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January 1997
Contracts and Grants
Robert Anderson, associate professor of earth sciences: $15,147, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, "Does Cosmogenic Radionuclide Dating of Depositional Surfaces Work? A Test on Surfaces of Known Age."
David Belanger, professor of physics: $90,000, U.S. Department of Energy, "Statics and Dynamics in Systems with Frustration and/or Randomness."
Michael Bolte, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics and assistant astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $55,000, National Science Foundation, "Globular Clusters, Stellar Collisions, Dark Matter Halos, and the Age of the Universe Problem."
Kenneth Bruland, professor of ocean sciences: $177,581, National Science Foundation, "Interdependence of Trace Metal Speciation and Phytoplankton Dynamics in the Eastern North Pacific."
Robert Coe, professor of earth sciences: $41,932, National Science Foundation, "Testing and Extending the Paleomagnetic Record at Steens Mountain"; and $31,966, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, "Understanding the Geodynamo."
Catherine Cooper, professor of psychology and education: $51,040, University of Michigan, "Linking Qualitative and Quantitative Analyses of Successful Pathways Through Middle Childhood."
Bruce Cooperstein, professor of mathematics: $20,000, UC Academic Collaboratives in Education, "1996-97 Community Teaching Fellowship Program."
Daniel Costa, professor of biology: $16,000, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, "ATOC Marine Mammal Research Program, Pt. Sur."
Donald Coyne, adjunct professor of physics, and David Williams, associate adjunct professor of physics and associate research physicist: $13,000, Los Alamos National Laboratory, "Development of Neural-Network Algorithms for Milagro Data Analysis."
Donald Croll, assistant researcher with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $3,392, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, "Blue Whale Foraging in the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary"; $10,000, National Marine Fisheries Service, "Construction of Tags for Tracking Sperm Whales."
Wayne Dai, associate professor of computer engineering: $197,469, Advanced Research Projects Agency, "100 GOPS Reconfigurable Desktop System for Embedded Applications"; and $15,000, Silicon Graphics, "Measurement and Analysis of Clock Jitter in a Noisy Environment."
Miriam Ellis, lecturer in French language: $2,750, National Endowment for the Humanities, "Foreign Language in Expanded Domains."
Harland Epps, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $100,361, University of Arizona, "Observation, Data Reduction, Analysis and Interpretation with the NICMOS Instrument on Hubble Space Telescope."
Russell Flegal, professor of earth sciences: $2,500, San Francisco Estuarine Institute, "Report on QA/QC."
David Haussler, professor of computer science, and Richard Hughey, assistant professor of computer engineering: $156,524, National Science Foundation, "REU Supplement to Generalized Hidden Markov Models for Protein Sequence Analysis."
Ronald Henderson, professor emeritus of education and psychology, and Edward Landesman, professor emeritus of mathematics: $90,000, California Academic Partnership Program, "Advancing Academic Partnerships."
Lars Hernquist, associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics: $40,000, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, "Origin of Quasar Absorption Lines in a Cosmological Context."
Gail Hershatter, professor of history; Emily Honig, professor of women's studies and history; and Lisa Rofel, assistant professor of anthropology: $50,000, Luce Foundation, "A Cultural History of Women and Work in Twentieth-Century China."
Garth Illingworth, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $30,905, Space Telescope Science Institute, for the support of Ann Zabludoff, visiting postdoctoral researcher in astronomy, "The Role of Environment in Galaxy Evolution: A Study of Galaxies in the Field, in Poor Groups, and in Clusters"; and $9,770, Johns Hopkins University, "A Proposal to Build an Advanced Camera for the Hubble Space Telescope."
Tracy Larrabee and Joel Ferguson, associate professors of computer engineering: $20,110, Intel Corporation, "Generating Test Patterns for Bridge Faults in CMOS ICS."
Thorne Lay, professor of earth sciences: $9,435, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, "Source and Propagation Effects on Regional Seismic Discriminants in the Western U.S."
Burney Le Boeuf, professor emeritus of biology, and Daniel Costa, professor of biology: $97,605, Office of Naval Research, "Low Frequency Sound in the Marine Acoustic Environment of the Northern Elephant Seal."
Alex Pang, assistant professor of computer science: $5,000, National Science Foundation, "REU Supplement to Visualizing Uncertainty in Scientific Data Displays (IRI-9423881)."
John Pearse, professor emeritus of biology, and Laura Bennett-Rogers, postgraduate researcher with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $49,999, California Department of Fish and Game, "Spatial Patterns in the Growth and Survival of Wild and Hatchery-Reared Red Abalone in Northern California."
Caroline Pomeroy, assistant researcher with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $15,100, UC Toxic Substances Research and Teaching, "Integrated Assessment of Linked Wetland-Estuarine Ecosystems."
Peter Raimondi, assistant professor of biology: $25,000, UC Marine Science Institute Coastal Research Center, "Effects of Produced Water on Complex Behavioral Traits of Invertebrate Larvae and Algal Zoospores."
Gregory Rau, senior researcher with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $31,800, H. T. Harvey and Associates, "Isotopic Analyses of Adelie Penguins from the Ross Sea."
Christina Ravelo, assistant professor of ocean sciences: $23,000, Joint Oceanographic Institutions/U.S. Science Support Program, "Istopic Evidence for Plio-Pleistocene Climate Change on the California Margin (Leg 167)."
Ronald Schusterman, adjunct professor of biology and ocean sciences: $154,875, Office of Naval Research, "Marine Bioacoustics of Monterey Bay Pinnipeds: Auditory Fatigue and Masking."
Susan Schwartz, assistant professor of earth sciences: $7,282, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, "Lithospheric Structure in the Southern San Francisco Bay Area."
Abraham Seiden, professor of physics: $4,500, University of Glasgow, "Binary Readout System for LHC"; $1,800, Istituto Nazionale Di Fisica Nucleare, "DCAC Amplifier Chips."
Lisa Sloan, assistant professor of earth sciences: $16,019, Office of Naval Research, "Office of Naval Research Graduate Fellowship for Eric Small."
Ronald Tjeerdema, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $9,000, Cal Resources LLC, "PCB Analysis in Tissues and Sediments"; $1,000, Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories, "Workshop on Leptocheirus Toxicity Test"; and $15,300, San Francisco Estuary Institute, "Additional Measurements on Sediments in the Eastern Estuary."
Michael Urban, professor of politics: $7,000, National Council for Soviet and East European Research, "Remythologizing the Russian State."
Brian Walton, lecturer in environmental studies and coordinator of the Predatory Bird Research Group: $5,831, U.S. Coast Guard, "Monitoring Services at Point Arguello."
Quentin Williams, associate professor of earth sciences: $100,000, National Science Foundation, "Presidential Faculty Fellows."
Todd Wipke, professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $33,067, Agouron Pharmaceuticals, for the support of graduate student Brett Kislin, "Structural Biology as Applied to the Problem of Targeted Drug Design, with Potential Applicability to the Treatment of AIDS."
Jin Zhang, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $50,000, American Chemical Society, "Ultrafast Studies of Interfacial Electron Dynamics in Colloidal Metal Nanoparticles."
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