Andrea Stevens Goddard will received an NSF CAREER grant. Her project is titled "Quantifying tectonic and biologic controls on erosion using detrital thermochronology." The gist of the project is to test the relative contributions of tectonic uplift and vegetation on erosion and sedimentary transport using data from the Paleozoic North American mid continent sedimentary basins that cover the interval during which land plants evolved. CAREER grants are especially competitive, so this award is major achievement that reflects positively on Andrea and the strength of her research program.
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