UC Santa Cruz Fall Contracts and Grants September through December, 1994

Robert Anderson, associate professor of earth sciences: $166,196, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, "Geostatistical Analysis of Solute Transport in Alluvial Fan Facies."

Manuel Ares, associate professor of biology: $234,289, National Institutes of Health, "Structure and Function of Yeast Small Nuclear RNPS."

David Belanger, associate professor of physics: $2,640, U.S. Department of Energy, "Statics and Dynamics in Systems with Frustration and/or Randomness."

George Blumenthal, professor of astronomy and astrophysics: NASA, $18,000, "Cosmological Implications of the Effects of X-Ray Clusters on the Cosmic Microwave Background"; and $10,000, "Gamma-Ray Burst Recurrence."

Michael Bolte, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics and assistant astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $17,962, California Space Institute, "Globular Clusters, Dark Matter Halos, and the Age of the Universe Problem."

Rita Bottoms, head of Special Collections, University Library: $75,944, National Endowment for the Humanities, "Preservation of and Increased Access to the Mary Shane Archives at the Lick Observatory."

Frank Bridges, professor of physics: $10,000, California Space Institute, "Cohesive Collisions of Planetesimals."

Jean Brodie, associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics and associate astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $25,494, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "Multi-Object Spectroscopy on the Shane 3m Telescope at Lick Observatory."

Kenneth Bruland, professor of marine sciences: $164,073, National Science Foundation, "Interdependence of Trace Metal Speciation and Phytoplankton Dynamics in the Eastern North Pacific."

Marc Buchanan, assistant professor of environmental studies: $65,000, California Integrated Waste Management Board, "Municipal Organics Recycling: Expanding the Potential for Compost Use and Production in Vegetable Cropping Systems in the Monterey Bay Region."

Edmund Burke, professor of history: $197,000, National Endowment for the Humanities, "Institute in 'Rethinking Europe/Rethinking World History, 1500-1750.'"

Kenneth Cameron, professor of earth sciences; Daniel Sampson, technical staff for the Earth Sciences Board; Robert Coe and James Gill, professors of earth sciences; Elise Knittle, associate professor of earth sciences; Casey Moore, professor of earth sciences; Othmar Tobisch, professor emeritus of earth sciences; and Quentin Williams, assistant professor of earth sciences: $52,424, National Science Foundation, "Upgrade of an ARL SEMQ Electron Microprobe and Purchase of a Research Photo-Microscope."

Pak Chan and Martine Schlag, associate professors of computer engineering: $16,520, UC MICRO, "Field-Programmable Gate Array- Based Custom Computing Machines"; and $10,000, Xilinx, "FPGA- Based Custom Computing Machines."

James Clifford, professor of history of consciousness: $77,369, Rockefeller Foundation, "Fellowships in Comparative Cultural Studies."

Catherine Cooper, professor of psychology and education: $35,700, University of Michigan, "Linking Qualitative and Quantitative Analyses of Successful Pathways Through Middle Childhood."

Daniel Costa, professor of biology: $46,928, Office of Naval Research, "Physiology of Freely Diving White Whales, Delphinapterus leucas."

Phillip Crews, professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $328,968, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, "Baccalaureate Bridge to the Biomedical Sciences Program (ACCESS)"; $656,610 and $29,584, National Cancer Institute, "Discovery of Antitumor Marine Products"; $38,610, National Institutes of Health, Division of Research Resources, "Precollege Enrichment Program (PREP)"; $15,082, Cal Bio Marine, "Aquaculture of Tropical Marine Sponges to Yield Research and Commercial Quantities of Bioactive Secondary Metabolics for Biotechnical Applications"; $36,900, National Cancer Institute, "Novel Cytotoxic Natural Products"; and California Sea Grant, $50,901, "Cultured Marine Fungi as a Source of New Bioactive Materials", and $20,328, "Marine Natural Products in Pharmacology: Anti-Infectious Disease Drug Discovery and Screening Using Marine Invertebrates."

Robert Curry, professor emeritus of environmental geology (environmental studies): $29,693. California State Water Resources Control Board, "Development of Specific Plans and Policies to Avoid or Mitigate the Impacts of Future Development in Certain Mono County Wetlands."

Wayne Dai, associate professor of computer engineering: UC MICRO, $16,000, "Design of Mixed Signal Multi-Chip Modules," and $9,600, "Performance-Driven Layout for Electronic Packaging"; National Science Foundation, $62,500, "Young Investigator Award (Computer Aided Design for VLSI Circuits)," and $10,000, "REU Supplement: Computer Aided Design for VLSI Circuits"; and $10,000, Aptix Corporation, "Design and Test of Field Programmable Multi-Chip Modules (MICRO match)."

Charles Daniel, professor emeritus of biology: $1,089,881, U.S. Department of the Army, "Homeobox Genes in Normal, Preneoplastic, and Neoplastic Mammary Glands"; with Ronaldo Ramirez, assistant to the dean of Graduate Studies, $112,000 and $212,787, U.S. Department of Education, "Patricia Roberts Harris Fellowship Program FY 1994"; National Science Foundation, $40,000, "Graduate Research Fellowship Program", and $306,500, "Graduate Research Fellowship Program"; $21,646, U.S. Department of Education, for the support of graduate student Renee Rothman, "Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program"; and with Gary Silberstein, associate research biologist, $178,305, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, "Hormonal Regulations of the Mammary IGF System."

Margaret Delaney, associate professor of marine sciences: $9,694, U.S. Science Support Program, "Leg 154 Interstitial Water Isotope Studies: Calcite Diagenesis Interpreted from Sr and C Isotopes and Sea Water Oxygen Isotope Record from the Last Glacial Maximum"; $114,846, National Science Foundation, "Phosphorus Accumulation in Cenozoic Marine Sediments"; Joint Oceanographic Institutions, $500, "Chair, Ocean History Panel, JOIDES Science Advisory Structure, Ocean Drilling Program," and $20,000, for the support of graduate student Gretchen Hampt, "Diagenetic Alteration of Bulk Calcite and Cadmium/Calcium Ratios in Foraminifera in the Ceara Rise Depth Transect."

Jesus De La Rosa, program coordinator of the Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention Program: $43,584, U.S. Department of Education, "University of California, Health Educators Consortium."

David Dorfan, professor of physics, and Ronaldo Ramirez, assistant to the dean of Graduate Studies: $212,787, U.S. Department of Education, "Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need Program (GAANN)."

James Estes, adjunct professor of biology and marine sciences: $108,000, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, "The Population Ecology of Sea Otters at Adak Island, Alaska."

Sandra Faber, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $61,000, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (subaward from California Institute of Technology), "On-Orbit Research with the Wide Field Planetary Camera Team"; and $14,308, Space Telescope Science Institute, "Cores of Early-Type Galaxies."

Stanley Flatte, professor of physics: $22,988, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "Atmospheric Characterization for Adaptive Optics"; and $128,000, Office of Naval Research, "Theory and Measurement of Acoustic Fluctuations by Ocean Fine Structure."

Russell Flegal, professor of earth sciences: $33,000, Applied Marine Sciences, "Toxic Contaminants in the San Francisco Bay"; $64,968, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (subaward from UC San Francisco), "Environmental Lead, Nephropathy, and Bone Activity in Man"; and with Ronald Tjeerdema, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $75,000, UC Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Program, "Characterization of Produced Formation Water and Receiving Waters at a Coastal Discharge Site."

James Gill, professor of earth sciences: $92,000, California Trade and Commerce Agency, "UC-Fort Ord Project."

Per Gjerde, associate professor of psychology: $40,469, National Institute of Mental Health (subaward from UC Berkeley), "Adult Attachment Styles in Close Relationships."

Lynda Goff, professor of biology: $40,250, Sloan Foundation, for the support of graduate student Giuseppe Zuccarello, "The Origin of Alloparasites."

Marcia Gowing, associate research biologist with the Institute of Marine Sciences, and David Garrison, lecturer in marine sciences: $116,998, National Science Foundation, "Food Web Structure in the Arabian Sea: Phytoplankton and Microzooplankton Studies as Part of the U.S. JGOFS Arabian Sea Study."

David Haussler, professor of computer and information sciences; Richard Hughey, assistant professor of computer engineering; and Kevin Karplus, associate professor of computer engineering: $27,000, Los Alamos National Laboratory, "Covariation of Mutations: A Computational Approach for Determination of Function and Structure from Sequence."

Emily Honig, professor of women's studies; Gail Hershatter, professor of history; Lisa Rofel, assistant professor of anthropology; and Susan Mann, professor of history at UC Davis: $10,000, UC Pacific Rim Research Program, "A Cultural History of Women and Work in Twentieth-Century China."

Peter Kenez, professor of history: $2,750, UC Center for German and European Studies, "Societies in Crisis: Germany, 1932; Russia, 1994."

David Kliger, professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $225,630, National Eye Institute, "Bleaching Stages of Rhodopsin"; $22,608, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, for the support of graduate student Daniel Shapiro, "The Kinetics of Ligand Binding to Hemoglobin S"; $31,860, UC Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, for the support of Eefie Chen, "President's Fellowship Program"; and $12,000, NASA, for the support of undergraduate student Kyra Oswald, "Undergraduate Student Researchers Program."

David Koo, associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics and associate astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $27,500, Space Telescope Science Institute, "HST Medium-Deep Survey."

Edward Landesman, professor emeritus of mathematics: $16,369, UC Mathematics Diagnostic Testing Program, "Monterey Bay Area Mathematics Diagnostic Testing Project"; and $96,825, California Academic Partnership Program, "Thematic Mathematics in the Middle School."

Glen Langdon, professor of computer engineering: $9,968, UC MICRO, "Improved Techniques for JPEG-Compressed Image Sequences."

Tracy Larrabee, assistant professor of computer engineering: $24,000, UC MICRO, "Ongoing Projects Related to Test Pattern for Bridge Faults in CMOS ICS."

Thorne Lay, professor of earth sciences: $26,500, Los Alamos National Laboratory, "Development of a Global Upper Mantle Seismic Velocity Model Using a priori Paramaterizations"; $75,653, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, "Calibration of Regional Wave Discriminants in Diverse Geological Environments: Topographic Correlations"; and $35,000, U.S. Geological Survey, "Rapid Quantification of Earthquake Faulting in the Western U.S."

Burney Le Boeuf, professor emeritus of biology: $13,350, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, for the support of graduate student Michelle Denise Wainstein, "Howard Hughes Medical Institute Predoctoral Fellowship."

Jeanne LePage, bicycle education and safety officer: $55,447, California Office of Traffic Safety, "Bicycle Safety Film Series."

Ronnie Lipschutz, assistant professor of politics: $17,500, UC Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation, "Stevenson Program on Global Security: Block Grant and Activity Grant Funding, 1994-1995."

Barry McLaughlin, professor of psychology: $17,307, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, for the support of graduate student Sandra Pacheco, "(NRSA) Motion Perception Studies Across Sensory Modalities."

Barry McLaughlin, professor of psychology; Margarita Azmitia, associate professor of psychology; Maureen Callanan, associate professor of psychology; Ronald Henderson, professor emeritus of education and psychology; Lucinda Pease-Alvarez, assistant professor of education; and Roland Tharp, professor of education and psychology: $1,575,000, U.S. Department of Education, "The National Center for Research on Cultural Diversity and Second Language Learning."

Glenn Millhauser, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $23,700, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, for the support of graduate student Chris Stenland, "Protein Folding Nucleation Investigated by 2D ELDOR."

Casey Moore, professor of earth sciences: U.S. Science Support Program, $3,000, "Integrated Log, Core, and Seismic Analysis of Anomalous Porosity," and $3,000, for the support of graduate student Harold Tobin, "Acoustic Velocity and Porosity as Functions of Effective Stress in the Decollement Zone, North Barbados Ridge"; $3,000, for the support of graduate student Gretchen Zwart, "Fault- Scale Permeability-Effective Stress Relationship in the Northern Barbados Ridge"; and $16,414, Joint Oceanographic Institutions/U.S. Science Support Program, for the support of graduate student Harold Tobin, "Acoustic Velocity and Porosity of Effective Stress in the Decollement Zone, North Barbados."

Leo Ortiz, professor of biology: $203,150 and $55,350, Fogarty International Center, "Minority International Research Training (MIRT) Grant"; and $10,000, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, "University of California, Santa Cruz, Honors Undergraduate Program."

James Pepper, professor emeritus of environmental planning (environmental studies); and Daniel Doak and Steven Minta, assistant professors of environmental studies: $26,000 and $25,310, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Natural Resources Management Plan for Naval Industrial Ordinance Plant."

Harry Prest, postgraduate researcher with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $21,000, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, "Continued Semipermeable Membrane Studies Near the Hammond Canal"; and $110,000, American Petroleum Institute, "Laboratory and Field Comparisons of Bivalves and SPMDs."

Joel Primack, professor of physics: $7,151, Department of Energy (subaward from UC Santa Barbara), "Analysis of Cold + Hot Dark Matter Models vs. Observations"; and with George Blumenthal, professor of astronomy and astrophysics: $47,502, National Science Foundation, "Particle Physics and Cosmology."

David Rank, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $8,339 and $83,921, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, "Are There Hidden Supernovae?"

Tudor Ratiu, professor of mathematics: $14,550, Department of Energy (Multicampus Award from UC Berkeley), "Stability, Bifurcation, and Control of Hamiltonian Systems"; and $5,500, Office of Naval Research (subaward from UC San Diego), "Symmetric Mode Truncations in Inviscid Geophysical Fluid Dynamics."

Gregory Rau, senior researcher with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $60,000, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, "13-C and 15-N Variations in Plankton Biomass as Proxies for Upwelling and Associated CO2 and Nutrient Dynamics"; and $25,000, Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, "Isotopic Analysis of IATTC Samples."

Barbara Rogoff, professor of psychology and education: $50,700, Spencer Foundation,"Development of Individual, Group, and Cultural Activity: Transformations as New Members Participate in an Innovative School"; and $30,000, UC Pacific Rim Research Program, "Models of Learning in a Japanese and an Innovative U.S. School."

Donald Rothman, senior lecturer in writing and director of the Central California Writing Project: $27,823, The National Commission to Prevent Infant Mortality, "The Writing and Reading Action Program for Teen Parents."

Mary Beth Saffo, research marine biologist with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $1,173, National Center for Research Resources, "A New Chordate Model for Study of Kidney Stone Disease."

Danny Scheie, assistant professor of theater arts (drama): $10,801, California Arts Council, Organizational Support Program of California Arts Council."

Ronald Schusterman, adjunct professor of biology and marine sciences: $172,000, Office of Naval Research, "Effects of Low Frequency Sound on Pinnipeds."

Susan Schwartz, assistant professor of earth sciences: $59,528, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, "Variations in Crustal and Upper Mantle Structure Beneath Diverse Geologic Provinces in Asia and Africa and its Effects on Regional Wave Propagation."

Abraham Seiden, professor of physics: $15,305, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, for the support of graduate student Peter Tenenbaum, "Final Focus Test Beam."

Abraham Seiden, David Dorfan, and Clemens Heusch, professors of physics; Hartmut Sadrozinski, Alan Litke, and Terry Schalk, adjunct professors of physics; Patricia Burchat, associate professor of physics; and Howard Haber and Michael Dine, professors of physics: $1,380,600, Department of Energy, "Research in High Energy Physics."

Eli Silver, professor of earth sciences: $20,000, U.S. Geological Survey, "Tectonic Evolution and Earthquake Hazard Evaluation, Offshore Central California."

David Smith, associate research oceanographer with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $80,000, NASA, "A Numerical Study of the Berkner Shelf Polynya"; and $40,000, Office of Naval Research, "A Numerical Study of Radionuclide from Russian Rivers into the Arctic Ocean."

Trish Stoddart, associate professor of education: $28,081, Apple Computer, "Partners in Education."

Kira Stoll, program manager, Transportation and Parking Services: $225,000, Monterey Bay Unified Air Pollution Control District, "Accelerated Emissions Reduction Grant Program--UCSC Intra- Campus Transit Service Improvement."

Robert Strizich, lecturer in music; and Leta Miller and Linda Burman- Hall, professors of music: $9,000, National Endowment for the Humanities, "Ensemble Nova, 'New Music for Early Instruments'."

William Sullivan, assistant professor of biology: $10,000, March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, "Genetic and Cellular Analysis of the Cytoskeleton of the Drosophila Embryo."

Lincoln Taiz, professor of biology: $143,000, U.S. Department of Agriculture, "Mechanisms of Heavy Metal Tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana."

Frank Talamantes, professor of biology: $413,861, National Institutes of Health, "Placental Lactogens: Regulation and Bioactivity."

Ronald Tjeerdema, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $9,000, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, "Toxicity Identification Evaluation with the Sea Urchin and Sand Dollar"; $82,350, $85,860, and $12,690, California Department of Fish and Game, "Bay Protection and Toxic Cleanup Program (1992- 94)"; $50,000, Marine Spill Response Corporation, "Dispersed Oil Toxicology"; $26,208, California Sea Grant, "Bioaccumulation and Fate of Domoic Acid, a Natural Toxin, in Coastal Marine Organisms"; California Department of Fish and Game, $78,370-"Bay Area Dischargers Association Study," $93,500-"Marine Bioassay Project," $75,000-"Comparative Performance of Oil Spill Cleanup Agents," $50,000-"Effects of Dispersed Oil on the Early Life Stages of Organisms," and $150,000-"Fate of Petroleum Hydrocarbons and Cleanup Agents."

Ronald Tjeerdema, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry; Mary Silver, professor of marine sciences; and David Garrison, lecturer in marine sciences: $28,208 and $13,104, California Sea Grant, "Bioaccumulation and Fate of Domoic Acid, a Natural Toxin, in Coastal Marine Organisms."

Michael Urban, associate professor of politics: $1,650, UC Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation, "The Rebirth of Politics in Russia."

Anujan Varma, associate professor of computer engineering: $5,000, National Science Foundation, "High-Speed Interconnection and Switching Technologies."

Brian Walton, lecturer in environmental studies and coordinator of the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group: $5,000, U.S. Forestry Service, "Northern California Peregrine Falcon Monitoring."

Howard Wang, professor of biology, and Ronaldo Ramirez, assistant to the dean of Graduate Studies: $307,359, U.S. Department of Education, "Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need Program (GAANN)."

Bess Ward, associate professor of marine sciences: $40,000, California Department of Fish and Game, "Bioremediation Capabilities of Natural Microbial Communities in San Francisco Bay."

Steven Ward, lecturer in earth sciences and research geophysicist with the Institute of Tectonics: $45,913 from the National Science Foundation and $35,000 from the U.S. Geological Survey, "Statistics of Worldwide Earthquake Recurrence Series and the (A)periodicity of Large Events."

Jane Wilhelms, associate professor of computer and information sciences, and Alex Pang and Suresh Lodha, assistant professors of computer and information sciences: $7,990, Sun Microsystems, "Proposal for UCSC CE/CIS Instructional- and Research-Use Color Printers."

Quentin Williams, assistant professor of earth sciences: $25,835, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "Element Partitioning Between Silicate Melts and Crystals: Constraints on Magmatic Segregation and Transport Processes from the Uranium Decay Series."

Stanford Woosley, professor of astronomy and astrophysics: NASA, $53,000, for the support of graduate student Marc Herant, "Compton Observatory Fellowship"; and $116,000, "Radiation Transport and Multidimensional Hydrodynamics in Supernovae."

Ru-shan Wu, associate research geophysicist with the Institute of Tectonics: $80,381, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, "Synthetics Seismograms in Heterogeneous Elastic Media and the Study of Formation and Propagation of Regional Phases in Eurasia."

James Zachos, assistant professor of earth sciences: $15,000, U.S. Geological Survey, "A Micropaleontologic and Sedimentologic Investigation of ODP Site 918, Irminger Basin: Postdoctoral Research Support."

Jiajun Zhang, assistant researcher with the Institute of Tectonics: $9,000, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "The Shear Wave Velocity Structure Beneath Central California from Surface Waves"; and $50,806, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, "Investigation of Characteristics of Seismic Waves from the May 21, 1992, Lop Nor Nuclear Explosion Using IRIS Broadband Data."

Yu-Shen Zhang, postdoctoral researcher with the Institute of Tectonics: $21,068, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "Three-Dimensional Modeling of Upper Mantle Structure Beneath the Western United States."

Xixi Zhao, lecturer in earth sciences and assistant research geophysicist with the Institute of Tectonics: $17,251, U.S. Science Support Program, "Paleomagnetic Study of ODP Leg 158 Cores (Shipboard Paleomagnetist)."