The University of Miami was awarded a $287,776 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences to support research entitled "Collaborative Research: Probing Feedbacks Between Thermal Structure, Petrologic Transformation, and Rheologic Evolution within Dynamically Evolving Subduction Zones." The three-year award, issued on August 1, 2021 with a completion date of July 31, 2024, will fund basic research activities through the NSF's Geosciences program...
This three-year, $108,172 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, Amherst College, will lead an integrated field and laboratory study examining the geometric, temperature, and pressure relationships in metamorphic rocks. The research aims to test the controversial concept of non-lithostatic pressure preservation...
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....
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...
Brown University received a $335,370 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050). The award will fund research from July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2026 to evaluate the processes that create, modify and destroy continental crust through studying the transition from normal subduction to slab window formation in southern Patagonia. Specifically, the university will collect new geochemical and...
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...
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received a two-year, $253,492 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences on September 1, 2021 to conduct research on the role of subducting seamounts in fault stability and slip behavior throughout the seismic cycle. MIT will use the funding to support basic research exploring the integrated Earth system through studying how subducting seamounts, underwater volcanoes formed over hotspots, impact fault...
This National Science Foundation project grant award of $701,062 provides funding from July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2025 to Yale University under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The award will support research into quantitatively assessing the impact of unequal stresses on geologic processes in subduction zones. Specifically, the grantee will develop theoretical models and apply them to natural samples to evaluate how non-hydrostatic stress affects mineral interface stability, solid...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $399,282 to the University of South Carolina to conduct collaborative research on the thermal structure of an ancient Alpine subduction zone. The research team will integrate petrochronology (pressure-temperature-time constraints) of exhumed rocks from the Western Alps with geodynamic subduction modeling to characterize the time-evolving thermal conditions along the paleo-subduction...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences Project Grant, awarded to the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC), aims to advance the understanding of subduction fault and earthquake mechanics. Through a combination of new experiments on subduction zone rocks and numerical modeling, the project will investigate how the rheology (deformation behavior) of the megathrust fault zone, and the heterogeneity within it, affect fault slip behavior. Additionally, the project will...