RCN-SEES: The Marcellus Shale Research Network
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: AISL

1. Susan L Brantley($750,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Document Natural, Gas Extraction, Industry Stakeholders, Marcellus Shale, Natural Gas, Shale Gas, Water Quality, Ability, Background, CUAHSI, Chemistry, Collaboration, Collected, Collection, Database, Development, Diverse, Drilled, Drilling, Facilitate, Flow, Focus, Future, Has, Knowledge, Network, Organize, PA, Pennsylvania, Potential, RCN, Region, Sources, Sustainable, Watershed.

Mongolia 3D
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: AISL

1. Diane LaMacchia($65,000), EARTH IMAGES FOUNDATION, Oakland
Key terms: Hangay Dome, Mongolia 3d, Central, Documentary, Field, Film, Format, Processes, Video.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Synchronizing the North American Varve Chronology and the Greenland Ice Core Record Using Meteoric 10Be Flux
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Paul R Bierman($125,390), University of Vermont & State Agricultural College, Burlington
2. Gregory A Balco($35,589), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
3. Dylan H Rood($89,382), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
4. John C Ridge($75,421), Tufts University, Somerville
Key terms: Greenland Ice Cores, Lake Outburst Floods, Laurentide Ice Sheet, North Atlantic Climate, Proglacial Lake Outburst, Be-10 Fallout, Ice Margin, Navc Sediments, Varve Chronology, Adjacent, Ago, Annually, Atmospherically-produced, Comparing, Concentrations, Correlate, Deposited, Derived, Effect, Flux, Glacial, Ice-marginal, Ii, Independently, LIS, Lakes, Occurring, Period, Position, Precise, Precision, Rapid, Resolved, Retreat, Retreating, Sequence, Sheets, Time, Warming, Was.

Facilitating New Discoveries in Seismology and Exploring the Earth: The Next Decade
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. David W Simpson($30,569,736), Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Washington
Key terms: National And International, Hazard Mitigation, Iris Programs, Affiliates, Broad, Consortium, Core, Development, Earth, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Encourage, Explore, Facilities, Instrumentation, Interior, Managed, Management, NSF, Seismic, Seismology, Serve, Services, Societal, Source, Starting, Tools, USGS.

Ecohydrology in Permafrost Systems: The Impact of Watershed Heterogeneity on Stream Flow Dynamics and Hydrologic Pathways
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. William R Bolton($544,489), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Boreal Forest Ecosystem, Hybrid Hydrologic Model, Coniferous Dominated, Deciduous Dominated, Dominated Ecosystem, Permafrost Affected, Permafrost Free, Vegetation Water, Water Storage, Arctic, Experience, Field, Flow, Freshwater, Integrate, Local, Mechanisms, Processes, Program, Site, Soil, Sub-arctic, Timing.

Collaborative Research: CDI-Type II: From Data to Knowledge: The Quake-Catcher Network
Award Effective Date: 03/10/2011; Program: CDI TYPE II

1. Monica D Kohler($88,327), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Qcn Sensors, Quake-catcher Network, Allow, Approach, Cost, Earthquake, Enable, Explore, Fault, Ground, Internal, Process, Public, Quake-catcher, Rapid, Real-time, Rupture, Seismic, Time, Transformative.

Software Infrastructure for Construction of Internally Consistent Thermodynamic Databases
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: CI REUSE

1. Mark S Ghiorso($250,132), OFM Research, Seattle
Key terms: Consistent Thermodynamic Datamodel, Internally Consistent Thermodynamic, Thermodynamic Datamodel Collections, Modeling Packages, Modeling Tools, Phase Equilibrium, Software Tools, Thermodynamic Modeling, Ability, Calibration, Constraints, Expand, Heat, Ictdmcs, Improvement, Intuitive, Methods, Motivate, Open-source, Process, Programming, Quality, Relations, Technical, Underlying, Users.

Integrated Analytical-Computational Analysis of Microstructural Influences on Seismic Anisotropy
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: CI REUSE

1. Christopher C Gerbi($298,171), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Asymptotic Expansion Homogenization, Electron Backscatter Diffraction, Bulk Stiffness, Bulk Stiffnesses, Elastic Anisotropy, Elastic Interactions, Account, Available, Calculations, Computational, Crust, Deformation, Developed, Earth, Effects, Integrated, Investigate, Mantle, Method, Methods, Microstructure, Microstructures, Minerals, Objectives, Open-source, Rock, Seismic, Software.

CAREER: Visualizing Earth's Core-Mantle Interactions using Nanoscale X-ray Tomography
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: CLB-Career

1. Wendy L Mao($504,748), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Core And Mantle, Nanoscale X-ray Computed, Pressures And Temperatures, X-ray Computed Tomography, Core Formation, Nanoscale X-ray, Silicate Minerals, X-ray Computed, X-ray Imaging, Activities, Core-mantle, Deep, Developing, Earth, Fields, Interact, Iron, Mechanisms, Melt, Nanoxct, Outreach, Resolution, Shape, Students.

Digital, Layered and Manipulateble Maps for the SE and E part of the Tibetan plateau: A new type map presentation
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. B. Clark Burchfiel($12,599), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Tibetan Plateau, Basic, Book, Has, Maps, Plates, Presentation, Represent, SE.

Collaborative Research: Great Earthquakes, Megathrust Phenomenology and Continental Dynamics in the Southern Andes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Jean-Philippe Avouac($720,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
2. Michael Bevis($1,299,998), Ohio State University, Columbus
3. Robert Smalley($449,603), University of Memphis, Memphis
4. Benjamin A Brooks($439,959), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Gps And Insar, Maule Earthquake, Plate Boundary, Plate Interface, Andean, Chile, Combine, Control, Deformation, Evolution, Geodynamic, Geological, Influence, Megathrust, Modeling, Mw, Post-seismic, Processes, Strong.

Advances in Seismology and Implications for Interdisciplinary Research Adam M. Dziewonski Symposium
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Miaki Ishii($29,345), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Adam Dziewonski, Advances, Broad, Disciplines, Discussion, Dziewonskis, Fields, Has, Honor, Interdisciplinary, Progress, Range, Retirement, Seismology, Sessions, Symposium.

Collaborative Research: The suturing process: Insight from the India-Asia collision zone
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Kip V Hodges($352,759), Arizona State University, Tempe
2. Peter G DeCelles($1,931,105), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Asia Collision, Plate Dynamics, Continent, Earth, Global, Indiaasia, Oceanic, Process, Processes, Structural, Subduction, Suturing.

Collaborative research: Integrated studies of early stages of continental extension: From incipient (Okavango) to young (Malawi) rifts
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Steven H Harder($564,458), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
2. Roger Buck($273,893), Columbia University, New York
3. Eliot A Atekwana($542,346), Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
4. Mohamed G Abdelsalam($1,001,606), Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla
Key terms: Continental Rifting, Rift Evolution, Southwest Branch, Constrain, EARS, Features, Field, Geochemical, Geomorphic, Geophysical, Initiation, Investigate, Models, Observations, Pis, Presence, Processes, Seismic, Stages, Structure, Surface.

Petrologic Study of Peridotite Carbonation in Oman: Temperature, Timing and Fluid Composition
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Peter B Kelemen($310,203), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Mg And Ca, Natural Peridotite Carbonation, Solid Carbonate Minerals, Decreasing Permeability, Fossil High-t, Pore Space, Via Reaction, Abundant, Active, CCS, Chemical, Conditions, Constrain, Engineered, Facilitate, Fluid, Fluids, High-t, Hydration, Injection, Low-t, Mantle, Models, Olivine, Ophiolite, Potential, Processes, Rapid, Rates, Reactive, Reservoir, Rock, Seawater, Situ, Storage, Surface, Temperatures, Water, Waters, °C.

Acquisition of a multi-collector, inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (MC-ICP-MS)
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2011; Program: CR-Water Sustainability & Clim

1. Brian L Beard($439,429), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Femtosecond Laser Ablation, Sr And Pb, U-series Geochronology, Ages, Analysis, Arar, Coupled, Effort, Evolution, Initiative, Installed, Instrumentation, Isotope, Isotopes, Long-lived, MC-ICP-MS, Metal, Situ, Stable, Tracers, U-series, Volcanic, Zircons.

GeoSoilEnviroCARS: A National Resource for Earth, Planetary, Soil and Environmental Science Research at the APS
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: CR-Water Sustainability & Clim

1. Mark L Rivers($13,400,271), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: High-pressurehigh-temperature Crystallography, Synchrotron Radiation, APS, Chemistry, Continue, Experiments, Facility, GSECARS, Has, High-pressurehigh-temperature, Interface, Processes, Properties, Spectroscopy, Structure, Synchrotron-based, X-ray.

Acquisition and Upgrading of Equipment for High Pressure-Temperature Research in Mineral Physics
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: CR-Water Sustainability & Clim

1. Murli H Manghnani($283,876), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Diamond Anvil Cell, Heated Diamond Anvil, Laser Heated Diamond, Raman And Brillouin, Brillouin Spectroscopic, Capabilities, Compressibility, Development, Equipment, Existing, Hawaii, Lab, Melt, Melts, Pressure, Silicate, Temperature, Upgrade.

Facility Support: The WiscSIMS National Ion Microprobe
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2011; Program: CR-Water Sustainability & Clim

1. Noriko Kita($904,506), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Stable Isotope Geochemistry, Analysis, Capabilities, Climate, Has, Less, Paleoclimate, Situ, Spots, Wiscsims.

Designing a Network of International Critical Zone Observatories (CZO)
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2011; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Timothy S White($98,689), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Critical Zone Observatory, Cz Scientists, CZO, Collaborations, European, International, Meeting, November, Participation, Soiltrec.

CAREER: Understanding Processes related to Arroyo systems, southern Utah
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Tammy M Rittenour($497,930), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: 'arroyo Problem', Cut-fill Cycles, Erosion Rates, Six Adjoining, Southern Utah, Analyses, Analysis, Cut-fill, Deep, Designed, Discharge, Drainages, Driving, Entrenchment, Flood, Geomorphic, Has, Investigating, Land, Long-standing, Modern, Numerous, OSL, Past, Rapid, Sediment, Semi-arid, Southwestern, Streams.

Quantifying the effects of an extreme earthquake on a large river system
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Douglas E Hammond($294,751), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Global Carbon Cycle, Min Jiang, Organic Carbon, River Water, Sediment Carried, Sediment Mobilization, Yangtze River, Amount, Chemical, China, Collected, Composition, Concentration, Earthquake, Erosion, Explore, Extreme, Ii, Iii, Landslides, Opportunity, Processes, Rare, Time, Wenchuan, Widespread.

CZO: Critical Zone Observatory--Snowline Processes in the Southern Sierra Nevada
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Clifford S Riebe($4,853,286), University of California - Merced, Merced
Key terms: Hydrologic And Biogeochemical, Rain-snow Transition Zone, Critical Zone, Rain-snow Transition, Rapid Seasonal, Water Cycle, Advantage, CZO, Catchments, Climate, Control, Does, Ecosystem, Elevation, Fluxes, KREW, Knowledge, Long-term, Multiple, Nutrients, Period, Primary, Processes, Program, Respond, Sierra, Soil, Students, Subsurface.

2011 Bi-Lateral Workshop Under the Sino-US Earthquake Studies Protocol
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2011; Program: Catalyzing New Intl Collab

1. E.Robert Engdahl($49,990), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: 21st Century, Earthquake Studies, Haiti Earthquake, Wenchuan Earthquake, Caused, Chinese, Collaboration, Earthquakes, Exchange, Extended, Faulting, Geodynamic, Losses, Processes, Protocol, Workshop, Workshops.

Acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometer for Multidisciplinary Research and Education
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. David E Black($184,050), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Elemental Analysis, Emission Spectrometer, Access, ICP-OES, Plasma, Rock, SUNY-SB, Sediments, Waters.

Collaborative Research:Aftershock Imaging with Dense Arrays (AIDA) for the August 23, 2011, Mw 5.8, Virginia earthquake aftershock sequence
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Larry D Brown($25,998), Cornell University, Ithaca
2. Martin C Chapman($23,310), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Aftershocks, Ca, Deep, Depth, Earthquake, Experiment, Hypocentral, Imaging, Occurred, Rare, Recording, Region, Resolution, Seismic, Structures, Technologies, USGS, Virginia.

RAPID: Hurricane Irene Storm Surge Sedimentation
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Harry F Williams($19,719), University of North Texas, Denton
Key terms: Storm Surge Sedimentation, Coastal Marshes, Hurricane Irene, Contribute, Deposit, Distribution, Evolution, Field, Overall.

Acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Plasma - Optical Emission Spectrometer for Geological and Environmental Applications
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Elisabeth Widom($114,768), Miami University, Oxford
Key terms: Acquisition, Analytical, Department, Enhance, Environmental, Evolution, Female, Geochemical, Geochemistry, Geological, Geology, Graduate, ICP-OES, Interactions, Pis, Routine, Student, Students, Teaching, Undergraduate.

RAPID: Real-Time Investigations of the Tohoku and Darfield Earthquake Sequences
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Gregory C Beroza($144,875), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: California Earthquake, Earthquake Predictability, Forecasting Models, Critical, Experiments, Hazards, Seismic, Time-dependent, Zealand.

Integrating Understanding Science into Pre-Service Teaching
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Discovery Research K-12

1. Roy L Caldwell($29,767), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: In-service Teachers, Methods Courses, Pre-service Teachers, Berkeley, California, Development, Educators, In-service, Pre-service, Strategies, Website, Workshop.

EAGER: Upper-plate Response to a Great Eathquake: Integrating Deformation from Seismic to Geologic Timescales
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Eric Kirby($102,167), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Current Subduction, Earthquake Cycle, Plate Boundary, Plate Interface, Subduction Zone, Upper Plate, Accumulation, Actual, Deformation, Earthquakes, Estimates, Gap, Geologic, Map, Maximum, Models, Moment, Observations, Observed, Potential, Release, Seismic, Slip, Substantially, Time-scale, Tohoku.

Field, Laboratory, and Numerical Studies of Geyser Eruptions
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Michael Manga($297,051), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Volcanic Eruptions, Behavior, Conduit, Does, Duration, Geyser, Insight, Interval, Laboratory, Processes.

REU Site: Natural History Research Experiences
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2011; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Elizabeth Cottrell($930,641), Smithsonian Institution, Washington
Key terms: Natural History, Anthropology, Biology, Communicating, Experiences, NHRE, NMNH, Participation, Program, Public, Students.

Collaborative Research: Integration of USArray Magnetotelluric and Seismic Data in the Pacific Northwest
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Eugene D Humphreys($142,582), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
2. Gary D Egbert($340,623), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Seismic And Electromagnetic, Seismic And Em, Earth's Interior, Geologic History, Common, Composition, Constraints, Datasets, Earthscope, Geophysical, Imaging, Integrating, Joint, Methods, Obtained, Powerful, Region, Separately, Structure.

Collaborative Research: Formation of Basement-involved Foreland Arches: An Integrated EarthScope Experiment
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Kate C Miller($173,362), Texas A&M University, College Station
2. Kate C Miller($548,968), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
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, Erslev, Exposures, Geological, Geometries, Geophysical, Instruments, Integrated, Investigation, Lines, Lithospheric, Model, Passive, Seismometers, Siddoway, Structural, Surface, Texan, Thrust, Wyoming.

Noise Observatory for Imaging the Subsurface Beneath Yellowstone (NOISY)
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Jesse F Lawrence($353,395), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Ambient Seismic Field, Ambient Noise, Source Field, Subsurface Properties, Synthetic Ncfs, Time Varying, Yellowstone Region, Abstract, Broadband, Continent, Contribute, Function, Generate, Generated, Generating, Greens, Observed, Real-time, Stations, Testing, Time-lapsed, Time-varying, Tomography.

Collaborative Research: Dynamics of Crust-Mantle Coupling through Combined Analysis and Modeling of EarthScope Seismic, Geodetic, and Geologic Data
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Brian P Wernicke($201,033), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
2. Matthew J Fouch($231,537), Arizona State University, Tempe
3. William E Holt($218,508), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
4. James L Davis($218,412), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Juan De Fuca, Basin Region, Continuous Gps, Earthscope Program, Mantle Flow, Seismic Imaging, Analyses, Anisotropy, Anomalies, Beneath, Comprehensive, Considered, Decoupling, Deformation, Developed, Discoveries, Driven, Dynamics, Effort, Evolution, Findings, Focused, Geodetic, Geologic, Geological, Geophysical, IRIS, Lithosphere, Lithospheric, Models, Multidisciplinary, Present-day, Quaternary, Strain, Subducting, Surface, Tectonic, Themes, Upper, Western, Zone.

Time-Lapse Monitoring for Detection of Transient Stress Changes in Geysers Geothermal Field
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Ingrid Johanson($217,399), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Continuous Seismic, Transient Stress, California, Crack, Depth, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Geysers, Induced, Insar, LBNL, NCEDC, Reservoir, Seismogenic, Sources, Temporal, Wavefield.

Using Geodesy to Separate Transient and Steady Extension in the Basin and Range Province, Western United States
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2011; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Geoffrey Blewitt($206,086), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Basin And Range, Eastern Nevada, Plate Boundary, Active, Deformation, Earthquakes, Evidence, Extension, GPS, Generate, Geodetic, Models, North, Province, Rates, Sites, Slow, Tectonic, Th.

Collaborative Research: Northern Embayment Lithosphere Experiment (NELE)
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Robert B Herrmann($351,089), Saint Louis University, Saint Louis
2. Heather R DeShon($816,756), University of Memphis, Memphis
3. Charles J Ammon($263,919), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Basin Subsidence, Lithospheric Structure, Mississippi Embayment, Seismic Velocity, Transportable Array, Active, Anisotropy, Continent, Dynamic, Flexarray, Geological, NMSZ, Processes, Region, Stations, Upper, Zone.

Collaborative Research: Systematic Analysis of Dynamic Earthquake Triggering Using the USArray Data
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Deborah L Kilb($232,097), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Hector Gonzalez-Huizar($240,253), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
3. Kristine L Pankow($86,609), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Passing Seismic Waves, Usarray Transportable Array, Dynamic Stress, Earthquake Rupture, Earthquake Triggering, High-frequency Triggers, Seismic Wavefield, Stress Field, Stress Threshold, Triggered Earthquakes, Usarray Ta, Amplitude, Catalog, Collected, Earthscopes, Examine, Gt, HFD, High-frequency, Local, Network, Orientation, Passage, Remote, Significance, Spatialtemporal, Station, Stations, Systematically, Temporal, Tools.

Lowrider: The Where, When, and How of Continental Crustal Underplating
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Vera Schulte-Pelkum($90,323), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Lower Crustal Layer, Continental Collision, Continental Crust, Transportable Array, Assembly, Continent-wide, Earthscope, Extent, Growth, Information, Mafic, Mantle, Mapping, Melting, Previously, Processes, Provinces, Receiver, Seismic, Sequence, Surface, Tectonic, Underplating, Velocities, Velocity, Waves.

Collaborative Research: Structure and Dynamics of the North American Craton - An EarthScope Swath from the Ozarks to the Grenville Front
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2011; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Hersh J Gilbert($467,316), Purdue University, West Lafayette
2. Michael W Hamburger($675,423), Indiana University, Bloomington
3. Timothy Larson($160,537), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Cratonic Platform, Deep Structure, Granite-rhyolite Province, Illinois Basin, Lithospheric Controls, Transportable Array, Analysis, Designed, Displays, Education, Experiment, Field, North, Operation, Outreach, Program, Proterozoic, Public, Region, Seismic, Seismicity, Sources, Stations, Structural, Structures, Students, Teacher, Teachers, Zones.

2011 EarthScope Workshop: Opportunities for EarthScope Science in Alaska in Anticipation of USArray
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Jeffrey T Freymueller($44,281), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Earthscope Facilities, Transportable Seismic, Alaska, Broad, Coming, Deployment, Efforts, Geoprisms, Observatory, Opportunities, PBO, Recommendations, Usarray, Workshop.

EarthScope Institute: The Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Colleen A Dalton($93,893), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Boundary, Broad, Critical, Earthscope, Evolution, Institute, LAB, Lithosphere, Observations, Origins, Thermal, Workshop.

Mantle Structures Beneath USArray
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Donald V Helmberger($243,817), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Existing Tomographic Images, Plate Motions, Beneath, Craton, Features, Lithosphere, Modeling, North, Path, Produce, Relatively, Structures, Transition, Upper-mantle.

Characterizing PBO Borehole Strainmeters: Calibration, Earthquake Response, Noise Statistics and Sources
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Duncan Carr Agnew($165,195), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Noise, Strainmeters.

Study of Postseismic Deformation Due to the 2010 M7.2 El Mayor (Mexico) Earthquake
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Yuri Fialko($418,789), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: El Mayor Earthquake, Crust, Deformation, GPS, Linear, Loading, Observations, Postseismic, Stress, Substrate, Upper.

Infrasonic Hotspot Mapping and Atmospheric Probing with the USArray
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Catherine de Groot-Hedlin($88,436), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Ground Motion, Atmospheric, Detection, Infrasonic, Infrasound, Previous, Propagation, Seismometers, Time, Usarray.

Workshop Series for Early Career Geoscientists: Navigating NSF, Aspects of a Successful Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, and How to Network for Professional Success
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2011; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Meredith Hastings($3,000), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: AGU, Development, Fall, Geoscientists, Meeting, Postdoctoral, Programs.

Paleointensity, morphology, and stability of the Proterozoic geomagnetic field as recorded by mafic dikes in India
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Aleksey V Smirnov($214,559), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: Biosphere And Atmosphere, Earth's Magnetic Field, Solid Inner Core, Dipolar Geometry, Earth's Magnetic, Field Characteristics, Fossil Magnetism, Ga Swarm, Geomagnetic Field, Magnetic Shielding, Peninsular India, Proterozoic Geodynamo, Solar Radiation, Analyses, Components, Craton, Dipole, Estimates, Evolution, Formation, Has, History, Implications, Insight, Investigating, Knowledge, Limited, Long-term, Paleointensity, Paleomagnetic, Potential, Precambrian, Remains, Rock, Stability, Strength, Swarms, Weaker.

Participant Support for the Annual Conference of the National Association of Black Geologists and Geophysicists, September 7-10, 2011
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Lisa D White($50,000), San Francisco State University, San Francisco
Key terms: San Francisco, California, Conference, Diverse, NABGG, Programs, Students.

Research Experience for Undergraduates Site on Sustainable Land and Water Resources
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Karen M Campbell($130,000), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Anthony Falls Laboratory, Land And Water, Water Resource Management, Sustainable Land, Water Management, Water Resources, Approach, Current, Focus, Interdisciplinary, Native, Paleolimnology, Predictive, Program, Quantitative, REU, Reservations, St, Students.

CAREER: Bridging Earthquakes and Earth Structure along the Northern San Andreas Fault
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2011; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. George Hilley($544,240), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Andreas Fault Zone, San Andreas Fault, Constitutive Rules, Deformation Observed, Local High-school, Crust, Earthquakes, Education, Geologic, High-school, Link, Millions, Plate, Resolution, Students, Thousands.

CAREER: Exhumation of a High-Grade Metamorphic Terrane, and Late-Stage Orogenic Collapse in the Southeastern New England Appalachians
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Yvette D Kuiper($79,072), Boston College, Chestnut Hill
Key terms: Deeper Domains, Geoscience Departments, Mountain Belt, Nashoba Terrane, Nsf Ear, Preliminary Field, Appalachian, Appalachians, Boston, Collapse, East, Encouraged, England, Exhumation, Geological, History, Late-stage, Merrimack, Million, Program, Southeastern, Student, Students, Terranes, Undergraduate, Underrepresented, Various.

CAREER: Studies of Magnesium Isotope Geochemistry
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2011; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Fangzhen Teng($232,481), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Key terms: Magnesium Isotope Geochemistry, Mg Isotopes, Mg Isotopic, Undergraduate Students, African, Arkansas, Composition, Core, Crust, Development, Evolution, High-temperature, Lab, Mantle, Metamorphic, Opportunities, Phd, Pis, Processes, Program, Reservoirs, Rock, Solid, Teachers, Time, UA, Undergraduates.

REU Site: Fluids in the Earth from Surface to Core
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2011; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Katsumi Matsumoto($411,990), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Activities, Core, Department, Dept, Diverse, Dynamics, Experience, Faculty, Features, Fluids, Geology, Geophysics, Has, Interns, Mantle, Minnesota, Participating, Program, REU, Students, Summer, Trips, Various, Weekly.

A paleomagnetic and geochronological re-investigation of the ~1.1 Ga Coldwell complex: Implications for the reversal asymmetry in Keweenawan rocks
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Jimmy F Diehl($178,745), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: Earth's Magnetic Field, Coldwell Complex, Earth's Magnetic, Geomagnetic Field, Intrusive Centers, Non-dipole Field, Plate Motion, Age, Analyses, Apparent, Asymmetrical, Asymmetry, Behavior, Billion, Elsewhere, Fast, Geochronological, Keweenawan, Non-dipole, Obtain, Period, Precambrian, Precise, Reversal, Reversals, Rock, Statistical.

Geoscience Graduate Research Grants
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Diane C Lorenz($624,000), The Geological Society of America, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: GSA, Geosciences, Grants, Level, Masters, Program, Students.

Board on Earth Sciences and Resources and Its Activities
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Anthony R de Souza($645,001), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Ad Hoc, Standing Committees, BESR, Board, Development, National, Resilience, Resources.

A workshop on research opportunities in sustainable energy pathways for the Earth-surface process community
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Dorothy J Merritts($30,698), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Sustainable Energy Pathways, Opportunities, Surface, Workshop.

Mixing and Reactions in Highly Heterogeneous Media - Can Nonlocal Models handle them?
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Stephen E Silliman($388,090), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
Key terms: Reactive Contaminant Transport, Chemical Reactions, Laboratory Experiments, Non-reactive Contaminants, Subsurface Flows, Allow, Approaches, Assumptions, Complex, Existing, Experimental, Focus, Groundwater, Information, Makers, Methods, Mixing, Models, Non-reactive, Prediction, Predictions, Predictive, Strategies, Studying, Theoretical, Theory, Tools.

Modeling Floodplain Dynamics: Can the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta Keep Up with the 21st Century Sea Level Rise?
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Irina Overeem($315,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Rising Sea Level, River And Coastal, Sea Level Rise, Surface Dynamics Modeling, 21st Century, Enhanced Monsoon, Floodplain Sedimentation, Ganges-brahmaputra River, Model Scenarios, River Floodplain, River Sediment, Sea-level Rise, Sedimentation Model, Sedimentation Rates, Ago, Bangladesh, CSDMS, Climate, Controls, Cyclones, Delta, Flooding, Ganges-brahmaputra, Has, Increased, Intensity, Interplay, Lowlands, Models, Monsoonal, Output, Sea-level, Storm, Was.

Collaborative Research: Coastal Geomorphic Consequences of Wave Climate Change
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Dylan McNamara($90,191), University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington
2. Brad Murray($37,748), Duke University, Durham
3. Laura Moore($155,072), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
4. Dylan McNamara($231,632), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Longshore Sediment Transport, Coastal Erosion, Computer Model, Continental Shelf, Global Climate, Historical Shoreline-change, Numerical Modeling, Simple Assumptions, Wave Climate, Wave Transformation, Accretion, Coastline, Coastlines, Future, Incorporating, Large-scale, Magnitudes, Ocean, Range, Scenarios, Shoreline-change, Storm, Storminess, Waves.

SEES Workshop: Natural and Engineered Carbon Sequestration
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Bradley B Sageman($78,870), Northwestern University, Evanston
Key terms: Engineered Carbon Sequestration, Natural And Engineered, Carbon Cycle, Activities, Challenges, Development, Effort, Efforts, Energy, Global, Underway, Workshop.

CAREER: Understanding CO2-Fluid-Mineral Interfacial Reactions for Sustainable Geologic CO2 Sequestration: An Integrated Research and Education Plan
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Young-Shin Jun($400,000), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Geologic Co2 Injection, Geologic Co2 Sequestration, Mitigation Strategies, Activities, Collaboration, Developing, Education, Environmental, Focus, GCS, Geochemical, K-, Kinetics, Local, Nanoscale, Outreach, Processes, Public, Reaction, Reactions, Situ, Washington.

Geothermal at the Environmental, Energy and Economy Nexus Workshop in Salt Lake City, UT
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. John M Holbrook($150,800), University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington
2. John M Holbrook($150,800), Texas Christian University, Fort Worth
Key terms: Geothermal Energy, Sedimentary Basins, Sustainable Energy, Vast Geothermal, Education, Educational, Engineering, Findings, Industry, NSF, Practical, Workshop.

Proposal for a Workshop on Basic Research at the Intersection of Marine/Hydrokinetic Energy and the Aquatic Environment
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Michele Guala($40,102), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Marine And Hydrokinetic, Hydrokinetic Energy, Mhk Energy, Sediment Transport, Wave Propagation, Aspects, Bio-geochemistry, Biology, Challenges, Engineering, Environment, Estuaries, Geomorphology, Harnessing, Invited, Natural, Ocean, Oceans, Opportunities, Potential, Power, Rivers, Stream, Water, Waves, Workshop.

Environmental and social implications of hydraulic fracturing and gas drilling in the United States: An integrative science and policy workshop
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Avner Vengosh($45,538), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Environmental And Social, Fracturing And Gas, Gas Drilling, Hydraulic Fracturing, Disposal, Effects, Energy, Interdisciplinary, Limit, Public, Socio-economic, Water, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Permeability Enhancement by Fluid Pressure Oscillations
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Chris J Marone($363,888), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Emily E Brodsky($161,979), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Dynamic Stresses, Dynamic Stressing, Earth's Crust, Fluid Flow, Permeability Enhancement, Seismic Waves, Underlying Mechanisms, Earthquakes, Effects, Experiments, Field, Investigate, Laboratory, Models, Natural, Numerical, Observations, Oil, Processes, Properties, Rock, Shaking, Shallow, Theory, Transient.

MRI: Acquisition of an Electron Microprobe (EMP) for analysis of inorganic elemental concentrations in solid-state materials: Expanding science research and teaching in Iowa.
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Ingrid A Ukstins Peate($987,742), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Chemical, Dispersive, EMP, Investigations, Spectrometer.

Histories of Large Silicic Magma Evolution at Changbaishan Volcano: Insights From Accessory Minerals
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Haibo Zou($88,768), Auburn University, Auburn
Key terms: Accessory Minerals, Changbaishan Volcano, Ion Microprobe, Peralkaline Rhyolites, Age, Comendites, Erupted, Eruption, Has, International, Ka, Rare, Trachytes, U-th, Volume, Zircon, Zircons.

Collaborative Research: Combining Methods from Geochemistry and Molecular Biology to Predict the Functions of Microbial Communities
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Eric S Boyd($285,160), Montana State University, Bozeman
2. Everett L Shock($229,941), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Geochemical Predictions, Microbial Ecology, Microbial Populations, Populations Catalyzing, Respective Activities, Activity, Aimed, Biological, Catalyze, Constraints, Defining, Disciplines, Distribution, Diversity, Ecological, Ecosystems, Environment, Extent, Focus, Framework, Geochemistry, Global, Knowledge, Methane, Methanogenesis, Methanotrophy, Nature, Processes, Significantly, Students.

Collaborative Research: Constraining Volcanic Jet Dynamics with Infrasound Using Numerical and Empirical Models
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. David Fee($280,542), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Acoustic Signal Produced, Eruptive Parameters, Flow Properties, Jet Noise, Man-made Jets, Volcanic Jets, Ash, Empirical, Eruption, Features, Infrasound, Long-term, Man-made, Measure, Models, Numerical, Physics, Signals.

REU Site: The influence of climate change on biogeochemical processes in northern ecosystems: An international perspective in Earth System Science
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Ruth Varner($678,213), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Reu Program, ANS, Climate, ESS, Education, Field, Findings, International, Participants, Policy, Student, Students, Sweden, Training, UNH, Weeks.

Collaborative Research: Evaluating Ancestry of the Tibet Plateau: Did a Mesozoic Proto-plateau Exist?
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Amy Weislogel($286,356), West Virginia University Research Corporation, Morgantown
2. Delores M Robinson($219,545), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
Key terms: Eastern Tibet, Plate Tectonic, Plateau Development, Qamdo Basin, Tibet Plateau, Asia, Chemical, Climate, Collision, Conditions, Configuration, Constraints, Crust, Deposits, Elevation, Episodes, Erosion, Evolution, History, India, Initial, Mechanical, Mesozoic, Modeling, Prior, Processes, Region, Sedimentary, Structural, Students.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: UNDOCUMENTED SHORELINES OF LAKE BONNEVILLE: NEW PALEOCLIMATIC AND HYDRODYNAMIC INTERPRETATIONS
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Paul W Jewell($242,161), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
2. Charles G Oviatt($72,833), Kansas State University, Manhattan
Key terms: Salt Lake City, Lake Bonneville, Climate, Documented, Geology, Glacial, Kansas, Landscape, Largest, Modern, Period, Poorly, Transition, Utah.

Tracking Exhumation of Ultrahigh-pressure Terranes: Linking Thermobarometers and Geochronometers Through REE Chemistry
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. William McClelland($201,031), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Collisional, Continent, Crust, Deep, Depths, Exhumation, Geochronometers, Metamorphic, Minerals, Path, Process, Processes, Rock, Surface, Tectonic, Time, Ultrahigh-pressure.

CAREER: The role of spatial scale in continental tectonics
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2011; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Rebecca O Bendick($441,571), University of Montana, Missoula
Key terms: Usually Represented, Affects, Citizens, Complicated, Continent, Especially, Everyday, Forces, Lives, Numeracy, Observations, Properties, Range, Scaling, Solid, Spatial, Surface, Tectonic, Time.

Role of Rheology and Water in Rapid Mantle Flow: 3D Numerical Models of the Costa Rica-Nicaragua Subduction Zone
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Margarete Jadamec($170,000), Jadamec Margarete A, Mystic
Key terms: 3d Numerical Models, Beneath Costa Rica, Rica And Nicaragua, 3d Mantle, 3d Numerical, Costa Rica, Costa Rica-nicaragua, Mantle Flow, Mantle Wedge, Subduction Zone, Subduction Zones, Brown, Construct, Content, Field, Geochemical, Geometry, Has, NSF, Plate, Rica-nicaragua, Seismic, Slab, VR, Velocity, Water.

Acquisition of Geophysical Instrumentation for Landslide Research.
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Thomas Brackman($129,997), NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (DO NOT USE), Newport
Key terms: Electrical Resistivity, Geophysical Instrumentation, Void Detection, Assess, Conductivity, Equipment, Geology, Job, Landslides, Microgravity, Refraction, Site, Subsurface, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Thermochronology of Dominant Thrust Sheets in the Sevier Fold Thrust Belt, Utah and Nevada: Determining Fault Timing and Slip Rates
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. W.A. Yonkee($74,308), Weber State University, Ogden
2. Michael L Wells($280,065), University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas
Key terms: Fault Slip Rates, Erosion Histories, Fold-thrust Belt, Multiple Thermochronometers, Sevier Belt, Structural Analysis, Thermal Histories, Thrust Sheet, Thrust Sheets, Ages, Application, Basins, Collaborative, Constrained, Critical, Detailed, Dominant, Estimate, Fold-thrust, Foreland, Hydrocarbon, Initiation, Metamorphic, Range, Relations, Rock, Sampling, Students, Thermochronology, Thrusting, Timing, Transects, Zircon.

Synchrotron X-ray fluorescence micro-spectroscopy: A new approach to determine the origin of life on Earth
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Jennifer A Roberts($300,000), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Ancient Putative, Biogeochemical, Education, Geobiology, Geosciences, Graduate, KU, Life, Micro-x-ray, Middle, Nature, Origin, Processes, School, Students, Teachers, Techniques, Undertake.

Collaborative Research: Geochemical and isotopic time-series of marine and terrestrial degradation of petroleum in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill
Award Effective Date: 10/05/2010; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. David B Finkelstein($65,531), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Oil Spill, Biodegradation, Document, Environmental, Environments, Geochemical, Geochemistry, Isotopic, Organic, Petroleum, Public, Residual, Sampling, Students, Time.

Empirical and Theoretical Integration of Geochemical and Morphologic Evolution of Soil-Covered Hillslopes: Responses to Channel Incision
Award Effective Date: 09/30/2010; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Kyungsoo Yoo($209,785), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Basal Channel Incision, Soil Chemical Weathering, Stream Channels, Age, Field, Hillslope, Hillslopes, Laboratory, Mineral, Processes, Properties, Rate, Rates, River, Soils, Spatial, Topography.

Unraveling at Micro- and Macro-scale the Mineral Surface Reactions of Amino Acids and Small Peptides Using Phage Display Technology Coupled with Synchrotron-Based Spectroscopy
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2010; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Michael S Cox($200,028), Mississippi State University, Mississippi State
Key terms: Adsorption Isotherms, Amino Acids, Molecular Surface, Soil Minerals, Future, Graduate, Interdisciplinary, Investigate, Micro-scale, Microbial, Minority, Mississippi, National, Peptides, SON, School, Schools, Students, Summer, Undergraduate.

Bridging Data, New Technologies, and Communities to Enable and Communicate EarthScope Exploration and Discovery
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: EarthCube

1. J Ramon Arrowsmith($2,615,614), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Earthscope National Office, Enhance And Continue, Exploration And Discovery, Formal And Informal, High-profile Public Identity, Advance Formal, Decision Makers, Earthscope Program, Fellow Citizens, Foster Continued, Guiding Exploration, High-profile Public, Informal Educators, Resolving Challenging, Spectacularly Underway, Technology Education, ASU, Abroad, Activities, Arizona, Benefit, Characterizing, Configured, Continent, Datasets, Discoveries, Diverse, ESNO, Eando, Educational, Effective, Establish, Expand, Hazardous, Increasing, Initiatives, Levels, Life, Literacy, Live, North, Observational, Ownership, Place-based, Planned, Processes, Promote, Quality, Resources, Scientists, Sense, Southwest, Stakeholders, Structure, Students, Tools, Transformative, Vigorous, Well-situated.

FESD Proposal, Type II: " CIDER-II synthesis center: Cooperative Institute for Dynamic Earth Research"
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Front in Earth Sys Dynamics

1. Barbara A Romanowicz($4,554,465), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Mantle And Core, Becoming Available, Concerted Multi-disciplinary, Plate Tectonics, Approach, Broad, Broadly, Build, CIDER, CIDER-II, Deep, Depth, Disciplines, Dynamic, Dynamics, Earth, Education, Enormous, Evolution, Generation, Global, Has, Institute, Interior, Issues, Mineral, Multi-disciplinary, Observations, Particular, Processes, Program, Properties, Ripe, Seismic, Seismologists, Summer, Synthesis, Theme, Web.

FESD Proposal,Type I: Open Earth Systems: Whole planet models for global processes and major events in Earth's history
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Front in Earth Sys Dynamics

1. Anand Gnanadesikan($4,845,532), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Cig Model, Deep Ocean, Graduate Students, Mantle Convection, Plate Boundaries, Sea Level, Selective Preservation, Atmosphere, Baltimore, Breakup, Carbon, Climate, Continent, Core, Coupling, Crust, Dynamics, Earth, Evolution, Extreme, Formation, GFDL, Geodynamo, Geomagnetic, Geoscience, History, Igneous, Interactions, Iron, Mass, Models, Modified, Peaks, Pis, Public, Reversals, School, Surface, Topography, Training.

CAUGHT: Central Andean Uplift and the Geodynamics of High Topography
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Nadine McQuarrie($232,909), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Analysis, Andes, Belt, Crust, Has, Pis, Potential, Rise, Weather.

NSF NSF Geo-Data Informatics: Exploring the Life Cycle, Citation and Integration of Geo-Data
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2011; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Peter Fox($99,999), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
Key terms: Activities, Approaches, Benefit, Capabilities, Cyberinfrastructure, Developed, Development, Effective, Encourages, Geosciences, Implementation, Influence, Lifecycle, NSF, Organizations, Paradigms, Partnerships, Practices, Standards, Supported, Technology, Trans-disciplinary, USGS, Workshop.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: RUI: Testing hypotheses for Late Devonian biotic and climatic events via high-precision CA-TIMS U-Pb zircon dating and quantitative correlation tools
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. D. Jeffrey Over($80,000), SUNY College at Geneseo, Geneseo
2. Mark D Schmitz($149,964), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Late Devonian Biotic, Biotic Crises, Massive Volcanism, Ocean Anoxia, U-pb Zircon, Carbon, Climate, Climatic, Cycling, EARTHTIME, Extinction, Fluctuations, Geochronology, Global, High-precision, Initiative, International, Isotope, Multi-disciplinary, Process, Proxy, Quantitative, Resolution, STEM, Synchrony, Testing, U-pb, Via.

Testing models for the origin of the deepest carbon-isotope anomaly in Earth history? The Wonoka Formation of South Australia
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Blair Schoene($179,256), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Correlation Tool, Isotope Chemostratigraphy, Anomaly, Carbon, Carbonate, Constrain, Deepest, Deltac, Deltaccarb, Diagenesis, Diagenetic, Ediacaran, Excursions, Global, History, Precambrian, Timing.

The Last Glacial Termination in Southern Middle Latitudes
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. George H Denton($393,844), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Global Warming, Ice Age, Interglacial Conditions, Middle Latitudes, North Atlantic, Northern Hemisphere, Northern Stadial, Southern Alps, Southern Hemisphere, Southern Ocean, Temperature Gradient, Antarctic, Chronology, Developed, Glacial, Has, Produced, Reduction, Rising, Shift, Termination, Triggered, Volume, Wind, Zealand.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Evaluating Controls on Holocene Glacier Fluctuations and Climate Variability in the Southern Peruvian Andes
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Joseph M Licciardi($206,291), University of New Hampshire, Durham
2. Joerg M Schaefer($155,705), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Age Control, Future Climate, Glacial Histories, Holocene Climate, Laboratory Methods, Activities, Advances, Ages, Allow, Chronologies, Climatic, Consequences, Contribute, Controls, Dating, Development, Environmental, Fluctuations, Glaciations, Glacier, Glaciers, Isotopic, Local, Modeling, Moraines, Past, Peru, Precise, Region, Regional, Sensitivity, Surface, Tropical, Tropics, Vilcabamba.

Constraining the duration and magnitude of Late Ordovician to Early Silurian glaciation
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Woodward Fischer($239,999), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Ancient Climate, Global Cooling, Isotopic Composition, Late Ordovician, Oxygen Isotope, Carbonate, Clumped, Conventional, Effects, Fossils, Glaciation, Has, Ice, Interval, Potential, Proxy, Seawater, Sheets, Silurian, Temperature, Time.

COLLABORATIVE: EAGER: Seismic Survey of Lake Junin, Peru in Preparation for Deep Drilling
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Donald T Rodbell($61,868), Union College, Schenectady
2. Steven M Colman($42,195), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Deep Drilling, Drilling Sites, Glacial Cycles, Interglacial Intervals, Junin Basin, Lake Junin, Multiple Glacial, Seismic Survey, Advisory, Climate, Cored, Degree, Has, ICDP, Peru, Prerequisite, Resolution, Sediment, Selection, Students, Thickness, Tropical, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Absolute-dated records of Late Quaternary paleohydrology in the Bonneville Basin, western U.S., from novel cave archives
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. William D McGee($59,828), Columbia University, New York
2. Richard L Edwards($180,953), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
3. Jay Quade($205,889), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Interglacial Warm Periods, Interglacials And Glacial, Lacustrine Cave Deposits, Limited Dating Precision, Past Water Balance, U-th And 14c, 14c Ages, Basin's Paleolakes, Bonneville Basin, Glacial Period, Glacial Terminations, Lehman Cave, Past Climate, Past Hydrologic, Precisely Dated, Reconstruct Past, Stable Isotope, Storm Track, Water Availability, Abrupt, Allowing, Archives, Basins, Behavior, Caves, Drying, Edge, Elevation, Extend, Formed, Future, Has, Hydrology, Importantly, Insights, Lake, Lakes, Largest, Leave, Opportunity, Precipitation, Previous, Region, Regions, Resolution, Site, Speleothems, Stalagmites, Substantial, Suggesting, Times, Was, Well-dated, Western.

EAGER: Early-mid Pliocene Climate Change in Northern Chile
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Linda Godfrey($49,851), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Modern Analog Studies, Decadal Climate, Unit Deposited, Active, Aim, Andes, Annually, Atacama, Carbonate, Central, Facies, Formation, Influenced, Laminated, Opache, Palustrine, Region, Rock, Rutgers.

RAPID: US Contribution to ICDP Dead Sea Deep Drill Core Project (DSDDP)
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2011; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Steven L Goldstein($150,000), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Dead Sea Basin, Drilling Program, Fresh Water, Graduate Students, Lake Lisan, Additional, Africa, Aridity, Climate, Continent, Countries, DSB, Future, Germany, Has, History, Human, ICDP, Ice, Increased, Israel, Japan, Level, Paleo-environmental, Past, Pis, Public, Region, Sediments, Switzerland, Tectonic, USA, Undergraduate, Zones.

Holocene Climate Change in Southwestern Patagonia: New Insights from Large Lake Paleolimnology
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2011; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Noah S Diffenbaugh($592,251), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Southern Westerly Wind, Westerly Wind Field, Holocene Climate, Lago Sarmiento, Southern Ocean, Water Balance, Atmospheric, Carbon, Carbonate, Chronology, Core, Hydrology, Information, Isotope, Lake, Methods, Model-data, Modeling, Pacific, Past, Reconstruct, Reconstructions, Resolution, Sediments, Temperature.

Continental Drilling in the East African Rift Lakes: A Strategic Planning Workshop
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2011; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. James M Russell($64,848), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: African Rift Lakes, East African Rift, Resolution And Continuity, Drilling Operations, Drilling Target, Environmental History, Lake Drilling, Rift Basin, Technical Challenges, Climate, Collaborations, Costbenefit, Disciplines, Diverse, Enormous, Has, Initiatives, International, Investigations, NSF, Opportunities, Paleoanthropology, Paleoclimate, Paleoclimatology, Paleoenvironmental, Plan, Plio-pleistocene, Programs, Promoting, Sediments, Set, Stage, Tectonic, Time, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Testing Mechanisms for Holocene Climate Change in the Southern Tropical and Mid-Latitude Andes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Yarrow Axford($55,395), Northwestern University, Evanston
Key terms: Little Ice Age, Quelccaya Ice Cap, Tropics And Mid-latitudes, Glacier Fluctuations, Holocene Climate, Paleoclimate Proxy, Southern Tropics, Various Mechanisms, Ages, Andes, Assemblages, Broader, Chironomid, Circulation, Climatic, Conditions, Detailed, GCM, Hemisphere, Influenced, Modeling, Multiple, Near, Northern, Tropical.

Collaborative research: Coupled glacial and lacustrine evidence for decadal- to millennial-scale variability in the climatologic Aleutian low, southern Alaska
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Yarrow Axford($60,863), Northwestern University, Evanston
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.

Hydrogen in Lower Mantle Minerals
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Joseph R Smyth($331,571), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Liquid Water, Silicate Minerals, Constrain, Constraint, Has, Hydrogen, Interior, Lower, Mantle, Planet, Planets, Search, Solid.

Collaborative Research: Pedogenic fractionation of Fe and Mo isotopes: The role of soil redox status, organic matter, and Fe-(oxyhydr)oxide composition
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2012; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Julie C Pett-Ridge($159,217), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Aaron Thompson($159,978), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
3. Joseph W Stucki($54,957), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Fe And Mo, Hawaiian Climate-age Matrix, Climate-age Matrix, Fe Minerals, Hawaiian Climate-age, Hawaiian Islands, Mo Isotopic, Organic Matter, Redox Status, Behavior, Biogeochemical, Composition, Content, Developing, Establish, Field, Isotopes, Knowledge, Natural, Oxygen, Past, Processes, Sediments, Similar, Sites, Soil, Soils, Students, Water.

Critical new perspectives on molybdenum cycling under modern and experimental euxinic conditions: Tuning the paleoredox proxy
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Anthony Chappaz($298,506), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Analytical Methods, Ancient Ocean, Hydrogen Sulfide, Ocean Chemistry, Ability, Animals, Availability, Chemical, Conditions, Diverse, Essential, Experience, Half, Has, History, Level, Life, Metals, Mo, Modern, Organic, Organisms, Origins, Oxygen, Presence, Properties, Seawater, Sediments, Settings, Specific, Story.

ANTIBACTERIAL MINERAL MAPPING: A NEW ECONOMIC GEOLOGY
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Lynda Williams($449,755), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Natural Clay Minerals, Agents, Antibacterial, Antimicrobial, Bacteria, Care, Common, Components, Controlling, Deposit, Diseases, Infections.

Formation and Early Diagenesis of Carbonate Deposits: The Role of Microbes and Extracellular Organic Matter (EOM)
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Christophe Dupraz($302,180), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Carbonate Minerals, Microbial Carbonates, Microbial Mats, Organic Carbon, Critical, Depth, Diagenesis, Ecosystems, Fossil, Found, Initial, Interface, Investigate, Layers, Life, Metabolism, Microbes, Model, Near, Past, Precipitation, Processes, Properties, Reactions, Rock, Sediments, Slow, Surface, Time, Unique.

Mass-47 Paleothermometry in Deep Geologic Time: A Test for Episodes of Extreme Warmth in the Phanerozoic
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Kyger C Lohmann($224,755), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Carbonate Minerals, Co2 Concentrations, Geologic Time, Reference Frame, Water Composition, Approach, Atmospheric, Based, Climate, Clumped, Coupled, Directly, Earth, Future, Greenhouse, Has, History, Isotopes, Magnitude, Marine, Millions, Paleothermometer, Seawater, Surface, Temperature, Temperatures.

Collaborative Research: Capturing the Elusive 37:4 Alkenone-predominating Lacustrine Haptophyte: Alkenone Biosynthesis, Genetics and Culture Manipulation
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Yongsong Huang($115,917), Brown University, Providence
2. Linda A Amaral Zettler($109,000), Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
Key terms: Haptophyte Algae, Molecular Biology, Organic Geochemistry, Paleotemperature Reconstructions, Abundant, Alkenone, Alkenones, Culture, Graduate, Haptophytes, Lacustrine, Lakes, Worlds.

The Role of Dust on Snow and Other Aeolian Inputs in Soil Formation and Biogeochemical Cycling in Barren, Alpine Catchments
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Mark W Williams($556,774), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Aeolian Deposition, Alpine Catchments, Biogeochemical Cycling, Graduate Students, Mesa Students, Water Quality, Analyses, Barren, Biological, Cation, Cations, Dust, Global, High-elevation, Hydrologic, INSTAAR, Influence, Inputs, Interdisciplinary, Melting, Microbial, Nitrification, Processes, Rates, Sites, Soil, Soils, Weathering.

Snow and snowpack controls on deep-soil carbon storage in northern forest soils
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. David E Rothstein($450,000), Michigan State University, East Lansing
Key terms: Chemical Signatures Indicating, Deep Soil Horizons, Lake-effect Snowfall Gradients, Surface Plant Litter, Lake-effect Snowfall, Lakes Region, Snowpack Depth, Atmosphere, Carbon, Climate, Concentrations, Derived, Naturally-occurring, Positive, Snowpacks, Storage, Transport.

Isotope studies of microbial sulfate reduction
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. James Farquhar($30,000), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Electron, Experiments, Fractionation, Isotope, Organisms, Partial, Sulfate, Sulfur, Temperature.

CAREER: Investigating the relationship between giant sulfur bacteria and microfossil-bearing phosphorites.
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Jake V Bailey($460,000), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Education And Outreach, Modern Sulfur Bacteria, Outreach Plan, Ancient, Closely, Criteria, Deposits, Doushantuo, Eukaryotes, Filaments, Fossilized, Graduate, Interpreted, Investigate, Metazoans, Microfossils, Phosphatized, Phosphorites, Possess, Represent, Student, Veterans, Vindhyan.

Collaborative Research: Biological and mineralogical controls over soil carbon cycling across multiple ecosystems: a focus on the priming effect
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Craig Rasmussen($110,941), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Paul Dijkstra($319,075), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: Soil Mineral Assemblage, Carbon Dioxide, Priming Effect, Soil Microbial, Atmosphere, Conditions, Experiments, Future, Global, Microorganisms, Sink, Strong, Techniques.

Collaborative Research: Stable isotope investigation of Fe oxide reactivity and natural isotope fractionation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Brian L Beard($259,887), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Michelle M Scherer($259,844), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Oxides And Hydroxides, Hydroxide Minerals, Iron Oxide, Affect, Chemical, Environment, Fe, Nanoparticles, Particle, Particles, Properties, Reactivity, Transformations.

Collaborative Research: A Reaction Kinetics Database for Modeling Biogeochemical Systems
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Xianzeng Niu($18,428), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Amanda A Olsen($66,145), University of Maine, Orono
3. Joel Z Bandstra($18,564), Saint Francis University, Loretto
Key terms: Compile Existing, Access, Allow, Available, Database, Earthkin, Environmental, Geochemical, Information, Platform, Rates, Reactions, Tools.

Do biological processes result in the 17-O mass independent anomaly in atmospheric nitrous oxide? Resolution and establishment of 17-O as a tracer of microbial production
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Nathaniel E Ostrom($449,535), Michigan State University, East Lansing
Key terms: Biologically Produced N2o, 17o Anomaly, Greenhouse Gas, Integral Component, Mass Dependence, Produced N2o, Atmospheric, Budget, Exchange, Global, Has, IPCC, Incorporation, Microbial, Oxygen, Pis, Presence, Soils, Stratosphere, Students, Water.

Soils and vegetation as a record of anthropogenic pollutants: Mn in the Shale Hills CZO
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Susan L Brantley($150,800), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Atmospheric Deposition, Land Surface, Mn Contamination, Shale Hills, Activities, Air, CZO, Concentrations, Function, Has, Industrialized, Inputs, Metals, Models, Pennsylvania, Published, Soil, Soils, Students, USA, Vegetation, Widespread.

Student Travel Support Program for the 2011 V.M. Goldschmidt Conference in Prague, Czech Republic August 14-19, 2011
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Carla M Koretsky($40,000), The Geochemical Society, Alexandria
Key terms: Goldschmidt Conference, Graduate Student, Benefit, Diversity, Ensure, Experience, Funding, Geochemistry, Home, Interact, International, Meetings, Networking, Opportunity, Range, Senior, Students, Travel, Underrepresented, World.

RAPID: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: The 2011 Historic High Flows in the Atchafalaya Basin: How will Hydrologic transport Alter Nutrient Retention (C and N)?
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2011; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Durelle T Scott($17,617), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
2. John A Nyman($7,120), Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Lower Mississippi, Nutrient Export, Nutrient Reduction, Residence Time, ABFS, Approach, Atchafalaya, Basin, Diversion, Enhanced, Forested, Measured, Nutrient-rich, Quantify, River, Spillway, Transported, Water.

2011 Catchment Science: Interactions of Hydrology, Biology & Geochemistry GRC\GRS
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2011; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Nancy R Gray($35,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Charles.

Seasonal Variation and Processing of Vascular Plant Organic Matter in Tropical Montane Catchments as Reflected by Riverine DOC Compositions
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Peter J Hernes($42,920), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: CZO, Carbon, Climate, Composition, Concentration, Course, DOC, Effects, Hence, Infrastructure, Land-use, Luquillo, Processes, Rivers, Similar, Tropical, Undergraduate.

Student Support for the 9th International Symposium on Geochemistry of the Earth's Surface
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Suzanne P Anderson($16,500), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Critical Zone Student, International Critical Zone, Zone Student Symposium, GES-, June, Students.

NSF Workshop Proposal: Towards a Unifying Theory of Critical Zone Structure, Function and Evolution
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Peter A Troch($83,334), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Critical Zone Observatory, Postdoctoral Scientists, CZO, Cross-czo, Czos, Development, Discussions, Ii, Intended, Meeting, Network, Students, Workshop.

RUI: in situ investigations of clay mineral swelling using atomic force microscopy
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2011; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Molly M McGuire($119,572), Bucknell University, Lewisburg
Key terms: Clay Layers, Clay Minerals, AFM, Atomic, Cations, Chemical, Environment, Images, Interlayer, Involved, Measure, Properties, Quasi-crystals, Students, Swelling.

CAREER: Nanoscale Mineral Transformations During Biogeochemical Cycling and the Fate of Trace Elements and Nutrients
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Jeffrey G Catalano($460,000), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Chemical And Structural, Electron Transfer Reactions, Exchange And Electron, Atom Exchange, Biogeochemical Cycling, Educational Activities, Mineral Transformations, Mn Cycling, Mn Oxides, Nutrient Fate, School Students, Structural Transformations, Affect, Approaches, Aquatic, Aqueous, Availability, Bulk, Complex, Course, Fe, Inquiry-based, Iron, Manganese, Minerals, Phosphate, Pis, Sediments, Soils, Solid, Speciation, Trace, Undergraduate.

ETBC: Interacting Hydrological and Biogeochemical Controls on Nitrogen Transformation Hot Spots and Hot Moments in a Eutrophic Reservoir
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Stephen M Henderson($129,996), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Denitrification And Nitrous, Spots And Hot, Flux Gradient, Hot Moments, Hot Spots, Intact Core, Nitrous Oxide, Accumulation, Aims, Anthropogenic, Approaches, Biogeochemical, Cycle, Cycling, Downstream, Ecosystems, Fluxes, Gas, Global, Has, Increase, Interdisciplinary, Measure, Methods, Nbed, Nitrogen, Processes, Processing, Program, Proven, Quantify, Quantifying, Rapid, Release, Removal, Reservoir, Reservoir-wide, Reservoirs, Resolve, Transport, Water.

Collaborative Research: EAGER: Genomic insights into microbial mat diveristy and Proterozoic geobiology
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Nathan Sheldon($78,461), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. Bopaiah A Biddanda($21,517), Grand Valley State University, Allendale
Key terms: Genome Sequencing Technologies, Microbial Mats, Biology, Cyanobacteria, Earth, Exploratory, Focused, GVSU, Geochemistry, Modern, Opportunities, Outreach, Oxygen, Period, Pis, Proterozoic, Redox, UM.

Collaborative Research: Stable strontium isotope ratios (88/86Sr) in abiotic and microbially mediated barite
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Elizabeth Griffith($145,100), Kent State University, Kent
2. Howard Scher($81,510), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Barite, Established, Extraterrestrial, Field, Future, Interact, Isotope, Laboratories, Oklahoma, Opportunity, Rock, Schools, Soils, Sr, Stable, Students, Univ, Western.

Exploring Evidence for Life on Land ~1100 Ma Ago
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Nathan Sheldon($229,999), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Microbial Mat Structures, Exhibit Museum, Organic Carbon, Precambrian Life, Basis, Evidence, Geochemistry, MCR, Mass-balance, Mesoproterozoic, Non-marine, Outreach, Paleosols, Photosynthesis, Preliminary, Rock, Sediments, Situ, Stromatolites, Time.

Development of Organic H, C, and N Stable Isotope International Standards for NIST and IAEA: Multi-laboratory Expert Calibration in Support of GC, LC, and EA-IRMS Measurement Sci.
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Arndt Schimmelmann($370,000), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Stable Isotopic Rms, Continuous Flow, Isotopic Compositions, Organic Hydrogen, Stable Isotope, Analysis, Authentication, Benefit, Biofuel, Calibration, Carbon, Chromatographic, Chromatography, Development, Ecology, Fields, Food, Forensic, Gas, Geochemistry, Geology, Has, IAEA, International, Laboratory, Liquid, Medical, NIST, Nitrogen, Serve, Standards, Tracing, Via, Was.

Workshop proposal: Recovering Uncompromised Samples of Aquifer Sands with In-Situ Groundwater from up to 300-m Depth in South and Southeast Asia
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2011; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Alexander van Geen($20,000), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: South And Southeast, Drinking Water, Health Concern, Southeast Asia, Aquifers, Arsenic, Constituents, Continental, Drilling, Existing, Exposure, Groundwater, Sampling, Sediment, Technology, Uncertainty.

Collaborative Research: Carbon Monoxide Dynamics in Geothermal Mats and Earth's Early Atmosphere
Award Effective Date: 03/28/2010; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Frank T Robb($58,994), University of Maryland at Baltimore, Baltimore
Key terms: Consumption Rates, Fluorescent Reporters, Hot Spring, Hot Springs, Spring Sediments, Uzon Caldera, Anaerobic, Atmosphere, Carbon, Carboxydotrophic, Chicago, Collaboration, Concentrations, Dissolved, Field, Fluxes, Gradients, Kamchatka, Laboratory, Metabolism, Microbes, Microbial, Oxidation, Partial, Public, Relation, Russian, Situ, Source, Supported, Zone.

EAGER: Deciphering boulder movement history using cosmogenic isotopes - a numerical investigation.
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2011; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Michael P Lamb($45,048), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Boulder Movement, Debris Flow, Ability, Aims, Exposure, Field, Frequency, Recurrence.

RAPID: Characterizing floodplain deposition from Hurricane Irene along the Lower Connecticut River
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2011; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Jonathan Woodruff($21,493), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Lower Connecticut River, Andor Remobilization, Extreme Flooding, Hurricane Irene, Cores, Evolution, Floodplain, Opportunity, Rare, Rivers, Sediment, Sedimentation, Sediments, Six.

Landscape Sensitivity to Changing Climate: Plio-Pleistocene Erosion and Sedimentation in SE Arizona
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Arjun M Heimsath($240,481), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Sedimentary Basin Levels, Tectonic And Climatic, Climatic Forces, Field Sites, Southeastern Arizona, Ages, Broad, Climate, Coordinate, Deposits, Erosion, Establishing, Forcing, Geochronology, Graduate, Intellectual, Landscapes, Origins, Rates, Reach, Sediments, Source, Students, Surfaces, Timeline, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Defining controls on incisional avulsions in alluvial basins
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Elizabeth A Hajek($171,083), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Doug Edmonds($112,307), Boston College, Chestnut Hill
Key terms: Rivers And Avulsions, Incisional Avulsions, River Avulsion, Channel, Characteristics, Control, Deposition, Education, Erosion, Floodplain, Fluvial, Focus, Google, Module, Overbank, Pis, Style, Water.

Collaborative Research: A field, laboratory and theoretical study of mixed bedrock-alluvial meandering rivers
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Colin P Stark($235,521), Columbia University, New York
2. Gary Parker($244,461), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Channel Morphodynamics, Channels, Environmental, Erosion, Field, Focus, Laboratory, Meander, Meandering, Meanders, Rivers, Theoretical.

Collaborative Research: Biophysical alteration of wetland geomorphology in response to rising sea level
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Steven C Pennings($158,781), University of Houston, Houston
2. Amala Mahadevan($341,280), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Plants And Animals, Rising Sea Level, Creek Networks, Marsh Surface, Salt Marshes, Sea Levels, Sea-level Rise, Sediment Erosion, Coastal, Conditions, Crabs, Creeks, Depends, Drainage, Evolution, Examine, Geology, Globally, Growth, Increasing, Loosening, Mechanisms, Model, Modeling, Morphological, Numerical, Predicting, Processes, Range, Respond, Sea-level, Tidal, Vegetation, Water.

Collaborative Research: Tropical cyclone imprint on late Quaternary alluvial fans of Baja California: Key for understanding arid regions landscape evolution
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Edward J Rhodes($153,456), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2. Eric McDonald($266,543), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Alluvial Fan Aggradation, Alluvial Fans, Alluvial Surfaces, Alluvial Units, Baja California, Conceptual Models, Depth Profile, Earthquake Recurrence, Fan Formation, Southwestern North, Tropical Cyclones, Arid, Climate, Determination, Effects, Fault, Has, Hillslopes, Late, Mexico, Rates, Regions, Sediment, Was.

The Linkage of Glacier Sliding and Hydrology on the Kennicott Glacier, Alaska
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Harihar RAJARAM($410,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Horizontal And Vertical, Alpine Glaciers, Evolving Hydrologic, Glacier Sliding, Hydrology-sliding Connection, Ice Sheets, Kennicott Glacier, Natural Laboratory, Numerical Models, Outburst Flood, Sea Level, Sliding Remains, Water Inputs, Alaskas, Annual, Complexity, Contact, Daily, Deformation, Developed, Distributed, Document, Draining, Field, Fieldwork, Glacial, Greenland, Hydraulic, Hydrology-sliding, Interface, Lakes, Link, Linkage, Linked, Melt, Motion, Pilot, Promote, Rigorous, Seasonal, Serve, Shown, Subglacial, Task.

Quantifying the coevolution of bedload transport and bed topography in mountain rivers: field and flume experiments using smartrocks
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Joel Johnson($322,276), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Rate And Channel, Sediment Transport Rate, Topography And Bedload, Bed Topography, Bedload Transport, Channel Bed, Channel Feedbacks, Channel Morphology, Mountain Rivers, Reynolds Creek, River Bed, Sediment Size, Transport Rates, Bottom, Channels, Coevolution, Controlled, Depends, Experiments, Field, Gravel, Laboratory, Measured, Natural, Smartrocks, Time.

EAGER: Catastrophic landslide dynamics from seismic wave inversion and satellite remote sensing
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Goran Ekstrom($38,240), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Catastrophic Landslide Dynamics, Catastrophic Landslides, Landslide Seismology, Seismic Waves, Broadband, Failures, Forces, Global, Has, Information, Massive, Remote, Slope.

Conference Support: 'Coherent Flow Structures in Geophysical Flows at the Earths Surface'
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. James L Best($5,000), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Coherent Flow Structures, Bed Topography, Conference, Development, Dynamics, Earth, Field, Flows, Has, Interaction, Interdisciplinary, Laboratory, Managing, Modeling, Numerical, Sediment, Surface, Transport, Trinity.

Vertical profiles, size distributions, and intermittency in aeolian sediment transport: Field measurements with a novel instrument
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Vicken Etyemezian($199,769), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Field Site, Optical Sensors, Sand Flux, Sand Grains, Sediment Transport, Wind Conditions, Dust, Economical, Eolian, Established, Global, Has, Improvement, Influence, Information, Instrument, Magnitude, Models, Movement, Process, Rate, SANTRI, Saltation, Size, Soil, Specific, Surface, Windblown.

RAPID: Effect of massive, exceptional floods on sediment-associated isotope concentrations - implications for sediment source identification and erosion rate estimation
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Kyle K Nichols($15,000), Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs
Key terms: Meteoric 10be, Nuclide Concentrations, Sediment-associated Isotopes, Assumption, Consistent, Cs, Erosion, Flood, Pb, Sediments, Situ, Time.

Community Workshop: Charting the Future of Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) in the Earth Sciences and Related Fields
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2011; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. David A Phillips($49,488), UNAVCO, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: Map Surfaces, Active, Advancement, Analysis, Applications, Features, Mapping, Rapid, Resolution, Sub-cm, TLS, Technology, Workshop.

Channel Properties Where Fluvial and Tidal Currents Meet
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Raymond Torres($336,000), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Advance, Downstream, Energy, Erosion, Flows, Rise, River, Sediment, Tides, Upstream.

RAPID: Flow Dynamics/Morphological Impacts of March 11 Tohuku Tsunami, Japan
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Victor R Baker($29,274), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Hazardous Coastlines, Tsunami Waves, Assessment, Coastal, Effects, Efforts, Evidence, Field, Geological, High-energy, Japan, March, Modeling, Northeastern, Particular, Post-tsunami, Quickly, Tsunamis.

Investigating The Role Of Bedrock River Meandering In The Formation Of Unpaired Strath Terraces
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Noah Finnegan($246,332), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: River Incision, Bedrock, Consequently, Erosion, Has, Landscape, Lateral, Laterally, Processes, Respond, Rivers, Tectonic, Terraces, Undergraduate.

Relative sea-level changes from near-, intermediate- and far-field locations and their implications for geophysical modeling and 20th century ice sheet-ocean interactions
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2011; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Benjamin P Horton($136,571), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Key terms: Atlantic Coast, Mantle Viscosity, Sea Level, Sea-level Rise, Canada, Caribbean, Century, Contribution, Database, Geophysical, Ice, Models, North, Observations, Parameters, RSL, Reveal, Sea-level, Spatial.

RAPID: Scientific Impacts from Erosion Following the Medano Creek Fire, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Paul M Santi($23,975), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: National Park, Burned, Erosion, Months, Runoff, Watershed, Wildfire.

Post-6 Ma Tectonic Evolution of the Bhutan Himalaya
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Arjun M Heimsath($187,815), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Classic Models, Collisional Mountain, Erosion Rate, Erosion Rates, Fault Activity, Mountain Building, Active, Bhutan, Climate, Control, Has, Hazard, Hazards, Himalaya, History, Issues, Landscapes, Little, Management, Processes, Pulse, Relief, River, Surface, Tectonic, Uplift.

Two-stage Deformation of Olivine: Effects of Deformation History on Seismic Anisotropy
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Philip Skemer($266,665), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Seismic Anisotropy, Conditions, Convection, Deformation, Earth, Evolution, Experiments, Flow, Infer, LPO, Mantle, Motion, Moving, Olivine, Plate, Plates.

Earthquake mechanics on faults that operate at low average levels of prestress
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Nadia Lapusta($411,527), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Mature Faults, Weak Faults, Average, Behavior, Classes, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Explore, Long-term, Models, Nucleation, Produce, Seismic, Sequences, Simulation, Slip, Static.

EarthScope RAPID: Geodetic and seismological response to the Mineral, VA Earthquake, 23 August, 2011
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Claudio Berti($28,330), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
Key terms: Eastern North, Fault Plane, Gps Receivers, Seismic Zones, Va Earthquake, Activity, Aftershocks, August, CVSZ, Crust, Earthquakes, Faults, Following, Geologic, Ground, Hazards, History, Inform, Infrequent, Instrument, Mineral, Moderate-sized, Seismometers, Stress, Surface.

Interdisciplinary Studies of the Galapagos Earth System
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Dennis J Geist($252,858), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
Key terms: Geologic History, Intrusive Rocks, Sierra Negra, Assessment, Complement, Component, Compositions, Continue, Crystallization, Deformation, Diverse, Entire, Erupted, Eruption, Establish, Evolution, Evolutionary, Galapagos, Galápagos, Graduate, Has, Islands, Laboratory, Measured, Method, Microprobe, Paleogeographic, Petrology, Rabida, Relate, Renewal, Students, Volcano, Xenoliths.

Observations of a newly discovered fault: Tomography, locations and source mechanisms for aftershocks of the M7.1 Darfield, New Zealand earthquake
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Clifford H Thurber($117,256), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Aftershock Sequence, Christchurch Earthquake, Darfield Earthquake, Fault Segments, Fault Structure, Focal Mechanisms, Region Surrounding, Repeating Earthquakes, Active, Activity, Aftershocks, Catalog, Caused, Constrain, Evolution, Faults, February, Local, Mw, Occurred, Previously, Regional, Rupture, Seismometers, Stations, Velocity, Zealand.

Elasticity of Mantle Minerals at High Pressures and Temperatures
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Thomas S Duffy($388,182), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Brillouin Spectroscopy, Elastic Properties, Upper Mantle, Combination, Earth, Experimental, Geological, High-pressure, Hydrous, Interior, Minerals, Olivine, Phases, Polymorphs, Previous, Seismic, Shear, Structure.

FAULT-ZONE STUDIES OF THE M9 TOHOKU-OKI, JAPAN EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCE
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Donald V Helmberger($181,062), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Broadband Inversions, Rupture Properties, Strong Shaking, Tohoku-oki Earthquake, Aftershocks, Challenges, Depth, Flooding, Main, Modeling, Mw, Rare, Relatively, Sec, Structure, Subduction, TE, Tohoku-oki, Was, Zone.

Geophysics of Iron in the Earth's Core
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Wendy L Mao($287,101), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Shear Wave Velocities, Earth's Core, Static High-pressure, Compressional, Deep, Dynamic, Elastic, Evolution, Experiments, High-pressure, Iron, Iron-rich, Observations, Planet, Pressure-temperature, Properties, Region, Seismic, Techniques, Velocity.

Seismic Documentation of Subsurface Damage Zones of the M7.2 Darfield and M6.3 Christchurch Earthquake Sequence in New Zealand Using Fault-Zone Trapped Waves
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Yong-Gang Li($215,328), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Darfield And Christchurch, Christchurch Earthquake, Christchurch Earthquakes, Darfield Earthquake, Rupture Segmentation, Subsurface Structure, Aftershock, Aftershocks, Arrays, Damage, Depth, Fault, Fztws, Generated, Months, NZ, Region, Rock, Ruptured, Separate, September, Zone, Zones.

Collaborative Research: Seismic characterization of microearthquakes and crustal velocity structure around the Whataroa fault zone drilling site, Alpine Fault, New Zealand
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Clifford H Thurber($222,033), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Steven W Roecker($237,782), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
Key terms: Fault Zone Drilling, Principal Stress Orientations, Alpine Fault, Crustal Structure, Fault Trace, Seismogenic Zone, South Island, AF, Active, Base, Beneath, Close, Define, Depth, Determining, Earthquake, Faults, Geometry, Long-term, Mechanical, Mechanisms, Microearthquakes, NVT, Rupture, Seismic, Surface, Whataroa, Zealand.

Analyzing the Frequency Dependence of SS Precursors to Understand the Nature of Transition Zone Discontinuities
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Christine Houser($74,600), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Earth's Mantle, Phase Transition, Plate Tectonics, Seismic Jumps, Transition Zone, Abrupt, Arrivals, Character, Chemical, Composition, Correlated, Crust, Deep, Depth, Depths, Discontinuities, Discontinuity, Garnet, Global, Indicate, Likewise, Long-period, Mineralogy, Observation, Observed, Olivine, Opposite, Pressures, Produce, Reflections, Regions, SS, Shear, Short-period, Stacks, Temperature, Temperatures, Topography, Velocity.

Experimental studies on rheological properties of transition zone minerals
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Shun-ichiro Karato($349,410), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Transition Zone Minerals, Intense Deformation, Mantle Convection, Rheological Properties, Cold, Grain-size, Paradox, RDA, Sensitivity, Techniques.

CAREER: Very Broadband Rheology and the Internal Dynamics of Plate Boundaries on Earth
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Benjamin K Holtzman($407,234), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Seismic Wave Field, Plate Boundaries, Time Scales, Assess, Attenuation, Heat, Methodology, Observational, Properties, Source, Spectrum, Structure, Uncertainty, Variables, Viscosity.

Collaborative Research: New Zealand as a Natural Laboratory to Investigate Earthquake Stress Variation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Rachel E Abercrombie($140,364), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
2. Diane I Doser($142,824), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
Key terms: Distinct Tectonic Regimes, Earthquake Rupture Process, Empirical Green¡¯s Function, Single Analysis Technique, Empirical Green¡¯s, Green¡¯s Function, Moderate Magnitude, North Island, Pacific Plate, Stress Drops, Cascadia, Earthquakes, Focus, Has, Hazards, Investigate, Margin, Margins, Network, Observations, Parameters, Preliminary, Processes, Regions, Sequences, Source, Strike-slip, Subduction, Uncertainties, Useful, Zealand.

Collaborative Research: Testing hypothese of late Cretaceous
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Peter D Ward($154,432), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: 'true Polar, Entire Solid, Normal Chron, Spin Axis, Tpw Motions, Anomalies, Anomalous, Core, Cretaceous, Debate, Equator, Explained, Field, Geographic, Geological, Geomagnetic, Geophysical, Global, Globally, Graduate, Has, High-resolution, Higher-resolution, Inclination, Italian, Magnetic, Moving, Past, Pis, Planet, Relative, Sea-level, Sequence, Set, Short, Stratigraphic, Time, Towards.

Prediction and characterization of novel Earth-forming minerals using advanced ab initio simulations
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Artem R Oganov($360,000), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Core And Core-mantle, Post-perovskite Phase Transition, Compositional Models, Core-mantle Boundary, Crystal Structure, Deep Mantle, Inner Core, Melting Curve, Mineral Physics, Post-perovskite Phase, Stable Compounds, Temperature Profile, Alloys, Anisotropy, Chemical, Chemistry, Computational, Conditions, Direct, Discontinuity, Discovery, Dynamics, Earth, Equations, Experimentally, Explained, Exploration, Fascinating, Fec, Fes, Fesi, Found, Geodynamical, Geophysical, Has, Implications, Information, Iron, Layer, Lead, Mgsio, Observations, Particular, Planet, Pressure, Properties, Provided, Reactions, Seismic, Time, Tools.

Collaborative Research: Testing the Hypothesis of Late Cretaceous True Polar Wobble (TPw)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Victor C Tsai($257,364), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: 'true Polar, Entire Solid, Normal Chron, Spin Axis, Tpw Motions, Anomalies, Anomalous, Core, Cretaceous, Debate, Equator, Explained, Field, Geographic, Geological, Geomagnetic, Geophysical, Global, Globally, Graduate, Has, High-resolution, Higher-resolution, Inclination, Italian, Magnetic, Moving, Past, Pis, Planet, Relative, Sea-level, Sequence, Set, Short, Stratigraphic, Time, Towards.

RAPID: Capturing Ongoing Volcanic Inflation at Santorini Caldera, Greece
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Andrew V Newman($37,088), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Continuous Gps, Caldera, Current, Deformation, Eruption, Essential, Evolving, Has, Hazard, Identifying, Inflation, Information, Months, RAPID, Rheologic, Signal, Source, Useful, Volcanic, Volcano.

4th International IASPEI Symposium on Effects of Surface Geology on Seismic Motion UC Santa Barbara, 23 - 26 August, 2011
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Ralph Archuleta($28,237), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Scientists And Engineers, Local Site, Conference, Earthquakes, Effects, Induced, Japan, Papers, Symposium, Zealand.

Collaborative Research: Testing the Role of Magma and Related Fluids in Early-Stage Rifting, East Africa
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Cynthia J Ebinger($215,596), University of Rochester, Rochester
2. Steven W Roecker($64,306), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
3. Adrian J Brearley($157,740), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
4. Simon A Kattenhorn($269,591), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
Key terms: Development And Evolution, East African Rift, Magmatic And Fault, Plate Tectonic Process, Thick Continental Lithosphere, Continental Breakup, Continental Rift, Developing Rift, Hydrothermal Fluids, Magmatic Activity, Relative Roles, Rift Development, Rift Zone, Rift Zones, Allow, Allowing, Analysis, Border, Crust, Drive, Faulting, Faults, Focused, Globally, Incipient, Integrated, Integrative, Mantle, Model, Processes, Rifting, Rifts, Sampling, Stages, Strain, Structure, Volcanic, Weakening, Worldwide.

First-Principles Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Silicate Liquids: Structure, Diffusion and Viscosity at Mantle Conditions
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Bijaya B Karki($215,347), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Silicate Liquids, Silicate Melts, Bonding, Chemical, Composition, Compositions, Compression, Computational, Crust, Evolution, Expected, Experimental, First-principles, Insight, Magma, Mantle, Mechanisms, Pressure, Primary, Processes, Properties, Range, Simulations, Structure, Structures, Surface, Techniques, Temperature, Transport, Viscosity, Visualization.

Integrating geodesy, seismology and dynamic rupture modeling: the 2010 Sierra El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. David D Oglesby($170,287), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Earthquake Rupture, Fault Segments, California, Conditions, Description, Faults, Findings, Generate, Involved, Kinematic, Model, Models, Ruptured, Seen, Waveforms.

GPS measurements and earthquake cycle modeling of the Mexico subduction zone
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Dennis C DeMets($539,937), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Episodic Transient Slip, Earthquake Cycle, Fault Afterslip, Gps Stations, Interseismic Locking, Nonvolcanic Tremor, Subduction Interface, Chiapas, Continuous, Deformation, Earthquakes, Estimate, Exceptional, MSZ, Mexico, Mexicos, Phases, Postseismic, Rates, Region, Regions, Segments, Seismic, Seismogenic, Strain, Students, Time, Trench, Viscoelastic, Zone.

Paleointensity of the time-averaged geomagnetic field at the Equator
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Dennis V Kent($245,086), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Tangent Cylinder, Time-averaged Field, Available, Characterization, Effects, Geomagnetic, Kenya, Low, Magnetic, Paleointensities, Paleointensity, Paleosecular, Rock, Time-averaged.

Towards Understanding the Range of Fault Properties that Generate Tremor and Earthquake Activity Along the San Andreas Fault
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Danielle F Sumy($170,000), Sumy Danielle F, Palisades
Key terms: Earthquakes And Tremor, San Andreas Fault, Earthquake Activity, K-12 Schools, Tremor Activity, Allow, Array, Conditions, Deeper, Directly, Entire, Generate, Has, Introduced, PERMIT, Parkfield, Portions, QCN, Range, Seismic, Shallow.

RAPID: Recording Fault-Zone Trapped Waves from Aftershocks of the M6.3 Christchurch Earthquake Sequence in New Zealand to Document the Subsurface Damage Zones
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Yong-Gang Li($21,076), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Canterbury Region, Christchurch Earthquake, Damage Zones, Darfield Earthquake, Fault Line, Greendale Fault, Rupture Zones, Seismogenic Depths, South Island, Aftershock, Aftershocks, Caused, Damaged, Earthquakes, Extension, Fault-zone, Fztws, GNS, Generated, NZ, Occurred, Ongoing, Quake, Rock, Separate, Subsurface, Value, Zealands.

The Formation and Stabilization of Thickened Lithosphere
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Catherine Cooper($206,372), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Continental Lithosphere, Cratonic Lithosphere, Earth's History, Earth's Surface, Cratons, Deformation, Evolution, Focusing, Generated, Interior, Longevity, Processes, Regions, Stable, Survivability, Tectonic, Tectonically, Thick, Via.

Collaborative Research: Deformation Processes in the Andaman Islands
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. John P Puchakayala($270,495), University of Memphis, Memphis
2. Anthony R Lowry($111,271), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Earthquake Cycle, Fault Slip, Postseismic Deformation, Rock Flow, Shallow Stress, Viscoelastic Flow, Accelerated, Andaman, Combine, Consistent, Deep, Deeper, Depths, Dominated, Driven, Evolution, Existing, Feet, Following, Foot, GPS, Gravity, India, Mechanisms, Models, Months, Motion, Network, Nfield, Processes, Region, Signals, Sites, Strain, Sumatra-andaman, Time-variable, Transient, Uplift, Upward, Weeks.

Collaborative Research: Seismic Waves from Volcanoes: Fully Coupled Time-Dependent Models of Fluid Flow Through Elastic Walled Conduits
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Darcy E Ogden($16,379), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Eric M Dunham($224,687), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Conduit Wall, Seismic Waves, Body, Conduits, Coupled, Deformation, Detailed, Elastic, Eruption, Flow, Flows, Fluid, Fluid-solid, Magma, Model, Numerical, Solid, Steady.

Magnetostratigraphy and Polarity transitions studies of lavas of the island of Lanai, Hawaii
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Emilio Herrero-Bervera($165,000), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Reversals And Excursions, Arar Radiometric, Geomagnetic Field, Polarity Intervals, Analysis, Behavior, Detailed, Directional, Generation, Geodynamo, Information, Island, Lanai, Lava, Observations, Paleomagnetic, Publication, Real, Section, Sequence, Sequences, Students, Successive, Time, Transitions, Undergraduate, Volcanic.

Seismological Investigations of Earthquakes and Deep Earth Structure
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Peter M Shearer($547,481), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Earthquakes And Deep, Structure And Earthquake, Comprehensive Analyses, Earthquake Rupture, Global Seismic, San Diego, Seismic Waves, Boundary, Examine, Examining, Features, Has, Layer, Lead, Methods, Models, PKJKP, Perform, Previously, Processes, Resolve, Scattered, Seismograms, Thousands, UC, Variety.

High-Resolution Structure and Seismicity of the Central Chile Subduction Zone
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Clifford H Thurber($147,678), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Central And Southern, Chile Convergent Plate, Comprehensive And Internally, Largest Earthquake Globally, Main Shock Rupture, Nested Regional-global Tomography, Plate Boundary Fault, Sixth Largest Earthquake, Southern Chile Convergent, Aftershock Distribution, Aftershock Sequence, Chile Earthquake, Internally Consistent, Maule Earthquake, Nested Regional-global, Regional-global Tomography, Available, Catalog, Earthquakes, Estimated, Extending, February, Following, History, Instrumentally, Megathrust, Mw, North, Occurred, Prior, Produce, Seismic, Seismicity, Structure, Subduction, Time, °.

Fluid Dynamics Experiments on Core Formation
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Peter L Olson($232,507), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Heat And Chemical, Core-forming Metals, Molten Silicates, Conditions, Core-forming, Dense, Exchange, Experiments, Fluid, Fluids, Initial, Interior, Liquid, Mantle, Model, Turbulent.

The Role of Fluids in Earthquake Initiation and Suppression: Models of Fluid-Grain Interaction in Fault Zones
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. David W Sparks($215,234), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Fault Gouge, Fault Stability, Fault Zone, Fluid Flow, Fluid Pressure, Wall Rock, Conditions, Control, Dilation, Earthquakes, Faults, Filled, Flows, Grain-scale, Granular, Groundwater, Hazard, Model, Natural, Permeability, Saturated, Seismic, Slip, Slow, Stress, Waves.

TRAVEL Fund Request for Invited Speakers and Junior Scientists to attend seismic imaging conference in Hainan, China
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Ru-Shan Wu($18,200), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Geophysical Imaging, Imaging Methods, Localized Waves, Phase-space Information, Target Detection, Association, Broad, China, Exploration, Fast, Has, High-fidelity, Highresolution, Inversion, Invited, Phase-space, Propagators, Subsurface, Symposium, Travel, Workshop.

ABR: Toward Seismic Tomography Based Upon Adjoint Methods
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Jeroen Tromp($709,986), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Seismic Wave Propagation, Adjoint Tomography, Earth's Interior, Processing Units, Southern California, Approach, Based, Earthquake, Enhance, Forward, Images, Methods, Open-source, Packages, Simulation, Software, Techniques.

EAR-PF: Thermochemical Convection Dynamics in Earth's Core
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Michael A Calkins($170,000), Calkins Michael A, Sherman Oaks
Key terms: Earth's Magnetic Field, Thermal And Chemical, Earth's Magnetic, Fluid Motion, Fluid Motions, Outer Core, Course, Dynamics, Dynamo, Flow, Phenomena, Process, Simulations.

Macroscopic friction in the framework of the Frenkel-Kontorova model: application to dynamics of crustal faults
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Kamil Walczak($129,138), Wright State University, Dayton
Key terms: Describe Friction, Fk Model, Non-volcanic Tremor, Sg Equation, Slip Pulse, Applications, Considered, Controlling, ETS, Earthquakes, Equations, Laboratory, Latter, Mathematical, Migration, Non-volcanic, Nonlinear, Phenomena, Physics, Specific, Suggest, Time, Tool, Triggering, Various.

A (mostly) Observational Study of Microearthquakes on a Bimaterial Interface
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Allan M Rubin($188,524), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Space And Time, Well-characterized Velocity Contrast, Earthquake Nucleation, Mainshock Directivity, Propagation Direction, Spectral Ratios, Well-characterized Velocity, Asymmetry, Bimaterial, Consistent, Correlation, Earthquakes, Faults, Foreshock, Foreshocks, Halves, Has, Influence, Interface, Larger, NW, Numerical, Properties, Resolved, Roughly, Rupture, SE, Size, Speed, Stronger.

Shock Wave Studies of Liquids in Earth's Core and Mantle
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Paul D Asimow($1,100,001), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Initial Pre-heating Temperatures, Lower Mantle Petrology, Ocean And Lower, Primordial Magma Ocean, Initial Pre-heating, Liquid Compositions, Outer Core, Pre-heating Temperatures, Sound Speed, Achieve, Conditions, Critical, Enable, Equation, Experimental, Liquids, Previously, Shock, Silicate.

12th International Workshop on Modeling of Mantle Convection and Lithospheric Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Saswata Hier-Majumder($26,650), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Lithospheric Dynamics, August, Collaboration, Conference, Disciplines, Geodynamic, Geodynamics, Has, Informal, Information, Interaction, Lithosphere, Participants, Planets, Th, Workshop.

Theoretical Investigation of the Origin of Shallow Slip Deficit in Large Strike-Slip Earthquakes
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Yoshihiro Kaneko($93,062), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Coseismic Slip Deficit, Coseismic Slip Distribution, Shallow Slip Deficit, Active Faults, Earthquake Cycle, Inelastic Deformation, Inferred Slip, Interseismic Creep, Shallow Crust, Shallow Depths, Affect, Afterslip, Based, Damage, Earthquakes, Elastic, Expected, Extent, Failure, Friction, Geodetic, Geologic, Inversions, Models, Origin, Rate-and-state, Remains, Rupture, Seismic, Vicinity.

Analysis of fault rupture processes by earthquake-like slipevents in the laboratory
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Ze'ev Reches($129,465), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Earthquake Rupture, Fault Surface, Rupture Front, Slip Velocity, Unique Capabilities, Acceleration, Allow, Allows, Apparatus, Conditions, Control, Design, ELSE, Energy, Experimental, Experiments, Finite, Friction, In-situ, Loading, Patch, Period, Processes, Rock, Seismic, Self-healing, Significantly, Simulate, Steady-state, Stored, Stress, Time, Typical, Was, Weakening.

Pixel-Tracking on High-Resolution Imagery Spanning the Darfield, New Zealand Earthquake
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Michael J Willis($9,540), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Coseismic And Postseismic, Nearby Faults, Neighboring Faults, Christchurch, Close, Damage, Deformation, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Imagery, Liquefaction, Platforms, Potential, Satellite, Slip, Stress, Temporal, Time.

EaGER: Into the Vent: Probing the basaltic lava lake at Villarrica
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Jeffrey B Johnson($14,892), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Lake Surface Activity, Lava Lake Surface, Takes Advantage, Vent Volcanic, Active, Array, Common, Crater, Eager, Eruption, Gas, MTU, Observations, Seismic, Villarica.

Collaborative Research: Controls on Termination of Great Earthquakes in a Restraining Double-Bend of the Altyn Tagh Fault
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Benchun Duan($203,090), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
2. Michael E Oskin($311,473), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Altyn Tagh Fault, Earthquake Rupture, Fault Segmentation, Field Observations, Numerical Rupture, Rupture Modeling, Rupture Models, Seismic Hazard, Aksay, Bend, Complexities, Complexity, Earthquakes, Faults, Geometric, Hazards, Limitations, Off-fault, Processes, Remains, Restraining, Shared, Slip, Unlikely, Zones.

Volcanic Earthquake Swarms
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Michael E West($268,491), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Defining Characteristics, Earthquake Swarm, Earthquake Swarms, Non-eruptive Earthquake, Swarm Characteristics, Volcanic Earthquake, Analysis, Available, Behavior, Catalogs, Derived, Earthquakes, Eruption, False, Forecasting, Magnitudes, Multiplet, Multiplets, Numerous, Objective, Parameters, Sequences, Simple, Source, Span, Techniques, Volcanoes, Waveform.

The collective behavior of deep fault asperities during non-volcanic tremor and slow slip
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Jean-Paul Ampuero($192,649), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Transient And Periodic, Computational Modeling, Earthquake Hazard, Non-volcanic Tremor, Slip Transients, Slow Slip, Asperities, Component, Experimental, Experiments, Expertise, Fracture, Mechanics, Modelling, Models, Multi-scale, NVT, Non-volcanic, Observational, Observations, Phenomenon, Regions.

Collaborative Research: Postseismic deformation for the Izmit-Duzce, Turkey earthquakes: Implications for the mechanics of the earthquake cycle and rheology of the continent
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Robert E Reilinger($64,955), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Earthquake Deformation Cycle, Borehole Sites, Connecting Fault, Fault Segment, Future Earthquakes, Strain Accumulation, Strike Slip, Constraints, Coseismic, GPS, ICDP, Istanbul, Izmit, Locking, M=, Magnitude, Marmara, Motions, Observations, Occurred, Postseismic, Rate, Sea, Seismic, Sequence, South, Stations.

Collaborative Research: Surface wave and body wave modeling of attenuation in the mantle transition zone
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Colleen A Dalton($202,993), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
2. Jeroen E Ritsema($156,329), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Attenuation Studies, Transition Zone, Upper Mantle, Wave Attenuation, Wave Speed, Amplitudes, Component, Critical, Focusing, Has, Images, Involves, Model, Modeling, Models, Require, Resolution, Seismic, Spatial, Spectra, Structure, Synthetics, Theoretical, Tomography, Velocity.

In situ Study of Lattice Preferred Orientation at Mantle Conditions
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Li Li($381,145), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Pressure And Temperature, Plastic Flow, Temperature Conditions, Anisotropy, Create, Deep, Define, Defined, Deformation, Dynamic, Efficiency, Experiments, Fabric, History, Mantle, Processes, Rock, Solid, Texture, Time.

POSTSEISMIC GPS SURVEY, MODELING, AND EDUCATION FOLLOWING THE M7.0 JANUARY 12, 2010 EARTHQUAKE IN HAITI
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Andrew Freed($410,687), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Earthquake Education Curriculum, Earthquake Hazards, January Earthquake, Postseismic Deformation, Depth, Earthquakes, Faults, Finite, Following, GPS, Geodetic, Haiti, Haitian, Measure, Million, Models, People, Plate, Region, Regional, Schools, Stress, Tectonic.

Collaborative Research: Analysis of Seismicity Associated with tThe Mw=8.8 2010 Maule Earthquake and Implications for Subduction Processes
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Anne S Meltzer($166,209), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
2. Susan L Beck($168,265), University of Arizona, Tucson
3. Raymond M Russo($134,926), University of Florida, Gainesville
4. Steven W Roecker($81,461), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
Key terms: Rupture Zone, Chile, Collection, Earthquake, International, Maule, Objectives, Produce, Products, Range, Seismic, Seismologists, Students.

Correlating the 410 km discontinuity low-velocity layer occurrence with velocity tomograms using Pds imaging with high-fold arrays
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Kenneth G Dueker($112,442), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Fold Passcal Arrays, Low Velocity Anomalies, Mantle Low Velocity, Molten Melt Layer, Partially Molten Melt, Upper Mantle Low, Velocity Layer Atop, Deep Mantle, Discontinuity Manifest, Melt Diapirs, Olivine Component, Phase Transition, Tectonic Activity, Upwelling Diapirs, Velocity Discontinuity, Volcanic Activity, Below, Beneath, Bercovici, Buoyant, Density, Driven, Experiment, Has, Humphreys, Image, Maybe, Model, Numerous, Region, Schmandt, Seismic, Tomograms, Western.

The Role of Sediments in Rupture Dynamics of Tsunami Earthquakes and Tsunami Generation
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Shuo Ma($231,437), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
Key terms: Anomalous Tsunami Generation, Dynamic Rupture Models, Sediments And Free, Subduction Zone Earthquakes, Forearc Basin, Free Surface, Rupture Characteristics, Rupture Duration, Rupture Dynamics, Rupture Velocity, Seafloor Deformation, Tsunami Earthquakes, Contribute, Effect, Fault, Features, Has, Mechanism, Plate, Rise, Slip, Stress.

Neoarchean to Early Proterozoic evolution of Earth's core: Paleomagnetic tests using dikes and sills of the Zimbabwe craton
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. John A Tarduno($259,995), University of Rochester, Rochester
Key terms: Core And Atmosphere, Dikes And Sills, Earth's Magnetic Field, Field And Laboratory, Graduate And Undergraduate, Inner Core Growth, Atmosphere Evolution, Earth's Atmosphere, Earth's Core, Earth's Magnetic, Educational Efforts, Mildly Reducing, Oxidizing Conditions, Receive Training, Solar Wind, Activities, Ago, Analyses, Archean, Atmospheric, Billion, Contributing, Deep, Estimates, Examine, Geomagnetic, History, Lead, Magnificent, Minerals, Nature, Onset, Outreach, Oxidation, Paleointensity, Paleomagnetic, Past, Prior, Processes, Relate, Rochester, Rock, Sampling, Sun, Transformative, Undertake, Was, Zimbabwe.

Effects of Focal Mechanisms, Fault Slip, and Strain Rate on Earthquake Clustering
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. David D Jackson($220,359), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Pre-identified Faults, Strain Rates, Tectonic Strain, Assume, Based, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Information, Models, Observed, Pre-identified.

Development and Application of Turbulence Models in Numerical Geodynamo Simulations
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Bruce Buffett($266,586), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Finite-element Method, Fluid Motion, Fluid Viscosity, Geodynamo Model, Liquid Iron, Magnetic Field, Numerical Simulations, Scale-similarity Model, Account, Allow, Computational, Core, Current, Dynamos, Earth, Effects, Expected, Finite-element, Generation, Improvements, Low, Models, Parallel, Pm, Resolution, Scale-similarity, Turbulence, Values.

The Perovskite to Post-Perovskite Phase Boundary in Mantle Rocks
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Sang-Heon Shim($331,111), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Hot Spot Volcanoes, Iron And Aluminum, Shallower Mantle Layers, Lowermost Mantle, Post-perovskite Transition, Seismic Detectability, Seismic Discontinuity, Basalt, Chemical, Composition, Compositions, Deepest, Detectable, Differentiated, Dynamics, Effects, Harzburgite, Has, Phase, Post-perovskite, Pyrolite.

High-Resolution Seismic Imaging: A Comprehensive Application of Waveform Cross-Correlation to Volcanic Fields
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Guoqing Lin($277,745), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Differential Times, Volcanic Activity, Volcanic Fields, Waveform Cross-correlation, Analysis, Applied, Cross-correlation, Eruption, Estimate, Future, Magma, Mapping, Method, Poissons, Property, Ratio, Robust, Seismic, Situ, Spatial, Techniques, Tomographic, Track, Volcanoes, Vpvs.

The Dependence of Surface Deformation on Rheology Throughout the Seismic Cycle
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Eric A Hetland($249,654), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Burgers Viscoelasticity, Complicated Models, Earthquake Cycle, Idealized Models, Localized Creep, Lower Crust, Maxwell Viscoelasticity, Mechanical Models, Models Directly, Power-law Creep, Surface Deformation, Upper-most Mantle, Complete, Computationally, Depth, Depth-dependent, Describe, Faults, Lithosphere, Observations, Power-law, Properties, Range, Rheologies, Stress, Stresses, Stronger, Upper-most, Validate, Viscosity, Weaker.

Experimental study of the flow behavior of garnet at high pressures: implications for the rheology of subducted lithosphere
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Shenghua Mei($302,358), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Mechanical Properties, Pressure-temperature Conditions, Apparatus, Behavior, Earth, Energy, Extreme, Garnet, Geodynamic, Investigate, Pressure-temperature, Pressures, Strength, Temperatures.

Rheology of Orthopyroxene
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2011; Program: Geophysics

1. Caleb W Holyoke($280,000), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Brookhaven National Laboratory, National Synchrotron Light, Rock Deformation Apparatus, Synchrotron Light Source, Aluminous Phases, Chemical Environment, Deformation Geometry, Earth's Mantle, Heat Dissipation, Orthopyroxene Aggregates, Performing Experiments, Activity, Affect, Affected, Clinopyroxene, Conditions, Content, Convection, Deformations, Earthquakes, Experimental, Field-based, Has, Investigate, Mechanisms, Melting, Olivine, Performed, Plate, Pressure, Pressures, Rates, Rheology, Strain, Strength, Temperature, Viscosity, Water.

Exploring Deep Fault Mechanics by Identifying Non-Volcanic Tremor on Southern California Faults
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2010; Program: Geophysics

1. David D Oglesby($160,000), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Continuous Seismic, Near Anza, Non-volcanic Tremor, Southern California, Tremor Occurrence, Amplitude, Conditions, Crust, Deep, Depths, Duration, Earthquakes, Fault, Faults, Has, Local, Non-volcanic, Observations, Observed, Period, Plate, Properties, Recently, SCSN, San, Search, Slip, Teleseismic, Typically, Zone.

Fluid Flow and Growth of Active Salt Structures at Decadal Timescales: Paradox Basin, Utah
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Shemin Ge($303,148), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Surface And Subsurface, Brittle Strain, Fluid Flow, Fluid Flux, Fresh Water, Salt Structures, Transient Surges, Available, Characterize, Conditions, Control, Define, Deformation, Dissolution, Effect, Evaporite, Field, Groundwater, Gulf, Influx, Mexico, Modeling, Plastic, Rock, Saline, Strength, Topography, Was.

Collaborative Research: Deciphering connections among land management, soil erosion, and sediment yield in large river basins
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Paul R Bierman($188,942), University of Vermont & State Agricultural College, Burlington
2. Amanda H Schmidt($125,864), Oberlin College, Oberlin
3. Dylan H Rood($150,017), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Background Erosion Rates, Modern Sediment Yield, Heavily Disturbed, Sediment Sources, Soil Erosion, Combine, Compared, Critical, Daily, Dams, Facility, Isotopic, Land, Land-use, Mountainous, Regions, Time, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Innovative Injection and Extraction Schemes to Enhance Mixing in Aquifers for Improved In Situ Remediation
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Roseanna M Neupauer($256,197), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. David C Mays($98,395), University of Colorado at Denver-Downtown Campus, Denver
Key terms: Injection And Extraction, Contaminant Degradation, Contaminated Groundwater, Degradation Reactions, Situ Remediation, Treatment Solution, Apparatus, Aquifer, Cleanup, Enhanced, Established, Existing, Investigates, Methods, Mixing, Operation, Optimization, Promote, Water.

Collaborative Research: Horizontal Gene Transfer in Porous Media: Experiments and Modeling
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Arash Massoudieh($62,633), Catholic University of America, Washington
2. Timothy R Ginn($129,153), University of California-Davis, Davis
3. Thanh H Nguyen($238,375), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Horizontal Gene Transfer, Motile And Non-motile, Antibiotic Resistance, Dna Adsorbed, Motile Cells, Non-motile Cells, Soil Surfaces, Surfaces Coated, Uc Davis, Undergraduate Students, Attachment, Bacteria, Bacterial, Contaminants, Depend, Development, Expected, Frequency, Groundwater, Microbial, Motility, Spread, Traits, Transformation, Transport, Water.

Conference Support for the XIX International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources (CMWR 2012)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Albert J Valocchi($20,000), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: International Conference, Water Resources, Computational, Computer, Geoscience, Government, Industry, Opportunity, Pressing, Students.

Hydrologic influences on soil trace gas fluxes across complex terrain
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Brian L McGlynn($323,907), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Carbon Dioxide Flux, Montane Forested Ecosystems, Oxide And Methane, Space And Time, Trace Gas Flux, Greenhouse Gas, Montane Ecosystems, Nitrous Oxide, Trace Gases, Content, Controls, Developed, Dynamics, Existing, Field, Fluxes, Hydrologic, Hydrological, Landscape, Montana, Net, Potential, Processes, Redistribution, Soil, Spatial, Translate, Warming, Water.

Data Collection, Panama Flood of December, 2010
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Fred L Ogden($13,430), University of Wyoming, Laramie
2. Konstantine P Georgakakos($10,185), Hydrologic Research Center, San Diego
Key terms: Panama Canal Authority, Tropical Mountainous Watershed, Madden Dam, Woody Debris, Atmospheric, Campaign, Database, December, Designed, Extreme, Field, Flood, Geomorphic, Hydrological, Landslides, Model, WRF, Was.

Collaborative Research: Evaluating how the sampling integration scale affects field estimates of groundwater transit time and nitrogen fluxes
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Helena Mitasova($407,841), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
2. D. Kip Solomon($230,998), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Neuse River, Nitrate Degradation, Nitrate Flux, Transit Time, Water Resource, Approaches, Aquifers, Contamination, Effort, Groundwater, Hydrologic, MTT, Management, NC, Non-point-source, Practical, Strategies, Streams.

Collaborative Research: Hydrogeochemical Investigation of Seasonal Transition and Land Use Change Effects on Tropical Hydrology
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Fred L Ogden($192,719), University of Wyoming, Laramie
2. W. Berry Lyons($291,609), Ohio State University, Columbus
Key terms: Panama Canal Authority, Panama Canal Watershed, Humid Tropics, Seasonal Tropics, Effects, Geochemical, International, Land-use, Panamanian, Program, Rio, Runoff, STRI, Times, Watersheds.

CAREER: Flood Risk Projections with Climatic Variation and Human-Induced Shifts in Hydrologic Response
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Veronica Webster($400,910), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: Future Flood Risk, Increase K-12 Student, Anthropogenic Activities, Flood Peaks, Future Scenarios, Outreach Activities, Relative Impacts, Statistical Framework, Water Resources, Based, Climate, Climatic, Engineering, Graduate, Hydrologic, Land, Management, Models, NFIP, Objectives, Students, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Characterization and mechanistic modeling of methane production, flow and ebullition from fine-grained sediments in a temperate lake
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Ruben Juanes($403,558), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. John W Pohlman($51,627), U.S. Geological Survey -- Woods Hole, Woods Hole
Key terms: Fine-grained Sediments, Global Methane, Greenhouse Gas, Methane Fluxes, Methane Venting, Underlying Sediments, Water Column, Atmosphere, Bodies, Bubble, Climate, Constrain, Constrained, Controlling, Dissolution, Duration, Ebullition, Fine-grained, Fraction, Frequency, Generated, Lakes, Models, Potent, Rates, Release, Released, Shallow, Sources, Spacing, Wetlands.

Modeling and Epistemic Uncertainty Analysis of Faults as Conduit-Barriers to Fluid Flow and Salinization in Siliciclastic Aquifer Systems
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Frank Tsai($278,474), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Baton Rouge Fault, Conduits And Barriers, Reducing Epistemic Uncertainties, Southern Hills Aquifer, Epistemic Uncertainty, Experimental Designs, Fault Permeability, Fluid Flow, Groundwater Salinization, Siliciclastic Aquifer, Advance, Analysis, BMA, Deep, Faults, Field, Has, Leakage, Louisiana, Means, Method, Model, Modeling, Quantifying, Remediation, Significantly, Sources, Techniques, Valid, Water.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: INVESTIGATING HYDROLOGY-DRIVEN MODELS FOR METHANE CYCLING IN NORTHERN PEATLANDS
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Lee Slater($311,225), Rutgers University Newark, Newark
2. Xavier Comas($90,405), Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
3. Andrew S Reeve($114,737), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Storage And Emission, Storage And Release, Caribou Bog, Climate Warming, Forcing Mechanisms, Northern Peatlands, Advance, Atmosphere, Carbon, Controls, Cycling, Deep, Dynamics, Emissions, FPG, Gas, Hydrological, Importance, Methane, Models, Quantifying, Relative, Shallow, Source, Students, Versus.

RAPID: Snow Sensor Maintenance in Boulder Creek and Jemez River Basin CZOs
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2011; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Noah P Molotch($38,831), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Critical Zone Observatories, Snow Sensor Arrays, Distributed Snow, Sierra Czo, Czos, Existing, Foundation, Network, Snow-measurement, Water.

Collaborative Proposal: WATERS: EVALUATING COMMUNITY MODELS AND OBSERVATION NETWORKS UNDER UNCERTAINTY WITHIN THE SUSQUEHANNA RIVER BASIN
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Franco A Montalto($200,301), Drexel University, Philadelphia
Key terms: Assimilation Framework, Sensitivity Maps, Ability, CI, Climate, Environmental, Extension, Flow, Hydrologic, Model, Models, Observations, Prediction, Resources, River, SRB, Uncertainty, Value.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Central Anatolian Tectonics (CD-CAT): Surface to mantle dynamics during collision to escape
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2011; Program: INTEGRATED EARTH SYSTEMS

1. Stuart N Thomson($741,385), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Mary R Reid($640,676), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
3. Jane Willenbring($262,310), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
4. Eric Sandvol($539,576), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Tectonic Escape, Anatolian, Central, Collision, East, Fault, Geology, Geomorphic, Investigate, Magmatic, Pis, Plate, Process, Rock, Surface, West.

Collaborative Research: Lhasa Block Top to Bottom--Lithospheric Evolution of Asia's Leading Edge
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: INTEGRATED EARTH SYSTEMS

1. Donald J DePaolo($485,436), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. Timothy M Harrison($582,361), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
3. Anne S Meltzer($1,114,554), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
4. David L Shuster($433,752), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
5. David Rowley($483,477), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Crustal And Lithospheric, Boundary Conditions, Crustal Thickness, Lithospheric Deformation, Lithospheric Thickness, Collision, Continent, Development, Elevation, Evolution, Has, Lhasa, Orogen, Orogenic, Orogens, Pis, Play, Rheology, Set, Southern, Structure, Surface.

Acquisition of instrumentation to support research and undergraduate training in hydrology and biogeochemistry at the University of Alaska Southeast
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2011; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Andrew W Vermilyea($79,500), University of Alaska Southeast Juneau Campus, Juneau
Key terms: Alaska, Analysis, Atmospheric, Effects, Hydrologic, LCOS, Local, Marine, Processes, UAS, Waters.

Upgrade of Research Instrument: Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer, Phase II
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2011; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Asish R Basu($61,000), University of Rochester, Rochester
Key terms: Geochemistry, Instrument, Rochester, TIMS, Tectonic, Upgrade.

Acquisition of Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) detector and sample preparation equipment
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2011; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Matty Mookerjee($122,163), Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park
Key terms: Crustal Deformation, EBSD, Promote, SSU.

Development of an Integrated Serial Grinder and Photo-Imager for 3D Fossil Reconstruction
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2011; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Adam Maloof($449,113), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Automated Serial, Density Contrast, Fossil Remains, Image Analysis, Life Forms, Machine Code, Serial Grinder, Development, Facies, Fossils, Imaging, Manual, Neoproterozoic, Princeton, Rapid, Rock, Time.

Acquisition of a Compact Scanning Electron Microscope System for Research and Teaching in Geosciences
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2011; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. James Murowchick($208,700), University of Missouri-Kansas City, Columbia
Key terms: SEM, Training.

Acquisition of X-Ray Diffraction Instrumentation for Mineralogical, Crystallographic, and Geochemical Research and Education
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2011; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. W C Elliott($234,362), Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc., Atlanta
Key terms: Capabilities, Clay, Identification, Investigations, Range, X-ray, XRD.

Acquisition of a hydropyrolysis unit for pre-treatment of soils for isotopic analysis and black carbon quantification
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2011; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Johannes Lehmann($85,575), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Black Carbon Contents, Carbon Forms, Soil Carbon, Available, Continuum, Distribution, Global, Hydropyrolysis, Measure, Obtained, Quantify, Rapid, Separation, Spectroscopy, Tool.

Upgrade of a GPR System for Field Investigations, Student Training and Enhancement of Outreach Activities at the University of Kansas
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2011; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Georgios P Tsoflias($141,439), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Flow, Fractures, GPR, Identification, Properties, Student.

Acquisition of a Liquid Water Isotope Analyzer for Earth and Environmental Science Research
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2011; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Fasong Yuan($68,513), Cleveland State University, Cleveland
Key terms: Hydrogen Isotope Ratios, Liquid Water Isotope, Oxygen And Hydrogen, Water Isotope Analyzer, Joint-teaching Program, Natural Waters, Teaching Capability, Akron, CSU, Cleveland, Environmental, Existing, Groundwater, Instrument, Joint-teaching, River, Simultaneously, Student, Training, UA.

Collaborative Research: Facility Support: Center for Transformative Environmental Monitoring Programs: Fiber-Optic Distributed Sensing
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Scott W Tyler($538,447), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
2. John S Selker($511,741), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Fiber Optic, Allow, Applications, Atmospheric, Bottom, CUAHSI, Ctemps, DTS, Deg, Field, Groundwater, Hydrologic, Instrument, Lease, Observation, Resolution, River, Selker, Snow, Soil, Temperature, Temporal, Training.

Continental Scientific Drilling
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Dennis L Nielson($399,415), DOSECC Inc, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Csd Projects, Drilling Operations, Barriers, Climate, Continent, Has, History, Implementing, Processes, Sampling, Transformative.

Acquisition of a cathodoluminescence detector to increase imaging capability of existing SEM facility, Department of Geoscience, University of Iowa
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. William McClelland($74,928), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Laser Ablation, Analysis, CL, Department, Education, Electron, Growth, Instrument, Mass, Microscope, SEM, Scanning, Students, Targeted.

Early Career: Acquisition of a He system for (U-Th)/He thermochronology at the University of Colorado, Boulder
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Rebecca M Flowers($320,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Rocky Mountain Region, Thermochronology Facility, Analytical, Application, CU, Capacity, Existing, Expand, Graduate, Hands-on, Has, Initiatives, Lab, Mineral, Procedures, Students, Teaching, Technician, Training, U-th, U-thhe, Undergraduate.

EAGER: Development of a new rock deformation apparatus for investigating Earth's upper mantle
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Philip Skemer($50,000), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Rock Deformation Apparatus, Available, Benefit, Design, Development, EAGER, Early-career, Earth, Labs, Mantle, Upper.

Acquisition of instrumentation for gas and particle measurements at volcanic plumes: an effort to increase research and educational capabilities at the University of Puerto Rico
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Lizzette A Rodriguez($107,521), University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Mayaguez
Key terms: Gas Species, Active, Aerosol, Aerosols, Assessing, Direct, Emissions, Equipment, Plumes, Portable, UV, Volcanic.

Collaborative Research: Time Scales and Dimensions of Rheological Heterogeneity and Fabric Evolution in the Lower Continental Crust during Extensional Orogenic Collapse
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Joshua Schwartz($357,025), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
2. Keith A Klepeis($290,575), University of Vermont & State Agricultural College, Burlington
Key terms: Lower Crust, Shear Zones, Changing, Collaborations, Cooling, Deformation, Experience, Extension, Facilities, Fiordland, Gaining, Host, Influence, Localization, Magmatism, Mechanical, Metamorphism, Orogenic, Plutons, Properties, Regions, Resulting, Rock, Size, Square, Strain, Strength, Thickness, Variety, Weak, Zealand.

Acquisition of a Piston Cylinder Apparatus for Research in Experimental Petrology and Mineral Physics
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. James E Gardner($40,355), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Intermediate Magma, Mineral Physics, Piston Cylinder, Upper Mantle, Ut Austin, Co-rich, Enhance, Experimental, Fluids, Focus, Programs, Students, Undergraduate, Zone.

Upgrade of the Paleomagnetics and Petrofabrics Laboratory of the University of Hawaii at Manoa
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Emilio Herrero-Bervera($66,000), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Magnetic Remanence, Earth, Instruments.

Acquisition of Digital Imaging Capability for Shock Wave Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Paul D Asimow($189,482), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Caltech Shock Wave, Shock Wave Lab, Detector, Film, High-speed, Liquid, Phases, Solid.

Upgrade of Wind Tunnel/Porous Media Facility to Study Climate Effects on Near Surface Soil Moisture
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Tissa H Illangasekare($259,090), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: Land Surface, Shallow Subsurface, Wind Tunnel, CSM, Colorado, Conditions, Controlled, Deg, Engineering, Environmental, Exchange, Experiments, Facility, Measure, Mesocosm, Multiphase, Phase, Processes, Soil, Soil-atmosphere, Supported, Temperature, Velocity, Water.

RUI: Acquisition of X-Ray Powder Diffraction Instrumentation with Heating Stage to Support Solution Calorimetric Research and Undergraduate Research on Mineral Thermal Expansion
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Guy L Hovis($265,000), Lafayette College, Easton
Key terms: Solid Solutions, Behavior, Crystallographic, Thermodynamic, XRD.

ACQUISITION OF LABORATORY EQUIPMENT FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Rosemary J Knight($24,411), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Relaxation Time Constant, Time Constant Measured, Magnetic Susceptibility, Aquifers, Bartington, Core, Equipment, Hole, Instruments, Logging, NMR, SNMR, Sensor.

Acquisition of a Portable In Situ Wind Erosion Lab (PI-SWERL) for research in Earth Sciences
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Mark R Sweeney($53,500), University of South Dakota Main Campus, Vermillion
Key terms: Atmosphere, Effects, Eolian, Erosion, Mineral, PI-SWERL, Portable, Wind.

Support of BGSW6: The 6th Biennial Geochemical SIMS Workshop; November 2-4, 2011 at the Outrigger Reef Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Kazuhide Nagashima($38,033), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Discuss, Geochemical, Instrument, National, SIMS, Workshop.

Developement of Tandem, Double-focusing, Electron Impact, Gas Source Mass Spectrometer for Measurement of Isotopologues in Geochemistry
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Douglas Rumble($500,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Earth's Atmosphere, Kinetic Isotope, Mass Spectrometer, CH, Clumped, Effects, Gas, Gases, Instrument, Isotopologues, OO, Occurring, Synthesis.

Collaborative Research: Acquisition of GPS and seismic equipment for Phase 2 of a Plate Boundary Observatory, Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Timothy Dixon($30,868), University of South Florida, Tampa
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.

A mineral-physics based model of mantle electrical conductivity
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Steven C Constable($357,177), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Electrical Conductivity, Mantle Conductivity, Melt Generation, Upper Mantle, Wide Range, Aid, Anhydrous, Bound, Clinopyroxene, Collection, Composition, Conditions, Disproportionate, Drive, Electricalconductivity, Estimate, Experiments, Future, Has, Mineral, Minerals, Model, Models, Olivine, Orthopyroxene, Oxygen, Processes, Proxy, Pyroxene, Pyroxenes, Surface, Temperature, Tothe, Water.

Collaborative Research: Development of 40Ar/39Ar Intercalibration Pipettes
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Matthijs c Van Soest($34,425), Arizona State University, Tempe
2. Sidney Hemming($29,324), Columbia University, New York
3. Paul R Renne($54,022), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
4. Carl C Swisher($341,446), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: 40ar39ar Laboratories, 40ar39ar Method, Ages, Arar, Dating, Gas, Has, Heterogeneity, Interlaboratory, Isotopic, Labs, Mass, Minerals, Neutron, Opportunity, Participating, Pipette, Precision, Rock, Students, Timing, Various, Volcanic, Volumes.

Continental Scientific Drilling Workshop: Into a New Decade
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2011; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Anthony W Walton($49,159), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Csd Projects, Drilling Operations, Continental, DOSECC, Diverse, Future, Has, Implementing, Workshop, Workshops.

Acquisition of a Mobile Tower System for Interdisciplinary Atmospheric Research
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2011; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Ryan E Emanuel($191,397), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Southern Appalachian Landscapes, Air Quality, Atmospheric, Climate, Collection, Departments, Deploying, Deposition, Instrumentation, Interactions, Issues, Mobile, Precipitation, Program, Regional, Requested, Tower.

Collaborative Research: Caldera Magmatism from the Inside Out: A geochronologic and Geochemical Investigation of Plutonic and Volcanic Rocks in Three Contrasting Calderas
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Drew S Coleman($253,085), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
2. William C McIntosh($111,421), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Plutonic And Volcanic, Caldera Magmatic, Caldera Magmatism, Graduate Students, Magma Chambers, Plutonic Rocks, Upper Crust, Volcanic Rocks, Ages, Ar-ar, Comprehensive, Continue, Depth, Developing, Emplacement, Establishing, Experience, Exposed, Fraction, Has, High-precision, Investigating, Method, Mexico, Models, Modification, Pis, Processes, Silicic, Useful, Volcanism, Volumes.

Acquisition of Two Gas Source Stable Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometers for the Stable Isotope Research Facility (SIRF) at Indiana University
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Edward M Ripley($300,000), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Analysis, Facility, Has, Instrument, Instruments, Isotope, Requested, SIRF, Students, Users.

Acquisition of an X-Ray Fluorescence instrument for research and teaching at Wesleyan University
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Johan C Varekamp($149,720), Wesleyan University, Middletown
Key terms: Chemical Composition, Energy Resources, X-ray Fluorescence, Clues, Department, Evidence, Instrument, Origin, Rock, Students, Teaching, Wesleyan, X-ray, XRF.

Facility Support: Multi-User Facility Support for U-Th-Pb Geochronology and Complementary Geochemistry at the Arizona LaserChron Center
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2011; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. George E Gehrels($809,702), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: U-th-pb Geochronologic Information, U-th-pb Geochronologic, ALC, Development, Drive, Facility, Geology, Instrumentation, LA-MC-ICPMS, Nsf-supported, Techniques, Tectonic.

Upgrade of JEOL JXA 8600 electron microprobe at the University of Georgia
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2011; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Alberto E Patino Douce($181,586), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Electron Microprobe, Departments, EMP, Facility, Geology, Instrument, Rock, Southeast, Spectrometer.

Acquisition of a Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2011; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Alan Brandon($179,107), University of Houston, Houston
Key terms: Mantle And Igneous, Earth's Interior, Igneous Rocks, Isotope Chronology, Mass Spectrometer, Additionally, Applied, Instrument, Laboratory, NSF, Students, TIMS, UH.

Equipment Upgrade for Electron Microprobe, University of Houston Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2011; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Virginia Sisson($159,861), University of Houston, Houston
Key terms: Analysis, Cathodoluminescence, Characterization, Facility, Geochronology, Graduate, Instrument, Microbeam, Minority, Students.

Acquisition of Gas-mixing and TZM Furnaces and Associated Equipment: Experimental Petrology at Fayetteville State University
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2011; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Steven Singletary($0), Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville
Key terms: Experimental Petrology Laboratory, North Carolina, Strengthen K-12, Student Body, Comprising, Education, Fayetteville, Hypothesis-driven, Planetary, Primitive, Serve, Solar, Training.

GEO REU Workshop 2011: Developing an REU Community and Best Practices Through Networking; San Jose, CA, October 26-27, 2011
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Meghan Miller($89,657), UNAVCO, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: Reu Sites, Discussions, Managers, Meeting, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Rio Grande Rift II - Kinematics and Dynamics of Continental Deformation in Low Strain-Rate Environments
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Paul Bedrosian($260,695), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Mark H Murray($133,129), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Earthquake Source Parameters, Grande Rift Gps, Rio Grande Rift, Gps Monuments, Deformation, Determined, Distributed, Network.

Collaborative Research: Water and Carbon Dynamics in Tropical Peat Lands -- Comparison of a Forested Peat Dome with a Deforested Peat Dome in Borneo
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: International Research Collab

1. Charles F Harvey($285,542), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Lucy Hutyra($314,288), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Brunei Forestry Department, Tropical Peat Forests, Tropical Peat Lands, Carbon Flux, Deforested Site, Peat Accumulation, Southeast Asia, Water Table, Accumulate, CH, Collection, Conditions, Decay, Deforestation, Degradation, Degraded, Depend, Development, Does, Dome, Domes, Dynamics, Emissions, Feedback, Has, Loss, Methane, Oxidation, Peatland, Singapore, Stores, Tools.

Evolution of the Galapagos Mantle Plume
Award Effective Date: 08/31/2011; Program: International Research Collab

1. Esteban Gazel($513,793), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
2. Esteban Gazel($183,158), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Costa Rica, Galapagos Plume, Geochemical Cycles, Lip Phase, Mantle Plume, Mantle Plumes, Plume Head, Plume Tail, Plume Tracks, Plume Transit, Secular Cooling, Accreted, Andor, CLIP, CU, Continuous, Deep, Does, Dynamic, Effect, Evolution, Formation, Gap, Graduate, Information, Initial, International, LDEO, LIPS, Lithology, Modeling, OIB, Ocean, Oceanic, Peridotite, Petrological, Pyroxenite, Sampling, Source, Students, Tell, Temperature, UCR, Versus.

Steady State to Flare-Up ARC Magmatism in the Largest Cenozoic Silicic Igneous Province on Earth: The Sierra Madre Occidental (MEXICO)
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: International Research Collab

1. Cathy J Busby($226,036), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Sierra Madre Occidental, Andesite Arc, Largest Cenozoic, Phd Students, Precious Metal, Silicic Lips, Steady-state Arc, Strain Regime, Volcanic Complex, Volcanic Rocks, Deposits, Epithermal, Essential, Extension, Extensional, Female, Field, Flare-up, Flareup, Geochronology, Has, Ignimbrites, Intrusions, LVC, Mexico, Nature, Precursor, Province, SMO, Sections, Size, Steady-state, Structural, Structures, Supervolcano, UVC, Variety, Vents, Widespread.

CAREER: Eruption Dynamics From Low-Frequency Volcano-Seismic Signals
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: International Research Collab

1. Gregory P Waite($412,979), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: Earthquake Seismology, Graduate Students, Source Modeling, Undergraduate Students, Volcano Seismologists, Volcano Seismology, Waveform Modeling, Activities, Conjunction, Enhance, Especially, Hazard, Interdisciplinary, Middle-school, Monitoring, Processes, Promote, Quantitative, Seismic, Seismological, Sets, Signals, Skills, Tilt, Tools, Volcanic.

The Bucaramanga Nest: A Natural Laboratory for Exploring the Mechanics of Intermediate Depth Earthquakes
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2011; Program: International Research Collab

1. Gregory C Beroza($267,584), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Collisional Plate Boundaries, Colombian National Seismic, National Seismic Network, Intermediate-depth Earthquakes, Bucaramanga, Concentration, Crust, Intense, Intermediate-depth, Lack, Program, Recurrence, Shallow, Similar, Size, Source, State-of-the-art, Subducting, Supported, Useful, World.

Collection of a High-Resolution Spatial and Ground-Based Dataset From the 2010 Explosive Events at Merapi Volcano, Java, Indonesia
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: International Research Collab

1. Timothy Dixon($32,810), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Hazardous Volcanic Flows, Hazard Mitigation, Merapi Volcano, Numerical Topographies, Pdc Deposits, Active, Activity, Collect, Current, DEM, Dataset, Directly, Dynamics, Emplacement, Eruption, Explosions, Extent, Generate, Hazards, Integrated, October, Opportunity, Pdcs, People, Populated, Rare, Spatial, Techniques, USF, Various, Volcanoes.

Establishing the Time and Length Scales of Initial Arc Construction: The Mantle-crust Connection
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: International Research Collab

1. George W Bergantz($322,545), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Sierra Valle Fértil, Arc Section, Continental Arc, Mafic Complex, Upper Crust, Active, Combine, Compositional, Continuous, Does, Geological, Granodiorite, Magmatic, Magmatism, Plutonic, Processes, Snapshot, Source, Strike, Students, Time, Volcanic, Zone.

Constraining Sulfur Isotope Fractionation During Volcanic Degassing Through the Study of an Open-system Basaltic Volcano
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: International Research Collab

1. Adrian J Brearley($101,256), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Active Lava Lake, Erta Ale, Isotope Fractionation, Persistently Active, Sulfur Cycle, Sulfur Degases, Volcanic Degassing, Aerosols, Atmosphere, Basaltic, Climate, Consistent, Earth, End-member, Ethiopia, Evaluating, Flux, Fo, Gas, Gases, Global, Has, Magma, Magmas, Measured, Melt, Processes, QFM, Quantities, Reduced, Sulfate, Volcano, Volcanoes.

Collaborative Research: The Peru Subduction Experiment (PeruSE), a Seismic Investigation of the Role of Water in the Lithospheric Dynamics of Subduction Zones
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: International Research Collab

1. Paul M Davis($194,421), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2. Robert W Clayton($171,853), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Experiment Involves, Seismic Array, Broadband, Coast, Comprised, Contrasts, Deep, Demonstrated, Depths, Dip, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Effect, Flat-slab, Friction, Has, Hazard, Infer, Line, Lines, Metamorphic, Mineralization, Network, North, Particular, Pathways, Peru, Population, Program, Properties, Region, Rock, Seismicity, Slab, Stations, Steep, Subduction, Tectonic, Transition, Volcanic, Volcanism, Volcanoes, Water.

RAPID Proposal: Merging Monsoon, Snowmelt and Post-flood Ground Information for a Multivariate Estimation and Prediction of Flood Risk for the Indus River, Pakistan
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2011; Program: International Research Collab

1. Amilcare Porporato($45,323), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Indus River, Water Resources, Basin, Engineering, Estimates, Flood, Floods, Protection, Rainfall, Risk, View.

MRI: Development of a basin-scale water-balance instrument cluster for hydrologic, atmospheric and ecosystem science
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Danny G Marks($1,985,280), University of California - Merced, Merced
Key terms: Water Cycle Reservoirs, Basin-scale Instrument, Hydrologic Observation, River Basin, Wireless Communications, Basin-scale, CZO, California, Climate, Clusters, Design, Development, Elevation, Fluxes, Hydrology, Influence, Integrated, Mountain, Observations, Perturbations, Sensor, Sensors, Sierra, Sierras, Snow, Strategy, Temperature.

MRI: Acquisition / replacement of an electron microprobe
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Kenneth P Severin($1,001,229), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: AVO, Active, Alaska, Alaskas, Analyses, Enhance, Eruption, Geology, Importance, Instrument, International, Metals, Microprobe, Rock, UAF, Uafs, Volcanic.

MRI: Acquisition of an electron microprobe for research in Earth sciences, materials science, and applied physics
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Jessica M Warren($761,133), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Capabilities, Chemical, Complex, Critical, EPMA, Electronic, Experimental, Facility, Fields, Instrument, Processes, Reveal, Surface, Training.

MRI: Development of a high pressure and temperature, biaxial deformation apparatus for earthquake and landslide studies
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Giovanna Biscontin($687,482), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Dynamic Weakening, Advance, Apparatus, Conditions, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Education, Graduate, Hazards, Instrument, Investigate, Laboratory, Nucleation, Pressure, Program, Rates, Rock, Rupture, Shear, Slip, Students.

MRI: Acquisition of a High-Sensitivity Light Stable Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer for Critical Zone Studies
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Louis A Kaplan($313,020), Stroud Water Research Center, Avondale
Key terms: Carbon, Isotope, Regional, SWRC, Stable, Stream, Track.

MRI: Acquisition of an SEM-EDS-CL for interdisciplinary research and training in materials imaging and chemical analysis
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Michael Schneider($295,424), University of Montana, Missoula
Key terms: Electron Microscopy Facility, Scanning Electron, Analysis, Imaging, Involving, Montana, Regional, Students.

MRI: Acquisition of a Variable Pressure Scanning Electron Microscope at Washington and Lee University
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Kenneth E Van Ness($355,319), Washington and Lee University, Lexington
Key terms: Washington And Lee, Chemical Analysis, Characterization, SEM, Undergraduate.

MRI: Acquisition of a Simultaneous ICP-OES for Research and Teaching
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Jonathan M Husch($100,207), Rider University, Lawrenceville
Key terms: Analysis, ICP-OES, Metal, Soils, Student, Transition, Water.

MRI: Acquisition of Accelerated Solvent Extractor and Gas Chromatograph for Undergraduate Paleoclimatological Research
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2011; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Laura Cleaveland Peterson($120,197), Luther College, Decorah
Key terms: Marine Sediments, Analysis, Climate, Past, Undergraduate.

MRI: Acquisition of a stable carbon isotope and elemental analysis system
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Brad Hubeny($122,226), Salem State University, Salem
Key terms: Organic Matter, Carbon, Elemental, Regional.

MRI: Acquisition of an Ion Chromatograph to Support Research and Undergraduate Education
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Matthew J Evans($36,179), Wheaton College, Norton
Key terms: Benefit, IC, School, Wheaton.

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

1. Anne E Egger($213,656), Central Washington University, Ellensburg
Key terms: Applications, Capability, Digital, Equipment, Laser, Mapping, Scanning, Surface, TLS, Training, UNAVCO, User.

Constraining Mantle Rheology at Lithospheric Conditions by Modeling Seamount Induced Deformation and Gravity Anomalies
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Shijie Zhong($196,618), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Seamounts And Oceanic, Subduction Zone Seamounts, Activation Energy, Gravity Anomalies, Laboratory Studies, Lithospheric Conditions, Lithospheric Deformation, Lithospheric Rheology, Loading Models, Mantle Rheology, Oceanic Islands, Oceanic Lithosphere, Plate Interiors, Subduction Zones, Age, Constrain, Crust, Directly, Geophysics, Hawaii, Inferred, Less, Modeling, Observations, Processes, Seeks, Stress, Surface, Tectonic, Temperature, Viscoelastic.

Collaborative Research: Geologic, Tectonic, and Geodynamic Processes of the Eastern North American (ENAM) Passive Margin Workshop
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Julia K Morgan($51,809), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
2. Frank J Pazzaglia($33,943), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
Key terms: Earthscope And Geoprisms, Passive Margin Evolution, Natural Hazards, Sea Level, Transportable Array, Coastal, Continent, Eastern, Exclusively, Forum, Held, Image, Land, Mantle, National, Ocean, Processes, Workshop, Workshops.

Collaborative Research: Seismicity of the Equatorial Mid-Atlantic Ridge and its Large Offset Transforms
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Robert P Dziak($391,185), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Equatorial Atlantic Ocean, Ocean Transform Faults, Tectonic Plates Meet, Mid-atlantic Ridge, Ridge Axis, Total Length, Triple Junction, Allow, Earthquakes, Hydrophones, Mid-atlantic, Motion, North, Region, South, Testing.

Support for PAGES Varves Working Group 2nd Workshop
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Mark R Besonen($15,008), Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi
Key terms: Corpus Christi, Local Organizerchair, Robust Chronologies, Varved Sediments, Annual, Archives, Benefit, Effort, Eventually, Graduate, Handbook, Knowledge, Opportunity, Paleoclimate, Paleoscience, Resolution, Workshop.

Support for the Northeast National Ion Microprobe Facility (NENIMF) 2010-2011
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Nobumichi Shimizu($168,038), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Advisory Committee, Projects Supported, Silicate Glasses, Analyses, Analysis, Carbonates, Facility, Melt, Multi-user, NENIMF, Outside, Pis, Range, Training, Volatiles, Zircon.

Collaborative Research: Do symmetric and asymmetric segments on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge have distinct geochemical signatures?
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Charles H Langmuir($732,000), Harvard University, Cambridge
2. Maurice A Tivey($15,642), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Symmetric And Asymmetric, Asymmetric Spreading, Mid-ocean Ridge, Campaign, Course, Differences, Examined, Field, Geochemical, Involves, Mantle, Mid-ocean, Posted, Segments, Strong, Undergraduates.

Slow slip at elevated pore pressures on brittle faults in a compliant subduction channel
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: OPPORTUNITIES FOR RESEARCH CMG

1. David A Schmidt($257,468), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Cascadia Margin, Compliant Matrix, Dehydration Reactions, Efforts Focus, Faults Embedded, Pore Pressures, Slow Slip, Subduction Channel, Behavior, Brittle, Broader, Conditions, Consistent, Constrained, Deformation, Developing, Ductile, Earthquakes, Effects, Enable, Exhumed, Geologic, Incorporate, Modeling, Models, Observations, Oregon, Predictive, Sediments, Settings, Sliding, Slow-slip, Water, Zone.

CAREER: Slab structure and dynamics of arcuate shaped subduction zones
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Other Global Learning & Trng

1. Meghan S Miller($533,912), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Active Arcs, Graduate Students, Highly Arcuate, Mantle Convection, Oceanic Lithosphere, Plate Boundaries, Plate Tectonics, Subduction Zones, Topographic Expressions, Antilles, Based, Boundary, Buoyant, Convergent, Course, Curved, Development, Evolution, Features, Field, Geodynamic, Geologic, Imaging, Length, Modeling, Morphology, Program, Rollback, Seismicity, Structure.

EAR-PF: Large-scale climate controls on water isotopes in the tropical Pacific: an integrated observational and modeling strategy to improve paleoclimate interpretations
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Jessica L Conroy($170,000), Conroy Jessica L, Tucson
Key terms: Global Climate Models, Isotope-equipped Global Climate, Precipitation And Seawater, Forward Modeling, Isotope-equipped Global, Past Climate, Stable Isotopes, Stable Water, Tropical Pacific, Water Isotope, Water Isotopes, Archives, Carry, Controls, Education, Fellowship, Information, Large-scale, Proxies, Proxy, Region, Sediments, Timescales.

Connecting Lava Rheology and Flow Dynamics Using Novel Field and Modeling Techniques
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Marc W Spiegelman($150,000), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Active Volcanoes, Flowing Lava, Lava Flows, Modeling Tool, Rheological Model, Behavior, Channelized, Deformation, Detail, Employ, Environments, Experimental, Field, Natural, Observational, Planets, Processes, Properties, Range, Rheologies, Rheology, Time, Velocity, Wide.

Collaborative Research: Hawaiian and Subplinian Basaltic Volcanism: Constraints on Eruption Dynamics from Kilauea
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Bruce F Houghton($169,942), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Terry A Plank($124,448), Columbia University, New York
3. Helge M Gonnermann($106,996), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
4. Erik H Hauri($99,352), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Eruptive Products, Explosive Eruptions, Fountaining Eruption, Behavior, CE, Classes, Five, Future, Graduate, Kîlauea, Magma, Plume-forming, Powerful, Students, Undergraduate, Volcano, Volcanoes.

Diffusion of Trace Elements in Garnet: Rates, Mechanisms, and Theory
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. William D Carlson($268,208), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Diffusion Rates, Diffusional Modifications, Garnet Structure, Lower Temperatures, Chemical, Crystal, Crystals, Effects, Geologic, Has, High-temperature, Histories, History, Knowledge, Mantle, Means, Minerals, Processes, Read, Resorbed, Span, Time, Trace, Various.

Generation of Large Geochemical Data Sets for Single Units of Volcanic Rock: Application of Portable XRF Spectrometry to Zoned Ignimbrites
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Richard M Conrey($217,295), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Chemical Analyses, Conventional Methods, Analysis, Basis, Compositional, Compositions, Critical, Enable, Eruption, Exhibit, Existing, Field, Geochemical, Has, High-precision, Increasing, Magma, Nb, Numerous, Obtained, PXRF, Practice, Products, Range, Rb, Rock, Set, Single, Sufficient, Super-eruptions, Technology, Thousands, Time, Tuff, Tuffs, Volcanic, Wavelength-dispersive, X-ray, Zoned.

Redox and Structural Controls on Iron Isotopic Variations in Igneous Rocks
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Nicolas Dauphas($249,664), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Iron Isotopic, Isotopic Fractionation, Volcanic Emissions, Atmosphere, Conditions, Equilibrium, Fe, Geological, Magmas, Mantle, Measure, Melting, Minerals, Nature, Oxidation, Oxidized, Oxygen, Processes, Ratio, Redox, Titans, X-ray.

Collaborative Research: Novel Isotopic Tests of the Mechanisms of Non-equilibrium Crystal Growth
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. John M Eiler($163,854), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
2. E. Bruce Watson($68,968), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
Key terms: Mineral Chemistry, Mineral Growth, Non-equilibrium Growth, Advance, Ancient, Caltech-rpi, Chemical, Compositions, Crystals, Environmental, Environments, Growing, Heterogeneities, Isotopes, Minerals, Non-equilibrium, Past, Properties, Quartz, Responsible, Si, Trace.

Collaborative Research: Assessment of the Role of Water in Cratonic Roots and their Post-Archean Margins on the Strength and Longevity of Continental Lithosphere
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Alan Brandon($96,283), University of Houston, Houston
2. Anne H Peslier($172,432), Jacobs Technology Inc., Houston
3. Philip E Janney($35,634), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Craton Longevity, Dry Olivines, Graduate Students, Kaapvaal Craton, Mantle Minerals, Undergraduate Students, Water Contents, Bottom, Continent, Cratons, Effect, FTIR, History, Hydrogen, Incorporated, International, Lithosphere, Margins, Modeling, Peridotite, Trace, Xenoliths.

Determination of the 176-lutetium Decay Constant in Planetary Materials and Implications for the Lu-Hf Evolution of the Interior of the Earth
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Audrey M Bouvier($143,403), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Lu-hf Isotopic Composition, Lu-hf Isotopic, Planetary Evolution, Billion, Formation, Geochemical, Initial, Planets, Processes.

Trace Element Characteristics of Zircon: A Means of Assessing Mineralization Potential of Granitoid Intrusions and Porphyries
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. John H Dilles($227,038), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Barren Intrusions, Mineral Deposits, Arc, Crust, Efforts, Global, Industry, Intrusive, Magmas, Magmatic, Mineralized, Porphyry, Produce, Rare, Trace, Tracer, Zircon, Zircons.

Re-Os Geochemistry to Test Recurrent Fluid Flow in the Crust
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Holly J Stein($279,997), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Central India, Fluid Movement, Ore Minerals, Age, Application, Approach, Billion, Broad, CITZ, Crust, Dating, Geologic, Geology, Geoscientists, Global, Has, Indian, Introduction, Isotope, Lineament, Models, Nearly, Ore-forming, Os, Processes, Re-os, Student, Tectonic, Timing, Unique.

RUI: Crystallization of Hydrous Silicic Melts in Nature and Experiments
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Mona-Liza C Sirbescu($181,371), Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant
Key terms: Chemical And Isotopic, Crystal Growth Rates, Glass Transition Temperatures, Isotopic Boundary Layers, Cooling Rates, Crystallization History, Dissolved Water, Experimental Observations, Magmatic Texture, Melt Inclusion, Rapid Crystallization, Solidification Front, Ahead, CMU, Component, Composition, Compositions, Consequences, Evidence, Existence, Field-based, Fluid, Fractionation, Geochemical, Granitic, Hydrous, Kinetics, Larger, Liquids, Low, Measured, Melts, Michigan, Mineral, Missouri, Mpa, Nucleation, Quantify, Sheets, Silicic, Spherulitic, Strong, Synthetic, Textural, Textures, Undercooled, Undercooling, Undergraduate, Unidirectional, Univ.

Collaborative Research: Magmatic Evolution of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii: Past, Present and Future
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Aaron J Pietruszka($169,771), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
2. Michael O Garcia($267,420), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Hawaiian Plume, Hawaiian Volcano, Kilauea Lavas, Kilauea Volcano, Lava Chemistry, Magmatic Plumbing, Mantle Source, Mauna Kea, Rift Zone, Shield Stage, Active, Ages, Andor, Assessing, Basaltic, Compared, Compositional, Core, Depleted, Eruption, Evolution, Future, Geochemical, Geophysical, Graduate, HSDP, Halemaumau, Has, Involve, Kilaueas, Melting, Oo, Petrologic, Processes, Pu`u, Rate, SOH, Sources, Summit, Time, Undergraduate, Volcanoes, Volcanos.

Mechanisms and Dynamics of Magma-Water Interactions: Case Studies From Iceland
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Christopher W Hamilton($250,023), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: External Water, Magma-water Interactions, Magmatic Gases, Allow, Ash, Eruption, Explosive, Explosivity, Fragmentation, Has, Iceland, Involve, Involved, Magma-water, Process, Society, Volcanic.

Experimental Investigations of the Role of H2O in Subduction Zone Processes
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Timothy L Grove($397,810), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Experimental Studies, Mantle Melting, Mantle Wedge, Subduction Zone, Allow, Amount, Carried, Chemical, Composition, Crust, Crystallization, Depth, Earth, Eruption, Evolution, Experiments, Flow, Flux, Formation, HO, Has, Importance, Influence, Information, Ingredient, Magma, Magmas, Models, Mt, Processes, Quantitative, Volcanoes.

Collaborative Research: Dating Subduction Zone Metamorphism: Testing the Effect of Pressure-temperature Path on Lawsonite Lu-Hf Geochronology
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Sean R Mulcahy($98,377), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. Jeffrey D Vervoort($48,530), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Active Subduction Zones, Ancient Subduction Zones, Garnet And Epidote, Timing And Rates, Dating Lawsonite, Franciscan Complex, Lawsonite-bearing Rocks, Luhf Method, Metamorphic History, Sivrihisar Massif, Ability, Ages, Conditions, Crust, Earth, Lawsonite-bearing, Metamorphism, Minerals, Processes, Technique, Temperatures.

Trace Element Mobility in the Sub-Solidus: Accessory Mineral Stability, Fluids and the Role of the Rock
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Callum J Hetherington($184,159), Texas Tech University, Lubbock
Key terms: Accessory Mineral, Accessory Minerals, Chemical Environment, Geologic Fluids, Mineral Stability, Texas Tech, Application, Behavior, Development, Distribution, Metamorphism, Mobility, Models, Natural, Processes, Quantify, Reactivity, Rock, Trace.

Evaluation of Intracrystalline Zoning and Grain-scale Intercrystalline Variations in the Oxygen Isotope Composition of Minerals in Metamorphic Rocks by Ion Microprobe
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. John M Ferry($228,524), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Metamorphic Mineral Reactions, Oxygen Isotope Analysis, Oxygen Isotope Composition, Ion Microprobe, Maximum Temperature, Metamorphic Rocks, Chemical, Conditions, Diffusion, Earth, Formed, Grains, Information, Intracrystalline, Isotopes, Magnitude, Mass, Metamorphism, Minerals, Proceed, Rate, Situ, Spatial.

Structure-Based Thermodynamic Properties of Feldspars
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Ross J Angel($398,341), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Earth's Crust, Elastic Properties, Feldspar Minerals, Plagioclase Feldspars, Alkali, Allow, Cation, Composition, Comprise, Crystal-chemical, Description, Elasticity, Equation, Framework, Half, Knowledge, Little, Model, Naalsio, Pressure, Previous, Range, Structural, Temperature, Thermodynamic.

Highly Siderophile Elements as Tracers of Mantle-crust Interactions in Subduction Zone Metamorphic Rocks
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Sarah Penniston-Dorland($300,027), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Catalina Schist, Hybridized Rock, Isotopic Compositions, Mass Transfer, Mélange Zones, Overlying Mantle, Reaction Rinds, Subducting Slab, Subduction Zone, Undergraduate Students, Aqueous, Complex, Component, Critical, Crust, Fluidsmelts, Found, HSE, Ideal, Infiltration, Information, Involved, LILE, Mafic, Maryland, Melting, Metamorphic, Mixing, Multiple, Processes, Relative, Sedimentary, Tracers, Ultramafic.

Diamonds and Other Ultra-high Pressure Minerals From Paleo-suboceanic Mantle - possible Mantle Recycling
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Larissa Dobrzhinetskaya($259,159), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: High-pressure Polymorph, National Laboratory, Plate Boundaries, Podiform Chromitite, Podiform Chromitites, Uhp Minerals, Analyses, Boundary, Chromite, Crystallization, Deep, FIB, Formation, Formed, High-pressure, Host, Inclusions, Investigate, Luobusa, Mantle, Mantle-derived, Melting, Moho, Nano, Near, Partial, Processes, Promotes, Rock, Student, Students, Technologies, Via, Zone.

Collaborative Research: He-CO2-N2 Isotopes and Dissolved Gases in Groundwaters of the Costa Rica Fore-arc Margin
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Adrian J Brearley($167,923), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
2. David R Hilton($244,588), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Cold Springs, Costa Rica, Earthquake Activity, Gas Composition, Subduction Zones, Volcanic Front, Aims, Atmosphere, Characteristics, Continuously, Fluids, Fore-arc, Has, Hydrogeology, Investigate, Isotope, Local, Localities, Mantle, Monitoring, Occurring, Plate, Potential, Region, Released, Sampling, Sections, Structural, Subducted, Subducting, Temporal, Various, Volatile, Volatiles, Volcano.

Collaborative Research: Fluid Transport and Fluid-Rock Interactions Preserved in Two Serpentinite Melanges in the Guatemala Suture Zone
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Hannes K Brueckner($48,441), Columbia University, New York
2. George E Harlow($252,609), American Museum Natural History, New York
Key terms: Mantle Wedge, Mass Transport, Serpentinite Mélanges, Sr-nd Isotopic, Subduction Channel, Subduction Zones, Vein Rocks, Wet Conditions, Assess, Chemical, Composition, Continent, Crust, Entering, Exhumation, Fault, Fluid, Fluids, Formed, GSZ, Gpa, Guatemala, Jadeitite, Li, Minerals, Minor, Modification, Omphacitite, Overlying, Protolith, Sources, Sr-nd, Training.

Testing Models of Magma Generation in Warm-slab Subduction Zones: A Case Study of Volatiles in the Cascade Arc
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Paul Wallace($295,274), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Subducted Oceanic Crust, Cascade Volcanoes, Cascades Arc, Beneath, Earth, HO, Inclusions, Inside, Involve, Magma, Mantle, Melt, Process, Region, Subduction, Volatile, Volatiles.

Osmium Isotope and Highly Siderophile Element Abundance Studies of Mantle Sources Sampled by Ocean Island Basalts
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. James Day($263,126), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Oib Mantle Sources, State-of-the-art Analytical Techniques, Canary Islands, Graduate Student, Highly Siderophile, Mantle Heterogeneity, Mascarene Islands, Ocean Island, Os Isotope, State-of-the-art Analytical, Abundance, Abundances, Activity, Atiu, Crust, HSE, Ir, Isotopes, Lavas, Mangaia, Pd, Primitive, Pt, Rarotonga, Re, Recycled, Ru, Sr-nd-os-pb, Strong, Training.

Using Thallium Isotopes to Assess Relative Contributions of Pelagic Sediments and Altered Oceanic Crust to Arc Magmas
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Sune G Nielsen($296,716), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Altered Oceanic Crust, Sediments And Altered, Subducting Oceanic Crust, Mantle Wedge, Pelagic Sediments, Sediment Subduction, Slab Fluxes, Subduction Zones, Tl Isotope, Tl Isotopes, Undergraduate Students, Age, Arc, Arcs, Carried, Chemical, Discharged, Fluid, Highly, Melting, Program, Signatures, Slabs, Thermal, WHOI.

Water in Nominally Anhydrous Minerals of the Lower Crust
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Sheila J Seaman($174,989), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Athabasca Granulite Terrane, Geologic Survey, Lower Crust, Abundance, Anhydrous, Canada, Deformation, Distribution, Does, Earth, Extent, Field, Influence, Interior, Mantle, Minerals, Nams, Planetary, Primary, Processes, Quartz, Saskatchewan, Water.

Renewal: Chemistry of the Earth's Deep Interior
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Russell J Hemley($388,063), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Crystallographic Sites, Lower Mantle, Newly Developed, Allows, Chemistry, Conditions, Development, Facilities, Fe, Geochemical, Iron, Mg, Mgfesio, Mineral, National, Nature, Paradigm, Phase, Phases, Physics, Ppv, Pressure-temperature, Spin, Students, Synchrotron, Techniques, Training, Xray.

Subduction Zone Metamorphic Pathway in Deep-Earth Carbon Cycling
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2011; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Gray E Bebout($262,235), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
Key terms: Deeply Subducted Carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Atmosphere, Field, Metamorphic, Observations, Rock, Subduction, Surface, Theoretical, Via, Volcanic.

Support for Attendance by Early Career Geochemists and Petrologists to the Mineralogical Society of America Short Course on Sulfur in Magmas and Melts in August 2011
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. James D Webster($9,990), American Museum Natural History, New York
Key terms: Short Course, Summer School, Activities, Experimental, Fields, Geochemistry, Germany, Glasses, Held, Involving, Melts, Natural, Petrology, Processes, Society, Steel, Sulfur, Th, Travel.

The Deep Lithosphere Filter and the Growth of Continental Arcs
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Cin-Ty A Lee($372,999), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Beneath Continental Arcs, Arc Lithosphere, Arc Magmas, Continental Crust, Deep Lithosphere, Deep Lithospheric, Mantle Wedge, Aspects, Cumulates, Differentiation, Directly, Does, Eruption, Evolution, Geochemical, Has, Importance, Magmatic, Objective, Observed, Particular, Plate, Processes, Rapidly, Region, Represent, Shallow, Society, Surface, Xenoliths.

MARGINS: Seismic Evidence for Hydration of the Central American Slab: Guatemala Through Costa Rica
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Clifford H Thurber($108,261), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Beneath El Salvador, Salvador And Guatemala, Beneath Nicaragua, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Geochemical Studies, Mantle Wedge, Subduction Zone, Arc, Central, Contributions, DELTA, Degree, Fluid, Has, Seismic, Slab, Syracuse, Velocity.

Conditions of Melt Generation Associated with the Colorado Plateau
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2011; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Mary R Reid($146,937), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: Chemical Properties, Colorado Plateau, Reveal Heterogeneities, Transition Zones, Upper Mantle, Beneath, CP, Characteristics, Clinopyroxene, Conditions, Destabilization, Dynamics, Earth, Especially, Estimates, Evolution, Insights, Lithologic, Lithosphere, Melt, Melting, Olivine, Origin, Pressures, Rock, Scenarios, Seismic, Southwestern, Structure, Temperatures, Usarray, Volcanism.

RAPID: Pyroclastic Surge Dynamics in the 2010 Merapi Eruption
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Barry Voight($49,472), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Explosive Eruption, Pyroclastic Flows, Volcano Observatories, Academic, Crises, Crisis, Deposits, Developed, Dome-collapse, Has, Local, Merapi, Modeling, Opportunity, RAPID, Surge, Surges, Worldwide.

Collaborative Research: Stable Isotope Systematics of Gold-silver Telluride Deposits: A Theoretical and Experimental Approach
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Paul G Spry($294,571), Iowa State University, Ames
2. Edwin A Schauble($166,696), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Stable Tellurium Isotope, Stable Tellurium Isotopes, Tellurium Isotope Systematics, Geological Survey, Gold Deposits, Isotope Fractionation, Solar Panels, Academia, Au-ag-te, Chemistry, Copper, Determined, Epithermal, Golden, Government, Has, Industry, Information, Minerals, Ore, Origin, Orogenic, Processes, Sources.

Collaborative Research: Little Devils Postpile Revisited: Intercalibration of Thermochronometer Kinetics in a Contact Aureole
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Peter W Reiners($79,465), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Peter K Zeitler($193,209), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
3. Richard A Ketcham($92,597), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
4. David L Shuster($80,877), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
Key terms: Geologic Interpretations Derived, Kinetic Calibrations, Kinetic Models, Natural Experiment, Natural Laboratory, Relatively Simple, Thermal Histories, Allow, Applications, Complexities, Conditions, Dating, Establish, Fission-track, Opportunity, Park, Performed, Profiles, Rock, Thermochronologic, Thermochronometers, Uncertainties.

Collaborative Research: Rates of Carbonate Formation in the Samail Ophiolite, Oman: Implications of Ultramafic Weathering for the Carbon Cycle
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Kenneth W Sims($29,632), University of Wyoming, Laramie
2. Susan E Humphris($99,222), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Capture And Storage, Anthropogenic Input, Atmospheric Co2, Carbonate Veins, Exposed Mantle, Mantle Peridotites, Natural Carbonation, Natural Peridotite, Peridotite Carbonation, Ultramafic Rocks, Ages, Carbonates, Global, Has, Mitigate, Poorly, Rate, Rates, Weathering.

Collaborative Research: The Dynamics of Rhyolite Lava Eruption and Emplacement Inferred from Micro-Textures, Decompression Experiments, and Numerical Modeling
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2011; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Michael Manga($98,700), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. James E Gardner($387,869), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Cooling And Gas, Yellowstone National Park, Degassing Histories, Microlite Textures, Multiple Lavas, Obsidian Flows, Obsidian Lava, Obsidian Lavas, Rhyolite Magma, Aid, Ascent, Commonly, Compositional, Crystals, Distributions, Erupted, Eruption, Establish, Experiments, Fast, Grow, Growth, Microlites, Orientations, Outpourings, Rates, Sizes, Spherulites, Surface, Volume, Wyoming.

Testing Models for Continental Growth and Melt-Rock Interaction from 186Os-187Os-Hf-Nd-Sr Isotopes in SW USA Mantle Xenoliths
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2011; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Alan Brandon($338,147), University of Houston, Houston
Key terms: Sclm Via Partial, Via Partial Melting, Continental Growth, Convecting Mantle, Crustal Provinces, Dish Hill, Isotopic Compositions, Juvenile Crust, Melt Depletion, Melt-rock Interaction, Model Ages, Sw Usa, Undergraduate Students, Compositional, Consistent, Constrain, Educational, Ga, Internship, Lithosphere, Measured, Melt-rock, Os, Osos, Peridotite, Peridotites, Petrogenesis, Processes, Programs, Senior, Stabilization, Timing, UH, Xenolith, Xenoliths.

Diamonds Through Time and Space: Unique Windows on Mantle Evolution
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2011; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Steven B Shirey($290,992), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Diamond Geology Content, Convecting Mantle, Mantle Keel, Mantle Minerals, Transition Zone, Water Content, Age, Ages, Brazil, Carried, Components, Composition, Continent, Deep, Derived, Diamonds, Educational, Exhibit, Exhibits, Geodynamic, Growth, History, Host, Inclusion, Inclusions, Isotopic, Kimberlites, Million, Processes, Recycled, Reveal, Setting, Settings, Smithsonian, Sources, Stabilization, Subduction.

Testing the Slushball Earth Model for the Paleoproterozoic Glacaiations in Uniquely 18-O Depleted Rocks from Karelia, Russia
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2011; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Ilya N Bindeman($212,660), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: International Collaboration, Isotope Depletion, Isotopic Values, Low Isotopic, Meteoric Water, Models Suggest, Stable Isotope, Climate, Current, Cycle, Depleted, Extreme, Geochronologic, Hydrogen, Involve, Karelia, Metamorphic, Mil, Oxygen, Paleoproterozoic, Panglacial, Ratios, Rock, Slushball, Snowball, Stability, Students, Surface, Unfrozen.

Aqueous Aluminosilicate Polymers: Transport Agents in Crustal and Mantle Fluids?
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2011; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Craig E Manning($398,382), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Pressures And Temperatures, Deep Metasomatic, Polymeric Solutes, Dissolution, Earth, Environments, Experimental, Fluids, Geofluids, Mantle, Minerals, Silica, Solubility, Structures.

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

1. Charles Mandeville($163,275), American Museum Natural History, New York
Key terms: Woods Hole Oceanographic, Isotope Geochemistry, Isotopic Compositions, Isotopic Fractionation, Natural History, Rhode Island, Silicate Melt, AMNH, Advise, Analysis, Assessment, Carried, Chemical, Degassing, Determined, Effects, Female, Fugacity, Glasses, Inclusions, Ion, Kelley, Magmas, Mantle, Museum, Nsf-funded, Oxygen, Phase, Phases, Program, REU, Recycling, S-bearing, SIMS, Source, Sulfur, TRUST, Trapped, Volatile, Volcanic.

A Stochastic Phase-tracking Snow Micro-structure Model
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Andrew E Slaughter($170,000), Slaughter Andrew E, Bozeman
Key terms: Snow Metamorphism, Snow Micro-structure, Capable, Cornell, Evolution, Experience, Ice, Methods, Micro-structure, Model.

Examining the mechanical behavior and evolution of the southern San Andreas fault system through determination of late Quaternary slip rates and distinct element simulations
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Kimberly Blisniuk($170,000), Blisniuk Kimberly, Menlo Park
Key terms: Cosmogenic Nuclide, Faults Observed, Geochronologic Studies, Time Scales, U-series Dating, Behavior, Berkeley, California, Clasts, Displacements, Evolution, Field, Has, Landforms, Mechanical, Methods, Models, Offset, Skills, Thousands, U-series.

Assessing patterns of deformation across the Precordillera thrust belt of northwestern Argentina: A multiple thermochronometer study of foreland exhumation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Julie C Fosdick($170,000), Fosdick Julie C, Stanford
Key terms: Northwestern Argentina, Arizona, Basin, Belt, Belts, Central, Deformation, Education, Exhumation, Fellow, Foreland, Precordillera, Processes, Tectonic.

EAR PF: Geomagnetic paleointensity from time-equivalent high and low latitude magmatic events in the late Mesoproterozoic
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Nicholas L Swanson-Hysell($170,000), Swanson-Hysell Nicholas L, Minneapolis
Key terms: Magnetic Field, Earth, Examine, Igneous, Minnesota, Nicholas, Paleointensity, Strength, Students, Time.

EAR-PF: Diffusion of water in clinopyroxene
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Elizabeth Ferriss($170,000), Ferriss Elizabeth, White Plains
Key terms: Ascent Rate, Volcanic Eruptions, Clinopyroxene, Diffusion, Experiments, Melt, Models, Natural, Water.

EAR-PF: Separating Regional from Global Influences on the Paleomagnetic Record
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Leah B Ziegler($170,000), Ziegler Leah B, La Jolla
Key terms: Ancient Magnetic Field, Earth's Magnetic Field, Dipole Field, Earth's Magnetic, Field Strength, Applications, Chronological, Complexities, Cores, Correlation, Education, Features, Geographically, Global, Has, Lead, OSU, Observable, Outreach, Regional, Resolve, Sediments, Source, Thousands.

Erosional Effects of Climate Change from Single-Clast Be-10
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Devin McPhillips($170,000), McPhillips Devin, New Haven
Key terms: Senior Thesis, Cobblestones, Concentrations, Erosion, Students, Vermont.

EAR-PF: Mechanism of Soil Organic Matter Stabilization within Subsurface Soil Aggregates
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Yoko M Slowey($170,000), Slowey Yoko M, Palo Alto
Key terms: Som Stabilization Mechanisms, Som Turnover Rate, Som Turnover Time, Soil Aggregates, Subsurface Soils, Yoko Masue-, Carbon, Controlling, Metabolic, Redox, UCSB.

EAR-PF: High-resolution boron isotope variation in marine carbonate fossils: Insights on the timing and mechanisms of Ordovician climate change.
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Cara K Thompson($170,000), Thompson Cara K, Knoxville
Key terms: Marine Carbon Isotope, Boron Isotope, Earth's History, Global Climate, Late Ordovician, Glaciation, Pco, Proxy, School, Students, Undergraduate.

'Clumped' isotope geochemistry of 18-O2 for paleohydrology and paleobiology
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Laurence Y Yeung($170,000), Yeung Laurence, Pasadena
Key terms: Biosphere Productivity, Graduate Students, Los Angeles, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Distribution, Experiments, Global, Isotopologue, OO, Program, Respiration, Techniques.

EAR-PF: Vertebrate Bioapatite Fossilization: Multi-proxy Investigation of Biogenic Preservation and Diagenesis
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2011; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Celina A Suarez($170,000), Suarez Celina A, Lawrence
Key terms: Apatite Crystallinity, Collagen Preservation, Diffusion Times, Fossilization Process, Geochemical Analyses, Investigate Fossilization, Lsamp Program, Raman Spectroscopy, Stable Isotope, Te Concentration, Uptake Mechanisms, Accomplished, Analysis, Biogenic, Bone, Bones, Chemical, Distribution, Environments, Geochemistry, Identification, In-situ, Isotopic, Model, Multiple, Paleoecology, Plans, Profiles, Signals, Tools, Trace, Vertebrate, Vertebrates, Zoning.

CSEDI Collaborative Research: Integrating Seismological, Rheological and Petrological Studies of Melt Production in Subduction Zones
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. James G Hirth($40,117), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Arc Front, Hot Mantle, Mantle Wedge, Melt Transport, Subduction Zones, Along-strike, Approach, Available, Central, Content, Fabric, Flow, Geochemical, Geophysical, Integration, Marianas, Melting, Models, Observations, Parameters, Regions, Seismic, Slab, Step, Theoretical, Volatiles, Volcanic, Water.

CSEDI Collaborative Research: Integrating Seismological, Rheological and Petrological Studies of Melt Production and Transport in Subduction Zones
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Douglas A Wiens($66,932), Washington University, Saint Louis
2. Benjamin K Holtzman($217,124), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Arc Front, Hot Mantle, Mantle Wedge, Melt Transport, Subduction Zones, Along-strike, Approach, Available, Central, Content, Fabric, Flow, Geochemical, Geophysical, Integration, Marianas, Melting, Models, Observations, Parameters, Regions, Seismic, Slab, Step, Theoretical, Volatiles, Volcanic, Water.

CSEDI Collaborative Research: Next Generation Modeling of Core Turbulence via Combined Laboratory, Numerical and Theoretical Models
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Keith Julien($300,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Jonathan M Aurnou($290,020), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Asymptotically Reduced, Earth's Core, Rapidly Rotating, Rotating Convection, Turbulent Convection, Core-style, Dynamo, Dynamos, Modelers, Models, Planetary.

CSEDI collaborative research: a multidisciplinary approach to investigate the origin of anisotropy at the base of the mantle
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Burkhard Militzer($383,209), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. Allen McNamara($112,532), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Lowermost Mantle, Mineral Physics, Seismic Anisotropy, Seismic Observations, Strain Deformation, Allow, Anisotropic, Available, Boundary, CMB, Complex, Convection, Elastic, Experiments, Focused, Forward, Geodynamic, Information, LPO, Macroscopic, Modeling, Models, Processes, Properties, Recently, Resulting, Set, Tools, Was.

Core dynamics experiments in the three meter geodynamo device
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Daniel S Zimmerman($498,204), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Earth's Core, Liquid Metal, Magnetic Field, Magnetic Fields, Array, Device, Dynamic, Dynamics, Generation, Induced, Initial, Interaction, Model, Probes, Resolve, Rotating, Rotation, Sodium, Turbulence, Turbulent.

Collaborative Research: Estimating the mantle contribution to the Geo-neutrino flux at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Stephen T Dye($35,142), Hawaii Pacific University, Honolulu
2. William F McDonough($269,120), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Continental Crust, Antineutrino, Antineutrinos, Canada, Compositional, Constrain, Content, Detection, Detector, Detectors, Distribution, Electron, Information, Inside, Liquid, Mantle, Models, Neutrino, Nuclear, Planet, Power, Radioactive, Th.

2011 Interior of the Earth Gordon Research Conference
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Nancy R Gray($40,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Gordon Conference, Graduate Students, Asthenosphere, Dynamics, Evolution, Exchange, Focus, GRC, GRS, Gordon-kenan, Interior, June, Link, Mantle, Nature, Particular, Range, Seminar, Topics.

Tuning Dynamo Models to Paleomagnetic Observations
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Catherine Constable($424,559), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Geomagnetic Field, Outer Core, Time-varying Models, Boundary, Core-mantle, Deep, Dynamics, Dynamo, Fields, Flux, Influence, Interactions, Linked, Magnetic, Processes, Scripps, Structure, Systematic, Thermal, Thousand, Time-scales, Time-varying, Tools.

CAREER: Phase Diagrams and Elasticity of Iron Alloys in the Earth's Core
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2011; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Jung-Fu Lin($571,716), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Earth's Deep Interior, Pressures And Temperatures, Students And Postdoctoral, Earth's Core, Earth's Deep, Inner Core, Iron Alloys, Mineral Physics, Synchrotron X-ray, Composition, Deep-earth, Issues, Knowledge, Laboratory, Observations, Phenomena, Properties, Seismic, X-ray.

Collaborative Research: Chronology and Paleoecology of late Quaternary Proboscidean Extinctions in the Great Lakes Region (USA)
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Gregory W Hodgins($196,588), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Chris Widga($212,940), Illinois State Museum Society, Springfield
3. James D Walker($76,701), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Individual Life Histories, Proboscidean Ecological Niches, Factors Underlying, Human Hunting, Lakes Region, Late Quaternary, Niche Structure, Proboscidean Extinctions, Relative Importance, Terminal Pleistocene, Diet, Examine, Has, Mobility, Populations, Proboscideans, Processes, Regional.

An Integrated Hydrologic Model Intercomparison Workshop to Develop Community Benchmark Problems
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Reed M Maxwell($25,738), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: Complex Models, Benchmarking, Coupled, Environmental, Hydrologic, Integrated, Intercomparison, Workshop.

Collaborative Re:Temporal resolution in benthic assemblages: assessing and modeling the roles of burial dynamics, seafloor type, and intrinsic factors using (un)natural experiments
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Adam Tomasovych($300,000), University of Chicago, Chicago
2. Clark R Alexander($210,000), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Biological Information, Death Assemblages, Sedimentary Cores, Skeletal Accumulation, Skeletal Assemblages, Southern California, Temporal Resolution, Altered, Analysis, Animals, Biomonitoring, Burial, Century, Coastal, Conditions, Continent, Conventional, Dating, Decades, Ecological, Ecosystems, Environmental, Especially, Experiments, Extensive, Factors, Field, Final, Fossil, Has, Historically, Intrinsic, Journals, Lab, Marine, Natural, Neo-biological, Paleontological, Progressive, Public, Rates, Region, Remains, Seafloor, Shelf, Shell, Shells, Surveys, Unnatural.

EAGER: Search for a Paleotsunami Record in the Wetlands of Southern California
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2011; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Matthew E Kirby($57,703), CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation, Fullerton
Key terms: Densely Populated, Holocene Sea-level, Past Tsunamis, Southern California, Submarine Landslides, Tsunami Deposit, Coast, Coastal, Earthquake, Frequency, Geologic, Geological, Has, Historical, Information, Inundation, Japan, Local, Magnitude, Modeling, On-site, Power, Sea-level, Seismic, Triggered, Verify, Wetlands.

Workshop: Major Research Initiative in Sedimentary Geology and Paleontology: Production of a Science Plan
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2011; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Judith T Parrish($65,261), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
Key terms: Climate, Dynamics, Extinction, History, Life, Opportunities, Processes, Sedimentary, Workshop.

Collaborative research: Testing Himalayan tectonic and erosional history via chronostratigraphic correlation between the Lesser Himalaya and Indian craton
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Shuhai Xiao($70,000), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
2. Nigel C Hughes($180,189), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
3. Ganqing Jiang($55,459), University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas
4. Paul Myrow($59,985), Colorado College, Colorado Springs
Key terms: Erosional History, Himalayan Region, Himalayan Uplift, Indian Craton, Lesser Himalaya, Margin Succession, Requires Knowledge, Wide Range, Accepted, Bengal, Cambrian, Continuous, Correlation, Detailed, Environmental, Exotic, Geochemical, Global, LH, Million, Mountain, Neoproterozoic, Northern, Pis, Rock, Significantly, Strata, Suggest, Tectonic.

The Paleoecology and Evolution of White Sharks: An Isotopic Study
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Paul L Koch($48,021), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Modern And Ancient, Shark Ecology, Undergraduate Students, White Sharks, Allow, Contribute, Ecological, Explore, Feeding, Growth, Historical, Isotope, Marine, Set, Tools.

Cretaceous Vertebrates from Madagascar: A Window into the Biogeographic and Plate Tectonic History of Gondwana
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Patrick M O'Connor($234,774), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Late Cretaceous Vertebrates, Terrestrial And Freshwater, Cretaceous Age, Mahajanga Basin, Plate Tectonic, Southern Hemisphere, Vertebrate Fossils, Continue, Efforts, Faunas, Gondwana, Island, Lay, Madagascar, Public, Publishing, Specimens, Students.

Terrestrial Age Constraints for the Dicynodon Assemblage Zone, South Africa: Implications for the Timing of the End-Permian Mass Extinction
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Robert A Gastaldo($125,000), Colby College, Waterville
Key terms: Single Crystal Zircons, Volcanic Ash Deposits, Biodiversity Trends, Karoo Basin, Mass Extinction, South Africa, Wapadsberg Pass, Age, Based, Collapse, Detrital, Elsewhere, Grains, Land, Life, Oceans, Reported, Simultaneously, Was, ±.

Workshop: Tsunami sedimentology and its role in hazard awareness, preparedness, assessment and mitigation
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Robert Weiss($47,818), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Tsunami Deposit, Tsunami Deposits, Tsunami Hazard, Tsunami-deposit Studies, Assessment, Awareness, Basic, Bring, Coastal, Designs, Education, Engineering, Engineers, Geologic, Geologists, Importance, Increase, Information, Interdisciplinary, Means, Mitigation, NSF, Preparedness, Priorities, Public, Social, Storm, Tsunami-deposit, Tsunamis, Workshop.

NSF RAPID: Salvaging a newly discovered dinosaur trackway from southwest Arkansas, USA.
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Stephen K Boss($10,000), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Key terms: Arkansas Department, Cretaceous, Dinosaur, Geosciences, Global, Opportunity, Site, Tracks, Trackway, Trackways.

The exceptionally preserved Fezouata Biota from the Lower Ordovician of Morocco: a unique window into the Cambro-Ordovician faunal transition
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Derek Briggs($203,874), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Burgess Shale-type, Fezouata Biota, Animals, Biotas, Cambrian, Considerable, Discoveries, Exceptionally, Fossils, History, Life, Marine, Morocco, Museum, Ordovician, Preservation, Rock, Shale-type, Shells, Simply, Students, Unique, Yale.

Collaborative Research: A multi-proxy approach to Early Miocene community, landscape, and climate reconstruction, Ethiopian Plateau
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Ellen D Currano($78,171), Miami University, Oxford
2. Bonnie F Jacobs($190,142), Southern Methodist University, Dallas
3. Aaron Pan($42,493), Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, Fort Worth
4. Francesca A McInerney($98,417), Northwestern University, Evanston
Key terms: Goethite And Stomatal, Temperature And Pco2, Global Temperature, Mammal Bones, Multiple Independent, Past Climate, Africa, Ago, Biogeographic, Biotic, Compare, Comparing, Decline, Description, Ethiopian, Eurasia, Extraordinary, Fauna, Flora, Fossil, Fossils, Frogs, Has, History, Landscape, Leaves, Methods, Million, Miocene, Modern, Paleoclimate, Paleoecology, Plant, Plateau, Proxies, Reconstruction, Rise, Rock, Soft, Students, Terrestrial, Time, Was.

RUI: Deciphering Origins of Vertebrate Microfossil Bonebeds: A Comparative Taphonomic and Paleoecological Approach in the Late Cretaceous of Montana
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2011; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Kristina A Curry Rogers($175,614), Macalester College, Saint Paul
Key terms: Vertebrate Microfossil Bonebeds, Fossil Vertebrate, Late Cretaceous, Public Outreach, Abundance, Collections, Comparative, Component, Deposits, Formation, Macalester, Montana, Processes, River, Smithsonian, Vmbs.

RAPID: The Snowmastodon Project
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Ian Miller($10,000), Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver
Key terms: Roaring Fork Valley, Ice Age, Bison, Climate, Colorado, Comprehensive, DMNS, Dam, Discovery, Ecosystems, Education, Elevation, Exceptionally, Fossil, Fossils, Geochronology, Lake, Local, Mammoths, Mastodons, Oct, Opportunities, Plan, Plant, Pleistocene, Programs, Regional, Reservoir, Resources, Rocky, Sequence, Site, Undertake.

Collaborative Workshop: An Internet Resource for Integrating Plate Tectonic and Paleogeographic Mapping with On-line Earth Science Databases
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Francesca A McInerney($1,196), Northwestern University, Evanston
2. Melanie J Hopkins($20,047), Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
Key terms: Internet Resource, Plate Tectonic, Database, Developing, Earth, Evolution, House, Maps, Paleogeographic, Story, Web-based, Workshop.

RAPID: Connecting the historic 2011 Mississippi River flood to marsh sedimentation on the Delta
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2011; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Douglas J Jerolmack($49,982), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Key terms: Coastal Louisiana, Mississippi River, Aims, Atchafalaya, Dynamics, Enhance, Expected, Flood, Marsh, Model, Plumes, Rates, Satellite, Sediment, Sedimentation, Surface.

RAPID: Mississippi Flood of 2011 - Investigation of Initial Impact on the Landscape
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2011; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. James L Best($59,238), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Lower Mississippi River, Lidar Survey, Mississippi Flood, Birds, Characterize, Diversions, Flow, Landscape, Robert, Sampling, Sediment, Soil, Surrounding, Transport.

RAPID: Sediment, water, and nutrient flux and fate in Lake Pontchartrain from the 2011 Bonnet Carre Spillway Opening.
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2011; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. John R White($99,957), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Conservation And Restoration, Flux And Fate, Delta Restoration, Engineered Diversions, Fresh Water, Mississippi River, Nutrient Flux, BCS, Bonnet, Century, Coastal, Fluxes, Gt, LP, Lake, Louisiana, MRD, Nutrients, Reasons, Sediment, Spillway, Strong, Waters, Wetlands.

RAPID: Observations of Sediment Scour and Deposition in the Vicinity of Ports and Harbors from the 11 March 2011 Japan Tsunami
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Robert Weiss($99,561), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Ports And Harbors, Coastal Infrastructure, Engineering Evaluation, Inundation Dynamics, Near Coastal, Tsunami Damage, Tsunami Inundation, Assessment, Barriers, Characteristics, Characterization, Comprehensive, Deposits, Effects, Erosion, Field, Interdisciplinary, Look, Marinas, Pacific, Scour, Sediment, Survey, Surveys, Transport, Tsunamis.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Integrated Paleoceanographic Analysis of the Late Paleozoic Midcontinent Sea
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Achim D Herrmann($157,000), Arizona State University, Tempe
2. Thomas J Algeo($74,990), University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati
3. James E Barrick($107,999), Texas Tech University, Lubbock
Key terms: Black Shale, Environmental Conditions, Midcontinent North, Superestuarine Circulation, Deposition, Modern, Paleozoic.

Collaborative Research: The Effects Of Broad-Scale Climate Variability on Evolutionary Pattern: Comparative Tempo and Mode in Cretaceous and Neogene Marine Molluscs.
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Peter J Harries($82,166), University of South Florida, Tampa
2. Dana H Geary($89,316), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
3. Warren Allmon($105,300), Paleontological Research Institute, Ithaca
Key terms: Tempo And Mode, Broader Significance, Approaches, Builds, Climate, Cretaceous, Environmental, Evolution, Evolutionary, Examine, Furthermore, Has, Icehouse, Influence, Intervals, Investigate, Issue, Nature, Neogene, Rate, Relatively, Specifically, Units, Various, WIS.

Collaborative Research: Integrated Paleoceanographic Analysis of an Ancient Epeiric Sea
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Bernd J Haupt($112,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Black Shale, Environmental Conditions, Midcontinent North, Superestuarine Circulation, Deposition, Modern, Paleozoic.

Collaborative Research: Records of Permian Environments and Climate from Mid-Continent Redbeds and Evaporites.
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Kathleen C Benison($242,995), Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant
2. Michael J Soreghan($232,027), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Climate, Climatic, Environments, Evaporites, Lakes, Mid-continent, Permian, Redbeds, Saline, Soreghan.

RUI: THE CHENGJIANG SCIENTIFIC DRILLING PROJECT AND AN INTEGRATED MODEL FOR UNDERSTANDING BURGESS SHALE-TYPE DEPOSITS
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2011; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Robert R Gaines($184,036), Pomona College, Claremont
Key terms: Anshan Shale, Bst Deposits, Burgess Shale-type, Chengjiang Deposit, Exceptional Fossilization, Exceptional Fossils, Analyses, Benthic, Cambrian, Chemistry, Environment, Geochemical, Microbial, Microstratigraphic, Paleoenvironments, Preservation, Principal, Processes, Shale-type, Specific, Was, Yuanshan.

Higher-Taxon Fidelity: Comparative Taphonomy of Marine Benthic Associations in Holocene Depositional Systems of Coastal North Carolina
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2011; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Michal J Kowalewski($168,865), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Assessing Human Impacts, Coastal Habitats, Dead Shellfish, Marine Animals, North Carolina, Shellfish Remains, Activities, Allow, Developing, Diverse, Ecological, Environmental, Field, Fossil, Has, Live, Living, Namely, Organisms, Past, Post-doctoral, Present-day, Primary, Rigorous, Undergraduate.

Ichnology and Sedimentology of Glaucony Greensands: Paleoenvironmental, Sequence Stratigraphic and Paleoclimatic Implications
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Allan A Ekdale($134,008), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Sea Level Dynamics, Geologic Column, Green Marine, Greensand Occurrences, Sea Floor, Sequence Stratigraphy, Trace Fossils, Assistant, Beds, Deposits, Facies, Field, Glaucony, Ichnofabrics, Ichnology, Interpret, Investigate, Mineralogy, Observations, Relation, Sedimentary, Sedimentologic, Sedimentology, Spectrum, Utah.

Early Career: Acquisition of a gas source mass spectrometer, technical support, and outreach for research in paleoclimate
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Aradhna Tripati($390,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Accurate, Carbonate, Climate, History, Instrumentation, Past, Range, Temperature.

Workshop Proposal for a "Deep Time Earth-Life Observatory Network" (DETELON)
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Douglas H Erwin($49,970), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Executive Committee, Observatory Network, White Paper, Broader, Conditions, DETELON, Future, History, Paleontological, Plan, Planet, Preliminary, Themes, Workshop.

Workshop to Identify Major Research Initiatives in Sedimentary Geology and Paleontology
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Judith T Parrish($23,030), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
Key terms: Societal Concerns, Climate, Critical, Dynamics, Extinction, Forward, History, Life, Opportunities, Processes, Sedimentary.

Collaborative Research: Statistical Methods for Quantifying Autogenic Processes in Sedimentary Basins
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Elizabeth A Hajek($161,106), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Kyle Straub($175,887), Tulane University, New Orleans
Key terms: Changing Environmental Conditions, Autogenic Signals, Sea Level, Sedimentary Basins, Sedimentary Deposits, Statistical Methods, Ability, Climate, Courses, Delta, Deltas, Faculty, Generate, Manage, Orleans, Pis, Processes, Produced, Resources, River, Stratigraphic, Stratigraphy, Students, Tectonic, Tulane.

Collaborative Research: Population Ecology Models for Carbonate Sediments
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2011; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Donald C Potts($24,999), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
2. Christopher J Jenkins($25,664), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Carbon, Carbonate, Correct, Global, Modeling, Organisms, Processes, Sediments, Statistics.

Geohistorical Baselines of Osyter Reef Health: A Paleoecological Response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2011; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Jessica G Lambert($38,628), Paleontological Research Institute, Ithaca
Key terms: Deepwater Horizon Oil, Horizon Oil Spill, Conservation Efforts, Ecological Effects, Marine Ecosystems, Marine Invertebrates, Oyster Reef, Oyster Reefs, Abundance, Approach, Baseline, Diversity, Especially, Exhibit, Future, Gulf, Information, Initiatives, Long-term, Management, Outreach, Policy, Pris, Public, Recognition, Resulting.

Coupling Ecology and Taphonomy: An Integrated Model of Molluscan Death Assemblage Genesis
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Thomas D Olszewski($203,312), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Death Assemblages Relative, Dead Shells, Environmental Conditions, Field Experiments, Species Composition, Studying Ecological, Ages, Alteration, Diversity, Habitats, Living, Model, Molluscs, Nature, Past, Postmortem, Potential, Previous, Processes, Recognizing, Remains, Surveys, Texas, Time, Unlock, Variety.

GSA Penrose Conference on "Deformation, Fluid Flow and Mass Transfer along Convergent Margins"
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: Tectonics

1. Donald M Fisher($15,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Convergent Margins, Fluid Flow, Mass Transfer, Conference, Deformation, Earthquake, Forearc, International, Links, March, Meeting, Observations, Opportunity, Plate, Processes, Seismogenesis, Structure, Students, Topics.

Collaborative Research: Evaluating the Influence of Eocene Ridge Subduction on Magmatism, Deformation, and Basin Evolution, Pacific NW
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Tectonics

1. Jeffrey H Tepper($66,483), University of Puget Sound, Tacoma
2. Samuel A Bowring($203,177), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
3. Robert B Miller($95,851), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
4. Paul J Umhoefer($110,935), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: Oceanic Ridges, Pacific Northwest, Puget Sound, Ridge Subduction, Sedimentary Basins, Undergraduate Students, Ancient, Available, Convergent, Critical, Features, Geologic, Margin, Million, Modern, Participating, Plate, Processes, Studying, Tectonic.

Collaborative Research: Transient landscapes, temporally variable erosion rates, and the impact of glaciation and climate change on landscape morphodynamics
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Tectonics

1. Lewis A Owen($111,110), University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati
2. James A Spotila($318,891), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Glaciated Mountain Ranges, Erosion Rates, Glacial Erosion, Plate Tectonics, Climate, Complex, Conditions, Curiosity, Earth, Efficient, Factors, Glaciation, Glaciers, Global, Has, Influence, Landscape, Landscapes, Linked, Million, Observations, Onset, Processes, Rapid, Rock, Suggest, Thresholds, Uplift.

Structural Geology and Tectonics Forum
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Tectonics

1. Paul M Karabinos($35,100), Williams College, Williamstown
Key terms: Geology And Tectonics, Graduate Students, Short Courses, Structural Geology, Andor, Bring, Building, Current, Days, Discussions, Education, Faculty, Field, Fieldtrips, Focus, Forum, Future, Google, Held, Interaction, Meeting, Minority-serving, Opportunity, Presentations, Session, Sessions, Two-year, Useful, Workshops.

Collaborative Research: Hypothesis Testing of a Mediterranean-style Closure of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Tectonics

1. Amy Weislogel($225,124), West Virginia University Research Corporation, Morgantown
2. Asish R Basu($230,482), University of Rochester, Rochester
Key terms: Mediterranean-style Model, Ocean Basin, Paleo-tethys Ocean, Tibetan Plateau, Western Mediterranean, Ancient, Closure, Continent, Geologic, Mediterranean-style, Modern, Paleo-tethys, Rock, Tectonic, Testing.

Age of the Socorro Magma Body: Surface Uplift History from River Terrace Correlation and Cosmochronology
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Tectonics

1. James B Harrison($102,767), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Midcrustal Magma Bodies, Socorro Magma Body, Surface Uplift, Terrace Remnants, Age, Ages, Central, Characteristics, Cl, Constrain, Crust, Depth, Evolution, Inflation, Insar, Largest, Lies, Mexico, Mmyr, Models, Onset, Rate, Rates, Rifting, Terraces.

Collaborative Research: An Integrated Tectonic Study of the Jamaica Strike-slip Restraining Bend and Gonave Microplate Using GPS, Geomorphologic, Seismic, and Gravity Data
Award Effective Date: 09/23/2011; Program: Tectonics

1. Paul Mann($53,777), University of Houston, Houston
Key terms: Earthquake Hazard Assessment, Gonave Microplate Motion, Fault Slip, Plate Motion, Seismological Network, Slip Rates, Budget, Caribbean, Country, Establish, Geomorphologic, Gravity, Has, Island, Jamaica, Jamaican, Models, Near, Populated, Seismic, Southern.

Testing the Hypothesis that Detachment Faults are Active and Generate Microearthquakes
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Tectonics

1. Darrel S Cowan($57,986), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Death Valley, Detachment Faults, Gently Dipping, Low-angle Normal, Mechanically Impossible, Normal Faults, Active, Aseismic, Challenge, Detachments, Earthquakes, Experiment, Large-scale, Microearthquakes, Movement, Observed, Seismogenic, Seismometers, Slip, Tectonic, Western.

Collaborative Research: Improved Cenozoic Paleoelevation Estimates for the Sierra Nevada, California: Linking Geodynamics and the Atmospheric Sciences
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Tectonics

1. Matthew Huber($210,187), Purdue University, West Lafayette
2. Joseph Galewsky($209,798), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Atmospheric Dynamics, Paleoclimate Scenarios, Precipitation Isotopic, Sierra Nevada, Studies Argue, Surface Elevation, Surface Uplift, Advance, Ago, Approach, Cenozoic, Climate, Eocene, Evolution, Geological, History, Interpreting, Isotope, Late, Limited, Million, Modeling, Modern, North, Paleoaltimetry, Persistent, Proxy, Range, Settings, Techniques, Tectonic, Topography.

Microstructure in Marble: Evolution of Strength in Natural and Laboratory Deformation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Tectonics

1. Brian J Evans($434,818), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Lattice Preferred Orientation, Carbonate Rocks, Field Studies, Grain Size, Shear Zones, Studies Indicate, Accessory, Creep, Deformation, Dispersion, Kinetics, Laboratory, Localization, Mechanical, Natural, Observations, Phase, Shape, Strain, Strength.

Collaborative Research: Exploring Extensional Tectonics Beyond the Ethiopian Rift
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Tectonics

1. Rebecca O Bendick($301,361), University of Montana, Missoula
2. Lucy Flesch($275,910), Purdue University, West Lafayette
3. Kathleen M Keranen($126,967), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Main Ethiopian Rift, Continental Breakup, Plate Tectonics, Rift Zone, Beyond, Crust, Deformation, Existing, Extension, Has, Heterogeneous, Implications, Large-aperture, Lithosphere, Lower, Ongoing, Processes, Region, Rifting, Stretching, Surface, View.

Fluids in Continental Fault Zones: Evidence From Neomineralized Clays
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Tectonics

1. Rob Van der Voo($230,372), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Approach, Circulation, Clays, Continent, Crust, Dominant, Fault, Faults, Field, Fluid, Fluids, Has, Involves, Isotopic, Laboratory, Normal, Strike-slip, Surface.

Travel Support for Students and Early-career Professionals to attend Fragile Earth: Geological Processes from Global to Local Scales, Associated Hazards and Resources
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: Tectonics

1. John W Hess($20,000), The Geological Society of America, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: International Conference, Local Scales, Processes, Students, Topics.

Tracking the Siberian-Laurentian Detrital Transition in the Farewell Terrane, Southwestern Alaska
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Tectonics

1. Brian A Hampton($116,397), Michigan State University, East Lansing
Key terms: Origin And Tectonic, Alaska Range, Arctic Alaska, Crustal Fragments, Detrital Zircon, Eastern Siberia, Farewell Terrane, Late-stage Transport, Tectonic History, Accretion, Canada, Circum-arctic, Components, Continent, Contribute, Cordillera, Early-stage, Extent, Field, Geologic, Has, Lab, Largest, Late-stage, Margin, Michigan, North, Northern, Originated, Paleozoic, Reflected, Regions, Remote, Siberian-arctic, Source, Terranes, U-pb, Western.

Collaborative Research: Differential Geometry and Statistics of Deformation Tensors
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Tectonics

1. Sarah J Titus($74,502), Carleton College, Northfield
2. Basil Tikoff($210,288), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Deformation Tensors, Structural Geology, Applied, Collaboration, Compute, Deformations, Ellipsoids, Field, Geologists, Lie, Mathematics, Models, Program, Theory, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Testing Hypotheses for Neotectonic Mantle-Driven Surface Uplift of the Colorado Plateau Region
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Tectonics

1. Andres Aslan($94,870), Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction
2. Karl E Karlstrom($324,101), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Upper Mantle Convection, Colorado Plateau, Grand Canyon, National Park, Surface Uplift, Ages, Dating, Domains, Fluid, Gauge, Incision, Involves, Landscape, Processes, Region, Students, Web.

The Earthquake Cycle and its Role in Permanent Vertical Deformation in the Western Solomons Arc from Coral Paleogeodesy of the Past Few Centuries
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Tectonics

1. Frederick W Taylor($343,466), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Convergent Plate Margins, Elastic Strain Accumulation, Convergent Margin, Convergent Margins, Crustal Motions, Earthquake Cycle, Interplate Thrust, Longer-term Net, Plate Convergence, Seismogenic Zone, Solomon Islands, Tectonic Deformation, Vertical Deformation, Vertical Motions, Volcanic Eruptions, Continent, Corals, Coseismic, Dated, Earthquakes, Forearc, Generation, Has, History, Largest, Living, Longer-term, Movements, Permanent, Produced, Rupture, Slip, Temporary, Time, Uplift, Western.

Collaborative Research: Geochemical Imaging of Post-Pangean Lithospheric Structure in the Southern Appalachians
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Tectonics

1. Craig Grimes($84,822), Mississippi State University, Mississippi State
2. Paul A Mueller($276,118), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Faculty And Students, Florida And Mississippi, Graduate And Undergraduate, Atlantic Ocean, Continental Crust, Granitic Bodies, Lithospheric Structure, Suwannee Suture, African, Alleghanian, Ancient, Boundary, Collision, Considered, Contributing, Critical, Earthscope, Formation, Formed, Geochemical, Geophysical, Has, Magmatic, Modern, North, Pangea, Pangean, Produced, Region, Rock, Rupture, South, Spatial, Supercontinent, Tectonic, Was, Zone.

Collaborative Research: Crustal Overturn in Continental Margin Arcs During Magmatic Surges
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Tectonics

1. Mihai N Ducea($197,751), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Scott R Paterson($231,132), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: 105-85 Ma, Host Rocks, Magma Fluxes, Magmatic Arcs, Orogenic Belts, Subduction Zones, Vertical Displacement, Crust, Depth, Dramatically, Geochronology, Incorporating, Magmatism, Plate, Plutons, Rates, Rise, Society, Strain, Tempo, Was.

The Pamir Frontal Thrust System: Rates, Style, and Controls on Deformation
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Tectonics

1. Bodo Bookhagen($275,006), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Optically Stimulated Luminescence, Deformation Rates, Tian Shan, Active, Date, Erosion, Erosion-deformation, Faults, Kezilesu, Lies, Linkage, Methods, Pamir, Region, River, Seismic, Structures, Unequivocal.

Eclogites in the Yukon-Tanana Terrane, Canadian Cordillera: Subduction Erosion of the Overriding Plate?
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Tectonics

1. Jane A Gilotti($140,481), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Subduction And Exhumation, Via Subduction Erosion, Eclogite Formation, Geological Survey, Host Rocks, Overriding Plate, Yukon-tanana Arc, Canada, Canadian, Cordillera, Eclogites, High-pressure, Involves, Metamorphic, Microprobe, Mineral, Students, Subducting, Terrane, Terranes, Yukon-tanana.

Filling the Eastern Himalayan Gap: Structural Architecture and Kinematics of the Himalayan Orogen in Bhutan
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Tectonics

1. Nadine McQuarrie($48,146), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Fold And Thrust, Eastern Portion, Lower Himalayan, Sedimentary Cover, Thrust Belt, Ages, Bhutan, Collision, Deformation, Deformed, Development, Estimates, Geometry, Handful, History, India, Kingdom, Lesser, Magnitude, Main, Minimum, Mountain, Northern, Quantify, Range, Regional, Rock, Shortening, Timing.

How Does the Mid-crust Accommodate Deformation in Large, Hot Collisional Orogens? Insight from the Himalaya-Tibet System
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Tectonics

1. Dawn Kellett($366,356), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Main Central Thrust, Thrust-wedge Taper Models, Channel Flow, Himalayan Orogen, Midcrustal Rocks, Ramgarh Thrust, Santa Barbara, Thrust-wedge Taper, California, Collision, Continent-continent, Crust, Deformation, Evolution, Foreland, Formed, Front, Single, Space, Students, Time, Timing.

Ediacaran Paleomagnetism and Geochronology of Eastern Baltica: A Key to Paleogeography and Climatic History of the Continent
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Tectonics

1. Joseph G Meert($301,950), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: True Polar Wander, Geologic Time, Ago, Animals, Baltica, Biological, Cambrian, Configurations, Continent, Explosion, Field, Florida, History, Interval, Million, Paleomagnetic, Period, Rapid.

Collaborative Research: Australia Down Under: Quantification of Rates and Amount of Continental Subduction During Neogene Arc-continent Collision on Timor
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Tectonics

1. Nadine McQuarrie($278,552), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Arc-continent Collision, Continental Crust, Ocean Basins, Arc-continent, Basis, Closure, Demise, Has, Island, Magnitude, Margin, Oceanic, Plate, Rock, Sedimentary, Subducted, Subduction, Tectonic, Timor.

Collaborative Research: Provenance and Thermal Evolution of the Chugach-Prince William Terrane Flysch, Southern Alaska
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2011; Program: Tectonics

1. Cameron Davidson($212,563), Carleton College, Northfield
2. John I Garver($231,779), Union College, Schenectady
Key terms: Chugach-prince William Terrane, Keck Geology Consortium, Near-trench Igneous Rocks, Origin And Thermal, William Terrane Formed, Accretionary Complex, Basin Formation, Chugach-prince William, Continental Margin, Geoscience Pipeline, Near-trench Igneous, Ridge Interaction, Thermal Evolution, Effort, Framework, Geosciences, Has, History, Hydrocarbon-rich, Increasing, Intruded, North, Ntrench, Oceanic, Participation, Productive, South, Strong, Student, Students, Subduction, Subsequent, Tectonic, Time, Timing, Training, Translation, Under-represented, Undergraduate, Was, Western.

Reconstructing the Late Cenozoic History of Surface Uplift and Climate Change in the Central Rocky Mountains
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2011; Program: Tectonics

1. Majie Fan($304,179), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Central Rockies, Rocky Mountains, Sea Level, Stable Isotope, Surface Uplift, Ago, Amount, Ancient, Basin, Basins, Carbonates, Climate, Elevation, Elevations, Formed, Has, Million, Presentation, Region, Sedimentology, Sets, Timing, Upper.

Collaborative Research: Integrated Tectonic and Paleomagnetic Study of the Early Cenozoic Rotation and Extrusion of Asian Crust Around the Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2011; Program: Tectonics

1. John W Geissman($116,607), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
Key terms: Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis, Extruded Indochina Crustal, Lanping Simao Fold, Simao Fold Belt, Crustal Fragments, Lanping-simao Belt, Lower Tertiary, Southeast Asia, Close, Define, Deformed, Entire, Exposed, Extrusion, Has, Jurassic, Lanping-simao, Lithosphere, Observations, Process, Processes, Region, Regions, Remains, Rotation, Structures, Syntaxial, Tectonic, Translation, Vietnam, West, Western, Yunnan.

Collaborative Research: Timing, Extent, and Spatial Progression of Neogene Displacement Transfer, Southern Walker Lane, Western Great Basin
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2011; Program: Tectonics

1. John W Geissman($145,926), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
Key terms: Translational And Rotational, Distributed Strain, Sierra Nevada, Tectonic Blocks, Accommodated, Assess, Basin, Belt, Continent, Crust, Deformation, Degree, Detailed, Displacement, Faults, Histories, Misaligned, Motion, Processes, Structural, Structures, Transcurrent, Vertical-axis, Western, °.

Forearc Uplift in Northern Chile
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: Tectonics

1. Jason Phipps Morgan($430,886), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Convergent Plate Margins, Broken Rock, Continental Surface, Gravity Field, Plate Boundary, Secondary Consequences, Tectonic Erosion, Activity, Altitude, Ancient, Below, Beneath, Channel, Chile, Compared, Descends, Earth, Earthquakes, Feet, Generate, History, Million, Models, Originally, Outcomes, Predict, Processes, Removed, Scenario, Scenarios, Shared, Stress, Time, Topographic, Topography, Varied, Volcanic.

Sponsoring Early Career Researchers for Penrose Conference: Deformation Localization in Rocks
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: Tectonics

1. Dyanna M Czeck($26,306), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
Key terms: Cap De Creus, Tectonic Plate Interactions, Earth's Lithosphere, Field Conference, Shear Zones, Analytical, Diverse, Dynamics, Early-career, Features, International, Natural, Structures, USA.

Collaborative Research: Comparative Studies of Circum-Arctic Neoproterozoic-Paleozoic Terranes
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: Tectonics

1. Francis A Macdonald($273,985), Harvard University, Cambridge
2. William McClelland($195,156), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Northern Ellesmere Island, Arctic Alaska, Circum-arctic Geology, Crustal Fragments, Educational Displays, Exotic Terranes, Geological Evolution, Baltic, Basin, Circum-arctic, Continent, Cordilleran, Cretaceous, Exhibit, Formed, Geosciences, HNHM, Harvard, Has, Iowa, Laurentia, Models, Museum, Neoproterozoic, Origin, Paleozoic, Pearya, Realm, Recently, Rock, Students, Suspect, Tectonic, Training, Western.

Collaborative Research: Isotopic, Geochronologic, and Tectonic Character of the Western Piedmont, Virginia - Implications for the Closing of Iapetus
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: Tectonics

1. James P Hibbard($272,638), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
2. Brent V Miller($82,292), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Main Iapetan Suture, Texas Aandm, Appalachians, Closure, Fault, Geology, Global, Iapetus, Isotopic, Magmatic, Meetings, North, Outreach, Paleozoic, Students, U-pb, Virginia, Zircon.

Collaborative Research: Effects of Structural and Compositional Heterogeneity on Upper Mantle Deformation and Rheology
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: Tectonics

1. Julie Newman($237,376), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
2. Basil Tikoff($255,222), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Larger Spatial Scales, Lithospheric Mantle Exerts, Deformational Behavior, Dun Mountain, Heterogeneous Fabrics, Mantle Deformation, Mantle Heterogeneity, Mountain Building, Naturally Deformed, Rock Deformation, Tectonic Plates, Analyses, Analysis, Cm, Control, Critical, Earth, Effect, Extent, Localization, Overprinting, Processes, Red, Rheology, Structural, Surface, Texture, Uppermost, Zealand.

Mechanical Deformation, Failure Mode and Permeability Evolution in Carbonate Rock
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2011; Program: Tectonics

1. Teng-fong Wong($197,931), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Carbonate Rocks, Failure Mode, Fluid Flow, Mechanical Deformation, Complex, Development, Importance, Laboratory, Micromechanical, Microstructure, Observations, Permeability, Physics, Processes, Stress, Tectonic.

Petrologic and Chronologic Evaluation of Himalayan Tectonic Models in Southern Bhutan
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2011; Program: Tectonics

1. Matthew J Kohn($204,863), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Collisional Orogenesis, Deformation Behavior, Metamorphic Rocks, Tethyan Rocks, Bhutan, Chronologic, Crust, Does, Himalaya, Himalayan, Intact, Model, Models, Section, Stratigraphic.

The Kinematic Significance of Folds in the Paleoproterozoic Foxe Fold Belt, Melville Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Tectonics

1. John C Hepburn($215,027), Boston College, Chestnut Hill
Key terms: Fold Hinges, Melville Peninsula, Numerical Modeling, Archean, Canada, Dating, Deformation, FFB, Field, GSC, Inuit, Invaluable, Kinematics, Nunavut, Paleoproterozoic, Rock, Rotation, Shear, Structures, Students, Techniques, Tectonic, Tested, Transport, Trend, WSW.

RUI: The Frazier Mountain Paleoseismic Site: Evaluation of Fault Behavior Models with Geologic Data from the Big Bend Section of the San Andreas Fault, CA
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: Tectonics

1. Cynthia M Liutkus($219,567), Appalachian State University, Boone
Key terms: Fault Behavior Models, San Andreas Fault, Southern San Andreas, Earthquake Recurrence, Seismic Hazard, Comparison, Earthquakes, Gap, Near, Paleoseismic, Past, Produced, Rates, Rupture, Sites, Slip, Time.

Dating Illitic Fault Rocks, and Applications to Cordilleran Normal Faults
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2008; Program: Tectonics

1. Rob Van der Voo($163,220), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Collective History, Fault Movements, Fault Rocks, Age, Approach, Authigenic, Brittle, Characterization, Clay, Dating, Deformation, Faulting, Faults, Growth, K-rich, Measured, Method, Mineral, Populations, Public, Shallow, Timing, Western.

The Keck Geology Consortium--Providing Collaborative and Year-long Research Experiences for Undergraduates
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2011; Program: nan

1. Robert J Varga($783,894), Pomona College, Claremont
Key terms: Proceedings Volume, Annual, Consortium, Contributions, Culminating, Experiences, Keck, Program, Students.

Facility Support of the WInSAR Archive for Crustal Dynamics Research
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2008; Program: nan

1. Eric Fielding($299,772), UNAVCO, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: Crustal Deformation, Spaceborne Sar, Unavco Facility, Archive, Insar.

NSF-GEO-EAR Awards for 2011

RCN-SEES: The Marcellus Shale Research Network Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: AISL

Mongolia 3D Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: AISL

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Synchronizing the North American Varve Chronology and the Greenland Ice Core Record Using Meteoric 10Be Flux Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Facilitating New Discoveries in Seismology and Exploring the Earth: The Next Decade Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

Ecohydrology in Permafrost Systems: The Impact of Watershed Heterogeneity on Stream Flow Dynamics and Hydrologic Pathways Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

Collaborative Research: CDI-Type II: From Data to Knowledge: The Quake-Catcher Network Award Effective Date: 03/10/2011; Program: CDI TYPE II

Software Infrastructure for Construction of Internally Consistent Thermodynamic Databases Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: CI REUSE

Integrated Analytical-Computational Analysis of Microstructural Influences on Seismic Anisotropy Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: CI REUSE

CAREER: Visualizing Earth's Core-Mantle Interactions using Nanoscale X-ray Tomography Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: CLB-Career

Digital, Layered and Manipulateble Maps for the SE and E part of the Tibetan plateau: A new type map presentation Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Collaborative Research: Great Earthquakes, Megathrust Phenomenology and Continental Dynamics in the Southern Andes Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Advances in Seismology and Implications for Interdisciplinary Research Adam M. Dziewonski Symposium Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Collaborative Research: The suturing process: Insight from the India-Asia collision zone Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Collaborative research: Integrated studies of early stages of continental extension: From incipient (Okavango) to young (Malawi) rifts Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Petrologic Study of Peridotite Carbonation in Oman: Temperature, Timing and Fluid Composition Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Acquisition of a multi-collector, inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (MC-ICP-MS) Award Effective Date: 12/15/2011; Program: CR-Water Sustainability & Clim

GeoSoilEnviroCARS: A National Resource for Earth, Planetary, Soil and Environmental Science Research at the APS Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: CR-Water Sustainability & Clim

Acquisition and Upgrading of Equipment for High Pressure-Temperature Research in Mineral Physics Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: CR-Water Sustainability & Clim

Facility Support: The WiscSIMS National Ion Microprobe Award Effective Date: 04/15/2011; Program: CR-Water Sustainability & Clim

Designing a Network of International Critical Zone Observatories (CZO) Award Effective Date: 11/01/2011; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

CAREER: Understanding Processes related to Arroyo systems, southern Utah Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

Quantifying the effects of an extreme earthquake on a large river system Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

CZO: Critical Zone Observatory--Snowline Processes in the Southern Sierra Nevada Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

2011 Bi-Lateral Workshop Under the Sino-US Earthquake Studies Protocol Award Effective Date: 04/15/2011; Program: Catalyzing New Intl Collab

Acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometer for Multidisciplinary Research and Education Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research:Aftershock Imaging with Dense Arrays (AIDA) for the August 23, 2011, Mw 5.8, Virginia earthquake aftershock sequence Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

RAPID: Hurricane Irene Storm Surge Sedimentation Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

Acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Plasma - Optical Emission Spectrometer for Geological and Environmental Applications Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

RAPID: Real-Time Investigations of the Tohoku and Darfield Earthquake Sequences Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

Integrating Understanding Science into Pre-Service Teaching Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Discovery Research K-12

EAGER: Upper-plate Response to a Great Eathquake: Integrating Deformation from Seismic to Geologic Timescales Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

Field, Laboratory, and Numerical Studies of Geyser Eruptions Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

REU Site: Natural History Research Experiences Award Effective Date: 05/15/2011; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

Collaborative Research: Integration of USArray Magnetotelluric and Seismic Data in the Pacific Northwest Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Formation of Basement-involved Foreland Arches: An Integrated EarthScope Experiment Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Noise Observatory for Imaging the Subsurface Beneath Yellowstone (NOISY) Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Dynamics of Crust-Mantle Coupling through Combined Analysis and Modeling of EarthScope Seismic, Geodetic, and Geologic Data Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Time-Lapse Monitoring for Detection of Transient Stress Changes in Geysers Geothermal Field Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Using Geodesy to Separate Transient and Steady Extension in the Basin and Range Province, Western United States Award Effective Date: 06/15/2011; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Northern Embayment Lithosphere Experiment (NELE) Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Systematic Analysis of Dynamic Earthquake Triggering Using the USArray Data Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Lowrider: The Where, When, and How of Continental Crustal Underplating Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Structure and Dynamics of the North American Craton - An EarthScope Swath from the Ozarks to the Grenville Front Award Effective Date: 05/15/2011; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

2011 EarthScope Workshop: Opportunities for EarthScope Science in Alaska in Anticipation of USArray Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

EarthScope Institute: The Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Mantle Structures Beneath USArray Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Characterizing PBO Borehole Strainmeters: Calibration, Earthquake Response, Noise Statistics and Sources Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Study of Postseismic Deformation Due to the 2010 M7.2 El Mayor (Mexico) Earthquake Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Infrasonic Hotspot Mapping and Atmospheric Probing with the USArray Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Workshop Series for Early Career Geoscientists: Navigating NSF, Aspects of a Successful Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, and How to Network for Professional Success Award Effective Date: 12/01/2011; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Paleointensity, morphology, and stability of the Proterozoic geomagnetic field as recorded by mafic dikes in India Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Participant Support for the Annual Conference of the National Association of Black Geologists and Geophysicists, September 7-10, 2011 Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Research Experience for Undergraduates Site on Sustainable Land and Water Resources Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER: Bridging Earthquakes and Earth Structure along the Northern San Andreas Fault Award Effective Date: 06/15/2011; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER: Exhumation of a High-Grade Metamorphic Terrane, and Late-Stage Orogenic Collapse in the Southeastern New England Appalachians Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER: Studies of Magnesium Isotope Geochemistry Award Effective Date: 05/15/2011; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

REU Site: Fluids in the Earth from Surface to Core Award Effective Date: 05/15/2011; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

A paleomagnetic and geochronological re-investigation of the ~1.1 Ga Coldwell complex: Implications for the reversal asymmetry in Keweenawan rocks Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Geoscience Graduate Research Grants Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Board on Earth Sciences and Resources and Its Activities Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

A workshop on research opportunities in sustainable energy pathways for the Earth-surface process community Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

Mixing and Reactions in Highly Heterogeneous Media - Can Nonlocal Models handle them? Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

Modeling Floodplain Dynamics: Can the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta Keep Up with the 21st Century Sea Level Rise? Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

Collaborative Research: Coastal Geomorphic Consequences of Wave Climate Change Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

SEES Workshop: Natural and Engineered Carbon Sequestration Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

CAREER: Understanding CO2-Fluid-Mineral Interfacial Reactions for Sustainable Geologic CO2 Sequestration: An Integrated Research and Education Plan Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

Geothermal at the Environmental, Energy and Economy Nexus Workshop in Salt Lake City, UT Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

Proposal for a Workshop on Basic Research at the Intersection of Marine/Hydrokinetic Energy and the Aquatic Environment Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

Environmental and social implications of hydraulic fracturing and gas drilling in the United States: An integrative science and policy workshop Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

Collaborative Research: Permeability Enhancement by Fluid Pressure Oscillations Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

MRI: Acquisition of an Electron Microprobe (EMP) for analysis of inorganic elemental concentrations in solid-state materials: Expanding science research and teaching in Iowa. Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Histories of Large Silicic Magma Evolution at Changbaishan Volcano: Insights From Accessory Minerals Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: Combining Methods from Geochemistry and Molecular Biology to Predict the Functions of Microbial Communities Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: Constraining Volcanic Jet Dynamics with Infrasound Using Numerical and Empirical Models Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

REU Site: The influence of climate change on biogeochemical processes in northern ecosystems: An international perspective in Earth System Science Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: Evaluating Ancestry of the Tibet Plateau: Did a Mesozoic Proto-plateau Exist? Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: UNDOCUMENTED SHORELINES OF LAKE BONNEVILLE: NEW PALEOCLIMATIC AND HYDRODYNAMIC INTERPRETATIONS Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Tracking Exhumation of Ultrahigh-pressure Terranes: Linking Thermobarometers and Geochronometers Through REE Chemistry Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

CAREER: The role of spatial scale in continental tectonics Award Effective Date: 06/15/2011; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding