Contracts and grants received in the months of January, February, March, and April 1995

Robert Anderson, associate professor of earth sciences: $19,561, Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "Cosmogenic Radionuclide Constraints on the Fluvial Evolution of the Colorado Plateau."

David Belanger, professor of physics: $88,000, U.S. Department of Energy, "Statics and Dynamics in Systems with Frustration and/or Randomness."

Ilan Benjamin, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $74,000, National Science Foundation, "Molecular Dynamics of Chemical Reactions at Liquid Interfaces."

Ralph Berger, professor emeritus of biology: $8,873, National Science Foundation, "Sleep in the Echidna."

Claude Bernasconi, professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $100,000, National Science Foundation, "Proton Transfers and Nucleic Reactions in Organic and Organometallic Systems"; and with Anastassia Kanavarioti, assistant research chemist: $99,840, NASA, "Towards Self-Replicating RNAs: Search for Catalysts."

Peter Bodenheimer, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $203,815, NASA, "Theoretical and Observational Studies of Star and Planet Formation"; and with Burton Jones, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory, and Douglas Lin, professor of astronomy and astrophysics: $35,000, UC Berkeley, "Observational, Theoretical, and Experimental Cosmogony."

Michael Bolte, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics and assistant astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $19,732, Space Telescope Science Institute, "Low-Luminosity Stars in Globular Clusters."

Barry Bowman, professor of biology: $258,269, National Institutes of Health, "Eukaryotic Vacuolar Atpase."

Frank Bridges, professor of physics: $4,000, Cal Space, "Cohesive Collisions of Planetesimals."

George Brown, professor of physics: $48,218, California Postsecondary Education Commission, "Pilot: Upgrading Laboratory Science Foundation."

Kenneth Bruland, professor of marine sciences: $135,873, Office of Naval Research, "The Role of Chemical Speciation in Processes Governing the Environmental Fate and Effects of Trace Metals in Estuarine and Near-Coastal Environments"; and with Mark Wells, assistant research marine chemist with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $13,261, Office of Naval Research, "Measuring the Formation, Behavior, and Chemical Reactivity of Colloidal Iron During the Next Mesoscale Fe Enrichment Experiment in the Equatorial Pacific."

Pak Chan, associate professor of computer engineering, and Martine Schlag, associate professor of computer engineering: $15,838, Xilinx, "FPGA-Based Custom Computing Machines."

Mark Cianca, director of Arts & Lectures: $7,500, National Endowment for the Arts, "Artist Fee Support for 1995-96 Season of Performing Arts"; and $6,875, California Arts Council, "Touring and Presenting Program, 1994-95."

Mark Cioc, associate professor of history, and Ronnie Lipschutz, assistant professor of politics: $22,000, UC Berkeley, Center for German and European Studies, "European Environmental History, Sociology, and Policy."

Bruce Cooperstein, professor of mathematics: $33,715, National Security Agency, "Construction, Generation and Embeddings of Finite Incidence Geometries and Related Problems"; with Solomon Friedberg, professor of mathematics: $26,785, UC Office of the President, Community Teaching Fellowship Program, "Community Teaching Fellowship Program in Mathematics 1993-94"; and also with Solomon Friedberg: $85,000, California Mathematics Project, "Monterey Bay Area Mathematics Project."

Daniel Costa, professor of biology: $28,243, Office of Naval Research, "Physiology of Freely Diving White Whales, Delphinapterus leucas"; with Burney Le Boeuf, professor emeritus of biology, $212,115, Office of Naval Research, "Low Frequency Sound in the Marine Acoustic Environment of the Northern Elephant Seal"; and with Michael Goebel, a graduate student in biology, $138,265, National Science Foundation, "The Importance of Foraging Pattern on Reproductive Success in the Northern Fur Seal."

Donald Coyne, adjunct professor of physics, and David Williams, assistant adjunct professor of physics and associate research physicist: $22,670, University of Maryland, "MILAGRO-An Experiment for the Study of Sources of Very High Gamma Rays."

Phillip Crews, professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $222,418, National Science Foundation, "Purchase of a 500 MHz-11.75 Tesla Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer"; $16,652, National Cancer Institute, "Discovery of Antitumor Marine Products"; $13,104, Sea Grant, "Marine Natural Products in Pharmacology: Discovery and Development of Chemotherapeutics from Leads from Marine Animals"; and with Anthony Fink, professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $75,000, UC Biotechnology Research and Educational Program, "The Discovery, Design, and Manipulation of Bioactive Molecules."

Donald Croll, assistant researcher with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $164,682, Office of Naval Research, "The Role of Low- Frequency Sound in the Foraging Ecology and Behavior of Balaenoptera Whales."

Wayne Dai, associate professor of computer engineering: $10,000, Aptix Corporation, "Design and Test of Field Programmable Multi- Chip Modules (MICRO match)"; $156,984, Office of Naval Research, "A Field Programmable Multi-Chip Module"; $2,000, Alsi Systems, "Performance-Driven Layout for Electronic Packaging"; and $5,000, National Semiconductor, "Performance-Driven Layout for Electronic Packaging."

Sheila David, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $87,500, Beckman Foundation, "Investigations of Unique Fe-S Cluster Containing DNA Repair Enzymes."

David Deamer, research professor of chemistry: $31,545, NASA, "Assembly and Function of Primitive Membrane Structures"; $949, Medical Research of Canada, "Encapsulation of Replicating Macromolecular Systems in Liposomes"; and $115,000, NASA, "Assembly and Function of Primitive Membrane Structures."

Joshua Deutsch, associate professor of physics: $60,000, National Science Foundation, "Behavior of Large Random Systems."

David Dorfan, professor of physics, and Hartmut Sadrozinski, adjunct professor of physics: $50,000, National Science Foundation, "REU in the SCIPP Microelectronics Laboratory."

Olof Einarsdottir, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $36,000, Los Alamos-UC Campus Collaborative Research, "Proton Pumping in Cytochrome Oxidase Probed by Time- Resolved Vibrational and Nonlinear Vibrational Sum-frequency Generation (SFG) Spectroscopies"; and $65,465, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, "Biophysical Studies of Oxygen Activation."

Sandra Faber, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $86,200, California Institute of Technology, "On-Orbit Research with the Wide Field Planetary Camera Team."

Joel Ferguson, associate professor of computer engineering, and Tracy Larrabee, assistant professor of computer engineering: $33,000, Semiconductor Research Corporation, "Test Generation for Realistic Faults."

Allen Fields, director of SAA/EOP: $37,278, U.S. Department of Education, Summer Opportunities for Academic Research, "Women and Minority Participation in Graduate Education."

Anthony Fink, professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $85,000, National Science Foundation, "Mechanisms of Enzyme Catalysis."

Stanley Flatte, professor of physics; Thorne Lay, professor of earth sciences; Justin Revenaugh, assistant professor of earth sciences; and Eli Silver, professor of earth sciences: $80,000, National Science Foundation, "Computer Systems Manager for the Earth Sciences Board and Institute of Tectonics: Phase II."

Russell Flegal, professor of earth sciences: $277,332, Applied Marine Sciences, "Toxic Contaminants in the San Francisco Bay Estuary"; $30,000, UC Santa Barbara, "Characterization and Fate of Produced Water Discharged in Shallow Coastal Waters"; and $167,228, University of Wisconsin/National Institutes of Health, "Succimer Reduction of Tissue Ph and Toxicity in Monkeys."

Benjamin Flower, visiting postdoctoral researcher in earth sciences: $12,025, Joint Oceanographic Institutions/U.S. Science Support Program, "Oxygen and Carbon Isotopic Stratigraphy and Paleoceanography in the Arctic Gateway Region: ODP Leg 151, Sites 910, 911, and 912"; and $97,473, National Science Foundation, "Quaternary Paleoceanography of the Arctic Gateway Region Based on Isotopic and Faunal Analysis of Foraminifera."

Theodore Foster, professor emeritus of marine sciences: $108,000, National Science Foundation, "Deep Water Formation off the Eastern Wilkes Land Coast of Antarctica."

Solomon Friedberg, professor of mathematics: $26,029, National Security Agency, "Automorphic Forms and Analytic Number Theory."

Daniel Friedman, professor of economics: $36,823, National Science Foundation, "A Laboratory Study of Price Formation and Learning in Auction Markets."

J. J. Garcia-Luna, associate professor of computer engineering: $7,273, Stanford Research Institute, "Simulation Analysis of Topology Diffusion Algorithm"; and with Anujan Varma, associate professor of computer engineering: $140,834, U.S. Department of Defense, "Scalable Internetworking."

James Gill, professor of earth sciences: $1,192,000, Economic Development Administration, "Initial Implementation Phase for the Monterey Bay Science and Technology Center"; with Zenon Palacz, a former associate specialist in earth sciences: $85,000, National Science Foundation, "Th Isotope and U-Series Disequilibria in Volcanic Rocks: Ridges, Arcs, and Zoned Eruptions"; and with Alfred Hochstaedter, postgraduate researcher in earth sciences: $115,974, National Science Foundation, "Cross-Chain and Remnant Arc Volcanism in the Izu Arc."

Stephan Gliessman, Alfred E. Heller Professor of Agroecology (environmental studies): $3,000, W. K. Kellogg Foundation, "Creating Sustainability in California: Reconnecting People and Environment in Food and Agriculture."

Lynda Goff, professor of biology: $65,000, National Science Foundation, "The Origins and Evolution of Parasitism in the Red Algae (Rhodophyta)."

Gary Griggs, professor of earth sciences: $50,000, California Postsecondary Education Commission, "Science Connection Two"; $6,000, U.S. Geological Survey, "1993 Cooperative Research Proposal Between Branch of Pacific Marine Geology, United States Geological Survey, and the Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz"; and $12,242, U.S. Department of the Army, "Extension of Monterey Bay Seawall Monitoring Research."

Lisbeth Haas, assocciate professor of history: $5,000, UC MEXUS, "Chicano Cultural History: Readers, Writers, Oral Culture, and Mentalite."

Brett Hall, manager of the UCSC Arboretum: $7,155, California Department of Parks and Recreation, "University of California, Santa Cruz, Arboretum-Wilder Ranch State Park Plant Propagation."

Robert Hanson, associate research astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory; Burton Jones, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory; and Arnold Klemola, research astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $125,000, National Science Foundation, "Galactic Structure and Kinematics from Absolute Proper Motions."

Mark Harmon, assistant professor of politics: $2,200, UC Berkeley, Center for German and European Studies, "If We Can't Change the Rules, We Won't Play Your Game: Britain in and out of the European Monetary System."

David Haussler, professor of computer and information sciences, and Richard Hughey, assistant professor of computer engineering: $144,573, National Science Foundation, "Generalized Hidden Markov Models for Protein Sequence Analysis."

David Haussler, professor of computer and information sciences; Patrick Mantey, Jack Baskin Professor of Computer Engineering; and Jane Wilhelms, associate professor of computer and information sciences: $199,874, National Science Foundation, "A Laboratory for Scientific Visualization and Experimental Machine Learning."

Grainger Hunt, research specialist with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $50,000, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, "Support for Publication of Scientific Papers on the Ecology and Status of Bald Eagles in Arizona."

Garth Illingworth, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $29,200, Space Telescope Science Institute, "HST-Medium Deep Survey"; and with Sandra Faber, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory, and Joseph Miller, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and director/astronomer of UCO/Lick Observatory: $1,790,000, California Association for Research in Astronomy, "Development of the Keck Telescope DEEP Extragalactic Spectrograph."

Robert Johnson, assistant professor of physics: $4,000, Cal Space, "Front-End Electronics for an Orbiting Gamma-Ray Silicon-Strip Telescope."

Susanne Jonas, lecturer in Latin American and Latino studies, and Ronnie Lipschutz, assistant professor of politics: $25,283, University of Miami, "The Construction of Peace in Guatemala and El Salvador: Democratization, Conflict Resolution, and Implications for U.S. Policy."

Burton Jones, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $21,000, Space Telescope Science Institute, "Lithium in Star Clusters"; and $10,000, UC San Diego, for the support of graduate student James R. Arnold, "National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program."

David Koo, associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics and associate astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $26,725, Space Telescope Science Institute, "Quantitative Morphology of Early-Type Galaxies in C10024+16."

Edward Landesman, professor emeritus of mathematics: $1,844, California Academic Partnership Program, "Thematic Mathematics in the Middle School."

Thorne Lay, professor of earth sciences: $5,584, UC MEXUS, "Collaborative Analysis of Earthquakes in Mexico"; $112,179, National Science Foundation, "Broadband Seismological Investigations of Earth Structure and Earthquake Sources"; and $31,899, National Science Foundation, "Multidisciplinary Investigation of the Earth's Core-Mantle Boundary, A Pilot Study in Cooperative Studies of the Earth's Deep Interior."

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

Jeanne LePage, bicycle education and safety officer: $14,486, California Office of Traffic Safety, "Bicycle Safety Video Service."

Deborah Letourneau, associate professor of ecology (environmental studies): $63,061, National Science Foundation, "A Test of the Trophic Cascades Model in a Speciose Terrestrial System."

Debra Lewis, assistant professor of mathematics, and Tudor Raitu, professor of mathematics: $60,000, National Science Foundation, "Symplectic Methods in Bifurcation Theory, Hamiltonian Dynamics, and Lie Theory."

Robert Ludwig, professor of biology: $84,742, National Institutes of Health, "Gene Rescue in Arabidopsis."

Jackelyn Lundy, interim director of the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems: $11,000, W. K. Kellogg Foundation, "Galapagos Environmental Education Proposal."

Geoffrey Mason, professor of mathematics: $20,000, National Science Foundation, "Finite Groups and the Theory of Orbifolds."

Dominic Massaro, professor of psychology: $241,128, National Institutes of Health, "Synthesis, Analysis, and Perception of Visible Speech."

Glenn Millhauser, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $90,000, National Science Foundation, "Time-Domain Electron Spin Resonance Studies of Spin Labeled Synthetic Peptides."

Richard Montgomery, associate professor of mathematics: $23,937, National Science Foundation, "Nonholonomic Control and Gauge Theory."

Casey Moore, professor of earth sciences: Joint Oceanographic Institutions/U.S. Science Support Program, $22,389, "Integrated Log, Core, and Seismic Analysis of Anomalous Porosity"; and with Gretchen Zwart, a graduate student in earth sciences: $12,145, "Fault-Scale Permeability-Effective Stress Relationship in the Northern Barbados Ridge."

Michael Nauenberg, professor emeritus of physics: $30,000, National Science Foundation, "The Early Development of Orbital Dynamics."

Harry Noller, Robert L. Sinsheimer Professor of Molecular Biology: $511,062, National Institutes of Health, "Ribosome Structure and Function."

Joseph Puglisi, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $15,000, Deafness Research Foundation, "Molecular Mechanism of Aminoglycoside Antibiotic Induced Deafness"; and $179,189, National Institutes of Health, "Structural Basis of Ribosome Function."

Tudor Ratiu, professor of mathematics: $50,000, U.S. Department of Energy, "Bifurcations, Geometric Phrases and Control in Hamiltonian Systems and Fluid Dynamics."

Gregory Rau, senior researcher with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $72,962 and $4,000, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "Ocean Biogeochemistry Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory."

Justin Revenaugh, assistant professor of earth sciences: $45,658, National Science Foundation, "Kirchhoff Coda Migration of Regional Network Data."

Donald Rothman, senior lecturer in writing: $103,000, California Writing Project, "Central California Writing Project."

Maria Schonbek, professor of mathematics: $20,000, National Science Foundation, "Aspects of Fluid Flows."

Abraham Seiden, professor of physics: $11,161, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, "Fabrication of Fully Loaded Hybrid Detector Boards"; and $25,502, Brookhaven National Laboratory, "Provide 32 Channel Amplifiers."

Buchanan Sharp, professor of history: $5,500, UC Berkeley, Center for German and European Studies, "Entering Fellowship for Graduate Student Alexandra Haugh."

Eli Silver, professor of earth sciences: $34,546, National Science Foundation, "Seismic and Coring Study of the Western Solomon Sea."

Bakthan Singaram, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $50,000, American Chemical Society, "Asymmetric Hydroboration of Functionalized Alkenes."

Nirvikar Singh, professor of economics: $13,200, UC Berkeley, Center for German and European Studies, "European Integration and Regional Disparities: Retrospect and Prospect."

Lisa Sloan, research scientist with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $25,000, WESTGEC, "Paleodata Calibration of Greenhouse Gas Forcing Effect on Climate."

David Smith, associate research oceanographer with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $30,894, Office of Naval Research, "A Process Oriented Study of Shallow Convection in Polar Oceans."

Dale Stansbury, continuing education specialist with University Extension: $28,800, California Community Colleges, "Regional Environmental Business Resource and Assistance Center"; and $75,000, California Integrated Waste Management Board, "California Recycling and Reuse Business Assistance Center."

Trish Stoddart, associate professor of education: $37,436, National Center for Science Teaching and Learning, "The AVANCE Project in the High School"; and $13,000, UC Office of the President, Presidential Grant for Teacher Research in Education, "Partners in Education."

Kira Stoll, program manager, Transportation and Parking Services: $25,000, Monterey Bay Unified Air Pollution Control District, "Granite Creek Vanpool Vehicle Acquisition."

Sean Swezey, specialist with the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems: $55,224, Utah State University, "Comparative Performance and Farm-Level Function of Conventional and Certified Organic Apple Production Systems in California."

Eugene Switkes, professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $26,879, National Institutes of Health, "Studies of Color Vision."

Lincoln Taiz, professor of biology: $96,000, U.S. Department of Energy, "Regulation of Vascular pH in Citrus Limon."

Ronald Tjeerdema, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $25,344, Marine Spill Response Corporation, "Organic Carbon Analysis"; $22,000, San Jose State University Foundation, "Fate of Organic Contaminants in the Marine Environment (Mussel Watch Reimbursables)"; $9,900, California State Water Resources Control Board, "Toxicity Assessment of the Pajaro River Watershed"; $36,900, Applied Marine Sciences, "Regional Monitoring Program for Toxic Contaminants in the South San Francisco Estuary"; California Department of Fish and Game, $61,720, "Bay Protection and Toxic Cleanup Program (1992-94)" and $11,117 and $19,129, "Bay Protection and Toxic Cleanup Program"; and $20,000, UC Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Program, "Assessment of a Toxicological Cause for Black Abalone Wasting by Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy."

Andrey Todorov, professor of mathematics: $20,000, National Science Foundation, "Moduli of Manifolds with Canonical Class Zero."

Geoffrey Vallis, associate professor of marine sciences: $114,427, National Science Foundation, "Eddies and the Large-Scale Structure of the Atmosphere"; and $87,931, Office of Naval Research, "Nonlinear and Topographic Interactions in the Mesoscale Eddy Field."

Carl Walsh, professor of economics: $3,300, UC Berkeley, Center for German and European Studies, "Does Central Bank Independence Matter?"

Brian Walton, lecturer in environmental studies and coordinator of the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group: $6,562, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, "Peregrine Falcon Restoration Report"; and $14,600 and $10,800, Vandenberg Air Force Base, "Various Vandenberg Raptor Studies."

Mary Sue Weldon, assistant professor of psychology: $30,811, National Institutes of Health, "Time Course of Processes in Implicit and Explicit Memory."

Mark Wells, assistant research marine chemist with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $78,358, Office of Naval Research, "The Marine Biochemistry of Colloidal Bioactive Metals During Artificially Induced (IronEx II) and Estuarine Phytoplankton Blooms."

Linda Werner, assistant researcher in computer and information sciences: $30,000, Santa Cruz Operation, "Building an Easy to Use Graphical User Interface Builder."

Harold Widom, professor emeritus of mathematics: $11,532, National Science Foundation, "Spectral Asymptotics of Toeplitz and Pseudodifferential Operators"; and $35,000, National Science Foundation, "Research in Random Matrices and Spectral Asymptotics."

David Williams, assistant adjunct professor of physics and associate research physicist: $23,041, Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics-Los Alamos National Laboratory, "Milagro: The World's Only Wide Aperture TeV Gamma-Ray Observatory: A Proposal for Design Optimization and Development."

Terrie Williams, assistant professor of biology: $51,000 and $20,400, Office of Naval Research, "Animal Physiology."

Todd Wipke, professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $30,410, Montana State University, "Design of Non-Peptidic Inhibitors of G- Proteins"; and $48,700, National Science Foundation, "Research Experiences for Undergraduates."

Ru-Shan Wu, associate research geophysicist with the Institute of Tectonics: $50,000, National Science Foundation, "Transport Theory for Seismic Wave Propagation: A Proposal for Collaborative Research in Geosciences, Geography and Mathematical Sciences"; $37,256, Office of Naval Research, "Study of Ocean Bottom Interactions with Acoustic Waves by a New Elastic Wave Propagation Algorithm and a Energy Flow Analysis Technique"; and $47,200, Los Alamos National Laboratory, "Stochastic Imaging of Oil and Gas Reservoirs."

Xixi Zhao, lecturer in earth sciences and assistant research geophysicist with the Institute of Tectonics: $3,000, Joint Oceanographic Institutions/U.S. Science Support Program, "A Detailed Rock Magnetic Study of the Leg 158 Cores from the TAG Hydrothermal Mound."

Martha Zuniga, assistant professor of biology: $30,000, UC Biotechnology Research and Educational Program, "Regulatory Mechanisms in Cell Biology"; and $37,025, National Science Foundation, "Presidential Young Investigator Award."