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I. Matthew Watson (GMES) has received $69,908 from NASA for the first year of a potential three-year project totaling $210,661, "Using ASTER, MODIS and AIRS to Estimate Global Emissions of Volcanogenic SO2." |
| Aleksey Smirnov (GMES) has received $225,000 from the National Science Foundation for a two-year project, "Morphology, Stability and Paleointensity of the Early Geomagnetic Field as Recorded by 2.9-2.4 Ga Mafic Rocks in Western Australia." |
| Alex Mayer (GMES) received a five-year, $1,078,322 award from the National Science Foundation for "Collaborative Research: Modeling and Analyzing the Use, Efficiency, Value and Governance of Water as a Material in the Great Lakes Region Through an Integrated Approach."
Alex Mayer (GMES) has received $38,666 from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality for "Huron Creek Watershed Management Plan." |
| Adam Durant (GMES) has received $48,371 from the National Science Foundation for a two-year project, "In-Situ Volcanic Plume Characterization Using Controlled Meteorological Balloons." |
| Deborah Huntzinger (GMES) has received $8,440 from the US Department of the Interior, US Geological Survey, for "Evaluation of Information Needs for Carbon Management." |
Suzanne Beske-Diehl and Jimmy F.
Diehl (GMES) recently attended the 10th Castle Meeting
on New Trends in Geomagnetism, Paleo, Rock and Environmental
Magnetism at the Castle of Valtice, Czech Republic. Diehl
presented an invited talk, "Mineral Magnetic Properties
of Cave Sediments from the Moravian Karst, Czech Republic:
Records of Environmental Change." He and Beske-Diehl
were also coauthors on a talk given by Jaroslav Kadlec (Geological
Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences) entitled "Mineral
Magnetic Properties of the Morava River Floodplain Deposits
(Czech Republic)." Kadlec was an NSF-NATO post-doctoral
fellow at Michigan Tech from Nov. 1, 2004, to Oct. 31, 2005.
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| Gregg
Bluth has received $1,342,878 for the first three
years of a potential $2,310,044 grant from the National Science
Foundation for "PIRE: Remote Sensing for Hazard Mitigation
and Resource Protection in Pacific Latin America." |
Research
professor Roger Turpening has received a $144,000
grant from the U.S. Department of Energy in hopes of making
it a little easier to find oil in porous underground places.
See the full details
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Gregg Bluth has received $40,565
from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, for “Virunga
Volcanic SO2 Emissions Research (VISOR) Project.” |
Matthew Watson has received a $52,382 grant for two
years from the National Science Foundation for his research,
“Geochemical Analysis of S-bearing Species Using Differential
Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (DOAD) and Infrared Imaging
at Cerro Negro's Fumarole Field.” |
Jimmy Diehl has received
$126,062 from the NSF for a two-year collaborative research
project, "Paleomagnetism and Geochronology of the Mono
Lake Event Recorded in the Lava Flow Sequence of Santa Maria
Volcano, Guatemala." |
| Professor
William Rose received a $40,000 grant from
the National Science Foundation for research titled “U.S.
- Argentina/Chile Collaborative Research on Volcano Remote
Sensing.” |
I. Matt Watson has received a $79,369 grant
from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for
his research, “Developing a Multi-Species Algorithm for Quantifying
Volcanic Emissions Using MODIS, ASTER and AIRS.” |
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Department
Chair Wayne Pennington received a $140,000
grant, the first
increment of a potential three-year, $722,620 award from the
US
Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory
for his research
titled "Crosswell Seismic Amplitude-Versus-Offset for
Detailed Imaging of
Facies and Fluid Distribution within Carbonate Oil Reservoirs." |
Jimmy
F. Diehl has received a $49,800 postdoctoral research
fellowship from the National Science Foundation for research
titled "Climactic and Human Impacts on the Intensity and Frequency
of Late Holocene Flood Events-A Case Study of the Morava River
Flood Deposits (Czech Republic)." |
William
Rose received a $29,881 grant from the U.S. Department
of Education for the first year of a potential four year project,
“EHAZ: North American Earth Hazards Consortium.” |
Alex Mayer has
received a $29,904 grant from the U.S. Department of Education
for his project, "ExCit: Expanding Cities--People, Water and
Infrastructure." Previously, Professor Mayer received $35,028
for the first year of a three-year project totaling $299,860,
"MTU-UNISON Linkage: Training a Core of Water Resource
Experts," from the American Council on Education. |
Jacqueline Huntoon has received
a $133,504 grant for her project, "Intergovernmental Personnel
Act Assignment for Dr. Jacqueline E. Huntoon." |
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