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Jackson School of Geosciences
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Contracts & Grants

Contracts and grants awarded to Jackson School researchers from February 1, 2008 to January 31, 2009. 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.

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Funding Period PI(s) Unit Title of Project Funding Agency Total Funds
03-20-2009 - 12-31-2009 Allison, M. UTIG Field Data Collection in Support of the Myrtle Grove Diversion Using the University of Texas at Austin Institute for Geophysics C.H. Fenstermaker & Associates, Inc. $84,002
04-01-2008 - 06-30-2009 Allison, M. UTIG Field Data Collection in Support of: Morphological and Sediment Modeling Tools for the Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers and Delta University of Louisiana - Lafayette $60,547
06-01-2008 - 05-31-2010 Allison, M. UTIG Wave-Sediment Interaction in Muddy Environments: a Field Experiment Department of Defense - Navy $186,651
09-04-2007 - 08-31-2009 Banner, J. DGS Air Permits Division Engineering Interns Texas Commission on Environmental Quality $60,000
08-11-2007 - 08-11-2010 Banner, J. DGS Fellowship Agreement - Corrine Wong Environmental Protection Agency $17,000
09-01-2007 - 08-31-2008 Banner, J. DGS Mechanisms of Regional Climate Change and Impact on Water availability in Texas from the Last Glacial Maximum to Present-Day National Science Foundation $379,166
02-13-2008 - 02-28-2010 Banner, J.; Cardenas, M.; Quinn, T.; Taylor, F. DGS Paleoclimate of the Western Pacific Warm Pool University of Guam $59,013
04-15-2006 - 03-31-2009 Banner, J. DGS REU SITE: Integrated Watersheds from Urban Centers to Estuaries National Science Foundation $69,257
02-01-2006 - 08-25-2009 Banner, J. DGS USGS Student Employment U S Geological Survey $1,509
09-01-2007 - 08-31-2009 Banner, J. DGS Water Supply Division Engineer Interns Texas Commission on Environmental Quality $66,868
08-15-2006 - 07-31-2009 Bennett, P. DGS Kinetics of Microbial Sulfuric acid Speleogenesis National Science Foundation $1,001
09-15-2006 - 08-31-2009 Bennett, P.; Milliken, K. DGS Supplement Request: Collaborative Research: Biogeochemical Controls on Antimony and Arsenic Mobility in a Siliceous Hydrothermal Systems National Science Foundation $10,000
04-01-2007 - 03-31-2010 Blankenship, D.; Holt, J. UTIG Collaborative Research: Synthesis of Thwaites Glacier Dynamics: Diagnostic and Prognostic Sensitivity Studies of a National Science Foundation $122,985
09-15-2008 - 08-31-2012 Blankenship, D.; Holt, J.; Dalziel, I.; Lawver, L. UTIG Investigating the Cryosphere Evolution of the Central Antarctic Plate (IceCAP) National Science Foundation $264,572
04-01-2008 - 03-31-2012 Blankenship, D. UTIG Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperative Research to Undertake Airborne Geophysical Sounding of East Antarctica for the IPY-ICECAP Project University of Edinburgh $715,315
10-03-2008 - 02-28-2012 Blankenship, D. UTIG Research to Undertake Airborne Geophysical Sounding of East Antarctica from Casey Under the IPY-ICECAP Project Australian Antarctic Division $89,796
04-28-2008 - 04-27-2011 Blankenship, D.; Urban, T.; Schultz, B. UTIG Subglacial Context for Surface Elevation Change in the Antarctic Interior National Aeronautics & Space Administration $130,000
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
03-01-2007 - 02-28-2010 Carlson, W.; Ketcham, R. DGS Facility Support: High-Resolution X-Ray Computed Tomography Laboratory National Science Foundation $475,000
12-14-2005 - 12-14-2008 Catania, G. UTIG Augmentation to: the Importance of Meltwater to the Peripheral Thinning of Greenland National Aeronautics & Space Administration $35,850
06-01-2008 - 05-31-2011 Catania, G.; Blankenship, D. UTIG Collaborative Research: Ice-flow History of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica National Science Foundation $364,058
07-01-2008 - 06-30-2009 Catania, G. UTIG Controls on Grounding Lines in West Antarctica and Implications for Ice Sheet Mass Balance (Fellowship for Jamin Greenbaum) National Aeronautics & Space Administration $30,000
01-01-2008 - 12-31-2010 Catlos, E. DGS IRES: Research Opportunities in Extensional Dynamics for US Undergraduate and Graduate Geosciences Students in Western Turkey National Science Foundation $91,998
02-15-2009 - 06-30-2009 Caudle, T. BEG LIDAR Data Acquisition and Development of Digital Elevation Model Texas A & M University at Corpus Christi $77,838
12-12-2008 - 8-31-2009 Caudle, T. BEG Work Order No. 09-074-000-3434: Post Hurricane Ike Topographic LIDAR Surveys on the Upper Texas Coast Texas General Land Office and Vet Land Board $133,414
01-01-2009 - 12-31-2009 Christeson, G. UTIG SGER: Seismic Waveform Inversion Study of the Layer 2A/2B Boundary in Young Oceanic Crust National Science Foundation $50,424
01-03-2009 - 08-31-2010 Clarke, J. DGS Collaborative Research: Integrated Study of an Exceptional Avifauna from the Eocene Green River Formation: New Data on Avian Evolution and Taphonomy National Science Foundation $105,907
01-03-2009 - 04-30-2009 Clarke, J. DGS New Approaches and Rapid Assessment of Key Avian Fossils from the Cretaceous of Antarctica National Science Foundation $22,431
01-01-2004 - 12-31-2009 Cloos, M. DGS Grassberg Dissertation Project PT Freeport Indonesia $70,000
05-01-2008 - 04-30-2009 Collins, E. BEG Geologic Mapping to Support Improved Database Development and Understanding of Critical Aquifers, Urban Corridors, and Special Areas of Environmental Concern in Texas U S Geological Survey $181,389
09-01-2007 - 08-31-2009 Collins, E. BEG Surface Casing Scanned Q-Logs/Web Data Base Under Umbrella Contract No. 582-8-75374 Texas Commission on Environmental Quality $126,000
08-01-2008 - 07-31-2011 Cook, K. DGS Influence of Atlantic SST Thresholds on Continental Climates: Development and Application of a Coupled ... Department of Energy $135,521
07-15-2007 - 06-30-2010 Dalziel, I.; Lawver, L. UTIG Central Scotia Seafloor and the Drake Passage Deep Ocean Current Gateway National Science Foundation $159,096
10-01-2007 - 09-30-2012 Dalziel, I. UTIG Collaborative Research: IPY: Polen""ET-AntArctica: Investigating Links Between Geodynamics and Ice Sheets National Science Foundation $104,472
08-15-2008 - 06-30-2010 Dickinson, R. DGS The Role of Vegetation, Aerosols, and Surface Fluxes for Land-Atmosphere Feedbacks National Science Foundation $242,208
01-01-2009 - 08-31-2009 Duncan, I. BEG Analysis of Affected Environment and Environmental Effects Mangi Environmental Group, Inc. $8,019
11-20-2007 - 04-15-2008 Duncan, I. BEG PO 925136 for Services Performed Under CH2M Hill Agreement CT110007102600198 with the City of Austin for the Evaluation of Nuclear and Coal Generations Options Project CH2M Hill Inc. $5,996
11-17-2008 - 03-31-2010 Duncan, I. BEG Texas High School Coastal Monitoring Program Texas General Land Office and Vet Land Board $69,726
07-01-2007 - 06-30-2010 Dunton, K.; Bell, C.; Banner, J.; Marshall, J.; Marder, M. ESI Continuing, GK-12: from Aquifers to Estuaries: Tracing a Drop of Water Via an Interactive Program Linking UT Scientists with K-12 Students and Teachers. National Science Foundation $599,985
11-01-2004 - 12-31-2010 Dutton, S.; Loucks, R.; McDonnell, A. BEG Stratigraphic Architecture and Sandstone Reservoir Quality in Deep-Shelf Gas Plays of Texas State Waters DEVON Energy Corp $750,000
07-01-2007 - 06-30-2010 Ellins, K. UTIG Collaborative Research: Strengthening Pathways to Diversity Through Professional Development for Minority-Serving K-12 Science Educators--Expanding GeoFORCE Texas National Science Foundation $258,502
10-01-2008 - 07-01-2010 Ellins, K. UTIG High School Water Resource Education Program Texas Water Development Board $99,870
05-19-2009 - 09-30-2010 Flemings, P. UTIG A Motion Decoupled Hydraulic Delivery System for the IODP (Class B Engineering Development Proposal) Integrated Ocean Drilling Program $212,851
06-30-2008 - 11-30-2008 Flemings, P. UTIG Post Expedition Activity Titled ""Sedimentation and Erosion in the Ursa Basin" Consortium FOR Ocean Leadership $10,035
01-01-2007 - 12-31-2011 Fomel, S. BEG Subsalt Seismic Imaging Using Levelset Methods AMERADA HESS Corp. $300,000
05-07-2008 - 06-30-2008 Foss, M.; Gurfinkel, M. BEG Baseline Directory and Categorization of National Oil Company World Bank $75,000
08-21-2008 - 10-14-2008 Foss, M. BEG Benchmarking Petrotin Performance and Trinidad and Tobago Hydrocarbon Sector Commercial Frameworks Petroleum Company of Trinidad & Tobago Ltd. $25,000
09-04-2007 - 09-30-2009 Foss, M. BEG TIES U.S. - Mexico University Partnerships American Council on Education $149,837
05-13-2009 - 08-31-2009 Foss, M. BEG US Climate Policy and Regulatory Proposals Evaluation Including Cap and Trade Policy Proposals Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts $10,000
03-01-2008 - 09-30-2008 Frohlich, C. UTIG Technology Assistance with Implementation and Operation of Transportable Array Element of USArray and Earthscope INC Research Institute For Seismology $40,517
12-22-2008 - 12-21-2011 Fu, R. DGS Pathways for Transport of Fire Generated Tracers to the Tropical Tropopause Layer as Determined by Aura MLS/TES and Other A-Train Measurements National Aeronautics & Space Administration $82,416
02-15-2009 - 02-14-2010 Fu, R. DGS Statistical Characterization of Atmospheric Water Vapor Transports Using Aura and Other Measurements in Support of Aura Model Validation and Data Assimilation National Aeronautics & Space Administration $167,921
12-01-2008 - 12-31-2009 Gale, J. BEG Structural Diagenesis in Shale-Gas Reservoirs: Implications for Fracturing GDL Foundation $9,944
09-01-1995 - 08-31-2009 Galloway, W. UTIG Gulf Basin Depositional Synthesis Industrial $841,000
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 $71,485
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 National Science Foundation $178,377
03-23-2007 - 12-31-2009 Goff, J. UTIG Effects of Small-Scale Bathymetric Roughness on the Global Internal Wave Field Department of Defense - Navy $19,998
02-14-2008 - 03-16-2010 Goff, J. UTIG Interpolation Techniques with Minimal Data Density Analysis Scientific Systems Company, Inc. $53,313
05-01-2005 - 09-30-2009 Goff, J. UTIG Stratigraphic and Geoacoustic Characterization of the Outer New Jersey Shelf Department of Defense - Navy $80,433
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 $81,540
07-21-2008 - 09-30-2008 Gule, G. BEG CEE SARIE Regional Clean Coal Partnership PA Consulting Group $14,991
10-14-2008 - 08-31-2009 Gule, G.; Foss, M. BEG Harmonization of REC Markets Comptroller's State Energy Conservation $50,000
12-01-2007 - 03-15-2008 Gule, G. BEG SARI/Energy Training Program on New Era in Oil, Gas & Power Value Creation PA Consulting Group $76,250
08-01-2008 - 07-31-2009 Gulick, S. UTIG An Evaluation of Neogene Sedimentation on the Surveyor Fan, Gulf of Alaska: Site Augmentation Proposal for IODP 686-Full Consortium For Ocean Leadership $12,962
09-15-2004 - 08-31-2009 Gulick, S.; Christeson, G.; Mann, W.; Van Avendonk, H. UTIG Collaborative Research: ST. Elias/Tectonics Project (STEEP) National Science Foundation $137,420
09-15-2007 - 09-14-2010 Gulick, S. UTIG Consortium for Ocean Leadership: Expedition 314 Post-Cruise Funding (ref. Task Order No. T314a59): Scales of Deformation in Fault Zones from the Joint Oceanographic Institute, Inc. $15,000
03-18-2008 - 08-31-2008 Gulick, S.; Goff, J. UTIG Integrated Marine Studies of the Hubbard Glacier System, Alaska in Support of Catastrophic Flood Risk Assessment US Army Corps of Engineers $44,923
12-01-2007 - 11-30-2010 Gulick, S.; Austin, J. UTIG Supplemental Funding Request to: Exploring Structural Controls on Great Earthquake Rupture and Architecture of the Sumatra-Andaman Convergent Margin: a Regional Seismic National Science Foundation $9,150
03-01-2006 - 04-30-2009 Hardage, B. BEG Combining Multicomponent Seismic Attributes, New Rock-Physics Models, and In-Situ Data to Estimate Gas-Hydrate Concentrations in Deep Water, Near Seafloor Department of Energy $317,174
04-01-1993 - 12-31-2010 Hardage, B. BEG Development of Seismic Imaging Applications for Optimally Characterizing Depositionally Heterogeneous Reservoirs Seispec, LLC $622,500
07-01-2006 - 07-31-2009 Hardage, B. BEG Hydrate Research at the University of Mississippi Cooperative Agreement DOE Award Number DE-FC26-06NT42877 Following DOE Award Numbers DE-FC26-00NT40920 and DE-FC26- University of Mississippi $100,000
03-01-2008 - 11-30-2009 Hawkes, C. BEG The Hidden Half of Ecosystem Responses to Climate Change: What Happens Below Ground? Duke University $124,992
11-12-2005 - 11-08-2008 Hayman, N. UTIG Task Order Joint Oceanographic Institute, Inc. $40,598
04-01-2005 - 06-30-2010 Hentz, T. BEG Texas Coal Sample Collection for Rank Determination U S Geological Survey $20,000
06-01-2008 - 05-31-2011 Holt, J.; Blankenship, D. UTIG Establishing Multi-Frequency, Radar-Sounding Analogs for Ice on Mars National Aeronautics & Space Administration $66,314
03-21-2008 - 08-31-2008 Holt, J.; Blankenship, D. UTIG Integrated Aerogophysical Studies of the Hubbard Glacier System, Alaska in Support of Catastrophic Flood Risk Assessment US Army Corps of Engineers $74,697
02-23-2007 - 09-30-2009 Holt, J. UTIG Subsurface Ice on Mars: Positive Detection and Characterization with Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory $45,000
07-01-2008 - 06-30-2010 Horton, B.; Housh, T.; Ketcham, R. DGS Basin Evolution and Structural History of a Regional Transect Through the Middle Magdalena Valley, Eastern Cordillera, and Western Llanos Basin of Colombia ECOPETROL $500,000
07-01-2007 - 06-30-2010 Horton, B. DGS Collaborative Research: Stratigraphic Signatures of Orogeny: Assessing the Timing of Initial Andean Crustal Shortening National Science Foundation $55,629
08-15-2008 - 07-31-2010 Horton, B. DGS Collaborative Research: Development of Extensional Systems in Regions of Hot, Thick Crust: Insight from Tibet National Science Foundation $75,163
10-16-2007 - 06-30-2008 Horton, B. DGS Tectonic and Climatic Controls on Rapid Exhumation Along the Altiplano-Eastern Cordillera Boundary, Bolivia National Science Foundation $43,512
07-10-2008 - 06-30-2009 Hovorka, S. BEG BEG Assistance with USGS Capacity Estimate U S Geological Survey $15,000
01-01-2004 - 12-31-2010 Hovorka, S. BEG Gulf Coast Carbon Center Industrial $525,000
10-01-2007 - 12-31-2010 Hovorka, S.; Tinker, S.; Duncan, I.; Trevino, R. BEG Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership Phase III Industrial $4,837,241
08-01-2008 - 07-31-2011 Jackson, C. UTIG Searching for Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation Strength Threshold Leading to Abrupt Change of the African Monsoon Department of Energy $127,547
09-01-1988 - 12-31-2010 Jackson, M. BEG Applied Geodynamics Laboratory Industrial $975,000
10-30-2008 - 08-31-2009 James, E.; Banner, J. ESI Energy Conservation Projects for the Texas State Energy Conservation Office 2008-2009 State of Texas Agency $160,000
12-01-2008 - 11-30-2009 Keitt, T. ESI Improved Prediction of Climate Impacts on Migratory Pathways Through Machine Learning, Hydrologic Modeling and Network Duke University $50,863
01-01-2008 - 12-31-2008 Kerans, C.; Lucia, F. BEG Characterization of San Andres and Grayburg Reservoirs Shell International Exploration & Production, Inc. $45,000
09-01-2008 - 08-31-2009 Kipper, J. BEG BEG Consolidated Geologic Sample and Log Database U S Geological Survey $29,433
08-28-2008 - 12-31-2009 Kocurek, G. DGS LIDAR Surveys of Gypsum Dune Fields in White Sands National Monument, New Mexico - Continuing Assessment of Dune Dynamics Vital Signs Interior-National Park Service $73,507
08-21-2008 - 09-30-2009 Kocurek, G. DGS The Geomorphology and Evolution of the North Polar Sand Seas on Mars Planetary Science Institute $15,000
05-01-2007 - 04-30-2009 Lassiter, John; Banner, J.; Connelly, J.; Housh, T. DGS Acquisition of a Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer with Positive and Negative Ion Capability for Geologic Research National Science Foundation $158,712
07-01-2008 - 06-30-2011 Lassiter, John DGS Collaborative Research: Constraining the Relative Importance of Fluid Fluxes and Lithospheric Metasomatism on the Evolution of the Rio Grande Rift, New Mexico National Science Foundation $57,990
09-01-1998 - 12-31-2011 Laubach, S. BEG Fracture Research and Application Consortium Industrial $1,150,000
07-24-2008 - 07-31-2010 Laubach, S.; Gale, J. BEG New Albany Shale Project Natural Fracture Characterization Gas Technology Institute $344,018
08-01-2003 - 11-30-2009 Laubach, S.; Olson, J. BEG Predicting Fracture Porosity Evolution in Sandstone Department of Energy $245,719
04-21-2008 - 01-31-2009 Laubach, S. BEG Understanding the Role of Natural Fractures Using Novel Core Analysis Techniques Shell Oil CO $120,412
08-01-2006 - 07-31-2010 Lavier, L. UTIG Collaborative Research: Uplift and Faulting at the Transition from Subduction to Collision - a Field and Modeling Study of the Calabrian Arc. National Science Foundation $101,924
01-01-1984 - 04-30-2009 Lawver, L. UTIG Global Plate Reconstruction Project (Plates) Industrial $162,500
01-01-2009 - 12-31-2011 Lin, J. DGS Electronic Spin Transition of Iron in the Earth's Lower Mantle National Science Foundation $97,677
05-01-1988 - 12-31-2011 Lucia, F.; Kerans, C. BEG Reservoir Characterization Research Laboratory Industrial $810,000
09-01-2005 - 08-31-2011 Mann, W. UTIG Caribbean Basins, Tectonics and Hydrocarbons (CBTH) Phase I Foreign $1,259,970
08-01-2007 - 07-31-2011 Mann, W. UTIG Collaborative Research: an Integrated Tectonic Study of the Jamaica Strike-Slip Restraining Bend and Gonave Microplate Using GPS, Geomorphologic, Seismic, and Gravity Data National Science Foundation $99,769
07-15-2007 - 06-30-2012 Mann, W.; Horton, B. UTIG Collaborative Research: How is Rifting Exhuming the Youngest HP/UHP Rocks on Earth National Science Foundation $260,759
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
01-01-2009 - 08-31-2009 Marrett, R. DGS Field Symposium on Structural Diagenesis: Cambrian Meson Group Sandstones, Quebrada Humahuaca, Argentina GDL Foundation $12,000
07-01-2008 - 06-30-2011 McClelland, J. ESI Collaborative Research. IPY: Arctic Great Rivers Observatory (Arctic-GRO) National Science Foundation $125,299
09-15-2008 - -8-31-2011 McClelland, J. ESI Collaborative Research: Chemical Weathering and Organic Carbon Export from Arctic Watersheds, North Slope, Alaska National Science Foundation $264,624
09-01-2004 - 08-31-2009 McIntosh, K.; Lavier, L.; Nakamura, Y.; Van Avendonk, H. J UTIG Collaborative Research: Integrated Investigation of the Geodynamics of the Taiwan Orogeny (Tiger) National Science Foundation $72,129
05-01-2008 - 04-30-2010 McIntosh, K. UTIG Collaborative Research: Toward an Understanding of the Long-Term Deformation in the Mississippi Embayment National Science Foundation $51,581
12-01-2008 - 12-31-2009 McIntosh, K. UTIG Lago de Yojoa, Honduras, Recon Chirp Sonar Survey & Coring Mehringer, Peter (INDIVIDUAL) $8,870
05-15-2008 - 05-14-2009 McIntosh, K. UTIG Toward an Understanding of the Long-Term Deformation in the Mississippi Embayment: Collaborative Research Between the University of Memphis and the University of Texas U S Geological Survey $63,045
09-31-2008 - 08-31-2011 Meyers, L. ESI The Spread and Evolution of Parasites on Host Networks National Science Foundation $429,999
12-13-2007 - 12-05-2010 Milliken, K. BEG USSSP: Expedition 316 - Nantroseize Thrust Faults: Salary Support Joint Oceanographic Institute, Inc. $14,550
08-01-2006 - 07-31-2012 Mohrig, D. DGS STC: National Center for Earth-Surface Dynamics University of Minnesota $129,940
08-15-2008 - 04-15-2010 Moscardelli, L.; Wood, J. BEG 3-D Reservoir Architecture and Subsurface Performance of Shelf Edge Deltas along Structurally Complex Margins: a Case Study in Eastern Offshore Trinidad Shell Oil Company $191,681
05-21-2008 - 01-31-2013 Nicot, J. BEG Capitan Reef GAM Industrial $12,500
01-21-2005 - 08-31-2009 Nicot, J. BEG Technical Studies to Support TCEQ on Environment Quality Review of Low Level Radioactive Waste State of Texas Agency $161,782
09-21-2007 - 08-31-2009 Nicot, J. BEG Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Work Order No. 2 Under Umbrella Contract No. 582-4-69718 State of Texas Agency $110,904
05-01-2008 - 04-30-2009 Norton, I. UTIG Conversion of a Digital Muehlberger Map to GIS Standards American association of Petroleum Geologists $50,000
04-01-2008 - 12-31-2008 Norton, I. UTIG Structural and Tectonic Evolution of the North Atlantic and Arctic EXXONMOBIL $74,372
05-01-2008 - 04-30-2009 Paine, J. BEG Geophysical Investigation of Salinization in an Oilfield in Winkler County, Texas Heritage Standard Corporation $14,109
10-09-2008 - 10-31-2008 Paine, J. BEG Preliminary Geophysical Survey to Detect Significant Shallow Voids Near Timpson, Texas Texas Railroad Commission $7,999
07-28-2008 - 08-31-2008 Paine, J. BEG Preliminary Investigations of Subsidence, Collapse, and Potential for Continued Growth of the Daisetta Sinkhole, Liberty County, Texas Texas Railroad Commission $10,000
06-01-2008 - 08-31-2009 Paine, J. BEG Seismic and Radar Imaging of a Suspected Growth Fault Near Matagorda, Texas Texas A & M University $5,000
12-01-2008 - 11-30-2009 Parmesan, C. ESI Quantifying Ecosystem Integrity Under Climate Change Using Meta-Analysis Duke University $50,250
06-30-2008 - 06-29-2011 Potter, E.; Ruppel, S.; Tinker, S. BEG Unconventional Fossil Energy Research and Education at the Bureau of Economic Geology Industrial $880,000
01-01-2009 - 12-31-2012 Pulliam, R.; Grand, S.; Norton, I.; Lavier, L. UTIG EAR/IF: Collaborative Research: Acquisition of Equipment to Upgrade and Expand the Africa Array Seismic Network National Science Foundation $50,150
02-01-2008 - 09-30-2008 Pulliam, R. UTIG Ocean Bottom Seismograph Seismicity Study of the Sombrero Seismic Zone, Northeast Caribbean U S Geological Survey $39,938
06-01-2008 - 05-31-2011 Pulliam, R.; Grand, S.; Ellins, K.; Olson, H. UTIG SIEDCAR: Seismic Investigation of Edge-Driven Convection associated with the Rio Grande Rift National Science Foundation $182,765
09-25-2006 - 07-31-2009 Quinn, T. UTIG Coral-Based Climate Studies in the Caribbean Commerce-National Ocean/Atmosphere Administration $24,624
07-09-2008 - 07-09-2009 Quinn, T. UTIG Response to USGS RFQ: Analyses of Coral and Foraminifer Samples U S Geological Survey $24,624
09-01-2008 - 03-31-2009 Romanak, K. BEG Applied Nanotech Sub - SACROC Applied Nanotech, Inc. $7,500
07-01-2006 - 12-31-2009 Ruppel, S. BEG Stratigraphy and Petrophysics of the Yates and Seven Rivers Formations in Andrews and Gaines County, Texas Lynx Production Company $55,361
01-01-2009 - 12-31-2011 Ruppel, S. BEG Study of Mudrock Systems as Present and Future Source of Oil and Gas Resources. The Unconventionals LLC $105,000
01-01-2005 - 12-31-2011 Ruppel, S. BEG The Permian Basin Synthesis Project Industrial $348,800
11-24-2008 - 08-31-2009 Scanlon, B. BEG Arsenic in Gulf Coast Aquifers Texas Commission on Environmental Quality $75,000
07-01-2008 - 11-30-2010 Scanlon, B. BEG Bushland Drilling Department of Agriculture $44,400
03-20-2008 - 11-30-2009 Scanlon, B. BEG Development of the Refined Seymour Groundwater Availability Model (GAM) Intera, INC $18,800
03-03-2008 - 03-02-2011 Scanlon, B.; Yang, Z.; Wilson, C.; Chen, J. BEG Grace Water Storage for Water Resources Management: Case Study High Plains Aquifer, US National Aeronautics & Space Administration $154,000
12-20-2007 - 08-31-2009 Scanlon, B. BEG Small System Technical Assistance Texas Commission on Environmental Quality $1,199,962
07-21-2005 - 12-31-2008 Scanlon, B. BEG Texas High Plains Land Use/Land Cover Groundwater Effects Special Study U.S. Bureau of Reclamation $20,000
02-01-2009 - 01-31-2012 Scott, R. UTIG Collaborative Research: Quantifying the Kinetic Energy Pathways to Dissipation in the World Ocean National Science Foundation $266,218
09-10-2008 - 08-31-2010 Scott, R. UTIG Description of Work for Dr. R. Scott While at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK, Between 9/1/2008 Through 8/31/2010 Natural Environmental Research Council (UK) $98,155
09-01-2008 - 08-31-2013 Shipley, T. UTIG Collaborative Research: Seismic Reflection Data System for Marine Geosciences II National Science Foundation $293,108
07-22-2008 - 03-31-2009 Shipley, T. UTIG University of Texas Marine Seismic Data Center Department of Commerce $24,000
10-01-2005 - 09-30-2009 Smyth, R.; Hardage, B. BEG Gulf Coast Carbon Participation in the SouthWest Regional Sequestration Partnership - Phase II New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology $342,864
10-01-2008 -09-30-2010 Snow, E. DGS Creating a Math and Science Community in SouthWest Texas (CAMSC) Southwest Texas Junior College $476,000
12-01-2003 - 12-31-2009 Steel, R. DGS Renaming Project to RioMar Consortium Industrial $465,000
01-01-2007 - 06-30-2010 Steel, R. DGS Sponsorship Agreement for Ph.D. Student ExxonMobil Upstream Research $35,000
05-01-2006 - 12-31-2008 Steel, R. DGS Systematic Study of Tidal-Bar Deposits: Bar Recognition, 3D Geometry and Variability Queens University at Kingston $28,750
06-01-2006 - 05-31-2009 Stoffa, P. UTIG Coupled Seismic and Reservoir Simulation and Inversion ConocoPhillips Company $150,000
07-17-2008 - 09-15-2008 Stoffa, P. UTIG Mid to Late Pleistocene Tephrostratigraphy of Northeastern Greece University of Frankfurt - Germany $9,513
06-20-1995 - 09-30-2009 Tinker, S. BEG A Technology Transfer Program, Texas Region of the Petroleum Technology Transfer Council Petroleum Technology Transfer Council $98,387
01-01-2007 - 12-31-2009 Tinker, S.; Kipper, J.; Duncan, I. BEG Advanced Energy Consortium Industrial $12,100,000
02-22-2009 - 03-31-2010 Tremblay, T. BEG Status and Trends of Inland Wetland and Aquatic Habitats of the Matagorda Bay Area Texas General Land Office and Vet Land Board $134,984
11-01-2007 - 12-31-2009 Wood, J. BEG Proposal to Participate in Development of Tetris (Template for Training Images) ENI SPA $58,357
01-01-2004 - 12-31-2010 Wood, J. BEG Quantitative Clastics Laboratory Foreign $705,000
06-08-2007 - 08-31-200 Wright, W.; Kerans, C. BEG Agreement for Scientific / Technologic Cooperation Petrobras $556,566
09-01-2007 - 08-31-2010 Yang, Z. DGS Fellowship: Using Satellite Observations and a Fully Coupled Land-Atmosphere-Chemistry Model to Study the Coupling Between National Aeronautics & Space Administration $30,000
07-01-2007 - 06-30-2010 Yang, Z.; Niu, G. DGS Improving Hydrological Representations in the Community NOAH Land Surface Model for Intra-Seasonal to Interannual Prediction Studies Department of Commerce $114,690
05-10-2007 - 05-09-2010 Yang, Z.; Maidment, D.; Montagna, P.; McClelland, J.; Niu, G. ESI Using Satellite Data and Fully Coupled Regional Hydrologic, Ecological and Atmospheric Models to Study Complex Coastal Environmental Processes National Aeronautics & Space Administration $540,978
04-01-2008 - 12-31-2009 Zeng, H.; Janson, X. BEG Digital Outcrop Modeling and Seismic Characterization of a Paleokarst Carbonate System BGP Inc. $88,961
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