, Zones.

High-Performance Computing to Evaluate Hierarchical Heterogeneity Paradigms in Sedimentary Aquifer Systems
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2008; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. David F Dominic($299,978), Wright State University, Dayton
Key terms: Hierarchical Sedimentary Architecture, Freely Distributed, Model Domain, National Laboratory, Aquifers, Bars, Computational, Deposits, Does, Flow, Formation, Generating, Geometry, Heterogeneity, Models, Numerical, PNNL, Percolation, Petroleum, Proportions, Represent, Simulations, Site, Testing, Transport, Unit, Upscaling.

Development of a Statistical Physics Approach to Multi-Scale Complexity in Earthquake Rupture Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Jerrold E Marsden($170,831), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Coarse Variables, Reduced Models, Dynamical, Dynamics, Earthquake, Features, Fine, Investigate, Methods, Numerically, Reduction, Simulation, Simulations, Spontaneous, Stochastic, Techniques.

Forward and Inverse Models of Coupled Plate Tectonics and Mantle Convection using Data Assimilation
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Michael C Gurnis($375,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Numerical Models, Plate Motions, Plate Tectonics, Sedimentary Basins, Constraints, Convection, Deep, Developed, Forces, Global, Inverse, Involves, Level, Linkage, Mantle, Oil, Prediction, Resolution, Sets, Sophisticated.

Collaborative Research: CSEDI--Variational Approaches to Geomagnetic Data Assimilation
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Andrew Tangborn($78,156), University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore
2. Gary D Egbert($265,000), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Linear And Adjoint, Geodynamo Model, Geomagnetic Field, Magnetic Field, Tangent Linear, Variational Da, Allow, Applications, Approach, Atmospheric, Codes, Core, Development, Dynamical, Earth, Estimation, Evolution, Forecasts, Generated, Geomagnetism, Historical, Initial, Methods, Models, Numerical, Past, SV, Time.

27th International Conference on Mathematical Geophysics: student and early career scientist support, June 15-20, 2008 in Longyearbyen, Norway
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Claudia Pasquero($39,000), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Ice Sheets, Applied, Aspects, Breaking, Computational, Conference, Costs, Dynamics, Earthquakes, Fracture, Generation, Mathematical, Meeting, Students, Techniques, Travel.

MRI: Acquisition of a Laser Ablation ICP-MS Facility for Geoscience and Environmental Engineering and Sciences Research and Teaching in Iowa
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Ingrid A Ukstins Peate($303,123), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: In-situ Laser Ablation, Heavy Metals, In-situ Laser, Magma Genesis, Analysis, Basalts, Behavior, Crust, EES, Enhance, Environment, Environmental, Facility, Faculty, Focus, Geoscience, ICP-MS, Implications, Inorganic, Iowa, Levels, Methods, Opportunities, Processes, Quadrupole, Remediation, Rock, Students, Tectonic, Trace, Volcanic, Water.

Acquisition of Equipment to Establish a Paleomagnetic and Rock Magnetic Laboratory at New Mexico Highlands University
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Jennifer Lindline($159,328), New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas
Key terms: Rock Magnetic, Equipment, Magnetometer, NMHU.

MRI: Acquisition of a LA-MC-ICP-MS for Innovative, Interdisciplinary Research at UTEP: Student Training, Faculty Development, Institutional Excellence
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Jasper Konter($524,720), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
Key terms: Faculty Development, Student Training, Application, Cr, Cu, Environmental, Fe, Initiatives, Instrument, Isotopes, Isotopic, MC-ICP-MS, UTEP, Zn.

MRI: Acquisition of Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer and Ion Chromatograph for UM-Dearborn Environmental Research
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. John C Thomas($237,089), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Trace Metal, Detroit, Geochemistry, Instruments, Interactions, Investigation, Program, Student.

MRI: Acquisition of an Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy Unit for Research and Undergraduate Training in Geology, Chemistry, and Material Sciences and STEM Activities in Grades 7-12
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Roland Scal($60,453), CUNY Queensborough Community College, Bayside
Key terms: Acquisition, Funds, Metal, Students, Visualize.

MRI: Acquisition of a High Resolution Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer for Earth and Environmental Science Research at Texas A&M University
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Matthew W Schmidt($450,000), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Undergraduate And Graduate, Graduate Students, Hr-icpms Instrument, Texas Aandm, Acquisition, Applications, Benefit, Enhance, HR-ICPMS, Instrumentation, Ocean, Past, Play, TAMU, Teaching, Training.

MRI: Acquisition of a Multiple Collector ICPMS for Geochemical and Cosmochemical Studies at DTM
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2008; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Conel M Alexander($650,000), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Plasma Mass, Allow, CIW, Carnegie, Degree, Existing, Formation, Fractionation, Generation, Geochemistry, Heterogeneity, Instrument, Instruments, Isotope, Isotopic, MC-ICP-MS, Mantle, Metal-silicate, Metals, Microprobe, PGE, Processes, Program.

Acquisition of a Multiple-Collector Inductively-Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. John F Casey($269,658), University of Houston, Houston
Key terms: Elemental Isotope Ratio, Lu-hf And Sm-nd, Lead Pis, Analyses, Clean, Committee, Evolution, Geology, Instrument, MC-ICP-MS, Mantle, Mid-ocean, Processes, Rock, Technician.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Geodetic measurements and mechanical models of rifting in onshore segments of mid-ocean ridges
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Kurt L Feigl($252,456), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Timothy L Masterlark($92,390), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
Key terms: Constitutive, Extension, Geophysics, Magma, Magmatic, Plumbing, Properties, Ridges, Rift, Rifting, Seismological, Spreading, Supported.

MARGINS: Collaborative Research: Modeling 3-D Wedge Flow with Complex Slab Geometries and Comparisons with Seismic Anisotropy
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Christopher R Kincaid($270,351), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
2. Karen M Fischer($152,153), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Corner Flow, Graduate Student, Mantle Flow, Mantle Wedge, Nicaragua-costa Rica, Plate Motions, Subduction Zone, Subduction Zones, Upper Plate, Altered, Anisotropy, Brown, Complexity, Consistent, Deformation, Directions, Distinct, Entrained, Experiments, Fast, Fluids, Focus, Geochemical, Implications, Laboratory, Marianas, Melting, Model, Modeling, Models, Morphology, Nicaragua-costa, Observables, Observations, Observed, Parameters, Previous, Processes, Produce, Regions, Seismic, Set, Sets, Shwave, Slab, Spatial, Splitting, Subduction-induced, Tonga, Two-dimensional, URI, Volatile.

MARGINS: Collaborative Research: Origins of Local Variations in Subduction-Related Fluids: Evidence from Olivine-Hosted Melt Inclusions from the Central American Subduction Zone
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. James A Walker($59,265), Northern Illinois University, Dekalb
2. Kurt Roggensack($75,771), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Subducting Cocos Plate, Volatile And Trace, Basaltic Tephras, Mantle Wedge, Mass Transfer, Melt Inclusions, Primitive Compositions, Slab Signals, Subduction Zone, Subduction Zones, Allow, Analyses, Carr, Central, Characterization, Continued, Degassing, Erupted, Eruption, Fluid, Geochemical, Knowledge, Linked, Local, Magmas, Magmatism, Melting, Nicaragua, Nicaraguan, Patino, Permit, Processes, Range, Students, Volcanic, Volcanoes.

Acquisition of a Gas Source Mass Spectrometer and Carbonate Preparation Device
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Paul L Koch($419,480), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Kiel Iv, Analysis, Carbonates, Device, Evolution, Forcings, Instrument, Isotope, Laboratory, Low, Management, Manager, Maximum, PETM, Precision, UCSC.

Collaborative Research: Acquisition of New Instrumentation for Geochemical Studies in the Earth and Environmental Sciences
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Steven L Goldstein($1,300,000), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Gas Mass Spectrometer, Ldeo And Amnh, Noble Gas Mass, Columbia Phd, Graduate Students, Isotope Ratios, Ldeo Geochemists, Advance, Analyses, CUNY, Contributions, Critical, Development, Dynamics, Education, Efforts, Exhibits, Extensively, Geochemistry, Has, Hosted, ICP-MS, Instrumentation, Interns, Involved, K-, Laser, Lectures, Linked, MC-ICPMS, Outreach, Program, Programs, Public, REU, School, Sensitivity, Serve, Tools.

Acquisition of an X-ray Diffractometer for Mineralogical and Sedimentological Studies
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. John M Jaeger($167,485), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Coastal, Current, Diffraction, Florida, Hour, Instrument, Maintenance, Mineralogy, Petrology, Pis, Requested, Rock, Sedimentation, Sedimentology, Students, Unit, X-ray.

Development of a Borehole Optical Fiber Strainmeter
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Mark A Zumberge($285,547), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Graduate Student, Horizontal Strain, Vertical Strain, Borehole, Components, Deployed, Development, Existing, Fiber, Has, Instrument, Month, Optical, PFO, Receive, Salary, Sensor.

Collaborative Research: Testing the Role of Transtension in Continental Rupture: An Integrative Study of the Sonoran Margin and Tiburón Basin, Northern Gulf of California
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Other Global Learning & Trng

1. Michael E Oskin($302,256), University of California-Davis, Davis
2. Michael E Oskin($333,902), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
3. Rebecca J Dorsey($199,751), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Continental Rupture, Dextral Shear, Late Miocene, Ago, Analysis, Basin, Basins, California, Conditions, Crust, Distribution, Extension, Faults, Geologic, Gulf, International, Localization, Localized, Million, Offshore, Proto-gulf, Sonora, Strain, Structural, Subsidence, Tiburon, Time, Transtension, Transtensional, Volcanic, Warm, Was, Zone.

Collaborative Research: Assessment of Sulfur Recycling in Arc Magmatism through Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry Study of Sulfur Isotopes in Experimental and Natural Mafic Glasses
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Nobumichi Shimizu($121,423), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Katherine A Kelley($87,568), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Woods Hole Oceanographic, Isotope Geochemistry, Isotopic Compositions, Isotopic Fractionation, Natural History, Rhode Island, Silicate Melt, AMNH, Advise, Analysis, Assessment, Carried, Chemical, Degassing, Determined, Effects, Female, Fugacity, Glasses, Inclusions, Ion, Kelley, Magmas, Mandeville, Mantle, Museum, Nsf-funded, Oxygen, Phase, Phases, Program, REU, Recycling, S-bearing, SIMS, Source, Sulfur, TRUST, Trapped, Volatile, Volcanic.

Aluminum- and Iron-rich Perovskites and Post-perovskites and Earth's Deep Lower Mantle
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Thomas S Duffy($377,779), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Earth's Core-mantle Boundary, Earth's Deep Mantle, Chemical Properties, Core-mantle Boundary, Deep Interior, Earth's Core-mantle, Earth's Deep, Lower Mantle, Phase Boundaries, Complex, Conditions, Has, Mineral, Minerals, Perovskites, Phases, Pressure, Processes.

Origin(s) and Significance of Arc-related, Brine-dominated Hydrothermal Alteration, Copiapó Area, Chile
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Mark D Barton($209,479), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Hydrothermal Alteration, Hydrothermal Features, Iocg Deposits, Northern Chile, Alkali-rich, Arc, Brines, Circulation, Collections, Compositional, Compositions, Continuing, Courses, Crust, Exposed, Family, Fluids, Geologic, Global, Industry, Magmas, Magmatic, Mineral, Ore, Origin, Origins, Porphyry, Rock, Students, Timing, Widespread.

Experimental Investigations of Chemical Interaction at the Core-Mantle Boundary
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. James A Van Orman($270,980), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland
Key terms: Core And Mantle, Ocean Island Basalts, Chemical Exchange, Core-mantle Boundary, Diffusion Rates, Outer Core, Partition Coefficients, Radiogenic Osmium, Transition Metals, Based, Core-mantle, Effect, Experimental, Has, Investigate, Kinetics, Observed, Partitioning, Reactions, Source.

Diffusive Isotopic Fractionation and the Structure of Silicate Liquids
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Donald J DePaolo($180,465), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Diffusion Experiments, Isotopic Effects, Liquid Compositions, Melt Structure, Silicate Liquids, Approach, Behavior, Diffusive, Discrimination, Fractionation, Has, Molecular, Planets, Probe, Similar.

Testing In-situ Crystallization of High-S Apatite in Silicic Magmas at Pinatubo Volcano: Key for Developing Apatite as Monitor for Magmatic Sulfur
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Martin J Streck($68,338), Portland State University, Portland
Key terms: High-s Apatite, Pinatubo Eruption, Sulfur Concentration, Apatites, Concentrations, Crystallizes, Enriched, High-s, Investigate, Magma, Magmas, Magmatic, Melt, Mineral, Minor, Overly, Silicic, Uptake, Vapor.

Lithium Isotopes and Mineral Inclusions in Zircons- 4.4 Ga to Recent
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. John W Valley($404,355), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Continental Crust, Detrital Zircons, Ion Microprobe, Isotope Ratio, Isotope Ratios, Jack Hills, Mineral Inclusions, Ocean Crust, Oxygen Isotope, Parent Rocks, Stable Isotope, True Granites, Compositions, Constrain, Ga, Geochemical, Gt, Has, Li, Lithium, Mafic, Tectonic, Time, Tool, Training.

Cone-Forming Explosive Eruptions of Basalt Magma: Etna, Kilauea, Stromboli
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Bruce F Houghton($295,460), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Explosive Eruptions, Future Explosive, Activity, Basaltic, Classification, Documented, Forecasting, Fountaining, Hawaiian, Kilauea, Products, Pyroclastic, Strombolian, Volcanoes.

Evaluating the Processes and Timescales of Rhyolitic Differentiation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Frank C Ramos($58,703), New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
Key terms: Magmatic Timescales, Silicic Magmas, Activity, Assessment, Baitoushan, Combination, Effects, Eruption, Evolution, Future, Generation, Has, International, Involved, Isotopes, Isotopic, Korea, Processes, Volcanic, Volcano.

Dynamics of Large Silicic Magma Reservoirs: Combining Geochemical Data and Physical Models on Voluminous Ignimbrites From the San Juan Volcanic Field, Colorado
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. George W Bergantz($304,903), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Juan Volcanic Field, San Juan Volcanic, Silicic Magma, Ash-flow, Conditions, Crust, Dynamics, Eruption, Evolution, Geochemical, Ideal, Large-volume, Leading, Magmas, Magmatism, Processes, Reservoirs, Sheets.

Virunga Volcanic SO2 Emissions Research (VISOR) Project
Award Effective Date: 08/16/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Simon A Carn($124,407), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: Nyamuragira And Nyiragongo, Alkaline Volcanoes, Excess Sulfur, Remote Sensing, So2 Emissions, African, Collaborative, Collected, Congo, Date, Degassing, Efforts, Eruption, GVO, Goma, Has, Investigate, Lava, Magma, Non-arc, Petrological, Satellite, Virunga, Volcanic.

Collaborative Research: Tectonic Rates From Garnet Differential Geochronology
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Matthew J Kohn($96,996), Boise State University, Boise
2. Frank S Spear($9,468), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
Key terms: Growth And P-t, Differential Geochronology, Garnet Growth, Garnets Grow, Sr Isotope, Barrovian, Brief, Classic, Measured, Metamorphic, Metamorphism, Models, Published, Rates, Regional, Rock, Settings, Tectonic, Terranes, Thermal, Viz.

SGER: Dating Volcanic Rocks Using Syngenetic Non-Silicate Minerals
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Victor J Polyak($52,624), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Cogenetic, Crystals, Gypsum, Isotopic, Lava, Mineral, SGER, Technique, U-series.

Support of an AGU Chapman Conference: Fifth International Orogenic Lherzolite Conference: Shallow Mantle Composition and Dynamics, September 22-26, 2008, Mount Shasta Resort, CA
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Henry J Dick($23,095), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Chapman Conference, Mount Shasta, Peridotite Massifs, Upper Mantle, Alteration, Field, Held, Italy, Meeting, Previous, Processes.

Lava Dome Collapses : Their Mechanisms and Short-Term Forecasting
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Silvio De Angelis($260,890), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Lava Dome Eruptions, Lava Domes, Mass Wasting, Activity, Basis, Collapse, Collapses, Continuous, Devastating, Failure, Forecasting, Gas, Grow, Internal, Magma, Models, Piles, Plugs, Pyroclastic, Sets, Volcanic, Volcano.

SGER: Extent and Impact of Distal Ash Fallout From the May 2008 Eruption of Chaiten, Chile
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Charles B Connor($26,241), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Chaitén Eruption, Chaitén Volcano, Numerical Model, Ongoing Eruption, Tephra Fallout, Argentina, Ash, Characteristics, Deposit, Deposition, Erupting, Essential, Fine, Forecast, Grain-size, Has, Health, International, Mass, Measure, Models, Opportunity, Plan, Potential, South, USF, Validate, Volcanic.

Study on Nano-phases and Microstructures in Rutile and Pyroxene From Ultrahigh-pressure Metamorphic Rocks: TEM Investigation and Computer Modeling
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Huifang Xu($132,378), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Density Functional Theory, Scanning Transmission Electron, Transmission Electron Microscopy, Host Minerals, Macroscopic Phases, Stability Fields, X-ray Eds, Z-contrast Imaging, Andor, Clinoenstatite, EELS, Eclogite, History, Interface, Investigated, Lamellae, Metamorphic, Mode, Nano-phase, Nano-phases, Nano-precipitates, Precipitates, Pyroxene, Rock, Rutile, STEM, Stabilities, Structure, TEM, Tio, UHP, Ultrahigh-pressure, X-ray, Z-contrast.

Collaborative Research: Closing the Loop on Lava Flow Models: Linking Thermal and Mechanical Controls on Flow Emplacement Dynamics Using Novel Field and Experimental Techniques
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Katharine V Cashman($211,365), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
2. Samuel A Soule($116,928), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Airborne And Ground-based, Lava Flow Emplacement, Basaltic Lava, Flow Features, Laboratory Experiments, Lava Flows, Solid Crust, Surface Morphologies, Volcanically Active, Ability, Approaches, Behavior, Channels, Complex, Coupled, Development, Dynamics, Eruption, Evolution, Examine, Has, Link, Low, Mechanical, Models, Past, Predict, Properties, Regimes, Solidifying, Spreading, Techniques, Thermal, Thickening, Viscous.

RUI: Collaborative Research: Redox Ratios by Fe-XANES
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Melinda D Dyar($104,897), Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley
Key terms: Fe3total Fe, Absorption, Amount, Chemical, Difficult, Earth, Edge, Energy, Feii, Feiii, Fetotal, Found, Has, Iron, Measure, Microprobe, Mineral, Minerals, Oxidation, Oxygen, Rock, Technique, Useful, Valence, XANES.

Collaborative Research: Volatiles in Aleutian Arc Magmas
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Terry A Plank($30,607), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Aleutian Volcanoes, Melt Inclusions, Subduction Zone, Water Contents, Alaska, Augustine, Boston, Collect, Crystals, HO, Magma, Magmas, Primary.

Collaborative Research: Testing Models that Describe the Origin of Compositional Diversity of Subduction Zone Magmatism, Aeolian Islands
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Frank J Spera($250,448), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
2. Wendy A Bohrson($201,544), Central Washington University, Ellensburg
Key terms: Phase Equilibria Model, Theoretical And Analytical, Aeolian Islands, Analytical Tools, Volcanic Rocks, Allow, Document, Eruption, Formation, Improvements, Led, Magmas, Magmatic, Predictions, Processes, State-of-the-art, Surface, Volcanoes.

Seeking Evidence for Reactive Assimilation in a Hybrid Pluton
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. James S Beard($44,645), Virginia Museum of Natural History Foundation, Martinsville
Key terms: Assimilation And Crystallization, Country Rocks, Igneous Rocks, Assimilant, Chemical, Chemistry, Cryptic, Hybrid, Incorporated, MIC, Melting, Mineral, Minerals, Mixing, Pluton, Processes, Signature, Trace.

Collaborative Research: Multi-scale Dynamics in Explosive Volcanic Eruptions
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Michael Manga($154,274), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. Josef Dufek($190,690), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Explosive Volcanic Eruptions, Mass And Energy, Energy Transfer, Numerical Models, Volcanic Deposits, Ability, Behavior, Computational, Conditions, Coupled, Dynamics, Experiments, Flows, Gas, Large-scale, Multiphase, Particles, Processes, Simulations, Size, Strength, Subgrid.

The Role of Serpentinites in Subduction Recycling of Sulfur and Organic Carbon
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Jeffrey C Alt($328,247), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Contents And Isotope, Dehydration Reactions, Isotope Compositions, Organic Carbon, Subduction Zones, Tethyan Ophiolites, Ultramafic Rocks, Analyses, Arc, Components, Ds, Elevated, Influence, Lithosphere, Mantle, Metamorphism, Oceanic, Permil, Processes, Respectively, Seafloor, Seawater, Serpentinites, Serpentinization, Student, TOC, Temperatures, Values, Wt.

Collaborative Research: The Geodynamics of the Andean Southern Volcanic Zone, A Geochemical Approach
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Alberto E Saal($234,067), Brown University, Providence
2. Erik H Hauri($72,771), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Isotopic Composition, Mantle Flow, Slab Dehydration, Arc, Brown, Continent, Convergent, Cordoba, Crust, Distribution, Evolution, Geochemical, Information, Margins, Melting, Models, SVZ, Undergraduates, Volatile, Volatiles, WHOI.

Collaborative Research: Constraining the Relative Importance of Fluid Fluxes and Lithospheric Metasomatism on the Evolution of the Rio Grande Rift, New Mexico
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. John C Lassiter($57,990), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Michael Rowe($198,216), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Rio Grande Rift, Fluid-mobile Trace, Mantle Hydration, Melt Inclusions, Volatile Abundances, Volatile Concentrations, Added, Additionally, Allowing, Analyzed, Basaltic, Beneath, Constraints, Continent, Crust, Enrichment, Extent, Fluid-mobile, Has, Isotope, Lavas, Lithosphere, Magmas, Melting, Microprobe, N-S, North, Plate, Potential, Prior, Rifting, Subduction, Techniques, Volatiles, Volcanism, Water.

Collaborative Research: Redox Ratios by Fe-XANES
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Mickey E Gunter($64,911), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
2. Antonio Lanzirotti($81,323), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Fe3total Fe, Absorption, Amount, Chemical, Difficult, Earth, Edge, Energy, Feii, Feiii, Fetotal, Found, Has, Iron, Measure, Microprobe, Mineral, Minerals, Oxidation, Oxygen, Rock, Technique, Useful, Valence, XANES.

Causes and Consequences of Holocene Mafic Explosive Volcanism in Central OR
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Alan Rempel($243,940), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Ash Deposits, Central Oregon, Lava Flows, Newberry Volcano, Scoria Cones, Basaltic, Bend, Cascades, Content, Cores, Distal, Distributed, Eruption, Future, Has, Hazard, Magma, Magmatic, Past, Population, Produced, Studying, Tephra, Volatile, Volcanic.

Equilibrium and Kinetic Isotopic Fractionation of Lithium in Mantle Minerals
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Maureen D Feineman($177,750), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Li Isotope Geochemistry, Olivine And Clinopyroxene, Timescales And Extent, Diffusion Rates, Immediately Prior, Isotopic Fractionation, Li Diffusion, Li Isotopes, Mantle Nodules, Phd Student, Solid-state Diffusion, Upper Mantle, Xenolith Mobilization, Allow, Assess, Equilibrium, Experimental, Fractionated, Nature, Olivines, Penn, Reaction, Solid-state, Temperatures, Transport, Xenoliths.

Melt Generation Beneath the Colorado Plateau and its Transition Zones
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Mary R Reid($45,326), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: Colorado Plateau, Transition Zones, Volcanic Activity, Basalts, Based, Chemical, Continent, Depth, Dynamics, Efforts, Generation, Limits, Lithosphere, Mantle, Melt, Melting, Origin, Sources, Southwestern, Structure.

Apatite: The Effect of Volatiles on its Structure, Stability and Thermodynamic Properties
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Hanna Nekvasil($263,058), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Exchange Experiments, Solid Solution, Solid Solutions, Anionic, Apatite, Binary, Characterization, Cl, Compositional, Development, Fields, Information, Lack, Mineral, Mixing, Model, Models, Molten, OH, Oh-poor, Planetary, Properties, Stability, Structural, Ternary, Thermodynamic, Variety.

The Dynamics of Short-Duration, Unsteady Volcanic Eruptions
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Amanda B Clarke($304,678), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Explosive Eruption Dynamics, Explosive Volcanic Eruptions, Eruption Columns, Source Properties, Unsteady Source, Ash, Behavior, Establish, Flows, Forces, Laboratory, Models, Phenomena, Plinian, Populations, Velocity.

Collaborative Research: Crystal- and Lithic-rich Fallout at Quilotoa Volcano, Ecuador: Vent Processes During Short-Lived Hiatuses in Violent Eruptions
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Katharine V Cashman($20,131), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
2. Michael H Ort($85,784), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: Crystal Size, Activity, Andor, Base, Clogging, Collaboration, Components, Conditions, Conduit, Crystals, Deposit, Deposits, Detailed, Eruption, Evidence, Explosions, Focus, Glass, Hiatus, Lithic, Magma, Milled, Quilotoa, Short, Source, Time, Vent, Volcano, Was.

Renewal: Chemistry of the Earth's Deep Interior
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Russell J Hemley($399,941), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Earth's Deep Interior, Mantle And Core, Core-mantle Boundary, Crystal Structures, Earth's Deep, Lower Mantle, Magnetic Transitions, Neutron Diffraction, Chemical, Conditions, Core-mantle, Evolution, Formation, Iron, Minerals, P-T, Pressure-induced, Properties, Range, Reactions, Spectroscopy, Techniques, X-ray.

The Strombolian Conduit: What Happens in the Last 250 m?
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Andrew J. L Harris($249,504), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Activity, Allow, Ascends, Cloud, Combine, Conduit, Explosion, Explosions, Explosive, Feed, Gas, Hawaii, Information, Planned, Properties, Scoriae, Stromboli, Technologies, Thermal, Vent, Volcanic, Volcano.

U-Series Crystal Ages and Implications for Magma Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Kari M Cooper($200,328), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Zircon And Plagioclase, 238u-230th Ages, Magmas Beneath, South Sister, Ability, Caldera, Chemical, Crystals, Domes, Dynamics, Eruption, Evolve, History, Information, Insights, Magmatic, Measuring, Mineral, Okataina, Silicic, Surface, Time, U-series, U-th, Univ, Volcanic, Volcano, Volcanoes, Zealand.

2008 Gordon Research Conference on Geochemistry of Mineral Deposits
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Nancy R Gray($20,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Future Directions, Gordon Conference, Mineral Resources, Ore Deposits, Wide Range, Bring, Continue, Crust, Diverse, Earth, Evolution, Expected, Experts, Fluids, Formation, Geochemistry, Increasing, Lead, Magmatic, Meeting, Metal, Metals, Mined, Opportunity, Processes, Students.

Travel Support for US Volcanology Graduate Students to IAVCEI General Assembly, Iceland August 2008
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Rudiger Escobar Wolf($36,000), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: Graduate Students, Assembly, Attendance, Conference, Field, Funding, IAVCEI, Iceland, International, Volcanology.

Experimental Investigation of Magma Generation in Subduction Zones: Hydrous Liquidus Phase Relations of Primitive Magmas from the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Paul Wallace($344,732), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Temperatures And Pressures, Decompression Melting, Equilibration Temperatures, Geodynamic Models, Magma Generation, Mantle Wedge, Melt Compositions, Primitive Magmas, Probably Formed, Arc, Assemblage, Based, Conditions, Differences, Electron, Experimental, HO, Ho-poor, Ho-rich, Hydrous, Involved, Mexico, Student, Subduction, TMVB.

Magnetite (U-Th-Sm)/He Geochronology - A Novel Technique for Dating Continental and Oceanic Basalts
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Daniel F Stockli($199,964), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Continental And Oceanic, Volcanic Rock Types, Basaltic Rocks, Diversity Initiative, Extrusive Rocks, Iodp Leg, Minority Students, Oceanic Basaltic, Altered, Analytical, Aphanitic, Basalts, Calibrate, Common, Date, Dating, Difficult, Especially, Graduate, Involve, Magnetite, Reliably, Technique, Techniques, U-th-smhe, Undergraduate.

Studies on the Partitioning of Elements Between the Core, Mantle and Crust
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. William F McDonough($316,611), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Abundance And Distribution, Continental Crust, Core Containing, Core Formation, Core-mantle Exchange, Distribution Coefficients, Ku Value, Modern Basalts, Planetary Budget, Behavior, Bulk, Chalcophile, Concentration, Conditions, Consistent, Core-mantle, Described, Earth, Establish, Fugacity, Has, Heat, IW-, Insights, Lithophile, Nb, Near, Partitioning, Ppb, Ratio, School, Siderophile, Silicate, Ta, Th, Undergraduate, Volatile.

Collaborative Research: Controls on He Diffusion from Minerals
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. David L Shuster($80,000), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
2. Kenneth A Farley($230,123), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Lattice Damage, Radiation Damage, Accumulation, Alpha-recoil, Annealing, Apatite, Apatites, Applications, Dating, Diffusion, Experiments, Has, Helium, Implications, Irradiation, Minerals, Newly, Obtained, Potential, Student, Synthetic, Techniques, Thermochronometry, U-thhe, Zircon.

Collaborative Research: Diffusion of High Field Strength Elements (HFSE) and Rare Earth Elements (REE) in Pyroxenes and Pyroxene-bearing Rocks
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Yan Liang($150,108), Brown University, Providence
2. Daniele J Cherniak($149,881), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
Key terms: Cpx And Opx, Hfse And Ree, Mafic And Ultramafic, Coexisting Cpx, Diffusion Coefficients, Hfse Diffusion, Ion Probe, Partition Coefficients, Pyroxene Compositions, Ree Diffusion, Time Scales, Ultramafic Rocks, Available, Distribution, Experience, Graduate, Magmatic, Mantle, Measured, Melt, Minerals, Obtained, Origin, Peridotites, Processes, Profiles, Pyroxenes, Range, Subsolidus, Trace, Trinity, Various.

An Experimental Study of Solubility, Solution Mechanisms, and Stable Istope Fractionation of COHN Volatiles in Silicate Melts and Fluids in the Earth's Interior
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Bjorn O Mysen($63,918), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Solubility And Solution, Coexisting Gas, Earth's Interior, Isotope Fractionation, Silicate Melts, Solution Mechanisms, Aid, Budget, Central, Characterization, Collaboration, Components, Composition, Evolution, Experimental, Function, ISEI, Particular, Pressure, Processes, Program, Temperature, Volatile, Volatiles.

Collaborative Research: Hawaiian Plume Heterogeneity Revealed by Kilauea's Ongoing Eruption, Prehistoric Lavas and Olivine-hosted Melt Inclusions
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Aaron J Pietruszka($164,883), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
2. Michael O Garcia($244,200), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Cyclic Geochemical, Hawaiian Plume, Isotope Ratios, Summit Lavas, Abundances, Active, Centuries, Compositional, Eruption, Graduate, Heterogeneities, Inclusions, Kilauea, Kilaueas, Magma, Magmatic, Mantle, Melting, Pb, Processes, Undergraduate, Volcanoes.

Experimental Studies in Petrologic and Geochemical Kinetics
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. E. Bruce Watson($597,961), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
Key terms: Experimental Geochemistry Lab, Rpi Experimental Geochemistry, Chemical Diffusion, Diffusive Fractionation, Intellectual Merit, Isotope Ratios, Isotopic Fractionation, Molten Silicates, Noble Gases, Noble-gas Atoms, Quantitative Models, Rock-forming Minerals, Activities, Analytical, Ar, Basic, Behavior, Benefited, Characterized, Continue, Degassing, Differences, Diffuse, Environment, Facility, Funding, Geochemical, Geochemists, Geologic, Has, Independent, Information, Isotopes, Magmatic, Mainly, Noble-gas, Outside, Partitioning, Program, Rates, Rock-forming, Specific, Techniques, Temperatures, Ualbany, Visitors, Volatiles.

Problems in Ore Metal Partitioning: Melt-Vapor-Brine Equilibria
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Philip M Piccoli($370,000), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Vapor And Brine, Magmatic-hydrothermal Ores, National Park, Coexisting, Crust, Cu, Deposits, Exploration, Inclusions, Magmatic-hydrothermal, Models, Outreach, Partitioning, Pis, Program, Quartz, Students, Trapped, Undergraduate.

A New Window into Magmatic Processes: Zoning of Phosphorus and Other Elements in Olivine
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Edward M Stolper($190,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Graduate Student, Natural Olivines, Projects Described, Basalts, Contents, Cooling, Correlated, Cr, Determining, Education, Effects, Experimental, Hawaiian, Komatiites, Magmatic, Microphenocrysts, NSF, P-rich, Phosphorus, Processes, Suggesting, Wt, Zoning.

Collaborative Research: Chemistry of the Earth's Deep Interior
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Erik H Hauri($227,234), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
2. Elizabeth Cottrell($72,766), Smithsonian Institution, Washington
Key terms: Mineral Physics, Allowing, CMB, Chemical, Conditions, Core, DAC, Depth, Development, Earth, Experimental, Geochemical, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Gpa, Interior, Laser-heated, Liquid, Mantle, Opportunities, Partitioning, Petrology, Students.

Using 226Ra-230Th-238U Disequilibria to Test the Hypothesis of Peridotite-Pyroxenite Melt Mixing at Hawaiian Shield Volcanoes
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Aaron J Pietruszka($151,397), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
Key terms: Geochemical And Isotopic, Hawaiian Shield Volcanoes, 226ra-230th-238u Disequilibria, Hawaiian Volcanoes, Isotopic Analyses, Mantle Plumes, Oceanic Crust, Peridotite Source, San Diego, Secondary Pyroxenite, Source Regions, Tholeiitic Basalts, Active, Amount, Analytical, Ancient, Approach, Component, Contents, Create, Deep, Diverse, Eclogite, Has, Heterogeneity, Lavas, Melt, Melting, Melts, Model, Peridotite-pyroxenite, Process, Ra-th-u, Recycled, Require, SDSU, Student, Students, Thesis.

Bubble Nucleation in Magmas: Experimental Constraints on the Influences of Gas and Melt Composition
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. James E Gardner($195,665), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Bubble Nucleation, Graduate Student, Surface Tension, Various Melts, Critical, Degassing, Designed, Eruption, Gas, HO, Predict, Solubilities, Volatile.

Collaborative Research: A 210Pb Paradox?
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink($145,900), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Mark K Reagan($117,090), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Ocean Island Basalts, Lavas Erupted, Magma Degassing, Sulfide Fractionation, Decades, Deficits, Eruption, Excesses, Extents, Final, Imply, Lose, Magmas, Measures, OIB, Pb, Pbra, Persistent, Rates, Rn, Subduction, Tend, Values, Volcanic, Volcanoes, Whereas.

Lying in Wait? Evolution of Dacite Beneath Santa Maria Volcano, Guatemala
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Brian Jicha($337,706), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Santa Maria Volcano, Basaltic Magma, Dacitic Magma, Lava Flows, Lose Heat, Active, Ash, Chemical, Crust, Crystallize, Dacite, Erupted, Eruption, Evolves, Guatemala, Long-term, Processes, Thousand, Thousands, Trapped, Volatile-rich, Volcanoes.

Powerful Silicic Explosive Volcanism: Understanding Abrupt Shifts in Eruption Style and Intensity in the 181 AD Taupo Eruption
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Bruce F Houghton($285,728), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Abrupt Shifts, Powerful Silicic, Eruption, Explosive, Intensity, Models, Processes, Taupo, Volcanoes, Was.

High-pressure Behavior of Framework Minerals
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Ross J Angel($349,094), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Feldspars And Perovskites, Crystal Chemical, Framework Minerals, Graduate Students, Behavior, Crystallography, Faculty, Opportunities, Pressure, Pressures, Principles, Properties, Structural, Structures, Undergraduates.

Atmospheric Oxygen Influences on the Size of Modern and Fossil Insects.
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: Physiol Mechs & Biomechanics

1. Jon F Harrison($536,000), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Leg Tracheal Diameter, Atmospheric Oxygen, Body Size, Fossil Insects, Insect Gigantism, Leg Length, Modern Cockroaches, Oxygen Levels, Size Correlates, Ancestors, Animals, Attempt, Climate, Evolution, Exhibit, Lack, Models, Museum, Paleontology, Past, Period, Physiology, Ratio, Statistical, Was.

a Workshop on Neutrino Geoscience 2008
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. William F McDonough($23,498), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, Antineutrino Detection, Antineutrino Physics, Nonproliferation Purposes, Particle Physics, Applications, Applied, Fields, Geological, Geology, Geoneutrino, Global, Maryland, Meeting, Nuclear, SNO, Signal, USA, Workshop.

Travel Support for Junior Scientists to Attend a Workshop on the Transport Properties of the Lower Mantle
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. David A Yuen($7,200), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Conductivity, David, Days, Japan, Mantle, Minnesota, Thermal, Viscosity, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: CSEDI--First Principles Calculations and Measurements of Thermal Diffusivity for Application to the Earth's Interior
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Anne M Hofmeister($187,362), Washington University, Saint Louis
2. Jianjun Dong($185,153), Auburn University, Auburn
Key terms: Robust Theoretical Model, Thermal Diffusivity, Accurate, Based, Benchmarked, Conditions, Conductivity, Dynamic, Gt, Heat, Interactions, Interior, Involving, LFA, Laser-flash, Mantle, Microscopic, Mineral, Non-equilibrium, Planetary, Properties, Rock, Simple, Theory, Transfer, Transport.

Support for 11th Symposium on Study of Earth's Deep Interior (SEDI) Meeting to be held in Kunming, China from July 27-31, 2008
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2008; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Bruce Buffett($22,500), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Deep Interior, Contribute, Core, Dynamics, Earth, Evolution, Interdisciplinary, International, Mantle, Meeting, SEDI, Structure, Surface.

Collaborative Research: CSEDI--Origin and Evolution of Highly Siderophile Elements in Earth's Mantle
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. David Walker($144,605), Columbia University, New York
2. Richard J Walker($342,883), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Composition And Abundance, Core And Mantle, Pt And Re, Deep Plumes, Isotopic Composition, Analysis, Behavior, Core-mantle, Geochemical, Interaction, Laboratory, Os, Rock, Separation, Siderophile, Technique.

CSEDI: Testing Hypotheses for the Origin of Seismic Anisotropy at the Base of the Mantle
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Barbara A Romanowicz($224,836), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Lowermost Mantle, Seismic Anisotropy, Synthetic Seismograms, Appropriate, Base, Crystal, Deformation, Developed, Dynamic, Elastic, Field, Future, Macroscopic, Mineral, Minerals, Observations, Polarized, Pressure, Processes, Rely, Was, Wave, Waves.

Collaborative Research: Controls of ecosystem development during rapid environmental change: Yellowstone in the late-glacial and early-Holocene periods
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Cathy L Whitlock($260,000), Montana State University, Bozeman
2. Sherilyn C Fritz($184,991), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln
Key terms: Terrestrial And Aquatic, Aquatic Ecosystems, Ecosystem Development, Ice Recession, Ongoing Efforts, Precipitation Regimes, Time Scales, Yellowstone Region, Activities, Biologic, Biotic, Climate, Climatic, Dramatic, Early-holocene, Environmental, Examination, Findings, Glacial, History, Importance, Independent, Information, Land, Landscapes, Lie, Managers, Maximum, Paleoclimate, Paleoecologic, Park, Past, Period, Public, Substrates, Was, Western, Yellowstones.

Collaborative Research- Laterally Extensive Breccias in the Mesoproterozoic Atar Group, Mauritania: Tsunami Deposition resulting from a Marine Extraterrestrial Impact?
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Linda C Kah($125,000), University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville
2. Keith Milam($100,000), Ohio University, Athens
Key terms: Detailed Analysis, Lateral Extent, Local Middle, Tsunami Deposits, Tsunami Wave-train, Tsunami Waves, Tsunamigenic Source, Ancient, Attributed, Behavior, Collaboration, Continent, Effect, Energy, Erosion, Exercises, Explore, Extraordinary, Extraterrestrial, Geologic, Graduate, Has, Marine, Passage, Processes, Schools, Seaway, Sediment, Sedimentary, Sedimentologic, Shallow, Stratigraphic, Students, Substrate, Tennessee, Transport, Undergraduate, Wave-train, Wide, Zones.

RUI: Magnetic Stratigraphy of the Eocene-Oligocene Transition Floras in the Warner Mountains, Northeastern California
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Donald R Prothero($15,449), Occidental College, Los Angeles
Key terms: Undergraduate Students, Warner Mountains, Climates, Climatic, Cooling, Eocene, Floras, North, Oligocene.

Trophic Diversity in the Santa Cruz Formation Herbivore Guild
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Darin A Croft($84,937), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland
Key terms: Living Caviomorph Rodents, Santa Cruz Formation, Extinct Families, Hoofed Mammals, Incisor Morphology, Training Program, Western Reserve, Cleveland, Correlated, Diet, Dietary, Diverse, Ecology, Evolution, Has, Height, Hypsodonty, Internet, Mesowear, Microwear, Public, South, Species, Tooth, Various.

Macrostratigraphy and macroevolution in North America: a test of the common cause hypothesis
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Shanan E Peters($145,095), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Available, Benefits, Character, Database, Distribution, Geologic, Geological, History, Information, Intersection, Life, North, Preservation, Primary, Processes, Quantifying, Rock, Tectonic.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: HOW DID THE GRASSLAND BIOME EVOLVE IN SOUTH AMERICA?: INTEGRATING CENOZOIC CLIMATE, FLORAL AND FAUNAL RECORDS FROM PATAGONIA, ARGENTINA
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Richard H Madden($17,843), Duke University, Durham
2. Matthew J Kohn($119,911), Boise State University, Boise
3. Caroline Stromberg($149,573), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Timing And Rate, Gran Barranca, Open-habitat Grasses, Analyzed, Argentina, Climate, Compare, Continuous, Dc, Dominance, Earth, Evolution, Faunal, Floral, Fossil, Grassland, Habitats, Isotopic, Occurred, Open-habitat, Openness, Parallel, Phytolith, Plant, Rise, Sedimentological, South, Stable, Values.

SGER: Platinum Group Element Anomalies at Cryogenian Glacial Terminations
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink($14,989), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Neoproterozoic Glacial Terminations, Extraterrestrial Iridium, Marinoan Sediments, Anomalies, Anomaly, Cryogenian, Depositional, Enrichments, NW, PGE, Pedigree, Sections, Terminal, Terrestrial.

SGER: Intensive Collection of Paleocene-Eocene Mammal Fossils and Development of a Stratigraphic Section in the Trans-Saharan Seaway (Mali)
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Leif M Tapanila($29,988), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: African Tropics, Pe Boundary, Sahara Desert, Sequence Stratigraphy, Stratigraphic Framework, Stratigraphic Sections, Trans-saharan Seaway, Vertebrate Fossils, Biostratigraphy, Chemostratigraphy, Continuous, Deposits, Development, Discoveries, Evolution, Expedition, Extensive, Has, Indicates, Interval, Magnetostratigraphy, Mali, Malian, Mammal, Mammals, Measured, Paleocene-eocene, Paleontology, Phd, Polarity, Potential, Region, SGER, Sedimentology, Student, Students, Time, Trans-saharan, Yield.

UNDERSTANDING REPTILE PALEOECOLOGY: A STABLE ISOTOPE APPROACH
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Paul L Koch($124,000), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Modern And Fossil, Origin And Evolution, Ancient Crocodilians, Isotopic Methods, Marine Water, Salt Water, Salt-water Tolerance, Stable Isotope, Coastal, Composition, Fresh, Habitat, Isotopes, Measure, Primitively, Salt-water, Tolerate, Workers.

The Vertebrate Paleontology of Cement Creek Cave, Colorado
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. David J Meltzer($78,177), University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington
Key terms: Cement Creek Cave, Upper Gunnison Basin, Fossils Recovered, Graduate Student, Ice Age, Vertebrate Fossils, Ago, Analyses, Analysis, Colorado, Completed, David, Depth, Detailed, Excavated, Excavation, Excavations, Gaps, Identification, Locality, North, Paleontological, Pleistocene, Presentations, Radiocarbon, Resources, Rich, Sequence, Site, Students, Value.

Collaborative Research: Ocean Redox Evolution at the Dawn of Animal Life: An Integrated Geological and Geochemical Study of the Ediacaran Yangtze Platform in South China
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Ariel D Anbar($97,209), Arizona State University, Tempe
2. Timothy W Lyons($97,994), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
3. Ganqing Jiang($154,613), University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas
4. Shuhai Xiao($100,001), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Ediacaran Yangtze Platform, Spatial And Temporal, Animal Life, Carbon Isotope, Ediacaran Organisms, Geochemical Anomalies, Integrated Geological, Isotope Excursions, Ocean Redox, Organic Carbon, Redox Conditions, Redox Evolution, Basin, Collaborations, Fe, Fluctuation, Isotopes, Ma, Mo, Oxidation, Potential, Students, Sulfur, Was.

The Horned Dinosaur Radiation
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Andrew Farke($149,998), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Evolutionary Radiation, Historical Relationships, Horned Dinosaurs, Interior Seaway, Late Cretaceous, Western Interior, Animals, Arrayed, Assessment, Ceratopsid, Ceratopsids, Comprehensive, Continent, Five, Included, Landmass, Landmasses, Mexico, Million, Mode, North, Nose, Regions, Relatively, Skulls, Species, Tempo, Time, Utah, Variety, Was.

SGER: Predation in evolution: paleobiological consequences of cidaroid predation on crinoids
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Tomasz K Baumiller($25,000), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Meyer And Macurda, Shedding And Crawling, Stalkless Comatulid Crinoids, Cidaroid Predation, Kokoamu Sandstone, Lizard Island, Predation Pressure, Stalk Shedding, Stalked Crinoids, Ability, Australia, Body, Cidaroids, Evidence, Evolution, Evolutionary, Exploring, Fish, Fossil, Gut, Has, History, Interaction, Isocrinids, LIRS, Oligocene, Portion, Predator-prey, Predators, Remains, Traits, Was, Water, Zealand.

Workshop in Paleoecology and Ecology: Evaluating ecological possibility - past, present, and future
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. William A Dimichele($18,148), Smithsonian Institution, Washington
Key terms: Ecological Possibility Past, Evaluating Ecological Possibility, ETE, Ecology, Future, Knowledge, Paleobiology, Paleoecology, Specific, Terrestrial, Topics, Workshop.

SGER: The Salvage Panama Canal Paleontology/Geology Project
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Carlos Jaramillo($36,200), Smithsonian Institution, Washington
Key terms: Fossils And Geological, Fresh Rock Outcrops, Access, Biodiversity, Canal, Covered, Future, Has, International, Panama, Rare, STRI, Students, Time, Tropics.

SGER: Testing a Novel Hypothesis for the Cause of the Givetian/Frasnian Portion of the Devonian Mass Extinction: Sampling and Isotopic Analysis of Devonian Strata from the Canning
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Peter D Ward($15,000), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Canning Basin, Mass Extinction, Australia, Devonian, Global, Strata, Washington.

SGER: Excavation, Osteology and DNA Determination of the Tarkio Valley, Iowa, Ground Sloths
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2008; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. David J Brenzel($19,983), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Giant Ground Sloth, North Bank, Osteological Analysis, Plant Macrofossils, Sloth Remains, Stream Bed, Tarkio Valley, Adult, Age, Analyses, Association, Associations, Bone, Complete, DNA, Death, Determined, Discovery, Front, Has, Ice-age, Immediate, Information, Inventory, Iowa, Megalonyx, Site, Skeletal, South, Specimen, Specimens, Time, Total, Was.

SGER: Dietary Paleoecology of Early Cenozoic Ungulates of North America
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Matthew C Mihlbachler($24,867), New York Institute of Technology, New York
Key terms: Dental Microwear Methodology, Critical Time, Dental Morphology, Dietary Paleoecology, Mammalian Paleodietary, Paleodietary Ecology, Paleogene Ungulates, Analysis, Cast, Casts, Climate, Collection, Developing, Documents, Evolution, Evolutionary, Finer, Folivory, Independent, Interval, Lineages, Mammals, Methods, Modern, NSF, North, Paleoecological, Processes, Resolution, Shift, Similar, Temporal, Wear.

Influence of Rainfall and Geography on Leaf Size and Shape: Implications for Paleoclimatic Interpretation
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Dana L Royer($99,999), Wesleyan University, Middletown
Key terms: Digital Leaf Physiognomy, Temperature And Rainfall, Climate Proxies, Geographic Settings, Leaf Images, Environment, Existing, Fossil, Has, Leaves, Limited, Method, Models, PETM, Physiognomic, Source, Undergraduate, Wesleyan.

Drilling The Cretaceous/Paleogene Boundary in NJ: Testing the Relationship of Geochemical Anomalies to Event Beds
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2008; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Peter J Sugarman($134,963), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Ir Anomaly, Marine Plankton, Mass Extinction, Spherule Layer, Boundary, Brazos, Chicxulub, Coreholes, Cretaceous, Drilling, Has, Jersey, KP, Linked, Outcrops, Sections, TX, Was, Well-preserved.

A Multi-faceted Exploration of Late Paleozoic Communities
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Stephen A Schellenberg($170,000), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
Key terms: Factors Influence, Fossil Marine, Analyses, Diversity, Interactions, Multiple, Paleozoic, Similarity.

Collaborative Research: Testing hypotheses of latest Pleistocene paleo-environmental collapse, Northern Channel Islands, California
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2008; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Jon M Erlandson($45,137), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
2. R. Scott Anderson($52,509), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
3. Nicholas Pinter($155,824), Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale
Key terms: Northern Channel Islands, Aggradations, Arrival, California, Caused, Charcoal, Deposition, Extinction, Fire, Gradual, Has, Humans, Ka, Landsliding, Mammoths, NCI, Pleistocene, Timing.

SGER: Identity and Phylogenetic Significance of Biomarkers in Paleozoic Crinoids
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. William I Ausich($24,971), Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE, Columbus
Key terms: Extracted Molecules, Fossil Specimens, Living Crinoids, Mass Spectrometer, Paleozoic Crinoids, Phylogenetic Significance, Analyses, Analysis, Biomarkers, Establish, Mississippian, Mode, Ohio, Sampling, Similar, Taxa, Taxon-specific, Tested.

SGER: Triassic-Jurassic Mass Extinction Caused By Volcanism? Carbon Isotopic Tests In Eastern North America And Morocco
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Jessica H Whiteside($33,655), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Eastern North, Mass Extinction, Mass Extinctions, Organic 13c, Tr-j Boundary, Tr-j Mass, Anomaly, Basalt, Basalts, CAMP, Earth, Ecological, Eruption, Flood, K-T, Moroccan, Newark, SGER, Tr-j.

SABERTOOTHS: WHAT, WHEN, HOW, AND WHY- A WORKSHOP APPROACH TO THE ENIGMA, May 12-14, 2008 on the campus of Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. William A Akersten($12,000), Idaho State University, Pocatello
Key terms: Carnivorous Mammals, Functional Morphology, Integrated Organisms, Public Education, Saber-tooth Morphology, Saber-toothed Carnivores, Saber-toothed Mammals, Basic, Bizarre, Continent, Equally, Evolution, Extinct, Extinction, Has, Homology, Idaho, Literature, Morphologic, Obvious, Past, Placental, Potential, Reason, Saber-tooth, Saber-toothed, Saber-tooths, Survived, Time, Times, Upper, Various.

SGER: Triassic-Jurassic Mass Extinction Caused by Volcanism? Bio- and Magnetostratigraphic Tests in Eastern North America and Morocco
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Dennis V Kent($75,846), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Camp Flows, Eastern North, Mass Extinction, Mass Extinctions, Reverse Polarity, Tr-j Boundary, Anomaly, Approach, Below, Continent, Core, Evidence, Fundy, Has, Interval, Ir, K-T, Largest, Moroccan, Morocco, Newark, Section, Strata, Synchronous, Tr-j, Zone.

Collaborative Research: A New Vertebrate Fauna from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of Utah: Ecological and Evolutionary Implications
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Ian Miller($10,000), Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver
2. Scott D Sampson($49,974), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Kaiparowits And Wahweap, Kaiparowits Basin, Kaiparowits Formation, Late Cretaceous, Vertebrate Fauna, Wahweap Formations, Biogeographic, Compare, Complete, Context, Continent, Dinosaurs, Ecosystems, Evolutionary, Expand, Interior, Johnson, Landmasses, Million, North, Particular, Past, Phylogenetic, Southern, Species, Terrestrial, Theropods, Units, Utah, Variety, WIB.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: TESTING THE TECTONIC UPLIFT-WEATHERING HYPOTHESIS FOR THE LATE ORDOVICIAN GREENHOUSE-ICEHOUSE TRANSITION
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2008; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Stephen A Leslie($48,000), James Madison University, Harrisonburg
2. Matthew R Saltzman($170,000), Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE, Columbus
Key terms: Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Ordovician Climate, Organic Carbon, Organic Matter, Seafloor Hydrothermal, Silicate Weathering, Burial, Carbonate, Conodont, Continent, Cooling, Has, Information, Inputs, Isotopes, Isotopic, Nd, Obtain, Pis, Proxy, Seawater, Sr, Srsr, Time, Times, Transition, Was.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Atmospheric Dust as an Archive and Agent of Climate ChangeDuring the Late Paleozoic Icehouse
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2008; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Timothy W Lyons($200,018), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
2. Michael J Soreghan($449,448), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
3. Vladimir I Davydov($142,480), Boise State University, Boise
4. Natalie M Mahowald($143,095), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Direct And Indirect, Atmospheric Dust, Atmospheric Dustiness, Dust Flux, Indirect Effects, Late Paleozoic, Assess, Behavior, Carbon, Climate, Dusty, Earth, Examine, Geologic, Ice, Life, Localities, Marine, Modeling, Models, Museum, Oklahoma, Pis, Predictive, Soreghan, Time, Tropics, Variable, Was, World.

SGER: An Impact Event at the Onset of the Younger Dryas: Search for Evidence from the Western United States and Europe
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Kenneth L Verosub($48,877), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Climate, Climatic, Cometary, Consistent, Dryas, Evidence, Found, Global, Has, Onset, Processes.

Collaborative Research: Feeding and Diet at the Origin of Whales: Evolution, Function, and Development
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Johannes G Thewissen($259,379), Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown
Key terms: Feeding And Diet, Artiodactyl-to-whale Transition, Artiodactyls-whale Transition, Five Approaches, Fossil Whales, Stable Isotopes, Wear Facets, Whale Origins, Animals, Artiodactyl-to-whale, Artiodactyls-whale, Chewing, Controlling, Dental, Derived, Diets, Dolphin, Evolution, Food, Mammals, Modern, Morphology, Processing, Program, Sessions, Specific, Teeth, Water.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Feeding and Diet at the Origin of Whales: Evolution, Development and Function
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Mark T Clementz($51,768), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Feeding And Diet, Artiodactyl-to-whale Transition, Artiodactyls-whale Transition, Five Approaches, Fossil Whales, Stable Isotopes, Wear Facets, Whale Origins, Animals, Artiodactyl-to-whale, Artiodactyls-whale, Chewing, Controlling, Dental, Derived, Diets, Dolphin, Evolution, Food, Mammals, Modern, Morphology, Processing, Program, Sessions, Specific, Teeth, Water.

Carboniferous-Permian Paleoclimate Data System
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2008; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Walter S Snyder($676,514), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Carboniferous And Permian, Earth's Climate, Available, Education, Efforts, ICS, International, Paleoclimate, Paleostrat.

Carboniferous chemostratigraphy: Do epicontinental seas reflect global ocean conditions?
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2008; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Ethan L Grossman($290,801), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Panthalassa And Rheic, Carbon Cycling, Epicontinental Sea, Epicontinental Seas, Marine Geochemical, Rheic Ocean, Basin, Carboniferous, Climate, Conditions, Degree, Delta, Global, North, Oceanic, Paleochemical, Paleotropics, Proxies, Shallow, Tectonic, Thomas.

Continuous Geomagnetic Field Records During Snowball Earth: Critical Tests of Cryogenian Uniformitarianism
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Joseph L Kirschvink($203,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Continuous Geomagnetic Field, Elatina Glacial Deposits, Elatina Rhythmites, Frequent Geomagnetic, Geomagnetic Secular, Late Neoproterozoic, Syn-sedimentary Folds, Age, Cap, Carbonate, Climate, Deglacial, Depositional, Evidence, Genuinely, Intervals, Low-paleolatitude, Magnetization, Millimeter-scale, Modern, Origin, Paleomagnetic, Possibly, Producing, Purported, Reversals, Rock, Sediments, Semi-diurnal, Signal, Snowball, South, Syn-sedimentary, Unit, Weak.

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. Liviu Giosan($75,825), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
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.

Exploring the Early History of the South Tibetan Fault System in Bhutan
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2009; Program: Tectonics

1. Kip V Hodges($279,717), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Himalaya And Tibetan, South Tibetan Fault, Tibetan Plateau, Climate, Deformation, History, Kinematics, Mountain, Remnants.

Collaborative Research: Testing Burial/Exhumation Models for the Evolution of a (U)HP Terrane in an Orogenic Upper Plate, Liverpool Land, East Greenland
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Tectonics

1. Scott M Johnston($114,941), California Polytechnic State University Foundation, San Luis Obispo
2. Hannes K Brueckner($112,149), CUNY Queens College, Flushing
Key terms: Ll Gneiss Complexes, Liverpool Land, Mountain Range, Mountain Ranges, Uhp Terranes, Baltica, Beneath, Caledonides, Continent, Correlated, Deformation, Difficulty, Exhumation, Geologists, Greenland, Has, History, Levels, Lithosphere, Mantle, Models, Processes, Rock, Roots, Structural, Studying, Tectonostratigraphic.

Collaborative Research: Linking Fluid-rock Interaction and Strain Accumulation in a Naturally Deformed Diamictite, Implications for Hydrolytic Weakening and Reaction Softening
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Tectonics

1. Dyanna M Czeck($166,374), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
2. W.A. Yonkee($26,493), Weber State University, Ogden
Key terms: Deformation Mechanisms, Hydrolytic Weakening, Mechanical Behavior, Progressive Strain, Bulk, Chemical, Cobbles, Control, Deformed, Electron, Estimated, Infrared, Laboratory, Lithosphere, Mountain, Processes, Rock, Strength, Strong, X-ray.

One Year Renewal Request: Investigation of Syncollisional Extension and Basin Development in the High Himalaya
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Tectonics

1. Peter G DeCelles($49,733), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Central Tibet, Intercontinental Collision, Kailas Formation, Ocean Chemistry, Suture Zone, Tibetan Plateau, Age, Ago, Cenozoic, Climate, Dynamics, Elevation, Elevations, Evolution, Focused, Has, Implications, Indo-asian, Lakes, Mechanics, Million, Mountain, Previously, Regional, Rock, Thick, Time, Timing, Was.

Tectonic Evolution and Paleoclimatic History of the Basin and Range Province: New Constraints from Clumped-Isotope Thermometry
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Tectonics

1. Paul L Koch($148,241), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Global Climate, Late Cretaceous, Past Elevations, Tectonic Evolution, Western Cordillera, Ago, Critical, Eocene, Has, History, Hydrology, Isotope, Million, Nevada, North, Simulations, Temperature, Time, Topography.

The Influence of Pre-existing Zones of Weakness on the 3D Geometry and Evolution of Extensional Faults and Folds
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Tectonics

1. Martha Withjack($205,400), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Fault-related Folds Produced, Faults And Fault-related, Scaled Experimental Modeling, Computer Software, Deformation Produced, Experimental Models, Fault-related Folds, Pre-existing Zones, Three-dimensional Deformation, Three-dimensional Seismic-reflection, Clay, Conditions, Containing, Crust, Earth, Gas, Geoscientists, Has, Influence, Limitation, Pre-existing, Rift, Rifting, Seismic-reflection, Tectonic, Thin, Three-dimensional, Time, Weakness.

Quantification of Unsteady Fault Slip and Fold Growth, Apennine Front, Italy
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Tectonics

1. Frank J Pazzaglia($318,701), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
Key terms: Blind Thrust Faults, Fault Slip Unsteadiness, Climatic Cycles, Mountain Front, Deformation, Differentially, Earth, Earthquakes, Gaps, Italy, Million, Northern, Processes, Rates, Resolution, Seismic, Surface, Time.

Collaborative Research: Testing Hypotheses for the Laramide Orogeny
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Tectonics

1. Bradley B Sageman($48,226), Northwestern University, Evanston
2. Lang Farmer($330,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Forces Acting, Laramide Orogeny, Mountain Building, Rocky Mountains, Activity, Aspects, Central, Colorado, Creation, Deposits, Development, Focuses, Geometry, Has, Igneous, Lithosphere, Magmatism, Nature, Origin, Plate, Region, Relative, Resolution, Resources, Slab, Southern, Subduction, Thick, Timing, Was, Western, Wyoming.

Collaborative Research: Development of Extensional Systems in Regions of Hot, Thick Crust: Insight from Tibet
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: Tectonics

1. Paul Kapp($88,030), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Brian K Horton($75,163), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
3. Daniel F Stockli($154,019), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: High-angle Normal Faults, Detachment Faults, High-angle Normal, Isostatic Rebound, Rift Basin, Thick Crust, Active, Basins, Bounded, Characterized, Continent, Extension, Extensional, Hot, Levels, Low-angle, Mid-crustal, Modern, Progressive, Regions, Rifts, Tibet, Tibetan, Underlain.

Collaborative Research: Neoproterozoic Rifting of Utah: Geochronology, Tectonics, Sequence Stratigraphy
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Tectonics

1. Paul Karl Link($117,081), Idaho State University, Pocatello
2. Carol Dehler($88,931), Utah State University, Logan
3. W.A. Yonkee($32,192), Weber State University, Ogden
Key terms: Hf Isotopic Analysis, Models Remain Controversial, Various Plate Reconstructions, Mass Spectrometry, Neoproterozoic Strata, Rift Initiation, Rifting History, U-pb Dating, Western Laurentia, Ages, Ago, Break, Critical, Detrital, Development, Idaho, Ion, Million, Rodinia, Stratigraphic, U-pb, Utah, Volcanic, Zircon, Zircons.

Microstructure in Marble: Comparison of Dislocation and Grain Structure Produced in Natural and Laboratory Deformation
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Tectonics

1. None($299,989), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Confining Pressures, Conventional Triaxial, Mechanical Properties, Morcles Nappe, Strain Rates, Collected, Comparison, Conditions, Creep, Deformation, Deformed, Detailed, Dislocation, Evolution, Experimentation, Extreme, Failure, Fault, Grain, Influence, Investigate, Kelvin, Less, Localization, Megapascals, Microscopes, Microstructure, Mountain, Natural, Observations, Potsdam, Processes, Rock, Shear, Strength, Swiss, Temperature, Temperatures, Thrust.

Collaborative Research: Dynamics at the Base of a Pseudotachylyte-bearing Fault System
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2008; Program: Tectonics

1. David West($51,124), Middlebury College, Middlebury
2. Scott E Johnson($209,999), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: 3d Numerical Experiments, Kinematic Boundary Conditions, Mean Kinematic Vorticity, Orientations And Magnitudes, San Andreas Fault, Stress And Vorticity, 3d Numerical, Active Faults, Fault Zone, Numerical Modeling, Stress Orientations, Stress Tensor, Tightly Constrained, Vorticity Estimates, Depths, Differential, Elastic, Exhumed, Field, Field-derived, Maine, Microstructural, NFS, Near, Picture, Reason, Strength, Stresses, Student, Surface.

Crustal Strength Profiles Across the Brittle-Ductile Transition
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2008; Program: Tectonics

1. John P Platt($270,019), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Exhumation And Cooling, Behavior Characteristic, Bulk Strength, Continental Crust, Tectonic Plates, Upper Crust, BDT, Brittle, Deformation, Ductile, Earthquakes, Estimates, Exhumed, Features, Forces, Grain, Immediately, Isotopic, Mechanical, Microstructural, Mineral, Processes, Rock, Stress, Surface, Temperature, Transition.

Studies of Plateau Uplift Using 4He/3He Apatite Thermochronometry and 13C-18O Carbonate Paleothermometry
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Tectonics

1. John M Eiler($211,173), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Grand Canyon, Plateau Interior, Sea Level, Surface Uplift, Ago, Carbon-oxygen, Clumped, Constraints, Cooling, Cretaceous, Crust, Current, Elevation, Erosional, Has, Lower, Million, Modern, Northwest, Occurred, Region, Rock, Southeast, Southwestern, Suggest, Time, Topographic, Unroofing, Was.

Collaborative Research: The Cretaceous Sierra Nevada Batholith in the Northwestern Basin and Range: Its Intrusive History and Erosional Exhumation
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Tectonics

1. Elizabeth L Miller($78,496), Stanford University, Stanford
2. James E Wright($52,288), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Basin And Range, Northwestern Nevada, Sierra Nevada, Ago, Ancient, Batholith, Beneath, California, Continue, Cretaceous, Detail, East, Engage, Eroded, Evolution, Granites, Has, Local, Million, Northern, Plateau, Region, Rock, Volume, Was, Western.

Inner Forearc Deformation Along an Erosive Convergent Margin, Northeastern Japan
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Tectonics

1. Eric Kirby($355,032), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Inner Forearc Uplift, Outer Forearc Subsidence, Basal Erosion, Continental Margin, Erosion Rates, Erosive Margins, Marine Terraces, Mass Balance, Permanent Strain, Subduction Zones, Analysis, Darwin, Denudation, Evidence, Long-term, Sea, Shortening.

Collaborative Research: What is the Strength of Low-Angle Normal Faults?
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2008; Program: Tectonics

1. Gary J Axen($237,297), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
2. Jane Selverstone($148,564), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Low-angle Normal Faults, Fluid Inclusion, Low-angle Normal, San Andreas, Seismogenic Zone, Strike-slip Faults, West Salton, Allow, Arrays, California, Complementary, Conditions, Crust, Detachment, Field, Footwalls, Histories, Mechanical, Orientation, Oriented, Pose, Pressure, Rock, Seismic, Stress, Strike-slip, Structural, Tensile, Upper, Weak, Whipple.

Uplift History of the Cordillera Occidental, Southern Peru, from Canyon Geomorphology
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: Tectonics

1. Kip V Hodges($21,712), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Colca And Cotahuasi, Cotahuasi River, River Incision, Altiplano, Andes, History, MIT, Methods, Models, Reconstructions, Remnants, Terraces, Uplift, Volcanic, Western.

RUI: Paleomagnetic, Geochemical and Age Discrimination of ~18-19 Ma Tuffs of the Colorado River Extensional Corridor
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: Tectonics

1. Robert J Varga($10,691), Whitman College, Walla Walla
Key terms: Ash Flow Tuffs, Assessing Structural Rotations, Colorado River Extensional, Extensional Growth Fault, Growth Fault Basins, Peach Springs Tuff, River Extensional Corridor, 18-19 Ma, 18-19 Million, Correlation, Direction, Eruption, Highly, Paleomagnetic, Possibly, Previously, Ranges, Regional, Represent, Stratigraphic, Time, Units, Western, Widely.

Unraveling the San Gorgonio Knot: Numerical and Analog Investigations
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2008; Program: Tectonics

1. Michele Cooke($192,823), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Analog And Numerical, San Andreas Fault, San Gorgonio Pass, Active Fault, Fault Evolution, Fault Strands, Numerical Models, Southern California, Abandonment, Activities, Combination, Comparison, Complexity, Configuration, Constrain, Deformation, Developed, Geologic, Innovative, Million, Modeling, Past, Present-day, Region, Seismic, Slip, Strike-slip, Students, Three-dimensional.

Collaborative Research: Microstructural and Modeling Constraints on Strain Localization, LPO Development and Rheology of the Upper Mantle
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Tectonics

1. James G Hirth($198,276), Brown University, Providence
2. Marc W Spiegelman($241,347), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Grain Size Evolution, Intermediate Depth Earthquakes, Lattice Preferred Orientation, Shear Heating Instabilities, Viscous Shear Heating, Finite Strain, Flow Laws, Josephine Peridotite, Laboratory Studies, Plate Boundaries, Shear Zones, Strain Localization, Upper Mantle, Deformation, Development, Geodynamical, Modeling, Models, Processes, Reproduce, Rheology.

Collaborative Research: Towards a Quaternary Spatial and Temporal Deformation History at the Central Andean Thrust Front
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Tectonics

1. James H Foster($114,382), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Deformation History, Hanging Wall, Analysis, Andean, Anticline, Anticlines, Blind-thrusts, Dated, Drainage, Fault, Faults, Geomorphic, Intersection, Juan, Rates, Region, Risk, Seismic, Structural, Structures, Tectonic, Temporally, Thick-skinned, Thin-skinned, Thrust, Variable.

Collaborative Research: Reactivation of Continental Margin Fracture Zones: Insights From Seismicity, Strain Patterns, and Numerical Modeling of Modern and Ancient Orogens
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Tectonics

1. Jean M Crespi($205,013), University of Connecticut, Storrs
2. Jonathan C Lewis($36,619), Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana
Key terms: Collisional Orogenic Belts, Continental Margin Fracture, Margin Fracture Zones, Modern And Ancient, Collisional Zones, Mechanical Modeling, Mountain Chains, Tectonic Plate, Brittle, Crust, Deformation, Development, Downgoing, Ongoing, Reactivation, Rock, Strain, Taconic, Taiwan, Three-dimensional.

Collaborative Research: Cenozoic Tectonics and Surface Uplift in North-Central Tibet
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2008; Program: Tectonics

1. Bradley D Ritts($35,659), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
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.

A Test of the Existence of the Eurasian - North American Plate Boundary on Sakhalin Island
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2008; Program: Tectonics

1. Mikhail Kogan($28,106), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Southern Kuril Arc, Earthquake Cycle, Eastern Asia, Natural Gas, Pacific Plate, Plate Boundary, Sakhalin Island, Strain Accumulation, Advantage, Disastrous, Dynamics, Eurasian, GPS, Has, Main, Motion, North, Oil, Plates, Recently, Region, Relative, Stages, Subduction, Surveys, Vectors, Velocity.

Constraints on Large-Magnitude Extension Coupled to Subduction Channel Flow Above a Flat Slab Segment - Southern Sierra Nevada Region, California
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2008; Program: Tectonics

1. Jason B Saleeby($208,261), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Complete Life Cycle, Shallow Slab Segment, Continental Lithosphere, Continental Plate, Geometric Evolution, Oceanic Lithosphere, Overriding Plate, Subduction Zone, Subduction Zones, Analysis, Crust, Earthquake, Extension, Extensive, Flat, Indicating, Orogens, Processes, Rim, Strain, Subducted, Tectonic, Thermal.

Extensional Deformation in Convergent Systems
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: Tectonics

1. Lucy Flesch($211,874), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Analog Modeling, Convergent Margins, Extensional Stress, Finite Deformation, Numerical Modeling, Analysis, Development, Evolution, Plate, Specifically, Structural, Three-dimensional, Undergraduate.

Filling the Eastern Himalayan Gap: Structural Architecture and Kinematics of the Himalayan Orogen in Bhutan
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: Tectonics

1. Nadine McQuarrie($369,415), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Fold And Thrust, Eastern Portion, Lower Himalayan, Sedimentary Cover, Thrust Belt, Ages, Bhutan, Collision, Deformation, Deformed, Development, Estimates, Geometry, Handful, History, India, Kingdom, Lesser, Magnitude, Main, Minimum, Mountain, Northern, Quantify, Range, Regional, Rock, Shortening, Timing.

Collaborative Research: GPS Measurements and Deformation Modeling of Oblique Subduction and Strain Partitioning in the Northeastern Caribbean
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Tectonics

1. Glen S Mattioli($36,640), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Key terms: Converging Plates, Deformation Models, Northeastern Caribbean, Oblique Subduction, Overriding Plate, Plate Interface, Seismic Hazard, Strain Partitioning, Strike-slip Faults, Arc, Convergence, Coupling, Earthquakes, Factors, Forearc, GPS, Magnitude, Margin, Margins, Neighboring, Republic, Shear, Stress, Strike-slip, Tectonic, Western, Zones.

An REU Site for Undergraduate Research Training in the Geosciences
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: nan

1. Stephen A Gramsch($391,393), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Available, Campus, Carnegie, Department, Geosciences, Intellectual, Leading, Prepare, Program, Range, Student, Students, Summer.

UNAVCO Community and Facility Support: Geodesy Advancing Earth Science Research
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: nan

1. Eric Calais($24,133,175), UNAVCO, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: Education And Outreach, Precision Geodetic, Unavco Facility, Academic, Climate, Development, Dynamics, Earth, Engineering, Funding, GPS, Geodesy, Global, International, Maintenance, NASA, NSF, Planning, Programs, Provision, Public, Reference, Seismic, Staff, Surface, Techniques, Technology, Time.

NSF-GEO-EAR Awards for 2008

Collaborative Proposal: WCR - Hydrologic Regulation of Dissolved Organic Matter Biogeochemistry from Forests through River Networks Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: BE-UF: WATER CYCLE

Collaborative Research: Dynamics of carbon release and sequestration: Case studies of two early Eocene hyperthermals Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: BE: CARBON & WATER IN ES

Collaborative Research: Foreland basin development and biotic change in Late Ordovician trilobite faunas of eastern North America Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: CATALYZING INTERDISCIP ACTIVIT

Life history of modern elephants as a model for fossil proboscideans Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: CATALYZING INTERDISCIP ACTIVIT

Legacy Database of the Panama Paleontology Project Award Effective Date: 04/15/2008; Program: CATALYZING INTERDISCIP ACTIVIT

CDI-Type I: Geometric image analysis for computational knowledge discovery in geosciences Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: CDI TYPE I

CIG Workshop on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Solid Earth Geosciences Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: CESER-Cyberinfrastructure for

Collaborative Research: PICASSO: Program to Investigate Convective Alboran Sea System Overturn Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Subduction and Exhumation of Ultrahigh-Pressure Rocks: Field and Drilling Studies in Eastern China Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

TROPICS Science Plan Development Workshop at Rutgers University Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Collaborative Research: The Siberian Traps and the end-Permian Extinction: Coincidence and Causality Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Imaging the Upper Crust at Newberry Volcano Using Large-Offset Reflections Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

International Workshop on Electromagnetic (EM) Induction in the Earth, October 23-29, 2008 in Beijing, China Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Test of 3C recording with 1C instruments in association with High Lava Plains field program, for crustal shear-wave velocity, anisotropy, and lithology. Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Arc-continent Collisions and the Evolution of Continental Crust - A Mini-Workshop Award Effective Date: 01/15/2008; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

International Continental Scientific Drilling Program, ICDP Award Effective Date: 01/15/2008; 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: 01/01/2008; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Out of Africa: Geophysical Monitoring and Capacity Building around the World, Boston Massachusetts Workshop, February 18-19, 2008 Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: Catalyzing New Intl Collab

INTEROP - Geoscience Information Network Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: DATA INTEROPERABILITY NETWORKS

Unlocking the Inner Life of Cascadia Tremor with an Array of Arrays Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

Flexarray 3D Passive Seismic Imaging of Core-complex Extension in the Ruby Range, Nevada Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

New Insights into the Fine-scale Behavior of Subducted Slab Around the Transition Zone and in the Deep Mantle Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

SEIDCAR: Seismic Investigation of Edge-Driven Convection Associated with the Rio Grande Rift Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Modeling of the Byerly's False S Phase for the Earthquakes off the Coast of Northern California Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Wave Gradiometry for EarthScope Seismic and Strain Data Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Thermal Evolution of North American Lower Crust: U-Pb Thermochronological Constraints on the Seismic Properties of the Lithosphere Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Using Mineral Physics to Interpret Seismic Anisotropy of the Basin and Range Crust Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Strain Rates and Tectonic Processes in the Track of the Yellowstone Hotspot Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Making the San Andreas Fault at the Mendocino Triple Junction: Part II Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Teachers on the Leading Edge: Linking K-12 Earth Science Teachers to EarthScope Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Scientific Drilling into the San Andreas Fault: Rare Gas 'Ages' of Matrix Fluids in Drill Core and Fluid Dynamics Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Towards Better InSAR Event Detection: Modeling Atmospheric Artifacts Award Effective Date: 02/01/2008; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Earthscope Integrated Investigation of Cascadia Subduction Zone Tremor, Structure and Process Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Laboratory Study of the Mechanics and Physical Properties of the Active San Andreas Fault Zone From Phase III SAFOD Cores Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Mantle Dynamics and Magmatism Across the Basin and Range Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

EAR-PF: The Source and Composition of Refractory Dissolved Organic Matter Accumulating in Aquatic Environments Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

EAR-PF: Evaluating Strain Localization, Melt Localization, and Mantle Rheology in the Twin Sisters Ultramafic Body, Washington: A Multi-Scale Approach Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

EAR-PF: Biogeochemistry of Nitrogen Associated with Discharge of Coal Bed Methane Production Water: Transport and Fate in Western Watersheds Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

EAR-PF: Nanochronology and Moho Topography: Towards Precise and Accurate Constraints on the Evolution of North American Continental Lithosphere Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

EAR-PF: The Role of Diking in the Evolution of Continental Rift Systems Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

EAR-PF: The Geomorphic Response to Active Deformation in the Siwaliks of Northwest India: Implications for Seismic Hazard Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

SGER: Earth Science Literacy Initiative - Broad Community Review of Draft Documents, Consensus Building and Community Development Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Collaborative Research: Tectonic and Magmatic Implications of a Mid-Crustal, Sheeted Complex in a Tilted Arc Section, California Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

EAR-PF: Modeling the Effects of Variable Recharge and Conduit Geometry on Flow Through Karstic Aquifers Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

EAR-PF: Insect Damage on Leaves Through the Cenozoic in East Africa: The Impact of Geologic and Climatic Change at Multiple Temporal and Spatial Scales Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Acquisition of field geophysical equipment for teaching and research at Cornell University Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

EAR-PF: Calibrating the Paleosol CO2 Barometer by Monitoring Modern Calcic Soils Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Collaborative Research: The Earth Science Literacy Initiative Workshops Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Undergraduate Research Experiences in High Pressure Geophysics Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER: Seismic Imaging of the Earth's Mid-Mantle, the Deep Inner Core and Stress Transients Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER: Enhancing Thermodynamic Applications and Learning in Petrology (EnThALPy) Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

REU Site: Summer of Applied Geophysical Experience (SAGE) Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

REU Site: River and Coastal Restoration Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

A Workshop to Focus on Regional Strategies for Improving the Public Understanding of Science, Tampa Bay Florida, spring 2008 Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

REU Site: Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Biodiversity Conservation Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER: Effects of Hydration on the Physical Properties of Mantle Materials from Atomic to Geophysical Scales Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Board on Earth Sciences and Resources and Its Activities Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Geoscience Graduate Research Grants Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER: When Subduction Fails - Dynamical Models of Oceanic Plateau Collision and Crustal-Fragment Accretion Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Collaborative Research: Investigating the soil-earthworm-litter system controls on the stabilization of soil organic matter in Eastern deciduous forests Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

Collaborative Research:Refinement of Techniques for Estimating Evapotranspiration from Narrow Riparian Zones - Water Balance and Atmospheric Measurements Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

ETBC: Hidden Iron Oxide Redox Processes During Biogeochemical Iron Cycling: Controls on Nanoscale Transformations and the Fate of Contaminants Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

ETBC: Collaborative Research: "The Effect of Climate on the Terrestial Sulfur Cycle" Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

Collaborative Research: A Precipitation Dipole in Eastern North America: Issues of Space-Time Variability and Physical Mechanisms Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

Predicting In-Canopy Velocity and Retention Time for Aquatic Canopies Award Effective Date: 06/15/2008; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

Collaborative Research: Evolution of dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) from the headwaters to the catchment outlet: sources, variation with scale, and differences with DOC Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

MRI: Acquisition of an SEM-EDS-EBSD-CL Microanalytical System for Solid Earth and Climate Change Research Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Empirical and Theoretical Integration of Geochemical and Morphologic Evolution of Soil-Covered Hillslopes: Responses to Channel Incision Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: Determining Triggers for Subduction Accretion and Tectonic Erosion in a Mesozoic Accretionary Complex, Alaska Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: REU SITE: Coal Mining Impacts on Soil Carbon Storage and Impacts in Appalachian Headwater Streams: a Research Experience for Undergraduates Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: REU Site: Coal Mining Impacts on Soil Carbon Storage and Erosion in Appalachian Headwater Streams: A Research Experience for Undergraduates Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Experimental constraints on contributions of mycorrhizal symbioses to bedrock weathering of calcium and magnesium Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

First-Principles Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Silicate Liquids: Structure, Diffusion and Viscosity at Mantle Conditions Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Elasticity of Pyrope-Almandine-Grossular Garnet Solid Solution Series at High Pressure and Temperature using Ultrasonic Interferometry in Conjunction with Synchrotron Radiation. Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: Testing Mechanical Models of Himalayan Orogenesis in NW India Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Organic Acid Promoted Dissolution of Phosphate as Affected by its Solid State Speciation in Single and Mixed Fe, Al, Ca Mineral Systems: Implications for Phosphorus Bioavailability Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: Constraining the Timing and Nature of Proterozoic Metamorphism in the Northwest U.S. Cordillera Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: Near-Field Volcano Infrasound: Three-dimensional Seismo-Acoustic Wave Propagation Award Effective Date: 06/15/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Stable Isotopes of Dissolved Oxygen as Tracers of Chemical and Biological Processes In Groundwater. Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding