Contracts and Grants--December 1997

Robert Anderson, professor of earth sciences: $34,400, NASA, "Mountain Scale Erosion and the Potential for Erosionally Driven Uplift."

Daniel Costa, professor of biology: $100,000, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, "Potential Effects of Low Frequency Sound on Distribution and Behavior of Marine Mammals."

Stanley Flatte, professor of physics: $34,000, Office of Naval Research, "Ocean Bottom Effects on Ocean Acoustic Transmission."

Russell Flegal, professor of environmental toxicology, and Donald Smith, assistant professor of biology: $213,441, University of Wisconsin, "Succimer Reduction of Tissue Ph and Toxicity in Monkeys"; and $281,250, San Francisco Estuary Institute, "San Francisco Bay Trace Element Study: 1998."

Jonathan Fox, associate professor of Latin American and Latino studies: $49,416, MacArthur Foundation, "Conference: Lessons from Mexico-U.S. Binational Civil Society Coalitions."

Stephen Gliessman, Alfred E. Heller Professor of Agroecology: $40,000, Inter-American Foundation, "IAF U.S. Graduate Study Fellowship (Victor Ernesto Mendez Gamero)."

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

Puragra Guhathakurta, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics and assistant astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $27,572, Space Telescope Science Institute, "Probing the Fine-Scale Structure and Colors of Interstellar 'Cirrus' Clouds."

Richard Howarth, associate professor of environmental studies: $11,750, Institute for the Study of World Politics, "The Impact of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) on Natural Resource Conservation in Central America and the Caribbean (Gabriel Labbate)."

Garth Illingworth, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $24,644, Space Telescope Science Institute, "Fundamental Plane, Morphology-Density Relation, and Lensing in the z=0.83 Cluster MS1054--03"; and $7,500, Space Telescope Science Institute, "The Nuclear Kinematics of Kinematically Distinct Cores (Marcella Carollo)."

Geoffrey Mason, professor of mathematics: $23,140, UC Office of the President Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, "A Study of N=2 Superconformal Field Theory Using Representations of the N=2 Neveu-Schwarz Algebra in Terms of Superderivations and Applications (Katrina Dean Barron, Fellow)."

Dominic Massaro, professor of psychology: $226,793, National Institutes of Health, "Synthesis, Analysis, and Perception of Visible Speech."

Caroline Pomeroy, assistant researcher with the Institute of Marine Sciences, and Margaret FitzSimmons, associate professor of environmental studies: $18,565, Sea Grant, "Socio-Economic Organization of the California Market Squid Fishery: Assessment for Optimal Resource Management."

Gregory Rau, senior researcher with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $46,426, Sea Grant, "Upwelling and the Ecology of Juvenile Rockfish."

Thomas Schleich, professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $33,500, National Institutes of Health/National Institute of General Medical Sciences, "NMR Analysis of RNA in the Peptidyl Transferase Center (Rachel Aronoff)."

Ronald Schusterman, adjunct professor of biology and ocean sciences: $78,815, Office of Naval Research, "Effects of Diving on the Auditory Sensitivity of Pinnipeds."

Eli Silver, professor of earth sciences: $260,000, National Science Foundation, "GPS Study of the Transition Between Subduction and Collision in Papua New Guinea."

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."

Amit Tandon, assistant researcher with the Center for Nonlinear Science: $54,000, National Science Foundation, "Significance of Time-Dependence and Entrainment Fluxes to Water Mass Formation."

Ronald Tjeerdema, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $80,000, Calif. Department of Fish and Game, "Bay Protection and Toxic Cleanup Program"; $4,500, Aera Energy LLC, "PCB Fate in Fish"; and $7,040, San Francisco Estuary Institute, "Fate of Contaminants in Fish."

Geoffrey Vallis, professor of ocean sciences: $50,000, Office of Naval Research, "Process-Oriented Predictability Studies."

Bess Ward, professor of ocean sciences: $87,745, San Francisco State University, "Fate of Upwelled Nitrate in Monterey Bay: Biogeochemical Cycling and Its Molecular Basis."

Steven Ward, lecturer in earth sciences and research geophysicist with the Institute of Tectonics: $166,158, National Science Foundation, "Rupture Modes of Fault Systems - An Aid in Interpreting Geological and Earthquake Recurrence Data."

James Zachos, associate professor of earth sciences: $4,532, Joint Oceanographic Institutions/U.S. Science Support Program, "ODP Leg 177: Salary Support Stratigraphic Correlator (Katharina Billups)."

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