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Assistant Professor Thomas Oommen (GMES) has received $10,000 from the US Civilian Research and Development Foundation for a one-year project, "Geohazard Prediction for Landslide Areas by Numerical Modeling of Slope Instability: A Tool for Geotechnical Systems Modeling."

Assistant Professor Louisa Kramer (GMES) has received $527,879 from the National Science Foundation for "Long-Term Measurements of Nitrogen Oxides at the GEOSummit Station, Greenland."

Assistant Professor Thomas Oommen (GMES) is the winner of a peer-reviewed competition for his project, "Geohazard Prediction for Landslide Areas by Numerical Modeling of Slope Instability: A Tool for Geotechnical System Monitoring."
The competition was sponsored by CRDF Global, a nonprofit organization that promotes international scientific and technical collaboration, and was funded by the National Science Foundation. The initiative falls under a US-Ukraine scientific exchange program. Oommen will visit Ukraine for up to three months.
For more information, see Ukraine.

Codirector Robert Shuchman (MTRI), co-PI Colin Brooks (MTRI) and co-PI Mike Sayers (MTRI) have received $281,612 from the US Environmental Protection Agency for a two-year project, "Harmful Algal Bloom Mapping for the Great Lakes."

The Michigan Tech Research Institute in Ann Arbor has been named the recipient of a $281,612 grant from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The two-year grant will fund a project to map the location and extent of harmful algal blooms in the Great Lakes. Read more details

Assistant Professor Simon Carn (GMES, EPSSI), has received $12,319 from the University of Maryland, College Park for the first increment of a three-year project totalling $79,806: "Continuation of Long-Term Sulfur Dioxide EDR with the NPP Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite Nadir Mapper."

Assistant Professor Gregory Waite (GMES/EPSSI) has received $140,106 from the National Science Foundation for the first and second year of a potential five-year $412,979 project, "CAREER: Eruption Dynamics From Low-Frequency Volcano-Seismic Signals."

Professor Alex Mayer (GMES) has received $400,000 from the Great Lakes Protection Fund for a two-year project, "Piloting a Paradigm for Adaptive Management of Great Lakes Watersheds."

Assistant Professor Aleksey Smirnov (GMES) and Professor Jimmy Diehl (GMES) have received $166,220 from the National Science Foundation for a two-year project, "A Paleomagnetic and Geochronological Re-investigation of the ~1.1 Ga Coldwell Complex: Implications for the Reversal Asymmetry in Keweenawan Rocks."

Professor William Rose (GMES/EPSSI) has received $101,000 from the National Science Foundation for a one-year project, "PASI: Volcanic Hazards and Remote Sensing in Pacific Latin America; San Jose, Costa Rica; January/February, 2011."

Assistant Professor Simon Carn (GMES/EPSSI) has received $40,645 from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for the first year of a potential three-year, $129,476 project, "A Combined EOS Data and GEOS-Chem Modeling Study of the Direct Radiative Forcing of Volcanic Sulfate Aerosols."

Assistant Professor Gregory Waite (GMES/EPSSI) has received $222,163 from the National Science Foundation for a three-year project, "An Integrated Analysis of Seismicity, Infrasound, and High-Resolution SO2 Measurements to Determine the Source of Low- Frequency Seismicity at Villarrica Volcano, Chile."

Alex Mayer (GMES), Linda Nagel (Forestry), Nancy Auer (Biological Sciences), Bradley Baltensperger (Cognitive and Learning Sciences) have received $2,499,351 from the National Science Foundation for a three-year project, "New GK12 GlobalWatershed: Integrating Rural and Global Perspectives with Research and Technological Advances."

Faculty member I. Matt Watson has received $15,133 from the University of Pittsburgh for the first year of a potential three-year project, "Expansion and Synergistic Use of the ASTER Urgent Request Protocol (URP) for Natural Disaster Monitoring and Scientific Analysis."

National Science Foundation, $599,978 to the Michigan Tech Center for Water and Society, for 18 need-based scholarships for graduate students to explore economic, social, environmental and international aspects of sustainability

Shiliang Wu has received $299,596 from the US Environmental Protection Agency for a three-year project,"Impacts of Changes in Land Use and Land Cover on US Air Quality: Development and Application of an Integrated Climate-Vegetation-Chemistry Modeling System."

Simon Carn has received $333,343 from the National Science Foundation for a four-year project, "CDI-Type II Proposal: VHub: Collaborative Research: Cyberinfrastructure for Volcano Eruption and Hazards Modeling and Simulation."

Alex Mayer has received $249,998 from Higher Education in Development/US Agency for International Development for a project, "Enhancing the Capacity for Sustainable Forest Management in Chiapas and Oaxaca."

William Rose has received $117,052 from the US Department of Education for the first year of a potential four-year project, totaling $436,000, "International Geological Master in Volcanology and Geotechniques."

Simon Carn received $124,407 from the National Science Foundation for "Virunga Volcanic SO2 Emissions Research (VISOR) Project."

Aleksey Smirnov recieved $119,288 from the National Science Foundation for "Acquisition of a Sensitive Magnetic Susceptibility System and a Thermal Demagnetization Device."

Robert Shuchman (MTRI) has received $5,000 from the Regents of the University of Michigan for "New MODIS Algorithm for Retrieval of Chlorophyll, Dissolved Organic Carbon and Suspended Minerals in the Great Lakes."

Roger Turpening has received $50,000 from the Michigan Universities Commercialization Initiative for "Ultrasonic, Elastic Wave Imaging of Trees and Logs."

I. Matthew Watson 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 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."

Adam Durant 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 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 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.

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 here

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.”

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.”