CAREER: Intraplate tectonics and deep crustal faulting in Rural Alaska
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: AISL

1. Carl H Tape($522,430), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Active Sedimentary Basin, Seismic Wavefield Simulations, Basin Formation, Central Alaska, Crustal Seismicity, Fault Zone, Minto Flats, School Students, Seismic Waveforms, Seismic Zone, Teaching Modules, Catalog, Characterize, Deep, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Faulting, Has, Local, Nenana, Processes, Region, Structure, Tectonic, Unknown.

The Valence Multipole Model: Linking Structure and Reactivity
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: CDS&E

1. Barry R Bickmore($433,818), Brigham Young University, Provo
Key terms: Atomistic Simulations, Bond-valence Model, Bonding Model, Computer Programming, Ideal Values, Molecular Mechanics, Solid Surfaces, Analysis, Applied, Aspects, Atoms, Based, Capable, Chemical, Describe, Developing, Energy, Environment, Fields, Focuses, Geochemistry, Geoscience, Happens, Has, Implications, Interactions, Mineral, Modeling, Models, Molecules, NSF, Optimization, Principal, Processes, Require, STEM, Simple, Skills, Structure, Students, Undergraduate.

Fabric Evolution and the Development of Ductile Shear Zones
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: CI REUSE

1. Laurent Montesi($346,854), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Ductile Shear Zone, Ductile Shear Zones, Grain Size Evolution, Brittle Fault, Spontaneous Localization, Active, Beneath, Crust, Cycle, Deformation, Deforming, Depth, Developed, Development, Lithosphere, Localize, Mantle, Mechanical, Model, Models, Origin, Processes, Software, Strength, Strike-slip, Structure, Tectonic, Width.

Geomagnetic Signals from the Earth's Core: Searching for Evidence of Waves and Stable Stratification
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: CI REUSE

1. Bruce Buffett($227,697), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Earth's Magnetic Field, Density Stratification, Earth's Magnetic, Geomagnetic Field, Geomagnetic Fluctuations, Liquid Core, Mac Waves, Ability, Calypso, Combination, Decades, Distinct, Dynamics, Explaining, Explore, Flow, Forecast, Mission, Model, Models, Observations, Observed, Periodicities, Range, Stratified, Thermal, Top.

WSC-Category 1: Decision Processes, Climate Change, and Water Resources in the Agricultural Midwest
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2014; Program: CR-Water Sustainability & Clim

1. Adam S Ward($599,383), Indiana University, Bloomington
2. Adam S Ward($599,383), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Agricultural Land Managers, Land Management Practices, Quality And Quantity, Watershed Management Authorities, Changing Climate, Decision-making Forums, Environmental Outcomes, Future Scenarios, Governance Organizations, Local Governance, Water Quality, Activities, Decision-making, Directly, Human, Inform, Models, Public, Web-based.

Collaborative Research: Planning And Land Management in Tropical Ecosystem; Complexities of land-use and hydrology coupling in the Panama Canal Watershed
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: CR-Water Sustainability & Clim

1. Eli P Fenichel($412,661), Yale University, New Haven
2. Jefferson S Hall($1,288,702), Smithsonian Institution, Washington
3. Brent Ewers($997,987), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Panama Canal Authority, Panama Canal Watershed, Canal Requires, Dry Season, Lake Gatun, Land Management, Policy Incentives, Wet Season, Authorities, Cover, Created, Effects, Expansion, Factors, Flow, Grazing, Hydrologic, Increase, Land-use, Landholder, Paths, Percent, Predict, Reliable, Soil, Trade.

WSC-Category 3 Collaborative: Designing Robust and Adaptive Water Management Strategies in Regions Transitioning from Abundance to Scarcity
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: CR-Water Sustainability & Clim

1. Lawrence E Band($1,701,235), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Decision Makers, Demand Management, Water Management, Water Supply, Adaptive, Approach, Attitudes, Consider, Design, Economic, Existing, Financial, Framework, Growth, Land, Models, Regional, Risk, Scarcity, Southeast, Strategies, Transition.

Water Sustainability in Snow-Fed Arid Land River System
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2014; Program: CR-Water Sustainability & Clim

1. Maureen McCarthy($1,841,833), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Future Hydroclimatic Conditions, Adaptive Capacity, Northern Nevada, Truckee-carson River, Water Management, Water Supply, Agent-based, Agriculture, Approach, Assess, Engaged, Enhance, Extreme, Indian, Model, Policy, Stakeholder, Students, Systems-based, Tribal, Truckee-carson.

Analytical methods for estimating the joint climatological-social drivers of water quality and supply in contrasting tropical zones: Ecuador and China
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: CR-Water Sustainability & Clim

1. Justin Remais($2,337,153), Emory University, Atlanta
Key terms: Ecuador And Western, Fate And Transport, Multiple Climatological Drivers, Quantifying And Predicting, Quantity And Quality, Tropical And Subtropical, Management Decisions, Northern Ecuador, Water Column, Water Quality, Water Quantity, Western China, Changing, Climate, Climate-mediated, Conceptualizing, Conditions, Dynamics, Effects, Environmental, Exacerbate, Future, Limit, Methods, Pathogens, Potential, Regions, Sanitation, Sites, Social, Surface, Waterborne.

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

1. Patrick J Bohlen($126,125), The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees, Orlando
Key terms: Built And Natural, Sea Level Rise, Management Strategies, South Florida, Stakeholder Evaluations, Sustainable Water, Water Management, Water Resources, Water Supplies, Adaptive, Analyses, Approaches, Behavioral, Benefit, Climate, Cognitive, Criteria, Decision, Decision-making, Diverse, Economic, Ensure, Floridas, Hydro-economic, Incorporate, Influence, Information, Intrusion, Land, Managing, Million, Multiple, Objectives, Population, Populations, Scenario, Selection, Stakeholders, Uncertainty, Value.

Supporting U.S. Scientist Involvement in an NSF China workshop: Frontiers in International Critical Zone Science
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2014; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Timothy S White($14,679), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Critical Zone, Base, Global, International, Workshop.

Development of a Critical Zone Observatory National Office
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Timothy S White($2,632,233), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Critical Zone Observatories, Czo Program, CZO-NO, Facilitate, Network, Programs, Public.

Collaborative Research: The Effects of Hydrodynamic and Granular Controls on Bed Load Flux Intermittency: Application to Steep Mountain Streams
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2014; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

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

Luquillo CZO: The role of hot spots and hot moments in tropical landscape evolution and functioning of the critical zone
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2013; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Grizelle Gonzalez($6,597,604), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Spots And Hot, Critical Zone, Hot Moments, Hot Spots, Puerto Rico, Soil Development, CZ, Carbon, Climate, Cycling, Effects, Enhance, Environmental, Erosion, Findings, LCZO, Landscape, Landslides, Loss, Luquillo, Makers, Models, Nutrient, Participation, Processes, Program, Public, Quality, Sediment, Space, Spatial, Storage, Students, Supply, Time, Transport, Tropical, Water, Weathering.

30th Conference on Mathematical Geophysics: Support for young US scientists
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Ilya V Zaliapin($20,000), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Mathematical Geophysics, Advances, CMG, Computational, Conference, Emphasis, Engineers, International, Meeting, Methods, Oil.

Collaborative Research: Facility Support: Center for Transformative Environmental Monitoring Programs (CTEMPs)
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2014; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. John S Selker($1,292,071), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Scott W Tyler($961,167), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Fiber Optic, Temperature Sensing, Allow, Applications, Bottom, CUAHSI, Continued, Ctemps, DTS, Deg, Equipment, Facility, Flux, Formal, Groundwater, Hands-on, Observation, Promote, Reno, Resolution, River, Snow, Soil, Spatial, Temporal, Training.

Mechanics of Earthquake Faulting along the Himalayan Convergent Plate Boundary
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Steven G Wesnousky($359,404), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Himalayan Frontal Thrust, Earthquake Displacements, Fault Zones, Ongoing Measures, Strain Accumulation, Age, Amount, Basis, Define, Deposits, Earthquakes, Funding, Future, HFT, India, International, Length, Mapping, Methodology, NSF, Observations, Offset, Past, Prior, Quaternary, Seismic, Sites, Size, Students, Surfaces, Trenches, Unique, World.

Large Scale Molten Fuel Coolant Interaction Experiments: Explosion Initiation and Propagation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Greg Valentine($293,501), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Water Vapor Phase, Liquid Water, Ash, Behavior, Crucible, Developing, Development, Device, Ejecta, Experiments, Explosion, Explosive, Injected, Magma, Measure, Melt, Natural, Parameters, Phreatomagmatic, Phreatomagmatism, Premix, Trigger, Volcanism.

CAREER: Damage and Fracture Characteristics of Rocks Under a Broad Spectrum of Strain Rates
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. WIlliam A Griffith($319,005), University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington
Key terms: Brittle Damage, Damage Zones, Loading Rates, Poorly Constrained, Pulverized Rocks, Rock Failure, Strain Rate, Strain Rates, Tfa Geocorps, Activities, Allow, Based, Calibrate, Characterize, Confinement, Dependence, Design, Discrete, Earth, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Environments, Experimental, Explosions, Extraterrestrial, Fast, Fault, Field, Focused, Fracture, Fragmentation, Individual, Laboratory, Military, Mining, Models, Petroleum, Processes, Propagation, Pulverization, Responsible, Rupture, Slow, Strain-rate, Strength, Structure, Teach, Teachers, Tectonic, Theoretical, Typically.

Anisotropic Properties of the Mid-lithospheric Discontinuity Beneath Central and Eastern North America
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Maureen D Long($161,237), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Central And Eastern, Strength Andor Orientation, Structure And Dynamics, Anisotropic Properties, Beneath North, Continental Lithosphere, Mld Beneath, Mld Characteristics, Seismic Anisotropy, Analysis, Array, Deformation, Earth, Earthscope, Feature, Phase, Remains, Sharp, Specific, Stations, Tectonic, Thick.

Community Workshop: The future of PBO in the GAGE Facility (2013-2018) and after EarthScope
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. James H Foster($60,434), UNAVCO, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: Plate Boundary Observatory, Cooperative Agreement, Access, Active, Alaska, Assets, Based, Baseline, Business, Crust, Earthquakes, FY, Facility, Future, GAGE, GPS, Geodetic, Geophysical, Inc, Near, North, PBO, Positioning, Processes, Products, Range, Rates, Representatives, Resources, Streams, Technical, Via, Volcanic, Web, Wide, Workshop.

RAPID: GPS Observations of Co- and Post-seismic Deformation in the Argentine Puna from the 1 Apr 2014, Mw 8.2, Pisagua, Chile, Earthquake Sequence
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Robert Smalley($38,087), University of Memphis, Memphis
Key terms: Argentine Puna Plateau, Chile Subduction Zone, Northern Chile Subduction, Cgps Stations, Chile Earthquake, Determining Regions, Gps Networks, Post-seismic Transient, Unusual Sequence, Aftershocks, Altiplano, April, Argentina, Chilean, Co-, Deformation, Dense, Earthquakes, Expected, Failed, French, German, Ground, Hazard, Install, Japan, Largest, Likelihood, Magnitude, March, Megathrust, Motion, Mw, Peruvian, Pisagua, Post-seismic, Producing, Rapid, Signals, Slip, Surface, Swarm, Was.

RAPID: Investigation of Co-seismic Surface Cracks Produced during the April 1, 2014, Magnitude 8.2 Pisagua, Chile, Earthquake
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Richard W Allmendinger($24,807), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Co-seismic Surface, Pisagua Earthquake, Refine Models, Scan Line, Subduction Zone, Surface Cracks, Surface Deformation, Amount, Chile, Chilean, Co-seismic, Earthquakes, Estimate, GPS, Iquique, Measured, Opportunity, Produced, Region, Time.

RAPID: GPS and InSAR Observations in Bolivia and Chile of the Co-seismic and Post-seismic Deformation Associated with the 1 Apr, 2014 Mw 8.2 Pisagua, Chile, Earthquake
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. James H Foster($105,469), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Bolivia And Chile, Chile Subduction Zone, Northern Chile Subduction, Cgps Stations, Chile Earthquake, Determining Regions, Gps Networks, Poorly Instrumented, Post-seismic Transient, Unavco Facility, Unusual Sequence, Aftershocks, Altiplano, April, Available, Chilean, Co-, Critical, Deformation, Dense, Earthquakes, Expected, Failed, French, German, Ground, Hazard, Install, Japan, Largest, Likelihood, Magnitude, March, Megathrust, Motion, Mw, Peruvian, Pisagua, Post-seismic, Producing, Rapid, Required, SAR, SGPS, Signals, Sites, Slip, Surface, Swarm, Was.

Proposal for Consultations to Identify The Role of Geochronology in Transformative Earth Sciences Research
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Timothy M Harrison($54,340), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Committee, Consultations, Geochronology.

Community Computational Platforms for Developing Three-Dimensional Models of Earth Structure, Phase II
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: Data Cyberinfrastructure

1. Po Chen($1,100,000), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Geological Information, Starting Model, Datasets, Derive, Field, Integration, Lifecycle, Refined, Representations, Seismic, Seismological, Structural, Usrs.

Comprehensive Analyses of Cascadia Tremor and Slow Slip
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Kenneth C Creager($509,144), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Pacific Northwest, Past Decade, Seismic Hazard, Slow Slip, Subduction Zones, Tremor Amplitude, Accumulating, Approaches, Array, Arrays, Catalogs, Coast, Constraints, Earthquake, Estimates, GPS, Generation, Growing, Has, Integrated, Limit, Motion, Processes, Propagation, Public, Regional, Relation, Strain, Time, Updip, Velocities, Washington, Yield.

Collaborative Research: Low-cost imaging and analysis of the August 24, 2014 M6.0 South Napa California earthquake surface rupture (RAPID)
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2014; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Michael E Oskin($32,507), University of California-Davis, Davis
2. J Ramon Arrowsmith($16,258), Arizona State University, Tempe
3. Edwin K Nissen($16,235), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: South Napa Earthquake, Coseismic Slip, Geological Survey, Laser Scanning, Map Surface, Post-seismic Deformation, Surface Offsets, Accurately, Airborne, Archiving, August, Capture, Essential, Fault, Faults, Features, Field, Imagery, Interpret, Lidar, Low-cost, Mapping, Motion, Mw, Nature, Post-earthquake, Post-seismic, Properties, Rapid, Repair, Resolution, Sfm, Structure.

Collaborative Research: Imaging Stress Transients and Fault Zone Processes with Continuous Cross-Well Active Source Seismic Measurements at SAFOD
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Takaaki Taira($101,789), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. Fenglin Niu($463,348), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Pilot And Main, Stress And Strain, Current Experiment, Laboratory Studies, Safod Site, Seismic Velocity, Velocity Structure, Accounting, Aseismic, Characteristics, Constraints, Continuous, Crack, Cracks, Crust, Deformation, Depth, Depths, Difficult, Distribution, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Excursions, Fault, Field, Has, Magnitude, Means, Medium, Monitor, Near, Observations, Observed, Processes, Produce, Properties, Release, Source, Surface, Systematic, Technique, Techniques, Tectonic, Temporal, Time, Time-varying, Transients, Wave.

Collaborative Research: EarthScope Geochronology Graduate Student Training Program
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Rebecca M Flowers($68,579), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. J Ramon Arrowsmith($285,823), Arizona State University, Tempe
3. Tammy M Rittenour($26,773), Utah State University, Logan
4. Blair Schoene($36,044), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Graduate Students, Mutual Benefit, Advisors, Ages, Allow, Analytical, Apply, Aspects, Collaborations, Continent, Dating, Earthscope, Experts, Fostering, Future, Generation, Geochronology, Geologic, Innovative, Interdisciplinary, Lab, Labs, Method, Modern, North, Preparation, Program, Publications, Rock, Theory, Tools.

Formulating and Testing 4-D Dynamic Models for the North American Continent and Mantle
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Donald V Helmberger($344,387), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Mantle Convection, Mantle Structures, Seismic Images, Seismic Waveforms, Topographic Evolution, Addressing, Below, Building, Caltech, Constrain, Continent, Earthscope, Eastern, Forces, Geological, Geometry, Hand, Has, Methods, Models, North, Numerical, Phd, Plate, Processes, Reconstructions, Sharpness, Slab, Students, Surface, Testing, Time, Usarray.

Collaborative Research: The Effects of Water and Lithology on the Strength of the North American Lithosphere
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Derek L Schutt($100,257), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
2. Anthony R Lowry($58,019), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Continental Lithosphere, Crustal Lithology, Flexural Rigidity, Flow Rheology, Flow Strength, Graduate Students, Water Content, Characterizing, Combined, Diverse, Dynamical, Earthquakes, Effects, Estimating, Evolution, Geophysical, Heat, Lithospheric, Mantle, North, Processes, Properties, Seismic, Temperature, Three-dimensional, Tools.

Analysis of Seismic Data from the USArray Project to Determine Crust and Uppermost Mantle Structure Beneath the United States
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Peter M Shearer($179,944), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Pg And Lg, Crustal Thickness, Lower Crustal, Uppermost Mantle, Depths, Earthquakes, Eastern, Features, Has, Maps, Miles, Seismic, Sn, Station, Structure, Usarray, Velocities, Velocity.

Structure of the North American Continent Using EarthScope USArray Data and Applied Wave Gradiometry Methods
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. William E Holt($135,522), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Spreading And Radiation, Wave Field Animations, Averaging Methods, Displacement Gradient, Earthscope Usarray, Funding Period, Geometrical Spreading, Gradiometry Method, School Students, Seismic Station, Spatial Gradients, Structural Complexity, Wave Azimuth, Wave Fields, Wave Gradiometry, Advantage, Available, Codes, Component, Date, Determined, Educational, Has, Information, Involving, Lead, Lithosphere, Mantle, Model, Multiple, Opportunity, Potential, Published, Seismology, Sets, Slowness, Structure, Training, Tutorials, Velocity.

3D Deformation Fields Over Southern California From InSAR and GPS
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Rowena B Lohman($150,737), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Continuous Gps, Ground Deformation, San Andreas, Southern California, Activity, Anthropogenic, Available, Characteristics, Combined, Component, Fault, Faults, Hazard, Insar, Models, Observations, Plate, Region, Resolution, Seismic, Tectonic, Time, Usually, Vertical.

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: 06/15/2014; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Colleen A Dalton($106,733), Brown University, Providence
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: Simultaneous Imaging of the Megathrust and Volcanic Systems in the Aleutian Islands Using Hybrid Mini Seismic Arrays
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Clifford H Thurber($219,095), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Abhijit Ghosh($604,666), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Alaska-aleutian Subduction Zone, Tectonic And Volcanic, Alaska-aleutian Subduction, Multiple Sources, Volcanic Plumbing, Wide Spectrum, Active, Activity, Akutan, Arrays, Challenging, Complex, Conventional, Damaging, Dynamics, Earthquakes, Fault, Image, Leading, Megathrust, Mini, Natural, Relatively, Seismic, Slip, Stations, Structure, Threat, Tremor, Volcanoes.

Time-dependent Creep Model of the Central Creeping Section of the San Andreas Fault From 21 Years of InSAR, GPS and Repeating Earthquakes
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Manoochehr Shirzaei($262,322), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Aseismic Slip, Fault Slip, Fault Zone, Modeling Scheme, Repeating Earthquakes, San Andreas, Slip Transients, Activity, Allow, Crust, Deformation, Graduate, Kinematic, Long-term, Models, Occurrence, Properties, Pulses, SAR, Seismic, Time-dependent.

Collaborative Research: Strain Rate and Moment Accumulation Rate along the San Andreas Fault System from InSAR and GPS
Award Effective Date: 01/06/2014; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Bridget R Smith-Konter($162,056), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: San Andreas Fault, Accumulation Rate, Crustal Deformation, Plate Boundary, Seismic Moment, Spatial Resolution, Strain Rate, Western North, Accuracy, Accurately, Archive, Atmospheric, Available, Development, Earthquake, Errors, Faults, Funding, GPS, High-resolution, Insar, Involves, Maps, Missions, PBO, Provided, Rates, SAFS, SAR, Setting, Software, Spacing, Vector, Winsar.

Elasticity and Spin Transitions of Iron in the Earth's Lower Mantle
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Jung-Fu Lin($408,093), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Earth's Deep, Earth's Mantle, Laser Spectroscopies, Lower Mantle, Lower-mantle Minerals, Mineral Physics, Spin Transition, Spin Transitions, Synchrotron X-ray, Thermal Elasticity, Activities, Bridgmanite, Broadly, Chemistry, Conditions, Education, Effects, Facilities, Ferropericlase, Fields, Geochemical, Iron, Lower-mantle, Planets, Profiles, Properties, Seismic, Silicate, Structural, Students, X-ray.

THE EARTH SCIENCES SYMPOSIA AND WORKSHOPS AT THE SACNAS NATIONAL CONFERENCE
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Antonia O Franco($49,256), Society for Advancement of Chicanos & Native Americans in Sci, San Jose
Key terms: Sacnas National Conference, Conversation, Facilitate, Geosciences, Guide, Participation, Students.

Broadening Participation in the National Geoscience Workforce: The National Association of Black Geoscientists Technical Conference 2014
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Stephen K Boss($50,000), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Key terms: Academic, Disciplines, Environment, Environmental, NABG, National, STEM, Student, Students, Workforce.

The Keck Geology Consortium: Year-long Collaborative and Comprehensive Research Experiences for Undergraduates
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2014; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Robert J Varga($550,000), Pomona College, Claremont
Key terms: Proceedings Volume, Annual, Consortium, Contributions, Experiences, Keck, Students, Undergraduate.

Geoscience Graduate Research Grants
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. John W Hess($675,000), The Geological Society of America, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: Grants Program, Amount, Basis, GSA, Graduate, Level, Masters.

CAREER: Investigating Controls on Arc Flare-ups and the Growth of Lower Continental Crust
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2014; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Joshua Schwartz($486,288), The University Corporation, Northridge, Northridge
Key terms: Arc Root, Continental Crust, Csun Students, Magmatic Arc, Magmatic Arcs, Brief, Construction, Cooling, Create, Cretaceous, Deep, Deep-crustal, Episodic, Evolution, Exhumed, Fiordland, Focuses, Generated, Geochemical, Geosciences, Graduate, Has, Intermediate, K-, Lower, Magmas, Mantle, Mentoring, Periods, Processes, Program, Rocs, Roots, Undergraduate, Underrepresented, Unique, Volumes, Zealand.

CAREER: Field Studies of Precambrian Impacts and Implications for the Early Crust and Environment
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Alexandra Davatzes($445,359), Temple University, Philadelphia
Key terms: Continental Crust, Crustal Rocks, Mantle Composition, Ocean Crust, Pedagogic Component, Plate Tectonics, South Africa, Upper Mantle, Vaporized Rock, Ago, Atmosphere, Australia, Concepts, Craton, Deep, Deposits, Effect, Excavated, Focuses, Formation, Frequent, Geochemical, Geological, Initiation, Limited, Meteor, Plume, Plumes, Precambrian, Processes, Program, Spatial, Students, Thinking, Tools, Undergraduate.

CAREER: An Integrated Geologic, Geodetic, and Paleoseismic Study of Plate Boundary Stress Evolution and Geoscience Education Utilizing the EarthScope Database
Award Effective Date: 01/06/2014; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Bridget R Smith-Konter($196,795), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Earthquake Cycle, Plate Boundary, Stress Evolution, Deformation, Earthscope, Educational, Fault, Geodetic, Hazards, Instruments, Integration, K-, Large-scale, Local, Models, Pacific-north, Paleoseismic, Seismic, Students, Teachers, Time-dependent.

Acquisition and Implementation of a Cameca SX-100 Electron Microprobe Laboratory, University of Oklahoma
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. George B Morgan($171,892), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Equipment, Facility, Garnet, Instrument, Laboratory, Operational, Silicate, Users.

Testing Stress Percolation as a Model for Stress Transmission in Rocks
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Pamela C Burnley($342,667), University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas
Key terms: Local Compressive Stress, Strain Heterogeneity Observed, Experimentally Deformed, Fe Models, Heterogeneity Lead, Rock Deformation, Stress Distribution, Stress Percolation, Behavior, Compared, Comparisons, Degrees, Disciplines, Elastic, Engineering, Examined, Grain, Grains, Granular, Has, Implications, Mechanical, Polycrystalline, Properties, Shear, Variety.

SEES Fellows: Barriers to soil sustainability, food security and biodiversity conservation in the Albertine Rift
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Lisa K Tiemann($201,625), Michigan State University, East Lansing
Key terms: Soil Organic Matter, Maintaining Soil, Soil Fertility, Barriers, Crop, Declines, Enable, Explore, Factors, Fellows, Food, Increasing, Land, Local, Practices, Productivity, Socio-economic, Sustainability, Sustainable.

Structural Monitoring of Rock Arches
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Jeffrey Moore($365,394), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Natural Rock Arches, External Loads, Mode Shapes, Natural Landmarks, Resonant Frequencies, Rock Mechanics, Structural Dynamics, Structural Health, Ambient, Behavior, Concepts, Deformation, Environmental, Features, Field, Generate, Integrity, Internal, Lead, Long-term, Means, Measuring, Mechanical, Method, Methodology, Monitoring, Nature, Performance, Processes, Relative, Seismology, Strength, Structures, Time.

REU Site: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Stream Restoration Projects Based on Natural Channel Design Concepts Using Process-Based Investigations
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Garey A Fox($270,342), Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
Key terms: Natural Channel Design, Stream Rehabilitation, Approaches, Aquatic, Campus, Combination, Evaluating, Modifications, National, Oklahoma, Process-based, Program, REU, Restoration, Sediment, Site, Streambank, Streams, Students, Unique, Vegetation.

Collaborative Research: Hybrid Modeling of Reactive Transport in Porous and Fractured Media
Award Effective Date: 08/13/2014; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Ilenia Battiato($126,434), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
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.

MRI: Acquisition of Instrumentation for the Analysis of Carbon and Nitrogen in Soil and Sediment for an Undergraduate Research Program
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. C. Brannon Andersen($92,007), Furman University, Greenville
Key terms: South Carolina Piedmont, Intensive Grazing, Restore Soil, Soil Degradation, Soil Organic, Acquisition, Benefit, Biogeochemistry, Carbon, Education, Environmental, Farmers, Farms, Furman, Instrument, Involve, Land, MRI, Nitrogen, No-till, Objective, Pasture, Potential, Quality, SOC, SON, Soils, Students, Undergraduates.

REU Site: Collaborative Research: Field-Based Research on the Gulf of California Rift Margin Basins, Baja California Sur (Mexico)
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Tina M Niemi($404,853), University of Missouri-Kansas City, Columbia
2. Cathy J Busby($116,048), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Santa Rosalía, Baja, Basin, California, Conducting, Cooperation, Field, Global, International, Lab, Mexican, Mining, México, REU, Students.

Collaborative Research: Undocumented Shorelines of Lake Bonneville: New Paleoclimatic and Hydrodynamic Interpretations
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Charles G Oviatt($44,324), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Lake Bonneville, Climate, Documented, Glacial, Landscape, Largest, Modern, Period, Poorly, Transition.

A Plio-Pleistocene record of environment and climate from the Salar de Atacama basin based on recently recovered sediment cores
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2014; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Scott A Hynek($75,000), University of Alaska Anchorage Campus, Anchorage
Key terms: De Atacama Basin, Robust Chronological Framework, Salar De Atacama, Drill Cores, Extreme Environments, Hyper-arid Environments, Proxy Investigations, Brine, Chile, Climate, Climatic, Complex, Conditions, Deposit, Deposits, Environmental, Focus, Future, Halite, Hyper-arid, Lithium, Lithium-rich, Margin, Measured, Million, Modern, Planet, Recently, Recovered, Salt, Sediment, Strata, Subsurface, Tectonic, Worlds.

Collaborative Research: The legacy of transience: Understanding dynamic landscape adjustment following mountain uplift in two CZO field areas
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Benjamin T Crosby($161,556), Idaho State University, Pocatello
2. Jane Willenbring($178,045), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
3. Nicole Gasparini($132,828), Tulane University, New Orleans
Key terms: Adjusted Topography, Denudation Rate, Relict Topography, Tectonic History, Current, Developed, Evolution, Field, Landlab, Landscape, Landscapes, Modeling, Quantifying, Sites.

The transport and accumulation of pyrogenic black carbon in recently burned watersheds and implications for water quality
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Daniel Cadol($89,634), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Bc Deposits, Black Carbon, Drinking Water, Heavy Metals, Accumulation, Additional, Analysis, Component, Contaminants, Downstream, Forest, Found, Has, Mexico, Post-wildfire, Quantities, Removed, Sequester, Soil, Soils, Transport, Watersheds, Wildfires.

Mobility of Pyroclastic Density Currents: Integrating Field and Experimental Techniques to Understand the Controls and Consequences of Erosion
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2014; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Brittany Brand($262,068), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Ash And Rock, Downstream Flow Dynamics, Ambient Air, Favor Erosion, Pdc Deposits, Runout Distance, Conditions, Control, Controls, Current, Currents, Degree, Density, Eroding, Eruption, Experiments, Explore, Explosive, Field, Flows, Fluidization, Force, Influence, Laboratory, MSH, Nature, Obstacles, Particle, Pdcs, Phase, Potential, Relative, Roughness, Scaled, Shear, Slope, Substrate, Surface, Travel, Ultimate.

Metastable transformations of pyroxenes in subducting slabs
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Przemyslaw Dera($515,019), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Pressure And Temperature, Single-crystal Micro-diffraction Experiments, Synchrotron Single-crystal Micro-diffraction, Metastable Regime, Micro-diffraction Experiments, Previously Unknown, Quantum Mechanics, Single-crystal Micro-diffraction, Synchrotron Single-crystal, Thermokinetic Modeling, Ambient, Chemical, Complex, Conditions, Crystallographic, Density, Discovered, Earth, Experimental, Facilities, Geologic, Geophysical, Global, Hawaii, Information, Investigations, Mantle, Minerals, Models, Phase, Phenomena, Properties, Pyroxene, Recently, Stable, Subduction, Systematic, Thermodynamic, Transformations.

High Temperature Deformation of Lower Mantle Minerals Phases in the Diamond Anvil Cell
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Lowell Miyagi($305,000), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Diamond Anvil Cell, Deformation Mechanisms, Lower Mantle, Mantle Convection, Mineral Phases, Seismic Anisotropy, Texture Development, Allow, Beyond, Conditions, Deep, Developments, Experiments, Flow, Geometry, Has, Observations, Performed, Pressure, Pressures, Technique, Temperature, Temperatures.

Collaborative Research: Exploring Extensional Tectonics Beyond the Ethiopian Rift
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Kathleen M Keranen($238,288), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Main Ethiopian Rift, Continental Breakup, Plate Tectonics, Rift Zone, Beyond, Crust, Deformation, Existing, Extension, Has, Heterogeneous, Implications, Large-aperture, Lithosphere, Lower, Ongoing, Processes, Region, Rifting, Stretching, Surface, View.

Collaborative Proposal: ATREX - integrated open source data analysis software for mineral and environmental sciences
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: EarthCube

1. Przemyslaw Dera($468,187), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Lars Ehm($128,804), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Real Time Analysis, Advanced Tools, Crystal Structure, Synchrotron Experiments, ATREX, Available, Capabilities, Combination, Database, Decision-driven, Detectors, Diffraction, Environmental, Facilities, Free, IM, Massive, Phases, Python, Software, Training, Utilizing, X-ray.

SusChEM: Geochemical Characterization and Evaluation of the Environmental Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing Fluids
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: EnvS-Environmtl Sustainability

1. Thomas H Darrah($364,100), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Hydraulic Fracturing Fluids, Oil And Gas, Shale Gas Development, Conventional Oil, Gas Exploration, Naturally Occurring, Produced Waters, Water Resources, Collection, Contamination, Enable, Environment, Environmental, Fingerprints, Flowback, Geochemical, Globally, Groundwater, Has, Hffs, Isotopic, Levels, NSF, Origin, Program, Saline, Tracers, Unconventional, WV.

CAREER: The Delta Connectome: Structure and Transport Dynamic of Delta Networks across Scales and Disciplines
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: EnvS-Environmtl Sustainability

1. Paola Passalacqua($532,725), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Spatial And Temporal, Anthropogenic Disturbance, Coastal Restoration, Remote Sensing, Temporal Scales, Activities, Analysis, Climatic, Couplings, Delta, Deltaic, Deltas, Developed, Directed, Dynamics, Effect, Environmental, Features, Framework, NCED, Natural, Network, Quantification, Software, Tool, Tools, Ut-austin, Variables.

FESD Type I: Earthquake Fault System Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Front in Earth Sys Dynamics

1. Abhijit Ghosh($4,650,001), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Ground Motion Simulations, Plate Boundary Fault, Damaging Earthquakes, Fault Slip, Ground Motions, Wide Range, Advanced, Boundaries, California, Complex, Computer, Highly, Increasing, Integrate, Integrated, Interactions, Investigate, Long-term, Models, Northern, PSHA, Rise, Seismic, Southern, Spatial, Tectonic, Temporal.

Collaborative Research: Geoinformatics: Development of Structural Geology and Tectonics Data System with Field and Lab Interface
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. James D Walker($456,638), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
2. Basil Tikoff($292,702), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
3. Julie Newman($190,362), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: User Interface, Applicable, Complex, Construct, Database, Design, Graph, Implement, Inherent, Mode, Principal, Reasons, Relations, Sgandt, Size, Software, Spatial, Spot, Structures, Temporal.

Collaborative Research: GeoChronR - Open-source Tools for the Analysis, Visualization and Integration of Time-Uncertain Geoscientific Data
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Nicholas P McKay($369,348), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
2. Julien Emile-Geay($196,654), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Age Uncertainties, Past Climate, Software Tools, Allow, Archive, Development, Enable, Holocene, Integrate, Models, Rigorous, Thorough.

Management and Operation of a Continental Scientific Drilling Coordination Office
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Amy E Myrbo($4,118,452), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Drilling Operations, CSDCO, Evolution, Management.

Open Source Tools for Processing of Raw LiDAR Observations
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Craig Glennie($204,120), University of Houston, Houston
Key terms: Allow, Developed, Empower, Lidar, Mapping, Observations, Software, Source, Tools, Users.

Collaborative Research: EAGER: A Seismic Reflection Survey to Assess the Deep Drilling Potential of Laguna de Tota, Colombia
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Nigel J Wattrus($42,818), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
2. Broxton W Bird($53,151), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Laguna De Tota, Tota's Sediment Archive, Graduate Students, Tota's Sediment, Water Resources, Centers, Climate, Colombian, Cores, Detailed, Drilling, Funding, Geophysical, Has, International, Lake, Month, Paleoclimate, Potential, Requested, Sequences, South, Survey, Thickness, Thousand, Totas.

Collaborative Research: A 650,000 year record of hydroclimate in the Western Pacific Warm Pool: Scientific Drilling at Lake Towuti, Indonesia
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Anders J Noren($168,717), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
2. James M Russell($453,096), Brown University, Providence
3. John W King($70,000), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Climate Boundary Conditions, Forcing And Global, Global Climate Boundary, Tropical Western Pacific, Web Outreach Activities, Western Pacific Hydrology, Climate Available, Drilling Program, Lake Towuti, Museum Displays, Orbital Forcing, Sediment Cores, Southeast Asia, Tropical Pacific, Atmospheric, Continuous, Contribute, Cycles, Engage, Geochemical, Indonesia, Indonesian, Interdisciplinary, International, Investigate, Models, Opportunities, Paleoclimate, Past, Public, Rainfall, Reconstructions, Region, Remains, Section, Students, Terrestrial, Training, Via.

Collaborative Research: USG Support for the Past Global Changes Project International Program Office
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Loutre Marie-France($1,833,884), Past Global Changes, Bern 3012
Key terms: Cross-topical Integrated Activities, Climate Theme, Cross-topical Integrated, Ecosystem Services, Environment Theme, Humans Theme, International Assessments, Warmer Worlds, World Climate, Approach, Capacity, Contribute, Dynamics, Efforts, Encourage, Environmental, Evidence, Extreme, Feedback, Future, Global, IPCC, Individual, Inform, Interdisciplinary, Intergovernmental, Issues, Knowledge, Long-term, Management, Output, PAGES, Program, Publications, Regional, Structure, Syntheses, Thresholds, Tipping, Topics, Transnational, Value.

Collaborative Research: Indian Summer Monsoon Variability Reconstructed from Tibetan Lake Sediments
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2014; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Pratigya J Polissar($87,831), Columbia University, New York
2. Broxton W Bird($343,871), Indiana University, Bloomington
3. Lonnie G Thompson($36,100), Ohio State University, Columbus
Key terms: Indian Summer Monsoon, Southeastern Tibetan Plateau, Global Climate, Conditions, Decadal, Holocene, Investigate, Lakes, Local, Moisture, Past, Previous, Rainfall, Range, Region, Regions, Sediment, Students, Surrounding, Synoptic, Th.

Collaborative Research: Deep Drilling of Lake Junin, Peru: Continuous Tropical Records of Glaciation, Climate Change and Magnetic Field Variations Spanning the Late Quaternary
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Joseph S Stoner($342,998), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Mark B Bush($100,002), Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne
3. Mark B Abbott($619,980), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
4. Anders J Noren($231,062), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
5. William D McGee($91,611), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
6. Donald T Rodbell($1,439,918), Union College, Schenectady
Key terms: Intertropical Convergence Zone, Regional Water Balance, Waxing And Waning, Authigenic Calcite, Geomagnetic Field, Graduate Students, Ice Cores, Isotopic Composition, Junin Drilling, Lake Basins, Lake Junin, Peruvian Universities, Stable Isotope, Summer Monsoon, Tropical Andes, Access, Analysis, Archives, Climate, Climatic, Continuous, Coupled, Critical, Dating, Deposited, ENSO, Extend, Facilitate, Future, Geoscientists, Glacial, Glaciation, Glaciers, Has, High-resolution, Insights, Interglacial, Intervals, Latitude, Length, Long-term, Marl, Mmyr, National, Nearby, Paleoclimate, Paleomagnetic, Past, Perspective, Phenomena, Position, Potential, Proxy, Rate, Sediment, Sediments, South, Southern, Spanning, Timing, Training, Tropics, Uth, Vegetation.

Collaborative Research: Understanding the Full Range of Amazon Drought and Impacts
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Jonathan T Overpeck($433,544), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Mark B Bush($351,887), Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne
Key terms: Drought And Abrupt, Ecosystem Services, Severe Drought, Amazonia, Amazonian, Arizona, Carbon, Climate, DESCRIPTION, Droughts, Estimates, Exhibit, Feedbacks, Forest, Future, Has, Lake, Models, Occurred, Paleoclimatic, Past, Risk, State-of-the-art, Students, Tipping, Vegetation, Was, Western.

Collaborative Research: The role of oxygen fugacity in calc-alkaline differentiation and the creation of continental crust at the Aleutian arc
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Katherine A Kelley($329,441), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
2. Elizabeth Cottrell($194,199), Smithsonian Institution, Washington
3. Matthew G Jackson($37,702), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Aleutian Arc, Continental Crust, Analyzed, Content, Experimental, Features, Fo, Formation, Glasses, Magmas, Mentoring, Oxygen, Pis, Undergraduate, Varies, Volcanoes.

MARGINS: Collaborative Research: Illuminating the Architecture of the Greater Mount St. Helens Magmatic System from Slab to Surface
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Geoffrey A Abers($341,241), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Allow Scientists, Mount St, Active, Eruption, Helens, Image, Imaging, Magma, Plumbing, Surface, Volcanic, Volcanoes.

Collaborative Research: The Rosario Segment of the Cretaceous Alisitos Oceanic Arc (Baja California, Mexico): An Outstanding Field Analog to the Izu Bonin Arc
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Susan M DeBari($192,986), Western Washington University, Bellingham
2. Cathy J Busby($137,042), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Arc Crust Virtual, Arc Middle Crust, Crust Virtual Field, Ibm Drilling Outcomes, Island Arc Crust, Virtual Field Model, Alisitos Arc, Continental Crust, Expeditions 350-352, Field Analog, Graduate Students, Interface Closely, Modern Arcs, Reference Model, Rosario Segment, Busby, Collaborative, Convergent, Does, Felsic, Geochemistry, Geochronology, Geoprisms, Has, IBM-, IODP, Intermediate, Izu-bonin-mariana, Participants, Processes, Rock, Solar, Time, UCSB, Volcanic, WWU.

Collaborative Research: The Aleutian megathrust from trench to base of the seismogenic zone; integration and synthesis of laboratory, geophysical and geological data
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Demian M Saffer($179,850), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Mladen Nedimovic($252,216), Columbia University, New York
3. Kathleen M Keranen($175,303), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Plate Boundary, Seismogenic Zone, Situ Conditions, Slow Slip, Subduction Megathrust, Alaska, Behavior, Constraints, Cores, Datasets, Depth, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Exhumed, Existing, Fault, Faults, Geophysical, Laboratory, Low, Margin, Margins, Pressure, Processes, Properties, Quantitative, Reflectivity, Rock, Sediment, Seismicity, Stress, Subsurface, Trench, Via, Vp, Vpvs.

Assessing the role of methanogens in driving earth oxygenation using Ni isotopes
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2014; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Laura Wasylenki($174,997), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Ni Concentrations, Ni Limitation, Billion, Compositions, Decline, Isotopes, Isotopic, Konhauser, Life, Methane, Methanogens, Oxygen, Was.

Collaborative Research: Determining Functional Correlations Between Geochemical Factors and Microbial Metabolisms in Ultrabasic Serpentinizing Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Shino Suzuki($350,000), J. Craig Venter Institute, Inc., La Jolla
2. Kenneth H Nealson($49,508), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Microbial Metabolic, Previous Studies, Serpentinizing Environments, Activities, Cedars, Conditions, Extreme, Geochemical, Life, Occurring, Organisms, Pis, Site.

Reaction rate scaling in porous media in the transport controlled regime
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Thomas E Skinner($33,500), Wright State University, Dayton
Key terms: Chemical Weathering Rates, Nutrient Transport, Particle Surfaces, Porous Media, Solute Transport, Agricultural, Paths, Predict, Products, Reaction, Reactions, Reagents, Solution, Subsurface, Time, Tortuosity, Tortuous.

Collaborative Research; Protein Mediated Magnetite Biomineralization
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Dennis A Bazylinski($242,243), University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas
2. Brian H Lower($392,002), Ohio State University, Columbus
Key terms: Electron Microscopy, Mineral Products, Annual, Biomineralization, Camp, Crystallization, Crystals, Design, Direct, Environmental, Experiments, Feo, Field, MTB, Magnetic, Magnetite, Morphology, Nanometer, Peptides, Proteins, Size, Strains, Students, Teachers, Vitro, Vivo.

Collaborative Research: High-precision triple-isotopologue analysis of N2
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Laurence Y Yeung($189,999), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2. Nathaniel E Ostrom($90,073), Michigan State University, East Lansing
Key terms: Nitrogen Cycle, Nitrogen Fixation, Phd Tv, Biogeochemistry, Global, Has, Links, NN, Short, Tracer, Training.

CAREER: Toward an improved understanding of the impact of silicon on arsenic, iron, and carbon biogeochemical cycling in rice paddy soils
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Angelia L Seyfferth($464,742), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Rice Facility, Rice Paddies, Rice Paddy, Arsenic, Carbon, Component, Consequent, Delaware, Developed, Educational, Fe, Field, Geoscience, Global, Increase, Integration, Laboratory, Ongoing, Outcomes, Representation, Si, Soil, Strategy, Students, Underrepresented, Uptake.

Collaborative Research: Determining Pathways of Diagenetic Sulfurization of Organic Matter Using Compound-Specific Sulfur Isotopic Analysis
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. William P Gilhooly III($135,772), Indiana University, Bloomington
2. Josef P Werne($253,497), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Organic Sulfur Compounds, Sulfur Isotope Analysis, Organic Matter, Reaction Pathways, Anoxic, Collaboration, Conditions, Cycling, DSE, Deposited, Education, Environmental, Lakes, Modules, Natural, Oxygen, Past, Processes, Program, Reactions, Sedimentary, Sediments, Students.

Nano- and Macroscale Physico-chemical Processes Impacting Arsenic Mobilization
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Young-Shin Jun($340,576), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Aquifer Formations, Arsenic-bearing Pyrite, Reclaimed Water, Water Quality, Arsenic-bearing, Experimental, Geochemical, Hydroxide, Information, Interactions, Iron, MAR, Middle, Nucleation, Public, Qualitative, Quantitative, School, Students, Undergraduate.

Ferromagnetic Resonance of Interacting Particles: A Theoretical Study (Renewal)
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Andrew J Newell($71,389), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Magnetic Minerals, Bacteria, Chains, Depth, Die, Earth, FMR, Field, Fields, Found, Information, Magnetofossils, Magnets, Methods, Reliably, Resonance, Single, Software, Spectra, Theory.

Collaborative Research: Using Iodine-Calcium Ratios in Carbonates to Measure Oxygen in Ancient Atmospheres during the Development of Early Life
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Zunli Lu($139,989), Syracuse University, Syracuse
2. Timothy W Lyons($180,000), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Ancient Oxygen, Earth's History, Iodine Content, Iodine Species, Iodine Uptake, Itoc Ratios, Organic Matter, Atmosphere, Burial, Carbonate, Chemistry, Classic, Conditions, Contribute, Critical, Developing, Development, Diagenetic, Diverse, Environmental, Evolution, Fingerprint, Has, Ica, Iodate, Knowledge, Largest, Life, Limestones, Local, Marine, Means, Method, Modern, Ocean, Oceans, Organic-rich, Plans, Precambrian, Presence, Proxy, Redox, Remineralization, Riverside, Settings, Shales, Shallow, Sink, Strongly, Students, Surface, Tracer, Trends, Water, Waters.

Using novel genetic and isotopic techniques to understanding how microbial activity affects rates of dissolution of the mineral olivine.
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Kenneth H Nealson($124,563), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Carbon Dioxide Sequestration, Biological Activity, Carbon Cycle, Dissolution Rates, Doctoral Student, Mineral Dissolution, Mineral Olivine, Thermodynamic Equilibrium, Approach, Basic, Complicated, Conditions, Dependence, Earth, Effects, Efforts, Exercise, Experimental, Experiments, Field, Laboratory, Microbial, Minerals, Natural, Observations, Potential, Range, Silicate, Weathering.

Do Creeping Faults Ever Host Large Earthquakes?: An Investigation of Thermal Alteration in the SAFOD Drillcore
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Heather M Savage($341,804), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: San Andreas Fault, Creeping Section, Organic Molecules, Reaction Kinetics, Seismic Hazard, Temperature Rise, Thermal Maturity, Biomarkers, Determining, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Faults, Has, Heating, History, Indicate, Mechanics, Potential, Reactions, Rock, Slip, Slow.

Sulfur isotope studies of sulfide oxidation
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. James Farquhar($130,142), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Biological And Abiological, Abiological Pathways, Isotopic Signatures, Carbon, Common, Environments, Marine, Oxidation, Oxygen, Processes, Produced, Program, Rates, Reaction, Reduced, Reoxidized, Seawater, Sulfate, Sulfide, Sulfur.

Collaborative research: a multi-tracer (U, S, B, and Sr) approach to fingerprint and quantify anthropogenic salinity sources in the semi-arid Rio Grande watershed
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2014; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Jennifer C McIntosh($38,154), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Lin Ma($239,034), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
3. Anna Szynkiewicz($23,148), University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville
Key terms: Jemez River Basin, Lower Rio Grande, Mexico And Texas, Rio Grande Watershed, Uranium And Sulfur, Controlling Factors, El Paso, Flow Paths, Human Activities, Isotope Geochemistry, Natural Streams, Salinity Sources, Sulfur Isotope, Agriculture, Bring, Contribute, De, Elemental, Environmental, Experience, Has, Headwater, IPGP, Information, International, Isotopic, Management, Notably, Pressing, Public, Quantify, Resources, Semi-arid, Soils, Student, Students, Tool, Tracers, Training, UTEP, Worldwide.

Student travel support to advance US Soil Science
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Donald L Sparks($25,000), Soil Science Society of America, Fitchburg
Key terms: Congress, Field, Participation.

A window on ancient systems: Understanding the environmental distributions of hopanoids using compound-specific multi-isotope analysis and metagenomics
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Ann Pearson($348,604), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Hopanoid Biosynthesis, Ancient, Compounds, DH, Distributions, Environments, Genes, Hopanoids, Isotopic, Local, Marine, Metabolism, Microbial, Molecules, Sedimentary, Sources, Species.

Collaborative Research: Developing Continental Paleoclimate Records from Soils Using Pedogenic Carbonate
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Ronald Amundson($67,043), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Wind River Basin, Devil's Hole, Growth Rings, Oxygen Isotope, Age, Arguably, Carbonate, Climate, Collect, Continent, Dated, Desert, Detailed, Devils, Earth, Facility, Formed, Found, Glacial, Has, Insights, Land, Limestone, Multiple, NSF, Past, Preliminary, Resolution, SIMS, Soils, Temperature, Thousand, Time.

Ecology and biogeochemical cycling of photosynthetic arsenite-oxidizing bacteria
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2014; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Chad W Saltikov($299,824), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Arsenic Biogeochemical Cycle, Arsenic Rich Environments, Complex Arsenic Biogeochemical, Photosynthetic Arsenite Oxidation, Anoxygenic Photosynthetic, Arsenite Oxidase, Arsenite Oxidizing, Microbial Ecology, Photosynthetic Bacteria, Soda Lake, Abundance, Activity, Arsenate, Chemistry, Environmental, Has, Insight, Light-dependent, Photosynthesis, Process, Quantifying, Toxic, Toxicity, Water.

Collaborative Research: Iron and Manganese Depositing Cold-Seeps: Mineral Formation Along A Freshwater To Marine Ecosystem
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Craig L Moyer($72,359), Western Washington University, Bellingham
2. Bradley M Tebo($57,650), Oregon Health & Science University, Portland
Key terms: Hydaburg School District, Physicochemical Gradients, Soda Bay, Unique Watershed, Carbon, Deposits, Ecosystems, Effort, Energy, Environments, Extensive, Fe-, Flow, Formation, Freshwater, Geochemistry, Geological, Geomicrobiology, Has, Life, Low-temperature, Marine, Metabolic, Metal, Microbes, Microbial, Mounds, Nature, Past, Program, Seeps, Signatures, Site, Sites, Springs, Tribal.

A Cross Site Study of Silica Dynamics in the Critical Zone
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Louis A Derry($337,761), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Water Flow Paths, Critical Zone, Discharge Increases, Solute Concentrations, Solute Load, Solute Sources, Stream Catchments, Stream Discharge, Water Quality, CZO, Controls, Dilution, Does, Flux, Fluxes, Geochemical, Gesi, Has, Hydrogeochemical, Hydrologic, Pathways, Processes, Rock, Si, Silica, Soil, Streams, Students, Tracer, Tracers, Weathering.

Investigating effects of aqueous speciation in 13C-18O clumping and its implications for paleothermometry
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Aradhna Tripati($100,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Clumped, Isotope, Minerals, Outstanding, Technique.

Quantitative Salinity & Water D/H from Paired H & C Isotopes in Mangrove Lipids
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2014; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Julian P Sachs($450,001), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Coastal Water, Deuterium-to-hydrogen Ratio, Hydrogen Isotope, Mangrove Lipids, Reconstruct Rainfall, Sediment Cores, Tropical Rainfall, Carbon-, Deuterium-to-hydrogen, Estimates, Global, Lakes, Linked, Live, Mangroves, Maritime, Multiple, Natural, Outside, Parameters, Precipitation, Range, Regions, Salinities, Salinity, Species, Time, Trends, Tropics.

NSF Workshop: Expanding the role of Reactive Transport Modeling (RTM) within the Biogeochemical Sciences; Washington, DC
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Alexis K Navarre-Sitchler($50,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Reactive Transport, Rtm Approaches, Biogeochemical, Expansion, Leading, Modeling, Workshop.

Evaluating Atmospheric Oxygen Levels During the Great Oxidation Event
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Lee R Kump($228,174), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Geologic Evidence, Ago, Animals, Atmosphere, Billion, Cores, Earth, Evolution, History, Levels, Oxygen.

Investigating the Biological Function of Sterols and Hopanoids in Methylococcus capsulatus
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2014; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Paula V Welander($120,838), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Ability, Bacterial, Challenge, Earth, Fossils, Has, Hopanoids, Life, Lipids, Microbes, Occurrence, Physiological, Produced, Rock, Sets, Sterols.

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

1. Brandon R Briggs($224,730), Miami University, Oxford
Key terms: Oxidized And Reduced, Atmospheric Nitrogen, Clay Minerals, Electrical Charge, Nitrate Degradation, Redox Reaction, Reduced Iron, Ammonium, Amount, Bacteria, Common, Has, Oxidation, Purpose, Reduction, Sediments, Soils, Species, Susceptibility.

Laboratory Experiments in Geomorphology: The 46th Annual Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Sean J Bennett($40,445), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: 46th Annual Binghamton, Annual Binghamton Geomorphology, Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium, 46th Annual, Actively Engaged, Eight Themes, Experimental Geomorphic, Selected Based, Broader, Discipline, Discussion, Earth-surface, Facilities, Focus, Knowledge, Opportunity, Processes, Significance, Time, Transform.

RAPID: Monitoring the glacial-outburst flood (jökulhlaup) resulting from the eruption of Barðarbunga Volcano, Iceland
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2014; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach($25,735), Georgetown University, Washington
Key terms: Outburst Flood, Water Chemistry, Channel, Description, Eruption, Field, Floods, Generate, Iceland, Jökuhlhaup, Monitor.

Collaborative Research: Quantifying Sediment Storage Transit Times For Geomorphically Explicit, Watershed Scale Suspended Sediment Routing
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Diana L Karwan($98,029), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
2. James E Pizzuto($247,971), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Chesapeake Bay Watershed, Particle Waiting Times, Waiting Time Distributions, Alluvial Storage, Management Practices, Modeling Schemes, Receiving Waters, Sediment Waiting, Storage Reservoirs, Suspended Sediment, Travel Times, Upland Sources, Basin, Contaminants, Dating, Designed, Downstream, Erosion, Existing, Fine-grained, Incorporated, Measured, Mid-atlantic, Movement, Particles, Predicting, Rates, Required, Routing, Theory, Timescales, Transport, Watersheds.

Investigating the effects of sediment supply, width variation, and unsteady flow on riffle-pool dynamics
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Peter A Nelson($279,000), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Increased Sediment Supply, Channel Width, Dam Removal, Experimental Runs, Riffle-pool Sequences, Unsteady Flow, Experiments, Explore, Flume, Graduate, Model, Riffle-pool, River, Sorting, Undergraduate, Zones.

Collaborative Research: Defining the role of heterogeneous lithology in bedrock incision and terrace formation in the Buffalo National River, Arkansas
Award Effective Date: 08/12/2014; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Stephanie L Shepherd($56,525), Auburn University, Auburn
Key terms: Base Level, Glacial Limit, Bedrock, Human, Incision, Landscapes, Lithology, Mid-continent, North, Processes, Reconstructions, South, Valley.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Clarifying the ingredients and significance of nonlocal versus local sediment transport on steepland hillslopes
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Joshua J Roering($134,540), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
2. Daniel J Morgan($173,374), Vanderbilt University, Nashville
Key terms: Oregon Coast Range, Sierra Nevada Mountains, Hillslope Behavior, Nonlocal Transport, Sediment Flux, Sediment Motions, Sediment Transport, Aimed, Central, Clarify, Combine, Conditions, Descriptions, Downslope, Erosion, Evolution, Experimental, Experiments, Field-based, Formulations, Has, Hillslopes, Implications, Ingredients, Involve, Landscape, Local, Observations, Particle, Processes, Soil, Steepland, Theoretical, Theory, Topic, Topography, Versus.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: COUPLED HYDROLOGICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL PROCESS EVOLUTION AT THE LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION OBSERVATORY
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Ciaran Harman($188,855), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
2. Guo-Yue Niu($486,256), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Flow And Transport, Flow Paths, Natural Landscapes, Water Transit, Biogeochemical, Biosphere, Environment, Experiments, Hillslope, Interact, LEO, Modeling, Observations, Observe, Paradigm, Process, Quantify, Soil, Structure, Students, Time.

Sediment Transport in Vegetated Channels: Evaluating the Roles of Mean Bed Stress and Turbulent Impulse on Incipient Motion
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Heidi M Nepf($359,999), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Mean Bed Stress, Stress And Turbulence, Coastal Marshes, Particle Entrainment, Sediment Entrainment, Sediment Motion, Sediment Transport, Turbulence Structure, Channel, Conditions, Diameter, Emergent, Experiments, Flow, Impulse, Laboratory, Landscapes, Model, Models, Protection, Regions, Restoration, Threshold, Turbulent, Vegetated, Vegetation, Velocity, Water.

Monitoring geomorphologic processes from 3-D correlation of optical images and LiDAR data
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Jean-Philippe Avouac($100,007), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Dune Dynamics, Optical Images, Allow, Lidar, Methods, Processes, Sand, Surface.

Sustainability of coastal marshes under accelerated relative sea-level rise
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2014; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Torbjorn E Tornqvist($132,783), Tulane University, New Orleans
Key terms: Relative Sea-level Rise, Coastal Marshes, Mississippi Delta, Relative Sea-level, Sea-level Rise, Analysis, Comparison, Environments, Louisiana, Mmyr, Range, Rates, Sedimentary, Worlds.

RUI: Measuring the effects of winter storms (2013-2014) on the movement of boulders in western Ireland
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Rónadh Cox($74,997), Williams College, Williamstown
Key terms: Coastal Regions, Inland Extent, Storm Waves, Winter Storms, Applicable, Basis, Boulder, Boulders, Broader, Comparisons, Distances, Distribution, Documented, Effective, Elevations, Existing, Field, Generated, Models, Movement, Movements, Objects, Photographs, Power, Public, Relevance, Sea, Serve, Sites, Students, Surveyed, Transport, Tsunami, World-wide.

Workshop: Planetary Geomorphology -- the 45th Annual Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Alan D Howard($34,508), University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville
Key terms: Terrestrial And Extraterrestrial, Terrestrial And Planetary, Planetary Geomorphology, Terrestrial Geomorphologists, Terrestrial Geomorphology, Academic, Access, Benefit, Bodies, Exploration, Invited, Range, Students, Subdisciplines, Symposium.

Collaborative Research: Normal-Fault Facets as Recorders of Erosion and Tectonics
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Daniel E Hobley($214,212), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Scott W McCoy($30,407), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Estimating Past Earthquake, Past Earthquake Activity, Simple Mathematical Model, Weathering And Erosion, Mathematical Model, Adjacent, Analysis, Climate, Detailed, Fault, Faults, Field, Information, Method, Motion, Mountain, Mountains, Natural, Paleoseismology, Processes, Rate, Rates, Relies, Steepness, Topography.

Collaborative: International Deltas Meeting: Genesis, Dynamics, Modelling, and Sustainable Development
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Gary Parker($2,257), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
2. Jeffrey Nittrouer($32,561), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Bring, Delta, Deltas, International, Meeting, Multidisciplinary, Processes, Students, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Flooding the Colorado River Delta: Impacts of Flow Restoration on River-Carbon Composition and Fluxes
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Thomas S Bianchi($44,460), University of Florida, Gainesville
2. David E Butman($32,026), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Colorado River, Carbon, Flooding, Mexico, Water.

Experiments on debris-flow initiation from runoff
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Michael P Lamb($355,497), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Debris Flow Initiation, Debris Flows, Debris-flow Initiation, Following Wildfire, Sediment Transport, Channel, Channels, Debris-flow, Designed, Experiments, Failure, Generated, Hazards, Mountain, Runoff, Slopes, Steep, Terrain.

Collaborative Research: Millennial variability of hillslope dynamics and alluvial aggradation in semiarid regions: a view from the southern Hemisphere
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Robert M Negrini($53,663), CSUB Auxiliary for Sponsored Programs Administration, Bakersfield
2. Eric McDonald($354,431), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Alluvial, Arid, Chile, Contribute, Coupled, Fluvial, Geomorphic, International, Programs, Regions, Semiarid, Similar, Soils, Timescales, Undergraduate, World.

Impact of Quaternary megafloods on erosion of the Tsangpo River gorge, southeastern Tibet
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2014; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Katharine Huntington($224,001), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Computer Modeling, Disaster Management, Flood Hazard, Long-term Erosion, Climate, Evolution, Extreme, Field, Floods, Investigate, Laboratory, Long-term, Megaflood, Megafloods, Outreach, Processes, Programs, Students, Timescales, Washington.

CAREER: Persistence of soil organic matter in dynamic landscapes: interactive effects of fire and erosion
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Asmeret A Berhe($478,789), University of California - Merced, Merced
Key terms: Dynamic Landscapes, Som Persistence, Undergraduate Students, Upland Ecosystems, Bulk, Carbon, Fire-prone, Graduate, Pyc, Soil, Storage, Teachers, Teaching, Techniques.

RAPID: Characterizing the response of a burned landscape to an unusual and extreme rain event
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Peter A Nelson($12,922), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Park Fire, Burned, Characterize, Field, Flood, Graduate, Landscape, Rainfall, Regional, Resulting, September, Storms, Student, Watersheds.

Collaborative Research: Hillslope hydrology under glass: Controlled experimental testing of hillslope-scale hydrologic transport theories at Biosphere2
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Ciaran Harman($230,057), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
2. Peter A Troch($315,809), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Flow And Transport, Hillslope And Watershed, Age Function, Age Functions, Large-scale Predictions, Modeling Transport, Watershed Scales, Approach, Biosphere, Developed, Directly, Experiments, Facility, Framework, Has, Hillslopes, LEO, Landscape, Large-scale, Measured, Methods, Models, Movement, Observe, Operational, Parameters, Processes, Properties, Rely, Solutes, Spatial, Structure, Students, Theory, Watersheds.

Relative sea-level changes from near-, intermediate- and far-field locations and their implications for geophysical modeling and 20th century ice sheet-ocean interactions
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2014; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Benjamin P Horton($41,133), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Atlantic Coast, Mantle Viscosity, Sea Level, Sea-level Rise, Canada, Caribbean, Century, Contribution, Database, Geophysical, Ice, Models, North, Observations, Parameters, RSL, Reveal, Sea-level, Spatial.

Earthquake nucleation on faults with rate- and state-dependent friction: a dynamical system's approach to instability
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Robert C Viesca($214,199), Tufts University, Somerville
Key terms: Dynamic Rupture, Seismic Cycle, Slip Instability, Conditions, Development, Dynamical, Earliest, Earthquakes, Fault, Friction, Interfaces, Nucleation.

RAPID: Effects of an Extreme Rain Event in the Boulder Creek CZO
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2014; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Gregory E Tucker($22,142), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Boulder Creek Critical, Creek Critical Zone, Critical Zone Observatory, Analysis, Channel, Failures, Hillslope, Impacted, Landscape, Lidar, Opportunity, Precipitation, Rare, September, Severe, Storm, Transport, Water.

RAPID: TYPHOON HAIYAN - ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS ON THE PHILIPPINES
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2014; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Benjamin P Horton($20,018), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Indian Ocean Tsunami, Sedimentary Deposits, Storm Surge, Typhoon Haiyan, Coastal, Collected, Deposition, Erosion, International, Overwash, RAPID.

Recoupling the Megathrust: Evaluation of the Transition from Postseismic to Interseismic Behavior in Nicoya Costa Rica
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Andrew V Newman($309,995), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Deformation And Earthquake, Continuous Gps, Costa Rica, Earthquake Activity, Future Earthquakes, Ground Deformation, Interseismic Locking, Mantle Relaxation, Nicoya Earthquake, Plate Interface, Subduction Zone, Subduction Zones, Accurate, Active, Afterslip, Behavior, Beneath, Campaign, Coseismic, Development, Difficult, Environment, Evaluation, Fault, Following, Identifies, Images, Immediately, Land-based, Late-interseismic, Local, Megathrust, Microseismicity, Model, Models, Network, Observe, Ongoing, Prior, Recoupling, Responsible, Seismic, September, Slip, Stress, Transitions, Unique, Viscoelastic.

Geophysics of Iron in the Earth's Core
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Wendy L Mao($330,147), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Compounds And Alloys, Iron And Iron-rich, Pressures And Temperatures, Static And Dynamic, Earth's Core, Iron-rich Compounds, Shear Properties, Sound Velocities, Theoretical Mineral, Approach, Behavior, Central, Conditions, Deep, Evolution, Experimental, Experiments, Observations, Planet, Pressure-temperature, Processes, Seismic, Strength, Useful.

Monitoring Changes in Seismic Velocity Related to Magmatism at Augustine and Veniaminof Volcanoes, Alaska
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Ninfa Bennington($95,636), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Augustine And Veniaminof, Shallow Magma Reservoir, Active Volcanism, Active Volcanoes, Activity Leading, Augustine Volcano, Near-real Time, Precursory Activity, Seismic Velocity, Spatial Mapping, Veniaminof Volcanoes, Detection, Eruption, Indications, Inflating, Magmatic, Nreal, Post-eruption, Pre-, Prior, Temporal, Website.

Hydration State of the Transition Zone and Lowermost Mantle
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Steven D Jacobsen($343,479), Northwestern University, Evanston
Key terms: Earth's Mantle, Mantle Minerals, Melt Generation, Seismic Studies, Transition Zone, Water Cycle, Bound, Deep, Depth, Distribution, Elastic, Found, Geochemical, HO, Hydration, Hydrous, Influence, Plate, Ringwoodite.

High Temperature Magnetic Imaging of Titanomagnetites
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Joshua M Feinberg($270,001), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Common Magnetic Minerals, Natural Recording Media, Geomagnetic Field, Iron Oxides, Magnetic Behavior, Micromagnetic Configurations, Micromagnetic Structures, Mineral Grains, Paleomagnetic Information, Thermomagnetic Recording, Allow, Ancient, Applied, Complex, Evolution, Experimentally, Fields, Geoscientists, Laboratory, MFM, Magnetization, Mechanisms, Multi-domain, Planetary, Processes, Recovery, Rock, Temperatures.

Remote Triggering Inside Versus Outside Geothermal Fields
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Guoqing Lin($101,813), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Adjacent Fault Zones, Inside And Outside, Operational Geothermal Fields, Remote Earthquakes, Remote Triggering, Remotely Triggered, Seismicity Rate, Activity, Anthropogenic, California, Respond, Setting.

Variations Along a Continental Convergent Margin: Seismic imaging of the western margin of South America
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. George Zandt($374,998), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Mantle Transition Zone, Uniform Seismic Images, Convergent Margin, Lower Crustal, Nazca Slab, Oceanic Plate, Receiver Functions, Surface Wave, Western Margin, Along-strike, Andes, Beneath, Building, Deformation, Depths, Earthquakes, Features, Investigate, Largest, Modern, Mountain, Processes, Region, South, Specific, Strike, Subducted, Subduction, Techniques, Thickening, Tomography, Water, Worlds.

An analysis of upper mantle discontinuity structure using 3D synthetics and global network data
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Jeroen E Ritsema($258,059), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: 660-km Transitions, Phase Transitions, Seismic Wave, Wave Propagation, Boundaries, Convection, Depths, Earth, Earthquakes, Flow, Geologic, Global, Heat, Mantle, Maps, Precise, Processing, Produced.

Development of a Magnetostrophic Geodynamo
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Paul H Roberts($399,861), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Earth's Core, Electrical Resistance, Fluid Velocity, Magnetic Field, Power Source, Alpha-effect, Assume, Believe, Buoyancy, Conductor, Creates, Dynamo, Energy, Force, Frictional, Geodynamo, Induced, Losses, Magnetostrophic, Motion, Numerical, Planets, Process, Self-excited, Simplified, Simulations, Solutions, Taylor, Was, Well-known.

Numerical Modeling of Three-dimensional Subduction Driven Mantle Wedge Weakening and Plate-Mantle Decoupling
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Margarete Jadamec($144,999), University of Houston, Houston
Key terms: Complex Seismic Anisotropy, Generalized 3d Models, Mantle Flow Field, Multi-plate Geodynamic Models, Shear Wave Splitting, Subduction Zone Plate, Zone Plate Boundaries, 3d Models, Mantle Wedge, Mantle-overriding Plate, Overriding Plate, Subduction Zones, Wave Splitting, Boundary, Building, Code, Compared, Controls, Coupled, Coupling, Decoupled, Deformation, Domain, Farther, Finite-element, Global, Interior, Lateral, Length-scales, Lithosphere, Mantle-overriding, Motion, Mountain, Near, Numerical, Observed, Parallel, Plates, Rheology, Run, Simulations, Sites, Slab, Surface, Synthetic, Systematically, Target, Tectonic, Tractions, Transition, Velocity, Vertical, Viscosity, Viscous.

Radiative Thermal Conductivity of Upper Mantle and Transition Zone Minerals
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Sylvia-Monique Thomas($141,121), University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas
Key terms: Radiative Thermal Conductivities, Wadsleyite And Ringwoodite, Earth's Mantle, Heat Flow, Heat Transfer, Hydrous Ringwoodite, Hydrous Wadsleyite, In-situ Optical, Thermal Conductivity, Transition Zone, Akimotoite, Constituents, Contribute, Deep, Dynamics, Experimental, Geodynamic, In-situ, Interior, Lithospheric, Majorite, Models, Nature, Olivine, Phase, Structure, Theoretical, Wm-k-.

Collaborative Research: Ten years later: Resolving the postseismic deformation processes of the 2002 Denali Fault earthquake
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Jeffrey T Freymueller($366,712), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
2. Roland Burgmann($105,649), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Deep Fault, Denali Fault, Observed Deformation, Postseismic Deformation, Alaska, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Finite, Following, Forces, GPS, Information, Interaction, Mechanical, Mechanisms, Model, Models, Network, Park, Slip, Time.

Ab initio phonon models of lattice thermal conductivity of lower mantle minerals
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Jianjun Dong($210,000), Auburn University, Auburn
Key terms: Lattice Thermal Conductivity, Lower Mantle Mineral, Heat Conduction, Heat Flow, Theoretical Models, Thermal Transport, Adopted, Boundary, CMB, Complex, Computational, Conditions, Earth, First-principles, Iron, Perovskite, Physics, Simulations, Theory.

Shock Wave Studies of Liquids in Earth's Core and Mantle
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Paul D Asimow($1,200,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Outer Core, Sound Speed, Sound Speeds, Allows, Composition, Critical, Density, Development, Experimental, Liquid, Liquids, Measure, Pressure, Properties, Shocked, Temperature, Window.

First-Principles Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Silicate Liquids: Structure, Diffusion and Viscosity at Mantle Conditions
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Bijaya B Karki($359,999), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Silicate Liquids, Transport Properties, Composition, Compositions, Compression, Computational, Earth, Essentially, Evolution, First-principles, Insight, Magma, Mechanisms, Melts, Molten, Origin, Pressure, Processes, Structure, Structures, Techniques, Temperature, Viscosity, Visualization, Zone.

Experiments in the three meter diameter geodynamo model
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Daniel P Lathrop($500,000), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Earth's Magnetic Field, Limiting Dangerous Radiation, Rapidly Rotating Model, Central Importance, Earth's Core, Earth's Magnetic, Magnetic Fields, Public Appreciation, Allow, Collect, Device, Dynamics, Examine, Experimental, Experiments, Faculty, Focus, Generation, Graduate, Planetary, School, Staff, Sun, Turbulent, Twenty-ton, Undergraduate, Visiting.

Improved Dissemination of Global Crustal Model CRUST1.0
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Gabriele Laske($164,981), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Crustal Model, Earth's Crust, Model Validation, Passive Seismic, User Feedback, Active, Anticipated, Arcgis, Atmosphere, Computer, Databases, Diverse, Field, File, Files, Fortran, Has, Increasing, Mantle, Phase, Processes, Provided, Read, Release, Requests, Responded, Structure, Students, Surface, Time, Tools, Was, Wider.

Investigation of the earth's mantle plumbing system at the global scale using an advanced seismic imaging approach.
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Barbara A Romanowicz($259,532), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Earth's Mantle, Lower Mantle, Mantle Structure, Shear Velocity, Upper Mantle, Velocity Model, Wave Energy, Wavefield Computations, Waveform Inversion, Additional, Builds, Dataset, Deep, Earthquakes, Global, Has, Images, Imaging, Interior, Numerical, Obtain, Period, Resolution, Resolve, Seismic, Surface, Tectonic, Time, Tomography, Volcanoes, Waveforms.

Resolving the Degree of Chemical Heterogeneities in the Mantle by Dual Bootstrap Stack
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Jun Korenaga($123,084), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Signal Detection Technique, Observational Constraints, S-to-p Scattering, Small-scale Heterogeneities, Chemical, DBS, Dbs-based, Extensive, Mantle, Migration, Plates, Region, S-to-p, Small-scale, Stack.

Perovskite and post-perovskite in the (Mg,Fe)GeO3 system
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Thomas S Duffy($360,000), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Crystal Structure, Crystal Structures, Silicate Minerals, Chemical, Deep, Earth, Experiments, Germanates, Interior, Iron, Knowledge, Laboratory, Lower, Mantle, Perovskite, Post-perovskite, Pressures, Processes, Properties, Region, Temperatures, Velocity.

High-resolution attenuation structure from the ambient seismic field
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. German A Prieto($283,000), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Velocity And Attenuation, Attenuation Structure, Earthquake-based Methods, Seismic Stations, Surface Waves, Tomographic Imaging, ASF, Advantage, Amplitudes, Approach, California, Continent, Distribution, Earthquake-based, Earthquakes, Estimated, High-resolution, Images, Lithosphere, Obtained, Similar, Source, Tomography, VEA.

Adjoint tomography of the crustal and upper-mantle seismic structure beneath Continental China
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Fenglin Niu($250,000), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: 3d Wavespeed, Driving Forces, East Asia, Final Models, Initial Model, Radially Anisotropic, Seismic Imaging, Tectonic Activities, Tectonic Units, Tibetan Plateau, Transition Zone, Upper Mantle, Wave Propagation, Accurate, Based, Basin, Beneath, Carried, China, Continent, Crust, Dataset, Existing, Features, Flow, Formation, Future, Geology, Heterogeneities, High-definition, Images, Interior, Intraplate, Lithosphere, Method, Orand, Outcome, Preliminary, Processes, Realistic, Robust, Simulations, Slab, Smooth, Structure, Subduction, Surface, Tomographic, XSEDE.

Collaborative Research: Statistical Physics of Fault Behavior - Dynamic Friction, Strain Localization, Comminution, Heat Transfer, and Compaction
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Ahmed Elbanna($78,000), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
2. Jean M Carlson($230,000), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Sheared Gouge Layers, Grain Breakage, Natural Hazards, Predictive Models, Theoretical Framework, Wide Range, Based, Development, Dynamic, Educational, Fault, Friction, Frictional, Geophysical, Geophysics, Granular, Laboratory, Landslides, Mechanics, Phenomenological, Physics, Processes, Quantitative, Slip, Statistical, Temperature, Underlying, Volcanoes.

Rheology of Nanocrystalline Materials: Clarifying the Sliding Mechanism of Earthquakes
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Javier E Garay($270,000), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: High-speed Friction Experiments, Ethnically Diverse, Graduate Student, High-pressure Faulting, High-speed Friction, Overcoming Friction, San Andreas, Shallow Earthquakes, Sliding Zone, California, Caused, Conditions, Copi, Deeper, Depths, Faults, Flow, Grain, High-pressure, Initiates, Low, Mechanism, Nanocrystalline, Pis, Rate, Rises, SAF, Size, Slide, Step, Stresses, Students, Success, Surface, Synthesizing, Temperature, UCR, Undergraduate, Weak.

Experimental simulation of earthquake rupture processes
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Ze'ev Reches($250,000), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Complex Process, Constitutive Relations, Earthquake Loading, Earthquake Rupture, Fault Behavior, Natural Earthquakes, Rock Blocks, Slip Velocity, Theoretical Models, Unique Capabilities, Apparatus, Calculations, Chang, Conditions, Distance, Energy, Evolution, Experimental, Experiments, Faults, History, Mechanical, Methods, Power-density, Preliminary, Processes, Properties, Reveal, Seismic, Slip-velocity, Weakening.

Investigating the mantle expression of continental strike-slip fault systems with scattered wave imaging of the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Karen M Fischer($231,291), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Anatolian And Southern, Beneath Strike-slip Plate, Central San Andreas, Deformation Beneath Strike-slip, Lithosphere-asthenosphere Velocity Gradient, Mantle Deformation Beneath, Narrow Shear Zone, Northern Anatolian Fault, San Andreas Fault, Southern Alpine Fault, Sp And Ps, Strike-slip Plate Boundaries, Beneath Strike-slip, Continental Lithosphere, Lab Properties, Numerical Modeling, Plate Boundary, Shear Zones, Strike-slip Fault, Strike-slip Plate, Amplitudes, Anisotropy, Base, Based, California, Convert, Directly, Earthquakes, Faults, Horizontal, Imaging, Lateral, Less, Lithospheric, Measure, Motion, Phases, Portion, Prior, Seismic, Shallow, Shwave, Structure, Surface, Systematically, Thickness, Waves, Wide.

Sound Wave Velocities and Elasticity of Hydrous Mantle Minerals at High Pressures and Temperatures.
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Gabriel D Gwanmesia($300,001), Delaware State University, Dover
Key terms: Elastic Wave Velocities, Theoretical Studies Indicate, Wadsleyite And Ringwoodite, 2-3 Wt, Crystal Structure, Crystal Structures, Elastic Properties, Electron Microscopy, Hydrated Phases, Mantle Minerals, Polycrystalline Specimens, Seismic Velocity, Transition Zone, Velocity Jump, Velocity Jumps, Waves Travel, X-ray Diffraction, Acoustic, Analysis, And-mgfesio, And-mgsio, Anhydrous, Composition, Compressional, Content, Depth, Discontinuities, Discontinuity, Earth, Elasticity, Function, Gpa, HO, Has, Hydrous, Hydroxyl, Incorporate, Interior, Laboratory, Mainly, OH-, Observed, Olivine, Petrological, Pressure, Rock, Seismological, Shear, Speed, Temperature, Ultrasonic, Water, X-ray.

X-ray Scattering Experiments on Melting and Equations of State of Candidate Compositions of Earth's Core
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Andrew J Campbell($380,000), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Earth's Core, Extreme Pressure, Melting Temperatures, Temperature Conditions, Accurate, Chemical, Composition, Constraints, Densities, Exist, Experimental, Iron, Precise, Scattering, Ternary, X-ray.

Using ocean tidal load response to explore upper mantle density and elastic structure
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Mark Simons($212,972), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Interior Properties, Continent, Density, Earth, GPS, Means, Models, Movement, OTL, Observations, Ocean, Seismology, Spatial, Structure, Tectonic, Tidal, Tides.

RAPID: Probing magma plumbing and seismicity beneath Mt. St. Helens with modern exploration industry seismometers
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Brandon Schmandt($56,622), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Dense Observations, Exploration Industry, Graduate Students, Magma Plumbing, Service Company, Array, Beneath, Deploying, Experience, Helens, Mt, Nodes, Participants, Seismic, Seismicity, Seismometers, Senior, UNM, Undergraduate, Volcanoes, Weeks.

Collaborative Research: Converging on a Physical Basis for Rate and State Friction through Nano-to-Macro-Scale Friction and Adhesion Experiments on Geological Materials
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. David L Goldsby($293,393), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Key terms: Atomic Force Microscopy, Existing Friction Laws, Chemical Bonding, Contact Creep, Earthquake Cycle, Friction Experiments, Frictional Mechanisms, Plastic Deformation, Rock Friction, Time Dependence, AFM, Adhesion, Ageing, Allow, Asperity, Basis, Contacts, Earthquakes, Electron, Employ, Energy, Explained, Fault, Faults, Increases, Interface, Isolate, Laboratory, Lack, Li, Magnitude, Mechanics, Methods, Microindentation, Models, Nanoindentation, Nanoscale, Nature, Observed, Ph, Processes, Reliably, Single, Slip, Sophisticated, Spectroscopy.

GOALI: Application of Wave Gradiometry to Exploration Seismology
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Ivan Rabak($64,971), University of Memphis, Memphis
Key terms: Global Geophysical Services, Wave Spatial Gradients, Eastern Ohio, Processing Techniques, Seismic Processing, Seismic Wave, Seismic Waves, Tomographic Maps, Wave Attributes, Wave Characteristics, Wave Field, Wave Gradiometry, AVO, Allow, Analysis, Array, Centered, Collected, Dataset, Dense, Deployed, Experiments, Geological, Has, Imaging, Instruments, Investigate, Method, Particular, Recording, Resulting, Structure, Structures, Time, Unique, Velocity.

School for the Study of Earthquakes: nucleation, triggering, and relationships with aseismic processes
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Jean-Philippe Avouac($11,999), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Bring, Broader, Earthquake, Implications, Issues, Leading, November, Processes, School, Students.

Hydrogen in Lower Mantle Minerals: Accomplishment-based Renewal
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Joseph R Smyth($340,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Deep Interior, Earth-like Planets, Liquid Water, Seismic Velocity, Silicate Minerals, Constrain, Crystal, Dynamics, Earth-like, Has, Hydrogen, Hydrous, Interiors, Oxygen, Perovskite, Pressure, Principally, Reservoir, Search, Solid, Solubility, Stored, Structure.

Two-Phase Grain Damage and Geochemical Interactions: From Early Tectonic Evolution to Climate and Energy Transitions
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. David Bercovici($416,504), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Mafic And Ultramafic, Carbon Sequestration, Chemical Reactions, Fossil Fuels, Grain-damage Theory, Long-term Evolution, Plate Boundaries, Plate Tectonic, Plate Tectonics, Surface Evolution, Climate-change, Complex, Development, Earth, Energy, Field, Fluid, Geological, Grain-damage, Human, Long-term, Mantle, Mechanics, Micro-crack, Mineral, Natural, Rock, Seek, Time, Two-phase.

CAREER: Seismic Imaging of Large-Scale Structure in the Lithosphere and the Core-Mantle Boundary Region
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Vedran Lekic($647,000), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Core-mantle Boundary Region, Beyond Classrooms, Continental Lithosphere, Core-mantle Boundary, Undergraduate Education, Analysis, Analyzing, Characteristics, Datasets, Design, Developing, Dynamics, Earth, Educational, Evolution, Experiences, Imaging, Interior, Maryland, Methods, Modeling, Observations, Outcomes, Plan, Program, Seismic, Seismoabcs, Seismological, Structures, Students.

Collaborative Research: Developing a Three-Dimensional Seismic Reference Earth Model (REM-3D) in Collaboration with the Community
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Vedran Lekic($344,911), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
2. Barbara A Romanowicz($49,965), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
3. Adam M Dziewonski($50,000), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Maximizing Model Adoption, Period Reference Seismic, Reference Seismic Dataset, Seismic Reference Model, Surface Wave Dispersion, Dataset Performance, Earth's Mantle, Mineral Physicists, Recommend Strategies, Reference Dataset, Reference Models, Seismic Observables, Advise, Anomalous, Avenues, Characterization, Community-contributed, Composition, Create, Deep, Density, Depth, Earthquake, Efforts, Enable, Furthermore, Geodynamics, Identification, Imaging, Improvement, Input, Interior, Organize, Parameterized, Physics, Predicting, Properties, Quantified, REM-D, Seismologists, Set, Splitting, Structure, Structures, Temperature, Three-dimensional, Tools, Utility, Waveform, Wavespeed.

Physics-Based Volcano Geodesy with Application to Effusive Eruptions at Mount St Helens
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Paul Segall($394,181), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Explicit Consideration, Forward Model, Forward Models, Plate Boundary, Volcanic Eruptions, Applied, Approach, Available, Consistent, Crust, Deformation, Duration, Earth, Erupted, Flow, Forecasts, GPS, Magma, Parameters, Physics-based, Potential, Pressure, Reservoirs, Summary, Surface, Volcano, Volcanoes, Volume, Weather.

The role of hot crust in mountain building: Testing the alpha-beta quartz transition as a crustal geothermometer
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Vera Schulte-Pelkum($84,433), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Crustal Temperature, Earth's Crust, Quartz Transition, Combination, Conversions, Depth, Earthquakes, Generates, Melting, Orogens, Phase, Processes, Range, Seismic, Systematic, Techniques, Velocity, Vp, Vs.

Using Dense Seismic Arrays to Map Sharp Features in the Deep Mantle
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Meghan S Miller($187,000), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Low Velocity Zones, Deep Mantle, Lower Mantle, Mantle Structures, Mineral Physics, Seismic Observations, Allow, Array, Arrays, Beneath, Boundary, CMB, Chemical, Compatible, Distinguish, Effects, Evolution, Experiments, Geodynamic, Imaging, Inferred, Layer, Llsvps, Models, Observed, Phase, Properties, Regions, Resolve, Slabs, Subducted, Techniques, Trade-off, Ulvzs, Usarray, Velocities, Waveform.

Carbides, Nitrides and Related Materials in Earth, Planetary, and Materials Science
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Alexandra Navrotsky($15,000), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Carbides, Diverse, Frontier, Nitrides, Outcome, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Surface wave and body wave modeling of attenuation in the mantle transition zone
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Colleen A Dalton($63,428), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Attenuation Studies, Transition Zone, Upper Mantle, Wave Attenuation, Wave Speed, Amplitudes, Component, Critical, Focusing, Has, Images, Involves, Model, Modeling, Models, Require, Resolution, Seismic, Spatial, Spectra, Structure, Synthetics, Theoretical, Tomography, Velocity.

Deciphering the Origin of Intra-Plate Volcanism in the Pacific Northwest Using Geodynamic Models with Data Assimilation
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Lijun Liu($300,000), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: River Flood Basalt, Deep Mantle, Pacific Northwest, Beneath, Flow, Formation, Has, Hotspot, Models, Past, Seismic, Solve, Subduction, Usarray, Volcanic, Volcanism, Volcanisms.

High Resolution Imaging of the Mantle of North America with 3D Wavefield Imaging
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Gary L Pavlis($241,018), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Oil And Gas, Gas Industry, Resolution Images, Seismic Reflection, Approach, Approaches, Earthscope, Geology, Geometry, Has, Imaging, Main, Mantle, Method, North, Processes, Produced, TA, Technology, Was, Wave.

Collaborative Research: The Time Averaged Field Initiative: Addressing a Critical Data Gap
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Anthony Koppers($79,958), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Lisa Tauxe($253,000), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Ancient Field, Geomagnetic Field, Magnetic Field, Accurate, Age, Average, Direction, Directions, Fields, GAD, Information, Israel, Paleomagnetic, Plate, Processes, Reconstructions, Required, Sets, Strength, Tectonic, Time.

2014 US Volcano Seismology Workshop
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Diana C Roman($3,010), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Volcano Seismology, Field, Outstanding, Phenomena, Workshop.

Towards a data-based and physics-based model of interseismic and seismic behavior of Main Himalayan Thrust
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Nadia Lapusta($492,488), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Interseismic Coupling, Interseismic Strain, Seismic Hazard, Stress Build, Constrain, Dynamic, Earthquakes, Fault, Himalaya, Locked, MHT, Measured, Model, Modeling, Properties, Statistics.

Geodetic observations at the early stage of subduction zone seismic cycle: towards complete seismic cycle coverage
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Timothy Dixon($260,000), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Costa Rica, Future Earthquakes, Nicoya Peninsula, Precision Gps, Seismic Cycle, Slow Slip, Strain Accumulation, Subduction Zones, Available, Investigate, Network, Processes, Seismogenic, Size, Timing, Tsunamis.

Is Grain Boundary Sliding the Dominant Deformation Mechanism in the Hydrous Upper Mantle? Experimental Constraints on the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary.
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Mark E Zimmerman($339,999), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Steady-state Grain Size, Allow Extrapolation, Dynamic Recrystallization, Earth's Mantle, Laboratory Experiments, Seismic Waves, Steady-state Grain, Upper Mantle, Water Content, Wet Conditions, Approach, Deformation, Dependence, Designed, Difficulties, Experimental, GBS, Grain-size, Investigate, Lithospheric, Mechanism, Observations, Olivine, Overcome, Pis, Plate, Processes, Regime, Relatively, Rock, Sensitive, Stress, Temperature, Torsion, Velocity, Viscosity.

Precursory deformation at Southeast Asian volcanoes
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Falk Amelung($322,999), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Deforming Volcanoes, Precursory Inflation, Southeast Asia, ALOS-, Ascent, Eruption, Japanese, Magma, Observations, Philippines, Satellite, Satellites, Storage, Surface.

Developing high-resolution tremor catalogs to constrain numerical models of slow slip
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Allan M Rubin($299,961), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Episodic Slow Slip, Seismic Wave Arrivals, Slip Speeds, Time Windows, Comparing, Deep, Discovered, Earthquakes, Fault, Faults, Fronts, Has, Lacks, Locked, Magnitude, Main, Method, Previously, Producing, Propagate, Rate, Regions, Secondary, Signal, Space, Subduction, Tectonic, Traditional, Tremor.

Mineral Physics Studies of Elasticity, Phonon, and Rheology at Pressure-Temperature Conditions of the Earth's Deep Interior
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Ho-kwang Mao($404,999), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Deep Lower Mantle, Iron-magnesium Silicate, Newly Developed, Surprising Discovery, Conditions, Diffraction, Earth, Fe-rich, H-phase, In-situ, Iron-magnesium, Mineral, Orientation, P-T, Perovskite, Phase, Previously, Properties, Seismic, Spectroscopy, Was, X-ray.

Understanding Cratons and their Margins: Insights From Body and Surface Waves
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Karen M Fischer($231,400), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Cratonic Mantle Lithosphere, Crust And Mantle, Earthscope Transportable Array, Lithosphere And Asthenosphere, Sp And Ps, Azimuthal Anisotropy, Baltic Shield, Continental Lithosphere, Cratonic Lithosphere, Lithosphere-asthenosphere Boundary, Plate Motion, Ps Phases, Surface Wave, Velocity Structure, Vertical Gradient, Wave Tomography, Anisotropic, Beneath, Central, Constrain, Cratons, Differs, Flow, Formed, Gradients, Has, Learned, Lithosphere-asthenosphere, Models, Processes, Properties, Regions, Remains, Represent, Seismic, Shear, Stations, Underlying, Waves.

CAREER: Microphysical evolution of highly sheared polymineralic rocks
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: Geophysics

1. Philip Skemer($600,000), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Plate Tectonics, Rock Deformation, Rock Mechanics, Apparatus, Curricula, Experimental, Experiments, Incorporated, Investigations, Planetary, Pressures, Strains, Temperatures, Undergraduate.

Static and Dynamic Triggering of Fault Creep on Strike-Slip Faults
Award Effective Date: 11/17/2013; Program: Geophysics

1. Meng Wei($57,675), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
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.

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

1. Robin S Matoza($330,883), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Acoustic Signal Produced, Eruptive Parameters, Flow Properties, Jet Noise, Man-made Jets, Volcanic Jets, Ash, Empirical, Eruption, Features, Infrasound, Long-term, Man-made, Measure, Models, Numerical, Physics, Signals.

Using Californias Drought To Analyze Fractured Groundwater Inputs To High Elevation Meadows
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2014; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Christopher S Lowry($25,434), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Fractured Bedrock, High-elevation Meadows, Sierra Nevada, Alpine, Californias, Chemical, Contributions, Deep, Drought, Education, Field, Geochemical, Groundwater, High-elevation, Isotopic, Methods, National, Outdoor, Tracers, Unrecognized, Water.

RAPID, GOALI: Evaluating Groundwater Quality Impacts of Shale Gas Extraction within the Marcellus Shale Play
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2014; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Karen Olson($151,182), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Shale Gas Development, Cross Formational, Water Quality, Brines, Drilling, Flow, Groundwater, Industry, Initiating, Knowledge, Lead.

Water Conservation and Hydrological Transitions in American Cities
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. George M Hornberger($717,585), Vanderbilt University, Nashville
Key terms: Assembled And Analyzed, Water Conservation Strategies, Water Conservation Transitions, Conservation Policies, Public Officials, Water Supply, Affect, Cities, Extensive, Factors, Metropolitan, Political, Regimes, Social, Stress, Technological.

Collaborative Research: A New Paradigm for Imperfectly-Mixed Chemical Reactions
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Diogo Bolster($222,289), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
2. David A Benson($289,458), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: Computer Models, Current Models, Application, Concentration, Disturbances, Fields, Has, Hydrologic, Mixing-limited, Random, Reaction, Reactions, Reactive, Remediation, Theoretical, Time.

Collaborative Research: Determining the role of hydraulic redistribution regimes in the critical zone - an experimental and modeling synthesis
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Greg Barron-Gafford($395,943), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Praveen Kumar($228,421), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Aboveground And Belowground, Water And Carbon, Hydraulic Redistribution, Soil Moisture, Water Movement, Dynamics, Enable, Field, Insights, Interaction, Modeling, Periods, Processes, Root, Roots, Site.

Collaborative Research: Coupled Numerical and Laboratory Investigations of Chaotic Advection to Enhance Spreading and Reaction in Three-Dimensional, Heterogeneous Porous Media
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. David C Mays($90,626), University of Colorado at Denver-Downtown Campus, Denver
2. Roseanna M Neupauer($493,443), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Passive And Active, Active Spreading, Chaotic Advection, Chemical Solution, Contaminated Groundwater, Laboratory Experiments, Passive Spreading, Combined, Contaminant, Degradation, Effects, Flows, Geological, Heterogeneity, Method, Naturally, Porous, Remediation, Techniques, Time-varying.

Collaborative Research: A new classification system for karst springs using storm hysteresis
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Ellen K Herman($83,537), Bucknell University, Lewisburg
2. Laura Toran($235,940), Temple University, Philadelphia
Key terms: Ca Ratios, Flow Paths, Hysteresis Plots, Karst Aquifers, Karst Springs, Water Capture, Classification, Conduits, Groundwater, Mgca, Opportunities, Recharge, Storage, Storm, Storms, Time.

Collaborative Research: How do hydrology and biogeochemistry control carbon flux from headwater streams to the atmosphere?
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Steven M Wondzell($444,943), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Daniele Tonina($94,118), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
3. Kevin P Feris($198,255), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Carbon Cycling, Coupled Water-carbon, Headwater Streams, Basins, Biogeochemical, Collect, Cycle, Dissolved, Efflux, Flow, Groundwater, Hydrology, Hyporheic, Integrated, Model, Process, Processes, Release, Respiration, Surface, Transport, Water-carbon.

Collaborative Research: Mapping Changes in the Active Stream Channel Network in Mesoscale Watersheds in order to Understand Distinct Signatures in Event Recession Curves
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. David Chandler($205,002), Syracuse University, Syracuse
2. Stephen B Shaw($174,212), SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse
3. James P McNamara($88,130), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Active Stream, Stream Flow, Watershed Function, Watershed Outlet, Aquifer, Controls, Debate, Discharge, Insights, Knowledge, Mapping, Network, Recession, Soil, Students, Watersheds.

Where a river slows: investigating the oscillic freshwater zone
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Amber K Hardison($514,791), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Oscillic Zone, Oscillic Zones, River Management, Sea Level, Affect, Coast, Connections, Does, Enabling, Fast, Field, Flow, Freshwater, Gulf, Natural, Pollutants, Poorly, Portal, Rainfall, Rivers, Slow.

Discovering Preferential Flow Patterns Using Real-time Soil Moisture Monitoring Networks
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Hangsheng Lin($237,306), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Diverse Soil-landscapes, Dynamic Pf, Ecological Functions, Pf Occurrence, Preferential Flow, Soil Moisture, Biogeochemical, Controls, Databases, Determination, Developed, Embedded, Factors, Hot, Hydrologic, Hypothesize, Network, Precipitation, Processes, Public, Quantification, Soil-landscapes, Soils, Subsurface, Tools.

A practical upscaling of subsurface reactive transport
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Jason T DeJong($570,679), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Drinking Water, Groundwater Clean-up, Overall Rate, Uc Davis, Chemical, Cities, Clean-up, Contaminated, Contamination, Design, Development, Difficult, Exactly, Field, Graduate, Method, Methods, Plume, Responsible, Site, Situ, Students, Underground.

The direct and indirect effects of plantation forestry expansion on usable water in the southeastern US
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Jean-Christoph Domec($401,197), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Pine Plantation Expansion, Areal Expansion, Indirect Effects, Precipitated Water, Water Resources, Direct, Forests, Future, Initiation, Mathematical, Model, Models, Natural, Pines, Public, Rainfall, Rapid, Region, Societal, Soil, Southeastern, Southern, Usable.

Collaborative Research: RAPID - Integrated Precipitation and Hydrology 2014 (IPHEx) - Enhancing Coupled Observations of the Land-Atmosphere System and Educational Opportunities
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Ana P Barros($19,496), Duke University, Durham
2. Markus D Petters($18,183), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Fog And Low, Heavy Rainfall, Low Level, Subsurface Runoff, Collect, Landslides, Observations, Students, Water.

Collaborative Research: The effects of river regulation on lateral and integrated longitudinal mass and energy transfers in coupled terrestrial-aquatic systems
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Bethany T Neilson($298,625), Utah State University, Logan
2. Philip C Bennett($326,551), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Instream Water Quality, Dam-regulated Rivers, Energy Transfers, Regulated Rivers, Banks, Biogeochemical, Coupled, Dam-regulated, Dams, Dynamic, Effects, Exchange, Groundwater, Has, Hydrologic, K-, Knowledge, LEZ, Lateral, Processes, Public, Solutes, Texas.

Collaborative Research: Understanding the role of hyporheic processes on nitrous oxide emissions at the stream network scale
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Jennifer L Tank($172,626), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
Key terms: Potent Greenhouse Gas, Nitrous Oxide, Stream Network, Applicable, Approach, Available, Carbon, Emissions, HZ, Has, Hyporheic, Land, Morphology, Nr, Processes, Reactive, Residence, Source, Streambed, Streams, Times, Transport.

Interfacial Controls on Dynamics and Equilibration in Porous Media
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Dorthe Wildenschild($387,744), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Capillary Pressure, Fluid Phases, Multi-phase Flow, Porous Media, Allow, Based, Behavior, Broader, Combined, Development, Dynamic, Dynamics, Generate, Generated, Has, Interfacial, Management, Multi-phase, Saturation, Set, Single, Theories, Thermodynamic, Unique.

Collaborative research: Origin of hydrologic responses to earthquakes: constraints from New Zealand, Taiwan, Chile, and USA
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2014; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Michael Manga($315,546), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. Manoochehr Shirzaei($101,852), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Deep, Earthquakes, Has, Hydrologic, Hydrological, Level, Models, Observations, Subsurface, Taiwan, Water, Zealand.

NSF Research Experience for Graduates and Post-Doctoral Scholars: Support to attend and participate in Weather Radar and Hydrology (WRaH) Conference in 2014
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Ramesh Teegavarapu($19,900), Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
Key terms: Hydrologic Design Standards, Precipitation Processing, Precipitation Products, Radar Rainfall, Radar-based Precipitation, Applications, Create, Economic, Radar-based, Symposium, Tools.

A Community Workshop for Advancing Hydrometeorological-Hydroclimatic-Ecohydrological Process Understanding and Predictions
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Terri S Hogue($45,975), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: Challenges, Hydrometeorological-hydroclimatic-ecohydrological, Workshop.

The Hydromechanical Wild Card: The Role of Ice Sheets in Crustal Stress Changes, Anomalous Pore Pressures Generation and Seismicity within the Midcontinent Region of North America
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Mark A Person($174,650), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Canadian Nuclear Waste, Holocene And Anthropocene, Nuclear Waste Management, Ice Sheet, Lithosphere Flexure, Pore Pressure, Basins, Beyond, Build, Capable, Countries, Crust, Earth, Earthquakes, Failure, Future, Gt, Illinois, Michigan, Midcontinent, Model, Regions, Seismicity, Terminus.

Collaborative Research: Unraveling Orographic Precipitation Patterns by Combined Hydrologic and Atmospheric Analysis
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Jessica D Lundquist($246,403), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Mimi R Hughes($96,236), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Southern Sierra Nevada, Streamflow And Snow, Atmospheric Model, Atmospheric Models, Mountain Precipitation, Allow, Amounts, Annual, Assess, Available, Benchmark, California, Critical, Development, Distributed, Distributions, Forecasts, Gauges, High-altitude, Hydrology, Long-term, Meteorology, Predict, Regions, Short-term, Simulations, Storms, Uncertainty, Water.

CAREER: Citizens, Conservation, and Climate: Research and Education for Climate Literacy in Managed Landscapes
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Alejandro Flores($494,187), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Changing Climate, Climate Literacy, Ecosystem Services, K-12 Teachers, Land Management, Management Activities, Public Lands, Regional Hydroclimate, Water Resources, Water Supply, Adapt, Create, Energy, Fire, Framework, Idaho, Influence, Landscape, Modeling, Models, Moisture, Practices, Precipitation, Program, Provisioning, Regulation, Scenarios, Stations, Structure, Students, Thinning, Training, Vegetation, Western.

Development of Noble Gases as Tracers of Groundwater Circulation in Fractured and Karstic Systems
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. M. Clara Castro($499,546), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Flow And Weather, Noble Gas Composition, Noble Gas Concentrations, Noble Gas Thermometer, Fractured Rock, Groundwater Flow, Noble Gases, Rainwater Infiltration, Air, Atmosphere, Equilibrium, Fog, Galapagos, Intellectual, Level, Maui, Michigan, Rapid, Recharge, Societal, Suggest, Surface, Temperature, Undergraduate, Water, World.

Collaborative Research: Bedrock nitrogen and the Earth system: From geobiolgical mechanisms to climate change forecasts
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: INTEGRATED EARTH SYSTEMS

1. Kathleen K Treseder($398,236), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
2. Oliver A Chadwick($406,059), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
3. Randy A Dahlgren($767,135), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Terrestrial Carbon, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Weathering Rates, Analyses, Array, Bedrock, Biogeochemical, Climate, Conditions, Effects, Field, Global, Has, Lithologies, Model, Modeling, Nitrogen, Soil.

Collaborative Research: Toward a global timeline of biological and ocean geochemical change during the early Cambrian
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: INTEGRATED EARTH SYSTEMS

1. Steve C Wang($96,025), Swarthmore College, Swarthmore
2. Susannah M Porter($421,588), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
3. Mark Webster($570,694), University of Chicago, Chicago
4. Samuel A Bowring($358,426), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
5. John A Higgins($1,054,947), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: U-pb Zircon, Animal, Based, Cambrian, Constrained, Correlated, Correlation, Evolution, Fads, Fossil, Geochemical, Has, Interbedded, Principal, Relative, Stratigraphic, Stratigraphy, Time, Timeline, U-pb, Variable, Äc.

Collaborative Research: Dynamics of caldera-scale rhyolitic magma systems
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: INTEGRATED EARTH SYSTEMS

1. Christian Huber($354,606), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
2. Kathleen M Keranen($394,726), Cornell University, Ithaca
3. Dennis C DeMets($2,312,708), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Crustal Deformation, Magma Migration, Reservoir Growth, Create, Dynamics, Eruption, Investigate, Ldm, Melt, Models, Observations, Opportunity, Processes, Rhyolitic, Time, Underway, Unrest.

Measuring and modeling postseismic deformation processes of Andaman Islands
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: INTEGRATED EARTH SYSTEMS

1. John P Puchakayala($108,725), University of Memphis, Memphis
Key terms: Near Field Deformation, Andaman Islands, Co-seismic Stress, Gps Displacements, Unavco Facility, Viscoelastic Relaxation, Bangalore, Co-seismic, Dominantly, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Fault, India, Locals, Modeling, Models, Mw, Nfield, Processes, Radially-symmetric, Sites, Slip, Software, Stations, Sumatra-andaman, Twin.

Collaborative Research: Geo-Visualization and Data Analysis using the Magnetics Information Consortium
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: INTEGRATED EARTH SYSTEMS

1. Catherine Constable($692,504), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Anthony Koppers($798,367), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Access, Archive, Magic, Search, Web.

Collaborative Research: Improving the Generic Mapping Tools for Seismology, Geodesy, Geodynamics and Geology
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: INTEGRATED EARTH SYSTEMS

1. Paul Wessel($146,961), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Kurt L Feigl($123,148), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
3. David T Sandwell($97,845), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Code, GMT.

Facility Support: The Arizona State University SIMS Laboratories
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Christy B Till($1,161,577), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Analyses, Analysis, Applications, Arizona, Chemical, Continue, Facility, Glass, Isotopic, Minerals, Nanosims, SIMS, Silicate, Trace, Visitors, Women.

Bardarbunga Eruption Response: Monitoring of post-rifting deformation and activity at Askja Volcano with continuous GPS
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2014; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Ronni Grapenthin($49,981), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Crust And Upper, Icelandic Meteorological Office, Bárðarbunga Caldera, Cgps Sites, Crustal Motions, Lower Crust, Rifting Episodes, Tectonic Plates, Upper Mantle, Askja, Askjas, August, Deformation, Dike, Divergent, Eruption, Field, Flank, GPS, Induced, Insar, Installation, Installed, Interpret, Intrusion, Magma, Model, Observations, Post-rifting, Processes, Rare, Regional, Relaxation, Spreading, Stress, Telemetered, Transient, Volcanic.

MRI: Acquisition of an electron probe microanalyzer for Earth Science and Materials research and education
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Virginia Dorsey Wanless($987,919), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Analysis, Chemical, Conditions, EPMA, Enhance, Evolution, Formation, Instrument, Magnetic, Minerals, Minor, Processes, Promote, Properties, Trace.

MRI: Acquisition of a gas chromatograph and isotope ratio mass spectrometer interface for compound-specific isotope analyses at the University of North Carolina Wilmington
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Chad S Lane($110,196), University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington
Key terms: Individual Chemical Compounds, North Carolina Wilmington, Isotopic Analyses, Stable Isotope, Wide Variety, CMS, Capabilities, Chemistry, Courses, Expand, Facilitate, Faculty, GC, Instrument, Instrumentation, Organic, Prehistoric, Reconstructing, Requested, SIL, Students, Technique, UNCW.

Acquisition of a laser ablation system for the Department of Geology, UIUC
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. William Guenthner($278,150), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Graduate Students, Sr Isotopes, Artifacts, Determining, Geoscience, Has, Isotopic, Laboratory, Laser, Minerals, Ratios, Solid, Teeth, Zircon.

PARTIAL SUPPORT OF THE INTERNATIONAL SEISMOLOGICAL CENTRE
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Dmitry Storchak($1,000,765), International Seismological Centre, Thatcham
Key terms: Earthquake Information Center, National Earthquake Information, Arrival Times, Ban Treaty, Earth's Interior, Global Seismic, Isc Bulletin, Seismic Recordings, Source Mechanisms, Allow, Allows, Amplitudes, Available, Catalog, Centre, Comprehensive, Continued, Critical, Definitive, Extension, Hypocentres, International, Magnitude, Magnitudes, Maintenance, Monitoring, Networks, Partial, Products, Reported, Seismograph, Structure, Supported.

MRI: Development of Next Generation Hydrothermal Atomic Force Microscopy
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Carrick M Eggleston($483,529), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Hydrothermal Conditions, Mineral Surface, =, AFM, Aqueous, Bars, Capabilities, Degrees, Design, Development, Dissolution, HAFM, Imaging, Mineralization, PT, Phases, Processes, Solution, Technology.

MRI: Development of a high precision ion microscope for geosciences applications
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Timothy M Harrison($3,696,316), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Ion Microscope, Isotopic Analyses, Ucla Scientists, Activities, CAMECA, Commercial, Continue, Development, Facility, Has, Ims, Instrument, Instruments, Mass, Outreach, Principal, SIMS, Students, Training.

MRI: Acquisition of an Electron Microprobe for Major and Trace Element Analysis
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Lang Farmer($899,307), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Electron Microprobe Analysis, Minor And Trace, Microprobe Analysis, Analytical, Chemical, Compositions, Enable, Facility, Formation, Natural, Opportunities, Processes, Properties, Spatial, Synthetic, Techniques, Variety.

Development of an Instrument to Allow Rotary-Shear Friction Experiments at High-Pressure and Seismic Slip Rates
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Terry E Tullis($577,505), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Earthquake Source, Ground Motions, Benefit, Contributions, Damaging, Earthquakes, Experiments, Faults, Friction, Physics, Rock, Strong.

Acquisition of Instrumentation to Support Earth Science Research with Near Surface Geophysical Technologies and to Engage Underrepresented Groups on Two Urban Campuses
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Lee Slater($213,192), Rutgers University Newark, Newark
Key terms: Geophysical, Instrumentation, Nsurface, Positioning, Tools, Training, Urban, Various.

MRI: Acquisition of an X-Ray Fluorescence scanner for automated high-resolution sensing of Earth system archives
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Julie C Pett-Ridge($392,000), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: National And International, Critical Zone, Earth's Natural, Geology Repository, Ice Sheets, Pacific Northwest, Xrf Scanner, Acquisition, Archives, CEOAS, Century-scale, Climate, Core, Data-intensive, Elemental, Existing, Geochemical, High-resolution, Humanity, Humans, Image, Impossible, Instrument, OSU, Ocean, Oregon, Processes, Programs, Range, Rapid, Resolution, Scanning, Seasonal, Sediment, Sedimentary, Tools.

Acquisition of Automated Particle Size and Shape Analysis for Research and Education in Sedimentology, Paleoclimate, and Related Geoscience
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Michael J Soreghan($170,450), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Laser Particle Size, Undergraduate And Graduate, Deep Geological, Middle School, Shape Analysis, Acquisition, Analyses, Assess, Atmospheric, Capabilities, Circulation, Climate, Climates, Controversial, Development, Document, Dust, Effects, Geology, Glaciation, Grain, Imaging, Instrument, Instrumentation, LPSA, Landscape, Modern, Oklahoma, Paleozoic, Particles, Rapid, Sediment, Sedimentary, Sediments, Sizes, State-of-the-art, Students, Weathering.

Improvements and upgrades to the NSF-Arizona Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Warren Beck($343,810), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: AMS, Arizona, Automation, DIC, DOC, Development, Educational, Laboratory, Own, Service, Students, Users.

Analytical Method Development: Comparison of Elemental and Isotopic Fractionation During Femtosecond and Nanosecond Laser Ablation
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Brian L Beard($141,021), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Fs And Ns-la, High-precision Stable Isotope, Stable Isotope Analysis, High-precision Stable, Iron Isotopes, Laser Ablation, Matrix Effects, Aerosol, Chemical, Composition, Free, Fs-, Fs-la, Geochemical, Heterogeneities, Isotopic, Issues, Mass, Methods, Minerals, Potential, Processes, Specific, Technology.

ACQUISITION OF AN INSTRUMENTATION ARRAY TO MONITOR AND MODEL WATER, CARBON AND ENERGY FLUXES AT THE HILLSLOPE SCALE IN THE LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION OBSERVATORY
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Markus Tuller($188,266), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Energy And Carbon, Soil Water, Controlled, Design, Erosion, Experimental, Flow, Fluxes, LEO, Mesocosms, Observed, Permit, Probes, Samplers, Sampling, Sensors, Surface, Tanks, Vascular, Watershed.

Early Career: Development of a New Rock Deformation Apparatus for Investigating Earth's Upper Mantle
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Helene Couvy($68,420), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Pressures And Temperatures, Rock Deformation Apparatus, Rock Mechanics, Anisotropy, Available, Benefit, Conditions, Critical, Design, Development, Earth, Essential, Expand, Fabrics, Investigate, LVT, Labs, Mantle, Microstructures, Plan, Range, Strains.

Development of GPS as a Volcanic Plume Sensor
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Kristine M Larson($274,585), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Gps Signal Strength, Volcanic Ash Plumes, Active Volcanic, Volcanic Plumes, Code, Detection, Extant, GNSS, Has, Iceland, Installed, Multiple, Networks, Observations, Operating, Proximal, Receivers, Satellite, Sites, Subtle, World.

Early Career: Upgrade of an X-ray Diffractometer with Capillary & Humidity-Temperature Stages for Suspension & Hydrated Powder Measurements, and Outreach for Geochemistry R
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2014; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Ludmilla Aristilde($133,640), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Clay Minerals, Organic Matter, Organic Molecules, Structural Dynamics, X-ray Diffraction, Active, Biological, Carbon, Contaminants, Enable, Engage, Equipment, Influence, Information, Interactions, Provided, Purchased, Sequestration, Soil, Soils, Suspension, Techniques, Undergraduates, Underrepresented, X-ray.

Facilities Support: SOPAC GNSS Infrastructure and Real-time Operations
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Yehuda Bock($320,000), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Sopac Activities, Center, GPS, Global, Reference, Worldwide.

Collaborative research: Space-based detection of sinkhole activities in Central Florida
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Sarah E Kruse($12,000), University of South Florida, Tampa
2. Shimon Wdowinski($90,000), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Synthetic Aperture Radar, Central Florida, Detect Localized, Insar Observations, Interferometric Processing, Property Damage, Radar Surveys, Sinkhole Activities, Sinkhole Activity, Sinkhole Collapse, Surface Movements, Challenging, Detection, Enable, German, Hazard, Italian, Life, Maps, Precursory, Resolution, SAR, Satellite, Satellites, Sinkhole-prone, Sites, Space-base, Space-based, Sub-meter, Subsidence, Subsiding, Successful, Task, Techniques, Time, Worldwide.

Tracing Volatile Accretion, Mantle Mixing and Early Degassing from Plume Derived Noble Gases
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Sujoy Mukhopadhyay($155,934), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Late Accreting Planetesimals, Isotopic Compositions, Mantle Plumes, Mid-ocean Ridge, Noble Gas, Plume Source, Atmosphere, Basalts, Earth, Iceland, Krypton, MORB, Origin, Outgassing, Ratio, Representative, Sources, Volatiles, Was, Xe, Xenon.

Acquisition of an Ion Chromatograph for Hydrological, Geochemical and Biogeochemical Research
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. W. Berry Lyons($53,352), Ohio State University, Columbus
Key terms: Sensitive Detection Limits, Analytical Capabilities, Chemical Constituents, Carbon, Clean, Climate, Dissolved, Experimental, Fate, Geochemistry, Has, Instrument, Instrumentation, Ions, Natural, Rock, Students, Teaching, Water, Waters, Watersheds.

Broadening Participation Activities EBSD 2014: Electron Backscatter Diffraction Topical Conference
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

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

Early Career: Instrument and Technician Support for the Isotopic Analysis of Individual Organic Compounds in the Earth System
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Ronald Benner($99,934), University of South Carolina at Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Organic Matter, Analysis, Compounds, Existing, GC, Instrumentation, Isotopic, Microbial, Peripheral, Processes, Program, Specific.

EAGER: Developing atom probe tomography (APT) for the characterization of carbonate minerals
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Alberto Perez-Huerta($73,870), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
Key terms: Biogenic Carbonate Minerals, Central Analytical Facility, Atom Probe, Biogenic Carbonates, Ion Milling, Successful Analysis, APT, Abiogenic, Alabama, Atomic, CAF, Development, Distributions, EAGER, Extremely, FIB, Instruments, Methods, Mineralization, Postdoctoral, Potential, Processes, Prove, Subsequent, Synthesized, Technique, Tip, Tips, Trace.

Facility Support: The WiscSIMS National Ion Microprobe
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Noriko Kita($1,054,976), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Stable Isotope Geochemistry, National Facility, Analysis, Applications, Capabilities, Funding, Has, Hi-res, Resolve, Situ, Spots, Wiscsims.

Acquisition of a Field Emission Electron Microprobe for Geological Analysis
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2014; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Steven B Shirey($999,000), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Postdoctoral Fellows, Carnegie, EPMA, Electron, Emission, Enable, Microanalysis, Physics, Staff.

Support for the Northeast National Ion Microprobe Facility (NENIMF)
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Brian Monteleone($686,382), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Analytical Capabilities, Available, Facility, Geoscience, NENIMF, SIMS, Students, Users.

Upgrade of Research Instrument: Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer, Phase II
Award Effective Date: 08/16/2013; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Asish R Basu($7,159), University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington
Key terms: Geochemistry, Instrument, Rochester, TIMS, Tectonic, Upgrade.

NSF EAGER: QCC Undergraduate Research Opportunity in Solar and Atmospheric Physics
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Marie C Damas($267,614), CUNY Queensborough Community College, Bayside
Key terms: Solar And Atmospheric, Atmospheric Physics, Space Weather, Center, Educational, Especially, Experience, Fields, Geosciences, Hispanic, Increase, Increasing, NASA, NOAA, QCC, STEM, Students, Transfer, Underrepresented.

SusChEM: Controls on struvite neogenesis and reactivity in engineered and geochemical systems
Award Effective Date: 01/02/2015; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Ashaki A Rouff($233,064), Rutgers University Newark, Newark
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.

REU Site: Leading Undergraduates in Challenges to Power Academic Development in Geosciences
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Donna J Charlevoix($75,000), UNAVCO, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: Access, Collaborative, Engage, Experience, Fields, Geoscience, Geosciences, Information, Lower-division, Opportunities, Program, Students, UNAVCO.

Collaborative Research: Structure and Quaternary Kinematics of Amagmatic Rifting in the Central Afar Triple Junction
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2014; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Samson Tesfaye($168,174), Lincoln University, Jefferson City
2. Francisco G Gomez($318,184), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Junctions And Continental, Rift-rift-rift Triple Junctions, Accommodation Zone, Afar Region, Afar Rift, Amagmatic Extension, Central Afar, Continental Rifting, Late Pleistocene, Red Sea, Rift-rift-rift Triple, Accommodated, Aden, Analyses, Datum, Development, Estimate, Estimating, Evolution, Faults, Grabens, Gulf, Hence, Initiation, Insight, Kinematics, Landforms, Long-term, Magnitude, Neotectonic, Quaternary, Regional, STEM, Strain, Structural, Tectonic, Tectonism.

RET Site: The Great American Biotic Interchange (GABI)--The Panama Connection
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2014; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Bruce J MacFadden($350,000), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Marine Organisms, Stem Teachers, Americas, Evolution, Formation, Fossils, GABI, Isthmus, Million, Occurred, Panama, Past, RET, Terrestrial.

Collaborative Research: Catalyzing Early Career Partnerships to Promote Discipline-Based Education Research in the Geosciences
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. John Taber($73,801), Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Washington
2. Nicole LaDue($14,745), Northern Illinois University, Dekalb
Key terms: Amongst, Dbers, Future, Geoscience, Geoscientists, Informed, Participants, Practices, Workshop.

REU Site: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Earth and Environmental Sciences (SURFEES)
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Christopher S Kim($347,330), Chapman University, Orange
Key terms: Faculty Mentors, Chapman, Engage, Environmental, Local, Program, Students, Workshops.

REU Site: Basic and Environmental Soil Science Training (BESST)
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Owen W Duckworth($385,000), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Basic And Environmental, Reu Site, Student Recruitment, Diverse, Experience, Geoscience, Opportunities, Soil, Soils, Students, Topics, Training, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Understanding Lithospheric Suturing and Passive Margin Development Beneath the Southeastern U.S.
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Drew S Coleman($302,505), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Continental Break-up, Earthscope Usarray, North Carolina, Shear Zones, Accretion, Array, Break-up, Collision, Crust, Deformation, Dipping, Does, Florida, Georgia, Gondwana, Graduate, Imply, Lithosphere, Lithospheric, Mantle, Measure, Rock, Seismic, Stations, Subduction, Suture, Undergraduate, Velocities, Was.

Sinabung Volcano, Sumatra: Testing the link to the Toba Supervolcano
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: International Research Collab

1. Shanaka L de Silva($49,961), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Sinabung And Sibayak, Arc Volcanoes, Potential Hazard, Toba Magma, Toba Signal, Age, Allow, Compositions, Eruption, Explosive, Has, Hazards, Miles, People, Sumatra, Zircons.

Rapid Miocene Thrust Propagation and Wholesale Basin Partitioning along the Central and Southern Andes, Argentina
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: International Research Collab

1. Brian K Horton($298,480), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Basin Fill, Eastern Retro-arc, Flat-slab Subduction, Foreland Basin, Southern Andes, Academic, Advance, Andean, Argentina, Bedrock, Central, Collaborations, Convergent, Deformation, Detailed, Erosional, Evolution, Exhumation, Flat-slab, Fold-thrust, History, International, Inversion, Investigation, Magmatic, North-south, Partitioning, Potential, Rapid, Regional, Retro-arc, Sedimentary, Shortening, Structural, Structures, Tectonic, Transition, Zones.

Collaborative Research: Interrelations Between Foreland Deformation and Flat-slab Subduction: Integrated Analysis of the Sierras Pampeanas to Cordillera of the South-central Andes
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: International Research Collab

1. Arlo B Weil($154,433), Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr
2. W.A. Yonkee($135,647), Weber State University, Ogden
Key terms: Continental Deformation, Flat-slab Subduction, Mixed Mode, Analysis, Andes, Argentina, Belt, Contribute, Crust, Effects, Flat-slab, Geodynamic, Has, International, Magnetic, Mountain, Normal, Participation, Plate, Processes, Region, Rotations, South, Stress, Stressstrain, Structural, Students, Tectonic, Thick-skin, Thin-skin, Weaknesses, Western.

RAPID: The effects of typhoon Haiyan's storm surge on coastal aquifers
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: International Research Collab

1. Philip C Bennett($49,581), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Coastal Aquifers, Seawater Contamination, Chemical, Groundwater, Inundation, Storm, Villages.

Collaborative Research: RUI: Plio-Quaternary History of Basin Evolution, Climate Change, and Fold Growth in the Qaidam Basin-Investigating Wind-enhanced Climate-Tectonic Feedback
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: International Research Collab

1. Richard Heermance($187,620), The University Corporation, Northridge, Northridge
2. Carmala N Garzione($179,644), University of Rochester, Rochester
Key terms: Western Qaidam Basin, Climate-tectonic Feedbacks, Fold Growth, Global Climate, Wind Erosion, Acceleration, Aridification, Basin-scale, China, Climate-tectonic, Collaboration, Enhanced, Environmental, Fold-growth, International, Lake-level, Led, Ma, Observed, Resulting, Sections, Stratigraphic, Structural.

Collaborative Research: Study of the Peruvian flat slab and its effects on the continental lithosphere
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: International Research Collab

1. Drew S Coleman($315,695), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Chile And Argentina, Flat Slab Subduction, Flat-slab Subduction Zones, Central Chile, Continental Lithosphere, Flat Slabs, Flat-slab Subduction, Mantle Lithosphere, Rocky Mountains, Sierras Pampeanas, Southern Peru, Sub-slab Mantle, Subduction Geometry, Tight Constraints, Analyses, Analysis, Beneath, Broad, Broadband, Caused, Consequences, Crust, Deformation, Depth, Does, Downgoing, Dynamics, Evidence, Existence, Factors, Farallon, Formation, Found, Has, Horizontal, Inland, Laramide, Margins, Nature, Plate, Plateaus, Processes, Program, Required, Responsible, Seismometers, Silica, Stress, Strike, Structure, Structures, Sub-slab, Supported, Surface, Tectonic, Theories, Time, Truly, Variety, Volcanism, Water, Wave, Western, Wide, °.

MRI: Stable isotope analyses in a liberal arts college setting: teaching and research opportunities for undergraduates and faculty
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Thomas J Mozdzer($199,914), Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr
Key terms: Bryn Mawr College's, Carbon Isotope Analyzer, Climate And Environmental, Dual Carbon Isotope, Picarro Dual Carbon, Carbon Isotopic, Laboratory Exercises, Liberal Arts, Mawr College's, Stable Isotopic, Undergraduate Women, Acquisition, Advance, Allow, Analyses, Analysis, Analytical, Ancient, Aspiring, CRDS, Educators, Elemental, Expensive, Experiences, Faculty, Instrumentation, Less, Mass, Programming, Programs, STEM, Students, Teaching, Website.

MRI: Acquisition of a Canberra Broad Energy Germanium Detector BE3830 Gamma Spectroscopy System
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Amanda Keen-Zebert($162,357), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Crystal Lattice, Dose Rate, Equivalent Dose, Gamma Ray, Mineral Phases, Based, DRI, Decay, Energy, Equipment, Exposure, Nuclides, OSLTL, Radioactive, Students, Sunlight, Temperatures, Time.

MRI: Acquisition of an ICP-MS for novel undergraduate research and project-based student learning
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Christine Stracey Richard($245,306), Westminster College of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Expand Undergraduate, Salt Lake, Stem Disciplines, Acquisition, Activities, Beyond, Classroom, Collaborations, Concentrations, Courses, Curriculum, Education, Environmental, Experience, Faculty, Focus, Geology, ICP-MS, Instrument, Instrumentation, Integrate, Interdisciplinary, Involve, K-, Labs, Multiple, Opportunities, Outreach, Public, Students, Training, Westminster.

MRI: Acquisition of a Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer (TIMS) for high-precision isotopic research of the Earth's mantle, crust and oceans
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Syee Weldeab($524,244), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Tims Instrument, Nsf-funded, Preparation, Processes, Students, Teaching, Training, Undergraduate.

MRI: Acquisition of an X-Ray Diffractometer for Multi-Disciplinary Research and Research Training at California State University, Bakersfield
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Graham D Andrews($196,725), California State University-Bakersfield, Bakersfield
Key terms: X-ray Diffraction, Applications, Bakersfield, CA, CSUB, Characterize, Collaborations, Disciplines, Engineering, Examine, Existing, Faculty, Geological, Instrument, Instrumentation, Minerals, Multi-disciplinary, Properties, Simple, Soils, Strong, Technique, Training, Versatile, X-ray.

MRI: Acquisition of a High Resolution Mapping Raman Microprobe for Research and Teaching
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Megan E Elwood Madden($229,789), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Raman Microscope, Processes, Students.

MRI: Acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Plasma-Optical Emission Spectrometer for research and undergraduate research training
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Branwen Williams($279,838), Claremont McKenna College, Claremont
Key terms: Stem And Non-science, Microwave Digester, Acquisition, Activities, Analyses, Analysis, Analytical, CUC, Chemical, Claremont, Climate, Course, Cycling, Directly, Diverse, Environmental, Faculty, Five, Foster, Generate, Geochemical, ICP-OES, Instrument, Instrumentation, Measure, Programs, Seawater, Serve, Soil, Student, Students, Teaching, Trace, Training, Undergraduate, Upper.

MRI: Acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical-Emission Spectrometer for use in Paleoclimatic, Hydrogeologic and Geochemical Studies at SUNY Geneseo
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Dori J Farthing($73,496), SUNY College at Geneseo, Geneseo
Key terms: Analytical Capabilities, Hydraulic Fracturing, Suny Geneseo, Water Chemistry, Acquisition, Augment, Benefit, Collaborative, Department, Enable, Establishing, Faculty, Geochemical, Geological, ICP-OES, Instrumentation, Ongoing, Opportunities, Paleoclimatology, Slag, Targeted, Western, York.

Support for 22nd workshop on electromagnetic induction in the Earth
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Gary D Egbert($15,000), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Em Methods, Exploration, Sensitivity.

Collaborative Research: Reconstructing Interactions Between the East Asian Monsoon and Westerly Jet at Multiple Timescales via the Flux and Provenance of Eolian and Fluvial Supply
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Liviu Giosan($110,693), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. William D McGee($211,662), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Chemical And Isotopic, East Asian Climate, East Asian Monsoon, East China Sea, Eolian And Fluvial, Globally Critical Region, Intensity And Distribution, Japan Seaeast Sea, Monsoon And Westerly, National And International, Reflecting Precipitation Intensity, Reflecting Westerly Jet, Sea And East, Seasonality And Intensity, Sensitivity And Behavior, Undergraduate And Graduate, Westerly Jet Behavior, Build Robust, Climate Sensitivity, Climatic Sensitivity, Directly Contributes, Funding Resources, Graduate Education, Heretofore Unrealized, Interior China, International Collaborators, Iodp Expedition, Isotopic Tracers, Multiple Timescales, Precipitation Seasonality, Reconstructing Interactions, Time Intervals, World's Population, Yangtze River, Abstract, Beyond, Continuous, Delivered, Dust, Expeditions, Inputs, Internationally, Involves, Leverages, Party, Relevance, Scanning, Sediment, Seeks, Signal, Spanning, Terrigenous, Title, Volcanic, Wind, Worlds, XRF, Yield.

Fibrous Diamonds Through Time - Insight to Mantle Fluid and Mantle Metasomatism
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Yaakov Weiss($149,596), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Deep Carbon Cycle, Deep Interior, Earth's Deep, Fibrous Diamonds, Isotopic Compositions, Carbon-bearing, Chemical, Crust, Fluids, Fluidsmelts, Hdfs, Laboratory, Mantle, Planet, Sources, Stored, Surface, Time, Trace, Trapped.

RAPID Investigation of Active Fissure Eruptions, Holuhraun, Iceland
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2014; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Jeffrey A Karson($16,506), Syracuse University, Syracuse
Key terms: Central Volcanoes, Fissure Eruptions, Fissure Swarms, Active, Bárðarbunga, Fire, Flow, Iceland, Lava, Square, Units.

Building the Deccan Traps: What Can We Learn from Lava Flow Morphology in Large Igneous Provinces?
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Loyc Vanderkluysen($128,984), Drexel University, Philadelphia
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.

Collaborative Research: Quantifying the Thermal History of Crustal Magma Storage Through Crystal Records and Numerical Modeling
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Kari M Cooper($229,932), University of California-Davis, Davis
2. Adam Kent($218,292), Oregon State University, Corvallis
3. Christian Huber($154,099), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Magma Storage, Mount Hood, Numerical Modeling, Storage Conditions, Time Scales, Volcanic Hazards, Allow, Build, Composition, Controls, Crust, Earth, Erupted, Framework, Information, Mineral, Observational, Percentage, Processes, Reservoir, Sets, Thermal, Volcanoes.

Investigation of Fe Isotope Fractionation During Magmatic Differentiation at the Skaergaard Intrusion
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Adriana Heimann Rios($257,127), East Carolina University, Greenville
Key terms: Fe Isotope Compositions, Fe Isotope Fractionations, Inter-mineral Fe Isotope, Late-stage Hydrothermal Alteration, Situ Fe Isotope, Fe Isotopes, Fractional Crystallization, High-temperature Magmatic, Igneous Complexes, Igneous Rocks, Individual Minerals, Inter-mineral Fe, Isotope Analysis, Isotope Geochemistry, Late-stage Hydrothermal, Mafic-ultramafic Layered, Magmatic Differentiation, Mass Spectrometry, Mineral Deposits, Planetary Formation, Bulk, Bulk-rock, Chemical, Crystals, Detailed, Diffusion, Economic, Equilibrium, Evolution, Exist, Extraterrestrial, Fs-la-mc-icp-ms, High-temperature, Implications, Intrusion, Intrusions, Kinetic, Limited, Lunar, MC-ICP-MS, Mafic-ultramafic, Measured, Mechanisms, Meteorites, Processes, Resolution, Simple, Single, Skaergaard, State-of-the-art, Terrestrial, Undergraduate, Underwent, Useful.

Collaborative Research: Crustal Modulation of Flood Basalts--Integrating Field, Geochemical and Computational Data for the Steens Basalts
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Anita L Grunder($267,871), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Wendy A Bohrson($182,015), Central Washington University, Ellensburg
Key terms: Columbia River Flood, River Flood Basalt, Lava Flows, Steens Basalt, Steens Mountain, CRB, Computer, Crust, Eruption, Field, Interaction, Landscape, Magma, Magmatic, Magmatism, Mantle, Million, Models, Oregon, Petrologic, Rock, Surface, Volcanic.

Collaborative Research: The Building of a Continent: The Archean to Proterozoic Growth and Modification of Western Laurentia
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Jeffrey D Vervoort($200,980), Washington State University, Pullman
2. Julia A Baldwin($146,115), University of Montana, Missoula
Key terms: Lu-hf And Sm-nd, Basement Rocks, Clearwater Complex, Crust Formation, Garnet Lu-hf, Monazite U-th-pb, Accomplished, Continent, Dating, Document, Examine, Exposed, Exposures, Formed, Foundation, Geochronology, Growth, History, Integrated, Mesoproterozoic, Metamorphic, Modification, Nature, Neoarchean, Region, Subsequent, U-pb, U-th-pb, Zircon.

Collaborative Research: Damage Defects and Diffusion of Noble Gases in Minerals: He in Zircon as a Model System
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Peter W Reiners($163,636), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Kenneth A Farley($76,315), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Noble Gas, Noble Gases, Amounts, Behavior, Damage, Dating, Defects, Effects, Experiments, Helium, Measure, Minerals, Processes, Radiogenic, Zircon.

Application of Siderophile Elements to the Study of the Chemical Structure and Mixing History of the Oceanic Mantle
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Richard J Walker($280,000), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Chemical And Isotopic, Chemical Structure, Oceanic Mantle, Billion, Composition, Compositions, Heterogeneities, Ophiolites, Processes, Relative, Rock, Time, Timing.

Heart of Glass: Volatile Release and Petrogenesis of Columbia River Flood Basalt Lavas Through Study of Melt Inclusions and Glassy Tephra
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Michael Rowe($213,904), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Continental Flood Basalt, Crb Activity, Gas Loss, Global Climate, Grande Ronde, Lava Flows, Melt Inclusion-bearing, Ash, Atmosphere, Crystals, Degassing, Equivalent, Eruption, Estimate, Estimates, Experience, Focused, Gain, Glasses, Glassy, HO, Inclusion-bearing, Lavas, Magma, Phenocrysts, Pollution, Post-date, Prior, Release, Volcanic.

Thermochronology and Geochemistry of Lower Crustal Xenoliths, Central Mongolia: Formation and Evolution of the Deep Crust in an Intracontinental Setting
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Peter K Zeitler($82,872), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
Key terms: Central Mongolia, Lower Crust, Thermal Evolution, Analyses, Constrain, Continent, Control, Formation, Formed, Geochemistry, Isotope, Lower-crustal, Processes, Region, Root, Surface, Tariat, Timing, Topography, Trace-element, U-pb, Uplift, Xenoliths.

Collaborative Research: An Experimental Determination of the Activity of H2O in Natural Melts at Undersaturated Conditions
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2014; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Mark S Ghiorso($46,068), OFM Research, Seattle
2. Gordon M Moore($238,261), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
3. Elizabeth Cottrell($7,053), Smithsonian Institution, Washington
Key terms: Pressure And Temperature, Chemical Activity, Chemical Behavior, Fluidvapor Phase, Oxygen Fugacity, Buffer, Capsule, Conditions, Density, Experimental, Glass, HO, Magma, Magmas, Magmatic, Measuring, Melt, Melts, Viscosity.

Recycling of Noble Gases in Ring-bearing Silicates
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2014; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Stephen Parman($300,000), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Noble Gas Solubilities, Earth's Interior, Gas Solubilities, Noble Gases, Ring Structures, Allow, Ar, Climate, Concentration, Constrain, Cycling, Estimates, Experiments, Geochemical, HO, High-pressure, Incorporated, Inside, Mantle, Minerals, Models, Movement, Ne, Previous, Range, Rates, Recycling, Slabs, Subducting, Trace, Tracing, Volatile, Volatiles, Water.

Relationships Between Subsurface Processes, Eruptive Products and Surface Morphology of Maar-diatreme Volcanoes
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Greg Valentine($294,231), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Economic Importance, Field Studies, Volcanic Fields, Allowing, Analysis, Ash, Colorado, Commonly, Constrained, Depths, Diatremes, Ejecta, Erupted, Eruption, Experimental, Geometry, Hazards, Maar-diatremes, Maars, Magma, Phenomena, Processes, Tephra, Volcanoes.

Integrating Experiments With Observations at Oldoinyo Lengai; Insights Into Alkalic Magmatic Processes
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Craig C Lundstrom($210,000), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Thermal Gradient, Analyses, Assess, Carbonatite, Constrain, Disequilibria, Experiments, Fe, Formation, Lengai, Magma, Magmas, Observed, Perform, Process, Processes, Techniques, Temperature, Volcano.

Strombolian and Hawaiian Explosions: New Insights From Synchronizing Videos and Exsolved Volatiles
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Bruce F Houghton($86,462), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Volcanic Gas, Activity, Basaltic, Eruption, Etna, Explosions, Hawaii, High-speed, Highly, Kandlauea, Public, Real-time, Rise, Stromboli, Techniques, Volcanoes.

Copper and Gold in Sulfur-rich Magmatic-hydrothermal Systems
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Mark R Frank($271,262), Northern Illinois University, Dekalb
Key terms: Copper And Gold, Magmatic-hydrothermal Ore Deposits, Temperature And Pressure, Hydrothermal Fluids, Magmatic-hydrothermal Ore, Concentrations, Consistent, Economic, Formation, Geology, Graduate, Has, Importance, Metal, Minerals, Obtained, Students, Sulfide, Sulfur.

RUI: Collaborative Research: Mantle Heterogeneities and Crustal Processes of the Cascade Arc: Small Scale Variations with Broad Implications
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Rachel Teasdale($180,611), Chico State Enterprises, Chico
2. Jennifer M Wenner($188,960), University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Oshkosh
Key terms: Heterogeneous Mantle Domains, Plc Basalts, Primitive Basalts, Small-scale Heterogeneities, Subduction Zone, Undergraduate Students, Volcanic Center, Arc, California, Cascades, Characterize, Complex, Composition, Compositions, Crust, Exist, Geochemical, LVC, Large-scale, Processes, Recognized, Represented, Sites, Small-scale, Surface.

Dynamic Statistical Models to Improve Long-term Volcanic Hazard Assessments
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Aurelie Germa($229,116), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Radiometric Age Determinations, Erupted Volume, Recurrence Rate, Spatial Intensity, Statistical Models, Volcanic Activity, Volume Intensity, Additional, Assessments, Complex, Continuous, Density, Eruption, Field, Flux, Future, Geochemical, Geophysical, Implemented, Lassen, Magma, Magmatic, Migration, Nature, Observed, Plan, Potential, Processes, Subsurface, Tectonic, Tested, Time, Uncertainty, Unit, Vent, Vents, Volcanism, Western.

Collaborative Research: Using Sulfur Isotopes to Identify Subducted Archean Crust in Modern Oceanic Hotspot Lavas
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. James Farquhar($95,024), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
2. Matthew G Jackson($111,566), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Mif-s Isotope Signatures, Geochemical Signatures, Hotspot Lavas, Ion Probe, Mif-s Isotope, Olivine-hosted Sulfides, Sulfur Extraction, Analytical, Archean, Crust, EM, Exhibit, Found, Hotspots, IRMS, Mantle, Mass, OIB, Ocean, Oceanic, Olivine-hosted, Phenocrysts, Protoliths, Recycled, Recycling, Samoa, Subducted, Surface, Techniques.

The Effects of Radiation Damage and Crystallography on Helium Diffusion in Minerals: An Integrated Bulk and Laser Ablation Depth Profiling Study
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2014; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Matthijs c Van Soest($273,916), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Helium Diffusion, History Reconstructions, Radiation Damage, Thermal History, Zircon Suggest, Approach, Climate, Crust, Crystallographic, Development, Essential, Evolution, Geochemistry, Has, Histories, Influenced, Processes, Temperature, Thermochronometry, Variety.

Collaborative Research: Measurement and Modeling of Air Entrainment and Ash Distribution in Weak Volcanic Plumes
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Raul Cal($268,122), Portland State University, Portland
2. Stephen A Solovitz($179,351), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Cross Flow, Accuracy, Accurately, Ash, Cloud, Conditions, Disruption, Eruption, Has, Laboratory, Models, Plume, Plumes, Rate, Significantly, Volcanic, Volcano, Was.

Travel Support for the 6th Orogenic Lherzolites Conference
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Henry J Dick($9,888), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Students And Post-docs, Orogenic Lherzolite, Upper Mantle, Classic, Conference, Continent, Exposed, Field, International, Meeting, Opportunity, Outcrops, Processes, Setting.

Collaborative Research: PGE and Pb Systematics in Altered Abyssal Peridotites: Integrating Experiments with Natural Samples
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Steven B Shirey($154,536), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
2. Michael Bizimis($153,444), University of South Carolina at Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Experimental And Natural, Abyssal Peridotites, Metal Alloys, Seawater Alteration, Altered, Collaborative, Composition, Conditions, Constrain, Critical, Distribution, Earth, Effects, Fractionation, Function, Mantle, Minerals, Osos, PGE, Pb, Plantinum-group, Primary, Properties, Re, Redox, Rock, Solubility, Sulfide, Sulfides, Technology, USC.

Generation of Subduction-Zone Magmas from Melange Diapirs
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Horst Marschall($390,509), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Overlying Mantle, Subducting Oceanic, Subduction Zones, Subduction-zone Volcanoes, Traditional Model, Chemical, Compared, Composition, Compositions, Experiments, Formation, Generation, Hot, Layers, Lead, Magma, Magmas, Mechanical, Melting, Melts, Models, Mélange, Natural, Planet, Plate, Processes, Produced, Range, Rock, Subduction-zone, Transport, Volcanic, Wedge.

Thermal Structure of a Long-lived Ultrahigh-pressure Terrane, North Qaidam, Northwest China
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Chris Mattinson($235,294), Central Washington University, Ellensburg
Key terms: North Qaidam Uhp, Qaidam Uhp Terrane, Continental Collision, Continental Crust, Earth's Surface, Mountain Belts, Uhp Rocks, Burial, Buried, Collisional, Conditions, Constraints, Deep, Developed, Evolution, Exhumation, Leading, Models, Myr, Pressure, Processes, Spatial, Temperature, Terranes, Time, Trace.

The Deep Sulfur Cycle in Subduction Zones and Arc Magmas
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Cin-Ty A Lee($279,713), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Content And Isotopic, Sulfur Content, Volcanic Arcs, Atmosphere, Crust, Deep, Endogenic, Exogenic, Magma, Mantle, Melting, Processes, Subduction.

Experimental Investigation of Chlorine Substitution into Calcic Amphiboles
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. David M Jenkins($264,672), SUNY at Binghamton, Binghamton
Key terms: Ambient Brine, Chlorine Content, Cl Content, Compositional Variables, Amphibole, Amphiboles, Brines, Concentration, Controlling, Correlations, Fe, Fluids, Geological, Interaction, Mineral, Observed, Octahedral, Partitioning, Rock, Set, Substitution, Synthesized, Varies.

New Insights into Granite Petrogenesis From Experimental Studies of Hydrous Melting, Water Solubility, and Supercritical Fluids
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Craig E Manning($434,712), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Continental Crust, Phase Relations, Albite-ho, Alternative, Binaries, Complete, Critical, Evolution, Experimental, Fluids, Foundation, Genesis, Granite, Granites, Granitic, HO, Hydrous, Isobaric, Liquidvapor, Magmatism, Melting, Million, Mineral-ho, Miscibility, Models, Obtained, Origin, Region, Rock, Simple, Water.

Collaborative Research: A Self-consistent Model for Bubble Nucleation During Plinian Volcanic Eruptions
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Helge M Gonnermann($245,943), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
2. James E Gardner($223,981), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Classical Nucleation Theory, Explosive Volcanic Eruptions, Bubble Nucleation, Bubbles Nucleate, Dissolved Gases, Explosive Eruptions, Laboratory Experiments, Numerical Modeling, Silicate Melts, Volcanic Rock, Wide Range, Affect, Based, Conditions, Decompression, Disciplines, Dynamics, Formulation, Has, Magma, Models, Pressure, Rate, Rates, Volume.

Collaborative Research: Expanding the Tephrochronologic Record of the Northern Lesser Antilles Arc: Rapid Identification of Cryptotephra Using Multiple Methods
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Robert G Hatfield($98,304), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Molly McCanta($114,544), Tufts University, Somerville
3. Bradley J Thomson($80,360), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Lesser Antilles Arc, Eruptive History, Sediment Sequences, Volcanic Eruptions, Accurate, Applied, Assessment, Beds, Capable, Constrain, Cryptotephra, Deposits, Distribution, Document, Especially, Essential, Evaluation, Evolution, Geologic, Identification, Layers, Magnetic, Magnitude, Marine, Methods, Montserrat, Onshore, Processes, Properties, Resolution, Scanning, Sedimentary, Sources, Techniques, Tephra, Tephrochronologic, Timing, Visible.

What Causes UHT Metamorphism: Lengthscales and Timescales
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Bradley R Hacker($304,644), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Exceptionally Hot Crust, Spatial And Temporal, Laser-ablation Split-stream, Southern Madagascar, Temporal Scales, Beneath, Collisional, Depth, Development, Laser-ablation, Metamorphism, Plutonism, Processes, Quantification, Split-stream, Temperature, Temperatures, Ultrahigh-temperature.

Active Lava Lakes as a Window into Magma and Volcano Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Einat Lev($309,999), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Earth's Interior, Gas Emission, Lava Lakes, Magmatic Conduits, Mass Exchange, Modeling Framework, Open-vent Volcanoes, Velocity Fields, Atmosphere, Circulation, Complex, Configuration, Constraints, Convection, Degassing, Dynamics, Expression, Flow, Internal, Models, Numerical, Observations, Open-vent, Openfoam, Package, Plate, Processes, Surface, Thermal.

Collaborative Research: Experimental Investigation of Magmatic Processes at Volcan Quizapu
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Julia E Hammer($275,530), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Philipp P Ruprecht($103,331), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Arc Magmas, Magma Mixing, Amphibole, Composition, Conditions, Crystal-scale, Dacite, Eruption, Examine, Experimental, Explore, Formation, Kinetics, Magmatic, Plagioclase, Prior, Processes, Quizapu, Storage.

Ending a Powerful Explosive Eruption: The Case Study of Novarupta 1912, Alaska
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Bruce F Houghton($333,491), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Powerful Steady, Erupted, Eruption, Explosions, Explosive, Gas, Magma, Plumbing, Processes, School, Shallow, Short, Students, Style, Techniques, Textures, Université, Violent, Volcano.

Ni Systematics in Olivine as Fingerprints of Magmatic Processes in Hawaiian Basalts
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Michael O Garcia($167,194), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Controlling Ni, Crystallization History, Hawaiian Basalts, Kilauea Volcano, Magma Mixing, Magmatic Histories, Ni Content, Ongoing Eruption, Rejuvenation Stage, Wide Range, Accumulation, Assess, Characterized, Composition, Conditions, Depth, Experimental, Formation, Has, Importance, Lavas, Magmas, Mantle, Mantle-derived, Mineral, Olivine, Origin, Processes.

Light Element Incorporation in Nominally Anhydrous Minerals
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2014; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. George R Rossman($343,154), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Hydrogen And Fluorine, Nominally Anhydrous Minerals, Analytical Standards, Calibration Protocols, Infrared Spectroscopy, Mass Spectrometry, Amounts, Bound, Circuits, Concentrations, Critical, Developed, Devices, Distribution, Feldspars, Generation, Geological, Has, Ion, Less, Methods, Previously, Rock, Sensitivity, Spatial, Synthetic, Trace, Volatiles, Water.

Isotopic Diversity in Mangaia Melt Inclusions: Mantle Source or Crustal Assimilation?
Award Effective Date: 09/02/2013; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Matthew G Jackson($99,395), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Pb Isotopic Diversity, Cook Islands, Crustal Assimilation, Diversity Reflects, Mantle Source, Mantle Sources, Melt Inclusions, Mi Diversity, Single Lava, Compositions, Comprehensive, Diverse, Lavas, Local, Magma, Magmatic, Mangaia, Mis, Observed, Pb-isotopic, Processes, Trace.

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. Jennifer M Wenner($108,976), University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Oshkosh
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.

Study of the Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Atmospheric Gravity Waves Using Pressure Data From the Dense USArray Transportable Array
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2014; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Catherine de Groot-Hedlin($359,396), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Atmospheric Gravity Waves, Gravity Waves Detected, Atmospheric Phenomena, Cartesian Grid, Earth's Interior, Earth's Surface, Pressure Disturbances, Pressure Sensors, Transportable Array, Amplitude, Applied, Atmosphere, Characteristics, Contributing, Convective, Determining, Developed, Direction, Effort, Footprint, Has, Method, Objective, Observatory, Occurrence, Propagation, Provided, Quantitative, Recordings, Satellite, Speed, Square, Stations, TA, Technique, UCSD.

EAR-PF: Developing early Holocene records of terrestrial climate in Baffin Bay to understand ice sheet response time to climate change
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2014; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Elizabeth K Thomas($174,000), Thomas Elizabeth K, Buffalo
Key terms: Ice Sheet Reconstructions, Sea Level Rise, Speed And Nature, Temperature And Precipitation, Baffin Bay, Decadal-scale Temperature, Ice Sheets, Laurentide Ice, Ago, Amherst, Buffalo, Climate, Decadal-scale, Direct, Glycerol, Greenland, Holocene, Near, Outreach.

Developing a Novel Temperature Proxy to Test Hypotheses about Atmospheric Circulation in Western North America during the Last Deglaciation
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Andrew Kowler($174,000), Kowler Andrew, Tucson
Key terms: Basin And Range, Broadening Participation, Clumped Isotope, Northern Arizona, Wet Intervals, Air, Climate, Ka, LGM, Long-term, Models, Native, Occurred, Regions, Temperature, Wetter.

Impacts of Novel Stormwater Management on Groundwater Recharge
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Aditi S Bhaskar($174,000), Bhaskar Aditi S, Baltimore
Key terms: Distributed Stormwater Management, Natural Hydrologic Functioning, Groundwater Recharge, Mitigation Strategies, Urban Development, Water Cycle, Alterations, Carry, Developed, Education, Field, Generated, Hydraulic, Infiltration, Landscape, Watershed.

Noble Gases, Lower Mantle Structures, and the Origin of Ocean Island Basalts
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Curtis D Williams($174,000), Williams Curtis D, Tempe
Key terms: Earth's Lower Mantle, Noble Gas Systematics, Earth's Lower, Mantle Convection, Mantle Plumes, Noble Gases, Source Region, Chemical, Components, Constrain, Formation, Models, Oibs, Preservation, Structure.

Constraining Continental Rifting Using a Novel Seismic Imaging Approach
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Scott A Burdick($174,000), Burdick Scott A, Cambridge
Key terms: Continental Rifts, Education Plan, Arrays, Constraints, Developing, Discontinuities, Evolution, Initiation, Lithosphere, Regions, Rifting, Seismic, Tomography.

EAR-PF Toward early detection and tracking of mass movements at volcanoes using seismic methods
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Kate E Allstadt($76,667), Allstadt Kate E, Seattle
Key terms: Cascade And Alaskan, Alaskan Volcanoes, Geological Survey, Mass Movements, Mass Wasting, Near Real-time, Summer Program, Activity, Avalanches, Combine, Debris, Detect, Developed, Developing, Existing, Experiments, Field, Generation, Hazards, Landslides, Networks, Numerical, Outreach, Physics, Pose, Real-time, Seismic, Techniques, Towards, Waves.

Do forearc crustal faults rupture in response to stress changes from megathrust earthquakes?
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Ashley R Streig($174,000), Streig Ashley R, Eugene
Key terms: Spatial And Temporal, Forearc Faults, Megathrust Earthquakes, Subduction Zone, Activity, Allow, Cascadia, Crust, Directly, Field, Has, NSF, Onshore, Paleoseismic, Seismic, Stress, Students.

EAR-PF: Quantifying the effects of flow transience on sediment transport
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Colin B Phillips($174,000), Phillips Colin B, Philadelphia
Key terms: Gravel Rivers, Gravel Transport, Sediment Transport, Stream Restoration, Dynamics, Experiments, Floods, Flow, NCED, Numerous, Particle, Predictions, Varying.

Climate Sensitivity to CO2 in the Early Pleistocene--a world with smaller ice sheets
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Kelsey Dyez($174,000), Dyez Kelsey, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Greenhouse Gas Concentrations, Carbon Cycle, Ice Sheets, Aims, Atmospheric, Climate, Cycles, Directly, High-resolution, Mechanisms, Pco, Period, Pleistocene, Resolve, Theories, Tropical, World.

Effect of seamount subduction on fault geometry and rupture propagation
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Christine A Regalla($130,500), Regalla Christine A, State College
Key terms: Geometry And Strength, Earthquake Rupture, Fault Geometry, Plate Boundary, Rupture Propagation, Subducted Seamounts, Ancient, Earthquakes, Field, Has, International, Magnitude, Maximum, Megathrust, Models, Nucleation, Opportunities, Subduction, Thrust, Undergraduate.

Quantifying total volatile budgets of explosive volcanic eruptions: An experimental investigation of silicic peralkaline magma from Paektu volcano
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Kayla D Iacovino($174,000), Iacovino, Kayla D, Mountain View
Key terms: Explosive Eruptions, Geological Survey, Millennium Eruption, Paektu Volcano, Volcanic Eruptions, MPGE, Magma, Microprobe, North, Outreach, Prior, Species.

The upper mantle structure of southern Africa using full-waveform tomography from long-period ambient noise and earthquake data
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Erica L Emry($174,000), Emry Erica L, State College
Key terms: Africa Array Diversity, Array Diversity Program, Depth And Lateral, Afar Hotspot, African Geology, African Mantle, East African, Field Course, Lateral Extent, Southern Africa, Upper Mantle, Beneath, Depression, Ethiopian, Geophysics, NSF, Online, Penn, Processes, Rift, Structure, Students, Surface, Techniques, Tectonic.

EAR-PF: First evidence for low temperature oxygen isotope exchange and fractionation between crystalline iron oxides and water: Role of biogeochemical iron cycling
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Andrew J Frierdich($132,667), Frierdich Andrew, Madison
Key terms: Broadening Participation Activities, Exchange And Fractionation, Iron And Oxygen, Oxygen Isotope Exchange, Iron Oxide, Iron Oxides, Composition, Education, Geology, Geosciences, Has, Iowa, Isotopic, Local, Mentoring, Mineral-water, Minerals, Outreach, Plan, Processes, Reactivity, Societal, Undergraduate, Water.

Coastal SEES Collaborative Research: Effects of restoration and redevelopment on nitrogen dynamics in an urban coastal watershed
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2014; Program: SEES Coastal

1. Lawrence E Band($126,146), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
2. Emma J Rosi($529,378), Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Inc., Millbrook
3. Sujay Kaushal($393,547), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
4. Claire Welty($449,999), University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore
Key terms: Social And Economic, Status And Distance, Stream And Watershed, Watershed Restoration Efforts, Coastal Sustainability, Excess Nitrogen, Green Infrastructure, Nitrogen Benefits, Socio-economic Status, Stream Restoration, Water Quality, Baltimore, Biophysical, Citizen, Complex, Critical, Effects, Environmental, Factors, Garbage, Globe, Interventions, Knowledge, Residents, Socio-economic, Urban, Urbanization.

Coastal SEES Collaborative Research: Morphologic, Socioeconomic, and Engineering Sustainability of Massively Anthropic Coastal Deltas: the Compelling Case of the Huanghe Delta
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: SEES Coastal

1. Michael P Lamb($426,597), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
2. Gail Kineke($465,541), Boston College, Chestnut Hill
3. Jeffrey Nittrouer($576,230), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
4. Benjamin F Hobbs($297,867), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
5. Gary Parker($279,000), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Coastal Landscapes, Coastal Sustainability, Deltaic Landscapes, Engineered Avulsions, Huanghe Delta, River Channel, River Channels, River-delta Coastlines, Sea-level Rise, Dynamics, Engineering, Flooding, Future, Natural, Resource, Resources, River-delta, Sea-level, Sediment, Society, Socio-economic, Sustainable, Worldwide.

Coastal SEES Collaborative Research: Changes in actual and perceived coastal flood risks due to river management strategies
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: SEES Coastal

1. Scott C Hagen($134,838), The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees, Orlando
2. Kehui Xu($1,097,704), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
3. Doug Edmonds($232,616), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Human River Management, River Management Strategies, Coastal Flood, Deltaic Landscapes, Flood Risk, Flood Risks, Human Settlement, Human Settlements, Landscape Degradation, River Deltas, Sediment Delivery, Sediment Supply, Wetland Loss, Explore, Flooding, Future, Hurricane, Increased, Modeling, Produce, Promote, Public, Testing.

CSEDI Collaborative Research: Grand Challenge for Experimental Study of Plastic Deformation Under Deep Earth Conditions
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Shun-ichiro Karato($459,886), Yale University, New Haven
2. William B Durham($173,000), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
3. Yanbin Wang($361,000), University of Chicago, Chicago
4. Pamela C Burnley($264,000), University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas
5. Li Li($618,200), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Pressure And Temperature, Experimental Capabilities, High-pressure Apparatus, Lower Mantle, National Synchrotron, Preferred Orientation, Advanced, Character, Conditions, Continent, Deep, Deformation, Depth, Developed, Earthquakes, Enable, Experiments, Facilities, Generation, Grains, High-pressure, Increase, Plastic, Plate, Program, Properties, Range, Rock, Seismic, Slowly, Source, Strain, Studying, Tools.

CSEDI Collaborative Research: Deep Mantle Cycling of Oceanic Crust
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Allen McNamara($550,121), Arizona State University, Tempe
2. Michael Thorne($23,558), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Deep Mantle, Earth's Mantle, Former Crust, Oceanic Crust, Approach, Chemical, Chemistry, Dynamics, Evolution, Interior, Low, Multidisciplinary, Structures, Tectonic, Wave, Zones.

CSEDI Collaborative Research: Electrical conductivity of deformed partially molten rocks: Implications for upper mantle structure and dynamics
Award Effective Date: 08/14/2014; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Anne Pommier($255,858), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
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.

CSEDI: Coupled Electromagnetic and Geodynamic Study of Thermochemical Piles
Award Effective Date: 08/10/2014; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Chester J Weiss($146,743), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Electromagnetic Observations, Lower Mantle, Tectonic Plates, Boundary, Complexity, Core, Discretization, Domain, Earth, Experiments, Geodynamic, Geologic, Geophysical, Methods, Numerical, Outer, Properties, Sensitivity, Structures, Surface, Thermal, Thermochemical.

COLLABORATIVE NSF-NASA WORKSHOPS: EVOLVING ENVIRONMENTS AND LIFE ON THE EARLY EARTH -- FROM ACCRETION TO THE RISE OF ANIMALS
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Timothy W Lyons($71,460), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Natural History Museum, Nsf And Nasa, Smithsonian Natural History, Earliest Oxygenesis, Interagency Collaboration, Workshop Participants, Ago, Billion, Bring, Ca, Co-sponsor, Complementary, Complexity, Cryogenian, Define, Diverse, Drivers, Environment, Essential, Fecundity, Generation, Hadean, Life, Mid-archean, Opportunities, Plan, Underutilized, Workshops.

CSEDI Collaborative Research: Investigating the Nature of the Subcontinental Upper Mantle
Award Effective Date: 07/23/2014; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Anna M Courtier($70,005), University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Whitewater
2. Anna M Courtier($70,005), James Madison University, Harrisonburg
3. Vedran Lekic($259,998), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Sub-continental Upper Mantle, Sub-continental Upper, Chemical, Complex, Deformation, Dynamical, Episodes, Melt, Melting, Models, Observables, Past, Processes, Rifting, Seismic, Structure, Tectonic, Thermal, Time, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Helium Diffusion in Lower Mantle Minerals
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Sujoy Mukhopadhyay($68,752), University of California-Davis, Davis
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: Layering within cratonic lithosphere: Integrated constraints from xenoliths, seismic structure and geodynamical modeling
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Colleen A Dalton($519,493), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Cratonic Mantle Lithosphere, Seismic Velocity Structure, Graduate Students, Grain Size, Internal Structure, Microstructural Analyses, Rock Fabric, Stable Cores, Billion, Chemical, Composition, Constraints, Content, Continent, Cratons, Deformation, Density, Effects, Evolution, Experienced, Explore, Geochemical, Geodynamical, Layering, Lithospheric, Modeling, Models, Olivine, Plan, Processes, Range, Region, Remain, Seismological, Stability, Subduction, Surface, Techniques, Trace, Undergraduates, Variety, Velocities, Viscosity, Water, Wave, Xenolith.

Support for Beginning Scientists to Attend 14th SEDI meeting in Tokyo, Japan
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Michael I Bergman($24,000), Simon's Rock of Bard College, Great Barrington
Key terms: Earth's Deep Interior, Earth's Deep, Contribute, Core, Dynamics, Evolution, Interdisciplinary, International, Mantle, Meeting, National, SEDI, Structure, Surface.

CSEDI Collaborative Research: Towards a unified model of the geomagnetic, geochemical, and thermal evolutions of Earth's mantle and core
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Joseph S Stoner($153,988), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Dave Stegman($40,395), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Earth's Deep Interior, Charged Particles, Earth's Deep, Magma Ocean, Magnetic Field, Ancient, Core, Generation, Has, Models, Shielding, Surface, Sustain.

Processes controlling the shape and evolution of sandy spits along coastlines
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Andrew Ashton($264,492), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Historic And Geologic, Cape Cod, Sand Spit, Wave Climate, Affect, Coastal, Controls, Development, Evolution, Features, Investigate, Numerical, Processes, Region, Settings, Shape, Shoreline, Short.

SusChEM:Collab.Research:RUI:Linking the Geochemical Composition of Airborne Particulate Matter with Arsenic Bioaccessibility and Bioavailability in Contaminated Mining Environments
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Michael Kleinman($85,559), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
2. Christopher S Kim($100,536), Chapman University, Orange
Key terms: Airborne Particulate Matter, Mine Sites, Mine Wastes, Remediation Strategies, Ability, Animal, Approach, Arsenic, Bioavailability, Chemical, Development, Dusts, Expected, Exposure, Fine-grained, Geochemical, Has, Implications, Importance, Increasing, Inhalation, Knowledge, Potential, Predict, Properties, Regions, Simulated, Size, Tailings, Toxicity.

Mountain top mining effects on watershed hydrology and biogeochemistry: Learning from manipulation of the critical zone
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Emily S Bernhardt($578,934), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Mined And Unmined, Solute Transport, Watershed Hydrology, Altered, Analyses, Coal, Dynamics, Hydrologic, Knowledge, Landscape, Landscapes, MTMVF, Mining, Mountain, Predict, Ridges, Stream, Subsurface, Timing, Valleys, Watersheds.

RAPID: Gauging the impacts of California's 500-year drought on aeolian inputs to mountain soils and ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Emma L Aronson($29,985), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Dust Transport, Microbial Composition, Sierra Nevada, Collected, Distant, Drought, Ecosystems, Effects, Elevation, Isotopic, Microorganisms, Nutrients, Origin, Soil, Transported.

Board on Earth Sciences and Resources and Its Activities
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Elizabeth Eide($1,125,000), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Activities, BESR, Board, Committees, Development, Federal, Natural.

SusChEM: Collaborative Research: Biogenic Methanogenesis and Biodegradation of Organic Matter in Coals
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Jack A Gilbert($74,597), University of Chicago, Chicago
2. Maria Mastalerz($174,890), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Natural Gas, Terminal Electron, Biogenic, Bioreactor, CBM, CF, Complex, Current, Energy, Experimental, Generate, Genotypes, Has, Incubations, Influence, Metabolic, Metabolism, Methane, Microbes, Microbial, Mmbtu, Model, Organic, Recovery, Regulatory, Sources, Time, Total, USEIA, Value.

SusChEM: Indium in Magmatic-Hydrothermal Systems
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Philip M Piccoli($247,694), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Indium-bearing Ores, Touch Screens, Demand, Deposits, Distribution, Granite-related, Has, ITO, Increased, Indium-bearing, Permit, Sphalerite, Sulfide.

Dust transport and deposition in the American West: a record of climate and land-use change from the Upper Fremont Glacier, Wind River Range, Wyoming
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2014; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Sarah Aciego($89,127), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Little Ice Age, Upper Fremont Glacier, Wind River Range, Ice Core, Industrial Revolution, Agriculture, Amount, Atmospheric, Climate, Dust, Examine, Land, Measure, North, Regional, Sources, Wyoming.

A workshop on Research Infrastructure in Support of NSF Surface Earth Processes Grand Challenges
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Lee R Kump($42,608), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Capabilities, Coming, Evolve, Infrastructure, Processes, Surface, Workshop.

Can habitat and elevation explain mid-Miocene Neotropical mammal provinciality?
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Darin A Croft($233,934), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland
Key terms: Climate And Habitats, Quebrada Honda, Abstract, Ancient, Bolivia, Cleveland, Detailed, Differences, Environments, Factors, Fossil, Fossils, Main, Mammal, Past, Picture, Site, Sites, South, Species, Tropics, Variety, Venta.

Workshop: Sino-US Collaborative Research on the Rise of Modern Biological Diversity In the Phanerozoic
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Peter J Makovicky($48,176), Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
Key terms: Directions And Initiatives, China National, Criticial Transitions, Life Started, Co-sponsored, Disseminated, History, Paleobiology, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: A multi-proxy approach to Early Miocene community, landscape, and climate reconstruction, Ethiopian Plateau
Award Effective Date: 09/02/2014; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Ellen D Currano($3,394), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Goethite And Stomatal, Temperature And Pco2, Global Temperature, Mammal Bones, Multiple Independent, Past Climate, Africa, Ago, Biogeographic, Biotic, Compare, Comparing, Decline, Description, Ethiopian, Eurasia, Extraordinary, Fauna, Flora, Fossil, Fossils, Frogs, Has, History, Landscape, Leaves, Methods, Million, Miocene, Modern, Paleoclimate, Paleoecology, Plant, Plateau, Proxies, Reconstruction, Rise, Rock, Soft, Students, Terrestrial, Time, Was.

Collaborative Research: Does sexual selection promote speciation and extinction? A test with Late Cretaceous Ostracoda from the US Gulf Coastal Plain
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Eugene Hunt($132,331), Smithsonian Institution, Washington
2. Rowan Lockwood($67,369), College of William and Mary, Williamsburg
Key terms: Speciation And Extinction, Conservation Status, Late Cretaceous, Ostracode Species, Rich Fossil, Sexual Dimorphism, Sexual Selection, Actual, Association, Biodiversity, Central, Date, Macroevolutionary, Measure, Ostracodes, Paleocene, Proxies, Strength, Time.

Land-Use and Climate Influences on Lake Tanganyika Floor Sediments and Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Michael J Soreghan($314,000), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Cichlid Fish, Lake Tanganyika, Living Snails, Shell Beds, Accumulations, Affect, African, Arizona, Bottom-dwelling, Collected, Conservation, Courses, Dead, Disturbed, Ecological, Environmental, Evolutionary, Experience, Habitat, Inferred, Lakes, Land-use, Modern, Natural, Oklahoma, Organisms, Regions, Sedimentation, Shallow, Shells, Site, Sites, Students, Time.

Collaborative Research: High-resolution Cretaceous terrestrial climate records of temperature, weathering and hydrologic response to hyperthermals in Songliao Basin, China
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. C. Page Chamberlain($73,073), Stanford University, Stanford
2. Alan R Carroll($71,466), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
3. Bradley B Sageman($50,999), Northwestern University, Evanston
Key terms: Cretaceous Songliao Basin, Links And Feedbacks, Carbon Cycle, Carbon Isotopic, Cenomanianturonian Boundary, Drill Core, Extreme Warmth, Global Climate, Isotopic Values, Lower Cretaceous, Myr Ago, Terrestrial Setting, Assembled, Behave, China, Complimentary, Conditions, Continental, Cycles, Drilling, Earth, Evidence, Experienced, Greenhouse, Hothouse, Hydrologic, Marine, Modeling, OAE, Observed, One-year, Opportunity, Period, Pis, SK-I, SK-II, Sedimentologic, Sets, Temperature, Times, Unique, Univ.

Collaborative Research: Boron Isotopes Across the Carboniferous-Permian Glaciation: Assessing the Relationship of pCO2 to Seawater Chemistry
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. N. Gary Hemming($152,350), CUNY Queens College, Flushing
2. Emma T Rasbury($230,610), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Atmospheric Co2, Boron Isotopes, Deep Time, Graduate Students, Approach, Climate, Conditions, Consequences, Experience, Global, Increase, Potential, Relevance, Seawater, Similar, Teachers, Underrepresented, Warming.

Signals of Relative Sea Level perturbations: Defining the divide between signal shredding versus preservation in the stratigraphic record.
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Kyle Straub($166,516), Tulane University, New Orleans
Key terms: Relative Sea Level, Channel Depth, Continental Margin, Quantitative Theory, Rsl Cycles, Sediment Transport, Capacity, Climate, Coastal, Environmental, Experiments, Influences, Less, Predictions, Prior, Processes, Shred, Signals, Stratigraphic, Stratigraphy, Theoretical.

High-precision U-Pb zircon geochronology and intracontinental correlation of terrestrial ecosystems during the "zenith" of dinosaur diversity in the Late Campanian of North America
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Samuel A Bowring($254,616), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Floras And Faunas, High-precision U-pb Zircon, Montana And Wyoming, U-pb Zircon Geochronology, Volcanic Ash Beds, Western Interior Basin, Age Models, Dinosaur Diversity, Dinosaur Park, Global Environmental, High-precision U-pb, Late Campanian, Medicine-judith River, Mesozoic Terrestrial, Terrestrial Vertebrates, Time Period, U-pb Zircon, Western North, Aguja, Alberta, Allow, Chronostratigraphy, Continent, Correlate, Correlation, Cretaceous, Developing, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Evolution, Evolutionary, Faunaflora, Focus, Formation, Formations, Fossil, Fossils, Has, Increase, Investigating, Kaiparowits, Laramidia, Medicine-judith, Mexico, Million, Preservation, Rates, Rock, Southern, Tempo, Texas, Unparalleled, Utah, Zenith.

Tephra 2014 - Maximizing the potential of tephra for multidisciplinary science
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Marcus I Bursik($20,540), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Discuss Modern, Atmospheric, Discussions, Portland, Presentations, Tephra, Via, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Phylogenomics of palaeognathous birds and the genomic basis of flightlessness
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2014; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Julia Clarke($357,302), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Flightless Birds, Genetic Basis, Regions Occurring, Regulatory Regions, Bones, Conserved, Evolution, Flightlessness, Forelimbs, Gain, Genes, Genomes, Genomic, Human, Independently, Lineages, Links, Loss, Lost, Mice, Morphological, Multiple, Mutations, Natural, Outreach, Parallel, Phenotype, Phylogenetic, Ratite, Ratites, Species, Traits, Tree, Underlie, Underpinnings.

Travel support for U.S. students to attend the 4th International Palaeontological Congress
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Dena M Smith($30,000), The Geological Society of America, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: International Palaeontological Congress, 4th Ipc, Sedimentary Geology, Attend, Collaboration, Description, Ensuring, Field, Globe, Graduate, Meeting, NSF, Opportunities, Paleontologists, Paleontology, Participation, Society, Students, Topics, Travel.

Collaborative Research: ACACIA: Ancient Climate and the Authigenic Clay Index of Aridity
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Jeremy S Delaney($77,217), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
2. Mark Krekeler($12,857), Miami University, Oxford
3. W C Elliott($303,557), Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc., Atlanta
Key terms: Clay Minerals, East Africa, Elementary School, Global Climate, International Collaborations, Lake Sediments, Lake Water, Olduvai Gorge, ACACIA, Abstract, African, Analytical, Ancient, Arid, Authigenic, Chemically, Electron, Enrichment, Environmental, Environments, Evolution, Field, Geochemistry, Human, Kenya, Lakes, Led, Octahedral, Olorgesailie, Outreach, Particles, Partner, Past, Students, Tanzania, Tanzanian, Tropical, Undergraduate, Versus.

Collaborative Research: RUI: A High resolution Paleontological, Ichnological, and Chemostratigraphic Study of Late Devonian Mass Extinctions
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Diana Boyer($52,480), SUNY College at Oswego, Oswego
2. Timothy W Lyons($206,009), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Devonian Mass Extinction, Late Devonian Mass, Biotic Turnover, Black Shale, Inorganic Geochemical, Suny Oswego, Ancient, Direct, Euxinic, Evolution, Extensive, History, Life, Marine, Oxygen, Paleontological, Resolution, Water.

Santa Fe Conference on Rock Magnetism
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2014; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Dario Bilardello($24,806), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Coverage, Magnetism, Partial.

Collaborative Research: 100 million Years of Biotic and Tectonic Evolution in the Western Branch of the East African Rift System
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. William C Clyde($71,359), University of New Hampshire, Durham
2. Tobin Hieronymus($237,929), Ohio University, Athens
Key terms: Animal And Plant, East African Rift, Students And Faculty, Terrestrial And Freshwater, Deep Time, Eastern Africa, Environmental Conditions, Laboratory Approaches, Rift Basin, Southwestern Tanzania, Western Branch, Adjacent, Age, Assess, Biotic, Cenozoic, Characterized, Climate, Continent, Cretaceous, Distribution, Diversification, Diversity, Document, Dynamics, EARS, Encompassing, Evolution, Expeditions, Extinction, Field, Fossil, Fossils, Geological, Has, Importance, Initiated, Integrating, International, Interplay, Intervals, Landform, Late, Macroevolutionary, Mammals, Mesozoic, Million, Organisms, Origin, Paleobiogeographic, Paleontological, Past, Precise, Program, RRB, Region, Rock, Settings, Tectonic, Testing, Units, Vertebrate, Vertebrates.

CAREER: CLUMPMAP - Glacial Climate from Clumped Isotope Thermometry
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Aradhna Tripati($848,081), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Climate Models, Apply, CLUMPMAP, Carbonate, Climates, Clumped, Developing, Diverse, Diversity, Education, Forcings, Geology, Geosciences, Has, Ii, LGM, Paleoclimate, People, Pis, Processes, Program, Sedimentary, Students, Technique, Tools, Training, Under-represented.

Collaborative Research: Calibrating Mid-Miocene Greenhouse Climate and Ecology in a Key High Southern Latitude Locale
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Richard Kay($74,886), Duke University, Durham
2. Caroline Stromberg($64,979), University of Washington, Seattle
3. Matthew J Kohn($118,604), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Mean Annual, Burke, Climate, Earth, Greenhouse, MAP, MAT, MMCO, Ma, Mid-miocene, Paleoclimate, Plant, Precipitation, Seasonality, Students, Terrestrial.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: An Exceptional Window into Late Triassic Terrestrial Ecosystems from the Western United States
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Nathan D Smith($71,260), Howard University, Washington
2. Randall B Irmis($135,885), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
3. Alan H Turner($70,724), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
4. Sterling J Nesbitt($61,800), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Ghost Ranch, Hayden Quarry, Late Triassic, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Upper Triassic, Biotic, Dinosaurs, Establish, Graduate, HQ, History, Integrated, Mexico, Northern, Paleoenvironmental, Rise, Strata, Students, Underrepresented, Vertebrate.

Interannual and Orbital-Scale Climate Variability in the Early Miocene: Physical, Chemical and Biological Investigations of the Foulden Maar Diatomite
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. William J D'Andrea($241,724), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Foulden Maar Diatomite, Annual Sediment, Atmospheric Pco2, Earth's Climate, Earth's Orbit, Fossil Leaves, Global Temperature, Ice Sheets, Inter-annual Climate, Mid-latitude Climate, Solar Energy, Time Period, Accumulated, Antarctic, Behavior, Contribute, ENSO, El, Equator, Examine, Forcing, Inter-annual, Layers, Mid-latitude, Miocene, Natural, Orbital, Organic, Past, Periods, Program, Sediments, Techniques, Thickness, Warm, Warmer, Was.

How Development and Behavior Interact to Change Skull Form: Exploring and Sharing Evolutionary Insights from the Fossil Record of Cetaceans (Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises)
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Brian L Beatty($220,180), New York Institute of Technology, New York
Key terms: Anatomical Gap, Cetacean Evolution, Ct Scans, Fossil Species, York Institute, Cetaceans, Charleston, Computer, Discoveries, Displayed, Evolutionary, Models, Museum, Name, Skull, Skulls, Stages, Students, Technology, Whales, Wide.

Support of Student Participation in the 10th North American Paleontological Convention
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Peter Harries($20,000), Paleontological Society, Mc Lean
Key terms: Academic, Available, Field, Florida, Meeting, NAPC, North, Paleontological, Participation, Past, Student, Students, Supported.

Using the Tools of Conservation Paleobiology to Assess the Impact of the Engineered Spring-Flood of the Colorado River
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Gregory P Dietl($16,185), Paleontological Research Institute, Ithaca
Key terms: Lowermost Channel, Pulse Flows, Available, Baseline, Colorado, Delta, Environmental, Establish, Has, Molluscan, Released, Restoration, River, Success, Water.

ELT: Collaborative Research: Stratigraphic refinement, systematic and biogeographic relationships of the late Cretaceous-Paleocene Deccan biota of India
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Selena Y Smith($123,273), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. Steven R Manchester($280,000), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Detailed Studies, Fossil Plants, Approach, Beds, Floristic, Focus, Global, Has, Insights, Mammals, Time, Vegetational.

A New Approach to the Archean Sulfur Cycle from Marine Carbonates
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Woodward Fischer($345,014), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Mif Signal, Archean, Atmosphere, Carbonates, Chiefly, Current, Evolution, History, Oxygen, Pis, Reduced, Sulfate, Sulfur.

Collaborative Research: Quantifying Rates of Neoproterozoic Global Change, Ethiopia
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2014; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Adam Maloof($150,000), Princeton University, Princeton
2. Nicholas L Swanson-Hysell($152,425), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Northern Ethiopia, Basin, Chemostratigraphic, Correlation, Cryogenian, Developed, Glaciation, Neoproterozoic, Stratigraphic, Tambien.

Collaborative Research: Seeing the forest with the leaves--inferring plant habit and ecophysiology from leaf fossils
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Charles K Boyce($182,780), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Leaf Compressions, Leaf Fossils, Past Climates, Plant Habit, Chicago, Density, Diversification, Ecology, Ecophysiology, Environment, Evolution, Forests, Information, Leaves, Physiology, Plants, Primary, Provided, Proxies, Structure, Surface, Tools, Vein.

Coordinating Office for Research on the Sedimentary Crust, Deep-Time and the Earth-Life System
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2013; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Martin A Perlmutter($975,707), The Geological Society of America, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: Build Capacity, Deep Past, Sedimentary Geology, Steppe Office, Climate, Collaboration, Communication, Coordinate, Coordination, Cyberinfrastructure, Deep-time, Education, Efforts, Ensure, Existing, Facilitate, Initiatives, Integrated, Issues, Perspectives, Platform, Processes, Promote, Society, Strategies, Vision.

WSC-Category 3 Collaborative: America's Water - The Changing Landscape of Risk, Competing Demands and Climate
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Sustainable Energy Pathways

1. Marc Levy($2,489,186), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Economic Factors, Energy Development, Water Allocation, Water Rights, Assess, Assessment, Availability, Climate, Conservation, Cropping, Droughts, Environment, Future, Infrastructure, Potential, Regional, Scenarios, Supply, Sustainability, Trends.

WSC-Category 1: Advancing Infrastructure and Institutional Resilience to Climate Change for Coupled Water-Energy Systems
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Sustainable Energy Pathways

1. Clark A Miller($719,934), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Water And Electricity, Anticipatory Governance, Infrastructure Managers, Vulnerability Assessment, Assessing, Climate, Complex, Coupled, Environmental, Future, Game, Knowledge, Proactively, Structures, Vulnerabilities.

Collaborative Research: Carbonation of Serpentinite in the San Andreas Fault: How Fluid-rock Interactions Impact Aseismic Creep
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Tectonics

1. David L Goldsby($44,735), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Key terms: Carbon Dioxide-rich Fluids, San Andreas Fault, San Juan Bautista, Aseismic Creep, Carbon Dioxide-rich, Coast Range, Dioxide-rich Fluids, Cholame, Conditions, Earthquakes, Fatal, Formation, Magnesite, Magnitude, Mantle, Mechanically, Mineral, North, Parkfield, Portions, Rates, Rock, Segments, Seismicity, Serpentine, Serpentinite, Soapstone, Talc, Weak.

Collaborative Research: Development of Hematite (U-Th)/He Chronology to Directly Date Fault Slip and Ancient Seismicity
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Tectonics

1. David L Shuster($31,058), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
2. Peter W Reiners($200,167), University of Arizona, Tucson
3. Alexis K Ault($257,197), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Date Fault Slip, Directly Date Fault, Fault Activity, Fault Surface, Fault Surfaces, Fault Zone, Hematite-coated Faults, Independent Constraints, Regional Cooling, Active, Ancient, Brittle, Characterization, Crust, Dates, Dating, Development, Evolution, Hehe, Hematite-coated, Histories, Increased, Method, Northern, Processes, Public, Robust, Seismic, Students, Synkinematic, Timing, Track, U-thhe, Upper, Utah.

Collaborative Research: Investigating Slip Distribution over Multiple Timescales across the Central Walker Lane: Implications for the Evolution of an Active Tectonic Plate Boundary
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Tectonics

1. Warren D Sharp($74,567), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
2. Jeffrey Lee($201,136), Central Washington University, Ellensburg
3. Jackie Langille($112,214), University of North Carolina at Asheville, Asheville
Key terms: Basin And Range, Central Walker Lane, Dating Late Quaternary, Fault Slip Rates, Landforms And Deposits, Late Quaternary Landforms, Multiple Time Scales, Pacific And North, Relatively Narrow Eastern, Spatial And Temporal, Dextral Faulting, Dextral Strain, Geologic Studies, Quaternary Landforms, Relative Motion, Strain Release, Studies Ongoing, Temporal Distribution, Terrestrial Cosmogenic, Active, Activities, Allow, Application, Collected, Contribute, Deformation, Developing, Driving, Faults, Forces, Geochronology, Geoscience, Investigate, Literacy, Nevada, Northern, Northwest-striking, Plates, Potential, Principal, Program, Region, Right-lateral, Set, Shear, Techniques, Timing, U-series, Western, Yield, Zone.

Collaborative Research: Heterogeneous Rupture of Great Cascadia Earthquakes Inferred from Coastal Subsidence Estimates
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Tectonics

1. Andrea D Hawkes($101,712), University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington
2. Simon Engelhart($122,836), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
3. Benjamin P Horton($129,503), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Cascadia Subduction, Coseismic Subsidence, Plate-boundary Earthquakes, Subduction Zones, Transfer Functions, Cascadias, Coupled, Dating, Deformation, Development, Estuaries, Evidence, Experienced, Has, Hazards, History, Land-level, Magnitude, Megathrust, Microfossil, Outreach, Past, Plate-boundary, Public, Reconstruct, Rupture, STEM, Sediments, Sites, Society, Spatially, Stratigraphic, Students, Thousands, Tidal.

Collaborative Research: Neotectonics and Structural Development of the Northern Walker Lane
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Tectonics

1. Lewis A Owen($55,720), University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati
2. James Faulds($455,561), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Crustal Blocks, Plate Boundary, Right-lateral Shear, Structural Development, Walker Lane, Basins, Carson, Clarify, Collected, Displacement, Evidence, Fault, Faults, Focuses, GPS, Geodetic, Geologic, Has, Lake, Lidar, Mismatch, Nevada, Northwest, Northwest-directed, Observed, Portion, Rate, Region, Right-lateral, Rotation, Set, Strike-slip, Trending, Zone.

Collaborative Research: Did the Pamir Gneiss Domes and Salient form by Northward Underthrusting of India or Southward Subduction and Rollback of Asia?
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Tectonics

1. Paul Kapp($210,998), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Bradley R Hacker($173,765), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Asian Lithosphere, Continental Subduction, Eurasian Plate, Gneiss Domes, Indian Lithosphere, Indian Plate, Magmatic Evolution, Pamir Mountains, Pamir Salient, Southward Subduction, Subduction Zones, Analysis, Beneath, Cenozoic, Constrain, Contrasting, Deep, Depth, Development, Earthquakes, East, End-member, Exhumation, Field, Geochronology, Geologic, Has, History, Local, Metamorphic, Moving, Northward, Oceanic, Outreach, Phase, Plates, Predictions, Quantify, Rock, Seismicity, Structural, Students, Subducting, Testing, Tucson.

Collaborative Research: Investigating the Sedimentary Record of Differing Modes of Flat-Slab Subduction
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Tectonics

1. Eva Enkelmann($189,999), University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati
2. Emily Finzel($280,000), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Cook Inlet Basin, Flat Slab Subduction, South Central Alaska, Convergent Margins, Flat-slab Subduction, Forearc Basin, Oceanic Plateau, Oceanic Plates, Sediment Sources, Spreading Ridges, Upper Plate, Adjacent, Angle, Arc, Aseismic, Basins, Buoyant, Ca, Cincinnati, Crust, Exhumation, Flat-slab, Investigate, Late, Magmatism, Outreach, Plateaus, Processes, Provenance, Public, Region, Regional, STEM, School, Sedimentary, Steep, Strata, Students, Surface, Tectonic, Time, Topography, Uniform.

The Socorro Magma Body: Surface Uplift History and Crustal Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Tectonics

1. James B Harrison($303,420), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Socorro Magma Body, Crustal Growth, Geodynamic Modeling, Rio Grande, Surface Deformation, Analysis, Dating, Geometry, Has, History, Inflation, Insar, Mapping, Mexico, Mid-crustal, Processes, Public, STEM, Source, Terrace, Terraces, Tilting, Uplift.

Collaborative Research: A Detrital Zircon Record of California Arc Magmatism
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Tectonics

1. Andrew P Barth($77,343), Indiana University, Bloomington
2. Kathleen D Surpless($21,067), Trinity University, San Antonio
3. Diane Clemens Knott($30,302), CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation, Fullerton
Key terms: Arc-derived Detrital Zircons, Average Melt Compositions, Pulses And Lulls, Arc Magmatism, Arc-derived Detrital, Cordilleran Arc, Igneous Rocks, Magmatic Pulses, Sedimentary Rocks, Situ Igneous, Age, Allow, Chemical, Commonly, Complete, Eroded, Evolution, Gaps, Geochemical, Geochemistry, Geologic, Intrusive, Isotopic, Long-lived, Means, Mineral, Principal, Proxy, Resistant, Retroarc, Sections, Secular, Tectonic, Trace, Volcanic.

Collaborative Research: RUI: Proterozoic Mountain Building and Collapse, Eastern Adirondacks, New York
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: Tectonics

1. Timothy W Grover($59,713), Castleton University, Castleton
2. Michael L Williams($127,088), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Collapse And Exhumation, Detailed Field Mapping, Adirondack Field, Adirondack Mountains, Adirondack Region, Castleton Undergraduates, Eastern Adirondack, Eastern Adirondacks, Field Mapping, Graduate Student, Grenville Orogen, Ideal Base, In-situ Monazite, Monazite Geochronology, Nearly Adjacent, Orogenic Collapse, Ottawan Orogeny, Predominantly Undergraduate, Shear Zone, Tectonic History, Access, Analysis, Assembly, Basement, Character, Characterize, Collaboration, Consist, Constraints, Crust, Development, Dome, Evolution, Extensional, Extensive, Formation, Geologic, Geology, Gneiss, Granite, In-situ, Involve, Involved, Involves, Link, Margin, Massachusetts, Mentor, Metamorphic, Pis, Previously, Rock, Rocks, Rodinia, Seasons, Serve, Shawinigan, Shearing, Stages, Structural, Supercontinent, Timing, Uplift, Was, York.

Building India: Clues from the Singhbhum Craton & Southern India
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: Tectonics

1. Joseph G Meert($230,007), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Paleomagnetic And Geochronologic, Rodinia And Columbia, Continental Blocks, Dharwar Craton, Indian Subcontinent, Singhbhum Craton, Australia, Climate, Complexities, Cratons, Critical, Database, Establish, Examining, Geochronological, Graduate, History, Indias, Information, Involves, Knowledge, Landmasses, Obtain, Paleomagnetism, Principal, Proterozoic, Regions, Relatively, Rock, STEM, South, Southern, Students, Supercontinents.

Building the Precambrian Laurentian Core of the North American craton: Resolving the Age and Tectonic Setting of the Snowbird Tectonic Zone of Canada
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Tectonics

1. Michael L Williams($251,584), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Snowbird Tectonic Zone, Canadian Shield, Plate Tectonic, Age, Archean, Basement, Billion, Boundaries, Boundary, Central, Continent, Core, Cover, Crust, Deformation, Domains, Enigmatic, Evolution, Feature, Has, History, Laurentia, Mapping, Metamorphism, Microcontinents, North, Processes, Proterozoic, Rae, Rock, Significance, Students, Widely.

Collaborative Research: Incorporation of Metasedimentary Rocks into the Deep Levels of Continental Arcs: Insights from the North Cascades
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Tectonics

1. Robert B Miller($79,956), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
2. Stacia Gordon($205,500), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Continental Crust, Deep Levels, Detrital Zircons, Metasedimentary Rocks, North Cascades, Sedimentary Rocks, Sierra Nevada, Affect, Ancient, Arc, Arcs, Backarc, Burial, Buried, Chemical, Consequences, Context, Control, Earth, Efforts, Eruption, Evolution, Field, Fingerprint, Forearc, Geologic, Has, Implications, Incorporation, Magmatic, Magmatism, Origin, Overall, Plate, Potential, Presence, Principal, Processes, Sediments, Source, Students, Subducted, Supporting, Timescales, Transferred, Via, Volcanic.

Collaborative Research: Deciphering Subduction Dynamics: Case Study of the Catalina Schist
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Tectonics

1. Matthew J Kohn($41,727), Boise State University, Boise
2. Sarah Penniston-Dorland($210,545), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Catalina Schist, Subduction Zone, Subduction Zones, Tectonic Models, Analysis, Archived, California, Chemical, Collected, Constrain, Contributing, Critically, Degree, Earth, Evolution, Exchange, Exhumed, Flow, Histories, Mantle, Melange, Plate, Pressure-temperature-time, Principle, Processes, Rock, Rutile, Temperature, Titanite, Trace, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Quantifying Laurentia's Motion, Advancing Paleogeography and Constraining Rifting with New Paired Dates and Paleomagnetic Data from the Midcontinent Rift
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2014; Program: Tectonics

1. Nicholas L Swanson-Hysell($170,311), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. Samuel A Bowring($132,514), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Laurentia's Plate Motion, Laurentia's Plate, Lava Flows, Midcontinent Rift, Rift Development, Ago, Billion, Continent, Current, Dates, Developed, Existing, Fast, Field, Fourth, Geochronology, History, Laurentias, Nearly, North, Oakland, Obtain, Paleogeographic, Paleomagnetic, Pole, Positions, Precise, Precision, Principal, Progression, Rates, Region, Robustly, Rock, Tectonic.

Active Tectonics of the Africa-Eurasia Zone of Plate Interaction in the Western Mediterranean
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Tectonics

1. Robert E Reilinger($95,524), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Competing Tectonic Models, Geodetic Constraints, Mmyear Horizontal, Mmyear Vertical, Nubian Plate, Plate Boundary, Plate Interaction, Survey Sites, Velocity Uncertainties, Vertical Motions, Western Mediterranean, Active, Atlas, Collision, Continent, Crust, Deformation, Development, Dynamic, GPS, International, Mechanics, Moroccan, Morocco, Mountains, Processes, Rates, Respect, Rif, Rollback, Shortening, Spain, Strike-slip, Universite, Velocities, Zone.

Collaborative Research: The Age of Grand Canyon: Applying New Tests to Resolve the 150-year-old Debate
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: Tectonics

1. Karl E Karlstrom($154,081), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
2. David L Shuster($134,116), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
Key terms: Grand Canyon Debate, Grand Canyon Region, Colorado Plateau, Colorado River, Tectonic Uplift, Age, Dating, Has, Increased, Million, Model, Models, Progress, Public, Resolution, Segment, Suggest.

Enhancing Diversity in the Geosciences by Testing the Rigidity of the Eurasia Plate Using GPS
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2014; Program: Tectonics

1. Richard A Bennett($171,728), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Continuously Operating Gps, Observable Intraplate Deformation, Operating Gps Stations, West And Central, Western Eurasia Plate, Central Europe, Continuous Gps, Crustal Motions, Exploits Existing, Geoscience Majors, Intraplate Seismicity, Strain Accumulation, Accompanied, Conferences, Continent, Disabilities, Dissemination, Experiences, Interiors, Internal, Interplate, Meaningful, National, Observed, Region, Rigidity, Symposium, Testing, Undergraduate, Zones.

The Wegener Fault, Nares Strait: Myth or Reality?
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Tectonics

1. Jane A Gilotti($34,637), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Arctic Ocean, Continental Transform, Wegener Fault, Boundaries, Canada, Geologic, Paleocene, Tectonic.

Structural Geology and Tectonics Forum at the Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, June 16-18, 2014
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Tectonics

1. Yvette D Kuiper($30,000), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: Geology And Tectonics, Field Trips, Graduate Students, Short Course, Structural Geology, Bring, Building, Colorado, Courses, Current, Discussions, Education, Faculty, Forum, Future, Geoscience, Interaction, Meeting, Opportunity, Presentations, Session, Sessions, Shear, Teaching, Topics, Useful.

RUI/Collaborative Research: Evaluating the Influence of Crustal Deformation on Episodic Magmatism: Southern Coast Mountains Batholith, British Columbia
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Tectonics

1. Robinson Cecil($95,620), The University Corporation, Northridge, Northridge
2. Harold H Stowell($153,995), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
3. Margaret E Rusmore($185,492), Occidental College, Los Angeles
4. George E Gehrels($148,419), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Arcs, Batholith, Continent, Flare-ups, Generated, Growth, Lithosphere, Lulls, Magmas, Magmatic, Magmatism, Oceanic, Plate, Processes, Students, Subduction.

Collaborative Research: Deformation-induced Hydration of Peridotite Mylonites in Nature and Experiments
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Tectonics

1. Jessica M Warren($243,709), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Oceanic Fault Zones, Fluid Circulation, Fluid Inclusions, Hydrous Minerals, Mantle Rocks, Peridotite Mylonites, Analysis, Brittle, Caledonian, Chemical, Deformation, Drive, Failure, Flow, Fractures, Phases, STEM, Seismic, Shallow, Students, Tectonic, Transition, Water, Weakening.

Origin and Vertical Extent of Damage Zones Around Continental Strike-slip Faults
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Tectonics

1. Christopher C Gerbi($282,951), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Electron Backscatter Diffraction, Active, Affect, Analysis, Applications, Available, Computational, Conceptual, Damage, Damaged, Earthquake, Elastic, Fault, Faults, Framework, Grain-scale, Importance, Microstructures, Model, Open-source, Propagation, Properties, Rock, STEM, Seismic, Seismogenic, Software, Speed, Structure, Wave, Zones.

Climatic and Tectonic Insights from Low-Temperature Thermochronometry Across the Himalayan Rain Shadow, Everest Region, Nepal and Tibet
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Tectonics

1. Kip V Hodges($245,808), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: South Tibetan Detachment, Southern Himalayan Flank, Local Climate, Mountain Ranges, Rain Shadow, Rongbuk Valley, Tibetan Plateau, Aimed, Crest, Detachments, Erosion, Erosional, Everest, Exhumation, Extreme, Feature, Female, History, Influence, Landscapes, Models, Monsoon, North, Precipitation, Rate, Region, Regional, River, Rivers, Rock, Space, Structural, Tectonic, Time, Track, Transhimalayan, Uranium-thoriumhelium, Valleys.

Student Support for participation in a Penrose Conference - Linkages and feedbacks in orogenic processes: a conference honoring the career of Robert D. Hatcher, Jr
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2014; Program: Tectonics

1. Harold H Stowell($20,000), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
Key terms: Fault Kinematics, Thermal Structure, Conference, Enhance, Feedbacks, Orogenic, Processes, Students.

Collaborative Research: Improved Cenozoic Paleoelevation Estimates for the Sierra Nevada, California: Linking Geodynamics and the Atmospheric Sciences
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2014; Program: Tectonics

1. Matthew Huber($125,911), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Atmospheric Dynamics, Paleoclimate Scenarios, Precipitation Isotopic, Sierra Nevada, Studies Argue, Surface Elevation, Surface Uplift, Advance, Ago, Approach, Cenozoic, Climate, Eocene, Evolution, Geological, History, Interpreting, Isotope, Late, Limited, Million, Modeling, Modern, North, Paleoaltimetry, Persistent, Proxy, Range, Settings, Techniques, Tectonic, Topography.

ANISOTROPY CHANGES DURING DEFORMATION AND PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Hans-Rudolf Wenk($288,177), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Macroscopic Seismic, Microscopic Mechanisms, Preferred Orientation, Advanced, Anisotropy, Anvil, Applying, Available, Crystals, DAC, Deep, Deformation, Engineering, Experimental, Experiments, Focus, Has, Mantle, Methods, Models, Perovskite, Phase, Plasticity, Situ, Source, Temperature, X-ray.

REU Site: Summer of Applied Geophysical Experience (SAGE)
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: nan

1. Lawrence W Braile($50,004), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Santo Domingo Pueblo, Pueblo Students, Reu Site, Temperature Logging, Basin-scale, Experience, Field, Followed, Geophysical, Geothermal, Modeling, Oral, Profile, Program, RGR, Supported.

NSF-GEO-EAR Awards for 2014

CAREER: Intraplate tectonics and deep crustal faulting in Rural Alaska Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: AISL

The Valence Multipole Model: Linking Structure and Reactivity Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: CDS&E

Fabric Evolution and the Development of Ductile Shear Zones Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: CI REUSE

Geomagnetic Signals from the Earth's Core: Searching for Evidence of Waves and Stable Stratification Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: CI REUSE

WSC-Category 1: Decision Processes, Climate Change, and Water Resources in the Agricultural Midwest Award Effective Date: 11/01/2014; Program: CR-Water Sustainability & Clim

Collaborative Research: Planning And Land Management in Tropical Ecosystem; Complexities of land-use and hydrology coupling in the Panama Canal Watershed Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: CR-Water Sustainability & Clim

WSC-Category 3 Collaborative: Designing Robust and Adaptive Water Management Strategies in Regions Transitioning from Abundance to Scarcity Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: CR-Water Sustainability & Clim

Water Sustainability in Snow-Fed Arid Land River System Award Effective Date: 07/15/2014; Program: CR-Water Sustainability & Clim

Analytical methods for estimating the joint climatological-social drivers of water quality and supply in contrasting tropical zones: Ecuador and China Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: CR-Water Sustainability & Clim

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

Supporting U.S. Scientist Involvement in an NSF China workshop: Frontiers in International Critical Zone Science Award Effective Date: 06/15/2014; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

Development of a Critical Zone Observatory National Office Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

Collaborative Research: The Effects of Hydrodynamic and Granular Controls on Bed Load Flux Intermittency: Application to Steep Mountain Streams Award Effective Date: 01/01/2014; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

Luquillo CZO: The role of hot spots and hot moments in tropical landscape evolution and functioning of the critical zone Award Effective Date: 12/01/2013; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

30th Conference on Mathematical Geophysics: Support for young US scientists Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Collaborative Research: Facility Support: Center for Transformative Environmental Monitoring Programs (CTEMPs) Award Effective Date: 12/15/2014; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

Mechanics of Earthquake Faulting along the Himalayan Convergent Plate Boundary Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

Large Scale Molten Fuel Coolant Interaction Experiments: Explosion Initiation and Propagation Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

CAREER: Damage and Fracture Characteristics of Rocks Under a Broad Spectrum of Strain Rates Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

Anisotropic Properties of the Mid-lithospheric Discontinuity Beneath Central and Eastern North America Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

Community Workshop: The future of PBO in the GAGE Facility (2013-2018) and after EarthScope Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

RAPID: GPS Observations of Co- and Post-seismic Deformation in the Argentine Puna from the 1 Apr 2014, Mw 8.2, Pisagua, Chile, Earthquake Sequence Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

RAPID: Investigation of Co-seismic Surface Cracks Produced during the April 1, 2014, Magnitude 8.2 Pisagua, Chile, Earthquake Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

RAPID: GPS and InSAR Observations in Bolivia and Chile of the Co-seismic and Post-seismic Deformation Associated with the 1 Apr, 2014 Mw 8.2 Pisagua, Chile, Earthquake Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

Proposal for Consultations to Identify The Role of Geochronology in Transformative Earth Sciences Research Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

Community Computational Platforms for Developing Three-Dimensional Models of Earth Structure, Phase II Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: Data Cyberinfrastructure

Comprehensive Analyses of Cascadia Tremor and Slow Slip Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

Collaborative Research: Low-cost imaging and analysis of the August 24, 2014 M6.0 South Napa California earthquake surface rupture (RAPID) Award Effective Date: 12/01/2014; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Imaging Stress Transients and Fault Zone Processes with Continuous Cross-Well Active Source Seismic Measurements at SAFOD Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: EarthScope Geochronology Graduate Student Training Program Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Formulating and Testing 4-D Dynamic Models for the North American Continent and Mantle Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: The Effects of Water and Lithology on the Strength of the North American Lithosphere Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Analysis of Seismic Data from the USArray Project to Determine Crust and Uppermost Mantle Structure Beneath the United States Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Structure of the North American Continent Using EarthScope USArray Data and Applied Wave Gradiometry Methods Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

3D Deformation Fields Over Southern California From InSAR and GPS Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; 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: 06/15/2014; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Simultaneous Imaging of the Megathrust and Volcanic Systems in the Aleutian Islands Using Hybrid Mini Seismic Arrays Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Time-dependent Creep Model of the Central Creeping Section of the San Andreas Fault From 21 Years of InSAR, GPS and Repeating Earthquakes Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Strain Rate and Moment Accumulation Rate along the San Andreas Fault System from InSAR and GPS Award Effective Date: 01/06/2014; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Elasticity and Spin Transitions of Iron in the Earth's Lower Mantle Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

THE EARTH SCIENCES SYMPOSIA AND WORKSHOPS AT THE SACNAS NATIONAL CONFERENCE Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Broadening Participation in the National Geoscience Workforce: The National Association of Black Geoscientists Technical Conference 2014 Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

The Keck Geology Consortium: Year-long Collaborative and Comprehensive Research Experiences for Undergraduates Award Effective Date: 05/15/2014; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Geoscience Graduate Research Grants Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER: Investigating Controls on Arc Flare-ups and the Growth of Lower Continental Crust Award Effective Date: 03/15/2014; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER: Field Studies of Precambrian Impacts and Implications for the Early Crust and Environment Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER: An Integrated Geologic, Geodetic, and Paleoseismic Study of Plate Boundary Stress Evolution and Geoscience Education Utilizing the EarthScope Database Award Effective Date: 01/06/2014; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Acquisition and Implementation of a Cameca SX-100 Electron Microprobe Laboratory, University of Oklahoma Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Testing Stress Percolation as a Model for Stress Transmission in Rocks Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

SEES Fellows: Barriers to soil sustainability, food security and biodiversity conservation in the Albertine Rift Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Structural Monitoring of Rock Arches Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

REU Site: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Stream Restoration Projects Based on Natural Channel Design Concepts Using Process-Based Investigations Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: Hybrid Modeling of Reactive Transport in Porous and Fractured Media Award Effective Date: 08/13/2014; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

MRI: Acquisition of Instrumentation for the Analysis of Carbon and Nitrogen in Soil and Sediment for an Undergraduate Research Program Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

REU Site: Collaborative Research: Field-Based Research on the Gulf of California Rift Margin Basins, Baja California Sur (Mexico) Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: Undocumented Shorelines of Lake Bonneville: New Paleoclimatic and Hydrodynamic Interpretations Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

A Plio-Pleistocene record of environment and climate from the Salar de Atacama basin based on recently recovered sediment cores Award Effective Date: 06/15/2014; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: The legacy of transience: Understanding dynamic landscape adjustment following mountain uplift in two CZO field areas Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

The transport and accumulation of pyrogenic black carbon in recently burned watersheds and implications for water quality Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Mobility of Pyroclastic Density Currents: Integrating Field and Experimental Techniques to Understand the Controls and Consequences of Erosion Award Effective Date: 03/15/2014; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Metastable transformations of pyroxenes in subducting slabs Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

High Temperature Deformation of Lower Mantle Minerals Phases in the Diamond Anvil Cell Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: Exploring Extensional Tectonics Beyond the Ethiopian Rift Award Effective Date: 07/01/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Proposal: ATREX - integrated open source data analysis software for mineral and environmental sciences Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: EarthCube

SusChEM: Geochemical Characterization and Evaluation of the Environmental Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing Fluids Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: EnvS-Environmtl Sustainability

CAREER: The Delta Connectome: Structure and Transport Dynamic of Delta Networks across Scales and Disciplines Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: EnvS-Environmtl Sustainability

FESD Type I: Earthquake Fault System Dynamics Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Front in Earth Sys Dynamics

Collaborative Research: Geoinformatics: Development of Structural Geology and Tectonics Data System with Field and Lab Interface Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

Collaborative Research: GeoChronR - Open-source Tools for the Analysis, Visualization and Integration of Time-Uncertain Geoscientific Data Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

Management and Operation of a Continental Scientific Drilling Coordination Office Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

Open Source Tools for Processing of Raw LiDAR Observations Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

Collaborative Research: EAGER: A Seismic Reflection Survey to Assess the Deep Drilling Potential of Laguna de Tota, Colombia Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

Collaborative Research: A 650,000 year record of hydroclimate in the Western Pacific Warm Pool: Scientific Drilling at Lake Towuti, Indonesia Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

Collaborative Research: USG Support for the Past Global Changes Project International Program Office Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

Collaborative Research: Indian Summer Monsoon Variability Reconstructed from Tibetan Lake Sediments Award Effective Date: 07/15/2014; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

Collaborative Research: Deep Drilling of Lake Junin, Peru: Continuous Tropical Records of Glaciation, Climate Change and Magnetic Field Variations Spanning the Late Quaternary Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

Collaborative Research: Understanding the Full Range of Amazon Drought and Impacts Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

Collaborative Research: The role of oxygen fugacity in calc-alkaline differentiation and the creation of continental crust at the Aleutian arc Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: GeoPRISMS

MARGINS: Collaborative Research: Illuminating the Architecture of the Greater Mount St. Helens Magmatic System from Slab to Surface Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: GeoPRISMS