Participant Support for the Annual Technical Conference of the National Association of Black Geologists and Geophysicists, September 9-12 2009
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: ADVANCE - INSTITUTIONAL TRANSF

1. Stephen K Boss($41,345), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Key terms: Academic, Meeting, Sessions, Students.

Central American climates of the last interglacial
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: ARC Rsch Support & Logistics

1. Mark B Bush($375,199), Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne
Key terms: Costa Rica, Detailed Terrestrial, Interglacial Conditions, Mis 5e, Termination Ii, Analyses, Available, Central, Climate, Core, Cores, Deposition, Engaged, Forest, Holocene, Insights, Interglacials, Ka, Mexico, Past, Significance, Student, Tested, U-series, Warmer.

International Research Workshop: Peatland Archives of Holocene Climate Variability
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: ARC Rsch Support & Logistics

1. Robert K Booth($26,789), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Peatland Paleoclimatology, Advance, Archives, Climate, Europe, Expertise, Holocene, Hydrology, International, Latitudes, North, Participants, Peatlands, Sediments, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Pleistocene-Holocene Climate Variability of the Southern Appalachian Region, Southeastern U.S.
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: ARC Rsch Support & Logistics

1. None($61,058), Baylor University, Waco
2. Sally P Horn($344,861), University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville
Key terms: Temporal Resolution, Based, Characteristics, Climate, Conditions, Cultural, Floodplain, Has, Interior, MHWP, Multiple, Paleoclimate, Region, Regional, Southeastern, Teachers, Tennessee, Terrestrial, Time, Warming.

Collaborative Research: Facility Support: Building the INTERFACE Facility for Cm-Scale, 3D Digital Field Geology
Award Effective Date: 12/03/2008; Program: ARC Rsch Support & Logistics

1. John S Oldow($183,140), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
Key terms: Software Tools, Available, Equipment, Establish, Establishment, Facility, Obtaining, Surface, TLS, UNAVCO, Users.

Collaborative Research: Dynamics of carbon release and sequestration: Case studies of two early Eocene hypsithermals
Award Effective Date: 01/30/2008; Program: BE: CARBON & WATER IN ES

1. Heather M Stoll($121,973), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
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.

Quantifying the Role of Mixing Interfaces in Biogeochemical Cycling in a Contaminated Aquifer-Wetland System: Linking Hydrogeological, Microbiological and Geochemical Processes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: BE: COUPLED BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYC

1. Jennifer T McGuire($236,176), University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul
Key terms: Fate And Transport, Water And Ecosystem, Drinking Water, Electron Acceptors, Hydrologic Conditions, Mixing Interfaces, Numerical Models, Teap Dynamics, Terminal Electron, Activity, Complex, Contaminants, Controls, Coupled, Delivery, Developed, Expected, Geochemical, In-situ, Integrate, Kinetic, Limiting, Microbial, Microbiological, Nutrients, Potential, Processes, Public, Quantify, Rates, Redox, Small-scale, Subsurface, Teaps, Widely, Zones.

Community Workshop on Climate Change Education
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: CCLI-Type 1 (Exploratory)

1. Ines Cifuentes($45,260), American Geophysical Union, Washington
Key terms: Nsf Program Staff, Climate, Education, Efforts, Formal, Informal, Workshop.

CDI-Type I- Bringing a Bayesian perspective to the study of large earthquakes and their impacts on the built environment
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: CDI TYPE I

1. Mark Simons($700,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Model Parameter Spaces, Bayesian Analysis, Built Environment, Earthquake Engineering, Forward Models, Ill-conditioned Inverse, Posterior Distributions, Structural Health, Application, Approaches, Developing, Dynamics, Exploring, Generation, High-dimensional, Ill-conditioned, Methods, Objectives, Observations, Parallel, Parameters, Software, Techniques.

CDI-Type I: A science and engineering programming and inverse modeling environment for massively parallel heterogeneous computing systems
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: CDI TYPE I

1. David J Lilja($604,060), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Cdi Theme, Engineering Computing, Heterogeneous Hardware, Inverse Modeling, Model Optimization, Analysis, Applications, Complex, Complexity, Environment, Implementations, Natural, Parameter, Programming, Theories.

Collaborative Research: CDI-Type II--Revolutionary Advances in Modeling Transport Phenomena in Porous Medium Systems
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2009; Program: CDI TYPE II

1. Cass T Miller($1,100,000), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
2. Carl T Kelley($300,000), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
3. Dorthe Wildenschild($300,000), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Flow And Transport, Natural And Engineered, Mathematical Analysis, Multiphase Flow, Porous Media, Porous Medium, Applications, Approach, Computation, Disciplines, Energy, Equations, Extraction, Flaws, Foundational, High-resolution, Involving, Lack, Methods, Modeling, Models, Multiscale, Physics, Processes, Produce, Range, Rigorous, Theory, Tools.

Theory of thermoelastic properties of iron bearing minerals
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: CI REUSE

1. Matteo Cococcioni($405,053), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Earth's Interior, Extreme Conditions, Mineral Physics, Strongly Correlated, Elastic, Electrons, Especially, Input, Iron, Magnetic, Mantle, Methods, Minerals, Package, Phases, Properties, Spin, Training.

Acquisition of a New Electron Imaging Facility in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Arizona
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. George E Gehrels($420,409), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Scanning Electron Microscope, ALC, Arizona, BSE, Back-scattered, Color, Diffraction, EBSD, EDS, Facility, Geosciences, Identification, Images, Imaging, Minerals, Obtained, U-bearing.

Collaborative Research: Investigating the Relationship Between Pluton Growth and Volcanism at Two Active Intrusions in the Central Andes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Matthew E Pritchard($631,579), Cornell University, Ithaca
2. Shanaka L de Silva($375,810), Oregon State University, Corvallis
3. Noah Finnegan($443,795), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
4. Stephen R McNutt($1,517,928), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Crustal Magma, Ignimbrite Eruption, Magma Chamber, Magma Chambers, Has, Insar, Opportunity, Rates, Size, Uplift.

Workshop on Geophysical Studies of Continental Rift Initiation at Woods Hole Oceanographic institution in Massachusetts, March, 2009
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Eliot A Atekwana($18,887), Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
Key terms: Continental Rift, Continental Rifting, Focused, Initiation, Investigations, Logistics, Stages, Workshop.

CZO: Luquillo Critical Zone Observatory
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Susan L Brantley($4,346,611), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Key terms: Critical Zone, Bedrock, CZO, Climate, Environment, Erosion, Luquillo, Observatory, Processes, Soil, Water, Watersheds.

CZO: Transformative Behavior of Water, Energy and Carbon in the Critical Zone: An Observatory to Quantify Linkages among Ecohydrology, Biogeochemistry, and Landscape Evolution
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Peter A Troch($4,350,000), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Energy And Mass, Water And Carbon, Critical Zone, Cz Structure, Jrb-scm Czo, Landscape Evolution, Activities, Approach, Biogeochemistry, Biological, Biota, Chemical, Climate, Components, Designed, Developed, Developing, Development, Ecohydrology, Efforts, Feedbacks, Field, Flux, Fluxes, Function, Gradients, Integrated, JRB-SCM, Modeling, Multi-disciplinary, Observation, Observatory, Parent, Processes, Sites, Students.

Travel Grant Proposal: Travel support for young researchers to attend the HEPEX09 downscaling workshop
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Eric F Wood($20,000), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: HEPEX, Workshop.

Request for NSF Hydrologic Sciences (HS) Support for the GEWEX/iLEAPS International Scientific Conference on the Global Energy and Water Cycle, Melbourne, Australia, 24-28 Aug 2009
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Robert A Schiffer($15,000), University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore
Key terms:

Impacts and Consequences of Predicted Climate Change on Andean Glaciation and Runoff
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Mathias Vuille($44,503), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Regional Climate Model, Tropical Andean Glaciers, Future Climate, Future Water, Glacier Retreat, Mass Balance, Tropical Andes, Water Shortage, Adaptation, Affect, Anticipated, Availability, Century, Consequences, Evident, Gain, Gcms, ITGG, Input, Knowledge, Mitigation, Observational, Predict, Projections, Resolution, Runoff, Simulate, Strategies, Warming.

Spatio-temporal variations of seismicity and coupling in the Himalaya
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Jean-Philippe Avouac($321,923), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Main Himalayan Thrust, Strain And Seismicity, Earthquake Nucleation, Geodetic Strain, Interseismic Strain, Landwater Storage, Nepal Himalaya, Stress Build, Advance, Creeps, Deficit, Does, Earthquakes, Fault, Has, Heterogeneous, Locking, MHT, Nucleationthe, Probably, Rate, Slip, Spatial, Temporal.

Upgrades to the NSF Arizona Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Warren Beck($496,411), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Arizona Ams Laboratory, Allow, Conditions, Equipment, Machines, Modern, NSF, Service, Standards, Upgrades.

The Mantle Melt Column and Melt Migration Revealed by Deglaciation Melting Beneath Iceland's Western Rift Zone
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Garrett T Apuzen-Ito($295,743), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Eruption Rates, Geochemical Analyses, Glacial Unloading, Mantle Melting, Melt Migration, Melt Transport, Chemistry, Component, Constrain, Diverse, Field, Geologic, Has, Hawaii, Ice, Iceland, Magma, Mapping, Modeling, Observations, Period, Perturbations, Range, Students, Training, Volcanic.

Collaborative Research: Probing the Earth System in Patagonia: Crustal motion in relation to tectonics, earth structure, the hydrological cycle and climate change
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Robert Smalley($312,506), University of Memphis, Memphis
Key terms: Annual And Inter-annual, Annual Hydrological Cycles, Calibrated And Validated, Crustal Motion Geodesy, Densely Inhabited Coastal, Economy And Degrade, Elastic And Viscoelastic, Greenland Ice Sheets, Ice Sheet Evolution, In-phase Seasonal Oscillations, Infrastructure Supporting Hundreds, Recovery And Climate, Reverse Global Warming, Sea Level Rise, Social Infrastructure Supporting, Southern Hemisphere Outside, Tremendous Societal Importance, Adjacent Bedrock, Calibration Information, Climate Experiment, Direct Observations, Enable Grace, Geographical Focus, Global Economy, Gravity Recovery, Growing Evidence, Ice Fields, Ice Gain, Ice Loss, Ice Mass, In-phase Seasonal, Instantaneous Elastic, Largest Body, Mass Transfer, Mitigate Developments, Modern Climate, Percentage Terms, Pgr Correction, Postglacial Rebound, Primary Approach, Quickly Detect, Rapidly Wasting, Regional Geophysics, Relating Annual, Serious Danger, Seriously Damage, Seriously Problematic, Surface Load, Time Scales, Useful Input, Viscoelastic Modeling, Weighing Machine, Abrupt, Accelerating, Amount, Antarctic, Antarctica, Assess, Available, Break, Broadest, Collapse, Contribute, Demonstrates, Earth, Effect, Effects, Essential, Explore, Extreme, Faster, GPS, Governments, Inundating, Late, Loading, Metrology, Millions, Obtained, Oceans, Overlapping, POLENET, Patagonia, People, Phenomena, Possesses, Powerless, Predictions, Prevent, Rates, Respond, Severity, Solid, Swaths, Task, Tectonic, Widely, Worldwide.

Acquisition of a subsurface radar imaging facility at Penn State
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Peter LaFemina($164,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Near Subsurface, Equipment, GPR, Glacial, Ground, Ice, Image, Imaging, Investigations, Structure.

CAREER: Investigations on the elastic and vibrational properties of mantle silicates and oxides
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2010; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Jennifer M Jackson($524,611), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Established Synchrotron Methods, Iron And Aluminum, Silicates And Oxides, Undergraduate And Graduate, Graduate Students, Lower Mantle, Mantle Silicates, Obtain Equations, Pressure-temperature Conditions, Synchrotron Experiments, Virtual Beam-line, X-ray Diffraction, Access, Accurate, Apply, Beam-line, Caltech, Candidate, Chemical, Comparing, Constraints, Deep, Density, Determined, Effort, Experimental, Facilities, Geophysical, Limited, Mentorship, National, Observed, Origin, Phases, Pressure-temperature, Program, Properties, Remote, SURF, Seismological, Shear, Technical, Typically, Velocities, X-ray.

Pre-Earthscope Workshop Proposal: Tectonic Targets for Earthscope in the Midcontinent
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Stephen Marshak($29,500), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Crust And Mantle, Central Midcontinent, Cratonic Platform, Cratonic Platforms, Illinois Basin, Mantle Beneath, Ozark Plateau, Precambrian Rocks, Sea Level, Target Region, Billion, Character, Contact, Continent, Earthscope, Earthscope-related, Evolution, Familiar, Formation, Geologic, Geological, Geophysical, Lithosphere, North, Opportunity, Paleozoic, Regions, Remained, Tectonic, Whereas, Workshop, Zones.

Building Ice-Age Dyngjufjöll: Processes, Products and Environments
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Ian Skilling($305,746), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Large-volume Volcanogenic Meltwater, Large-volume Volcanogenic, Analysis, Approach, Austurfjoll, Detailed, Drainage, Dyngjufjoll, Glacial, Glaciovolcanic, Glass, Has, History, Ice, Iceland, Interaction, Models, Potential, Processes, Products, Recognized, Rock, Sequences, Sheet, Source, Terrestrial, Thicknesses, Volcanoes.

CMG COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Advanced Computational Models for Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Michael A Celia($350,000), Princeton University, Princeton
2. Vladimir N Temlyakov($300,000), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: 21st Century, Anthropogenic Emissions, Atmospheric Concentration, Carbon Capture, Carbon Dioxide, Eulerian-lagrangian Methods, Geological Storage, Simulation Approaches, Undergraduate Students, Wide Range, Activities, Allow, Analysis, Captured, Computational, Concentrated, Development, Domains, Efficient, Environmental, Equations, Eulerian-lagrangian, Flow, Fluid, Focuses, Implies, Injection, Involve, Large-scale, Leakage, Multicomponent, Multiphase, Parameters, Solutions, Subsurface, Technological, Transport, Uncertainties.

Collaborative Research: A global examination of the subduction zone flow field from seismic anisotropy
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Maureen D Long($141,109), Yale University, New Haven
2. Christopher R Kincaid($58,367), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
3. Laurent Montesi($149,851), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: 2-d Corner Flow, Flow Dominates Beneath, Laboratory And Numerical, Mantle Flow Field, Shear Wave Splitting, 2-d Corner, 3-d Flow, Downgoing Plate, Global Survey, Mantle Dynamics, Mantle Wedge, Numerical Modeling, Seismic Anisotropy, Splitting Observations, Subduction Zone, Subduction Zones, Trench Migration, Alternative, Below, Characterize, Control, Explore, Has, Implications, Interacts, Parameters, Regions, Slab, Systematic, Undertake, Velocity.

CSEDI: Dynamics of Subducted Slabs in the Transition Zone: Compressible Convection with Self-Consistent Equation of State
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Ross J Angel($253,720), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Subducted Oceanic Lithosphere, Convection Calculations, Mantle Convection, Thermodynamic Database, Transition Zone, Anomalies, Available, Dynamics, Equation, Future, Lying, Mineral, Morphology, Parameters, Phase, Plate, Pressure, Properties, Shown, Slab, Slabs, Software, Specific, Subduction, Temperature.

Collaborative Research: Growth of the Tibetan Plateau and Eastern Asia Climate: Clues to Understanding the Hydrological Cycle
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Carmala N Garzione($171,900), University of Rochester, Rochester
2. Richard L Edwards($340,441), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
3. Warren Beck($364,991), University of Arizona, Tucson
4. Peter H Molnar($397,169), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
5. Nathan A Niemi($322,553), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
6. John M Eiler($186,643), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
7. John E Kutzbach($442,183), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
8. Inez Fung($382,583), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
9. Gerard Roe($463,269), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Perturbs Atmospheric Circulation, Atmosphere Transports, Eastern Asia, Hydrological Cycle, Tibetan Plateau, Time Scales, Accordingly, Affects, Climate, Continent, Crust, Evolving, Field, Focus, Grown, Has, Isotopes, Laboratory, Lithosphere, Paleoclimatic, Past, Processes, Quantify, Techniques, Terrain, Thickening, Topographic.

GOALI: The use of logging and surface NMR measurements to estimate hydraulic conductivity in unconsolidated aquifers
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Yi-Qiao Song($761,000), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Logging And Surface-based, Nmr Relaxation Times, Obtain Reliable Estimates, Groundwater Aquifers, Hydraulic Conductivity, Magnetic Resonance, Nmr Logging, Obtain Estimates, Surface-based Nmr, Unconsolidated Aquifers, Acquisition, Applications, Approach, Characterization, Expertise, Field, Growing, Has, Laboratory, Measure, Modeling, Petroleum, Properties, Resources, Schlumberger-doll, Stanford, Water.

RAPID: Systematic Quantification of River-bed Gravel Characteristics that Promote Salmon Spawning
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Clifford S Riebe($67,467), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Pacific Salmon Species, Pink And Chinook, Chinook Salmon, Fish Size, Little Quantitative, River Restoration, Basis, Bed, Coarse, Expected, Gravel, Largest, Mechanistic, Redd, Return, Rivers, Spawning.

RUI: Investigating Disagreements Between Geologically and Geodetically Estimated Slip Rates for the San Bernardino and San Gorgonio Pass Sections of the San Andreas Fault
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2009; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Sally F McGill($340,482), University Enterprises Corporation at CSUSB, San Bernardino
Key terms: Gorgonio Pass Sections, San Andreas Fault, San Bernardino Mountains, San Gorgonio Pass, School Teachers, Slip Rates, Strain Accumulation, Undergraduate Students, Arizona, California, Campaign, Discrepancy, Elastic, GPS, Geodetic, Holocene, Millimetersyear, Modeling, Pleistocene, Region, Summer, Survey-mode, Under-represented, Week-long.

Collaborative Research: Understanding Lithospheric Suturing and Passive Margin Development Beneath the Southeastern U.S.
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Karen M Fischer($476,017), Brown University, Providence
2. Robert B Hawman($394,076), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Continental Break-up, Earthscope Usarray, North Carolina, Shear Zones, Accretion, Array, Break-up, Collision, Crust, Deformation, Dipping, Does, Florida, Georgia, Gondwana, Graduate, Imply, Lithosphere, Lithospheric, Mantle, Measure, Rock, Seismic, Stations, Subduction, Suture, Undergraduate, Velocities, Was.

Collaborative Research: Deformation and Magmatic Modification of a Steep Continental Margin, Western Idaho-eastern Oregon
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Jeffrey D Vervoort($243,840), Washington State University, Pullman
2. Basil Tikoff($326,935), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
3. John A Hole($755,207), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
4. Raymond M Russo($625,400), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Deformation And Magmatism, Idaho Shear Zone, Western Idaho Shear, Subsequent Deformation, Boundaries, Boundary, California, Continent, Evolution, Exposed, Florida, Geologic, Has, Kinematic, Lithosphere, Lithospheric, Margin, North, Oceanic, Processes, Region, Seismic, Structures, Students, Tectonic, Was, Washington.

Collaborative Research: Examining the Evolution of the Colorado Plateau and Its Relation to the Surrounding Tectonic Provinces Using USArray Data
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Alan R Levander($144,465), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
2. Meghan S Miller($160,094), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Basin And Range, Pds And Sdp, Surface Wave Tomography, Upper Mantle Structure, Usarray Transportable Array, Colorado Plateau, Graduate Students, Plate Boundary, Receiver Function, Receiver Functions, Rocky Mountains, Shear Velocity, Tectonic Provinces, Transition Zone, Velocity Structure, Absolute, Beneath, Cenozoic, Continent, Converted, Crust, Deeper, Discontinuities, Discontinuity, Evolution, Extension, Fluctuations, Frequency, Image, Images, Independent, Integrated, Jointly, LAB, Lithosphere, Models, North, Previous, Slab, Southern, Southwestern, Teleseismic, Vertical, Waves.

Collaborative Research: An Earthscope Magnetotelluric Survey of the Southern Cascadia Subduction System, Washington
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2009; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Philip E Wannamaker($375,047), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
2. Robert L Evans($280,356), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Cascadia Subduction, Earthscope Program, Mt Stations, Pacific Northwest, Subduction Zone, Beneath, Continent, Earthquakes, Fluid, Mount, Processes, Profile, Rectify, Seafloor, Seismic, Situation, Structure, Techniques, Volcanic, Washington.

Collaborative Research: USArray Data Processing Workshop for the Next Generation of Seismologists
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Suzan van der Lee($24,546), Northwestern University, Evanston
2. Gary L Pavlis($23,507), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Performance Computing, Concepts, Course, Design, Exercises, Expect, Processing, Program, Required, Students, Usarray, Workshop.

EAGER: Detecting Structural Changes During an ETS Event: Proof of Concept
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Paul G Silver($45,209), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Tremor And Slip, Episodic Tremor, Slab Interface, Approach, Cascadia, Deployed, Deployment, Experimental, Fluids, Line, Look, Permits, Phases, Phenomenon, Process, Seismic, Seismology, Source, Sources, Stations, Structural, Time-dependent.

Collaborative Research: Formation of Basement-involved Foreland Arches: An Integrated EarthScope Experiment
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Eric A Erslev($164,620), University of Wyoming, Laramie
2. Christine S Siddoway($134,441), Colorado College, Colorado Springs
3. Anne F Sheehan($715,091), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Crustal And Upper, Basement-involved Foreland, Bighorn Arch, Foreland Arches, Industry Subsurface, Seismic Experiment, Upper Mantle, Active, Basement-involved, Colorado, Component, Consists, Defines, Deployment, Development, Earthscope, Exposures, Geological, Geometries, Geophysical, Instruments, Integrated, Investigation, Lines, Lithospheric, Miller, Model, Passive, Seismometers, Siddoway, Structural, Surface, Texan, Thrust, Wyoming.

Revealing the Nature of Contemporary Uplift and Collapse in the Sierra Nevada - Great Basin System
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2009; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Hans-Peter Plag($474,930), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Gps Station, Gps Stations, Gravitational Collapse, Pilot Studies, Plate Boundary, Sierra Nevada, Vertical Motion, Accurately, Advances, Atmospheric, Basin, Center, Continuous, Effects, Extension, Height, Level, MAGNET, Modeling, Network, PBO, Pacific-north, Processes, Spatial, Time, Useful.

Seismic Noise and Episodic Tremor: Improving Models for External Sources to Improve Detection of Internal Ones
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Duncan Carr Agnew($57,143), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Anomalous Signals, Installed, Noise, Times.

Bimaterial Interfaces, Damage Zones, Earthquake Directivities and Signatures of Rupture Opening in the Parkfield Section of the San Andreas Fault
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Yehuda Ben-Zion($192,837), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Fault Zone Head, Fault Zone Layers, Zone Head Waves, Bimaterial Interfaces, Main Saf, Propagation Directions, Rupture Directivities, Rupture Mode, Symmetry Properties, Clarifying, Depth, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Faults, Focus, Imaging, Seismic, Velocity.

Crustal and Uppermost Mantle Anisotropy From Seismic Ambient Noise Data Observed on EarthScope/USArray
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Michael H Ritzwoller($234,830), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Crust And Uppermost, Western And Central, Ambient Noise, Azimuthal Anisotropy, Azimuthally Anisotropic, Eikonal Tomography, Local Constraints, Mantle Anisotropy, Surface Waves, Uppermost Mantle, Aims, Array, Beneath, Earthquake, Earthscopeusarray, Elsewhere, Intellectual, Method, Methodology, Model, Phase, Sec, Seismic, Track, Travel, Unique, Usarray, Vision, World.

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

1. Sean C Solomon($137,475), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Delay Time Estimates, Barometric Pressure, Elastic Properties, Numerical Modeling, Poroelastic Medium, Seismic Properties, Seismic Velocity, Stress Dependence, Stress Sensitivity, Active-source, Based, Calibration, Coda, Constraints, Corresponding, Crust, Datasets, Decades, Experiments, Field, Final, LBNL, Laboratory, Observed, Parkfield, Pis, Precision, RFS, S-wave, SAFOD, Sources, Spacing, Surface, Time-varying, Wave.

Dissertation Research: Conservative nitrogen cycling in wet tropical forests?
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2009; Program: ECOSYSTEM STUDIES

1. Alan R Townsend($14,990), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Gas Nitrous Oxide, Greenhouse Gas Nitrous, Wet Tropical Forests, Nitrogen Losses, Relative Excess, Ability, Aquatic, Climate, Controlling, Depends, Downstream, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Function, Isotopic, Life, Low, Measure, Multiple, Nitrate, Nutrient, Processes, Rainfall, Rates, Wettest.

EAR-PF: Biogeochemical Cycling of Manganese and Its Effect on Drinking Water Quality
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Lee D Bryant($160,000), Bryant Lee D, Blacksburg
Key terms: Mn Biogeochemical Cycling, Microbial Analyses, Mn Cycling, Water Quality, Aquatic, Controlled, Duke, Experiments, FEMMES, Field, Freshwater, Function, Gained, Integrated, Laboratory, Natural, Outreach, Oxygen, Oxygenation, Processes, Program, Reservoir, Sediment.

CAREER: Volatiles in the Earth's Interior: A combined theoretical and experimental approach
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2009; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Wendy R Panero($617,562), Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE, Columbus
Key terms: Upper And Lower, Electrical Conductivity, Lower Mantle, Solid-oxide Fuel, Transition Zone, Water Filter, Water Storage, Allow, Chemical, Courses, Depth, Design, Dry, Hydration, Mass, Minerals, Modules, Observed, Perovskites, Planet, Seismic, Solid-oxide, Stored, Temperature, Viscosity.

Collaborative Research: REU Site Project--Evolution of Precambrian Rocks in Yellowstone National Park
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2009; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Paul A Mueller($76,640), University of Florida, Gainesville
2. Darrell J Henry($34,623), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
3. David W Mogk($268,429), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Collaborative Writing Towards, Geochemistry And Geochronology, Mapping And Sampling, Peer-reviewed Journal Article, Analytical Studies, Peer-reviewed Journal, Precambrian Rocks, Activities, Analysis, Complete, Document, Experience, Field, Following, Formulation, Geologic, Meeting, Park, Participating, Preparation, REU, Students, YNP.

Comprehensive Approach to Watershed Characterization Focusing on the Source of New York City Water
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Shafiul H Chowdhury($308,646), SUNY College at New Paltz, New Paltz
Key terms: Characterization And Management, Natural Resources, Undergraduate Students, Watershed Characterization, York City, Applied, Approach, Decisions, Environmental, Interdisciplinary, Paltz, Program, REU, SUNY.

REU Site: Collaborative Research: Dune Undergraduate Geomorphology and Geochronology (DUGG) Project in Wisconsin
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. J. Elmo Rawling($282,838), University of Wisconsin-Platteville, Platteville
2. Paul Hanson($45,331), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln
Key terms: Dunes Formed, Undergraduate Training, Climate, Current, DUGG, Dating, Development, Dissemination, Estimate, Field, Geologic, History, Laboratory, Lake, Landscape, Regions, Respond, Responsible, Sediment, Sediments, Shoreline, Society, Students, Wisconsin.

REU Site: Interdisciplinary research in water resources at the University of Florida
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Kati W Migliaccio($305,132), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Water Resources, Activities, Eight, Experiences, Field, Florida, Interdisciplinary, Involve, Management, REU, Students.

REU Site: Summer Undergraduate Research Experiences in Biogeosciences at Iowa State University
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Amy L Kaleita($351,513), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: Engineering, Enhance, Environment, Environmental, Experience, Faculty, Graduate, Presentation, Program, Students, Undertake.

EAR-PF: TURBULENT AIR ENTRAINMENT IN PYROCLASTIC DENSITY CURRENTS
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Benjamin J Andrews($160,000), Andrews Benjamin J, Austin
Key terms: Pyroclastic Density Current, Pyroclastic Density Currents, Air Entrainment, Ash Plumes, Pyroclastic Flows, Velocity Field, Eruption, Expansion, Experiments, Hazard, Laboratory, Particle, Rate, Simulations, Students, Tank, Temperature, Travel, Turbulent, Undergraduate, Volcanic.

CAREER: Petrogenetic Affinity of Miocene Granites to Test the Mid-crustal Channel Flow Model in the Himalaya
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Mary L Leech($507,264), San Francisco State University, San Francisco
Key terms: Channel Flow Model, Himalaya Sequence, Indian Crust, Karakoram Fault, Miocene Granites, San Francisco, Southern Tibet, Tibetan Plateau, Beneath, California, Climate, Education, Elementary, Establish, Exposed, Front, Geosciences, Grade, Has, Instruction, K-, Processes, School, Teachers, Topographic.

EAR-PF: Experimental Investigation of the kinetics and mechanics of reaction-induced strain localization
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Eric T Goergen($160,000), Goergen Eric T, Minneapolis
Key terms: Reaction-induced Strain Localization, Bulk Composition, Experiments Carried, Reaction-induced Strain, Aims, Amounts, Chemical, Deformation, Development, Evolution, Integration, Investigating, Kinetic, Lherzolite, Rate, Rock, Strong, Undergraduate.

Episodic Tremor and Slip of the Cascadia Subduction Zone
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Gina M Schmalzle($160,000), Schmalzle Gina M, Miami
Key terms: Seismology And Gps, Sse And Ets, Earthquake Cycle, Lunar Tides, Subduction Zones, Variable Recurrence, Cascadia, Earthquakes, Field, Matter, Observations, Observed, Release, Seismic, Slip, Stress.

CAREER: An Integrated Geologic, Geodetic, and Paleoseismic Study of Plate Boundary Stress Evolution and Geoscience Education Utilizing the EarthScope Database
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Bridget R Smith-Konter($501,048), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
Key terms: Earthquake Cycle, Plate Boundary, Stress Evolution, Deformation, Earthscope, Educational, Fault, Geodetic, Hazards, Instruments, Integration, K-, Large-scale, Local, Models, Pacific-north, Paleoseismic, Seismic, Students, Teachers, Time-dependent.

Contributions of mobile source emissions to watershed N budgets along an urban to rural gradient
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Neil D Bettez($160,000), Bettez Neil D, Acton
Key terms: Mobile Source, Mobile Sources, Atmospheric, Baltimore, Budgets, Coastal, Contribution, Deposition, Emissions, Especially, Estimates, Estuaries, Inputs, Nearby, Nitrogen, Urban.

EAR-PF: Adjoint Tomography, Seismic Hazard, and Active Tectonics of the San Joaquin Basin, California
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Carl H Tape($160,000), Tape Carl H, Pasadena
Key terms: San Joaquin Basin, Active Tectonics, Basin Model, Numerical Simulations, Seismic Hazard, Sierra Nevada, Three-dimensional Structure, Adjacent, Earthquakes, Faults, Largest, Producer, Region, Southern, Three-dimensional, Valley, West.

International Year of the Planet Earth Outreach
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Wesley Hill($20,000), The Geological Society of America, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: Sustainable Development, Activities, Health, Promote, Society.

CAREER: Stable Isotope Insights into Large-Volume Volcanic Eruptions
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Ilya N Bindeman($533,606), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Graduate And Undergraduate, Outreach Activities, Stable Isotope, Undergraduate Students, Volcanic Eruptions, Crystals, Development, Education, Exchange, Has, Iceland, International, Involve, Lab, Large-volume, Magmas, Origin, Oxygen, Postdoctoral, Topic, Volcanism.

Collaborative Research: High-resolution Basin Analysis of a Large-offset Extensional System, Lake Mead Domain, East-Central Basin and Range Province
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Melissa Lamb($149,163), University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul
2. Paul J Umhoefer($222,564), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: Basin And Range, Central Basin, Detachment Faulting, Lake Mead, Aims, Analysis, Architecture, Basins, Climate, Controlled, Crust, Development, Episode, Evolution, Extension, Extensional, Far-field, Faults, Globally, Internal, Landscape, Plate, Processes, Region, Stratal, Tectonic, Transtensional, Wide.

CAREER: High Pressure Melting and Phase Transitions in Model Compositions of Earth's Core
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2009; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Andrew J Campbell($477,303), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Deep Interior, Earth's Core, Allow, Candidate, Composition, Compositions, Constitution, Dynamics, Evolution, Experiments, Gt, Measure, Melting, Planets, Pressures, Processes, Structure, Temperature, Temperatures, Transitions.

EAR-PF: Quantifying the Geochemical-Microbial Connection Using Thermodynamics and Environmental Data
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Jeffrey M Dick($160,000), Dick Jeffrey M, Berkeley
Key terms: Environmental Genomics, Arizona, Carry, Geobiological, Geochemical.

Collaborative research: Biotic alteration of soil hydrologic properties and feedback with vegetation dynamics in water limited ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Murugesu Sivapalan($384,244), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
2. Kathleen A Lohse($139,417), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: 1-d Crs Model, Mexico And Arizona, Soil Hydrologic Properties, 1-d Crs, Arid Sites, Atm 06-28687, Critical Zone, Field Sampling, Hydrologic Fluxes, Kathleen Lohse, Lateral Redistribution, Mexico Site, Peter Troch, Praveen Kumar, Soil Properties, Soil Structure, Vegetation Dynamics, Water Limited, Access, Alteration, Carbon, Comprehensive, Consider, Developed, Development, Ecohydrologic, Ecosystems, Effects, Eld, Especially, Feedback, Framework, Has, Hillslopes, Increases, Increasing, Inputs, Interaction, Letter, Microclimates, Modeling, Nutrients, Obtain, Overlap, Plants, Predictions, Processes, Resources, Soils, Surface, Time, Uxes, Validate, Validated, Vivoni.

Collaborative Research ETBC: Peatlands as Carbon and Water Sinks under Warm Climates in the Susitna Basin, South-Central Alaska
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Robert K Booth($442,019), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
2. Bryan G Mark($269,810), Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE, Columbus
Key terms: Temporal And Spatial, Low-temperature Geochemistry, Remote Sensing, Susitna Basin, Alaska, Bring, Climate, Contribute, Decadal, Dynamics, ETBC, Ecological, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Frontier, Glacier, Has, Hydrologic, Hydrology, Interdisciplinary, Low-temperature, Melting, Meltwater, Monitoring, Peatland, Peatlands, Polar, Regional, Resolution, Students, Warm.

Collaborative Research (ETBC): Climate Warming and Northern Peatland Decomposition, Accumulation and Carbon Sequestration Examined Through Molecular and Paleohydrological Analysis
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Glen MacDonald($189,342), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2. Ronald Benner($398,645), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Global Carbon Cycle, Atmospheric Carbon, Carbon Sequestration, Climate Warming, Core Sites, Mechanisms Controlling, Molecular Indicators, Northern Peatlands, Peat Accumulation, Peat Decomposition, Approach, BP, Benners, Biogeochemical, Cal, Calculated, Canada, Classes, Clearer, Collected, Cores, Current, Graduate, Has, Holocene, Hydrology, Laboratory, Lowland, Net, Nsf-supported, Rates, Student, Subarctic, USC, Undergraduate, Widespread.

Collaborative Research: Ion Adsorption on Nanocrystalline Mineral Surfaces: Towards a Fundamental Understanding of Nanoparticles in the Environment
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. James D Kubicki($166,499), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Moira K Ridley($366,275), Texas Tech University, Lubbock
Key terms: Chemical And Electrostatic, Experimental And Theoretical, Metal-oxides And Aqueous, Surface Complexation Models, Aqueous Solutions, Complexation Models, Electrostatic Interactions, Experimental Studies, Particle Size, Surface Reactivity, Aggregation, Anatase, Behavior, Chemistry, Coherent, Comprehensive, Document, Earth, Effect, Environment, Environmental, Experiments, Function, Furthermore, Importance, Industry, Integrate, Interface, Interfaces, Interfacial, Investigate, Macroscopic, Manufactured, Nanomaterials, Nanoparticle, Nanoparticles, Natural, Particles, Processes, Properties, Reactions, Release, Relevance, Students, Temperature.

ETBC: A new tool for assessing nitrogen saturation status in forests- Mass-independent D17O of nitrate
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Emily M Elliott($515,032), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Nitrogen Saturation Status, Atmospheric Nitrate, Empirical Tool, Mass-independent Oxygen, Nitrate Sources, Water Quality, Assessing, Deposition, Export, Forests, Implications, Quantifying, Resolution, Spatial, Temporal, Watersheds.

CAREER: An ecohydrological framework for understanding land degradation in dryland ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Kelly Caylor($1,543,738), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Dryland Ecosystems, Land Degradation, Plant Water, Continuous, Direct, Ecohydrological, Efficiency, Evaporation, ICOS, Observatory, Prevent, Transpiration, Vegetation.

Collaborative Research: Quantifying Geologic and Temporal Controls on Water and Chemical Exchange between Groundwater and Surface Water in Coastal Estuarine Systems
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. David E Krantz($450,000), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Indian River Bay, Spatial And Temporal, Coastal Waters, Geologic Heterogeneity, Groundwater Discharge, Hydraulic Forcing, Nitrogen Loading, Organic Matter, Ammonium, Characterized, Controls, Delaware, Denitrification, Driven, Estuarine, Excess, Fluxes, Geochemical, Gradients, Investigations, Models, Numerical, Nutrient, Quantify, Saline, Salinity, Source, Species, Subsurface.

Collaborative research: Unraveling coseismic and postseismic deformation: A prerequisite for analyses of stress-coupling and tsunami genesis.
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Timothy L Masterlark($277,215), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
2. Stephan T Grilli($173,530), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Coseismic And Postseismic, Poroelastic And Viscoelastic, Aftershock Occurrence, Fem-generated Seafloor, Indian Ocean, Northern Sumatra, Pore Pressure, Postseismic Behavior, Propagation Simulations, Seafloor Deformation, Seafloor Deformations, Subduction Zone, Tsunami Propagation, Coastal, Construct, Deformational, Distribution, Does, Drive, Earthquake, Epicenter, Fault-slip, Fem-generated, Fems, Models, Plate, Predictions, Processes, Properties, Rheologic, Run-up, SAE, Significantly, Stress.

Collaborative Research: Investigation of a Late Jurassic Paired Magmatic Belt (Blue Mountains, NE Oregon): Evaluation of Magmatic Growth During Contractional Orogeny
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Joshua Schwartz($282,157), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
2. Kenneth S Johnson($77,594), University of Houston - Downtown, Houston
Key terms: Blue Mountains Province, Jurassic Contractional Deformation, Late Jurassic Contractional, Lateral Tectonic Collisions, Low Sry Magma, Low Sry Plutons, Plutons And Batholiths, Sry Magma Generation, Continental Crust, Crustal Structure, Magmatic Belts, Orogenic Belts, Sry Magmatism, Arc-arc, Characteristics, Distribution, Geochemical, Mechanisms, Metamorphism, Model, Models, Na, Paired, Structural, Time.

Improving the Spatial and Temporal Resolution of Strain Rate Models of Continental Deformation
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Cornelis Kreemer($288,230), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Dedicated Web Portal, Plate Boundary Zone, Rate Tensor Models, Scientists And Educators, Strain Rate Models, Cgps Sites, Continuous Gps, Eastern Asia, Secular Motions, Secular Strain, Seismic Hazard, Spatial Resolution, Web Portal, Additional, Available, Capture, Continent, Contribute, Converted, Crust, Deformation, Earthquake, Estimates, Field, Horizontal, Insar, LOS, Limited, Maps, Obtained, PA-NA, Processes, Surface, Tectonic, Temporal, Time-dependent, Time-variable, Tool, Velocities, Vertical.

Development of a Programmed-temperature Pyrolysis/Combustion Reactor System for Radiocarbon Applications
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Brad E Rosenheim($215,153), Tulane University, New Orleans
Key terms: Age Date, Carbon Dioxide, Organic Matter, AIOM, Analysis, Combustion, Components, Dating, Deposits, Development, Flowthrough, Fractions, Fresh, Funds, Furnace, Has, Instrument, Instrumentation, Mississippi, OM, Oxidation, Pyrolysis, Radiocarbon, Reactor, Removes, Requested, River, Sediment, Sediments, Sought, Student, Vacuum.

Collaborative research: Earthquake triggering by slow slip events beneath Kilauea's south flank
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Cecily J Wolfe($139,594), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Clifford H Thurber($44,798), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Temporary Seismic Array, Background Seismicity, Flank Earthquakes, Kilauea Volcano, Slow Slip, South Flank, Anticipation, Beneath, Deployed, Detachment, Fault, Faulting, Geophysics, Hawaii, June, Kilaueas, Occurred, SSE, Swarms, Triggered, Triggering, Was, Waves.

CAREER: Integrating Research and Education to Apply High-Rate GPS Into Natural Hazards Reduction
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Guoquan Wang($282,452), University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Mayaguez
Key terms: Education And Outreach, High-rate Gps Network, Monitoring And Early-warning, Permanent Gps Stations, Puerto Rico Seismic, Real-time High-rate Gps, Rico Seismic Network, Gps Technology, High-rate Gps, Natural Hazards, Real-time High-rate, Stations Operated, Applications, Component, Disciplines, Earthquake, Engineering, Focus, Graduates, Has, Increase, Integration, Precision, Promoting, Students, Technologies, Tsunami, Undergraduates.

RUI: Analytical Method Development for MSn Characterization of Humic Substances
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Alexandra C Stenson($148,000), University of South Alabama, Mobile
Key terms: Humic Substances, Mass Spectrometry, Characterization, Chromatography, Complexity, Environmental, Individual, Information, Ions, MS, Micro-preparative, Molecular, Program, Structural.

Dating Metamorphism with Accessory Minerals - Integrated In-situ Geochronology and Trace Element Budgeting of Metamorphic Reactions
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Andreas Moeller($187,842), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Accessory Mineral, Accessory Minerals, Accessory Phases, Granulite Enigma, Granulite Facies, Gruf Complex, Mineral Textures, Budgeting, Contribute, Dating, Garnet, Geochronology, Growth, ICP-MS, Inclusion, International, KU, Metamorphic, Metamorphism, Monazite, Path, Petrological, Reactions, Student, Temperature, Trace, Xenotime, Zircon.

Quantifying Syntectonic Weakening in Deep Orogenic Crust
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Christopher C Gerbi($238,686), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Bay Shear Zone, Interconnected Meter-scale Shear, Meter-scale Shear Zones, Mile Bay Shear, Twelve Mile Bay, Interconnected Meter-scale, Meter-scale Shear, Strain Localization, Active, Allow, Crust, Deep, Deformation, Development, Domain, Enhance, Exhumation, Facies, Field, Graduate, Has, Involved, K-, Magnitude, Maines, Mapping, Mechanisms, Modeling, Natural, Numerical, Observations, Outreach, Processes, Produced, Strength, Students, Weakening.

CAREER: Taphonomy and Evolution of Theropod Dinosaur Reproduction
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. David Varricchio($590,892), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Crocodilians And Birds, Life History Strategies, Dinosaur Eggs, Dinosaur Reproduction, Egg Types, Evolutionary History, Fossil Preservation, Modern Birds, Modern Nesting, Nesting Localities, Reproductive Behavior, Reproductive Traits, Theropod Dinosaur, Theropod Dinosaurs, Cretaceous, Eggshell, Evolved, Fieldwork, Investigation, Laboratory, Living, Mesozoic, Montana, Represent, Sites, Structure, Success, Vertebrates.

Evaluation of Uncertainty in CO2 Sequestration Modeling: a Flow Relevance Study using Experimental Stratigraphy and Field Verification (Teapot Dome, Wyoming)
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2009; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Ye Zhang($262,416), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Co2 Flow, Teapot Dome, Aquifer, Assessment, Carbon, Field, Formation, Formations, Geostorage, Injection, Model, Modeling, Multiple, Parameters, Relevance, Simulations, Site-specific, Storage, Uncertainty, Wyoming.

Upgrade of the University of Puerto Rico Electron Microprobe
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2009; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Aaron Cavosie($162,991), University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Mayaguez
Key terms: Analyses, Analysis, Geochemistry, Geology, Instrument, Island, Pis, Probe, Region, Students, Upgrade, Zircon.

CAREER:Ecological Diversification of Marine Mammals (Orders Cetacea and Sirenia) through Cenozoic Climate Change: Evidence from Geochemical Analysis of Fossil Material
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2009; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Mark T Clementz($541,824), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Cetacea And Sirenia, Marine Food Webs, Whales And Sea, Cenozoic Climate, Geochemical Analysis, Marine Mammals, Sea Cows, Trophic Position, Activities, Approach, Combined, Component, Conditions, Diet, Ecological, Ecology, Ecosystems, Efforts, Eocene, Evolution, Examine, Fossil, Morphological, Occurred, Strong, Students, Teaching, Time, Uwyo.

Magnesium Isotopic Investigations of Oceanic Basalts and Olivines
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2009; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Fangzhen Teng($175,022), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Key terms: Basalts And Olivines, Equilibrium Isotope Fractionation, Mg And Fe, Fe Isotopes, Fe Isotopic, Isotopic Composition, Isotopic Studies, Mantle Heterogeneity, Mg Isotopes, Mg Isotopic, Oceanic Basalts, Olivine Grains, Analyses, Analyzed, Arkansas, Chemical, Constrain, Crust, Differentiation, Diffusion, Fractionate, Hawaii, Morbs, Oibs, Process, Stable, Standards, Thermal.

Preservation of Impact Evidence in the Sedimentary Record: Erosion of the Vredefort and Sudbury Craters as a Guide to Identifying Hadean Impacts
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2009; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Aaron Cavosie($178,926), University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Mayaguez
Key terms: Meteorite Impacts, South Africa, Ago, Billion, Canada, Craters, Environments, Eroded, Evidence, Geologic, Hadean, Life, Moon, Planetary, Sediments, World.

Linking Host Diversity and Amphibian Disease: Experimental and Field Studies
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2009; Program: EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

1. Valerie J McKenzie($417,661), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Amphibian Populations, Conservation Importance, Limb Deformities, Amphibians, Declines, Ecological, Efforts, Emerging, Freshwater, Growing, Host, Human, Infection, Infections, Land, Linked, Malformations, Ongoing, Parasite, Resulting, Ribeiroia.

Collaborative Research: Structural Architecture and Evolutionary Plate-Boundary Processes along the San Jacinto Fault Zone
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Yehuda Ben-Zion($703,234), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2. Frank L Vernon($944,609), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
3. Gary H Girty($428,283), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
4. Zhigang Peng($218,600), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Fault Zone, Analysis, Approach, Behavior, Deformation, Earthquake, Faults, Rupture.

CAUGHT: Central Andean Uplift and the Geodynamics of High Topography
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Nadine McQuarrie($211,777), Princeton University, Princeton
2. George Zandt($935,391), University of Arizona, Tucson
3. Brian K Horton($326,327), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
4. Carmala N Garzione($292,717), University of Rochester, Rochester
5. Christopher J Poulsen($500,929), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
6. Lara S Wagner($225,540), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Analysis, Andes, Belt, Crust, Has, Pis, Potential, Rise, Weather.

Collaborative Research: Geological and Geophysical Data Analysis Using a Virtual Globe
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Declan G De Paor($21,000), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Virtual Globe, Create, Development, Mapping, Pis, Software, Undergraduate, Visualization.

Workshop proposal for development of a fracture processes facility at DUSEL Homestake
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2009; Program: GEOMECHANICS & GEOMATERIALS

1. Leonid N Germanovich($49,935), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Various Aspects, Access, Bring, DUSEL, Experiments, Facility, Homestake, Objectives, Planning, Workshop, Workshops.

Workshop on Applications of Neutron and X-Ray Tomography for Geomaterials
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2009; Program: GEOMECHANICS & GEOMATERIALS

1. Khalid Alshibli($24,660), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Students And Junior, X-ray And Neutron, Graduate Students, Junior Faculty, Neutron Tomography, Concerns, Geox, Japan, Participants, Pre-workshop, Workshop.

Earth System Science Education Summit, Houston, Texas, Fall 2009
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: GEOSCIENCE EDUCATION

1. Ann Benbow($47,353), American Geological Institute, Alexandria
Key terms: Challenges, ESS, ESSE, Identification, Organizations, Workshop.

The Anatomy of Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) Climate Change in the Southern Hemisphere Mid-Latitudes: Paleoecological Temperature Reconstructions from Terrestrial Archives
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Marcus J Vandergoes($339,354), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Timing And Magnitude, Glacial Maximum, Ice Age, Lgm Climate, Precise Timing, Southern Alps, Southern Hemisphere, Chironomid, Continuous, Driving, Duration, Forcing, Global, Insolation, Mechanisms, Mid-latitudes, Northern, Pollen, Region, Responsible, Temperature, Testing, Zealand.

Collaborative Research: A new perspective on the driving forces of controversial Middle Triassic cyclostratigraphy: a rock magnetic approach
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Kenneth P Kodama($48,533), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
2. Linda A Hinnov($71,035), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Latemar Controversy, Latemar Platform, Latemar Succession, Middle Triassic, Rock Magnetic, Cycles, Cyclicity, Dolomites, Facies, Formation, Italy, Remanent, Short, Transect.

RUI Collaborative Proposal: Climate and Chronology of the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition, North-Central Great Basin, U.S.A.
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Jeffrey S Munroe($151,459), Middlebury College, Middlebury
2. Benjamin J Laabs($247,226), SUNY College at Geneseo, Geneseo
Key terms: Glacial And Pluvial-lake, Glacier And Pluvial-lake, Mining And Geology, Mountain Ranges, Nevada Bureau, Pluvial Lakes, Accompanying, Basin, Central, Climate, Dating, Fluctuations, GIT, Glaciers, History, North-central, Pleistocene, Popular, Precipitation, Region, Service, Spatial, Timing, Transition, Western.

Collaborative Research: A high-resolution middle Pleistocene paleoclimate record from the Valles Caldera, New Mexico
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. R. Scott Anderson($201,932), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
2. Josef P Werne($233,724), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
3. Peter J Fawcett($215,925), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Lacustrine Sediment Core, Peak Interglacial Temperatures, Extended Dry, Graduate Students, Mbt Proxy, Middle Pleistocene, Valles Caldera, Analyses, Carbon, Climate, Collaborators, Critical, Detailed, Female, Hydroclimate, Information, Interactions, Interglacials, Intervals, Lake, MIS, Mexico, NAU, National, Nature, North, Paleoclimate, Pollen, Precipitation, Processes, Proxies, Ratios, Silica, UMD, UNM, VC-, Warming, Winter.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Global Change and the Terrestrial Paleoclimate Record from Eastern North America: 600,000 years BP to Present
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Richard L Edwards($109,845), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
2. Harold Rowe($319,518), University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington
3. Yongli Gao($136,411), East Tennessee State University, Johnson City
Key terms: Coupled Climate, N-s Transect, Regional Climate, West Virginia, Abrupt, Assess, Assessment, Cave, Climatic, Define, Dryas, Geochemical, Highly-resolved, History, Importance, Large-scale, Late, MIS-, Modes, Multiple, N-S, North, Past, Potential, Shifts, Similar, Sites, Specific, Speleothem, Speleothems, Time, Timescales, Timing, Trace-metal, Yield.

Pilot Project: Reconstructing tropical North American climate with the sedimentary record of Lake Chalco, Mexico
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Josef P Werne($102,764), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Central Mexico, Analyses, Application, Biomarker, Chalco, Climate, Core, Drilling, Future, Geochemical, Information, Ka, MBT, North, Paleotemperature, Past, Proxies, Proxy, Recovered, Resolution, Spanning, Students, Temperatures, Unique.

GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION IN ENVIRONMENTS AND EXTINCTION IN THE CARIBBEAN
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Jeremy B Jackson($160,948), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Biological, Caribbean, Decline, Detailed, Document, Environmental, Evolutionary, Extinction, Limited, Million, NC, Northern, Occurred, Panamanian, Past, Productivity, Region, Rise, SWC, Suggest, Was.

Continental patterns of moisture anomalies associated with late Holocene mid-latitude megadroughts
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. None($259,921), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
Key terms: Humid Regions, Moisture Anomalies, Analyses, Climate, Coupled, Critical, Drought, Droughts, Dynamics, Hydroclimate, MCA, Mechanisms, Mid-latitude, Modeling, Network, North, Ocean-atmosphere, Past, Reconstructions, Spatial, Synthesis, Temperatures, Temporal, Tree-ring.

Quantitative paleorainfall reconstruction from the Chinese Loess Plateau using 10Be and magnetic susceptibility
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Warren Beck($399,734), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Asian Monsoon Intensity, 80-145 Kabp, Climate Models, Highly Correlated, Loess Plateau, Magnetic Susceptibility, Precessional Forcing, Quantitative Paleorainfall, Speleothem Del-18o, Abrupt, Arizona, China, Chinese, Del-o, Eccentricity, Effects, High-resolution, Hydrologic, Influences, Insolation, Isotope, Low, Moisture, Periods, Precipitation, Rainfall, Resolution, Stalagmite, Student.

Collaborative Research: Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Drought in Western North America during the Holocene
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Joseph D Ortiz($235,416), Kent State University, Kent
2. Mark B Abbott($208,397), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Droughts And Pluvials, Aridity Cycles, Pacific Ocean, Western Cordillera, Western North, Archives, Climate, Concerning, Forcing, Holocene, Hydrologic, Investigate, Ka, Levels, Magnitude, Modes, Paleoclimate, Past, Period, Region, Relatively, Resolution, Stable, Time, Water.

High-resolution, quantitative records of temperature and effective precipitation for the past 25kyr from Lake Qinghai
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Yongsong Huang($352,667), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Lake Qinghai Sediments, Alkenone, Biomarkers, Climate, Climatic, Continent, Cores, Factors, Geochemistry, Isotope, Mechanisms, Organic, Paleoclimate, Participation, Past, Precipitation, Program, Providence, Quantitative, Reconstruct, Region, Students, Temperature.

Reconstructing climate variability and aridity in the Sierra Nevada, CA, based on isotopic evidence in sediments from Swamp Lake, Yosemite
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Adina Paytan($201,053), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Sierra Nevada, Swamp Lake, Water Supplies, Biomarker, California, Climate, Climatic, Conditions, Decadal, Del-d, Droughts, Ecosystem, Education, Instrumental, OM, Paleoclimatic, Processes, Program, Programs, Reconstructions, Regional, Sedimentary, Students, Timescales.

Collaborative Research: A Southern Hemispheric Perspective on Holocene Climate Variability Based on Mountain Glacial Chronologies
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Joerg M Schaefer($260,834), Columbia University, New York
2. Robert C Finkel($75,980), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Late Holocene Moraines, Southern Hemisphere Climate, 20th21st Century, Atmospheric, Date, Especially, Glacial, Has, History, Lack, Land, Mid-, Paleoclimate, Parks, Patagonia, Perspective, Thst.

Collaborative Research: Reconstructing millennial-scale trends and variability in western Pacific convection and hydrology from large lakes on Sulawesi, central Indonesia
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Anders J Noren($59,256), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
2. Nigel J Wattrus($77,246), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
3. James M Russell($313,298), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Convection And Hydrology, Convective And Hydrologic, Pleistocene And Holocene, Abrupt Climate, Late Pleistocene, Past Climate, Sediment Cores, Seismic Reflection, Tropical Pacific, Western Pacific, Analyses, ENSO, Existing, Fundamentally, ITCZ, Indonesian, Infrastructure, Lakes, Linked, Long-term, Rainfall, Region, Regional.

Late Holocene Climate Variability From Eolian Lake Sediments in Relict San Luis Lakes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Fasong Yuan($253,233), Cleveland State University, Cleveland
Key terms: San Luis Lakes, Downcore Sediments, Late Holocene, Sediment Cores, Chronology, Climate, Climatic, Deposits, Dust, Eolian, Etc, Field, GSD, Graduate, Proxy, Region, Southwest, Storms, Students, Studying, Undergraduate.

A 350,000 - Year History of Rainfall and Temperature in Tropical East Africa
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Josef P Werne($454,632), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Temperature And Rainfall, East Africa, Lake Malawi, Malawi Basin, African, Analyses, Carbonate, Climate, Core, Cores, Drought, Extent, Graduate, History, Long-chain, Marine, Past, Provided, Region, Sediment, Tropical, Tropics, Undergraduate.

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($73,438), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
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.

Selenium biogeochemistry as a deep-time redox proxy and biosignature
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Bruce K Nelson($300,041), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Atmospheric Oxygen Levels, Selenium Biogeochemical Cycle, Selenium Isotopic Fractionations, Environmental Oxygenation, Essentially Anoxic, Graduate Student, Highly Oxic, Selenium Gas, Biological, Cycling, Departments, Enhance, History, Interdisciplinary, Involving, Marine, Model, Modern, Participation, Requested, Rock, Set, Stage, Sulfur, Time.

Critical Zone Science: A Workshop on the Biological Aspects of Weathering; October 3-5, 2009; Washington, D.C.
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Susan L Brantley($64,812), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Biological Aspects, Critical Zone, Agenda, Chemists, Derive, Future, Geosciences, Held, Long-term, Priorities, Processes, Publication, Smithsonian, Soil, Weathering, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Environmental and Biogeochemical Reorganization during the Rise of Atmospheric Oxygen
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Nicolas Dauphas($35,000), University of Chicago, Chicago
2. Lee R Kump($1,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
3. Judith L Hannah($85,000), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
4. Olivier Rouxel($80,000), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Numerical Modeling, Organic Matter, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Chronology, Core, Deposition, Drillcore, Environmental, Establishment, Fennoscandia, Geologic, Global, History, Interval, Isotopic, Marine, Museum, Ocean, Opportunity, Outreach, Proxies, Re-os, Rock, Students, Subsurface, Visitor.

The Importance of Anaerobic Manganese Respiration in the Cycling of Nitrogen in Sediments
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Martial Taillefert($388,301), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Nitrification And Denitrification, Anaerobic Nitrification, Nitrogen Budgets, Nitrogen Cycle, Ammonium, Anammox, Balance, Carbon, Cultivation, Demonstrate, Dissimilatory, Global, Incubations, Manganese, Marine, Microbial, Molecular, Nitrate, Nitrite, Oxidation, Play, Processes, Prokaryotes, Pure, Reduction, Sediments.

Collaborative Research: Using Single-Molecule Force and Fluorescence Microscopy to Elucidate the Molecular Mechanism of Bioinspired Magnetite Synthesis in Magnetotactic Bacteria
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Dennis A Bazylinski($146,261), University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas
Key terms: Biogeochemical Cycling, Biomineralization Process, Crystal Nucleation, Fe3o4 Biomineralization, Fe3o4 Nanoparticles, Imaging Techniques, Magnetotactic Bacteria, Molecular Mechanism, Protein Molecules, Applications, Biogeochemistry, Biological, Control, Controlled, Crystals, Developed, Efforts, Environment, Environments, Faculty, Feo, Fluorescence, Force, Furthermore, Geobiological, Graduate, Growth, Has, Importance, Iron, Laboratory, Life, Magnetite, Microorganisms, Mineralization, Oceans, Organisms, Origin, Phd, Pis, Required, Single-molecule, Student, Students, Synthesis.

Investigation of magnesium isotope fractionation during basalt weathering
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Louis A Derry($236,236), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Mg Isotope Fractionation, Biogeochemical Cycling, Demonstrated Mg, Ground Waters, Mg Isotopic, Secondary Minerals, Surface Environment, Basalt, Closely, Collaboration, Field, French, Halloysite, Has, Hawaii, Hawaiian, Mechanisms, Natural, Processes, Produced, Rock, Similar, Sites, Soils, Stream, Students, Tool, Visit, Weathering.

Collaborative Research: Chromium isotopes as redox indicators- Oxidation and isotopic equilibration experiments
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Thomas M Johnson($162,982), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
2. Andre Ellis($163,513), California State L A University Auxiliary Services Inc., Los Angeles
Key terms: Cr Isotope, Fractionation Caused, Isotope Fractionation, Isotopic Fractionation, Approach, Beyond, Chemistry, Conditions, Contaminant, Criii, Criii-crvi, Crvi, Effect, Exchange, Expected, Experiments, Has, History, Isotopes, Less, Mass, Oxidation, Process, Rates, Reaction, Reactions, Redox, Reduction, Slow, Stable, Students, Toxic, Variables.

What controls the isotopic signature of terrestrial organic carbon? A biomarker study of the Paleocene and Eocene section in the Bighorn Basin (WY, USA)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Katherine H Freeman($96,744), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Carbon Isotopic Signatures, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Isotope, Ancient, Composition, Environment, Eocene, Inputs, Plant, Terrestrial, Warming.

Collaborative Research: Lake Matano, Indonesia: A modern observatory of ancient ocean biogeochemistry
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. David A Fowle($102,325), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
2. Sergei Katsev($65,984), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Deep Waters, Lake Matano, Methane Cycle, Aquatic, Biogeochemical, Carbon, Characterize, Environments, Ferruginous, Field, Indonesia, Iron, Laboratory, Marine, Microbial, Models, Modern, Oceans, Organisms, Processes, Rates, Stratified, Structure, Transport.

Molecular studies of dissimilatory selenium reduction by subsurface microorganisms
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Elisabetta Bini($399,544), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Selenate Reductase Gene, Selenate Reductase Genes, Selenium Oxyanion Reduction, Terminal Electron Acceptor, Graduate Students, Pcr Primers, Se-reducing Bacteria, Sedimentary Environments, Selenium Reduction, Selenium Respiring, Activity, Amplify, Anaerobic, Biological, Course, Developed, Diverse, Employ, Experiments, Genetic, Geomicrobiology, Isolates, Journals, Laboratory, Levels, Microorganisms, Molecular, Quantify, Regions, Rutgers, School, Se-reducing, Sediments, Sequence, Situ, Subsurface, Undergraduate.

Defining Critical Roles of Siderophore Structures in Environmental Trace Metal Cycling
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Andrzej Jarzecki($297,256), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Biogeochemical Cycling, Environmental Chemistry, Metal-siderophore Complexes, Trace Metals, Aqueous, Beyond, Biogeochemistry, Broad, Brooklyn, Describe, Diverse, Education, Elucidate, Environmentally, Formation, Graduate, Has, Increase, Iron, Mechanisms, Metal-siderophore, Molecular-scale, NCSU, Reactivity, Required, Siderophores, Solubilization, Stability, Structures, Students, Suggested, Surfaces, Teachers.

Mechanisms of Iron Oxidation during Banded Iron Formation Deposition 3.26 Billion Years Ago
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Michael Tice($330,926), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Banded Iron Formation, Iron Formations Formed, Iron-oxidizing Photosynthetic Bacteria, Manganese And Cerium, Oxidized Iron Minerals, Oxygen-producing Photosynthetic Bacteria, Dissolved Iron, Iron Oxidation, Iron-oxidizing Photosynthetic, Manzimnyama Jaspillite, Oxidized Manganese, Oxygen-producing Photosynthetic, Ultraviolet Light, Undergraduate Course, Co-pi, Evidence, Evolution, Experimental, Experiments, Graduate, Non-oxygen-producing, Occurring, Photosynthesis, Presence, Rapidly, Rates, Relative, Rock, Student.

Interfacial Free Energy of Nanominerals in Solutions, Biofilms and Microbial Cells
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Jillian F Banfield($333,461), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Geochemical And Biological, Interfacial Free Energy, Goethite Nanoparticles, Interfacial Phenomena, Phase Stability, Surface Stress, Web Site, Bioremediation, Broadly, Cells, Conventional, Developed, Diffraction, Environment, Environments, Function, Kinetics, Natural, Nucleation, Practical, Processes, Reactivity, Students, Various.

The speciation and behavior of sulfur gases in biogeochemical processes
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Alexander Prange($278,154), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Inorganic And Organic, Condensed Sulfur, Gas-phase Xanes, Sulfur Cycle, Sulfur Speciation, Sulfur Species, Xanes Spectra, Ability, Biogeochemical, CAMD, Diagenetic, Gas-phase, Gases, Geochemical, Geological, Heated, Increase, Isotopic, Oc, Phases, Processes, Program, Solids, Students, Sulfur-bearing, Synchrotron, Unique.

Sulfur isotope study of Phanerozoic carbonate associated sulfate
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. James Farquhar($148,282), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Requests Funds, Sulfur Cycle, Basis, Benefits, Model, Requested, Sulfate.

Evolution of the nitrogen cycle and the rise of oxygen
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2009; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Linda Godfrey($100,000), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Organic Matter, Atmosphere, Cycles, Earth, Fixed, History, Isotope, Isotopes, Little, Middle, Model, Modeling, Ocean, Opportunity, Oxic, Oxidation, Oxygen, Precambrian, Proterozoic, Sets, Students, Än.

Graduate Student Travel Support Program for the 2009 V.M. Goldschmidt Conference
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2009; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Rodger Harvey($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, World.

Accessing mineral surfaces: A role for chemotaxis?
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Mandy J Ward($80,521), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
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.

Acquisition of a femtosecond laser ablation system
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2009; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Clark M Johnson($72,000), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Fe Isotopes, Individual Carbonates, Laser Ablation, Analyses, Bulk, Contribute, Femtosecond, Fsla, Hf, Initial, Laboratory, Pulse, Purchase, SIMS, Shorter, UW-M.

Sulfur isotope study of sulfide oxidation products: Great Marsh of Delaware and Green Lake NY
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Alexey Kamishny($75,000), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Isotope Effects, Oxidation Products, Sulfide Oxidation, Sulfur Isotopes, Activity, Biological, Effort, Isotopic, Pathways, Sulfate.

CAREER: Career Development in the Emerging Field of Geomycology: Research and Education in Metal Biomineralization by Fungi
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Colleen Hansel($536,609), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Acid Mine Drainage, Acidic Mine Waters, Fungal Mediated, Geochemical Controls, AMD, Biological, Bioremediation, Chemical, Concentrations, Define, Development, Diversity, Educate, Educators, Environmental, Environments, Enzymatic, Framework, Fungi, Health, Importance, Information, Instruction, Integrated, JEEC, Metals, Microbiology, Mn, Mnii, Mnii-oxidizing, Molecular, Oxidation, Processes, Public, Students, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Calibrating the Isotopologue-47 Geothermometer in Soils
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. John M Eiler($95,062), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
2. Jay Quade($86,375), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Modern Soils, Soil Carbonate, Soil Temperature, Air, Analysis, Estimated, Estimates, Geologic, Isotopologue-, Larger, Paleothermometer, Potential, Range, Reconstruction, Summer, Temperatures, Values, ±°C, Ä.

Unraveling structural conundrum of organic nitrogen in soil and sediment organic matter using advanced solid-state NMR: insights into formation mechanisms of stabilized nitrogen
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Jingdong Mao($80,000), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Cross Polarizationmagic Angle, Developing Advanced Solid-state, Outreach And Educational, Planned Public Outreach, Polarizationmagic Angle Spinning, Presence And Abundance, Routine 15n Cross, Solid-state Nmr Techniques, 15n Cross, Advanced Solid-state, Broader Impacts, Educational Outreach, Graduate Levels, Graduate Student, Relative Proportions, Routine 15n, Solid-state Nmr, Applying, Biogeochemistry, CPMAS, Compounds, Content, Cycle, Heterocyclic, Influence, Investigate, Life, Limited, Nature, Nitrogen, Organic, SOM.

Understanding the processes affecting 'clumped isotopes' composition in speleothems and their implication to paleo-temperature reconstruction
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Hagit P Affek($329,311), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Carbonate Cave Deposits, Past Climatic Conditions, Reconstruct Past Climatic, Bulk Solution, Carbonate Mineral, Clumped Isotope, Clumped Isotopes, Film Thickness, Isotope Composition, Kinetic Isotope, Marine Organisms, Modern Speleothems, Newly Developed, Paleo-temperature Reconstruction, Precipitation Conditions, Soreq Cave, Temperature Calibration, Thin Film, Wide Range, Analyses, Applied, Based, Carbonates, Combination, Degassing, Deviation, Effect, Effects, Efforts, Equilibrium, Formed, Growth, Laboratory, Land, Opportunity, Oxygen, Paleo-climate, Paleo-temperature, Performed, Potential, Precipitated, Reflect, Significantly, Student, Technique, Temperatures, Thermometry, Values, Was, Water.

Collaborative Research: In Situ Examination of Hydrogen Peroxide Sources and Sinks in a Slightly Alkaline Stream
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Durelle T Scott($97,588), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Contaminants And Natural, Natural Organic Matter, Sources And Sinks, Surface And Subsurface, Hydrogen Peroxide, Hydroxyl Radical, Nitrogen Cycling, Agricultural, Biodegradation, Biogeochemical, Carbon, Controls, Flowpaths, H-O, HO, Mechanism, Modeling, Particular, Processes, Reduction, Storage, Stream, Streams, Substrates, Sunlit, Tracer, Water, Waters.

Collaborative Research: Impacts of in-stream restoration on hydrological, chemical, and biological heterogeneity in the hyporheic zone
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Laura K Lautz($197,645), Syracuse University, Syracuse
2. Kathleen E McGrath($275,335), SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse
Key terms: Graduate And Undergraduate, Computational Modeling, Non-restored Sites, Reference Sites, Restoration Design, Restoration Projects, Restoration Structures, Stream Restoration, Undergraduate Students, Water Flux, Water Quality, Active, Actively, Annually, Biological, Channel, Comparable, Conditions, Degraded, Ecological, Fluxes, Found, Function, Habitat, Heterogeneity, Hyporheic, Implemented, Mosaic, Natural, Non-restored, Participation, Recruited, Redox, Serve, Spatial, Streambed, Thermal.

EAGER: Uplift and incision of the Ethiopian Plateau
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2009; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Nahid Gani($31,398), University of New Orleans, New Orleans
Key terms: Blue Nile, Ethiopian Plateau, Analysis, Climatic, Evolution, History, Incision, Indices, Landscape, Maps, Paleoaltimetry, Preliminary, Rate, Region, Spatial, Steepness, Tectonic, Uplift.

Role of Bedform Interactions and Boundary Conditions in Pattern Development
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. David Mohrig($220,752), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: North Loup River, Boundary Conditions, Bedforms, Control, Dune, Dunes, Environmental, Evolution, Explore, Field, Interactions, Planets, Sand, Surface, Topography.

Fire-Induced Changes of Soil Structure: Implications for Soil Hydraulic Properties and Coupled Erosion by Water and Wind
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Michael Young($29,715), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Water And Wind, Aeolian Transport, Air Permeability, Gleason Fire, Post-fire Soil, Soil Erosion, Soil Hydraulic, Soil Structure, Allow, Associate, Burn, Conditions, DRI, Division, Effects, Has, Hydrologic, NSF, Particles, Post-fire, Potential, Pre-, Pre-fire, Prone, Properties, Set.

Geomorphology and Vegetation: Interactions, Dependencies, and Feedback Loops - 40th Annual Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium; October 2009; Blacksburg, VA
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Joanna C Curran($29,684), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Collaborations, Future, Range, Symposium, Vegetation.

RUI:Erosion in Madagascar: Investigating background and modern rates using 10Be and stream sediment gauging data
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Rónadh Cox($261,677), Williams College, Williamstown
Key terms: Erosion Rate, Erosion Rates, Analysis, Direct, Has, Humans, Isotope, Landscape, Lavaka, Madagascar, Modern, Quantify, Rivers, Sediment, Square, Surface, Thousands, Timescales, Tons, Wisdom.

Cosmogenic Production Near the Air-Rock Interface
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Kenneth A Farley($285,166), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Cosmic Ray, Cosmic Rays, Earth's Surface, Isotopes Produced, Spatial Resolution, Age, Boulders, Cosmogenic, Determining, Exposed, Exposure, Has, Interface, Processes, Rock, Synthetic, Systematics, Targets, Timing, Uppermost.

Collaborative Research: On Topographic Imprint of Hillslope Aspect: Deciphering Aspect Controls on Vegetation and Landforms in Central New Mexico
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Erkan Istanbulluoglu($67,836), University of Washington, Seattle
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.

Collaborative Research: Co-Organization of River Basin Geomorphology and Vegetation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Rafael Bras($219,000), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Landscape Morphology, River Basins, River Network, Climate, Co-organization, Ecosystem, Erosion, Forcing, Global, Grasslands, Organization, Stochastic, Structure, Topography, Uplift, Vegetation, Water.

Quantifying Climatic Control of Erosional Efficiency
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Kelin X Whipple($365,897), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Mean Annual Precipitation, Precipitation And Erosion, Carbon Dioxide, Erosion Rate, Erosion Rates, Silicate Weathering, Catchments, Climate, Climatic, Difficulty, Landscape, Little, Natural, Process, Relief, Similar, Sites, Surface.

Collaborative Research: The effects of weathering on bedrock channel erosion and form
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Gregory S Hancock($98,606), College of William and Mary, Williamsburg
2. Eric E Small($282,710), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Bedrock Channel Erosion, Bedrock Erosion, Channel Cross-sections, River Channels, Rock Erosion, Sediment Cover, Abrasion, Cross-sections, Degree, Distribution, Evolution, Increases, Investigations, Laboratory, Landscapes, Modeling, Numerical, Process, Processes, Rate, Rivers, Substantial, Tested, Weathered, Weathering.

RAPID: Impact of ENSO Climate Shifts on Atoll Islets
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Eugene C Rankey($29,626), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: El Nino Phase, Nina Phase, Remote Sensing, Sea Level, Climate, Coastal, Cycle, ENSO, Equatorial, Field, Future, Island, Kiribati, Linked, Oscillation, Pacific, Republic, Rise, Shifts, Shoreline, Shorelines, Stable, Weather, Winds.

Collaborative Research: Linking loess landforms and eolian processes
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Joseph A Mason($152,306), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Paul Hanson($45,730), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln
3. Mark R Sweeney($50,761), University of South Dakota Main Campus, Vermillion
Key terms: Thick Loess Deposits, Grain Size, Northern China, Wind Erosion, Assumes, Climate, Deposition, Dust, Formed, Hazard, Initial, Landforms, Past, Potential, Predictions, Remobilized, Sand, Stability, Tested, Time, Was, Wind-blown.

When do boulders move in steep mountain streams?
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Michael P Lamb($349,547), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Debris Flow Hazards, Flood And Debris, Boulder Mobility, Boulder Transport, Steep Channels, Step-pool Formation, Basic, Boulders, California, Conditions, Experimental, Experiments, Flume, Habitat, Implications, Movement, Organization, Rate, Restoration, River, Salmon, Sediment, Spawning, Step-pool, Teachers, Theoretical, Theory.

Geomorphic influence of beaver on fluvial systems in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Grant A Meyer($184,986), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Beaver Damming, Beaver Dams, Beaver-pond Deposits, Beaver-pond, Caused, Dating, Effects, Habitat, Has, Long-term, Reduction, Sediment, Stream, Streams, Students, Valleys, Water, Yellowstone.

RAPID Environmental Effects of the Coal Ash Spill and Remediation at Kingston Tennessee
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2009; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Avner Vengosh($105,393), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Coal Ash Spill, Coal Ash Storage, Downstream River Sediments, Ash Sludge, Continuous Leaching, Environmental Impacts, Trace Metals, Arsenic, Boron, Duke, Generate, Has, Investigate, Kingston, Mercury, Opportunity, Plant, Ponds, Potential, Power, Quality, Strontium, TVA, Tools, Transport, Water.

RAPID: Pre-disturbance surveys of wood loads in headwater streams of the Colorado Front Range
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Ellen E Wohl($30,435), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Colorado Front Range, Existing Wood Loads, Following Timber Harvest, Geomorphic And Ecological, Undisturbed Headwater Streams, Additional Objectives, Ecological Variables, Relate Observed, Rocky Mountains, Widespread Survey, Beetle, Channels, Development, Die-off, Document, Effects, Flow, Forest, Guidelines, Regulating, Restoration, Trees.

CAREER: A mechanistic understanding of sediment transport in mountain streams with applications in river restoration and science education
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Elowyn Yager($455,000), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
Key terms: Bedload Transport, Grain Motion, K-12 Students, Restoration Design, River Restoration, Sediment Flux, Sediment Supply, Sediment Transport, Steep Streams, Transport Equations, Channel, Channels, Control, Downstream, Educate, Effect, Empirical, Graduate, International, Models, Predictions, Processes, Spatial, Turbulence, Undergraduate, Water.

An isochron method for burial dating with cosmogenic nuclides: Application to river incision in southern Africa
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Darryl E Granger($301,935), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Aluminum-26 And Beryllium-10, Cosmogenic Nuclide Burial, Erosion And Uplift, Nuclide Burial Dating, Cosmic Rays, Dating Method, Isochron Method, River Incision, Southern Africa, Stone Tools, Tectonic Uplift, Terrace Gravels, Uplift Rates, Age, Analyzing, Climate, Date, Information, Million, Nuclides, Past, Post-burial, Quartz, Rivers, Rock, Sequence, Travel.

2009 Gordon Research Conference on Catchment Science: Interactions of Hydrology, Biology & Geochemistry, 12-17 July 2009, Proctor Academy, Andover, New Hampshire, USA
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Nancy R Gray($30,750), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Biological, Catchments, Conference, Ecosystems, Environmental, Processes, Water.

SGER: Glacier sensitivity to climate change: Quantifying the influence of tributary glaciers
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. John H McBride($34,875), Brigham Young University, Provo
Key terms: Main Valley Glacier, Numerical Glacier Models, Glacier Sensitivity, Ice Dynamics, Tributary Glaciers, Century, Chemical, Climate, Gornergletscher, Has, Influence, Magnitude, Past, Properties, Rate, Reconstructions, Retreat, Time.

SGER: Development of a landscape approach for understanding the contribution of landsliding to carbon budgets: Using the Rio Jones of the Sierra de Las Minas, Guatemala as a test w
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2009; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Carla E Restrepo($40,560), University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras, San Juan
Key terms: De Las Minas, Pools And Fluxes, Sierra De Las, Landscape Approach, Budgets, Field, Generate, Landslide, Landsliding, Model, Regional, Soil, Vegetation, Water, Watershed.

Collaborative Research: Determining the role of insolation in the mechanical breakdown of rock
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2009; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Peter Mackenzie-Helnwein($85,848), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Kimberly A Warren($166,837), University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte
Key terms: Crack Initiation, Breakdown, Cracks, Desert, Exposed, Exposure, Field, Foundation, Has, Heating, Mechanical, Orientations, Phenomena, Preferential, Processes, Rock, Sediment, Subsequent, Sun, Surface, Surfaces, Weathering.

Co-Evolution of Orographic Precipitation Patterns and Topography in the Western Ghats, India
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Stephen W Nesbitt($339,484), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Mountain Ranges, Narrow Canyons, Atmospheric, Climate, Does, Erosion, Escarpment, Evolution, Ghats, Has, India, Interdisciplinary, Knowledge, Model, Natural, Numerical, Planning, Precipitation, Processes, Rates, Region, Satellite, Steep, Topography.

Decadal-scale channel evolution at Mount Pinatubo, Philippines
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Karen B Gran($124,091), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Dam Removals, Mount Pinatubo, Pyroclastic Flow, Riparian Vegetation, Sediment Transport, Vegetation Density, Bed, Channel, Channels, Deposits, Dynamics, Efforts, Eruption, Recovery, Removed, River, Sand, Stabilized, Wake.

SGER: Fate and Transport of Carbon and sediments During a Mississippi River High Water Event
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Alexander S Kolker($24,095), Louisiana Universities Marine Corsortium, Chauvin
Key terms: Mississippi River, Organic Carbon, Environmental, Peak-flow, Rivers.

Humans Transforming the Water Cycle: Community-Based Activities in Hydrologic Synthesis
Award Effective Date: 06/30/2008; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Charles J Vorosmarty($766,353), CUNY City College, New York
Key terms: Hydrologic Synthesis, Synthesis Activities, Water Cycle, Benefits, Biodiversity, CUAHSI, Capacity, Climate, Consolidated, Consortium, Emerging, Enormous, Focus, Human, Land, Management, Model, National, Natural, Northeast, Policy, Predictability, Processes, Produce, Public, Purpose, Regional, Strategic, Synergistic, Themselves, WG.

Studies of Unusual Earthquakes: Volcanos and Landslides
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2010; Program: Geophysics

1. Goran Ekstrom($247,543), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Volcano And Landslide, Volcanos And Landslides, Detection Algorithm, Landslide Earthquakes, Landslide Parameters, Anomalous, Caldera, Characterization, Constraints, Developed, Investigations, Lead, Long-period, Magmatic, Mass, Plumbing, Seismic, Slow, Sources.

Observations and models of postseismic deformation: Constraints on the ductile strength of continental lithosphere
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2010; Program: Geophysics

1. Yuri Fialko($365,881), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Diverse Tectonic Settings, Alos Mission, Brittle-ductile Transition, Continental Lithosphere, Long-term Strength, Lower Crust, Post-seismic Deformation, Postseismic Transients, Upper Mantle, Below, Brittle-ductile, Constraints, Delayed, Discrimination, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Effective, Long-term, Mechanisms, Modeling, Models, Observations, Post-seismic, Relaxation, Stress, Surface.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Eathquake rupture dynamics on non-planar faults with off-fault damage
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: Geophysics

1. Jean-Paul Ampuero($221,687), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
2. Yehuda Ben-Zion($203,458), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Fault Zone Structure, Broad Range, Dynamic Ruptures, Earthquake Source, Elastic Moduli, Fault Geometry, Fault Roughness, Seismic Radiation, Wave Radiation, Affect, Bimaterial, Brittle, Complexity, Concentrations, Consider, Contribute, Damage, Deformation, Dynamics, Effects, Energy, Evolution, Faults, Features, Feedback, Frequency, Generate, Geometrical, Ground, Induces, Inelasticity, Ingredients, Limits, Maximum, Mechanisms, Motion, Natural, Near, Non-planar, Observable, Off-fault, Plastic, Process, Processes, Produce, Properties, Reduction, Represent, Slip, Stress, Yielding.

Evidence for Geomagnetic Field Excursions Recorded in Postglacial (9-15,000 Calendar YBP) Carbonates of the Tahiti Coral Reef
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: Geophysics

1. Steven P Lund($213,273), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Earth's Magnetic Field, Local Magnetic Field, Tahiti Coral Reef, Earth's Magnetic, Sea Level, Cal, Cores, Correlate, Disseminated, Evidence, Excursions, Global, Has, Recovered, Reefs, Reversals, Sediments, Solar, Student, Times, YBP, ±.

Implications of Deep Transport of Slab-Adjacent Hydrated Material at Subduction Zones
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: Geophysics

1. Laurent Montesi($165,770), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Ambient Mantle, Dehydration Reactions, Earth's Interior, Flow Field, Geochemical Evolution, Lower Mantle, Mantle Flow, Mineral Structures, Ocean Island, Subduction Zones, Velocity Structure, Water Cycle, Water Held, Amount, Carry, Chemical, Consequence, Constraints, Deep, Density, Dynamics, Experience, Global, Hydrated, LVC, Lavas, Local, Melting, Minerals, Model, Models, Plates, Potential, Seismic, Slab, Slab-adjacent, Solid, Students, Surface, Thermal, Transport, Viscosity.

Understanding the complexity of the 660-km seismic discontinuity
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Sang-Heon Shim($360,280), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Phase Transitions Near, 660-km Discontinuity, Structures Near, Allows, Depth, High-resolution, Interactions, Mantle, Pressure, Seismic, Technique.

Melting in Binary Systems: Application to Earth's Core
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Dion L Heinz($395,223), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Earth's Core, X-ray Diffraction, Cell, Continued, Critical, Experimental, Melting, Phase, Techniques, Temperatures, X-ray.

Probing the Earth's Outer Core for a Stratified Layer
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Edward J Garnero($184,271), Arizona State University, Tempe
2. Christine Houser($113,799), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Core-mantle Boundary, Lowermost Mantle, Mantle Structure, Outer Core, Outermost Core, Seismic Waves, Smks Phases, Accounting, Arrivals, CMB, Characterize, Chemical, Convert, Core-mantle, Deep, Depend, Existing, Experiments, Fine, Geomagnetism, Has, Layer, Layering, Model, Modeling, Reactions, SKS, SKS-SKS, Seek, Times, Velocity.

Fault Zone Rheology and Deformation Mechanisms of Tibetan Plateau Constrained by Space Geodesy Measurements
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Zheng-Kang Shen($196,844), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Crust And Upper, Earthquake Occurred, Earthquakes Occurred, Eastern Rim, Fault Zone, Layered Media, Lower Crust, Postseismic Deformation, Precisely Monitored, Tibetan Plateau, Upper Mantle, Visco-elastic Deformation, Alaska, Code, Constraints, Debated, Drives, Faults, GPS, Geodetic, Has, Kokoxili, Lateral, Model, Modeling, Mw, Northern, Predominantly, Processes, Respectively, Rheologies, Shed, Stress, Taiwan, Visco-elastic, Wenchuan.

The Precessionally-Driven Geodynamo
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Paul H Roberts($450,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Dynamo Action, Electric Currents, Inner Core, Magnetic Field, Precessionally-driven Flows, Spheroidal Container, Billion, Bodies, Body, Buoyancy, Cone, Created, Creates, Difficulty, Does, Earth, Electrical, Energy, Explanation, Fluid, Geodynamo, Grids, Growth, Has, Losses, Main, Moon, Motion, Motions, Name, Numerical, Objective, Orbits, Planets, Power, Precessionally-driven, Rate, Release, Solid, Solving, Towards.

Observationally Constrained High Resolution Dynamics of the Present-Day Lithosphere-Mantle System
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. William E Holt($237,923), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Plate Boundary Zones, Plates And Plate, Convection Models, Depth Integrated, Deviatoric Stress, Mantle Circulation, Plate Motions, Anisotropic, Base, Differences, Dynamic, Earthquake, Effective, Energy, Estimates, Fault, Field, Forward, GPE, Global, Has, Horizontal, Lateral, Lithosphere, Magnitudes, Modeling, Radial, Refine, Rheology, Subduction, Tractions, Treatment, Viscosity.

Probing the Deep Rheology of Tibet: Unique Constraints from Recent Dip-slip Earthquakes
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Roland Burgmann($91,845), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Collision Zone, Constitutive Properties, Deformation Following, Deformation Transients, Dip-slip Earthquakes, Lower Crust, Post-earthquake Deformation, Rheological Properties, Analysis, Current, Debate, Deep, Depth, Dip-slip, Evolution, Flow, Future, Information, Insar, Interior, Knowledge, Occurred, Plateau, Post-earthquake, Postseismic, Probe, Processes, Region, Relaxation, Resulting, Seismic, Strength, Stress, Strike-slip, Tectonic, Tibet, Tibetan, Viscous.

Collaborative Research: Investigating the limits of ray-based global surface-wave tomography
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Colleen A Dalton($94,822), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
2. Vala Hjorleifsdottir($142,000), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Analysis Techniques, Seismic Stations, Anomalies, Approaches, Computational, Deep, Earthquakes, Elastic, Generated, Image, Interior, Models, Prescribed, Sets, Standard, Structure, Synthetic, Three-dimensional.

Geodynamic constraints on the nature of the asthenosphere
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Ulrich Faul($178,548), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Beneath Oceanic Plates, Viscosity And Density, Numerical Experiments, Tectonic Plates, Upper Mantle, Asthenosphere, Attenuation, Composition, Convection, Earth, Electrical, Flow, Geophysical, Hypothesized, Influence, Layer, Lithosphere, Low, Mechanism, Mechanisms, Models, Observations, Particular, Presence, Properties, Relatively, Responsible, Rock, Seismic, Structure, Surface, Temperature, Volatiles, Water, Weak.

Troposphere, Ionosphere, GPS, and Interferometric Radar (TIGIR) Workshop Proposal; Sepember 21-22, 2009 in Pasadena, CA
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. James H Foster($20,250), UNAVCO, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: Sar Signals, Wide Range, Approaches, Atmospheric, Effects, GNSS, Generate, Imaging, Missions, Mitigate, Products, Promise, Recommendations, Students, UNAVCO, Upcoming, Workshop.

High-resolution mapping of several prominent seismic anomalies in the lower mantle
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Lianxing Wen($276,104), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Feature And Velocity, Structural And Velocity, African Anomaly, Detailed Structural, Lower Mantle, Outstanding Issues, Pacific Anomaly, Structural Feature, Travel Time, Velocity Features, Velocity Structure, Anisotropic, Anomalies, Earth, Edge, Evolution, Hybrid, Method, Modeling, Prominent, Seismic, Structures, Thermal-chemical, Waveform.

Ambient Near-Coastal Seismic Noise and Temporal Monitoring
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Robert W Clayton($323,200), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Wave Action Models, Coastal Reflections, Ocean Microseisms, Southern California, Temporal Resolution, Amplitudes, Correlation, Determined, Generation, Hence, Offshore, Potential, Primary, Procedure, Random, Seismic, Source, Sources, Standard, Synthetic.

Dilatant Stabilization as a Mechanism for Slow Slip Events
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Paul Segall($209,156), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Slip Accelerates, Slow Slip, Subduction Zone, Thermal Pressurization, Cascadia, Characteristic, Consider, Damaging, Diffusion, Dilatancy, Earthquakes, Effective, Fast, Faults, Finite, Friction, Frictional, Limits, Locked, Physics, Pore-pressure, Precise, Seismic, Simulations, Speeds, Stress, Zones.

Collaborative Research: Geodynamic implications of imaged upper mantle heterogeneity underneath the Western United States
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Eugene D Humphreys($40,574), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
2. Thorsten W Becker($156,124), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Flow Modeling, Mantle Beneath, Mantle Flow, Seismic Images, Account, Anisotropy, Ascent, Consequences, Crust, Density, Earthscope, Large-scale, Lithosphere, Models, North, Plate, Processes, Recently, Sinking, Structure, Western.

Passive seismic study of a magma-dominated rift: the Salton Trough
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Simon Klemperer($263,319), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Buried Beneath, Joint Inversions, Receiver Functions, Salton Trough, San Andreas, Southernmost California, Structural Constraints, Velocity Model, Continent, Controlled-source, Crust, Determined, Dominated, Earthquake, Evolution, Extension, Extensional, Gulf, Lower, Magmatic, Mantle, Moho, Nsfs, Obtained, P-wave, Paradigm, Profile, Profiles, Province, Refraction, Rift, Rifts, Stretched, Thick, Total, Velocities.

Collaborative Research: Integrated Volcano Geodesy and Seismology: Earthquakes at Silicic Domes
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Jonathan M Lees($130,700), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
2. Jeffrey B Johnson($215,129), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Time Lapse, Activity, Broadband, Common, Dome, Earthquakes, Eruption, Geodesy, Has, Investigate, Months, Observations, Occurring, Optical, Period, Range, Santiaguito, Seismic, Surface, Volcanic, Volcano.

Modeling recent behavior of Mt. St. Helens: extrusion dynamics, deformation, and seismicity
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Paul Segall($144,573), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Ground Deformation, Magma Chamber, Mount St, Surface Deformation, Analysis, Based, Chemical, Conduit, Crust, Depth, Earthquakes, Eruption, Essentially, Extrusion, Frictional, GPS, Helens, Margin, Models, Monitoring, Observed, Onset, Plug, Preceded, Pressure, Rate, Recharge, Seismic, Shallow, Shear, Sliding, Tilt, Tilts, Volcano, Volume, Was.

Experimental and theoretical investigation of rock friction at seismic slip rates
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Kevin M Brown($225,426), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Fine-grained Gouges, Shear Zone, Asperity, Boundary, Constrain, Creep, Decrease, Deformation, Earthquake, Elastic, Elevated, Evidence, Experimental, Faults, Fine-grained, Friction, Heating, Increase, Initial, Layer, Low, Modulus, Particles, Plasticity, Properties, Rock, Run, Simple, Stresses, Temperature, Temperatures, Thermal, Thermally, Velocity, Weakening.

In-situ Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction Study of Quartz Deformation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Pamela C Burnley($305,314), University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas
Key terms: In-situ Synchrotron X-ray, Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction, Deformation Experiments, Deformation Mechanisms, Deformation Studies, In-situ Synchrotron, Pressure Deformation, Synchrotron X-ray, X-ray Diffraction, Allow, Analysis, Applications, Behavior, Ceramics, Combination, Crystals, Engineering, Explanation, Implications, Metals, Mountain, Overall, Produce, Quartz, Rock.

Study of Coseismic Damage and Post-mainshock Healing on the Longmen-Shan Fault Ruptured in the 2008 M8 Wenchuan Earthquake in China
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Yong-Gang Li($108,558), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: M8 Wenchuan Earthquake, Sichuan Seismic Network, Damage Zone, Longmen-shan Fault, M8 Earthquake, Rock Damage, Active, Aftershocks, China, Earthquakes, Extent, Fault-zone, Healing, In-situ, LSF, Length, Longmen-shan, Properties, Rupture, Seismogenic, Slip, Stations.

Friction and aging of silica: atomistic simulations for fundamental understanding of earthquake mechanics
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Izabela Szlufarska($220,006), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Accelerated Molecular Dynamics, Friction And Adhesion, Molecular Dynamics Techniques, Crustal Faults, Silicawater Interface, Single Asperity, Based, Behavior, Chemical, Chemistry, Complexity, Crack, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Frictional, Instabilities, Laws, MEMSNEMS, Mechanics, Mechanisms, Prediction, Processes, Reliable, Rough, Size, Slip, Surface, Surfaces, Taking, Theories, Theory, Time, Wear.

RUI: The Laschamp and Mono Lake Excursions in High Deposition Rate Sediments from Summer Lake, Oregon, USA
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Robert M Negrini($183,440), California State University-Bakersfield, Bakersfield
Key terms: Magnetic Field, Ago, Atmosphere, CSUB, Climate, Concentration, Environments, Geomagnetic, Indicator, Lake, Lake-level, Models, Occurred, Paleoclimate, Radiocarbon, Students, Underrepresented.

Collaborative Research: Studies of the Structure of the Earth's Interior
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Goran Ekstrom($70,000), Columbia University, New York
2. Adam M Dziewonski($130,000), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Elastic And Density, Isotropic And Anisotropic, Thermal And Chemical, Controversy Surrounding, Density Model, Density Structure, Elastic Parameters, Mantle Convection, Normal Mode, Partial Melt, Travel Times, Additional, Assemble, Center, Constraint, Dynamics, Earth, Frequencies, Heterogeneity, Importance, Inversion, Kustowski, Large-scale, Limited, Models, Range, Resolution, Seismic, Set, Sets, Wide.

Investigation of source spectral models and scaling for slow slip processes in subduction zones
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Heidi Houston($131,868), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Low Frequency Earthquakes, Source Spectral Models, Tremor And Slip, Various Frequency Ranges, Episodic Tremor, Facilitate Comparison, Propagation Velocity, Regular Earthquakes, Rupture Velocity, Seismic Hazard, Slow Slip, Source Spectrum, Stress Drop, Subduction Zones, Advance, Appropriate, Available, Compared, Constant, Constraints, Durations, ETS, Elucidate, Has, Larger, Locked, Moment, Nature, Observations, Physics, Potential, Process, Processes, Self-similar, Size-dependent, Sizes, Transformative, Weak.

Effect of a Small Amount of Melt on Diffusion and Deformation in Earth's Mantle
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. David L Kohlstedt($399,798), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Grain Boundary Chemistry, Partially Molten Rocks, Laboratory Experiments, Mantle Rocks, Olivine Doped, Amount, Beneath, Concentrations, Creep, Designed, Earth, Earthquakes, Factor, Flow, Heat, High-purity, Iceland, Impurities, Influence, Melt, Melt-free, Nature, Processes, Rate, Regions, Strength, Surface, Versus, Vol.

Collaborative Research: Postseismic deformation of the Earth after the great 2006-2007 Kuril earthquake doublet: Implications for mantle rheology
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Jeffrey T Freymueller($28,503), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
2. Mikhail Kogan($211,083), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Afterslip And Viscoelastic, Continuous Stations, Kuril Earthquakes, Outer Rise, Postseismic Deformation, Subduction Zones, Viscoelastic Relaxation, Beneath, Central, Compare, Consistent, Doublet, Earth-quake, Faulting, Following, GPS, January, Lead, Long-lived, Mantle, Methods, Months, Mw=, Observed, Process, Russian, Stresses, Thrust, Was.

Collaborative Research: Thermochemical models of mantle dynamics and plate motions
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Bruce Buffett($93,076), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. Thorsten W Becker($88,885), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Buoyancy Forces, Density Anomaly, Gravity Field, Large-scale Flow, Seismic Anomaly, Tectonic Plates, CIG, Code, Complete, Does, Dynamics, Earthquakes, Global, Information, Inside, Interior, Large-scale, Model, Models, Plan, Planet, Self-consistent, Subducted, Subduction, Surface, Thermal, Viscosity.

Core-Mantle Interaction and Evolution of the Geodynamo
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Peter L Olson($413,351), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Slow Overturning Flow, Solid Inner Core, Boundary Conditions, Core Boundary, Core-mantle Boundary, Core-mantle Interaction, Geologic Time, Geomagnetic Field, Heat Flow, Lower Mantle, Mantle Convection, Outer Core, Polarity Reversals, Seismic Structure, Tidal Deceleration, Calculate, Combine, Constrain, Continuously, Core-mantle, Deep, Dynamo, Evidence, Evolution, Geodynamo, Growth, Heterogeneity, History, Magnetic, Model, Models, Numerical, Observed, Parameters, Periods, Plan, Plate, Present-day, Stages, Surface, Thermal.

How Deep Do Ruptures Penetrate in Large Earthquakes?
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Bruce E Shaw($164,576), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Seismic Hazard Estimates, Seismogenic Moment Fraction, Tremor And Slip, Deep Slip, Dipping Faults, Episodic Tremor, Locked Portion, Magnitude-area Scaling, Plate Boundaries, Rapid Coseismic, Repeat Times, Subduction Zones, Added, Below, Constraints, Deeper, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Examine, Focuses, Friction, Has, Implications, Layer, Magnitude-area, Observations, Parameterizations, Picture, Possibility, Potential, Ratio, Relieved, Robustness, Set, Shallow, Strain, Uncertainties.

Laboratory Study of Fault Healing and Frictional Properties: Role of Fluids
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Chris J Marone($374,643), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Fault Healing, Fault Strength, Fault Zone, Frictional Healing, Frictional Strength, Healing Via, Microstructural Studies, Seismic Hazard, Tectonic Faults, Conditions, Creep, Earthquakes, Fluid, Investigate, Laboratory, Processes, Properties, Range, Shear, Slip, Stress, Time.

Estimating Frictional Properties of Faults from Geodetic Data
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Kaj M Johnson($120,976), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Fault Slip, Friction Parameters, Numerical Models, Rate-state Friction, Slip Behavior, Slip Behaviors, Wide Range, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Episodic, Experiments, Faults, Implemented, Laboratory, Near, Rate-state, San, Sliding, Stable, Steady, Stick-slip.

Renewal-Experimental Studies of Elasticity, Rheology, Volume, and Texture of Materials at Pressure-Temperature Conditions of the Earth's Mantle and Core
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Russell J Hemley($675,005), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Mantle And Core, Geophysical Observations, Inner Core, Liquid Iron, Outer Core, P-t Conditions, Alloys, Altered, Deep, Earth, Elasticity, Extend, Investigations, Minerals, P-T, Properties, Rheology, Techniques, Volume, X-ray.

Strength of continental lithosphere in western China from seismic body wave studies
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Vadim L Levin($133,227), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Continental Collision, Continental Lithosphere, Continental Regions, Hypocentral Parameters, Seismic Activity, Tarim Basin, Tien Shan, Applied, Arguments, Body, China, Collaboration, Crust, Deformation, Depth, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Highly, Investigate, Mantle, Monitoring, Mountain, Plate, Previously, Regional, Strength, Stress, Subcrustal, Transition, Xinjiang.

Structure, Stress, Earthquake Sources, and Dynamic Triggering in Katmai, Alaska
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Clifford H Thurber($197,325), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Active Volcanic Regions, Largest Volcanic Eruption, Seismically Active Volcanic, Shear Wave Splitting, Velocity And Attenuation, 20th Century, Katmai Pass, Seismic Array, Source Mechanisms, Subsurface Structure, Temporary Array, Alaska, Beneath, Centered, Deployed, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Explore, Focus, Locus, Magma, Seismicity, Stress, Tomography, Triggering, Was.

Significant and complex seismic anisotropy beneath the Himalayas and the southern Tibetan Plateau
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Kelly H Liu($124,341), Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla
Key terms: Earth's Deep Interior, Asthenospheric Flow, Earth's Deep, Fast Direction, Shear-wave Splitting, Southern Tibet, Splitting Parameters, Splitting Time, Anisotropy, Beneath, Consequence, Drill, Earthquakes, Has, Himalayas, Hole, Image, Internal, Interpreted, Layer, Lithosphere, Majority, Mantle, Mountain, Observed, Phases, Processes, Seismic, Shwave, Station, Techniques, Teleseismic.

Micromechanics-Based Modeling of Dynamic Earthquake Rupture in a Structurally Complex Fault Zone
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Charles G Sammis($145,543), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Damage Mechanics, Earthquake Rupture, Fault Zone, Mohr-coulomb Plasticity, Off-fault Damage, Pre-existing Damage, Pulverized Rock, Rupture Propagation, Shattered Rock, Account, Affect, Breccia, Core, Density, Displacement, Dynamic, Earthquakes, Effect, Field, Formed, Found, Fracture, Fractures, Frictional, Generation, Gouge, Laboratory, Layers, Model, Modeled, Models, Mohr-coulomb, Numerical, Off-fault, Pre-existing, Raise, Size, Stress, Structure, Tip.

Collaborative Research: Structure and Dynamics of ultralow-velocity zones at the core-mantle boundary
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Justin Revenaugh($162,335), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
2. Saswata Hier-Majumder($249,690), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Scp And Pcp, Seismic Signals Traveling, Core-mantle Boundary, Lower Mantle, Mass Transfer, Outer Core, Partially Molten, Vigorous Motion, Base, Core-mantle, Density, Earth, Heat, Internal, Investigation, Layer, Model, Modeling, Observed, Resolution, Resulting, Rock, Stage, Structure, Structures, Surface, Surrounding, Synthetic, Thin, Topography, ULVZ, Waveform.

Laboratory Earthquakes: Characterization of Ground Motion and Stress States in Complex Rupture Scenarios Using High Resolution Optical Diagnostics
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Ares J Rosakis($405,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Instrumented Laboratory Earthquake, Radiated Ground Motion, Complex Geometries, Controlled Laboratory, Dynamic Frictional, Dynamic Rupture, Kinematic Inversion, Optical Diagnostics, Supershear Ruptures, Benchmarks, Capability, Design, Designed, Experimental, Experiments, Fault, Field, Fields, Findings, Highly, Measuring, Model, Models, Natural, Obtained, Phenomena, Resolution, Resolved, Resulting, Seismic, Seismological, Seismology, Sliding, Slip, Specimen, Speed, Stations, Stress, Validation, Wave.

Kinematic and dynamic rupture characterization of the 2008 Ms 8 Wenchuan earthquake sequence
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Ralph Archuleta($361,394), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Low Strain Rates, Intraplate Earthquakes, Kinematic Model, Aftershocks, Analysis, Beneath, Characteristics, Faults, Geodetic, Geological, Ground, Multiple, Observations, Process, Rupture, Seismic, Sequence, Steep, Structure, Tectonic, Thrust, Topography, Uncertainties, Unusual.

Theoretical earthquake nucleation, with applications to creep fronts, tremor, and slow slip
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Allan M Rubin($271,351), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Episodic Slow Slip, Plate Tectonic Rates, San Andreas Fault, Slip And Tremor, Creep Fronts, Earthquake Nucleation, Generate Seismic, Seismic Slip, Subduction Zones, Collide, Constitutive, Earthquakes, Elastodynamics, Episodes, Extend, Faults, Friction, Heterogeneous, Less, Locked, Magnitude, Numerical, Standard, Useful.

Geodynamics of the base of the lithosphere and ultraslow ridge axes
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Norman H Sleep($106,270), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Convective Heat Flow, Heat And Mass, 3-d Numerical, Beneath Cratons, Boundary Layer, Diamond Pipes, Favor Vigorous, Lateral Flow, Mass Transfer, Stagnant Lid, Active, Axes, Basal, Base, Below, Billion, Buoyant, Concentrates, Continent, Convection, Crust, Depths, Effects, Geological, Has, Hot, Investigation, Involves, Less, Lithosphere, Mantle, Models, Nearly, Physics, Region, Regions, Rigid, Rock, Situations, Slowly, Stable, Subsides, Surface, Tectonic, Temperature, Thermal, Thinning, Transition, Underlying, Viscous, Xenoliths.

Static Compression of CO2-bearing Silicate Liquids
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Penelope King($312,619), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Partial Molar Volume, Pressure And Temperatures, Carbon Dioxide, Experimental Techniques, Melt Composition, Silicate Melt, Calculating, Carbonated, Conditions, Deep, Density, Earth, Equations, Experiments, Function, Gases, Magma, Magmas, Melting, Metal, Predictive, Range.

Geomagnetic field characteristics in the Paleozoic, based on three very extensive extrusive sequences
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Rob Van der Voo($215,000), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Earth's Magnetic Field, Earth's Magnetic, Geomagnetic Field, Higher-order Fields, Outer Core, Ancient, Characteristics, Continent, Declination, Dipole, Direction, Exist, Five, Geological, Has, Higher-order, Intervals, Lava, Million, North, Northpole, Polarity, Reveal, Secular, Shift, Significantly, Steadily, Time, Times.

Collaborative Research: Joint inversion of crust and upper mantle structure in central and eastern Tibetan plateau and its margins
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Lupei Zhu($97,566), Saint Louis University, Saint Louis
2. Xiaodong Song($184,870), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Central And Eastern, Crustal And Mantle, Crustal Channel Flow, Mid-crust Channel Flow, Structures And Deformation, 3d Structure, Central Tibet, Eastern Tibet, Eastern Tp, Geological Structures, Mantle Deformation, Mid-crust Channel, Plateau Formation, Seismic Imaging, Tibetan Plateau, Upper Crust, China, Decoupled, Depth, Difficult, Directions, Does, India, Limited, Lithosphere, Margins, Model, Models, Parameters, Processes, Regime, Relate, Resolution, Sufficient, Surface, Underlying, Variety.

Conference Support: ISS '09 Conference, Vienna, Austria 10-12 June, 2009
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Barbara A Romanowicz($39,997), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Iss-09 Conference, Verification Regime, IMS, International.

11th International Workshop on the Modeling of Mantle Convection in Braunwald, Switzerland from June 29-July 2, 2009
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Allen McNamara($20,000), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Geodynamical Modeling, Attend, Disciplines, Geophysical, Integrated, International, Invited, Junior, Participants, Processes, Technical, Travel, Workshop.

Erice 2009: International School on High-pressure Crystallography - unique educational experience for young American scientists in geophysics and mineral physics
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Stephen R Sutton($8,000), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Erice Schools, Lecture Notes, Advanced, Broad, Course, Covered, Crystallography, Eight, Has, Interaction, International, Lecturers, Participants, Participation, Student, Students, Topics, Unique.

Collaborative Research: Variations in Upper-Mantle Temperature, Deformation, and Melting Inferred from the Seismic Structure of the Atlantic Basin
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Colleen A Dalton($171,368), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
2. James B Gaherty($120,000), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Atlantic Basin, Mantle Beneath, Plate Velocities, Seismic Models, Seismic Structure, Spreading Rates, Upper Mantle, Composition, Compositional, Controls, Deformation, Earth, Investigate, Melt, Melting, Pacific, Plates, Processes, Produce, Properties, Rigid, Rock, Sets, Tectonic, Temperature, Variable, Weak, Weakening.

Three-dimensional spontaneous dynamic rupture models on geometrically complex faults with state-of-the-art frictional parameterization
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. David D Oglesby($171,850), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Dynamic Earthquake Models, Laboratory-derived Friction Laws, Stepovers And Branches, Complex Fault, Earthquake Process, Earthquake Rupture, Fault Geometry, Faulting Behavior, Frictional Parameterization, Geometrically Complex, Ground Motion, Laboratory-derived Friction, Modeling Method, Numerical Models, Realistically Complex, Rupture Propagation, Slip Rates, Earthquakes, Effect, Effects, Evolution, Faults, Incorporate, Investigations, Larger, Physics, Potential, Predict, Segment, Simple, Size, Spontaneous, Stress, Tracks.

Collaborative Research: High-resolution receiver function imaging of crustal structure in the Southern Great Basin, Nevada
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Glenn P Biasi($13,405), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
2. Vera Schulte-Pelkum($75,564), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Basin Digital Seismic, Digital Seismic Network, Lower Crustal Deformation, Broadband Stations, Crustal Structure, Receiver Functions, Anisotropy, Continent, Depth, Detect, Earthquakes, Faulting, Moho, Motion, Nevada, Plate, Processes, Scattering, Short-period, Signals, Southern, Stretching, Tectonic, Western.

Scales of mantle heterogeneity from 3D numerical models of mixing
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Louise H Kellogg($270,000), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Earth¹s Deep Interior, Earth¹s Deep, Mantle Convection, Computational, Destruction, Dynamics, Evolution, Has, Heterogeneity, Long-term, Methods, Mixing, Models, Observed.

Anisotropy Changes during Deformation and phase Transformations.
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Hans-Rudolf Wenk($249,392), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Pressure And Temperature, Deformation Mechanisms, Lower Mantle, Preferred Orientation, Anisotropy, Experiments, Models, Quartz, Seismic, Twinning.

An investigation into compositionally heterogeneous plume clusters in 3D spherical geometry
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Allen McNamara($247,645), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Expected Surface Expression, Subducted Oceanic Crust, Beneath Africa, Compositional Heterogeneity, Mantle Convection, Plume Clusters, Transport Properties, Upwelling Mantle, Anomalies, Combined, Competing, Dynamics, Earth, Geochemical, Investigate, Modeling, Models, Numerical, Observations, Pacific, Plate, Plumes, Regions, Seismic, Seismological, Seismology, Thermal, Thermochemical.

Joint Seismic and Magnetotelluric Imaging of the San Andreas Fault Zone
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Clifford H Thurber($98,445), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: San Andreas Fault, Velocity And Electrical, Cross Product, Electrical Resistivity, Fault Zones, Joint Inversion, Seismic Velocity, Seismic Wave, Geometry, Gradient, Has, Methods, Model, Multiple, Properties, SAFOD, Spatial, Structural, Structure, Techniques.

Earthquake Rupture Simulation: thermo-mechanical models and validation with strong motion data
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Steven M Day($289,999), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
Key terms: Computer Models, Computer Simulations, Ground Motion, Analysis, Distances, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Engineering, Faulting, Ii, Magnitude, Methods, Modeling, Processes, Recordings, Required, Shaking, Simulate, Sources, Statistical, Stress, Strong, Wave.

Collaborative Research: Geomagnetic Field as Recorded on Iceland and Jan Mayen: Key to Field Structure at High Northern Latitudes
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Hubertus Staudigel($195,724), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Anthony Koppers($45,402), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Ancient Geomagnetic Field, Earth's Magnetic Field, Earth's Magnetic, Inner Core, Tangent Cylinder, Volcanic Island, Assumption, Axis, Collaborators, Enhanced, Latitudes, Near, Paleo, Paleomagnetic, Quality, Rock, Scripps, Time.

Integrating Geologic, Geodetic, and Coastal Tide Gauge Observations with 100-year Vertical Deformation Models of California Earthquake History
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Bridget R Smith-Konter($230,773), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
Key terms: Coastal Tide Gauge, California Coastline, California Earthquake, Crustal Motions, Earthquake Hazards, Plate Boundary, Sea Level, Vertical Deformation, Constrained, Contribute, Displacements, Earthscope, Estimates, Fault, Geodetic, Geologic, Has, Investigates, Long-term, Model, Past, Rates, Seismic, Space, Stations, Synthesis, Tectonic.

Collaborative Research: The Effects of Melt Depletion on Mantle Density and Velocity
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Geophysics

1. Derek L Schutt($35,000), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Melt Depletion, Composition, Compositional, Convection, Density, Depleted, Effects, Flow, Mantle, Models, Peridotite, Rock, Temperature, Velocities, Velocity, Wyoming.

The Sondrestrom Upper Atmospheric Research Facility: Research, Operation and Coordination
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Geospace Sci Cluster Prgrm

1. Anja Stromme($14,968,182), SRI International, Menlo Park
Key terms: All-sky Imager, Facility Staff, All-sky, Analysis, Capabilities, Education, Educational, Effective, Ensure, Existing, Future, Greenland, High-latitude, Maintain, Management, Operations, Processing, Program, Radar, Student, Technical, Upper.

Model Reduction in Groundwater Modeling
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. William W-G. Yeh($155,630), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Model Reduction, Parameter Estimation, Accuracy, Degree, Driven, Groundwater, Methodology, NSF, Whereby.

ETBC: Collaborative Research: Quantifying the Effects of Large-Scale Vegetation Change on Coupled Water, Carbon, and Nutrient Cycles: Beetle Kill in Western Montane Forests
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Jeffrey A Hicke($138,986), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
2. Elise Pendall($204,421), University of Wyoming, Laramie
3. David Gochis($189,379), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
4. Paul Brooks($362,483), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Energy And Water, Biogeochemical Cycles, Resource Managers, Surface Energy, Western Montane, Affect, Approach, Beetle, Carbon, Catchment, Coordination, Coupled, Coupling, Cycling, Disturbance, Forest, Infestation, Knowledge, Land, MPB, Modeling, Nitrogen, Observations, Partitioning, Quantifying, Respond, Short, Soil, Structure, Vegetation.

AGU Chapman Conference on Examining Ecohydological Feedbacks of Landscape Change along Elevation Gradients in Semiarid Regions, 5-9 October 2009
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Brenda L Weaver($15,000), American Geophysical Union, Washington
Key terms: Examining Ecohydrological Feedbacks, Chapman Conference, Semiarid Landscapes, Semiarid Regions, Sun Valley, October.

Collaborative Research: Enhancing the sustainability of groundwater pumping from low-arsenic aquifers in southern Asia - a case-study in Vietnam south of Hanoi
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Timothy I Eglinton($100,662), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Benjamin C Bostick($489,335), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Municipal Water Supply, Aquifer Sands, Drinking Water, Fe Oxyhydroxides, Grey Sands, Groundwater Drawn, Groundwater Tapped, High-as Groundwater, Low-as Aquifers, Orange Sands, Previously Documented, Reductive Dissolution, River Water, Southern Asia, Adsorption, Affected, As-sulfides, City, Covered, Dating, Does, Hanoi, Has, High-as, Low-as, Microbial, PO, POC, Precipitation, Redox, Reducing, Release, Treatment, Vulnerability, Ýgl.

Investigating Hydrologic Loading in Southeast Alaska Using GRACE and GPS Data
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Anthony A Arendt($432,522), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Large-scale Hydrologic Models, Snow And Ice, Hydrological Load, Japanese Colleagues, Large-scale Hydrologic, Sea Level, Southeast Alaska, Accumulation, Causing, Coastal, Continue, Distribution, Dramatic, GPS, GRACE, Glacier, Glaciers, Global, Gravity, Habitat, Information, Land, Mass, Measured, Melt, Methods, Modeling, Ocean, Rate, Region, Regional, Regions, Retreat, Seasonal, Surface, Tidewater, Time, Uplift, Winter.

Origin of hydrologic responses to earthquakes: constraints from the response of the Alum Rock Springs to the 2007 Alum Rock earthquake
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Michael Manga($245,397), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Alum Rock, Fault Zone, Spring Discharge, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Flow, Hydrologic, Level, Modeling, Models, Monitoring, Origin, Park, Previous, Processes, Source, Springs, Strain, Subsurface, Water.

Impact of Calibration Data on Evaluating Plausibility of Alternative Groundwater Models
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Ming Ye($105,266), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Alternative Groundwater Models, Bayesian Model Selection, Synthetic And Real-world, Alternative Models, Developed Based, Evaluating Plausibility, Model Plausibility, Model Probability, Multiple Models, Predictive Performance, Real-world Modeling, Single Model, Averaging, Calibration, Colorado, Conditions, Does, Environmental, Evaluation, Has, Hydrologic, Methods, Predictions, Process, Representations, Site, Uranium.

Development of Efficient X-Ray CT Image Segmentation Techniques for Quantitative Analysis of Phase Distributions and Flow Processes in Porous Media
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Pavel Iassonov($249,820), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Industrial And Synchrotron, Image Segmentation, Pore Space, Porous Media, Segmentation Methods, X-ray Ct, Algorithms, Analysis, Available, Capabilities, Development, Distribution, Documented, Dynamics, Fluid, Simulations, Software, X-ray, Yield.

Multi-scale Monitoring and Modeling of Land Use and Climate Change Impacts on the Terrestrial Hydrologic Cycle: Implications for the Great Lakes Basin
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. David W Hyndman($243,552), Michigan State University, East Lansing
Key terms: Climate And Land, Hydrologic Cycle, Land Cover, Agricultural, Characterized, Explore, Hydrological, Model, Models, Moisture, Predictive, Processes, Projected, Range, Terrestrial, Water.

Geometry & Dynamics of Interfaces in Porous Media
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Laura J Pyrak-Nolte($375,000), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: 3-d Transparent Micro-models, 2-d Micro-models, 3-d Transparent, Equilibrium Conditions, Fluid Distributions, Interfacial Geometry, Transparent Micro-models, Behavior, Confocal, Dynamic, Effort, Fabricate, Film, Films, Has, Imaging, Interfaces, Laser, Microscopy, Multiphase, Pc, Pc-sw-awn, Porous, Pressure.

Collaborative Proposal: Redox Processes in the Sedimentary Porewaters of Prairie Pothole Lakes: Implications for the Attenuation of Pesticides
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. William A Arnold($74,970), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Dissolved Organic Matter, Reactive Chemical Species, Reduced Sulfur Species, Prairie Pothole, Unique Water, Amount, Collected, Commonly, DOM, Extent, Feii, Hydrologic, Information, Lakes, Levels, Naturally, PPL, Pesticides, Potential, Reductants, Reductive, Sediments, Sulfate, Transform.

Reversals of karst springs: Implications for water budgets, water quality, and speleogenesis
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Elizabeth J Screaton($384,989), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Aquifer Confinement, Madison Blue, Organic Carbon, Spring Reversals, Suwannee River, Collected, Collection, Compositions, Concentrations, Diffuse, Discharge, Dissolved, Estimate, Fanning, Fe, Flood, Florida, Flow, Groundwater, Head, Hydraulic, Legacy, Mn, Parks, Pco, Ratios, Recharge, Saturation, Site, Sites, Springs, Training, Troy, Water.

Collaborative Research: Redox Processes in the Sedimentary Porewaters of Prairie Pothole Lakes: Implications for the Attenuation of Pesticides
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Yu-Ping Chin($77,814), Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE, Columbus
Key terms: Dissolved Organic Matter, Reactive Chemical Species, Reduced Sulfur Species, Prairie Pothole, Unique Water, Amount, Collected, Commonly, DOM, Extent, Feii, Hydrologic, Information, Lakes, Levels, Naturally, PPL, Pesticides, Potential, Reductants, Reductive, Sediments, Sulfate, Transform.

Assessing the potential for downstream release of contaminated sediments associated with a recent fly ash spill
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Ellen A Cowan($79,959), Appalachian State University, Boone
Key terms: Emory River, Fly Ash, Heavy Metals, Sediment Transport, Affected, Bed, Bedload, Characterization, Collected, Downstream, Efforts, Predictions, Reaches, Sediments, Suspended, TVA, Tennessee.

WATERS Network: Observing and Predicting Freshwater Eutrophication-Algal Bloom Dynamics Using Local Hyperspectral Imaging
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Qinghua Guo($395,000), University of California - Merced, Merced
Key terms: Ground-based And Underwater, Critical Zone, Hyperspectral Imaging, Water Quality, Waters Network, Application, Aquatic, Array, Broad, HSI, Mapping, Properties, Sensor.

Collaborative Research: High Resolution Sensor Networks for Quantifying and Predicting Surface-Groundwater Mixing and Nutrient Delivery in the Santa Fe River, Florida.
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Reed M Maxwell($79,608), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
2. Kenneth C Slatton($456,782), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Stream Flow, Surfacegroundwater Mixing, Temporal Resolution, Waters Test-bed, Chemical, Does, Dynamics, Fluxes, Groundwater, Hydrogeologic, Hydrologic, Inform, Information, Management, Mission, Models, Nitrate, Phosphate, Predictions, River, Sampling, Sites, Solutes, Specific, Test-bed, Tested.

Collaborative: WATERS: Evaluating Community Watershed Models and Observation Networks under Uncertainty within the Susquehanna River Basin
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Thorsten Wagener($200,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Assimilation Framework, Sensitivity Maps, Ability, CI, Climate, Environmental, Extension, Flow, Hydrologic, Model, Models, Observations, Prediction, Resources, River, SRB, Uncertainty, Value.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: The intersection of vegetation organization and watershed topology: Ecohydrologic imprints in runoff generation and stream discharge
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Ryan E Emanuel($145,935), Appalachian State University, Boone
2. Brian L McGlynn($165,631), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Generation And Stream, Hillslopes And Watersheds, Predominantly Undergraduate, Runoff Generation, Stream Discharge, Terrestrial Landscapes, Underrepresented Populations, Watershed Networks, ASU, Appalachian, Course, Directly, Distribution, Field-based, Framework, Heterogeneity, Hydrological, Intensive, LIDAR, MSU, Montana, Mountains, Participation, Pis, Processes, Program, Spatial, Spatially, Temporally, Transpiration, Vegetation.

Copper (Cu) Ligand Distribution Across Multiple Detection Windows in Natural Waters: Influence of pH, DOC Abundance, and Ligand Composition
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Gaboury Benoit($188,528), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Cu Binding, Environmental Behavior, Abundance, Amount, Aquatic, CL, Composition, Concentration, Copper, DOC, Free, Importance, Influence, Ligand, Ligands, Metal, Ph, Range, Relative, Strength, Strong, Waters, Weak.

RUI: Collaborative Research: Do CFCs and SF6 behave as reactive (sorbing) tracers in low carbon content sedimentary aquifers?
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2009; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. None($105,557), SUNY College at Geneseo, Geneseo
Key terms: Cfcs And Sf6, Low Carbon Content, Low Foc Aquifers, Sedimentary Aquifers, Compounds, Enhance, Experiments, Groundwater, Opportunities, Particular, Phd, Reactive, Sediments, Sorbing, Sorption, Student, Students, TACM, Tracers, Transport, Undergraduate.

Incorporation of effects of diffusion on longitudinal dispersion by advection
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Thomas E Skinner($42,066), Wright State University, Dayton
Key terms: Spatial Solute Distribution, Arrival Times, Differential Equations, Flow Path, Gaussian Behavior, Groundwater Age, Arbitrary, Calculations, Diffusion, Existing, Particle, Particles, Paths, Pe, Percolation, Power, Probability, Processes, Techniques.

SGER: Documenting the Transient Nature of Natural Free Convection in Groundwater
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. David W Hyndman($49,117), Michigan State University, East Lansing
Key terms: Free Convection, Halite Crust, Experiments, Field, Fingering, Hydrological, Modeling, Nature, Numerical, Resolve, Site, UAE.

Assessing, Quantifying, and Predicting the Role of Large Woody Debris as a Driver of Hydrologic Connectivity
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Meinhard B Cardenas($282,683), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Groundwater-surface Water Exchange, Lwd-induced Groundwater-surface Water, Flume Experiments, Groundwater-surface Water, Lwd-induced Groundwater-surface, Numerical Experiments, Woody Debris, Channel, Conditions, Energy, Field, Flow, Fluid, Fluvial, Froude, Heat, Local, Management, Mass, Permeability, Predictive, Quantify, Reach-scale, Restoration, Sediment, Simulations.

Using mesoscale climate simulations to reduce input data errors in energy balance snow hydrology models
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Alan F Hamlet($306,405), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Meso-scale Climate Models, Climate Sensitivity, Complex Terrain, Meso-scale Climate, Meteorological Driving, Mountain Environments, Spatial Scales, Accurately, Analysis, Characterizing, Collection, Combined, Elevation, Errors, Essential, Focus, Forcing, Hydrologic, Information, Particular, Precipitation, Predictions, Processes, Quality, Resource, Sets, Simulation, Simulations, Snow, Water, Watersheds, Western.

Collaborative Research: Forecast Generation and Dissemination for the Record Setting 2009 Red River Flood
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2009; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Stuart Schwartz($41,482), University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore
2. Allen Bradley($56,493), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Generation And Dissemination, Forecast Generation, Human Forecasters, Red River, Archive, Documentation, Hydrologic, Information, NWS, Opportunity, Process, Quality.

RAPID: The Impact of Rural and Urban Flooding on Water and Soil Quality in the Red River Valley of the North
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2009; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Thomas M DeSutter($59,694), North Dakota State University Fargo, Fargo
Key terms: Agricultural And Urban, Total Diesel Hydrocarbons, Total Gasoline Hydrocarbons, Upstream And Downstream, Deposited Sediment, Electrical Conductivity, Flooding-water Quality, Low Lying, Red River, Soil Quality, Total Hg, Underlying Soil, Water Quality, Ammonium, Centers, Chloride, Compared, Concentrations, Elevated, Estrone, Fargo, Fargo-moorhead, Findings, Flooding-water, Impacted, Increase, Influence, Landscapes, Level, March, Moorhead, Nitrate, North, Ph, Phosphate, Public, RR, Riparian, Sulfate, Waters, Â-estradiol.

Collaborative Research: Application of Fe and Zn isotopes to fingerprint, track, and quantify metal fluxes in streams and groundwater in alpine watersheds
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. David Borrok($194,400), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
2. Robert L Runkel($27,661), Geological Survey-Denver, Lakewood
Key terms: Fe And Zn, Alpine Watersheds, Metal Contamination, Metal Sources, Natural Sources, Zn Isotopes, Access, Anthropogenic, Colorado, Distinguishing, Educational, Field, Geological, Groundwater, Loads, Prospect, Students, UTEP.

The Hydrology of Desiccation and Cracking with Application to Desertification
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. John H Cushman($358,020), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Atacama Desert, Describe Flow, Desiccation Polygons, Nitrate Deposits, Soils Undergoing, Approach, Available, Chile, Formation, Found, Fractal, Fractures, Generalized, HMT, Has, Mathematical, Model, Modeling, Nitrogen, Particular, Process, Sand, Subsoil, Suggested, Time, Transport.

CAREER: Integrated Experimental and Numerical Modeling Study of Non-uniform Sediment Transport in Meandering Channels
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Jennifer G Duan($411,770), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Bar Dynamics, Meandering Channels, Numerical Models, Planform Evolution, Sediment Transport, Sinuous Channels, Size Fractions, Bars, Bed, Computer, Curved, Dampening, Distributions, Does, Engineering, Experimental, Flow, Flumes, Growth, Load, Meanders, Migration, River, School, Straight, Students, Substrate, Surface, Three-dimensional, Women.

RUI: Collaborative Research: How does changing glacial coverage affect the transport and fate of DOM and nutrients in coastal watersheds on the Gulf of Alaska?
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2009; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Durelle T Scott($188,976), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
2. Eran Hood($168,187), University of Alaska Southeast Juneau Campus, Juneau
Key terms: Coastal Watersheds, Glacial Recession, Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska, Altered, Biogeochemical, Combined, DOM, Discharge, Educator, Experience, Fate, Field, Findings, GOA, Has, Hydrologic, Laboratory, Landcover, Longitudinal, Nutrients, Organic, Primary, Processes, Sampling, Stream, Students, Transport, UAS, Undergraduate.

Implications of Vegetation Dynamics for Semi-Arid Hydrology: A Basis for Predicting Climate Impacts on Water Resources
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2009; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. John D Albertson($397,034), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Semi-arid Mediterranean Watersheds, Overland Flow, Semi-arid Mediterranean, Vegetation Dynamics, Analysis, Broad, Circulation, Cover, Duke, Experience, Hydrological, Impacts, Infiltration, Large-scale, Limited, Periods, Precipitation, Rainfall, Seasonal, Time, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Controls on Delivery and Fate of Water, Nitrogen and Calcium in a Spring-Fed Karst River
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Matthew J Cohen($325,668), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Geomorphic And Biogeochemical, Biotic-abiotic Interactions, Channel Dissolution, Continuously Measured, Karst Rivers, Solute Delivery, Spring-fed Karst, Time Scales, Allow, Archival, Biotic-abiotic, Chemistry, Complex, Control, Controls, Coupled, Deployed, Downstream, Dynamics, Ecological, Florida, Flow, Gauged, Hydrologic, Ichetucknee, Link, Magnitude, Ph, Process, Processes, Processing, Public, Regulatory, Sampling, Sensors, Sites, Spring-fed, Springs, Synoptic, Water.

Multi-modal, shape-based Inverse Methods for the Characterization of DNAPL Source Zone Architecture
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Linda M Abriola($359,557), Tufts University, Somerville
Key terms: Source Zone Architecture, Contaminant Mass, Electrical Impedance, Spatial Distribution, Approach, Boundaries, Contamination, DNAPL, Developed, Downstream, Experiments, Fields, Flux, Ganglia, Geophysical, Has, Hydrological, Hydrology, Imaging, Inverse, Inversion, Methods, Models, Parametric, Potential, Processing, Regions, Remediation, Representation, Set, Strategies.

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: 09/19/2008; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Laura K Lautz($511,271), Syracuse University, 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.

Ponds and Streams: Hydrological, Biogeochemical and Water Quality Function
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Craig R Tobias($190,154), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Biogeochemical Function, Water Quality, Anticipated, Component, Controls, Deployed, Deployments, Enable, Hydrologic, Instrumentation, Low, Metabolic, PO, Pond, Ponds, Processes, Quantify, Range, Reaction, Streams.

Facility Support: OpenTopography - A National Hub for High Resolution Topographic Data, Tools, and Knowledge
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Info Integration & Informatics

1. J Ramon Arrowsmith($307,462), Arizona State University, Tempe
2. Chaitanya K Baru($1,517,073), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Airborne And Ground-based, Airborne Laser Swath, Diego Supercomputer Center, Digital Elevation Models, Laser Swath Mapping, San Diego Supercomputer, Freely Accessible, Internet-based Access, Lidar Topography, Opentopography Portal, Available, Dems, Derived, Enable, Hosts, Internet-based, NCALM, Processes, Products, Provision, Resolution, Sets, Surface, USGS, Volumes.

Development of High-Pressure Environmental Chamber
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. August F Koster van Groos($85,141), University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Temperature And Pressure, Carbon Dioxide, Clay Mineralogy, Allow, Cell, Critical, Effects, Hydrothermal, Interactions, Methane, Simulating, Studying.

Phase II Research Support: UCLA Core Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Jonathan M Aurnou($497,250), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Core Flow, Earth's Core, Rotating Magnetoconvection, Turbulent Convection, Allow, CMB, Carry, Core-mantle, Dynamics, Fluid, Laboratory, Modelers, Models, Numerical, Physics, Students, Topography, Unique.

Acquisition and Upgrade of Instrumentation for Research on Transport and Reactivity of Dissolved and Particulate Organic Materials in Soils, Sediments, and the Atmosphere
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Mark W Williams($80,069), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Dissolved, Instrument, Organic, Particulate, Processes, Water.

Workshop Support: Handling, Processing, and Archiving LA-ICPMS U-Th-Pb Geochronologic Data; December 12-13, 2009 in San Francisco, California
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. George E Gehrels($25,000), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Archiving, Building, Day, Focus, Generation, Geochronologic, Processing, Robust, Standards, Tools, U-pb, Workshop.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: ECOHYDROLOGY OF DEEP CRYSTALLINE ROCKS AT DUSEL HOMESTAKE
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Thomas L Kieft($128,020), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
2. David F Boutt($111,416), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Preliminary Design Report, Deep Subsurface, Subsurface Life, Activities, Controls, DUSEL, Development, Evolution, Facies, Facility, Geochemistry, Has, Homestake, Hydrology, Planning, Processes, Similar, South, Sustain.

Early Career: Acquisition of Paleobiological Specimen Preparation and Imaging Facility
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Susan H Williams($180,000), Ohio University, Athens
Key terms: Faculty, Fossil, Ohio, Technician.

Acquisition of a liquid water isotope analyzer for hydrological, glaciological and geochemical research
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. W. Berry Lyons($57,800), Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE, Columbus
Key terms: Isotope Analyzer, Isotope Ratios, Climate, Flow, Hydrogeologic, Instrument, Liquid, Low, Maintenance, Meltwater, Oxygen, Permil, Pis, Water.

Electromagnetic Study of Continents (EMSOC) National Instrument Facility
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Stephen K Park($120,651), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: National Instrument Facility, Continued, EMSOC, Instruments, MT.

CSEDI Collaborative Research: Neutrino Geophysics: collaboration between geology and particle physics
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Stephen T Dye($69,421), Hawaii Pacific University, Honolulu
2. William F McDonough($313,991), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
3. Shijie Zhong($71,137), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Composition And Structure, Earth's Interior, Internally Consistent, Naturally-occurring Radioactive, Plate Tectonics, Radiogenic Heat, Antineutrino, Comprehensive, Cooling, Core, Distribution, Dynamic, Energy, Evolution, Mantle, Model, Naturally-occurring, Nuclear, Planet, Primary, Produce, Surface, TW, Thermal, Three-dimensional.

Collaborative Research: Facility Support: Transformation of Distributed Environmental Sensing
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Christine E Hatch($446,906), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
2. John S Selker($403,253), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Fiber Optic, Water Reservoir, Allowing, Bottom, Broad, CMSE, ORST, Observation, Observations, River, Temperature, Time, UNR.

Faulting under high confinement: Experimental investigation and model development
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Erland M Schulson($418,590), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Educational Outreach, Failure Mode, Brittle, Cold, Confinement, Dartmouths, Depths, Discovery, Earthquakes, Experiments, Fault, Faulting, Ice, Involved, Mechanism, Mechanisms, Models, Plastic, Polar, Program, Programs, Rock, Rockice, Shear, Stress.

Acquisition of a Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer for EARTHTIME
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Samuel A Bowring($496,411), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Dedicated Earthtime, Earthtime Node, Achieve, Analytical, Effort, Geochronology, High-precision, Laboratories, Labs, MIT, Students, U-pb.

Acquisition of Inductively Coupled Plasma - Optical Emission Spectrometer (ICP - OES)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Bruce W Berdanier($118,944), South Dakota State University, Brookings
Key terms: Environmental Engineering, Heavy Metals, Land Resources, South Dakota, Activities, Concentrations, Development, ICP-OES, Improvement, Issues, Low, Mission, OLC, Outreach, SDSU, Students, Viewed, WEERC, Water.

Acquisition of SEM-EDX and upgrade of petrographic microscopy to enhance rapid sediment characterization at LacCore, the National Lacustrine Core Facility
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Amy E Myrbo($142,897), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: School Students, Analysis, Core, Cores, Facilitate, Incorporated, Instrumentation, Instruments, Microscopy, Petrographic, SEM, Sediment.

EARLY CAREER INVESTIGATOR SUPPORT: Development of a Regional Stable Isotope Laboratory for Earth Science Research
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Emily M Elliott($185,000), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Stable Isotope, Development, Investigations, Laboratory, Mass, Technician, Water, Äc, Än, Äo.

Acquisition of a gas source isotope ratio mass spectrometer and high temperature elemental analyzer
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Peter B Larson($290,600), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Mass Spectrometer, Aging, Continue, Contributed, Delta, Graduate, Has, Hydrothermal, Lab, Laboratories, Laboratory, Park, Sources, Students, Supported, Yellowstone.

Acquisition of a tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopic isotope analyzer and peripheral induction furnace
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Zachary Sharp($69,115), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Atmospheric Water Vapor, Extraction Procedure, Analysis, Controlled, Isotope, Isotopes, Laboratory, Mexico, Minerals, Soil, TDLAS, Teaching, UNM, Undergraduate.

Facilities Support: Amino Acid Geochronology Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Darrell S Kaufman($279,914), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: Aar Dating, Individual Microfossils, Northern Arizona, Radiocarbon Dating, Climate, Continued, Date, Death, Earth, Environment, History, Ka, Racemization, Sediments, Temperature, Time.

Development of New Rotational Seismometers of High Sensitivity
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Michael E Wysession($389,949), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Optical Lever, Activities, Axes, Balance, Corresponding, Developed, Development, Earthquakes, Engineering, Especially, Field, Frequency, Has, Instrument, Instruments, Nfield, Oscillations, Robust, Rotational, Rotations, Seismic, Seismology, Strong-motion, Students, Technology, Torsion, Training, Translations, Washington.

Acquisition of a New Generation Benchtop SEM for Earth Systems Research, K-16 Education, and Public Outreach
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Gregory P Dietl($110,000), Paleontological Research Institute, Ithaca
Key terms: Microfossils, PRI, SEM.

Acquisition of integrated EBSD/EDS attachments and software for the field emission SEM at the University of Southern California
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. John P Platt($142,017), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Camera, Determination, EBSD, EDS, Electron, Permit, Rock.

Acquisition of an Electrical Resistivity System to Monitor Hydrologic Impacts of Climate and Land Use Changes and to Image Subsurface Transport and Density Driven Flow
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. David W Hyndman($53,253), Michigan State University, East Lansing
Key terms: Allow, Control, Electrodes, Equipment, Field, Incorporated, Instrumentation, Issues, Water.

Acquisition of a continuous flow isotope ratio mass analyzer for tropical paleoclimatology
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Michael N Evans($173,181), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Continuous Flow, Coral Chronologies, Allows, Analytical, Broad, Climate, Current, Instrument, Isotope, Laboratory, Maintenance, Operation, Oxygen, Past, Program, Proxy, Purchase, Theme, Training, Umd.

Acquisition of an inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometer
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Sue B Clark($130,828), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Chemistry, Facility, ICPMS, Instrument, Range, River, Service, Storage, Trace, Transport, WSU.

Acquisition of a single-collector, magnetic-sector ICP-MS for research in U-series and (U-Th)/He chronometry at the Berkeley Geochronology Center
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. David L Shuster($482,030), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
Key terms: Mass Spectrometer, Radio-isotopic Dating, BGC, Capabilities, ICP-MS, Natural, Processes, Radio-isotopic, Rates, Training, U-thhe, Uranium-series.

Acquisition of Graphic-Processing-Units (GPUs) to Upgrade the CPU Cluster at University of Wyoming
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Po Chen($74,101), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Cluster, Codes, Computing, Department, Fluid, GPU, Gpus, Has, Modeling, NVIDIA, Parallel, Pis, Seismic, Simulations, Throughput, Wyoming.

Acquisition of an FTIR for the Nature Research Center, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Robert C Tacker($130,963), Friends of the North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh
Key terms: Allow, Apatite, FTIR, Infrared, Instrumentation, Museums, Pis, Students, Various.

Acquisition of an X-ray Powder Diffractometer for Research in Geological, Archeological, and Geomicrobiological Sciences
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Paul A Schroeder($155,400), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Identification, Methods, X-ray, XRD.

Acquisition of Imaging Equipment to Understand the Dynamics of Explosive Volcanic Flows through Laboratory Experiments and Field Observations
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Amanda B Clarke($175,590), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Volcanic Eruptions, Dynamics, Fluid, Simulation.

Acquisition of backup components for a Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer used for U-daughter geochronometry
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Roland Mundil($110,189), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
Key terms: Ionization Mass Spectrometer, Thermal Ionization Mass, Acquisition, BGC, Components, Dating, Electronics, Evolution, Has, Life, Productivity, Techniques, Training, U-pb, U-series.

Acquisition of a Carbon Analyzer System to Support Research in Sedimentary Geology
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Tracy D Frank($31,036), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln
Key terms: Inorganic Carbon, Analyzer, Analyzing, Conditions, Cores, Costs, Ice, Instrumentation, Total.

Development of a Closed Cycle Cryostat for Full-Vector, Low-Temperature Magnetic Measurements of Geologic Materials
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Julie A Bowles($73,020), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Cryostat Design, Magnetic Media, Development, Low, Minerals, Rock.

Upgrade of Sedimentary Geology Preparation and Marine Sedimentary Biogeochemistry Laboratories
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Bradley B Sageman($81,450), Northwestern University, Evanston
Key terms: Sedimentary Geology, Biogeochemistry, Carbon, Earth, Equipment, Instruments, Pis, Students.

Upgrade of the Laser Heating System for the (U-Th)/He Laboratory at the University of Kansas
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Daniel F Stockli($82,345), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Diode Laser Heating, Acquisition, Avenues, Collaborative, Graduate, Involving, Laboratory, Students, U-thhe.

Upgrade of a continuous-flow mass spectrometer for automated analyses of isotope ratios of carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Amy Townsend-Small($64,829), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Additional, Capabilities, Costs, Existing, Fluxes, GC, Implemented, Pis, Preconcentrator, Processes, Students, Track, Training, Upgrade, Urban.

Acquisition of computing environment for geophysical research at Northwestern's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Suzan van der Lee($74,572), Northwestern University, Evanston
Key terms: Computing Equipment, Analyses, Analysis, Department, Earthquake, Incorporated, Interior, Modeling, Planetary, Plate, Requested, Seismic, Storage, Tectonic, Upgraded, Utilized.

Acquisition of a CO2 Coulometer with Acidification Module and Furnace Kit for Paleoenvironmental Research
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Harold Rowe($30,932), University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington
Key terms: Oxic-anoxic Conditions, Allow, Carbon, Coulometer, Examining, Instrument, Oxic-anoxic, Purchase, Students, Total.

Upgrade of Computing Facilities for Solid Earth Geodynamics Research at UC Davis
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Louise H Kellogg($75,000), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Cluster, Compute, Deformation, Development, Subduction.

Acquisition of a Gas Chromatograph-Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer and upgrade to an existing Stable Isotope Mass Spectrometer for Continued Biogeochemical Research.
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Timothy Filley($188,209), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Mass Spectrometer, Organic Matter, Stable Isotope, Biogeochemistry, Existing, GC-MS.

Upgrading of Shared Computing Equipment in Geophysics
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Catherine Constable($74,639), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Benefit, Compute, Crust, IGPP, NSF, Upgrade, Xserve.

ACQUISITION OF AN INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROMETER
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Patrick Drohan($69,862), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Analysis, ICP-OES, Processes, Soil, Soils, Trace, Waters.

Acquisition of a Linux computer cluster for Space Geodetic Research at the University of Miami
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Falk Amelung($75,000), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Upgrade, Volcanic.

Acquisition of an X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometer for Research in Petrology and Paleoclimatology
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Stephen R Meyers($121,988), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Elemental Analysis, Acid, Glazner, Instrument, Lavas, Minor, Operation, Petrogenesis, Rock, Silicic, Spectrometer, UNC, X-ray, XRF.

Acquisition of a High-Pressure High-Temperature Load and Flow-Through System for Research and Teaching
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Demian M Saffer($207,226), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Rock Deformation, Allow, Apparatus, Equipment, Evolution, Fluid, Fluids, Natural, Penn, Purchased, Situ.

Computational Upgrade for the SOEST Geophysics and Tectonics Group
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Robert A Dunn($70,000), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Computing Equipment, Seismic Reflection, CIG, Cluster, Computational, Convection, Flow, Geodynamics, Graduate, Incorporated, Mantle, Mid-ocean, Modeling, Models, Nsf-funded, Pis, Ranging, Students, Upgrade, Upgraded.

Canted Undulator Upgrade for GeoSoilEnviroCARS Sector 13 at the Advanced Photon Source
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Matthew Newville($766,502), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Canted, Chemistry, Energies, Facility, Fluid, GSECARS, High-pressure, Interface, Kev, Microprobe, Scattering, Spectroscopy, Undulator, Upgrade, X-ray.

Acquisition of a New Electron Microprobe for The University of Arizona
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Kenneth J Domanik($500,000), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Current Instrument, Terrestrial Planets, Acquisition, Cameca, Determining, Dispersive, Facility, Funding, Has, History, Microprobe, Planetary, Probe, Resource, Solar, Theses, UA, Users.

Acquisition of microscope and automated stage system for fission-track analysis
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Stuart N Thomson($31,974), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Fission-track And Uranium-thorium-helium, Timing And Rates, Degrees Celsius, Fission-track Analysis, Mountain Building, Particular Mineral, Uranium-lead Dating, Uranium-thorium-helium Dating, Age, Arizona, Below, Climate, Cooling, Department, Equipment, Facilities, Formation, Geosciences, Grains, Information, Landscape, Minerals, Ongoing, Potential, Processes, Temperatures, Triple-dating, Unique, Uranium-lead.

Development of Electronic Systems for Noble Gas Mass Spectrometers
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Andreas Illies($148,505), Auburn University, Auburn
Key terms: Computer Control, Electronic Control, Mass Spectrometer, Mass Spectrometers, Noble Gas, Noble Gases, Analysis, Auburn, Constructed, Design, Developed, Devices, Electronics, Enable, Facilities, Instrumentation, Instruments, Interchangeable, Investments, Monitoring, Operation, Processes, Recently, Relatively, Service, Typical.

Upgrade of the Multi-Anvil High-Pressure Facility at Arizona State University
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Ulrich Haussermann($125,913), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Temperatures And Pressures, Electrical Conductivity, High-pressure Studies, ASU, Facility, High-pressure, Mantle, Multi-anvil, Olivines, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: High Pressure Calibration at High Temperatures
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Jay D Bass($201,663), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
2. Alexander F Goncharov($276,639), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Pressure And Temperature, Dac Studies, X-ray Diffraction, Allow, Calibrated, Cbn, Equation, Phase, Scattering, Students, Tandp, Temperatures, X-ray.

Acquisition of a New Linux-Based Computer System for Geophysical Research
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Michael E Wysession($74,881), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Approaches, Elucidate, Mantle, Modeling, Models, Numerical, Pis, Resources, Seismic, Structure.

MRI: Acquisition of an Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer for Geochemical Biological and Petrologic Research, Education and Training at Southern Illinois University
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Gregory Whitledge($407,335), Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale
Key terms: Fish Diets, Isotope Analysis, Isotope Ratios, Stable Isotope, Carbon, Chemistry, Coal, Contaminants, Deposits, IRMS, Illinois, Instrument, Natural, Plant, SIUC, Species, Specific, Staff, Students, Sulfur, Supported, Training.

Collaborative Research: A Proposal for the Cosmic-Ray prOduced NUclide Systematics on Earth (CRONUS-Earth) Project
Award Effective Date: 05/14/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Robert C Reedy($34,776), Planetary Science Institute, Tucson
Key terms: Decision Makers, Household Decision, Remote Sensing, Agent-based, Basis, Climate, Integrative, Knowledge, Levels, Means, Models, People, Plan, Sites, Social, Socio-economic, Synthesis, Uncertainty, Workshops.

Collaborative Research: Acquisition of GPS and seismic equipment for Phase 2 of a Plate Boundary Observatory, Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Susan Y Schwartz($65,913), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
2. Timothy Dixon($36,890), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Gps And Seismic, Costa Rica, Downgoing Slab, Gps Sites, Nicoya Peninsula, Nonvolcanic Tremor, Plate Boundary, Seismic Network, Slow Slip, Subduction Zone, Subduction Zones, Allow, Cascadia, Current, Directly, Equipment, Existing, Expansion, Geophysical, Hazards, Implications, Instrumentation, Japan, Observations, PBO, Processes, Strain, Time, UNAVCO, Upgrade.

Facility Support: Purdue Rare Isotope Measurement Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Darryl E Granger($1,978,583), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Accelerator Mass, Chemical Preparation, Prime Lab, AMS, Application, Continues, Cosmogenic, Dating, Facility, Fields, Laboratory, Maintenance, Pis, Purdue, Radionuclides, Services, Surface, Techniques, Tracer.

Upgrade of University of New Hampshire Paleomagnetism Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. William C Clyde($316,628), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Climate, Continent, Cores, Effects, Evolution, Mammals, North, Paleoceneeocene, SRM, Tectonic.

Acquisition of an Advanced Optical Microscopy Laboratory for Computer Integrated Analysis of Fault Rock Fabrics and Fractures
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Colin A Shaw($108,809), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Deformation Mechanisms, Digital Imaging, Maintenance Costs, Preferred Orientation, Preparation Equipment, Accessories, Analysis, CIP, Capabilities, Charged, Crust, Crystallographic, EBSD, Existing, Facility, Fossil, Fracture, Grain, Incorporated, Instrumentation, Microscopy, Middle, Nature, Olympus, Quartz, Requested, Scope, Seismic.

Acquisition of instrumentation for biogeochemical research at the University of Maryland
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Alan J Kaufman($87,143), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Analyzer, Bulk, Combustion, Equipment, Isotope, Organic, Stable, Total.

Technician Support for the Stable Isotope Laboratory at Florida State University
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Yang Wang($89,545), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Stable Isotope, Biogeochemistry, Funding, Has, Requested, Technician.

Acquisition of a stable isotope mass spectrometer for Earth science and ecological research
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Mark D Schmitz($376,603), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Analyses, Bone, Capabilities, Dynamics, Efforts, Fitted, Incorporated, Instrument, Isotope, Isotopes, Laboratory, Paleoclimatology, Pis, Pleistocene, Precipitation, Stable, Technician, Teeth, Time, Users, Water.

Acquisition of a Tabletop Scanning Electron Microscope with EDS for Multidisciplinary Geoscience Research
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Kirsten N Nicholson($101,825), Ball State University, Muncie
Key terms: Scanning Electron Microscope, SEM, Student.

Did Impact-Generated Fields Magnetize the Rocks of Vredefort?
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Benjamin P Weiss($200,000), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Magnetic Fields, Metallic Cores, South Africa, Spatial Resolution, Bodies, Carporzen, Craters, Drill, Generate, Generated, Impact-generated, Internally, Lightning, MIT, Magnetization, Mm, Produced, Rock, Vredefort, Was.

Acquisition of a New TZM Experimental System, and Upgrade of the Hydrothermal Laboratory for the Study of High-Temperature Magmatic-Hydrothermal Systems at the Univ. of Maryland
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Philip M Piccoli($68,864), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Oxygen And Sulfur, Tzm Vesselfurnace Assemblies, Vesselfurnace Assemblies, Components, Construct, Control, Equipment, Incorporated, Laboratory, Phases, Pis, Pressure, Students, Temperature, Temperatures, Umd, Upgrade, Upgrades.

Upgrade of Research Equipment: Refurbishing the Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer at the University of Colorado, Boulder
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Lang Farmer($105,671), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Graduate Students, Ability, Acquisition, CIRES, Funding, Has, Instrument, Nd, Outside, Pb, Pis, Requested, Sr, TIMS, Trained.

Acquisition of an Electron Microprobe for the MIT User Community
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2009; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Nilanjan Chatterjee($442,320), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Electron Microprobe, Geologic Time, Probe Facility, Step Resolution, Allowing, Analysis, Co-pi, Continue, Control, Dating, Elucidate, Enhanced, Evolution, Lithospheric, MIT, Mantle, Melts, Oceanic, Offering, Positions, Regions, Source.

EAR-PF: Integrating geodesy and seismology toward understanding the dynamics of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Emily K Montgomery-Brown($160,000), Montgomery-Brown Emily K, Stanford
Key terms: Driving Forces, Host Rock, Seismic Properties, Deformation, Earthquakes, Intrusions, Kilauea, Magmatic, Model, Stress, Volcano, Volume.

Probing the Rheology of Tibetan Lithosphere: Surface Deformation in Response to Climatically-Induced Changes in Lake Loads
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Kevin P Furlong($459,877), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Crust Beneath, Deep Crust, Geologic Timescales, Lake Levels, Lateral Flow, Lower Crust, Mountain Building, Tectonic Faults, Tibet-himalayan Orogen, Tibetan Lithosphere, Tibetan Plateau, Capable, Central, Climatically-driven, Constraints, Deformation, Deformational, Doing, Elastic, Evolution, Has, Influences, Information, Lakes, Mantle, Properties, Rates, Remain, Rheology, Rigorous, Shorelines, Slip, Surface, Tibet-himalayan, Topography.

Early Career: Technician Support for the University of Arizona Center for Environmental Physics and Mineralogy
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Craig Rasmussen($195,015), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Analytical Instrumentation, Environmental Physics, CEPM, Characterization, Soil, Technician, Training.

CZO: Spatial and temporal integration of carbon and mineral fluxes: a whole watershed approach to quantifying anthropogenic modification of critical zone carbon sequestration.
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Louis A Kaplan($4,315,607), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Christina Basin, Critical Zone, Inland Waters, Policy Makers, Public Outreach, Access, Advances, Agriculture, CRBCZO, Carbon, Chemical, Coastal, DENIN, Delaware, Enhance, Environmental, Excavation, Federal, Geological, Human, Humans, Institute, Land, Minerals, Monitoring, Multidisciplinary, Network, Networks, Planet, Real-time, Resource, SWRC, Students, Terrestrial, UD, Workshops.

Development of New Instrumention (Early Career): Laser Decomposition Isotope Interface (LADII)- Total Isotope Analysis of Nanomolar Amounts of Sulfate and Nitrate
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Greg Michalski($83,171), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Oxygen Isotope Analysis, Sulfate And Nitrate, Isotope Analysis, Central, Delta, Isotopic, LADII, Precision, Quantities, Size.

Investigating the Presence of Preseismic Velocity Changes
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. David P Schaff($211,156), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Earthquake Prediction, Natural Disasters, Preseismic Velocity, Temporal Sampling, Approach, Casualties, China, Confirm, Controlled, Countries, Earthquakes, Economically, Evidence, Existence, Experiments, Extremely, Field, Has, History, Killed, Lack, Life, Loss, Measured, Method, Noise, People, Preceding, Recently, Repeating, Scientifically, Seismic, Seismologists, Strategies, Strike, Substantially, Warning, Waves.

Acquiring Airborne Lidar data to study hydrologic, geomorphologic, and geochemical processes at three Critical Zone Observatories (CZO)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Christopher J Duffy($935,457), University of California - Merced, Merced
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Critical Zone, Land Surface, Lidar Products, Resolution Topographic, Snow Depth, Soil Formation, Ability, Accurate, CZO, Canopy, Carried, Contribute, Controls, Coupled, Czos, Enable, Erosion, Estimates, Generated, Geomorphic, Highandresolution, Landscapes, Leaf, Litter, Model, Models, Nutrient, Processes, Resources, Sites, Soils, Spatial, Structure, Tree, Vegetation, Water, Weathering.

Early Career: Technician Support - Georgia Institute of Technology Cosmogenic Nuclide Geochronology Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Kurt L Frankel($174,594), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Cosmogenic Nuclide Geochronology, Full-time Laboratory Technician, Cosmogenic Nuclides, Erosion Rates, Full-time Laboratory, Ability, Concentrations, Georgia, Has, Measure, Processing, Quaternary, Students, Surface, Tectonic, Training.

Paleoecologic gradient analysis of the Frasnian/Famennian extinction and recovery
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Christophe Dupraz($182,411), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Gradient Analysis, Mass Extinctions, Assemblages, Biotic, Combinations, Coming, Competitors, Composed, Devonian, Ecological, Environmental, Fossil, Has, Lived, Predators, Proportion, Similar, Species, World.

Collaborative Research: Investigation of Chemotaxis in Porous Media: Visualization Experiments and modeling
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Caroline L Schauer($254,938), Drexel University, Philadelphia
2. Markus Hilpert($202,399), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Chemical Gradients Created, Bacterial Transport, Chemotactic Bacteria, Low Permeability, Porous Medium, Bands, Chemoattractant, Chemotaxis, Darcy-scale, Experimentally, Microbial, Model, Motile, Observed, Scenarios, School, Subsurface, Traveling, Visualization.

Deformation and Microstructural Evolution of Harzburgite
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Philip Skemer($285,000), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Microstructural And Rheological, Deformation Microstructures, Plate Boundaries, Rheological Evolution, Additional, Apparatus, Behavior, Collected, Conditions, Electron, Experiments, Geophysical, Mantle, Processes, Shear, Simulate, Strains, Zones.

Electrical conductivity of synthetic pyrolite under deep upper mantle and transition zone conditions
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Shun-ichiro Karato($409,466), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Critical Water Content, Deep Mantle Water, Mantle Water Cycling, Electrical Conductivity, Melting Near, Partial Melting, Upper Mantle, Conditions, Consequently, Measuring, Onset, Set, Temperature.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Ocean Oxidation and the Biosphere During Neoproterozoic Glaciation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Susannah M Porter($214,813), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
2. Matthew T Hurtgen($219,214), Northwestern University, Evanston
Key terms: Fluctuating Oxygen Levels, Ago, Analyses, Animals, Australia, Biological, Biology, Collected, Cryogenian, Has, Interval, Life, Linked, Million, Neoproterozoic, Svalbard.

Collaborative Research: Earthquakes on Nonplanar Faults: Rupture Dynamics and High Frequency Ground Motion
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Eric M Dunham($250,326), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Frequency Range, Ground Motion, Nonplanar Faults, Earthquake, Finite, Frequencies, Irregular, Local, Numerical, Observed, Particular, Propagation, Roughness, Ruptures, Seismic, Wavelength, Waves.

Trace Element Transport in the Continental Crust During Anatexis: The Role of Accessory Minerals
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Nigel M Kelly($228,306), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: Accessory Minerals, Continental Crust, Partial Melting, Academic, Analytical, Applied, Behavior, Control, Development, Establish, Extraction, Geochemistry, Growth, Integrated, Matthews, Melts, Microanalysis, Modeling, Ms, P-T, Predict, Processes, Reaction, Situ, Student, Students, Tectonic, Trace, Training, Undergraduate.

CAREER: Transformation and Transport of Organic Carbon in the Colorado River-Reservoir System
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Hilairy E Hartnett($573,548), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Terrestrial And Riverine, Carbon Budget, Carbon Cycling, Colorado River, Organic Carbon, Regional Carbon, Riverine Carbon, Assess, Biogeochemical, Composition, Field-based, Integrated, Interactions, Managed, Mechanisms, Reactivity, Reservoirs, Rivers, Students, Teaching, Transform, Water.

Effects of Grain Boundary Segregation on Grain Boundary Diffusion and Chemical Kinetics in Olivine Aggregates
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Marshall I Sundberg($80,000), Sundberg Marshall I, Providence
Key terms: Grain Boundary, Diffusion, Doped, Education, Effects, Experiments, Fine-grained, Kinetic, Kinetics, Mg, Program, Si, Structure.

EAR-PF: High resolution paleoclimate reconstruction of 8200 year event from northern Venezuelan speleothem stable isotope records: possible atmospheric-oceanic linkages
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Julie B Retrum($160,000), Retrum, Julie B, Lawrence
Key terms: Activity, Climate, Undergraduate.

EAR-PF: Critical Zone Controls on Hydrology and the Fate of Nitrogen in Montane Forests of the Colorado Front Range, U.S.
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Eve-Lyn S Hinckley($160,000), Hinckley Eve-Lyn S, Stanford
Key terms: Critical Zone, Activities, Affect, Bcczo, Boulder, Colorado, Hydrologic, Interactions, Montane, Nitrogen, Nutrient, Soil, Sub-catchments, Vegetation, Water.

Collaborative Research: Eco-geomorphic coupling: Vegetation transition and sedimentary responses to faulting
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Charlotte A Brunner($201,684), University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
2. Rusty A Feagin($113,414), Texas A&M AgriLife Research, College Station
Key terms: Relative Sea Level, Sea Level Rise, Fault Displacement, Growth Faults, Gulf Coast, Spartina Alterniflora, Ability, Accelerated, Accretion, Amount, Coastal, Contemporary, Developing, Directly, Erosion, Field, Has, Historical, Land, Marsh, Rate, Rates, Sediment, Subsidence, Vegetative, Wetlands.

EAR-PF: Extracting the wind component of climate during the Marinoan glaciation from the aeolian rock record
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Ryan C Ewing($160,000), Ewing Ryan C, Austin
Key terms: Aeolian Deposits, Earth's History, Climatic, Directly, Evidence, Field, Marinoan, Paleowind, Time, Undergraduate, Wind.

CAREER: Oligocene planktonic foraminiferal Konservat-Lagerstaette: Implications for taxonomy, paleobiology, and tropical marine temperatures
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Bridget Wade($62,578), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Sea Surface Temperatures, Antarctic Ice, Texas Aandm, Activities, Antarctica, Biota, Climate, Geochemistry, Integrated, Konservat-lagerstätte, Marine, Microfossil, Microfossils, Ocean, Oligocene, Periods, Time, Tropical, Was.

An Investigation into Time-Dependent Fault Zone Properties at Seismogenic Depth on the San Andreas Fault near Parkfield
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Takaaki Taira($210,474), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Borehole Seismograph Network, Dense Borehole Seismograph, Earthquake Nucleation Process, Fault Zone Properties, San Andreas Fault, Time-dependent Fault Zone, Fault Strength, Fault-zone Strength, Repeating Earthquakes, Rheological Properties, Seismogenic Depth, Time-dependent Fault, Advantage, California, Core, Deformation, Explore, Fault-zone, Gain, Numerous, Parkfield, Period, Postseismic, Seek, Spatiotemporal, Subsurface, Temporal, Time-varying.

CAREER: Effects of particle size on physical and chemical properties of mine wastes
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Christopher S Kim($409,542), Chapman University, Orange
Key terms: Selected Size Fractions, Mine Waste, Mine Wastes, Particle Size, Potential Toxicity, Toxic Metals, Approach, Bioaccessibility, Bioavailability, Chapman, Chemical, Concentration, Contaminated, Correlations, Distribution, Effects, Environmental, Environments, Exposed, Function, Hg, Integrated, Involves, Minerals, Mining, Ores, Predict, Primary, Properties, Reactivity, Relative, Release, School, Secondary, Sites, Speciation, Students, Surrounding, Trace, Undergraduate.

In Situ Estimation of Poisson's Ratio
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Clifford H Thurber($87,055), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Active Fault Zones, Spatial And Temporal, Differential Times, Fault Zones, Poisson's Ratio, Robust Least-squares, Vpvs Ratio, Vpvs Ratios, Waveform Cross-correlation, Achieve, Cross-correlation, Earthquake, Estimate, Estimated, Least-squares, Method, Obtained, Poissons, Region, Velocity.

CAREER: Testing Models of Cretaceous Cordilleran Paleogeography: An Integrated Provenance Study of Four Basins
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Kathleen D Surpless($402,985), Trinity University, San Antonio
Key terms: Basin Evolution, Convergent Margin, Provenance Analysis, Provenance Technique, Provenance Tools, Sediment Sources, Sedimentary Provenance, Single Basin, Basins, California, Cordillera, Correlation, Cretaceous, Detailed, Geochemical, Geochronologic, Has, Isotopic, Northern, Oregon, Permit, Robust, Southern, Tectonic, Valley.

CAREER: Implementing Inquiry-Based Approaches in Geoscience Education and Research
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Michael R Brudzinski($515,952), Miami University, Oxford
Key terms: Inquiry-based Approach, Newly Developed, Achieve, Broader, Courses, Critical, Designed, Developing, ETS, Earthquakes, Efforts, Expand, Faults, Geologic, Hazards, Initiatives, Inquiry-based, Integrated, Method, Miami, Outcomes, Produce, Set, Slip, Slow, Students, Teaching, Tectonic, Tools, Trained, Tremor, Workforce.

Geodynamically relevant anisotropic tomography
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Mark P Panning($148,786), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Strength And Orientation, Anisotropic Modeling, Direct Comparison, Finite-frequency Modeling, Seismic Anisotropy, Splitting Intensity, Surface Wave, Allow, Allowing, Approach, Dataset, Demonstrate, Developed, Dynamic, Expect, Expected, Finite-frequency, Flow, Geodynamic, Has, Imaging, Mantle, Method, Models, Predictions, Processes, Region, Regional, Relatively, Sensitivity, Shear, Structure, Training.

Collaborative Research: Toward an Understanding of Magmatic and Seismogenic Processes Beneath Quiescently Active Volcanoes
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Diana C Roman($168,202), University of South Florida, Tampa
2. Peter LaFemina($217,500), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Seismic And Geodetic, Broadband Seismic, Geophysical Unrest, Quiescent Activity, Seismic Activity, Volcanoes Worldwide, Analysis, Background, Deformation, Eruption, Gas, HBS, Magmatic, Monitoring, Networks, Processes, Seismicity, Similar, Telica.

Modification of Primary Magma Composition Through Reaction With Lower Crust: Insights from Icelandic Glass Bearing Crustal Xenoliths
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Andrey Gourenko($236,063), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Crustal Xenoliths, Mass Spectrometry, Compositions, Formation, Glasses, Iceland, Ion, Magma, Magmas, Mantle, Melt, Modified, Primitive, Processes, Rock, Surface, Temperature, Transport.

Linking Rock Magnetic Properties to the Performance of Paleointensity Techniques
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Julie A Bowles($253,597), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Earth's Magnetic Field, Rock Magnetic Properties, Earth's Magnetic, Outer Core, Paleointensity Technique, Paleointensity Techniques, Specific Paleointensity, Accuracy, Accurate, Determined, Direction, Estimates, Experiments, Has, Intensity, Methods, Outlined, Processes, Solid, Success, Time, Volcanic.

EAR-PF: Investigating the Role of Changing Substrates in the Ordovician Radiation: Great Basin, USA
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Katherine N Marenco($160,000), Marenco Katherine N, Los Angeles
Key terms: Hard Substrates, California, Distribution, Education, Fauna, Hard-substrate-attaching, Marine, Ordovician, Sediment.

Three-Dimensional Models of Faulting During Oblique Continental Extension
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Eunseo Choi($255,968), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Metamorphic Core Complexes, Rifted Continental Margins, Crustal Thickness, Numerical Methods, Oblique Extension, Advanced, Breakup, Buoyant, Climate, Considered, Controls, Development, Dimensional, Dimensions, Directly, Fault, Faulting, Faults, Formation, Gulf, Has, Lithosphere, Modeled, Models, Natural, Observed, Phase, Produce, Region, Rifting, Structures, Transtension, Was, Weakens.

Collaborative Research: Developing a Practical and Quantitative Method for Measurement of Metamorphic Porphyroblast Crystallization Kinetics and Strain Rate
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. David M Hirsch($137,481), Western Washington University, Bellingham
2. Harold H Stowell($163,440), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
3. Ethan F Baxter($104,952), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Collision, Collisions, Crystals, Deformation, Deformed, Fast, Garnet, Growth, Heated, Link, Metamorphic, Metamorphism, Method, Nucleation, Obtained, Rates, Rock, Time.

Sediment routing in gravel-bed rivers following dam removal
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Andrew C Wilcox($179,703), University of Montana, Missoula
Key terms: Dam Removal, Milltown Dam, Reservoir Sediments, Sediment Pulses, Achieved, Bed, Efforts, Geomorphic, Processes, Restoration, River, Rivers, Students, Transport.

Melting of Carbonated MORB-like Eclogite and Genesis of Ocean Island Basalts
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Rajdeep Dasgupta($293,267), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Silicate Partial Melts, Subducted Oceanic Crust, Alkalic Oibs, Carbonated Crust, Earth's Mantle, Laboratory Experiments, Basalts, Compositions, Conditions, Eclogite, Electron, Established, Generation, Heterogeneous, Melting, Particular, Performed, Presence, Pressure, Processes, Recycled, Rock, Source, Trace.

Experimental and Natural Deformation of Magnesian Carbonates
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Caleb W Holyoke($399,918), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Convergent Plate Boundaries, Microstructures And Fabrics, Rock Deformation Apparatus, Strength And Deformation, Temperature And Strain, Triaxial Rock Deformation, Carbonate Rocks, Deformation Behavior, Fabrics Formed, Mountain Building, Rocks Composed, Strain Rate, Strong Influence, Subduction Zones, Theoretical Modelers, Accurately, Calcite, Continent, Deformed, Depths, Determined, Dolomite, Dynamics, Establish, Experimental, Experiments, Investigate, Magnesite, Mantle, Minerals, Natural, Processes, Resources, Rheology, Structures.

CAREER: Climate Change Impacts on the Interrelationship between Iron Cycling and Organic Carbon: Environmental Biogeochemical Research and Education from Molecular to Field Scale
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Thomas Borch($499,984), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Environmental Biogeochemistry Topics, Subalpine Moisture Gradients, Woman And Minorities, Biogeochemical Cycling, Chemical Structure, Humic Substances, Iron Biomineralization, Iron Minerals, Macromolecular Structure, Organic Carbon, Organic Matter, Spatial Distribution, Agricultural, Approach, CSU, Challenges, Climate, Complex, Curriculum, Dissemination, Educational, Field, Increased, Interface, Investigate, Laboratory, Lead, Long-term, MEB, Objectives, Outreach, Potential, Pursuit, School, Soil, Students, Time, Training, Underrepresented, Water, Workshop.

Geodetic Expressions of Plate Boundary Zone Dynamics from EarthScope Facilities
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Richard A Bennett($203,082), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Vertical Crustal Motions, Vertical Velocity Field, Analysis Methods, Continental Lithosphere, Anticipate, Constraints, Developing, Earthscope, Female, GPS, Geodetic, Images, Models, PBO, Products, Seismic, Sets, Structure, Time.

REU Site: The Integrated Science of Global Change and Its Impacts
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Jay L Banner($323,456), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Faculty Mentors, Interdisciplinary Approach, Reuret Program, Urban Ecology, Basic, Content, Development, Engineering, Geology, Global, Hydrology, Independent, Policy, Students, Teachers, Training.

EAR-PF: Investigations of Ambient Seismic Noise
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Moira L Pyle($160,000), Pyle Moira L, St. Louis
Key terms: Ambient Seismic Noise, Array, Arrays, Energy, Examine, Explore, Generation, Geophysics, Has, Interior, Methods, Opportunity, Wave.

CAREER: Investigation of Regional Land-Atmosphere Interactions in Semi-arid Cities Using the WRF-Noah-Urban Canopy Model
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Terri S Hogue($478,830), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Anomalous Precipitation, Canopy Model, Climate Extremes, Energy Demand, Land-atmosphere Interactions, Los Angeles, Metropolitan Regions, Semi-arid Cities, Build, Capable, Centers, Conditions, Critical, Current, Environmental, Etc, Heat, High-resolution, Increasing, Integrated, Land-atmosphere, Management, Modeling, Population, Potential, Public, Regional, Semi-arid, Surface, Urban, Water.

New Insights on Mantle Volatiles from Noble Gas Radionuclides
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Reika Yokochi($231,812), University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Noble Gas Radionuclides, Costa Rica, Ar, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Constraints, Contamination, Evolution, Gases, Kr, Kr-, Mantle, Origin, Resolve, Sampling, Students, Subduction, T=yr, UIC, UNM, Via, Volatile, Volatiles.

Collaborative Research: Investigation of Sources of Intraplate Volcanism Using PASSCAL Broadband Instruments in Madagascar, The Comores, and Mozambique (MACOMO)
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: International Research Collab

1. Michael E Wysession($725,417), Washington University, Saint Louis
2. Andrew A Nyblade($232,931), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: African Llsvp, Boundary, Broadband, Comores, Generate, Has, Hot, Largest, Madagascar, Mantle, Mozambique, Plate, Region, Seismic, Seismometers, Sub-surface, Summer, Surface, Volcanism.

A Metabolically Active Transient Storage Model for Predicting Nutrient Retention in Streams
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: International Research Collab

1. David D Myrold($417,064), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Active Transient Storage, Metabolically Active Transient, Measure Mats, Nutrient Retention, Resazurin Reduction, Aerobic, Component, Distribution, Exchange, Experiments, Gauge, Gradient, Has, Hyporheic, Metabolism, Model, Nutrients, Oregon, Phosphorus, Predict, Preliminary, Presence, Processes, Respiration, Sorption, Stream, Streams, Tied, Tracer, Transport, Zones.

CAREER: Integrated Study of Shallow Subduction Seismogenesis and Locking Along the Middle America Trench
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: International Research Collab

1. Andrew V Newman($606,842), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Gps Velocity Field, Regional Gps Velocity, Spatial And Temporal, Costa Rica, Georgia Tech, Interface Model, Seismogenic Interface, Subduction Interface, Tsunami Earthquake, Tsunami Earthquakes, Analysis, Continuous, Control, Convergence, Coupling, Diverse, Dramatically, Existing, Geodetic, Has, Interseismic, Locked, Locking, Mapping, Megathrust, Modeling, Network, Observed, Offshore, Ongoing, Perform, Poorly, Processes, Program, Proxy, Rare, Rate, Regions, Rupture, School, Schools, Seismic, Seismicity, Seismicity-rate, Shallow, Students, Zone, Zones.

Further Refinement of India's Proterozoic Paleogeography and Geochronology
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2009; Program: International Research Collab

1. George D Kamenov($188,090), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: East Gondwana, Amalgamation, Assembly, Cambrian, Climate, Constraints, Continent, Critical, Dikes, Formation, Global, History, India, Models, Paleogeography, Proterozoic, Supercontinent, Supercontinents, Was.

The Dynamics of Mantle-melt Extraction Systems: A Field and Theoretical Approach
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2009; Program: International Research Collab

1. Oliver Jagoutz($399,546), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Beni Boussera, Emplacement Mechanism, Km-scale Melt, Melt Percolation, Ultramafic Bodies, Ultramafic Massif, Upper Mantle, Continent, Crust, Field, Focused, Km-scale, Lower, Origin, Rock.

Present-day Kinematics and Dynamics of the Eastern Mediterranean
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: International Research Collab

1. Robert E Reilinger($700,818), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Active Deformation, Regional Deformation, Strain Accumulation, Triple Junctions, Character, Closely, Continent, Control, Earthquake, Fault, GPS, Greece, Modeling, Plate, Quantifying, Special, Turkey.

Hydrological feedbacks between phosphorous deposition and canopy cover in dry seasonal forests
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2009; Program: International Research Collab

1. Deborah Lawrence($282,579), University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville
Key terms: Climate And Land, Total Phosphorus Input, Land Cover, Phosphorus Deposition, Canopy, Dry, Dust, Feedback, Fog, Forests, Management, Quantify, Rainfall, Strength, Tropical, Vegetation.

"Continental Smokers": evaluating mantle degassing, CO2 flux, geomicrobiology, and water quality in extensional continental regimes
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2009; Program: International Research Collab

1. Cristina D Takacs-Vesbach($325,047), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Continent, Degassing, Fluids, Smokers, Springs, Travertine.

Investigating Pesticide Contamination in Small Lakes in Khorezm, Uzbekistan
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: International Research Collab

1. Eric Marchand($139,995), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Lake Coring, Nevada Reno, Shallow Lakes, Similar Lakes, Agricultural, Aquatic, Countries, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Excellent, Has, Heavy, Implications, International, Irrigation, Khorezm, Knowledge, NATO, Organic, Pesticide, Pesticides, Potential, Productive, Resources, Runoff, Sustainability, Uzbekistan, Water, World.

Collaborative Research: An integrated seismic-geodetic study of active magmatic processes at Sierra Negra volcano, Galapagos Islands
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2009; Program: International Research Collab

1. Falk Amelung($231,470), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. Cynthia J Ebinger($253,049), University of Rochester, Rochester
3. Dennis J Geist($75,038), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
Key terms: Accompanying Magma Intrusion, Chambers And Conduits, Crustal Magma Chambers, Deformation And Eruption, Earthquakes And Eruptions, Initiate And Grow, Island Volcanoes Initiate, Long-lived Magmatic Plumbing, Magma Intrusion Inflates, Magma Intrusions Grow, Ocean Island Volcanoes, Pressure Accompanying Magma, Seismic And Geodetic, Sierra Negra Volcano, Basaltic Volcanoes, Crust-mantle Boundary, Galapagos Archipelago, Long-lived Magmatic, Predictive Models, Rapidly Deforming, Surface Deformation, Time Periods, Transport Magma, Trapped Near, Triggering Earthquakes, Volcanic Edifice, Volcano Deformation, Beneath, Continuous, Crust-mantle, Development, Erupted, Faulting, Fraction, GPS, Geometry, Hazard, Increase, Mechanisms, Monitoring, Requiring, Shallow, Stored, Stress, Vital, Worldwide.

Iron Age (300-1800 AD) Geomagnetic Paleointensity of Southern Africa
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2009; Program: International Research Collab

1. John A Tarduno($220,019), University of Rochester, Rochester
Key terms: Geomagnetic Field, South Africa, Southern Hemisphere, Activities, Archeomagnetic, Core, Dipole, Earth, Intensity, Magnetic, Modern, Observatory, Paleointensity, Paleomagnetism, Rochester.

Macroevolution and geochemistry of Cenozoic giant sharks
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2004; Program: International Research Collab

1. Douglas S Jones($315,085), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Body Size Macroevolution, Oxygen Isotopic Signatures, Incremental Growth, Individual Age, Vertebral Centra, Attained, Bone, Calibrate, Carcharodon, Cartilage, Chemical, Clade, Clades, Determined, Diagenesis, Extinct, Fossil, Fossilization, Graduate, Highly, Increased, Lamnid, Largest, Megalodon, Million, Modern, Public, Represented, Rings, Seminars, Shark, Sharks, Species, Student, Teeth, Was.

CMG Research: Analysis and Application of XFEM to dynamic rupture processes in Earthquake physics
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Marc W Spiegelman($317,000), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Complex Fault, Computational Infrastructure, Earthquake Physics, Earthquake Rupture, Fault Networks, Non-planar Faults, Repeated Rupture, Alternative, Analysis, Artifacts, Bounds, Complications, Component, Criteria, Description, Discrete, Dynamic, Dynamics, Engineering, Exploring, Failure, Frictional, Mesh, Method, Methods, Modeling, Models, Non-planar, Schemes, Software, Weak, XFEM.

CMG RESEARCH: The Application of Polar Field Theories to Large-Scale Continental Deformation
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Lucy Flesch($510,996), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Classical Continuum Mechanics, Deforming Continental Lithosphere, Plate Tectonics Theory, Adequately Modeled, Apply Polar, Coherent Structures, Continental Deformation, Continental Plate, Individual Faults, Plate Boundaries, Plate Boundary, Polar Continuum, Continuous, Diffuse, Discrete, Field, Fluid, Generalization, Mini, Models, Motion, Motions, Nature, Particles, Plates, Regions, Relative, Rigid, Separation, Theories, Viscous, Zones.

CMG Research: Multiscale nonlinear domain decomposition method for modeling the impact of climate change on groundwater resources
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Mark W Williams($579,965), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Climate And Water, Mathematics And Geosciences, Recharge And Permafrost, Robust Computational Algorithm, Spatial And Temporal, Fluid Flow, Groundwater Resources, Mathematical Model, Mountain Recharge, Mountain Watersheds, Permafrost Hydrology, Temporal Domains, Water Cycle, Water Resource, Water Resources, Colorado, Contribution, Coupled, Department, Field, Future, Geologic, Hydrogeologic, Knowledge, Local, Media, Modeling, Multiscale, Nature, Numerical, Processes, Regions, Seminar, Software, Source, Students, Sustainability, Unique.

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

1. Christopher J Poulsen($486,003), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Building And Erosional, Computer Modeling, Mountain Building, Mountain Topography, Development, Developments, Equation, Evolution, Forefront, Geochemical, Has, Interdisciplinary, Inverse, Mathematical, Mathematics, Paleotopography, Processes, Progress, Rock, Surface, Techniques, Tectonic, Thermochronometer, Topographic.

Hydrometeorology of Flash Flooding Processes and Frequencies in the Northeastern United States
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: MULTI-SCALE MODELING

1. M T Walter($382,606), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Flash Flood, Flash Flooding, Flash Floods, Hortonian Runoff, Saturation Excess, Soil Moisture, Storm Runoff, Watershed Models, Antecedent, Approach, Atmospheric, Climate, Conditions, Context, Course, Empirical, Ensemble, Frequency, Frequent, Hydrologic, Hydrological, Information, Intensities, Interactions, Mechanistic, Northeastern, Observations, Period, Probability, Processes, Produce, Product, Radar, Rainfall, True.

Collaborative Research MRI: Acquisition of Terrestrial Laser Scanning Systems for Earth Sciences Research
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Meghan Miller($145,753), UNAVCO, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: Applications, Capability, Digital, Equipment, Laser, Mapping, Scanning, Surface, TLS, Training, UNAVCO, User.

MRI: Project Summary - Acquisition of equipment to support environmental materials characterization at the University of Vermont
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. John M Hughes($145,306), University of Vermont & State Agricultural College, Burlington
Key terms: Critical Zone, Characterizing, EDS, Equipment, Existing, Microscope, Mineral, Mineralogical, Pis, Spectrometer, Training, Watersheds, X-ray.

MRI: Acquisition of New and Upgraded Equipment for Critical Zone Laboratory at a Research-Intensive Undergraduate College
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Christopher J Williams($545,388), Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster
Key terms: Analytical, FM, Spectrometer, Student, Upgrade, X-ray, XRF.

MRI: Acquisition of an Electron Microprobe for UCSB Researchers and Educators
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. James M Mattinson($477,500), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: State-of-the-art Electron, California, EMP, State-of-the-art.

MRI: ACQUISITION OF A NEW GENERATION THERMAL IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETER
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Scott D Samson($504,000), Syracuse University, Syracuse
Key terms: Mass Spectrometer, Ability, Climate, Generation, History, Instrument, Million, Occurred, Resources.

MRI: Acquisition of a 193nm Laser Ablation Sampling System to Expand Interdisciplinary Uses of an Element2 ICP-MS
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Donald Uzarski($219,312), Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant
Key terms: Element2 Icp-ms, Hands-on Experience, Midcontinental Rift, Assayed, Characteristics, Chemistry, Compositional, Departments, Environmental, Evolution, Geology, Hands-on, Has, Human-impact, ICP-MS, Incorporated, Infer, Instrument, Instrumentation, LA-ICP-MS, Melt, Metals, Pis, Responsible, Videoconferencing.

MRI: Acquisition of Laboratory Equipment to Characterize Sediments and Soils for Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Christoph Geiss($152,000), Trinity College, Hartford
Key terms: Magnetic, VSM.

MRI: Acquisition of a Multi-Sensor Core Logger, Pycnometer, C:N Analyzer, and Freeze Dryer for use in Lake and Paleoclimate Studies at Middlebury College
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Patricia L Manley($127,108), Middlebury College, Middlebury
Key terms: Organic Matter, Analysis, Analyzer, CN, Department, Equipment, Freeze-dryer, Geology, Paleoclimate, Pycnometer, Sediment.

MRI: ACQUISITION OF A POWDER X-RAY DIFFRACTOMETER FOR MULTI-DISCIPLINARY STUDENT/FACULTY RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. David A Craig($112,046), Le Moyne College, Syracuse
Key terms: Prepare, Requiring, Training, XRD.

MRI: Acquisition of a Powder X-Ray Diffractometer to Enhance Faculty and Undergraduate Research and Education in Geology and Chemistry at SUNY Cortland
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Karen E Downey($100,097), SUNY College at Cortland, Cortland
Key terms: Characterization, Process, Suny-cortland, XRD.

MRI: Acquisition of Light Stable Isotope Mass Spectrometers for Research and Teaching in Geochemistry, Paleobiology, and Cosmochemistry
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Robert N Clayton($463,218), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Light Stable Isotope, Continuous Flow, Revised Courses, Acquisition, Available, Bacteria, Carbon, Chicago, Crust, Cycling, Delta, Dioxide, Fractionation, Graduate, IRMS, Incorporated, Instruments, Isotopes, Isotopic, Isotopologue, Laboratory, Marine, Metabolism, Operation, Oxygen, Phosphorous, Seeks, Sponge, Sulfur, TCEA, Temperature.

MRI: Acquisition of a Variable Pressure Scanning Electron Microscope for Materials Characterization in Multidisciplinary Research and Training
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Paul J Overvoorde($351,668), Macalester College, Saint Paul
Key terms: VP-SEM.

Acquisition of an ICP-MS for Interdisciplinary Water Quality and Geochemistry Research
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Jeffrey D Jeremiason($246,820), Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter
Key terms: Biology And Environmental, Regional Resource, Water Quality, Analyses, Chemistry, Contamination, Cycling, Departments, External, Faculty, Federal, Focus, Geology, Has, ICP-MS, Instrument, Minnesota, Opportunities, Pis, Potential, Student, Students.

MRI: Acquisition of an X ray Diffractometer for Research and Training Applications in a Multidisciplinary Setting
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Bryce W Hoppie($226,290), Minnesota State University, Mankato, Mankato
Key terms: Acquisition, MSU, Training.

MRI Acquisition: An ICP-MS Facility at the University of Utah
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Eric H Christiansen($740,048), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Carbonates, Concentration, Coupled, Elemental, Environmental, Facility, Fossils, Gels, Geological, ICP-MS, Laser, Rock, Solutions, Tissue, Trace.

MRI-Consortium: Development of a Greenland Ice Sheet Monitoring Network
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Rhett Butler($1,992,785), Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Washington
Key terms: Greenland Ice Sheet, Advance, Capability, Climate, Creates, Cryo-seismic, Dynamics, Existing, Framework, GLISN, Glacial, Infrastructure, International, Monitoring, Real-time, Seismic.

MRI: Acquisition of a Multi-Collector Inductively-Coupled Mass Spectrometer
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Stephen Parman($677,890), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Rhode Island, Brown, Education, Foster, Instrument, Isotope, MC-ICPMS, Mass, Outreach, Resolution, Solid, Time.

MRI: Acquisition: Establishment of the Midwest Isotope and Trace Element Research Analytical Center (MITERAC)
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Antonio Simonetti($811,454), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
Key terms: Nm Laser Ablation, Hg Analyzers, Highly Innovative, Critical, Environmental, Facility, Geological, Graduate, ICP-MS, Instrumentation, Isotope, MC-ICP-MS, MITERAC, Remediation, Resolution, Students, Training.

MRI: Acquisition of an Electron Scanning Microscope for Multidisciplinary Research, Research Training and Undergraduate Education
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Jeffrey R Chiarenzelli($381,000), Saint Lawrence University, Canton
Key terms: Characterization, SEM, Student.

MRI: Acquisition of a DualBeam FIB/SEM
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Russell J Hemley($480,000), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Microbeam Specialist, Allowing, Characterization, Diamond, FIBSEM, Geochemistry, Instrument, Instrumentation, Maintenance, Multiple, Organic, Physics, Pis, Pressure, SEM, User.

MRI: Acquisition of an Analytical, Variable-pressure Scanning Electron Microscope for Geoscience Research and Education at Portland State University
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Sherry L Cady($238,943), Portland State University, Portland
Key terms: Acquisition, CEMN, Electron, Faculty, Microscopy, PSU, Programs, Resolution, Student, Students, VP-SEM, Wide.

MRI: Acquisition of a cathodoluminescence (CL) microscope system for earth science research and education at Appalachian State University
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2009; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Sarah K Carmichael($43,495), Appalachian State University, Boone
Key terms: Appalachian, CL, Microscope, Students, Training.

Acquisition of a new stable isotope mass spectrometer
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Peter K Swart($319,703), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Stable Isotopes, Analysis, Capability, Carbon, Carbonates, MAT, Marine, SIRMS, Sea.

Proposal for EarthScope Pre-meeting Workshop Support: Leveraging USArray - Opportunities for Onshore/Offshore Experiments and USArray and EarthScope Science in Alaska
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Anne M Tréhu($20,788), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Usarray And Earthscope, Leveraging Usarray, Onshoreoffshore Experiments, Towards Achieving, Workshop Organizers, Afternoon, Alaska, Instrumentation, Morning, North, Objectives, Offshore, Opportunities, Regions, Synergy, Targets, Workshops.

Collaborative Research: Geodynamic Solutions for Seismic Observations of Iceland Hotspot-Ridge Interaction
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Robert A Dunn($327,483), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Aibing Li($153,491), University of Houston, Houston
Key terms: Lithospheric Base Formed, Mantle Beneath Iceland, Hot Mantle, Lithospheric Plates, Mantle Convection, Seismic Wave, Deflected, Depths, Evidence, Hand, Lithosphere, Magma, Revealed, Stratification, Structure, Temperature, Upwelling, Volcanism, Waves.

Technician Support for a new multi-collector ICP-MS facility for Terrestrial and Marine Geochemical Research
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Kenna H Rubin($60,000), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Allow, Analyses, Analysis, Analytical, Development, Efforts, Elucidate, Facility, Hire, Hydrothermal, ICP-MS, Instrument, Isotope, Isotopes, MC-ICP-MS, Mg, Nd, Pb, Pis, Proxy, Recharge, Request, Serve, Sr, Student, Technician, Training, U-series, Users, Volcanic.

MARGINS: The Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf Isotope Evolution of the Mariana Island Arc
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Susanne M Straub($232,546), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Arc Evolution, Arc Magmatic, Convergence Rate, Fresh Volcanic, Mantle Reservoirs, Sr-nd-pb-hf Isotope, Subduction Factory, Crust, Earth, Glasses, Global, IBM, Mariana, Particles, Rock, Secular, Slab, Sr-nd-pb-hf, Temporal, Tephra, Tephras, Thickness, Time, Variable.

US EM Geophysics Community Workshop at the University of California, March, 2009
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. George R Jiracek($20,000), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
Key terms: Concerns, EM, Future, Geophysics, Industry, Workshop.

MARGINS: Collaborative Research: The Oxidation State of Mariana Arc Magmas and its Relationship to Subduction Volatile and Mass Cycling
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Katherine A Kelley($265,204), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
2. Elizabeth Cottrell($83,531), Smithsonian Institution, Washington
Key terms: Earth's Interior, Experimental Glasses, Long-term Evolution, Mantle Oxidation, Mariana Arc, Melt Inclusions, Redox Conditions, Subduction Zones, Analyzed, Basaltic, Components, Composition, Crust, Direct, Fefe, Ideal, Influencing, Long-term, Magmas, Magmatic, Natural, Partitioning, Pis, Primitive, Proxies, Redox-sensitive, Slab-derived, Technique, Undegassed, Volatile, Water.

Upgrade of Electron Microprobe for Earth Science and Materials Research at the University of South Carolina
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Gene M Yogodzinski($166,853), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Emp Facility, Abundances, Acquisition, Analysis, Co-pi, Components, Conditions, Detailed, Detector, Determining, EDS, Elemental, Existing, Geochemistry, Igneous, Mantle, Mineral, Probe, Processes, Software, Tectonic, WDS.

Rates, Sources and Magmagenesis of Alkalic Lavas at the Edge of an Intraplate Hotspot: A Multi-tracer Study of the Youngest Volcanics on Oahu, Hawaii
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Douglas G Pyle($297,682), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Alkalic Rejuvenation Volcanism, Extreme Compositional, Koko Rift, Active, Analytical, Clague, Conditions, Development, Disequilibria, Eruption, Hawaii, Heterogeneity, Honolulu, Instrumentation, Lavas, Length, Lithospheric, Magma, Magmatism, Mantle, Melting, Melts, Methods, Mid-plate, Models, Multiple, Pa-u, Processes, Provided, Range, Sources, Th-u, Time, U-series, Volcanic, Volcanics.

Acquisition of a Noble Gas Mass Spectrometer for the Oregon State University 40Ar/39Ar Geochronology Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Anthony Koppers($474,140), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: 40ar39ar Geochronology Laboratory, 40ar39ar Geochronology, Argus Vi, Igneous Provinces, Mass Spectrometer, Noble Gas, Arar, Crust, Facility, Geological, Has, Lunar, Nsf-sponsored, Oregon, Precise, Processes, Sediment, Students, Techniques.

Development of Software for the Over-the-Internet Control, Data Acquisition and Product Generation of the Hydrologic Mobile Network of X-Band Polarimetric Radars
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: PetaApps

1. Witold F Krajewski($198,998), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Mobile Doppler Network, Spatial And Temporal, Phd Students, Software Development, Ungauged Basins, X-band Polarimetric, Allow, Capabilities, Control, Developed, Feed, Involved, Radar, Radars, Real-time, Resolution, Square, X-band.

Upgrade of Computing Equipment in the Digital Mapping Laboratory, Idaho State University
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: PetaApps

1. Daniel P Ames($75,000), Idaho State University, Pocatello
Key terms: Digital Mapping Facilities, Remote Sensing, Water Resources, Climate, Expected, Graduate, Idaho, Landscape, Modeling, Students, Supported, Techniques, Undergraduate, Upgrade.

Upgrade of Computational Equipment for the Rice Earth Science Department
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: PetaApps

1. Fenglin Niu($75,000), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Access, Additional, Buy, Cpus, Cycles, Gb, Pis, Power, RAID, RAM, Rice, Sugar.

Travel Support for a Workshop in Russia on Geodynamical Phenomena
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: PetaApps

1. David A Yuen($25,200), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Conference, Geophysical, Global, Lithospheric, Mantel, Particular, Processes, Russian.

RUI: Testing Models for Late Cretaceous to Cenozoic Collisional Magmatism in South-Central Alaska
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2010; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Ronald B Cole($219,160), Allegheny College, Meadville
Key terms: Field Mapping, Hf Isotope, Igneous Rocks, Mineral Deposits, Mineral Resources, Southern Alaska, Terrane Collision, Undergraduate Students, Age, Arc, Chemistry, Collaboration, Collisional, Distribution, Following, Geochemical, Magmatism, Million, Models, Zircon.

Experimental Investigation of Glaucophane Solid Solution with Several Calcic Amphiboles
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2010; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. David M Jenkins($254,155), SUNY at Binghamton, Binghamton
Key terms: Compositional Joins, Miscibility Gap, Solid Solution, Amphibole, Amphiboles, Common, Compositions, Crystals, End-member, Extent, Glaucophane, History, Information, Mineral, Obtained, Presence, Sodic-calcic-amphiboles, Students, Tectonic, Tremolite-glaucophane, Zones.

Collaborative Research: A Closer Look at the May 18th, 1980 Pumice Plain Deposits: Implications for Assessing Eruptive Conditions and Pyroclastic Density Current Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Brittany Brand($241,326), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Josef Dufek($128,398), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Ash Produced, Explosive Eruptions, Fine Ash, Lithic Clasts, Mount St, Multiphase Numerical, Pdc Dynamics, Pdcs Produced, Recently Exposed, Aided, Analysis, Combined, Conditions, Current, Currents, Density, Deposition, Deposits, Detailed, Distance, Does, Flow, Flows, Has, Helens, Influence, Information, Intensity, Particles, Radar, Runout, Self-channelization, Source, Techniques, Transport, Volcanic.

Mechanisms and Kinetics of Porphyroblast Nucleation
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. William D Carlson($298,359), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: X-ray Computed Tomography, Chemical Environment, Interfacial Energies, Metamorphic Rocks, Mineral Assemblage, Nucleation Rates, X-ray Computed, Crystals, Diverse, Energy, Garnet, Geologists, History, Knowledge, Minerals, Mountain, Pressure, Reconstruct, Step, Temperature, Variety, Vital.

Short Course on "Diffusion in Minerals and Melts"
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Daniele J Cherniak($14,650), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Minerals And Melts, Students And Practitioners, Various Geological Applications, Cooling Rates, Short Course, Analytical, Controlled, Diffusion, Equilibrium, Experimental, Growth, MSA, Methods, Molecules, Partially, Require, Rimg, Temperature, Theoretical, Volume.

The Columbia River Plateau-Snake River Plain Large Igneous Province: Plume, Flux Melting or Both?
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Samuel B Mukasa($288,757), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Melt Inclusions, Plume Model, CRP, Compositions, Continent, Features, Has, Ii, LIP, Magmatism, Mantle, Melting, Microprobe, Processes, River, SRP, Trace.

PGE, Re-Os and Lu-Hf Isotopic Signature of Lithosphere Removal Beneath the North China Craton
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Richard J Walker($330,330), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: North China Craton, Thick Rock Layer, Lithospheric Mantle, Mantle Xenoliths, Active, Age, Ages, Ago, Beneath, Billion, Continent, Crust, Deep, Earthquakes, Formation, History, Information, Lithosphere, Lu-hf, Mesozoic, Million, PGE, Portions, Present-day, Processes, Re-os, Regions, Replaced, Replacement, Stable, Transformation, Volcanism, Was.

Enabling the (U-Th)/Ne Thermchronometer: Ne Diffusion in Zircon and Titanite
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Matthijs c Van Soest($198,502), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Accessory Minerals, Diffusion Experiments, Laser Microprobe, Ne Thermochronology, Assumption, Developed, Distribution, Engineering, Geologic, Has, Method, Methods, Nuclear, Nucleogenic, Produce, Proton, Reaction, Students, U-thhe, U-thne.

Super-eruptions, Eruptive Centers and Time-volume Behavior of a Continental Hotspot: The Central Snake River Plain
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Peter B Larson($210,593), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Snake River, Devastating, Environmental, Eruption, Establish, Has, Involved, Magma, Magmas, Past, Rhyolitic, Super-eruptions, Units, Volcanic, Volume.

Constraining Processes & Timescales of Magma Evolution
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Elisabeth Widom($257,485), Miami University, Oxford
Key terms: Active Volcanic, Eruptive Volume, International Collaboration, Isotopic Analyses, Magma Differentiation, Magma Evolution, Magma Residence, Undergraduate Students, Anticipated, Approach, Azores, Ba, Behavior, Constrain, Eruption, Experience, Explosive, Female, Field, Focus, Glass, Has, History, Involved, Lecture, Magmas, Magmatic, Nature, Past, Phases, Phd, Processes, Programs, Sanidine, Sanidines, Silicic, Single, Sr, Timescales, Volcanology.

Collaborative Research: Magmatism and Mineralization in the Owyhee Mountains, ID: A Case Study of Mid-Miocene Au-Ag Ores and the Emergence of the Yellowstone Hotspot
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Willis E Hames($214,364), Auburn University, Auburn
2. Matthew E Brueseke($162,082), Kansas State University, Manhattan
Key terms: Epithermal Au-ag Mineralization, Products And Styles, Au-ag Mineralization, Au-ag Ores, Epithermal Au-ag, Eruptive Products, Flood Basalt, Mafic Magmatism, Northern Nevada, Oregon Plateau, Owyhee Mountains, Precious Metal, Yellowstone Hotspot, Affected, Development, Eruption, Field, Focused, Geochemical, Geochronologic, ID, Jarbidge, Lead, Locally, Magmas, Magmatic, Mid-miocene, Silicic, Specifically, Volcanic, Volcanism.

EAGER: Recycled Carbonate-Rich Sediment in the Hawaiian Plume? Evidence from Ca Isotopes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Shichun Huang($52,739), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Ancient Carbonates, Ca Isotopes, Ca Isotopic, Hawaiian Lavas, Lower 44ca40ca, Mantle Convection, Caca, Development, Drilling, Eager, Geochemical, Modern, NSF, Recycled, Sediments.

Experiment Versus Nature: Testing Models of Magma Storage and Movement from the 2006 Eruption of Augustine Volcano, Alaska
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Jessica F Larsen($302,651), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Geodetic And Seismic, Storage And Ascent, Ascent Rates, Dike Injection, High-silica Andesite, Low-silica Andesite, Magma Mixing, Magma Storage, Volcano Observatory, Activities, Activity, Alaska, Amphibole, Augustine, Beneath, Constrain, Constraints, Decipher, Enhance, Eruption, Evidence, Excellent, Experimental, Geophysical, High-silica, Hybridization, Low-silica, Model, Monitoring, Mush, Observations, Onset, Reaction, Timescales.

Addressing Current Challenges in (U-Th)/He Thermochronology and Running Summer Student Workshops
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Peter W Reiners($280,068), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Radiation Damage, Secondary Phases, Student Workshops, Thermal Histories, Age, Ages, Analyses, Analytical, Apatite, Bedrock, Challenge, Challenges, Concentrations, Dating, Depending, Detrital, Diffusion, Diffusivity, Distinct, Funding, Grain, Students, Tectonic, Tested, Thermochronology, U-th, Undergraduate, Zircon.

EAGER: Cause and Duration of Extensive Rejuvenated Volcanism on Savai'i, Samoa.
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Jasper Konter($18,389), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
Key terms: Samoan Rejuvenated Lavas, Samoan Rejuvenated Volcanism, Rejuvenated Stage, Tonga Trench, Compositional, Eager, Enriched, Evolution, Gorge, Islands, Ma, Sampling, Savaii, Volcano, Volume, Was, Western.

EAGER: Collaborative Research: Collaborative Investigations of Isotopic Fractionation by Thermal Diffusion and Thermal Migration
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. James A Van Orman($59,713), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland
2. Craig C Lundstrom($60,000), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
3. Charles E Lesher($60,000), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Molecular Dynamics, Ntsi Fractionation, Temperature Gradient, Thermal Diffusion, Basis, Brings, Compositions, Differentiation, Experimental, Experiments, Fractionations, Igneous, Isotope, Isotopes, Melts, Mg, Molten, Petrology, Processes, Si, Stable.

Collaborative Research: "SUPERERUPTIONS," MAGMA CHAMBERS, & PLUTONIC RESIDUE: Insights from Peach Spring Tuff, Significance of Sphene
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Jonathan S Miller($150,913), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
2. Calvin F Miller($347,475), Vanderbilt University, Nashville
Key terms: Intrusive And Extrusive, Accessory Minerals, Approach, Chambers, Conditions, Crust, Diverse, Efficiently, Equivalents, Eruptible, Eruption, Extensive, Giant, Gt, Magma, Methods, PST, Plutonic, Processes, Quantities, Rock, Signatures, Sphene, Super-eruptions.

Probing the Sources and Early Evolution of Kimberlite: A Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf Isotopic Study of Megacrysts From Southern Africa
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Philip E Janney($114,351), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Pb And Hf, Lithospheric Mantle, Mantle Dynamics, Protokimberlite Melts, ASU, African, Arizona, Climate, Connection, Connections, Constrain, Continent, Deep, Deposits, Derived, Diamonds, Educators, Evolution, Field, Five, Generated, Global, Information, Integrated, Interaction, International, Isotope, Isotopic, Kimberlite, Kimberlites, Lithosphere, Localities, Magmas, Megacryst, Megacrysts, Nature, Nd, Program, Range, Reaction, Sources, Southern, Sr, Surface, Trace.

Collaborative Research: Incorporating Temperature-dependent Physical Properties into Numerical Models of Magmatic and Related Hydrothermal Systems
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Anne M Hofmeister($74,939), Washington University, Saint Louis
2. Alan G Whittington($246,125), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Heat Transfer, Temperature-dependent Properties, Thermal Models, Viewing Plutons, Ability, Bodies, Crystallization, Generation, Geologic, Geothermal, Growth, Has, Injection, Integrated, Laboratory, Magma, Modeling, Processes, Rock, Temperature-dependent, Values.

Simple Models for Trace Element Fractionation During Concurrent Melting, Melt Migration, and Melt-rock Reaction in an Upwelling Heterogeneous Mantle Column
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Yan Liang($305,678), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Beneath Mid-ocean Ridges, Fractionation And Distribution, High-porosity Melt Channels, Melt Migration Beneath, Melt Suction Rate, Beneath Mid-ocean, High-porosity Melt, Melt-rock Interaction, Melting Models, Mid-ocean Ridge, Mid-ocean Ridges, Steady-state Models, Abundances, Basalts, Chemical, Compositions, Depth, Developed, Dissolution, Experience, Experiments, Flow, Geochemical, Graduate, Heterogeneous, Mantle, Matrix, Melt-rock, Peridotite, Peridotites, Range, Re-equilibration, Regions, Segregation, Selected, Steady-state, Time-dependent, Trace.

Magma Residence and Recharge in Thick Continental Crust: Volcan Maipo, Andean Southern Volcanic Zone
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Maureen D Feineman($260,511), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Crustal Hot Zone, Crustal Magma Chamber, Deep Crustal Hot, Basaltic Andesite, Basaltic Andesites, Continental Crust, Lavas Erupted, Lower Crustal, Shallow Crustal, Subduction Zones, Volcanic Activity, Volcán Maipo, Bulk, Chaitén, Chile, Dacites, Del, Differentiation, Eruption, Female, Generation, Occurred, People, Plagioclase, Recharge, Rock, Santiago, Thousand, Trace, Volcano, Volcanoes.

A Conference on "Low-18O Rhyolites and Crustal Melting: Growth and Redistribution of the Continental Crust"
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Peter B Larson($25,000), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Delta 18o Rhyolites, Growth And Redistribution, Low Delta 18o, Students And Post-doctoral, 18o Rhyolites, Continental Crust, Delta 18o, Post-doctoral Fellows, Conference, Evolution, Has, Magmas, Percent, Processes.

MARGINS: Collaborative Research: Synthesis and Integration of Magmagenetic Controls for Subduction Factory Focus Sites
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Peter E van Keken($68,829), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. Mark D Feigenson($69,001), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
3. James B Gill($69,000), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
4. Robert J Stern($193,000), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
Key terms: Factory Focus Sites, Sediments And Oceanic, Subduction Factory Geochemical, Synthesis And Integration, Oceanic Crust, Subducted Sediments, ABS, Accomplished, Broader, Compositions, Generate, Isotopic, Library, MARGINS, Models, Slab.

Application of Boron Isotopes to Constrain the Depositional Environment of the Precursors to Proterozoic Granulite-Facies Borosilicate Paragneisses, Larsemann Hills, Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Edward S Grew($190,718), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: B-rich Character, Borosilicate Minerals, Chemical Composition, Isotopic Composition, Larseman Hills, Larsemann Hills, Non-marine Evaporates, Protolith Rocks, Anatexis, B-rich, Boron, Constrain, Depleted, Deposition, Environment, Fluids, Gneisses, Has, Ion, Metamorphic, Metamorphism, Microprobe, Non-marine, Original, Relative, Sediments, Student, Tectonic, Tourmaline, Was.

Tracing Evidence of Fluid Flow in Eclogite, Blueschist and Amphibolite Blocks in Subduction Zone Melanges
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Sarah Penniston-Dorland($249,676), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Fluid Infiltration, High-grade Blocks, Lower Li, Subduction Zones, Complex, Compositions, Concentrations, Depth, Fluids, Generation, Geochemical, Graduate, Has, High-grade, Mélange, Nature, Portion, Portions, Prograde, Retrograde, Rock, Senior, Slab, Slabs, Strong, Student, Umd, Undergraduate, Venezuela, Woman.

Ore Metals in Magmatic Systems
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Philip M Piccoli($398,729), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Ore Metal Partitioning, National Park, Crust, Deposits, Lectures, Local, Magmatic, Magmatic-hydrothermal, Maryland, Melts, Mineralmelt, Models, Oxides, Program, Selected, Silicates, Students, Sulfides, Undergraduate.

Geochemical Investigation of Xenoliths From the Central Rio Grande Rift and Colorado Plateau: Constraints on Lithosphere Evolution and Possible Delamination
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. John C Lassiter($214,053), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Central Rio Grande, Colorado Plateau Margin, Lithospheric Mantle Beneath, Rio Grande Rift, Continental Rifting, Lithosphere Delamination, Melt Depletion, Allow, Anomalously, Aspects, Constraints, Depths, Evolution, Peridotite, Seeks, Seismic, Shallow, Simple, Student, Suggest, Tectonic, Undergraduate, Velocities, Xenoliths.

Engaging Undergraduate Students in Petrologic Research to Test Hypotheses on the Genesis and Evolution of Mantle Magmas of the Navajo Volcanic Field
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. David A Gonzales($138,818), Fort Lewis College, Durango
Key terms: Inclusions And Mineral, Primary Silicate-melt Inclusions, Colorado Plateau, Fort Lewis, Melt Inclusions, Mineral Phases, Nvf Rocks, Primary Silicate-melt, Silicate-melt Inclusions, Volatile Species, Basic, Combined, Compositions, Education, Evolution, Gain, Genesis, Geologic, Insight, Knowledge, Magmas, Magmatic, Mantle, Melting, Melts, Metasomatism, Model, Nowell, Processes, Regional, Skills, Source, Students, Undergraduate.

Linked Isotopic (Cl, O, H) and Petrologic Studies of Fluid-rock Interaction During the Subduction Cycle
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Jane Selverstone($270,002), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: D37cl Values, Fluid-rock Interaction, Graduate Students, Mantle Wedge, Mass Transfer, Metamorphic Devolatilization, Metasomatized Mantle, Small-scale Fluid-rock, Stable Isotope, Accomplished, Allow, Analysis, Characteristics, Characterization, Chlorine, Cycling, Dcl, Development, Episodes, Field, Fluid-rock, Future, Geochemical, Infiltration, Isotopic, Laboratory, Large-scale, Mentoring, Migration, P-T, Petrologic, Procedures, Processes, Slab, Small-scale, Specific, Subducted, Subduction, UNM, Undergraduate, Zone.

Origin of Granite and Mafic-felsic Magma Interaction in the Lower Crust: Athabasca Granulite Terrane, CA
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Sheila J Seaman($191,602), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Extensive Partial Melting, Heterogeneous Lower Crust, Continental Crust, Deep Crust, Fehr Granite, Chipman, Common, Compositions, Dike, Exposures, Field, Ga, Mafic, Magma, Opportunity, Processes, Resources, Rock, Source, Terrane, Textures, Tonalite.

Phreatoplinian Signatures of the 1991 Explosive Eruptions of Hudson Volcano, Chile
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Steven Carey($109,849), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Glacial Melt-water, Magmawater Interactions, Activity, Analysis, Assess, Chile, Degassing, Deposits, Eruption, Explosive, Hazards, Hudson, Ice-covered, Melt-water, Potential, Products, Size, Volcanic.

Xenon Isotopes in Mid Ocean Ridge and Ocean Island Basalts: Implications for the Volatile Evolution of the Earth
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Sujoy Mukhopadhyay($194,423), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Earth's Mantle, Noble Gas, Argon, Atmosphere, Basalts, Carbon, Compositions, Degassing, Planet, Timing, Xenon.

FTIR Spectroscopy of CO3- and OH-bearing Apatites
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Robert C Tacker($194,274), Friends of the North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh
Key terms: Carbon Dioxide, Hydroxyl Ions, Mathematical Models, Apatite, Apatites, Carbonate, Chlorine, Determining, Fluorine, Microanalytical, Minerals, Mixtures, Molten, Rock, Thermodynamic, Variety, Water.

Estimating Eruption Model Input Parameters From Direct Observations of Deeply Eroded Basalt Conduits, San Rafael, UT
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Paul H Wetmore($178,775), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: San Rafael Desert, Conduit Flow, Geologic Mapping, Terrestrial Lidar, Volcanic Conduits, Volcanic Eruptions, Volcano Conduits, Allow, Depend, Detailed, Directly, Features, Forecast, Geochemical, Host, Magma, Millions, Mixing, Models, Operating, Parameters, Processes, Properties, Rock, Subsurface, Volcanoes, Wall.

RUI: Using the Products of Volcano-Ice Interaction to Constrain Paleo-ice Conditions II: Documenting Fluctuations in Continental Ice-sheets
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Benjamin R Edwards($184,920), Dickinson College, Carlisle
Key terms: British Columbia, Continental Climate, Geological Past, Global Climate, Global Temperature, Ice Sheet, Northwestern North, Affected, Attempt, Canada, Comprehensive, Correlate, Deposits, Document, Dynamics, Earth, Erosion, Eruption, Fluctuations, Formed, Future, Glaciovolcanic, Has, Implications, Ka, Marine, Northern, Periods, Pleistocene, Predict, Presence, Temperatures, Tuya-kawdy, Volcanic, Volcanism, Volcanoes.

Quantifying the Role of Chemical Weathering on the Composition of the Continental Crust Using Mg Isotopes and Other Tracers
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Cin-Ty A Lee($100,000), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Peninsular Ranges Batholith, Chemical Weathering, Continental Crust, Metamorphic Basement, Mg Isotopes, Oceanic Crust, Composition, Extent, Has, Isotopic, Light, Lost, Mafic, Mantle, Processes, Residues, Sedimentary.

Collaborative Proposal: Ash Particles and the Bubbles that Make Them: Measuring Bubble Size from Ash Fragments for New Insights Regarding Eruption Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Alexander A Proussevitch($453,679), University of New Hampshire, Durham
2. Dork L Sahagian($299,748), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
Key terms: Energetic Volcanic Eruptions, Ash Particles, Bubble Size, Eruption Column, Individual Ash, Size Distributions, Volcanic Product, Ashes, Bubbles, Burst, Curvature, Exploding, Fragmentation, Magma, Mt, Prior, Processes, Relations, Surfaces, Technique, Vesiculation.

Collaborative Research: Solution Thermodynamics of Igneous Pyroxenes and Garnets
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Paul D Asimow($388,215), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
2. Mark S Ghiorso($136,277), OFM Research, Seattle
Key terms: Garnet And Pyroxene, Exchange Equilibria, Partial Melting, Pyroxene Model, Terrestrial Planets, Thermodynamic Models, CT, Chemistry, Compositions, Essential, Extend, Formation, Graduate, Has, Interior, Magma, Modeling, OFM, Phmelts, Rock, Software, Thermodynamics, Tool, Tools, Transport, Utilized, Xmelts.

Collaborative Research: Timescales of Continental Magmatism and Development of Large Silicic Systems: Insights from Accessory Phases
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Shanaka L de Silva($299,016), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Axel K Schmitt($22,175), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Imply Concerning, Magma Batch, Repose Period, Time Scales, Upper Crustal, APVC, Caldera, Central, Collaboration, Development, Dissemination, Distinct, Does, Eruption, Lsvfs, Magmatic, Oregon, Plutonic, Prior, Regional, Represent, Silicic, Space-time-volume, Thousand, Volcanic, Volcanism.

The Effect of Trace Amounts of H2O on the Rates and Mechanisms of Olivine and Enstatite Phase Transformations in Earth's Mantle Transition Zone
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Thomas G Sharp($293,851), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Deep Focus Earthquakes, Olivine And Enstatite, Activation Enthalpy, Deep-focus Earthquakes, Earth's Mantle, Growth Rates, Maximum H2o, Oceanic Crust, Ppm H2o, Ringwoodite Growth, Subduction Zones, Thermo-kinetic Models, Transformation Rates, Transformational Faulting, Transition Zone, Apparatus, Compatible, Deep-focus, HO, Hydrated, Increases, Kjmol, Mechanisms, Mineral, Olivine-ringwoodite, Plate, Shown, Subducted, Subducting, Thermo-kinetic, °C.

Geochemical and Geochronologic Studies of Earth's Oldest Crust
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Richard W Carlson($301,602), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Isotope Geochemistry, Rock.

Trace Element Partitioning in Magmatic Zircon: Empirical and Experimental Studies at Sub-micron Scales
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. John M Eiler($175,374), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Compositional Zonation, Examine Trace, Ion Microprobe, Natural Zircons, Wide Range, Zircons Grown, Controlled, Controls, Distributions, Equilibrium, Experimentally, Geochemistry, Geochronologic, Igneous, Instruments, Methods, Micron-scale, Nanosims, Petrogenetic, Precision, Processes, Rock, Spatial, Student.

Laboratory Measurements of Trace Element Partition Coefficients Between Zircon, Aqueous Fluid and Silicate Melt at High and Ultrahigh Pressures
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. John C Ayers($261,031), Vanderbilt University, Nashville
Key terms: Aqueous Fluid, Hydrothermal Zircons, Partition Coefficients, Values Measured, Accurate, Allow, Compared, Composition, Compositions, Conditions, Crust, Dzirconfluid, Dzirconmelt, Equilibrated, Estimate, Experiments, Fluids, Has, Magmatic, Mantle, Melts, Phd, Popular, Rock, School, Source, Students, Trace.

Collaborative Research: Evaluating the Tempo, Size, and Chemical Connectivity of Magma Batches in a Tilted Plutonic Complex
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Kevin R Chamberlain($138,891), University of Wyoming, Laramie
2. Aaron S Yoshinobu($287,085), Texas Tech University, Lubbock
Key terms: Compositional Zones, Magmatic Fabrics, Vertically-extensive Magmatic, Ages, Arc, Batches, Batholith, Chemical, Construction, Crystallization, Distinct, Emplacement, Field, Intrusion, Isotopic, Links, Magmas, Objectives, Open-system, Oxygen, Pluton, Plutons, Pulses, Quartz, Represent, Site, Tank, Trace, Upward, Vertically-extensive, Volume, Well-mixed.

Experimental Determination of Argon Diffusion Kinetics and Mechanisms in Plagioclase
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. David L Shuster($258,280), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
Key terms: Incremental Heating, Kinetic Parameters, Thermal Histories, Analysis, Argon, Crust, Determined, Diffusion, Distinguish, Domain, Gas, Geologic, Laser, Mass, Minerals, Plagioclase, Process, Range, Rock, Temperatures.

Collaborative Research: Boiling-Over Pyroclastic Flows
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Dennis J Geist($85,638), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
2. Josef Dufek($175,000), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Bed Load Region, Pyroclastic Density Current, Pyroclastic Density Currents, Boiling-over Eruptions, Field Studies, Numerical Models, Summit Crater, Ambient, Atmosphere, Boiling-over, Cotopaxi, Deposits, Dynamics, Entrainment, Flows, Gas, Modeling, Multiphase, Particles, Program, Rapidly, Resulting, Substrate, Thermal, Tungurahua, Volcanic.

Collaborative Research: RUI: Boiling-Over Pyroclastic Flows
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Karen S Harpp($88,145), Colgate University, Hamilton
Key terms: Bed Load Region, Pyroclastic Density Current, Pyroclastic Density Currents, Boiling-over Eruptions, Field Studies, Numerical Models, Summit Crater, Ambient, Atmosphere, Boiling-over, Cotopaxi, Deposits, Dynamics, Entrainment, Flows, Gas, Modeling, Multiphase, Particles, Program, Rapidly, Resulting, Substrate, Thermal, Tungurahua, Volcanic.

Collaborative Research: Experimental Study of H, S, Cl, and F Partitioning Between Apatite, Fluid(s), and Melts: Applications to Magma Evolution and Volatile Component Exsolution
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. James D Webster($142,211), American Museum Natural History, New York
2. Philip M Piccoli($71,553), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Magmatic Volatile Contents, Magma Evolution, Magmatic Fluids, Melt Inclusions, Undergraduate Students, Volatile Components, Abundances, Apatite, Behavior, Chlorine, Control, Degassing, Eruption, Essential, Fluorine, Knowledge, Maryland, Museum, Processes, Program, Public, Sulfur, Via, Volatiles, Volcanic.

Collaborative Research: Timescales of Crystal Residence and Magma Mixing at Mount Hood, Oregon
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Adam Kent($178,006), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Kari M Cooper($186,946), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Crystal Residence Times, Storage And Magma, Diffusional Relaxation, Magma Mixing, Magmatic Timescales, Mount Hood, Apply, Compare, Corvallis, Crystals, Dating, Efforts, Eruption, Estimating, Female, Graduate, Has, Increased, Intermediate, Jerram, Magmas, Oregon, Populations, Processes, Quantification, Quantify, Silicic, Students, Technique, Techniques, Textural, Volcanoes.

MARGINS: Mariana Forearc Geology and Early Arc Volcanism
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. William McClelland($153,613), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Forearc Basalts, Geochemical Analyses, Ibm Arc, Isotope Analyses, Volcanic Rocks, Ages, Andesites, Collected, Complete, Constrained, Contribute, Diving, Eruption, Genesis, Guam, Inclusions, Involved, Lavas, Ma, Mantle, Melting, Proto-arc, Requested, Signatures, Sinking, Slab, Space, Subduction, Subduction-related, Time, Trace, Upwelling, Volatile.

CO2 Diffusion in Dry and Hydrous Haplobasaltic Melts
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Youxue Zhang($330,160), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Growth And Degassing, Basaltic Melts, Bubble Growth, Co2 Concentration, Co2 Diffusion, Couple Experiments, H2o Content, Ocean Islands, Submarine Basaltic, Atmosphere, Component, Controlled, Diffusivity, Experimental, Gas, HO, Half, Hence, Mid-ocean, Previous, Profiles, Similar.

Understanding the Volatile Evolution of Arc Magmas: Alkalies and Mixed (H2O + CO2) Volatile Solubility in Basalts and Basaltic Andesites
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Gordon M Moore($204,683), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Experimental Petrology, Mafic Arc, Magmatic Volatile, Mixed Volatile, Pre-eruptive Magmatic, Solubility Behavior, Volatile Contents, Accurately, Arc-related, Broad, Composition, Compositional, Experiments, FTIR, HO, HOCO, Has, Lavas, Manometry, Measured, Melt, Mpa, Pre-eruptive, Pressures, Processes, Range, Rapid-quench, SIMS, Techniques, Undergraduates, Volatiles.

Collaborative Research: Caldera Collapse and Subsequent Evolution of Long-lived Silicic Supervolcanoes: A Case Study of the Tshirege Member, Bandelier Tuff, NM
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2009; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Frank C Ramos($50,491), New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
2. John A Wolff($188,467), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Petrologic And Geochemical, Crystal Pile, Crystal-poor Rhyolite, Rhyolitic Super-eruptions, Tshirege Magma, Bodies, Caldera, Constrain, Crystal-poor, Crystals, Development, Magmatic, Otowi, Prior, Processes, Rejuvenation, Residue, Super-eruptions, Surface, Timing.

RUI: Collaborative Research: The Roles of Incremental Input, Magma Chamber Processes and Eruption on the Construction of the Bimodal Vinalhaven Plutonic-Volcanic Complex, Maine
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. David P Hawkins($64,257), Wellesley College, Wellesley Hills
Key terms: Coeval Volcanic Rocks, Epsilon Nd =, Plutonic And Volcanic, Hf Isotopic, Isotopic Composition, Isotopic Compositions, Magma Chamber, Source Region, Combined, Complex, Crystallization, Eruption, Evolution, Granite, History, Input, Insights, Mafic, Magmatic, Processes, Rejuvenation, Relative, Replenishment, Rhyolite, Silicic, Sr, Vinalhaven, Whole-rock, Zircon.

Melt Generation Below Continents in Diffuse Igneous Provinces
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Haibo Zou($71,355), Auburn University, Auburn
Key terms: East Asia, East China, Igneous Provinces, Melt Generation, Se Tibet, U-th Disequilibrium, Continent, Excesses, Lavas, Mantle, U-th, UCLA.

Enhancing Hydro-NEXRAD: Community Resource for Use of Radar-Rainfall Data
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2009; Program: Research Infra Cluster Prgrm

1. Witold F Krajewski($399,955), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Biogeochemical Cycling, User Base, Wide Range, Access, Activities, Additional, Analyses, Applications, Broad, CUAHSI, Capabilities, Cycle, Developed, Disciplines, Drainage, Educational, Etc, Has, Hot, Hydro-nexrad, Hydrologic, Hydrology, Innovative, Issues, Multiple, Outreach, Performance, Pis, Private, Product, Products, Publications, Radars, Rainfall, Rapid, Reliable, Technology, Terrestrial, Tested, Time, Users, Water.

Challenges and Opportunities in the Hydrologic Sciences
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: STC CENTERS-ESTABLISHED

1. Stephen D Parker($535,000), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Water Cycle, Water Resources, Challenges, Climate, Committee, Current, Hydrologic, Hydrology, Information, Issues, Management, NRC, Nation, Opportunities, Report, Requires, Staff, WSTB, World.

MSA Short Course: Theoretical and Computational Methods in Mineral Physics - Geophysical Applications
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Renata M Wentzcovitch($30,000), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Computational Mineral Physics, Active, Applications, Approaches, Book, Condensed, Contributed, Course, Field, Fields, Geophysics, Issue, Methods, Outcome, Pressure, Properties, Published, Short.

Extending the Lau Imaging Experiment to Study the Deep Tonga Seismic Zone
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Douglas A Wiens($193,416), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Deep Seismic Zone, Broadband Seismographs, Deep Earthquakes, Mantle Wedge, Tonga Deep, Array, Constraints, Fiji, Processes, Slab, World.

CSEDI Collaborative Research: Joint seismic, geodynamic, and mineral physics investigation of mantle plumes
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Jeroen E Ritsema($294,914), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. Derek L Schutt($50,757), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: International Collaboration, Mantle Plumes, Analysis, Geophysical, Hot, Hotspot, Images, Physics, Seismic, Seismological, Sets, Yellowstone.

CSEDI: Melt stability and dynamics in the deep Earth
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Michael Manga($250,061), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Basal Magma Ocean, Deepest Mantle Stabilized, Dense Basal Magma, Earth's Ancient Core, Earth's Ultralow-velocity Zones, Low Shear Modulus, Relatively Low Shear, Cooling Rate, Core-mantle Boundary, Earth's Ancient, Earth's History, Earth's Ultralow-velocity, Extensively Melted, Lowermost Mantle, Melt Relative, Molten Layer, Partly Molten, Ultralow-velocity Zones, Appeared, BMO, Buoyant, CMB, Chemical, Code, Convection, Core-mantle, Crystallization, Density, Drive, Dynamics, Dynamo, Effects, Evolution, Forming, Has, Hotter, Hypothesized, Imply, Maintain, Model, Regions, Remains, Signature, Solids, Temperature, Thickness, Thin, Top, Two-phase, ULVZ, Volcanic.

CSEDI Collaborative Research: Influence of Grain-Size Evolution on Global and Regional Mantle Flow and Upper Mantle Seismic Structure
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Mark D Behn($265,874), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Clinton P Conrad($198,950), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Mantle Flow Models, Grain-size Evolution, Mantle Rheology, Asthenosphere, Control, Convection, Deformation, Earth, Grain-size, Large-scale, Plate, Properties, Rock, Seismic, Surface, Tectonic.

"CSEDI: From fine to global scales: Integrated studies of the structure, dynamics, and mineral physics of the lower mantle"
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Jennifer M Jackson($362,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Heat Engine, Lower Mantle, Approach, Boundary, Broad, Complex, Continent, Experimental, Fine, Giant, Interconnected, Interior, Mineral, Region, Solid, Structure, Students.

Collaborative Research: High Pressure Experimental Melt Density
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Carl B Agee($326,845), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
2. Rebecca A Lange($317,661), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
3. Paul D Asimow($334,399), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Collaborative Effort, Compression, Conditions, Density, Development, Differentiation, Earth, Equation, Experimental, Interior, Laboratory, Magma, Magmas, Mantle, Melt, Melting, Model, Models, Pressure, Pressures, Range, Rise, Silicate, Surface, Techniques, Temperature.

2009 Interior of the Earth Gordon Research Conference
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2009; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Nancy R Gray($23,800), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Conference, Deep, Defined, Discussion, Dynamics, Earth, Exchange, Field, Fields, Focus, Format, Gordon, Interior, Meeting, Range, Structure, Topics.

Holocene Sea-level Change in the Caribbean: Implications for Geophysical Modeling and Ocean-Climate Interactions
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Marguerite Toscano($283,070), Smithsonian Institution, Washington
Key terms: 21st Century, Coral Reef, Mangrove Peat, Sea-level Index, Sea-level Rise, Tide Gauges, Varying Rates, Caribbean, Climate, Coastal, Comprehensive, Deposits, Environments, Estimates, Future, Holocene, Instrumental, Long-term, Methods, Precision, Produce, Rapid, Reconstruct, Resolution, Sea-level, Vertical.

New Approaches to Unraveling the Climatic and Sea-Level History of the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Alexander R Simms($237,537), Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
Key terms: Sea-level And Climate, Gulf Coast, Northwestern Gulf, Sea-level Rise, Tighter Constraints, Ago, Century-scale, Estuaries, Mexico, Subsidence.

Quantifying subglacial erosion rates and exploring pro-glacial bedrock as climate archive by in-situ cosmogenic C-14 and Be-10 techniques
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Joerg M Schaefer($187,029), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Bedrock Surfaces, Holocene Warm, Amount, Climate, Developed, Evaluation, Glacier, Glaciers, Has, Information, Models, Period, Sensitive.

Collaborative Research: Quantifying CO2 Fluxes Along the Himalayan Arc
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Louis A Derry($153,955), Cornell University, Ithaca
2. Matthew J Evans($109,880), Wheaton College, Norton
Key terms: 13cdic Springs, Central Nepal, Co2 Flux, Himalayan Front, Low And948, Nw India, Widely Held, Allow, Carbon, Consumption, Cycle, Degassing, Estimates, Exhumation, Extent, Fluxes, Geothermal, Issue, Metamorphic, Overall, Rate, Region, Sediments, Similar, Source, Sources, Students, Undergraduate, Weathering.

Collaborative Research: Calibrating the paleosol carbonate CO2 barometer for vertic paleosols by monitoring soil CO2 in modern Vertisols
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Daniel O Breecker($195,243), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. None($96,957), Baylor University, Waco
Key terms: Atmospheric Co2 Concentrations, Calculate Atmospheric Co2, Stable Isotope Composition, Carbonate Formation, Desert Soils, Paleoatmospheric Co2, Pedogenic Carbonate, Significantly Lower, Soil Co2, Ancient, Appropriate, Barometer, Climate, Cracking, Determined, Dry, Drying, Earth, Modern, Paleosol, Potential, Ppmv, Previously, Respiration, Sensitivity, Sz, Temperature, Value, Values, Vertisols.

High-resolution records of atmospheric circulation and past rainfall from soils based on U-series and stable isotope SIMS approaches
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Katharine Maher($355,865), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Atmospheric Circulation, Glacial-interglacial Transitions, Pedogenic Opal, U-series Proxy, Approaches, Climate, Developed, Enable, Existing, Glacial-interglacial, Has, Implications, Initial, Ka, Large-scale, Mechanisms, Modern, Moisture, Network, Occurred, Paleoclimate, Past, Plans, Precipitation, Program, Relatively, Resolution, Resolve, SIMS, Sites, Soil, Soils, Stanford, Terrestrial, Trace, U-series, UU.

Climatic and Geomorphic Triggering Mechanisms of Cascadian Periglacial Debris Flows
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Stephen T Lancaster($350,960), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Rain-induced Debris Flows, Rain-induced Periglacial Debris, Aerial Photos, Antecedent Conditions, Field Surveys, Initiation Sites, Mount Hood, Mount Rainier, Pacific Northwest, Rain-induced Debris, Rain-induced Periglacial, Snow Cover, Characterize, Climate, Context, Decades, Drainage, Geomorphic, Glacier, Imagery, Map, Mapped, Past, Rainfall, Region, Risk, Sediment, Specific, Storm, Storms, Streambed, Triggering, Water.

Processes of Alpine Glacial Erosion in the Sierra Nevada, California, and the Wind River Range, Wyoming
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2009; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Miriam Duehnforth($265,801), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Quarrying And Abrasion, Wind River Range, Yosemite National Park, Glacial Erosion, Longitudinal Valley, Rock Properties, Bed, Crystalline, Degree, Distribution, Evolution, Landscape, Models, Processes, Sediment, Spacing.

What are the seasonal controls on stream-riparian groundwater exchange during baseflow recession in headwater catchments?
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Kamini Singha($460,692), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Morphology And Gradient, Seasonal Baseflow Recession, Cross-valley Vectors, Hyporheic Exchange, Riparian Zones, Solute Transport, Transport Modeling, Controlled, Cross-valley, Flow, Groundwater, Hydrology, Stream, Stream-groundwater, Students, Subsurface, Tracer.

RUI: Confidence Intervals for the Duration of a Mass Extinction
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Steve C Wang($29,401), Swarthmore College, Swarthmore
Key terms: Confidence Interval, Mass Extinction, Simultaneous Extinction, Stratigraphic Thickness, Duration, Estimate, Fossil, Gradual, Mathematical, Statistical, Taxa, Truly.

Collaborative Research: New Chemo- and Biostratigraphic Framework for the Lower Triassic of the Western U.S.: Towards a high-resolution understanding of Early Triassic events
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Matthew Clapham($10,676), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
2. Margaret L Fraiser($69,240), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
3. Pedro J Marenco($209,156), Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr
Key terms: Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, End-permian Mass Extinction, Subtidal Stromatolite Bioherms, Anachronistic Facies, Biotic Recovery, Crystal Fans, End-permian Mass, Environmental Conditions, Increased Atmospheric, Lower Triassic, Marine Ecosystems, Ocean Acidification, Reef Ecosystems, Siberian Traps, Aftermath, Anoxia, Climate, Corals, Demonstrated, Effects, Elevated, Evidence, Extreme, Fossil, Found, Framework, Has, Hindered, Immediate, Isotopic, Lack, Levels, Nature, Occurrence, Organisms, Ph, Prolonged, Proximal, Received, Resulting, Seafloor, Settings, Shallow-water, Skeletons, Time, UC, Volcanism, Was, Western.

Testing for high-frequency (104-105 yr) glacio-and thermo-eustasy in greenhouse and transtional climates using oxygen isotopes of conodont apatite
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Zachary Sharp($298,427), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Carbonate Cycles, Glacial Ice, Oxygen Isotope, Climates, Climatic, Common, Conodonts, Glacio-eustasy, Greenhouse, Transitional, Warm.

RAPID: Astrochronology of the Middle to Late Devonian platform margin strata from the Canning Basin, Australia and implications for timing of Middle-Late Devonian events
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Jessica H Whiteside($15,000), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Canning Basin, Middle-late Devonian, Australia, Biomarker, Conodont, Corg, Cycles, Existing, Extinction, Middle-late, N-alkanes, Paleoenvironmental, Reef, Respect, Strata, Timing.

Conservation Paleobiology in the Coming Decades; Ithaca, NY; September 25-26, 2009
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Gregory P Dietl($29,624), Paleontological Research Institute, Ithaca
Key terms: Conservation Paleobiology, CPCD, Coming, Cross-disciplinary, Field, Interdisciplinary, Paleontological, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Population Response to Quaternary Environmental Change: Great Basin Lagomorphs as a Case Study
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Donald K Grayson($204,142), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Elizabeth A Hadly($308,378), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Population Persistence, Archaeology, Ascertain, Climatic, Department, Diverse, Dynamics, Environmental, Expansion, Extant, Factors, Fossil, Loss, Mammals, Morphometrics, Populations, Species, Thresholds.

Direct Re-Os Dating of Ordovician Graptolite Biozones: Refining Global Correlations and Earth Time
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Sven Egenhoff($454,993), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Biologic Evolution, Graptolite Biozones, Radiometric Dating, Re-os Dating, Absolute, Age, Ages, Assemblages, Biostratigraphy, Deposition, Fossils, Found, Geographic, Geologic, Graptolites, Industry, Ordovician, Pis, Re-os, Resolution, Rock, Sedimentary, Time, Units.

The Biogeographic Impact of the Late Ordovician Richmondian Invasion: Assessing Faunal Dynamics by Combining Niche Modeling and Evolutionary History of Cincinnatian Brachiopods
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Alycia L Stigall($152,000), Ohio University, Athens
Key terms: Late Ordovician Strata, Cincinnati Arch, Enm Methods, Environmental Conditions, Faunal Dynamics, Geographic Range, Geographic Ranges, Individual Species, Invasion Interval, Invasive Species, Niche Modeling, Richmondian Invasion, Species Invasions, Abiotic, Adaptive, Assess, Audiences, Biogeographic, Characterize, Collected, Evolutionary, Fossil, Framework, GIS, History, Long-term, Modern, Native, Parameters, Respond, Set, Shifting, Speciation, Stratigraphic, Survive, Techniques, Tracking.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: The end Guadalupian (ca 260 Ma) biotic crisis: Research into timing, potential causes, and environmental proxies
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Jonathan Payne($63,392), Stanford University, Stanford
2. Roland Mundil($299,949), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
Key terms: U-pb And 40ar39ar, Biotic Crisis, Causal Link, Emeishan Volcanic, Late Permian, Arar, Biostratigraphy, China, Deltac, End-guadalupian, Environmental, Extinction, Geochronology, Ma, Pis, Potential, Recovery, Sections, Testing, Timing, Volcanism, Zircon.

EAGER: Exploration of Late Miocene Strata in a Critical Fossil Gap of the Hominoid Record: the Red Series of Northern Afar, Ethiopia
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Jonathan G Wynn($24,491), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Ape And Human, Northern Afar Region, Continental Drilling, Critical Interval, Human Clades, Human Evolution, Late Miocene, Discoveries, Ethiopia, Fossil, Paleoclimatic, Potential, Red, Sites, Span, Split, Strata.

Collaborative Research: The dynamics of geographic ranges: Origin and maintenance of marine diversity gradients
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. David I Jablonski($270,000), University of Chicago, Chicago
2. James W Valentine($27,630), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Biological Factors, Marine Bivalves, Range Expansion, Biodiversity, Climatic, Diversity, Dynamics, Evolutionary, Fossil, Geographic, Geologic, Global, Past, Present-day, Resources, Shaping, Size.

EAGER: Geological and Paleontological Exploration of the Southern Weyto Basin, Ethiopia - A Potential Dataset for Climate Change Impacts on a Plio-Pleistocene Mammalian Fauna
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. David DeGusta($28,900), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Geological And Paleontological, Southern Weyto Basin, Deposits, Faunas, Mammalian, Survey, Testing.

SGER: High-resolution digital scanning of the Thermopolis Archaeopteryx
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Jacques A Gauthier($41,996), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Digital Scanning, Subsequent Studies, Anatomy, Archaeopteryx, Birds, Debate, Dinosaurs, Evolution, Fossil, Jurassic, LLNL, Livermore, Opportunity, Public, Published, Quality, Specimen, Thermopolis, Unprecedented.

TRANSITION TO TAIL-POWERED SWIMMING IN THE FIRST FULLY AQUATIC WHALES OF EOCENE TETHYS (EGYPT)
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Philip D Gingerich($265,001), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Aquatic Whales, Middle Lutetian, Whale Evolution, Archaeocetes, Bartonian, Birth, Discovery, Egypt, Egyptian, Eocene, Field, II, III, Land, Mammals, Modern, Sea, Semiaquatic, Skeletons, Stage, Stages, Swimmers, Temporal, Tethys, Transition.

Comparative Paleobiomechanics of Holdfasts in Soft Substrates
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Roy E Plotnick($57,894), University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Alternative, Based, Forces, Fossil, Function, Has, Holdfast, Holdfasts, Invertebrates, Living, Marine, Models, Modern, Morphology, Organisms, Plants, Resemble, Roots, Specimens, Structures.

Stratigraphic Paleobiology of Marine Quaternary Successions of Po Plain, Italy
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Michal J Kowalewski($227,555), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Po Plain, Virginia Tech, Activities, Based, Basin, Broader, Department, Depositional, Developed, Eco-environmental, Educational, Exhibit, Fossil, Geochronology, Geological, Geosciences, Graduate, Integration, Intellectual, International, Interns, Italy, K-, Levels, Model, Multiple, Outreach, Paleontological, Quantitative, Quaternary, Regional, Sedimentary, Sequence, Stratigraphic, Student, Students, Undergraduate.

A new regional paleo-precipitation proxy: oxygen isotopes in desert nitrate
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Greg Michalski($335,000), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Anticipated Global Warming, Anomalies, Assess, Capture, Climate, Models, Nitrate, Orbital, Precipitation, Proxies, Proxy, Regional, Resolution, Time.

Collaborative Research: Terrestrial Paleoenvironmental Record Through the Permian-Triassic Transition of Texas and New Mexico
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. John W Geissman($123,000), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
2. Roland Mundil($271,397), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
3. Cynthia V Looy($22,490), Smithsonian Institution, Washington
4. Neil M Tabor($96,000), Southern Methodist University, Dallas
Key terms: Time Interval, Carbon, Conditions, Environmental, Environments, History, Mexico, Regional.

EAGER: Application of 26Al-10Be Dating to Alluvial-Lacustrine Successions of Unaweep Canyon: Implications for Geomorphic and Climatic Evolution in the Colorado Plateau
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Gerilyn S Soreghan($42,266), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Colorado Plateau, Newly Developed, Newly Mapped, Unaweep Canyon, Age, Cenozoic, Considerable, Core, Dating, Geomorphic, Landform, Late, Methods, Paleoclimate, Paleozoic, Pleistocene, Plio-pleistocene, Potential, Radionuclides, Sediments, Yield.

Collaborative Research: Stratigraphic, geochemical, and paleobiological tests of the co-evolution of multicellular life and environment in the late Ediacaran Period
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Alan J Kaufman($248,000), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
2. Shuhai Xiao($94,001), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Earths Earliest, Khatyspyt Formation, Multicellular Life, Northern Siberia, Conditions, Ediacaran, Enhanced, Field, Fossils, Pis, Resolution.

Using Modern Burrowing Organisms to Interpret the Paleoenvironmental, Paleoecological, and Paleoclimatic Significance of Continental Ichnofossils
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Daniel Hembree($156,000), Ohio University, Athens
Key terms: Biogenic Structures Produced, Continental Ichnofossil Morphology, Geographic And Temporal, Environmental Factors, Laboratory Studies, Modern Traces, Soil Moisture, Specific Taxa, Substrate Consistency, Temporal Range, Trace Morphology, Analysis, Animals, Behavior, Behavioral, Body, Burrows, Database, Designed, Detailed, Directly, Exhibit, Graduate, Ichnofossils, Ichnology, Linked, Marine, Morphological, Ohio, Online, Organisms, Paleoenvironmental, Paleontology, Students, Surface, Techniques, Temperature, Terrestrial, Tracemakers, Tracks, Trails, Training, Undergraduate.

Fossil Sirenians from Mexico and Puerto Rico
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2009; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Lawrence G Barnes($35,024), Howard University, Washington
Key terms: Mexico And Puerto, Baja California, Fossil Sirenians, North Pacific, Puerto Rico, Caribbean, Collected, Deposits, Evolutionary, Feeding, Fossils, Howard, Localities, Manatees, Marine, Miocene, Paleoecology, Pis, Seacows, Specimens, Vélez.

Environmental sorting of vertebrate faunas: Is guild-level locomotor and dietary ecomorphology an indicator of paleoenvironment?
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Paul D Polly($234,973), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Carnivorans, Carnivores, Climate, Climates, Climatic, Dentitions, Diet, Dietary, Environment, Environmental, Environments, Expect, Geographic, Limbs, Local, Locomotion, Locomotor, North, Obtaining, Paleoenvironment, Parameters, Past, Pleistocene, Range, Reconstruction, Respond, Snakes, Specializations, Species, Terrestrial.

Workshop on Neogene Mammalian Chronology of Asia, June 2009 in Beijing, China
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2009; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Lawrence J Flynn($44,065), Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation, Los Angeles
Key terms: Biostratigraphy And Geochronology, Mammalian Biostratigraphic Framework, Asian Terrestrial, Mammalian Evolution, Roundtable Workshop, Surrounding Continents, Africa, Biochronology, Connected, Countries, Europe, Mammals, Neogene, North, Paleontologists, Previously, Turkey, Zoogeography.

Workshop: Advancing Geoscience Through Continental Drilling, June 4-5, 2009 in Denver, Colorado
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2009; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Anthony W Walton($48,935), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Continental Drilling, Document, Future, Geoscience, International, Meeting, Planning, Stages, Themes, Workshop.

Testing for Climate-Induced Marine Community Change and Ecological Disruption at Mid-Latitudes during the Late Paleozoic Ice Age
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2009; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Matthew Clapham($130,308), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Late Paleozoic Ice, Ago, Bolivia, Climate, Disruption, Ecosystems, Fluctuations, Marine, Million, Rapid, Sedimentary.

Fluctuating tidewater glaciers, chemical weathering and survival of reef-dwelling organisms: the Marinoan snowball, South Australia
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2009; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Adam Maloof($202,999), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: South Australia, Conditions, Equatorial, Evidence, Flinders, Geochemical, Geological, Glacial, Glaciation, Glaciers, Ice, Marinoan, Millions, Neoproterozoic, Oceans, SA, Sedimentary, Sediments, Snowball, Survive, Thermal.

The Response of the Marine Osmium Isotope Record to Impact Events
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2009; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Gregory E Ravizza($199,978), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Abrupt Perturbations, Ambiguous, Concentrations, Craters, Earth, Horizons, Ir, Isotope, Marine, Million, Os, Osmium, Recognize, Reliably, Sediment, Sediments, Site.

The Role of Phenotypic Plasticity in the Interpretation of Stratophenetic Patterns in the Paleozoic
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2009; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Brenda R Hunda($100,000), Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati
Key terms: Shape And Environment, Cranidial Shape, Gradient Analysis, Kope Formation, Reaction Norm, Trilobite Species, Conditions, Distribution, Environmental, Evolutionary, Fossil, Geological, Has, Measure, Measured, Organisms, Phenotypes, Plasticity, Populations, Rock, Settings, Time.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Chemostratigraphic Analysis of Panthalassic and Tethyan Permian-Triassic Boundary Sections: Assessment of Global Paleoceanographic Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2009; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Thomas J Algeo($266,649), University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati
2. Cornelia Winguth($114,871), University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington
3. Timothy W Lyons($60,000), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
4. Brooks B Ellwood($79,983), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
5. Katherine H Freeman($67,500), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Marine And Terrestrial, Boundary Sections, Graduate Students, Mass Extinction, Permian-triassic Boundary, Basin, C-isotope, Catastrophic, Chemostratigraphic, Contemporaneous, Controls, Datasets, Deep-ocean, Ellwood, Former, Geochemical, History, Integrated, Largest, Ocean, PTB, Paleoceanographic, Panthalassic, Permian-triassic, Permo-triassic, Potential, Public, Training, Undergraduate.

Improving the Accuracy of U-Th Coral Dating: A Test of Diagenetic Pathways, Models, and Effects
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2009; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Laura Robinson($420,000), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Future Sea Level, Uranium And Thorium, Uranium Decay Products, Fossil Corals, Thorium Isotopes, Accuracy, Advantages, Ages, Dating, Detailed, History, Information, Mechanisms, Methods, Mobility, Models, Past, Potential, Systematic, Trends, U-th.

Support of Student Participation in the North American Paleontological Convention (NAPC-2009-- Cincinnati, Ohio; June 21-June 26, 2009)
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. William I Ausich($25,125), Paleontological Society, Mc Lean
Key terms: Paleontological Convention, Cincinnati, June, Meeting, NAPC, North, Ohio, Students, Supported.

SGER: Search for Earliest Metazoans
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. L. Paul Knauth($21,332), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Cambrian Explosion, Insoluble Residues, Late Precambrian, Non-marine Environments, Pond Sediments, Trace Fossils, Allowed, Biological, Deposits, Discovered, Environmental, Evolved, Field, Life, Metazoan, Metazoans, Non-marine, Rock, Salinity, Sea, Was.

SGER: An Amino Acid-based Isotopic Method for Studying the Dynamics of Ancient Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Steven L D'Hondt($23,409), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Amino Acids, Primary Producers, Ô15n Signature, Ô15n Signatures, Ancient, Animals, Contamination, Development, Eat, Ecosystems, Food, Fossil, Has, Increases, Isotopic, Long-extinct, Looking, Means, Measure, Method, Molecules, NN, Nitrogen, Obtain, Obviously, Organisms, Particular, Possibility, Studying, Technique, Terrestrial, Tooth, Trophic, Volume, ¡V, ÔN.

Collaborative Research: Floral and Faunal Community responses to Late-Quaternary Climate Change
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Russell W Graham($301,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. John W Williams($339,719), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
3. Eric C Grimm($103,384), Illinois State Museum Society, Springfield
Key terms: Floral And Faunal, Species Turnover, Based, Database, Distributions, Environmental, Fossil, Maps, NEOTOMA, No-analog, Paleoecological, Pis, Time.

Workshop on Genomic Analysis of Species Extinctions
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Webb C Miller($36,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Genomic Methods, Population Diversity, Species Extinctions, Advanced, Current, Day, Experts, Genome, Genotyping, Human, Pennsylvania, Plan, Private, Public, Sequence, Sequencing, Talks, Technology, Was, Workshop.

SGER: Lake Faunas Through Time: Tracking Clades onto Continents
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Lisa E Park Boush($12,964), University of Akron, Akron
Key terms: Lake Faunas, Allow, Biodiversity, Database, Diversity, Found, History, Lakes, Life, Modern, SGER.

Collaborative Research: Integrated Study of an Exceptional Avifauna from the Eocene Green River Formation: New Data on Avian Evolution and Taphonomy
Award Effective Date: 01/03/2009; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Julia Clarke($116,107), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Paleogene Avian, Assemblage, Assemblages, Biodiversity, Birds, Deposits, Evolution, Fossil, Fossils, Lake, Systematic, Taphonomic, Timing.

Origin and Evolution of the Amerasia Basin of the Arctic
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: Tectonics

1. Elizabeth L Miller($279,014), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Polar Ural Region, Sea Floor Spreading, Zircon And Apatite, Amerasia Basin, Continental Shelves, Detrital Zircon, Plate Tectonic, Alaska, Arctic, Canada, Geologic, Has, History, Regions, Rock, Russia, Russian, Sandstones.

RUI: Field-testing the Multiple Diffusion Domain 40Ar/39Ar K-feldspar Thermochronometer at Tilted Normal Fault Blocks in the U.S. Basin and Range
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: Tectonics

1. Martin S Wong($72,499), Colgate University, Hamilton
Key terms: Continuous Thermal History, K-feldspar Thermal Histories, Thermal Histories Derived, 40ar39ar K-feldspar, Expected Behavior, Geologic Significance, K-feldspar Thermal, Thermal Structure, Arar, Assess, Cooling, Diffusion, Extension, Fault, Inaccurate, Insight, MDD, Prior, Problematic, Processes, Range, Temperatures, Thermochronologic, Thermochronology, Tool, Validity, Wide, Yield.

Geodynamic Modeling of Long-term Fault Interactions During the Evolution of the Pacific-North American Plate Boundary Zone
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: Tectonics

1. Mian Liu($135,026), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: California And Nevada, California Shear Zone, Eastern California Shear, Plate Boundary Zone, Relative Plate Motion, San Andreas Fault, Strain Partitioning, Accommodated, Complex, Controls, Crust, Deformation, Development, Earthquakes, Faults, Hence, Inception, Model, North, Rest, Slip.

RUI: Over-Printing of Crystallographic Preferred Orientation Patterns in Quartz Aggregates: A Program of Experimental Deformation of Natural Mylonite
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: Tectonics

1. Gayle C Gleason($143,662), SUNY College at Cortland, Cortland
Key terms: Crystallographic Preferred Orientation, Deformed Rocks, Seismic Hazards, Affect, Analyzed, Conditions, Crust, Deformation, Effect, Electron, Experiments, Fabric, Fault, Has, Histories, Microstructures, Mineral, Orientations, Properties, Quartz, Resulting, Strain.

Structural and Thermal Analysis of an Upper Crustal Low-angle Normal Fault in the Sevier Orogen, Southern Nevada
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Tectonics

1. John M Eiler($204,364), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Low-angle Normal Faults, Mormon Peak Detachment, Relief And Slope, Earth's Crust, Geological Mapping, Hanging Wall, Low-angle Normal, Southern Nevada, Stress Paradox, Structural Relief, Carbonate, Competing, Dissolution, Earthquakes, Footwall, Fracture, Gouge, Has, Landslide, Large-displacement, Low-temperature, Model, Notion, Origin, Planes, Sevier, Slip, State-of-the-art, Techniques, Tectonic, Thermometry, Vein, Warm, World.

Collaborative Research: Orogen-parallel Mid-crustal Flow and Exhumation of Domes Along the Southern Margin of the Tibetan Plateau
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Tectonics

1. John M Cottle($41,411), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
2. Micah J Jessup($315,477), University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville
Key terms: Continental Collision, Dome Formation, Leo Pargil, Mid-crustal Rocks, Middle Miocene, Partial Melt, Active, Collaboration, Collisional, Detachment, Domes, Earth, Evolution, Exhumation, Faults, Front, Geologic, International, Metamorphic, Mid-crustal, Mountain, Opportunity, Orogen-parallel, Processes, Structures, Thrust, Tibetan.

Petrofacies and Detrital Geochronologic Evolution of the Lower Pennsylvanian Pottsville Sequences from the Black Warrior and Cahaba Basins, Alabama
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Tectonics

1. Ashraf Uddin($290,278), Auburn University, Auburn
Key terms: Alabama And Mississippi, Ouachita Mountain Belts, Warrior And Cahaba, Black Warrior, Cahaba Basins, Clastic Wedges, Eastern North, Sediment Composition, Upper Paleozoic, Activities, Appalachian, Appalachians, Cenozoic, Critical, Detailed, Detrital, Dispersal, Has, History, Mineral, Model, Orogenic, Potential, Pottsville, Provenance, Region, Sedimentary, Sedimentation, Sediments, Tectonic.

Collaborative Research: In Pursuit of Missing Andean Lithosphere: Constraining Late Cenozoic Crust-mantle Processes in the Puna Plateau, Central Andes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Tectonics

1. Mark T Clementz($326,140), University of Wyoming, Laramie
2. Mihai N Ducea($368,796), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Lithosphere And Possibly, Possibly Lower Crust, Viscous Convective Instability, Geological Observations, Lithospheric Removal, Mantle Lithosphere, Partial Removal, Puna Plateau, Thin Crust, Altiplano, Argentina, Bolivia, Constrain, Extension, Geochemistry, Model, Models, Objective, Processes, Region, Uplift.

Jurassic-Early Cretaceous Tectonism, Orogenesis, and Basin Formation in Nevada: An Integrated Test of Models for Growth of the U.S. Cordillera
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Tectonics

1. James E Wright($335,498), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Single Phase Model, Jurassic Sediments, Late Jurassic, Basins, Controversy, Correct, Critical, Crust, Dating, Deformation, Erosion, Evolution, Idaho, Loading, Ma, Magmatism, Mesozoic, Metamorphism, Mountain, Mountain-building, Nevada, Pre-, Processes, Provenance, U-pb, Utah, Western.

Collaborative Research: Sedimentary Basin Response to Paleocene-Eocene Spreading Ridge Subduction in South-Central Alaska
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Tectonics

1. Jeffrey M Trop($87,288), Bucknell University, Lewisburg
2. Bruce D Idleman($68,282), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
3. Kenneth D Ridgway($130,044), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Forearc Basin Strata, Matanuska Valley Region, Spreading Ridge Subduction, Accretionary Prism, Arc Plutons, Convergent Margins, Forearc Basins, Sedimentary Basin, Southern Alaska, Spreading-ridge Subduction, Coal, Common, Detailed, Exploration, Issues, Magmatic, Native, Process, Processes, Spreading-ridge, Students, Tectonic.

Kinematic Vorticity Gauges and the Rheology of Mylonitic Shear Zones
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Tectonics

1. Scott E Johnson($143,093), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Clast Rotation Methods, Numerical Sensitivity Analyses, San Andreas Fault, Clast Lubrication, Clast Methods, Kinematic Vorticity, Mylonitic Shear, Seismically Active, Shear Zones, Analysis, Ancient, Boundaries, California, Deformation, Determining, Electron, Exhumed, Hazards, Investigate, Localization, Microstructural, Plate, Processes, Range, Rock, Strain, Strength, Tectonic, Tools, Volcanic.

Collaborative Research: Continuation and Termination of Karakorum and Karakax Faults in Western Tibet: Implications for the Role of Regional Strike-slip Faults in Orogenic Belts
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Tectonics

1. Alexander C Robinson($173,357), University of Houston, Houston
2. Lewis A Owen($228,354), University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati
Key terms: Continental Collision Zones, Southeast Pamir Mountains, Tagh And Karakorum, Altyn Tagh, Himalayan-tibetan Orogen, Karakorum Faults, Strike-slip Faults, Surficial Deposits, Accommodating, Active, Crust, Detailed, Displacement, Evolution, Features, Has, Himalayan-tibetan, Histories, Information, Interacted, Interacting, Largest, Lateral, Mapping, Models, Quaternary, Region, Strike-slip, Transient.

Mechanics and Seismogenic Potential of Low Angle Normal Faults: A Field and Laboratory Investigation
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Tectonics

1. Demian M Saffer($186,048), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Angle Normal Faults, Apparent Mechanical Weakness, Low Angle Normal, Anomalously Low, Exhumed Faults, Fault Gouge, Fault Rock, Fault Weakness, Fault Zones, Frictional Properties, Mechanically Weak, Tectonic Faults, Active, Behavior, Boundaries, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Factors, Formed, Has, Hazard, Laboratory, Mechanics, Nature, Overall, Particular, Plate, Potential, Sampling, Slip, Stability, Strength, Stress, Stresses, Structures.

Using the Tertiary Volcanic and Gravelly Sedimentologic Record to Test the Timing and Evolution of the Chocolate Mountains Anticlinorium, SE California
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Tectonics

1. Gary H Girty($132,793), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
Key terms: Bear Canyon Conglomerate, Chocolate Mountains, Extensional Exhumation, Incremental Growth, Southeastern California, Tertiary Volcanic, Time Slices, Ago, Ancient, Andreas, Anticlinorium, CMA, Development, Evolution, Fault, Formation, Initially, Lower, Mesozoic, Middle, Million, Model, Neogene, Pacific, Paleogene, Potential, Rock, Sedimentary, Significance, Southwestern, Strike-slip, Structures, Students, Subduction, Units.

Collaborative Research: Geological Investigations of Non-Andersonian Conjugate Strike-slip Faults in Central Tibet
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Tectonics

1. Michael H Taylor($136,097), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
2. Xixi Zhao($92,390), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
3. An Yin($148,787), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Coulomb Fracture Criterion, Angular Relationships, Central Tibet, Conjugate Faults, Fault Geometries, Natural Faults, X-shaped Conjugate, Ability, Causative, Deformation, Dynamic, Geologic, Interpret, Large-scale, Nature, Observed, Predicts, Regard, V-shaped, X-shaped.

Collaborative Research: Titanium in Deforming Quartz and the Thermo-mechanics of Detachment and Thrust Systems
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Tectonics

1. James G Hirth($35,540), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Rocks Deformed, Tectonic Settings, Wide Range, Calculate, Conditions, Deformation, Detachment, Distribution, Effect, Experimental, Experiments, Extensional, Locked, Microstructures, Natural, Quartz, Recrystallization, Temperature, Thermal, Thrust, Ti, Titanium, Trace, Western.

Geologic and Paleomagnetic Study of the Basal Belt Supergroup, Little Belt Mountains, Montana: Testing the Siberian Connection to Rodinia
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Tectonics

1. James W Sears($55,466), University of Montana, Missoula
Key terms: Siberia And North, Central Montana, Magnetic Memory, Adjacent, Ago, Ancient, Belt, Billion, Connections, Continent, Critical, Geologists, History, Hypothetical, Paleomagnetic, Positions, Previous, Rock, Rodinia, Sedimentary, Separated, Siberian, Similar, Single, Supercontinent, Tectonic, Time, Wander.

Initiation of the Pacific-North America Plate Boundary in NW Mexico
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Tectonics

1. Joann M Stock($337,007), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Baja California Peninsula, Pacific And North, Plate Boundary Faulting, San Andreas Fault, Twelve Million, Volcanic Rocks, Ago, Amount, Deposited, Displacement, Eruption, Geological, Gulf, History, Isla, Magnetic, Mexico, Plates, Region, Zone.

Is the Tibetan Plateau Rising?
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Tectonics

1. Jeffrey T Freymueller($327,277), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: India-eurasia Collision Zone, Horizontal Motions, India-eurasia Collision, Tibetan Plateau, Vertical Motions, Vertical Rates, Active, Campaign, China, Deformation, Earthquake, GPS, Growing, Modeling, Models, Precise, Region, Regions, Rest, Topography, Velocities.

Megathrust Paleogeodesy at the Central Cascadia Subduction Zone
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2009; Program: Tectonics

1. Benjamin P Horton($233,087), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Key terms: Cascadia Subduction Zone, Plate-boundary Deformation, Strain Accumulation, Transfer Functions, Vertical Resolution, Cycles, Diatoms, Earthquakes, Estuaries, Estuarine, Land-level, Minus, Past, Plate-boundary, Plus, Reconstruct, Reconstructions, Sediments.

Collaborative Research: Timing and Controls on Plio-Pleistocene Erosion and Sedimentation in the Eastern Peninsular Ranges, Southern California
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Tectonics

1. Rebecca J Dorsey($127,991), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
2. Michael E Oskin($143,722), University of California-Davis, Davis
3. Bernard A Housen($152,654), Western Washington University, Bellingham
Key terms: Cosmogenic Nuclide Concentrations, Source-area Erosion Rate, Basinal Sediments, Erosion Rates, Locally Derived, Nuclide In-growth, Source-area Erosion, Ages, Application, Bedrock, California, Climate, Detrital, Driven, Forcing, In-growth, Modern, Progradation, Relief, Stratigraphic, Tectonic, Time, Versus.

Collaborative Research: Mid-crustal Strain during Extension: A Field-based Investigation of Rheological Transitions, Doming, and Vertical Coupling
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Tectonics

1. David W Rodgers($40,111), Idaho State University, Pocatello
2. David A Foster($144,518), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Crustal Deformation, Crustal Rocks, Lower Crustal, Sufficiently Weak, Boundary, Continent, Decoupled, Decoupling, Documentation, Field-based, Flow, Gradients, Has, Idaho, Implications, Midcrustal, Middle, Models, Opportunity, Pioneer, Pis, Pressure, Rheological, Strain, Strength, Structural, Tested.

Collaborative Research: Improving the Chronology of Deformation and Earthquakes at La Rinconada, Argentina: Testing Segmentation and Recurrence Patterns of Blind Thrust Regimes
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Tectonics

1. Lewis A Owen($39,112), University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati
2. Thomas Rockwell($35,658), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
3. Andrew J Meigs($9,503), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Blind Thrust Faults, Earthquake Faults, Earthquake History, Heavily Populated, Seismic Hazard, Active, Earlier, Earthquakes, Expression, Frequency, Has, Hazards, Inform, Past, Public, Region, Regions, Source, Time, Timing.

Collaborative Research: Testing Channel-flow Models Using Mid-crustal Rocks of North Himalayan Gneiss Domes
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Tectonics

1. Jeffrey Lee($201,872), Central Washington University, Ellensburg
2. Bradley R Hacker($227,664), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Middle Crustal Rocks, Southern Tibet, Channel, Collision, Continent, Deformation, Direction, Ductile, Earth, Exposed, Flow, Geochronology, Himalaya, India, Models, Ongoing, Predictions, Spatial, Structural, Students, Suggest, Temporal, Thermal.

Defining the Earthquake Potential of the Puente Hills Blind-Thrust Fault, Los Angeles, California with Deep Borehole Data
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2009; Program: Tectonics

1. John H Shaw($105,147), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Fault Slip Rate, Puente Hills Thrust, Earthquake Hazards, Los Angeles, Seismic Reflection, Uplift Rate, Borehole, Deterministic, Directly, Fold, Folding, Geometry, Growth, Provided, Rates, Segment, Time.

Collaborative Research: Strike-Slip History of the East Gobi Fault Zone, Mongolia: Modes of Intraplate Deformation, Sedimentary Basin Evolution, and Regional Fault Linkages
Award Effective Date: 08/25/2008; Program: Tectonics

1. Laura E Webb($100,356), University of Vermont & State Agricultural College, Burlington
Key terms: East Gobi Fault, Gobi Fault Zone, Sedimentary Basin, Southeastern Mongolia, Asia, Cenozoic, Collaboration, Collisions, Continent, Deformation, Development, Evolution, Field, Has, History, Initiation, Left-lateral, Linkage, Mechanisms, Mesozoic, Models, Nature, Paleozoic, Region, Shear, Slip, Structural, Students, Tectonic, Timing.

Long-Range Science Goals for Geodesy Community Workshop
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: nan

1. James L Davis($23,763), UNAVCO, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: Geodetic Technology, Rapidly, Workshop.

US-Ukraine National Academies Workshop on "Climate Change, Regional Consequences, and Management Measures" in Washington, DC, Fall 2009
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: nan

1. Stephen D Parker($33,763), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: National Academies, Flooding, NASU, Ukraine, Workshop.

Undergraduate Summer Research in Seismology - REU Site
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2009; Program: nan

1. Michael Hubenthal($401,455), Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Washington
Key terms: Internship Program, Reu Model, Create, Development, Distance, Distributed, IRIS, Minority, Opportunity, Organizations, Potential, Resources, Seismological, Seismology, Site, Students, Technology, Telecommunications.

HELP Workshop Support by ICIWaRM: October 28-30, 2008; Tucson,AZ
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: nan

1. Juan B Valdes($58,720), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Policy And Management, Resource Managers, Basins, Framework, Law, North, Objectives, Program, Technical, Water.

Collaborative Research: EarthScope Facility Operation and Maintenance (FY2008-FY2013) (USArray)
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: nan

1. Robert L Woodward($76,244,193), Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Washington
Key terms: Earthscope Facility, Active, Available, Broad, Continent, Deformation, Educational, Evolution, Geological, Integrated, Land, National, Natural, Observational, Outreach, Processes, Program, Public, Schools, Step, Structure, Students, Time, Tools.

NSF-GEO-EAR Awards for 2009

Participant Support for the Annual Technical Conference of the National Association of Black Geologists and Geophysicists, September 9-12 2009 Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: ADVANCE - INSTITUTIONAL TRANSF

Central American climates of the last interglacial Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: ARC Rsch Support & Logistics

International Research Workshop: Peatland Archives of Holocene Climate Variability Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: ARC Rsch Support & Logistics

Collaborative Research: Pleistocene-Holocene Climate Variability of the Southern Appalachian Region, Southeastern U.S. Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: ARC Rsch Support & Logistics

Collaborative Research: Facility Support: Building the INTERFACE Facility for Cm-Scale, 3D Digital Field Geology Award Effective Date: 12/03/2008; Program: ARC Rsch Support & Logistics

Collaborative Research: Dynamics of carbon release and sequestration: Case studies of two early Eocene hypsithermals Award Effective Date: 01/30/2008; Program: BE: CARBON & WATER IN ES

Quantifying the Role of Mixing Interfaces in Biogeochemical Cycling in a Contaminated Aquifer-Wetland System: Linking Hydrogeological, Microbiological and Geochemical Processes Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: BE: COUPLED BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYC

Community Workshop on Climate Change Education Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: CCLI-Type 1 (Exploratory)

CDI-Type I- Bringing a Bayesian perspective to the study of large earthquakes and their impacts on the built environment Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: CDI TYPE I

CDI-Type I: A science and engineering programming and inverse modeling environment for massively parallel heterogeneous computing systems Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: CDI TYPE I

Collaborative Research: CDI-Type II--Revolutionary Advances in Modeling Transport Phenomena in Porous Medium Systems Award Effective Date: 12/01/2009; Program: CDI TYPE II

Theory of thermoelastic properties of iron bearing minerals Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: CI REUSE

Acquisition of a New Electron Imaging Facility in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Arizona Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Collaborative Research: Investigating the Relationship Between Pluton Growth and Volcanism at Two Active Intrusions in the Central Andes Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Workshop on Geophysical Studies of Continental Rift Initiation at Woods Hole Oceanographic institution in Massachusetts, March, 2009 Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

CZO: Luquillo Critical Zone Observatory Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

CZO: Transformative Behavior of Water, Energy and Carbon in the Critical Zone: An Observatory to Quantify Linkages among Ecohydrology, Biogeochemistry, and Landscape Evolution Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

Travel Grant Proposal: Travel support for young researchers to attend the HEPEX09 downscaling workshop Award Effective Date: 05/15/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Request for NSF Hydrologic Sciences (HS) Support for the GEWEX/iLEAPS International Scientific Conference on the Global Energy and Water Cycle, Melbourne, Australia, 24-28 Aug 2009 Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Impacts and Consequences of Predicted Climate Change on Andean Glaciation and Runoff Award Effective Date: 01/15/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Spatio-temporal variations of seismicity and coupling in the Himalaya Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

Upgrades to the NSF Arizona Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

The Mantle Melt Column and Melt Migration Revealed by Deglaciation Melting Beneath Iceland's Western Rift Zone Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

Collaborative Research: Probing the Earth System in Patagonia: Crustal motion in relation to tectonics, earth structure, the hydrological cycle and climate change Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

Acquisition of a subsurface radar imaging facility at Penn State Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

CAREER: Investigations on the elastic and vibrational properties of mantle silicates and oxides Award Effective Date: 02/01/2010; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

Pre-Earthscope Workshop Proposal: Tectonic Targets for Earthscope in the Midcontinent Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

Building Ice-Age Dyngjufjöll: Processes, Products and Environments Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

CMG COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Advanced Computational Models for Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

Collaborative Research: A global examination of the subduction zone flow field from seismic anisotropy Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

CSEDI: Dynamics of Subducted Slabs in the Transition Zone: Compressible Convection with Self-Consistent Equation of State Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

Collaborative Research: Growth of the Tibetan Plateau and Eastern Asia Climate: Clues to Understanding the Hydrological Cycle Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

GOALI: The use of logging and surface NMR measurements to estimate hydraulic conductivity in unconsolidated aquifers Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

RAPID: Systematic Quantification of River-bed Gravel Characteristics that Promote Salmon Spawning Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

RUI: Investigating Disagreements Between Geologically and Geodetically Estimated Slip Rates for the San Bernardino and San Gorgonio Pass Sections of the San Andreas Fault Award Effective Date: 03/15/2009; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

Collaborative Research: Understanding Lithospheric Suturing and Passive Margin Development Beneath the Southeastern U.S. Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Deformation and Magmatic Modification of a Steep Continental Margin, Western Idaho-eastern Oregon Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Examining the Evolution of the Colorado Plateau and Its Relation to the Surrounding Tectonic Provinces Using USArray Data Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: An Earthscope Magnetotelluric Survey of the Southern Cascadia Subduction System, Washington Award Effective Date: 06/15/2009; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: USArray Data Processing Workshop for the Next Generation of Seismologists Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

EAGER: Detecting Structural Changes During an ETS Event: Proof of Concept Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Formation of Basement-involved Foreland Arches: An Integrated EarthScope Experiment Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Revealing the Nature of Contemporary Uplift and Collapse in the Sierra Nevada - Great Basin System Award Effective Date: 04/15/2009; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Seismic Noise and Episodic Tremor: Improving Models for External Sources to Improve Detection of Internal Ones Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Bimaterial Interfaces, Damage Zones, Earthquake Directivities and Signatures of Rupture Opening in the Parkfield Section of the San Andreas Fault Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Crustal and Uppermost Mantle Anisotropy From Seismic Ambient Noise Data Observed on EarthScope/USArray Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

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

Dissertation Research: Conservative nitrogen cycling in wet tropical forests? Award Effective Date: 04/15/2009; Program: ECOSYSTEM STUDIES

EAR-PF: Biogeochemical Cycling of Manganese and Its Effect on Drinking Water Quality Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER: Volatiles in the Earth's Interior: A combined theoretical and experimental approach Award Effective Date: 12/15/2009; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Collaborative Research: REU Site Project--Evolution of Precambrian Rocks in Yellowstone National Park Award Effective Date: 11/01/2009; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Comprehensive Approach to Watershed Characterization Focusing on the Source of New York City Water Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

REU Site: Collaborative Research: Dune Undergraduate Geomorphology and Geochronology (DUGG) Project in Wisconsin Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

REU Site: Interdisciplinary research in water resources at the University of Florida Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

REU Site: Summer Undergraduate Research Experiences in Biogeosciences at Iowa State University Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

EAR-PF: TURBULENT AIR ENTRAINMENT IN PYROCLASTIC DENSITY CURRENTS Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER: Petrogenetic Affinity of Miocene Granites to Test the Mid-crustal Channel Flow Model in the Himalaya Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

EAR-PF: Experimental Investigation of the kinetics and mechanics of reaction-induced strain localization Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Episodic Tremor and Slip of the Cascadia Subduction Zone Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER: An Integrated Geologic, Geodetic, and Paleoseismic Study of Plate Boundary Stress Evolution and Geoscience Education Utilizing the EarthScope Database Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Contributions of mobile source emissions to watershed N budgets along an urban to rural gradient Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

EAR-PF: Adjoint Tomography, Seismic Hazard, and Active Tectonics of the San Joaquin Basin, California Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

International Year of the Planet Earth Outreach Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER: Stable Isotope Insights into Large-Volume Volcanic Eruptions Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Collaborative Research: High-resolution Basin Analysis of a Large-offset Extensional System, Lake Mead Domain, East-Central Basin and Range Province Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER: High Pressure Melting and Phase Transitions in Model Compositions of Earth's Core Award Effective Date: 02/15/2009; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

EAR-PF: Quantifying the Geochemical-Microbial Connection Using Thermodynamics and Environmental Data Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Collaborative research: Biotic alteration of soil hydrologic properties and feedback with vegetation dynamics in water limited ecosystems Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

Collaborative Research ETBC: Peatlands as Carbon and Water Sinks under Warm Climates in the Susitna Basin, South-Central Alaska Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

Collaborative Research (ETBC): Climate Warming and Northern Peatland Decomposition, Accumulation and Carbon Sequestration Examined Through Molecular and Paleohydrological Analysis Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

Collaborative Research: Ion Adsorption on Nanocrystalline Mineral Surfaces: Towards a Fundamental Understanding of Nanoparticles in the Environment Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

ETBC: A new tool for assessing nitrogen saturation status in forests- Mass-independent D17O of nitrate Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

CAREER: An ecohydrological framework for understanding land degradation in dryland ecosystems Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

Collaborative Research: Quantifying Geologic and Temporal Controls on Water and Chemical Exchange between Groundwater and Surface Water in Coastal Estuarine Systems Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative research: Unraveling coseismic and postseismic deformation: A prerequisite for analyses of stress-coupling and tsunami genesis. Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: Investigation of a Late Jurassic Paired Magmatic Belt (Blue Mountains, NE Oregon): Evaluation of Magmatic Growth During Contractional Orogeny Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Improving the Spatial and Temporal Resolution of Strain Rate Models of Continental Deformation Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Development of a Programmed-temperature Pyrolysis/Combustion Reactor System for Radiocarbon Applications Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative research: Earthquake triggering by slow slip events beneath Kilauea's south flank Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding