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Contracts and Grants--July 1997

Robert Anderson, professor of earth sciences: $15,147, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, "Does Cosmogenic Radionuclide Dating of Depositional Surfaces Work? A Test on Surfaces of Known Age."

Peter Bodenheimer, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $227,329, NASA, "Theoretical and Observational Studies of Star and Planet Formation."

Daniel Costa, professor of biology: $6,282, Office of Naval Research, "Acoustic Ecology of the Minke Whale."

Donald Coyne, adjunct professor of physics, and David Williams, associate adjunct professor of physics and associate research physicist: $365,000, National Science Foundation, "Research in Particle and Astroparticle Physics."

Robert Curry, professor emeritus of environmental geology (environmental studies): $5,000, Calif. Water Resources Control Board, "Ranking Priorities for Wetland Restoration and Mitigation Banking; Updating Regional Mono County Database; Coordinating Regulatory Environment."

Margaret Delaney, professor of ocean sciences: $13,670, Joint Oceanographic Institute, for the support of graduate student Kristina Faul, "Phosphorus Geochemistry of Low-Latitude Paleogene and Cretaceous Age Western Atlantic Sediments."

Harland Epps, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $63,549, University of Arizona, "Observation, Data Reduction, Analysis, and Interpretation with the NICMOS Instrument on Hubble Space Telescope."

Joel Ferguson, associate professor of computer engineering: $30,000, U.S. Department of Defense, "Inductive Fault Analysis."

Anthony Fink, professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $12,170, National Science Foundation, "Early Events in Protein Folding."

Jonathan Fox, associate professor of Latin American and Latino studies, and Manuel Fernandez, director of Trasparencia, a public interest research organization based in Mexico City and Oaxaca: $8,300, UC MEXUS, "The World Bank's Anti-Poverty Investments in Rural Mexico: Assessing the Limits and Possibilities for Informed Civil Society Participation."

Walter Goldfrank, professor of sociology: $5,000, UC MEXUS, for the support of graduate student Gaspar Rivera, "Comparative Analysis of Migration and Political Activism Among Mexican Transnational Indigenous Communities."

Lydia Gregoret, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $20,000, American Chemical Society, "Aromatic Amino Acid Clusters on Protein Surfaces: Implications for Protein Folding."

Gary Griggs, professor of earth sciences: $7,373, Federal Emergency Management Agency, for the support of graduate student Laura J. Moore, "Mapping Erosion Hazards in Santa Cruz and San Diego Counties."

Puragra Guhathakurta, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics and assistant astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $22,000, NASA, for the support of graduate student Anouk A. Shambrook, "Multi-Wavelength Study of the Evolution of Clusters and Their Constituent Galaxies."

Grainger Hunt, research specialist with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $9,996, National Renewable Energy Lab, "Proposal to Modify Subcontract XAT-6-16459-01: Population Study of Golden Eagles in Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area."

Burton Jones, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $10,000, NASA, "NASA Training Grant."

Kevin Karplus, associate professor of computer engineering: $15,000, National Science Foundation, "Travel Support for ISMB97."

David Kliger, professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $10,365, Stanford University, "Collaboration with Dr. Jodi Puglisi."

Paul Koch, assistant professor of earth sciences: $75,515, National Science Foundation, "Continental Paleoclimate Reconstruction Through Analysis of Oxygen Isotopes in Ion Oxides."

Edward Landesman, professor emeritus of mathematics: $3,700, UC Office of the President, "Santa Cruz Mathematics Academy."

Alan Litke, adjunct professor of physics: $50,000, National Science Foundation, "Development of Retinal Readout System."

Barry McLaughlin, professor of psychology: $299,959, U.S. Department of Education, "Vocabulary Knowledge and Reading Comprehension in English-Language Learners."

Glenn Millhauser, professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $163,798, National Institutes of Health, "Electron Spin Resonance of Designed Peptides."

Casey Moore, professor of earth sciences: $26,000, Joint Oceanographic Institute/U.S. Science Support Program, "Controls on and Mechanisms of Consolidation in the Decollement Zone of the Northern Barbados Accretionary Prism." `

Daniel Orange, visiting assistant research marine scientist with the Institute of Marine Sciences and research associate in earth sciences: $47,397, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, "Seafloor Geomorphology, Slope Failure, and Fluid Expulsion on the Southern Cascadia Continental Shelf and Slope."

Manuel Pastor, professor of Latin American and Latino studies: $34,500, Rockefeller Foundation, "Social Change Across Borders."

John Pearse, professor emeritus of biology: $1,000, Sea Grant, "Biodiversity of the Rocky Intertidal in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary: A 24-Year Comparison."

Joel Primack, professor of physics, and George Blumenthal, professor of astronomy and astrophysics: $57,000, National Science Foundation, "Cosmology and Particle Physics."

Tudor Ratiu, professor of mathematics: $50,000, U.S. Department of Energy, "Bifurcations, Geometric Phrases, and Control in Hamiltonian Systems and Fluid Dynamics."

Gregory Rau, senior researcher with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $50,000, National Science Foundation, "An Investigation of Carbon Isotope Abundances in ALH84001."

Christina Ravelo, assistant professor of ocean sciences: $18,140, National Science Foundation, "Sub-Milankovitch Climate Variability in the Tropical Atlantic: Sensitivity and Linkages to Orbital Forcing, High Latitudes, and Plio-Pleistocene Boundary Conditions."

Craig Reinarman, professor of sociology: $314,343, National Institutes of Health, "Marijuana Use: Careers and Consequences in Three Cultures."

Lisa Rofel, associate professor of anthropology, and Cathryn Clayton, graduate student in anthropology: $12,000, National Science Foundation, "Dissertation: Imagining Macau: Local Identities in Transnational Formation."

Ronald Schusterman, adjunct professor of biology and ocean sciences: $21,602, Office of Naval Research, "Effects of Diving on the Auditory Sensitivity of Pinnipeds."

Susan Schwartz, assistant professor of earth sciences: $7,282, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, "Lithospheric Structure in the Southern San Francisco Bay Area."

Lisa Sloan, assistant professor of earth sciences: National Science Foundation, $69,691, "Investigating a Possible New Source of Modeling Error for Estimates of Continental Surface Temperatures in Paleoclimate Studies"; and $61,052, Modeling Anthropogenic Desiccation of the Aral Sea: A Unique Test of the Predictive Capabilities of a Regional Earth System Model."

Dale Stansbury, assistant dean for economic development at University Extension: $50,000, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, "Pilot Waste Minimization Prioritization Tool."

Trish Stoddart associate professor of education; Ellen Moir, director of teacher education; and Stephanie Dalton, research associate with the Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and Excellence (CREDE): $471,364, U.S. Department of Education, "California Consortium for Teacher Development--CCTD."

Trish Stoddart and Lucinda Pease-Alvarez, associate professors of education, and Roberta Jaffe, executive director, Life Lab Science Program: $937,287, National Science Foundation, "Language Acquisition in Science Education for Rural Schools (LASERS)."

John Tamkun, associate professor of biology: $166,513, National Institutes of Health, "Genetic and Biochemical Studies of Chromatin Remodeling Factors."

Brian Walton, lecturer in environmental studies and coordinator of the Predatory Bird Research Group: $2,000, U.S. Coast Guard, "Point Arguello Endangered Species Information."

Jane Wilhelms and Allen Van Gelder, associate professors of computer science: $5,000, National Science Foundation, "REU Supplement to CCR-9503829: Hierarchical Exploration and Visualization of Large and Complex Multi-Dimensional Data Sets."

Quentin Williams, associate professor of earth sciences: $100,000, National Science Foundation, "Presidential Faculty Fellows."

Ann Zabludoff, visiting postdoctoral researcher in astronomy: $9,391, NASA, "The Clusters of Galaxies in a New Light: The First High Resolution X-Ray and Optical Sample."

Martha Zuniga, associate professor of biology: $209,148, National Institutes of Health, "Thymic Class 1 MHC Cell Biology and T Cell Development."


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