Advancing U.S. Quaternary Science by Supporting Early Career Scientists: 2019 INQUA Congress Travel Fellowship Program
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2019; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Aida E Sztein($25,000), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: 20th Inqua Congress, 20th Inqua, Fellowship Program, Travel Fellowships, Activities, Awardees, Cohort, Discuss, Foster, Graduate, Has, Interactions, Interdisciplinary, International, Mentoring, National, Opportunity, Participation, Quaternary, USNCINQUA.

Acquisition of an Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer for Clumped Isotope Analysis to Expand the Alabama Stable Isotope Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2019; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Thomas S Tobin($259,706), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
Key terms: Clumped Isotope Paleothermometry, Mass Extinction Boundaries, Isotope Ratio, Acquired, Alabama, Analysis, Ancient, Carbonates, Climate, Earth, Facilitate, Formation, Has, IRMS, Independently, Instrument, Isotopic, Oxygen, Precipitated, Relatively, Sources, Students, Technique, Temperature, Water.

Collaborative Research: Community Facility Support: Centers for Transformative Environmental Monitoring Programs (CTEMPs)
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2019; Program: ANT Instrum & Facilities

1. Scott W Tyler($1,050,523), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
2. Chet Udell($1,324,870), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Distributed Temperature Sensing, Leverage 3-d Printing, Sensors And Micro-processors, Ubiquitous Wireless Communication, 3-d Printing, Contemporary Sensors, Dts Allows, Fiber Optic, Leverage 3-d, Mission Training, Unmanned Aircraft, Bottom, CUAHSI, Ctemps, Ctemps-opens, Development, Dissemination, Environmental, Equipment, Explore, Facility, Field, Flux, Formal, Groundwater, Hands-on, Hydrologic, Innovative, Lab, OSU, Observation, Planning, Resolution, River, Snow, Soil, Spatial, Suas, Successful, Technical, Temporal, Transformative, Users, Water, Workshops.

CZ RCN: Expanding knowledge of the Earth's Critical Zone: connecting data to models
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2019; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Nicole West($499,698), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: Coordination Network, Critical Zone, Lower Boundary, Approaches, Critical-zone, Define, Early-career, Has, Human, Meetings, Models, People, Processes, Quantifying, RCN, Students, Time, Water.

CZ RCN: Research Coordination in Carbonate Critical Zones
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2019; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Laura Toran($499,121), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Coordination Network, Critical Zone, Critical Zones, Czo Network, Silicate Minerals, Amounts, Bedrock, Carbonate, Critical-zone, Current, Findings, Integrate, Interactions, Knowledge, Objectives, Outcomes, Primary, Processes, Properties, Site, Water, Workshop, Workshops.

12th International Precipitation Conference (IPC12)-Precipitation estimation and prediction at local, regional and global scales: Advances in hydroclimatology and impact studies
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2019; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Efi Foufoula-Georgiou($35,000), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Challenges And Opportunities, International Precipitation Conference, Scientists And Engineers, Discuss Challenges, Opportunities Facing, Training Workshops, Bring, Collaborations, Established, Future, Has, Predict, Water.

Phase V: Development of the Core Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at UCLA
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2019; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Jonathan M Aurnou($702,610), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Convection Experiments, Earth's Core, Outreach Efforts, Rotating Convection, Allow, Continue, Convective, Developing, Device, Dynamics, Fluid, Laboratory, Liquid, Models, Numerical, Occurring, Pis, Planetary, Polar, Quantify, Recently, Simulations, Students, Task, Turbulence, Turbulent.

Collaborative Research: The dynamic iron curtain surrounding fluctuating rivers and its impacts on arsenic fate and transport
Award Effective Date: 08/09/2019; Program: Climate Impact on Human Health

1. Saugata Datta($370,892), University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio
2. Saugata Datta($293,482), Kansas State University, Manhattan
3. Meinhard B Cardenas($253,840), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
4. Peter Knappett($309,141), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Undergraduate And Graduate, Dissolved Arsenic, Graduate Students, Iron-arsenic Deposits, Meghna River, Periodic Forcing, Riverbank Sediment, Riverbank Sediments, Water Resources, Aquifers, Bangladesh, Conditions, Connected, Coupled, Driven, Dynamics, Fate, Field, Findings, Flow, Fluctuations, Geogenic, Groundwater, Has, Iron-arsenic, Knowledge, Levels, Minerals, Movement, PNRB, Pnrbs, Released, Rivers, Shallow, Similar, Tidal, Toxic, Transport, Trapped.

CAREER: Coupling post-fire vegetation and volumetric sediment regimes in urban Mediterranean systems
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2019; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Alicia M Kinoshita($571,796), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
Key terms: Mass Balance Model, Spatial And Temporal, Streams And Rivers, Upland And Riparian, Detailed Images, Fire Movement, Following Fires, Fuel Loads, Non-native Vegetation, Predict Sediment, Remote Sensing, Riparian Vegetation, Riparian Zones, San Diego, Urban Streams, Water Quality, Activities, Conditions, Corridors, Document, Drought, Education, Educational, Erosion, Human-ignited, Hydrologic, Imagery, Incorporated, Increase, Interactions, Local, Non-native, Outreach, Post-fire, Processes, Public, Recovery, Soil.

Workshop for Alaska EarthScope Synthesis and Future Opportunities in Canada with EON-ROSE: September 2019
Award Effective Date: 06/03/2019; Program: EARTHSCOPE

1. Jeffrey T Freymueller($49,835), Michigan State University, East Lansing
Key terms: Earthscope Synthesis, Multiple Synthesis, Plate Boundary, Alaska, Canada, Development, Geology, Has, Held, Papers, Participants, Sitka, Tectonic, Whitehorse, Workshop.

REU Site: Stanford Earth Summer Undergraduate Research in Geoscience and Engineering (SURGE)
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2020; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Jonathan Payne($420,110), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Graduate School, Oral Presentations, Surge Scholars, Undergraduate Students, Energy, Environmental, Experience, Faculty, Field, Opportunities, Program, Stanford, Workshops.

EAR-PF: Quantifying the Difference between Volcanic and Meteorological Lightning: Using Globally Detected Lightning and Multi-Parametric Volcanic Monitoring.
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Cassandra M Smith($174,000), Smith, Cassandra Marie, Tampa
Key terms: Anak Krakatau, Ash Plumes, Plume Height, Rapid Characterization, Volcanic Ash, Volcanic Eruptions, Volcanic Lightning, Volcanic Plumes, Aircraft, Alaska, Alaskan, Bogoslof, Differences, Enable, Globally, Has, Hazardous, Indonesia, Meteorological, Parameters, Source, Strength, Volcanoes.

REU SITE: Planetary Habitability Over Space and Time
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Caroline A Masiello($395,724), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Concepts, Development, Energy, Experience, Field, Life, Natural, Opportunities, Processes, Program, Society, Students, Time, Undergraduate.

REU Site: Dynamic Urban Environmental Systems and Sustainability in Newark, NJ
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Ashaki A Rouff($387,969), Rutgers University Newark, Newark
Key terms: Human Resource Potential, Duess Reu, Rutgers University-newark, Underrepresented Students, Activities, Critical, Development, Engage, Environment, Environmental, Experience, Faculty, Geosciences, Increase, Integrated, Lives, Local, Model, Nationwide, Participants, Pathway, Pathways, Program, Programs, Sustainability, Techniques, Trained, URM, University-newark, Urban.

REU Site: Changing Dynamics of Hydrological Systems in Urban Areas: Response To Human Disturbance and Climate Change
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Sonya R Lopez($389,984), California State L A University Auxiliary Services Inc., Los Angeles
Key terms: Coastal Urban Corridors, Meteorology And Precipitation, Sedimentation And Restoration, Streamshydrochemical Methods Development, Training Field Activity, Urban Streamshydrochemical Methods, Coastal Watersheds, Five Topical, Mentoring Activities, Reu Program, Reu Students, River Sedimentation, Social Activities, Surface Hydrology, Training Activities, Undergraduate Students, Underrepresented Backgrounds, Urban Groundwater, Urban Hydrologic, Urban Hydrology, Aims, Challenges, Climate, Climate-driven, Complete, Decisions, Degrees, Education, Effort, Engagement, Faculty, Fields, Focused, Graduate, Guidance, Hydrochemistry, Hydrological, Increase, Investigations, Mentees, Multidisciplinary, Opportunities, Policy, Population, Summer, Technical.

REU Site: Collaborative Research: Water Resources and Quality in the Riviera Maya, Mexico
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Kenneth Voglesonger($56,852), Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago
2. Melissa E Lenczewski($414,283), Northern Illinois University, Dekalb
Key terms: Northern Illinois, Reu Site, Student Projects, Undergraduate Students, Water Issues, Water Resource, Activities, Appreciation, Context, Continue, Cultural, Culture, Developing, Experience, Faculty, Field, Groundwater, High-quality, Information, Interconnected, International, Local, Mexico, Participants, Period, Public, Resources, Skills, Training, Weeks, Yucatan.

Focusing the lens on field safety: a workshop for field trip leaders
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2019; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Emily Finzel($11,875), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Field Trip Leaders, Field Safety, Graduate Students, Safety Protocols, Accidents, Day, Environmental, Instructors, Procedures, Time, Training, Workshop.

CAREER: The Fall of Mountains: Reconstructing Extensional Collapse in the North American Cordillera from the Surface Record
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2019; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Elizabeth J Cassel($729,932), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
Key terms: Northern Rocky Mountains, Conglomerate Deposition, Global Climate, Orogen Collapse, Surface Lowering, Ages, Analytical, Basin, Combination, Cordillera, Development, Direct, Erosion, Extension, Mechanisms, Model, Potential, Precise, Principal, Reconstruct, STEM, Sediment, Students, Time, Timing, Topography, Undergraduate, Underrepresented, Valleys, Widely.

REU Site: Sustainable Groundwater Resources
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2019; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Jason J Gurdak($428,362), San Francisco State University, San Francisco
Key terms: California's Sustainable Groundwater, Global Groundwater Crisis, Groundwater Management Act, Sustainable Groundwater Management, Women And Urm, California's Sustainable, Groundwater Resources, Groundwater Sustainability, Hydrologic Cycle, Practical Solutions, Reu Site, Urm Students, Californias, Create, Development, Engage, Engaged, Experience, Five, Food, Freshwater, Graduate, Has, Independent, Mentors, Primary, SGMA, Training, Undergraduates, Workforce.

CAREER:Potential of fiber acoustic sensing in the next-generation seismic networks
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2019; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Zhongwen Zhan($493,920), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Pasadena Array, Seismic Network, Seismic Networks, Seismic Sensor, Station Density, Build, California, DAS, Dense, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Explore, Faults, Fiber, Hazard, Sensors, Transform.

REU Site: IRIS Undergraduate Summer Research in Seismology
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2019; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Michael Hubenthal($704,644), Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Washington
Key terms: Ability, Attend, Designed, Development, Efficacy, Enable, Experience, Experiences, Identity, Internship, Mentor, Mentors, Opportunities, Opportunity, Own, Participants, Primary, Program, Resources, Seek, Seismological, Student, Students, Summer, URO, Undergraduate, Undergraduates.

CAREER: Deformational Evolution and Serpentinization of the Mantle Wedge Corner in Subduction Zones
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Ikuko Wada($546,410), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Background And Reaction-induced, Geohazards Near Plate, Near Plate Boundaries, Students And Teachers, Early-career Female, Fracture Permeability, Graduate Students, K-12 Students, Mantle Wedge, Reaction-induced Stresses, Subduction Zones, Wedge Corner, Account, Antigorite, Constrain, Cpos, Deformation, Dynamics, Early-career, Educational, Experimental, Extent, Fluid, Hydrated, Implications, Japan, Mineral, Model, Modeling, Models, Numerical, Observations, Outcomes, Quantify, Regions, Rock, Seismic, Serpentinization, Spatial, Strong, Subduction-zone.

Engaging All Geoscience Disciplines at the National Association of Black Geoscientists Annual Conference
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2019; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Stephen K Boss($49,413), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Key terms: African Americans, Geosciences Workforce, Academic, Atmospheric, Conference, Degree, Degrees, Environmental, Faculty, HBCU, Historically, Low, NABG, National, Participation, Programs, Students, Students-of-color.

The Fidelity of Glass Reentrants in Crystals: Witnesses of Decompression and Stalling of Magma in Conduits
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Madison Myers($411,882), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Erupted Products, Eruptive Products, Explosive Eruptions, Ability, Activity, Allow, Days, Decompression, Discrete, Information, Linking, Magma, Monitoring, Mt, Philippines, Pinatubo, Seismic, Th, Timescales.

An orogenic plateau in the southern U.S. Cordillera?
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. James B Chapman($270,184), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Elevated Plateau, Geologic Mapping, Mountain Ranges, Southern Arizona, Constrain, Constructed, Cordillera, Create, Crust, Existed, History, Mechanisms, Mesozoic, North, Phase, Region, Rock, Southwestern, Structural, Student, Tectonic, Thickened.

Acquisition of an X-Ray Suite (XRD and WD-XRF) to support Geology and Geological Engineering Research and Education at the University of Mississippi
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Louis G. Zachos($132,881), University of Mississippi, University
Key terms: Geology And Geological, Um Gge Department, Geological Engineering, Miniflex 6g, Benefit, Bulk, Composition, Division, Education, Enabled, Faculty, Has, Immediately, Instrument, Mississippi, Program, Range, Requested, Required, Students, Undergraduate, X-ray, XRD.

Collaborative Proposal: Fluid flow metamorphism and strain localization in mid-crustal shear zones
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Raphael Gottardi($319,973), University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette
Key terms: Metamorphic Core Complex, Specific Fluid Sources, Detachment Shear, Fluid Flow, Fluid-rock Interaction, Lower Crust, Meteoric Fluids, Undergraduate Students, Analyses, Chemical, Constrain, Crustal-scale, Depths, Ductile, Extension, Fault, Faulting, Field, Fluid-rock, Geologic, Incorporates, Zone, Zones.

Geodetic Lysimetry: GPS/GNSS observations to measure continuous, time-dependent water mass in mountainous watersheds
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2019; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Hilary Martens($488,099), University of Montana, Missoula
Key terms: Loading And Unloading, Global Positioning, Hydrologic Load, Water Loading, Water Stored, Amount, Field, GPS, Idaho, Installed, Measure, Methods, Montana, Mountain, Movement, Observations, Snow, Stations, Surface, Trained, Watershed, Weather, Winter.

Collaborative Research: From Surface Dynamics to Strata: Quantifying the Signals of Surface Processes in Space and Time
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2019; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Antoinette V Abeyta($75,459), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
2. Jorge Lorenzo-Trueba($135,322), Montclair State University, Montclair
3. Anjali M Fernandes($133,514), University of Connecticut, Storrs
4. Arvind Singh($174,333), The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees, Orlando
Key terms: Past Dynamics, River Deltas, Deltaic, Diverse, Environmental, Extremely, Field, Framework, Inclusive, Models, Predictive, Program, Range, Rates, Resources, Sediment, Sedimentary, Sensitive, Subsurface, Transport, Water.

INFEWS / T1: Social and biophysical models to integrate local food systems, climate dynamics, built forms, and environmental impacts in the urban FEWS nexus
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2019; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Nicholas G Terpstra-Schwab($2,500,000), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: Producers And Consumers, Social And Biophysical, Urban And Near-urban, Urban And Urban-adjacent, Water Quality Outcomes, Biophysical Models, Crop Growth, Crop Management, Current Conditions, Environmental Effects, Food Supply, Future Conditions, Local Food, Simulation Models, Surface Water, Urban Food-energy-water, Agricultural, Allow, Analyses, Approach, Climate, Co-simulation, Coupling, Create, Critical, Des, Drivers, Dynamics, Enable, Explore, F-E-W, Feedbacks, Food-energy-water, Framework, Human, Increase, Increased, Individual, Influence, Knowledge, Landscapes, Market, Modeling, Nurban, Policy, Potential, Reduced, Resiliency, Scenarios, Specific, Sustainability, Technology.

Track-1- Food-Energy-Water Nexus in the Deep South: A Latent System Primed for Transition From Rain-fed to Irrigation-fed Agriculture
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2019; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Hamed Moftakhari($1,758,383), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
Key terms: Barriers And Incentives, Enabling Informed Decision, Relationships And Collaboration, Rftoif Agriculture Transition, Spur Rftoif Transition, Deep South, Established Relationships, Irrigation-fed Agriculture, Alabama, Assessment, Costs, Discuss, Economic, Findings, Georgia, Identification, Increase, Intensities, Irrigation-fed, Mississippi, Nexus, Opportunity, Option, Potential, Productivity, Rain-fed, Resource, Scenario, Significance, Stakeholders.

Collaborative Research: Seismic Imaging of Mid-Mantle Reflectors Associated with Geodynamical Processes and Compositional Heterogeneity
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2019; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Lauren Waszek($279,688), New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
Key terms: Characteristic Signatures, Geodynamical Models, Mantle Convection, Seismic Tomography, Upper Mantle, Upwelling Plumes, Comprehensive, Continent, Core, Depth, Domains, Flow, Formative, Geophysics, Global, History, Influence, Inform, Maps, Methods, Mexico, Mid-mantle, Mineral, Origins, Program, Properties, Reflectors, Simulations, Slabs, Thermochemical, Velocity, Volcanism.

Climatic Controls on Continental Erosion and Sediment Transport
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2019; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Peter Clift($32,964), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Penrose Conference, Sediment Transport, Bedrock, Climate, Driving, Ecrs, Erosion, Erosional, Especially, GSA, Has, International, Paleoenvironmental, Primary, Processes, Program, Redefine, Sedimentary, Tectonic, Timescales.

REU Site: Creating research pathways and enhancing diversity through the study of Earth's interior, surface, and climate
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2019; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Karen M Fischer($272,331), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Alliance National Symposium, Competitive Graduate Programs, Development And Networking, Environmental And Planetary, Leadership Alliance National, Surface And Climate, 21st Century, Earth's Interior, Graduate School, National Symposium, Nine Weeks, Reu Site, Seismic Waves, Underrepresented Minority, Activities, Brown, Critical, DEEPS, Department, Diverse, Dynamic, Eight, Engage, Eruption, Evolution, Faculty, Gain, Geosciences, Highly, Inferred, Methodologies, Opportunities, Pathways, Presentations, Properties, Skills, Students, Summers, Undergraduate, Undergraduates, Weekly, Writing.

Collaborative Research: Experimental Investigation of Morphodynamic Coupling between River Deltas and Marshes
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2019; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Kyle Straub($201,263), Tulane University, New Orleans
2. John B Shaw($281,542), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Key terms: Deltas And Marshes, Marsh Proxy, Marshes Interact, River Deltas, Conditions, Developed, Diverse, Dynamics, Experiments, K-, Laboratory, Program, Students, Subsidence, Vast.

Collaborative Research: NSFGEO-NERC: Aeolian dust responses to regional ecosystem change
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2019; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Nicholas Webb($335,174), New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
Key terms: Erosion And Dust, Abrupt Ecosystem, Disturbance Regimes, Dust Emission, Ecological Datasets, Regional Ecosystem, Wind Erosion, Discrete, Drivers, Drylands, Earth, Ecosystems, Fire, Gt, Ha, Health, Human, Invasive, Models, National, North, Program, Promote, Rates, Students.

Workshop Proposal: Mapping a Future for Management of Low-Temperature Geochemical Data: Atlanta, GA or Charlotte, NC - February 2020
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2019; Program: EarthCube

1. Susan L Brantley($94,225), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Geochemistry And Geobiology, Final Publication, Low-temperature Geochemical, Low-temperature Geochemistry, Publicly Accessible, White Paper, Datasets, Diversity, Facilities, Field, Forward, Held, Increasingly, LTGG, Low-temperature, Manage, Management, Online, Participants, Roadmap, Sharing, Webinars, Workshop, Write.

Acquisition of a 193 nm excimer laser ablation system and optical profiler for in situ (U-Th)/He and U-Pb geochronology and thermochronology at the University of Colorado Boulder
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: EarthCube

1. Rebecca M Flowers($568,257), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Undergraduate Summer Intern, Underrepresented Undergraduate Summer, Cu Trail, Single Crystals, Acquire, Analysis, Capabilities, Dating, Development, Equipment, Investigations, Mapping, Rock, Seminar, Situ, U-pb, U-thhe.

EAR-PF: Abrupt climate change in the alpine: Glacial and ecological responses to the Younger Dryas climate oscillation in the Teton Range, Wyoming
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2020; Program: Ecosystem Science

1. Sarah E Crump($127,167), Crump, Sarah E, Boulder
Key terms: Abrupt Climate, Rapid Climate, Teton Range, Cores, Dryas, Glaciers, Lakes, Occidental, Sediment, Spanning, Treeline, Warming, Was.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: TRACKING PCO2, REGIONAL CLIMATE, AND VEGETATION CHANGE DURING MID-MIOCENE GLOBAL WARMING THROUGH THE EXCEPTIONAL PLANT RECORDS OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST, USA
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: Ecosystem Science

1. Caroline Stromberg($313,695), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Mark D Schmitz($174,951), Boise State University, Boise
3. Leslie L Baker($108,245), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
Key terms: Atmospheric Pco2, Global Warming, Regional Climate, Ecosystems, Floras, Local, MMCO, Mid-miocene, Million, PNW, Plant, Sites, Vegetation.

MRI: Acquisition of equipment for an integrated gas analysis and labeling radiocarbon system with a focus on Arctic carbon and geochronology
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2019; Program: Ecosystem Science

1. Mariah S Carbone($486,652), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: Gas And Labeling, Promote Training Scientists, Arctic Climate, Labeling Radiocarbon, Northern Arizona, Acquisition, Activities, Application, Applications, Broad, Carbon, Complete, Ecology, Educational, Environmental, Instrumentation, Instruments, Integrated, Issues, Modern, NAU, Neutrons, Past, Pool, Purchase, Students, Technological.

AGU Chapman Conference on The Quest for Sustainability of Heavily Stressed Aquifers at Regional to Global Scales
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2019; Program: EnvS-Environmtl Sustainability

1. Krsna Powell($45,000), American Geophysical Union, Washington
Key terms: Conference, Groundwater, Hydrology, Law, Pathways, Resources, Sustainability, Water.

Collaborative Research: The Mechanics of Intermediate Depth Earthquakes: a Multiscale Investigation Combining Seismological Analyses, Laboratory Experiments, and Numerical Modeling
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2019; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

1. Yanbin Wang($597,228), University of Chicago, Chicago
2. Zhigang Peng($529,866), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
3. Sheng-Wei Chi($542,348), University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Matching And Machine, Pressure And Temperature, Acoustic Emission, Deep Earthquakes, Frictional Sliding, Intermediate-depth Earthquakes, Laboratory Experiments, Mechanical Instability, Seismological Tools, Shallow Earthquakes, Small-scale Experiments, Subduction Zones, Template Matching, Account, Allow, Allowing, Analyses, Based, Below, Casualties, Century, Combined, Compared, Damage, Defined, Depths, Detection, Directly, Examine, Experimental, Fault, Has, Hazard, Increase, Instabilities, Interdisciplinary, Interior, Intermediate-depth, Japan, Labquakes, Lead, Mechanism, Mechanisms, Model, Models, Nearly, Numerical, Observations, Observe, Observed, Parameters, Phase, Plates, Poorly, Potential, Pressures, Processes, Produce, Quantitative, Reaction, Reactions, Reproduce, Seismic, Simulate, Simulations, Slip, Small-scale, Students, Subducting, Transform, Transformations.

Collaborative Research: Development and Application of a Framework for Integrated Geodynamic Earth Models
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

1. Anthony R Lowry($190,356), Utah State University, Logan
2. Rene Gassmoeller($1,261,334), University of Florida, Gainesville
3. Timo Heister($393,570), Clemson University, Clemson
4. Wolfgang Bangerth($679,697), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Core-mantle Boundary, Deep Mantle, Detailed Description, Earth's Interior, Global Simulations, Landscape Evolution, Plate Boundaries, Regional Simulations, Tectonic Plates, Time Scales, Allow, Available, Building, Code, Complex, Computational, Computing, Core-mantle, Coupled, Deformation, Geodynamic, Globally, Insight, Millions, Model, Models, Motion, Observed, Outreach, Rock, Sets, Solid, Starting, Structure, Surface, Temporal, Thousands, Tools, Transport, Volatile.

Collaborative Research: Consequences of flat slab subduction on the chemical, structural, and dynamic evolution of continental lithosphere
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

1. Christy B Till($514,410), Arizona State University, Tempe
2. Lara S Wagner($1,054,052), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
3. Brian K Horton($1,137,954), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Flat Slab Subduction, Normal Subduction Geometry, Flat Slabs, Lesson Plans, Ore Deposits, Overriding Lithosphere, Specific Tectonic, Tectonic Setting, Basin, Believed, Beneath, Collaborators, Colombia, Comparison, Continent, Directly, Earth`s, Effects, Erupted, Evolution, Extensive, Foundering, Geochemical, Has, Miles, Normally, Pis, Region, Responsible, Structure, Subsidence, Teacher, Teachers, Time, Training, Unique, Uplift, Volcanic, Volcanism, Western.

Collaborative Research: Time of Transformation: integrating the dynamic geologic, climatic and biotic systems of North America during the Early to Late Cretaceous transition
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2019; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

1. Peter J Makovicky($441,892), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
2. Richard L Cifelli($406,609), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
3. Marina B Suarez($408,739), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
4. Ethan G Hyland($654,719), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
5. Glenn Sharman($587,991), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Key terms: Climatic And Tectonic, Western Interior Basin, Global Climate, Late Cretaceous, Time Interval, Analysis, Backdrop, Biotic, Caused, Continent, Diversity, Ecosystems, Environmental, Evolution, Extinction, Formations, Fossil, Generate, Geologic, Land-based, Marked, Mid-cretaceous, Mountain, North, Occurred, Profound, Rapid, Regional, Reorganization, Rock, Target, Terrestrial, Transition.

Collaborative Research: Do arc-continent collisions in the tropics set the Earth's climate state?
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

1. Oliver Jagoutz($443,175), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Arc-continent Collisions, Background Climate, Chemical Erosion, Climate Models, Global Weatherability, Ocean Basins, Arc-continent, Closure, Construct, Earth, Framework, Geochemical, Geological, Glacial, History, Hypothesized, K-, Level, Paleogeographic, Pco, Phanerozoic, Refine, Rock, Sutures, Tectonic, Topography, Tropics, Undergraduate, Warm, Weathering.

Collaborative Research: Exploring the linkages between Sea-Level Change, Sediment Transport and Geomorphology on Coastal Freshwater Water Sequestration
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2019; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

1. Eric Hutton($84,986), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Vaughan R Voller($90,692), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
3. Michael S Steckler($1,226,469), Columbia University, New York
4. Kate P Leary($697,852), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Sea Level Rose, Onshore Saltwater, Assess, Bangladesh, Coastal, Code, EM, Fresh, Freshwater, Groundwater, Images, Jersey, Landlab, Local, Million, Model, Models, Offshore, Reservoirs, Salinity, Sediment, Sources, Supplies, Transport, Water.

Collaborative Research: Origins of Southeast Asian Rainforests from Paleobotany and Machine Learning
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2019; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

1. Peter D Wilf($1,560,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Maria A Gandolfo-Nixon($475,002), Cornell University, Ithaca
3. Thomas Serre($665,000), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Ancient Plant Life, Virtual Paleobotany Assistant, Fossil Leaves, Leaf Characteristics, Leaf Fossils, Museum Collections, Plant Families, Southeast Asia, Southeast Asian, Abundant, Biogeographic, Biological, Contained, Discoveries, Diverse, Eurasia, Evolution, Floras, Forests, Gondwana, History, Indian, Individual, Limited, Machine, Millions, Paleobotanical, Regional, Source, Specimens, Tropical, VPA, Widely, World.

Collaborative Proposal: Community Facility Support for OpenTopography -- a Cyberinfrastructure Facility for Topographic Data and Services
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2019; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Viswanath Nandigam($385,247), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
2. Christopher J Crosby($100,416), UNAVCO, Inc., Boulder
3. J Ramon Arrowsmith($61,776), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Terrestrial Laser Scanning, Airborne Lidar, Resolution Digital, Access, Bureau, Cloud, Cost, Datasets, EARIF, Facility, Global, Hosted, Mpixel, Numerous, OT, Processes, Processing, Ranging, Raster, Sets, Surface, TLS, Topographic, Trillion, Users.

P2C2: Towards a precipitation history of Easter Island since the last glacial period
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. William J D'Andrea($145,878), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Easter Island, Past Precipitation, Rapanui Culture, Se Pacific, Archives, Atmospheric, Available, Climate, Continuous, Critical, Document, Following, Glacial, High-resolution, Multi-centennial-scale, Period, Processes, Region, Water, Wetland.

P2C2: Characterizing East African Climate Through a Major Faunal Transition at 250 - 550 ka
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Tom C Johnson($346,563), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Lake Malawi Basin, Southern East Africa, Temperature And Rainfall, Climate Models, African, Ago, Compared, Educators, Environmental, Evolutionary, Future, High-resolution, Past, Recovered, Region, Relatively, Sediments, Species, Thousand, World.

Collaborative Research: P2C2: Reconstructing Holocene Climate Change in the Southern Hemisphere from Southern Alps Mountain Glaciers and Tree Rings
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Joellen Russell($47,244), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. George H Denton($418,803), University of Maine, Orono
3. Joerg M Schaefer($171,979), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Dark Ages Cold, Little Ice Age, Ongoing Planetary Warming, European Alps, Glacier Extent, Holocene Climate, Mountain Glaciers, Natural Climate, North Atlantic, Northern Hemisphere, Regional Summer, Roman Warm, South Island, Southern Alps, Underlying Drivers, Warm Period, AD, Afford, Atmospheric, Chronologies, Chronology, Climatic, Dating, Documented, Effort, Employ, Fluctuations, Global, Has, Independent, Landforms, Medieval, Modeling, National, Observations, Opposite, Past, Periods, Precise, Prior, Registered, Resolved, Scope, Temperature, Temperature-sensitive, Timescales, Tree-ring, Zealand.

Collaborative Research: Regional hydrologic and vegetation changes over the last 150 kyr in the Searles and Death Valley basins
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Steven P Lund($186,252), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2. Tim K Lowenstein($155,946), SUNY at Binghamton, Binghamton
3. William D McGee($258,807), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
4. Joseph Janick($30,526), Keystone College, La Plume
5. Justin S Stroup($51,357), SUNY College at Oswego, Oswego
Key terms: Death Valley Basins, Declining Water Availability, Searles And Death, Ancient Lake, Coming Century, Lake Level, Lake Levels, Model Past, Moisture Sources, Past Hydrologic, Past River, Past Vegetation, Plant Wax, River Flow, Searles Basin, Southern California, Age, Ages, Atmospheric, Circulation, Constrain, Constraints, Continuous, Core, Cores, Dating, Deposits, Field, Future, Hydrological, Incorporate, Independent, Information, Insight, Lakes, MIT, Magnetic, Magnitude, Museum, Paleoclimate, Periods, Precise, Projected, Quantitative, Reconstruction, Reconstructions, Region, SLAPP-SRLS, Shoreline, Southwestern, Spanning, Students, Visitors.

P2C2: New Zealand Climate in Three Warm Periods
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2019; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Jonathan E Nichols($159,798), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Carbon Dioxide, Ocean Circulation, Peatland Sediments, Secondary School, South Island, Southern Hemisphere, Southern Ocean, Stable Isotope, Warm Periods, Westerly Wind, Westerly Winds, Atmosphere, Climate, Compare, Cores, Establish, Has, Implications, Modern, Reconstructions, Students, Zealand.

Collaborative Research: Terrestrial hydrology during the last deglaciation
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Ying Fan Reinfelder($151,050), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
2. Andrew D Wickert($281,160), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
3. Jacqueline Austermann($274,132), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Ice Sheets, Ice-sheet Reconstructions, Ocean Circulation, Sea Level, Water Storage, Amount, Balance, Climate, Components, Deglaciation, Environment, Geological, Glacial, Global, Groundwater, Hydrologic, Ice-sheet, Integrate, Lakes, Land, Model, Past, Permafrost, Potential, Quantify, Rivers, Sea-level, Simple, Terrestrial, Wetlands.

Research Coordination Network: In situ Studies of Rock Deformation (ISRD)
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2019; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Wen-Lu Zhu($499,970), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Basic And Applied, Beamline Technologies, Energy Resources, Experimental Infrastructure, Hazard Mitigation, Rheological Models, Rock Deformation, Space Exploration, Wide-reaching Applications, Collaborations, Dynamic, Efforts, Experiments, Foster, Foundation, Geological, Geophysical, Knowledge, Lay, Processes, RCN, Time, Topics, Wide-reaching.

2019 Interior of the Earth GRC/GRS
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2019; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Roberta L Rudnick($48,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Shallow Focus, Earth, GRC, GRS, Gordon, Has, Individuals, Interior, June.

Collaborative Research: Melange-peridotite Interactions in the Source of Arc Magmas
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2019; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Veronique Le Roux($420,830), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Mark D Behn($79,579), Boston College, Chestnut Hill
Key terms: Altered Oceanic Crust, Subduction Zone Hazards, Arc Magmas, Earth's Interior, Geological Hazards, Numerical Modeling, Partially Melt, Slab-mantle Interface, Subduction Zones, Transfer Process, Approach, Chemical, Combine, Experimental, Experiments, Fluids, Fractionation, High-pressure, High-temperature, Melange, Melanges, Mixed, Models, Peridotite, Rock, Sediments, Serpentinized, Slab-mantle, Top, Trace, Transformative, Water-rich, Wedge.

Collaborative Research: Constraining the thermal conditions of the subduction interface by integrating petrology and geodynamics
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2019; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Besim Dragovic($99,324), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
2. Ikuko Wada($156,562), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
3. Sarah Penniston-Dorland($130,994), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
4. Peter van Keken($36,637), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Ancient Subduction Zones, Metamorphic Rocks Exhumed, Modern Subduction Zones, Exhumed Rocks, Geodynamical Modeling, P-t Conditions, Thermal Structure, Thermal Structures, Two-pronged Approach, Allow, Direct, Discrepancy, Disparity, Earth, Earthquakes, Effects, Engage, Estimates, Information, Interface, Lead, Localities, Models, Mt, Observations, P-T, Processes, Represent, Sites, Slab, Two-pronged.

Mantle volatiles and attenuation in the East African Rift
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2019; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Heather A Ford($392,618), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: East African Rift, Seismic Wave Speeds, Slow Seismic Wave, Seismic Waves, Carbon, Earth, Existing, Geophysical, Inform, Mantle, Melts, Observed, Region, Sets, Temperatures, Volatile, Water.

2020 Geobiology GRC/GRS: January12-17, 2020 - Galveston, TX
Award Effective Date: 10/15/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Boswell A Wing($25,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Grc And Grs, Students And Postdoctoral, Graduate Students, Junior Scientists, Postdoctoral Scholars, Approaches, Biological, Chemical, Discussion, Diversity, Encourage, Environment, Field, Geobiology, Interactions, Life, Meeting, Meetings, Numerous, Opportunities, Poster, Processes, Promote, Request, Respectively, Sessions, Tools.

RCN: Community-based educational infrastructure for numerical simulation in the Earth Sciences: a reactive transport use case
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Jennifer L Druhan($499,823), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: Abilities And Rubrics, Reactive Transport Models, Educational Model, Educational Platform, Model Literacy, Modeling Abilities, Advancements, Advances, Broad, Community-based, Computational, Continuous, Create, Critical, Development, Enable, Existing, Foster, Framework, Geoscience, Geosciences, Knowledge, MAR, Numerical, On-line, Open-loop, Opportunities, Organize, Processes, Proponents, RCN, Resource, Rtms, Serve, Set, Training, Users, Workflows.

RAPID: Assessing the fate of flood-born contaminants
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Jonathan Obrist Farner($44,888), Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla
Key terms: Missouri River Flood, Nature And Society, Urban And Rural, Catastrophic Floods, Dangerous Contaminants, Development Strategies, Toxic Contaminants, Analyzed, Carbon, Damage, Deposited, Environment, Frequent, Future, Health, Intervals, Metals, Nebraska, Nitrogen, Phosphorous, Redistributed, Sediment, Water.

Investigation of the triple oxygen isotope systematics of shales in the Precambrian
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Ilya N Bindeman($243,667), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Delta 18o, Sedimentary Rock, Triple Oxygen, Appearance, Collection, Composition, Earth, History, Hydrosphere, Isotope, Isotopes, Life, OO, Shales, Value, Versus, Water, Weathering.

EAR-PF: Clumped and Triple Oxygen Isotopes of Terrestrial Carbonates: New Tools to Estimate Aridity and Precipitation in California During Past Greenhouse Climates
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Julia R Kelson($245,700), Kelson, Julia Rae, Seattle
Key terms: Carbonates And Mollusk, Carbon Dioxide, Hydrologic Cycle, Isotopic Composition, Mollusk Shells, Soil Carbonates, Ancient, Aridity, Climates, Concentrations, Estimate, Evaporation, Explore, Gases, Greenhouse, Has, Intensity, Michigan, Modern, Potential, Precipitation, Program, Reconstruct, Temperature, Tool, Water.

Mineral-Promoted RNA Polymerization: Investigating Structural Properties of Catalytic Minerals
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Nita Sahai($516,342), University of Akron, Akron
Key terms: Adsorption Capacity, Alkali Cations, Catalytic Activity, Catalytic Efficiency, Catalytic Minerals, Mineral Structure, Outreach Activities, Potential Relationships, Promoting Polymerization, Specific Minerals, Ability, Adsorbed, Catalysts, Conformation, Diversity, Environment, Enzymes, Formation, Knowledge, Life, Molecules, Monomer, Monomers, Mononucleotides, Montmorillonite, Nsfs, Nucleotide, Oligomers, Ool, Origin, Play, Polymers, Prebiotic, Precursor, Presence, Progress, Public, RNA, Simple, Structures, Surface.

Developing position-specific amino acid carbon isotope analysis as a tool for geobiology
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Alex Sessions($382,975), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Position-specific Delta C-13, Amino Acids, Atomic Position, Atomic Positions, C-13 Fractionation, C-13c-12 Ratios, Growth Efficiency, Isotope Abundance, Mass Spectrometry, Metabolic Activities, Position-specific Delta, Ala, Alanine, Analyte, C-C-, Carbon, Compounds, Contribution, Employ, Environment, Environmental, Extent, Fragment, Fragments, Geobiologic, Glu, Glutamate, Ion, Measured, Molecular, Orbitrap, Organism, Organisms, Pathway, Pathways, Photorespiration, Plants, Precisely, Predicts, Proline, Reflect, Serine, Versus, Via.

Collaborative Research: Developing a multi-proxy approach for reconstructing deep-time silicate weathering
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Alan Rooney($303,300), Yale University, New Haven
2. Justin V Strauss($246,900), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Chemical Evolution, Advances, Ancient, Atmospheric, Chemistry, Climate, Cycles, Experience, Extreme, Geochemical, Geochronologic, Glaciation, Glaciations, Has, History, Isotope, Lead-up, Neoproterozoic, Oceans, Opportunities, Prior, Rock, Seawater, Sedimentary, Snowball, Specific, Trace, Unique, Variety, Yale.

Clumped Isotope Reordering Kinetics in Carbonate Minerals: The key to accurate ocean paleotemperatures and basin thermal histories
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Sarbajit Banerjee($340,620), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Calcium Carbonate Minerals, Capstone Undergraduate Course, Engage Chemistry Graduate, Ancient Oceans, Clumped Isotope, Introduce Seniors, Rare Isotopes, Temperature History, Undergraduate Students, Underrepresented Minority, Add, Atomic, Burial, Calcite, Chemical, Exciting, Field, Geochemistry, Kinetics, Measure, Petroleum, Rates, Reordering, Rock, Section, Sediments, Temperatures, Tool, X-ray.

Experimental constraints on the equilibrium hydrogen isotopic composition and rates of hydrogen isotopic exchange of C-H bonds in natural gas
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Daniel A Stolper($379,224), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Gas Hydrogen Isotopic, Hydrogen Isotope Exchange, Hydrogen Isotopic Compositions, Isotope Exchange Reactions, Natural Gas Hydrogen, Natural Gas Sources, Alkane Gases, Expected Equilibrium, Isotope Ratios, Low Temperatures, Alkanes, C-C, Conditions, Energy, Experiments, Final, Formation, Hydrocarbons, Ii, Ltoc, Methane, Poorly, Rates, Requires, Undergoing, Values, Water.

Methane isotopologue fractionation during microbial methanogenesis and methonotrophy by pure and mixed laboratory cultures
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Shuhei Ono($302,538), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Carbon And Hydrogen, Doubly Substituted, Isotope Ratios, Isotopologue Fractionation, Isotopologue Ratios, Methane Isotopologue, Microbial Methane, Anaerobic, Bioelectrochemical, CH, CHD, Co-cultures, Control, Energy, Environment, Experiments, Has, Isotopes, Isotopologues, Laboratory, Methanogenesis, Methanogens, Methanotrophy, Microbes, Parameters, Redox, Source, Sources, Tool.

Combine sensors, geophysical survey and geochemical tools to investigate pedogenic carbonate precipitation and carbon dioxide emission in irrigated soils of aridlands
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi($683,756), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
Key terms: Abiotic Co2 Efflux, Agricultural Soils, Pedogenic Carbonate, Undergraduate Students, Accumulation, Activities, Atmosphere, Desert, Education, Environmental, Exchange, Field, Has, Irrigated, Irrigation, Irrigation-induced, Opportunities, Representative, Salt, UTEP.

Collaborative Proposal: Response of mercury cycling to disturbance and restoration of low-gradient forested watersheds
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Joel D Blum($204,941), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Stable Mercury Isotopes, Atmospheric Mercury, Coastal Plain, Depositional Pathways, Forest Restoration, Forested Ecosystem, Forested Watershed, Mercury Cycling, Mercury Deposition, Mercury Methylation, South Carolina, Southeastern Region, Toxic Methylmercury, Effects, Existing, Experimental, Food, Low-gradient, Native, North, Pine, Pollution, Soils, Sources, Students, Training, Unique, Uptake, Watersheds.

RAPID: Invasion of Geoengineering Earthworms in Alaska: Extents, Mechanisms, and Impacts
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Kyungsoo Yoo($168,397), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Boreal And Tundra, Exotic Geoengineering Earthworms, Stop Earthworm Invasion, Alaska Museum, Climate Conditions, Human Introduction, Introduction Mechanisms, Invasive Earthworms, Natural Vegetation, Advancing, Alaskan, Distribution, Disturb, European, Extents, Facilitate, Forests, Intervention, Land, Permafrost, Rapid, Soil, Soils, Species.

Determination of the Controls on Bacterial Cell Surface Sulfhydryl Binding Site Concentrations
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Joshua Shrout($482,937), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
Key terms: Bacterial Cell Envelopes, Binding Site Concentrations, Created And Taught, Sulfhydryl Binding Site, Bacterial Surface, Binding Sites, Involve Outreach, Onto Bacteria, Potentiometric Titration, School Students, South Bend, Sulfhydryl Sites, Toxic Metal, Ability, Abundance, Adsorption, Affect, Approaches, Bioremediation, Cd, Cells, Conditions, Control, Distribution, EPS, Environment, Environmental, Experiments, Expression, Factors, Fate, Hg, Lead, Local, Low, Measured, Metals, Module, Natural, Participation, Pis, Programs, Proteins, Range, Run, Schools, Se, Settings, Specific, Total, Unknown, Water, Waters.

Testing Hypotheses of Near-Equilibrium Kinetics For Silicate Minerals with an Innovative Silicon Isotope Tracer Method
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Chen Zhu($410,556), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Isotope Tracer Method, Thermodynamics And Kinetics, Dissolution Rate, Experimental Method, Indiana University's, Isotope Ratios, Near-equilibrium Conditions, Rate Determination, Reaction Rates, Si Concentrations, Si Isotope, Assessment, Center, Chemical, Difficult, Environmental, Experts, Geological, Interactions, Laboratory, Minerals, Models, Nequilibrium, Precipitation, Processes, Reactions, Safety, Secondary, Solutions, Students, Subjects, Universitys, Wastes.

CAREER: Role of Mn(III) in Limiting Oxidative Transformation of As(III) by Mn(III/IV) Oxides
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Matthew A Ginder-Vogel($564,044), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Drinking Water Supplies, Manganese Minerals React, Asiii Oxidation, Mniiiiv Oxides, Arsenic, Contaminant, Dissolved, Effect, Environmental, Feiii, Found, Human, Kinetics, Limiting, Natural, Naturally, People, Rates, Sediments, Soil, Spectroscopy, Students, Surface, Systematically, World, X-ray.

Deciphering the Cryptic Cycling of Methane in Sediments of a Coastal Wetland
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Tina Treude($448,536), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Cryptic Methane Cycling, Towards Broader Impacts, Coastal Wetland, Coastal Wetlands, Electron Acceptors, Graduate Student, Methane Emissions, Methylotrophic Methanogenesis, AOM, Anaerobic, Balance, Biogeochemical, Carbon, Close, Consumption, Control, Disseminated, Ecosystem, Environmental, Field, Global, Has, Identity, Involved, Little, Local, Metabolic, Microbes, Microbial, Named, Process, Processes, Public, Removal, Reveal, Sediments, Seminar, Students, Sulfate, Training, Undergraduate, Zone.

CAREER: Quantifying evolution of accessible mineral surface areas and pore connectivity for improved simulation of mineral reaction rates
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Lauren E Beckingham($530,300), Auburn University, Auburn
Key terms: Dissolution And Precipitation, Undergraduate And Graduate, Carbon Dioxide, Computer Simulations, Dissolution Experiments, Graduate Students, Imaging Methods, Pore Connectivity, Rock Weathering, Stem Fields, Accessible, Activities, Approach, Aquifers, Auburn, Awareness, Contaminant, Educational, Environmental, Evolution, Fate, Increase, K-, Laboratory, Long-term, Mineral, Natural, Objective, Outcell, Outreach, Participation, Permeability, Porosity, Processes, Quality, Rate, Reaction, Reactions, Reactive, Subsurface, Surface, Transport, Water.

Clay Minerals Society Conference Support for U.S. Graduate Student Attendance at a Joint Meeting with European-clay Conference in 2019
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Lynda Williams($20,000), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Workshops And Field, Clay Minerals, Clay Scientists, Energy Resources, Field Trips, International Conference, Modern Clay, Advances, Attend, Based, Benefits, Clays, Education, European, Joint, Life, Progress, Promote, Public, STEM, Student, Students, Technical, Travel, Via, Worldwide.

Collaborative Research: Manganese(III)-driven carbon oxidation at oxic-anoxic interfaces
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Jingdong Mao($57,999), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
2. Marco Keiluweit($448,328), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Soil Carbon Oxidation, Women And Minority, Carbon Dioxide, Co2 Emissions, Dissolved Mn, Empower Women, Girls Inc, Harvard Forest, Minority Students, Overall Objective, Oxic-anoxic Interfaces, Pursue Stem, Collaboration, Controls, Cycles, Developed, Environmental, Fast, Formation, Geochemical, Graduate, Ii, Iii, Incorporate, Increase, Integrates, Local, Massachusetts, Microbial, Mniii, Models, Oxic-anoxic, Oxidants, Plan, Potent, Rate, School, Soils, Strategies, Undergraduate, Workshops.

Assessing the role of methanogens in driving Earth's oxygenation using Nickle isotopes
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Laura Wasylenki($76,432), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: Ni Concentrations, Ni Limitation, Billion, Compositions, Decline, Isotopes, Isotopic, Konhauser, Life, Methane, Methanogens, Oxygen, Was.

CAREER: Understanding chemical weathering using lithium and potassium isotopes
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Xiao-Ming Liu($496,492), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Rocks And Minerals, Chemical Weathering, Isotope Chemistry, Li Isotopes, Weathering Tracers, Climate, Development, Fractionation, Investigate, Isotopic, Knowledge, Laboratory, Mechanisms, Natural, Processes, Streams, Students, Surface, Techniques, Waters.

CAREER:Fractured Shales as Portals into Cryptic Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling in the Deep Biosphere
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Michael J Wilkins($557,226), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Carbon And Nitrogen, Appalachian Basin, Biogeochemical Cycles, Deep Biosphere, Deep Terrestrial, Laboratory Experimentation, Terrestrial Environments, Viral Populations, Ability, Applied, Combination, Complex, Conditions, Conserved, Cycling, Enable, Enables, Environmental, Exchange, Extent, Functional, Graduate, Has, High-pressure, Insights, Investigated, Isolates, Metabolic, Metabolism, Metabolite, Methylamine, Microbial, Opportunities, Revealed, Salinity, Shale, Shales, Students, Subsurface, Temperature, Tools, Varying, Viruses.

Leveraging Distributed Research Networks to Understand Watershed Systems
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Kelly C Wrighton($13,749), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Participant Representation, Publicly Available, Approaches, Current, Development, Distributed, Efforts, Ensure, Federal, Knowledge, Land, Models, NSF, Outcomes, Particular, Preserving, Water, Watershed, Watersheds, Workshop.

RAPID: Collaborative Research: Carbon Cycling in Subsurface Hypersaline Environments Near the Abiotic Fringe
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Thomas L Kieft($36,001), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
2. Tullis C Onstott($37,498), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Brackish Fracture Water, Ancient Brines, Hypersaline Fluids, Moab Khotsong, South Africa, Abiotic, Access, Analyses, Billion, Boreholes, Characterized, Compounds, Cycling, Deep, Fractures, Gas, Hydrocarbons, Increasing, Isotopic, Kmbls, Life, Loss, Microbial, Organic, Precambrian, Reactions, Rock, Salinity, Site, Sources, Surface, Time, Trapped, Unique, Widespread, World.

CAREER: Towards Forecasting Watershed Organic Carbon Fluxes across Flow Regimes and Ecoregions
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Jay P Zarnetske($470,000), Michigan State University, East Lansing
Key terms: Dissolved Organic Carbon, Carbon Cycling, Curriculum Development, Doc Dynamics, Doc Flux, Education Plan, Water Quality, Climate, Control, Diverse, Ecosystems, Effective, Five, Flow, Global, Innovative, Movement, Multiple, Objectives, Outreach, Public, River, Students, Watershed.

EAGER - Testing a new approach to shed light on the dolomite problem - an investigation using the isotopes of Magnesium, Calcium and Strontium.
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Adina Paytan($60,080), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Enable Identification, Shed Light, Unique Signatures, Analyzed, Compositions, Conditions, Coupled, Dolomite, Dolomites, Environmental, Environments, Evolution, Formation, Formed, Forming, Geochemical, Geological, Involvement, Isotope, Lake, Mechanisms, Microbial-dolomite, Microbial-dolomites, Mineral, Minerals, Organisms, Petroleum, Precipitated, Solutions, Spectrometry, Utility.

RUI: Quantifying the effects of wildfire burning on 10Be concentrations in river sand - A study of the 2018 Woolsey Fire, Santa Monica Mountains, CA
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2020; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Eric W Portenga($221,014), Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti
Key terms: Geological Erosion Rates, Measured 10be Concentrations, Santa Monica Mountains, 10be Concentrations, Landscape Stability, Measured 10be, River Sand, Unique Opportunity, Woolsey Fire, Affected, Burned, Catchments, Dataset, Determined, Earth’s, Existing, Landslides, Large-magnitude, Quantify, Rivers, Sediment, Seismic, Short-lived, Thousands, Wildfires.

EAR-PF: Channel network evolution in a tectonically active basin enlightened through innovative luminescence geochronology
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2020; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Elizabeth L Chamberlain($174,000), Chamberlain Elizabeth L, Nashville
Key terms: Avulsion Frequency, Ganges-brahmaputra Delta, Bangladesh, Channel, Coastal, Contribute, Date, Dating, Development, Earthquakes, Education, Explore, Floodplain, Forcing, Ganges-brahmaputra, Knowledge, Luminescence, OSL, Processes, River, Rivers, Sediment, Seismic, Structures, Timescales.

Collaborative Research: Reading lithology from topography: How rock properties influence landscape form and evolution in the Guadalupe Mountains, TX and NM
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Joel Johnson($319,683), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Nicole Gasparini($196,600), Tulane University, New Orleans
Key terms: Guadalupe Mountains, Rock Properties, School Students, Bedrock, Credit, Depends, Field, Geoscience, Inferred, Landscape, Landscapes, Models, Natural, Soil, Taught, Tectonic, Texas, Topography.

Coevolution of Aeolian Landscapes and Soils
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Erika Marin-Spiotta($331,900), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Varying Soil Development, Wind And Water, Loess Accumulation, Loess Landscapes, Soil Formation, Water Erosion, Adjacent, Carbon, Dune, Dunes, Dust, Future, Influence, Organic, Processes, Sediment, Strength, Tablelands.

Anticipating rates of deglaciation in Alaska: Controls on the mass loss and morphology of the debris covered terminus of Kennicott Glacier, Wrangell - St. Elias National Park
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Mark Fahnestock($479,008), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Debris Cover, Heavily Debris-covered, Kennicott Glacier, Affect, Alaska, Debris-covered, Decay, Expected, Field, Glaciers, Glaciology, Mass, Melt, Observations, Site, Students.

TESTING MODELS FOR RIVER AVULSION STYLE WITH REMOTE SENSING DATA AND NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Doug Edmonds($299,831), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Downstream Fining, Remote Sensing, River Avulsions, Channels, Create, Floodplain, Hazardous, Methods, Model, Numerical, Overbank, Own, Reoccupy, Sediment, Tend.

A mechanistic and predictive understanding of temporal variations in the onset of sediment motion
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Elowyn Yager($382,753), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
Key terms: Sediment Transport Predictions, Bed Structure, Channel Bed, Flow Magnitude, Sediment Motion, Information, Movement, Onset, River, Rivers, Rock, Sculptures, Species, Temporal, Theory.

NSF-BSF: Monitoring bedload transport: Advancing seismic and acoustic surrogate methods in ephemeral channels
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2019; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Daniel Cadol($447,373), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Bedload Transport, Flash Floods, River Channel, Seismic Energy, Semi-arid Regions, Acoustic, Approach, Calibrate, Challenge, Collect, Collected, Collection, Direct, Ephemeral, Flow, Flux, Gravel, High-energy, Israel, Landscape, Management, Methods, Mexico, Models, Monitor, Movement, Near, Riverbed, Samplers, Seismology, Seismometers, Semi-arid, Streams, Theoretical, USA, Water.

Collaborative research: Microscopic fracturing and macroscopic weakening: A novel model for bedrock fracturing by biotite weathering
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2019; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Ken Ferrier($200,581), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Critical Zone Observatory, Bedrock Fracturing, Biotite Weathering, Characteristics, Development, Does, Field, Fracture, Model, Numerical.

The Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium: 50 years of Enhancing Geomorphology; Denver, CO; October 2019
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2019; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Jason R Janke($54,240), Metropolitan State University of Denver, Denver
Key terms: BGS, Discipline, Discussion, Diversity, Geomorphic, Geomorphologists, Geomorphology, Global, Has, Landscape, Past, Plans, Range, Society, Students, Substantially, Symposium, Techniques, Topics.

Perturbations of Earth Surface Dynamics Caused by Extreme Events
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2019; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Sean F Gallen($12,000), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Breakout Sessions, Gorkha Earthquake, Knowledge Gaps, Surface Dynamics, Biogeochemical, Catastrophic, Conference, Consequences, Directions, Document, Extreme, Focused, Has, International, Landscape, Meeting, Nsurface, Participants, Perturbations, Potential, Process, Range, Short, Timescales, Various.

Collaborative Research: Predicting post-wildfire sedimentation of reservoirs: probabilistic modeling of debris flow generation and downstream sediment routing
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2019; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Brendan P Murphy($317,946), Utah State University, Logan
2. Jonathan A Czuba($162,087), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Downstream Water Infrastructure, Water Supply Reservoirs, Downstream Reservoirs, Forest Management, Modeling Framework, Post-wildfire Erosion, Post-wildfire Sediment, Reservoir Storage, Sediment Inputs, Analysis, Assess, Control, Critical, Delivery, Fire, Future, Increases, Integrate, Knowledge, Landscape, Models, Open-source, Ownership, Post-wildfire, Predicting, Projected, Public, Range, Resources, Risk, River, Sedimentation, Students, Tools, Utah, Vulnerability, Vulnerable, Wildfires, Yields.

EAR-PF: Shear Wave Splitting based on 3D Seismic Wave Simulations: Forward to Inverse Modeling of Upper Mantle and D" Anisotropy
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2020; Program: Geophysics

1. Neala M Creasy($174,000), Creasy, Neala Marie, New Haven
Key terms: Pressures And Temperatures, Seismic Anisotropy Observations, Shear Wave Splitting, Earth's Mantle, Mantle Convection, Mineral Physics, Ray Theory, Seismic Waves, Upper Mantle, Wave Propagation, Appropriate, Assumptions, CSM, Conducting, Deformation, Deforms, Difficult, Discrepancies, Earthquakes, Educational, Explore, Explored, Global, Has, Inversion, Lithosphere, Models, Observational, Plate, Processes, Realistic, Relate, Undergraduate, Via.

Full waveform modeling and inversion of seismic attenuation and application to characterizing near-surface fractures at Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. Andrew A Nyblade($125,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Anelastic Wave Equation, Fractional Anelastic Wave, Earth's Interior, Seismic Attenuation, Seismic Wave, Seismic Waves, Chemical, Developed, Development, Explicit, FWI, Inversion, Issues, Main, Method, Property, Q-FWI, Velocity.

Collaborative research: Investigating effects of geologic complexity on induced seismicity, using M0-M5.7 seismicity from Prague, Oklahoma
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. Heather M Savage($97,836), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Fault Strength, Fluid Pressure, Induced Seismicity, Laboratory Experiments, Allow, Complex, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Faults, Has, Prague, Precision, Rupture, Sequence, Sequences, Stability.

Seismic Interferometry and Data Assimilation for Lithospheric Structure and Anisotropy Across Alaska
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. Michael H Ritzwoller($295,167), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Receiver Functions, Southern Margin, Alaska, Application, Codes, Crust, Differs, Earthquakes, Edges, Generated, Geological, Geometry, Inversion, Lithosphere, Mantle, Models, North, Plate, Processes, Ranges, Regions, Seismic, Slab, Structures, Under-thrusting, Velocities, Wave, Yakutat.

Mapping subduction-induced Mantle Flow Underneath North/Central America and Europe
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. Hejun Zhu($157,564), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
Key terms: Azimuthal Anisotropy, Mantle Flow, Mantle Flows, Simultaneously Constrain, Transition Zone, Active, Cascadia, Circulation, Depths, Europe, Five, Implications, Information, Inversion, Northcentral, Processes, Regions, Subduction.

Probing the transient rheology of accretionary prisms and megathrust earthquake hazard in the Indian Ocean basin
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. William D Barnhart($236,605), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Earthquake And Tsunami, Makran Accretionary Prism, Makran Subduction Zone, Post-seismic Deformation, Rheological Structure, Subduction Zones, Tsunami Potential, Viscoelastic Relaxation, Afterslip, Analysis, Approaches, Behavior, Cities, Earthquakes, Estimates, Imagery, Insar, Locking, Million, Model, Models, Observations, Plate, Pop, Post-seismic, Quantify, Quantifying, Time, Unique, World.

Collaborative Research: Lahar dynamics and Monitoring: A multiparametric approach grounded in infrasound
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. Rudiger Escobar Wolf($294,662), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
2. Jeffrey B Johnson($315,484), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Fuego Volcano, Lahars Initiate, Mass Flow, Mud Flows, Rainy Season, Applied, Arrays, Channels, Common, Energetics, Frequent, Guatemala, Hazardous, Ideal, Infrasound, Learned, Observations, Positions, Quantify, Remotely, Seismic, Seismo-acoustic, Students, Techniques, Technology, Time, Track, Training.

Modeling of Crater Floor Deformation in Relationship with Lava Lake Activity
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. Christelle Wauthier($199,754), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Cooling And Subsidence, Ground Surface Deformation, Lava Lake Activity, Nyiragongo And Nyamulagira, Crater Floors, Democratic Republic, Ground Deformation, Lava Lakes, Magma Plumbing, Nyiragongo Volcano, Remote Sensing, Approach, Beneath, Congo, Datasets, Dense, Developed, Eruption, Following, Gas, Hazardous, Hazards, Hosts, Model, Processed, Shallow, Summit, Time, Volcanoes.

Collaborative Research: What makes Low-Frequency Earthquakes low frequency?
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. Rachel E Abercrombie($158,998), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
2. William B Frank($297,798), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Tectonic Plate Boundaries, Earthquake Cycle, Frequency Content, Lfe Source, Low-frequency Earthquakes, Nankai Trough, Near-source Attenuation, Plate Interface, Shedding Light, Slow Slip, Source Region, Analysis, Constraints, Does, Has, High-resolution, Highly, Investigate, Japan, Lfes, Low-frequency, Normal, Nsource, Physics, Plays, Program, Seismic, Signature, Spectral, Structure, Surface, Unique.

Collaborative Research: The Burma Arc from Collision Kinematics to Subduction Tectonics as Observed from a Passive seismic experiment (BACKSTOP)
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. Thomas M Hearn($207,105), New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
2. Eric Sandvol($326,372), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Indian Slab Beneath, Seismic And Volcanic, Southeastern Tibetan Plateau, Continental Collision, Eastern Himalayas, Indo-burma Arc, Mantle Flow, Oceanic Plate, Regional Tectonics, Volcanic Hazard, Activity, China, Component, Consists, Crust, Deformation, Growth, Image, Indo-burma, Instruments, Mountain, Myanmar, Outcomes, Plates, Processes, Regions, Responsible, Stations, Subducting, Subduction, Surrounding, Temporary, Tomography.

Effect of Hydrogen on the Properties of Fe alloys in the Earth's Core
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. Sang-Heon Shim($298,952), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Metal And Alloys, Pressure And Temperature, Earth's Core, Experimental Approach, Iron Metal, Iron-rich Alloys, Magnetic Field, Melting Temperatures, Synchrotron Facilities, Analysis, Calculations, Conditions, DAC, Density, Effect, Evolution, Formation, Guide, Has, Heating, Hydrogen, Iron-rich, Laser, Light, Quantify, Si.

Constraints from multiple low frequency data on the long wavelength density structure in the deep mantle
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. Harriet Lau($595,689), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Normal Mode Splitting, Density Structure, Excess Density, Graduate Students, Llsvp Anomalies, Mode Spectra, Seismic Waves, Stoneley Modes, Uc Berkeley, Velocity Provinces, Beneath, CMB, Combine, Consider, Developed, Earth, Earthquakes, Global, Implies, Inversions, Llsvps, Mantle, Particular, Pis, Shear, Solid, Source, Special, Stage, Structures, Surroundings, Tectonic, Tide, Tides, Time, Travel, Waveform.

Deciphering Lithospheric and Deeper Mantle Contributions to the Surface History of the North American Arctic From the Unique Mantle to Surface Record of Kimberlites
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. Rebecca M Flowers($388,842), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Surface History, Age, Arctic, Continent, Decipher, Deep, Depths, Evolution, Geologic, Kimberlite, Mantle, North, Phanerozoic, Pipes, Processes.

Volcanic jet noise: Linking field and laboratory experiments
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. David Fee($319,629), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Lab And Field, Volcanic Jet Noise, Highly Directional, Jet Velocity, Lab Experiments, Source Parameters, Stromboli Volcano, Volcanic Eruptions, Volcano Infrasound, Collected, Frequency, Implications, Italy, Jets, Kilauea, Monitoring, Observations, Particle, Radiation, Sound, Unique, Vent, Visual.

Collaborative Research: Time Dependence of Seismic Parameters in Hawaii
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. Peter M Shearer($174,766), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Guoqing Lin($174,775), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Seismic And Magmatic, Hawaii Island, Seismic Parameters, Activity, Forecasting, HVO, Has, Interactions, Long-term, Past, Potential, Processes, Solutions, Temporal, USGS, Velocity.

CAREER: Combining physical and numerical modes to characterize the contribution of semi-brittle rheology to deformation dynamics and strain transients.
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. Jacqueline E Reber($589,892), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: Fault Dynamics, Fault Motions, Grain Comminution, Hazard Forecasting, Numerical Modeling, Tectonics Faults, Time Scales, Behaviors, Brittle, Creep, Crust, Deformation, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Mixture, Semi-brittle, Slip, Slow, Students, Viscous.

Collaborative Research: Thermodynamics and thermoelasticity of iron-bearing phases
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. Renata M Wentzcovitch($600,000), Columbia University, New York
2. Cai-Zhuang Wang($250,000), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: Fosters Educational Outreach, Strongly Correlated Electrons, Ab Initio, Iron-bearing Phases, Mineral Physics, Undergraduate Students, Calculations, Challenging, Codes, Deep, Dynamics, Evolution, Extreme, Iron-bearing, Mantle, Methods, Planet, Planets, Pressures, Properties, Public, Range, Simulations, Software, Structure, Temperatures, Terrestrial.

Collaborative Research: Voyage to the bottom of Arcs: interplay between water, deformation, and lower crustal stability
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. Mark D Behn($236,345), Boston College, Chestnut Hill
2. Veronique Le Roux($289,782), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
3. Emily J Chin($264,812), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Bulk Continental Crust, Deep Arc Roots, Island Arcs, Lower Crustal, Subduction Zones, Active, Analyses, Chemical, Composition, Cumulates, Deformation, Delamination, Dense, Earth, Evolution, Formation, Linked, Mantle, Melts, Models, Natural, Numerical, Process, Regularly, Rheological, Sink, Students, Tectonic, Time, Volcanic, Water.

High Pressure-Temperature Single-Crystal Elasticity of the Lower-Mantle Bridgmanite
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. Jung-Fu Lin($436,011), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Pressure And Temperature, Elastic Properties, Extreme Conditions, Lower Mantle, Lower-mantle Structures, Allows, Bridgmanite, Constrain, Crystal, Deep, Earth, Impulsive, Laboratory, Laser, Lower-mantle, Obtained, Seismic, Seismology, Techniques, Velocities.

Detecting and Inverting Magnetic Waves for the Structure and Dynamics of Earth's Core
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. Bruce Buffett($237,292), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Core-mantle Boundary, Earth's Core, Magnetic Field, Wave Models, Ability, Abrupt, Convection, Core-mantle, Fluctuations, Forecast, Geomagnetic, Information, Observations, Origin, Plan, Satellite, Student, Time, Top, Topography, Waves.

CAREER: Seismo-acoustic signatures of volcanic unrest and eruption: Local, regional, and remote
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. Robin S Matoza($750,000), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Non-linear Infrasound Propagation, Uc Santa Barbara, Explosive Eruptions, Graduate Students, Non-linear Infrasound, Volcanic Explosions, Volcano Monitoring, Wavefields Propagating, Acoustic, Aerial, Atmospheric, Chile, Collect, Field, Geophysics, Ground-based, Local, Mexico, Multiple, Networks, Program, Regional, Remote, Seismic, Seismo-acoustic, Signals, Source, Technology, Undergraduate, Vanuatu, Virtual, Volcanoes.

Collaborative Research: Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Grain Damage and the Formation of Plate Boundaries
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. Elvira Mulyukova($273,000), Yale University, New Haven
2. Philip Skemer($167,000), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Earthquake Cycles, Earthquake Recurrence, Grain Damage, Grain-scale Physics, Mineral Grains, Plate Boundaries, Plate Boundary, Plate Tectonics, Positive Feedback, Time Scales, Activity, Affect, Behavior, Composition, Crust, Deform, Deformation, Development, Developments, Dislocation, Does, Earthquakes, Emergence, Eventually, Evolution, Experiments, Formation, Geological, Grain-scale, Human, Influence, Influences, Layers, Lithosphere, Lithospheric, Mantle, Mixing, Models, Petrological, Pis, Post-seismic, Process, Processes, Rock, Specifically, Stress, Theoretical, Theory, Weaken, Weakening, Zones.

Dynamics of 3-Dimensional Deformation at the Mendocino Triple Junction Across Timescales
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. Roland Burgmann($227,215), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Female Graduate Student, Mendocino Triple Junction, Convergent Plate, Earthquake Hazards, Generating Earthquakes, Northern California, Plates Meet, Uplift Rates, Vertical Deformation, Vertical Displacements, Assessing, Challenging, Crust, Fault, GPS, Interseismic, Long-term, Measure, Ongoing, Permanent, Pis, Processes, Region, Ruptures, Short-term, Tectonic, Two-year, Western.

Asthenospheric melting and melt-induced evolution of the lithosphere beneath the Colorado Plateau and the Basin and Range from a seismic characterization of mantle layering
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. Emily Hopper($134,910), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Basin And Range, Colorado Plateau, Receiver Functions, Thermodynamic Modeling, Upper Mantle, Uppermost Mantle, Alteration, Ancient, Dispersion, Evolution, Framework, Has, Layered, Melt, Models, Region, Seismic, Seismology, Tectonic, Temperature, Velocity, Volcanism.

Collaborative Research: The Southern San Andreas Fault Zone Experiment
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. Yuri Fialko($361,286), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Yehuda Ben-Zion($267,333), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Mature Plate Boundary, Plate Boundary Fault, San Andreas Fault, Seismic And Geodetic, Dense Seismic, Fault Zone, Geodetic Observations, Seismic Array, Southern California, Damage, Depth, Dip, Earthquakes, Future, Geometry, High-resolution, Investigate, Joint, Magnitude, SAF, SSAF, Seismogenic, Stress, Sub-surface.

Collaborative Research: Establishing a Novel Geophysical Monitoring Scheme for Delineating In Situ Carbonation Processes in Ultramafic Complexes
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. Masako Tominaga($108,878), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Magnetics And Gravity, Carbon Sequestration, Carbonation Process, Mantle Peridotite, Peridotite Carbonation, Applications, Approach, Assemblages, Directly, Earth, Exposure, Field, Geological, Has, Largest, Long-term, Method, Monitoring, Natural, Occurring, Previous, Processes, Rock.

Collaborative Research: Seismic attenuation and anelasticity in the upper mantle: the effect of continuous far-field dislocation creep
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. Christine McCarthy($502,508), Columbia University, New York
2. David L Goldsby($128,104), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Key terms: Icy Planetary Bodies, Seismic Attenuation, Seismic Waves, Upper Mantle, Apparatus, Behavior, Characterized, Conditions, Cryogenic, Deformation, Dislocation, Dislocations, Experiencing, Glaciers, Ice, Laboratory, Microstructure, Process, Rock, Seismology, Strain, Stress.

Collaborative Research: Cross-Validation of Empirical and Physics-based ground motion predictions
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. Marine A Denolle($167,804), Harvard University, Cambridge
2. Kim B Olsen($168,576), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
Key terms: Ambient Noise, Ground Motions, Los Angeles, Sedimentary Basins, Southern California, Amplify, Approaches, City, Coupling, Cross-validation, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Effect, Effects, Effort, Evaluating, Future, Geological, Hazards, Seattle, Seismic, Similar, Simulations, Source, Tokyo, Waves.

Collaborative Research: Geomagnetic field strength and stability between 500 and 800 Ma: Constraining inner core growth
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. John A Tarduno($678,531), University of Rochester, Rochester
2. Aleksey V Smirnov($271,994), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
3. Kenneth P Kodama($307,000), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
Key terms: Education And Outreach, First-generation And Historically, Historically Underrepresented Individuals, Minority And Woman, Solid Inner Core, Expand Opportunities, Geomagnetic Field, Magnetic Field, Outreach Efforts, Solar Particles, Underrepresented Minority, Age, Ages, Ago, Analyses, Atmosphere, Australia, Canada, Earth, Energy, Factor, Growth, Has, ICN, Igneous, Integrated, Involve, Million, Models, Onset, Paleomagnetic, Planet, Rock, Strength, Tested, Thermal, Time, Times, Undergraduate, Unknown, Values.

Collaborative Research: Investigating Iron Isotope Fractionation during Partial Melting
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. Catherine A Macris($281,667), Indiana University, Bloomington
2. Anat Shahar($81,395), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Stable Isotopic Fractionation, Partial Melting, Chemical, Equilibrium, Experimental, Focus, Interdisciplinary, Mantle, Planetary, Range.

Frictional strength evolution and earthquake nucleation
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. Robert C Viesca($245,382), Tufts University, Somerville
Key terms: Minimum Earthquake Size, Minimum Nucleation Size, Rate And State-dependent, Earthquake Nucleation, Fault Rupture, Model Predictions, Phenomenological Laws, Recently Developed, Seismological Implications, Sliding Friction, State-dependent Friction, Analytical, Approach, Descriptions, Existing, Extend, Forecasting, Formulations, Has, Models, Previous, Rate-, Relies, Slip, So-called, Solution, Strength.

CAREER: Large-scale laboratory-generated earthquakes to study earthquake scaling and fluid-fault interactions.
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. Gregory C McLaskey($611,622), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Earthquake Hazard Assessment, Hence Earthquake Hazard, Graduate Student, Meter-scale Rock, Seismic Observations, Carry, Competition, Earthquakes, Experiments, Fault, Field, Fluids, Generate, Laboratory, Meter-scale, Monitor, Natural, Processes, Propagation, Sensors, Slip, Tremors, Underground, Wooden.

Crystal Buoyancy in the Deep Magma Ocean
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. Lars P Stixrude($458,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Deep Magma Ocean, Liquid And Crystalline, Solid And Liquid, Ab Initio, Density Contrast, Iron Contents, Iron Partitioning, Liquid Phases, Composition, Computational, Crystals, Depends, Earth, Evolution, Geochemical, Has, Mantle, Mgfeo, Mgfesio, Model, Principles, Rise, Simulation, Sink, Strong.

Symposium (workshop) on the Application of Mechanics to Geophysics: San Diego, CA, June 2019
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. Xanthippi Markenscoff($7,000), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Mechanics, Meeting, Models.

Global P, SV, and converted wave measurements for improved lower mantle P and S structure studies
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. Edward J Garnero($275,045), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Wave Shape Information, Earth's Mantle, Seismic Imaging, Seismic Wave, Shared Via, Southern Hemisphere, Travel Time, Travel Times, Undergraduate Student, Amplitude, Beneath, Dataset, Direct, Document, Dynamics, Entire, Evolution, Ews, Geophysics, Heterogeneity, Low, Measure, Measured, Models, Multidisciplinary, Multiple, Nature, Ocean, Particular, Phases, Public, Recently, SV, Stations, Structures, Students, Velocity, Waveform, Waves, Web.

Collaborative Research: Full waveform inversion for P and S seismic structure beneath Tibet
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. Stephen Grand($244,471), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Eric Sandvol($204,007), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Crust And Mantle, Mantle Beneath Tibet, Continental Collision, Cratonic Lithosphere, Deeper Mantle, Indian Continental, Indian Lithosphere, Little Agreement, Mantle Lithosphere, Northern India, Surrounding Regions, Tibetan Lithosphere, Tibetan Plateau, Behavior, Constraints, Earthquakes, Evolution, Has, Image, Imaged, Images, Past, People, Regional, Resources, Structures, Transition, Waveform, Zone.

The Volcano Acoustic Source: Decoupling Crater Modulation From Infrasound Signal
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. Jeffrey B Johnson($334,753), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Active Volcanoes, Crater Acoustic, Crater's Acoustic, Volcanic Crater, Anticipated, Craters, Critical, Eruption, Field, Function, Infrasound, Measure, Modeling, Numerical, Occurring, Permit, Processes, Radiated, Relates, Sound, Sounds, Source, Source-time.

Global plate tectonics and mantle convection with damage memory
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. Thorsten W Becker($375,000), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Plate Boundary, Plate Tectonics, Behavior, Boundaries, Convection, Damage, Evolution, Long-term, Mantle, Memory, Particular, Plates, Range.

Superdeep Diamonds from the Transition Zone and Lower Mantle
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. Steven D Jacobsen($472,282), Northwestern University, Evanston
Key terms: Deep Mantle, Earth's Interior, Lower Mantle, Mineral Inclusions, Transition Zone, Crust, Depth, Diamond, Diamonds, Examine, Hydrous, Information, Methods, Minerals, National, Origin, Phases, Pressure, Properties, Reveal, Structure, Surface, Technological, Thousand, Velocity, Water.

New approaches to shear wave splitting tomography
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. Maureen D Long($310,000), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Model Space Search, Shear Wave Splitting, Space Search Approach, Splitting Intensity Tomography, Upper Mantle Anisotropy, Mantle Convection, Seismic Anisotropy, Sensitivity Kernels, Activity, Anisotropic, Challenge, Challenges, Complete, Earth, Finite-frequency, Framework, Image, Implementation, Observations, Parameter, Structure, Student, Waves.

Spin transition in germanate perovskite and post-perovskite at high pressure
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. Thomas S Duffy($415,077), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Crystal And Electronic, Lower Mantle Minerals, Observations And Constrain, Perovskites And Post-perovskites, Valences And Spin, Electronic Structures, Geophysical Observations, Human Societies, Mossbauer Spectroscopy, Silicate Minerals, Adopt, Affect, Analogs, Deep, Earth, Effect, Interior, Investigating, Iron, Knowledge, Laboratory, Magnesium, Pressure, Pressures, Processes, Properties, Temperatures, Thermal.

International Workshop on Numerical Modeling of Earthquake Motions: Waves and Ruptures, Smolenice, Slovakia June 30-July 4, 2019
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. Eric M Dunham($28,000), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Dynamic Rupture, Earthquake Source, Motion Simulation, Exchange, Modeling, Processes, Ruptures, Seismologists, Seismology, Travel, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: From Loading to Rupture - how do fault geometry and material heterogeneity affect the earthquake cycle?
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2019; Program: Geophysics

1. Brittany A Erickson($95,455), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Complex Fault Geometries, Complex Geometries, Earthquake Cycle, Frictional Resistance, Plastic Deformation, Seismic Hazard, Stress Field, Tectonic Loading, Tectonic Plates, Bends, Branches, Cracks, Damage, Dynamic, Earthquakes, Evolution, Faults, Features, Geometry, Heterogeneous, Interaction, Interseismic, Model, Modeled, Modeling, Models, Nfault, Nucleation, Properties, Quasi-static, Recurrence, Requires, Rigorously, Rupture, Stages.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Testing proposed rapid true polar wander in the Neoproterozoic Zavkhan Volcanics of Mongolia and the Banxi Group of South China
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2018; Program: Geophysics

1. Francis A Macdonald($77,882), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Bitter Springs Stage, True Polar Wander, Earth's Interior, South China, Uc Berkeley, Age, Ancient, CA-ID-TIMS, Ca, Component, Constrain, Constrained, Context, Continent, Dates, Development, Display, Educational, Exhibit, Field, Geochronological, Geological, HMNH, Has, History, Interval, Isotope, Ma, Mantle, Mass, Models, Module, Mongolia, Motion, Movement, Occurred, Oscillatory, Paleomagnetic, Paths, Period, Pis, Plate, Plates, Pole, Rapid, Rate, Rates, Relative, Reorientation, Robustly, Rock, Rotational, Seeks, Students, Successions, Surface, TPW, Time, U-pb, Viscosity, Zavkhan.

Response of tremor and slow slip to tidal stress: Constraints on fault friction and weakening
Award Effective Date: 05/08/2018; Program: Geophysics

1. Heidi Houston($94,176), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Cascadia Subduction Zone, Slow Slip Earthquakes, Deep Subduction, Fault Weakening, Intrinsic Friction, Plate Boundary, Subduction Zones, Tidal Stress, Tidal Stresses, Accumulates, Approach, Behavior, Constrain, Cycle, Days, ETS, Effects, Estimate, Has, In-situ, Influence, Interface, Phenomenon, Portions, Preliminary, Progressive, Recently-discovered, Restrengthening, Seismic, Sensitivity, Stressing, Time, Timing, Tremor, Yielded.

Renewal: Mineral Physics Studies under the Pressure-Temperature Conditions of Earth's Deep Lower Mantle
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2018; Program: Geophysics

1. Michael J Walter($150,000), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Giant Oxygen, Iron Superoxides, Mineral Physics, Comparison, Conditions, Consequences, Continent, Deep, Earth, Eruption, Geodynamics, Investigate, Mantle, P-T, Pa, Release, Reservoir, Suggested, Supercontinent.

Collaborative Research: Low-head milldams as hotspots for denitrification and nitrogen consumption: Hydrologic and biogeochemical controls
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Marc Peipoch($108,743), Stroud Water Research Center, Avondale
2. Shreeram P Inamdar($498,660), University of Delaware, Newark
3. Arthur Gold($112,556), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Dam Removals, Filtering Service, Groundwater Levels, Riparian Soils, Riparian Zones, Undergraduate Student, Water Quality, Characterize, Conditions, Conveyed, Create, Delaware, Denitrification, Enhance, Existing, Flow, Forests, Habitat, Hotspots, Hydrologic, Increase, Increased, Investigate, Milldams, Mixing, Natural, Nitrogen, Processes, Regimes, Safety, Sediments, Stream, Streams, Streamside, Upstream, Waterways.

Using a Well-Controlled Heterogeneous Permeability Field to Study Its Role on Miscible Density-Driven Convection in Porous Media
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2019; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Yang Liu($395,516), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: 3d Printing Technologies, Heterogeneous Permeability Field, Heterogeneous Porous Media, High-resolution 3d Printing, Miscible Density-driven Convection, Women And Minority, 3d Printing, Correlation Length, Deep Aquifers, Density-driven Convection, Digital Sediment, Engage Women, Experimental Analogue, High-resolution 3d, Increase Public, Injected Co2, Mass Transfer, Minority Students, Miscible Density-driven, Affects, Carbon, Climate, Construct, Contribute, Critical, Flow, Fluid, Fluids, Global, Influence, Information, Literacy, Mobility, Modeling, Onset, Plan, Structure, Water, Well-controlled.

Collaborative Research: Quantifying the contribution of alpine glacier meltwater to mountain-block recharge using microbiological markers and environmental isotopes
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2019; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Trinity Hamilton($191,532), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
2. Marty D Frisbee($374,618), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Alpine Glacial Meltwater, Snow And Rain, Students And Multiple, Alpine Glaciers, Goes Directly, Graduate Students, Mountain Recharge, Multiple Undergraduate, Seasonal Snow, Water Goes, Water Managers, Biological, DNA, Flow, Groundwater, Streams.

Advancing Stochastic Analysis of Field-Scale Transport Parameters using Hydrogeophysics
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2019; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Erasmus K Oware($299,515), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Highly Heterogeneous Aquifers, Complex Groundwater, Contaminant Transport, Field-scale Solute, Sampling Methods, Small-scale Transport, Solute Migration, Solute Plume, Solute Transport, Stochastic Estimation, Transport Parameters, Transport Process, Water Supplies, Advection-dispersion, Computational, Constraints, Contaminants, Field-scale, Information, Lack, Limited, Management, Opportunities, Predict, Prediction, Prior, Processes, Requires, Small-scale, Spatially, Students, Target, Uncertainty.

Quantification of the Impacts of Urban Areas on Heavy Rainfall and Flooding from North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2019; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Gabriele Villarini($399,934), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Land-falling Tropical Cyclones, Rainfall And Flooding, Development Workshops, Land-falling Tropical, Paved Surfaces, School Teachers, Cities, Climate, Increase, Modeling, Storms, Tools, Urban.

CAREER: Advancing the science and education of land surface-atmosphere interactions: Interweaving multiscale experimental and modeling approaches for Land Surface Models
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2019; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Kathleen M Smits($264,563), University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington
Key terms: Land Surface Models, Mass And Energy, Water And Climate, Computational Models, Energy Exchange, Modeling Approaches, Multiple Scales, Transport Mechanisms, Answering, Atmosphere, Challenge, Contribute, Critical, Differences, Education, Environmental, Experimental, Feedbacks, Formulations, Heterogeneity, Integrated, Interactions, Interface, Knowledge, Laboratory, Land-atmosphere, Lsms, Methods, Parameterizations, Prediction, Predictions, Process, Processes, Representation, STEM, Soil, Students, Subsurface, Unique, Watershed.

Assessment of predictions of hydrologic function based on aquatic DNA fragments
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2019; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Stephen P Good($425,000), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Local Organization Focused, Advanced Biological, Connecting Under-represented, Relative Abundance, Streamwater Dna, Collection, Composition, Conditions, Flow, Flows, Found, Hydrologic, Information, Level, Machine, Microbes, Microbial, Partners, River, Rivers, STEM, Sequencing, Streams, Students, Techniques, Tools, Under-represented, Water.

CAREER: Refining forest management strategies to maximize hydrologic gains from snow dominated watersheds
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2019; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Mukesh Kumar($306,357), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
Key terms: Patch And Gap, Consequent Hydrologic, Forest Management, Forest Patch, Gap Creation, North Carolina, Radiation Model, Snow Accumulation, Snow Melt, Configurations, Decision, Developed, Ecosystem, Enhance, Fmps, Forested, Forests, Idaho, Implemented, Integrated, Models, Multiple, Peak, Services, Testing, Thinning, Water, Western.

CAREER: The role of small wetland connectivity in controlling greenhouse gas emissions and downstream carbon fluxes from headwater tropical streams
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2019; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Diego A Riveros-Iregui($685,281), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Educational Activities Directed, Terrestrial And Aquatic, Aquatic Ecosystems, Aquatic Landscape, Carbon Dioxide, Diverse Audiences, Headwater Streams, Traditionally Underrepresented, Design, Downstream, Experience, Fluxes, Graduate, Hydrologic, Populations, Students, Undergraduate, Unit, Water, Waters, Wetlands.

2019 Catchment Science in the Age of Big Data GRC/GRS, Andover, NH, June 23-28, 2019
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2019; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Richard P Hooper($49,650), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Biological, Biology, Catchment, Chemical, Conference, Disciplines, Exchange, Focus, GRC, Geochemistry, Gordon, Graduate, Hydrologic, Hydrology, Interaction, Opportunities, Opportunity, Seminar.

Extending the vadose zone: characterizing the role of snow for liquid water storage and transmission in streamflow generation
Award Effective Date: 08/31/2018; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Ryan W Webb($289,218), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Liquid Water Storage, Snowpack Liquid Water, Gpr Surveys, Hydrologic Modeling, Modeling Techniques, Numerical Modeling, Remote Sensing, Sensor Nodes, Snow Depth, Snow Water, Snowmelt Season, Soil Moisture, Water Resources, Ability, Affect, Assess, Automated, Boulder, Capabilities, Catchment, Climate, Colorado, Connectivity, Constrain, Distribution, Dynamics, Field, Flowpaths, GPS, Generation, Headwater, Hydrology, Importance, In-snow, Knowledge, Leverages, Local, Mapping, Meltwater, Monitor, Mountain, Network, Observation, Observations, Observed, Processes, Runoff, Seasonal, Simulate, State-of-the-science, Streamflow, Streams, Students, Transport, UAV.

Collaborative Research: Development of a turnkey SQUID microscope platform for paleomagnetism and installation in a National Multi-User Facility
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2019; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Joseph L Kirschvink($42,250), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
2. Eduardo Andrade Lima($493,378), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Ancient Geomagnetic Fields, Broad Range, Common Platform, Independently Verifying, Magnetic Histories, Main Goals, Measure Paleomagnetic, Remained Inaccessible, Applications, Build, Caltech, Collaborative, Combination, Complex, Details, Disseminated, Enable, Geological, Instrument, MIT, Mm, Rock, SSM, Share, Upgrade.

MRI: Acquisition of a Cavity Ring-Down Spectrometer for Analyzing Stable Isotopes in Water Samples at Middlebury College
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Jeffrey S Munroe($103,295), Middlebury College, Middlebury
Key terms: Cave Ice Deposits, Perennial Cave Ice, Stable Isotopic Composition, Transport And Fate, Alpine Landscapes, Analyzing Water, Geology Department, Holocene Paleoclimate, Rock Glaciers, Stable Isotopes, Surface Water, Undergraduate Students, Acquisition, Aquifer, Aquifers, CRDS, Collected, Flow, Fractured, Groundwater, Instrument, Middlebury, Oxygen, Ryan, Sources, Speleothems, Training.

MRI: Acquisition of a Shared Multi Collector Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer for Ocean, Earth, Environmental, and Geobiological Sciences in Southern California
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2019; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. A Joshua West($558,764), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Coupled Plasma Mass, Multiple Collector-inductively Coupled, Plasma Mass Spectrometer, Collector-inductively Coupled, Isotopic Analysis, Multiple Collector-inductively, Public Health, Southern California, Applications, Disciplines, Enable, Enabling, Environmental, Government, Has, Human, Instrument, Instrumentation, Isotope, MC-ICPMS, Medicine, Metals, Natural, Oceanography, Processes, Serving, Training, USC, Users, Wide.

MRI: Acquisition of a Multi-Collector ICP-MS with Laser Ablation for Geochemical and Geochronological Applications
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2019; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Elisabeth Widom($711,822), Miami University, Oxford
Key terms: Mass Spectrometer, Wide Range, Acquisition, Applied, Disciplines, Geochemistry, Initiatives, Instrumentation, Isotope, LA-MC-ICP-MS, Stable, Students, Techniques, Training.

MRI: Acquisition of a Lake Shore Cryotronics High performance Vibrating Sample Magnetometer to enhance the New Mexico Highlands University Paleomagnetic-Rock Magnetism Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Michael S Petronis($153,915), New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas
Key terms: Acquisition, Active, Crust, Deformation, International, Magnetic, Magnetism, National, Paleomagnetic, Properties, Students, VSM.

Development of a roughened inner sphere for the three-meter model of the Earth's core
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Daniel P Lathrop($591,439), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Dynamo Magnetic Field, Earth's Magnetic Field, Tv And Web, Web Based Documentaries, Dynamo Generation, Earth's Core, Earth's Magnetic, Laboratory Model, Liquid Sodium, Magnetic Fields, Outer Core, Public Appreciation, Sodium Experiment, Solar Storms, Design, Direct, Directly, Dynamics, Experiments, Frequent, Geomagnetism, Magnetohydrodynamics, Mimic, Modification, Operations, Planets, Predict, Produce, Radiation, Serves, Three-meter, Time, Tours, Turbulence.

MRI: Acquisition of an ICP-MS Supporting Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Research in Biogeochemistry, Materials Science, Archaeological Chemistry, and Bioinorganic Chemistry
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Peter J Jacobson($349,685), Grinnell College, Grinnell
Key terms: Arid Environments, Carbon Cycling, Laser Ablation, Mercury Speciation, Access, Analysis, Archaeological, Characterization, Cutting-edge, Grinnell, ICP-MS, Instrument, Instrumentation, Investigations, Students, Synthesis.

Acquisition of surveying equipment (UAVs, GNSS receivers) and associated hardware and software to support research and undergraduate training at the University of Alaska Southeast
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2019; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Christian Kienholz($38,143), University of Alaska Southeast Juneau Campus, Juneau
Key terms: Alaska Southeast, Lake Outburst, Mountain Glaciers, Topographic Mapping, Active, Avalanche, Changing, GNSS, Glacial, Hazards, Juneau, Native, Outreach, Requested, Terrain, Uavs.

Community Facility Support for GNSS Data Analysis with GAMIT/GLOBK
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2019; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Thomas A Herring($524,274), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Analysis, Antenna, Atmospheric, Check, Continue, Development, Dynamics, GAMITGLOBK, GLOBK, GNSS, Packages, Parameters, Satellite, Software, Solutions, Users, Worldwide.

Acquisition of an isotope-ratio-monitoring mass spectrometer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Matthew J Winnick($312,110), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Carbon Dioxide, Leaf Waxes, Mass Spectrometer, Postdoctoral Scholars, Short Course, Stable Isotope, Water Cycle, Amherst, Climate, Deuterium, Diverse, Earth, Faculty, Fluxes, Future, Gain, Graduate, History, Information, Isotopes, Mpwp, Nearby, Oxygen, Past, Rainfall, Sediments, Soil, Southern, Stream, Students, Terrestrial, Tropics, Umass, Undergraduate, Users, Warm.

Acquisition of a Laser Flash Apparatus to simultaneously measure thermal diffusivity and heat capacity from 173 to 773 K
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Anne M Hofmeister($97,573), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Laser Flash Apparatus, Structure And Evolution, Heat Flow, Thermal Structure, Advance, Engineering, Planetary.

Upgrade of a Triaxial Rock Deformation Apparatus to Measure the Rheology of Subduction Megathrusts
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Melodie E French($102,379), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Subduction Plate Boundary, Constitutive Behavior, Elastic Waves, Faults Slip, Mechanical Properties, Pacific Northwest, Rock Deformation, Seismic Hazards, Subduction Zones, Apparatus, Destructively, Earthquakes, Equipment, Ground, Measure, Models, Produce, Tsunamis, Upgrade.

Upgrading the Experimental Capabilities of the Core Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at UCLA
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Jonathan M Aurnou($464,702), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Allow, Core, Earth, Experimental, Experiments, Flows, Lab, Laboratory, Models, Planetary, Students, Upgrade, Upgrades, World-unique.

Development of New Techniques: Sustaining and sharpening amino acid geochronology
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Darrell S Kaufman($358,076), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: Aar Geochronology, Dating Method, Applied, Cores, Foraminifera, Racemization, Range, Rate, Reference, Sites.

CAREER: Upper mantle anisotropy: the effect of pressure, temperature and hydration
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Jin Zhang($561,092), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: National Synchrotron Facility, Pressures And Temperatures, Earth's Mantle, Elastic Anisotropy, Elastic Properties, Graduate Student, Mantle Flows, Pi's Laser, Seismic Anisotropy, Temperatures Prevailing, Albuquerque, Course, Critical, Early-career, Educational, Experiments, Female, Integrated, Introductory, Laboratory, Mexico, Minerals, Outcomes, Pis, Plate, Rock, Specimens, Spectroscopy, Students, Training, UNM, X-rays, Zones.

Development of Multi-Channel Ultrasound Recording System for a High-Pressure, High-Temperature Rock Deformation Apparatus
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2019; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Hoagy O'Ghaffari($171,835), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Experimental Rock Deformation, Rock Deformation Studies, Sampling Speeds, Ultrasound Recording, Acoustic, Apparatus, CORD, Capabilities, Deforming, Earthquakes, Evolution, Frequency, Influence, Insights, Mss, Phenomena, Pressure, Stress, Tectonic, Temperature, Volume.

Collaborative Research: Midwest Low KV Collaboration: Continuation of Development of Low KV High Spatial Resolution EPMA Technique to Sub-micron Geological Features
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2019; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. John H Fournelle($301,038), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Anette von der Handt($99,541), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Electron Probe Microanalyzer, Field Emission, L-series X-rays, Low Kv, Transition Metals, Beam, Complex, Energy, Extend, Fe, Generated, Geological, Innovative, Instrument, Investigate, Iron, L-lines, L-series, Lower, Minerals, Simple, Spectral, Technique, X-ray, X-rays.

Acquisition of an SEM with quantitative X-ray detectors to research Geology-Climate-Biology connections
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2019; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Bonnie F Jacobs($420,320), Southern Methodist University, Dallas
Key terms: Scanning Electron Microscope, Acquisition, Applications, Beam, Cellular, Charcoals, Chemical, Detectors, Dispersive, Engineering, Fires, Instrument, Investigate, Landscape, NSF, Nm, Regional, Remediation, SEM, SMU, Sources, Water, X-ray.

Early Career Scholar Support for Topical Conference on Electron-Probe Microanalysis (Quantitative Microanalysis 2019)
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2019; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Anette von der Handt($25,000), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Electron Probe Microanalysis, Advances, Educational, MAS, Students.

Acquisition of a Multi-Sensor Core Logger for Syracuse University
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2019; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Melissa L Chipman($291,825), Syracuse University, Syracuse
Key terms: Multi-sensor Core Logger, Educational Outreach, Multi-sensor Core, Anoxic, Benefit, Climate, Color, Combination, Cores, Department, Faculty, Geologic, Information, Instrument, MSCL, MSCL-S, Magnetic, NSF, Paleoenvironmental, Properties, Resource, Sediment, Sensors, Syracuse, Upstate, York.

Acquisition of High-Precision Water Isotope Analyzer for Arid-Zone Hydrology
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2019; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Juske Horita($146,575), Texas Tech University, Lubbock
Key terms: Arid And Semi-arid, Graduate And Underserved, Scientifically And Socially, Underserved Minority Students, 18o Values, High-precision Infrared, Isotopic Analysis, Laser Spectrometer, Semi-arid Zones, Texas Tech, West Texas, Acquisition, High-precision, Instrument, Isotope, O-excess, Opportunities, Regions, Surface, Transport, Undergraduate, Water.

Acquisition of NMR and SIP instrumentation to support research and training of students from under-represented groups in near surface geophysics
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2019; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Lee Slater($144,406), Rutgers University Newark, Newark
Key terms: Borehole Logging Tool, Near Surface Geophysics, Nmr And Sip, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Spectral Induced Polarization, Carbon Cycling, Graduate Students, Allow, Contaminant, Enhance, Equipment, Expand, Faculty, Field, Hydrogeophysics, Instrumentation, Instruments, Laboratory, Multiple, Newark, Ongoing, Parameters, Peatlands, Processes, Program, Rutgers, State-of-the-art, Subfields, Under-represented.

Acquisition of a gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer system at Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2019; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. James M Russell($96,747), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Students And Postdocs, Existing Gcms, Graduate Students, Activities, Biomarkers, Geological, Has, Instrument, Organic, Pis, Training.

Upgrade of an ICP-Optical Emission Spectrometer for use in Undergraduate Research in Geosciences at the University of Houston-Downtown
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2019; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Jeffrey Martz($104,884), University of Houston - Downtown, Houston
Key terms: Coupled Plasma-optical Emission, Existing Inductively Coupled, Inductively Coupled Plasma-optical, Plasma-optical Emission Spectrometer, Coupled Plasma-optical, Plasma-optical Emission, Trans Pecos, Volcanic Rocks, West Texas, Department, Facilities, Faculty, Funds, Geology, Geosciences, Houston-downtown, ICP-OES, Instructional, Instrument, Natural, Soil, Students, Tectonic, Transition, UHD, Undergraduate, Upgrade.

Acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer for Collaborative Research in Geochemistry
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2019; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Sandrine J Matiasek($286,229), Chico State Enterprises, Chico
Key terms: Analytical Experience, Water Quality, Acquisition, California, Chico, Collaborations, Development, Facilitate, Faculty, Geochemistry, ICP-MS, National, Students, Undergraduate.

Workshopping and relationship-building to promote pathways in STEM higher education: UCLA and NTU
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Aradhna Tripati($49,580), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Recruitment And Retention, Students And Faculty, Indigenous Students, Stem Fields, Challenges, Culture, Education, Environmental, Geosciences, Inclusive, NTU, Opportunities, Pathways, UCLA.

Collaborative Research: Establishing the Hydrogen Isotopic Window into Archaeal Lipid Biomarkers
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. William Leavitt($299,358), Dartmouth College, Hanover
2. Sebastian H Kopf($295,814), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: High-school And Middle, Matter And Energy, Middle School Students, Archaeal Lipid, Critical Thinking, Isotope Fractionation, Low Temperature, Organic Molecules, Transferrable Skills, Activities, Allow, Analysis, Atoms, Biomarkers, Break, Carbon, Co-pi, Coding-literacy, Composition, Courses, Cycling, DNA, Earth, Effort, Engage, Environmental, Environments, Experimental, Geobiologists, Geochemical, Geomicrobiology, Geosciences, Graduate, H-isotopic, Has, History, Hydrogen, Information, Lab, Larger, Life, Lipids, Lived, Manymentors, Mentoring, Microbes, Millions, Modern, Modules, Network, Past, Phd, Pis, Processes, Proteins, Redox, Rock, STEM, Undergraduate, Underserved.

Roots, Weathering, and the Terrestrial Phosphorus Cycle of the Late Devonian
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2019; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. William P Gilhooly III($466,914), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Mexico Dead Zone, Weathering And Erosion, Constrain Terrestrial, Late Devonian, Mid-late Devonian, Terrestrial Nutrient, Ago, Ancient, Balances, Carbon, Critical, Development, Evolution, Evolutionary, Evolved, Explore, Extant, Extinction, Forest, Geochemical, Geochemistry, Global, Gulf, History, Informing, Land, Mass, Mid-late, Million, Modern, Ocean, Oceans, Phosphorus, Plants, Roots, Soil, Soils, Southampton, Structures, Students, Surface, Was.

Collaborative Research: Ecohydrological controls on evapotranspiration across a semiarid elevation gradient
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Kimberly E Samuels-Crow($546,646), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
2. Marcy Litvak($203,444), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Evaporation And Transpiration, Graduate And Undergraduate, Managing Water Resources, Dry Regions, Environmental Conditions, Environmental Drivers, Lesson Plans, Semiarid Ecosystems, Undergraduate Students, Water Budgets, Water Cycle, Water Losses, Amount, Approach, Atmosphere, Challenges, Climate, Components, Evapotranspiration, Existing, Land, Local, Managers, Methods, Partition, Past, Sites, Soil, Times, Workshops.

CAREER: Partitioning of Rare Earth Elements (REE) Between Minerals and Aqueous Fluids in Ore Deposits
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Alexander Gysi($287,565), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: Fluids And Minerals, Aqueous Fluids, Fluid Inclusions, Ore Deposits, Composition, Experiments, Fluid-rock, Geosciences, Hydrothermal, Metals, Model, Modeling, Natural, Ore-forming, Partitioning, Processes, Properties, REE, Signatures, Temperature, Thermodynamics, Trace.

CAREER: Fundamental Controls of Transport Attributes from Porous Media Microstructure
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2019; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Veronica L Morales($574,098), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Flow And Contaminant, Contaminant Movement, Domain Size, Drinking Water, Groundwater Flow, Heterogeneous Porous, Manipulate Groundwater, Pore Space, Arise, Attributes, Central, Contaminants, Controlled, Development, Interactive, Mathematical, Pores, Predict, Predictions, Rock, Spread, Statistically, Step, Students, Tool, Tools, Transport, Velocity, Virtual.

Collaborative Research: From rock to regolith to rivers: weathering, grain size, and controls on soil production and fluvial incision
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2019; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Nicole Gasparini($285,354), Tulane University, New Orleans
2. Jane Willenbring($292,353), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Grain Size, Residence Time, Rio Blanco, Incision, Landlab, Landscapes, Model, Modeling, Rate, Rates, Rivers, Sediment, Soil, Students.

Acquisition of a scanning electron microscope with integrated EDS for enhancement of multi-disciplinary undergraduate research and research training
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Joseph J Reczek($398,000), Denison University, Granville
Key terms: Chemistry And Biochemistry, Emission Scanning Electron, Field Emission Scanning, Scanning Electron Microscope, Geosciences Department, Allow, Analysis, Biology, CL, Characterization, Composition, Critical, Crystals, Denison, Denisons, Development, EDS, Elemental, Energy, Enhance, Faculty, Imaging, Instrument, SEM, Spectroscopy, State-of-the-art, Students, Teaching, Training, Undergraduate, Volcanic, Workforce.

MRI: Acquisition of a fiber optic distributed acoustic sensing instrument for hydrological and seismological research
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2019; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Matthew W Becker($310,438), California State University-Long Beach Foundation, Long Beach
Key terms: Distributed Acoustic Sensing, Fiber Optic Cable, Moon And Sun, California Institute, Deep Boreholes, Fiber-optic Cable, Fluid Pressure, Southern California, Urm Students, Acquisition, Beach, Considered, Consortium, DAS, Deformation, Developed, Fiber-optic, Forcing, Ground, Has, Instrument, Intervals, Length, Less, MRI, Measure, Measured, Measuring, Movements, Natural, Observed, Opportunity, Periods, Pull, Resolution, Seismic, Shallow, Strain, Subsurface, Technology, Tectonic, Vibration.

MRI: Acquisition of a Quadrupole ICP-MS for Multidisciplinary Research, Research Training, and Education at Colgate University
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2019; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Alison M Koleszar($297,363), Colgate University, Hamilton
Key terms: Colgate And Nearby, Finger Lakes Region, Interdisciplinary Analytical Facility, Paleolithic Art Pigments, Quality And Surface, Region And Beyond, Roadside Spring Water, Spring Water Quality, Archaeological Sites, Cornerstone Facility, Geology Department, Hands-on Experience, Inductively Coupled, Modern Instrumentation, Predominantly Undergraduate, Surface Runoff, Volcanic Lakes, Wide Reach, York Region, Adirondack, Airborne, Antarctic, Courses, Evolution, Formation, Funding, Hands-on, ICP-MS, Ice, Implications, Island, Movement, Numerous, Programs, Projects, Provenance, Public, Social, Spectrometer, Testament, Training, Upstate, Users.

MRI: Acquisition of a state-of-the-art high-resolution X-ray computed tomography scanner
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2019; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Richard A Ketcham($1,173,748), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Computed Tomography, Acquisition, Allowing, Benefit, CT, Capabilities, Expertise, Facility, Information, Instrument, Resolution, Scanning, Software, Speed, UTCT, X-ray.

MRI: ACQUISITION OF A WAVELENGTH DISPERSIVE X-RAY FLUORESCENCE SPECTROMETER FOR TEACHING AND RESEARCH AT FRESNO STATE
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Aric H Mine($352,088), California State University-Fresno Foundation, Fresno
Key terms: X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometer, Drinking Water, X-ray Fluorescence, Affect, Analytical, California, Contaminants, Groundwater, Heavy, Instrument, Rock, Students, Valley, Volcanoes.

Constraining Frictional and Low-Temperature Plastic Rheology of Oceanic Lithosphere by Modeling Observations of Load-Induced Deformation from the Hawaiian Islands to Japan Trench
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2019; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Shijie Zhong($354,609), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Laws And Coefficient, Load-induced Lithospheric Deformation, Low-temperature Plasticity Flow, Plasticity Flow Laws, Topography And Gravity, Trench And Hawaii, Gravity Anomalies, Japan Trench, Lithospheric Rheology, Load-induced Lithospheric, Low-temperature Plasticity, Plate Tectonics, Strain Rate, Compare, Constraints, Does, Earth, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Experiments, Following, Friction, Generation, Lithosphere, Mantle, Models, Observations, Settings, Surface, Thermal.

Refining the bounds of Marine Isotope Stage 5a and 5c peak sea level: Insights from 3D modeling of glacial isostatic adjustment
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jessica R Creveling($266,580), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Continental Ice Sheets, Earth's Viscoelastic Structure, Global Geophysical Models, Global Mean Sea, Mean Sea Level, Past Sea Level, Past Warm Periods, 5c Peak, Computer Model, Earth's Crust, Earth's Viscoelastic, Geological Markers, Global Compilation, Globally Distributed, Ice-age Warmth, Marine Terraces, Mis 5a, Past Intervals, Peak Gmsl, Portion Begins, Published Elevations, Refine Estimates, Regional Subsets, Shoreline Markers, Adjustment, Ago, Analyses, Ancient, Arising, Complete, Constrain, Correct, Cryosphere, Deformation, Fit, GIA, Geoscientists, Glacial, Height, Ice-age, Lateral, Loaded, Magnitude, Mattress, Melt, Person, Raised, Respectively, Seismic, Similar, Stability, Stands, Tectonic.

Santa Fe Conference on Rock Magnetism
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2019; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Dario Bilardello($25,000), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Santa Fe, Approaches, Conference, Discussion, Field, Future, Leading, Magnetic, Magnetism, Modeling, Partial, Participants, Workshop.

Collaborative research: Mapping bed forces to granular flow properties
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2019; Program: PREEVENTS - Prediction of and

1. Josef Dufek($240,280), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
2. Scott W McCoy($249,092), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
3. Ken Ferrier($124,512), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Accurate Models, Bed Forces, Granular Flow, Granular Flows, Laboratory Experiments, Natural Hazards, Aid, Formulation, Rapid, Rock.

Collaborative Research: Hydrologic Disturbance in Tropical Peatlands: Linking Drainage, Soil Moisture, Flammability, and Carbon Fluxes
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2019; Program: PREEVENTS - Prediction of and

1. Charles F Harvey($346,371), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Alexandra Konings($330,490), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Future Fire Risk, Communicated Directly, Education Program, Hydrologic Models, Peatland Drainage, Remote Sensing, School Teachers, Tropical Peatlands, Canals, Climate, Combined, Cover, Disturbance, Fires, Haze, Hydrology, Implications, Land, Map, Middle, Region, Southeast, Tools, Water.

NSF/GEO-NERC: Collaborative Research: Multi-scale investigation of rheology and emplacement of multi-phase lava
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2019; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Alan G Whittington($404,243), University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio
2. Einat Lev($373,980), Columbia University, New York
3. Julia E Hammer($106,702), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: East Rift Zone, Lava Flow Emplacement, Lower East Rift, Predicting Lava Flow, Analog Experiments, Gas Bubbles, Kilauea Volcano, Lava Emplacement, Lava Flows, Lava Rheology, Agreement, Analysis, Based, Behavior, Budget, Channelized, Collected, Crystals, Eruption, Evolution, Field, Framework, Hawaii, Hazard, Hazards, Investigate, Joint, KLERZ, Laboratory, Lavas, Melt, Mitigation, Models, Multi-phase, Natural, Observations, Produce, Properties, Proportion, Quantitative, Rheological, UAS, Unprecedented, Videos, Volcanic, Volume.

Collaborative Research: How are Rhyolites Generated? Evaluating Models for the Volcanic-plutonic Connection in the Searchlight Magmatic System, Nevada
Award Effective Date: 09/19/2019; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Ayla Pamukcu($132,855), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Shed Light, Ancient, Conditions, Crust, Earth, Eruption, Geochemical, Magma, Magmatic, Princeton, Processes, Source, Timescales, Volcano, Volcanoes.

Collaborative Research: Caught in the Act- The Petrology of Modern Lower-Crust Formation and Foundering in the North Andean Arc
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Alan Rooney($157,649), Yale University, New Haven
2. Mauricio Ibanez-Mejia($294,796), University of Rochester, Rochester
Key terms: Deep Roots, Earth's Continents, Magmatically-active Regions, Andean, Arc, Capable, Composition, Convergent, Crust, Driving, Eruption, Fragments, Geochemical, History, Investigation, Magmas, Magmatically-active, Mantle, Margins, Opportunity, Process, Processes, Rare, Rock, Section, Surface, Tectonic, Transported, Unique, Uplift, Volcanic.

Collaborative Research: Testing the hypothesis that iron oxide - copper - gold (IOCG) deposits and iron oxide - apatite (IOA) deposits evolve as parts of the same mineral system
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Adam C Simon($369,270), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. Ryan D Mathur($73,662), Juniata College, Huntingdon
Key terms: Copper And Gold, Educational Capacity Building, Graduate And Undergraduate, Industry And Academic, Involves Underrepresented Graduate, Iocg And Ioa, Michigan And Juniata, Ore Deposit Types, Academic Partners, Built Environment, Deposits Formed, Ioa Deposits, Iron Oxide, Mining Industry, Natural Resources, Time-space Relationships, Undergraduate Students, West Africa, Chile, Collaborations, Consensus, Exploration, Formation, Genetic, Genetically, Has, Hydrothermal, Igneous, Investigate, Metals, Mineral, Mineralization, Model, Purely, Sources, Time-space.

Collaborative Research: Petrological controls on continental uplift: static- and reactive-transport modeling of hydration-driven de-densification
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Yvette D Kuiper($263,796), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
2. Emily J Chin($80,845), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Colorado Plateau, Crustal Hydration, Fluid Influx, Fluid-rock Interaction, Surface Uplift, Algorithms, Continent, Density, Earth, Effects, Electron, Fluid-rock, Fluids, Geological, Mineral, Modeling, Poorly, Processes, Quantify, Recently, Slab, Water.

EAGER: Collaborative Research: Development and Application of Sr Stable Isotopes as a Novel Tracer of Carbonate Through Subduction
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Rita Parai($38,549), Washington University, Saint Louis
2. Stephen J Turner($123,053), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Global Carbon Cycle, Stable Sr Isotope, Carbon Recycling, Carbonate Recycling, Earth's Surface, Sr Stable, Subducting Carbonate, Subduction Zones, Volcanic Arc, Volcanic Arcs, Accurately, Andsr, Assess, CAVA, Carbonates, Efficiency, Estimate, Geochemical, History, Magmas, Mantle, Plate, Proxy, Radiogenic, Rates, Rock, Systematics, Transported, Variable, Via, Volcanics, Volcanoes.

EAGER: The Brittle and Extensional Origins of Structures on Silicic Lavas
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Graham D Andrews($35,378), West Virginia University Research Corporation, Morgantown
Key terms: Analog Models, Ancient Lavas, Lava Flows, Silicic Lava, Silicic Lavas, Upper Surfaces, Advance, Analogous, Brittle, Compression, Crevasses, Deformation, Ductile, Duration, Eruption, Flanks, Folding, Folds, Gas, Generate, Geological, Glaciers, Mapped, Structural, Structures, Suas, Vent, Viscous, Volcanic, Volcanoes.

EVALUATING THE ROLE OF MASH PROCESSES AND THE GROWTH OF CONTINENTAL CRUST
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Joshua Schwartz($297,489), The University Corporation, Northridge, Northridge
Key terms: Ancient Subduction Zone, Arc Magmas, Continental Crust, Csun Students, Deep Crust, Deep Roots, Graduate School, Los Angeles, Mash Zones, Outreach Program, Subduction Zones, Undergraduate Students, Continental-arc, Create, Directly, Evolution, Existing, Experiences, Exposed, Field, Fiordland, Geochemical, Geoscience, Insights, Lead, Lower-crustal, Magmatic, Mantle, Melting, Melts, Mentors, Paleodepth, Processes, Rock, Rocs, Serving, Settings, Signature, Tectonic, Underrepresented, Zealand.

Collaborative Research: Testing Source vs. Crustal Processing in High-Mg# Arc Magmas by Os-O-He-Olivine Systematics
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Elisabeth Widom($212,559), Miami University, Oxford
2. Susanne M Straub($270,003), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Arc Volcanism, Crustal Basement, Lithospheric Plate, Silicic Magmas, Arcs, Central, Composition, Crystals, Deadly, Depth, Earth, Eruption, Explosive, Formation, Habitable, Information, Isotope, Maintenance, Mantle, Margins, Melt, Olivine, Rock, Slab, Students, Subducted, Subduction, Suggest, TMVB, Volcanic, Volcanoes.

Collaborative Proposal: Tectonic controls on arc evolution and petrogenesis, central Sierra Nevada Ancestral Cascades arc, California
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2019; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Cathy J Busby($388,512), University of California-Davis, Davis
2. Keith D Putirka($190,661), California State University-Fresno Foundation, Fresno
Key terms: Ancestral Cascade Volcanoes, Uplift And Erosion, Volume And Style, Active Volcanoes, Ancestral Cascade, Ancient Cascades, Central Valley, Eruption Rates, Fault Activity, Northern California, Volcanic Centers, Volcanic Eruptions, Walker Lane, Allow, Basins, Davis, Deep, Directly, Discovered, Earlier, Earthquakes, Eastern, Episodes, Erupted, Experiences, Exposed, Faults, Fresno, Generation, Geologic, Has, Largest, Lassen, Lead, Magmas, Modern, Mt, Pis, Range, Region, Students, Tectonic, Transtensional, Undergraduate.

A Mixed Up Mantle Beneath Ocean Islands?
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2019; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. James Day($244,097), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Ocean Island Basalts, Plate Tectonic Theory, Canary Islands, Cook Islands, Fertile Peridotite, Long-lived Radiogenic, Mantle Sources, Oceanic Crust, Olivine Compositions, Partial Melting, Recycled Crustal, Basaltic, Combine, Contributions, Detecting, Endmember, Engaged, Enhance, Examine, Fit, Generation, HIMU, Indicating, Isotope, Lavas, Long-lived, Mangaia, Models, OIB, Partially, Pyroxenite, Pyroxenite-peridotite, Signature, Sr-nd-os-pb, Strong, Subducted, Task.

Experimental Study of Clinopyroxene Growth and Sector Zoning
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Benoit T Welsch($379,864), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Sector Zoning, Chemical, Clinopyroxene, Complex, Composition, Conditions, Cooling, Crystal, Crystallization, Electron, Experimental, Experiments, Intricate, Magmas, Magmatic, Major-, Melt, Mineral, Natural, Pressure, Previous, Processes, Sectors, Temperature, Trace-element.

How Do Volcanoes Work: Reconciling the Cold and Warm Storage Models
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Melanie Barboni($233,131), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Cold And Warm, Analytical Methods, Cold Storage, Similar Size, Storage Tool, Volcanic Eruptions, Volcanic Reservoirs, Warm Storage, Zircon Geochronologygeochemistry, Allow, Applications, Apply, Based, Bolster, Common, Destructive, Literature, Magma, Mechanisms, Models, Past, Petrology, Thermal, Tools, Volcanoes.

CAREER: Shallow angle subduction and tectonic underplating of magmatic arc root zones: a recipe for high-flux magmatism?
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Alan D Chapman($511,548), Macalester College, Saint Paul
Key terms: California Coast Ranges, Central California Coast, Upper Plate Magmatism, Continental Crust, High-flux Magmatism, Igneous Activity, Klamath Mountains, Overriding Plate, Shallow Subduction, Shallow-angle Subduction, Tectonic Erosion, Tectonic Underplating, Active, Arc, Beneath, Fields, Forearc, Has, High-flux, Increasing, Modern, Potential, Region, STEM, Shallow-angle, Students, Transform, Underrepresented, Zones.

Triple Oxygen Isotope Investigation of Mantle Materials
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2019; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Zachary Sharp($356,983), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Oceanic Crust, Triple Isotope, Alteration, Conditions, Constrain, Mantle, Origin, Oxygen, Planet, Ratio, Rock, Temperature.

Collaborative Research: Experimental and Numerical Constraints on Density Evolution, Buoyancy Reversal, and Runout Distance in Pyroclastic Density Currents
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2019; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. David Mohrig($366,022), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Benjamin J Andrews($61,024), Smithsonian Institution, Washington
3. Josef Dufek($291,662), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Explosive Volcanic Eruptions, Multiphase Numerical Models, Pyroclastic Flow Properties, Analog Experiments, Buoyancy Evolve, Buoyancy Reversal, Dynamic Pressures, Ground Hugging, Pyroclastic Flows, Runout Distance, Stratified Currents, Ash, Behavior, Deposition, Encounters, Entrainment, Establish, Evolves, Force, Hazards, Heterogeneous, Investigate, Laboratory, Less, Liftoff, Parameterized, Plumes, Previous, Processes, Rate, Simulations, Travel, Turbulent.

CAREER: Long-term Controls on Short-term Patterns of Magmatism: Towards a Unified Framework for Crustal Magma Transport
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2019; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Leif Karlstrom($599,951), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Columbia River Flood, Flood Basalt Eruptions, River Flood Basalts, Sonification And Visualization, Eruption Cycles, Magma Transport, Modeling Framework, Volcanic Eruptions, Active, Bridge, Climate, Crust, Explore, Generate, History, Largest, Magmatic, Magmatism, Models, Objective, Observational, Outreach, Processes, Surface, Teaching, Techniques, Tectonic.

RUI: Collaborative Research: What are the Mechanisms and Timescales of Contact Metamorphism in Long-lived Magmatic and Hydrothermal Systems?
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2019; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Michael A Stearns($123,046), Utah Valley University, Orem
2. John M Bartley($204,505), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Heat And Mass, Contact Aureole, Cottonwood Stock, Earth's Crust, Episodic Hydrothermal, Mass Transfer, Mineral Phases, Thermal Modeling, Analytical, Context, Dating, Driven, Emplacement, Hazards, History, LCS, Long-lived, Metamorphic, Metamorphism, Processes, Protracted, Responsible, Spatial, Techniques, Timescales, Utah.

Sequestration of Halogens in the Sub-continental Lithospheric Mantle: Implications for Global Element Cycling
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2019; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Jaime Barnes($350,099), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Overall Halogen Budget, Sub-continental Lithospheric Mantle, Subcontinental Lithospheric Mantle, Convecting Mantle, Earth's Surface, Halogen Concentrations, Mantle Xenoliths, Sub-continental Lithospheric, Arc, Compared, Fluids, Halogens, Minerals, Reservoirs, Returned, Students, Subduction, Suggest.

The Origin of Voluminous, Hydrous, High-SiO2 Rhyolites at Long Valley, CA: High-resolution Numerical Thermal Models and Dynamic, Hydrous Experiments
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2019; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Eric A Hetland($383,346), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Adjacent Wall Rock, Granitoid And Previously, Previously Solidified Mafic, Solidified Mafic Sills, Basaltic Sills, Continental Crust, Numerical Models, Partial Melting, Partial Melts, Rapid Transport, Upper Crust, Conditions, Dikes, Eruption, Experiments, Fluid, Formation, Future, High-resolution, High-sio, Hydrous, Process, Processes, Rhyolite, Transfer, Via, Western.

Fe3+/FeT Ratios in Amphiboles - A New Tool for Understanding the Redox State of Arc Magmas
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2019; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Claire E Bucholz($290,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Subduction Zone Plutonic, Zone Plutonic Rocks, Arc Magmas, Crustal Depths, Fe Speciation, Fe Valence, Subduction Zones, Volcanic Rocks, Amphibole, Application, Chemistry, Critical, Development, Difficult, Elevated, Eruption, Mid-ocean, Mineral, Oxidized, Processes, Redox, SMS, Source, Surface, Via.

Novel determination method of geochemical response time for volcanic activity monitoring
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2019; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Reika Yokochi($60,001), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Kr And Ar, Hot Springs, Magmatic Helium, Volcanic Activities, Eruption, Fluids, Forecasting, Isotope, Shallow, Signal, Signals, Time, Travel, Underground, Volcanos.

Testing the Slab Connection: A Beryllium Isotope Tracer Study in the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2019; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Susanne M Straub($139,795), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Volcano And Surrounding, Arc Volcanism, Lithospheric Plate, Volcanic Rocks, Convergent, Earth, Eruption, Geochemical, Habitable, Maintenance, Margins, Recycling, Slab, Subducted, Subduction, TMVB, Tracer, Transfer, Volatile-rich, Volcanoes.

Halogen Budget of Subducted Eclogites: The In-situ Perspective
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2019; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Veronique Le Roux($363,064), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Earthquake And Volcanic, Inclusions And Incipient, Crystal Grains, Fluid Inclusions, Grain Boundaries, Halogen Fluxes, Incipient Alteration, Oceanic Plates, Subducting Plates, Subduction Zones, Tectonic Plates, Volcanic Hazards, Woods Hole, Budget, Bulk, Combination, Critical, Depth, Distribution, Eclogites, Elemental, Estimates, Halogens, Historically, In-situ, Influence, Ion, Linked, Particular, Recycled, Remain, Subducted, Technical, Techniques, Worldwide.

Collaborative Research: Measurement of Copper Speciation in Basaltic Glasses using X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy, a New Window on Metal Solubility and Transport in Magmatic Systems
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2019; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Paul Wallace($81,446), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
2. Elisabet Head($94,273), Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago
3. Antonio Lanzirotti($87,093), University of Chicago, Chicago
4. Molly McCanta($98,855), University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville
Key terms: Cu Speciation, Magmatic Glasses, Metal Solubility, Available, Basaltic, Conditions, Constraining, Controlled, Copper, Developing, Experimental, Focus, Formation, HERFD-XAFS, Melts, Methods, Natural, Oxygen, Range, Resolution, Southern, Spectroscopic, Students, Sulfide-dominated, Sulfur, Synchrotron-based, Synthetic, Techniques, Terrestrial, Volcanic, XAFS.

Collaborative Research: Elucidating the Role of Titanomagnetite in Vesiculation of Silicic Magmas
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2019; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Stefanie A Brachfeld($113,225), Montclair State University, Montclair
2. Thomas Shea($373,112), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Homogeneous Bubble Nucleation, Magma Ascent Rate, Magnetite Crystals, Rhyolite Magma, Titanomagnetite Crystals, Vapor Phase, Volatile Exsolution, Bubbles, Conduit, Control, Decompression, Densities, Density, Depth, Eruption, Explosive, Fo, Heterogeneously, Homogeneously, Increasing, Influence, Magmas, Natural, Numerical, Potential, Processes, Pumice, Range, Size, Spanning, Supersaturation, Vesiculation.

From Cones to Clusters: Evolution of a Monogenetic Volcanic Field
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2019; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Patricia Larrea($305,000), Miami University, Oxford
Key terms: Directly Mentoring Students, Female Graduate Student, Monogenetic Volcanic Fields, Trans-mexican Volcanic Belt, Cinder Cones, Cone Clusters, Mexican Heritage, Monogenetic Volcanoes, School Students, Shield Volcano, Time Scales, Trans-mexican Volcanic, Behavior, Co-pi, Colleague, Common, Crust, Eruption, Evolution, Holocene, Individual, MGVF, Magma, Magmas, Magmatism, Mantle, Processes, Recruited, STEM, Sources, Successive, Surface, Tapped, Timescales, Versus.

Collaborative Research: Tracking the Exsolution and Migration of Volatiles in Shallow Magma Reservoirs
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2018; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Nicholas D Tailby($269,497), American Museum Natural History, New York
Key terms: Complex Magmatic Fluids, Magma Bodies, Magma Reservoirs, Magmatic Volatiles, Behavior, Dynamics, Eruption, Exsolution, Field, Gap, Knowledge, Lack, Magmas, Migration, Models, Pis, Shallow, Solubility, Under-represented.

EAR-PF: Controls on weathering, solute fluxes, and geologic carbon cycling in glacierized catchments
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Anna Bergstrom($130,500), Bergstrom, Anna, Boulder
Key terms: Global Carbon Cycle, Weathering-derived Solute Flux, Biogeochemical Cycles, Chemical Weathering, Glacierized Watersheds, Global Dataset, Weathering-derived Solute, Alaska, Applied, Characteristics, Controls, Dominant, Estimates, Geologic, Has, Hydrologic, Hydrology, Integrated, Processes.

EAR-PF: Millennial scale environmental changes in Pleistocene Florida can inform the causes and effects of trophic downgrading after megaherbivore extinction
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2020; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Angelina Perrotti($245,000), Perrotti Angelina, Issaquah
Key terms: Spores And Fecal, Fungal Spores, Glacial Period, Lake Tulane, Link Past, Biomarkers, Climate, Deglaciation, Ecosystem, Effects, Extinction, Fire, Florida, Geochemical, Has, Herbivory, Linkages, Megaherbivore, Multiple, Proxies, Temperature, Vegetation.

EAR-PF: Revisiting Megafloods: Insights From Glacial Isostatic Adjustment on Flood Size, Flow Routes, and Climate Response
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Tamara Pico($174,000), Pico, Tamara, Cambridge
Key terms: Caused Crustal Deformation, Glacial Isostatic Adjustment, Glacial Lake Missoula, Broader Climate, Catastrophic Flooding, Channeled Scablands, Flood Discharge, Flood Volumes, Freshwater Flux, Glacial-isostatic Adjustment, Prior Estimates, Uplift Rates, Ago, Connect, Corrected, Drainage, Error, Floods, Glacial-isostatic, Has, Ice, Influence, Interval, Investigate, Landscapes, Largest, Local, Magnitude, Mega-flood, Mega-floods, Mmyr, Ocean, Oregon, Outburst, Period, Quantified, Regional, Resulting, Routing, Slopes, Time, Topography, Total.

EAR-PF: Investigating the role of the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary through a 3D anisotropic velocity model of the Juan de Fuca plate
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. William B Hawley($208,600), Hawley, William Bythewood, Berkeley
Key terms: Pacific Northwest, Plate Tectonics, Seismic Velocity, Velocity Model, Anisotropic, Dependence, Description, Flow, Lamont-doherty, Mantle, Observatory, Ocean, Plates, Rayleigh, Refine, Sensitivity, Structure, Surface, Waves.

EAR-PF: Water in the Lower Mantle: Gaining Insight through Melt Generation and Deformation Textures
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Cara E Vennari($174,000), Vennari, Cara Elizabeth, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Lower Mantle, Mantle Rock, Melting Temperature, Water Content, Diffraction, Experiment, Has, Hydrous, Investigate, Melts, Phases, Pressures, Situ.

EAR-PF Subsurface Nitrous Oxide Emissions Along River Corridors: Analysis Across Spatial and Temporal Scales
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Corey D Wallace($174,000), Wallace, Corey David, Columbus
Key terms: Nitrous Oxide Flux, Spatial And Temporal, Subsurface Nitrogen Cycling, Greenhouse Gases, Postdoctoral Fellow, River Corridors, Sediment Heterogeneity, Activities, Agricultural, Atmosphere, Cincinnati, Climate, Contribute, Development, Effects, Emissions, Field, Future, Geochemical, Groundwater, Has, Land, Precipitation, Process, Release, Rivers, Stimulates, Streams.

EAR-PF: A new oxybarometer to quantify spatial and temporal scales of redox variation in subducting slabs
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2019; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Megan E Holycross($174,000), Holycross, Megan Elizabeth, Washington
Key terms: Fo2 Proxy, Mass Transfer, Natural History, Oxygen Fugacity, Subducting Slabs, Subduction Zones, Applied, Calibrate, Earth, Eclogite, Eclogites, Experiments, Function, Garnet, Museum, NSF, Oxidation, Oxidized, Postdoctoral, Public, Pyroxene, Redox, Rock, Rutile, Surface, Vanadium, Yale.

CAREER:Exploring the early Earth with high-resolution paleomagnetism
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2019; Program: QIS - Quantum Information Scie

1. Roger Fu($677,056), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Magnetic Field, Recently Developed, Apply, Archean, Atmosphere, Billion, Conditions, Continent, Ferromagnetic, Ga, History, Imaging, Infer, Life, Observations, Oxygen-producing, Paleomagnetic, Plate, Properties, QDM, Quantum, Rise, Rock, Signals, Solar, Task, Time.

Enabling Discoveries in Multiscale Earth System Dynamics: Seismological Facility for the Advancement of Geoscience (SAGE) - OPP Scope
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2018; Program: SAGE

1. Jerry A Carter($4,308,685), Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Washington
2. Jerry A Carter($73,335,203), Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Washington
Key terms: Structure And Dynamics, Environmental Management, Fault Zones, Geophysical Instrumentation, National Security, Public Outreach, Sage Facility, Seismological Facilities, Volcanic Eruptions, Workforce Development, Activities, Administration, Advances, Behaviors, Capabilities, Department, Earth, Earthquakes, Education, Enable, Engagement, Engineering, Enhance, Focus, Global, Hazards, IRIS, Monitoring, Nuclear, Operate, Opportunities, Participation, Processes, Products, Programs, Promote, Provided, STEM, Seismic, Services, Students, Underrepresented, Variety.

Enabling Discoveries in Multiscale Earth System Dynamics: Seismological Facility for the Advancement of GEoscience (SAGE)
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2018; Program: SAGE

1. Jerry A Carter($1), Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Washington
Key terms: Structure And Dynamics, Environmental Management, Fault Zones, Geophysical Instrumentation, National Security, Public Outreach, Sage Facility, Seismological Facilities, Volcanic Eruptions, Workforce Development, Activities, Administration, Advances, Behaviors, Capabilities, Department, Earth, Earthquakes, Education, Enable, Engagement, Engineering, Enhance, Focus, Global, Hazards, IRIS, Monitoring, Nuclear, Operate, Opportunities, Participation, Processes, Products, Programs, Promote, Provided, STEM, Seismic, Services, Students, Underrepresented, Variety.

INFEWS/T1: Sustaining food, energy, and water security in agricultural landscapes of the Upper Mississippi River Basin
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2019; Program: SPECIAL EMPHASIS PROGRAM

1. Eric G Booth($2,539,683), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Land And Water, Agricultural Landscapes, Entire Umrb, Sustainability Transition, Water Management, Water Quality, Abrupt, Actors, Advance, Biofuel, Biophysical, Climate, Discussions, Diverse, Drivers, Ecosystem, Extreme, Food, Foster, Governance, Indicators, Integrated, Modeling, Multiple, National, Policies, Policy, Promote, Quantity, Respond, Security.

Cooperative Institute for Dynamic Earth Research
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Barbara A Romanowicz($415,175), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Habitable Environments, Summer Program, Disciplinary, Disciplines, Evolution, Integrated, Progress, Tools, Various, Weeks.

CSEDI: Ultra-High Velocity Zones (UHVZs) at the core-mantle boundary
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2019; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Mingming Li($544,767), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Ultra-high Velocity Zones, Deep Mantle, Extreme Pressure, Geodynamic Modeling, Seismic Observations, Seismic Waves, Ultra-high Velocity, Beneath, Boundary, CMB, Calculations, Chemistry, Compositional, Convection, Core, Core-mantle, Crust, Earth, Evolution, Experiments, Explore, Heat, Newly, Observed, Properties, Structures, Subduction, Tectonic, Uhvzs, Velocities.

CSEDI Collaborative Research: Deciphering the LLSVP-plume relationship
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2019; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Carolina R Lithgow-Bertelloni($587,641), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2. Matthew G Jackson($98,714), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Low Shear Wave, Plumes And Llsvps, Shear Wave Velocity, Hotspot Lavas, Mantle Plumes, Activities, Africa, Chemical, Composition, Continue, Control, Deep, Dynamical, Dynamics, Edges, Elementary, Entrainment, Evolution, Fields, Flow, Found, Lab, Pacific, Pis, Provinces, School, Structures, Students, Three-dimensional, Tools.

CSEDI Collaborative Research: Electrical and Thermal Transport in Iron and Iron Alloys at Core Conditions and its Effects on the Geodynamo and Thermal Earth History
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2019; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Peter E Driscoll($637,194), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
2. Jung-Fu Lin($269,841), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Earth's Magnetic Field, Electrical And Thermal, Pressures And Temperatures, Earth's Magnetic, Electrical Conductivities, Extreme Pressures, Heat Flow, Thermal Conductivity, Calculations, Cell, Compute, Conditions, Core, Experimental, Experiments, Generated, Iron, Law, Liquid, Measured, Modeling, Solid, Theoretical.

RAPID: Characterizing the Sedimentary Archive of the Longest Mississippi River Flood on Record, while Implementing a New Model for Inclusive Undergraduate Geoscience Research
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2019; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Travis E Swanson($300,857), Denison University, Granville
Key terms: Bonnet Carre Spillway, Mississippi River, Advanced, Coastal, Construction, Deposit, Deposits, Diverse, Diversions, Diversity, Engineered, Flood, Geoscience, Hydrodynamic, Land, Opportunities, Sediment, Strategies, Students, Training, Undergraduate, Workforce.

Collaborative Research: Mass Extinction Ecological Response and Recovery in the Cretaceous/Paleogene Gulf Coastal Plain
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Corinne E Myers($284,662), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
2. Sierra V Petersen($179,498), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
3. Don Haas($150,910), Paleontological Research Institute, Ithaca
4. Carlie Pietsch($175,988), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
Key terms: Current And Future, Extreme Environmental, Lesson Plans, Mass Extinction, Rapid Environmental, Available, Experiences, Field, Gulf, Habitat, Laboratory, Niche, Online, Species, Students, Virtual.

The LIBRE [Lake Izabal Basin Research Endeavor] Scientific Drilling Workshop: Drilling and Coring the Lake Izabal Basin
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Jonathan Obrist Farner($49,892), Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla
Key terms: Lake Izabal Basin, Drilling Workshop, Plate Boundary, Climate, Discuss, Discussions, Endeavor, Experts, Fault, Geohazards, LIB, LIBRE, North, Opportunity, Students, Tropical, Unsolved.

RCN: Integrating and Translating Conservation Paleobiology
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Michal J Kowalewski($519,595), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Scientists And Stakeholders, Conservation Paleobiology, Coordination Network, Field Courses, Natural Habitats, Archives, Developing, Efforts, Future, Historical, Integration, Knowledge, Past, Practices, Programs, RCN, Strategies, Training, Via.

Plugging the preservational pipeline: an integrated approach to tracking taphonomic histories of Cambrian skeletal fossil assemblages
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Sarah M Jacquet($343,878), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Fossil Datasets, Geological Time, Ikara-flinders Ranges, Integrated Approach, Preservational Modes, South Australia, Virtual Fieldtrips, Ancient, Animal, Animals, Assemblages, Assess, Biological, Cambrian, Composition, Conditions, Controlling, Depositional, Factors, Geochemical, Ikara-flinders, Life, Paleoenvironment, Quantify, Reconstruct, Reliable, Rock, SSF, Sedimentological, Shelly, Skeletal, Sources, Successions, View.

Collaborative Research: Equatorial Glaciation and Landscape Burial in the Late Paleozoic: Implications for Pangaean Climate and Tectonics
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Anders J Noren($99,613), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
2. Gerilyn S Soreghan($449,032), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
3. Nicholas G Heavens($156,622), SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE, Boulder
Key terms: Southern Ute Indian, Ute Indian Tribe, Art Students, Glaciers Existed, Ground Surface, Late Paleozoic, Sediment Fill, Unaweep Canyon, Ago, Below, Climate, Colorado, Core, Create, Earth, Equator, Equatorial, Evolution, Features, Future, Glaciation, History, Landscape, Million, Near, Outreach, Region, Shape, Time, Training.

EAR-PF: Biomass burning in the terrestrial Arctic during past warm periods: New insights from organic biomarkers in Lake El'gygytgyn (Siberia)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. William C Daniels($246,000), Daniels, William C, Amherst
Key terms: Biomass Burning, Past Wildfires, Activities, Arctic, Climate, Education, Fire, Future, Global, Ma, Massachusetts, Molecular, Paleofire, Permafrost, Proxies, Tundra, Vegetation.

CAREER: Identifying Ecosystem Properties Promoting Stability and Resistance: Modeling Late Ordovician Paleocommunity Dynamics and Functioning Across the Richmondian Invasion
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Carrie Tyler($420,621), Miami University, Oxford
Key terms: Food Web Models, Fossil Food Web, Stability And Resistance, Software Program, Biotic, Consequences, Determining, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Future, Immigrations, Invasions, Marine, Ordovician, Polar, Species.

Moving from correlation to mechanism: testing the role of temperature and oxygen change in the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Erik A Sperling($297,897), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Levels And Temperature, Oxygen And Temperature, Metabolic Index, Ordovician Biodiversification, Oxygen Levels, Trace Metal, Build, Combination, Driving, GOBE, Life, Living, Marine, Modern, Physiological.

Collaborative Research: Deconvolving the southern South American Pleistocene-Holocene dust production pathways
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. David L Barbeau($191,823), University of South Carolina at Columbia, Columbia
2. Mary K Fidler($207,696), Clemson University, Clemson
Key terms: Southern South, Atmospheric, Blown, Continent, Deposits, Detrital, Dust, Geochronology, Geologic, Has, Information, Loess, Models, Past, Pathways, Sediment, Sources, Time, Trace.

CAREER:Continental Paleoenvironmental Responses to Carbon Cycle Perturbations During the mid-Cretaceous Greenhouse
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Marina B Suarez($325,370), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Carbon Cycle Perturbations, Cretaceous Carbon Cycle, Carbon Isotope, Activities, Climate, Disruptions.

CAREER: Environmental Forcing on the Resilience of Carbonate Platforms During the Early Cretaceous Super Greenhouse Period
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Alexis Godet($550,462), University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio
Key terms: Carbonate Platforms, Carbonate-producing Ecosystems, Minority Students, Shallow Marine, Carbonate-producing, Conditions, Disappeared, Environmental, Greenhouse, Increase, Increased, Latitudes, Oaea, Opportunities, Reef, Resilience, Serve.

Collaborative Research: Testing Models for Early Paleozoic Deposition, Volcanism, and Biotas of Sibumasu: Implications for Tectonics and Paleogeography
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Nigel C Hughes($287,046), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
2. Blair Schoene($217,951), Princeton University, Princeton
3. Paul Myrow($164,341), Colorado College, Colorado Springs
Key terms: Ancient, Ashes, Asia, China, Extensive, Fossils, History, Incorporate, Indias, Myanmar, Period, Region, Rock, Sibumasu, Story, Students, Thailand, Time, Volcanic, Worlds.

Collaborative Research: An Inter-disciplinary Approach to Constraining Paleo-geomorphic Responses to the Eocene-Oligocene Hothouse to Icehouse Transition
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Anjali M Fernandes($274,933), University of Connecticut, Storrs
2. Dennis O Terry($150,196), Temple University, Philadelphia
3. Virginia Smith($113,454), Villanova University, Villanova
Key terms: Ancient, Approach, Environmental, Flood, Hydraulic, Integrated, Million, Models, Past, Quantify, Respond, River, Rivers, Water, Western.

CAREER: A comparative study of two trilobite diversification events to advance understanding of early animal evolution.
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Melanie J Hopkins($617,419), American Museum Natural History, New York
Key terms: Development And Ecology, Diversification Rates, Time Period, Animals, Evolution, Evolutionary, Fossil, Students, Studying, Teachers, Time-scaled, Trait, Traits, Trilobite.

Developing the Lake Tanganyika Drilling Project
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2019; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. James M Russell($36,537), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Continental Drilling Program, Drilling Lake Tanganyika, Engineers And Continental, Finalize And Verify, International Continental Drilling, Marine Engineers, Site Survey, Verify Proposals, Budget, Existing, NSF, Services, Submission, Suitability, Transport, Vessels.

2019 Geochronology Gordon Research Conference
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2019; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Paul R Renne($29,790), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Application, Future, Meeting, Participants, Travel.

CAREER: Determining Distinct Triggers of Mass Extinction and Diversification in Fishes
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2019; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Lauren C Sallan($543,104), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Key terms: Loss And Gain, Fossil Fishes, Biodiversity, Comprehensive, Distinct, Diversity, Ecological, Efforts, Environmental, Essential, Extinctions, Global, House, Life, Mass, Million, Modern, Origins, Processes, Revealing, Selective, Species, Time, Training, Turnover.

Testing the Refugia Hypothesis in Southeast Alaska Using Paleogenetics and Glacial Chronology
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2019; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Charlotte Lindqvist($542,156), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Extent And Timing, Plants And Animals, Escaped Ice, Human Migration, Ice Age, Ice Cover, Ice Sheets, Se Alaska, Southeast Alaska, Americas, Biotic, Coastal, Conditions, Corridor, Covered, Died, Environmental, Fossil, Future, History, Ice-free, Knowledge, LGM, Mammals, Movements, North, Past, Peopling, Poorly, Postglacial, Refugia, Species, Thousands.

Collaborative Proposal: Using Organic Carbon Isotopes of Single Microfossils to Illuminate Proterozoic Eukaryotic Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2019; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Christopher K Junium($59,212), Syracuse University, Syracuse
2. Susannah M Porter($363,345), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
3. Phoebe A Cohen($79,585), Williams College, Williamstown
Key terms: Involve Undergraduate Students, Open-access Paleobiology Database, Organic Carbon Isotopes, Open-access Paleobiology, Advances, Analysis, Biological, Biology, Broader, Bulk, Decades, Development, Educational, Especially, Eukaryotes, Evolution, Fossil, Life, Measure, Microfossil, Oxygen, Proterozoic, Remain, Represent, Rise, Single, Techniques, Window.

RUI/Collaborative Research: The Rise of C4 Grasses in South America: Linking Grassland Transitions to the South American Summer Monsoon
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2019; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Jennifer M Cotton($243,067), The University Corporation, Northridge, Northridge
2. Ethan G Hyland($283,406), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Natural And Managed, C4 Grasses, Future Environmental, Managed Landscapes, Warm-season Grasses, Abundance, Climate, Conditions, Dramatic, Ecological, Expansion, Leading, Miocene, Paleoclimatic, Past, Predict, Reconstructions, Respond, South, Tectonic, Warm-season.

Collaborative Research: Testing Models of Calcite Microcrystal Diagenesis Through Experiments, Geochemistry, and Advanced Imaging
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2019; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Franciszek J Hasiuk($217,803), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Calcite Microcrystal, Calcite Microcrystals, Microcrystal Textures, Cementation, Diagenetic, Economic, Evolution, Experiments, Geochemical, Increasing, Manner, Micropores, People, Pores, Resources, Robust.

Collaborative Research: Did the Formation of the Great Unconformity Trigger Oxygenation and the Cambrian Explosion?
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2018; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Francis A Macdonald($91,191), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Zircon And Titanite, Cambrian Radiation, Gu Development, Thermal Histories, Advances, Constraints, Critical, Erosion, Formation, Global, Has, History, Life, Lifes, Models, Neoproterozoic, Occurred, Ocean, Oxygen, Oxygenation, Phosphorous, Rock, U-thhe, Unconformity, Viable, Was.

Collaborative Research: Paleoecology of Jurassic Terrestrial Landscapes
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2018; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Timothy S Myers($113,902), Temple University, Philadelphia
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.

Collaborative Research: Permanent forearc strain partitioning in Northern Cascadia
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: Tectonics

1. Christine A Regalla($251,449), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: British Columbia, Slip History, Vancouver Island, Active, Canada, Development, Earthquakes, Faults, Mapping, Plate, Policy, Quaternary, STEM, Slab, Societal, Students.

Shortening, extension, and drainage reorganization in the Andean fold-thrust belt and broken foreland basin of northern Patagonia, Argentina
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: Tectonics

1. Brian K Horton($440,314), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Basin Analysis, Drainage Reorganization, Extensional Deformation, Mountain Building, Sedimentary Basins, Southern Argentina, Andean, Andes, Boundaries, Continent, Convergent, Crust, Depositional, Development, Enable, Evolution, Foreland, International, Magmatic, Margin, Northern, Patagonian, Plate, Processes, Regional, Shortening, Structural.

Collaborative Research: What Created the Southern Tibetan Plateau Drainage Divide? Integrated Tectonic and Geomorphic Investigation of the Gangdese Range and Yarlung River
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: Tectonics

1. Michael H Taylor($229,448), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
2. Andrew Laskowski($302,960), Montana State University, Bozeman
3. Adam Forte($263,641), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Gangdese Mountains, Landscape Evolution, Mountain Belts, Rock Uplift, Tectonic Plates, Tibetan Plateau, Yarlung-siang-brahmaputra River, Affected, Boundaries, Boundary, Crust, Deep-seated, Drainage, Erosion, Interior, Largest, Miocene, Modules, Motions, Precipitation, Public, Rates, Region, South, Southern, Yarlung-siang-brahmaputra.

Collaborative Research: Paleoseismology of the M7.3 1915 Pleasant Valley Earthquake Ruptures
Award Effective Date: 08/26/2019; Program: Tectonics

1. Lewis A Owen($116,991), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
2. Caroline B Meisner($49,068), Great Basin College, Elko
3. Paula Marques Figueiredo($116,991), University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati
4. Steven G Wesnousky($221,449), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Basin And Range, Central Nevada Seismic, Nevada Seismic Belt, Earthquake Ruptures, Past Earthquakes, Pleasant Valley, Active, Assess, Bearing, Characteristics, Compare, Continent, Dating, Designed, Education, Fault, History, Methods, Modern, Observations, Occurred, Processes, Produced, Rate, Rates, Recurrence, Slip, Tectonic, Timing, Underpinnings.

Collaborative Research: Linking slip dynamics to off-fault deformation in strike-slip fault systems
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2019; Program: Tectonics

1. Sarah J Titus($81,707), Carleton College, Northfield
2. Jacqueline E Reber($161,572), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: San Andreas Fault, Off-fault Deformation, Slip Behavior, Slip Control, Stored Energy, Earthquake, Experiments, Faults, Laboratory, Off-fault, Regions, School, Slips, Structures.

RUI:Collaborative Research: Fluid flow metamorphism and strain localization in mid-crustal shear zones
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: Tectonics

1. Gabriele Casale($73,748), Appalachian State University, Boone
Key terms: Metamorphic Core Complex, Specific Fluid Sources, Detachment Shear, Fluid Flow, Fluid-rock Interaction, Lower Crust, Meteoric Fluids, Undergraduate Students, Analyses, Chemical, Constrain, Crustal-scale, Depths, Ductile, Extension, Fault, Faulting, Field, Fluid-rock, Geologic, Incorporates, Zone, Zones.

Collaborative Research: Dating Deformation with Titanite
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2019; Program: Tectonics

1. Bradley R Hacker($289,046), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
2. George E Gehrels($115,621), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Coast Shear Zone, High-temperature Deformation, Southeast Alaska, Crust, Date, Dating, Deep, Enable, Evolution, Fault, Future, High-temperature, Incorporate, Maps, Methods, Mineral, Processes, Technique, Time, Titanite, Tool, U-pb.

Collaborative Research: How does it end? Exploring thrust termiations of an intra-continental strike-slip fault, north Tibet
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: Tectonics

1. Amanda Keen-Zebert($44,542), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
2. Peter J Haproff($40,798), University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington
3. Andrew V Zuza($242,337), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Asian Continent, Digital Elevation, Haiyuan Fault, Himalayan-tibetan Orogen, Mountain Belt, Strike-slip Faulting, Strike-slip Faults, Thrust Faulting, Western Termination, Boundaries, Central, Construction, Deformation, Features, Folding, Geologic, Hazards, Himalayan-tibetan, Interior, Intra-continental, Largest, Mapping, Methods, Models, Plate, Plates, Strain, Strike-slip, Structures, Tectonic.

Separating Regional and Local Components of Uplift in the Western Transverse Ranges of California to Test Models of Mountain Belt Formation
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: Tectonics

1. Nathan Onderdonk($216,559), California State University-Long Beach Foundation, Long Beach
Key terms: Entire Mountain Belt, Western Transverse Ranges, Local Uplift, Marine Terraces, Regional Uplift, Reverse Faults, Topographic Development, Uplift Rates, California, Coast, Deeper, Deformation, Individual, Lifted, Markers, Measure, Southern, Tectonic, Valleys, WTR.

Collaborative Research: Growth, preservation, and modification of Neoarchean to Paleoproterozoic crust, an example from the Wyoming province, Montana
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: Tectonics

1. Jeffrey D Vervoort($244,257), Washington State University, Pullman
2. Julia A Baldwin($247,435), University of Montana, Missoula
Key terms: Crustal Growth Versus, Metamorphic Phase Equilibria, Continental Crust, Establish Relative, Integrated Approach, Northwest Margin, Southwestern Montana, Time Intervals, Wyoming Province, Assembly, Efforts, Enhanced, Field, Formation, Geologic, Laboratory, Modification, Monazite, Neoarchean, Paleoproterozoic, Periods, Processes, Rock, Students, Tectonic, Tools, Training, Undergraduate, Zircon.

Collaborative Research: Quantifying temporal relationships between tectonic forcing and landscape responses in the central Andean Precordillera, Argentina
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: Tectonics

1. David L Shuster($256,948), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
2. Darryl E Granger($224,098), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Central Andean Precordillera, Postdoctoral Fellow, Climate, Combination, Combining, Cosmogenic, Dating, Deformation, Development, Driven, Erosion, Faulting, Geologic, Has, Landscape, Methods, Rates, Teaching, Techniques, Tectonic, Times.

CAREER: Developing the next generation of Proterozoic paleogeographic models through integrated data development, synthesis and education
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: Tectonics

1. Nicholas L Swanson-Hysell($699,790), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Apparent Polar Wander, Elementary School Students, Polar Wander Path, Lawrence Hall, Proterozoic Paleogeography, West Africa, Ago, Assembly, Central, Configuration, Conjunction, Constraints, Content, Continent, Craton, Developed, Display, Efforts, Focus, Global, Nuna, Oakland, Position, Program, Public, Rock, Rodinia, Spans, Sphere, Time, Trips.

Collaborative Research: TESPRESSO: Tectonic Encoding, Shredding, and PRopagation of Environmental Signals as Surface Observables
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2019; Program: Tectonics

1. Nicole Gasparini($249,903), Tulane University, New Orleans
2. Tammy M Rittenour($166,226), Utah State University, Logan
3. Frank J Pazzaglia($443,197), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
Key terms: Sea Level, Sediment Yield, Tectonic Forcings, Autogenic, Climate, Deltas, Earthquakes, Hazards, Inform, LEM, Landscape, Landslides, Modern, Mountain, Natural, Peloritani, Periodic, Processes, Quasi-periodic, Rates, Rock, Rock-magnetic, Sedimentary, Sink, Source, Time, Unique, Uplift.

CAREER: Refining zircon (U-Th)/He deep-time thermochronology for constraining Neoproterozoic thermal histories
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2019; Program: Tectonics

1. William Guenthner($530,932), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Timing And Magnitude, Damage Annealing, Deep-time Thermochronology, Radiation Damage, Temperature Sensitivity, Thermal Histories, Thermal History, Zircon Grains, Appreciation, Atmosphere-biosphere-lithosphere, Concept, Constrain, Deep-time, Erosion, Experiments, Focuses, Geologic, Kinetics, Knowledge, Midcontinent, Range, Refine, Rock, Thermochronologic, U-thhe, Unconformity, Uranium-thoriumhelium.

CAREER: Experimental investigation of deformation and slip behaviors of subduction megathrust rocks
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2019; Program: Tectonics

1. Hiroko Kitajima($580,367), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Deformation And Slip, Earthquakes And Tsunamis, Megathrust Plate Boundary, Paths And Rates, Plate Boundary Faults, Subduction Zone Earthquakes, Education Programs, Elevated Pore, Fault Rocks, Friction Experiments, Future Generations, Hazard Mitigation, Loading Paths, Low Effective, Pore Pressure, Rock Deformation, Slip Behaviors, Subduction Zones, Vein Formation, Advance, Course, Engineering, International, Natural, Physics, Students, Transfer, Triaxial.

Collaborative Research: Uplift or climate change? Determining the primary driver of deep canyon incision in the eastern cordillera, southern Peru
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2019; Program: Tectonics

1. Nadine McQuarrie($271,061), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
2. Kelin X Whipple($318,468), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Active Rock Uplift, Canyon Cutting, Driven Erosion, Eastern Cordillera, Erosion Rate, Erosion Rates, Erosional Efficiency, Landscape Morphology, Plateau Margin, Tectonic Uplift, Analysis, Climate, Development, Diagnosing, Exhumation, Fidelity, Geometry, Graduate, Incision, Methods, Mountain, Peru, Peruvian, Quantitatively, Rainfall, Remote, Resulting, STEM, Topography.

CAREER: Experimental Investigation of Viscous Anisotropy of Foliated Rocks: Implications to the Strength of the Mid to Lower Continental Crust
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2019; Program: Tectonics

1. Caleb W Holyoke($530,231), University of Akron, Akron
Key terms: Lattice Preferred Orientations, Lower Crustal Rocks, Preexisting Lattice Preferred, Structural Geology Course, Electron Microscopy, Foliated Rocks, Foliation Orientation, Micaceous Foliation, Outreach Activities, Seismic Cycle, Viscous Anisotropy, Affect, Affects, Akron, Compression, Deformation, Direction, Earthquake, Experimental, Experiments, Foliations, Homogeneous, Interconnectivity, Laboratory, Loading, Mechanical, Mechanisms, Model, Principal, Relative, STEM, Students, Supporting, Viscosity.

CAREER: Unfolding Earth history back to the Mesozoic by incorporating seismic tomography into Pacific realm plate tectonic reconstructions
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2019; Program: Tectonics

1. Jonny Wu($568,310), University of Houston, Houston
Key terms: Tomographic Plate Reconstruction, Boundary Conditions, Global Models, Seismic Tomography, Build, Constraints, Half, History, Kinematic, Mantle, Mesozoic, Panthalassa-pacific, Realm, STEM, Skill, Slabs, Surface, Tectonic, Undergraduate.

Incredible India: High Resolution Proterozoic Paleogeography through integrated studies of mafic dykes
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2019; Program: Tectonics

1. Joseph G Meert($287,227), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Paleomagnetic And Geochronologic, Ancient Climatic, Continental Crust, Global Tectonic, Magnetic Field, Peninsular India, Plate Tectonics, Undergraduate Students, Ago, Assembly, Bundelkhand, Collaboration, Columbia, Columbianuna, Cratons, Deposits, Determining, Dharwar, Entire, Five, Globe, Graduate, History, Igneous, Indian, Indias, Investigation, Larger, Million, Mode, Models, Modern, Outreach, Paleogeographic, Pannotia, Pieces, Proterozoic, Rodinia, STEM, Singhbhum, Supercontinent, Supercontinents, Time.

Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop at Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, June 2-9, 2019
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2019; Program: Tectonics

1. Andrew Laskowski($24,525), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Himalaya-karakoram-tibet Workshop, Technical Sessions, Bring, Broadening, Collisional, Contributing, Designed, Developing, Directions, Discussions, Exchange, Future, Geology, Himalaya-karakoram-tibet, Himalayan, International, Montana, Opportunities, Oral, Poster, Public, Range, STEM, Tectonic, Underrepresented.

Student support for 2019 GSA Thompson Field Forum in Grand Canyon; September 14-21, 2019
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2019; Program: Tectonics

1. Karl E Karlstrom($8,500), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Colorado Plateau, Field Forum, Grand Canyon, Activity, Advances, Age, Contributions, Debates, Development, Discuss, Discussions, Evidence, Incision, Ongoing, Participation, STEM, Society, Students, Subject.

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

1. Veronique Le Roux($121,877), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Grain Size Sensitive, Shear Zone Development, Size Sensitive Creep, Continental Crust, Crustal Conditions, Crustal Rocks, Flow Laws, Mechanical Behavior, Mixing Models, Predict Widely, Aggregates, Composition, Controls, E-s, Earthquakes, Evolution, Experimental, Experiments, Formation, Influence, Investigate, Laboratory, Long-term, Mica, Microstructural, Minerals, Modeling, Mountain, Numerical, Observations, Processes, Properties, Respond, Rheological, Rheology, Strain, Training.

INFEWS/T1: Decision-Driven Advances in Integrated Assessment Modeling of the Food-Energy-Water Nexus
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2019; Program: Track 1 INFEWS

1. Leon E Clarke($2,476,828), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Barriers And Facilitate, National And Global, Regional Fews Planning, Computationally Efficient, Economic Growth, Facilitate Joint, Fews Nexus, Global Dynamics, Integrated Fews, Nexus Model, Planning Scenarios, Regional Planning, Sustainable Development, Adoption, Advances, Agricultural, Allow, Analytical, Approach, Argentina, Break, Broader, Challenges, Climate, Climatic, Contribute, Couple, Decision, Decision-relevant, Decisions, Design, Effectively, Energy, Food, International, Manner, Mapping, Modeling, Models, Processes, Robust, Robustness, Sdgs, Sectors, Societal, Socioeconomic, Stakeholders, Trade, Uncertainties, Uruguay, Water.

INFEWS: U.S.-China: Increasing the Resilience of Human-Nature Interactions in the Yellow River Basin through Coordinated Food-Energy-Water Nexus Management
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: Track 1 INFEWS

1. Fernando R Miralles-Wilhelm($500,000), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Food And Energy, Resilience And Sustainability, China's Food, Human Activities, Adaptability, Agricultural, Apply, CFEW, Chinas, Climate, Coupled, Critical, Crops, Demands, Economic, Environmental, Framework, Hydrologic, Interactions, Management, Modeling, Processes, Regional, Resources, Supply, Sustainable, Water.

INFEWS/T1: Climate-induced Extremes on the Food, Energy, Water Nexus (C-FEWS) and the Role of Engineered and Natural Infrastructure
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2019; Program: Track 3 INFEWS

1. Amy W Ando($2,499,998), Research Foundation CUNY - Advanced Science Research Center, New York
Key terms: Climate Extremes, Environmental Stressors, Existing Models, Extreme Weather, Century, Designed, Dynamics, Economic, Economics, Energy, Engineered, FEWS, Food, Framework, Future, Interdisciplinary, Midwest, NI, Northeast, Options, Policy, Prognostic, Regional, Regions, Security, Trends, Unites.

SitS NSF-UKRI: Wireless In-Situ Soil Sensing Network for Future Sustainable Agriculture
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2020; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Cody D Zesiger($799,957), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Alternative Water Sources, Soil Sensing Network, Irrigated Agriculture, Low-power Electronics, Soil Health, Wide Range, Achieve, Agricultural, Autonomous, Battery, Collaboration, Collected, Condition, Conditions, Cost, Council, Developing, Effect, Enable, Enabling, Field, Following, Food, Freshwater, Ground, Implemented, In-situ, Indicate, Interface, Investigate, Irrigation, Low-cost, Low-power, Maintenance, Measured, Modules, Operation, Powering, Productivity, Program, Sensor, Sits, Stakeholders, Technology, Telemetry, Transfer, Underground, Wireless.

International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) - FY2019-2023
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Carola Koegler($5,999,000), HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM POTSDAM - DEUTSCHES GEOFORSCHUNGSZENTRUM GFZ, Potsdam
Key terms: Drilling Projects, International Continental, Challenges, ICDP, Processes, Program, Resources, Tool, Workshops.

EAGER: Collaborative Research: Positron annihilation spectroscopy of Earth materials: A combined materials characterization approach
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Heather C Watson($55,750), Union College, Schenectady
2. Daniele J Cherniak($22,189), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
Key terms: Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy, Crystalline Solids, Defect Populations, Radiation Damage, Atomic, Build, Characterization, Characterize, Crystals, Defects, Development, Diffusion, Direct, Has, Interdisciplinary, Investigation, Minerals, Natural, Nuclear, Physics, Planet, Properties, Synthetic, Technique, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Structure and depth extent of lithospheric shear zones surrounding continental transform faults
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Thorsten W Becker($300,800), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Vera Schulte-Pelkum($125,319), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Continental Transform Faults, Geodynamic Modeling, San Andreas, Seismic Waves, Shear Zone, Affect, Anisotropy, Deformation, Earthquakes, Existing, Fabrics, Geometry, Investigate, Observations, Remains, Rock, Six, Splitting, Transforms, Underneath.

MRI: Acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer and UV Excimer Laser Platform for Trace Element Analysis and U-Th-Pb Petrochronology
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Virginia Dorsey Wanless($405,000), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Coupled Plasma Mass, Inductively Coupled Plasma, Isotope Geology Laboratory, Minorities And Persons, Plasma Mass Spectrometer, Stem And Diversity, Diversity Initiatives, Excimer Laser, Innovative Methodologies, Integral Component, Isotopic Analysis, Laser Probe, Requested Instrumentation, State-of-the-art Ultraviolet, Ablation, Acquire, Acquisition, Analytical, Boise, Broaden, Collaborators, Department, Disabilities, Geosciences, High-sensitivity, LA-ICPMS, NSF, Office, Participation, Partners, State-of-the-art, Trace, Training, UV, Women.

Board on Earth Sciences and Resources and Its Activities
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Elizabeth Eide($1,480,000), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Policy And Decision-making, National Academies, Activities, Advance, Advise, BESR, Board, Consensus, Enables, Engineering, Government, Information, Issues, Medicine, NASEM, Non-governmental, Organizations, Platforms, Policy-, Private, Processes, Programs, Public, Range, Resources.

Collaborative Research: Constraining African Climate Since the Last Glacial Maximum via Integrated Climate and Proxy System Modeling
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. James M Russell($78,509), Brown University, Providence
2. Sylvia G Dee($312,709), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Global Climate Models, Lake Sediment Cores, African Temperature, Lake Temperature, Model Simulations, Past Temperature, Tropical Africa, Air, Atmospheric, Degrees, Geochemical, Mechanisms, PSM, Proxies, Proxy, Rates, Reconstructions, Regional, Sensitivity, Simulate, Surface, Temperatures, Transient, Tropics.

MRI: Acquisition of an MC-ICP-MS for Earth, Environmental and Planetary Research at the University of Nevada Las Vegas
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Shichun Huang($675,292), University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas
Key terms: Coupled Plasma Mass, Entire Southern Nevada, Environmental And Planetary, Faculty And Students, Graduate And Undergraduate, Inductively Coupled Plasma, Multicollector Inductively Coupled, Plasma Mass Spectrometer, State-of-the-art Analytical Facility, State-of-the-art Analytical Techniques, Women And Underrepresented, Critical Tool, Geologic History, Human Interaction, Isotope Geochemistry, Isotope Tracers, K-12 Schools, Natural Environment, Past Climates, State-of-the-art Analytical, Stem Fields, Teaching Facility, Undergraduate Students, Underrepresented Students, Access, Acquired, Available, California, Collaborators, Decades, Development, Educate, Exploring, Geology, Has, Increase, Instrument, MC-ICP-MS, Otherwise, Participation, Proven, Radiogenic, Serve, Solar, Stable, UNLV.

RAPID: Short-period Seismic Study of Actively Serpentinizing Lithosphere in the Oman Ophiolite
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Robert A Sohn($119,901), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Carbon Sequestration, Standing Waves, Array, Collaboration, Cracking, Deployed, Drill, Fluids, Has, Hole, Holes, Interaction, Measure, Mechanisms, Network, Oman, Rock, Seismometers, Substantive.

RAPID: Seismic Monitoring of Post-Fire Debris Flows Associated with the Museum Fire, Northern Arizona
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Abraham E Springer($39,881), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: Characterize Debris Flows, Debris Flow Deposits, Downstream Debris Flow, Flows And Flooding, Lives And Property, Post-event Surface Observations, Human Lives, Museum Fire, Northern Arizona, Post-event Surface, Protecting Human, Seismic Observations, Seismic Signals, Travel Downslope, Array, Assess, City, Collected, Combination, Deploy, Drainages, Effectiveness, Flagstaff, Future, Implications, Increasing, Intense, Monitor, Monitoring, Network, Precipitation, Rain, Region, Seismometers, Soil, Warning, Western, Wildfire, Wildfires.

Investigating what causes the morphology of Large low-shear Velocity Provinces (LLSVPs)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Mingming Li($230,000), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Viscosity And Density, Deep Mantle, Llsvp Edges, Lowermost Mantle, Seismic Waves, Surrounding Mantle, Thermochemical Piles, Velocity Provinces, Viscosity Structures, Controlled, Critical, Dynamics, Earth, Energy, Evolution, Features, Graduate, Interaction, Laws, Lead, Llsvps, Morphology, Numerical, Outreach, Pacific, Physics, Quantify, Regions, Shape, Steepness, Suggested.

Constraining the Nature and Formation Age of the Shyok Suture Zone in Ladakh, NE India
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Oliver Jagoutz($409,903), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Neotethys Ocean, Shyok Suture, Suture Zone, Age, Collision, Constrain, Continent, Disappearance, Eurasian, India, Kohistan-ladakh, Paleomagnetic, Tectonic, Timing, Unknown.

Collaborative Research: RAPID: Using the M6.4-7.1 Ridgecrest, CA Earthquake sequence to test a postseismic stress evolution monitoring system
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Thorsten W Becker($14,000), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Kaj M Johnson($23,814), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Future Real-time Aftershock, Near Real Time, Real-time Aftershock Forecasting, Stress Evolution Monitoring, Coseismic Stress, Coulomb Stress, Future Real-time, Postseismic Deformation, Real-time Aftershock, Ridgecrest Earthquake, Southern California, Aftershocks, Computed, Earthquakes, Larger, Mainshock, Mantle, Opportunity, Potential.

Rocky Mountain snowpack changes and their hydrologic consequences during the Holocene
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Bryan N Shuman($246,806), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Lake Sediment, Rocky Mountain, Water Resources, Climate, Combination, Future, Glycerol, Long-term, Media, N-alkane, Past, Perspective, Proxy, Region, Snowpack, Temperature, Western, Wyoming.

Collaborative Research: Understanding the hydrologic consequences of urban irrigation across the U.S.
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Elizaveta Litvak($570,980), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
2. George D Jenerette($374,405), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Vapor Pressure Deficit, Irrigation Practices, Soil Moisture, Urban Water, Water Cycle, Water Management, Advance, Amount, Atmospheric, Cities, Climate, Components, Cover, Demand, Differences, Distribution, Fluxes, Human, Hydrologic, Land, Landscape, Models, Plant, Policy, Poorly, Represent, Semi-arid, Vegetation.

RAPID - Afterslip and triggered slip associated with the Ridgecrest earthquake sequence
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Roger G Bilham($37,054), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Active Faults Near, Nearby Active Faults, Stressed Nearby Active, Nearby Faults, Conjugate, Deploy, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Extensometers, Minute, Motivated, Rate, Ridgecrest, Rupture, Seismic, Sequence, Slip, Triggered.

Structural controls on Fe oxide formation: A crystallographic analysis of the growth of hematite versus goethite
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Jeffrey Post($474,916), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Goethite And Hematite, Hematitegoethite Proxies, Iron Oxide, Iron Oxides, Ancient, Climate, Climatic, Conditions, Control, Crystallize, Economic, Feldspar, Ferrihydrite, Formation, Has, Hydrohematite, Minerals, Paleosols, Ph, Pis, Quartz, Rates, Ratios, Reaction, Relative, Remove, Serve, Significance, Soils, Technological, X-ray.

CAREER: Merging geoscience research and education to investigate convergent margin deformation and improve spatio-temporal problem solving in STEM education
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Nicholas D Perez($657,383), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Southern Peruvian Andes, Graduate Students, Mountain Building, Mountain Ranges, Subduction Zone, Course, Crust, Datasets, Deformation, Development, Education, Experience, Field, Geoscience, Global, Hazards, Human, Linked, Processes, Resources, Spatial, Surface, Tectonic, Temporal, Time, Undergraduate.

CAREER: Using the Rattlesnake Ridge landslide as a natural laboratory to study repeating earthquake evolution and development of operational repeating signal detectors
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Amanda M Thomas($641,242), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Rattlesnake Ridge Landslide, Analysis, Collected, Dataset, Earthquake, Failure, Infrastructure, Insight, Landslides, Occurred, Program, Region, Seismic, Seismicity, Slide, Tribal, Unique.

Collaborative Proposal: Do arc-continent collisions in the tropics set the Earth's climate state?
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Rebecca M Flowers($279,152), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Nicholas L Swanson-Hysell($744,932), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
3. Lorraine Lisiecki($832,741), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Arc-continent Collisions, Background Climate, Chemical Erosion, Climate Models, Global Weatherability, Ocean Basins, Arc-continent, Closure, Construct, Earth, Framework, Geochemical, Geological, Glacial, History, Hypothesized, K-, Level, Paleogeographic, Pco, Phanerozoic, Refine, Rock, Sutures, Tectonic, Topography, Tropics, Undergraduate, Warm, Weathering.

RAPID: Collaborative Proposal: Response to the Searles Valley Earthquake Sequence
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Amir Allam($15,000), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
2. Michael E Oskin($15,000), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
3. Viswanath Nandigam($26,000), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
4. Gareth Funning($15,000), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
5. Yuri Fialko($17,000), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: California Shear Zone, Eastern California Shear, Crustal Structures, Field Studies, Deformation, Earthquake, Effects, Fault, Geodetic, Ground, July, Ruptures, Seismic.

RAPID proposal: Rapid seismic response to the July 2019 Mw 7.1 and 6.4 doublet near Ridgecrest, Southern California
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Abhijit Ghosh($74,865), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Ridgecrest Earthquakes, San Andreas, Seismic Hazard, Southern California, Close, Deploy, Experiment, Fault, Faults, Garlock, Mw, Populated, Stations, Structure.

Collaborative Research: Testing Evolutionary Psuedocongruence Along the Baja California Peninsula Through Integration of Geologic and Genomic Data
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Rebecca J Dorsey($645,706), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
2. Adrian Munguia-Vega($694,283), University of Arizona, Tucson
3. Brian Hausback($421,334), University Enterprises, Incorporated, Sacramento
4. Kenro Kusumi($838,431), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Baja California Peninsula, Central Baja California, Genetic Divergence, Mid-peninsular Region, Previously Documented, Adaptation, Advance, Assess, Biodiversity, Biological, Co-occurring, Control, Datasets, Diverse, Division, Driven, Earth-life, Evolution, Factors, Genomic, Geological, Integrate, Isolated, Methods, Mid-peninsular, Models, Modern, Niche, Pis, Populations, Processes, Rainfall, Species, Students, Time, Timing.

Collaborative Research: Sediment Transport Mechanisms and Geomorphic Processes Associated with Shore Ice along Cold Climate Coastlines
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Ethan J Theuerkauf($237,072), Michigan State University, East Lansing
2. Lucas K Zoet($282,720), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
3. Ethan J Theuerkauf($237,072), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Cold Climate Coastlines, Field And Laboratory, Shore Ice Cover, Winter Shore Ice, Coastal Evolution, Coastal Landscape, Cold Climates, Laboratory Experiments, Sediment Transport, Approach, Basis, Describe, Future, Geomorphic, Model, Processes, Public, Reduced, Shared, Shoreface, Variable.

Collaborative Research: A New Sanidine-Liquid Hygrometer: Experiments, Calibration and Applications
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Laura Waters($135,782), Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park
2. Gordon M Moore($229,796), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: High-school Internship Program, Promotes Stem Fields, High-school Internship, Potassium Feldspar, Silicic Magmas, Six Undergraduates, Applicable, Calibration, Conditions, Davis, Debate, HO, Hispanic-serving, Intensive, Melt, Models, Plutonic, Rock, Sonoma, Students, Under-represented, Volumes.

RAPID: Collaborative: Response to the Searles Valley Earthquake Sequence
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. William C Hammond($19,000), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: California Shear Zone, Eastern California Shear, Crustal Structures, Field Studies, Deformation, Earthquake, Effects, Fault, Geodetic, Ground, July, Ruptures, Seismic.

TIMING OF COOLING AND EXHUMATION OF LARAMIDE UPLIFTS INFORMS MODELS OF FLAT-SLAB SUBDUCTION
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Barbara Carrapa($427,413), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Flat-slab Subduction, Laramide Region, Laramide Uplifts, Rocky Mountains, Southern Alaska, Active, Flat-slab, Geodynamic, Landscape, Models, Plate, Ranges, Regions, Tectonic, Timing, Western, Wyoming.

CAREER: Assimilation of Geodetic Data in Physical Models of Subduction Zones
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Sylvain D Barbot($599,295), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Open-source Software, Subduction Zones, Account, Deformation, Earthquakes, Fire, Flow, Friction, Generate, Graduate, Largest, Mantle, Megathrust, Modeling, Models, Mwgt, Numerical, Observations, Open-source, Plate, Properties, Public, Realistic, Ring, Rock, Seismic, Simulations, Slip, Slow, Society, Students, Surface, Teaching, Tsunami, Undergraduate.

EAR-PF: Light- and Iron-Mediated Oxidation Mechanisms of Organic Matter
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Claresta M Joe-Wong($236,000), Joe-Wong, Claresta Michelle, Stanford
Key terms: Dissolved Organic Carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Inland Waters, Characterize, Global, Intermediates, Iron, Iron-mediated, Mechanisms, Oxidation, Photo-oxidation, Postdoctoral, Processes, Release.

Geodetic Observations in the Northern Costa Rica Subduction Zone
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Timothy Dixon($294,088), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Costa Rica, Frictional Conditions, Slow Slip, Active, Critical, Cycle, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Failure, Forecast, GPS, Geodetic, Interseismic, Japan, Mechanisms, Network, Observe, Precision, Region, Release, Seismic, Sses, Strain, Subduction, Subsequent.

Mechanochemical Processes dictating Calcite's Frictional Characteristics
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Rosa M Espinosa-Marzal($347,808), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Aqueous Environment, Fault Friction, Frictional Characteristics, Mechanisms Underlying, Pressure-solution Creep, Adhesion, Allows, Calcite, Contact, Contacts, Effects, Faults, Fluid, Fluids, Grain, Influence, Interface, Interfacial, Investigate, Level, Macroscopic, Microscopic, Parameters, Presence, Pressure-solution, Quantified, Sliding, Slip, Students.

Collaborative Research: Spatiotemporal Variability and Drivers of East-west Hydroclimate Anti-phasing in the Midcontinental United States During the Last 2000 Years
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Byron A Steinman($142,621), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
2. Karlyn Westover($56,547), Indiana State University, Terre Haute
3. Broxton W Bird($229,764), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Circulation And Precipitation, Atmospheric Circulation, Critical Component, Hydroclimate Dipole, Midcontinental Hydro-climate, Precipitation Seasonality, Water Resource, Americans, Analysis, Atmosphere-ocean, Closed, Development, East-west, Hydro-climate, Hydrologically, Incorporate, Inform, Lake, Lake-level, Lakes, Local, Midwest, Model, Module, Native, Ocean-atmosphere, Pacific, Paleoclimate, Processes, Produce, Region, Sediment, Span, Students, Supported, Th, Undergraduate, Underlying, Was.

Collaborative Research: Linking High 3He/4He to Other Isotopic Systems in Baffin Island Lavas
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Forrest Horton($416,518), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Paul D Asimow($184,349), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Baffin Island Inuit, Highly Specialized Technical, Inuktitut And Shared, Massachusetts-based Rehabilitation Center, Students And Highly, Woods Hole Oceanographic, 3he4he Ratios, California Institute, Employment Opportunities, Geochemical Assessment, Graduate Students, Investigate Helium, Local Residents, Long-term Evolution, Massachusetts-based Rehabilitation, Peer-reviewed Journals, Volcanic Rocks, Assisted, Collaborative, Deep, Hehe, Lavas, Long-term, Partner, Peer-reviewed, Primary, Processes, Published, Staff, Techniques, Technology, Translated.

Collaborative Research - Digging deeper: Do deeper roots enhance deeper water and carbon fluxes and alter the trajectory of chemical weathering in woody-encroached grasslands?
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Jesse B Nippert($147,259), Kansas State University, Manhattan
2. Li Li($198,060), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
3. Pamela L Sullivan($334,681), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Water Residence Time, Woody Plant Encroachment, Solute Chemistry, Woody Plants, Climate, Cover, Developed, Enhances, Fields, Grasslands, Ground, Konza, Links, Long-term, Nutrients, Potential, Respond, Rock, Roots, Soil, Stored, Subsurface, Training, Vegetation.

RAPID: Dissolved carbon transport and CO2 outgassing under an unprecedented long-lasting flood of the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River System
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. YiJun Xu($34,272), Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Undergraduate And Graduate, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Dynamics, Dissolved Carbon, Graduate Students, Mississippi River, Prolonged Flooding, Floods, Flux, Released, Rivers, Sampling, Transport, Transported, Water.

INFEWS: U.S.-China: Coupled FEWS Modeling for Sustainability of the Global Crop Supply Chain with a Focus on China - US Interactions
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Andrew Muhammad($500,000), University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville
Key terms: Crop Supply Chains, Global Crop Supply, Spatial And Temporal, Global Food, Challenges, Climatic, Consumption, Critical, Demand, Developing, Distributed, Distribution, Dynamic, Energy, FEWS, Framework, GCAM, Individual, Integrated, Interaction, Interactions, Local, Mismatches, Modeling, Models, Players, Policy, Prices, Resilience, Resolutions, Rest, Societal, Socioeconomic, Spatio-temporal, Storage, Sustainability, Technological, Trade, Transportation, Us-china, Water, World.

Collaborative Research: How Does Lower Continental Crust Form? A Petrochronological Investigation of the Ivrea Zone
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Andrew Smye($291,408), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Bradley R Hacker($186,584), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Lower Continental Crust, Ivrea-verbano Zone, Lower Crust, Lower Crustal, Dates, Formation, Garnet, Ivrea-verbano, Peak, Prograde, Program, Reconstruction, Rock, Sediments, Surface, Techniques, Zircon.

CAREER: Environmental Seismology and Geomechanics
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Victor C Tsai($320,295), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Seismic Observations, Wave Propagation, Accomplished, Approximations, Combine, Complex, Couple, Earthquakes, Ground, Interactions, Interdisciplinary, Lead, Mechanics, Motions, Observed, Phenomena, Predictions, Primary, Processes, Produce, Sea, Seismically, Solids, Sources, Turbulent.

EAGER: Spatio-temporal Imaging of Mount St. Helens Magmatic System using Efficient Waveform Inversion of Earthquake Records
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Jyoti Behura($199,762), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: Crust And Upper, Oil And Gas, Colorado School, Geological Survey, Helens Magmatic, Mount St, Originally Developed, Subducting Slab, Upper Mantle, Active-seismic, Architecture, Collaboration, Eruption, Extend, Fractures, Government, High-resolution, Human, Hydraulic, Image, Images, Inversion, LLC, Mines, Recordings, Reservoirs, Seismic, Shallow, Spatio-temporal, Technology, Transport, USGS, Useful, Volcanic, Volcanism, Volcano, Waveform.

CSEDI Collaborative Research: Joint seismic-geodynamic constraints on deep Earth structure - Implications for mantle convection and Earth rotation
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Alessandro M Forte($326,167), University of Florida, Gainesville
2. Stephen Grand($171,902), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: 3-d Mantle Structure, Earth's Gravity Field, Joint Tomography Models, 3-d Mantle, Deep Inside, Earth's Gravity, Elliptical Figure, Global Seismic, Tectonic Plates, Transition Zone, Accounting, Anomalous, Bumps, Cenozoic, Challenge, Climate, Computer, Concerning, Continent, Convective, Cycles, Difficulty, Directly, Dynamics, Evolution, Forces, Geological, Geophysicists, Has, Heterogeneity, Implications, Inclination, Insolation, Internal, LLSVP, Lateral, Long-term, Longstanding, Maps, Milankovitch, Motions, Outstanding, Pis, Planet, Polar, Principal, Progress, Rotation, Satellites, Structures, Students, Sun, Tackle, Time, Time-dependent, Top, Topography.

Synmagmatic crustal thickening and the importance of garnet fractionation in making continental crust
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Ming Tang($172,684), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Bimodal Hypsometry, Continental Crust, Earth's Surface, Garnet Fractionation, Sea Level, Below, Composition, Drives, Felsic, Formation, Geology, Has, Houston, Iron, Mafic, Magmas, Magmatism, Oxidation.

NSFGEO-NERC Proposal: Integrated Experimental and Dynamical Modeling of Top-down Crystallization in Terrestrial Cores: Implications for Core Cooling in the Earth
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Anne Pommier($340,000), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Earth's Core, Inner Core, Magnetic Field, Standard Model, Theoretical Models, Chemistry, Conditions, Cooling, Crystallization, Evolution, Experimental, Experiments, Generated, Generates, Geodynamo, Influences, Iron, Mantle, Origin, Pis, Planets, Pressure, Solid, Temperature, Terrestrial.

EAGER: Investigating the possibility of low temperature (<700 C) melt in silicic igneous systems
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Craig C Lundstrom($96,876), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Low Temperature Melt, Cold Seal, Silicic Magmas, Volcanic Rocks, Aimed, Assessing, Crust, Degrees, Erupt, Feldspar, Kb, Melts, Mineral, Potential, Pressure, Quartz, Temperatures, Thermal.

EAR-PF: Numerical Modeling Perspectives on Zircon Petrochronology
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Nathan L Andersen($87,000), Andersen, Nathan Lee, Eugene
Key terms: Analytical Precision, Host Magma, Magma Reservoir, Spatial Resolution, Volcanic Eruptions, Zircon Crystals, Approach, Chemical, Comprise, Crust, Dates, Development, Evolution, Flow, Framework, Geologic, Growth, Model, Modeling, Models, Processes, Produced, Reservoirs, Simulations, Situ.

Collaborative Research: RAPID Geodetic Field Response to the 2018 Magnitude 7 Anchorage Earthquake
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Julie Elliott($11,138), Purdue University, West Lafayette
2. Jeffrey T Freymueller($15,027), Michigan State University, East Lansing
Key terms: Continuous Gps Sites, Yakutat Flat Slab, Postseismic Deformation, Slow Slip, Subduction Interface, Anchorage, Behavior, Benchmarks, Bending, Campaign, Caused, Coupling, Denali, Earthquake, Five, Local, Magnitude, Near, Plate, Region, Repeat, Suggest, Surveys, Transient, Triggered, Upper, Weeks.

RAPID: Collaborative Research: Subduction zone imaging following the 2018 Anchorage earthquake
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Amir Allam($8,540), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
2. Carl H Tape($31,833), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
3. Kevin M Ward($6,116), South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City
Key terms: Alaska Subduction Zone, Ambient Noise, Anchorage Earthquake, Crustal Structure, Local Seismicity, Mantle Wedge, Seismic Waves, Seven Students, Subduction Zones, Advantage, Aftershocks, Allow, Constraints, Deployment, Dynamics, Earthquakes, Fault, Field, Image, Images, Imaging, Models, Ongoing, Plate, Resolution, Seismology, Seismometers, Structures, Subducting, Subsurface.

Autocorrelation of Seismic Ambient Noise and P-wave Coda for Crustal Structure
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Robert L Nowack($220,320), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Ambient Noise Characteristics, Ambient Seismic Noise, Autocorrelated Ambient Noise, Earthscope Seismic Station, Portable Seismic Stations, Seismic Station Sfin, Selected Seismic Stations, Similar Ambient Noise, Twelve Portable Seismic, Autocorrelation Stacks, Central Midwest, Crustal Reflectivity, Effective Zero-offset, Month Period, P-wave Coda, Analysis, Applied, Approach, Array, Beamforming, Centered, Compare, Consistency, Deployed, Distribution, Earthquakes, IRIS, Illumination, Image, Investigated, Large-n, Methods, Obtain, Oklahoma, P-wave, Phase, Regional, Signals, Sources, Upper, Zero-offset.

RAPID: The role of vegetation-moderated longwave radiation on the spatiotemporal distribution of snow during accumulation and ablation in mountain terrain
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Hans-Peter Marshall($38,884), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Accumulation And Melt, Depth And Water, Longwave Radiation, Snow Accumulation, Snow Depth, Water Content, Water Supply, Boise, Challenge, Critical, Distributed, Distribution, Environments, Flight, Forest, Forests, Interactions, Measure, Mountain, NASA, Regions, Relatively, Resolution, Satellites, Sensors, Spatial, Spatially, Western, Winter.

Recognizing Signatures of Slow Slip in Plate Boundary Observatory Borehole Pore Pressure Data
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2019; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Patrick Fulton($80,813), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Large-scale Slow Slip, Slow Slip Earthquakes, Continuous Positioning, Fault Slip, Groundwater Pressure, Large-scale Slow, Pore Pressure, Subduction Zone, Water Pressure, Aim, Borehole, Existing, Hydrogeologic, Monitoring, Potential, Seismic, Signatures, Sometimes, Suspected.

Collaborative Research: Suturing the Heart of Asia: Tectonics of the Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean Closure
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: nan

1. Peter C Lippert($984,636), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
2. Laura E Webb($288,511), University of Vermont & State Agricultural College, Burlington
Key terms: Mongol-okhotsk Ocean, Ocean Basins, Rock Types, Closure, Continent, Datasets, Distribution, Document, Educational, Fragments, Geochronologic, Geologic, History, International, Mongol-okhotsk, Multidisciplinary, Natural, Paleomagnetic, Resources, Stratigraphic, Structural, Students, Supercontinents.

Seismological Facilities for the Advancement of Geoscience and EarthScope
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2013; Program: nan

1. Jerry A Carter($154,880,277), Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Washington
Key terms: Global Earthquake Activity, Activities, Available, Contribute, Directly, Earthquakes, Earthscope, Facilities, IRIS, Mobile, Monitoring, Observational, Observations, Organizations, Permanent, Portable, Public, Resources, Seismological, Seismology, Structure, Via.

NSF-GEO-EAR Awards for 2019

Advancing U.S. Quaternary Science by Supporting Early Career Scientists: 2019 INQUA Congress Travel Fellowship Program Award Effective Date: 04/15/2019; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Acquisition of an Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer for Clumped Isotope Analysis to Expand the Alabama Stable Isotope Laboratory Award Effective Date: 06/01/2019; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

Collaborative Research: Community Facility Support: Centers for Transformative Environmental Monitoring Programs (CTEMPs) Award Effective Date: 03/01/2019; Program: ANT Instrum & Facilities

CZ RCN: Expanding knowledge of the Earth's Critical Zone: connecting data to models Award Effective Date: 06/01/2019; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

CZ RCN: Research Coordination in Carbonate Critical Zones Award Effective Date: 06/01/2019; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

12th International Precipitation Conference (IPC12)-Precipitation estimation and prediction at local, regional and global scales: Advances in hydroclimatology and impact studies Award Effective Date: 05/15/2019; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Phase V: Development of the Core Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at UCLA Award Effective Date: 02/01/2019; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Collaborative Research: The dynamic iron curtain surrounding fluctuating rivers and its impacts on arsenic fate and transport Award Effective Date: 08/09/2019; Program: Climate Impact on Human Health

CAREER: Coupling post-fire vegetation and volumetric sediment regimes in urban Mediterranean systems Award Effective Date: 03/01/2019; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

Workshop for Alaska EarthScope Synthesis and Future Opportunities in Canada with EON-ROSE: September 2019 Award Effective Date: 06/03/2019; Program: EARTHSCOPE

REU Site: Stanford Earth Summer Undergraduate Research in Geoscience and Engineering (SURGE) Award Effective Date: 01/01/2020; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

EAR-PF: Quantifying the Difference between Volcanic and Meteorological Lightning: Using Globally Detected Lightning and Multi-Parametric Volcanic Monitoring. Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

REU SITE: Planetary Habitability Over Space and Time Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

REU Site: Dynamic Urban Environmental Systems and Sustainability in Newark, NJ Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

REU Site: Changing Dynamics of Hydrological Systems in Urban Areas: Response To Human Disturbance and Climate Change Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

REU Site: Collaborative Research: Water Resources and Quality in the Riviera Maya, Mexico Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Focusing the lens on field safety: a workshop for field trip leaders Award Effective Date: 08/15/2019; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER: The Fall of Mountains: Reconstructing Extensional Collapse in the North American Cordillera from the Surface Record Award Effective Date: 06/01/2019; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

REU Site: Sustainable Groundwater Resources Award Effective Date: 05/01/2019; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER:Potential of fiber acoustic sensing in the next-generation seismic networks Award Effective Date: 04/15/2019; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

REU Site: IRIS Undergraduate Summer Research in Seismology Award Effective Date: 04/01/2019; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER: Deformational Evolution and Serpentinization of the Mantle Wedge Corner in Subduction Zones Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

Engaging All Geoscience Disciplines at the National Association of Black Geoscientists Annual Conference Award Effective Date: 07/15/2019; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

The Fidelity of Glass Reentrants in Crystals: Witnesses of Decompression and Stalling of Magma in Conduits Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

An orogenic plateau in the southern U.S. Cordillera? Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Acquisition of an X-Ray Suite (XRD and WD-XRF) to support Geology and Geological Engineering Research and Education at the University of Mississippi Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Proposal: Fluid flow metamorphism and strain localization in mid-crustal shear zones Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Geodetic Lysimetry: GPS/GNSS observations to measure continuous, time-dependent water mass in mountainous watersheds Award Effective Date: 07/15/2019; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: From Surface Dynamics to Strata: Quantifying the Signals of Surface Processes in Space and Time Award Effective Date: 07/15/2019; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

INFEWS / T1: Social and biophysical models to integrate local food systems, climate dynamics, built forms, and environmental impacts in the urban FEWS nexus Award Effective Date: 07/15/2019; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Track-1- Food-Energy-Water Nexus in the Deep South: A Latent System Primed for Transition From Rain-fed to Irrigation-fed Agriculture Award Effective Date: 07/15/2019; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: Seismic Imaging of Mid-Mantle Reflectors Associated with Geodynamical Processes and Compositional Heterogeneity Award Effective Date: 06/15/2019; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Climatic Controls on Continental Erosion and Sediment Transport Award Effective Date: 05/15/2019; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

REU Site: Creating research pathways and enhancing diversity through the study of Earth's interior, surface, and climate Award Effective Date: 05/01/2019; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: Experimental Investigation of Morphodynamic Coupling between River Deltas and Marshes Award Effective Date: 03/01/2019; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: NSFGEO-NERC: Aeolian dust responses to regional ecosystem change Award Effective Date: 02/15/2019; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Workshop Proposal: Mapping a Future for Management of Low-Temperature Geochemical Data: Atlanta, GA or Charlotte, NC - February 2020 Award Effective Date: 10/01/2019; Program: EarthCube

Acquisition of a 193 nm excimer laser ablation system and optical profiler for in situ (U-Th)/He and U-Pb geochronology and thermochronology at the University of Colorado Boulder Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: EarthCube

EAR-PF: Abrupt climate change in the alpine: Glacial and ecological responses to the Younger Dryas climate oscillation in the Teton Range, Wyoming Award Effective Date: 03/01/2020; Program: Ecosystem Science

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: TRACKING PCO2, REGIONAL CLIMATE, AND VEGETATION CHANGE DURING MID-MIOCENE GLOBAL WARMING THROUGH THE EXCEPTIONAL PLANT RECORDS OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST, USA Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: Ecosystem Science

MRI: Acquisition of equipment for an integrated gas analysis and labeling radiocarbon system with a focus on Arctic carbon and geochronology Award Effective Date: 08/15/2019; Program: Ecosystem Science

AGU Chapman Conference on The Quest for Sustainability of Heavily Stressed Aquifers at Regional to Global Scales Award Effective Date: 06/15/2019; Program: EnvS-Environmtl Sustainability

Collaborative Research: The Mechanics of Intermediate Depth Earthquakes: a Multiscale Investigation Combining Seismological Analyses, Laboratory Experiments, and Numerical Modeling Award Effective Date: 12/15/2019; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

Collaborative Research: Development and Application of a Framework for Integrated Geodynamic Earth Models Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

Collaborative Research: Consequences of flat slab subduction on the chemical, structural, and dynamic evolution of continental lithosphere Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

Collaborative Research: Time of Transformation: integrating the dynamic geologic, climatic and biotic systems of North America during the Early to Late Cretaceous transition Award Effective Date: 08/15/2019; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

Collaborative Research: Do arc-continent collisions in the tropics set the Earth's climate state? Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

Collaborative Research: Exploring the linkages between Sea-Level Change, Sediment Transport and Geomorphology on Coastal Freshwater Water Sequestration Award Effective Date: 07/15/2019; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

Collaborative Research: Origins of Southeast Asian Rainforests from Paleobotany and Machine Learning Award Effective Date: 07/15/2019; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

Collaborative Proposal: Community Facility Support for OpenTopography -- a Cyberinfrastructure Facility for Topographic Data and Services Award Effective Date: 05/01/2019; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

P2C2: Towards a precipitation history of Easter Island since the last glacial period Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

P2C2: Characterizing East African Climate Through a Major Faunal Transition at 250 - 550 ka Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

Collaborative Research: P2C2: Reconstructing Holocene Climate Change in the Southern Hemisphere from Southern Alps Mountain Glaciers and Tree Rings Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

Collaborative Research: Regional hydrologic and vegetation changes over the last 150 kyr in the Searles and Death Valley basins Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

P2C2: New Zealand Climate in Three Warm Periods Award Effective Date: 07/15/2019; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

Collaborative Research: Terrestrial hydrology during the last deglaciation Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

Research Coordination Network: In situ Studies of Rock Deformation (ISRD) Award Effective Date: 07/15/2019; Program: GeoPRISMS

2019 Interior of the Earth GRC/GRS Award Effective Date: 04/15/2019; Program: GeoPRISMS

Collaborative Research: Melange-peridotite Interactions in the Source of Arc Magmas Award Effective Date: 04/01/2019; Program: GeoPRISMS

Collaborative Research: Constraining the thermal conditions of the subduction interface by integrating petrology and geodynamics Award Effective Date: 04/01/2019; Program: GeoPRISMS

Mantle volatiles and attenuation in the East African Rift Award Effective Date: 04/01/2019; Program: GeoPRISMS

2020 Geobiology GRC/GRS: January12-17, 2020 - Galveston, TX Award Effective Date: 10/15/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

RCN: Community-based educational infrastructure for numerical simulation in the Earth Sciences: a reactive transport use case Award Effective Date: 09/15/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

RAPID: Assessing the fate of flood-born contaminants Award Effective Date: 09/15/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Investigation of the triple oxygen isotope systematics of shales in the Precambrian Award Effective Date: 09/15/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

EAR-PF: Clumped and Triple Oxygen Isotopes of Terrestrial Carbonates: New Tools to Estimate Aridity and Precipitation in California During Past Greenhouse Climates Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Mineral-Promoted RNA Polymerization: Investigating Structural Properties of Catalytic Minerals Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Developing position-specific amino acid carbon isotope analysis as a tool for geobiology Award Effective Date: 08/15/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Collaborative Research: Developing a multi-proxy approach for reconstructing deep-time silicate weathering Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Clumped Isotope Reordering Kinetics in Carbonate Minerals: The key to accurate ocean paleotemperatures and basin thermal histories Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Experimental constraints on the equilibrium hydrogen isotopic composition and rates of hydrogen isotopic exchange of C-H bonds in natural gas Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Methane isotopologue fractionation during microbial methanogenesis and methonotrophy by pure and mixed laboratory cultures Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Combine sensors, geophysical survey and geochemical tools to investigate pedogenic carbonate precipitation and carbon dioxide emission in irrigated soils of aridlands Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Collaborative Proposal: Response of mercury cycling to disturbance and restoration of low-gradient forested watersheds Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

RAPID: Invasion of Geoengineering Earthworms in Alaska: Extents, Mechanisms, and Impacts Award Effective Date: 07/15/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Determination of the Controls on Bacterial Cell Surface Sulfhydryl Binding Site Concentrations Award Effective Date: 07/15/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Testing Hypotheses of Near-Equilibrium Kinetics For Silicate Minerals with an Innovative Silicon Isotope Tracer Method Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

CAREER: Role of Mn(III) in Limiting Oxidative Transformation of As(III) by Mn(III/IV) Oxides Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Deciphering the Cryptic Cycling of Methane in Sediments of a Coastal Wetland Award Effective Date: 07/01/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem