Kent State University was awarded a three-year, $210,394 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 to expand understanding of the integrated Earth system. Under this award, Kent State University researchers will conduct a collaborative research project titled "Moving Mountains: Timing and Emplacement of the Marysvale Gravity Slide Complex." The project...
The National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences awarded a three-year Project Grant of $132,768 to the Board of Trustees of Illinois State University from July 2021 to June 2024 under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will support collaborative research titled "Moving Mountains: Timing and Emplacement of the Marysvale Gravity Slide Complex." The research aims to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric,...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $359,704 project grant to The University of Akron under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct collaborative research from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026. The research aims to study the roles of lithology and water on deep continental crustal rheology using natural field settings and laboratory experiments. The Geosciences program supports basic research to strengthen understanding of integrated Earth system processes through atmospheric,...
The Ohio State University received a $171,942 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities to support research activities under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2026. The grant funding will support collaborative research examining the interactions of natural and social systems with climate change, globalization, and infrastructure development in the Arctic region. Specifically, researchers...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support collaborative research to identify and assess evidence of past earthquake activity preserved in fault damage zones. The $377,838 award, which will run from June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2028, will involve field studies, rock mechanics experiments, and theoretical modeling to develop criteria for distinguishing earthquake-related damage from long-term fault evolution. The goal is to...
Oregon State University was awarded an $847,422 project grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) for the period of September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant will support OSU's "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: EARTHCUBE CAPABILITIES: REPURPOSING FAIR-COMPLIANT EARTH SCIENCE DATA REPOSITORIES" project. Specifically, OSU will work to enhance existing earth science data repositories and infrastructure to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences awarded a $172,594 Project Grant to Oregon State University under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) for a 3-year collaborative undergraduate research project. The grant will fund an investigation into the tectonic and landscape evolution of the Klamath Mountains region of the Pacific Northwest, which was shaped by the accretion of the Siletzia oceanic plateau onto the North American plate millions of years ago. The principal...
The National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences awarded a $235,444 Project Grant to Indiana University under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) for the period of September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2026. The grant supports collaborative research toward developing an integrated modeling framework for physics-based estimates of megathrust rupture potential. The Geosciences program aims to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in...
The Ohio State University received a $652,363 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences under the Geosciences CFDA program. The grant supports research to quantify the contributions of atmospheric and oceanic forcing to low-frequency sea surface temperature (SST) variability in the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans. The project uses a stochastic model to analyze observational datasets and climate model simulations to understand...
The Ohio State University received a three-year, $349,810 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences on September 1, 2021 to complete the "U.S.-Ireland R&D Partnership: Sensor Application to Peatland Hydrology in Remote Environments (SAPHIRE)" project. Under this award made through the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA #47.050), The Ohio State University will work to strengthen understanding of integrated Earth systems through basic research...