Project Grant 1838444

This $449,746 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) funds research at the University of Nevada, Reno to investigate how the continental crust responds structurally, thermally, and compositionally to the transition from subduction to collision during plate convergence. Specifically, the research team will establish a cross-section through the ancient Gangdese batholith crust in southern Tibet to study how crustal properties vary with depth. They...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $253,617 will fund research from August 2022 to July 2025 to resolve conflicting evidence regarding metamorphic pressures and stratigraphy in the Tethyan Himalaya. The research team from the University of Nevada, Reno will conduct integrated field and laboratory studies to determine the geometric, temperature, and pressure relationships in basal strata of the Tethyan section. They will test the controversial concept of non-lithostatic pressure...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) is funding a collaborative research effort to bridge the gap between short-term earthquake dynamics and long-term plate tectonic processes. The $205,000 award to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University will develop advanced computational methods to efficiently model the coupled physics of great earthquakes and plate tectonics on the largest supercomputers. The project aims to provide a...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Polar Programs awarded a $627,264 Project Grant to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY), operating as Stony Brook University, to conduct a comprehensive seismic investigation of the Earth's crust and upper mantle beneath the South Pole in East Antarctica. The 5-year project, titled "CAREER: A Comprehensive Seismic Investigation to the Crust and Uppermost Mantle Beneath the South Pole, East...

This two-year, $151,076 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA #47.050) will support the development of a database of high-fidelity synthetic seismograms for incorporation into the Global Centroid-Moment-Tensor Project. The awardee, Princeton University, will work with the Princeton Numerical Seismology Group and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory to adapt the SPECFEM3D_GLOBE spectral element solver to generate synthetic seismograms across a global grid of...

This $228,331 National Science Foundation project grant supports collaborative research to understand the evolution of continental lithosphere beneath New England through geologic time. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the research team will employ seismic imaging techniques and analyze geologic structures exposed at the surface to illuminate plate tectonic processes that have shaped the region. Specifically, the investigators from the University of Vermont and partner...

This three-year, $212,432 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research to resolve conflicting evidence regarding metamorphic pressures and stratigraphy in the Tethyan Himalaya. The grantee, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, will lead an integrated field and laboratory study to determine the geometric, temperature, and pressure relationships in this region and assess the viability of non-lithostatic pressure conditions...

This $229,971 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences (CFDA 47.050 Geosciences) will support a collaborative research project to evaluate the role of terrane accretion on the evolution of indenter corner fault systems in the Eastern Himalayan region. The key objectives of the 3-year project are to reconstruct the kinematic history of a triple junction in the Eastern Himalayan indenter corner, focusing on the Noa Dihing Fault, in order to test the...

This $139,967 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund a collaborative research effort to advance capabilities for modeling ultra-low velocity zones (ULVZs) at the Earth's core-mantle boundary. The project will: Collect a new database of ULVZ-sensitive seismic waveforms from sources in South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and the International Monitoring System arrays. Develop a Bayesian waveform inversion approach to quantitatively...

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...