Project Grant 80NSSC24K1795

The National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences awarded a $239,517 Project Grant to Stanford University under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) to support research exploring the potential role of a basal magma ocean in influencing early Earth's magnetic field processes. Over the two-year period from August 15, 2022 to July 31, 2025, the grantee will collect new experimental measurements on the physical properties of iron-bearing silicate melts under various...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $650,214 to the University of Nevada, Reno to study lithium enrichment in volcanic caldera systems. Principal investigators Drs. Harlaux and Ruprecht will analyze melt and fluid inclusions in volcanic rocks from the McDermitt Caldera using electron microprobe, LA-ICP-MS, and SIMS to determine how lithium progressively enriched in magmas and was partitioned into volatile phases during magma...

This National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences project grant of $209,641 will fund research from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025 to reconstruct magmatic plumbing systems using fluid inclusions. Led by Cornell University, this award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will support three principal investigators to precisely measure densities of carbon dioxide-rich fluids trapped in crystals from volcanic eruptions on Hawaii and the Canary Islands. By determining fluid...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $208,680 will support research into the role of a basal magma ocean in influencing early Earth's magnetic field processes. Awarded on August 15, 2022 to the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, with performance through July 31, 2025, the grant is part of NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The research team will conduct dynamic and static compression experiments to measure physical properties of...

This federal Project Grant award from the NASA Science Mission Directorate (CFDA 43.001 - Science) provides $340,199 to Aeolis Research Inc., a for-profit research company based in Chandler, Arizona, to conduct research on "Modeling Contaminant Transport to Mars Special Regions" from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2027. The award supports advanced computational modeling and data analysis to study planetary atmospheric dynamics and transport processes, with a focus on understanding the...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $293,231 to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, to conduct collaborative research on magma storage depths and chemical variability in volcanic systems in the Cascade Arc. The research aims to better constrain the depths at which mafic magmas erupting in the Cascades were stored prior to eruption by directly measuring the CO2...

Greenpath Systems LLC was awarded a $199,948 project grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to develop a multi-stage nanofiltration process for extracting value-added minerals from produced water. The project is being conducted under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which supports basic research to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and economic competitiveness. Specifically, Greenpath Systems will...

This three-year National Science Foundation project grant of $358,891 will fund research and educational activities related to understanding the cycling of halogens like chlorine and fluorine in Earth's early magmas and fluids. Led by the University of Rochester under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the project aims to advance fundamental knowledge of integrated Earth system processes through targeted studies of ancient zircon minerals. Key deliverables include high-temperature and...

This $374,395 National Science Foundation project grant through the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research at Rutgers University and Princeton University from December 2022 through November 2024. The grant supports the identification of silicate diagenesis processes controlling pore fluid chemistry in marine sediments and their influence on the geochemical budgets of magnesium, strontium, lithium, and boron through analysis of pore fluid samples from the Mid-Norwegian Margin....

This National Science Foundation Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) project grant award of $292,742 to the University of Houston System will fund collaborative research to re-evaluate magma storage depths and the origin of chemical variability in volcanic systems in the Cascade region. The key products of this 3-year project include: Measuring the volatile contents, including CO2, in olivine-hosted melt inclusions to better constrain magma storage depths in the Cascade region and gain insights into...