Project Grant 1055454

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences, under the NSF Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), provides $225,000 to Michigan State University (MSU) over 2 years to conduct collaborative research on the effects of ferric iron on heat transport in Earth's mantle. The key objectives of this project are to: 1) Conduct experiments to grow mantle-relevant crystals with compositions including oxidized iron, 2) Measure the heat flow in these crystals...

This $206,024 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award under the NSF Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports research by an early-career scientist at the University of the South (Sewanee) to investigate the influence of cation substitution on the stability and geophysical properties of hydrous phases in the Earth's lower mantle. The project combines computational modeling and high-pressure, high-temperature experimental techniques to evaluate how the incorporation of aluminum and iron...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) award of $308,705 to Michigan State University (MSU), with a performance period from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027, supports collaborative research into thin film mineral physics and its applications to understanding deep-focus earthquakes related to subduction zone plate tectonics. The project aims to carefully measure the crystal structure transformations of nano-grains of magnesium silicate (Mg2SiO4) thin films under...

This two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering, under the CFDA 47.079 program, provides $347,750 to Carnegie Institution for Science to study the thermal conductivity of lower mantle minerals and outer core alloys. Using combined fast pulsed laser and optical spectroscopy techniques, Carnegie Institution for Science will analyze how heat is transferred through Earth's deep interior. Insights from this research could advance...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $655,938 to the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography to conduct a 3-D multichannel seismic survey and time-lapse imaging of the magmatic and hydrothermal systems at the 9°50'N segment of the East Pacific Rise. This study aims to advance understanding of volcanic cycles on decadal timescales by repeating a similar seismic experiment performed in 2008....

This $169,374 National Science Foundation Project Grant from the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund the acquisition of a Phenom-XL tabletop scanning electron microscope and energy dispersive X-ray spectrometer for research, teaching, and public outreach at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. The microscope will support investigations by Drs. Haynes, Walker, and Menking into past climate and ocean change, clay mineral formation, and lake sediment composition. Their research aims to...

This $199,998 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to the Carnegie Institution of Washington, doing business as the Carnegie Institution for Science, for a two-year collaborative research project. The project aims to investigate the crystal structure, melting, and crystallization of iron-sulfur (Fe-S) alloys under the extreme pressure and temperature conditions of the Earth's core. The research team, which includes scientists from...

This three-year National Science Foundation Project Grant of $180,000 will fund research exploring anisotropy in the deep Earth through experiments and modeling of crystal alignment at high pressure and temperature conditions. The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, will conduct synchrotron diffraction experiments on lower mantle minerals such as ringwoodite, bridgmanite, ferropericlase and postperovskite to study nucleation and...

This two-year, $344,628 National Science Foundation project grant funds research at the University of California, Berkeley to detect waves in Earth's liquid metal core using modern data science methods applied to recent satellite observations of the planet's magnetic field. The goal is to gain new insights into the dynamics of Earth's interior that generate and influence changes in the magnetic field over time. Detecting core waves through analysis of secular acceleration records from the past...

This $1,046,084 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will enable the acquisition of a Metaljet X-Ray Microdiffraction System at the Carnegie Institution of Washington to support fundamental research under extreme pressure conditions. The instrument will allow researchers to study the crystal structures and processes of materials found in the Earth's interior, facilitating the discovery of novel, technologically relevant materials such as...