Contracts and grants awarded to Jackson School researchers from April 1, 2007 to
January 31, 2008. To
add grants to this listing, suggest grants for future listings, or correct
errors, contact J.B. Bird or
Marc Airhart in the Dean's Office.
| 04-01-2007- 03-31-2009 |
Lassiter, J. |
DGS |
Collaborative Research: OS, ND and HF Isotopes in Abyssal
Peridotties from Arctic Lena Trough: Continental Lithospheric or
Asthenospheric Mantle Origin? |
National Science Foundation |
$86,777 |
| 04-01-2007- 03-31-2010 |
Blankenship, D. |
UTIG |
Collaborative Research: Synthesis of Thwaites Glacier Dynamics:
Diagnostic and Prognostic Sensitivity Studies of a |
National Science Foundation |
$68,100 |
| 04-04-2007- 08-31-2008 |
Quinn, T. |
UTIG |
A Coral Based Reconstruction and Analysis of Subdecadal to
Multidecadal Scale Climate Variability in the Cuban Sector of the
Tropical North |
National Science Foundation |
$126,169 |
| 04-11-2007- 04-10-2008 |
Dooley, T. |
BEG |
EvoEvolution of Releasing Stepover Arrays along the Eastern Boundary
of the Sierra Nevada Micro Plate |
Department of Defence - Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division
|
$91,866 |
| 05-01-2007- 04-30-2009 |
Bangs, N. |
UTIG |
Ultra High Resolution 3D Seismic Surveying the Active Hydrate Ridge
Vents to Complement Proposed Corking |
National Science Foundation |
$405,264 |
| 05-01-2007- 04-30-2009 |
Lassiter, J. |
DGS |
Acquisition of a thermal ionization mass spectrometer with positive
and negative ion capability for geologic research |
National Science Foundation |
$150,000 |
| 05-01-2007- 04-30-2008 |
Collins, E. |
BEG |
Texas Statemap Project |
US Geological Survey |
$46,752 |
| 05-01-2007- 04-30-2009 |
Fomel, S. |
BEG |
Seismic Data Regularization and Noise Attenuation Using Novel
Transform Methods |
BGP International, Inc. |
$250,000 |
| 05-18-2007- 12-31-2007 |
Kocurek, G. |
DGS |
Lidar Surveys of Gypsum Dune Fields in White Sands National
Monument, New Mexico Pilot Study for Assessing Dune Dynamics |
National Park Service |
$19,400 |
| 06-07-2007- 04-30-2008 |
Quinn, T. |
UTIG |
Collaborative Research: Holocene, Deglacial Abrupt Climate Change
and Variability of the Western Pacific Warm Pool from Multi Decadal to
Century Scale Corla Climate Records |
National Science Foundation |
$63,239 |
| 06-21-2007- 04-01-2009 |
Scanlon, B. |
BEG |
Quantification of Recharge to the Ollgala Aquifer in the Eastern
Panhandle, Texas |
Texas Water Development Board |
$371,815 |
| 06-25-2007- 06-30-2008 |
Duncan, I. |
BEG |
Creating a New Analysis of Water Demand Projections for Power
Generation in Texas |
Texas Water Development Board |
$99,493 |
| 06-27-2007- 09-28-2007 |
Nicot, J. |
BEG |
Yucca Mountain Project Criticality |
Sandia Corporation |
$15,000 |
| 07-01-2007- 09-30-2008 |
Allision, M. |
UTIG |
A System for Monitoring Wave Sediment Interaction in Muddy
Environments |
Department of Defence - Navy |
$131,971 |
| 07-01-2007- 12-31-2007 |
Zahm, C. |
BEG |
Applied Fracture Characterization of an Eolian Sandstone Reservoir
Analog: Alcova Reservoir and Teapot Dome, Wyoming |
ConocoPhillips Company |
$35,577 |
| 01-01-2008- 12-31-2008 |
Jackson, M. |
BEG |
Applied Geodynamics Laboratory |
Marathon Oil Company |
$45,000 |
| 01-01-2008- 12-31-2008 |
Jackson, M. |
BEG |
Applied Geodynamics Laboratory |
ARAMCO Services Company |
$45,000 |
| 01-01-2008- 12-31-2008 |
Jackson, M. |
BEG |
Applied Geodynamics Laboratory |
PEMEX Exploration and Production |
$65,000 |
| 01-01-2008- 12-31-2008 |
Jackson, M. |
BEG |
Applied Geodynamics Laboratory |
ConocoPhillips Company |
$45,000 |
| 01-01-2008- 12-31-2008 |
Jackson, M. |
BEG |
Applied Geodynamics Laboratory |
Nexen Petroleum Offshore USA Inc. |
$45,000 |
| 01-01-2008- 12-31-2008 |
Jackson, M. |
BEG |
Applied Geodynamics Laboratory |
Samson Offshore Company |
$45,000 |
| 01-01-2008- 12-31-2008 |
Jackson, M. |
BEG |
Applied Geodynamics Laboratory |
Maersk Olie OG Gas |
$45,000 |
| 07-01-2007- 06-30-2010 |
Gardner, J. |
DGS |
The Record of Recharge, Assimilation, and Storage in the
Popocatepetl Magma System From Sr Isotopes and Glass Inclusions in
Phenocrysts and Experimental Petrologic Constraints |
National Science Foundation |
$76,011 |
| 07-01-2007- 06-30-2010 |
Horton, B. |
UTIG |
Collaborative Research: Stratigraphic Signatures of Orogeny:
Assessing the Timing of Initial Andean Crustal Shortening |
National Science Foundation |
$52,513 |
| 07-01-2007- 06-30-2010 |
Yang, Z. |
DGS |
Improving Hydrological Representations in the Community Noah Land
Surface Model for Intra-seasonal to Interannual Prediction Studies |
Department of Commerce |
$119,460 |
| 07-01-2007 - 06-30-2012 |
Ellins, K.; Olson, H. |
JSG |
Collaborative Research: Strengthening Pathways to Diversity Through
Professional Development for Minority Serving K-12 Science Educators
Expanding GeoForce Texas |
National Science Foundation |
$495,973 |
| 07-15-2007- 06-30-2012 |
Mann, W. |
UTIG |
Collaborative Research: How is Rifting Exhuming the Youngest HP,UHP
Rocks on Earth |
National Science Foundation |
$7,500 |
| 07-15-2007- 03-15-2008 |
Janson, X. |
BEG |
Seismic Response of an Upper Cretaceous Margin to Basin Transect in
Southern France |
ENI SPA |
$196,333 |
| 07-15-2007- 06-30-2010 |
Dalziel, I. |
UTIG |
Central Scotia Seafloor and the Drake Passage Deep Ocean Current
Gateway |
National Science Foundation |
$352,712 |
| 08-01-2007- 07-31-2011 |
Mann, W. |
UTIG |
Collaborative Research: An Integrated Tectonic Study of the Jamaica
Strike Slip Restrainig Bend and Gonave Microplate Using GPS, Geomorphic,
Seismic, and Gravity Data |
National Science Foundation |
$95,546 |
| 08-01-2007- 07-31-2008 |
Kipper, J. |
BEG |
Geophysical Data Preservation Program |
US Geological Servey |
$5,000 |
| 08-01-2007- 07-31-2008 |
Wilson, C. |
DGS |
GDL FOUNDATION RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP |
GDL Foundation |
$10,000 |
| 08-01-2007- 07-31-2008 |
Rowe, T. |
DGS |
CRI:IAD Acquisition of a High Resolution Micro X ray Computed
Tomographic Scanner |
National Science Foundation |
$134,158 |
| 08-15-2007 - 08-14-2010 |
Webber, M. |
CIEEP |
Research Texas Online Energy Tool |
Luminant Energy |
$10,000 |
| 08-15-2007 - 08-14-2010 |
Webber, M. |
CIEEP |
Research Texas Online Energy Tool |
NRG Texas Inc. |
$10,000 |
| 08-15-2007 - 08-14-2010 |
Webber, M. |
CIEEP |
Research Texas Online Energy Tool |
Power Across Texas |
$30,000 |
| 09-01-2007- 08-31-2008 |
Hornbach, M. |
UTIG |
Assessing Slope Stability at Caracas Bay |
Algemeen Pensioenfonds Van de Nederlands |
$112,862 |
| 09-01-2007- 08-31-2008 |
Collins, E. |
BEG |
Surface Casing Scanned Q Logs,Web Data Base Under Umbrella Contract
No. 582 8 75374 |
Texas Commision on Environmental Quality |
$126,000 |
| 09-01-2007- 08-31-2008 |
Flemings, P. |
UTIG |
Overpressure and Slope Stability in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico |
American Chemical Society |
$52,749 |
| 09-01-2007- 08-31-2010 |
Yang, Z. |
DGS |
Using Satellite Observations and a Fully Coupled Land Atmosphere
Chemistry Model to Study the Coupling between Vegetation and Hydrologic
Cycle through Biogenic Emissions |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
$24,000 |
| 09-01-2007- 08-31-2009 |
Marrett, R. |
DGS |
Evaporite Deformation in the Sierra Madre Oriental, Northeastern
Mexico: Decollement Kinematics in an Evaporite Detached Thin Skinned
Fold Belt |
American Chemical Society |
$45,000 |
| 09-01-2007- 08-31-2009 |
Cardenas, M. |
DGS |
Current Topography Driven Exchange Processes Between Water Columns
and Heterogeneous Permeable Sediments |
American Chemical Society |
$20,000 |
| 09-01-2007- 08-31-2012 |
Grand, S. |
DGS |
Collaborative Research: NorthEast China Extended SeiSmic Array
(NECESS Array): Deep Subduction, Mantle Dynamics, and Lithospheric
Evolution beneath Northeast China |
National Science Foundation |
$99,308 |
| 09-09-2007-12-31-2007 |
Bellian, J. |
BEG |
Applications of ground based lidar in the delineation of tar sand
hydrocarbon production near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada |
ExxonMobil |
$49,749 |
| 09-15-2007-12-15-2007 |
Gulick, S. |
UTIG |
Salary Support for Expedition 314 NanTroSEIZE LWD Transect Research
Cruise |
Joint Oceanographic Institute Inc. |
$8,968 |
| 09-15-2007- 12-15-2007 |
Gulick, S. |
UTIG |
Salary Support for Expedition 314 NanTroSEIZE LWD Transect Research
Cruise |
Joint Oceanographic Institute Inc. |
$30,270 |
| 09-15-2007- 08-31-2008 |
Carlson, W. |
DGS |
Acquisition of a solid state 193 nm laser ablation system |
National Science Foundation |
$97,500 |
| 09-21-2007- 08-31-2008 |
Nicot, J. |
BEG |
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Work Order No. 2 Under
Umbrella Contract No. 582 4 69718 |
Texas Commision on Environmental Quality |
$167,397 |
| 09-21-2007- 08-31-2008 |
Nicot, J. |
BEG |
Low Level Radioactive Waste Contract |
Texas Commision on Environmental Quality |
$292,450 |
| 10-01-2007- 12-31-2007 |
Holtz, M. |
BEG |
A Simulation Based Study of the Effect of Impurities on CO2 Storage
|
Chevron Corporation |
$38,588 |
| 10-01-2007- 09-30-2008 |
Pulliam, J. |
UTIG |
SGER: EarthScope Texas Gulf Goast Pilot Study |
National Science Foundation |
$22,767 |
| 10-01-2007- 09-30-2012 |
Dalziel, I. |
UTIG |
Collaborative Research: IPY: POLENET Antarctica: Investigating Links
Between Geodynamics and Ice Sheets |
National Science Foundation |
$141,452 |
| 12-04-2007- 03-31-2009 |
Duncan, I. |
BEG |
Texas High School Coastal Monitoring Program |
Texas General Land Office |
$68,650 |
| 12-01-2007 - 11-30-2010 |
Gulick, S. |
UTIG |
Exploring Structural Controls on Great Earthquake Rupture and
Architecture of the Sumatra Andaman Convergent Margin: A Regional
Seismic Reflection Survey in Collaboration with the UK-National
Oceanographic Center |
National Science Foundation |
$350,072 |
| 12-13-2007- 03-04-2008 |
Milliken, K. |
DGS |
USSSP: Expedition 316 NanTroSEIZE Thrust Faults: Salary Support |
Joint Oceanographic Institute Inc. |
$31,185 |
| 12-20-2007- 08-31-2008 |
Scanlon, B. |
BEG |
Small System Technical Assistance |
Texas Commision on Environmental Quality |
$1,200,000 |
| 01-01-2008 - 08-31-2009 |
Ratcliff, D. |
JSG |
Texas Youth in Technology Program |
Texas Workforce Commission |
$200,000 |
| 01-01-2008 - 12-31-2008 |
Allision, M. |
UTIG |
Field Data Collection in Support of the Scofield Island Restoration
using Mississippi River Sediment |
C.H. Fenstermaker & Associates, Inc. |
$52,224 |
| 01-01-2008- 12-31-2010 |
Gardner, J. |
DGS |
Bubble Nucleation in Magmas: Experimental Constraints on the
Influences of Gas and Melt Composition |
National Science Foundation |
$67,259 |
| 01-01-2008- 12-31-2008 |
Lucia, F. |
BEG |
Reservoir Charcterization Research Laboratory |
ARAMCO Services Company |
$45,000 |
