The Czech Science Foundation (GAČR) is the leading Czech provider of funding basic research. This year, GFÚ researchers succeeded in the category of standard projects as well as the highly selective EXPRO grants!
Congratulations to Jan Burjánek and his team for receiving EXPRO grant on the project Comprehensive geophysical analysis of the ongoing volcanic eruption at the Reykjanes peninsula (Iceland).
The aim of the project is to understand the evolution of the magma delivery system across the Earth’s crust using data from the existing seismic network REYKJANET, magnetotelluric measurements, field research, and advanced analogue and numerical modelling.
Reykjanet: Work on the FAF station in the Fagradalsfjall mountains, Iceland. The station was moved to the nearest hill the day before the lava flooded the site and was given its new name Hraunssels-Vatnfell – HRV. (Photo: Jakub Klicpera, 2022)
Standard Projects are the basis of grant funding for basic research in the Czech Republic. We are happy that three of our researchers and their proposals were successful in the GAČR. The standard projects have a duration of up to three years and start in 2025.
Petr Brož (PI)
Effusive CryOvolcanism: the battle of PHases in a watER table freezing under reduced atmospheric pressure (COPHER)
The aim of the project is to improve our understanding of the process of effusive cryovolcanism by studying the double phase transition of water in vacuum-like and Mars-like pressure environments.
Tomáš Uxa (PI)
Determining the influence of frost heave and thaw settlement on the thermal regime of frozen ground and its implementation in freeze-thaw models
The project aims to devise and test novel models that accommodate the influence of frost heave and thaw settlement on the thermal regime of permafrost and seasonally frozen ground to better understand and project their dynamics and response to climate variability.
Jiří Laurin (co-PI) / Stanislav Opluštil, PřF UK (PI)
Tropical climate and vegetation response during the Late Paleozoic Ice Age; an integrated study of spatial and temporal variability
This project is focused on understanding the processes that drove changes in the extent of polar ice sheets while influencing the climate of the tropical belt during the cold period of the Late Paleozoic, ~340 to 280 million years ago.
Project: Effusive CryOvolcanism: the battle of PHases in a watER table freezing under reduced atmospheric pressure (COPHER). Overview of the low-pressure Mars Chamber at The Open University, UK, where the mud experiments are conducted. The chamber allows to reduce the atmospheric pressure to the average values present on the surface of Mars. (Photo: Petr Brož)
The northern part of James Ross Island, Antarctica, where field measurements for model validations will partly be undertaken (Photo: Tomáš Uxa, 2024).
Project: Determining the influence of frost heave and thaw settlement on the thermal regime of frozen ground and its implementation in freeze-thaw models