Collaborative Research: Bridging short and long time scales in global plate tectonics through solver adaptivity
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: CDS&E-MSS

1. Georg Stadler($139,999), New York University, New York
2. Johann Rudi($280,000), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
3. Nadia Lapusta($216,710), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Leadership-class Computing Facility, Linear And Nonlinear, Computing Facility, Largest Supercomputers, Leadership-class Computing, Nsf-planned Lccf, Plate Tectonics, Solver Adaptivity, Ability, Algorithms, Allow, Apply, Beyond, Brings, California, Computational, Computer, Coupled, Dimensions, Distributed, Division, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Efficient, Equations, Expected, Finite, Geophysical, Graduate, Interdisciplinary, Linked, Local, Long-term, Mathematical, Mathematicians, Methods, Models, Nsf-planned, Outreach, Pacific, Physics, Plates, Program, Programs, Rhea, Scalable, Schools, Seismic, Set, Solvers, Space–time, Subduction, Supported, Time, Towards, Virginia.

Collaborative Research: Constraining volatile storage in the lower crust - a case study of exhumed rocks from the Talkeetna Arc, Alaska
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2025; Program: CESEV-Chem Evo of Earth & Volc

1. Peter Barry($435,055), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Michael R Hudak($245,805), Williams College, Williamstown
Key terms: Lower Arc Crust, Volcanic Hot Springs, Develops Film, Earth’s Surface, Global Volatile, Noble Gases, Oceanic Crust, Output Fluxes, Volatile Reservoir, Abundances, Arcs, Art, Artist, Bring, Capacity, Classes, Commonly, Cycle, Deep, Earth’s, Exhibitions, Isotope, Mantle, Melting, Rock, Students, Subduction, Talkeetna, Volatiles, Volcanism, Volcanoes, Williams.

Distinguishing mantle source heterogeneity from process-based Ca isotope signatures in ocean island basalts
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2025; Program: CESEV-Chem Evo of Earth & Volc

1. Michael A Antonelli($463,475), University of Houston, Houston
Key terms: Andor Oceanic Crust, Carbonates Andor Oceanic, Marine Carbonates Andor, Radiogenic Ca Isotope, Carbon Cycle, Carbonate Minerals, Earth's Surface, Earth’s Mantle, Radiogenic Isotope, Available, Deep, Earth’s, Educational, Generation, Ii, Magmatic, Models, OIB, Opportunities, Processes, Source, Stable, Subducted, Suggest, Trace, Tracers, Δca.

Collaborative Research: Behavior Of Moderately Volatile Elements During Silicate Evaporation
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2025; Program: CESEV-Chem Evo of Earth & Volc

1. Catherine A Macris($57,177), Indiana University, Bloomington
2. Peng Ni($376,781), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Students And Teachers, Ucla Meteorite Museum, Educational Module, Publicly Available, Silicate Melts, Tektite Display, Behave, Chemical, Create, Earth’s, Evaporate, Findings, Formation, Future, Glass, Has, Lost, Metals, Nature, Resource, Thousands, Trace, Underrepresented, Update, Visitors, Volatile.

Collaborative Research: A Novel Solution Model for Igneous Biotite: Improving MELTS and the Biotite-Sanidine-Magnetite Thermobarometer/Hygrometer with New Experiments
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2024; Program: CESEV-Chem Evo of Earth & Volc

1. Aaron S Bell($144,199), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Mark S Ghiorso($62,523), OFM Research, Seattle
3. Nicole C Hurtig($465,220), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Fellow And 3-6, Literacy Improvement Program, Mentoring And Teaching, Readings And Experiment, Teaching Creates Hope, Temperature And Pressure, Third Grade Students, 3-6 Undergraduates, Biotite Compositions, Biotite Crystals, Biotite Standards, Chemical Analysis, Electron Microprobe, Experiment Pairings, Generate Readings, Igneous Biotite, Phd Student, Postdoctoral Fellow, Raman Spectroscopy, Silicic Magmas, Solution Model, Analyzed, Biotite-bearing, Common, Conditions, Contents, Engage, Eruption, Experiments, Fefet, Fo, Glasses, Has, MATCH, MELTS, Method, Mineral, Minerals, Models, NMT, Natural, Partnership, Pre-eruptive, Pressures, Temperatures, Thermodynamic, Users, Values, Variables, XANES.

Isotopic fractionation between gaseous and dissolved Carbon in silicate melts; assessing the C content and d13C signature of Earth's Upper Mantle
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2024; Program: CESEV-Chem Evo of Earth & Volc

1. Yves Moussallam($281,066), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Carbon Content, Earth's Interior, Isotopic Fractionation, Isotopic Signature, Upper Mantle, Deep, Experimental, Experiments, Function, Knowledge, Measure, Melt, Melts, Pressure, Δc.

ORE-CZ: Anthropogenic alteration of the urban Critical Zone and the effects upon solute chemistry in urban streams
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2025; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Sarah H Ledford($249,993), Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc., Atlanta
Key terms: Dissolved Solute Concentrations, Semi-quantitative Conceptual Model, Atlanta Metropolitan, Critical Zone, Dissolved Chemicals, Semi-quantitative Conceptual, Sewer Infrastructure, Urban Streams, Urban Watersheds, Age, Analysis, Baseflow, Behavior, Biogeochemical, Characteristics, Chemistry, Composition, Conditions, Education, Examine, Functional, Groundwater, Index, Loads, Longitudinal, Observations, Reaction, STEM, Sanitary-sewer, Spatial, Students, Trends, Urbanized.

ORE-CZ: Providing opportunities and building systems of support for postdoctoral research to reveal hydrologic flow in the deep critical zone
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Kristina Keating($249,850), Rutgers University Newark, Newark
Key terms: Deep Critical Zone, Piedmont And Blue, Blue Ridge, Hydrogeologic Flow, Postdoctoral Associate, Water Flow, Water Flowing, Aquifer, Bedrock, Color, Crystalline, Examine, Fractures, Hydrologic, Imaging, Mentoring, Pathways, Precipitation, Rock, Subsurface.

ORE-CZ: Modeling impacts of salt stress on coupled carbon and water dynamics in dryland critical zones
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Samantha Hartzell($249,742), Portland State University, Portland
Key terms: Carbon And Water, Various Soil Layers, Greenhouse Experiments, Hydraulic Redistribution, Irrigation Water, Plant Water, Water Stress, Agricultural, Conditions, Dryland, Facilitate, Groundwater, Interactions, Model, Portland, Root, Salinity, Salinized, Salt, Salt-affected, Students, Transport, Uptake.

ORE-CZ: Fresh Solutions to Salty Struggles: Unraveling Processes of Saltwater Intrusion and Soil Salinization in the Coastal Critical Zone
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Matthew J Sirianni($250,000), East Carolina University, Greenville
Key terms: Addressing Saltwater Intrusion, Soil Salinization Challenges, Coastal Landscapes, Critical Zone, Fs3 Program, Aims, Aquifers, Capable, Collaborative, Cultivate, Factors, Processes, Quick, Shifts, Skilled, Undergraduate, Water.

ORE-CZ: The influence of drought, heat waves, and critical zone architecture on water and carbon cycling dynamics of forested dryland agro-ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

1. Mukund P Rao($249,810), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
Key terms: Types And Structure, Arid Regions, Atmospheric Conditions, Carbon Dioxide, Extreme Weather, Forested Agro-ecosystems, Mitigate Climate, Moisture Conditions, Plant Stress, Soil Moisture, Ability, Agro-ecosystems, Crops, Experimental, Farmers, Growth, Inform, Maintain, Management, Plants, Productivity, Public, Sequester, Water.

MRI: Track 2 Acquisition of Modern Field Emission Electron Microprobe for current research and workforce development
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Nels A Iverson($1,059,112), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Analytical, Capabilities, Chemical, Diverse, EPMA, Electron, Imaging, Instrument, Mexico, NMT, Natural, Phase, Significantly, Training.

Collaborative Research: Understanding the trapping of microplastic particles in riverbeds with synergistic pore resolving simulations and continuum modeling
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Shankar Subramaniam($299,999), Iowa State University, Ames
2. Mohamed H Kasbaoui($344,888), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Microplastic Particles, Numerical Simulations, Theoretical Modeling, Trapping Rates, Account, Bed, Concerns, Effects, Flow, Inertia, MP, Models, PR-DNS, Plastic, Pollution, Pores, Predict, Processes, Retention, Reveal, Riverbed, Riverbeds, Rivers, Size, Sticking, Stream, Turbulence.

RAPID: Identifying Drinking Water Contamination and Social Vulnerability Impacts from Urban Fires
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2023; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Mia Theresa B Comeros($200,000), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Drinking Water, Municipal Water, Water Contamination, Capacity, Crisis, Distribution, Diverse, Economically, Efforts, Equity, Facilitate, Future, Health, Inform, Knowledge, Maui’s, Recovery, Remains, Risk, Socially, Utilities, Vulnerable, Wildfire, Wildfires.

CAREER: Re-evaluating the evolution of the southern San Andreas Fault along its restraining bend from Holocene to Mid-Quaternary timescales via 36Cl/10Be burial and cosmogenic...
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2019; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

1. Elizabeth H Madden($658,139), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
Key terms: 36cl10be Burial Dating, San Andreas Fault, 36cl10be Burial, Dating Technique, Displacement History, Seismic Hazard, Application, Boundary, Clbe, Earthquake, Evolution, Faults, Geologic, Models, Multiple, Newly, Particular, Potential, Processes, Program, Students, Timescales.

Collaborative Research: REU Site: 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: 03/01/2025; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Rondi M Davies($39,206), CUNY Graduate School University Center, New York
2. Nathalie F Goodkin($425,132), American Museum Natural History, New York
Key terms: AMNH, Activities, CUNY, City, Directorate, Division, Experimental, Museum, Partnership, Program, REU, Students, Theoretical, Urban, York.

Collaborative Research: REU Site: Microplastic Sources, Sinks, Transport and Environmental Impact across the Finger Lakes Watershed
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2024; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Nan Crystal Arens($358,976), Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva
2. Linda Y Tseng($231,803), CUNY City College, New York
Key terms: Drinking Water, Faculty Mentors, Field Sites, Finger Lakes, Microplastic Comes, Air, Analytical, City, Collect, Contaminants, Decades, Environment, Environmental, Equipment, Experience, Experiences, Fibers, Films, Food, Mentored, Mentoring, Microplastics, Organisms, Particles, Plastic, Resources, Soil, Sophomores, Students, Undergraduate, Undergraduates, Variety, Watersheds, York.

REU Site: Community-Soil-Air-Water: A Geoscience Learning Ecosystem for Urban Environments
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2024; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Flavia Dias de Souza Moraes($393,759), Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc., Atlanta
Key terms: Disciplinary Knowledge, Interdisciplinary Perspective, Reu Students, Air, CSAW, Community-based, Diverse, Drawing, Experience, Faculty, Fellows, Geoscience, MS, Place-based, Post-baccalaureate, Soil, Summer, Themes, Undergraduates, Water.

Collaborative Research: Conference: GA6 Geosciences and Environmental Justice for Indigenous Communities
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Ryan E Emanuel($6,983), Duke University, Durham
2. Jason S McLachlan($93,016), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
Key terms: 6th Geoscience Alliance, Geoscience Alliance Conferences, Geoscience And Environmental, 6th Geoscience, Conference Theme, Degree Programs, Environmental Justice, Ga-6 Conference, National Conferences, Native Americans, Academic, Burdens, Climate, Distributions, Education, Fields, Growing, Indigenous, Management, Networking, Objectives, Participants, Participation, Resource, Successful, Underrepresented.

CAREER: Shallow geophysics of fault creep: linking slip and surface deformation on the San Andreas fault
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Eileen L Evans($158,141), The University Corporation, Northridge, Northridge
Key terms: Creep And Seismic, Deformation And Faulting, Faulting And Near-surface, Increased Near-field Spatial, Near-field Spatial Resolution, San Andreas Fault, Active Deformation, Creeping Segment, Fault Behavior, Fault Structure, Increased Near-field, Near-field Spatial, Near-surface Deformation, Seismic Faulting, Seismic Hazard, Shallowest Portion, Tectonic Deformation, Tectonic Faulting, CSUN, California, Characterizing, Companies, Complex, Critical, Crust, ERT, Faults, GPR, Geophysical, Geophysics, Guide, Image, Links, Mechanical, Models, Nature, Nfield, Nsurface, Observations, Opportunities, Outreach, Partial, Partitioning, Poorly, Program, Respect, SAF, Slip, Student, Watts.

RUI: Modeling the Earthquake Dynamics of Complex Thrust Fault Systems, with Application to the Western Transverse Ranges, California
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Julian C Lozos($189,438), The University Corporation, Northridge, Northridge
Key terms: Earthquake Hazard Assessment, Geometrical Parameter Studies, Western Transverse Ranges, Earthquake Rupture, Fault Geometry, Fault Segments, Los Angeles, Physics-based Rules, Rupture Behavior, Rupture Behaviors, Strike-slip Faults, California, Centers, Complex, Computational, Controls, Dip-slip, Maximum, Means, Network, Phase, Physics-based, Produce, Region, Simulations, Single, Size, Strike-slip, Thrust, Undergraduate.

CAREER: Unraveling spatiotemporal deformation patterns in the Basin and Range and Walker Lane provinces: Combining geochronology methods and scaffolded peer-peer student mentoring
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Alyssa L Abbey($227,192), California State University-Long Beach Foundation, Long Beach
Key terms: Basin And Range, Range And Walker, Timing And Rates, Low-temperature Thermochronology, Master’s Students, Overlapping Timescales, Plate Boundary, Surface Deformation, Tectonic Plate, Transform Boundary, Walker Lane, Advance, Allowing, Below, CC, California, Cohort, Combines, Convergent, Cosmogenic, Creation, Dating, Designed, Development, Diverse, Education, Existing, Experience, Fault, Faulting, Faults, Geochronology, Geologic, HS, Increase, Information, Instructors, Low-temperature, Master’s, Methods, Moving, North, Peer-mentoring, Province, Provinces, Recruit, Regime, Regions, STEM, School, Six, Southern, Techniques, Temporal, Undergraduate, Workforce, Zone.

CAREER: Connecting metamorphic reactions, fluid production, and deep slow slip in subduction zones
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2024; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Cailey B Condit($320,192), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Pore Fluid Pressures, Resess Satellite Program, Subduction Zone Faults, Subduction Zone Hazard, Zone Hazard Literacy, Dehydration Reactions, Education Plan, Fluid Sources, Geologic Evidence, Metamorphic Reactions, Pacific Northwest, Seismic Cycle, Slow Earthquakes, Slow Slip, Subduction Zones, Triggering Slow, Below, Chemical, Create, Fluids, Geosciences, Hazards, Hosting, Increase, Knowledge, Megathrust, Modeling, Observations, Occurrence, Pf, Plate, Rock, Rockin’, Stress, Subducting, Summer, Summers, Undergraduates, Washington.

Collaborative Research: REU Site: Sustainable Land and Water Resources - A Community Based Research Experience for Undergraduates
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2024; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Melissa A Kenney($398,266), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
2. Antony R Berthelote($329,310), Salish Kootenai College, Pablo
Key terms: Land And Water, Program Design, Reu Participants, Slawr Reu, Tribal Management, Water Resources, Advance, Centers, Communication, Conference, Core, Create, Development, Ethics, Experience, Holistic, Increase, Knowledge, Methods, Multiple, Native, Paradigm, Participation, Personal, Process, Processes, Skill, Student, Students, Transformative, Undergraduate, Undergraduates, Via.

REU Site: Critical Zone Collaborative Network Research Experiences for Undergraduates (CZNet-REU)
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2023; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Jordan S Read($436,416), Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sci, Arlington
Key terms: Earth’s Living Skin, Critical Zone, Cz Network, Earth’s Living, Ten-week Program, Vegetation Canopy, Cohort, Collaborative, Communication, Connections, Cznet, Cznet-reu, Depths, Discipline, Environment, Experiences, Explore, Final, Formal, Groundwater, Individual, Innovative, Interdisciplinary, Meet, Meeting, Mentor, Outcomes, REU, Society, Student, Students, Summer, Symposium, Ten-week, Top, Undergraduates, Virtual.

RAPID: Collecting post-hurricane Helene sediment samples in the Congaree National Park, South Carolina, to constrain floodplain-wide deposition of sand and mud
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2024; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Matthew Czapiga($49,512), University of South Carolina at Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Fate And Transport, Hydrology And Sedimentation, Main Channel Flow, Congaree River, Floodplain Channels, Floodplain Hydrology, Floodplain Sedimentation, Grain Sizes, Hydraulic Characteristics, Spatial Distribution, Wash Load, Bed, Complex, Has, Models, Natural, Opportunity, Th, Topography, Water.

Towards constraining the source and fate of volcanically sourced mercury along the Aleutian-Alaska Arc, with implications for a revised global volcanic mercury budget
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Benjamin D Barst($553,382), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Introduce Rural Alaskan, Rural Alaskan Students, Ash-bound Mercury, Health Risks, Local Issues, Mercury Emissions, School Students, Six Senior, Undergraduate Student, Volcanic Ash, Volcanic Mercury, Alaskans, Amount, Ash-bound, Clarify, Emitted, Environment, Eruption, Estimate, Estimates, Global, Mentor, Method, Paths, Positive, Postdoctoral, Released, Source, Total, Uncertainties, Volcanoes.

Collaborative Research: Searching for the Origin of ULVZs beneath Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Samantha E Hansen($276,999), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
2. Mingming Li($560,319), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Earth’s Core-mantle Boundary, Time And Space, Anomalous Structures, Core-mantle Boundary, Earthscope Consortium, Earth’s Core-mantle, Geophysical Union, Lowermost Mantle, Reduced Seismic, Southern Hemisphere, Students Underrepresented, Ulvz Characteristics, Ulvz Origins, Ulvz Structure, Velocity Zones, Antarctica, Beneath, CMB, Collaborating, Collaborations, Complementary, Consistent, Density, Evolution, Future, Gain, Limited, Models, Opportunities, Planet, Play, Portion, Potential, Prepare, Properties, Solve, Sources, Stations, Training, Ulvzs, Unique, Variety, Velocities.

Equipment: MRI: Track 1 Acquisition of a State-of-the-Art Electron Microprobe for Research and Training
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Alexander N Krot($699,999), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Probe Current, Spatial Resolution, Acquisition, Advanced, Beam, Disciplinary, EPMA, Instrument, Instrumentation, Intensities, Light, Low, Mānoa, Operation, Program, Students, UH.

GEO-CM: The enrichment of critical metals in porphyry Cu deposits: a high-resolution mineral-scale approach to assess temporal and spatial variation in ore forming processes
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Andrew J Martin($439,728), University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas
Key terms: Porphyry Copper Deposits, Critical Metals, Mineral-scale Analysis, Yerington District, Accurately, Allow, Assess, Chemical, Geochemical, Isotopic, Mineral-scale, Ore, Processes, Produced, Pyrite, Students.

Collaborative Research: a multi-proxy approach to discrimination of marine and terrestrial sediments in coastal wetlands
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Kam-biu Liu($386,805), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
2. Harry F Williams($109,866), University of North Texas, Denton
Key terms: Marine And Terrestrial, Sediment Cores Collected, Compound Flooding, Sediment Beds, Analyses, Approach, Caused, Coastal, Discriminate, Elemental, Hurricanes, Program, Relative, Storm, Stronger, Technique, Wetland, XRF.

Merging Particle Physics and Earth Science to develop a new tool to constrain the physical and chemical properties of LLSVPs
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Eric L Mittelstaedt($315,794), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
Key terms: Density And Composition, Earth’s Deep Interior, Establish And Strengthen, Strengthen International Collaboration, Training And Mentoring, Earth’s Deep, Existing Geophysical, Geophysical Constraints, Geophysical Methods, Llvp Properties, Lower Mantle, Multi-detector Framework, Multiple Detectors, Neutrino Detectors, Neutrinos Arriving, Outreach Opportunities, Analysis, Code, Collection, Create, Decrease, Earthprobe, Estimates, Incorporate, Integrate, LLSVP, Llvps, Modify, Multi-detector, NOTE, Objective, Required, Sensitivity, Structures, Students, Tools.

CAREER: Integrating geophysical data and hydrologic modeling to quantify subsurface water storage along elevation gradients in mountainous terrains
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2024; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Qifei Niu($293,108), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Future Water Resources, Manage Future Water, Subsurface Water Storage, Geoscientific Field, Hydrologic Modeling, Soil Water, Stream Water, Various Water, Warming Climate, Water Resources-related, Becoming, Computational, Developed, Educational, Elevations, Fluxes, Geophysical, Groundwater, Integrated, Mountainous, Performed, Precipitation, Program, Resources-related, Storages, Students, Training, Undergraduates, Watershed, Weather, Western.

Assessing the roles of wear and roughness on dynamic fault friction
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2024; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Monica R Barbery($283,990), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Natural Fault Roughness, Deeps Cores, Elevated Pore, Frictional Behavior, Pore Pressure, Rough Patches, Rupture Models, Seismic Slip, Slip Rates, Advance, Analysis, Brown, Conditions, Confining, Continued, Controlled, DH, Dynamic, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Establish, Expand, Experiments, Faults, Fluids, Hardening, Increases, Leads, Mechanisms, Mpa, Participation, Physics, Physics-based, Pressures, Processes, Program, Regulate, STEM, Stress, Surface, Surfaces, TPW, Weakening, Wear.

CAREER: Fluid-driven Deformation in Underground Salt Caverns and Wastewater Injection Sites
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2024; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Patricia Persaud($207,774), University of Arizona, Tucson
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.

Quantification of the Impact of Hydrologic Controls on Anomalous Solute Transport and Mixing Dynamics in Partially Saturated Porous Media
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2024; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Lazaro J Perez($166,965), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
2. Lazaro J Perez($272,578), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Mixing And Reaction, Numerical Simulations, Porous Media, Reactive Transport, Unsaturated Conditions, Chemical, Experimental, Facilitate, Flow, Groundwater, Management, Models, Phases, Predict, Processes, Resources, Soil, Subsurface, Water.

Collaborative Proposal: Fluid flow metamorphism and strain localization in mid-crustal shear zones
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2023; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Raphael Gottardi($86,274), Auburn University, Auburn
Key terms: Metamorphic Core Complex, Specific Fluid Sources, Detachment Shear, Fluid Flow, Fluid-rock Interaction, Lower Crust, Meteoric Fluids, Undergraduate Students, Analyses, Chemical, Constrain, Crustal-scale, Depths, Ductile, Extension, Fault, Faulting, Field, Fluid-rock, Geologic, Incorporates, Zone, Zones.

Collaborative Research: How do changes in land cover and climate perturb grassland water and carbon cycles below-ground?
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Ecosystem Science

1. Li Li($332,550), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Matthew F Kirk($368,516), Kansas State University, Manhattan
3. Pamela L Sullivan($405,824), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Climate And Land, Land Cover Disturbance, Water And Carbon, Carbon Cycle, Plant Growth, Woody Encroachment, Changing, Division, Flow, Fluxes, Grassland, Grasslands, Groundwater, Kansas, Measure, Processes, Program, Quantify, Soil, Stored, Streams.

Collaborative Research: Exploring the Role of Rapid Cementation, Cohesion, and Pore Fluid Pressure Evolution in the Dynamics of Slow Slip Events
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2024; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

1. Melodie E French($127,663), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
2. Amanda M Thomas($616,044), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Achieve Common Goals, Cascadia Region Earthquake, Pore Fluid Pressure, Subduction Zone Geoscience, Training And Mentorship, Undergraduate And Graduate, Catalyze Interdisciplinary, Enable Interaction, Facilitate Coordination, Fault Healing, Fault Strength, Fault Strengthening, Graduate Students, Plus Postdoctoral, Pressure Evolution, Rapid Cementation, Rapid Fault, Resulting Cohesion, Rock Mechanics, Slow Slip, Subduction Zones, CRESCENT, Center, Conditions, Dimensions, Earthquakes, Efforts, Enigmatic, Experimental, Experiments, Explore, Explores, Faults, Fields, Fluids, Framework, Fronts, Generation, Geochemistry, Geohazards, Leaders, Mathematical, Mechanisms, Models, Normal, Numerical, Permeability, Petrology, Play, SSE, SZD, Secondary, Seismic, Seismology, Simulations, Sses, Temperature, Time, Time-dependent, Tremor.

Collaborative Research: Testing the Impact of Land Plants on the Earth System
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

1. Gordon D Love($156,669), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
2. Lidya G Tarhan($220,168), Yale University, New Haven
3. Erik A Sperling($268,816), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Land Plant Evolution, Canadian Arctic, Land Plants, Ago, Biogeochemical, Broader, Climate, Continent, Critical, Earth’s, Ecosystems, Educational, Empirical, Engagement, Environmental, Fostering, Geochemical, Geologic, Integrated, Isotope, Landscapes, Levels, Local, Long-term, Marine, Middle-school, Million, Modeling, Ocean, Oceans, Outreach, Oxygen, Paleontological, Peabody, Phosphorus, Program, Provided, Public-facing, Reconstruct, Rock, Speciation, Students, Transition, Yale.

Collaborative Research: How much and why did Ice Sheets melt during the Last Interglacial (HISEAS)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

1. Andy Aschwanden($312,259), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
2. Jacqueline Austermann($397,492), Columbia University, New York
3. Oana-Alexandra Dumitru($41,251), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Climate Conditions, Ice Sheet, Ice Sheets, Iceberg Discharge, Sea Level, Sea-ice Extent, Ago, Database, Drove, Earth’s, Existing, Future, Interglacial, Model, Modeling, Past, Period, Processes, Sea-ice, Sea-level, Simulate, Temperature, Temperatures, Time.

Collaborative Research: The influence of climate and tectonics on Miocene ecosystems and faunal evolution in the East African Rift, Kenya
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2023; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

1. Kevin T Uno($262,137), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Tectonics And Climate, East Africa, Graduate Students, Mammal Evolution, Model Outputs, Tectonic Model, Turkana Basin, African, Dynamic, Ecosystems, Explore, Field, Influences, Integrated, Kenya, Mammals, Million, Region, Rift, Training, Vegetation.

Collaborative Research: The Lake Superior Basin: Natural Geomorphic Experiment, Deepwater-Terminating Ice Stream, and Isostatically Adjusting Rift
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2022; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

1. Elizabeth A Sumida Huaman($880,144), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Glacial Isostatic Adjustment, Lake Superior Basin, Ice Sheets, River Incision, Approaches, Critical, Crust, Earth, Erosional, Evolution, Fall, Feedbacks, Geological, Glaciers, Indigenous, Knowledge, Lake-level, Lakes, Land, Landscape, Natural, Past, Processes, Region, Rivers, Rock, Share, Surface, Three-dimensional, Water-terminating.

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: 03/01/2024; Program: GCR-Growing Convergence Resear

1. Aditi Sengupta($25,507), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Landscape Terraformation, Biological, Complex, Convergence, Ecosystem, Evolutionary, Feedbacks, Geochemical, Hydrological, Increasingly, Investigation, Landscapes, Microbial, Plants, Processes, Rock, Roots, Social, Symbiotic, Transform, Water.

Innovative Resources: Cyberinfrastructure and community to leverage ground-based imagery in ecohydrological studies
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2025; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Heather Akin($599,801), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln
Key terms: Artificial Intelligence, Ground-based Imagery, Training Resources, Barriers, CI, Cameras, Capabilities, Complement, Discovery, Ecohydrological, Environmental, Ground-based, Has, Information, People, Potential, Processes, Range, Reproducible, Software, Tools, Users.

Collaborative Research: Sustained Resources: Prototyping a Framework for FAIR Data Communities: The Tephra Information Portal (TIP)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Stephen C Kuehn($429,750), Concord University, Athens
2. Lucia R Profeta($623,273), Columbia University, New York
3. Andrei V Kurbatov($61,850), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Prototype Platform, Access, Accessible, Build, Create, Curation, Deep, Development, Discovery, EAR, Education, Existing, FAIR, Geoscientists, Global, IEDA, Integration, Lead, Management, Next-generation, Public, Single, TIP, Tephra, Volcanic.

Collaborative Research: Innovative Resources: Into the ISOVERSE - open-source data tools for efficient, transparent, and reproducible processing of stable isotope data
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Seth D Newsome($91,343), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
2. Christopher Yarnes($63,018), University of California-Davis, Davis
3. Cajetan Neubauer($425,030), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Stable Isotope, Analysis, Biological, Computational, Core, Create, Disciplines, Division, Ecosystem, ISOVERSE, Infrastructure, Modules, Open-source, Processing, Programs, Reproducible, Reuse, Sharing, Tools.

Innovative Resources: MorFa3D: A Platform for Reconstructing 3D Morphology of Foraminifera from 2D Images
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Michael Daniele($599,999), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: 3d Shape, Citizen Scientists, Foraminifera Shells, AI, Accessible, Cyber-infrastructure, Dataset, Devices, Environments, Has, Images, Imaging, Micro-ct, Microscope, Model, Models, Reconstruct, Robotic, Species, Specimens, Students, Tools.

Innovative Resources: A Pilot Program Facilitating Access to Unpublished XAS Data for Earth Sciences
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Paul Northrup($93,568), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Online Database, Synchrotron Facilities, Analysis, Andor, Available, Cycling, Environmental, Geologic, Has, Individual, Limited, Measured, Metadata, Methods, Range, Reference, Resource, Spectra, Spectral, Systematic, Training, Unpublished, XAS.

Collaborative Research: Sustained Resources: OpenTopography - An AI-ready Cyberinfrastructure Facility for Advancing Our Understanding of a Changing Earth
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Viswanath Nandigam($1,005,711), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
2. Chelsea P Scott($291,559), Arizona State University, Tempe
3. Christopher J Crosby($360,529), EARTHSCOPE CONSORTIUM INC., Washington
Key terms: Workforce Development, Access, Broader, Capabilities, Collaboration, Comprehensive, Education, Educational, Hazards, Knowledge, OT, Platform, Processing, Resources, Societal, Topographic, Topography.

Collaborative Research: Sustained Resources: Neotoma: Advancing Earth Science Contributions to Global Change Research via Growth of Well-Curated Open Paleodata
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Edward B Davis($14,293), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
2. Suzanne E Pilaar Birch($30,644), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
3. Jessica Blois($87,002), University of California - Merced, Merced
4. Mariena K Hurley($192,942), Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia, Philadelphia
5. John W Williams($1,054,276), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
6. Robert K Booth($28,985), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
7. Sarah J Ivory($108,236), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Activities, Curation, Ecrs, Fossil, Manager, Metadata, NSF, Neotoma, Publicly, Resources, Software, Training, Upload, User, Videos, Workshops.

Plume Structure and Mantle Layering Beneath the South Pacific: Modeling Teleseismic Waveforms from Traditional and Floating Sensors
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2024; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Frederik J Simons($445,139), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Earthquake Waves, Earth’s Interior, Impedance Contrast, Modeling Technique, Waveform Modeling, Deep, Discontinuities, Earthquakes, Earth’s, Entire, Focuses, Images, Instruments, MERMAID, Mantle, Models, Oceans, Program, Seismic, Seismometers, Underwater, Via, Volcanoes, Wavefield, Wavespeed.

Collaborative Research: Quantitative Paleoclimatology of the East African Monsoon
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2024; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Emily J Beverly($69,116), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Baringo Basin, Pedogenic Carbonates, Proxy Robustness, Africa, Archive, Climate, EAM, Estimates, Global, Intervals, Paleoclimate, Paleosol, Past, Quantitative, Rains, Student, Temperature, Vegetation.

CAREER: Balancing the global alkalinity cycle by improving models of river chemistry
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2025; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Mark A Torres($211,792), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Local Water Quality, River Water Chemistry, Water Quality Issues, Engineering Design, Flow Paths, Flow Rates, Undergraduate Students, Amount, Analysis, Approaches, Course, Effects, Engage, Exact, Issuesthis, Models, Past, Processes, Reaction, Solute, Time, Time-series, Transit.

Collaborative Research: Linking Microbial Communities and Iron Geochemistry to Improve Acid Mine Drainage Bioremediation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Trinity Hamilton($88,211), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
2. Christen Grettenberger($370,747), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Geochemistry And Microbial, Amd Subsurface, Remove Iron, Bacteria, Bioremediation, Efforts, Metals, Oxidation, Processes, Rate, Rust, Seeding, Species, Undergraduate, Water.

EMBRACE-EAR-Growth: Coupling In-situ Probing and Modeling Moisture-Related Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling and Transport
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Jill K Coleman Wasik($399,984), University of Wisconsin-River Falls, River Falls
Key terms: Cycling And Transport, Soils Subjected, Undergraduate Students, Agricultural, Capture, Conditions, Crop, Cycles, Dynamics, Emissions, Environmental, Inform, Natural, Nutrient, Nutrients, Opportunities, Species.

Collaborative Research: PYRITE OXIDATION AND THE ENSUING TRIPLE O ISOTOPE COMPOSITION OF SULFATE
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. David T Johnston($395,871), Harvard University, Cambridge
2. Eric S Boyd($321,593), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Isotope Composition, Oxidative Weathering, Pyrite Oxidation, Sulfate Minerals, Atmospheric, Biogeochemical, Conditions, Earth, Experiments, Has, Land, Life, Microbial, Oxygen, Students, Time.

Collaborative Research: Field studies of the transformation of soil minerals in estuarine wetlands
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Evert Elzinga($399,843), Rutgers University Newark, Newark
2. Bojeong Kim($151,952), Temple University, Philadelphia
Key terms: Lower Hackensack Estuary, Jersey Meadowlands, Mineral Particles, Soil Minerals, Allow, Brackish, Chemistry, Controls, Environmental, Estuarine, Geochemical, Incubated, Monitoring, Students, Time, Transformation, Water, Wetland, Wetlands, X-ray.

Collaborative Research: Calibration of Raman Spectroscopy for calcite saturation state in marine biogenic calcification
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Thomas DeCarlo($117,736), Tulane University, New Orleans
Key terms: Constrain Ω, Geochemistry Program, Lattice Disorder, Marine Calcifiers, Mg Contents, Mg Inclusion, Structural Disorder, CF, Caco, Calcite, Calcites, Has, OA, Ocean, Organisms, Precipitation, RS, Raman, Rapid, Seawater, Significantly.

MCA: Incorporating Stream Biogeochemistry into Carbon Assessment of Enhanced Rock Weathering: A Machine Learning and Dynamic River Network Modelling Approach
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Rebecca B Neumann($372,598), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Carbon Dioxide Removal, Photosynthesis And Respiration, Rivers And Watersheds, Agricultural Fields, Erw Deployments, Erw-derived Carbon, Promote Biological, Promote Carbon, Add, Amount, Atmosphere, Bicarbonate, Convert, Dissolved, Erw-derived, Has, Model, Ocean, Processes, Release, Rock.

Collaborative Research: Investigating Hyporheic Zone Reaction Enhancement by Bioclogging Across Scales
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Kevin R Roche($189,234), Boise State University, Boise
2. Jasquelin Pena($396,079), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Low Oxygen Microzones, Nitrous Oxide Emissions, Anoxic Microzones, Greenhouse Gas, Numerical Simulations, River Sediments, Bacteria, Conditions, Contaminant, Difficult, Dynamics, Estimate, Experiments, Formation, Groundwater, Macroscale, Perform, Processes, Public, Regulate, Rivers, Size.

Collaborative Research: GEO-CM: Rare earth element and yttrium extraction by biotic and abiotic hydrous manganese oxides associated with acidic mine drainage
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Margaret A Hinkle($180,189), Washington and Lee University, Lexington
2. Brian W Stewart($369,810), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Acid Mine Drainage, Mine Drainage Remediation, Unconventional Domestic Sources, Critical Minerals, Comprehensive, Concentrations, Conditions, Field, Manganese, Mn, Oxide, Rare, Recovery, Reys, STEM, Techniques, Yttrium.

EMBRACE-EAR-Growth: Terrestrial geothermal features as a modern analog for Archaean ammonia flux: Research Experience to Enhance Geoscience Retention at an MSI
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Joseph Felix($399,662), Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi
Key terms: Nitrogen Isotopic Composition, Alkaline Lakes, Ammonia Flux, Hot Springs, Nh3 Flux, Reactive Nitrogen, Abiotic, Biotic, Delta-n, Direct, Experiences, Features, Fumaroles, Hydrothermal, Life, Mechanisms, Origins, Potential, Primary, Processes, Rock, Sediment, Source, Water.

Physiological interrogation of ammonia oxidation by metal limitation, through the lens of stable isotope dynamics
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Scott D Wankel($625,065), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Iron And Copper, Ammonia Oxidizing, Nitrous Oxide, Archaea, Bacteria, Climate, Controls, Earth’s, Gas, Micronutrients, Nitrification, Nitrogen, Organisms, Perform, Process, Processes, Produce, Stable, Tools.

The biogeochemical signature of geogenic, redox-sensitive thallium
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Shelby T Rader($454,564), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Exploration And Environmental, Biogeochemical Signatures, Environmental Remediation, Metal Exploration, Underlying Geology, Accumulate, Allow, Compositions, Extraction, Greenhouse, Grown, Information, Isotopic, Juncea, Metals, Natural, Plant, Plants, Reflect, Sources, Tl, Toxic.

GOALI: Development of a breakthrough exploration method to explore for Cu-Ni-sulfide mineral deposits in the United States
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Todd M Malan($342,692), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Ground And Surface, Nickel And Cobalt, Considered Critical, Electric Vehicles, Energy Storage, Mineral Deposits, Mining Industry, Batteries, Battery, Copper, Copper-, Distribution, Downstream, Electrical, Electricity, Generation, Grid-scale, Manufacture, Michigan, Ore, Sulfide, Vital, Waters.

CAREER: Understanding how Earth's coupled carbon and sulfur cycles evolved after the oxygenation of the atmosphere
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2024; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Clara L Blattler($127,370), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Field Museum, Activities, Atmosphere, Carbon, Collaboration, Cycle, Cycles, Developed, Earth’s, Evolution, Geochemical, Global, Hands-on, Local, Outreach, Oxygen, Paleoproterozoic, Ratios, Redox, Rock, Sulfur, Transition.

Conference: Rocky Mountain Geobiology Symposium 2024
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2024; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Daniel S Jones($8,464), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Mountain Geobiology Symposium, Rocky Mountain Region, Early-career Geobiologists, Grow Participation, Keynote Speakers, National Lab, Primary Goals, Academics, April, Attendees, Build, Continue, Early-career, Graduate, Industry, Mexico, NMT, Networking, Opportunities, Postdoctoral, RMGS, Students, Th.

RAPID: Responses of Soil Organic Carbon Chemistry to Wildfires across a Rainfall Gradient
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2024; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Mengqiang Zhu($50,000), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Affect Soc, Climate Gradient, Maui Island, Post-fire Recovery, Soc Chemistry, Soil Erosion, Affects, Alterations, August, Collect, Ecosystem, Effects, Hawaii, Initial, Management, Opportunity, Post-fire, Ranchers, Time-sensitive, Wildfire, Wildfires.

CAREER:Mineralogical and Biogeochemical Control of Phosphorus Transformation during Soil Development
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2023; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Mengqiang Zhu($178,158), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Cycling And Bioavailability, Walker And Syers, Aeolian Dust, Carbon Cycling, Ecosystem Development, Semi-arid Ecosystems, Syers Model, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Based, Chemical, Composition, Coupling, Describing, Developed, Education, Environment, Has, Humid, Implications, Minerals, Organic, Outreach, Semi-arid, Soil, Soils, Speciation, Transformation.

Collaborative Research: Towards a Better Understanding of Tl Isotope Cycling under Different Redox Conditions
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Chadlin Ostrander($611,085), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
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.

Collaborative Research: RUI: Investigating the role of hillslope processes in modulating topologic change of upland drainage basins.
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2024; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. William T Struble($36,405), University of Houston, Houston
Key terms: Divide Instability, Drainage Divides, Erosion Rates, Evolution, Field, Hillslopes, Landscape, Landscapes, Motion, Processes, Rocky, Sediment, Soil, Soil-mantled, Steep, Theoretical, Topographic.

Formation Mechanism of Wind Ripples
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Orencio Duran Vinent($335,975), Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, College Station
Key terms: Dunes, Emergence, Geological, Mars, Ripples, Size, Students, Transport, Water, Wind, “hydrodynamic”, “impact”.

MCA Pilot PUI: Developing new and novel research into the Miocene to Quaternary geomorphology of the upper Gunnison Basin, Colorado
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. David W Marchetti($244,580), Western Colorado University, Gunnison
Key terms: Slow Incision Rates, Upper Gunnison River, Colorado River, River Incision, Basin, Canyon, Canyons, City, Dating, Has, Late, Ma, Near, Public, Techniques.

EMBRACE-EAR-Seed: Meltwater and Suspended Sediment in a Glaciated Volcanic Watershed
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Peter A Selkin($148,707), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Puyallup River Watershed, Suspended Sediment Concentrations, Upland Sediment Sources, Commencement Bay, Glaciers Retreat, Iron-bearing Mineral, Lowland Sources, Past Century, Suspended Silt, Water Quality, Climate, Difficult, Distinct, Fraction, Glacial, Hydrologic, Iron-bearing, Mineralogy, Monitor, Mt, Pulses, Rainfall, Rainier, Tacoma, Undergraduate, Washington, Watershed’s.

Collaborative Research: RAPID: Quantifying the fluvial geomorphic response of the Blue Earth River to a catastrophic avulsive dam failure, Rapidan Dam, Minnesota
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Zach Hilgendorf($17,957), University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire
2. Andrew D Wickert($5,036), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
3. Phillip Larson($26,558), Minnesota State University, Mankato, Mankato
Key terms: Avulsive Dam Failure, Climate And Land-use, Basin Integration, Dam Infrastructure, Rapid Incision, Aerial, Blue, Capture, Collection, Coupled, Days, Erosion, Fluvial, Following, Future, Geomorphic, Knickpoint, Lateral, Migration, Processes, Quantify, Rates, Retreat, River, Spillover, Time.

Collaborative Research: Tracking changes in Bhutan's glacial geomorphology, hydrology, and dynamics using geophysics
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Marianne S Karplus($381,275), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
2. Knut Christianson($289,796), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Glacial Outburst Floods, Bhutanese Himalaya, Lunana Glaciers, Mountain Glaciers, Sediment Transport, Dam, Downstream, Himalayan, Ice, Landscape, Radar, Region, Rivers, Water.

Loops in Coastal Channel Networks: a theoretical, experimental, and field-based investigation of their morphodynamic stability
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. John B Shaw($451,412), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Key terms: Water And Sediment, Channel Networks, River Deltas, Approaches, Channels, Constructed, Loop, Loops, Stability, Theory.

RAPID: Assessing the Morphologic Impacts of Sequential Tropical Cyclones on Texas Barrier Islands
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Kathleen Wilson($49,999), Boston College, Chestnut Hill
Key terms: Tropical Storm Alberto, Sequential Storms, Capture, Category, Coastal, Constrain, Low-intensity, Models, Morphodynamic, Morphologic, Observations, Pre-storm, Sediment, Sedimentary, Texas, Transport.

Rock glaciers as probes of Holocene climate, weathering, hydrology and landscape evolution
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Suzanne P Anderson($548,224), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Age Profiles, Colorado’s Mountains, Rock Glacier, Rock Glaciers, Alpine, Cliffs, Climate, Colorado’s, Constrain, Ice, Landscape, Stream, Surface.

Collaborative Research: NSF/GEO-NERC: The Collapse of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet: Using Glacial Dipsticks to Constrain Ice Sheet Modeling
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2024; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Jeremy Shakun($204,782), Boston College, Chestnut Hill
2. Shaun A Marcott($355,024), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Cordilleran Ice Sheet, Coupled Climate-ice Sheet, Greenland Ice Sheet, Sea Level Rise, 3-d Reconstruction, Climate-ice Sheet, Coupled Climate-ice, Sheet Models, Uncertainty Quantification, Approach, Canada, Collapse, Dating, Deglaciation, Future, Produce, Reconstructions, Similarities, Simulate.

Travel: DELTA H 2024, building international bridges to advance research and EDI in Geomorphology through an immersive meeting in Brazil: Supporting U.S.-based attendees
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2024; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Pedro Val($15,000), CUNY Queens College, Flushing
Key terms: International Cutting-edge Geomorphology, Biased Perception, Cutting-edge Geomorphology, International Collaborations, International Cutting-edge, Landscape Evolution, Brazil, Bridges, Build, Climatic, DELTA, Funding, Geomorphologists, Highly, Landscapes, Meeting, Natural, Settings, Soils, South, Students.

Conference: 2024 Granular Matter GRC and GRC Particle Systems Science and Extreme Environments
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2024; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Kimberly M Hill($32,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Grc And Grs, Scientists And Engineers, Granular Matter, Backgrounds, Complex, Disciplines, Discussion, Engineering, Fluids, Gordon, Held, Meeting, Participants, Particles, Platforms, Sessions, Size, Time, Via.

RAPID: Unraveling rates of wind erosion and potential dust emission post Smokehouse Creek Fire in Texas
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2024; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. John E Stout($27,014), Texas Tech University, Lubbock
Key terms: Erosion And Dust, Dust Emission, Grazing Intensity, Wind Erosion, Burned, Fire, History, Rangelands, Rates, Recovery, Region, Sites, Soil, Vegetation, Wildfire.

Conference: 2024 Rock Deformation Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Seminar
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2024; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Heather M Savage($49,900), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Conferences And Seminars, Rock Deformation, August, Contribute, Development, Energy, Gordon, Hazards, Processes, STEM, Topics, Underrepresented.

CAREER: Human-induced Soil Change on the U.S. Great Plains
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2024; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Judith K Turk($169,842), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln
Key terms: Plains Soils, Soil Structure, Advanced, Agricultural, Carbon, Irrigation, Land-use, Measurable, Program, —.

Collaborative Research: Reevaluating the Timing and Driver of Escarpment Retreat in Southeast Australia
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2024; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Marissa M Tremblay($244,185), Purdue University, West Lafayette
2. Magdalena E Curry($311,726), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Southeast Australian Escarpment, Apatite 4he3he, Continental Rifting, Escarpment Formation, Escarpment Retreat, Landscape Evolution, Constraints, Escarpments, Hehe, K-, Models, Origin, Present-day, Rock, Separate, Timing.

CAREER: Capturing the translation of wave climate to coastal change on rocky shorelines across scales
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2024; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Claire C Masteller($137,728), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Rocky Coast Erosion, Wave Energy Delivery, Coastal Erosion, Coastal Hazards, Erosion Model, Extreme Waves, Sea Cliff, Wave Climate, Coastlines, Datasets, Environmental, Nshore, Quantifying, Retreat, Sensitivity.

Collaborative Research: RAPID: Investigating the magnitude and timing of post-fire sediment transport in the Texas Panhandle
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2024; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Tian Y Dong($16,742), The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg
2. Andrew J Moodie($13,475), Texas A&M University, College Station
3. Brandee N Carlson($17,575), University of Houston, Houston
Key terms: Post-fire Sediment Transport, Fine Sediment, Lake Meredith, Low-sloping Environments, Overland Flow, Post-fire Sediment, Texas Panhandle, Burned, Constrain, Degrees, Landscapes, Low-sloping, Processes, Vegetation.

Collaborative Research: Dynamic connectivity of river networks as a framework for identifying controls on flux propagation and assessing landscape vulnerability to change
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2024; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Efi Foufoula-Georgiou($99,290), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
2. Arvind Singh($101,529), The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees, Orlando
Key terms: Climate And Land, Biogeochemical Fluxes, River Networks, Transport Hydrological, Affect, Assess, Capacity, Channel, Connectivity, Controls, Critical, Dynamic, Dynamics, Ecological, Emergent, Framework, Future, Geometric, Landscape, Pathogens, Potential, Scenarios, Topological.

RAPID: Investigating the Triggers of the 2023 Wrangell, Alaska Landslides
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2024; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Joshua J Roering($48,021), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Middle Ridge Slide, Surficial And Bedrock, Bedrock Geology, Gravel Road, Initiation Mechanisms, Landslide Models, Southeast Alaska, Analysis, Capture, Characteristics, Combined, Field, Forest, Incorporated, Initiated, Landslides, Local, November, RAPID, Storm, Warning, Winds, Wrangell.

The role of bedrock erodibility in the topography and landscape evolution of the Appalachian Mountains
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2024; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. James A Spotila($342,162), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Bedrock Properties, Blue Ridge, Metamorphic Rocks, Ancient, Appalachian, Complex, Control, Controls, Degree, Erodibility, Field, Landscape, Mountain, Mountains, Processes, Tectonic, Testing, Topography.

NSF-BSF: Earthquake temporal occurrence variability (clustering) observed in the longest detailed paleoseismic record: climatic modulation on the tectonic signal
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Geophysics

1. Shimon Wdowinski($275,605), Florida International University, Miami
Key terms: Dead Sea Fault, Long-term Earthquake Occurrence, Fault Mechanics, Geological Mapping, Gis Tools, Lake Levels, Long-term Earthquake, Mechanical Modeling, Seismic Shaking, Unique Opportunity, Affect, Analysis, BSF, Climate, Climatic, Components, DSF, Deformation, Detection, Earthquakes, Fluid, Involving, Israel, Israeli, Lakes, Methods, Models, NSF, Paleo-earthquake, Past, Processes, Sediment, Sedimentary, Sediments, Seismite, Seismites, Spatial, Stress, Suggesting, Thoroughly, Time, Timing, Unit, Water.

Collaborative Research: Time-dependent imaging of earthquake cycle behavior across the Japan fault system
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Geophysics

1. John Loveless($128,052), Smith College, Northampton
2. Brendan J Meade($227,954), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Daily Slip Distributions, Fault Slip Rates, Spatial And Temporal, Crustal Fault, Earthquake Cycle, Earthquake Hazard, Fault Activity, Subduction Zones, Aims, Analysis, Approach, Behaviors, Complex, Coupling, Earthquakes, Estimate, Estimation, Geodetic, Japan, Model, Models, Past, Potential, Processes, Slow, Spectrum, Three-dimensional, Time.

Collaborative Research: Dynamic Compression of Iron-Sulfur Alloys at the Earth's Core Conditions
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Geophysics

1. Sally J Tracy($199,998), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
2. Ivan I Oleynik($191,614), University of South Florida, Tampa
3. Sang-Heon Shim($99,500), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Dynamic Compression Experiments, Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Complex Structures, Crystal Structures, Earth's Core, Earth’s Core, Interdisciplinary Training, Magnetic Field, Alloy, Alloys, Behavior, Carnegie, Collaborative, Conditions, Crystallization, Earth’s, Educational, Extreme, Fe-s, Heterogeneities, Iron, Iron-sulfur, Light, Melting, P-T, Perform, Phase, Pressure-temperature, Significance, Sulfur, Temperature.

Collaborative Research: Relationships between seismic and petrological Moho and implications for lithospheric processes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Geophysics

1. Weisen Shen($107,128), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
2. William J Shinevar($119,807), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Continental Crust, Continental Lithosphere, Crust-mantle Boundary, Crustal Rocks, Interactive Map, Lower Crust, Mantle Lithologies, Mantle Rocks, Moho Depth, Petrological Moho, Receiver Function, Seismic Moho, Seismic Wavespeeds, Surface Wave, Velocity Contrast, Beneath, Compositional, Constraints, Contiguous, Crust-mantle, Density, Discontinuity, Does, Evolution, Interpreted, Modeling, Observations, Observe, Observed, Paradoxical, Product, Seismically, Sharpness, Shear, Structure, Student, Tectonic, Thickness, Tibet, Tool, Transition, Undergraduate, Velocities, Via.

Investigating the crust and uppermost mantle beneath volcanoes with new seismic analyses
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Geophysics

1. Colleen A Dalton($296,096), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Altiplano-puna Volcanic Complex, Beneath Active Volcanoes, Crust And Uppermost, Storage And Migration, Wave Phase Velocities, Altiplano-puna Volcanic, Ambient Noise, Cascades Arc, Lower Crust, Magma Affect, Radial Anisotropy, Rayleigh Wave, Seismic Waves, Teleseismic Earthquakes, Uppermost Mantle, Atmosphere, Deep, Distribution, Eruptibility, Eruption, Melt, North, Outcome, Sensitive, Settings, South, Speed, Stored, Studying, Surface, VPVS, Yellowstone.

Controls on rift localization in the melt-poor Malawi (Nyasa) Rift from high-resolution seismic imaging of the crust
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Geophysics

1. Donna J Shillington($468,255), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: Malawi And Tanzania, Early-career Scientists, Earthquake Risk, Lake Malawi, Malawi Rift, Northern Arizona, Phd Student, Allow, Analysis, Ancient, Assistant, Collected, Constraints, Continent, Crust, EARS, Early-career, Earthquakes, High-resolution, Images, Joint, Models, Presence, Region, Rifting, Rifts, Seismic, Survey, Training, Undergraduate, Vp, Vs.

Full Waveform Imaging of Hawaii's Magmatic System from the Mantle Source to the Surface
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: Geophysics

1. Ross R Maguire($213,696), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Magma Reservoirs Below, Reservoirs Below Hawaii, Subsurface Magma Reservoirs, Hawaiian Volcanism, Hawaii’s Magmatic, Mauna Loa, Melt Fraction, Phd Student, Seismic Tomography, Source Region, Volcanic Eruptions, Aspects, Chain, Deployments, Depths, Earthquake, Feed, Gain, Geometry, Hawaii’s, Hazards, Imaging, Insight, Knowledge, Kīlauea, Mantle, Picture, Plate, Remain, Storage, Surface, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: A seismic investigation of slow slip and fault locking along the Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Geophysics

1. Eva Golos($201,306), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Bradley P Lipovsky($226,022), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Alaska-aleutian Subduction Zone, Cook Inlet Region, Distributed Acoustic Sensing, Alaska-aleutian Subduction, Pacific Plate, Seismic Hazard, Slow Slip, Subduction Interface, Tectonic Tremor, Water Content, Broadband, Control, DAS, Damaging, Deployed, Does, Earthquakes, Experiment, Gaps, Govern, Happen, Instruments, K-, Mechanisms, North, Outreach, Participation, Plates, Processes, Properties, Regions, Rock, Structure, Traditional.

Collaborative Research: Driving forces at the top of the world: Characterizing the kinematics and dynamics of the eastern Eurasian and western North American Arctic
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Geophysics

1. Julie Elliott($136,771), Michigan State University, East Lansing
2. Lucy Flesch($302,361), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Active Faults, Computer Models, Geodynamic Simulations, Gravity Acting, Observed Surface, Alaska, Arctic, Beneath, Crust, Drag, Earthquakes, Forces, GPS, Mantle, Map, Motions, Mountain, Plate, Rates, Region, Ridge, Velocity.

Hydrated Silica in the Deep Mantle
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Geophysics

1. Jung-Fu Lin($265,048), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Diamond Anvil Cells, Global Water Cycle, Outreach Summer Program, Participating Graduate Student, Student And Undergraduate, Uteach Outreach Summer, Deep Mantle, Development Opportunities, Lower Mantle, Outreach Activities, Plate Tectonics, Post-stishovite Phases, Seismic Studies, Seismic Wave, Velocity Profiles, Water Solubility, Wave Velocities, Affects, Amount, Austin, Build, Compared, Crystals, Datasets, Depth, Earth’s, Geoscience, Laboratory, Measure, Mineral, Planetary, Post-stishovite, Processes, Reliable, Resources, Silica, Stored, Students, Subducted, Subducting, Techniques, Texas, Transition.

Collaborative Research: Thin Film Insights into Phase Transformations and Deep-Focus Earthquakes
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Geophysics

1. Jason D Nicholas($308,705), Michigan State University, East Lansing
2. Jie Li($92,910), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
3. Bin Chen($92,999), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Anhydrous Mg2sio4 Thin, Diamond Anvil Cells, Mg2sio4 Thin Films, Phase Boundary Shifts, Pressure And Temperature, Thin Film Mg2sio4, Anhydrous Mg2sio4, Bridgmanite Periclase, Bulk Mg2sio4, Crystal Structure, Deviatoric Stress, Deviatoric Stresses, Film Mg2sio4, Grain Size, Mg2sio4 Phase, Mg2sio4 Thin, Phase Transformations, Wadsleyite-to-ringwoodite Transformation, Allowing, Carefully, Conditions, Deep-earth, Depth, Discontinuities, Earthquakes, Earth’s, Experiments, Girls, Gpa, High-pressure, Mantle, Mgsio, Michigan, Observed, Occurred, Olivine, Plates, Postulated, Produce, Reductions, Rock, Sinks, Structures, Subducting, Subduction, Surface, Via, Wadsleyite-to-ringwoodite.

How do faults respond to rapid stressing rate changes?: A study of induced earthquakes in geo-reservoirs
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Geophysics

1. Thomas H Goebel($299,809), University of Memphis, Memphis
Key terms: Annual Maintenance Shut-downs, Blue Mountain Geothermal, Mountain Geothermal Reservoir, Earthquake Risks, Earthquake Triggering, Induced Seismicity, Injection Rate, Maintenance Shut-downs, Promote Earthquake, Rapid Injection, Depths, Earthquakes, Energy, Experiences, Faults, Fluid, Happens, Has, Models, Natural, Nevada, Oklahoma, Operational, Operations, Pressure, React, Seismogenic, Specific, Stress, Stresses, Triggered.

Multiphysics and Coupled Micromechanics of Fault Zones
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Geophysics

1. Pejman Tahmasebi($258,297), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: Fault Gouge Zones, Complexities Influence, Mechanical Properties, Micromechanical Model, Realistic Models, Tectonic Forces, Behavior, Build, Complexity, Computational, Critical, Deformation, Disabilities, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Enhance, Factors, Graduate, Images, Information, Interactions, Large-scale, Methods, Modeling, Outreach, Predictive, Process, Regions, Representative, Rock, Seismic, Shape, Students, Time, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Seismological Analysis of Earth's Microseism Record and Ocean Wave Climate
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Geophysics

1. Richard C Aster($227,396), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
2. Frederik J Simons($250,854), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Ocean Wave Activity, Historical Context, Ocean Waves, Seismic Signal, Wave Energy, Wave Hindcast, Activities, Advances, Century, Climate, Coastal, Earth’s, Evolution, Global, Has, Human, Intensification, Long-term, Metrics, Microseism, Modeling, Oceanographic, Primary, Regional, Regions, Source, Students.

NSF-BSF: Laboratory seismograms that provide insight into seismological observables
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Geophysics

1. Emily E Brodsky($399,601), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Earthquake Rupture, High-speed Imaging, Magnitude Predictability, Radiated Energy, Rupture Dynamics, Rupture Velocity, Studying Earthquakes, World Capable, Analysis, BSF, Barriers, Covariance, Derived, Direct, Distributions, Estimations, Fault, High-speed, Information, NSF, Observed, Parameters, Process, Risk, Seismic, Seismograms, Seismology, Size, Targets.

Characterizing seismic radiation from finite earthquake sources and links to fault physics
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Geophysics

1. Valere R Lambert($303,820), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Physics-based Computational Models, Earthquake Scenarios, Earthquake Source, Earthquake Sources, Estimate Shaking, Ground Motions, Hazard Assessment, Observations Suggest, Physics-based Computational, Radiated Energy, Seismic Radiation, Seismic Waves, Strong Ground, Tectonic Settings, Total Amount, Affect, Attributes, Continent, Differences, Earthquakes, Fault, Faults, Observational, Produced, Properties, Resulting, Simulations, Students, Subduction, Systematically, Zone.

RAPID: Post-seismic survey of the April 5, 2024 Mw4.8 New Jersey Earthquake
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2024; Program: Geophysics

1. Folarin Kolawole($24,641), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Aftershocks, Analysis, Earthquake, Fieldwork, Region, Seismic.

Collaborative Research: Evolution of elastic wave properties during the seismic cycle: Experiments on dry and fluid pressurized meter-scale faults
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2024; Program: Geophysics

1. Srisharan Shreedharan($206,021), Utah State University, Logan
2. Gregory C McLaskey($225,816), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Pre And Post-seismic, Seismic Interrogation Techniques, Earthquake Forecasting, Earthquake Precursors, Meter-scale Faults, Natural Fault, Post-seismic Deformation, Realistic Representation, Seismic Hazard, Aims, Centimeter-scale, Complexities, Earthquakes, Experiments, Gap, Mechanisms, Meter-scale, Offering, Pre-, Slip, Students.

Implementation and testing of DFDM, a novel elastic wave propagation solver for global seismology
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2024; Program: Geophysics

1. Barbara A Romanowicz($265,600), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Finite Difference Method, Computational Infrastructure, Global Seismology, Wave Propagation, Accuracy, Accurate, Advantages, Algorithm, Application, Approach, Available, Based, Boundary, CIG, Code, Codes, Compared, Complex, Computationally, DFDM, Deep, Development, Efficient, Energy, Features, Geodynamics, Geometry, Interior, Methods, Model, Modeling, Nature, Optimized, Portal, Potential, Promise, Regions, Requires, Resolution, SEM, Seismic, Spectral, Structure, Wavefield.

Magmatic system structure and seismicity of the Three Sisters volcanic complex
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2024; Program: Geophysics

1. Brandon Schmandt($287,387), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Sisters Volcanic Complex, Basaltic Andesite, Magma Reservoir, Temporary Seismic, Advance, Array, Classified, Compositions, Deformation, Edifice, Eruption, Imaging, Magmatic, Methods, Minimal, Monitoring, Multi-vent, Nodal, Observations, Ongoing, Rhyolite, Structures, Surface, Threat, Tomography, Volcanoes, Wave, Wilderness.

CAREER: Towards a comprehensive model of seismicity throughout the seismic cycle
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2024; Program: Geophysics

1. Camilla Cattania($120,026), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Earthquake Forecasts, Lab Earthquakes, Real Faults, California, Cycle, Damage, Experiments, Foreshocks, Iceland, Interactions, Italy, Laboratory, Model, Models, Produce, Realistic, Seismicity, Stress.

CAREER: Physics-Informed Deep Learning for Understanding Earthquake Slip Complexity
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2024; Program: Geophysics

1. Brittany A Erickson($420,680), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Physics-informed Neural Network, Costa Rica, Fault Slip, Laboratory Fault, Physics-informed Neural, Pinn-based Solutions, Pore Pressure, Apply, Assess, Computational, Computer, Deep, Earthquakes, Experiments, Faults, Instruments, Methods, Model, Pinn-based, Properties, Stress, Students, Subduction, Training, Zone.

Collaborative Research: NSFGEO-NERC: Advancing capabilities to model ultra-low velocity zone properties through full waveform Bayesian inversion and geodynamic modeling
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2024; Program: Geophysics

1. Mingming Li($139,967), Arizona State University, Tempe
2. Surya Pachhai($186,797), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Earth’s Core-mantle Boundary, Scp And Pcp, Ultra-low Velocity Zones, Core-mantle Boundary, Earth’s Core-mantle, Earth’s Interior, Hot Spot, Mantle Flow, Mantle Plumes, Pcp Waveforms, Seismic Velocities, Seismic Waves, South Korea, Ultra-low Velocity, Ulvz Properties, Ulvz Structures, Array, Bayesian, Beneath, CMB, Capabilities, Composition, Database, Dynamics, Features, Formation, Inversion, Japan, Pacific, Provinces, Size, Taiwan, Thin, Ulvz-sensitive, Ulvzs, Utah, Volcanism, Volcanoes.

Understanding Dike Propagation Through Comparison of High-fidelity Coupled Fracture and Fluid Flow Models and Field Observations
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2024; Program: Geophysics

1. Paul Segall($222,929), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Physics-based Eruption Forecasting, Dike Ascent, Physics-based Eruption, Advances, Allow, Computational, Crust, Deformation, Dikes, Ground, Hawaii, Magma, Processes, Surface.

Conference: Workshop to catalyze understanding of mantle magma supply at subduction zones & beyond
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2024; Program: Geophysics

1. Benjamin A Black($67,864), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Mantle Magma Supply, Aims, Development, Efforts, Eruption, Focused, Magmatic, Processes, Quantify, Training, Volcanic, Workshop.

Seismic Tomography Models for Alaska: Validation, Iteration, and Complex Anisotropy
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2024; Program: Geophysics

1. Carl H Tape($228,264), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Seismic Wavefield Simulations, Earth's Interior, Earth's Structure, Earth's Surface, Interior Structure, Seismic Waves, Subsurface Structure, Tomographic Models, Accurate, Alaska, Complexity, Coverage, Earthquakes, Efforts, Enable, Focus, Images, Imaging, Investigate, Methods, Previously, Procedures, Real, Recordings, Seismograms, Simulated, Software, Three-dimensional.

The thermal blanketing effect of supercontinents on the formation of Proterozoic anorthosites
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2024; Program: Geophysics

1. Paul D Asimow($180,496), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Blanketing Effect, Convection Models, Mantle Convection, Plate Tectonic, Proterozoic Era, Supercontinent Cycle, Anorthosites, Computer, Conditions, Continent, Dynamic, Emplacement, Evolution, Formation, Formed, Geodynamic, Global, Link, Magma, Massive, Melting, Nuna, PMA, Pmas, Processes, Reconstruction, Rock, Rodinia, Supercontinents, Surface, Temperatures, Thermal, Was.

Are beaver dam analogs all they're stacked up to be for hydrologic and ecosystem improvement?
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2024; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Amanda T Stahl($466,599), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Beaver Dam Analogs, Restoration Practitioners, Approach, Climate, Common, Design, Ecosystems, Effectiveness, Flows, Hydrologic, Hydrological, Intended, Model, River, Simulations, Water.

Hydrologic process inference in large-scale models under human impacts
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Stefano Galelli($700,000), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Scientists And Engineers, Dam Operations, Human Actions, Hydrologic Models, River Basins, Structural Uncertainty, Water Cycle, Approach, Dams, Dataset, Describing, Domains, Framework, Hydrology, Large-scale, Modeling, Outcomes, Processes, Representation, Source, Streamflow.

Impact of Permeability Heterogeneity on Solute Dispersion in Unsaturated Porous Media
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Cheng Chen($427,296), Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken
Key terms: Conventional Experimental Methods, Pore-scale Numerical Simulation, Unsaturated Porous Media, 3d Printing, Challenges Encountered, Complex Permeability, Knowledge Gap, Permeability Field, Pore-scale Numerical, Solute Dispersion, Unsaturated Flows, Co-flow, Dispersivity, Fluid, Model, Natural, Objective, Transport, Water, Well-controlled.

CAREER: Dynamic connectivity: a research and educational frontier for sustainable environmental management under climate and land use uncertainty
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Admin Husic($371,679), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Communication Skills, Dynamic Connectivity, High-frequency Aquatic, Water Quality, Anthropogenic, Confidence, Deep, Education, High-frequency, Humans, Hydrologic, Landscape, Landscapes, Lead, Manage, Management, Potential, Rivers, Settings, Training.

Physics-informed and data-driven machine-learning approaches for characterizing solute transport and risk analysis in heterogeneous aquifers
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Felipe de Barros($224,505), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Approach Makes, Computational Framework, Geologic Formation, Groundwater Resources, Activities, Aims, Algorithms, Contaminant, Educational, Enhance, Environment, Field, Heterogeneous, Insights, Models, Plume, Risks, Solute, Spreading, Structure, Students, Subsurface, Undergraduate.

CAREER: Field-scale quantification of dynamic physical properties in shrink-swell soils for improved hydrological prediction
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Briana Wyatt($205,186), Texas A&M AgriLife Research, College Station
Key terms: Soil Water Content-bulk, Water Content-bulk Density, Content-bulk Density, Shrink-swell Soils, Water Content-bulk, Ability, Allow, Crack, Cracks, Dynamic, Estimates, Existing, Field, Field-scale, Formation, Infiltration, K-, Model, Models, Multiple, Objectives, Parameters, Physically-based, Predict, Properties, Quantify, Representation, Runoff, Shrink-swell, Sites, Size, Surface, Theoretical.

Disentangling wildfire effects on the water cycle across wet mountain watersheds with varying subsurface storage
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Mark S Raleigh($829,191), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Wildfires Affect Water, Burn Severity, Pacific Northwest, Burning, Fires, Forest, Forests, Ground, Quality, Snow, Soil, Streamflow, Students, Varying, Vegetation, Watersheds.

A data-driven approach to uncover the response of evaporation and transpiration to changes in hydrometeorology across the United States
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Paul C Stoy($398,525), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Eddy Covariance, Ei Respond, Tribal Colleagues, Water Flux, Atmosphere, Canopies, Changing, Continue, Es, Evaporation, Forest, Hour, Hydrometeorology, Machine, Models, Plant, Plants, Precipitation, Rain, Resolution, Satellite, Soil, Techniques, Training, Transpiration, Wet.

CAREER: Electrical Signals in Soils across Terrestrial and Aquatic Interfaces
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2024; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Kennedy O Doro($294,375), University of Toledo, Toledo
Key terms: Coastal Interfaces, Extreme Hydrological, Organic Matter, Redox Potential, Soil Moisture, Affect, Approach, Assess, Capturing, Climate, Contents, Direct, Ecology, Electric, Electrical, Environmental, Geophysical, Geophysics, Laboratory, Methods, Natural, Processes, Soils, Spatial, Storage, Students.

Conference: 2024 Flow and Transport in Permeable Media Gordon Research Conferences and Gordon Research Seminar
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2024; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Marc A Hesse($30,135), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Grc And Grs, Energy Transition, Porous Media, Societal Challenges, Academia, Attendance, Bring, Climate, Conference, Dedicated, Experts, Gordon, Natural, Session, Sessions, Solutions, Students, Surface.

CAREER: Nitrogen exchange and removal in riparian wetlands - the role of vegetation
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2024; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Amy T Hansen($296,300), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Net Nitrogen Removal, Nitrogen Removal Rates, Riparian Wetland Vegetation, Water Quality Stewardship, Field Experiments, Flooded Conditions, Nitrogen Loading, Riparian Wetlands, Vegetation Structure, Activities, Biologically, Canopy, Local, Outreach, Reach, Rivers, Streamflow, Student, Via.

Collaborative Research: Exploring the Influence of Agricultural Tile Drainage on Streamflow and Water Temperature in the Midwestern US using a Stakeholder-driven Approach
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2023; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Damon M Hall($274,269), Northeastern University, Boston
Key terms: Quantile Regression Models, Streamflows And Water, Entire Agricultural, Tile Drainage, Upper Midwest, Water Quality, Water Temperature, Water Temperatures, Effects, Has, Hydrology, Insight, Local, Modeling, Stakeholders.

Equipment: Acquisition of the IRIS instruments FullWaver device for monitoring active landslides in Oklahoma
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2024; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Sina Saneiyan($31,594), SUNY at Binghamton, Binghamton
Key terms: Electrical Current Transmitter, Contaminant Transport, Electrical Geophysical, Geohazard Mitigation, Acquisition, Device, Devices, Expand, Fullwaver, Geosciences, Instrument, Monitoring, OU, Oklahoma, Receiver, Receivers, Require, Resistivity, School, Sensors, Separate, Students, Subsurface, Tool.

TS: The University of Texas at Arlington Luminescence Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Nathan D Brown($150,072), University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington
Key terms: Luminescence Dating Laboratory, Undergraduate And Graduate, Erosion Rates, External Visitors, Graduate Students, Luminescence Thermochronology, Ages, Analysis, Broader, Geochronology, Host, Hosts, Maintain, Rock, Software, Technician, UTALL, Unique.

Equipment: MRI Track 1 Acquisition of an X-ray Microdiffraction System to Identify Crystalline Materials for Education, Research, and Museum Conservation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Kate Kiseeva($346,257), American Museum Natural History, New York
Key terms: Natural History, AMNH, Characterization, Collections, Instrument, Microdiffraction, Minerals, Museum, Rock, Xrmd.

Equipment: MRI Track #1: Acquisition of a state-of-the-art 193nm laser ablation and time-of-flight mass spectrometer system for imaging and abundance measurements.
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Margaret L Odlum($796,573), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Human Health, Laser Ablation, Biological, Chemical, Corals, Enable, Instrumentation, Mapping, Planetary, Processes.

Collaborative Research: Center: CFS (Track III) Support for Operation of the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM)
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Juan C Fernandez Diaz($530,486), University of Houston, Houston
2. William E Dietrich($171,887), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Airborne Laser, Earth’s Surface, Graduate Students, Acquire, Activities, Applications, Creation, Digital, Earth’s, Facility, High-resolution, Immediately, MSI, NCALM, Natural, Pilot, Program, Request, Research-quality, Seed, Surveys, Topography, Vegetation.

MRI Track 1: Acquisition of a Multi-Collector Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer at the University of Utah
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Juan Carlos de Obeso($975,000), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Earth’s Past, Free Oxygen, Isotope Ratio, Isotopes Contained, Mass Spectrometer, Non-traditional Isotope, Abundances, Applications, Benefit, Decay, Department, Early-career, Earth’s, Education, Faculty, Generation, History, Instrument, Instrumentation, Interactions, MC-ICP-MS, Non-traditional, Pieces, Planet, Processes, Rock, Track, Utah.

Equipment: MRI: Track 1 Acquisition of a MetalJet X-ray Microdiffraction System
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Michael J Walter($1,046,084), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Liquid-metal Anode, X-ray Beams, Access, Allow, Chemical, Diamond, Discovery, Diverse, Enable, Extreme, Found, High-pressure, Instrument, Laboratory, Liquid-metal, Local, Planetary, Pressure, Progress, Range, Structures, Technologically, User, X-ray.

CFS (Track III): Partial Support of the International Seismological Centre
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Michael Kendall($652,457), University of Oxford, Oxford
Key terms: Earthquake Source Physics, International Seismological Centre, Nuclear Explosion Monitoring, Realistic Seismic Hazard, Seismic Hazard Analysis, Available On-line, Earthquake Disasters, Earthquake Forecasting, Focal Mechanisms, Isc Bulletin, Isc Operations, Isc Products, Otherwise Unavailable, Planning Reliant, Seismic Tomography, Virtually Indispensable, Account, Aims, Assist, Based, Catalog, Center, Centers, Comprehensive, Continue, Countries, Depths, Earthquakes, Education, Etc, Geophysics, Global, Host, Hypocenters, Information, Long-term, Maintain, Mission, Mitigation, NEIC, NSF, National, Nearly, Networks, On-line, Opportunities, Oxford, Parametric, Phase, Reported, Seismotectonics, Serve, Sources, Stations, Status, Summary, Supervision, Times, Tools, Unique, Waveform, Waveforms, Worldwide.

CFS (Track III): Community Facility Support for U-Th-Pb Geochronology and Complementary Geochemistry at the Arizona LaserChron Center
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. George E Gehrels($373,965), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: ALC, Expertise, Facility, Generate, Publications, Students, Users.

EA: Acquisition of a Fourier Transform Infrared Imaging Microscope
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Steven Murawski($260,334), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Ftir Imaging, Imaging Microscope, Annual, Chemical, Enable, Glasses, Instrument, Microscopes, Sources, Students, Volatiles, Water, Wide.

EA: Acquisition of a Triple Quadrupole ICP-MS at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Syracuse University
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Tao Wen($209,493), Syracuse University, Syracuse
Key terms: Carbonate, ICP-MS, Instrument, Iodine, Levels, Opportunities, Outreach, Students, Syracuse, Undergraduate.

ITD: Development of a laser (TILDAS) system for simultaneous and rapid measurement of clumped and triple-oxygen isotopes in carbonates
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Zhennan Wang($473,006), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Mass Spectrometry, Rare Varieties, Instrument, Laser, Lasers, Δo.

EA: Upgrade of a Mass Spectrometric System for Noble Gases
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2024; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. D. Kip Solomon($472,062), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Age Dating Groundwater, Noble Gas Laboratory, Groundwater Flow, Mass Spectrometer, Water Resources, Characterization, Environmental, Exposure, Hydrologic, Previously, Storage, Sustainability, Thermometry.

EA: Acquisition of a Micro X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometer for Research and Education in Earth and Environmental Studies at the University of Memphis
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2024; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Rachel Lombardi($431,158), University of Memphis, Memphis
Key terms: Μ-xrf Instrument, Aquifer, Chemical, Memphis, Opportunities, Processes, River, Rock, Sediment, Sedimentology, Soil, Spatial, Students, Μ-xrf.

CFS (Track III): The WiscSIMS National Ion Microprobe
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2024; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. John W Valley($445,683), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Precise And Accurate, Drive Innovative, Isotope Analysis, National Facility, Wiscsims Lab, Advance, Continue, Geoscience, Has, Isotopes, NSF, SIMS, Situ, Staff, Trainees.

EA: Acquisition of analytical equipment for environmental biogeochemistry and mineralogy
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2024; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Sean P McClory($143,652), La Salle University, Philadelphia
Key terms: Arsenic And Chromium, Environmental Contaminants, Philadelphia Region, X-ray Spectroscopy, Access, Acquisition, Barite, Contaminated, Cycling, Education, Equipment, Fungi, Instrumentation, Lead, Map, Metals, Mineral, Minerals, Produced, Simulated, Soils, Toxic, Undergraduate, Wastewaters, X-ray.

EA: Upgrade of the UCSC TIMS with the ATONA amplifier technology
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2024; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Terrence Blackburn($132,100), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Ionization Mass Spectrometer, Thermal Ionization Mass, Multi-user Facility, Ages, Amplifier, Classroom, Climate, Collection, Computer, Geochronologic, HV, Has, Incorporated, Installed, Instrument, Isotopic, Isotopx, Multi-user, Ocean, Pb, Primary, Produce, Sr, TIMS, Tool, Training, UCSC, Upgrade.

Conference: CFS (Track 1): RadioSolutions: Making Radiocarbon Broadly Available for Natural Climate Solutions
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2024; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Peter Raymond($29,999), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Climate Solutions, Training Modules, Carbon, Ecosystems, MICADAS, NCS, Recently.

EA/Ed: Acquisition of a carbon dioxide and methane Cavity Ringdown Spectrometer for education and research
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2024; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Xenia Wirth($122,152), CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation, Fullerton
Key terms: Carbon Cycle, Atmosphere, Chemical, Converted, Earth’s, Educational, Formation, Geochemical, Greenhouse, Phases, Promote, School, Students.

EA: Upgrading the Geophysics Computing Facility at Arizona State University
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2024; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Edward J Garnero($52,817), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Aging And Failing, Growing Global Seismic, Handle Mass Storage, Replace And Update, Seismological Graduate Students, User Account Homes, Backup Server, Critical Failure, Failing Servers, Firewall Server, Main Server, Planetary Interiors, Software Packages, Space Exploration, Storage Capacity, ASU, Access, Activities, Allow, Asus, Automatically, Centralized, Computational, Computer, Continue, Current, Decade, Excitement, Faculty, GCF, Job, Levels, Mentoring, Nsf-funded, Postdoctoral, Process, Products, Public, Resulting, School, Set, Signs, Staff, Undergraduate.

EA: Acquisition of an X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometer for Research, Undergraduate Education, and STEM Outreach
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2024; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Katie O'Sullivan($237,772), CSUB Auxiliary for Sponsored Programs Administration, Bakersfield
Key terms: CSUB, Capabilities, Dispersive, Engineering, Instrument, Student, WD-XRF, XRF.

EA: Peripheral Replacements for the Northwestern University Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2024; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Magdalena R Osburn($240,528), Northwestern University, Evanston
Key terms: Isotope Biogeochemistry Laboratory, Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry, Elemental Analyzer, Gas Chromatograph, Acquisition, Carbon, Cycling, Instruments, Isotopes, Microbial, NU-SIBL, Northwestern, Organic, Replacement, School, Students.

CAREER: Determining the mechanism and significance of microplastic pollution impacts on soil hydrology
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2024; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Farhad Jazaei($258,210), University of Memphis, Memphis
Key terms: Micro-computed Tomography Techniques, Agricultural Farms, Micro-computed Tomography, Microplastic Pollution, Soil-water-plant Interactions, Advanced, Decades, Development, Environmental, Extent, Five, Graduate, Introducing, Mechanism, Microplastics, Microplastics’, Objective-, Objectives, Outcomes, Plastic, Policymakers, Program, Size, Soil-water-plant, Students, Undergraduate, Underrepresented, Variance, Various.

EA: Upgrade of the Laser Heating System in the High-Pressure Diamond-Anvil Cell Laboratory at Arizona State University
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2024; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Sang-Heon Shim($63,872), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Diamond-anvil Cell Experiments, Earth's Deep Interior, 's Lab, Chemical Evolution, Diamond-anvil Cell, Earth's Deep, High-resolution Imaging, ASU, Advanced, Advancing, Commitment, Contributing, Current, Diversity, Enabling, Expand, Fields, Heating, High-resolution, Inclusive, Laser, Laser-heating, Opportunities, Positioning, Processes, Pulsed, STEM, Students, Title, Undergraduate, Upgrade.

CAREER: Unraveling the Role of Bivalent Metals on Fungal Manganese Oxide Biomineralization Mechanisms
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2025; Program: LET-Life & Enviro Through Time

1. Tingying Xu($97,082), Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
Key terms: Affect Fungal Biomineralization, Common Bivalent Metals, Mn Oxide Biomineralization, Mn Oxide Formation, Oxide Biomineralization Process, Bioremediation Strategies, Metal Cycling, Activities, Biominerals, Concentrations, Development, Environments, Fungi-mediated, Geoscience, Interdisciplinary, Levels, Mechanisms, Natural, Oxides, Processes.

Collaborative Research: Rapid: Transformation and mobilization of redox-sensitive metal(loid)s due to the Park Fire
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2025; Program: LET-Life & Enviro Through Time

1. Mohammed Baalousha($10,430), University of South Carolina at Columbia, Columbia
2. Sandrine J Matiasek($32,621), Chico State Enterprises, Chico
3. Jasquelin Pena($9,655), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Ash And Soil, Chico Creek Watershed, Collect And Archive, Fourth Largest Fire, Park Fire Perimeter, Redox Sensitive Metal, Surface Waters Receiving, Waters Receiving Runoff, Archive Perishable, California History, Fire Ash, Human Health, Organic Matter, Overall Aim, Soil Collected, Surface Water, Acres, Alteration, Burned, Carbon, Compare, Concentration, Contamination, Environmental, Future, Land, Levels, Metalloid, Metalloids, Obtained, Public, Soils, Speciation, Transformations, Vegetation.

Conference: COMPLEX SYSTEMS OF SMALL GEOPARTICLES conference will be held from December 14-15, 2024, in Kigali, Rwanda
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2024; Program: LET-Life & Enviro Through Time

1. Nicholas A Kotov($49,950), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Granular Flows, Particle Interactions, Stress Transfer, Agricultural, Challenges, Collaborations, Complex, Contribute, Discussions, Environmental, Experts, Knowledge, Metastructures, Nanoscale, Particles, Soil, Soils, Theoretical, Workshop.

Equipment: MRI: Track 1 Acquisition of a FE-SEM and associated detectors at Colgate University
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. William H Peck($439,805), Colgate University, Hamilton
Key terms: Students And Faculty, Undergraduate Students, Wide Range, Colgate, Detectors, Electron, Enable, Environment, FE-SEM, Opportunities, Outreach, Region, Serve, Sites, Tectonic, Training.

MRI Track 1: Acquisition of a Picarro Water Isotope Analyzer for Interdisciplinary Research at GVSU
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Ryan R Otter($241,000), Grand Valley State University, Allendale
Key terms: Isotopic Water Analyzer, Grand Valley, Surface Waters, Advance, Brings, Climate, Coastal, Contamination, Ecosystem, Freshwater, GVSU, Hands-on, Hydrogen, Investigations, Isotope, Isotopes, Oxygen-, Precipitation, Students, Track, Undergraduate, Wetlands.

Linking Offshore Seismic Tomography and Surface Volcanology to Study Subduction Termination and Controversial Lithospheric Fragments in the Central California Continental Margin
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2024; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Joshua Schwartz($397,841), The University Corporation, Northridge, Northridge
Key terms: Central California, Coastal California, Continental Margin, Marine Seismic, Slab Fragmentation, Subduction Termination, Tectonic Plates, Volcanic Rocks, Anomaly, Beneath, Boundary, CSUN, Configuration, Convergent, Differentiate, Faults, Feature, Geochemical, Geological, Geophysical, Geophysics, Magmatic, Margins, Melting, Oceanic, Offshore, Process, Programs, Structure, Students, Subducting, Surface, Underrepresented, Volcanism.

CAREER: Evolution of the Oceanic Plate & Upper Mantle with Deep Probabilistic Seismic Imaging
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2024; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Tolulope M Olugboji($163,613), University of Rochester, Rochester
Key terms: Sparse And Noisy, Artificially Intelligent, Geophysics Program, Intelligent Algorithms, Project-based Courses, Beneath, Deep, Division, Ensemble, Generated, Image, Images, Imaging, Interior, Machine, Model, Modeling, Models, Ocean, Probabilistic, Process, Processes, Project-based, Reconstruction, Rock, Seafloor, Seismic, Signals, Speed, Step, Subsurface, Trained, Volcanism, Wave, Waves.

Collaborative Research: Geophysical and geochemical investigation of links between the deep and shallow volatile cycles of the Earth
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2024; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Katherine A Kelley($284,600), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
2. Nicholas Harmon($321,770), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Earth’s Deep, Geophysics Program, Global Seismic, Lower Mantle, Mid-ocean Ridges, Plate Tectonics, Transition Zone, Water Content, Water Contents, Analyses, Atmosphere, Available, Climate, Comparisons, Convection, Cycle, Determining, Division, Earthquakes, Earth’s, Formation, Geochemical, Has, Hydration, Interior, MORB, MTZ, Mass, Mid-ocean, Pathways, Plates, Preliminary, Relatively, Represent, Rock, Store, Students, Suggest, Tool, Typically, Upper, Upwellings, Via, Volatile, Volatiles.

Pliocene-Pleistocene hydroclimate in northern South America as an analogue for future rainfall regimes in the 21st century
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2025; Program: P4CLIMATE

1. Lina C Pérez-Angel($349,971), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Bogotá Basin, Climate Literacy, Hydrological Cycle, Mechanisms Governing, Northern South, Rainfall Regimes, Tropical Rainfall, Aims, Boundary, Composition, Core, English, Epoch, Funza-ii, Future, Generate, Governed, Hydroclimate, Information, Ma, Pliocene, Regional, Resources, Sustained, Temperature, Water.

Lag-time thermochronology as a possible proxy for changes in erosion rates over the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, Tremp-Graus Basin, Spain
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2024; Program: P4CLIMATE

1. Gilby Jepson($219,167), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Weathering And Erosion, Carbon Dioxide, Climate-enhanced Erosion, Earth’s Climate, Global Warming, Lag-time Thermochronology, Prominent Period, Thermal Maximum, Archive, Atmosphere, Climate-enhanced, Dating, Duration, Earth-system, Earth’s, Estimates, Magnitude, Minerals, PETM, Periods, Proxy, Quantify, Rapidly, Remove, Resolve, Rock, Spain, U-pb.

Collaborative Research: Resolving past fire-climate relationships to understand future fire potential in the eastern United States
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: P4CLIMATE

1. Nicholas L Balascio($201,625), Bates College, Lewiston
2. Ambarish Karmalkar($270,278), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
3. Richard S Vachula($556,655), Auburn University, Auburn
Key terms: Regional Fire-climate Relationships, Resolve Regional Fire-climate, Climate Adaptation, Define Controls, Fire Potential, Fire-climate Relationships, Future Fire, Regional Fire-climate, Analysis, Anthropogenic, Eastern, Holocene, Inform, Paleoclimate, Seasons.

Collaborative Research: Developing a 500 kyr speleothem growth history near the southern Laurentide Ice Sheet margin in New York State
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: P4CLIMATE

1. Jeremy Shakun($162,339), Boston College, Chestnut Hill
2. William D McGee($129,726), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Ice Ages, Ice Sheet, Ice Sheets, Ice Sheet’s, Speleothem Growth, York City, Cave, Caving, Chronology, Climate, Findings, Glacial, LGM, LIS, Margin, Measured, Near, North, Past, Sea, Size, Speleothems.

Holocene Precipitation and Snowpack Reconstruction of the South-Central Sierra Nevada from Integrated Shoreline, Glacial, and Watershed-Lake Hydrologic Modeling
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: P4CLIMATE

1. Kathleen Rodrigues($425,988), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Precipitation And Snowpack, Searles Lakes, China, Climate, Component, Developed, Droughts, Estimates, Extreme, Forcing, Holocene, Hydrologic, Involves, Long-term, Losses, Model, Owens, Paleoclimate, Past, Previously, Runoff, Temperature, Water, Water-level, Watershed-lake.

Conference: Eclogites in space and time - bridging the micro to planetary scales
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2025; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Chris Mattinson($45,000), Central Washington University, Ellensburg
Key terms: Outstanding Us-based Early-career, Scientists And Students, Space And Time, Time — Bridging, Us-based Early-career Scientists, Early-career Scientists, Outstanding Us-based, Penrose Conference, Us-based Early-career, Attend, Disciplines, Generation, International, Leaders, Micro, Multiple, Planetary, Processes, “eclogites.

Collaborative Research: Comparing the Geochemical and Temporal Links Between Volcanism and Plutonism at the Scale of a Single Arc Magmatic System
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2025; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Barbara C Ratschbacher($317,264), University of California-Davis, Davis
2. Ayla Pamukcu($182,791), Stanford University, Stanford
3. Michael P Eddy($335,953), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Surrounding Volcanic Rocks, Earth's Surface, Erupted Magmas, Igneous Rocks, Intrusive Activity, Subduction Volcanoes, Subduction Zone, Volcanic Eruptions, Allow, Ancient, Beneath, Composition, Detailed, Emplacement, Existing, Geochemical, Geochronology, Magmatic, Pluton, Produce, Range, Rate, Style, Time, Videos, Washington.

The Chronicles of Okmok Volcano: Integrating Diffusion Timescales with Monitoring Data to Reveal the Pre-Eruptive Processes Behind a Wide Range of Eruption Styles
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2025; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Anita L Moore-Nall($374,308), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: 4-5 Hours Preceding, Frequently Active Volcanic, Hours Preceding Eruption, Missed Geophysical Signals, Preceding Eruption Onset, Sizes And Volumes, Eruption Sizes, Multi-phase Crystal, Okmok Volcano, Volcanic Eruptions, Volcano Explosivity, AVO, Alaska, Allow, Ascent, Datasets, Erupted, Focus, Future, Individual, Lack, Magmatic, Modern, Monitoring, Petrologic, Processes, Produces, Range, Seismicity, Short, Strong, Styles, Techniques, Tends, Timescales, Unrest.

CAREER: Investigating the source, transport and deposition of economically important metals in the lower continental crust
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2024; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Marek Locmelis($257,390), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Nickel And Copper, Steady Metal Supply, Undergraduate And Graduate, Graduate Students, Ivrea-verbano Zone, Lower Continental, Magmatic Sulfide, Ore Deposits, Outreach Program, Strongly Metasomatized, Actively, Component, Crust, Deep, Exploration, Formation, Formed, Future, Geoscience, Guarantee, Integrated, Involved, Ivrea-verbano, K-, Lithosphere, Lithospheric, Mantle, Metals, Metasomatism, Mineral, Mineralized, Paths, Prepare, Processes, Surface, Transport.

The Origin of a Cascade Arc Volcano as Told by Crystal Cargo
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2024; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Kellie T Wall($495,196), Central Washington University, Ellensburg
Key terms: Early-career Female Scientists, Goat Rocks Volcanic, Kulshan Summer Institute, Nick Zentner’s Washington, Rocks Volcanic Complex, Via Nick Zentner’s, Youtube Via Nick, Zentner’s Washington Geology, Arc Crust, Arc Volcano, Early-career Female, Magma Storage, Nick Zentner’s, Receive Tens, Volcanic Eruptions, Zentner’s Washington, Active, Activities, Available, Compare, Does, Future, Happen, Hazards, Influence, Magmatic, Mentored, Processes, Stages, Step, Students, Style, Thousands, Viewing, Views, Volcanism, Volcanoes.

The final hurdle in major element diffusion chronometry in olivine: addressing the accuracy problem one proton at a time
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Yves Moussallam($349,699), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Fe And Mg, Olivine Diffusion Chronometry, Volcanic Eruptions, Water Affects, Water Content, Accuracy, Conditions, Determined, Determining, Diffusivity, Fe-mg, Field, Function, Geological, Geology, Hazards, Leading, Magmatic, Magnesium, Mineral, Movement, Natural, Pressure, Processes, Timing.

GLOW: Following the Phosphorus: Constraining the Location of Habitable Worlds through an Astronomical and Petrological Lens
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Chenguang Sun($694,863), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Galaxy And Beyond, Broader Impacts, Bulk Phosphorus, Habitable Worlds, Abundances, Aims, Astronomical, Astronomy, Combine, Constrain, Cosmic, Exist, Framework, Has, Interdisciplinary, Life, Pathway, Planet, Planetary, Required, Search, Specifically, Stars, Surface, Universe.

Emplacement and welding of large-volume, widespread ignimbrite: Peach Spring Tuff in Arizona
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Stephan Kolzenburg($578,106), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Ash Particles, Buffalo Museum, Historically Underrepresented, Outreach Activities, Pyroclastic Flows, Undergraduate Student, Akin, Applied, Computational, Cooling, Cooling-related, Deposit, Deposits, Distances, Eruption, Experimental, Field, Has, Hazards, History, Hot, Ignimbrite, Ignimbrites, Large-volume, Leave, Miles, PST, Phd, Pressure, Processes, Produce, Properties, Pumice, Quantitative, Rate, Referred, Resources, Rock, Super-eruptions, Temperature, Textures, Thermal, Volcanic, Welding.

Collaborative Research: A multidisciplinary reexamination of the precursory activity for an archetype M7 eruption, Mount Mazama, Oregon
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Adam Kent($276,237), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Katharine V Cashman($494,982), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Assessment Exercise Simulating, Formed Crater Lake, Hazard Assessment Exercise, Rivers And Human, Engage Students, Eruptive Sequences, Human Occupants, Pacific Northwest, Phd Students, Precursor Eruptions, Activity, Analysis, Approach, Buildup, Centuries, Climactic, Decades, Deposits, Examine, Explosive, Fields, Larger, Local, Long-term, Magmatic, Mazama, Oregon, Preceded, Processes, Products, Running, Space, Track, Typically, Vegetation, Volcanic, Warning.

Tackling Multiphase Lava Rheology at its Origins
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Stephan Kolzenburg($490,303), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Active Lava Flows, Civil Protection Efforts, Field And Lab, Flow Forecasting Efforts, Lava Flow Paths, Lava Flow Properties, Flow Forecasting, Laboratory Experiments, Lava Rheology, Natural Lavas, Volcano Observatories, Accurate, Advance, Bubble-free, Bubbles, Challenge, Combined, Conditions, Crystals, Dataset, Decades, Decision, Devices, Effect, Effusive, Emplacement, Enable, Eruption, Facilities, France, Future, Generate, Guide, Has, Iceland, In-situ, Incomplete, Italy, Knowledge, Lava’s, Limitations, Limiting, Management, Measured, Melt, Multiphase, Pipeline, Position, Potential, Rates, Suspensions, Three-phase, Time, Two-phase, Unique, Viscosity.

Tracking the fate of subducted carbonate platforms in the sub-arc mantle using field observations and laboratory experiments: implications for deep carbon cycling
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Mihai N Ducea($567,283), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Gem And Mineral, Media And Local, Carbon Returned, Carbonate Masses, Carbonate Platforms, Carpathian Region, Earth's Surface, Earth’s Surface, Geochemical Fingerprints, Impure Marbles, Local Organizations, Mineral Society, Mini Documentary, Partial Melting, Pressure-temperature Experiments, Regional Geology, Social Media, Subducted Marbles, Subduction Margins, Tethyan Ocean, Tucson Gem, Assess, Behavior, Budgets, Compositions, Conditions, Constraints, Cover, Crust, Earth’s, Evolution, Fate, Geologic, Geological, Has, History, Interior, Larger, Lithosphere, Lithospheric, Magmatism, Mantle, Pressure-temperature, Previous, Products, Rock, Scenario, Schools, Sections, Sedimentary, Sub-arc, Tectonic, Time, Usefulness, Volcanic, Volcanics, Volcanoes, Youtube.

EAGER: Vibrational Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy - A New Nanometer Probe for Planetary Materials and Volatiles
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Sang-Heon Shim($144,928), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Energy Loss Spectroscopy, Vibrational Electron Energy, Earth's Interior, Electron Diffraction, Nion Ultra-stem, Open-source Software, Spatial Resolution, Aims, Amount, Analyses, Analytical, Arizona, Deep, Developing, Hold, Hydrogen, Hydrogen’s, Measure, Melts, Methods, Minerals, Nanometer, Oceans, Open-source, Quantify, Share, Structural, Structure, Techniques, Ultra-stem, Vibeels, Water, Workshop.

RUI: Using in situ zircon geochronology and geochemistry to test models for arc magma evolution and emplacement, Tuolumne Intrusive Suite, Sierra Nevada, California
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Scott Johnston($174,786), California Polytechnic State University Foundation, San Luis Obispo
Key terms: Geochronologic And Geochemical, Late Tis Units, Yosemite National Park, Chemically Modified, Granitic Bodies, Granitic Rocks, Inherited Zircon, Interpretive Rangers, Lower Crust, Park Visitors, Tis Formed, Tis Magma, Tis Magmas, Tuolumne Intrusive, Upper Crust, Zircon Geochemistry, Analyses, Batches, Body, Characterize, Communicate, Constraints, Crystals, Does, Emplacement, Extracted, Field, Has, Individual, Model, Models, Shared, Undergraduate, Volume.

Collaborative Research: The Proterozoic ophiolite record of ancient seafloor hydrothermal alteration and marine chemistry
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2024; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Daniel A Stolper($132,545), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. Claire E Bucholz($328,588), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Ocean And Atmosphere, Earth’s History, Isotopic Composition, Ocean Floor, Oceanic Crust, Proterozoic Ophiolites, Ages, Alteration, Altered, Archive, Available, Chemical, Chemistry, Earth’s, Environment, Future, Interactions, Investigate, Levels, Marine, Oxygen, Past, Pieces, Processes, Reconstruct, Rock, Seawater, Via.

Lawsonite and epidote as novel sensors of redox and intraslab mass transfer
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2024; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Donna L Whitney($382,137), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Composition And Fe, Lawsonite And Epidote, Subducted Oceanic Crust, Fe Oxidation, Fluid Sources, Oxygen Isotope, Pressure-temperature Conditions, Tectonic Plates, Affect, Chemical, Commonly, Continent, Controls, Fluids, Hydrous, Iron, Mantle, Mineral, Minerals, Planets, Pressure-temperature, Reactions, Rock, Serpentinite, Subduction, Trace, Water.

Collaborative Research: Bubble Trouble - Re-evaluating olivine melt inclusion barometry and trace-element geochemistry in the Cascades
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2024; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Stephen J Turner($292,742), University of Houston, Houston
2. Penelope E Wieser($293,231), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Magma Storage Depths, Invisible Disabilities, Mafic Magmas, Melt Inclusion, Melt Inclusions, Olivine-hosted Melt, Undergraduate Students, Vapor Bubble, Vapor Bubbles, Virtual Forum, Volatile Contents, Analyses, Arc, Assess, Carbonate, Cascade, Cascades, Chemical, Conferences, Constrain, Continent, Crust, Development, Eruption, Insights, Mantle, Mentoring, N=, Olivine-hosted, Pis, Processes, Regions, Share, Software, Stored, Structure, Volcanic, Whole-rock.

Does deformation lead to misinformation? How much can granitic rocks deform before accessory minerals are geochemically disturbed?
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2024; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Johannes Haemmerli($468,724), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Deformation And Metamorphism, Deformed Granitic Rocks, Earliest Stable Crust, Accessory Minerals, Accessory Phases, Ancient Rocks, Deformed Rocks, Geochemical Signatures, Highly Deformed, Isotope Signatures, Original Geochemical, Rocks Faithfully, Rocks Retain, Variably Deformed, Andor, Composition, Degree, Does, Earth’s, Evolved, Experienced, Extent, Field, Following, Formation, Hence, Isotopic, Lab, Primary, Processes, Protolith, Protolithic, Protoliths, Reconstruct, Reflect, Sequences, Spanning, Strain, Structural, Students, Sub-mineral-scale, Tested, Undeformed.

Geochronology, Petrology, and Geochemistry of the Jurassic White Mountain Batholith, New Hampshire
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2024; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Jill A VanTongeren($300,340), Tufts University, Somerville
Key terms: White Mountain Batholith, Igneous Rocks, Undergraduate Students, White Mountains, Ages, Atlantic, Capstone, Central, Communicate, Composed, Compositions, Dedicated, Eastern, Emplacement, Exhibition, Focus, Geologic, Granites, Hampshire, Ma, Magmatism, Museum, Obtain, Phase, Plymouth, Portions, Public, Region, Summer-long, Timing, Tufts, Unit, Various, WMB, WMMS, Western.

Collaborative Research: Reconstructing the geometry of magmatic plumbing systems using fluid inclusions
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2023; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Hector M Lamadrid($169,950), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Magma Storage Depths, Precise And Accurate, Strengths And Weaknesses, Canary Islands, Fluid Inclusions, Fluids Trapped, Kīlauea Volcano, Raman Spectroscopy, Barometry, Calibration, Co-rich, Collaboration, Constraints, Crust, Crystals, Densities, Density, Determined, Distribute, Eruption, Evolution, Explosive, HVO, Hawai’i, Hazard, Investigating, Laboratories, Methods, Monitoring, Obtained, Pressures, Simulation, Societal, Stored, Synthetic, Uncertainty, Volcanic.

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

1. Nicholas Pollock($307,968), Westminster College of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Volcanic Fields, Compositions, Eruption, Has, Magma, Magmas, Petrochronology, Processes, Super-eruptions, Utah.

Postdoctoral Fellowship: EAR-PF: Quantifying the hydrobiogeochemical controls on anaerobic oxidation of methane and methane emissions in wetland hyporheic zones
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2025; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Samuel Shaheen($180,000), Shaheen, Samuel, University Park
Key terms: Wetland Methane Dynamics, Hydrologic Conditions, Methane Emissions, Methane Produced, Sulfur Cycling, Water Flow, AOM, Anoxic, Atmosphere, Field, Fluxes, Future, Has, Hydrology, Hyporheic, Investigate, Modeling, Predict, Processes, Redox, Significance, Sulfate, Temperature, Wetlands, Widely.

Postdoctoral Fellowship: EAR-PF: Influx and transport of mantle derived magma in the Hawaii volcanic system
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2025; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Kiara A Daly($180,000), Daly, Kiara Andrea, Ithaca
Key terms: Deep Magma Input, Deployments, Displays, Eruption, Hawai’i, Inferred, Magmatic, Mantle, Movement, Period, Permanent, Plans, Seismic, Seismicity, Surface, Temporary, Time, UHM, Volcanic, Volcanoes.

Postdoctoral Fellowship: EAR-PF: Global Rare Earth Element Cycles: Constraining Fluxes Through Subducting Systems
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2025; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Charlotte H Connop($180,000), Connop, Charlotte H, University Park
Key terms: Forward Model, Subduction Zone, Subduction Zones, Geology, Mineral, Minerals, Mobility, Mobilized, Modeling, REE, Reactions, Rees, Tectonic.

Postdoctoral Fellowship: EAR-PF: How does woody plant encroachment alter soil hydrological processes in savanna ecosystems?
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2025; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Rachel M Keen($180,000), Keen, Rachel M, Lawrence
Key terms: Grassland And Savanna, Grasslands And Savannas, Mean Annual Rainfall, Woody Plant Encroachment, Deep Percolation, Graduate Students, Groundwater Recharge, Savanna Sites, Soil Moisture, Soil Structure, Soil Water, South Africa, Tree Cover, Activities, Amount, Compare, Course, Covered, Create, Critical, Designed, Dry, Dynamics, Ecosystems, Hands-on, Hydrological, Mm, Predict, Primary, Rooting, Roots, School, Seasonal, Spread, Streams, Time, Trees, WPE.

Postdoctoral Fellowship: EAR-PF: Investigating magma storage and ascent through space and time at the Potrillo Volcanic Field, New Mexico
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2025; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Jisoo Kim($180,000), Kim, Jisoo, Tempe
Key terms: Distributed Volcanic, Distributed Volcanism, Spatio-temporal Trends, Volcanic Field, Volcanic Fields, Analyses, Band, Eruption, Has, Inform, Museum, Nine, PVF, Petrological, Processes, Quaternary, Southwest, Spatio-temporal, Update, Vents.

Postdoctoral Fellowship: EAR-PF: Slow earthquakes in continental transform faults - Rheology and architecture of the brittle-ductile transition zone
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2025; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Drew Levy($180,000), Levy, Drew, Reno
Key terms: Aseismic Fault Slip, Continental Transform Faults, Deep Seismogenic Zone, Geometry And Structure, San Andreas Fault, Seismic And Slow, Variable Slip Modes, Brittle-ductile Transition, Deformation Mechanisms, Fault Zones, Seismic Waves, Slow Slip, Active, Ancient, Brittle-ductile, Characterize, Crust, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Field, Geological, K-, Laboratory, Observations, Observed, Phenomena, Plate, Released, Rock, SSE, Settings, Stress, Subduction, Transient, Video.

Postdoctoral Fellowship: EAR-PF: Using numerical modeling and synthetic stratigraphy generation to evaluate the impacts of extreme storms on delta channel mobility
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2025; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Sarah M Giles($180,000), Giles, Sarah Marie, Palisades
Key terms: Coastal Deltas, Delta Channel, Delta Channels, Extreme Storms, Storm Impacts, Climate, Coastlines, Evolution, Evolve, Expected, Frequency, Future, Increases, Lives, Near, Ocean, Predict, River, Rock, Storm-influenced.

Postdoctoral Fellowship: EAR-PF: A multiscalar examination of freshwater fish extinction and recovery across the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2025; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Jacob D Wilson($180,000), Wilson, Jacob Dean, Baltimore
Key terms: Denver Museum, Freshwater Fish, Scholars Program, School Students, West Bijou, Build, Colorado, Contribute, Crisis, Dinosaurs, Diversity, Expand, Extinction, Happened, Has, Information, Kpg, Local, Mass, Mentor, Ongoing, Organisms, Princeton, Recovery, Rock, Scientists, Share, Site, Sites, Teen, Time, Undergraduate, Unique, Was, Western, ’s.

Collaborative Research: Bridging geoscience and engineering to interrogate seismic cycle processes in the earthquake critical zone
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Srisharan Shreedharan($544,307), Utah State University, Logan
2. Sinan O Akciz($79,375), CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation, Fullerton
3. James G Hirth($126,858), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Earthquake Critical Zone, Geoscience And Engineering, San Andreas Fault, Student Mentoring Program, Earthquake Cycle, Earthquake Hazard, Earthquake Rupture, Engineering Concepts, Ground Shaking, International Partnerships, Seismic Site, Seismic Waves, Strike-slip Faults, Turkish Colleagues, Analyses, Attenuation, Bridge, Broader, Brown, CSUF, Campus, Deformation, Earthquakes, Experiences, FRES, Field, Frontier, Generation, Geochemical, Geologic, Geosciences, Healing, Humans, Intersect, Investigates, Logan, Models, Native, Pathways, Permeability, Pis, Propagation, Properties, Rock, STEM, Strike-slip, Students, Surface, USU.

Postdoctoral Fellowship: EAR-PF: A seasonal-scale approach to African megafaunal extinction
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Alexandra L Norwood($180,000), Norwood, Alexandra Lynn, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Enamel Isotope, Late Quaternary, Southern Africa, African, Ago, Analysis, Broad, Development, Difficult, Extinctions, Fossil, Global, Has, Methods, Rainfall, Reconstruct, Seasonality, Serial, Taxa, Teeth, Time, Timing, Ungulate.

Postdoctoral Fellowship: EAR-PF: Water Stress Across the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: Applying Triple Oxygen Isotopes as an Aridity Proxy in the Bighorn Basin
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Matthew L Allen($180,000), Allen, Matthew L, Lawrence
Key terms: Triple Oxygen Method, Bighorn Basin, Delta 17o, Global Warming, Water Availability, Water Cycle, Aggregates, Analyzed, Aridity, Detect, Earth’s, Fossils, Immediately, Increase, Interval, Michigan, Models, PETM, Past, Proxy, Section, Time, Wa-.

Postdoctoral Fellowship: EAR-PF: Erosion on the Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Landscapes of Central Appalachia
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Miles M Reed($180,000), Reed, Miles, Madison
Key terms: Mountaintop Removal Coal, Removal Coal Mines, Anthropogenic Landscapes, Geomorphic Impacts, Renewable Energy, West Virginia, Applied, Deep-learning, Erosion, Former, Future, Infrastructure, Insights, Lidar, Long-term, MTR, Mined, Models, Mtr-impacted, Processes, Regional, Secondary-school, Shared, Stream, Surface, Task, Time, Topographic, Training, Transition, Unmined.

Postdoctoral Fellowship: EAR-PF: Probing the metal chemistry of wildfire-generated nanoparticles
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Alireza Namayandeh($180,000), Namayandeh, Alireza, Stanford
Key terms: Conditions And Soil, Fire Conditions, Health Risks, Human Hair, Metal Chemistry, Toxic Particles, Wildfire Smoke, Affect, Aims, Air, Breathe, Burning, Composition, Experiments, Formation, Influence, Lab, Local, Micrometers, Mineralogy, Nanoparticles, PM, Properties, Workers, X-ray.

Postdoctoral Fellowship: EAR-PF: Influence of Land Cover on the Isotopic Signature of Mercury in Surface- and Subsoils of the Conterminous United States
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Connor I Olson($180,000), Olson, Connor I, Cambridge
Key terms: Land Cover Types, Input Pathways, Landcover Types, Relative Importance, Soil Hg, Soil Mercury, Analysis, Biogeochemical, Clarify, Cycling, Depends, Forests, Isotopic, Organic, Processes, Released, Signature, Soils.

Postdoctoral Fellowship: EAR-PF: Synthesizing Multiscale Earth Models to Enhance Exploration, Discovery, and Application
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Rasheed Ajala($180,000), Ajala, Rasheed, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Crust And Mantle, East African Rift, Continental Rifting, Shear Wave, Small-scale Forces, Spatial Scales, Varying Spatial, Aid, Anisotropy, Catalog, Deformation, Describe, Developing, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Existing, Findings, High-resolution, Influence, Large-scale, Limited, Models, Multiscale, Nonvolcanic, Processes, Produce, Service, Small-scale, Studying, Techniques, Tectonic.

Postdoctoral Fellowship: EAR-PF: The Thermal Evolution of Orogenic Mid-Lower Crust in the Late Paleozoic Appalachian Orogen
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Zachary Molitor($180,000), Molitor, Zachary, Somerville
Key terms: Deep Crust, Temperature Inside, Appalachian, Appalachians, Below, Compositions, Deformation, Earth’s, Evolution, Inclusion, Lithosphere, Model, Modelling, Modern, Mountain, Past, Rock, Studying, Surface, Thermal, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: GLOW: CSEDI: Compositional controls on shear localization and the development of plate tectonics on Earth and rocky planets
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Philip Skemer($378,188), Washington University, Saint Louis
2. Bradford J Foley($409,681), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Dominant Mineral Phases, Grain Size Reduction, Mantle Convection Models, Mineral Phase Mixing, Mantle Compositions, Numerical Models, Plate Boundaries, Plate Tectonics, Rocky Planets, Strength Contrast, Affects, Assess, Astronomy, Based, Beyond, Conditions, Control, Deformation, Exoplanets, Experiments, Factors, Favorable, Likelihood, Localized, Mantles, Mechanisms, Operation, Physics, Preclude, Solar, Specifically, Students, Zones.

Conference: SEDI 2024
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2024; Program: STUDIES OF THE EARTHS DEEP INT

1. Michael I Bergman($49,800), Simon's Rock of Bard College, Great Barrington
Key terms: Earth’s Deep Interior, Structure And Dynamics, Earth’s Deep, Earth’s Interior, International Association, Attend, Discussion, Layers, Meeting, Nature, SEDI, Time.

Collaborative Research: Integrated Late Devonian Earth evolution: Diverse perspectives on ocean-climate-biosphere interaction from Laurentia and Gondwana
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2024; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. D. Jeffrey Over($104,601), SUNY College at Geneseo, Geneseo
2. Alan J Kaufman($99,923), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
3. Lucien Nana Yobo($231,421), Texas A&M University, College Station
4. Geoffrey J Gilleaudeau($429,298), George Mason University, Fairfax
Key terms: Devonian Mass Extinctions, Carbon Burial, Co2 Drawdown, Epeiric Seas, Global Carbon, Late Devonian, Western Australia, Anoxia, Framework, Integrated, Land, Loss, North, Ocean, Oceans, Oxygen, Planet, Seeks, Students, Ties.

Collaborative Research: Harnessing a high-resolution fossil record and novel (AI) workflows to study the effects of climate change on mammalian functional diversity
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2024; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Natasha S Vitek($205,877), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
2. Jonathan I Bloch($419,234), University of Florida, Gainesville
3. Paul E Morse($372,195), University of Colorado at Denver, Aurora
Key terms: Mammalian Functional Diversity, Ai Tools, Distal Phalanges, Abiotic, Biotic, Climate, Composition, Datasets, Drivers, Fossil, PETM, Tarsal, Temperature.

NSF/GEO-NERC: Unlocking New Horizons - How Feeding Morphology and Performance Impacts Adaptive Expansion in Deep Time
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2024; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Elizabeth Petsios($415,782), Baylor University, Waco
Key terms: Feeding Structure Morphology, Deep Time, Echinoid Feeding, Feeding Structures, Sea Urchins, Adapt, Agreement, Animals, Budget, Database, Diversification, Environments, Evolution, Fossil, Has, Influences, Joint, Largest, Living, Performance, Proportion, Variety.

Collaborative Research: Energetic Controls on Marine Benthic Community Structure in Space and Time
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Seth Finnegan($360,460), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. Jill Leonard Pingel($432,829), Ohio State University, Columbus
3. Aaron O'Dea($281,310), Smithsonian Institution, Washington
4. Adiel A Klompmaker($212,201), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
Key terms: Assemblages, Benthic, Biological, Caribbean, Collections, Ecological, Ecosystems, Environment, Evolution, Extinction, Field, Fossil, Knowledge, Marine, Modern, Nutrients, Objectives, Panama, Productivity, Program, Structure, Students, Trophic.

Collaborative Research: Paleoclimatic and tectonic forcing on Neogene sedimentation changes in the Beaufort-Mackenzie Basin
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Katherine D Ryker($266,168), University of South Carolina at Columbia, Columbia
2. Alexander Pullen($262,380), Clemson University, Clemson
Key terms: Arctic Ocean, Beaufort-mackenzie Basin, Beaufort-mackenzie, Cenozoic, Climate, Evolution, Freshwater, Geologic, High-latitude, History, Inform, Insights, Investigation, Late, Models, North, Provenance, Region, River, Rivers, Sedimentary, Timing.

Parasitism and mass extinction: How did parasite prevalence, abundance, body size and host growth and longevity respond to the Pliocene-Pleistocene molluscan host turnover?
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. John W Huntley($444,594), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Influenced Parasite-host Interactions, Broader Impacts, Flatworm Parasites, Influenced Parasite-host, Mass Extinction, Parasite Prevalence, Parasite-host Interactions, Western Atlantic, Biodiversity, Camp, Clam, Ecosystems, Environmental, Following, Fossil, Geologically, Geology, Hosts, Increased, Life, Living, Mizzou, Promote, Size, Species, Students, Time.

Collaborative Research: Biogeography, turnover, and evolutionary dynamics of the Late Ordovician mass extinction: phylogenetic and field-based approaches
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Melanie J Hopkins($549,917), American Museum Natural History, New York
2. David F Wright($621,781), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Body Size Evolution, Anticosti Island, Mass Extinction, Public Talks, Biodiversity, Biogeographic, Critical, Datasets, Document, Education, Fossil, Geological, Global, History, International, Investigations, Life, Local, Mechanisms, Migration, Morphology, Ordovician, Phylogenetic, Species, Versus.

CAREER: Understanding biosphere-geosphere coevolution through carbonate-associated phosphate, community archives, and open-access education in rural schools
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Miquela Ingalls($210,323), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Eukaryotes And Metazoans, Essential Nutrient, Global Glaciations, Microbes Evolved, Primary Productivity, School Teachers, Ability, Abundance, Ago, Atmosphere, Billion, CAP, Continent, Curricula, Diagenetic, Earth’s, Evolution, Existing, Ga, Geochemical, History, Implemented, Life, Linked, Minerals, Oceans, Oxygenic, Phosphate, Phosphorus, Precambrian, Subsequent, Was, Weathering.

Conference: The 9th International Clumped Isotope Workshop (ICIW) at Stony Brook University
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2024; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Gregory A Henkes($49,550), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: 9th Iciw, Clumped Isotope, Stony Brook, Conference-style, Faculty, Held, Isotopes, Meeting, Natural, Organized, Organizing, Poster, Rare, Sessions, Stable, Students.

CAREER: Quaternary paleontology of Jamaica: Colonization, extinction, and resilience in a biodiversity hotspot
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2024; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Melissa Kemp($220,604), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Taxonomic And Functional, Functional Diversity, Human Colonization, Lesson Plans, Andor, Biodiversity, Conservation, Educational, Environmental, Experiences, Paleontological, Paleontology, Processes, Quantify, STEM, Seeks, Species.

Support of Student Travel to Attend the Joint Meetings of The Clay Minerals Society and the Asian Clay Conference
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2024; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Yuji Arai($21,500), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Asian Clay, Student Travel, Annual, Applications, Benefit, Conference, Education, Interaction, International, Joint, Leading, Presentations, Program, Registration, Society, Students, Technical.

Cells to ecosystems: fossil xylem is the missing link in reconstructing water use by plants, forests, and global vegetation in deep time
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2024; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Justina A Ogodo($599,996), Baylor University, Waco
Key terms: Training And Mentoring, Plant Function, Short Course, Water Transport, Climate, Database, Ecosystem, Environmental, Establish, Extinct, Focused, Fossil, Future, Generation, Global, Interdisciplinary, Intervals, Leaf, Leaves, Ma, Paleontology, Paleozoic, Predict, Respond, Stem, Taxa, Traits, Underrepresented, Xylem.

Collaborative Research: Paleozoic echinoderms as model systems for the study of evolutionary modes
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2024; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Sarah L Sheffield($296,211), SUNY at Binghamton, Binghamton
Key terms: Access, Analyses, Biogeography, Climate, Critical, Echinoderm, Echinoderms, Ecology, Evolution, Evolutionary, Heterochrony, History, Information, Multiple, Museum, Perturbations, Phylogenetic, Shifts.

CAREER: Developing novel biomarker proxies to constrain Neogene changes in African woody cover and paleoecological contexts of hominin evolution
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2023; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Kevin T Uno($398,195), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Students And Postdocs, African Nations, Graduate Student, Graduate Students, Human Evolution, School Students, York City, Ancient, Approaches, Carbon, Climate, Developing, Ecological, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Evidence, Evolutionary, Field, Grasses, Grassland, Grasslands, Has, Isotopic, Lab, Ma, Methods, Million, Miocene, Molecular, Neogene, Opportunities, Participation, Past, Plant, Principal, Program, Reconstructing, Rise, STEM, Terrestrial, Three-week, Undergraduate, Underrepresented.

CAREER: A Late Triassic Origin for Modern Marine Predator-prey Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2023; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Lydia S Tackett($88,473), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Fossiliferous Bulk, Late Triassic, Abundance, Ecological, Environmental, Marine, Modern, Predator, Predator-prey, Prey, Regions.

Collaborative Research: Evaluating tectonic models for the western US Cordillera through the metamorphic history of the Pelona-Orocopia-Rand schists
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2025; Program: Tectonics

1. Suzanne Autrey($185,478), Northern Illinois University, Dekalb
2. Harold H Stowell($164,486), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
3. Nikki M Seymour($96,097), Occidental College, Los Angeles
Key terms: Flat Slab, Pelona-orocopia-rand Schist, Western North, Analytical, Collision, Conditions, Development, Garnet, Graduate, Metamorphic, Modeling, Models, Modern, Oceanic, Pelona-orocopia-rand, Students, Techniques, Tectonic, Terrane, Timing, Undergraduate.

Constraining exhumation and erosion along Lake Tanganyika to assess landscape evolution in rifts
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2025; Program: Tectonics

1. Gilby Jepson($554,535), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: East African Rift, Erosion And Sedimentation, Exhumation And Denudation, Footwall Blocks, Lake Tanganyika, Rift Initiation, Tectonic Exhumation, Tectonic Style, Analysis, Apatite, Evolution, Fault, Formation, Habitats, LT, Magnitude, Modern, Mountain, Portion, Processes, Rates, Rifting, Timing, Uplift, Watershed.

Collaborative Research: Testing Models for Fluvial Response to Eocene Terrane Collision in Western Oregon Using Integrated Tectono-Stratigraphy and Detrital Provenance Analysis
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2024; Program: Tectonics

1. Francis J Sousa($415,880), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Rebecca J Dorsey($398,707), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Building And Post-collision, Cascadia Subduction Zone, Former Collisional Orogen, Modern Cascadia Subduction, Detrital Thermochronology, Klamath Mountains, Marine Turbidite, Mountain Building, Post-collision Reorganization, Sedimentary Rocks, Siletz Terrane, Tyee Paleoriver, Active, Analysis, Andor, Basin, Bedrock, Catchment, Continent-interior, Dating, Detailed, Drainage, Evolution, Field, Flowed, Geologic, North, Opportunity, Oregon, Processes, Regional, Sand, Siletzia, Students, Surface, Tectonic, Terrane-continent, UO, Western.

Collaborative Research: Is it MASH or MUSH? Testing Conflicting Models for Magma Diversification and Mobilization in Lower-Arc Crust
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Tectonics

1. Keith A Klepeis($385,643), University of Vermont & State Agricultural College, Burlington
2. Joshua Schwartz($303,170), The University Corporation, Northridge, Northridge
Key terms: Continental Crust Creation, Fiordland National Park, Hispanic Serving, Lower Crust, Magma Diversification, Magmas Diversify, Arcs, California, Construction, Deep, Depth, Dominant, Extraction, Field, Geochemical, Graduate, International, Involves, Layer, Lead, Melts, Northridge, Processes, Public, Roots, Segregation, Students, Subduction, Surface, Timescales, Zealand, Zones.

Collaborative Research: Linking fold-thrust belt activity to foreland basin response in the Canadian Cordillera
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Tectonics

1. Chelsea Mackaman-Lofland($97,200), University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville
2. Gilby Jepson($499,709), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Canadian Rocky Mountains, Fold-thrust Belt, Foreland Basin, Low-temperature Thermochronology, Mountain Belts, Alberta, Archives, Basins, Climatic, Constraints, Curves, Datasets, Dated, Depositional, Detrital, Development, Fold-thrust, Geochronology, Magnitude, Processes, Shortening, Subsidence, Thermokinematic, Timing, Training, Zircon.

Collaborative Research: RUI: Resolving the effects of lithospheric foundering on orogenesis: An example from the southern Puna plateau, Argentina
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Tectonics

1. Shi J Sim($375,631), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
2. Marissa M Tremblay($118,260), Purdue University, West Lafayette
3. Alexander R Tye($371,002), UTAH TECH UNIVERSITY, Saint George
Key terms: Crust And Mantle, Southern Puna Plateau, Field Trip, Geochemical Datasets, Lithosphere Removal, Lower Crust, Mantle Lithosphere, Mountain Belts, Numerical Modeling, Nw Argentina, Anomalous, Antofalla, Arizaro, Basins, Deformation, Effects, Foundering, Geologic, Geological, Geophysical, Highly, Hypothesized, Miocene, Modes, Multiple, Plateaus, Processes, Students, Suggest.

Collaborative Research: RUI: Characterizing borehole breakouts in anisotropic materials in the laboratory and in nature
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Tectonics

1. Joshua R Davis($180,350), Carleton College, Northfield
2. Jacqueline E Reber($206,119), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: San Andreas Fault, Approach Relies, Breakout Directions, Rock Layering, Statistical Tools, Anisotropy, Bedding, Breakouts, California, Compare, Conditions, Crust, Dataset, Datasets, Drilled, Features, Information, Layered, Local, Look, Method, Methods, Natural, Orientation, Parallel, Region, Straightforward, Stress, Stresses.

Collaborative Research: What Controls the Mobility of the Heat Producing Elements in Continental Crust?
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Tectonics

1. Andrew Smye($486,338), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Peter B Kelemen($98,863), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Continental Crust, Heat Producing, Temperature Profiles, Allow, Concentrations, Constraints, Earth’s, Evolution, Five, Heat-producing, Rock, Techniques, Th, Trace-element.

NSFGEO-NERC Collaborative Research: Paleogeodesy at The Alaska-Aleutian Subduction Zone -- Reconstructing Earthquake Deformation and Rupture Boundaries in Time and Space
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Tectonics

1. Robert Weiss($499,286), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Deformation And Tsunami, Earthquakes And Tsunamis, Seismic Hazard Maps, Tsunami Deposit Extent, Past Ruptures, Subduction Zone, Vertical Deformation, AASZ, Agreement, Alaska, Budget, Coastal, Critical, Down-dip, Existing, Future, Innovative, Joint, Knowledge, Lateral, Methods, National, Proportion, Reconstruct, Spatial, Timing.

Collaborative Research: RUI: Leveraging isotopic compositions of igneous systems to resolve the geometry and distribution of subducted sediment in the southern U.S. Cordillera
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: Tectonics

1. James B Chapman($185,953), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
2. Nikki M Seymour($156,324), Occidental College, Los Angeles
Key terms: Igneous Rocks, Orocopia Schist, Subducted Sediment, Unique Isotopic, Accretion, Chemical, Continent, Crust, Distribution, Geometry, Has, Models, Outside, Students, Tectonic.

Collaborative Research: How do accretionary sutures evolve into Cordilleran strike-slip faults?
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: Tectonics

1. Paul M Betka($195,590), Western Washington University, Bellingham
2. Trevor S Waldien($291,843), South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City
3. Sean Regan($346,273), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Denali Fault Zone, Structural And Kinematic, Wrangellia Composite Terrane, Insular Terranes, Kinematic Analysis, Margin Parallel, Shear Zone, Undergraduate Students, Valdez Creek, Accretionary, Alaska, Boundary, Constrain, Contribute, Cordillera, Crust, Development, Dipping, Distribution, Evolution, Evolve, Exposed, Formed, Lateral, Lithologies, Metamorphic, Mgmb, Million, North, Northern, Numerous, P-t-t, Rock, Seismicity, Strike-slip, Structures, Suture, Western.

Unraveling subsidence and heat flow in poly-phase tectonic basins
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: Tectonics

1. Magdalena E Curry($399,342), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Arctic Alaska Basin, Investigating Poly-phase Sedimentary, Numerical Modeling Workflow, Poly-phase Sedimentary Basins, Subsidence And Heat, Basins Worldwide, Heat Flow, Investigating Poly-phase, Modeling Methods, Poly-phase Basins, Poly-phase Sedimentary, Subsidence Analyses, Thermal Evolution, Backstripping, Comprehensive, Depth-dependent, Drivers, Exportable, Extension, Flexural, Geothermal, Hydrocarbon, Incorporates, Maturity, Multiple, Overlapping, Prospectivity, Resource, Short, USGS, User-friendly.

Collaborative Research: Resolving thin-skinned and basement-involved deformation within a seismically active broken foreland region, San Juan, Argentina
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: Tectonics

1. Chelsea Mackaman-Lofland($89,997), University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville
Key terms: Flat Slab Subduction, Timing And Magnitude, Andean Ranges, Broken Foreland, Earth’s Surface, Eastern Precordillera, Geological Structures, Seismically Active, Structural Geometries, Thrust Front, Analytical, Argentina, Basin, Debated, Deformation, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Earth’s, Enigmatic, Expressed, Fault, Faults, Field, History, Infrastructure, Integrated, Kinematic, Long-term, Models, Mountain, Region, Resolve, Seismicity, Shortening, Students, Thin-skinned, Undergraduate.

CAREER: Quantifying tectonic and biologic controls on erosion using detrital thermochronology
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Tectonics

1. Andrea L Stevens Goddard($250,666), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Land Plant Evolution, Cratonic Landscapes, Plant Macroevolution, Relative Contributions, Sedimentary Rocks, Seeded Plants, Tectonically Active, Continent, Core, Difficult, Environments, Erosion, Expansion, Geology, Grains, Has, Magnitudes, Measure, Midwest, Minerals, Modern, Orogen, Predict, Quantify, Regional, Resources, Roots, Stages, Temperatures, Training, Vegetation.

Testing the record of Laramide basin partitioning in the western United States through quantitative fluvial stratigraphy
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Tectonics

1. Ryan Leary($343,807), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Ancient River Deposits, Detrital Zircon U-pb, Existing Detrital Provenance, Eocene Time, Geologic Past, Green River, Late Cretaceous, Paleohydrologically Consistent, San Juan, Sediment Transport, Undergraduate Students, Zircon U-pb, Approaches, Basin, Basins, Ca, Direction, Drainage, Driven, Explicitly, Flow, Fluvial, Gradients, Has, Independent, Interpreted, Laramide, Length, Limitations, Longshore, Methods, Million, Networks, Paleohydrology, Quantitative, Relatively, Strata, Substantial, Tools, Topographic, Training, Uinta, Western.

Conference: 7th Biennial Structural Geology and Tectonics Forum at WWU
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2024; Program: Tectonics

1. Bernard A Housen($49,665), Western Washington University, Bellingham
Key terms: Geology And Tectonics, Field Geology, Field Trip, Magnetic Fabrics, Meeting Activities, Plate Motions, Sgt Forum, Structural Geology, Advances, Array, Bellingham, Building, Development, Discussion, Diverse, Engagement, Faculty, Geosciences, Geoscientists, Has, Hazards, History, Initiatives, Lab, Local, Networking, Opportunities, Paleomagnetism, Panel, Participation, Past, Poster, Presentations, Priorities, Processes, Region, Regional, Rich, Seismic, Set, Setting, Students, Tools, Training, Washington.

CAREER: Unfolding Earth history back to the Mesozoic by incorporating seismic tomography into Pacific realm plate tectonic reconstructions
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2023; Program: Tectonics

1. Jonny Wu($107,278), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Tomographic Plate Reconstruction, Boundary Conditions, Global Models, Seismic Tomography, Build, Constraints, Half, History, Kinematic, Mantle, Mesozoic, Panthalassa-pacific, Realm, STEM, Skill, Slabs, Surface, Tectonic, Undergraduate.

Backtracking non-Fickian reactive transport in aquifers: Theory, predictability, and application
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2025; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Yong Zhang($198,334), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
Key terms: Reactive Pollutants, Applications, BWT, Backward, Diffusion, Enhancing, Environmental, Expected, Groundwater, Management, Models, Parameters, Real-world, Spread, Theory, Validated, Water.

EMBRACE-EAR-SEED: Weaving Western GEOScience with Indigenous Knowledge in Times of Climate Change: Lake Cores and Ecocultural Calendars through the Holocene
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2025; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Kaitlyn Flick($199,999), College of the Menominee Nation, Keshena
Key terms: Ancestral Lands, Core Description, Indigenous Knowledge, Lake Cores, Menominee Ancestral, Sediment Layering, Building, Capacity, Climate, Coring, Fire, Forest, Glaciation, History, Management, Past, Species, Time, Tribal.

RAPID: Preserving the geochemical and biological changes in an acid mine drainage reservoir undergoing rapid geochemical change
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2024; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Christen Grettenberger($15,430), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Acid Mine Drainage, Competitive Stem Workforce, Globally Competitive Stem, Water And Sediment, Amd-impacted Reservoirs, Generate Pollution, Lake Level, Undergraduate Student, Amd-impacted, Bioremediation, Diverse, Downstream, Examine, Future, Individuals, Low, Metals, Minerals, Processes, Sediments, Society, Training, Well-being.

RAPID: Impact of Extreme Weather Events on Biogeochemical Cycling and Microbial Dynamics: Assessing Post-Hurricane Helene Shifts in the Oconee River Watershed
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2024; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Avishek Dutta($14,781), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Oconee River Watershed, Six Organic Contaminants, Athens-clarke County, Extreme Weather, Hurricane Helene’s, Nutrient Levels, Public Health, Water Quality, Athens-clarke, Broader, Climate, Concentrations, Cycles, Disrupt, Ecosystem, Environmental, Findings, Helene’s, Hurricanes, Microbial, Natural, Phosphate, Pollutants, Post-hurricane, Ppm, Protect, Runoff, Surrounding.

Collaborative Research: RAPID: Hurricane impacts on hydrogeology and nutrient geochemistry in karstic coastline
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2024; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Xiaolang Zhang($18,000), Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
2. Dini Adyasari($30,000), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Groundwater-surface Water Interactions, Quantify Groundwater Discharge, Aquifer Salinization, Groundwater-surface Water, Gulf Coast, Nutrient Geochemistry, Nutrient Speciation, Storm Surge, Assess, Coastal, Conditions, Effects, Extreme, Hurricanes, Hydrological, Karstic, Rainfall, Texas, Weather.

RAPID: Downstream water quality impacts of post-wildfire debris flows
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2024; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Joshua Enterkine($49,961), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Post-fire Debris Flows, Water Quality Impacts, Post-fire Debris, Aquatic, Burn, Characterization, Chemical, Climate, Collect, Dataset, Ecosystem, Geospatial, Health, Hillslopes, Increasing, Intensity, Larger, Nutrient, Perishable, Recently, Remove, Sediment, Severity, Soil, Stability, Watershed, Wildfires.

RAPID: Catchment-scale rapid redistribution of carbon and sediment following catastrophic disturbance in Southern Appalachia
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2024; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Anna Marshall($37,052), University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville
Key terms: Carbon And Sediment, Mass Movement Effects, Wood And Sediment, Mass Movements, Rapid Redistribution, Southern Appalachia, Catchments, Deposits, Downstream, Geomorphic, Has, Limited, Opportunity, Persistence, Recruit, Removal, Stream, Streams, Varying.

GEO-CM: Biogeochemical Processes Affecting Critical Mineral Hosts in Mine Tailings and Weathered Ore Zones
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Jeffrey G Catalano($350,000), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Critical Mineral Resources, Domestic Critical Mineral, Weathered Ore Zones, Critical Minerals, Earth’s Surface, Advanced, Characterization, Earth’s, Exposed, Iron, National, Platinum, Rare, Represent, Rock, Sources, Students, Tailings, Transform, Waste, Weathering, Wind.

Collaborative Research: Understanding impacts of cold-season coastal wetland hydrology and freeze-thaw dynamics on lateral carbon fluxes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Meagan Eagle($495,521), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Joseph J Tamborski($161,665), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Atlantic Salt Marshes, Lateral Carbon Export, North Atlantic Salt, Water And Carbon, Carbon Budget, Carbon Outwelling, Groundwater Flow, Coastal, Cold, Discharge, Dynamics, Estimates, Hydrological, Magnitude, Ocean, Potential, Processes, Quantify, Seasons, Spring, Summer.

EMBRACE-EAR-Seed: The impact of climate change on karst groundwater resources with deep learning approach
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Renjie Zhou($180,267), Sam Houston State University, Huntsville
Key terms: Karst Groundwater Resources, Spring Discharge Rates, Advanced Deep-learning, Karst Aquifers, Analysis, Climate, Complex, Conservation, Contribute, Deep-learning, Drinking, Enhance, Hydrological, Insights, Integrating, Management, Models, Processes, Public, Terrains, Water.

EMBRACE-EAR-Seed: A synoptic survey of springs in the Driftless Area to identify spatial patterns in groundwater quality
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Chloé A Fandel($200,000), Carleton College, Northfield
Key terms: Age And Provenance, Below Ground, Flow Rates, Groundwater Age, Sentinel Springs, Water Quality, Has, Information, Recording, Region, Set, Sites, Space, Students, Survey, Synoptic, Time.

Collaborative Research: Uncovering the Role of Stemflow in the Cycling of Water and Solutes in Coastal Forests under Stress from Sea Level Rise
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Delphis Levia($329,272), University of Delaware, Newark
2. Elizabeth W Boyer($201,253), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
3. Keryn B Gedan($177,644), George Washington University, Washington
Key terms: Sea Level Rise, Coastal Ecosystems, Coastal Forests, Dynamics, Hydrological, Inform, Processes, Resilience, Soil, Stemflow, Training, Trees.

EMBRACE-EAR-Seed: Transformative research experiences in earthquake science
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Elizabeth H Madden($171,824), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
Key terms: Fault Slip Rates, San Francisco Bay, 3d Fault, Mechanical Models, Plate Boundary, Training Program, Active, California, Compilations, Computer, Create, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Establish, Faults, Fieldwork, Geological, Hazard, Integrating, Lidar, Mapping, Methods, Modeling, Produce, SAF, SJSU, Southern, Student, Students, URM.

Collaborative Research: Development of topography in the northern Sierra Nevada: Reconciling differences in uplift history and causes through multi-source thermochronologic data
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Elizabeth J Cassel($304,910), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
2. Rebecca M Flowers($386,491), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
3. Robinson Cecil($190,957), The University Corporation, Northridge, Northridge
Key terms: Northern Sierra Nevada, Tectonic Uplift Model, Mountain Range, Sediment Sources, Ancient, Cenozoic, Constrain, DZ, Datasets, Elevations, Eocene, Exhumation, Favoring, Fluvial, Gravels, History, River, Southern, Students, Thermochronologic, Timing, Topography, U-thhe.

MRI Track 1: Acquisition of a Replacement Multicollector ICP-MS for Enhanced Research in Geology, Archeology, and Paleobiology
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Glenn Sharman($1,099,952), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Key terms: Lead And Zinc, Human Remains, Laser Ablation, Zinc Mining, Acquisition, Activities, Advances, Analysis, Ancient, Archeology, Arkansas, Bone, Constraining, Critical, Determining, Development, District, Diverse, Enhance, Facility, Has, History, Instrument, Levels, MC-ICP-MS, Management, Native, Ore, Pb-isotope, Pb-zn, Programs, Provenance, Regional, Split-stream, Successful, TRAIL, Techniques, Tribes.

MRI Track 1: Acquisition of a next-generation electron probe micro-analyzer (EPMA) for interdisciplinary cutting-edge science
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Andrew J Martin($1,100,000), University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas
Key terms: Jeol Jxa-isp100, Spatial Resolution, Allow, Allowing, Analyses, Analytical, Crystals, Current, Diverse, EPMA, Geology, Instrument, JXA-ISP, Lab, Measure, Outreach, Planetary, Probe, Radiochemistry, Range, Students, Trace.

Collaborative Research: Characterizing Spatial and Temporal Variations of Volcanic Rift Zones on Basaltic Shield Volcanoes: A Seismological Study at Kilauea and Mauna Loa, Hawaii
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Yang Shen($175,879), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
2. Jamie M Farrell($118,600), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Lower East Rift, Northeast Rift Zone, Volcanic Rift Zones, Fine Structures, Mauna Loa, Constraints, Eruption, Hawaii, Hawaiian, KLERZ, Kilauea, Line, MLNRZ, Magma, Relation, Seismic, Temporal, Up-rift, Volcanoes.

Collaborative Research: Generalizing Drag Estimation for Rigid and Flexible Vegetation Canopies to Quantify Environmental Processes
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. George S Constantinescu($213,511), University of Iowa, Iowa City
2. Leonardo P Chamorro($281,419), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Drag Forces, Numerical Simulations, Plant Canopies, Water Flow, Canopy, Energy, Environments, Experiments, Leading, Predict, Public, River.

Collaborative Research: Investigating Links Between Earthquake Swarms, Aseismic Processes, and Fault Zone Heterogeneity in Volcanic and Geothermal Areas
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Junle Jiang($217,497), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
2. Xiaowei Chen($105,816), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Volcanic And Geothermal, Aseismic Slip, Earthquake Swarms, Fault Zone, Fault Zones, Affected, Behavior, Complex, Conditions, Diverse, Factors, Fluid, Models, Processes, Properties, Seismic, Slow, Students.

Collaborative Research: Geomorphic controls on sediment age, ice preservation, and carbon storage in arctic permafrost systems
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Stephanie A Ewing($699,508), Montana State University, Bozeman
2. Louise M Farquharson($156,671), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Ice And Carbon, Resilience And Vulnerability, Carbon Resides, Documentary Film, Geologic Substrate, Ground Ice, Permafrost Evolution, Permafrost Landscapes, Permafrost Soils, Public Engagement, Rapidly Thawing, Residence Times, Sediment Movement, Shed Light, Student Training, Activities, Alaska, Combined, Critical, Distribution, Effects, Environments, Future, Geochemical, Geomorphic, Ground-ice, Half, Hillslope, Hillslopes, Influence, Influenced, Interactions, Knowledge, Latitudes, Measure, Modern, Past, Processes, Quantify, STEM, Spatiotemporal, Storage, Topography.

Tracing the origins of fertile magma formation in the porphyry copper systems of Sonora, Mexico
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. David Hernández Uribe($427,699), University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Porphyry Cu Deposits, Graduate Student, Latino Early-career, Undergraduate Students, Collaboration, Early-career, Formation, Future, Geochemical, Magmas, Mexican, Minority-serving, Models, Redox, Signature, Underrepresented.

Collaborative Research: GEO-CM Critical Mineral Provenance of Southeastern U.S. Clastic Systems - Focus on Detrital Monazite
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Scott D Samson($147,775), Syracuse University, Syracuse
2. Matthew A Massey($451,225), University of Kentucky Research Foundation, Lexington
Key terms: Atlantic Coastal Plain, Critical Mineral Exploration, Graduate And Undergraduate, Kentucky And Syracuse, Detrital Monazite, Education Content, Fall Line, Mineral Deposits, Undergraduate Students, Upper Cretaceous, Ability, Appalachian, Bedrock, Clastic, Create, Crystalline, Demonstrated, Executive, Explore, Geologic, Graduation, Granitic, Involve, Join, Magmatic, Metamorphic, Minerals, Modern, National, Outlined, Piedmont, Potential, Prepared, Provenance, REE, Rees, Rock, School, Sediment, Sediments, Source, Sources, Spectrometry, Streams, Teacher, Workforce.

Collaborative Research: Examining the paleo-thermal structure of the Alpine subduction interface with an integrated petrochronology and geodynamic modeling approach
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Besim Dragovic($399,282), University of South Carolina at Columbia, Columbia
2. Adam F Holt($362,349), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Ancient Subduction Zone, Zone Thermal Structure, Benefit Society, Fostering Collaboration, Geodynamic Modeling, Outreach Activities, Outreach Component, South Carolina, Subduction-focused Workshop, Western Alps, Alpine, Bring, Chemical, Combine, Conditions, Constrain, Constraints, Deep, Educational, Enable, Exhumed, Geoscientists, Integrated, Mechanisms, Metamorphism, Models, P-T, P-t-time, Paleo-subduction, Petrochronology, Plates, Processes, Quickly, Rock, Sampling, Southeastern, Spatio-temporal, Student, Subduction-focused, Surface, Tectonic, Temperature, Time-dependent, Well-studied.

EMBRACE-EAR-Seed: Magmatic Evolution and Timing of the Independence Dike Swarm
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Nicole E Moore($198,248), Pomona College, Claremont
Key terms: Independence Dike Swarm, Time And Paves, Age Determinations, Chemical Compositions, Crustal Differentiation, Dike Swarms, Eastern California, Emplacement Timing, Mafic Compositions, Magmatic Evolution, Mineral Phases, Networking Opportunities, Tentatively Correlated, Undergraduate Students, Visiting Assistant, Additionally, Ages, Capabilities, Compositional, Dating, Deep, Development, Dikes, Emplaced, Erupted, Eruption, Expand, Field, Focus, Focused, Generated, Geologic, Has, History, IDS, Indigenous, Knowledge, LA-ICP-MS, Lack, Limited, Magmas, Magmatism, Mantle, Melting, Metamorphic, Method, Model, Nevada, PUI, Planetary, Previous, Processes, Program, Range, Rb-sr, Regions, Segments, Sierran, Structural, Suggesting, Tectonic, Vast, Via, Volcanic, Was, Whole-rock, Zircons.

CAREER: Using fossil bivalves to study controls on longevity and establish a paleobiological learning ecosystem in southeast Texas
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2024; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. David K Moss($338,988), Sam Houston State University, Huntsville
Key terms: Teachers And Undergraduate, Fossil Bivalves, Life History, Modern Bivalves, School Teachers, Undergraduate Students, Current, Growth, Lifespans, Live, Longevity, Sclerochronology, Workshops.

CAREER: Habitability of the Hadean Earth - A South African perspective
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2024; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Nadja Drabon($330,221), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Hadean Eon, Hadean Zircon, Hadean Zircons, Jack Hills, Plate Tectonics, South Africa, Assess, Continent, Create, Crust, Disseminated, Earth’s, Emergence, Geochemical, Habitable, Hf, Isotopes, Isotopic, Mantle, Museum, Opportunities, Processes, Proxies, Si, Time, Trace, Undergraduate, Was.

Collaborative Research: Ice Forcing in Arc Magma Plumbing Systems
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2024; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Meredith Townsend($158,481), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
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.

CAREER: The influence of cation substitution on the hydrous phases of the lower mantle
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2024; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Elizabeth C Thompson($206,024), University of the South, Sewanee
Key terms: Cation Substitution, Geophysical Properties, Hydrous Phases, Lower Mantle, Water Cycle, Believed, Calculations, Deep, Earth, Expected, Experiments, High-pressure, Hydrogen, Influence, Mgsiooh, Stability, Stable, Students, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: A New Sanidine-Liquid Hygrometer: Experiments, Calibration and Applications
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2024; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Gordon M Moore($169,286), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: High-school Internship Program, Promotes Stem Fields, High-school Internship, Potassium Feldspar, Silicic Magmas, Six Undergraduates, Applicable, Calibration, Conditions, Davis, Debate, HO, Hispanic-serving, Intensive, Melt, Models, Plutonic, Rock, Sonoma, Students, Under-represented, Volumes.

Does synergy among litter, organic horizons, and roots bolster nutrient retention and production?
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2024; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Justin B Richardson($10,012), University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville
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.

Impact of Precipitation and Managed Aquifer Recharge on Post-Drought Groundwater Storage Recovery in California's Central Valley
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2024; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Mekonnen Gebremichael($355,425), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Climate Scenarios, Computer Model, Groundwater Depletion, Groundwater Storage, Sustainable Water, Water Resources, Approach, Californias, Explores, MAR, Management, Precipitation, Recovery, SGMA.

GEO-CM: Trace metals in sphalerite from polymetallic, porphyry-lode mineral deposits of southwest Montana
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2024; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Christopher H Gammons($345,005), Montana Technological University, Butte
Key terms: Butte And Philipsburg, Economic Geology, Metal Impurities, Mineral Deposits, Mining District, Montana Technological, Natural Specimens, Ore Minerals, Trace Metals, ARL, Applications, Collection, Compare, Concentrations, Copper, Cu, Deep, Distribution, Engineering, Epscor, Fluorescence, HP-CL, Laboratory, Luminescent, MTU, Mines, PLS, PUI, Raman, Red, Reveal, Silver, Spectroscopy, Sphalerite, Tungsten, Undergraduate, Zinc, Zn, Zns.

Illuminating patterns and processes of water quality in U.S. rivers using physics-guided deep learning
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2024; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Li Li($293,593), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Water Quality Dynamics, Water Quality Variables, Concentration-discharge Relationships, Nutrient Pollution, Aims, Clean, Concentration-discharge, Cost, Dollars, Expensive, Has, Models, Nature, Remained, Scarcity, Total.

Collaborative Research: Characterizing controls on postfire steepland ravel - when does bioturbation go too far for diffusive models?
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2021; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Danica L Roth($316,895), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: Sediment Transport, Animals, Burned, Conditions, Disturbance, Erosion, Experiences, Field, Fluxes, Hazards, Models, Natural, Particle, Process, Processes, Ravel, Travel, Wildfire.

REU Site: Black Hills Applied Ceramic Engineering
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: nan

1. Sarah W Keenan($457,223), South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City
Key terms: Black Hills, Local Geology, Reu Site, South Dakota, Technical Communication, Applications, BACE, Ceramic, Ceramics, Collaborative, Cultural, Development, Directorate, Diverse, Division, Engineering, Epscor, Opportunities, Program, Range, Skills, Students.

NSF-GEO-EAR Awards for 2024

Collaborative Research: Bridging short and long time scales in global plate tectonics through solver adaptivity Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: CDS&E-MSS

Collaborative Research: Constraining volatile storage in the lower crust - a case study of exhumed rocks from the Talkeetna Arc, Alaska Award Effective Date: 01/01/2025; Program: CESEV-Chem Evo of Earth & Volc

Distinguishing mantle source heterogeneity from process-based Ca isotope signatures in ocean island basalts Award Effective Date: 01/01/2025; Program: CESEV-Chem Evo of Earth & Volc

Collaborative Research: Behavior Of Moderately Volatile Elements During Silicate Evaporation Award Effective Date: 01/01/2025; Program: CESEV-Chem Evo of Earth & Volc

Collaborative Research: A Novel Solution Model for Igneous Biotite: Improving MELTS and the Biotite-Sanidine-Magnetite Thermobarometer/Hygrometer with New Experiments Award Effective Date: 12/15/2024; Program: CESEV-Chem Evo of Earth & Volc

Isotopic fractionation between gaseous and dissolved Carbon in silicate melts; assessing the C content and d13C signature of Earth's Upper Mantle Award Effective Date: 12/01/2024; Program: CESEV-Chem Evo of Earth & Volc

ORE-CZ: Anthropogenic alteration of the urban Critical Zone and the effects upon solute chemistry in urban streams Award Effective Date: 01/01/2025; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

ORE-CZ: Providing opportunities and building systems of support for postdoctoral research to reveal hydrologic flow in the deep critical zone Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

ORE-CZ: Modeling impacts of salt stress on coupled carbon and water dynamics in dryland critical zones Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

ORE-CZ: Fresh Solutions to Salty Struggles: Unraveling Processes of Saltwater Intrusion and Soil Salinization in the Coastal Critical Zone Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

ORE-CZ: The influence of drought, heat waves, and critical zone architecture on water and carbon cycling dynamics of forested dryland agro-ecosystems Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories

MRI: Track 2 Acquisition of Modern Field Emission Electron Microprobe for current research and workforce development Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

Collaborative Research: Understanding the trapping of microplastic particles in riverbeds with synergistic pore resolving simulations and continuum modeling Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

RAPID: Identifying Drinking Water Contamination and Social Vulnerability Impacts from Urban Fires Award Effective Date: 10/01/2023; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

CAREER: Re-evaluating the evolution of the southern San Andreas Fault along its restraining bend from Holocene to Mid-Quaternary timescales via 36Cl/10Be burial and cosmogenic... Award Effective Date: 06/01/2019; Program: EAR-Earth Sciences Research

Collaborative Research: REU Site: 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: 03/01/2025; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Collaborative Research: REU Site: Microplastic Sources, Sinks, Transport and Environmental Impact across the Finger Lakes Watershed Award Effective Date: 11/01/2024; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

REU Site: Community-Soil-Air-Water: A Geoscience Learning Ecosystem for Urban Environments Award Effective Date: 11/01/2024; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Collaborative Research: Conference: GA6 Geosciences and Environmental Justice for Indigenous Communities Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER: Shallow geophysics of fault creep: linking slip and surface deformation on the San Andreas fault Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

RUI: Modeling the Earthquake Dynamics of Complex Thrust Fault Systems, with Application to the Western Transverse Ranges, California Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER: Unraveling spatiotemporal deformation patterns in the Basin and Range and Walker Lane provinces: Combining geochronology methods and scaffolded peer-peer student mentoring Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

CAREER: Connecting metamorphic reactions, fluid production, and deep slow slip in subduction zones Award Effective Date: 06/01/2024; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Collaborative Research: REU Site: Sustainable Land and Water Resources - A Community Based Research Experience for Undergraduates Award Effective Date: 05/01/2024; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

REU Site: Critical Zone Collaborative Network Research Experiences for Undergraduates (CZNet-REU) Award Effective Date: 03/01/2023; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

RAPID: Collecting post-hurricane Helene sediment samples in the Congaree National Park, South Carolina, to constrain floodplain-wide deposition of sand and mud Award Effective Date: 11/15/2024; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Towards constraining the source and fate of volcanically sourced mercury along the Aleutian-Alaska Arc, with implications for a revised global volcanic mercury budget Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: Searching for the Origin of ULVZs beneath Antarctica Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Equipment: MRI: Track 1 Acquisition of a State-of-the-Art Electron Microprobe for Research and Training Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

GEO-CM: The enrichment of critical metals in porphyry Cu deposits: a high-resolution mineral-scale approach to assess temporal and spatial variation in ore forming processes Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: a multi-proxy approach to discrimination of marine and terrestrial sediments in coastal wetlands Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Merging Particle Physics and Earth Science to develop a new tool to constrain the physical and chemical properties of LLSVPs Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

CAREER: Integrating geophysical data and hydrologic modeling to quantify subsurface water storage along elevation gradients in mountainous terrains Award Effective Date: 06/01/2024; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Assessing the roles of wear and roughness on dynamic fault friction Award Effective Date: 06/01/2024; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

CAREER: Fluid-driven Deformation in Underground Salt Caverns and Wastewater Injection Sites Award Effective Date: 05/01/2024; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Quantification of the Impact of Hydrologic Controls on Anomalous Solute Transport and Mixing Dynamics in Partially Saturated Porous Media Award Effective Date: 04/01/2024; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Proposal: Fluid flow metamorphism and strain localization in mid-crustal shear zones Award Effective Date: 10/01/2023; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

Collaborative Research: How do changes in land cover and climate perturb grassland water and carbon cycles below-ground? Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Ecosystem Science

Collaborative Research: Exploring the Role of Rapid Cementation, Cohesion, and Pore Fluid Pressure Evolution in the Dynamics of Slow Slip Events Award Effective Date: 10/01/2024; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

Collaborative Research: Testing the Impact of Land Plants on the Earth System Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

Collaborative Research: How much and why did Ice Sheets melt during the Last Interglacial (HISEAS) Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

Collaborative Research: The influence of climate and tectonics on Miocene ecosystems and faunal evolution in the East African Rift, Kenya Award Effective Date: 10/01/2023; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

Collaborative Research: The Lake Superior Basin: Natural Geomorphic Experiment, Deepwater-Terminating Ice Stream, and Isostatically Adjusting Rift Award Effective Date: 08/15/2022; Program: FRES-Frontier Rsrch Earth Sci

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: 03/01/2024; Program: GCR-Growing Convergence Resear

Innovative Resources: Cyberinfrastructure and community to leverage ground-based imagery in ecohydrological studies Award Effective Date: 01/01/2025; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

Collaborative Research: Sustained Resources: Prototyping a Framework for FAIR Data Communities: The Tephra Information Portal (TIP) Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

Collaborative Research: Innovative Resources: Into the ISOVERSE - open-source data tools for efficient, transparent, and reproducible processing of stable isotope data Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

Innovative Resources: MorFa3D: A Platform for Reconstructing 3D Morphology of Foraminifera from 2D Images Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

Innovative Resources: A Pilot Program Facilitating Access to Unpublished XAS Data for Earth Sciences Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

Collaborative Research: Sustained Resources: OpenTopography - An AI-ready Cyberinfrastructure Facility for Advancing Our Understanding of a Changing Earth Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

Collaborative Research: Sustained Resources: Neotoma: Advancing Earth Science Contributions to Global Change Research via Growth of Well-Curated Open Paleodata Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

Plume Structure and Mantle Layering Beneath the South Pacific: Modeling Teleseismic Waveforms from Traditional and Floating Sensors Award Effective Date: 01/15/2024; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

Collaborative Research: Quantitative Paleoclimatology of the East African Monsoon Award Effective Date: 03/01/2024; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

CAREER: Balancing the global alkalinity cycle by improving models of river chemistry Award Effective Date: 01/01/2025; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Collaborative Research: Linking Microbial Communities and Iron Geochemistry to Improve Acid Mine Drainage Bioremediation Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

EMBRACE-EAR-Growth: Coupling In-situ Probing and Modeling Moisture-Related Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling and Transport Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Collaborative Research: PYRITE OXIDATION AND THE ENSUING TRIPLE O ISOTOPE COMPOSITION OF SULFATE Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Collaborative Research: Field studies of the transformation of soil minerals in estuarine wetlands Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Collaborative Research: Calibration of Raman Spectroscopy for calcite saturation state in marine biogenic calcification Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

MCA: Incorporating Stream Biogeochemistry into Carbon Assessment of Enhanced Rock Weathering: A Machine Learning and Dynamic River Network Modelling Approach Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Collaborative Research: Investigating Hyporheic Zone Reaction Enhancement by Bioclogging Across Scales Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Collaborative Research: GEO-CM: Rare earth element and yttrium extraction by biotic and abiotic hydrous manganese oxides associated with acidic mine drainage Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

EMBRACE-EAR-Growth: Terrestrial geothermal features as a modern analog for Archaean ammonia flux: Research Experience to Enhance Geoscience Retention at an MSI Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Physiological interrogation of ammonia oxidation by metal limitation, through the lens of stable isotope dynamics Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

The biogeochemical signature of geogenic, redox-sensitive thallium Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

GOALI: Development of a breakthrough exploration method to explore for Cu-Ni-sulfide mineral deposits in the United States Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

CAREER: Understanding how Earth's coupled carbon and sulfur cycles evolved after the oxygenation of the atmosphere Award Effective Date: 07/01/2024; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Conference: Rocky Mountain Geobiology Symposium 2024 Award Effective Date: 04/01/2024; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

RAPID: Responses of Soil Organic Carbon Chemistry to Wildfires across a Rainfall Gradient Award Effective Date: 02/01/2024; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

CAREER:Mineralogical and Biogeochemical Control of Phosphorus Transformation during Soil Development Award Effective Date: 11/01/2023; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Collaborative Research: Towards a Better Understanding of Tl Isotope Cycling under Different Redox Conditions Award Effective Date: 12/01/2021; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

Collaborative Research: RUI: Investigating the role of hillslope processes in modulating topologic change of upland drainage basins. Award Effective Date: 10/01/2024; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

Formation Mechanism of Wind Ripples Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

MCA Pilot PUI: Developing new and novel research into the Miocene to Quaternary geomorphology of the upper Gunnison Basin, Colorado Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

EMBRACE-EAR-Seed: Meltwater and Suspended Sediment in a Glaciated Volcanic Watershed Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

Collaborative Research: RAPID: Quantifying the fluvial geomorphic response of the Blue Earth River to a catastrophic avulsive dam failure, Rapidan Dam, Minnesota Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

Collaborative Research: Tracking changes in Bhutan's glacial geomorphology, hydrology, and dynamics using geophysics Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

Loops in Coastal Channel Networks: a theoretical, experimental, and field-based investigation of their morphodynamic stability Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

RAPID: Assessing the Morphologic Impacts of Sequential Tropical Cyclones on Texas Barrier Islands Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam