Acquisition of Next Generation Terrestrial Laser Scanning Systems for Community Earth and Polar Science Research
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: ARC Rsch Support & Logistics

1. Peter LaFemina($399,836), UNAVCO, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: Available, Broader, Current, Deformation, Features, Geoscience, Landforms, Mapping, Pool, Processes, Range, Surface, TLS, Topography.

Theory of thermoelastic properties of iron bearing minerals
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: CI REUSE

1. Matteo Cococcioni($336,001), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Earth's Interior, Extreme Conditions, Mineral Physics, Strongly Correlated, Thermoelastic Properties, Elastic, Electrons, Especially, Input, Iron, Magnetic, Mantle, Methods, Minerals, Package, Phases, Spin, Training.

Next-Generation Modeling of the Geodynamo: Development of the First Multi-Scale Dynamo Model
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: CI REUSE

1. Michael A Calkins($540,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Geomagnetic Field Observations, Broadly Applicable, Cellular Dynamics, Earth's Core, Molecular Physics, Outer Core, Computational, Constraints, Developing, Directly, Dynamo, Dynamos, Fluid, Geodynamo, Mathematical, Methods, Model, Numerical, Planets, Range, Ranging, Simulations.

RAPID: Archiving of Drill Core from the Humuula Saddle Region, Hawaii Island
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2013; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Nicole C Lautze($88,705), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Internal Structure, Mauna Kea, Rock Core, Access, Archived, Armys, Continuous, Drilling, Extracted, Hawaii, Hawaiian, Mantle, Opportunity, Properly, RAPID, Region, Unique, Volcano, Volcanoes.

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

1. Joshua Curtice($2,586,464), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Continental Rifting, Rift Evolution, Southwest Branch, Constrain, EARS, Features, Field, Geochemical, Geomorphic, Geophysical, Initiation, Investigate, Models, Observations, Pis, Presence, Processes, Seismic, Stages, Structure, Surface.

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. Stuart Cottrell($648,929), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
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.

Community Workshop: The Next Generation of LiDAR Analyses for Critical Zone Research
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2014; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Adrian A Harpold($23,357), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Early-career Cz Scientists, Lidar Analysis Techniques, Advancing Cz, Critical Zone, Early-career Cz, Boundaries, Ecology, Has, Hydrology, Journal, Opportunity, Transdisciplinary, Vision, Workshop, World.

Human and Natural Forcings of Critical Zone Dynamics and Evolution at the Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2013; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Amilcare Porporato($6,165,812), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Calhoun Czo, Critical Zone, Land Degradation, Subsurface Components, Surface Soils, Usda Forest, Based, Calhoun-czo, Center, Deep, Duke, Education, Extends, Georgia, Management, Networks, Plants, Processes, Recovery, Students, Water.

Critical Zone Observatory for Intensively Managed Landscapes (IML-CZO)
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2013; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Alison M Anders($6,499,955), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Critical Zone, Managed Landscapes, Management Strategies, River Basin, CZO, Ecological, Has, Human, IML-CZO, Illinois, Imls, Initiatives, Long-term, Midwest, Minnesota, Nutrient, Partner, Programs, Resilience, Sediment, Serve, Services, Storage, Sustainability, Transformations, Vulnerability, Water.

Using the Susquehanna - Shale Hills CZO to Project from the Geological Past to the Anthropocene Future
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2013; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Susan L Brantley($6,399,992), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Susquehanna Shale Hills, Critical Zone, Land Surface, CZ, CZO, Fluxes, Focus, Future, Gas, Geological, Human, Knowledge, Measuring, Models, Music, Observatory, Public, Rock, Soil, Water, Watershed, Watersheds.

Transformative Behavior of Energy, Water and Carbon in the Critical Zone II: Interactions between Long- and Short-term Processes that Control Delivery of Critical Zone Services
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2013; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. David D Breshears($6,520,001), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Biological Activity, Critical Zone, Cz Structure, Jrb-scm Czo, Postdoctoral Scientists, Santa Catalina, Water-limited Southwestern, Coupled, Directly, Essential, Evolution, Field, Focuses, Function, Gases, JRB-SCM, Jemez, Long-term, Mountain, Processes, Soil, Students, Surface, Water-limited.

Acquisition and Upgrade of Research Equipment at Oxy-Anion Stable Isotope Consortium at Louisiana State University
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2013; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Huiming Bao($409,167), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Isotope 17o, Nmd Enrichment, Stable Isotope, Analyzer, Behaviors, CRDS, Equipment, GC, Geochemistry, Graduate, IRMS, LSU, Laboratory, NSF, Non-mass-dependent, OASIC, Optical, Pieces, Students, Sulfate, TGA.

NSF Meeting Proposal: 2013 Critical Zone Observatories (CZO) Annual Meeting (New era of an expanded and formalized network)
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2013; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Timothy S White($54,396), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Critical Zone Observatories, CZO, Common, Czos, Expanded, Management, Meeting, NSF, Network, Plans.

Facility Support: High-Resolution X-ray Computed Tomography Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. William D Carlson($741,998), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Fluid Flow, X-ray Source, X-ray Tomography, CCD, Density, Developed, Enable, Energy, Geological, Geology, Hydrology, Imaging, Range, Resolution, Scanning, Table, Texas, UTCT, Was, X-ray.

Early Career: Acquisition of Instrumentation to Measure Electrical Resistivity at the Field and Lab Scale
Award Effective Date: 02/26/2013; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Kamini Singha($92,711), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: ER, Electrical, Observations, Penn, Subsurface, Transport.

Integrated Data Management System for Critical Zone Observatories
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Anthony K Aufdenkampe($1,532,537), Stroud Water Research Center, Avondale
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.

The evolution of hummocky moraine landscapes: a modeling study
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Peter Moore($97,414), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: Hummocky Moraine Belts, Debris Cover, Rock Debris, Creating, Glaciers, Hazards, Ice, Landscapes, Long-term, Melt, Melting, Modeling, Origin, Processes, Re-sedimentation, Resource, Stagnant, Surface, Thick, Unstable, Variables, Water.

CAREER: Investigating the Relationship Between Mantle Shear Localization, Melt Flow and Water Content
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2013; Program: Career Life Balance

1. Jessica M Warren($345,038), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Melt And Water, Terrestrial Laser Scanning, Mantle Wedge, Rock Deformation, Shear Localization, Shear Zones, Analysis, Applicable, Carried, Disciplines, Field, Geochemistry, Peridotite, Petrology, Seismology, Students, Survey, Techniques, Tectonic, Undergraduate.

MRI: Acquisition of a Powder X-Ray Diffractometer for Research and Teaching in Earth and Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University in Newark
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Lee Slater($109,465), Rutgers University Newark, Newark
Key terms: Department, Environmental, Influence, Mineral, Mineralogical, Rutgers-newark, Soils, XRD.

Collaborative Research: RAPID: Strain accumulation and release at the Kuril subduction zone from postseismic observations on the Kuril GPS Array in 2007-2014
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Glen S Mattioli($37,984), UNAVCO, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: Kuril-kamchatka Subduction Zone, Kuril-kamchatka Subduction, Postseismic Deformation, Earthquake.

EAR-PF: Paleoecology of marine mammal herbivory: a multidisciplinary analysis of fossil sirenians, desmostylians and sloths from the Eastern Pacific Ocean
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Jorge Velez-Juarbe($170,000), Velez-Juarbe Jorge, Chevy Chase
Key terms: Marine Mammal Herbivores, Pacific Region, Carbon, Degrees, Habitats, Hispanic, Isotopes, Million, Minority, STEM, Seacows, Species, Specifically, Students.

An integrated multi-directional approach to understanding local hydrologic responses to global climate change
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2013; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Julie A Vano($170,000), Vano Julie A, Seattle
Key terms: Water Resource Managers, Central Tendencies, Approaches, Climate, Connections, Create, Future, Hydrologic, Larger, Local, Management, Metric, Oregon, Planning, Processes, Runoff, Scenarios, Sensitivities, Stakeholder, Tools.

Acquisition of a Laser Ablation System in Support of (U-Th)/He and U/Pb Multidating of Accessory Minerals
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Kip V Hodges($216,000), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Ages, Analytical, Cooling, Determination, Geochronology, Mineral, Minerals, Sources, Thermochronology.

MRI: TLALOCNet - Development of a continuous GPS-MET array in Mexico for atmospheric, climatic, and seismotectonic research in the Americas
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Dennis C DeMets($1,500,000), UNAVCO, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: Spatial And Temporal, Atmospheric Moisture, Central Mexico, Earthquake Cycle, Gpsmet Stations, Meteorological Sensors, Subduction Zone, Advance, Annually, Atmosphere, Cgps, Dynamics, Gps-met, Gulf, MCS, Network, Observations, Pacific, Precipitation, Region, Satellite, Sensing, Sites, Southwestern, TPW, Tlalocnet, Total, Upgraded, Water.

Sedimentary and tectonic controls on strath terrace formation in bedrock channels
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Christian A Braudrick($170,000), Braudrick Christian A, Berkeley
Key terms: Bedrock River Terraces, Field Trip, Santa Cruz, Sediment Supply, California, Channel, Channels, Climate, Erosion, Experiments, Has, Laboratory, Tectonic.

Acquisition of a Multicollector Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer for Earth Science Research and Research Training in Northern New England
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Julia G Bryce($722,107), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Geochronologic And Tracer, Isotopic Characterization, Tracer Applications, Analytical, Atmospheric, Crust, Deep, Development, Earth, Elemental, England, Environmental, Evolution, Facility, History, Mantle, Mass, Melting, Processes, Provenance, Quantify, Quantitative, Surface.

EAR-PF: Are the slow growth and metabolic rates of crocodylians secondarily derived?
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Sarah Werning($170,000), Werning Sarah, Berkeley
Key terms: Biology And Life, Bone Tissue Structure, Low Metabolic Rates, Modern And Fossil, Body Size, Crocodylian Lineage, Extinct Ancestors, Growth Rates, Life History, Living Species, Slow Growth, Stony Brook, Anatomy, Animals, Annual, Center, Crocodylians, Education, Evolutionary, Existing, Information, Metabolism, Methods, Microscopic, Museum, Outreach, Physiology, Public, Specimens, Students, Transitions.

EAR-PF: Mechanisms and Isotopic Signatures of Iron-Silica Adsorptive Interactions in the Precambrian Ocean
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Steven M Chemtob($170,000), Chemtob Steven M, Pasadena
Key terms: Fe And Si, Iron Oxide Surfaces, Bif Deposition, Education Plan, Isotope Composition, Silica Adsorption, Silicon Isotope, Adsorptive, Aqueous, Bifs, Characterize, Chemical, Chemistry, Development, Interaction, Iron-silica, Louis, Mechanism, Mechanisms, Oceans, Precambrian, St, Techniques, Trace, Waters, Weathering.

Revealing the Nature of Contemporary Uplift and Collapse in the Sierra Nevada - Great Basin System (II)
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Hans-Peter Plag($361,665), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Earth's Surface, Sierra Nevada, Vertical Movement, Active, Analysis, Basin, Broader, Center, Continues, Coverage, Detailed, Earthquakes, Error, Evolution, Extending, Fast, GPS, Geological, Has, History, Initial, Insar, Millimeter, Million, Modeling, Models, Modern, Moving, Precision, Rate, Region, Relative, Satellites, Uplift, Upward, Water.

Constraints on the Rheology of the Lithosphere in Western North America from Observationally Driven Dynamic Models
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2013; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. William E Holt($148,994), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Beneath Western North, Magnitude And Distribution, Thickness And Density, Upper Mantle Structure, Heat Flow, Mantle Convection, Mantle Flow, Stresses Acting, Surface Observations, Time Scales, Bounds, Constraints, Crust, Deformation, Earth, Earthquake, Effective, Effects, Estimates, Images, Incorporate, Information, Investigate, Lithosphere, Magnitudes, Models, Obtained, Processes, Reliable, Responsible, Strain, Topography, Velocity, Yield.

EarthScope SAFOD Management Office for Physical Samples
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2013; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Judith S Chester($532,412), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Active Plate-boundary Fault, Andreas Fault Observatory, Earthquake Hazard Mitigation, San Andreas Fault, Active Plate-boundary, Earthquake Mechanics, Fault Zone, Management Office, Plate-boundary Fault, Texas Aandm, Collection, Committee, Core, Curation, Depth, Direct, Drilling, Faults, Geological, Investigations, Maintaining, Monitoring, Primary, Processes, Request, Reviewing, SAFOD, Seismogenic, Storage, Successful, Tool, Unique.

Constraints on Slow Slip Behavior in Cascadia Through the Integration of PBO Borehole Strainmeters, GPS Time Series, and Tremor Locations
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. David A Schmidt($279,748), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Seismogenic Zone, Slow Slip, Strainmeter Time, Analysis, Edge, GPS, Observations, Strainmeters, Testing, Tremor, Up-dip.

Collaborative Proposal: Relation of Exhumation to Lithsopheric Architecture Along a Steep Continental Margin, Idaho-Oregon
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. John A Hole($55,886), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
2. Basil Tikoff($91,414), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
3. Raymond M Russo($61,258), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: River Suture Zone, Salmon River Suture, Blue Mountains, Idaho Batholith, Pre-existing Geologic, Boundary, Combination, Current, Deformation, Documentation, Exhumation, Graduate, Mantle, North, Pre-existing, Regional, Seismic, Students, Synthesis, Tectonic, Thermochronology, Timing, Topography, Underlying, Uplift, Was.

Probing Fluids, Fractures, Faults, and Strain with PBO Borehole Data
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2013; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Duncan Carr Agnew($128,322), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Earth's Crust, Fluid Pressure, BSM, Borehole, Fault, Ground, Groundwater, Nearby, Network, PBO, Pumping, Strain.

Crustal Deformation across the U.S. from Harmonic Analysis of Receiver Functions
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2013; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Vera Schulte-Pelkum($205,414), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Crustal Deformation, Receiver Function, Signal Strength, Transportable Array, Typically Assumed, Anisotropic, Anisotropy, Depth, Histories, Horizontal, Illumination, Incident, Interface, Interfaces, Locally, Maps, Models, Orientation, Seismic, Station, Structure, Surface, Systematic, Teleseismic, Undergraduate, Varies, Varying, Wave, Waves.

Collaborative Research: Wabash Valley Seismic Experiment
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2013; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. James A Conder($224,058), Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale
2. Lupei Zhu($179,918), Saint Louis University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Seismic Zone, Wabash Valley, Driving, Dynamics, Earthscope, Experiment, Illinois, Intraplate, Lithospheric, SIU, SLU, Seismographs, Students, WVSZ, Wave.

The Seismic Structure, Thermal State, and Anisotropy of the Crust and Uppermost Mantle Beneath the Contiguous US
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Michael H Ritzwoller($263,625), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Crust And Uppermost, Thermodynamically Constrained Inversions, 3-d Models, Ambient Noise, Mantle Anisotropy, Receiver Functions, Seismological Models, Surface Wave, Uppermost Mantle, Usarray Ta, Allow, Component, Construct, Contiguous, Continent, Cu-boulder, Entire, Extend, Methods, Primary, Processing, Products, Resolution, Seismic, Structure, Thermal, Tomography, Vertical, View.

Understanding and Performing High-Resolution Surface-Wave Attenuation Measurements with USArray
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Victor C Tsai($281,159), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Density And Attenuation, Ambient Noise, Station Coverage, Allow, Allows, Amplitude, Amplitudes, Compared, Developments, Empirical, Features, Hand, High-resolution, Images, Imaging, Resolution, Seismic, Structure, Successful, Techniques, Theoretical, Usarray, Velocity.

Collaborative Research: Investigating Temperature, Melting, and Mantle Flow in the North American Upper Mantle with 3-D Models of Shear Velocity, Radial Anisotropy, and Attenuation
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2013; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. James B Gaherty($102,859), Columbia University, New York
2. Colleen A Dalton($62,326), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Phase And Amplitude, Velocity And Attenuation, Earth's Interior, Plate Boundary, Seismic Waves, Composition, Constraints, Continent, Controlled, Has, Mantle, Melt, Models, North, Processes, Properties, Seismic-wave, Sets, Shear, Temperature.

Collaborative Research: EarthScope Chronicles: Scientists' Stories and Media-Rich Earth Science Investigations
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2013; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Erin Bardar($281,545), TERC Inc, Cambridge
2. Richard E Tessman($142,318), McLean Media, Grass Valley
Key terms: Earthscope Chronicles Modules, Current Real-world, Earthscope Visualizations, Stem Classroom, Investigations, Media, Products, Real-world, Resources.

Collaborative Research: Controls Over Nitrogen Loss from Very Wet Tropical Forests
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: ECOSYSTEM STUDIES

1. Alan R Townsend($568,383), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Nitrogen Balance, Nitrogen Cycle, Tropical Forests, Carbon, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Global, Increasingly, Portions, Site, Wettest, World.

Reconciling Different Deformation Mechanisms in Adjacent Sedimentary Lithologies at Raplee and Comb Folds, Monument Upwarp, UT
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. David D Pollard($96,389), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Constitutive Properties, Kilometer-scale Folding, Sedimentary Rock, Shear Zone, Shear Zones, Solution Seams, Adjacent, Behavior, Brittle, Calcite, Comb, Deduce, Deformation, Ductile, Folds, Geology, Insights, Jointing, Joints, Kilometer-scale, Layers, Limestone, Mechanical, Mechanism, Mechanisms, Models, Ranges, Raplee, Sandstone, Strata, Structures, Veins.

CAREER: Investigating fast motion of the Indian plate with geodynamic models
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Dave Stegman($725,000), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Highly Qualified, Indian Plate, Phd Students, Plate Driving, Plate Tectonics, Plume-push Force, Subducting Plates, Achieved, Cmyr, Continent, Deccan, Does, Earth, Educational, Evolution, Excess, Fast, Forces, Framework, Geodynamics, Geological, Hosted, Investigate, Ma, Mantle, Mechanism, Models, Motion, Observations, Oceans, Plume-push, Process, Program, REU, Speed, Summer, Theory, Time, Typical, Volcanic, Was.

Collaborative Research: Featuring EarthScope in Coastal Cascadia Earthquake and Tsunami Hazards Education by Linking Teachers, Interpreters, and Emergency Managers
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Robert J Lillie($314,742), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Beth Pratt-Sitaula($193,986), Central Washington University, Ellensburg
3. Robert F Butler($116,096), University of Portland, Portland
Key terms: Earthquake And Tsunami, Earthquakes And Tsunamis, Emergency Management Outreach, Oregon And Washington, Cascadia Earthquake, Emergency Preparedness, Geologic Hazards, K-12 Teachers, CEETEP, Coastal, Collaboration, Convey, Earthscope, Educators, Effects, Effort, Efforts, Engage, Geological, Has, Instruments, Interpreters, Knowledge, Mitigate, Mitigation, Museum, NSF, Observations, Ongoing, Park, Parks, Program, Public, Region, Students, Visitors, Workshops.

EAR-PF: Integrating Field Deposit, Remote Sensing, and Numerical Modeling Perspectives on the Injection and Fallout of Hazardous Volcanic Ash
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2013; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Alexa R Van Eaton($170,000), Van_Eaton Alexa R, Wellington
Key terms: Ash Dispersal, Column Instability, Eruption Column, Volcanic Ash, Aggregation, Arizona, Atmosphere, Hazards, Model, Observations, Van.

CAREER: Studies of Magnesium Isotope Geochemistry
Award Effective Date: 12/16/2012; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Fangzhen Teng($439,744), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Magnesium Isotope Geochemistry, Mg Isotopes, Mg Isotopic, Undergraduate Students, African, Arkansas, Composition, Core, Crust, Development, Evolution, High-temperature, Lab, Mantle, Metamorphic, Opportunities, Phd, Pis, Processes, Program, Reservoirs, Rock, Solid, Teachers, Time, UA, Undergraduates.

CAREER: Mantle Hybridization via Melt-Rock Reaction-Implications for Chemical Variability of Oceanic Basalts and Lithologic Heterogeneities in the Earth's Convecting Mantle
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2013; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Rajdeep Dasgupta($635,800), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Melts And Peridotite, Contribute Towards, Hybrid Lithologies, Lithologic Heterogeneities, Mineral Physics, Outreach Activities, Partial Melting, Partial Melts, Peridotite Reaction, Source Regions, Upper Mantle, Basalts, Compositions, Constrain, Crust, Crust-mantle, Determined, Earth, Educational, Erupted, Experimental, Experiments, Hybridization, Lab, Melt-rock, Petrology, Pis, Processes, Range, Reacted, Reactive, Rice, School, Students, Subducted, Volatiles, Wide.

ESE: Spatial Interactive Optimization for Restoration of Upland Storage in Watersheds: Community Participation in the Design of Distributed Practices and Alternatives
Award Effective Date: 08/31/2012; Program: ENV., SOCIETY AND THE ECONOMY

1. Meghna Babbar-Sebens($279,213), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Eagle Creek Watershed, Agronomic Practices, Hydrologic Cycle, Land Holders, Private Land, Upland Storage, Water Quality, Agricultural, Alternatives, Approach, Control, Criteria, Degraded, Department, Design, Development, Etc, Flood, Habitat, Has, Indiana, Interactive, Loss, Methods, Mitigation, Multiple, Optimization, Participation, Purdue, Selection, Sites, Stakeholders, Watersheds.

Integrating Fault Slip Observations of Earthquake Swarms, Tectonic Tremor, and Slow Slip in Alaska and the Aleutians and Their Potential Relation to Large Earthquakes
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Stephen G Holtkamp($170,000), Holtkamp Stephen G, Oxford
Key terms: Induced Seismicity, Seismic Cycle, Seismic Signals, Build, Complete, Earthquakes, Has, Phenomena, Subduction, Technique, Tutorial, Variety.

Collaborative Research: Defining the role of heterogeneous lithology in bedrock incision and terrace formation in the Buffalo National River, Arkansas
Award Effective Date: 09/05/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Amanda Keen-Zebert($325,456), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
2. Stephanie L Shepherd($49,895), COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Bloomsburg
3. Amanda Keen-Zebert($302,444), Murray State University, Murray
Key terms: Base Level, Glacial Limit, Bedrock, Human, Incision, Landscapes, Lithology, Mid-continent, North, Processes, Reconstructions, South, Valley.

Infrastructure for Broadening Participation in STEM (IBP-STEM)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Ashanti Johnson($1,299,990), Institute for Broadening Participation, South Portland
Key terms: Broadening Participation, Administrators, Available, Diversity, Efforts, Faculty, IBP, Increase, Information, Partnerships, Practices, Programs, Resources, STEM, Strategic, Students.

MRI: Acquisition of a Stable Carbon Isotope Analyzer at Montana Tech
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Christopher H Gammons($183,615), Montana Technological University, Butte
Key terms: Carbon Stable, Montana Tech, Stable Isotope, Biogeochemical, Collaboration, Determining, Environmental, Expand, Groundwater, Isotopes, MBMG, MUS, Minerals, Natural, Processes, Promote, Range, Rock, Sources, Surface, Tool, Water.

Collaborative Research: Testing the link between climate and mammalian faunal dynamics in the early Paleocene record of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Ross Secord($142,827), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln
2. Thomas E Williamson($120,471), New Mexico Museum of Natural History Foundation, Albuquerque
3. Lee Nordt($167,419), Baylor University, Waco
Key terms: Mammal-dominated Ecosystems, Mammalian Faunal, Mexico Museum, Natural History, Ancient, Biomes, Changing, Climate, Evolution, Mammal-dominated, Nebraska, Paleocene, Students, Time, Was, World.

MRI: Acquisition of an Automated TL/OSL Luminescence Reader, Gamma Spectrometer, and Portable Field Gamma Spectrometer for the Dating of Sedimentary and Archaeological Materials
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. David M Sammeth($384,926), New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas
Key terms: Osl Lab, Mexico, NMHU, Past, Students.

EAR-PF: Modeling of dissolution along rough surfaces using computational fluid dynamics.
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Joseph M Myre($170,000), Myre Joseph M, Minneapolis
Key terms: Bedrock, Cave, Computational, Evolution, Feature, Model, Settings.

MRI: Acquisition of a MC-ICP-MS at NMSU
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Nancy J McMillan($490,869), New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
Key terms: Equipment, Future, Gain, Internationally, MC-ICP-MS, Mass, Modern, NMSU, Nationally, Opportunities, Range, Students, Techniques.

Development of the Himalayan Superstructure, Northwestern India
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Andrew Alexande Webb($139,970), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Eastern Ladakh Chamba, Deformation History, Geological Shortening, High-grade Crystalline, Shortening Budget, Superstructure Rocks, Suture Zone, Accreted, Analysis, Foreland, High-grade, Himalaya, Himalayan, India-asia, Infrastructure, Issues, Kinematic, Mapping, Models, Preservation, Reconstruction, Structural, Tectonic, Thermal, Via.

Geochemical Analysis of Fluid Inclusions in Trace and Minor Mississippi Valley-type Zn-Pb Occurrences in the US Mid-continent: Implications for Crustal Metal Enrichment Processes
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Martin S Appold($265,556), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Cana And Kna, Missouri And Tri-state, Mvt Ore Deposits, Trace And Minor, Fluid Inclusions, Low Camg, Mvt Deposit, Mvt Mineralization, Ore Bodies, Primary Lead, Primary Zinc, Southeast Missouri, Allow, Carried, Central, Chemical, Commercial, Composition, Concentrations, Determining, District, Districts, Formed, Groundwater, Has, Minerals, Mississippi, Mm, Numerous, Occurrences, Potential, Precipitated, Principal, Ratios, Redox, Rock, Saline, Sulfate, Sulfide, Was.

Collaborative Research: A Late Cenozoic Record of Restraining Bend Initiation and Evolution along the Denali Fault at Mount McKinley, Alaska
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Sean P Bemis($239,890), University of Kentucky Research Foundation, Lexington
2. Jeff Benowitz($193,965), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Mckinley Restraining Bend, Mount Mckinley Restraining, Persistent Upliftexhumation Phenomena, Transient And Persistent, Complex Fault, Crustal Blocks, Denali Fault, Exhumation Rates, Fault Geometry, Restraining Bends, Slip Rates, Strike-slip Faults, Adjacent, Alaska, Control, Evolve, Furthermore, Geologic, Horizontal, Insights, North, Occurring, Recognition, Regional, Strike-slip, Structural, Tectonic, Zones.

Collaborative Research: Linking erosional and climatic processes in regions of active mountain building
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Brian J Yanites($162,891), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
2. Christopher J Poulsen($204,048), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Active Mountain Building, Climate And Topography, Active Mountain, Coupled, Erosion, Framework, Interaction, Landscape, Orbital, Potential, Processes, Regions, Tectonic.

CAREER: Understanding Major Intracontinental Strike-slip Faults from the Lower Crust's Perspective: Tibetan Insights from the Canadian Shield
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Gregory Dumond($453,456), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Key terms: Crustal Shear Zone, Deep Crustal Shear, Grease River Shear, Intracontinental Strike-slip Fault, River Shear Zone, Canadian Shield, Intracontinental Faults, Intracontinental Strike-slip, Lower Crust, Strain Localization, Strike-slip Fault, Wall Rocks, Arkansas, Dates, Deformation, Directly, Efforts, Gt, Km-long, Modules, Outreach, Phd, Program, Provided, Rheological, Situ, Student, Students, Teachers, Via, Was.

Collaborative Research: Collaborative Research: Deciphering the Structure and Evolution of North America?s Cratonic Core
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Dhananjay Ravat($154,304), University of Kentucky Research Foundation, Lexington
Key terms: Graduate And Undergraduate, Gravity And Magnetic, Geologic Boundaries, Mid-continent Crust, Mineral Deposits, Receiver Function, Undergraduate Students, Array, Composition, Core, Cover, Earthquakes, Economic, Formation, Geophysical, Hidden, History, Images, Implications, Layers, Likelihood, Mantle, Mid-continent, Potential, Processes, Properties, Region, Rock, Sedimentary, Seeks, Seismic, Sets, Subsequent, Surface, Tectonic, Velocity, Wave.

Crust-mantle boundary contraints from ambient noise autocorrelations in North America
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Ileana Tibuleac($85,462), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Available Seismic Sensors, Depth And Properties, Receiver Function Estimates, Crust-mantle Boundary, Green's Functions, Noise Autocorrelations, Receiver Functions, Reflection Component, Seismic Interferometry, Sierra Nevada, Unprecedented Resolution, Adjacent, Analysis, Applied, Constraints, Contrast, Crust-mantle, Depend, Does, Extract, Greens, Independent, Innovative, Interpret, Method, Models, Moho, PS, SN, Uplift, Wave.

The internal structure of deposits emplaced under upper plane bed / sheet flow transport conditions: Laboratory experiments and numerical modeling
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Enrica Viparelli($201,725), University of South Carolina at Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Experimental And Numerical, Grain Diameters Thick, Intense Transport Conditions, Laboratory And Numerical, Parallel Laminated Units, Plane Bed Regime, Sediment Transport Conditions, Sheet Flow Transport, Upper Plane Bed, Deposits Emplaced, Grain Fabric, Laboratory Experiments, Bedload, Characterize, Characterized, Deposited, Deposition, Field, Flows, Graduate, Ii, Layer, Massive, Model, Organization, Particles, Program, Responsible, Subaqueous, Undergraduate, Visible.

Collaborative Research: Constraining Heat Flux from the Shallow Geothermal System, Yellowstone Caldera, Wyoming
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Jerry Fairley($226,963), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
2. Peter B Larson($295,134), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Heat And Mass, Mass And Energy, Energy Flux, Energy Fluxes, Heat Flux, Mass Balance, Mass Flux, Time-series Method, Yellowstone Caldera, Allow, Developed, Estimates, Future, Has, Hot, Hydrothermal, Methods, Past, Shallow, Spring, Springs, Time-series, Volcanic.

REU Site: Geoenvironmental Challenges in the Southeastern U.S.: A Summer Undergraduate Research Experience for Pre-service Earth Science, Biology, and Chemistry Teachers
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Heather J Brown($368,331), Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro
Key terms: Pre-service Teachers, School Teachers, Stones River, Appreciate, Contribute, Disseminate, Elia, Engaging, Environmental, Explore, Geology, Geoscience, MTSU, Near, Plant, Pre-college, Pre-service, Quality, Society, Tennessee.

Early Career: Acquisition of an Accelerated Solvent Extractor and a Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometer for Lipid Analyses in Organic Geochemistry Research
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Robert H Findlay($160,602), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
Key terms: Accelerated Solvent Extractor, Gas Chromatography-mass Spectrometer, Organic Matter Cycling, Aquatic Environments, Chromatography-mass Spectrometer, Gas Chromatography-mass, Activities, Development, Environmental, Indicating, Instrumentation, Instruments, Past, Pollutants, Quality, Students, UA.

Analyses of Volatiles in Volcanic Glasses: Bridging the Gap between the Macroscopic and the Micron Scale
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Thomas Shea($191,591), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Initial Volatile Contents, Interstitial Glasses, Magma Ascent, Melt Inclusions, Meteoric Water, Microraman Spectroscopy, Pu'u Wa'awa'a, Vapor Phase, Volatile Components, Volcanic Eruptions, Volcanic Glasses, AD, Analyses, Analytical, Cl, Conduit, Decompression, Degassing, Essential, Evolution, HO, Hawaii, History, Hydration, Magmas, Magmatic, Measuring, Objective, Potential, Products, Puu, Pyroclasts, Quantify, Resolution, Secondary, Separate, Sets, Surface, Taupo, Techniques, Towards, Trapped, Variety, Vesuvius, Volatiles, Waawaa.

Collaborative research: Unraveling coseismic and postseismic deformation: A prerequisite for analyses of stress-coupling and tsunami genesis.
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Timothy L Masterlark($131,177), South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City
Key terms: Coseismic And Postseismic, Poroelastic And Viscoelastic, Aftershock Occurrence, Fem-generated Seafloor, Indian Ocean, Northern Sumatra, Pore Pressure, Postseismic Behavior, Propagation Simulations, Seafloor Deformation, Seafloor Deformations, Subduction Zone, Tsunami Propagation, Coastal, Construct, Deformational, Distribution, Does, Drive, Earthquake, Epicenter, Fault-slip, Fem-generated, Fems, Models, Plate, Predictions, Processes, Properties, Rheologic, Run-up, SAE, Significantly, Stress.

Collaborative Research: Integrated Volcano Geodesy and Seismology: Earthquakes at Silicic Domes
Award Effective Date: 08/21/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Jeffrey B Johnson($52,533), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Geodesy And Seismology, Time Lapse, Activity, Broadband, Collaborative, Common, Dome, Earthquakes, Eruption, Has, Investigate, Months, Observations, Occurring, Optical, Period, Range, Santiaguito, Seismic, Silicic, Surface, Volcanic, Volcano.

EarthCube domain end-user workshop: Bringing Geochronology into the EarthCube framework
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: EarthCube

1. Bradley S Singer($100,000), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Digital Publication, Access, Challenges, Geochronology, Issues, Solutions, Workshop.

RCN: Building a Sediment Experimentalist Network (SEN)
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: EarthCube

1. Brandon McElroy($440,559), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Field Geologists, Knowledge Base, Collection, Coordination, Difficult, Efforts, Experimental, Experimentalists, Experiments, Facilitate, Management, Metadata, Modelers, Processes, SEN, SEN-EC, SEN-ED, SEN-KB, Sediment, Sedimentary, Standards, Tools.

EarthCube End-User Domain Workshop for Rock Deformation and Mineral Physics Research
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2013; Program: EarthCube

1. Chris J Marone($99,999), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Mineral Physics, Public Access, Rock Deformation, Cyberinfrastructure, Earthcube, Geosciences, Modeling, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: An EarthCube Domain Workshop integrating the inland-waters biogeochemistry and fluvial sedimentology communities, April 22-24.
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: EarthCube

1. Albert J Kettner($88,622), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Emilio Mayorga($10,900), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Fresh Water Biogeochemical, Surface Water, Components, Critical, Cycles, Disciplines, Earthcube, Experimental, NSF, Short, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: OpenTopography: A Cyberinfrastructure-Enabled Facility for High-Resolution Topographic Data and Tools
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: EarthCube

1. Christopher J Crosby($1,471,339), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
2. J Ramon Arrowsmith($198,158), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Billion Lidar Returns, Airborne Lidar, Web Portal, Allow, Baru, Bureau, Capabilities, Google, Month, Numerous, OT, Opentopography, Pre-computed, Services, Sets, TLS, Users, Was.

EarthCube Domain End-User Workshop: Community-Based Cyberinfrastructure for Petrology and Geochemistry
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2013; Program: EarthCube

1. Kerstin A Lehnert($99,975), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Cyberinfrastructure, Domains, Workshop.

Engaging the Sedimentary Geology Community in EarthCube (Workshop)
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2013; Program: EarthCube

1. David A Budd($99,947), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Sedimentary Geology, Sedimentary Rocks, Based, CI, Challenges, Cyberinfrastructure, Diverse, Domain, Earth, Earthcube, Effort, NSF, Potential, Processes, SGC, Surface, Tools, Workshop.

A novel geochemical approach for environmental risk assessment of stray gas contamination in shallow aquifers within active and prospective shale gas development zones
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: EnvS-Environmtl Sustainability

1. Thomas H Darrah($99,999), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Hydrocarbon Gas Migration, Naturally Occurring Methane, Horizontal Drilling, Hydraulic Fracturing, Natural Gas, Shale Gas, Shallow Aquifers, Shallow Drinking, Black, Contaminated, Contamination, Deposits, Development, Environmental, Geochemical, Groundwater, Isotopic, Potential, Source.

FESD Type I: Earth System Dynamics and its Role in Human Evolution in Africa
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Front in Earth Sys Dynamics

1. John D Kingston($4,855,712), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Collection And Modeling, Kenya And Ethiopia, Critical Intervals, Environmental History, Human Evolution, Sediment Drill, Allow, Artifacts, Climate, Climatic, Continuous, Core, Cores, Drilling, Dynamics, Ecosystem, Evolutionary, Fossils, Global, High-resolution, Hominin, Lake, Local, Models, Opportunities, Paleoenvironmental, Phase, Processes, Regional, Resources, Shaped, Tectonic, Training.

FESD Type I: The Dynamics of Earth System Oxygenation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Front in Earth Sys Dynamics

1. Ariel D Anbar($4,845,000), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Atmosphere And Oceans, Past Decade, Activities, Beyond, Calculations, Challenges, Complex, Disciplinary, Earth, GOE, Geochemical, History, Interior, Life, Mantle, Models, Practices, Program, Proxies, Rarely, Specific, Was.

FESD Type I: The Dynamics of Mountains, Landscapes and Climate in the Distribution and Generation of Biodiversity of the Amazon/Andean Forest
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Front in Earth Sys Dynamics

1. Brian K Horton($4,430,000), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Andean Uplift, Affects, Amazon, Andes, Biodiversity, Cenozoic, Climate, Components, Construction, Distribution, Diversity, Environment, Field, Forests, Generation, Genetic, History, Hydrology, Interact, Interdisciplinary, Laboratory, Linked, Modeling, Molecular, Nutrient, Plant, Productivity, Sediment, South, Species, Students, Supply, Time.

Collaborative Proposal: Making Point Clouds Useful for Earth Science
Award Effective Date: 07/18/2013; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Nancy F Glenn($219,000), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Ground-based Lidar, ALS, Airborne, Algorithms, Analysis, Challenges, Clouds, Generation, Ground-based, Platforms, Software, Surface, TLS, Tools.

Future of Geoscience Undergraduate Education in January of 2014 at the University of Texas at Austin
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: GLOB LEARN & OBSER TO BEN ENVI

1. Sharon Mosher($235,023), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Geoscience Education, Undergraduate Geoscience, Activities, Backgrounds, Bring, Future, Geosciences, Increase, Issues, Natural, Participants, Student, Students, Summit, Techniques, Technology, Vision.

RAPID: Analyzing dDwax in the Dead Sea DSDDP Core as an Indicator of Aridity and a Stratigraphic Aid
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2014; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Jessica E Tierney($48,279), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Dead Sea, Dsddp Core, Falmouth Academy, Levant Region, Marine Isotope, Apparent, Aridity, Collaboration, Critical, Descriptionthis, Dwax, Glacial, Local, Past, Program, Proxies, Stratigraphic, Stratigraphy, Students.

Collaborative Research: Climate and Glacier change in Bhutan: the last millennia, present and future
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Summer B Rupper($219,805), Brigham Young University, Provo
2. Joerg M Schaefer($333,089), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Glacier And Climate, Future Glacier, Glacier Melt, Himalayan Glacier, Host Uwice, Bhutan, Bhutanese, DHMS, Educational, Hazard, Institute, Mitigation, Rate, Robust, Societies, Students.

EAGER: A Comparison of Lacustrine Carbonate d18O and Organic Matter dD from Drought Sensitive Lakes in the Western United States
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2013; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Mark B Abbott($65,085), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Single Phase Carbonates, Castor Lake, Western North, Add, Aridity, Climate, Cycles, Del-d, Drought, Drought-sensitive, Has, Isotopes, Lakes, Network, Sediment, Spatial, Water.

Cosmogenic 10Be Chronology of Late Pleistocene Cirque Glaciation in Ireland and its Paleoclimatic Implications
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Steven W Hostetler($202,499), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Circulation Model, Cirque Glaciers, Ice Sheet, Model Runs, Ages, Balance, Climate, Constraints, Fluctuations, Glacial, Ireland, Irish, Limiting, Moraines, Regional, Relation, Simulations, Sites.

Collaborative Research: RUI: Tropical Holocene climatic insights from Andean paleoglacier dynamics
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2013; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Bryan G Mark($38,289), Northern Illinois University, Dekalb
Key terms: Mass And Energy, Tropical Glacier Mass, Glacial Flour, Holocene Glacial, Ice Margin, Margin Fluctuations, Tropical Andes, Tropical Glacier, Abrupt, Advances, Approach, Based, Centennial, Climate, Climatic, Continuous, Dating, Detailed, Enable, Flux, Glaciation, Global, Magnitude, Millennial-scale, Moraine, Moraines, Multiple, Paleoclimate, Precipitation, Timing, Tropics.

Modeling the Vegetation of the Past
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Simon C Brewer($158,632), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Past Climate, Past Vegetation, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Assessment, Conditions, Covering, DGVM, Europe, Factors, Future, GCM, Macrofossil, Model, North, Periods, Pollen, Publicly, Reconstructions, Resources, Simulating.

Collaborative Research: Active kinematics of lithospheric extension along the East African Rift
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2014; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Rebecca O Bendick($47,814), University of Montana, Missoula
2. Robert W King($53,906), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: African Rift, Continental Rifting, East Africa, East African, Available, Development, Extend, Framework, Future, GPS, Initiatives, Region, Serve, Sharing, Solution.

Basin-to-slab Seismic Imaging of the Alaska Subduction Zone
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2013; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Douglas H Christensen($700,517), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Cook Inlet Basin, 50-km Thick, Forearc Basin, Lower Crust, Seismic Imaging, Southern Alaska, Subducting Slab, Basins, Components, Earthquakes, Has, Image, Local, Mantle, Model, Origin, Plan, Region, SAMH, Signal, Structural, Structure, Subduction, Tectonic, Three-dimensional, Zone.

Collaborative Research: Virginia's Volcanoes: A Window into Eastern North America Mantle Processes
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2013; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Elizabeth A Johnson($81,485), James Madison University, Harrisonburg
2. Esteban Gazel($271,612), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Crust And Mantle, Earthscope Transportable Array, Virginia And West, East Coast, Seismic Studies, Virginia Tech, Volcanic Bodies, West Virginia, Age, Asthenosphere, Basement, Composition, Constraints, Continued, Course, Deep, Deployed, ENAM, Eastern, Eocene, Eruption, Evolution, Exposed, Field, Geologic, Lithosphere, Lithospheric, Magmas, Melting, Petrologic, Processes, Structure, Subduction, Xenoliths.

Geochemical constraints on the source, flux, migration, and seismic signature of volcanic fluids, Katmai Volcanic Cluster, Alaska
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2013; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Taryn M Lopez($309,907), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Fluid Movement, Gas Composition, Seismic Signatures, Volcanic Fluids, Volcanic Gases, Andor, Eruption, Flux, Hydrothermal, Impending, Magma, Processes, Seismicity, Subduction, Subsurface, Volcanoes.

Application of biomarkers to examine transformations of dissolved carbon and nitrogen reservoirs in Arctic rivers
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2013; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Karl Kaiser($74,209), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Amino Acids, Arctic Ocean, Arctic Regions, Arctic River, Arctic Rivers, Arctic Watersheds, Dissolved Organic, Incubation Experiments, Organic Carbon, Organic Constituents, Analysis, Biomarkers, Climate, Collected, Current, DOM, DON, Decomposition, Detailed, Effect, Examine, Investigate, Nitrogen, Processes, Reservoirs, Soils, Sources, Transfer, Transformation, Transformations, Vegetation.

Elucidating the Roles of Manganese Oxides in Regulating Arsenic Contamination of Groundwater in Southern Asia
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2013; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Matthew Polizzotto($399,998), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Future Arsenic Contamination, Arsenic Concentrations, Aquifers, Concepts, Consume, Groundwater, People, Sediment, Water.

Calcium isotopic response to disturbance at Hubbard Brook: acidification, deforestation, and recovery
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2013; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Andrew C Kurtz($173,000), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Ca Isotope Ratios, Ca Cycle, Ca Cycling, Ca Isotopes, Ca Loss, Forest Growth, Forest Sustainability, Graduate Student, Streamwater Ca, Acid, Biogeochemistry, Boston, Deforestation, Forests, Has, Implications, Resulting, Soil, Students.

Ancient Environments And The Isotope Geochemistry Of Low Temperature Fe(III) Oxides
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2013; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Crayton J Yapp($207,270), Southern Methodist University, Dallas
Key terms: Critical Zone, Ancient, CID, Carbon, Climate, Concentrations, Continent, Crystallization, Goethite, Goethites, Graduate, Hematite, Isotope, Knowledge, MMCO, Million, Model, Natural, Participation, Past, Ph, Published, Radiometric, Relative, Resources, Temperatures, Transition, Undergraduate, Value, Was, Water, Yield.

NSF/AGU CHAPMAN CONFERENCE PROPOSAL: SOIL-MEDIATED DRIVERS OF COUPLED BIOGEOCHEMICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES ACROSS SCALES
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Peter A Troch($40,000), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Arizona, Biogeochemical, Conference, Coupled, Hydrological, Interfaces, Processes, Soil, Topics.

MRI: Acquisition of a Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer to Support National Multi-User Access to High-Precision U-Th-Pb Geochronology
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Mark D Schmitz($744,036), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: High-precision U-th-pb Geochronology, Isotope Geology Laboratory, High-precision U-th-pb, U-th-pb Geochronology, Analyses, Analysis, Base, Calibration, Center, Continue, Education, Existing, History, IGL, Infrastructure, Instrumentation, LA-ICPMS, National, Processes, Situ, TIMS, Web-based.

Effect of Low Concentrations of Arsenic on Microbial Iron Reduction
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Martial Taillefert($390,000), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Fe Oxides, Iron-reducing Bacteria, Low Concentrations, Mineral Oxides, Natural Environments, Trace Metal, Affect, Affected, Aquatic, Arsenate, Arsenic, Asiii, Asv, Biological, Contaminants, Effect, Geochemical, Hypothesized, Information, Iron-reducing, Little, Microbial, Molecular, Phosphate, Processes, Reduction, Respiration, Shewanella, Toxic.

Collaborative Research: Hydrodynamic controls on microbial community dynamics and carbon cycling in coalbeds
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Matthew W Fields($202,113), Montana State University, Bozeman
2. Thomas Maddock($250,001), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Coal Seams, Environmental Conditions, Gas Resources, Natural Gas, Organic Matter, Basins, CBM, Center, Development, Generated, Groundwater, Incorporated, Methane, Microbes, Microbial, Model, Produce, Rates, Situ.

Oxygen production in a model Proterozoic environment
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Jennifer L Macalady($340,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Earth's Atmosphere, Main Cyanobacteria, Balance, Billion, Collaboration, Cultures, Environments, Especially, Female, Gt, Levels, Life, Low-oxygen, Mat, Outreach, Oxygen, Rise, Student, Students, Training.

Collaborative Research: Elucidating the role of animal heme peroxidase and organic complexing agents in the formation of Mn oxides by a Roseobacter bacterium
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Colleen Hansel($217,000), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Deric Learman($170,000), Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant
Key terms: Mn Oxide Formation, Mn Oxide Minerals, Hydrogen Peroxide, Mn Oxides, Organic Molecules, AHP, Bacteria, Bacterium, Carbon, Compounds, Conditions, Cycling, Enzymes, Essential, Gaps, Genes, Has, Knowledge, Manganese, Mnii, Mniii, Oxidants, Oxygen, Pis, Presence, Produced, Responsible, Sequestration, Students, Superoxide, Unravel.

Collaborative research: Quantifying weathering rind formation rates using U-series isotopes along steep gradients of precipitation, bedrock ages, and topography in Guadeloupe
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Susan L Brantley($52,210), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Peter Sak($94,849), Dickinson College, Carlisle
3. Lin Ma($249,442), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
Key terms: Basse-terre Island, Chemical Weathering, Critical Zone, Earth's Surface, El Paso, Rind Formation, Volcanic Rocks, Weathering Rates, Weathering Rinds, Basse-terre, Controls, De, Dickinson, Dissolution, Environmental, France, Guadeloupe, Importance, International, Local, Pennsylvania, Precipitation, Processes, Quantify, Soils, Students, UTEP, Univ, Watershed.

Mineral Surface-Mediated Processes in Protocell Evolution: Membrane Self-Assembly and Emergence of Energy Transduction
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Nita Sahai($134,925), University of Akron, Akron
Key terms: Biological Membrane-forming Lipids, Biological Membrane-forming, Fittest Protocells, Geochemical Environments, Lipid Membranes, Membrane-forming Lipids, Vesicle Stability, Wide Range, Amphiphile, Cells, Compositions, Concentrations, Conditions, Critical, Examine, Formation, Implications, Life, Represent, Solution, Stable, Survival, Water.

Sulfur isotope studies of drill cores from the Barberton Greenstone Belt
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. James Farquhar($16,304), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Sulfur Isotopes, Ands, Barberton, Core, International, Joint, Sedimentary, Seen, Sulfide.

CAREER: Assessing the Reactivity and Diversity of Neutrophilic Iron-Oxidizing Bacteria in Terrestrial Aquatic Environments
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Owen W Duckworth($400,181), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Iron Oxide Deposits, Iron Oxides, School Teachers, Abiotic, Bacteria, Designed, Engage, Environment, Experiments, Field, Importance, Laboratory, Local, Natural, Processes, Properties, Public, Reactivity, Students.

Tracing Aridity: Sedimentary Preservation of Scytonemin from Microbiotic Desert Soil Crusts
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2013; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. James Fulton($251,000), Baylor University, Waco
2. James Fulton($251,000), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Desert Microbiotic Soil, Microbiotic Soil Crusts, Microbiotic Soil Cyanobacteria, Scytonemin And 7-methylheptadecane, Arid Conditions, Arid Environments, Black Sea, Desert Soils, Future Climate, Mass Spectrometry, Molecular Biomarkers, Organic Geochemical, Past Climate, Salt Lake, Stable Isotope, Target Compounds, Ancient, Aridity, Derived, Dry, Enabling, Examine, Exposure, Fossil, Found, Geological, Increased, Less, Lipid, Microbial, Model, Molecules, Physiological, Pigment, Potential, Produced, Protect, Radiation, Sedimentary, Sediments, Source, UV, Utility.

Collaborative Research: Mechanisms, Modeling and Geochemical Consequences of Electron Flow in Acid Mine Drainage-Induced Sediments
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Yuri Gorby($253,233), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
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.

Graduate Student Travel Support Program for the 2013 V.M. Goldschmidt Conference in Florence, Italy August 25-30, 2013
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Carla M Koretsky($40,000), The Geochemical Society, Alexandria
Key terms: Goldschmidt Conference, Geochemistry, Students, Travel.

Geomicrobiology and Microbial Geochemistry Workshop 2013
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Gregory K Druschel($66,948), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Chemical Surroundings, Microbial Geochemistry, Additionally, Advancing, Challenges, Expertise, Field, Fields, Generation, Interactions, Life, Microorganisms, Multidisciplinary, Natural, Nature, Opportunities, Shape, Specific, Wide.

Collaborative Research: The Role of Priming in Microbial Utilization of Terrestrially-Derived Dissolved Organic Carbon: A Proof of Concept
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2013; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Thomas S Bianchi($31,851), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Dissolved Organic Carbon, Priming Effect, ADOC, Aquatic, Consumption, Labile, Microbial, Soil, Substrates, TDOC, Terrestrial, Waters.

Incorporation and elimination of molecular oxygen signal in sulfate: Experiments and modeling
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2013; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Huiming Bao($340,001), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Oxidation And Exchange, Oxygen Isotope Composition, Atmospheric Oxygen, Oxygen Signal, Sulfide Oxidation, Apportionment, Dynamic, Final, Fractionation, Initially, Mechanistic, Mineral, Past, Set, Solution, Sulfate, Sulfoxyanions, Undergraduate, Water.

CAREER: A Hydrologic Thermostat for the Global Carbon Cycle?
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Katharine Maher($450,000), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Chemical Weathering Rates, Reactive Transport Approaches, Carbon Dioxide, Chemical Reactions, Earth's History, Graduate Students, Course, Critical, Field, Future, Instructors, Levels, Modeling, Models, Movement, Resulting, Water.

TRAVEL SUPPORT FOR STUDENTS TO ATTEND MEDGEO 2013 IN ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA AUGUST 25-29, 2013
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2013; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Alan M Jacobs($18,000), Youngstown State University, Youngstown
Key terms: Medical Geology, Biennial, Conference, Health, International, Students.

Workshop proposal: Supporting U.S. Student Involvement in a SoilTrEC Training Event: Land-use practices and sustainable use of soil
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2013; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Timothy S White($30,946), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Critical Zone, International, Soil, Sustainability.

Experimental calibration of stable isotope and REE partitioning in bioapatite
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2013; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Samantha Evans($142,843), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Oxygen And Carbon, Isotope Fractionations, Partition Coefficients, Bioapatite, Carbonate, Development, Fossil, Geochemistry, Geochronology, Isotopes, Methods, Modern, Paleoceanography, Particle, Past, REE, Ranging, Solutions, Teeth, Tooth, Training, Undergraduate.

NSF workshop: Drilling, sampling, and imaging the depths of the critical zone
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2013; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Clifford S Riebe($75,013), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Deep Cz, Advances, Consensus, Crossdisciplinary, Diverse, Drilling, Earth, Engineers, Imaging, Soil, Subsurface, Surface, Workshop.

Application of quantum cascade laser-infrared absorption spectroscopy for methane clumped isotope thermometry using doubly isotope substituted methane (13CH3D)
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2013; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Shuhei Ono($139,999), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Clumped Isotope, Abundance, Applied, CH, CHD, Development, Emerging, Energy, Future, Geologic, Harvesting, Has, Instrument, Isotopologue, Laser, MIT, Measure, Methane, Produced, QCLAS, Source, Sources, Spectroscopy, Technology, °C.

Travel Support for US Scientists: "SCOPE Rapid Assessment Project on Benefits of Soil Carbon"
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2013; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Christopher J Duffy($18,725), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Title, Workshop.

2013 Catchment Science GRC/GRS, June 16-21, 2013 at Proctor Academy, Andover, New Hampshire
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Nancy R Gray($40,150), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Catchment Scientists, Discussion Leaders, Ability, Anticipate, Approaches, Assess, Biological, Bring, Catchments, Chemical, Climate, Communication, Conference, Cutting-edge, Diversity, Efforts, Experts, Explore, Field, Fields, Focus, Future, GRC, GRCGRS, GRS, Global, Gordon, Increased, International, Levels, Participants, Perspectives, Seminar, Signals, Various.

Collaborative Research: Interpreting clumped isotope temperatures and δ18O records from pedogenic carbonate: influence of climate, seasonality, and elevation
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Katharine Huntington($171,753), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Gregory D Hoke($182,227), Syracuse University, Syracuse
Key terms: Clumped Isotope Temperatures, Clumped Isotope Thermometry, Soil Carbonate Formation, Calcium Carbonate, Environmental Conditions, Past Surface, Andes, Applied, Collaboration, Common, Continent, De, Developing, Development, Earth, Factors, Geologic, Influence, Isotopic, Modern, Oxygen, Pis, Precipitation, School, Seasonal, Soils, Technique, Terrestrial, Timing, Vegetation.

Collaborative Research: Stable strontium isotope ratios (88/86Sr) in abiotic and microbially mediated barite
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2013; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Elizabeth Griffith($41,250), University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington
Key terms: Barite, Established, Extraterrestrial, Field, Future, Interact, Isotope, Laboratories, Oklahoma, Opportunity, Rock, Schools, Soils, Sr, Stable, Students, Univ, Western.

Investigating the Biological Function of Sterols and Hopanoids in Methylococcus capsulatus
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Paula V Welander($198,270), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Ability, Bacterial, Challenge, Earth, Fossils, Has, Hopanoids, Life, Lipids, Microbes, Occurrence, Physiological, Produced, Rock, Sets, Sterols.

CAREER: Fundamental cell-mineral-redox interactions in the sulfur system
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Gregory K Druschel($244,448), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Cell-mineral-redox Interactions, Elemental Sulfur, Redox Speciation, Sulfur Cycling, Sulfur Species, Advance, Affect, Applied, Cell-mineral-redox, Chemistry, Detailed, Engage, Especially, Experiences, Geochemical, Has, Health, Importantly, Information, Insights, Iron, Legal, Microbial, Microorganisms, Mineralogical, Minerals, Newman, Opportunity, Stakeholders, Time, Training, Yield.

Energetics and Stability of Geologically-Confined Water
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. John M Jaeger($273,766), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Confined Water Molecules, Containing Confined Water, Hysteretic Behavior, Models Permitting, Solvate Ions, Thermodynamic Modeling, Thermodynamic Models, Water Confined, Available, Bulk, Chemical, Description, Environments, Exhibiting, Experience, Geochemical, Methods, Relative, Stability, Students, Zeolite.

Collaborative Research: Alterations of Soil Physical and Geochemical Properties Induced by Low-intensity Fire
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2014; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Teamrat A Ghezzehei($222,846), University of California - Merced, Merced
2. Markus Berli($226,147), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Land Management, Low-intensity Burns, Low-intensity Fires, Soil Erosion, Soil Structure, Aggregates, Climate, Degradation, Ecosystems, Expected, Followed, Has, Increased, Loss, Low-intensity, Negative, Nutrient, Nutrients, Organic, Particles, Preferential, Reduced.

Collaborative Research: RAPID Assessment of 2013 Flood Sedimentation, Button Rock Reservoir, North St. Vrain Watershed, CO
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2013; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Brandon McElroy($8,407), University of Wyoming, Laramie
2. Ellen E Wohl($11,475), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Basin-averaged Erosion Rates, Button Rock Reservoir, Past Six Decades, Basin-averaged Erosion, Front Range, North St, Sediment Accumulation, Sediment Flux, Assess, Carbon, Collect, Constrain, Construction, Cores, Creek, Delta, Deposition, Event-based, Fires, Flood, Floods, Flow, Flows, Inform, Information, Knowledge, Landscape, Natural, Sedimentation, September, Storage, Survey, Trends, Unique, Vrain.

RAPID: Characterizing Sediment Mobilization and Landscape Response to the Combined Effects of Wildfire and Extreme Flooding along Fourmile Canyon, Front Range Colorado
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2013; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. William Ouimet($15,054), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Deposits, Erosion, Exposures, Flood, Flooding, Landscape, Ongoing, Sediments, September, Stratigraphy, Valley, Wildfire.

Collaborative Research: RAPID: Short-and Long-term Sediment Dynamics Following Wildfire in Chaparral Environments
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2013; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Joan Florsheim($22,866), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
2. Anne Chin($2,000), University of Colorado at Denver, Aurora
3. Linda S O'Hirok($2,499), California State University Channel Islands, Camarillo
Key terms: Short And Long-term, Chaparral Environments, Dry Ravel, Sycamore Canyon, Burned, CSUCI, California, Creek, Dynamics, Effects, Field, Has, Models, Post-fire, Sediment, Short-, Students, Tributary, Undergraduate, Wildfire.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SEA-LEVEL RISE AND SALT-MARSH RESPONSE: A PALEO PERSPECTIVE
Award Effective Date: 09/12/2013; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Benjamin P Horton($113,517), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
2. James T Morris($62,876), University of South Carolina at Columbia, Columbia
3. Stephen Culver($41,934), East Carolina University, Greenville
4. Andrew Kemp($113,517), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
5. Donald C Barber($31,673), Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr
Key terms: Ice Sheets, North Carolina, Predictive Models, Salt-marsh Vegetation, Sea Level, Sea-level Reconstructions, Sea-level Rise, Climate, Coastal, Ecosystems, Future, MEM, Management, Melting, Projections, Proxy, RSL, Rate, Rates, Regional, Salt-marsh, Sea-level, Sediment, Time, Was.

Collaborative Research: Rivers, Faults, and Growing Mountains: Dynamic Feedback between Crustal Deformation, Rock Strength, and Erosion
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Phaedra Upton($147,365), University of Maine, Orono
2. Gregory E Tucker($19,436), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Deformation And Erosion, Strength And Grain, Grain Size, Mantle Convection, Rock Strength, Coupled, Feedback, History, Landscape, Modeling, Numerical, Orientation, Produce, Program, Surface, Tectonic, Topography, Zones.

Collaborative Research: Differentiating Between Lithologic and Baselevel Controls on River Profiles: Canyons of the Colorado Plateau
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Brian A Clarke($25,549), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
2. Kelin X Whipple($115,893), Arizona State University, Tempe
3. Paul R Bierman($25,298), University of Vermont & State Agricultural College, Burlington
4. Kyle K Nichols($33,572), Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs
Key terms: Canyon National Park, Grand Canyon National, Erosion Rates, Incision History, Landscape Evolution, River Incision, Rock Strength, Ability, Canyons, Carved, Estimate, Evidence, Has, Lacked, Lithology, Measure, Million, Mystery, Process, Quantitative, Recently, Surrounding.

Wind over rock: Quantifying the feedbacks among wind flow, bedrock erosion, and tectonic uplift
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Jon D Pelletier($328,643), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Faults And Folds, Wind And Wind-blown, Earth's Crust, Wind Erosion, Wind-blown Sand, Bedrock, Behavior, Dominant, Field, Landforms, Program, Quantify, Rivers, Topography.

Collaborative Research: Sea-level Rise and Vegetation Controls on Deltaic Landform Evolution: A Coupled Experimental and Numerical Modeling Study
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Wonsuck Kim($263,664), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Brad Murray($163,336), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Computational Modeling, Delta Landscapes, Delta Types, Laboratory Experiments, Avulsion, Based, Biological, Channel, Climate, Controlled, Deltaic, Deltas, Eco-morphodynamic, Ecosystem, Feedbacks, Fluviodeltaic, Forcing, Frequency, Geological, Human, Interactions, Land-use, Plants, Produce, RSLR, Range, Rapid, Rates, Relative, Resulting, Rise, Spatial, Vegetation.

Collaborative Research:The Role of Ecomorphodynamic Feedbacks in Barrier Island Response to Climate Change
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2013; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Laura Moore($382,704), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
2. Donald R Young($99,276), Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond
Key terms: Barrier Island Evolution, Sea Level Rise, Barrier Islands, Dune-building Grasses, Ecomorphodynamic Feedbacks, Environmental Conditions, Following Storms, Topographic Recovery, Affect, Changing, Climate, Determining, Dune-building, Dunes, Ecologically, Factors, Future, Gradual, High-relief, Interactions, Lead, Low-relief, Processes, Rapid, Rapidly, Respond, Sand, Tipping, Transition, Vegetation.

Collaborative Research: Spatial Variability in Eroded Sediment Size and Geomorphic Processes Inferred From Detrital Thermochronometry and Cosmogenic Nuclides
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2013; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. William C Krugh($19,113), CSUB Auxiliary for Sponsored Programs Administration, Bakersfield
2. Clifford S Riebe($115,461), University of Wyoming, Laramie
3. Leonard S Sklar($101,385), San Francisco State University, San Francisco
4. David L. Shuster($84,040), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Cosmogenic Nuclides, Eroded Sediment, Sediment Tracing, Tectonic Forcing, Aquatic, Bedrock, Catchment, Climate, Erosion, Has, Hillslopes, Increasingly, Influences, Information, Landscape, Landscapes, Mountain, Processes, Produce, Quality, Rates, Rivers, Sedimentation, Size, Sizes, Slopes, Surface, Timescales, Weathering.

Collaborative Research: Subduction Zone Segmentation over Multiple Seismic Cycles, South-Central Chile
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Benjamin P Horton($123,540), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
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.

Production and Diffusion of Cosmogenic Noble Gases: Using Open-system Behavior to Study Surface Processes
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2013; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. David L Shuster($309,967), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
Key terms: Helium And Neon, Broad Range, Earth's Surface, Exposure Histories, Past Temperatures, Broader, Climate, Concentrations, Controlled, Development, Establish, Exposed, Gases, Geochemical, Geochemistry, Laboratory, Measuring, Method, Million, Minerals, Natural, Rate, Rock.

AGU Chapman Conference on Synthesizing Empirical Results to Improve Predictions of Post-wildfire Runoff and Erosion Responses
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2013; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Brenda L Weaver($20,000), American Geophysical Union, Washington
Key terms: AGU, Conference, Erosion, Issues, Post-wildfire, Priority, Runoff, Soil, Students.

Collaborative Research: A mechanistic understanding of hydrograph shape influence on temporal variations in bedload transport, grain size distributions, and armor persistence
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Sarah Yarnell-Hayes($209,378), University of California-Davis, Davis
2. Elowyn Yager($221,055), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
Key terms: Bed Grain Size, Grain Size Distributions, Armor Persistence, Bedload Fluxes, Bedload Transport, Hydrograph Shape, Hydrograph Shapes, Sediment Transport, Transport Rates, Aquatic, Channel, Commonly, Dams, Discharge, Experiments, Field, Flow, Flows, Flume, Hydrographs, Hysteresis, Impacted, Influence, Influences, Lack, Magnitude, Mechanistic, Mitigate, Numerical, Predictive, Range, Removal, Restoration, River, Rivers, Temporal, Timing, Water.

Collaborative Research: Incorporating hillslope transport into laboratory landscape experiments
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2013; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Joshua J Roering($191,088), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
2. Christopher R Ellis($52,088), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Hillslope And Channel, Experimental Landscape, Hillslope Transport, Landscape Evolution, Sediment Transport, Channels, Climate, Controls, Development, Diffusive, Drainage, Experiments, Explicitly, Hillslopes, Incorporate, Landform, Landscapes, Modulates, Numerical, Outreach, Precipitation, Processes, Surface, Tectonic.

Collaborative Research: Interactions between Holocene Lake Levels and Alluvial Fans in the Western U.S. in Response to Changing Climates
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2013; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Edward J Rhodes($162,761), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2. Kenneth D Adams($254,452), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Alluvial Fan Activity, Alluvial Fans, Late Holocene, Water Balance, Basin, Broad, Broader, Climate, Educational, Effects, Floods, Fluctuations, GBPED, Geologic, Hazard, Hazards, Hydrologic, Lake, Landscape, Shorelines, Spatial, Students, Surrounding, Timing, Western.

Impacts of Vegetation and Climate Change on Dryland Rivers: Lesssons from the Rio Puerco, New Mexico
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2013; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Irina Overeem($299,994), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Channel Geometry, Dryland River, Process-based Models, Rio Puerco, River Transformation, Sediment Yield, Time Scales, Analysis, Beyond, Consequences, Database, Decades, Dynamic, Experiment, Feedbacks, Flood, Flow, Future, Historical, Integrates, Introduction, Lidar, Management, Outreach, Past, Perturbations, Predict, Process-based, Resources, Rivers, Species, Spread, Tamarisk, Tamarix, Unique, Vegetation, Water.

Collaborative Research: Mantle Dynamics, Lithospheric Structure, and Topographic Evolution of the Southeastern US Continental Margin
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2013; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Eric Kirby($168,520), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Scott D King($152,209), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
3. Maureen D Long($197,766), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Crust And Mantle, Crustal And Lithospheric, Continental Interior, Dense Linear, Geological Units, Lithospheric Structure, Mantle Flow, Mantle Lithosphere, Appalachian, Coast, Complexity, Component, Components, Deep, Deeper, Earthscope, Eastern, Effort, Erosion, Evolution, Focuses, Geomorphology, History, MAGIC, Processes, Region, Seismology, Structures, Students, Surface, Tectonic, Time, Topographic, Topography, Undergraduate, Virginia.

CAREER: Erosion and Weathering Control of Soil Carbon: Tectonics and Plows
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Kyungsoo Yoo($400,000), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Carbon-mineral Interactions, Organic Matter, Soil Sustainability, Tectonically Quiet, Active, Build, California, Carbon-mineral, Chemical, Coastal, Course, Environmental, Global, Graduate, Minerals, Physically, Reactions, Reactors, Soils, Students, Surface.

Erosion beneath Pleistocene Glaciers and Ice Sheets
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. John O Stone($223,934), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Erosion Rates, Glacial Landforms, Ice Sheets, Beneath, Glaciated, Landscape, Maine, Measure, Method, Profiles.

Collaborative Proposal: Landscape evolution and sediment-nutrient fluxes in a wetland-stream restoration experiment
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Laurel Larsen($184,417), Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster
Key terms: Ground Water, Historic Sediment, Human Impacts, Shallow Groundwater, Storm Water, Stream Restoration, Surface Water, Valley Bottom, Water Flow, Water Quality, BSR, Based, Centuries, Completed, Ecosystem, Environmental, Exchange, Hydrologic, Landscape, Monitoring, Nutrient, Nutrients, Paradigm, Reducing, Removal, Stability, Sustainable, USGS, Was, Wetland.

EAR-PF: Dynamic Rupture Modeling on Major San Andreas Fault Intersections
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Julian C Lozos($170,000), Lozos, Julian C, Riverside
Key terms: Fault Physics, Public Outreach, San Andreas, Seismic Hazard, Complexity, Earthquakes, Faults, Focused, Junctions, Modeling, Past, Prepare, Rupture, Scenario, Stanford, Stress, USGS.

Correlating Infrasound Signals with Volcanic Emissions at Karymsky Volcano, Kamchatka, Russia
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Pavel E Izbekov($370,744), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Characterize Volcanic Emissions, Eruption Dynamics, Infrasound Signals, Analysis, Continuous, Detailed, Diverse, Hazards, International, Karymsky, Quantify, Quantitative, Remote, Tephra, Tool.

Collaborative Research: Identification of magnetic sources in the upper mantle
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Eric C Ferre($225,000), Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale
2. Joshua M Feinberg($45,000), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
3. Clive R Neal($44,000), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
Key terms: Magnetic Field, Mantle Rocks, Carry, Depth, Depths, Hot, Information, Investigations, Minerals, Non-magnetic, Surface.

Collaborative Research: FEM-based inverse methods to estimate nonlinear geometric source parameters of volcano deformation from geodetic data
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Timothy L Masterlark($320,807), South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City
Key terms: Estimates And Uncertainties, Active Volcano, Active Volcanoes, Complex Internal, Earthquake Deformation, Internal Structure, Internal Structures, Magma Chamber, Magma Migration, Analyses, Developed, Embedded, Fems, Geodetic, Hazards, Information, Inverse, Methods, Models, Natural, Numerical, Pressurization, Reliable, SDSMT, Seismic, Shape, Surface, Techniques, Volcanic.

Collaborative Research: Adjoint tomography of fault zone environments
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Yehuda Ben-Zion($74,320), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2. Carl H Tape($250,579), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Fault Zone Structures, Fault Zones, Seismic Wavefield, Subsurface Structure, Trapped Waves, Accurate, Body, Detailed, Earthquakes, Has, Head, Models, Phases, San, Sensitive, Simulations, Surface, Tomographic.

Melting of compressed iron-alloys by monitoring atomic dynamics
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Jennifer M Jackson($200,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Liquid Outer Core, Diamond Anvil, Earth's Core, Inner Core, Pure Iron, Solid Inner, Alloys, Atoms, Boundary, CMB, Conditions, Diffraction, Dynamics, Gpa, High-pressure, High-pressures, Indicate, Iron-alloys, Melting, Method, Observations, Performed, Phase, Pressures, Region, SMS, Synchrotron, Temperature.

Three-dimensional Subduction Models: Implications for Plate-Mantle Coupling and Length-scales of Seismic Anisotropy
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Margarete Jadamec($58,706), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Boundary Zone Deformation, Complex Mantle Flow, Earth's Viscous Mantle, Mantle Flow Field, Mantle-overriding Plate Motion, Plate Boundary Zone, Seismic Fast Axes, Shear Wave Splitting, Earth's Viscous, Geodynamic Modeling, Mantle Wedge, Mantle-overriding Plate, Seismic Anisotropy, Subducting Plate, Subduction Zones, Tectonic Plate, Tectonic Plates, Three-dimensional Numerical, Viscosity Reduction, Commonly, Controls, Coupling, Driven, Has, Implications, Indicative, Lateral, Length-scales, Magnitude, Models, Oriented, Predict, Rates, Slab, Strike, Three-dimensional, Tool, Underlying.

Consequences of plate tectonics in a compressible mantle
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Peter E van Keken($249,923), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Earth's Mantle, Mantle Convection, Mathematical Models, Oceanic Crust, Plate Tectonics, Approach, Compared, Consistent, Day, Evolution, Mid-oceanic, Modeling, Observations, Predict, Slabs, Thermal.

Collaborative Research: 3D Dynamics of Buoyant Diapirs in Subduction Zones
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Mark D Behn($240,000), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Christopher R Kincaid($145,000), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Ascending Diapirs, Ascent Paths, Buoyant Diapirs, Flow Field, Laboratory Experiments, Mantle Wedge, Numerical Models, Subduction Zones, Buoyancy, Chemical, Descending, Earth, Evolution, Influenced, Interaction, Melting, Plate, Plate-driven, Rise, Slab, Source, Stage, Subducting, Surface, Tectonic, Transport, Via.

Collaborative Research: Dynamics of Mauna Loa's and Kilauea's magmatic systems from physics-based modeling
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Helge M Gonnermann($82,589), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
2. James H Foster($86,328), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Depth Beneath, Dynamical Coupling, Flow Model, Magma Composition, Magma Degassing, Magma Flow, Magma Supply, Mauna Loa, Volcano Deformation, Accumulation, Activity, Available, Earth, Eruption, Gas, Has, Hawaii, Hawaiian, Island, Kilauea, Linkage, Mantle, Mass, Melt, Movement, Observations, Potential, Processes, Public, Remains, Suggested, Volcanic, Volcanism, Volcanoes.

Mechanisms and Efficiency of Ductile Strain Localization Below Major Continental Strike-slip Faults: Numerical Experiments Incorporating Laboratory-derived Rheologies
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Yuri Fialko($204,579), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Crust And Upper, Continental Lithosphere, Continental Tectonics, Deformation Styles, Diffuse Deformation, Ductile Substrate, Fault Zones, Localized Shear, Long-term Deformation, Long-term Strength, Lower Crust, Shear Zones, Strike-slip Faults, Upper Mantle, Bear, Below, Degree, Deviatoric, Distributed, Factors, Inferences, Investigate, Loading, Long-term, Mechanisms, Model, Models, Plate, Postulating, Rate, Rates, Seismic, Strain, Stress, Strike-slip, Thick, Thin, Total, Transient, Various.

Filling Holes in the Holocene Geomagnetic Field - Tropical East Africa
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Steven P Lund($200,000), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Earth's Magnetic Field, Magnetic Field Operates, African Continent, Directional Psv, Dynamo Models, Earth's Magnetic, Five Lakes, Geodynamo Dynamics, Magnetic Fields, Normal Conditions, Paleointensity Time, Planetary Magnetic, Psv Time, Relative Paleointensity, Southern Hemisphere, Assess, Dating, Has, High-resolution, Holocene, Malawi, PSVMOD, Reconstruct, Regional, Thousand.

Crustal Anisotropy Across Tibet: Implications for the Existence of Partial Melt and the Vertical Coherence of Deformation
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Michael H Ritzwoller($145,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Crust And Uppermost, Ambient Noise, Azimuthal Anisotropy, Channel Flow, Middle Crust, Mineral Alignment, Partial Melt, Surface Wave, Tibetan Crust, Uppermost Mantle, Vertically Coherent, Wave Speeds, Aims, Caused, Chinese, Deformation, Entirely, Extensive, Extent, Information, Localized, Lvzs, Methods, Observations, Observed, Obtained, Potential, Produce, Radial, Resolution, Seismic, Tomography, Velocity.

CAREER: Numerical Investigation of Controls on Megathrust Earthquakes Along the Japan Trench Subduction Zone
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Benchun Duan($600,000), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Earthquake Cycle Simulations, Forecasting Future Megathrust, Future Megathrust Earthquakes, Earthquake Generation, Subducting Fault, Subducting Plane, Subduction Zone, Subduction Zones, Categories, Category, Code, Complexities, Control, Dynamic, Features, Hazards, Models, Perform, Processes, Rupture, Sizes, Teaching, Worldwide.

Collaborative Research: Is the Isabella anomaly a fossil slab or the foundered lithospheric root of the Sierra Nevada batholith?
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Robert W Clayton($136,500), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
2. Brandon Schmandt($230,858), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Passive Source Seismic, San Andreas Fault, Source Seismic Imaging, Arc Lithosphere, Fossil Slab, Graduate Student, Imaging Methods, Isabella Anomaly, Lithospheric Structure, Sierra Nevada, Subduction Termination, Advance, Array, Attributes, Beneath, Caltech, Dense, Detailed, Evolution, Geophysics, Implications, Plate, Potential, Processes, Robustly, Section, Southern, Tectonic, UNM, Undergraduate, Valley.

Interaction of earthquake rupture with idealized fault inhomogeneities: Effects on rupture speed, slip, and seismic radiation
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Nadia Lapusta($400,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Dynamics And Physics, Dynamic Rupture, Earthquake Ruptures, Seismic Radiation, Supershear Earthquakes, Supershear Speeds, Conditions, Fault, Faults, Features, Homogeneous, Inhomogeneity, Models, Numerical, Prestress, Propagate, Shear, Strength, Stress.

Experimental Studies on Melting (Mg, Fe)O Ferropericlase
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Kanani K Lee($208,850), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Core-mantle Boundary, Magma Ocean, Melt Behavior, Composition, Conditions, Core-mantle, Current, Deep, Earth, Evolution, Formation, Melting, Molten, Nearly, Subsequent, Temperature, Temperatures.

New constraints on and models of global and plate-scale anisotropic mantle structure
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Goran Ekstrom($362,443), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Lithosphere And Asthenosphere, Broad Range, Deep Mantle, Oceanic Lithosphere, Seismological Models, Shallow Mantle, Analysis, Anisotropic, Anisotropy, Collected, Composition, Constraints, Covariation, Density, Developed, Dynamics, Earth, Elastic, Existing, Global, Heterogeneity, Interior, Investigations, Knowledge, Large-scale, Lead, Normal-mode, Overtone, Pacific, Parameterization, Resolve, Sets, Structure, Surface-wave, Velocity, Wave.

Collaborative Project: EaGER - CSEDI: Towards an integrated view of deep mantle structure, temperature, and composition
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Renata M Wentzcovitch($131,225), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
2. Quentin Williams($52,800), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
3. Edward J Garnero($34,957), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Lower Mantle Minerals, Deep Mantle, Mineral Physics, Mineral Properties, Composition, Imaging, Iron, Modeling, Seismic, Seismological, Seismology, Spin, Temperature, Thermal, Transition.

Collaborative Research: Paleomagnetic Analysis of Speleothems and High Precision Dating of Geomagnetic Records
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Jeffrey Dorale($43,604), University of Iowa, Iowa City
2. Ioan Lascu($268,512), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Geomagnetic Field Behavior, Environmental Magnetic, Iron Oxide, Magnetic Field, Resolution Geomagnetic, Rock Magnetic, Chronological, Conditions, Core, Dated, Earth, Geodynamo, Information, Models, Paleomagnetic, Processes, Speleothem, Speleothems, Techniques.

Measurements of Thermal Transport Properties of Melts vs. Temperature and Composition: Theoretical Implications
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Anne M Hofmeister($242,891), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Glass Transition Temperature, Heat Transport, Accurate, Behavior, Compositions, Conditions, Conduction, Cooling, Earth, Findings, Flow, LFA, Magmas, Measure, Melting, Melts, Microscopic, Processes, Provided, Radiative, Rock, Subsequent, Technique, Thermal, Transfer.

Collaborative Research: Testing the shock remanent magnetization hypothesis in the Slate Island impact structure
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Nicholas L Swanson-Hysell($163,198), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. David L Shuster($161,753), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
Key terms: Shock Remanent Magnetization, Magnetic Field, Magnetic Fields, Magnetic Overprint, Slate Islands, Acquisition, Bodies, Chronozoom, Earth, Heating, History, Internally-generated, Lead, Lunar, Planetary, Presence, Pressures, Rock, SRM, Solar, Structure, Thermochronometry, Transient.

Experimental Constraints on Physical Mechanisms of Core Formation
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Heather C Watson($178,560), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
Key terms: Partially Molten Silicate, Core Formation, Differentiation, Experimental, Forming, Grain, Has, Melt, Melts, Metallic, Mobility, Numerical, Processes, Segregation.

Extracting Seismic Core Phases with Array Interferometry
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Victor C Tsai($296,012), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Ambient Noise, Earth's Core, Inner Core, Application, Body-wave, Deep, Earthquakes, Imaging, Mantle, Method, Phases, Seismic, Structure, Technique, Techniques, Unusual, Waves.

Influence of Titanium on Water Incorporation, Rheology and Seismic Properties of Olivine
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Ulrich Faul($310,000), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Bonding Environment, Deformation Experiments, Trace Amounts, Water Saturation, Capacity, Conditions, Crystal, Dry, Earth, Has, Hydrogen, Incorporate, Mantle, Olivine, Spectra, Structure, Synthetic, Titanium, Viscosity, Water-undersaturated.

Materials physics of rapidly sheared faults and consequences for earthquake rupture dynamics
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. James R Rice($399,996), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Shallow Crustal Depths, Fault Core, Fault Mineralogy, Fault Zone, Seismic Observations, Static Friction, Thermal Decomposition, Constituents, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Faults, Features, Frictional, Heat, Heating, Hence, Highly, Host, Lab, Less, Levels, Localized, Melting, Model, Narrow, Overall, Physics, Processes, Rock, Rupture, Ruptures, Shear, Shearing, Slip, Solid, Strength, Stress, Weakening, Wide, Zones.

Collaborative Research: Near-Field Observations of Preseismic, Coseismic, and Postseismic Slip on the Northern Costa Rica Megathrust
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Susan Y Schwartz($135,012), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
2. Andrew V Newman($140,612), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Foreshock Activity, Interseismic Period, Megathrust Earthquake, Plate Boundary, Plate Interface, Slow Slip, Strain Accumulation, Subduction Zone, Aftershocks, Afterslip, Catalog, Compare, Continuous, Coseismic, Cycle, Decade, Directly, Earthquakes, Has, Mainshock, Nicoya, Preparation, Properties, Regions, Seismic, Seismicity, Tectonic.

The role of pore-fluid pressure on fault behavior at the base of the seismogenic zone
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. James G Hirth($330,692), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Effective Pressure Law, Brittle-plastic Transition, Earthquake Rupture, Frictional Properties, Pore-fluid Pressure, Quartz-rich Rocks, Seismogenic Zone, =, Base, Brittle-plastic, Competition, Conditions, Critical, Depth, Ductile, Evolution, Experimental, Fault, Faults, Fluids, Initial, Localization, Long-term, Low, Mechanical, Near, Pore-fluid, Processes, Quartz-rich, Seismic, Slip, Strain, Strength, Stress.

CAREER: Subduction Zone Hazards: Megathrust Rupture Dynamics and Tsunamis
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Eric M Dunham($569,409), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Bottom Pressure Sensors, Earthquakes And Tsunamis, Estimate Tsunami Wave, Ocean Bottom Pressure, Tsunami Wave Heights, Central Coast, Hydroacoustic Waves, Megathrust Earthquakes, Natural Hazards, Rupture Process, Seismic Waves, Subduction Zones, Tohoku-oki Earthquake, AHC, Aimed, Capture, Coupling, Extent, Offshore, Outreach, Seafloor, Simulations, Slip, Slow, Solid, Sound, Stanford, Tohoku-oki, Uplift, Warning.

Collaborative Research: The impact of time-dependent mantle rheology and 3-D structure on models and observations of Glacial Isostatic Adjustment
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Benjamin K Holtzman($234,587), Columbia University, New York
2. Jerry Mitrovica($48,391), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Models And Geodetic, Geodetic Observations, Mantle Viscosity, Plate Tectonics, Postglacial Rebound, Seismic Models, Climate, Deformation, Earth, Estimates, Gravity, Information, Interior, Lead, Long-term, Parameters, Resolving, Rheological.

Collaborative Research: Time- and Temperature-dependent Cation Ordering in Natural Titanomagnetites with Applications to Paleomagnetism and Geospeedometry
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Michael J Jackson($52,587), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
2. Julie A Bowles($244,425), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
Key terms: Acquisition And Stability, Common Composition Undergo, Composition Undergo Temperature-dependent, Temperature-dependent Cation Reordering, Temperatures And Cooling, Undergo Temperature-dependent Cation, Cooling Rates, Curie Temperature, Emplacement Temperatures, Geomagnetic Field, Magnetic Properties, Moderate Temperatures, Natural Titanomagnetites, Paleointensity Estimates, Temperature-dependent Cation, Undergo Temperature-dependent, Acquired, Arrangement, Controlled, Effects, Experiments, Fe, Function, Geospeedometer, Has, Hazard, History, Hours, Kinetics, Magnetization, Mineral, Months, Oxide, Paleomagnetic, Pfs, Process, Recently, Remanence, Resulting, Rock, TRM, Tc, Thermal, Time-, Timescales, Uncertainty, Via, Volcanic, X-ray.

Collaborative Research: Deep megathrust conditions by comparing seismicity rates and source parameters with tremor, slow slip, and the Mw 7.4 Ometepec, Mexico earthquake
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Michael R Brudzinski($161,031), Miami University, Oxford
2. Susan L Bilek($161,726), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Occurrence And Source, Adjacent Regions, Earthquake Occurrence, Seismicity Rates, Slow Slip, Source Characteristics, Subduction Zone, Deep, Disseminated, Earthquakes, Educational, Fault, Megathrust, Mexican, Outcome, Produce, Seismological, Stress, Students, Temporal, Transition, Tremor, Wide.

EAR-PF: Characterizing small changes in the Earth from time-reversed multiply-scattered Rayleigh waves
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Thomas D Mikesell($170,000), Mikesell Thomas D, Boise
Key terms: Incoherent Reflections, Priori Velocity, Seismic Noise, Seismic Waves, Subsurface Velocity, Acoustic, Approach, Borrow, Content, Fields, Has, Hazards, Isolated, Locate, Medium, Method, Methods, Monitoring, Potential, Properties, Techniques.

Collaborative research: Probing the effects of 3D rheology on postseismic deformation following the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Roland Burgmann($115,468), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. Jeffrey T Freymueller($10,839), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Postseismic Crustal Deformation, 3d Rheology, Subduction Zone, Tohoku-oki Earthquake, Upper Mantle, Afterslip, Complex, Constrain, Distribution, Evolution, Geodetic, Indicate, Japan, Margins, Megathrust, Rheological, Seismic, Slip, Stations, Tohoku-oki.

Grain Boundary Diffusion in the Mantle: An Integrated Theoretical and Experimental Study of MgO
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. James A Van Orman($320,001), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland
Key terms: Grain Boundary Diffusion, Grain Boundary Structure, Chemical Transport, Combined, Deep, Earth, Experimental, Mantle, Mechanisms, Pressure, Simulations, Theoretical.

Collaborative Research: Deciphering the Structure and Evolution of North America's Cratonic Core
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Anthony R Lowry($46,499), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Graduate And Undergraduate, Gravity And Magnetic, Geologic Boundaries, Mid-continent Crust, Mineral Deposits, Receiver Function, Undergraduate Students, Array, Composition, Core, Cover, Earthquakes, Economic, Formation, Geophysical, Hidden, History, Images, Implications, Layers, Likelihood, Mantle, Mid-continent, Potential, Processes, Properties, Region, Rock, Sedimentary, Seeks, Seismic, Sets, Subsequent, Surface, Tectonic, Velocity, Wave.

Workshop on crystal structure prediction with the USPEX code
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Artem R Oganov($5,000), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Crystal Structure Prediction, Available, Computational, Courses, Cover, Design, Field, Fields, Generation, Hands-on, Internet, Lectures, Modern, Openly, Pedagogical, Sessions, Skills, Students, Taught, Tutorials, Workshop.

Collaborative Proposal: Postseismic deformation of the Izmit-Duzce, Turkey earthquake sequence: implications for the mechanics of the earthquake cycle and rheology of the continent
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Robert E Reilinger($162,996), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Eric A Hetland($157,716), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Crust And Upper, Izmit-duzce Earthquake Sequence, Continental Strike-slip, Earthquake Cycle, Izmit-duzce Earthquake, Postseismic Deformation, Upper Mantle, Analysis, Collaboration, Coseismic, Earthquakes, Extensive, Fault, Field, Following, GPS, Geodetic, Hazards, Implications, Initial, Insar, M=, Mechanics, Modeling, NAF, Nature, Observations, Period, Rheology, Segment, Seismic, Set, Strike-slip.

Phase III: Development of a Core Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at UCLA
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Jonathan M Aurnou($682,574), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Convection And Magnetoconvection, Convection Physics, Earth's Core, Extremely Turbulent, Magnetic Field, Rotating Convection, Turbulent Convection, Allow, Atmospheric, Device, Fluid, Funding, Laboratory, Laboratorys, Modelers, Models, Numerical, Solar, Turbulence, Unique.

Heat Transport in the Hadean Mantle: From Heat Pipes to Plates
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. William B Moore($205,486), National Institute of Aerospace Associates, Hampton
Key terms: Heat Transport, Plate Tectonic, Plate Tectonics, Earth, Geochemical, Melting, Planet, Planets, Timing, Transition.

High-pressure and Temperature Elasticity and Equation of State of Hydrous Phase
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Mainak Mookherjee($287,672), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Subduction Zone Settings, Earth's Interior, Hydrous Phases, Mantle Hydration, Extent, Stabilized, Thermoelasticity, Transport, Water.

Asymmetries in Geomagnetic Field Structure and Variability
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Catherine Constable($270,000), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Time-varying Geomagnetic Field, Axial Dipole, Decay Rates, Field Models, Field Strength, Magnetic Field, Southern Hemisphere, Space Weather, Time-varying Geomagnetic, Asymmetry, Available, Consequences, Dynamo, Earth, Extending, Growth, Has, Ka, Modeling, North, Paleomagnetic, Periods, Spatial, Strong, Temporal, Thousand.

Assessing the causes of slab seismicity through dehydration, temperature and strain: A global approach
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Clifford H Thurber($106,637), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Crust And Mantle, Double Seismic Zones, Shallow Thrust Zone, Temperature And Mineralogical, Earth's Seismicity, Existing Global, Intermediate-depth Earthquakes, Intermediate-depth Seismicity, Lower Layer, Mineralogical Models, Slab Mantle, Slab Seismicity, Subduction Zones, Catalogs, Caused, Compare, Conditions, Contribute, Deep, Dehydration, Distributions, Errors, Focused, Intermediate-depth, Laboratory, Less, Majority, Minerals, Observations, Plate, Reactions, Relatively, Relocate, Reproduce, Responsible, Rock, Slabs, Subducting, Thermal, Volcanism.

Melting Temperatures of Iron and MgO Using a New Flash Laser Heating Technique
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Reinhard Boehler($360,482), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Diamond Cell, Melting Temperature, Chemical, Conditions, Constraints, Core, Developed, Experiments, Extreme, ICB, Mantle, Pressure, Technical, Techniques, Thermal, X-ray.

Static and Dynamic Triggering of Fault Creep on Strike-Slip Faults
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Meng Wei($150,001), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Static And Dynamic, Fault Creep, Salton Trough, Seismic Hazard, Southern California, Automatic, Dataset, Detector, Developing, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Faults, Geodetic, Has, Implications, Mechanics, Process, Rate-and-state, Shallow, Strike, Triggering.

Relative velocity changes using ambient seismic noise at Okmok and Redoubt volcanoes, Alaska
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Clifford H Thurber($79,613), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Detect Precursory Activity, Okmok And Redoubt, Precursory Activity Leading, Active Volcanism, Magma Chamber, Magma Storage, Ability, Caldera, Complexity, Cone, Depth, Eruption, Increase, Local, Months, Volcanoes.

Frictional Sliding and Rocking of Precariously Balanced Rocks Under Earthquake Excitation
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Swaminathan Krishnan($89,205), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Ground Motion Features, Precariously Balanced Rocks, Seismic Wave Propagation, Waste Storage Facilities, Wave Propagation Simulations, Ground Shaking, Recently Developed, Algorithm, Analyses, Analysis, Bounds, Chemical, Critical, Earthquakes, Establish, Estimate, Excitation, Future, Models, Nuclear, Occurred, Overturning, Pbrs, Pedestal, Plan, Plants, Region, Rocking, Sensitivity, Sites, Siting, Sliding, Statistical, Strong, Toppling.

Collaborative Research: Developing a Link between Dynamic Friction and Fracture Mechanics Models of Earthquake Rupture using a New Dynamic Double-direct Shear Apparatus
Award Effective Date: 11/21/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. WIlliam A Griffith($159,649), University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington
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.

Understanding the complexity of the 660-km seismic discontinuity
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Sang-Heon Shim($58,467), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Phase Transitions Near, 660-km Discontinuity, Structures Near, Allows, Depth, High-resolution, Interactions, Mantle, Pressure, Seismic, Technique.

Collaborative Research: Deep structure controls on magmatic output of Klyuchevskoy volcanic group, Kamchatka
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Geophysics

1. Paul J Wiita($21,052), The College of New Jersey, Ewing
Key terms: Mantle Wedge Beneath, Mechanism Driving, Upper Mantle, Volcanic Center, Activity, Arc, Climate, Effort, Erupting, Eruption, Feature, Framework, Geochemical, Geodynamic, Has, Kamchatka, Klyuchevskoy, Lavas, Ongoing, Position, Seismic, Structure, Volcanoes.

Seismological Constraints on Global Mantle Anisotropy
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Geophysics

1. Caroline D Beghein($260,748), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Forward Modeling Method, Azimuthal Anisotropy, Global Seismic, Mantle Deformation, Mineral Physics, Seismic Anisotropy, Seismic Wave, Surface Wave, Approach, Combine, Composition, Constitutes, Constraining, Dataset, Deep, Dependence, Depths, Description, Earth, Enable, Geodynamic, Key-element, Knowledge, Mineralogy, Models, Plate, Relate, Signal, Structure, Three-dimensional, Top, Unique, Upper, Velocities, Velocity.

Collaborative Research: Anammox in a shallow coastal aquifer - combining in situ stable isotope and molecular approaches to examine controls on rates and communities
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Global Systems Science

1. Bongkeun Song($47,511), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
Key terms: Public Lecture, Analysis, Anammox, Aquifers, Center, Coastal, DIN, Denitrification, Efforts, Geochemical, Groundwater, Isotopic, Loss, Microbial, Newly, Nitrification, Nitrogen, Ocean, Pis, Rates, Situ, Students, UCONN, UNCW, Undergraduate.

CAREER: Connecting the Scales - Local to Global Scales of Mixing in Heterogeneous Porous Media
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Diogo Bolster($444,182), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
Key terms: Geologic Makeup, Remediation Strategies, Affects, Complex, Contamination, Developed, Development, Experiments, Flow, Groundwater, Heterogeneity, Heterogeneous, Influence, Mixing, Models, Natural, Phenomena, Public, Reactions, Resources, Solutes, Subsurface, Supplies, Sustainable, Tablet, Theoretical, Transport, Water.

Water Systems, Science and Society Under Global Change: An interdisciplinary research conference and forum
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2014; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Christopher L Lant($13,850), Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale
Key terms: CUAHSI, Conference, Future, Intellectual, Joint, NIWR, Organizations, UCOWR, Water.

NSF RAPID: The 2013 Rim Fire: Survey of Potential Water Quality Impacts on the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir System
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2013; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Alexis K Navarre-Sitchler($49,799), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: Catastrophic Wildfire, Hetch Hetchy, Rim Fire, Water Quality, Water Supply, Behavior, Decreased, Especially, Flux, Increased, Lakes, Largest, Loads, Post-fire, Processes, Reservoir, Sediment, Soil.

Joint estimates of permeability using complex resistivity and proton nuclear magnetic resonance
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Lee Slater($379,711), Rutgers University Newark, Newark
Key terms: Groundwater Flow, Groundwater Models, Permeability Based, CR, Complex, Development, Estimates, Geophysical, Limited, Method, Methods, NMR, Properties, Require, Rock, Water.

A Nested Multi-Scale Hydrological Modeling Framework: Assessing Resilience and Vulnerability to Climate Change
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2013; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Amir AghaKouchak($225,000), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Terrestrial Water Budget, Water Budget Model, Climate Projections, Hydropower Energy, Reservoir Operation, Water Cycle, Water Resources, Adjusted, Current, Future, Main, Management, Modeling, Nested, Reservoirs, Resilience.

RUI: Groundwater teleconnections with interannual to multidecadal climate variability
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2013; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Edwin P Maurer($321,865), San Francisco State University, San Francisco
Key terms: Global-scale Atmospheric-ocean Circulation, Transient Recharge Rates, Atmospheric-ocean Circulation, Global-scale Atmospheric-ocean, Multidecadal Climate, Vadose Zone, Affect, Complex, Frequency, Groundwater, Heterogeneous, Hydrologic, Importance, Interannual, Local, Precipitation, Processes, Relation, Resources, Signals, Students, Surface-water, Teleconnections, Time, Water.

Local and nonlocal topographic controls on landscape ecohydrology
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2013; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Amilcare Porporato($378,495), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Local And Nonlocal, Landscape Metabolism, Nonlocal Controls, Relative Importance, Soil Moisture, Age, Carbon, Complex, Conditions, Dynamics, Effects, Features, Fluxes, Hydroclimatic, Landscapes, Models, Nitrogen, Processes, Quantification, Shifts, Slope, Statistical, Surface, Topographic, Vegetation, Water.

Linking land subsidence to deep arsenic release in the Mekong Delta aquifer system
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2013; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Howard A Zebker($256,403), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Arsenic Contamination, Arsenic Release, Containing Arsenic, Deep Aquifers, Deep Arsenic, Deep Groundwater, Dissolved Arsenic, Groundwater Arsenic, Groundwater Exploitation, Health Risks, Land Subsidence, Mekong Delta, Satellite Radar, Arsenic-affected, Asia, Basins, Clay, Clays, Compaction, Contaminated, Flow, Has, Hazard, Implications, Mechanism, People, Pumping, Regions, Serve, Unrecognized, Water, Widespread.

Data-Driven Multiscale Model Identification and Scaling via Random Renormalization Group Operators for Subsurface Transport
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2013; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. John H Cushman($400,842), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Anomalous Dispersion, Anthropogenic Contaminants, Multiscale Heterogeneity, Rich Model, Available, Behavior, Codes, Contributors, Extremely, Formations, Fresh, Increments, Models, Natural, Optimal, Portion, Processes, Relies, Software, Source, Subsurface, Water, Worlds.

Dynamic Redistribution of Fluids in Porous Media
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2013; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Laura J Pyrak-Nolte($359,000), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Static And Dynamic, Hydraulic Properties, Porous Media, Transparent Micro-models, Depends, Distributions, Experimental, Fabrication, Films, Fluid, Fluids, Geometry, Internal, Local, Macroscopic, Micro-models, Multiphase, Networks, Perturb, Pore, Redistribution, Relaxation, Subsurface, Techniques, Theories, Wettability.

Parameter-Independent Reduced Models for Flow and Transport in Groundwater Modeling
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. William W-G. Yeh($256,606), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Flow And Transport, Original Full-scale Model, Parameter-independent Reduced Models, Full-scale Model, Groundwater Flow, Model Reduction, Original Full-scale, Parameter Space, Parameter-independent Reduced, Principal Components, Southern California, Algorithms, Applied, Characteristics, Developed, Equations, Management, Methodology, Outputs, Perform, Planning, Run, Uncertainty, Water.

Isotope Fractionation of Soil Water in Arid Environments
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Juske Horita($256,845), Texas Tech University, Lubbock
Key terms: Water And Water, Arid Regions, Bulk Liquid, Isotope Fractionation, Isotopic Compositions, Land Surface, Soil Water, Vapor Flux, Water Vapor, Assumption, Clay, Complex, Current, Environments, Expected, Global, Minerals, Phase, Seriously, Zones.

Seeing the forest for the trees: Interpreting and quantifying emergent catchment hydrology behavior
Award Effective Date: 06/06/2013; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Brian L McGlynn($83,122), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Mountain Catchment Hydrologic, Landscape Structure, Model Structures, Models Based, Advances, Behavior, Challenges, Climatic, Conceptualizations, Controls, Follow-on, Forcing, Modeling, Observations, Process, Source, Transferability, Variable, Variables, Water, Watershed, Watersheds.

Potential Impacts of Prospective Climate Change on Groundwater Recharge in the Western United States
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2013; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Thomas Meixner($19,010), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Groundwater Recharge, Water Balance, Analysis, Controls, Estimates, Knowledge, Methods, Modeling, Region, Regional, Significantly, Southwest, Strategy, Synthesis.

Collaborative Research: Hybrid Modeling of Reactive Transport in Porous and Fractured Media
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2013; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Daniel M Tartakovsky($200,000), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
2. Ilenia Battiato($179,998), Clemson University, Clemson
Key terms: Flow And Transport, Coarse-scale Continuum, Hybrid Simulations, Numerical Algorithms, Subsurface Flow, Activity, Andor, Coarse-scale, Computational, Constitutive, Coupled, Coupling, Efficient, Establish, Exhibit, Foundation, Geometry, Modeling, Models, Phenomena, Pore, Pore-scale, Processes, Reactive, Source, Students, Theoretical, Uncertainty, Vastly, Water.

Collaborative Reserach: CO2 Leakages as Cold-Geysers and Diffusive CO2 Transport: Continuous Monitoring of in-situ P,T, Chemistry and CO2 Flux with Numerical Verificaiton
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Brian J McPherson($111,052), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
2. Weon Shik Han($157,066), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
Key terms: Cold-water Geyser Eruptions, Diffusive Soil Co2, Geysers And Diffusive, Soil Co2 Flux, Co2 Concentrations, Co2 Eruption, Co2-driven Cold-water, Cold-water Geyser, Cold-water Geysers, Diffusive Co2, Global Climate, Atmosphere, Co-driven, Dissolved, Fault, Focuses, In-situ, Investigated, Mechanisms, Storage, Subsurface.

RAPID: IFloodS Field Campaign in Iowa
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2013; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Witold F Krajewski($48,570), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Iowa Flood, Applications, Campaign, Center, Collected, GPM, Hydrologic, IFC, IIHR, Ifloods, Mission, NASA, Opportunity, Rainfall.

Collaborative Research: Hydrology and Geochemistry of Prairie Pothole Lake Sedimentary Pore Waters: Implications for the Attenuation of Pesticides
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2013; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. William A Arnold($159,926), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
2. Donald I Siegel($187,589), Syracuse University, Syracuse
3. Marty Goldhaber($283,785), Ohio State University, Columbus
Key terms: Ppl Pore Waters, Prairie Pothole Lakes, Biogeochemical Composition, Agricultural, Attenuating, Capable, Chemical, Constituents, Drought, Evapotranspiration, Flow, Groundwater, Hydrologic, Hydrology, Influence, Levels, Local, NSF, Pesticides, Pilot, Ppls, Precipitation, Region, Sampling, School, Species, Students, Sulfate, Till, USGS, Unique, Wetlands.

CAREER:Advanced interface methods in heterogeneous porous materials: a multi-disciplinary and multi-scale framework
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2013; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Masa Prodanovic($470,720), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Water Management Issues, Flow Configurations, Fluid Phases, Fracture Network, Numerical Method, Porous Media, Three-fluid Phase, Arrangement, Competition, Complex, Control, Dry, Fast, Fluids, Fractures, Heterogeneous, Highly, Karst, Matrix, Models, Objective, Oil, Pores, Rock, Soil, Space, Spatial, Storage, Texas, Theory, Three-fluid, Two-, Wettability.

Investigation of diurnal land-atmosphere interactions in snow-dominated mountainous terrain
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2013; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Steven A Margulis($337,077), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Climate Models, Complex Terrain, Coupled Land-atmosphere, Land-atmosphere Interactions, Mountainous Terrain, Approach, Derive, Fluxes, Importance, Land-atmosphere, Large-scale, Predictions, Process, Processes, Rcms, Regional, Regions, Snow, Snowmelt, Surface, Uncertainty, Useful.

Hydrological Control of Particle Entrainment and Nitrogen Cycling in Beach Aquifer Mixing and Reaction Zones
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2013; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. William J Ullman($510,544), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Biogeochemical And Ecological, Beach Aquifer, Beach Aquifers, Ecological Services, Fluid Flow, Organic Particle, Sandy Beaches, Assess, Characteristics, Coastal, Developed, Dissolved, Field, Fluxes, Loads, Managers, Ocean, Potential, Processes, Reactivity, Sea, Sites, Students, Training, UD.

CAREER: Air-ecosystem-water interactions of reactive nitrogen in urban systems
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2013; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Emily M Elliott($550,000), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Nr Deposition Fluxes, Deposition Chemistry, Geoscience Education, Nitrate Export, Nr Retention, Pittsburgh Region, Urban Ecosystems, Urban Nr, Activities, Advance, Aims, Atmospheric, Carnegie, Center, Create, ENERGY-NET, Energy, Environment, Environments, Geosciences, Interdisciplinary, Laboratory, Monitoring, Networks, Nitrogen, Regional, Relevance, Resources, Rural, Society, Source, Streams.

CAREER: Ecohydrological controls on land-atmosphere interactions in water-limited ecosystems: a framework for education and research
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Shirley A Papuga($545,938), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Deep Soil Moisture, Remote Sensing Products, Land Surface, Modeling Approach, Water-limited Ecosystems, Based, Climate, Climatic, Cm, Educational, Especially, Field, Framework, Functioning, Global, Highlighted, Ideal, Importance, Increase, Larger, Layer, Layers, Percentage, Population, Processes, Simple, Students, Testing, Water-limited.

INSPIRE Track 1: Interdisciplinary Approach to Discovery, Analyses and Applications of Informative Ancient Biomolecules
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: INSPIRE

1. Michael B Goshe($999,481), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Conventional Wisdom, Existing Databases, Molecular Preservation, Molecular Studies, Original Molecules, Yield Information, Activities, Derived, Directorate, Evolution, Evolutionary, Fossils, Has, INSPIRE, Life, Modifications, Morphological, Natural, Organisms, Processes, Program, Proteomic, Time, Tissues.

INSPIRE Track 1: Earthcasting fluvial systems: Physical, ecological, and biogeochemical dynamics
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: INSPIRE

1. Douglas J Jerolmack($1,000,000), Northwestern University, Evanston
Key terms: Collection Efforts, Ecosystem Dynamics, Advances, Basis, Biogeochemical, Capability, Carbon, Consider, Course, Directorate, Diverse, Division, Earthcasting, Ecological, Educational, Geomorphological, Geosciences, Models, Networks, Nutrients, Outcomes, Predict, Processes, Program, Range, River, Sediments, Strategies, Sustainability, Theory, Trans-disciplinary, Transport, Underlying, Water.

International Continental Scientific Drilling Program, ICDP
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2013; Program: INTEGRATED EARTH SYSTEMS

1. Carola Koegler($5,700,000), HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM POTSDAM - DEUTSCHES GEOFORSCHUNGSZENTRUM GFZ, Potsdam
Key terms: Drilling, Experiments, Has, ICDP, International, Laboratory, Processes.

Facility Support: Multi-User Facility Support for U-Th-Pb Geochronology and Complementary Isotope Geochemistry and SEM imaging at the Arizona LaserChron Center
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. George E Gehrels($908,225), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Techniques And Applications, Theory And Methodology, Geochronologic Information, Nsf-funded Projects, Spatial Resolution, U-th-pb Ages, ALC, Aspects, Courses, Development, Drive, Facility, Faculty, Generate, Generates, Geochemical, LA-ICPMS, Nsf-funded, U-th-pb.

Facility Support: Institute for Rock Magnetism
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2014; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Dario Bilardello($1,343,810), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Magnetic Minerals, Analysis, IRM, Methods, Natural, Origin, Properties, Technical, Techniques.

Upgrade of Geophysics Computing Facilities at Missouri University of Science and Technology
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2014; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Andreas Eckert($74,209), Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla
Key terms: Acquisition, Cluster, Computational, Geodynamics, Modeling, Node, Observations, Rock.

Development of Freeze-Shoe Sampler to Recover Aquifer Sands with In-situ Groundwater From up to 1000-ft Depth
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2013; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Benjamin C Bostick($575,645), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Freeze Core, Aquifer, Available, Development, Geochemical, Groundwater, Recover, Technology.

CAREER: Evolutionary Processes in Crustal Seismic Anisotropy
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Kevin H Mahan($533,923), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Crustal Rocks, Seismic Anisotropy, Active, Deformation, Features, Geology, Graduate, Interns, Metamorphism, Phenomenon, Processes, Program, RESESS, Students, Tectonic, Undergraduate.

Facility Support: The Global CMT Project
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2013; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Goran Ekstrom($401,387), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Gcmt Catalog, Global Seismographic, Moment Tensors, Analysis, DMC, Determination, Earthquakes, Globally, IRIS, Networks, Quick, Seismic, Systematic.

Acquisition of a State-of-the-Art Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2013; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Sarah Penniston-Dorland($325,000), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Composition And Abundance, Os Isotopic Composition, Mass Spectrometers, Sr Isotopes, Analysis, Instrument, Mantle, Means, Precision, Rates, Replace, Studying, TIMS, Time.

EAR/IF: Prototype Investigations into Integrated GPS/Seismic Networks for Improved Finite Fault Slip Modeling and Earthquake Characterization
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2013; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Yehuda Bock($200,000), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Yehuda Bock($200,000), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Chile And Japan, Displacements And Velocities, Earthquakes And Ensuing, Geodetic And Seismic, Dynamic Motions, Ensuing Tsunamis, Seismic Instruments, Civilian, Contribute, Economic, Engineering, Existing, GPS, Gpsseismic, Hazards, Infrastructure, Inversions, Monitoring, Observations, Precise, Real-time, Seismogeodetic, Static, Stations, Sumatra.

ACQUISITION OF HYPERSPECTRAL CAMERAS
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Craig Glennie($140,000), University of Houston, Houston
Key terms: Geologic, Houston, Hyperspectral, Instrument, Mapping, Processes, TLS, UH.

Facilities Support: The CUAHSI Water Data Center
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Antony R Berthelote($2,685,070), Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sci, Arlington
Key terms: Access, Consistent, Consortium, Development, Discovery, Format, Holdings, Hydrologic, Information, International, Management, National, Participation, Pis, Services, Set, Standards, Tools, Tribal, WDC, Water.

Acquisition of high-temperature rock-magnetic instruments
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Joshua M Feinberg($334,080), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Applied Fields, Cs4 Furnace, Rock Magnetism, AC, Acquisition, Allow, Allows, Am, Capabilities, Controlled, High-temperature, Imaging, Institute, Instrument, Instruments, Integrated, MFK-FA, MFP-D, Magnetic, Micromagnetic, Natural, Paleomagnetic, Recording, Spatial, Stage, Susceptibility, Temperature, °C.

Upgrade of microRaman spectrometer for in-situ, high-temperature and high-pressure experiments
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Dionysios I Foustoukos($45,385), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: COH, Central, Diamond, Fluid, Fluids, HDAC, Hydrothermal, Melts, Minerals, Partitioning, Pressure, Spectroscopic, Temperature.

Development of a Tender-Energy Microspectroscopy and Imaging User Facility for Earth Sciences at NSLS and NSLS-II
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Donald L Sparks($1,000), University of Delaware, Newark
2. Jay Brandes($999), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
3. Richard J Reeder($225,620), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
4. John F Rakovan($1,000), Miami University, Oxford
5. Dean L. R Hesterberg($1,000), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy, Kev Energy, Spot Size, X-ray Absorption, Applications, Beamline, Capabilities, Designed, Extended, Facility, Hard, Lighter, Local, Micron, NSLS, NSLS-II, National, Optimized, Processes, Synchrotron, XAS, XRF.

Collaborative Research: Development of a Tender-Energy Microspectroscopy and Imaging User Facility for Earth Sciences at NSLS and NSLS-II
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Phoebe J Lam($1,000), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy, Kev Energy, Spot Size, X-ray Absorption, Applications, Beamline, Capabilities, Designed, Extended, Facility, Hard, Lighter, Local, Micron, NSLS, NSLS-II, National, Optimized, Processes, Synchrotron, XAS, XRF.

Development of an Ultrafast Laser Instrument for Probing Earth and Planetary Materials under Extreme Pressures and Temperatures
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Alexander F Goncharov($145,340), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Transport Properties, Conditions, Conductivity, Core, DAC, Earth, Elasticity, Extreme, Laser, Mantle, Optical, P-T, Planetary, Pulsed, Situ, Thermal.

Upgrade of Electron Microprobe Instrumentation at North Carolina State University: new computer and one-time service visit
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2013; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Ronald V Fodor($33,331), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Electron Microprobe, Computer, Graduate, Has, Instrument, Operating.

Acquisition of a Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectrometer for igneous petrology, volcanology, and geobiology research
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2013; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Steven Carey($158,965), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Rhode Island, Earth, Instrument, Investigations, Mantle, Tools, Volatiles.

Acquisition of a dilatometer for accurate measurement of thermal expansivity of geologically relevant materials over -180 to 2000oC
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2013; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Anne M Hofmeister($122,610), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Thermal Expansivity, Crust, Deep, Glasses, Instrument, Mantle, Models, Phases, Range, Temperature.

Technique development of a MEMS-based heating stage for high-pressure transmission electron microscopy in the earth sciences
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2013; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Peter R Buseck($202,870), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Extreme Conditions, Mechanical Stability, Atomic, Electron, Elevated, Heating, High-p, MEMS, Mantle, Minerals, Planets, Properties, Resolution, TEM, Technology, Tems, Thermal.

NSF Workshop: Drilling active tectonics and magmatism (Volcanics, Geoprisms, and Fault Zones Post-SAFOD)
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2013; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. John W Shervais($49,150), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Faults And Volcanoes, Active Tectonics, Fault Drilling, Continent, Efforts, Issues, Processes, Volcanic, Workshop.

Logistical Planning for Scientific Drilling in Lake Towuti, Indonesia
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2013; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. James M Russell($39,982), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Drilling Barge, Drilling Program, Lake Towuti, Local Contractors, Towuti Drilling, Budget, Cycles, Finalize, Indonesia, International, Plan, Services, Site, Supply.

Acquisition of X-ray Powder Diffractometer
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2013; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. John M Senko($115,223), University of Akron, Akron
Key terms: Biomineralization, Characterization, Processes, X-ray, XRD.

Supporting Big Island's Key Geodetic Infrastructure
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2013; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. James H Foster($74,964), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Slow Slip, South Flank, Facilitated, GPS, Hawaiis, Kilauea, Magmatic, Network, Sites, Upgrade.

Early Career: Acquisition of a High Sensitivity Superconducting Rock Magnetometer for Paleomagnetic and Paleointensity Research
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2013; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Aleksey V Smirnov($357,569), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: Bore Srm, Magnetic Field, Single Crystals, Acquisition, Active, Analysis, Dikes, Earth, Ga, Instrument, NSFEAR, Paleointensity, Paleomagnetic, Precambrian, Rock.

Upgrade of the Earth & Environmental Science Electron Microprobe Laboratory at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2013; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Daniel M Ruscitto($54,558), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
Key terms: Electron Microprobe Laboratory, Time-dependent Intensity Corrections, Time-dependent Intensity, Capabilities, Current, EMPL, EPMA, Facility, Free, Has, Probe, RPI, Region, Rensselaer, Software, Students, Undergraduates, Upgrade, Was.

Operations Support For Continental Scientific Drilling Workshops
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2013; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Andrew S Cohen($54,031), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Planning And Education, Outreach Committees, Broad, CSD, Continent, Drilling, Future, Meetings, Opportunities, Workshop.

A Thematic Workshop on, "Drilling into High-enthalpy Geothermal Systems: A Collaborative Initiative to Promote Scientific Opportunities".
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2013; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Wilfred A Elders($49,996), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Academic Scientists, Geothermal Reservoirs, Active, Advance, Collaboration, Deep, Drilling, Economic, Government, High-enthalpy, Highly, Hydrothermal, IDDP, Industry, Potential, USA, Workshop.

Reynolds Creek Carbon Critical Zone Observatory
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2013; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Mark S Seyfried($3,755,249), Idaho State University, Pocatello
Key terms: Fire And Grazing, Critical Zone, Grand Challenge, Prescribed Fire, Rc Czo, Reynolds Creek, Soil Carbon, Soil Organic, Atmosphere, CORE, Climate, Controlling, Dataset, Efforts, Environmental, Essential, Experimental, Extensive, Fate, Global, Idaho, Intermediate, Landscape, Level, Modeling, Observatory, Plot, Processes, RCEW, Soils, Tools, USDA-ARS, Uncertainties, Variables, Watershed.

The Eel River Critical Zone Observatory: exploring how the critical zone will mediate watershed currencies and ecosystem response in a changing environment
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2013; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Sally Thompson($6,452,152), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Critical Zone Observatory, Eel River Critical, Eel River Czo, Fresh Bedrock Boundary, Rain And Snow, River Critical Zone, Seasonally Dry Environments, Bedrock Properties, Coastal Oceans, Inside Hillslopes, Northern California, Snow Melt, Watershed Currencies, Weathered Bedrock, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Beneath, Build, Channels, Chemistry, Climate, Consequences, Deep, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Energy, Especially, Exchanged, Field, Flows, Focus, Forecast, Future, Guidance, Influence, Interactions, Knowledge, Landscapes, Magnitude, Mechanisms, Microbes, Modeling, Moisture, Penetrate, Pis, Plants, Regional, Resilience, Resource, Rivers, Runoff, Soil, Tools, Trees, Vegetation, Watersheds.

Southern Sierra Critical Zone Observatory
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2013; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Clifford S Riebe($6,905,084), University of California - Merced, Merced
Key terms: Brbrthe Ssczo, Ecosystem Services, Regolith Properties, CZ, Climate, Dominantly, Elevation, Enhance, Environmental, Forests, Gradients, Mountain, Platform, Processes, Range, Resources, Sierra, Snow, Soil, Students, Time, Water.

Boulder Creek CZO II: Evolution, Form, Function, and Future of the Critical Zone
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2013; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Noah P Molotch($6,638,699), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Students And Teachers, Critical Zone, Architecture, Bcczo, CZ, Changing, Climate, Colorado, Discovery, Ecosystem, Education, Evolution, Fire, Flow, Future, Geologic, Graduate, Models, Processes, Rock, Secondary, Sediment, Sites, Snow, Soils, Structure, Vegetation, Water, Weather, Weathering.

REU/RET Site: Collaborative Research: Introducing Critical Zone Observatory Science to Students and Teachers
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2013; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Susan E Gill($256,154), Stroud Water Research Center, Avondale
2. Timothy S White($323,974), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Critical Zone Observatories, Students And Teachers, Undergraduate Students, Zone Observatories, CRB, CZO, Czos, Experiences, Investigating, Involved, Participants, Pennsylvania, Processes, SSHO, Water.

SusChEM: Controls on struvite neogenesis and reactivity in engineered and geochemical systems
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2013; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Ashaki A Rouff($301,492), CUNY Queens College, Flushing
Key terms: Animal And Plant, Human And Agricultural, Agricultural Wastes, Chemical Properties, Global Population, Human Cycle, Mineral Struvite, Mono Lake, Plant Wastes, Recovered Struvite, Alternative, Composition, Conditions, Engineered, Fertilizer, Fertilizers, Generated, Geochemical, Natural, Phosphate, Recovery, Soils, Solutions, Sorption, Source, Sustainable, Wastewater, Water.

Collaborative Research: RAPID: GeoGONAF - An observatory to study the active deformation and strain transfer along the Izmit Bay-Marmara Sea segment of the North Anatolian Fault
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: International Research Collab

1. David J Mencin($129,741), UNAVCO, Inc., Boulder
2. Roger G Bilham($51,694), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: North Anatolian Fault, Borehole Strainmeters, Fault Setting, Damaging, Earthquake, Enhance, GONAF, Has, Installed, Istanbul, Monitor, Near, Population, Processes, San, Seismic, Sequence.

Collaborative Research: Genome-enabled Investigation of S(0) Cycling in a Subterranean Microbial Ecosystem
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: International Research Collab

1. Jennifer L Macalady($300,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Clara Chan($226,000), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Elemental Sulfur, Microbial Interactions, Annual, Biofilms, Biogeochemistry, Cave, Cultures, Day, Deposits, Electron, Epsilonproteobacteria, Especially, Frasassi, Geochemical, Grade, Has, Microbes, PSU, Producing, Sea, Students, Surface, Waters.

Is continental collision thick- or thin-skinned? Combining local seismicity with receiver functions in the Zagros Fold-and-Thrust Belt
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: International Research Collab

1. Vera Schulte-Pelkum($184,579), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Zagros Fold-and-thrust Belt, Arabian Plate, Basement Involvement, Collision Zone, Continental Collision, Continental Plates, Fold-and-thrust Belt, International Collaboration, Sediment-basement Interface, Zagros Fold-and-thrust, Zagros Region, Analysis, Apply, Buoyant, Crust, Deformation, Depth, Depths, Early-stage, Earthquake, Eurasian, Has, Himalaya, Iran, Iranian, Mountain, Moving, Orogeny, Relative, Sediment-basement, Seismicity, Shortening, Sink, Western.

Paleomagnetic Investigation of Rock Formations from Junggar Basin, NW China
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: International Research Collab

1. Xixi Zhao($305,659), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Central Asian Belt, Accretionary History, Junggar Basin, China, Continent, International, Lithosphere, Paleomagnetic, Region, Tectonic.

Collaborative Research: Groundwater-surface water interactions in tropical alpine catchments and their influence on sources and stability of water supply during glacial recession
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: International Research Collab

1. Bryan G Mark($269,880), Ohio State University, Columbus
2. Laura K Lautz($351,998), Syracuse University, Syracuse
Key terms: Water And Groundwater, Alpine Watersheds, Dry Seasons, Glacierized Catchments, Groundwater Storage, Local Governments, Melting Glaciers, Proglacial Catchments, Storage Volumes, Surface Water, Tropical Glacierized, Water Resources, Andes, Aquifers, Climate, Especially, Estimate, GWSWI, Human, Hydrologic, Interaction, Interactions, Meadow, Measure, Mountain, Quantify, Runoff, Streamflow.

Transitions in the Banda Arc-Australia Continental Collision as a Bridge to Understanding Mantle and Lithospheric Controls on Surface Tectonics
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: International Research Collab

1. Thorsten W Becker($715,000), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Banda Arc, Collision, Continent, Crust, Evolution, Future, Indonesia, Lithospheric, Mantle, Region, Structure, Subduction, Tectonic.

Collaborative Research: Thrust Belt Response to Rapid Surface Uplift of the Altiplano: A Field Test of Cordilleran Cyclicity in Southern Bolivia
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: International Research Collab

1. Brian K Horton($130,499), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Sean P Long($123,000), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Andean Fold-thrust Belt, Cordilleran Cyclicity Model, Cyclicity Model Predicts, Andean Fold-thrust, Fold-thrust Belt, Rapid Uplift, Southern Bolivia, Surface Uplift, Bolivian, Collaboration, Cross-section, Deformation, Dense, Field, Front, Graduate, Hinterland, Million, Orogenic, Plateau, Prediction, Propagation, Shortening, Timing.

International Symposium: Reconciling Observations and Models of Elastic and Viscoelastic Deformation due to Ice Mass Change
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2013; Program: International Research Collab

1. Jeffrey T Freymueller($28,530), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Elastic And Viscoelastic, Mass Balance, Sea Level, Us-based Scientists, Climate, Conference, Cryosphere, Fields, GIA, Glaciers, Interact, Models, Opportunity, Present-day, Topic, Us-based, World.

Collaborative Research: RUI: Orogenic Exhumation and Neogene Foreland Basin Evolution, Central Andes
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2013; Program: International Research Collab

1. J. Brian Mahoney($224,916), University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire
2. David L Kimbrough($77,470), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
Key terms: Exhumation And Basin, Southern Central Andes, Spatial And Temporal, Wisconsin Eau Claire, 32-35 Degrees, Basin Development, Basin Evolution, Foreland Basins, Ideal Laboratory, Orogenic Exhumation, Structural Deformation, Subducting Slab, Arc, Argentina, Constrain, Examine, Investigation, Linkage, Magmatism, Magnitude, Neogene, Normal, Rate, Synorogenic, Tectonic, U-thhe.

REU Site: Analysis of Glacial Sediments, Minnesota and Brazil: Evidence of Paleo-ice Stream Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2013; Program: International Research Collab

1. James F P Cotter($257,636), University of Minnesota Morris, Morris
Key terms: Ice Stream Flow, Umm Reu Program, Ice Sheet, Ice Streams, Analysis, Brazil, Confidence, Geology, Late, Lobe, Minnesota, Models, Movement, Native, Participants, Women.

RAPID PROPOSAL: Accelerating unrest within a large rhyolitic magma system: Laguna del Maule, Chile
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: International Research Collab

1. Clifford H Thurber($64,000), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Del Maule Volcanic, Laguna Del Maule, Maule Volcanic Field, Explosive Eruption, Lake Basin, Rhyolitic Magma, Volcanic Hazard, Analysis, Andes, Center, Chile, Erupted, Gravity, Indicates, Prior, Program, Region, Reservoir, Rhyolite, Super-eruption, Unrest.

Workshop: Properties and Processes of Crustal Fault Zones, Erice, Sicily, May 18-24, 2013.
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: International Research Collab

1. Yehuda Ben-Zion($25,000), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Fault Zones, Students, Various, Workshop.

Thrust Belt Exhumation and Duplex Development in the Sikkim Himalaya
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: International Research Collab

1. Jason B Barnes($21,779), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Lesser Himalayan Duplex, Active Mountain, Computer Models, Geologic Structure, Mountain Belts, Structural Models, Climate, Complex, Deformation, Erosion, Exhumation, Has, India, Indian, Integrated, North, Outward, Portion, Processes, Various.

US-Japan Joint Seminar on Responses of Catchment Hydrology and Forest Biogeochemistry to Climatic and Environmental Change
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2013; Program: International Research Collab

1. Mark Green($51,526), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Climatic And Environmental, Us-japan Joint Seminar, Joint Seminar, Us-japan Joint, Biogeochemistry, Catchment, Catchments, Challenge, Countries, Exchange, Foster, Has, Hydrology, Interaction, Respond, Synthesis, Techniques.

MRI: Acquisition of a Dionex Accelerated Solvent Extractor for Biogeochemistry, Toxicology, and Marine Science Research at Hawaii Pacific University
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Kristi L West($54,925), Hawaii Pacific University, Honolulu
Key terms: Student Population, ASE, Biology, Contaminants, Diverse, Education, Environmental, HPU, Hawaii, Instrument, Instrumentation, Measuring, Natural, Pacific, Teaching, Transition, Undergraduate.

MRI Collaborative: Acquisition of Expanded Distributed Temperature Sensing Instrumentation to Serve Community Demand and Stimulate Undergraduate Discovery
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Andrew J Guswa($250,123), Smith College, Northampton
2. Scott W Tyler($107,379), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Fiber Optic, Capabilities, DTS, Resolution, Smith, Soil, Temperature.

MRI: Acquisition of an Automatic Sediment Core Analysis System to Enhance the Paleomagnetic and Rock Magnetic Laboratory at New Mexico Highlands University
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Jennifer Lindline($50,156), New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas
Key terms: Core, Equipment, Modern, Paleomagnetic.

MRI: Acquisition of a Multi-collector Inductively-coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer for Research and Education in the Earth and Environmental Sciences
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Jake V Bailey($894,906), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Mass Spectrometer, Natural Climate, Analyses, Cave, Chemical, Extensive, Extent, Information, Ocean, Principal, Uranium.

MRI: Acquisition of a New Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer for High-Precision Isotope Chronology and Chemistry
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Drew S Coleman($451,508), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Undergraduate Students, Analysis, Geologic, Lab, National, Pis, Rates, Techniques, Training, UNC-CH.

MRI: ACQUISITION OF A MODERN ELECTRON MICROPROBE
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. John H Fournelle($960,312), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Modern Electron Microprobe, Emp Lab, Federal Grants, Modern Emp, Analysis, Capabilities, Chemical, Development, Economic, Enhanced, Geoscience, Has, Instrument, Metals, NSF, Processes, Situ, Students, Uw-madison, Volcanic, Wisconsin, Zones.

MRI: Development of a Laser-ultrasonic Ice Core Tomography System
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Hans-Peter Marshall($336,122), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Glacial Ice, Seasonal Layering, Density, Development, Enable, Instrument, Methods, Properties, Rapid, Technique, Via.

Fluid and chemical fluxes across the seafloor of a passive margin
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Willard S Moore($565,448), University of South Carolina at Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Submarine Groundwater Discharge, Coastal Ocean, Fluid Fluxes, Geochemical Fluxes, Increasing Evidence, Saline Groundwater, Arrays, Carbon, Carolina, Compositions, Continent, Depth, Exchange, Flow, Flushing, Has, Indicate, Installed, Mechanisms, Metals, Migration, Nutrients, Offshore, Participation, Processes, Radium, Rapid, SGD, Seafloor, Seawater, South, Upward, Waters.

A High-Resolution Deep-AUV Magnetic Survey of the Hawaiian Jurassic Basin
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2013; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Masako Tominaga($110,400), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Auv Sentry, Field, Geomagnetic, Original, Outreach, Was.

Phased Testing at Sea of the Son-O-Mermaid Prototype
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2013; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Frederik J Simons($45,001), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Accuracy, Acoustic, Applications, Array, Autonomous, Depth, Drifting, Geophysical, Global, Hydrophones, Instrument, MERMAID, Marine, Noise, Ocean, Oceanic, Oceans, Rare, Son-o-mermaid, Surface, Unit, Was, Waves.

EAGER: A peri-Gondwanan terrane between Virginia and New England?
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Aaron J Martin($39,372), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Metamorphism And Deformation, Middle Paleozoic Metamorphism, North And South, Central Appalachian, Central Appalachians, Entire Orogen, Exotic Terrane, Upb Ages, Accretion, Acquired, Detrital, Discovery, Education, Intense, Isotopic, Laurentian, Link, Main, Northern, Pervasive, Piedmont, Recognized, Rock, Southern, Tectonic, Terranes, Zircons.

Metamorphic and Tectonic Evolution of the Tethyan Himalaya, Central Nepal
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Matthew J Kohn($192,172), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Crust Flows Plastically, Lower Crust Flows, Middle And Lower, Interpretational Methods, Pressure-temperature-time Evolution, Boise, Calcareous, Conditions, Constrain, Degree, Discriminate, Domains, Himalayan, History, Hydrothermal, Igneous, Models, Petrologic, Pressure-temperature-time, Rock, Student, Tectonic, Undergraduate.

Degassing Dynamics that Lead to Repeated Lava Dome Growth and Collapse at Persistently Active Stratovolcanoes
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Kimberly D Genareau($116,504), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
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.

Hydration of Dense Polymorphs of Silica in Subducting Slabs
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Sang-Heon Shim($312,841), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Absorbed, Behavior, Chemical, Components, Crystal, Earth, Expected, HO, Hydrogen, Mantle, Mineral, Mineralogical, Minerals, Pressure, Pressures, Sio, Stishovite, Structural, Surface, Water.

Crystal-Liquid Dynamics of a Supereruption: The Youngest Toba Tuff and its Aftermath, Sumatra, Indonesia
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Mary R Reid($229,336), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: Toba Caldera Complex, Ytt And Post-ytt, Highly Explosive, Mineral Growth, Post-ytt Eruptions, Analyses, Assembly, Chemical, Conditions, Crystal, Duration, EIU, Examine, Liquid-dominated, Magma, Magmatic, Minerals, Mush, NAU, Neruption, Origin, Portions, Reactivation, Reservoir, Selected, Silicic, Time, Via, Volcanic.

Expanding Frontiers of Detrital Shocked Mineral Research
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Aaron Cavosie($232,505), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Detrital Shocked Minerals, Geologic Time, Sand Grains, Sedimentary Environments, Shocked Sand, South Africa, Vredefort Dome, Age, Crater, Craters, Eroded, Erosion, Fluvial, Found, Future, Gt, Gyr, Has, History, Rapid, Search, Sediments, Terrestrial.

Collaborative Research: Early Earth Evolution: Hf and Nd Isotopic Constraints from the ca 3.4->4.0 Ga Acasta Gneisses
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Samuel A Bowring($215,201), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Jeffrey D Vervoort($187,564), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Hf And Nd, Hf Isotopic Composition, Hf Isotopic Compositions, Continental Crust, Earliest History, U-pb Dates, AGC, Age, Approach, Billion, Ca, Corresponding, Earth, Ga, ID-TIMS, Information, Mantle, Nature, Planet, Reservoirs, Rock, Simple, Source, U-pb, Zircon, Zircons.

Testing Models for the Origin of 186Os/188Os and 187Os/188Os Isotope Variations in the Mantle: Core Signal, Recycled Components, or Intra-mantle Differentiation
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. John C Lassiter($320,000), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Hawaii And Gorgona, Elevated 186os188os, Osmium Isotope, Osmium Isotopes, Upper Mantle, Chemical, Compositions, Constraints, Decay, Earth, Evolution, Fractionation, Generating, Generation, Geochemical, Geologic, Interaction, Interior, Isotopic, Lavas, Long-term, Mantle-derived, Mechanisms, Melt, Melting, Osos, Possess, Processes, Pt-os, Ptos, Ratios, Reflect, Rock, Supported.

Deep-crustal Reactive Fluid Flow in the Mesozoic White-Inyo Magmatic Arc, California
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Peter I Nabelek($226,599), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Advective Heat Transport, Deep Continental Crust, Carbonate Minerals, Computer Simulations, Deep-crustal Fluids, Fluid Flow, Magmatic Arc, Metamorphic Reactions, White-inyo Range, Analyzing, Deep-crustal, Deformation, Earth, Era, Expected, Generated, Heterogeneous, Hydrothermal, Magmatism, Mesozoic, Occurred, Plate, Plutons, Pore, Ratios, Regional, Rock, Students, Surface, Tectonic, Time, Variable, Was, Water, White-inyo.

Carbonate Clumped Isotope Thermometry of the Notch Peak Contact Metamorphic Aureole
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. John M Eiler($269,956), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Chemical Evolution, Crustal Rocks, Notch Peak, Ore Bodies, Water-rock Reaction, Advances, Carbonate, Circulation, Constraints, Deep, Define, Fields, Fluid, Has, Heat, Hot, Isotopic, Magmas, Method, Mineralogical, Minerals, Models, Narrow, Quantitative, Range, Rare, Surrounding, Temperature, Temperatures, Thermal, Thermometry, Upper, Water-rock, Waters.

Constraining the Secular Compositional Evolution of the Upper Continental Crust Using Ancient Glacial Deposits and Creation of an Upper Crustal Reference Suite
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Richard Gaschnig($226,004), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Upper Continental Crust, Average Composition, Upper Crust, Changing, Deposits, Determining, Earth, Energy, Formation, Formed, Processes, Time.

Collaborative Research: Understanding the Causes of Highly Explosive Basaltic Eruptions Using the AD 1085 Sunset Crater Eruption and its Deposits
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Kurt Roggensack($297,562), Arizona State University, Tempe
2. Michael H Ort($119,999), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: Scoria And Ash, Basaltic Eruptions, Lava Flows, Magma Viscosity, Sunset Crater, Causing, Crystals, Explosions, Explosive, Information, Leading, Mild, Plumes, Processes, Produced, Violent.

Investigation of Metamorphic Timescales
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Frank S Spear($264,700), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
Key terms: Maximum Temperature, Metamorphic Rocks, Mountain Belts, Time Scales, Analysis, Application, Central, Collection, Constrain, Crust, Developed, Diffusion, England, Entire, History, Human, Justification, Method, Million, Models, Revealed, Timescales, Uncertainty.

A Field Study of the Liquid Line of Descent of Hydrous Alkaline-rich Magmas at Elevated Pressures (0.5-1.0 GPa): The Dariv Alkaline Intrusive Complex
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Oliver Jagoutz($299,992), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Alkali-feldspar Granite, Alkaline Granites, Alkali-feldspar, Complete, Described, Exposures, Felsic, Formation, Hydrous, Investigate, Less, Magmas, Melting, Meta-aluminous, Mongolia, Origin, Particular, Quartz-, Rock, Sequence, So-called, Ultramafic.

Collaborative Research: Windows of Opportunity: Exploring the Controls on the Depths of Eruption-forming Silicic Magma Bodies Using Improved Thermodynamics and Dynamics Models
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Josef Dufek($59,117), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
2. Mark S Ghiorso($159,228), OFM Research, Seattle
3. Guilherme Gualda($60,860), Vanderbilt University, Nashville
Key terms: Fluid Dynamics Models, Thermodynamics And Fluid, Silicic Magma, Behavior, Coupled, Crust, Eruption, Levels, Magmas, Natural, Phase, Properties, Tuff, Volcanic.

Pursuing the Nucleus: Experimental, Theoretical, and Analytical Investigations of Bubble and Crystal Formation in Magma
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Thomas Shea($266,200), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Classical Nucleation Theory, Crystal And Bubble, Crystal Nucleation, Glass Ceramics, Magma Ascent, Vapor Phase, Analytical, Bubbles, Components, Critical, Crystallization, Crystals, Distribution, Energy, Eruption, Experimental, Formation, Increasingly, Influence, Involving, Kinetics, Magmas, Melt, Melts, Minerals, Natural, Nuclei, Phases, Process, Via.

Exploring the Effects of Light Elements on the Iron Isotope Fractionation between Metal and Silicate
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Anat Shahar($322,240), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Isotope Fractionation, Isotopic Fractionation, Body, Bonding, Chemical, Core, Equilibrium, Focus, Fractionations, Has, Iron, Layers, Mantle, Metal, Moon, Planetary, Planets, Pressure, Process, Reservoirs, Silicate, Stable, Temperature.

Volcanic Hazard Assessment in the Southwestern US Based on High-precision Ar/Ar Geochronology of Late Quaternary Eruptive Centers
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Matthew T Heizler($197,771), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Rio Grande Rift, Hazard Assessment, Late Quaternary, Mass Spectrometers, Quaternary Volcanic, Ultra-high Precision, Volcanic Hazards, Ages, Centers, Comprehensive, Eruption, Evolution, Generated, Geochronology, Lt, Mexico, Precise, Previous, Region, Southwestern, Temporal-spatial.

Boron Isotope Geochemistry of Metasomatic Minerals in Subcontinental Mantle
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Richard L Hervig($249,961), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Deep Interior, Earth's Surface, Graduate Student, Isotopic Composition, Minerals Formed, Collaboration, Cycling, Evolution, Fluids, Geochemical, International, Mantle, Movement, Reservoirs, South, Trace, Training, Volatile.

Collaborative Research: RUI: Probing Caldera-Forming Magmatism: Crystal Accumulation in Large, Upper Crustal Silicic Magma Chambers
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Rachel J Beane($46,678), Bowdoin College, Brunswick
Key terms: Lake City Caldera, Shallow Magma Reservoirs, Turkey Creek Caldera, Plutonic Porphyries, Volcanic Units, Analysis, Applied, Crust, Electron, Field, Lithologies, Processes, Silicic, Super-eruption.

Collaborative Research: From Gabbros to Granites - An Investigation of Arc-Scale Differentiation at the Guadalupe Igneous Complex, Sierra Nevada, CA
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Keith D Putirka($103,172), California State University-Fresno Foundation, Fresno
2. Scott R Paterson($127,922), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Newly Formed Basalts, Newly-formed Basaltic Melts, Sierra Nevada Batholith, Continental Crust, Granitic Melts, Granitic Rocks, Newly-formed Basaltic, Partial Melting, Pre-existing Crustal, Tectonic Plate, Upper Crust, Age, Arcs, Beneath, California, Created, Debate, Differentiate, Directly, Evolution, Features, GIC, Granite, Granites, Has, Intruded, Life, Models, Origin, Pre-existing, Regions, Setting, Source, Volcanoes.

Building the Deccan Traps: What Can We Learn from Lava Flow Morphology in Large Igneous Provinces?
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Loyc Vanderkluysen($250,290), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Deccan Traps, Effusion Rate, Effusion Rates, Eruptive Style, Flow Morphology, Flow Transition, Laboratory Experiments, Lava Flows, Myr Ago, Sheet Flows, Simple Flows, Whereas Simple, Analog, Architecture, Central, Compound, Continent, Controls, Distribution, Documented, Emplacement, Eruption, Evolution, Formations, LIP, Lips, Mass, Measure, Oceans, Planets, Prevalence, Release, Similar, Sourced, Species, Thermal, Time, Vents, Volcanic, Volcanism, Volcanoes.

The Origin and Contamination of Magmas in the Lowermost Crust
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Sheila J Seaman($187,779), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Athabasca Granulite Terrane, Lower Crustal Rocks, Chipman Dikes, Compositional Characteristics, Granitic Magma, Granitic Magmas, Lowermost Crust, Partially Melt, Shallow Crust, Basalts, Common, Contamination, Continent, Degree, Earth, Ga, Isotopic, Largest, Mafic, Melts, Middle, Nmoho, Origin, Processes, Site, Source, Surface.

Workshop: ExTerra 2013, Florence, Italy
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Sarah Penniston-Dorland($27,265), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Exhumed Rocks, Exhumed Terranes, Subduction Zones, Archiving, Common, Crust, Deep, Distribution, Earth, Earthquakes, Exterra, Field, Hazards, Mantle, Organize, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Investigation of Anion Incompatibility in the Ca10(PO4)6(OH,F,Cl)2 Apatite Atomic Arrangement
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Brian L Phillips($326,976), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
2. John M Hughes($33,982), University of Vermont & State Agricultural College, Burlington
Key terms: Atomic Arrangement, Atomic Arrangements, Analysis, Anion, Apatite, Applications, Binary, Dentistry, End-member, F-cl, Geology, Medicine, Mineral, Possess, Solid, Synthesis, Ternary.

Deuterium\Hydrogen Partitioning Between C-O-H species in Silicate Melts and Fluids: An In-Situ Experimental Study at High Pressure and Temperature
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Dionysios I Foustoukos($255,474), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Hydrogen And Deuterium, Melts And Fluids, Water Dissolved, Constrain, Cycle, Cycling, Differences, Distribution, Earth, Experimental, Experiments, In-situ, Interior, Isotope, Mantle, Minerals, Molecules, Partitioning, Phases, Speciation, Spectroscopy, Student, Temperatures.

Assessing the Role of Crustal S Contamination in the Generation of PGE Mineralization in the Stillwater Complex, Montana: A multiple S and Re-Os Isotopic Study
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Edward M Ripley($299,988), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Sulfur Isotopic Values, Country Rock, Country Rocks, Crustal Sulfur, Igneous Rocks, J-m Reef, Pge Deposits, Sedimentary Rocks, Stillwater Complex, Sulfide Minerals, Sulfur Derived, Anomalous, Archean, Collected, Concentrations, Departure, Excess, Exploration, Found, Generation, Has, Importance, Increase, Interaction, J-M, Lenses, Magmas, Mantle, Mines, Models, Origin, Palladium, Percent, Platinum, Presence, Reef-type, Reserves, Rich, Sulfide-rich, TFL, Utilization.

RAPID: The 2012-2013 eruptions of Copahue volcano, Argentina
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Johan C Varekamp($28,273), Wesleyan University, Middletown
Key terms: Ore Bodies, Active, Activity, Argentina, Collaboration, Composition, Contribute, Copahue, Eruption, Fluids, Forecasting, Hazards, Information, Lake, Lead, Local, Monitoring, Natural, Parameters, Period, Prior, Shallow, Students, USA, Volcanic, Volcano, Volcanoes, Waters.

EAGER: U-PB DATING OF BISHOP TUFF ZIRCON BY SERIAL SECTIONING FOR GEOCHRONOMETER CALIBRATION AND MAGMATIC INSIGHTS
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Mary R Reid($12,081), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: U-pb And Arar, Age Distribution, Age Heterogeneities, Arar Dates, Bishop Tuff, Spatially Sensitive, Zircon Domains, Accuracy, Ages, Analyses, Approaches, Beam, Crystal, Dating, Distributions, Geologic, Identical, Ion, Minerals, Na, Performed, Processes, Resulting, Sanidine, Situ, Validate, Zircons.

RUI: Subduction Zone Flight Recorders: Integrating P-T-t-f Histories of Subduction and Exhumation of Eclogite through Microanalysis of Garnet and its Inclusions
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. F. Zeb Page($174,794), Oberlin College, Oberlin
Key terms: Pressure And Temperature, Tectonic And Fluid, Metamorphic Rocks, Subduction Zones, Allow, Ando, Composition, Conditions, Crust, Eclogite, Exhumation, Existing, Fluids, Garnet, Garnets, Information, Integrated, Magmatism, Mantle, Nature, Oceanic, Oxygen, Paths, Responsible, Situ, Tie, Timing.

Collaborative Research: Experimental Investigation of the Effects of Lithology and Melt Composition on Permeability and 3-D Melt Distribution in Partially Molten Rocks
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Glenn A Gaetani($184,958), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Partially Molten Rocks, Mantle Peridotite, Melt Distribution, Crust, Determined, Permeability, Ridges.

Collaborative Research: An EARTHTIME Chronology for the Matuyama-Brunhes Geomagnetic Field Reversal
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Brian Jicha($424,713), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Robert S Coe($64,449), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Accurate And Precise, Age Determinations, Geomagnetic Field, Lava Flows, Magnetic Field, Sediment Cores, Accuracy, Analog, Arar, Astrochronologic, Bear, Chron, Create, Dating, Dynamo, Earth, Essential, Evolution, Excursions, Geochronology, Graduate, Has, Information, Methods, Molten, Observations, Paleomagnetic, Past, Polarity, Potassium-argon, Process, Processes, Radiation, Radio-isotopic, Reversal, Reversals, Reversed, Rock, Set, Students, Supercomputer, Timing, UW, Undergraduate.

Transport and Deposition of Metallic Nanoparticles as a Hydrothermal Ore-forming Process
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. James A Saunders($199,275), Auburn University, Auburn
Key terms: Gold And Silver, Metallic Nanoparticles, Mineral Textures, Aggregation, Floor, Formation, Formed, Hydrothermal, Investigations, Isotopic, Lead, Magma, Magmas, Metals, Ores, Process, Properties, Release, Shallow, Solids, Sulfur, Transport, Western.

Timescales of Development of Sub-Ophiolite Subduction: High Precision U-Pb Dating and Geochemical Characterization of Late Magmatism and Metamorphism in the Oman-U.A.E. Ophiolite
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Matthew E Rioux($218,043), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Formation And Emplacement, In-situ Oceanic Crust, In-situ Oceanic, Late Magmatic, Metamorphic Sole, Ophiolite Formation, Subduction Initiation, Tectonic Setting, Analyses, Below, Chemical, Development, Insight, Mantle, Models, Ophiolites, Processes, Temporal, Thrusting, Trace.

Collaborative Proposal: Evolution of Lava Channel Networks: Implications for Lava Flow Hazards and Mitigation
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Einat Lev($39,552), Columbia University, New York
2. Katharine V Cashman($248,962), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Digital Elevation Models, Hawaiian Lava Flows, Channel Networks, Active, Activity, Barriers, Construction, Encounter, Experiments, Fluids, Interaction, Italy, Molten, Observatory, Obstacles, Photogrammetry, Risks, Topographic, Topography, Volcanic.

Chemical and Isotopic Gradients around Bubbles in Volcanic Feeder Systems
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. James M Watkins($188,694), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Bubble Growth, Concentration Profiles, Volcanic Eruptions, Volcanic Gas, Volcanic Glass, Analytical, Bubbles, Chemical, Diffusion, Diffusivity, Earth, Equilibrium, Experimental, Experiments, Gradients, HO, Has, Information, Isotopic, Magma, Melt, Rates, Removal, Resorption, Species, Surface, Techniques.

RAPID: RUI: Collaborative Research: Rapid Response to Ongoing Tolbachik Eruption
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Benjamin R Edwards($25,000), Dickinson College, Carlisle
2. Pavel E Izbekov($24,967), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Snow And Ice, Heat Transfer, Lava Flows, Ash, Covered, Critical, Erupted, Eruption, Field, Formed, Has, Interaction, Nearly, Ongoing, Products, Quantitative, RAPID, Time, Tolbachik, Volcano, Volcanoes.

The Columbia River Plateau-Snake River Plain Large Igneous Province: Plume, Flux Melting or Both?
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Samuel B Mukasa($210,045), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Melt Inclusions, Plume Model, CRP, Compositions, Continent, Features, Has, Ii, LIP, Magmatism, Mantle, Melting, Microprobe, Processes, River, SRP, Trace.

Collaborative Research: The Behavior of Sulfur During Magma Mixing and Implications for Magma Degassing and Ore Formation
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Adam C Simon($214,683), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. Philipp P Ruprecht($173,799), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Magma Mixing, Behavior, Diffusive, Magmas, Mass, Mobility, Oxidation, Sulfur, Transport, Volcanic.

Effect of Temperature Cycling on Crystal Size, Crystal Alignment, and Approach to Equilibrium in Magmas
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Allen F Glazner($292,301), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Crystal Size Relationships, Temperature Cycling Experiments, Crystal Growth, Earth's Crust, Earth's Surface, Magma Analog, Oscillating Temperature, Size Distribution, Volcanic Rocks, Cooling, Crystals, Effects, Examine, Granites, Magmas, Plays.

Collaborative Research: Recharge, Mixing and Eruption Triggering Mechanisms at Chaos Crags and 1915 Eruptions, Lassen Volcanic Center, California
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Kari M Cooper($59,428), University of California-Davis, Davis
2. Lisa C Hammersley($20,541), University Enterprises, Incorporated, Sacramento
3. Keith D Putirka($105,372), California State University-Fresno Foundation, Fresno
4. Erik Klemetti($50,643), Denison University, Granville
Key terms: Fresh Magma Inputs, Lassen Volcanic Center, Chaos Crags, Felsic Magma, Fresh Inputs, Lassen Peak, Magma Storage, Time Lag, Vapor Phase, Affect, Beneath, Chamber, Contrasts, Depths, Dome, Domes, Education, Eruption, Evidence, Intrusion, Mafic, Magmas, Magmatic, Mechanisms, Mixing, Prior, Processes, Recharge, Rock, Students, Temperatures, Textural, Timing, Triggered, Variety, Water.

Development of a Micro-baddeleyite (ZrO2) U-series Chronometer for Recent Mafic Lavas
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Axel K Schmitt($199,983), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Radioactive Decay, Volcanic Eruptions, Volcanic Hazards, Abundances, Baddeleyite, Chronometer, Date, Dating, History, Magmatic, Techniques, Uranium, Volcanoes.

Extension of the Plagioclase-liquid Hygrometer to Rhyolites and Sr and Ba Partitioning Studies: New Phase Equilibrium Experiments on Hydrous Rhyolite
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Rebecca A Lange($355,191), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Explosive Eruptions, Mineral Phases, Natural Rhyolite, Phase-equilibrium Experiments, Calibration, Compositions, Crust, Large-volume, Largest, Magma, Melt, Models, Phase-equilibrium, Rhyolites, Water.

EAR-PF: Linking lakes to the landscape: mechanisms that control terrestrial subsidies to pelagic food webs
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2013; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Steven Sadro($186,020), Sadro Steven, Los Olivos
Key terms: Aquatic Food Webs, Pelagic Food Webs, Organic Matter, Sierra Nevada, Terrestrial Carbon, Amount, California, Composition, Control, Driven, Dynamics, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Education, Experimental, Extent, Field, Flow, Has, High-elevation, Illustrate, Inputs, Lakes, Mechanisms, Natural, Organisms.

EAR-PF: Accounting for turbulent effects to improve prediction of sand and dust transport by wind
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2013; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Raleigh L Martin($170,000), Martin Raleigh L, Philadelphia
Key terms: Natural Environments, Sand Transport, Turbulent Winds, Wind Speed, Wind-blown Sand, Coastal, Coupled, Desert, Development, Dust, Interactions, Model, Predictions, Process, Rate, Wind-blown.

News Tools for Conservation Paleobiology: Taphonomic Mismatch to Identify Degraded Habitats and Trait-Based Paleoenvironmental Inference Models
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Andrew V Michelson($170,000), Michelson Andrew V, Akron
Key terms: Human Settlement, Locally Extinct, Conservation, Disturbed, Environments, Fossil, Has, Invaded, Lakes, Levels, Live, Living, Modified, People, Species, Traits.

Backwater Control of the Morphodynamics of Delta Growth
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. John B Shaw($170,000), Shaw John B, Austin
Key terms: Ancient Delta, River Deltas, Depositional, Effect, Experimental, Experiments, Found, Plan, Wyoming.

EAR-PF: Evaluating the forearc response to shallow subduction: a geo-/thermochronologic investigation of the world's type exhumed shallow subduction complex, southern California
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Alan D Chapman($85,000), Chapman Alan D, Tucson
Key terms: Education Plan, Shallow Subduction, Active, California, Crust, Erosion, Global, Importance, Pertinent, Program, Stanford, Tectonic.

Constraining Tephra Aggregation Efficiency with Laboratory Experiments and Numerical Modeling
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2013; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Leah M Courtland($170,000), Courtland Leah M, Tampa,
Key terms: Ash Aggregation, Electric Field, Laboratory Experiments, Tephra Dispersion, Volcanic Ash, Volcanic Plumes, Atmosphere, Aviation, Conditions, Constrain, Distribution, Education, Eruption, Facilitate, Fine, Ground, Has, Hazard, Humidity, Increased, Larger, Model, Modeling, Models, Numerical, Parameterization, Particle, Processes, Rate, Relative, Time, Vhuborg.

EAR-PF: An Investigation of Continental Rift-Parallel Deformation
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2013; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Dorothy S Stamps($170,000), Stamps, Dorothy S, Lafayette
Key terms: East African Rift, Gps Geodesy, Rift-parallel Deformation, Mechanisms, Processes, Program, Rift-parallel, Surface.

EAR-PF: Spectral morphology and source characteristics of low-frequency earthquakes near Parkfield, CA
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2013; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Amanda M Thomas($170,000), Thomas Amanda M, Berkeley
Key terms: Forecasts And Ground, Earthquake Forecasts, Education Plan, Field Course, Geologic Hazards, Graduate Seminar, Ground Motion, Low-frequency Earthquakes, California, Deep, Discussion, Lfes, Low-frequency, Parameters, Parkfield, Potential, Quantify, Rupture, Seismic, Slip, Source, Spectral.

EAR-PF: Structure of the North American craton from joint inversion of receiver functions, body waves, and surface waves
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2013; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Robert W Porritt($170,000), Porritt Robert W, Berkeley
Key terms: Joint Inversion, Component, Constraints, Continent, Course, Craton, Earthscope, Education, Fellowship, Generated, Graduate, Imaging, Internal, Internship, Level, Lithosphere, Methods, Models, Observations, Seismic, Structure, Undergraduate, Usarray, Wave.

Controls on the carbon isotopic composition of coalbed biogenic methane and implications for biogas stimulation
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. David Vinson($160,333), Vinson David, Tucson
Key terms: Carbon Isotope Signatures, Isotope Ratios, Mass Balance, Postdoctoral Fellowship, Acetate, Biodegradation, Coal, Competing, Compound-specific, Derived, Gas, Has, Methane, Methanogenesis, Methanogenic, Microbial, Modeling, Natural, Pathways, Processes, Reduction, Stable, Techniques, Utilization, Yield.

Coastal SEES (Track 1): Planning for hydrologic and ecological impacts of sea level rise on sustainability of coastal water resources
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2013; Program: SEES Coastal

1. Zhong-Ren Peng($441,125), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Coastal Water Resources, Indian River Lagoon, Puerto Morelos Lagoon, Salt Water Intrusion, Sea Level Rise, Coastal Aquifers, Coastal Ecosystems, East Coast, Fresh Water, Sandy Sediments, Water Quality, Characterized, Cohort, Directly, Discharge, Effects, Expertise, Field, Florida, Flow, Following, Funding, Limestone, Microbial, National, Phd, Pis, Planning, Program, Regional, Salinization, Springs, Student, Students, Sustainability, UF, Yucatan.

Hazards SEES Type 1: Persistent Volcanic Crises in the USA: From Precursors to Resilience
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: SEES Hazards

1. Bruce F Houghton($291,722), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Volcanic Eruptions, Active, Decision-making, Hazards, Volcanoes.

Collaborative Research: Facility Support to Renew Operation of the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM)
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: SEES Hazards

1. William E Carter($4,152,186), University of Houston, Houston
2. William E Dietrich($1,055,582), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Airborne Laser, Raw Alsm, Travel Time, Vegetative Canopy, Aircraft, Allows, Clouds, Dems, Developed, Features, Frequency, GEMINI, GPS, Georeferenced, Ground, IMU, NCALM, Node, Processes, Processing, Pulses, Resolution, Return, Surface, UH, Via.

CSEDI Collaborative Research: Application of Siderophile Elements to Early Earth Processes and Mantle Mixing
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Linda T Elkins-Tanton($170,000), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
2. Richard J Walker($370,184), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Geodynamic Modeling, Isotopic Anomalies, Abundances, Affected, Basalts, Chemical, Collaborative, Involve, Mantle, Million, Occurred, Ocean, Postdocs, Processes, Rock, Siderophile, Umd.

CSEDI: Constraining the mechanisms of melt transport, storage, and crustal contamination from temporal geochemical variations in monogenetic vents
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2013; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Marc A Hesse($335,452), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Monogenetic Vent Eruptions, Impending Eruption, Melt Generation, Melt Transport, Monogenetic Vents, Active, Chemical, Constrain, Continent, Crust, Erupted, Future, Information, Injection, Magma, Mantle, Mexico, Observed, Prior, Processes, Sequences, Signals, Storage, Time, Volcanism, Volcanoes.

Collaborative Research: Helium Diffusion in Lower Mantle Minerals
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2013; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Sujoy Mukhopadhyay($116,199), Harvard University, Cambridge
2. Dane Morgan($224,260), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
3. James A Van Orman($220,851), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland
Key terms: Deep Mantle, Earth's Mantle, First-principles Calculations, Helium Mobility, Carried, Composition, Crystals, Determined, Diffusivity, Experimental, Experimentally, Experiments, First-principles, Geochemical, Geological, Harvard, Has, Heterogeneity, Isotopes, Length, Lower, Mechanism, Nuclear, Observed, Periclase, Pressures, Solubility, Time.

CSEDI Collaborative Research: Electrical conductivity of deformed partially molten rocks: Implications for upper mantle structure and dynamics
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2013; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Anne Pommier($165,104), Arizona State University, Tempe
2. David L Kohlstedt($214,605), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Deformed Partially Molten, Molten Mantle Rocks, Partially Molten Mantle, Conductivity Models, Electrical Conductivity, Field Electrical, Plate Tectonics, Shear Strain, Anisotropy, Bands, Combined, Direction, Effects, Experiments, Formation, Geophysical, Investigated, Investigation, Lithosphere, Mechanisms, Melt, Orientation, Plates, Processes, Relative, Underlying, Zones.

2013 Interior of the Earth GRC/GRS
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2013; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Nancy R Gray($41,950), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Grc And Grs, Core-mantle Boundary, Graduate Students, Conference, Core-mantle, Deep, Discussion, Dynamics, Earth, Evolution, Exchange, Focus, Geochemical, Gordon, Interactions, Interior, June, Seminar, Structure.

Neutrino Geosciences
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2013; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. William F McDonough($29,975), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: 21-23 March, Borexino, Experiments, Field, Geoscience, Geoscientists, Japan, Kamland, Meeting, Physics, Senior, Shared.

CSEDI Collaborative Research: Valence state of iron in the lower mantle
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Sang-Heon Shim($69,447), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Electronic Configuration, Lower Mantle, Silicate Perovskite, Upper Mantle, Combine, Composition, Conditions, Deep, Depth, Effort, Experimental, Ferric, Has, Iron, Lower-mantle, Measure, Minerals, Oxidation, Preliminary, Pressure, Pressure-temperature, Reactions, Redox, Reducing, Shown.

REU Site (Collaborative Research): Before and After a Supereruption: Magmatic Insights from the Southern Black Mountains, AZ
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2013; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Nicholas P Lang($111,209), Mercyhurst University, Erie
2. Calvin F Miller($297,165), Vanderbilt University, Nashville
Key terms: Does, Enhancing, Evolution, Faculty, Female, Field, Future, Intrusive, Magmatic, Magmatism, Mentoring, Participating, Rock, Students, Supereruptions, Supereruptive, Volcanic.

The mechanism of fumarate photoreduction on zinc sulfide nanoparticles
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Jillian F Banfield($399,730), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Intermediate Species, Organic Molecules, Reaction Pathway, Solar Energy, Sulfide Minerals, Zinc Sulfide, Abiotic, Absorption, Acid, Bonds, Carbon, Chemical, Chemistry, Complex, Conditions, Constraints, Cycle, Development, Electron, Fumarate, Has, Interactions, Life, Particular, Permitted, Products, Reactions, Redox, Semiconductor, Spectroscopy, Succinate, Surface, TCA, Techniques, Time-resolved, Zns.

A Dual Isotope Conundrum: Unraveling a Cryptic Subsurface N Cycle
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Colleen Hansel($360,000), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Coastal Ecosystems, Fe Cycling, Abiotic, Anaerobic, Biotic, Coupling, Delta, Denitrification, Discrepancy, Effects, Environment, Global, Human, Isotope, Isotopic, NO-, Nitrogen, Subsurface, Terrestrial, Watersheds, Workshop.

Thermodynamics of Rare Earth Minerals
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Alexandra Navrotsky($299,999), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Rare Earths, Solid Solutions, Calorimetry, Characterized, Critical, Formation, Heats, Mineral, Minerals, Oxide, Processes, Properties, Rock, Selected, Structures, Technologies, Time, Variety.

Pinpointing the Initiation of Modern Caribbean Reefs: Closing the Million Year Gap
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Ali Pourmand($288,077), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Ecological And Environmental, Fringing Reef Development, Modern Caribbean Reefs, Dominated Reefs, Dominican Republic, Faunal Turnover, Final Stage, Reef Ecosystems, Sea Level, Southern Coast, Accretion, Climate, Coral, Factors, Framework, Gap, Global, Growth, Ma, Missing, Model, Pleistocene, Progradation, Rate, Respond, Rise, Stratigraphic, Terminal, Terraces, Transition.

Paleoclimate Analysis of a Miocene Arctic Forest from the Kolyma River Basin, Northeastern Russia
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Hope Jahren($170,000), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Kolyma River Basin, Miocene Arctic Forests, Stable Isotope Analyses, Tertiary Arctic Forests, Arctic North, Fossil Forests, Miocene Sediments, Northeastern Siberia, Oxygen Isotope, Polaris Ii, Seasonal Precipitation, Climate, Composition, Determination, Education, Eocene, Epscor, Fossils, Funding, Has, Hawaii, Humidity, Island, Light, Ma, Maximum, NSF, Original, Plant, Regime, Salary, Schubert, Separate, Sternberg, Transport, Water.

Collaborative Research: Integrated Data-Model Analysis of CO2-Climate-Vegetation Feedbacks in a Dynamic Paleo-Icehouse
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2014; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Michael T Hren($203,500), University of Connecticut, Storrs
2. Joseph D White($169,070), Baylor University, Waco
Key terms: Glacial-interglacial Transitions, Late Paleozoic, Physiological Forcing, Terrestrial Biosphere, Vegetation-climate Feedbacks, Atmospheric, Coupled, Cycling, Empirical, Experimental, Glacial-interglacial, Integrated, Internships, Modeling, Plant, Potential, Students, Surface, Time-scales, Traits, Univ, Vegetation-climate.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH - Earth-Life Transitions: Integrated Data-Model Analysis of CO2-Climate-Vegetation Feedbacks in a Dynamic Paleo-Icehouse
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2014; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. William A Dimichele($593,033), University of California-Davis, Davis
2. Christopher J Poulsen($330,030), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Glacial-interglacial Transitions, Late Paleozoic, Physiological Forcing, Terrestrial Biosphere, Vegetation-climate Feedbacks, Atmospheric, Coupled, Cycling, Empirical, Experimental, Glacial-interglacial, Integrated, Internships, Modeling, Plant, Potential, Students, Surface, Time-scales, Traits, Univ, Vegetation-climate.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Taphonomy, paleoecology, and evolution of mammals and squamates from Egg Mountain: An exceptional view of a Late Cretaceous ecosystem
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2013; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Gregory P Wilson Mantilla($109,893), University of Washington, Seattle
2. David Varricchio($74,464), Montana State University, Bozeman
3. Jack Conrad($16,142), New York Institute of Technology, New York
Key terms: Mammals And Lizards, 100-66 Million, Egg Mountain, Evolutionary History, Graduate Students, Late Cretaceous, Modern Mammals, Ago, Ancient, Approach, Assemblage, Complete, Diversification, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Exceptional, Fossil, Geologic, Has, Investigate, Locality, Montana, Period, Public, Skeletons.

ELT Collaborative Research: Beyond the boring billion: Late Proterozoic glaciation, oxygenation and the proliferation of complex life
Award Effective Date: 09/27/2013; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Noah J Planavsky($211,202), Yale University, New Haven
2. Noah J Planavsky($94,504), Dartmouth College, Hanover
3. Chris Reinhard($199,690), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
4. Timothy W Lyons($445,485), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Cause-and-effect Relationships, Global-scale Glaciation, Oxygen Levels, Ago, Animals, Billion, Cause-and-effect, Earth, Global-scale, History, Life, Onset, Organisms, Reach, Remarkable, Riverside, Timing.

EAGER: Mississippian Bear Gulch Limestone Paleoecology, Stratigraphy and Geochemistry
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2013; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. George D Stanley($29,025), University of Montana, Missoula
Key terms: Bear Gulch Limestone, BG, Chemical, Lagerstätte, Mississippian, Montana.

Collaborative Research: Late Pleistocene paleoclimatology from soil carbonate pendants in the Colorado Plateau.
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2013; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Thure E Cerling($424,745), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
2. Amy L Ellwein($106,287), Western Colorado University, Gunnison
Key terms: Pedogenic Carbonate Coatings, Stable Isotope Analysis, Intact Stratigraphy, Soil Carbonate, Thu Age, Colorado, Continent, Ecological, Laminae, Shifts, Time, Utah.

ELT Collaborative Research: Perturbation of the Marine Food Web and Extinction During the Oceanic Anoxic Event at the Cenomanian/Turonian Boundary
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2013; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Julio C Sepulveda($67,997), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Michael A Arthur($422,521), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
3. Robert M Leckie($226,761), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
4. Bradley B Sageman($222,275), Northwestern University, Evanston
Key terms: Cenomanian-turonian Boundary, Ocean Acidification, Oxygen Deficiency, Rock Outcrops, Activities, Ancient, Anthropogenic, Cenomanian-turonian, Ecosystems, Geological, Hypoxia, Marine, Organisms, Shells.

Collaborative Research: Filling the Triassic geochronologic gap: A continuous cored record of continental environmental change in western North America
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2013; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Roland Mundil($80,000), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
2. Dennis V Kent($79,955), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
3. Randall B Irmis($80,621), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
4. George E Gehrels($102,091), University of Arizona, Tucson
5. Paul E Olsen($445,195), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Biotic And Environmental, Forest National Park, Petrified Forest National, Geochronologic Gap, Late Triassic, Magnetic Polarity, Newark Basin, Reference Section, U-pb Zircon, Age, Arizona, Calibrated, Chinle, Climate, Continent, Continuous, Core, Coring, Entire, Framework, Global, Hole, Integration, Land, Largest, Marine, Modern, Orientation, Outcrop, Outreach, PFNP, Poorly, Registered, Time, Turnover, U-pb, Was.

ELT Collaborative research: Evolutionary and ecological responses of small mammal communities to habitat and climate change over the last 5 million years
Award Effective Date: 09/11/2013; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Jung-Eun Lee($136,617), Brown University, Providence
2. Kevin T Uno($110,199), Columbia University, New York
3. Jung-Eun Lee($23,143), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
4. John M Eiler($147,343), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
5. David L Fox($186,957), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
6. Kena L Fox-Dobbs($105,884), University of Puget Sound, Tacoma
Key terms: Carbon Isotope, Diversity Dynamics, Ecological Structure, Isotope Ratios, Morphometric Analyses, Taxonomic Turnover, Ashfalls, Based, Biogeochemistry, Bulk, Climate, Combination, Comprehensive, Description, Ecology, Ecosystem, Evolution, Existing, Forcings, Fossil, Gaps, Grasslands, Isotopic, Local, Long-term, Mammal, Meade, Models, Modern, Origin, Output, Paleoclimate, Paleoecology, Paleosol, Proxies, Reconstructions, Species, Specific, Stratigraphic, Tooth.

ELT COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Investigating the Biotic and Paleoclimatic Consequences of Dust in the Late Paleozoic
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Nicholas G Heavens($174,639), Hampton University, Hampton
2. Gerilyn S Soreghan($473,116), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
3. Sarah Aciego($133,644), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
4. Linda A Hinnov($67,319), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Atmospheric Dustiness, Earth-system Behavior, Future Climate, Late Paleozoic, Marine Ecosystems, Biosphere, Earth-system, Effects, Formal, Glacial-interglacial, Glaciation, Implies, Meetings, Modeling, Over-arching, Students, Tropical, Via.

Collaborative Research: Oxygen, Ecology and the Cambrian radiation of Animals
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. David T Johnston($68,223), Harvard University, Cambridge
2. Lisa A Levin($113,306), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Cambrian Radiation, Post-doctoral Scholar, Animal, Animals, Biological, Canada, Carnivory, Experience, Feeding, Funding, Geological, Harvard, Increased, Levels, Linkage, Million, Modern, Ocean, Oceans, Oxygen, Post-doctoral, Prediction, Public, Scripps, Sedimentary, Tested.

Collaborative Research: Elements of an extinction: Exploring the delayed Caribbean extinction with stable isotopes and trace elements
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Aaron O'Dea($44,343), Smithsonian Institution, Washington
2. Ethan L Grossman($246,371), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Northern Hemisphere Glaciation, 1-2 Myr, Doomed Taxa, Extinction Rates, Analyses, Biodiversity, Biotic, Caribbean, Closure, Environmental, Evolutionary, Extinctions, Fossil, Fragmentation, Geochemical, High-resolution, Integrate, Isotope, Isthmus, Loss, Marine, Nutrient-rich, Nutrients, Paleoenvironmental, Panama, Plio-pleistocene, Process, Processes, Proxies, Refugia, Responsible, Reveal, SWC, Stable, TAMU, Temperature, Was.

ELT Collaborative Research: Restructuring of terrestrial environments following the Permian-Triassic mass extinction
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Christian A Sidor($643,472), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Peter D Roopnarine($96,510), California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco
3. Sterling J Nesbitt($259,988), Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
Key terms: Burke Museum, Field Museum, Game Level, Mass Extinction, Mass Extinctions, Natural History, Asilisaurus, Biotic, CAS, California, Effects, FMNH, Fieldwork, Focusing, Installations, Involved, Livingstone, Museums, Paleontological, Paleontology, Public, Seasons, Tanzania, Terrestrial, UWBM, Web, Zambia.

EAGER: Proof of concept: U-Th Dating of Lake-level History at Mono Basin, CA
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Sidney Hemming($12,136), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Mono Lake, Characterizing, Climate, EAGER, Interdisciplinary, Methods, Pis, Refined, Risk.

Collaborative Research: Deciphering the regional-versus-global aspects of the Toarcian (Jurassic) Oceanic Anoxic Event in North America
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2013; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Benjamin Gill($185,562), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Widespread Marine Anoxia, Global Carbon, Oceanic Anoxic, Toarcian Oae, Virginia Tech, Ago, Cycles, Development, Disturbances, Environmental, Europe, Geochemical, Geosciences, Jurassic, Mesozoic, Million, Museum, Nature, North, Oaes, Past, Program, Public, Students, Tulsa, Undergraduate.

Generalized Transport Models in Earth Surface Dynamics: Novel Experiments for Demonstrating and Quantifying Non-local Transport
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2013; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Kimberly M Hill($180,000), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Sediment And Particulate, Accurate Models, Anomalous Diffusion, Geomorphic Transport, Surface Dynamics, Transport Models, Environmental, Evolution, Experimental, Experiments, Local, NCED, Non-local, Properties, Prototype.

ELT Collaborative Research: Bayesian Paleoclimate Proxies-Transforming the Vertebrate Fossil Record
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2013; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Arndt Schimmelmann($168,394), Indiana University, Bloomington
2. Jason Head($228,924), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln
Key terms: Mammals And Reptiles, Temperature And Precipitation, Circulation Models, Floral Composition, Global Climate, Past Climates, Relative Probabilities, Allows, Anatomy, Based, Bayesian, Body, Description, Environmental, Environments, Estimate, Estimates, Faunas, Forecast, Fossil, Fossils, Framework, Functional, Future, Independent, Interior, Living, Local, Method, Miocene, Modern, North, Paleoenvironment, Proxies, Proxy, Reconstruct, Spaces, Species, Traits, Values, Vertebrate.

Collaborative Research: Testing the Early Late Ordovician Cool Water Hypothesis
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2013; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Kenneth MacLeod($179,992), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
2. Stephen A Leslie($70,703), James Madison University, Harrisonburg
3. Achim D Herrmann($125,736), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Late Ordovician Glaciation, Cool Water, Water Carbonates, Conditions, Deltao, Deposition, Epicontinental, Geochemical, Global, Interval, LOG, Potential, Secondary, Sedimentological, Students, Temperature, Warm.

Determining the Duration of the Ediacaran Shuram C-isotope Excursion using Rock Magnetic Cyclostratigraphy
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2013; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Kenneth P Kodama($243,764), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
Key terms: Astronomically-forced Global Climate, Carbon Isotope Excursion, Global Climate Cycles, Rock Magnetic Cyclostratigraphy, Shuram Carbon Isotope, Astronomically-forced Global, Sedimentary Rocks, Shuram Excursion, South Australia, South China, Time Sequences, Chronostratigraphies, Collected, Concentration, Detect, Doushantuo, Duration, Earth, Ediacaran, Formation, High-resolution, History, Localities, Primary, Resolution, Technique, Wonoka.

Biostratigraphic and paleogeographic utility of Cambrian-Ordovician trilobite faunas in Alaska
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2013; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. John F Taylor($119,753), Indiana University of Pennsylvania Research Institute, Indiana
Key terms: Cambrian-ordovician Trilobite, Jones Ridge, Northern Half, AAT, Alaska, Arctic, Cambrian-ordovician, Climate, Continent, Faunas, Fossil, Geologists, Geoscientists, History, Insight, Knowledge, Limestone, Maps, NST, Near, Planet, Regions, Resources, Rock, ST, Tectonic, Terrane, Thick, Time, YSB.

The International Commission on Stratigraphy: developing global geostandards through international collaboration and consensus
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Stanley C Finney($75,000), California State University-Long Beach Foundation, Long Beach
Key terms: Field Business Meetings, International Chronostratigraphic Chart, Field Investigations, Geologic Time, International Commission, Activities, Funding, Global, ICS, Primary, Stratigraphy, Subcommissions, Websites.

Earth-Life Transitions: Linked geochemical/biotic response to massive volcanic CO2 injection during the Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Thorsten W Becker($1,000,000), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Mass Extinction, Mass Extinctions, Modern Fauna, Experiment, Model, Models, Present-day, T-J.

Survivability of glacially induced quartz grain microtextures during glacio-fluvial transport
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Dustin E Sweet($49,943), Texas Tech University, Lubbock
Key terms: Fluvially Induced Microtextures, Glacially Induced Microtextures, Fluvial Transport, Glacial Front, Grain-to-grain Contact, Quartz Grains, Analysis, Ancient, Assess, Distance, Downstream, Field, Grain-to-grain, Has, Indicated, Initial, Larger, Minimal, Overprinting, Pilot, Produce, Progressive, River, Rivers, Students, Variety.

EAGER: Testing the Hypothesized Grand Canyon-Appalachian Connection
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. George E Gehrels($111,256), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Grand Canyon-appalachian Connection, Hypothesized Grand Canyon-appalachian, Upper Paleozoic Strata, Appalachian Foreland, Canyon-appalachian Connection, Detrital Zircon, Dispersal Pathways, Grand Canyon-appalachian, Hf Isotope, Late Paleozoic, Mountain Range, Ages, Analysis, Climate, Examine, Grains, Information, Interplay, Issue, Lithosphere, Near, North, Processes, Provenance, Reconstruct, Reported, Sandstones, Sediment, Shed, Southern, Testing, Thomas, Time, Traditional, U-pb, Was.

CAREER: Tracking the evolution of grasses and grasslands: using phytoliths to explore evolution-ecology links in deep time
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2013; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Caroline Stromberg($604,020), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: C4 Grasses, Crop Plants, Ecological Expansion, Grass Lineages, Phytolith Assemblages, Activities, Ago, Analysis, Climate, Ecology, Educational, Environmental, Evolution, Evolution-ecology, Evolutionary, Fossil, Grassland, Grasslands, Habitats, Has, Land, Mapping, Million, Phytoliths, Processes, Program, Silica, Washington.

RAPID: Stratigraphic architecture and sedimentology of the early Cambrian Maotianshan Shale
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2013; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Michael Hofmann($25,254), University of Montana, Missoula
Key terms: Maotianshan Shale Interval, Document, Exposure, Fossil, Montana, Preservation, Sedimentology.

Collaborative Research: Estimating the Tempo of the Cambrian Explosion
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2013; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Susannah M Porter($40,000), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
2. Adam Maloof($30,000), Princeton University, Princeton
3. Steve C Wang($30,000), Swarthmore College, Swarthmore
Key terms: Cambrian Explosion, Life Suddenly, Method Developed, Pis Maloof, Skeletal Animals, Skeletal Genera, Appearances, Billion, Darwin, Diversification, Estimate, Estimates, Existence, Interval, Million, Origination, Pulses, Rate, Student, Time, Timing, Wang.

Collaborative Research: Macrophytes Across the Proterozoic - Phanerozoic Boundary: A Baseline Study of Macroalgae During a Critical Interval in Earth System History
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2013; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Shuhai Xiao($80,000), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
2. Steven T LoDuca($75,000), Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti
Key terms: Organic Carbon Burial, Carbon Cycle, Carbon Isotope, Critical Interval, Modern Seas, Shallow Marine, Animal, Blooms, Broader, Characterization, Diversification, Dynamics, Ediacaran, Fossil, Gap, Lack, Macroalgae, Macroalgal, Noncalcified, Ordovician, Origins, Paleozoic, Play, Proterozoic, Public, Training.

Integrating multidisciplinary tools to study Plio-Pleistocene paleoecology of early hominins from the Omo Valley, Ethiopia
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2013; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Zeresenay Alemseged($179,825), California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco
Key terms: Omo Sequence, Paleofaunal Databases, Public Outreach, Collected, Ethiopia, Graduate, Hominins, Human, Outlets, Paleoecology, Significantly, Stable.

RAPID: Observations of physical impacts following Hurricane Sandy
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Jennifer L Irish($27,910), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Hurricane Sandy, Damages, Deposits, Information, Jersey, Pis, RAPID, Reconnaissance, Storm, Surveys, Tsunami, York.

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: 04/01/2013; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Raymond L Bernor($25,206), Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation, Los Angeles
Key terms: Chinese Scientists, Bring, California, China, Collaborations, Discoveries, Exciting, Funding, History, Natural, Paleontologists, Students, Unprecedented, Wang.

Salvaging dinosaur embryos, eggs, and associated geological data from Tustea, Romania, for future phylogenetic and paleobiological studies
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Gerald Grellet-Tinner($7,252), The Journey Museum, Rapid City
Key terms: Eggs And Embryos, Fossil Dinosaur Eggs, Dinosaur Eggs, Dinosaur Embryos, Journey Museum, Rapid City, South Dakota, Cluj, Future, Geological, Paleobiological, Phylogenetic, Pis, Romania, Site, Travel, Tustea.

Collaborative Research: Improved Constraints on Holocene Retreat History of the Laurentide and Scandinavian Ice Sheets from Cosmogenic Dating and Implications for Sea-level Rise
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Anders E Carlson($129,505), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Sea-level Rise Contributions, Terrestrial Ice Sheets, Global Warming, Naturally Warmer, Retreat Rates, Sea-level Rise, Century, Chronologies, Climate, Cosmogenic, Eastern, Estimates, Existing, Future, LIS, Laurentide, Margins, Melt, Mid-holocene, SIS, Scandinavian, Southern.

National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics 2: the past and future Earth
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Christopher Paola($2,999,993), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Education And Native, Past And Future, Earth-surface Dynamics, Earth-surface Environment, Informal Education, National Center, Nced Stc, Summer Institutes, Activities, Activity, Alliance, Broad, Collaborate, Continue, Created, Development, ESD, Earth-surface, Experimental, Experiments, Extended, Facilities, Faculty, Field, Focus, Focused, Graduate, Has, Hosting, Human, Legacy, Linked, Minnesota, Nceds, Opportunities, People, Postdocs, Predicting, Program, Programs, Set, Shared, Students, Theme, Theoretical, Undergraduate, Visits, Water, Workshops.

Development of a High-Resolution Stromatolite Facies Model: Environmental Impacts at the Dawn of Oxygenation
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Russell Shapiro($59,103), Chico State Enterprises, Chico
Key terms: Animikie Basin, Critical Interval, Complex, Conditions, Horizons, Impacts, Macrostructural, Microfossil, Oceanographic, Oxidation, Paleoenvironmental, Stromatolite, Stromatolites, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Paleocolor--The Mechanics and Evolution of Plumage Color in Birds and Other Dinosaurs
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Julia Clarke($140,223), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Liliana B D'Alba($200,792), University of Akron, Akron
Key terms: Melanosome Morphology, Plumage Color, Allow, Altered, Biology, Birds, Chemistry, Coloration, Dinosaurs, Diversification, Diversity, Evolution, Examine, Extant, Feather, Feathers, Fossil, Melanosomes, Microscopy, Nanostructures, Pis, Public, Section, Significance, Spectrometry, Univ.

Collaborative Research: The provenance of "Grenville" age detrital zircon in western North America and the Neoproterozoic to early Paleozoic evolution of southwestern Laurentia
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2013; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Christopher M Fedo($40,007), University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville
2. Lang Farmer($147,854), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Detrital Zircon Age, Ga Igneous Rocks, U-pb Age Spectra, U-pb And Hf, Detrital Zircons, Hf Isotope, Hf Isotopic, Northern Mexico, Relative Peak, Sedimentary Successions, Siliciclastic Sedimentary, U-pb Age, Zircon U-pb, Analyses, Basement, Central, Combined, Derived, Evolution, Grains, Grenville, Mesoproterozoic, Paleozoic, Pis, Provenance, Reveal, SW, Situ, Source, Sources, Tectonic.

Understanding and Monitoring Abrupt Climate Change and its Impacts
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2013; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Chris Elfring($40,000), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Abrupt, Climate, Examine.

Collaborative Research: Morphology and Molecules: Diatom Diversification, Extinction, and Dispersal in an Ancient Tropical Lake System
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2013; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Trisha Spanbauer($149,998), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln
2. Paul A Baker($34,997), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Andinus Complex, Genetic Characterization, Highly Interdisciplinary, Investigate Evolutionary, Lago Chungará, Lake Titicaca, Molecular Genetic, Approaches, Assess, Biogeographic, Climate, Cores, Cyclostephanos, Dispersal, Diversification, Endemic, Environmental, Extinction, Flow, Fossil, Framework, Geographic, History, Lakes, Morphological, Multiple, Populations, Stability, Tropical.

Collaborative Research: A multi-proxy approach to Early Miocene community, landscape, and climate reconstruction, Ethiopian Plateau
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Aaron Pan($30,221), Don Harrington Discovery Center, Amarillo
Key terms: Goethite And Stomatal, Temperature And Pco2, Ethiopian Plateau, Global Temperature, Mammal Bones, Multiple Independent, Past Climate, Africa, Ago, Biogeographic, Biotic, Compare, Comparing, Decline, Description, Eurasia, Extraordinary, Fauna, Flora, Fossil, Fossils, Frogs, Has, History, Landscape, Leaves, Methods, Million, Miocene, Modern, Paleoclimate, Paleoecology, Plant, Proxies, Reconstruction, Rise, Rock, Soft, Students, Terrestrial, Time, Was.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Integrated Paleoceanographic Analysis of the Late Paleozoic Midcontinent Sea
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Achim D Herrmann($220,001), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Black Shale, Environmental Conditions, Midcontinent North, Superestuarine Circulation, Deposition, Modern, Paleozoic.

Collaborative Research: Records of Permian Environments and Climate from Mid-Continent Redbeds and Evaporites.
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Kathleen C Benison($72,228), West Virginia University Research Corporation, Morgantown
Key terms: Climate, Climatic, Environments, Evaporites, Lakes, Mid-continent, Permian, Redbeds, Saline, Soreghan.

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. L. Peter Gromet($127,319), Brown University, Providence
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.

CAREER: Exploring the Neogene Plant Record of Global Vegetational and Climatic Changes in eastern North America - Research and Education Program
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Thomas Jones($421,657), East Tennessee State University, Johnson City
Key terms: East Tennessee, Eastern North, Fossil Plants, K-12 Students, Museum Outreach, Natural History, Neogene Climate, Paleoclimatic Reconstruction, Analysis, Audiences, Course, Courses, Development, ETSU, Education, Fossils, Gray, International, Involve, Lab, Local, Meetings, National, Paleobotany, Paleoecologic, Programs, Public, Site, Teachers, Training, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Laurentian and Non-Laurentian (Baltican) Components of Terranes in NW Washington?
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Tectonics

1. Edwin H Brown($31,641), Western Washington University, Bellingham
2. George E Gehrels($62,968), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Chilliwack Terrane, Continental Margin, Field Trips, Geological Society, Pacific Northwest, Plate Tectonics, Sedimentary Rocks, Western Washington, Accreted, Ages, Ancient, Arc, Enhance, Exotic, History, Igneous, Knowledge, Paleozoic, Public, Students, Zircon, Zircons.

Dating Transpression and Extrusion at Mid-Crustal Depths
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2014; Program: Tectonics

1. David P Moecher($260,043), University of Kentucky Research Foundation, Lexington
Key terms: Absolute, Analysis, Appalachians, Collision, Constraints, Continent, Crust, Deformation, Extrusion, Faculty, Features, Geochronology, Geoscientists, History, Laboratory, Markedly, Methods, Mid-crustal, Models, Northern, Occurred, Range, Simultaneous, Structural, Student, Suggestive, Transpression, Transpressionextrusion, Via, Zone, Zones.

Microstructural Analysis and EBSD Applications in Earth Sciences
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2013; Program: Tectonics

1. Mary L Leech($15,791), San Francisco State University, San Francisco
Key terms: Microstructural Analysis, Short Course, Diffraction, EBSD, MTEX, Orientation, Particular, Properties, Texture, Workshop.

Tracking the Siberian-Laurentian Detrital Transition in the Farewell Terrane, Southwestern Alaska
Award Effective Date: 09/20/2013; Program: Tectonics

1. Brian A Hampton($23,085), New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
Key terms: Origin And Tectonic, Alaska Range, Arctic Alaska, Crustal Fragments, Detrital Zircon, Eastern Siberia, Farewell Terrane, Late-stage Transport, Tectonic History, Accretion, Canada, Circum-arctic, Components, Continent, Contribute, Cordillera, Early-stage, Extent, Field, Geologic, Has, Lab, Largest, Late-stage, Margin, Michigan, North, Northern, Originated, Paleozoic, Reflected, Regions, Remote, Siberian-arctic, Source, Terranes, U-pb, Western.

Collaborative Research: Did Miocene Core Complexes in Western Arizona Initiate as Late Cretaceous Extensional Shear Zones?
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Tectonics

1. Martin S Wong($91,118), Colgate University, Hamilton
2. John S Singleton($60,957), George Mason University, Fairfax
Key terms: Core Complex Extension, Harcuvar And Buckskin-rawhide, Late Cretaceous Extension, Miocene Core Complex, Core Complexes, Cretaceous Deformation, Lower Plate, Shear Zones, Cordillera, Development, Extensional, Geometry, Influenced, Initiated, Large-magnitude, Mid-tertiary, Processes, Structures, Tectonic, Tertiary.

Quaternary and Late Neogene Growth of the Cucomungo Canyon Restraining Bend and Associated Deformation Rates, Death Valley-Fish Lake Valley Fault System, Western Great Basin
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Tectonics

1. John S Oldow($397,365), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
Key terms: Death Valley-fish Lake, Deformation Rate Estimates, Estimate Deformation Rates, Lake Valley Fault, Valley-fish Lake Valley, Death Valley-fish, Earthquake Cycle, Geologic Time, Incremental Displacements, Restraining Bend, Three-dimensional Geometry, Time Scales, Valley-fish Lake, Active, Analysis, Basin, Broad, Capacity, Characterization, Determination, Durations, Evolution, Faults, Formation, Growth, Information, Intervals, Mechanisms, Millions, Models, Offset, Polarity, Possibly, Processes, Quaternary, Remains, Resolution, Stratigraphic, Structural, Structure, Structures, Surface, Tectonic, Temporal, Thousands, Three-dimensional, Western.

Neotectonic History of the Eastern California Shear Zone based on U-Pb/U-Th Dating of Syntectonic Precipitates
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Tectonics

1. Katharine Maher($139,874), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Dating Fault Activity, Dating Techniques, Formation Mechanisms, Long-term Geological, Approach, California, Constraints, Deformation, ECSZ, Earthquakes, Fault-related, Initiation, Long-term, Opal, Palaeoseismological, Past, Public, Rates, SHRIMP-RG, Short-term, Situ, Strain, Time, Timing.

Collaborative Research: Tracing the Geomorphic Signature of Strike-Slip Faulting in Marlborough Hill Country, South Island, New Zealand
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Tectonics

1. Alison R Duvall($305,664), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Rebecca M Flowers($113,519), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Fault Activity, Fault Motion, Lateral Fault, Marlborough Fault, Seismic Hazard, Slip Rates, Strike-slip Fault, Strike-slip Faulting, Strike-slip Faults, Vertical Motion, Active, Analysis, Degree, Evolution, Geomorphic, Indicator, Landscape, MFS, Magnitude, Natural, Primary, Quantitative, Strike-slip, Tectonic, Zealand.

Collaborative Research: Paleogeographic Record of Contractional to Extensional Tectonics in the Cordilleran Hinterland, Nevada
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Tectonics

1. Michael E Smith($86,000), Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park
2. Brian Jicha($56,024), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
3. Daniel F Stockli($297,000), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Fluvial And Lacustrine, Volcanic Ash Beds, Basin Formation, Cordilleran Hinterland, Detrital Zircon, Extensional Tectonics, Gold Deposits, Mountain Range, Orogen Topography, Orogenic Plateau, Past Topography, Tectonic Model, Accumulated, Age, Ago, Analyses, Ancient, Andes, Basins, Climate, Collapse, Collect, Composition, Constrain, Contributions, Critical, Crust, Crystals, Deep, Desert, Drainage, Dynamics, Earth, Elevation, Elevations, Evolution, Exhumation, Following, Formed, Geochronology, Grains, Initial, Interbedded, Lake, Mantle, Measuring, Million, Morphology, Multiple, Neogene, Nevada, Occurrence, Paleogene, Precipitation, Processes, Quantify, Quickly, Ranges, Rates, Reconstruct, Region, Regions, Relief, Rivers, Rock, Sediment, Sedimentary, Similar, Strata, Surface, Techniques, Time, Transition, Was, Water, Western.

Active Deformation in the Arabian-Eurasian Continental Collision Zone
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Tectonics

1. Robert E Reilinger($171,708), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Earthquake And Volcanic, Collision Zone, Continental Collision, Host-country Partners, Active, Constrain, Deformation, Direct, Forces, Geodetic, Hazards, Host-country, Investigate, Kinematic, Lithospheric, Observations, Occurred, Principal, Processes, Zones.

Temperatures and Fluids on Faults Based on Carbonate Clumped-isotope Thermometry
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Tectonics

1. John M Eiler($175,723), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Low-angle Normal Faults, Mormon Peak Detachment, Low-angle Normal, Southern Nevada, Stress Paradox, Structural Geology, Carbonate, Contributing, Crust, Dissolution, Earthquakes, Footwall, Fracture, Gouge, Has, Landslide, Large-displacement, Mechanics, Model, Notion, Origin, Planes, Potential, Predictions, Rock, Slip, Tectonic, Temperature, Thermometer, Transformative, Vein, Veins, Warm, World.

Collaborative Research: Geological Constraints on the Physical State of the Subduction Zone Interface at the Depth of Slow Slip and Tremor
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Tectonics

1. John P Platt($289,025), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Conditions And Deformational, Dislocation Creep, Slow Earthquakes, Subduction Zone, Subduction Zones, Activity, Allow, Calculation, California, Content, Deformed, Depth, Depths, ETS, Ground, Modeling, Present-day, Pressure, Processes, Produces, Propagation, Quartz, Rate, Rock, SFMS, Seismic, Slip, Stress, Temperature, Transition, Water.

Mechanisms and Longevity of Strain Localization during Dynamic Recrystallization of Olivine
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Tectonics

1. Whitney Behr($228,126), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Faults And Shear, Grain Boundary Migration, Grain Size Reduction, Lattice Preferred Orientation, Olivine Lattice Preferred, Detailed Microstructural, Dry Olivine, Dynamic Recrystallization, Experimental Conditions, Grain Growth, Mantle Rocks, Olivine Aggregates, Shear Zones, Behavior, Commonly, Deformation, Deformed, Distributed, Does, Energy, Exhibit, Experiments, Geodynamics, Investigates, Lead, Localization, Localized, Mechanical, Mechanisms, Models, Observed, Processes, Range, Rigid, Specific, Strain, Stress, Transient, Unique.

Collaborative Research: Constraining the Formation and Evolution of the Proterozoic Orogenic Belt of the SW USA Based on Geochronology of Garnet and Accessory Minerals
Award Effective Date: 08/19/2013; Program: Tectonics

1. Christopher L Andronicos($74,716), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Luhf And Smnd, Continental Crust, Crustal Formation, Degrees Celcius, Metamorphic Conditions, Mountain Building, Southern Rocky, Age, Ages, Belt, Billion, Dating, Directly, Garnet, Metamorphism, Mineral, North, Southwestern, Temperature, Timing.

Collaborative Research: Toward an Understanding of the Long-Term Deformation in the Mississippi Embayment - Phase II
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: Tectonics

1. Maria Beatrice Magnani($22,140), Southern Methodist University, Dallas
Key terms: Madrid Seismic Zone, Active Fault, Marine Seismic, Mississippi Embayment, Mississippi River, Acquisition, Deformation, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Evidence, Faults, Hazard, Intraplate, Long-term, Magnitude, Plate, Responsible, Rigidity, Seismicity, Time, Timing.

Evolution of Cordilleran Lithosphere: Transition From Mesozoic Shortening to Cenozoic Extension, East-Central Nevada
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: Tectonics

1. Elizabeth L Miller($92,238), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Basin And Range, Divergence And Extension, Comprehensive Approach, Deep Crust, Natural Resources, Range Province, Sedimentary Basins, Transition Period, Volcanic Eruption, Ages, Ago, Continent, Convergence, Cordillera, Core, Debated, Evolution, Exploration, Fault, Faults, Field, Flow, Geologic, Geology, History, Importance, Levels, Link, Ma, Magmatic, Magmatism, Map, Mountains, Plate, Processes, Radiometric, Rock, Set, Shortening, Span, Surface, Time, Transitioned, Western.

Collaborative Research: Elucidating the Geologic Record of Late Paleozoic Subduction Initiation Along the Southwestern Margin of Laurentia, Southern California and Sonora, Mexico
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: Tectonics

1. Kathleen M Marsaglia($185,000), The University Corporation, Northridge, Northridge
2. Nancy R Riggs($114,061), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: Subduction Zones, California, Continent, Development, Initiation, Margin, Paleogeography, Plate, Sequences, Successions, Time, Timing, Volcanic.

A Reversible Rheology for Water-Weakened Quartz
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: Tectonics

1. Caleb W Holyoke($420,124), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Quartz Single Crystals, Continental Crust, Polycrystalline Quartz, Pressure-stepping Experiments, Quartz Aggregates, Strain Rate, Strain Rate-, Synthetic Quartz, Synthetic Quartzites, Water Fugacity, Basal, Conditions, Deformation, Deformed, Effect, Experimental, Heat-treated, Investigate, Mechanical, Mechanisms, Models, Performed, Pressure-stepping, Prism, Range, Rock, Slip, Strength, Strengths, Tectonic, Temperature.

EAGER: Geologic Evidence of Tsunamis originating from the Japan Trench's Southern Segment
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: Tectonics

1. Benjamin P Horton($19,239), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Geologic Evidence, Japan Trench, Southern Segment, Tsunamis Originating, Deposits, Earthquake, Generating, Largest, Region, Tohoku-oki, Tokyo, Uncertainty.

Collaborative Research: Towards an Understanding of the Collective Behavior of Regional Fault Networks: The Marlborough Fault System, New Zealand
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: Tectonics

1. James F Dolan($359,607), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2. Edward J Rhodes($256,724), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Ages And Displacements, Regional Fault Networks, Seismic Hazard Assessment, Temporal And Spatial, Assessment Strategies, Dozen Earthquakes, Fault Slip, Marlborough Fault, Marlborough Faults, Seismic Energy, Slip Rates, Time Scales, Allow, Behavior, Current, Cycle, Detail, Effort, Elsewhere, Focus, Implementation, Motions, Northern, Offset, Offsets, Paleo-earthquake, Phenomena, Plates, Primary, Range, Ranging, Relative, Similar, Tectonic, Zealand.

Timing of Intracontinental Deformation across the Eastern Mono Basin, California and Nevada
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2013; Program: Tectonics

1. Joseph P Zebrowski($154,422), New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas
Key terms: California Shear Zone, Eastern California Shear, San Andreas Fault, Walker Lane Belt, Mojave Desert, Mono Basin, Pacific Plates, Sierra Nevada, Deformation, Distributed, Motion, Mountains, North, Students, Transtensional, Western.

Rheology of the Lithospheric Mantle Beneath the Mojave Region from Naturally Deformed Peridotite Xenoliths
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2013; Program: Tectonics

1. Whitney Behr($277,951), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Cima Xenoliths, Lithosphere Beneath, Lithospheric Mantle, Mantle Lithosphere, Mantle Section, Rheological Parameters, Rheological Properties, Shear Velocity, Abrupt, Active, Boundary, California, Continent, Critical, Deformation, Depth, Derived, Drop, Earthquakes, Entrained, Examine, Faults, Geophysical, Hector, Landers, Low, M=, Mine, Models, Mojave, Naturally, Region, Rock, Stress, Structure, Surface, Temperature.

3D Visualization and Advanced Mapping Techniques for Metamorphic Terranes
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2013; Program: Tectonics

1. Terry L Pavlis($223,527), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
Key terms: Field Geology, Field Studies, Impossibly Complex, Mapping Techniques, Modern Field, National Park, Activities, Allow, Applications, Based, Capabilities, Development, Flat-map, Geologic, Laser, Level, Metamorphic, Model, Potential, Ranging, Real-time, Resolution, Revolution, Rock, Software, Students, Three-dimensional, True, Visualization, Visualizations, Workflow, Workflows.

Determining the Areal Extent and Tectonic Significance of Mesoproterozoic (1.50-1.45 Ga) Sedimentation and Metamorphism along the Yavapai-Mazatzal Lithospheric Boundary, New Mexico
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Tectonics

1. Christopher G Daniel($142,653), Bucknell University, Lewisburg
Key terms: Detrital Zircon Geochronology, Metasedimentary Rocks, Monazite Geochronology, Precambrian Rocks, Tectonic Evolution, Age, Continent, Depositional, Experience, Ga, Geological, History, Metamorphic, Mexico, Million, North, Processes, Undergraduate, Western.

Facility Support: The UCLA National Ion Microprobe
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2014; Program: Unallocated Program Costs

1. Timothy M Harrison($1,608,143), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Ion Microprobe, Ucla Scientists, Access, Capabilities, Continue, Facility, Methods, SIMS.

2013-2018 UNAVCO Community Proposal Geodesy Advancing Geosciences and EarthScope: The GAGE Facility
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2013; Program: nan

1. Glen S Mattioli($71,460,873), UNAVCO, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: Gage Facility, Gps Networks, Plate Boundary, Active, Coastal, Continent, Contributes, Dynamics, Earthquake, Earthscope, Engineering, GGN, Geodesy, Geodetic, Global, Groundwater, Hazards, Leading, Operations, Processes, Services, Strainmeters, Surface.

REU Site: The Environmental and Earth Systems Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program at Biosphere
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2013; Program: nan

1. Mitchell A Pavao Zuckerman($475,756), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Reu Program, Reu Site, Biological, Biosphere, Disciplines, Ecosystems, Environmental, Experience, Laboratory, Linking, Model, Nature, Public, Skills, Students, Training.

2013 UNAVCO Community & Facility Bridge Proposal: Geodesy Revealing the Earth in Action
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2013; Program: nan

1. Meghan Miller($3,401,963), UNAVCO, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: Gps And Geodetic, Cooperative Agreement, Geodetic Technology, Gps Network, Precision Geodetic, Projects Supported, Rapid Growth, Terrestrial Laser, Unavco Facility, Academic, Active, Activities, Archive, Behalf, CA, Ca, Capable, Cgps, Development, ERS, Education, Engineering, European, Field, Global, Inc, International, Maintenance, Management, Membership, NASA, NSF, PBO, Planning, Polar, Pool, Provision, Receivers, Reference, SAR, Scenes, Semi-permanent, Solutions, Space, Station, Stations, TLS, Tb, Telemetry, Testing, Tools, Web-based.

REU Site: Interdisciplinary Research Experience in Hyperspectral Imaging (IDREHSI)
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2012; Program: nan

1. Bingqing Liang($344,848), University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls
Key terms: Highly Interdisciplinary, Hyperspectral Imaging, Applications, Experience, Experimental, Has, NSF, Opportunities, REU, Students.

EarthScope Comprehensive SAR Archive
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: nan

1. David A Schmidt($388,934), UNAVCO, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: Sar Imagery, Archive, Envisat, Satellite.

NSF-GEO-EAR Awards for 2013

Acquisition of Next Generation Terrestrial Laser Scanning Systems for Community Earth and Polar Science Research Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: ARC Rsch Support & Logistics

Theory of thermoelastic properties of iron bearing minerals Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: CI REUSE

Next-Generation Modeling of the Geodynamo: Development of the First Multi-Scale Dynamo Model Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: CI REUSE

RAPID: Archiving of Drill Core from the Humuula Saddle Region, Hawaii Island Award Effective Date: 03/15/2013; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

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

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

Community Workshop: The Next Generation of LiDAR Analyses for Critical Zone Research Award Effective Date: 01/01/2014; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

Human and Natural Forcings of Critical Zone Dynamics and Evolution at the Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory Award Effective Date: 12/01/2013; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

Critical Zone Observatory for Intensively Managed Landscapes (IML-CZO) Award Effective Date: 12/01/2013; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

Using the Susquehanna - Shale Hills CZO to Project from the Geological Past to the Anthropocene Future Award Effective Date: 10/01/2013; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

Transformative Behavior of Energy, Water and Carbon in the Critical Zone II: Interactions between Long- and Short-term Processes that Control Delivery of Critical Zone Services Award Effective Date: 10/01/2013; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

Acquisition and Upgrade of Research Equipment at Oxy-Anion Stable Isotope Consortium at Louisiana State University Award Effective Date: 08/15/2013; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

NSF Meeting Proposal: 2013 Critical Zone Observatories (CZO) Annual Meeting (New era of an expanded and formalized network) Award Effective Date: 08/15/2013; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

Facility Support: High-Resolution X-ray Computed Tomography Laboratory Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

Early Career: Acquisition of Instrumentation to Measure Electrical Resistivity at the Field and Lab Scale Award Effective Date: 02/26/2013; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

Integrated Data Management System for Critical Zone Observatories Award Effective Date: 12/01/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

The evolution of hummocky moraine landscapes: a modeling study Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

CAREER: Investigating the Relationship Between Mantle Shear Localization, Melt Flow and Water Content Award Effective Date: 06/01/2013; Program: Career Life Balance

MRI: Acquisition of a Powder X-Ray Diffractometer for Research and Teaching in Earth and Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University in Newark Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

Collaborative Research: RAPID: Strain accumulation and release at the Kuril subduction zone from postseismic observations on the Kuril GPS Array in 2007-2014 Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

EAR-PF: Paleoecology of marine mammal herbivory: a multidisciplinary analysis of fossil sirenians, desmostylians and sloths from the Eastern Pacific Ocean Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

An integrated multi-directional approach to understanding local hydrologic responses to global climate change Award Effective Date: 10/01/2013; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

Acquisition of a Laser Ablation System in Support of (U-Th)/He and U/Pb Multidating of Accessory Minerals Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

MRI: TLALOCNet - Development of a continuous GPS-MET array in Mexico for atmospheric, climatic, and seismotectonic research in the Americas Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

Sedimentary and tectonic controls on strath terrace formation in bedrock channels Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

Acquisition of a Multicollector Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer for Earth Science Research and Research Training in Northern New England Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

EAR-PF: Are the slow growth and metabolic rates of crocodylians secondarily derived? Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

EAR-PF: Mechanisms and Isotopic Signatures of Iron-Silica Adsorptive Interactions in the Precambrian Ocean Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

Revealing the Nature of Contemporary Uplift and Collapse in the Sierra Nevada - Great Basin System (II) Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

Constraints on the Rheology of the Lithosphere in Western North America from Observationally Driven Dynamic Models Award Effective Date: 06/01/2013; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

EarthScope SAFOD Management Office for Physical Samples Award Effective Date: 10/01/2013; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Constraints on Slow Slip Behavior in Cascadia Through the Integration of PBO Borehole Strainmeters, GPS Time Series, and Tremor Locations Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Proposal: Relation of Exhumation to Lithsopheric Architecture Along a Steep Continental Margin, Idaho-Oregon Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Probing Fluids, Fractures, Faults, and Strain with PBO Borehole Data Award Effective Date: 05/01/2013; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Crustal Deformation across the U.S. from Harmonic Analysis of Receiver Functions Award Effective Date: 05/01/2013; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Wabash Valley Seismic Experiment Award Effective Date: 05/01/2013; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

The Seismic Structure, Thermal State, and Anisotropy of the Crust and Uppermost Mantle Beneath the Contiguous US Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Understanding and Performing High-Resolution Surface-Wave Attenuation Measurements with USArray Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Investigating Temperature, Melting, and Mantle Flow in the North American Upper Mantle with 3-D Models of Shear Velocity, Radial Anisotropy, and Attenuation Award Effective Date: 03/15/2013; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: EarthScope Chronicles: Scientists' Stories and Media-Rich Earth Science Investigations Award Effective Date: 03/15/2013; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Controls Over Nitrogen Loss from Very Wet Tropical Forests Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: ECOSYSTEM STUDIES

Reconciling Different Deformation Mechanisms in Adjacent Sedimentary Lithologies at Raplee and Comb Folds, Monument Upwarp, UT Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER: Investigating fast motion of the Indian plate with geodynamic models Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Collaborative Research: Featuring EarthScope in Coastal Cascadia Earthquake and Tsunami Hazards Education by Linking Teachers, Interpreters, and Emergency Managers Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

EAR-PF: Integrating Field Deposit, Remote Sensing, and Numerical Modeling Perspectives on the Injection and Fallout of Hazardous Volcanic Ash Award Effective Date: 02/01/2013; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER: Studies of Magnesium Isotope Geochemistry Award Effective Date: 12/16/2012; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER: Mantle Hybridization via Melt-Rock Reaction-Implications for Chemical Variability of Oceanic Basalts and Lithologic Heterogeneities in the Earth's Convecting Mantle Award Effective Date: 03/15/2013; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

ESE: Spatial Interactive Optimization for Restoration of Upland Storage in Watersheds: Community Participation in the Design of Distributed Practices and Alternatives Award Effective Date: 08/31/2012; Program: ENV., SOCIETY AND THE ECONOMY

Integrating Fault Slip Observations of Earthquake Swarms, Tectonic Tremor, and Slow Slip in Alaska and the Aleutians and Their Potential Relation to Large Earthquakes Award Effective Date: 10/01/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: Defining the role of heterogeneous lithology in bedrock incision and terrace formation in the Buffalo National River, Arkansas Award Effective Date: 09/05/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Infrastructure for Broadening Participation in STEM (IBP-STEM) Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

MRI: Acquisition of a Stable Carbon Isotope Analyzer at Montana Tech Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: Testing the link between climate and mammalian faunal dynamics in the early Paleocene record of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

MRI: Acquisition of an Automated TL/OSL Luminescence Reader, Gamma Spectrometer, and Portable Field Gamma Spectrometer for the Dating of Sedimentary and Archaeological Materials Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

EAR-PF: Modeling of dissolution along rough surfaces using computational fluid dynamics. Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

MRI: Acquisition of a MC-ICP-MS at NMSU Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Development of the Himalayan Superstructure, Northwestern India Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Geochemical Analysis of Fluid Inclusions in Trace and Minor Mississippi Valley-type Zn-Pb Occurrences in the US Mid-continent: Implications for Crustal Metal Enrichment Processes Award Effective Date: 07/15/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: A Late Cenozoic Record of Restraining Bend Initiation and Evolution along the Denali Fault at Mount McKinley, Alaska Award Effective Date: 06/01/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: Linking erosional and climatic processes in regions of active mountain building Award Effective Date: 06/01/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

CAREER: Understanding Major Intracontinental Strike-slip Faults from the Lower Crust's Perspective: Tibetan Insights from the Canadian Shield Award Effective Date: 06/01/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: Collaborative Research: Deciphering the Structure and Evolution of North America?s Cratonic Core Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Crust-mantle boundary contraints from ambient noise autocorrelations in North America Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

The internal structure of deposits emplaced under upper plane bed / sheet flow transport conditions: Laboratory experiments and numerical modeling Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: Constraining Heat Flux from the Shallow Geothermal System, Yellowstone Caldera, Wyoming Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

REU Site: Geoenvironmental Challenges in the Southeastern U.S.: A Summer Undergraduate Research Experience for Pre-service Earth Science, Biology, and Chemistry Teachers Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Early Career: Acquisition of an Accelerated Solvent Extractor and a Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometer for Lipid Analyses in Organic Geochemistry Research Award Effective Date: 03/15/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Analyses of Volatiles in Volcanic Glasses: Bridging the Gap between the Macroscopic and the Micron Scale Award Effective Date: 03/01/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative research: Unraveling coseismic and postseismic deformation: A prerequisite for analyses of stress-coupling and tsunami genesis. Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: Integrated Volcano Geodesy and Seismology: Earthquakes at Silicic Domes Award Effective Date: 08/21/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

EarthCube domain end-user workshop: Bringing Geochronology into the EarthCube framework Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: EarthCube

RCN: Building a Sediment Experimentalist Network (SEN) Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: EarthCube

EarthCube End-User Domain Workshop for Rock Deformation and Mineral Physics Research Award Effective Date: 06/15/2013; Program: EarthCube

Collaborative Research: An EarthCube Domain Workshop integrating the inland-waters biogeochemistry and fluvial sedimentology communities, April 22-24. Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: EarthCube

Collaborative Research: OpenTopography: A Cyberinfrastructure-Enabled Facility for High-Resolution Topographic Data and Tools Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: EarthCube

EarthCube Domain End-User Workshop: Community-Based Cyberinfrastructure for Petrology and Geochemistry Award Effective Date: 02/15/2013; Program: EarthCube

Engaging the Sedimentary Geology Community in EarthCube (Workshop) Award Effective Date: 02/01/2013; Program: EarthCube

A novel geochemical approach for environmental risk assessment of stray gas contamination in shallow aquifers within active and prospective shale gas development zones Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: EnvS-Environmtl Sustainability

FESD Type I: Earth System Dynamics and its Role in Human Evolution in Africa Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Front in Earth Sys Dynamics