Collaborative Research: RAPID: Response to the 29 July 2021 Chignik M8.2 Earthquake
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Songqiao Wei($72,419), Michigan State University, East Lansing
2. Geoffrey A Abers($81,567), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Alaska Peninsula, Chignik Earthquake, Behavior, Critical, Deformation, Earthquakes, Fault, Geodetic, Hazard, Nearby, Rapidly, Rupture, Ruptured, Segment, Segmentation, Segments, Seismic, Theories, Tsunami.

HIGH TEMPERATURE MAGMATIC GAS: MINERAL DEPOSITION AND GAS/WALLROCK REACTION
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Paul Northrup($405,230), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Magmatic Gaswallrock Reaction, Ore Deposits, Vapor-deposited Minerals, Vapor-deposited Phases, Volcanic Activity, Volcanic Gas, Boiling, Bulk, Characterize, Chemical, Dissolved, Experimental, Experiments, Formation, Has, Industry, Laboratory, Load, Lost, Metal, Natural, Nature, Planetary, Precipitation, Produced, Rhyolite, Rock, Simulate, Subvolcanic, Temperature, Trace, Transport, Vapor-deposited, X-ray.

Geodetic Characterization of the Easternmost Alaska Subduction Zone
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2021; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

1. Julie Elliott($87,129), Michigan State University, East Lansing
Key terms: Alaska Subduction Zone, Continuous Gps Sites, Easternmost Alaska Subduction, Slab And Upper, Upper Plate Deformation, Campaign Sites, Earthquake Activity, Region's Tectonics, Subduction Interface, Subduction Zones, Behavior, Beneath, Characteristics, Coupling, Does, Evidence, Existing, Found, Geometries, Geometry, Larger, Leading, Locked, Magnitude, Observed, Past, Plates, Processes, Regions, Relate, Released, Seismic, Seismicity, Slip, Slow-slip, Strain, Subducting, Teachers, Transient.

REU Site: Collaborative Research: Earth and Planetary Science and Astrophysics REU at the American Museum of Natural History in Collaboration with the City University of New York
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2022; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Nathalie F Goodkin($339,518), American Museum Natural History, New York
2. Timothy A Paglione($42,429), CUNY Graduate School University Center, New York
Key terms: AMNH, Activities, CUNY, City, Experimental, Museum, Public, REU, Site, Students, Theoretical, Urban, York.

REU Site: Collaborative Research: Research Opportunities in Rock Deformation
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2022; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Lars Hansen($32,208), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
2. Heather M Savage($64,121), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
3. Philip Skemer($359,067), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Experimental Rock Deformation, Field Session, Reu Site, Senior Participants, Undergraduate Students, Access, Development, Diverse, Engineering, Geology, Increase, Labs, Methods, Opportunities, Pis, Programs, Strength, Summer, Training.

REU Site: Inclusive Student Training in Rapidly Urbanizing Climate-sensitive Terrains (InSTRUCT)
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2021; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Dev Niyogi($402,261), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Texas Region, Urban Populations, Challenge, Climate, Design, Diverse, Ecosystems, Engineering, Environmental, Focus, Geosciences, Growth, Human, Hydrology, Inclusive, Individual, Interdisciplinary, Natural, Past, Perspectives, Planning, Program, Quality, Rapid, Resources, STEM, Social-engineered, Student, Students, Subsystems, Sustainability, Theme, Themes, Water.

REU Site: Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Cave and Karst Science (U-ROCKS)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Angel A Garcia($349,914), James Madison University, Harrisonburg
Key terms: Cave And Karst, Drinking Water, Karst Aquifers, Reu Site, Surface Features, U-rocks Program, Water Resources, Accomplished, Analysis, Broad, Cohort, Development, Diverse, Experience, Focus, Independent, Jmu’s, Land, Mentored, Mentoring, Multi-disciplinary, Original, Personal, Students, U-ROCKS, Undergraduate, Workshop, Workshops.

REU Site: Summer Opportunities in Agricultural Research & the Environment: Strategic Work in Applied Geoscience (SOARE: SWAG)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Candice Duncan($450,239), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Applied Geoscience, Geoscience Field, Graduate Programs, Summer Program, Activities, Designed, Experience, Faculty, Fellows, Hands-on, Hbcus, Increase, Mentors, Minoritized, Msis, Opportunities, REU, SOARE, SWAG, Skills, Social, Students, Topics, UMD, Workshops.

CAREER: Paleoseismicity along the North American-Caribbean Plate Boundary: Research, Education and Outreach
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Jonathan Obrist Farner($699,632), Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla
Key terms: Elementary And Middle, Intracontinental Strike-slip Fault, Strike-slip Plate Boundary, Earthquake History, Five Lakes, Geoscience Workforce, Intracontinental Strike-slip, Middle School, San Andreas, Strike-slip Fault, Strike-slip Plate, Acquisition, Audience, Development, Earthquakes, Educational, Evolution, Frequency, Geophysical, Governing, Graduate, Guatemala, Guatemalan, Information, International, Investigations, K-, Missouri, North, Opportunities, Past, Processes, Reach, Sedimentological, Seismic, Similar, Students, Teachers, Training, Undergraduate, Workshops.

REU Site: Undergraduate Research Pathways That Broaden and Strengthen the Geosciences
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Cameron Davidson($642,244), Macalester College, Saint Paul
Key terms: Field And Laboratory, Keck Geology Consortium, Consortium Programs, Broaden, Designed, Development, Discipline, Experiences, Gateway, Geoscience, Geosciences, Knowledge, Mix, Participants, Prepare, Rising, Skills, Students, Undergraduate, Underrepresented, Ylong.

Conference Proposal: GA-5: Data Science in Indian Country
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2021; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Nievita Bueno Watts($99,737), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Alaska Natives, Ga-5 Conference, Geoscience Alliance, Native Americans, North Carolina, Agenda, Critical, Disciplines, Discussions, Environmental, Focus, Geosciences, Knowledge, National, Participants, Participation, Perspectives, Practices, Programs, Students, Underrepresented, Voices.

Collaborative Research: Sustainable Land and Water Resources - A Community Based Participatory Research Experience for Undergraduates
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2021; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Diana M Dalbotten($343,273), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
2. Antony R Berthelote($307,805), Salish Kootenai College, Pablo
Key terms: Students And Students, Building Knowledge, Increasing Participation, Program Design, Resource Management, Reu Site, Water Resources, Broader, CBPR, Capacity, Developed, Developing, Diverse, Focused, Geosciences, Increase, Intellectual, Interdisciplinary, Mentoring, Mentors, Methods, Native, Non-traditional, Paradigm, Participants, Pis, Process, Reus, STEM, Themselves, Transformative, Tribal, Undergraduate, Underrepresented.

Collaborative research: How variable is magma decompression rate during a single eruption?
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2021; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Kristina J Walowski($76,402), Western Washington University, Bellingham
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, California, Control, Density, Developed, Eruption, Gradients, Techniques, Temporal, Tephra, Time, Transition.

CAREER - Winding up our crystal clocks: Experimental studies of element diffusion in igneous minerals
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2021; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Thomas Shea($606,707), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Diffusion Chronometry, Laboratory Experiments, Magmatic Timescales, Solid Couples, Undergraduate Students, Aid, Analytical, Available, Carry, Chemical, Coefficients, Diffusivities, Directly, Diversity, Educational, Eruption, Experimental, Experimentation, Extract, Gradients, Has, Increasing, Involving, Magmas, Method, Minerals, Natural, Olivine, Operate, Outreach, Processes, Rate, Reservoirs, STEM, School, Technique, Temperature, Theme.

CAREER: Developing a Multi-Parameter Seismic Model of North America
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2021; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Hejun Zhu($450,567), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
Key terms: Developed Comprehensive Model, Graduate And Undergraduate, Mantle Transition Zone, Multi-parameter Seismic Model, Azimuthal Anisotropy, Jointly Interpreting, Multi-parameter Seismic, School Students, Undergraduate Students, Waveform Inversion, Aims, Attenuation, Deformation, Distribution, Enable, Enables, Has, High-quality, North, Parameters, Promote, Resolution, Summer, Uncertainty, Usarray, Water.

Sustaining URGE (Unlearning Racism in Geosciences)
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2021; Program: EDUCATIONAL LINKAGES

1. Vanshan D Wright($119,188), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Geoscientists Unlearn Racism, Journal-reading And Policy-design, Policies And Strategies, Anti-racist Policies, Community-wide Journal-reading, Expert Opinions, Policy-design Curriculum, Unlearning Racism, Accessibility, Anti-racist, Belonging, Community-wide, Developed, Discipline, Diversity, Equity, Geoscience, Geosciences, Inclusion, JEDI, Justice, Knowledge, Literature, Long-term, Meetings, National, Program, Session, Sixteen-week, Structure, URGE, Urge’s.

Acquisition of Inductively-Coupled Plasma Optical Emission and X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometers for Geoscience Research at North Dakota State University
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Scott A Wood($202,374), North Dakota State University Fargo, Fargo
Key terms: Icp-oes And Xrf, North Dakota, Analytical, Chemical, Faculty, Geoscience, Instruments, Involving, NDSU, Natural, Program, Soil, Spectrometer, Students, Water.

MRI: Acquisition of a Multi-Channel Ion Chromatograph to Support Geochemical and Environmental Research
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Christopher H Gammons($180,058), Montana Technological University, Butte
Key terms: Analysis, Environmental, IC, Local, Metal, Program, Remediation, Students.

CAREER: Mapping Anthropocene Geomorphology with Deep Learning, Big Data Spatial Analytics, and LiDAR
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Aaron E Maxwell($340,555), West Virginia University Research Corporation, Morgantown
Key terms: Anthropogenic Landscape, Geomorphic Mapping, Advance, Application, Deep, Digital, Elevation, Extract, Generating, Geospatial, Historic, Information, Maps, Methods, Natural, Program, School, Spatial, Students, Teachers, Techniques, Terrain, Topographic, Training.

EAR-PF: Active Tectonics and Crustal Structure of Northern Alaska
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Bryant Chow($174,000), Chow, Bryant, Wellington
Key terms: Ear Postdoctoral Fellowship, Adjoint Tomography, Crustal Structure, Earthquake Hazard, Northeastern Alaska, Northern Alaska, Plate Boundaries, Waveform Simulations, Activity, Characterize, Comprehensive, Constrain, Deformation, Detailed, Earthquakes, Earth’s, Has, High-resolution, Inversion, Investigate, Investigation, Involves, Local, Model, Models, Plates, Processes, Program, Region, Resolution, Seismic, Seismicity, Subsequent, Surface, Tectonic, Velocity.

Upgrade of Scanning Electron Microscopy Facilities at Montana State University: Supporting Research on the Lithosphere, Cryosphere, and Critical Zone
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2021; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Madison Myers($488,500), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Analytical Capabilities, Characterization, Class, Detector, Development, Electron, Future, Instrumentation, Mapping, Montana, National, Prepare, Processes, Program, Rock, Student.

MCA: Advances in Understanding the Biogeochemical Evolution of Serpentinites (AUBES)
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Dawn Cardace($250,644), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Microbial Life, Activity, Ancient, Carbon, Chemistry, Durable, Earth’s, Edge, Energy, Fracture, Geochemical, Iron, Metals, Mineral, Minerals, Multiple, Program, Rock, Tools.

CAREER: Hillslope Morphology Never Stops: Validating Hillslope Evolution Models on Transport Limited, Low Relief Landscapes
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Bradley A Miller($470,687), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: Geomorphology And Soil, Hillslope Erosion-deposition Models, Crop Productivity, Erosion-deposition Models, Hillslope Erosion-deposition, Soil Properties, Agricultural, Climate, Content, Effects, Elevation, Landscape, Landscapes, Predict, Program, Rate, Rates, Relief, Topographic.

Constraining Transcrustal Magmatic Systems with Receiver Functions Along the Aleutian Island Arc
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Helen A Janiszewski($296,022), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Aleutian Island Arc, Arc Volcanoes, Beneath Volcanoes, Crustal Magmatic, Magma Storage, Magmatic Storage, Receiver Functions, Alaska, Aleutians, Analysis, Arcs, Calculate, Depth, Eruption, Future, Image, Imaging, Low, Monitoring, Plate, Plumbing, Primary, Priority, Relatively, Seismic, Slab, Structure, Subducting, Technique, Transect, Velocity, Volcanic.

EAR-PF: The optimization of SPC-POU filter and its application of well water treatment within Indigenous lands.
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Ranalda L Tsosie($174,000), Tsosie, Ranalda L, Missoula
Key terms: Arsenic Contamination Issues, Unregulated Water Sources, Navajo Reservation, Has, Households, Montana, Remediation.

CAREER: Topographic Controls on Overmarsh Circulation and Sedimentation along a Salt Marsh - Forest Continuum
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Jessica C Sullivan($641,566), University of South Carolina at Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Coastal Zone, Hydraulic Connectivity, Marsh Topography, Residence Times, Salt Marsh, Sea-level Rise, Continuum, Controls, Designed, Development, Field, Flows, Inland, Issues, Marshes, Natural, Overmarsh, Program, Public, Rates, Sea-level, Sedimentation, Stability, Undergraduate, Water.

Upgrade of an Isotope Ratio/Mass Spectrometer for Compound-Specific Isotope Analysis in Organic Biogeochemical Research
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Ann S Ojeda($110,081), Auburn University, Auburn
Key terms: Carbon And Hydrogen, Compound-specific Isotope, Isotope Signatures, Organic Molecules, Acquire, Allow, Analytical, Auburn, CSIA, Climate, Compounds, Existing, GC, Hydrocarbons, IRMS, Instrument, Interdisciplinary, Rock, Skills, Sources, Students, Thermo, Thesis, Transformations, Upgrade.

Acquisition of a SEM-EDS-CL microanalytical system for research, teaching, and outreach in Geology at Colby College, a Primarily Undergraduate Institution (PUI)
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Tasha L Dunn($299,500), Colby College, Waterville
Key terms: Immersive Summer Program, Incoming First-year Students, First-year Students, Geology Department, Geology Faculty, Incoming First-year, Stem Fields, Acquisition, Colby, Colby’s, Detector, Disadvantaged, Dust, Fault, Incorporate, Increasing, Instrument, Meteorites, Ongoing, Overall, Programs, Rock, SEM, Teaching, Undergraduate, Underrepresented, Volcanic.

EAR-PF: Deciphering the Timescales of Metamorphism via Size Sorted Garnet Geochronology
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Alexandra B Nagurney($57,834), Nagurney, Alexandra Bobiak, Blacksburg
Key terms: Blue Ridge Terrane, Ear Postdoctoral Fellowship, Size Sorted Garnet, Sorted Garnet Geochronology, Western Blue Ridge, Garnet Crystallization, Garnet Crystals, Metamorphic Rocks, North Carolina, Time Scales, Appalachian, Crust, Driven, Duration, Heat, Lithosphere, Mechanisms, Metamorphism, Million, NSF, Nature, Orogenesis, Processes, Program, Protracted, Pulsed, Textural, Via.

Development of a proof-of-concept geoelectric monitoring system for advancing research and education in hydrogeophysics at Boise State University
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. James P McNamara($123,242), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Hydrogeophysical Instrument, Boise, Electric, Field, Geoelectrical, Geophysical, Hydrological, Integrated, Integrating, Laboratory, Measure, Planned, Probes, Soil, Traditional.

CAREER: Fluid-driven Deformation in Underground Salt Caverns and Wastewater Injection Sites
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2021; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Patricia Persaud($415,769), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Oil And Gas, Aseismic Deformation, Baton Rouge, Crustal Deformation, Human Activities, Induced Earthquakes, Wastewater Injection, Assessing, Detecting, Expected, Exploration, Geophysical, Geophysics, Has, Hazards, Integrated, Levels, Louisiana, Monitoring, Multiple, Oklahoma, Program, Region, Regions, Risks, Seismic, Seismicity, Storage, Students, Subsurface, Underground.

Pore-scale machine-learning modeling of flow and transport properties of carbonate rocks
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2021; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Javier Vilcaez($282,444), Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
Key terms: 3d Pore Microstructures, Deterministic Model Equations, Flow And Transport, Fossil Fuel Resources, Groundwater And Fossil, Pore Size Distribution, 3d Pore, Carbonate Reservoirs, Carbonate Rocks, Optimum Strategies, Petrophysical Properties, Pore Connectivity, Transport Properties, Approach, Capture, Consists, Machine, Obtained, Program, Stochastic, Technologies, Thousands.

CAREER: Integrating geology and metallurgy for efficient, sustainable production of critical elements for the green economy
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2021; Program: EnvS-Environmtl Sustainability

1. Isabel F Barton($425,780), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Complex Mineralogy, Energy Metals, Low-carbon Energy, Mineral Properties, Mineral Resources, Optimized Extraction, Ore Mineral, Ore Zones, Approach, Cobalt, Composition, Critical, Deposits, Detailed, Economy, Enabling, Experiments, Extractive, Geological, Geometallurgical, Low-carbon, Metallurgical, Ores, Processes, Supply, Sustainable, Uranium, Vanadium.

CAREER: Science and Education for Connecting Urban Irrigation Efficiency to Streamflow in Semi-Arid Cities
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2021; Program: EnvS-Environmtl Sustainability

1. Aditi S Bhaskar($286,307), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Reduced Urban Irrigation, Reducing Urban Water, Environmental Sustainability, Lawn Irrigation, River Basins, Semi-arid Cities, Semi-arid Urban, Colorado, Critical, Effects, Efficiency, Flowing, Groundwater, Growing, Hydrologic, Less, Limited, Play, Runoff, Scarce, Semi-arid, Streamflow, Streams, Students, Surface, Watersheds.

Collaborative Research: Characterizing and quantifying carbon sequestration processes across the Andean Convergent Margin
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2022; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

1. Karen G Lloyd($500,761), University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville
2. Peter Barry($634,711), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
3. Joost M de Moor($187,307), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Involves Substantive Collaboration, Biological Carbon, Carbon Sequestration, Convergent Margins, Deep Carbon, Earth’s Interior, Earth’s Surface, International Workshop, ACM, Arc, Biomass, CVZ, Calcite, Central, Chemosynthesis, Chile, Colleagues, Crust, Earth’s, Efficiency, Exterior, Geochemical, Has, Mantle, Microbial, Pis, Plate, Processes, Reservoirs, Sinks, Slab, Students, Subduction, Subsurface, Supported, Volatile.

Collaborative Research: Toward an integrated modeling framework for physics-based estimates of megathrust rupture potential
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

1. Adrien Arnulf($1,174,739), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Alice-Agnes Gabriel($511,963), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
3. Kaj M Johnson($235,444), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Computational Geoscience, Optimal Observational, Subduction Zone, Approaches, Behavior, Cascadia, Constraints, Earthquakes, Effort, Efforts, Enhance, Focus, Future, Geological, Hazard, Interdisciplinary, Japan, Leverage, Modeling, Models, Numerical, Observations, Parameters, Pathways, Physics, Seeks, Software, Strategies, Students, Tutorials, Uncertainties, Zealand.

Collaborative Research: Testing the reduction of aerobic habitat as a common kill mechanism for major mass extinction events
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

1. Curtis Deutsch($228,080), Princeton University, Princeton
2. Andrew Ridgwell($166,994), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
3. Jonathan Payne($602,541), Stanford University, Stanford
4. Ariel D Anbar($231,457), Arizona State University, Tempe
5. Zunli Lu($488,302), Syracuse University, Syracuse
6. Clara L Blattler($300,000), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Animal Respiration, Mass Extinction, Ocean Conditions, Differences, Environmental, Explained, Fossil, Intensity, Marine, Model, Students, Taxonomic.

Collaborative Research: Ice Forcing in Arc Magma Plumbing Systems (IF-AMPS)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

1. Marissa M Tremblay($106,613), Purdue University, West Lafayette
2. Joshua Cuzzone($214,006), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
3. Bradley S Singer($1,511,770), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
4. Benjamin R Edwards($94,945), Dickinson College, Carlisle
5. Christian Huber($208,000), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Ice Sheet, Numerical Model, Numerical Models, Six Volcanoes, Stored Magma, Ago, Aim, Behavior, Chile, Climate, Composition, Crust, Erosion, Eruption, Evolution, Forcing, Geochemical, Growth, Investigate, Loading, Observations, Rapid, Rates, Reservoirs, Retreat, Sensitivity, Students, Surface, Volatile.

Collaborative Research: Evolution of Subsurface Microbe-Rock-Fluid Systems
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

1. Magdalena R Osburn($470,239), Northwestern University, Evanston
2. Jennifer C McIntosh($1,361,525), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Deep Biosphere, Earth’s Crust, Earth’s Surface, Energy Resources, Fluid-rock Reactions, Geologic Time, Microbial Activity, Microbial Habitability, Microbial Life, Subsurface Microbe-rock-fluid, Subsurface Microbial, Conditions, Earth’s, Evolution, Fluid-rock, Fluids, History, Microbe-rock-fluid, Mineral, Students, Water.

Collaborative Research: Evaluating Climate Change and Kill Mechanisms Associated with the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction: A Model-Data Comparison Approach
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

1. Cheryl S Harrison($439,432), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
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.

Collaborative Proposal: CO2PIP — A Community Project to advance and standardize approaches to paleo-CO2 reconstruction and build the next-generation Phanerozoic record
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

1. Lydia B Chilton($455,144), Columbia University, New York
2. Gabriel J Bowen($604,948), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
3. Katharine Huntington($148,388), University of Washington, Seattle
4. Dana L Royer($530,743), Wesleyan University, Middletown
5. Isabel P Montañez($787,072), University of California-Davis, Davis
6. Daniel O Breecker($462,314), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Atmospheric Co2 Concentrations, Co2 Proxy, Half Billion, Advance, Ancient, Broader, Build, Conditions, Ensure, Estimates, History, Individual, Models, Paleo-co, Past, Proxies, Quantitative, Reconstruction, Robust, Statistically, Students.

Collaborative Research: GCR: Co-Defining Climate Refugia to Inform the Management of Mountain Headwater Systems
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2021; Program: GCR-Growing Convergence Resear

1. Flavio Lehner($4,160), Cornell University, Ithaca
2. William R Wieder($102,313), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
3. Katharine C Kelsey($135,491), University of Colorado at Denver-Downtown Campus, Denver
4. Andrew Parsekian($181,357), University of Wyoming, Laramie
5. Amanda Carrico($1,056,731), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Inform Land Management, Land Management Decisions, Ecosystem Services, Land Managers, Climate, Decision-makers, Framework, Future, Model, Predict, Projections, Public, Refugia, Resources, Sustainable, Value, Water.

Collaborative Research: GCR: Responsible Critical Elements: Transforming Earth Resource Development for a Carbon-Neutral Future
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2021; Program: GCR-Growing Convergence Resear

1. Kathleen Hilimire($290,635), Fort Lewis College, Durango
2. Robin J Bullock($3,286,060), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: Geochemistry Program, Renewable Energy, Resource Development, Approach, Approaches, Critical, Economic, Engineering, Environmental, Extractive, Mineral, Mining, Recovery, Required, Resources, Secure, Social, Supply, Transition.

Microswarms: a lens into fault structure and aseismic processes deep in Southern California’s crust
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2021; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Zachary E Ross($342,205), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Earthquake Swarms, Fault Zones, Non-tectonic Factors, Permeability Architecture, Southern California, Algorithms, Aseismic, Crust, Deep, Driven, Driving, Duration, Earthquakes, Episodes, Evolution, Examined, Microswarms, Months, Non-tectonic, Processes, Quantify, Regional, Seismic, Sequences, Structural, Time, Unknown.

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. Jonathan K Nelson($197,225), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
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: Neotoma Paleoecology Database, Community-led Cyberinfrastructure for Global Change Research
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Jonathan K Nelson($305,320), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Development, Engagement, Faunal, Geoinformatics, Neotoma, Platform, Promote, Stewards, Tools.

Collaborative Research: A Continuous 60,000 Year Sediment Record Documenting Abrupt to Precession-Scale Climate Change and Ecosystem Response at Fish Lake UT, Upper CO River Basin
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. David W Marchetti($78,191), Western Colorado University, Gunnison
2. Gregory E Lasher($437,358), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
3. Mitchell J Power($300,372), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Biogenic Silica, Fish Lake, Molecular Fossils, Attention, Charcoal, Climate, Core, Drought, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Glycerol, Has, Increased, Investigated, Organic, Past, People, Pollen, Precipitation, Scanning, Sediment, Stress, Temperature, Water, Western, Wildfire, XRF.

Collaborative Research: Quantitative Reconstructions of Last Millennium Hydroclimate and Temperature from the Tropical High Andes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Isla S Castaneda($93,064), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
2. Bronwen Konecky($268,845), Washington University, Saint Louis
3. Mathias Vuille($95,900), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Temperature And Precipitation, Ice Cap, Ice Cores, Andean, Andes, Century, Climate, Glycerol, Instrumental, Lake, Lakes, Leaf, Local, Model, Models, Moisture, Mountain, Past, Period, Quelccaya, Reconstruct, Reconstructions, Resources, Sediments, Simulations, Tropical, Δdprecip, Δoprecip.

Collaborative Research: Probing Causal Links Among Volcanism, Dust, and Carbon Burial in the Permian - a Harbinger of the Future?
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Ying Cui($62,230), Montclair State University, Montclair
2. Kelly K Feille($363,742), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Atmospheric Dust, Carbon Cycle, Earth’s Climate, Explosive Volcanism, Ice Sheets, Intentional Geoengineering, Marine Ecosystems, Micronutrient Content, Mineral Dusts, Abundant, Affected, Behavior, Biosphere, Consequences, Development, Earth’s, Enhanced, Equatorial, Increase, Nutrient, Potential, Prepare, Students, Volcanic, —.

Collaborative Research: Investigating Inter-Hemispheric Phasing of Tropical Andean Hydroclimate in Response to Holocene Orbital Forcing
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2021; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Byron A Steinman($96,106), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
2. Bronwen Konecky($125,547), Washington University, Saint Louis
3. Broxton W Bird($309,532), Indiana University, Bloomington
4. Anders J Noren($142,947), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Andean Effective Moisture, Tropical Andean Hydroclimate, Itcz Migrated, Lake Tota, Mean Annual, Solar Energy, Summer Insolation, Tropical South, Abrupt, Andes, Climate, Controlled, Core, Distribution, Evaporation, Hemisphere, Holocene, Increased, Insight, Investigate, MAP, MAT, Mechanisms, Mid-latitude, NH, Position, Precipitation, Primary, Proxy, Region, SH, Sediment, Southward, Was.

Collaborative Research: RUI: Development of a 700,000 Year Record of Tropical Precipitation, Evaporation, and Temperature from Lake Junin Sediments and Regional Speleothems
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2021; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Josef P Werne($397,549), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Junín Drill Core, Lake Junín Drill, Amazon Basin, Cave Deposits, Liberal Arts, Build, Caves, Climate, Combine, Composite, Global, Lakes, Peru, Precipitation, Program, Students, Temperature, Tropical, Upper, Ylong.

Collaborative Research: An integrated model-proxy approach to understanding Western US hydroclimate change since the last glacial period
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Alan M Seltzer($287,144), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Kristopher B Karnauskas($206,900), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
3. Rebecca Hatheway($91,138), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
4. Juan M Lora($41,281), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Climate Model Experiments, Atmospheric Circulation, Museum Exhibit, Pacific Northwest, Reconstruct Past, Water Table, West Coast, Ars, Component, Conditions, Future, Groundwater, Hydroclimate, Ice, Involves, LGM, Rainfall, Simulations.

East Asian monsoon response to changes in Earth’s orbit: A new stable isotope modeling study
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Jung-Eun Lee($371,311), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: East Asian Monsoon, Observed And Modeled, Climate Model, Compare Observed, Earth’s Orbit, Isotopic Composition, Oxygen Isotopic, Past Climates, Dynamics, Earth’s, Isotope, Isotopes, Ocean, Ratios, Summer.

A one-million record of orbital-scale changes in temperature and precipitation from the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2021; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. James M Russell($399,747), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Climate Boundary Conditions, Tropical And Global, Tropical Western Pacific, Global Climate, Affect, Climates, Cycles, Future, IPWP, Investigate, Past, Rainfall, Region, Temperature, Transitions, Vegetation.

Rethinking the Genesis of Banded Iron Formations: Simulating Partial Fe(II) Oxidation and Secondary Reactions of Iron-Silica Precipitates
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2022; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Jena E Johnson($331,331), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Initial Solid Products, Water Column Conditions, Ancient Ocean, Archean Ocean, Chemical Reactions, Iron Silicates, Assist, Biochemical, Chemistry, Cycle, Descent, Earth’s, Formation, Hypothesized, Lab, Laboratory, Life, Marine, Microbial, Minerals, Oxidation, Oxidized, Partial, Plausible, Precipitates, Processes, Program, Receive, Recreate, Redox, Respiration, Sediments, Simulate, Students.

EAGER: Collaborative Research: Developing new laser ablation (U-Th)/(He-Pb) hematite double dating techniques to date ancient oxidation
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Peter E Martin($80,155), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Nicholas L Swanson-Hysell($39,213), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Lake Superior Region, Combined Methods, Hematite Crystals, Hematite Formation, Iron Formation, Iron Formations, Magnetic Field, Method Development, Age, Ancient, Capabilities, Chemical, Constrain, Crystallites, Dating, Earth’s, Electron, Enable, Focus, Has, Insight, La-u-thhe-pb, Laser, Measuring, Menominee, Mineral, Oxidation, Relative, Rock, Situ, Surface, Timing, U-pb, U-thhe, Uranium, Weathering.

RAPID: Impacts of high magnitude wildfire on volcanic (lava tube) cave water chemistry, nutrient transport, activity and diversity of cave microbiome
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Harshad V Kulkarni($99,394), University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio
Key terms: Bacteria And Archaea, Beds National Monument, Chemical And Hydraulic, Diversity And Activity, Lava Beds National, Water And Microbial, Cave Water, Control Caves, Earlier Studies, Graduate Student, Host Rock, Microbial Diversity, Northern California, San Antonio, Soil Sterilization, Subsurface Environments, Undergraduate Students, Volcanic Caves, Affected, Alteration, Antelope, Available, Caldwell, Chemistry, Destruction, Ecosystems, Effects, Findings, Fire, Hispanic, Landscape, Magnitude, Mineral, Organic, Post-fire, Pre-fire, Properties, RAPID, Reduced, Relatively, Surface, Texas, Vegetation, Wildfires.

Collaborative Research: Experimentally Evaluating the Relationship between Cation Ordering and Oxygen and Clumped Isotope Fractionation in Dolomite
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Sierra V Petersen($75,243), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. Stephen E Kaczmarek($294,940), Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
3. Ian Z Winkelstern($50,647), Grand Valley State University, Allendale
Key terms: Ca-mg-carbonate Minerals, Carbonate Minerals, Clumped Isotope, High-mg Calcite, Laboratory Experiments, Oxygen Isotope, Poorly-ordered Dolomite, Water-mineral Fractionation, Well-ordered Dolomite, Allow, Ca-mg-carbonate, Cation, Compositions, Conditions, Constrain, Diagenetic, Dolomites, Dolomitization, Earth, Economic, Geochemical, Geoscientists, High-mg, History, Isotopic, Marine, Measured, Mg-ca, Natural, Paleoenvironmental, Past, Phase, Poorly-ordered, Proxies, Proxy, Published, Resources, Uncertainty, Values, Water-mineral, Well-ordered, Δo.

Collaborative Research: Boron in soil carbonates: developing a quantitative soil CO2 proxy
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Mark A Torres($319,659), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Atmospheric Co2 Levels, Ancient Atmospheric, Ancient Soils, Carbonate Minerals, Delta 11b, Isotopic Ratios, Soil Carbonate, Soil Carbonates, Soil Pco2, Surface Complexation, Ut Austin, Analysis, Approach, Chemistry, Cycling, Development, Diversity, Established, Experiments, Floodplain, Future, Gas, Information, Involves, Models, Modern, Past, Programs, Proxies, Quantitative, Students, Theory, Undergraduate, Weathering.

EAR-PF: Microplastics and Nanoplastics as Vectors for Inorganic Pollution: Examining the Effect of Environmental Systems Conditions on Degradation Pathway and Sorption Potential
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Lauren N Pincus($174,000), Pincus, Lauren Nicole, Princeton
Key terms: Field And Laboratory, Mps And Nps, Towards Inorganic Contaminants, Plastics Degrade, Toxic Contaminants, Toxic Metals, Ability, Arsenic, Bound, Degradation, Design, Environment, Environmental, Investigate, Knowledge, Lead, Microplastics, Microplasticsnanoplastics, Nanoplastics, Nm, Pollutants, Predictive, Princeton, Safely, Sorption, Students, Transport, Ultimate.

Collaborative Research: Boron in soil carbonates: development of a quantitative soil CO2 proxy
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Daniel O Breecker($388,170), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Atmospheric Co2 Levels, Ancient Atmospheric, Ancient Soils, Carbonate Minerals, Delta 11b, Isotopic Ratios, Soil Carbonate, Soil Carbonates, Soil Pco2, Surface Complexation, Ut Austin, Analysis, Approach, Chemistry, Cycling, Development, Diversity, Established, Experiments, Floodplain, Future, Gas, Information, Involves, Models, Modern, Past, Programs, Proxies, Quantitative, Students, Theory, Undergraduate, Weathering.

CAREER: Development of a proxy for past and present plant photorespiration rates based on 13C-D and D-D clumping in wood methoxyl groups
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Daniel A Stolper($544,026), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Modern And Fossil, California Museum, Classes Taught, Co2 Concentrations, Geological Past, Isotopic Composition, Modern Plants, Photorespiration Rates, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Ago, Available, Based, CH, CHD, Calibrated, Carbon, Changing, Chcl, Chd-o-lignin, Developed, Development, Educational, Educators, Environmental, Exercises, Future, Glacial, Global, Grow, Growth, Has, Hosted, Integrated, Isotopes, Lesson, Lignin, Long-standing, Low, Lows, Measured, Methoxyl, Millions, Paleontology, Pco, Ppm, Predict, Proxy, Public, Rare, Resources, Responded, Stable, Teaching, UCMP, Website, Wood.

RUI: Collaborative Research: Constraining peridotite alteration timescales with environmental tracers (3H, 39Ar, 14C and 81Kr)
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Martin Stute($253,258), Barnard College, New York
2. Amelia N Vankeuren($146,619), University Enterprises, Incorporated, Sacramento
Key terms: H2 Accumulation Rate, Low Temperature Peridotite, Source And Supply, Temperature Peridotite Alteration, Chemical Energy, Environmental Tracers, Groundwater Ages, Maximum Timescale, Samail Ophiolite, Supply Rate, Water-rock Interaction, Andor, Carbon, Deeper, Drilling, Experiences, Flow, Fluid, Gas, Hyperalkaline, Life, Mantle, Oman, Sources, Student, Undergraduate, Upper, Water-rock.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Laminated soil carbonate rinds as a tool for investigating late Quaternary climate-vegetation links
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Thure E Cerling($153,579), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
2. Amy L Ellwein($57,452), Western Colorado University, Gunnison
3. Benjamin H Passey($263,675), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Capitol Reef National, Climate And Vegetation, Critical Zone Archive, National Park Staff, Reef National Park, Soil Water Evaporation, Carbonate Rinds, Continuing Education, Elevation Transect, Geomorphic Surfaces, Laminated Rind, Plant Distributions, School Students, Six Additional, Soil Carbonate, Soil Temperature, Southern Utah, Triple Oxygen, Affect, Ancient, Century, Core, Delta, Detailed, Does, Dryland, Experiences, Geoscience, Graduate, Grow, Histories, Information, Investigate, Isotope, Isotopes, Local, Long-lived, Paleoclimate, Past, Postdoctoral, Profiles, Promising, Region, Resolution, Soils, Spanning, Stable, Training, Undergraduate, Undersides, Western.

Collaborative Research: Tapping an unused biomarker for insights of past evaporation
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Mark A Wilson($98,763), College of Wooster, Wooster
2. Thomas V Lowell($367,265), University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati
Key terms: Broader Public Knowledge, Hbi Hydrogen Isotopes, Highly Branched Isoprenoids, Increase Broader Public, Knowledge And Awareness, Lake Water Evaporation, Northside Farmer’s Market, Farmer’s Market, Graduate Students, Hands-on Activities, Hydrological Cycle, Lake Sediments, Northside Farmer’s, Sediment Archives, Undergraduate Students, Water Chemistry, Advance, Calibrations, Cincinnati, Climate, Complete, Composition, Creating, Critical, Design, Developing, Development, Diatom, Diatoms, Dissemination, Experiences, Field, Gain, Geosciences, Hands-on, Hbis, Influences, Local, Mentoring, Ohio, Past, Precipitation, Produced, Proxies, Proxy, Reconstructions, STEM, Signal, Site, Skills, Society, Synthesis, Timing, Training, Unique, Warming, Wooster.

Collaborative Research: Exploring the dynamic interaction between pyrogenic carbon and extracellular enzymes and its impacts on organic matter cycling in fire-impacted environments
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Andrew R Zimmerman($128,542), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Fundamentally Advance, Abiotic, Activities, Adsorption, Capable, Carbon, Chemistry, Controlling, Cycle, Cycling, Decomposition, Degradation, Degrading, Determined, Enzymes, Exoenzymes, Fires, Generated, Global, Interaction, Microbes, Microbial, Processes, Properties, Pyc, SOM, Soil, Soils, Students, Surface, Weathering.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Investigating the link between modern spring activity and associated paleospring mounds in Death Valley, NP
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Brian P Hedlund($191,470), University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas
2. Yadira Ibarra($149,257), San Francisco State University, San Francisco
3. Laura K Rademacher($152,123), University of the Pacific, Stockton
Key terms: Death Valley, Regions’ Hydroclimate, Spring Water, Travertine Deposits, Analyses, Climate, Field, Geochemical, KWST, Microbial, Microbiological, Modern, Past, Pis, Potential, Recorders, Students, Timing, Wet.

Collaborative Research: New Roles for Reactive Oxygen Species in Mediating Carbon Fluxes at the Terrestrial-Aquatic Interface
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Yu-Ping Chin($244,878), University of Delaware, Newark
2. Michael J Wilkins($199,724), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
3. Brandy M Toner($299,017), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Dioxide And Methane, Carbon Dioxide, Sediment-water Interface, Water Bodies, Wetland Sediments, Abiotic, Activity, Biogeochemical, Broad, Chemical, Climate, Combination, Coupled, Critical, Cycling, Drivers, Ecological, Especially, Field, Generation, Importance, Inland, Iron, Labile, Microbial, Microbiological, Oxygen, Particulate, Play, Poorly, Processes, ROS, Reactions, Region, SWI, Sediment-water, Species, Substrates, Sulfur, Wetlands.

Carbon Storage in Mangrove Ecosystems via Abiotic Sulfurization
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Morgan R Raven($497,604), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Organic Matter Sulfurization, Sedimentary Organic Matter, Carbon Stocks, Carbon Storage, Field Season, Mangrove Forest, Mangrove Sediments, Organic Carbon, Sea Level, Climate, Coastal, Extent, Land, Local, Mangroves, Potential, Preservation, Substantial, Vegetated.

Collaborative Research: Trace Elements in Pyrite—Validation and Calibration of a Novel Paleoenvironmental Proxy
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Timothy W Lyons($267,389), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
2. Anthony Chappaz($244,516), Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant
Key terms: Environmental Conditions, Iron Sulfide, Metal Contents, Modern Oceans, Trace Metal, Trace Metals, Water Quality, Analytical, Ancient, Approach, Availability, Bioessential, Biological, Biosphere, Composition, Controls, Coupled, Designed, Diversity, Earth’s, Evolving, Experimental, Flint, Global, Highly, Levels, Lie, Local, Marine, Methods, Middle, Mineral, Opportunities, Past, Pyrite, Remain, Surrounding, Tracer, Utility.

RAPID: Phosphorus Molecular Biogeochemistry during a Rapidly Changing Nutrient Load in Tampa Bay, FL
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Matthew A Pasek($71,507), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Nutrient Load, Residence Time, Tampa Bay, Changing, Chemistry, Diesters, Discharge, Florida, Infusions, Investigated, Local, Microorganisms, Molecular, Molecules, Monoesters, Nutrients, Organophosphate, Orthophosphate, Phosphonates, Phosphorus, Polyphosphates, Rapid, Reservoir, Storage, Water.

CAREER: Unlocking the Isotopic Signatures of Weathering Recorded in Rivers Through Isotope-Enabled Reactive Transport
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Jennifer L Druhan($415,896), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Reactive Transport Models, Streams And Rivers, Chemical Weathering, Critical Zone, Isotope Ratios, Isotope Signatures, Model Development, Predictive Models, Weathering Profiles, Accessible, Baseflow, Capability, Chemistry, Coupling, Designed, Direct, Draining, Fluid, Fluids, Generation, Instrumentation, Life, Minerals, Observations, Quantitative, Resources, Set, Soil, Surface, Transformations, Validation, Vital, Water, Watersheds.

CAREER: A Triple-Isotope Approach to Unraveling Subsurface Food Webs
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Magdalena R Osburn($608,726), Northwestern University, Evanston
Key terms: Immersive Laboratory Experiences, Microbial Food Webs, Chicago Public, Field-based Inquiry, Food Chains, Organic Matter, School Classrooms, Subsurface Environments, Surficial Inputs, Activities, Biomass, Carbon, Concepts, Continent, Deep, Diversity, Eat, Ecosystems, Feet, Field-based, Fingerprint, Interns, Live, Map, Microbes, Objective, Plants, Prof, Shallow, Signatures, Students, Surface, Tool, Ultra-deep, Underground, Vast.

Acidic pit lakes: Novel biogeochemical reactors evaluated via multi-omics approaches
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Jennifer L Macalady($400,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Acid Mine Drainage, Enormous Biotechnological Potential, Acidic Pit, Anoxic Layer, Essential Services, Human Societies, Laboratory Incubations, Metabolic Potentials, Microbial Populations, Active, CM, Complexity, Conditions, Contribute, Diversity, Ecosystems, Engineered, Environment, Increase, Interact, Interactions, International, Limited, Natural, Organic, Pollution, Sulfide, Undescribed.

CAREER: From Desert to Coastal Rainforest Soils- How do fungi transform minerals deployed across natural weathering gradients?
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Rebecca Lybrand($460,097), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Critical Zone, Mass Spectrometry, Mineral Weathering, Natural Soils, Academic, Field, Fungal, Fungi, Integrated, Microscopy, Minerals, Nutrient, Nutrients, Span, Students.

RAPID: Initial Colonists of Freshly Emplaced Volcanic Rocks at High Latitude: A Case Study of the 2021 Volcanic Eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Solange Duhamel($45,873), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Deposited Volcanic Rocks, Fresh Lava Flow, Freshly Deposited Volcanic, Geochemical And Physicochemical, Ecosystem Formation, Graduate Student, Initial Colonists, Newly Formed, Physicochemical Characterization, Public Lectures, Taxonomic Diversity, Volcanic Eruption, Acquire, Capabilities, Collect, Colonized, Colonizers, Complex, Effort, Environment, Establishment, Examine, Fagradalsfjall, Field, Fields, Iceland, Immediate, Low, Microbial, Months, Opportunity, Potential, RAPID, Rare, Sampling, Soil, Source, Sources, Specifically, Substrates, Succession, Time.

EAGER: Microscale d34S Analyses in Pyrites to Distinguish Environmental and Biological Drivers of Isotopic Variability
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. David Fike($98,406), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Individual Pyrite Grains, Microbial Sulfur Cycling, Biological Activity, Biological Fractionation, Depositional Environments, Environmental Information, Grain Size, Sulfur Isotope, Wide Range, Analyzing, Approach, Artifacts, Based, Basin, Bulk, Commonly, Composition, Controls, Degree, Developing, Distinguish, Framework, Geobiological, Geochemical, Has, Ion, Isotopic, Petrographic, Processes, Proxies, Represent, Representative, SIMS, Sampling, Sediments, Signatures, Stable, Textures, Traditional, Value, Values, ‰.

Collaborative Research: Mechanism of Manganese(IV) Oxide Biomineralization by a Bacterial Manganese Oxidase
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2020; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Bradley M Tebo($282,345), University of Washington, Seattle
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.

First Steps Towards a New High Resolution Proxy for Paleomagnetic Field Instabilities: Tritiogenic 3He Archived in Speleothems
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2020; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Andrea M Balbas($82,559), California State University-Long Beach Foundation, Long Beach
Key terms: Cosmogenic Nuclide Archives, Magnetic Field Strength, Atmospheric Tritium, Cosmic Rays, Tritiogenic 3he, Water Inclusions, Atmosphere, Cave, Deflection, Earth, Fields, Flux, Geodynamo, Local, Measured, Methods, Potential, Processes, Speleothems, Stalagmites, Steps, Temporal, Testing, Trapped.

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

1. James S Coleman($164,740), University of North Carolina Greensboro, Greensboro
Key terms: Stable Mercury Isotopes, Atmospheric Mercury, Coastal Plain, Depositional Pathways, Forest Restoration, Forested Ecosystem, Forested Watershed, Mercury Cycling, Mercury Deposition, Mercury Methylation, South Carolina, Southeastern Region, Toxic Methylmercury, Effects, Existing, Experimental, Food, Low-gradient, Native, North, Pine, Pollution, Soils, Sources, Students, Training, Unique, Uptake, Watersheds.

CAREER: Integrating river hydrology across scales: advancing understanding of the global river-atmosphere interface
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2022; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. George H Allen($191,952), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Greenhouse Gas Emissions, River-atmosphere Interface Dynamics, River Surface, River-atmosphere Interface, Carbon, Drivers, Geomorphic, Global, Hydrologic, Observations, Rivers, Spatial, Streams.

Collaborative Research: Timescales and drivers of floodplain disequilibrium at climatic transitions
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2022; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Lewis A Owen($43,070), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
2. Isaac J Larsen($78,449), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
3. Michelle L Fame($246,288), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Aggradation And Degradation, Eastern Scotland, Floodplain Morphology, River Terrace, River Terraces, Terrace Formation, Capacity, Chronology, Climate, Climatic, Comparing, Duration, Earth’s, Enhance, Extent, Field, Floodplains, Glacial, Has, Influence, Landscape, Morphologies, Non-climatic, Past, Sediment, Timing, Transport, Variables, Workshop.

RAPID: The effects of extreme drought on sediment transport and deposition in water-supply reservoirs
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2021; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Brandee N Carlson($50,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Elephant Butte Reservoir, Rio Grande River, Extreme Drought, Flash Flood, Flash Floods, Sediment Transport, Accumulate, Carbon, Collect, Delta, Deltas, Field, Flows, Has, Model, Processes, Reservoirs, Sediment-laden, Spring, Was, Water.

RAPID: Quantifying Wetland Root Structure, Strength, and Uprooting due to Hurricane Ida
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2021; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Navid H Jafari($49,770), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Surge And Waves, Coastal Louisiana, Root Structure, Storm Surge, Wetland Loss, Wetland Platform, Wetland Root, Ability, Biomass, Damage, Extreme, Field, Hurricane, Hurricanes, Ida, Knowledge, Level, Natural, Protect, RAPID, Recovery, Storms, Strength, Uprooting, Water, Wetlands.

Collaborative Research: Flocculation Dynamics in the Fluvial to Marine Transition
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2021; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Jeffrey Nittrouer($44,716), Texas Tech University, Lubbock
Key terms: Inform And Validate, Movement And Deposition, Size And Local, Estuarine Reach, Floc Growth, Floc Size, Laterally Unconfined, Mississippi River, Mud Particles, Muddy Sediment, River Plume, Sediment Concentration, Turbulent Shear, Andor, Central, Coastal, Conditions, Deltas, Deposits, Evaluating, Field, Fine, Flocs, Fluvial, Freshwater, Ftmt, Laboratory, Measure, Models, Predicting, Regions, Salinity, Settling, Students, Tested, Transition, Transport, Turbulence, Vertical, Water, Waterways.

Ecogeomorphological consequences of climate and human-driven mangrove expansion into salt marshes
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2021; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Giulio Mariotti($482,921), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Marsh Edge Erosion, Saint Bernard Parish, Mangrove Colonization, Mangrove Distribution, Mangrove Expansion, Marsh Grasses, Northern Gulf, Coastal, Developed, Louisiana, Mangroves, Mexico, Model, Planted, Planting, Positive, Potential, Promote, Quantify, Reducing, Sediment, Vegetation, Winter.

EAR-PF: Investigating the effects of bedrock dip angle on knickpoint morphology and evolution via flume experimentation and numerical modeling
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2021; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Kristin Chilton($174,000), Chilton, Kristin, Blacksburg
Key terms: Landscape Evolution Models, Flume Experiments, Knickpoint Morphology, River Erosion, Bedrock, Broader, Climatic, Cracks, Fractures, Influences, Knickpoints, Orientation, Plucking, Processes, Rock, Via, Virginia.

Tracking Past Ice Sheets with North American River Drainage Basin Captures Induced by Glacial Isostatic Adjustment
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Tamara Pico($413,359), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Drainage Basin Boundaries, Drainage Basin Shifts, Glacial Isostatic Adjustment, Past Ice Sheet, Past Ice Sheets, Glacial Cycles, Ice Age, River Drainage, Sediment Provenance, Evolution, Influence, Model, North, Potential, Predictions, Principal, Program, Student, Students, Tools.

EAR-PF: Experimental study of the dynamics of frozen, cohesive river banks: bridging pore-scale properties with channel-scale dynamics.
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Kieran B Dunne($174,000), Dunne, Kieran Bernard Jiamin, Philadelphia
Key terms: Erosion And River, Gasses And Heavy, River Channel Migration, California Institute, Greenhouse Gasses, Heavy Metals, Permafrost Substrates, Pore Ice, Riverbank Erosion, Widespread Thawing, Arctic, Bank, Composition, Effects, Experiments, Frozen, Has, Properties, Rate, Rates, Regions, Release, Riverbanks, Rivers, Seeks, Soil, Technology, Temperature.

CAREER: Peatland Geomorphology: Quantifying Geomorphological Changes across SE Asia Peatlands
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Estelle Chaussard($0), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Peat Degradation Rates, Dioxide Emissions, Southeast Asia, Coastal, Conditions, Controls, Decomposition, Flooding, Future, Hazards, Importance, Increase, Land, Morphology, Natural, Outreach, Peatland, Peatlands, Predict, Severe, Worldwide.

RAPID: Addressing the wind and water erosion knowledge gap in Drylands: Fire as a driver of erosion in cheatgrass invaded Sagebrush Steppe
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Robert A Washington-Allen($50,000), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Ground Penetrating Radar, Wind And Water, Factors Influencing, Fires Induced, Satellite Imagery, Soil Erosion, Terrestrial Laser, Water Erosion, Nevada, Subsequent, Unmanned, Wildfire.

MCA: Multi-scale considerations of climatic signatures on debris flows and alluvial fans
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Kimberly M Hill($368,342), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Climate Conditions, Debris Flow, Debris Flows, Add, Behaviors, Climatic, Computational, Deposits, Distinct, Effects, Embedded, Experiments, Local, Magnitudes, Physics, Program, Sediment, Sediment-fluid, Signals, Valley, Varying.

Collaborative Research: RUI: Climatic and geologic controls on the threshold conditions for bedrock single- and multi-thread channels
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Sarah Schanz($195,586), Colorado College, Colorado Springs
2. Brian J Yanites($267,866), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Bedrock Channel, Bedrock Rivers, Multiple Channels, Numerical Model, Climatic, Conditions, Development, Erosion, Habitat, Mountain, Regions, Rock.

Collaborative research: Wind erodibility of salt-affected soils
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Robert S Van Pelt($270,673), Temple University, Philadelphia
2. Paolo D'Odorico($220,287), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Interparticle Bonding Forces, Salinity And Sodicity, Dust Emissions, Soil Erodibility, Soil Salinity, Wind Erosion, Degradation, Education, Effect, Framework, Investigate, Scenarios, Susceptibility, Theoretical, Water, World.

EAR-PF: A Deep Critical Zone Observatory: Towards understanding the relationships of denudation and weathering through time and space
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Brendon J Quirk($76,667), Quirk, Brendon James, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Stabilize Global Climate, Weathering And Erosion, Chemical Weathering, Climate Conditions, Earth’s Surface, Geologic History, Lake Sediments, Breakdown, Denudation, Earth’s, Has, Methods, Paleo-denudation, Quantify, Rates, Regulate, Rock, Timescales.

CAREER: Sea Level and Topographic Evolution (SLATE): Exploring the feedback between sea level and sediment redistribution
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Ken Ferrier($398,273), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Five-year Outreach Program, Level And Sediment, Five-year Outreach, Flood Hazards, K-12 Students, Sea Level, Sediment Redistribution, Climate, Controls, Development, Earth’s, Education, Effects, Feedback, Geology, Global, Influence, Model, Rivers, STEM, Sea-level, Sensitivity, Training, Underrepresented.

Collaborative Research: Characterizing controls on postfire steepland ravel - when does bioturbation go too far for diffusive models?
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2021; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Margaret Zimmer($33,025), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Sediment Transport, Animals, Burned, Conditions, Disturbance, Erosion, Experiences, Field, Fluxes, Hazards, Models, Natural, Particle, Process, Processes, Ravel, Travel, Wildfire.

BSF-NSF: Collaborative Research: Deciphering the role of extreme rainstorms and hydroclimatic regime on arid escarpment retreat and sub-cliff slope evolution
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Joel L Pederson($54,441), Utah State University, Logan
2. Matthew W Rossi($336,534), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Landscape Evolution, Cliffs, Debris, Desert, Developed, Escarpments, Experiments, Israel, Landforms, Methods, Native, Past, Rainfall, Rainstorm, Retreat, Story.

Excellence in Research: Identification of absolute sea level rise and land subsidence from long-term tide gauge records along coasts of the Gulf of Mexico and the Chesapeake Bay
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Yi Liu($549,616), Morgan State University, Baltimore
Key terms: Absolute Sea Level, Relative Sea Level, Scientists And Engineers, Sea Level Rise, Chesapeake Bay, Land Subsidence, Aquifer, Basement, Coastal, Coasts, Courses, Creep, Earth’s, Engineering, Environmental, Graduate, Gulf, Mexico, Nation’s, Program, Resilience, Rock, Students, Sub-components, Sustainability.

RAPID: Geomorphic controls on sediment age, ice preservation, and carbon storage in arctic permafrost systems
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Stephanie A Ewing($32,737), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Stored Carbon, Cores, Environments, Erosion, Fate, Geochemical, Geomorphic, Hillslope, Ice, Inform, Loess, Permafrost, Rates, Sediment.

RCN: Inundation Signatures on Rocky Coastlines (ISROC)
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Gregory Guannel($483,634), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
Key terms: Boulder Deposits, Coordination Network, Inundation Signatures, Rocky Coastlines, Storm Waves, Bring, CBD, Conditions, Define, Found, ISROC, In-person, Long-lived, Priority, Remains, Site, Standards, Student, Tsunamis, Workshop, World.

EAGER: Prototyping three-dimensional printing of sand columns for granular physics experiments
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Vanshan D Wright($279,902), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Grains And Columns, Mechanical Behaviors, Naturally-deposited Sands, Sand Grains, Sintered Grains, Aims, Avenues, Create, Creep, Fabricate, Geohazard, Graduate, Granular, Influence, Microstructures, Moduli, Naturally-deposited, Physicists, Printing, Processes, Program, Properties, Replicate, Rock, Sands’, Successful, Techniques, Thermoplastic, Three-dimensional.

CAREER: Interpreting dune-field evolution from aeolian bedform patterns
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Mackenzie Day($319,087), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Virtual Field Trips, Wind Tunnel Experiments, Dune Fields, Geoscience Education, Numerical Model, Development, Dunes, Experimental, Migration.

Large wood in low-gradient floodplain rivers: Spatial distribution, physical controls, and geomorphic effects
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2021; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Derek J Martin($353,216), University of North Carolina Greensboro, Greensboro
Key terms: Low-gradient Floodplain Rivers, Channel Process, Citizen-science Initiative, Coastal Plain, Low-gradient Floodplain, Lw Recruitment, Spatial Distribution, Based, Benefits, Citizen-science, Controls, Dynamics, Ecological, Effects, Has, Modeling, Processes, Public, Training, Transport, Wood.

Resolving Sediment Connectivity between Rivers and Estuaries by Tracking Particles with their Microbial Genetic Signature
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2021; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Scott H Ensign($454,385), Stroud Water Research Center, Avondale
Key terms: Coastal Landscapes, Particle-associated Microbial, River Floods, Saline Estuary, Sea Level, Sediment Particles, Suspended Sediment, Tidal Wetlands, DNA, Environmental, Estuaries, Freshwater, Measure, Mixing, Particle-associated, Rivers, Source, Spatial, Tides, Transition, Water.

Collaborative Research: Morphodynamic simulations of coastal storms and overwash to characterize back-barrier lake stratigraphies
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2021; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Jeffrey Donnelly($237,524), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Samuel E Munoz($353,666), Northeastern University, Boston
Key terms: Strength And Track, Hurricane Activity, Overwash Deposits, Storm Strength, Approach, Coastal, Cyclones, Erosion, Flooding, Frequency, Hurricanes, Landfall, Magnitude, Past, Properties, Reconstructing, Region, Sediment, Sedimentary, Sediments, Simulations, Storms, Tropical, Vulnerable, —.

RAPID: Field investigation to collect snow, debris flow and sediment deposition and the glacier-melt induced peak flows and landslide in the Chamoli region, Uttarakhand, India
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2021; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Venkataramana Sridhar($25,000), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Soil Moisture Dynamics, Glacial Retreat, Himalayan Range, Collected, Deforestation, Elevation, Extreme, Flood, Hydrological, Inform, Landslide, Near, Processes, Region, Runoff, Site, Snow, Snowpack, Triggered, Was.

Collaborative Research: Predicting riverbank erosion in thawing permafrost
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2021; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Edda A Mutter($38,101), Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council, Anchorage
2. Michael P Lamb($465,659), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Bank Erosion, Koyukuk River, Main Objective, Riverbank Erosion, Alaskan, Arctic, Basic, Dynamics, Experiments, Global, Land, Model, Permafrost, Respond, Tested, Theory.

Collaborative Research: Understanding Glacial-Geomorphic-Climatic Changes in the Arid Andes: Cordillera Oriental as a Case Study
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2021; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Summer B Rupper($129,096), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
2. Joerg M Schaefer($379,540), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Temperature And Precipitation, Arid Andes, Ice Age, Past Temperature, Carry, Climate, Climatic, Conditions, Development, Erosion, Geomorphic, Glacial, Glaciated, Glaciers, Growth, Influence, Influences, Landscape, Mountain, Natural, Overarching, Processes, Range, Tectonic.

Collaborative Research: Quantifying Human Forcing of Legacy Sediment and Metal Contamination Dynamics on the Yunnan Plateau of Southwestern China
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2021; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Aubrey L Hillman($45,790), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Metal Accumulation, Metal Contaminants, Metal Contamination, Activities, Challenges, China, Controls, Delays, Environmental, Examination, Historical, Human, Influence, Lake, Management, Program, Region, Sediments, Soils, Source, Stored, Substantial, Transport, Water, Watershed, Yunnan.

Constraining multi-scale interactions between slabs and mantle flow within Western Pacific subduction zones
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2022; Program: Geophysics

1. Adam F Holt($228,990), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Global-scale Mantle Flow, Slabs And Plates, Western Pacific Slabs, Flow Localization, Global-scale Mantle, Beneath, Calculations, Complex, Consistent, Earthquakes, Forces, Framework, Geological, Interactions, Model, Models, Mountain, Numerical, Observables, Out-flow, Power-law, Produce, Region, Run, Subduction.

Collaborative Research: Characterizing Quaternary Fault Behavior and Surface Processes of an Active Rift: The Lake Malawi (Nyasa) Rift, East Africa
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2022; Program: Geophysics

1. Donna J Shillington($211,838), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
2. Christopher A Scholz($763,785), Syracuse University, Syracuse
Key terms: Chirp Seismic Reflection, East African Rift, Lake Malawi Rift, Oil And Gas, Continental Margins, Continental Rifts, Earthquake Activity, Fault Displacement, Fault Zones, Geological Structures, Intrarift Faults, Numerical Modeling, Ocean Basins, Past Earthquake, Rift Faults, Rift Valley, Structural Settings, Active, Assess, Break-up, Compared, Deformation, Deposits, Distributed, Earthquakes, Echosounder, Erosion, Estimate, Faulting, Floor, Formation, Generate, Geophysical, Hazards, High-resolution, Histories, Information, Ka, Linked, Low, North, Observations, Processes, Regimes, Reveal, Rifting, Sediment, Surface.

Magnetotelluric Investigation of Subduction Zone Hydrology and Megathrust Slip Behavior at the Nicoya Peninsula
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2022; Program: Geophysics

1. Samer N Naif($263,572), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Costa Rica, Damaging Earthquakes, Fault Slip, Fluid Content, Ground Shaking, Nicoya Peninsula, Plate Boundary, Regions Correlate, Subduction Zone, Aseismic, Behavior, Beneath, Collect, Combined, Conditions, Constrain, Distribution, Experience, Fieldwork, Fluids, Hydrology, MT, Megathrust, Promote, Rupture, Seeps, Seismic, Seismicity, Sses, Style, Subsurface, Survey, Zones.

Dynamic Fragmentation and Earthquake Energy Partitioning
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2022; Program: Geophysics

1. Scott E Johnson($390,481), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Fragment Size Distributions, Energy Budget, Ground Shaking, Seismogenic Zone, Active, Brittle, Causing, Critical, Damage, Deeper, Earthquake, Engineering, Estimate, Fault, Faults, Fragmentation, Fragmented, Mineral, Minerals, Modeling, Models, Objectives, Processes, Protocols, Rock, Rupture, Source, Speed.

Global Search for D" Discontinuity Structure
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2022; Program: Geophysics

1. Michael Thorne($343,014), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Seismic Wave Arrivals, Array Processing, Laterally Variable, Seismic Discontinuities, Seismic Velocity, Shallow Earthquakes, Allows, Approach, Available, Bootstrap, Confidence, Constraints, Contrast, Coverage, Detect, Discontinuity, Estimates, Exist, Experience, Geoscientists, Has, Land, Low, Mantle, Methodology, Modeling, Noise, Observations, Planet, Potential, Structure, Student, Subarray, Subarrays, Technology, Utah, Vespagrams.

Collaborative Research: Constraining transient magma intrusion processes in the Nyiragongo-Kivu continental rift zone
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2022; Program: Geophysics

1. Cynthia J Ebinger($182,636), Tulane University, New Orleans
2. Samer N Naif($435,504), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
3. Christelle Wauthier($156,841), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Earthquake Activity, Lake Kivu, African, Aid, Behavior, Causing, Collect, Continued, Crust, DRC, Deformation, Detailed, EAIFR, Electromagnetic, Emergency, Environments, Eruption, Evolution, Faulting, Following, GPSGNSS, Goma, Graduate, Hazards, Information, Land-deformation, Magmatic, Million, People, Processes, Rapid, Region, Rift, Rifting, Risk, Rwanda, Seismic, Stations, Students, Time.

The Electrical Conductivity of Subducted Continental Crust
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2021; Program: Geophysics

1. George Amulele($384,137), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland
Key terms: Subducted Continental Crust, Electrical Conductivity, Subduction Zones, Basis, Composition, Conditions, Depths, Extreme, Fluids, Has, Inferred, Investigate, Liebermannite, Mantle, Mineral, Observed, Plates, Presence, Pressure, Prevailing, Previously, Regions, Similar, Solid, Temperature, Underrepresented.

Probing the mechanical properties of the crust and upper mantle using geodetic, remote sensing and seismological observations
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2021; Program: Geophysics

1. Jean-Philippe Avouac($193,590), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Advance, Aseismic, California, Deformation, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Geodetic, Methods, Model, Mw, Seismic, Seismicity, Strain, Tibet.

Collaborative Research: NSFGEO-NERC: Mechanisms of deformation through a complete eruption cycle of Sierra Negra volcano, Galapagos Islands
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2021; Program: Geophysics

1. Peter LaFemina($252,251), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Patricia M Gregg($96,190), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Geodetic And Seismic, Sierra Negra Volcano, Co-eruptive Deflation, Galápagos Islands, Kilauea Volcano, Pre-eruptive Inflation, Seismic Observations, Agreement, Basaltic, Budget, Caldera, Calderas, Co-eruptive, Collapse, Deformation, Eruption, Galapagos, Has, Hawaii, Intra-caldera, Investigate, Joint, Largest, Magma, Magmatic, Modeling, NERC, NSFGEO-NERC, Network, Pre-eruptive, Processes, Proportion, Resurgence, UK, Unique, Volcanic, Was, Withdrawal.

CAREER: Experimental Investigation of the Transport Properties of Sulfide Melts at Upper Mantle Conditions
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2021; Program: Geophysics

1. Anne Pommier($62,721), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Chemistry And Redox, Diego Unified School, Molten Iron Sulfides, San Diego Unified, Unified School District, Education Initiative, Redox Conditions, Sulfide Melts, Transport Properties, Upper Mantle, Anomalies, Depth, Designed, Earth, Experimental, Geophysical, IW, Inside, Interconnectivity, Interior, K-, Metal, Mobility, Observations, Outcomes, Planets, Range, SDUSD, Students.

Collaborative Research: Generation of Rock Damage and Localization of Seismicity Before Large Earthquakes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Geophysics

1. Yehuda Ben-Zion($275,832), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Seismic Hazard, Tectonic Environments, Additional, Analysis, Deformation, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Faults, Forecast, Localization, Progressive, Zones.

Structure and thermal elastic properties of calcium silicate perovskite
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Geophysics

1. Przemyslaw Dera($499,996), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Lower-mantle Seismic Observations, Observations And Anomalies, Phase Transition Boundary, Crystal Structure, Elastic Properties, Lower Mantle, Lower-mantle Seismic, Mantle Mineralogy, X-ray Diffraction, Aims, Capv, Capv’s, Casio, Conditions, Contribute, EHDAC, Earth’s, Measure, P-T-X, Silicate, Space, Students, Synchrotron, Thermal, X-ray.

Collaborative Research: Developing argon techniques to elucidate earthquake chronologies (DATEEQ)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Geophysics

1. Stephen E Cox($290,026), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Earthquake Slip, Subduction Zone, Allow, Argon, Cores, Dating, Deep, Drill, Earthquakes, Experienced, Experiments, Fast, Fault, Faults, Geochemical, Has, Heat, Heated, Look, Measuring, Method, Occurred, Potassium, Rock, Run, Students, Temperature, UCSC.

Effect of Pore Pressure Rate on Rate and State Frictional Slip In Experiments
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Geophysics

1. John W Rudnicki($224,245), Northwestern University, Evanston
Key terms: Pore Pressure Rate, Field Sites, Frictional Slip, Induced Seismicity, Numerical Simulations, Earthquakes, Effects, Experimental, Experiments, Fluid, Fluids, Increase, Laboratory, Magnitude, Model, Observations, Parameters, Rapid, Risks, Sliding.

Volcanic transcrustal magmatic systems imaged with teleseismic converted phases
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Geophysics

1. Vera Schulte-Pelkum($121,461), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Alaska Volcano Observatory, Air Traffic, Arc Volcanoes, Continental Crust, Endmember Models, Magmatic Structure, Monitoring Networks, Polarity Reversals, Active, Aleutians, Approach, Arcs, Arrivals, Chambers, Complex, Concentric, Deep, Depths, Dipping, Has, Image, Imaging, Levels, Local, Method, Source, Structures, Subterranean, Volcanic.

Investigation of Anomalous Travel Times in the Central Andes: Possible Evidence for a Lithospheric Root Trapped Above a Flat Slab
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Geophysics

1. Steven W Roecker($450,000), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
Key terms: Chile And Argentina, Pampean Flat Slab, Continental Deformation, Lithospheric Root, Mantle Wedge, Nazca Plate, Previous Studies, Root Formation, Analysis, Andes, Apply, Beneath, Combination, Convergent, Current, Earthquakes, Environment, Evolution, Evolve, Existence, Extensive, Identification, International, Investigate, Involves, Lithosphere, Natural, Particular, Processes, Rare, Region, Roots, Seismic, Slabs, South, Students, Thickening, Tomography.

Collaborative Research: Unraveling distributed deformation during early-stage rifting in the Western and Southwestern African Rifts
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Geophysics

1. Julie Elliott($167,127), Michigan State University, East Lansing
2. Cynthia J Ebinger($123,066), Tulane University, New Orleans
3. Matthew E Pritchard($145,779), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Western And Southwestern, Early-stage Rifting, East Africa, Ground Deformation, Aseismic, Continent, Early-stage, Geodetic, Insar, Kinematics, Models, Opportunities, Processes, Region, Rifts, Seismic, Spatial, Strain, Tectonic.

Calibrating olivine crystallographic preferred orientation as a mantle water detector
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2021; Program: Geophysics

1. Jessica M Warren($317,667), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Content And Stress, Crystal Lattice, Laboratory Experiments, Mantle Minerals, Olivine Aggregates, Stress Conditions, Upper Mantle, Water Content, Amounts, Analysis, Cycle, E-type, Experimental, Fabric, Fabrics, Flow, Hydrogen, Occurrence, Plate, Rock, Talkeetna, Tectonic.

CAREER: Investigating composition and rheology of circum-Pacific mantle wedges with body-wave attenuation
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2021; Program: Geophysics

1. Songqiao Wei($294,271), Michigan State University, East Lansing
Key terms: Seismic Attenuation, Subduction Zones, Earthquakes, Education, Geophysics, Interpreting, MSU, Processes, Students, Undergraduate, Velocity, Volcanoes.

Collaborative Research: Probing feedbacks between thermal structure, petrologic transformation, and rheologic evolution within dynamically evolving subduction zones
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: Geophysics

1. Adam F Holt($287,776), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. Victor E Guevara($105,974), Amherst College, Amherst
3. Cailey B Condit($186,556), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Mechanical And Chemical, Subduction Zone Thermal, Zone Thermal Structure, Chemical Cycling, Subducting Plates, Subduction Models, Subduction Zones, Tectonic Plate, Affect, Allow, Components, Control, Deep, Dehydration, Densities, Density, Directly, Dynamic, Earthquakes, Earth’s, Evolves, Feedbacks, Geodynamic, In-reach, Modeling, Petrological, Processes, Properties, Range, Rheological, Rock, Slab, Strength, Subducted, Temperature, Time, Time-evolving, Viscosity, Water.

Seismological Investigations of Earthquakes and Deep Earth Structure
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: Geophysics

1. Peter M Shearer($579,568), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Earthquake Stress Drop, Attenuation Models, Seismic Waves, Analyses, Components, Composition, Depths, Discontinuity, Does, Dynamics, Earthquakes, Examine, Graduate, Heterogeneity, High-frequency, Mantle, Modeling, Planned, Scattering, Small-scale, Structure, Student, Surface, Tectonic, Undergraduate, Water, World.

Collaborative Research: Vertical signatures of lithospheric deformation in the western US
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: Geophysics

1. Thorsten W Becker($358,157), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Kaj M Johnson($251,291), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Cycle Models, Earthquake Cycle, Geodynamic Models, Mantle Flow, Seismic Cycle, Seismic Hazard, Space Geodetic, Vertical Motions, Viscous Flow, Cascadia, Compare, Convection, Crust, Deformation, Efforts, Estimate, GPS, Implications, Interseismic, Kinematic, Levels, Long-term, Numerical, Pacific, Plate, Processes, Signatures, Students, Surface, Underneath, Visco-elastic, Western.

CAREER: Mechanics of Viscous Damage Zones Along Rough Faults and Community Tutorial/Forums for Experimental Rock Mechanists
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: Geophysics

1. Hiroki Sone($311,288), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Fault Damage-zone Rocks, Fault Shear Stress, Damage-zone Rocks, Fault Damage-zone, Fault Zone, Interseismic Loading, Laboratory Experiments, Rock Behavior, Stress Accumulation, Viscous Properties, Assess, Characterize, Defects, Deformation, Distributed, Distribution, Earthquake, Evolve, Faults, Field, Lead, Mechanics, Modeling, Models, Natural, Release, Seismic, Slip, Specimens, Surrounding, Tectonic, Zones.

Collaborative Research: A New 3-D Velocity and Structural Model of the Northern Basins in the Los Angeles Region for Improved Ground Motion Estimates
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2021; Program: Geophysics

1. Robert W Clayton($218,579), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
2. Patricia Persaud($204,597), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Shear Wave Velocities, Ambient Noise, Channeling Earthquake, Geologic Structures, Ground Motions, Ground Shaking, Los Angeles, Southern California, Allows, Basins, Dense, Developed, Earthquakes, Energy, Estimates, Expected, Geometry, Hazard, Inversion, Lines, Methodologies, Methods, Model, Models, Obtained, Produce, Profiles, Region, Regional, San, Sedimentary, Seismic, Simulate, Stations, Strong, Surface, Survey, Velocity.

Seismic and aseismic slip in faults with rock gouge using a 3D laboratory earthquake setup: the effect of fluid injection rate
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2021; Program: Geophysics

1. Ares J Rosakis($452,600), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: 3-d Specimens, Fluid Injection, Human Activities, Injection Rate, Slow Slip, Unstable Slip, Allow, Behavior, Connection, Dynamic, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Experiments, Extraction, Fault, Faulting, Fluids, Frictional, Highly, Induced, Interface, Laboratory, Natural, Program, Range, Rupture, Ruptures, Seismic, Setup, Students.

Collaborative Research: Geodetic imaging of the interplay between creep, locking, earthquakes and land subsidence along the Chaman plate boundary
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2021; Program: Geophysics

1. Roger G Bilham($184,330), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Roland Burgmann($282,820), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Fault Slip Rates, Chaman Fault, Fault Creep, Future Earthquakes, Satellite Radar, Anticipated, Aquifers, Based, Deformation, Demand, Faults, Forces, Ground, Groundwater, Has, Hydrological, Interseismic, Past, Potential, Quantify, Region, Regional, Responsible, Spatial, Stresses, Subcontinent, Subsidence, Subsurface, Surface, Tectonic, Temporal, Water.

Testing the Thermal Shear Instability Hypothesis for Deep Slab Seismicity
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: Geophysics

1. Magali I Billen($386,347), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Subducting Tectonic Plates, Thermal Shear Instability, Triggering Deep Earthquakes, Earthquake Rupture, Slab Tsi, Spatial Distribution, Tsi Models, Comparison, Conditions, Deformation, Demonstrate, Depths, Earth’s, Has, Lead, Magnitudes, Mechanism, Mechanisms, Multiple, Observations, Potential, Rates, Rheology, Run, Seismicity, Simulations, Sinking, Stresses, Subduction, Temperature, Theory, Visco-elasto-plastic.

Collaborative Research: The M7.8 Simeonof earthquake: Untangling Slip from Seconds to Years across the edge of the Shumagin Seismic Gap
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: Geophysics

1. Songqiao Wei($392,536), Michigan State University, East Lansing
2. Ronni Grapenthin($108,950), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Alaska Amphibious, Fault Slip, Plate Interface, Seismic Experiment, Shumagin Islands, Distribution, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Elementary, Ground, Locate, Precisely.

Structure and motion of the inner core from dense arrays
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: Geophysics

1. John E Vidale($470,000), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Inner Core, Magnetic Field, Outer Core, Arrays, Has, Heterogeneity, IC, Metal, Motion, Structure.

CAREER: Testing models of early Earth crust formation and tectonics
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2021; Program: Geophysics

1. Bradford J Foley($405,605), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Summer Short Course, Crustal Buoyancy, Earliest Felsic, Felsic Crust, Graduate Student, Hf Isotopes, Lid” Mode, Mantle Convection, Plate Tectonics, Plateau Melting, Absent, Archean, Assess, Constrain, Constraints, Developed, Dynamics, Earth’s, Education, Educational, Evolution, Formation, Formed, Ga, Geosciences, Hadean, Implications, Internships, Light, Mafic, Modeling, Models, Numerical, Observations, Operated, Operating, Planets, Processes, Program, Rock, Scenarios, Solar, Started, Students, Subduction, Surface, Time, Undergraduate, Underrepresented, Was, Zircons.

Insights into Episodic Caldera Collapse and Magmatic Systems from the 2018 Eruption of Kilauea Volcano
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2021; Program: Geophysics

1. Paul Segall($470,000), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Caldera Collapse, Chamber Pressure, Magma Chamber, Magma Pressure, Accompanied, Compared, Conditions, Constrain, Crust, Deformation, Discrete, Dropped, Earthquakes, Eruption, Fault, GPS, Geometry, Hawai‘i, History, Model, Overlying, Ring-fault, Weight.

Experimental constraints on the rheology of the mantle lithosphere at the base of the seismogenic zone
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2021; Program: Geophysics

1. James G Hirth($422,170), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Flow Law Parameters, Fault Slip, Frictional Behavior, Pressure Conditions, Rate-and-state Friction, Wide Range, Ability, Constrain, Constraints, Dehydration, Earthquakes, Experiments, Has, Lithosphere, Quantify, Rate-and-state, STEM, Stress, Students, Thesis.

Seismological studies of cratonic lithosphere: investigating lithospheric rheology, heat flow beneath ice sheets, and the origin of mid-lithospheric discontinuities
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2021; Program: Geophysics

1. Colleen A Dalton($437,617), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Continental Crust, Oceanic Crust, Anisotropy, Attenuation, Buoyancy, Cratons, Mantle, Million, Models, Perform, Processes, Properties, Seismic, Shear, Structure, Velocity.

Towards the Understanding of Deep Crustal Faulting and Fluid Movement through the Analysis of Long Period Earthquakes at Clearlake, CA
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2021; Program: Geophysics

1. Takaaki Taira($139,000), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Lake Volcanic Field, Fluid Transport, Focal Mechanisms, Hybrid Approaches, Analysis, Analyzed, Assess, Based, Catalog, Challenging, Detect, Detected, Development, Earthquakes, Existing, Fault, Geothermal, High-resolution, Inversion, Investigate, LP, Magnitude, Method, Methods, Moment, Produced, Properties, Scaling, Seismic, Utilizes, Waveform, Waves.

Collaborative Research: High temporal resolution paleomagnetism of speleothems
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2021; Program: Geophysics

1. Ioan Lascu($63,521), Smithsonian Institution, Washington
2. Maxwell C Brown($384,001), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
3. Eduardo Andrade Lima($330,177), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Earth’s Magnetic Field, Spherical Harmonic Models, Earth’s Magnetic, Electron Microscopy, Laschamp Excursion, Magnetic Minerals, Acquisition, Brazil, Cave, Climatic, Continuous, Critical, Dating, Geodynamo, Geomagnetic, Graduate, Has, Hemisphere, High-resolution, Information, Instabilities, Instability, Magnetometry, Overlying, Paleomagnetic, Past, Period, Quantum, Remanence, SEM, Scanning, Speleothems, Strength, Techniques, Time, Tomography, Undergraduate.

Thermal conductivity of lower mantle minerals and outer core alloys studied by combined fast pulsed laser and optical spectroscopy techniques
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2021; Program: Geophysics

1. Alexander F Goncharov($327,856), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Conductive And Radiative, Mantle And Core, Fe-rich Alloys, Heat Flux, Heat Transport, Magnetic Field, Outer Core, Thermal Conductivity, Thermal History, Thermal Properties, Transient Heating, Boundary, CMB, Convection, DAC, Deep, Dynamics, Earth’s, Evolution, Experiments, Extreme, Fe-rich, Interior, Minerals, Planet, Pressures, Previously, Quantifying, Surface, Technique, Techniques, Temperature.

The First Billion Years of the Geodynamo
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2021; Program: Geophysics

1. Rory D Cottrell($465,000), University of Rochester, Rochester
Key terms: Graduate And Undergraduate, India And Southern, Instructors And Students, International Collaborators Spanning, Multidisciplinary Laboratory Studies, Receive Broad Training, Rochester Secondary Schools, Strong Magnetic Field, Earth's Habitability, Electron Microscopy, Fill Gaps, Jack Hills, Magnetic History, Magnetic Inclusions, Magnetic Shielding, Magnetic Signals, Multidisciplinary Analyses, Southern Africa, Undergraduate Students, Western Australia, Accurately, Ago, Approach, Atmosphere, Billion, Chemical, Core, Countries, Earliest, Eoarchean, Evolution, Explore, Fidelity, Found, Geodynamo, Hadean, Implications, Indicate, Insight, Ion, Knowledge, Localities, Magnetometry, Microscope, Outreach, Paleointensity, Paleomagnetic, Presence, Primary, Programs, SQUID, Scanning, Sedimentary, Select, Sensitive, Time, Was, Water, Zircon, Zircons.

Fluid oscillations in conduit-reservoir systems, very long period seismic signals at Kilauea volcano, and the phenomenology of unsteady magma ascent
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2021; Program: Geophysics

1. Leif Karlstrom($286,666), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Active Lava Lake, Conduit Flow Models, Outreach Effort Dedicated, Sound And Animations, Surface Gas Flux, Well-documented Natural Experiments, Explosive Eruptions, Kilauea Volcano, Listening Project”, Magma Flow, Modeling Framework, Representing Volcano, Reservoir Geometry, Short Timescales, Volatile Content, Volcanic Conduits, Well-documented Natural, Approach, Bubble, Complex, Contribute, Critical, Developments, Disturbances, Explosions, Fluid, Fragmentation, Geophysical, Hawai’i’, Involve, Motion, Motions, Multiphase, Observations, Onto, Oscillations, Oscillatory, Predict, Processes, Resonant, Rise, Rock, Seismic, Seismicity, Stratified, Students, Subsurface, Transient, Unique, Unrest, Unstable, Unsteady, VLP, Wave.

Applications of double-difference seismic attenuation tomography
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2021; Program: Geophysics

1. Clifford H Thurber($95,254), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: P-wave And S-wave, Subduction Zone Segment, Waves Lose Energy, Attenuation Structure, Attenuation Tomography, Fluid Content, Geothermal Reservoir, Low-frequency Earthquakes, Seismic Attenuation, Seismic Waves, Absolute, Allows, California, DD, Develops, Differential, Double-difference, Dt, Earth’s, Event-pair, Fracturing, Geysers, Image, Imaging, Invert, Japan, Low-frequency, Method, Models, Plates, Processes, Rate, Ratio, Set, Subducting, Travel, Vibrating, Vibration, Zones.

Imaging deep mantle structure beneath Alaska using full waveform tomography
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2021; Program: Geophysics

1. Daniel A Frost($240,242), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Beneath Alaska, Body Waveforms, Compressional Velocity, Earth’s Surface, Heavy Computations, Mantle Beneath, Resolution Tomographic, Transition Zone, Waveform Inversion, Anisotropy, Core, Corrections, Deep, Does, Earthquakes, Earth’s, Effects, Focus, Frequency, Geodynamicists, History, Images, Inner, Inside, Investigate, Local, Method, Model, Models, Pacific, Past, Plate, Reducing, Region, Regional, Restricted, Seismic, Slab, Slabs, South, Stations, Subducted, Subduction, Time, Waves, “box”.

Geophysics of Iron in the Earth’s Core
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2021; Program: Geophysics

1. Arianna E Gleason($330,111), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Pressures And Temperatures, Compression Experiments, Core Conditions, Deformation Mechanisms, Extreme Conditions, Inner Core, Outer Core, Deep, Diffraction, Dynamic, Earth’s, Evolution, Imaging, Iron, Iron-rich, Measuring, National, Processes, Properties, Seismic, Solid, Students, Technical, Viscosity, X-ray.

CAREER: Dynamics of surface rupturing thrust earthquakes
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2021; Program: Geophysics

1. Marine A Denolle($274,605), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Rupturing Thrust Earthquakes, Surface Rupturing Thrust, Dynamic Simulations, Ground Motion, Megathrust Earthquakes, Observational Methodologies, Approaches, Class, Development, Expecting, Fault, Global, Graduate, Involves, Limitations, Mechanical, Models, Observations, Pacific, Processes, Seismic, Source, Students, Subduction, Tsunami.

Collaborative Research: Cross-Validation of Empirical and Physics-based ground motion predictions
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2021; Program: Geophysics

1. Marine A Denolle($59,460), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Ambient Noise, Ground Motions, Los Angeles, Sedimentary Basins, Southern California, Amplify, Approaches, City, Coupling, Cross-validation, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Effect, Effects, Effort, Evaluating, Future, Geological, Hazards, Seattle, Seismic, Similar, Simulations, Source, Tokyo, Waves.

CAREER: Hydrodynamic Controls on Fluid and Solute Exchanges Across the Aquifer-Estuary Interface
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2022; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. James Heiss($487,246), University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell
Key terms: Groundwater-surface Water Exchanges, River And Ocean, Chemical Exchanges, Chemical Transformations, Coastal Groundwater, Dissolved Chemicals, Groundwater-surface Water, Water Quality, Carbon, Estuaries, Models, Rivers, Sediments.

CAS-Climate: Understanding the link between regional climate patterns and water supply in the Horn of Africa
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2022; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Zelalem Bedaso($308,799), University of Dayton, Dayton
Key terms: Groundwater Recharge, Water Resources, Weather Types, Africa, Aims, Assessment, Availability, Circulation, Climate, Development, Establish, Future, HOA, Horn, Isotope, Knowledge, Link, Rain-producing, Rainfall, Region, Surface, Sustainability, Watershed.

Collaborative Research: Where does the water go: Improving understanding of stream-aquifer-atmosphere interactions around Beaver Dam Analogues
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2022; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Christa A Kelleher($218,027), Lafayette College, Easton
2. Stephen B Shaw($258,891), SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, 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.

Collaborative Research: Informing River Corridor Transport Modeling by Harnessing Community Data and Physics-Aware Machine Learning
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2022; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Timothy R Ginn($273,481), Washington State University, Pullman
2. Alexandre M Tartakovsky($249,987), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
3. Ricardo Gonzalez-Pinzon($254,245), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
4. Kenneth C Carroll($43,854), New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
Key terms: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Models, River Corridors, Solute Transport, Database, Dissolved, Machine, Measured, Modeling, Performed, Properties, Rivers, Sediments, Sharing, Solutes, Sources, Tools, Tracer.

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: 10/01/2021; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. John T Van Stan($148,943), Cleveland State University, Cleveland
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 Proposal: Plastic Spiraling In River Networks (Plastic-SIReN): Determining the controls of watershed plastic fluxes using a field and modeling approach
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2021; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Chelsea Rochman($418,107), Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago
2. Wilfred M Wollheim($429,900), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Drinking Water, Plastic Accumulation, Plastic Pollution, Applied, Characteristics, Cleanups, Downstream, Field, Measure, Modeling, Quantify, River, Rivers, Stored, Watershed, Watersheds.

Using a Well-Controlled Heterogeneous Permeability Field to Study Its Role on Miscible Density-Driven Convection in Porous Media
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2021; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Cheng Chen($217,089), Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken
Key terms: 3d Printing Technologies, Heterogeneous Permeability Field, Heterogeneous Porous Media, High-resolution 3d Printing, Miscible Density-driven Convection, Women And Minority, 3d Printing, Correlation Length, Deep Aquifers, Density-driven Convection, Digital Sediment, Engage Women, Experimental Analogue, High-resolution 3d, Increase Public, Injected Co2, Mass Transfer, Minority Students, Miscible Density-driven, Affects, Carbon, Climate, Construct, Contribute, Critical, Flow, Fluid, Fluids, Global, Influence, Information, Literacy, Mobility, Modeling, Onset, Plan, Structure, Water, Well-controlled.

Collaborative Research: Anthropogenic water management, Climate Change, and Environmental Sustainability in the Southwestern US (ACCESS)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Elizabeth A Payton($135,001), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Yadu Pokhrel($314,999), Michigan State University, East Lansing
Key terms: Environmental Flow Requirements, Water Resource Management, Water Resource Sustainability, Colorado River, Regional Stakeholders, Water Management, Water Supplies, Climate, Concerns, Considering, Current, Demands, Droughts, Examine, Examines, Future, Groundwater, Growing, Issues, K-, Modeling, Pathways, Quantify, Reservoir, Scenarios, Southwestern, Students, Trends, Various.

MCA: In Flux: The Role of Dynamic Urban Greenspace in Energy, Water and Carbon Cycling
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Shirley A Papuga($367,843), Wayne State University, Detroit
Key terms: Modeling Approaches, Remote Sensing, Carbon, Climate, Efforts, Energy, Especially, Greenspace, Inform, Integrated, Land, Local, Outcomes, Processes, Regional, Surface, Urban, Water.

Collaborative Research: Tracing the fate, age, and ecohydrologic significance of rock moisture
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Daniella M Rempe($240,965), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. William E Dietrich($78,987), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Dry Season, Groundwater Recharge, Labeled Water, Rock Moisture, Source Water, Water Resources, Water Stored, Access, Bedrock, Drought, Fate, Flow, Forest, Isotopic, Plants, Radio-isotopes, Soil, Tools, Tracing, Transit, Trees.

U.S.-Ireland R&D Partnership: Sensor Application to Peatland Hydrology in Remote Environments (SAPHIRE)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Anne E Carey($349,810), Ohio State University, Columbus
Key terms: Sensor Network, Water Quality, Agreement, Bogs, Carbon, Changing, Component, Global, Hydrological, Hydrology, Importance, Information, Integrate, Ireland, NSF, Peatland, Peatlands, Processes, Stream.

The influence of hierarchical and multiscale river morphology and sediment heterogeneity on hyporheic exchange processes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Corey D Wallace($520,884), University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati
Key terms: Heterogeneity And River, Multiscale Fluvial Forms, River Channel Morphology, Solute Residence Times, Water And Groundwater, Hyporheic Exchange, Hyporheic Flux, Hyporheic Zone, Innovative Field, Numerical Models, Sediment Heterogeneity, Stratal Architecture, Biogeochemical, Cincinnati, Influence, Insights, Processes, Quality, Rivers.

Resolving time scales of groundwater flow and saline water displacement using noble gas radionuclide tracers
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Reika Yokochi($272,491), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Milk River Aquifer, Advective Flow, Freshwater Resources, Chemical, Composition, Difficult, Establishing, Geochemical, Groundwater, Pores, Rate, Ratios, Time, Water.

Collaborative Research: Two-way Coupled Fluid/Particulate Transport in Fractured Media - Bridging the Scales from Microscopic Origins to Macroscopic Networks
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Eckart H Meiburg($172,301), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
2. Sungyon Lee($348,253), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Particulate Transport Models, Coupled Particlefluid, Fracture Network, Hydrodynamic Instabilities, Laboratory Experiments, Particlefluid Transport, Single Fracture, Two-way Coupling, Aquifers, Challenges, Effects, Field, Flow, Fractured, Fractures, Large-scale, Media, Motion, Particle-resolving, Particles, Range, Simulations, Subsurface, Two-way.

Collaborative Research: Changes in hyporheic exchange and nitrous oxide generation due to streambed alteration by macro-roughness elements
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Daniel M Tartakovsky($300,000), Stanford University, Stanford
2. William J Reeder($539,714), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
Key terms: Flow Conditions, Hyporheic Exchange, Hyporheic Zone, Boulder, Chemistry, Density, Effects, Flows, Increase, Local, Morphology, Primary, Rates, Regulating, Restoration, Roughness, Sediment, Stream, Water.

Collaborative Research: Correlated velocity models as dynamic upscaling and model translation tools for watershed-scale hydrobiogeochemical cycling
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Nicholas B Engdahl($300,153), Washington State University, Pullman
2. Diogo Bolster($247,844), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
Key terms: Flow And Transport, Real Watersheds, Solute Transport, Velocity Correlations, Approach, Coupled, Models, Predictions, Processes, Represent, Simple, Sites, Solutes, Streamtube, Tools.

Collaborative Research: Urban Watershed Evolution - Novel Temporal Perspectives on the Hydrologic Impacts and Positive Unintended Consequences of Failing Municipal Infrastructure
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2021; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Bryan A Black($69,012), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Bald Cypress Trees, Municipal Water Input, Failing Infrastructure, Infrastructure Failure, Natural Hydrologic, Stream Water, Austin, Chemical, Development, Emphasize, Environmental, Extent, Growth, History, Isotopic, Onset, Primary, Programs, Progressed, Reconstruct, Rings, Sr, Streams, Temporal, Time, Tracers, Urban, Urbanization, Watersheds.

Collaborative Research: In Situ Laboratory Imaging and Modeling of PFAS Transport and Fate in Variably Saturated Heterogeneous Porous Media
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2021; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Bo Guo($155,247), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Christopher Zahasky($397,197), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Migration And Retention, Numerical Models, Pfas Migration, Shallow Subsurface, Adsorption, Advances, Conditions, Contamination, Enable, Geologic, Groundwater, Heterogeneous, Imaging, Measure, Saturated, Situ, Transport, Water.

Stream Corridor Hydrologic Controls on Carbon Dioxide Fluxes
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Matthew J Winnick($368,508), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Stream Co2 Fluxes, Computer Models, Groundwater Inputs, Hyporheic Zone, Stream Corridor, Ability, Carbon, Control, Exchange, Field, Monitoring, Processes, Rocky, Sources, Streams.

Collaborative Research: How does the deep critical zone (CZ) structure impact the hydrology and coupled carbon cycling of northern peatlands?
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Andrew S Reeve($260,930), University of Maine, Orono
2. Xavier Comas($218,992), Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
3. Lee Slater($208,539), Rutgers University Newark, Newark
Key terms: Deep Critical Zone, Flow And Transport, Lie Buried Beneath, Critical Zone, Groundwater Flow, Hydrological Observations, Northern Peatlands, Atmosphere, Carbon, Deposits, Development, Diverse, Emissions, Esker, Fluxes, Found, Gas, Geological, Glaciers, Hidden, Hotspots, Hydraulic, Hydrology, Ice, Landforms, Landscape, Maine, Management, Methane, Methods, Permeable, Processes, Regulates, Release, Students, Unique, Water.

CAREER: Microplastics in snow-dominated environments - sources, transport, and fate
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Monica M Arienzo($450,427), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: California And Nevada, Mobile Teaching Kit, Snow-fed Water Resources, Microplastics Deposited, Middle School, Sierra Nevada, Snow-fed Water, Accumulation, Amount, Contamination, Downstream, Environment, Environments, Fate, Globe, Hydrology, Plastic, Remain, Remote, Snow-dominated, Sources, Spatial, Students, Transport.

Hydrologic closure relationships at different levels of hillslope model complexity
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2021; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Peter A Troch($507,877), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Transit Time Distributions, Water And Land, Closure Relationships, Land Management, Catchments, Flow, Hillslope, Hillslopes, Hydrologic, Ii, LEO, Model, Real-world, Representation, Simplified, Storage-discharge, Subsurface, Transport.

Collaborative Research: Quantifying Watershed Dynamics in Snow-Dominated Mountainous Karst Watersheds Using Hybrid Physically Based and Deep Learning Models
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2021; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. James P McNamara($110,797), Boise State University, Boise
2. Tianfang Xu($284,867), Arizona State University, Tempe
3. Bethany T Neilson($382,257), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Recharge And Discharge, Snow-dominated Mountainous Karst, Karst Aquifers, Karst Watersheds, Modeling Approach, Physically Based, Snow-dominated Mountainous, Climate, Complex, Data-driven, Deep, Groundwater, Highly, Hydrologic, Management, Precipitation, Regions, Snowmelt, Streamflow.

CAREER: How streamflow ages vary downstream along river courses
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2021; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Scott Jasechko($642,066), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Water And Groundwater, Headwaters Versus, Nature Conservancy, River Water, Solute Concentrations, Transit Times, Undergraduate Students, Water Derived, Aims, Contaminant, Contribution, Contributions, Downstream, Interactions, Knowledge, Lowlands, Measuring, Mediterranean, Predicting, Proportion, Quantifying, Rain, Streamflow, Tracers, Training, Transport, Watershed.

CAREER: Understanding the importance of biomass hydraulic capacitance for transpiration
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2021; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Ashley M Matheny($580,897), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Biomass Water Storage, Forest Water Storage, Plant Hydraulics Models, Drought Stress, Remotely Sensed, Soil Water, Water Content, Ability, Atmosphere, Carbon, Cycle, Development, Evaluation, Field, Generate, Global, Ground, Increase, Individual-based, Interactive, Observations, Regional, Store, Stresses, Trees.

NSFGEO-NERC: Earthquake nucleation versus episodic slow slip: what controls the mode of fault slip?
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: IUCRC-Indust-Univ Coop Res Ctr

1. Nadia Lapusta($424,925), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Episodic Slow Slip, Mechanisms Underlying Sses, Dynamic Rupture, Episodic Sses, Fault Slip, Laboratory Experiments, Numerical Modeling, Seismic Hazard, Tectonic Faults, Agreement, Allows, Budget, Conditions, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Friction, Joint, Laws, Natural, Nucleation, Physics, Proportion, Rapid, Simulations, Stabilizes, Strengthening, Stress, UK, Velocity.

An Experimental and Computational Study of the Radiative Thermal Conductivity of Upper Mantle Minerals and Rocks
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2022; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Paul D Asimow($509,939), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Radiative Heat Transfer, Radiative Thermal Conductivity, Elevated Temperature, Elevated Temperatures, Mantle Minerals, Optical Absorption, Optical Spectra, Radiative Conductivity, Radiative Transport, Cold, Collected, Conduction, Consequences, Convective, Discovery, Dynamic, Earth’s, Effect, Experimental, Fe, Has, Hot, IVCT, Initial, Interior, Involves, Ions, Light, Measured, Mechanism, Model, Models, Motion, Motions, Objects, Planet, Pressure, Properties, Shown, Transparent, Visible, —.

MRI Acquisition of a high-resolution confocal Raman microscope with capabilities to perform liquid and solid experiments
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2021; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Gayan R Rubasinghege($396,934), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Confocal Raman Microscope, Fluid And Melt, High-resolution Confocal Raman, Nm Uv Laser, High-resolution Confocal, Human Health, Melt Inclusions, Raman Instrument, Raman Spectroscopy, Uv Excitation, Acquisition, Aerosols, Allow, Analytical, Applications, Biomolecules, Campus, Capabilities, Cell, Characterization, Chemical, Collaborations, Crust, Deposits, Education, Environmental, Experimental, Experiments, Facility, Fluid-mineral, Fluids, Fossil, Geologic, Horiba, Instrumentation, Interdisciplinary, Laboratories, Laboratory, Life, Mexico, Mineral, Minerals, Mission, NMT, Organic, Program, Promote, Properties, Rock, Stage, Students.

Acquisition of a high temperature elemental analyzer for hydrogen and oxygen isotope analysis of waters and solids for the University of Cincinnati Stable Isotope Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Brooke Crowley($108,503), University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati
Key terms: Stable Isotope Laboratory, Uc Stable Isotope, Undergraduate And Graduate, Graduate Students, Hydrologic Cycle, Analysis, Analytical, Animal, Anticipated, Capabilities, Critical, Directions, Established, Evaporation, Expand, Foraging, Geology, Information, Instrumentation, Isotopes, Measure, Methods, Mobility, Obtaining, Opportunities, Organic, Organics, Precipitation, Precision, Program, Programs, Solids, Surface, Time, Tissues, Water, Waters.

Acquisition of an ICP-OES and IC to Increase Hydrological and Geochemical Research and Education in the School of Geosciences at the University of Oklahoma
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Megan E Elwood Madden($177,632), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Icap Pro Xp, Icp-oes And Ic, Brine Geochemistry, Ion Chromatograph, Trace Metal, Water Quality, Analysis, Aqueous, Citizen, Dissolved, Education, Educational, Elemental, Environmental, Faculty, Focusing, Graduate, HPIC, Ideal, Increase, Instruments, Oklahoma, Optical, Outreach, Resolution, Sensitive, Sog, Students, Thermo, Waters.

MRI: Acquisition of a field emission electron microprobe for Caltech Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Chi Ma($999,999), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: X-ray Photons Emitted, Count Rate, Electron Microprobe, Electron Source, Particular Wavelengths, Spatial Resolution, X-ray Photons, Analysis, Applications, Available, Beam, Capabilities, Characteristic, Chemical, Energy, Essential, Experimental, High-resolution, Homogeneity, Imaging, Instrument, Instrumentation, MRI, Meteorites, Path, Phases, Precision, Probe, Program, Schools, Solid, Specimens, Thin, Unknown, Unsupported, X-rays.

MRI: Acquisition of a MIni CArbon DAting System (MICADAS) for climate change and air quality research
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Guaciara dos Santos($2,199,429), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Global Carbon Cycle, Accelerator Mass, Air Quality, Carbon Dioxide, Greenhouse Gases, Organic Solids, Aerosols, Analysis, Atmosphere, California, Climate, Composition, Contributions, Enable, Fossil, Future, Instrument, Irvine, Isotope, UC.

Acquisition of a multicollector mass spectrometer for 40Ar/39Ar geochronology
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2021; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Alan L Deino($491,397), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
Key terms: Accuracy, Arar, Beam, Enabling, Experience, Geologic, Highly, Instrument, Ion, Mass, Precision, Sensitivity, Source, Throughput.

Acquisition of an inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometer for high-throughput major and trace element analysis of aqueous solutions
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2021; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Michael V Schaefer($120,731), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Water Resources, Bureau, Geology, ICP-OES, Instrument, Mexico, NMT, Outreach, Program.

Development of a high-throughput/high-sensitivity, in situ 14C extraction line for US earth sciences
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2021; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Joerg M Schaefer($345,538), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Quickly Ice Sheets, Sheets And Glaciers, Situ 14c Extraction, 14c Extraction, Allow Ldeo, Extraction Line, Next-generation Extraction, Situ 14c, Attract, Available, Avenues, Columbia, Development, Has, Housed, Lamont-doherty, Low-level, Next-generation, Observatory, Past, Potential, Quartz, Recruit, Students, Widespread.

Seismic and Hydrostratigraphic Characterization of the Onshore-Offshore Freshwater Systems of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2021; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Jeffrey C Shragge($49,417), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: Properties And Groundwater, Vineyard And Nantucket, Freshwater Resources, Geophysical Surveys, Groundwater Age, Hydrologic Properties, Martha’s Vineyard, Onshore-offshore Freshwater, Aquifer, Coastal, Dedicated, Drill, Drilling, Dynamics, Has, Hydrogeological, International, Martha’s, Onshore-offshore, Portion, Potential, Program, Quantify, Sustainability, USA.

Collaborative Research: Community Facility Support: Facilitating Access and Innovation through a Collaborative Organization for Rock Deformation (CORD)
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Reid F Cooper($175,626), Brown University, Providence
2. Brian J Evans($159,306), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Experimental Rock Deformation, Rock Deformation Studies, Broad User, Dedicated Technical, Experimental Capabilities, Laboratory Technician, Access, Benefit, Broader, Brown, CORD, Collaboration, Consistent, Development, Effective, Equipment, Facilitate, Facility, Faculty, Insights, Laboratories, Natural, Operation, Organizations, Pi’s, Presence, Primary, Resources, Safe, Staff, Students, Technicians, Training, Users.

Acquisition of a Volumetric Velocimetry System
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2021; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Ralph S Budwig($276,822), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
Key terms: Common Investigative Tool, Complex Computational Models, Experimental Flow Fields, Sediment Grain Transport, Solute And Sediment, Circumstances Models, Fluid Flows, Geoscience Phenomena, Powerful Tools, Probe Critical, Surface Lava, Volumetric Descriptions, Volumetric Velocimetry, Acquire, Acquisition, Allow, Becoming, Benchmarked, Breakout, Information, Local, Nature, Organisms, Pressure, Proper, River, Streambeds, VVS, Validation.

Acquisition and Upgrade of Instrumentation for Noble Gas Geochronology and Thermochronology
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2021; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Matthijs c Van Soest($496,592), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Laser Ablation, Spatial Resolution, ASU, Acquisition, Analytical, Available, Capabilities, Commissioning, Dating, Development, Enable, Evolution, External, Geoscience, Instrumentation, Instruments, Involves, Mass, UVLAMP, Unusually.

Acquisition of a High-Performance Computing Cluster for Big-Data in University of Massachusetts, Geosciences
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2021; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Haiying Gao($74,681), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Undergraduate And Graduate, Girls Inc, Graduate Students, High-performance Computing, Hpc Cluster, Umass Amherst, Umass Geosciences, Wide Range, Activities, Broadly, Computation, Cutting-edge, Diversity, Early-career, Female, Five-college, Has, High-performance, Holyoke, Massachusetts, NSFEAR, Propagation, Seismic, Seismology.

Updating of Geophysics Computer Facility, University of Colorado/CIRES
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2021; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Vera Schulte-Pelkum($74,113), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Field Experiments, Ability, Algorithms, Analysis, Boulder, Colorado, Computers, Continent, Development, Geodynamics, Hazards, Machines, NSF, Requires, Routine, Seismic, Seismicity, Seismological, Storage, Structure, Terabytes.

Acquisition of a tabletop SEM/EDS system at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2021; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Davide Oppo($162,850), University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette
Key terms: Allow, Art, Chemical, Demonstrations, Exploration, Geology, Images, Instrument, Lafayette, Louisiana, Rock, SEM, Students, Tabletop, Wood.

Community Facility Support for Geochronology and Thermochronology at the Arizona LaserChron Center
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2021; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Peter W Reiners($959,118), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Hf Isotope Ratios, Geochronologic Information, Spatial Resolution, U-th-pb Ages, ALC, Acquisition, Applications, Aspects, Courses, Cyberinfrastructure, Development, Drive, Expertise, Facility, Faculty, Generate, Generates, Geochronology, Instruments, LA-ICPMS, Opportunities, Precision, Techniques, Trace, U-th-pb, Utilize.

Do slickenfibers record episodic tremor and slow slip?
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2021; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Randolph T Williams($157,100), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Tremor And Slow, Coseismic Decreases, Earthquake-producing Faults, Episodic Tremor, Hydrothermal Experiments, Precipitation Rates, Slickenfiber Formation, Slow Slip, Time Scales, Compatible, Consistent, Earthquake-producing, Geologic, Has, Incrementally, Increments, Observed, Potential, Pressure, Quartz, Recurrence, Seismic, Slickenfibers, Typical, Μm.

Efficient discharge monitoring using whitewater sounds
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2021; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Jacob F Anderson($391,347), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Whitewater Features, Acoustic, Background, Characteristics, Collect, Collection, Discharge, Hydrological, Hydrologists, Impractical, Instrumentation, Method, Monitoring, Noise, Program, Significance, Software, Sounds, Spatial, Stream, Streamflow, Streams, Utility, Waterfalls.

Acquisition of LA-ICP-MS Instrumentation for Geochemical, Hydrological, and Archaeological Research and Education
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2021; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Paulo J Hidalgo($395,948), Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc., Atlanta
Key terms: Undergraduate And Graduate, Graduate Students, Videos Targeted, Ancient, Archaeological, Atlanta, Dynamics, Enable, GSU, Geochemical, Instrument, K-, LA-ICP-MS, Past, Pis, Ponds, Short, Trade, URM, Undergraduates.

Excellence in Research: A Data-Driven Computational Framework for Seismic Detection, Modeling and Prediction
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2021; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Mulugeta T Dugda($348,331), Morgan State University, Baltimore
Key terms: Explosion Detection Methods, Modeling Crustal Structure, Nuclear Explosion Detection, Aftershocks Following, Big-data Analytics, Computational Techniques, Graduate Students, Seismic Datasets, Spatial Distribution, Underground Nuclear, Algorithms, Based, Big-data, Data-driven, Development, Disciplines, Earthquakes, Explore, Framework, Geophysics, Machine, Multiple, Predicting, Program, STEM, Seismology, Undergraduate.

MRI: Acquisition of a Field Emission Gun Scanning Electron Microscope for Cal State Northridge Scanning Microscopy Lab
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2021; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Joshua Schwartz($800,200), The University Corporation, Northridge, Northridge
Key terms: Faculty And Student, Scanning Electron Microscope, Analytical Capability, Field Emission, Access, Acquire, Acquisition, Biology, CSU, CSUN, California, Capabilities, Chemistry, Co-pis, Degree, Department, Enhance, FE-SEM, Facility, Geology, HSI, Hispanic-serving, Imaging, Infrastructure, Instrument, Level, MS, Microscopy, Ms-granting, Northridge, Phd-granting, Physics, Recipients, Regional, SEM, Students, Training, Underrepresented, Workforce.

MRI: Acquisition of Tekran mercury speciation system for mercury biotransformation and ecotoxicology research and training at UT Tyler
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Udonna Ndu($112,576), University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler
Key terms: Coal-fired Power Plants, Fish And Wildlife, Hg Methylation Mechanisms, Microbial Hg Methylation, Atmospheric Hg, Brown Pelican, Coal-fired Power, East Texas, Hg Contamination, Hg Emission, Mehg Degradation, Mercury Speciation, Organic Carbon, Acquisition, Air, Aquatic, Co-pis, Environmental, Fate, Fields, Food, Human, Instrument, Lab, Lakes, Source.

MRI: Acquisition of a Malvern Particle Size Analyzer for Interdisciplinary Research and Undergraduate Education and Research Training
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Amber D Stubler($153,814), Occidental College, Los Angeles
Key terms: Geology And Biology, Grain Size Analysis, Particle Size Analyzer, Arctic, Climate, Human, Processes, Sediments, Training.

MRI: Acquisition of a Laboratory-Based X-ray Absorption and Emission Spectroscopy Instrument
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Arpita Bose($295,464), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Laboratory Setting, Volcanic Eruptions, X-ray Absorption, Array, Capability, Coordination, Emission, Environmental, Formation, Instrument, Lightsource, Louis, Metal, Methods, Migration, Occurring, Oxidation, Rock, Spectroscopy, St, Students, Synchrotron, Treatment, Usage, Water, X-ray, XAS, XES.

MRI: Acquisition of a Broad-Energy Germanium Detector at Western Washington University
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Katrina L Poppe($124,892), Western Washington University, Bellingham
Key terms: Broad-energy Germanium Detector, Students And Faculty, Broad-energy Germanium, Gamma Emitters, Applications, Burial, Carbon, Contaminants, Education, Enable, Environmental, Existing, Expand, Instrument, Measuring, Organic, Processes, Programs, Sediment, Users, WWU.

MRI: Acquisition of a Leading-edge Portable Geoprobe System with Subsurface Sampling, Logging and Imaging capabilities for Geoscience Research and Education
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Hussain A Abdulla($330,818), Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi
Key terms: Geoprobe 7822dt, Imaging Capabilities, South Texas, Stem Fields, Water Content, Aseptic, Characterization, Chemical, Coring, DP, Discrete, Environmental, Groundwater, Has, High-resolution, Industry, Instrumentation, Logging, Migration, Obtaining, Region, Regional, Resources, Sampling, Sediment, Soil, Soils, Students, TAMU-CC, Tools, Variety.

MRI: Acquisition of Continuous Flow Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer (IRMS) for Climate Change and Environmental Research at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Sarah Hurley($317,553), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Carbon And Hydrogen, Mass Spectrometer, Acids, Analysis, Chromatograph, Instrument, LDEO, Ocean, Organic, Processes, Program, Sediments, Stable, Students.

MRI: Acquisition of a Normal Phase Single Quadrupole High Performance Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometer (HPLC-MS) for Innovative Paleoclimate and Paleoenvironmental Research
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Melissa A Berke($201,803), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
Key terms: Liquid Chromatography-mass Spectrometer, Performance Liquid Chromatography-mass, Chromatography-mass Spectrometer, Economical Detection, Liquid Chromatography-mass, Membrane Lipids, Microbial Membrane, Notre Dame, Acquisition, Analytical, Compounds, Environmental, Gdgts, Glycerol, Growth, HPLC-MS, Innovations, Instrument, Led, Paleoclimatology, Propelled, Rapid, Sensitive.

Collaborative Research: The role of subducting seamounts in fault stability and slip behavior throughout the seismic cycle
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Demian M Saffer($167,851), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Camilla Cattania($253,492), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Interseismic Coupling, Rock Properties, Sediment Compaction, Seismic Behavior, Slip Behavior, Subduction Zones, Affect, Calculate, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Effect, Elastic, Fault, Features, Fracturing, Geophysics, Hazard, Interface, Investigate, Locking, Long-term, Megathrust, Model, Numerical, Plate, Processes, Seafloor, Seamount, Seamounts, Short-term, Spatial, Stability, Stress, Subducting, Thousands, Unclear.

Acquisition of a New Stable Isotope ratio Mass Spectrometer with Carbonate and Water Systems to Support Earth Science Research at Rutgers University
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Richard A Mortlock($470,500), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Carbon Isotope, Investigating Paleo-climate, Isotope Capabilities, Oxygen Isotope, Stable Isotope, Active, Analysis, Carbonate, Clumped, Continue, Cores, Graduate, Has, IRMS, Instrument, Isotopes, Marine, Mass, Measure, Ocean, Paleo-climate, Pore, Rutgers, SIL, Undergraduate, Water.

Impact of upper-plate splay faults on accreting-sediment stress state and on megathrust strength and fluid budgets
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Maria A Nikolinakou($292,433), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Fluid Flow, Geophysics Program, Megathrust Strength, Plate Interface, Splay Faults, Stress Tensor, Subduction Zone, Subduction Zones, Tsunamigenic Earthquakes, Approach, Coupled, Cycling, Deformation, Evolution, Experiments, Faulting, Field, Fluids, Insights, Large-strain, Modeling, Models, Offshore, Pore, Porosity, Pressure, Pressures, Quantitative, Rates, Seafloor, Sediment, Sediments, Upper.

Community Facility Support: Northeast National Ion Microprobe Facility (NENIMF): 2021-2024
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2021; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Brian Monteleone($1,294,292), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Double Focusing Mass, Focusing Mass Spectrometer, Radius Magnetic Sector, Graduate Students, Ims 3f, National Sims, Secondary Ion, Analysis, Analytical, Cameca, Climate, Concentration, Developed, Expertise, Facility, Geoscience, Glasses, Has, Hydrogen, Instruments, Involvement, Isotopic, Micro-analytical, Minerals, NENIMF, Nitrogen, Resource, Techniques, Unique, Volcanic.

CAREER: Modeling two-phase flow, multi-lithologic melting, and chemical disequilibrium with uranium-series isotopes
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2021; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Lynne Elkins($696,573), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln
Key terms: Chemical Diffusion, Magma Transport, Mantle Melting, Aims, Code, Computer, Development, Disequilibria, Educational, Existing, Generation, Geoscience, Importance, Lavas, Lessons, Modelers, Modeling, Multi-lithologic, Online, Open-source, Origins, Packages, Predict, Processes, Program, Tutorials, U-series.

Distinguishing Sediment, Serpentinite, and Altered Oceanic Crust in the Source of Aleutian Volcanic Rocks Using Boron & Molybdenum Isotopes
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2021; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Michael Bizimis($370,790), University of South Carolina at Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Altered Oceanic Crust, Aleutian Arc, Earth’s Interior, Earth’s Surface, Mo Isotope, Subduction Inputs, Volcanic Rocks, Boron, Chemical, Distinguish, Earth’s, Especially, Fluids, Interns, Isotopes, Melting, Molybdenum, Plate, Pressures, Processes, Produce, Program, Sediment, Serpentinite, Students, Thermal, Tracers, Water.

The Influence of Fault Geometry on Shallow Frictional Sliding in Subduction Zones
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2021; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Rob M Skarbek($188,198), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Fault Network, Shallow Fault, Shallow Subduction, Sliding Stability, Slip Behavior, Subduction Zone, Subduction Zones, Thrust Fault, Zone Geometry, Analyses, Behaviors, Earthquakes, Effects, Faults, Frictional, Interactions, Megathrust, Model, Nucleate, Numerical, Properties, Range, Seafloor, Theoretical.

Mid-scale RI-1 (MI:IP): Facility for Open Research in a Compressed Environment (FORCE) at Arizona State University
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2021; Program: Mid-scale RI - Track 1

1. Sang-Heon Shim($13,711,265), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: National Labs, ASU, Access, Allow, Capabilities, Compression, Conditions, Discovery, Equipment, Extend, FORCE, Facility, Gpa, Industry, Infrastructure, Larger, Mantle, Mode, Press, Pressure, Properties, Range, Rapid, Space, Technological.

CAREER: Heavy Noble Gases in the Azores Archipelago
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2022; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Rita Parai($415,150), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Heavy Noble Gases, Krypton And Xenon, Ocean Island Basalts, Subaerially-erupted Ocean Island, Azores Archipelago, Mantle Plume, Mantle Plumes, Pursue Advanced, Subaerially-erupted Ocean, Surface Reservoirs, Volatile Origins, Volatile Transport, Argon, Atmospheric, Broaden, Curriculum, Deep, Framework, Geochemistry, Insights, Isotope, Measure, Neon, Pool, Signatures, Undergraduates, Unique, Volatiles.

EAR-PF: Does eruption trigger mechanism ultimately control eruption style at arc volcanoes?
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2022; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Rebecca deGraffenried($174,000), deGraffenried, Rebecca, Honolulu
Key terms: Helens And Mt, Magma Ascent Rate, Eruption Style, Eruption Styles, Eruption Trigger, Eruption Triggers, Magma Compositions, Space Scientist”, Volcanic Eruption, Additionally, Arizona, Broader, Explosive, Factors, Has, Hazard, Hazards, Hood, Range, Students, Surface, Threaten, Underlying, Volcanoes, “ask.

Collaborative Research: Phenocryst or not? Using a stratovolcano's crystal cargo to explore crustal-scale magmatic systems, Koma Kulshan (Mt. Baker), Northern Cascade Arc
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2022; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Hannah I Shamloo($277,473), Central Washington University, Ellensburg
2. Kristina J Walowski($333,546), Western Washington University, Bellingham
Key terms: Hazard Mitigation Plans, Field Experience, Koma Kulshan, Magma Storage, Arc, Erupted, Eruption, Has, Lavas, Lead, Transcrustal, Volcanoes, Washington.

CAREER: Redefining the high field strength element systematics of subduction systems using non-traditional stable isotopes
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2022; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Mauricio Ibanez-Mejia($427,016), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Non-traditional Stable Isotopes, Continental Crust, Isotopic Fractionations, Non-traditional Stable, Active, Arc-related, Basalts, Characteristics, Chemical, Evolution, Formation, Geochemical, Geologic, HFSE, Meaningful, Measured, Mineral, Processes, Rock, Signatures, Students, Subduction, Unique.

Opening and reestablishment of Kilauea's lower east rift zone magma plumbing system during the 2018 eruption
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2022; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Helge M Gonnermann($333,279), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: East Rift Zone, Kilauea’s East Rift, Kilauea’s South Flank, Computational Modeling, Computer Modeling, Kilauea Volcano, Kilauea’s East, Kilauea’s South, Magma Flow, Magma Migration, Magma Pressure, Magma Transport, School District, Subsurface Magma, Abrupt, Advance, Advancing, Beneath, Constraints, Contingent, Deformation, Detected, Diverse, Earthquake, Erupting, Eruption, Focused, Forecasting, Has, Hawaii, High-school, Kilaueas, Miles, Objective, Observational, Observations, Predict, Prior, Rock, Surface, Thousands, Volcanic.

Collaborative Research: Tracking nitrogen in mélange matrix from fore-arc to sub-arc depths with implications for deep nitrogen cycling: A combined field and experimental approach
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2022; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Emily Cooperdock($195,997), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2. Ananya Mallik($338,323), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Alfie Norville Gem, Collaboration And Broaden, Earth’s Surficial Reservoirs, Gem And Mineral, Joint Virtual Graduate, Surface And Interior, Ua’s Alfie Norville, Virtual Graduate Seminar, Broaden Participation, Earth’s Atmosphere, Earth’s History, Earth’s Mantle, Earth’s Surficial, Enhance Collaboration, Female Pis, Graduate Students, Mineral Museum, Museum Display, Plate Tectonics, Southern California, Sub-arc Mantle, Sub-arc Processing, Subduction Zones, Ua’s Alfie, Arizona, Behavior, Biosphere, Composition, Conditions, Constraints, Crust, Deep, Deeper, Degassing, Delivered, Distribution, Estimates, Evolution, Experiments, Factors, Fore-arc, Hosted, Life, Minerals, Nitrogen, Ocean, Partial, Performed, Pressure, Rock, Sequestered, Slab, Solid, Sub-arc, Temperature, USC, Undergraduates, Variable, Volcanism.

How do sedimentary rocks become part of the lower continental crust?
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2022; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Roberta L Rudnick($353,586), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Deep Continental Crust, Female Phd Student, Uc Santa Barbara, Lower Crust, Lower Crustal, North Ridge, Sedimentary Rocks, Significantly Under-represented, Summer Interns, Age, Assistants, California, Common, Dating, Followed, Geochemical, Has, Heat-producing, Methods, Mexico, Montana, Processes, Prograde, Seeks, Thermometry, Timing, Transport, Under-represented, Undergraduate.

Experimental determination of the partitioning of Zn, Pb, and Cu between brine and dolomite at temperatures and pressures of sediment-hosted base metal ore deposit formation
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2022; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Martin S Appold($321,017), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Ancient Fluids, Cu Deposits, Experimental Fluid, Hydrothermal Fluids, Metal Concentrations, Ore Deposits, Partition Coefficients, Abundant, Based, Composition, Coupled, Dolomite, Focused, Formed, Measured, Metals, Mineral, Ore-forming, Pb, Precipitated, Sedimentary, Typical, Zn, °.

Particle clustering in dilute pyroclastic density currents and plumes
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2021; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Michael Manga($324,161), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Pyroclastic Density Currents, Volcanic Particle-laden Flows, Explosive Eruptions, Hence Flow, Particle Concentration, Particle-laden Flows, Substantial Hazards, Volcanic Particle-laden, Volcanic Plumes, Clustering, Clusters, Controlled, Controls, Critical, Deposits, Dilute, Distance, Distances, Dynamics, Experimental, Experiments, Field, Gas, Mixtures, Particles, Process, Processes, Sedimentation, Size, Speed, Surface, Travel, Turbulent.

Collaborative Research: Understanding the Tectonic and Petrological Processes Controlling Iron Oxide-Apatite Mineralization in a Mesoproterozoic Collisional Orogen
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Blair Schoene($383,551), Princeton University, Princeton
2. Victor E Guevara($98,567), Amherst College, Amherst
Key terms: Grenville Orogeny, Ioa Deposits, Ioa Genesis, Tectonic Mechanisms, Aims, Belts, Critical, Field, Found, Geoscience, Highlands, Historical, Host, Involved, Involves, Ioas, Iron, Jersey, Local, Magmatic, Mesoproterozoic, Mineralization, NJ, Natural, Occurred, Orogenic, Processes, Region, Regional, Resources, Rock, Th, Timing.

Mesoarchean diamond-bearing sediments: implications for Archean continental roots and their surface expression
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Jesse Reimink($385,650), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Ancient Continental Crust, Continental Crust Formed, Ancient Diamonds, Continental Root, Craton Formation, Detrital Diamonds, Geochemical Signatures, Sedimentary Rocks, Atmosphere, Billion-yold, Canada, Catchment, Chemical, Deep, Deposits, Development, Economic, Elevation, Exploration, Features, Geoscience, Gt, Has, History, Life, Mantle, Media, Popular, Prevalence, Public, Regions, Roots, Sediments, Size, Stability, Stable, Surface, Time, Was.

Mafic magmatic enclaves as tracer of protracted mixing and hybridization
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Michael H Gardner($320,350), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Chaos Crags, Hot Magma, Mafic Enclaves, Magma Mixing, Mechanical Erosion, Mechanical Integrity, Numerical Modeling, Thermal Transients, Approach, Assess, Captured, Constrain, Coupled, Crystal-rich, Crystals, Decades, Drives, Dynamics, Eruption, Hazard, Host, Information, Lasted, Magmatic, Mechanism, Method, Mingling, Recharge, Storage, Survival, Unique, Unrest, Volcanic.

Collaborative Research: Revisiting the water-saturated granite solidus
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Jay B Thomas($253,594), Syracuse University, Syracuse
2. Michael R Ackerson($58,969), Smithsonian Institution, Washington
Key terms: Experimental And Analytical, Granitic And Rhyolitic, Granitic Water-saturated Solidus, Widely Accept¬¬ed G-wss, 75–100 Degrees, Accept¬¬ed G-wss, Analytical Techniques, Composition Rocks, Continental Crust, Granite Formation, Granitic Rocks, Granitic Water-saturated, Hard-rock Petrology, Igneous Rocks, National Mall, P–t Position, School Students, Temperature Estimates, Terrestrial Bodies, Thermal Structure, Water-saturated Solidus, Widely Accept¬¬ed, Accepted, Accurate, Ago, Analogous, Aspects, Building, Bulk, Compositional, Compositions, Conditions, Cooling, Crystallization, Economically, Eruption, Experiments, Freezing, Gt, Hard-rock, Kbar, Low, Lower, Magmatic, Measure, Melts, Molten, Natural, Observations, Opportunities, Outreach, Performed, Phase, Pis, Pressure, Program, P–T, Space, Temperatures, Transform, Various.

The Fate of Zircon and Other Accessories in Deeply Subducted Terrigeneous Sediments
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Robert Rapp($244,633), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Monazite And Rutile, Zircon And Monazite, Accessory Minerals, Crystal Structures, Geochemical Signature, Lower Mantle, Minerals Zircon, Ocean Island, Rutile Play, Additional, Analyses, Appropriate, Behavior, Conditions, Continent, Conveying, Crust, Earth’s, Experimental, Experiments, Fluids, Fractionation, Gpa, Heat-producing, Hfses, Hpes, Hydrous, Lavas, Melts, Middle, Nature, Oceans, Pressure, Reactions, Rees, Sediments, Slab, Solubility, Source, Storage, Strength, Subducted, Subduction, Techniques, Zones.

Collaborative Research: Investigating the Role of Mantle Metasomatism and Melt-Rock Interaction During Evolution of Continental Lithosphere Mantle
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Mousumi Roy($225,520), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
2. Lang Farmer($439,551), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Continental Plates, Continental Tectonic, Farallon Plate, Flow Models, Melt-rock Interface, Numerical Experiments, Situ Melting, Southwest North, Tectonic Plate, Tectonic Plates, Volcanic Rocks, Billions, CLM, Conditions, Cratonic, Deformation, Destabilization, Diffusion, Geochemical, Has, Interior, Interiors, Investigate, Laboratory, Magma, Magma-infiltration, Melt-rock, Multianvil, Particular, Period, Play, Porous, Processes, Removal, Specifically, Stable, Trace, Usually, Weakening.

NSF-BSF: Composition and evolution of saline fluids in the upper mantle
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Dimitri A Sverjensky($564,439), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Mantle Rocks, Saline Fluids, Upper Mantle, Analysis, BSF, Chloride, Deep, Diamonds, Environment, Evolution, Experimental, Expertise, Habitability, Inclusions, Israeli, Laboratory, Long-term, NSF, Potential, Single, Solubilities, Surface, Volcanism.

Towards a process-based understanding of different eruptive regimes at persistently degassing volcanoes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Jenny Suckale($302,617), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Frequently Active Volcanoes, Persistently Degassing Volcanoes, Eruptive Behavior, Modern Volcanology, Approaches, Basis, Developing, Development, Eruption, Existing, Flow, High-school, Model, Models, Sometimes, Tested, Volcanic.

Spatiotemporal Variability of Tungsten-182 in the Hawaiian Plume
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Richard J Walker($383,720), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Hawaiian Islands, Isotopic Composition, Tungsten Isotopic, Volcanic Rocks, Core, Formed, Geochemical, Has, History, Information, Isotope, Mantle, Measured, Ocean, Processes, Student, Various.

Collaborative Research: Contribution of mafic magmatism to upper crustal batholiths: A case study of the Sierra Nevada batholith
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Jade Star Lackey($104,344), Pomona College, Claremont
2. Claire E Bucholz($405,087), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Caltech And Pomona, Mafic Plutonic Bodies, Arc Batholiths, Concentrate Silica, Deep Crustal, Fractional Crystallization, High-silica Rocks, Primitive Basalts, Sierra Nevada, Subduction Zones, BPUSD, Beneath, Build, Chemistry, Collaboration, Composition, Compositional, Compositions, Context, Continent, Create, Differentiation, Earth’s, Endmembers, Existing, Female, Field, Formation, Geosciences, Granitoids, Has, High-silica, Lessons, Lower, Magmas, Magmatic, Melts, Observed, Oceans, Peraluminous, Process, Processes, Represent, Silicic, Student, Students, Under-represented, Volcanoes, Widely.

Determining the rates and conditions of subduction initiation beneath the Samail Ophiolite
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Andrew Smye($199,802), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Garnet And Clinopyroxene, Chemical Exchange, Subduction Initiation, Base, Characterize, Conditions, Deep, Development, Earliest, Ii, Major-element, Maps, Metamorphic, Ophiolites, Paths, Rock, Samail, Sole, Subducted, Surface, Trace-element.

Collaborative Research: Developing crystal clocks in metamorphic rocks: Using lithium in subduction zone garnets to decipher fluid release timescales
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Besim Dragovic($314,922), University of South Carolina at Columbia, Columbia
2. Sarah Penniston-Dorland($339,945), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Fluid Flow Timescales, Fluid Pulses, Growth Zones, Lithium Isotopes, Metamorphic Rocks, Multiple Pulses, Oxygen Fugacity, Subduction Zones, Approach, Diffusion, Diffusivity, Duration, Experiments, Fluids, Following, Formed, Garnet, Garnets, Geologic, Hazards, Mineral, Minerals, Mt, Natural, Processes, Release, Six, Subduction-related.

Collaborative Research: BENEATH THE FOUNTAINS: Shallow conduit processes and diversity in basaltic fissure eruptions.
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Arianna Soldati($214,324), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
2. Bruce F Houghton($226,432), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Strombolian And Hawaiian, Active Volcano, Explosive Activity, Fissure Eruptions, Risk Management, Balance, Behavior, Existing, Field, Future, Knowledge, Kīlauea, Laboratory, Processes, Public, Pyroclastic, Style, Volcano’s.

Collaborative research: Transport of magma in the near surface at small volcanoes- Experimental intrusion of basaltic melt into unconsolidated sediments
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Susan E Sakimoto($111,806), SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE, Boulder
2. Alison H Graettinger($311,379), University of Missouri-Kansas City, Columbia
3. Ingo Sonder($79,017), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Experimental And Numerical, Basaltic Magma, Natural Deposits, Near Surface, Sediment Interactions, Sedimentary Host, Unconsolidated Sediments, Behavior, Behaviors, Conditions, Eruption, Experiments, Explosions, Field, Flow, Future, Gulch, Idaho, Influences, Involves, Loose, Magma-sediment, Mm, Potential, Products, Public, Rate, Simulations, Thermal, Time, USA, Volcanic, Volcanoes.

Collaborative Research: A plan to determine if the core can be the ultimate high 3He/4He source
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Sujoy Mukhopadhyay($201,245), University of California-Davis, Davis
2. Colin Jackson($282,930), Tulane University, New Orleans
Key terms: Metal And Magma, Core Formation, Earth’s Core, Escaped Melting, Mantle Domains, Mantle Rocks, Noble Gas, Noble Gases, Analyses, Analytical, Conditions, Constraints, Earth’s, Experiments, Hehe, Helium, Model, Plausible, Pressures, Pristine, Ratios, Source, Students, Suggest, Surface, Temperatures, Unmelted.

Collaborative Research: Moving mountains: timing and emplacement of the Marysvale gravity slide complex
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. David Malone($132,768), Board of Trustees of Illinois State University, Normal
2. David B Hacker($210,394), Kent State University, Kent
3. Tiffany Rivera($110,665), Westminster College of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City
4. WIlliam A Griffith($229,669), Ohio State University, Columbus
Key terms: Gravity Slide Complex, Marysvale Gravity Slide, Geologic Mapping, Mega-scale Landslides, Slide Initiation, Slide Mobility, Southwestern Utah, Volcanic Field, Volcanic Fields, Basal, Collapse, Collectively, Combined, Conditions, Geochronology, Individual, MGSC, Mega-scale, Modeling, Models, Modules, Numerical, Processes, Program, Rock, Slides, Structure, Structures, Students, Timing, Velocity.

The fate of banded iron formations in the deep mantle
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. James A Van Orman($365,102), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland
Key terms: Banded Iron Formations, Iron Oxide Reduction, Deep Mantle, Gas-phase Transport, Base, Bifs, Bodies, Core, Deposits, Earth’s, Experiments, Fast, Formed, Gas-phase, Kinetics, Metal, Possibility, Pressure, Pressures, Rapid, Rates, Sank, Subducted, Subduction, Zones.

Collaborative Research: Mantle metasomatism during serpentinization in subduction zones: Insights from in-situ boron isotopes
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Kennet E Flores Reyes($137,689), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Aqueous Fluids, Subduction Zone, Subduction Zones, Suture Zones, Constrain, Isotopes, Main, Mantle, Occurring, Planet, Processes, Regions, Represent, Responsible, Serpentinites, Sources, Volcanism.

Collaborative Research: Laboratory and theoretical study of geyser dynamics
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Einat Lev($207,438), Columbia University, New York
2. Maxwell Rudolph($104,339), University of California-Davis, Davis
3. Robert A Sohn($181,914), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Bubble Trap Conduit, Million Annual Visitors, Yellowstone National Park, Behaviors Observed, Chilean Altiplano, Conduit Geometries, El Tatio, Eruption Conduit, Faithful Geyser, Geyser Fields, Geyser Valley, Laboratory Geyser, Mathematical Models, Public Fascination, Underground Conduits, Boiling, Century, Developed, Discovery, Enable, Experiments, Fluid, Geometry, Geysers, Has, Incomplete, Kamchatka, Natural, Offset, Processes, Range, Reservoir, Steam, Thermodynamic, Undeniable, Yellowstones.

Collaborative Research: Behavior of Boron During Prograde Diagenesis and Metamorphism of Pelagic Sediments from the Nankai Trough
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Maureen D Feineman($212,219), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Demian M Saffer($192,083), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Graduate And Undergraduate, Carbon Dioxide, Chemical Components, Intellectual Exchange, Subduction Zone, Subduction Zones, Undergraduate Levels, Atmosphere, Benefit, Boron, Collaborators, Contribute, Crust, Deep, Dehydration, Desorption, Earth’s, Entering, Evolution, Fluid, Highly, Interior, Italy, Japan, Magmas, Mantle, Ocean, Oceans, Opportunities, Recycling, Released, Sediment, Sediments, Students, Surface, Unique, Volcanoes, Water, Workplan.

CAREER: The Evolution of Super-Hydrous Magmas in the Earth's Crust
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Michael J Krawczynski($341,493), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Experimental Studies, Generate Excitement, Lower Crustal, Teaching Petrology, Water Contents, Amphibole, Available, Broad, Conditions, Create, Distribution, Evolution, Experiments, Field, Flux, Gap, Geochemical, Geochemistry, Hands-on, Hydrous, Knowledge, Magmas, Melt, Models, Outreach, Particular, Partitioning, Phase, Plan, Program, Stability, Super-hydrous, Tasks, Tools, Undergraduate, Volcanoes, Volcanology, World.

CAREER: Developing noble gases as tracers of metamorphic dehydration
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Andrew Smye($533,185), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Noble Gas Composition, Metamorphic Fluids, Noble Gases, Controlled, Core, Crust, Development, Distribution, Diversity, Institutes, Isotopes, Mantle, Minority-serving, Oceanic, Petrological, Processes, Program, Rock, Subducted, Subduction, Tracers, Volatiles, Water.

THE SCOPE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF TUNGSTEN ISOTOPE VARIATIONS: IMPLICATIONS FOR MANTLE EVOLUTION
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Katherine R Bermingham($345,352), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Existing Tungsten Isotopic, Mid-ocean Ridge Basalts, Thermochemical Mantle Convection, Tungsten Isotopic Anomalies, Tungsten Isotopic Compositions, Mantle Evolution, Mid-ocean Ridge, Numerical Models, Advance, Broader, Has, Implications, Origin, Planetary, Preservation, Rock, Rutgers, Track.

Collaborative Research: Linking pyroclastic surge dynamics and deposits through integration of field data, multiphase numerical modeling, and experiments
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2021; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Brittany Brand($19,710), Boise State University, Boise
2. Mattia de' Michieli Vitturi($314,560), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
3. Amanda B Clarke($329,006), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Bed Load Flux, Damage Potential, Pyroclastic Surge, Pyroclastic Surges, Surge Transport, Suspended Load, Deposits, Distance, Facies, Field, Flows, Has, Hazard, Hazards, Local, Mesh, Methods, Modeling, Numerical, Parameters, Runout, Sedimentation, Temperature, Topography, Volcanic, Volcano.

Collaborative Research: Redox Ratios in Amphiboles as Proxies for Volatile Budgets in Igneous Systems
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2021; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Molly McCanta($55,416), University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville
2. Michael J Krawczynski($178,445), Washington University, Saint Louis
3. Melinda D Dyar($270,410), Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley
Key terms: X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy, Ferric Iron, Ferrous Iron, Iron Valence, Shiveluch Volcano, X-ray Absorption, Amphibole, Amphiboles, Analyses, Applied, Calibration, Calibrations, Contents, Controlled, Create, Database, Enable, Evolution, Experiments, Fo, Geochemists, Graduate, Hydrogen, Magmas, Measure, Melt, Microanalysis, Minerals, Oxygen, Partitioning, Raman, Tasks.

CAREER: Subduction initiation in the Iapetus Ocean: How, and how fast?
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2021; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Daniel R Viete($406,348), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Initiation And Propagation, Arc Activity, Convergent Plate, Educational Outreach, Outreach Activities, Plate Boundaries, Plate Tectonics, Six Ophiolites, Subduction Initiation, Baltimore, Centered, Central, Continent, Does, Fieldwork, Focus, Geochemistry, Geology, High-precision, Iapetus, Maryland, Modern, Nascent, Norway, Ocean, Oceanic, Process, Program, Quickly, SSZ, Spreading, Testing.

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: 05/01/2021; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Kristina J Walowski($164,497), Western Washington University, Bellingham
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: The Zirconium Isotope Composition and Variability of the Silicate Earth -- A Pilot Study
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2021; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Mauricio Ibanez-Mejia($125,320), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Accessory Minerals, Geologic Time, Geological Environments, Isotopic Composition, Zirconium Isotopic, Baddeleyite, Crust, Earth, Evolution, Explore, Isotopes, Past, Planet, Rock, Silicate, Stable, Standard, Terrestrial, Zr.

Collaborative Research: Caught in the Act- The Petrology of Modern Lower-Crust Formation and Foundering in the North Andean Arc
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2021; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Mauricio Ibanez-Mejia($285,837), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Deep Roots, Earth's Continents, Earth's Surface, Magmatically-active Regions, Andean, Arc, Capable, Composition, Convergent, Crust, Driving, Eruption, Fragments, Geochemical, History, Investigation, Magmas, Magmatically-active, Mantle, Margins, Opportunity, Process, Processes, Rare, Rock, Section, Tectonic, Transported, Unique, Uplift, Volcanic, Xenoliths.

CAREER: Rethinking the Dynamics of Magma Storage and Eruption for Yellowstone’s Youngest Supereruption’
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2021; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Madison Myers($638,030), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Articles And Preparing, Geology And Monitoring, Lava Creek Tuff, Writing Blog Articles, Active Stewards, Heat Source, Yellowstone Volcano, Analysis, Caldera, Communicate, Eruption, Generation, Geologic, Geologists, LCT, Ma, Magma, Mapping, Million, Objective, Park, Presentations, Public, Rock, Skills, Students, Supereruption, Surface, Trained, Training, Triggered, Visit, Volcanic, Was, YVF.

Neutrino Geoscience: Geoneutrinos and heat production in the Earth
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2021; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. William F McDonough($340,499), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Building Blocks, Chemical Models, Earth's Engine, Fuel Gauge, Geoneutrino Detectors, Heat Producing, Mantle Convection, Plate Tectonics, Primordial Energy, Radiogenic Heat, Abundances, Complexities, Composition, Continent, Crust, Current, Define, Earth’s, Geoneutrinos, Habitable, Interdisciplinary, Issues, Left, Mantles, Particle, Physicists, Planet, Power, Relative, Seek, Structure, Times, Trillion.

Collaborative Research: Volatile sources, eruption triggers, and magma ascent rates for mafic alkaline magmas at Nyiragongo and Nyamulagira volcanoes, DR Congo, East African Rift
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2021; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Paul Wallace($227,229), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
2. Kenneth W Sims($169,783), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: East African Rift, Magma Ascent Rates, Nyiragongo And Nyamulagira, Carbon Dioxide, Magma Formation, Melt Inclusions, Volcanic Hazards, Apart, Aspects, Beneath, Compositions, Crust, Eruption, Existing, Flanks, Investigation, Lava, Lithospheric, Mineral, Minerals, Parental, Plumbing, Populations, Pose, Processes, Source, Stored, Volatile, Volcano, Volcanoes.

Experimental Study of Clinopyroxene Growth and Sector Zoning
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2021; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Benoit T Welsch($264,817), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Sector Zoning, Chemical, Clinopyroxene, Complex, Composition, Conditions, Cooling, Crystal, Crystallization, Electron, Experimental, Experiments, Intricate, Magmas, Magmatic, Major-, Melt, Mineral, Natural, Pressure, Previous, Processes, Sectors, Temperature, Trace-element.

EAR-PF: Global Investigation of the Mantle from Shear Velocity Profiles with a Focus on the Water Content and Temperature of the Mantle Transition Zone
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2022; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Michael E Mann($174,000), Mann, Michael Everett, Ithaca
Key terms: Negative Velocity Gradients, Wave Phase Velocities, Seismic Properties, Surface Wave, Velocity Profiles, Water Content, Analyses, Base, Beneath, Boundaries, Brown, Competing, Complementary, Composition, Constrain, Deep, Depth, Depths, Earth’s, Has, High-resolution, Hydration, Incorporate, MTZ, Mantle, Models, Near, Sensitive, Temperature.

EAR-PF: Evolution of landscapes buried by Quaternary sediments
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2022; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Jeffrey S Kwang($174,000), Kwang, Jeffrey S, Hadley
Key terms: Actively Forming, Ancient River, Contrasting Erodibilities, Drainage Network, Drainage Networks, Geologic Settings, Glacial Sediments, Glacial Till, Landscape Evolution, Predict Timescales, Previously Glaciated, River Network, River Networks, Rivers Erode, Sedimentary Rock, Aims, Buried, Contrasts, Control, Create, Dendritic, Disequilibrium, Dissected, Drive, Erodibility, Field, Formation, Geopatterns, Glaciation, Has, Insight, Landforms, Landscapes, Minnesota, Models, Numerical, Processes, Regions, Reorganization, Reorganize, Required, Surface, Surfaces, UMN, Umass, Was.

EAR-PF: Green infrastructure scaling from local observations to regional applications as a coupled human-water system
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2022; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Cynthia V Castro($174,000), Castro, Cynthia V, Houston
Key terms: Bucket Models, Nbs Solutions, Approaches, Bottom-up, Characteristics, Conditions, Engage, Flow, Governing, Has, Hydrologic, Infrastructure, Investigate, Modeling, Nbss, Processes, Rainfall, Social, Spatial, Stormwater, Temporal, Top-down, Urban, Widespread.

EAR-PF In-situ and bulk sulfur isotope constraints on crustal recycling: a bridged investigation of superdeep diamonds and ocean island basalts
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2022; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. James W Dottin($130,500), Dottin, James Wosley, College Park
Key terms: Himu Mantle Reservoirs, Earth’s Interior, Finer Details, Global Distribution, Himu Basalts, Plate Tectonics, Transition Zone, Andor, CIS-EPL, Chemical, Choice, Constraints, Crust, Diamonds, Earth’s, Education, Insight, Nature, Plans, Program, Recycled, Recycling, Relative, Reside, Rock, Students, Sulfur, Techniques.

EAR-PF The Role of Deformation in Triggering Volcanic Eruptions
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Amy G Ryan($174,000), Ryan, Amy Grace, Orinda
Key terms: Fluid Magma, Magma Chambers, Magma Infiltration, Volcanic Eruptions, Allow, Based, Beneath, Conditions, Create, Crust, Deformation, Developed, Disk, Educational, Experimental, Experiments, Field, Geologic, Glass, Immobile, Local, Minnesota, Movement, Mush, Natural, Pockets, Processes, Students, Unrest, Volcanoes, ’s.

EAR-PF: Environmental source apportionment and soil-household dust relationships of urban metal pollutants across different regions and seasons
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Matthew Dietrich($100,079), Dietrich, Matthew, Indianapolis
Key terms: Dusts And Soils, Heavy Metal Pollutants, Affects Children, Efficient Intervention, Geochemical Techniques, Household Dust, Household Dusts, Multiple Metal, Pollutant Source, Pollutant Sources, Source Apportionment, Accessible, Australia, City, Climate, Cu, Differing, Disproportionately, Essential, IUPUI, Indianapolis, Isotopes, Isotopic, Local, Metals, Mineralogy, Pb, Pollution, Resolution, Sampling, Statistics, Sydney, Urban, Zn.

EAR-PF: Transport and Fate of Riverine Organic Carbon in Grassland Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Sarah E Johnston($174,000), Johnston, Sarah Ellen, Lethbridge
Key terms: Grassland Ecosystems, Grassland River, Human Activities, Water Chemistry, Agricultural, Altered, Carbon, Characterize, Chemical, Climate, DOM, Define, Effects, Functioning, Land, Local, Long-term, Modelling, North, Organic, Region, Resulting, Short, Spatial, Techniques, Temporal, Watershed.

EAR-PF The scale-dependent interplay between fault material strength, roughness and friction
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2021; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Valere R Lambert($174,000), Lambert Valere R, Pasadena
Key terms: Fault Roughness, Frictional Behavior, Natural Fault, Rock Strength, Varying Scales, Aims, Asperities, Basis, Earthquake, Evolution, Experiments, Explore, Faults, Features, Framework, Has, Implications, Laboratory, Layering, Properties, Scale-dependent, Shape, Surface, Topography.

SRS RN: Sustainable and Equitable Urban Stream Corridors: Improving aesthetic, social, water quality, and ecological values of urban watersheds to achieve downstream rural benefits
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2022; Program: SRS- Sustainable Regional Syst

1. Charles R Jackson($149,989), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Downstream Water Quality, Stream Corridor Management, Urban Stream Corridor, Urban Stream Corridors, Ecosystem Services, Wider Range, Alternative, Cities, Engineering, Paradigms, Pollutants, Process, Residents, Social, Spectrum.

CSEDI: Understanding the influence of mantle dynamics on the generation of Earth's magnetic field throughout the plate tectonics cycle.
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2021; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Rene Gassmoeller($428,655), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Earth-like Magnetic Fields, Earth’s Internal Field, Inner Core Nucleation, Internal Field Generated, Mantle Convection Models, Produce Earth-like Magnetic, Earth's Past, Earth-like Magnetic, Earth’s Internal, Earth’s Surface, Geodynamo Simulations, Heat Flux, Produce Earth-like, Technical Infrastructure, Accomplished, Additionally, Caused, Collaboration, Coupling, Criteria, Driver, Evolution, Florida, Formation, Generated”, Harm, Has, History, Influence, Instead, Largest, Life, Paleomagnetic, Plate, Predict, Realistic, Wide, “how.

EAGER: Testing New Formulae for Pressure Derivatives of Specific Heat, Thermal Conductivity, and Thermal Diffusivity
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Anne M Hofmeister($37,299), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Laser Flash Apparatus, Pure And Applied, Classical Thermodynamics, Heat Capacity, Heat Flow, Heat Transport, Logarithmic Pressure, Measuring Heat, Quantify Heat, Steady-state Conditions, Thermodynamic Identities, Accuracy, Accurate, Analysis, Available, Bodies, Bond, Cell, Conductivity, Cp, Critical, Density, Describe, Describing, Developed, Diffusivity, Diverse, Extreme, Flowing, Formula, Formulae, Formulation, Geophysics, Has, Inside, Interior, Lead, Length, Limited, Liquids, Matter, Metals, Near, Outcomes, Planetary, Properties, Range, Repercussions, Solids, Steady-state, Temperature, Tested, Thermal, Times, Ubiquitous, Water.

CSEDI Collaborative Research: Understanding of the effects of large planetesimal collisions on Hadean Earth mantle dynamics
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Jun Korenaga($339,068), Yale University, New Haven
2. Simone Marchi($122,856), Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio
Key terms: Late Accreted Mass, Long-term Mantle Dynamics, Earth’s Mantle, Highly Iron-loving, Long-term Evolution, Long-term Mantle, Sph Simulations, Surface Environment, Total Mass, Abundance, Affected, Anomalies, Based, Collisions, Cores, Deep, Delivery, Differentiated, Distribution, Earth’s, Fate, Hadean, History, Hses, Impactors, Iron-loving, Large-scale, Metallic, Mixing, Origin, Planetesimal, Planetesimals, Processes, Quantify, Remains, Was.

CSEDI Collaborative Research: The Origins and Implications of Inner Core Seismic Anisotropy
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Lowell Miyagi($247,135), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
2. Daniel A Frost($408,190), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Inner-core Seismic Anisotropy, Thermal And Electrical, Geodynamic Modeling, Growth Models, Inner Core, Inner-core Growth, Inner-core Seismic, Iron Crystals, Outer Core, Seismic Waves, Alignment, Alignments, Anisotropic, Attributed, Causing, Computational, Conditions, Crystallization, Earth’s, Experiments, Extreme, Feature, Generate, Generated, Geodynamo, Has, Investigate, Liquid, Mineralogical, Multidisciplinary, Notably, Orientation, Path, Present-day, Processes, Structure, Time.

CSEDI Collaborative Proposal: a multi-disciplinary investigation of slab deformation and resulting seismic anisotropy from the transition zone to the base of the mantle
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Barbara A Romanowicz($447,680), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. Mingming Li($278,355), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Earth’s Deep Interior, Mantle Flow Fields, Mantle Seismic Anisotropy, Uppermost Lower Mantle, Deformation Mechanisms, Earth’s Deep, Mantle Convection, Mantle Minerals, Mineral Physicists, Mineral Physics, Seismic Waves, Transition Zone, Aim, Consensus, Depths, Direction, Dynamics, Geodynamicists, Graduate, Nature, Observations, Outreach, Rock, Structure.

Collaborative: EAGER: Demonstration that Thin Film Phase Transformations Can Be Monitored at High-Temperature and High-Pressure in a Diamond Anvil Cell
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2021; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Jie Li($35,000), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. Jason D Nicholas($65,000), Michigan State University, East Lansing
Key terms: Pressures And Temperatures, Pulsed Laser Deposition, Size And Stress, Biaxial Stress, Crystallite Sizes, Grain Size, Phase Boundaries, Subduction Zones, Thin Films, Andor, Conditions, Deep, Devices, Experimental, Extreme, High-pressure, Mineral, Occurring, Produce, Properties, Silica, Sio, Stability, Transitions.

Collaborative Research: RUI: "CSI Devonian" - testing Late Devonian ocean anoxia proxies across different paleoenvironments
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2021; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Diana Boyer($47,526), Winthrop University, Rock Hill
2. Phoebe A Cohen($76,162), Williams College, Williamstown
3. Cole T Edwards($459,988), Appalachian State University, Boone
Key terms: Late Devonian Extinction, Late Devonian Ocean, Comprehensive Set, Earth's History, Grades 6-12, Marine Environments, Mass Extinctions, Ocean Anoxia, Oxygen Loss, Time Period, Aligned, Ancient, Anoxic, Boundary, Commonly, Conditions, Dataset, Determining, Devonian”, Focuses, Generation, Microfossils, Online, Organic, Paleoenvironments, Practices, Proxies, Proxy, Recognize, Regardless, Remote, Rock, Seeks, Sets, Severe, Standards, Tools, Trace, Training, Undergraduate, Utility, Variety, “CSI.

Collaborative Research: Using Ca, Sr, Mg, and Fe isotope proxies to constrain redox and continental weathering during Ocean Anoxic Event 2
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2021; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Kimberly V Lau($90,372), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
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: Quantifying East African hydroclimate seasonal variability for humid intervals during the last 200 kyrs, Omo-Turkana Basin
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2021; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Zelalem Bedaso($156,776), University of Dayton, Dayton
2. Catherine Beck($132,318), Hamilton College, Clinton
Key terms: Eastern Africa, African, Examine, Humid, Increased, Intervals, Isotope, Kyrs, Modern, Monsoon, Past, Proxy, Seasonality, Wet.

Integrating the fossil record with computer simulation to reconstruct posture and locomotor evolution in the ancestors of mammals
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2021; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Stephanie E E Pierce($544,317), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Anatomical And Mechanical, Biomechanical Methods, Exceptional Fossil, Extinct Species, Mechanical Factors, Modern Mammals, Modern Species, Non-mammalian Synapsids, Sprawling-to-erect Transition, ‘erect’ Mode, Ancestors, Assessments, Biomechanics, Body, Computer, Diversity, Evolutionary, Facilitated, Function, Gait, Has, History, Limbs, Local, Locomotion, Locomotor, Non-mammalian, Occurred, Paleontology, Performance, Posture, Produce, Rigorous, Rise, Simulation, Simulations, Sophisticated, Sprawling-to-erect, Transformation, Workshops, ‘erect’.

Collaborative Research: Illuminating the characteristics, causes, and paleoclimatic importance of the Mid-Cenozoic Loess in the Western USA
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2021; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Ran Feng($260,818), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Nebraska And Montana, Biotic Evolution, Loess Deposits, Ago, Analyses, Ancient, Climate, Cooling, Field, Global, Million, Proxy, Quartz, Sediment, Surface, Transition, USA, Wyoming.

Collaborative Research: Elucidating the Nature, Causes and Climate Importance of the Mid-Cenozoic Loess in the Western USA
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2021; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Majie Fan($323,787), University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington
Key terms: Nebraska And Montana, Biotic Evolution, Loess Deposits, Ago, Analyses, Ancient, Climate, Cooling, Field, Global, Million, Proxy, Quartz, Sediment, Surface, Transition, USA, Wyoming.

Collaborative Research: Comparative Taphonomy and Time-Averaging of Mollusk-Echinoid Assemblages using High-Performance Radiocarbon Dating System
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Darrell S Kaufman($166,140), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
2. Douglas S Jones($393,552), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Mollusks And Echinoids, Mollusks And Sea, Field Surveys, Marine Fossil, Marine Habitats, Mollusk Shells, Radiocarbon Dating, Sea Urchin, Sea Urchins, Sedimentary Rocks, Temporal Resolution, Advance, Affect, Animals, Arizona, Assess, Bahamas, Carbon, Dead, Destruction, Durability, Florida, Formation, Fossilization, Generation, Immersive, International, Live-dead, Magnitude, Minority, Movies, NAU, Partnership, Perish, Potential, Predictions, Preservation, Processes, Quality, Quickly, Remains, STEM, Seafloor, Seafloors, Settings, Skills, Specimens, Strategy, Student, Students, Technology, Training.

Single-grain, multi-parameter characterization of detrital zircon grains to test for the influence of sample processing and sedimentologic processes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Ted A Neal($326,121), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Hydraulic Conditions, Mineral Separation, Transport History, Analysis, Detrital, Grain, Influence, Lead, Outcome, Particle, Provenance, Rock, Sediment, Sedimentary, Shape, Size, Surface, Traditional, Zircon.

Assessing the long-term stability of adaptive radiations using the fossil record
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Melissa Kemp($595,062), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Adaptive Radiation, Adaptive Radiations, Morphological Diversity, Anolis, Ecological, Environmental, Generated, Identifying, Interdisciplinary, Persist, Phenotypic, Species, Specimens, Students, Timescales.

CAREER: An Evolutionary Framework for the Molecular Fossil Record
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. David A Gold($521,088), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Biosignatures, Compounds, Genes, Identifying, Indian, Life, Million-yold, Organisms, Past, Produced, Program, Rock, Sources, Steranes, Students, Tools.

Protist Prophets – Foraminifera as Global Bioindicators for Past and Present Coral Reef Health
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Alexander F Humphreys($642,469), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Naturally Depauperate Reefs, Coral Reefs, Foram Bioindicators, Foram Indices, Collected, Conservation, Earth’s, Education, Foundation, Global, Intervention, Restoration, STEM, Sites, Stress, Time, Women.

Collaborative Research: Paleoenvironmental and paleoecological responses to climate change in the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Christopher C Gilbert($117,873), CUNY Hunter College, New York
2. Judy Diamond($337,950), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln
3. Amy Chew($55,262), Brown University, Providence
4. Stephen Chester($114,348), CUNY Brooklyn College, Brooklyn
Key terms: School Students, Warming Climate, Ancient, Based, Books, Course, Development, Ecosystems, Fossil, Interval, Libraries, Mammal, Mammalian, Outreach, Paleoecology, Respond, Responded, Rural, Teeth.

EAR-PF: Unraveling Fluvial Kinematics before the Rise of Land Plants: Bridging Laboratory and Geologic Scales
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Jeffery M Valenza($174,000), Valenza, Jeffery Michael, Bloomfield
Key terms: California Santa Barbara, Fluvial Strata, Nw Scotland, River Evolution, Shift Occurred, Single-threaded Rivers, Stratigraphic Shift, Absence, Activities, Ancient, Characterize, Conditions, Continent, Deposits, Environments, Experiments, Extraterrestrial, Features, Field, Fine-grained, Has, Laboratory, Landscapes, Lateral, Mars, Mentoring, Migration, Observations, Occurrence, Plants, Pre-vegetation, Program, Rates, Resulting, Sediment, Silurian, Single-threaded, Transition, Vegetation, Vegetation-free, Was.

Collaborative Research: Using Multisystem Deep-Time Thermochronology to Decipher Neoproterozoic Exhumation Patterns in Time and Space
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2021; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Peter K Zeitler($110,776), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
2. William Guenthner($185,211), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
3. Christopher B Keller($349,282), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Tectonically Active Regions, Cambrian Explosion, Glacial Erosion, Late Neoproterozoic, Stable Continental, “snowball Earth”, Allow, Breakup, Collaborate, Content, Cratonic, Crust, Diversification, Earth’s, Exhumation, Flowers, Gaps, Glaciation, Global, Has, Instead, Integrated, Interiors, Less, Link, Minerals, Normal, Period, Predicts, Processes, Public, Rate, Rock, Rodinia, Shortly, Spatial, Thermochronologic, Thermochronometers, Time, Timing, Unconformity, Undergraduate, Widespread.

Collaborative Research: Integrative ecological perspectives on extinction processes - a multi-proxy case study of Hispaniolan subfossil and extant rodents
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Siobhan B Cooke($276,219), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
2. George Perry($140,941), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
3. Brooke Crowley($185,556), University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati
Key terms: Conservation Policy, Endemic Rodents, Species Loss, Caribbean, Contribute, Diversity, Ecology, Extinct, Extinction, Extinctions, Factors, Generated, Haiti, Hispaniola, Hispaniolan, Island, Islands, Triggers.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH RUI: Testing mechanisms for regional dolomitization of Triassic carbonate platforms across the Nanpanjiang Basin of south China
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Daniel J Lehrmann($139,352), Trinity University, San Antonio
2. John A Luczaj($163,905), University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Green Bay
Key terms: Women And Minority, Deep Subsurface, Dolomite Crystals, School Students, Analysis, Aquifers, Calcite, Chemistry, Distribution, Dolomitization, Dolostone, Educational, Environments, Fluids, Laboratory, Mechanisms, Mineral, Modules, Process, Processes, Published, Resources, Rock, Surface, Temperature, Workshops.

EAGER: Collaborative Proposal: Linking physiology and morphology in Grassland evolution via a novel analytical technique
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2021; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Rita Economos($169,328), Southern Methodist University, Dallas
2. Caroline Stromberg($128,692), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Ago, Analytical, Carbon, Chemistry, Climate, Earth’s, Evolution, Fossil, Grass, Grasses, Grasslands, Method, Million, Photosynthesis, Photosynthetic, Phytoliths, Produced, Spread.

A Robust Temporal Framework for the Paleoproterozoic Crash of Atmospheric Oxygen
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2021; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Ann M Bauer($419,135), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Carbon Isotope Excursion, Atmospheric Oxygen, Broadly Disseminated, Lastoursville Basin, Onega Basin, Oxidative Weathering, Oxygen Levels, Academia, Constraints, Cycling, Gabon, Geochemistry, Global, Obtain, Paleoproterozoic, Reading, Rise, Rock, Russia, Shunga, Terralingua, Trajectory.

CAREER: A Model-Based Rosetta Stone to Decipher the Stratigraphic Expression of Glacial Isostasy
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2021; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Jessica R Creveling($525,083), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Education Plan, Ice Sheet, Ice Sheets, Sea Level, Sediment Archives, Accurate, Climate, Decode, Differences, GIA, Geological, Globe, Local, Magnitude, Magnitudes, Maps, Melt, Models, Past, Projections, Retained, Rise, Sea-level, Serve, Spatial, Stratigraphic, Stratigraphy, Temperatures, Warm.

CAREER: Ecological turnover at the dawn of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event - quantifying the Cambro-Ordovician transition through the lens of exceptional preservation
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2021; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. JAVIER ORTEGA-HERNANDEZ($552,165), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Ecological Complexity, Fezouata Biota, Fossil Organisms, Modern-like Marine, Ago, Allow, Animal, Animals, Biodiversity, Ecology, GOBE, Investigates, Lead, Levels, Modern-like, Morocco, Museum, Non-biomineralizing, Produce, Stages, Students, Techniques, Transition.

Collaborative research: Integrating tectonics, surface processes and paleobiodiversity using numerical and observational approaches
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2021; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Tara M Smiley($201,164), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
2. Brian J Yanites($298,510), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Evolutionary Biology, Audience, Biodiversity, Collaboration, Erosion, Fossil, Model, Modeling, Mountain, Multidisciplinary, Numerical, Predictions, Preservation, Toolkit, Workshops.

EAR-PF: A channel-belt scale source of autogenic topography controlling fluvial sedimentation and preservation: Investigation using 3D seismic volumes
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2021; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Benjamin T Cardenas($104,300), Cardenas, Benjamin, Austin
Key terms: 3d Seismic Volumes, Autogenic And Allogenic, Sedimentary Deposits Created, 3d Seismic, Ancient Rivers, Changing Climate, Channel Belts, Earth’s Surface, Relative Importance, River Deposits, Channel-belt, Earth’s, Evolution, Examine, External, Gulf, Migration, Preservation, Preserving, Processes, Recognized, Relief, Sedimentation, Subsurface, Time, Timescales.

A framework to predict hydrologic processes at continental scales
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Special Initiatives

1. Hilary McMillan($294,998), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
Key terms: Data-driven Model, Dominant Hydrologic, Landscape Characteristics, Landscape Metrics, National Water, Streamflow Dynamics, Streamflow Predictions, Apply, Continental-scale, Data-driven, Flow, Framework, Hydrology, Knowledge, Landscapes, Machine, Models, Processes, Simulate, Specific, Watershed.

Collaborative Proposal: Developing argon techniques to elucidate earthquake chronologies (DATEEQ)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Special Initiatives

1. Heather M Savage($300,944), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Earthquake Slip, Subduction Zone, Allow, Argon, Cores, Dating, Deep, Drill, Earthquakes, Experienced, Experiments, Fast, Fault, Faults, Geochemical, Has, Heat, Heated, Look, Measuring, Method, Occurred, Potassium, Rock, Run, Students, Temperature, UCSC.

REU Site: Environmental and Earth Systems Research at Biosphere 2
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Special Initiatives

1. Kevin Bonine($868,269), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: B2 Reu, Environmental Challenges, Biosphere, Control, Diverse, Facility, Generation, Interdisciplinary, Mentors, Observatory, Processes, Staff, Students, Summer, Undergraduate, Unique.

Volcanic eruptions in high resolution
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: Special Initiatives

1. Emily E Brodsky($339,866), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Earthquake Rate, Algorithm, Applied, Approach, Comparative, Constrain, Cycle, Detection, Earthquakes, Eruption, Explosive, History, Increase, Magnitudes, Noise, Okmok, Outcomes, Phase, Seismic, Seismicity, Subterranean, Techniques, Times, Trained, Unclear, Undergraduate, Volcano.

Collaborative Research: Investigating the role of topography and magma properties on dike pathways beneath stratovolcanoes using field data, analogue experiments, and modeling
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: Special Initiatives

1. Andrew Harp($54,395), Chico State Enterprises, Chico
2. Meredith Townsend($308,426), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Dike Injection Depths, Dike Propagation, Gelatin Experiments, Magma Properties, Numerical Models, Volcanic Edifice, Ascending, Beneath, Crust, Dikes, Directions, Educational, Eruption, Experimental, Field, Geologic, Geometry, Investigate, Monitoring, Mount, Stratovolcano, Stratovolcanoes.

CAREER: Subsurface critical zone architecture controls on hydrologic partitioning across spatial scales
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: Special Initiatives

1. Margaret Zimmer($473,656), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Groundwater Recharge, Plant Water, Subsurface Structure, Bedrock, Controls, Depth, Development, Differences, Hydrologic, Outcomes, Precipitation, Processes, Program, Regulates, Soil, Storage, Streamflow, Undergraduate.

CAREER: Active forearc uplift, topographic growth, and permanent deformation above highly coupled subduction interfaces
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: Special Initiatives

1. Kristin D Morell($499,305), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Uplift And Topographic, Santa Barbara, Specifically Designed, Subduction Zone, Topographic Growth, Underrepresented Minority, Conditions, Earthquakes, Field, Geoscience, Globally, Host, Increase, Mechanisms, Megathrust, Plate, Program, Regions, Size, Students, Undergraduate, Zones.

Excellence in Research: Effect of Hydration on the Thermo-elastic Properties of Mantle Minerals and the Geophysical Implications.
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2021; Program: Special Initiatives

1. Gabriel D Gwanmesia($672,584), Delaware State University, Dover
Key terms: Wadsleyite And Ringwoodite, Earth’s Mantle, Elastic Wave, Historically Black, Seismic Waves, Thermal Convection, Transition Zone, Water Incorporation, Weight Percent, X-ray Diffraction, Affects, Apparatus, Beamline, DSU, Direct, Earth’s, Experiments, Geosciences, Has, High-pressure, Hydroxyls, Imaging, Implications, Incorporate, Interior, Measured, Mineral, Minerals, Pressure, Propagation, Properties, Quality, Rock, Specimen, Structure, Students, Synthetize, Temperature, Ultrasonic, Undergraduate, Velocity, Was, X-ray.

Lithospheric Dripping in Central Tibet: Underappreciated Factor in Orogenic Plateau Development?
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2021; Program: Special Initiatives

1. Peter G DeCelles($443,185), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Adjacent Volcanic Rocks, Lithospheric Drip Theory, Central Tibet, Graduate Students, Orogenic Plateaus, Active, Age, Analysis, Basin, Basins, Cenozoic, Drips, Geological, Ii, Localized, Mantle, Military, Predictions, Regional, Shortening, Thrust, Veterans.

Dynamic Triggering Seen Clearly: Utilizing Continuous Waveforms and High-Resolution Catalogs to Measure the Importance and Mechanisms of Dynamic Triggering
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2021; Program: Special Initiatives

1. Emily E Brodsky($345,345), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Dynamic Triggering, Seismic Waves, Triggering Stresses, Ability, Catalog, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Expected, Has, Increased, Measuring, Progress, Rate, Waveforms, ’s.

Collaborative Research: How do ultrahigh pressure metamorphic sheets form and exhume? A case study from the Tso Morari complex, India
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2022; Program: Tectonics

1. James P McNamara($341,436), Boise State University, Boise
2. Sean P Long($284,698), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Morari Complex Rocks, Pressure Metamorphic Rocks, Tso Morari Complex, Ultrahigh Pressure Metamorphism, Ultrahigh Pressure Rocks, Continental Collisions, Geology Majors, Pressure Garnet, Pressure-temperature Conditions, Pressure-temperature-deformation-time Paths, Thermal-mechanical Models, Ages, Allow, Boise, Classes, Coherent, Collected, Demographic, Discriminate, Educational, Exhumation, Exhumed, Geographic, India, Metamorphosed, Multiple, Pressure-temperature, Structural, Students, Thermal-mechanical, Was, Washington.

Collaborative Research: An integrated evaluation of lower crustal rheology and localization processes in plagioclase-rich rocks
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2022; Program: Tectonics

1. Basil Tikoff($267,684), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Kali L Allison($210,173), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Lower Crustal Deformation, Brittle Fault, Shear Zone, Undergraduate Students, Upper Crust, Canada, Capstone, Constraints, Deforms, Earthquake, Exposure, Faults, Field, Laboratory, Modeling, Numerical, Numerically, Observed, Plagioclase, Processes, Québec, Rock, Shallower, Structure, Weakening.

Conference: Support for a Thompson Field Forum on the elevation history of the Sierra Nevada
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2022; Program: Tectonics

1. Craig H Jones($23,500), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Sierra Nevada, Activity, Contributions, Development, Discussions, End-member, Forum, Globally, History, Implications, Models, Participation, Range, STEM, Society, Students, Subject.

Revealing Quaternary evolution of North American tectonics with geologic block models
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2022; Program: Tectonics

1. Eileen L Evans($291,922), The University Corporation, Northridge, Northridge
Key terms: Geodetic Slip Rates, Geologic And Satellite-based, Geologic Slip Rates, Fault Slip, Seismic Hazard, Tectonic Deformation, Tectonic Motion, Underrepresented Minorities, Western North, Advance, Discrepancies, GNSS, Global, Modeling, Models, Plate, Potential, Reflect, STEM, Time.

Collaborative Research: GEMT: Bridging Multiple Time Scales of Erosion and Rock Uplift in Taiwan
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2022; Program: Tectonics

1. Brian J Yanites($449,290), Indiana University, Bloomington
2. Nadine McQuarrie($297,384), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Uplift And Erosion, Earthquake Cycle, Fault Geometry, Mountain Building, Rates Constrained, River Incision, Time Scales, Time-scale Erosion, Uplift Rates, Construct, Deformation, Earthquakes, Erosional, Evolution, Exhumation, Field, Framework, Geodesy, Geodetic, History, Inferred, Integrated, Integration, Kinematic, Millennial, Million-year, Millions, Model, Models, Motions, Observations, Periods, Present-day, Processes, Range, Short-term, Slow, Steady-state, Taiwan, Taiwanese, Tectonic, Thermochronology, Time-scale, Timescales, Topography.

Collaborative Research: Exploring the tempo of exhumation and relief development to investigate mantle-to-surface connections around the Yellowstone hotspot
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2022; Program: Tectonics

1. Joel L Pederson($99,153), Utah State University, Logan
2. Marissa M Tremblay($54,148), Purdue University, West Lafayette
3. Jessica R Stanley($344,599), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
Key terms: Landscape Evolution Model, Erosion History, Gallatin River, Luminescence Dating, School Students, Southwest Montana, Surface Uplift, Yellowstone Hotspot, Advance, Arrival, Basin, Beneath, Drainage, Exhumation, Geologic, Graduate, Idaho, Incision, Internship, Mantle, Millions, Miocene, Portion, Quantify, Quaternary, Rates, Region, Relief, Terraces, Thermochronology, Timescales, Topographic, Track, Upper, Valley.

RUI: Collaborative Research: Testing models for the Late Jurassic Nevadan Orogeny: Age, provenance, and structural evolution of the Galice and Mariposa basins, OR and CA
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Tectonics

1. Kathleen D Surpless($198,401), Trinity University, San Antonio
2. Aaron S Yoshinobu($368,003), Texas Tech University, Lubbock
Key terms: Galice And Mariposa, Late Jurassic Nevadan, Continental Margin, Tectonic Models, Age, Analysis, Basin, Basins, Closed, Critical, Deformation, Depositional, Development, Formation, Graduate, History, Kinematics, Klamath, Metamorphism, Mining, Mountain, North, Prior, Public, Rock, Sediment, Sedimentary, Students, Subduction, Undergraduate, Western.

Collaborative Research: The role of Grain Boundary Migration in Water Weakening of Naturally Deformed Quartz
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2021; Program: Tectonics

1. James J Student($50,588), Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant
2. Rachel K Wells($433,254), Regents of the University of Michigan - Dearborn, Dearborn
Key terms: Grain Boundary Migration, Tracking Water Infiltration, Asian Plate, Deep Rocks, Indian Plate, Mountain Building, Oxygen Isotope, Sub-microscopic Water, Tiny Amount, Advanced, Behavior, California, Collected, Deformation, Document, Effects, Electron, Exactly, Harkless, Minerals, Overall, Pluton, Produce, School, Size, Strength, Strong, Sub-microscopic, Techniques, Transect, Transition.

Collaborative Research: Brittle-plastic deformation, fluid-rock interaction, and extensional reactivation along Laramide thrust faults in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Colorado
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: Tectonics

1. Jeffrey M Rahl($55,717), Washington and Lee University, Lexington
2. John S Singleton($306,657), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: De Cristo Mountains, Rio Grande Rift, Sangre De Cristo, Extensional Reactivation, Analysis, Approach, Colorado, Deformation, Department, Faults, Fluid, Graduate, Interdisciplinary, Laramide, Near, Region, Rocky, Seminar, Shortening, Stresses, Structures, Students, Undergraduate, Weakening, Zones.

RUI: DEVELOPING A PREDICTIVE MODEL OF STRAIN ACCOMMODATION FOR SEGMENTED NORMAL FAULT EVOLUTION, SEVIER FAULT ZONE, SOUTHERN UTAH
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: Tectonics

1. Benjamin E Surpless($192,830), Trinity University, San Antonio
Key terms: Fault Zone Evolution, Kinematic And Dynamic, Segmented Fault Zone, Sevier Fault Zone, Energy Resources, Fault Segments, Groundwater Flow, Mechanical Stratigraphy, Commonly, Context, Damage, Development, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Faults, Field, Geometries, Investigate, Methods, Modeling, Rock, Stresses.

CAREER: Data-Driven Inversion of Subduction Zone Topography using Tectonic Geomorphology
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: Tectonics

1. Sean F Gallen($530,017), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Calabrian Subduction Zone, Outreach And Training, Earth’s Topography, Educational Resources, National Conferences, Tectonic Geomorphology, Active, Datasets, Developed, Development, Dynamics, Earth’s, Field, Focus, Generated, Geodynamic, Mantle, Methods, Participation, Plate, Primary, Program, Slab, Students, Surface, UTN, Undergraduate, Underrepresented, Workshops.

Collaborative Research: From subduction to suture: testing collisional stage and lithospheric strength as controls on orogenic structure in the Caucasus
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: Tectonics

1. Eric S Cowgill($457,637), University of California-Davis, Davis
2. Nathan A Niemi($424,751), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Spatial And Temporal, Continental Collision, Continental Collisions, Continental Crust, Geologic Observations, Mountain Belts, Oceanic Crust, Oceanic Subduction, Plate Boundary, Active, Buoyant, Caucasus, Collaborations, Colliding, Composed, Coupling, Critical, Deformation, Deformational, Determining, Distribution, Earthquakes, Earth’s, Has, Ilia, International, Margin, Natural, Orogen, Plates, Produce, Range, STEM, Structure, Students, Supporting, Suture, Suturing, Tectonic, Terminal, Training, Transition, Via, West, Zone, °E.

Collaborative Research: Arc plutonism along the Denali Fault, Alaska: Possible fault controls on incremental magma transport and assembly along a long-lived strike-slip fault
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: Tectonics

1. Sarah M Roeske($185,631), University of California-Davis, Davis
2. Sean Regan($290,273), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Petrochemical And Petrophysical, Arc Plutons, Denali Fault, Granitoid Petrogenesis, Melt Transport, Slip Rate, Strike-slip Fault, Strike-slip Faults, Upper Crust, Vertical Faults, Active, Alaska, Control, Dextral, Eruption, Geochemical, Geometry, Gt, Indicate, Isotopic, Linked, Long-lived, Magma, Magmatic, Manifested, Mechanisms, North, Offset, Potential, Processes, Similar, Spatially, Strike-slip, Structural, Structures, Students, Subduction, Surface, Temporal-spatial, Undergraduate, Volcanoes.

CAREER: Resolving the detrital thermal signatures and natural biases of sediment recycling and weathering in orogenic systems
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: Tectonics

1. Julie C Fosdick($516,121), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Weathering And Erosion, Continental Lithosphere, Detrital Monazite, Geochemical Signatures, Provenance Analysis, Sediment Recycling, Sierras Pampeanas, Zircon Geochronology, Basin, Compositional, Crust, Datasets, Development, Education, Evolution, Experiences, Field, Focus, Geochemistry, Graduate, Growth, Histories, Laboratory, Polycyclic, Rock, STEM, School, Sedimentary, Student, Students, Technology, Thermochronology, Thermochronometry, Transfer.

Collaborative Research: Identifying shallow slow slip using hematite textures and (U-Th)/He thermochronometry of exhumed and experimental faults
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2021; Program: Tectonics

1. James G Hirth($142,125), Brown University, Providence
2. Alexis K Ault($449,006), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: San Andreas Fault, Shallow Slow Slip, Common Mineral, Deformation Experiments, Eighth Graders, Fault Slip, Fault Surfaces, Fourth Graders, Mecca Hills, Middle School, Rhode Island, Seismic Cycle, Bedrock, Behavior, Connect, Critical, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Education, Faults, Hematite, Hematite-coated, Natural, Partnership, Providence, Range, Rural, Students, Textures, Thermochronometry, Training, Urban, Utah.

The role of strike-slip fault interaction on long-term slip rates
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2021; Program: Tectonics

1. Michele Cooke($371,071), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Long-term Slip Rates, Active Faults, Earth’s Crust, Estimate Future, Fault Reorganization, Fault Slip, Geologic Slip, Laboratory Experiments, Local Loading, Long-term Slip, Numerical Experiments, Numerical Models, Past Earthquakes, Slip Behavior, Strike-slip Fault, Assessments, Characterize, Constant, Direct, Earth’s, Efforts, Estimates, Evolution, Experimental, Growth, Hazards, Host, Interaction, Mechanisms, Mentoring, Outreach, Processes, Regions, Reveal, Scaled, Simulate, Strike-slip, Time.

Trapped in travertine: Physical and chemical signature of paleoseismicity in hot spring deposits on active faults of the Central Nevada Seismic Belt
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2021; Program: Tectonics

1. Katharine Huntington($460,596), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Hot-spring Mineral Deposits, Central Nevada, Direct Bearing, Earthquake Hazard, Educational Outreach, Field Sites, Hot Springs, Hot-spring Mineral, Hot-spring Minerals, Late Pleistocene, Past Earthquakes, Travertine Deposits, Active, Analyses, Approach, Chemical, Constrain, Discharge, Evidence, Explore, Faults, Features, Fluid, Geologic, History, Hydrologic, Hydrothermal, Ideal, Influencing, Insights, Internal, Multiple, Region, Regional, Risk, Ruptures, Seismic, Time, Training, Western.

Reevaluation of metamorphic garnet-based P-T paths and their tectonic implications
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2019; Program: Tectonics

1. James P McNamara($257,797), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Barometry And Thermometry, Inclusion Elastic Barometry, Pressures And Temperatures, Chemical Equilibrium, Crystals Grow, Garnet Cores, Garnet Growth, P-t Paths, Undergraduate Students, Belts, Central, Focus, Metamorphic, P-T, Rock, Strain.

Collaborative Research: Towards a Better Understanding of Tl Isotope Cycling under Different Redox Conditions
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2021; Program: Unallocated Program Costs

1. Elizabeth D Swanner($53,559), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: Deming And Steel, Earth’s Ancient Oceans, Generate Quality Tl, Modern Tl Isotope, Past Ocean Oxygenation, Quality Tl Isotope, Tl Isotope Cycle, Tl Isotope Cycling, Tl Isotope Ratios, Ancient Marine, Brackish Pond, Cape Cod, Earth’s Ancient, Earth’s Past, Low Tl, Mn Oxides, Oxide Minerals, Pis’ Preliminary, Redox Conditions, Siders Pond, Steel Lakes, Tl Isotopes, Abundances, Additional, Availability, Deoxygenation, Effects, Environments, Feasible, Freshwater, Furthermore, History, Information, Interactions, Links, Local, Manganese, Minnesota, Particles, Predict, Quantify, Rock, Sedimentary, Sediments, Settings, Track, Waters.

EAR PF: Investigating the competition between thermal pressurization and dilatancy on rough surfaces at earthquake slip rates
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2022; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Monica R Barbery($174,000), Barbery, Monica R, College Station
Key terms: Rock Friction Experiments, Tp And Dh, ≥25 Mpa, Brown, Contribute, Displacement, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Elevated, Existing, Fault, Faults, Frictional, Frictionally, Pore, Pressure, Processes, Roughness, Slip, Weakening.

EAR-PF: Impact of flooding intensity on levee development and dynamics
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2022; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Eric A Barefoot($174,000), Barefoot, Eric A, Houston
Key terms: Water Surface Gradients, Flooding Intensity, Inundation Hydraulics, Levee Formation, Mississippi River, Natural Levees, Repeat Lidar, River Corridors, Channel, Critical, Deposition, Floodplain, Floodplains, Floods, Hazards, Indiana, Observations, Outcomes, Overbank, Poorly, Sediment, Surveys, Sustainability, Threatens, Topography.

EAR-PF Salinity Influence on Methane Emissions from Tidal Wetlands Determined by Clumped Isotopes
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2022; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Mojhgan A Haghnegahdar($174,000), Haghnegahdar Mojhgan, College Park
Key terms: Atmospheric Methane Budget, Clumped Isotopes, Environmental Conditions, Greenhouse Gas, Methane Emissions, Microbial Methane, Policy Decisions, Regional Methane, Tidal Wetlands, Anthropogenic, Atmosphere, Consumption, Isotopologue, Maryland, Model, National, Natural, Pathways, Salinity, Sources, Uncertainties, Various.

ER-PF: Using Distributed Acoustic Sensing for Tremor Detection and Site Characterization in Cascadia to Evaluate Earthquake Hazard
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2022; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Manuel M Mendoza($174,000), Mendoza, Manuel Matthew, Riverside
Key terms: Distributed Acoustic Sensing, Colorado Boulder, Colorado School, Das Experiment, Existing Telecommunication, Site Conditions, Activities, Alongside, Array, Cable, Cascadia, Characterize, Demonstrate, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Fiber, Ground, Has, Hazards, Investigate, Local, Mentor, Meter-level, Mines, Monitoring, Networks, Performance, Plans, Processes, Seismic, Spatial, Specifically, Techniques, Tectonic, Tremor, Variety.

EAR-PF Paleoelevation reconstruction in hyper-arid settings – integrating triple oxygen and clumped isotope techniques in the Salar de Atacama Basin, Chile (22-25S)
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2022; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Kristina L Butler($174,000), Butler, Kristina, Austin
Key terms: De Atacama Desert, Salar De Atacama, Central Andes, Isotope Techniques, Mountain Building, Stable Isotope, Surface Elevation, Δ 18O, Brown, Climate, Development, Driest, Evaporation, Has, History, Hyper-arid, Kristina, Lacustrine, Methods, Paleoelevation, Reconstruct, Reconstruction, Regions, South, Topography, Washington.

EAR-PF: Predator-driven evolution of shell structure at different scales during the Mesozoic Marine Revolution: An interdisciplinary experimental investigation
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2022; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Erynn Johnson($174,000), Johnson, Erynn, Ithaca
Key terms: Conservation Efforts, Crack Resistant, Greenhouse Conditions, Marine Ecosystems, Predator-driven Evolution, Shell-crushing Predators, Analysis, Applications, Approach, Biomechanics, Changing, Climate, Defensive, Experiencing, Fishes, Inform, Mesozoic, Microstructural, Model, Modern, Overfishing, Paleontology, Predator-driven, Pressures, Prey, Shell-crushing, Shells, Snail, Snails, Strength, Temperatures, World’s.

REU Site: Geosciences Program in Energy and Environmental Resource Sustainability (GeoPEERS)
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2022; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Maureen D Feineman($377,035), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Academia, Diverse, Energy, Generation, Geopeers, Geosciences, Geoscientists, Inclusive, Industry, Intentionally, Program, REU, Resource, Resources, Sets, Workforce.

Collaborative Research: RUI: Zero-order to first-order: Hydrologic drivers of surface-subsurface storage dynamics in thawing permafrost landscapes
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2022; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Benjamin T Crosby($378,093), Idaho State University, Pocatello
2. Sarah G Evans($295,705), Appalachian State University, Boone
Key terms: Permafrost Soils Thaw, Tracks And Thermoerosional, Carbon Release, Permafrost Thaws, Remain Poorly, Remote Sensing, Thermoerosional Gullies, Water Tracks, Alaska, Arctic, Climate, Drivers, Dynamics, Features, Field, Flows, Frozen, Hillslope, Hydrology, Saturated, Saturation, Students, Surface, Variable.

Collaborative Research: Evaluating Snowlines Across the Tropics - The geomorphic imprint of tropospheric cooling and drying during the Last Glacial Maximum
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2022; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Alice M Doughty($38,568), University of Maine, Orono
2. Meredith A Kelly($241,434), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Freezing Line, Glacial Extents, Glacial Period, Global Climate, Ice Sheets, Interglacial Periods, Remotely Sensed, Tropical Glacial, Dataset, Earth’s, Elevation, Erosional, Former, Glaciers, Latitudes, Magnitude, Mountain, Produce, Restricted, Topography, Tropics.

Collaborative Research: How are Flood Basalts Fed? A Textural Investigation of the Chief Joseph Dike Swarm
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Ryan Currier($208,105), University of West Georgia, Carrollton
2. Paulo J Hidalgo($188,207), Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc., Atlanta
Key terms: Chief Joseph Dike, Columbia River Flood, Joseph Dike Swarm, River Flood Basalts, Urm Student Cohorts, Us-national And Global, Built Intentionally, Dike Emplacement, Global Challenges, Inclusive Discipline, Magmatic Plumbing, Pursue Focused, Solve Us-national, Textural Analyses, Underrepresented Minority, Benefit, Bring, CRFB, Constrain, Deformation, Degassing, Detailed, Dikes, Diverse, Education, Equitable, Eruption, Experience, Field, Future, Georgia, Geosciences, Inspiration, Knowledge, Magmas, Magmatism, Mechanism, Mentors, Motivation, Oregon, Overall, Program, Pulsed, Students, Style, Surface, Tectonic, Textures, Transport, Urms, Voluminous.

EAR-PF: Advanced statistical analysis to relate microstructural fabrics and finite strain in ductilely deformed rocks
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Alexander D Lusk($87,000), Lusk, Alexander Dmitri, Madison
Key terms: Finite Strain, Grain Shape, Multivariate Statistical, Postdoctoral Fellowship, Preferred Orientation, Relict Metamorphic, Rock Microstructure, Statistical Analysis, Statistical Methods, Strain History, Aims, Carry, Characterize, Clast, Crystallographic, Deformation, Deformed, Determined, Developed, Development, Dimensions, Direct, Ductile, Education, Ellipsoid, Field, Geologists, Measures, Measuring, Microstructural, Microstructures, Quartz, Quartz-rich, Students, Tensor, Uncertainty, Undergraduate.

RAPID: Evaluation of post-wildfire effects on soil physical and chemical properties in response to the Caldor and Tamarack fires near Lake Tahoe
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Brad Sion($39,389), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Natural Field Settings, Chemical Properties, Fire Effects, Forest Management, Sierra Nevada, Soil Hydrophobicity, Soil Properties, Erosion, Fire-prone, Fires, Infiltration, Post-fire, Quantify, Runoff, Student, Watersheds, Wildfires.

Collaborative Research: GCR: Growing a New Science of Landscape Terraformation: The Convergence of Rock, Fluids, and Life to form Complex Ecosystems Across Scales
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Malak M Tfaily($1,158,103), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Aditi Sengupta($41,879), California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks
Key terms: Landscape Terraformation, Biological, Complex, Convergence, Ecosystem, Evolutionary, Feedbacks, Geochemical, Hydrological, Increasingly, Investigation, Landscapes, Microbial, Plants, Processes, Rock, Roots, Social, Symbiotic, Transform, Water.

MCA: Navigating the Clouds on the Horizon: Research and Education for Cloud-enabled Computational Hydrology in the Data Revolution
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Alejandro Flores($314,115), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Snake River Basin, Cloud Computing, Water Scientists, Atmospheric, Climate, Create, Datasets, Ensemble, Hydrology, Prepare, Produce.

RAPID: Sentinel-1 and ALOS-2 InSAR interferograms to support community modeling, mapping, and estimation of hazards from strike-slip and thrust fault interactions in Haiti.
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Jennifer S Haase($31,644), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Sentinel-1 And Alos-2, Haiti Earthquake, Insar Observations, Thrust Faults, Accuracy, Aftershock, Analysis, Combining, Critical, Field, Images, Interaction, Preliminary, Rupture, Satellite, Sequence, Slip.

Development of a User-Friendly, Low-Cost, Low-Power, Low-Noise, Lightweight, Self-Contained Infrasound Logging System
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Jeffrey B Johnson($373,789), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Instrument Lending Pool, Infrasound Studies, Pressure Waves, Additionally, Air, Available, Campaigns, Comprehensive, Cost, Create, Earthquakes, Field, Gem, Geophysical, Ground, Hazardous, Install, Instrumentation, Instruments, Integrated, Issues, Low, Power, Practical, Processes, Recording, Seismic, Sensors, Simultaneous, Specialized, Volcanoes.

RAPID: Impact of extreme flooding on groundwater quality following Hurricane Ida
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Samendra Sherchan($49,989), Tulane University, New Orleans
Key terms: Groundwater Quality, Hurricane Ida, Chemical, Coastal, Contamination, Flooding, Floodwaters, Heavy, Louisiana, Microbial, Protection, Sampling.

Defining research and educational priorities in Near-Surface Geophysics: a workshop and survey in light of the Vision for NSF 2020-2030 Earth in Time report
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Royce B Hanson($99,892), American Geophysical Union, Washington
Key terms: National Academies, Near Surface, Approaches, Broadly, Challenges, Diverse, Environment, Future, Geophysics, Hazards, Integrated, Integration, Natural, Nsurface, Plan, Recommendation, Resilience, Societal, Survey, Targets, Training, Water, Workshop.

Digging into Soil Carbonate Formation Processes with Triple Oxygen Isotopes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Naomi Levin($360,667), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Soil Carbonate Formation, Triple Oxygen Isotopes, Ancient Climates, Delta 18o, Modern Climate, Past Climate, Pedogenic Carbonate, Water Loss, Analytically, Aridity, Building, Components, Critical, Cycle, Dryland, Drylands, Ecosystems, Evaporation, Field, Meteoric, Michigan, Processes, Program, Sites, Soils, Stable, Storage, Tools.

Developing a Seismic Model for Investigating Layering in Cratonic Lithosphere beneath Africa
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Tolulope M Olugboji($357,817), University of Rochester, Rochester
Key terms: Crust And Upper, Ambient Noise, Geophysical Constraints, Lithospheric Layering, Phase Velocity, Publicly Available, Upper Mantle, Advance, African, Analysis, Body, Continent, Cratons, Evolution, Expected, Has, Lithosphere, Model, Origin, Plate, Probabilistic, Seismic, Students, Uncertainty, Waves.

Latent-heat based measurements of the melting curve of iron to the pressure of Earth’s inner core boundary
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Zachary M Geballe($641,554), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Earth’s Core, Inner Core, Latent Heat, Magnetic Field, Melting Temperature, Million Atmospheres, Outer Core, Accuracy, Accurately, Aims, Amount, Base, Basic, Earth’s, Flow, Heated, Iron, Liquid, Mantle, Metal, Models, Motion, Plusminus, Solid, Transitions, Uncertain.

Exploring Dislocation Structures with Conventional EBSD
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Ulrich Faul($223,744), SUNY College at New Paltz, New Paltz
Key terms: Experimentally And Naturally, Naturally Deformed Rocks, Conventional Ebsd, Deformed Experimentally, Dislocation Structures, Ebsd Mapping, Electron Microscopy, Oxidative Decoration, Plastic Deformation, Allows, Applied, Comprehensively, Cost-effective, Crystal, Crystals, Defects, Dislocations, Earth’s, Extensively, Grain, Has, History, Image, Imaging, Indexing, Interior, Method, Microstructure, Minerals, Routine, Shape, Size, Surface, TEM, Usually.

MCA: Modeling Surface Aerodynamic Temperature over Agricultural Fields
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Jose L Chavez($293,334), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Surface Aerodynamic Temperature, 3d Crop, Crop Characteristics, Eb Models, Heat Flux, Heat Fluxes, Academic, Accurately, Adoption, Agricultural, Angle, Applicability, Attack, Characterization, Dynamic, Estimation, Height, Integrate, Management, One-dimensional, Process, Promote, Sensible, Transfer, Water, Webinars, Wind.

Collaborative Research: Ice Forcing in Arc Magma Plumbing Systems
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Meredith Townsend($203,674), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Ice Sheet, Numerical Model, Numerical Models, Six Volcanoes, Stored Magma, Ago, Aim, Behavior, Chile, Climate, Composition, Crust, Erosion, Eruption, Evolution, Forcing, Geochemical, Growth, Investigate, Loading, Observations, Rapid, Rates, Reservoirs, Retreat, Sensitivity, Students, Surface, Volatile.

MCA: Enhancing Discrete Fracture Network Modeling Using Evolutionary and Quantum Computing to Expand Opportunities of Convergence Research
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Rishi Parashar($399,904), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Flow And Transport, Dfn Models, Fracture Networks, Fractured Rocks, Quantum Computing, Algorithms, Approach, Backbone, Complexity, Computational, ECO, Evaluation, Evolutionary, Methods, Modeling, Numerical, Optimization, Processes.

RUI: A sedimentological and sequence stratigraphic framework for carbon isotopic sampling and interpretation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Page C Quinton($370,113), SUNY College at Potsdam, Potsdam
Key terms: Earth’s Climate History, Epicontinental Carbonate Settings, Carbon Cycling, Carbon Isotopic, Earth’s Climate, Sea Level, Shallow Seas, Chemistry, Generated, Influenced, Late, Paleozoic, Permian, Resolvable.

EAR-PF: What is the role of metasomatic alteration in subduction zone episodic tremor and slip?
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. William F Hoover($174,000), Hoover, William Floyd, Takoma Park
Key terms: Ets Source Regions, Modern Subduction Zones, Catalina Island, Deformation Partitioning, Analysis, Bulk, Characteristic, Conditions, Connect, Educational, Exhumed, Field, Geophysical, Inform, Li, Mechanisms, Mentor, Metasomatic, Micro-scale, Observations, Outreach, Rock, Seismic, Structural, Washington.

EAR-PF: Controls of and connections between silicate weathering and organic carbon cycling in watersheds: A test case in the Upper Deschutes Basin, Oregon, USA
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Evan J Ramos($174,000), Ramos, Evan J, Austin
Key terms: Virtual Field Experience, Weathering And Oc, Isotope Compositions, Li Isotope, Mineral Formation, Oc Concentrations, Oc Cycling, Organic Carbon, River Sediments, Silicate Weathering, Brown, Budgets, Clay, Climate, Contents, Coupled, Development, Environmental, Floodplains, Geochemical, Geologic, Hawaii, Influence, Involve, Landscape, Millennia, Millions, Model, Oregon, Potential, Processes, Range, Respond, Rice, Soil, Soils, Timescales, Watershed.

EAR-PF: Mid-Miocene climate, vegetation, and disturbance dynamics of the Pacific Northwest
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Christopher M Schiller($174,000), Schiller, Christopher M, Bozeman
Key terms: Fossil Plant Assemblages, Landscape Stability, Short Timescales, Volcanic Eruptions, Climate, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Examine, Fire, Flora, Function, Has, Long-term, MMCO, Mentorship, Modern, Period, Pollen, Processes, Produced, Seen, Short-term, Shorter, Vegetation, Warmer.

EAR-PF: Towards a robust understanding of the spatio-temporal evolution of foreshock sequences from the laboratory to the field
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. David C Bolton($76,399), Bolton, David Chas, State College
Key terms: Fault Zones, Foreshock Sequences, Seismic Activity, Acoustic, Catalogs, Connection, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Evolution, Foreshocks, Has, Hazard, Integrated, Laboratory, Mainshock, Observations, Processes, Properties, Seismology, Space, Tectonic, Time.

EAR-PF: Mammals as sentinels of biotic recovery and the topographic diversity gradient in the aftermath of the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Lucas N Weaver($174,000), Weaver, Lucas N, Seattle
Key terms: Inferred Via Tooth, K–pg Mass Extinction, Denver Basin, Ecological Health, K–pg Mass, Rocky Mountains, Aftermath, Ago, Aims, Based, Biodiversity, Close, Colorado, Cretaceous–paleogene, Diversity, Ecosystems, Environmental, Explore, Fossil, Heterogeneity, Investigate, Mammal, Mammalian, Mammals, Million, Post-k–pg, Recovered, Recovery, Regions, Spatial, Species, Temporal, Time.

EAR-PF: A high-resolution 142Nd/144Nd record of mantle-derived rocks to constrain mantle stirring rate and tectonic regimes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Eugenia Hyung($174,000), Hyung Eugenia, Pasadena
Key terms: Earth’s History, Las Vegas, Plate Tectonics, Stirring Rate, Aims, Billions, Deep, Earth’s, Eugenia, Evolution, Harvard, Has, High-precision, Isotope, Mantle, Mentorship, Methods, Mode, Modeling, Ndnd, Nevada, Precision, Rock, Shaped, Surface, Time.

EAR-PF: Morphological and ecological disparity of Spiriferida (Brachiopoda) at local, regional, and global scales
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Judith A Sclafani($174,000), Sclafani, Judith A, Springfield
Key terms: Specimen And Field-based, Shallow Marine, Abundance, Climate, Davis, Ecological, Ecosystems, Environmental, Focus, Global, Local, Ocean, Spatial, Spiriferida, Trends.

Collaborative Research: Developing Records of Hydroclimate Variability in the Southeastern United States from the Middle Holocene to Present-Day
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Aubrey L Hillman($215,151), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Collected, Cores, Establish, Hydroclimate, Lakes, Predominantly, Region, Sediment, Sequences, Southeastern.

EAR-PF: A New Technique for Determining Eruption Timescales Applied to Large Igneous Provinces and Climatic Events over Earth History
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Joseph A Biasi($174,000), Biasi, Joseph A, Pasadena
Key terms: Individual Lip Eruptions, Earth’s Climate, Goat Rocks, Host Rock, Mgt Technique, Volcanic Eruptions, Amount, Amounts, Applied, Atmosphere, Climatic, Dikes, Directly, Global, Heat, Magma, Past, Plumbing, Released, Roughly, Time, Timescales, Volatile, Volatiles, Volcano, Volcanoes.

Calibration of the Lithium-in-Feldspar Geospeedometer for Timing Magmatic Events
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Megan E Holycross($405,922), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Existing Li Diffusion, Feldspar Solid Solutions, Concentration Profiles, Li Isotopes, Mass Transport, Plagioclase Feldspars, Potassium Feldspars, Total Li, Cornell, Crystal, Diffusivities, Eruption, Found, Has, Kinetic, Magma, Magmatic, Processes, Produce, Produced, Quantify, Timescales, Volcanic.

Collaborative Research: Quantitative Paleoclimatology of the East African Monsoon
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Emily J Beverly($137,503), University of Houston, Houston
2. William E Lukens($119,293), James Madison University, Harrisonburg
Key terms: Baringo Basin, Pedogenic Carbonates, Proxy Robustness, Africa, Archive, Climate, EAM, Estimates, Global, Intervals, Paleoclimate, Paleosol, Past, Quantitative, Rains, Student, Temperature, Vegetation.

CSEDI: Searching For Hadean Impacts: Clues From the Sudbury Impact Basin and Machine Learning Approaches
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Miki Nakajima($361,878), University of Rochester, Rochester
Key terms: Earth’s Crust Formed, Hadean Crust Composition, Crust Formation, Earth’s Crust, Formation Mechanisms, Hadean Zircon, Hadean Zircons, Impact-induced Magma, Meteorite Impacts, Plate Tectonics, Trace Impurities, Volatile Cycling, Zircons Formed, Abundances, Ago, Analysis, Apply, Approach, Based, Basin, Billion, Characterize, Chemical, Chemistry, Class, Compared, Environment, Extremely, Has, Impact-induced, Impact-related, Information, Machine, Magmas, Methods, Mineral, Model, Modern, Origins, Processes, Rock, Simulations, Students, Sudbury.

Improving the 40Ar/39Ar geochronometer
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Leah E Morgan($506,256), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
Key terms: 40ar39ar And K-ar, 40k Decay Constant, 40ar Concentration, 40k Decay, Isotope Composition, K-ar Dating, Mass Spectrometry, Accuracy, Age, Arar, Experience, Experimental, Gain, Geological, Laboratories, Methods, Planetary, Potassium, Preparation, Standards.

RAPID: How Critical Zone Processes Mediate the Impacts of Severe and Sustained Drought
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Daniella M Rempe($49,989), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Critical Zone, Moisture Storage, Northern California, Storage Capacity, Summer Dry, Underlying Weathered, Water Storages, Watersheds Respond, Weathered Bedrock, Conditions, Consequences, Drought, Hydrological, Observe, Opportunity, Period, Rains, Rock, Runoff, Sampling, Sensitivity, Stream, Subsurface, Unprecedented, Vegetation, Winter.

Acquisition of a 4K high accuracy digital microscope
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Sylvain Charbonnier($126,390), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Digital Microscope, Explosive Eruptions, Lesser Antilles, Melt Segregation, Robust Quantitative, Advance, Analytical, Constrain, Control, Crystallization, Enhance, Geology, Geoscience, Instrument, International, Investigate, Magma, Mixing, Paleoclimatology, Plumbing, Processes, Pyroclastic, SGS, Size, Students, Teaching, Textures, USF, USF-SGS, Various, Volcanic, Volcanology.

Acquisition of a high resolution inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer and ion chromatograph for environmental biogeochemical research and teaching at UMass Boston
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Karen H Johannesson($491,796), University of Massachusetts Boston, Dorchester
Key terms: Umass Boston, Acquisition, Biogeochemical, Critical, Environmental, Instrumentation, Instruments, Marine, Massachusetts, Metal, Metals, Natural, Ocean, Toxic, Trace, Training, Trans-disciplinary.

Collaborative Research: Snapshots of Miocene to Recent Paleoenvironmental and Paleoecological Conditions in the Northern Neotropics
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Jonathan Obrist Farner($604,342), Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla
2. Anders J Noren($50,547), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Elementary And Middle, Environmental And Ecological, Lake Izabal Basin, Broader Audience, Climatic Fluctuations, Ecological Conditions, Graduate Students, Latitude Regions, Middle School, Numerous Studies, Affected, Continent, Covering, Educational, Effects, Geoscience, Guatemala, Guatemalan, Information, International, Knowledge, Miocene-recent, Missouri, Opportunities, Past, Provided, Reach, Sedimentological, Tropics, Wealth.

Upgrade of Research Equipment for the UNM Volatiles Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Laura J Crossey($208,049), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Noble Gas Helium, Helium Plant, Thermal Springs, Traditionally Underrepresented, Valles Caldera, Volcanic Eruptions, Ability, Analyses, Collected, Composition, Dynamics, Emitted, Enable, Focusses, Gases, Geosciences, Isotope, Isotopes, Magma, Mantle, Mexico, Resource, Seminar, Spectrometry, UNM, Upgrade, Volatile, Volcano.

CSEDI Collaborative Research: The nature and timing of Earth's accretion
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Sujoy Mukhopadhyay($207,061), University of California-Davis, Davis
2. W H Francis Nimmo($177,027), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
3. Rebecca A Fischer($247,800), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Volatile Loss, Accretion, Acquired, Atmosphere, Core, Effects, Evolution, Experimental, Experiments, Formed, Happened, Isotopic, Modeling, Tracked, Volatiles.

Upgrade of an Infrared Spectrometer (with Electronics Replacement) for Quantitative Analysis, Focusing on H-species and Concentrations at Temperatures
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Anne M Hofmeister($69,593), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Fourier Transform Infrared, Transform Infrared Spectrometer, Upgraded Instrument, Add, Advance, DA-FTIR, Geological, Has, Infrastructure, Issues, Laboratory, Planetary, Pressure, Range, Spectra, Students.

Does synergy among litter, organic horizons, and roots bolster nutrient retention and production?
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Annise Dobson($74,660), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Inorganic Nutrient Cycling, Litter And Roots, Inorganic Nutrients, Leaf Litter, Mineral Soil, Organic Matter, Temperate Forests, Atmospheric, Climate, Codependence, Deposition, Environmental, Examine, Findings, Future, Leverage, Plants, Quantify, Shifts, Soils, Stabilization.

MCA: Destroying continental plates - unraveling the role of magmatism
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Mousumi Roy($324,240), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Previously Stable Continental, Thermal And Chemical, Chemical Disequilibrium, Continental Mantle, Continental Tectonic, Magma-lithosphere Interaction, Numerical Modeling, Southwestern North, Tectonic Plates, Volcanic Rock, Volcanic Rocks, Analysis, Cenozoic, Female, Has, Interiors, Machine, Magma-infiltration, Magma-lithosphere, Magmatism, Methods, Process-oriented, STEM, Statistical, Transition.

Significant improvements in the development and application of olivine-melt thermometry and hygrometry: new experiments and analytical approaches
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Rebecca A Lange($414,716), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Crustal And Mantle, Dissolved Water, Hydrous Basalts, Olivine Liquidus, Olivine-melt Thermometers, Partial Melting, Tectonic Settings, Water Contents, Basaltic, Based, Calibration, Conditions, Depression, Diverse, Dniolliq, Erupted, Experiments, History, Obtain, Olivine-melt, Partitioning, Performed, Range, Temperatures, Thermometerhygrometer, UM, Variety.

Collaborative Research: How and when did the Mongolian Altai (de-)form? Implications for intracontinental deformation
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Andrea L Stevens Goddard($294,898), Indiana University, Bloomington
2. Ryan Leary($676,882), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Asian Orogenic Belt, Central Asian Orogenic, Geomechanical Modeling, Intracontinental Orogenesis, Intracontinental Orogens, Mongolian Altai, Numerical Models, Plate Boundary, Tectonic Plate, Tectonic Plates, Thermochronologic Dataset, Undergraduate Education, Deformation, Detrital, Development, Erosion, Field, Formation, Formed, Geodynamic, Graduate, Increasing, Integrate, Middle, Mountain, Orographic, Outcomes, Processes, Region, STEM, Sedimentary, Strike, Students, Testing, Thermochronology, Timing, Uplift, Zone.

Collaborative Research: How roots, regolith, rock and climate interact over decades to centuries — the R3-C Frontier
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Kamini Singha($207,172), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
2. Daniel R Hirmas($532,558), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
3. Sharon A Billings($432,634), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
4. Alejandro Flores($385,499), Boise State University, Boise
5. Li Li($393,581), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
6. Pamela L Sullivan($555,034), Oregon State University, Corvallis
7. Jesse B Nippert($418,405), Kansas State University, Manhattan
Key terms: Water And Carbon, Existing Datasets, Plant Roots, Subsurface Structure, Atmosphere, Bedrock, Climate, Control, Degree, Ecological, Examine, Explore, Flow, Fluxes, Govern, Interaction, Machine, Modeling, Movement, Regulate, Soil, Storage, Students.

Identifying the role of dissolved organic matter composition in complete and partial photooxidation in diverse lakes
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Christina K Remucal($326,446), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Complete And Partial, Direct And Indirect, Dissolved Organic Matter, North Temperate Lakes-long, Well-studied Dom Isolates, Carbon Cycle, Carbon Cycling, Carbon Dioxide, Dom Composition, Indirect Photolysis, Inland Waters, Mass Spectrometry, Partial Photooxidation, Photochemical Reactions, Photochemical Reactivity, Temperate Lakes-long, Well-studied Dom, Analysis, Component, Critical, Ecological, Eleven, Influences, Insights, Isolating, Microorganisms, Model, Multiple, NTL-LTER, Program, Properties, Radical, Spectroscopy, Sunlight, Yield.

Floodplain ecogeomorphic processes: interactions between floodplain forest characteristics, wood accumulations, and hydrogeomorphology
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Katherine B Lininger($407,205), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Overbank Flow Conditions, Rivers And Floodplains, Transport And Deposition, Floodplain Wood, Flume Experiments, Forest Stand, Graduate Level, Numerical Modeling, Onto Floodplains, River Restoration, Wood Dynamics, Wood Onto, Wood Transport, Characteristics, Create, Dead, Ecological, Efforts, Enhance, Field, Flooding, Flumes, Geomorphic, Habitat, Hydrogeomorphology, Interactions, K-, Lessons, Processes, Undergraduate.

Characterization of the Oceanic Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary in the Colombian Subduction Zone through Receiver Function Analysis
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Brandon T Bishop($243,553), Saint Louis University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Colombian National Seismic, Lithosphere And Asthenosphere, National Seismic Network, Nazca Oceanic Plate’s, Category Interprets, Coupled Structures, Highly Sheared, Models Predict, Oceanic Plate’s, Plate Motion, Seismic Stations, Accurate, Arc, Boundary, Broad, Channel, Characteristics, Collaboration, Contradictory, Couples, Decouples, Depth, Depths, Differing, Driven, Earth’s, Frequencies, Frequency, Image, Implications, LAB, Layer, Long-term, Narrow, Observations, Plates, Predictions, Range, Receiver, Single, Society, Subduction, Tectonic, Underlying, Zone.

Collaborative Research: Roles of rupture complexity, geological structure and stress interaction on earthquake sequences
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Rachel E Abercrombie($156,980), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
2. Brett M Carpenter($399,438), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Industrial 3d Seismic, 3d Seismic, Earthquake Physics, Earthquake Rupture, Earthquake Source, Geologic Structure, Ground Motion, Human Activities, Industrial 3d, Northern California, San Andreas, Analysis, Central, Characteristics, Complexity, Dominated, Earthquakes, Facing, Fault, Faults, Hazard, Hazards, Increase, Methods, OU, Oklahoma, Parameters, Processes, Rate, Regions, Seismicity, Settings, Tectonic.

CAREER: Dynamics and Vulnerability of Mineral-Organic Associations in the Rhizosphere
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Marco Keiluweit($86,387), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Carbon Protected Therein, Moas And Carbon, Root-driven Moa Destabilization, Carbon Reservoir, Environmental Challenges, Root-driven Moa, Soil Carbon, Approaches, Compounds, Creative, Dynamic, Education, Interactions, Minerals, Models, Objectives, Reactions, Rhizosphere, Students, Vulnerability.

Experimental investigation of deep fluids of the lower crust and subduction zones
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Craig E Manning($582,494), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Deep Fluids, Phase Relations, Quartz Solubility, Subduction Zones, Volcanic Eruptions, Available, Binaries, Chemical, Constraints, Depth, Dissolved, Earthquakes, Experimental, Experiments, Focus, Geologic, Geoscience, Hazards, Investigate, Investigations, Laboratory, Mantle, Melts, Model, Models, Properties, UCLA.

Development of Precipitation, Evaporation and Temperature Records from Tropical Lake Sediments and Cave Deposits for the last 700,000 years
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. David P Gillikin($541,186), Union College, Schenectady
2. Richard L Edwards($277,175), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
3. Benjamin H Passey($331,413), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Junín Drill Core, Lake Junín Drill, Amazon Basin, Cave Deposits, Liberal Arts, Build, Caves, Climate, Combine, Composite, Global, Lakes, Peru, Precipitation, Program, Students, Temperature, Tropical, Upper, Ylong.

NSFGEO-NERC Proposal: Integrated Experimental and Dynamical Modeling of Top-down Crystallization in Terrestrial Cores: Implications for Core Cooling in the Earth
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Anne Pommier($166,066), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Earth's Core, Inner Core, Magnetic Field, Standard Model, Theoretical Models, Chemistry, Conditions, Cooling, Crystallization, Evolution, Experimental, Experiments, Generated, Generates, Geodynamo, Influences, Iron, Mantle, Origin, Pis, Planets, Pressure, Solid, Temperature, Terrestrial.

RAPID: Influence of the Brood X Cicada Emergence on Soil Water Infiltration
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Darren Ficklin($19,331), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Central And Southern, Cicada Emergence Holes, Soil Water Infiltration, Water Infiltration Rates, Regional Hydrology, Southern Indiana, Water Quality, Affect, Affects, Burrowing, Groundwater, Has, Implications, Large-scale, Processes, Surface, Volumes.

RAPID: Response to the 2021 Earthquake Swarm and Volcanic Eruption in Reykjanes, Iceland
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Christopher W Hamilton($78,471), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Earthquake Swarm, Graduate Student, Lava Emplacement, Aerial, Collect, Dems, Digital, Elevation, Environmental, Eruption, Establish, Established, GCP, Generate, Information, Local, Magma, March, Observations, Remote, Surface, Surveys, UAS, Useful, Was.

RAPID: The effusive to explosive transition of La Soufrière, St. Vincent: Insights from petrology and hygrometry
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Matthew R Manon($15,691), Union College, Schenectady
Key terms: Substantive International Collaboration, April 9th, Authorities Monitoring, Eruptive Style, Explosive Phase, Lava Dome, Magma Mixing, Water Content, Based, Behavior, Buildup, Degassing, Effort, Effusive, Eruption, Estimated, Gas, Has, Hours, Microlites, Mineral, Phases, Prior, Similar, Soufrière, Triggered, UWI-SRC, Undergraduates, Useful, Vincent, Volatiles, Volcanic, Was.

Collaborative Research: RAPID Geodetic Field Response to the 2018 Magnitude 7 Anchorage Earthquake
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Julie Elliott($6,551), Michigan State University, East Lansing
Key terms: Continuous Gps Sites, Yakutat Flat Slab, Postseismic Deformation, Slow Slip, Subduction Interface, Anchorage, Behavior, Benchmarks, Bending, Campaign, Caused, Coupling, Denali, Earthquake, Five, Local, Magnitude, Near, Plate, Region, Repeat, Suggest, Surveys, Transient, Triggered, Upper, Weeks.

RAPID: Kilauea 2020
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Erika Rader($78,630), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
Key terms: Crystal Content, Current, Degassed, Eruption, Forecast, Gas, Gassy, Hot, Indicator, Kilauea, Lava, Magma, Method, Risk, Stages.

Untangling the Roles of Viscous, Elastic, and Plastic Deformation in Slab Bending
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Ikuko Wada($194,399), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Down-dip And Lateral, Bending Resistance, Mechanical Properties, Negative Buoyancy, Numerical Models, Subducting Plate, Subducting Slab, Tectonic Plate, Visco-elasto-plastic Rheology, Controls, Creep, Developed, Effect, Elasticity, Evolution, Forces, Mantle, Parameters, Plasticity, Plates, SI, Subduction, Temperature, Visco-elasto-plastic, Viscosity, Viscous.

Collaborative Research: Sustainability in the Food-Energy-Water nexus; integrated hydrologic modeling of tradeoffs between food and hydropower in large scale Chinese and US basins
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2020; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Reed M Maxwell($174,247), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Heihe River Basin, Planners And Scientists, Central Valley, Environmental Degradation, Groundwater Sustainability, K-12 Education, Real Classrooms, Water Users, Agricultural, Applied, Basins, Billions, California, China, Complex, Computer, Developing, Educate, Energy, Food, Generation, Globally, Human, Hydropower, Integrated, Irrigated, Irrigation, Managed, Modeling, Natural, Piloted, Seeks, Supply, Tools, Tradeoffs, USA.

Collaborative Research: High resolution passive seismic imaging beneath Valles caldera
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2021; Program: nan

1. Julien Chaput($241,480), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
2. Brandon Schmandt($106,431), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Extent And Concentration, Seismic Imaging, Spatial Extent, Valles Caldera, Assessment, Depth, Dome, Estimate, Fill, Has, Laboratory, Magma, Magmatic, Melt, Nature, Noise, Outcomes, Probe, Resurgent, Structures, Subterranean, Supervolcanoes, UNM, Velocity, Volcanic, Volcano, Waves.

United States Geological Survey Supplemental Funding for the Geodetic Facility for the Advancement of Geoscience (GAGE)
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2021; Program: nan

1. David J Mencin($1,814,577), 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: Subsurface plumbing, tremor migration, and eruption cycle of Yellowstone Geysers
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2021; Program: nan

1. Jamie M Farrell($350,100), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
2. Michael Manga($260,632), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Eruption Characteristics, Geysers Erupt, Iconic Geysers, National Park, Seismic Arrays, Analyses, Dense, Education, Exist, Faithful, Hydrothermal, Models, Natural, Plumbing, Steamboat, Structures, Subsurface, Yellowstone.

CAREER: Predicting Transport, Mixing, and Reaction in Three-dimensional Heterogeneous Fractured Media Across Scales
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: nan

1. Peter K Kang($420,955), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Conventional Groundwater Models, Direct Numerical Simulations, Experiments And Direct, Flow And Transport, Fractured Aquifer Site, Fractured Rock Hydrogeology, Single Fracture Scales, Visual Laboratory Experiments, Fractured Media, Govern Flow, Upscaled Model, Aquifers, Conditions, Contaminants, Developed, Education, Elucidate, Field, Flows, Incorporated, Modeling, Outreach, Predict, Predicts, Processes, Shown, Single-fracture, TMR, Teaching, Validated.

NSF-GEO-EAR Awards for 2021

Collaborative Research: RAPID: Response to the 29 July 2021 Chignik M8.2 Earthquake Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

HIGH TEMPERATURE MAGMATIC GAS: MINERAL DEPOSITION AND GAS/WALLROCK REACTION Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

Geodetic Characterization of the Easternmost Alaska Subduction Zone Award Effective Date: 05/15/2021; Program: EARTHSCOPE-SCIENCE UTILIZATION

REU Site: Collaborative Research: Earth and Planetary Science and Astrophysics REU at the American Museum of Natural History in Collaboration with the City University of New York Award Effective Date: 03/01/2022; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

REU Site: Collaborative Research: Research Opportunities in Rock Deformation Award Effective Date: 01/01/2022; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

REU Site: Inclusive Student Training in Rapidly Urbanizing Climate-sensitive Terrains (InSTRUCT) Award Effective Date: 11/01/2021; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

REU Site: Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Cave and Karst Science (U-ROCKS) Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

REU Site: Summer Opportunities in Agricultural Research & the Environment: Strategic Work in Applied Geoscience (SOARE: SWAG) Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER: Paleoseismicity along the North American-Caribbean Plate Boundary: Research, Education and Outreach Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

REU Site: Undergraduate Research Pathways That Broaden and Strengthen the Geosciences Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Conference Proposal: GA-5: Data Science in Indian Country Award Effective Date: 06/01/2021; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Collaborative Research: Sustainable Land and Water Resources - A Community Based Participatory Research Experience for Undergraduates Award Effective Date: 05/01/2021; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Collaborative research: How variable is magma decompression rate during a single eruption? Award Effective Date: 04/01/2021; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER - Winding up our crystal clocks: Experimental studies of element diffusion in igneous minerals Award Effective Date: 04/01/2021; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER: Developing a Multi-Parameter Seismic Model of North America Award Effective Date: 03/01/2021; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Sustaining URGE (Unlearning Racism in Geosciences) Award Effective Date: 06/01/2021; Program: EDUCATIONAL LINKAGES

Acquisition of Inductively-Coupled Plasma Optical Emission and X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometers for Geoscience Research at North Dakota State University Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

MRI: Acquisition of a Multi-Channel Ion Chromatograph to Support Geochemical and Environmental Research Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

CAREER: Mapping Anthropocene Geomorphology with Deep Learning, Big Data Spatial Analytics, and LiDAR Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

EAR-PF: Active Tectonics and Crustal Structure of Northern Alaska Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Upgrade of Scanning Electron Microscopy Facilities at Montana State University: Supporting Research on the Lithosphere, Cryosphere, and Critical Zone Award Effective Date: 08/15/2021; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

MCA: Advances in Understanding the Biogeochemical Evolution of Serpentinites (AUBES) Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

CAREER: Hillslope Morphology Never Stops: Validating Hillslope Evolution Models on Transport Limited, Low Relief Landscapes Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Constraining Transcrustal Magmatic Systems with Receiver Functions Along the Aleutian Island Arc Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

EAR-PF: The optimization of SPC-POU filter and its application of well water treatment within Indigenous lands. Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

CAREER: Topographic Controls on Overmarsh Circulation and Sedimentation along a Salt Marsh - Forest Continuum Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Upgrade of an Isotope Ratio/Mass Spectrometer for Compound-Specific Isotope Analysis in Organic Biogeochemical Research Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Acquisition of a SEM-EDS-CL microanalytical system for research, teaching, and outreach in Geology at Colby College, a Primarily Undergraduate Institution (PUI) Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

EAR-PF: Deciphering the Timescales of Metamorphism via Size Sorted Garnet Geochronology Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Development of a proof-of-concept geoelectric monitoring system for advancing research and education in hydrogeophysics at Boise State University Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

CAREER: Fluid-driven Deformation in Underground Salt Caverns and Wastewater Injection Sites Award Effective Date: 05/01/2021; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Pore-scale machine-learning modeling of flow and transport properties of carbonate rocks Award Effective Date: 02/01/2021; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

CAREER: Integrating geology and metallurgy for efficient, sustainable production of critical elements for the green economy Award Effective Date: 06/01/2021; Program: EnvS-Environmtl Sustainability

CAREER: Science and Education for Connecting Urban Irrigation Efficiency to Streamflow in Semi-Arid Cities Award Effective Date: 05/01/2021; Program: EnvS-Environmtl Sustainability

Collaborative Research: Characterizing and quantifying carbon sequestration processes across the Andean Convergent Margin Award Effective Date: 01/01/2022; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

Collaborative Research: Toward an integrated modeling framework for physics-based estimates of megathrust rupture potential Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

Collaborative Research: Testing the reduction of aerobic habitat as a common kill mechanism for major mass extinction events Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

Collaborative Research: Ice Forcing in Arc Magma Plumbing Systems (IF-AMPS) Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

Collaborative Research: Evolution of Subsurface Microbe-Rock-Fluid Systems Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; 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: 09/01/2021; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

Collaborative Proposal: CO2PIP — A Community Project to advance and standardize approaches to paleo-CO2 reconstruction and build the next-generation Phanerozoic record Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

Collaborative Research: GCR: Co-Defining Climate Refugia to Inform the Management of Mountain Headwater Systems Award Effective Date: 10/01/2021; Program: GCR-Growing Convergence Resear

Collaborative Research: GCR: Responsible Critical Elements: Transforming Earth Resource Development for a Carbon-Neutral Future Award Effective Date: 10/01/2021; Program: GCR-Growing Convergence Resear

Microswarms: a lens into fault structure and aseismic processes deep in Southern California’s crust Award Effective Date: 05/15/2021; 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: Neotoma Paleoecology Database, Community-led Cyberinfrastructure for Global Change Research Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

Collaborative Research: A Continuous 60,000 Year Sediment Record Documenting Abrupt to Precession-Scale Climate Change and Ecosystem Response at Fish Lake UT, Upper CO River Basin Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

Collaborative Research: Quantitative Reconstructions of Last Millennium Hydroclimate and Temperature from the Tropical High Andes Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

Collaborative Research: Probing Causal Links Among Volcanism, Dust, and Carbon Burial in the Permian - a Harbinger of the Future? Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

Collaborative Research: Investigating Inter-Hemispheric Phasing of Tropical Andean Hydroclimate in Response to Holocene Orbital Forcing Award Effective Date: 07/15/2021; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

Collaborative Research: RUI: Development of a 700,000 Year Record of Tropical Precipitation, Evaporation, and Temperature from Lake Junin Sediments and Regional Speleothems Award Effective Date: 07/15/2021; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

Collaborative Research: An integrated model-proxy approach to understanding Western US hydroclimate change since the last glacial period Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

East Asian monsoon response to changes in Earth’s orbit: A new stable isotope modeling study Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

A one-million record of orbital-scale changes in temperature and precipitation from the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool Award Effective Date: 06/15/2021; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

Rethinking the Genesis of Banded Iron Formations: Simulating Partial Fe(II) Oxidation and Secondary Reactions of Iron-Silica Precipitates Award Effective Date: 01/01/2022; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

EAGER: Collaborative Research: Developing new laser ablation (U-Th)/(He-Pb) hematite double dating techniques to date ancient oxidation Award Effective Date: 12/15/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

RAPID: Impacts of high magnitude wildfire on volcanic (lava tube) cave water chemistry, nutrient transport, activity and diversity of cave microbiome Award Effective Date: 12/15/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Collaborative Research: Experimentally Evaluating the Relationship between Cation Ordering and Oxygen and Clumped Isotope Fractionation in Dolomite Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Collaborative Research: Boron in soil carbonates: developing a quantitative soil CO2 proxy Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

EAR-PF: Microplastics and Nanoplastics as Vectors for Inorganic Pollution: Examining the Effect of Environmental Systems Conditions on Degradation Pathway and Sorption Potential Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Collaborative Research: Boron in soil carbonates: development of a quantitative soil CO2 proxy Award Effective Date: 09/01/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

CAREER: Development of a proxy for past and present plant photorespiration rates based on 13C-D and D-D clumping in wood methoxyl groups Award Effective Date: 08/15/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

RUI: Collaborative Research: Constraining peridotite alteration timescales with environmental tracers (3H, 39Ar, 14C and 81Kr) Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Laminated soil carbonate rinds as a tool for investigating late Quaternary climate-vegetation links Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Collaborative Research: Tapping an unused biomarker for insights of past evaporation Award Effective Date: 08/01/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Collaborative Research: Exploring the dynamic interaction between pyrogenic carbon and extracellular enzymes and its impacts on organic matter cycling in fire-impacted environments Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Investigating the link between modern spring activity and associated paleospring mounds in Death Valley, NP Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Collaborative Research: New Roles for Reactive Oxygen Species in Mediating Carbon Fluxes at the Terrestrial-Aquatic Interface Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Carbon Storage in Mangrove Ecosystems via Abiotic Sulfurization Award Effective Date: 07/01/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Collaborative Research: Trace Elements in Pyrite—Validation and Calibration of a Novel Paleoenvironmental Proxy Award Effective Date: 06/15/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

RAPID: Phosphorus Molecular Biogeochemistry during a Rapidly Changing Nutrient Load in Tampa Bay, FL Award Effective Date: 06/01/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

CAREER: Unlocking the Isotopic Signatures of Weathering Recorded in Rivers Through Isotope-Enabled Reactive Transport Award Effective Date: 06/01/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

CAREER: A Triple-Isotope Approach to Unraveling Subsurface Food Webs Award Effective Date: 06/01/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Acidic pit lakes: Novel biogeochemical reactors evaluated via multi-omics approaches Award Effective Date: 06/01/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

CAREER: From Desert to Coastal Rainforest Soils- How do fungi transform minerals deployed across natural weathering gradients? Award Effective Date: 05/01/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

RAPID: Initial Colonists of Freshly Emplaced Volcanic Rocks at High Latitude: A Case Study of the 2021 Volcanic Eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland Award Effective Date: 04/15/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

EAGER: Microscale d34S Analyses in Pyrites to Distinguish Environmental and Biological Drivers of Isotopic Variability Award Effective Date: 03/15/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Collaborative Research: Mechanism of Manganese(IV) Oxide Biomineralization by a Bacterial Manganese Oxidase Award Effective Date: 10/01/2020; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

First Steps Towards a New High Resolution Proxy for Paleomagnetic Field Instabilities: Tritiogenic 3He Archived in Speleothems Award Effective Date: 10/01/2020; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem