WORKSHOP SUPPORT - Optimizing the next generation of AMS for measuring 10-Be and 26-Al
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Paul R Bierman($9,720), University of Vermont & State Agricultural College, Burlington
Key terms: AMS, Cosmogenic, Cost, Dating, Lower, Voltage, Workshop.

A new generation of earthquake source models- Past, present and future
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: CI REUSE

1. Jean-Paul Ampuero($449,995), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Earthquake Source Modeling, Misfit Covariance, Prediction Error, Ability, Algorithms, Approach, Assumed, Computational, Covariances, Dense, Developed, Directly, Estimating, Fault, Geodetic, Geophysical, Models, Networks, Observations, Predictions, Seismic, Slip, Uncertainties.

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

1. David Varricchio($405,236), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Crustal Magma, Ignimbrite Eruption, Magma Chamber, Magma Chambers, Has, Insar, Opportunity, Rates, Size, Uplift.

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

1. James R Ehleringer($459,140), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Ecohydrologic And Decision-making, Local Water Resources, Technical Advisory Board, Decision-making Tools, Local Groundwater, Los Angeles, Southern California, Water Balance, Water Districts, Water Management, Water Sources, Activities, Boundaries, Climate, Complex, Components, Connectivities, Conservation, Constraints, Current, Datasets, Existing, Extensive, Fiscal, Infiltration, Information, Issues, Ngos, Organization, Outreach, Political, Public, Rainwater, School, Set, Structure, Students.

CAREER: The role of organic particulates in controlling the growth of river deltas: a field, experimental, and numerical modeling study
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Laurel Larsen($715,559), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Fine Sediment-vegetation Interactions, Coastal Land, Coastal Sedimentation, Direct Capture, Fine Sediment-vegetation, Land Building, Land Subsidence, Large-scale Delta, Particle Capture, Sediment-vegetation Interactions, Sedimentation Rates, BRAT, Biofilm, Budgets, Course, Description, Developed, Development, Diversions, Dynamics, Effects, Field, Flume, Flumes, Growth, Importance, Laboratory, Large-scale, Loss, Louisiana, Marshes, Model, Modeling, Overall, Planning, Portion, Processes, Properties, Significance, Substantially, Topics.

Christina River Basin CZO: a whole watershed approach to integrating feedbacks between water, mineral and carbon fluxes in human landscapes
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2014; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Jinjun Kan($700,000), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Christina River Basin, Carbon Sequestration, Critical Zone, National Czo, CRB, CRB-CZO, Carbon-mineral, Chemical, Finalize, Local, Management, Mineral, Mixing, NSF, Ongoing, Plan, Symposium, Watershed, Watersheds.

International Symposium on Observations and Modeling of Land Surface Water and Energy Exchanges across Scales: Learning from the past and looking to the future
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Justin Sheffield($42,240), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Water And Energy, Land Surface, Land-atmosphere Interactions, Planned Symposium, Climate, Drought, Exchanges, Field, Flood, Hydrologic, Management, Observations, Past, Precipitation, Predictability, Predictions, Progress, Synthesis.

Hydrologic controls on temperature extremes in managed landscapes
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Noel M Holbrook($349,169), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Growing Season Temperatures, Hottest Growing Season, Temperature And Evaporation, Agricultural Intensity, Crop Development, Extreme Temperatures, Increased Potential, Soil Moisture, Temperature Extremes, Agriculture, Atmospheric, Availability, Conditions, Cooling, Cropland, Crops, Datasets, Evapotranspiration, Examines, Flux, Global, Has, Historical, Hydrologic, Intensification, Midwest, Models, Preliminary, Productivity, Satellite, Significantly, Summer, Transitions, Vegetation, Water.

RAPID: Geochemical and Geophysical Observations of the 2015 Eruption of Volcan Momotombo, Nicaragua
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Christelle Wauthier($40,432), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Beneath Momotombo, Lava Flows, Collect, December, Eruption, Existing, GPS, Install, Instruments, Investigate, Nicaragua, Nsf-funded, Seismic, Small-volume, Tephra, Volcano.

RAPID: GPS Observations of Co- and Post-seismic Deformation in the Argentine Andes, Precordillera, and Sierras Pampeanas from the 16 Sep 2015, Mw 8.3, Illapel, Chile, Earthquake
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Robert Smalley($32,924), University of Memphis, Memphis
Key terms: America-nazca Plate Boundary, South America-nazca Plate, America-nazca Plate, Far-field Signals, Megathrust Earthquake, Post-seismic Deformations, South America-nazca, Capture, Chile, Co-seismic, Earthquakes, East, Far-field, GPS, Hazard, Mantle, Mid-field, Poorly, Post-seismic, Produce, Rapid, Upper.

Broadband Seismological Observations of Aftershocks of the September 16, 2015 Mw 8.3 Illapel Earthquake, Chile
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Steven W Roecker($99,990), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Chile Earthquake, Seismicity Rate, Aftershock, Capture, Characteristics, Enable, Illapel, Interface, Megathrust, Rupture, Slip, Zone.

RAPID: Illapel Earthquake and Tsunami - Environmental Impacts on the North Central Chile Coast
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Tina Dura($17,799), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Earthquakes And Tsunamis, Geomorphic Impacts, Illapel Earthquake, North-central Chile, Co-seismic, Female, Hazards, Land-level, North-central, STEM.

Meeting of Experts: Discussion of National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences Workshop Report on "Future Seismic and Geodetic Facility Needs in the Geosciences"
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Mark David Lange($42,296), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Geosciences And Earthscope, Seismic And Geodetic, Ad Hoc, Cooperative Agreement, Expert Opinions, Geophysical Instrumentation, Multi-user Facilities, Academies, Agreements, Broad, Deep-earth, Discuss, Division, Education, Experts, Facility, Future, GAGE, Individual, Management, Meeting, Multi-user, NSF, Networks, Opportunities, Outreach, Preparing, Processes, Recompete, Report, SAGE, Supported, Tectonic, Training, Workforce, Workshop.

Improving Understanding of Volcanic Eruptions
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Anne Linn($150,000), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Volcanic Eruptions, Air, Collaboration, Committee, Disciplines, Experts, Field, Forecast, Forecasts, Future, Inform, Information, Instrument, Levels, Local, Monitoring, NRC, Observations, Precursors, Processes, Report, Sensing, Volcanoes, Volcanology, Warning, Warnings.

RAPID Collaborative Research: Landslides caused by the April 2015 Nepal earthquakes, from immediate hazard to tectonic driver
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Marin K Clark($52,655), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. A Joshua West($52,737), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Sediment Transport, Description, Earthquake, Efforts, Landslide, Landslides, Monitor, RAPID, Regions, Resolution, Satellite, Threat.

Collaborative Research: Rapid Response to the Mw 7.9 Earthquake of April 25, 2015 in Nepal
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. John L Nabelek($138,940), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Abhijit Ghosh($15,894), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Main Himalayan Thrust, Himalayan Region, Seismic Stations, April, Deployment, Earthquake, Increase, Nepal, Network, Rapid, Seismological.

Collaborative Research: The Nepal Earthquake and Limits on Moment, Fault Geometry and Time Dependent Stress Changes
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Rebecca O Bendick($31,915), University of Montana, Missoula
2. Roger G Bilham($27,720), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Near Kathmandu, Pis Plan, April, Calibrate, Capital, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Future, GPS, Himalayan, Historical, Install, Instrument, Instruments, Intensity, Nepal, Occurred, Occurring, Permit, Region, Released, Similar, Slip, South, Spacing, Stress, Students, Tribhuvan.

RAPID: Collaborative Research: Nepal Array Measuring Aftershock Seismicity Trailing Earthquake
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Marianne S Karplus($131,790), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
2. Simon Klemperer($29,336), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Main Himalayan Thrust, Himalayan Earthquakes, Scientists Believe, Aftershock, Aftershocks, April, Areal, Array, Asperities, Biggest, Collision, Fault, Faults, Future, Geometry, India, Knowing, Lead, Magnitude, Miles, Million, Nepal, Nepali, Rupture, Seismologists, Zone.

Collaborative Research: Facility Support: National Lacustrine Core Facility (LacCore)
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Amy E Myrbo($1,434,045), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
2. Erik T Brown($213,102), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Education And Outreach, Fond Du Lac, Laccore Staff Actively, Archival Services, Core Description, Laccore Facility, Lake Core, Outreach Activities, Analysis, Collaborative, Coring, Engage, Equipment, Field, ICD, Imaging, Laboratory, Minnesota, Preparation, Software, Students, Via.

Anisotropic Layering in the North American Upper Mantle Using a Combination of Seismological Approaches
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Barbara A Romanowicz($354,291), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Consistently Detected, Anisotropic, Boundary, Continent, Craton, Cratonic, Deep, Developed, Fine, Formation, Framework, Has, Layering, Light, MLD, Mantle, Methodologies, Nature, North, Presence, Roots, Seismic, Serve, Structural, Structure, Tomography, Trans-dimensional.

EarthScope National Office
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Jeffrey T Freymueller($2,599,895), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Earthscope National Office, Education And Outreach, National Office, Activities, Alaska, Continent, Continue, Coordinate, Core, Fairbanks, Focus, Leadership, North, Outcomes, Processes, Program, Public, Serve, Supporting, Synthesis, Website, Workshops.

Collaborative Research: Shear-wave Splitting and Mantle Dynamics of the North American Plate
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Kelly H Liu($191,512), Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla
2. Thorsten W Becker($150,485), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Forward Models, Shear-wave Splitting, Splitting Parameters, Anisotropy, Computing, Database, Description, Dynamic, Earth, Flow, Geophysical, Image, Mantle, North, Observed, Origin, Plate, Processes, Product, Reference, Reliably, Seismic, Shwave, Structure, Surface, Synthetic, Techniques, Tectonic.

Non-volcanic Tremor in the Northern San Andreas Fault System
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Takaaki Taira($432,066), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Geographic And Temporal, San Andreas Fault, Subduction Zone Tremor, Continuous Seismic, Deep Fault, Larger Earthquakes, Northern California, Seismic Network, Accurately, Ambient, Analyses, Association, Associations, Characterize, Dataset, Early-career, Establishing, Expand, Faults, Has, Leading, Limited, Methods, NCSN, Observations, Parkfield, Participation, Process, Properties, Recently, Search, Sensitivity, Stacking, Time, Transform.

Creating a New Seismic Instrument from EarthScope Strainmeter Installations
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Charles A Langston($157,925), University of Memphis, Memphis
Key terms: Memphis And Unavco, Plate Boundary Observatory, Anza Network, Borehole Strainmeters, Co-located Seismic, Pinyon Flat, Seismic Array, Seismic Instrument, Seismic Instruments, Seismic Wave, Southern California, Wave Gradiometry, Wave Propagation, Additional, Allow, Arrays, Broadband, Calibrate, Calibrated, Co-located, Developed, Developing, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Earthscope, Estimate, Existing, Facilities, Facility, GTSM, Gtsms, Has, Installed, Method, Methods, PBO, Previously, Reference, Regional, Seismometers, Sensors, Signals, Single, Strains, Warning.

MAGIC MT - Uplift of the Appalachians
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Robert L Evans($266,015), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Electric And Magnetic, Magnetic Fields, Method Measures, Plate Tectonic, Appalachians, Break-up, Cape, Continent, Eastern, Experiment, Formation, Image, Involved, MT, Mantle, North, Presence, Processes, Profile, Structure, Summary, Surface.

Collaborative Research: Fate and Consequences of Yakutat Terrane Subduction Beneath Eastern Alaska and the Wrangell Volcanic Field
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Douglas H Christensen($398,299), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
2. Geoffrey A Abers($290,810), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Broadband Seismic Stations, Wrangell Volcanic Field, Beneath Alaska, Subduction Zones, Wrangell Mountains, Alaska-aleutian, Continuously, Critical, Crust, Earthquakes, Education, Flow, Network, Plate, Region, Slab, Students, Tear, Tectonic, Temporary, Volcanism, Yakutat.

Collaborative Research: Capitalizing on EarthScope Transportable Array Data to Better Characterize Induced Seismic Sequences
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Kristine L Pankow($255,709), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
2. Deborah L Kilb($244,024), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Central And Eastern, Frequency Domain Detection, Complete Catalogs, Induced Seismicity, Injection Sites, Subspace Detectors, Transportable Array, Basins, Build, Characteristics, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Has, Magnitude, Near, Networks, Newly, Sequence, Sequences, Techniques, Template, Waveform.

Collaborative Research: The Mackenzie Mountains--Deformation and Structure of Active Intraplate Orogenesis from Plate Boundary to Craton
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Jeffrey T Freymueller($474,429), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
2. Derek L Schutt($643,938), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Yukon And Northwest, Active Faulting, Actively Deforming, Gps Instruments, Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, Plate Boundary, Relatively Aseismic, Broader, Canadian, Colorado, Craton, Deep, Deformation, Detachment, Eventual, Fieldwork, Furthermore, Geological, Graduate, Has, Heart, IRIS, Inboard, Interior, Lithosphere, Lithosphere-scale, Mobile, Mountain-building, Ongoing, Opportunities, Partnership, Past, Prevailing, Range, Region, Regions, Rocky, Seismic, Seismicity, Seismometers, Strain, Stress, Structure, Student, Students, Surface, Terrane, Undergraduate, Uplift, Yakutat, Zone.

Surface-Wave Data Products from USArray
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Goran Ekstrom($100,213), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Love And Rayleigh, Rayleigh Wave Speed, Seismic Noise, Analysis, Continent, Crust, Mantle, Maps, Properties, Sec, Waves.

Diversifying the Geosciences: Travel awards for students to attend SACNAS and GSA 2015 Annual Meetings
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Tahlia Bear($51,854), The Geological Society of America, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: Anticipated, Article, Attending, Field, GSA, Geoscience, Institute, Meeting, Meetings, SACNAS, Sessions, Society, Speakers, Students.

Uncovering Hotspot Volcanism: Mantle Melting, Magmatic Plumbing, Explosive Eruptions and Crustal Contamination at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Michael O Garcia($363,497), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Petrologic And Geochemical, Active Volcanoes, Basaltic Volcanoes, Crustal Contamination, Explosive Eruptions, Kilauea Lavas, Magmatic Evolution, Ongoing Eruptions, Central, Current, Distinct, Has, Kilaueas, Mantle, Melting, NSF, Processes, Reservoir, Shown, Source, Summit.

CAREER: Middle and Late Cenozoic Surface Uplift and Climate along the Strike of the Rocky Mountains: Refining the Development of an Intracontinental Mountain Belt
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Majie Fan($485,627), University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington
Key terms: Timing And Magnitude, Clumped Isotope, East Texas, Intracontinental Mountain, Late Cenozoic, Rockies Varied, Rocky Mountains, Adjacent, Carbonate, Climate, Complex, Constrain, Formed, Geodynamic, High-school, Involve, Mantle, Middle, Oceanic, Plains, Processes, Specifically, Strike, Students, Teaching, Tectonic, Underrepresented, Uplift, Western.

REU site: Research Experience for Community College Students (RECCS) in Critical Zone Science
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Lesley K Smith($335,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Colorado, Development, Diverse, Program, RECCS, Respect, Student, Students.

CAREER: The Effect of Bubbles on Magma Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Christian Huber($259,152), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Fluid Dynamics, Gas Bubbles, Magmas Evolve, Numerical Methods, Phase Separation, Volcanic Eruptions, Accumulation, Affects, Atmosphere, Behavior, Chemical, Chemistry, Climate, Complemented, Crust, Crystals, Development, Effect, Experiments, Exsolution, Exsolved, Gases, Geochemistry, Has, Models, Multiphase, Phases, Plan, Predict, Quantitative, Reservoirs, Shallow, Sulfur.

CAREER: Seismic Anisotropy, Symmetry and Structure - Translating Laboratory Measurements into Seismic Interpretations
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Sarah J Brownlee($527,248), Wayne State University, Detroit
Key terms: Crustal Seismic Anisotropy, Magnitude And Symmetry, Middle And Lower, Undergraduate Students Participating, Crustal Anisotropy, Elastic Properties, Gneiss Domes, Interpret Seismic, Lower Crustal, Tiered Peer-mentoring, Ability, Approach, Discipline, Diversity, Field, Implement, Increase, Innovative, Km-scale, Laboratory, Peer-mentoring, Rock, STEM, Structure, Structures, Urban.

REU Site: Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences - Undergraduate Research Experience in the Gulf of Maine and the World Ocean
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. David M Fields($651,602), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
Key terms: Reu Program, Attend, Maine, Participation, Public, Recruitment, Students, Underrepresented, Weekly.

The Geochemical Processes Controlling Vacancy and Mn(III) Concentrations in Birnessite Structure
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Kenneth J Livi($273,721), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Vacancy And Mn, Toxic Metals, Affected, Birnessite, Chemical, Concentrations, Control, Critical, Geochemical, Industrial, Knowledge, Mniii, Oxide, Processes, Properties, Reactions, School, Step, Structure, Students.

Collaborative Research: What hydrogeochemical processes control weathering in the deep critical zone of unburied karst landscapes?
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. John W Jenson($59,875), University of Guam, Mangilao
2. Jason D Gulley($194,940), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
3. Jay L Banner($185,422), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Carbonate Platform, Carbonate Platforms, Cave Formation, Co2 Gas, Organic Carbon, Phreatic Zone, Sea Level, Vadose Gases, Vadose Zone, Vadose Zones, Water Table, Allow, Aquifer, Caves, DOC, Depths, Dissolution, Flow, Formed, Guam, Has, Hydrocarbon, Island, Limestone, Mixing, Movement, Oxidation, Percent, Processes, Produced, Respiration, Routes, Soil, Sr, Students, Tested, Thickness, Via, Was, Worlds.

FEW: A sustainable rural framework workshop for the upper Great Plains.
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. James J Stone($50,000), South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City
Key terms: Explore Sustainable Rural, Land-use And Climate, Mines And Technology, Rural Supply Chain, South Dakota School, Sustainable Rural Supply, Leading Experts, North Dakota, Semi-arid Upper, Sitting Bull, Strategy-based Discussion, White Paper, Agricultural, Agriculture, Collaboration, Commodity, Competing, Conference, Critical, Energy, Food, Host, Nebraska-kearney, Nexus, Plains, Regional, Semi-arid, Strategy-based, Summarize, Synopses, UGP, Water, Workshop.

Petrogenesis of Hawaiian Tholeiites: Constraints from Non-Traditional Stable Isotopes
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Shichun Huang($249,780), University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas
Key terms: Ca Isotopic Compositions, Compositional-isotopic Spectrum, Global Oibs, Hawaiian Lavas, Mauna Kea, Non-traditional Stable, Previous Nsf, Analytical, Compositional-isotopic, Define, Fe, Geochemistry, Kahoolawe, Koolau, Laboratory, Mg, Model, Non-traditional, Origin, Peridotite, Petrogenesis, Serve, Sio, Students, Suggested.

FEW Workshop - Planned Migration as a Strategy to Sustain Agricultural Production
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. James F Cruise($56,335), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
Key terms: Agricultural, Agriculture, Century, Consumption, Discuss, East, Energy, Food, Geography, Grain, Has, Irrigation, Issues, Midwest, Migration, Primary, Southeast, Sustainable, Water, West, Workshop.

CAREER: The Quest for Precision in Stratigraphy: Extending Neogene-Scale Resolution into the Paleozoic
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Bradley D Cramer($705,000), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Timing And Duration, Neogene-scale Resolution, Paleozoic Era, Precise Timing, Ability, Biogeochemical, Biological, Carbon, Chemical, Control, Critical, Detail, Environmental, Feedbacks, Global, High-resolution, History, Ma, Rock, Silurian, Strata, Stratigraphy, Studying, Time, Wenlock, Worse.

Flyover Country, a mobile app for geoscience education
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: EarthCube

1. Shane Loeffler($146,910), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Geoscience Information, Mobile App, Adapted, Airplane, Education, FC, Geospatial, Map, POI, Plane, Potential, Public, Supporting, User, Window.

XML Database for Magnetotelluric Transfer Functions
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2015; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Anna Kelbert($72,916), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Access, Available, Crust, Earth, Exploration, Magnetotelluric, Observational, Planning, Previous.

P2C2: Long-term Environmental Changes and Anthropogenic Impacts on Tropical African Landscapes
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Lawrence Kiage($145,683), Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc., Atlanta
Key terms: Climate And Vegetational, East Africa's Environment, Humans And Climate, Lacustrine And Palustrine, Local Capacity Building, Reconstruct East Africa's, Resolution And Sufficient, Supporting Graduate Students, Tropical African Environments, Africa's Environment, African Region, Anthropogenic Impacts, Broader Impacts, Causal Mechanisms, East Africa's, East African, Fossil Pollen, Fungal Spores, Human Impacts, Human-induced Impacts, International Collaboration, Joint Publications, Late Holocene, Microscopic Charcoal, Multi-proxy Approach, Palustrine Environments, Sufficient Precision, Time Resolution, Tropical Climate, Abstract, Africas, Analysis, Collaborative, Context, Contributing, Cores, Diatoms, Does, Environmental, History, Holds, Human-induced, Interaction, Interplay, Kenya, Lake, Multi-proxy, Natural, Paleoenvironmental, Past, Promise, Relation, Reveal, Solar, Studying, Window.

Collaborative Research: Climate and Glacier change in Bhutan: the last millennia, present and future
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Summer B Rupper($85,720), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Glacier And Climate, Future Glacier, Glacier Melt, Himalayan Glacier, Host Uwice, Bhutan, Bhutanese, DHMS, Educational, Hazard, Institute, Mitigation, Rate, Robust, Societies, Students.

Collaborative Research: P2C2: Water Isotopes in Peat Mosses as Proxies for Understanding Climate and Atmospheric Circulation Changes in Southern Patagonia
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Yongsong Huang($115,847), Brown University, Providence
2. Zicheng Yu($187,729), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
Key terms: Atmospheric Circulation, Moisture Trajectories, Peat Mosses, Southern Patagonia, Approach, Calibration, Climate, Derived, Dual, Innovative, Isotope, Isotopes, Lehigh, Powerful, Sphagnum, Time, Water.

Collaborative Research: P2C2: Quantitative Reconstructions of Holocene Precipitation Changes Across Central America
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Byron A Steinman($179,030), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
2. Nathan D Stansell($241,530), Northern Illinois University, Dekalb
3. Matthew S Lachniet($9,753), University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas
Key terms: Climate Model Simulations, Pacific And Atlantic, Past Precipitation Amounts, Circum-caribbean Region, Closed-basin Lake, Lake Sediment, Mass-balance Models, Sea Surface, Availability, Basis, Central, Circum-caribbean, Closed-basin, Combined, Contribute, Corridor, Drought, Dry, El, Forcing, Future, Isotope, Longer-term, Mass-balance, Ocean-atmosphere, Oscillation, Proxy, Quantitative, Rainfall, Reconstructions, Shifts, Supported, Tropical, Water.

P2C2: P-E Land-C: Terrestrial Mediation of Carbon Cycle Response Through the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Gabriel J Bowen($293,014), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Carbon Cycle, Carbon Storage, Critical Zone, Environmental Conditions, Global Climate, Climatic, Developed, Earth, Ecosystems, Future, Geological, Induced, Inorganic, Observed, PETM, Rapid, Terrestrial.

P2C2: Collaborative Research: Quantitative Reconstruction of Past Drought Patterns in Western North America Using Lakes, Stable Isotopes, and Modeling
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2015; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Michael E Mann($145,002), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Mark B Abbott($308,522), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
3. Byron A Steinman($262,125), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Annual Resolution, British Columbia, Desert Southwest, Middle Holocene, Pacific Northwest, Stable Isotope, Analyses, Available, Closed-basin, Drought, Droughts, Has, Hydrologic, Lake, Mexico, Paleodrought, Precipitation, Previous, Produce, Published, Reconstructions, Ring, Sampling, Sediment, Sediments, Tree-ring, Weather, Winter.

Fluid-mobile and volatile element (Cl, B, and Li) cycling through the forearc: Case study of cold and thermal spring geochemistries from the Hikurangi accretionary prism, New Zeala
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. John C Lassiter($247,499), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Seismic Slip Behavior, Shallow Slow Slip, Dehydration Reactions, Fluid Sources, Subduction Zone, Amount, Arc, Depth, Earthquake, Exposed, Fluids, Fore-arc, Hikurangi, Mantle, Margin, Plate, Portion, Slab, Subducting, Trace.

Collaborative Research: From the Slab to the Surface: Origin, Storage, Ascent, and Eruption of Volatile-Bearing Magmas
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Diana C Roman($212,081), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
2. Terry A Plank($359,699), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Crustal Magma Reservoirs, Volatile Contents, Volcanic Activity, Active, Alaska, Analysis, Arc, Corridor, Day, Deep, Depths, Eruption, Gas, Integrated, Link, Magmas, Magmatic, Processes, Range, Seismic, Tectonic, Unrest, Volatiles, Volcanoes, Water, Worldwide.

RUI: Magmatic Evolution Leading Up to the Modern Aleutian Arc on the Alaska Peninsula
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Ronald B Cole($107,250), Allegheny College, Meadville
Key terms: Alaska Peninsula, Convergent Margin, Geological Survey, Southern Alaska, Active, Advances, Aleutian, Anchorage, Behavior, Composition, Continent, Contribute, Crust, Eruption, Evolution, Geochemical, Geoprisms, Growth, Influence, Investigate, Largest, Long-term, Magmatism, Mineral, Past, Region, Regional, Regions, Rock, SCD, Subduction, Tectonic, Trends, Volcanic, Volcanoes, World, Zircon.

Emplacement of regularly spaced volcanic centers in the East African Rift: Melt production or melt extraction?
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Eric L Mittelstaedt($225,924), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
Key terms: East African Rift, Continental Rifts, Laboratory Experiments, Melt Extraction, Scaling Laws, Volcanic Activity, Volcanic Centers, Coupled, EARS, Earth, Extension, Fractures, Importance, Lithosphere, Loading, Mantle, Numerical, Observations, Pre-existing, Processes, Simulate, Spaced, Spacing, Style, Surface, Surprisingly, Thickness, Volcanism, Volcano.

Collaborative Research: Focused Study of Aleutian Plutons and their Host Rocks: Understanding the building blocks of continental crust
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Peter B Kelemen($200,003), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Continental Crust Formation, Aleutian Arc, Arc Magmatism, Plutonic Rocks, Arcs, Average, Calc-alkaline, Central, Composition, Compositions, Difference, Geochronology, Isotopic, Lavas, Magmas, Mechanisms, Plutons, Tholeiitic, Viscosity, Volcanic.

EAGER: Exploring the potential for the 1.1 Ga Copper Harbor Conglomerate to yield information on terrestrial environments during the rise of the eukaryotes
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Aradhna Tripati($49,999), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Terrestrial Environments, Ancient, Clumped, Eukaryotes, Evolution, Future, Geobiological, Has, Intense, Investigation, Life, Michigan, Outreach, Period, Pilot, Potential, Preservation, Proxy, Rise, Rock, Stromatolites, Students, Succession, Time, Unaltered.

Collaborative research: Validation of the Lacustrine Branched GDGT Paleothermometer
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Jessica E Tierney($224,948), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Isla S Castaneda($223,789), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
3. Jessica E Tierney($224,948), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Dialkyl Glycerol Tetraethers, Glycerol Dialkyl Glycerol, Past Continental Temperatures, Temperature And Ph, Brgdgt Distributions, Climatic Regimes, Lake Sediments, Oxygen Exposure, Past Temperature, Analyses, Brgdgts, Challenges, Climate, Compounds, Degradation, Environmental, Environments, Evidence, Experiments, Field, Forcings, Has, Lakes, Methylation, Microbial, Paleothermometer, Potential, Reconstruction, Sensitivity, Structural, Structure, Summer, Time, Variety.

Collaborative Proposal: Development and calibration of the oxygen isotope systematics of small terrestrial gastropods
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Jeffrey S Pigati($60,597), Miami University, Oxford
2. Jeffrey C Nekola($71,177), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
3. Yurena Yanes($68,156), University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati
Key terms: Oxygen Isotope Composition, Oxygen Isotope Systematics, Oxygen Isotope Values, Oxygen Isotopic Composition, Spatial And Temporal, Broad Spatial, Land Snails, Paleoclimatic Proxy, Past Climate, Relative Humidity, Shell Ä18o, Temporal Scales, Calibrate, Calibration, Climatic, Diverse, Environments, Living, Modern, North, Precipitation, Shells, Terrestrial, Underrepresented, Äo.

Collaborative Research: Selenium redox reactions and isotope ratios: The role of microbial and abiotic Selenium oxidation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Celine Pallud($338,096), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. Thomas M Johnson($86,032), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
3. Nathan Yee($78,042), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Abiotic Se Oxidation, Chemical Reactions Involving, Microbial And Abiotic, Se Isotope Fractionation, Se Stable Isotope, Caused, Contaminant, Environmental, Environments, Experiments, Fate, Micronutrient, Natural, Process, Students.

Lipid D/H ratios as a proxy for microbial metabolism
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Alex Sessions($361,928), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Dh Ratio, Dh Ratios, Mechanistic Basis, Organic Matter, Abundance, Ancient, Archaea, Bacteria, Biochemical, Conditions, Consumers, Eukaryotes, Fractionations, Isotopes, Isotopic, Lipids, Measuring, Metabolism, Microbial, Organisms, Plants, Range, Relative, Representative, Signals, Substrates, Undertake, Useful.

Theoretical study of 238Uranium/235Uranium fractionation in nature
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Edwin A Schauble($250,003), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Field Shift Effect, Field Shift Isotope, Nuclear Field Shift, Chemical Reactions, Electronic Structure, Gas-phase Molecules, Isotope Fractionation, Isotope Fractionations, Mössbauer Spectroscopy, Uranium Isotope, Uranium Isotopes, Accurate, Ancient, Atomic, Basis, Behavior, Calculations, Crystalline, Differences, Driven, Environment, Environmental, Gas-phase, Isotopic, Mass-independent, Methods, Natural, Oxygen, Phases, Predict, Processes, Reduced, Separation, Separations, Species, Studying, Techniques, Theoretical, Time, UU, Volume.

Graduate Student Travel Support Program for the 2015 V.M. Goldschmidt Conference in Prague, Czech Republic, August 16-21, 2015
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Carla M Koretsky($20,000), The Geochemical Society, Alexandria
Key terms: Goldschmidt Conference, Field, Geochemistry, Students, Travel.

How Geochemistry Provides Habitability: A Case Study of the Microbial Iron Cycle
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Everett L Shock($235,000), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Acid Mine Drainage, Cold Springs Fed, Oxidation And Reduction, Abiotic Rates, Chemical Energy, Diverse Environments, Future Studies, Habitability Maps, Hot Springs, Iron Oxidation, Kinetic Limitations, Reduction Reactions, Allow, Allowing, Biological, Calculate, Compounds, Cycle, Energetic, Experiments, Gain, Geochemical, Habitable, Human, Increasing, Life, Live, Microbes, Microbial, Microorganisms, Ph, Presence, Quantified, Reacting, Reasons, Resulting, Snowmelt, Source, Sources, Temperature, Thermodynamic, True, Values.

Racemization dating of subsurface microorganisms
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Tullis C Onstott($293,003), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Anabolic Rate, Aspartic Acid, Geochemical Models, Measured Rates, Metabolic Pathways, Organic Matter, Subsurface Microbial, Analyses, Analysis, Biogeochemical, Carbon, Constraint, DL, Estimates, Experiments, Function, Microorganisms, Past, Processes, Quickly, Racemization, Respiration, Situ, Temperature, Transformation, Turnover.

Collaborative Research: Halocarbon Biogeochemistry in Coastal Wetland Ecosystems - Exploring the Transition from Forested Wetland to Salt Marsh
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Satish Myneni($89,671), Princeton University, Princeton
2. Alex Chow($332,654), Clemson University, Clemson
3. Robert Rhew($77,354), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Chloride And Bromide, Chlorine And Bromine, Sea Level Rise, Terrestrial Organic Matter, Forested Wetlands, Low-lying Coastal, Salt Marsh, Terrestrial Organic, Carolina, Composition, Compounds, Concentrations, Controlled, Cycles, Cycling, Decomposition, Experiments, Field, Freshwater, Halocarbon, Halogenated, Halogenation, Halogens, Humification, Interact, Levels, Low-lying, Processes, Salinity, Soil, Useful, Water.

Carbonate Formation Induced by CO2 Degassing: Controls on the Isotopic Compositions and Implications for Clumped Isotope Thermometry
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Zhaohui 'Aleck' Wang($150,000), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Carbonate Formation Induced, Solution Carbonate Chemistry, Aqueous Carbonate, Carbonate Precipitates, Clumped Isotope, Formation Temperatures, Isotope Effects, Isotope Thermometer, Isotopic Compositions, Paleoclimate Archives, State-of-the-art Technologies, Based, Carbonates, Degassing, Dissolved, HCO-, Has, Kinetic, Nature, Potential, Reconstructing, Speleothems, State-of-the-art, Water.

Support for a Workshop and Conference on Critical Zone Science, Sustainability, and Services in a Changing World
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Timothy Filley($7,500), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Organic Matter Dynamics, Chinese Academy, Critical Zone, Bring, CZO, China, Common, Conference, Ecopartnership, Methods, Network, Program, Purdue, Sustainability, Training, USCEES, Us-china.

Collaborative Research: Deconstructing Nitrate Stable Isotope Ratios in Aquifers
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Julie Granger($299,999), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Nitrate 18o16o Values, 18o16o Values, Nitrate 18o16o, Aquatic, Aquifers, Culture, Cultures, Denitrification, Dynamics, Effects, Environment, Environmental, Falmouth, Investigate, Isotope, NN, Nitrogen, OO, Observations, Observed, Situ, Slope, Trends.

Collaborative Research: Recrystallization of Stable Iron Oxides in Reducing Environments
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Christopher A Gorski($199,841), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Philip Larese-Casanova($140,675), Northeastern University, Boston
Key terms: Fe Oxide Mineral, Fe Oxide Minerals, Fe Oxide Recrystallization, Past Environmental Conditions, Stable Fe Oxide, Fe Oxides, Toxic Trace, Incorporation, Isotopic, Metals, Particle, Process, Processes, Reactions, Transformation, Transformations.

Mineral Formation by Cluster Self-Assembly: Schwertmannite as a Partially Crystallized Nanomineral
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Frederick Marc Michel($271,687), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Schwertmannite Precursor Clusters, Forms Via, Precursor Particles, Schwertmannite Formation, Aggregate, Chemical, Composition, Conditions, Crystallization, Dissolved, Geologic, Hypothesize, Interpreting, Mineral, Model, Nature, Nonclassical, Processes, Schwertmannite-like, Situ, Solids, Solution, Structural, Surface, Synchrotron.

Biological Basis for Methane Synthesis in Oxic Lake Waters
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. John E Dore($200,001), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Aquatic Environments, Biological Basis, Carbon Cycling, Ch4 Synthesis, Oxygen Saturated, Yellowstone Lake, Account, Biology, Characterization, Component, Conditions, Contribute, Contributions, Efforts, Field, Focus, GHG, Gas, Global, Has, Involved, Methane, Methanogenesis, Methanogens, Microbial, Oxic, Promises, Rise, Strictly, Terrestrial, Viewed.

Redefining Surface Area: Understanding Reactive Interfaces in Heterogeneous Porous Media
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Li Li($193,050), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Properties And Conditions, Reactive Transport Modeling, Reactive Interfaces, Education, Energy, Environmental, Flow, Functioning, Geochemical, Govern, Heterogeneities, Natural, Online, Plan, Predictive, Processes, Public, Rates, Spatial, Subsurface, Tools, Water.

Metallomics in Medicine Workshop: The Role of Natural Isotopes in the Development of a New Generation of Biomarkers for Biomedicine
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Ariel D Anbar($15,000), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Biomarkers, Disease, Isotope, Workshop.

Application of thermodynamic theory for predicting microbial biogeochemistry
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Julie A Huber($203,658), Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
Key terms: Living Organisms, Maximum Entropy, Model Predictions, Modeling Approach, Nitrate Reduction, Siders Pond, Woods Hole, Accurately, Actions, Bacteria, Based, Biogeochemical, Biogeochemistry, Carbon, Collective, Critical, Energy, Environment, Exactly, Geochemistry, Increases, Interact, MEP, Metabolic, Microbes, Microbial, Models, Observations, Pathways, Principle, Program, Space, Via, Water.

Microscale Reactivity of Trace Elements in Complex Geochemical Systems
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Montserrat Fuentes($270,000), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Food And Water, Preventing Toxic Substances, Human Health, Soil Particles, Water Supplies, Advanced, Agricultural, Arsenic, Binding, Complicated, Environment, Interactions, Knowledge, Management, Moving, Natural, People, Protecting, Soils, Statistical.

Collaborative Research: Unraveling Molybdenum and Rhenium speciation: Identifying the burial pathways of redox proxies in sulfidic settings
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Trenton P Vorlicek($16,577), Minnesota State University, Mankato, Mankato
2. Anthony Chappaz($63,618), Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant
Key terms: Mo And Re, Modern Oceans, Sulfidic Waters, Ultimate Burial, Chemical, Conditions, Development, Earth, Evolution, Femos, Isotopic, Life, Metals, Method, Natural, Oxygen, Oxygen-depleted, Produced, Quantify, RP-IPC, Solutions, Speciation, Sulfide, Trace.

Collaborative Research: Coupled Geochemical and Geobiological Characterization of Dissolved Organic Matter Oxidation to Carbon Dioxide
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Louis A Kaplan($150,000), Stroud Water Research Center, Avondale
2. Patrick G Hatcher($158,396), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
3. Rose M Cory($154,992), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Dissolved Organic Matter, Biological Reactivity, Biologically Reactive, Organic Molecules, River Networks, Ability, Advance, Analyses, Aquatic, Atmosphere, Carbon, Characterized, Educators, Evasion, Flow, Forests, Microbial, Molecular, Molecularly, Optical, Pool, Stream, Streams, Through-put.

3-Methylhopanoids in modern bacteria: molecular fossils of stress survival?
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Paula V Welander($393,133), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Stationary Phase Survival, 3-methylhopanoid Physiology, Aerobic Methanotroph, Aerobic Methanotrophs, Ancient Microbial, Bacterial Taxa, Interpret 3-methylhopane, Methylase Mutant, Modern Bacteria, Physiological Studies, Properly Interpret, Biomarkers, Capsulatus, Climate, Conditions, Dramatic, Earth, Fossils, Function, Has, History, Indicators, Lipids, Methylhopanoids, Molecular, Molecules, Particular, Potential, Program, Readily, Responded, Revealed, Rock, Signatures, Similar, Stanford, Students, Summer.

Workshop: US-China Collaborative Research on Microbial Extracellular Electron Transfer
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Liang Shi($50,000), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Extracellular Electron Transfer, Microbial Extracellular Electron, Eet Mechanisms, Toxic Metals, Cells, China, Exchange, Inside, Joint, Microorganisms, Opportunities, Promote, Resources, Substrates, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Highly reactive thiol binding sites on bacterial cell envelopes and their influence on metal speciation in aquatic systems
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Satish Myneni($120,000), Princeton University, Princeton
2. Bhoopesh Mishra($70,785), Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
3. Jeremy B Fein($109,215), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
Key terms: Bacterial Cell Envelopes, Cell Envelope R-sh, Envelope R-sh Sites, Bacterial Surface, Binding Sites, Envelope R-sh, Metal Concentrations, Metal Ions, Natural Environments, R-sh Sites, Thiol Sites, Adsorption, Approach, Aquatic, Binds, Conditions, Contaminant, Cycling, Environmental, Growth, Heavy, Influence, Isolate, Low, Measure, Metals, Module, Molecule, Onto, Pis, Previously, Qbbr, South, Strongly.

Collaborative Research: Calibrating Shallow Geophysical Techniques to Detect Large Wood Buried in River Corridors
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Ellen E Wohl($6,900), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
2. Kamini Singha($8,855), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: Alaska, Disseminate, Engage, Female, Findings, Fluvial, GPR, Indigenous, Region, Regions, Rivers, Wood, Yukon.

RAPID: Exploiting El Nino to Test for Shear Dilation in a Slow Moving Landslide
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2015; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Noah Finnegan($14,242), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Coming El Nino, Civil Infrastructure, Damage, Earthflow, Earthflows, Examine, Knowledge, Landslide, Landslides, Management, Network, Predicting.

RAPID: An Integrated Study of Post-fire Wind and Water Erosion in Western Rangelands
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Jennifer Pierce($46,724), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Creek Critical Zone, Critical Zone Observatory, Reynolds Creek Critical, Wind And Water, Post-fire Erosion, Soda Fire, Border, Description, Dust, Examine, Following, Idaho, Increase, Monitoring, Post-fire, Regional, Watershed.

Floodplain geomorphology and circulation
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2015; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Raymond Torres($19,999), University of South Carolina at Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Coastal Floodplains, Extreme Rainfall, Enhance, Landscape, Mm, Native, Undergraduate.

EAGER Collaborative Research: Exploring dust impacts on terrestrial ecosystem processes using an innovative and integrated approach
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2015; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Thomas E Gill($8,559), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
2. Alexandra G Ponette($36,586), University of North Texas, Denton
Key terms: Wet Dust Deposition, Mineral Dust, Carbon, Drought, Ecosystem, Efficiency, Influence, Period, Processes, Quantify, Students, Underrepresented.

Collaborative Research: Watershed, estuarine, and local drivers of coastal marsh establishment and resilience
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2015; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. James B Heffernan($349,949), Duke University, Durham
2. Matthew Kirwan($199,866), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
Key terms: Coastal Wetlands, Ecosystem Services, Marsh Distributions, Salt Marshes, Sea-level Rise, Advance, Biogeomorphic, Continental-scale, Empirical, Extent, Future, Influence, Local, Sea-level, Sediment, Spatial, Watershed.

EAGER: Reconstructing the Seismic History of the Teton Fault Using Lake Sediments at Grand Teton National Park, WY
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2015; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Mark B Abbott($42,225), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Grand Teton National, Teton National Park, Fault Movement, Lake Sediments, Teton Fault, Basins, Bathymetric, Description, Developing, Distinctive, Earthquakes, Investigate, Layers, Methods, Multiple, Paleoseismic, Past, Produce, Resulting, Tectonic.

Collaborative Research: New Constraints on the Geodynamics of the Lake Bonneville Basin
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Charles G Oviatt($87,034), Kansas State University, Manhattan
2. Kenneth D Adams($199,960), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Bonneville Basin, Isostatic Rebound, Lake Bonneville, Loading History, Analysis, Basins, Crust, Geodynamic, Has, Improvements, Lake-level, Lead, Model, Modeling, Module, Multiple, Pluvial, Processes, Rates, Regions, Shoreline, Shorelines, Three-dimensional, Topographic, Viscosity, Was.

Collaborative research: Sea-level responses to sediment erosion and deposition over the past 3 million years
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Ken Ferrier($259,443), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
2. Jerry Mitrovica($89,430), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Eustatic Sea Level, Mid-pliocene Climatic Optimum, East Coast, Ice Volumes, Mid-pliocene Climatic, Polar Ice, Accurately, Ago, Coastal, Conditions, Description, Estimates, Extent, Future, Height, MPCO, Million, Models, Period, Periods, Sea-level, Sediment, Shorelines, Thousand, Time.

Connectivity in Geomorphology: The 47th Annual Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Francis J Magilligan($42,000), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Annual Binghamton Geomorphology, Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium, Emerging Scientists Actively, Experts And Emerging, Scientists Actively Engaged, Strong And Diverse, 47th Annual, Critical Zone, Leading Experts, Six Themes, Bring, Connectivity, Description, Discussion, Education, Entitled, Focus, Global, Importance, Invited, Landscape, Papers, Presentations, Processes, Selected.

Collaborative Research: Linking landscape evolution and paleoflood hydrology in a megaflood dominated landscape, Channeled Scablands, eastern Washington, USA
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Isaac J Larsen($254,229), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
2. Michael P Lamb($141,910), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Channeled Scablands, Glacial Advances, Ice Age, Landscape Evolution, Canyon, Dramatic, Earlier, Floods, Has, Landscapes, Multiple, Occurred, Repeated, Subjected.

RUI: Alpine Loess, Periglacial Uplands, and Exotic Additions: Investigating Past and Present Dust Deposition in the Alpine Zone of the Uinta Mountains, Utah
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Jeffrey S Munroe($202,952), Middlebury College, Middlebury
Key terms: Dust Deposition, Alpine, Basins, Delivered, Description, Formation, Human, Increased, Lakes, Mountain, Mountains, Properties, Rates, Regional, Soil, Uinta, Undergraduate, Wind-borne.

Understanding Extreme Nearshore Wave Events through Studies of Coastal Boulder Transport
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Rónadh Cox($317,248), Williams College, Williamstown
Key terms: Ireland's Aran Islands, Ireland's Aran, Wave Energy, Assessment, Bathymetry, Boulders, Coastal, Description, Field, Heights, Inland, Irelands, Modeling, Movement, Numerical, Power, Processes, Scaled, Sea, Storms, Waves.

Collaborative Research: Cosmogenic nuclide chronology and paleohydraulic modeling of late Pleistocene Missoula floods
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Peter U Clark($25,238), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Glacial Lake Missoula, Hydraulic Model, Age, Ages, Description, Flood, Floods, Flow, Ice, Landscape, Topography.

RAPID: Differential Fluvial Response of the Abiotic Atacama Desert to a Rare Rainstorm Event
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Ronald Amundson($20,948), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Atacama Desert, Rare Opportunity, Arid, Description, Features, Flow, Generation, Landscape, RAPID, Rainfall, Regions, Relatively, Runoff, Water.

RAPID: How Does Environmental Change Influence Landscape Evolution in the Pantanal Wetlands (Brazil)?
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Kevin Yeager($49,999), University of Kentucky Research Foundation, Lexington
Key terms: Lake Cores, Landscape Evolution, Description, Environmental, Examine, Pantanal, Region, Sediment, Sensitive, Tropical, Wetlands.

Blocky Hillslopes: From Outcrops to Flatirons
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Robert S Anderson($324,997), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Evolution Fail, Hillslope Evolution, Landscape Evolution, Real Landscapes, Boulder, Capture, Colorado, Common, Degree, Description, Designed, Education, Evaluating, Evolve, Features, Field, Hillslopes, Knowledge, Landforms, Local, Model, Models, Natural, Numerical, Orientations, Outreach, Quantitative, Rock, Rocky, Teachers, Terrain, Various.

Determining hillslope-scale material strength from seismically-triggered landslide events
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Marin K Clark($294,470), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Peak Ground Acceleration, California Earthquake, Fracture Density, Landscape Evolution, Rock Strength, Aid, Assessment, Description, Earthquakes, Hazard, Hillslopes, Knowledge, Landslides, Model, Northridge, Particular, Processes, Seismic, Tectonic, World.

CONFERENCE PROPOSAL: Eighth International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics: River Flow 2016
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. George S Constantinescu($23,967), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Recognized International Experts, Fluvial Hydraulics, Saint Louis, Conference, Discussions, Environmental, Flood, Forum, Held, Illinois, Meeting, Outreach, Processes, River, Rivers, Transport.

CAREER: Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Sediment Supply and Sorting in Meandering Rivers
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Peter A Nelson($510,848), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Free And Forced, Bed Topography, Flume Experiments, Forced Bars, Meandering Channels, Sediment Supply, Description, Educational, Equilibrium, Examine, Explore, Flood, Focus, Grain, Interactions, Issues, Knowledge, Laboratory, Mechanisms, Migration, Model, Numerical, River, Sorting, Students.

Entrainment and Deposition of Surface Material by Particle-Laden Flows: From the Laboratory to the Hillslope
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Kimberly M Hill($324,999), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Debris Flow, Debris Flows, Bed, Contribute, Description, Developed, Dynamics, Educational, Entrainment, Experiments, Flumes, Grow, Human, Instrumented, Larger, Mechanisms, Mineral, Minnesota, Outreach, Path, Performed, Processes, Public, Site, Size, Speed, Students, Surface.

Mountain Stream Sediment Transport
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Stephen T Lancaster($374,687), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Antenna Array, Coho Salmon, Empirical Relationships, Flow Hydraulics, Sediment Transport, Small-scale Hydropower, Actively, Antennas, Channel, Description, Embedded, Foraging, Gravel, Habitat, Monitor, Mountain, Movement, Oregon, Power, Reliable, Small-scale, Stream, Streams, Topography, Wood.

Support for U.S.-Taiwan Workshop on Feedbacks and Coupling among Mountain Building, Surface Processes and Climate
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Jean M Crespi($89,289), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Climate And Tectonics, Climate-tectonic Coupling, Mountain Building, Tectonic Controls, Active, Assess, Climate-tectonic, Climatic, Climatically, Collaborations, Current, Deformation, Development, Erosion, Govern, Influence, Interdisciplinary, Landscape, Linkages, Mass, Natural, Participation, Partnerships, Processes, STEM, Strength, Students, Subsequent, Surface, Taiwan, Topography, Workforce, Workshop.

Collaborative research: Testing hypothesis for drumlin fomation at Mulajokul, Iceland
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Thomas S Hooyer($35,485), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: Drumlin Field, Effective Stress, Pore-water Pressure, AMS, Bed, Beds, Drumlins, Formation, Glacial, Glacier, Has, Hills, Ice, Intervening, Leading, Low, Múlajökull, Origin, Past, Pore-water, Program, Sediments, Shear, Students, Supported, Susceptibility, Teacher.

Collaborative research: Is Anthropocene sedimentation in valley bottoms a geologically significant event?
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Dorothy J Merritts($137,879), Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster
2. Noah P Snyder($172,118), Boston College, Chestnut Hill
Key terms: High-resolution Topographic, Human Activities, Sediment Stored, Valley Bottoms, Amount, Centuries, Deposition, Deposits, Description, Earth, Erosion, Extent, Findings, Found, Global, Has, High-resolution, Lakes, Landscape, Modification, Northeastern, Past, Rates, Region, Rivers, Significance, Spatial, Time, Volumes, Watershed, Watersheds.

Collaborative Research: Quantifying post-fire aeolian sediment transport and nutrient redistribution using rare earth element tracers
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Sujith Ravi($234,243), Temple University, Philadelphia
2. Junran Li($125,724), University of Tulsa, Tulsa
Key terms: Erosion And Subsequent, Post-fire Wind Erosion, Post-fire Wind, Sediment Sources, Arid, Climate, Desert, Fires, Grassland, Grasslands, Increase, Landscape, Landscapes, Management, Potential, Quality, Rapid, Rates, Redistribution, Regions, Soil, Vegetation.

Reconciling Invariant Topography with Along-Strike Gradients in Climate and Tectonics in the Greater Caucasus Mountains
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Adam Forte($315,158), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Averaged Erosion Rates, Basin Averaged Erosion, Mean Annual Precipitation, Caucasus Mountains, Convergence Rate, Mountain Range, Relative Importance, Similar Rates, Versus Climate, Along-strike, Assess, Basement, Collision, Control, Development, Elevation, Erosional, Exposures, Gradients, Has, Low, Measuring, Mmyr, Modern, Myr, Orogen, Potential, Predominantly, Program, Remarkably, River, Rock, STEM, Similarity, Society, Structural, Tectonic, Topographic, Topography.

RAPID: Morphological Effects of Extreme Sea-Level Anomalies
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2015; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Peter Ruggiero($45,000), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Longshore Sediment Transport, Sea Level Anomalies, El Niño, Littoral Cells, Numerical Models, Beach, Coastline, Description, Dunes, Erosion, Experience, Local, Oregon, Period, Quantify, RAPID, Recovery, Regime, Shore, Southern, Storm, Storms.

EAGER: Cosmogenic Nuclide Measurement of Surface Uplift Rate and Paleoelevation
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2015; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Gregory D Hoke($147,053), Syracuse University, Syracuse
Key terms: Rates And Paleoelevation, Surface Uplift Rate, Cosmogenic Nuclides, Isotope Pairs, Stem Workforce, Uplift Rates, Deficit, Defined, Dependence, Depends, Development, Elevation, Exploratory, Forces, Has, Lower, Measure, Method, Multiple, Post-doctoral, Precision, Relies, Surfaces, TCN, Technique, Time, Uncertainty, Uplifted, Varying.

Phase IV: Continued Development of the Core Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at UCLA
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. Jonathan M Aurnou($697,956), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Benchmark And Validate, Build Predictive Models, Numerical And Theoretical, Planetary Dynamo Generation, Turbulent Planetary Dynamo, Convective Flows, Core Flow, Earth's Core, Liquid Metals, Planetary Core, Theoretical Models, Validate Advanced, Allow, Allows, Carry, Convection, Current, Device, Dynamics, Dynamos, Ekman, Exist, Experiments, Fluid, Gallium, Geophysical, Laboratory, Modelers, Modeling, Nsf-funded, Quantify, Romag, Rotating, Simulations, Turbulence, UCLA, Unique, Water.

Improved estimation of free oscillation splitting coefficients using a combination of autoregressive estimation and the neighborhood algorithm
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. T. Guy Masters($180,000), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: 3d Density Structure, Splitting And Coupling, 3d Density, 3d Models, Convective Flow, Plate Tectonics, Seismic Tomography, Ability, Allows, Anomalies, Earthquakes, Free, Free-oscillation, Has, Image, Images, Lateral, Long-wavelength, Mantle, Multiplets, Oscillations, Velocity.

Space geodetic observations and modeling of co- and post-seismic deformation due to the 2015 M7.8 Gorkha (Nepal) earthquake
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. Yuri Fialko($194,000), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Gorkha Earthquake, Postseismic Deformation, Account, Available, Crust, Elastic, Finite, Insar, Models, Nepal, Radar, Relaxation, Seismic, Tibet, Topography, Was.

Collaborative Research: Seismic Investigation of Slab Structure and Back Arc Volcanism in the Sea of Japan Region
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Stephen Grand($271,837), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Fenglin Niu($179,341), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Beneath Japan, Japan Sea, Ne China, Northeast China, Resolution Images, Slabs Beneath, Stagnant Slabs, Active, Activity, Arrivals, Deep, Feeding, Gap, Has, Imaged, Inversion, Mantle, Methods, Model, Observed, Processes, Region, Seismic, Subducting, Tectonic, Time, Velocity, Waveforms.

Evaluating aging and hydration effects on geomagnetic paleointensity in natural glass
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Julie A Bowles($147,867), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
Key terms: Earth's Magnetic Field, Natural Volcanic Glasses, Earth's Magnetic, Geologic Time, Glass Structure, Magnetic Mineralogy, Natural Glasses, Waste Glasses, Age, Alteration, Andor, Crystals, Demonstrated, Devitrification, Direction, Has, Hydration, Knowledge, Laboratory, Nature, Obsidian, Paleointensity, Recover, Relatively, Reliably, Single-domain, Strength, Suitability, Titanomagnetite, Varies, Water.

Improving the vertical and horizontal resolution of seismic anisotropy and heterogeneity using surface waves
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Donald W Forsyth($107,678), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Love And Rayleigh, Depth Extent, Oceanic Lithosphere, Radial Anisotropy, Wave Dispersion, Analysis, Arrays, Asthenosphere, Contrast, Extend, Mode, Periods, Primary, Seismic, Shgtsv, Stations, Structure, Surface, Velocity, Waves.

Experimental studies on plastic deformation of the lower mantle materials
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Shun-ichiro Karato($404,982), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Deformation Experiments, Lower Mantle, Plastic Deformation, Apparatus, Behavior, Conditions, Developed, Flow, Modifications, Quantitative, Strain.

Imaging the Fine Structure of Earthquakes and Faults with High-Precision Aftershocks
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Christopher H Scholz($298,000), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Fault Zone Structure, Active Faults, Damage Zone, Factors Control, Fault Maturity, Fault Zones, Aftershocks, California, Complex, Crust, Earth, Earthquakes, Essential, Evolution, Features, Geometry, Growth, Highly, Internal, Rupture, Surface, Three-dimensional.

High-Resolution Imaging of Material Properties in the Cascadia Subduction Zone
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Jeffrey J McGuire($429,990), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Cascadia Subduction Zone, Cascadia Thrust, Computer Models, Thrust Interface, Distributions, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Evidence, Fault, Fault-zone, Faults, Has, Locked, Magnitude, Measure, Modern, Offshore, Onshore, Properties, Rupture, Strength, Stress, Techniques, Typically.

Using Dense Seismic Arrays to Determine Structure in the Los Angeles Basin
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Victor C Tsai($395,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Los Angeles Basin, Oil-company Surveys, Velocity Model, Central, Coverage, Earthquakes, Generates, Noise, Nsurface, Oil-company, Seismic, Shaking, Subsurface, Surface, Velocities, Wave, Waves.

Mapping the Middle of the Mantle-Core Dynamic
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Michael E Wysession($374,999), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Allow, Base, Boundary, Core, Flow, Generated, Heat, Mantle, Power, Radioactivity, Structure, Time.

Collaborative Proposal: Understanding Subduction Systems by Linking Anisotropic Seismic Imaging and Geodynamic Modeling
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Douglas R Toomey($168,000), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
2. Maximiliano J Bezada($167,970), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Subduction Zones, Travel-time Tomography, Waves Travel, Affects, Allow, Anisotropy, Beneath, Direction, Distribution, Earth, Estimates, Imaging, Incorporating, Isotropic, Mantle, Physically-based, Plate, Structure, Subsurface, Surface, Travel-time, Volcanism.

Collaborative Research: Understanding free-surface scattering in an anisotropic medium with active and passive seismic methods at the Homestake Mine, South Dakota
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Victor C Tsai($15,878), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
2. Gary L Pavlis($180,999), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Oil And Gas, Sanford Underground Laboratory, Seismic Wave Propagation, Active Source, Anisotropic Medium, Exploration Geophysicists, Free Surface, Gas Exploration, Gas Industry, Listening Mode, Passive Array, Reflection Survey, Seismic Waves, Weathered Layer, Assembled, Assumptions, Collected, Commonly, Control, Controlled, Dependence, Earth, Earthquakes, Existing, Experiment, Experimental, Facility, HSP, Has, Homestake, Image, Method, Mine, Modeling, Models, Properties, Qs, Unique, Upside, Volume, Yield.

Ground Motion Prediction Using Virtual Earthquakes
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Gregory C Beroza($295,000), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Ambient Seismic Field, Ground Motion Prediction, Virtual Earthquake Approach, Ambient Field, Shorter Periods, Virtual Earthquakes, Apply, Collaboration, Complex, Concern, Design, Does, Effects, Engineers, Expect, Future, Method, Mexico, Potential, Predicting, Shaking, Strength, Strong, Technique, Wave, Waves.

Paleointensity of the Paleoproterozoic Geomagnetic Field as Recorded by Single Silicate Crystals: Testing the "Proterozoic Dipole Low"
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Aleksey V Smirnov($250,000), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: Basal-mantle Magma Ocean, Earth's Magnetic Field, Field Geodynamo Produced, Magnetic Field Strength, Proterozoic Dipole Low, Solid Inner Core, Basal-mantle Magma, Bulk Rock, Earth's Magnetic, High-quality Paleointensity, Liquid Core, Long-term Evolution, Obtaining High-quality, Paleointensity Determinations, Paleointensity Experiments, Rock Magnetic, Silicate Crystals, Single Crystal, Strong Field, Advance, Ago, Alteration, Ancient, Billion, Canada, Convection, Craton, Dike, Dikes, Existed, Formation, Ga, Graduate, Has, High-quality, Increase, India, Insights, Interior, Investigation, Long-term, Mechanisms, Million, Molten, Planets, Precambrian, Processes, Stable, Technique, Time, Undergraduate, Was.

Stress localization, fault activation, and earthquake migration in central and eastern US: A systematic numerical study
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Mian Liu($245,000), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Central And Eastern, Lithospheric Dynamic Model, Presumably Stable Interior, Driving Forces, Earthquake Hazard, Failed Rifts, Fault Reactivation, Ice Age, Plate Tectonics, Readily Explained, Southeastern Missouri, Tectonic Forces, Weak Zones, Apparently, CEUS, Catastrophic, China, Clustered, Computer, Crust, Earthquakes, Existing, Faults, Geologically, Has, Hypothesized, Investigate, Lithosphere, Loading, Local, Modeling, Models, NMSZ, North, Observed, Quantify, Reminder, Seismicity, Stress, Structures, Various, Virginia, Widespread.

Hypsometric History of the North American Continental Interior and Implications for Mantle Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Rebecca M Flowers($296,833), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Continental Interior, Dynamic Model, Dynamic Models, Dynamic Topography, Earth's Crust, Earth's Surface, Geologic Constraints, Surface History, Vertical Motion, Aspects, Burial, Contributing, Convection, Cretaceous, Cryptic, Deep, Deformation, Diversity, Efforts, Elevation, Evolution, Has, Mantle, Modeling, North, Past, Plate, Predictions, Processes, Recognized, Regional, Student, Supporting, Tectonic, Thermochronology, Was.

Investigating the Partitioning of Vertical Strength within the India-Eurasia Lithosphere using Surface Observations: A Numerical Modeling Approach
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Lucy Flesch($190,000), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Observed Surface Deformation, Surface Deformation Field, Lithospheric Properties, Surface Observations, Vertical Strength, Allowable, Collision, Continent, Crust, Depth, Earthquakes, Eurasian, Flow, Forces, Indian, Influence, Lithosphere, Lower, Mantle, Modeling, Physically, Plate, Theory, Tibetan.

Characterizing fault zones at Kilauea & Mauna Loa volcanoes by large-scale mapping of earthquake stress drops and focal mechanisms
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Robin S Matoza($220,000), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Earthquake Stress Drops, Tectonic And Volcanic, Focal Mechanisms, Santa Barbara, Volcanic Activity, Characteristics, Characterize, Comprehensive, Earthquakes, Fault, HVO, Has, Hawaii, Hawaiian, Kilauea, Magma, Mantle, Regions, Resolve, Reveal, Seismic, Seismicity, UC, Volcanoes.

Student Conference Support: American Geophysical Union and Society of Exploration Geophysicists Workshop-Potential-field and Electromagnetic Methods Applied to Basin Studies
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. George R Keller($10,000), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Exploration Geophysicists, Geophysical Union, Audience, Has, Participants, Potential-field, Society, Student, Students.

Collaborative Research: Establishing a Novel Geophysical Monitoring Scheme for Delineating In Situ Carbonation Processes in Ultramafic Complexes
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Masako Tominaga($187,000), Texas A&M University, College Station
2. Masako Tominaga($83,910), Michigan State University, East Lansing
3. James C Kinsey($60,000), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Magnetics And Gravity, Carbon Sequestration, Carbonation Process, Mantle Peridotite, Peridotite Carbonation, Applications, Approach, Assemblages, Directly, Earth, Exposure, Field, Geological, Has, Largest, Long-term, Method, Monitoring, Natural, Occurring, Previous, Processes, Rock.

Beyond elastic rebound: extracting permanent strain from interseismic deformation
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Kaj M Johnson($120,000), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Plate Boundary, Southern California, Boundaries, Crust, Deformation, Deforms, Fault, Faults, Forces, Geodetic, Geologic, Long-term, Models, Mountain, Outstanding, Processes, Rates, Slip, Stress, Taiwan.

ACES Symposium, Chengdu, China, August 10-16, 2015
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Louise H Kellogg($20,000), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: ACES, APEC, August, China, Cooperation, Critical, Earthquake, Economies, Field, Meeting, Models, NASA, Participants, Simulation, Topics.

Investigating Flat Slab Subduction and Plate Edge Tectonics in Northern South America
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Alan R Levander($599,816), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Basement Cored Uplifts, Seismic Hazard Assessment, Venezuela And Colombia, Basement Uplifts, Flat Slab, Flat Subduction, Northern South, Seismograph Array, Subduction Zone, Subduction Zones, Caribbean, Cenozoic, Combined, Countries, Earthquake, Earthquakes, FUNVISIS, Growing, History, Hydrocarbon, Imports, Mantle, Modern, Nations, Northwestern, Plate, Poor, Population, SA, SGC, Saudi, Urban, Western.

Ultrasonic Velocity Measurements on Multiphase Agg
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Baosheng Li($498,063), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Deep Mantle, Aggregates, Chemical, Composition, Conditions, Depth, Depths, Direct, Directly, Earth, Laboratory, Minerals, Minor, Phase, Processes, Profiles, Pyrolitic, Rock, Specimens, Technological, Velocities.

Modeling slow slip and earthquake nucleation on heterogeneous faults: implications for foreshocks and repeating earthquakes
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Nadia Lapusta($446,999), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Earthquake Nucleation, Rapid Slip, Seismic Hazard, Slow Slip, Developed, Dilatancy, Earthquakes, Effects, Fault, Faults, Generated, Interaction, Laboratory, Lead, Look, Models, Nature, Observations, Patch, Patches, Phenomena, Postseismic, Processes, Produce, Properties, Seismicity, Sequences, Simulating, Simulations, Stress, Wave.

Improved locations for global seismic events using surface waves
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Goran Ekstrom($199,999), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Individual Earthquakes, Algorithm, Based, Cluster, International, Lead, Methods, Plate-boundary, Precision, Propagation, Stations, Tectonic, Waves, World.

Aluminous phase at high-pressures & temperatures: Elasticity and Energetics of hydrogen incorporation
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Mainak Mookherjee($101,230), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Earth's Mantle, Mineral Phases, Aluminous, Chemistry, Composed, Crusts, Energetics, Heterogeneity, Investigate, Observations, Ocean, Properties, Subducted.

High-resolution studies of seismicity and scattered wave imaging beneath Mt. St. Helens
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Brandon Schmandt($219,999), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Beneath Mt, Magma Plumbing, Active, Advancing, Challenges, Crust, Dense, Detection, Earthquakes, Efforts, Helens, Imaging, Magmatic, Methods, Moho, Near, Prevalence, Seismic, Seismicity, Seismograph, Seismographs, St, Structure, Uppermost, Wave.

Melt segregation in a deforming partially molten rock - an experimental investigation of the consequences of viscous anisotropy
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Alejandra Quintanilla Terminel($234,779), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Partially Molten Rocks, Two-phase Flow Theory, Experimental Observations, Melt Distribution, Melt Flows, Melt Segregation, Two-phase Flow, Analysis, Anisotropic, Aspect, Behavior, Deformation, Deforming, Describing, Dynamics, Earth, Evolution, Experiments, Grain-scale, Implications, Laboratory, Large-scale, Mantle, Mexico, Models, Occurring, Outreach, Papers, Planet, Processes, Regions, Represent, Solid, Strength, Stress, Students, Surface, Viscosity, Was, Workshops.

Thermal conductivity of Deep Earth's materials studied by fast pulsed laser techniques
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Alexander F Goncharov($243,941), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Earth's Magnetic Field, Lower Mantle Minerals, Earth's Magnetic, Earth's Mantle, P-t Conditions, Pulsed Laser, Thermal Conductivity, Applied, Conduction, Convection, Core, Evolution, Heat, History, Knowledge, Optical, P-T, Planetary, Processes, Radiative, Range, Rate, Spectral, Techniques, Temperature, Time.

Variations in Hotspot Volcanism as a Key to Understanding Deep Mantle Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Eric L Mittelstaedt($219,987), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
Key terms: Laboratory And Numerical, Mantle Plume Upwelling, Shape And Size, Continuously Upwelling, Deep Mantle, Earth's Surface, Hotspot Tracks, Island Chains, Laboratory Experiments, Mantle Plumes, Numerical Experiments, Numerical Simulations, Seamount Chains, Surface Manifestations, Upwelling Rate, Affect, Compositions, Conditions, Constrain, Control, Database, Dynamics, Episodically, Erupted, Hotspots, Lava, Lavas, Mechanisms, Millions, Nearly, Observations, Observed, Processes, Quantify, Responsible, Source, Time, Volcanoes.

Robust earthquake source scaling and seismic efficiency for intermediate depth and deep earthquakes at global and regional scales
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. German A Prieto($260,000), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Accurate Analysis, Deep Earthquakes, Earthquake Rupture, Allow, Chile, Complete, Constrain, Distances, Energy, Global, Hazard, Intermediate-depth, Involved, Magnitude, Mechanism, Mexico, Mgt, Observations, Parameters, Regional, Regions, Seismic, Source, Worldwide.

Exploring the influence of tidal stress changes on the generation of secondary slip fronts during slow slip events in Cascadia
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Amanda M Thomas($240,000), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Secondary Slip Fronts, Competing Model, Model Treatments, Pacific Northwest, Propagation Speeds, Secondary Fronts, Slow Slip, Slow-slip Phenomena, Stress Drops, Beneath, Cascadia, Characteristics, Conditions, Earthquake, Effort, Formulations, Mega-thrust, Models, Observational, Plate, Processes, Rate, Reproduce, Rupture, Slow-slip, Specific, Theoretical.

The Spectrum of Fault Slip Behaviors and the Mechanics of Slow Earthquakes
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Chris J Marone($395,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Transient Fault Slip, Fault Zone, Slip Behaviors, Slow Earthquakes, Slow Slip, Slow Stick-slip, Tectonic Faults, Acoustic, Damaging, Elastic, Fail, Failure, Fast, Focus, Frictional, Laboratory, Mechanics, Modes, Normal, Rupture, Spectrum, Speed, Stick-slip.

Measurement of Thermal conductivity of mantle and core materials and implications for the thermal history of the Earth
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Abby Kavner($390,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Pressures And Temperatures, Earth's Surface, Heat Flow, Inner Core, Thermal Conductivity, Alloys, Constrain, Deep, Govern, Mantle, Measure, Outcome, Oxides, Program, Properties, Silicates, Time, Volcanism.

Pleistocene Paleointensity Record of Aleutian Island Volcanics
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Geoffrey Cromwell($40,739), Occidental College, Los Angeles
Key terms: Ancient Magnetic Field, Earth's Ancient Magnetic, Earth's Ancient, Geological Survey, Geomagnetic Field, High-quality Paleointensity, Lava Flows, Tanaga Island, Alaska, Allow, Behavior, Experiments, Global, High-quality, Information, Latitudes, Lavas, Northern, Paleomagnetic, Tectonic.

Evaluating the scatter of Detrital Remanent Magnetizations and its effects on relative paleointensity estimates.
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Dario Bilardello($100,000), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Ambient Field, Deposition Experiments, Geomagnetic Field, Magnetic Anisotropy, Magnetic Fields, Relative Paleointensity, Resultant Vector, Rpi Estimates, Approach, Correct, Corrected, DRM, Directions, Distributions, Evolution, Inclination, Intensity, Limiting, Magnetization, Magnetizations, Mean, Particle, Restoring, Rock, Scatter, Sedimentary, Sediments.

GOALI: Seismic interferometry and reflection imaging of the deep crust
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. scott w cook($219,998), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Virtual Source Methods, Active Source, Seismic Experiment, Seismic Reflection, Source Seismology, Ambient, Applied, Blasts, Comparison, Corrections, Crust, Deep, Derived, Explored, Geologic, Imaging, Industry, Interferometry, Main, Noise, Nsurface, Rocky, Set, Sets, Statics, Structures, Utilize.

Support for Comparative Geodynamics and Tectonics of Venus, Earth, and Rocky Exoplanets Workshop
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Laurent Montesi($10,832), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Geodynamics And Tectonics, Comparative Geodynamics, Graduate Students, Plate Tectonics, Rocky Exoplanets, Archean, Control, Development, Evidence, Geological, Global, Interdisciplinary, Observations, Planetary, Planets, Processes, STEM, Substantially, Venus, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Constraining Volcanic Jet Dynamics with Infrasound Using Numerical and Empirical Models
Award Effective Date: 05/11/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Robin S Matoza($63,493), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
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.

Collaborative Research: Improved Ionospheric Source Models for Imaging Upper Mantle/Transition Zone Resistivity
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Gary D Egbert($229,993), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Henry P Alken($66,999), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Basic And Applied, Earth's Magnetic Field, Em Induction Imaging, Currents Induced, Earth's Magnetic, Electrical Conductivity, Ionospheric Currents, Ionospheric Magnetic, Numerical Model, Applications, Collection, Component, Conducting, Cycles, Deep, Distribution, Dynamics, Effort, Eras, Evolution, External, Fields, Geomagnetic, Ground-based, Implications, Internal, Mantle, Modeling, Models, PCA, Physics, Required, Scheme, Signals, Significantly, Source, TIME-GCM, Water.

Investigating tomographic resolution in global crustal imaging
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Ying Zhou($92,000), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Global Crustal Models, Global Crustal Tomography, Investigate Resolution Limits, Crustal Structure, Discontinuity Topography, Finite-frequency Theory, Moho Discontinuity, Surface Waves, Based, Continent, Coverage, Finite-frequency, Imaging, Seismic, Wavespeed.

Characterization of Small-scale Heterogeneity in the Deep Earth
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Vernon F Cormier($300,000), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Seismic Waves, Small-scale Heterogeneity, Small-scale Structures, Affect, Chemical, Composition, Deep, Mineral, Phase, Shapes, Size, Small-scale, Surface, Tectonic, Tomography.

Element Partitioning at Earth's Deep Chemical Boundaries
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Yingwei Fei($400,200), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Deep Chemical Boundaries, Iron Alloy, Behavior, Boundary, CMB, Conditions, Core, Core-mantle, Determining, Differentiation, Earth, ICB, Inner, Interior, Liquid, Mantle, Partitioning, Pressure, Redistribution, Si, Techniques, Temperature.

Capturing and comparing slow slip events in Cascadia and New Zealand using a novel, physics-based approach
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Laura Wallace($269,999), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Hikurangi And Cascadia, Spatial And Temporal, Cgps Timeseries, Continuous Gps, Plate Boundaries, Slow Slip, Subduction Zone, Approach, Characterize, Deformation, Detect, Displacement, Fault, Has, Method, Methods, Processes, Rates, Resolution, SSE, Seismic, Spectrum, Sses, Transient, Vdohs, Velocities.

Comparison of the Melt Distribution in Natural Analogues to Experimentally Produced Microstructures
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Ulrich Faul($131,059), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Basaltic Melt, Earth's Surface, Low Melting, Components, Composition, Experimentally, Experiments, Generation, Images, Mantle, Maps, Natural, Observations, Observed, Process, Processed, Rock, Volcanoes.

Collaborative Research: Detecting Seismic Anisotropy in the Upper Mantle and Upper Mantle Transition Zone
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Nicholas Schmerr($160,435), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
2. Gabriele Laske($123,481), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
3. Caroline D Beghein($316,084), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Deep Upper Mantle, Mantle Transition Zone, Numerical Forward Modeling, Precursor Travel Times, Radial And Azimuthal, Ss Precursor Travel, Surface Wave Arrival, Wave Arrival Angle, Guide Future, Mtz Boundaries, Radial Anisotropy, Rigid Plates, Seismic Anisotropy, Upper 800km, Assess, Boundary, Constraints, Convection, Dataset, Deformation, Depth, Determining, Direction, Earth, Enhance, Flow, Global, LAB, Models, Nature, Resolution, Rock, Three-dimensional, Topography, Trade-offs, Uncertainties, Waves.

Unearthing Aftershocks: Physical Simulations, Statistical Models, and New Observations
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Bruce E Shaw($200,000), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Operational Earthquake Forecasting, Statistical Models, Statistical Regularities, Aftermath, Aftershocks, Clustering, Hazards, Ingredients, Mainshock, Planning, Recovery, Remain, Set, Time, Variety.

Response of tremor and slow slip to tidal stress: Constraints on fault friction and weakening
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Heidi Houston($170,000), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Cascadia Subduction Zone, Slow Slip Earthquakes, Deep Subduction, Fault Weakening, Intrinsic Friction, Plate Boundary, Subduction Zones, Tidal Stress, Tidal Stresses, Accumulates, Approach, Behavior, Constrain, Cycle, Days, ETS, Effects, Estimate, Has, In-situ, Influence, Interface, Phenomenon, Portions, Preliminary, Progressive, Recently-discovered, Restrengthening, Seismic, Sensitivity, Stressing, Time, Timing, Tremor, Yielded.

Investigation of Fluid-Seismic Processes Associated with the Bayou Corne, LA Sinkhole
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Douglas S Dreger($199,889), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Bayou Corne, Salt Dome, Seismic Signals, Seismic Source, Seismic Velocity, Source Mechanisms, Course, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Failure, Fluid, Fluids, Formation, Fractures, Gas, Generate, Lead, Models, Monitoring, Occurring, Oil, Preliminary, Process, Propagation, Residents, Sinkhole, Three-dimensional, Tremor, Volcanic.

CAREER: Experimental Investigation For the Characterization of the Geophysical Response of Rock-Fluid Interactions
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Tiziana Vanorio($532,439), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: 3-d Animated Renderings, Experiments And Time-lapse, Purely Mechanical Approach, 3-d Animated, Earth's Crust, Elastic Properties, Geophysical Monitoring, Laboratory Experiments, Multi-scale Imaging, Pore Fluid, Pore Space, Reactive Transport, Virtual Laboratory, Aims, Chemical, Chemo-mechanical, Classes, Complexity, Current, Decisions, Deformation, Dynamic, Education, Effects, Experimental, Flow, Fluids, Future, Geophysics, Ground, High-tech, Inadequate, Innovative, Instruments, Interactions, Interactive, Lack, Leverages, Methods, Models, Multi-scale, Nation, Objective, Opportunities, Predicting, Processes, Quantitative, Raise, Rock, Seismic, Stem, Students, Task, Techniques, Thermal, Track.

Numerical Modeling of Earthquake Motions: Waves and Ruptures
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Ralph Archuleta($38,006), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Earthquake Rupture, Ground Motion, Numerical Simulations, Seismic Waves, Wave Propagation, Complex, Constitutive, Constrain, Earthquakes, Fault, Friction, Lead, Methods, Modeling, Motions, Physics, Processes, Properties, Property, Radiated, Ruptures, Slip, Source, Structure, Tool, Workshop.

Studies of Mantle Dynamics and Evolution
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Jerry Mitrovica($252,136), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Radioactive Heat Sources, Upper And Lower, Analytic Formulation, Plate Tectonics, Thermal Evolution, Allows, Convection, Earth, Effects, Geochemical, History, Lithosphere, Mantle, Model, Models, Numerical, Ocean, Oceans, Parameters, Plates, Previous, Rate, Ratio, Recycling, Surface, Time, Viscosity, Water.

Anisotropic Mantle: Advancing Models of Regional Flow and Associated Seismic Signature
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Geophysics

1. Gabriele Laske($249,964), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Mantle Flow, Plate Boundaries, Seismic Anisotropy, Seismic Waves, Surface Wave, Upper Mantle, Align, Analysis, Anisotropic, Aspect, Direction, Expected, Faster, Forces, Has, Linked, Minerals, Modeling, Models, Numerical, Rock, Settings, Structure, Tectonic, Texturing.

2016 Gordon Research Conference on Flow & Transport in Permeable Media:Bridging the Gap Between Scales and Processes for Strongly Coupled Systems; Girona, Spain; July 30-31, 20
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Kathleen M Smits($30,050), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Flow And Reactive, Flow And Transport, Common Issues, Porous Media, Process Interfaces, Reactive Transport, Controlling, Cover, Disciplines, Diversity, Fluids, Focus, GRC, GRS, Gordon, Meeting, Seminar, Subsurface, Themes.

Emerging Issues in Tropical Ecohydrology; June 5-9, 2016; Cuenca, Ecuador
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Bradford Wilcox($45,000), Texas A&M AgriLife Research, College Station
Key terms: Chapman Conference, Distributed Modeling, Tropical Ecohydrology, Tropical Landscapes, Critical, Ecohydrological, Global, Influence, Techniques, Water.

Conference Support for Karst, Groundwater Contamination & Public Health: Moving Beyond Case Studies
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. John W Hess($29,114), Karst Water Institute, Leesburg
Key terms: Drinking Water, Groundwater Contamination, Human Health, Karst Aquifers, Karst Terrains, Public Health, Bring, Conference, Contaminants, Future, Knowledge, Meeting, Outcomes, Regulators, Useful.

Collaborative Research: Changes in river-aquifer exchange induced by groundwater pumping, and their effect on arsenic contamination in the Red River Delta, Vietnam
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Brian J Mailloux($50,000), Barnard College, New York
2. Benjamin C Bostick($331,500), Columbia University, New York
3. Charles F Harvey($149,970), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Arsenic Contamination, Bank Aquifers, Groundwater Pumping, Naturally Occurring, Orange Pleistocene, Red River, Urban Water, Western Bank, Affected, Biogeochemistry, Composition, DOC, Effect, Examines, Extensive, Extent, Flow, Gray, Has, Human, Hydrology, Induced, Influenced, Levels, Quality, Reversal, Sediments, Students, Vietnam.

Collaborative Research: Investigation of the fate and transport of dust-borne trace metals and solutes during snowmelt
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Diego P Fernandez($68,531), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
2. Zachary T Aanderud($269,796), Brigham Young University, Provo
Key terms: Metals And Solutes, Provo River Watershed, Dust Contributions, Dust Deposition, Mountain Snowpack, Trace Metals, Water Quality, Analyses, Chemistry, Fate, Field, Investigates, Potential, Quantified, Snowmelt, Stream, Streams, Transport, Utah, Western.

Permeability and Elastic Properties of Fractured Rock: Systematic Experimental Investigation and Model Development
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Erland M Schulson($496,998), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: 3d Fracture Networks, Well-characterized 3d Fracture, 3d Fracture, Elastic Properties, Flow Pathways, Flow Properties, Groundwater Flow, Hydraulic Tomography, Model Development, Seismic Velocities, Seismic Velocity, Systematic Experimental, Well-characterized 3d, Additional, Brittle, Characterization, Commonly, Cross-hole, Designed, Fractured, Geophysical, Has, Hydrogeological, Ice, Parameters, Permeability, Rely, Resolution, Rock, Shown, Water.

Including tree water storage dynamics in modeling of stomatal conductance
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Gil Bohrer($496,537), Ohio State University, Columbus
Key terms: Current Land-surface Models, Ecological Disturbance Experiment, Fetch2 Model Resolves, Above-ground Storage, Current Land-surface, Fetch2 Simulations, Land Surface, Land-surface Models, Plants Transpire, Soil Moisture, Stomatal Conductance, Transpiration Rates, Tree Stem, Tree Water, Water Flow, Water Potential, Water Storage, Above-ground, Approach, Based, Branches, Control, Directly, Dynamics, Ecosystem, Flux, Forest, Has, Hydraulic, Hydrodynamic, Hydrologic, Illustrate, Intra-daily, Level, Limitations, Observations, Primary, Produce, Realistically, Regulating, Represent, Roots, Site, Trees, Validate, Xylem.

Collaborative Research: Novel In Situ Measurement and Remote Sensing Techniques for Characterization of Near-Surface Soil Hydrology
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Markus Tuller($324,264), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Scott B Jones($325,523), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Arid And Semiarid, Moisture And Temperature, Earth's Surface, Environmental Resources, Ns Soil, Powerful Tool, Remote Sensing, Semiarid Regions, Soil Hydraulic, Soil Moisture, Soil Surface, Array, Calibration, Capabilities, Climate, Controls, Diameter, Disciplines, Dynamics, Especially, Evaporation, Ground-based, Has, Heat, High-resolution, Hydrologic, Inch, Information, Instrumented, Lack, Layer, Models, Monitoring, Nsurface, Objectives, PHPPA, Poorly, Precious, Processes, Properties, Property, RS, Runoff, Satellite, TDRA, Techniques, Technology, Tested, Thermal, Time, Top, View, Water.

RUI: Measurement and modeling of rainfall interception loss from Georgia Southern University's urban forest.
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. John T Van Stan($214,572), Georgia Southern University Research and Service Foundation, Inc, Statesboro
Key terms: Interception Loss Variables, Canopy Structure, Canopy Structures, Conditions Affect, Flood Flashiness, Forest Canopy, Forest Structure, Georgia Southern, Gsu Campus, Loblolly Pine, Measured Canopy, Storm Conditions, Stormwater Management, Terrestrial Lidar, Undergraduate Students, Urban Forests, Water Management, Common, Compare, Cost, Dynamics, Erosion, Evaporation, Existing, Experiences, Gradient, Has, Hydrologic, Incorporated, L-architect, Leaf, Model, Models, Monitoring, National, Natural, Natural-to-urban, Practices, Processes, Rainfall, Reaching, Recharge, Run-off, Species, Stand, Stands, Stemflow, Storage, Structural, Substantial, Techniques, Throughfall, Tree, Undergraduates.

Collaborative Research: Retention of Anisotropic Colloids in Porous Media: A Modeling and Experimental Investigation at Multiple Scales
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Mathias Schubert($200,076), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln
2. Huilian Ma($199,192), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Producing Safe Drinking, Safe Drinking Water, Transport And Retention, Anisotropic Colloids, Colloidal Particles, Natural Colloids, Porous Media, Surface Charge, Surface-charge Heterogeneity, Groundwater, Non-biological, Non-spherical, Observations, Percent, Public, Shape, Surface-charge, Surfaces.

Deuterium Excess of Water Vapor in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Xuhui Lee($467,517), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Deuterium And Oxygen-18, Remote Source Regions, Boundary Layer, Free Atmosphere, Local Influences, Time Scales, Upper Atmosphere, Vapor D-excess, Vapor Isotope, Water Transport, Water Vapor, ABL, Atmospheric, Climate, Contributions, D-excess, Evapotranspiration, Isotopes, Isotopic, Land, Large-eddy, Laser-based, Model, Modeling, Modules, Moisture, Observations, Pools, Processes, Sources, Temporal.

Effects of Urbanization on Sources and Transport of Dissolved Inorganic Carbon in Watersheds
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Sujay Kaushal($400,201), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Agricultural And Urban, Dissolved Inorganic Carbon, Fate And Transport, Increased River Alkalinization, Sources And Transport, Streams And Rivers, Dic Export, Dic Sources, Drinking Water, Simultaneous Information, Urban Streams, Urbanized Watersheds, Water Hardness, Amounts, Coastal, Concentrations, Concrete, Does, Estimate, Focused, Forest, Geochemical, Has, Hydrologic, Increases, Increasing, Land, Outcomes, Potential, Shifts, Storms, Suburban, Transported, Urbanization.

Advances in Understanding Pore-Scale Dispersion
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Sourabh V Apte($384,073), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Dispersion Process, Macroscopic Behavior, Mass Transfer, Numerical Simulations, Porous Media, Porous Medium, Applications, Complex, Developing, Flow, Has, Level, Lungs, Methods, Pores, Processes, Resolution, Simulate, Spread, Subsurface, Theory, Unprecedented, Useful, Via, X-ray.

AGU Chapman Conference - The MADE Challenge for Groundwater Transport in Highly Heterogeneous Aquifers: Modeling and Characterization at the Field Scale and Promising Future Direc
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. David W Hyndman($45,120), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
Key terms: Characterization And Modeling, Highly Heterogeneous Aquifers, Aquifer Characterization, Promising Avenues, Advances, Challenges, Conference, Field, Focus, Future, Groundwater, Heterogeneity, Media, Site, Subsurface, Synthesize, Transport.

Collaborative Research: Interannual and seasonal variability of snowpack in the Sierra Nevada from tree rings.
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Eylon Shamir($351,379), Hydrologic Research Center, San Diego
2. Ramzi Touchan($354,879), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Water Resources Management, Hydrologic Variables, Hydrological Characteristics, Hydrological Variables, Sierra Nevada, Snow Pack, Soil Moisture, Tree Rings, Tree-ring Chronologies, Basin, Basins, California, Changing, Climate, Describe, Development, Evolution, Existing, Features, Increasing, Intra-annual, Network, Networks, Observational, Pose, Precipitation, Processes, Properties, River, Sampling, Seasonal, Short, Snowmelt, Snowmelt-driven, Snowpack, Spatial, Spatiotemporal, Tree-ring, Useful, Watershed, Watersheds, Western.

Collaborative Research: Unraveling Transport in Porous Media through the Integration of Isotopic Tracers, Geophysical Data, and Numerical Modeling
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Matthew Fantle($220,191), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Diogo Bolster($144,093), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
3. Kamini Singha($211,787), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: Contaminated Groundwater Sites, Transport And Reaction, Contaminant Transport, Human Health, Solute Transport, Transport Models, Chemistry, Controls, Diffusion, Elemental, Existing, Explore, Flow, Fractionation, Geochemistry, Heterogeneity, Isotopic, Labs, Local, Parameters, Poor, Reactions, Remediation, School, Strategies, Theories.

FRACTURED AQUIFER CHARACTERIZATION USING SMART NON-NEWTONIAN TRACERS
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. John S Selker($284,986), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Fractured Rock Aquifers, Aquifer Properties, Experimental Approach, Field Site, Flow Paths, Fluid Flow, Fractured Aquifer, Fractured Rocks, Hydraulic Properties, Non-newtonian Fluids, Allow, Aperture, Apertures, Based, Characterize, Chasing, Formation, France, Investigate, Lab, Laboratory, Models, Non-newtonian, Numerical, Practical, Preferential, Shthinning, Tested, Theoretical, Tracer, Transport, Unique, Water.

CAREER: Refining forest management strategies to maximize hydrologic gains from snow dominated watersheds
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Mukesh Kumar($570,291), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Patch And Gap, Consequent Hydrologic, Forest Management, Forest Patch, Gap Creation, North Carolina, Radiation Model, Snow Accumulation, Snow Melt, Configurations, Decision, Developed, Ecosystem, Enhance, Fmps, Forested, Forests, Idaho, Implemented, Integrated, Models, Multiple, Peak, Services, Testing, Thinning, Water, Western.

An Exploration of Multi Decadal, Continental-Scale Evapotranspiration Inferred from Weather Data
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Guido D Salvucci($333,635), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Decadal Time Scales, Seasonal And Geographic, Atmospheric Water, Climate Models, Direct Influence, Relative Humidity, Water Balance, Water Resource, Atmosphere, Availability, Broad, Calibration, Dependent, Energy, Estimating, Forcing, Has, Land, Limited, Method, Regional, Required, Requires, Soil, Space-time, Surface, Temperature, Trends, Vegetation, Wind.

CAREER: Advancing the science and education of land surface-atmosphere interactions: Interweaving multiscale experimental and modeling approaches for Land Surface Models
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Kathleen M Smits($545,474), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: Land Surface Models, Mass And Energy, Water And Climate, Computational Models, Energy Exchange, Modeling Approaches, Multiple Scales, Transport Mechanisms, Answering, Atmosphere, Challenge, Contribute, Critical, Differences, Education, Environmental, Experimental, Feedbacks, Formulations, Heterogeneity, Integrated, Interactions, Interface, Knowledge, Laboratory, Land-atmosphere, Lsms, Methods, Parameterizations, Prediction, Predictions, Process, Processes, Representation, STEM, Soil, Students, Subsurface, Unique, Watershed.

Collaborative Research: Revealing the Role of Less-Mobile Porosity in Hyporheic Denitrification and Greenhouse Gas Production
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Kamini Singha($88,932), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
2. Martin A Briggs($204,148), University of Connecticut, Storrs
3. Jay P Zarnetske($239,033), Michigan State University, East Lansing
Key terms: Anoxic Microsites, Cleansing Function, Excess Nitrogen, Greenhouse Gas, Less-mobile Pore, Nitrogen Biogeochemistry, Outreach Partners, Pore Space, Stream Sediments, Biogeochemical, Compounds, Connect, Contaminants, Denitrification, Developing, Directly, Dynamics, Established, Exchange, Exhibits, Existing, Experiments, Field, Flow, Global, Groundwater, Hyporheic, Less-mobile, Methods, Microzones, Models, Nitrate, Principles, Process-based, Reveal, River, Rivers, STEM, Sense, Sensing, Solute, Storage, Streambed, Techniques, Transform, Transport, Via, Water, Watershed.

Collaborative Research: Surface water-groundwater connectivity in the Tidal Freshwater Zone and the fate of nitrogen in tidal rivers
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Rebecca T Barnes($94,909), Colorado College, Colorado Springs
2. Audrey H Sawyer($289,432), Ohio State University, Columbus
Key terms: Christina River Basin, Tidal Freshwater Zones, Water Table Fluctuations, Bank Storage, Ecosystem Service, Hot Spot, Nitrate Removal, Nitrogen Fluxes, Nitrogen Removal, Nitrogen Transformation, Numerical Models, Removal Efficiency, Riparian Aquifer, Riparian Aquifers, Shallow Groundwater, Tidally Induced, Coast, Denitrification, Estuaries, Experiments, Field, Increases, Interface, Laboratory, Management, Net, Nitrification, Pis, Processes, Promote, Range, Riverbeds, Semidiurnal, Services, TFZ, Tfzs, Upscale, Via, Watershed.

Threshold hydrologic change across the intermittent-persistent snow transition
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Stephanie Kampf($268,080), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Streamflow And Soil, Approach Examining, Snotel Sites, Snow Loss, Snow Persistence, Snow Transitions, Soil Moisture, Time Scales, Climate, Examine, Geographic, Hydrologic, Information, Persistent, Process, Regions, Resource, Simulations, Snowpack, Student, Water, Western.

IMPACT OF MACROPORES AND SOIL PIPES ON HYPORHEIC EXCHANGE IN STREAMS
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Erich T Hester($252,411), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Lung Model Exchange, Streams And Rivers, Aquatic Organisms, Eastern Usa, Field Surveys, Hyporheic Exchange, Hyporheic Zone, Macropore Geometry, Degree, Enhance, Has, Levels, Macropores, Presence, Quality, Range, Reactions, Sediment, Subsurface, Transport, Vital, Water.

Collaborative Research: From Roots to Rock - Linking Evapotranspiration and Groundwater Fluxes in the Critical Zone
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Kamini Singha($244,771), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: Evapotranspiration And Groundwater, Antecedent Moisture, Conceptual Models, Critical Zone, Surface Water, Connections, Dynamics, Hydrological, Interactions, Isotopic, Movement, Pumping, Soil, Subsurface, Transpiration, Tree.

Catchment Science: Interactions of Hydrology, Biology and Geochemistry
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2015; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Kathleen C Weathers($58,500), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Catchment Scientists, Catchments, Collaborations, Episodic, Experts, Field, Focused, Future, GRC, GRS, Global, Gordon, Has, Opportunity, Plants, Programs, Signals, Soils, Water.

RAPID: Hydrological responses to the August, 2014, Napa earthquake
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2015; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Michael Manga($18,281), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Napa Earthquake, Discharge, Dry, Earthquakes, Flowing, Has, Hydrologic, Stream, Streams, Subsurface, Unique, Water.

Collaborative Research: Electromagnetic Induction in Geological Formations: A Careful Evaluation of the Subdiffusion Perspective
Award Effective Date: 08/10/2014; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Chester J Weiss($20,834), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Electromagnetic Geophysics, Electromagnetic Induction, Classical, Complexity, Current, FMR, Fractional, Geological, Hydrologic, Maxwell, Methods, Scale-dependent, Subsurface, Traditional.

INSPIRE: A CUAHSI-NCAR Collaboration to Improve Hydrologic Process Representation in Weather, Climate and Earth System Models
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: INSPIRE

1. Ying Fan Reinfelder($999,775), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Large-scale Water Cycle, Stores And Fluxes, Land Model, Large-scale Models, Large-scale Water, Model Evaluation, Water Stores, Advance, Aquifers, CLM, Capabilities, Climate, Continent, Division, Dynamics, Ecosystem, Framework, Future, Hydrologic, Hydrologists, Implemented, Knowledge, Lakes, Modelers, Predict, Process, Recommendations, Represent, Simulation, Simulations, Soils, Synthesis, Wetlands.

INSPIRE: Forging new connections among mammalian evolution, environmental change, and tectonics during the Eocene.
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: INSPIRE

1. K Christopher Beard($596,654), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Eocene Mammal, Mammalian Evolution, Primate Ancestors, Southwest Asia, Activities, Africa, Anthropoid, Anthropoids, Asian, Behavorial, Directorate, Division, Environment, Environmental, Explore, Fauna, Faunal, Fossil, INSPIRE, International, Kansas, Links, Mammals, Office, Potential, Primates, Program, SBE, Tectonic, Turkey.

Collaborative Research: The Response of Continental Hydrothermal Systems to Tectonic, Magmatic, and Climatic Forcing
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: INTEGRATED EARTH SYSTEMS

1. Sherilyn C Fritz($159,415), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln
2. Kang Ding($593,632), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
3. Karen M Luttrell($105,034), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
4. Cathy L Whitlock($270,375), Montana State University, Bozeman
5. Robert N Harris($312,870), Oregon State University, Corvallis
6. Robert A Sohn($1,636,337), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Geological And Environmental, Continental Hydrothermal, Hydrothermal Explosions, Magmatic Activity, Yellowstone Lake, Activities, Climate, Climatic, Combination, Conditions, Control, Coupled, Deposits, Drive, Field, Flow, Fluids, Forcing, Modeling, Multi-phase, Processes, Range, Tectonic, Time-scales.

Collaborative Research: Tectonic and climatic forcing of hydrological systems in the southern Great Basin: Implications for ancient and future aquatic ecosystem resilience
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: INTEGRATED EARTH SYSTEMS

1. Jeffrey R Knott($98,077), CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation, Fullerton
2. Marty D Frisbee($372,552), Purdue University, West Lafayette
3. Fred M Phillips($1,526,181), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
4. Brian P Hedlund($238,028), University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas
5. Donald Sada($253,265), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
6. Laura K Rademacher($304,589), University of the Pacific, Stockton
Key terms: Endemic Species, Genetic Divergence, Aquatic, Basin, Biogeographical, Driven, Evidence, Evolution, Extensional, Fragmentation, Geological, Groundwater, Has, History, Hydrological, Model, Models, Perennial, Pis, Presence, Region, Regional, Simulate, Southern, Spring, Springs.

Travel Support for US Scientists and Engineers to Attend Second Krafla Magma Drilling Project Workshop, Iceland
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: INTEGRATED EARTH SYSTEMS

1. John C Eichelberger($14,216), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Drilling Program, Coring, Countries, Facilities, Has, Hole, ICDP, IDDP, IDDP-, Iceland, KMDP, Krafla, LV, Magma, Meeting, Opportunity, Participants, September, Was, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Alteration of mantle peridotite: Geochemical fluxes and dynamics of far from equilibrium transport
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: INTEGRATED EARTH SYSTEMS

1. Everett L Shock($299,535), Arizona State University, Tempe
2. James G Hirth($184,543), Brown University, Providence
3. Robert A Sohn($280,055), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
4. Craig E Manning($239,719), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
5. Marc W Spiegelman($2,307,848), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Peridotite Alteration, Subduction Zone, Boreholes, Carbonation, Drilling, Fluids, Geochemical, Has, Hydration, Hydrothermal, Impossible, Mantle, Near, Observations, Oman, Ophiolite, Pis, Processes, Quantify, Surface, Tectonic, Temperatures, Weathering.

RAPID: The Himalaya Connection Video, Expanded
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: INTEGRATED EARTH SYSTEMS

1. Diane LaMacchia($87,452), EARTH IMAGES FOUNDATION, Oakland
Key terms: Himalaya Connection, Lessons Learned, Distributed, Documentary, Earthquake, Film, Global, Incorporate, India, Information, Nepal, Producers, RAPID, Region, Television.

A Comprehensive Multi-Scale Study of the Impact of Capillary-Held Water Films on Fluid Motion, Transport and Mass Transfer in the Unsaturated Zone
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: INTEGRATED EARTH SYSTEMS

1. Tohren C Kibbey($368,943), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Capillary-held Water Films, Flow And Transport, Solid Grain Surfaces, Capillary-held Water, Mass Transfer, Unsaturated Zone, Wide Range, Configuration, Information, Knowledge, Magnitude, Phenomena, Previously, Quantitative, Roughness, Soils, Techniques.

Spatiotemporal characteristics of basal resistance to ice flow in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet from satellite observations and numerical modeling
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: IRFP-Inter Res Fellowship Prog

1. Brent Minchew($184,000), Minchew Brent, Pasadena
Key terms: British Antarctic Survey, Sea Level Rise, Space And Time, Basal Resistance, Glacier Flow, Ice Flow, Ice Sheet, Mechanical Properties, Bed, Climate, Collapse, Current, Education, Evidence, Fellowship, Glaciers, Models, Numerical, Observations, Timescales, WAIS.

Hydrogen isotope response of algal lipids to variable nutrient concentrations in Swiss lakes
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: IRFP-Inter Res Fellowship Prog

1. Sarah N Ladd($184,000), Ladd Sarah N, Seattle
Key terms: Hydrogen Isotope Fractionation, Algal Lipids, Nutrient Availability, Nutrient Pollution, Past Climate, Algae, Composition, Concentrations, Developing, EPP, Eawag, Economic, Environmental, Fellowship, Has, Histories, Lakes, Local, Natural, Program, Range, Sediment, Swiss, Variables, Water.

Acquisition of a Laser Ablation-HPLC-ICP-MS system
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2016; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Tim K Lowenstein($249,800), SUNY at Binghamton, Binghamton
Key terms: Environmental Health, Trace Metal, Allow, Chemistry, Concentrations, Determination, Engineering, Fluid, HPLC, ICP-MS, Implications, Instrument, Marine, Past, Processes, Promoting, Toxic.

Facility Support: Continued capture of postseismic deformation using GPS instrumentation on the Andaman Islands due to the great 2004 and 2012 earthquakes
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. John P Puchakayala($52,298), University of Memphis, Memphis
Key terms: Boxing Day, Gps Network, Available, Crust, Cycle, Deformation, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Fault, Knowledge, Mitigation, Promoting, Was.

Consortium for Materials Properties Research in Earth Sciences (COMPRES): National Facilities and Infrastructure Development for High-Pressure Geosciences Research
Award Effective Date: 11/16/2015; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Carl B Agee($5,015,924), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Pressures And Temperatures, Beam Line, Beam Lines, Compres-supported Facilities, Diamond Cell, Earths Interior, Light Source, National Laboratory, National Synchrotron, ALS, APS, Advanced, Apparatus, COMPTECH, Capabilities, Center, Compres-supported, Consortium, DAC, Dynamical, Experimentation, Experiments, Extreme, Facility, Geophysical, Heating, High-pressure, Inelastic, NSLS, NSLS-II, Properties, Resistance, Scattering, Seismological, X-ray, XB.

Atom Probe Tomography (APT) Workshop for Earth Sciences
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2015; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Alberto Perez-Huerta($46,997), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
Key terms: Atom-probe Tomography, Spatial Resolution, Analytical, Atom-probe, Benefits, Geological, Information, Technique, Workshop.

Design of an Integrated Borehole Seismic and Geodetic Sensor
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Mark A Zumberge($100,423), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Concept, GPS, Geodetic, Instrument, Instruments, Noise, Observations, Operate, Processes, Seismic, Seismometers, Significantly.

Collaborative Research: Field-Based Quantification of Dehyration Flux from Subducting Lithologies, Syros and Sifnos, Greece
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Ethan F Baxter($122,233), Boston College, Chestnut Hill
Key terms: Depth And Temperature, Primary Dehydration Flux, Subduction Zone Dehydration, Garnet Growth, Subducted Rocks, Thermodynamic Analysis, Zoned Garnet, Continuous, Information, Methods, Predictions, Processes, Rate, Release, Sifnos, Unique, Water.

A Distributed Coaxial Cable Strainmeter for Earth Monitoring
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Tao Wei($150,000), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Coaxial Cable, Coaxial Strainmeter, Based, Deformation, Development, Electromagnetic, Explore, Potential, Resolution, Signal.

MRI: Acquisition of a Scanning Electron Microscope with Energy Dispersive Spectrometry for Collaborative Research in Geobiology
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Russell Shapiro($207,479), Chico State Enterprises, Chico
Key terms: Compact, Cross-disciplinary, Current, Environment, Geobiology, Instrument, Microbes, Mineral, SEM, Undergraduate.

Development of a Temperature Compensated Optical Fiber Strainmeter For Detecting Slow Slip Events
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Mark A Zumberge($167,481), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Optical Fiber, Slow Slip, Borehole, Buried, Deep, Horizontal, Improvements, Instrument, Length, PFO, Recording, Sensor, Shallow, Sses, Strain, Strainmeter, Trench, Underground, Zone.

MRI: Acquisition of Thermal Ionization Mass-Spectrometer for UCSC W.M. Keck Facility
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Adina Paytan($540,000), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Applied, Dynamics, Facility, Isotopic, Precision, TIMS, Tools, UCSC.

Constraints on Plateau Architecture and Assembly From Deep Crustal Xenoliths, Northern Altiplano (Southern Peru)
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Mihai N Ducea($111,994), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Crustal Xenoliths, Deepest Portions, Volcanic Rocks, Age, Altiplano, Assemblages, Cuzco, Geochemical, Geochronology, Incas, Isotopic, Main, Metamorphism, Origin, Peru, Petrographic, Petrologic, Plateau, Region, Student, Thermobarometric.

Development of an In-situ Dissolved Oxygen Sensing Network to Map the Temporal Dynamics of the Oxic/Anoxic Interface in Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Terence L Marsh($419,999), Michigan State University, East Lansing
Key terms: Current Technologies, Fiber Optic, Oxygen Concentration, Oxygen Sensor, Water Quality, Accessible, Aquatic, Boundary, Capable, Deployed, Device, Ecosystem, In-situ, Instrumentation, Local, Michigan, Monitoring, Optical, Resource, Techniques.

MRI: Acquisition of a Multicollector Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer for Earth Science Research at the University of Texas at Austin
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Alison M Koleszar($609,429), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Jackson School, Outreach Program, Carbonates, Evolution, Generation, Geosciences, Instrument, Investigate, Isotopes, Isotopic, MC-ICP-MS, Magma, Pb, Reconstruct, Students, Texas, Variety.

MRI: Development of a State-of-the-art High-Resolution Tomography Facility Customized for Dynamic (4D) Imaging
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. T Matthew Evans($815,768), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Porous Media, Remediation Efforts, X-ray Ct, Behavior, Capabilities, Computed, Flow, Fluids, Geologic, Groundwater, Imaging, Instrument, Interiors, Limited, Management, National, Oregon, Resolution, Sub-micron, Subsurface, Time, X-ray.

Collaborative Research: RAPID: Nevado del Ruiz Volcano, Colombia: Enhancing Geodetic Observations and Digital Elevation Models in Response to Recent Activity
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Glen S Mattioli($19,977), UNAVCO, Inc., Boulder
2. Sylvain Charbonnier($29,450), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Del Ruiz Volcano, Surrounding Nevado Del, Surface Deformation, Activity, Colombia, DEM, Destructive, Development, GPS, Generate, Generation, Glacier, Has, Lahar, Local, Melted, Near, Observations, Quickly, Radar, Resolution, Similar, Terrestrial, Town, Volcanic.

Collaborative Research: Student & Early Career Scientist Travel Support for the 2015 First Order Reversal Curve (FORC) Magnetism Workshop
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Joshua M Feinberg($16,000), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
2. Leonard Spinu($1,000), University of New Orleans, New Orleans
Key terms: Forc Workshop, Graduate Students, Lectures, Magnetic, Optimize, Participants, Participating, Physics, Poster, Technique, Tool, Training, Underlie.

Acquisition of spectroscopic and mass spectrometric instrumentation for the evaluation of N cycling and provenance
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Nathaniel E Ostrom($470,738), Michigan State University, East Lansing
Key terms: Isotopic Composition, Mass Spectrometer, Amino, Analysis, Aquatic, Equipment, Gas, Isotope, LCOS, Nitrogen, SIRMS, Stable, Trophic.

Acquisition of a gas source mass spectrometer for high precision - high sensitivity (delta)17O and (delta)18O analyses of silicates
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2015; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Zachary Sharp($197,938), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Mass Spectrometer, Geological, Involving, Measuring, Platform, Potential, Precision, Resolution, Rock, Serve, Ultra-high.

Upgrade of community-orientated ICP-MS facilities for teaching and research at the University of Michigan
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2015; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Joel D Blum($534,820), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Isotope Concentrations, Ancient, Environments, Geochemistry, HR-ICP-MS, Ice, Infrastructure, Marine, Metals, Michigan, Radioactive, Sediments, Surface, Trace.

Early Career: Technician Support for a Field-Based Research Program in Ecohydrology
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2015; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Ryan E Emanuel($252,899), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Participation, Technician, Water.

An experimental study on grain-size evolution during phase transformations in the mantle transition zone and its influence on rheological properties
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Shun-ichiro Karato($331,192), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Deep Interior, Mantle Convection, Phase Transition, Phase Transitions, Transition Zone, Caused, Deformability, Earth, Focus, Magnitude, Minerals, Pressure, Size, Time, Various, Viscosity.

MRI: ACQUISITION OF A MULTICOLLECTOR-ICP-MASS SPECTROMETER FOR MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND TEACHING AT NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Jani C Ingram($688,824), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: Rural Arizona, Advancing, Anthropogenic, Environmental, MC-ICPMS, Mass, Students, Training.

Construction of a gas-handling system for measurement of bond ordering in methane gas
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Edward D Young($31,025), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Gas-source Isotope Ratio, Atmospheric Methane, Gas-source Isotope, Methane Gas, Applications, Benefit, CHDCH, Certainty, Formation, Has, Instrument, Isotopic, Mass, Ratios, Society, Sources, Tracing.

Durations and Rates of High Temperature Metamorphism During Archean Orogenesis: Implications for Early Earth's Tectonics
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Mark J Caddick($385,730), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Crustal Heating, Plate Tectonic, Thermodynamic Modeling, Archean, Characteristics, Conditions, Continent, Cratons, Depths, Durations, Earth, Extreme, HTUHT, Mechanisms, Metamorphism, Paths, Period, Processes, Rock, Stable, Temperatures, Timescales.

Collaborative Research: RUI: Provenance and Paleomagnetic Analysis of the Ochoco Basin: A Window into Late Cretaceous Paleogeography
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Bernard A Housen($116,518), Western Washington University, Bellingham
2. Kathleen D Surpless($150,918), Trinity University, San Antonio
Key terms: Cretaceous Sedimentary Rocks, Detailed Provenance Analysis, Independent And Complimentary, Late Cretaceous Sedimentary, Paleogeography And Tectonic, Timing And Magnitude, Blue Mountains, Contribute Information, Cretaceous Paleogeography, Detailed Provenance, Dextral Translation, East-central Oregon, Mitchell Inlier, Ochoco Basin, Paleomagnetic Analysis, Paleomagnetic Signature, Tectonic History, Accretion, Basins, Clastic, Combined, Controversy, Cordillera, Cordilleran, Determining, Developed, Distinct, East-central, Elsewhere, Geologic, Graduate, Has, Long-standing, Margin, Mesozoic, Methods, Models, National, North, Oblique, Obtained, Origin, Paleolatitude, Plate, Potential, Principal, Process, Robust, STEM, Sediments, Separate, Students, Terrane, Terranes, Time, Training, Was, Western.

EAGER; Exploratory Research for a Mass Flow Apparatus Facility
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Greg Valentine($49,993), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Management Concepts, Mass Flow, Mass Flows, Sensing Modalities, Allow, Capabilities, Conditions, Consideration, Considerations, Controlled, Design, EAGER, Envisioned, Experiment, Experimental, Inclination, MFA, Models, Ramp, Suitable, Surface, Target, Unprecedented, Variable.

RAPID: Capturing the physics of mountain uplift near the South Alpine Fault New Zealand
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2015; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Roger G Bilham($31,500), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Fault Slip, Mountain Range, Southern Alps, Absolute, Accuracy, Ambiguous, Caused, Decrease, Earthquake, Erosion, Eventually, GPS, Gravimeter, Gravity, Has, Height, Horizontal, January, Landslides, Local, Mass, Measured, Mechanisms, Mm, NSF, Near, Past, Processes, Reduction, Rise, Rock, Rupture, Similar, Squeezing, Summit, Surface, Uplift, Velocity, Zealand.

Early Career: Technical support for a uranium-series isotope geochemistry laboratory focused on Earth?s climate and surface processes
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2015; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. William D McGee($355,536), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Precise And Accurate, Targeted Method Development, Trace Metal Cycling, Weathering And Sediment, Past Climate, Sediment Transport, Technician's Contributions, Uranium-series Isotope, Ages, Analytical, Applications, Benefit, Collaborative, Dating, Efficiency, Evolution, External, Facilitate, Facility, Geochemistry, Geochronology, High-precision, Increasing, Lab, Laboratory, Ocean, Precision, Rates, Students, Substantially, Surface, Technicians, Timescales, Training, Uranium-series, Uranium-thorium.

REU Site: Dynamic Urban Environmental Systems and Sustainability in Newark, NJ
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2015; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Alexander E Gates($356,412), Rutgers University Newark, Newark
Key terms: Inner City, Education, Educational, Effect, Environmental, Experience, Experiences, Geochemistry, Graduate, Impacted, Importance, Natural, Nearby, Pathway, Program, Pursue, STEM, Students, Urban.

Archean continental weathering: Revisiting the Sr isotope seawater curve
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Brian L Beard($218,697), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Banded Iron Formations, Archaean Seawater, Plate Tectonics, Affect, Archean, Carbonates, Continent, Curve, Life, Madison, Ocean, Srsr, Weathering.

Taphonomic and paleoecological investigation of carbonate-hosted Ediacara-type fossils in the Shibantan Member of Yangtze Gorges area
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Shuhai Xiao($225,572), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Nsf's Geo Frontier, Obtain And Integrate, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian Period, Ediacara-type Fossils, Engineering Office, Evolutionary History, Graduate Student, Nsf's Geo, Shibantan Fossils, Systematically Excavate, Abstract, Affinities, Animals, Biology, China, Combination, Contributes, Describe, Ecology, Ediacara-type, Ediacaran, Ediacaran-cambrian, Education, Environmental, Eve, Field, Funding, Hosted, Insights, International, Investigate, Jointly, K-, Lichens, Light, Limestones, Ma, Macroscopic, Microscopy, Nsfs, Opportunity, Organisms, Paleoecology, Preservation, Programs, STEM, Sandstones, Section, Surface, Taphonomic, Taphonomy, Techniques, Various, Virginia.

The nature of the Ediacaran to early Cambrian geomagnetic field
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. John A Tarduno($295,465), University of Rochester, Rochester
Key terms: Continental Plate Velocities, Energetic Solar Particles, Silicate Crystal Paleomagnetic, Single Silicate Crystal, Students And Undergraduates, Entire Solid, Field Studies, Geomagnetic Field, Graduate Students, Reversed Frequently, Southern Canada, Uniformitarian Assumptions, Acquire, Ago, Cambrian, Classroom, Constrain, Core, Degrees, Ediacaran, Explosion, Fidelity, IITPW, Intrusion, Laboratory, Life, Ma, Method, Million, Past, Planet, Preliminary, Rotated, Skills, Sparked, Suggestion, Time, Training, Unusual, Unusually, Veracity, Was, Weak.

P2C2: Late Holocene Changes in the SPCZ from Algal Lipid D/H in Lakes Across Oceania
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Julian P Sachs($424,268), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Tropical South Pacific, Wallis And Futuna, Climate Models, Dh Ratios, Rainfall Rate, Rainfall Rates, Sediment Cores, Solomon Islands, Spcz Region, Tropical Rainfall, Abstract, Ago, Collected, Current, Dinosterol, Expansion, Global, Has, Mmday, Produce, Range, Regions, Samoa, Tropics.

Collaborative Research: GPS-based terrestrial water storage anomalies during hydrologic extremes: linking hydrologic process, solid-earth response, and monitoring networks
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Kristine M Larson($321,543), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Duncan Carr Agnew($204,402), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Decade And Forward, Resolution And Accuracy, Step Towards Applying, Tws Anomalies Estimated, Combining Hydrologic, Estimate Tws, Existing Tools, Existing Tws, Expected Outcomes, Gps Observations, Gps-based Tws, Hydrologic Applications, Land Surface, Monitor Tws, Monitoring Tws, Past Decade, Soil Moisture, Terrestrial Water, Thousand Stations, Tws Monitoring, Vertical Position, Water Cycle, Advance, Comparison, Components, Continent, Displacement, Drought, Errors, Estimates, Evaluating, Gps-based, Groundwater, Has, Quantified, Quantify, Range, Recently, Snow, Start-of-the-art, Storage, Third, Time.

REU Site: Collaborative Research: Field-Based Research on the Gulf of California Rift Margin, Baja California Sur (Mexico)
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Cathy J Busby($110,876), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Santa Rosalía, Baja, Basin, California, Conducting, Cooperation, Field, Global, International, Lab, Mexican, Mining, México, REU, Students.

RAPID: Galapagos lake chemistry and plankton assemblage during the 2015-16 El Nino
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2015; Program: International Research Collab

1. Julian P Sachs($74,986), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Eastern Equatorial Pacific, Strong El Niño, Tropical Pacific, Climate, Comprehensive, Date, ENSO, Galápagos, Influence, Island, Lake, Lakes, Past, Poza, Precipitation, Rainfall, Reconstructions, Region, Temperature, Uncertainties.

Collaborative Research: Thrust Belt Response to Rapid Surface Uplift of the Altiplano: A Field Test of Cordilleran Cyclicity in Southern Bolivia
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: International Research Collab

1. Sean P Long($21,328), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Andean Fold-thrust Belt, Cordilleran Cyclicity Model, Cyclicity Model Predicts, Andean Fold-thrust, Fold-thrust Belt, Rapid Uplift, Southern Bolivia, Surface Uplift, Bolivian, Collaboration, Cross-section, Deformation, Dense, Field, Front, Graduate, Hinterland, Million, Orogenic, Plateau, Prediction, Propagation, Shortening, Timing.

Spatio-temporal seismicity changes and high-resolution fault zone structures associated with recent large earthquakes in China
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: International Research Collab

1. Zhigang Peng($260,076), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Fault Zone Structures, Seismic Activities, China, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Evidence, Evolutions, Foreshocks, High-resolution, Lushan, Mainshock, Mainshocks, Ms, Newly, Processes, Properties, Seismicity, Spatio-temporal, Times, Waveform, Wenchuan, Yushu, Yutian, Zones.

Collaborative Research: A Structural, Thermochronologic, and Provenance Investigation of a Hypothesized Transition From Subduction to Slab Breakoff in the Greater Caucasus
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: International Research Collab

1. Eric S Cowgill($275,415), University of California-Davis, Davis
2. Nathan A Niemi($271,458), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Graduate Students, Low-temperature Thermochronometry, Ocean Basin, Slab Breakoff, Transient Geodynamic, Adjacent, Analyses, Armenia, Beneath, Caucasus, Collaborations, Collision, Collisional, Detrital, Development, Geologic, Georgia, History, International, Low-temperature, Orogen, Process, Provenance, Range, Sea, Subduction, Training.

Collaborative Research: Reversal frequency versus ancient field strength: Clues from the Jurassic and Cretaceous
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: International Research Collab

1. Hubertus Staudigel($282,237), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Anthony Koppers($77,399), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Average Field Strengths, Magnetic Field Strength, Mesozoic Dipole Low, Arc Sequences, Paleointensity Experiments, Rapid Reversals, Age, Allow, Apparently, Armenia, Armenian, Based, Calibration, Cretaceous, Direct, Jurassic, MDL, Period, Periods, Quality, Recovery, Subjected, TRM, Time, Was.

Surface Elevation History of the Northern North America Cordillera as Constraint for Eocene Tectonic and Climatic Boundary Conditions
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: International Research Collab

1. C. Page Chamberlain($283,800), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Nevada And California, Surface Elevation History, Central Nevada, Mountain Belts, Northern Rockies, Surface Uplift, Tectonic Models, Western Washington, Ago, Aims, Broad, Constraints, Cordillera, Development, Education, Eocene, Evidence, Geochemical, Graduate, Growth, Highland, Idaho, Increased, International, Ma, Million, Montana, Outreach, Paleoelevation, Phase, Plateau, Proxies, Public, Regions, STEM, Slab, Southern, Southward, Student.

Collaborative Research: Earthquake Gates: Linking Earthquake Rupture Length to the Dynamics of Restraining Double Bends on the Altyn Tagh Fault
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: International Research Collab

1. Michael E Oskin($415,672), University of California-Davis, Davis
2. Benchun Duan($165,739), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Altyn Tagh Fault, Central Altyn Tagh, Numerical Rupture Simulations, Potential Earthquake Sizes, Restraining Double Bends, Dynamic Rupture, Earthquake Rupture, Earthquake Ruptures, Fault Geometry, Field Observations, Pingding Shan, Rupture Models, Rupture Propagation, Slip Behavior, Apply, Assess, Chinese, Collaboration, Earthquakes, Effects, International, Length, Likelihood, Predict, Range, Rare, STEM, Societal, Stress, Strike-slip, Students.

AGU Chapman Conference on Slow Slip Phenomena
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: International Research Collab

1. Pranoti Asher($20,000), American Geophysical Union, Washington
Key terms: Slow Slip Phenomena, Laboratory Experiments, Slow Earthquakes, Subduction Zone, Subduction Zones, Conference, Fault, Faults, Modeling, Observational, Observations, Observed, Processes, Seismic, Structure.

Using the World's Fastest Slipping Normal Fault to Understand the Mechanics of Low-angle Normal Faults
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: International Research Collab

1. Daniel F Stockli($523,289), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Low-angle Normal Fault, Low-angle Normal Faults, Fastest Slipping, Fault Mechanics, Low-angle Normal, Mai'iu Fault, Slip Rates, Zealand Scientists, Active, Collaboration, Continent, Dips, Displacements, Earthquakes, Evolution, Experiments, GPS, Guinea, Increased, Less, Maiiu, Modeling, Natural, Papua, Public, Rapidly, STEM, Strength, Structural.

Workshops on Volcanoes - Santiaguito, Guatemala
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: International Research Collab

1. Jeffrey B Johnson($36,400), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Volcan Santiaguito, Activity, Analysis, Diverse, Exchange, Field, Geophysical, Techniques, Volcanic, Volcano, Workshop.

Toward a Better Understanding of Magmatic Processes and Volcanic Hazards at Nyiragongo Volcano, DR Congo
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: International Research Collab

1. Kenneth W Sims($267,619), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Flows And Parasitic, Age Dating, Hazard Assessment, Lava Flows, Lava Lake, Lavas Collected, Nyiragongo's Lava, Parasitic Cones, Past Eruptions, Unusual Lavas, Accomplished, Active, Alkaline, Basic, City, Congo, Dangerous, Decay, Framework, Goma, Highly, Isotopes, Nyiragongos, Population, Primary, Processes, Sources, Temporal, Volcanic, Volcano.

Quantifying Geochemical Exchange at the Slab-Wedge Interface with Experiments and Natural Samples
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: International Research Collab

1. Christy B Till($275,216), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Arc Magmas, Chemical Reactions, Geochemical Exchange, High-pressure Experiments, Mantle Wedge, Subducted Plate, Volcanic Arcs, Analyses, Base, Boron, Composition, Earth, High-pressure, In-situ, Isotopic, Melt, Minerals, Rare, Sediment, Specific, Studying, Subduction.

CAREER: Taking the hydrochemical pulse of the critical zone in small catchments of the Andes-Amazon
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: International Research Collab

1. A Joshua West($498,906), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Critical Zone, Chemical, Education, Existing, Generation, Groundwater, Hydrochemical, Insight, Integrated, Natural, Nutrients, Peru, Precipitation, Rock-derived, Soil, Themes, Topographic, Transition, Water.

Collaborative Research: Exhumation History of the Indian Lesser Himalaya: Discriminating Tectonic Models with Implications for the Neogene Isotopic Composition of Seawater
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: International Research Collab

1. Brian K Horton($361,772), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: 'outer' Lesser Himalayan, Foreland Basin Deposits, Lesser Himalayan Zone, 'outer' Lesser, Chemical Weathering, Exhumation Timing, Monsoon Intensity, Neogene Seawater, Seawater Chemistry, Thrust Fault, Thrust Propagation, Belt, Collision, Constrain, Crust, Dating, Deformation, Distinct, Global, Graduate, Has, Increase, India, Indian, Million, Models, Osos, Potential, Processes, Provenance, Rock, Sequence, Structural, Student, Tectonic, Uplift, Was, Zircon, Zones.

Biotechnology of thiocyanate degradation: an exploration using meta-omics tools to understand the microbial communities responsible for remediation of mining wastewater
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: International Research Collab

1. Jillian F Banfield($255,079), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Wastewater Treatment, Breakdown, Byproducts, Chemical, Environment, Industrial, Laboratory, Microbial, Microorganisms, Mining, Nitrogen, Organisms, Potential, Process, Remediation, Responsible, Thiocyanate.

REU Site: Investigating the structure and origin of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa, using complementary geochemical and geophysical studies
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: International Research Collab

1. Andrew A Nyblade($456,686), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Bushveld Complex, Reu Site, Analysis, BC, Collected, Continent, Crust, Cubic, Field, Geosciences, Igneous, Largest, Participating, Program, Rock, Students, Summer, Was.

Archeomagnetism of Southern Africa: Implications for Longevity of the South Atlantic Anomaly
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: International Research Collab

1. John A Tarduno($309,999), University of Rochester, Rochester
Key terms: South Atlantic Anomaly, Core-mantle Boundary, Earth's Core, Flux Expulsion, Geomagnetic Field, Iron Age, Magnetic Field, South Africa, Southern Africa, Time Scales, AD, African, Archeomagnetic, Beneath, Core-mantle, Education, History, Intensity, LLVSP, Low, Model, Program, Region, Reversals, SAA, Site, Sites, Structure, Values.

MRI: Acquisition of a Gravity Meter for Geophysical research and teaching
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Kevin L Mickus($82,803), Missouri State University, Springfield
Key terms: Relative Gravimeter, Geophysics, Missouri, Subsurface.

MRI: Acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Plasma- Mass Spectrometry (ICP MS) for elemental concentration and speciation analysis at Montclair State University
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Xiaona Li($168,245), Montclair State University, Montclair
Key terms: Analytical, Enhance, Food, ICP-MS, Mathematics, Population, Programs, Quality, Undergraduate.

MRI: Acquisition of integrated optical spectroscopy system at the Advanced Photon Source
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Vitali B Prakapenka($334,275), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Extreme Conditions, APS, Advance, Advanced, Chemical, Combined, Enhance, Nanomaterials, Properties, Spectroscopy, State-of-the-art.

MRI: ACQUISITION OF A SHALLOW-WATER AUTONOMOUS MULTIBEAM HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYING SYSTEM
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Daniel Shugar($250,990), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Traditional Survey Vessels, Hydrographic Surveying, Shallow Water, Has, Lakes, Mapping, Proglacial, Promoting, Rivers, USV.

MRI: Acquisition of a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) with EDS, EBSD and CL detectors to advance research and undergraduate research training
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Emily M Peterman($437,876), Bowdoin College, Brunswick
Key terms: Crystal Orientation, Undergraduate Students, Ancient, Arctic, Artefacts, Bowdoin, Characterization, Chemistry, Coins, Deformation, Detector, Detectors, Determination, Electron, Equipped, Growth, Instrumentation, Metallurgy, Minerals, Modern, Multiple, Origin, Program, SEM, Tectonic.

MRI: Acquisition of hydrogeophysical downhole nuclear magnetic resonance instrument to support research and student training
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Andrew Parsekian($285,799), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Hydrogen Nuclei, Logging Tool, National Welfare, Nmr Instrument, Nmr Tool, Subsurface Hydrologic, Subsurface Hydrological, Borehole, Groundwater, Has, Mission, NSF, Promoting.

Estimating the Character of Paleomagnetic Field Excursions and Surrounding Secular Variation at Equatorial Latitudes (Equatorial W. Atlantic; MIS 1-4)
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Steven P Lund($226,852), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Global Magnetic Field, Surrounding Normal Secular, Individual Excursions, Laschamp Excursion, Anomalous, Atlantic, Dynamo, Earth, Equatorial, Evidence, Ka, Paleomagnetic, Region, Spacetime, Time, Transect.

Acquisition of a superconducting rock magnetometer
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Julie A Bowles($440,819), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
Key terms: Magnetic Field, Magnetic Phases, Rock Magnetism, Acquisition, Allow, Behavior, Conditions, Earth, Environmental, Instrument, Investigations, Magnetometer, Mineral, Natural, Paleomagnetism, Past, Promoting, SRM, Student, Superconducting, Training.

A Combined Experimental and Theoretical investigation of reactive flow in brittle media with applications to solid Earth geodynamics
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Marc W Spiegelman($409,036), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Computational Models, Brittle, Control, Cracking, Cylinder, Experiments, Explore, Failure, Fluid, Fluids, Induced, Infiltration, Laboratory, Modeling, Natural, Process, Processes, Reactive, Rock, Simplified, Theories, Volume, World.

Collaborative Research: Three-dimensional Onshore-Offshore MT Investigation of Cascadia Margin--Interpretation Phase
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Dean Livelybrooks($102,219), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
2. Adam Schultz($185,877), Oregon State University, Corvallis
3. Kerry W Key($60,631), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Crust And Mantle, Tremor And Slip, Amphibious Magnetotelluric, Episodic Tremor, Plate Interface, Array, Collected, Continent, Critical, Dataset, Dimensional, Distribution, Earthquakes, Electromagnetic, Fluid, Fluids, Geophysical, Half, Has, Imaging, Low, Margin, Offshore, Onshore-offshore, Oregon, Plates, Play, Recently, Region, Relatively, Represent, Seismic, Sensitive, Spatial, Subducting, Subduction, Three-dimensional, Tools, Unique, Washington, Zone.

EAR-PF Late Quaternary slip rates and paleoseismicity of the Sevier Desert Detachment: earthquake hazards of a low-angle normal fault
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Other Global Learning & Trng

1. Timothy A Stahl($170,834), Stahl Timothy A, Marlton
Key terms: Timing And Magnitude, Central Utah, Aims, Earthquakes, Faults, Field, Field-based, LANF, Michigan, SDD, Students, Undergraduate, Zealand.

Experimental Calibration of the Olivine-melt Ni Thermometer Under Hydrous Conditions: Applications to Hygrometry, Oxybarometry and Olivine Phenocryst Growth Rates
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Rebecca A Lange($340,000), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Continental Crust, Hydrous Basalts, Melt Water, Subduction Zones, Apparatus, Applied, Basaltic, Conditions, Experimental, Experiments, Formation, Growth, Liquids, Natural, Olivine, Olivine-melt, Students, Thermometer, Unique.

Processes and Rates of Arc Crust Growth and Differentiation in the Southern Sierra Nevada Crustal Section
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Oliver Jagoutz($320,000), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Felsic Continental Crust, Sierra Nevada Batholith, Lower Crust, Lower Crustal, Rocks Formed, Structurally Continuous, Tejon Ranch, Arc, Arcs, Contemporaneously, Critical, Depth, Emplaced, Exposed, Field, Findings, Geologic, History, Magmatic, Observations, Processes, Programs, Public, Section, Zones.

Li Isotope Behavior in Zircons, with Implications for the Hadean Earth
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. William F McDonough($133,017), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Intense Chemical Weathering, Intense Rainfall, Isotopic Composition, Isotopic Compositions, Li Diffuses, Li Diffusion, Li Isotopes, Light Li, Natural Zircons, Surface Temperatures, Acidic, Analyses, Ancient, Billion, Concentration, Concentrations, Conditions, Crust, Crystallized, Evidence, Exposed, Hadean, Has, Heating, Highly, Lead, Magmas, Nanosims, Possibly, Processes, Reflect, Rock, Sources, Synthesized, Synthetic, Variable, Was.

Laramide Relamination of Mantle Lithosphere Beneath the Colorado Plateau: A Xenolith Study
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Alan D Chapman($163,440), Macalester College, Saint Paul
Key terms: Beneath Western North, Mantle Lithosphere Beneath, Southern California Mantle, Central Arizona, Colorado Plateau, Active, Continent, Displacement, Geologic, Program, Relaminated, Southwest, Students, Subduction, Transition.

Collaborative Research: Rapid Magma Ascent Recorded in Volatile Diffusion Profiles
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Terry A Plank($307,628), Columbia University, New York
2. Erik H Hauri($66,739), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Ascent Rate, Magma Ascent, Magma Rise, Melt Inclusions, Volatile Diffusion, Crystals, Eruption, Explosive, Glass, Magmas, Olivine, Prior, Range, School, Span, Species, Stiffness, Styles, Vigor, Water, Zonation.

Harrats Volcanic Activity and Evolution of the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary beneath Western Saudi Arabia
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Robert A Duncan($179,995), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Arabian Peninsula, Harrat Volcanism, Saudi Arabia, Selected Harrats, Volcanic Activity, Volcanic Fields, Asthenosphere, Continent, Erupted, Geochemical, Geochronological, Geodynamic, Has, Investigate, Line, Lithosphere, MMN, Magmas, Makkah-madinah-nafud, Mantle, Melting, Neogene, Occurred, Petrological, Portion, Region, Sea, Space, Time, Traverse, Ultimate.

Collaborative Research: The Spectral and Thermal Response of Active Basaltic Surfaces: Constraining Lava Cooling, Petrology and Flow Propagation Models
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Michael S Ramsey($234,000), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
2. Rachel Lee($30,000), SUNY College at Oswego, Oswego
Key terms: Laboratory And Field, Accurate Ir, Atomic Structure, Basaltic Lava, Flow Modeling, Hazard Potential, Ir Emissivity, Ir Instrument, Lava Flow, Lava Flows, Molten Surfaces, Remote Sensing, Accuracy, Active, Advance, Advancing, Assumptions, Capable, Cooled, Cooling, Critical, Designed, Dynamics, Effects, Eruption, Existing, Factors, Field-based, Has, Hawaii, Measured, Melts, Monitoring, Ongoing, Past, Predict, Produce, Resolve, Serve, Spectral, Task, Temperature, Time, Velocity, Volcanoes.

F and Cl in Peridotite Minerals: Analytical Development and Applications to Fluid Cycling in the Earth's Mantle
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Brian Monteleone($297,693), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Fluorine And Chlorine, Arc Volcanoes, Oceanic Plates, Subduction Zone, Analytical, Cycling, Depth, Fluid, Fluids, Pathways, Ridges, Rock, Tracers.

Origin & Eruptive History of Quaternary Volcanism in Nosy Be and Itasy-Ankaratra, Madagascar
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Elisabeth Widom($300,001), Miami University, Oxford
Key terms: Lithospheric Mantle, Volcanic Regions, Active, Activity, Age, Assembly, Asthenospheric, Considered, Eruption, Future, Geochemical, Has, History, Likelihood, Madagascar, Potential, Quaternary, Scope, Sources, Volcanism.

Investigation on Modulated Structures and Subsolidus Phase Relations of Intermediate Plagioclase Feldspars Using Integrated Experiment and Simulation Methods
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Huifang Xu($315,690), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Intermediate Plagioclase Feldspars, Subsolidus Phase Relations, Crystal Structure, E-plagioclase Feldspars, Evolution Histories, Formation Mechanisms, Incommensurate Modulations, Z-contrast Imaging, Aberration-corrected, E-plagioclase, Graduate, Level, Minerals, Non-centrosymmetricity, Range, Software, Structures, Students, Z-contrast.

Disorder and Dynamics in Silicate and Aluminosilicate Liquids, Glasses, and Crystals Relevant to Geochemical Processes: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Jonathan F Stebbins($319,999), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Silicate Minerals, Accurate, Approach, Behavior, Chemical, Components, Continue, Details, Earth, Emphasis, Geological, Glasses, Magma, Magmas, Methods, Minor, Models, NMR, Natural, Nature, Pressure, Processes, Properties, Structure, Temperature.

Sediment Recycling in Southern Cascadia: Insights From Seafloor Sediment and Mafic Volcanic Rock Geochemistry
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Frank C Ramos($136,691), New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
Key terms: Magmas Erupted, Oceanic Crust, Seafloor Sediments, Southern Cascades, Subduction Zone, Arc, Cascadia, Components, Compositions, Contribution, Contributions, Mantle, Model, Offshore, Parameters, Plate, Recycling, Subducted.

RUI: Collaborative Research: Linking Small-volume Silicic Magmas to a Yellowstone Super-eruption Using a Petrochronologic Approach
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Mark D Schmitz($66,659), Boise State University, Boise
2. Tiffany Rivera($148,002), Westminster College of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Allow, Assess, Boise, Crystal, Effusions, Erupted, Eruption, Generated, Lavas, Magma, Magmas, Million, Precursory, Processes, Recurrence, Students, Super-eruption, Super-eruptions, Undergraduate, Volcanic, Volume, Westminster, Yellowstone.

Sulfur Isotope Fractionation and Sulfur Partitioning between Apatite and Silicate Melts
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Adam C Simon($350,320), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Coexisting Silicate Melt, Earth's Sulfur Cycle, Gold And Iron, Sulfur Isotope Signatures, Apatite Crystals, Arc Magmas, Earth's Sulfur, Oceanic Crust, Ore Deposits, Subduction Zone, Total Sulfur, Wide Range, Abundances, Analyses, Apatites, Constrain, Copper, Degassing, Determined, Elucidate, Experimental, Experiments, Faculty, Formation, Investigating, Metals, Mil, Mineral, Mt, Natural, Oxidation, Slab, Speciation, Students, Sulfur-sulfur-, Typically, Values, Volcanic.

Volatile Clues to the Initial Controls on Large Explosive Volcanic Eruptions
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Elizabeth A Johnson($310,000), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Ascent Rates, Caldera Collapse, Eruptions Start, Explosive Eruptions, Magma Body, Chemical, Crust, Deposits, Earliest, External, Inclusions, Information, Modeling, Overpressure, Processes, Quantitative, Stages, Supereruptions, Times, Timescales, Volatiles, Yellowstone, Zealand.

Multicomponent Diffusion in Silicate Melts
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Youxue Zhang($410,000), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Explosive Volcanic Eruptions, Igneous Rock Formation, Natural Silicate Melts, Bubble Growth, Crystal Growth, Diffusion Plays, Diffusivity Matrix, Low Concentration, Multicomponent Diffusion, Oxide Components, Random Motion, Uphill Diffusion, Applied, Behavior, Compositional, Dissolution, Encountered, Experiments, Gas, Magma, Measured, Mineral, Process, Processes, Profiles, Similar, Simple, Transfer, Variety, Verification.

Formation of Magmatic-hydrothermal Veins: Interpreting Quartz Textures and Vein Mineral Assemblages in the Butte, Montana porphyry Copper System
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. James M Watkins($379,932), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Fluid Inclusion, Addressing, Crystal, Crystals, Deposit, Determining, EPMA, Fill, Fluids, Formation, Growth, Hydrothermal, Laboratory, Mapping, Mineral, Minerals, Ore, Quartz, Rock, SEM-CL, Settings, Temperature, Textures, Ti-in-quartz, Timescales, Trace, Vein, Veins.

Isotope Studies of Mineral Kinetics Accomplishment-Based Renewal
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. John W Valley($419,998), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Stable Isotope Geochemistry, Grain Boundaries, Mass Spectrometry, APT, Analytical, Chemical, Electron, Exchange, Kinetics, Limitations, Microanalysis, Mineral, Minerals, Rates, Reaction, Rock, SIMS, Students, Techniques.

Mantle Metasomatism and the Origin of Diamonds
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Geoffrey H Howarth($99,994), University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville
Key terms: Earth's Mantle, Metasomatic Fluids, Mineral Inclusions, Chemistry, Deep, Diamond, Diamonds, Formed, Gt, Has, Minerals, OH, Surface, Water.

Investigation of Ancient and Modern Melting Processes Preserved in Sub-oceanic Island Mantle
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. James Day($250,000), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Ancient Melting, Canary Islands, Mantle Domains, Modern Melting, Refractory Mantle, Compositional, Convection, Earth, Evidence, Evolution, Generation, Lavas, Methods, Models, Occurring, Oceanic, Processes, Xenoliths.

Magma Structure and Anharmonicity Controls on Iron Isotopic Fractionation in Igneous Rocks
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Nicolas Dauphas($308,835), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Iron Isotopic Fractionation, Force Constant, Igneous Rocks, Iron Bonds, Iron Isotopes, Planetary Bodies, Redox Evolution, Affect, Atmosphere, Condition, Controlled, Crust, Extent, Fractionated, Less, Magmatic, Mantle, Measure, Measuring, Melts, Missing, NRIXS, Olivine, Reason, Relative, Silicic, Strength, Synchrotron, Temperature, Temperatures, Tracers.

Collaborative Proposal: Experimental Studies of Dilute Pyroclastic Density Currents
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Benjamin J Andrews($29,058), Smithsonian Institution, Washington
2. Michael Manga($232,130), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Pyroclastic Density Currents, Air, Alter, Dynamics, Experiments, Hazards, Particles, Processes, Remain.

Renewal: Petrology and Geochemistry of the Deep Lower Mantle
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Ho-kwang Mao($370,000), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Ferromagnesian Bridgmanite, Lower Mantle, Chemical, Conditions, Core-mantle, DLM, Deep, Depth, Found, Gigapascals, H-phase, Iron, Iron-rich, Mineral, Phases, Pressures, Silicate, Structure, Temperatures, Was.

Origin and Evolution of Silicate Reservoirs in the Early Earth
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Igor Puchtel($288,109), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Isotopic Signatures, Silicate Reservoirs, Terrestrial History, Abundances, Chemical, Continent, Crust, Differentiation, Earth, Evolution, Formation, Ga, Geological, HSE, Komatiite, Komatiites, Late, Mantle, Modern, Nature, Origin, Period, Processes, Recycling, Rock, Time, Timing, Was.

Life Cycles of Basaltic Magma Mushes: The Dynamic Controls on Unlocking and Mixing
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. George W Bergantz($325,142), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Computational Fluid Dynamics, Distinct, Earth, Has, Magmatic, Mushes, Observations, Populations, Processes, Templates.

Inclusion Barometry and Overstepping Isograd Reactions: How Close is the Approach to Equilibrium During Metamorphism?
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Frank S Spear($451,000), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
Key terms: Pressure And Temperature, Close Approach, Metamorphic Transformations, Accepted, Assumption, Attained, Cascade, Conditions, Crust, Degree, Degrees, Equilibrium, Garnet, Has, Inclusion, Inferred, Maximum, Metamorphism, Method, Mineral, Mountain, Nucleation, Overstepping, Potential, Preliminary, Reactions, Recrystallization, Required, Rock, Substantial, Technique, Traditional, Unchanged, Validity.

Collaborative Research: Use and Abuse of Zircon Thermometry - Integrating Modeling, Trace Element Chemistry and Isotopes to Maximize the Use, Limit the Abuse
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. David P Moecher($163,336), University of Kentucky Research Foundation, Lexington
2. Scott D Samson($138,975), Syracuse University, Syracuse
Key terms: Hot Granites, Temperature History, Zirconium Granites, Analysis, Chemical, Conditions, Contents, Crust, Crystallization, Demonstrates, Evolution, Grenville, Magma, Modal, Modeling, Oc, Prior, Rock, Target, Unique, Xenocrysts.

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: 03/01/2015; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Cathy J Busby($242,343), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: 'island Arc Crust, Arc Crust Virtual, Arc Middle Crust, Crust Virtual Field, Ibm Drilling Outcomes, Virtual Field Model', 'island Arc, Alisitos Arc, Continental Crust, Expeditions 350-352, Field Analog, Graduate Students, Interface Closely, Modern Arcs, Reference Model, Rosario Segment, Collaborative, Convergent, Debari, Does, Felsic, Geochemistry, Geochronology, Geoprisms, Has, IBM-, IODP, Intermediate, Izu-bonin-mariana, Processes, Rock, Solar, Time, UCSB, Volcanic, WWU.

Investigation of Ultra-18O Depleted "Slushball" Earth Rocks from Karelia, Russia and the Timing of Paleoproterozoic Glaciations and the Great Oxidation Event
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Ilya N Bindeman($354,974), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Meteoric Hydrothermal Features, International Collaboration, Mafic Intrusions, Stable Isotope, Continue, Depleted, Ga, Geochemical, Glaciations, Global, Involve, Karelia, Latitudes, Low, Oxygen, Paleoproterozoic, Panglobal, Rock, Rocks, Russia, Slushball, Students, Subglacial, Timing.

Contrasting Cenozoic Magmatism and Related Hydrothermal Systems, Western USA
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. John H Dilles($296,000), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Economic Mineral Deposits, Porphyry Copper Deposits, Carlin Gold, Epithermal Mineral, Minerals Industry, Relatively Low, Trace Mineral, Volcanic Rocks, Western Usa, Andes, Anomaly, Billion, Cascades, Composition, Compositions, Content, Crust, Degassing, Europium, Exploration, Fluids, Geochemistry, Granites, Granitic, Has, Hydrothermal, Indicate, Investigate, Lead, Magmas, Magmatic, Nevada, Ore, Ore-forming, Oxidation, Plan, Potential, Processes, Produce, Students, Sulfur-rich, Upper, Water-rich, Zircon.

Field Testing Raman Microspectroscopic Therobarometers in Garnet
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Matthew J Kohn($147,430), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: P-t Conditions, P-t Space, Raman Microspectroscopy, Raman Spectra, Rock Formation, Applications, Chemical, Collected, Entrapment, Expected, Garnet, Igneous, Inclusion, Inclusions, Information, P-T, Pincl, Pressures, Quig, Range, Reliably, Student, Temperatures, Thermoba-raman-try, Underpressures, Zig.

Water Diffusion in Olivine: Experiments and Application to Phenocrysts
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Terry A Plank($222,017), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Apply, Dehydrated, Diffusion, Exchange, Experiments, Extent, FTIR, Infrared, Mechanisms, Olivine, Temperature, Time, Water.

Investigating Mantle Recycling and the Origin of the HIMU Component with Stable Thallium Isotopes
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Horst Marschall($250,001), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Chemical And Isotopic, Ocean Island Basalts, Isotopic Compositions, Oceanic Crust, Recycled Crust, Subduction Zones, Thallium Concentrations, Compared, Convection, Deep, Domains, Driven, Geochemical, Has, Islands, Isotopes, Mantle, Mechanism, Origin, Plate, Processes, Ridges, Rock, Subducted, Surface, Tracer, Volcanic, Was.

Light Element Investigations of Natural and Experimental Zircon
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Dustin Trail($297,164), University of Rochester, Rochester
Key terms: Ancient, Application, Chemical, Composition, Compositions, Crystal, Evolution, Experimental, Experiments, Geology, Grains, Involves, Knowledge, Laboratory, Light, Melt, Mineral, Minerals, Past, Pressure, Products, Rare, Rock, Sand, Synthesis, Temperature, Terrestrial, Time, Zircon, Zircons.

Mantle Signals in Arcs: Transport Models From Geochemistry and Seismicity
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Philipp P Ruprecht($155,140), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Arc Magma, Magma Transport, Mantle-derived Melts, Ascent, Beneath, Convergent, Crust, Fast, Geochemical, Magmatic, Mantle-derived, Processes, Source, Surface, Volcanoes.

EAR-PF: The Silicification of Soft-Bodied Biotas: Reconstructing the Preservation, Ecology and Environments of Earth's Earliest Animal Communities
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Lidya G Tarhan($174,000), Tarhan Lidya G, Riverside
Key terms: Earth's Earliest Animal, Ediacara Fossil Assemblages, Complex Life, Earth's Earliest, Ediacara Biota, Exceptional Preservation, Fossilization Pathways, Shed Light, Biogeochemical, Biology, Development, Diversification, Ecology, Ediacaran, Essential, History, Mentoring, Outreach, Participation, Phanerozoic, Processes, Radiation, Reconstruct, Responsible, Sandstone, Soft-bodied, Techniques, Unique, Yale.

Land Cover and hydrology - assessing controls on Si cycling in a changing Arctic
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Joanna C Carey($130,500), Carey Joanna C, Providence
Key terms: Riverine Si Fluxes, Arctic Ecosystems, Land Cover, Marine Waters, Receiving Waters, Si Availability, Altering, Biological, Controls, Critical, Education, Examined, Factors, Fellowship, Geochemical, Has, Permafrost, Phytoplankton, Shifting, Terrestrial, Vegetation, Warming.

EAR-PF: Exploring the evolution of faults and friction through dense repeater event catalogs
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2015; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. William B Frank($174,000), Frank, William B, Reims
Key terms: Detection Algorithms, Geological Contexts, Rapidly Repeating, Repeating Earthquake, Repeating Earthquakes, Seismically Active, Systematic Search, Advantage, Catalogs, Collocated, Constrain, Dense, Faults, MIT, Multiplets, Pressure, Properties, Rates, Seismicity, Source, Sources, Spectral, Template, Unique.

Experimental tests aimed at understanding debris flow initiation from runoff
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2015; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Marisa C Palucis($174,000), Palucis Marisa C, Oakland
Key terms: Debris Flows Generated, Education Plan, Flume Experiments, Grain Size, Sediment Transport, Collected, Discharge, Experimental, Fire, Initiation, Mechanisms, Pore, Regions, Runoff, Slopes, Students.

Linking geochemistry and geomicrobiology in selenium-contaminated soils
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Carla E Rosenfeld($174,000), Rosenfeld Carla E, Washington
Key terms: Aerobic Environments, Environmental Impacts, Microbial Diversity, National Museum, Natural History, Se Contamination, Se Transformations, Chemistry, Distance, Function, Influence, Influences, Microbiological, Microorganisms, Plant, Plant-type, Processes, Root, Smithsonian, Soil, Soils, Techniques.

EAR-PF: Diffusion anisotropy in Earth's inner core
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Jeffrey S Pigott($174,000), Pigott Jeffrey S, Columbus
Key terms: Earth's Inner Core, Inner Core Conditions, Earth's Inner, Principles Calculations, Seismic Anisotropy, Deformation, Diffusion, Elasticity, Has, Hcp-fe, Self-diffusion, Solid-state.

Tracking the carbon: Integrated numerical and experimental study of Earth's accretion and internal evolution
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Rebecca A Fischer($174,000), Fischer Rebecca A, Chicago
Key terms: Core Formation, Earth's Core, Volatile Delivery, Accretion, Carbon, Composition, Effects, Experiments, Focus, Has, Planetary, Simulations.

Biogeochemical arsenic cycling in a Paleoarchean ocean basin
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Kimberly D Myers($174,000), Myers Kimberly D, Austin
Key terms: Arsenic K-edge Absorption, K-edge Absorption Spectroscopy, Arsenic Cycling, Arsenic K-edge, Arsenic Redox, Fig Tree, K-edge Absorption, South Africa, Surface Environments, Texas Aandm, Archean, Asiii, Asv, Basin, Behavior, Conjunction, Cycle, Deposited, Evidence, Examined, Fe-, Feass, Geology, Introduced, Microbial, Microorganisms, Modern, Open-access, Presence, Retention, Rich, Sediments, Solids, Textbook, Was.

EAR-PF Cracking the Critical Zone: Tree roots in fractures and a proposed mechanistic soil production function
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Jill A Marshall($174,000), Marshall Jill A, Eugene
Key terms: Critical Zone Observatories, Education Plan, Rock Properties, Root Pressures, Round Valley, Tree Roots, Activities, Bedrock, Boulder, Collected, Depth, Eel, Geomorphic, Has, Investigation, Landscape, Law, Numerical, Processes, Rates, Soil, Soils, Sustainability, Vegetation.

Lava-Substrate Interactions: Numerical and Experimental Investigations
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Mary Elise Rumpf($174,000), Rumpf Mary E, Honolulu
Key terms: Thermal And Mechanical, Grain Size, Heat Loss, Lava Flow, Lava Flows, Mechanical Interactions, Substrate Roughness, Underlying Substrate, Active, Advance, Affect, Columbia, Composition, Conditions, Duration, Effects, Emplacement, Evolution, Experiments, Hazards, Influence, Influenced, Knowledge, Mobility, Morphology, Planetary, Predict, Public, Volcanic.

An Experimental Study on the Role of Pore Fluid Pressure During Slow Slip in Subduction Zones
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Melodie E French($168,834), French Melodie E, College Station
Key terms: Pore Fluid Pressure, Seismic Hazards, Slow Slip, Subduction Zones, Behavior, Characterize, Conditions, Effects, Experimental, Processes, Requirements, Seismicity, Seismogenic, Set, Stress, Students, Temperature.

Coastal SEES Collaborative Research: Changes in actual and perceived coastal flood risks due to river management strategies
Award Effective Date: 01/08/2015; Program: SEES Coastal

1. Scott C Hagen($269,677), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
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.

Hazards SEES: The Risk Landscape of Earthquakes Induced by Deep Wastewater Injection
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: SEES Hazards

1. Liesel Ritchie($2,623,814), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Deep Wastewater Injection, Knowledge Sharing Networks, Oil And Gas, Earthquakes Induced, Ground Shaking, Induced Earthquakes, Induced Seismicity, Injection-induced Earthquakes, Risk Perceptions, Seismic Monitoring, Seismic Risk, Theme Ii, Theme Iii, Affect, Built, CCIS, Creating, Damage, Developing, Energy, Engineering, Examining, Geoscience, Has, Increase, Industry, Infrastructure, Injection-induced, Local, Managing, Mitigating, Model, Models, Potential, Products, Regulations, Regulators, Regulatory, Risks, Satellite, Social, Students, Tools, Water.

Hazards SEES: Improved prediction of geomagnetic disturbances, geomagnetically induced currents, and their impacts on power distribution systems
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: SEES Hazards

1. Thomas Overbye($2,670,000), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Induced Electric Fields, Gic Hazards, Magnetic Field, Power Distribution, Power Grid, Solar Storms, Space Weather, Analysis, Critical, Currents, Developing, Disturbances, Earth, Gics, Gmds, Models, Prediction, Transformer.

Hazards SEES: Social and Physical Sensing Enabled Decision Support for Disaster Management and Response
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: SEES Hazards

1. Amit Sheth($1,991,000), Ohio State University, Columbus
Key terms: Hazard Models, Storm Surge, Consequences, Damage, Developing, Flood, Graduate, Identification, Infrastructure, Integration, Knowledge, Mapping, Modalities, Natural, Social, Students, Traffic, Training, Transportation, Undergraduate, Universitys.

CSEDI Collaborative Research: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Investigate the Origin of Anisotropy at the Base of the Mantle
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Burkhard Militzer($411,355), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. Allen McNamara($95,653), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Boundary Layer, Deep Mantle, Descending Plates, Earth's Mantle, Mantle Convection, Mineral Physics, Seismic Anisotropy, Assumptions, CSEDI, Calculations, Characteristics, Characterize, Compositional, Control, Core, Deform, Deformation, Developed, Dynamical, Dynamics, Effect, Evolution, Examine, Explore, Fluid, Geodynamical, Heterogeneity, Information, Input, Lowermost, Macroscopic, Minerals, Model, Modeling, Models, Multi-disciplinary, Observations, Orientation, Ppv, Presence, Previous, Processes, Properties, Region, Scenarios, Slabs, Strength, Thermal, Unclear.

CSEDI Collaborative Research: Understanding the nature of water and melt transport between the transition zone and the lower mantle combining mineral physics and seismology
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Shun-ichiro Karato($173,268), Yale University, New Haven
2. Bijaya B Karki($20,092), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Lower Mantle, Mineral Physics, Partial Melting, Transition Zone, Amount, Boundary, Chemical, Critical, Earth, Experimental, Factors, Has, Hydrogen, Interdisciplinary, Investigate, Minerals, Nature, Near, Plans, Seismological, Value, Volatile, Water.

Collaborative project: CSEDI- Understanding Si and Fe differentiation in Earth's mantle and core through experimental and theoretical research in geochemistry and mineral physics
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Jung-Fu Lin($226,275), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Nicolas Dauphas($236,344), University of Chicago, Chicago
3. Renata M Wentzcovitch($215,003), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Ab Initio Calculations, Fe Isotopic Compositions, Fe Isotopic Fractionation, Metal And Silicate, Pressure And Temperature, Core Formation, Core Formed, Earth's Core, Mineral Physics, Nuclear Resonant, Pressure-temperature Conditions, Theoretical Calculations, Actively, Approaches, Aspects, Atmospherehydrosphere, Available, Bonds, Deep, Examining, Experimental, Force, Geochemical, Geochemistry, Indirect, Interior, Involved, Iron, Light, Mantle, Mass, Matter, Minerals, NRIXS, Nature, Particular, Partitioning, Pis, Pressure-temperature, Reflect, Remain, Students.

Determination of Equilibrium Iron Isotope Fractionation Factors at High Pressure
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Wendy L Mao($99,372), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Iron Stable Isotope, Isotopic Fractionation Factors, Isotope Fractionation, Isotopic Ratios, Stable Isotopes, Calculations, Chemical, Combined, Composition, Conditions, Constraint, Core, Experiments, Formation, Has, Light, Planet, Planets, Pressure, Processes, Reveal, Synchrotron, Theoretical.

CSEDI: Determination of Equilibrium Iron Isotope Fractionation Factors at High Pressure
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Anat Shahar($78,066), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Iron Stable Isotope, Isotopic Fractionation Factors, Isotope Fractionation, Isotopic Ratios, Stable Isotopes, Calculations, Chemical, Combined, Composition, Conditions, Constraint, Core, Experiments, Formation, Has, Light, Planet, Planets, Pressure, Processes, Reveal, Synchrotron, Theoretical.

CSEDI Collaborative Research: Anelastic properties of the Earth from seismic to tidal timescale
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Gordana Garapic($63,774), SUNY College at New Paltz, New Paltz
2. Ulrich Faul($248,367), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
3. Jerry Mitrovica($144,194), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Conditions And Structure, Temperature And Chemical, Chemical Environment, Microscopic Strains, Normal Modes, Small-strain Deformation, Sound Waves, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Effects, Energy, Global, Interior, Laboratory, Model, Modeling, Models, Observations, Predictions, Produce, Rebound, Rock, Seismic, Small-strain, Tides.

A Workshop for Cooperative Studies of Earth's Deep Interior
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2015; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Catherine Constable($93,549), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Earth's Deep Interior, Deep Impacts, Earth's Deep, CSEDI, Climate, Evolution, Multidisciplinary, Plan, Program, Studies, Time, Was, Workshop.

CSEDI Collaborative Research: Application of Siderophile Elements to Early Earth Processes and Mantle Mixing
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Linda T Elkins-Tanton($150,081), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Geodynamic Modeling, Isotopic Anomalies, Abundances, Affected, Basalts, Chemical, Collaborative, Involve, Mantle, Million, Occurred, Ocean, Postdocs, Processes, Rock, Siderophile, Umd.

RAPID: Investigating the Link between Fluvial Flood Events, Remobilization, and Preservation in the Stratigraphic Record along the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico Continental Shelf
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Timothy M Dellapenna($24,968), CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation, Fullerton
Key terms: El Niño, Flood Deposit, Marine Sedimentary, Moderately Sized, Northwestern Gom, Sediment Dispersal, Characteristics, Climate, Climatic, Continent, Cores, Cruises, Episodic, Floods, Future, Geology, Investigate, Past, Program, Proxy, Reflect, River, Rivers, Shelf, TMB, Time, Typically.

SusChEM: Geochemical and Mineralogical Constraints on the Genesis of Country Rock-hosted Massive Sulfide Mineralization Associated with Mafic Rock-related Cu-Ni-PGE Deposits
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Edward M Ripley($379,979), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Country Rock-hosted Massive, Massive Sulfide Mineralization, Massive Sulfide Occurrences, Ni And Pges, Pt And Pd, Sedimentary Country Rocks, Sulfide-bearing Igneous Rocks, Country Rock-hosted, Duluth Complex, Massive Sulfides, Ni-cu-pge Deposits, Rock-hosted Massive, Stillwater Complex, Sulfide Minerals, Sulfide-bearing Igneous, Association, Bonded, Contact, Crust, Detailed, Eagle, Economic, Essential, Found, Geochemical, Intrusions, Limited, Localities, Magma, Mechanism, Melts, Minnesota, Ni-cu-pge, Nickel, Norilsk, Ore, Os, Outside, Pb, Poorly, Sb, Tamarack, Undertake, Via.

SusChEM: Collaborative Research: Influence of Fe2+- catalyzed recrystallization on Fe oxide reactivity and C stabilization
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Thomas Borch($86,998), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
2. Michelle M Scherer($203,592), University of Iowa, Iowa City
3. Aaron Thompson($113,136), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
4. Brian L Beard($98,172), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Fe2 Catalyzed Recrystallization, Soils And Sediments, Fe Oxides, Fe-c Assemblages, Organic Matter, Authentic, Carbon, Chemical, Climate, Fe-c, Fractionation, HS, Has, Iron, Isotope, Mineral, Minerals, Phases, Process, Quality, Reactivity, Redox, UG, Water.

RAPID: Forensic Hydrological Field Investigation of the Blanco River Flood - May 2015, Wimberley, TX
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Chad Furl($26,531), University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio
Key terms: Aandm Forest Service, Texas Aandm Forest, Blanco River, Texas Floods, Woody Debris, AM, Damage, Damaged, Investigate, Stage, Trees, Water.

RAPID: Environmental impacts of Cyclone Pam on Vanuatu: implications for long-term cyclone and tsunami records for the South Pacific
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Benjamin P Horton($21,750), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: South Pacific Tsunami, Marine Inundation, Sedimentary Deposits, Tc Pam, Assessment, CYCLONE, Coastlines, Comparison, Cyclones, Deposited, Developed, Differences, Hazard, Past, Pis, Region, Storm, Storms, Surge, Tcs, Vanuatu.

RAPID: Analysis of the May 2015 Texas Flood with a Connectivity Framework and High Resolution Topography Data
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Paola Passalacqua($22,639), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Downstream Sediment Transport, Flood Interoperability Experiment, National Flood Interoperability, Channel-floodplain Connectivity, Analysis, Austin, Available, Central, Channel-floodplain, Experienced, Flooding, Houston, Inches, River, Texas, Topography, Was.

Collaborative Research: Dissolved pyrogenic organic matter dynamics in the environment
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Andrew S Wozniak($176,888), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
2. Andrew R Zimmerman($171,916), University of Florida, Gainesville
3. Roger A Conner($130,716), East Carolina University, Greenville
Key terms: Properties And Mechanisms, Bc Solids, Carbon Cycling, Chemical Markers, Chemical Properties, Molecular Markers, Organic Matter, Aged, Chemistry, Climate, Dissolved, Environmental, Examine, Fate, Has, Increased, Leachates, Methods, Microbial, Parent, Products, Py-dom, Pyrogenic, Quantify, Soil, Transformation, Treatments.

MexiDrill: The Basin of Mexico Drilling Program
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Byron A Steinman($186,702), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
2. Amy E Myrbo($48,822), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Chalco Basin, Drill Core, Global Climate, Lake Chalco, Mexico City, Southern Outskirts, AMO, Abrupt, Antiphase, Drilling, Environmental, Existing, Forcing, Funding, ITCZ, Minnesota, Mobile, Monitoring, NAM, North, PDO, Paleoclimate, Position, Potential, Recover, Sediments, Sequence, Tropics.

Collaborative Research: Cretaceous Vertebrates from Madagascar: A Window into the Biogeographic and Plate Tectonic History of Gondwana
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Patrick M O'Connor($39,091), Ohio University, Athens
Key terms: Biogeographic And Plate, Late Cretaceous Vertebrates, Biogeographic History, Cretaceous Age, Maevarano Formation, Mahajanga Basin, Morondava Basin, Plate Tectonic, Southern Hemisphere, Vertebrate Fauna, Vertebrate Fossils, Analysis, Comprehensive, Context, Continue, Detailed, Discovered, Exceptionally-preserved, Faunas, Functional, Gondwana, Gondwanan, Histological, Horizons, Island, Madagascar, Paleoenvironmental, Particular, Phylogenetic, Pis, Potential, Profound, Remains, Specifically, Specimens, Strata, Taxa, Temporal, Testing, Yielding.

Cretaceous Vertebrates from Madagascar: A Window into the Biogeographic and Plate Tectonic History of Gondwana
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Alan H Turner($210,600), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Biogeographic And Plate, Late Cretaceous Vertebrates, Biogeographic History, Cretaceous Age, Maevarano Formation, Mahajanga Basin, Morondava Basin, Plate Tectonic, Southern Hemisphere, Vertebrate Fauna, Vertebrate Fossils, Analysis, Comprehensive, Context, Continue, Detailed, Discovered, Exceptionally-preserved, Faunas, Functional, Gondwana, Gondwanan, Histological, Horizons, Island, Madagascar, Paleoenvironmental, Particular, Phylogenetic, Pis, Potential, Profound, Remains, Specifically, Specimens, Strata, Taxa, Temporal, Testing, Yielding.

Collaborative Research: Functional evolution of the mammalian backbone: insights from the forerunners of mammals
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Stephanie E E Pierce($323,001), Harvard University, Cambridge
2. Kenneth D Angielczyk($95,622), Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
Key terms: Dorsal Vertebral Column, Galloping And Bounding, Mammalian Trait Evolve, Origin And Evolution, Region And Dorsoventral, 3d Digital, Abstract Mammals, Allow Mammals, Asymmetric Gaits, Bears Ribs, Bending Experiments, Brain Scoop, Distinct Regions, Dorsoventral Mobility, Fossil Synapsids, Locomotor Behaviors, Lumbar Region, Mammalian Backbone, Modern Tetrapods, Prolonged Periods, Rich Fossil, Speed Gaits, Thoracic Region, Thoracolumbar Region, Vertebral Columns, Breathe, Combined, Cutting-edge, Examine, Function, Functions, Link, Locomotion, Mobile, Morphometric, Permitting, Range, Simultaneously, Subdivision, Time, Trace, Unique.

CAREER: Ancient river and floodplain dynamics: a research and education plan for improving paleoenvironmental reconstructions and stratigraphic prediction
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Elizabeth A Hajek($452,540), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Climate And Land-use, River And Floodplain, Rivers And Floodplains, Ancient River, Earth's History, Education Plan, Reconstructing Ancient, Sedimentary Deposits, Ability, Awareness, Build, Dynamic, Dynamics, Environmental, Environments, Expand, Extracting, Information, Landscapes, Modern, Predict, Predicting, Reconstructions, Respond, Sensitive, Students, Subsurface, Toolkit.

Natural Trap Cave Revisited: Ancient DNA, Climate and the Megafaunal Extinction
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Alan Cooper($471,448), Des Moines University, West Des Moines
Key terms: Affect And Alter, Natural Trap Cave, Ancient Dna, Current Climate, Genetic Diversity, Ice Age, Abstract, Adna, Analyses, Bones, Conditions, Continues, Ecosystems, End-pleistocene, Experience, Extinct, Extinction, Field, Investigate, Lead, Loss, Mammals, Megafaunal, Morphological, NTC, North, Opportunity, Pleistocene, Public, Radical, Species, Structure, Students, Time, Was, Wyoming.

Travel Support for Students to attend the ICS-NSF Vouchering the Stratigraphic Record Workshop and the Second International Congress on Stratigraphy Graz, Austria
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Dena M Smith($25,000), The Geological Society of America, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: Geological Society, Ics-nsf Vouchering, International Congress, Attend, Bring, Collaboration, Ensuring, Graduate, ICS-NSF, Participation, STRATI, Sedimentary, Stratigraphers, Stratigraphic, Stratigraphy, Students, Travel, Workshop, World.

Collaborative ICS-NSF Workshop: Vouchering the Stratigraphic Record
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Stanley C Finney($49,991), California State University-Long Beach Foundation, Long Beach
Key terms: Ics-nsf Workshop, Publicly Accessible, Readily Accessible, Sedimentary Rocks, Disciplines, Earth, Files, Gathered, Generated, History, ICS-NSF, Information, Initiate, Initiating, International, Investigations, Legacy, Methods, Ongoing, Outcrops, Personal, Program, Provided, Publications, Range, Repository, Stratigraphers, Stratigraphic, Stratigraphy, Time, Unfortunately, Vouchering, Wealth, Worldwide.

A high-precision U-Pb age model for the Deccan Traps
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Gerta Keller($89,136), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Age Model, Deccan Traps, High-precision Eruption, Independent Timeline, Volcanic Eruptions, Approach, Basalt, Chicxulub, Compare, Compared, Dates, Ecological, Estimates, Extinction, Focuses, High-precision, India, Initial, KPB, Late-cretaceous, Main, Mass, Subsequent.

CAREER: Significance of Cenozoic climate and environmental changes on the ecology and evolution of marsupials in Australia: A multi-proxy approach
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Larisa Grawe DeSantis($511,706), Vanderbilt University, Nashville
Key terms: Climate And Environmental, Evolution And Extinction, Conducting Primary, Educational Activities, Educational Outreach, Increased Aridity, Marsupial Mammals, Tennessee School, Analysis, Andor, Aridification, Assess, Australia, Blind, Clarify, Critical, Dental, Diversity, Drought, Ecology, Evidence, Extreme, Fossil, Graduate, Integrated, Integration, Involvement, Living, Local, Long-term, Mesowear, Minorities, Past, Potential, Responded, Student, Students, Undergraduate.

CAREER: Plants, insects, and the Early Paleogene hothouse: Using the past to assess the future, while challenging the face of science
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Ellen D Currano($450,519), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Female Field Scientists, Inspirational Female Field, Wyoming And Northern, Bearded Lady, Biotic Resilience, Collaborating Geoscientists, Greenhouse Worlds, Hothouse Conditions, Leaf Fossils, Live-action Documentary, Northern Colorado, Touring Portrait, Aim, Aspiring, Assemble, Biodiversity, Challenging, Climate, Collect, Complement, Diversity, Ecosystems, Efforts, Eocene, Field-based, Geosciences, Ice-free, Innovative, Live-action, Migrations, Models, Objectives, Obstacles, Opportunities, Outreach, Paleoclimatic, Paleogene, Paleontological, Past, Postdocs, Produce, Public, Showcasing, Sites, Students, Time, Warm, Women.

Footprint formation and interpreting fossil dinosaur tracks
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Stephen M Gatesy($284,118), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Deformable Substrates, Dinosaur Tracks, Footprint Formation, Track Diversity, Unlocking Previously, Abstract, Aims, Anatomy, Animals, Behavior, Bird, DEM, Disparate, Fossil, Functional, Fundamentally, Interpreting, Locomotion, Models, Motion, Origin, Paleontology, Perception, Pis, Reveal, Simulating, Simulations, Single, Specimens, X-ray.

ELT COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Investigating the Biotic and Paleoclimatic Consequences of Dust in the Late Paleozoic
Award Effective Date: 02/11/2015; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Linda A Hinnov($60,881), George Mason University, Fairfax
Key terms: Atmospheric Dustiness, Earth-system Behavior, Future Climate, Late Paleozoic, Marine Ecosystems, Biosphere, Earth-system, Effects, Formal, Glacial-interglacial, Glaciation, Implies, Meetings, Modeling, Over-arching, Students, Tropical, Via.

Cosmogenic surface exposure dating of southern Laurentide ice retreat and eastward Lake Agassiz routing: relationship to the Younger Dryas cold event
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Anders E Carlson($234,949), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Eastern Lake Agassiz, Lake Agassiz Outlets, Lake Agassiz Routing, Abrupt Climate, Arctic Freshwater, Freshwater Forcing, Laurentide Ice, North Atlantic, Ocean Circulation, Surface Exposure, Ago, Caused, Cooling, Current, Deglaciation, Discharge, Dryas, Eastward, Field, Glacial, Implications, LIS, Leading, Paleoclimatology, Popular, Postdoctoral, Reduction, Retreat, Southern, Start, Strength, Underlying, Was, YD.

Collaborative Research: Unlocking secrets of Earth?s largest sand sea: Paleoenvironmental records of the Lower Jurassic Navajo Sandstone, Colorado Plateau, USA
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Stephen T Hasiotis($114,000), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
2. Marjorie A Chan($99,021), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
3. Judith T Parrish($86,675), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
Key terms: Lower Jurassic, Navajo Sandstone, Navajo Ss, Analyses, Biotic, Broad, Climate, Climatic, Colorado, Deposited, Dry, East, Ecosystems, Education, Eolian, Evolved, Focus, Global, Hydrology, Integrated, Landscape, Largest, Model, Moist, Paleoclimate, Paleohydrologic, Petrographic, Public, Regionally, Relatively, Sedimentologic, Stratigraphic, Teachers, Timelines, Training, Was, Water, West.

CAREER: Nitrogen Biogeochemistry during Oceanic Anoxic Events
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2015; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Christopher K Junium($524,435), Syracuse University, Syracuse
Key terms: Fayetteville Green Lake, Marine Anoxia, Marine Environments, Oceanic Anoxic, Rapid Warming, Carbon, Course, Earth, Ecology, Education, Expansion, Extraordinary, Focused, Greenhouse, Increases, Intervals, Isotope, Life, Linked, Nitrogen, Nutrient, Oaes, Onondaga, Organic, Productivity, Respond, STEM, Students, Syracuse, Trace, Was.

ELT Collaborative Research: Perturbation of the Marine Food Web and Extinction During the Oceanic Anoxic Event at the Cenomanian/Turonian Boundary
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Julio C Sepulveda($160,996), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Cenomanian-turonian Boundary, Ocean Acidification, Oxygen Deficiency, Rock Outcrops, Activities, Ancient, Anthropogenic, Cenomanian-turonian, Ecosystems, Geological, Hypoxia, Marine, Organisms, Shells.

NSF Rapid Proposal: Flows of the future: Capitalizing on an extreme weather year to evaluate future summer streamflows in the Cascades
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Sustainable Energy Pathways

1. Anne W Nolin($47,389), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Headwater Streams React, Baseflow Recession, Cascades Watersheds, Downstream Gages, Meteorologic Drought, Streamflow Regime, Summer Streamflow, Assess, Contraction, Decreased, Dry, Ecological, Fed, Field, Findings, Flow, Flows, Low, Meeting, Monitored, Opportunity, Rainfall, Repeat, Representing, Respond, Source, Spring, Spring-fed, Springs, Surface, Tested, Undergraduates, Upstream, Western, Winter.

EAGER: FEW: Life cycle comparison of water, energy, nutrient, and carbon requirements of urban and conventional food production strategies
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: Sustainable Energy Pathways

1. Eric Masanet($260,000), Northwestern University, Evanston
Key terms: Alternative Urban Food, Urban Residents, Carbon, Chicago, Cities, Collaboration, Design, Development, Energy, Engage, Flooding, Increase, Models, Monitor, Nutrient, Requirements, Resulting, Sites, Strategies, Students, Techno-economic, WCH, Water.

FEW: Towards Food, Energy and Water Security in California under Changing Conditions: the Nexus Perspective
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Sustainable Energy Pathways

1. Mekonnen Gebremichael($49,680), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Nexus Approach, Workshop Seeks, California, Coupled, Create, Food-energy-water, Growth, Industrial, Interdisciplinary, Issues, Multiple, Opportunities, Partnerships, Platform, Population, Practitioners, Solutions, Stakeholders.

FEW: Food-Energy-Water infrastructure systems, engineering solutions and institutions
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Sustainable Energy Pathways

1. John L Sabo($94,905), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Efficiency And Resilience, Environmental Engineering, National-scale Definition, Workshop Activities, Advance, Basic, Components, Contribute, Food-energy-water, Infrastructure, Multiple, National-scale, Nexus, Operational, Outline, Programs, Technology.

Collaborative Research: Unraveling Protracted Tectonic Reactivation in Cordilleran Metamorphic Core Complexes: Funeral Mountains, California
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: Tectonics

1. Michael L Wells($295,669), University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas
2. Thomas D Hoisch($249,622), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: Death Valley, Funeral Mountains, Metamorphic Core, Natural History, Shear Zones, Tectonic Reactivation, Analysis, Burial, Continent, Crust, Deep, Detachment, Development, Efforts, Exposures, Extension, Fault, Faults, Formed, Garnet, Hypothesize, Ideal, Jurassic, Prograde, Public, Reactivated, Regional, Responsible, Rock, STEM, Sevier-laramide, Similar, Slip, Students, Surface, Tertiary, Thrust, Was, Western.

Collaborative Research: The Record of Early Cretaceous Growth of the Nevadaplano From Syn-orogenic Deposits of the Sevier Hinterland
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: Tectonics

1. Kathryn Snell($140,965), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Sean P Long($117,001), Washington State University, Pullman
3. Joshua Bonde($131,000), University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas
Key terms: Timing And Magnitude, Ancient Climate, Crustal Thickening, Estimate Ancient, Mountain Belt, Mountain Belts, Paleoelevation Estimates, Stable Isotope, Surface Elevation, Surface Uplift, Animals, Conventional, Cordilleran, Datasets, Dense, Development, Duration, Elevations, Existing, Has, History, Implications, Insight, Lithosphere, Lower, Mesozoic, Museum, Occurred, Orogenesis, Paleoaltimetry, Plants, Processes, Relatively, Shortening, Subduction, Suggest, Tandem, Time, Western.

Collaborative Research: Deformation-induced Hydration of Peridotite Mylonites in Nature and Experiments
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: Tectonics

1. Jessica M Warren($180,623), University of Delaware, Newark
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.

Collaborative Research: Fold Form, Strain, and Mechanics at the Whaleback Anticline: New Approaches to a Classic Field Locality
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Tectonics

1. Juliet G Crider($159,757), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Arlo B Weil($30,778), Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr
3. Mary Beth Gray($52,212), Bucknell University, Lewisburg
Key terms: Bear Valley, Digital Imaging, East-central Pennsylvania, Whaleback Anticline, Analysis, Complete, Deformation, Detailed, Development, East-central, Educational, Engineering, Evolution, Expand, Exposed, Field, Fold, Fold-related, Folded, Folding, Folds, Geologic, Geology, Importance, Local, Models, Natural, Observations, Predict, Produce, Public, Rock, STEM, Spatial, Strain, Structures, Surface, Technology, Three-dimensional, Underground.

Collaborative Research: Did Miocene Core Complexes in Western Arizona Initiate as Late Cretaceous Extensional Shear Zones?
Award Effective Date: 08/16/2015; Program: Tectonics

1. John S Singleton($18,783), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Core Complex Extension, Harcuvar And Buckskin-rawhide, Late Cretaceous Extension, Miocene Core Complex, Core Complexes, Cretaceous Deformation, Lower Plate, Shear Zones, Cordillera, Development, Extensional, Geometry, Influenced, Initiated, Large-magnitude, Mid-tertiary, Processes, Structures, Tectonic, Tertiary.

Collaborative Research: Utilizing Cooling Histories to Determine the Sequence and Rates of Thrusting
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Tectonics

1. Delores M Robinson($235,031), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
2. Nadine McQuarrie($278,118), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Cross Section Interpretations, Geometry And Rate, Maps And Cross, Central Nepal, Cooling Ages, Cooling History, Cross Sections, Fault Geometries, Fault Magnitude, Graduate Students, Kinematic Sequence, Measured Cooling, Numerical Modeling, Plate Tectonic, Shortening Rates, Structural Geometries, Western Nepal, Active, Allow, Approach, Balanced, Belt, Compressional, Contractional, Contributing, Convergent, Cross-sections, Datasets, Deformation, Displacement, Erosion, Exhumation, Faults, Field, First-order, Fold-thrust, Geochronologicthermochronologic, Geologic, Growing, Has, Himalaya, Investigating, Kinematics, Modeled, Nepalese, Potential, Principal, Quantify, Range, Region, Rock, Surface, Thermochronometers, Thermochronometry, Thrust, Time.

Collaborative Research: Thermal Structure of Continental Lithosphere Through Time
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Tectonics

1. Anne M Hofmeister($65,423), Washington University, Saint Louis
2. Alan G Whittington($261,521), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Laser Flash Analysis, Lower Crustal Minerals, Archean Crust, Archean Lithosphere, Crustal Growth, Thermal Diffusivity, Thermal Properties, Basis, Canada, Conductivity, Continent, Development, Estimate, Heat, Kapuskasing, Modeling, Models, Objective, Processes, Rheology, Rock, STEM, Scanning, Section, Tectonic, Temperature, Temperatures, Time, Was, Weak.

RUI: Modes of Dome Formation in the Southern Appalachians
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Tectonics

1. Gabriele Casale($139,895), Appalachian State University, Boone
Key terms: Falls And Toxaway, Crustal Extension, Mountain Building, Southern Appalachian, Southern Appalachians, Tallulah Falls, Toxaway Domes, Accomplish, Boundary, Carolina, Complexes, Considered, Contractional, Dating, Doming, Exhumation, Features, Field, Geologic, Has, Involvement, Laboratory, Map, Metamorphic, Mid-crustal, Models, North, Plate, Principal, Processes, STEM, Striking, Structural, Structures, Students, Tectonic, Timing.

Deciphering the Role of Deformation in Orogenic Evolution Through Multi-scale Structural Studies in a "Crustal Laboratory", Central Sierra Nevada, California
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Tectonics

1. Scott R Paterson($270,174), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Central Sierra Nevada, Boundary Conditions, Deformation Partitioning, Episodic Deformation, Episodic Magmatism, Geographic Information, Investigation Aimed, Multi-scale Deformation, Orogenic Evolution, Plate Motions, Available, Bulk, Contribute, Development, Digital, Effects, Extensive, Fabric, Fabrics, Field, Integrated, Investigated, Involves, Local, MOPLA, Mapping, Modeling, Mountain, Multi-scale, Orogens, Participation, Presentations, Processes, Program, Public, Publications, Range, Small-scale, Strain, Structural, Tectonic, Training.

Stress History of the Alpine Fault Using Rock Deformation Experiments and Numerical Modeling
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Tectonics

1. Steven B Kidder($259,255), CUNY City College, New York
Key terms: Incorporates Shear Heating, Long-term Stress Levels, Recrystallized Grain Size, Rock Deformation Experiments, Seismically Induced High-stress, Two-dimensional Numerical Model, Alpine Fault, Complimentary Approaches, Crustal Strengths, Exhumation Rates, Grains Formed, Independent Constraint, Induced High-stress, Long-term Stress, Two-dimensional Numerical, Based, Brief, Carried, Central, Constraints, Developed, Earthquake, Explore, Histories, Indicated, Low, Mechanics, Models, Peak, Pulses, Quartz, STEM, Simulated, Societal, Stresses, Subject, Thermal, Transition, Underrepresented, Zealand.

New GPS Constraints on Africa-Arabia-Eurasia Plate Kinematics
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Tectonics

1. Robert E Reilinger($175,000), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: North Anatolian Fault, Rates And Locking, Africa-arabia-eurasia Plate, Locking Depths, Plate Boundary, Slip Rates, Unavco Database, Velocity Field, Active, Africa-arabia-eurasia, Collaboration, Continent, Deformation, Earthquake, East, Faults, GPS, Gulf, Hazards, Interactions, International, Models, Observations, Region, Sea, Society, Thrust.

Development of Microstructure and Creep Strength of Marble
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Tectonics

1. Brian J Evans($300,000), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Micro-scale Strain Mapping, Carbonate Rocks, Confining Pressures, Constituent Minerals, Correlate Dislocation, Micro-scale Strain, Naturally Deformed, Strain Localization, Strain Rates, Belts, Collaboration, Crust, Deformation, Development, Dolomite, Evolution, Experiments, Influence, Investigate, Investigations, Kinetics, Lab, Limestone, Marbles, Mechanisms, Microstructure, Observations, Strength, Structure, Temperatures.

Collaborative Research: Tectonic Significance of Long Run-Out Coarse-Grained Facies in the Cordilleran Foreland Basin
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: Tectonics

1. John W Geissman($102,864), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
2. Peter G DeCelles($227,993), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Thrust Belt Inactivity, Coarse-grained Sediments, Distal Facies, Fold-and-thrust Belts, Foreland Basin, Foreland Basins, Magnetic Polarity, Prevalent Model, Tectonic Growth, Time Difference, Two-phase Model, Whereas Coarse-grained, Accumulate, Age, Apatite, Coarse-grained, Depositional, Deposits, Detrital, Development, Engagement, Exhumation, Fine-grained, Fold-and-thrust, Hydrocarbon, Idaho-wyoming, K-, Lag-times, Participation, Periods, Proximal, Public, STEM, Sedimentation, Stratigraphic, Subsidence, Two-phase.

Role of Silica Redistribution in the Evolution of Subduction Megathrusts, Shimanto Belt Japan
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Tectonics

1. Donald M Fisher($324,925), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Boundary Slip Behavior, Plate Boundary Slip, Potential Silica Sources, Elastic Strain, Fault Behavior, Fault Zones, Graduate Student, Plate Boundaries, Quartz Veins, Scaly Fabrics, Seismogenic Zone, Shimanto Belt, Silica Redistribution, Slow Slip, Subduction Zones, Vein Textures, Zone Behavior, Active, Adjacent, Ancient, Aperture, Application, Characterize, Crack, Cracks, Depths, Designed, Does, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Faults, Footwall, Fractures, Function, Generated, Healing, Heterogeneity, Hydrofracturing, Information, Interface, Investigate, Japan, Local, Margins, Microseismicity, Microstructures, Mineralized, Models, Observed, Paradigm, Principal, Range, Release, Rock, Seismic, Spacings, Temperature, Temperatures, Times, Underthrusting, Was.

Support for a workshop and related activities aimed at exploring and facilitating scientific frontiers, infrastructure, and educational needs in Tectonics
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2015; Program: Tectonics

1. Yvette D Kuiper($99,600), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Pertinent And Promising, Prioritize Infrastructure, White Paper, Activities, Articulate, Bring, Challenges, Decade, Facilitate, Funding, Future, Meetings, Relevance, Societal, Society, Tectonic, Time, Was, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Deformation Thermometry and Water Weakening of Quartz Tectonites - Case Studies from the Himalaya and the Caledonides of NW Scotland
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: Tectonics

1. Jay B Thomas($29,162), Syracuse University, Syracuse
Key terms: Mechanical And Thermal, Analytical Techniques, Crystallographic Fabrics, Deformation Temperatures, Deformation Thermometers, Earth's Crust, Fabric Development, Mineral Assemblages, Nsf Funding, Recrystallization Regime, Tectonic Settings, Temperatures Indicated, Texas Aandm, Virginia Tech, Wide Range, Based, Chemical, Chosen, Collected, Conditions, Deformed, Developed, Equilibrium, Flow, Has, Importance, Influence, Influenced, Mechanisms, Plates, Potential, Processes, Ptt, Quartz-rich, Rock, Scotland, Strength, Students, Thermometry, Water, Weakening.

Support for Analog Modeling of Tectonic Processes Workshop
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: Tectonics

1. Michele Cooke($29,608), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Analog Modeling, Future Directions, Analysis, Approaches, Conditions, Deformation, Discussions, Experiment, Experimental, Experiments, Models, Processes, Promote, Revolution, Structural, Students, Techniques, Tectonic, Workshop.

Thermal and Structural History of the Pennine-Austroalpine Transition Zone, Alps (Eastern Switzerland)
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Tectonics

1. Brian P Wernicke($233,001), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Collisional Mountain Belts, Australian National, Normal Fault, Allochthon, Alps, Austroalpine, Base, Collaboration, Complex, Constrain, Contact, Cooling, Extension, Histories, Increased, Origin, Public, STEM, Southern, Structural, Structures, Thermal, Transects.

Collaborative Research: Paleogeographic Record of Contractional to Extensional Tectonics in the Cordilleran Hinterland, Nevada
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2015; Program: Tectonics

1. Michael E Smith($59,591), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: Fluvial And Lacustrine, Volcanic Ash Beds, Basin Formation, Cordilleran Hinterland, Detrital Zircon, Extensional Tectonics, Gold Deposits, Mountain Range, Orogen Topography, Orogenic Plateau, Past Topography, Tectonic Model, Accumulated, Age, Ago, Analyses, Ancient, Andes, Basins, Climate, Collapse, Collect, Composition, Constrain, Contributions, Critical, Crust, Crystals, Deep, Desert, Drainage, Dynamics, Earth, Elevation, Elevations, Evolution, Exhumation, Following, Formed, Geochronology, Grains, Initial, Interbedded, Lake, Mantle, Measuring, Million, Morphology, Multiple, Neogene, Nevada, Occurrence, Paleogene, Precipitation, Processes, Quantify, Quickly, Ranges, Rates, Reconstruct, Region, Regions, Relief, Rivers, Rock, Sediment, Sedimentary, Similar, Strata, Surface, Techniques, Time, Transition, Was, Water, Western.

Collaborative Research: Geological Constraints on ~25 Million Years of Magmatism Along an Arc-transform Junction, Wrangell Volcanic Belt, Alaska
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2015; Program: Tectonics

1. Matthew E Brueseke($177,997), Kansas State University, Manhattan
2. Jeff Benowitz($152,135), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
3. Jeffrey M Trop($113,083), Bucknell University, Lewisburg
Key terms: Wrangell Volcanic Belt, Complex Tectonic, Denali Fault, Flat Slab, Leading Front, Slab Edge, Strike-slip Faults, Alaska, Arc-transform, Bedrock, Composition, Decipher, Detrital, Development, Evolution, Geochronology, Magmatic, Magmatism, Plateau, Public, Rock, STEM, Settings, Strike-slip, Students, Subducting, Yakutat.

Collaborative Research: Characterizing the Regional Fluid Flow System of the Wyoming Salient, Sevier Fold-Thrust Belt: Implications for Orogenic Wedge Deformation and Propagation
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: Tectonics

1. W.A. Yonkee($80,798), Weber State University, Ogden
2. Mark Evans($76,941), Central Connecticut State University, New Britain
3. Gautam Mitra($215,223), University of Rochester, Rochester
Key terms: Fold And Thrust, Previous Structural Studies, Fault Zones, Fluid Flow, Fluid Pathways, Layer-parallel Shortening, Progressive Deformation, Thrust Belts, Wedge Mechanics, Wyoming Salient, Build, Contribute, Contributions, Cordilleran, Curved, Evolving, Exploration, Faults, Feedbacks, Fluids, Fold-thrust, Folds, Insights, Large-scale, Layer-parallel, Plate, Processes, Propagation, Provided, Regional, Sets, Synthesized, Tectonic, Topography, Undergraduate, Variety.

Collaborative Research: Investigating Mesozoic Deformation in the Pamir: Implications for Crustal Thickening in the Pamir and the Evolution of the Tibetan Orogen
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: Tectonics

1. Alexander C Robinson($244,901), University of Houston, Houston
2. Barbara Carrapa($332,241), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Cenozoic Crustal Thickening, Central And Southern, Coarse Terrigenous Deposits, Himalayan-tibetan Orogenic Belt, Shortening And Thickening, Timing And Magnitude, Crustal Shortening, Himalayan-tibetan Orogenic, Pamir Region, Regional Shortening, Southern Pamir, Age, Along-strike, Analyses, Analysis, Collision, Cretaceous, Dating, Detrital, Documented, Extensive, Geochronologic, Geologic, Geosciences, Has, Information, Late, Mapping, Mesozoic, Occurred, Pre-cenozoic, Shown, Stratigraphic, Structural, Students, Tectonic, Thermochronologic, Western.

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

1. William W Simpkins($35,879), Iowa State University, Ames
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.

Significance of Newly Discovered Subduction Complex, Including Partially Serpentinized Mantle Peridotite, Southwest Arizona
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2014; Program: Tectonics

1. William W Simpkins($66,268), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: California And Southwest, Cemetery Ridge, Low-angle Subduction, Mantle Peridotite, Orocopia Schist, Rand Schists, Southern California, Southwest Arizona, Southwest North, Subduction Complex, Ages, Aspects, Contribute, Crust, Exposed, Field, Former, Geochemical, Geology, Incorporated, Inland, Low-angle, Margin, Oceanic, Olivine, Origin, Parallel, Particular, Pelona, Processes, Remarkable, Reveal, Rock, Serpentinized, Students, Subducted, Surface, Tectonic, Transported, Was.

Research Experience for Undergraduates Site on Sustainable Land and Water Resources--A Community-Based Participatory Research Experience for Undergraduates
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2015; Program: Tribal College & Univers Prog

1. Antony R Berthelote($886,387), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Students And Students, Community-based Participatory, Non-traditional Students, Resource Management, Reu Site, Undergraduate Students, Water Resources, Broader, CBPR, Developed, Diverse, Encourage, Focused, Geosciences, Graduate, Intellectual, Interdisciplinary, Knowledge, Mentoring, Mentors, Methods, Native, Non-traditional, Paradigm, Participants, Participation, Pis, Program, STEM, Tribal, Underrepresented.

Constraining lowermost mantle flow through observations and models of seismic anisotropy
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Maureen D Long($269,934), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Shear Wave Splitting, Earth's Interior, Lowermost Mantle, Mantle Convection, Seismic Anisotropy, Anisotropic, Base, Boundary, CMB, Carry, Constrain, Drive, Dynamics, Elasticity, Flow, Geometry, Interface, Layer, Modeling, Motions, Observations, Phases, Predictions, Processes, Public, Relatively, Unsolved.

Facility Support: Pinon Flat Observatory - Longbase Strainmeters Interim Operation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Duncan Carr Agnew($227,500), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Anza Gap, Aseismic Slip, Pfo Lsm, Transform Fault, Congruent, Earthquake, GPS, Hazard, Laser, Lsms, Seismic, Sensitivity, Signals, Strain, Strainmeters, Time, Times.

CAREER: Environmental Seismology and Geomechanics
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Victor C Tsai($500,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Seismic Observations, Wave Propagation, Accomplished, Approximations, Combine, Complex, Couple, Earthquakes, Ground, Interactions, Interdisciplinary, Lead, Mechanics, Motions, Observed, Phenomena, Predictions, Primary, Processes, Produce, Sea, Seismically, Solids, Sources, Turbulent.

NSF-GEO-EAR Awards for 2015

WORKSHOP SUPPORT - Optimizing the next generation of AMS for measuring 10-Be and 26-Al Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

A new generation of earthquake source models- Past, present and future Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: CI REUSE

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

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

CAREER: The role of organic particulates in controlling the growth of river deltas: a field, experimental, and numerical modeling study Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

Christina River Basin CZO: a whole watershed approach to integrating feedbacks between water, mineral and carbon fluxes in human landscapes Award Effective Date: 01/01/2014; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

International Symposium on Observations and Modeling of Land Surface Water and Energy Exchanges across Scales: Learning from the past and looking to the future Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Hydrologic controls on temperature extremes in managed landscapes Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

RAPID: Geochemical and Geophysical Observations of the 2015 Eruption of Volcan Momotombo, Nicaragua Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

RAPID: GPS Observations of Co- and Post-seismic Deformation in the Argentine Andes, Precordillera, and Sierras Pampeanas from the 16 Sep 2015, Mw 8.3, Illapel, Chile, Earthquake Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

Broadband Seismological Observations of Aftershocks of the September 16, 2015 Mw 8.3 Illapel Earthquake, Chile Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

RAPID: Illapel Earthquake and Tsunami - Environmental Impacts on the North Central Chile Coast Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

Meeting of Experts: Discussion of National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences Workshop Report on "Future Seismic and Geodetic Facility Needs in the Geosciences" Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

Improving Understanding of Volcanic Eruptions Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

RAPID Collaborative Research: Landslides caused by the April 2015 Nepal earthquakes, from immediate hazard to tectonic driver Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

Collaborative Research: Rapid Response to the Mw 7.9 Earthquake of April 25, 2015 in Nepal Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

Collaborative Research: The Nepal Earthquake and Limits on Moment, Fault Geometry and Time Dependent Stress Changes Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

RAPID: Collaborative Research: Nepal Array Measuring Aftershock Seismicity Trailing Earthquake Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

Collaborative Research: Facility Support: National Lacustrine Core Facility (LacCore) Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

Anisotropic Layering in the North American Upper Mantle Using a Combination of Seismological Approaches Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

EarthScope National Office Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Shear-wave Splitting and Mantle Dynamics of the North American Plate Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Non-volcanic Tremor in the Northern San Andreas Fault System Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Creating a New Seismic Instrument from EarthScope Strainmeter Installations Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

MAGIC MT - Uplift of the Appalachians Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Fate and Consequences of Yakutat Terrane Subduction Beneath Eastern Alaska and the Wrangell Volcanic Field Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Capitalizing on EarthScope Transportable Array Data to Better Characterize Induced Seismic Sequences Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: The Mackenzie Mountains--Deformation and Structure of Active Intraplate Orogenesis from Plate Boundary to Craton Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Surface-Wave Data Products from USArray Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Diversifying the Geosciences: Travel awards for students to attend SACNAS and GSA 2015 Annual Meetings Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Uncovering Hotspot Volcanism: Mantle Melting, Magmatic Plumbing, Explosive Eruptions and Crustal Contamination at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER: Middle and Late Cenozoic Surface Uplift and Climate along the Strike of the Rocky Mountains: Refining the Development of an Intracontinental Mountain Belt Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

REU site: Research Experience for Community College Students (RECCS) in Critical Zone Science Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER: The Effect of Bubbles on Magma Dynamics Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER: Seismic Anisotropy, Symmetry and Structure - Translating Laboratory Measurements into Seismic Interpretations Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

REU Site: Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences - Undergraduate Research Experience in the Gulf of Maine and the World Ocean Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

The Geochemical Processes Controlling Vacancy and Mn(III) Concentrations in Birnessite Structure Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: What hydrogeochemical processes control weathering in the deep critical zone of unburied karst landscapes? Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

FEW: A sustainable rural framework workshop for the upper Great Plains. Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Petrogenesis of Hawaiian Tholeiites: Constraints from Non-Traditional Stable Isotopes Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

FEW Workshop - Planned Migration as a Strategy to Sustain Agricultural Production Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

CAREER: The Quest for Precision in Stratigraphy: Extending Neogene-Scale Resolution into the Paleozoic Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Flyover Country, a mobile app for geoscience education Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: EarthCube

XML Database for Magnetotelluric Transfer Functions Award Effective Date: 05/15/2015; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

P2C2: Long-term Environmental Changes and Anthropogenic Impacts on Tropical African Landscapes Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

Collaborative Research: Climate and Glacier change in Bhutan: the last millennia, present and future Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

Collaborative Research: P2C2: Water Isotopes in Peat Mosses as Proxies for Understanding Climate and Atmospheric Circulation Changes in Southern Patagonia Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

Collaborative Research: P2C2: Quantitative Reconstructions of Holocene Precipitation Changes Across Central America Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

P2C2: P-E Land-C: Terrestrial Mediation of Carbon Cycle Response Through the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

P2C2: Collaborative Research: Quantitative Reconstruction of Past Drought Patterns in Western North America Using Lakes, Stable Isotopes, and Modeling Award Effective Date: 02/15/2015; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

Fluid-mobile and volatile element (Cl, B, and Li) cycling through the forearc: Case study of cold and thermal spring geochemistries from the Hikurangi accretionary prism, New Zeala Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: GeoPRISMS

Collaborative Research: From the Slab to the Surface: Origin, Storage, Ascent, and Eruption of Volatile-Bearing Magmas Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: GeoPRISMS

RUI: Magmatic Evolution Leading Up to the Modern Aleutian Arc on the Alaska Peninsula Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: GeoPRISMS

Emplacement of regularly spaced volcanic centers in the East African Rift: Melt production or melt extraction? Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: GeoPRISMS

Collaborative Research: Focused Study of Aleutian Plutons and their Host Rocks: Understanding the building blocks of continental crust Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: GeoPRISMS

EAGER: Exploring the potential for the 1.1 Ga Copper Harbor Conglomerate to yield information on terrestrial environments during the rise of the eukaryotes Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Collaborative research: Validation of the Lacustrine Branched GDGT Paleothermometer Award Effective Date: 11/15/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Collaborative Proposal: Development and calibration of the oxygen isotope systematics of small terrestrial gastropods Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Collaborative Research: Selenium redox reactions and isotope ratios: The role of microbial and abiotic Selenium oxidation Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Lipid D/H ratios as a proxy for microbial metabolism Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Theoretical study of 238Uranium/235Uranium fractionation in nature Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Graduate Student Travel Support Program for the 2015 V.M. Goldschmidt Conference in Prague, Czech Republic, August 16-21, 2015 Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

How Geochemistry Provides Habitability: A Case Study of the Microbial Iron Cycle Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Racemization dating of subsurface microorganisms Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Collaborative Research: Halocarbon Biogeochemistry in Coastal Wetland Ecosystems - Exploring the Transition from Forested Wetland to Salt Marsh Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Carbonate Formation Induced by CO2 Degassing: Controls on the Isotopic Compositions and Implications for Clumped Isotope Thermometry Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Support for a Workshop and Conference on Critical Zone Science, Sustainability, and Services in a Changing World Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Collaborative Research: Deconstructing Nitrate Stable Isotope Ratios in Aquifers Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Collaborative Research: Recrystallization of Stable Iron Oxides in Reducing Environments Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Mineral Formation by Cluster Self-Assembly: Schwertmannite as a Partially Crystallized Nanomineral Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Biological Basis for Methane Synthesis in Oxic Lake Waters Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Redefining Surface Area: Understanding Reactive Interfaces in Heterogeneous Porous Media Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Metallomics in Medicine Workshop: The Role of Natural Isotopes in the Development of a New Generation of Biomarkers for Biomedicine Award Effective Date: 05/15/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Application of thermodynamic theory for predicting microbial biogeochemistry Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Microscale Reactivity of Trace Elements in Complex Geochemical Systems Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Collaborative Research: Unraveling Molybdenum and Rhenium speciation: Identifying the burial pathways of redox proxies in sulfidic settings Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Collaborative Research: Coupled Geochemical and Geobiological Characterization of Dissolved Organic Matter Oxidation to Carbon Dioxide Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

3-Methylhopanoids in modern bacteria: molecular fossils of stress survival? Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Workshop: US-China Collaborative Research on Microbial Extracellular Electron Transfer Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem