The Mineral Resources Program (MRP) offered a grant and/or cooperative agreement opportunity to universities, state agencies, industry, or other private sector organizations that have the ability to conduct research in topics that meet the goals of the Mineral Resources Program in March 2004. Thirty-four proposals were submitted to the Mineral Resources External Research Program (MRERP) that met the goals of the MRP. The proposals were reviewed by a panel of 6 research scientists (5 from USGS and 1 external to the USGS) and the MRP is pleased to announce that it will be able to support the following six proposals, listed in alphabetical order by principal investigator:
Principal Investigator: John Dilles
Affiliation: Oregon State University
Proposal Title: The mineralogy
and origin of hydrothermally altered Quaternary volcanic rocks on the south
flank of Lassen volcano, California
Principal Investigator: Richard Fifarek
Affiliation: Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Proposal Title: Magmatic fluid evolution during the transition from
porphyry Cu-Au to high sulfidation Au-Ag deposits: Fluid inclusion evidence
from the Pierina (Peru) and Summitville (USA) deposits
Principal Investigator: Paul Layer and Rainer Newberry
Affiliation: University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Proposal Title: A long-term effort to determine 40 Ar/39Ar ages of Alaskan
mineral deposits
Principal Investigator: Reed Lewis and Jeffrey Vervoort
Affiliation: Idaho Geological Survey, University of Idaho, and Washington State University
Proposal Title: Identification of Proterozoic basement domains southwest
of the Belt-Purcell basin, northern Idaho
Principal Investigator: Joann Mossa
Affiliation: University of Florida
Proposal Title: Geospatial analysis of channel planform change in mined
river floodplains: Impacts and implications for resource extraction policy
Principal Investigator: Philippe Ross and James Ranville
Affiliation: Colorado School of Mines
Proposal Title: Evaluating the influence of soil geochemical characteristics on metal bioavailability
The goals of the Mineral Resources Program, as described in the MRP five-year plan for FY 1999-2004, are as follows:
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