Cornell University received a $348,300 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences to investigate volatile evolution and decompression rates of high-intensity basaltic eruptions. Under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research in integrated Earth system sciences, Cornell will conduct field and laboratory research over three years from July 2023 to June 2026. The university will analyze melt inclusions and reconstruct chemical...
The National Science Foundation awarded Cornell University a $775,595 project grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) for the period of January 15, 2021 through December 31, 2023. The grant funds basic research exploring the role of boundary layer microbial remineralization in flavivirus-host dynamics. The Geosciences program supports fundamental knowledge and understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Cornell...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $273,237 Project Grant to Cornell University under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to support collaborative research titled "CONCENTRATION - RATIO - DISCHARGE (C-R-Q) RELATIONSHIPS OF TRANSIENT WATER-AGE DISTRIBUTIONS." This two-year award, issued on January 15, 2022 and concluding on December 31, 2024, will fund research examining relationships between concentration, ratio, and discharge metrics related to transient water-age...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences award, funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to support fundamental research to expand knowledge of the Earth system, provides $111,760 to Suffolk County Community College from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2027. The funding will support a collaborative research project to integrate fluorspar dating and geophysical models to constrain the timing and mechanisms of the collapse of the Cordillera mountain range in...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $117,832 awarded on July 1, 2022 will support research into the geological processes that have shaped the continental lithosphere beneath New England through time. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the investigators from Williams College and research institutions will conduct seismic imaging of the crust and upper mantle using data from deployments of seismometers in New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine....
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences awarded a $656,350 Project Grant to Cornell University for a collaborative research project titled "Unraveling the Link between Water Ages and Silicate Weathering Rates at the Catchment Scale." This grant, funded through the Geosciences CFDA 47.050 program, aims to better characterize the relationship between groundwater ages and silicate weathering rates at the catchment-scale through a combined hydrologic and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences awarded a $699,380 project grant to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York, doing business as Stony Brook University, under the NSF Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will fund collaborative research to integrate fluorspar age dating and geophysical models to investigate the timing and mechanisms of the collapse of the Cordillera mountain range in southwestern North America approximately 30 million...
Cornell University was awarded a three-year, $433,198 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) beginning July 1, 2023. Under this award, Cornell will systematically map magma bodies beneath Cascades volcanoes in Washington, Oregon, and northern California through seismic imaging techniques. Working with the U.S. Geological Survey's Cascades Volcano Observatory, Cornell researchers will analyze seismic data from newly deployed instruments near volcano...
The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York received a $223,744 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences. The grant was awarded on September 1, 2021 under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to support research exploring dislocation structures with conventional electron backscatter diffraction through August 31, 2023. The Geosciences program aims to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $349,282 to Dartmouth College from July 2021 through June 2023. The funding supports collaborative research using multisystem deep-time thermochronology to decipher Neoproterozoic exhumation patterns in time and space. The Geosciences program aims to strengthen the national scientific enterprise through expanded fundamental knowledge and understanding of the integrated Earth system via basic...