Project Grant 2603193
- This $378,188 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to the Washington University in St. Louis. The award will fund collaborative research to investigate the role of mantle rock composition in the development of plate tectonics on Earth and other rocky planets. Key research activities include: Conducting rock deformation experiments to assess how the relative proportions and strength contrast between dominant mantle mineral phases...
- The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded Tulane University $261,379 on September 1, 2026, to map hidden crustal structures along the East Coast passive margin using gravity and magnetic data to understand the formation and location of faults, magma bodies, earthquakes, and critical mineral deposits. The award funds a Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The research applies multi-scale wavelet-based methods to potential field data to identify...
- This $257,390 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research by the University of Texas at Austin to investigate the formation, transport, and deposition of economically important metals in the lower continental crust. The project will focus on studying variably metasomatized magmatic sulfide deposits in the Ivrea-Verbano Zone in Italy, which formed in the deep crust and were tectonically uplifted. The research aims to better...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Earth Sciences has awarded the University of Maryland, College Park $330,667 through the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to support fundamental research examining the chemical evolution of Earth's early crust-mantle system. Spanning from December 1, 2025 through November 30, 2028, this project grant will utilize state-of-the-art isotope and geochemical analytical tools to interrogate well-preserved rock samples from...
- The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute $864,987 on August 15, 2026, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to investigate tectonic regime transitions in rocky planets through advanced computational techniques. The project develops a computational framework for studying how planets shift among different styles of interior and surface motion as they cool and evolve, with particular focus on comparing Earth's active plate...
- This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $236,141 supports research by Columbia University under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) from May 15, 2022 to April 30, 2025. The research aims to reconstruct the missing geological record of late Proterozoic tectonism along the western margin of Laurentia using low-temperature thermochronology. Researchers will study the thermal imprint of sedimentary cover on basement rocks beneath major unconformities to fill a one-billion-year gap in the...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $180,000 to Harvard University from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2024. The funding will support research analyzing zircon samples from the Wyoming Province and Singhbhum Craton dating back 4.01 billion years or more to better understand early Earth processes, including evidence for plate tectonics, the distribution of surface water, and rock types. Specifically, the grantee will conduct...
- This $228,331 National Science Foundation project grant supports collaborative research to understand the evolution of continental lithosphere beneath New England through geologic time. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the research team will employ seismic imaging techniques and analyze geologic structures exposed at the surface to illuminate plate tectonic processes that have shaped the region. Specifically, the investigators from the University of Vermont and partner...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences awarded Colorado State University $299,919 on July 1, 2026, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to investigate the tectonic evolution of the Ancestral Rocky Mountain system. The research examines fault geometry, kinematics, and deformation structures across four field areas in southern and central Colorado along the Ancestral Uncompahgre uplift margins, focusing on late Paleozoic (Pennsylvanian-Permian) structures formed 325 to...
- This $150,388 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund collaborative research to reconstruct the missing geological record of late Proterozoic tectonism along the western margin of Laurentia using deep-time thermochronology. Three early-career researchers and twelve students from multiple universities will investigate ancient supercontinent breakup using geochemical signatures from rock heating and cooling during deposition and erosion....
The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded Towson University $311,276 on August 1, 2026, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to study ancient oceanic crust and the evolution of plate tectonics on Earth. The project examines approximately 900-million-year-old rocks preserved in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, comparing them to more recent oceanic deposits to understand how plate tectonic processes have changed through geologic time and influenced the generation of critical mineral deposits including chromium, platinum, hydrogen, zinc, and copper. The research addresses how geographic distribution of volcanoes, earthquakes, and mineral deposits are controlled by plate tectonics and aims to resolve significant differences between recently proposed tectonic models for these ancient oceanic crust fragments and models developed for similar modern oceanic fragments. Performance is based in Towson, Maryland, with work occurring through July 31, 2029. Towson University is a component institution within the University System of Maryland. The assistance type is a project grant. The program supports basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences to strengthen the national scientific enterprise through expanded fundamental knowledge and increased understanding of the integrated Earth system.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $311.3k | 7/29/26 |