The National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences awarded a $239,517 Project Grant to Stanford University under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) to support research exploring the potential role of a basal magma ocean in influencing early Earth's magnetic field processes. Over the two-year period from August 15, 2022 to July 31, 2025, the grantee will collect new experimental measurements on the physical properties of iron-bearing silicate melts under various...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $208,680 will support research into the role of a basal magma ocean in influencing early Earth's magnetic field processes. Awarded on August 15, 2022 to the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, with performance through July 31, 2025, the grant is part of NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The research team will conduct dynamic and static compression experiments to measure physical properties of...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $191,614 to the University of South Florida to conduct collaborative research on the dynamic compression of iron-sulfur alloys at conditions relevant to the Earth's core. Over the two-year project period starting September 1, 2024, the research team will perform dynamic compression experiments and molecular dynamics simulations to study the crystal structure, melting, and...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $564,286 provides funding from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2025 to support research investigating two hypotheses for the generation of Earth's ancient magnetic field. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the award will be used to conduct first-principles quantum-mechanical simulations to predict key material properties governing electron transport in silicate liquids and test whether a silicate dynamo hosted in...
The National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences awarded a $641,554 Project Grant to the Carnegie Institution of Washington to support research measuring the melting curve of iron to the pressure of Earth's inner core boundary from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2024. The research aims to strengthen fundamental knowledge of the integrated Earth system through latent-heat based measurements of the melting properties of iron at extreme pressures similar to those in Earth's deep...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences, under the NSF Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), provides $225,000 to Michigan State University (MSU) over 2 years to conduct collaborative research on the effects of ferric iron on heat transport in Earth's mantle. The key objectives of this project are to: 1) Conduct experiments to grow mantle-relevant crystals with compositions including oxidized iron, 2) Measure the heat flow in these crystals...
This $107,298 National Science Foundation project grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research at the University of Rochester to investigate the evolution of magnetic fields on Earth and other planets. Over five years, the award will support graduate student and local high school/undergraduate student-led research using computer modeling and shock experiments to study early planetary core formation and the potential influence of meteorite impacts on generating magnetic...
This $550,014 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences, under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050), will fund research at Arizona State University to advance understanding of the influence of subducted slabs on thermal and chemical heterogeneities in Earth's lowermost mantle. The awardee will perform high-resolution thermo-chemical modeling using supercomputing to simulate the variable behaviors and interactions of subducted tectonic plates...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) award of $308,705 to Michigan State University (MSU), with a performance period from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027, supports collaborative research into thin film mineral physics and its applications to understanding deep-focus earthquakes related to subduction zone plate tectonics. The project aims to carefully measure the crystal structure transformations of nano-grains of magnesium silicate (Mg2SiO4) thin films under...
This $199,998 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to the Carnegie Institution of Washington, doing business as the Carnegie Institution for Science, for a two-year collaborative research project. The project aims to investigate the crystal structure, melting, and crystallization of iron-sulfur (Fe-S) alloys under the extreme pressure and temperature conditions of the Earth's core. The research team, which includes scientists from...