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Marine Geology and Geophysics

Federal funding opportunity PD-17-1620 from U.S. National Science Foundation.

This record was posted July 13, 2017 and last updated June 4, 2025. It still shows as open with no close date, and an announcement this old is very likely no longer available. Verify it on the official listing at Grants.gov before relying on it.

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Posted
July 13, 2017
Closes
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Cost sharing
No
Instrument
Grant
Assistance listing
47.050
Category
Science and Technology and other Research and Development

Program funding history

Awards made under Assistance Listing 47.050 across FY2024–FY2026, from public federal spending records.

FY2024 obligated
$1B
FY2025 obligated
$1B
FY2026 (to date) obligated
$373.8M
Awards in window
4,687

Top recipients: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Earthscope Consortium Inc., University of California San Diego, The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York

Source: USAspending.gov · refreshed August 2026

Synopsis

The Marine Geology and Geophysics Core Program supports research on all aspects of the geology and geophysics of the present ocean basins and margins, as well as those of the Great Lakes. The Program supports science that includes:
  • Structure, composition, tectonics, and evolution of the oceanic lithosphere
  • Paleoceanography, paleoclimate, and sea level change
  • Submarine volcanology, petrology and geochemistry of the oceanic crust and upper mantle lithosphere
  • Marine hydrogeology, water-rock interaction, seeps and gas hydrates
  • Hydrothermal venting and in situ fluid processes, and associated geochemistry
  • Geochemical indicators of life operating below the seafloor
  • Marine sedimentology, stratigraphy, sediment transport, and diagenesis
  • Mid-ocean ridge spreading, back-arc rifting, transform processes, and ocean island/seamount formation and evolution
  • Submarine components of subduction zone systems and passive margins
  • Marine geohazards (e.g., earthquakes, faulting, mass wasting, geological aspects of tsunamis)
  • Coastal processes (e.g., geological aspects of hurricanes, sea-level change, erosion, offshore deposition)
The Marine Geology and Geophysics Program supports acquisition of new field data and the leveraging of and/or synthesis of existing data. The program supports analytical and laboratory experimental projects, methods development, and modeling. All activities should have relevance to and advance the understanding of marine geoscience processes. The Program interfaces with NSF programs across the Geosciences and across the Agency. For proposals that cross between Programs, proposers should contact the relevant Programs to seek guidance on submission.

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Agency contact: U.S. National Science Foundation · [email protected] · 703-292-4203

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