Project Grant 2019FABX0012

This $127,663 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) is funding collaborative research at William Marsh Rice University to explore the role of rapid cementation, cohesion, and pore fluid pressure evolution in the dynamics of slow slip events. The research aims to better understand the physical mechanisms responsible for slow slip events, which are significant geophysical discoveries that can impact seismic hazards, but remain...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award of $125,519 to Cornell University, with a performance period from February 15, 2025 to January 31, 2028, will support collaborative research to observe and analyze the evolution of frictional interfaces. The goal is to understand how the contacts between surfaces, such as in fault lines or the bases of ice sheets, control large-scale behaviors like earthquakes and ice sheet collapse. The researchers will...

The University of Massachusetts received a $371,071 project grant award from the National Science Foundation on April 1, 2021 to support research examining the role of strike-slip fault interaction on long-term slip rates. The three-year award, made under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will fund basic research exploring integrated earth system processes through studying the effects of interacting strike-slip faults on slip accumulation over time. The Geosciences program aims to...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences Project Grant awarded to the Planetary Science Institute will conduct collaborative research to study the deformation behavior and rheology of subduction zone rocks. The $169,023 award, made under NSF's Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) program, will address two key questions: 1) how the heterogeneous rheology along subduction megathrusts affects fault slip behavior, and 2) how inelastic deformation on- and off-fault impacts strain energy...

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This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $226,022 to the University of Washington to investigate slow slip and fault locking along the Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone. The research team will deploy broadband seismic instruments on the Kenai Peninsula and use distributed acoustic sensing technology in the Cook Inlet region to collect data that will be used to model the structure and seismic wave speeds in the Pacific and North...

This Project Grant award of $317,795 from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) supports research by the Colorado School of Mines to disentangle the internal and basal processes that influence ice sheet flow and contribute to sea-level rise. The project combines satellite remote sensing data with ice-penetrating radar observations to partition the contributions of internal and basal friction within the ice sheet. Key efforts include developing open-source...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $1,199,427 Cooperative Agreement to the Great Lakes Observing System Regional Association (GLOS) under the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 11.012). The purpose of this 3-year project is to develop a low-cost observing network capable of gathering real-time water level data and relating it to coastal hazards in the Great Lakes region. The project aims to fill critical gaps in existing coastal...

This $425,393 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Sea Grant Support program (CFDA 11.417) aims to develop community awareness and action to reduce anthropogenic debris input into the North American Great Lakes. The primary activities include installing trash capture devices (LittaTraps) in storm drains and delivering an educational program (CASCADE) to foster local connections to the lakes and motivate debris pollution...

This $362,718 National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs Project Grant will support research to improve model representations of Antarctic ice-shelf instability and break-up due to surface meltwater processes. The Regents of the University of Colorado will receive funding from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2025 to develop a new component for the continental-scale Ice-Sheet and Sea-Level System Model (ISSM) capable of simulating surface meltwater-induced flexure, fracture,...