Project Grant 1118335

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $236,141 supports research by Columbia University under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) from May 15, 2022 to April 30, 2025. The research aims to reconstruct the missing geological record of late Proterozoic tectonism along the western margin of Laurentia using low-temperature thermochronology. Researchers will study the thermal imprint of sedimentary cover on basement rocks beneath major unconformities to fill a one-billion-year gap in the...

The University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. was awarded a $432,634 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences. The grant falls under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research in the atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences to strengthen the national scientific enterprise. Through this four-year award beginning August 1, 2021, the University of Kansas and its parent institution will collaborate on research titled...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences, funded under the Geosciences CFDA program (47.050), provides $129,643 to the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (UA) to conduct collaborative research on the impact of magmatic underplating on the evolution of the lower continental crust. The key objectives are to: (i) constrain the timing and duration of magmatic intraplating and metamorphism in different tectonic settings, (ii) identify and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will provide $190,501 to Colgate University to advance the understanding of plate tectonics and mantle dynamics beneath the African continent. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: Developing high-resolution continental-scale models of the African continent's kinematics, crustal and lithospheric structure, upper mantle seismic properties, and key mantle...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences under the Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) program provides $395,622 to the University of Washington to investigate how water moves through the subducting slab in eclogite facies subduction zones. The research aims to construct a plate-scale map of fluid pathways, including veins and ductile deformation zones, and link these pathways to specific dehydration reactions within the subducting oceanic crust and...

This two-year, $180,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research into the influence of critical zone water storage on forest drought vulnerability and transpiration fluxes across complex mountainous terrain in Colorado. The grantee will employ field investigations using seismic surveys and electrical resistivity tomography to gather data on belowground structure and water storage along hillslope transects in the Boulder Creek...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $486,338 over 3 years, starting September 1, 2024, to conduct research at Pennsylvania State University on the mobility of heat-producing elements in continental crust. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: Measuring concentrations of uranium and thorium in rocks and minerals across two temperature profiles in exhumed sections of middle and lower...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports a collaborative research project to advance the understanding of Earth's deep structure and tectonics beneath the African continent. The $224,360 award to the University of Rochester will develop high-resolution models of the African continental crust, lithosphere, and upper mantle using seismic and geodetic data. The goal is to investigate how the anomalously hot upper mantle beneath...

This $546,436 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research at Washington State University to study the Paleoarchean geologic record preserved in the Zimbabwe and Sao Francisco cratons. The principal investigator and students will integrate isotope geochemistry and geochronology techniques to determine the timescale of crust formation events in these regions from 3.65 to 2.7 billion years ago. They will obtain helium,...

This Project Grant award for $398,707 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports a collaborative research project between the University of Oregon and other institutions to study the geologic history and tectonic evolution of the Pacific Northwest region. The project aims to test models for the surface response to the Eocene collision of the Siletz oceanic terrane with western North America, as well as the subsequent post-collision adjustments that shaped...