The Regents of the University of Colorado received a $123,303 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences on December 15, 2021 to support research under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) until November 30, 2022. The grant funds collaborative research titled "RAPID: Extreme Disturbances/Perturbations to Coastal Deposition Systems" to strengthen understanding of integrated Earth system processes through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and...
The University of Colorado received a $121,461 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) for the period of September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant funds basic research to image volcanic transcrustal magmatic systems using teleseismic converted phases. The NSF Geosciences program aims to expand fundamental knowledge and understanding of the integrated Earth system through support of basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean...
The Regents of the University of Colorado received a $176,024 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on January 1, 2022 to support basic research under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The research, titled "NNA RESEARCH: THE GREENLAND HAZARDS PROJECT," will strengthen understanding of integrated Earth system processes through studies of hazards in Greenland. The University will conduct the research over the one-year period ending December 31, 2022 at its...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $174,000 two-year Project Grant to researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will fund a research project to Quantify Scale of Lower Crust and Mantle Heterogeneities Beneath the Continental United States through Bridging Seismology, Mineral Physics, Petrology, and Magnetotellurics. The Geosciences program supports basic research to strengthen understanding of Earth's integrated system. This...
The National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences awarded a $135,001 Project Grant to The Regents of the University of Colorado to support collaborative research on anthropogenic water management, climate change, and environmental sustainability in the Southwestern United States. The three-year award, made under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will fund research from September 2021 through August 2024 examining the interrelationships between human water usage, climate...
The Regents of the University of Colorado received a $184,330 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences on July 15, 2021 to complete the project by June 30, 2024. The grant funds collaborative research on geodetic imaging of the interplay between creep, locking, earthquakes and land subsidence along the Chaman plate boundary. This work directly supports the goals of the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to strengthen understanding of integrated...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $480,404 project grant to the University of Colorado Boulder under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to support core capacity and engagement for Future Earth international global change research from July 15, 2021 through November 30, 2022. The grant funds research collaboration to strengthen fundamental knowledge and understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Specifically, the...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award in the amount of $317,272 will fund the development of new computational methods to simulate and advance the understanding of the dynamic interplay between the Earth's surface and interior processes. The principal awardee, the University of Colorado, will couple two widely used community codes - ASPECT (originally for simulating mantle dynamics) and LANDLAB (for modeling surface processes) - to enable...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $411,260 project grant to The Regents of the University of Colorado for collaborative research supporting the Future Earth international global change research program. The grant was awarded on July 1, 2021 under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Specifically, the University of Colorado will provide core support for Future...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant, awarded to the University of Colorado Boulder, supports collaborative research to characterize the crust-mantle boundary known as the Mohorovičić discontinuity (Moho) using seismic and petrological measurements. The $119,807 award, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2027, will combine surface wave tomography, receiver function analysis, and petrophysical modeling to accurately constrain the depth,...