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Faculty Member
Expiration Date
PaleoWeather: A New Paradigm For Examining Extreme Events In Past ClimatesHeising-Simons FoundationJessica Tierney12/31/28
Constructing a Mid-Pleistocene to Holocene Climate Record for the Southern Negev, IsraelHebrew University (Israel)Jay Quade9/30/2028
Renewed Support for paleoCAMP: A Multidisciplinary Summer School for Graduate Students in PaleoclimatologyHeising-Simons FoundationJessica Tierney12/31/2027
Collaborative Research: BoCP-Implementation: The impact of climate change on functional biodiversity across spatiotemporal scales at Lake Tanganyika, AfricaNational Science FoundationAndrew Cohen9/30/2027
2022 Waterman AwardNational Science FoundationJessica Tierney5/31/2027
NERC - NSFGEO: Pliocene Lessons for the Indian Ocean Dipole (PLIOD)National Science FoundationKaustubh Thirumalai3/31/2027
Collaborative Research: Tracing Pacific Ocean Circulation and Ventilation During the Warm Pliocene EpochNational Science FoundationKaustubh Thirumalai12/31/2025
Agreement for the Nogales- N. Sonora Flood Early Warning and Modeling and Southern Arizona-NW Mexico Transboundary Aquifer Assessment ProjectUnited States Geological SurveyJoellen Russell9/30/2025
Collaborative Research: The Role of Seasonality in Abrupt Climate Change - a Test by Reconstructing Fluctuations of a Late-Glacial Ice Mass in Eastern North AmericaNational Science FoundationJoellen Russell8/31/2025
Internal Decadal Anomalies in Atmospheric 14C Quantified with Tree-Ring Proxies and Implications for Long-Term Variability of the Sun-Climate SystemNASA HeadquartersAnthony Jull7/15/2025
Collaborative Research: P2C2-- Constraining Cloud and Convective Parameterizations Using Paleoclimate Data AssimilationNational Science FoundationJessica Tierney6/30/2025
CAREER: Climate-Change Vulnerability In The Marshall Islands - Learning From The Past & Inspiring A New FutureNational Science FoundationDiane Thompson5/31/2025
Augmenting PaleoCAMP: A Multidisciplinary Summer School for Graduate Students in PaleoclimatologyDavid and Lucille Packard FoundationJessica Tierney4/30/2025
Collaborative Research: Millennial-length histories of NE Pacific Climate Variability from Bivalve Mollusks and TreesNational Science FoundationMarcus Lofverstrom (Co-PI)6/30/2026

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Faculty Member
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Monitoring And Assessment Of Closure Design Performance at BHP sitesBHP Copper, IncorporatedJon Pelletier6/30/2028
Mineralogy, hydrothermal alteration, and veining paragenesis within the Morenci District, ArizonaFreeport McMoRan Inc. Marta Codeço07/31/2027
Structural control in porphyry mineralization in the Morenci deposit, Arizona
Freeport McMoRan Inc. Marta Codeço07/31/2027
Geologic Studies of Porphyry Copper DepositsFreeport-McMoRan, Inc.Mark Barton8/27/2027
Geochemistry of the Laramide Porphyry Belt, Arizona and New MexicoUnited States Geological SurveyHerve Rezeau (Co-PI)12/29/2025
Collaborative Research: Deciphering the origin and the timing of silver enrichment in high-sulfidation epithermal deposits: The case study of Filo Del Sol deposit, Argentina
National Science FoundationMarta Codeço (Co-PI)05/31/2028
Comparative Studies of Jurassic, Cretaceous, and Cenozoic Carbonate Replacement Deposits and Related Carbonate-Hosted Mineralization, Arizona Borderlands
US Geological SurveyMarta Codeço (Co-PI)08/20/2028

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CAREER: Evaluating the Continental Crust as a Key Reservoir of Earth's Nitrogen and Constraining the Nitrogen Abundance of Primitive Arc MagmasNational Science FoundationAnanya Mallik1/31/2030
CFS (Track III): Community Facility Support for U-Th-Pb Geochronology and Complementary Geochemistry at the Arizona LaserChron CenterNational Science FoundationGeorge Gehrels7/31/2029
Collaborative Research: Testing Stable Zirconium Isotope Variability in the OceanNational Science FoundationMauricio Ibanez Mejia8/31/2027
Tracking the Fate of Subducted Carbonate Platforms in the Sub-Arc Mantle Using Field Observations and Laboratory Experiments: Implications for Deep Carbon CyclingNational Science FoundationAnanya Mallik7/31/2027
ITD: Development of Laser (TILDAS) System for Simultaneous and Rapid Measurement of Clumped and Triple-Oxygen Isotopes in CarbonatesNational Science FoundationJay Quade7/31/2026
Track 2 MRI: Acquisition of a mini carbon dating system for multi-millennial, multi-user sequences of annually resolved 14C and other high precision applicationsNational Science FoundationKaustubh Thirumalai (Co-PI)8/31/2025
CAREER: Redefining The High Field Strength Element Systematics of Subduction Systems Using Non-traditional Stable IsotopesNational Science FoundationMauricio Ibanez Mejia1/31/2027
Collaborative Research: Evolution of Subsurface Microbe-Rock-Fluid SystemsNational Science FoundationPeter Reiners (Co-PI)8/31/2026
Geochemistry of the Laramide Porphyry Belt, Arizona and New MexicoUnited States Geological SurveyHerve Rezeau (Co-PI)12/29/2025
Collaborative Research: Tracking nitrogen in mélange matrix from fore-arc to sub-arc depths with implications for deep nitrogen cycling: A combined field and experimental approachNational Science FoundationAnanya Mallik12/31/2025

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Collaborative Research: BoCP-Implementation: The impact of climate change on functional biodiversity across spatiotemporal scales at Lake Tanganyika, AfricaNational Science FoundationAndrew Cohen9/30/2027
Collaborative Research: Continental-Scale Study of Jura Cretaceous Basins and Melanges Along the Backbone of the North American Cordillera: A Test of Mesozoic Subduction ModelsNational Science FoundationGeorge Gehrels8/31/2027
REU Site: From the clouds to the core: A place-based REU for southwestern US community/tri bal college students to increase under-represented group recruitment to the geosciencesNational Science FoundationAndrew Cohen10/31/2025
Developing Quantitative Methods to Address Sediment ModificationNational Science FoundationJay Quade8/31/2025
Collaborative Research: Do Subduction-complex Metamorphic Rocks Record The Thermal Evolution of a Subduction Zone or Periods of Anomalous Tectonic Activity? Baja CaliforniaNational Science FoundationPaul Kapp8/31/2025
Collaborative Research - A new appraisal of tectonic mobility in the northern Cordillera using connections between the Coast Mountains batholith and Alberta foreland basinNational Science FoundationGeorge Gehrels4/30/2025

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Faculty Member
Expiration Date
Collaborative Research: TransANdean Great Orogeny (TANGO)National Science FoundationSusan Beck7/31/2026
Collaborative Research: Revealing the Hidden Groundwater Storage Dynamics of the Great Lakes Basin by Synthesizing Geodesy, Hydrologic Modeling, and Remote SensingNational Science FoundationChris Harig8/31/2027
CAREER - Inversion of Localized High-Resolution Polar Gravity Fields to Estimate Mass ChangeNational Science FoundationChris Harig2/28/2027
CAREER: Fluid-driven Deformation in Underground Salt Caverns and Wastewater Injection Sites (Transfer)National Science FoundationPatricia Persaud4/30/2026
Ice-Penetrating Radar Survey at Kennicott Glacier, AKNational Park ServiceJack Holt9/30/2025
Controls on Explosive Basaltic Eruptions within the San Francisco Volcanic Field: Constraints from seismic imaging and multiphase magma ascent modelingNational Science Foundation

Eric Kiser

Pranabendu Moitra (Co-PI)

8/31/2025
Collaborative Research: 3D Imaging of Controls on Subduction Zone Megathrust Rupture and Slip BehaviorNational Science FoundationSusan Beck6/30/2025
New Frontiers of Sound (NewFoS) Science and Technology CenterNational Science FoundationSusan Beck (Co-PI)8/31/2028

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Faculty Member
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Planning: CHIRRP: Increasing resilience to fire through prefire assessments of postfire flow hazards: Co-producing solutions with the Yavapai County Flood Control DistrictNational Science FoundationLuke McGuire12/31/2026
Forecasting postfire debris-flow hazards in the southwestern USUnited States Geological SurveyLuke Mcguire8/20/2025
University of Arizona, Water Resources Research Center - US Geological Survey, Arizona Water Science Center, Geologic and Water-Resource ProgramsUnited States Geological SurveyBarbara Carrapa6/30/2025
Improving post-wildfire debris-flow predictions for ArizonaArizona Department of Emergency and Military AffairsLuke Mcguire (Co-PI)2/1/2026

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Faculty Member
Expiration Date
Understanding Magmatic Volatile Loss and its Effect on the Prevalence of Effusive vs. Explosive Styles of Volcanism on the MoonNASAPranabendu Moitra02/25/2026
GLOW: Constraining the Atmospheric Signatures of Magmatic Volcanism on Terrestrial Exoplanets

National Science Foundation

Ananya Mallik (Co-PI)

Pranabendu Moitra (Co-PI)

8/31/2027
Collaborative Research: Experimental constraints on the solidification time scales and fragmentation of submarine lava flowsNational Science FoundationPranabendu Moitra (Co-PI)07/31/2026
Controls on explosive basaltic eruptions within the San Francisco Volcanic Field: Constraints from seismic imaging and multiphase magma ascent modelingNational Science FoundationPranabendu Moitra (Co-PI)08/31/2026

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How 'wet' is the Moon: Insight from hydrogen partitioning during lunar magma ocean crystallizationNASA Headquarters

Ananya Mallik

Pranabendu Moitra (Co-PI)

1/31/2027
Understanding Magmatic Volatile Loss and its Effect on the Prevalence of Effusive vs. Explosive Styles of Volcanism on the MoonNASAPranabendu Moitra02/25/2026
Investigating the URKREEP Origin of Lunar Silicic MagmasNASA HeadquartersAnanya Mallik7/31/2026
Support for the CheMin mineralogical instrument during the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL'11) mission - Phase V: Experiment planning, data analysis and mission operations (short title)NASA Ames Research CenterRobert Downs3/31/2026
GLOW: Constraining the Atmospheric Signatures of Magmatic Volcanism on Terrestrial ExoplanetsNational Science Foundation

Ananya Mallik (Co-PI)

Pranabendu Moitra (Co-PI)

8/31/2027
Effects of Subsurface Fluid Reservoirs on Martian Geomorphology in Utopia PlanitiaNASA HeadquartersAmanda Hughes (Co-PI)8/31/2025
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