UC Santa Cruz Contracts and Grants September-December 1995

Roger Anderson, professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $86,215, Amtech Systems, "Photo-CVD Equipment and Process: Applications of Advanced Mercury Lamps, Excimer Lamps, and Excimer Lasers."

Manuel Ares, associate professor of biology, and Charles Wilson, assistant professor of biology: $60,000, UC Biotech Research and Education Program, "RNA-Mediated Gene Ablation: Technology Development and Biological Testing."

George Blumenthal, professor of astronomy and astrophysics; Sandra Faber, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory; and Joel Primack, professor of physics: $110,000, NASA, "Testing Inflation and Dark Matter with New Data, Models, and Methods."

Peter Bodenheimer, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $74,418, NASA-Ames Research Center, University Affairs Branch, "Theoretical and Observational Studies of Star and Planet Formation."

Michael Bolte, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics and assistant astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $19,835, Space Telescope Science Institute, "Ages for the Oldest Star Clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud."

Michael Bonnell, research specialist with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $50,000, Calif. Department of Fish and Game, "Project to Develop the Required Capability to Estimate and Map Surface Densities of Marine Birds and Mammals at Risk for an Oil Spill."

Rebecca Braslau, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $145,000, National Science Foundation, "Stereoselective Coupling Reactions of Prochiral Radicals."

Bruce Bridgeman, professor of psychology: $20,016, NASA-Ames, "Living in Space or Low Gravity Environments."

Jean Brodie, associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics and associate astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: Space Telescope Science Institute, $5,198, "Extragalactic Globular Cluster Systems," and $40,992, "Globular Clusters and Shells in Elliptical Galaxies."

Pak Chan and Martine Schlag, associate professors of computer engineering: $10,000, Xilinx, "Hardware Acceleration of Placement and Routing Algorithms."

Menzie Chinn, assistant professor of economics; K. C. Fung, associate professor of economics; and Christine Wong, associate professor of economics: $25,000, UC Pacific Rim Program, "Trade and Investment Integration among Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan."

Menzie Chinn, assistant professor of economics: $1,000, UC MEXUS, "Capital Inflows as Culprit: A Re-Examination of the 1994 Peso Crisis."

Mark Cioc, associate professor of history, and Ronnie Lipschutz, assistant professor of politics: $3,000, UC Office of the President, Multicampus Research Incentive Fund (MRIF), "Regional Environmental Histories of Northern California, Planning Grant."

Catherine Cooper, UCSC Foundation Professor of Psychology and professor of education: $51,040, University of Michigan, "Linking Qualitative and Quantitative Analyses of Successful Pathways Through Middle Childhood."

Bruce Cooperstein, professor of mathematics: $77,460, California Academic Partnership Program, "Thematic Mathematics in the Middle School."

Daniel Costa, professor of biology; Terrie Williams, assistant professor of biology; and Donald Croll, assistant researcher with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $75,000, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, "Marine Mammal Studies in the Central California National Marine Sanctuaries."

Daniel Costa, professor of biology: $364,600, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, "ATOC Marine Mammal Research Program, Pt. Sur"; $29,455, Office of Naval Research, "Physiology of Freely Diving White Whales, 'Delphinapterus leucas'"; and $2,000, American Society for Engineering Education, "Autoregulation and Use of Body Stores in Developing Elephant Seal Pups."

Philip Crews, professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $252,164, National Institutes of Health, "Discovery of Novel Cytotoxic Natural Products from Marine Sponges"; $38,610, National Institutes of Health, "Precollege Enrichment Program (PREP)"; $524,919, National Institutes of Health, "Molecular Approaches to Discover Marine Natural Product Anticancer Leads"; $54,731, Sea Grant, "Cultured Marine Fungi as a Source of New Bioactive Materials"; $17,753, Cal Bio Marine, "Aquaculture of Tropical Marine Sponges to Yield Research and Commercial Quantities of Bioactive Secondary Metabolics for Biotechnical Applications"; and $20,800, National Institutes of Health, "Baccalaureate Bridge to the Biomedical Sciences Program (ACCESS)."

Wayne Dai, associate professor of computer engineering: $96,918, Advanced Research Projects Agency, "Multi-GOPS Image Processor Accelerator Based on Large-Scale Enhanced Field-Programmable Multi-Chip Module."

Charles Daniel, professor emeritus of biology, and Gary Silberstein, associate research biologist: $185,625, National Institutes of Health, "Hormonal Regulation of the Mammary IGF System."

David Deamer, research professor of chemistry: $129,815, National Institutes of Health, "Rapid Electrochemical Characterization of RNA and DNA"; $13,535, NASA, "Assembly and Function of Primitive Membrane Structures."

Margaret Delaney, associate professor of marine sciences: $120,958, National Science Foundation, "Phosphorus Accumulation in Cenozoic Marine Sediments."

Joshua Deutsch, associate professor of physics: $7,000, National Science Foundation, "Supplement to DMR-9419362."

Olof Einarsdottir, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and Richard Dyer, Los Alamos National Laboratory: $37,400, CULAR-Los Alamos National Laboratory, "Proton Pumping in Cytochrome Oxidase Probed by Time-Resolved Vibrational and Nonlinear Vibrational Sum-Frequency Generation (SFG) Spectroscopies."

Harland Epps, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $13,269, University of Arizona, "Observation, Data Reduction, Analysis, and Interpretation with the NICMOS Instrument on Hubble Space Telescope."

Joel Ferguson and Tracy Larrabee, associate professors of computer engineering: $3,125, Semiconductor Research Corporation, "Test Generation for Realistic Faults."

Andrew Fisher, assistant professor of earth sciences: $27,891, National Science Foundation, "Fine-Scale Hydrogeology and Geochemistry of Areas of Active Venting in Middle Valley, a Sedimented Rift on the Northern Juan de Fuca Ridge."

Stanley Flatte, professor of physics: $156,983, Office of Naval Research, "The Effect of Small-Scale Ocean Fluctuations on Ocean Acoustic Transmission."

Russell Flegal, professor of earth sciences: $413,027, Applied Marine Sciences, "San Francisco Bay Study"; and $8,312, UC Water Resources Center, "Chromium in the San Francisco Bay Estuary: A Study of Cycling, Speciation, and Anthropogenic Inputs."

Russell Flegal, professor of earth sciences, and Walter Jarman, postdoctoral researcher with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $40,000, UC Toxic Substance Research and Training, "UCTSR & TP Coastal Toxicology Program."

Russell Flegal, professor of earth sciences, and Donald Smith, assistant research toxicologist: $252,043, National Institutes of Health, "Bone Pb Toxicity and Remobilization in Rats."

Laurel Fox, professor of biology, and Margaret FitzSimmons, associate professor of environmental studies: $112,500, National Science Foundation, "Multidisciplinary Regional Studies Graduate Training Program: A Critical Need."

Solomon Friedberg, professor of mathematics: $26,475, National Security Agency, "Automorphic Forms and Analytic Number Theory."

J. J. Garcia-Luna, associate professor of computer engineering: $200,000, Advanced Research Projects Agency, "Wireless Internet Gateways (WINGS) for Internets."

Per Gjerde, associate professor of psychology: $30,000 and $5,609, UC Berkeley, "Adult Attachment Styles in Close Relationships."

Lynda Goff, professor of biology: $19,999, University of Hawaii, "Understanding Gracilaria Gall Syndrome."

Robert Goldbeck, assistant research chemist, and Charles Strauss, Los Alamos National Laboratory: $44,700, CULAR-Los Alamos National Laboratory, "Nanosecond Time-Resolved Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy of Temperature-Jump Initiated Protein Folding Dynamics."

Richard Gordon, associate professor of politics: $13,540, UC Pacific Rim Program, "Global Economic Process, Industrial Change, and New Opportunities for Regional Economic Development in the Pacific Rim."

Marcia Gowing, associate research biologist with the Institute of Marine Sciences, and David Garrison, lecturer in marine sciences: $117,999, National Science Foundation, "Food Web Structure in the Arabian Sea: Phytoplankton and Microzooplankton Studies as Part of the U.S. JGOFS Arabian Sea Study."

Gary Griggs, professor of earth sciences: $126,000, National Biological Service, "Population and Community Ecology of Sea Otters."

Gary Griggs, professor of earth sciences, and Ellen Moir, director of teacher education: $60,000, Calif. Postsecondary Education Commission, "Science Connections Two."

David Haussler, professor of computer and information sciences; Kevin Karplus, associate professor of computer engineering; and Richard Hughey, assistant professor of computer engineering: $30,000, LACOR, "Computational Approaches for Determination of Function and Structure from Sequence."

Ronald Henderson, professor emeritus of education and psychology: $1,250, Wellesley College, for the support of graduate student Linda R. Tropp, "Edna V. Moffett Fellowship"; and $6,850, AT&T, for the support of graduate student Abigail Joseph, "AT&T Bell Laboratories Cooperative Research Fellowship Program."

Gail Hershater, professor of history; Emily Honig, professor of women's studies; and Lisa Rofel, assistant professor of anthropology: $40,000, Luce Foundation, "A Cultural History of Women and Work in Twentieth-Century China."

Grainger Hunt, research specialist with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $45,000, National Renewable Energy Lab, "Comprehensive Plan for Determining the Influence of Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area on Golden Eagles."

Garth Illingworth, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $10,531, Johns Hopkins University, "A Proposal to Build an Advanced Camera for the Hubble Space Telescope."

Anastassia Kanavarioti, assistant research chemist, and Claude Bernasconi, professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $99,840, NASA, "Towards Self-Replicating Chemical Systems Based on Cytidylic and Guanylic Acids."

Arnold Klemola, research astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory; Burton Jones, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory; and Robert Hanson, associate research astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $34,135, NASA, "Comparison of Lick Northern Proper Motion Program and Hipparcos Reference Frames."

Kenneth Kletzer, professor of economics: $2,750, UC Berkeley, Center for German and European Studies, "Fiscal Policy Coordination and Central Bank Design in a Monetary Union."

Lori Kletzer, assistant professor of economics: $14,419, U.S. Department of Labor, "Who Benefits from Free Trade: The Impact of Foreign Competition on Occupational Employment and Wages in U.S. Manufacturing, 1967-1992."

David Kliger, professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $234,773, National Institutes of Health, "Bleaching Stages of Rhodopsin"; $12,000, NASA, for the support of student Kyra Oswald, "Undergraduate Student Researchers Program"; and $23,700, National Institutes of Health, for the support of graduate student David Shapiro, "The Kinetics of Ligand Binding to Hemoglobin S."

Edward Landesman, professor emeritus of mathematics: $14,529, UC Office of the President, Math Diagnostic Testing Program, "Monterey Bay Area Mathematics Diagnostic Testing Project."

Tracy Larrabee, associate professor of computer engineering: $30,000, Intel, "Ongoing Projects Related to Test Patterns of Bridge Faults in CMOS ICs."

Thorne Lay, professor of earth sciences: $23,000, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics-Los Alamos National Laboratory, "Crustal and Lithospheric Structure in China: Waveguide Effects on Regional Phases Used in Nuclear Test Monitoring."

Jeanne LePage, senior video producer and director of the bicycle program, Transportation and Parking Services: $61,372, California Office of Traffic Safety, "Bicycle Safety Video Series."

Douglas Lin, professor of astronomy and astrophysics, and Lars Hernquist, associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics: $40,000, NASA, "Dynamical Processes around Massive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei."

Ronnie Lipschutz, assistant professor of politics: $1,000, California Wellness Foundation, "Wellness Award Lecture"; and $23,325, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, "Stevenson Program on Global Security--Block Grant and Campus Program Activity Grants."

Lourdes Martinez-Echazabal, associate professor of Latin American literature, $1,000, UC MEXUS, "Vasconcelos' Cosmic Race: A Re- Interpretation."

William Mathews, professor of astronomy and astrophysics: $59,000, NASA, "Interstellar Gas and Dust in Elliptical Galaxies."

Casey Moore, professor of earth sciences, and Philip Teas, graduate student in earth sciences: $23,800, UC Energy Institute, "Compartmentalization: Reservoir Heterogeneity and the Role of Faults."

Harry Noller, Robert L. Sinsheimer Professor of Molecular Biology: $23,700, National Institutes of Health, for the support of graduate student Ling X. Shen, "Mechanistic Studies of Retroviral Frameshifting"; and $63,075, International Human Frontier Science Program, "Role of S6 Phosphorylation in Regulating Translation."

Leo Ortiz, professor of biology: $66,844, National Institutes of Health, John H. Fogarty International Center, "Minority International Research Training Grant"; and $14,076, National Institutes of Health, "UCSC MARC Undergraduate Honors Program."

John Pearse, professor emeritus of biology: $36,032 and $6,882, Sea Grant, "Biodiversity of the Rocky Intertidal in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary: A 24-year Comparison."

Daniel Press, assistant professor of environmental studies: $75,434, The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, "Community and Conservation in Southern California."

Joel Primack, professor of physics: $11,826, Cal Space, "New Methods of Comparing Simulations to Data: Large Scale Constrained Realizations (LSCR)."

Gregory Rau, senior researcher with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $48,749, Sea Grant, "Upwelling and the Ecology of Juvenile Rockfish: A Study Using 14C Natural Abundance."

Craig Reinarman, associate professor of sociology: $90,238, Universitywide AIDS Research Program, "Preventing HIV in Injection Drug Users: A Small City Model."

Justin Revenaugh, assistant professor of earth sciences: $18,505, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "Array Studies of Northern California Crust and Uppermost Mantle."

William Rice, professor of biology: $220,000, National Science Foundation, "The Impact of Genetic Recombination on Adaptation."

Michael Riordan, research physicist with the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics: $13,684, University of Illinois, "The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider."

Barbara Rogoff, professor of psychology and education, and Eugene Matusov, postdoctoral researcher in psychology: $29,700, James S. McDonnell Foundation, "Development in Children as They Join an Innovative School Emphasizing Collaborative Learning"; $30,000, UC Pacific Rim Program, "Models of Learning in a Japanese and an Innovative U.S. School"; and $42,400, Spencer Foundation, "Development of Individual, Group, and Cultural Activity: Transformations as New Members Participate in an Innovative School."

Donald Rothman, senior lecturer in writing: $12,000, California Writing Project, "Central California Writing Project: Mini-Grant 1995-96."

Harold Royaltey, postgraduate researcher in biology: $20,718, University of Arizona, "A Comprehensive Simulation Model of Parasitoid Behavior in a Tritrophic World."

Susan Schwartz, assistant professor of earth sciences: $33,762, National Science Foundation, "Cooperative Research on the Seismic and Geodetic Behavior of Arenal Volcano, Costa Rica."

Abraham Seiden, professor of physics: $141,500, U.S. Department of Energy, "Design, Engineering, and Fabrication for the BaBar Detector"; and $1,359,000, Department of Energy, "Research in High Energy Physics."

Eli Silver, professor of earth sciences: $5,250, U.S. Geological Survey, "Tectonic Evolution and Earthquake Hazard Evaluation, Offshore Central California."

Nirvikar Singh and Alan Richards, professors of economics: $15,000, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, "Managing Water Scarcity: Interactions between International River Negotiations and Domestic Economic Reform Conflicts."

Lisa Sloan, assistant professor of earth sciences: $9,858, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "GCM Investigations of Climate Sensitivity in Earth History."

David Smith, associate research oceanographer with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $25,989, University of Alaska, "An Ocean Model Study of Circulation in the Northeast Water Polynya."

Trish Stoddart, associate professor of education; Ellen Moir, director of teacher education; and Stephanie Dalton, associate director of the National Center for Research on Cultural Diversity and Second Language Learning: $346,322, U.S. Department of Education, "California Center for Teacher Development (CCTD)."

Trish Stoddart, associate professor of education, and David Deamer, research professor of chemistry: $12,488, UC Office of the President, California Science Project, "California Central Coast Science Program."

Kira Stoll, program manager, Transportation and Parking Services: $13,280, Santa Cruz Regional Transportation Commission, "FY 92-95 STP/CMAQ Project"; and $20,000, Monterey Bay Unified Air Pollution Control District, "UCSC San Lorenzo Valley Vanpool Vehicle Acquisition."

William Sullivan, assistant professor of biology: $27,388, National Institutes of Health, "Dropsohilia Embryonic Nuclear Division Mutations."

Frank Talamantes, professor of biology: $162,372, National Institutes of Health, "Growth Hormone Receptor and Serum Binding Protein."

Ronald Tjeerdema, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $23,000, $34,975 and $85,600, Calif. Department of Fish and Game, "Bay Protection and Toxic Cleanup Program"; $24,984, Marine Spill Response Corporation, "Dispersed Oil Toxicology"; $4,800, San Jose State University Foundation, "Fate of Organic Contaminants in the Marine Environment (Mussel Watch Reimbursables)"; and , Calif. Department of Fish and Game, "Bay Protection and Toxic Cleanup Program."

Geoffrey Vallis, professor of marine sciences: $20,000, Office of Naval Research, "Nonlinear and Topographic Interactions in the Mesoscale Eddy."

Brian Walton, lecturer in environmental studies and coordinator of the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group: $1,600, U.S. Coast Guard, "Monitoring Services at Point Arguello."

Brian Walton, lecturer in environmental studies and coordinator of the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group, and W. Grainger Hunt, research specialist with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $321,200, Calif. Department of Water Resources, "Silverwood Lake Bald Eagle Project."

Mark Wells, assistant research marine chemist with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $95,082, Office of Naval Research, "The Marine Biochemistry of Colloidal Bioactive Metals During Artificially Induced (IronEx II) and Estuarine Phytoplankton Blooms."

David Williams, assistant adjunct professor of physics and associate research physicist: $20,000 and $3,648, Institute of 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."

Quentin Williams, associate professor of earth sciences: $12,500, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "Experimental Constraints on the Transport of Basaltic Melt in Earth's Mantle."

Terrie Williams, assistant professor of biology: $131,345, Office of Naval Research, "Dolphins as Models for Cost Efficient Autonomous Underwater Vehicles."

Todd Wipke, professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $31,627, Montana State University, "Design of Non-Peptidic Inhibitors of G- Proteins."

Stanford Woosley, professor of astronomy and astrophysics: $31,237, MIT, "Participation in the Development and Flight of the High Energy Transient Experiment (HETE)."

Ru-Shan Wu, research geophysicist with the Institute of Tectonics: $84,057, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, "Synthetics Seismograms in Heterogeneous Elastic Media and the Study of Formation and Propagation of Regional Phases in Eurasia."

Jiajun Zhang, assistant researcher with the Institute of Tectonics: $24,320, 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: $28,402, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "Three-Dimensional Modeling of Upper Mantle Structure beneath the Western United States."