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Contracts and Grants
February 1997
George Brown, professor of physics: $60,000, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "PRT Research Staff Support Proposal"; and $500, American Physical Society, "Minority Enrichment Program."
Joshua Deutsch, professor of physics: $60,000, National Science Foundation, "Behavior of Large Random Systems."
David Dorfan, professor of physics: $50,000, National Science Foundation, "Physics Undergraduate Summer Research."
Anthony Fink, professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $80,000, National Science Foundation, "Mechanisms of Enzyme Catalysis."
Russell Flegal, professor of earth sciences: $267,165, Applied Marine Sciences, "San Francisco Bay Trace Element Study."
J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, associate professor of computer engineering: $690,307, Advanced Research Projects Agency, "WIreless Internet Gateways (WINGS) for Internets."
J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves and Anujan Varma, associate professors of computer engineering: $292,325, Advanced Research Projects Agency, "Multicasting and Routing Services in the NII and Networked Imbedded Computing Environments."
James Gill, professor of earth sciences, and Andrew Fisher, assistant professor of earth sciences: $599,134, Concurrent Technologies Corporation, "Fort Ord Landfill Demonstration Project."
Garth Illingworth and David Koo, professors of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomers at UCO/Lick Observatory: $20,000, UC Berkeley, "DEEP Extragalactic Evolutionary Probe."
David Kliger, professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $10,000, NASA, "Undergraduate Scholars Awards for Research Program: For Undergraduate Kyra Oswald."
Thorne Lay, professor of earth sciences: $126,557, National Science Foundation, "Broadband Seismological Investigations of Earth Structure and Earthquake Sources."
Casey Moore, professor of earth sciences: Joint Oceanographic Institutions/U.S. Science Support Program: $47,936, "ODP Leg 171A"; $4,202, for the support of graduate student researcher Philip Tease, "ODP Leg 171A; and $20,000, for the support of graduate student Phillip Stauffer, "Modeling Deformation and Dewatering in the Barbados Accretionary Complex: Implications for Proto-Decollement Propagation."
Michael Nauenberg, professor emeritus of physics: $2,448, National Science Foundation, "Meetings on the Foundations of Newtonian Scholarship."
Jack Okamuro, assistant professor of biology: $185,000, National Science Foundation, "Molecular Control of Flower Development."
Christina Ravelo, assistant professor of ocean sciences, and William Chaisson, postdoctoral researcher with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $10,890, Joint Oceanographic Institutions/U.S.Science Support Program, "Planktonic Foraminifer Biostratigraphy for the Neogene Section of Site 999."
Hartmut Sadrozinski, adjunct professor of physics: $50,000, National Science Foundation, "Physics Undergraduate Summer Research."
Amit Tandon, assistant researcher with the Center for Nonlinear Science: $50,000, National Science Foundation, "Significance of Time-Dependence and Entrainment Fluxes to Water Mass Formation."
Othmar Tobisch, professor emeritus of earth sciences: $10,660, National Science Foundation, "Elongate Plutons in a Large Volume Magmatic Arc, Central Sierra Nevada, California: Do They Represent Dike-Fed Magma Chambers?"
Ronald Tjeerdema, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $130,113 and $38,475, Calif. Dept. of Fish and Game, "Bay Protection and Toxic Cleanup Program"; and $4,000, Hubbs Sea World, "Fate of Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Pinniped Blood."
Brian Walton, lecturer in environmental studies: $2,488, San Diego Unified Port District, "Build and Install a Peregrine Nesting Box."
Bess Ward, professor of ocean sciences: $145,000, National Science Foundation, "Community Structure and Activity of Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacteria in Aquatic Environments."
Todd Wipke, professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $53,000, National Science Foundation, "Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Chemistry at the University of California."
Yu-Shen Zhang, postdoctoral researcher with the Institute of Tectonics: $56,649, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "Seismic Regionalization and Discrimination Research in the Middle East and North Africa."
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