Project Grant 2514734
Award Date 8/1/25
Completion Date 7/31/28
Dollars Obligated $190K
Federal Agency
Federal Grant Program
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Albany, CA 94710, USA
Similar Awards
- This $406,857 National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant awarded to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) supports the continued development and enhancement of the ALPHAMELTS software suite for petrological modeling. The project aims to expand the scenarios that ALPHAMELTS can model, increase integration with databases, link to other geochemical modeling tools written in Python, and improve user workflows for increased reproducibility. The work...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support a collaborative research effort to develop a novel solution model for igneous biotite. The $144,199 award, effective December 15, 2024 through November 30, 2027, will enable the researchers to conduct high-temperature and high-pressure experiments to study the composition of biotite and other minerals, fluids, and glasses. The resulting solution model will be integrated into the...
- This National Science Foundation project grant of $157,439 will support enhancements to the Magma Chamber Simulator modeling tool and related training activities from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. Funded under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the work will advance thermodynamic modeling of open magmatic systems through additions to the publicly available Magma Chamber Simulator. Key additions include capabilities for fluid transport, isotopic disequilibrium, equilibrium...
- This Project Grant award of $217,161 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to West Chester University of Pennsylvania aims to explore the origins of magmas using computer models that predict the chemical makeup of lavas, particularly for isotopes that preserve information about rates of melting and magma transport in the Earth's mantle layer. The project tests the role of alternative mantle rock types in generating magma and the importance of chemical diffusion...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support collaborative research at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology to develop a novel solution model for igneous biotite. The $465,220 award, effective December 15, 2024 through November 30, 2027, will enable the researchers to conduct high-temperature and high-pressure experiments to study the composition of biotite, a common mineral in silicic igneous rocks. The goal is to...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support a collaborative research project at the University of Utah to investigate the effects of water and chemical composition on the melting of the Earth's mantle. The $476,591 award, which spans August 1, 2025 to July 31, 2028, will fund laboratory experiments and computational models to better understand the processes that generate new ocean crust and volcanic activity. The project will...
- This $185,094 National Science Foundation award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund the acquisition of an energy dispersive spectrometer and carbon coater for a field emission scanning electron microscope facility at the University of California, Berkeley. The new analytical equipment will enhance the university's research capabilities in areas such as volcano petrology, igneous petrology, and mantle geochemistry by enabling rapid multi-scale geochemical mapping and analysis of...
- This Project Grant award of $218,701 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports collaborative research to better understand the complex behaviors of dense granular media, such as those found in avalanches, volcanic flows, and river sediments. The research team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will develop new models that combine laboratory experiments, advanced numerical simulations, and artificial intelligence (AI) to capture...
- The National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) awarded a $389,334 Project Grant to the United States Coast Guard Academy Sponsored Programs And Research, Inc. (SPRI) to develop an open-source, user-friendly toolkit and database for the high-pressure research community. The project aims to address a longstanding problem in research conducted at high pressures - the accurate measurement of melting temperatures. By measuring the wavelength-dependent absorption of relevant...
- 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...