Earth and Environmental Sciences

Grants and Contracts

Grants and Contracts per year 2000 2002 2003 2011 2012 2015 2016 2017 2027

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• 141 Finished

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  State Water Research Institute Program Scope 7

  Fryar, A.

  US Geological Survey

  3/1/06 → 2/29/08

  Project: Research project

  • State 100%
  • Kentucky 100%
  • Health 92%
  • Rural Health 78%
  • Rural Area 28%

• Organic Carbon Accumulation in Paleozoic Black Shales: An Opportunity for Mentorship Teams

  Rimmer, S. & Rowe, H.

  5/15/05 → 8/15/05

  Project: Research project

  • Student 100%
  • Accumulation 100%
  • Organic Matter 71%
  • Structural Basin 71%
  • Ordovician 71%

• High-Resolution Geophysical and Geological Investigations of Lower Wabash Valley Fault System Neotectonics

  Woolery, E.

  US Geological Survey

  4/1/05 → 9/30/06

  Project: Research project

• Acquisition of a DGC Maceral Separation Laboratory: The Key to Maceral-Specific Isotopic and Geochemical Analysis

  Rimmer, S., Dos Santos Carmo, A. & Rowe, H.

  3/15/05 → 8/31/07

  Project: Research project

  • Gradient 100%
  • Centrifugation 100%
  • Maceral 83%
  • Kerogen 66%
  • Coal 66%

• Reconstructing Late Quaternar Paleohydrology of the Lower Ohio Valley

  Rowe, H.

  3/1/05 → 2/28/06

  Project: Research project

  • Speleothem 100%
  • Kentucky 77%
  • Investigation 77%
  • Rill 55%
  • Ohio 44%

• Development of a Conceptual Stratigraphic Model for the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant

  Fryar, A. & Greb, S.

  Department of Energy

  5/1/04 → 10/31/08

  Project: Research project

  • Kentucky 100%
  • University 80%
  • Investigation 69%
  • Plant 40%
  • Gaseous Diffusion 40%

• Ground Motion Site Effects in the Wabash Valley Region from the 18 June 2002 Darmstadt Earthquake

  Woolery, E.

  US Geological Survey

  4/1/04 → 8/31/05

  Project: Research project

• High-Resolution Geophysical and Geological Investigation of Late Quaternary Deformation in the Lower Wabash Valley Fault Zone

  Woolery, E.

  US Geological Survey

  4/1/04 → 8/31/05

  Project: Research project

• Assessing Groundwater Age, Regional Flowpaths, and Hydrochemical Evolution of the Knox Group Aquifer in the Bluegrass Region of Kentucky

  Rowe, H.

  3/1/04 → 2/28/05

  Project: Research project

• Mid-America Integrated Seismic Network -- University of Kentucky

  Wang, Z., Kiefer, J. & Woolery, E.

  US Geological Survey

  1/1/04 → 1/31/07

  Project: Research project

  • University 100%
  • Earthquake 66%
  • Network 50%
  • Americas 50%
  • Proposal 50%

• KY Research Consortium for Energy and Environment: Task 10 Seismic Network (GS10)

  Woolery, E.

  Department of Energy

  9/15/03 → 12/31/10

  Project: Research project

  • Kentucky 100%
  • University 77%
  • Investigation 55%
  • Research 33%
  • Natural Resource 33%

• KY Research Consortium for Energy and Environment: Task 4 Fate and Transport (GS4)

  Fryar, A.

  Department of Energy

  9/15/03 → 9/30/15

  Project: Research project

  • Kentucky 100%
  • University 77%
  • Investigation 55%
  • Research 33%
  • Natural Resource 33%

• Kentucky Research Consortium for Energy and Environment

  Ormsbee, L., Hampson, S., Kipp, J., Dunbar, P., Fryar, A., Grulke, E., Lingireddy, S., Lynn, B., Wang, Z., Woolery, E. & Zhai, T.

  Department of Energy

  9/15/03 → 3/31/09

  Project: Research project

  • Kentucky 100%
  • University 69%
  • Investigation 50%
  • Research 30%
  • Natural Resource 30%

• Kentucky Research Consortium for Energy and Environment

  Andrews, R., Andrews, W., Anyaegbunam, C., Bhattacharyya, D., Filson, A., Fryar, A., Hampson, S., Ormsbee, L., Price, S., Rohrbacher, G., Wang, Z., Woolery, E., Zhu, J. & Dinger, J.

  Department of Energy

  9/15/03 → 5/31/16

  Project: Research project

  • Kentucky 100%
  • University 69%
  • Investigation 50%
  • Research 30%
  • Natural Resource 30%

• S- and P- Wave Velocity Measurements at Seismic Network Expansion Sites

  Woolery, E. & Wang, Z.

  Department of Energy

  9/15/03 → 10/31/08

  Project: Research project

  • S Wave 100%
  • Site 100%
  • Expansion 66%
  • Model 66%
  • Wave Velocity 66%

• KY Research Consortium for Energy and Environment: Task 5 Nano-Particle Phase 1 (GS5)

  Woolery, E.

  Department of Energy

  9/15/03 → 9/30/15

  Project: Research project

  • Kentucky 100%
  • University 77%
  • Investigation 55%
  • Research 33%
  • Natural Resource 33%

• Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration in Devonian-Mississippian Anoxic Basins

  Rimmer, S., Dos Santos Carmo, A. & Rowe, H.

  8/1/03 → 7/31/07

  Project: Research project

  • Structural Basin 100%
  • Condition 66%
  • Devonian 66%
  • Mississippian 50%
  • Accumulation 50%

• CHS Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant: Seismological and Geotechnical Oversight

  Woolery, E.

  KY Department for Public Health

  7/1/03 → 6/30/04

  Project: Research project

• Satellite Remote Sensing of Sea-Surface Variability in the Bering Sea: Calibrating Modern Changes in Order to Interpret Past Changes from Sediment Cores

  Rowe, H.

  7/1/03 → 5/31/05

  Project: Research project

  • Variability 100%
  • Ocean Surface 57%
  • Bering Sea 42%
  • Climate 42%
  • Atmospheric Circulation 14%

• Paducah Gaseous Diffusion ("Federal Facilities Agreement")

  Kipp, J., Smart, J. & Woolery, E.

  KY Department for Public Health

  7/1/03 → 6/30/04

  Project: Research project

  • Health 100%
  • Time 100%
  • Project 100%
  • Public 66%
  • Radiation 66%

• Time and Mechansim(s) of accretion of the Laurentia-derived Argentine Precordillers

  Thomas, W.

  3/1/03 → 2/28/07

  Project: Research project

  • Gondwana 100%
  • Collision 83%
  • Laurentia 83%
  • Subsidence 50%
  • Research 50%

• FEM and BEM Community Fault Models for S. CA., Coseismic and Post seismic Deformation Benchmarks

  Kenner, S.

  1/1/03 → 1/31/07

  Project: Research project

  • Model 100%
  • Fault 50%
  • Deformation 50%
  • Earthquake 37%
  • Boundary 37%

• Mushwads (Ductile Duplexes) in Thrust Belts: Thermal and Structural Constraints

  Thomas, W., Ohara, K. & Rimmer, S.

  1/1/03 → 8/31/08

  Project: Research project

  • Thrust 100%
  • Roofs 100%
  • Rock 66%
  • Anomaly 66%
  • Geometry 66%

• Earthquake Generation in Intraplate Seismic Zones: Sources of Stress and Geometric Considerations

  Kenner, S.

  1/1/03 → 12/31/05

  Project: Research project

  • Seismic Zone 100%
  • Earthquake 66%
  • Seismic Source 33%
  • Behavior 16%
  • Recurrence Interval 16%

• Collaborative Research (Caltech): Interpreting High Resolution Geodetic Data with Visoelastic Models

  Kenner, S.

  12/15/02 → 11/30/06

  Project: Research project

  • Model 100%
  • Datum 50%
  • Estimate 50%
  • Earthquake 50%
  • Effort 50%

• Preliminary Seismic Hazard Assessment for Paducah Area and Northeastern, Kentucky

  Wang, Z. & Woolery, E.

  KY Economic Development Cab

  10/1/02 → 12/31/02

  Project: Research project

• Installation of a Vertical Strong-motion Array: PGDP, McCracken County, Kentucky

  Woolery, E. & Wang, Z.

  KY Natural Resources Environmental Protection Cabinet

  7/1/02 → 6/30/04

  Project: Research project

  • Site Effect 100%
  • Earthquake 100%
  • Array 75%
  • Deposit 75%
  • Sediment 75%

• KY Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet Memorandum of Agreement

  Fryar, A.

  KY Natural Resources Environmental Protection Cabinet

  7/1/02 → 6/30/04

  Project: Research project

  • Kentucky 100%
  • Shape 50%
  • Agreement 50%
  • Service 50%
  • Research 50%

• Seismic Ground Motion Re-Evaluation for the DOE C-746-U Landfill, Paducah Gaseous Diffusion

  Woolery, E. & Wang, Z.

  KY Natural Resources Environmental Protection Cabinet

  7/1/02 → 6/30/04

  Project: Research project

  • Acoustics 100%
  • Ground Motion 100%
  • Assurance 100%
  • Impact 100%
  • Environment 100%

• Geotechnical Characterization and Site-Specific Seismic Hazards at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant

  Woolery, E.

  KY Department for Public Health

  7/1/02 → 6/30/03

  Project: Research project

• Geologic Mapping in Pennsylvanian Rocks in the Appalachian Thrust Belt, Alabama, and Pennsylvania

  Thomas, W.

  5/1/02 → 10/31/03

  Project: Research project

• A Comprehensive Geotechnical Investigation and Borehole Accelerometer Array Installation in the New Madrid Seismic Zone

  Woolery, E. & Wang, Z.

  US Geological Survey

  4/1/02 → 3/31/03

  Project: Research project

• Fault Loading Processes in the New Madrid Seismic Zone

  Kenner, S.

  3/1/02 → 2/28/04

  Project: Research project

  • Earthquake 100%
  • Model 100%
  • Seismic Zone 80%
  • Seismicity 40%
  • Strain 40%

• Geologic Mapping in the Appalachian Thrust Belt in Eastern Alabama

  Thomas, W.

  9/1/01 → 10/20/02

  Project: Research project

• CHS Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant Oversight

  Woolery, E.

  KY Department for Public Health

  7/1/01 → 6/30/02

  Project: Research project

• An Integrated Geophysical Assessment of Late Quaternary Neotectonics Along the Northern Misissippi Embayment Extension of the Fluorspar Area Fault Complex

  Woolery, E. & STREET, R.

  US Geological Survey

  2/1/01 → 3/31/03

  Project: Research project

• Testing a Pseudotachylyte Geothermometer

  Ohara, K.

  1/1/01 → 12/31/03

  Project: Research project

• Eisenhower: Understanding Scientific Process Through Modeling Past and Present Causes in the Earth, Life and Environmental Sciences for Middle and High-School Teachers, Central Kentucky

  Ettensohn, F., Krupa, J. & Stevens, J.

  KY Council on Postsecondary Education

  10/1/00 → 6/30/02

  Project: Research project

• Geologic Mapping in the Harpersville Transverse Zone, Appalachian Thrust Belt, Alabama

  Thomas, W.

  9/1/00 → 8/31/01

  Project: Research project

• Upgrade of the University of Kentucky Electron Probe Microanalyzer

  Moecher, D.

  National Science Foundation

  8/1/00 → 7/31/02

  Project: Research project

• POWRE: Carbon-13 Heterogeneity in Devonian-Mississippian Marine Shales: Integration of Density-Gradient Centrifugation (DGC) and Organic Petrography into Isotopic Studies

  Rimmer, S.

  8/1/00 → 7/31/03

  Project: Research project