Geosciences

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NSF/GEO structure
Geosciences
Directorate
Atmosphere
Ocean
Earth
Divisions
Integrated Programs Section
Marine Geosciences Section
Oceans Section
Sections
ODP
MGG
Programs
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Personnel - OCE
Tim Killeen, Assistant Director
Geosciences
Directorate
Julie Morris, Division Director of Ocean Sciences
Division
Ocean
Rodey Batiza, Section Head
Marine Geosciences Section
Section

• Jamie Allan Contracting Officers Technical
  Representative (COTR) on IODP contracts
• Kevin Mandernack (Colorado School of Mines), ODP
  Grants Program
• Deborah Smith (WHOI), USSSP, ODP Grants Program
• John Walters SODV Project Officer
• Michelle Arsenault Science Assistant

ODP
Program
MGG
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Personnel - OCE
Tim Killeen, Assistant Director
Geosciences
Directorate
Julie Morris, Division Director of Ocean Sciences
Division
Ocean
Rodey Batiza, Section Head
Marine Geosciences Section
Section

• Bil Haq Sedimentary geology
• Barbara Ransom Geochemistry
• Candace Major Paleoceanography
• Rick Carlson Geophysics, geodynamics
• Erik Hankin replaces Michael Welin as Science
  Assistant

ODP
Program
MGG
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What does NSF-ODP fund?

• USSSP
• Investigations of potential drilling regions,
  especially by means of regional geological and
  geophysical field studies.
• The feasibility and initial development of
  downhole instruments and techniques.
• Downhole geophysical and geochemical experiments.
  
• Research proposals that meet the scientific
  objectives of specific drilling expeditions.
  Grants resulting from these Expedition Objective
  Research (EOR) proposals will be for significant
  support to address the research objectives of the
  drilling expedition and are intended to begin in
  the period between the co-chief approval of the
  expedition sampling plan and the end of the
  sample moratorium period.

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Other ODP Contributions

• Fund small supplements, educational workshops,
  Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)
• Have numerous co-funding opportunities with
  other divisions and directorates within NSF
• Grants for Rapid Response Research (RAPID) and
  EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research
  (EAGER)
• Pay for ship time and Ocean Bottom Seismometer
  (OBS) costs associated with ODP funded cruises
• Contribute to OBSIP facilities

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Other ODP Contributions 2

• Contribute to MARGINS program Office and
  workshops
• MARGINS projects supported from 2008
• DeShon (U of Memphis) Imaging 3D seismic
  velocity and attenuation heterogeneity along the
  seismogenic zone of Costa Rica and Nicaragua
• Dixon (RSMAS) and Schwartz (UCSC) Col Research
  A plate boundary observatory on the Nicoya
  Peninsula, Costa Rica
• Dixon (RSMAS) Col Research Acquisition of GPS
  and seismic equipment for Phase 2 of a plate
  boundary observatory, Nicoya Peninsula, Costa
  Rica share with EAR.
• Speigelman (LDEO) and van Keken (U Michigan)
  Advanced models of magma migration at convergent
  margins

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Recent ODP Projects

• November 2008 panel
• Bangs/McIntosh (UTIG) and Silver (UCSC)
  Collaborative Research A 3D seismic
  investigation of the transition to seismogenic
  behavior along the southern Costa Rica subduction
  zone
• Becker (RSMAS) and Cowan (Hawaii) EAGER,
  Collaborative Research The Basalt-Hosted
  Biosphere Observatory at North Pond, Advanced
  Instrumentation for Transformative Science
• May 2009 panel
• Tryon (SIO) Muddy Waters Deep-seated fluid flow
  processes, seismic faulting and mud volcanism in
  a mature collision zone
• MGG May 2009 panel
• Korenaga (Yale), Diebold, (LDEO), Sager (TAMU),
  Collaborative Research Geophysical Constraints
  on Mechanisms of Ocean Plateau Formation from
  Shatsky Rise, Northwest Pacific

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Recent MGG Projects with ODP Relevance

• Severmann (Rutgers) What are the sources and
  mechanisms of iron enrichments during oceanic
  anoxic event 2? - Evidence from iron stable
  isotopes
• Martin (U Florida) Pb Isotopes in the Southern
  Ocean A Study of Pb Systematics and Continental
  Weathering During the Eocene/Oligocene Transition
• Katz (Rensselaer) and Cramer (Theiss Research)
  Collaborative Research Reorganization of
  deepwater circulation in response to the opening
  of Southern Ocean passages in the middle/late
  Eocene (40-33 Ma)
• Lisiecki (UCSB) Climate forcing of Atlantic
  overturning over the last 3 Myr
• Fedorov (Yale) and Ravelo (UCSC) Collaborative
  Research Reconstructing the Meridional SST
  Gradient and Climate Conditions of the Early
  Pliocene

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Examples of successful EORs

• Reviewers are sent the link to the NSF/ODP web
  site and cover letters requesting the reviews
  contain the same text. The criteria for funding
  ODP proposals are discussed at panel.
• John (Wyoming) and Gee (SIO) crustal accretion
  Hole U1309D Atlantis Masif west flank of MAR
  2006
• Darby (Old Dominion U. Research Foundation)
  Onset and history of perennial Arctic Sea Ice
  2006
• Moore (UMichigan) and Thomas (TAMU)
  History/timescale of paleo change in Arctic
  Ocean 2006
• Moran (URI) Cenozoic Sea Ice in Arctic Ocean
  2007
• Lund (USC) EOR Tahiti Chronostratigraphy 2007
• Saffer (Penn State), Screaton (Florida) and
  Underwood (Missouri) NanTroSEIZE 314, 315, 316
  Lab studies 2008
• What we expect for EORs PIs to demonstrate
  within the proposal that there is both national
  and international coordination/collaboration.

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IODP Member Status

• MOUs have recently been signed with Australia/New
  Zealand and India
• In the process of signing MOUs with China and
  Korea

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