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Michigan Mine Safety & Health Training Program

Investigators
Principal Investigator: James Gillis
College/School: College of Engineering
Department(s): Geological & Mining Engineering & Sciences

PIRE: Remote Sensing for Hazard Mitigation and Resource Protection in Pacific Latin America

Investigators
Principal Investigator: Gregg Bluth
Principal Investigator: John Gierke
Co-PI: Gregg Bluth
Co-PI: John Gierke
Co-PI: Essa Gross
Co-PI: Essa Paterson
Co-PI: Miriam Rios Sanchez
Co-PI: William Rose
Co-PI: Gregory Waite
College/School: College of Engineering
Department(s): Geological & Mining Engineering & Sciences

Processing Oil and Gas Well Data with Well Log Tomography Software

Investigators
Principal Investigator: James Wood Jr
Co-PI: Carol Asiala
College/School: College of Engineering
Department(s): Geological & Mining Engineering & Sciences

Expansion & Synergistic use of the ASTER Urgent Request Protocol (URP) for Natural Disaster Monitoring & Scientific Analysis

Investigators
Principal Investigator: Iain Watson
College/School: College of Engineering
Department(s): Geological & Mining Engineering & Sciences

Collaborative Research: Investigation of Ozone Photochemistry in Lower-FT Continential Outflow Traveling Over the North Atlantic

Investigators
Principal Investigator: Louisa Kramer
Principal Investigator: Robert (Chris) Owen
Principal Investigator: Maria Val Martin
Co-PI: Robert (Chris) Owen
Co-PI: Shiliang Wu
College/School: College of Engineering
Department(s): Geological & Mining Engineering & Sciences

Collaborative Research: Modeling and Analyzing the Use, Efficiency, Value and Governance of Water as a Material in the Great Lakes Region Through an Integrated Approach

Investigators
Principal Investigator: Alex Mayer
Co-PI: James Mihelcic
Co-PI: David Watkins
Co-PI: Qiong Zhang
College/School: College of Engineering
Department(s): Geological & Mining Engineering & Sciences

Michigan Teacher Excellence Program (MITEP): A Model for Improving Earth Science Education Nationwide

Investigators
Principal Investigator: Bradley Baltensperger
Principal Investigator: William Rose
Co-PI: Christine Anderson
Co-PI: Bradley Baltensperger
Co-PI: Kedmon Hungwe
Co-PI: Jacqueline Huntoon
Co-PI: Christopher Wojick
College/School: College of Engineering
Department(s): Geological & Mining Engineering & Sciences

A Combined EOS Data and GEOS-Chem Modeling Study of the Direct Radiative Forcing of Volcanic Sulfate Aerosols

Investigators
Principal Investigator: Simon Carn
College/School: College of Engineering
Department(s): Geological & Mining Engineering & Sciences

Enhancing the Capacity for Sustainable Forest Management in Chiapas and Oaxaca

Investigators
Principal Investigator: Alex Mayer
Co-PI: Kathleen Halvorsen
College/School: College of Engineering
Department(s): Geological & Mining Engineering & Sciences

New GK12 GlobalWatershed: Integrating Rural and Global Perspectives with Research and Technological Advances

Investigators
Principal Investigator: Alex Mayer
Co-PI: Nancy Auer
Co-PI: Bradley Baltensperger
Co-PI: Linda Nagel
College/School: College of Engineering
Department(s): Geological & Mining Engineering & Sciences

Impacts of Changes in Land Use and Land Cover on U.S. Air Quality: Development and Application of an Integrated Climate-Vegetation-Chemistry Modeling System

Investigators
Principal Investigator: Shiliang Wu
College/School: College of Engineering
Department(s): Geological & Mining Engineering & Sciences

Virunga Volcanic SO2 Emissions Research (VISOR) Project

Investigators
Principal Investigator: Simon Carn
College/School: College of Engineering
Department(s): Geological & Mining Engineering & Sciences

CDI-Type II Proposal: VHub: Collaborative Research: Cyberinfrastructure for Volcano Eruption and Hazards Modeling and Simulation

Investigators
Principal Investigator: Simon Carn
Co-PI: William Rose
College/School: College of Engineering
Department(s): Geological & Mining Engineering & Sciences

International GEOLOGICAL MASTER in VOLCANOLOGY and GEOTECHNIQUES

Investigators
Principal Investigator: William Rose
College/School: College of Engineering
Department(s): Geological & Mining Engineering & Sciences

Validation of OMI L2 Sulfur Dioxide Retrievals Over Volcanic and Anthropogenic Sources

Investigators
Principal Investigator: Simon Carn
College/School: College of Engineering
Department(s): Geological & Mining Engineering & Sciences

An Integrated Analysis of Seismicity, Infrasound, and High-Resolution SO2 Measurements to Determine the Source of Low-Frequency Seismicity at Villarrica Volcano, Chile

Investigators
Principal Investigator: Gregory Waite
Co-PI: Simon Carn
Co-PI: Jose Luis Palma Lizana
College/School: College of Engineering
Department(s): Geological & Mining Engineering & Sciences

PASI: Volcanic Hazards and Remote Sensing in Pacific Latin America

Investigators
Principal Investigator: William Rose
Co-PI: Simon Carn
Co-PI: Essa Paterson
Co-PI: Gregory Waite
College/School: College of Engineering
Department(s): Geological & Mining Engineering & Sciences

Continuation of Long-Term Sulfer Dioxide EDR with the NPP Ozone Maping and Profiler Suite Nadir Mapper

Investigators
Principal Investigator: Simon Carn
College/School: College of Engineering
Department(s): Geological & Mining Engineering & Sciences

A Paleomagnetic and Geochronological Re-Investigation of the ~ 1.1 Ga Coldwell Complex: Implications for the Reversal Asymmetry in Keweenawan Rocks

Investigators
Principal Investigator: Aleksey Smirnov
Co-PI: Jimmy Diehl
College/School: College of Engineering
Department(s): Geological & Mining Engineering & Sciences

CAREER: Eruption Dynamics From Low-Frequency Volcano-Seismic Signals

Investigators
Principal Investigator: Gregory Waite
College/School: College of Engineering
Department(s): Geological & Mining Engineering & Sciences

A-Train Volcano Observatory (ATVO)

Investigators
Principal Investigator: Simon Carn
College/School: College of Sciences & Arts
Department(s): Geological & Mining Engineering & Sciences

Long-term Measurements of Nitrogen Oxides at the GEOSummit Station, Greenland

Investigators
Principal Investigator: Louisa Kramer
College/School: College of Engineering
Department(s): Geological & Mining Engineering & Sciences

Triggering of Volcanic Activity by Large Earthquakes

Investigators
Principal Investigator: Dulcinea Avouris
Co-PI: Simon Carn
Co-PI: Gregory Waite
College/School: College of Engineering
Department(s): Geological & Mining Engineering & Sciences

Paleointensity, Morphology, and Stability of the Proterozoic Geomagnetic Field as Recorded by Mafic Dikes in India

Investigators
Principal Investigator: Aleksey Smirnov
College/School: College of Engineering
Department(s): Geological & Mining Engineering & Sciences

A Study of the Relationship between Hydrocarbon Migration and Magnetic Alteration of the Michigan Basin Soils and Sediments: Towards Understanding the Magnetic Signature of Hydrocarbons

Investigators
Principal Investigator: Aleksey Smirnov
College/School: College of Engineering
Department(s): Geological & Mining Engineering & Sciences

Tool Testing at Michigan Test Site

Investigators
Principal Investigator: Roger Turpening
College/School: College of Engineering
Department(s): Geological & Mining Engineering & Sciences

Geohazard Prediction for Landslide Areas by Numerical Modeling of SLope Instability: A Tool for Geotechnical System Monitoring

Investigators
Principal Investigator: Thomas Oommen
College/School: College of Engineering
Department(s): Geological & Mining Engineering & Sciences

CAREER: Reading Magnetic Fingerprints from Deep Time: An Insight into the Geodynamo and Early System Evolution

Investigators
Principal Investigator: Aleksey Smirnov
College/School: College of Engineering
Department(s): Geological & Mining Engineering & Sciences
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