September 1996

Contracts and Grants

Robert Anderson, associate professor of earth sciences: $30,295, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics-Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "Does Cosmogenic Radionuclide Dating of Depositional Surfaces Work? A Test on Surfaces of Known Age"; and $101,237, National Science Foundation, "Incision of Bedrock Channels."

Manuel Ares, associate professor of biology, and Charles Wilson, assistant professor of biology: $54,000, UC Biotechnology Research and Educational Program, "RNA-Mediated Gene Ablation: Technology Development and Biological Testing."

Jack Block, research professor of psychology, and Per Gjerde, associate professor of psychology: $249,162, National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Mental Health, "Longitudinal Study of Ego and Cognitive Development."

Michael Bolte, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics and assistant astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $21,961, Space Telescope Science Institute, "Ages for the Oldest Star Clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud."

Bruce Bridgeman, professor of psychology and psychobiology: $20,000, NASA Ames, "Living in Space or Low Gravity Environments."

Pak Chan and Martine Schlag, associate professors of computer engineering: $4,399, MICRO, "Hardware Acceleration of Placement and Routing Algorithms."

Bruce Cooperstein and Solomon Friedberg, professors of mathematics: $18,744, Office of the President, Math Diagnostic Testing Program, "Monterey Bay Area Mathematics Diagnostic Testing Project."

Daniel Costa, professor of biology, and Gary Griggs, professor of earth sciences: $6,000, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, "Long Marine Lab Sanctuary School Outreach Education Program."

Donald Croll, assistant researcher with the Institute of Marine Sciences; Bernie Tershy, postgraduate researcher in biology; and Greg Howald, postgraduate researcher with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $30,453, National Park Service, "Feasibility of Eradication of Introduced Rattus Ratus from Anacapa and San Miguel Islands, Channel Islands National Park."

Robert Curry, professor emeritus of environmental geology (environmental studies), and Margaret FitzSimmons, associate professor of environmental studies: $21,600, UC Water Resources Center, "Effects of Perennial Grass Buffer Strips on Movement of NPS Pollutants from Cropland to Wetland."

Charles Daniel, professor emeritus of biology, and Gary Silberstein, associate research biologist: $194,030, National Institutes of Health/National Institute for Digestive Diseases and Kidney Diseases, "Hormonal Regulation of the Mammary IGF System."

Anita Diaz, director of Student Health Services: $17,102, U.S. Department of Education, " UC Northern Region, Peer Health Educators Consortium."

Sandra Faber, University Professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $86,000, California Institute of Technology, "On-Orbit Research with the Wide Field Planetary Camera Team."

Daniel Fernandez, assistant research computer engineer; Patrick Mantey, Jack Baskin Professor of Computer Engineering; Alex Pang, assistant professor of computer science; and Glen Langdon, professor of computer engineering: $50,000, National Science Foundation, "Request for Purchase of a CODAR SeaSonde."

Anthony Fink, professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $100,000, National Institutes of Health/National Institute of General Medical Sciences: "Molecular Basis for HSP70 Protection in Myocardial Ischemia."

Andrew Fisher, assistant professor of earth sciences: $99,909, National Science Foundation, "Studies of Channelized Flow in the Mariana Forearc: Pore Fluid Geochemistry, Sedimentology, and Heat Flow"; and $621, Joint Oceanographic Institutions/U.S. Science Support Program, "Scientific Participation of Joshua Stein on ODP Leg 168."

Stanley Flatte, professor of physics: $30,000, UC San Diego, "Internal Wave Effects on Long Range Ocean-Acoustic Pulse Propagation."

J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, associate professor of computer engineering: $7,940, MICRO, "Multicasting Problems in a High-Speed Networking Environment with Special Emphasis on ATM."

James Gill, professor of earth sciences, and Zenon Palacz, associate specialist in earth sciences: $80,000, National Science Foundation, "Th Isotope and U-Series Disequilibria in Volcanic Rocks: Ridges, Arcs, and Zoned Eruptions."

Marcia Gowing, associate research biologist with the Institute of Marine Sciences, and David Garrison, lecturer in ocean sciences: $10,075, National Science Foundation, "REU: 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 Phaeoc."

Gary Griggs, professor of earth sciences, and Walter Jarman, postdoctoral researcher with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $89,968, National Biological Service, " Analysis of Contaminants in Blue Mussel Tissues."

Puragra Guhathakurta, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics and assistant astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $11,559, Space Telescope Science Institute, "Measuring Luminosity Evolution in z=0.3 Field Galaxies from Internal Kinematics."

David Haussler, professor of computer science, and Richard Hughey, assistant professor of computer engineering: $24,914, National Science Foundation, "REU Supplement to Generalized Hidden Markov Models for Protein Sequence Analysis."

Ronald Henderson, professor emeritus of education and psychology: $23,383, U.S. Department of Education, for the support of graduate student Renee Rothman, "Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program."

Lars Hernquist, associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics: $100,000, National Science Foundation, "Presidential Faculty Fellow."

Garth Illingworth, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $28,940, Space Telescope Science Institute, "The Nuclear Structure of SO Galaxies: A PC Imaging Survey"; and $20,236, Space Telescope Science Institute, "The Fundamental Plane of Early Type Galaxies at z=0.3-0.6."

David Koo, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $19,564, Space Telescope Science Institute, "HST Images of New Candidates for Distant Proto-Dwarf-Ellipticals."

Tracy Larrabee and Joel Ferguson, associate professors of computer engineering: $17,720, UC MICRO, "Generating Test Patterns for Bridge Faults in CMOS Ics."

Thorne Lay, professor of earth sciences: $18,870, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics-Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "Source and Propagation Effects on Regional Seismic Discriminants in the Western U.S."

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."

Charles McDowell, associate professor of computer science: $50,000, National Semiconductor, "Improving Embedded Computer Software Development"; and $28,584, MICRO, "Improving Embedded Computer Software Development."

Barry McLaughlin, professor of psychology: $299,967, U.S. Department of Education, "Vocabulary Knowledge and Reading Comprehension in English-Language Learners."

Onuttom Narayan, assistant professor of physics: $212,909, National Science Foundation, "Network Performance with Fractal Traffic."

Leo Ortiz, professor of biology: $183,313, National Institutes of Health/National Institute of General Medical Sciences, "University of California Santa Cruz Honors Undergraduate."

Manuel Pastor, professor of Latin American and Latino studies: $39,542, Occidental College, "Linking Regional and Community Development in a Changing Economy."

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

Peter Raimondi, assistant professor of biology: $59,396, National Science Foundation, "Variability in Spore Dispersal and Its Role in Kelp Population Dynamics"; and $10,795, UC Santa Barbara, "Inventory of Rocky Intertidal Resources in San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Orange Counties."

Nina Rosenberg, research fellow with the Institute of Tectonics: $154,151, $483,639, $192,357, and $119,599, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, "Fort Ord Research and Development Pilot Demonstration Project on Fort Ord Landfill Sites."

Susan Schwartz, assistant professor of earth sciences: $14,564, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, "Lithospheric Structure in the Southen San Francisco Bay Area."

Eli Silver, professor of earth sciences: $82,782, Joint Oceanographic Institutions/U.S. Science Support Program, "Participation as Co-Chief Scientist in Ocean Drilling Program - Leg 170."

Lisa Sloan, assistant professor of earth sciences: $66,119, National Science Foundation, "Investigating a Possible New Source of Modeling Error for Estimates of Continental Surface Temperatures in Paleoclimate Studies"; and $54,752, National Science Foundation, "Modeling Anthropogenic Desiccation of the Aral Sea: A Unique Test of the Predictive Capabilities of a Regional Earth System Model."

Lincoln Taiz, professor of biology: $97,357, U.S. Department of Agriculture, "Studies on the Mechanisms of Heavy Metal Tolerance in Arabidopis thaliana."

Ronald Tjeerdema, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $96,400, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, "Determination of the Relative Sensitivity of the Northern Elephant Seal and Other California Pinnipeds to the Toxic Effects of Polychlorinated Biphenyls."

Geoffrey Vallis, professor of ocean sciences: $15,000, National Science Foundation, "Eddies and the Large-Scale Circulation of the Atmosphere."

Anujan Varma, associate professor of computer engineering: $28,584, UC MICRO, "FAST: A Hardware Simulation Testbed for ATM Networks."

Steven Ward, lecturer in earth sciences and research geophysicist with the Institute of Tectonics: $14,000, National Science Foundation, "Collaborative Studies of the Sumatran Subduction Zone."

Stanford Woosley, professor of astronomy and astrophysics: $54,974, NASA, for the support of Compton fellow Francis X. Timmes, "Production Distribuition and Evolution of Radioactive Nuclei."

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