Laboratory for Geophysical Flows Laboratory for Geodynamics

Support for the FoaLab comes from the following grants

 Leverhulme Trust

Tidally forced porous flows in planetary bodies

Leverhulme Trust research grant. Sept 2022 -- August 2025, £214k with Co-Is Ian Hewitt and Bert Vermeersen.

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Deep Carbon Observatory modelling and vizualization forum II

Sloan Foundation grant. Apr 2018--Dec. 2020, $750k with PI Louise Kellogg, UC Davis.

European Research Council

Magma-assisted tectonics of continental rifts and mid-ocean ridges (RIFT-O-MAT)

Consolidator grant, European Research Council, ref. 772255
Oct 2018--Dec 2023, €2M to support 2 PDRAs and 1 PhD student

NERC(NSF)

Two-phase dynamics of temperate ice

NERC grant NE/R000026/1. May 2017 -- April 2019, £240k. With Prof. Ian Hewitt (Mathematics, Oxford). Linked with NSF PIs Neal Iverson (Iowa State) and Lucas Zoet (Univ Wisconsin).

 Natural Environment Research Council

Mantle volatiles: processes, reservoirs and fluxes

Consortium grant NE/M000427/1, Natural Environment Research Council
Sept 2014--Dec 2019, £1.38M (with ~20 co-investigators)

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MAGMOx: Computational Models of Magma Dynamics

Oxford Advanced Research Computing/Oxford E-Research Centre
Ongoing cluster-computing provision to the FoaLab group.

 

Prior support for Katz and FoaLab

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Deep Carbon Observatory modelling and vizualization forum

Sloan Foundation grant. Nov 2015--Nov. 2017, $700k with PI Louise Kellogg and co-I Sujoy Mukhopadhyay, UC Davis.

European Research Council

Ice Ages, Sea Level, and Magmatism: Coupled Oscillations (ISMAGiC)

Starter grant, European Research Council, ref. 279925
Jan 2012--Dec 2016, €1.35M to support 2 PDRAs and 1 PhD student

 The Royal Society

Understanding sea-ice growth and brine rejection using adaptive-mesh simulations

Int'l Exchanges Grant. March 2015--March 2017, £11890.  With Prof. A. Wells (AOPP/Oxford) and Dr. D. Martin (LBNL, USA)

 Natural Environment Research Council

Philip Leverhulme Prize

From The Leverhulme Trust
Jan 2013--Dec 2015, £70,000 to support the group's research

 Natural Environment Research Council

Computational tools for magma dynamics of subduction zones: finite element models and efficient solvers

Standard grant NE/I026995/1, UK Natural Environment Research Council
Feb 2012--Dec 2014, £336,712 to support 1 PDRA for 3 years

 Research Councils UK

Research Councils UK Academic Fellowship

Research Councils UK
Oct 2007--Sept 2012, £125,000 as salary support for R. Katz

 University of Oxford

Oxford Laboratory for Geophysical Flows

Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford
Jun--Jul 2011, £21,246 for equipment and materials

 The Royal Society

Material anisotropy in coupled magma/mantle dynamics: numerical simulations and analogue experiments

Travel grant, The Royal Society, UK
Sept--Oct 2011, £4,000 to support the visit of Prof. Y. Takei, ERI Tokyo

 Natural Environment Research Council

Coupled models of magma/mantle dynamics: melt transport at mid-ocean ridges and subduction zones

New Investigator grant, Natural Environment Research Council, UK
Aug 2009--July 2011, £55,000 for research & travel (NE/H00081X/1)

NSF International Research Fellowship Program

National Science Foundation International Research Fellowship Program

To Katz for postdoctoral research at the University of Cambridge
Sep 2006--Aug 2008, NSF Award 0602101

DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship

Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship

To Katz for graduate study at Columbia University / LDEO
Sep 2001--Aug 2005