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Award Abstract #0238416
Collaborative Research: A GIS Database for Studying and Visualizing Tethyan Plate Collisions
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EAR
Division of Earth Sciences
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| Initial Amendment Date: |
September 16, 2003 |
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| Latest Amendment Date: |
August 2, 2004 |
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| Award Number: |
0238416 |
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| Award Instrument: |
Continuing grant |
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| Program Manager: |
Russell C. Kelz
EAR Division of Earth Sciences
GEO Directorate for Geosciences
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| Start Date: |
September 15, 2003 |
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| Expires: |
August 31, 2006 (Estimated) |
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| Awarded Amount to Date: |
$108630 |
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| Investigator(s): |
Martin F. Flower flower@uic.edu (Principal Investigator)
Andrew Johnson (Co-Principal Investigator)
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| Sponsor: |
University of Illinois at Chicago
809 S MARSHFIELD RM 608
CHICAGO, IL 60612 312/996-9406
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| NSF Program(s): |
INSTRUMENTATION & FACILITIES
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| Field Application(s): |
0000099 Other Applications NEC
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| Program Reference Code(s): |
OTHR,0000
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| Program Element Code(s): |
1580
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ABSTRACT
0238416
Flower
This collaborative geoinformatics project will involve a team of researchers at the University of Illinois - Chicago (Flower, EAR-0238199), Houston (Khan, EAR-0237999), Missouri (Sandvol, EAR-0238199) and SUNY-Buffalo (Sultan, EAR-0237481). The team will build an interdisciplinary GIS database (TETHYS) as a tool for studying plate collision responses in the Tethyan belt. TETHYS will reside at the University of Illinois Supercomputer Facility - hub of StarTap, a high speed (155 Mbps) peering point for national and international research network traffic. This arrangement will accommodate the projected need for high-speed database queries, high-speed networking and advanced visualization expertise. The database will include digitized geological maps, structural indicators, geodetic data, remote sensing data, sample-based major and trace element abundances, radiometric ages, isotopic abundances for ophiolites, ultra-high pressure metamorphic rocks, collision-related magmatic bodies, and seismic data pertaining to mantle and crustal fabric and structure. On completion of the construction phase, the TETHYS GIS webserver will become a node of the national GEOscience Network (GEON); an ongoing initiative committed to creating solid earth geoscience cyberinfrastructure linking multidisciplinary geoscience data sets.
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