The National Science Foundation awarded a $447,680 Project Grant to the University of California, Berkeley under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to support a multi-disciplinary investigation of slab deformation and resulting seismic anisotropy from the transition zone to the base of the mantle. The three-year project beginning July 1, 2021 will utilize Berkeley's expertise in geophysics, seismology and geodynamics to advance fundamental understanding of integrated Earth system processes...
The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, was awarded a $260,632 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences on July 15, 2021 to complete the project by June 30, 2024. The grant will fund collaborative research to improve understanding of subsurface plumbing, tremor migration, and eruption cycles of Yellowstone geysers. The research aligns with the Geosciences program's goal of expanding fundamental...
The Regents of the University of Colorado received a $184,330 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences on July 15, 2021 to complete the project by June 30, 2024. The grant funds collaborative research on geodetic imaging of the interplay between creep, locking, earthquakes and land subsidence along the Chaman plate boundary. This work directly supports the goals of the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to strengthen understanding of integrated...
The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, received a $827,001 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities to support the EARTHCUBE CAPABILITIES: REDUCING TIME-TO-SCIENCE FOR TERRESTRIAL SENSOR NETWORKS BY INTEGRATING FIELD NOTES, MANAGEMENT, AND QA/QC INTO DATA CURATION project. Under this three-year award beginning September 1, 2021 and ending August 31, 2024, UC Berkeley will develop...
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...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $206,815 Project Grant to the University of California, Berkeley under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to support the collaborative research project "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: GEOPATHS IN: DIG CAMP - DATA IN GEOSCIENCES: COLLABORATION AND MENTORING PROGRAM?TEAMING LATINX HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE STUDENTS FOR DATA USE IN GEOSCIENC." The three-year award beginning October 1, 2021 will provide funding for the University of California,...
This $191,710 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) is supporting a collaborative research effort to address fundamental issues linking great earthquakes with plate tectonics. The interdisciplinary team, led by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), is developing advanced computational methods and algorithms to enable the simulation of long-term tectonic plate motions coupled with the space-time evolution of stresses...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $174,000 two-year Project Grant to researchers at the University of California, Berkeley under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will support research into the spatiotemporal scales of transient slow slip on the San Andreas Fault near San Juan Bautista, Central California, and the implications for seismic hazard assessment in the region. Specifically, the funding will allow researchers to conduct fieldwork and analyses to better understand...
This $139,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences supports research towards understanding deep crustal faulting and fluid movement through analysis of long period earthquakes near Clearlake, California. The Regents of the University of California, Berkeley will analyze long period event catalogs, determine hypocenter locations, characterize deep events, and comparatively analyze deep long-period events at the Clear Lake Volcanic Field to low-frequency...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $214,606 Project Grant to the University of California, Berkeley on May 1, 2021 for research concluding on April 30, 2023. The grant is part of NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research to enhance understanding of the integrated Earth system. Specifically, the grant funds research into the dynamics of large buoyant plumes through April 2023. As part of NSF's mission to strengthen the national scientific enterprise, this award...