Geology

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Active Research Grants

Robinson Cecil and Joshua Schwartz: 

Early Career: Acquisition of New Excimer Laser Ablation System for a High Resolution ICPMS Facility—NSF Instrumentation and Facilities Program (2017)

 

Jennifer Cotton:

"RUI/Collaborative Research: MSB-ECA: Mice-o-scapes: Using isotopes to understand the effect of climate and landscape change on small mammal ecology over the past 100 years.” Funded by the National Science Foundation

 

Joshua Schwartz:

"CAREER: Investigating Controls on Arc Flare-Ups and the Growth of Lower Continental Crust.” Funded by the National Science Foundation

 

Doug Yule and Dick Heermance:

"Late Pleistocene slip rate of the western Pinto Mountain Fault, Morongo Valley, CA.” Funded by the Southern California Earthquake Center

 

Dick Heermance

“Collaborative Research: RUI: Plio-Quaternary History of Basin Evolution, Climate Change, and Fold Growth in the Qaidam Basin-Investigating Wind-enhanced Climate-Tectonic Feedback” Funded by the National Science Foundation

 

Dayanthie Weeraratne:

"CAREER: Geodynamic Study of Earth's Mantle Asthenosphere and Core Formation.” Funded by the National Science Foundation

 

Robinson Cecil and Kathleen Marsaglia:

“Collaborative Research: Elucidating the Geologic Record of Late Paleozoic Subduction Initiation Along the Southwestern Margin of Laurentia, Southern California and Sonora, Mexico.” Funded by the National Science Foundation

 

Kathleen Marsaglia:

"Post Expedition Award for IODP Expedition 385: Post-Cruise Study of Guaymas Basin Sand Provenance", Funded by the National Science Foundation.

"Participation on International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 385", Funded by the National Science Foundation.

"Composing a Modern Handbook for Shipboard Sedimentologists, the Linchpin of a Sedimentologist's Shipboard Toolbox", Funded by the National Science Foundation.

 

Matthew D’Alessio:

“San Fernando Valley Science Project.” Funded by California Subject Matter Projects/No Child Left Behind

Revisions to the Framework for K-12 Science Education.” Funded by the California Department of Education

 “Supporting Diverse K-6 Students’ Sense of Belonging and Science Achievement through a Network of STEM-Integrated Professional Learning Communities.” Funded by the California Department of Education