Contracts and Grants Received in May, June, July, and August of 1995

Robert Anderson, associate professor of earth sciences: $98,842, National Science Foundation, "Incision of Bedrock Channels"; $22,000, NASA, for the support of graduate student Alexander Densmore, "Range-Crossing Faults in Eastern California"; $34,000, National Science Foundation, "Young Investigator Award Program"; $32,011, NASA, "Mountain Scale Erosion and the Potential for Erosionally Driven Uplift"; $37,000, NASA, "Zscape: A Coupled Tectonic-Geomorphic Landscape Evolution Model."

Peter Bodenheimer, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $38,773, NASA, "Effects of FU Orionis Outbursts on Protoplanetary Disks"; $76,300, National Science Foundation, "Physics of Protostellar Disks"; and $17,346, NASA-Ames, "Theoretical and Observational Studies of Star and Planet Formation."

Roberto Bogomolni, professor of chemistry: $40,000, NASA-Ames, "Polymerase Chain Reaction Amplification of Archaebacterial Proton-ATPase Genes."

Michael Bolte, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics and assistant astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $38,000, National Science Foundation, "Globular Clusters, Stellar Collisions, Dark Matter Halos, and the Age of the Universe Problem"; and $20,753, California Space Institute, "A Critical Test of Pop ll Stellar Evolution Models."

John Borrego, associate professor of community studies, and Patricia Zavella, professor of community studies: $26,704, Calif. Policy Seminar, "North American Integration, Transnational Production, Community Restructuring and Daily Life."

Barry Bowman, professor of biology; Sheila David, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry; and Anthony Fink, professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $332,896, National Institutes of Health, "UCSC Minority Biomedical Research Support Program."

Marc Buchanan, assistant professor of environmental studies: $19,500, Calif. Integrated Waste Management Board, "Compost Production and Agronomic Demonstrations in the Monterey Bay Region."; and with Stephen Gliessman, Alfred E. Heller Professor of Agroecology (environmental studies); Deborah Letourneau, associate professor of ecology (environmental studies); and Matt Werner, research associate with the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems: $56,720, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, "An Evaluation of Restored Native Bunch Grasses in Elkhorn Slough Estuary: Removal of Nutrient and Sediment from Commercial Strawberry Runoff and Implications for Pesticide Use."

Joseph Bunnett, professor emeritus of chemistry: $97,407, Battelle Memorial Institute, "Peer Review of Joint Evaluation and Characterization of Russian Chemical Agent Neutralization Reactions."

Julianne Burton-Carvajal, professor of Spanish literature: $1,000, UC MEXUS, "Cine-Siglo: A Working Conference on Women's Creative Agency and Changing Paradigms of Gender in Latin American and Latino Film."

Maureen Callanan, associate professor of psychology: $133,342, National Institutes of Health, "Negotiating Meaning: Children's Concepts and Theories."

Kenneth Cameron, professor of earth sciences: $15,000, National Science Foundation, "Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf Isotope Studies of Deep Crustal Xenoliths from the Southwestern USA and Northern Mexico."

Pedro Castillo, associate professor of history, and Norma Klahn, associate professor of literature: $5,000, UC MEXUS, "Bridging Borders/Crossing Centuries: U.S.-Mexico Relations after NAFTA."

Pak Chan and Martine Schlag, associate professors of computer engineering, $12,259, MICRO, "Hardware Acceleration of Placement and Routing Algorithms."

Mark Cioc, associate professor of history: UC Berkeley Center for German and European Studies, $3,300, for the support of graduate student Carolyn Hofig, "Popular Dissent and Accommodation in the GDR: The Case of Wittenberg"; and $3,300, for the support of graduate student Brenda Melendy, "The Integration of Expelled Germans in the Federal Republic of Germany and the Development of a New Western German Identity, 1949-1955."

Robert Coe, professor of earth sciences: $59,425, National Science Foundation, "A Case Study of Fidelity of Sedimentary Magnetization"; and with Xixi Zhao, lecturer in earth sciences and assistant research geophysicist with the Institute of Tectonics: $64,876, National Science Foundation, "A Paleomagnetic Study of Early and Middle Paleozoic Rocks in Tarim and Nantianshan Terrane, Northwestern China."

Catherine Cooper, professor of psychology and education: $19,281, University of Michigan, "Linking Qualitative and Quantitative Analyses of Successful Pathways Through Middle Childhood."

Bruce Cooperstein, professor of mathematics, and Ronaldo Ramirez, special assistant to the vice chancellor for student affairs: $167,251, U.S. Department of Education, "Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need Program (GAANN)."

Daniel Costa, professor of biology: $250,000, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, "ATOC Marine Mammal Research Program, Pt. Sur"; and $87,157, Office of Naval Research, "Buoyancy Regulation and the Energetics of Diving in Dolphins, Sea Lions, and Sea Otters."

Donald Coyne, adjunct professor of physics, and David Williams, assistant adjunct professor of physics and associate research physicist: $405,000, National Science Foundation, "Research in Particle and Astroparticle Physics"; and $71,600, University of Maryland, "Milagro-An Experiment for the Study of Sources of Very High Energy Gamma Rays."

Phillip Crews, professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $2,000 and $11,018, Sea Grant, "Marine Natural Products in Pharmacology: Anti- Infectious Disease Drug Discovery and Screening Using Marine Invertebrates"; $4,157, National Cancer Institute, "Isolation of 1 gram of Jasplakinolide"; $2,000, National Institutes of Health, "Baccalaureate Bridge to the Biomedical Sciences Program (ACCESS)"; and $24,099, Sea Grant, "Cultured Marine Fungi as a Source of New Bioactive Materials."

Robert Curry, professor emeritus of environmental geology (environmental studies): $1,260, 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: $27,117, MICRO, "Analysis of Interconnect Networks Based on Scattering Parameter Macromodels"; $21,572, MICRO, "Silicon-on Silicon Field Programmable Multi-Chip Modules"; $6,639, MICRO, "Design of FPGAs with Area IO"; and $2,000, Alsi Systems, "Performance-Driven Layout for Electronic Packaging."

Sheila David, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $123,187, National Institutes of Health, "G-A Mismatch Recognition and Repair by E. Coli MutY."

Margaret Delaney, associate professor of marine sciences: $8,401, Joint Oceanographic Institutions/U.S. Science Support Program, for the support of graduate student Katherine McIntyre, "ODP Shipboard Inorganic Geochemist."

Daniel Doak, assistant professor of environmental studies: $76,487, National Science Foundation, "Modeling the Effects of Habitat Degradation: An Assessment of the Risks to Population Viability and the Effectiveness of Population Monitoring"; and with Steven Minta, assistant professor of environmental studies; Daniel Press, assistant professors of environmental studies; and Michael Soule, professor emeritus of environmental studies: $100,000, UC Davis, "Preventing Biodiversity Conflicts: A GIS-Based Project."

David Dorfan, professor of physics, and Ronaldo Ramirez, special assistant to the vice chancellor for student affairs: $167,251 and $215,037, U.S. Department of Education, "Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need Program (GAANN)."

John Ellis, professor emeritus of German literature: $10,000, Carthage Foundation, "Association of Literary Scholars and Critics Newsletter."

Sandra Faber, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $173,593, Caltech, "On-Orbit Research with the Wide Field Planetary Camera Team."

Joel Ferguson, associate professor of computer engineering: $29,788, U.S. Department of Defense, "Inductive Fault Analysis"; and National Science Foundation, $10,226, "REU Supplement for Grant MIP-9158491," and $62,500, "Test Pattern Generation for Realistic Faults."

Anthony Fink, professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $80,000, National Science Foundation, "Early Events in Protein Folding."

Andrew Fisher, assistant professor of earth sciences: $20,950, Lehigh University, "Determination of Barbados Accretionary Prism Hydrologic Characteristics"; and $25,449, National Science Foundation, "Upper Ocean Paleotemperatures: Direct Measurement Using Geothermal Instrumentation."

Stanley Flatte, professor of physics: $70,000, Office of Naval Research, "Numerical Simulation of Broadband Sound Propagation II"; and $26,000, UC San Diego, "Internal Wave Effects on Long Range Ocean-Acoustic Pulse Propagation."

Russell Flegal, professor of earth sciences: $2,500, UC Water Resources Center, "Chromium in the San Francisco Bay Estuary: A Study of Cycling, Speciation, and Anthropogenic Inputs"; and $18,000, UC Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Program, "Integrated Assessment of Linked Wetlands-Estuarine Ecosystems."

Benjamin Flower, visiting postdoctoral researcher in earth sciences: $16,619, Joint Oceanographic Institutions/U.S. Science Support Program, "ODP Leg 162 Salary."

Daniel Friedman, professor of economics, and Dominic Massaro, professor of psychology: $65,000, National Science Foundation, "Optimal and Adaptive Learning Models for Nondeterministic Tasks."

K. C. Fung, associate professor of economics, Michael Hutchison, professor of economics, and Naoyuki Yoshino, professor of economics at Keio University in Tokyo: $70,625, Japan-United States Friendship Commission, "The Context and Rationale for Deregulation in Japan: Real and Financial Implications."

David Garrison, lecturer in marine sciences; Mary Silver, professor of marine sciences; and Ronald Tjeerdema, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $2,000, Sea Grant, "Bioaccumulation and Fate of Domoic Acid, A Natural Toxin, In Coastal Marine Organisms."

Diane Gifford-Gonzalez, professor of anthropology: $4,688, CSU Long Beach, "Agreement for Curation of Archaeological Collections."

Stephen Gliessman, Alfred E. Heller Professor of Agroecology (environmental studies): $608,000, W. K. Kellogg Foundation, "Creating Sustainability in California: Reconnecting People and Environment in Food and Agriculture."

Walter Goldfrank, $150,047, MacArthur Foundation, "The Ecological and Socioeconomic Impacts of Fruit Monoculture on the Aconcagua Valley (Chile) in Comparative Perspective."

Marcia Gowing, associate research biologist with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $110,000, National Science Foundation, "JGOFS (Arabian Sea): Effects of the Oxygen Minimum Zone on Mesozooplankton Distributions and Food Webs"; and with David Garrison, lecturer in marine sciences: $159,769 and $5,000, National Science Foundation, "Collaborative Studies on Bloom Dynamics and Food Web Structure in the Ross Sea: Role of Microzooplankton in Controlling Production, Transforming Carbon, and Transporting Carbon to Depth in Phaeocystis vs. Diatom Blooms."

Gary Griggs, professor of earth sciences: $100,000, CALPIRG, "Environmental Research on San Francisco Bay"; and $5,000, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, "Windows to Discovery."

Puragra Guhathakurta, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics and assistant astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $26,500, NASA, "The Properties of Interstellar Dust Grains in 'Cirrus' Clouds"; and $26,339, Cal Space, "The Amount and Distribution of Dark Matter in Rich Galaxy Clusters at Moderate Redshifts."

David Haussler, professor of computer and information sciences; Richard Hughey, assistant professor of computer engineering; and Kevin Karplus, associate professor of computer engineering: $101,234, U.S. Department of Energy, "Generalized Hidden Markov Models for Genomic Sequence Analysis."

Francisco Hernandez, vice chancellor for student affairs, and Ronaldo Ramirez, special assistant to the vice chancellor for student affairs: $50,222, UC Office of the President/Mathematics Engineering and Science Achievement, "Plan the Establishment of a MESA Secondary Program (MSP)."

Lars Hernquist, associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics: $106,476 and $21,885, Princeton University, "Formation of Galaxies and Large-Scale Structure in the Universe"; $100,000, National Science Foundation, "Presidential Faculty Fellow"; and $30,290, NASA, "Structure and Evolution of Astrophysical Disks."

Gail Hershatter, professor of history: $35,990, Pacific Rim, "A Cultural History of Women and Work in Twentieth-Century China."

David Hoy, professor of philosophy: $1,500, UC Berkeley, "Graduate Research Fellowship Program."

Richard Hughey, assistant professor of computer engineering: $20,000, Lockheed, "Hardware Architecture Emulation Tool Department"; and with Kevin Karplus, associate professor of computer engineering: $145,934, National Science Foundation, "Multi-Purpose Parallel Processor for Biosequence Analysis."

Grainger Hunt, research specialist with the Institute of Marine Sciences, and Brian Walton, lecturer in environmental studies and coordinator of the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group: $249,985, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, "Comprehensive Plan for Determining Influence of Altamont Wind Resources Area on Golden Eagles."

Garth Illingworth, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: Space Telescope Science Institute, $25,000, "The Evolution of Early-Type Galaxies in Distant Clusters"; and with David Koo, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $35,000, Space Telescope Science Institute, "Spatial Structures, Kinematics, and Masses of Faint Galaxies"; and $80,000, UC Berkeley, "DEEP Extragalactic Evolutionary Probe."

Junko Ito and Armin Mester, associate professors of linguistics: $41,319, National Science Foundation, "The Structure of the Phonological Lexicon."

Kenneth Kletzer, professor of economics: $19,060, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, for the support of graduate student Changhua Rich, "Northeast Asia Regional Collaboration: China-Japan Joint Implementation of Carbon Emissions Reduction ."

David Kliger, professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $152,171, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, "Transient Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy."

Elise Knittle, associate professor of earth sciences: $62,500, National Science Foundation, "Young Investigator Award."

Phokion Kolaitis, associate professor of computer and information sciences: $51,660, National Science Foundation, "Aspects of Computation Theory."

Joseph Konopelski, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $6,000, NATO, "Synthesis of Unusual Amino Acids for the Preparation of Peptidomimetics"; $35,000, Elsa U. Pardee Foundation, "Asymmetric Synthesis of the MDR Reversing Agent N- methylwelwitindolinone C Isothiocyanate"; and $106,000, American Cancer Society, "Asymmetric Total Synthesis of Diazonamide A."

David Koo, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $59,032, Space Telescope Science Institute, "The Evolution of Starburst Galaxies."

Robert Kraft, professor emeritus of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer emeritus at UCO/Lick Observatory, and Graeme Smith, associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics and associate astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $12,756, National Science Foundation, "Mixing and Dredgeup in Globular Cluster Giants: Implications for Horizontal Branch Morphology."

Atsuo Kuki, research associate in chemistry: $81,853, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, "AIB Helices-Electron Transfer."

Edward Landesman, professor emeritus of mathematics: $6,191, Math Diagnostic Testing Program, "Monterey Bay Area Mathematics Diagnostic Testing Project."

Tracy Larrabee, associate professor of computer engineering: $62,500, National Science Foundation, "Sequential and Combinational Test Generation for Realistic Faults Using Boolean Satisfiability"; and $15,002, MICRO, "On-Going Projects Related to Test Patterns for Bridge Faults in CMOS ICs."

Thorne Lay, professor of earth sciences: Air Force Office of Scientific Research, $114,871, "Waveguide Controls on Regional Waves," and $88,960, "Crustal Waveguide Effects on Regional Phases in China and South East Asia."

Douglas Lin, professor of astronomy and astrophysics: NASA, $30,000, "Wave Propagation in the Primordial Solar Nebula," and $30,000, "Dynamical Evolution and the Growth of Planetesimals."

Suresh Lodha and Alex Pang, assistant professors of computer and information sciences, and Craig Wittenbrink, assistant research computer engineer: $120,000 National Science Foundation, "Visualizing Uncertainty in Scientific Data Displays."

Paul Lubeck, professor of sociology: $120,00 and $2,100, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, "A Comparative Study of the New Islamic Movements: Iran and Egypt (Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi)."

Patrick Mantey, Jack Baskin Professor of Computer Engineering, et al.: $987,689, Office of Naval Research, "Real-Time Environmental Information Network and Analysis System"; and with Darrell Long, associate professor of computer and information sciences: $90,911, Office of Naval Research, "AASERT: Instant Infrastructure and Distributed Resource Management."

Judith McCarrick, continuing education specialist and director of UCSC Summer Session: $99,398, National Science Foundation, "Summer Marine Sciences/Mathematics Institute."

Charles McDowell, associate professor of computer and information sciences, and Ronaldo Ramirez, special assistant to the vice chancellor for student affairs: $167,251, U.S. Department of Education, "Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need Program (GAANN)."

Barry McLaughlin, professor of psychology: $117,288, U.S. Department of Education, "Bilingual Education Fellowship Program."

Leta Miller and Frederic Lieberman, professors of music: $51,000, National Endowment for the Humanities, "Conversations with Lou Harrison."

Glenn Millhauser, $187,246, National Institutes of Health, "Electron Spin Resonance of Designed Peptides"; and $28,600, National Institutes of Health, for the support of postdoctoral researcher Chris Stenland, "Protein Folding Nucleation Investigated by 2D ELDOR."

Onuttom Narayan, assistant professor of physics: $30,000, Sloan Foundation, "Sloan Foundation Fellowship."

Harry Noller, Robert L. Sinsheimer Professor of Molecular Biology: $100,000, National Science Foundation, "Molecular Genetics of Ribosomal RNA"; and $22,608, National Institutes of Health, for the support of graduate student Lisa Newcomb, "Tethered FE(II): A Structural Probe of Ribosomal RNA."

Jack Okamuro, assistant professor of biology, and Diane Jofuku, assistant research biologist: $121,515, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, "Molecular Control of Flower Development in Arabidopsis."

Leo Ortiz, professor of biology: $72,667 and $84,459, National Institutes of Health, "UCSC MARC Undergraduate Honors Program"; and $203,358, National Institutes of Health, "Minority International Research Training Grant (MIRT)."

John Pearse, professor emeritus of biology: $8,755 and $5,000, Wayne State University, "Support of Symposium Speakers at 7th ICIR"; and $4,000, Sea Grant, "Symposium Speakers at the 7th International Congress of Invertebrate Reproduction (ICIR)"; and with Laura Rogers-Bennett, postgraduate researcher with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $15,612 and $29,123,, Calif. Department of Fish and Game, "Growth and Survival of Juvenile Red Abalone Outplanted In and Away From Red Sea Urchin Beds in Northern California"; and $21,561, Calif. Dept of Fish and Game, "Improving Survivorship for Newly Settled Red Sea Urchins in Culture."

Lucinda Pease-Alvarez, assistant professor of education, and Kenji Hakuta, professor of education at Stanford University: $62,500, Spencer Foundation, "Language Maintenance and Shift in Early Adolescence."

Harry Prest, postgraduate researcher with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $35,876, Kellner-Bliesner Engineering, "Continued Water Sampling on the San Juan River."

Joel Primack, professor of physics, and George Blumenthal, professor of astronomy and astrophysics: $48,900, National Science Foundation, "Particle Physics and Cosmology"; and $8,870, UC Berkeley, "Cosmological Visualizations for Education and Outreach."

Ana Christina Ravelo, assistant professor of marine sciences: $68,534, National Science Foundation, "Sub-Milankovitch Climate Variability in the Tropical Atlantic: Sensitivity and Linkages to Orbital Forcing, High Latitudes, and Plio-Pleistocene Boundary Conditions."

Alan Richards, professor of economics: $8,641, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, "MacArthur Research Fellow, IGCC"; and $8,641, IGCC, "Research Proposal Reparation for IGCC."

Michael Riordan, research physicist with the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics: $13,032, University of Illinois, "The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider."

Donald Rothman, senior lecturer in writing: $17,000, National Writing Project, "National Writing Project"; and $20,000, California Writing Project, "Central California Writing Project."

Thomas Schleich, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and Ronaldo Ramirez, special assistant to the vice chancellor for student affairs: $167,251, U.S. Department of Education, "Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need Program (GAANN)."

Ronald Schusterman, adjunct professor of biology and marine sciences: $154,593, Office of Naval Research, "Bioacoustics of Monterey Bay Pinnipeds"; and $37,120, Earthwatch. "Seals, Sound, and Survival."

Susan Schwartz, assistant professor of earth sciences: $60,145, National Science Foundation, "Upgrading of Seismology Computer Facilities at UC Santa Cruz."

Abraham Seiden, professor of physics: $68,000, U.S. Department of Energy, "Research in High Energy Physics"; and $67,000, UC Santa Barbara, "The Design, Engineering, and Fabrication of the BaBar Detector."

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

Donald Smith, assistant research toxicologist with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $24,000, UC Toxic Substances Research and Teaching, "The Efficacy of Household Lead Abatement for Reducing Sources of Childhood Lead Exposure."

Michael Soule, professor emeritus of environmental studies: $104,192, National Science Foundation, "Measuring Genetic Variation in Natural Populations: Does it Correlate with Fitness?"

Dale Stansbury, assistant dean of economic development at University Extension: California Trade and Commerce Agency, $44,000 and $100,000, "Northern California Business Environmental Assistance Center."

Trish Stoddart, associate professor of education; Lucinda Pease- Alvarez, assistant professor of education; and Roberta Jaffe, executive director of Life Lab Science Program: $760,978, National Science Foundation, "Language Acquisition in Science Education for Rural Schools (LASERS)."

Nancy Stoller, professor of community studies: $21,330, Natividad Medical Foundation, "Needs Assessment and Community Inventory for Central Coast's Women's Cancer Consortium."

William Sullivan, assistant professor of biology: $80,400, International Human Frontier Science Program, for the support of postdoctoral researcher Helen Francis-Lang, "Screening for Mutations Affecting the Polarity of Nuclei in the Drosophila Blastoderm Embryo"; and $111,759, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, "Drosophilia Embryonic Nuclear Division Mutations."

David Sweet, associate professor of history: $5,000, UC MEXUS, for the support of graduate student Richard R. Warner, "An Ethnohistory of the Coras of Sierra del Nayar, 1600-1830"; and $10,000, UC MEXUS, "Forjando Matrias: Mexican Women of Five Centuries."

Frank Talamantes, professor of biology: $90,000, National Science Foundation, "Growth Hormone-Releasing Hormone in the Placenta."

John Tamkun, associate professor of biology: $52,242, March of Dimes, "Regulators of Homeotic Gene Expression in Drosophila"; and $124,484, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, "Genetic and Molecular Studies of the BRM Gene."

Jan Tepper, university police chief: $3,303, Calif. Office of Traffic Safety, "Statewide Preliminary Alcohol Screening (PAS) Distribution Project."

Ronald Tjeerdema, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $40,000, Calif. State Water Resources Control Board, "Toxicity Assessment of the Pajaro River Watershed"; Calif. Department of Fish and Game, $8,100, "McGrath Beach Oil Spill Fate"; $4,470, "Bay Protection and Toxic Cleanup Program (1992-94)"; $8,300, $69,525, $48,730, Bay Protection and Toxic Cleanup Program"; $4,286, "CERCLA Water Quality Assessment"; $10,000, "Montrose Toxaphene Analyses"; $75,270, "Bay Area Discharges Association"; $97,931, EPA, "Determination of the Relative Sensitivity of the Northern Elephant Seal and Other California Pinnipeds to the Toxic Effects of Polychlorinated Biphenyls"; Calif. Dept. of Fish and Game, $90,000, "Comparative Performance of Oil Spill Cleanup Agents"; $50,000, "Effects of Dispersed Oil on the Early Life Stages of Organisms"; $150,000, "Fate of Petroleum Hydrocarbons and Cleanup Agents"; and $25,714, "CERCLA Water Quality Assessment"; and $7,800, UC Davis, "Fate of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Sea Lion Plasma"; and with Mary Silver, professor of marine sciences, and David Garrison, lecturer in marine sciences: $15,854, Sea Grant, "Bioaccumulation and Fate of Domoic Acid, A Natural Toxin, In Coastal Marine Organisms."

Geoffrey Vallis, professor of marine sciences: $46,533, Office of Naval Research, "AASERT: Potential Vorticity Control of Ocean Circulation"; and $31,944, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, "Coupling of Large- and Meso-Scale Circulation."

Allen Van Gelder, assistant professor of computer and information sciences: National Science Foundation, $49,273, "Practical Algorithms for Problems in Propositional Logic," and $80,433, "Efficient Extensions of Well-Founded Semantics for Functions, Aggregation and Collection Types."

Anujan Varma, associate professor of computer engineering: National Science Foundation, $5,000, REU Supplement to ECS- 9319918"; $118,942, "Systems and Device Research in All-Optical Wavelength-Routed Switching Networks"; $62,500, "High Speed Interconnection and Switching Technologies"; and $19,601, MICRO, "An FPGE-Based Simulation Testbed for ATM Networks."

Carl Walsh, professor of economics: $1,651, UC Office of the President, "Workshop on the Political Economy of Monetary Policy."

Howard Wang, professor of biology, and Ronaldo Ramirez, special assistant to the vice chancellor for student affairs: $167,251 and $262,823, U.S. Department of Education, "Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need Program (GAANN)."

Bess Ward, professor of marine sciences: $111,394, National Science Foundation, "Nitrification and Denitrification: Transformation Rates and Molecular Probes for Bacteria in the Nitrogen Cycle."

Steven Ward, lecturer in earth sciences and research geophysicist with the Institute of Tectonics: $50,894, National Science Foundation, "Statistics of Worldwide Earthquake Recurrence Series and the (A)periodicity of Large Events"; and $44,000, University of Southern California, "A Multidisciplinary Approach to Earthquake Hazard in Southern California."

Jane Wilhelms, associate professor of computer and information sciences, and Allen Van Gelder, assistant professor of computer and information sciences: $100,000, NASA, "Tools for Analysis and Visualization of Large Time-Varying CFD Data Sets"; and $110,897, National Science Foundation, "Hierarchial Exploration and Visualization of Large and Complex Multi-Dimensional Data Sets."

Quentin Williams, $100,000, National Science Foundation, "Presidential Faculty Fellows."

Terrie Williams, assistant professor of biology: $101,838, Office of Naval Research, "Dolphins as Models for Cost Efficient Autonomous Underwater Vehicles."

Charles Wilson, assistant professor of biology: $120,591, National Institutes of Health, "Isolation and Characterization of Novel Ribozymes"; and $35,000, Cancer Research Coordinating Committee, "Biochemical Characterization of H19, a Tumor-Suppressing RNA."

Todd Wipke, professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $68,989 and $167,255, Agouron Pharmaceuticals, "Structural Biology as Applied to the Problem of Targeted Drug Design, with Potential Application to the Treatment of AIDS."

Stanford Woosley, professor of astronomy and astrophysics: $100,000, NASA, "Radiation Transport and Multidimensional Hydrodynamics in Supernovae"; and $75,000, National Science Foundation, "Massive Stellar Evolution, Supernovae, and Nucleosynthesis."

Stephen Wright, assistant professor of psychology: $1,600, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, "Reducing Racism by Creating Feelings of Friendship for an Outgroup Member: An Intervention and Experiment."

Ru-Shan Wu, associate research geophysicist with the Institute of Tectonics: $199,755, Los Alamos National Laboratory, "Fast 3D Prestack Depth Migration Using Multi-Screen Propagator"; and with Thorne Lay, professor of earth sciences: $56,060, Philips Laboratory (Department of the Air Force/Hanscom Field), "Surface Topography Effects on Three-Dimensional Heterogeneous Wave Propagation."

Peter Young, professor of physics: $86,000, National Science Foundation, "Theory of Phase Transitions in Quantum and Disordered Systems."

James Zachos, $25,000, National Science Foundation, "Young Investigator Award."

Alan Zahler, assistant professor of biology: $35,000, Cancer Research Coordinating Committee, "Structure and Function of Exonic Splicing Enhancers"; $90,500, American Cancer Society, "Protein Folding: Side Chain Interactions in Beta Sheets"; $154,173, National Institutes of Health, "Regulation of Pre-mRNA Splicing"; and with Lydia Gregoret, assistant professor of biology: $90,500, American Cancer Society, "SR Protein Regulation of Pre mRNA Splicing"

Dennis Zaritsky, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics and assistant astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $27,966, Cal Space, "Distant Galaxy Clusters: A Study of Cosmology and Galaxy Evolution."

Jin Zhang, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $20,500, UC Energy Institute, "Ultra Fast Studies of the Charge Injection Mechanism in Photosensitized TiO2 Cells: A Critical Step Towards Efficient Light Energy Conversion."

Xixi Zhao, lecturer in earth sciences and assistant research geophysicist with the Institute of Tectonics: $21,956, Joint Oceanographic Institutions/U.S. Science Support Program, "A Detailed Rock Magnetic Study of the Leg 158 Cores from the TAG Hydrothermal Mound."