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 | The University of Nevada, Reno has been awarded $12.2 million from the US Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology, it was announced Wednesday. This will fund the major portion of an expansion of the world-renowned earthquake engineering lab where, for the past 25 years, researchers have conducted successful experiments of building and testing large-scale structures and bridges to advance seismic safety. ...> Full Article |
 | The mining industry has stepped up its long-term support with a $2.4 million boost to the University of Nevada, Reno's mining engineering program and research; and instructors, students and administrators are pleased with the resulting real-world applications that come with a strengthened program. ...> Full Article |
The National Science Foundation recently awarded a grant of $144,244 to Williams College to fund a project titled "Visualizing Strain in Rocks with Interactive Computer Programs." The project is under the direction of Paul Karabinos, professor and chair of the geosciences department. The program with its tutorials will improve undergraduate courses in structural geology, fostering a deeper understanding of how commonly used strain methods work.
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 | The University of Alaska Fairbanks has selected Marinette Marine Corporation of Marinette, Wis., to build the 254-foot Alaska Region Research Vessel.When complete, the vessel will be one of the most advanced university research vessels in the world and will be capable of breaking ice up to 2.5 feet thick. ...> Full Article |
Glaciers, water under the glaciers, seismic activity and robotic rovers are all part of three National Science Foundation Polar Program grants awarded to Sridhar Anandakrishnan, professor of geosciences, Penn State. The grants, which total nearly a million dollars, are part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding.
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A UC project to predict the location and volume of coseismic landslides has been awarded $30,000 funding by the Earthquake Commission
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The University of Colorado at Boulder has been awarded a five-year, $32 million contract from NASA to manage and operate a sophisticated data system charting global phenomena like sea ice, ice shelves, ice sheets, glaciers and snow cover.
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Researchers to work with mining company Rio Tinto to develop sustainable mining techniques
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A major research consortium has just started to investigate the causes of devastating earthquakes in south-east Asia
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Thanks to a generous grant, researchers at the Idaho Geological Survey at the University of Idaho will be able to map the region, including earthquake-prone areas
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Carnegie Mellon University's Jacobo Bielak was awarded $1.6 million over the next four years from the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) PetaApps program to develop earthquake computer simulations that play an important role in reducing seismic risk for large urban coastal cities.
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Researchers to understand causes of rare, destructive earthquakes
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