The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) received a $327,228 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences on December 1, 2021 to develop a paired kerogen-pyrite sulfur isotope proxy for organic remineralization. The award is being used to fund research under the Geosciences program (CFDA #47.050) through November 30, 2023. The Geosciences program supports basic research to expand understanding of the integrated Earth system, including the oceans....
The National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences awarded $475,737 under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) to the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. This three-year Project Grant, beginning October 1, 2021 and ending September 30, 2024, will support research entitled "DATA MINING THE DEEP: COMBINING GEOCHEMISTRY AND IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY TO QUANTIFY THE IMPACT ON OCEAN CHEMISTRY OF DEEP HYDROTHERMAL CIRCULATION AT MID-OCEAN RIDGES."...
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) received a $193,590 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences on December 15, 2021 to support research efforts concluding on November 30, 2022. The grant funding will support Caltech's project "Probing the Mechanical Properties of the Crust and Upper Mantle Using Geodetic, Remote Sensing and Seismological Observations" under the Geosciences program (CFDA #47.050). The Geosciences program aims...
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) was awarded a two-year, $482,262 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will fund research to quantify the biological, diagenetic, and global redox effects on uranium stable isotopes in deep-sea corals across glacial-interglacial cycles. The research aims to expand fundamental knowledge of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric,...
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) was awarded a $327,228 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will support research titled "Biological Methane Sinks in the Deep Ocean: Linking Genomic Diversity and Ecophysiology in Syntrophic Methane-Oxidizing Consortia." Through October 2023, Caltech researchers will investigate the genomic diversity and functions of microbial...
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) received a $342,205 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences on May 15, 2021 to complete the project "MICROSWARMS: A LENS INTO FAULT STRUCTURE AND ASEISMIC PROCESSES DEEP IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA'S CRUST" by April 30, 2024. The grant is part of the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research to expand understanding of the integrated Earth system. Under the award, Caltech...
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) received a $452,600 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences on July 15, 2021 to conduct research titled "Seismic and Aseismic Slip in Faults with Rock Gouge Using a 3D Laboratory Earthquake Setup: The Effect of Fluid Injection Rate." The award has a completion date of June 30, 2024 and is funded through the Geosciences program (CFDA #47.050) of the NSF. The Geosciences program aims to expand...
The University of California Irvine was awarded a $735,683 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences. The grant is part of the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system. Under the award, UC Irvine will conduct collaborative research on particle scavenging controls of trace element distributions from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2024. The research aims to expand fundamental...
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) received a $297,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences on August 1, 2021 to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF SEISMIC HAZARD IN TEHUANTEPEC, MEXICO, USING AMPHIBIOUS MT STUDIES." The two-year project will advance understanding of integrated Earth systems through basic research in ocean and atmospheric sciences, as outlined in the Geosciences program...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $999,999 Project Grant to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to acquire a field emission electron microprobe for Caltech's Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences. The two-year award, made under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will support the purchase of instrumentation to strengthen basic research capabilities in integrated Earth system science through September 2023. Specifically, the electron microprobe will expand...