Project Grant 2000748

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences program Project Grant award of $100,000 to James Madison University (JMU) will initiate a travel grant program to enable up to 50 early-to-mid career faculty from under-resourced institutions, such as emerging research institutions (ERIs), minority-serving institutions (MSIs), and community colleges, to attend the 2024 Fall American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting. In addition to a travel stipend, the awardees will participate in...

This $268,676 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund analysis of approximately 4 km of sediment cores recovered from the Guaymas Basin in the Gulf of California through the International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 385. Over a three-year period, the award will support a research team of three master's degree students mentored by two female professors to conduct lithofacies and petrofacies analyses of the cores. This work aims to...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE) program (CFDA 47.079) will provide $447,335 to the University of Oklahoma to train U.S. undergraduate students to study the texture and mineralogy of mineral dust, a critical component of fertile agricultural soils. The 3-year project will use field sampling, laboratory analyses, and limited detrital-zircon provenance studies to characterize the origin and properties of dust...

This $563,190 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will support the development of a community-driven roadmap to advance broadening participation goals in the geoscience community over the next 50 years. The University of Texas at Austin will convene a conference for stakeholders from academia, industry, professional organizations, and government agencies to reflect on past efforts and cultivate new partnerships to support diversity, equity and...

The Geological Society of America, Inc. was awarded a $191,930 project grant from the U.S. Geological Survey under the U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808) to fund a Congressional Science Fellow from March 31, 2023 through August 31, 2024. Under this award, a geoscience professional will spend one year working in a Congressional office or committee, contributing scientific expertise through constituent meetings, drafting legislation and communications. The...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $224,956 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the IUP Research Institute at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. The COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: GEOPATHS:GO: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATH STUDENT EXPERIENCES ABOARD SHIPS (STEMSEAS) project aims to increase the number and diversity of students pursuing degrees and careers in the geosciences. The project will provide undergraduate students from across the U.S.,...

This $185,953 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports collaborative research to leverage isotopic compositions of igneous systems to resolve the geometry and distribution of subducted sediment in the southern U.S. Cordillera. The research, led by the University of Texas at El Paso, aims to determine the distribution and geometry of subducted sediment in the continental crust by using igneous rocks as "deep-crustal probes" to...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $259,278 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the Regents of the University of California, operating as the University of California, Berkeley. The "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: GEOPATHS:GO: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATH STUDENT EXPERIENCES ABOARD SHIPS (STEMSEAS)" project aims to increase the number and diversity of students pursuing degrees and careers in the geosciences. The project will provide short...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences totals $656,580 to support research investigating the role of microbialites in Lower-Middle Ordovician reefs of Laurentia. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the award will strengthen fundamental knowledge of the integrated Earth system through basic research in the atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Specifically, the grant will fund quantification of framework builders in Early-Middle...

This federal Project Grant award of $289,578 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports the "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: GEOPATHS:GO: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATH STUDENT EXPERIENCES ABOARD SHIPS (STEMSEAS)" project. The goal of this 4-year project is to increase the number and diversity of students pursuing degrees and careers in the geosciences by providing undergraduate students, especially those from underrepresented backgrounds, with...