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INFEWS/T1: Scarcity Amid Abundance: Understanding Trade-offs in the Food-Energy-Water Nexus in the Willamette River Basin
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: CR-Water Sustainability & Clim

1. Chad W Higgins($2,457,608), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Interdependencies And Vulnerabilities, Makers And Stakeholders, Water And Energy, Decision Makers, Growing Populations, Modeling Framework, Population Growth, Supply Chains, Water Security, Willamette Envision, Willamette River, Agricultural, Allow, Basin, Basis, Climate, Conjunction, Consequences, Decisions, Demands, Developed, Development, Economy, Effort, Enhanced, Factors, Feedbacks, Food, Food-energy-water, Future, Information, Integrated, Lead, Management, Oregon, Outreach, Policies, Policy, Potential, Prepare, Required, Resource, Strategies, Students, Sufficient, Teachers, Tool, Tools, Tradeoffs, Transferrable, Via, WRB, Web-based.

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INFEWS/T1: Reducing the Environmental Impacts of FEW Systems In and Around Cities
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: CR-Water Sustainability & Clim

1. Matthew Potts($2,431,217), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Recovery And Reuse, Sustainable And Resilient, Environmental Impacts, Fews Resources, Resource Recovery, Agricultural, Analysis, Barriers, Conditions, Create, Economic, Energy, Environmentally, Food, Future, Increase, Informed, Innovation, Insights, Integrated, Management, Modeling, Models, Nutrient, Periurban, Policy, Sectors, Students, Suburban, Tools, Tradeoffs, Urban, Water.

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

1. Nicole S Lovenduski($449,835), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Panama Canal Authority, Panama Canal Watershed, Canal Requires, Dry Season, Lake Gatun, Land Management, Policy Incentives, Wet Season, Authorities, Cover, Created, Effects, Expansion, Factors, Flow, Grazing, Hydrologic, Increase, Land-use, Landholder, Paths, Percent, Predict, Reliable, Soil, Trade.

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Collaborative Research: The Cuban landscape, quantifying the effects of industrialized agriculture followed by country-wide soil conservation using sediment-associated isotopes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Amanda H Schmidt($96,359), Oberlin College, Oberlin
2. Paul R Bierman($94,771), University of Vermont & State Agricultural College, Burlington
Key terms: Agricultural Practices, Chemical Tracers, Erosion Rates, Mechanized Monoculture, Organic Agriculture, Undergraduate Students, Conservation, Effects, Industrial, Landscape, Measuring, Small-scale, World.

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EAGER: The effects of soil moisture on fungal weathering, diversity, and abundance.
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Zsuzsanna Balogh-Brunstad($29,816), Hartwick College, Oneonta
Key terms: Climate Gradient, Fungal Weathering, Moisture Content, Soil Formation, Activity, Description, Fungi, Processes, Rock, Soils.

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GSA GRADUATE RESEARCH GRANT PROGRAM (2017-2019)
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Vicki S McConnell($705,000), The Geological Society of America, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: Grants Program, Amount, Applications, Basis, GSA, Geosciences, Organizations, Partial, Represented, Students.

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RAPID: Investigation of the Honey Lake and Warm Springs Faults using Seismic CHIRP Imagery
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2017; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Anna Kell($25,499), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Honey Lake Fault, Warm Springs Fault, Lake Basin, Walker Lane, Boundary, CHIRP, California, Dry, Faults, Little, Motion, Region, Seismic, Strain, Tectonic, Western.

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RAPID: Collaborative Research: Triggered Aftershocks and Tremors following the Kaikoura Earthquake recorded with Arrays (KEA)
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2017; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Zhigang Peng($18,900), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
2. Abhijit Ghosh($10,080), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Cook Strait, Collected, Deep, Deployment, Earthquake, Experiment, Following, Kaikoura, Megathrust, Network, Ongoing, Planned, Region, Seismic, Slow-slip, Tremor, Triggered, Zealand.

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MRI: Acquisition of a High Mass Resolution/High Sensitivity Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer For Earth Sciences
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Russell R Dickerson($1,050,000), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Stable Isotope, Activities, Ancient, Applications, Atmospheric, Beyond, Contribute, Cycles, Developed, Development, Existing, Global, Ice, Implications, Information, Instrumentation, Isotopic, Isotopologues, Local, Maryland, Mass, Methane, Mid-atlantic, Objective, Oxygen, Past, Processes, Program, S-cycling, Sources, Students, Tracers, Traditional, Visitors, Wide.

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Building a continent: Integration of surface geology, rock physics, and seismic observations to investigate the tectonic history of the contiguous United States
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Vera Schulte-Pelkum($284,196), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Earth's Surface, Rock Fabrics, Seismic Anisotropy, Seismic Wavelengths, Ability, Continent, Crust, Databases, Deformation, Deformed, Earthcube-funded, Elastic, Existing, Faults, Foliation, Geological, History, Imprinted, Information, Knowledge, Map, Mapped, Maps, Measured, Observations, Orientations, Past, Processes, Read, Representative, Structural, Tensors, Waves.

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Collaborative Research: Constraints on the Lithospheric Structure and Accretionary History of New England: Integrating Seismic and Geologic data sets
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: EARTHSCOPE

1. Haiying Gao($274,904), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
2. Vadim L Levin($164,281), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Crust And Mantle, Undergraduate And Graduate, Atlantic Ocean, Continental Crust, Continental Lithosphere, Deep Crust, Eastern North, Girls Inc, Graduate Students, Mantle Lithosphere, Northern Appalachians, Ocean Basins, Seismic Stations, Tectonic History, Terrane Boundaries, Closing, Collaboration, Depth, Development, Distinct, Earthscope, England, Geochemical, Geochronological, Geological, Growth, Has, Involves, Lithospheric, Model, Nature, Processes, Re-assessment, Receiver, Region, Seismology, Sets, Surface, Terranes, Umass.

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Mapping variability in the thermo-mechanical structure of the North American Plate and upper mantle
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: EARTHSCOPE

1. Benjamin K Holtzman($181,525), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Seismic Wave Propagation, Computational Methods, Mechanical Properties, Tectonic Plate, Thermo-mechanical Structure, Time Scales, Upper Mantle, Beneath, Calculation, Calculator, Central, Complex, Constrain, Corrosion, Development, Earth, Earthscope, Enabling, Fit, Geothermal, Has, Heat, History, Lithosphere, Melt, Models, North, Particular, Physics, Pis, Profile, Range, Receiver, Regional, Seismology, Single, Temperature, Thermal, Thermo-mechanical, VBR, Velocity.

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Near-Surface Structure of the Continental United States Using Distant Earthquakes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: EARTHSCOPE

1. Miaki Ishii($63,889), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Wave Speed Model, Near-surface Wave, Polarization Information, Seismic Station, Shear-wave Speeds, Wave Speeds, Applied, Array, Compared, Continent, Contribute, Critical, Crust, Dependence, Earthquake, Frequency, Geological, Global, Method, Nsurface, Resolve, Revealed, Sensitive, Shwave, Structure, Subsurface, Technique, Teleseismic, Usarray, Utilizes, Waves.

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Collaborative Research: A synthesis of EarthScope educational resources integrated into the Alaska Native Geoscience Learning Experience
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: EARTHSCOPE

1. Herb Schroeder($58,092), University of Alaska Anchorage Campus, Anchorage
2. Beth Pratt-Sitaula($207,988), Central Washington University, Ellensburg
3. Jennifer M Pickering($296,157), Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage
Key terms: Earthquakes And Tsunamis, Alaska Native, Emergency Management, Emergency Preparedness, Geologic Hazards, Native Students, ANGLE, ANSEP, Academies, Alaskan, Coastal, Collection, Earthscope, Education, Educators, Effort, Efforts, Engage, Experiences, Geoscience, Instruments, Interpreters, K-, Knowledge, Learners, Methods, Ongoing, Parks, Program, Public, Reached, Region, Resources, Rural, Settings, Statewide, Teachers, Variety, Villages, Visitors, Workshops.

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Collaborative Research: Systematic Comparisons of Regular and Slow Earthquakes in Central and Southern California
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: EARTHSCOPE

1. Guoqing Lin($139,571), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. Zhigang Peng($161,018), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Central And Southern, Fault Zone Properties, Fault Zone Structures, Regular And Slow, Situ Fault Zone, Triggering And Detection, Central California, Generation Scientists, Graduate Students, International Collaboration, Regular Earthquakes, Seismological Field, Slow Earthquakes, Southern California, State-of-the-art Tools, Tectonic Stresses, Activities, Attract, Behaviors, Below, Control, Depth, Developing, Earthscope, Faults, Future, Has, Japanese, Lfes, Microearthquakes, Obtain, Pis, Products, Regions, SAF, SJF, San, Section, Seismic, State-of-the-art, Succeed, Techniques, Training, Tremor, Tutorials, View.

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A seismic synthesis model for the Eastern North American Continent and its integration with the Western Atlantic upper mantle
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: EARTHSCOPE

1. Frederik J Simons($444,154), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Earthscope Seismic, Eastern North, Seismic Structure, Tomographic Imaging, Atlantic, Continent, Double-difference, Geodynamic, Imaged, Images, Integrate, Mantle, Models, Oceanic, Previously, Structural, Variety, Wavespeed.

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Quantifying the relationship between the Earth?s convecting interior, plate motions, and earthquakes in Alaska using three-dimensional numerical simulations
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: EARTHSCOPE

1. Lucy Flesch($294,288), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Plate Boundary Zone, Bering Plate, Driving Intraplate, Intraplate Continental, Mantle Flow, Observed Surface, Pacific North, Relative Plate, Surface Deformation, Surface Motions, Alaska, Beneath, Constrained, Coupling, Diffuse, Drives, Earthquakes, Forces, Geometry, Has, Level, Lithosphere, Lithospheric, Models, Physically.

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Collaborative Research: Evaluating fault creep in California using geodetic and seismic observations
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: EARTHSCOPE

1. Manoochehr Shirzaei($337,076), Arizona State University, Tempe
2. Takaaki Taira($79,748), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Central And Southern, Interferometric Synthetic Aperture, Resolution And Accuracy, San Andreas Fault, Southern San Andreas, Spatially And Temporally, Surface Deformation Time, Synthetic Aperture Radar, Aseismic Slip, Creep Rate, Crustal Deformation, Fault Creep, Fault Slip, Fault Zone, Frictional Properties, Global Positioning, Images Acquired, Radar Satellites, Temporally Variable, Underlying Mechanisms, Unprecedented Resolution, Active, Adjacent, Allows, Applied, California, Combination, Constrain, Distribution, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Earthscope, Faulting, Faults, GPS, Geodetic, Graduate, Insar, Knowledge, Link, Models, Natural, Observations, Occurrence, Period, Processes, Rates, Seismic, Sets, Size, Spanning, Stress, Transient.

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Collaborative Research: Seismic Imaging of the Denali fault zone, Central Alaska
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: EARTHSCOPE

1. Amir Allam($207,083), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
2. Carl H Tape($30,501), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Fault Zone Head, Zone Head Waves, Ambient Noise, Central Alaska, Damage Zone, Denali Fault, Fault Zones, Geophysical Studies, Strike-slip Faults, Trapped Wave, Upper Mantle, Wave Detection, Zone Structure, Analysis, Arrays, Body, Constraint, Critical, Crust, Depth, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Examined, Geologic, Handful, Has, Image, Imaging, Instruments, Inversion, Joint, Linear, Little, Locally, Magnitude, North, Plate, Regional-scale, Resolution, Rock, Rupture, Seismometers, Shaking, Strike-slip, Successfully, Supershear, Surface, Techniques, Tomographic, Unique, Velocities, World.

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High-resolution Imaging of the Mantle Transition Zone using EarthScope USArray
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2017; Program: EARTHSCOPE

1. Ying Zhou($184,067), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Mantle Transition Zone, Subducted Farallon Plate, Farallon Slab, Subduction Process, Wavespeed Models, Advantage, Based, Beneath, Continent, Deeper, Discontinuities, Does, Dynamics, Eastern, Formation, Has, High-resolution, Image, Imaging, North, Relation, Seismic, Stations, Track, Usarray, Yellowstone.

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Seismic Anisotropy across the USArray using Surface-wave Arrival Angles
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: EARTHSCOPE

1. Gabriele Laske($321,162), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Dense Station Spacing, Usarray Transportable Array, Allows Seismologists, Arrival Angles, Beneath North, Particle Motion, Surface Wave, Surface Waves, Ta Stations, Unprecedented Detail, Analyses, Anisotropy, Approach, Assumption, Complementary, Evolution, Extremely, Global, Heterogeneity, Mantle, Observables, Plate, Seismic, Shallow, Structure, Surface-wave, Tomographic, Travel, Useful.

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Expanding HBCU Participation at the National Association of Black Geoscientists Annual Technical Conference
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Stephen K Boss($49,800), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Key terms: Soft Skills, Attend, Black, Color, Conference, Environmental, Faculty, Membership, NABG, Organization, Programs, Students.

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A new hypothesis for the initiation of plate tectonics on Earth: Feedback between subduction and continental crust growth
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Bradford J Foley($341,400), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Continental Crust Growth, Growth And Subduction, Earth's History, Geological Observations, Graduate Student, Lithospheric Weakening, Plate Tectonics, Undergraduate Student, Advance, Atmosphere, Direct, Diversity, Does, Effect, Evolution, Evolved, Experience, Feedback, Formation, Fundamentally, Geology, Initiation, Intern, Models, Modern-style, Started, Surface, Tested, Thermal, Timescale.

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CAREER: Deformation and Anisotropy Development in the Lower-most Mantle
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Lowell Miyagi($570,000), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Diamond Anvil Cell, Pressure And Temperature, Secondary School Teachers, Lower Mantle, Mantle Convection, Mantle Flow, Phase Transformations, Seismic Anisotropy, Ability, Advance, Base, Deep, Deformation, Dynamic, Experiments, Geometry, MSSST, Minerals, Orientation, Phases, Processes, Rock, Texture, Utah.

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REU Site: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Environmental and Ecological Sciences (SURFEES)
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Christopher S Kim($135,727), Chapman University, Orange
Key terms: Environmental And Ecological, Under-served Student Population, Faculty Mentors, Under-served Student, Chapman, Engage, Interdisciplinary, Issues, Labs, Students, Under-represented, Workshops.

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CAREER: Mass Transport and Fluid-Rock Reactions Driven by Multicomponent Aqueous Fluids
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2017; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Matthew Steele-MacInnis($48,578), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Temperatures And Pressures, Aqueous Fluids, Complex Brines, Deep Interior, Earth's Surface, Geologic Fluids, According, Analyses, Analysis, Approach, Chemical, Compositions, Conditions, Contribute, Crust, Developed, Formation, Geochemical, HO, Involving, Methods, Mineral, Minerals, Modeling, Positive, Predict, Processes, Properties, Quantify, Salts, Solubilities, Volumes.

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CAREER: The Effect of Bubbles on Magma Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 07/31/2016; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Christian Huber($313,627), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Fluid Dynamics, Gas Bubbles, Magmas Evolve, Numerical Methods, Phase Separation, Volcanic Eruptions, Accumulation, Affects, Atmosphere, Behavior, Chemical, Chemistry, Climate, Complemented, Crust, Crystals, Development, Effect, Experiments, Exsolution, Exsolved, Gases, Geochemistry, Has, Models, Multiphase, Phases, Plan, Predict, Quantitative, Reservoirs, Shallow, Sulfur.

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On the Cutting Edge: Early Career Geoscience Faculty Development Workshop: A partnership between NAGT and NSF
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: EDUCATIONAL LINKAGES

1. Sarah Penniston-Dorland($82,912), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Active, Faculty, Geoscience, Participants, Practices, Strategies, Teaching, Time, Workshop, Workshops.

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EAR-PF: The role of temperature of the crust and lithosphere in the magnitude and style of far-field deformation: EarthScope Transportable Array in Interior Alaska
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2018; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. JENNY S NAKAI($174,000), Nakai Jenny, Boulder
Key terms: Alaska And Northwestern, Crust And Lithosphere, Crust And Upper, Interior Alaska, Northwestern Canada, Plate Boundary, Transportable Array, Undergraduate Students, Upper Mantle, Continent, Deformation, Influence, Inland, Investigate, Local, Native, Profiles, Seismic, Strength, Temperature.

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Collaborative Research: Combining complex systems tools, process-based modelling and experiments to bridge scales in low temperature geochemistry
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Donna Rizzo($332,571), University of Vermont & State Agricultural College, Burlington
2. Li Li($173,352), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
3. Adrian A Harpold($65,745), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Low Temperature Geochemistry, Modelling And Experiments, Vermont's K-5 Teachers, Critical Zone, Development Workshop, Doc Fluxes, Doc Release, Interdisciplinary Training, Observatory Datasets, Organic Carbon, Undergraduate Students, Vermont's K-5, Acidification, Administer, Aggregate, Approaches, Collaborate, Combination, Composition, Debated, Educators, Field, Forested, Framework, Furthermore, Graduate, Gt, Increase, Increases, Investigation, Mechanisms, Minority-serving, Multiple, Process-based, Recovery, School, Soil, Stream, Vermonts, Water.

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RAPID: Collaborative Research: Tracking Hurricane Harvey's Storm Surge and Flood Sedimentation
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2017; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Kam-biu Liu($49,876), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
2. Harry F Williams($20,692), University of North Texas, Denton
Key terms: Magnitude And Inland, Coastal Management, Coastal Marshes, Freshwater Flooding, Hurricane Harvey, Inland Extent, Return Period, Sea-level Rise, Southeastern Texas, Washover Sedimentation, Barriers, Documenting, Extreme, Hurricanes, Rain, Sea-level, Sedimentary, Storm, Transect.

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EAR-PF: Testing the boundaries of Burgess Shale-Type preservation with literature meta-analysis, decay experimentation, and fossil investigation
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2017; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Evan P Anderson($174,000), Anderson Evan P, Boulder
Key terms: Bst Deposits, Bst Preservation, Bst-like Deposits, Exceptional Soft-bodied, Bst-like, Burial, Buried, Calcite, Collected, Decay, Degradation, Education, Experiment, Fossil, Investigation, Lagerstätten, Mode, Modules, Seals, Soft-bodied, Traditional.

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Collaborative Research: P2C2: Combining glacier and paleolake records to limit Latest Pleistocene climate change in the northern Great Basin
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Benjamin J Laabs($139,794), North Dakota State University Fargo, Fargo
2. William H Amidon($74,014), Middlebury College, Middlebury
Key terms: Glaciers And Lakes, Temperature And Precipitation, Surface Water, Behavior, Climate, Climatic, Geologic, Glaciation, Southwestern.

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Three Dimensional Seismic Velocity Structure of Puerto Rico Virgin Island Microplate
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Elizabeth Vanacore($95,138), University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Mayaguez
Key terms: Available Analyzed Datasets, Children And Teachers, Creation Unified Products, Current Puerto Rico, Current Seismic Experiment, Earthquake And Tsunami, Images And Refined, Meetings And Publish, Models And Enhance, Multiple Tectonic Models, Network Earthquake Catalog, Northern Puerto Rico, One-dimensional Velocity Model, Puerto Rico-virgin Islands, Quality Seismic Velocity, Rico Fault Zone, Rico Mayagüez Website, Rico Seismic Hazard, Seismic Hazard Map, Seismic Network Outreach, Seismic Velocity Imaging, Seismic Velocity Model, Southern Puerto Rico, Structure And Dynamics, Students And Faculty, Three-dimensional Seismic Velocity, Virgin Islands Region, Website And Puerto, Caribbean Plate, Northern Puerto, Three-dimensional Seismic, Tsunami Hazard, Active, Activity, Aid, Articles, Based, Beneath, Combination, Consequently, Constrained, Constraints, Create, Detailed, Direct, Dominican, Eastern, Especially, Faults, Future, Generate, Geosciences, Has, High-resolution, Hisher, Hispanic, Hispaniola, Identification, Imaged, Interaction, Involve, Journals, Knowledge, Local, Margin, Masters, Methodology, National, Northeastern, Oblique, PRVIM, Participation, Partnerships, Peer-reviewed, Performed, Period, Permit, Poorly, Primary, Process, Processes, Promote, Public, Real-time, Regional, Relocated, Relocation, Republic, Requires, Revised, School, Selected, Separate, Serving, Short, Slab, Specifically, Subducting, Subduction, Synergetic, Tears, Thesis, Tie, Time, Tomography, USGS, Underrepresented, Update, Updating.

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Acquisition of LA-ICP-QQQ-MS equipment for in situ trace element and isotopic research and training at the University of Maine
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Alicia M Cruz-Uribe($298,269), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Mass Spectrometer, Ocean Conditions, Analytical, Billions, Days, Diverse, Enhance, Geochemical, Instrument, Maine, Paleoclimate, Past, Processes, Rock, Time.

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Collaborative Research: Evaluating controls on orogenic structural style by constraining the spatio-temporal evolution of a retroarc thrust belt
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. David Pearson($172,331), Idaho State University, Pocatello
2. William Guenthner($230,006), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
3. Emily Finzel($169,159), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Continental Mountain Belts, Idaho And Southwestern, Structural And Stratigraphic, East-central Idaho, Southwestern Montana, Stratigraphic Investigations, Structural Style, Upper Plate, Apatite, Architecture, Coeval, Constrain, Crust, Deformation, Development, Differences, East-central, Field-based, Importance, Laramide, Northern, Pre-orogenic, Region, Rock, STEM, School, Sedimentary, Societal, Spatial, Students, Subduction, Teachers, Thermochronometry, Thick-skinned, Timing, Transition.

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Collaborative Research: An Integrated Study of Silicic Lava Emplacement
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Graham D Andrews($126,515), West Virginia University Research Corporation, Morgantown
2. Kenneth Befus($46,757), Baylor University, Waco
3. Alan G Whittington($134,823), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Lava Flows, Rhyolite Lava, Silicic Lavas, Active, Analyses, California, Cooling, Detailed, Emplacement, Eruption, Focus, Observations, Quantify, Strain, Structural, Timescales, Viscous.

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Collaborative research: Linking landslide and windstorm exposure to regional carbon stocks and fluxes in the largest US forest carbon reservoir, southeast Alaska
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Brian Buma($325,314), University of Alaska Southeast Juneau Campus, Juneau
2. Adam M Booth($276,719), Portland State University, Portland
Key terms: Woody Debris, Carbon, Disturbance, Disturbances, Forested, Landscape, Landslides, Program.

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REU Site: Healthy Streams, Healthy Coasts: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Watershed Science and Education
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Katie H Costigan($308,830), University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette
Key terms: Ul Lafayette-reu Summer, Watersheds And Coastal, Lafayette-reu Summer, Southern Louisiana, Ul Lafayette-reu, Activities, Development, District, Enhanced, Environments, Estuaries, Faculty, Focus, Local, Mentoring, Natural, Opportunities, Organizations, Participants, Practices, Presentation, Presentations, Processes, Program, Resources, Seminars, Social, Students, Vermilion, Weekly.

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Collaborative Research: Quantifying Human Forcing of Legacy Sediment and Metal Contamination Dynamics on the Yunnan Plateau of Southwestern China
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Aubrey L Hillman($164,338), University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette
2. Daniel J Bain($260,145), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Metal Accumulation, Metal Contaminants, Metal Contamination, Activities, Challenges, China, Controls, Delays, Environmental, Examination, Historical, Human, Influence, Lake, Management, Program, Region, Sediments, Soils, Source, Stored, Substantial, Transport, Water, Watershed, Yunnan.

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Slow Earthquakes and Earthquake Nucleation in the Lower Crust of Central Alaska
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Stephen G Holtkamp($316,475), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Earthquake Nucleation Process, Earthquake Nucleation Signals, Flats Fault Zone, Low Frequency Earthquakes, Minto Flats Fault, Central Alaska, Flats Fault, Regular Earthquakes, Slow Earthquake, Slow Earthquakes, Correlation-based, Date, Dense, Environments, Modeling, Observational, Observations, Observed, Processes, Relation, Rupture, Techniques, Tectonic, Transition, Vlfes.

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CAREER: Active Learning Across Interfaces: Controls on Flow Intermittency and Water Age in Temporary Streams
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Sarah E Godsey($693,433), Idaho State University, Pocatello
Key terms: Active Drainage Network, Environmental Field Methods, River Guides, Temporary Stream, Temporary Streams, Water Quality, Watershed Managers, Affect, Channels, Collaboration, Controls, Diverse, Dry, Dynamics, Flow, Flowing, Graduate, Linking, Population, Potential, School, Students, Supply, Transmissivity, Undergraduate.

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Intragrain Oxygen-isotope Zoning and the Fast Grain Boundary Model: A New Approach to Thermal Histories and Fluid-rock Interactions
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2017; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Chloe Bonamici($310,000), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Fluid-rock Interactions, Mass Transfer, Mineral Composition, Oxygen Isotope, Oxygen-isotope Composition, Oxygen-isotope Zoning, Time Capsules, Advances, Analytical, Computational, Conditions, Deformation, FGB, Fluid-rock, Geochemical, Geologic, Individual, Investigate, Isotopic, Linking, Metamorphic, Minerals, Oxygen-isotope, Past, Program, Students, Techniques, Tectonic, Temperature, Thermal, Western.

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RUI: Collaborative Research: Preserving Evidence of Extreme Metamorphism in the Rhodope Complex
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Emily M Peterman($119,428), Bowdoin College, Brunswick
2. Michael L Williams($176,191), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Rocks And Fluids, Plate Tectonic, Subduction Zones, Uhp Metamorphism, Ultrahigh-pressure Metamorphism, Bowdoin, Brought, Characterize, Commonly, Earth, Evidence, High-, Insight, Localities, Mantle, Mechanics, Obscured, Petrologic, Processes, Recognize, Regions, Students, Subducting, Surface, Time, Ultrahigh-pressure, Umass.

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Collaborative Research: Hybrid Modeling of Reactive Transport in Porous and Fractured Media
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2017; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Ilenia Battiato($47,275), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Flow And Transport, Coarse-scale Continuum, Hybrid Simulations, Numerical Algorithms, Subsurface Flow, Activity, Andor, Coarse-scale, Computational, Constitutive, Coupled, Coupling, Efficient, Establish, Exhibit, Foundation, Geometry, Modeling, Models, Phenomena, Pore, Pore-scale, Processes, Reactive, Source, Students, Theoretical, Uncertainty, Vastly, Water.

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Collaborative Proposal: EarthCube Integration: Geochronology Frontier at the Laboratory-Cyberinformatics Interface
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: EarthCube

1. Stephen R Meyers($1,449,662), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Computer Scientists, Laboratory Facilities, Synthetic Databases, Age, Ages, Aim, Base, Broadly, Building, Cyberinfrastructure, Development, Digital, Distributed, Efforts, Enable, Engages, Geochronapi, Geochronologic, Geochronological, Geochronologists, Geochronology, Geological, Geoscientists, Infrastructure, Knowledge, Mechanism, Models, Network, Repositories, Rock, Software, Spatial, Standard, Temporal, Time.

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Collaborative Proposal: EarthCube RCN: Connecting the Earth Science and Cyberinfrastructure communities to advance the analysis of high resolution topography data
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: EarthCube

1. Christopher J Crosby($147,823), Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Washington
2. Paola Passalacqua($102,000), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
3. Nancy F Glenn($50,081), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Resolution Map, Analysis, Available, Computer, Create, Cyberinfrastructure, Engineering, HRT, Heterogeneous, Landscapes, Models, Practices, Processes, Processing, RCN, Structures, Surface, Tools, Work-flows.

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RCN: RATES: Building a Spatial and Temporal Framework for Understanding Surface Earth Processes
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2017; Program: EarthCube

1. Lisa E Park Boush($500,000), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Earth's Sedimentary Crust, Earth's Sedimentary, Flyover Country, Bring, Build, Coordination, Earthrates, Efforts, Future, Integrated, Opportunities, RCN, Stronger.

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Facility Support: Multi-User Facility Support for U-Th-Pb Geochronology and Complementary Isotope Geochemistry and SEM imaging at the Arizona LaserChron Center
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2017; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. George E Gehrels($1,028,968), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Faculty And Student, Theory And Methodology, Geochronologic Information, Nsf-funded Projects, Spatial Resolution, U-th-pb Ages, ALC, Applications, Aspects, Courses, Development, Drive, Facility, Generate, Generates, Geochemical, LA-ICPMS, Nsf-funded, Techniques, U-th-pb.

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Collaborative Research: Leveraging domain repositories in Flyover Country, a mobile app for geoscience outreach, data discovery, and visualization
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2017; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Gary Hudman($139,026), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Robert E Roth($162,778), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
3. Shane Loeffler($574,324), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Flyover Country, Geoscience Outreach, App, Driving, Education, Exposure, FC, Flight, Flying, Hiking, Information, Mobile, POI, Potential, Readily, User.

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Collaborative Research: Quantifying past water table depth and hydroclimate with dissolved noble gas isotopes in groundwater
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Martin Stute($85,071), Columbia University, New York
2. Jeffrey P Severinghaus($351,482), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Water Table Depth, Ancient Groundwater, Heavy Isotopes, Climate, Dissolved, Future, Gases, Information, Method, Noble, Past, Rainfall.

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Collaborative Research: DIAGNOSING THE TIMING AND DRIVERS OF NORTHEASTERN CARIBBEAN HOLOCENE DROUGHTS WITH SINKHOLE LAKE RECORDS
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Peter Van Hengstum($319,177), Texas A&M University, College Station
2. Jeffrey Donnelly($234,270), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
3. Sarah Feakins($150,202), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Document Extreme, Caribbean, Century, Climate, Drivers, Droughts, Geologic, Megadroughts, Nations, Rainfall, Security, Southeast, Water.

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Collaborative Research: quantifying precipitation changes in the South American subtropics over the late Pleistocenee
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2017; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Jay Quade($87,520), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. William D McGee($204,550), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Ancient Lakes, Central Andes, Drought, Past, Planet, Rainfall, Region, Regions, Temperature.

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Collaborative Research: Constraining the flux of magma and magmatic CO2 during early-stage rifting in East Africa
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Christopher A Scholz($210,812), Syracuse University, Syracuse
2. Josef Dufek($46,879), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
3. Tobias P Fischer($95,505), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Magma And Magmatic, Magmatic Volatiles, Rift Basins, Rift Development, Break, Carbon, Constrained, Constraining, Continent, Crust, Degassing, Earthquake, Evolution, Existing, Fluid, Flux, Geochemical, Geophysical, Ingredients, Intrusion, Modeling, Models, Observations, Outcomes, Plate, Processes, Quantifying, Range, Rates, Rifting, Stages, Tectonic, Time.

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Assessing changes in the state of a magma storage system over caldera-forming eruption cycles, a case study at Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Chad D Deering($349,665), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: Magma Storage, Melt Inclusions, Active, Approach, Broadly, Compositional, Coupling, Crystals, Development, Eruption, Models, Monitoring, Plagioclase, Primary, Represent, Reservoir, Silicic, TVZ, Temperature, Thermal, Time, Volcanic, Volcano, Volcanoes, Zircon.

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Collaborative research: Assessing changes in the state of a magma storage system over caldera-forming eruption cycles, a case study at Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Kari M Cooper($546,644), University of California-Davis, Davis
2. Adam Kent($200,527), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Magma Storage, Melt Inclusions, Active, Approach, Broadly, Compositional, Coupling, Crystals, Development, Eruption, Models, Monitoring, Plagioclase, Primary, Represent, Reservoir, Silicic, TVZ, Temperature, Thermal, Time, Volcanic, Volcano, Volcanoes, Zircon.

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Spatial Location and Biogeochemical Drivers of Mercury Methylation and Demethylation in the Rice Rhizosphere
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2017; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Rebecca B Neumann($367,859), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Carbon And Oxygen, Methylation And Demethylation, Oxygen And Organic, Human Health, Inorganic Mercury, Mehg Concentrations, Mehg Contamination, Organic Carbon, Paddy Soil, Rhizosphere Soil, Rice Grain, Rice Roots, Soil Oxygenation, Isotope, Microorganisms, Net, Plant, Plants, Process, Rates, Release, Soils, Spatial, Strategies, Visualizations.

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Kinetically Activated Subsurface Micribial Sampler (KASMS)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Tullis C Onstott($297,259), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Khotsong Gold Mine, Moab Khotsong Gold, Fault Zone, Fluid Sampling, Hydrogen Gas, Subsurface Life, Subsurface Microbial, Activity, Deploy, Device, Drilling, Dseis, Earthquake, Energy, Environmental, KASMS, Mars, Methane, Mining, Mission, Pulses, Respond, Rock, Seismic, Shocks, South, Stimulate, Videos.

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EAGER: Comparative Study of Critical Zones of Intensively Managed Loess Landscapes in China and United States
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Praveen Kumar($50,000), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Chinese Loess Plateau, Critical Zone Observatories, Water And Sediment, Residence Times, Agriculture, Applicable, CLP, Carbon, Challenge, Characterized, China, Climate, Collaboration, Contrast, Conversion, Czos, Dissected, Drain, Environment, Environments, Erosion, Exploration, Food, Generalized, Geologic, Has, Historically, Human, IML, Joint, Land, Landscape, Landscapes, Midwestern, Nutrients, Principles, Regions, Unique.

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Collaborative Research: Methanotrophic-Mediated Methylmercury Transformation: An Important Yet Poorly Understood Biogeochemical Process
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Baohua Gu($106,099), University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, Knoxville
2. Jeremy D Semrau($373,786), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Methanotrophic-mediated Mehg Degradation, Degrade Methylmercury, Demethylate Mehg, Methanotrophic-mediated Mehg, Organomercurial Lyase, Activity, Concentrations, Conditions, Environment, Environmentally, Found, Has, Mercury, Methanotrophs, Microbes, Process.

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EAGER: Reducing uncertainty in clumped isotope thermometry by evaluating the effect of 17O excess
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Katharine Huntington($69,304), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: 17o Excess, Clumped Isotope, Delta47-temperature Calibrations, Abundance, Analytes, Analytical, Carbonate, Carbonates, Compositions, Delta-temperature, Discrepancies, Diverse, Efforts, Existing, Foundation, Laboratories, Paleothermometer, Precision, Ratio, Temperatures, Weight.

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Collaborative Research: The role of phyllosilicate minerals in mediating the temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter decomposition
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Hailiang Dong($149,061), Miami University, Oxford
Key terms: Mineral-associated Organic Carbon, Soil Organic Matter, Biogeochemical Models, Clay Minerals, Microbial Decomposition, Mineral-associated Organic, Model Prediction, Phyllosilicate Minerals, Temperature Sensitivity, Warming Temperature, Adsorption, Affinity, BGC, Current, Derive, Emission, Enzyme, Experimental, Experiments, Greenhouse, Incorporated, Interaction, Mediating, Parameters, Phyllosilicates, Predictions, Substrate, Various.

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Determining Mechanisms and Rates of Geologic Respiration at Watershed Scales
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Miguel A Goni($442,669), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Stored, Earth's Climate, Geologic Respiration, Geologic Timescales, Organic Carbon, River Basins, Accurate, Analyses, Atmosphere, Control, Controls, Dissolved, Erosion, Evaluating, Organisms, Particulate, Programs, Rates, Release, Released, Rhenium, Riverine, Rock, Soil, Studying, Tracer, Underrepresented, Water, Weathering.

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Collaborative Research: Lateral weathering gradients typify critical zone architecture in glaciated catchments
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Donald S Ross($202,387), University of Vermont & State Agricultural College, Burlington
2. Brian D Strahm($342,056), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Brook Experimental Forest, Critical Loads Models, Hubbard Brook Experimental, Mineral Weathering Rates, Air Pollution, Downstream Rivers, Forest Products, Solid Phase, Accumulation, Aqueous, Balance, Bedrock, Catchment, Catchments, Chemical, Depletion, Development, Distinct, Examined, Flow, Fluxes, Forests, Gradients, Harvest, Lakes, Landscape, Life, Management, Natural, Northeastern, Nutrient, Nutrients, Portions, Processes, Progression, Regional, Regolith, Rock, Secondary, Services, Sites, Soil, Soils, Spatial, Sustainability, Sustainable, Traditional, Transects, Transported, Upland, Water, Watershed, Zones.

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EAGER: Development of Tellurium Stable Isotopes as Paleoredox Indicator
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Thomas M Johnson($98,447), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Ancient Rocks, Isotopic Shifts, Modern Environment, Ore Deposits, Paleoredox Proxy, Te Oxidation, Te Stable, Weathering Environments, Conditions, Geochemistry, History, Isotope, Isotopes, Life, Mine, Oxygen, Ratios, Redox, Reveal, River, Shales, Student, Tete, Tool, Water.

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Role of protein nanowires in metal cycling and mineralization
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Gemma Reguera($152,021), Michigan State University, East Lansing
Key terms: Iron And Manganese, Cationic Metals, Geobacter Bacteria, Metal Cations, Protein Nanowires, X-ray Absorption, Bind, Biological, Cells, Chain, Ligands, Mineral, Mineralized, Oxides, Pili, Pilus, Process, Promote, Reduction, Surface, Training, X-ray.

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Development of gallium-aluminum ratios as a tracer of the Critical Zone behavior of Al
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Louis A Derry($528,719), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Critical Zone Observatories, Crop Productivity, Curricular Resources, Societal Impacts, Strategic Metal, Aluminum, Behavior, Broad, CZO-NO, Chemistry, Common, Complex, Departments, Effective, Environment, Especially, Formation, Fractionation, Ga, Gaal, Gallium, Geochemical, Geochemistry, Geoscience, Has, Hbcus, Insight, Mineral, Minerals, Outreach, Oxyhydroxides, Plant, Processes, Ratio, Ratios, Responsible, Secondary, Soil, Soils, Tracer, Water, Weathering.

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RAPID: Collaborative Research: Evaluating ecosystem respiration in urban streams using reactive tracer and dissolved oxygen loggers
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Marie Kurz($10,039), Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia, Philadelphia
2. Sarah H Ledford($14,737), Temple University, Philadelphia
Key terms: Aerobic Respiration, Diel Oxygen, Effluent Discharge, Nutrient Concentrations, Stream Ecosystems, Urban Streams, Wissahickon Creek, Metabolism, Method, Methods, Rates, Temporal, Tracer, WWTP.

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Quantifying thioarsenate formation constants to advance understanding of arsenic biogeochemical cycling in anoxic waters
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Karen H Johannesson($251,385), Tulane University, New Orleans
Key terms: Elevated Arsenic Concentrations, Arsenic-sulfur Compounds, Dissolved Sulfide, Drinking Water, Natural Waters, Naturally Occurring, Sulfide Minerals, Thioarsenic Species, Abundances, Anoxic, Arsenic-sulfur, Biogeochemical, Equilibrium, Experiences, Exposed, Formation, Geochemical, Levels, Louisiana, Microbial, Mobile, People, Populations, Predict, Processes, Program, Pyrite, Reduction, Release, Solution, Thioarsenates.

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Microbial iron reduction in the formation of iron ore caves
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. John M Senko($419,950), University of Akron, Akron
Key terms: Iron Ore Deposits, Bif Caves, Cave Formation, Cave Forming, Iron Cave, Allow, Biogeochemistry, Correlation, Dissolution, Empirical, Environmental, Feii, Feiii, Groundwater, Identification, Microbial, Microorganisms, Ores, Play, Potential, Presence, Processes, Rates, Reducing, Reduction, Responsible, Rock.

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First Steps Towards a New High Resolution Proxy for Paleomagnetic Field Instabilities: Tritiogenic 3He Archived in Speleothems
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Kenneth A Farley($265,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Cosmogenic Nuclide Archives, Magnetic Field Strength, Atmospheric Tritium, Cosmic Rays, Tritiogenic 3he, Water Inclusions, Atmosphere, Cave, Deflection, Earth, Fields, Flux, Geodynamo, Local, Measured, Methods, Potential, Processes, Speleothems, Stalagmites, Steps, Temporal, Testing, Trapped.

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CAREER: Mineral growth by nanoparticle aggregation: Aluminosilicate minerals
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2017; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Frederick Marc Michel($559,600), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Custom Microfluidics Devices, Desktop 3d Printing, Undergraduate And Graduate, 3d Printing, Aluminosilicate Minerals, Aluminosilicate Nanoparticles, Desktop 3d, Mineral Growth, Synthesis Methods, Aggregation, Aluminosilicates, Applications, Characterization, Chemical, Clay, Combined, Complementary, Conditions, Crystallization, Formation, Knowledge, Lead, Metal, Models, Nature, Precursor, Precursors, Processes, Program, Soils, Strategies, Tools, Water.

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RAPID: Sources and ecosystem significance of dust inputs during extremely wet and dry years in the Sierra Nevada, California
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Emma L Aronson($40,000), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Central Valley, Dust Collected, Dust Sources, Sierra Nevada, Summer Institute, Underlying Bedrock, Analyzing, Based, CA, California, Contributions, Drought, Dry, Ecosystems, Elevations, Entering, Eroding, Increases, Inputs, Microbial, Nutrients, Peak, Postdoctoral, Raising, Regional, Soil, Students, UC, Weathering, Wet.

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Graduate Student Travel Support Program for the 2017 V.M. Goldschmidt Conference in Paris, France, August 13-18, 2017
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2017; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

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

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Geobiology 2017: The Inaugural International Conference of the Geobiology Society
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Timothy W Lyons($59,400), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Geochemistry And Geophysics, Disparate Fields, Geobiology Society, Poster Sessions, Bring, Community-building, Conference, Designed, Enhance, Exchange, Expertise, Modern, Participants, Participation, Single, Student, Tools, Us-based.

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Collaborative Research: Biosignatures of coupled iron and carbon cycling in ferruginous lakes
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Elizabeth D Swanner($227,893), Iowa State University, Ames
2. Sergei Katsev($92,947), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
3. Chad Wittkop($95,165), Minnesota State University, Mankato, Mankato
Key terms: Brownie Lake, Canyon Lake, Carbon Cycle, Carbon Isotope, Ferruginous Lakes, Iron-rich Sediments, Primary Productivity, Abundant, Activity, Analogues, Atmosphere, Biosignatures, Climate, Conditions, Cycling, Environments, Graduate, Has, Investigate, Iron-rich, Light, Methane, Microbes, Microbial, Monitoring, Oceans, Photoferrotrophs, Photoferrotrophy, Physicochemical, Precambrian, Sites, Water.

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RAPID: Hurricane-mediated alteration of microbial mercury methylation in coastal wetlands
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Alex Chow($49,826), University of North Carolina Greensboro, Greensboro
Key terms: Mercury Methylation Genes, Microbial Mercury Methylation, Near Winyah Bay, Coastal Plain, Coastal Wetland, Coastal Wetlands, Extreme Weather, Final Landfall, Forested Wetlands, Hurricane Matthew, Laboratory Experiments, Mercury Cycling, Microbial Methylation, South Carolina, Wetland Soils, Abundance, Examine, Extensive, Factors, Flooding, Hot, Impacted, Inundation, Investigate, Methylmercury, October, Period, Prolonged, Represent, Sampling, Sites, Southeastern, Stimulated, Surface, Time, Toxic, Water.

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EAGER: Antibacterial clay effects on pathogenic biofilms
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Lynda Williams($240,784), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Membranes And Intracellular, Antibacterial Activity, Antibacterial Clay, Antibacterial Clays, Antibacterial Process, Antibiotic Resistant, Cell Membranes, Clay Mineral, Human Pathogens, Infectious Diseases, Intracellular Proteins, Release Metals, Affect, Animal, Antibiotics, Applications, Bacteria, Bacterial, Biofilms, Common, Conditions, Damage, Development, Effect, Has, Infections, Interaction, Lead, Medical, Minerals, Natural, Protocols, Reduced, Strains, Suspensions, Tested, Testing, Viability, Wound.

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Collaborative Research: Antimony stable isotope systematics during bacterial and abiotic redox cycling
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2017; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Thomas Kulp($180,879), SUNY at Binghamton, Binghamton
2. Thomas M Johnson($147,942), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Bacterial Redox, Isotopic Fractionation, Redox Reactions, Sb Isotopic, Sb Stable, Stable Isotope, Stable Isotopic, Ancient, Behavior, Chemical, Compared, Control, Cultures, Cycling, Effects, Environmental, Extent, Geologic, Geomicrobiological, Has, Isotopes, Lighter, Oxidation, Processes, Proxy, Reduction, Similarities, Strains, Students, Toxic.

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CAREER: Sources and fate of inositol phosphates in soils
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2017; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Deb P Jaisi($569,030), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Soils And Waters, Chesapeake Bay, Degradation Products, Inositol Phosphates, Ipx Compounds, Environmental, Experiments, Isotope, Manure, Particular, Pathways, Phosphorus, Sources.

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RAPID: Seismic Deployment for Capturing Aftershocks of the September 2017 Chiapas (M=8.1) and Puebla (M=7.1) Mexico Earthquakes
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2017; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Marianne S Karplus($34,713), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
Key terms: Intermediate Depth Earthquakes, Plate Boundary Compressional, Subducting Oceanic Plate, Subduction Plate Boundary, Typical Subduction Plate, Extensional Faulting, Extensive Damage, Fault Plane, Geological Survey, Plate Interface, Site Characterization, Subduction Zone, Aftershocks, Allow, Broadband, Caused, Chiapas, Collected, Deployed, Distance, Furthermore, Initial, Instruments, Life, Link, M=, Mexico, Middle, Near, Nodes, Occurred, Puebla, Regions, Ruptured, September, Trench, USGS.

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Workshop on coupling of tectonic and surface processes across spatio-temporal scales
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Thorsten W Becker($95,152), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Landscape Evolution Models, Long-term Tectonic, Long-term Tectonics, Numerical Techniques, Seismic Cycle, Tectonic Models, Based, Challenges, Climate, Coupling, Development, Discuss, Effects, Erosion, Geomorphic, Interactions, International, Long-term, Nsf-supported, Participation, Processes, Require, Spatial, Surface, Temporal, Workshop.

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CAREER: Eco-geomorphic response of coastal carbon to accelerated sea level rise
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Matthew Kirwan($677,110), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
Key terms: Sea Level Rise, Land Managers, Marsh Soils, Carbon, Chesapeake, Coastal, Drowning, Marshes, Respond.

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Collaborative Research: FACET: Quantifying the topographic response to tectonic processes in southern Taiwan
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Brian J Yanites($317,663), Indiana University, Bloomington
2. Tammy M Rittenour($292,786), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Graduate Student Workshop, Steep Topographic Gradient, Graduate Students, Hillslope Erosion, River Incision, Southern Taiwan, Taiwanese Scientists, Additionally, Climate, Constrain, Cosmogenic, Earthquakes, Estimated, Geomorphic, Holocene, Interaction, Kinematic, Landscape, Magnitude, Processes, Quantify, Range, Rates, Strike, Tectonic, Terraces, Topography.

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COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: The statistical mechanics of bed load sediment transport: Scaling particle motion to fluvial form
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. David J Furbish($223,868), Vanderbilt University, Nashville
2. Mark W Schmeeckle($455,206), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Basis, Laboratory, Motion, Patchy, River, Rivers, Sediment, Supercomputer, Transport, Turbulent.

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Collaborative Research: Drainage network evolution following continental glaciation
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Karen B Gran($127,644), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
2. Bradley A Miller($123,174), Iowa State University, Ames
3. Alison M Anders($148,899), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Pleistocene Ice Sheets, Drainage Integration, Hydrological Connections, Stream Networks, Evolution, Extent, Landscape, Landscapes, Plains, Processes, Rate, Real, Streams, Time, Water, Wetland.

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Collaborative Research: NSF/EAR-BSF: Coupled Sand and Clay Motion, Bed Morphodynamics, and Porewater Exchange
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Aaron Packman($349,666), Northwestern University, Evanston
2. Rina Schumer($121,857), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Water Flow, Behavior, Capability, Clay, Clay-sand, Coastal, Deposits, Dynamics, Erosion, Interactions, Measure, Predict, Program, Sand, Sediment, Sediments, Set.

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Collaborative research: Development of sliding laws for glacier-flow and landscape-evolution models
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Neal R Iverson($352,025), Iowa State University, Ames
2. Lucas K Zoet($199,058), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Computer Models, Frictional Resistance, Glacier Beds, Sliding Laws, Debris, Flow, Glaciers, Ice, Laboratory, Measured, Rock, Topography, Uncertainty.

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Resilience and Bio-Geomorphic Systems: The 48th Annual Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. David R Butler($39,250), Texas State University - San Marcos, San Marcos
Key terms: Resilience Thinking, BGS, Bio-geomorphic, Biophysical, Concept, Emerging, Geomorphology, Interactions, Meeting, Papers.

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Collaborative Research: Quantifying the Sensitivity of Rifting Processes to Erosion and Sedimentation
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2017; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Mark D Behn($218,477), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Jean-Arthur L Olive($205,750), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Fault Growth, Field Observations, Hanging Wall, Landscape Evolution, Magmatic Activity, Topographic Stresses, Basins, Boundary, Continent, Crust, Deformation, Essential, Feedbacks, Formation, Influence, Little, Model, Models, Normal, Numerical, Processes, Redistribution, Relief, Rift, Rifting, Rifts, Surface, Tectonic, Tectono-magmatic, Topography, Upper, Volcanic.

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Collaborative Research: Space-based detection of sinkhole activities in Central Florida
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Shimon Wdowinski($33,594), Florida International University, Miami
Key terms: Synthetic Aperture Radar, Central Florida, Insar Observations, Interferometric Processing, Property Damage, Radar Surveys, Sinkhole Activities, Sinkhole Activity, Sinkhole Collapse, Surface Movements, Challenging, Detect, Detection, Enable, German, Hazard, Italian, Life, Localized, Maps, Precursory, Resolution, SAR, Satellite, Satellites, Sinkhole-prone, Sites, Space-base, Space-based, Sub-meter, Subsidence, Subsiding, Successful, Techniques, Time, Worldwide.

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EAR-PF: Hydrogen in the Earth's transition zone: Merging experimental and theoretical approaches
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2018; Program: Geophysics

1. Elizabeth C Thompson($174,000), Thompson Elizabeth C, Chicago
Key terms: Superhydrous Phase, Transition Zone, Bulk, Earth, Education, Effect, Hydrogen, Influence, Mantle, Melts, Minerals, Pressure, Spectroscopy, Stability.

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Constraints on crustal stress from fault slip data and topography
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2017; Program: Geophysics

1. Eric A Hetland($198,031), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Active Tectonics, Coseismic Slip, Crustal Deformation, Seismogenic Stresses, Stress Field, Stresses Andgt, Tectonic Stress, Topographic Fault, Topographic Stress, Topographic Stresses, Allows, Consistent, Constrain, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Faults, Gt, Has, Heterogeneous, Information, Insight, Led, Loaded, Magnitudes, Method, Mpa, Orientations, Potential, Quantifying, RBF-FD, Strain, Topography.

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Melting of compressed iron-alloys by monitoring atomic dynamics
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: Geophysics

1. Jennifer M Jackson($329,260), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Heated Diamond Anvil, Earth's Core, Mössbauer Spectroscopy, Experimental, Facilities, Liquid, Melting, National, Planet, Radiation, Students, Synchrotron, Temperature, Time-resolved, Training, Utilizing.

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NNSFGEO-NERC: Collaboration: The Role OF Asperities and Slow Slip in Subduction Zone Rupture and Aftershock Sequences: Insights from the 16 April 2016 Pedernales Ecuador Earthquake
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Geophysics

1. Anne S Meltzer($244,941), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
2. Susan L Beck($181,122), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Earthquake And Aftershock, Pedernales Earthquake Ruptured, Seismic And Geodetic, Slip Behaviors Observed, Structure And Seismic, Subduction Zone Earthquakes, Aftershock Sequence, Broader Impacts, Effort Deployed, International Rapid, Low-frequency Earthquakes, National Seismic, Seismic Array, Seismic Properties, Slow Slip, Subduction Zones, April, Asperities, Assessment, Coast, Distribution, Ecuador, Fault, Faults, Generate, Giant, Has, Infrastructure, Integrated, Interface, Land, Link, Low-frequency, Megathrust, Mw, Observations, Offshore, Opportunity, Plates, Techniques.

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NSFGEO-NERC: Global ultralow-velocity zone properties from seismic waveform modeling
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Geophysics

1. Michael Thorne($553,668), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
2. June K Wicks($36,361), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Global Ulvz Structure, Waveform Modeling Approach, Dynamic Motions, Seismic Arrivals, Seismic Waveforms, Wavefield Modeling, Aims, Analysis, Composition, Deep, Determining, Development, Earthquakes, Existence, Features, Inside, Origin, Past, Processes, Properties, Sensitive, Sensitivity, Surface, Ulvzs, Volcanism.

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Earthquake Precursors and Controls on Earthquake Magnitudes: Probing the Behavior of Megathrust Faults through Numerical Simulations
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Geophysics

1. Julia K Morgan($205,780), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Earthquake Size, Subduction Megathrusts, Arrangements, Catalogs, Conditions, Controls, Courses, Earthquakes, Fault, Faults, Inform, Initiate, Insights, Modeling, Models, Natural, Numerical, Particle, Phenomena, Probe, Processes, Properties, Rice, Rupture, Seismic, Simulations, Slip, Strength, Stress, Student, Undergraduate.

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Collaborative Research: Toward understanding spatio-temporal variations of seismic clusters in different environments
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2017; Program: Geophysics

1. Ilya V Zaliapin($198,000), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
2. Yehuda Ben-Zion($248,000), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Earthquake Cluster, Human-induced Earthquakes, Human-induced Seismicity, Tectonic Environments, Analysis, Approach, Gas, Geothermal, High-quality, Human-induced, Oil, Regions.

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Collaborative Research: Relating Bulk Composition to Seismic Properties in Crustal Rocks
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2017; Program: Geophysics

1. Mark D Behn($124,557), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Oliver Jagoutz($304,959), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Composition And Seismic, Continental Crust, Crustal Composition, Geophysical Imaging, Seismic Velocity, Approach, Available, Compositional, Conditions, Database, Datasets, Derive, Determined, Earth, Invert, Methods, Models, Natural, PT, Rock, Speeds, Strength, Tomography.

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Uncertainty Quantification in Seismic Inversion by Nonlinear Sampling
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2017; Program: Geophysics

1. Adrien Arnulf($407,916), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Model Parameters, Monte Carlo, Probability Density, Reversible Jump, Seismic Tomography, Uncertainty Quantification, Applied, Based, Characteristics, Computationally, Estimating, Estimation, Expensive, Forward, Has, Inadequate, MAP, MCMC, Method, Methods, Noise, Nonlinear, PPD, RJMCMC, Subsurface, Targets, Task.

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Measuring aseismic fault slip during a normal faulting earthquake sequence in central Italy
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2017; Program: Geophysics

1. Richard A Bennett($595,013), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Aseismic Fault Slip, Earthquakes And Faulting, Slow Aseismic Fault, Spatial And Temporal, Aseismic Faults, Aseismic Slip, Central Italy, Current Models, Earthquake Hazards, Earthquake Sequences, Temporal Characteristics, AE, Bear, Borehole, Clustering, Collect, Control, Deploy, Field, Geophysical, Ground, Has, Instrumentation, Instruments, International, Near, Network, Portions, Rates, Students.

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A Unified Crustal Motion Model for Continental East Asia
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2017; Program: Geophysics

1. Zheng-Kang Shen($232,500), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Continental East Asia, Crustal Deformation Modeling, Fault Network Model, Unified Crustal Motion, Deformation Fields, Fault Slip, Geophysical Models, Individual Faults, Seismic Hazard, Slip Rates, Various Regional, Algorithm, Analyzed, Campaign, Decades, Errors, Estimation, GPS, Geodetic, Has, Methods, Networks, Processing, Resulting, Software, Solutions, Tectonic, Usually.

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Calcium in Bridgmanite in the Deep Mantle
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Geophysics

1. Sang-Heon Shim($271,735), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Deep Mantle, Heat Producing, Lower Mantle, Pressure-temperature Conditions, Bridgmanite, Ca, Ca-bearing, Dominant, Earth, Expected, Experiments, Formation, Knowledge, Measure, Mineral, Nature, Pressure-temperature, Properties, Structures.

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Collaborative Research: A geomagnetic intensity time series from the Proterozoic Laramie anorthosite
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Geophysics

1. Jeffrey S Gee($222,798), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Kevin R Chamberlain($146,202), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Earth's Magnetic Field, Inner Core Formation, Earth's Magnetic, Ago, Cooling, Cores, Estimates, Evolution, Geomagnetic, Has, Igneous, Intensity, Million, Period, Processes, Remanence, Strength, Surface, Thermal, Time, Well-dated.

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Fate and role of metastable pyroxenes in the subduction process
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Geophysics

1. Przemyslaw Dera($360,000), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Metastable Phase Transitions, Phase Boundaries, Pyroxene Family, Subducting Slab, Subducting Slabs, Subduction Process, Subduction Zones, Affect, Beyond, Buoyancy, Cold, Compositions, Compression, Conditions, Consequences, Dense, Depth, Earthquakes, Lower, Mantle, Minerals, Participation, Properties, Px, Pyroxenes, Tectonic, Temperature, Temperatures, Thermodynamic, Transformations, Undergo, Volcanic.

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Investigating the long-term spatial stability of LLSVPs
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Geophysics

1. Allen McNamara($213,618), Michigan State University, East Lansing
Key terms: Average Grain-size, Background Mantle, Beneath Africa, Geologic Timescales, Grain Size, Grain-size Dependence, Lowermost Mantle, Mantle Convection, Plate Motions, Plate Tectonics, Seismic Waves, Surrounding Mantle, Tectonic Plates, Thermochemical Piles, Active, Calculations, Caused, Changing, Compositional, Core, Critical, Dynamical, Dynamically, Dynamics, Earth, Earthquakes, Evolution, Examine, Explored, Feasible, Fluid, Geodynamical, Grain-size, Has, Highly, Influences, Interestingly, Interior, Large-scale, Larger, Lead, Llsvps, Long-lived, Models, Numerical, Pacific, Past, Performed, Positions, Presence, Properties, Pushed, Remained, Rest, Rheology, Slabs, Somewhat, Structures, Surface, Viscosity, Volcanoes.

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Collaborative Research: Multi-scale models of subduction zone earthquake cycle observations
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Geophysics

1. Thorsten W Becker($233,467), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Andrew Freed($124,087), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Fault Constitutive Laws, Earthquake Cycle, Mechanical Model, Subduction Zones, Behavior, Complex, Convection, Development, Flow, Framework, Japan, Loading, Mantle, Megathrust, Models, Phenomena, Range, Regional, Seismic, Seismicity, Slip, Slow, Sub-projects.

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The Second Cargese School on Earthquakes - Participant Support
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Geophysics

1. Gregory C Beroza($12,000), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Aseismic Slip, Cargèse School, Fault Slip, Costs, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Faults, Methods, Observations, Opportunities, Process, Processes, Seismic, Stress, Towards.

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Prediction and characterization of novel Earth-forming minerals using advanced ab initio simulations
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Geophysics

1. Artem R Oganov($346,000), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Core-mantle Boundary Region, Earth's Deep Interior, Advanced Quantum-mechanical, Core-mantle Boundary, Crystal Structure, Earth's Deep, Earth-forming Minerals, Mineral Physics, P-t Conditions, Quantum-mechanical Methods, Seismic Discontinuities, Approach, Based, Chemistry, Complex, Computational, Development, Earth-forming, Enigmatic, Evolutionary, Expected, Field, Fields, Gpa, H-phase, Has, Impossible, Life, Mgsio, Mineralogy, Multi-component, P-T, Perovskite, Phase, Phases, Pis, Planet, Prediction, Predictions, Pressures, Progress, Properties, Quantum-mechanical, Reactions, Reasonable, Recently, Regions, Simulations, Stable, Stoichiometry, Ternary, Was.

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Receiver function based on dense arrays
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2017; Program: Geophysics

1. Zhongwen Zhan($190,093), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Receiver Function Method, Ground Motions, Aims, Available, Dense, Earthquakes, Image, Images, Produce, Thousands.

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Detecting offshore seismicity by combining back-projection and matched filter analysis
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2017; Program: Geophysics

1. Lingsen Meng($244,981), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Megathrust Earthquakes, Offshore Deformation, Offshore Seismicity, Recently Developed, Slow Slip, Andor, BP, Detected, Detection, Episodes, Instruments, Long-term, MF, Methods, Rupture, Via.

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Array Science for the IRIS Community Wavefields Experiment
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2017; Program: Geophysics

1. Charles A Langston($144,770), University of Memphis, Memphis
Key terms: Crust And Mantle, Local And Regional, 3x6 Geometry, Array Geometries, Earthquake Sources, Experimental Arrays, Northern Oklahoma, Seismic Waves, Wave Attributes, Active, Activity, Allow, Consisting, Consortium, Deployed, Examine, Field, Golay, Gradiometer, IRIS, Induced, Information, Instrument, Methods, Performance, Phased, Propagation, Recording, Seen, Seismicity, Spatial, Structure, Testing, Time, Wavefield.

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Double-difference attenuation tomography method and pilot applications
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2017; Program: Geophysics

1. Clifford H Thurber($86,334), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Double-difference Attenuation Tomography, Attenuation Structure, Construct Images, Double-difference Attenuation, Double-difference Tomography, Event-pair Differential, Geothermal Field, Northern Honshu, Seismic Attenuation, Seismic Velocity, Seismic Waves, Analogous, Analysis, Applications, Approach, California, Deep, Earth, Earthquakes, Energy, Event-pair, Fracturing, Has, Hypocenter, Imaging, Infer, Japan, Measured, Method, Nearby, Obtain, Pairs, Previous, Regions, Resolution, Synthetic, Tested, Times, Volcanoes.

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Collaborative Research: The 2015 Taan Fiord landslide tsunami: An interdisciplinary study of cause & effect
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: Geophysics

1. Michael J Willis($18,080), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Debris, Fiord, Landslide, Landslides, Observations, Rock, Taan, Tsunami, Walls, Water, Wave.

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Merging lab and field data: seismic indicators of earthquake nucleation
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: Geophysics

1. Gregory C McLaskey($215,000), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Earthquake Nucleation, Interpret Seismic, Laboratory Experiments, Magnitude Negative, Nucleation Process, Slow Slip, Conditions, Direct, Earthquakes, Field, Foreshocks, Instrumented, Meter-sized, Model, Models, Observations, Oklahoma, Recordings.

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Collaborative research: Investigating effects of geologic complexity on induced seismicity, using M0-M5.7 seismicity from Prague, Oklahoma
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: Geophysics

1. Heather M Savage($201,759), Columbia University, New York
2. Kathleen M Keranen($137,201), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Fault Strength, Fluid Pressure, Induced Seismicity, Laboratory Experiments, Allow, Complex, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Faults, Has, Prague, Precision, Rupture, Sequence, Sequences, Stability.

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Collaborative Research: A joint seismic and geodetic investigation into the structure and behavior of an intracontinental subduction zone, Nepal
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: Geophysics

1. William D Barnhart($142,636), University of Iowa, Iowa City
2. Vera Schulte-Pelkum($77,278), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Main Himalayan Thrust, Seismic And Geodetic, Geodetic Observations, Gorkha Earthquakes, Joint Analysis, Megathrust Faults, Shear Fabric, Subduction Channel, Subduction Zone, Subduction Zones, Aftershock, Along-strike, Beneath, Characteristics, Consistent, Continent, Depth, Detailed, Hazard, Map, Mw, Oceanic, Plate, Population, Portions, Receiver, Regions, Relocations, Rupture, Seismogenic, Shaking, Structure, Typical, Unique.

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Magma Waves, magma wagging and volcanic oscillations
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: Geophysics

1. Josef Dufek($488,301), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Shorter Period Oscillations, Waves And Magma, Gas Emissions, Ground Swelling, Long-period Oscillations, Magma Column, Magma Wagging, Magma Wave, Magma Waves, Numerical Model, Tremor Activity, Volcanic Conduit, Volcanic Hazards, Volcanic Tremor, Behavior, Coupled, Cycles, Disasters, Eruption, Evolution, Existing, Experiments, Forecasting, Leading, Long-period, Magma-wagging, Models, Motion, Near, Periods, Physics, Predictions, Prior, Processes, Range, Second-long, Seismic, Shapes, Shorter-period, Slow, Suggest, Theories, Three-dimensional, Two-phase, Unified, Volcanoes, Wags.

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CAREER: Faults, fluids, friction, and fracture mechanics
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: Geophysics

1. Robert C Viesca($473,705), Tufts University, Somerville
Key terms: Analytical Solutions, Driving Factors, Fault Slip, School Students, Slow Slip, Aseismic, Demonstrations, Development, Experiments, Faults, Field, Fluid, Forcing, Frictional, Has, Inference, Middle, Migration, Observations, Operation, Quantitative, Rates, Relative, Release, Stable, Stress, Undergraduate.

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Measurements of sound velocity and density of core materials by combination of dynamic and static methods
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: Geophysics

1. Yingwei Fei($400,008), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Density And Sound, Density And Velocity, Static And Dynamic, Core Composition, Sound Velocity, Alloy, Binary, Compression, Earth, Engine, Experimental, Fe-wts-wtsi-wto, High-pressure, Interdisciplinary, Multi-element, Observations, Planet, Properties, Range.

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Catalog-constrained models of tremor and slow slip
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2017; Program: Geophysics

1. Allan M Rubin($332,839), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Episodic Slow Slip, Front And Propagate, Largest Rapid Tremor, Plate Tectonic Rate, Rapid Tremor Reversals, Slip And Tremor, Energy Release, Fault Slip, Main Front, Observational Constraints, Depth, Direction, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Extent, Faults, Locked, Magnitude, Migrations, Models, Observations, Periodically, Producing, Secondary, Seeks, Shallow, Speeds, Start, Styles, Subduction, Times, Was.

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Melting Studies of Core-forming Alloys
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2017; Program: Geophysics

1. Andrew J Campbell($415,122), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Solid And Liquid, Solid Inner Core, Earth's Core, Electron Microscopy, Phase Diagrams, Alloy, Chemical, Coexisting, Composition, Compositions, Density, Difference, Experimental, Experiments, Iron, Iron-rich, Performed, Precise, Temperature.

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The First Billion Years of the Geodynamo
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2017; Program: Geophysics

1. John A Tarduno($450,000), University of Rochester, Rochester
Key terms: Atmosphere And Life, Hadean Geomagnetic Field, Terrestrial Magnetic Field, Atmospheric Evolution, Chemical Precipitation, Dynamo Behavior, Geodynamo History, Hadean Zircons, Jack Hills, Magnetic Fields, Magnetic Inclusions, Recently Reported, Western Australia, Analyses, Ancient, Basis, Billion, Billion-years-old, Continued, Core, Earth, Existence, Graduate, Implies, Laboratory, Mgo, Observations, Paleomagnetic, Powered, Program, Programs, Refine, Regulated, Rochester, Sites, Studies, Theses, Times, Training, Undergraduate, Was, Zimbabwe.

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Investigating dynamic friction using earthquake ruptures produced in the laboratory
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2017; Program: Geophysics

1. Nadia Lapusta($470,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Dynamic Friction, Friction Formulations, Earthquake, Evolution, Existing, Experiments, Faults, Frictional, Injection, Interface, Laboratory, Laws, Physics, Ruptures, Setup, Simulations, Stresses.

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RAPID: Tree Blowdown Impacts of Hurricane Harvey on Hydrologic Surface Connectivity in a Coastal River and Its Floodplain
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2017; Program: Hurricane Harvey 2017

1. Anthony Filippi($28,754), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Hydrologic Surface Connectivity, Ecosystem Services, Flood Inundation, Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane-force Wind, Mission River, River Channel, Tree Blowdown, Tree Blowdowns, Tropical Cyclones, Abrupt, Advance, CRC, Coastal, Driven, Environments, Extreme, Findings, Floodplain, Flow, Geomorphology, Hurricane-force, Increasing, Induced, Influence, Interactions, LWD, MANERR, Management, Objectives, River-floodplain, Spatial, Successful, Texas.

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RAPID: Fast Reconstruction of Flood Hydrographs in the Houston Metropolitan Area during Hurricane Harvey Based on Image Processing and In-situ Measurements
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2017; Program: Hurricane Harvey 2017

1. Navid H Jafari($61,167), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Flood Hydrographs, Hurricane Harvey, Image Processing, Accurate, Development, Extreme, Houston, Media, Model, RAPID, Rainfall, Reconstructed, Reference, Significantly, Traffic, Urban, Water.

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Environmental Impacts of Hurricane Irma on the British Virgin Islands
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2017; Program: Hurricane Irma 2017

1. Jessica Pilarczyk($34,099), University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Key terms: British Virgin Islands, Hurricane And Tsunami, Extreme Wave, Hurricane Irma, Hurricane Irma's, Storm Surge, Anegada, Assessment, BVI, Caribbean, Category, Coastal, Coastlines, Deposit, Deposits, Field, Hazard, Hurricanes, Information, Inundation, Irmas, Landfall, Overwash, Region, Sedimentary, Sediments, Storms, Tsunamis.

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RAPID: Collaborative Research: Storm Surge Deposition on Salt Marshes: Impacts of Hurricane Irma from Florida to South Carolina
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2017; Program: Hurricane Irma 2017

1. Zoe Hughes($13,733), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
2. Ioannis Georgiou($7,177), University of New Orleans, New Orleans
3. Christopher J Hein($4,502), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
Key terms: Hurricane Irma, Salt Marshes, South Carolina, Storm Surge, Accretion, Analysis, Backbarrier, Background, Characteristics, Cm, Coast, Coastal, Cores, Deposits, Depth, Examine, Florida, Fluvial, Net, Provenance, Range, Relative, Sediment, Sedimentation, Source, Storms, Surface, Wetlands.

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RAPID: Documenting the temporal variance of the isotopic signature of detrital sediments following massive stochastic events using Hurricane Maria as a case study
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: Hurricane Maria 2017

1. Amanda H Schmidt($8,800), Oberlin College, Oberlin
Key terms: Erosion And Sediment, Detrital Sediment, Erosion Rates, Fluvial Sediment, Caused, Collected, Concentration, Dominica, Effects, Episodic, Geologic, Hazard, Hurricane, Information, Isotopic, Landslides, Management, Methods, Natural, Nuclide, Sites, Storm, Temporal, Thousands, Time.

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Collaborative Research: Geophysical characterization of a karst aquifer using dynamic recharge events
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2018; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Jonathan B Martin($33,396), University of Florida, Gainesville
2. Susan L Bilek($530,451), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Preferential Flow Paths, Conduit Network, Critical Zone, Environmental Seismology, Field Site, Geophysical Signals, Karst Aquifer, Karst Aquifers, Larger Karst, Mexico Tech, Subsurface Flow, Undergraduate Student, Arise, Characterize, Conduits, Deformation, Florida, Generation, Graduate, Hydrologic, Knowledge, Mass, Observations, Pressure, Processes, Range, Recharge, Recharge-induced, Rock, Surface, Transport, Water.

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Local and nonlocal topographic controls on landscape ecohydrology
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Amilcare Porporato($127,665), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Local And Nonlocal, Landscape Metabolism, Nonlocal Controls, Relative Importance, Soil Moisture, Age, Carbon, Complex, Conditions, Dynamics, Effects, Features, Fluxes, Hydroclimatic, Landscapes, Models, Nitrogen, Processes, Quantification, Shifts, Slope, Statistical, Surface, Topographic, Vegetation, Water.

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Upgrading plant-functional-types with plant trait variability in ecohydrological models: A stochastic parameterization approach
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Gene-Hua C Ng($351,353), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Stochastic Pft Parameterization, Ecohydrological Models, Global Plant, Plant Trait, Plant Traits, Approach, Capture, Climate, Desert, Developed, Environmental, Fixed, Incorporate, Modeling, Parameters, Pfts, Plants, Reveal, Soil, Space, Time, Uncertainties, Vegetation, Water.

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CAREER: Ecohydrological controls on land-atmosphere interactions in water-limited ecosystems: a framework for education and research
Award Effective Date: 08/17/2017; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Shirley A Papuga($20,792), Wayne State University, Detroit
Key terms: Deep Soil Moisture, Remote Sensing Products, Land Surface, Modeling Approach, Water-limited Ecosystems, Based, Climate, Climatic, Cm, Educational, Especially, Field, Framework, Functioning, Global, Highlighted, Ideal, Importance, Increase, Larger, Layer, Layers, Percentage, Population, Processes, Simple, Students, Testing, Water-limited.

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CAREER: An Integrative Probabilistic Approach for Assessing Solute Transport in Multi-Scale Heterogeneous Aquifers
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Felipe de Barros($509,442), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Contaminant Transport, Human Health, Hydrogeological Complexities, Hydrogeological Properties, Natural Resource, School Students, Simulation Tools, Solute Transport, Subsurface Environment, Activities, Aims, Aquifers, Contamination, Demand, Developed, Factors, Flow, Framework, Groundwater, Heterogeneity, Importance, Incorporating, Knowledge, Magnitude, Physically, Pollutants, Pumping, Resources, Risk, Spatial, Stochastic, Theory, Uncertainty, Water.

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Groundwater-forest interactions during drought in temperate forests across scales
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Steven P Loheide($434,934), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Changing Drought Regimes, Forest And Water, Tree And Forest, Drought Impacts, Temperate Forests, Water Resource, Water Stress, Complementary, Consequences, Datasets, Ecosystem, Estimated, Groundwater, Growth, Methods, Models, Monitor, Observations, Quantify, Rely, Services, Species-specific, Trees, Vegetation, Worldwide.

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Collaborative Research: A New Inverse Theory for Joint Parameter and Boundary Conditions Estimation to Improve Characterization of Deep Geologic Formations and Leakage Monitoring
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Andrew C Trautz($380,014), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
2. Ye Zhang($242,466), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Deep Geologic Zones, Deep Formation, Deep Formations, Deep Zone, Environmental Impacts, Shallow Aquifers, Accurate, Actions, Assess, Available, BC, Carbon, Characterization, Conditions, Contamination, Contribute, Costly, Data-poor, Developed, Development, Energy, Extraction, Flow, Has, Human, Hydraulic, Inverting, Jointly, Laboratory, Layer, Leakage, Limited, Method, Methods, Monitoring, Operations, Overlying, Parameter, Parameters, Potential, Storage, Subsurface, Synthetic, Techniques, Testbeds, Tested, Theory, Validated, Validation, Water.

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Collaborative Research: Impacts of Dynamic, Climate-Driven Water Availability on Tree Water Use and Health in Mediterranean Riparian Forests
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. John C Stella($53,787), SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse
2. Michael Singer($396,566), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Oxygen Isotopes, Predictive Capability, Regional Climate, Tree Water, Water Availability, Analysis, Annual, Assess, Climate-driven, Climatic, Course, Decadal, Ecohydrology, Enable, Floodplain, Fluctuations, Forest, Forests, Growth, Health, Improvement, International, Investigate, Isotopic, Limited, Model, Numerical, Potential, Practitioners, REU, Regions, Riparian, Rivers, Seasonal, Signatures, Source, Sources, Stress, Students, Tools, Trees.

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EAR-PF: Monitoring the role of subsurface physical processes in carbon flux from a degraded permafrost site using novel multidisciplinary observations
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Stephanie R James($174,000), James Stephanie R, Gainesville
Key terms: Geophysical And Biogeochemical, Multidisciplinary Field Experiment, Education Plan, Passive Seismic, Advance, Carbon, Combination, Denver, Fairbanks, Global, Has, Methods, Monitoring, Permafrost, Processes, Seasonal, Subsurface, Techniques, Water.

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Collaborative Research: Using Surface Information for Quantitative Modeling of the Subsurface
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Christopher Paola($273,959), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
2. Paola Passalacqua($319,050), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
3. Holly A Michael($282,371), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Densely Populated Coastal, Ganges-brahmaputra Delta, Solute Transport, Subsurface Structure, Surface Channel, Surface Network, Surface Networks, Analysis, Connectivity, Contaminants, Critical, Deltas, Development, Evolution, Findings, Flow, Flowpaths, Ganges-brahmaputra, Groundwater, Information, Kinematics, Models, Predict, Predictability, Quantitative, River, Spatial, Structural, Water.

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Collaborative Research: How do interactions of transport and stoichiometry maximize stream nutrient retention?
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2017; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Tim P Covino($364,453), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
2. Ricardo Gonzalez-Pinzon($384,869), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
3. Michael N Gooseff($308,587), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
4. Kamini Singha($120,193), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: Collection And Stream, Contrasting Critical Zone, Critical Zone Observatory, Nutrient Tracer Injections, Reaction And Removal, Stream Solute Injections, Water And Solutes, Conducting Field, Hydrologic Transport, Nutrient Reaction, Nutrient Retention, Stream Restoration, CNP, CZO, Channel, Compartment, Compartments, Conditions, Controlled, Deep, Dissolved, Exchange, Hyporheic, Limited, Nutrients, Promote, Ratio, Setting, Shallow, Sites, Stoichiometric, Stoichiometry, Storage, Streams, Workshop, Zones.

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Collaborative Research: RUI: Recovery trajectories of the hillslope green water cycle after rapidly repeated wildfires
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Kevan B Moffett($286,720), Washington State University, Pullman
2. Andres Holz($203,130), Portland State University, Portland
Key terms: Field Sites, Hillslope Water, Soil Moisture, Vegetation Regrowth, Climate, Cycle, Downstream, Dynamics, Ecology, Evapotranspiration, Feedbacks, Fire, Fires, Flood, Flows, Following, Forest, Forested, Hydraulic, Hydrological, Local, Multiple, Past, Post-fire, Reburns, Recovery, Risks, Six, Streamflow, Subsequent, Surveys, Time, Unburned, Via, Wildfire, Wildfires.

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EAR-PF Near-real time monitoring and prediction of snowpack drought over Sierra Nevada, California
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Laurie Huning($174,000), Huning Laurie S, Irvine
Key terms: Drought Monitoring, Mountainous Regions, Mountainous Terrain, Snow Information, Water Resources, California, Characterize, Droughts, Incorporation, Knowledge, Processes, Snowpack.

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Collaborative Research: Near-bed flow, turbulence, and emergent hydrodynamics of biologically-conditioned labile river channels
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2017; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Joseph F Atkinson($275,726), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
2. Caryn C Vaughn($36,645), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
3. George S Constantinescu($111,452), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Flow And Sediment, Labile River Beds, Aquatic Organisms, Benthic Organisms, Constructive Interference, Ecological Engineering, Entrainment Thresholds, Field Surveys, Flow Stages, Freshwater Mussels, Numerical Modeling, Sediment Transport, Time Periods, Acting, Adaptations, Aid, Burrowed, Conditions, Critical, Decades, Demonstrate, Designed, Drag, Employed, Enable, Examine, Experimental, Forces, Has, Hydrodynamic, Hypothesized, Imperiled, Information, Interact, Nbed, North, Persistence, Processes, Reaches, Relatively, Remain, Rivers, Seeks, Selected, Stability, Survival, Thrive, Tipping-point, Unionidae.

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Predictive Models for Wave Damping by Flexible Aquatic Vegetation
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2017; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Heidi M Nepf($440,751), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Wave Energy Dissipation, Flexible Vegetation, Individual Blades, Scaling Laws, Water Quality, Wave Motion, Combined, Complex, Conditions, Current, Drag, Effective, Erosion, Experiments, Field, Interaction, Le, Length, Meadow, Measured, Model, Models, Morphology, Plant, Plants, Predict, Predicting, Reconfiguration, Reduction, Sediment, Shorelines, Waves.

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RAPID: Cascading of Extreme Events (Drought-Wildfire) in a Pristine Watershed Located in the Southeast US: Implication on Hydrology, Water Quality and Microbial Communities
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Ashok Mishra($49,980), Clemson University, Clemson
Key terms: Stream Water Quality, Drinking Water, Forest Fires, Pristine Watershed, Affect, Assess, Burned, Chemical, Compare, Composition, Current, Differences, Drought, Extreme, Greenville, Hydrological, Hydrology, Impacted, Internal, Microbial, Middle, Mitigate, Molecular, Post-fire, Processes, Reservoir, Streams, Structure, Subsequent, Supply, Wildfire.

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Collaborative Research: Nano- and micro-particle transport prediction in subsurface media: The role of heterogeneity and structure
Award Effective Date: 07/31/2016; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Markus Hilpert($76,333), Columbia University, New York
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.

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

1. Nicole S Lovenduski($209,326), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Evapotranspiration And Groundwater, Antecedent Moisture, Conceptual Models, Critical Zone, Surface Water, Connections, Dynamics, Hydrological, Interactions, Isotopic, Movement, Pumping, Soil, Subsurface, Transpiration, Tree.

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Using horizontal and vertical deformation signals to characterize water availability in fractured and faulted crystalline-rock aquifer systems
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Thomas J Burbey($270,302), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Vertical Deformation Signals, Fractured Rock, Potable Groundwater, Accurately, Aquifer, Aquifers, Characterization, Characterize, Estimate, Flow, Horizontal, Local, Parameters, Ploemeur, Properties, Recharge, Seasonal, Shown, Site, Storage, Surface, Virginia, Water, Water-level, Zone.

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EAR-PF Dynamics from drones: using high-resolution repeat topography and grain size to differentiate between physically-based models of debris creation and debris flow initiation
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: INTEGRATED EARTH SYSTEMS

1. Katherine R Barnhart($174,000), Barnhart Katherine R, Boulder
Key terms: Debris Flow Initiation, Debris Flow Prone, Debris Flows, Initiation Zones, Education, Hazards, Mechanisms, Model, Natural, Processes, Recharge, Responsible, Soil, Steep, Terrain.

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Collaborative Research: Solid Earth response of the Patagonia Andes to post-Little Ice Age glacial retreat
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: INTEGRATED EARTH SYSTEMS

1. Maria Beatrice Magnani($543,313), Southern Methodist University, Dallas
2. Anders J Noren($737,890), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
3. Douglas A Wiens($587,313), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Uplift Rates, Upper Mantle, Deposited, GIA, Geometry, Glacial, Ice, Isostatic, Mmyr, Modern, Patagonia, Rapid, Region, SPI, Sediment, Slab, Time, Viscosity.

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Collaborative Research: Subduction below extreme sedimentation- A multidisciplinary transect from the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta to the IndoBurma Backarc
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: INTEGRATED EARTH SYSTEMS

1. Yue Cai($2,524,950), Columbia University, New York
2. Diane LaMacchia($184,984), EARTH IMAGES FOUNDATION, Oakland
3. Stuart N Thomson($112,123), University of Arizona, Tucson
4. Eric Sandvol($407,117), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
5. Patricia Persaud($331,357), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Subduction Zones, Basin, Broad, Deformation, Earthquake, Extreme, GBD, GPS, Has, Issues, Sediment, Seismic, Volcanism.

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International Conference: The Towuti Drilling Project: Paleoenvironments, Biological Evolution, and Geomicrobiology of a Tropical Western Pacific Lake
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: INTEGRATED EARTH SYSTEMS

1. James M Russell($24,467), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Tropical Western Pacific, Lake Towuti, Climate, Climatic, Ecosystems, Endemic, Environmental, Ferruginous, History, Indo-pacific, Indonesia, International, Microbial, Sediment, Southeast, TDP, Towutis.

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Collaborative Research: Interactions Between Incipient Continental Rifting, Fluvial Systems, and Regional Climate in Southern Africa: The Okavango-Makgadikgadi Complex, Botswana
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: INTEGRATED EARTH SYSTEMS

1. Juan Pablo Canales($2,014,682), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Zhixiong Shen($93,625), Coastal Carolina University, Conway
3. Sarah J Ivory($127,122), University of Kentucky Research Foundation, Lexington
Key terms: Southern Africa, Basin, Climate, Complex, Control, Cores, Drainage, Evolution, Feedback, Loading, MPL, Model, OD, ORZ, Sediment, Tectonic, Via.

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Collaborative Research: Terrestrial Late Permian to Early Triassic Earth Systems in NE Pangea: Insights into the Tempo, Effects, and Causes of the End-Permian Mass Extinction
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: INTEGRATED EARTH SYSTEMS

1. Wan Yang($409,197), Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla
2. Christian A Sidor($195,051), University of Washington, Seattle
3. Robert A Gastaldo($249,533), Colby College, Waterville
4. Neil M Tabor($383,880), Southern Methodist University, Dallas
5. Kenneth D Angielczyk($254,560), Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
6. Peter D Roopnarine($223,816), California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco
7. John W Geissman($257,578), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
8. James L Crowley($161,758), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Permo-triassic Mass Extinction, Critical Interval, Outreach Programs, Permo-triassic Mass, Comprehensive, Conditions, Continent, Deposits, Derived, Description, Developed, Ecosystem, Educational, Environmental, Extinctions, Happened, History, Investigation, Marine, Model, Occurred, Period, Primary, Responded, Rock, Spanning, Stratigraphy, Terrestrial, Time, Volcanic.

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Collaborative Research: Tectonic and Magmatic Processes during Early-Stage Rifting: an Integrated Study of Northern Lake Malawi, Africa
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: INTEGRATED EARTH SYSTEMS

1. Cynthia J Ebinger($71,753), Tulane University, New Orleans
Key terms: Magmatism And Segmentation, Accommodating Extension, Late-stage Rifts, Mid-ocean Ridges, Tectonic Segmentation, Constraints, Continent, Controls, Deformation, Development, Evolution, Faults, Features, Has, Initiation, Late-stage, Lithosphere, Mid-ocean, Plate, Rifting, Seismicity.

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Laboratory Technician Support: Enhancing High-Precision 40Ar/39Ar Dating at the OSU Argon Geochronology Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Anthony Koppers($699,333), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Argon Geochronology Laboratory, Osu Argon Geochronology, 40ar39ar Geochronology, Argus-vi Instruments, ARGUS-VI, Arar, Collaborators, Dating, Decade, Expand, Has, Precision, Terrestrial, Volcanic.

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Acquisition of a high-resolution multicollector noble gas mass spectrometer for Earth origin and evolution research
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Sujoy Mukhopadhyay($551,270), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Established Noble Gas, Gas Mass Spectrometer, Newly Established Noble, Noble Gas Laboratory, Nu Noblesse Hr, California Davis, Detector Assembly, Ohm Amplifier, Acquisition, Allow, Analytic, Analytical, Ar, Atmosphere, Capabilities, Degassing, Differentiation, Earth, Equipped, Evolution, Existing, Faraday, Formation, Generation, Geochemistry, Hcl, History, Instrument, Power, Range, Students, World, Xe.

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Laboratory Technician Support: Enhanced Community Access to High-Precision U-Pb Geochronology Across the Earth Sciences
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Mark D Schmitz($672,773), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Isotope Geology Laboratory, Thermal Ionization Mass, U-pb Zircon Ages, High-precision U-pb, U-pb Zircon, Analysis, Boise, Broad, Dilution, Geochronological, Geochronology, Geological, Has, High-precision, Integration, Methods, Processes, Rates, Resolution, Resources, State-of-the-art, Strategies, Technical.

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Laboratory Technician Support: University of Connecticut Helium Geothermochronology Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Julie C Fosdick($712,288), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Laboratory Technician, Outreach Activities, Apatite, Detrital, Development, Geothermochronology, HGL, Minerals, Monazite, Promote, Titanite, Training, U-thhe.

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Laboratory Technician Support: For a new (U-Th)/He dating lab in the Department of Geology, UIUC
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. William Guenthner($673,589), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Dating Method, Uiuc Lab, Allow, Collaborators, Constrain, Fluid, Funding, Geologic, Laboratory, Labs, Methods, Mineral, Oversee, Process, Processes, Rock, Seek, Technician, Thermal, Thermochronology, Time, Training, U-thhe, Visiting, Visitors, Zircon.

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Laboratory Technician Support: Luminescence Geochronology
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Amanda Keen-Zebert($680,536), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Students And Scientists, Activities Enabled, Luminescence Dating, Luminescence Laboratory, Time Technician, Visiting Students, DRILL, Landscape, Processes, River, Serve, Technique, Training, User.

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Acquisition of an Ion Chromatograph (IC) for Water Quality Analyses in an Undergraduate-Led Lab
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Brian J Mailloux($67,053), Barnard College, New York
Key terms: Anions And Low, Graduate Student, Ion Chromatograph, Laboratory Experiments, Water Quality, York City, Barnard, Co-author, Continue, Current, Dionex, Enable, Funding, Groundwater, Has, IC, Instrument, Measure, NSF, National, Organic, Papers, Peer-reviewed, Publications, Recharge, Run, Students, Undergraduate, Users.

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Upgrade of Carbonate Preparation System, Stable Isotope Laboratory, University of Massachusetts
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Stephen J Burns($97,430), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Stable Isotope, Time Scales, Tropical Hydrology, Climate, Equipment, Global, Holyoke, Hydrologic, Indian, Madagascar, Mt, Orbital, Paleoclimate, Past, Region, Smith, Southern, Timescales, Yucatan.

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Acquisition of a High Performance Computing Cluster for the Geophysics Group at New Mexico State University
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Thomas M Hearn($74,990), New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
Key terms: Computational Mineral Physics, Mineral Physics Calculations, Computationally Intensive, Earthquake Hazard, Ground Motion, Nuclear Monitoring, Benefit, Cluster, Composition, Crystal, Engineering, Explore, Generation, Geo-inspired, Geodynamical, Geophysical, Geophysics, HPC, Highly, Hispanic, Interior, Inversions, Modeling, Models, NMSU, Opportunities, Processes, Seismic, Solar, Structure, Structures, Students, Sun, Synthetic, Technological, Waveform.

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Early Career: Acquisition of a Raman Spectrometer for a Mineral Physics research laboratory
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Mainak Mookherjee($216,187), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Mineral Physics, Raman Spectrometer, Instrument, Properties, Training, Vibrational.

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Acquisition of an Automated Laser Diffraction Particle Size Analyzer at the University of Massachusetts
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Jonathan Woodruff($89,810), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Particle Size Analyzer, Grain Size, Massachusetts Amherst, Sediment Transport, Acquisition, Deposits, Dynamics, Extreme, Faculty, Fine-grained, Glacial, Hazards, Historical, Hurricane, Instrument, Knowledge, Lake, Laser, Regional, Sedimentology, Sediments.

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Acquisition of a Second-Generation Liquid Water Isotope Analyzer for Hydrological, Glaciological, and Geochemical Research
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. W. Berry Lyons($99,690), Ohio State University, Columbus
Key terms: Climate Dynamics, Allow, CRDS, Changing, Cycling, Effects, Isotopic, Lakes, Melt, Ohio, Ratios, Regions, Sources, Streams, Water, Waters.

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Acquisition of an EBSD system for phase and crystallographic orientation mapping of earth and planetary materials
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Kenneth S Vecchio($119,731), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Academia And Industry, Electron Backscatter Diffraction, Scanning Electron Microscope, Field Emission, San Diego, Uc San, Acquire, Characterization, Coupled, Crust, EBSD, Instrument, Oceanography, Pis, Planetary, SIO, Scripps, Students, Technical.

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Development of MicroInterdigitated Electrode Arrays as Ion Sources for TIMS
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Lang Farmer($163,209), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Glass Ion Emitter, Micro-interdigitated Electrode Array, Thermal Ionization Mass, Age Determinations, Electrochemical Cell, Ion Source, Ionization Efficiency, Ionization Method, Ions Generated, Liquid Glass, Mass Spectrometer, Metal Dopant, Metal Ions, Metal Ribbon, Micro-interdigitated Electrode, Molten Silicate, Ratio Determinations, Si-gel Technique, Atoms, Builds, Class, Consist, Current, Design, Doped, Electrical, Electrodes, Electrolyte, Evaporation, Fabrication, Heating, IDA, Increase, Instrument, Isotopic, Lead, Melting, Metals, Micro-ida, Mixture, Neutral, Operating, Placed, Potential, Precision, Produce, Producing, Prototype, Released, Releases, Remains, Required, Serves, Si-gel, Size, Substrate, Surface, TIMS, Techniques, Temperature, Temperatures.

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Acquisition of a Field Spectroradiometer
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Alejandro Flores($74,937), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Critical Zone Observatory, Organic And Inorganic, Water Resource Management, Inorganic Carbon, Organic Carbon, Post-fire Redistribution, Reduction Software, Reynolds Creek, Soil Carbon, Soil Nutrients, Soil Organic, Soil Spectra, Acquisition, Applications, Classification, Controls, Cycling, Ecosystem, Faculty, Field, Image, Increase, Interactions, Lab, NSF, Nsfs, Observations, Post-fire, Program, Resolution, Settings, Soils, Spectral, Spectroradiometer, Spectroscopy, Students, Training, Vegetation.

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Acquisition of a State-of-the-Art Multi-Collector Inductively-Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Richard J Walker($480,000), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Mantle And Crustal, Chemical Evolution, Crustal Rocks, Isotopic Analysis, Isotopic Compositions, Abundances, Future, History, Instrument, Isotopes, Li, MC-ICP-MS, Maryland, Means, Pb, Plasma, Precisely, Precision, Siderophile, Tasks.

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Early Career: Technician Support for an organic and stable isotope biogeochemistry laboratory focused on climate and water-related natural hazards
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2017; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Elizabeth K Thomas($339,905), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Buffalo Audubon Society, Education And Outreach, Ice Sheet Mass, Sea Level Rise, Sheet Mass Loss, Sheets And Sea, Audubon Society, Biogeochemistry Laboratory, Early-career Geoscientist, Extreme Storm, Full-time Technician, Ice Sheets, Principal Investigator's, Affect, Climate, Collection, Droughts, Early-career, Environmental, Floods, Full-time, Partnership, Past, Precipitation, Program, Societal.

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Acquisition of High Performance Computational Cluster to Support Climate Change Research at Texas A&M International University
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2017; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Kameron R Jorgensen($74,104), Texas A&M International University, Laredo
Key terms: Computational Modeling, Modeling Studies, Remote Sensing, Soil Moisture, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Compounds, Decadal, Generation, Greenhouse, Hispanic, Hydrologic, Importance, Interactions, Observations, Processes, Products, Students, Surface, Techniques, Texas, Training.

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Acquisition of an X-ray diffractometer for environmental mineralogy and geochemistry
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Elizabeth M Herndon($126,459), Kent State University, Kent
Key terms: Benchtop X-ray Diffractometer, Tundra And Boreal, Benchtop X-ray, Boreal Ecosystems, Critical Zone, Soil Mineralogy, Weathering Front, X-ray Diffractometer, Collect, Cycling, Depth, Function, Geology, Hour, Instrument, Interactions, Jobs, Kent, Metal, Phases, Processes, Range, Undergraduate, Undergraduates, Water, XRD.

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Collaborative Research: Development of Tunable Infrared Laser Direct Absorption Spectroscopy (TILDAS) for clumped isotope analysis of CO2
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Katharine Huntington($4,396), University of Washington, Seattle
2. David D Nelson($299,377), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Carbon Dioxide, Mass Spectrometry, Oxygen Isotopes, Soil Carbonates, Ability, Aerodyne, Arizona, Clumped, Combinations, Past, Resolution, Washington.

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Consortium for Materials Properties Research in Earth Sciences (COMPRES): National Facilities and Infrastructure Development for High-Pressure Geosciences Research
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2017; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Carl B Agee($13,736,962), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: National Laboratory, National Synchrotron, Synchrotron Facilities, Advanced, Beam, COMPRES, Deep, Experimental, Facility, Generation, Interior, Interiors, Light, Mission, Planetary, Properties, Source, Synchrotrons, Techniques.

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Early Career: Acquisition of a Particle Size Analyzer for Interdisciplinary Research and Undergraduate Research Training
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Gregory S Hancock($80,135), College of William and Mary, Williamsburg
Key terms: Chesapeake Bay Watershed, Diffraction Particle Size, Laser Diffraction Particle, Particle Size Analyzer, Size And Distribution, William And Mary, Agricultural Runoff, Rapid Analysis, Virginia Institute, Broadly, Climate, Coastal, Environments, Faculty, Geologic, Instrument, Marine, Past, Sediment, Settings, Undergraduate, Variety.

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Facility Support: GeoSoilEnviroCARS: A National Resource for Earth, Planetary, Soil and Environmental Science Research at the APS
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2017; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Mark L Rivers($19,358,734), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: High-pressurehigh-temperature Crystallography, Synchrotron Radiation, APS, Experiments, Facility, GSECARS, High-pressurehigh-temperature, Properties, Spectroscopy, Synchrotron-based, X-ray.

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Elasticity of clinopyroxene (Ca, Na) (Mg, Al, Fe) Si2O6 under Earth's upper mantle conditions
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2017; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Jin Zhang($338,618), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Density And Single-crystal, Earth's Upper Mantle, Subduction And Delamination, Earth's Interior, Earth's Upper, Obtained Experimental, P-t Conditions, Single-crystal Elasticity, Anisotropy, Clinopyroxene, Direct, Eclogite, Heating, Mineral, Minerals, Nature, Observed, P-T, Phase, Processes, Real, Seismic, Students, Vol.

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Accomplishment Based Renewal: Transforming the paleointensity experiment and application to the paleointensity database
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2017; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Lisa Tauxe($432,852), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Field Strength, Geomagnetic Field, Paleointensity Estimates, Selection Criteria, Accurate, Average, Complete, Database, Earth, Experiment, Experimental, Female, Has, Intensity, Leading, Noise, Past, Poor, Signal, Software.

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Geoscience Alliance Research Coordination Network--Broadening Participation of Native Americans in the Geosciences
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Nievita Bueno Watts($239,935), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Geoscience Alliance, Native Americans, Build, Development, GA-RCN, GARCN, Geosciences, Network, Programs, Social, Workforce.

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Collaborative Research: An integrated mantle to surface study of the causes and consequences of high topography in the Northern US Cordillera
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Eugene D Humphreys($317,790), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
2. Alison R Duvall($320,439), University of Washington, Seattle
3. Brian J Yanites($239,880), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Erosion Following Lithospheric, Following Lithospheric Loss, Mantle And Surface, Uplift And Erosion, Uplift And Landscape, Field Sites, Inland Northwest, Landscape Evolution, Mantle Dynamics, Yellowstone Plume, Constrained, Critical, Deformation, Driven, Earth, Geologic, History, Idaho, Models, Oregon, Processes, Region, Regional, Structure, Students, Topographic.

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MRI: Acquisition of a Modern Electron Microprobe, University of Massachusetts
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Michael J Jercinovic($770,000), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Electron Beam, Electron Microprobe, Electron Probe, Lab Demonstrations, Undergraduate Students, Acquisition, Analysis, Analytical, Classes, Compositional, Continue, Development, Efficiency, Engineering, Facility, Five-college, Formation, Has, Instrument, Involving, Micro-analysis, Mineral, NSF, National, Numerous, Outside, Processes, Regional, Serves, Target, Training, Umass, X-rays.

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DATING THE CENOZOIC INCISION HISTORY OF THE TENNESSEE AND SHENANDOAH RIVERS WITH COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES AND 40Ar/39Ar IN MANGANESE OXIDES
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Darryl E Granger($508,894), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Ancient Landscape, East Tennessee, Manganese Ores, Date, Eroded, Sinkhole.

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Heads and Chairs Workshop on Future of Undergraduate Geoscience Education
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2017; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Sharon Mosher($61,470), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Changing Undergraduate Programs, Design Successful Strategies, Heads And Chairs, Undergraduate Geoscience Education, Wider Geoscience Academic, Action Plans, Individual Department, Undergraduate Curricula, Departments, Employment, Future, Has, Obstacles, Overcome, Participants, Previous, Students, Summit, Synthesized, Updates, Was, Workshop.

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Investigating the seismic signatures of volcanic unrest and eruption: Spatiotemporal distribution and source origin of tiny long-period seismicity
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2017; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Robin S Matoza($316,448), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Lps And Subevents, Tiny Lp Subevents, Uc Santa Barbara, Multiple Volcanoes, Origin Remains, Solid Extrusion, Source Mechanisms, Volcanic Seismicity, Additional, Cluster, Conduit, Elucidate, Eruption, Generating, Hydrothermal, Information, MSH, Monitoring, Perform, Processes, Reveal, Signals, Similar, Structures, Underlying, Useful, Volcano-seismic, Worldwide.

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Investigating Feedbacks Between Deformation and Groundwater Flow in a Slow Moving Landslide
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2017; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Noah Finnegan($443,968), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Groundwater Flow, Argues, Failure, Feedbacks, Landslide, Landslides, Sliding, Slip, Slow, Water.

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RAPID:Geomorphic Changes to the Amite River Channel and Floodbasin Induced by the August 2016 Flood in Louisiana
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2017; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Ehab A Meselhe($48,240), The Water Institute of the Gulf, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Amite River, Lower Basin, August, Channel, Deposition, Document, Extent, Flood, Flooding, Future, Map, Models, RAPID, Rainfall, Sediment, Swamps.

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Southern California Earthquake Center: Research Program in Earthquake System Science, 2017-2022
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: Leadership-Class Computing

1. John E Vidale($16,981,680), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Earthquake Risk, Physics-based Modeling, Southern California, Actions, Basic, Center, Core, Dynamic, Engineering, Fault, Has, Hazard, Information, Levels, Models, National, Observations, Physics-based, Predictability, Processes, Program, Promote, Resilience, SCEC, Scecs, Seismic, Vision.

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MRI: Acquisition of a total organic carbon analyzer for undergraduate training and research quantifying how climate-glacier interactions impact land-to-ocean fluxes of carbon
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Jason B Fellman($50,277), University of Alaska Southeast Juneau Campus, Juneau
Key terms: Doctdn Analyzer, Acquisition, Alaska, Carbon, Concentrations, Determining, Dissolved, Driving, Environmental, Fluxes, Forested, Glacial, Instrument, Region, Rural, Stream, TDN, Timing, Training, USFS, Water, Watersheds.

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MRI: Acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer for Expansion of Analytical Activities and Research Training in the Earth Sciences
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. David P Gillikin($307,241), Union College, Schenectady
Key terms: State-of-the-art Analytical Instrumentation, Drinking Water, Mass Spectrometer, State-of-the-art Analytical, Undergraduate Students, Water Quality, Advance, Contamination, Critical, Efforts, Environmental, Establish, Explaining, Geochemical, Has, Heavy, Increased, Limits, Measuring, Metals, Monitoring, Near, Potential, Public, Quadrupole, Societally, Sources, Throughput, Union, Useful, Volatile, Volcanic, Workforce.

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MRI: Acquisition of a Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer for High-Precision Geochronology and Isotope Geology
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Blair Schoene($522,502), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Geochronologic And Isotopic, Precision And Accuracy, Broad Geoscience, Co-pi Higgins, Existing Tims, External Users, Icpms Facilities, Capabilities, Capacity, Climate, Co-pi, Department, Devote, Environmental, Eruption, Evolution, Expand, Focus, Geochronology, Geologic, Geosciences, High-precision, Host, Increase, Instrument, Isotope, Isotopes, Lab, Laboratories, Led, MRI, Managed, Mass, Measuring, Permit, Princeton, Processes, Programs, Purchase, Radiogenic, Range, Rates, Ratios, Supplement, Techniques, Ties, Time, U-pb, Volcanic.

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MRI: Acquisition of a Scanning Electron Microscope for Geoscience, Forensic Chemistry and Science Education Research at Florida International University
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Laurel S Collins($309,890), Florida International University, Miami
Key terms: Scanning Electron Microscope, Florida International, Forensic Chemistry, Acquire, Capabilities, Geochemistry, Geoscience, Glass, Instrument, Instrumentation, Instruments, Operation, Ore, Remote, SEM, Undergraduate, Volcanic, Wide.

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MRI: Acquisition of an SEM-EDS System: Advancing Scientific Discovery and Student Scientific Inquiry in Rural Illinois
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Andrea Porras-Alfaro($330,544), Western Illinois University, Macomb
Key terms: Scanning Electron Microscope, Inspiring Student, Western Illinois, Acquire, Basic, Education, Equipment, Inorganic, Involved, Microbial, Preservation, Processes, Program, RISE, Rural, Undergraduate, WIU.

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Conference on Experimental Studies of Subduction Zone Processes
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Philip Skemer($39,215), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Subduction Zones, Conference, Discuss, Experimental, Laboratory, Modeling, Observation, Participants, Processes.

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Developing a high-resolution Holocene paleo-geomagnetic reconstruction from northern North Atlantic sediments to place the historical geomagnetic field in perspective
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Joseph S Stoner($250,000), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Corvallis Saturday Market, Earth's Magnetic Field, Exhibits And Presentations, Marine Geology Repository, Master Dating Curves, Northern North Atlantic, Osu Marine Geology, Regional Stratigraphic Master, Repository And Delivered, Stratigraphic Master Dating, Tours And Classes, Adult Learner, Ceoas Booth, Earth's Magnetic, Geomagnetic Field, Geomagnetic Shield, Global Ecosystems, Historical Geomagnetic, Historical Times, Human Health, Interpretive Framework, National Databases, Practical Implications, Sub-centennial Resolution, Accumulating, Allow, Anomalous, Chronologies, Collaboration, Completely, Constrain, Constrained, Constraints, Context, Contributed, Cosmic, Developed, Features, Fidelity, Happening, Historically, Holocene, Interactions, Investment, K-, Little, Millennial, Modern, Mud, Normal, Observations, Ongoing, Paleo, Paleo-context, Paleo-geomagnetic, Paleomagnetic, Poorly, Prehistoric, Processes, Quality, Rates, Refined, Relative, Sediment, Shorter, Solar, Strategic, Sub-centennial, Telecommunications, Tell, Theme, Thousands, Ultrahigh, Uncertainties, Undergraduate.

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Stability and Thermochemistry of some Chlorine-bearing Calcium Amphiboles
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. David M Jenkins($289,112), SUNY at Binghamton, Binghamton
Key terms: Calcium Amphiboles, Chlorine Content, Chlorine-rich Amphiboles, Chlorine-rich Fluids, Compositional Variables, Crustal Rocks, Heat Capacity, Host Amphibole, Thermal Stability, Third-law Entropy, Upper-thermal Stability, Aqueous, Basic, Binghamton, Brine, Brines, Chlorine-rich, Control, Controlling, Determined, Effect, Enthalpy, Formation, Geological, Incorporation, Information, Levels, Mineral, Obtained, Potassium, Processes, Rigorous, Thermochemical, Third-law, Upper-thermal.

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ABR: Field, Laboratory, and Numerical Studies of Geyser Eruptions
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Michael Manga($264,201), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Volcanic Eruptions, Behavior, Duration, Flow, Geyser, Geysering, Geysers, Insight, Interval, Laboratory, Plumbing, Processes, Water.

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Water in the Lithosphere: The Fidelity of Mantle Xenoliths
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Terry A Plank($232,497), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Olivines And Pyroxenes, H2o Equilibration, Host Magma, Mantle Xenoliths, Melt Inclusions, Water Content, Defects, Degassing, Diffusive, Erupted, Exchange, Fidelity, IR, Lithosphere, Lost, Mineral, Minerals, Reflect, Size, Slowly, Strength, True.

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Anorthite in Magmatic Systems
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Hanna Nekvasil($370,999), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Anorthitic Plagioclase, Compositional Space, Earth's Interior, Earth's Mantle, Elevated Pressure, Anorthite, Behavior, Brought, Crystals, Current, Deviation, Environments, Geologic, Has, Insights, Magma, Magmas, Mechanisms, Melt, Mid-ocean, Mineral, Natural, Origin, Potential, Processes, Region, Requires, Resources, Rock, Surface, Topology, Volcanic.

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Sulfur Isotopes in Subduction Systems and the Global Sulfur Cycle
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Alicia M Cruz-Uribe($341,444), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Sulfur Isotopic Signature, Arc Volcanic, Deep Arc, Subducted Sulfur, Sulfur Cycle, Sulfur Isotope, Sulfur Released, Upper Mantle, Volcanic Arc, Volcanic Arcs, Coupled, Crust, Cumulates, Fluids, Has, Lithologies, Maine, Observations, Processes, Reactions, Redox, Rock, Subduction, Sulfides, Surface, Tectonic.

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Trigger Mechanisms of Compositionally Zoned Explosive Eruptions: Insights From Cosiguina Volcano, Nicaragua
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Marc-Antoine Longpre($229,689), CUNY Queens College, Flushing
Key terms: Compositionally Stratified Eruption, Eruption Trigger Mechanisms, Geochemical And Textural, Stratified Eruption Deposits, Compositionally Zoned, Cosiguina Volcano, Layered Magma, Magma Reservoir, Magma Reservoirs, Recharge Trigger, Volatile Gradients, Volcanic Eruptions, Bubbles, Direct, Dissolved, Evidence, Explosive, Exsolved, Has, Magmatic, Melt, Progressive.

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EAGER: Collaborative Research: Testing the marine carbonate recycling hypothesis
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Paterno R Castillo($55,968), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Fangzhen Teng($49,636), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Pb Isotopic Ratios, Radiogenic Pb Isotopic, Mantle Components, Marine Carbonates, Oceanic Basalts, Pb Paradoxes, Volcanic Rocks, Analysis, Crust, Evolution, Geochemical, Isotopes, Mg, Process, Recycled, Recycling, Sources, Subducted, Time-integrated, Upb.

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Collaborative Research: Residual Stress Preserved in Crystals from Volcanic Eruptions
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Kenneth Befus($128,112), Baylor University, Waco
2. Michael Manga($171,413), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: X-ray Micro Diffraction, Crystal Lattice, Experimental Products, Natural Crystals, Synchrotron X-ray, Volcanic Environments, Volcanic Eruptions, Volcanic Stresses, X-ray Micro, Act, Assess, Control, Deformation, Experiments, Forces, Magma, Magnitude, Microxrd, Performed, Processes, Quantify, Strain, Strained, Strains, Technology, Underground.

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Collaborative Research: An Experimental Determination of the Activity of H2O in Natural Melts at Undersaturated Conditions
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Gordon M Moore($69,849), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Pressure And Temperature, Chemical Activity, Chemical Behavior, Fluidvapor Phase, Oxygen Fugacity, Buffer, Capsule, Conditions, Density, Experimental, Glass, HO, Magma, Magmas, Magmatic, Measuring, Melt, Melts, Viscosity.

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The Systematics of Helium in Diamond-forming Metasomatic Mantle Fluids
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2017; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Yael Kiro($365,837), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Deep C-o-h Fluids, C-o-h Fluids, Deep C-o-h, Earth's Surface, Fluid Inclusions, Ages, Compositions, Constrain, Diamonds, Direct, Inferred, Mantle, Processes, Trace, Trapped, Unique, Water-rich.

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Experimental Study of Pressure-induced Structural Changes in Silicate Glasses to >100 GPa
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2017; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Yoshio Kono($183,705), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Deep Interior, Earth's Deep, Pressure Conditions, Pressure-induced Structural, Silicate Glasses, Silicate Magmas, X-ray Diffraction, Developed, Double-stage, Experimental, Gpa, Gt, High-pressure, Mantle, Pressure-induced, Pressures, Structure, Vital, Volume, X-ray.

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Experimental Investigation of Chemical Zoning in Olivine: Applications to Hawaiian Basalt
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Michael O Garcia($346,000), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Mixing And Ascent, 20th Century, Basalt Melt, Chemical Zoning, Effusive Activity, Laboratory Experiments, Magma Recharge, Centuries, Critical, Cycles, Diffusion, Eruption, Experimental, Explosive, Focuses, Growth, Hawaii, History, Information, Kandlauea, Kilauea, Magmatic, Mineral, Occurring, Olivine, Processes, Products, Time, Timing, Volcano, Volcanoes.

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Collaborative Research: What Do Obsidian Pyroclasts Tell Us? Constraints from Textures, Volatiles, and Experiments
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. James E Gardner($282,058), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Thomas Giachetti($261,212), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Textural And Chemical, Ash Sintering, Crater Lake, Explosive Eruptions, Foam Collapse, Magmatic Foam, Obsidian Pyroclasts, Volatile Contents, Volcanic Eruptions, Analyses, Decipher, Degassing, Dense, Electron, Examine, Excavated, Formed, Fragmentation, Gas, Glassy, Lead, Models, Mono, Open-system, Partially, Pathways, Plinian, Prior, Products, Pumice, Surface, Syn-eruptive, Task, Textures, Threats, USA, Vanguard, Vesicle.

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Collaborative Research: Using Titanite as a Petrochronometer for Direct Fabric Dating of High Temperature Systems
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Basil Tikoff($107,323), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Mark D Schmitz($227,161), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Granite Plutons, Mineral Titanite, Rock Fabric, Shear Zones, Crust, Crystals, Dated, Deformation, Development, Formation, Individual, Measured, Processes, Techniques.

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Collaborative Research: Impact of crystal defects on helium diffusion in apatite crystals in (Uranium-Thorium)/Helium isotopic dating for the Earth sciences
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Annia K Fayon($233,654), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
2. Peter K Zeitler($164,643), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
Key terms: Density And Diffusivity, Diffusion Experiments, Dislocation Density, Helium Diffusion, Accurate, Analysis, Apatite, Characterize, Contributing, Crystal, Dates, Dating, Defects, Deformation, Developed, Grain, Grains, History, Isotopic, Level, Processes, Rock, STEM, Single, Surface, Techniques, Temperature, Underrepresented, Uranium-thoriumhelium, Various.

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Retrograde Metamorphism in the Greek Cycladic Islands as a Window into Exhumation Mechanisms of High Pressure Terranes
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Daniel F Stockli($334,776), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Field Structural Geology, Syros And Tinos, Exhumation Mechanisms, Fluid Sources, Metamorphic Rocks, Subduction Interface, Subduction Zones, Conditions, Decipher, Deformation, Depths, Enigmatic, Exhumed, Fabrics, Focus, Geochemistry, Geochronology, History, Ma, Metamorphism, Minority, Modern, Particular, Petrology, Pressure, Processes, Responsible, Retrograde, Seismic, Students, Surface, Time.

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Nitrogen Transiting the Subduction and Redox Barrier
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Colin Jackson($153,363), Smithsonian Institution, Washington
Key terms: Nitrogen And Potassium, Earth's Exterior, Earth's Interior, Nitrogen-potassium Coupling, Redox Boundary, Atmosphere, Conditions, Crust, Expected, Experiment, Fluids, Liberated, Maintaining, Nitrogen-potassium, Pressure, Retained, Subducted, Subduction, Subjected, Temperature, Volcanic.

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Collaborative Research: Experimental Investigation of Actinide Partitioning in Zircon and its Applications to Geochronology
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Michael J Krawczynski($257,301), Washington University, Saint Louis
2. Noah M McLean($143,550), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Existing Experimental, Naturally Occurring, Partition Coefficients, Accurate, Ago, Correction, Experiments, Geochronology, Geologic, Glass, Isotope, Laboratory, Melt, Parameters, Pb, Techniques, Th, Thorium, U-pb, Uncertainties, Uranium, Zircon.

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Reconstructing Eruption Energetics From Volcanic Ash Morphology and Geochemistry
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Dork L Sahagian($313,531), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
Key terms: Individual Ash Particles, Eruption Energy, Syn-eruptive Bubbles, Volcanic Eruptions, Water Concentration, Amount, Ascent, Below, Depends, Depth, Determining, Diffuse, Dissolved, Explosive, Future, Gas, Glass, Grow, Magma, Near, Nucleated, Observed, Overlying, Pre-eruptive, Rises, Set, Surface, Syn-eruptive, Technique, Threshold, Time, Volcano.

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Conference: Petrochronology 2017
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Matthew J Kohn($15,934), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Graduate Students, Conference, Crystal, Discussion, Geochronology, Igneous, Magma, Metamorphic, Methods, Minerals, Petrology, Rates, Software, Tectonic, Theory, Useful.

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CAREER: Investigating the Impact of Temporal and Spatial Variations on Lava Emplacement Through Numerical and Physical Models
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Einat Lev($597,105), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Effusive Volcanic Eruptions, Flows And Domes, Fluid Mechanics Experiments, Models And Fluid, High-school Students, Lava Effusion, Lava Emplacement, Lava Flows, Numerical Models, Analysis, Collaboration, Environment, Evolution, Hazards, High-school, Influence, Mitigation, Natural, Spatial, Stability, Temporal, Underrepresented.

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Neutrino Geoscience: Geoneutrinos and Heat Production in the Earth
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. William F McDonough($299,080), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Continental Crust, Electron Antineutrinos, Heat Flux, Mantle Convection, Mantle Flux, Mantle's Radiogenic, Plate Tectonics, Radiogenic Heat, Radiogenic Power, Reference Model, Surface Heat, Abundance, Accretion, Amount, Background, China, Coming, Composition, Contribution, Contributions, Define, Defining, Detectors, Distribution, Driving, Earth, Estimates, Fuel, Geodynamo, Geological, Geoneutrino, Geoneutrinos, Global, Heat-producing, Issues, Magnitude, Mantles, Models, Nuclear, Planet, Powers, Predictions, Present-day, Primordial, Proportion, Radioactive, Regional, Relative, Signal, Silicate, Sources, Thorium, Total, Uncertainty, Uranium.

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The Interaction of Pyroclastic Density Currents with the Atmosphere & Landscapes: Integrating Experiments and Computational Approaches for Validation & Examination of Entra
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2017; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Josef Dufek($218,968), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Entrainment And Erosion, Fluid Dynamics, Numerical Simulation, Particle Concentration, Atmosphere, Capacity, Current, Currents, Dangerous, Density, Evolving, Experiments, Internal, Models, Observation, PDC, People, Processes, Range, Relate, Simulations.

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NSFGEO-NERC: An Investigation into the Possible Co-evolution of Si and O Isotopes in Igneous Rocks and Minerals From the Hadean to Present
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2017; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Dustin Trail($304,034), University of Rochester, Rochester
Key terms: Water-rock Interactions, Ago, Ancient, Billion, Crust, Crystals, Eon, Experimental, Geochemistry, Information, Isotope, Laboratory, Mineral, O-, Rochester, Si-, Specifically, Teachers, Technology, Was, Water-rock, Zircon.

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Insights into Hawaiian Magma Storage and Melt/Crust Interaction from Geochemical and Petrologic Investigation of Xenoliths from Hualalai and Mauna Kea Volcanoes
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2017; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. John C Lassiter($317,000), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Hawaiian Magma Storage, Shield And Post-shield, Earth's Interior, Hawaiian Lavas, Hawaiian Magmas, Hawaiian Volcanoes, Loa-trend Volcanoes, Volcanic Hazard, Affect, Allow, Assimilation, Batches, Compositional, Compositions, Crust, Crystalline, Cumulates, Depth, Depths, Discrete, Does, Erupted, Eruption, Evolution, Examine, Explosive, Heterogeneities, Influence, Insights, Interaction, Isotopic, Loa-trend, Mantle, Melt, Meltlithosphere, Mixing, Nature, Plumbing, Plutonic, Post-shield-stage, Processes, Rock, Significantly, Surface, Trace, Varies, Volcanism, Xenoliths.

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U-Pb Thermochronology of Lower Crustal Xenoliths: Estimating Moho Temperature in Order to Constrain Crustal Heat Production
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2017; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Roberta L Rudnick($394,453), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Surface Heat Flow, Accessory Phases, Continental Crust, Heat Flowing, Heat Generated, Abundances, Basaltic, Combination, Decay, HPE, Has, Hpes, Mantle, Pb, Temperature, Xenoliths.

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Advances in Crystal Growth: Experimental and Microscopic Study of Olivine Phosphorus Zoning
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2017; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Benoit T Welsch($395,566), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Chemical Composition, Crystal Growth, Experimental Products, Heating Stage, Magma Chambers, Thermal Gradient, Allow, Cooled, Core, Crystallization, Crystals, Dendritic, Earth, Electron, Experiments, Formation, Mantle, Melt, Meteorites, Microscope, Olivine, P-rich, Petrology, Rapid, Rates, Shown, Superheating, Volcanic, Zoning.

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Collaborative research: Andean Plutonic Perspectives on Generation, Storage, and Eruption of Rhyolite
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2017; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Blair Schoene($89,977), Princeton University, Princeton
2. Bradley S Singer($254,025), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
3. John M Cottle($86,426), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Individual Magma Batches, Plutonic Complex, Southern Andes, Aim, Chile, Compositional, Compositions, Crust, Crystal, Eruption, Establish, Formation, Granite, Melt, Minerals, Modeling, Plumbing, Plutons, Processes, Rhyolite, Risco, Rock, Thermal, Timescales, Volcanic.

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EAR-PF: An Experimental Investigation of the Rheological Behavior and Seismic Anisotropy Signature of Deep Crustal Amphibole-Rich Rocks
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2018; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Cailey B Condit($174,000), Condit Cailey B, Boulder
Key terms: Strength And Deformation, Amphibole-rich Rocks, Continuous Deformation, Deep Crust, Deformation Mechanisms, Deformed Amphibole, Experimentally Deformed, Naturally Deformed, Rock Deformation, Seismic Anisotropy, Allow, Amphibole-rich, Directly, Facilities, Geologic, Geophysicists, Observations, Pressures, Signals, Temperatures, Zones.

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EAR-PF: Climate sensitivity in mountain lakes of the Sierra Nevada, CA: controls on thermal regimes and carbon cycling
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2018; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Adrianne P Smits($174,000), Smits Adrianne P, Seattle
Key terms: Elevation Lake Temperature, Lake Heat Budgets, Ecosystem Metabolism, Mountain Lakes, Achieve, Algorithms, Carbon, Climate, Controls, Davis, Landscape, Models, Objective, Quantify, Snowmelt.

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EAR PF CLARIFYING MAMMALIAN RESPONSES TO ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: IMPROVING NICHE MODELING THROUGH THE INTEGRATION OF CLIMATE AND DIETARY INFORMATION
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2018; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Melissa I Pardi($174,000), Pardi Melissa I, Albuquerque
Key terms: Species Distribution, Aridity, Distributions, Fossil, Isotope, Models, Modern, School, Students, Tools.

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EAR-PF: Mapping Belowground Processes Using Remotely Measured Foliar Chemistry
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Katherine D Chadwick($174,000), Chadwick Katherine D, San Francisco
Key terms: Carbon And Nutrient, Nutrient Stocks, Soil Carbon, Spatial Scales, Chemistry, Education, Ground, Inventories, Map, Methodology, Models, Remotely, Subsurface.

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EAR PF: The Stability of Viscous Lavas: Understanding the Driving Processes and Greatest Hazards
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2017; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Brett B Carr($174,000), Carr Brett B, Flagstaff
Key terms: Aerial And Thermal, Active Silicic, Effusive Eruptions, Internal Structure, Thermal Photography, Volcano Observatories, Activities, Assessment, Colima, Collapse, Collect, Domes, Dtms, Education, Emerging, Field, Flowdome, Flows, Guatemala, Hazard, Indonesia, Instabilities, Instability, Investigation, LDEO, Lava, Mexico, Precursors, Processes, Risk, Santiaguito, Sinabung, Stability, Topographic.

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EAR-PF: Mesozoic Geomagnetic Field Behavior: Exploring Mesozoic core dynamics by tuning numerical geodynamo simulations to paleomagnetic observations
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2017; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Margaret S Avery($174,000), Avery Margaret S, Berkeley
Key terms: Dynamics And Core-mantle, Polarity Reversal Rate, Core Dynamics, Education Activities, Field Strength, Geodynamo Simulations, Geomagnetic Field, Magnetic Field, Numerical Geodynamo, Polarity Reversals, Average, Earth, Evolution, Has, Million, Myr, Paleomagnetic, Rock, Times, Varies, Was.

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EAR-PF: A new archive of Paleoarchean ocean chemistry: the 3.24 Ga Panorama volcanogenic massive sulfide district, Western Australia
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2017; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Benjamin W Johnson($174,000), Johnson Benjamin W, Victoria
Key terms: Altered Oceanic Crust, Paleoarchean Mineral Chemistry, Paleoarchean Ocean, Archive, Biogeochemistry, Colorado, Education, Evolution, Focus, Has, Hydrothermal, Sedimentary, Utilized.

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EAR-PF: Volume flux comparison using seismically derived tilt, infrasound, and gas data at Stromboli Volcano, Italy
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Kathleen F McKee($174,000), McKee Kathleen F, Fairbanks
Key terms: Input And Output, Output Volume Flux, Acoustic Sources, Stromboli Volcano, Volume Input, Activity, Education, Eruption, Gas, Infrasound, Italy, Multigas, Quantitatively, Seismo-acoustic, Subsequent, Subsurface, Techniques, Tilt, Via, Volcanoes.

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EAR-PF: Properties of the shallow crust around the San Jacinto Fault Zone characterized by joint geodetic and seismic analysis
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Christopher W Johnson($174,000), Johnson Christopher W, Berkeley
Key terms: Earthquake Detection, Fault Zone, Plate Boundary, Regional Seismic, Advance, Array, California, Characterize, Crust, Deformation, Dense, Deployment, Depth, Earthquakes, Ground, Gt, Microseismic, Networks, Noise, Previously, Processes, Properties, SAF, SJFZ, San, Surface, Techniques.

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EAR-PF: A Spatially Explicit, Process-Based Model of Regional Lake Carbon Cycling
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Jacob A Zwart($174,000), Zwart Jacob A, Notre Dame
Key terms: Geological Survey Office, Lake Carbon Cycling, Lake Carbon Fluxes, Regional And Global, Carbon Cycle, Complex Interactions, Emergent Properties, Global Lake, Land Cover, Modeling Framework, Postdoctoral Fellow, Water Information, Accompanying, Climate, Datasets, Education, Enhance, Has, Increased, Lakes, Models, Rates, Scaling, Spatially-explicit.

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EAR-PF: Mapping the effects of drought on human evolution and East African ecosystems during the late Pleistocene using triple oxygen isotopes and bulk geochemistry in paleosols
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Emily J Beverly($152,250), Beverly Emily J, San Antonio
Key terms: Oxygen Isotope Proxy, Triple Oxygen Isotope, East Africa, Modern Serengeti, Education, Encourage, Evaporation, Expand, Geochemical, Humans, Michigan, Paleoenvironmental, Paleosols, Proxies, Reconstruct, Region, Soils, Th.

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Coastal SEES Collaborative Research: Effects of restoration and redevelopment on nitrogen dynamics in an urban coastal watershed
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: SEES Coastal

1. Lawrence E Band($48,965), University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville
Key terms: Social And Economic, Status And Distance, Stream And Watershed, Watershed Restoration Efforts, Coastal Sustainability, Excess Nitrogen, Green Infrastructure, Nitrogen Benefits, Socio-economic Status, Stream Restoration, Water Quality, Baltimore, Biophysical, Citizen, Complex, Critical, Effects, Environmental, Factors, Garbage, Globe, Interventions, Knowledge, Residents, Socio-economic, Urban, Urbanization.

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Hazards SEES Type 2: Magnitude 9 Earthquake Scenarios - Probabilistic Modeling, Warnings, Response and Resilience in the Pacific Northwest
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2013; Program: SEES Hazards

1. Alison R Duvall($2,937,478), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Fault Motion, Built, Cascadia, Challenges, Chile, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Effects, Estimation, Forecasting, Hazard, Hazards, Japan, Landslides, Liquefaction, Losses, Motions, Natural, Numerical, Planning, Probabilistic, Reducing, Risk, Scenarios, Shaking, Subduction, Tsunamis, Warning.

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Near Continent Intraplate Magmatism in the Atlantic: Implications for Mantle Dynamics and Melting
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Esteban Gazel($276,249), Cornell University, Ithaca
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.

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CSEDI: Geochemical Evolution of the Earth's Mantle Constrained by Observations and Dynamical Modeling
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Peter van Keken($293,800), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Continental Crust, Convective Motions, Earth's Interior, Mantle Layering, Tectonic Plates, Tracer Particles, Atmosphere, CMB, Compressible, Deep, Eroded, Evolution, Flow, Geochemical, Geochemistry, Geologic, Has, Information, Isotope, Knowledge, Melting, Millions, Mix, Mixing, Model, Models, Numerical, Phase, Rate, Realistic, Surface, Viscosity, Volcanoes.

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CSEDI Collab. Research: A joint mineral physics and nano-seismological study on high-pressure faulting in metastable olivine and harzburgite with implications to deep earthquakes
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Yanbin Wang($373,999), University of Chicago, Chicago
2. Lupei Zhu($193,774), Saint Louis University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Oceanic Lithosphere, State-of-the-art Seismological, Subduction Zone, AE, Conditions, Deformation, Depths, Developed, Dfeqs, Dominant, Earthquakes, Experimental, Laboratory, Mechanisms, Mineral, Models, Physics, Pressure, Pressures, Processes, Rock, Seismic, Source, State-of-the-art, Strain, Temperature.

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CSEDI: Compositional heterogeneity and seismic anisotropy near the 410 km discontinuity
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Jin Zhang($369,931), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Content And Water, Water Concentration Near, Dense Regional, Mineral Physics, Olivine Content, Abundance, Anisotropic, Arrays, Boundary, Combined, Composition, Compositional, Depth, Discontinuity, Earth, Estimate, Fraction, Funding, Global, Has, Mantle, Mixing, Properties, Rock, Seismic, Sound, Spatial, Students, Transition, Velocity, Volcanic, Wadsleyite.

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CSEDI Collaborative Research: Chemistry and Dynamic Implications of Heterogeneous Fe and Si in the Deep Lower Mantle
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2017; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Catherine A Macris($29,130), Indiana University, Bloomington
2. Susannah Dorfman($375,194), Michigan State University, East Lansing
Key terms: Density And Viscosity, Iron And Silicon, Compositional Differences, Lower Mantle, Variable Amounts, Age, Compositions, Constraints, Earth, Effects, Experiments, Obtained, Pressures, Properties, Provinces, Regions, Resulting, Seismology, Shear, Simulations, Temperature, Velocity.

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2017 Interior of the Earth GRC/GRS
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Edward J Garnero($45,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Graduate Students, Conference, Deep, Diverse, Earth, Evolution, Exchange, Field, Focus, GRC, GRS, Gordon, Interior, June, Seminar, Theme.

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SAVI: LIFE: Linked Institutions for Future Earth
Award Effective Date: 12/20/2016; Program: Science Across Virtual Instits

1. Efi Foufoula-Georgiou($570,084), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: International Exchange, Theme-based Focused, Virtual Institute, Actionable, Approach, Campaigns, Establish, Experimental, Future, Graduate, LIFE, Programs, Public, Shared, Sharing, Surface, Sustainability, Theme-based, Theoretical, Vulnerability.

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Collaborative Research: Tracking Middle-late Paleozoic Global-ocean Redox Conditions Using U Isotopes in Marine Carbonates
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Thomas J Algeo($130,812), University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati
2. Jennifer L Morford($102,615), Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster
3. Stephen J Romaniello($141,070), Arizona State University, Tempe
4. Maya Elrick($331,235), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Ancient Oceans, Global-ocean Redox, Marine Carbonates, Mass Extinctions, Oxygen Concentrations, Thousand Yearssample, Curve, Global-ocean, History, Interval, Intervals, Isotopes, Levels, Million, Multiple, Time, Transition.

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Collaborative Research: Faunal Composition, Provinciality and Paleobiolgy of a Late Cretaceous Arctic Vertebrate Assemblage Revealed Through Cross-Latitudinal Comparisons
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Patrick S Druckenmiller($231,454), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
2. Julio C Sepulveda($92,221), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
3. Gregory M Erickson($131,126), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Alaska, Animals, Arctic, Dinosaurs, Distribution, Diverse, Faunal, Growth, Latitudes, Mammals, Physiology, Polar, Students, Temperature.

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Collaborative Research: Understanding the Late Paleozoic Icehouse from a Southern Hemisphere (Paranaì Basin, Brazil) paleo-perspective
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. John L Isbell($205,738), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
2. Qing-zhu Yin($355,168), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: High-precision Chronostratigraphic Framework, High-precision Chronostratigraphic, Late Paleozoic, Parana Basin, Terminal Deglaciation, Climate, Complete, Constraints, Glacial, Glaciation, Icehouse, Past, Permit, Timing, U-pb, Zircon.

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Collaborative Research: Collaborative Research: Understanding the Late Paleozoic Icehouse from a Southern Hemisphere (Paranaì Basin, Brazil) paleo-perspective
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Roland Mundil($208,377), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
Key terms: High-precision Chronostratigraphic Framework, High-precision Chronostratigraphic, Late Paleozoic, Parana Basin, Terminal Deglaciation, Climate, Complete, Constraints, Glacial, Glaciation, Icehouse, Past, Permit, Timing, U-pb, Zircon.

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RUI: Paleobiology of the Eocene Giraffe Fossil Locality: Response of an Arctic Ecosystem to a Greenhouse Climate
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Peter A Siver($226,763), Connecticut College, New London
Key terms: Arctic Lake Ecosystem, Greenhouse World, Climate, Conditions, Document, Ecosystems, Existed, Fossil, Giraffe, Microfossil, Numerous, Organisms, Reconstruct, Warm.

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Pleistocene to Recent Environments and Species Distributions on the California Coast
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Jessica R Bean($333,879), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Environmental Conditions, Environmental Ranges, Interglacial Complex, Isotope Profiles, Late Pleistocene, Mollusk Species, Species Distributions, California, Coastal, Economically, Environments, Fossil, Implying, Individuals, Lived, Models, Modern, Paleoenvironmental, Reconstruct, Shells, Stability.

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Drivers of Selective Mass Extinction: Insight from Integrated Paleontological and Geochemical Records
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Anjali M Fernandes($277,381), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Late Devonian, Collections, Component, Databases, Earth, Extinction, Fossil, Global, Local, Mass, Paleoenvironmental, Preference, Proxy, Range, Ranges, Species, Stratigraphic.

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Collaborative Research: Paleoecology of Jurassic Terrestrial Landscapes
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Robert Eagle($71,779), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2. Neil M Tabor($117,061), Southern Methodist University, Dallas
Key terms: Ancient Ecosystems, Graduate Student, Isotope Analysis, Junggar Basin, Late Jurassic, Northwestern China, Paleosol Calcite, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Biodiversity, Carbon, Climate, Climates, Estimates, Global, Inform, Middle, Modern, Productivity, Students.

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CAREER: Investigating Controls of Exceptional Fossil Preservation
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2017; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. James D Schiffbauer($698,865), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Burgess Shale, Burgess Shale-type, Laboratory-based Decay, Soft-tissue Fossil, Analyses, Animal, Approaches, Biological, Earliest, Education, Focus, Fossilization, Fossils, Has, History, Laboratory-based, Life, Mineralization, Picture, Preservation, Processes, STEM, Shale-type, Soft-tissue, Taphonomic.

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CAREER: Parasites, Sea Level Rise, and Ecosystem Dynamics: Investigating the Pattern and Process of Increasing Trematode Prevalence During Transgression
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2017; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. John W Huntley($522,321), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Sea Level Rise, Parasitic Flatworms, Undergraduate Students, Clams, Columns, Course, Curriculum, Development, Ecosystems, Education, Environmental, Environments, Factors, Food, Fossil, Geological, Geology, Has, Missouri, Parasites, Perspective, Processes, Respond, Responded, Techniques, Time, Variety.

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Assessing the Paleoecology and Taphonomy of the New Early Jurassic Ya Ha Tinda Lagerst?tte (Canada) and the Significance of the Toarcian Ocean Anoxic Event
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2017; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Rowan C Martindale($380,306), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Ya Ha Tinda, Oceanic Anoxic, Soft Tissue, Analyzed, Compare, Deposit, Deposits, Extinction, Fossils, Global, Information, Jurassic, Preservation, Rock.

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CAREER: A Late Triassic Origin for Modern Marine Predator-prey Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2017; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Lydia S Tackett($512,202), North Dakota State University Fargo, Fargo
Key terms: Fossiliferous Bulk, Late Triassic, Abundance, Ecological, Environmental, Marine, Modern, Predator, Predator-prey, Prey, Regions.

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Biological Consequences of Environmental Change in the Bivalve, Astarte: Relationships Between Lifespan, Growth Rate, and Cold vs. Warm Climate States
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2017; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Donna Surge($392,529), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Modern And Fossil, Rate And Lifespan, Biogeographic Distribution, Biological Consequences, Coastal Plains, Growth Rate, Shell Growth, Affect, Annual, Astarte, Atlantic, Climate, Educational, Environmental, Establish, Future, Live, Populations, Program, Range, STEM, Seasonal, Size, Students, Teachers, Temperature, Writing.

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International Conference on Rock Magnetism
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2017; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Dario Bilardello($29,000), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Rock Magnetism, Field, Geoscience, Interdisciplinary, International, Partial, Students, Utrecht.

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Collaborative Research: India at the Crossroads--Biotic Change in Continental Vertebrates Across the Cretaceous-Paleogene
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Systematics & Biodiversity Sci

1. Jeffrey A Wilson Mantilla($148,959), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. Paul R Renne($131,762), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
3. Gregory P Wilson Mantilla($200,201), University of Washington, Seattle
4. Thomas S Tobin($69,981), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
Key terms: Geological And Paleontological, Virtual Field, Allow, Continent, Deccan, Effects, Geographic, Indias, Ivfts, Land, Led, Organisms, Time, Via.

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How effective is effective stress? The evolution of the effective stress law through the brittle-ductile transition
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2018; Program: Tectonics

1. Hannah S Rabinowitz($174,000), Rabinowitz Hannah S, New York
Key terms: Effective Stress Law, Brittle-ductile Transition, Deformation Experiments, Microstructural Analyses, Pore Fluid, Allow, BDT, Brittle-ductile, Brown, Characterize, Conditions, Controls, Crust, Earthquakes, Education, Evolution, Imaging, Mechanical, Microscopy, Pressure, Quartz, Strength, Water, Zone.

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Participant Support for a GSA Thompson Field Forum: Processes controlling the growth and evolution of continental batholiths, Coast Mountains British Columbia Canada
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: Tectonics

1. Harold H Stowell($21,810), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
Key terms: Coast Mountains Batholith, Field Stops, Flux Magmatic, Geological Society, Batholiths, Enhance, Examine, Faculty, Forum, Mechanisms, Participants, Strike, Translational.

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Collaborative Research: RUI: Translation and Accretion of the Yakutat Microplate and Prince William Terrane, Alaska
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Tectonics

1. John I Garver($230,668), Union College, Schenectady
2. Cameron Davidson($232,557), Carleton College, Northfield
Key terms: Chugach And Prince, Prince William Terranes, Detrital Zircon, Fission Track, Pacific Northwest, Radiation Damage, Southern Alaska, Translation History, Yakutat Terrane, Ages, Analytical, Approach, Colliding, Cordillera, Dating, Development, Faults, Geological, Has, Igneous, Margin, National, Originated, Participation, Public, STEM, Scenarios, Students, Techniques, Transport, Undergraduate, Upb, Was.

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Using Micromechanical Experiments to Investigate the Rheology of Geologic Materials
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Tectonics

1. Rohan Mishra($447,438), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Micromechanical Methods, Micropillar Compression, Plate Tectonics, Conditions, Deformation, Development, Earth, Electron, Experiments, Force, Geologic, Mantle, Minerals, Nanoindentation, Nanometers, Natural, Performed, Properties, Public, Rheology, STEM, Specimen.

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Structural Geology and Tectonics Forum at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, January 4-9, 2018
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Tectonics

1. J Ramon Arrowsmith($34,599), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Geology And Tectonics, Field Trips, Graduate Students, Short Course, Structural Geology, Tectonics Forum, Advances, Applied, Arizona, Bring, Building, Contribute, Contributing, Current, Developments, Discussions, Education, Evolution, Examine, Faculty, Future, Interaction, Meeting, Methods, Opportunity, Presentations, STEM, Session, Sessions, Teaching, Tempe, Topics, Useful.

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Collaborative Research: Structural Constraints on Microcontinent Formation, Gulf of California
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Tectonics

1. Joann M Stock($381,274), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
2. Seulgi Moon($329,083), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Andor Cosmogenic Radionuclide, Cosmogenic Radionuclide Dating, Luminescence Andor Cosmogenic, Plate Boundary Faults, Active Faults, Geomorphic Surfaces, Graduate Students, Marine Terraces, Resource Exploration, Sea Level, Bedrock, Boundaries, Buried, CICESE, Caltech, Collect, Continent, Detailed, Development, Field, Geological, IAG, International, Mapping, Microcontinent, Microcontinents, Models, Outreach, Pieces, Public, Rifting, Structures, Techniques, Timing, Transform, UCLA.

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Collaborative Research: RUI: Reconstructing the Plastic-to-Brittle Exhumation History of the Taiwan Metamorphic Core
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Tectonics

1. Jonathan C Lewis($162,429), Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana
2. Timothy B Byrne($245,452), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Overprinting Brittle Structures, Central Range, Metamorphic Core, Metamorphic Rocks, Mountain Belt, Normal Displacement, Seismic Tomography, Shear Zones, Taiwanese Scientists, Tananao Schist, Undergraduate Students, Accommodate, Active, Collision, Deformation, Dipping, East, Eastern, Exhumation, Extension, Faults, Geometry, Graduate, Margin, Mechanisms, Model, Plastic-to-brittle, STEM, Taiwans, Uplift, West.

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Bulk rheology of fault damage zone materials and its implication for interseismic fault mechanics
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Tectonics

1. Hiroki Sone($338,895), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Damage Zone Rocks, Interseismic Tectonic Loading, Chelungpu Fault, Fault Damage, Fault Mechanics, Fault Plane, Off-fault Deformation, Behavior, Characteristics, Collaboration, Conditions, Constitutive, Core, Ductile, Earthquake, Experiments, Faults, Focuses, Frictional, Models, Numerical, Off-fault, Phenomena, Plate, Process, Properties, Stress, Surrounding, Taiwan, Time-dependent.

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Deep Structure of Lithospheric Fault Zones
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Tectonics

1. John P Platt($277,851), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Shear Zone Rheology, Shear Zone Width, Strain-rate And Temperature, Fault Zone, Simplon Fault, Swiss Alps, Active, Aim, Aims, Analysis, Calculated, Characteristics, Deformation, Depth, Determination, Determining, Displacement, Exhumed, Field, Function, Lithosphere, Methods, Motion, Plate, Plus, Quartz, Reconstruct, STEM, Scaling, Seismogenic, Stress, Time, Undergraduate, Well-studied, Zones.

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Collaborative Research: Documenting the transition from contraction to extension in the Ruby-East Humboldt-Wood Hills Metamorphic Core Complex, Southwestern U.S. Cordillera
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Tectonics

1. Caroline B Meisner($68,318), Great Basin College, Elko
2. James R Metcalf($147,255), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
3. Allen J McGrew($206,620), University of Dayton, Dayton
Key terms: Basin And Range, East Humboldt Range, Hills Metamorphic Core, Humboldt Range Wood, Metamorphic Core Complexes, Mountains East Humboldt, Range Wood Hills, Ruby Mountains East, Wood Hills Metamorphic, Exhumational Histories, Northeastern Nevada's, Ago, Bridge, Commonly, Cordillera, Creating, Cretaceous, Crust, Deep-crustal, Deeper, Deformation, Directly, Disparate, Economic, Educational, Educators, Engagement, Evidence, Extension, Extensional, Extreme, Field, Focus, Focusing, Gap, Geologic, Geology, Geoscience, Has, Highlight, History, Levels, Million, Miocene, Nevadas, Outreach, Processes, Protracted, Province, Ranges, Reconcile, Rock, STEM, Section, Shallower, Structural, Students, Syntectonic, Tectonic, Temperature, Thermochronometry, Thick, Timing, Training, Tutorials, Widely, Widespread, Yield.

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Rare Earth Elements Tracing Crustal Evolution Through Time: A Detrital Zircon Study
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Tectonics

1. George E Gehrels($212,633), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Intermediate Igneous Rocks, Crustal Thickness, Trace Elemental, Age, Archean, Continent, Dynamic, Especially, Focus, Geochemical, Has, Modern, Plate, Processes, Stages, Subduction, Tectonic, Time.

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Ductile strain in the footwall of a metamorphic core complex: A field example to test models for dynamics, timescales, and controls of mid-crustal flow.
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Tectonics

1. James J Vogl($110,633), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Isostatically Induced Flow, Core Complex, Future Scientists, Highly Localized, Numerical Models, Undergraduate Students, Analysis, Analytical, Controls, Convergent, Crust, Detailed, Dikes, Educational, Extension, Facilities, Field, Florida, Geochronology, Graduate, Lead, Levels, Lineation, Metamorphic, Mountain, Opportunity, Process, Region, STEM, Stretching, Structures, Thinning, Transition, Weak.

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Collaborative Research: Displacement history of the Pearya terrane, Ellesmere Island - evaluating a strike-slip origin for the Canadian Arctic margin
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: Tectonics

1. Jane A Gilotti($273,378), University of Iowa, Iowa City
2. Justin V Strauss($141,662), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Canadian Arctic Margin, Pearya Terrane, Southern Boundary, Analysis, Assemblage, Basement, Contribute, Critical, Crust, Displacement, Evolution, Fault, Geologic, Greenland, Has, Model, Models, North, Observations, STEM, Shared, Stratigraphic, Strike-slip, Structural, Structures, Tectonic, Timing, Was.

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Evolving work budget of fault initiation, linkage and growth within accretionary systems
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: Tectonics

1. Michele Cooke($299,414), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Computer Models, Crack Coalescence, Fault Development, Fault Growth, Faults Grow, Laboratory Experiments, Nankai Trough, Subduction Zone, Accretion, Accretionary, Active, Allow, Code, Crust, Damaging, Deformation, Distribution, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Energy, Evolution, Fracture, Fractures, Geologists, Has, Initial, Interaction, Localization, Observations, Prism, Run, STEM, Scaled, Simulate, Simulated, Strain.

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Formation of the metamorphic sole of the Semail ophiolite: High-precision U-Pb dating of the preserved remnants of a subducted slab
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2017; Program: Tectonics

1. Matthew E Rioux($231,072), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Formation And Emplacement, Arab Emirates, Metamorphic Rocks, Metamorphic Sole, Semail Ophiolite, Subduction Zones, Below, Crust, Dating, Exposures, Has, High-precision, Initiation, Insight, Metamorphism, Ophiolites, Origin, Plate, Tectonic, U-pb, Was.

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Collaborative Research: Punctuated versus gradual topographic evolution of Cordilleran-style orogenic belts
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2017; Program: Tectonics

1. Michael T Hren($262,315), University of Connecticut, Storrs
2. Mark T Brandon($181,896), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Rises And Falls, Topography Repeatedly Rises, Cordilleran Orogens, Crustal Shortening, Granitic Batholiths, Mountain Belts, Mountain Building, Patagonian Andes, Precipitation Isotopes, Sierra Nevada, Argue, Atmospheric, Beneath, Cascades, Competing, Cretaceous, Episodic, Lithosphere, Model, Numerical, Particular, Processes, Protracted, Reconstruct, Removal, Sedimentary, Southern, Sub-arc, Subduction, Theories, Topographic.

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INFEWS/T1: Intensification in the world's largest agricultural frontier: Integrating food production, water use, energy demand, and environmental integrity in a changing climate
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Track 1 INFEWS

1. Christopher Neill($2,430,984), Woodwell Climate Research Center, Inc., Falmouth
Key terms: Agricultural Intensification, Changing Climate, Crop Management, Increased Food, Intensive Agriculture, Land Surface, Advance, Amazon, Available, Brazil, Brazilian, Cerrado, Contribute, Cropping, Crops, Demands, Development, Direct, Energy, Federal, Forests, Global, Government, Greenhouse, Habitats, Increasing, Investigate, Models, Potential, Quality, Soybeans, Tropical, Vulnerability, Water, Widely, Woodlands.

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INFEWS/T1: Advancing FEW System Resilience in the Corn Belt by Integrated Technology-Environment-Economics Modeling of Nutrient Cycling
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Track 3 INFEWS

1. Benjamin M Gramig($2,431,217), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Energy And Water, Nutrient And Sediment, Corn Belt, Perennial Grasses, Resilience Analysis, Sediment Loss, Watershed Resilience, Activities, Approach, Critical, Development, Economic, Enhance, Environmental, Ethanol, Extension, Food, Grain, ITEEM, Influence, Integrated, Knowledge, Makers, Management, Modeling, Nexus, Opportunities, Particular, Phosphorus, Pollution, Practices, Region, Sectors, Stakeholder, Strategies, Supply, Technologies, Testbed, Testing, Threats, Tool, Various, Via, Wastewater, Watersheds.

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Community Facility Support: The UCLA National Ion Microprobe
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2017; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Timothy M Harrison($2,133,978), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Ucla Ion Microprobe, Mass Spectrometer, National Facility, Stable Isotope, Access, Activities, Age, Analyses, Analysis, Applications, Bulk, Continue, Discoveries, Emerged, Expensive, External, Geochemistry, Geochronology, Geosciences, Ims, Instruments, Isotopic, Laboratory, Methods, Monitors, Permit, Range, Rich, Situ, Solar, Students, Theses.

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RAPID: Transformation of Elemental Mercury Dispersed by Flooding During Hurricane Harvey
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2017; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Jeffra K Schaefer($50,000), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Floodplain And River, Jacinto River Sediments, San Jacinto River, Contaminated Sediments, Elemental Mercury, Geochemical Controls, Hurricane Harvey, Laboratory Experiments, Mercury Concentrations, Mercury Methylation, Nsf Funds, Public Health, Undergraduate Students, Anaerobic, Collected, Conditions, Contamination, Dispersed, Environmental, Hg, Liquid, Methylmercury, Microbial, Rutgers.

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Early Career: Acquisition of a MC-ICP-MS for Research and Education in U-series Geochemistry and Applications in Geosciences
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Andrea Dutton($693,780), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Sea Level Rise, Wide Range, Advances, Allow, Applications, Capabilities, Climate, Enabling, Existing, Instrument, Instrumentation, MC-ICP-MS, Past, Programs, Reconstructions.

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Acquisition of New Excimer Laser Ablation System for a High Resolution ICPMS Facility
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Robinson Cecil($299,134), The University Corporation, Northridge, Northridge
Key terms: Mass Spectrometry Facility, Rocks And Constraints, Timing And Growth, Accessory Mineral, Laser Ablation, Mass Spectrometer, Allow, Analysis, Applications, Conditions, Coupled, Crust, Csu-northridge, Dating, Determining, Existing, Laboratory, Minerals, Pis, Variety.

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SusChEM: EAGER - The occurrence and distribution of hexavalent chromium and other contaminants in groundwater from aquifers of the Eastern United States
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Avner Vengosh($137,657), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Naturally Occurring Contaminants, Drinking Water, Hexavalent Chromium, Aquifers, Arsenic, Control, Distribution, EAGER, Eastern, Establish, Factors, Geochemical, Groundwater, Has, Information, Occurrence, Sources, Vanadium.

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Collaborative Research: Assessing the response of tropical temperature to global forcings since the Last Glacial Maximum
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. James M Russell($249,801), Brown University, Providence
2. Alice M Doughty($376,997), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Lake Sediment Cores, Global Climate, Rwenzori Mountains, Tropical Climate, Extents, Glacial, Ice, Temperature, Tropics, Uganda.

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SusChEM: Exploring Links Among U, Fe, and Hydrocarbon Movement in the Paradox Basin, Colorado Plateau
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Isabel F Barton($98,482), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Alteration Minerals, Colorado Plateau, Fluid Inclusion, Focus Sites, Isotopic Analyses, Mass Transport, Paradox Basin, Sedimentary Basins, Uranium Mineralization, Connections, Copper, Deposition, Distribution, Evolution, Gas, Geochemical, Geological, Host, Hydrocarbon, Hydrocarbons, Iron, Localized, Mapping, Metal, Migration, Mobility, Model, Movement, Oil, Provinces, Redistribution, Represent, Resource, Resources, Rock, Single, Stratigraphic.

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Study of water solubility in bridgmanite at the lower mantle conditions
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Jiuhua Chen($423,286), Florida International University, Miami
Key terms: Pressure And Water, Sintered Diamond Anvils, Earth's Interior, Lower Mantle, Mantle Dominant, Transition Zone, Water Concentration, Water Fugacity, Water Solubility, Water Storage, Water Uptake, Bridgmanite, Capability, Crystal, Deep, FTIR, Inclusions, Influence, Mass, Mineral, Minerals, Multi-anvil, Oceans, Produce, Serving, Size, Specimens, Structure, Students, Synthesized.

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Laboratory Technician Support: Expanding the capacity for U-Pb geochronology at Princeton University
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Blair Schoene($749,050), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Precision And Accuracy, Geochronology Labs, Time Constraints, U-pb Dates, U-pb Geochronology, Additional, Capacity, Demand, Department, Development, Efforts, Expand, External, Facilities, Geologic, Geosciences, Graduate, Has, High-precision, Host, Increase, Increasing, Integration, Laboratory, Method, Operations, Outside, Princeton, Processes, Range, Rates, Reliable, Required, Stratigraphic, Students, Technical, U-pb, Users.

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Collaborative Research: Evaluating the Rheological Structure of the North Anatolian Fault Zone, Turkey
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Laurent Montesi($120,132), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
2. Basil Tikoff($304,438), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Active Strike-slip Fault, Anatolian Fault Zone, Izmit And Dücze, North Anatolian Fault, Active Strike-slip, Ductile Layers, Dücze Earthquakes, Fault Zones, Geodynamic Modeling, Layers Interact, Middle Crust, San Andreas, Seismic Cycle, Strike-slip Fault, Strike-slip Faults, Tectonic Plate, Tectonic Plates, Upper Mantle, Behavior, Brittle, Brought, Comparing, Deformation, Exposures, Lithosphere, Lithospheric, Mechanical, Mid-crustal, Models, Region, Rheological, Rock, Specifically, Strength, Stress, Strongest, Surface, Turkey, Unique, Was, Xenoliths.

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Dynamic fragmentation and inelastic energy partitioning at the base of the seismogenic zone
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2017; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Senthil Vel($407,169), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Active Faults, Damage Zones, Energy Budget, Fragment Size, Ground Shaking, San Andreas, Seismic Waves, Seismogenic Zone, Shear Zone, Analysis, Brittle, Characterize, Deeper, Earthquake, Elastic, Exhumed, Fragmentation, Garnet, Grains, Importance, Information, Mineral, Modeling, Objectives, Propagation, Properties, Protocols, Quantitatively, Rock, STEM, Source, Speed.

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Collaborative Research: Calibration of Thermochemical Models using Bayesian Methods--Building MELTS 2.0.
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Aaron S Wolf($274,066), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. Mark S Ghiorso($71,271), OFM Research, Seattle
Key terms: Melts Model, Model Prediction, Molten Rocks, Statistical Methods, Thermodynamic Models, Bayesian, Calibration, Conditions, Database, Enabling, Evolution, Experimental, Experiments, Geologic, Modeling, Oceans, Planetary, Planets, Processes, Properties, Solid, Techniques, Tools, Users, Variety.

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Mapping Fine-Scale Structure in Earth's Inner Core With a Global Array of Seismic Arrays
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Keith D Koper($270,000), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Pre-critical Pkikp Coda, Solid Inner Core, Coda Waves, Graduate Student, International Monitoring, Magma Ocean, Pre-critical Pkikp, Scattering Strength, Seismic Arrays, Collaboration, Dense, Earth, Fluid, Formed, Global, Has, IMS, LANL, Map, Models, Origin, Outer, Radius, Range, Regional, Structure, Subtle, Utah, Visit.

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Experimental Study of Mineral Solubility in Fluids of the Deep Crust and Upper Mantle
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Craig E Manning($468,247), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Crust And Upper, Crustal And Mantle, Deep Crust, Rocks Deform, Upper Mantle, Wide Range, Alkaline, Chemistry, Conditions, Constraints, Earth, Experiments, Fluids, Melting, Models, Play, Solubility.

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CAREER: Advancing predictive understanding of hydrologic exchange in the river corridor
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Adam S Ward($716,530), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: River Corridor Exchange, River Corridor Perspective, Setting And Hydrologic, Spatial And Temporal, Geologic Setting, Geomorphic Features, Hydrologic Forcing, Predictive Relationships, River Corridors, Temporal Scales, Considers, Contaminants, Continuum, Dynamic, Education, Energy, Fate, Hillslope, Integrated, K-, Range, Solutes, Surface, Transport, Undergraduate, Utilize, Water, Zone.

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Collaborative Research: The California Precipitation Dipole: Spatiotemporal Variability and Forcings Over the Past 3000 Years
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2017; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Joseph A Carlin($363,329), CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation, Fullerton
2. Glen MacDonald($193,430), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: California's Precipitation History, California's Precipitation, Californias, Health, Investigate, Mud, Past, Rains, Receives, Regions, Tubes, Water.

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CAREER: Understanding transport processes in fractured sedimentary rock through multi-frequency and multi-method investigations
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2017; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Michael A Cardiff($546,405), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Flow And Transport, Focused And Possibly, Possibly Channelized Flow, Characterizing Flow, Complex Fracture, Educational Tool, Flow Channeling, Fracture Flow, Fracture Plane, Fracture Planes, Gas Injection, Hydraulic Testing, Numerical Experiments, Oscillatory Hydraulic, Rock Fracture, Rock Fractures, Sedimentary Rock, Testing Methods, Ability, Aquifer, Assess, Bodies, Exchange, Field-scale, Fluid, Fluids, Fractured, Frequency, Groundwater, Has, Hydrologic, Movement, Multi-frequency, OHT, Pathways, Porosity, Pressure, Primary, Processes, React, Shown, Similarly, Site, Solute, Spaces, Storage, Surrounding, Water.

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Collaborative Research: Strain localization, shear zone connectivity, and magma-deformation interactions by depth within a 65 km thick transpressional continental arc
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2017; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Keith A Klepeis($280,104), University of Vermont & State Agricultural College, Burlington
2. Elena A Miranda($327,344), The University Corporation, Northridge, Northridge
Key terms: Achieved And Sustained, Competing Weakening Mechanisms, Faults And Shear, Ancient Fault, Challenging Aspects, Depths Below, Fault Zone, Fault Zones, High-strain Zones, Lower Crustal, Shear Zone, Shear Zones, Strain Localization, Arc, Arcs, Behavior, Centers, Connected, Continent, Cordilleran, Deep, Deepest, Deformation, Evolution, Experiences, Exposure, Fiordland, Fluids, Graduate, Heat, High-strain, Lithosphere, Magmas, Magmatism, Mantle, Melts, Natural, Near, Outcomes, Penetrated, Resided, Roots, Students, Time, Tracts, Unsolved, Vertically, Zealand.

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REU Site: Earth Systems Research for Environmental Solutions
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2017; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Kevin Bonine($454,770), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Critical Zone, Field Sites, Communicate, Development, Disciplines, Environmental, Generation, Public, Student, Students, Summer, Undergraduate.

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Facility Support: The WiscSIMS National Ion Microprobe
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Noriko Kita($988,909), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Stable Isotope Geochemistry, Situ Capabilities, Stable Isotopes, Analysis, Astrobiology, Facility, Has, Mineral, SIMS, Spots, Students, Transformative, Wiscsims.

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REU Site: Keck Geology Consortium: Undergraduate Research Pathways That Broaden and Strengthen the Geosciences
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Cameron Davidson($693,553), Macalester College, Saint Paul
Key terms: Field And Laboratory, Keck Geology Consortium, Consortium Programs, Broaden, Designed, Experiences, Gateway, Geosciences, Mix, Participants, Prepare, Skills, Students, Undergraduate, Underrepresented.

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Collaborative Research: Paired paleoseismic and slip rate analysis of the central Garlock fault: Towards a true dated path of incremental slip on a major strike-slip fault
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. James F Dolan($402,477), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2. Sally F McGill($382,296), University Enterprises Corporation at CSUSB, San Bernardino
Key terms: Earthquake Occurrence, Fault Networks, Fault Slip, Garlock Fault, Incremental Slip, Previously Un-datable, Recurrence Intervals, Seismic Hazard, Slip Rate, Slip Rates, Ages, Ago, Analysis, Behavior, Cluster, Clustering, Correlate, Dating, Definitive, Development, Earthquakes, Faults, Has, Method, Offsets, Paleoseismic, Past, Prehistoric, Produced, STEM, Sites, Space, Suggest, Thousand, Time, Un-datable.

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CAREER: proposal to link catchment hydrologic transport to the evolved architecture of the critical zone
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2017; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Ciaran Harman($632,813), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Critical Zone Structure, Field Sites, Studies Suggest, Aims, Bedrock, Camps, Climate, Combination, Developed, Effects, Emergent, Enrich, Examine, Fq, Fracturing, Framework, Geophysical, Groundwater, Has, Hydrology, Implications, Maryland, Modeling, Nature, Observations, Piedmont, Potential, Properties, Sampling, Shallow, Storage, Streamflow, Subsurface, Theoretical, Time, Tools, Transport, Turnover, Water, Weathering.

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REU Site: Ecohydrology of Tropical Montane Forests -- Diversity in Science, Interdisciplinary Breadth, and Global Awareness
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: nan

1. Georgianne W Moore($504,480), Texas A&M AgriLife Research, College Station
Key terms: Diverse And Global, Costa Rica, Mentoring Experiences, Characterize, Climate, Cloud, Cultural, Faculty, Forest, Forests, Interactions, International, Lowland, Process, Processes, Program, REU, Site, Society, Students, Water.

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A University Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Science
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: nan

1. Jerad D Bales($11,314,936), Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sci, Arlington
Key terms: Outreach Activities, Advancement, CUAHSI, Center, Disciplines, Enable, Governance, Graduate, Hydrologic, Instrumentation, Interdisciplinary, Multiple, Native, Republic, Serve, Services, Training, Tribal, WDC, Water.