Project Grant DESC0010644

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences program Project Grant award of $122,152 to the CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation (CSU Fullerton ASC) will fund the acquisition of a carbon dioxide and methane cavity ringdown spectrometer. This instrumentation will support research and educational activities to promote a better understanding of the carbon cycle and how carbon is converted into different materials across Earth's atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere. The...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports fundamental research and development at the University of Tulsa to advance the modeling and analysis of CO2 transport in porous media for geological carbon sequestration. The $157,471 award, effective July 1, 2024 through March 31, 2025, aims to develop computationally efficient data-driven models to predict and analyze the complex flow behavior of CO2 in geological formations. The...

This Project Grant award, valued at $281,066.00 and spanning from December 1, 2024 to November 30, 2026, was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. The primary objective of this award is to precisely quantify the carbon content and isotopic signature (δ13C) in the Earth's upper mantle. The research will involve two key activities: 1) conducting high-pressure/high-temperature experiments...

The University Enterprises Corporation At Csusb Sponsored Programs Administration Division received a $140,466 National Science Foundation project grant under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) to study controls on clumped isotope signatures of methane in deep-sea vents. Through a series of hydrothermal experiments involving organic matter decomposition, CO2 reduction, and non-equilibrated methane gases in the presence of mineral catalysts, the distribution of rare methane...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), provides $650,869 to Georgia Tech Research Corporation from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The funding supports research and development of a seismic monitoring methodology for underground carbon dioxide storage reservoirs. Specifically, the awardee will develop a system combining time-lapse seismic imaging, physical...

This $112,404 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund the design, construction, and deployment of the Kinetically Activated Subsurface Microbial Sampler (KASMS) device by Montana State University. KASMS is an autonomous downhole fluid sampling system that will capture a time progression of fluid samples in response to seismic events within an active fault zone located 3 km below ground at the Moab Khotsong Gold Mine in South Africa. The...

The University of New Mexico received a $187,307 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences to conduct research characterizing and quantifying carbon sequestration processes across the Andean convergent margin. The award period runs from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2024. The research is being conducted under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) of the NSF, which supports basic research to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $491,846 to the University of Washington to acquire a clumped isotope gas-source isotope-ratio mass spectrometer and carbonate sample preparation device. This new instrumentation will advance interdisciplinary Earth sciences research and education through precise temperature and chemical analysis of carbonate minerals formed in soils, oceans, fault zones and other...

The Colorado School of Mines, through a $114,951.98 project grant award from the U.S. Geological Survey's National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program (CFDA 15.814), will digitize and make publicly accessible a series of the Colorado Geological Survey's archived maps, slides, geologic hazard reports, and exploration data from the San Juan Sag region. The key deliverables include: Scanning and georeferencing 125 historic CGS maps and 1,500 slides to be made available on the CGS...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Southern California received a $130,832 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Earth Sciences (Geosciences program, CFDA 47.050) effective October 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026. This collaborative research project characterizes and quantifies carbon sequestration processes across the Andean convergent margin to advance understanding of the deep carbon cycle at subduction zones. The research addresses critical...