The Regents of the University of Minnesota received a three-year, $343,273 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant funds a collaborative research project titled "Sustainable Land and Water Resources - A Community Based Participatory Research Experience for Undergraduates." The project aims to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research and provide...
The Regents of the University of Minnesota received a three-year, $348,253 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: TWO-WAY COUPLED FLUID/PARTICULATE TRANSPORT IN FRACTURED MEDIA - BRIDGING THE SCALES FROM MICROSCOPIC ORIGINS TO MACROSCOPIC NETWORKS." The research aims to strengthen fundamental understanding of integrated Earth systems through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and...
The Regents of the University of Minnesota received a $277,175 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences. The grant will fund the development of precipitation, evaporation and temperature records from tropical lake sediments and cave deposits for the last 700,000 years. This work supports the goals of the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA #47.050), which aims to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric,...
Regents of the University of Minnesota received a $265,128 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050). The grant supports collaborative research from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026 to study the rheological behavior of fault gouge at high temperatures. The research aims to determine how extreme temperatures affect the strength and stability of fault materials through deformation experiments. It...
The Regents of the University of Minnesota were awarded a three-year, $299,017 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will support collaborative research exploring new roles for reactive oxygen species in mediating carbon fluxes at the terrestrial-aquatic interface. The research aims to strengthen fundamental understanding of the integrated Earth system by expanding knowledge of atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences...
The Regents of the University of Minnesota received a $832,098 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) on September 15, 2023. The award will fund a 4-year collaborative research project to investigate the impacts of climate change-driven glacier retreat on Andean volcanoes in the inner tropics, including effects on water supply, vegetation, elemental cycling, and local indigenous Kichwa communities....
The Regents of the University of Minnesota received a two-year, $228,130 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences to support research entitled "Untangling the Roles of Viscous, Elastic, and Plastic Deformation in Slab Bending." This grant was awarded under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to expand fundamental knowledge and understanding of Earth's integrated system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean...
The Regents of the University of Minnesota received a three-year, $135,037 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences on August 1, 2021 to support research titled "Collaborative Research: Sedimentary Signature of Shallow and Tsunamigenic Megathrust Ruptures: Observations and Physical Models from Recent Catastrophic Events."
Under the award, the University will conduct basic research to strengthen understanding of integrated earth system...
The Regents of the University of Minnesota received a $234,181 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will support collaborative research to determine the local melt structure and fluid and melt viscosity of albite, basaltic melts, and aqueous fluids with dissolved albite under high pressures and temperatures relevant to Earth's interior. Researchers will combine experimentally derived...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences provides $174,000 to support research on the evolution of landscapes buried by Quaternary sediments. The two-year award, made effective February 1, 2022 through January 31, 2024, will fund work advancing fundamental knowledge and understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in the atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Specifically, the grant recipient will conduct studies of landscapes...