David Hilton, Ph.D.

scripps institution of oceanography

The principal sponsor of research in the Laboratory is the National Science Foundation. NSF support of my research includes the following grants:

Current Funding

(1) Collaborative Research: Towards quantifying elemental and fluid origins from margins using novel instrumentation
NSF - Ocean Sciences: Chemical Oceanography Program. Co-PI with Brown, McMurtry, Wheat
5/1/03-2/28/06
$264,365

(2) Collaborative research: Constraining the volatile and slab flux in the Izu-Bonin-Mariana MARGIN using geothermal fluids, phenocrysts and melt inclusions.
NSF - Ocean Sciences: Marine Geology and Geophysics Program. Co-PI with Fischer, Hauri
6/1/03-5/31/06
$239,720

(3) Studies of the evolution of the terrestrial mantle using neon isotopes in ocean island and island arc basalts.
NSF - Earth Sciences: Petrology & Geochemistry Program
1/1/05-12/31/07
$281,913

(4) Collaborative research: Chemical, isotopic and volatile constraints on the evolution of the Lau Basin.
NSF - Ocean Sciences: Marine Geology and Geophysics Program. Co-PI with Castillo, Hawkins, Hanan and Pietruszka
6/1/05-5/31/08
$356,022

(5) Collaborative research: The nitrogen isotope systematics of the Icelandic mantle.
NSF - Earth Sciences: Petrology & Geochemistry Program. Co-PI with Fischer and Sharp
1/1/06-12/31/08
$180,000

Prior Funding

(1) He-Ne-Ar Isotope Studies in Iceland, Heard Island and La Palma (Canaries): Identifying Mantle Plume Signatures and Crustal Contamination
NSF - Earth Sciences: Petrology and Geochemistry Program
2/15/97 - 1/31/00
$135,520

(2) Acquisition of a Laser Probe - Rare Gas Mass Spectrometer System for Research in the Earth Sciences
NSF - Major Research Instrumentation Program
9/1/97 - 8/31/00
$277,718

(3) Constraints on volatile provenance in a back-arc basin and the degassing history of the mantle - the He-Ne-Ar-H2O-CO2 isotope and abundance systematics of the Manus Basin (Bismarck Sea)
NSF - Earth Sciences: Petrology and Geochemistry Program
7/15/98 - 7/31/00
$85,000

(4) Noble gas studies of groundwater recharge and residence time in semi-arid regions: contrasting the western Mojave River Basin with central Australia and the Kalahari Desert
NSF - Earth Sciences: Hydrologic Sciences Program
7/1/00 – 6/30/03
$180,000

(5) Acquisition of an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography
NSF - Major Research Instrumentation Program. Co-PI with Castillo, Brown & Levin
8/1/00-7/31/03
$201,372

(6) Collaborative Research: Resolving mantle, crustal and slab fluxes to arc magmatism in Central America using geothermal fluids and volcanic rock
NSF - Earth Sciences: Petrology and Geochemistry Program. Co-PI with Fischer and Walker
1/1/01-12/31/03
$180,933

(7) High resolution measurements of temporal variability in fluid fluxes and chemistry from cold seeps: first deployments of a suite of new instrumentation.
National Undersea Research Program (NOAA-NURP. Co-PI with Brown and Wilcox)
3/1/04 - 2/28/05
$27,766

(8) The He-Ne-Ar-H2O-CO2 isotope and abundance systematics of the Reykjanes Ridge: Constraints on plume-ridge interaction and the degassing history of the Icelandic hotspot.
NSF - Ocean Sciences: Marine Geology and Geophysics Program
10/1/01-9/30/05
$136,855

(9) Helium and carbon isotope studies of geothermal fluids along the North Anatolian Fault and relationships to seismicity.
NSF - Earth Sciences: Petrology & Geochemistry Program
1/1/03-12/31/05
$113,200

Other Funding

(1) The Application of Rare Gases to Climatic and Hydrogeological Research.
Academic Senate (UCSD)
7/1/97 - 6/30/98
$3,142

(2) A He-Ne-Ar-H2O-CO2 study of basaltic glasses from the Alarcon expedition.
Academic Senate (UCSD)
6/1/98 - 5/31/99
$2,500

(3) Acquisition of a dedicated quadrupole mass spectrometer for groundwater research.
Academic Senate (UCSD)
12/1/99 - 11/30/00
$6,735

(4) Comparative planetology using noble gases.
Academic Senate (UCSD) Co-PI K. Marti
5/31/01 – 4/30/02
$2,134

(5) Understanding the helium-4 groundwater chronometer.
Academic Senate (UCSD)
5/1/03-4/30/04
$5,300