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Current Fiscal Year Projects

Current Fiscal Year Projects [partially or completely funded by MRP] | Cooperative Projects | Completed Projects

• Central Region Isotopic/Geochronology Core Operations, Lab Support
• Central Region Mineral Resources Outreach
• Development of Mineral Environmental Assessment Methodologies
• Geochemical and Isotope Studies of the Evolution of Ore Deposits
• Isotope Geochemistry and Geochronology Research and Development
• Modeling Near-Surface Processes in Mineral Systems
• National Geophysical Data Retrieval and Integration
• Remote Sensing Research and Applications
• Research Chemistry
• WRD Toxics Program, Geophysics for Ground Water Studies

Cooperative Projects

• Navy Research Laboratory (NRL) and Afghanistan Geological Survey - Afghanistan Geophysical and Remote Sensing Surveys
• Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
  • Advanced Remote Sensing Technologies for Monitoring Postburn Vegetation Trends and Conditions
  • Geophysical Characterization of Subsurface Conditions
• Department of Energy (DOE)
  • Evaluation, Modification, and Testing of the Very Early Time Electromagnetic (VETEM) System, the High Frequency Sounder (HFS), and the Tensor Magnetic Gradiometer System (TMGS) for UXO Detection, Imaging, and Discrimination
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  • Improving Ground Penetrating Radar Imaging in High Loss Environments by Coordinated System Development, Data Processing, Numerical Modeling, and Visualization Methods with Applications to Site Characterization
  • Evaluation of a Directional Borehole Radar (DBOR) System and the VETEM System for Application to a Dense Non-Aqueous Phase Liquid (DNAPL) Spill Experiment
  • Clay Organic Interpretation
  • High Frequency Sounder (HFS)
  • Libby, Montana Material Mapping
• NASA
  • Cassini/VIMS Development
• JPL (Galileo NIMS) - Roger Clark
• USGS Earth Surface Processes Team - Geophysical Studies for the Geologic Framework of Rio Grande Basins
• USGS WRD Toxics Program - Toxic Substances Hydrology in Fractured Rock

Completed Projects

• Anchorage Urban Region Aeromagnetics
• Aqueous Geochemistry Research and Development
• Coupled Thermal, Mechanical, and Hydraulic Processes in Ore Formation
• Central Transantarctic Mountains (CTAM) Geophysics
• Development of Geoenvironmental Models for Mineral Deposits
• Geochemical and Isotopic Studies in Support of Life Cycle of Mineral Deposit Investigations
• Geophysical Research and Development
• Geophysical Research and Development II
• Geophysical Studies of the Southwest Florida Coast
• Geophysics for Assessments
• Metal Release, Transport, and Attenuation in Mined Areas
• Mine Waste Characterization
• National Geophysical Database
• North American Magnetic Anomaly Database
• Processes of World-Class Ore Deposit Formation
• Research Chemistry Core Support
• Remote Sensing Project
• Risk-Based Applications of Geoenvironmental Mineral Deposit Models in Mineral Exploration, Mine Planning, Operations, Closure, and Remediation
• WRD Geochemical Studies at the Norman Landfill

Completed Cooperative and Outside-Funded Projects

• NSF (Tamara) - Workshop on Antarctic Airborne Geophysics

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