EAGER Renewal: Mongolia 3D
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: AISL

1. Diane LaMacchia($49,988), EARTH IMAGES FOUNDATION, Oakland
Key terms: Hangay Dome, Mongolia 3d, Central, Documentary, Film, Format, Processes, Video.

International Workshop on Tracer Applications of Noble Gas Radionuclides in the Geosciences
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Neil C Sturchio($25,000), University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: 85kr And 39ar, Argonne National Laboratory, Noble Gas Radionuclides, International Workshop, National Laboratory, Tracer Applications, ATTA, Broad, Circulation, Determining, Geoscience, Geosciences, Groundwater, Ice, Isotopic, Opportunities, Range, Tracing, Transformative.

Estimating global subduction mass transport
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: CI REUSE

1. Thorsten W Becker($301,618), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Lower Mantle, Interdisciplinary, Models, Slab, Software, Stagnation, Transition, Transport.

Discrete Element Simulations of Cohesive Contractional Wedges: Kinematics and Mechanics of Fold and Thrust Belts
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: CI REUSE

1. Julia K Morgan($149,977), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Fold And Thrust, Frontal Structures, Thrust Belts, Basement, Carried, Code, Conditions, Decollement, Developed, Discrete, Evolution, Mechanical, Method, Particular, RICEBAL, Responsible, Rice, Simulations, Stratigraphy, Structural.

Theoretical Investigations of Mantle and Core Materials
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: CI REUSE

1. Ronald E Cohen($326,000), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Density Functional Theory, Transition Metal Oxides, Band Theory, Hcp Iron, Inner Core, Iron Metal, Theory Predicts, Transition Metals, AFM, Basic, Believed, Consist, Correctly, DMFT, Does, Dynamical, Earth, Experimental, Experiments, First-principles, Gap, Insulator, LDAU, Magnesiowüstite, Mantle, Methods, Minerals, Observed, Phase, Properties, Standard, Structure, Temperature, Thermal, Transitions, Wüstite.

Support for 21st International workshop on Electromagnetic Induction in the Earth
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Gary D Egbert($20,000), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Australian, EM, Geophysics, International, Sensitivity, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: How Is Rifting Exhuming the Youngest High-pressure and Ultrahigh-pressure (HP/UHP) Rocks on Earth?
Award Effective Date: 09/23/2011; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Paul Mann($58,658), University of Houston, Houston
Key terms: Tectonic Evolution, Uhp Exhumation, Uhp Rocks, Depth, Involves, Objective.

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

1. Stacia Gordon($266,136), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Asia Collision, Plate Dynamics, Continent, Earth, Global, Indiaasia, Oceanic, Process, Processes, Structural, Subduction, Suturing.

WSC-Category 2 Collaborative: Robust decision-making for South Florida water resources by ecosystem service valuation, hydro-economic optimization, and conflict resolution modeling
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: CR-Water Sustainability & Clim

1. Christopher J Martinez($43,447), University of Florida, Gainesville
2. Joseph M Smoak($168,582), University of South Florida, Tampa
3. Kenneth Broad($1,039,080), University of Miami, Coral Gables
4. Robert J Meyer($542,021), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
5. David T Ho($288,954), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
6. Rudolf Jaffe($1,540,583), Florida International University, Miami
7. Jose D Fuentes($300,514), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
8. David W Watkins($430,497), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: Built And Natural, Sea Level Rise, Management Strategies, South Florida, Stakeholder Evaluations, Sustainable Water, Water Management, Water Resources, Water Supplies, Adaptive, Analyses, Approaches, Behavioral, Benefit, Climate, Cognitive, Criteria, Decision, Decision-making, Diverse, Economic, Ensure, Floridas, Hydro-economic, Incorporate, Influence, Information, Intrusion, Land, Managing, Million, Multiple, Objectives, Population, Populations, Scenario, Selection, Stakeholders, Uncertainty, Value.

WSC-Category 3: Sustainable Large-Scale Deployment of Perennial Biomass Energy Crops
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: CR-Water Sustainability & Clim

1. Matei Georgescu($1,484,952), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Biomass Energy Crops, Degraded And Abandoned, Perennial Biomass Energy, Abandoned Farmland, Bioenergy Crops, Expand Opportunities, Agricultural, Climate, Consequences, Coupled, Decisions, Economic, Effects, Enable, Expansion, Large-scale, Local, Modeling, Models, Participation, Promote, Quantify, Resource, Resources, Security, Surface, Sustainable, Water.

WSC-CATEGORY 2 COLLABORATIVE: WATER QUALITY AND SUPPLY IMPACTS FROM CLIMATE-INDUCED INSECT TREE MORTALITY AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN WEST
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: CR-Water Sustainability & Clim

1. Reed M Maxwell($2,322,144), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: Availability And Quality, Platte And Colorado, Rocky Mountain West, Colorado River, Govern Water, Management Practices, Million Acres, Mpb Impacts, Water Resource, Water Supply, Biogeochemical, Climate, Dying, Ecological, Ecosystems, Forested, Forests, Health, Hydrologic, Municipalities, Processes, Quantity, Resources, Social, Stakeholder, Students, Watershed, Workshops.

WSC-Category 3: Collaborative: The role of local water resources in the water sustainability of Los Angeles
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: CR-Water Sustainability & Clim

1. Terri S Hogue($1,025,641), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Ecohydrologic And Decision-making, Local Water Resources, Technical Advisory Board, Decision-making Tools, Local Groundwater, Los Angeles, Southern California, Water Balance, Water Districts, Water Management, Water Sources, Activities, Boundaries, Climate, Complex, Components, Connectivities, Conservation, Constraints, Current, Datasets, Existing, Extensive, Fiscal, Infiltration, Information, Issues, Ngos, Organization, Outreach, Political, Practices, Public, Rainwater, School, Set, Structure, Students.

Acquisition of a new noble gas mass spectrometer and extraction system for the University of Michigan
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: CR-Water Sustainability & Clim

1. M. Clara Castro($652,010), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Mantle Geochemistry, Mass Spectrometer, Noble Gas, Noble Gases, Acquisition, Allow, Behavior, Construction, Equipment, Extraction, Fluids, Ice, Lead, Lines, Michigan, Multiple, Rock.

Early Career: Acquisition of Instrumentation to Measure Electrical Resistivity at the Field and Lab Scale
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Kamini Singha($92,711), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: ER, Electrical, Observations, Penn, Subsurface, Transport.

Measuring Multiple Nuclides in Iron Oxides: Expanding Cosmogenic Nuclide Studies into New Lithologies
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Kunihiko Nishiizumi($149,997), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Cosmogenic, Produced, Quartz.

Coupled biogeochemical cycling of water, silicon and cations in a temperate forest-shale system.
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Jed P Sparks($201,156), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Carbon And Water, Water And Nutrient, Acquire Nutrients, Mineral Nutrient, Nutrient Cycles, Shallow Soils, Soil Water, Water Cycles, Water Sources, Acquisition, Calcium, Climate, Conditions, Forests, Increased, Isotopes, Levels, Predict, Species, Strategies, Temperate, Trees, Variable.

Collaborative Research: The role of layered Fe(II)-Al(III)-hydroxides in the biogeochemical cycling of iron and trace metals in riparian environments
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Evert Elzinga($261,041), Rutgers University Newark, Newark
2. Donald L Sparks($236,175), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Fe And Trace, Biogeochemical Cycling, Dissolved Fe, Flooded Soils, Reductive Dissolution, Released Fe, Riparian Environments, Trace Metal, Trace Metals, Al-bearing, Aquatic, Aqueous, Carbon, Characterize, Conditions, Contaminants, Control, Controlling, Expected, Fate, Feii, Feii-aliii-hydroxide, Feiii-oxide, Fill, Flooding, Formation, Gap, Geochemical, Hypothesize, Importance, Layered, Metalloid, Metalloids, Microbial, Minerals, Phases, Play, Pollutants, Precipitation, Previously, Process, Reaction, Reactivity, Respiration, Restoration, Secondary, Significance, Solution, Structure, Submerged, Substrates, Surface, Thermodynamic, Time, Towards, Toxic, Wetlands.

Intracellular metal pumping in microbial excavation by microbes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Ferran Garcia-Pichel($449,861), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Genetic And Cellular, Model Microbes, Achieve, Agents, Attempt, Boring, Ca, Contribute, Dissolution, Knowledge, Limestone, Mechanism, Mechanisms, Models, Molecular, Potential, Predict, Respect, Substrates, Techniques, Transport, Widespread.

The Geochemical Origins of Water-Oxidation Catalysis
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. William H Casey($386,574), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Birnessite-like, Catalysts, Core, Delicate, Earth-abundant, Energy, Enzyme, Has, Implications, Light, Manganese, Mineral, Mineral-like, Minerals, Mno, Molecules, Oxidation, Oxide, Photosynthesis, Reaction, Reactions, Sheets, Structure, Student, Transition, Trap, Visible, WOC, Was, Water.

Collaborative Research: The Effects of Hydrodynamic and Granular Controls on Bed Load Flux Intermittency: Application to Steep Mountain Streams
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Thanos Papanicolaou($149,902), University of Iowa, Iowa City
2. Douglas J Jerolmack($179,360), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Key terms: Bed Load Transport, Steep Mountain Streams, Granular Bed, Laboratory Experiments, Sediment Transport, Allow, Boulders, Build, Evolution, Examine, Fluid, Image, Infrastructure, Mathematical, Measure, Model, Models, Motion, Movement, Natural, Processes, Protecting, Pulses, River, Sensors, Stresses, Structures, Useful.

Glacio-geomorphic constraints on the climate history of the high, arid Chajnantor Plateau, subtropical northern Chile
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Dylan Ward($380,224), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Arid Subtropical, Atacama Desert, Atmospheric Circulation, Chajnantor Plateau, Glacier Modeling, Subtropical Andes, Additional, Adjacent, Chilean, Climate, Dating, Degrees, Establish, Glacial, Glaciation, Glaciers, Histories, History, Ice, Landscape, Little, Models, Mountain, Past, Precipitation, Region, Required, Run, Snowfall, Sustain, Time, Timing, Was, Water.

Quantifying Sampling Biases and Silicate-Derived Sr in Continental Runoff: A Coupled 87Sr/86Sr - 88Sr/86Sr Study
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink($342,000), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Present-day Mass Balance, Present-day Mass, Strontium Isotope, Continent, Estimates, Marine, Seawater, Srsr, Temporal.

An Accomplishment-Based Request for Renewal of the Susquehanna-Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (SSHO)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Susan L Brantley($1,173,108), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Critical Zone Observatory, Susquehanna Shale Hills, Soil Formation, Soil Moisture, Water Flow, Bedrock, CZO, Chemistry, Climate, Control, Energy, Hillslopes, Isotopes, Models, Observations, Satellite, Site, Soils, Surface.

Early Career: Acquisition of a Mass Spectrometer for Research and Education in Tectonics and Paleoclimate
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Katharine Huntington($365,362), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Mass Spectrometer, Carbonates, Clumped, Education, Students, Thermal.

Early Career: Acquisition of a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility for Earth Science Research at Baylor University
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Patrick J Farmer($92,801), Baylor University, Waco
Key terms: Apply Nmr Spectroscopy, Faculty And Students, Internationally-publicized Short-course Intended, Nmr Summer School, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Reservoir And Aquatic, Solid-state Nmr Facility, Equip Students, Internationally-publicized Short-course, Nsf Funds, Organic Matter, Short-course Intended, Soil Carbon, Solid-state Nmr, Technical Expertise, Temperature Proxy, Terrestrial Paleoclimate, Access, Baylor, Center, Climate, Dynamics, Ecological, Ecosystem, Environmental, Establish, Establishment, Information, Initiatives, Institute, Interdisciplinary, Modern, Paleosol, Purchase, Sediment, Structure, Tool.

International Workshop: Critical Zone Observatories for Sustainable Soil Development and Beyond
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Hailiang Dong($48,000), Miami University, Oxford
Key terms: Chinese Scientists, Critical Zone, Activities, Announcements, CZ, CZO, China, Czos, Ecosystem, Environmental, Established, Global, International, Layer, Meeting, Methods, Network, Objective, Observatories, Opportunities, Processes, Promote, Rates, Site, Sustain, Workshop.

Carbon in karst: Investigating sources, transport mechanisms and isotopic fractionation to advance the interpretation of speleothem climate records
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Jay L Banner($223,903), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Kinetic Isotope Effects, Drip Water, Rooted Plants, Calcite, Carbon, Caves, Composition, Isotopic, Karst, Multiple, Processes, Speleothem, Students, Texas, Tool.

Facility Support: Refurbishing the High-Resolution X-ray Computed Tomography Laboratory Principal Instrument
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. William D Carlson($310,000), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: X-ray Computed Tomography, X-ray Computed, CT, Enabling, Engineering, Has, Image, Instrument, Kev, National, Principal, Range, Resolution, Scanner, Scanning, Sources, Superior, Technology, UTCT.

Early Career: Acquisition of a Powder X-ray Diffractometer for Earth Science Research and Education at Washington University in St. Louis
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Jeffrey G Catalano($175,000), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Activities, Instrument, Phase, Training, XRD.

Upgrade of Raman Micro-Spectroscopy System
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Thomas S Duffy($230,158), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Acquisition, Geosciences, Pressure, Princeton, Raman, Spectrometer, Student.

Developing a Community Information Model and Supporting Software to Extend Interoperability of Sensor and Sample Based Earth Observations
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Emilio Mayorga($551,176), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Information Model, Consortium, Hydrologic, Integrated, Interoperability, Multiple, Observations, Plan, Publishing, Repositories, Specific, Standards, Web.

Collaborative Research: A potential new dust source in the southern hemisphere: Reactivation of the Kalahari dunes
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Gregory S Okin($351,710), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2. Paolo D'Odorico($215,872), University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville
Key terms: Dust Emissions, Dust Source, Kalahari Dunes, Kalahari Environment, Southern Hemisphere, Vegetation Cover, Africa, Arid, Assessment, Atmospheric, Climate, Composition, Has, Land, Potential, Reactivation, Sources.

Collaborative Research: Sediment Transport and Storage in Tidal Floodplain Waterbodies
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Jonathan Woodruff($237,233), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
2. Anna M Martini($31,054), Amherst College, Amherst
3. Daniel G MacDonald($64,280), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth
Key terms: Tidal Floodplain Waterbodies, Connecticut River, Environments Play, Field Site, Tidal Rivers, Contaminants, Designated, Fine-grained, School, Sediment, Significance, Storage, Trapping.

Integrated Data Management System for Critical Zone Observatories
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Anthony K Aufdenkampe($1,503,590), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Czodata Prototype, Ocean Observing, Approach, Based, Capabilities, Center, Collaborative, Consortium, Cyber-infrastructure, Developed, Developing, Development, Hydrological, Integrated, Integrating, Management, Multi-disciplinary, Program, Surface.

Expanding the Geoscience Workforce through the Annual Technical Conference of the National Association of Black Geologists and Geophysicists
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: Centers for Rsch Excell in S&T

1. Stephen K Boss($40,000), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Key terms: Washington Dc, Conference, Environmental, Facilitate, NABGG, St, Students.

Collaborative Research: Are Buried Paleochannels Effective Reactors for Water and Solute Transport in a Deltaic Subterranean Estuary?
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Alexander S Kolker($282,639), Louisiana Universities Marine Corsortium, Chauvin
2. Jaye E Cable($255,576), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
3. Karen H Johannesson($225,996), Tulane University, New Orleans
Key terms: Buried Ancient Channels, Mississippi River Delta, Adjacent Bays, Chemical Cycles, Coastal Ecosystems, Groundwater Discharge, Hydraulic Connection, Main River, Mass Fluxes, River Stage, Sea-level Rise, Bayous, Biogeochemical, Chemistry, Deltaic, Deltas, Flow, Ft, Function, Has, Largest, Little, Metals, Network, North, Nutrients, Ocean, Paleochannel, Play, Produce, Rivers, Sea-level, Sediments, Students, Time, Water.

Collaborative Research: Process Dynamics in the Intermittent Snow Zone
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Jessica D Lundquist($310,125), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Martyn Clark($64,052), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Intermittent Snow Zone, Land Surface, Multiple Methods, Seasonal Snow, Surface Albedo, Climate, Contributes, Estimate, Fluxes, Has, Heat, Internal, Melt, Model, Modeling, Processes, Rain-on-snow, Sensitive, Simulate, Snowpack, Soil, Temperature, Times, Water, Winter.

Collaborative Research: Growth of the Tibetan Plateau and Eastern Asia Climate: Clues to Understanding the Hydrological Cycle
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. John E Kutzbach($334,414), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Richard L Edwards($254,960), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
3. Inez Fung($316,573), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
4. Warren Beck($220,948), University of Arizona, Tucson
5. Gerard Roe($304,005), University of Washington, Seattle
6. Nathan A Niemi($685,383), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
7. Peter H Molnar($250,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
8. Carmala N Garzione($328,738), University of Rochester, Rochester
Key terms: Perturbs Atmospheric Circulation, Tibetan Plateau, Crust, Evolving, Field, Grown, Has, Laboratory, Lithosphere, Techniques, Terrain, Thickening.

Requesting support for young US scientists to attend the Conference on Mathematical Geophysics 2012
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Eli Tziperman($35,000), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Atmospheric And Climate, Travel And Lodging, Climate Dynamics, Mathematical Geophysics, Applied, CMG, Conference, Costs, Faculty, International, Meeting, Models, Oceanography, Students.

EAGER: The Feasibility of Simulating of Weak Volcanic Shockwaves with Analog Modeling
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Jeffrey S Allen($100,482), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: Atmospheric Shock Propagation, Shock Tube Experiment, Explosive Power, Shock Waves, Conditions, Eruption, Feasibility, Generate, Volcanic, Volcano.

Quantifying Rare Earth (REE) and High Field Strength (HFSE) Element Mobility in Fluids at Conditions Appropriate for Forearc to Subarc Cold and Hot Subduction Zones
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Adam C Simon($379,393), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. Adam C Simon($183,070), University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas
Key terms: Pressure And Temperature, Arc Magmas, Experimental Techniques, Metamorphic Dehydration, Phd Student, Subduction Zone, Allow, Aqueous, Ce, Chemistry, Collaboration, Concentrations, Effects, Faculty, Fluid, Fluids, Geochemical, Geoscience, Gpa, HFSE, Has, Involves, K-, Measured, Meetings, Mentor, Nature, Nb, Partitioning, Pis, Piston-cylinder, Process, Regularly, Relative, School, Si, Significantly, Students, Summer, Trace, UNLV, Wherein, Xenotime.

A NEW APPROACH TO EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION OF COUPLED SILICATE DISSOLUTION - PRECIPITATION REACTION RATES AT AMBIENT CONDITIONS WITH SI ISOTOPE SPIKES
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Chen Zhu($299,976), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Co2 Storage, Critical Zone, Dissolution Rates, Earth's Crust, Feldspar Dissolution, Global Warming, Reaction Rates, Abundant, Ambient, Discrepancy, Environmental, Experiments, Feldspars, Field, Geological, Has, Israel, Laboratory, Life, Soil, Stresses, Weathering.

Collaborative Research: REU Site: Integrative approach to landscape evolution in a monogenetic volcanic field. San Francisco volcanic field, northern Arizona
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Stephen DeLong($0), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Joseph M Licciardi($44,500), University of New Hampshire, Durham
3. Nancy R Riggs($305,490), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: Basaltic Volcanism, Northern Arizona, Quaternary Dating, Biosphere, Eruption, Experience, Field, Final, Flagstaff, Lab, Landscape, Mentor, Mentors, Network, Posters, Program, REU, Student, Students, Summer, Week, Weeks.

Collaborative Research: Reorganization of stresses beneath greater Tokyo after the 2011 Tohoku-Oki M9 earthquake
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Andrew Freed($148,000), Purdue University, West Lafayette
2. Thorsten W Becker($177,000), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Afterslip And Viscoelastic, Active Faults, Crustal Stresses, Seismic Hazards, Tohoku-oki Earthquake, Tohoku-oki Rupture, Tokyo Region, Viscoelastic Relaxation, Achieved, Adjacent, Constraints, Decades, Economic, Enable, Fatalities, Geodetic, Insights, Japan, Japanese, Model, Postseismic, Primary, Processes, Seeks, Slip, Tectonic, Tohoku-oki, Transfer, Trillion, Viscous, Was.

Boulder Creek CZO Renewal: Weathered Profile Development in a Rocky Environment and Its Influence on Watershed Hydrology and Biogeochemistry
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Noah P Molotch($1,000,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Boulder Creek Critical, Creek Critical Zone, Critical Zone Observatory, Evolution And Function, Zone Observatory, Bcczo, CU, Development, Discovery, Established, Experience, Hydrologic, Interactions, Landscape, Processes, Regolith, Students, Summer, Trees.

CZO: Critical Zone Observatory--Snowline Processes in the Southern Sierra Nevada
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Martha H Conklin($1,000,000), University of California - Merced, Merced
Key terms: Distribution And Function, Ecosystem And Landscape, Deep Rooting, Rain-snow Transition, Rapid Seasonal, Soil Moisture, Southern Sierra, Biogeochemical, CZO, Climate, Critical-zone, Current, Cycling, Elevation, Forests, Foundation, Gradients, Hydrologic, Influence, Interact, Management, Multiple, NPP, Perturbations, Platform, Precipitation, Processes, Rain-snow, Rates, Respond, Rich, Students, Vegetation, Water, Weathering.

Facility Support: Accelerator Mass Spectrometry at PRIME Lab
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Darryl E Granger($2,699,900), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Prime Lab, Geoscience, NSF, Numerous, Preparation, Processes, Purdue, Radionuclides, Soil, Students, Teaching.

CAREER: Combining Field Data and Computational Models to Characterize the Distribution of Oceanic Transform Fault Deformation throughout the Lithosphere
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Sarah J Titus($444,065), Carleton College, Northfield
Key terms: Transform Fault Deformation, Oceanic Plates, Stem Students, Summer Program, Broadly, Carleton, Directly, Educational, Examine, Field, Girls, Model, Modeling, Sites, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Deep Structure of Three Continental Sutures in Eastern North America
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Vadim L Levin($305,898), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
2. William H Menke($455,260), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Central Core, Cratonic Core, Geological Features, Terrain Boundaries, Beneath, Bottom, Consist, Continent, Has, Icebergs, Keel, Layers, Mystery, Onions, Properties, Quebec, Structure, Summer, TA.

Collaborative Research: Geophysical Investigation of the Mid-Continent Rift System
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Lucy Flesch($115,000), Purdue University, West Lafayette
2. Gregory P Waite($126,928), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
3. Philip E Wannamaker($38,222), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
4. George R Keller($120,325), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
5. Suzan van der Lee($206,585), Northwestern University, Evanston
6. Adam Schultz($60,498), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Gravity And Magnetic, East African, Lake Superior, Mid-continent Rift, Arms, Baikal, Extends, Failed, Happened, Mid-continent, Ocean, Rifting, Rifts, Rock, Similar, Split.

Collaborative Research: Onshore-offshore MT Investigation of Cascadia Margin 3D Structure, Segmentation and Fluid Distribution
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Dean Livelybrooks($77,739), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
2. Kerry W Key($434,500), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
3. Adam Schultz($504,113), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Fluid Distribution, Subduction Zone, Transitional Zone, Cascadia, Competing, Detail, ETS, Fluids, High-resolution, MOCHA, MT, Margin, Models, Offshore, Plate, Region, Slab, Subducting.

EAGER: Collaborative Research: A New Approach to Imaging Mantle Discontinuity Structure with USArray
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Nicholas Schmerr($76,207), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
2. Matthew J Fouch($3,140), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Seismic Discontinuities, Datasets, Discontinuity, Earthscope, Mantle, Provided, Seismological, Structure, Tool, Tools, Usarray.

NSF EAGER: Pilot Study: Deep Electrical Structure of the Rio Grande Rift to Constrain Extent and Mechanisms of Rifting
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Paul Bedrosian($82,893), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Rio Grande Rift, Low Strain-rate, Pilot Experiment, Assess, Beneath, Magnetotelluric, Models, Region, Rifting, Seismic, Strain-rate, Thermal.

Collaborative Research: Dynamics of Crust-Mantle Coupling through Combined Analysis and Modeling of EarthScope Seismic, Geodetic, and Geologic Data
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Matthew J Fouch($146,971), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
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.

Collaborative Research: Rifting, Magmatism, and Lithospheric Sutures; Crustal Imaging of the South Georgia Basin and Suwanee Suture
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Daniel Lizarralde($681,040), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Donna J Shillington($534,051), Columbia University, New York
3. Steven H Harder($295,151), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
Key terms: Atlantic Magmatic Province, Central Atlantic Magmatic, Explosive Charges, Igneous Rocks, Sound Waves, Ago, Basin, Composition, Continent, Crust, Deployed, Georgia, Million, North, Structures, Students, Suture, Tectonic.

Collaborative Research: Immersive Audio-visualization of Seismic Wave Fields in the Earth (EarthScope Education & Outreach)
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Jeroen Tromp($39,676), Princeton University, Princeton
2. Rosamond Kinzler($46,525), American Museum Natural History, New York
3. Benjamin K Holtzman($94,708), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Seismic Wave Fields, Visual And Sonic, Natural History, Public Programs, AMNH, Array, Earthquake, Experience, Format, Generated, Globe, Images, Methodology, Museum, People, Physics, Planetarium, Produced, SPECFEMD, Seismologists, Software, Sounds.

Collaborative Research: Strain Rate and Moment Accumulation Rate along the San Andreas Fault System from InSAR and GPS
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Bridget R Smith-Konter($170,797), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
2. David T Sandwell($220,015), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: San Andreas Fault, Accumulation Rate, Crustal Deformation, Plate Boundary, Seismic Moment, Spatial Resolution, Strain Rate, Western North, Accuracy, Accurately, Archive, Atmospheric, Available, Development, Earthquake, Errors, Faults, Funding, GPS, High-resolution, Insar, Involves, Maps, Missions, PBO, Provided, Rates, SAFS, SAR, Setting, Software, Spacing, Vector, Winsar.

Collaborative Research: 3-D Near-field Coseismic Deformation from Differential LiDAR with Application to the El Mayor-Cucapah Earthquake
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Craig Glennie($82,894), University of Houston, Houston
2. Jean-Bernard Minster($29,764), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
3. Srikanth Saripalli($89,333), Arizona State University, Tempe
4. Michael E Oskin($93,458), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Airborne Lidar Scans, Baja California, Coseismic Surface, Differential Lidar, Displacement Field, Distributed Components, Fault Slip, Fault Zones, Fault-zone Deformation, Applications, Challenges, Development, EMC, Earthquake, Fault-zone, Faults, Gained, Knowledge, Mechanical, NSF, Pre-earthquake, Program, Ptsm, Rupture, Ruptures, Successive, Techniques, UC.

Infrasonic and Gravity Wave Studies in the Central United States
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2012; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Catherine de Groot-Hedlin($180,124), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Infrasonic And Gravity, Gravity Wave, Gravity Waves, Ground Motion, Infrasonic Sources, Arrival, Atmospheric, Microphones, Phenomena, Registered, Sites, Skyquakes, Specifically, Structure, TA, Usarray.

Community Workshop: Real-Time GPS Position Data Products and Formats; Boulder, Colorado
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. David J Mencin($49,918), UNAVCO, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: Products And Formats, Real Time, Volcanic Eruptions, Based, Hazards, Natural, Positions, RTGPS, Workshop.

EAGER: Vectorial Anisotropic Body and Surface Wave Tomography Using USArray Data
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Mark P Panning($178,331), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Beneath North, Joint Inversions, Anisotropic, Anisotropy, Approach, Approaches, Dynamic, Lithospheric, Modeling, Orientation, Processes, Software, Splitting, Structure, Towards, Usarray, Wave.

Dynamic Linkages between the Transition Zone & Surface Plate Motions in 3D Models of Subduction
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Magali I Billen($310,855), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Deformation And Surface, Pull Tectonic Plates, Surface Plate Motions, Earth's Mantle, Earth's Surface, Phase Transitions, Plate Boundaries, Sinking Slab, Slab Deformation, Slab Seismicity, Ability, Beneath, Contribute, Deforms, Depends, Dynamics, Earthquakes, Force, Forces, Mineral, Models, Properties, Shape, Slabs, Stress, Subducting, Subduction, Undergraduate.

REU Site: The Science of Global Change and Sustainability
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Jay L Banner($330,657), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Reu Program, Reu Students, Ecology, Global, Graduate.

CAREER: Paleotopography using Clumped Isotopes in the Basin and Range: Refining the Three Dimensional Evolution of a Continental Extensional Province
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Nathan A Niemi($523,366), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Basin And Range, Geological And Geophysical, Cenozoic Time, Continental Crust, Exhibit Museum, Lacustrine Carbonates, Late Cenozoic, Middle School, Plate Boundaries, Plate Tectonics, Development, Elevation, Evolution, Extension, Has, History, Incorporated, Models, Movie, Outreach, Plateau, Processes, Province, Spatial, Students, Variety, Western.

REU Site: IRIS Undergraduate Summer Research in Seismology
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Michael Hubenthal($629,985), Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Washington
Key terms: Geographically Distributed, Reu Model, Cohort, Collection, Cyber-infrastructure, Experiences, Has, IRIS, Intern, Knowledge, Opportunity, Organizations, Program, Seismological, Seismology, Students, Week.

CAREER: High Pressure Melting and Phase Transitions in Model Compositions of Earth's Core
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Andrew J Campbell($479,085), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Deep Interior, Earth's Core, Allow, Candidate, Composition, Compositions, Constitution, Dynamics, Evolution, Experiments, Gt, Measure, Melting, Planets, Pressures, Processes, Structure, Temperature, Temperatures, Transitions.

CAREER: Reading magnetic fingerprints from deep time: An insight into the geodynamo and early Earth system evolution
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Aleksey V Smirnov($476,009), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: Biosphere And Atmosphere, Earth's Magnetic Field, Solid Inner Core, Dike Swarms, Earth's Magnetic, Field Characteristics, Geological History, Geomagnetic Field, Magnetic Shielding, Paleofield Strength, Solar Radiation, Time Periods, Billion, Canada, Causative, Current, Database, Dated, Determinations, Evolution, Exist, Formation, Ga, Geodynamo, Has, High-quality, Implications, Increase, Investigating, Life, Links, Long-term, Million, Paleointensity, Paleomagnetic, Particular, Precambrian, Proterozoic, Remain, Rock, Strong, Transitions, View, Weaker.

CAREER:The Role of Proximal Dynamics and Particle Aggregation in Ash Dispersal: An Educational, Numerical, Field and Laboratory Approach
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Josef Dufek($491,906), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Ash Dispersal Models, Grain Size, Atmosphere, Conditions, Conduit, Distribution, Dynamics, Eruption, Field, Integrated, Laboratory, Play, Processes, Reach, School, Tools, Vent, Volcanic, Web.

Earth Science Education and Outreach Provider Summit
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2012; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. J Ramon Arrowsmith($33,050), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Earthscope National Office, Provider Summit, Eando, Education, Organizations, Products, SERC.

CAREER: Exhumation of a High-Grade Metamorphic Terrane, and Late-Stage Orogenic Collapse in the Southeastern New England Appalachians
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Yvette D Kuiper($463,601), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
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.

Did Channel Flow Drive the Thermo-mechanical Evolution of the Eastern Himalaya? A Field-based Test in Northeast Bhutan
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Sean P Long($392,960), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Crust Evolves, Himalayan Range, Bhutan, Bhutans, Buried, Collision, Debate, Field, Geologic, Laboratory, Models, Mountain, Natural, Partially, Rock, Students, Surface, Survey.

Modeling the influence of sediment, climate, and tectonics on the incision of bedrock channels through highly soluble strata
Award Effective Date: 10/15/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Matthew D Covington($262,795), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Key terms: Channel Cross Sections, Highly Soluble Rocks, Bedrock Channels, Landscape Evolution, Mechanical Erosion, Mountain Ranges, Soluble Strata, Aquifers, Cave, Caves, Chemical, Climate, Common, Concerning, Consider, Containing, Current, Dissolution, Effects, Formation, Incision, Information, Lead, Lithologies, Model, Models, Process, Processes, Sediment, Transport, Weathering, Worlds.

Structure and Reactivity at the Mineral-Water Interface
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Jeffrey Humpherys($215,489), Brigham Young University, Provo
Key terms: Potential Energy Terms, Computational Studies, Intensive Training, Low-temperature Geochemistry, Ability, Accurate, Advanced, Applicable, Applied, BVM, BYU, Based, Basic, Calculations, Chemistry, Complex, Comprehensive, Context, Crystallography, Difficult, Discipline, Disciplines, Energetics, Experimental, Interface, Interfaces, Interpret, Low-temperature, Mathematical, Mathematics, Mentoring, Mineral-water, Model, Models, Molecular, Numerical, Processes, Prove, Reaction, Reactions, Required, Simple, Standard, Structural, Structures, Students, Usually.

RUI: Landscape-scale Implications of Mineral Reaction Rates and Mechanisms in Tropical Soils: Insights from Soil Chronosequences and Synthesis Experiments
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Peter C Ryan($137,580), Middlebury College, Middlebury
Key terms: Humid Tropical Soil, Rates And Mechanisms, Costa Rica, Geology Majors, Middlebury Geology, Tropical Soils, Classes, Climate, Color, Composition, De, Demographic, Field, Has, Indicate, International, K-S, Kaolinite, MAP, Opportunity, Reaction, Reactions, Solution, Students, Time, Transformation, UCR, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: A Multi-Method Approach to Determine the Role of Semiconducting Oxide and Sulfide Surfaces in Catalyzing As, Cr, and Se Redox Reactions
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Devon J Renock($242,538), Dartmouth College, Hanover
2. Udo Becker($254,661), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Oxide Mineral Surfaces, Sulfide And Oxide, Molecular Simulations, Rate Laws, Rate Limiting, Spin Transfer, Cycling, Describe, Developing, Development, Future, Geochemical, Implications, Kinetics, Macroscale, Mechanisms, Models, Name, Nanoscale, Probe, Processes, Reaction, Reactions, Redox, Steps, Techniques, Toxic.

Seismic Imaging of Alaska Using Spectral-Element and Adjoint Methods
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Carl H Tape($285,937), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Active Tectonic Settings, Abundant Earthquakes, Body Waves, Reference Model, Sedimentary Basins, Seismic Imaging, Surface Waves, Time Scales, Wave Propagation, Wave Speed, Adjoint, Alaska, Crust, Methods, Three-dimensional.

Early Career: Instrumentation and technical support for opening new frontiers in energy and environment research
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Shikha Sharma($265,542), West Virginia University Research Corporation, Morgantown
Key terms: Energy And Environment, Isotope Laboratory, Stable Isotope, Advancing, Department, Initiative, Instrument, Issues, National, Pis, Program, Programs, Region, Shale, Training, WVU.

EAR-PF:Seasonal Variation in Suspended Sediment Source and Chemistry in a Shale Watershed
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Diana L Karwan($127,500), Karwan Diana L, Exton
Key terms: Education Program, Suspended Sediment, Bank, Carbon-, Composition, Environmental, Mechanisms, Sediments, Source, Stream, Water, Watershed.

Collaborative Research: Stabilized Organic Carbon and Paleoenvironmental Interpretations of Late Quaternary Paleosols
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Michael L Thompson($117,377), Iowa State University, Ames
2. Rolfe Mandel($13,647), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
3. Jingdong Mao($88,091), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
4. Elmer Bettis III($86,781), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Landscape Evolution, Organic Matter, Paleosol Om, Quaternary Paleosols, Aerated, Buried, Carbon, Charcoal, Components, Has, Information, Iowa, Kansas, Loess, Millennial, Periods, Reconstructions, Refine, Soils, Stability, Students, Univ, Widespread.

CAREER: Rusting the Earth: the mechanisms and mineralogy of microbial Fe oxidation
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Clara Chan($423,632), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Microbial Fe Oxidation, Oxidation Rates, CRB-CZO, Circumneutral, Cycling, DE, Diversity, Educational, Environmental, Environments, Feom, Genes, Integrated, Methods, Microbes, Objectives, Ph, Recognize, School, Students.

SEES Fellows: Barriers to soil sustainability, food security and biodiversity conservation in the Albertine Rift
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Lisa K Tiemann($520,229), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Soil Organic Matter, Maintaining Soil, Soil Fertility, Barriers, Crop, Declines, Enable, Explore, Factors, Fellows, Food, Increasing, Land, Local, Practices, Productivity, Socio-economic, Sustainability, Sustainable.

A PETROLOGICAL AND NITROGEN ISOTOPE STUDY OF CRUSTAL RECYCLING THROUGH TIME
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Peter Barry($170,000), Barry Peter, La Jolla
Key terms: Crustal Recycling, Isotope Characteristics, Nitrogen Isotope, Age-range, Earth, Evidence, Focus, Furthermore, Gas, Has, He-n-ne, Isotopes, Mantle, Petrological, Recycled, Reservoirs, Span, Strong, Students, Tennessee, Xenolith.

Radiative Thermal Conductivity of Upper Mantle and Transition Zone Minerals
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Sylvia-Monique Thomas($203,689), University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas
Key terms: Mantle Transition Zone, Earth's Mantle, Heat Flow, Heat Flux, Heat Transfer, In-situ Optical, Radiative Heat, Radiative Thermal, Thermal Conductivities, Thermal Conductivity, Centre, Constituents, Contribute, Dynamics, Experimental, Extend, High-pressure, Hydrous, In-situ, Interior, Lithospheric, Models, Nature, Olivine, Ringwoodite, Spectroscopy, Upper, Wadsleyite.

CAREER: Understanding the Solid Earth's Influence on Sea Level
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Clinton P Conrad($263,596), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Affects Sea Level, Sea Level Rise, Earth's Interior, Numerical Models, Solid Earth's, Undergraduate Students, Boundary, Comparing, Compute, Constraints, Decades, Deformation, Directly, Geologic, Glacial, Melting, Millions, Observations, Ocean, Spatial, Timescales.

Collaborative Research: Novel interdisciplinary flume experiments to investigate the role of the hyporheic zone in greenhouse gas generation
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Daniele Tonina($247,624), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
2. Kevin P Feris($250,233), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Large-scale Flume Experiments, Greenhouse Gas, Hyporheic Zone, Large-scale Flume, N2o Emissions, N2o Generation, Reactive Nitrogen, Stream Flow, Traditional Observational, Anthropogenic, Approaches, Biochemical, Channel, Composition, Control, Exchange, Hydraulics, In-situ, Interdisciplinary, Manipulative, Microbial, Models, Morphology, Natural, Poorly, Processes, Rates, Reactions, Streambed, Streams, Strongly, Transformation, Water.

Early Career: Acquisition of a White Light Confocal Microscope for Dental Microwear Texture Analysis of Ancient Mammalian Communities
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Larisa Grawe DeSantis($270,218), Vanderbilt University, Nashville
Key terms: Analysis, Cenozoic, Confocal, Fossil.

RUI: Collaborative Research: Reconstructing Mid-Miocene-to-Recent Paleo-Erosion Rates in the Eastern Andes, Northern Argentina
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. William H Amidon($157,512), Middlebury College, Middlebury
2. Douglas W Burbank($143,370), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Past Erosion Rates, Mountain Belts, Ancient, Andes, Climate, Cosmogenic, Dating, Deformation, Developing, Earth, Eroded, Establish, Exposure, Has, History, Isotope, Isotopes, Modern, Ne, Paired, Poorly, River, Rock, Sediment, Sediments, Surface, Tectonic, Time, Timescales, Typically.

CAREER: The Longevity and Evolution of Giant Magma Bodies: A Textural Study of Selected Supereruption Deposits Formed in Different Tectonic Environments Worldwide
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Guilherme Gualda($500,350), Vanderbilt University, Nashville
Key terms: Giant Magma Bodies, Supereruptions Eject, X-ray Tomography, Brazil, Characterization, Courses, Crystal, Deposits, Electron, Eruption, Evolution, Experience, Imaging, Knowledge, Largest, Students, Summer, Surface, Timescales, Tuff, X-ray, Zealand.

CAREER: Integrating Research and Education to Apply High-Rate GPS Into Natural Hazards Reduction
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Guoquan Wang($306,507), University of Houston, Houston
Key terms: Education And Outreach, High-rate Gps Network, Monitoring And Early-warning, Permanent Gps Stations, Puerto Rico Seismic, Real-time High-rate Gps, Rico Seismic Network, Gps Technology, High-rate Gps, Natural Hazards, Real-time High-rate, Stations Operated, Applications, Component, Disciplines, Earthquake, Engineering, Focus, Graduates, Has, Increase, Integration, Precision, Promoting, Students, Technologies, Tsunami, Undergraduates.

Collaborative Research: Precambrian Crustal Evolution in Western Laurentia: Implications from the Sawtooth Metamorphic Complex
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Barbara L Dutrow($198,458), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
2. Paul A Mueller($288,182), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Sawtooth National Recreational, Continental Crust, Crust Exposed, Elemental Abundances, Igneous Rocks, Sawtooth Crust, Sw Montana, Western Idaho, Accreted, Age, Ago, Appended, Constrain, Dating, Deposited, Does, Eastern, Evolution, Florida, Formed, Gt, History, Individual, LSU, Laboratory, Lies, Metamorphosed, Myo, North, Origin, Partnership, Precambrian, Radiometric, Range, STEM, Techniques, Terrane, Time, Unique, Was.

RUI: Geophysical Measurements Using Ring Lasers and Arrays
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Robert W Dunn($121,590), Hendrix College, Conway
Key terms: Nsf Transportable Earthscope, Ring Laser Gyroscopes, Rotational Ground Motion, Transportable Earthscope Array, Atmospheric Infrasound, Barometric Pressure, Dense Array, Infrasound Signatures, Mississippi Embayment, Rotational Components, Seismic Waves, Central, Earthquakes, Hendrix, Hurricanes, Information, Madrid, Seismographs, Sensitive, Students.

Sensitivity of Braided River Morphodynamics to Sediment Supply
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Joseph M Wheaton($270,770), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Braided Rivers, River Management, Sediment Supply, Advance, Andor, Available, Braiding, Climate, Efforts, Experimentation, Flooding, Gravel, Importance, Model, Modeling, Predict, Predictive, Resources, Seeks, Simulation.

Collaborative Research: Dynamics of the Southern Rocky Mountains from cross-term estimates of the seismic Green tensor
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Joshua C Stachnik($75,747), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
2. Vera Schulte-Pelkum($64,161), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
3. Kasper van Wijk($16,223), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Ambient Seismic Noise, Crust-mantle Boundary, Crustal Thickness, Moho Diffractions, Surface Elevation, Apply, Continent, Crust-mantle, Deeper, Developed, Earthquakes, Elevations, Has, Region, Rocky, Shallow, Source, Techniques, Underneath.

RUI-Collaborative Research: Reduction in riverine silica transport due to human-induced vegetation change to riparian vegetation
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Karin Kettenring($21,746), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Riverine Si Transport, Coastal Ocean, Riparian Vegetation, Si Transported, Suspended Sediment, Asi, Deposition, Dsi, Ecosystems, Effect, Flux, Land, Rivers, Sea, Silica, Silicon, Undergraduate, Utah, Via.

Collaborative Research: Geobiology of high pH springs in the Philippines ? probing the deep biosphere
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Dawn Cardace($63,357), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
2. D'Arcy Meyer-Dombard($76,471), University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Biomass And Biodiversity, Deep Subsurface Habitat, Scientifically Uncharted Realm, Zambales And Palawan, Biogeochemical Cycling, Deeply Sourced, Estimated Recently, Ophiolite Regions, Ph Fluids, Subsurface Biosphere, Subsurface Occupy, Accommodate, Allow, Analytical, Applications, Broader, Carbon, Critical, Crust, Depths, Earth, Field, Findings, Geobiology, Habitable, Has, Inhabiting, Investigate, Life, Localities, Low, Mentorship, Metabolisms, Microbial, Mind, Penetrate, Philippines, Potential, Processes, Rock, School, Settings, Springs, Storage, Students, Surface, Survive, Waste.

Collaborative Research: Investigation of a Late Jurassic Paired Magmatic Belt (Blue Mountains, NE Oregon): Evaluation of Magmatic Growth During Contractional Orogeny
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Joshua Schwartz($97,726), The University Corporation, Northridge, Northridge
Key terms: Blue Mountains Province, Jurassic Contractional Deformation, Late Jurassic Contractional, Lateral Tectonic Collisions, Low Sry Magma, Low Sry Plutons, Plutons And Batholiths, Sry Magma Generation, Continental Crust, Crustal Structure, Magmatic Belts, Orogenic Belts, Sry Magmatism, Arc-arc, Characteristics, Distribution, Geochemical, Mechanisms, Metamorphism, Model, Models, Na, Paired, Structural, Time.

EarthCube Domain End-User Workshop: Engaging the Critical Zone community to bridge long tail science with big data
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: EarthCube

1. Anthony K Aufdenkampe($99,922), Stroud Water Research Center, Avondale
Key terms: Critical Zone Scientists, CZ, Domain, Earthcube, Integrate, Workshop.

EarthCube GEO Domain Workshop: Cyberinfrastructure for Paleogeoscience
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: EarthCube

1. Anders J Noren($99,994), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Discovery, Disparate, Domain, Earthcube, Existing, Interact.

EarthCube GEO Domain Workshop Proposal: Envisioning a Digital Crust for Simulating Continental‐ Scale Subsurface Fluid Flow in Earth System Models
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: EarthCube

1. Jennifer Arrigo($84,681), Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sci, Arlington
Key terms: Critical Zone, Deeper Crust, Fluid Flow, Advance, Digital, Energy, Fields, Hold, Land, Models, Permeability, Regions, Rock, Structure, Subsurface, Surface, Water.

EarthCube Domain End-User Workshop for Structural Geology and Tectonics
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: EarthCube

1. James D Walker($50,000), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Geology And Tectonics, Earthcube Effort, Structural Geology, Creating, Critical, Cyberinfrastructure, Digital, Drivers, Existing, Field, Geosciences, Inference, Integration, Interactions, Organizations, SGTC, Spectrum, Tools, Workshop.

Calling All Experimentalists: EarthCube domain end-user workshop to address community needs for sharing and managing experimental data and techniques: Year 1 Experimental stratigr
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: EarthCube

1. Wonsuck Kim($35,470), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Earthcube Effort, Charrette, Development, Experimental, Has, Hsu, Pis, Processes, Subsurface, Surface, Workshop.

Workshop: MYRES V - The Sedimentary Record of Landscape Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: EarthCube

1. Elizabeth A Hajek($70,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Tectonic And Climatic, Landscape Dynamics, Virtual Workshop, Beyond, Comprise, Deposits, Discussing, Earthcube, Fields, Geomorphologists, Helped, Initiative, Interdisciplinary, MYRES, Modeling, Range, Sedimentary, Sedimentologists, Stratigraphers, Timescales.

EAGER Collaborative Research: Bringing Together Computational and Linguistic Methods to Extract 'Dark' Geosciences Data for the EarthCube Framework
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: EarthCube

1. Christopher J Jenkins($69,452), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Miron Livny($129,380), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Accessible, Bring, Comb, Dark, Database, Development, Discovered, Figures, Geoscience, Inaccessible, Individual, Information, Light, Literature, Manually, Search, Text, Time, Tool, Websites.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: From Data to Users: A Prototype Open Modeling Framework
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: EarthCube

1. Richard P Hooper($15,324), Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sci, Arlington
2. Xu Liang($97,487), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
3. Yao Liang($88,495), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Time And Effort, Modeling Framework, River Forecast, Allow, Available, Collaboration, Hydrological, Interact, Interfaces, Models, Prototype, Significantly, Surface.

EarthCube Assessment of the 2012 State of Geoinformatics: A Community and Interagency Exploration of the LifeCycle, Citation, and Integration of Geoscience Data
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: EarthCube

1. Peter Fox($99,999), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
Key terms: Knowledge Management, Development, Earthcube, Gaps, Interoperability, Interoperable, Workshop.

Workshops for Creating a Community Roadmap for EarthCube Services for Data Discovery, Mining and Access: Data Mining Services
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: EarthCube

1. Rahul Ramachandran($99,394), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
Key terms: Adequate, Analysis, Approaches, Development, Earthcube, Geoscience, Process.

EarthCube Community Workshop: Designing A Roadmap for Workflows in Geosciences
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: EarthCube

1. Martyn Clark($15,000), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
2. Christopher J Duffy($15,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
3. Chathura Herath($14,999), Indiana University, Bloomington
4. Ewa Deelman($55,000), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Knowledge Management, Adequate, Broad, Capability, Creating, Cyberinfrastructure, Development, Distributed, Diverse, Earthcube, Information, Range, Workflow.

Toward Cyber-Infrastructure 2025: Addressing Critical Milestones for EarthCube
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: EarthCube

1. Jay Pearlman($218,524), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Nsf Initiative, Approach, Broad, Brokering, Capability, Computer, Cyberinfrastructure, Development, Diverse, Earthcube, Geoscience, Knowledge, Management, Technologies.

EAGER: Collaborative Research: Interoperability Testbed-Assessing a Layered Architecture for Integration of Existing Capabilities
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: EarthCube

1. Janet Fredericks($26,895), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Yong Liu($18,000), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
3. Liping Di($18,000), George Mason University, Fairfax
4. Jeffery S Horsburgh($18,000), Utah State University, Logan
5. Reagan W Moore($61,719), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
6. Clifford R Matsumoto($17,972), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
7. Scott D Peckham($18,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Layered Architecture, Approaches, Cyberinfrastructure, Development, Effectiveness, Effort, Existing, Geoscience, Geosciences, Management, NSF, Protocols, Technologies, Tools, Various.

EAGER: Readiness of Disciplinary Data Systems for Cross-Domain Interoperability within a Standards-Based EarthCube Reference Framework
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: EarthCube

1. Ilya Zaslavsky($217,932), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Approach, Collaborative, Core, Create, Cross-domain, Engages, Engineering, Geoscience, Interoperability, Interoperable, Services.

Collaborative workshop proposal: Drawing the roadmap for the semantic/ontology based infrastructure for Geosciences
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: EarthCube

1. Hassan A Babaie($9,940), Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc., Atlanta
2. Akhaury K Sinha($89,924), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Semantics And Ontologies, Knowledge Management, Access, Adequate, Broad, Capability, Cyberinfrastructure, Development, Distributed, Earthcube, Geoscience, Interoperable, Process, Roadmap.

EAGER: Collaborative Research: Developing a Community Computational Infrastructure for Earth System Model Research and Applications
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: EarthCube

1. Jennifer Arrigo($27,636), Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sci, Arlington
2. David Gochis($50,000), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
3. James S Famiglietti($63,813), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
4. Scott D Peckham($60,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Model Components, Approaches, Broader, Focuses, Geoscience, Investments, Modeling, Models, NSF, Users.

Service Based Integration Platform for EarthCube (SBIP-E)
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: EarthCube

1. Timothy K Ahern($200,953), Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Washington
Key terms: Web Service, Allow, Approach, Broader, Development, Engages, European, Focuses, Geoscience, Geosciences, Holdings, Management, Repositories.

EAGER: Interoperability Testbed - Assessing a Layered Architecture for Integration of Existing Capabilities
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: EarthCube

1. Ilkay Altintas($18,000), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Layered Architecture, Approaches, Cyberinfrastructure, Development, Effectiveness, Effort, Existing, Geoscience, Geosciences, Management, NSF, Protocols, Technologies, Tools, Various.

Workshops for a Community Roadmap for Governance of Geoscience Cyberinfrastructure (EarthCube)
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: EarthCube

1. Geoffrey C Fox($99,999), Arizona Geological Survey, Tucson
Key terms: Knowledge Management, Adequate, Agreed, Common, Creating, Cyberinfrastructure, Development, Earthcube, Engage, Geoscience, Geosciences, Interoperable, Protocols, Standards.

RCN: SedHeat - Building an Interdisciplinary Community to Meet the Science, Engineering, and Educational Challenges for Sustainable Geothermal Energy from Sedimentary Basins
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: EnvS-Environmtl Sustainability

1. John M Holbrook($500,000), Texas Christian University, Fort Worth
Key terms: Engineering Challenges, Geothermal Energy, Sedimentary Basins, Sedimentary-basin Geothermal, Central, November, Potential, RCN, Sedimentary-basin, Was, Workshop.

The interplay between methanotrophy, methanogenesis, and soil geochemistry and its impact on net methane flux to the atmosphere from Arctic soils
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Jennifer A Roberts($51,521), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Global Climate, Methane Flux, Ny Ålesund, Oxidation Rates, Soil Geochemistry, Activity, Analyses, Arctic, BAZ, Biological, CH, Collaboration, Environment, Environments, Gas, Geochemical, Has, Methanotrophs, Natural, Perform, School, Soils, Svalbard, UK.

Community Computational Platforms for Developing Three-Dimensional Models of Earth Structure
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Jeroen Tromp($1,550,000), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Adjoint And Scattering-integral, Full-3d Tomography, Scattering-integral Methods, Anelastic, Based, Center, Code, Computational, Full-d, Heterogeneous, Highly, Information, Models, Platforms, Propagation, Software, Solid, Solving, Structure, Structures, Wave.

Collaborative Proposal: Making Point Clouds Useful for Earth Science
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Nancy F Glenn($219,000), Idaho State University, Pocatello
2. Joseph M Wheaton($100,599), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Ground-based Lidar, ALS, Airborne, Algorithms, Analysis, Challenges, Clouds, Generation, Ground-based, Platforms, Software, Surface, TLS, Tools.

Collaborative Research: Geo-Visualization and Data Analysis using the Magnetics Information Consortium
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Anthony Koppers($361,023), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Catherine Constable($375,980), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Access, Archive, Continued, Databases, Magic, Online, Paleomagnetic, Pis, Rock.

EAGER: Digital Cranial Atlas of Pachycephalosaurid Dinosaurs
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Mark Goodwin($15,731), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Digital Cranial Atlas, Growth And Development, Uc Berkeley Undergraduate, Comparative Cranial, High-resolution X-ray, Pachycephalosaurid Dinosaurs, Cretaceous, Diversity, Dome, Evolutionary, Museum, North, Ontogeny, Paleontology, Royal, Scans, Serve, Skull, Skulls, Stage, Students, X-ray.

Geomaterials Genome Project Conference
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Surendra K Saxena($32,500), Florida International University, Miami
Key terms: Computer, Genome.

Geoinformatics: alphaMELTS Petrological Modeling Software
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Paul D Asimow($490,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Access, Alphamelts, Capabilities, Enable, Features, Interaction, MELTS, Modeling, Models, Package, Rock, Software, Tools, Users.

Software for 3D Inversion of EM Geophysical Data
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Gary D Egbert($221,875), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: 3d Mt, Academic, Applications, Applied, Available, Capabilities, Developed, Development, EM, Extending, Focus, Geophysical, Has, Initial, Inversion, Maintaining, Methods, Modem, Software, Supporting, Users.

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

1. David J Mencin($208,386), UNAVCO, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: Fault Zone, Analysis, Approach, Behavior, Deformation, Earthquake, Faults, Rupture.

Deep Time Paleoclimate Liaison Position to Support Community Use of the Paleoclimate CESM
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Bette L Otto-Bliesner($151,610), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Climate Simulations, Time Periods, CESM, Consider, Liaison, Model, NCAR, Ocean, Position, Processes, Quaternary, Various.

Collaborative Research: Characterizing Arctic Climate Extremes from the Pliocene to the Present: the view from Lake El'gygytgyn, western Beringia
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Julie Brigham-Grette($1,750,564), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
2. Jeffrey Snyder($149,336), Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green
Key terms: Arctic Climate, Glacial Cycles, Ice Cores, Lake El'gygytgyn, Terrestrial Arctic, Atmospheric, Elgygytgyn, Ky, Massachusetts, Period, Teacher, Teachers, Was.

Collaborative Research: Evaluating hydrologic and ecologic responses to late-Glacial (9-33ka) abrupt climatic transitions in the coastal southwest United States
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Matthew E Kirby($95,557), CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation, Fullerton
2. Sarah Feakins($39,868), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
3. Dorothy M Peteet($123,981), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Abrupt Climatic Transitions, Global Abrupt Climatic, Hydrologic And Ecologic, Coastal Southwest, Grain Size, Lake Elsinore, Late Glacial, Leaf Wax, Archive, California, Characterized, Continuous, Decadal, Evidence, Exceptional, Focus, Implications, Local, Magnitude, Marine, Past, Projections, Regions, Resolution, Shifts, Ssts, Subcentennial, Terrestrial, Vegetation.

EAGER: Collaborative Research: Climate and Glacier change in Bhutan: the last millennia, present and future
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Summer B Rupper($33,944), Brigham Young University, Provo
2. Joerg M Schaefer($82,801), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Glacier And Climate, Future Glacier, Glacier Melt, Glacier Retreat, Himalayan Glacier, Outburst Floods, Step Towards, Bhutan, Bhutanese, Bilateral, EAGER, Excellent, Field, Glaciers, Hazard, Himalayas, Mitigation, Modeling, Past, Pis, Rate, Reconstructions, Robust, Temperature, UWICE.

EAGER: Documenting the Spatial Pattern of Drought in Western North America During the Holocene
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Mark B Abbott($54,126), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Wet And Dry, Alpine Snowpack, British Columbia, Dry Cycles, Water Resources, Western North, Carbonate, Climate, Cordillera, Drought, Droughts, Duration, Frequency, Holocene, Isotope, Lake, Lakes, Magnitude, Reconstruct, Region, Similar.

EAGER - feasibility study in reconstructing Holocene drought history from sediment cores in Fallen Leaf Lake, CA
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Paula J Noble($14,993), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Drought Conditions, Graduate Students, Organic Geochemistry, Organic Matter, Pollen Analysis, Winter Precipitation, Age, Analyses, Aquatic, Climate, Climatic, Cores, Diatom, Diatoms, Discrete, Droughts, Effects, Establish, Expected, Framework, Geochemical, Holocene, Indicates, Indicators, Lake, Long-term, Measurable, Preliminary, Resolution, Sediment, Sedimentologic, Sediments, Shifts, Various, Watershed.

Collaborative Research: Absolute-dated records of Late Quaternary paleohydrology in the Bonneville Basin, western U.S., from novel cave archives
Award Effective Date: 11/22/2011; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. William D McGee($90,976), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
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.

The Response of Insects to Climate Change in the Eocene through Oligocene of Colorado
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Cesar R Nufio($159,688), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Timing And Magnitude, Citizen Scientists, Affect, Climate, Collaboration, Colorado, Continent, Effects, Eocene, Estimated, Examine, Fossil, Insect, Insects, Levels, Marine, Oc, Oligocene, Organisms, Seen, Site, Species, Taxa, Temperatures, Training.

RAPID: Nicoya Earthquake After-event Response (NEAR)
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Andrew V Newman($41,686), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Extent And Magnitude, Continuous Gps, Earthquake Rupture, Gps Campaign, Ground Deformation, Locked Subduction, Nicoya Peninsula, Subduction Interface, Subduction Megathrust, Aftershock, Capture, Coseismic, Detailed, Directly, Earthquakes, Experience, Fail, Failure, Image, Images, Land, Mature, Network, Perform, Previously, RAPID, Ruptured, Seismic, Seismometers.

Workshop on Advancing Experimental Rock Deformation Research: Scientific and Technical Needs
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Terry E Tullis($60,000), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Experimental Rock Deformation, Geomechanics, Practitioners, Users, Workshop.

MARGINS: Collaborative Research: Illuminating the Architecture of the Greater Mount St. Helens Magmatic System from Slab to Surface
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Geoffrey A Abers($92,860), Columbia University, New York
2. Adam Schultz($469,204), Oregon State University, Corvallis
3. Olivier Bachmann($974,465), University of Washington, Seattle
4. Alan R Levander($1,154,929), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Allow Scientists, Mount St, Active, Eruption, Helens, Image, Imaging, Magma, Plumbing, Surface, Volcanic, Volcanoes.

MARGINS: Collaborative Research: A 21st Century Reconnaissance of Aleutian Arc Inception
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Brian Jicha($197,814), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Suzanne M Kay($102,173), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Aleutian Arc Inception, Active, Ages, Earliest, Eruption, Geochemical, History, Information, Initiation, Pacific, Potential, Precisely, Region, Rock, Volcanic, Volcanism.

MARGINS: The Explosive Volcanic History of the Central Oregon Cascades: Probing the Changing State of the Neogene Cascade Arc
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2012; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Anita L Grunder($369,476), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Mount St Helens, Central Oregon, Explosive Eruptions, Subduction Zone, Subduction Zones, Ash, Behavior, Cascade, Cascades, Composition, History, Long-term, Size, Volcanic.

Developing a comprehensive model of subduction and continental accretion at Cascadia
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2012; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Yang Shen($206,576), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Crust And Upper, Seismic And Tsunami, Megathrust Earthquakes, Oceanic Lithosphere, Subduction Zone, Upper Mantle, Velocity Model, Accretion, Assessment, Cascadia, Continent, Does, Has, High-resolution, Plate, Structural, Subducting.

A compound-specific isotopic approach to quantifying the source of terrestrial organic matter transported by a large river
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. A Joshua West($273,088), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Kosñipata-madre De Dios, Specific Organic Molecules, Carbon Cycle, Field Stations, Isotopic Composition, Kosñipata-madre De, Leaf Wax, Organic Matter, Amazon, Analyses, Andean, Bulk, Climate, Collaboration, Colleagues, Delta, Derived, Elevation, Gradient, Has, Information, POM, Peru, Plant, Plants, Quantifying, Radiocarbon, Reconstruction, Reflects, River, Rivers, Source, Sources, Stable, Tracing, Transport, Undergraduate, Vital.

Collaborative Research: The Role of Priming in Microbial Utilization of Terrestrially-Derived Dissolved Organic Carbon: A Proof of Concept
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Shari Yvon-Lewis($67,119), Texas A&M University, College Station
2. Gary M King($32,880), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Dissolved Organic Carbon, Priming Effect, ADOC, Aquatic, Consumption, Labile, Microbial, Soil, Substrates, TDOC, Terrestrial, Waters.

Collaborative Research: Constraining rates of C-O bond reordering in biogenic calcite: Implications for clumped isotope thermometry
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Benjamin H Passey($147,206), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
2. Ethan L Grossman($71,048), Texas A&M University, College Station
3. Alberto Perez-Huerta($56,595), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
Key terms: C-o Bond Reordering, Carbon-13 ¬ Oxygen-18, Laboratory And Natural, Original Clumped Isotope, Oxygen Isotopic Composition, Past Water Isotopic, Water Isotopic Compositions, ¬ Oxygen-18 Bonds, C-o Bond, Graduate Students, Natural Experiments, Abundances, Altered, Brachiopod, Burial, Does, Estimates, Experimental, Feature, Fossil, Geoscience, Has, JHU, Method, Mineral, Paleoclimate, Petrology, Reconstructing, Shells, Solid, TAMU, Temperature, Temperatures, Training, Visit.

Facilities Support: Amino Acid Geochronology Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Darrell S Kaufman($234,765), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: AAGL, Applications, Dating, Death, EARIF, Environment, Facility, Fossil, Gradually, History, Paleothermometry, Temperature.

Collaborative Research: Mechanisms, Modeling, and Geochemical Consequences of Electron Flow in Acid Mine Drainage-Induced Sediments
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. John M Senko($221,186), University of Akron, Akron
2. Yuri Gorby($253,233), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Amd Treatment, Electron Flow, Electron Transfer, Energetic Substrates, Iron Mound, Microbial Nanowires, Mineral Phases, Redox Reactions, Spatial Separation, Undergraduate Students, Characterizations, Composed, Conductive, Diffusion, EET, Electrically, Electrons, Extracellular, Facilitate, Feii, Feiii, Field, Geochemical, Individual, Integrated, Mediated, Modeling, Mounds, Processes, Serve, Site, Structures.

Collaborative Research: Nitrate Reduction by Redox-modified Fe-bearing Clay Minerals
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Joseph W Stucki($280,000), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Oxidized And Reduced, Atmospheric Nitrogen, Clay Minerals, Electrical Charge, Nitrate Degradation, Redox Reaction, Reduced Iron, Ammonium, Amount, Bacteria, Common, Has, Oxidation, Purpose, Reduction, Sediments, Soils, Species, Susceptibility.

Collaborative Research: Tracking chemical, isotopic, and molecular signatures of tightly coupled sulfur cycling in phototrophic and chemosynthetic microbial ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Gregory K Druschel($88,380), Indiana University, Bloomington
2. Gregory K Druschel($88,380), University of Vermont & State Agricultural College, Burlington
3. David Fike($120,753), Washington University, Saint Louis
4. Victoria J Orphan($198,792), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
5. Jesse G Dillon($94,242), California State University-Long Beach Foundation, Long Beach
Key terms: Coupled Sulfur Cycling, Metabolic Activity, Microbial Ecosystems, Sulfate Reduction, Biological, Carbon, Diverse, Evolution, Geochemical, Mats, Microorganisms, Molecular, Pathways, Resources, Spatial.

CAREER: Career Development in the Emerging Field of Geomycology: Research and Education in Metal Biomineralization by Fungi
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Colleen Hansel($258,585), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Acid Mine Drainage, Acidic Mine Waters, Fungal Mediated, Geochemical Controls, AMD, Biological, Bioremediation, Chemical, Concentrations, Define, Development, Diversity, Educate, Educators, Environmental, Environments, Enzymatic, Framework, Fungi, Health, Importance, Information, Instruction, Integrated, JEEC, Metals, Microbiology, Mn, Mnii, Mnii-oxidizing, Molecular, Oxidation, Processes, Public, Students, Workshop.

CAREER: Quantifying the flux and isotope effects associated with sulfur-bearing intermediate species within dissimilatory sulfate reduction
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. David T Johnston($445,554), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Isotopes, Particular, Sulfur.

Collaborative Research: Biological production of reactive oxygen species in freshwaters
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Colleen Hansel($150,209), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Reactive Oxygen Species, Biological Ros, Organic Compounds, Affect, Algal, Aquatic, Bacterial, Cycling, Environmental, Freshwater, Fungal, Lectures, Metals, Microbial, Natural, Organisms, Pis, Rates, Responsible, Specific.

Seeking new paleotemperature proxies: Noble gases in evaporites
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Reika Yokochi($39,101), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Dry Regions, Fluid Inclusions, Gas Concentrations, Local Temperature, Modern World, Noble Gas, Salt Crystals, Salt Farms, Ancient, Bubbles, Climate, Climates, Conditions, Environments, Examine, Examining, Formed, Geological, Halite, Lead, Measure, Method, Minerals, Paleotemperature, Past, Periods, Planet, Predict, Proxy, Scarce, Temperatures, Time, Trapped, Useful, Warm, Water.

Physiological underpinnings of sulfur isotope effects produced by sulfate reducing microbes
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2012; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Tanja Bosak($243,917), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Isotope Effects Produced, Microbial Sulfate Reduction, Multiple Sulfur Isotope, Atmospheric Oxygen, Continuous Cultures, Organic Substrates, Physiological Conditions, Pure Culture, Reducing Equivalents, School Students, Sulfate Reducing, Carbon, DMSS-, Enzymes, Evolution, Fractionations, Glucose, Graduate, Grow, Growth, Isolated, K-, Magnitude, Main, Measured, Microbes, Mil, Modern, Msr, Observed, Permil, Pis, Previously, Process, Range, Slowly, Summer, Surface, Teachers, Transfer, Undergraduate, Various, Was, Wide.

Graduate Student Travel Support Program for the 2012 V.M. Goldschmidt Conference in Montreal, Canada, June 24-29, 2012
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Carla M Koretsky($30,000), The Geochemical Society, Alexandria
Key terms: Goldschmidt Conference, Benefit, Diversity, Ensure, Evolution, Experience, Funding, Geochemical, Geochemistry, Home, Interact, International, Life, Meetings, Networking, Opportunity, Range, Resources, Senior, Student, Students, Travel, Underrepresented, World.

CAREER: Advancing the Mechanistic Understanding of Field-Scale Preferential Flow and Transport Processes in Soils using Geophysics
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Stephen M Moysey($413,291), Clemson University, Clemson
Key terms: Antecedent Water Content, Causing Preferential Flow, Flow And Transport, Electrical Resistivity, Flow Behaviors, Rainfall Characteristics, Activities, Allow, Available, Changing, Clemson, Conditions, Control, Ecosystem, Educational, Field, GPR, Gap, Generation, Geophysical, Girls, Grid, High-resolution, Hydrologic, Infiltration, Insights, Knowledge, Lysimeter, Lysimeters, Mechanisms, Processes, Quantitative, Seasonal, Soil, Techniques, Testing, Transient, Unique.

Natural solar cells and their geochemical implications
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2012; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Carrick M Eggleston($140,776), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Banded Iron Formations, Solar Energy Technology, Tandem Cell, Aqueous, Cells, Common, Constructed, Geochemistry, Has, History, Investigate, Light, Mineral, Minerals, Natural, Overall, Oxidized, Photocatalytic, Photochemical, Photoelectrochemical, Process, Processes, Properties, Rates, Semiconductors, Time, Water.

Mechanisms of Mineral Dissolution: Time-Resolved Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction of Fe-and Mn-oxides with Dissolved Organic Ligands
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2012; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Jeffrey Post($350,349), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Birnessite, Chemical, Chemistry, Concentrations, Critical, Dissolution, Dissolve, Extract, Feiii, Feo, Fluid, Homovalent, Hydroxides, Increase, Insoluble, Lead, Marine, Mechanisms, Metabolic, Metal, Metals, Mineral, Minerals, Mniii, Oxides, Rates, Reaction, Reveal, Siderophores, Soil, Structural, Structure, Surface, Vacancy, Variety, Waters.

RUI - Collaborative Research: Reduction in riverine silica transport due to human-induced change in riparian vegetation
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2012; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Laura D Triplett($137,359), Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter
Key terms: Riverine Si Transport, Coastal Ocean, Riparian Vegetation, Si Transported, Suspended Sediment, Asi, Deposition, Dsi, Ecosystems, Effect, Flux, Land, Rivers, Sea, Silica, Silicon, Undergraduate, Utah, Via.

CAREER:Geochemical Energy for Thermophilic Archaea and Bacteria
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Jan P Amend($102,000), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Hydrothermal Ecosystems, Chemical, Compounds, Course, Diversity, Energy, Future, Geobiology, Geochemical, Geochemically, Geochemistry, Geologic, Interface, Metabolic, Microbiology, Microorganisms, Plan, Processes, Quantitative, Reaction, Schools, Situ, Students.

CAREER: Mineral Surface Mediated Organization of Biological Macromolecules
Award Effective Date: 08/22/2011; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Nita Sahai($75,585), University of Akron, Akron
Key terms: Charge And Hydration, Educational Initiative, Geology Museum, Mineral Surface, Surface Charge, Adsorption, Anatase, Biogeosciences, Biological, Calculations, Cell, Centre, Chemical, Collaboration, Compared, Department, Energies, Exhibit, Experiments, Natural, Oxides, Phospholipid, Phospholipids, Processes, Prof, Quartz, Self-assembly, Silica, Spectroscopy, Surfaces, UW.

A workshop to assess and advance the prediction of land-surface response to climate and land-use changes
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Jon D Pelletier($29,939), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Climate And Land-use, Filling Knowledge Gaps, Predicting Land-surface, Assess, Has, Land-surface, Meeting, Models, Paper, Participants, Synthesize, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Establishing Process Links Between Streamflow, Sediment Transport/Storage, and Biogeochemical Processing of Mercury
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Michael Singer($96,466), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
2. Joel D Blum($154,966), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Anthropogenic Inputs, Food Webs, Hg Contamination, Lowland Ecosystems, Sediment-adsorbed Hg, Sierra Nevada, Bay-delta, Biogeochemical, Coast, Deposition, Downstream, Factors, Has, Inundation, Isotopic, Mercury, Mining, Potential, Processes, River, Sediment-adsorbed, Sensitive, Sources, Transport.

Geomorphic Response of Glacial Decoupling in Alpine Regions in Response to Climate Warming: Icy Debris Fans and Early Paraglacial Landscape Evolution
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Robert W Jacob($275,552), Bucknell University, Lewisburg
Key terms: Fans And Talus, Icy Debris Fans, Icy Debris Flows, Alluvial Fans, Alpine Environments, Climate Warming, Deglaciating Alpine, High-level Icecaps, Ice Avalanches, Landform Evolution, Mass Wasting, Slush Avalanches, Talus Cones, Time-lapse Photography, Valley Glaciers, Aircraft, Alaska, Depositional, Distinguishing, Dominated, Escarpments, Formed, Ground-based, Has, Hazards, High-level, Ice-dominated, Implications, Increasingly, Influence, Landforms, Landscape, Morphology, Nature, Processes, Rapid, Regions, Rockfalls, Sedimentological, Settings, Surveys, Time-lapse, Unstable, Zealand.

The Art and Science of Reduced-Complexity Modeling in the Environmental Sciences
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2012; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Vaughan R Voller($38,974), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Highly Detailed Simulations, Complex Environmental, Formulating Rcms, Ability, Advantages, Andor, Assumptions, Behavior, Climate, Common, Complexity, Critical, Diverse, Experiments, Fields, Intuitive, Model, Models, Numerical, Online, Processes, Resources, Rigor, Strategies, Synthesis, Teaching, Testing, Tool, Tools, Workshop.

Collaborative research: Laboratory and numerical experiments on the response of wave ripples to changes in oscillatory flow
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Paul Myrow($159,070), Colorado College, Colorado Springs
2. J. Taylor Perron($255,146), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Ancient And Modern, Changing Wave Conditions, Laboratory Wave Tank, Outcrops And Modern, Wave Tank Experiments, Ancient Ripples, Bed Topography, Bedform Evolution, Modern Ripples, Ripples Exposed, Rock Outcrops, Wave Ripple, Ability, Bedforms, Coastal, Common, Controls, Defects, Flow, Flows, Formation, Framework, Influence, Interpret, Model, Modeling, Numerical, Produce, Respond, Sand, Shorelines, Striking, Transient, Water.

Investigating the long-term record of seismically induced erosion preserved in the stratigraphy of Lake Quinault, Washington
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Karl W Wegmann($99,945), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Lake Quinault, Analyses, Cascadia, Coastal, Deep, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Future, Hazards, Information, Lake-margin, Lakes, Landslides, Layers, Origin, Past, Relatively, Sediment, Sedimentary, Sediments, Subduction, Time, Triggered, Upland.

Collaborative research: Testing hypothesis for drumlin fomation at Mulajokul, Iceland
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Thomas S Hooyer($178,735), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
2. Neal R Iverson($240,496), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: Drumlin Field, Effective Stress, Pore-water Pressure, AMS, Bed, Beds, Drumlins, Formation, Glacial, Glacier, Has, Hills, Ice, Intervening, Leading, Low, Múlajökull, Origin, Past, Pore-water, Program, Sediments, Shear, Students, Supported, Susceptibility, Teacher.

Collaborative Research: Defining controls on incisional avulsions in alluvial basins
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Doug Edmonds($112,307), Indiana University, Bloomington
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: The statistical mechanics of bed load sediment transport: Meshing theory, experiments and advanced computations of coupled fluid-particle behavior
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. David J Furbish($218,013), Vanderbilt University, Nashville
2. Mark W Schmeeckle($249,835), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Bed Load Sediment, Advanced Computations, Coupled Fluid-particle, Particle Motions, Sediment Transport, Statistical Mechanics, Transport Rates, Activities, Aimed, Clarify, Compelling, Computational, Descriptions, Effects, Experiments, Fluid-particle, Formulations, Involves, Numerical, Patchiness, Pursuing, River, Theoretical, Tracer, Turbulence, Velocities.

RAPID: Initial response of step-pool streams to wildfire
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Anne Chin($20,000), University of Colorado at Denver, Aurora
Key terms: Waldo Canyon Fire, Colorado Springs, National Forest, Step-pool Channels, Step-pool Streams, Burned, Conditions, Pools, Sediment, Step-pool, Water, Wildfire.

Landslide dynamics from seismic wave inversion, satellite remote sensing, and numerical modeling
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Eunseo Choi($417,968), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Catastrophic Landslides, Detailed Descriptions, Analysis, Combined, Methods, Motion, Rock, Seismic, Sliding, Slope, Tool, Waves.

RAPID: Continuous Measurement of Sediment Transport and Hydraulic Conditions in a Mountain Stream Prior to Wood Placement
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Stephen T Lancaster($25,620), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: National Forest, Sediment Transport, Bedload, Conditions, Debris, Dynamics, Information, LWD, Mountain, Placement, Practitioners, Prior, Stream.

Collaborative Research: Unlocking The Seismic Signature Of Rivers
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Noah Finnegan($176,141), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
2. Colin P Stark($63,859), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Bedload Transport Rates, Coarse Sediment, Sediment Movement, Sediment Transport, Approach, Channel, Developed, Elastic, Predict, River, Rivers, Seismic, Seismology, Waves.

Sources of soil organic matter transported by soil erosion in fire-prone upland ecosystems of the Sierra Nevada
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Asmeret A Berhe($75,000), University of California - Merced, Merced
Key terms: Soil Om Dynamics, Stability And Stabilization, Organic Matter, Stabilization Mechanisms, Carbon, Critical, Ecosystems, Effect, Eroded, Erosion, Factors, Fire, Fires, Sediments, Source.

Collaborative Research: Beryllium-10 in detrital magnetite as a new tool in erosion and weathering studies
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Clifford S Riebe($55,560), University of Wyoming, Laramie
2. Darryl E Granger($289,440), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Erosion And Weathering, Magnetite And Quartz, Chemical Preparation, Chemical Weathering, Cosmogenic Nuclides, Erosion Rates, Specialized Equipment, Absent, Averaged, Catchment-averaged, Difficult, Easier, Has, Hazardous, Hence, Index, Landscape, Landscapes, Measure, Measured, Mineral, Processes, Produced, Readily, Residence, Rock, Separate, Separation, Soil, Surface, Techniques, Thousands, Timescales, Useful.

Collaborative Research: Morphodynamics of the Madeira River: an Amazonian anabranching mega-river facing imminent disruption
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2012; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Edgardo Latrubesse($70,036), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Jorge D Abad($29,868), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Amazon Basin, Largest Tributary, Madeira River, Anabranching, Brazilian, Controlling, Dammed, Expeditions, Information, Low, Management, Sediment, Surveys, Water.

Collaborative Research: Subduction Zone Segmentation over Multiple Seismic Cycles, South-Central Chile
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2012; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Lisa L Ely($198,190), Central Washington University, Ellensburg
2. Benjamin P Horton($172,727), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Key terms: Earthquake And Tsunami, Future Earthquake Hazards, Multiple Earthquake Cycles, Subduction Zone Earthquakes, Subduction Zone Faults, Chilean Earthquake, Earthquake Behavior, Fault Ruptures, South-central Chile, Boundaries, Boundary, Coastal, Evidence, February, Geological, Hard, Historic, Japan, Land-level, Largest, Level, Mw, Periods, Program, Region, Segmentation, Settings, South-central, Thousands, Time, Vertical, Was, World.

Developing Mechanistic Models for Bedrock Erosion at Waterfalls.
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2012; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Michael P Lamb($275,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Waterfall Plunge Pools, Sediment Transport, Summer Undergraduate, Waterfall Retreat, Erosion, Experiments, Field, Flume, Laboratory, Landscape, Landscapes, Models, Natural, Program, Students, Technical.

Integrated Models of Mantle Convection and True Polar Wander, and the Structure of the Earth's Deep Interior
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Bruce Buffett($214,530), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Convection And True, True Polar Wander, Spin Axis, Thermal Convection, Based, Conservation, Description, Equations, Geological, Has, Interaction, Interior, Mass, Models, Momentum, Orientation, Processes, Rotation, Set, Single, Software, Time.

Evolution and dynamics of subduction, plumes and plate motions
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Michael C Gurnis($560,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Plate Motions, Plate Tectonic, Plate Tectonics, Aim, Allow, Constrain, Detailed, Drive, Dynamic, Dynamics, Earthquakes, Establish, Forces, Formation, Geological, Hazards, Link, Lithospheric, Mantle, Methods, Models, Natural, Numerical, Observational, Observations, Plates, Properties, Responsible, Slab, Specific, Subduction, Surface, Uncertain, Viscosity, Zone, Zones.

Applications of the State-of-the-Art Seismic Analysis Methods to the Island of Hawaii
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Guoqing Lin($191,103), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Spatial And Temporal, Seismic Parameters, Situ Poisson's, Velocity Models, Waveform Cross-correlation, Absolute, Analysis, Cross-correlation, Earthquake, Estimate, Following, Hawaii, High-resolution, Island, Magma, Magmatic, Nsource, Poissons, Regions, Relocation, Reveal.

Broadband Seismological Investigations of Earth Structure and Earthquake Sources
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Thorne Lay($593,367), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Stacking And Migration, Core-mantle Boundary, High-rate Gps, Megathrust Faults, Quantitative Analysis, Seismic Radiation, Broadband, Characterize, Core-mantle, Deep, Dynamical, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Generated, High-rate, Near, Processes, Recordings, Structure, Surface, Tsunami, Wave, Waves.

Collaborative Research: An Evaluation of Ash Flow Tuffs as Geomagnetic Paleointensity Recorders
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Julie A Bowles($5,644), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
Key terms: Earth's Magnetic Field, Ash Flows, Determining Paleointensity, Earth's Magnetic, Field Intensity, Intensity Fluctuations, Magnetic Particles, Paleointensity Analysis, Paleointensity Information, Time Scales, Absolute, Available, Comprehensive, Direction, Documented, Documenting, Fine, Generated, Geologic, Geological, Has, Historic, History, Identifying, Laboratory, Mt, Paleointensities, Participation, Past, Polarity, Post-emplacement, Potential, Processes, Reliable, Student, Students, Temperature, Training, Undergraduate, Variety.

Mechanical Erosion of Frictionally Locked Fault Patches Due to Creep: ObservationalEvidence and Modeling
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Allan M Rubin($200,593), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Locked Fault Patches, Accelerating Seismicity, Aseismic Sliding, Creeping Faults, Earthquake Nucleation, Earthquakes Nucleate, Frictionally Locked, Locked Patches, Mechanical Erosion, Numerical Models, Seismogenic Zone, Strike-slip Faults, Aseismically, Base, Boundaries, Current, Eventually, Growing, Holes, Increase, Increases, Loading, Magnitudes, Neighboring, Observations, Observed, Progressively, Rates, Regions, Search, Streaks, Stresses, Strike-slip, Stuck, Time.

RAPID: Seismic Investigation of Geysers at El Tatio
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Jesse F Lawrence($32,849), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Largest Geyser Field, Third Largest Geyser, El Tatio, Characterize, Duration, Eruption, Geothermal, Investigations, Processes, Seismic, Set, Subsurface, Unique.

Determining temporal change of seismic properties inside the Earth using repeated earthquakes
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Lianxing Wen($278,910), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Fault Zone, Seismic Properties, Activities, Conceptualization, Difference, Earthquake, Fields, Geological, Medium, Phenomena, Process, Temporal, Volcano, Wave, Waves.

CAREER: From Robust, Reproducible Geophysical Inference to Geological Interpretation: New Perspectives on the Continental Lithosphere
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Frederik J Simons($499,969), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Geophysical And Geological, Heat Flow, Analysis, Building, Characterization, Deformation, Development, Develops, Elastic, Errors, Field, Gravity, Inverse, Lithosphere, Magnetic, Magnetics, Measured, Methods, Middle-school, Modeling, Observables, Observations, Oil, Outreach, Seismic, Statistical, Strength, Structure, Students, Theory, Via.

Collaborative Research: Examining the variation in earthquake parameters along the Nicaragua and Costa Rica subduction zone using onshore and offshore seismic data
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Heather R DeShon($51,027), Southern Methodist University, Dallas
2. Susan L Bilek($61,807), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Earthquake Source Characteristics, Seismic And Tsunami, Earthquake Rupture, Fault Conditions, Subduction Megathrust, Tsunami Hazard, Affect, Available, Composition, Earthquakes, Estimates, Faults, Fluid, Fluids, Geometry, Geophysical, Has, International, Middle, Parameters, Produce, Stress, Vpvs.

The Perovskite to Post-Perovskite Phase Boundary in Mantle Rocks
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Sang-Heon Shim($229,066), Arizona State University, Tempe
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.

Imaging With a Unique 3D Seismic Dataset
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Victor C Tsai($344,111), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Based, Dataset, Fault, Maps, Potential, Seismic, Structure.

Collaborative Research: Physical properties of the Alpine Fault, New Zealand: Mechanical and hydrological processes in the brittle fault core and surrounding damage zone
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Demian M Saffer($316,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Harold J Tobin($234,000), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Alpine Fault, Fault Zone, Fault Zones, Rock Properties, Activity, Conditions, Depth, Drill, Drilled, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Failure, Faults, Future, Holes, Instruments, Measure, Nature, Pore, Seismic, Similar, Slip, Stage, Strength, Stress, Tectonic, Water, Yield.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Geodetic measurements and mechanical models of the volcano deformation cycle
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Timothy L Masterlark($57,394), South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City
Key terms: Deformation Observed, Magma Chamber, Okmok Volcano, Rich Observational, Activity, Alaska, Cone, Cycle, Eruption, Experiment, Field, Following, Geophysical, Has, Model, Modeling, Monitored, Properties, Protocol, Set, Stress, Volcanic, Volcanoes.

Strain Partitioning in Northwest Venezuela: Potential for a Great Quake
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Peter H Molnar($290,275), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Caribbean Plate, Nw Venezuela, Oblique Convergence, Strike-slip Faults, Subduction Zone, Absorbed, Andes, Believe, Boulder, Coast, Colombia, Dextral, Downdip, Earthquake, Effects, Exceed, Faulting, Future, GPS, Global, Islands, Jamaica, Locked, Million, Mmyear, Mmyr, Northern, Possibly, Potential, Reveal, Rupture, Shear, Shores, Sparse, Strike-slip, Thrust, Tourists, Tsunami, Venezuelan, Visit.

Improving Resolution of Finite Fault Inversions with Increasing Bandwidth
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Ralph Archuleta($359,859), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Future Earthquakes, Ground Motion, Relative Motion, Source Parameters, Subsidiary Effects, Time Histories, Common, Component, Compute, Controlled, Created, Describe, Directly, Fault, Features, Fit, Function, Geodetic, Independent, Infer, Information, Inverting, Kinematic, Medium, Misfit, Models, Process, Respect, Rupture, Seismic, Shaking, Slip, Space, Starts, Strike, Synthetics, Velocity.

EAR-PF: Seismological Investigations of Volcanic Eruptive Plumes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Ashley E Shuler($85,000), Shuler Ashley E, Palisades
Key terms: Ash Columns, Seismic Waves, Education, Eruption, Estimate, Has, Heights, Hz, Monitoring, Processes, Remote, Volcanic.

Collaborative Research: Converging on a Physical Basis for Rate and State Friction through Nano-to-Macro-Scale Friction and Adhesion Experiments on Geological Materials
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Terry E Tullis($383,998), Brown University, Providence
2. Robert W Carpick($280,000), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Key terms: Atomic Force Microscopy, Existing Friction Laws, Chemical Bonding, Contact Creep, Earthquake Cycle, Friction Experiments, Frictional Mechanisms, Plastic Deformation, Rock Friction, Time Dependence, AFM, Adhesion, Ageing, Allow, Asperity, Basis, Contacts, Earthquakes, Electron, Employ, Energy, Explained, Fault, Faults, Increases, Interface, Isolate, Laboratory, Lack, Li, Magnitude, Mechanics, Methods, Microindentation, Models, Nanoindentation, Nanoscale, Nature, Observed, Ph, Processes, Reliably, Single, Slip, Sophisticated, Spectroscopy.

EAR-PF: Earthquake triggering throughout the seismic cycle: a unified laboratory and seismological study
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Nicholas vanderElst($170,000), vanderElst Nicholas, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Remote Triggering, Seismic Cycle, Seismic Waves, Triggering Susceptibility, Component, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Fault, Faults, Laboratory, Near, Observational, Stress.

Collaborative EAGER Research: Mineral reactions during seismic slip and earthquake instability
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Ze'ev Reches($66,848), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
2. David A Lockner($70,616), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Earthquake Slip, Electron Microscopy, High-pressure Faulting, Nanocrystalline Solid, Shallow Earthquakes, Shear Failure, Andor, California, Danger, Devolatilization, Drop, EAGER, Experimental, Experiments, Extremely, Faults, Fluid, Friction, Frictional, High-pressure, High-resolution, Initiation, Knowledge, Laboratory, Lead, Leading, Mineral, Physics, Processes, Produced, Reactions, Shearing, Shheating-induced, Sliding, Students, Suggest.

Workshop Proposal: Travel Support for US participants to the International Geophysics of Slab Dynamics Conference, Jeju Island, South Korea, August 19-22, 2012
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Scott D King($15,000), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Jeju Island, Slab Dynamics, Aimed, August, Conference, Field, Mantle, Subduction.

RUI: Deployment of a simultaneous broadband gradiometers to quantify the effects of aperture and near-surface geology on gradient-derived wavefield attributes
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Christian Poppeliers($77,174), AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC., Augusta
Key terms: Seismic Arrays, Spatial Gradients, Subsurface Geology, Wavefield Gradients, Bedrock, Derived, Design, Effects, Estimate, Gradiometers, Has, Local, Parameters, Portion, Quantify, Rigorously, Set.

Widespread Layered Pyroxenites in the Earth's Mantle
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Veronique Le Roux($259,097), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Earth's Mantle, Composition, Constrain, Constrained, Crust, Depth, Formation, Heterogeneities, Heterogeneity, Multidisciplinary, Observations, Peridotites, Planet, Processes, Responsible, Rock, Silicate, Surface, Volcanic, Volume, Websterites.

Collaborative Research: Towards an understanding of the Holocene paleomagnetic record through new data (Hawaii/North American) and time series/spherical harmonic model comparisons
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Mark B Abbott($246,552), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
2. Chuang Xuan($396,000), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Dominant Flux Lobe, Potential Organizing Structure, Boundary Conditions, Field Morphology, Geomagnetic Field, Magnetic Stratigraphy, Northeast Pacific, Paleomagnetic Secular, Psv Time, Time Averaged, Act, Analysis, Assess, Available, Climate, Collection, Consistent, Control, Derived, Dynamics, Geodynamo, Has, History, Holocene, Inclination, Influence, Limited, Mode, Modern, Observations, Observed, Oscillation, Paleointensity, Process, Quality, Range, Relatively.

Collaborative Research: Analysis of AIDA (Aftershock Imaging with Dense Arrays) data from the the 2011 M5.8 Virginia earthquake
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Larry D Brown($154,411), Cornell University, Ithaca
2. Martin C Chapman($75,223), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: ¡§high Definition¡¨, AIDA, Aftershock, Allow, August, Body, CRP, Crust, Depth, Detail, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Geologic, Has, Hypocentral, Imagery, Images, Imaging, Methods, Preliminary, Produce, Reflection, Region, Resolution, Seismic, Spacing, Structure, Subsurface, Surface, Synthesizing, Techniques, VSP, Virginia, Virtual, Wave, Waves.

EAGER: Expanding Our Understanding of Seismic Sources via Investigations of Icequakes on an Alpine Glacier
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Deborah L Kilb($100,000), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Gorner Glacier, Earthquakes, Faults, Glaciers, Has, Icequakes, Inferred, Season, Seismic, Signals, Slip, Waveform.

Collaborative Proposal: Developing a Link Between Dynamic Friction and Fracture Mechanics Models of Earthquake Rupture using a new Dynamic Double-Direct Shear Apparatus
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Vikas Prakash($300,000), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland
2. WIlliam A Griffith($159,649), University of Akron, Akron
Key terms: Dynamic Rupture Models, Normal Stress Andor, Constitutive Behavior, Double-direct Shear, Dynamic Friction, Earthquake Physics, Fault Strength, Frictional Constitutive, Frictional Resistance, Laboratory Experiments, Pressure Bar, San Andreas, Shear Friction, Slip Velocity, Strong Ground, Advance, Apparatus, Approach, Attention, Conditions, Displacement, Double-direct, Earthquakes, Engineering, Experimental, Faculty, Faults, Geo-materials, Magnitude, Methodology, Potential, Processes, Relevance, Rock, Students, Testing, Weakening.

An Experimental Study on the Strength of the Lithosphere: Large-strain shear deformation experiments of olivine + orthopyroxene aggregates
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Shun-ichiro Karato($334,999), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Earth-like Planets, Plate Tectonics, Terrestrial Planets, Consequently, Earth-like, Layer, Lithosphere, Mars, Mode, Model, Olivine, Operation, Orthopyroxene, Reason, Strength, Strong, Various, Weakening.

Experimental Investigations of Carbon in Earth's Core
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Bin Chen($318,745), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Carbon Cycle, Fe-c Binary, Inner Core, Iron Carbides, Sound Velocities, X-ray Diffraction, APS, Behavior, Component, Deep, Density, Earth, Establish, Experimental, Experiments, Fe-c, Fec, Gpa, Laboratory, Methods, Michigan, National, Partial, Phase, Pressure, Solid, Temperature, Temperatures, X-ray.

Temporal Variations in the Seismogenic Zone, Cook Inlet, Alaska
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Jeffrey T Freymueller($365,000), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Dynamic And Subject, Creeping Stopped, Plate Interface, Seismogenic Zone, Slow Slip, Subduction Zones, Alaska, Assess, Assessments, Attempt, Behavior, Deformation, Directly, Discovery, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Explanation, Extent, Fault, Follow, GPS, Hazard, Magnitude, Motions, Observations, Observed, Plates, Previously, Public, Region, Section, Seismicity, Stress, Tectonic, Transient.

Surface Rupture Earthquakes and the Mechanics of Earthquake Faulting
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Glenn P Biasi($168,902), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Active Faults, Coseismic Slip, Earthquake Rupture, Rupture Length, Rupturing Earthquakes, Surface Rupture, Behavior, Consistently, Define, Expected, Ground, Maps, Observational, Observations, Physics, Practical, Process, Real, Ruptures, Trace.

Combined analysis of surface wave phase and amplitude data using finite frequency kernals: Towards a detailed mode of attenuation in the upper mantle
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. T. Guy Masters($188,626), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Accurately Model, Amplitude Anomalies, Seismic Amplitudes, Seismic Attenuation, Seismic Energy, Seismic Sources, Seismic Waves, Surface Wave, Wave Propagation, Attenuated, Datasets, Dispersion, Effects, Estimate, Has, Intrinsic, Issue, Mantle, Phase, Speed, Structure.

Direct Measurements of Shear and Longitudinal Wave Velocities of Iron and Iron Alloys at High Pressure and High Temperature by Laser Ultrasonics Technique
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Pavel V Zinin($273,209), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Iron And Iron-nickel, Shear And Longitudinal, Earth's Core, Earth's Interior, Elastic Behavior, Elastic Properties, Iron-nickel Alloys, Iron-rich Minerals, Composition, Conditions, Direct, Elevated, Geophysical, Information, Iron-rich, LU-DAC, Laser, Main, Melts, Non-transparent, Pressure, Pressures, Seismic, Technique, Temperature, Velocities, Wave.

Dynamical coupling of deformation and melt transport in the Earth: A combined theoretical and experimental study
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Marc W Spiegelman($235,906), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Partially Molten Rocks, Constitutive Models, Melt Transport, Plate Boundaries, Plate Tectonics, Stress-driven Segregation, Active, Computational, Deformation, Describes, Dynamics, Effective, Effects, Energy, Equations, Experiments, Flow, Geodynamic, Lead, Magma, Process, Properties, Relative, Solid, Solved, Stress-driven, Surface, Theoretical, Various.

Theoretical and Observational Studies of Surface Wave Attenuation From Ambient Noise
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Richard L Weaver($343,117), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Seismic Ambient Noise, Surface Wave Attenuation, Attenuation Maps, Rapidly Expanding, Anisotropic, Approach, Approaches, Based, Distribution, Earth, Earthquake, Extracting, Factors, Fields, Has, Highly, Information, Mapping, Methods, Non-uniform, Real, Seismology, Site, Source, Station, Theoretical, Traditional.

AGU Chapman Conference on Hawaiian Volcanoes: From Source to Surface
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Brenda L Weaver($49,126), American Geophysical Union, Washington
Key terms: Field Trips, Hawaiian Volcanoes, Volcano Observatory, Volcanoes Worldwide, Activity, Ascent, Available, Chapman, Conference, Conveners, Day, Development, Eruption, Especially, Future, Magma, Mantle, Models, Origin, State-of-the-art, Volcanic, Volcanism, Volcanology.

How anisotropic is the viscosity of Earth's mantle?
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. David L Kohlstedt($320,000), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Anisotropic Viscosity, Glide Plane, Large-scale Geodynamic, Melt-rich Bands, Partially Molten, Plate Tectonics, Viscous Anisotropy, Aggregates, Constraints, Crystallographic, Deformed, Dynamics, Experimental, Experiments, Formation, Influences, Laboratory, Large-scale, Layering, Mantle, Melt-rich, Olivine, Orientation, Properties, Rock, Shear, Strain, Strong.

Collaborative Research: Physical properties and structure of silicate melts and supercooled liquids at high pressures
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Charles E Lesher($116,361), University of California-Davis, Davis
2. Yanbin Wang($123,636), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Tectonic Plates, Boundary, Characterization, Chemical, Conditions, Core, Deep, Differentiation, Dynamics, Evolution, Formation, Magma, Mantle, Melts, Microtomography, Minerals, Planet, Pressure, Pressures, Properties, Segregation, Structural, Thermal.

Full Vector Studies of the Pringle Falls Excursion Recorded at Pringle Falls, Oregon
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Emilio Herrero-Bervera($108,237), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Pringle Falls Excursion, Deschutes River, Geomagnetic Field, Main Objective, Relative Paleointensity, Sedimentation Rates, Behavior, Cmyear, Core, Document, Documented, Earth, Generation, Information, Intervals, Magnetic, Oregon, Polarity, Sections, Sediments, Thousand, Time.

Subduction Zone Coupling and Strain Partitioning in the Philippine Plate Boundary Zone
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Michael W Hamburger($99,872), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Manila And Philippine, Plate Boundary Zone, Earthquake Potential, Fault-related Deformation, Island Arc, Spatially Variable, Active, Analysis, Assessment, Collaboration, Collaborators, Coupling, Developing, Effects, Fault-related, GPS, Indiana, Interaction, Luzon, Modeling, Models, Ongoing, PHIVOLCS, Philippines, Seeks, Subduction, Subduction-zone, Zones.

An integral approach to reveal the identity of light elements in the Earth's core
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Yingwei Fei($403,939), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Dynamic And Static, High-temperature Diamond-anvil Cell, Static Compression Experiments, Diamond-anvil Cell, Fe-si Alloys, High-temperature Diamond-anvil, Shock Compression, Core, Density, Engine, Fe-si, Identity, Iron, Light, Obtain, Sound, Velocities, Velocity, X-ray.

Collaborative Research: The Hawaiian PLUME Deployment in a Global Context
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Gabriele Laske($320,449), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Cecily J Wolfe($3,823), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: East Pacific Rise, Isolated Origin Near, Land And Ocean, Low Shear-velocity Province, Ocean Bottom Seismometers, Own Isolated Origin, Plume-lithosphere Undersea Melt, Undersea Melt Experiment, Central Pacific, Complex Chemistry, Core-mantle Boundary, Deep Mantle, Global Model, Global Tomography, Hawaiian Plume, Imaged Tilt, Low Shear-velocity, Mantle Plume, Plume Dataset, Plume-lithosphere Undersea, Robust Feature, Seismic Waves, Shear-velocity Province, Analyses, Anomalies, Anomaly, Asthenosphere, Body, Connection, Core-mantle, Deployment, Does, Earth, Exist, Found, Hawaiis, Hot, Images, Originate, Persists, Presence, Rock, Shvelocity, Surface, Usually.

Volatile-Bearing Phases at High Pressures and Temperatures: Volatile Release and Retention in Earth's Mantle
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Quentin Williams($293,268), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Pressures And Temperatures, Water And Carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Volatile-bearing Phases, Behavior, Deep, Depth, Earth, Genesis, High-pressure, High-temperature, Importance, Interior, Mantle, Minerals, Planet, Properties, Retained, Volatile-bearing.

Three dimensional modeling of dynamic microstructure
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Saswata Hier-Majumder($191,077), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Earth's Deep Interior, Earth's Deep, Earthquake Waves, Melt Geometry, Chemical, Dynamic, Fraction, Influence, Melting, Model, Properties, Units, Various.

Collaborative Research: Geodetic Constraints on Moment Deficit and Physics-based Earthquake Cycle Models in the Source Region of the M 9 Tohoku, Japan Earthquake
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Kaj M Johnson($93,403), Indiana University, Bloomington
2. Paul Segall($256,942), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Geodetic Strain Accumulation, Velocity Strengthening Regions, Frictional Properties, Plate Interface, Regularizing Functional, Thermal Pressurization, Tohoku Earthquake, Velocity Weakening, Afterslip, Allow, Based, Coupling, Deficit, Earthquakes, Effects, Fault, GPS, Japanese, Leading, March, Model, Moment, Mw, Raises, Rate, Seismic, Slip, Trench, `asperities.

The Iron Age Geomagnetic Field
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Lisa Tauxe($366,339), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Ancient Magnetic Field, Age Constraints, Field Strength, Accurate, Advantage, Archaeological, Archaeomagnetic, Base, Experimental, Global, Millennia, Online, Paleomagnetic, Partly, Radiocarbon, Remains.

2012 Rock Deformation Gordon Research Conference: Feedback Processes in Rock Deformation
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Nancy R Gray($22,505), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Rock Deformation, Commonly, Conference, Ductile, Earthquakes, Feedbacks, Fluid, Fracture, Geological, Mechanisms, Rates, Reaction, Students, Tectonic, Topics.

Partial Melting at Mantle Conditions: Effect on Elastic, Anelastic, and Plastic Behavior
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Li Li($400,000), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Low Velocity Zone, Shear Wave Velocity, Laboratory Studies, Partial Melting, Upper Mantle, Affected, Available, Capable, Conditions, Defined, Developed, Found, Gpa, Measure, Modulus, Plates, Properties, Rock, Seismic, Students, Studying, Tools, Useful, Viscosity, Wish.

Collaborative Research: Strain accumulation and release at the Kuril subduction zone from postseismic observations on the Kuril GPS array in 2007-2014
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Jeffrey T Freymueller($60,000), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
2. Mikhail Kogan($340,000), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Kuril Gps Array, Postseismic Surface Deformation, Kuril Earthquakes, Subduction Interface, Subduction Zone, Collaboration, Coseismic, Frictional, Gaps, January, Models, Mw, Pacific, Plate, Region, Required, Russian, Seismic, Thrust, Time, Was.

EAGER: Investigating the Thermal Maturity of Organic Matter in Fault Zones with Laboratory Experiments
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Heather M Savage($88,841), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Short Time Scales, Fault Zones, Sedimentary Rocks, Shear Stress, Thermal Maturity, Burial, Earthquake, Establish, Faults, Friction, Frictional, Heating, Paleothermometer, Parameters, Slip, Temperature, Temperatures, Time-temperature.

EAGER: Determining When Earth's Magnetic Field Originated
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Benjamin P Weiss($87,560), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Jack Hills, Magnetic Field, Earliest, Earth, Evolution, Extremely, Ga, Has, Local, Origin, Pis, Plan, Share, Techniques, Thermal, Time, Zircons.

CAREER: Geodynamics of subducting slabs in the Earth's deep mantle from seismic anisotropy
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Maureen D Long($539,930), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Deep Upper Mantle, Subducting Slabs Deform, Transition Zone, Anisotropy, Base, CMB, Dynamic, Dynamics, Earth, Experience, Flow, Prime, Seismic, Shear, Subduction, Surface, Teachers.

Theoretical Investigation of the Origin of Shallow Slip Deficit in Large Strike-Slip Earthquakes
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Yoshihiro Kaneko($30,582), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
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.

Intermediate Depth Earthquakes: Investigations of the Predominance and Cause of Subhorizontal Faults
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Linda M Warren($247,422), Saint Louis University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Outer Rise Faults, Colombia, Earthquakes, Japan, Observations, Process, Slab, Student.

Comprehensive high-precision relocation of global seismicity
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. David P Schaff($218,376), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Global Dd Catalog, Phase Arrival Times, Structure And Composition, Global Seismic, Notoriously Low, Seismic Archives, Spatial Resolution, Algorithms, Applications, Catalogs, Computing, Double-difference, Earth, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Estimate, Focus, Hazards, Hypocenters, Increasing, Interior, Methods, Nature, Potential, Processes, Seismicity, Seismogenic, Seismology, Significantly, Subduction, Teleseismic, Zones.

Analysis of the Shallow Slip Deficit Using Sub-Pixel Image Correlation: Implications for Fault Evolution, Slip Rates, and Seismic Hazards
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. James F Dolan($424,999), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: On-fault Versus Off-fault, Surface Slip Deficit, Future Earthquakes, Image Correlation, Off-fault Deformation, On-fault Versus, Seismic Hazard, Seismic Ruptures, Slip Near, Versus Off-fault, Advance, Allow, Amount, Assessment, Basic, Cosi-corr, Distribution, Faults, Features, Has, Importance, Models, Past, Rate.

Probing the Multiscale Nature of Crustal Magma Transport
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Leif Karlstrom($170,000), Karlstrom Leif, Berkeley
Key terms: Inference Techniques, Magma Transport, Statistical Inference, Arc, Cascades, Degree, Eruption, Has, Modeling, Models, Plumbing, Seismic, Stanford, Structure, Tremor, Volcanic, Volcanism.

Spatio-temporal changes of earthquake and fault zone properties before and after the Mw7.1 Duzce event
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Yehuda Ben-Zion($129,485), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Earthquake And Fault, Düzce Mainshock, Fault Zone, Postseismic Effects, Previous Studies, Rock Properties, Seismic Velocities, Accelerated, Additional, Aftershocks, Clusters, Detailed, Detect, Earthquakes, Evolutionary, Examine, Following, Hypocenter, Increase, Mw, Process, Processes, Repeating, Set, Significantly, Techniques, Temporal, Time, Updated, Waveform, Waveforms, Ýzmit.

Interferometric Imaging of Subduction Zones
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Alison E Malcolm($120,001), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Local Earthquakes, Seismic Interferometry, Subducting Slab, Subduction Zones, Algorithm, Geophones, Image, Images, Imaging, Inside, Method, Numerically, Processes, Produce, Receiver, Receivers, Recording, Redatuming, Signal, Source, Sources, Surface, Technique, Virtual.

RAPID: Monitoring Deep Crustal Earthquake Sequence, Sierraville, California
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Kenneth Smith($22,205), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Sierra Nevada Microplate, Deep Swarm, Moho-depth Earthquake, Sierra Valley, Activity, Additional, Boundary, Broadband, California, Confined, Crust, Density, Diking, Earthquakes, Injection, Lower, Moho-depth, Process, Processes, Region, Seismicity, Sequence, Sequences, Shallow, Similar, Structure, Upper.

Using Multiple Gravimeters to Test Conceptual Models of Subsurface Flow
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Paul A Ferre($127,291), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Storage And Recovery, Recovery Facility, Subsurface Water, Approaches, Collection, Development, Extensive, Gravity, Hydrology, Instrument, Instruments, Methods, Modeling, Monitoring, Movement, Spatially, Wide.

CAREER: Quantitative Education and Analysis toward Integrating Scales of Water Exchange between Land and Sea
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Holly A Michael($665,010), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Water And Chemical, Chemical Fluxes, Coastal Ecosystems, Groundwater Flow, Ocean Chemistry, Water Exchange, Water Resources, Aquifer, Aquifers, Continent, Delaware, Education, Future, Geologic, Geometry, Heterogeneity, Influence, Integrating, Land, Management, Mathematics, Processes, Salinization, Sea, Seawater, Solute, Spatial, Subsurface.

Hydrogeochemical dynamics of natural carbon dioxide ﬁelds: Analogs for geological carbon storage and constraints on convective dissolution
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Marc A Hesse($471,471), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Carbon Dioxide Dissolution, Carbon Dioxide Dissolves, Carbon Dioxide Storage, Dissolved Carbon Dioxide, Geological Carbon Dioxide, Sedimentary Basins, Density, Estimate, Field, Formation, Has, Laboratory, Model, Models, Natural, Rates, Surface, Time, Water.

MEASURING SOIL WATER FLUXES DUE TO EVAPORATION AND FREEZING
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Joshua L Heitman($364,010), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: Heat And Water, Soil Water Evaporation, Soil Water Phase, Energy Budgets, Heat Transfer, Hydrologic Cycle, Ice Contents, Latent Heat, Liquid Water, Soil Freezing, Water Fluxes, Water Transfer, Water Vapor, Aimed, Balance, Conditions, Depth, Experiments, Fine-scale, Front, Instrumentation, Limited, Mass, Numerical, Occurring, Processes, Remains, Surface, Temperature, Thermal, Thermo-tdr.

Collaborative Research: Near-Surface Repulsion and Mixing- Limitations: Upscaling of Colloid Retention, Breakthrough, and Elution in Non-Uniform Media under Unfavorable Conditions
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Markus Hilpert($164,965), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Near-surface Residence Times, Colloid Retention, Colloid Transport, Environmental Conditions, Mechanistic Model, Near-surface Fluid, Near-surface Residence, Porous Media, Unfavorable Conditions, Attractive, Behavior, Colloid-surface, Colloids, Darcy, Heterodomains, Influence, Interactions, Nsurface, Pore, Predict, Prediction, Repulsive, Strategies, Surfaces.

CAREER: Mass Transport in Groundwater: an Integration of Research and Experiential Education
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Kamini Singha($255,193), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: Immobile Porosity, Mass Transfer, Pore Space, Behavior, Bicontinuum, Combine, Complex, Concentration, Control, Controlling, Curves, Described, Diffusion, Domain, Estimating, Field, Heterogeneity, Hydraulic, Hydrologic, Less, Mobile, Models, Natural, Parameters, Predict, Processes, Properties, Tailing, Transport, Versus, Zones.

Evaluation of Partitioning Electron Donors for Enhanced Bioremediation of Chlorinated Solvent Source Zones
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Natalie Capiro($350,411), Tufts University, Somerville
Key terms: Chlorinated Solvent Source, Contaminant Source Zone, Dissolution And Degradation, Electron Donor Delivery, Partitioning Electron Donors, Solvent Source Zones, Chlorinated Solvents, Close Proximity, Mass Transfer, Mathematical Modeling, Ped Delivery, Rate Parameters, Remediation Costs, Alternative, Aquifer, Assess, Biodegradation, Biological, Bioremediation, Conditions, Consumption, Dollars, Estimates, Experimental, Exposure, Initiatives, Instructional, Intended, Knowledge, Microbial, Organic, Peds, Performance, Potential, Processes, Release, Sites, Students, Subsurface, Sustained, TCE, Treatment, Undergraduate, Water.

Collaborative Research: Role of Interfacial Turbulence in Hyporheic Exchange and Fine Particle Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. James L Best($247,464), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
2. Aaron Packman($263,759), Northwestern University, Evanston
Key terms: Deposition And Resuspension, Solute And Particle, Aquatic Ecosystems, Hydrodynamic Interactions, K-12 Students, Particle Dynamics, Particle Transport, River Networks, Activities, Carbon, Contaminants, Contribute, Downstream, Ecological, Essential, Exchange, Fine, Flow, Flows, Fluid, Human, Influence, Information, Long-term, Management, Mechanisms, Migration, Models, Observations, Particles, Porewaters, Predict, Processes, Risks, Rivers, Solutes, Suspended, Sustainability, Transmission, Underlying, Water, Waterborne, Watersheds.

Collaborative Research: Fundamental Research on Oscillatory Flow in Hydrogeology
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Peter K Kitanidis($225,653), Stanford University, Stanford
2. Warren Barrash($200,272), Boise State University, Boise
3. Michael A Cardiff($173,815), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Darcy's Law, Fluid Flow, Oscillatory Flow, Oscillatory Flows, Porous Media, Theoretical Developments, Applications, Aquifer, Characterization, Contaminated, Core, Created, Darcys, Experiments, Field, Frequency, Hydrologic, Intermediate, Laboratory, Parameters, Percent, Premises, Site, Source, Subsurface, Testvalidate, Upscaling, Water.

The transport of dissolved organic matter by river networks from mountains to the sea: a re-examination of the role of flow across temporal and spatial scales
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Mark Green($25,400), Plymouth State University, Plymouth
Key terms: Organic Matter, Powell Center, Basins, Collaboration, Expected, Synthesis, Temporal, Transport.

CAREER: A Multi-Scale Approach to Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Hydrologic and Geomorphic Response of Watershed Systems within an Uncertainty Framework
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Valeriy Y Ivanov($548,334), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Activities And Ecosystem, Compensation And Mitigation, Educational Activities Focusing, Class Program, Climate Models, Climate Projections, Ecosystem Services, Human Activities, Agricultural, Applications, Characteristics, Climatic, Component, Comprehensive, Developed, Downscaled, Enhance, Floodplain, Flow, Future, Hydrodynamic, Hydrologic, Hydrological, Inaccuracies, Information, Metrics, Michigan, Mid-, Modeling, Multi-scale, Native, Outreach, Predictions, Processes, Require, Scenarios, Stream, Students, Uncertainty, Watershed.

Quantification of the role of bedload and suspended load in the flux of inorganic carbon
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Carol M Wicks($296,769), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Bed Load Transport, Geology Intensive Orientation, Global Carbon Cycle, Particulate Inorganic Carbon, Quantify Bed Load, Sediment Transport Relations, Transport And Flux, Carbon Dioxide, Carbonate Terrains, Existing Models, Landscape Denudation, Load Flux, Mechanical Removal, Suspended Load, Accounting, Allow, Annual, Atmospheric, Chemical, Dissolution, Flow, Karst, Movement, Particles, Processes, Program, Sink, Storm, Streams, Students.

SEG-AGU Hydrogeophysics Workshop
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2012; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Kamini Singha($16,500), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Conference, Current, Enable, Workshop.

2012 Flow and Transport in Permeable Media GRC/GRS
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2012; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Sarah E Gasda($30,050), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Flow And Transport, Permeable Media, GRC, GRS, Informal.

Building on the Legacy of Wilfried Brutsaert and J.-Yves Parlange for Advances in the Ecological Hydrosphere
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2012; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Tammo S Steenhuis($21,981), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Field, Symposium.

RAPID: An unusual opportunity to track snow ablation using stable isotope evolution of the 2011-2012 snowpack near Boise, Idaho
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2012; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Samantha Evans($19,912), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Current, Isotopic, Profiles, Snowmelt, Snowpack, Sublimation, Time.

PBO H2O: Using EarthScope GPS Data to Generate Water Cycle Products
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2012; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Kristine M Larson($442,366), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Water Cycle Products, Gps Sites, Antenna, Available, Critical, Developed, PBO, Public.

The Impact of Blade Motion on the Flux to a Blade Surface
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2012; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Heidi M Nepf($373,200), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Blade Motion, Individual Blades, Water Quality, Acquire, Boundaries, Conditions, Examine, Flux, LDPE, Macrophytes, Nutrient, Nutrients, Plants, Potential, Rate, Surface, Uptake, Vegetation, Waves.

Determination of regional fluid flow and gas flux rates for a continental plateau using cosmogenic and radiogenic noble gas isotopes
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Thomas L Kieft($24,820), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Noble Gas Analyses, Radiogenic Noble Gases, Subsurface Residence Times, Continental Crust, Continental Plateau, Cosmogenic Chlorine-36, Deep Continental, Deep Fracture, Fluid Flow, Fractured Rock, South Africa, Witwatersrand Basin, Analysis, Constrained, Constraints, Cycling, Dating, Flux, Groundwater, Hydrogen, Isotope, Isotopes, Krypton-, Microbial, Mine, Mines, Rates, Regional, Saline, Water.

Karst Conduit Hyporheic Zone Exchange
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. John L Wilson($261,540), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Karst Hyporheic Exchange, Conduit Hyporheic, Hyporheic Flow, Hyporheic Zone, Karst Conduit, Karst Conduits, Karst-conduit Hyporheic, Net Exchange, Surface Streams, Analog, Biology, Field, Margin, Models, Past, Phreatic, Site, Spatial, Subsurface, Supply, Temporal, Time, Water.

Rapid Response Research (RAPID) Proposal to NSF Hydrologic Sciences: Impacts of Forest Fire on Snow Accumulation and Melt
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Anne W Nolin($18,436), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Hydrologic Impacts, Snow-vegetation Interactions, Accumulation, Burned, Dynamics, Earlier, Experience, Fire, Forcing, Forests, Increased, Information, Melt, Paradigm, Sites, Snow-vegetation, Snowpack, Wildfire.

Climatic Controls on Snow-Vegetation Interactions Across an Elevational Gradient
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Noah P Molotch($256,625), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Accumulation And Snowmelt, Climate And Vegetation, Snowmelt And Water, Beetle Infestation, Elevational Gradient, Fire Suppression, Instrument Clusters, Knowledge Gap, Land Cover, Mountain Forests, Mountain Snowpack, Predict Ecosystem, Snow Accumulation, Solar Radiation, Unrealized Implications, Vegetation Cover, Water Availability, Broadly, Dynamics, Hence, Hydrologic, Interactions, Modeling, Models, Network, People, Potential, Primary, Processes, Represent, Soil, Source, Spanning, Targets, Via.

Collaborative Research: A Multiscale Analysis of Chemotactic Bacteria Transport in Heterogeneous Porous Media
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Roseanne M Ford($303,045), University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville
2. Brian D Wood($290,108), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Heterogeneous Porous Media, Chemotactic Bacteria, Ability, Analysis, Archetypes, Bacterial, Behavior, Bioremediation, Chemical, Chemically, Chemotaxis, Combine, Engineering, Essential, Experimental, Features, Has, Lead, Macroscopic, Methods, Mixing, Models, Multiscale, Non-chemotactic, Physically, Pollutants, Sense, Sets, Transport, Upscaling.

An Application of the Theory of Maximum Entropy Production in Modeling Evapotranspiration
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Jingfeng Wang($353,166), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Ground Heat Fluxes, Land Surface Energy, Surface Energy Balance, Temperature And Humidity, Transferring Latent Heat, Bare Soil, Local Scales, Maximum Entropy, Mep Model, Regional Scales, Sensible Heat, Stomatal Conductance, Theoretical Development, Thermal Inertia, Water Vapor, ABL, Access, Based, California, Canopy, Datasets, Effort, Engage, Evapotranspiration, Existing, Field, Framework, Function, Hydrologic, Irvine, Leads, Method, Models, Responsible, Schools, Students, Surfaces, Transport, Turbulent, Undergraduate, Validation, Variables.

Quantifying the effect of surface sealing on post-fire runoff and erosion in the western U.S.
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Ronald Wakimoto($273,908), University of Montana, Missoula
Key terms: Field And Lab, Runoff And Erosion, Surface Sealing Contributes, Erosion Rates, Increased Runoff, Ash, Based, Conductivity, Extent, Factors, Fire, Formation, Low, Mechanisms, Predictive, Probability, Soil.

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

1. Richelle Allen-King($211,688), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Cfcs And Sf6, Low Carbon Content, Low Foc Aquifers, Sedimentary Aquifers, Compounds, Enhance, Experiments, Groundwater, Opportunities, Particular, Phd, Reactive, Sediments, Sorbing, Sorption, Student, Students, TACM, Tracers, Transport, Undergraduate.

A Community-Based Consortium for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Jennifer Arrigo($6,160,876), Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sci, Arlington
Key terms: Academic, Advanced, Design, Effort, Field, Held, Informatics, Instrumentation, Integrated, Services, Synthesis, Water.

INSPIRE: ENABLING TRANSFORMATION IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES, GEOSCIENCES, AND CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE THROUGH STAKEHOLDER ALIGNMENT AND NEW INSTITUTIONAL THEORY, METHODS, AND ANALYTICS
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: INSPIRE

1. Courtney G Flint($800,000), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Analysis, Building, Community-driven, Create, Cyberinfrastructure, Design, Directorate, Effective, Engagement, Evolution, Geoscience, Implementation, Infrastructure, NSF, Process, Quantitative, Social, Stakeholder, Technology, Time, Transformative.

Collaborative Research: Tectonic and Magmatic Processes during Early-Stage Rifting: an Integrated Study of Northern Lake Malawi, Africa
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2012; Program: INTEGRATED EARTH SYSTEMS

1. Andrew A Nyblade($657,706), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Donna J Shillington($2,761,845), Columbia University, New York
3. Christopher A Scholz($766,844), Syracuse University, Syracuse
4. Cynthia J Ebinger($254,933), University of Rochester, Rochester
5. Matthew E Pritchard($99,142), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Magmatism And Segmentation, Accommodating Extension, Late-stage Rifts, Mid-ocean Ridges, Tectonic Segmentation, Constraints, Continent, Controls, Deformation, Development, Evolution, Faults, Features, Has, Initiation, Late-stage, Lithosphere, Mid-ocean, Plate, Rifting, Seismicity.

Collaborative Research: EarthScope Facility Operation and Maintenance (FY2008-FY2013) (PBO/SAFOD)
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION ACT

1. Glen S Mattioli($53,667,329), UNAVCO, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: Earthscope Facility, Active, Available, Broad, Continent, Deformation, Educational, Evolution, Geological, Integrated, Land, National, Natural, Observational, Outreach, Processes, Program, Public, Schools, Step, Structure, Students, Time, Tools.

Scientific Drilling and the Evolution of the Earth System: Climate, Biota, Biogeochemistry, and Extreme Events
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2013; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Gerilyn S Soreghan($48,645), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Drilling, Paleobiology, Priority, Sedimentary, Targets, Workshop.

Tracing Volatile Accretion, Mantle Mixing and Early Degassing from Plume Derived Noble Gases
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Sujoy Mukhopadhyay($284,561), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Late Accreting Planetesimals, Isotopic Compositions, Mantle Plumes, Mid-ocean Ridge, Noble Gas, Plume Source, Atmosphere, Basalts, Earth, Iceland, Krypton, MORB, Origin, Outgassing, Ratio, Representative, Sources, Volatiles, Was, Xe, Xenon.

Facility Support: AfricaArray - Advancing Earth Science Research and Education with an Interdisciplinary Network in Africa
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Andrew A Nyblade($213,777), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Archived And Distributed, Gps And Weather, Management Center, Observatory Network, Africa, Africaarray, Graduate, Observatories, Program, Seismic, Students, Training.

Early Career: Acquisition of an Isotopic Liquid-Water Analyzer for Hydrology and Earth Science Research and Education at Syracuse University
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Gregory D Hoke($88,098), Syracuse University, Syracuse
Key terms: Isotopic Composition, Soil Water, Water Isotope, Analyses, Characterization, Climatic, Determining, Earth, Ground, Groundwaters, Instrument, Instruments, Isotopes, Melting, Minerals, Ocean, Rock, Sources, Streams, Waters.

Development of a 0.5 Tesla AF Demagnetizer
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Peter C Lippert($79,516), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Rock And Paleomagnetism, Alternating Field, AF, Demagnetization, Design, Development, Magnetic, Pis.

Consortium for Materials Properties Research in Earth Sciences (COMPRES): National Facilities and Infrastructure Development for High-Pressure Geosciences Research
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Jay D Bass($9,796,521), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Pressures And Temperatures, Beam Line, Beam Lines, Compres-supported Facilities, Diamond Cell, Earths Interior, Light Source, National Laboratory, National Synchrotron, ALS, APS, Advanced, Apparatus, COMPTECH, Capabilities, Center, Compres-supported, Consortium, DAC, Dynamical, Experimentation, Experiments, Extreme, Facility, Geophysical, Heating, High-pressure, Inelastic, NSLS, NSLS-II, Properties, Resistance, Scattering, Seismological, X-ray, XB.

Interferometric Seismometer Research and Development
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Mark A Zumberge($565,264), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Ground Shaking, Laser Light, Optical Fibers, Borehole, Carry, Description, Displacement, Electronic, Electronics, GSN, Housing, Mass, Means, Measure, Minute, Motion, Motions, Operate, Pendulum, Performance, Range, Seismic, Seismometer, Seismometers, Sensors, Signal, Signals, Simple, Spring, Technology, Vertical.

Acquisition of a Walker-style multi-anvil device for high pressure-temperature petrology and geochemistry research.
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Rajdeep Dasgupta($377,046), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Experimental Petrology, Multi-anvil Device, Newly Acquired, Application, Deep, Immediately, Mantle, Melting, Multi-anvil, Pressure, Processes, Rice, Serve, Temperature, Texas, Volatiles.

2012 Electron Backscatter Diffraction Topical Conference
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2012; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Yoosuf Picard($12,000), Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Key terms: EBSD, Opportunity, Planned, Poster, Session, Students, Talks, Technique, Vendors.

Acquisition of a noble gas analysis facility for surface process studies at the Berkeley Geochronology Center
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2012; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. David L Shuster($137,108), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
Key terms: Cosmogenic Noble Gas, Quantitative Surface Process, Surface Process Studies, Array, Automated, Existing, Extraction, Facility, Laser, Processes, Purification.

Acquisition of an Impulsive Stimulated Light Scattering (ISLS) system for elasticity and thermal conductivity studies
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2012; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Jung-Fu Lin($168,000), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Elasticity And Thermal, Deep-earth Seismic, Mineral Physics, Spectroscopic Technique, Thermal Conductivity, Acquisition, Activities, Broadly, Conditions, Deep-earth, Essential, Geodynamic, Interior, Knowledge, Planetary, Properties, Structures.

Student Support for Topical Conference on Cathodoluminescence 2011
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Edward P Vicenzi($6,325), Smithsonian Institution, Washington
Key terms: Cl Analysis, Laboratory Demonstrations, Microstructural Defects, Topical Conference, Australia, Cathodoluminescence, Electron, Information, MAS, Meeting, Microanalysis, Mineral, NIST, October, Participants, Range, Sensitivity, Society, Students.

Upgrade of Lab Facilities for Sediment Characterization in the INSTAAR Sedimentology Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Holly R Barnard($61,582), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Colorado, Equipment, INSTAAR.

Acquisition of an inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometer for a multi-user facility for geological, biogeochemical, and environmental research
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2012; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Christine L Goodale($106,580), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Hydraulic Fracturing, Wide Variety, Analysis, Analytical, Cornell, Education, Elemental, Energy, Environmental, Facility, Gas, Geological, ICP-OES, Metal, Quality, Regional.

Acquisition of a Diode Laser for Noble Gas Geochemistry at Caltech
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2012; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Kenneth A Farley($84,788), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Laser Heating, Noble Gas, Noble Gases, Ages, Apatite, Application, Capability, Diode, Geochronology, Has, Information, Lasers, Oc, Power, Rock, Technique, Temperature, Temperatures.

Development of frequency-dependent traveltime tomography for controlled-source seismic data.
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2012; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Colin A Zelt($227,017), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Crust And Near-surface, Environmental And Engineering, Accurate Estimation, Delay Time, Frequency Content, Global Seismology, Ray Theory, Traveltime Tomography, Wave Propagation, Academic, Account, Applicable, Controlled-source, Developed, Earth, Earthquake, FDTT, FFTT, Finite-frequency, Forward, Frequency-dependent, Has, Heterogeneous, Infinite-frequency, Mantle, Method, Model, Models, Nsurface, Opposed, Real, Reference, Relative, Seismic, Seismograms, Seismologists, Software, Subsurface, Synthetic, Times, Velocity, WDVS.

RAPID: Developing sensitive tests for detecting water chemistry changes associated with shale bed methane production in the Appalachian Basin
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Donald I Siegel($95,574), Syracuse University, Syracuse
Key terms: Geochemical Fingerprinting Tools, Shallow Ground Waters, Surface And Shallow, Hydraulic Fracturing, Shale Gas, Water Chemistry, Water Quality, Contamination, Contribute, Database, Following, Groundwater, Has, Hydrofracking, Interface, Unbiased, York.

Research Experience for Undergraduates Site on Sustainable Land and Water Resources
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Antony R Berthelote($717,280), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Land And Water, Inland Waters, Management Practices, Native Reservations, Resource Management, Sustainable Land, Water Resources, Approach, Biological, Chemical, Ecological, Habitat, Interdisciplinary, National, Predictive, Processes, Program, Students.

Collaborative Research: Non-equilibrium Topography and Crustal-scale Imbrication in an Arc-continent Collision, Taiwan
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: International Research Collab

1. William Ouimet($381,675), University of Connecticut, Storrs
2. Jonathan C Lewis($29,339), Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana
Key terms: Landscape Evolution, Low Relief, Mountain Belt, Passive Margin, Volcanic Arc, Acceleration, Active, Analyses, Collision, Crustal-scale, Deformation, Detailed, Determination, Erosion, Has, Led, Orientation, Steady, Taiwan, Topography, Trending, Uplift.

Directly quantifying the isotopic fractionation associated with the key enzymes in microbial sulfate reduction
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: International Research Collab

1. David T Johnston($239,154), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Bacteria, Biochemistry, Isotope, Pereira.

Collaborative Research: Near-Surface Repulsion and Mixing-Limitations: Upscaling of Colloid Transport in Non-Uniform Media under Unfavorable Conditions
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: International Research Collab

1. William P Johnson($227,213), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
2. Timothy R Ginn($159,917), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Near-surface Residence Times, Colloid Retention, Colloid Transport, Environmental Conditions, Mechanistic Model, Near-surface Fluid, Near-surface Residence, Porous Media, Unfavorable Conditions, Attractive, Behavior, Colloid-surface, Colloids, Darcy, Heterodomains, Influence, Interactions, Nsurface, Pore, Predict, Prediction, Repulsive, Strategies, Surfaces.

Collaborative Research: RUI: Structure and Kinematics of an Accommodation Zone within the Evolving Afar Triple Junction, Central Afar (Ethiopia and Djibouti)
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: International Research Collab

1. Samson Tesfaye($33,212), Lincoln University, Jefferson City
2. Francisco G Gomez($26,250), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Rift-rift-rift Triple Junction, Sea And Gulf, Accommodation Zone, Afar Region, Central Afar, Late Pleistocene, Red Sea, Rift-rift-rift Triple, Activity, Aden, Constrain, Continent, Development, Document, Ethiopia, Evolution, Extension, Field, Grabens, Landforms, Mapping, Neotectonic, Observations, Propagators, Quaternary, Regional, Rifts, Strain, Structural, Structure, Tectonic, Tectonism.

What Determines Whether the Deep Continental Crust Flows?
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: International Research Collab

1. Bradley R Hacker($329,701), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Continental Crust Flows, Deep Continental Crust, Broad, Composition, Earth, Norway, Pressure, Students, Temperature.

Three-Dimensional Characterization of a Pseudotachylyte-Bearing Fault
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: International Research Collab

1. Phillip G Resor($146,728), Wesleyan University, Middletown
Key terms: Behavior, CT, Crust, Deformation, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Fault, Frictional, Geometry, Imaging, Laws, Natural, Program, Roughness, Slip, Students, Surface.

Developments in the understanding of processes in the P cycle: new concepts from the use of isotopic tracers
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: International Research Collab

1. Adina Paytan($41,000), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Activity, Agricultural, Collaboration, Countries, Cycle, ETH, Environment, Focus, Gaps, International, Knowledge, Methodologies, Organizers, Post, Students, Swiss, Workshop, Zürich.

Investigating the Slip Rate of the Main Frontal Thrust in the Eastern Himalaya, NE India
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2012; Program: International Research Collab

1. An Yin($248,824), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Main Frontal Thrust, Active Faults, Eastern Himalaya, Slip Rate, =, Central, Convergence, Current, Detailed, Distribution, Earthquake, Final, Graduate, Himalayan, Indian, Plate, West.

RUI: Tectonic Development of the Yanshan Fold-Thrust Belt, Northeast China
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: International Research Collab

1. Tim D Cope($218,079), DePauw University, Greencastle
Key terms: Plate Boundary, Yanshan Belt, Ancient, Asia, Beijing, China, Collaborative, Complex, Continent, Crust, Dating, Development, Drivers, Eastern, Extension, Extent, Geologic, Geosciences, History, Individual, Interact, Lithosphere, Long-term, Loss, Mountain, Multiple, Shortening, Students, Tectonic, U-pb, Volcanism.

Computational Infrastructure for the Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System
Award Effective Date: 10/15/2012; Program: MacroSysBIO & NEON-Enabled Sci

1. James P Syvitski($5,690,110), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Csdms Modeling Framework, Modeling Initiative, Accessible, Capture, Coastal, Computing, Cyber-infrastructure, Developed, Developing, Development, Earth-surface, Ecosystem, Educational, Enhance, Erosion, Initiatives, Landscapes, Models, Modules, Process, Processes, Products, Resources, Software.

MRI: Acquisition of a state-of-the-art thermal ionization mass spectrometer
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. James Day($300,000), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Mass Spectrometry, San Diego, Stable Isotope, Biological, Enhance, Formation, Instrument, Isotopic, Measure, Processes, Radiogenic, Range, Scripps, State-of-the-art, Students, TIMS, Trace, Undergraduate.

MRI: Acquisition of a Stable Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer for Interdisciplinary Research and Undergraduate Research Training
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. David P Gillikin($325,000), Union College, Schenectady
Key terms: Stable Isotope, Geology, Instrument, Investigations, Keck, Marine, Students, Union.

MRI: Acquisition of Stable Isotope Instrumentation for Biogeochemistry Research and Teaching at the University of Cincinnati
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Brooke Crowley($400,000), University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati
Key terms: Carbon And Hydrogen, Isotope Ratio Mass, Ratio Mass Spectrometer, Stable Isotope Ratio, Undergraduate And Graduate, Arctic Ecosystems, Atmospheric Methane, Graduate Students, Hydrogen Isotopes, Methane Emissions, Plant Biomarkers, Undergraduate Students, Array, Biogeochemistry, Characterizing, Cincinnati, Climate, Ecology, Faculty, Geology, IRMS, Instrumentation, Marine, Modern, Paleoclimate, Paleoenvironments, Pis, Shale, Terrestrial, Topics, Training, Water.

MRI: Acquisition of SIMS Instrument
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Christine Floss($2,071,491), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Local And External, External Users, Access, Applications, Catalyze, Directions, Diverse, Instrument, Ion, Mass, Processes, Range, SIMS, Technician, Trace, Washington.

MRI: Acquisition of GPS Equipment for Establishing a Continuously Operating Dense GPS Network in Houston Metropolitan Area for Urban Natural Hazards Study
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Ramesh Shrestha($401,374), University of Houston, Houston
Key terms: Continuously Operating, Normal Faults, Subsidence District, Civil, Co-located, Engineering, Extraction, Forecasting, GPS, Hazards, Houston, Houstonnet, Installed, Local, Metro, Network, Observational, Operated, Planned, Processes, Public, Real-time, Regional, Salt, Stations, Tectonic, UH, UNAVCO, Water, Weather.

MRI: Upgrade of powder X-ray diffraction instrumentation at Vassar College
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Jeffrey Walker($80,000), Vassar College, Poughkeepsie
Key terms: Clay, Soils, XRD.

MRI: Acquisition of a flow cytometer with high speed sorting to advance aquatic science research and education
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Aaron J Beck($580,488), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
Key terms: Flow Cytometer, Nutrient Cycling, Individual, Labeling, Marine, Molecular, Phytoplankton, Rates, Virginia.

MRI: Development of a Confocal Instrument for Spatially Resolved Luminescence Measurements in Geologic and Archaeological Dating and Radiation Dosimetry
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Regina DeWitt($113,049), East Carolina University, Greenville
Key terms: Optically Stimulated Luminescence, Osl Dating Technique, Confocal Osl, Radiation Dose, Allow, Application, Archaeological, Available, Date, Deposition, Emitted, Instrument, Light, Oklahoma, Sediments, Time.

Hawaiian Ridge Age, Source, Composition and Melt Flux Variations: Implications for Plume Dynamics and Plate Kinematics
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Michael O Garcia($349,922), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Hawaiian Ridge, Magma Flux, Mantle Plumes, Plate Motion, Age, Ages, Cenozoic, Chain, Chains, Classic, Education, Evolution, Gaps, Geochemical, Guide, Has, International, Island, Louisville, Module, Motions, Myr, Potential, Published, Source, Students, Time, Undergraduate.

Beyond the 'Classical' Mantle Plume Concept: Upwelling Dynamics, Seismic Structure, and Partial Melting of Thermochemical Plumes
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Cecily J Wolfe($197,192), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Excess Temperature, South Pacific, Thermally Buoyant, Thermochemical Plumes, Upper Mantle, Body, Classical, Content, Convection, Eclogite, Evidence, Geochemical, Geophysical, Has, Hawaii, Hotspot, Hotspots, Mafic, Observations, Pancake, Potential, Processes, Properties, Seismic, Short-lived, Superplume, Theory, Tomography, Upwellings, Volcanism.

Collaborative Research: Imaging the Cascadia Subduction Zone: A Ship-to-shore Opportunity
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Anne M Tréhu($190,566), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Helene D Carton($209,402), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Cascadia Subduction Zone, De Fuca Plate, Juan De Fuca, Subduction Zone Thrust, Active-source Seismic, Fault Zone, Fault Zones, Integrated Analysis, Locked Zone, Plate Boundary, Pore Pressure, Subduction Zones, Thrust Zone, Zone Structure, Acquisition, Active-source, Additional, Allow, Allowing, Characterized, Compare, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Evidence, Existing, Extend, Faults, Hydration, Images, Incoming, Minerals, Obtained, Ocean, Offshore, Oregon, Process, Region, Regions, Sediment, Segment, Seismometers, Slip, Sources, Thick, Washington, Water.

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. Deborah K Smith($237,628), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
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.

CAREER: Integrating earthquake physics and source imaging while engaging the Hispanic community
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: Other Global Learning & Trng

1. Jean-Paul Ampuero($576,776), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Theory And Observations, Dynamic Rupture, Earthquake Dynamics, Earthquake Rupture, Source Imaging, Source Inversion, Activities, Analysis, Capacity, Complexity, Computational, Destructive, Developments, Earthquakes, Education, Enhance, Foster, Hazards, Hispanic, Integrates, Main, Method, Mitigate, Multi-scale, Observational, Physics, Processes, Products, Realistic, SEM, Seismic, Seismology, Simulation, Social, Software, Techniques, Uncertainties, Vulnerability.

Collaborative Research: Field-Based Quantification of Dehyration Flux from Subducting Lithologies, Syros and Sifnos, Greece
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Mark J Caddick($236,964), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
2. Ethan F Baxter($266,571), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Depth And Temperature, Primary Dehydration Flux, Subduction Zone Dehydration, Garnet Growth, Subducted Rocks, Thermodynamic Analysis, Zoned Garnet, Continuous, Information, Methods, Predictions, Processes, Rate, Release, Sifnos, Unique, Water.

Nature, Extent, and Timing of Ultrahigh-temperature Metamorphism, Acadian Orogen, Connecticut
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Jay J Ague($318,284), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Heat Transfer, Mountain Building, Analyses, Appalachian, Carbon, Conditions, Crust, Extreme, Fluid, Fluids, Geologic, Implications, Magmas, Metamorphism, Microprobe, Radiogenic, Rock, Temperatures, UHT, Ultrahigh, Yale, °C, °F.

Collaborative Research: Heterogeneous Bubble Dynamics in Volcanic Conduits
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Helge M Gonnermann($129,773), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
2. Christian Huber($162,288), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Bubble Coalescence, Erupting Magma, Gas Loss, Magmatic Gases, Volcanic Eruptions, Affect, Bubble-scale, Bubbles, Deformation, Facilitate, Flow, Model, Permeable, Shear.

Nb-Ta Diffusion in Rutile: Kinetic Fractionation of Geochemical Twins
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Horst Marschall($295,916), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Minerals And Melts, Nb And Ta, Continental Crust, Crustal Differentiation, Desired Properties, Time Scales, Assumption, Composition, Concentration, Crystallization, Demonstrate, Determination, Diffusion, Equilibrium, Experiments, Function, Geochemical, Geological, Has, Incorporation, Involved, Low, Mechanisms, Melting, Models, Natural, Nb-ta, Pair, Processes, Rock, Rutile, Sets, Temperature.

Rheological Evolution of Basaltic Lava Flows During Cooling and Crystallization
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Alan G Whittington($316,682), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Rheological And Thermal, Basaltic Lavas, Heat Capacity, Lava Flows, Melt Viscosity, Thermal Properties, Yield Strength, Calorimetry, Conditions, Crystal, Crystallization, Determined, Enthalpy, Function, Graduate, Magma, Morphology, Rate, Rheology, Single, Supercooled, Surface, Temperature, Time.

Cities on Volcanoes 7: Advanced Understanding of Volcanic Hazard Mitigation for Graduate Students
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Bruce F Houghton($25,785), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Emergency Managers, Graduate Students, Build, Cities, Conference, Disciplines, Meeting, Networks, Opportunity, Planners, Volcanoes.

Collaborative Research: Effects of Composition and Cooling Rate on Fe XANES Glass Calibrations
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Melinda D Dyar($115,363), Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley
2. Molly McCanta($103,451), Tufts University, Somerville
Key terms: Broad Range, Fe Xanes, Oxygen Fugacity, Allows, Analytical, Chemistry, Composition, Conditions, Cooling, Crystallization, Crystallized, Experiments, Fefe, Fo, Glass, Glasses, Iron, Magma, Magmas, Magmatic, Minerals, Multiple, Parameters, Pressure, Quantify, Resulting, Robust, Techniques, Temperature, Valence, Wide.

A Quantitative Method for Measuring Temperature-time Histories in Hydrothermal Magmatic Ore Systems
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Drew S Coleman($216,976), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Porphyry Molybdenum Deposits, Porphyry Copper, Exploration, Fluid, Mineralization, Molybdenite, Ore, Rheniumosmium, Timing.

Relationships Between Eruption Rate, Tephra Dispersal and Total Grain Size at Hekla and Askja volcanoes, Iceland: Enhancing the Source Term for Tephra Modeling
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Bruce F Houghton($366,758), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Ash Advisory Centers, Volcanic Ash Advisory, Column Height, Eruption Rate, Tephra Dispersal, Askja, Density, Distribution, Global, Globally, Icelandic, Lack, Models, Parameters, Particle, Scenarios, Shape, Size, Supply, TGSD, Transport, Volcanoes, Volume.

Collaborative Research: Using Trace and Ore Elements to Track Volatile Behavior and Fluid Migration within Intermediate-silicic Magma Chambers
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Michael Rowe($252,389), Washington State University, Pullman
2. James D Webster($99,283), American Museum Natural History, New York
Key terms: Mount St, Conditions, Crystals, Eruption, Experimental, Helens, Magma, Movement, Mt, Observations, Processes, Suggested, Trace, Variables, Volatile, Volatiles, Volcanic, Water.

Degassing Dynamics that Lead to Repeated Lava Dome Growth and Collapse at Persistently Active Stratovolcanoes
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Kimberly D Genareau($199,237), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
Key terms: Lava Dome Growth, Pyroclastic Density Currents, Active Stratovolcanic, Ash Fall, Dome Collapse, Particular Characteristics, Pyroclastic Hazards, Size Distributions, Volatile Degassing, Activity, Allow, Behavior, Dynamics, Effusion, Erupted, Eruption, Influence, Merapi, Model, Morphology, Parameters, Resulting, Rim, Seeks, Single, Strategies, Time, Volcanic, World.

Orogenic Andesites in an Anorogenic Floodbasalt Province: The Role of the Crust in Generating the Calc-alkaline Trend
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Martin J Streck($227,700), Portland State University, Portland
Key terms: Convergent Plate Boundaries, Calc-alkaline Composition, Calc-alkaline Signature, Calc-alkaline Trend, Crustal Interactions, Strawberry Volcanics, Volcanic Arcs, Volcanic Field, Volcanic Rocks, Andesites, Basalt, Basaltic, CRBG, Calc-alkaline, Compositions, Depth, Effect, Erupted, Eruption, Fissures, Investigate, Lavas, Layers, Mantle, Mountains, Non-subduction, Oregon, Period, Processes, Setting, Situated, Tholeiitic, Time, Was.

Structure/property Relations in Silicate-C-O-H-N Melts Melts and Fluids Characterized Experimentally, In-situ, at Mantle Redox Conditions, Pressure, and Temperature
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Bjorn O Mysen($214,025), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Melts And Fluids, Natural Magmatic, Redox Conditions, School Students, Silicate Melts, Structural Species, Upper Mantle, Vibrational Spectroscopy, Volatile Components, Analyses, Behavior, C-O-H-N, Earth, Experiments, Fractionation, Information, Partitioning, Pressure, Properties, Quenched, Structure, Temperature, Undergraduate.

Towards Mass Balancing Arc Magmatic fluxes - Insights from the Central Mexican Volcanic Belt
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Georg Zellmer($99,803), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Central Mexican Volcanic, Mexican Volcanic Belt, Partial Melts, Silicic Magmas, Arc, Basaltic, Broader, Coeval, Crust, Flux, Fluxes, Geochemical, MVB, Mantle, Origin, Recycling, Rock, Slab, Volcanoes.

Experimental and Microanalytical Study of Dendritic Crystal Growth in CMAS and Basaltic Magma
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Julia E Hammer($270,928), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Clinopyroxene Dendrites, Contrast Imaging, Crystal Growth, Lattice Misorientations, Lattice Rotation, Analysis, Analytical, Compositional, Conditions, Crystallization, Crystals, Dendritic, Development, Diffraction, Dynamic, EBSD, Experimental, Experiments, Field, Formation, Geochemical, Mapping, Models, Module, Olivine, Program, Targets, Textural, Utilizing.

Zircon in Iceland: Elucidating Generation and Evolution of Silicic Magma and Juvenile Crust
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Calvin F Miller($332,921), Vanderbilt University, Nashville
Key terms: Continental Crust, Radiometric Dating, Silicic Magmas, Earth, Eruption, Geothermal, Iceland, Icelands, Island, Islands, Magmatic, Mineral, Oceanic, Power, Processes, Rock, Zircon.

Testing Models for Magma Transfer and Emplacement In 4-Dimensions:The Bergell Intrusion, N. Italy
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Blair Schoene($297,287), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Middle And Upper, Adamello Batholith, Bergell Intrusion, High-precision Geochronology, Magma Emplacement, Upper Crust, Zircon Fragments, Alps, Analytical, Ca, Emplaced, Exposure, Field, Geochemical, Geology, Has, High-precision, Initiative, Magmatic, Mineral, Model, Models, Numerical, Phd, Pluton, Processes, Set, Structural, Timescales, Univ, Vertical, Volumes.

Collaborative Research: Non-peridotite Melting in Plume-influenced Extensional Environments: Lithological Heterogeneity of the African Superplume and African Lithosphere
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. John W Kappelman($51,408), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Tyrone Rooney($255,284), Michigan State University, East Lansing
Key terms: African Superplume, Lithospheric Mantle, Mantle Melts, Melt Generation, Analytical, Austin, Basalt, Collaboration, Conditions, Constrain, Ethiopian, Five, Flood, Has, Insights, Interactions, Lithologies, Magma, Ongoing, Paleomagnetic, Peridotite, Phd, Pyroxenite, Source, Sources, Upwelling.

Crystal Settling, In-situ Crystallization, Melt Migration, and Magma Recharge in a Differentiated Mafic Sill, Victoria Island, Canada
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. H. Richard Naslund($170,618), SUNY at Binghamton, Binghamton
Key terms: Crystallization History, Geological Survey, In-situ Differentiation, Magma Recharge, Melt Migration, Victoria Island, Augite, Base, Canada, Chilled, Compaction, Composition, Diabase, Differentiated, Emplacement, Has, In-situ, Initial, Lower, Mapping, Margins, Minerals, Near, Olivine, Olivine-rich, Origin, Phenocrysts, Proterozoic, Re-equilibration, Represent, Rock, Roof, Sill, Sills, Similar, Thick, Thin, Zone.

EAGER: Collaborative Research: Towards Elucidating the Transport Mechanisms of Fine Volcanic Ash
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Kimberly D Genareau($14,418), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
2. Alexander A Proussevitch($66,289), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Ash Particles, Fine Ash, Terminal Velocities, Volcanic Ash, Wind Tunnel, Air, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Aviation, Designed, Experiments, FPF, Flow, Formulations, Global, Hazards, Importance, Lehigh, Losses, Pilot, Properties, Range, Shapes, Sizes, Slow, Time, Transport, UNH, Was.

Single-Crystal X-Ray Diffraction of Minerals to Mbar Pressures
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Thomas S Duffy($396,938), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Single-crystal X-ray Diffraction, Synchrotron-based Single-crystal X-ray, X-ray Diffraction Techniques, Crystal Structure, Crystal Structures, Single-crystal X-ray, Synchrotron-based Single-crystal, Upper Mantle, X-ray Diffraction, Behavior, Conditions, Crystals, Earth, Equation, Gpa, High-pressure, Minerals, Olivine, Phase, Pressures.

Collaborative Research/RUI: Testing Hypotheses on Pillow Lava Production During Glaciovolcanic Eruptions
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Meagen Pollock($126,905), College of Wooster, Wooster
2. Benjamin R Edwards($161,571), Dickinson College, Carlisle
Key terms: Beneath Ice, British Columbia, Fissure Segment, Pillow Lava, Pillow Lavas, Subglacial Pillow, Earth, Eruption, Explosive, Floods, Formation, Glaciovolcanic, Global, Iceland, Interactions, Lithofacies, Models, Ocean, Pillow-dominated, Single, Structure.

Collaborative Proposal: Integrated Investigations of Isotope Fractionation in Magmatic Systems
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Adam C Simon($106,675), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Si And Fe, Fractionation Factors, Igneous Rocks, Molecular Dynamics, Ntsi Fractionation, Stable Isotope, Temperature Gradient, Thermal Diffusion, Basis, Characterize, Collaboration, Complementary, Compositions, Differentiation, Experimental, Experiments, Fractionations, Isotopic, Magmatic, Melts, Mg, Molten, Observed, Origin, Petrology, Phases, Postdoc, Processes, Simulation, Soret, Students, Tool.

Developing a REE-in-two-pyroxene Thermometer for Pyroxene-bearing Mafic and Ultramafic Rocks
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Yan Liang($206,173), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Clinopyroxene And Orthopyroxene, Pyroxene-melt Ree Partitioning, Ree Partitioning Models, Thermal And Chemical, Ultramafic And Mafic, Closure Temperature, Internally Consistent, Planetary Bodies, Planetary Interior, Planetary Scientists, Pyroxene-melt Ree, Ree Abundances, Ree-in-two-pyroxene Thermometer, Thermal Structure, Upper Mantle, Applications, Broader, Distribution, Earth, Experience, Geo-thermometer, Geochemists, Geodynamicists, Graduate, Has, History, Laboratory, Minerals, Orthopyroxene-clinopyroxene, Petrologists, Pyroxenes, Read, Ree-in-two-pyroxene, Rock, Temperatures, Tool, Trace.

Collaborative Research: ABR: Multiscale Dynamics in Explosive Volcanic Eruptions
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Josef Dufek($202,387), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
2. Michael Manga($179,998), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Explosive Volcanic Eruptions, Mass And Energy, Pyroclastic Density Currents, Energy Transfer, Heat Transfer, Numerical Models, Volcanic Deposits, Ability, Ash, Behavior, Coupled, Dispersal, Examine, Experiments, Flows, Gas, Large-scale, Particle, Particles, Physics, Potential, Processes, Simulations, Strength, Subgrid.

CAREER: Volcano Acoustics: From Vent to Receiver
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Jeffrey B Johnson($600,016), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Atmospheric Propagation Effects, Physics And Atmospheric, Low Frequency, Source Physics, Volcano Sounds, Acoustic, Atmosphere, Continuous, Eruption, Intense, International, Lead, Monitoring, Networks, Signals, Students, Surveillance, Techniques, Vital, Volcanic, Volcanoes.

2012 Geochemistry of Mineral Deposits GRC
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Nancy R Gray($20,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Academia And Industry, Active Hydrothermal, Mineral Deposits, Ore Deposits, Wide Range, Commonly, Conferences, Continue, Critical, Fluid, Focus, Formation, Government, Grcs, Involved, Metals, Opportunity, Participants, Processes, Rare, Resources, Sessions, Setting, World.

Adirondack Thermal History
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. John W Valley($272,273), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Cooling And Uplift, Oxygen Isotope, Adirondack, Adirondacks, Allowing, Apply, Diffusion, Formed, Garnet, Inclusions, Metamorphic, Mineral, Model, Mountain, Pressure, Profiles, Quartz, Range, Rock, Selected, Tested, Thermometry.

Timescales of Deep and Shallow Magmatic Evolution of Mt. Mazama (Crater Lake)
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Brian Jicha($249,215), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Arc Magmatism, Crater Lake, Lower Crust, Magma Chamber, Magmatic Evolution, National Park, Aims, Approaches, Caldera-forming, Cascades, Climactic, Constrain, Eruption, Geologic, Hydrothermal, Isotopes, Mafic, Mazama, Mt, Processes, Sensitive, U-th, Upper, Viz, Volcanic.

Controls on the Chlorine Isotope Composition of Sedimentary Rocks During Prograde Metamorphism, with Implications for Mantle Chloride Sources
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Jane Selverstone($190,025), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Central Alps, Chlorine Isotope, Cl Isotope, D37cl Values, Fractionation Mechanisms, Isotope Composition, Metasedimentary Rocks, Analysis, Contaminated, Dcl, Fluid, Fluids, Found, Geochemical, Grade, Hampshire, Hispanic, Isotopic, Mantle, Metamorphic, Metamorphism, Permil, Prograde, Sediments, Sequence, Sequences, Single, Student, Supported, Systematic.

Extended Defects in Olivine and their Impact on Diffusive Reaction Kinetics
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Reid F Cooper($320,663), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Extended Defects, APT, Application, Cations, Characterization, Characterize, Chemical, Dynamics, Emphasize, Happens, Has, Ionic, Mineral, Minerals, Olivine, Oxide, Oxides, Persistence, Petrology, Potential, Reactions, Structures, Thermochemical, Transport.

Sulfur Partitioning between Solid and Liquid Iron at High Pressure
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Yingwei Fei($379,946), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Solid And Liquid, Density Jump, Experimental Petrology, Inner Core, Liquid Iron, Mineral Physics, Phase Relations, Thermodynamic Model, Broad, Developed, Earth, Fe-fes, Function, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Gpa, High-quality, ICB, Melting, Observations, Partitioning, Techniques.

Isotopic Diversity in Mangaia Melt Inclusions: Mantle Source or Crustal Assimilation?
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Matthew G Jackson($199,703), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Pb Isotopic Diversity, Cook Islands, Crustal Assimilation, Diversity Reflects, Mantle Source, Mantle Sources, Melt Inclusions, Mi Diversity, Single Lava, Compositions, Comprehensive, Diverse, Lavas, Local, Magma, Magmatic, Mangaia, Mis, Observed, Pb-isotopic, Processes, Trace.

Characterization of the Timing and Nature of Metasomatism in the Siberian Lithospheric Mantle
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Lawrence A Taylor($380,000), University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville
Key terms: Peridotite Xenoliths, Siberian Craton, Continent, Cratons, Deep, Evolution, Formation, Kimberlites, Mantle, Time.

Ca Isotope Variations in Oceanic Basalts
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Shichun Huang($352,078), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Mass Dependent 44ca40ca, Upper Crustal Recycling, 87sr86sr Ratios, Ancient Carbonates, Ca Isotope, Carbonate Recycling, Dependent 44ca40ca, Mantle Heterogeneity, Oceanic Basalts, Previous Nsf, Application, Caca, Compositions, EM, Education, Endmember, Fractionation, Geochemistry, Graduate, Hawaii, Isotopic, Lavas, Process, Recycled, Srsr, Undergraduate, Unique.

Geochronology using Nucleogenic Neon
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Kenneth A Farley($302,657), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Ages, Dated, Dating, Especially, Experiments, Isotope, Method, Minerals, Ne, Neon, Produced, Set, Thorium, Uranium.

Insights into the Development of Silicic Magma Reservoirs over Space and Time from Crystal-scale Trace-element and Isotopic Data and U-Th Datin
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Kari M Cooper($374,297), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Space And Time, Analytical Techniques, Continental Crust, Hf Isotopic, Magma Bodies, Silicic Magma, Silicic Magmas, Subsurface Geometry, U-th Dating, Accumulation, Analyses, Analysis, Approach, Caldera, Chemical, Collaborations, Combined, Compositions, Eruption, Female, Generated, Geologic, Graduate, Grains, Growth, Has, Heterogeneity, History, Implications, Information, Insights, Interior, Melt, Mixing, Phases, Polished, Prior, Recruit, Reservoir, Reservoirs, Spot, Storage, Student, Students, Surfaces, Tectonic, Thousands, Trace-element, U-th, Undergraduate, Underrepresented, Zircon.

What Controls Mafic Eruption Style? The Causes and Consequences of Coupled Vesiculation and Crystallization Kinetics in Ascending Basaltic Andesite Magmas
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Jessica F Larsen($399,724), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Active Volcanoes, Alaska Native, Basaltic Andesite, Decompression Rate, Eruptive Style, Mafic Eruptions, Mafic Magmas, Okmok Volcano, Percolation Threshold, Undergraduate Student, Ascending, Ash, Bubble, Control, Crystallization, Degassing, Development, Efficiency, Equipment, Experimentally, Experiments, Fragmentation, Gas, Hazards, Influence, Kinetics, Melts, Natural, Particular, Permeability, UAF, Vesiculation, Violent.

Collaborative Research: The Provenance of the Excess Sulfur Released in Arc Volcanoes During Plinian Eruptions
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2012; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Christian Huber($168,247), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Eruption Dynamics, Excess Degassing, Vapor Bubbles, Accumulate, Accumulation, Active, Amount, Analyses, Apatites, Behavior, Controls, Course, Developed, Ex-situ, Expected, Exsolved, Geochemical, Graduate, Has, Magma, Magmas, Magmatic, Methods, Modeling, Models, Numerical, Pis, Plinian, Poorly, Prior, Quantify, Quantitative, Released, Reservoirs, Shallow, Students, Techniques, Thermodynamic, Transport, Transported, Tuff, Units, Volatile, Volatiles.

EAR-PF: An Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Pressure, Mineralogy and Water on the Rheological Properties of the Upper Mantle: Implications for Mantle Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Janelle M Homburg($100,196), Homburg Janelle M, Palisades
Key terms: Deformation Behavior, Upper Mantle, Allow, Composition, Conditions, D-DIA, Deeper, Development, Education, Effects, Electron, High-pressure, Investigate, Involved, Lab, Mechanical, Minnesota, Olivinepyroxene, Pressure, Processes, Water.

EAR-PF: Evaluating the relationship between physical heterogeneity and stable isotope fractionation factors during subsurface reactive transport
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Jennifer L Druhan($170,000), Druhan Jennifer L, Berkeley
Key terms: Heterogeneous Permeability Distributions, Homogeneous And Heterogeneous, Reactive Transport, Stable Isotope, Analysis, Aspect, Demonstrate, Experimental, Fractionation, Heterogeneity, Imaging, Involve, Isotopic, Modeling, NSF, Nuclear, Stanford, Water.

EAR-PF:Constraining the burial and unroofing history of the Rae craton, Baffin Island, from multiple low temperature thermochronometers and secondary Fe-oxide (U-Th)/He dating
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Alexis K Ault($170,000), Ault Alexis K, Boulder
Key terms: Baffin Island, Dating Technique, Fluid Flow, Rae Craton, Apatite, Application, Arizona, Burial, Constrain, Continent, Cratonic, Cratons, Development, Dynamics, Hematite, Plate, Regions, Rock, Surface, Tectonic, U-thhe.

Improving Representations of Snow-Vegetation Interactions in Land Surface Models
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Adrian A Harpold($170,000), Harpold Adrian A, Tucson
Key terms: Land Surface, Snow-vegetation Interactions, Vegetation Structure, Climate, Colorado, Complex, Fluxes, Forested, Forests, Information, Lidar, Model, Models, Resolution, Seasonal, Snow-vegetation, Snowpack, Snowpacks, Terrain, Water, Western.

EAR-PF:Reconstructing Western Atlantic Holocene Hurricane Impacts
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Davin J Wallace($127,500), Wallace Davin J, Houston
Key terms: Western Atlantic Basin, Woods Hole Oceanographic, Hurricane Impacts, Bermuda, Caribbean, Climate, Coastlines, Cores, Gulf, Historic, Hurricanes, Mexico, Paleohurricane, Past, Sea, Sediment, Teachers.

EAR-PF An Automated Search for Deep Tremor and its Relationship to the Seismic Cycle in Southern California
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Justin R Brown($170,000), Brown Justin R, Stanford
Key terms: Non-volcanic Tremor, Seismic Cycle, Southern California, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Faults, Has, Newly, Non-volcanic, Program, Shown, Students, Waveform.

Tracking the emergence oxygenic photosynthesis with metal isotopes: A case study from the Pongola Supergroup
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Noah J Planavsky($127,500), Planavsky Noah J, Riverside
Key terms: Oxygenic Photosynthesis, Billion, Biological, Carbon, Earth, Evolution, Has, Isotope, Mn, Oxidation, Redox, Spanning, Was.

Integrating Observations and Modeling of Tremor and Slip in Subduction Zones to Discern Controls on Fault Slip Behavior
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Harmony V Colella($170,000), Colella Harmony V, Riverside
Key terms: Subduction Zone, Subduction Zones, Constrain, ETS, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Energy, Fault, Graduate, Observed, Parameters, Slip, Specifically, Tremor, Undergraduate, Variety.

Climate, Drought, and Agricultural Adaptations: An Investigation of Vulnerabilities and Responses to Water Stress Among Paddy Farmers in Sri Lanka
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: SEES Fellows

1. George M Hornberger($3,722,560), Vanderbilt University, Nashville
Key terms: Water Resource Management, Adaptive Actions, Food Security, Water Availability, Water Scarcity, Adaptation, Changing, Conditions, Countries, Decisions, Developing, Disciplines, Drought, Environmental, Facilitate, Farmers, Generate, Growing, Has, Implications, Integrated, Investigate, Knowledge, Land, Leaders, National, Population, Practices, Social, Traditional, World, Worlds.

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

1. Kevin D Kroeger($124,899), U.S. Geological Survey -- Woods Hole, Woods Hole
Key terms: Indian River Bay, Spatial And Temporal, Coastal Waters, Geologic Heterogeneity, Groundwater Discharge, Hydraulic Forcing, Nitrogen Loading, Organic Matter, Ammonium, Characterized, Controls, Delaware, Denitrification, Driven, Estuarine, Excess, Fluxes, Geochemical, Gradients, Investigations, Models, Numerical, Nutrient, Quantify, Saline, Salinity, Source, Species, Subsurface.

CSEDI: Understanding the structure of the continental upper mantle through the use of magnetotelluric and seismic observations
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Shun-ichiro Karato($120,000), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Continental Upper Mantle, Electrical Conductivity Distribution, Inferred Electrical Conductivity, Oxygen Fugacity Etc, Water Distribution, Composition, Consequently, Established, Evolution, Experimental, Has, MT, Observations, Parameters, Temperature.

CSEDI Collaborative Research: Application of siderophile elements to mantle geodynamics
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2012; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Linda T Elkins-Tanton($34,422), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
2. Richard J Walker($164,584), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Elemental And Isotopic, Geodynamic Modeling, Isotopic Anomalies, Isotopic Heterogeneities, Evolution, Formation, Mantle, Mechanisms, Models, Observations, Rock, Siderophile, Terrestrial, Via.

CSEDI: Structure and Dynamics of Large-Scale Lower Mantle Compositional Heterogeneity
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2012; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Allen McNamara($220,326), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Deep And Dense, Dense Compositional Reservoirs, Flow Mass Transfer, Flow Shapes Plausible, Return Flow Mass, Shapes Plausible Deep, Convection Simulations, Convective Flow, Deep Mantle, Earth's Deep, Pacific Ocean, Seismic Imaging, Beneath, CMB, Geodynamics, Heterogeneity, LLSVP, Llsvps, Nature, Plumes, Seismological, Structure, Structures, Velocity, Zones.

CSEDI: From fine to global scales: Integrated studies of the structure, dynamics, and mineral physics of the lower mantle
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2012; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Jennifer M Jackson($360,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Earth's Surface, Mineral Physics, Boundary, Chemical, Comprehensive, Core, Deep, Dynamics, Experimental, Laboratory, Layer, Mantle, Modeling, Models, Predict, Processes, Resolution, Seismic, Students, Techniques.

CSEDI Collaborative Research: Combined Geodynamical and Seismological Modeling of the Inner Core Boundary Region
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Vernon F Cormier($239,604), University of Connecticut, Storrs
2. John Hernlund($195,337), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Core Boundary Region, Inner Core Boundary, Liquid Outer Core, Chemical Composition, Dynamical Mechanisms, Earth's Core, Hemispherical Differences, Magnetic Field, Solid Iron, Solidification Process, Complexity, Conditions, Cooling, Cores, Deep, Extent, Formation, Freezing, Life, Metal, Motions, Nature, Planets, Processes, Properties, Rate, Seismic, Spatial, Structure, Surface.

CSEDI: Support for 13th SEDI Meeting in Leeds, UK
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Bruce Buffett($24,000), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Earth's Deep Interior, Earth's Deep, Contribute, Core, Dynamics, Evolution, Interdisciplinary, International, Mantle, Meeting, SEDI, Structure, Surface.

Quantifying Near-Surface Patterns of Bedrock Fractures and Assessing Controls on Fracture Formation.
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Douglas W Burbank($171,556), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Bedrock Exposures, Effective Strength, Fracture Densities, Fracture Density, Hillslope Stability, Near-surface Fracture, Rock Fracturing, Shallow Seismic, Apparently, Artificial, Biotic, Calibration, Climatic, Collapse, Control, Curvature, Depth, Development, Erosion, Field, Forces, Fractured, Fractures, Freeze-thaw, Hillslopes, Ii, Importance, Intact, Intrinsic, Investigated, Landscape, Landsliding, Layer, Methodology, Natural, Nsurface, Processes, Promising, Properties, Steepness, Subsurface, Surveys, Tested, Versus, Weaken.

EAGER -- Field tests of low-impact treatment for acid mine drainage
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Richard F Yuretich($29,997), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Acid-mine Drainage, Iron-reducing Bacteria, Reactive Fill, Acid-mine, Affected, Conditions, Field, Introduction, Iron-reducing, Metal, Microbial, Microorganisms, Mining, Monitor, Natural, Outflow, Processes, Site, Sites, Stream, Sulfate-reducing, Surface, Waters.

EAGER: Evolutionary History and Paleoecology of the Last Old World Hipparion Superlineage
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Raymond L Bernor($35,974), Howard University, Washington
Key terms: Natural History, Access, Chinese, Collections, Howard, Museum.

SAVI: LIFE: Linked Institutions for Future Earth
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Science Across Virtual Instits

1. Christopher Paola($718,860), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: International Exchange, Theme-based Focused, Virtual Institute, Actionable, Approach, Campaigns, Establish, Experimental, Future, Graduate, LIFE, Programs, Public, Shared, Sharing, Surface, Sustainability, Theme-based, Theoretical, Vulnerability.

The Southern California Earthquake Center, Phase 4 (SCEC4): Tracking Earthquake Cascades
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: Science Across Virtual Instits

1. Thomas H Jordan($15,463,561), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Operational Earthquake Forecasting, Seismic Hazard Analysis, Strong Ground Motions, Earthquake Physics, Earthquake Risk, Seismic Hazards, Southern California, Advanced, Basic, Built, Center, Collaborations, Earthquakes, Education, Fault, Information, Interactions, Interdisciplinary, Laboratory, Long-term, Model, Modeling, National, Natural, Physics-based, Program, Resilience, SCEC, Scecs, Slip, Theme, Warning.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Calibrating the Cryogenian in the Yukon
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2012; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Francis A Macdonald($87,004), Harvard University, Cambridge
2. Mark D Schmitz($112,993), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Franklin Lip, Glacial Deposits, Age, Dating, Duration, Glaciation, Has, Increase, Snowball, Sturtian, Timing, Volcanism, Was, Yukon, Zircons.

Collaborative Research: Seeing the forest with the leaves--inferring plant habit and ecophysiology from leaf fossils
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Maciej A Zwieniecki($196,923), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Leaf Compressions, Leaf Fossils, Past Climates, Plant Habit, Chicago, Density, Diversification, Ecology, Ecophysiology, Environment, Evolution, Forests, Information, Leaves, Physiology, Plants, Primary, Provided, Proxies, Structure, Surface, Tools, Vein.

Collaborative Research: High-resolution, multi-proxy Miocene-Pleistocene climate and environmental record from the high-elevation Zhada basin, SW Tibetan Plateau
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Xiaoming Wang($81,520), Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation, Los Angeles
2. Timothy Shanahan($144,224), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Climate And Environmental, Tibetan Plateau, Zhada Basin, Evolution, Extensive, Faunal, Stable, Vertebrate.

Assessing Weathering as a Function of Climate in Proximal Alluvial Sediments
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Megan E Elwood Madden($229,000), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Glacial And Non-glacial, Proximal Alluvial Sediments, Sedimentary Facies, Sediments Formed, Chemical, Granitoid-sourced, Indicators, Textural, Weathering.

Collaborative Research: The Hominid Sites And Paleolakes Drilling Project: Acquiring a High Resolution Paleoenvironmental Context of Human Evolution
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Tim K Lowenstein($413,777), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Jonathan G Wynn($251,145), Arizona State University, Tempe
3. Anders J Noren($382,960), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Ancient Lake Beds, Drill Cores, Environmental Dynamics, Human Evolution, Human Origins, Activities, African, Artifact, Basins, Climate, Close, Critical, Drilling, Ethiopia, Fossils, Hominin, Hominins, Intervals, Kenya, Models, Nearby, Nine, Opportunities, Outcrop, Outreach, Paleoenvironmental, Sites, Training.

Diversity in fossil decapod Crustacea based upon a unique species-level database
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Carrie E Schweitzer($100,000), Kent State University, Kent
Key terms: Body Plans, Comprehensive Analysis, Fossil Decapod, Paleobiology Database, Unique Dataset, Arrayed, Available, Conditions, Decapoda, Decapods, Derived, Diverse, Diversity, Ecosystems, Entered, Environmental, Evolutionary, Exploited, Extinction, Geologic, Historical, History, Kent, Living, Macroevolution, Modern, Morphological, Morphology, Paleoecological, Presentations, Public, Repeatedly, Species, Students, Taxa, Tested, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Arctic Dinosaur Paleobiology - Hypothesis Testing Through Cross-Latitudinal Comparison
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Patrick S Druckenmiller($100,000), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
2. Gregory M Erickson($50,000), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Polar Dinosaur Fauna, Dinosaur Paleobiology, Lower Latitude, Alaska, Alaskan, Arctic, Dinosaurs, Northern, Students.

Collaborative Research: Graptolite Biogeography, Paleo-GIS, and Evolutionary Dynamics of Early Paleozoic Zooplankton
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. H. David Sheets($56,255), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Climatic And Oceanographic, Evolutionary Dynamics, Biodiversity, Biogeographic, Cenozoic, Changing, Climate, Critical, Cycles, Distribution, Environmental, Episodes, Graptolite, Graptolites, Ordovician, Pis, Silurian, Spatial, Zooplankton.

Collaborative Research: Bighorn Basin Coring Project (BBCP) - Targeted Continental Drilling of Paleogene Hyperthermals
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Gabriel J Bowen($69,126), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Bighorn Basin Coring, Carbon, Continent, Cores, Documented, ETM, Elmo, Gt, Hyperthermal, Ky, PETM.

Proposed Workshop: "African Climate Change and Human Evolution"
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Peter DeMenocal($20,000), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: African Climate, Human Evolution, Disciplines, Lines, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Climate controls on the formation of tropical glacier moraines in the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda-Congo
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. James M Russell($139,945), Brown University, Providence
2. Meredith A Kelly($48,073), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Glacier Advance, Rwenzori Mountains, Tropical Glacier, Tropical Glaciers, Africa, Climate, Control, Generate, Glaciations, Moraine, Past, Processes, Sensitive, Temperature, Timing, Uganda-congo, Virtually.

Enhancing Research, Training, and Synthesis in Sedimentary Record Analyses: TMI Phase Two (Tool for Microscopic Identification)
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Reed McEwan($260,319), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Smear Slides, Components, Prototype, TMI, Tool, Workflow.

CAREER: Deciphering the Beat of a Timeless Rhythm- The Future of Astrochronology
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Stephen R Meyers($576,072), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Astrochronologic And Radioisotopic, Radioisotopic Time Scales, Astronomically Tuned, Computational Approach, Deep-time Astrochronology, Geologic Time, Orbital Insolation, Advances, Astrochronologies, Calibrate, Challenge, Challenges, Climate, Cyclostratigraphy, Deep-time, Development, Field, Geochronology, Has, Integration, Lack, Method, Participation, Program, Sedimentary, Stratigraphic, Tempo, Uw-madison, Veracity.

Collaborative Research: Using molecular fossils to investigate environmental perturbation during the end-Triassic Mass Extinction: Global vs. local signals
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Roger Summons($126,567), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: End-triassic Mass Extinction, End-triassic Mass, Environmental Perturbation, Queen Charlotte, Restricted Marine, School District, Basins, Brown, Curricula, Educational, History, Incorporated, Local, MIT, Mechanisms, Mid-ocean, Multiple, Pis, Programs, Specific, Students, Summer, Th, Underrepresented.

Interpreting Pleistocene Predator-Prey Dynamics: inference from dental growth and attrition
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. William J Ripple($50,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Animals, Arrival, Densities, Food, Health, Human, Indicators, Mammal, Past, Population, Predator, Prey, Stress.

CAREER: Towards a high-resolution quantification of the North American rock record: integrating field data, citizen science, and participatory education for macrostratigraphy
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Shanan E Peters($863,448), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Analyzing, Body, Building, Citizen, Citizens, Compiled, Context, Distribution, Earth, Enable, Energy, Evolution, Existing, Field, Framework, Geographic, Geological, Geologists, Gt, History, Integrating, Knowledge, Literature, Macrostrat, North, Observations, Primary, Processes, Quantitatively, Resource, Resources, Rock, Serve, Students, Time, Web.

Morphology: how does it vary and what does it reveal about evolution? Ontogenetic and phylogenetic variation in extant brachiopod crura and loops
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Sandra J Carlson($228,584), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Crura And Loops, Molecular And Morphological, Growth Stages, Living Brachiopods, Uc Davis, Adults, Analyses, Analysis, Animals, Character, Clade, Compare, Compared, Derived, Development, Diversity, Does, Evolution, Evolutionary, Extant, Extinct, Features, Female, Genera, Graduate, Images, Information, Marine, Morphology, Opportunity, Paleontologists, Phylogenetic, Polarity, Public, Quantitative, Rhynchonellide, Shape, Share, Species, Taxa, Underlying, Word.

South American Megafauna Extinction: A Test of Synergistic Effects of Climate Change and Human Population Growth in Magnifying Extinction Intensity
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Charles R Marshall($320,623), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Extinction Intensity, Human Presence, Large-bodied Mammal, Radiocarbon Dates, Biodiversity, Chronology, Climate, Continent, Contribute, Current, Genera, Global, Has, International, Large-bodied, North, Policy, Quaternary, Resources, South, Species, Students.

Collaborative Research: Continuous vs. episodic fluviodeltaic sedimentation - Implications for carbon sequestration and coastal restoration
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Wonsuck Kim($51,836), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Zhixiong Shen($332,363), Tulane University, New Orleans
Key terms: Sediment Trapping Efficiency, Age Spectra, Coastal Restoration, Fluviodeltaic Sedimentation, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi River, Oc Sequestration, River Diversions, Carbon, Clastic, Content, Critical, Dating, Debate, Deposition, Deposits, Episodic, Geological, Investigate, OSL, Overbank, Pis, Potential, Rates, Stratigraphic.

CAREER: Identifying controls on size evolution through comparative analysis
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Jonathan Payne($458,203), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Collection And Analysis, Evolutionary Dynamics, Graduate Student, Identifying Controls, School Teacher, Size Evolution, Stem Fields, Taxonomic Diversity, Analyses, Body, Circumstances, Class, Compilation, Comprehensive, Datasets, Ecological, Environmental, Fossil, Function, Future, Global, Has, Long-term, Marine, Mass, Phanerozoic, Physiological, Radiation, Shared, Stanford, Students, Summer, Visit.

Higher-Taxon Fidelity: Comparative Taphonomy of Marine Benthic Associations in Holocene Depositional Systems of Coastal North Carolina
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Michal J Kowalewski($161,263), University of Florida, Gainesville
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.

EAGER Proposal - Exploratory Fieldwork in the Late Devonian of western Mongolia in the Summer of 2012
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Johnny A Waters($11,999), Appalachian State University, Boone
Key terms: Boundary, Fieldwork, Mongolia, Rock, Time.

EAGER: A novel Approach to Study Earth's Oldest Environments and Biosphere: Tidal, Shelf, and Deep Ocean Habitats in the >3.7 Ga Isua Greenstone Belt, Greenland
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Nora K Noffke($14,400), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Isua Greenstone Belt, Allow, Earth, Firm, Ga, Greenland, Gt, IGB, Information.

Santa Fe Conference on Rock Magnetism
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Julie A Bowles($24,012), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Rock Magnetism, Santa Fe, Conference.

Critical Transitions Across the Phanerozoic: A Roundtable Workshop on Sino-US Collaborative Research on Major Events in the History of Life during the Past 600 Million Years
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Shuhai Xiao($43,315), Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation, Los Angeles
Key terms: Chinese Scientists, Critical Transitions, Los Angeles, Bring, Broad, China, Collaborations, Discoveries, Funding, History, Paleontologists, Unprecedented, Workshop, Workshops.

Pliocene peak sea level and warmth: Integration of a Virginia corehole array and deep-sea isotope and trace metal records
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Yair Rosenthal($75,488), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms:

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), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
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.

RAPID: Observations of Sediment Scour and Deposition in the Vicinity of Ports and Harbors from the 11 March 2011 Japan Tsunami
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Robert Weiss($73,888), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
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.

SEP: A Novel Method Using CO2 and Geothermal Resources for Sustainable Energy Production and Storage
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: Sustainable Energy Pathways

1. Jeffrey M Bielicki($1,900,000), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Cpg Technology, Energy Storage, Environmentally Benign, Geothermal Energy, Low-carbon Energy, Produce Electricity, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Energy, Time Electricity, Approach, Awareness, Broader, Challenges, Deployment, Development, Economically, Emissions, Investigate, Low-carbon, NSF, Potential, Produced, Program, Resources, Sources, Stored, Storing.

SEP: Sustainability of Tidal Energy
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Sustainable Energy Pathways

1. John K Horne($1,900,000), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Environmental And Social, Large-scale Tidal Energy, Tidal Energy Development, Energy Sustainability, Knowledge Gaps, Large-scale Tidal, Power Generation, Renewable Energy, Social Information, Societal Costs, Sustainable Energy, Technology Convergence, Analyses, Analysis, Array, Balance, Currents, Engineering, Has, NSF, Ocean, Pathway, Pilot, Public, Resource, Scenario, Scenario-based, Technical, Tools.

EAGER: Geologic Evidence of Tsunamis originating from the Japan Trench's Southern Segment
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Tectonics

1. Jessica Pilarczyk($31,970), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Key terms: Geologic Evidence, Japan Trench, Southern Segment, Tsunamis Originating, Deposits, Earthquake, Generating, Largest, Region, Tohoku-oki, Tokyo, Uncertainty.

Geochronology of Bedrock-hosted Secondary Iron Oxides and Shallow Crustal Fluid-flow and Brittle Deformation Histories
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: Tectonics

1. Peter W Reiners($350,539), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Dates And Compositions, Timing And Conditions, Bedrock-hosted Secondary, Brittle Deformation, Fluid Flow, Iron-oxide Minerals, Bedrock-hosted, Characterization, Dating, Formation, Geologic, Iron-oxide, Migration, Potential, Processes, Radioisotopic, Range, Rock, Thermochronology, U-thhe, Zones.

Dating of Folds by Combining Fold Kinematics, Illite Characterization, and Ar-Ar Illite Dating
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: Tectonics

1. Rob Van der Voo($135,453), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Ar Dating, Flexural Folds, Fold-thrust Belt, Incompetent Layers, Ages, Application, Applied, Apply, Bentonite, Central, Competent, Conditions, Deformation, Fault, Fold-thrust, Folded, Folding, Formed, Hinge, Illite, Limbs, Limestone, Low, Method, Observed, Obtaining, Potassium, Section, Shale, Shear, Temperature, Transformation, World.

RUI: Coupled Fold-fracture Evolution in the Stillwell Anticline, West Texas
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Tectonics

1. Benjamin E Surpless($127,155), Trinity University, San Antonio
Key terms: Fold Evolution, Fold Formation, Fracture Formation, Fracture Intensity, Fracture Networks, Mechanical Stratigraphy, Stillwell Anticline, Structural Position, Analysis, Cements, Constrain, Context, Deformation, Detailed, Development, Evaluation, Fault, Faults, Field, Folds, Fractures, Geometry, Has, Influence, Investigation, Kinematic, Linked, Opportunity, Permeability, Revealed, Stages, Strain, Students, Subsurface, Textures, Timing, Trinity, Undergraduate, Underlying.

Analysis of Fault Growth and Linkage Using Work Minimization
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Tectonics

1. Michele Cooke($232,101), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: San Jacinto Fault, Crack Linkage, Cracks Link, Fault Development, Fault Growth, Mechanical Efficiency, Potential Earthquakes, Southern California, Accommodate, Anisotropy, Approach, Based, Benefit, Coalescence, Conditions, Contribute, Cost, Depends, Energetic, Energetically, Evolution, Faults, Flaws, History, Interpreted, Investigation, Larger, Lazy, Less, Linked, Linking, Minimization, Models, Parametric, Predict, Principle, Rock, Segments, Slip, Stepover, Stochastic, Tools, Via.

Does the Holocene Slip History for the Mojave Section of the San Andreas Fault Indicate Secular Variation in Slip and a Discrepancy with Geodetic Rates?
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Tectonics

1. Eric S Cowgill($373,313), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: California Shear Zone, Eastern California Shear, San Andreas Fault, Ancient Earthquakes, Channel Formed, Fault Motion, Fault Slip, Mojave Section, Slip Rate, Southern California, Stream Channels, Age, Ago, Average, Faults, Geological, Has, Hazards, History, Measure, Mmyr, Offset, Offsets, Period, Periods, Produce, Slower, Surface, Thousand, Time, Total.

Evaluating the Role of Glaciation on the Structural Configuration of the Southern Alaska Syntaxis
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Tectonics

1. Kenneth D Ridgway($318,968), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Convergent Margins, Southern Alaska, Alaskan, Climate, Deformation, Depositional, Development, Erosion, Erosional, Evolution, Geologically, Glacial, Glaciation, Glaciers, Gulf, Has, Mechanical, Modeling, Models, Mountain, Rapid, Reorganization, Structural, Tectonic, Uplift.

Collaborative Research: Constraints on Initiation of Low-Angle Normal Faults Within the Seismogenic Regime
Award Effective Date: 08/27/2012; Program: Tectonics

1. Craig Grimes($149,169), Ohio University, Athens
2. Craig Grimes($147,092), Mississippi State University, Mississippi State
3. Barbara E John($252,932), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Field And Laboratory, Low-angle Normal Fault, Low-angle Normal Faults, Field Observations, Laboratory Experiments, Low-angle Normal, Normal Faulting, Seismogenic Crust, Stable Isotope, Analysis, Characterization, Colleagues, Conducting, Dips, Earthquake, Europe, Exposed, Fluids, Footwall, Has, History, Initiation, Less, Mechanisms, Microstructural, Microstructures, Natural, Processes, Rock, Slip, Students, °.

Collaborative Research: Geochemical Imaging of Post-Pangean Lithospheric Structure in the Southern Appalachians
Award Effective Date: 08/27/2012; Program: Tectonics

1. Craig Grimes($123,917), Ohio University, Athens
Key terms: 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, Students, Supercontinent, Tectonic, Was, Zone.

Collaborative Research: Deformation Thermometry and Water Weakening of Quartz Tectonites - Case Studies from the Himalaya and the Caledonides of NW Scotland
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: Tectonics

1. Jay B Thomas($76,058), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
2. Richard D Law($183,971), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
3. Andreas K Kronenberg($155,914), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Mechanical And Thermal, Analytical Techniques, Crystallographic Fabrics, Deformation Temperatures, Deformation Thermometers, Earth's Crust, Fabric Development, Mineral Assemblages, Nsf Funding, Recrystallization Regime, Tectonic Settings, Temperatures Indicated, Texas Aandm, Virginia Tech, Wide Range, Based, Chemical, Chosen, Collected, Conditions, Deformed, Developed, Equilibrium, Flow, Has, Importance, Influence, Influenced, Mechanisms, Plates, Potential, Processes, Ptt, Quartz-rich, Rock, Scotland, Strength, Students, Thermometry, Water, Weakening.

Collaborative Research: Spatial and Temporal Growth of Upper Crustal Intrusions, Henry Mountains, Utah
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: Tectonics

1. Scott D Giorgis($48,000), SUNY College at Geneseo, Geneseo
2. Eric M Horsman($209,958), East Carolina University, Greenville
3. Sven S Morgan($82,928), Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant
Key terms: Space And Time, Spatial And Temporal, Body Comprised, Henry Mountains, Igneous Intrusions, Intrusive Centers, Magma Pulses, Shallow Igneous, Constructed, Construction, Crust, Development, Emplacement, Growth, Models, Stage, Tectonic.

Collaborative Research: Age, Petrology, and Tectonic Setting of Purported Taconic-aged plutons, Ashland-Wedowee-Emuckfaw Belt, Southern Appalachians
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: Tectonics

1. Paul A Mueller($139,942), University of Florida, Gainesville
2. Clinton I Barineau($126,000), Columbus State University, Columbus
Key terms: Quartz Diorite, Stem Workforce, Afford, Age, Analysis, Appalachian, Appalachians, Arc, Assigned, Components, Elkahatchee, Enhancing, Evolution, Faculty, Gneiss, Kowaliga, Margin, North, Ordovician, Orogeny, Plutons, Program, Southern, Taconic, Tectonic, Undergraduate, Zana.

Collaborative Research: Shear Zone and Detachment Formation during Syn-convergent Extension in the Andes: Cordillera Blanca, Peru
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: Tectonics

1. Micah J Jessup($190,187), University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville
2. Colin A Shaw($77,320), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Ancient Mountain Belts, Extension Involves Stretching, Orogen Parallel Extension, Cordillera Blanca, Crustal Extension, Syn-convergent Extension, Transverse Extension, Active, Allow, Andes, Deformation, Detachment, Direction, Evidence, Evolution, Exhumation, Fault, Faults, Has, Levels, Mechanisms, Modern, Orogenic, Past, Perpendicular, Processes, Rock, Shortening, Similar, Structure, Structures, Syn-convergent, Tectonic, Temperature, Time, Trend.

Collaborative Research: Carbonation of Serpentinite in the San Andreas Fault: How Fluid-rock Interactions Impact Aseismic Creep
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Tectonics

1. Frieder Klein($289,200), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. David L Goldsby($95,061), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Carbon Dioxide-rich Fluids, San Andreas Fault, San Juan Bautista, Aseismic Creep, Carbon Dioxide-rich, Coast Range, Dioxide-rich Fluids, Cholame, Conditions, Earthquakes, Fatal, Formation, Magnesite, Magnitude, Mantle, Mechanically, Mineral, North, Parkfield, Portions, Rates, Rock, Segments, Seismicity, Serpentine, Serpentinite, Soapstone, Talc, Weak.

Using Temperature to Measure Fault Stress: Analysis of Data from the Fault Zone of the Mw 7.9 Wenchuan Earthquake
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: Tectonics

1. Emily E Brodsky($253,783), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Fault Zone, Temperature Logs, Actual, Borehole, Coefficient, Completion, Depth, Earthquake, Faults, Friction, Generated, Less, Modeling, Motion, Planned, Processes, Resisting, Slip, Stress, Wenchuan.

Experimental Constraints on Crustal Rheology
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: Tectonics

1. James G Hirth($291,853), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Lower Continental Crust, Lower Crustal Rocks, Crustal Rheology, Lattice Preferred, Natural Rocks, Shear Zones, Amphibole, Appropriate, Archive, Conditions, Deformation, Development, Evolution, Experimental, Experiments, Explore, Extrapolation, Flow, Geological, Hazards, Involve, Laws, Mantle, Microstructures, Plagioclase, Pressures, Previous, Processes, Range, Rheological, Stress, Water.

Collaborative Research: Resolving the Nature and Extent Archean Crustal Components in Southwestern Laurentia Using Hf and U-Pb Analysis of Zircon and Baddeleyite
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: Tectonics

1. George E Gehrels($101,365), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Karl E Karlstrom($201,030), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Academia, Basement, Continent, Crust, Deep, Detrital, Education, Evolution, Ga, Geophysical, Has, History, Importance, Integrated, North, Pis, Processes, Relative, Resolve, Rock, Sedimentary, Southwest, Structure, Zircons.

Collaborative Research: Integrated Studies of Continental Triple Junction Tectonics, Northern Central America
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2012; Program: Tectonics

1. Dennis C DeMets($427,075), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Robert D Rogers($56,939), California State University-Stanislaus, Turlock
Key terms: Continental Triple Junction, Gps Velocity Field, El Salvador, Jalpatagua Fault, Southern Mexico, Strain Rates, Accommodated, Arc, Caribbean, Central, Countries, Coupling, Deformation, Earthquake, Guatemala, Hazards, Honduras, Modeling, Plate, Western.

CAREER: Identifying the Dominant Controls on Strain Localization in the Lower Crust
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2012; Program: Tectonics

1. Christopher C Gerbi($432,680), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Km-scale Shear Zones, Pre And In-service, Fluid Flow, K-12 Teachers, Km-scale Shear, Shear Zone, Accurately, Concepts, Control, Controlling, Controls, Crust, Deformation, Development, Distribution, Earth, Education, Engineering, Evolution, Faculty, Geoscience, Govern, Identifying, Importance, Levels, Lower, Mechanical, Mechanisms, Movement, Pre-, Predict, Processes, Properties, Relative, Rock, Seismicity, Strength, Student, Students, Surface, Weakening.

EAGER: Collaborative Research: Can Low-Angle Normal Faults Produce Earthquakes? A Paleoseismic Perspective
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: Tectonics

1. Laurel B Goodwin($72,217), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Joshua M Feinberg($8,725), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Low-angle Normal Faults, Earthquake Mechanics, Geologic Settings, Low-angle Normal, Activities, Age, Angles, Arar, Contribute, Current, Degrees, Determined, Earthquakes, Effects, Effort, Focus, Girls, Less, Magnetic, Orientations, Outreach, Paths, Pseudotachylyte, Remain, Seismogenesis, Structural, Tilting, Wisconsin-madison.

Erosion and Exhumation History of the Nepalese Frontal Himalaya Since Earliest Miocene Time: Constraints on Kinematic History
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: Tectonics

1. Peter G DeCelles($513,085), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Asian Monsoon, Frontal Himalaya, Northern India, Southern Asia, Ages, Climate, Collision, Deformation, Earthquake, Erosion, Erosional, Flank, Gap, Geochronology, Half, Has, Himalayan, History, Implications, Long-term, Million, Mineral, Mountain, Nepal, Rate, Region, Rock, Sediment, Sedimentary, Sediments, Shortening, Slip, Tectonic, Thrust, Timing.

Permanent Upper Plate Deformation Associated with the Mw8.8 Maule, Chile Earthquake of 2010
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2012; Program: Tectonics

1. Richard W Allmendinger($170,000), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Chilean Forearc, Coseismic Rebound, Main Shock, Maule Earthquake, Normal Faults, Rupture Segments, Upper Plate, Aftershocks, Control, Deformation, Determined, Earthquakes, Elastic, February, GPS, Largest, Length, Magnitudes, Mw, Pichilemu, Predictions, Stress, Weaknesses, Zones.

Collaborative Research: Late Cenozoic Vertical Crustal Motions and Erosional Mass Transfer in the Southern San Andreas Fault Zone
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2012; Program: Tectonics

1. Michele Cooke($66,124), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
2. James A Spotila($77,360), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
3. Bernard A Housen($211,644), Western Washington University, Bellingham
4. Rebecca J Dorsey($232,472), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Continental Strike-slip Fault, San Andreas Fault, Strike-slip Fault Zones, Vertical Crustal Motions, 3-dimensional Strain, Continental Strike-slip, Plate Boundary, Sediment Dispersal, Southern California, Strike-slip Fault, Active, Analysis, Complex, Control, Controls, Dating, Deformation, Diverse, Erosion, Evolution, Faults, Geologic, Geometries, Methods, Modeling, Models, Numerical, Poorly, Predictions, Processes, Rates, Students, Subsidence, Timescales, Unique, Uplift.

Collaborative Research: Geochemistry and Tectonics of Cretaceous Gateway Closure in the Central American Isthmus
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Tectonics

1. Esteban Gazel($177,361), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Santa Elena Peninsula, Costa Rica, Exposed Mantle, Structural Analysis, Central, Complex, Constrain, Crust, Evolution, Lithologies, Surface, Tectonic, Volcanic.

Collaborative Research: Timing, Extent, and Spatial Progression of Neogene Displacement Transfer, Southern Walker Lane, Western Great Basin
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Tectonics

1. Daniel F Stockli($193,313), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
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, °.

REU Site: Addition of a Geothermal Research and Education Focus to Enhance the SAGE (Summer of Applied Geophysical Experience) REU Program
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: nan

1. Lawrence W Braile($89,000), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Applied Geophysics, Follow-up Workshop, Reu Students, Additional, Collection, Experiences, Field, Follow-up, Included, Meeting, Oral, Program, SAGE, Summer.

NSF-GEO-EAR Awards for 2012

EAGER Renewal: Mongolia 3D Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: AISL

International Workshop on Tracer Applications of Noble Gas Radionuclides in the Geosciences Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Estimating global subduction mass transport Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: CI REUSE

Discrete Element Simulations of Cohesive Contractional Wedges: Kinematics and Mechanics of Fold and Thrust Belts Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: CI REUSE

Theoretical Investigations of Mantle and Core Materials Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: CI REUSE

Support for 21st International workshop on Electromagnetic Induction in the Earth Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Collaborative Research: How Is Rifting Exhuming the Youngest High-pressure and Ultrahigh-pressure (HP/UHP) Rocks on Earth? Award Effective Date: 09/23/2011; 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

WSC-Category 2 Collaborative: Robust decision-making for South Florida water resources by ecosystem service valuation, hydro-economic optimization, and conflict resolution modeling Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: CR-Water Sustainability & Clim

WSC-Category 3: Sustainable Large-Scale Deployment of Perennial Biomass Energy Crops Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: CR-Water Sustainability & Clim

WSC-CATEGORY 2 COLLABORATIVE: WATER QUALITY AND SUPPLY IMPACTS FROM CLIMATE-INDUCED INSECT TREE MORTALITY AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN WEST Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: CR-Water Sustainability & Clim

WSC-Category 3: Collaborative: The role of local water resources in the water sustainability of Los Angeles Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: CR-Water Sustainability & Clim

Acquisition of a new noble gas mass spectrometer and extraction system for the University of Michigan Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: CR-Water Sustainability & Clim

Early Career: Acquisition of Instrumentation to Measure Electrical Resistivity at the Field and Lab Scale Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

Measuring Multiple Nuclides in Iron Oxides: Expanding Cosmogenic Nuclide Studies into New Lithologies Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

Coupled biogeochemical cycling of water, silicon and cations in a temperate forest-shale system. Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

Collaborative Research: The role of layered Fe(II)-Al(III)-hydroxides in the biogeochemical cycling of iron and trace metals in riparian environments Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

Intracellular metal pumping in microbial excavation by microbes Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

The Geochemical Origins of Water-Oxidation Catalysis Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

Collaborative Research: The Effects of Hydrodynamic and Granular Controls on Bed Load Flux Intermittency: Application to Steep Mountain Streams Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

Glacio-geomorphic constraints on the climate history of the high, arid Chajnantor Plateau, subtropical northern Chile Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

Quantifying Sampling Biases and Silicate-Derived Sr in Continental Runoff: A Coupled 87Sr/86Sr - 88Sr/86Sr Study Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

An Accomplishment-Based Request for Renewal of the Susquehanna-Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (SSHO) Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

Early Career: Acquisition of a Mass Spectrometer for Research and Education in Tectonics and Paleoclimate Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

Early Career: Acquisition of a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility for Earth Science Research at Baylor University Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

International Workshop: Critical Zone Observatories for Sustainable Soil Development and Beyond Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

Carbon in karst: Investigating sources, transport mechanisms and isotopic fractionation to advance the interpretation of speleothem climate records Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

Facility Support: Refurbishing the High-Resolution X-ray Computed Tomography Laboratory Principal Instrument Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

Early Career: Acquisition of a Powder X-ray Diffractometer for Earth Science Research and Education at Washington University in St. Louis Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

Upgrade of Raman Micro-Spectroscopy System Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

Developing a Community Information Model and Supporting Software to Extend Interoperability of Sensor and Sample Based Earth Observations Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

Collaborative Research: A potential new dust source in the southern hemisphere: Reactivation of the Kalahari dunes Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

Collaborative Research: Sediment Transport and Storage in Tidal Floodplain Waterbodies Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

Integrated Data Management System for Critical Zone Observatories Award Effective Date: 04/15/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

Expanding the Geoscience Workforce through the Annual Technical Conference of the National Association of Black Geologists and Geophysicists Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: Centers for Rsch Excell in S&T

Collaborative Research: Are Buried Paleochannels Effective Reactors for Water and Solute Transport in a Deltaic Subterranean Estuary? Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Process Dynamics in the Intermittent Snow Zone Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Collaborative Research: Growth of the Tibetan Plateau and Eastern Asia Climate: Clues to Understanding the Hydrological Cycle Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Requesting support for young US scientists to attend the Conference on Mathematical Geophysics 2012 Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

EAGER: The Feasibility of Simulating of Weak Volcanic Shockwaves with Analog Modeling Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

Quantifying Rare Earth (REE) and High Field Strength (HFSE) Element Mobility in Fluids at Conditions Appropriate for Forearc to Subarc Cold and Hot Subduction Zones Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

A NEW APPROACH TO EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION OF COUPLED SILICATE DISSOLUTION - PRECIPITATION REACTION RATES AT AMBIENT CONDITIONS WITH SI ISOTOPE SPIKES Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

Collaborative Research: REU Site: Integrative approach to landscape evolution in a monogenetic volcanic field. San Francisco volcanic field, northern Arizona Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

Collaborative Research: Reorganization of stresses beneath greater Tokyo after the 2011 Tohoku-Oki M9 earthquake Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

Boulder Creek CZO Renewal: Weathered Profile Development in a Rocky Environment and Its Influence on Watershed Hydrology and Biogeochemistry Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

CZO: Critical Zone Observatory--Snowline Processes in the Southern Sierra Nevada Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

Facility Support: Accelerator Mass Spectrometry at PRIME Lab Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

CAREER: Combining Field Data and Computational Models to Characterize the Distribution of Oceanic Transform Fault Deformation throughout the Lithosphere Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

Collaborative Research: Deep Structure of Three Continental Sutures in Eastern North America Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

Collaborative Research: Geophysical Investigation of the Mid-Continent Rift System Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Onshore-offshore MT Investigation of Cascadia Margin 3D Structure, Segmentation and Fluid Distribution Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

EAGER: Collaborative Research: A New Approach to Imaging Mantle Discontinuity Structure with USArray Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

NSF EAGER: Pilot Study: Deep Electrical Structure of the Rio Grande Rift to Constrain Extent and Mechanisms of Rifting Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; 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: 09/01/2012; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Rifting, Magmatism, and Lithospheric Sutures; Crustal Imaging of the South Georgia Basin and Suwanee Suture Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Immersive Audio-visualization of Seismic Wave Fields in the Earth (EarthScope Education & Outreach) Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Strain Rate and Moment Accumulation Rate along the San Andreas Fault System from InSAR and GPS Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: 3-D Near-field Coseismic Deformation from Differential LiDAR with Application to the El Mayor-Cucapah Earthquake Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Infrasonic and Gravity Wave Studies in the Central United States Award Effective Date: 04/15/2012; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Community Workshop: Real-Time GPS Position Data Products and Formats; Boulder, Colorado Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

EAGER: Vectorial Anisotropic Body and Surface Wave Tomography Using USArray Data Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Dynamic Linkages between the Transition Zone & Surface Plate Motions in 3D Models of Subduction Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

REU Site: The Science of Global Change and Sustainability Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER: Paleotopography using Clumped Isotopes in the Basin and Range: Refining the Three Dimensional Evolution of a Continental Extensional Province Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

REU Site: IRIS Undergraduate Summer Research in Seismology Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER: High Pressure Melting and Phase Transitions in Model Compositions of Earth's Core Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER: Reading magnetic fingerprints from deep time: An insight into the geodynamo and early Earth system evolution Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER:The Role of Proximal Dynamics and Particle Aggregation in Ash Dispersal: An Educational, Numerical, Field and Laboratory Approach Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Earth Science Education and Outreach Provider Summit Award Effective Date: 01/15/2012; 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: 09/01/2011; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Did Channel Flow Drive the Thermo-mechanical Evolution of the Eastern Himalaya? A Field-based Test in Northeast Bhutan Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Modeling the influence of sediment, climate, and tectonics on the incision of bedrock channels through highly soluble strata Award Effective Date: 10/15/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Structure and Reactivity at the Mineral-Water Interface Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

RUI: Landscape-scale Implications of Mineral Reaction Rates and Mechanisms in Tropical Soils: Insights from Soil Chronosequences and Synthesis Experiments Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: A Multi-Method Approach to Determine the Role of Semiconducting Oxide and Sulfide Surfaces in Catalyzing As, Cr, and Se Redox Reactions Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Seismic Imaging of Alaska Using Spectral-Element and Adjoint Methods Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Early Career: Instrumentation and technical support for opening new frontiers in energy and environment research Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

EAR-PF:Seasonal Variation in Suspended Sediment Source and Chemistry in a Shale Watershed Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: Stabilized Organic Carbon and Paleoenvironmental Interpretations of Late Quaternary Paleosols Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding