Amend receives NSF grant

Jan P. Amend, Ph.D., associate professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received a two-year, $293,261 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled "Development of Numerical Models Linking Fluid Geochemistry and Biological Communities in Mid-Ocean Ridge Hydrothermal Environments." Also receiving the grant was Thomas M. McCollom, Ph.D., of the University of Colorado.