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October 1996
Contracts and Grants
Robert Anderson, associate professor of earth sciences: $34,000, NASA, "Mountain Scale Erosion and the Potential for Erosionally Driven Uplift"; and $45,000, NASA, "Zscape: A Coupled Tectonic-Geomorphic Landscape Evolution Model."
Rebecca Braslau, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $100,000, National Science Foundation, "Stereoselective Coupling Reactions of Prochiral Radicals."
Jean Brodie, associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics and associate astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $22,020, Space Telescope Science Institute, "Extragalactic Globular Cluster Systems."
Phillip Crews, professor of chemistry: $504,790, National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute, "Molecular Approaches to Discover Marine Natural Products Anticancer Leads"; $38,610, National Institutes of Health/National Center for Research Resources, "Precollege Enrichment Program"; and $15,000, Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, "Sponge Recollection for Bengamide Testing."
Wayne Dai, associate professor of computer engineering: $100,000, Advanced Research Projects Agency, "Integrated Electrical Analysis and Layout Synthesis of Embedded Passive Components on Multichip Modules."
Olof Einarsdottir, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $41,000, Collaborative UC/Los Alamos Research Initiative, "Proton Pumping in Cytochrome Oxidase Probed by Time-Resolved Vibrational and Nonlinear Vibrational Sum-Frequency Generation (SFG) Spectroscopies."
Sandra Faber, University Professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $10,300, Space Telescope Science Institute, "Cores of Early Type Galaxies."
Stanley Flatte, professor of physics: $28,260, Office of Naval Research, "Ocean Bottom Effects on Ocean Acoustic Transmission."
Robert Goldbeck, assistant research chemist, and Charles Strauss, staff scientist with the Advanced Chemical Diagnostics and Instrumentation Section of Los Alamos National Laboratory: $35,149 and $3,350, Collaborative UC/Los Alamos Research Initiative, "Nanosecond Time-Resolved Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy of Temperature-Jump Initiated Protein Folding Dynamics."
Marcia Gowing, associate research biologist with the Institute of Marine Sciences, and David Garrison, lecturer in ocean sciences: $119,999, 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, and Ellen Moir, director of teacher education: $80,000, Calif. Postsecondary Education Commission, "Science Connections 2."
Jorge Hankamer, professor of linguistics: $750, California Council for the Humanities, "Humanities Lecture Series."
Ronald Henderson, professor emeritus of education and psychology: $397,100, National Science Foundation, "Graduate Research Fellowship Program."
Margo Hendricks, assistant professor of literature: $5,000, UC Humanities Research Institute, "Behind the Seen: Text, Translation, Performance, A Weekend with Shakespeare and Moliere."
Theodore Holman, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $20,000, American Chemical Society, "Spectroscopic and Kinetic Investigations of Iron Coordination Mutants in Soybean 15-Lipoxygenase."
David Hoy, professor of philosophy: $179,903, National Endowment for the Humanities, "What Practices Do (Summer Institute)"; and $5,000, Walter and Elise Haas Fund, "How Background Practices Produce Intelligibility."
Grainger Hunt, research specialist with the Institute of Marine Sciences, and Brian Walton, lecturer in environmental studies and coordinator of the Predatory Bird Research Group: $99,749, National Renewable Energy Lab, "Population Study of Golden Eagles in the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area."
Garth Illingworth, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $5,044, Johns Hopkins University, "A Proposal to Build an Advanced Camera for the Hubble Space Telescope"; and $21,834, Space Telescope Science Institute, "Imaging of CL1358+62 and Its Environs: The Morphology-Density Relation at z=0.33."
Burton Jones, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory; and Arnold Klemola and Robert Hanson, research astronomers at UCO/Lick Observatory: $120,000, National Science Foundation, "Galactic Structure and Kinematics from Absolute Proper Motions."
David Koo, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $40,000, NASA, "ISO Deep Survey"; and $2,700, Space Telescope Science Institute, "Comparison of Large Scale Structure in QSO Absorbers and Galaxies at the Galactic Poles."
Lora Martin, director of the Monterey Bay Education, Science, and Technology Center: $1,000,000, U.S. Economic Development Administration, "UC MBEST First Construction Phase."
Casey Moore, professor of earth sciences: $30,680, Shell Oil, "Fellowship Support for Brian McAdoo,"
Carrol Moran, coordinator of the Monterey Bay Educational Consortium: $26,000, Santa Cruz County Office of Education, "K-12 Participation in Intersegmental Activities."
Harry Noller, Robert L. Sinsheimer Professor of Molecular Biology: $66,963, International Human Frontier Science Program, "Role of S6 Phosphorylation in Regulating Translation."
Leo Ortiz, professor of biology: $402,347, National Institutes of Health-John F. Fogarty International Center, "Minority International Research and Training Grant (MIRT)."
John Pearse, professor emeritus of biology: $17,579, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, "Supplement to Ongoing Sea Grant Project"; and $28,896 and $20,508, Sea Grant, "Biodiversity of the Rocky Intertidal in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary: A 24-Year Comparison."
Gregory Rau, senior researcher with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $3,750, Canadian Museum of Nature, "Isotopic Analyses of McMurdo Sound Organisms."
Christina Ravelo, assistant professor of ocean sciences, and William Chaisson, visiting postdoctoral researcher with the Institure of Marine Sciences: $17,003, Joint Oceanographic Institutions/U.S. Science Support Program, "Planktonic Foraminifer Biostratigraphy for the Neogene Section of Site 999 with Additional Work on Sites 998, 1000, 1001, 1002."
Nina Rosenberg, research fellow with the Institute of Tectonics: $30,000 and $6,000, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, "Fort Ord Research and Development Pilot Demonstration Project on Fort Ord Landfill Sites."
Donald Rothman, senior lecturer in writing: $12,000, California Writing Project, "California Writing Project Mini-Grant - Institute in Spanish."
Abraham Seiden, professor of physics: $65,700, Rutherford Appleton Lab; $15,000, NIKHEF; and $5,000, University of Melbourne; "ABC Chip Fabrication"; and $27,000, Rutherford Appleton Lab; and $4,500, University of Valencia; "Binary Readout System for LHC."
Mary Silver, professor of ocean sciences: $20,500, UC Water Resources Center, "Microbial Utilization of Particulate Organic Carbon in Northern San Francisco Bay and Links to Higher Trophic Levels."
Lisa Sloan, assistant professor of earth sciences: $16,412, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "Paleoclimate Model Intercomparison Project (PMIP) Analysis"; and $6,091, Office of Naval Research, "ONR Graduate Fellowship for Eric Small."
Donald Smith, assistant professor of biology, and Russell Flegal, professor of earth sciences: $204,853, National Institutes of Health, "Bone Pb Toxicity and Remobilization in Rats."
Kira Stoll, program manager, Transportation and Parking Services: $20,000, Monterey Bay Unified Air Pollution Control District, "Aptos-UCSC Vanpool Project/AB2766 Motor Vehicle Emissions Reduction Program."
Ronald Tjeerdema, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $11,635, Calif. Department of Fish and Game, "Bay Protection and Toxic Cleanup Program"; $115,000, Calif. Department of Fish and Game, "CERCLA Water Quality Program"; $25,000, U.S. Geological Survey, "Metals, Pesticides, PAHS, and PCBS in Sediments from the Fort Ord Restricted Area"; $7,800, Chevron Oil, "PAH Compositional Chemistry"; $132,585, Calif. Department of Fish and Game, "Environmental Fate of Petroleum Hydrocarbons and Clean-up Agents"; $133,624, Calif. Department of Fish and Game, "Environmental Effects of Dispersed Oil"; and $36,791, Calif. Department of Fish and Game, "Oil Spill Clean-up Agent Performance."
Anujan Varma, associate professor of computer engineering: $50,000, National Semiconductor, "FAST-2: A Hardware Simulation Testbed for ATM Networks."
Jonathan Weitsman, associate professor of mathematics: $35,000, Sloan Foundation, "Sloan Foundation Fellowship."
Ru-Shan Wu, research geophysicist with the Institute of Tectonics, and Xiao-Bi Xie, assistant researcher in earth sciences: $58,956, Office of Naval Research, "Study of Ocean Bottom Interaction with Acoustic Waves by a New Elastic Wave Propagation Algorithm and an Energy Flow Analysis Technique."
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