Project Grant 2433040
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $400,000.00 to Texas State University from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2029 to conduct research titled "EMBRACE-EAR-GROWTH: FROM PLACES TO PEOPLES: A SURVEY OF GEOLOGICAL MATERIALS AND HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION ON THE EDWARDS PLATEAU THAT PRIORITIZES STUDENT LEARNING." The project aims to better understand the geological resources and environments used by past...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $365,580 to the University of Maine System to develop a novel method for quantifying stress and strain rate in deformed rocks. The researchers will use laboratory experiments to analyze the roughness of mineral grain boundaries, which directly records stress and flow rate information. The project supports a postdoctoral associate and graduate student training, and the developed analytical...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $556,772 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to Texas A&M University for the project "Investigating the Interplay Between Magma Source, Thermal History, and Fault Reactivation in the Colorado Mineral Belt". The project will investigate the geologic controls on economic mineralization, with a focus on critical minerals and rare earth elements, in the Ouray, Colorado region. Key activities include chemical analyses...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station to support research titled "CAREER: AN INTEGRATED EXPERIMENTAL-THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING THE MULTISCALE MECHANICAL RESPONSE OF ROCK-REACTIVE BRINE INTERACTIONS." The award was made under the Engineering (47.041) program on February 1, 2021 for a five-year period concluding January 31, 2026. The grant funding will support the development of an integrated...
- This Project Grant award of $335,489 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports collaborative research on depth-dependent decarbonation processes in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. The research aims to improve understanding of how the interaction between hot magma and the Earth's crust drives metamorphic changes, mineral transformations, and the release of elements like carbon. The project will provide valuable insights into the geochemical...
- The National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) awarded a $489,177 project grant to Texas Tech University System to research the reconstruction of melt compositions across ancient cordilleran arc segments. The goal is to evaluate petrological proxies of crustal thickness and transcrustal differentiation. The research team will collect data from four ancient arc segments in the western U.S. and create field research videos to showcase their findings and raise awareness about...
- This National Science Foundation award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $409,005 to the University of Texas at Austin for a collaborative research project examining rodingites as recorders of tectonic processes. The research will determine the pressure-temperature-deformation-fluid-time histories of rodingites from the Dun Mountain ophiolite belt in New Zealand to constrain the timing and conditions of serpentinization and interpret the tectonic evolution of plate boundaries....
- This $140,967 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research to reevaluate the experimental foundation for rheology models of crust-forming minerals. Principal Investigator Jianbao Korenaga of Yale University will apply statistical methods to obtain new flow laws from existing deformation data for a range of minerals. Undergraduate students will conduct this reanalysis, gaining valuable research experience. The new flow laws...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $135,983 project grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of the Incarnate Word for collaborative research titled "A Geochemical Approach to Quantifying the Magnitude of Strain and Fluid Flow Along the Subduction Interface." The research aims to characterize chemical and mechanical processes controlling the healing of subduction plate interfaces between large earthquakes through observations of ancient subduction...
- The University of Texas at Austin received a two-year, $292,433 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences. The grant funds basic research examining the impact of upper-plate splay faults on stress state and strength of the megathrust and fluid budgets in accreting sediments. This research directly supports the goals of the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through support of basic...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $399,922.00 to Texas State University to conduct research on "EMBRACE-EAR-GROWTH: ROCK DEGRADATION - MICROSCALE APPROACH MINERAL BY MINERAL (RDM2)". The key objectives of this 4-year project are to: (1) measure the contribution of mineral strength into rock strength, (2) correlate mineral orientations with rock mechanical properties, and (3) analyze the evolution of mineral interfaces and fracturing mechanisms within rock composites. This research aims to develop new links between rock mechanics and geology by providing a fundamental understanding of how mineral interactions influence rock degradation under temperature cycles and elevated temperatures. The findings could help accelerate the extraction of energy and mineral resources, improve risk assessment for land movement events, and expand the skilled STEM workforce in the U.S.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $399.9k | 7/17/25 |