INFEWS/T1: A Modeling Framework to Understand the coupling of Food, Energy, and Water in the Teleconnected Corn and Cotton Belts
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: AISL

1. Xuesong Zhang($3,000,000), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Food And Bioenergy, Forcings And Human, Increasing Climate Extremes, Coupled Nature, Environmental Forcings, Human Interventions, Population Demands, Water Resources, Agriculture, Belts, Crops, Economic, Growing, Hydrologic, Knowledge, Land, Management, Model, Potential, Practices, Processes, Resilience, Students, Transdisciplinary.

Estimating global subduction mass transport
Award Effective Date: 11/23/2016; Program: CI REUSE

1. Thorsten W Becker($85,972), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Lower Mantle, Interdisciplinary, Models, Slab, Software, Stagnation, Transition, Transport.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Central Anatolian Tectonics (CD-CAT): Surface to mantle dynamics during collision to escape
Award Effective Date: 06/30/2016; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

1. Jane Willenbring($61,927), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Tectonic Escape, Anatolian, Central, Collision, East, Fault, Geology, Geomorphic, Investigate, Magmatic, Pis, Plate, Process, Rock, Surface, West.

Analytical methods for estimating the joint climatological-social drivers of water quality and supply in contrasting tropical zones: Ecuador and China
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: CR-Water Sustainability & Clim

1. Justin Remais($1,910,490), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Ecuador And Western, Fate And Transport, Multiple Climatological Drivers, Quantifying And Predicting, Quantity And Quality, Tropical And Subtropical, Management Decisions, Northern Ecuador, Water Column, Water Quality, Water Quantity, Western China, Changing, Climate, Climate-mediated, Conceptualizing, Conditions, Dynamics, Effects, Environmental, Exacerbate, Future, Limit, Methods, Pathogens, Potential, Regions, Sanitation, Sites, Social, Surface, Waterborne.

RAPID: Testing the erosion signature of coseismic landslides using cosmogenic catchment wide erosion rates - a case study of the 2016 Kaikoura Earthquake, New Zealand
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Alison R Duvall($30,128), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Basin Wide Erosion, Wide Erosion Rates, Coseismic Landsliding, CRN, Detrital, Earthquake, Examine, Following, Kaikoura, Landslides, Widespread, Zealand.

RAPID: Collaborative Research: Topographic Change and Cascading Hazards Following the Mw7.8 Kaikoura (New Zealand) Earthquake
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2016; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Marin K Clark($46,517), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Digital Elevation Model, Faulting And Landslide, Earthquakes, High-resolution, Imagery, Processes, Surveys, Time, Topographic, Topography, Zealand.

Rapid deployment of seismic instruments around Wellington, NZ, following the November 13, 2016, magnitude 7.8 Kaikoura earthquake
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2016; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Clifford H Thurber($49,581), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Temporary Seismic, Deploy, Instruments, Island, Plan, Region, Stations, Wellington, Zealands.

RAPID: Collaborative Research: Seismic Response to the 2016 M5.8 Pawnee Earthquake
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Priyank Jaiswal($8,781), Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
2. Heather M Savage($20,512), Columbia University, New York
3. Kathleen M Keranen($23,881), Cornell University, Ithaca
4. Xiaowei Chen($23,001), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Earthquake Occurred, Largest Earthquake, Rapid Deployment, Seismic Activity, Actively, Aftershock, Aftershocks, Earthquakes, Fault, Has, Injection, Involved, Local, Mw, Network, Oklahoma, Pawnee, Region, Regional, Seismicity, Stations, Students, Was, Wastewater.

RAPID: Collaborative Research: Response to the 2016 M5.8 Pawnee Earthquake: Using MT to map Fluids in Faults
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Kerry W Key($14,192), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Estella A Atekwana($23,230), Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
3. Robert L Evans($14,236), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Oil And Gas, Induced Seismicity, Wastewater Injection, Activity, Conductivity, Decisions, Distribution, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Fault, Faults, Fluid, Fluids, Geophysical, Has, Highly, Image, Inform, Lead, Link, Linked, MT, Occurring, Oklahoma, Opportunity, Pawnee, Policy-makers, Produce, Ruptured, Saline, Stakeholders, Students.

Structural Architecture and Evolution of the Southern Flank of the Brooks Range Fold and Thrust Belt, Arctic Alaska
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Elizabeth L Miller($192,108), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Arctic Ocean, Arctic Region, Brooks Range, Fault Zone, Graduate Students, Northern Alaska, Schist Belt, Unique Opportunity, Age, Argonargon, Based, Basin, Broad, Collaboration, Dating, Deformation, Geologic, Geology, History, International, Margin, Origin, Plate, Sequences, Southern, Swedish, Thrust, Tied.

RAPID: Collaborative: April 16, 2016 Mw 7.8 Pedernales Earthquake, Ecuador: The Role of Asperities in Rupture Propagation, Aftershock Sequences, and Post-Seismic Deformation
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2016; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Peter LaFemina($62,826), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Anne S Meltzer($87,142), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
Key terms: April 16th, Colombia-ecuador Trench, Earthquake Cycle, Earthquake Ruptured, Galapagos Hotspot, Pedernales Earthquake, Plate Interface, Rupture Zone, Slow Slip, Subduction Zone, Aftershock, Aftershocks, Andor, Asperities, Broadband, Colombia-ecuador, Coseismic, Country, Deformation, Earthquakes, Ecuadorian, Existing, GPS, Gt, Hazard, Identification, Indicate, Instituto, Investigate, Locked, Low, Mw, Nazca, Occurred, Opportunity, Post-seismic, Postseismic, Region, Ruptures, Segments, Seismic, Site, South, Stress.

Community Workshop: COCONet - Results, Sustainability, and Capacity Building
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Glen S Mattioli($99,123), UNAVCO, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: Caribbean Region, Continuously Operating, Emergency Management, Advancing, Archive, Centers, Coconet, Construction, Country, GPS, Geosciences, Gpsmet, Hazards, Maintain, Network, Operational, Operations, Regional, Stations, Status, Students, Tectonic, UNAVCO, Workshop.

NSF-RAPID: Rapid Response for the M5.1 Fairview Earthquake - Detailed Understanding of the Fault Systems in Western Oklahoma
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2016; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Xiaowei Chen($14,500), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Earthquake Capital, Earthquake Hazards, Induced Earthquakes, Injection Volume, Fairview, Fault, Faults, Formations, Gradual, Has, Human, Landslides, Liquefaction, Man-made, Mapped, Oklahoma, Potential, Seismic, Seismicity, Woodward.

Collaborative Research: Mining Seismic Wavefields
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: Data Cyberinfrastructure

1. Zhigang Peng($149,427), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
2. Egill Hauksson($198,002), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
3. Gregory C Beroza($286,562), Stanford University, Stanford
4. Philip J Maechling($526,248), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Earthquake Detection, Similarity Search, Waveform Similarity, Activities, Cyberinfrastructure, Detected, Earthquakes, Energy, Induced, Massive, Seismic, Seismicity, Single, Stations, Time, Volumes.

CAREER: Characterizing the Physical/Chemical Evidence of Volcanic Lightning
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2016; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Kimberly D Genareau($465,928), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
Key terms: Allow Video Documentation, Ash Fall Deposits, Composition And Grain, Eluded Human Documentation, Integral Educational Component, Lightning-induced Volcanic Spherules, Schools And Amongst, Textural And Chemical, Textural And Geochemical, Triggered Lightning Experiments, Volcanic Lightning Occurrence, Analytical Methods, Atmospheric Dynamics, Chemical Characteristics, Complex Interplay, Electron Microscope, Fulgurite Formation, Grain Size, Hazard Assessment, Involves Learners, Lightning Discharge, Lightning Plays, Lightning Strikes, Lightning-induced Volcanic, Local Environment, Manufactured Ash, Natural Ash, Natural Phenomena, School Students, Titration Analyses, Transformative Concepts, Volcanic Ash, Volcanic Eruptions, Acquired, Additionally, Ages, Alaska, Allowing, Altering, Build, Characterize, ESR, Effect, Emerging, Established, Evidence, Explosive, Fulgurites, Geologic, Geosciences, Graduate, LIVS, Line, Mossbauer, Perform, Physicalchemical, Preceded, Presentations, Properties, Pseudo-ash, Public, Reveal, SEM, TEM, Transformation, Undergraduate, Unmodified, Various, Volcanology.

Collaborative Research: Shear-wave Splitting and Mantle Dynamics of the North American Plate
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2016; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Thorsten W Becker($150,485), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
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.

Geodetic Characterization of the Easternmost Alaska Subduction Zone
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Julie Elliott($226,401), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Alaska Subduction Zone, Continuous Gps Sites, Easternmost Alaska Subduction, Slab And Upper, Upper Plate Deformation, Campaign Sites, Earthquake Activity, Region's Tectonics, Subduction Interface, Subduction Zones, Behavior, Beneath, Characteristics, Coupling, Does, Evidence, Existing, Found, Geometries, Geometry, Larger, Leading, Locked, Magnitude, Observed, Past, Plates, Processes, Regions, Relate, Released, Seismic, Seismicity, Slip, Slow-slip, Strain, Subducting, Teachers, Transient.

Improving Back-Projection Imaging with a Novel Physics-Based Aftershock Calibration Approach
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Lingsen Meng($180,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Bp Images, Earthquake Rupture, Ground Motions, Array, Arrays, Complex, Complexities, Dense, Earthquakes, Fine, HF, Has, Imaging, Information, Method, Observations, Processes, Resolution, Seismic, Source, Sources, Technique, Via.

Water, Drought and Snowpack Monitoring in the United States Using the EarthScope Plate Boundary Observatory GPS Network
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Duncan Carr Agnew($520,000), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Water Cycle, Water Storage, Aquifers, Continent, Displacements, Drought, Estimates, GPS, GRACE, Groundwater, Loads, Mass, Mission, Snowpack, USA.

Collaborative Research: Investigating Lithospheric Evolution Beneath the Southern and Northeastern United States
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Karen M Fischer($187,296), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Collision And Rifting, Crust And Mantle, Orogeny And Rifting, Southern And Eastern, Craton Edge, Mantle Lithosphere, Mantle Structure, Analyses, Atlantic, Construct, Continent, Cycle, Cycles, Deformation, Episodes, Experienced, Graduate, Gulf, Image, Magmatism, Models, North, Regions, Seismic, Stations, TA, Undergraduate, Wave, Wilson.

Mapping Small-scale Mantle Heterogeneities Using USArray
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Jun Korenaga($259,869), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Small-scale Mantle Heterogeneities, Dbs-based Migration, Imaging Technique, Mantle Convection, P-to-p Scattering, Small-scale Heterogeneities, Small-scale Mantle, Teleseismic Migration, Travel Times, Continent, Dbs-based, Detection, Direct, Earthquakes, Efficiency, Has, History, Mixing, North, Northern, P-to-p, Pacific, Parallelization, Potential, Processing, S-to-p, Seismic, Source-receiver, Surface, Tectonic, Usarray.

Collaborative Research: Using GPS to Unravel the Long-Term Kinematics and Dynamics of the American Southwest from an Ever-Changing Deformation Field
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Cornelis Kreemer($246,500), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
2. Richard A Bennett($205,000), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: El Mayor-cucapah Earthquake, Kinematics And Dynamics, El Mayor-cucapah, Gps Time-series, Long-term Deformation, Long-term Kinematics, Mayor-cucapah Earthquake, Plate Motion, Arizona, Available, California, Crust, DRC, Earthquakes, Effects, Evidence, Explore, Far-field, GPE, Long-term, Model, NSF, Occurred, Postseismic, Program, RESESS, Seismic, Southern, Southwest, Stresses, Structure, Student, Thickness, Time-series, Time-variable.

Investigating Lithospheric Evolution Beneath the Southern and Northeastern United States
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Aibing Li($159,923), University of Houston, Houston
Key terms: Collision And Rifting, Crust And Mantle, Orogeny And Rifting, Southern And Eastern, Craton Edge, Mantle Lithosphere, Mantle Structure, Analyses, Atlantic, Construct, Continent, Cycle, Cycles, Deformation, Episodes, Experienced, Graduate, Gulf, Image, Magmatism, Models, North, Regions, Seismic, Stations, TA, Undergraduate, Wave, Wilson.

Evidence for Dynamic Weakening Mechanisms in the San Andreas Fault: Microgeochemistry and Microthermometry of Fault-related Rocks from SAFOD Core and Exhumed Faults
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. James P Evans($186,607), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Geology And Fault, Geology And Physics, San Andreas Fault, Broader Audiences, Drill Core, Dynamic Weakening, Earthquake Geology, Educating Students, Fault Rock, Social Media, Coring, Depth, Drilling, Earthquakes, Evidence, Faults, Field, Fluid, Hands-on, Mechanisms, Raman, Range, Slip, Thermally, Topics, Via, Videos.

Collaborative Research: Magnetotelluric and Seismic Investigations of the Distribution of Magmatic and Hydrous Fluids Beneath Yellowstone
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2016; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Clifford H Thurber($210,961), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Adam Schultz($272,189), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Crust And Upper, Yellowstone National Park, Active Volcanism, Beneath Yellowstone, Crustal Volcanic, Magma Reservoir, Magmatic Fluids, Seismic Velocity, Upper Mantle, Activity, Ago, Audience, Combining, Content, Distribution, Eruption, Field, Future, Has, Implications, Independent, MT, Magnetotelluric, Migration, Models, Origin, Region, Resulting, Sensitive, Structure, Wisconsin-madison, YS.

Unity of Purpose for Equitable Representation in Geosciences Workshop
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Tahlia Bear($32,037), The Geological Society of America, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: Broadening Participation Efforts, Academic, Barriers, Diversity, Geoscience, Geosciences, Inclusion, Increased, Minority-serving, Msis, Organizations, Positively, Universities, Workshop.

Imaging Vertical Earthquake Cycle Crustal Deformation of the San Andreas Fault System Utilizing the GAGE Facility
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2016; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Bridget R Smith-Konter($267,408), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Crustal Deformation, Earthquake Cycle, Tide Gauge, Vertical Motions, Developing, Earthquakes, Earthscope, Estimates, Facility, GAGE, GPS, Geodetic, Insar, Integrated, Model, Observations, Plate, Processes, Time, Time-series.

Broadening Employment Skills to Enhance Diversity of the Geoscience Workforce During the National Association of Black Geoscientists Annual Conference
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Stephen K Boss($35,000), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Key terms: Academic, Conference, Disciplines, NABG, National, STEM, Skills, Student, Students, Workforce.

Collaborative Research: Dynamic fault rupture in the presence of 3D heterogenous tectonic stress: the case of the San Andreas Fault in Eastern San Gorgonio Pass
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Michele Cooke($33,573), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
2. David D Oglesby($164,467), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Apparent Activity Levels, Garnet Hill Fault, Hill Fault Strands, Los Angeles Basin, Preferred Rupture Path, San Andreas Fault, San Gorgonio Pass, Structure And Apparent, Through-going Earthquake Potential, Earthquake Rupture, Earthquake Size, Ground Motion, Numerical Models, Potential Earthquakes, Rupture Propagation, Southern California, Advance, Amplified, Banning, Branches, Budget, Channel, Coachella, Complexity, Creek, Directly, Dynamics, Eastern, Effect, Effects, Emergency, Energy, Engineering, Estimates, Failure, Faults, Field, Focus, Has, Hazard, Heterogeneous, Hinge, Implications, Indicate, Information, Lead, Long-term, Methods, Mission, Modeling, Off-fault, Propagate, Propagates, Region, Regions, SAF, SGP, Sediments, Seismic, Slip, Stress, Stresses, Strong, Surface, Valley, Zoning.

CAREER: Induced seismicity: Increasing understanding of fluids in fault zones and engaging stakeholders for rapid knowledge transfer
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2016; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Kathleen M Keranen($585,000), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Oil And Gas, Fault Slip, Fault Zones, Fluid Pressure, Induced Seismicity, Local Residents, Pressure Migration, Wastewater Disposal, Active, Carbon, Context, Dense, Deployed, Deployments, Earthquakes, Energy, Engage, Faults, Global, Information, Injection, Long-term, Methods, Near, Oklahoma, Primary, Region, Seeks, Signals, Stakeholders, Storage, Subsurface.

REU Site: Earth Science on Volcanic Islands
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2016; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Paul Wessel($509,273), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Motivated Undergraduate Students, Volcanic Islands, Cutting-edge, Deformation, Engage, Evolution, Formation, Hawaii, Intense, Ocean, Oceanic, Opportunities, Program, REU, Sustainability, Tools.

Collaborative Research: Paleoseismic Evidence of Earthquakes and Tsunamis along the Southern Part of the Japan Trench
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Jessica Pilarczyk($270,740), University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
2. Benjamin P Horton($143,403), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Northern And Middle, Tsunami Simulation Models, Boso Peninsula, Japan Trench, Seismic Risk, Tsunami Deposits, Analyses, CE, Coastal, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Empo, Future, Geological, Historical, Instrumental, Long-term, Microfossil, STEM, Sands, Shoreline, Size, Southern, Students, Tohoku, Tokyo.

RUI: Melt Viscosities in Silica-undersaturated Systems
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Genevieve Robert($199,519), Bates College, Lewiston
Key terms: Viscosity And Heat, Atmospheric Pressure, Carbon Dioxide, Heat Capacity, Magma Transport, Volcanic Eruptions, Abundance, Behavior, Chemical, Controls, Effects, Flow, Fluorine, Formation, Has, High-temperature, Magmas, Melts, Movement, Processes, Properties, Source, Structural, Temperature, Thermal, Volatiles, Water.

Early Career: Acquisition of a Three-Spectrometer, High-Definition Scanning Electron Microscope for Research and Education in the Geosciences
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. James D Schiffbauer($867,223), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Scanning Electron Microscope, Animal Life, Acquire, Dawn, Fossil, High-definition, Instrument, Mineralization, Missouri, Reflect, SEM, Students.

CSEDI Collaborative Research: Experimental and Theoretical Investigations on the Elastic and Viscoelastic Properties of Fe-Ni-C Liquids
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2016; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Jianwei Wang($207,294), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
2. Murli H Manghnani($260,000), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Elastic And Viscoelastic, Core Conditions, Experimental Techniques, Fe-ni-c Liquids, Iron Alloys, Liquid Properties, Outer Core, Sound Velocity, Theoretical Calculations, Viscoelastic Properties, Approach, Based, Carbon, Challenges, Composition, Computational, Density, Dynamics, Efforts, Expected, Experiments, Fe-ni-c, Investigated, Iron-rich, Laboratory, Lack, Low-pressure, Methodology, Physics, Planetary, Pressures, Structure, Synergistic, Viscosity, X-ray.

Development of new high-resolution pCO2 records for quantifying Earth system climate sensitivity
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Ying Cui($347,945), University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette
Key terms: Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Dioxide Levels, Carbon Isotope, Climate Sensitivity, Global Temperatures, Ice Sheets, Allow, Available, Cenozoic, Characterized, Estimates, Fossil, High-resolution, Increase, Ma, Pco, Terrestrial.

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

1. Bethany Theiling($131,170), University of Tulsa, Tulsa
Key terms: Widespread Marine Anoxia, Global Carbon, Oceanic Anoxic, Toarcian Oae, Virginia Tech, Ago, Cycles, Development, Disturbances, Environmental, Europe, Geochemical, Geosciences, Jurassic, Mesozoic, Million, Museum, Nature, North, Oaes, Past, Program, Public, Students, Tulsa, Undergraduate.

Geoinformatics: Facility Support: Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2010; Program: EarthCube

1. L. Ridgway Scott($7,724,260), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: CIG, Codes, Dynamics, Ensure, Geodynamics, Larger, Software, Spectrum.

RAPID Collaborative research: Topographic change and cascading hazards following the November 13th Mw7.8 Kaikoura (New Zealand) earthquake
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2016; Program: Engineering for Natural Hazard

1. Michael J Willis($6,166), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Digital Elevation Model, Faulting And Landslide, Earthquakes, High-resolution, Imagery, Processes, Surveys, Time, Topographic, Topography, Zealand.

2017 MagIC Workshop: Earth's Magnetic Field from the Beginning
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2016; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Catherine Constable($35,150), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Magic Database, Paleomagnetic.

Collaborative Research: OpenTopography: A Cyberinfrastructure Facility for Topographic Data, Services, and Knowledge
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Christopher J Crosby($247,225), UNAVCO, Inc., Boulder
2. J Ramon Arrowsmith($155,716), Arizona State University, Tempe
3. Viswanath Nandigam($972,099), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Airborne Lidar, Access, Bureau, Capabilities, Cloud, Datasets, Development, Expand, Laser, Numerous, OT, Opentopography, Processing, Provision, Range, Resolution, Services, Sets, TLS, Tools, Topographic, User, Users, Was.

Collaborative Research:Reproducible research and educational software for geoscience data analysis in spherical and planar geometry
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Frederik J Simons($96,320), Princeton University, Princeton
2. Alain M Plattner($110,449), California State University-Fresno Foundation, Fresno
Key terms: Analysis, Code, Codes, Development, Documentation, Field, Fields, Functions, Harmonics, Matlab, Octave, Slepian, Software, Spherical, Vector.

Collaborative Research: Neotoma Paleoecology Database, Community-led Cyberinfrastructure for Global Change Research
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Allan C Ashworth($69,832), North Dakota State University Fargo, Fargo
2. Robert K Booth($77,095), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
3. Jessica Blois($89,166), University of California - Merced, Merced
4. Timshel Purdum($105,633), Drexel University, Philadelphia
5. Brandon Curry($27,000), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
6. John W Williams($353,394), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
7. Chris Widga($247,050), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
8. Alison J Smith($48,000), Kent State University, Kent
Key terms: Development, Engagement, Faunal, Geoinformatics, Neotoma, Platform, Promote, Stewards, Tools.

Geoinformatics: alphaMELTS computational thermodynamics software
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2016; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Paul D Asimow($527,799), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Computational Thermodynamics, Software Package, Alphamelts, Features, Models.

Collaborative Research: Understanding the crustal link between the Columbia River flood basalts and lithospheric foundering.
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Eugene D Humphreys($418,208), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
2. Robert W Clayton($227,565), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Flood Basalt, Magma Chamber, Asthenosphere, Center, Chambers, Created, Distribution, Erupted, Eruption, Image, Lithosphere, Million, Oregon, Plate, Primary, Seismic, Waves.

A Terrestrial Perspective of Last Millennium Hydroclimate Variability in the Central Tropical Pacific
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Jessica L Conroy($367,487), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Central Tropical Pacific, Lake Water Balance, Oxygen Isotope Ratios, Stable Oxygen Isotope, Tropical Pacific Climate, Atmospheric, Ostracod, Past, Proxy.

Collaborative Research: Reconstruction of Paleo-Storm History Using Geochemical Proxies in Coastal Lake Sediments
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Joseph F Donoghue($132,067), The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees, Orlando
2. Yang Wang($292,410), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Coastal Lake Sediments, Geochemical Proxies, Climate, Florida, Hurricanes, National, Students.

RAPID: Acquisition of a Delta Ray Isotope Ratio Spectrometer for Earth Science Research
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2016; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Tobias P Fischer($60,000), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Field, Manufacturer, Processes, Purchase, Spectrometer, Volcanic.

GeoPRISMS Office Support
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Demian M Saffer($1,446,867), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Continental Margins, Population Centers, Active, Activities, Behavior, Collaboration, Collaborations, Deformation, Diverse, Earthquakes, Engagement, Geoprisms, Initiatives, International, National, Opportunities, Processes, Program.

Collaborative Research: Constraining the temporal evolution of mantle plume contributions to magmatism in the Turkana Depression
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Tyrone Rooney($217,811), Michigan State University, East Lansing
2. Terry L Spell($99,467), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
3. Barry B Hanan($100,794), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
4. Wendy R Nelson($39,089), Towson University, Towson
Key terms: East African Rift, Initiation And Evolution, Continental Rift, Melt Generation, Rift Initiation, Rift Lavas, Rifted Margins, Rifting Process, Characteristics, Contributions, Development, Erupted, Evolve, Examine, Focus, Geochemical, Geochronological, Geoprisms, Has, Magma, Magmas, Mantle, Mechanisms, Plan, Plate, Plume, Processes, Range, Region, Reservoirs, Sources, Tectonic, Temporal, Time, Various.

Collaborative Research: Experimental Investigation of the Electrical Properties of Hydrous Silicate Melts in Subduction Context
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Anne Pommier($149,607), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Kurt D Leinenweber($20,394), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Hydrous Silicate Melts, Subduction Zones, Electrical, Processes, Slab, Transport, Volatiles.

Collaborative Research: Quantifying Plume-Lithosphere Interactions with GNSS Geodesy, Seismology, and Geodynamic Modeling
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Dorothy S Stamps($399,047), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
2. Andrew A Nyblade($203,895), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: East African Rift, Computational Modeling, Continental Rifting, Eastern Branch, Fast Polarization, Geodynamic Modeling, Gnss Stations, Mantle Flow, Multiple Plume, Publically Available, Seismic Tomography, Sks Observations, Superplume Model, Africaarray, Alternative, Consistent, Constrain, Coupling, EARS, Earth, Focus, Geoprisms, Global, Has, Installed, Interactions, LAB, Models, NSF, Physics, Processes, Program, Strain, Supported, Surface, Testing, Uganda.

Magma ascent and eruption in the Aleutian arc
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Philipp P Ruprecht($243,893), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Aleutian Arc Volcanoes, Ascent And Eruption, Olivine-hosted Melt Inclusions, Ascent Rate, Ascent Rates, Chemical Gradients, Eruptive Style, Magma Ascent, Olivine-hosted Melt, Recently Developed, Volatile Concentrations, Volcanic Conduit, Water Zonation, Calculated, Cooling, Erupted, Geodetic, Hazard, Histories, Inferred, Magmas, Measure, Seismic, Techniques, Thermal.

Collaborative Research: Investigating the relationships among subduction character, volatile cycling, and eruptive activity along the Aleutian Arc
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Taryn M Lopez($92,009), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Aleutian Volcanic Arc, Rate And Sediment, Western Aleutian Volcanoes, Aleutian Arc, Eruption Size, Magma Generation, Volcanic Activity, Atmosphere, Carbon, Central, Compared, Composition, Crust, Dioxide, Erupted, Explosivity, Flux, Frequency, Gas, Historic, Influence, Insight, Lava, Mantle, Nitrogen, Pacific, Plate, Previous, Process, Region, Released, Rock, Subducted, Subduction, Time, Volatile, Volatiles, Volcanism, Water.

Investigating the relationships among subduction character, volatile cycling, and eruptive activity along the Aleutian Arc
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Tobias P Fischer($57,978), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Aleutian Volcanic Arc, Rate And Sediment, Western Aleutian Volcanoes, Aleutian Arc, Eruption Size, Magma Generation, Volcanic Activity, Atmosphere, Carbon, Central, Compared, Composition, Crust, Dioxide, Erupted, Explosivity, Flux, Frequency, Gas, Historic, Influence, Insight, Lava, Mantle, Nitrogen, Pacific, Plate, Previous, Process, Region, Released, Rock, Subducted, Subduction, Time, Volatile, Volatiles, Volcanism, Water.

Subduction Zone Observatories Workshop
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2016; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Anne S Meltzer($150,317), Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Washington
Key terms: Graduate Students, Hazard Assessment, Subduction Zone, Subduction Zones, Disciplines, Integrated, International, Multidisciplinary, Multiple, Partnerships, Processes, Range, Strong.

Collaborative Research: A community velocity field for East Africa
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2016; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Robert W King($114,900), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Rebecca O Bendick($139,530), University of Montana, Missoula
Key terms: African Rift, Comprehensive View, Velocity Field, Apart, Continent, Directed, Distribution, Efforts, Network, Past, Resources, Rifting, Sections, Single, Space, Tectonic.

Collaborative Research: Mantle Dynamics, Lithospheric Structure, and Topographic Evolution of the Southeastern US Continental Margin
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2013; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. David McGee($179,696), The College of New Jersey, Ewing
Key terms: Crust And Mantle, Crustal And Lithospheric, Continental Interior, Dense Linear, Geological Units, Lithospheric Structure, Mantle Flow, Mantle Lithosphere, Appalachian, Coast, Complexity, Component, Components, Deep, Deeper, Earthscope, Eastern, Effort, Erosion, Evolution, Focuses, Geomorphology, History, MAGIC, Processes, Region, Seismology, Structures, Students, Surface, Tectonic, Time, Topographic, Topography, Undergraduate, Virginia.

Collaborative Research: Investigation of the Effects of Organic Matter and Sulfur in the Environmental Fate of Mercury
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Kathryn L Nagy($261,798), University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago
2. Joseph N Ryan($288,200), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Elemental Mercury, Ionic Mercury, Mercuric Sulfide, Organic Matter, Sulfate-reducing Bacteria, Aquatic, Association, Composition, Conditions, Converted, Depends, Deposited, Efforts, Fish, Hg, Hgii, Incorporation, Laboratory, Methylmercury, Precipitation, Redox, Reduction, Spectroscopy, Sulfate-reducing, Sulfur, XANES.

The Calcium and Strontium (radiogenic and stable) isotope geochemistry of weathering in Iceland
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2016; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Andrew D Jacobson($375,000), Northwestern University, Evanston
Key terms: Ca Isotope Composition, Ca Isotope Values, Heulandite Ca Isotope, Long-term Carbon Cycle, Basalt Weathering, Hydrothermal Calcite, Long-term Carbon, Long-term Climate, Alkalinity, Atmospheric, Collect, Earth, Exposed, Findings, Geochemistry, Iceland, Icelandic, Insight, Levels, Metamorphism, Mineral, Minerals, Radiogenic, Rate, River, Riverine, Rock, Silicate, Sources, Spring, Sr, Students, Surface, Surrounding, Water, Zeolite.

Micro-Scale Mechanisms of N2O Production in Soil
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Alexandra N Kravchenko($549,999), Michigan State University, East Lansing
Key terms: Hot Spot, Hot Spots, N2o Emissions, N2o Hot, Soil N2o, Soil Pores, X-ray Micro-ct, Based, Characteristics, Combination, Computed, Conditions, Enable, Identification, Influence, Information, Knowledge, Micro-ct, Micro-scale, Microbial, Potential, Predictions, Processes, Set, Spatial, Temporal, Time, Tools, Transport, X-ray.

Geomicrobial kinetics: a genome-scale metabolic modeling approach
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Qusheng Jin($244,158), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Geological Environments, Microbial Rates, Modeling Method, Natural Environments, Analysis, Approach, Biosynthesis, Cultures, Enzyme, Fast, Geochemistry, Kinetics, Laboratory, Level, Metabolism, Microbes, Models, Monod, Network, Pathways, Prediction, Proceed, Processes, Students.

Collaborative Research: Vulnerability of carbon in buried soils to climate change and landscape disturbance
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Marie-Anne de Graaff($149,156), Boise State University, Boise
2. Erika Marin-Spiotta($399,932), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Ancient Organic Matter, Changing Environmental Conditions, Soil Organic Matter, Ancient Carbon, Buried Soil, Buried Soils, Carbon Stored, Modern Surface, Soil Carbon, Surface Conditions, Time Scales, Activities, Advanced, Aims, Amount, Atmosphere, Biogeochemistry, Climate, Composition, Decomposition, Deep, Directorate, Disturbance, Exposure, Future, Landscape, Loess, Measured, Microbial, Paleosol, Persistence, Plains, Potential, Predictions, Program, Released, Spectroscopic, Students, Training, Trigger, Vulnerability.

Collaborative Research: Identifying basin-specific controls on isotopic and chronological offsets of lake sediment leaf wax hydrogen isotope records
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Aaron Diefendorf($222,636), University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati
2. Alexander K Stewart($39,607), Saint Lawrence University, Canton
Key terms: Geosciences And Appreciation, Hydrogen Isotopic Composition, Stem Field Retention, Benefit Society, Biological Proxies, Broader Public, Cincinnati Museum, Graduate Studies, Hold Promise, Hydrogen Isotope, Interdisciplinary Collaborations, Lake Sediment, Lake Sediments, Leaf Wax, Leaf Waxes, Modern Leaf, Museum Exhibits, Skill Sets, Strengthen Preparation, Training Experiences, Undergraduate Students, Urban Cultural, Advanced, Center, Development, Educational, Expand, Expanding, Factors, Fluvial, Future, Geologic, Instrumental, Lakes, Lawrence, Limited, Mentoring, Offsets, Opportunities, Past, Precipitation, Prior, Processes, Quantitative, Reflects, Regard, Source, Undergraduates, Water.

Collaborative Research: Revealing the interplay between light, sulfur cycling, and oxygen production in cyanobacterial mats
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Wiebke A Ziebis($55,879), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2. Bopaiah A Biddanda($40,989), Grand Valley State University, Allendale
3. Jacob Waldbauer($40,858), University of Chicago, Chicago
4. Gregory J Dick($408,147), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Oxygenic And Anoxygenic, Anoxygenic Photosynthesis, Cyanobacterial Mats, Diel Cycle, Metabolic Pathways, Microbial Populations, Photosynthetic Modes, Activity, Atmosphere, Balance, Conditions, Controls, DNA, Earth, Effort, Experiments, Geochemical, Integrated, Interdisciplinary, Level, Life, Light, Low-o, Parallel, Processes, Protein, RNA, Reveal, Situ, Specific, Sulfide, Unprecedented, Via.

ALTERNATIVE NITROGENASES: HOW MUCH DO THEY CONTRIBUTE TO N2 FIXATION AND WHY?
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Xinning Zhang($357,768), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Acetylene Reduction Assay, Alternative Nitrogen Fixation, Alternative Nitrogenases, Nitrogenase Isoforms, Plant Growth, Activity, Contribution, Controls, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Fertility, Has, Marine, Metal, Method, Mo-nitrogenase, Reaction, Students.

Biogeochemistry of carbon monoxide cycling in hypersaline and arid soil systems: novel insights from newly discovered extremely halophilic CO-oxidizing Euryarchaeota
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Gary M King($449,438), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Saline And Arid, Saline Soils, Account, Analyses, Atmosphere, Biogeochemistry, Co-oxidizing, Conditions, Coupling, Cycling, Global, Has, Involve, Involved, Land, Microbial, Mo-dependent, Oxidation, Range, Stresses, Students, Total, Trace, Utah, Water.

Direct Measurement and Modeling of the Importance of Bacterial Adsorption of Cd in Natural Samples
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Joshua Shrout($156,323), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
Key terms: Bacterial Metal Adsorption, Confocal Laser Scanning, Laser Scanning Microscopy, Metal Adsorption Onto, Thermodynamic Stability Constants, Aqueous Metal, Bacteria-bearing Geologic, Bacterial Adsorption, Metal Distributions, Metal Speciation, Onto Bacteria, Affect, Approach, Assumptions, Bacteria-bearing, Complex, Determined, Directly, Experiments, Groundwater, Has, Hence, Importance, Metals, Models, Natural, Predict, Quantifying, Quantitatively, Range, Settings, Single, Soils, Surface, Transport, Water.

CAREER:COMBINING LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS, FIELD DATA, AND REACTIVE TRANSPORT MODELING TO QUANTIFY INFLUENCE OF FLUID TRANSPORT ON MINERAL DISSOLUTION RATES ACROSS SCALE
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Alexis K Navarre-Sitchler($456,691), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: Mineral Dissolution Rates, Unconventional Hydrocarbon Reservoirs, Field Scales, Fluid Transport, Land Surface, Reaction Rates, Reactive Transport, School Students, Societal Issues, Ability, Advance, Apparent, Climate, Complexity, Conditions, Fast, Field-scale, Flow, Geochemical, Geologic, Heterogeneity, Heterogeneous, Hydrologic, Increased, Influence, Laboratory, Measured, Natural, Numerical, Numerically, Pore, Processes, Quantify, Reactions, Rock, Scaling, Sequestration, Simulation, Water.

Collaborative Research: Alteration of microbially-produced carbonate rock by unicellular predators to better understand early Earth's dominant ecosystem
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Pieter T Visscher($265,000), University of Connecticut, Storrs
2. Joan M Bernhard($255,001), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Fayetteville Green Lake, Fossil Microbialites, Microbialite Mesofabric, Unicellular Predators, Activities, Carbonate, Clotted, Diagenesis, Extant, FGL, Fabric, Laminated, Life, Living, Microbes, NY, Non-marine, Oil, Predation, Protists, Riddle, Rock, SEM, Scanning, Thick.

Role of the deep brine layer in the production of methylmercury in the Great Salt Lake
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2016; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Frank J Black($99,888), Westminster College of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Anoxic Deep Brine, Deep Brine Layer, Natural Water Body, Migratory Birds, North Arm, Salt Lake, South Arm, Causeway, Concentrations, GSL, Has, Hg, Levels, Mehg, Mercury, Methylmercury, Millions, Multiple, Primary, Sediment, Stop, Underlying.

Iron geochemistry and controls on phosphorus bioavailability in northern peatlands
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Elizabeth M Herndon($100,567), Kent State University, Kent
Key terms: Iron And Phosphorus, Phosphorus Bioavailability, Phosphorus Limitation, Plant Growth, Arctic, Availability, Boreal, Carbon, Controls, Ecosystems, Geochemical, Greenhouse, Hydrologic, Nutrient, Peatlands, Sensitive, Soil, Soils, Students, Tundra.

EAGER: Collaborative Research: Development of an isotope-enabled reactive transport tool to simulate carbon transformations in karst environments
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Jennifer L Druhan($45,288), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Carbon Isotope Ratios, Earth's Carbon Cycle, Reactive Transport Model, Speleothem Carbon Isotope, Blue Spring, Cave Minerals, Earth's Carbon, Earth's Surface, Karst Settings, Past Climate, Accomplished, Chemistry, Crunchtope, Development, Environmental, Epikarst, Essential, Factors, Potential, Processes, Reaction, Soil, Soils, Students, Tennessee, Tool, Variety, Vegetation, Versatile, Water.

Graduate Student Travel Support Program for the 2016 V. M. Goldschmidt Conference in Yokohama, Japan, June 26-July 1, 2016
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Munir Humayun($30,000), The Geochemical Society, Alexandria
Key terms: Goldschmidt Conference, Field, Geochemistry, Students, Travel.

Collaborative Research: Experimental determination of trace element diffusion rates in tooth enamel
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Matthew J Kohn($170,724), Boise State University, Boise
2. Richard L Hervig($38,494), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Phd Student, Diffusion, Ds, Enamel, Fossil, Fossilization, Ionic, Main, Natural, Range, Rate, SIMS, Trace, Uptake, °.

RAPID: Extreme Flooding Mobilized Natural Organic Matter from Forested Wetlands - Implication of Mercury and Carbon Cycling in Coastal Blackwater Rivers
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2016; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Shaowu Bao($49,961), Clemson University, Clemson
Key terms: Coastal Blackwater Rivers, Mercury And Carbon, Terrestrial Organic Matter, Coastal Ecosystems, Coastal Wetlands, Dissolved Organic, Extreme Flooding, Extreme Weather, Forested Wetlands, Methylated Mercury, Total Mercury, Waccamaw River, Biogeochemical, Carolina, Exports, Field, Highly, Hydrograph, Hydrological, NOM, Pis, Pools, Process, SC, Stable, Temporal, Useful, Water.

Terrestrial Applications of the Triple Oxygen Isotope Geothermometer
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2016; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Zachary Sharp($270,003), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Oxygen Isotope Composition, 17o16o Ratios, 18o16o Ratios, Ocean Water, Ancient, Calcite, Compositions, Estimate, Expand, Formed, Graduate, Has, Isotopes, Mineral, OO, Potential, Rock, Students, Technique, Temperature, Temperatures, Time, Undergraduate.

In situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction of Fe oxide transformations in aqueous solutions
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2016; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Jeffrey Post($408,616), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Ferrihydrite And Goethite, Aqueous Solutions, Hematite Crystallizes, Iron Defects, Natural Hematite, Particle Size, Chemical, Crystallization, Diffraction, Experiments, Explore, Feo, Growth, Hydrohematite, Hydrous, Magnetic, Mineral, Mixtures, Ph, Phases, Precursor, Properties, Time, Yield.

Collaborative Research: Determining Functional Correlations Between Geochemical Factors and Microbial Metabolisms in Ultrabasic Serpentinizing Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Shino Suzuki($145,254), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Microbial Metabolic, Previous Studies, Serpentinizing Environments, Activities, Cedars, Conditions, Extreme, Geochemical, Life, Occurring, Organisms, Pis, Site.

Collaborative Research: What hydrogeochemical processes control weathering in the deep critical zone of unburied karst landscapes?
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Jason D Gulley($194,940), University of South Florida, Tampa
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.

CAREER: Quantifying the lifespan of agricultural soils
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Isaac J Larsen($545,477), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Field And Geochemical, Soil Erosion, Soil Loss, Agricultural, Assess, Balance, Carbon, Formation, Landscape, Landscapes, Magnitude, Midwestern, Rates, Storage.

From process to signal, a workshop to advance environmental seismology
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2017; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Brandon Schmandt($15,050), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Environmental Seismology, Applications, Conference, Development, Discuss, Gathering, International, Methods, Observations, Participation, Specific.

Collaborative Research: Sediment connectivity and its morphologic and vegetative controls: Linking soils and streams in mountain landscapes of the northern Rockies
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Andrew C Wilcox($215,111), University of Montana, Missoula
2. Jean L Dixon($296,282), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Mountain Landscapes, Mountain Watersheds, Sediment Transfer, Connectivity, Downstream, Erosion, Fire-prone, Hillslopes, Influences, Knowledge, Management, Routing, Streams, Targeted, Vegetation.

Collaborative Research: Detection and mechanics of sinkhole activities in central Florida
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2016; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Shimon Wdowinski($255,381), Florida International University, Miami
2. Sarah E Kruse($119,193), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Central Florida, Detect Localized, Field Sites, Sinkhole Activity, Slow Subsidence, Collapse, Detection, Insar, Modeling, Observations, Surface, Time.

Support for a U.S.-Taiwan Workshop on the Feedbacks Among Climate, Erosion and Tectonics
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Eric Kirby($97,737), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Mountain Building, Active, Climate, Collaborations, Current, Development, Erosion, Feedbacks, Govern, Increase, Influence, Interdisciplinary, Linkages, Participation, Processes, Subsequent, Surface, Taiwan, Tectonic, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Quantifying Megathrust Earthquake Ruptures with Coastal Stratigraphy and Tsunami Simulations, South-Central Chile
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Benjamin P Horton($258,060), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
2. Breanyn MacInnes($267,194), Central Washington University, Ellensburg
Key terms: Coseismic And Interseismic, Earthquake And Tsunami, Earthquakes And Tsunamis, Multiple Earthquake Cycles, Earthquakes Based, Forward Simulations, Megathrust Earthquakes, Past Earthquakes, South-central Chile, Transfer Functions, Tsunami Deposits, Tsunami Hazards, Tsunami Waves, Activities, Ancient, Bayesian, Behavior, Coast, Coastal, Deformation, Diatom, Diatoms, Effects, Estimates, Evidence, Extent, History, Identifying, Increase, Indicate, Inundation, Land-level, Largest, Layers, Long-term, Magnitude, Models, Mw, Occurred, Public, Reconstructions, Rupture, Sand, Sites, South-central, Subduction, Subsidence, Swept, Uplift, Vertical.

Collaborative Research: Tsunami and Tropical Storm Sediment Dynamics and Products
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2016; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Jennifer L Irish($320,428), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Tsunami And Tropical, Tsunamis And Tropical, Computational Modeling, Sediment Transport, Tropical Cyclones, Assumption, Coastal, Deposits, Exist, Hazard, Properties.

Collaborative Research: Tsunami and Tropical Cyclone Sediment Dynamics and Products
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2016; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Jonathan Woodruff($178,504), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Tsunami And Tropical, Tsunamis And Tropical, Computational Modeling, Sediment Transport, Tropical Cyclones, Assumption, Coastal, Deposits, Exist, Hazard, Properties.

Chronologies and mechanisms of last glacial loess deposition in the Central Lowlands of North America
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. David A Grimley($349,582), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Ice Lobe Fluctuations, Deposition Rates, Loess Deposition, Radiocarbon Chronologies, Stable Oxygen, Analyses, Climate, Deposits, Glacial, Isotope, Midwestern, Paleoclimate, Regional, Sediment, Timing.

Collaborative Research: Constraining the timing and rate of southeastern Laurentide Ice Sheet thinning during the last deglaciation with cosmogenic nuclide dipsticks
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. P.Thompson Davis($101,190), Bentley University, Waltham
2. Jeremy Shakun($70,095), Boston College, Chestnut Hill
3. Paul R Bierman($112,738), University of Vermont & State Agricultural College, Burlington
Key terms: Sea Level Rise, Ice Age, Ice Sheet, Ice Sheets, Abrupt, Collapse, England, Future, Largest, Reconstructions, Surface, Three-dimensional.

Assessing the influence of lithology on the temporal-spatial variability of sediment transport and its relation to primary production in mountain streams
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Catalina Segura($411,897), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Sediment Transport, Affect, Algae, Controls, Ecosystems, Exerts, Has, Light, Lithology, Nutrients, Primary, Rock, School, Sites, Stream, Streams, Underlying.

Collaborative Research: The legacy of transience: Understanding dynamic landscape adjustment following mountain uplift in two CZO field areas
Award Effective Date: 06/30/2016; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Jane Willenbring($121,852), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Adjusted Topography, Denudation Rate, Relict Topography, Tectonic History, Current, Developed, Evolution, Field, Landlab, Landscape, Landscapes, Modeling, Quantifying, Sites.

CAREER: Retention and Mobility of Beryllium in Soils and Sedimentary Environments
Award Effective Date: 06/30/2016; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Jane Willenbring($510,703), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Jane Willenbring($510,703), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Key terms: Beryllium Isotopes, Aims, Critical, Movement, Past, Soil, Students, Tool.

Supplemental funds to enhance U.S. student participation at River Flow 2016
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Dan M Hanes($9,985), Saint Louis University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Fluvial Hydraulics, International Conference, Attendance, Graduate, Program, Topics.

Fracture density and grain size controls on the relief structure of bedrock landscapes
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Roman A DiBiase($315,052), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Fracture Density, Mountain Ranges, Rock Strength, Analysis, Bedrock, Challenging, Climate, Erodibility, Erosion, Influence, Landscapes, Metrics, Relief, Sediment, Techniques, Tectonic, Testing, Topography.

Collaborative Research: Quantifying Paleotopography and Paleoclimate to Test Geodynamic Models in the Peruvian Andes
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Christopher J Poulsen($208,241), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. Daniel O Breecker($61,138), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
3. Brian J Yanites($430,082), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
Key terms: School And Undergraduate, Crustal Thickening, Geodynamic Models, Late Cenozoic, Mountain Belts, Outreach Programs, Plate Tectonics, Stable Isotope, Surface Topography, Surface Uplift, Undergraduate Students, Underrepresented Minorities, Andes, Circulation, Climate, Controls, Development, Distinguish, Drainage, Elevations, Erosion, Erosional, Fluvial, Incision, Increased, Modeling, Modern, Orogenesis, Participation, Processes, Public, Resulting, STEM, Sediment.

The Influence of Intertidal Sandbar Welding on Dune Growth
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Peter Ruggiero($385,241), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Waves And Wind, Intertidal Sandbars, Backshore, Beach, Beach-dune, Coastal, Dunes, Findings, Management, Sediment, Shoreline, Welding.

EAGER: Dynamic Response of the Soil Production Function to Erosion Rates
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2016; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Arjun M Heimsath($26,574), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Erosion Rate, Soil Thickness, Description, Landscapes, Processes, Theory.

Towards the continuous monitoring of natural hazards from river floods and debris flows from seismic observations
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2016; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Victor C Tsai($255,494), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Floods And Debris, Debris Flows, Ground Vibrations, Developing, Hazards, Monitoring.

Support for 2016 Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Seminar on Rock Deformation
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Julia K Morgan($30,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Rock Deformation Gordon, Graduate Students, Post-doctoral Fellows, August, Based, Behavior, Conditions, Conference, Cutting-edge, Development, Emphasis, Field, Focuses, Geology, Held, Mechanisms, Models, Numerical, Participation, Post-doctoral, Processes, Rheology, STEM, Seminar, Theory, Time, Various.

Longitudinal patterns of organic carbon storage in mountainous river networks
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Ellen E Wohl($257,828), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Mountain River Basins, Mountainous River Networks, Co2 Emissions, Oc Dynamics, Oc Storage, Assess, Budgets, Carbon, Climate, Compare, Global, Inform, Land, Land-use, Rivers.

Assessing the Role of Water in Cordilleran Flat Slab Subduction Regions
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: Geophysics

1. Ryan Porter($142,538), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: Crust And Mantle, Hydration And Subsequent, Costa Rica, Flat-slab Regions, Flat-slab Subduction, Low-angle Subduction, Mantle Wedge, Oceanic Plates, Overriding Crust, Overriding Lithosphere, Seismic Imaging, Slab Hydration, Southern Alaska, Subduction Zones, Subsequent Dehydration, Thermodynamic Modeling, Typical Subduction, Water Released, Additionally, Allow, Arc, Assess, Assume, Behave, Behavior, Continent, Deformation, Downgoing, Flat-slab, Geology, Geometry, Leads, Low-angle, Mechanisms, Models, Modern, Peru, Play, Rock, Slabs, Stored, Strongly, Upper, Utilize, Velocity, Volcanism, Western.

Seismological probes of Earth's outer core
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2017; Program: Geophysics

1. Jessica C Irving($307,844), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Uppermost Outer Core, Well-mixed Outer Core, Body-wave Studies, Mantle Convection, Velocity Structure, Well-mixed Outer, Body-wave, Body-waves, Depth, Earth, Expected, Geodynamo, Geomagnetic, Heat, Investigate, Layer, Light, Liquid, Oscillation, Properties, Seismic, Sensitive, Stratified, Top.

Collaborative Research: Forward and inverse models of global plate motions and plate interactions
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: Geophysics

1. Georg Stadler($98,000), New York University, New York
2. Michael C Gurnis($410,406), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Gain Enormous Experience, Geophysics And Applied, Inversion And Optimization, Rigorous And Computationally, Sophisticated Numerical Methods, Applied Mathematics, Computationally Robust, Computer Software, Driving Forces, Force Balance, Graduate Students, Inverse Models, Mathematically Rigorous, Mechanical Coupling, Numerical Models, Optimization Methods, Plate Coupling, Plate Motions, Subduction Zones, Supercomputers Supported, Supercomputing Technologies, Tectonic Plates, Boundaries, Broader, Collaborate, Consensus, Drilling, Dynamic, Earthquakes, Evolution, Flow, Friction, Geodynamic, Geological, Government, Hinge, Industry, Infer, Inside, Less, Level, Linkage, Mantle, Observations, Occurrence, Outcome, Parameters, Postdoctoral, Precisely, Reach, Relative, Resistance, Resisting, Resolution, Responsible, Seismic, Slab, Strength, Strike, Subducting, Time, Training.

Crustal and Uppermost Mantle Anisotropy Across Tibet and East China
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: Geophysics

1. Michael H Ritzwoller($287,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Crustal Anisotropy, Lower Crust, Mantle Anisotropy, Monte Carlo, Seismic Anisotropy, Surface Wave, Anisotropic, Array, Bayesian, China, Current, Deformation, Has, Illuminate, Information, Method, Methods, Orientation, Regions, Speeds, Synergy, Upper.

Toward Exascale Global Adjoint Tomography
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: Geophysics

1. Jeroen Tromp($547,492), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Seismic Wave Propagation, Adjoint Tomography, Seismic Tomography, Workflow Management, Database, Earth, Earthquakes, Global, IO, Inversion, Main, Model, Regional, Seismology, Simulations, Source, Tasks, Thousands.

In Situ X-ray Diffraction Study of Phase Transitions in Shock-Compressed Minerals
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: Geophysics

1. Stefan Turneaure($478,000), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Shock Compression Experiments, Earth's Surface, High-energy Synchrotron, Mineral Structures, Shocked Minerals, Velocity Histories, X-ray Diffraction, Analyzed, Crystal, DCS, Deep, Density, Directly, Found, High-energy, High-pressure, High-speed, Insight, Lif, Meteorite, Occurring, Past, Polycarbonate, Pressures, Projectiles, X-ray, X-rays.

In situ Seismic Anisotropy in the Source Region of Global Deep Earthquakes
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: Geophysics

1. Yingcai Zheng($136,992), University of Houston, Houston
Key terms: Anisotropic Fabric, Deep Earthquakes, Earthquake Radiation, Earthquake Source, Shallow Earthquakes, Subduction Zones, Anisotropy, Component, Depth, Double-couple, Expected, Invert, Inverted, Mechanism, Observed, Occurrence, Physics, Plate, Processes, Range, Seismic, Situ, Slab, Slabs, Structure, Subducting, Worldwide.

Self-Organization Mechanisms within Magma-Driven Dyke and Hydraulic Fracture Swarms
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: Geophysics

1. Andrew Bunger($310,000), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Conditions Governing Emplacement, Mechanical Conditions Governing, Computational Models, Fluid-filled Cracks, Hydraulic Fractures, Swarm Theory, Analogue, Applying, Clarify, Crust, Developed, Emergent, Fluid-filled, Forces, Has, Influence, Lead, Length, Mechanics, Mechanisms, Method, Methods, Pressure, Processes, Swarms.

Collaborative Research: Improving lower mantle seismic sampling and model resolution using multi-bounce and diffracted waves
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. Edward J Garnero($191,261), Arizona State University, Tempe
2. Stephen Grand($104,704), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Forward And Inverse, Circle Path, Earth's Mantle, Mantle Heterogeneity, Seismic Tomography, Seismic Wave, Seismic Waves, Add, Aims, Approaches, Compare, Dynamics, Evolution, Has, Hemisphere, Images, Imaging, Interior, Larger, Llsvps, Models, Multi-bounce, Paths, Planet, Resolution, Scs, Speeds, Structure, Structures, Surface, Time, Times, Tomographic, Travel.

Imaging the Eastern Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. Robert W Clayton($178,638), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Depth, Flow, Image, Interfaces, Mexican, Mexico, Model, Past, Region, Seismic, Slab, Structure, Subduction, Subsurface, TMVB, Tectonic, Western.

RAPID: Collaborative Research: GPS observations of post-seismic deformation from the 3 Sep 2016, Mw 5.8, Pawnee, Oklahoma
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. Robert Smalley($5,286), University of Memphis, Memphis
2. Jefferson C Chang($16,187), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Epicentral Region, Induced Earthquakes, Largest Historical, Pawnee Earthquake, Postseismic Deformation, CGPS, Caused, Confirmed, Contribute, Crust, Fault, Field, Fluid, Fluids, GPS, Increase, Increased, Injection, Movements, Natural, Oklahoma, Post-seismic, Properties, Rate, Seismic, Signal, Wastewater.

Collaborative Research: Waves in Volcanic Conduit-crack Systems and Very Long Period Seismicity at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. Leif Karlstrom($221,040), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
2. Eric M Dunham($52,922), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Active Lava Lake, Crater Walls Onto, Magma And Gas, Oscillatory Ground Motion, Active Volcanoes, Bubble Growth, Conduit Geometry, Direct Observation, Lake Height, Modeling Framework, Rock Falls, Seismic Signals, Viscous Drag, Volatile Content, Activity, Branching, Bubbly, Constrain, Cracks, Depth, Eruption, Evidenced, Explosions, Flow, Fluid, Hawaii, Hidden, Kilauea, Magmatic, Multiphase, Natural, Network, Oscillations, Periods, Primary, Processes, Properties, Solubility, Unique, Unsteady, Vent.

Collaborative Research: The Uplift and Seismic Structure of the Greater Caucasus
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. John L Nabelek($271,672), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Eric Sandvol($192,366), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
3. Kevin G Mackey($276,010), Michigan State University, East Lansing
Key terms: Mountain Belts, Seismic Structure, Uplift Mechanisms, Caucasus, Continent, Deep, Deformation, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Gain, Has, Images, Lead, Processes, Region, Stations.

Transient Creep in Peridotite with Application to
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. Reid F Cooper($244,198), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Earth's Mantle, Earthquake Cycle, Behavior, Deformation, Enhance, Laboratory, Simulations, Stress, Sudden, Theoretical.

Collaborative Research: Bayesian Estimation of Mantle Viscosity Structure and Geodynamic Implications
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. Maxwell Rudolph($193,024), Portland State University, Portland
2. Pritwiraj Moulik($39,976), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Mantle Viscosity Structure, Earth's Mantle, Graduate Student, Mantle Convection, Mantle Rocks, Seismic Images, Tomographic Models, Transition Zone, Affect, Behavior, Constraints, Curricular, Deflected, Density, Depth, Does, Field, Flow, Generation, Interior, Long-wavelength, Plumes, Postdoctoral, Rate, Recently, School, Seismological, Shear, Tectonic, Training, Uncertainty, Velocity, Volcanic, Wave.

3-D Mantle wedge flow pattern and seismic anisotropy: Effects of oblique subduction
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. Ikuko Wada($133,694), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Mantle Wedge Flow, Shear Wave Splitting, Graduate Student, Margin Curvature, Oblique Subduction, Seismic Anisotropy, Slab Geometry, Subduction Zones, Anisotropic, Calculated, Complex, Effect, Indicate, LPO, Modeling, Orientation.

Collaborative research: Lithospheric foundering beneath the Sierra Nevada constrained by analysis of an anomalous Pn shadow zone
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. Craig H Jones($175,165), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Steven W Roecker($79,835), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
Key terms: Crust And Upper, Pn Shadow Zone, Convective Instability, Lithospheric Foundering, Sierra Nevada, Trial Models, Upper Mantle, Arclogite, Beneath, California, Consistent, Delamination, Dense, Densities, Density, Geometry, Has, Hence, Inversion, Lithologies, Lithosphere, Low, Lower, Modeling, Mountain, Observations, Presence, Produced, Range, Region, Regions, Remains, Responsible, Seismic, Supported, Teleseismic, Unknown, Waveform, Waves, Western.

Collaborative Research: Probing the frictional behavior of the Tohoku megathrust using GPS, seismicity, and physics-based models
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. Kaj M Johnson($161,455), Indiana University, Bloomington
2. Paul Segall($395,130), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Fault Creep, Locked Asperities, Mantle Flow, Northern Japan, Plate Boundary, Repeating Earthquakes, Stress Builds, Subduction Zone, Velocity Strengthening, Afterslip, Asperity, Coupling, Creeping, Deep, Deformation, Eroding, Friction, GPS, Has, Interseismic, Magnitude, Mechanical, Models, Physics-based, Regions, Require, School, Slip, Student, Subsidence, Time, Tohoku, Unique, Was, Weakening, Zones.

Integrating Three-Dimensional Earthquake Rupture Dynamics, Ocean Acoustic Waves and Tsunami: Effects of Inelastic Failure in the Accretionary Wedge
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. Shuo Ma($272,652), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
Key terms: Ocean Acoustic Waves, Tsunami And Ocean, Earthquake Rupture, Rupture Models, Shallow Subduction, Tsunami Generation, Affect, Approach, Deformation, Earthquakes, Energy, Extract, Inelastic, Physics, Signals, Warning, Wedge.

Synergistic Explorations of Hydromagnetic Core Turbulence via Simulations and Asymptotics
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. Keith Julien($475,046), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Geophysics And Applied, Applied Mathematics, Core Turbulence, Direct Observations, Field Via, Force Balances, Geomagnetic Field, Magnetic Field, Numerical Simulations, Outer Core, Ability, Accurate, Development, Dynamical, Earth, Evolution, Hinders, Investigate, Lack, Limitation, Mathematical, Modeling, Models, Motions, Physics, Regimes.

Collaborative Research: GeoGONAF: Analysis of active deformation and strain transfer along the Izmit Bay-Marmara Sea segment of the North Anatolian Fault
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. Michael A Floyd($122,735), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Roger G Bilham($145,113), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: North Anatolian Fault, San Francisco Bay, Approaching Rupture, Faults South, Future Earthquake, Signals Occurring, Slow Slip, Array, Beneath, Closely, Creep, Current, Diameter, GPS, Geogonaf, Imminent, Indicate, Installed, Instruments, Istanbul, Marmara, Million, Monitor, Near, Phase, Population, Sea, Search, Seismic, Seismometers, Similar, Six, Strain, Strain-meters, Submarine, Turkey, Was.

Collaborative Research: Magnesite Deformation and Potential Roles in the Slip and Seismicity of Subduction Zones
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. Andreas K Kronenberg($104,062), Texas A&M University, College Station
2. Caleb W Holyoke($195,035), University of Akron, Akron
Key terms: Magnesite Deformation Mechanisms, Size And Pressure, Diffusion Creep, Focus Earthquakes, Grain Size, Grain-size Sensitivity, Pressure Sensitivity, Shear Instability, Subducting Slabs, Conditions, Deep, Depth, Experimental, Experiments, Grain-size, Investigate, Model, Nucleation, Parameters, Peridotite, Plasticity, Rheology, Strain, Strength.

Collaborative Research: Investigating fault geometries and rupture processes in the Nepal Himalaya following the April 25, 2015 Gorkha earthquake
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. John L Nabelek($217,300), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Marianne S Karplus($237,221), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
3. Abhijit Ghosh($186,804), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Broader Geotectonic Setting, Himalaya And Southern, Crustal Composition, Fault Dynamics, Himalayan Thrust, Mht Fault, Namaste Array, Newly Collected, Rupture Process, Southern Tibet, Upper Mantle, Active, Aftershock, Aftershocks, Allow, Characterization, Collaborative, Datasets, Derive, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Geometry, Magnitude, Nepal, Nepalese, Occurred, Perform, Region, Regional, Sequence, Source, Stations, Stress, Tectonic, Tomography, Velocity, Zone.

Development and Application of Turbulence Models in Numerical Geodynamo Simulations
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. Bruce Buffett($270,000), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Earth's Magnetic Field, Astrophysical Flows, Earth's Magnetic, Numerical Simulations, Scale-similarity Model, Small-scale Turbulence, Adaptive, Allow, Applications, Approach, Computational, Dynamo, Fluid, Geophysical, Implementation, Influence, Limits, Models, Processes, Resources, Scale-similarity, Small-scale.

Collaborative Research: A Multidisciplinary Study to Determine the Fundamental Mechanisms of Rock Friction through Coordinated Experiments and Simulations
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. Robert W Carpick($287,701), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
2. Izabela Szlufarska($270,960), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Existing Mathematical Descriptions, Atomistic Simulations, Extreme Range, Friction Behavior, Frictional Behavior, Highly Interdisciplinary, Length Scales, Multi-disciplinary Approach, Rock Friction, AFM, Aging, Apply, Based, Basis, Chemical, Computer, Contacts, Creep, Depends, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Effect, Experiments, Fault, Faults, Incredibly, Laws, Limited, Mechanisms, Microscopy, Models, Multi-contact, Multi-disciplinary, Nanoindentation, Nanometer, Necessitates, Nucleation, Plastic, Processes, Recurrence, Reliable, Single-contact, Underlying.

Improving Absolute Paleointensity Experiments through Pressure Cycling
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. Joshua M Feinberg($239,995), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Earth's Magnetic Field, Psd And Md, Earth's Magnetic, Magnetic Minerals, Magnetizations Held, Paleointensity Experiments, Pressure Cycling, Pressure Treatments, Single Domain, Thermal Remanent, Ability, Allow, Geomagnetic, Grains, Intensity, Magnetism, Natural, Overcome, Paleointensities, Planetary, Reliable, Remanence, Rock, Solar, Special, Strength, Volcanic.

Collaborative Research: Density and structure of silicate liquids under deep mantle conditions
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. Zhicheng Jing($273,000), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland
Key terms: Deep Mantle Conditions, Pressure Range, Silicate Liquids, Technical Challenges, Compositions, Cooling, Coordination, Density, Earth, Evolution, Knowledge, Magmas, Obtaining, Process, Processes, Selected, Silicates, Structural, Structure, Techniques, Transition.

Advances in Paleomagnetic Field Modeling: How does Earth's dipole grow and decay?
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. Catherine Constable($350,000), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Ka And 0-100, Temporal And Spatial, 0-10 Ka, 0-100 Ka, Dipole Moment, Geomagnetic Field, Laschamp Excursion, Magnetic Field, Time Varying, AD, BC, Complexity, Contribute, Cosmogenic, Decay, Explore, Extent, Features, Flux, Growth, Has, Hemisphere, Ky, Levantine, Levels, Models, Past, Range, Regional, Solar, Spikes, Strength, Zam.

Detailed seismic imaging and monitoring of the subsurface material around the San Jacinto fault zone
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. Yehuda Ben-Zion($252,159), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Velocities And Attenuation, Attenuation Coefficients, Fault Zone, Ground Motion, Seismic Properties, Seismic Velocities, Shallow Crust, Amplitudes, Applications, Characterization, Depth, Models, Nonlinear, Relation, SJFZ, Sections, Site, Sites, Subsurface, Techniques, Temporal, Time-dependent, Top, Various.

Collaborative Research: Density and structure of s
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. Yanbin Wang($336,000), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Deep Mantle Conditions, Pressure Range, Silicate Liquids, Technical Challenges, Compositions, Cooling, Coordination, Density, Earth, Evolution, Knowledge, Magmas, Obtaining, Process, Processes, Selected, Silicates, Structural, Structure, Techniques, Transition.

Integrating the LPO Constraint into 3D Subduction Dynamics Simulations
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. Magali I Billen($299,947), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Lpo Structure, Seismic Anisotropy, Subduction Zones, Tectonic Plate, Volcanic Activity, ASPECT, Analysis, Analyzed, Calculations, Computational, Deformation, Earthquakes, Mantle, Models, Observations, Observed, Parameters, Responsible, Simulations, Sinking, Slab, Stresses, Student.

Anisotropic structure of Earth's inner core from noise correlations
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. Xiaodong Song($240,000), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Fast Axis Aligned, Pkikp2 And Pkiikp2, Ambient Noise, Anisotropic Structure, Body Waves, Earthquake Coda, Inner Core, Pkiikp2 Simultaneously, Systematically Retrieve, Travel Times, Triplicated Pkp, Anisotropy, Applying, Arrays, Autocorrelations, Branches, Correlations, Cross-correlations, Deep, Differential, Explore, Has, Imaging, Inner-core, Model, North-south, Observations, Origin, Outer, Particular, Phases, Seismic, Shown, Station, Technique, Vastly.

Constraining depth dependent anisotropy in Australia through Ps Receiver function analysis, frequency-dependent shear wave splitting and forward modeling
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. Heather A Ford($158,348), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Frequency-dependent Sks Splitting, Models And Sks, Ps Receiver Function, Receiver Function Analysis, Sks Splitting Observations, Surface Wave Tomography, Anisotropic Structure, Anisotropy Beneath, Australian Continent, Beneath Australia, Continental Formation, Continental Lithosphere, Frequency-dependent Sks, Mantle Lithosphere, Seismic Anisotropy, Apply, Constraints, Deformation, Depth, Depth-dependent, Detailed, Discrepancies, Evolution, Geologic, Has, History, Infer, Methods, Origin, Processes, Specific, Stations, Subset, Tectonic.

Investigating Earthquake Source Processes in the Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. Ze'ev Reches($331,996), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Earthquake Rupture, Ground Shaking, Seismic Hazard, Advance, Developed, Earthquakes, Energy, Experimental, Experiments, Faults, Features, Fracturing, Hebrew, Laboratory, Monitoring, Natural, Oklahoma, Processes, Rock, Slip, Tools, Unique, Weakening.

Seismological Investigations of Earthquakes and Deep Earth Structure
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. Peter M Shearer($603,993), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Earthquakes And Deep, Structure And Earthquake, Comprehensive Analyses, Earthquake Rupture, Global Seismic, San Diego, Seismic Waves, Back-projection, Energy, Examine, Features, Frequency, Has, Issues, Lead, Mantle, Methods, Models, Perform, Previously, Processes, Reflections, Resolve, Ruptures, Scattered, Seismograms, Thousands, UC, Variety.

Sound Velocities and Elastiicity of Deep-earth Mat
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. Jay D Bass($398,000), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Extreme Pressure-temperature Conditions, Chemical Composition, Earth's Interior, Earth's Mantle, Extreme Pressure-temperature, Pressure-temperature Conditions, Sound Velocities, Thermal Structure, Tighter Constraints, Actual, Candidate, Depth, Flow, Heterogeneity, Highly, Information, Laboratory, Lateral, Nature, Performed, Processes, Radial, Velocity.

Collaborative Research: Rheology of asthenosphere in the Kuril-Kamchatka subduction zone from postseismic GPS observations after great earthquakes
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. Mikhail Kogan($185,000), Columbia University, New York
2. Jeffrey T Freymueller($30,713), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Seismic Activity, Subduction Zone, Deformation, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Focus, Gaps, Gt, Kuril, Linear, MW, Mantle, Modeling, Pacific, Plate, Postseismic, Required, Rheology, Significantly.

RUI: A laboratory study of ultrasonic scattering attenuation by possible microstructures in Earth's inner core
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. Michael I Bergman($138,552), Simon's Rock of Bard College, Great Barrington
Key terms: Earth's Inner Core, Primary And Secondary, Attenuation Anisotropy, Columnar Grains, Earth's Inner, Elastic Anisotropy, Grain Boundaries, Metallic Alloys, Scattering Attenuation, Secondary Dendrites, Allow, Annealing, Crystals, Deformation, Evolution, Faster, Has, Iron, Microstructure, Microstructures, Parallel, Phase, Polygonal, Recrystallization, Regional, Relative, Seismic, Solidification, Solidified, Stable, Suggested, Texturing, Typically, Ultrasonic, Waves.

Collaborative Research: Experimental analysis of strain transients in a heterogeneous semi-brittle system: Implications for tectonics
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. Jacqueline E Reber($185,500), Iowa State University, Ames
2. Luc L Lavier($66,648), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Fault Zones, Strain Transients, Behavior, Brittle, Deformation, Ductile, Earthquakes, Experiments, Flow, Fractures, Interaction, Semi-brittle, Shear, Simultaneously, Slip.

Collaborative Research: Multi-scale validation of earthquake source parameters to resolve any spatial, temporal or magnitude-dependent variability at Parkfield, CA
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. Rachel E Abercrombie($158,692), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
2. Xiaowei Chen($224,262), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Earthquake Source, Magnitude Range, Repeating Earthquakes, Seismic Hazard, Stress Drop, Activities, Analysis, Dense, Distinct, Fault, Focus, Ground, Hence, Increase, Limited, Methods, Networks, Observed, Oklahoma, Parameters, Parkfield, Physics, Rate, Real, Region, Regions, Scaling, Seismicity, Student, Varies.

Extreme Interaction Between Atmosphere and Solid Earth: Understanding the Forcing Mechanism by Hurricanes and its Application for Monitoring
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. Toshiro Tanimoto($197,763), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Ground Motions, Seismic-wave Excitation, Usarray Network, Atmospheric, Barometers, Has, Hurricane, Hurricanes, Intensity, Mitigation, Monitoring, Observations, Oceans, Seismic-wave, Seismometers, Sudden.

Collaborative Research: Laboratory and Theoretical Investigations of the Micro-Mechanical Origins of Rate and State Friction on Tectonic Faults
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. Allan M Rubin($254,833), Princeton University, Princeton
2. Chris J Marone($305,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Fault Gouge, Friction Laws, Tectonic Faults, Behavior, Cycle, Dynamic, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Frictional, Laboratory, Motion, Nucleation, Physics, Rock, Seismic, Sheared, Sliding, Stress, Ultrasonic.

CAREER: Investigating the Causes and Consequences of Flat-Slab Subduction in Lithosphere Evolution
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. Lijun Liu($497,413), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: East Asia, Flat-slab Subduction, Activities, Aims, Building, Consequences, Constraints, Continent, Data-oriented, Dynamics, Earth, Education, Evolution, Flat-slab, Formation, Forward, Geodynamic, Geodynamics, Geological, Geology, Geophysical, Has, Mantle, Mechanisms, Modeling, Models, Multiple, North, Occurred, Overriding, Plans, Plate, Plates, South, Students, Tectonic, Various.

Isaac Newton Institute Program on Melt in the Mantle
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. David Bercovici($20,000), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Ini Program, Beneath, Boundaries, Challenge, Continuum, Dynamics, Early-career, February, Focus, Grain, International, June, Mantle, Mathematical, Mathematicians, Melt, Numerical, Physics, Plate-tectonic, Solid, Surface, Techniques, Tectonic, Theory, Workshops.

Comprehensive high-precision relocation of global seismicity
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. David P Schaff($182,294), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Phase Arrival Times, Structure And Composition, Global Seismic, Notoriously Low, Seismic Archives, Spatial Resolution, Subduction Zones, Algorithms, Applications, Catalogs, Computing, DD, Double-difference, Earth, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Estimate, Focus, Hazards, Interior, Methods, Nature, Precision, Processes, Seismicity, Seismogenic.

Collaborative Research: The Asthenosphere and Mantle Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. Adrian Lenardic($88,327), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Bulk Mantle, Earth's Surface, Low Viscosity, Mantle Convection, Plate Motion, Plate Tectonics, Allow, Analysis, Asthenosphere, Bring, Cycling, Deep, Directly, Dissipation, Drive, Dynamic, Dynamics, Effect, Effects, Energy, Has, Interior, Kinematic, Link, Maintaining, Motions, Numerical, Planet, Plates, Rapid, Recently, Structure, Suspected, Theory, Volatile, Volatiles, Water.

Experimental Studies on Melting (Mg, Fe)O Ferropericlase
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. Kanani K Lee($336,787), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Core-mantle Boundary, Melt Behavior, Composition, Conditions, Core-mantle, Current, Deep, Earth, Evolution, Formation, Melting, Pressures, Subsequent, Temperature, Temperatures.

High-pressure and Temperature Elasticity and Equation of State of Hydrous Phase
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: Geophysics

1. Mainak Mookherjee($96,841), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Subduction Zone Settings, Earth's Interior, Hydrous Phases, Mantle Hydration, Extent, Stabilized, Thermoelasticity, Transport, Water.

Aluminous phase at high-pressures & temperatures: Elasticity and Energetics of hydrogen incorporation
Award Effective Date: 12/23/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Mainak Mookherjee($320,000), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Earth's Mantle, Mineral Phases, Aluminous, Chemistry, Composed, Crusts, Energetics, Heterogeneity, Investigate, Observations, Ocean, Properties, Subducted.

CAREER: Investigating the Relationship Between Mantle Shear Localization, Melt Flow and Water Content
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: Geophysics

1. Jessica M Warren($365,860), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Melt And Water, Terrestrial Laser Scanning, Mantle Wedge, Rock Deformation, Shear Localization, Shear Zones, Analysis, Applicable, Carried, Disciplines, Field, Geochemistry, Peridotite, Petrology, Seismology, Students, Survey, Techniques, Tectonic, Undergraduate.

2017 AGU-SEG Hydrogeophysics Conference: Imaging the Critical Zone
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Kristina Keating($18,960), Rutgers University Newark, Newark
Key terms: Near Surface Geophysics, Critical Zone, Geophysical Methods, Water Table, Conference, Depth, Future, Measure.

A practical upscaling of subsurface reactive transport
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Timothy R Ginn($337,220), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Drinking Water, Groundwater Clean-up, Overall Rate, Uc Davis, Chemical, Cities, Clean-up, Contaminated, Contamination, Design, Development, Difficult, Exactly, Field, Graduate, Method, Methods, Plume, Responsible, Site, Situ, Students, Underground.

Transformative insights into the high-elevation climatology and dynamics of Andean hydrology using a new snow reanalysis dataset
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Steven A Margulis($293,288), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Large-scale Circulation Phenomena, Large-scale Circulation, Physiographic Characteristics, Remotely Sensed, Andes, Available, Dataset, Elevation, Estimates, Existing, Framework, Globe, Local, Meteorological, Montane, Mountain, Population, Processes, Reanalysis, Region, Regions, SWE, Seasonal, Snow, Snowpack, Synoptic, Topographic, Useful, Via, Water, Winter.

RAPID: Collaborative Research: Impacts of Extreme Flooding on Hydrologic Connectivity and Water Quality in the Atlantic Coastal Plain and Implications for Vulnerable Populations
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2016; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Katherine Martin($29,023), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
2. Jill R Stewart($29,828), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Drinking Water Supplies, Lumber River Watershed, Contaminant Sources, Extreme Flooding, Hydrologic Connectivity, Lumbee Tribe, Near-term Impacts, Shallow Groundwater, Surface Water, Water Quality, Aquifers, Citizen, Confined, Education, Engage, Nterm, Public, Region, Seeks.

2017 Gordon Research Conference on Catchment Science: Interactions of Hydrology, Biology & Geochemistry
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2016; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Kevin J McGuire($49,760), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Biological, Biology, Boundaries, Catchment, Catchments, Chemical, Conference, Disciplines, Exchange, Focus, GRC, GRS, Geochemistry, Gordon, Hydrologic, Hydrology, Opportunities, Processes, Represent, Various, Water.

NSF/EAR-BSF - Extreme Floods in Arid/Semi-Arid Watersheds: Paired Studies in Israel and the US
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. James A Smith($295,967), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Rainfall And Flood, Aridsemi-arid Regions, Aridsemi-arid Watersheds, Extreme Floods, Upper Tail, Analyses, Aridsemi-arid, Characteristic, Examined, Israel, Mechanisms, Offices, Southwestern, Storm.

Collaborative Research: Towards a mechanistic prediction of methane ebullition fluxes from northern peatlands
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Michael Palace($151,246), University of New Hampshire, Durham
2. Andrew S Reeve($52,772), University of Maine, Orono
3. Lee Slater($235,640), Rutgers University Newark, Newark
4. Xavier Comas($61,040), Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
Key terms: Atmospheric Pressure, Geomechanical Properties, Greenhouse Gas, Peat Column, Pore Water, Water Level, Atmosphere, Bubble, Bubbles, CH, Carbon, Diffusion, Ebullition, Global, Layers, Measurable, Mechanisms, Methane, Model, Monitored, Peatland, Peatlands, Regulate, Release, Releases, Strength, Students, Sudden.

Quenching a thirsty west: Integrated scientific knowledge and technological infrastructure to solve water issues in the Western United States
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2016; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Scott W Tyler($49,500), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Policy Makers, Diverse, Future, Guide, Management, Opportunities, Sustainability, Water, Western, Workshop.

Is Static Soil Density a Viable Assumption for Studying Surface Hydrologic Processes?
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Joshua L Heitman($419,530), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: Density And Porosity, Dynamic Soil Surface, Measure Dynamic Soil, Soil Surface Layers, Surface Layer Properties, Field Conditions, Hydrologic Cycle, Land Surface-atmosphere, Newly Developed, Soil Density, Soil Hydraulic, Soil Water, Surface Soil, Thermal Properties, Thermo-tdr Sensors, Does, Interface, Knowledge, Opportunity, Predictive, Processes, Range, Surface-atmosphere, Transfer.

Quantifying and Predicting the Attenuation of Downstream Fluxes Associated with Beaver Meadows
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Tim P Covino($295,626), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Larger Spatial Extents, Beaver Meadows, Landscape Alteration, Retention Zones, Attenuation, Catchment, Downstream, Dynamics, Function, Magnitude, Potential, Quantify, Region, Relative, River, Water.

NSF/EAR-BSF: Assessing controls on hydrologic connectivity, plant water availability and degradation risk in drylands with isotope tracers and Lagrangian modeling
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Sally Thompson($282,543), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Vegetation And Topographic, Model Experiments, Runon-runoff Process, Surface Features, Uc Berkeley, Water Availability, Activities, Based, Behavior, Characterized, Degradation, Desertification, Design, Dryland, Enable, Flow, Hillslope, Inform, Isotopic, Israel, Land, Landscape, Metrics, Models, Predictions, Processes, Realizations, Restoration, Runon-runoff, Site, Sites, Source-sink, Spatial, Storm, Surfaces, Techniques, Tested, Transport, Uncertainty, Vegetated, Vulnerability.

Collaborative Research: Multimodel Bayesian Data-Worth Analysis for Groundwater Remediation Design
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Ming Ye($271,601), Florida State University, Tallahassee
2. Joseph R Kasprzyk($183,760), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Multimodel Data-worth Analysis, Data-worth Analysis, Groundwater Contaminant, Groundwater Environment, Groundwater Remediation, Model Uncertainty, Multimodel Data-worth, Real-world Modeling, Remediation Design, Achieve, Bayesian, Challenge, Common, Computational, Contamination, Developed, Failure, Has, Integrated, Involves, Method, Methods, Models, Objective, Objectives, Probability, Real-world, Sites, Strategy, Students, Synthetic.

Collaborative Research: Near-Surface Repulsion and Mixing- Limitations: Upscaling of Colloid Retention, Breakthrough, and Elution in Non-Uniform Media under Unfavorable Conditions
Award Effective Date: 07/31/2016; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Markus Hilpert($38,048), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Near-surface Residence Times, Colloid Retention, Colloid Transport, Environmental Conditions, Mechanistic Model, Near-surface Fluid, Near-surface Residence, Porous Media, Unfavorable Conditions, Attractive, Behavior, Colloid-surface, Colloids, Darcy, Heterodomains, Influence, Interactions, Nsurface, Pore, Predict, Prediction, Repulsive, Strategies, Surfaces.

New approaches to address scaling issues for lateral flow of water in a layered snowpack
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Ryan W Webb($174,000), Webb Ryan W, Fort Collins
Key terms: Lateral Flow, Barriers, Boulder, Colorado, Education, Experiments, Has, Hillslope, Investigations, Laboratory, Model, Modeling, Parameters, Processes, Produce, Properties, Required, Snow, Snowmelt, Snowpack, Water.

CAREER: Fire management effects on Sierra Nevada ecohydrology - a dynamical systems approach
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Sally Thompson($548,377), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Fire And Hydrology, Fire Regime, Fire Risks, Fire Suppression, Forested Mountain, Sierra Nevada, Soil Hydrophobicity, Soil Moisture, Basins, Basis, Consequences, Distributed, Dynamics, Ecosystems, Effects, Forests, Freeze-thaw, Has, Hydrological, Observations, Post-fire, Practiced, Process, Simultaneously, Snow, Supplies, Supply, Unique, Vegetation, Water, Watersheds.

Integrated geological, geophysical, and hydrological study of field-scale fault-zone cementation and permeability
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. John L Wilson($567,594), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Contaminant Transport, Fault Zone, Fault-zone Cementation, Fluid Flow, Geophysical Observations, Natural Cements, Characterize, Chargeability, Degree, Depth, Distribution, Fault-zone, Faults, Field-scale, Groundwater, Hydrogeologic, Map, Models, NMT, Permeability, Portions, Spatial, Strike, Surface, Transects, Underground, Unique.

Advancing Mechanistic Understanding of Two-Fluid-Phase Flow in Porous Medium Systems
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Cass T Miller($460,762), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Experiments And High-resolution, Mathematical Models, Porous Medium, Solid Phase, Tumor Growth, Wide Range, Applicability, Applications, Aspects, Beyond, Broad, Class, Developed, Dissemination, Engineered, Engineering, Findings, Flow, Has, Hydrology, Involve, Length, Macroscale, Methods, Physics, Processes, Produced, Set, Simulations, Society, Solved, Specific, Theoretical, Theory, Well-understood.

Landscape controls on hydrologic responses to long-term climate oscillations
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Ryan E Emanuel($214,952), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Terrestrial Water Cycle, Climate Impacts, Climate Oscillations, Long-term Climate, ENSO, GIUH, Hydrologic, Hydrological, Knowledge, Land, Long-term, Methods, Nature, Organization, Seeks, Statistical, Watershed, Watersheds.

Collaborative Research: Nano- and micro-particle transport prediction in subsurface media: The role of heterogeneity and structure
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2016; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. William P Johnson($270,644), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
2. Markus Hilpert($79,490), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Colloid Transport Behaviors, Complex Transport Behaviors, Constants And Scaling, Continuum-scale Rate Constants, Experiments And Simulations, Observed Complex Transport, Surface Heterogeneity Responsible, Continuum-scale Rate, Drinking Water, Environmental Conditions, Mechanistic Prediction, Parallel Experiments, Particle Attachment, Particle Transport, Pore-scale Representation, Scaling Factors, Aims, Capability, Colloids, Column, Describe, Design, Emerge, Field, Influences, Lacking, Low, Mechanisms, Micromodel, Models, Network, Particles, Pore-scale, Surfaces, Underlying.

CAREER: Departure from Monin-Obukhov Similarity Theory (MOST) using high-resolution turbulence models
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2016; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Pierre Gentine($435,444), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Boundary Layer, Climate Predictions, Educational Objectives, Model Representation, Non-local Transport, Surface Turbulent, Turbulent Fluxes, Activity, Based, Current, Eddies, Eddy-covariance, Effect, Encourage, Exchange, Formulations, Land-surface, Laws, Main, Models, Moisture, Non-local, Observations, Simulations, Structures, Top, Turbulence, Under-represented, Vertical, Weather.

Impact of Changing Flood Frequency on Sediment Connectivity Between River Channels and their Riparian Margins
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2016; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Carl E Renshaw($466,543), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Nutrients And Sediment, Critical Discharge, Extreme Precipitation, Healthy Streams, Net Erosion, Net Transfer, Suspended Sediment, Bed, Channel, Contaminants, Exchange, Exchanges, Floodplain, Floodplains, Frequency, Graduate, Increase, Magnitude, Margins, Riparian, Students, Water.

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

1. Alessandra Marzadri($265,276), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
Key terms: Potent Greenhouse Gas, Nitrous Oxide, Stream Network, Applicable, Approach, Available, Carbon, Emissions, HZ, Has, Hyporheic, Land, Morphology, Nr, Processes, Reactive, Residence, Source, Streambed, Streams, Times, Transport.

INSPIRE: Search for Records of the Hadean Dynamo from Detrital Zircons
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: INSPIRE

1. Benjamin P Weiss($848,591), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Alteration Histories, Host Rocks, Magnetic Field, Magnetometry Techniques, Western Australia, Billion, Crystals, Directorate, Earliest, Evolution, Extremely, Geochemical, Geodynamo, Geodynamos, Geology, Has, History, INSPIRE, International, Magnetization, Minerals, Origin, Program, Quantum, Thermal, Time, Zircon, Zircons.

Collaborative Research: Flood volcanism and environmental impacts -- A multidisciplinary investigation of the Deccan Traps and events at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: INTEGRATED EARTH SYSTEMS

1. Benjamin A Black($244,772), CUNY City College, New York
2. Paul R Renne($469,649), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
3. Mark A Richards($976,093), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
4. Loyc Vanderkluysen($191,476), Drexel University, Philadelphia
Key terms: Deccan Eruptions, Deccan Traps, Flood Basalt, Mass Extinction, Aerosols, Boundary, CFB, Chicxulub, Crust, Effects, Genesis, KPB, Magmatism, Mantle, Time, Volatiles, Volcanism.

Collaborative Research: Integrating the geological and genomic records: time-calibrating Earth's dynamic biogeochemical history
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: INTEGRATED EARTH SYSTEMS

1. Gregory P Fournier($1,085,181), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Mukul Bansal($316,714), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Horizontal Gene Transfer, Earth's History, Microbial Evolution, Planetary History, Time Calibrations, Accurate, Ancient, Animal, Biogeochemical, Col, Deep, Developing, Fossil, Genome, Genomes, Genomic, Geochemical, Geological, HGT, Has, Information, Integrate, Life, Lineages, Linking, Methods, Microbiomes, Propagated, Stratigraphy, Timing, Tol, Via.

Innovative tools for incorporating continuous data from fossils in phylogenetic tree-building: leveraging the MorphoBank platform
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: INTEGRATED EARTH SYSTEMS

1. Maureen A O'Leary($189,898), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Allow, Continuous, Digital, Discrete, Images, Matrices, Morphobank, Morphometric, Online, Phylogenetic, Tools, Tree-building.

Collaborative Research: Controls on along-strike variations in locked and creeping megathrust behavior at the Hikurangi convergent margin
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: INTEGRATED EARTH SYSTEMS

1. Demian M Saffer($369,723), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Harm J Van Avendonk($1,052,560), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
3. Jessica Pilarczyk($293,291), University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
4. David A Okaya($889,027), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
5. Jeffrey Marshall($378,087), Cal Poly Pomona Foundation, Inc., Pomona
Key terms: Approach Combining, Aseismic Creep, Plate Boundary, Slip Behavior, Along-strike, Characteristics, Geological, Hikurangi, Integrated, Long-term, Margin, Processes, Subduction, System-level, Zealand.

EAR-PF Whole-stream metabolism dependence on particulate organic carbon and microbes from urban point sources
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: IRFP-Inter Res Fellowship Prog

1. Jennifer D Drummond($184,000), Drummond Jennifer D, Lincolnshire
Key terms: Particulate Organic Carbon, Transport And Retention, Organic Carbon, Activity, Computational, Education, Environmental, Examine, MOVILAB, Metabolism, Microbes, Model, POC, Plan, Spain, Stream, Urban.

EAR-PF: Current and future glacial controls on the rate of active microbial biogeochemical cycling in Arctic fjords
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: IRFP-Inter Res Fellowship Prog

1. Alexander B Michaud($184,000), Michaud Alexander B, Bozeman
Key terms: Active Microbial Populations, Fjord Sediments, Lesson Plans, Shelf Environment, Arctic, Biogeochemical, Cycles, Fe, Fjords, Geochemistry, Glaciology, Influence, Investigation, Mn, Rates, Students, Subglacial, Svalbard.

REU Site: Hazards and Risks of Climate Change in the Pacific Northwest
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: IUSE

1. Anne E Egger($360,039), Central Washington University, Ellensburg
Key terms: Hazards And Risks, Central Washington, Pacific Northwest, Climate, Disciplines, Faculty, Interdisciplinary, Regional, Students.

EAGER: Evaluating the Accuracy of Digital Compass Measurements on Mobile Devices
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Steven J Whitmeyer($36,875), James Madison University, Harrisonburg
Key terms: Digital Compasses, Geologic Compasses, Mobile Devices, Relative Accuracy, Analog, Analyses, Assess, Datasets, Field, Geoscientists, Orientation, Platforms, Software, Statistical, Students.

The Mervyn S. Paterson Deformation Apparatus Archival Collection
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2016; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. David L Kohlstedt($27,887), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Acquire Original Notes, Art And Craft, Notes And Drawings, Rock Deformation Apparatus, Digital Conservancy, Minnesota-twin Cities, Paterson Rig, Building, Design, Highly, Machine, Minnesota-twin, World-class, Zimmerman.

MRI: Acquisition of a scanning electron microscope with EDS, EBSD, and CL for research and teaching in a multi-user facility
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2016; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Gabriele Casale($561,842), Appalachian State University, Boone
Key terms: Analysis, Appalachian, Ash, Electron, Formation, Instrument, Microscope, Southern, Students, Track, Training, Undergraduate.

MRI: Development of an Integrated Borehole Geodetic and Seismic Sensor
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Duncan Carr Agnew($840,000), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Fiber-optic-based Sensors, Earthquakes, Existing, Fiber-optic-based, Human, Instrument, Movements, Oceanography, Package, Prototype, Range, Scripps, Seismic, Slip, Slow, Strain, Sudden.

Upgrade of Computational Facilities for Geophysics Research and Student Training at Old Dominion University
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Jennifer E Georgen($15,654), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Sea Level, Computational, Geodynamics, Groundwater, Importance, Model, Modeling, Training.

MRI: Acquisition of an Electron Microprobe at Syracuse University: a Central New York Regional User Facility
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Jeremy L Gilbert($836,819), Syracuse University, Syracuse
Key terms: Metallic Medical Implants, Advancing, Applications, Characterization, Corrosion, Dispersive, EMP, Electron, Facility, Instrument, Investigations, Microscope, Mineral, Minerals, Provenance, Rock, Solid, Supporting, Synthesized, Trace, Training.

ACQUISITION OF A HANDHELD XRF SPECTROMETER TO ENHANCE SEDIMENTARY AND PALEOENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2016; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Stephen E Kaczmarek($76,772), Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
Key terms: Michigan Geological Repository, Analytical Instrumentation, Geochemical Datasets, Hydrocarbon Resources, Michigan Basin, Acquire, Activities, Capability, Conventional, Critical, Development, Education, Efforts, Enhance, Evolution, Exhausted, Existing, Geoscientists, Has, Industry, Investigations, MGRRE, NSF, Ongoing, Outreach, Region, Regional, Represent, Rock, Sedimentary, Stratigraphic.

Acquisition of a Biolog Semi Automated MicroStation System for Environmental Research and Education at Alabama A&M University
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2016; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Leopold M Nyochembeng($41,370), Alabama A&M University, Normal
Key terms: Biolog Semi Automated, Semi Automated Microstation, AAMU, Alabama, Environmental, Equipment, Faculty, Instrument, Molecules, Promote, Soil, Students, Training.

Early Career: Acquisition of Ground Penetrating Radar
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2016; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Lorraine W Wolf($79,131), Auburn University, Auburn
Key terms: Near Surface, GPR, Importance, Investigation, Investigations, Non-invasive, Properties, Restoration, Seismic, Training.

Early Career: Technical support for the University of Rochester LA-ICP-MS and Experimental Geochemistry Laboratories
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2016; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Dustin Trail($190,563), University of Rochester, Rochester
Key terms: Experimental Petrology, Analysis, Geochemistry, Mineral, Phases, Technician, Trace.

NSF MRI: Acquisition of a 755 Superconducting Rock Magnetometer System to Enhance the Paleomagnetic and Rock Magnetic Laboratory at New Mexico Highlands University
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Michael S Petronis($536,444), New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas
Key terms: Rock Magnetic, Analysis, Based, Crust, Facility, Field, Investigation, NMHU, National, Paleomagnetic, Past, Processes, SRM, Students, Timing, Training.

Facility Support: The Global CMT Project
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Goran Ekstrom($367,539), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Cmt Analysis, Cmt Catalog, Earthquake Source, Global Cmt, Larger Globally, Moment Tensors, Activities, Activity, Analyses, Base, Determination, Disseminated, Distribution, Earthquakes, Magnitude, Parameters, Regional, Seismic, Standard, Surface-wave, Tectonic.

Acquisition of a Scanning Electron Microscope
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Charles K Shearer($194,388), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Scanning Electron Microscope, Color Cathodoluminescence, Acquisition, Capabilities, Diverse, EDS, EPS, Education, Mexico, Proportion, SEM, Serve, Students, TESCAN, Tool, Training, UNM, Undergraduates, Vega, X-ray.

Facility Support: The AfricaArray Geophysical and Meteorological Network
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Andrew A Nyblade($195,716), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Gps And Weather, Postdocs And Technicians, Undergraduate And Graduate, 53-station Africaarray, Graduate Students, AA, African, Critical, Network, Observations, Pennsylvania, Seismic.

Acquisition of a State-of-the-Art 40Ar/39Ar Geochronology System for the AGES Lab at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Sidney Hemming($579,314), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Noble Gas Mass, Earth's History, Extraction Line, AGES, Actively, Ar-ar, Argon, Climate, Dating, EARTHTIME, Funding, Generation, Geological, Instrument, Precision, Sequencing, State-of-the-art, Students.

Acquisition of an X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometer
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Scott Boroughs($172,102), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Chemical Analysis, Geoanalytical Laboratory, Archaeological, Geoscience, Igneous, Processes, WSU, XRF.

Facility Support: Accelerator Mass Spectrometry at PRIME Lab
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Darryl E Granger($3,695,034), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Erosion Rates, Prime Lab, Advance, Chronologies, Continue, Cosmogenic, Especially, Facility, Geologic, Geoscience, Glacial, Interaction, Landscape, Measured, Nuclides, Opportunity, Preparation, Processes, Routinely, Students, Time-scales, Unique.

Early Career: Acquisition of a laser ablation system to enable new constraints on continental crust, dinosaurs, and ore deposits
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Celina Suarez($542,294), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Key terms: Economic Ore Deposits, Constraining Aspects, Fossil Bone, Laser Ablation, Accessory, Analytical, Continent, Earth, Establish, Origin, Paleoclimate, Sulfides, Techniques.

Acquisition of New Thermal Analysis Instrumentation for Increased Capacity of Characterization of Organic Matter in Soils and Sediments
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Alain F Plante($100,072), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Key terms: Climate And Land, Organic Carbon, Organic Matter, Soil Carbon, Allow, Analysis, Importance, Instrument, Stability, Techniques, Training.

Acquisition of a quadrupole ICPMS system for (U-Th)/He thermochronology and trace element analysis at the University of Colorado, Boulder
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Rebecca M Flowers($183,646), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Coupled Plasma Mass, Inductively Coupled Plasma, Plasma Mass Spectrometer, Cu Trail, Access, Analyses, Collaborations, Colorado, Cu-trail, Current, Demand, Development, Efficiency, External, Facility, Generated, Geologic, Geological, Graduate, Growing, History, ICP-MS, Increase, Innovative, Lab, Laboratory, Labs, Machine, Method, Mineral, Process, Processes, Quadrupole, Rock, Solutions, Space, Students, Thermal, Thermochronology, Training, U-th, U-thhe.

Full vector paleosecular variation (PSV) recorded on the Koolau Volcano, Oahu, Hawaii during the Matuyama Chron at Makapuu Point (ca. 2.6 to ~2.2 Ma).
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Emilio Herrero-Bervera($197,474), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Magnetic Field, Polarity Intervals, Undergraduate Students, Age, Determinations, Generation, Involved, Magnetism, Million, Paleofield, Paleointensity, Paleomagnetic, Period, Periods, Publication, Reversals, Section, Sequence, Sequences, Successive, Time, Transitions, Vector.

Constraining the Source of Ancient, Surface-derived Sulfur in the Bushveld Complex
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Sarah Penniston-Dorland($142,359), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Basal Ultramafic Sequence, Crustal Signatures Derived, Sr And Nd, Bushveld Complex, Crustal Isotopic, Investigate Rocks, Isotopic Composition, Isotopic Compositions, Ascent, Body, Deep, Dels, Earth, Emplacement, Formation, Igneous, Incorporation, Indicators, Isotopes, Largest, Led, Lowermost, Magma, Mantle, Melt, Opportunity, PGE, Processes, Resource, Source, Sulfide, Uniform, Was.

Collaborative Research: A New Approach to Detrital Provenance Determination: Application of Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) to the Tourmaline Supergroup Minerals
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2016; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Barbara L Dutrow($236,490), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
2. Nancy J McMillan($148,372), New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
Key terms: Chemical Signature, East Antarctic, Mineral Tourmaline, Analyses, Analytical, Decipher, EMP, Erosion, Geologic, Geological, Grain, History, Incorporates, Information, LIBS, Light, Provenance, Rock, Sediments, Techniques, Technology.

Continued development of PyChron for 40Ar/39Ar geochronology
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Matthew T Heizler($112,356), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Argon Geochronology, Acquisition, Development, Documentation, Instrumentation, Methods, Reduction, Software, User.

Facility Support: High-Resolution X-ray Computed Tomography Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Richard A Ketcham($626,168), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Fluid Flow, X-ray Source, X-ray Tomography, CCD, Density, Developed, Energy, Geological, Geology, Has, Hydrocarbon, Hydrology, Imaging, Period, Range, Resolution, Scanning, Subsurface, Table, Texas, Training, UTCT, Was, X-ray.

Upgrades to Shock Wave Laboratory for Research in High-Pressure Earth Science
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2016; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Paul D Asimow($136,103), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Shock-wave Laboratory, Caltech, Core, Geophysical, Geophysics, Mantle, Models, Numerous, Programs, Shock-wave.

Student Travel Support for Electron Backscatter Diffraction 2016 Topical Conference
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Luke N Brewer($22,000), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
Key terms: Core Microanalytical Technique, Approach, Conference, Development, Diffraction, EBSD, Has, Knowledge, North.

Early Career Scholar Support for 2016 Electron Probe Microanalysis Topical Conference
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. John H Fournelle($22,500), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Analysis, Conference, EPMA, Electron, Focused, Interact, Microanalysis, Planned, Students.

Development of field emission low-voltage EPMA technique to sub-micron features in geoscience
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. John H Fournelle($242,502), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Development, Instruments, Processes, Zones.

Early Career: acquisition of a superconducting rock magnetometer with automated sample handling and rock magnetic characterization for paleomagnetism research
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Sonia Tikoo-Schantz($530,225), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Planetary Bodies, Instrumentation, Laboratory, Magnetic, Magnetizations, Rock.

Acquisition of a Scanning Electron Microscope for Earth Science Research and Training of the Next Generation of Geoscientists
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2016; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. David P Moecher($149,947), University of Kentucky Research Foundation, Lexington
Key terms: Requested Sem, Benefit, Dating, Efforts, Future, Kentucky, Monazite, Reservoir, Rock, Student, Training, Transpression, U-pb, Via.

Acquisition Of A Gas Source Stable Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer (IRMS) For Earth And Ocean Sciences Research At Florida State University
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2016; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Jeffrey P Chanton($174,343), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Student Training, Analysis, FSU, Instrument, Isotope, SIRMS, Stable.

Upgrade of an Internally Heated Pressure Vessel (IHPV) in the AMNH Earth and Planetary Sciences Department
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2016; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. James D Webster($124,645), American Museum Natural History, New York
Key terms: Controlled Conditions, AMNH, Access, IHPV, Magmas, Primary, Processes.

Early Career: Acquisition of Laser Diffractometer Particle Size Analyzer for Grain Size Analyses of Pyroclastic and Sedimentary Deposits
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2016; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Kimberly D Genareau($76,207), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
Key terms: Diffractometer Particle Size, Graduate And Undergraduate, Laser Diffractometer Particle, Particle Size Analyzer, Hands-on Training, Sediment Surface, Undergraduate Courses, Analyses, Bacterial, Department, Geological, Hands-on, Information, Instrument, LDPSA, Students, Volcanic.

Early Career: Upgrade of Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer at Boston College
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2016; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Corinne I Wong($162,557), Boston College, Chestnut Hill
Key terms: Climate Dynamics, Stable Isotope, Stable Isotopic, Time Scales, Analytical, Equipment, Forcing, Global, Introduction, Methods, Regional, SIRMS, Students.

Experimental Calibration of Inter-mineral Magnesium and Iron Isotope Fractionation at High Temperatures
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2016; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Craig E Manning($341,311), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Iron And Magnesium, Mg Isotope Fractionation, Fe Isotope, Fractionation Factors, Isotope Partitioning, Condition, Equilibrium, Experimental, Experiments, Geological, Isotopes, Mass, Method, Natural, Phases, Previous, Rock-forming, Spinel, Spinels.

Acquisition of Equipment for Calibration and Engineering Tests for University of Iowa's XPOL Radars
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2016; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Witold F Krajewski($161,287), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Calibration And Testing, Meteorological And Hydrologic, Pixel Resolution, Radar Network, Remote Sensing, Wind Field, Acquisition, Advancing, Basin, Basins, Complete, Diameter, Effects, Engineering, Equipment, Illinois, Inc, Iowa, Lidar, Meteorology, Mobile, Mounted, National, Plan, Processes, Radars, Rainfall, Range, Universities, X-band.

Risk Retirement for WAMS: The Water and Ash MM-wave Spectrometer
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2016; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Philip D Mauskopf($72,577), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Air Traffic Hazards, Ash Plume Dynamics, Dynamics And Evolution, Dynamics And Transport, Mitigating Air Traffic, Particle Aggregation Dynamics, Volcanic Ash Plume, Graduate Student, Volcanic Activity, Wams Instrument, Water Vapor, Active-passive, Allow, Benefits, EAGER, Frequency, Function, Laboratory, Plumes, Potential, Prototype, Radar, Testing.

Acquisition of a Nikon LV100 Polarizing Microscope for Research and Student Training
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2016; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Jennifer Lindline($43,642), New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas
Key terms: Structural Geology, Thin Sections, Images, Microscope, Mineralogy, National, Paleomagnetic, Training.

RAPID Flood Extent/Depth Data Identification, Acquisition, Cataloguing, and Processing
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2016; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Scott C Hagen($73,678), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Remote Sensing, Caused, Depths, Description, Emergency, Extent, Extents, Flood, Flooding, Hurricane, Hydrologic, Model, Models, RAPID, Rainfall, Region, Storm, Surge.

Collaborative Research: Landslides related to the 2015 Mw7.8 Gorkha earthquake, from ground motion and hazard to geomorphic response
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Marin K Clark($317,386), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. A Joshua West($247,953), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Energy Release, Slope Stability, Characterize, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Erosion, Geotechnical, Landslides, Risk, Rock, Seismic, Techniques, Weathering.

REU Site: Climate change impacts in semi-arid regions
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Lynn E Katz($376,836), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Reu Site, Aspects, Policy, Seminars, Students, Undergraduate.

Early Career: Acquisition of an ICP-OES to Support Research and Education in the Environmental Geosciences
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2016; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Ashaki A Rouff($180,443), Rutgers University Newark, Newark
Key terms: Acquisition, Geochemistry, ICP-OES, Trace, Underrepresented.

Global Eustasy or Tectonic Subsidence? Investigating Controls on Basin Evolution During Cenozoic Plate Reorganization, Magallanes Basin, Patagonia
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2016; Program: International Research Collab

1. Julie C Fosdick($231,613), University of Connecticut, Storrs
2. Julie C Fosdick($231,613), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Deformation And Climatic, Basin Modeling, Global Climate, Magallanes-austral Region, Middle Cenozoic, Sea Level, Tectonic Deformation, Time Interval, Affect, Andean, Continent, Detrital, Geochronology, International, Magallanes-austral, Marine, Orogenic, Paleogeography, Plate, Sediment, Sedimentary, Source, South, Structural, Students, Transgressions, Upland.

Workshop for Information Exchange and Framework Development for Study of Epidemiological, Hydrological, and Social Factors Contributing to Chronic Kidney Disease (CKDu) in Sri Lank
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: International Research Collab

1. Tissa H Illangasekare($37,950), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: Kidney Disease, Sri Lanka, Contribute, Engineering, Environmental, Epidemic, Examine, Expertise, Factors, Hydrology, Information, Local, Multiple, Pesticides, Posit, Various, Workshop.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Testing proposed rapid true polar wander in the Neoproterozoic Zavkhan Volcanics of Mongolia and the Banxi Group of South China
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: International Research Collab

1. Francis A Macdonald($242,906), Harvard University, Cambridge
2. Nicholas L Swanson-Hysell($286,310), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Bitter Springs Stage, True Polar Wander, Earth's Interior, South China, Uc Berkeley, Age, Ancient, CA-ID-TIMS, Ca, Component, Constrain, Constrained, Context, Continent, Dates, Development, Display, Educational, Exhibit, Field, Geochronological, Geological, HMNH, Has, History, Interval, Isotope, Ma, Mantle, Mass, Models, Module, Mongolia, Motion, Movement, Occurred, Oscillatory, Paleomagnetic, Paths, Period, Pis, Plate, Plates, Pole, Rapid, Rate, Rates, Relative, Reorientation, Robustly, Rock, Rotational, Seeks, Students, Successions, Surface, TPW, Time, U-pb, Viscosity, Zavkhan.

CAREER: The effects of non-rainfall moisture inputs on dryland ecosystem functions
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: International Research Collab

1. Lixin Wang($822,604), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Fog And Dew, Quantifying And Identifying, Dryland Ecosystems, Future Climate, Non-rainfall Components, Non-rainfall Inputs, Non-rainfall Moisture, Non-rainfall Precipitation, Respond Accordingly, Various Sources, Development, Drylands, Effects, Field, Graduate, Integral, Modeling, Non-rainfall, Outreach, Predict, School, Students, Undergraduate, Water.

Seismotectonics of the Zagros (Iran) From Orogen-wide Earthquake Relocations
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2016; Program: International Research Collab

1. Edwin K Nissen($243,551), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: Structure And Tectonics, Basement Faults, Reverse Faults, Stratigraphic Level, Amongst, Anticlines, Buried, Century, Collision, Conflicting, Continent, Cover, Discrete, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Epicenters, Faulting, Folding, Half, Has, Information, Iran, Millions, Model, Regions, Relocation, Sedimentary, Step, Steps, Thick, Uncertainties, Zagros.

INFEWS/T1: Increasing regional to global-scale resilience in Food-Energy-Water systems through coordinated management,technology and institutions
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2016; Program: LONG-TERM RSCH IN ENVIR BIO

1. Jennifer Adam($2,788,042), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Benefits, CRB, Coordinated, Human, Increase, Interactions, Management, Markets, National, Resilience, Security, Strategies, Water.

Collaborative Research: Subduction Dynamics, Mantle Structure, and Cenozoic Tectonic Evolution of South America
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: Leadership-Class Computing

1. Lijun Liu($265,000), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
2. Peter G DeCelles($289,882), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Mantle Structures Beneath, Structures Beneath South, Cenozoic Evolution, Deep Mantle, Geodynamic Models, Mantle Seismic, Present-day Mantle, Subduction History, Tectonic History, Ago, Andes, Continent, Cordillera, Deformation, Geological, Involves, Knowledge, Late, Led, Million, Observational, Plans, Present-day, Reason, Reproduce, Shortening, Students, Surface, Western.

MRI: Acquisition of a laser-ablation, multi-collector ICP-MS for research and training in Earth, Environmental, and Anthropological Sciences
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Sean P Long($596,778), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Isotope Geochemistry, Laser Ablation, Sr Isotope, Coupled, Fish, Geochronology, Has, Hf, Isotopes, LA-MC-ICPMS, Laboratory, Migration, Minerals, Nd, Training, U-pb, Wide, Zircon.

MRI: Acquisition of a Scanning Electron Microscope with integrated EDS, WDS, and EBSD for research and undergraduate research training
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Lisa M Ryno($332,105), Oberlin College, Oberlin
Key terms: Antibiotic Resistant, Fault Rocks, Acquisition, Instrument, Metamorphic, Training.

MRI: Acquisition of a 213 nm Laser to Accompany an Existing Quadrupole ICPMS at Middlebury College
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Raymond A Coish($119,191), Middlebury College, Middlebury
Key terms: Detrital Zircons, Laser Ablation, Applications, Artifacts, Coupled, Establish, Existing, ICPMS, Internal, LA-ICPMS, Mass, Middlebury, Minerals, Provenance, Rock, Students, Tectonic, Time, Trace, Undertake, Users.

MRI: Acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometer at Central Washington University
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Susan D Kaspari($127,539), Central Washington University, Ellensburg
Key terms: Snow And Ice, Ice Core, Acquisition, Aerosol, CWU, Chemistry, Climate, Co-pi, Collaborations, Cycles, Department, Deposition, Elemental, Environmental, Faculty, Geochemical, Geological, Groundwater, High-quality, ICP-OES, Instrument, Instrumentation, Interactions, Opportunities, Perturbations, Range, Regional, Soil, Stream, Students, Trace, Washington, Water, Wine.

MRI: Acquisition of a Multi-Collector Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (MC-ICP-MS) for isotopic studies in earth and environmental studies
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2016; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Alyssa E Shiel($511,547), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Critical Zone, Pacific Northwest, Acquisition, Analytical, Applications, Climate, Developing, Environmental, Improvements, Instrument, Isotopes, MC-ICP-MS, OSU, Ocean, Past, Processes, Resolution, Supported, Tracing.

Constructing a model from the spreading centers to backarc: Resolving geophysical characteristics of segmentation in Cascadia
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Haiying Gao($288,469), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Cascadia Subduction Zone, Fuca And Gorda, Gorda Plates Prior, Juan De Fuca, Girls Inc, Pacific Northwest, Structural Correlations, Subduction Zones, Along-strike, Array, Backarc, Beneath, Crust, Earthquake, Hazards, Incoming, Mantle, Oceanic, Processes, Properties, Public, Segmentation, Seismic, Simulation, Spreading, Structure, Subduction-related, Tectonic.

Support for 23rd Workshop onElectromagnetic Induction in the Earth
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Gary D Egbert($15,000), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Em Induction, International, Meetings, Students, World.

Does Proximity of Hydraulic Fracturing and Wastewater Disposal to Basement Increase the Likelihood of Induced Seismicity in the Central and Eastern US?
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: PREEVENTS - Prediction of and

1. Michael R Brudzinski($358,584), Miami University, Oxford
Key terms: Central And Eastern, Fracturing And Wastewater, Geologic Basement Rocks, Oil And Gas, Gas Operations, Geologic Surveys, Geological Surveys, Hydraulic Fracturing, Induced Seismicity, Wastewater Disposal, Accomplish, Approaches, Deep, Depth, Detection, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Engage, Existing, Faults, Geographic, Increase, Industry, Integrate, Knowledge, Maps, Public, Regional, Regulators, Seeks, Students, Subsurface, Template, Undergraduate, Utilize.

Collaborative Research: Quantifying Explosive Volcanism in Alaska Using Seismo-acoustic Wavefields Recorded by USArray
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: PREEVENTS - Prediction of and

1. Robin S Matoza($261,778), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
2. David Fee($78,828), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Explosive Volcanic Eruptions, Seismic And Infrasonic, Explosive Eruptions, Explosive Volcanism, Seismo-acoustic Wavefields, Sensor Networks, Source Mechanisms, Wavefield Sampling, Active, Alaska, Alaskas, Atmosphere, Available, Coupling, Dataset, Earthscope, Information, Infrasound, Monitoring, Products, Propagation, Quantifying, Rapidly, Seismo-acoustic, Signals, TA, Volcano, Volcanoes.

Searching for Noble Gases with X-ray Computed Tomography: New Microanalytical Methods for Isotopic Characterization of Ocean Island Basalts
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2017; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Kenneth A Farley($157,626), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: X-ray Computed Tomography, Heavy Noble, Isotopic Analysis, Noble Gas, Noble Gases, Ocean Island, X-ray Computed, Ability, Argon, Deep, Earth, Extracted, Fluid, Gas-rich, Grains, Inclusions, Islands, Mantle, Neon, Phenocrysts, Technique, Xenon.

Experimental Constraints on Gas Permeability Development in Hydrous Intermediate Magmas: Implications for Explosive Versus Effusive Eruption Styles
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Jessica F Larsen($325,402), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Arc Volcanoes, Composition Magmas, Crystal Content, Gas Pressure, Hydrous Intermediate, Intermediate Composition, Lava Dome, Magma Ascent, Magma Degassing, Permeability Development, Active, Alaska, Allow, Andor, Ash, Augustine, Bubbles, Conditions, Conduit, Connect, Constrain, Context, Crystal-rich, Crystals, Decompression, Effusive, Elsewhere, Eruption, Examine, Experiments, Explosions, Explosive, Fast, Hazardous, Influence, Melt, Monitoring, Pathways, Permeable, Pore, Produce, Quenched, Relative, Structure, Timescales, Violent, Vulcanian, World.

CAREER: Triggering Eruptions: Determination of Pressure-Temperature-Composition-time Histories for Magma Bodies Preceding Eruption
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Christy B Till($667,408), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Specific Eruption Triggers, Diffusion Chronometry, In-situ Geochemistry, Magma Bodies, Phase Equilibria, Tectonic Settings, Volcanic Eruptions, ASU, Arc, Assessments, CA, Conceptual, Context, Experiments, Histories, In-situ, K-, Leading, Local, Magmatic, Movement, Natural, Past, Petrologic, Pressure-temperature-composition-time, Processes, Reconstruct, STEM, Simultaneously, Students, Timescales, Tools, Training, Videos, Volcano, Volcanoes, Weeks.

The Fate of Subducted Carbon Dioxide During Metamorphism, Syros and Tinos Islands, Greece
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Jay J Ague($321,347), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Carbon Cycle, Carbon Dioxide, Earth's Mantle, Natural History, Subduction Complexes, Subduction Zones, Climate, Deep, Fluid, Greece, Mineral, Museum, Mélange, Processes, Produce, Rock, Syros, Tinos, Transport.

The Thermodynamic Properties of Rare Earth Element (REE) Minerals: A Solid Solution Model for Xenotime-(Y) and Monazite-(Ce)
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Alexander Gysi($328,368), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: Mineral Solid Solutions, Ree Mineral Deposits, Earth's Crust, Geological Settings, Numerical Modeling, Applied, Behavior, Building, CSM, Critical, Database, Experiments, Fluids, Laboratory, Metals, Minerals, Phosphates, Processes, Program, Solubility, Students, Thermodynamic.

Collaborative Research: The Behavior of Sulfur During Magma Mixing and Implications for Magma Degassing and Ore Formation
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2016; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Philipp P Ruprecht($34,114), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Magma Mixing, Behavior, Diffusive, Magmas, Mass, Mobility, Oxidation, Sulfur, Transport, Volcanic.

Modeling Deep Earth Fluids and Diamond Formation
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Dimitri A Sverjensky($380,000), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Upper Mantle Conditions, Deep Fluids, Experimental Solubilities, Aqueous, Atmosphere, Carbon, Carbonate, Chemical, Compositions, Diamonds, Environment, Evolution, Mineral, Modeling, Models, Nature, Planets, Pressures, Published, Quantitative, Reactivity, Rock, Silicate, Speciation, Species, Theoretical, Time, Volcanoes.

Collaborative Research: Expanding the Tephrochronologic Record of the Northern Lesser Antilles Arc: Rapid Identification of Cryptotephra Using Multiple Methods
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Molly McCanta($93,089), University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville
Key terms: Lesser Antilles Arc, Eruptive History, Sediment Sequences, Volcanic Eruptions, Accurate, Applied, Assessment, Beds, Capable, Constrain, Cryptotephra, Deposits, Distribution, Document, Especially, Essential, Evaluation, Evolution, Geologic, Identification, Layers, Magnetic, Magnitude, Marine, Methods, Montserrat, Onshore, Processes, Properties, Resolution, Scanning, Sedimentary, Sources, Techniques, Tephra, Tephrochronologic, Timing, Visible.

NSFGEO-NERC Quantifying disequilibrium processes in basaltic volcanism (DisEqm)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Kurt Roggensack($324,998), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Crystals And Bubbles, Basaltic Eruptions, Growth Rates, Ash, Assess, Compositions, Computational, Conditions, Conduit, Controls, Disequilibrium, Effusive, Equilibrium, Explosive, Gas, International, Magma, Melt, Model, Models, Natural, Parameters, Phases, Previous.

Collaborative Research: Integrated He-CO2-N2 Isotope and Petrologic Study of Volatiles Cycling via the New Zealand Subduction System
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Gray E Bebout($173,582), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
Key terms: Mass Balance, North Island, Atmosphere, Characteristics, Combination, Constrained, Cycling, Deeper, Earth, Fluxes, Hikurangi, Input, Localities, Mantle, Ocean, Output, Plate, Processes, Returned, Site, Slab, Subducted, Subduction, Surface, Tectonic, Temperature, Versus, Volatile, Volatiles, Water, Zone.

Experimental Investigation of Mantle Heterogeneity: Behavior of Ga, Ge, and First-row Transition Elements (FRTE) During Partial Melting of Pyroxenite and Spinel Peridotite
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Frederick A Davis($156,123), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Ga And Ge, Basaltic Magmas, Earth's Mantle, Natural Basalts, Source Lithology, Analyses, Chemistry, Concentrations, Constraints, Distribution, Experimental, Experiments, FRTE, Formation, Generated, Increase, Lab, Mass, Melt, Melting, Melts, Mineral, Minerals, Performed, Peridotite, Pyroxenite, Rock, Time.

Timescales of Crystallization, Ore Formation, and
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Jill A VanTongeren($299,939), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Mid-low Temperature Cooling, Ambient Crustal, Ar-ar Thermochronology, Bushveld Complex, Cooling Paths, Cooling Rate, Hydrothermal Ore, Magma Chamber, Magma Chambers, Mid-low Temperature, South Africa, Absolute, Age, Ages, Ar-ar, Biotite, Ca, Determined, Diffusion, Eruption, Evolution, Formation, Implications, Inform, Mineral, Plagioclase, Quantification, Quantified, Rates, Reversals, Solidification, Solidus, Specifically, Strategic, Thermometer, U-pb, Volcanic, Worlds, Zircon.

Evaluating the Role of Fluid and Melts in Mediating Element Recycling and Exhumation During Retrograde Metamorphism Following UHP Metamorphism
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Stacia Gordon($328,169), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Crustal Rocks, Earth's Surface, Elemental Recycling, Geochemical Evolution, Mantle Depths, Mass Transfer, Mineral Assemblages, Subducted Rocks, Subduction Zones, Uhp Terranes, Abstract, Chemical, Dense, Devolatilization, Elemental-recycling, Exhumation, Exhumed, Formed, Influence, Path, Processes, Reactions, Retrograde, Retrogressed.

Collaborative Research: Examining the Temporal, Spatial and Geochemical Focusing of Magmatism During a Continental Arc Flare-up
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2016; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Scott R Paterson($119,354), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2. Valbone Memeti($149,961), CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation, Fullerton
Key terms: Ore Deposit Formation, Volcanic And Plutonic, Yosemite National Park, Csu Fullerton, Magma Focusing, Mountain Building, National Park, Sierra Nevada, Volcanic Eruptions, Arc, Assistant, Collaboration, Crust, Deeper, Discoveries, Established, Examine, Extensive, Field, Fields, Focused, Frequency, Geochemical, Growth, Magmatic, Magmatism, Memeti, Plutons, Processes, Rock, Spatially, Spatiotemporal, Student, Surface, Temporal, Time, USC, Volcanism, Volcanoes, Volume.

Collaborative Research: Mantle to Crust Fluid Transfer in an Active Flat-slab Subduction Zone - Insights from Peruvian Thermal Spring Geochemistry
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Dennis L Newell($299,647), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Flat-slab Subduction Setting, Cordillera Blanca, Cordillera Huayhuash, Fault Rocks, Flat-slab Subduction, Hot Springs, Isotope Ratios, Nazca Ridge, Subduction Zones, Volcanic Activity, Water Quality, Active, Analysis, Analytical, Ancient, Andes, Chemistry, Fluid, Fluids, Gap, Geochemical, Geochemistry, Helium, Hydrogen, Issues, Modern, North, Peruvian, Primary, Prominent, Segments, Source, South, Students, Surface, Tectonic, Thermal, Training, Western, °.

Impact of Collapsing Gas-particle Jets: The Initial Conditions for Pyroclastic Flows and Surges
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Greg Valentine($293,079), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Pyroclastic Density Currents, Size And Density, Clast Size, Dilute Pdcs, Initial Conditions, Lateral Flows, Characteristics, Collapse, Collapsing, Define, Dynamics, Eruption, Experiments, Falling, Feed, Fluid, Gas, Ground, Has, Hazards, Involve, Jets, Mixtures, Modeling, Models, Particle, Particles, Previous, Simplified, Speeds, Surges, Volcanic.

Evaluating Mantle and Crustal Processes in Off-axis Volcanism on Iceland
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. David W Peate($250,479), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Chemical Composition, Melt Generation, Rift Zones, Analyses, Clinopyroxene, Crystals, Details, Eruption, Iceland, Lavas, Lithosphere, Mantle, Melting, Melts, Off-axis, Reasons, Snaefellsnes, Sources, Surface, Underlying, Volcanoes.

Burial, Uplift and Exhumation History of the Colorado Plateau
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2016; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. John M Eiler($347,999), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Burial And Exhumation, Petroleum And Ore, Uplift And Exhumation, Carbonate Minerals, Colorado Plateau, Degrees Celsius, Exhumation History, Exhumed Basins, Fission Track, Grand Canyon, Ore Formation, Thermal Histories, Thermal History, Vertical Transects, Atomic, Bring, Clumped, Clumped-isotope, Clumps, Complement, Constrain, Constraints, Creating, Crust, Differences, Distribution, Examines, Existing, Exposed, Geological, Gradients, Has, Isotope, Isotopic, Limestones, Motions, Peak-burial, Processes, Rock, Sedimentary, Strata, Technique, Tectonic, Temperature, Temperatures, Thermochronometry, Thermometry, Tool, Uranium-thoriumhelium, Was.

Fractionation of Rare-Earth and High-Field Strength Elements by Melting of a Re-equilibrated Mantle
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2016; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Yan Liang($250,875), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Hfse And Ree, Re-equilibration And Subsequent, Partial Melting, Partitioning Models, Relative Depletion, Subsolidus Re-equilibration, Assess, Basaltic, Disequilibrium, Fractionation, Geochemical, Magmas, Mantle, Mineral, Observation, Pyroxenes, Rock, Subduction, Temperature.

Preservation of Hadean Geochemical Signatures in the Icelandic High 3He/4He Mantle Domain
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2016; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Matthew G Jackson($299,928), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: 3he4he Mantle Reservoir, Hadean Geochemical Signatures, Terrestrial Mantle 3he4he, 182w Anomalies, 3he4he Lavas, 3he4he Mantle, 3he4he Reservoir, Earth's Mantle, Elevated 3he4he, Hadean 129xe, Iceland Hotspot, Iceland Plume, Icelandic Lavas, Lavas Erupted, Mantle 3he4he, Radiogenic Isotopic, Short-lived 182hf-182w, Upwelling Plumes, Accretion, Analyses, Anomalous, Composition, Domains, Evidence, Formed, Ga, Hehe, Hf-w, Hotspots, Indicates, Investigate, Isotopes, Long-term, Opportunity, Origin, Preservation, Primitive, Ratios, Reservoirs, Short-lived, Survival, Survived, Volcanism, WW, Zone.

Tungsten and Ruthenium Isotopic Study of the Chemical Evolution of Earth
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2016; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Andrea Mundl($478,286), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Isotopic Compositions, Building, Built, Diverse, Domains, Early-formed, Giant, Heterogeneities, Mantle, Occurring, Planet, Processes, Rock, Ruthenium, Solar, Tungsten, Was.

Mid-Miocene Rhyolites of Eastern Oregon: Constraints for the Timing of Columbia River Basalt Volcanism and Associated Rhyolite Flare-up
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2016; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Martin J Streck($210,078), Portland State University, Portland
Key terms: Basaltic Lava Flows, Crb Volcanism, Earth's Mantle, Pacific Northwest, Rhyolite Magmas, Rhyolite Volcanism, Active, Activity, Age, Centers, Deep, Eruption, Field, Has, Mcdermitt, Melting, Miles, Million, Oregon, Period, Rhyolites, Selected, Spread, Stratigraphic, Time, Timing, Volcanic.

Accomplishment-Based Renewal: Experimental Determination of the PVTX and Phase Equilibrium Properties of Aqueous Chloride Fluids at Magmatic-hydrothermal Conditions
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Robert J Bodnar($477,941), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Magmatic-hydrothermal Ptx Conditions, Mineral Exploration Models, Natural Fluid Inclusions, Conditions Appropriate, Earth's Crust, Empirical Numerical, Magmatic-hydrothermal Ptx, Phase Equilibrium, Saline Fluids, Synthetic Fluid, Based, Basis, Behavior, Chemical, Compositions, Containing, Deposits, Economic, Experimental, Future, Has, Lead, Metals, Microthermometric, Minerals, Ore-forming, PVTX, Properties, Resources, Technological, Various.

An Experimental Calibration of the Fractionation of Boron Isotopes among Granitic Melt, Aqueous Fluid, and Tourmaline
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2016; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. David London($314,562), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Aqueous Solution, Boron Isotopes, Boron Isotopic, Granitic Melt, Isotopic Composition, Stable Isotope, Stable Isotopes, Analytical, Chemical, Coexisting, Consistent, Crust, Distributions, Equilibrium, Experimental, Experiments, Fractionation, Light, Methods, Minerals, Natural, Processes, Tourmaline.

EAGER: Collaborative Research: Dating mineralization in a Carlin-type gold deposit: A test of the Fe-oxide (U-Th)/He chronometer
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. William Guenthner($27,995), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
2. Elizabeth Holley($29,325), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: Ctgd Formation, Gold Mineralization, Activity, Carlin-type, Chronometer, Ctgds, Date, Deposits, Geologic, Has, Hydrothermal, Knowledge, Lack, Magmatism, Method, Nevada, Occurred, Ore, Overlapped, Processes, Tested, Time, U-thhe.

Near-fractional Melting of Pyroxenite: Experimental Investigations and Applications to Basalt Petrogenesis
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Sarah Lambart($153,599), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Batch Melting, Forward Models, Heterogeneous Mantle, Mantle Plumes, Melting Behavior, Melting Experiments, Near-fractional Melting, Plate Boundaries, Rock Types, Spreading Centers, Based, Beneath, Compositions, Crust, Cycle, Earth, Experimental, Found, Lithologies, Magmas, Nfractional, Pyroxenite, Quantify, Source, Surface, Thousands, Via.

Collaborative Research: Geological Evolution of the Midcontinent Rift as a Hybrid Rift and Large Igneous Province
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Tyrone Rooney($204,648), Michigan State University, East Lansing
2. Robert Moucha($75,924), Syracuse University, Syracuse
3. Seth A Stein($113,741), Northwestern University, Evanston
4. Carol A Stein($60,368), University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Precambrian Mantle Conditions, Flood Basalts, Igneous Province, Igneous Provinces, Lake Superior, Lava Flows, Mid-continent Rift, Midcontinentkeweenaw Rift, Basin, Characteristics, Deeper, Deposited, Development, Filled, Formation, Generation, Gravity, Interaction, Melt, Mid-continent, Model, Modeling, North, Observations, Phase, Plume, Public, Region, Rifting, STEM, Sediments, Source, Volcanics.

2016 Geochemistry of Mineral Deposits GRC
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2016; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Adam C Simon($20,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Bring, Concerning, Deposits, Experience, Focused, GRC, Hydrothermal, Ideal, Interact, Meeting, Mineralizing, Ore, Participants, Processes, Society.

Collaborative Research: Resolving the Controversy of REE Diffusion in Olivine
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Yan Liang($75,647), Brown University, Providence
2. Daniele J Cherniak($16,200), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
Key terms: Ree Diffusion, Time Scales, Chemical, Concentration, Controversy, Derived, Eager, Experiments, Fast, Mantle, Natural, Olivine, Rates, Resolve, Source, Theoretical.

RUI: Thermal Consequences and Textural Signatures of Reinjection in Mafic Sills
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Michael Zieg($163,424), Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, Slippery Rock
Key terms: Black Sturgeon Sill, Alternating Periods, Constraints, Criteria, Document, Effects, Emplacement, Intrusions, Mafic, Magma, Mineralogy, Models, Process, Recognizing, Reinjection, Specifically, Textural, Timing.

Mantle Signals in Arcs: Transport Models From Geochemistry and Seismicity
Award Effective Date: 03/31/2016; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Philipp P Ruprecht($120,020), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Arc Magma, Magma Transport, Mantle-derived Melts, Ascent, Beneath, Convergent, Crust, Fast, Geochemical, Magmatic, Mantle-derived, Processes, Source, Surface, Volcanoes.

Collaborative Research: Experimental Investigation of Magmatic Processes at Volcan Quizapu
Award Effective Date: 03/31/2016; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Philipp P Ruprecht($47,674), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Arc Magmas, Magma Mixing, Amphibole, Composition, Conditions, Crystal-scale, Dacite, Eruption, Examine, Experimental, Explore, Formation, Kinetics, Magmatic, Plagioclase, Prior, Processes, Quizapu, Storage.

GSA Penrose Conference on Layered Mafic Intrusions an Associated Economic Deposits
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2016; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Eric C Ferre($20,000), Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale
Key terms: Layered Mafic Intrusions, Early-career Scientists, Economic Geology, Geological Society, Penrose Conference, Decade, Early-career, GSA, Graduate, Interact, Ore, Petrology, Students, Th.

Collaborative Research: Equilibrium and Kinetic Studies of New Trace Element Thermobarometers
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2016; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. E. Bruce Watson($373,207), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
2. Jay B Thomas($376,200), Syracuse University, Syracuse
Key terms: Temperature And Pressure, Continental Crust, Mountain Building, P-t Indicators, Ti Content, Trace-element Thermobarometers, Zr Content, Application, Applications, Based, Calibration, Chemical, Concentration, Conditions, Date, Development, Diffusion, Effects, Effort, Experimental, Formation, Formed, Geoscience, Has, Impurities, Mineral, Minerals, Ore, P-T, Phase, Quartz, RPI, Rock, Rutile, Single, Titaniq, Tools, Trace-element, Volcanic, Zircon.

Collaborative Research: Testing the Existence of Magma Mush Zones and Potential Processes of Magma Differentiation in the Mid-crust with In situ Mineral Geochemistry
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2016; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Valbone Memeti($186,606), CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation, Fullerton
2. Calvin G Barnes($136,077), Texas Tech University, Lubbock
Key terms: Continental Crust, Geochemical Analysis, Magma Bodies, Magma Mush, Magma Plumbing, Mid-crustal Arc, Model Predicts, Mush Zones, Plutonic Rocks, Allow, Assessment, Continent-margin, Depth, Dimensions, Distinct, Isotope, Levels, Magmas, Magmatic, Mid-crustal, Mineral, Plutons, Processes, Reservoirs, Sub-volcanic.

ABR: Experimental Studies of Hydrous Mantle Melting
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2016; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Timothy L Grove($439,000), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Mantle And Crust, Mantle Wall Rock, Shallower Mantle Wall, Deeper Mantle, Experimental Petrology, Hydrous Melting, Mantle Melting, Mantle Melts, Mantle Wedge, Melt Composition, Pressure Range, Reaction Experiments, Subduction Zones, Allow, Billion, Chemical, Earth, Gpa, HO, Has, Ho-undersaturated, Influence, Knowledge, Little, Magmas, Models, Pressures, Process, Processes, Quantitative, Temperature, Volcanoes, Water.

Insights into the Earliest Magmas from Inclusions and Trace Elements in Zircon
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2016; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Timothy M Harrison($280,560), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Primary Inclusion Assemblages, Zircon Trace Chemistry, Inclusion Character, Jack Hills, Magma Chemistry, Mineral Inclusions, Various Aspects, Carbonaceous, Constitutes, Discovery, Grew, Hadean, Host, Investigations, Magmas, Million, Phases, Source, Zircons.

Collaborative Research: Characterizing and Modeling Crustal Recycling
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2016; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Mark D Behn($79,019), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Bradley R Hacker($332,772), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Crustal Sections, Earth's Crust, Calculated, Composition, Compositions, Deep, Evolution, Has, Processes, Properties, Recycling.

Collaborative Research: Thermodynamics of Magma Mixing
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2016; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Wendy A Bohrson($210,985), Central Washington University, Ellensburg
2. Frank J Spera($251,997), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Mass And Energy, Chemical Thermodynamics, Magma Mixing, Molten Rock, Characteristics, Codes, Complex, Computational, Computer, Consequences, Crust, Enhanced, Eruption, Evolution, Exchange, Formation, Geothermal, Magmas, Model, Planetary, Process, Products, Resources, Storage, Surface, Taxonomy, Thermal.

Quantifying the Volume Changes During Serpentinization of Peridotite using Hydrothermal Laboratory Experiments and X-ray Microtomography
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2016; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Frieder Klein($350,000), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Mantle Rocks, Earth, Fluid, Geochemical, Geological, Global, Has, Hydrothermal, Process, Processes, Serpentinization, Subduction, Volume, Water.

Subcretion Versus Relamination: Testing Processes of Lower Crustal Modification in the Klamath Mountain Accretionary Province
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2016; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Paul J Sylvester($350,000), Texas Tech University, Lubbock
Key terms: Involves Emplacement, Metasedimentary Rocks, Thermal History, Ages, Analyzed, Base, Collision, Continent, Crust, Detailed, Economic, Field, Geologic, High-grade, Hot, Isotopes, Klamath, Lower, Metamorphism, Mineral, Plutons, Potential, Province, Relamination, Resources, Sampling, Sources, Terranes, Theories, Timing.

EAR-PF Ancient DNA meets modern genomes: An exploration of diatom evolution, ecology, and environmental change in the Yellowstone Basin
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Trisha L Spanbauer($174,000), Spanbauer Trisha L, Cincinnati
Key terms: Hidden Phytoplankton Diversity, Recently Diverged, Stephanodiscus Yellowstonensis, Undergraduate Classes, Yellowstone Lake, Adna, Diatom, Evolution, Evolutionary, Explore, Freshwater, Genetic, Has, Investigate, Molecular, Morphological, Outcomes, Preservation, Provided, Proxy, Texas.

EAR-PF: SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY OF COSEISMIC SUBSIDENCE ALONG THE CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Tina Dura($174,000), Dura Cristina, Lawrenceville
Key terms: Bayesian Diatom-based Transfer, Cascadia Subduction Zone, Modern Diatom Dataset, Bayesian Diatom-based, Coseismic Subsidence, Diatom-based Transfer, Subsidence Estimates, Transfer Functions, Accuracy, Characterize, Cores, Critical, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Education, Expand, Information, Models, Multiple, Past, Rupture, Seismic, Tsunami.

DEVELOPING A PROCESS-BASED UNDERSTANDING OF THE FACTORS CONTROLLING THE SEASONAL FORMATION OF PEDOGENIC CARBONATE
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Timothy M Gallagher($174,000), Gallagher Timothy M, Austin
Key terms: Experimental And Modeling, Pedogenic Carbonate Formation, Carbonate Minerals, Computer Modeling, Reactive Transport, Application, Environmental, Investigation, Past, Processes, Seasonal, Soil, Soils, Students, Texas.

Constraints on fault mechanics and seismic hazard from the integration of high- resolution topography and InSAR datasets
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Chelsea P Scott($174,000), Scott Chelsea P, Ithaca
Key terms: Coseismic Fault Slip, Fault Slip Rates, Earthquake Cycles, Fault Mechanics, Constraints, Crust, Datasets, Depth, Distribution, Examine, Far-, Field, Focus, Geologic, Insar, Strain, Surface, Topography.

Linking elastic and electrical properties to investigate partial melting in the deep mantle
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Alisha N Clark($174,000), Clark Alisha N, Davis
Key terms: Pressures And Temperatures, Electrical Conductivity, Electrical Properties, Silicate Melts, Basaltic, Earth, Elastic, Geophysical, Investigation, Northwestern, Physics, Scripps, Students, Velocity.

EAR-PF Determining links between magma redox heterogeneity in ocean island basalts and near-surface processes of the ancient and present day
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2016; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Mary E Peterson($174,000), Peterson Mary E, Providence
Key terms: Fe3total Fe Ratios, Iceland And Baffin, Volatile And Trace, Baffin Island, Fe3total Fe, Mantle Source, Ocean Island, Oxygen Isotopes, Build, Existing, Fetotal, Galapagos, Geochemical, Glass, Grow, Has, Investigation, Level, Magma, Measure, Oxidation, Redox, Settings, Solid, Tectonic.

EAR-PF: Combining Proxy Records and Model Data to Investigate Changing Flood Risks for the U.S. Atlantic Coast during the Past Millennium
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Andra J Garner($174,000), Reed Andra J, University Park
Key terms: Atlantic Coast, Past Millennium, Sea Level, Sediment Core, Storm Surge, York City, Coastal, Examine, Flood, Flooding, Has, Heights, Inconsistencies, Model, Objective, Plans, Proxy, Region, Rutgers, Simulations, Tropical.

Evolution and climate change: elucidating the controls on species' responses to 4 Myrs of environmental change in the Atlantic Coastal Plain, USA
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Erin E Saupe($87,000), Saupe Erin E, New Haven
Key terms: Atlantic Coastal Plain, Genetic Diversity, Environmental, Examine, Exhibit, Fossil, Has, Information, Million, Modern, Mollusks, Niche, Regions, Species, Suitable, Yale.

Investigating the Limits of Arsenic Methylation in the Critical Zone
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Scott Maguffin($174,000), Maguffin Scott, Eugene
Key terms: Dale Bumpers Center, Rice Paddy Soils, Arsenic-organic Compounds, Critical Zone, Methylated Arsenic, Abundance, Activity, Analyses, Arsenic-organic, Interactions, Level, Methylation, Microbes, Microbial, Mobility, Process, Species, Toxicity.

Evaluating the controls of hillslope morphology on nonlocal sediment transport: analytical and experimental approaches
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Danica L Roth($174,000), Roth Danica, Eugene
Key terms: Nonlocal Sediment Transport, Nonlocal Transport, Activity, Distances, Education, Educational, Establish, Field, Field-based, Generate, Model, Natural, Oregon, Particle, Processes, Public, Range, Roughness, Settings, Theoretical.

Collaborative Research: Rheology of the Earth's Transition Zone - An Integrated Approach
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. James G Hirth($180,000), Brown University, Providence
2. Paul C Raterron($360,000), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Wadsleyite And Ringwoodite, Flow Laws, Newly Developed, Seismic Anisotropy, Transition Zone, Advancing, Analytical, Applications, Available, Constraints, Convection, Crystal, Deformation, Devices, Earth, Experimental, Experiments, Grain, Has, High-pressure, Insights, Involving, Knowledge, Mantle, Mean-field, Mechanisms, Minerals, Models, Olivine, Orientations, Plasticity, Preferred, Pressure, Properties, Rock, Situ, Strain, Stress, Synchrotron, Transition-zone, Viscosity, X-ray.

Collaborative Research: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Investigate the Origin of Anisotropy at the Base of the Mantle
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2016; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Allen McNamara($95,653), Michigan State University, East Lansing
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: Integrated seismic, geodynamic, and mineral physics studies of the deepest lower mantle
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Zhongwen Zhan($396,108), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Experimental Mineral Physics, Diffraction Experiments, Individual Expertise, Seismic Anisotropy, Subducted Slabs, Boundary, CMB, Chemical, Compositional, Deep, Dynamics, Earth, Flow, Geodynamics, Global, Llsvps, Mantle, Mgfeo, Near, Observed, Pacific, Phase, Planet, Plate, Presence, Region, Seismically, Seismology, Sources, Structures, Surface, Tectonic, Thermal, X-ray.

Support for Beginning Scientists to Attend 15th SEDI meeting in Nantes, France
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Michael I Bergman($7,000), Simon's Rock of Bard College, Great Barrington
Key terms: Earth's Deep Interior, Earth's Deep, Contribute, Core, Dynamics, Evolution, Interdisciplinary, International, Mantle, Meeting, SEDI, Structure, Surface.

What are the seismic expressions of deep thermal and thermochemical plumes?
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Jeroen E Ritsema($194,195), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Thermal And Thermochemical, Observational Geophysics, Phd Student, Seismic Wave, International, Mantle, Plume, Plumes, Simulations.

Near Continent Intraplate Magmatism in the Atlantic: Implications for Mantle Dynamics and Melting
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Esteban Gazel($210,881), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Water And Carbon, Cape Verde, Carbon Cycles, Global Water, Intraplate Magmatism, Intraplate Volcanism, Mantle Plume, Mantle Upwelling, Natural Laboratories, Plate Boundaries, Plume Model, Canaries, Carbonatites, Collect, Composition, Continent, Convection, Deep, Determinations, Dynamics, EDC, Geochemical, Has, Hotspots, Mechanism, Mechanisms, Melting, Missing, Near, Petrological, Processes, Seismic, Signatures, Source, Virginia, Volatile, Volatiles, Volcanic.

ABR/RUI Is the Terrestrial Permian-Triassic Boundary in the Karoo Basin? Implications for the Response of the Terrestrial Ecosystems to the End-Permian Extinction Event
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Robert A Gastaldo($190,345), Colby College, Waterville
Key terms: Chemical Conditions, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Atmospheric, Biological, Experienced, Geoscientists, Loss, Marine, Permian, Time.

Workshop to explore extended access to the Polar Geospatial Center (PGC) by Earth-science investigators
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Jonathan W Pundsack($49,851), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Polar Geospatial Center, Commercial Imagery, Satellite Imagery, Availability, Explore, Has, Monitoring, Possibilities, Products, Regions, Services, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: REU Site: Water Resources and Quality in the Riviera Maya, Mexico
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Laura L Sanders($74,000), Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago
2. Melissa E Lenczewski($400,000), Northern Illinois University, Dekalb
Key terms: Northern Illinois, Reu Site, Undergraduate Students, Water Issues, Water Resource, Appreciation, Context, Cultural, Culture, Field, Groundwater, Information, International, Local, Mexico, Participants, Period, Public, Skills, Weeks, Yucatán.

SusChEM: Solubility of Iron Oxides and Gold in Acidic Hydrothermal Brines: Applications to the Origin of Iron Oxide Copper-gold Deposits
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2016; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Christopher H Gammons($115,905), Montana Technological University, Butte
Key terms: Gold Deposits, Iocg Deposits, Mining Industry, Saline Brines, Aqueous, Class, Commodities, Consensus, Copper, Discovery, Exploration, Fluids, Gap, Generate, Geochemical, Has, Hydrothermal, Iron, Metal, Mineral, Models, Near, Oxide, Oxidized, Partly, Steady, Thermodynamic.

SusChEM: Redox and mineral controls maximizing Phosphorus mobility and bioavailability
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: SURFACE EARTH PROCESS SECTION

1. Gregory K Druschel($326,468), Indiana University, Bloomington
2. Andrew Schroth($247,774), University of Vermont & State Agricultural College, Burlington
Key terms: Changing Redox Conditions, Speciation And Mobility, Changing Redox, Phosphorus Mobility, Water Quality, Water Resources, Agriculture, Behavior, Central, Critical, Drivers, Dynamics, Environmental, Especially, Fe, Interaction, Near, Organic, Partitioning, Pools, Promote, Require, SWI, Sediment, Sediment-water, Species, Specific, Sustainable, Techniques, Time.

Collaborative Research: Assessing millennial-scale community dynamics using highly-resolved mammal and vegetation food webs
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2016; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Justin D Yeakel($431,800), University of California - Merced, Merced
2. Luis M Chiappe($397,042), Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation, Los Angeles
3. Jacquelyn Gill($296,534), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Brea Tar Pits, Food Web, Food Webs, Ice Age, Animals, California, Carnivores, Extinction, Multiple, Paleo, Plants, Risk, Species, Trophic.

ELT Collaborative Research: Causes and effects of the Permian-Triassic biotic crisis inferred from continental margin sections and modeling
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Cornelia Winguth($150,294), University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington
2. Christopher R Fielding($400,157), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln
Key terms: Continent, Crisis, EPME, Ecosystems, Global, Severe, Was.

Collaborative Research: The Evolutionary Significance of Biotic Interactions: A Comparative Study utilizing Echinoid Associated Traces
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Carrie Tyler($112,573), Miami University, Oxford
2. Michal J Kowalewski($230,022), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Distinct Marks, Database, Echinoid, Echinoids, Evolutionary, Explore, Fossil, History, Interactions, Marine, Modern, Mollusks, Museum, Predation, Predators, Prey, Trace, Traces.

Cretaceous Vertebrates from Madagascar: A Window into the Biogeographic and Plate Tectonic History of Gondwana
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. David W Krause($259,976), Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver
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: RUI: A High resolution Paleontological, Ichnological, and Chemostratigraphic Study of Late Devonian Mass Extinctions
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Diana Boyer($12,687), Winthrop University, Rock Hill
Key terms: Devonian Mass Extinction, Late Devonian Mass, Biotic Turnover, Black Shale, Inorganic Geochemical, Suny Oswego, Ancient, Direct, Euxinic, Evolution, Extensive, History, Life, Marine, Oxygen, Paleontological, Resolution, Water.

Collaborative Research: Mesozoic Tethyan paleocommunity dynamics: Modelling complexity and stablity during times of biotic escalation and community restructuring
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Carrie Tyler($70,240), Miami University, Oxford
2. Peter D Roopnarine($208,863), California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco
Key terms: Food Webs, Marine Ecosystems, Mass Extinction, Ago, Ancient, Biological, Complex, Complexity, Dynamics, Environmental, Extreme, Fossil, Mesozoic, Million, Modern, Poorly.

Late Cenozoic dynamics of the latitudinal biodiversity gradient: Regional extinction, range expansion, and biological attributes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. David I Jablonski($401,560), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Diversity Gradient, Biodiversity, Global, Marine, Past, Processes, Species.

Geochemical Analysis of Ancient Salt Deposits from the Dead Sea and its Climate and Hydrology During Warmer Periods in the Past 200,000 Years
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Yael Kiro($315,089), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Climate And Hydrology, Dead Sea, Drill Core, Drought Conditions, Middle East, Thick Layers, Ago, Compared, Drilling, Future, Past, Period, Salt.

Evaluating plant carbon isotope fractionation as a pCO2 proxy for the geologic record
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Aaron Diefendorf($138,189), University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati
Key terms: Plant Carbon Isotopes, Climate, Geologic, Past.

RAPID: Salvage Excavation of a Critically Important Late Miocene Fossil Deposit in North-Central Florida: A Rare Opportunity for Science and Education
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2016; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Richard C Hulbert($39,012), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Florida Museum, Natural History, Bones, Fossils, Has, Site, Size, Skeletons, Specimens, Vertebrate.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Triassic-Jurassic Fossils and the Origins of the Crocodilian Skull
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Casey M Holliday($182,576), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
2. James M Clark($279,868), George Washington University, Washington
Key terms: Air Spaces, Bite Force, Crocodilians, Increase, Origins, Pis, Public, Skull.

Qualitative Hydraulics and Transport from Strata and Dynamics of Sandy Bedforms
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Brandon McElroy($260,649), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Bed Forms, Sediment Transport, Ancient, Applied, Conditions, Create, Deposits, Dynamic, Earth, Experiments, Fluvial, Models, Reservoir, River, Strata, Subsurface, Surface, Water.

Collaborative Research: The 2015 Taan Fiord landslide tsunami: An interdisciplinary study of cause & effect
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2016; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Colin P Stark($120,807), Columbia University, New York
2. Robert Weiss($25,000), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
3. Michael J Willis($20,000), Cornell University, Ithaca
4. Daniel Shugar($34,721), University of Washington, Seattle
5. Breanyn MacInnes($17,568), Central Washington University, Ellensburg
6. Sean S Gulick($47,573), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Debris, Fiord, Landslide, Landslides, Observations, Rock, Taan, Tsunami, Walls, Water, Wave.

CAREER: The Last Glacial Termination in Interior Asia
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Aaron Putnam($602,521), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Graduate And Undergraduate, Atmospheric Co2, Glacial Termination, Global Warming, Graduate Students, Ice Age, Undergraduate Students, Asia, Chicago, China, Chronologies, Climate, Cooperative, Cross-cultural, Educational, Experiences, Factors, Field-based, Glacier, Journalism, Mongolia, Natural, Public, School, South, Teachers.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: A Remarkable New Fossil Assemblage from the Burgess Shale at Marble Canyon, Kootenay National Park
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2016; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Isabel P Montañez($179,861), University of California-Davis, Davis
2. Robert R Gaines($148,293), Pomona College, Claremont
Key terms: Burgess Shale, Fossil Assemblage, Cambrian, Deposits, Geochemical, History, Origin, Was.

Collaborative Research: Reconstructing the Origins of the Colorado River: An Integrative Study of the Miocene-Pliocene Bouse Formation
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2016; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Rebecca J Dorsey($209,103), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
2. Andrew S Cohen($111,143), University of Arizona, Tucson
3. Karl E Karlstrom($216,331), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Bouse Formation, Colorado River, Initiation, Origins, Pis, Stratigraphic.

CAREER:Continental Paleoenvironmental Responses to Carbon Cycle Perturbations During the mid-Cretaceous Greenhouse
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2016; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Marina B Suarez($383,860), University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio
Key terms: Carbon Cycle Perturbations, Cretaceous Carbon Cycle, Carbon Isotope, Activities, Climate, Disruptions.

Cosmogenic surface exposure dating of Cordilleran-Laurentide ice-sheet separation during the last deglaciation: implications for abrupt sea-level rise
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2016; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Jorie Clark($249,931), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Ice Sheet Separation, Cis-lis Separation, Ice Saddle, Ice Sheets, Sea Level, Sea-level Rise, Ages, Ago, CIS-LIS, Caused, Cordilleran, Date, Development, Has, Instability, Laurentide, MWP, MWP-A, Meltwater, Rapid, Sea-level, Was, °N.

Stratigraphic Paleobiology and Historical Ecology of Po Basin
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2016; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Michal J Kowalewski($363,329), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Adriatic Sea, Po Delta, Analyses, Climate, Coastal, Cores, Current, Environmental, Florida, Geologic, History, Long-term, Marine, Public, Sediment.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: An Exceptional Window into Late Triassic Terrestrial Ecosystems from the Western United States
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2015; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Nathan D Smith($61,625), Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation, Los Angeles
Key terms: Ghost Ranch, Hayden Quarry, Late Triassic, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Upper Triassic, Biotic, Dinosaurs, Establish, Graduate, HQ, History, Integrated, Mexico, Northern, Paleoenvironmental, Rise, Strata, Students, Underrepresented, Vertebrate.

Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2016; Program: Software Institutes

1. Louise H Kellogg($8,827,298), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: CIG, Cigs, Computation, Computational, Development, Education, Geodynamics, Geoscientists, Has, Long-term, Modeling, Models, Open-source, Seismology, Software.

The Proterozoic Missing Link? Deposition, Volcanism, and Deformation between 1.6 and 1.45 Ga in the McDowell Mountains, south-central Arizona.
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: Tectonics

1. Matthijs c Van Soest($52,569), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Mcdowell Mountains Section, Proterozoic Uranium-lead Age, Mcdowell Sonoran, Middle Proterozoic, Proterozoic Uranium-lead, Regional Extent, Uranium-lead Age, Uranium-lead Dating, Volcanic Rocks, Zircon Uranium-lead, Ages, Arizona, Billion, Characterize, Constrain, Contribute, Deformation, Geologic, Granite, Metamorphosed, Million, Nature, North, Objectives, Orogeny, Outreach, Period, Plate, Public, Range, Sedimentary, Source, Structural, Timing, Unique, Was.

Support for Analog Modeling of Tectonic Processes Workshop
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2016; Program: Tectonics

1. Jacqueline E Reber($33,069), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: Analog Modeling, Analysis, Conditions, Deformation, Discuss, Experimental, Experiments, Future, Half-day, Held, Leading, Modelers, Models, Numerical, Processes, Promote, Revolution, Students, Techniques, Tectonic, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Interactions Between Transpressional Structures at the North American-Caribbean Plate Boundary: Geophysical Imaging Beneath Lake Azuei, Haiti
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: Tectonics

1. Heather Sloan($136,072), Research Foundation Of The City University Of New York (Lehman), Bronx
2. Marie-Helene Cormier($408,255), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Enriquillo-plantain Garden Fault, Haiti Fold-and-thrust Belt, High-resolution Multichannel Seismic, Multichannel Seismic Reflection, Spatial And Temporal, Enriquillo-plantain Garden, Fold-and-thrust Belt, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti Fold-and-thrust, High-resolution Multichannel, Lake Azuei, Lake Bed, Oblique Convergence, Sediment Cores, Stratigraphic Analysis, Temporal Relations, Accommodated, Boundaries, Boundary, Bounded, CHIRP, Capital, Caribbean, Collision, Crust, Deformation, Development, East, Expected, Faults, Folds, Hispaniola, Motion, Moving, North, Particular, Penetration, Plate, Plates, Port-au-prince, Profiles, Region, Rupture, Sets, Strike-slip, Structures, Survey, Transform.

Collaborative Research: Testing Models for Extension in the Rio Grande Rift-Basin and Range Transition Zone of Southern New Mexico
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2016; Program: Tectonics

1. Jeffrey M Amato($101,339), New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
2. Jason W Ricketts($166,905), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
Key terms: Basin And Range, Rio Grande Rift, Southern Rio Grande, Adjacent Basin, Range Province, Structural Domains, Aims, Apatite, Constraints, Crust, Driving, Extension, Forces, History, Main, Mechanisms, Merge, Mexico, Models, Northern, Produced, Region, Resembles, Tectonic, Texas, Thermochronologic, Times, U-thhe, Uncertainty, View, Western, Zircon, Zoning.

Collaborative Research: RUI: Testing Models of Passive Margin Rejuvenation in the Eastern U.S.
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2016; Program: Tectonics

1. William H Amidon($135,708), Middlebury College, Middlebury
2. Mary K Roden-Tice($55,862), SUNY College at Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh
Key terms: Baltimore Canyon Trough, Drill Cores, Eastern North, Forcing Mechanism, Late Cretaceous, Passive Margins, Ago, Apatite, Approaches, Atlantic, Continent, Dynamic, Exhumation, Local, Mechanisms, Million, Mio-pliocene, Multiple, Occurred, Provenance, Rejuvenation, Sediment, Stresses, Synchronously, Tectonically, Thermochronology, Time, Timing, Visits, Zircon.

Fold Dating in the Central Appalachian Valley-and-Ridge.
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2016; Program: Tectonics

1. Ben A van der Pluijm($147,559), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Dating Method, Fold Ages, Fold Dating, Illite Dating, Undergraduate Students, Appalachian, Application, Central, Constrain, Deformation, Eastern, Economic, Educational, Experiences, Fractions, Has, Mineralization, Mountain, Presentations, Quantification, Regional, Timing.

Collaborative Research: Constraints From Fault Roughness on the Scale-dependent Strength of Rocks
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2016; Program: Tectonics

1. David L Goldsby($264,782), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
2. Emily E Brodsky($330,979), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Fault Surface Roughness, Failure Criterion, Failure Mode, Fault Friction, Fault Roughness, Laboratory Experiments, Nanopillar Experiments, Rock Strength, Based, Brittle, Crust, Deformation, Faults, Inferred, Link, Measure, Mechanics, Modes, Motion, Natural, Observed, Plastic, Predict, Process, Range, Step, Surfaces, Values, Yielding.

Collaborative Research: Helium-isotope Systematics Along Seismic Profiles in Tibet to Study Geometry of Indian and Tibetan Lithosphere
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2016; Program: Tectonics

1. Simon Klemperer($328,216), Stanford University, Stanford
2. Karl E Karlstrom($84,498), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Himalaya And Tibet, Beneath Tibet, Northern Limit, Remains Controversial, Asia, Collision, Constrain, Crust, Earth, Fluid, Fluids, Geometry, Has, Hehe, India, Indian, Lithosphere, Lithospheric, Mantle, Models, Pathways, Seismic, Stanford, Tibetan, Transects.

Collaborative Research: Can Low-Angle Normal Faults Produce Earthquakes? Reading a Pseudotachylyte 'Rosetta Stone'
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Tectonics

1. Joshua M Feinberg($90,148), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
2. Laurel B Goodwin($290,400), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Low Angle Normal, Fault Mechanics, Fault Veins, Faults Produce, Low-angle Normal, Metamorphic Core, Normal Fault, Normal Faults, Poorly Oriented, Pseudotachylyte Fault, Recurrence Intervals, Seismic Slip, South Mountains, According, Active, Allowing, Analyses, Ancient, Andersonian, Argonargon, Creep, Current, Deeper, Degrees, Dips, Discrepancy, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Exhumed, Explanation, Failure, First-order, Fossil, Geologic, Geomagnetic, Has, Historical, Lanfs, Largest, Less, Magnetic, Magnitude, Orientations, Potential, Principal, Public, Quantify, Remanence, Rock, Rotation, Rupture, Seismicity, Theory, Was.

Collaborative Research: "Double-Double Dating" of Detrital Monazite and Detrital Zircon: Quantifying Sediment Recycling in Tectonic Studies
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Tectonics

1. David P Moecher($214,334), University of Kentucky Research Foundation, Lexington
2. Scott D Samson($199,275), Syracuse University, Syracuse
Key terms: Detrital Diagenetic, Detrital Monazite, Monazite Grains, Sedimentary Rocks, Analysis, Approach, Based, Basin, Critical, Dated, Dating, Information, Isotopic, Method, Methods, Principal, Rapid, Recycled, Recycling, Students, Tectonic, Textural.

Collaborative Research: The Role of Rock Composition and Microstructural Evolution on Strain Localization and the Effective Viscosity of the Crust
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Tectonics

1. James G Hirth($207,938), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Grain Size Sensitive, Shear Zone Development, Size Sensitive Creep, Continental Crust, Crustal Conditions, Crustal Rocks, Flow Laws, Mechanical Behavior, Mixing Models, Predict Widely, Aggregates, Composition, Controls, E-s, Earthquakes, Evolution, Experimental, Experiments, Formation, Influence, Investigate, Laboratory, Long-term, Mica, Microstructural, Minerals, Modeling, Mountain, Numerical, Observations, Processes, Properties, Respond, Rheological, Rheology, Strain, Training.

Large-scale Terrane Displacement in the Arctic: Evidence from Faults in the Northern Yukon
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2016; Program: Tectonics

1. William McClelland($173,187), University of Iowa, Iowa City
2. Justin V Strauss($241,522), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Arctic Region, Crustal Fragments, Kaltag-porcupine Fault, Northern Yukon, Tectonic Evolution, Accommodated, Canada, Displacement, Horizontal, International, Isotopes, Kaltag-porcupine, Large-scale, Margin, Models, Northwestern, Paleozoic, Poorly, Structure, Transport, Was.

Structural Geology and Tectonics Forum at Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA, August 1st - 3rd, 2016
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: Tectonics

1. Matty Mookerjee($16,517), Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park
Key terms: Geology And Tectonics, Field Trips, Graduate Students, Northern California, Short Course, Structural Geology, Analysis, Bring, Building, Current, Discussions, Education, Faculty, Fault, Forum, Future, Geologic, Interaction, Meeting, Methods, Opportunity, Presentations, San, Session, Sessions, Sonoma, Topics, Useful.

Collaborative Research: Origin of Long-lived Crustal Shear Zones as Transforms or Subduction Zones?
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: Tectonics

1. Sean R Mulcahy($134,093), Western Washington University, Bellingham
2. William McClelland($112,026), University of Iowa, Iowa City
3. Sarah M Roeske($181,790), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Plate Boundary Faults, Valle Fertil Fault, Ancient Plate, Complex Histories, Fault Zone, Fault Zones, Large-scale Faults, Plate Boundaries, Active, Continent, Crust, Deformation, Features, Flow, History, Ideal, Intracontinental, Large-scale, Millions, Models, Origin, Plates, Processes, Reactivation, STEM, Strength, Strike-slip, Tectonic, Weakness.

Physical and Numerical Experiments of Slip Partitioning under Oblique Strike-slip
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2016; Program: Tectonics

1. Michele Cooke($269,926), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: San Andreas Fault, Analog Experiments, Fault Strands, Graduate Student, Numerical Simulations, Oblique Strike-slip, Secondary Faults, Slip Partitioned, Slip Partitioning, Strike-slip Faults, Budget, Complete, Conditions, Development, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Experimental, Explore, Female, Hearing-impaired, Main, Models, Motion, STEM, Settings, Stress, Strike-slip.

INFEWS/T1: Monitoring and managing food, energy, and water systems under stress: California
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Track 1 INFEWS

1. Frances Moore($1,890,219), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Assessment, California, Climate, Dependencies, Drought, Economic, Energy, Food, Future, Historical, Knowledge, Model, Modeling, Policies, Resource, Stress, Strong, Students, Water.

CAREER: Thermochronometric and textural signatures of fault damage zones and stimulating middle school student interest in earthquake science
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2017; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Alexis K Ault($677,468), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Fault Dynamic Weakening, Hematite And Silica, Middle School Students, Natural And Experimental, Seismically-active Wasatch Fault, Wasatch Fault Zone, Damage Zone, Education Plan, Experimental Fault, Exposed Fault, Fault Rocks, Fault Strength, Fault Surface, Fault Surfaces, High-spatial Resolution, Past Earthquakes, Rotary-shear Experiments, Seismic Cycle, Seismic Hazards, Seismically-active Wasatch, Stem Identities, Activities, Apatite, Characterization, Compared, Critical, Deformation, Develops, Document, Electron, Engage, Experiences, Faults, Field, Graduate, Heat, High-spatial, High-velocity, Integrated, Laboratory, Low-temperature, Mechanisms, Microscopy, Modules, Nano-, Observations, Paleotemperatures, Parents, Postdoctoral, Potential, Produced, Rotary-shear, Rural, Shadow, Situ, Teachers, Temperature, Temperatures, Textures, Thermochronometry, Utah, Workforce.

Interpreting the Paleomagnetic Field Using Stochastic Models
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Bruce Buffett($270,000), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Dipole Field, Dipole Fluctuations, Magnetic Field, Paleomagnetic Observations, Polarity Transitions, Stochastic Models, Assess, Autocovariance, Core, Detailed, Duration, Earth, Observed, Processes, Properties, Short, Task, Time.

Do thermochemical convection models explain wave propagation and scattering?
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Jeroen E Ritsema($285,000), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Seismic Wave Scattering, Crustal Fragments, Earth's Interior, Phd Student, Plate Tectonics, Constrain, Deep, Density, Earthquake, Flow, Has, International, Mantle, Michigan, Mixing, Oceanic, Ongoing, Rock, Students, Theory, Vigor.

Contraining the large-scale dynamics and structure of the lower mantle using observations of the geoid, dynamic topography and plate tectonics
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Shijie Zhong($355,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Long-wavelength Mantle Convection, Lower Mantle Beneath, Realistic Lithospheric Rheology, Seismic Wave Speeds, Beneath Africa, Gravity Anomalies, Long-wavelength Mantle, Purely Thermal, Seismic Waves, Buoyancy, CMB, Dynamic, Earth, Formulating, Geoid, Has, Hot, Llsvps, Modeling, Models, Pacific, Plate, Provinces, Regions, Relatively, Seek, Slow, Structure, Structures, Surface, Thermochemical, Viscosity, Volcanism.

The role of in-channel aquatic vegetation on hyporheic exchange
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Ralph S Budwig($616,351), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
Key terms: Hyporheic Exchange, Hyporheic Flow, Iav Density, Patch Size, River Restoration, Submerged Vegetation, Developed, Flume, HZ, Has, Interaction, Model, Modeling, Models, Multiple, Patches, Processes, Quantify, Sediment, Solute, Stream, Streambed, Streams, Students, Transport, Waters.

REU Site: UTEP-ROCCS (University of Texas at El Paso - Research Opportunities for Community College Students)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Diane I Doser($330,532), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
Key terms: El Paso Region, 2yc Students, Student Mentors, Evolution, Faculty, Involve, Model, REU, Weeks.

Collaborative Research: Investigating Controls on Temporal-spatial Heterogeneous Deformation Along a Transpressive Strike-slip Fault System: The Eastern Denali Fault Corner
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2016; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Kenneth D Ridgway($197,738), Purdue University, West Lafayette
2. Paul Fitzgerald($196,971), Syracuse University, Syracuse
3. Jeff Benowitz($202,561), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Strike And Dip, Active Fault, Boundary Conditions, Crustal Blocks, Denali Fault, Fault Geometry, Strike-slip Fault, Thrust Belts, Transpressive Fault, Accommodated, Alaska, Apatite, Arar, Basin, Basins, Common, Contrasts, Deformation, Development, Faults, Geochronology, Has, History, Insight, Motion, Native, Oblique, Obliquity, Past, Regions, Relative, STEM, Sediment, Strain, Strength, Strike-slip, Thermochronology, Track, Zones.

Collaborative Research: Testing Laurentide Ice Sheet Climate Response and Younger Dryas Trigger with Glacial Varves
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Thomas V Lowell($184,745), University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati
2. Nigel J Wattrus($134,328), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
3. Andrew Breckenridge($146,746), University of Wisconsin-Superior, Superior
Key terms: Former Ice Sheet, Atlantic Ocean, Rapid Climate, Dryas, Freshening, Freshwater, Has, North, Thickness, Trigger, Varves.

Anhydrite in Arc Magmas and its Relationship to Sulfur Degassing and Ore Formation
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2016; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. John H Dilles($310,000), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Aqueous Fluid, Arc Magmas, Calcium Sulfate, Calcium Sulfate-bearing, Laboratory Experiments, Mineral Deposits, Pressure Experiments, Shallow Crust, Sulfate-rich Magmas, Anhydrite, Approach, Atmosphere, Cooling, Copper, Economic, Gold, Has, Inclusions, Magmatic, Melt, Metals, Minerals, Minute, Natural, Partition, Phase, Phases, Plutonic, Produced, Quartz, Silicate, Species, Stability, Sulfate-bearing, Sulfate-rich, Sulfur, Transfer, Volcanic, Volcanoes, Water-rich.

Tapping outstanding new lake records of annual- to millennial-scale Holocene climate variability in the north Pacific region
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Darrell S Kaufman($517,032), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: North Pacific, Alaska, Anchorage, Climate, Holocene, Lakes, Recovered, Sediment, Sediments.

X-ray and Spectroscopic Studies of Subduction-Related Phases: Probing the Mid-Point of Volatile Recycling in the Earth
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Quentin Williams($370,000), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Advanced Light Source, Berkeley National Labs, Lawrence Berkeley National, Single-crystal X-ray Diffraction, Water And Carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Earth's Mantle, Graduate Students, Military Veteran, Single-crystal X-ray, Volatile-bearing Phases, X-ray Diffraction, ALS, Atmosphere, Available, Carbonates, Carbonatite, Circum-pacific, Conditions, Deep, Depth, Earthquakes, Examine, Facility, High-pressure, High-pressurehigh-temperature, Hydrosphere, Melting, Planet, Polymorphism, Pressures, Program, Properties, Released, Relevance, Set-up, Solid, Surface, Temperatures, Undergraduate, Undergraduates, Via, Volatile-bearing, Volatiles, Volcanism.

CAREER: Mantle Seismic Structure Beneath North America and Evolving Seismcity in the Raton Basin
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Brandon Schmandt($525,838), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Collection And Analysis, Mantle Transition Zone, Beneath North, Geochemical Reservoir, Middle School, Raton Basin, Wastewater Injection, Constrain, Convection, Distribution, Earthscope, Educational, Geoscience, Graduate, Increasing, Interfaces, Layer, Line, Lines, Mapping, Mechanisms, Natural, Ongoing, Opportunities, Seismic, Seismicity, Structure, Students, Temporal, Undergraduate, Water.

Understanding Chromium Redox Systematics Mafic Magmas: Applications to Magmatic fO2 Calculations and Chromite Solubility
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Aaron S Bell($285,761), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Layered Mafic Intrusions, Basaltic Magmas, Chemical Composition, Chromite Deposits, Chromite Stability, Cr Valence, Mafic Magmas, Olivine Crystals, Silicate Melt, Stratiform Chromite, Alloys, Aspect, Behavior, Chromium, Crystallization, Fo, Generated, Geochemical, Mexico, Oxidation, Quantify, Quantitative, Student, Variables, XANES.

Collaborative Research: Forest Water Use and the Influence of Acid Deposition
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Lixin Wang($137,145), Indiana University, Bloomington
2. Matthew Vadeboncoeur($186,001), University of New Hampshire, Durham
3. Daniel L Druckenbrod($72,470), Rider University, Lawrenceville
4. Howard E Epstein($269,675), University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville
Key terms: Acid Deposition, Carbon Dioxide, Forest Wue, Stream Discharge, Water Vapor, Brook, Catchments, Changing, Conference, Field, Modeling, Students.

Rheology of Lower Mantle Perovskites
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Li Li($480,000), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Pressure And Temperature, Quantitative Flow Law, Brookhaven National, Lower Mantle, National Laboratory, Plastic Nature, Plastic Properties, Abundant, Built, Character, Conditions, Coordination, Deep, Deformation, Dynamic, Evolution, Experiments, Facility, Hard, Has, II, Minerals, Oxygen, Perovskite, Process, Rock, Silicon, Source, Synchrotron, Tools, X-ray.

Development of X-ray Atlas, a high-brilliance high-sensitivity high-load-capacity X-ray diffractometer for mineralogy and mineral physics research at the University of Hawaii
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2016; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Przemyslaw Dera($635,209), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Pressure And Temperature, Mineral Physics, Temperature Conditions, Venture Diffractometer, X-ray Atlas, Capabilities, Commercial, Create, Depths, Diffraction, Experiments, Extreme, Hawaii, Hexapod, Information, Instrument, Mantle, Platform, Reliable, Structure, Technology, Unique, X-ray.

CAREER: Illuminating the Tectonic History of North America with Seismic Models of Shear Attenuation and Velocity
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Colleen A Dalton($521,402), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Attenuation Model, Beneath North, Rayleigh Wave, Seismic Waves, Shear Attenuation, Tectonic History, Upper Mantle, Usarray Stations, Activities, Continent, Derived, Developed, Earth, Effects, Elastic, Experienced, Focusing, Has, High-school, Imaging, Interior, Properties, Seismometers, Simulations, Students, Surface, Undergraduate, Velocity.

Timing, Rates and History of Post-YTT (<74ka) Resurgent Uplift of Samosir Island, Toba, Sumatra
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2016; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Shanaka L de Silva($359,938), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Age Dating, Climactic Eruption, Stratigraphic Correlation, Toba Caldera, Calderas, Duration, Magma, Periods, Potential, Rate, Relative, Resurgence, Resurgent, Reveal, Samosir, Sumatra, Supervolcano, Supervolcanoes, Uplift, YTT.

CAREER: Elasticity and Lattice Dynamics of Iron Alloys under Earth's Core Conditions
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2016; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Bin Chen($596,039), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Elastic And Vibrational, Nature And Dynamics, Pressure And Temperature, Core Conditions, Inner Core, Iron Alloys, Mineral Physics, Vibrational Properties, Aims, Alloying, Candidate, Cores, Diverse, Earth, Elasticity, Evolution, Experimental, Facilities, Generation, Integrated, Interior, Outreach, Planet, Pressure-temperature, Seismic, Student, Synchrotron-based, Teaching.

Fate of Subducted Carbonates: Structure Prediction and Solid Solution Modeling
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2016; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Paul D Asimow($410,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Computational Mineral Physics, Compute Phase Diagrams, Phase Diagrams Governing, Carbon Cycle, Approach, Approaches, Atmosphere, Carbonate, Combination, Computing, Detailed, Dolomite, Entropy, Essential, Fe, Has, Highly, Mantle, Phases, Return, Stability, Stable, Structure, Structures, Subduction, Temperature, Thermodynamics, Unusual.

Cenozoic Basin Development and Environmental Change in the Peruvian Altiplano and Implications for Uplift Mechanisms
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2016; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Joel E Saylor($380,268), University of Houston, Houston
Key terms: Central Andean Plateau, Peruvian Central Andean, Basin Formation, Crustal Shortening, Surface Elevation, Surface Uplift, Climate, Combination, Depositional, Detailed, Detrital, Education, Exhumation, Family, Geochronology, Graduate, Has, Hydrocarbon, Implications, Mechanism, Models, Modern, Mountain, Multiple, Outreach, Pace, Paleoelevation, Predicts, Principal, Promote, Reconstruction, STEM, Sediment, Sedimentary, Strata, Student, Students, Subduction, Supporting, Time, Timing, Track, Undergraduate, Volcanic.

The Interdisciplinary Research Experience in Hyperspectral Imaging (IDREHSI)
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: nan

1. Bingqing Liang($408,587), University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls
Key terms: Highly Interdisciplinary, Hyperspectral Imaging, Reu Program, Unifying Theme, Analysis, Applications, Collection, Crop, Experimental, Mapping, Opportunities, Soil, Students, Various.

NSF-GEO-EAR Awards for 2016

INFEWS/T1: A Modeling Framework to Understand the coupling of Food, Energy, and Water in the Teleconnected Corn and Cotton Belts Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: AISL

Estimating global subduction mass transport Award Effective Date: 11/23/2016; Program: CI REUSE

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Central Anatolian Tectonics (CD-CAT): Surface to mantle dynamics during collision to escape Award Effective Date: 06/30/2016; Program: CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM

Analytical methods for estimating the joint climatological-social drivers of water quality and supply in contrasting tropical zones: Ecuador and China Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: CR-Water Sustainability & Clim

RAPID: Testing the erosion signature of coseismic landslides using cosmogenic catchment wide erosion rates - a case study of the 2016 Kaikoura Earthquake, New Zealand Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

RAPID: Collaborative Research: Topographic Change and Cascading Hazards Following the Mw7.8 Kaikoura (New Zealand) Earthquake Award Effective Date: 12/15/2016; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

Rapid deployment of seismic instruments around Wellington, NZ, following the November 13, 2016, magnitude 7.8 Kaikoura earthquake Award Effective Date: 12/01/2016; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

RAPID: Collaborative Research: Seismic Response to the 2016 M5.8 Pawnee Earthquake Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

RAPID: Collaborative Research: Response to the 2016 M5.8 Pawnee Earthquake: Using MT to map Fluids in Faults Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

Structural Architecture and Evolution of the Southern Flank of the Brooks Range Fold and Thrust Belt, Arctic Alaska Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

RAPID: Collaborative: April 16, 2016 Mw 7.8 Pedernales Earthquake, Ecuador: The Role of Asperities in Rupture Propagation, Aftershock Sequences, and Post-Seismic Deformation Award Effective Date: 06/15/2016; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

Community Workshop: COCONet - Results, Sustainability, and Capacity Building Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

NSF-RAPID: Rapid Response for the M5.1 Fairview Earthquake - Detailed Understanding of the Fault Systems in Western Oklahoma Award Effective Date: 03/15/2016; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

Collaborative Research: Mining Seismic Wavefields Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: Data Cyberinfrastructure

CAREER: Characterizing the Physical/Chemical Evidence of Volcanic Lightning Award Effective Date: 03/01/2016; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

Collaborative Research: Shear-wave Splitting and Mantle Dynamics of the North American Plate Award Effective Date: 12/15/2016; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Geodetic Characterization of the Easternmost Alaska Subduction Zone Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Improving Back-Projection Imaging with a Novel Physics-Based Aftershock Calibration Approach Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Water, Drought and Snowpack Monitoring in the United States Using the EarthScope Plate Boundary Observatory GPS Network Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Investigating Lithospheric Evolution Beneath the Southern and Northeastern United States Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Mapping Small-scale Mantle Heterogeneities Using USArray Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Using GPS to Unravel the Long-Term Kinematics and Dynamics of the American Southwest from an Ever-Changing Deformation Field Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Investigating Lithospheric Evolution Beneath the Southern and Northeastern United States Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Evidence for Dynamic Weakening Mechanisms in the San Andreas Fault: Microgeochemistry and Microthermometry of Fault-related Rocks from SAFOD Core and Exhumed Faults Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Collaborative Research: Magnetotelluric and Seismic Investigations of the Distribution of Magmatic and Hydrous Fluids Beneath Yellowstone Award Effective Date: 05/15/2016; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

Unity of Purpose for Equitable Representation in Geosciences Workshop Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Imaging Vertical Earthquake Cycle Crustal Deformation of the San Andreas Fault System Utilizing the GAGE Facility Award Effective Date: 08/15/2016; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Broadening Employment Skills to Enhance Diversity of the Geoscience Workforce During the National Association of Black Geoscientists Annual Conference Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Collaborative Research: Dynamic fault rupture in the presence of 3D heterogenous tectonic stress: the case of the San Andreas Fault in Eastern San Gorgonio Pass Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER: Induced seismicity: Increasing understanding of fluids in fault zones and engaging stakeholders for rapid knowledge transfer Award Effective Date: 02/01/2016; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

REU Site: Earth Science on Volcanic Islands Award Effective Date: 10/01/2016; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: Paleoseismic Evidence of Earthquakes and Tsunamis along the Southern Part of the Japan Trench Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

RUI: Melt Viscosities in Silica-undersaturated Systems Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Early Career: Acquisition of a Three-Spectrometer, High-Definition Scanning Electron Microscope for Research and Education in the Geosciences Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

CSEDI Collaborative Research: Experimental and Theoretical Investigations on the Elastic and Viscoelastic Properties of Fe-Ni-C Liquids Award Effective Date: 07/15/2016; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Development of new high-resolution pCO2 records for quantifying Earth system climate sensitivity Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

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

Geoinformatics: Facility Support: Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics Award Effective Date: 07/01/2010; Program: EarthCube

RAPID Collaborative research: Topographic change and cascading hazards following the November 13th Mw7.8 Kaikoura (New Zealand) earthquake Award Effective Date: 12/15/2016; Program: Engineering for Natural Hazard

2017 MagIC Workshop: Earth's Magnetic Field from the Beginning Award Effective Date: 12/01/2016; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

Collaborative Research: OpenTopography: A Cyberinfrastructure Facility for Topographic Data, Services, and Knowledge Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

Collaborative Research:Reproducible research and educational software for geoscience data analysis in spherical and planar geometry Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

Collaborative Research: Neotoma Paleoecology Database, Community-led Cyberinfrastructure for Global Change Research Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

Geoinformatics: alphaMELTS computational thermodynamics software Award Effective Date: 05/15/2016; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

Collaborative Research: Understanding the crustal link between the Columbia River flood basalts and lithospheric foundering. Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

A Terrestrial Perspective of Last Millennium Hydroclimate Variability in the Central Tropical Pacific Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

Collaborative Research: Reconstruction of Paleo-Storm History Using Geochemical Proxies in Coastal Lake Sediments Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

RAPID: Acquisition of a Delta Ray Isotope Ratio Spectrometer for Earth Science Research Award Effective Date: 11/15/2016; Program: GeoPRISMS

GeoPRISMS Office Support Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: GeoPRISMS

Collaborative Research: Constraining the temporal evolution of mantle plume contributions to magmatism in the Turkana Depression Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: GeoPRISMS

Collaborative Research: Experimental Investigation of the Electrical Properties of Hydrous Silicate Melts in Subduction Context Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: GeoPRISMS

Collaborative Research: Quantifying Plume-Lithosphere Interactions with GNSS Geodesy, Seismology, and Geodynamic Modeling Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: GeoPRISMS

Magma ascent and eruption in the Aleutian arc Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: GeoPRISMS

Collaborative Research: Investigating the relationships among subduction character, volatile cycling, and eruptive activity along the Aleutian Arc Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: GeoPRISMS

Investigating the relationships among subduction character, volatile cycling, and eruptive activity along the Aleutian Arc Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: GeoPRISMS

Subduction Zone Observatories Workshop Award Effective Date: 04/15/2016; Program: GeoPRISMS

Collaborative Research: A community velocity field for East Africa Award Effective Date: 02/01/2016; Program: GeoPRISMS

Collaborative Research: Mantle Dynamics, Lithospheric Structure, and Topographic Evolution of the Southeastern US Continental Margin Award Effective Date: 05/01/2013; Program: GeoPRISMS

Collaborative Research: Investigation of the Effects of Organic Matter and Sulfur in the Environmental Fate of Mercury Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

The Calcium and Strontium (radiogenic and stable) isotope geochemistry of weathering in Iceland Award Effective Date: 10/01/2016; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Micro-Scale Mechanisms of N2O Production in Soil Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Geomicrobial kinetics: a genome-scale metabolic modeling approach Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Collaborative Research: Vulnerability of carbon in buried soils to climate change and landscape disturbance Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Collaborative Research: Identifying basin-specific controls on isotopic and chronological offsets of lake sediment leaf wax hydrogen isotope records Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Collaborative Research: Revealing the interplay between light, sulfur cycling, and oxygen production in cyanobacterial mats Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

ALTERNATIVE NITROGENASES: HOW MUCH DO THEY CONTRIBUTE TO N2 FIXATION AND WHY? Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Biogeochemistry of carbon monoxide cycling in hypersaline and arid soil systems: novel insights from newly discovered extremely halophilic CO-oxidizing Euryarchaeota Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Direct Measurement and Modeling of the Importance of Bacterial Adsorption of Cd in Natural Samples Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

CAREER:COMBINING LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS, FIELD DATA, AND REACTIVE TRANSPORT MODELING TO QUANTIFY INFLUENCE OF FLUID TRANSPORT ON MINERAL DISSOLUTION RATES ACROSS SCALE Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Collaborative Research: Alteration of microbially-produced carbonate rock by unicellular predators to better understand early Earth's dominant ecosystem Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Role of the deep brine layer in the production of methylmercury in the Great Salt Lake Award Effective Date: 06/15/2016; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Iron geochemistry and controls on phosphorus bioavailability in northern peatlands Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

EAGER: Collaborative Research: Development of an isotope-enabled reactive transport tool to simulate carbon transformations in karst environments Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Graduate Student Travel Support Program for the 2016 V. M. Goldschmidt Conference in Yokohama, Japan, June 26-July 1, 2016 Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Collaborative Research: Experimental determination of trace element diffusion rates in tooth enamel Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

RAPID: Extreme Flooding Mobilized Natural Organic Matter from Forested Wetlands - Implication of Mercury and Carbon Cycling in Coastal Blackwater Rivers Award Effective Date: 03/15/2016; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Terrestrial Applications of the Triple Oxygen Isotope Geothermometer Award Effective Date: 03/01/2016; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

In situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction of Fe oxide transformations in aqueous solutions Award Effective Date: 02/15/2016; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Collaborative Research: Determining Functional Correlations Between Geochemical Factors and Microbial Metabolisms in Ultrabasic Serpentinizing Ecosystems Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem