Collaborative Research: Network Cluster: Quantifying controls and feedbacks of dynamic storage on critical zone processes in western montane watersheds
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Alexis K Navarre-Sitchler($970,168), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
2. Katherine B Lininger($2,990,315), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
3. Pamela L Sullivan($822,531), Oregon State University, Corvallis
4. Christina Tague($564,759), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
5. Adrian A Harpold($530,978), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Biogeochemical Reaction, Critical Zone, Earth’s Surface, Network Cluster, Water Storage, Chemistry, Climate, Disturbance, Drivers, Dynamics, Earth’s, Ecosystem, Environment, Five, Fluxes, Forest, Global, Hydrologic, Interactions, K-, Layer, Levels, Modeling, Models, Processes, Resolve, Respond, Rock, School, Soil, Stored, Structure, Students, Vegetation, Western.

Collaborative Research: Network Cluster: Urban Critical Zone processes along the Piedmont-Coastal Plain transition
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Laura Toran($228,219), Temple University, Philadelphia
2. Peter M Groffman($54,294), Research Foundation CUNY - Advanced Science Research Center, New York
3. Claire Welty($1,758,091), University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore
4. Alan R Berkowitz($155,841), Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Inc., Millbrook
5. Daniel J Bain($551,849), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
6. Karen L Prestegaard($347,222), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
7. Joel Moore($334,105), Towson University, Towson
8. Jonathan Duncan($496,596), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Meetings And Establishing, Soil And Rock, Critical Zone, Eastern Seaboard, Engagement Plan, Fall Zone, Graduate Students, Local Programs, Post-doctoral Associate, Stream Chemistry, Urban Critical, Urban Development, Visiting Scholar, Water Quality, Activities, Adopt, Affect, Age, Analysis, Baltimore, Bedrock, CZ, Chemical, Cities, Citizen, Cluster, Contribute, Convened, DC, Developed, Division, Does, Environmental, Export, Geologic, Gradient, Groundwater, Hosting, Interact, Land, Methods, Model, Participants, Philadelphia, Plain, Post-doctoral, Processes, Protocols, Quarterly, Raleigh, Regional, Sampling, Solute, Streams, Subsurface, Teachers, Transition, Undergraduates, Urbanization, Washington, Weathering.

RUI: Collaborative Research: Network Cluster: Dust in the Critical Zone from the Great Basin to the Rocky Mountains
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Gregory T Carling($809,328), Brigham Young University, Provo
2. Sara McKenzie Skiles($1,877,618), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
3. Janice L Brahney($705,936), Utah State University, Logan
4. Maura Hahnenberger($313,062), Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Atmospheric Conditions Responsible, Downwind Mountain Ecosystems, Dust Exposure Frequency, Lake City Urban, Middle School Girls, Modeling Dust Exposure, Populations Historically Underrepresented, Salt Lake City, Critical Zone, Delivering Dust, Dust Deposition, Dust Emission, Established Programs, Land Management, Outreach Program, Southern Nevada, Undergraduate Students, Arid, CZ, Collaborations, Deserts, Designed, Illuminate, Information, Investigate, Landscapes, Monitoring, Nutrients, Organized, Policymakers, Processes, Sites, Snowpack, Soil, Source, Supported, Utah.

Collaborative Research: Network Cluster: Bedrock controls on the deep critical zone, landscapes, and ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Bradley Carr($1,394,591), University of Wyoming, Laramie
2. Kamini Singha($417,198), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
3. W Steven Holbrook($1,397,396), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
4. Brady A Flinchum($408,016), Clemson University, Clemson
5. Jorden L Hayes($293,789), Dickinson College, Carlisle
6. Ciaran Harman($420,263), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
7. Seulgi Moon($295,926), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Affects Ecosystem Resilience, Bedrock Critical Zone, Critical Zone Network, Deep Critical Zone, Interactive 3d Visualizations, Storage Affects Ecosystem, Water Storage Affects, Zone Collaborative Network, 3d Visualizations, Bedrock Conditions, Broader Public, Engage Teachers, Interactive 3d, Wide Range, Base, Climatic, Continent, Critical-zone, Diversity, Earth’s, Ecosystems, Erosion, Evolution, Imaging, Importance, Inclusion, Influenced, Knowledge, Landscapes, Outreach, Processes, Programs, Set, Sites, Students, Subsurface, Surface, Weathering.

Collaborative Research: Network Cluster: Geomicrobiology and Biogeochemistry in the Critical Zone
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Sharon A Billings($526,562), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
2. William H McDowell($89,816), University of New Hampshire, Durham
3. Emma L Aronson($2,910,562), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Critical Zone Collaborative, Surface And Deep, Zone Collaborative Network, Deep Soil, Bedrock, Depth, Detailed, Division, Drive, Life, Microbes, Microbial, Public, Sites, Soils.

Network Cluster: Patterns and controls of ecohydrology, CO2 fluxes, and nutrient availability in pedogenic carbonate-dominated dryland critical zones
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Vanessa Lougheed($4,486,621), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
Key terms: Critical Zone Function, Deep Water Table, Dryland Critical, Irrigated Agricultural, Pedogenic Carbonates, Thematic Cluster, Climate, Division, Drylands, Ecosystems, Evolution, Food, Future, Human, Investigate, Knowledge, Land, Layer, Models, Movement, Natural, Nutrient, Nutrients, Organic, Predict, Processes, Salt, Soil, Specifically, Students, Tools.

Network Cluster CINet: Critical Interface Network in Intensively Managed Landscapes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Allison E Goodwell($4,999,731), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Intensively Managed Landscapes, Critical Interfaces, Critical Zone, Environmental Quality, Observational Sites, Root Zone, Zone Dynamics, Advance, Agricultural, Control, Crop, Developing, Geologic, Gradients, Human, Imls, Influence, Influenced, Knowledge, Levels, Management, Midwest, Network, Predictive, Processes, Programs, Regulating, Rivers, Soil, Stakeholders, Students, Surface, Sustainable, Time, Water, Weather.

Collaborative Research: Network Hub: Enabling, Supporting, and Communicating Critical Zone Research.
Award Effective Date: 08/31/2020; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Kerstin A Lehnert($572,959), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Critical Zone Thematic, Network Coordinating Hub, Zone Thematic Clusters, Activities, Critical-zone, Cyberinfrastructure, Earth’s, Enhance, Region, Services, Top.

RUI: Groundwater occurrence and discharge at coral atoll and barrier reef systems
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2020; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Klaus B Hagedorn($450,420), California State University-Long Beach Foundation, Long Beach
Key terms: Submarine Groundwater, Atoll, Coral, Distributed, Flow, Hydrogeology, Island, Mo’orea, Ocean, Reef, Reefs, Undergraduate.

RAISE-SitS: Designing models to forecast how biogeochemical fluctuations in soil systems govern soil development, terrestrial water storage and ecosystem nutrient fluxes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: Cross-BIO Activities

1. Pamela L Sullivan($648,574), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Biogeochemical Fluxes, Soil Structure, Water Resources, Changing, Climate, Continent, Continental-scale, Current, Cycle, Decades, Developed, Development, Ecosystem, Enhance, Environmental, Examine, Fluctuations, Integrated, Interactions, Local, Macropore, Mechanistic, Models, Pedon, Precipitation, Processes, Properties, Soils, Spatial, Terrestrial, Time, Tools, Watershed.

The Seismic Response of Mexico City Using Fiber-Optic Seismology
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Zack Spica($490,000), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Dense Network, Fiber-optic Cables, Mexico City, Codes, DAS, Deploy, Fiber-optic, Ground, Has, Inform, Methods, Risks, Seismic, Shallow, Strong, Technology, Urban, World.

Collaborative Research: Evaluating fault creep in California using geodetic and seismic observations
Award Effective Date: 08/10/2020; Program: EARTHSCOPE

1. Manoochehr Shirzaei($179,004), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Central And Southern, Interferometric Synthetic Aperture, Resolution And Accuracy, San Andreas Fault, Southern San Andreas, Spatially And Temporally, Surface Deformation Time, Synthetic Aperture Radar, Aseismic Slip, Creep Rate, Crustal Deformation, Fault Creep, Fault Slip, Fault Zone, Frictional Properties, Global Positioning, Images Acquired, Radar Satellites, Temporally Variable, Underlying Mechanisms, Unprecedented Resolution, Active, Adjacent, Allows, Applied, California, Combination, Constrain, Distribution, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Earthscope, Faulting, Faults, GPS, Geodetic, Graduate, Insar, Knowledge, Link, Models, Natural, Observations, Occurrence, Period, Processes, Rates, Seismic, Sets, Size, Spanning, Stress, Transient.

Collaborative Research: Early Career Geoscience Faculty Development Workshop: A partnership between NAGT and NSF
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2020; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Joshua Galster($279,502), North Dakota State University Fargo, Fargo
2. Ellen Iverson($104,448), Carleton College, Northfield
Key terms: Promoting Diversity, Workshop Sessions, Active, Development, Equity, Establish, Faculty, Inclusivity, Leaders, Mentoring, Methods, NAGT, Participants, Plans, Practices, Successful, Teaching, Workshops.

Collaborative Research: REU Site: Resilience and Adaptation to Coastal Change Across Virtual Communities (C2-Virtual-C)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Kelly Lazar($15,519), Clemson University, Clemson
2. Angel A Acosta-Colon($119,310), East Carolina University, Greenville
Key terms: Geographic And Cultural, Development Activities, Puerto Rico, Reu Students, Coastal, Collaboration, Engage, Host, Interdisciplinary, Population, Prepare, Public, Pursue, Society, Training.

REU Site: Water sustainability in the urban environment: Improving the sustainable use of water through interdisciplinary research
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Jennifer M Collins($422,380), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Management Practices, Reu Site, Urban Environments, Water Resources, Contaminants, Environmental, Hydrology, Interdisciplinary, Investigate, Students, Sustainable, Waters.

REU Site: Interdisciplinary Problem Solving in Human Dominated Wetland Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Carmody K McCalley($404,436), Rochester Institute of Tech, Rochester
Key terms: Structure And Function, Complex Environmental, Ecosystem Services, Ecosystem Structure, Reu Site, Approaches, Awareness, Communication, Ecosystems, Interdisciplinary, Landscape, Program, Restoration, Scaling, Sociological, Students, Urban, Wetland, Wetlands.

REU Site: Stakeholder Informed Modeling of Innovations in the Food, Energy, and Water (FEW) Nexus
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Julie Padowski($307,399), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Communicating, Complex, Computational, Energy, Engage, Food, Global, Innovations, Issues, Large-scale, Management, Mentors, Program, Provided, REU, Resources, Site, Skills, Stakeholders, Students, Summer, Technological, Undergraduate, WSU, Water.

REU Site: Statistical Models with Applications to Geoscience
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Nezamoddin Nezamoddini-Kachouie($304,077), Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne
Key terms: Opportunities And Options, Personal Interaction Skills, Basic Statistical, Development Activities, Florida Institute, Graduate School, Projects Designed, Statistical Models, Undergraduate Students, Water Quality, Applying, Building, Climate, Common, Connections, Disciplines, Diverse, Eight, Encourage, Experience, Geoscience, Geosciences, Glaciers, Hands-on, Immersed, Individual, Knowledge, Minority, Participants, Prepare, Preparing, Programming, REU, Recruit, Site, Summer, Technology, Theme, Undergraduates, Various.

CAREER: Stress, deformation and seismicity in continental interiors: Testing the "weak zone" hypothesis
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Maximiliano J Bezada($339,209), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Continental Interiors, Deviatoric Stresses, Induced Seismicity, Seismic Waves, Weak Zone, Weak Zones, Analysis, Australia, Compared, Earthquakes, Earth’s, Energy, Explanations, Happen, Imaging, Lateral, Lead, Modeling, Models, Plates, Regions, South-central, Statistical, Strength, Tectonic.

CAREER: Unraveling the Multiscale Asymptotic Dynamics of Planetary Dynamos
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2020; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Michael A Calkins($536,039), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Planetary Dynamo Physics, Students And Graduate, Educational Videos, Geomagnetic Field, Graduate Students, Length Scales, Magnetic Field, Magnetic Fields, Outer Core, Planetary Dynamos, Available, Balanced, Balances, Characterize, Computer, Control, Controls, Created, Direct, Dominant, Dynamical, Dynamics, Earth’s, Flows, Fluid, Forces, Geodynamo, Has, Model, Models, Planets, Poles, Potential, Reduced, Set, Theory, Undergraduate.

CAREER: Deciphering the mechanisms of forearc basin formation by engaging undergraduate and middle school students in field and analytical geoscience research
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2020; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Devon A Orme($651,725), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Forearc Basin Formation, Middle School Girls, Forearc Basins, Sustained Engagement, Trap Sediment, Arc, Basement, Convergent, Education, Field, MSU-SUR, Magmatic, Montana, Primary, Program, Rock, Students, Subsequent, Tectonic, Tibet.

Collaborative Research: Reproducible research and educational software for geoscience data analysis in spherical and planar geometry
Award Effective Date: 11/08/2019; Program: EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE

1. Alain M Plattner($56,710), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
Key terms: Analysis, Code, Codes, Development, Documentation, Field, Fields, Functions, Harmonics, Matlab, Octave, Slepian, Software, Spherical, Vector.

CAREER: Path Dependent Slip of the Shallow Subduction Megathrust
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2020; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Melodie E French($601,711), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: 3-part Education Plan, Earthquakes And Tsunamis, 3-part Education, Mechanical Properties, Plate Boundaries, Pore Fluid, Slip Modes, Subduction-zone Rocks, Affect, Behavior, Boundary, Chemical, Conditions, Control, Controlled, Deformation, Generating, Geophysics, Hazards, Host, Levels, Lithologies, Mineralogy, Paths, Sediments, Shallow, Specimens, Students, Subduction-zone, Teaching, Tectonic, Undergraduate.

NSF/GEO-NERC: Fungi in a Warmer World
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2021; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Jennifer M O'Keefe($646,855), Morehead State University, Morehead
Key terms: Fungal Biodiversity, Fungal Diversity, Global Fungal, Gradual Warming, Agreement, Assemblages, Budget, Changing, Climate, Conditions, Environmental, Fungi, Has, Joint, Jointly, MMCO, Program, Proportion, South, Was.

Collaborative Research: A place-based, student-led research project in the Pioneer Mountains, Montana: an investigation of very dry, alpine glaciation proximal to the Laurentide Ic
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2020; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Spruce W Schoenemann($97,614), The University of Montana-Western, Dillon
2. Lee B Corbett($37,432), University of Vermont & State Agricultural College, Burlington
Key terms: Glacial History, Ice Sheet, Low Precipitation, Pioneer Mountains, Advance, Climate, Climatic, Cold, Dry, Exceptionally, Glacier, Glaciers, Insight, LIS, Laurentide, Local, Maxima, Montana, Moraine, Place-based, Program, Ranges, Regions, Respond, Students.

Collaborative Research: Network Cluster: Using Big Data approaches to assess ecohydrological resilience across scales
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Donna Rizzo($2,646,073), University of Vermont & State Agricultural College, Burlington
2. Erin C Seybold($94,675), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
3. Benjamin W Abbott($332,985), Brigham Young University, Provo
4. Adrian A Harpold($619,496), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
5. Gabrielle F Boisrame($218,494), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Critical Zone Structure, Ecosystem Services, Education Program, “big Data”, Analysis, Approaches, Climate, Collaboration, Combine, Compiled, Complex-systems, Comprehensive, Context, Controls, Data-driven, Database, Disturbance, Disturbances, Diverse, Ecological, Ecosystems, Educate, Empower, Field, Generation, Grade, Historically, Humans, Implemented, In-depth, Life, Linkages, Long-term, Multi-dimensional, Multiple, Overarching, Performed, Publicly, Resilience, Schools, Shared, Site, Sites, Students, Water, “big.

Collaborative Research: Network Cluster: The Coastal Critical Zone: Processes that transform landscapes and fluxes between land and sea
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Stephanie Stotts($1,759,556), University of Delaware, Newark
2. Sergio Fagherazzi($247,238), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
3. Katherine L Tully($725,341), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
4. Keryn B Gedan($437,889), George Washington University, Washington
5. Matthew Kirwan($633,485), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
Key terms: Coastal Critical Zone, Rising Sea Level, Coastal Marshes, Farm Fields, Land-sea Margin, Sea-level Rise, Agricultural, Alter, Biogeochemical, Carbon, Coupled, Critical-zone, Cycling, Ecological, Ecosystem, Environments, Fast, Feedbacks, Fluxes, Forested, Functioning, Geomorphological, Hydrological, Land-sea, Nutrients, Processes, Quantify, Respond, Sea-level, Sites, Slow, Storage, Storms, Tides, Transition, Water.

EAR-PF: Nitrogen processing in Arctic deltas and role of channel network orientation on flux to the coast
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Deon H Knights($194,667), Knights, Deon H, Columbus
Key terms: Compare Nitrate Retention, Remotely-sensed Surface Water, Surface Water Observations, Arctic Deltas, Arctic Ocean, Nitrate Removal, Remotely-sensed Surface, Removal Kinetics, West Virginia, Alter, Based, Channel, Climate, Deon, Discharge, Field, Flux, Future, Global, Inform, Insight, Investigate, Laboratory, Models, Nutrient, Potential, Processing, River, Scenarios, Six, Size, Upstream.

EAR/IF: Acquisition of Bench Top SEM and Field Equipment for Research and Teaching
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2020; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Andrew Swindle($273,136), Wichita State University, Wichita
Key terms: Transport And Fate, Field Equipment, Interactions, Local, Natural, SEM, Subsurface, Training, Water.

MRI: Acquisition of a Next Generation Noble Gas Multi-collector Mass Spectrometer System to Support Fundamental and Applied Geochronology Research and Education
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2020; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Christopher V Maio($561,870), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Volcanic Rock Products, Economic Geology, Mass Spectrometer, Noble Gas, Access, Allow, Arar, Capabilities, Dating, Detrital, Facility, Gases, Generation, Geochronology, Increase, Instrument, Instrumentation, Laboratory, Measure, Precision, Program, Pursue, Single-grain, Students.

Collaborative Research: Understanding the Drivers of Microbial Survival and Autotrophy in a Characteristically Marine and Terrestrial Serpentinizing System–Ney’s Spring
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Brittany Kruger($208,846), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
2. Annette R Rowe($181,189), University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati
Key terms: Applied Biotechnology, Chemical Reactions, Established Program, Implement Outreach, Local Schools, Microbial Activities, Stem Participants, Stimulate Competitive, Activity, Approaches, Bacteria, Benefit, Chemistry, Compounds, Cultivations, Deep, Diverse, Electrochemical, Energy, Environment, Environments, Epscor, Field, Hydrogen, Jointly, Life, Light, Live, Marine, Methane, Microbes, Microorganisms, Processes, Profiling, Spring, Sulfide, Techniques, Unique, ‘marine-like’.

EAR-PF: Investigating the lithospheric structure and the origins of seismic anomalies in the Southwestern United States using a joint seismic analysis
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Eva Golos($174,000), Golos, Eva, Cambridge
Key terms: Continental Lithosphere, Receiver Functions, Seismic Model, Seismic Wave, Seismic Waves, Aims, Anisotropic, Compositional, Deformation, Discontinuities, Effects, Evolution, Factors, Has, Interplay, Inversion, Lithospheric, Melt, Natural, Nature, Properties, Relative, Sharp, Southwestern, Strength, Structure, Surface, Tectonic, Temperature, Variety.

REU Site: Earth Science on Volcanic Islands
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2020; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Paul Wessel($586,363), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Esvi Reu Site, Writing And Presentation, Diverse Cohort, Field Excursions, Volcanic Islands, Active, Biogeochemical, Collegial, Connected, Development, Division, Education, Environmental, Experience, Exposure, Geologic, Geophysical, Geosciences, Hawaiian, Hawai‘i, Mentoring, Multi-day, Mānoa’s, NHPI, NSF, Objectives, Ocean, Oceanographic, Opportunities, Place-based, Program, Range, SOEST, STEM, School, Stem-limited, Students, Technology, UHM, Undergraduates, Underrepresented, Workshops.

CAREER: Understanding the dynamics and predictability of land-to-aquatic nitrogen loading under climate extremes by combining deep learning with process-based modeling
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2020; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Chaoqun Lu($610,283), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: Climate Extremes, Hydroclimate Extremes, River Basin, Water Quality, Watershed Management, Deep, Ecosystems, Gulf, Human, Hybrid, Hydrological, Hypoxia, Land, Loadings, Loads, Modeling, Natural, Predict, Reducing.

Constraints on genetic relationships between organic-rich black shales and Zn-Pb mineralization in the Mid-Continent Region, U.S.A.
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2020; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Adriana Potra($397,057), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Key terms: Metal-rich Black Shales, Petrology And Geochemistry, Established Program, Geochemistry Program, Metal-rich Black, Mvt Deposits, Mvt Ores, Natural Resources, Sedimentary Basins, Stimulate Competitive, Class, Economic, Effort, Epscor, Genetic, Isotope, Jointly, Lead, Metals, Mineralization, Pb, Presence, Radiogenic, Source, Sources, Training.

Collaborative Research: Data Fusion for Characterizing and Understanding Water Flow Systems in Karst Aquifers
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2020; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Anton Kruger($159,996), University of Iowa, Iowa City
2. Junfeng Zhu($421,448), University of Kentucky Research Foundation, Lexington
3. Tian-Chyi J Yeh($454,047), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Electrical Resistivity Tomography, Fractures And Conduits, River Stage Tomography, Fusion Approach, Karst Aquifers, Soluble Rocks, Surface Water, Characterized, Collected, Complex, Cycle, Detail, Flow, Groundwater, Network, Prediction, Program, Surveys, Tracer, Transport, Typically.

RAPID: Collaborative Research: Hydrologically driven export of pyrogenic carbon and nutrients in fire-impacted watersheds
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2020; Program: Ecosystem Science

1. Sasha Wagner($14,312), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
2. Margaret Zimmer($53,201), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Drinking Water, Pyrogenic Carbon, Santa Clara, Water Resources, Biogeochemical, Burned, Concentrations, Critical, Division, Downstream, Export, Fires, Following, Generate, Hydrologic, In-stream, Nitrogen, Nutrient, Precipitation, Processes, Streamflow, Surface, Transported, Watersheds, Wildfires.

RAPID: Impact of CoVID-19 Stay-at-Home Orders on urban stream quality in Denver Metro Area with application for future urban living scenarios
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2020; Program: EnvS-Environmtl Sustainability

1. John E McCray($50,000), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: Living Practices, Public Transportation, Reduced Traffic, Urban River, Urban Water, Water Quality, COVID-, Collect, Collected, Combination, Future, Historical, Hydrological, Models, Scenarios.

Collaborative Research: The influence of climate and tectonics on Miocene ecosystems and faunal evolution in the East African Rift, Kenya
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2021; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

1. Kevin T Uno($808,425), Columbia University, New York
2. Christopher J Poulsen($328,998), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
3. Catherine Beck($415,470), Hamilton College, Clinton
4. Gregory A Henkes($669,840), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
5. Craig S Feibel($358,633), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Tectonics And Climate, East Africa, Graduate Students, Mammal Evolution, Model Outputs, Tectonic Model, Turkana Basin, African, Dynamic, Ecosystems, Explore, Field, Influences, Integrated, Kenya, Mammals, Million, Region, Rift, Training, Vegetation.

Collaborative Research: Dry Rifting In the Albertine-Rhino graben (DRIAR), Uganda
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2020; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

1. Eliot A Atekwana($519,749), University of Delaware, Newark
2. Andrew B Katumwehe($184,066), Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls
3. Dorothy S Stamps($546,022), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
4. Suzan van der Lee($623,266), Northwestern University, Evanston
5. Robert L Evans($564,192), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
6. Michael H Taylor($417,798), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: East African Rift, Northern Western Branch, Constrain Lithospheric, Continental Rifting, Continental Rifts, Lithospheric Thickness, Magma-poor Rifting, Magma-poor Rifts, Accommodated, Active, Crust, Document, Extension, Faults, Flow, Geochemical, Geodynamic, Geological, Geophysical, Intrusions, Investigation, Magma-poor, Melt, Modeling, Models, Processes, Seismic, Strain, Structure, Students, Surface, Techniques, Uganda, Ugandan, Upper.

Collaborative Research: Evaluating Climate Change and Kill Mechanisms Associated with the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction: A Model-Data Comparison Approach
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2020; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

1. Julio C Sepulveda($795,604), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Siddhartha Mitra($312,249), East Carolina University, Greenville
3. Kenneth MacLeod($375,181), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
4. Cheryl S Harrison($453,227), The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg
5. Clay Tabor($507,650), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Climate Model Simulations, Kpb Extinction, Kpb Simulations, Ocean Biogeochemistry, Asteroid, Biomarker, Combination, Constrain, Development, Emission, Estimates, Geologic, Pis, Processes, Recovery, Resolution, Soot, Temperature, Time, Various.

NSFGEO-NERC Collaborative Research: Coupling Erosion, Weathering, and Hydrologic Function in an Active Orogenic System
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2020; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

1. Dimitrios Zekkos($451,243), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. Marin K Clark($450,830), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
3. David A Okaya($1,605,418), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Destructive Natural Hazards, Active Orogens, Chemical Weathering, Mountain Ranges, Collaboration, Collisional, Earth’s, Erosion, Evolution, Examine, Exhumation, Fresh, Interconnected, Involve, Landscape, Landslides, Mountains, Nature, Nepal, Opportunities, Processes, Produce, Rate, Reactions, Regions, Rock, Settings, Surface, Tectonic, Topography, Training, Valley, Via, Water.

Collaborative Research: Co-evolution of Earth and life across the Proterozoic-Phanerozoic transition: Integrated perspectives from outcrop and drill core
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

1. Catherine V Rose($679,999), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
2. Shuhai Xiao($389,156), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
3. Christopher B Keller($715,494), Dartmouth College, Hanover
4. Kimberly V Lau($277,263), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
5. Alan Rooney($748,851), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Domestically And Internationally, International Online Programs, Life And Environment, Ediacaran–cambrian Transition, Established K-12, Field Displays, Iconic Boundary, Outreach Programs, Animal, Biotic, Co-evolution, Core, Ediacaran–cambrian, Educational, Environmental, GRIND-ECT, Geologic, Integrate, Museums, Six, Temporal, Time, Unique, Worldwide.

Collaborative Research: TransANdean Great Orogeny (TANGO)
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2020; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

1. Ryan Porter($399,987), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
2. Eric D Kiser($2,204,385), University of Arizona, Tucson
3. Steven W Roecker($422,273), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
Key terms: Lower Mantle, Mountain Belts, Mountain Building, Ocean Circulation, Active, Andes, Climate, Controls, Crust, Evolution, Formed, Framework, Geologic, Geology, Global, Incorporating, Oceanic, Plate, Produce, Seismic, Slab, South, Structure, Surface, Uplift.

Collaborative Research: New science, tools, and observations to couple geodesy with hydrology for modeling, water storage change, and streamflow forecasting in mountain watersheds
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2020; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

1. Hilary Martens($1,397,565), University of Montana, Missoula
2. Adrian A Borsa($1,028,766), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Space And Time, Hydrologic Models, Mountain Watersheds, Surface Displacements, Water Storage, Critical, Deformation, Flow, Freshwater, GNSS, Global, Groundwater, Heterogeneous, Limited, Modeling, Operational, Precipitation, Resources, Snow, Streamflow, Tools.

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

1. David J Mencin($1), Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Washington
Key terms: Manage And Operate, Environmental Management, Gage Facility, Geodetic Capabilities, Water Storage, Workforce Development, Administration, Advances, Atmosphere, Continent, Distribution, Dynamics, Education, Enable, GNSS, Geophysical, Geosciences, Instrumentation, Interactions, NOTA, National, Positioning, Processes, Products, Provided, Public, Set, Stations, Technology, Time, Transportation, UNAVCO, Warning.

Collaborative Research: River Morphology Data and Analysis Tools (RiverMorph): A Web Platform for Enabling River Morphology Research
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Amanda L Cox($90,724), Saint Louis University, Saint Louis
2. Ibrahim Demir($504,396), University of Iowa, Iowa City
3. Justin T Minear($48,704), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
4. Venkatesh Merwade($428,197), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Water Resources, Web Platform, Approaches, Create, Developed, Flood, Issues, Management, Morphology, River, Rivermorph, Stakeholders, Stream.

Collaborative Research: PReSto: A Paleoclimate Reconstruction Storehouse to Broaden Access and Accelerate Scientific Inference
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Deborah Khider($347,629), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2. Nicholas P McKay($453,467), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: Common Era, Integrated Solution, Paleoclimate Reconstructions, Access, Climate, Cyberinfrastructure, Distribute, Holocene, Information, Methodologies, Methods, Past, Periods, Presto, Resources, Sources, Teachers, Time, Workshops.

A Sustainable Plan for the Future of the Generic Mapping Tools
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Leonardo Uieda($757,597), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Gmt Products, Computational, Developer, Developers, Development, Diverse, Division, Documentation, Evolve, Governance, Improvements, Maintenance, Maps, Program, Recruitment, Software, Sustainable, Tasks, Technical, Training.

Collaborative Research: Geoinformatics: Facility: Paleobiology Database: Preserving and Presenting Ancient Data for Future Research
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2020; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Theodoros Rekatsinas($428,774), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Mark D Uhen($784,781), George Mason University, Fairfax
Key terms: Machine Reading, Applications, Classification, Cyberinfrastructure, Deployment, Development, Editing, Entry, Expert, Extracting, Has, Information, PBDB, Paleobiology, Process, Resource, Steps, Taxonomic, Tools, “what.

Collaborative Research: Neotoma Paleoecology Database, a Multi-Proxy, International, Community-Curated Data Resource for Global Change Research
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2020; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Larisa Grawe DeSantis($59,871), Vanderbilt University, Nashville
2. Donald F Charles($102,432), Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia, Philadelphia
3. John W Williams($381,553), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
4. Suzanne E Pilaar Birch($64,636), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
5. Jessica Blois($61,613), University of California - Merced, Merced
6. Edward B Davis($138,027), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
7. Robert K Booth($47,702), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
8. Adam Heathcote($110,717), Science Museum of Minnesota, Saint Paul
9. Alison J Smith($32,421), Kent State University, Kent
Key terms: Critical Masses, Rapid Environmental, Species Adapt, Access, Continue, Enhance, Establishing, Geological, Improvements, Neotoma, Neotoma’s, Past, Recently, Resource, Skills, Specimen-level, Stewards, Training.

Collaborative Research: Community tools for automated paleoenvironmental interpretation from sedimentary field data
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2020; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Ryan C Ewing($589,480), Texas A&M University, College Station
2. Elizabeth A Hajek($308,259), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Extracting Sedimentary Features, Existing Digital, Outcrop Datasets, Sedimentary Geology, Tools Developed, Approaches, Automated, Broad, Computer, Conditions, Environments, Explore, Field, Geoscientists, Information, Mars, Natural, Orientation, Past, Range, Strengthen, Undergraduate.

Collaborative research: Implementation of Tensor Visualization guide (TVguide), an interactive visualization, analysis and database tool for seismic anisotropy
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2020; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Sarah J Brownlee($84,636), Wayne State University, Detroit
2. Vera Schulte-Pelkum($79,387), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Elasticity Tensor, Seismic Anisotropy, Seismic Wave, Web Tool, Web-based Tool, Analysis, Crust, Database, Deformation, Development, Rock-based, Symmetry, Tensors, User, Visualization, Web-based.

Collaborative Research: EarthChem & SESAR - Data Infrastructure for Geochemistry and Earth Science Samples Communities
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2020; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Michael D Grossberg($152,523), CUNY City College, New York
2. James D Walker($122,599), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
3. Kerstin A Lehnert($1,634,387), Columbia University, New York
4. Gokce K Ustunisik($119,518), South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City
Key terms: Earthchem And Sesar, Accessible Online, Collections, Developments, Diversity, Ensure, Environmental, Expand, Future, Generated, Geochemical, Geochemistry, Information, Knowledge, Million, Providers, Public, Services, User, Users.

Laboratory Acquisition Protocols and Standards (LAPS): A Standardized Digital Data System for Experimental Results
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2020; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Matej Pec($387,146), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Rock Mechanics, Testing Protocols, Access, Accessible, Applications, Available, Capabilities, Communication, Developed, Digital, Equipment, Experimental, Experiments, Facilitate, Field, Information, Initially, Integration, LAPS, Laboratories, Laboratory, Metadata, Procedures, Public, Quality, Resource, Searchable, Standards, Strabospot, Utility, Variety, Workflows.

Support for a 3D Magnetotelluric Inversion Facility
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2020; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Gary D Egbert($284,432), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: 3d Mt Inversion, Mt Inversion Software, 3d Mt, Em Methods, Freely Available, Applications, Applied, Broader, Development, Electromagnetic, Engage, Facility, Geophysical, Has, Modem, Substantial, Users.

WORM: The Water-Organic-Rock-Microbe Reaction Modeling Ecosystem
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2020; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Grayson Boyer($498,034), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Computer Models, Energy Supplies, Water Quality, Aqueous, Easier, Expand, Fluids, Geochemical, Natural, Online, Organic, Range, Reactions, Rock, Thermodynamic, Tools, Users, WORM.

Geoinformatics Facility: Integration of alphaMELTS petrologic software with flexible modeling environments
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2020; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Paul D Asimow($705,668), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Allow, Alphamelts, Amphibole, Biotite, Calibration, Chemical, Code, Describe, Development, Experiments, Flexible, Mantle, Mineral, Model, Modeling, Molten, Python, Rock, Software, Strategy, Tools, Trace, Training, Users, Workshops.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: GI CATALYTIC TRACK: Cyberinfrastructure for Intelligent High-Resolution Snow Cover Inference from Cubesat Imagery
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2020; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Amanda T Lehr($552,524), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Ziheng Sun($47,172), George Mason University, Fairfax
Key terms: Spatial And Temporal, Airborne Snow, Snow Observations, Temporal Resolution, Architecture, Commercial, Cubesat, Cyberinfrastructure, Daily, Ecological, Ground, High-resolution, Hydrological, Imagery, Machine, Models, Open-source, Planet, Products, Training.

Collaborative Research: Response of the Tropical Pacific to the Abrupt Climate Change Event 8,200 Years Ago
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2020; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Alyssa Atwood($173,502), Florida State University, Tallahassee
2. Julian P Sachs($456,415), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Hydrogen Isotope, Labrador Sea, North Atlantic, Ocean Circulation, Rainfall Reconstructions, School Teachers, Sediment Cores, Tropical Pacific, Tropical Rain, Climate, Context, Galápagos, Holocene, Interval, Lakes, Meltwater, Models, Palau, Resolution, Sediments, Simulations, Tropics.

Collaborative Research: Neotropical climate and environmental change over 400ka of glacial-interglacial cycles from Lake Peten Itza
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Melissa A Berke($363,128), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
2. Bronwen Konecky($197,100), Washington University, Saint Louis
3. Thomas E Arnold($380,670), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Lake Petén Itzá, Glacial-interglacial Climate, Leaf Waxes, Additionally, Comparison, Environmental, Existing, Glacial-interglacial, Global, Latitude, Neotropical, Paleoclimate, Past, Reconstructions, Region, Spatial, Temperature, Terrestrial, Tropics, Values, Vegetation.

P2C2: Collaborative Research: Timing of the Glacial Termination in Southernmost South America
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Joellen Russell($31,191), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. George H Denton($560,046), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Earth’s Climate, Ice Age, Benefits, Detailed, Earth’s, Education, Existing, Geological, Global, Information, Journalism, Landforms, Latitudes, Mechanisms, Models, National, Past, Public, STEM, Societal, Southern, Student, Termination, Timing, Warming.

Orbital to millennial-scale variability of the Southern Hemisphere Westerlies over the last glacial cycle
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Timothy Shanahan($402,158), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Carbon Cycle, Carbon Dioxide, Global Climate, Southern Hemisphere, Southern Ocean, Westerly Wind, Approach, Circulation, Division, Dynamics, Factors, Focus, Forcing, Future, Ice, Influence, Isotope, Local, Past, Position, Potential, Proxy, Reconstructions, Respond, Storage, Warming, Westerlies.

Collaborative Research: Rapid Climate Change During the Miocene as a benchmark to understand future climate change
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Clay Tabor($199,146), University of Connecticut, Storrs
2. Barbara Carrapa($301,654), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Miocene Climatic Optimum, Future Climate, Surface Temperature, Ability, Continent, Degrees, Global, MCO, Similar, Warmer, Warming.

Collaborative Research: Rapid Climate Change During the Miocene Climate Optimum: A Proxy-Model Comparison
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Mark T Clementz($165,040), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Miocene Climatic Optimum, Future Climate, Surface Temperature, Ability, Continent, Degrees, Global, MCO, Similar, Warmer, Warming.

A new high-resolution stratigraphic record of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in the Eastern Tethys
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2020; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Ying Cui($120,807), Montclair State University, Montclair
Key terms: Atmospheric Co2, Carbon Dioxide, Eastern Tethys, Economically Disadvantaged, Global Climate, Global Temperature, Tethys Sea, Abrupt, Degrees, Glycerol, Importance, Insight, Magnetic, PETM, Paleoclimate, Potential, Rapid, Region, Stratigraphic.

P2C2: Collaborative Research: Transient forcing of the Local Last Glacial Maximum in the tropical Peruvian Andes
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2020; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Nathan D Stansell($229,506), Northern Illinois University, Dekalb
2. Byron A Steinman($40,496), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
3. Bryan G Mark($305,859), Ohio State University, Columbus
Key terms: Climate Model Simulations, Abrupt Global, Climatic Forcing, Hydrologic Cycle, Lake Junín, Tropical Climate, Tropical Glaciers, Activity, Ages, Andes, Archives, Atmospheric, Centennial-scale, Conditions, Extent, Geological, Glacial, Has, Ice, LLGM, Latitude, Local, Low, Mountain, Multiple, Past, Perspective, Peru, Relate, Resolution, Responds, Students, Tropics.

Cooperative Institute for Dynamic Earth Research: Fluid and Magma Transport at Plate Boundaries
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2021; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Barbara A Romanowicz($438,431), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Plate Boundaries, Summer Program, Basic, CIDER, Disciplinary, Disciplines, Evolution, Infrastructure, Integrated, Magma, Progress, Tools, Various, Weeks.

Synthesizing emerging results and identifying future research in an early-stage, magma-poor rift: A workshop in the southern East Africa Rift System
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2020; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Donna J Shillington($139,887), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: East Africa Rift, 4-day Workshop, African Scientists, Continental Stretching, Cumulative Stretching, Rift Valley, Active, Breakup, Collaborations, Controls, EARS, Efforts, Enable, Essential, Geoprisms, Has, Hazards, International, Magmatism, Malawi, Meet, Occurred, Opportunity, Outreach, Past, Process, Processes, Rifting, Share, Southern, Stages, Summer, Surprising.

Quantifying Carbon in the Mantle Lithosphere: Concentration, sources, and forms of carbon stored in carbonates and fluid inclusions
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Meghan R Guild($252,153), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Carbon Stored, Earth’s Interior, Earth’s Surface, Fluid Inclusions, Amount, Climate, Determining, Earth’s, Entrapment, Exchanged, Life, Mantle, Sources, Xenoliths.

Collaborative Research: Synthesizing arc-scale geochemical, petrologic, and geophysical datasets to investigate causes of volcanic diversity in the Cascade Arc
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Geoffrey A Abers($103,886), Cornell University, Ithaca
2. Adam Kent($229,009), Oregon State University, Corvallis
3. Christy B Till($262,679), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Subduction Zone, Subduction Zones, Cascades, Crust, Datasets, Earth’s, Erupted, Existing, Geophysical, Has, Lack, Magma, Magmas, Magmatic, Mantle, Oregon, Potential, Processes, Produce, Producing, Program, Sets, Undergraduate, Volcanoes.

Support for the 2020 Gordon Research Conference/Seminar on Rock Deformation: Combining Laboratory Measurements with Observational Constraints to Understand Tectonic Processes
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2020; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Heather M Savage($49,500), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Conferences And Seminars, Rock Deformation, Contribute, Development, Gordon, Presentations, Processes, Rheology, STEM, Th, Topics, Underrepresented.

Contrasting active magma- and fault-dominated segments of the East African Rift through the synthesis of InSAR and GPS time series: Implications for rifting dynamics and hazards
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2020; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Bridget R Smith-Konter($390,663), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Allows Scientists, Crustal Deformation, Ground Deformation, Africa, Anthropogenic, Applications, Central, EARS, Eastern, GPS, Hazards, Infrastructure, Insar, Natural, Network, Rift, Segment, Tectonic, Time, Volcanic, Western.

Constraining properties of pyroclastic density currents with remote infrasound and seismic observations
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2020; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Josef Dufek($266,406), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Infrasound And Seismic, Geophysical Observables, Numerical Models, Pdc Dynamics, Developing, Directly, Flow, Hazardous, Multiphase, Observations, Pdcs, Perform, Processes, Properties, Quantitative.

Collaborative Research: Evaluating The Exhumation History of the Aleutians with Zircon And Apatite Thermochronology
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2020; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Emily Cooperdock($373,162), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2. Claire E Bucholz($38,334), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Arc Exhumation, Central Aleutians, Emplacement Depth, Exhumation History, Exhumation Rates, Geochemical Inputs, Island Arcs, Plutonic Rocks, Subduction Zone, Surface Uplift, Andor, Constrain, Crust, Drivers, Eroded, Erosion, Has, Islands, Length, Magnitude, Miles, Pacific, Past, Plate, Previously, Processes, Sensitivities, Subsequent, Tectonic, Thermal, Time, Timing, Volcanic, Volcanoes.

Collaborative Research: Constraining the thermal conditions of the subduction interface by integrating petrology and geodynamics
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2019; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Besim Dragovic($49,875), University of South Carolina at Columbia, Columbia
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.

EAR-PF: Seeing through carbonate diagenesis using the triple oxygen isotope system
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Jordan Wostbrock($174,000), Wostbrock, Jordan, Albuquerque
Key terms: Oxygen Isotope Compositions, Oxygen Isotope Ratios, Oxygen Isotope Values, Triple Oxygen Isotope, Carbonate Rocks, Marine Settings, Shallow Marine, Additional, Carbonates, Changing, Conditions, Deposition, Environment, Environments, Female, Formed, Initial, Jordan, Measure, Mentor, OO, Ocean, Oceans, Oxygen-oxygen-, Preservation, STEM, Temperature, Undergraduate, Yale.

SitS: Collaborative Research: Soils are signaling shifts in aggregate life-cycles: What does this mean for water, carbon and climate feedbacks in the Anthropocene?
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Pamela L Sullivan($268,335), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Li Li($233,042), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Biotic And Abiotic, Formation And Collapse, Life-cycles And Arrangements, Aggregate Formation, Aggregate Life-cycles, Changing Climate, Continental Scales, Soil Aggregate, Soil Moisture, Soil Pore, Water Flow, Aggregates, Agriculture, Binding, Biogeochemical, Broader, Carbon, Department, Depth, Development, Drivers, Effects, Environmental, Fluxes, Food, Future, Individual, Influence, Land, Larger, Leverage, Microbes, Model, National, Network, Organic, Particles, Pedon, Plants, Processes, Properties, Quantify, Rainfall, Rates, Represent, SOC, Sites, Soils, Structural, Surface, Units, Vegetation.

Does Sediment Storage Set the Pace of the Terrestrial Organic Carbon Cycle?
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Mark A Torres($413,794), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Soil And Sediment, Soil Carbon Storage, Biogeochemical Mechanisms, Elementary School, Oc Preservation, Oc Storage, Sediment Storage, Storage Times, Terrestrial Oc, Affect, Amount, Fluvial, Influence, Knowledge, Landscape, Landscapes, Processes, Rock, Size, Via.

CAREER: From Desert to Coastal Rainforest Soils- How do fungi transform minerals deployed across natural weathering gradients?
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Rebecca Lybrand($187,241), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Critical Zone, Mass Spectrometry, Mineral Weathering, Natural Soils, Academic, Field, Fungal, Fungi, Integrated, Microscopy, Minerals, Nutrient, Nutrients, Span, Students.

RAPID: The impact of headwater wildfire burns on the export of materials to the coast
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2020; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Christina M Richardson($28,139), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Hydrological And Biogeochemical, Pre And Post-fire, Coastal Draining, Coastal Stream, Drinking Water, Global Climate, Land Management, Santa Cruz, Stream Water, Water Quality, Alter, California, Composition, Contributions, County, Existing, Exports, Fill, Gap, Insight, Limited, Multiple, Pre-, Sources, Unburned, Watershed, Watersheds, Western, Wildfire.

Role of Nitric Acid in Chemical Weathering and Pedogenic Thresholds
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2020; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Julie C Pett-Ridge($348,523), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Acid Enhances Weathering, Nitric Acid-promoted Weathering, Acid-driven Weathering, Acid-promoted Weathering, Chemical Weathering, Fertilization Experiments, Nitric Acid-promoted, Soil Minerals, Acid-driven, Basalt, Breakdown, Carbon, Carbonic, Contributes, Ecosystems, Effects, Enrichment, Examining, Fluxes, Long-term, Mineralogy, N-rich, Natural, Naturally, Nutrient, Properties, Short-term, Students, Water.

RAPID: Monitoring hydrochemical effects of the 6.5 Monte Cristo Range Earthquake on groundwater systems in the Columbus Salt Marsh (central NV) and vicinity
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2020; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Michael R Rosen($37,482), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Flow Rate, Monitoring Program, Water Quality, Water Supplies, Active, Continue, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Effects, Epicenter, Groundwater, Has, Nevada, Occurred, Rural, Sampling, Seismic, Springs.

Collaborative Research: Mechanism of Manganese(IV) Oxide Biomineralization by a Bacterial Manganese Oxidase
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2020; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Thomas Spiro($383,125), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Bradley M Tebo($188,015), Oregon Health & Science University, Portland
Key terms: Manganese Oxide Biomineralization, Bacterial Manganese, Mno2 Minerals, Oxidize Mn, Complex, Dissolved, Enzymes, Formation, Found, Mnii, Mnii-oxidizing, Nature, Oxygen, Process, Species, Spores, State-of-the-art, Students, Techniques.

Collaborative Research: Parsing out the controls of climate, geology, and land use on riverine (234U/238U) ratios in Texas river basins
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2020; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Pamela L Sullivan($227,150), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Rob Rohrbaugh($500,952), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
Key terms: Agriculture And Urban, Texas River Basins, Climate Parameters, El Paso, Gained Knowledge, Undergraduate Students, Urban Development, Advance, Agricultural, Control, Critical, Environmental, Especially, Existing, Field, Flow, Fractionation, Geochemical, Geological, Gradients, Graduate, Groundwater, Hydrological, Information, Investigate, Isotope, Issues, Land, Lithology, Management, Mineral, Natural, Observed, Precipitation, Ratios, Riverine, Rivers, Rock, Signature, Soils, Surface, Temperature, Training, UU, Water, Watershed, Watersheds, Weathering.

Exploring light-dependent manganese oxide formation in a meromictic metal-rich pond
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Colleen Hansel($606,265), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Allowing Mn Oxides, Biological Pathways Allowing, Chemical And Biological, Depths And Reacted, Light And Environmental, Mn Oxide Formation, Mn Oxides Formed, Oxidation And Mn, Oxides Formed Via, Pathways Allowing Mn, Pathways And Reactivity, Sites And Depths, Cape Cod, Environmental Conditions, Fair Projects, Formation Pathways, Light Conditions, Light-mediated Reactions, Siders Pond, Surface Sun-lit, Various Sites, Biogeochemical, Characterized, Collected, Contribute, Controlling, Cycle, Environments, Field, Found, Function, Laboratory, Light-mediated, Local, Manganese, Mechanisms, Minerals, Mnii, Mniii-l, Presence, Processes, Rates, Redoxcline, School, Students, Sun-lit, Undergraduate, Underlying, Waters.

EAGER: The Bacterial Magnetosome may be a Potential Energy-Harvesting Pseudo-organelle for Magnetotrophy
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Ratnasingham Sooryakumar($282,033), Ohio State University, Columbus
Key terms: Bacteria, Cells, Energy, Evolved, Growth, Internal, MTB, Magnetic, Magnetosome, Metabolism, Nature, Promote, Proteins, Strains, Synthesize, Water, Wild-type.

What Controls Carbonate Formation in Fine-grained and Clay-rich Soils? Gaining Perspective from Serial Soil Water Stable Isotope Datasets
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Kathryn Snell($311,761), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Soil Water Isotope, Soil Water Vapor, Stable Isotope Composition, Stable Isotope Values, Timing And Drivers, Calcium Carbonate, Carbonate Formation, Carbonate Nodules, Environmental Parameters, Pedogenic Carbonate, Soil Column, Soil Temperature, Analysis, Atmospheric, Automatically, Challenges, Chemistry, Climate, Clumped, Constrain, Contribution, Creating, Datasets, Developed, Environments, Evaporation, Fine-grained, Found, Has, Information, Isotopes, Measured, Mechanisms, Modern, Paleoclimate, Particular, Past, Precipitation, Range, Reflect, Soils, Store, Students, Tool, Unclear, Undergraduate, Via.

EAGER: Intra-Clay Trapping of Organic Molecules – A Key Step in the Chemical Evolution of Life?
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Alberto Perez-Huerta($138,121), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
Key terms: Rna And Dna, Cell Membranes, Clay Minerals, Graduate Programs, Organic Molecules, Primitive Biomolecules, Ago, Billion, Chemical, Clays, Conditions, Does, Evolution, Formation, Found, Geology, Harmful, Harsh, Life, Planet, Promote, Protecting, Reactions, Similar, Stillman, Students, Was.

RAPID: Soil and water biogeochemical response to COVID-19: increased stress on septic systems alters soil and water quality
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2020; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Nandita Gaur($99,993), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Annual Athens Water, Athens Water Festival, Field And Laboratory, Septic Leach Fields, Soil And Soil, Directly Involved, Graduate Student, Increased Septic, Increased Stress, Laboratory Techniques, Local Governments, Nutrient Loading, Organic Matter, Soil Water, Wide Selection, Biogeochemical, COVID-, Distributed, Estimate, Generate, Hotspots, Investigate, Period, Pollutant, Potential, Properties, Rainfall, Shifts, Trained, Weather.

Collaborative Research: Quantifying controls on weathering of volcanic arc rocks
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Kenneth S Hughes($117,468), University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Mayaguez
2. Darryl E Granger($240,186), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Puerto Rican Students, Chemical Weathering, Puerto Rico, Rock Types, Traditionally Under-represented, Atmosphere, Brings, Carbon, Climate, Cosmogenic, Education, Erosion, Fresh, Global, Long-term, Mayaguez, Measure, Method, Methods, Minerals, Opportunities, Processes, Produced, Purdue, Rates, STEM, Short-term, Soil, Time, Under-represented, Variety.

Collaborative Research: Biogeochemical Processes in a Subsurface Hypersaline Environment near the Abiotic Fringe
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Thomas L Kieft($193,088), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
2. Tullis C Onstott($158,132), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Abiotic Organic, Biomass Abundance, Hypersaline Fracture, Organic Compounds, Analyses, Borehole, Boreholes, Carbon, Cycling, Deep, Dissolved, Environments, Evolution, Fluid, Groundwater, Hydrocarbons, Interactions, Life, Origin, Petroleum, Reactions, Reservoirs, Simple, Time, °C.

Collaborative Research: Unraveling the Dynamics of Microbial Mercury Methylation in Two Meromictic Lakes in Central New York, USA
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Svetoslava Todorova($314,981), Syracuse University, Syracuse
2. Hyatt Green($195,008), SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse
Key terms: Aquatic Ecosystems, Dissolved Organic, Mercury Methylation, Atmospheric, Biological, Chemical, Critical, Emissions, Enable, Factors, Geochemical, Health, Human, Identity, In-situ, Lake, Lakes, Methylmercury, Molecular, Policy, Profiles, Students, Water, Wildlife.

Collaborative Research: The Rise and Fall of the Neoproterozoic Era in Siberia: Connections between Tectonics, Ocean Chemistry, and Biologic Innovation
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Alan J Kaufman($301,698), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
2. Geoffrey J Gilleaudeau($361,062), George Mason University, Fairfax
Key terms: Delivered Nutrients, Evolutionary Transitions, Ago, Animals, Billion, Biological, Broad, Critical, Earth, Eukaryotic, Geologic, Global, History, Isotopes, Li, Life, Lithium, Marine, Measure, Mountain-building, Ocean, Oceans, Organisms, Redox, Siberia, Spectacular, Students, Successions, Uranium, Virginia.

RUI - dragon-phire: Deep-time Redox Analysis of the Geobiology Ontology Network - Protein Hardware Integrates Redox Evolution
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Stephanie Spielman($319,227), Rowan University, Glassboro
Key terms: Biological Electron Transfer, Iron And Nickel, Computational Geoscience, Metal Cofactors, Minority Andor, Planetary Redox, Predominantly Undergraduate, Previously Developed, Redox Conditions, Software Package, Analysis, Ancient, Billion, Dragon, Dragon-phire, Evolution, First-, Functionality, Generation, Has, Life, Link, Metals, Mineral, Minerals, Networks, Opportunities, Processes, Protein, Rock, Rowan, Students, Surface.

Ground-truthing lithium paleo-proxies: Experimental study on the Li incorporation and isotope fractionation during inorganic calcite and aragonite precipitation
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Joji Uchikawa($392,415), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Continental Silicate Rocks, Global Carbon Cycle, Graduate And Undergraduate, History And Evolution, Regulating Global Carbon, Science” And “science, Bishop Museum, Caco3 Minerals, Earth’s Climate, Li Incorporation, Seawater Li, Silicate Weathering, Undergraduate Students, “science Alive”, Annual, Concentration, Controls, Delivered, Development, Earth’s, Education, Eventually, Experimental, Experiments, Findings, Geosciences, Hawaii, House, Incorporate, Information, Inorganic, Isotopic, Kinetic, Marine, Ocean, Process, Recorder, Rivers, Solution, Talk, Δli, “mad.

A Machine-Learning Approach to Quantitative Phase Analysis of Whole Rocks and Sediments
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Barry R Bickmore($294,743), Brigham Young University, Provo
Key terms: Powder X-ray Diffraction, Crystal Structure, Novice Analysts, Powder X-ray, X-ray Diffraction, Algorithms, Analyses, Analysis, Automated, Database, Generated, Included, Library, Machine, Mineral, Minerals, Models, Phases, Produce, Rockjockml, Set, Synthetic, Techniques.

3D printing of reactive porous media to enhance understanding of porosity-permeability evolution
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Bryan S Beckingham($331,833), Auburn University, Auburn
Key terms: Dissolution And Precipitation, Porosity And Permeability, Reactive Porous Media, 3d Printing, Highly Heterogenous, Mineral Dissolution, Mineral Reactions, Permeability Evolution, Porosity-permeability Relationships, Precipitation Reactions, Predictive Capabilities, Create, Diversity, Engineered, Enhance, Experiments, Generate, Graduate, Laboratory, Leveraged, Natural, Outreach, Porosity-permeability, Processes, Replicate, STEM, Students, Subsurface, Surface, Transport, Weathering.

EAR-PF: Mechanisms Influencing Arsenic speciation and bioavailability at the plant-soil interface on Native American lands
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Cherie DeVore($174,000), DeVore, Cherie, Albuquerque
Key terms: Abandoned Mine Waste, Mine Waste Sites, Arsenic Uptake, De Vore, Mechanisms Affecting, Bioavailability, Biogeochemical, Efforts, Environmental, Exposure, Knowledge, Native, Near, Plants, Postdoctoral, Risk, Strategies, Training, Tribal.

CAREER: Uncovering the origins and biological purpose of the orphaned branched GDGT temperature biomarker
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Sebastian H Kopf($567,573), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Branched Tetra Ether, Earth’s Climate History, Temperature And Ph, Tetra Ether Lipids, Brgdgt Precursor, Brgdgts Remain, Earth’s Climate, Earth’s History, Earth’s Past, Organic Molecules, Soil Bacteria, Source Organisms, Biological, Biomarkers, Brgdgt-based, CURE, Class, Clues, Common, Conditions, Cultured, Difficult, Discovered, Discovery, Environment, Environments, Experience, Experiences, Focus, Has, Information, Isolation, Origins, Paleoclimate, Possibility, Potential, Produce, Produced, Range, STEM, Student-driven, Students, Tested, Tools, Undergraduate.

CAREER: Quantifying the Extent and Biogeochemical Impact of Modern Ferruginous Lakes
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Elizabeth D Swanner($717,504), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: Ferruginous Meromictic Lakes, Abundant Iron, Deep Lakes, Ferruginous Conditions, Ago, Animals, Carbon, Chemistry, Contribution, Earth, Emissions, Engage, Field, Fluxes, Groundwater, Layer, MN, Meromixis, Methane, Microbes, Minnesota, Mix, Oceans, Oxygen, Past, Postglacial, Quantified, Residents, Rural, Surface, Surrounding, Urban, Water, Workshops.

Anoxygenic Photosynthesis in Cyanobacteria
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2020; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Trinity Hamilton($384,891), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Earth's Geochemical Cycles, Emerging Model Cyanobacterium, Facultative Anoxygenic Photosynthesis, Robust Phylogenomic Framework, Transformation And Evolution, Characterized Deeply-branching, Earth's Geochemical, Extant Cyanobacteria, Genetic Information, Leptolyngbya Sp, Oxygenic Photosynthesis, Photosystem Ii, Strain Hensonii, Ability, Absence, Anoxic, Biosignatures, Carbon, Deeply-branching, Examine, Fuel, Geobiology, Isolated, Life, Light, Microorganisms, Outstanding, Oxidation, Potential, Presence, Remains, Rock, Student, Sulfide, Transfer.

CAREER: Robust Isotopic Constraints on Primary Productivity from First Principles
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2020; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Laurence Y Yeung($352,228), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Biosphere Productivity, Annual, Applied, Available, Biological, Carbon, Composition, Experiments, Fractionation, Global, Global-change, Has, Isotopic, Level, OO, Oxygen, Past, Photosynthesis, Respiration, School, Signals, Teachers, Tools, Triple-isotope.

Mercury Stable Isotopes as a Proxy of Photic Zone Euxinia
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2020; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Ariel D Anbar($420,380), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Hg Isotope Compositions, Hydrogen Sulfide-rich Waters, Reduced Sulfur Ligands, Ancient Oceans, Hydrogen Sulfide-rich, Isotope Fractionation, Negative Mif, Ocean Chemistry, Photic Zone, Positive Mif, Re Isotopes, Sedimentary Rocks, Sulfide-rich Waters, Bound, Conditions, Earth, Ecosystems, Evidence, Hgii, History, Human, Life, Marine, Mass, Modern, PZE, Past, Photoreduction, Photosynthesis, Proxy, Redox, Shallow, Stable, Sulfidic.

Diversifying geochemistry – travel support for students from under-represented constituencies to attend the Goldschmidt Conference; 2020-2022
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2020; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Emily Cooperdock($55,200), The Geochemical Society, Alexandria
Key terms: Geochemical Society, Goldschmidt Conference, Undergraduate Students, Underrepresented Ethnic, Americans, Attend, Diversity, European, Field, Funding, Generation, Geochemistry, Native, Organized, Participation, Venues.

Collaborative Research: Bioavailability of mineral-associated molybdenum as a cofactor of Nif nitrogenase for N2 fixation
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2020; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Oliver Baars($100,493), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
2. Hailiang Dong($361,904), Miami University, Oxford
Key terms: Extract Mo Directly, Minerals And Rocks, Analytical Techniques, Dissolved Mo, Mo Bioavailability, Mo-based Nitrogenase, Mo-bearing Minerals, N2 Fixation, N2-fixing Bacteria, Solid Minerals, Anaerobic, Available, Cultures, Determined, Developed, Experiment, Experiments, Metabolites, Metals, Microbes, Microbial, Mo-based, Mo-bearing, N-fixing, NH, Paradox, Performed, Rate, Rees, Release, Resolve, Specific, Strategies, Was.

Collaborative Research: Tracing Coal Ash Solids in the Environment - Implications for long-term contamination of the aquatic ecosystem
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2020; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Stefanie A Brachfeld($88,159), Appalachian State University, Boone
2. Avner Vengosh($298,953), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Ash Disposal Sites, Coal Ash Impoundments, Coal Ash Ponds, Coal Ash Spills, Coal Ash Storage, Detect Coal Ash, Lake Bottom Sediments, Living Near Coal, Unmonitored Coal Ash, Bottom Sediments, Impacted Lakes, North Carolina, Pore Water, Appalachian, Contaminants, Contamination, Distribution, Ecological, Ecosystem, Effects, Environment, Environmental, Generated, Magnetic, Metals, Methods, NSF, Pbpb, Presence, Presentation, Public, Publication, Ra, Residents, Risks, Shown, Stored, Students, Sutton, Undergraduate.

CAREER: Acid Rain to Agriculture: An Integrated Research and Education Platform to Understand Human Manipulation of the Sulfur Cycle
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2020; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Eve-Lyn S Hinckley($495,486), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Findings And Inform, Napa River Watershed, Stable Isotopic Composition, Knowledge Gap, Middle School, Activities, Agricultural, Applied, Behave, Biogeochemistry, Build, California, Changing, Chemical, Consequences, Crop, Croplands, Cycle, Environment, Environmental, Exercises, Farmers, Fertilizers, Field, Has, Hold, Humans, Management, Methods, Processes, Soil, Stakeholder, Students, Sulfur, Undergraduate, Workshops.

A Predictive Framework for Micro-scale Carbonate Diagenesis: Towards More Accurate Reconstructions of Global Climate and Environmental Change
Award Effective Date: 01/02/2020; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Miquela Ingalls($184,321), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Ancient Environments, Carbonate Mineral, Carbonate Minerals, Carbonate Rock, Chemical Alteration, Delta Cap, Environmental Conditions, Formation Temperature, Marine Carbonates, Traditional Tools, Altered, Burial, Buried, Capability, Chemically, Clumped, Earth, Fingerprints, Geochemical, History, Isotope, Isotopic, Low, Observations, Pis, Reconstruct, Recrystallization, Techniques, Temperatures, Values, Water.

Quantifying thioarsenate formation constants to advance understanding of arsenic biogeochemical cycling in anoxic waters
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2020; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Karen H Johannesson($148,344), University of Massachusetts Boston, Dorchester
Key terms: Elevated Arsenic Concentrations, Arsenic-sulfur Compounds, Dissolved Sulfide, Drinking Water, Natural Waters, Naturally Occurring, Sulfide Minerals, Thioarsenic Species, Abundances, Anoxic, Arsenic-sulfur, Biogeochemical, Equilibrium, Experiences, Exposed, Formation, Geochemical, Levels, Louisiana, Microbial, Mobile, People, Populations, Predict, Processes, Program, Pyrite, Reduction, Release, Solution, Thioarsenates.

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: 09/01/2019; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Pamela L Sullivan($334,681), Oregon State University, Corvallis
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.

Collaborative Research: Beyond lithologic control of bedrock valley width: Investigating the role of persistent valley cover in bedrock valley width development, Buffalo River, AR
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Abigail Langston($252,938), Kansas State University, Manhattan
Key terms: Bedrock Valley Width, Wide And Narrow, Bedrock Valleys, Buffalo River, Narrow Valleys, Northwest Arkansas, Valley Bottom, Valley Walls, Valley Widening, Widening Rates, Allow, Collapsed, Controls, Determining, Development, Diverse, Drivers, Field, Investigate, Landscapes, Morphology, Past, Persistence, Respond, Rivers.

EAR-PF: The impact of varying sediment supply on Arctic delta-front transport processes
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2021; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Brandee N Carlson($174,000), Carlson, Brandee Nicole, Houston
Key terms: Delta-front Sediment Transport, Enhanced Sediment Supply, Subaerial Delta Activity, Arctic Deltas, Coastal Evolution, Delta Topset, Delta-front Failures, Delta-front Sediment, Delta-front Transport, Discharge Conditions, Rapidly Growing, Satellite Imagery, Sediment Retention, Subaqueous Sediment, Thawing Permafrost, Climate, Coastlines, Consider, Control, Field, Glaciers, Greenland, Growth, Influence, Links, Melting, Potential, Processes, Rates.

RAPID: Collecting critical data for advancing our understanding of wildfire impacts on soil characteristics and research on post-wildfire compound hazards
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2020; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Hamidreza Norouzi($49,997), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Burned And Unburned, Debris Flow, Debris Flows, Geotechnical Characteristics, Hydraulic Properties, Land Cover, Near-surface Soil, Soil Texture, Collect, Compound, Extreme, Hydrologic, Lead, Minority, Nsurface, Perishable, Post-fire, Undergraduate, Wildfire, Wildfires.

RAPID: Sparta Earthquake Surface Deformation Characterization
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2020; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Paula Marques Figueiredo($29,752), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Geological Survey, North Carolina, Surface Rupture, Accommodated, August, Caused, Deformation, Displacement, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Female, Geophysical, Geoscience, High-resolution, Knowledge, Landscape, Length, Lidar, Methods, Moderate, Mw, Near, Observations, Remote, Seismicity, Sparta, Structures, Sub-surface, Town, USA, Undertaken, Vertical, Was.

RAPID: Wildfire impacts on snowpack, flow paths, and sediment dynamics across an elevation gradient
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2020; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Stephanie Kampf($49,990), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Cameron Peak Fire, Water Supply Reservoirs, Drone Imagery, Field Surveys, Lower Elevations, Slope Failures, Summer Thunderstorms, Burn, Burned, Channel, Channels, Collection, Colorado, Conditions, Document, Documented, Fires, Focus, Has, Largest, Network, Post-fire, Risks, Sediment, Snow, Snowmelt, Snowpack, Spring, Stream, Supplies, Wildfire, Winter, Zone.

RAPID: Post-Fire Geomorphic Change Detection in a Small Mountainous River Estuary
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2020; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Andrew B Gray($19,360), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Scott Creek Watershed, Coastal Regions, Debris Flows, Sea-level Rise, California, Ecological, Estuary, Fire, Focus, Has, Human, Landforms, Management, Processes, Rainstorm, Sea-level, Sediment, Wildfire.

Collaborative Research: From rock to regolith to rivers: weathering, grain size, and controls on soil production and fluvial incision
Award Effective Date: 10/21/2020; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Jane Willenbring($233,932), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Grain Size, Residence Time, Rio Blanco, Incision, Landlab, Landscapes, Model, Modeling, Rate, Rates, Rivers, Sediment, Soil, Students.

Collaborative Research: Tying deep-seated landslides to base level, earthquakes, and a changing climate in the Pacific Northwest
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2020; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Adam M Booth($229,898), Portland State University, Portland
2. Alison R Duvall($257,719), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Forcing Mechanisms, Hazard Estimates, Seattle Fault, Ages, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Future, Ground, Hazards, Landslide, Landslides, Main, Prehistoric, Region, Rupture, Simulations, Triggered.

Assessing topographic impacts on tropical glacier extent and moraine formation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Meredith A Kelly($368,272), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Past Glacial Extents, Surface Exposure Dating, Tropical Mountain Ranges, Uganda And Colombia, Climate Conditions, Glacial Modeling, Mountain Glaciers, Past Climate, Ability, Advance, Assess, Differences, Future, Influence, Influenced, Moraines, Topographic, Topography, Valleys.

Granular Electrification in Aeolian Sand Transport: Paradox or Enigma?
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Pei Zhang($248,115), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
Key terms: Sand Transport Models, Dust Generation, Granular Electrification, Sand Drift, Transport Rates, Aeolian, Charges, Contributes, Dune, Environments, Future, Infrastructure, Natural, Success, Training, Transmission.

EAR-PF: Morphodynamics of giant dunes in wind and water
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Julia Cisneros($121,990), Cisneros, Julia, Champaign
Key terms: Deserts And Rivers, Giant Dunes Migrate, Giant Sand Dunes, Compound Dunes, Dune Field, Dune Morphodynamics, Dunes Exist, Dunes Formed, Multiple Scales, Superimposed Dunes, Topographic Structure, Bedform, Bedforms, Color, Environments, Framework, Geosciences, Girls, Houston, Investigation, Little, Methods, Outreach, Sediment, Seeks, Simple, Surveys, TX.

EAR-PF: Using distributions of channel geometry and channel belt properties to distinguish meandering and braided fluvial deposits in the rock record
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Tian Y Dong($174,000), Dong, Tian Y, Houston
Key terms: Channel Belt Properties, Distinguishing River Types, Single-thread And Braided, Distinguishing Channel, Hydraulic Variables, Remote Sensing, River Channels, River Morphologies, Single-thread Rivers, Aim, Ancient, Austin, Calculation, Deposits, Depth, Difficult, Directly, Discharge, Distributions, Geologic, Geometry, Has, Measured, Metrics, Modern, Observed, Quality, Reconstructed, Remnants, Rock, Sedimentary, Slope, Texas, Water, Width.

CAREER: Retention and Mobility of Beryllium in Soils and Sedimentary Environments
Award Effective Date: 08/20/2020; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Jane Willenbring($252,751), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Beryllium Isotopes, Aims, Critical, Movement, Past, Soil, Students, Tool.

EAGER SitS: Soil Soundscapes from Seismic Arrays
Award Effective Date: 08/20/2020; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Jane Willenbring($206,308), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Biological Agents Play, Critical Zone, Soil Soundscapes, Animals, Biology, Disturbances, Ecological, Generation, Geomorphic, Has, Ignored, Interdisciplinary, Landscape, Monitoring, Movement, Observations, Processes, Public, Quantify, Reserve, Sediment, Seismic, Signals, Site, Soils, Surface, Training.

EAGER: Collaborative Research: Invisible Floods on the Mississippi River Floodplain: Unravelling the Causes of Urban Flooding in a Community-Centered Approach to Geomorphology
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Claire C Masteller($164,897), Washington University, Saint Louis
2. Jose A Constantine($135,071), Williams College, Williamstown
Key terms: Floodplain Channels, Lowland Rivers, Mississippi River, Bottom, Centreville, Damaging, Drainages, Efforts, Engagement, Experiences, Flooding, Focus, Geomorphology, Has, Illinois, Infilling, Sediment, Time.

Geomorphic effects and distribution of anthropogenic debris in urban streams
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Anne J Jefferson($354,763), Kent State University, Kent
Key terms: Anthropogenic Debris, Geomorphic Effects, Stream Reaches, Urban Streams, Controls, Distribution, Efforts, Environmental, Found, Function, Garbage, Models, Objects, Properties, Quantify, Sediment, Transport.

Formation, morphology, and retreat of autogenic waterfalls
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Joel S Scheingross($365,149), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Autogenic Waterfalls, Self-formed Waterfalls, Waterfall Formation, Ability, Allow, Bedrock, Climate, Development, Experiments, Field, History, Landscapes, Movement, Past, Self-form, Self-formed, Tectonic, Topography, ‘read’.

Coupled Ecological-Geomorphological Response of Coastal Wetlands to Environmental Change
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2020; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Brad Murray($662,720), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Carbon Burial, Carbon Cycle, Coastal Wetlands, Venice Lagoon, Wetland Dynamics, Coupled, Ecosystem, Enhanced, Environmental, Global, Importance, Near, Partnership, Rates, Remote, Sediment, Tidal, Wide.

RAPID: Quantifying the fluvial response to cascading dam failures at Edenville and Sanford, Michigan
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2020; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Doug Edmonds($22,428), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Aging Infrastructure, Built Downstream, Coordinated Removal, Dam Failure, Increasing Hazard, Advance, Dams, Floods, Lidar, Risk, River.

RUI: Boulder beaches—the understudied archive on high-energy coasts
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Rónadh Cox($343,953), Williams College, Williamstown
Key terms: Boulder Beach, Boulder Beaches, Coastal Protection, High-energy Coasts, Sea Level, Clast, Engineers, Erosion, High-energy, Information, Storms, Wave, Waves.

Collaborative Research: Hurricane Sedimentation on Salt Marshes: Extent, Provenance, and Processes
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Zoe Hughes($187,990), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
2. Ioannis Georgiou($108,985), The Water Institute of the Gulf, Baton Rouge
3. Christopher J Hein($210,743), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Analyzed, Backbarrier, Biomarker, Coastal, Compositions, Course, Deposit, Deposits, Distribution, Facilitate, Fluvial, Geomorphology, Georgia, Hydrodynamics, Importance, Irma, Layer, Local, Marsh, Marshes, Multi-dimensional, Nearshore, Nutrients, Platform, Provenance, Quantify, Relative, Resulting, Sediment, Sedimentation, Source, Sources, Storm, Storm-surge, Storms.

Development of a glacial abrasion rule for landscape-evolution models
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Lucas K Zoet($209,442), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Abrasion Law, Abrasion Rates, Glacial Landscapes, Shear Device, Accurately, Basal, Beds, Debris, Difficult, Eroded, Evolution, Ice, Instruments, Laboratory, Mathematical, Measure, Melting, Miniscule, Physics, Rock, Shape, Sliding, Underlying, Uw-madison, Volume.

CAREER: Alluvial-river dynamics through watershed networks
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Andrew D Wickert($606,180), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Water And Sediment, Sediment Supply, Simulate River-network, Alluvial-river, Beds, Carry, Climate, Dynamics, Equations, Incorporate, Lakes, Model, Networks, Past, Predict, Rainfall, River-network, Rivers, Sometimes, Students, Surrounding, Theory.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: A TRANSPARENT-MIDDLE-LAYER COMPUTATIONAL AND DATA MANAGEMENT INFRASTRUCTURE FOR SYNOPTIC APPLICATIONS OF COSMOGENIC-NUCLIDE GEOCHEMISTRY
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2020; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Gregory A Balco($838,671), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
2. Benjamin J Laabs($222,477), North Dakota State University Fargo, Fargo
Key terms: Computational Infrastructure, Cosmogenic-nuclide Geochemistry, Cyberinfrastructure Development, Transparent Middle-level, Active, Age, Allow, Analysis, Applications, Build, Calculations, Cosmogenic-nuclide, Education, Engagement, Field, Focus, Geochemical, Geologic, Global-scale, Growing, Involve, Method, Middle-level, Observations, Overall, Prototype, Requires, Set, Sets, Strategy, Students, Surface, Training, Undergraduate, Users, Visualization.

CAREER: The influence of turbulence to mass transport in complex aquatic habitats
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2020; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Kelly Kibler($405,226), The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees, Orlando
Key terms: Living Ecohydraulics Laboratory, Sediment Transport Theory, Canopy Types, Climatic Hazards, Mass Transport, Restoration Projects, Aquatic, Canopies, Complex, Diverse, Ecosystem, Effects, Engage, Erosion, Erosional, Field, Flooding, Flow, Habitats, Island, Mangrove, Natural, Oyster, Processes, Resilience, School, Shear, Shorelines, Students, Submerged, Turbulence, Waterbodies.

RCN: Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) in Geosciences and Engineering
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2020; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Herbert F Wang($479,796), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Geosciences And Engineering, Carbon Sequestration, Civil Infrastructure, Das Applications, Geothermal Reservoirs, Rcn Activities, Steering Committee, Analysis, Deformation, Development, Fiber, Ground, Has, Monitoring, Senses, Synergies, Technology, Traffic, Utilization.

Collaborative Research: Steepland dynamics and steady-state forms resulting from debris flows
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2020; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Scott W McCoy($205,976), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
2. Katherine R Barnhart($350,635), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Debris Flow Erosion, Flow Erosion Influence, Tectonics And Climate, Channel Network, Debris Flows, Landscape Evolution, Steep Landscapes, Transient Signals, Undergraduate Students, Water-dominated Flows, Ability, Apply, Approach, Bedrock, Designed, Does, Dynamics, Episodic, Erode, Forcing, Geologic, Geomorphic, Information, Lack, Limited, Model, Morphology, Motion, Networks, OCR, Predict, Process-based, Processes, Quantify, SGM, Sediment, Shape, Size, Steeplands, Tools, Topographic, Transport, Travel, Valleys, Water-dominated.

Collaborative research: Controls of climate and dust on soil chemical erosion and nutrient supply
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2020; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Sarah Aarons($322,035), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Ken Ferrier($354,803), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Chemical Erosion Rates, Climate And Dust, Dust Deposition Rates, Soil Nutrient Supply, Earth’s Climate, Earth’s Surface, Striking Climate, Affect, Cycle, Difficult, Earth’s, Effects, Evolution, Has, Lithology, Nutrients, Partly, Quantify, Range, San, Students, Temperature, Underrepresented.

CAREER: Understanding the Effects of Bedrock Fractures and Weathering on Shallow and Deep-seated Landslides
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2020; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Seulgi Moon($537,659), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Hydrology And Landslide, Shallow And Deep-seated, Bedrock Fracture, Critical Zone, Deep-seated Landslides, Landslide Occurrence, Slope Stability, Subsurface Hydrology, Characteristics, Controls, Datasets, Effects, Extent, Hazards, Influence, Integrated, Properties, Soil, Structure, Students, Teaching, Weathering.

NSF-BSF: Collaborative research: The Processes and feedbacks that induce multi-scale interactions between local divide migration, drainage reversal and escarpment evolution
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2020; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Sean F Gallen($55,371), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
2. eitan shelef($348,281), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Arid And Humid, Hillslope And Fluvial, Divide Migration, Drainage Reorganization, Earth’s Surface, Local Hillslope, Reversed Channels, Water Divides, Analyses, Conditions, Controlling, Earth’s, Escarpments, Evolution, Feedbacks, Field, Functionality, Geomorphic, Hydrologic, Influence, Isostatic, Israel, Landscape, Lead, Lithologic, Mobility, Processes, Respectively, River, Schools, Sites, Structure, Tectonic, Time, Topographic, USA.

Collaborative Research: From Surface Dynamics to Strata: Quantifying the Signals of Surface Processes in Space and Time
Award Effective Date: 08/23/2019; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Anjali M Fernandes($133,514), Denison University, Granville
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.

Collaborative Research: Revealing interseismic crustal deformation in the fold-and-thrust belt in western Taiwan from geodesy and seismology
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2020; Program: Geophysics

1. Eileen L Evans($44,466), The University Corporation, Northridge, Northridge
2. Mong-Han Huang($302,585), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Fold-and-thrust Belt, Main Detachment, Surface Deformation, Tectonic Stress, Western Taiwan, Active, Analyses, Built, Crust, Depths, EAR, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Fold-and-thrust, Hazard, Insar, Mountain, Natural, Package, Plate, Seismic, Shortening.

Collaborative Research: Towards improved imaging of the outermost core through determination of the effects of lowermost mantle heterogeneity and anisotropy
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: Geophysics

1. Maureen D Long($204,974), Yale University, New Haven
2. Edward J Garnero($206,806), Arizona State University, Tempe
3. Hatice E Bozdag($269,379), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
4. Daniel A Frost($72,612), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Earth’s Magnetic Field, Heterogeneity And Anisotropy, Heterogeneous Mantle Affects, Outer Core Structure, Earth’s Magnetic, Mantle Heterogeneity, Outermost Core, Seismic Models, Seismic Waves, Affected, Based, Chemical, Corrected, Degree, Earthquakes, Effects, Fluid, Heat, Holds, Imaging, Importance, Layer, Nature, Planet, Produce, Public, Roughly, Seismologists, Sensitive, Shell, Signals, Surface, Thickness, Travel, Velocity, Wavefield.

Collaborative Research: Investigating the role of dynamic strain fields in earthquake triggering processes by simulating full wavefield with 3D seismic velocity structures
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: Geophysics

1. Wenyuan Fan($320,760), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Guoqing Lin($189,132), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Dynamic Strain Fields, Passing Seismic Waves, Realistic Dynamic Strain, Caribbean Region, Disconnected Faults, Dynamic Triggering, Earthquakes Caused, Fault Zone, Southern California, Statistical Approach, Triggered Earthquakes, Characteristics, Characterizing, Dynamically, Hazards, High-resolution, Model, Multiple, Processes, Seismicity, Statistics, Stress, Students, Velocity.

Physical Modeling of Long Period Events in a Controlled-Source Condition
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: Geophysics

1. Roohollah Askari($452,128), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: Concrete Slab, Lp Seismicity, Lp Signals, Produced Signals, Source Mechanism, Apparatus, Crack, Cracks, Critical, Equipped, Eruption, Filled, Fluid, Generate, Has, Model, Parameters, Pressure, Respect, Sensors, Students, Theoretical, Transport, Triggered, Volcanic.

Constraining earthquake stress drop and mantle attenuation from teleseismic body-wave spectra
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: Geophysics

1. Jeroen E Ritsema($258,832), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Deep Earthquakes, Earth’s Mantle, Seismic Wave, Seismic Waves, Wave Propagation, Wave Spectra, Attenuation, Characteristics, Crust, Depths, Earth’s, Faults, Female, GSN, IRIS, Investigate, Mechanisms, Pairs, Paths, Pressure, Rupture, Scattering, Shallow, Source, Stress, Usarray.

Verification of predicted shear wave splitting due to strong seismic anisotropy in subducting slabs
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: Geophysics

1. Yingcai Zheng($322,546), University of Houston, Houston
Key terms: Deep Earthquakes, Earth’s Mantle, Rock Fabric, Seismic Waves, Shear Wave, Subducting Slab, Subduction Zones, Anisotropic, Anisotropy, Depths, Earth’s, Fabrics, Japan, Observed, Plate, Predictions, Produced, Propagation, Properties, Radiation, Splitting, Students.

Collaborative Research: RUI: Investigating Time-Varying Relationships Between Interseismic Coupling, Slow Slip, and Seismicity Along the Mexican Megathrust and Sliver Fault
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2020; Program: Geophysics

1. Michael R Brudzinski($171,455), Miami University, Oxford
2. Shannon E Graham($173,163), The College of New Jersey, Ewing
Key terms: Crustal Sliver Fault, Sses And Megathrust, Ground Movements, Megathrust Earthquakes, Megathrust Faults, Plate Boundary, Seismic Hazard, Subduction Zone, Subduction Zones, Assessment, Collaboration, Has, Hazards, Land, Magnitude, Mexico, Modeling, Region, Regions, Rock, Seismicity, Shallow, Slow, Space, Tectonic, Time.

Collaborative Research: Experimental determination of the influence of water on the viscosity of rocks
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Geophysics

1. Lars Hansen($463,047), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Cold Rocks, Deformation Experiments, Rock Viscosity, Allow, Behavior, Conditions, Deformation-dia, Earth’s, Effect, Fault, Flow, Geological, Has, Kinks, Low, Measuring, Minerals, Plates, Processes, Stresses, Tectonic, Temperature, Temperatures, Theoretical, Velocity, Water, Zones.

Collaborative Research: Improving the Interpretability of Tomographic Images Using Geologically Motivated Parametrizations
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Geophysics

1. Robert W Clayton($65,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
2. Christian Huber($255,859), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Gabriel And San, San Bernardino Basins, Geophysical Imaging, Los Angeles, San Gabriel, Tomographic Imaging, Yellowstone Caldera, Application, Calculations, Development, Driven, Dynamics, Earthquake, Essential, Features, Focuses, Fundamentally, Geological, Geometric, Length, Magma, Mathematical, Methods, Optimization, Parametrization, Quantification, Structures, Tools, Typically.

Collaborative Research: What Processes Cause State Evolution in Rate and State Friction?
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Geophysics

1. Allan M Rubin($95,993), Princeton University, Princeton
2. Terry E Tullis($450,000), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Experimentalists And Theoreticians, Following Normal Stress, Normal Stress Steps, Contact Quantity, Contact Spots, Theoretical Modeling, Alternating, Changing, Chemical, Directions, Earthquake, Equations, Evolution, Experiments, Friction, Frictional, Has, Increase, Influence, Interface, Involved, Nearly, Processes, Quality, Size, Sliding, Strength, Student, Surfaces, Times, Unsatisfactory, Variety, Words.

Collaborative Research: Experimental Determination of the Influence of Water on the Strength of Rocks
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Geophysics

1. David L Goldsby($119,720), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Key terms: Cold Rocks, Deformation Experiments, Rock Viscosity, Allow, Behavior, Conditions, Deformation-dia, Earth’s, Effect, Fault, Flow, Geological, Has, Kinks, Low, Measuring, Minerals, Plates, Processes, Stresses, Tectonic, Temperature, Temperatures, Theoretical, Velocity, Water, Zones.

CAREER: Numerical Modeling of Volcanic Flank Instability Processes
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Geophysics

1. Christelle Wauthier($455,420), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Ocean Island Volcanoes, Type-volcanoes Comprises Kilauea, Anak Krakatau, Fe Models, Flank Collapse, Flank Instability, Massive Collapse, Natural Hazards, Numerical Modeling, Piton De, Type-volcanoes Comprises, Volcanoes Affected, Behaviors, Educational, Failure, Female, Flanks, Fournaise, France, Geophysical, Growth, Hawaii, Indonesia, Initial, Integrated, Observations, Observed, Penn, Process-based, Processes, Properties, Representing, Seismic, Spanning, Spectrum, Students, Style, Timing, Volcanic, Wide.

C and H Retention Mechanisms in the Deep Earth
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2020; Program: Geophysics

1. Quentin Williams($452,341), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Carbon And Water, Pressures And Temperatures, Extreme Pressures, X-ray Diffraction, Bonding, Conditions, Cycling, Facility, Genesis, High-pressure, Hydrated, Interior, Investigate, Mantle, Minerals, Phases, Planet’s, Stored, Unit, Volatile, X-ray.

Investigating formation and modification of the continental lithosphere in eastern North America - integrating seismic and geologic data sets
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2020; Program: Geophysics

1. Haiying Gao($503,620), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Crust And Mantle, Growth And Evolution, Undergraduate And Graduate, Continental Growth, Continental Lithosphere, Eastern North, Girls Inc, Graduate Students, Mantle Lithosphere, Ocean Basins, Seismic Stations, Tectonic History, Assembly, Boundaries, Collaboration, Collision, Cycle, Development, Distinct, Formation, Geologic, Geological, Has, Involves, Lithospheric, Model, Models, Modification, Nature, Receiver, Region, Seismology, Sets, Supercontinent, Surface, Time, Umass.

Element Partitioning in Earth's Deep Magma Ocean
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: Geophysics

1. Yingwei Fei($538,463), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Deep Magma Ocean, Analytical Tools, Earth’s Deep, Experimental Techniques, Advance, Chemical, Combined, Composition, Core, Determining, Earth’s, Lead, Liquid, Mantle, Metal, Metal-silicate, Metallic, Oxygen, Partitioning, Potassium, Quantify, Silicate, Silicon.

Possible Storage of H2O in Mantle Ca(Ti,Si)O3 Perovskite
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: Geophysics

1. Sang-Heon Shim($279,262), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Atmosphere And Hydrosphere, Water Storage Capacity, H2o Storage, Laboratory Experiments, Lower Mantle, Main Minerals, O3 Perovskite, Pressure-temperature Conditions, Abundant, Advance, Analysis, Catisio, Contributing, Deep, Depths, Earth’s, Evolution, HO, Has, Interior, Knowledge, Mass, Measure, Phase, Pressure-temperature, Properties, Range, Seismic, Shown, Stored, Synthesize, Synthesized, Third.

Finite-frequency Imaging of the Mantle Transition Zone Discontinuities
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: Geophysics

1. Ying Zhou($201,013), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Mantle Transition Zone, Subduction Zones, Upper Mantle, Advance, Based, Beneath, Convection, Dynamics, Global, Hotspots, Mode, Models, Oceanic, Plates, Processes, Seismic, Stations, Structure, Tectonic.

Collaborative Research: Modeling fault ruptures along bends and stepovers
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: Geophysics

1. Mian Liu($250,000), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
2. Benchun Duan($300,771), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Dynamic Rupture Models, Stepovers And Bends, Stop Fault Rupture, Stop Rupture Propagation, Fault Irregularities, Fault Models, Fault Ruptures, Fault Segments, Hazard Assessment, Initial Stress, Kaikoura Earthquake, Multiple Faults, Complex, Continent, Developed, Earthquakes, Especially, Field, Freely, Gaps, Hazards, Involved, Jumped, Jumping, Numerical, Previous, Simulate, Students, Suggested, Tectonic, Wide, Zealand.

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: 07/01/2020; Program: Geophysics

1. James B Gaherty($83,067), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
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.

CAREER: (An)elastic mantle structure based on 3D wave simulations & full waveform inversion: From GLobal ADjoint models to visualization of Slabs, Plumes And Convection in MANt
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: Geophysics

1. Hatice E Bozdag($520,300), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: 3d Wave Simulations, Wavespeed And Attenuation, 3d Wave, Attenuation Models, Earth's Interior, Earth's Mantle, Full-waveform Inversion, Mantle Based, Multi-scale Structure, Seismic Tomography, Seismic Waves, Activities, Anelastic, Assimilate, Constraints, Constructed, Detect, Dynamics, Earthquakes, Full-waveform, Global, Images, Multi-scale, Numerical, Oceans, Parameters, Planet, Present-day, Resolution, Sets, Simultaneously, Technique, Thermal.

NSFGEO-NERC: Adjoint tomography of mantle viscosity using deglacial sea level observations
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2020; Program: Geophysics

1. Jacqueline Austermann($408,003), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Sea Level Observations, Deformation Contributes, Earth's Internal, Earth’s Surface, Glacial Maximum, Ice Sheet, Ice Sheets, Internal Viscosity, Adjoint, Agreement, Allow, Allows, Amount, Budget, Cities, Coastal, Coastlines, Deglacial, Earth’s, Efficiently, GIA, International, Joint, Melt, Model, Models, Past, Produce, Proportion, Rheology, Solid, Structure, Uncertainty, Warming.

Thermal constraints on the role of hydrated oceanic mantle lithosphere in the genesis of intermediate-depth seismicity
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2020; Program: Geophysics

1. Peter van Keken($298,067), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Downgoing Plate, Earth’s Surface, Intermediate-depth Seismicity, Subduction Zone, Subduction Zones, Thermal Models, Below, Complex, Conditions, Crust, Dehydration, Depths, Earthquakes, Earth’s, Evolution, Happen, Hypothesize, Intermediate-depth, Introduced, Lithosphere, Mantle, Metamorphic, Modeling, Planet, Plates, Release, Released, Returned, Slab, Subducted, Time, Volatiles, Water.

Rheology of Multi-Phase Mantle Rocks to 800 km Depth
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2020; Program: Geophysics

1. Donald J Weidner($607,388), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Experimental Tools, Flow Law, Flow Laws, Lower Mantle, Mantle Conditions, Phase Transitions, Pressure Deformation, Pressures Equivalent, Rheological Properties, Synchrotron X-ray, Beamline, Define, Depth, Effect, Evolution, Experiments, Facilities, Has, High-pressure, Information, Interactions, Mineral, Minerals, Mixing, Multi-anvil, National, Olivine, Regions, Relative, Rock, Situ, Stress, Technique, Techniques, X-ray.

CAREER: Volcano-Tectonic Interactions During Early Phases of Continental Rifting
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2020; Program: Geophysics

1. Dorothy S Stamps($625,000), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: East African Rift, Active Volcano, Border Fault, Computational Modeling, Continental Rift, Continental Rifting, Natron Rift, Ol Doinyo, Phase Rifting, Surface Motion, Volcanic Eruptive, Volcano-border Fault, Volcano-tectonic Interactions, Advancing, EARS, Elucidating, Eruption, GNSS, Geosciences, Has, Models, Natural, Objectives, Processes, Range, Region, Remains, Students, Tackle, Technique, Volcanism, Volcano-border, Volcano-tectonic.

Earthquake Sequence Simulations with Thermomechanical Coupling and Fault-Zone Fluid Transport
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2020; Program: Geophysics

1. Eric M Dunham($465,695), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Aseismic Slip, Earthquake Recurrence, Fault Valving, Fault Zone, Frictional Resistance, Frictional Sliding, Normal Stress, Pore Pressure, Accounts, Behavior, Crust, Depth, Earthquakes, Faults, Flow, Fluid, Fluids, Framework, Heat, Involve, Migration, Model, Observations, Pores, Processes, Sequence, Simulations, Thermal, Time, Viscous.

Volatiles in silicate melts: From geophysical detection to primordial reservoirs
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2020; Program: Geophysics

1. Alisha N Clark($332,830), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Pressure And Temperature, Amorphous Silicates, Anhydrous Counterparts, Dynamic Compression, Elastic Properties, Hydrous Silicate, Seismic Velocities, Silicate Glasses, Silicate Melts, Volatile-rich Silicate, Attributed, Below, Deep, Dependences, Depth, Earth’s, Effect, Experiments, Generated, Interferometry, Lower, Machines, Mantle, Melting, Observed, Presence, Pressures, Regions, Rock, SNL, Situ, Stiffer, Temperatures, Thor, Volatile-rich, Volatiles, Water, Waves.

Grain and Phase Boundaries in Mantle Assemblages: Atom Probe and Electron Microscopy/Diffraction Approaches
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2020; Program: Geophysics

1. Reid F Cooper($514,496), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Grain And Phase-boundary, Structure And Chemistry, Boundary Structure, Crystalline Solids, Grain Boundaries, Phase-boundary Structure, Plate Tectonics, Spatial Orientation, Specimen Preparation, APT, Advances, Analysis, Approach, Chemical, Deformed, Development, Focus, Frequently, Grains, Has, Ii, Ionic, Magma, Mantle, Mechanical, Minerals, Olivine, Physics, Properties, Specific, Trace.

Collaborative Research: Controlled source seismic investigation of the top of the Yellowstone magmatic system
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2020; Program: Geophysics

1. Lindsay L Worthington($273,550), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
2. Jamie M Farrell($196,458), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Distinct Geothermal Basins, Passive Source Imaging, Yellowstone Magma Reservoir, Controlled Source, Indicating Magma, Magmatic Volatiles, Melt Fractions, Upper Crustal, Additionally, Caldera, Densely, Eruptible, Insights, Natural, Near, Potential, Prior, Reservoirs, Road, Seismic, Seismicity, Subsurface, Surface, Top, Transects.

Computational simulations of volcanic eruptions and infrasound
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2020; Program: Geophysics

1. Eric M Dunham($200,480), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Eruption Simulations, Seismic Waves, Volcanic Eruptions, Ascent, Atmosphere, Code, Conduit, Constraints, Depressurization, Fragmentation, Gas, Infrasound, Magma, Models, Pressure, Processes, Solid, Sound, Turbulent, Vulcanian.

RAPID: Capture of ephemeral fault slip data from the North Anatolian slow slip event Dec2019 and triggered slip data from the East Anatolian Mw=6.8 earthquake
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2020; Program: Geophysics

1. Roger G Bilham($12,489), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Anatolian Fault, Slow Slip, Earthquake, Lead, Magnitude, Rapid, Turkey.

CAREER: Investigating the Relationship between Fault Damage Zones and Earthquakes through Seismic Observations and Earthquake Cycle Simulations
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2020; Program: Geophysics

1. Yihe Huang($599,979), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Earthquakes And Interseismic, Fault Damage Zones, Earthquake Cycle, Earthquake Source, Fault Zone, Graduate Students, Interseismic Deformation, Communication, Considering, Dynamic, Effects, Experiences, Faults, Influence, Physics, Processes, Promote, Rock, Seismic, Seismicity, Simulations, Single, Stress, Undergraduate, Waves.

The effect of rotational evolution on the surface and interior of the early Earth
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2020; Program: Geophysics

1. Paul D Asimow($300,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Continental Crust, Earth’s Rotation, Outer Shell, Rapidly Spinning, Rotation Rate, Advection-diffusion, Alphamelts, Codes, Create, Day, Deformation, Describe, Detail, Earth’s, Equations, Equator, Equatorial, Evidence, Experience, Experienced, Explore, Gravity, HERCULES, Has, History, Incorporate, Involve, Length, Lithosphere, Melting, Million, Models, Moon, Paths, Planet, Plate, Processes, Shape, Stage, Tectonic, Zircons.

Collaborative Research: Experiments and Simulations at the Nexus of Geophysics, Chemistry, Materials Science and Mechanics to Determine the Physical Basis for Rate-State Friction
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2020; Program: Geophysics

1. Izabela Szlufarska($213,049), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. James D Batteas($167,977), Texas A&M University, College Station
3. Robert W Carpick($258,847), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Key terms: Atomic Force Microscopy, Yielding And Creep, Asperity Yielding, Chemical Bonding, Computer Simulations, Fault Surface, Geological Faults, Rate-and-state Friction, Rock Friction, Rock Surfaces, Aging, Asperities, Assessment, Basis, Behavior, Chemistry, Contact, Contacts, Describe, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Elucidate, Empirical, Equations, Evolution, Experiments, Frictional, Has, Hazards, Implications, Incorporate, Laboratory, Mechanisms, Models, Nanoindentation, Processes, Rate-and-state, Single-asperity, Sliding, Slip, Stick-slip, Students, Time, Underlying, Unknown.

Collaborative Research: Integrating Petrochronology, Magma Dynamics, and Volcanic Unrest at the Three Sisters Volcanic Complex
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2020; Program: Geophysics

1. Josef Dufek($393,020), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
2. Helene Le Mevel($19,223), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Sisters Volcanic Complex, Late Pleistocene, Magma Reservoir, Volcanic Unrest, Destabilization, Erupted, Eruption, Geologic, Geophysical, Hazards, Integrated, Lavas, Models, Modern, Observations, Processes, Produce, Reservoirs, Rhyolite, Volcanism.

Collaborative Research: Cascadia2020: Investigating subduction zone segmentation with a 3D high-resolution Vp model
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2020; Program: Geophysics

1. Anne M Tréhu($443,779), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Kevin M Ward($187,215), South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City
3. Emilie E Hooft Toomey($278,013), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Ground Shaking, Pacific Northwest, Plate Boundary, Subduction Zone, Cascadia, Critical, Deployment, Depths, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Extend, Field, Forearc, High-resolution, Model, Oregon, Resulting, Seismic, Seismometers, Slip, Sources, Stations, Strain, Structure, Three-component, Transition.

The granular physics contribution to rate- and state-dependent fault friction
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2020; Program: Geophysics

1. Allan M Rubin($327,781), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Earthquakes And Landslides, Accurately Describe, Experimental Observations, Friction Properties, Granular Simulations, Physics Underlying, Rock Friction, Sliding Protocols, Time Dependence, Behavior, Conditions, Consistent, Critical, Equations, Experiments, Fail, Faults, Frictional, Gouge, Governed, Laboratory, Laws, Layers, Model, Range, Rate-and-state, Rate-and-state-dependent, Slide-hold-reslide, Societal, Source, Speed, Successful, Tectonic, Velocity-step.

CAREER: High-resolution Simulations of Subduction Along the Pacific Rim of Fire
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2020; Program: Geophysics

1. Margarete Jadamec($497,920), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Shear Wave Splitting, 2d Subduction, Arc Volcanoes, Convergent Plate, Geodynamic Models, Mantle Flow, Pacific Rim, Plate Boundaries, Slab Edge, Subduction Zones, Tectonic Plates, Upper Mantle, Anomalous, Asthenosphere, Broader, Characterized, Data-driven, Deformation, Directly, Earth’s, Extent, Fire, Framework, Furthermore, Governed, Has, High-resolution, Lithosphere, Majority, Motion, Nonlinear, Observed, Oceanic, Paradigm, Region, Simulations, Slab-driven, Slabs, Subducted, Three-dimensional, Undergraduate, Virtual, Visualizations.

Collaborative Research: HIPER - 3D Onshore-Offshore Imaging of Controls on Subduction Zone Megathrust Rupture and Slip Behavior
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2020; Program: Geophysics

1. Joshua C Stachnik($416,180), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
2. Susan L Beck($253,012), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Active Source, Dense Array, Northern Ecuador, Passive Recording, Slip Behavior, Subduction Zone, Subduction Zones, Culminates, Detection, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Funding, HIPER, Imaging, Offshore, Onshore, Opportunity, Pedernales, Plate, Portion, Properties, Resolution, Rupture, Seismic, Seismology, Seismometers, Significantly, Structure, Supported.

Excellence in Research: Investigating the Water Quality of the Lumber River
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: HBCU-EiR - HBCU-Excellence in

1. Carresse Gerald($196,600), North Carolina Central University, Durham
Key terms: Water And Sediment, Water Quality Parameters, Broader Impacts, Historically Black, Lumber River, North Carolina, Robeson County, Contamination, Development, Fish, Measured, Mercury, Methylmercury, Populations, Submit, Underrepresented.

EAR-PF: Resolving the multi-scale hydraulics of shallow overland flows on patchily-vegetated hillslopes: towards a simple predictive framework
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Octavia V Crompton($174,000), Crompton Octavia V, Berkeley
Key terms: Flume Experiments, Bare, Dryland, Duke, Environmental, Flow, Flows, Has, Hydrological, Modeling, Models, Physics, Predict, Predictions, Processes, Rainfall, Redistribution, Restoration, Spatial, Teach, Tools, Vegetated, Vegetation.

Collaborative Research: Predicting Colloid Distribution in Subsurface Granular Media by Resolving Nanoscale Heterogeneity and Continuum-Scale Flow Field Topologic Impacts
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. William P Johnson($319,051), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
2. Diogo Bolster($203,472), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
Key terms: Mechanistic Trajectory Simulations, Protection And Remediation, Abroad Classes, Colloid Transport, Nano-patterned Surfaces, Resource Protection, Characteristics, Colloids, Community-level, Conditions, Contaminants, Expected, Experiments, Fate, Graduate, Groundwater, Interaction, Knowledge, Middle, Mobility, Modeling, Nano-patterned, Nanoscale, Pore, Practitioners, Predict, School, Teachers, Theoretical, Tools, Unfavorable.

Collaborative Research: Conceptualizing and quantifying the function of beaver dams and stormwater ponds on the hydrology and biogeochemistry of urban streams
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Sandra M Clinton($236,118), University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte
2. Elizabeth B Sudduth($381,232), Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc., Atlanta
3. Diego A Riveros-Iregui($102,464), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Beaver And Stormwater, Buildings And Roads, Hydrologic And Nutrient, Storm Water Ponds, Beaver Ponds, Green Infrastructure, Minority Serving, Nuisance Species, Nutrient Retention, Spending Billions, Stormwater Ponds, Urban Beaver, Water Quality, Watershed Managers, Allow, Atlanta, Benefits, Charlotte, Cities, Compare, Compared, Conceptual, Conservation, Considered, Dams, Diverse, Diversity, Dollars, Drivers, Field, Flow, GA, Increase, Land, Multiple, NC, Nutrients, Public, Quantifying, Rain, Sediment, Sediments, Similar, Slowing, Soak, Southeastern, Students, Time, Total.

Understanding and quantifying the retention and migration of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in the vadose zone
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Bo Guo($398,524), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Modeling Approaches, Pfas Contamination, Arizona, Control, Critical, Environment, Experimental, Exposure, Factors, Flow, Groundwater, Local, Long-term, Mathematical, Movement, Pfas-contaminated, Poorly, Remediation, Retention, STEM, Soils, Tools, Transport, Water.

2020 Flow and Transport in Permeable Media GRC/GRS; Switzerland, July 2020
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Marc A Hesse($31,300), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Flow And Transport, Solely Graduate Students, Main Meeting, Particular Meeting, Permeable Media, Postdoctoral Associates, Broad, Complex, Concepts, Conferences, Days, Designed, Discussion, Dynamics, Emphasis, Field, Fluids, Focus, GRC, Generation, Gordon, Interdisciplinary, Meals, Natural, Participants, Participation, Periods, Poster, Processes, Range, Seminar, Sessions, Social, Stage, Unpublished.

Collaborative Research: An Experimental and Modeling Study of Inverse-Temperature Layer and Its Effect on Evaporation over Water Surfaces
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2020; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Heping Liu($329,838), Washington State University, Pullman
2. Jingfeng Wang($345,356), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
3. Lian Shen($299,533), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Inverse Temperature Layer, Inverse-temperature Layer, Large-eddy Simulations, Water Surfaces, Carbon, Courses, Cycles, Evaporation, Field, Findings, Fluid, Graduate, In-water, Inverse-temperature, Large-eddy, Modeling, Processes, Students, Top.

Collaborative Research: RUI: Hydrology of the vegetation on vegetation: Comparison and scaling of rainfall interception and solute alteration by common arboreal epiphytes.
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2020; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Sybil Gotsch($158,628), Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster
2. John T Van Stan($247,604), Georgia Southern University Research and Service Foundation, Inc, Statesboro
3. Clifton Buck($448,725), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Internal Water, Knowledge Gap, Spanish Moss, Undergraduate Students, Alter, Canopies, Canopy, Costs, Critical, Ecosystems, Educational, Efforts, Epiphytes, Exchanges, Experiences, Forest, Interception, Lichens, Live, Monitoring, Objectives, Organisms, Plants, Process, Rainfall, Reaching, Represent, Significantly, Solute, Stormwater.

Collaborative Research: Where does the water go: Improving understanding of stream-aquifer-atmosphere interactions around Beaver Dam Analogues
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2020; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Christa A Kelleher($278,278), Syracuse University, Syracuse
Key terms: Beaver Dams, Close Collaboration, Management Goals, Stream Reaches, Surface Water, Aims, Assess, BDA, Bdas, Beavers, Collection, Context, Evapotranspiration, Exchange, Field, Floodplain, Groundwater, Hydrological, Hydrology, Implementation, Interactions, Levels, Local, Mechanisms, Model-based, Modeling, Objective, Observations, Processes, Site, TNC-WY, UAV, Via, Western, Wyoming.

RUI: Water from Stone -- Investigating the Hydrologic Role of Rock Glaciers
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2020; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Jeffrey S Munroe($337,649), Middlebury College, Middlebury
Key terms: High-elevation Watersheds, Northeastern Utah, Perennial Ice, Rock Glacier, Rock Glaciers, Terra Academy, Undergraduate Students, Formerly, Future, High-elevation, Hydrology, Mountains, Public, Radar, School, Summer.

CAREER: The Role of Groundwater Storage in Earth System Dynamics; Research to Improve Understanding of Current Hydrologic Regimes and Future Climate Response
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2020; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Laura Condon($495,293), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Water And Carbon, Global Models, Groundwater Storage, Modeling Approaches, Spatial Resolution, Storage Dynamics, Surface Water, Broadcast, Communication, Computer, Critical, Direct, Engage, Existing, Hydrologic, Hydrology, Issues, Large-scale, Outcomes, Outside, Platforms, Projections, Public, Quantify, Resource, Students, Uncertainty.

CAREER:Characterizing Mountain System Aquifer Recharge in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2020; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Hoori Ajami($629,841), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Groundwater Flow Paths, Increase Public Awareness, Kaweah River Watershed, Groundwater Management, Groundwater Recharge, Mountain Catchments, Mountain Watersheds, Recharge Rates, School Teachers, Sierra Nevada, Sustainable Water, Valley Aquifers, Water Resources, Agricultural, Climate, Collection, Educational, Framework, Hydrologic, Inform, Investigate, Modeling, Mountain-valley, Observations, Online, Prepare, Quantifying, STEM, Snowpack, Streamflow, Students, Surface, Undergraduate.

CAREER: From the forest to the stream: Exploring forest land cover controls on dissolved organic matter character and aquatic ecosystem respiration in headwater streams
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2020; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Tim P Covino($622,442), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Dissolved Organic Matter, Carbon Cycle, Carbon Cycling, Dom Character, Ecosystem Respiration, Forest Harvesting, Forested Headwater, Global Carbon, Guide Future, Headwater Streams, Inland Waters, Stream Networks, Stream Respiration, Biogeochemical, Gain, Hydrologic, K-, Land, Management, Models, Phd, STEM, Specifically, Students, Terrestrial, Training, Transported, Undergraduate, Watershed.

CAREER: Unveiling the role of catchment physiography in the hydrologic response of headwater streams
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2020; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Catalina Segura($755,727), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Water Stable Isotopes, Headwater Streams, Water Quality, Activities, Approach, Availability, Catchment, Climate, Context, Derived, Enhance, Geology, Geomorphology, Hydrologic, Lidar, Paths, Potential, Predict, Public, Storage, Supply, Tracers.

CAREER: Observation-Driven Mapping of the Linkages between the Terrestrial Water, Energy and Carbon Cycles
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2020; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Leila Farhadi($499,668), George Washington University, Washington
Key terms: Diagnose And Map, Energy And Carbon, Linked And Operate, Carbon Cycles, Environmental Conditions, Land Surface, Terrestrial Cycles, Terrestrial Water, Atmosphere, Climate, DC, Developing, Ecological, Educational, Engaging, Enhance, Exchange, Framework, Hence, Information, Interaction, Knowledge, Land-atmosphere, Linkages, Methodology, Models, Observation-driven, Plan, Program, Projections, Regional, STEM, Seasons, Soil, Students, Vegetation.

Collaborative Research: Hydrologic Dynamics in a Coastal Aquifer During an Extreme Multi-Hazard Coastal Storm
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2020; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Britt Raubenheimer($287,760), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. James Heiss($496,453), University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell
Key terms: Frequent And Intense, Sea Level Rise, Army Corps, Beach Aquifers, Coastal Erosion, Coastal Storms, Coastal Waters, Engineers Field, Field Observations, Groundwater Dynamics, Groundwater Flow, Intense Storms, Numerical Models, Assess, Behavior, Chemical, Contaminants, Ecological, Effects, Estimate, Extreme, Facility, Integrate, Land, Mixing, Morphological, Objective, Oceanographic, Precipitation, Release, Surge, USCRP.

Hydro-ML: Symposium on Big Data Machine Learning in Hydrology and Water Resources; Pennsylvania, May 25-29, 2020
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2020; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Chaopeng Shen($48,689), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Artificial Intelligence, Academics, Activities, Aimed, Audience, Build, Collaborative, Collective, Competitions, Dedicated, Deep, Discussion, Diverse, Encourage, Hackathons, Has, Hydrologic, Hydrology, Machine, Papers, Participants, Potential, Publications, Sessions, Society, Stimulating, Symposium, Tremendous, Tutorials, Underrepresented, Workshops.

Resolving uncertainties in sewage subsidies to urban aquatic ecosystems using continuous sensing and stable isotopes
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2020; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Emily M Elliott($429,755), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Broadly Benefit Society, Combined Sewer Overflows, Ongoing Monitoring Efforts, Streams And Rivers, Aquatic Ecosystems, Health Risk, Pipe Infrastructure, Public Health, Urban Stream, Urban Streams, Water Quality, Catchment, Combination, Deepening, Educating, Effects, Excess, Flow, In-stream, Interactions, Nitrate, Nutrient, Nutrients, PA, Pipes, Pittsburgh, Productivity, Sensors, Sewage, Storm, Subsidies, Transport, Watershed.

A framework for modeling flow over flexible submerged aquatic vegetation
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2020; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. David Kaplan($498,824), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Vegetation Structural Properties, Field Observations, Flexible Vegetation, Flow Conditions, Modeling Framework, Vegetation Blades, Algae, Aquatic, Canopy, Critical, Dynamics, Effects, Hydrodynamics, Interactions, Monami, Multiple, Observational, Processes, SAV, Sediment, Springs, Transport.

RAPID: Groundwater resilience to hydrologic extremes and climate variability: The case of Hurricane Dorian
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2020; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Efthymios Nikolopoulos($49,104), University Enterprises, Incorporated, Sacramento
Key terms: Storm-induced Saltwater Intrusion, Freshwater Lenses, Grand Bahama, Hurricane Dorian, Saltwater Contamination, Sea Level, Storm-induced Saltwater, Authorities, Characteristics, Climate, Climatic, Collection, Driven, Duration, Experiences, FWL, Frequency, Fwls, Generation, Groundwater, Impacted, Intensity, International, Island, Local, Models, Opportunities, Precipitation, Process, Rate, Recovery, Serving, Students, Training, Water.

Collaborative Research: How does groundwater inundation of carbonate island interiors from sea level rise impact surface water-aquifer interactions and evaporative losses?
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2018; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Audra Morse($254,330), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: Climate And Sea, Freshwater Lens Volumes, Island Water Resources, Lakes And Wetlands, Low-lying Carbonate Islands, San Salvador Island, Sea Level Rise, Transient Modeling Tools, Coastal Hydrology, Dynamic Interactions, Freshwater Lenses, Freshwater Resource, Freshwater Resources, Groundwater Contributing, Groundwater Flooding, Groundwater Inundation, Lake Water, Low-lying Carbonate, Sea-level Rise, Water Tables, Arid, Bahamas, Collected, Connectivity, Continuous, Degree, Developed, Estimate, Evaporation, Field, Flow, Hydrogeological, Hypersaline, Impacts, Intense, Loss, Losses, Ocean, Overarching, Precipitation, Primary, Regions, Relative, Replaced, Seawater, Surface.

Collaborative Research: Controls on along-strike variations in locked and creeping megathrust behavior at the Hikurangi convergent margin
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2019; Program: INTEGRATED EARTH SYSTEMS

1. Demian M Saffer($118,391), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Approach Combining, Aseismic Creep, Plate Boundary, Slip Behavior, Characteristics, Geological, Integrated, Long-term, Margin, Processes, Subduction, System-level, Zealand.

Viscosity-driven Enhanced Hydrological Connectivity
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: IUCRC-Indust-Univ Coop Res Ctr

1. Birendra Jha($617,000), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Contamination And Remediation, Spreading And Mixing, Undergraduate And Graduate, Complex Flow, Graduate Students, Numerical Simulations, Permeability Heterogeneity, Solute Plume, Viscosity Contrast, Viscosity Contrasts, Viscous Fingering, Aquifer, Aquifers, Chemical, Chemicals, Cleanup, Connectivity, Control, Decontamination, Experiments, Fingers, Fluid, Fluids, Groundwater, Heterogeneous, Properties, Quantified, Required, Rock, Transport, Underground, Water.

Collaborative Research: Transformation plasticity as a transient creep mechanism in Earth’s crust and mantle
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2020; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Lars Hansen($78,260), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
2. Andrew J Cross($389,328), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
3. David L Goldsby($79,946), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Key terms: Crust And Mantle, Earth’s Crust, Mantle Flows, Phase Transformations, Transformation Plasticity, Transformation-induced Weakening, Allow, Complex, Conditions, Constituent, Crystal, Development, Diffraction, Dislocations, Earthquakes, Earth’s, Experimental, Importance, Minerals, Nucleation, Olivine, Pressure, Pressures, Processes, Quantify, Temperature, Temperatures, Transforms, X-ray, Zone, —.

Upgrade of Computing Facilities to support Geodynamics and Tectonics Research at UC Davis
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2020; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Magali I Billen($74,981), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Compute Nodes, Numerical Simulations, Computing, Current, Deep, Deformation, Funding, Future, Mantle, Mechanism, NSF, Resources, Shear, Slab, Students, Subduction, Zone.

Facility Support: The WiscSIMS National Ion Microprobe
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Chloe Bonamici($1,379,125), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Stable Isotope Geochemistry, Ion Microprobe, Analysis, Capabilities, Climate, Conventional, Formerly, Has, Less, Outside, Paleoclimate, Proxy, Range, Resolve, Situ, Techniques, Wisconsin, Wiscsims.

MRI: Acquisition of an Electron Microprobe
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Richard D Law($975,000), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Abundance, Analysis, Capabilities, Characterization, Critical, Distribution, EMPA, EPMA, Earth’s, Electron, Engineering, Evolution, Formation, Increasingly, Instrument, Instrumentation, Minerals, Modern, Natural, Ore-forming, Processes, Program, Quantification, Synthetic, Trace, VT.

MRI: Acquisition of inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometer for research and education uses in water, energy, and environmental sciences
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. William S Walker($119,365), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
Key terms: Coupled Plasma-optical Emission, Inductively Coupled Plasma-optical, Plasma-optical Emission Spectrometer, Broad Range, Coupled Plasma-optical, El Paso, Plasma-optical Emission, Allow, Analysis, Biological, Cycling, Elemental, Instrument, Methods, Origin, Quality, Region, Relative, Saline, Soil, Students, Texas, Training, UTEP, Undergraduate, Water.

MRI: Acquisition of a Variable Pressure Scanning Electron Microscope with integrated EBSD, EDS, and CL
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Hongtao Shi($439,132), Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park
Key terms: Imaging Capabilities, Stem Disciplines, Acquisition, Activities, CL, Curricular, Diversity, Electron, Faculty, Has, Increase, Industry, Instrument, Integrated, Opportunities, Population, Quality, SEM, SSU, Student, Students, Training, Underrepresented.

MRI: Acquisition of a Superconducting Rock Magnetometer System for Earth Sciences Research
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2020; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Sarah P Slotznick($509,952), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Development And Evolution, Environmental Magnetism, Geomagnetic Field, Remanent Magnetization, Rock Magnetic, Automated, Continent, Dartmouth, Demagnetization, Earth’s, Inform, Mineral, RAPID, SRM, SRM-RAPID, Sediments, Student, Thermal, Timing.

MRI: acquisition of a gas chromatograph isotope ratio mass spectrometer for compound-specific isotope analysis
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2020; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Tripti Bhattacharya($302,110), Syracuse University, Syracuse
Key terms: Hydrogen Isotopic Analyses, Nitrogen And Carbon, Amino Acids, Hydrogen Isotopic, Compounds, Ecosystems, Enable, Fields, Function, Future, GC-IRMS, Growth, Instance, Instrument, Instrumentation, Mass, Models, Ongoing, Organic, Particular, Past, Pathways, Provided, STEM, SU, Students, Syracuse, Terrestrial, Users, Variety, Waxes.

Acquisition of a tunable diode laser system (TILDAS) Aerodyne Mini-TILDAS CO2 Isotope Monitor for triple isotope analyses of CO2 gas from carbonates
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Peter J Fawcett($142,768), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Stable Isotopes, Analysis, Analytical, Fluorination, Formation, Gas, Hosts, Instrument, SIRMS, Student, Students, TILDAS, Traditional.

Development of Hydrogeology Experimental System for Radiolabeled Fluid and Colloid Imaging
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Christopher Zahasky($256,461), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Subsurface Energy Resources, Fluid Flow, Apparatus, Applications, Capable, Education, Efforts, Experimental, Hydrogeology, Imaging, Infrastructure, PET.

Collaborative Research: Development of a high-efficiency mass spectrometer: transitioning a high-efficiency ion source to a modern mass spectrometer
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Jesse Reimink($46,019), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Richard W Carlson($31,403), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Analytical Precision, Ion Beams, Ion Source, Isotope Ratio, Mass Spectrometer, Thermal Ionization, Thermo-fisher Triton, Analysis, Cavity, Developed, Has, Installation, Modern, Potential, Program, Reservoirs, Successful, TIMS, Testing, Thermo-fisher.

ACQUISITION OF A TRIBOLOGICAL FACILITY FOR THE ANALYSES OF FRICTION, WEAR, AND LUBRICATION OF GEO-SYSTEMS
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Brett M Carpenter($302,315), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Friction And Wear, Earthquake Physics, Water Presence, Analyses, Base, Crust, Degrees, Dynamic, Effects, Engineering, Experimental, Facility, Fault, Faults, Flow, Geological, Geotrib, Glacier, Lubrication, Standards, Temperature, Tribological.

Upgrade of a transmission electron microscope energy dispersive spectroscopy (TEM-EDS) detector for teaching and interdisciplinary research
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2020; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Sarah K Carmichael($56,458), Appalachian State University, Boone
Key terms: Dewel Microscopy Facility, Electron Microscopy, Outreach Activities, Transmission Electron, Allow, Appalachian, Campus, Departments, Detection, Detector, Expand, Map, Metal, Microbial, Mineral, Students, TEM, Teaching, Upgrade.

Upgrade of an Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) System to Establish a Center for State-of-the-Art Microstructural Analyses
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Andrew J Cross($165,527), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Backscatter Diffraction Analyses, Electron Backscatter Diffraction, Woods Hole, Cutting-edge, Dynamics, MBL, Minerals, Properties, Rock, Upgrade, Upgraded, WHOI.

Community Facility Support: Travel support for student participation at the 2020 Electron Backscatter Diffraction Topical Conference; Ann Arbor, MI - June 2020
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2020; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. John E Allison($20,000), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Topical Conference, Exchange, Knowledge, Students, Technique, Training, Venue.

Collaborative Research: Improving and calibrating a Tunable Infrared Laser Direct Absorption Spectroscopy (TILDAS) system for clumped isotope analysis of CO2
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2020; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. David D Nelson($449,322), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Katharine Huntington($50,205), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Mass Spectrometer, Allow, Analysis, Atmospheric, Carbonates, Clumped, Disseminate, Faster, Geochemistry, Has, Histories, History, Information, Instrument, Isotopes, Laser-based, Temperature, Tendency, Underrepresented, Widely.

Acquisition of a high-field variable-temperature SQUID magnetometer
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2020; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Maxwell C Brown($436,154), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Properties And Behavior, Variable Applied Fields, Lithospheric Dynamics, Magnetic Minerals, Magnetic Properties, Rock Magnetism, Wide Range, Acquisition, Broad, Carriers, Geologic, IRM, Institute, Instrument, Minnesota, Natural, Paleomagnetism, Remanence, Supported, Temperatures.

Acquisition of a Rock Deformation Apparatus to Study Rheology and Microstructure
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2020; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Helene Couvy($152,520), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Rock Deformation Lab, Shear Strains, Tectonic Plates, Acquisition, Apparatus, Built, Evolution, Experiments, Generate, Generated, Has, Investigations, LVT, Mantle, Numerous, Rheology, Temperatures.

Upgrade of Spinner Magnetometer for Continuing and New Paleomagnetic Research Objectives at Tufts University
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2020; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. John C Ridge($52,488), Tufts University, Somerville
Key terms: Earth’s Magnetic Field, Earth’s Magnetic, Field Direction, Time Varying, Acquisition, Chronology, England, Glacial, History, Magnetometer, Polarity, Rock.

Development of an integrated Borehole Geodetic and Seismic Sensor: Project Completion
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2020; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Mark A Zumberge($149,512), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Crustal Deformation, Damaging Earthquakes, Ground Caused, Activity, Borehole, Broadband, Combined, Days, Detect, Downhole, Dynamics, Existing, Extremely, GPS, Horizontal, Housing, Inside, Instrument, Light, Masses, Measure, Observations, Precise, Seismic, Seismometers, Shaking, Signals, Slip, Slow, Strain, Tilt, Vertical.

Community Facility Support: The Global CMT Project
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2020; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Meredith Nettles($479,117), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Cmt Catalog, Earthquake Source, Global Cmt, Larger Globally, Moment Tensors, Activities, Activity, Analyses, Analysis, Base, Determination, Disseminated, Distribution, Earthquakes, Improvements, Magnitude, Parameters, Regional, Seismic, Tectonic.

Acquisition of Tabletop SEM for the University of Rochester Experimental Geochemistry Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2020; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Dustin Trail($175,565), University of Rochester, Rochester
Key terms: Analysis, Evolution, Isotope, Laboratory, Magnetic, Minerals, Natural, Rochester, SEM, Synthetic, Training.

Goethite Internal Thermometry - Improvements and Applications
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2020; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Kenneth A Farley($381,424), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Entire Cenozoic, Environmental Conditions, Extraction Line, Formation Temperature, Goethite Formation, Goethite Internal, Goethite Specimens, Goethite-internal Thermometry, Advances, Analytical, Apply, Archive, Assess, Australia, Automated, Calibration, Carry, Climate, Continent, Course, Dated, Designed, Efficient, Engage, Europe, Extending, Goethite-internal, Goethites, Labview, Local, Localities, Method, Millions, Minerals, Oxygen, Paleoclimate, Paleotemperature, Paleotemperatures, Programming, Refine, Short-course, Spans, Student, Students, Systematic, Task, Technique, Temperatures, Time, Uncertainty, Undertaking, Useful, Weathering.

Facility Support: Institute for Rock Magnetism
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Maxwell C Brown($2,155,046), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Magnetic Minerals, Rock Magnetism, Environmental, IRM, Origin, Properties, Reconstructions.

CAREER: Partitioning of Rare Earth Elements (REE) Between Minerals and Aqueous Fluids in Ore Deposits
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2020; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Alexander Gysi($513,454), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
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.

MRI: Acquisition of an electron probe microanalyzer for research and education in the mountain-west region
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2020; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Christopher S Jazwa($944,307), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Mountain-west Region, Acquisition, Analyses, Campus, Compositional, EPMA, Engineering, Facility, Faculty, Graduate, Industry, Instrument, Mountain-west, Outreach, Regional, Serve, Students, Techniques, Training, UNR, Undergraduate, Users, Workforce.

MRI: Acquisition of an Infrared Microscope for Research Expansion and Training in the Earth Sciences
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Monica M Arienzo($138,750), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Fourier Transform Infrared, Infrared Spectroscopy Instrument, Microscope-enabled Fourier Transform, Transform Infrared Spectroscopy, Undergraduate And Graduate, Advance Knowledge, Experienced Faculty, Graduate Students, Hands-on Training, Infrared Microscope, Infrared Microscopy, Microscope-enabled Fourier, Sedimentary Charcoal, Applications, DRI, Environmental, Field, Hands-on, Identification, Laboratory, Methodologies, Microplastics, Past, Wildfire.

MRI: Acquisition of 3D Imaging and Printing Instrumentation to Support Interdisciplinary Research at Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2020; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Mercan Haddad Derafshi($56,135), Indiana University of Pennsylvania Research Institute, Indiana
Key terms: Industry Partners, Structured White-light, Available, Departments, Digital, Fossil, IUP, Instrumentation, Morphology, Non-profit, Opportunities, Student, Students, Surface, Undergraduate, Vertebrates, White-light.

MRI: SEM for Geological, Environmental and Materials Science Research and Teaching at the University of St. Thomas
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Michele D Stillinger($234,023), University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul
Key terms: Applications, Characterization, Electron, Evidence, Faculty, SEM, UST.

MRI: Acquisition of a Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy (CRDS) Water Isotope Analyzer for Interdisciplinary Research and Undergraduate Research Training
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Anouk Verheyden-Gillikin($182,310), Union College, Schenectady
Key terms: Analysis, CRDS, Capability, Characterize, Climate, Hydrologic, Implications, Isotope, Isotopes, Paleoclimate, Stable, Training, Undergraduate, Water, Watershed.

MRI: Acquisition of micro-computed tomography system for imaging by multiple, inter-disciplinary, users at East Tennessee State University
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Chris Widga($249,641), East Tennessee State University, Johnson City
Key terms: Modern And Fossil, 3-d Imaging, Cultural Artifacts, Fossil Vertebrates, Natural History, Reece Museum, Biological, Collections, ETSU, Fossils, Function, Housed, Instrument, Micron, Morphology, Non-destructive, Public, Region, Resolution, Specimens, XRCT.

Acquisition of Micro-Analytical Tools for Geochemistry
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2020; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Steven Carey($458,710), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Rhode Island, Capabilities, Enable, Established, Imaging, Instruments, Laboratory, Program, SEM.

MRI: Acquisition of a Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer (TIMS) for Multi-disciplinary Research and Student Training at UH
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jasper Konter($624,649), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Isotope Ratios, Significantly Reducing, Wide Range, Allow, Counting, Cutting-edge, Faraday, Hawai‘i, Instrument, Ion, Isotopic, MIC, Modern, Mānoa, Precision, Processes, Sizes, Structure, Students, TIMS, Technology, UHM, Volcanic.

UPGRADE OF ELECTRON MICROPROBE SX-100 AT OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY IN THE COLLEGE OF EARTH, OCEAN, AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Frank J Tepley($236,283), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Electron Microprobe, Activities, Chemical, Current, Division, EMP, Engineering, Graduate, Laboratory, OSU, Solid, Students, Undergraduate, Upgrade, User.

Acquisition of a continuous flow isotope ratio mass spectrometer (IRMS) system for the Organic Geochemistry Core Facility at Brown University
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Daniel E Ibarra($387,476), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Isotope Ratio, Mass Spectrometer, Biogeochemical, Brown, CSIA, Climate, Conditions, Environmental, IRMS, Molecules, Organic, Paleoenvironmental, Past.

Acquisition of TQ-ICP-MS for Geochemical Research in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Minnesota
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2020; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Xinyuan Zheng($231,783), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Acquisition, Activities, Activity, Climate, Development, Fluids, Geochemical, Hydrothermal, Instrument, Methods, Natural, Potassium, Processes, Training.

NSF2026: EAGER: An Ecologically Inspired Human-Machine Intelligence Approach to Recognizing Similitude in Multi-Scale Watershed Research
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: NSF 2026 Fund

1. Donna Rizzo($299,971), University of Vermont & State Agricultural College, Burlington
Key terms: Long-term Water Quality, Quality And Streamflow, Short-term And Long-term, Artificial Intelligence, Investigate Trends, Larger Regions, Long-term Water, Watershed Attributes, Continent, Environmental, Individual, Interdisciplinary, Land, Methods, Monitoring, NSF, Resources, Similarities, Traditional.

Examining hydrodynamics and connectivity resulting from atmospheric frontal passages in a coastal river delta
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2021; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Matthew R Hiatt($378,354), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Coastal River Deltas, Complex Coastal Regions, Coastal Erosion, Coastal Louisiana, Cold Fronts, Frontal Passages, Land Loss, Water Circulation, Water Movement, Affect, Analyses, Channels, Connectivity, Considerable, Demonstrations, Depth, Efforts, Field, Focus, Hydrodynamics, Modeling, Relatively, Sediment, Stakeholders, Students, Winds.

Collaborative research: How variable is magma decompression rate during a single eruption?
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2021; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Megan E Newcombe($229,568), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
2. Kristina J Walowski($58,190), Middlebury College, Middlebury
Key terms: Hazard Mitigation Efforts, Lassen Volcanic National, Magma Decompression Rates, Rate And Cooling, Volcanic Eruptive Style, Volcanic National Park, Cinder Cone, Constrain Magma, Cooling Rate, Statistically Robust, Volcano Observatory, Apply, Basaltic, Bubble, Control, Density, Developed, Eruption, Gradients, Techniques, Temporal, Tephra, Time, Transition.

2021 Gordon Research Conference and Seminar on Geochronology: Evolution of the Lithosphere
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2021; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Blair Schoene($38,390), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Application, Atmosphere, Attend, Build, Diverse, Evolution, Future, GRC, GRS, Geochronology, Informal, Mentoring, Opportunity, Participants, Share, Stages, Time, Topics.

Collaborative Research: Using hiatus durations to quantify the tempo of Deccan volcanism
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2020; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Marissa M Tremblay($277,024), Purdue University, West Lafayette
2. Courtney Sprain($289,273), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Box Program Developed, Cooperative Extension Service, Dig Box Program, Education And Training, Multi-year Outreach Initiative, Successful Dig Box, Burke Museum, Deccan Traps, Deccan Volcanism, Early-career Women, Graduate Students, Hiatus Durations, Mass Extinction, Multi-year Outreach, Undergraduate Students, Volcanic Provinces, Boundary, Builds, Combination, Cosmogenic, Cretaceous-paleogene, Early-career, Eruption, Igneous, India, Kpg, Lavas, Paleomagnetic, Resolution, STEM.

Study of Mass Independent Isotopic Compositions of Ru and Mo in Early Earth Rocks
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2020; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Richard J Walker($317,425), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Ruthenium And Molybdenum, Accretionary History, Archean Rocks, Building Blocks, Involve Contributions, Isotopic Compositions, Postdoctoral Associate, Senior Thesis, Billion, Characterized, Evolution, Genetic, Mantle, Objective, Planet, Sources, State-of-the-art, Time, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Investigating out-of sequence magmatism and mantle plume-lithosphere interactions adjacent to the Snake River plain (U.S.A.)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Jeff Benowitz($0), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
2. Matthew E Brueseke($286,745), Kansas State University, Manhattan
Key terms: Sequence And Off-axis, Yellowstone National Park, Continental Hotspot, Hotspot Magmatism, Off-axis Volcanism, Adjacent, Documented, Eruption, Field, Geoforce, Geological, History, Public, River, SRPY, Via, Volcanic, Volcanoes.

Collaborative Research: How faithfully are melt embayments wedded to magma ascent?
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Benjamin J Andrews($23,645), Smithsonian Institution, Washington
2. Kenneth Befus($144,685), Baylor University, Waco
3. Benjamin A Black($157,193), CUNY City College, New York
Key terms: Diffusion Gradients, Diffusion Profiles, Embayment Geospeedometry, Experimental Conditions, Experimental Embayments, Magma Ascent, Volcanic Eruption, Assumptions, Conduit, Controlled, Decompression, Dynamics, Experiments, Magmatic, Match, Natural, Rate, Rates, Shown, Speedometer, Technique.

What Controls the CO2/SO2 Ratio in Arc Volcanic Gas?
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Terry A Plank($257,440), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Carbon Dioxidesulfur Dioxide, Dioxide And Sulfur, Arc Volcanic, Gas Precursors, Melt Inclusion, Melt Inclusions, Parental Magma, Sulfur Contents, Volcanic Gas, Degassing, Eruption, Magmas, Outflux, Pressure, Pressures, Published, Shown, Source, Subduction, Volcanoes.

Calcium and potassium isotopic study of igneous and metamorphic transport processes
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Donald J DePaolo($310,000), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Rocks And Minerals, Isotopic Fractionation, Aimed, Approach, Ca, Chemical, Chemistry, Conditions, Controlled, Diffusion, Distinguish, Experiments, Features, Field, Formed, Geologic, Has, Information, Insight, Isotopes, Knowledge, Level, Magma, Metamorphism, Mobility, Pressures, Processes, Produce, Responsible, Subjected, Teaching, Temperature, Transport.

Collaborative Research: Creating Earth’s earliest continents—an integrated investigation of the growth and modification of western Australia’s Pilbara Craton
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Basil Tikoff($299,850), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Jeffrey D Vervoort($337,980), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Crustal Source Regions, East Pilbara Terrane, Mantle And Crustal, Continental Crust, Earth’s Earliest, Granitic Complexes, Supracrustal Lithostratigraphy, West Australia, Age, Approach, Domes, Earth’s, Formation, Formed, Geochemical, Geochemistry, Geochronology, History, Integrated, International, Modification, Processes, Rock, Stabilization, Structural, Structure, Tectonic, Timing.

Collaborative Research: A New Mechanism for Metal Isotope Fractionation Induced by Natural Solid-State Ion Conduction
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Ryan D Mathur($59,726), Juniata College, Huntingdon
2. John F Rakovan($302,310), Miami University, Oxford
Key terms: Wire Silver Formation, Isotope Effect, Isotope Enrichment, Isotope Fractionation, Structural Characteristics, Ag, Conditions, Conduction, Elucidate, Found, Geological, Growth, Ion, Ions, Mechanism, Mechanisms, Metal, Morphology, Multiple, Natural, Nature, Occurring, Process, Structure, Technological, Transport.

Isotope Fractionation During Multicomponent Diffusion in Molten Basalts
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Youxue Zhang($372,151), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Isotope Fractionation, Isotope Ratio, Isotope Ratios, Magma Mixing, Applications, Diffusion, Growth, Isotopes, Mg, Mineral, Natural, Processes, Rock, SIMS, Ti.

Collaborative Research: Investigating Magmatic Differentiation in a Fossil Upper-Crustal Silicic Magma System: Stillwater Range, NV
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2020; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Joel W DesOrmeau($120,475), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
2. Ayla Pamukcu($128,377), Stanford University, Stanford
3. Michael P Eddy($289,249), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: U-pb Zircon Geochronology, High-silica Rhyolite, Ixl Pluton, U-pb Zircon, Assess, Constrain, Crust, Eruption, Geochemical, Gradients, Hazard, High-silica, Magma, Magmas, Magmatic, Nevada-reno, Processes, Textural, Timescales, Volcanic, Volcanoes.

The Fate of Earth's Plates: Sublithopsheric Diamond Constraints on Recycling in Earth’s Mantle Transition Zone
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2020; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Michael J Walter($501,477), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Mantle Transition Zone, Deep Mantle, Earth’s Surface, Isotopic Compositions, Mineral Inclusions, Plate Tectonics, Recycling Process, Selected Diamonds, Assemblages, Carbon, Carbonatitic, Crust, Crystallize, Deepest, Depths, Development, Earth’s, Effects, Fe, Fluid, Fluids, Iron, Leading, Metallic, Migrate, Occurring, Oceanic, Processes, Region, Released, Rock, Slab, Species, Subduction, Sublithospheric, Techniques, Versus, Water.

Evaluating links between primordial mantle domains and deep mantle structures using 182W and 3He/4He
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Richard J Walker($337,814), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Helium And Tungsten, Helium Isotopic Compositions, Anomalous Tungsten, Deep Mantle, Fozo-type Melts, Helium Isotopes, Lower Mantle, Mantle Domains, Primordial Helium, Primordial Isotopic, Tungsten Isotopes, Ambient, Components, Compositional, Distinct, Found, Fozo-type, Lack, Linked, Plume, Plume-derived, Plumes, Recycled, Reservoirs, Structures, Volcanism.

Mantle controls on magmatic-volcanic cycles at basaltic volcanoes: An isotopic probe of the Pu'u 'O'o, Halema'uma'u, and 2018 Leilani eruptions of Kilauea Volcano
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Aaron J Pietruszka($422,615), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Leilani Rift Eruption, Long-term Volcanic Cycles, Kilauea Volcano, Long-term Volcanic, Magma Batches, Magma Supply, Mantle Source, Partial Melting, Summit Collapse, Amount, Centuries, Composition, Delivery, Driven, Education, Experiences, Explosive, Hawaii, Hawaiian, Kilauea’s, Lava, Magmatic, Magmatic-volcanic, Mantle-derived, Plumbing, Processes, Rate, Time, Volcanoes, Volcano’s, Was.

Collaborative Research: Modes of melt extraction in silicic mushes: processes, efficiency and timescales
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Matej Pec($277,084), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Christian Huber($192,558), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Melt Extraction, Compaction, Constrain, Crystal, Eruption, Evolve, Experimental, Experiments, Fraction, Laboratory, Magmas, Particles, Phase, Separation, Volcanic, Volume.

RUI: Tracking magma accumulation and evolution in the Andean Central Volcanic Zone
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Gary S Michelfelder($256,246), Missouri State University, Springfield
Key terms: Andean Central Volcanic, Central Volcanic Zone, Chile And Bolivia, Modern Magma Chambers, Stored And Evolves, Accumulated Magma, Continental Arc, Continental Crust, Magma Storage, Partial Melting, Volcanic Eruptions, Volcanic Zone, Beneath, Composition, Diversity, Evidence, Field, Global, Investigate, Leading, Magmas, Magmatic, Plate, Primary, Processes, Reservoirs, Rock, Subduction, Time, Timescales, Volcanoes.

Pumice: a post-fragmentation product?
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Thomas Giachetti($349,683), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Decompression Experiments, Explosive Volcanic, Magma Fragmentation, Medicine Lake, Observed Textures, Plinian Eruptions, Size Distribution, Ascent, Atmosphere, Bubbles, Conditions, Conduit, Development, Ejected, Fragments, Gas, Has, Implications, Individual, Initial, Inside, Observations, Particles, Porous, Process, Products, Pumice, Pumices, Pyroclasts, Reproduce, Shape, Sintered, Students, Surface, Unknown, Volcanoes, Volcanology.

Collaborative Research: Quantifying crustal hydration effects in the Colorado Plateau from xenoliths
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Dennis L Newell($171,072), Utah State University, Logan
2. Kevin H Mahan($281,047), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Colorado Plateau, Sea Level, Based, Crust, Densities, Density, Elevations, Incorporates, Investigate, Isostatic, Mechanisms, Model, Post-hydration, Program, Region, Surface, Water, Xenoliths.

CAREER: Investigating the source, transport and deposition of economically important metals in the lower continental crust
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Marek Locmelis($546,648), Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla
Key terms: Nickel And Copper, Steady Metal Supply, Undergraduate And Graduate, Graduate Students, Ivrea-verbano Zone, Lower Continental, Magmatic Sulfide, Ore Deposits, Outreach Program, Strongly Metasomatized, Actively, Component, Crust, Deep, Exploration, Formation, Formed, Future, Geoscience, Guarantee, Integrated, Involved, Ivrea-verbano, K-, Lithosphere, Lithospheric, Mantle, Metals, Metasomatism, Mineral, Mineralized, Paths, Prepare, Processes, Surface, Transport.

The Thermodynamic Properties of Rare Earth Element (REE) Minerals: A Solid Solution Model for Xenotime-(Y) and Monazite-(Ce)
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2020; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Alexander Gysi($52,453), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Mineral Solid Solutions, Ree Mineral Deposits, Earth's Crust, Geological Settings, Numerical Modeling, Applied, Behavior, Building, CSM, Critical, Database, Experiments, Fluids, Laboratory, Metals, Minerals, Phosphates, Processes, Program, Solubility, Students, Thermodynamic.

RUI: Collaborative Research: Testing the controls on eruption size and style at intermediate arc volcanoes: Evidence from the Holocene record at Augustine Volcano, USA
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2020; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Alison M Koleszar($125,207), Colgate University, Hamilton
2. Kristina J Walowski($82,697), Middlebury College, Middlebury
Key terms: Intermediate Arc Volcanoes, Augustine Volcano, Eruption Style, Active, Alaska, Ascent, Characterize, Crust, Erupted, Evolve, Explosivity, Hazards, Investigate, Magma, Magmatic, Plumbing, Rate, Reservoirs, Tephra, Tephras, Textures, Time, Volcanic.

Collaborative Research: Beyond the big ones: Petrochronologic investigation of Quaternary small-volume volcanism in the Black Rock Desert, Utah
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2020; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Brian Jicha($100,969), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Volcanic Fields, Compositions, Eruption, Has, Magma, Magmas, Petrochronology, Processes, Super-eruptions, Utah.

Collaborative Research: Tracking Novel Metal Isotope Signatures during Subduction Metamorphism
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2020; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Shelby T Rader($62,010), Indiana University, Bloomington
2. Richard Gaschnig($222,600), University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell
Key terms: Mo And Tl, Subduction Zone Inputs, Ocean Crust, Tl Isotope, Altered, Analysis, Arc, Chemical, Deep, Earth’s, Experience, Fractionation, HPLT, Interaction, Loss, Mantle, Metamorphic, Metamorphism, Mineral, Process, Rock, Sediments, Signatures, Slab, Via.

On the physics of crystal-rich mush
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2020; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. George W Bergantz($336,921), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Behavior, Chemical, Compositions, Description, Experimental, Experiments, Fabric, Mush, Natural, Numerical, Objective, Pressure, Processes, Rock, Tensors, Volcanoes, Wide.

Development of an experimental technique for characterizing the effects of magma flow in porous media
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2020; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Sarah Lambart($233,127), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Experimental Products, Magma Flow, Volcanic Rocks, Chemical, Composition, Effect, Interaction, Magmas, Mantle, Matrix, Melt, Migration, Porous, Primary, Processes, Solid, Source, Surface, Travel.

Collaborative Research: Mantle metasomatism during serpentinization in subduction zones: Insights from in-situ boron isotopes
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2020; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Kennet E Flores Reyes($160,565), CUNY Brooklyn College, Brooklyn
2. Celine Martin($61,910), American Museum Natural History, New York
Key terms: Aqueous Fluids, Subduction Zone, Subduction Zones, Suture Zones, Constrain, Isotopes, Main, Mantle, Occurring, Planet, Processes, Regions, Represent, Responsible, Serpentinites, Sources, Volcanism.

CAREER: Measuring the tectonic and volcanic stresses* preserved in crystals
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2020; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Kenneth Befus($376,862), Baylor University, Waco
Key terms: Microdiffraction And Raman, Synchrotron X-ray Microdiffraction, Crystal Structure, Deformation Mechanisms, Raman Spectroscopy, Synchrotron Microdiffraction, Synchrotron X-ray, X-ray Microdiffraction, Constraints, Deep, Deformed, Diamonds, Diffraction, Dynamic, Geologic, Geovisualization, Mineral, Minerals, Pink, Processes, Program, Resolution, Strain, Stresses, Temperature, Tools.

Evaluating the causes of protracted explosive eruptions at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2020; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Kendra J Lynn($310,595), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Caldera Collapse, Dominantly Explosive, Explosive Eruptions, Activity, Behavior, Crust, Effusive, Geochemical, Geochemistry, Hawaii, Kilauea, Lava, Magma, Mantle, Past, Periods, Transition, Volcanic.

Collaborative Research: Testing competing models for the origin and magma transport dynamics of the Columbia River LIP
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2020; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. John A Wolff($56,708), Washington State University, Pullman
2. Martin J Streck($325,769), Portland State University, Portland
Key terms: Columbia River Lip, Oregon And Washington, Magma Storage, Magma Transport, Yellowstone Hotspot, CRB, Dike, Dikes, Distances, Dynamics, Eruption, Flow, Has, Laterally, Lava, Lavas, Magmas, Magmatism, Magnetic, Students, Travelled, Volcanic.

AGU Chapman Conference on Distributed Volcanism; Flagstaff, AZ; March 2020
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2020; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Charles B Connor($20,000), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Distributed Volcanic Fields, Widely Distributed Volcanic, Chapman Conference, Distributed Volcanism, AGU, Benefit, Cities, Colleagues, Developed, Discussions, Expected, Geophysical, Meeting, Models, Monitoring, Structured, Unrest, Volcanoes, Western.

CAREER: Petrogenesis of Hawaiian lavas, Constraints from metal stable isotopes
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2020; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Shichun Huang($327,808), University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas
Key terms: Metal Stable Isotope, Education Activities, Geochemical Analytical, Hawaiian Volcanism, Mantle Plume, Participating Students, Summer Program, Earth, Implications, Isotopic, Lavas, Plans, Tracers, UNLV.

CAREER: Linking the stable isotope record of Earth's surface and interior across the Great Oxidation Event
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2020; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Claire E Bucholz($664,500), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Archean And Proterozoic, Strongly Peraluminous Granites, Igneous Rock, Igneous Rocks, Isotope Ratios, Metasedimentary Rocks, Oxygen Levels, Partial Melting, Sedimentary Compositions, Sedimentary Rocks, Stable Isotope, Archive, Assimilation, Caltech, Earth’s, Explore, Fe, Field, GOE, Has, History, Investigate, Isotopes, Magmatic, Melts, Observed, Onset, Oxidative, PUSD, Pure, Represent, Rise, Sediments, Shifts, Spgs, Student, Weathering, Zircon.

Timescales of Crystallization, Ore Formation, and
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2020; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Jill A VanTongeren($153,566), Tufts University, Somerville
Key terms: Mid-low Temperature Cooling, Ambient Crustal, Ar-ar Thermochronology, Bushveld Complex, Cooling Paths, Cooling Rate, Hydrothermal Ore, Magma Chamber, Magma Chambers, Mid-low Temperature, South Africa, Absolute, Age, Ages, Ar-ar, Biotite, Ca, Determined, Diffusion, Eruption, Evolution, Formation, Implications, Inform, Mineral, Plagioclase, Quantification, Quantified, Rates, Reversals, Solidification, Solidus, Specifically, Strategic, Thermometer, U-pb, Volcanic, Worlds, Zircon.

EAR-PF:Quantifying Scale of Lower Crust and Mantle Heterogeneities Beneath the Continental United States: Bridging Seismology, Mineral Physics, Petrology, and Magnetotellurics
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2021; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. William J Shinevar($174,000), Shinevar, William J, Cambridge
Key terms: Crustal And Mantle, Anomalous Regions, Education Activities, Elastic Moduli, Lower Crustal, Melt Fraction, Seismic Anisotropy, Seismic Wavespeeds, Tomographic Models, Boulder, Calculations, Chemical, Constraints, Earth’s, Fluids, Heterogeneities, Hydration, Lithosphere, Minerals, Observations, Pressure, Student, Temperature, Thermal, Uncertainty.

EAR-PF: Unraveling the Convergent Origins of Secondary Palates in Amniotes
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2020; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Zachary S Morris($236,000), Morris, Zachary, New Haven
Key terms: Secondary Palate Convergence, Amniote Palate, Convergent Evolution, Outreach Activities, Palate Shape, Amniotes, Anatomy, Development, Developmental, Evolutionary, Fossil, Has, Mammals, Mechanisms, Mentorship, Mouth, Phenomenon, Public, Students, Yale.

EAR-PF: Assessing the Potential for Enhanced Duration of Soil Carbon Storage via Anaerobic Microsites from the Plant Rhizosphere to Catchment Scale
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2020; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Hannah R Naughton($236,000), Naughton, Hannah Rose, Berkeley
Key terms: Soil Redox Microheterogeneity, Carbon Cycling, Carbon Storage, East River, Geospatial Model, Pft Distribution, Remotely Sensed, Soil Carbon, Upland Soils, Anaerobic, Berkeley, Conditions, Controls, Field, Formation, Gradient, Greenhouse, Has, Hillslope-to-floodplain, Knowledge, Landscape, Larger, Microbial, Microsites, Pfts, Predict, Predictable, Teaching, Tool.

EAR-PF:Stratigraphic paleobiology in continental settings: Developing a sequence-stratigraphic framework of fossil preservation in continental deposits through model building and
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Katharine M Loughney($174,000), Loughney Katharine M, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Accommodation And Sedimentation, Plants And Animals, Fossil Accumulation, Fossil Preservation, Fossiliferous Facies, Sequence Stratigraphy, Stewart Valley, Basin, Basins, Burial, Climate, Continent, Contribute, Control, Controls, Distribution, Drivers, Environments, Evolution, Field, Fossils, Habitat, Habitats, Has, History, Large-scale, Marine, Model, Occurrence, Predictable, Predictions, Processes, Relation, Sedimentary, Stratigraphic, Students, Tectonic.

EAR-PF: Investigating the Explosive Effect of External Water on Volcanic Eruptions: Developing a Scalable Simulation of Explosion Energetics
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Erin P Fitch($174,000), Fitch, Erin Piper, Honolulu
Key terms: Developing Educational, Explosive Magma–water, External Water, Hazard Assessment, Heat Transfer, Hydrovolcanic Eruptions, Laboratory Experiments, Lava–water Explosions, Magma–water Interactions, Numerical Simulation, Numerical Simulations, Account, Development, Difficult, Dispersal, Especially, Expansion, Fellowship, Field, Fragmentation, Hydrovolcanism, Involve, Lava–water, MFCI, Magma–water, Mechanism, Melt–water, Micro-scale, Mixing, Observations, Oregon, Processes, Ratio, Scalable, Specifically, Volcanic.

EAR-PF Continuous vs. mixed-mode deformation during construction of the southern central Andes: Investigating the spatiotemporal scales of Cordilleran tectonic regimes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Chelsea Mackaman-Lofland($205,000), Mackaman-Lofland, Chelsea, Austin
Key terms: Deformation Mode Interpretations, Subduction-related Mountain Building, Andor Neutral, Continuous Shortening, Overriding Plate, Resolve Conflicting, Subduction-related Mountain, Surface Uplift, Activities, Andean, Andes, Apparent, Argentine, Basin, Central, Conditions, Construction, Cordilleran, Crust, Development, Educational, Episodic, Extensional, Field, Has, Invoke, Mechanisms, Paleoaltimetry, Regimes, Regional, Southern, Spatial, Structural, Students, Tectonic, Thickening, Timing, Training, Transition, Uconn, Undergraduate, °S.

EAR-PF: Application of Paired Ti and Fe Isotopes to Understand the Evolution of Earth's Upper Continental Crust
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Aleisha Johnson($174,000), Johnson, Aleisha, Tempe
Key terms: Stable Ti Isotopes, Ti Isotope Fractionation, Continental Crust, Oxygen Fugacity, Allow, Ancient, Arc, Behave, Calc-alkaline, Chicago, Composition, Controls, Crystallization, Differentiation, Earth’s, Formation, Geologic, Magmas, Magmatic, Mentor, Modeled, Modern, NSF, Postdoctoral, Proxy, Settings, Tholeiitic.

EAR-PF: Unraveling the Paleogene exhumation history of the Orocopia Schist in west-central Arizona
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Nikki M Seymour($174,000), Seymour, Nikki M, Fort Collins
Key terms: Control Subduction Complex, Subduction Complex Exhumation, 21-15 Ma, Crystalline Gneiss, Exhumation History, Miocene Extension, Orocopia Schist, Shallow-angle Subduction, Shortly Following, Thermal History, Base, California, Cretaceous-paleogene, Critical, Crust, Document, Exposed, Fabric, Geochemical, Geodynamic, Has, Histories, Levels, Maps, Microstructural, North, OS, Plomosa, Processes, Rock, Sediment, Shallow-angle, Significance, Surface, Tectonic, Underplating, Was.

EAR-PF: Windows into Ancient Impacts: Examining Meteoritics Research with New Approaches
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Melissa Sims($174,000), Sims, Melissa, Baltimore
Key terms: National Laboratory, Shock Experiments, Undergraduate Students, Complete, Conditions, Deformation, Diffraction, Experimental, In-situ, Investigate, Minerals, Natural, Phase, Pressure, Processes, Subsequent, Timescales.

EAR-PF Investigating Volcanic Explosion Directivity Using Aerial Infrasound Observations with UAVs
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Alexandra M Iezzi($174,000), Iezzi, Alexandra Michelle, Fairbanks
Key terms: Uav-mounted Infrasound Sensors, Active Volcanoes, Crater Rim, Explosive Sources, Uav-mounted Infrasound, Yasur Volcano, Acoustic, Activities, Allow, Deployed, Deployments, Directionality, Educational, Eruption, Explosion, Explosions, Ground, Has, Methods, Monitoring, Multiple, Near, Previously, Radiation, Uavs, Unique, Vertical, Volcanic.

EAR-PF: Plant Wax Transport and Integration Through the Late Holocene in Guatemala
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Wesley G Parker($174,000), Parker, Wesley George, Cincinnati
Key terms: Hydrogen And Carbon, Middle And Late, Vegetation And Precipitation, Changing Vegetation, Isotope Profiles, Knowledge Surrounding, Late Holocene, Plant Wax, Plant Waxes, Sediment Cores, Tropical Forests, Activities, Analyzed, Basins, Canada, Central, Climate, Conservation, Ecological, Education, Guatemala, Has, Human, Inform, Modern, Natural, Regional, Signals, Track, USA.

EAR-PF: Calibrating timescales and measuring pCO2 to test the role of volcanic forcing in the Miocene Climate Optimum
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Jennifer J Kasbohm($261,000), Kasbohm, Jennifer Jean, Princeton
Key terms: Atmospheric Co2 Levels, Miocene Climate Optimum, Nsf Ear Postdoctoral, Temperatures And Atmospheric, Absolute, CRBG, Caused, Conducting, Departmental, Global, Has, MCO, Massive, Network, Occurred, Retention, Warming, Women, Yale.

EAR-PF: Uncovering climate-driven impacts on high-latitude aquifer-ocean exchange
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Julia A Guimond($217,500), Guimond, Julia, Barrington
Key terms: Arctic And Subarctic, Aquifer-ocean Exchange, Changing Climatic, Climate-change Driven, Groundwater Discharge, High-latitude Coastal, Permafrost Regions, Permafrost Thaw, Aquifer-ocean, Canada, Climate-change, Climate-induced, Conditions, Feedbacks, Field, Flow, High-latitude, Inform, Integrated, Management, Mechanisms, Modeling, Models, Numerical, Present-day, Processes, Resources, Sea, Vulnerable, Water.

EAR-PF: Unleashing the petrogenetic potential of sanidine using a combined compositional, experimental, and 3D textural approach
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2020; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Hannah I Shamloo($174,000), Shamloo, Hannah I, Tempe
Key terms: 3d Textural Characterization, Natural Zoned Sanidine, Shallow And Evolved, 3d Textural, Ba Zoning, Evolved Magmatic, Volcanic Eruptions, Zoned Minerals, Additionally, Behavior, Chemical, Conditions, Experiments, Focus, Formation, Has, Investigation, Lead, Minorities, Opportunities, Processes, Resolve, STEM, Supervolcanoes, Tool.

EAR-PF: Quartz-in-zircon: An elastic model for quantifying depth and time scales of crystallization and exhumation of Hadean zircon
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2020; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Joseph P Gonzalez($174,000), Gonzalez, Joseph P, Syracuse
Key terms: Host And Inclusion, Host And Quartz, Jack Hills Zircons, Quartz Inclusions Contained, Quartz-in-zircon Elastic Model, Crustal Rocks, Crystallographic Orientation, Elastic Interactions, Elastic Models, Elastically Anisotropic, Graduate Students, Inclusion Minerals, Quartz-in-zircon Elastic, Zircon Host, Applied, Conditions, Crystallization, Depth, Determinations, Effect, Entrapment, Finite, Frequently, Ga, Growth, Gt, Hadean, Infer, Investigating, Methods, NSF, Ongoing, Organize, Pavia, Plate, Processes, Public, X-ray.

EAR-PF: Reconstructing land-level change throughout prehistoric megathrust earthquake cycles at the Cascadia subduction zone
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2020; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Isabel Hong($261,000), Hong, Isabel, New Brunswick
Key terms: Cascadia Subduction Zone, Diatom Transfer Function, Undergraduate And Graduate, Coastal Land-level, Graduate Students, Reduced Uncertainty, Seismic Hazards, Deformation, Diatoms, Earthquakes, Estimates, Fossil, Has, Land-level, Maps, Modern, Reconstruct, Species.

EAR-PF Short- and long-term effects of wildfire and permafrost thaw on mercury cycling and bioavailability across a major northern river delta landscape
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2020; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Scott P Zolkos($260,762), Zolkos, Scott P, Falmouth
Key terms: Lakes And Ponds, Wildfire And Permafrost, Ecosystem Disturbance, Hg Cycling, Organic Matter, Outreach Activities, Permafrost Thaw, Remote Sensing, Alaska, Atmosphere, Cycles, Delta, Effects, Freshwaters, Has, Implications, Mehg, Mentoring, Mercury, Methylation, Methylmercury, Northern, Release, Soil, Soils, Testing, Transformation, Undergraduate, Watersheds, YK.

EAR-PF: Fault-rock trapped-charge and 4He/3He thermochronometry: new paleothermometers to assess scales and rates of fault slip
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2020; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Margaret L Odlum($174,000), Odlum, Margaret, Austin
Key terms: Seismic Slip Rates, Wasatch And Hurricane, 4he3he Thermochronometry, Development Plan, Fault Rocks, Fault Slip, Fault Strength, Fault Surfaces, Hurricane Faults, Population Centers, Seismic Hazards, Seismically Active, Wasatch Front, Access, Age, Analysis, Andor, Approach, Approaches, Assessment, Complementary, Coseismic, Deformation, Developed, Earthquake, Energy, Evidence, Frictional, Heat, Hehe, Hematite, Historical, Inform, Information, Mechanics, Module, Past, Processes, Properties, Quantify, Range, Reach, Region, STEM, Seismogenic, Temperatures, Temporal, Textural, Thermal, Thermochronometric, Trapped-charge, USU, Utah.

REU Site: Pollinators, Climate Change, and the Aegean Archipelago
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2021; Program: RSCH EXPER FOR UNDERGRAD SITES

1. Charlotte Simmons($364,500), University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond
Key terms: Central Oklahoma, Honey Bees, Pollinator Decline, Agricultural, Based, Behavioral, Climate, Communication, Consist, Crops, Ecosystems, Engage, Environmental, Experience, Field, Findings, Greece, Lesvos, Long-term, Model, Native, Participation, Physiological, Plant-pollinator, Pollinators, Program, Public, REU, Recruited, Serve, Student, Students, Temperature, UCO.

CSEDI Collaborative Research: Understanding what we see in the lower mantle - mineral physics interpretation of seismic tomographic images
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2020; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Jeroen Tromp($213,000), Princeton University, Princeton
2. Jacqueline Austermann($745,000), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Mantle Structures, Mineral Physics, Available, Boundary, Burnman, CMB, Compressional, Consists, Convection, Core, Databases, Earth’s, Effect, Focus, Geodynamic, Heat, Heterogeneities, ISC, Iron, Machine, Methods, Models, Observed, Obtained, Origin, Outer, Perplex, Process, Shear, Software, Temperatures, Thermoelasticity, VP, VS.

Collaborative Research: CSEDI: Understanding the Role of Hydrogen and Melting in the Water Transport Across the Transition Zone-Lower Mantle Boundary
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2020; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Bijaya B Karki($183,998), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
2. Shun-ichiro Karato($330,000), Yale University, New Haven
3. Jung-Fu Lin($240,976), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Global Water Circulation, Deep Mantle, Electrical Conductivity, Lower Mantle, Bridgmanite, Earth’s, Experimental, Hydrogen, Interior, Melt, Mineral, Minerals, Nature, Poorly, Shallow, Solubility, Theoretical.

CSEDI Research: Investigations of Volatile Acquisition During Earth's Formation
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2020; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Peter L Olson($234,862), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Earth’s Volatiles, Solar Nebula, Source Magnitudes, Accretion, Acquired, Atmosphere, Chondrites, Comets, Contributions, Decay, Earth-sized, Earth’s, Exchange, Exoplanets, Ingassing, Machine, Magma, Model, Phase, Potential, Processes, Sources, Water.

CSEDI: Integrated seismic, geodynamic, and mineral physics studies of multi-scale structures in the lowermost mantle
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Donald V Helmberger($364,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Experimental Mineral Physics, Core-mantle Boundary, Hydrous Phases, Anisotropy, CMB, Chemical, Compared, Complexity, Convection, Core-mantle, Deep, Dynamics, Earth’s, Elastic, Experiments, Expertise, Facilities, Geodynamics, Hence, History, Influence, Infrared, Llsvps, Models, Observations, Observed, Plate, Properties, Required, Seismic, Seismically, Seismology, Sources, Stability, Structures, Subducted, Synchrotron, Techniques, Tectonic, Thermal, Thermo-chemical, Ulvzs, Velocity, X-ray.

CSEDI Collaborative Research: Experimental Partitioning of Highly Siderophile Elements at Ultratrace Level for Understanding the Conditions of Core Formation
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2020; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Andrew J Campbell($362,638), University of Chicago, Chicago
2. Michael J Krawczynski($136,725), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Diamond Anvil Cells, High-pressure Mineral Physicist, Physicists And Instrument, Core Formation, Experimental Petrologist, High-pressure Mineral, Highly Siderophile, Instrument Developers, Collaboration, Conditions, Earth’s, Experiments, Explanation, Extrapolations, Formed, Geochemists, Hses, Late, Mantle, Measure, Metalsilicate, Multidisciplinary, Partition, Partitioning, Pd, Previous, RIMS, Ratios, Reason, Relative, Relying, Ru, Ruthenium, Scavenging, Selected, Technique.

Support for Beginning Investigators to Attend the 17th SEDI Symposium; Taipei, Taiwan; July 6-10, 2020
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2020; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

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

NSFGEO-NERC: Collaborative Research: Developing a new Lower Cretaceous time scale: Foundation for the next generation of paleoceanographic and biogeochemical studies
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2020; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Bradley S Singer($482,903), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Bradley B Sageman($301,854), Northwestern University, Evanston
3. Mark D Schmitz($191,335), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Common Temporal, Global Geochemical, Ocean Anoxic, Temporal Framework, Ages, Agreement, Budget, Carbon, Cretaceous, Deep-time, Europe, Future, Initiation, Isotope, Joint, Levels, Marine, OAE, Oaes, Osmium, Pacific, Perturbations, Proportion, Proxy, Scenarios, Sea, Sediments, Time, Via, Volcanic, Volcanism.

Collaborative Research: Gateway to North America--the Great American Biotic Interchange (GABI) in Mexico and Origin of C4 Grassland
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2020; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Jack Tseng($53,206), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. Yang Wang($142,135), Florida State University, Tallahassee
3. Oscar Carranza-Castaneda($349,429), Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation, Los Angeles
4. Jack Tseng($53,206), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Animal Movements, Central Mexico, Americas, Analysis, Animals, Climate, Ecosystems, Fossil, GABI, Isotope, Isthmus, Mammal, North, Quantify, Regional, South, Timing, Triggered, Vegetation, Vertebrate.

Testing the impact of reworking on the isochronicity of tephras deposited in diverse sedimentary environments
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2020; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Amanda Keen-Zebert($359,810), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Paleoclimate And Landscape, Landscape Dynamics, Age, Basin, Contributes, Dating, Deposited, Deposition, Drought, Interpret, Ka, Limit, Methods, Nevada, Reliable, Resolve, Sediment, Sediments, Tephra, Tephras, Tested, Time.

Life on an oxidizing planet: Microbial ecosystems of a Neoarchean carbonate platform
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2020; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Andrew D Czaja($311,760), University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati
Key terms: Electron Microscopy, Mass Spectrometry, Microbial Ecosystems, Microfossil Assemblages, Ago, Billion, CMCP, Evolution, Fossilized, Isotope, Life, Microbes, Neoarchean, Observed, Period, Secondary, Spectroscopy, Story.

Collaborative Research: Improved Geochronology-Based Sediment Provenance Analysis Through Physico-Mechanical Characterization of Zircon Transport
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2020; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Gourab Ghoshal($260,565), University of Rochester, Rochester
2. Richard A Ketcham($79,787), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
3. Mary K Fidler($195,884), Clemson University, Clemson
Key terms: Age Spectra, Detrital Zircon, Sediment Transport, Ages, Ancient, Basins, Biasing, Characteristics, Currents, Developed, Effects, Elevation, Fractionation, Geologic, Information, Methods, Minerals, Potential, Processes, Quantify, Quantitative, Robust, Scientists, Sedimentary, Studying, Tectonic, U-pb.

RUI: From Greenhouse to Icehouse: Documenting evolutionary trends in freshwater siliceous organisms over 80 million years of environmental change
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2020; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Peter A Siver($286,615), Connecticut College, New London
Key terms: Geologic Time, Advance, Conditions, Diatoms, Ecosystems, Evolution, Evolutionary, Examine, Fossil, Freshwater, Greenhouse, Icehouse, Knowledge, Localities, Million, Museum, Organisms, Spanning, Species, Temperatures, Warm.

Revisiting the Cambrian Series 1 animal origination chronology
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Jessica R Creveling($370,110), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Alternative Ages, Chemical Signals, Fad Chronologies, Global Fad, Stratigraphic Section, Alignment, Alignments, Cambrian, Chronology, Earliest, Evolutionary, Excursions, Fossil, Fossiliferous, Fossils, Local, Permissible, Refine, Sections, Software, Δccarb.

Collaborative research: Multi-disciplinary investigation of the links between volcanism, marine redox, and mass extinction during the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Benjamin Gill($213,873), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
2. Jeremy D Owens($211,321), Florida State University, Tallahassee
3. Andrew Caruthers($165,538), Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
Key terms: End-triassic Mass Extinction, End-triassic Mass, Late Triassic, Marine Diversity, Panthalassic Ocean, Time Interval, Wrangell Mountains, Alaska, Carbon, Current, Environmental, Geochemical, Geographic, Global, Jurassic, Led, Limited, Public, Recovery, Redox, Rock, Understudied.

CAREER: Persistent vertebrate communities in deep time and the great Triassic-Jurassic vertebrate transition
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Sterling J Nesbitt($484,948), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Field School, National Levels, Ability, Activities, Approaches, Broad, Diversity, Ecological, Ecology, Environmental, Fossil, Fossils, Functional, K-, Living, Local, Million, Millions, Modeling, Paleocommunities, Persist, Program, Quantitative, Regional, Short, Structure, Students, Successful, Survivors, Taxonomic, Teaching, Time, Timescales, Tools, Triassic, Vertebrate.

Collaborative Research: Quantifying the carbon emission and sequestration rate after a large CO2 pulse from the Siberian Traps volcanism
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2020; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Ying Cui($321,205), Montclair State University, Montclair
2. Noah J Planavsky($176,688), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Emission And Sequestration, Carbon Emission, Co2 Emission, Isotopes Reflect, St Volcanism, Subsequent Recovery, Boron, EPME, End-permian, Lithium, Million, Modeling, Outreach, Produce, Quantitative, Rates, Spanning, Tropical, Volcanic, Weathering.

CAREER: Reconstructing ancient ocean ecosystems: ecological consequences of ammonoid shell shape.
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2020; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Kathleen Ritterbush($608,707), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Global Mass Extinctions, Shell Shape, Shell Shapes, Ammonoid, Ancient, Animals, Critical, Ecological, Ecosystems, Etc, Fossil, Life’s, Measure, Shells, Size, Speed, Stability, Water.

RAPID/Collaborative Research: Digitizing Early Cretaceous dinosaur trackways to preserve the geological heritage of central Texas
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Thomas L Adams($111,417), University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio
2. Marina B Suarez($12,070), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
3. Daniel J Lehrmann($21,745), Trinity University, San Antonio
Key terms: Central Texas, Dinosaur Tracks, Analysis, Climate, Enhanced, Environment, Hot, Information, Preservation, Public, Rock, Techniques.

Workshop on Heavy Mineral Analysis in Solving Tectonic Problems at the University of Iowa; November 2020
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Emily Finzel($43,000), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Provenance Analysis, Solving Tectonic, Conference, Detrital, Development, Directions, Opportunities, Workshop.

NSFGEO-NERC: Ancient life in moving fluids: elucidating the emergence of animal ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Simon A Darroch($335,062), Vanderbilt University, Nashville
Key terms: Complex Life, Ediacaran Organisms, Fluid Dynamics, Organisms Evolved, Ago, Agreement, Animal, Approach, Budget, Cambrian, Collaboration, Ecosystems, Evolution, Evolutionary, Extinction, Fieldwork, Fossils, Joint, Knowledge, Million, Modeling, Modern, Modules, Origins, Proportion, School, Students, Teachers, Time, UK.

EAR-PF: Quantifying heterogeneity in stratigraphy across scales
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Andrew J Moodie($174,000), Moodie, Andrew J, Houston
Key terms: Ear Postdoctoral Fellowship, Coastal River-deltas, Flow Pathways, Small-scale Geological, Subsurface Heterogeneity, Constrain, Education, Environments, Existing, Groundwater, Impacted, Information, Invariant, Investigate, Larger-scale, Limited, Machine, Method, Modeling, Properties, River-deltas, Rock, Sedimentary, Small-scale, Smaller-scale, Spatial, Statistical, Stratigraphy, Sustainability, Transport.

Collaborative Research: Constraining the tempo and dynamics of Cambrian Earth systems in western Laurentia
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Karl E Karlstrom($262,998), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
2. Mark D Schmitz($262,770), Boise State University, Boise
3. James W Hagadorn($134,548), Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver
4. Carol Dehler($154,684), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Grand Canyon, Sedimentary Rocks, Approach, Cambrian, Continent, Deposited, Flooded, Fossils, Global, Has, Life, Million, Oceans, Park, Strata, Timing, Tonto.

EAR-PF Bringing fossil cephalopods back to life: virtual and physical assessment of hydrostatics, hydrodynamics, and functional morphology
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. David J Peterman($174,000), Peterman, David J, Huber Heights
Key terms: Aquatic Biomechanics, Life Habit, Marine Ecosystems, Shelled Cephalopods, Components, Constraints, Diversity, Education, Evolution, Extensive, Models, Modes, Morphology, Morphotypes, Paleoecology, Properties, Virtual, Vital.

Closing a Gap in Macroevolutionary Studies: Integrating Fossils and Phenotypes to Illuminate Morphological Evolution in Monocot Flowering Plants
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2020; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Selena Y Smith($549,403), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Monocot Flowering Plants, Diversity, Environmental, Evolutionary, Fossil, Fruitseed, Leaf, Palms, Phenotypic, Phylogenetic, Processes, Traits.

CAREER: Environmental Drivers of Life History Variation in Coastal Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Paul Harnik($429,795), Colgate University, Hamilton
Key terms: Life History Traits, Students And Teachers, Gulf Coast, Northern Gulf, Outreach Program, Resource Availability, School Students, Alabama, Bivalve, Coastal, Contemporary, Environmental, Historical, Investigate, Junior, Louisiana, Mexico, Modern, Populations, Primary, Public, Shells, Undergraduate.

CAREER: Exploring environmental drivers of morphological change through phylogenetic paleoecology
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. James C Lamsdell($573,375), West Virginia University Research Corporation, Morgantown
Key terms: Ecological Occupation, Heterochronic Trends, Animal, Development, Drives, Environments, Evolution, Heterochrony, K-, Lessons, Phylogenetic, Shifts, Undergraduate.

CAREER: Developing novel biomarker proxies to constrain Neogene changes in African woody cover and paleoecological contexts of hominin evolution
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Kevin T Uno($699,527), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Students And Postdocs, African Nations, Graduate Student, Graduate Students, Human Evolution, School Students, York City, Ancient, Approaches, Carbon, Climate, Developing, Ecological, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Evidence, Evolutionary, Field, Grasses, Grassland, Grasslands, Has, Isotopic, Lab, Ma, Methods, Million, Miocene, Molecular, Neogene, Opportunities, Participation, Past, Plant, Principal, Program, Reconstructing, Rise, STEM, Terrestrial, Three-week, Undergraduate, Underrepresented.

RUI: Reconstructing ancient terrestrial landscapes of the southeastern Columbia Basin
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Lyman P Persico($333,148), Whitman College, Walla Walla
Key terms: Columbia Basin, Ice Age, Southeastern Washington, Analyses, Ancient, Basalt, Caused, Eruption, Field, Geological, Landscape, Processes, Reconstruct, Terrestrial, Time, Weathering.

EAGER: Applying Paleoecosystem-Mass Extinction Theory to Socio-Economic Systems During COVID-19
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2020; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Peter D Roopnarine($242,627), California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco
Key terms: Covid-19 Pandemic, Mass Extinctions, Structural Complexity, Adaptive, Agents, Behavior, Distributed, Dynamics, Ecosystems, Employment, Human, Interactions, Modeled, Organized, Recovery, Sectors, Sess, Socio-economic, Species, Was.

Collaborative Research: Using Ca, Sr, Mg, and Fe isotope proxies to constrain redox and continental weathering during Ocean Anoxic Event 2
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2020; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Alan Brandon($212,443), University of Houston, Houston
2. Kimberly V Lau($90,372), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Climate And Energy, Carbon Dioxide, Continental Weathering, Eagle Ford, Global Climate, Global Ocean, Global Warming, Ocean Chemistry, Volcanic Activity, Atmosphere, Factors, Isotopes, OAE, Outreach, Period, Public, Sustained, Texas, Underrepresented.

Collaborative Research: After the Bridgerian Crash: An Integrated Analysis of Mammalian Paleocommunities and Paleoecologies During the Middle Eocene.
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2020; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Anthony R Friscia($110,466), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2. Paul C Murphey($123,065), San Diego Society of Natural History, San Diego
3. Kathryn E Townsend($239,596), Midwestern University, Downers Grove
4. Laura Stroik($106,524), Grand Valley State University, Allendale
5. Lisa C Thompson($184,258), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Modern Climatic Crisis, Extreme Warming, Global Warming, Integrated Approach, Development, Ecosystems, Habitat, MECO, Mammalian, Utah, Via.

Collaborative Research: Reconstructing paleo-sediment flux from river deposits: toward quantifying sediment discharge from bedform to basin scale
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2020; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Elizabeth A Hajek($340,372), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Vamsi Ganti($406,054), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Bars, Conditions, Constraints, Development, Exercises, Field, Insight, Mineral, Processes, Quantitatively, River, Rivers, Sediment, Sediment-flux, Sedimentary, Stratigraphic, Students.

Community Facility Support: Management and Operation of a Continental Scientific Drilling and Coring Facility
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2020; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Anders J Noren($7,467,979), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Fault Mechanics, Rock Weathering, Sediment Layers, Allow, Analysis, Below, Boreholes, CSDF, Complex, Continental, Core, Coring, Deep, Deposited, Depth, Development, Drilling, Ecosystem, Equipment, Expensive, Facility, Geochemical, Geologic, Geothermal, Instruments, Lake, Lakes, Management, Means, Operations, Processes, Resources, Risk, Sampling, Soil, Specialized, Surface, Time, Water.

CAREER: Do Species Track Climate? Paleoecology to Disentangle Niche Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2020; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Jenny L McGuire($699,341), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Plants And Animals, Changing Climate, Climates, Ecosystem, Extent, Respond, Species, Students.

The 2020 MagIC Workshop: Rock and Paleomagnetism through Time and Space; March 2020; La Jolla, CA
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2020; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Catherine Constable($40,440), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Database, Databases, Day, Magic, Meeting, Organizers, Paleomagnetic, Paleomagnetism, Participation, Plan, Program, Rock, Solve, Uploading, Workshop.

A Proposal for Travel Support for Students International Sedimentary Geoscience Congress Flagstaff, AZ, USA, 26-29 April, 2020
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2020; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Howard E Harper($50,000), Society of Sedimentary Geology SEPM, Tulsa
Key terms: International Sedimentary Geoscience, Sedimentary Geoscience Congress, Allow Students, Sedimentary Geology, Attend, Conference, Formal, Geosciences, Geoscientists, Meeting, Society, Travel.

Collaborative Research: An Inter-disciplinary Approach to Constraining Paleo-geomorphic Responses to the Eocene-Oligocene Hothouse to Icehouse Transition
Award Effective Date: 08/23/2019; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Anjali M Fernandes($255,106), Denison University, Granville
Key terms: Ancient, Approach, Environmental, Flood, Hydraulic, Integrated, Million, Models, Past, Quantify, Respond, River, Rivers, Water, Western.

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. David Rowley($100,198), Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago
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.

EAGER: Development of Techniques for 3D mapping at Macroscopic Scales
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2021; Program: Tectonics

1. Terry L Pavlis($62,789), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
Key terms: 3d Geologic, 3d Mapping, 3d Visualization, Earth’s Surface, Geologic Bodies, Geologic Mapping, Aimed, Applications, Based, Desert, Developing, Earth’s, Field, Geometry, Geosciences, Hispanic, Industries, Legacy, Maps, Modeling, Models, Opportunities, Paper, Resolution, SM, Strabospot, Subsurface, Techniques, Technology, Transformative, Unprecedented.

Collaborative Research: Evaluating the evolution of the southern Himalayan-Tibetan orogeny: What happened during Paleocene-Eocene time?
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2021; Program: Tectonics

1. Kathryn E Metcalf($293,703), CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation, Fullerton
2. Delores M Robinson($327,591), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
Key terms: Tethyan Fold-thrust Belt, Cross Sections, Earlier Phase, Fold-thrust Belt, Historically Underrepresented, Southern Tibet, Tethyan Fold-thrust, Ago, Asia, Collision, Evolution, Existing, Field, Himalayan, India, Laboratory, Million, Models, Nepal, North, Region, Rock, Shortening, Students, Tectonic, Zircon.

Structural, metamorphic, and thermal evolution of the Brooks Range (Alaska) metamorphic belts: implications for formation-exhumation of high-pressure rocks and Arctic tectonic evol
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2020; Program: Tectonics

1. James J Vogl($219,951), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Alaska Chukotka Microplate, Arctic Alaska Chukotka, Canadian Arctic Islands, Continental Land Mass, 66° Anti-clockwise, Arctic Geology, Arctic Region, Basin Formation, Brooks Range, Canada Basin, Continental Subduction, Dynamically Linked, Earth’s Surface, High-pressure Metamorphism, High-pressure Rocks, Metamorphic Belts, Metamorphic Rocks, Northern Alaska, Remains Unclear, Schist Belt, Subduction Zones, Thermal Histories, Accommodated, Adjacent, Analytical, Anti-clockwise, Believed, Collision, Constraints, Evolution, Exhumation, Extension, Field, Focused, Furthermore, Geometrical, High-pressure, Models, Oceanic, Rest, Resulting, Rotated, Strike, Structural, Student, Students, Techniques, Tectonic, Timing, World.

Collaborative Research: Did Mantle Magma Cause Ultrahigh-Temperature Metamorphism (UHTM) in Southern Madagascar?
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: Tectonics

1. Robert M Holder($259,405), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. Forrest Horton($336,358), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Heat Source, Southern Madagascar, Ages, Analyses, Collision, Combined, Continent, Crust, Earth’s, Education, Establish, Hf, Magma, Magmas, Magmatism, Mantle, Metamorphic, Mineral, Origins, Regional, Rock, Temperatures, Transformations, U-pb, UHTM, Unknown, Zircon, °C.

Collaborative Research: Blueschist rheology: experimental constraints on glaucophane strength and deformation mechanisms
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: Tectonics

1. Cailey B Condit($294,571), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Matej Pec($160,938), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Blueschist Facies Rocks, Mit’s Rock Deformation, Rock Deformation Laboratory, Structural Petrology Laboratory, Subduction Zone Faults, Washington’s Structural Petrology, Experimental Products, Mit’s Rock, Rheological Parameters, Subduction Zones, Underrepresented Minority, Viscous Creep, Viscous Deformation, Washington’s Structural, Behavior, Constraints, Deep, Depths, Directly, Ductile, Earthquakes, Electron, Experiments, Geologic, Glaucophane, Hazards, Interface, Lack, Largest, Mechanical, Mechanisms, Plate, Strength.

How Are Ultrahigh Temperatures Attained in Continental Crust? A Petrochronological Investigation of the Basin and Range Lower Crust
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: Tectonics

1. Andrew Smye($279,812), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Basin And Range, Continental Lower Crust, Continental Crust, Extreme Temperatures, Range Province, Ultrahigh Temperatures, Attained, Critical, History, Metamorphism, Pressure-temperature, Prograde, Rock, Techniques, Timing.

Collaborative Research: Calibrating quartz fabric intensity as a function of strain magnitude: a field-based investigation in the Snake Range core complex, Nevada
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2020; Program: Tectonics

1. Sean P Long($177,094), Washington State University, Pullman
2. Jeffrey Lee($82,641), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: Expresses Fabric Intensity, Finite Strain Magnitude, Allow Measuring, Applied Globally, Calibration Equation, Crystallographic Fabrics, Intensity Parameters, Low-magnitude Deformation, Quartzite Unit, Shear Zone, Shear Zones, Snake Range, Undergraduate Students, Across-strike, Alignment, Approach, Boundaries, Crust, Cylindricity, Deformed, Delineate, Exhibit, Extensional, Features, Field, Function, Generate, Has, Ideal, Low-magnitude, Markers, Micro-, Millimeters, Nevada, Plate, Plates, Processes, Quartz-rich, Relative, Rock, Spatial, Strike-slip, Technique, Tectonic, Temperatures, Transect.

Using organic biomarker paleohypsometry to reconstruct the punctuated uplift history of the Northern Tibetan Plateau
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Tectonics

1. Xiaolei Liu($284,603), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Northern Tibetan Plateau, India-asia Collision, Organic Geochemistry, Plate Boundary, Qilian Shan, River Catchments, Approach, Basins, Continent, Crust, Dynamics, Elevation, Geology, Has, History, India-asia, Laboratory, Mantle, Orogenic, Produced, Proxies, Sedimentary, Students, Techniques, Tectonic, Topography, Undergraduate.

Do changes in monsoon intensity reposition Himalayan erosion? A combined cyclostratigraphic-detrital thermochronology approach
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: Tectonics

1. Peter K Zeitler($182,010), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
Key terms: South Asian Monsoon, Sediment Source, Sedimentary Rock, Sedimentary Rocks, Shape Landscapes, Active, Analysis, Approach, Climate, Cyclostratigraphy, Dating, Erosion, Erosional, Grains, Himalayan, Mountain, Nepal, Processes, Provenance, Relative, Sediments, Siwalik, Solid-earth, Strength, Strong, Tectonic, Thermochronology, Time, Tools, Topographic.

Collaborative Research: Investigating the Relationships Between Magmatic 'Flare-Ups', Crustal Rheology, and Arc Collapse
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2020; Program: Tectonics

1. Robert B Miller($77,822), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
2. Stacia Gordon($260,880), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
3. Michael P Eddy($349,776), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Arc Crust, Earth’s Crust, Intense Magmatism, Magmatic Flare-ups, Subduction Zones, Uranium-lead Zircon, Combination, Compared, Constant, Continent, Create, Deep, Deformation, Ductile, Dynamic, Earth’s, Evidence, Evolution, Exposed, Fault, Faulting, Field, Flare-up, Flare-ups, Geo-thermochronology, Metamorphism, North, Occurred, Periods, Podcast, Public, Represent, Rock, Subsequent, Surface, Tectonic, Temporal, Transfer, Uranium-lead, Washington, Women.

EAGER: Collaborative Research: Mantle fluid contribution to springs along the Denali Fault System: Constraints on the crustal scale nature of the main strand and splays
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: Tectonics

1. Jeff Benowitz($57,554), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
2. Dennis L Newell($42,331), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Splay Thrust Faults, Continental Strike-slip, Denali Fault, Fault Zone, Helium Isotope, Mantle-derived Fluids, Alaska, Conduits, Crust, Deep, Depth, Examine, Geothermal, Isotopic, Mantle-derived, Resources, Springs, Strands, Strike-slip, Trace, Water.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Paleomagnetism and Geochronology of Mafic Dikes in Morocco, Reconstructing West Africa in Proterozoic Supercontinents
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: Tectonics

1. Kevin R Chamberlain($179,992), University of Wyoming, Laramie
2. David Evans($390,432), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Europe And Africa, Nuna And Rodinia, Anti-atlas Mountains, Atlantic Ocean, Supercontinental Transitions, West Africa, Ago, Americas, Ancient, Anti-atlas, Billions, Close, Configurations, Continent, Debate, Earth’s, Field, Globe, History, Imagine, Laboratory, Landmasses, Methods, Morocco, Paleomagnetic, Pangea, Precambrian, Prior, Public, Rock, Supercontinents, Time, Was, “inside-out”.

Cooling During Deformation: An Overlooked Scenario with Implications for the Analysis of Ductily Deformed Rocks
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: Tectonics

1. Steven B Kidder($382,922), CUNY City College, New York
Key terms: Grain Size Distributions, Recrystallized Grain Size, Shear Zones, Stress Magnitudes, Carried, Constant, Cooling, Crust, Deformation, Deformed, Earth’s, Experiments, Natural, Rate, Rock, STEM, Strain, Temperature, Underrepresented.

Testing models of metamorphic sole formation and early subduction evolution in the Easton Metamorphic Suite, Northwest Cascades, Washington
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2020; Program: Tectonics

1. Sean R Mulcahy($185,140), Western Washington University, Bellingham
Key terms: Active Subduction Zones, Undergraduate And Graduate, Metamorphic Sole, Metamorphic Soles, Subduction Initiation, Suprasubduction Zone, Accreted, Accretion, Beneath, Crust, Earthquakes, Field, History, Initiate, Multiple, Oceanic, Ophiolite, Plate, Processes, Responsible, STEM, Structural, Subducted, Time, Timing, Units, Via.

From damage zone to core: quantifying mechanical and hydrological coupling during fault-zone structural evolution
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2020; Program: Tectonics

1. Randolph T Williams($369,406), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Authigenic Mineral Phases, Cores And Damage, Deformation And Fluid, Individual Fault Zones, Surrounding Damage Zones, Fault Core, Fault Cores, Fluid Flow, Geochronological Analyses, Mineral Phases, Andor, Character, Conditions, Constraining, Crust, Development, Dictate, Discrete, Distribution, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Evolution, Fault-zone, Fault’s, Rock, Sets, Structural, Structures, Surface, Timing, Typically.

Collaborative research: Evaluating the drivers of exhumation during accretionary orogenesis: A field-based investigation in the Salmon River Suture Zone, Idaho
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2020; Program: Tectonics

1. Matthew P McKay($122,964), Missouri State University, Springfield
2. Sean P Long($197,832), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: River Suture Zone, Salmon River Suture, Central Idaho, Exhumation-related Cooling, Exhumed Via, Mountain Building, Accretionary, Burial, Buried, Collision, Collisions, Continent, Crust, Deeply, Exhumation-related, Experienced, Faults, Geology, Introduce, Island, Lithospheric, North, Overlying, Peak, Plate, Predicts, Processes, Rates, Region, Rock, Rocks, STEM, Structural, Students, Surface, Tectonic, Thrust, Timing, Towards, Undergraduates.

Collaborative Research: Internal and external drivers of orogenic episodicity in the Ecuadorian Andes
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2020; Program: Tectonics

1. Brian K Horton($232,247), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. James B Chapman($236,676), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Analytical Techniques, Crustal Thickening, Ocean-continent Subduction, Oceanic Crust, Plate Boundaries, Accretion, Andes, Arc, Basin, Basins, Building, Collaborations, Convergent, Cordilleran, Cycles, Development, Driven, Ecuador, Evolution, Fluctuating, Geologic, Magmatism, Margins, Ocean-continent, Past, Processes, Sedimentary, Shortening, Sources, Subsidence, Tectonic.

Resolving Mesoproterozoic supercontinent configuration with an integrated multi-tool approach to sedimentary provenance analysis
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2020; Program: Tectonics

1. Richard Gaschnig($245,061), University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell
Key terms: Ancient Sedimentary Rocks, Detrital Zircon, Western North, Adjacent, Ago, Analyses, Antarctica, Arizona, Australia, Billion, Collected, Columbia, Constraints, Continent, Craton, Dating, East, Geology, Idaho, Identity, Mesoproterozoic, Minerals, Models, Potential, Provenance, Sources, Supercontinent, UML, Undergraduate.

RUI: Collaborative Research: Early Cenozoic basin development in the southwestern US: a record of extensional collapse following subduction of an oceanic plateau?
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2020; Program: Tectonics

1. Francis J Sousa($120,130), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Richard Heermance($278,858), The University Corporation, Northridge, Northridge
Key terms: Goler And Maniobra, Basin Analysis, Basin Development, Eocene Time, Late Cretaceous, Maniobra Formations, Mojave Desert, Plateau Subduction, Tectonic Models, Basins, Continent, Detrital, Extension, Geologic, Mapping, Techniques, Thermochronology.

Collaborative Research: An Alaskan perspective on middle Paleozoic terrane translation, contraction, and subduction initiation in northwestern Laurentia
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2020; Program: Tectonics

1. William McClelland($278,878), University of Iowa, Iowa City
2. Justin V Strauss($249,582), Dartmouth College, Hanover
3. Christopher D Connors($85,488), Washington and Lee University, Lexington
Key terms: Paleozoic Tectonic Evolution, Arctic Alaska, Continental Margins, Late Paleozoic, Middle Paleozoic, Northern Alaska, Northwestern North, Subduction Initiation, Circum-arctic, Conversion, Devonian–carboniferous, Examination, Models, Nature, Plate, Process, Region, Regional, Remain, Rock, Structural, Synorogenic, Timing, USGS, Yukon, Zones.

GEMT: Collaborative research: From grain to rock and back again: Elucidating the coordinated evolution of exhumation pathways, rock strength and topography in the Taiwanese orogen
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2020; Program: Tectonics

1. Roman A DiBiase($471,887), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Eric Kirby($265,522), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Burial And Exhumation, Exhumation History, Deformation, Exist, Facilitate, Feedbacks, Field, Geomorphic, Mountain, Paired, Properties, Quantifying, River, Rock, Strength, Surface, Surveys, Topography.

Workshop: 6th Biennial Structural Geology and Tectonics Forum; Brunswick, ME; June 2020
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2020; Program: Tectonics

1. Emily M Peterman($46,168), Bowdoin College, Brunswick
Key terms: Advances And Methods, Geology And Tectonics, Field Trips, Graduate Students, Pedagogical Advances, Structural Geology, Tectonics Forum, Accessible, Activities, Aimed, Bring, Building, Classroom, Collaborations, Contributing, Create, Critical, Current, Development, Discuss, Discussions, Education, Facilitate, Faculty, Future, Identifying, Interaction, Meeting, Opportunities, Opportunity, Practices, Presentations, STEM, Session, Sessions, Short, Teaching, Underrepresented, Useful.

Mafic inclusions in migmatite domes: exceptional pressure-temperature-time records of crustal flow
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2020; Program: Tectonics

1. Christian Teyssier($447,278), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Field And Analytical, Deep-crustal Flow, Earth’s Surface, Gneiss Domes, Hot Rocks, Age, Amphibolite, Analysis, Conditions, Continent, Deep-crustal, Earth’s, Eclogite, Formerly-deep, High-pressure, High-temperature, History, Mafic, Mass, Mechanisms, Metamorphism, Mountain, Orogenic, Pressure-temperature-time, Quartzofeldspathic, Rapid, Timing, Transport, Zircon.

Cataclysmic erasure of mountain topography and major unrealized seismic hazards in the northern Basin and Range
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2020; Program: Tectonics

1. Michael McGlue($626,413), University of Kentucky Research Foundation, Lexington
Key terms: Main Teton Fault, Farther North, Fault Scarps, Fault Segments, Fault Slip, Northern Extent, Northern Teton, Originally Extended, Range Front, Seismic Reflection, Slip History, Teton Range, Topographic Break, Trenching Studies, Acquired, Active, Allow, Education, Has, Hotspot, Interpreted, Jackson, Lake, Lidar, Multiple, Natural, Potential, Previously, Public, South, Students, Topography, Training, Yellowstone.

EAR-PF: Closing the gap between analogue studies and numerical lava flow models using insights from the 2018 Kilauea eruption
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Elisabeth Gallant($174,000), Gallant, Elisabeth, Tampa
Key terms: Analogue Modeling Techniques, Lava Flow Emplacement, Lava Flow Models, Numerical Lava Flow, Effusion Rate, Hazard Communication, Hazards Program, Kilauea Volcano, Lava Flows, Lerz Eruption, Real World, Unprecedented Opportunity, Volcanic Hazards, Volcano Observatory, Ability, Advance, Breakouts, Computational, Developed, Educational, Esps, Established, Evolution, Factors, Field, Forecasting, Has, Inundation, Knowledge, Liverpool, Quantify, Robust, USGS.

EAR-PF Understanding the Effects of Incomplete Mixing on Mixing Corrosion: Pore-scale Visualization and Upscaling
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Michael A Chen($174,000), Chen, Michael Andrew, Somerville
Key terms: Flow And Geochemistry, Rocks And Soils, Calcite Dissolution, Carbon Cycle, Dissolution Rate, Geochemical Reaction, Incomplete Mixing, Larger Scales, Mixing Corrosion, Conditions, Coupled, Drives, Evolution, Experiments, Fellowship, Framework, Has, Influence, Karst, Microscale, Mineral, Minerals, Minnesota, Mixed, Models, Natural, Outreach, Parameters, Pore, Pore-scale, Process, Processes, Solutions, Transport.

EAR-PF Discerning the nature of the oceanic lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary through integration of seismological-scale and laboratory-scale observations
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Joshua B Russell($174,000), Russell, Joshua B, Palisades
Key terms: Oceanic Upper Mantle, Age Dependence, Obs Arrays, Plate Tectonics, Shear Velocity, Anisotropy, Attenuation, Brown, Constraints, Developed, Earth’s, Education, Evolution, Framework, High-resolution, LAB, Models, Pacific, Plan, Reconcile, Seismic, Site, Structure.

RAPID: Monitoring and modeling watershed-scale post-wildfire streamflow response through space and time
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2020; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Brendan P Murphy($49,811), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Burn Severity, Grizzly Creek, Land Cover, Post-wildfire Hydrologic, Post-wildfire Management, Sediment Dynamics, Sediment Transport, Active, Analytical, Burned, Capture, Characteristics, Downstream, Efforts, Field, Inform, Long-term, Modeling, Post-wildfire, Processes, Rates, Resource, Streamflow, Time, Tools, USGS, Variable, Watershed, Western.

RAPID: Forest fire effects on snow-water storage and downstream water quantity, quality, and timing of availability
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2020; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Kelly Gleason($49,962), Portland State University, Portland
Key terms: Downstream Water Resource, Hydrology And Downstream, Policy And Management, Water Resource Availability, Forest Fires, Forest Structure, Management Decisions, Snow Hydrology, Facilitate, Female, Post-fire, Quality, Quantify, Snow-water, Snowmelt, Soil, Streamflow, Student, Timing.

RAPID: Collaborative Research: Mobilization and transport of contaminants to groundwater in flood-impacted unconnected communities in South Texas following Hurricane Hanna
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2020; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Hussain A Abdulla($58,382), Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi
2. Vikram Kapoor($15,000), University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio
Key terms: Hurricane Hanna, South Texas, Underserved Populations, Water Quality, Advance, Aquifer, Chemical, Coastal, Collect, Contaminants, Contamination, Engage, Flooded, Flooding, Following, Groundwater, Hurricanes, Immediate, Information, Infrastructure, Knowledge, Landfall, Microbial, Pollutants, Potential, STEM, Stakeholders, Storm, Students, Subjected, Underrepresented, Vulnerable.

Collaborative Research: What makes Low-Frequency Earthquakes low frequency?
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2020; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. William B Frank($306,279), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
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.

EAGER Collaborative Research: Testing a new sensor for short term and long term measurement of heat flow in lakes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Michael Manga($10,000), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. Matthew J Hornbach($18,353), Southern Methodist University, Dallas
Key terms: Heat Flow, Lake Floor, Mono Lake, Site Selection, Volcanic Eruptions, Designed, Hazards, Lakes, Monitoring, Probe, Real-time, Settings, Subsurface, Temperature.

Collaborative Research: EAGER: Advancing Pedagogy and Inclusivity through Multimodal Upper Level Geophysics Education
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2020; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Margarete Jadamec($10,417), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
2. Derek L Schutt($5,530), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
3. Stefany Sit($5,556), University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago
4. Tolulope M Olugboji($5,445), University of Rochester, Rochester
Key terms: Build Student Confidence, Level Geophysics Courses, Upper Level Geophysics, Diverse Backgrounds, Pilot Modules, Allow, Attract, Creation, Design, Disciplines, EAGER, Environment, Focus, Students, Teaching, Underrepresented.

RAPID: Collaborative Proposal: Development of Digital Models of Minerals and Rocks for Online Geoscience Classes
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Graham D Andrews($33,227), West Virginia University Research Corporation, Morgantown
2. Matthew E Brueseke($16,864), Kansas State University, Manhattan
Key terms: Additional Specimens, Searchable Database, University-hosted Server, Virtual Specimens, COVID-, Collection, Commercial, Create, Has, Models, Online, Shift, University-hosted.

Collaborative Research: Size, depth and longevity of magma reservoirs under Kilauea's rift zones: Integrating melt inclusion data and thermal modeling
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2020; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Cheryl A Gansecki($397,816), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Paul Wallace($40,743), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Local Population, Magma Pockets, Melt Inclusions, Rift Zone, Academics, Activity, Chemical, Composition, Concentrations, Depth, Directly, Droplets, East, Erupted, Eruptible, Eruption, Hawaii, Information, Kilauea, Lava, Lavas, Magmas, Plumbing, Site, Storage, Stored, Students, Summit, Time, Volcanoes.

RAPID: PetCAT-Scan: A high definition scanning tool for geoscientists in the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2020; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Matthew E Brueseke($169,220), Kansas State University, Manhattan
Key terms: Covid-19 Pandemic, Petcat-scan Facility, Thin Section, Thin Sections, Access, Efforts, Instruction, Kansas, Online, Optical, Petcat-scan, Petrographic, Resources, Virtual.

Collaborative Research: A New Sanidine-Liquid Hygrometer: Experiments, Calibration and Applications
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Gordon M Moore($221,445), Jacobs Technology Inc., Houston
2. Laura Waters($135,252), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
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.

CAREER: Reactivation controls, timescales, and styles at quiescent hotspot volcanoes: Insights from the Canary Islands
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2020; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Marc-Antoine Longpre($513,203), CUNY Queens College, Flushing
Key terms: Olivine And Clinopyroxene, Quiescent Hotspot Volcanoes, Allow Testing, Canary Island, Canary Islands, Crustal Structure, Eruption Forecasting, Eruption Run-up, Eruption Style, Historic Eruptions, Magma Composition, Repose Period, Analysis, Approach, Available, Crystal, Crystals, Deep, Design, Duration, Electron, Images, Inclusions, Magmatic, Natural, Processes, Quantify, Reactivation, Run-up, Students, Timescales, Undergraduate, Variables, —.

RAPID: Collaborative Research: Increased access to infrastructure for distance education in hydrologic science
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2020; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Steven P Loheide($49,611), Indiana University, Bloomington
2. Jerad D Bales($19,569), Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sci, Arlington
3. Tim P Covino($20,552), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Instructors And Students, Covid-19 Pandemic, Distance Education, Educational Resources, Equal Access, Activities, Critical, Developing, Expect, Hydrologic, Instruction, Instructional, Online, Platform, Preparation, Quality, Time, Training, Transition.

RAPID: Hydrologic control on SARS-CoV-2 transfer to streams
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2020; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Daniel M Weinberger($88,155), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Streams And Rivers, Connecticut River, Region Impacted, Stream Networks, Urban Center, Assess, CSO, Coast, Collected, Coronavirus, Effluent, Environmental, Exposure, Has, Hydrologic, Interdisciplinary, Mainstem, Overflow, Particular, Prevalence, Sars-cov-, Set, Sites, Standard, Students, Transfer, Transmission, Virus, Viruses, WWTP, Water.

RAPID: Seismo-acoustic radiation from a local earthquake aftershock sequence: how, when, and why seismic waves cross the ground-atmosphere interface
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2020; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Jacob F Anderson($73,643), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Seismic And Acoustic, Aftershock Sequence, Air Waves, Bsu Network, Earthquake Infrasound, Earthquake-generated Infrasound, Following Day, Infrasound Sensors, Multiple Sites, Pressure Waves, Rock Falls, Seismic Hazards, Seismic Waves, Sensor Network, Aftershocks, Analyses, Atmosphere, Avalanches, Boise, Central, Conversion, Depth, Distances, Earthquake-generated, Earthquakes, Energy, Epicenter, Expanding, Generation, Geophysical, Ground, Has, Idaho, Local, Low, Magnitude, March, Measure, Methods, Monitoring, Mountain, Mountainous, Observed, Originate, Passage, Propagation, Properties, Radiation, Regional, Secondary, Seismometers, Sources, Surrounding, Topographic, Unique.

RAPID: Teaching field geology without classes in the field - providing a robust capstone experience through digital resources
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2020; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Katherine D Ryker($89,945), University of the Pacific, Stockton
Key terms: Education Resource Center, Outcomes And Skills, Virtual Field Camp, Virtual Field Experiences, Capstone Experiences, Covid-19 Pandemic, Geoscience Teachers, National Association, Traditional Field, Virtual Alternatives, Activities, Activity, Approach, Assessment, Build, Building, Cancelled, Challenges, Collection, Collective, Community-derived, Coordinating, Courses, Curricular, Developed, Developing, Development, Digital, Distance, Effort, Expertise, Field-based, High-quality, Infrastructure, Instructors, Integrated, Meet, Objectives, Online, Opportunities, Page, Pedagogical, Potential, Program, Programs, Quickly, Resources, Review, Satisfy, Searchable, Strategies, Students, Successful, Summer, Technologies, Tools, Transition, Undergraduate, Webinars, Website.

4-D Reconstruction of Magmatism at a long-lived Andesite Locus: Goat Rocks Volcanic Complex, Cascade Arc
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2020; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Anthony Koppers($229,380), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Goat Rocks Volcanic, Rocks Volcanic Complex, Composite Volcanoes, Magma Generation, Magmas Stored, Subduction Volcanoes, Volcanic Arc, Cascade, Conditions, Crust, Depth, Development, Exposed, Laboratory, Magmatic, Models, Storage, Time, Washington, Water.

RAPID GPS data acquisition in Jamaica for coseismic and postseismic studies of the Jan. 28, 2020 M=7.7 Oriente Fault earthquake
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2020; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Dennis C DeMets($38,704), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Oriente Fault, Slip Solution, Active, Available, Critical, Cuba, Decades, Earthquake, Faults, GPS, Gather, Geodetic, Interpreting, Jamaica, Magnitude, Modeling, Ruptured, Seismic.

RAPID: Quantifying Post-Seismic Crustal Deformation in Southwestern Puerto Rico
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2020; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Alberto M Lopez($20,321), University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Mayaguez
Key terms: Earthquake Sequence, Earthquake Swarm, Puerto Rico, Critical, Fault, Faults, GPS, Has, Island, January, Magnitude, Mainshock, Motion, Region, Seismic, Sites, Southwestern, Tectonic.

RAPID: Assessing Thermal and Chemical Response of Hot-springs to Puerto Rico’s Continuing 2020 Seismic Sequence
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2020; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Kenneth S Hughes($49,845), University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Mayaguez
Key terms: Coamo Hot Springs, Ongoing Seismic Sequence, Seismic Activity, Water Chemistry, Combined, Daily, Dataset, Discharge, Hydrologic, Provided, Students, Temperature.

Lawsonite: an exceptional geochemical archive in HP/LT rocks
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2020; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Donna L Whitney($358,113), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Oxygen Isotope, Subducting Plates, Subduction Complexes, Subduction Zones, Abundance, Composition, Conditions, Cycle, Depths, HO, Lawsonite, Mantle, Minerals, Oceanic, Rare, Rock, Sources, Subducted, Water, Wt, Zoning.

Collaborative Research: OpenTopography - A cyberinfrastructure facility for advancing geoscience research and education
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2020; Program: nan

1. Chelsea P Scott($394,525), Arizona State University, Tempe
2. Viswanath Nandigam($1,587,242), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
3. Christopher J Crosby($871,239), Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Washington
Key terms: Processing Tools, Resolution Topography, Access, Continue, Education, Opentopography, Surface, Training.

CUAHSI: PROMOTING DISCOVERY IN WATER SCIENCE THROUGH DATA, MODELING, AND COMMUNITY SERVICES
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2019; Program: nan

1. Steven P Loheide($13,727,247), Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sci, Arlington
Key terms: Student Travel Grants, Graduate Students, Access, Activities, Advancement, CUAHSI, Complex, Consortium, Cuahsis, Hosts, Hydrologic, Inc, Infrastructure, Instrumentation, Interdisciplinary, Modeling, Outreach, Public, Services, Training, Universities, User, Water.

Enabling Discoveries in Multiscale Earth System Dynamics: Geodetic Facility for the Advancement of Geoscience (GAGE)-NASA Scope
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2018; Program: nan

1. David J Mencin($5,237,302), Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Washington
2. David J Mencin($5,952,171), Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Washington
3. David J Mencin($62,406,629), Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Washington
Key terms: Manage And Operate, Environmental Management, Gage Facility, Geodetic Capabilities, Water Storage, Workforce Development, Administration, Advances, Atmosphere, Continent, Distribution, Dynamics, Education, Enable, GNSS, Geophysical, Geosciences, Instrumentation, Interactions, NOTA, National, Positioning, Processes, Products, Provided, Public, Set, Stations, Technology, Time, Transportation, UNAVCO, Warning.

NSF-GEO-EAR Awards for 2020

Collaborative Research: Network Cluster: Quantifying controls and feedbacks of dynamic storage on critical zone processes in western montane watersheds Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

Collaborative Research: Network Cluster: Urban Critical Zone processes along the Piedmont-Coastal Plain transition Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

RUI: Collaborative Research: Network Cluster: Dust in the Critical Zone from the Great Basin to the Rocky Mountains Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

Collaborative Research: Network Cluster: Bedrock controls on the deep critical zone, landscapes, and ecosystems Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

Collaborative Research: Network Cluster: Geomicrobiology and Biogeochemistry in the Critical Zone Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

Network Cluster: Patterns and controls of ecohydrology, CO2 fluxes, and nutrient availability in pedogenic carbonate-dominated dryland critical zones Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

Network Cluster CINet: Critical Interface Network in Intensively Managed Landscapes Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

Collaborative Research: Network Hub: Enabling, Supporting, and Communicating Critical Zone Research. Award Effective Date: 08/31/2020; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

RUI: Groundwater occurrence and discharge at coral atoll and barrier reef systems Award Effective Date: 04/01/2020; Program: Chemical Oceanography

RAISE-SitS: Designing models to forecast how biogeochemical fluctuations in soil systems govern soil development, terrestrial water storage and ecosystem nutrient fluxes Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: Cross-BIO Activities

The Seismic Response of Mexico City Using Fiber-Optic Seismology Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

Collaborative Research: Evaluating fault creep in California using geodetic and seismic observations Award Effective Date: 08/10/2020; Program: EARTHSCOPE

Collaborative Research: Early Career Geoscience Faculty Development Workshop: A partnership between NAGT and NSF Award Effective Date: 09/15/2020; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Collaborative Research: REU Site: Resilience and Adaptation to Coastal Change Across Virtual Communities (C2-Virtual-C) Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

REU Site: Water sustainability in the urban environment: Improving the sustainable use of water through interdisciplinary research Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

REU Site: Interdisciplinary Problem Solving in Human Dominated Wetland Ecosystems Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

REU Site: Stakeholder Informed Modeling of Innovations in the Food, Energy, and Water (FEW) Nexus Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

REU Site: Statistical Models with Applications to Geoscience Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER: Stress, deformation and seismicity in continental interiors: Testing the "weak zone" hypothesis Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER: Unraveling the Multiscale Asymptotic Dynamics of Planetary Dynamos Award Effective Date: 05/01/2020; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER: Deciphering the mechanisms of forearc basin formation by engaging undergraduate and middle school students in field and analytical geoscience research Award Effective Date: 03/15/2020; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Collaborative Research: Reproducible research and educational software for geoscience data analysis in spherical and planar geometry Award Effective Date: 11/08/2019; Program: EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE

CAREER: Path Dependent Slip of the Shallow Subduction Megathrust Award Effective Date: 03/01/2020; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

NSF/GEO-NERC: Fungi in a Warmer World Award Effective Date: 01/01/2021; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: A place-based, student-led research project in the Pioneer Mountains, Montana: an investigation of very dry, alpine glaciation proximal to the Laurentide Ic Award Effective Date: 09/15/2020; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: Network Cluster: Using Big Data approaches to assess ecohydrological resilience across scales Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: Network Cluster: The Coastal Critical Zone: Processes that transform landscapes and fluxes between land and sea Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

EAR-PF: Nitrogen processing in Arctic deltas and role of channel network orientation on flux to the coast Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

EAR/IF: Acquisition of Bench Top SEM and Field Equipment for Research and Teaching Award Effective Date: 08/15/2020; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

MRI: Acquisition of a Next Generation Noble Gas Multi-collector Mass Spectrometer System to Support Fundamental and Applied Geochronology Research and Education Award Effective Date: 08/15/2020; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: Understanding the Drivers of Microbial Survival and Autotrophy in a Characteristically Marine and Terrestrial Serpentinizing System–Ney’s Spring Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

EAR-PF: Investigating the lithospheric structure and the origins of seismic anomalies in the Southwestern United States using a joint seismic analysis Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

REU Site: Earth Science on Volcanic Islands Award Effective Date: 06/15/2020; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

CAREER: Understanding the dynamics and predictability of land-to-aquatic nitrogen loading under climate extremes by combining deep learning with process-based modeling Award Effective Date: 05/15/2020; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Constraints on genetic relationships between organic-rich black shales and Zn-Pb mineralization in the Mid-Continent Region, U.S.A. Award Effective Date: 03/15/2020; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: Data Fusion for Characterizing and Understanding Water Flow Systems in Karst Aquifers Award Effective Date: 03/01/2020; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

RAPID: Collaborative Research: Hydrologically driven export of pyrogenic carbon and nutrients in fire-impacted watersheds Award Effective Date: 11/15/2020; Program: Ecosystem Science

RAPID: Impact of CoVID-19 Stay-at-Home Orders on urban stream quality in Denver Metro Area with application for future urban living scenarios Award Effective Date: 05/15/2020; Program: EnvS-Environmtl Sustainability

Collaborative Research: The influence of climate and tectonics on Miocene ecosystems and faunal evolution in the East African Rift, Kenya Award Effective Date: 01/01/2021; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

Collaborative Research: Dry Rifting In the Albertine-Rhino graben (DRIAR), Uganda Award Effective Date: 12/01/2020; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

Collaborative Research: Evaluating Climate Change and Kill Mechanisms Associated with the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction: A Model-Data Comparison Approach Award Effective Date: 09/15/2020; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

NSFGEO-NERC Collaborative Research: Coupling Erosion, Weathering, and Hydrologic Function in an Active Orogenic System Award Effective Date: 09/15/2020; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

Collaborative Research: Co-evolution of Earth and life across the Proterozoic-Phanerozoic transition: Integrated perspectives from outcrop and drill core Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

Collaborative Research: TransANdean Great Orogeny (TANGO) Award Effective Date: 08/15/2020; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

Collaborative Research: New science, tools, and observations to couple geodesy with hydrology for modeling, water storage change, and streamflow forecasting in mountain watersheds Award Effective Date: 07/15/2020; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

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

Collaborative Research: River Morphology Data and Analysis Tools (RiverMorph): A Web Platform for Enabling River Morphology Research Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

Collaborative Research: PReSto: A Paleoclimate Reconstruction Storehouse to Broaden Access and Accelerate Scientific Inference Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

A Sustainable Plan for the Future of the Generic Mapping Tools Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

Collaborative Research: Geoinformatics: Facility: Paleobiology Database: Preserving and Presenting Ancient Data for Future Research Award Effective Date: 06/01/2020; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

Collaborative Research: Neotoma Paleoecology Database, a Multi-Proxy, International, Community-Curated Data Resource for Global Change Research Award Effective Date: 06/01/2020; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

Collaborative Research: Community tools for automated paleoenvironmental interpretation from sedimentary field data Award Effective Date: 06/01/2020; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

Collaborative research: Implementation of Tensor Visualization guide (TVguide), an interactive visualization, analysis and database tool for seismic anisotropy Award Effective Date: 06/01/2020; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

Collaborative Research: EarthChem & SESAR - Data Infrastructure for Geochemistry and Earth Science Samples Communities Award Effective Date: 05/15/2020; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

Laboratory Acquisition Protocols and Standards (LAPS): A Standardized Digital Data System for Experimental Results Award Effective Date: 05/15/2020; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

Support for a 3D Magnetotelluric Inversion Facility Award Effective Date: 05/15/2020; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

WORM: The Water-Organic-Rock-Microbe Reaction Modeling Ecosystem Award Effective Date: 05/01/2020; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

Geoinformatics Facility: Integration of alphaMELTS petrologic software with flexible modeling environments Award Effective Date: 04/15/2020; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: GI CATALYTIC TRACK: Cyberinfrastructure for Intelligent High-Resolution Snow Cover Inference from Cubesat Imagery Award Effective Date: 04/01/2020; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

Collaborative Research: Response of the Tropical Pacific to the Abrupt Climate Change Event 8,200 Years Ago Award Effective Date: 10/01/2020; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

Collaborative Research: Neotropical climate and environmental change over 400ka of glacial-interglacial cycles from Lake Peten Itza Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

P2C2: Collaborative Research: Timing of the Glacial Termination in Southernmost South America Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

Orbital to millennial-scale variability of the Southern Hemisphere Westerlies over the last glacial cycle Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

Collaborative Research: Rapid Climate Change During the Miocene as a benchmark to understand future climate change Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

Collaborative Research: Rapid Climate Change During the Miocene Climate Optimum: A Proxy-Model Comparison Award Effective Date: 08/01/2020; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

A new high-resolution stratigraphic record of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in the Eastern Tethys Award Effective Date: 07/15/2020; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

P2C2: Collaborative Research: Transient forcing of the Local Last Glacial Maximum in the tropical Peruvian Andes Award Effective Date: 06/15/2020; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

Cooperative Institute for Dynamic Earth Research: Fluid and Magma Transport at Plate Boundaries Award Effective Date: 01/01/2021; Program: GeoPRISMS

Synthesizing emerging results and identifying future research in an early-stage, magma-poor rift: A workshop in the southern East Africa Rift System Award Effective Date: 10/01/2020; Program: GeoPRISMS

Quantifying Carbon in the Mantle Lithosphere: Concentration, sources, and forms of carbon stored in carbonates and fluid inclusions Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: GeoPRISMS

Collaborative Research: Synthesizing arc-scale geochemical, petrologic, and geophysical datasets to investigate causes of volcanic diversity in the Cascade Arc Award Effective Date: 07/01/2020; Program: GeoPRISMS

Support for the 2020 Gordon Research Conference/Seminar on Rock Deformation: Combining Laboratory Measurements with Observational Constraints to Understand Tectonic Processes Award Effective Date: 06/01/2020; Program: GeoPRISMS

Contrasting active magma- and fault-dominated segments of the East African Rift through the synthesis of InSAR and GPS time series: Implications for rifting dynamics and hazards Award Effective Date: 05/01/2020; Program: GeoPRISMS

Constraining properties of pyroclastic density currents with remote infrasound and seismic observations Award Effective Date: 04/01/2020; Program: GeoPRISMS

Collaborative Research: Evaluating The Exhumation History of the Aleutians with Zircon And Apatite Thermochronology Award Effective Date: 03/15/2020; Program: GeoPRISMS

Collaborative Research: Constraining the thermal conditions of the subduction interface by integrating petrology and geodynamics Award Effective Date: 10/01/2019; Program: GeoPRISMS

EAR-PF: Seeing through carbonate diagenesis using the triple oxygen isotope system Award Effective Date: 02/01/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

SitS: Collaborative Research: Soils are signaling shifts in aggregate life-cycles: What does this mean for water, carbon and climate feedbacks in the Anthropocene? Award Effective Date: 01/15/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Does Sediment Storage Set the Pace of the Terrestrial Organic Carbon Cycle? Award Effective Date: 01/01/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem