February Contracts & Grants

$35,000 - UC Los Angeles

"Direct Numerical Simulations of Free-Surface Flows

with Application to Fusion Reactor Liquid Walls."

$180,249 - NASA

"Interstellar Organic Molecules and the Origin

of Life: The Role of Exogenous Delivery."

$15,000 - Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital

"Effects of Methylphenidate (Ritalin) on Attention

and Motor Activity in Caesarean Sectioned rats."

$10,000 - Agriculture Dept.

"Fuel Treatment and Habitat Protection."

Herbst, D.B. - Marine Science Institute

$32,000 - Agriculture Dept.

"Aquatic Invertebrate Research for Kings

River Experimental Watershed."

$18,000 - WJ Communications

"Active-Passive Integration Using Substrate

Removal Technology."

$16,600 - Cal Arts Council

Organizational Support Program.

$100,000 - University of Virginia

"Ultralight Metallic Panels with Textile Cores

Designed for Blast Mitigation and Load Retention."

Kramer, E. (Materials) - Chemical Engineering

$75,000 - PolyE, Inc.

"High Internal Phase Polymeric Emulsions."

Jones, C.S. - Marine Science Institute

$887,634 - National Science Foundation

"Capturing Data in the Field: An Application

Framework for Easily Creating Custom Data and Metadata

Entry Forms on Handheld and Desktop Computers."

$56,322 - University of Massachusetts

"Electronic Field Guides and Distributed

Biodiversity Data."

$70,000 - Cubic Corp.

"Fiber to Wireless LAN-Enhancing Network

Connectivity for Distributed Sensor and Communication Systems."

$70,000 - Samsung

"Fiber to Wireless LAN-Enhancing Network

Connectivity for Distributed Sensor and Communication Systems."

$70,000 - Oplink Communications, Inc.

"Fiber to Wireless LAN-Enhancing Network

Connectivity for Distributed Sensor and Communication Systems."

Institute for Social, Behavioral & Economic Research

$12,000 - National Science Foundation

"Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant:

Material Landscapes and the Consolidation of Agriculture:

The Canoles Archaeological Survey Project, Valencia, Spain."

$266,920 - U.S. Navy

"Registration and Projective Reconstruction for

Video Sequences with Emphasis on Change Detection and Fit."

$66,000 - British Petroleum - AMOCO

"Three-Dimensional Heterogeneity of Submarine

Channel-Levee Systems: Lithofacies Geometry, Architecture

and Process-Field Project."

$66,000 - BHP-Billiton Petroleum

"The Impact of Mass Transport Complexes on

Turbidite Hydrocarbon Reservoirs."

$66,000 - BHP-Billiton Petroleum

"Three Dimensional Heterogeneity of Submarine

Channel-Levee Systems: Lithofacies Geometry, Architecture

and Process."

$18,000 - BHP-Billiton Petroleum

"Interpretation of Channel Systems and Mass

Transport Complexes in Seismic Data from the Gulf of Mexico."

$210,000 - Cornell University

"Studies of Polar and Non-polar Fouling

Resistant Surfaces Constructed on Thermoplastic Elastomers."

$40,000 - Sonatech, Inc.

"Multi-Frequency Bistatic Backward Propagation

Technique for High-Resolution Synthetic-Aperture Sonar Imaging."

Developmental Biology) - Neuroscience Research Institute

$15,000 - Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital

"Delayed Oxygen Therapy for Retinal Detachment:

Modeling the Clinical Situation."

Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research

$520,269 - Sendero Group LLC

"Wayfinding Technologies for People with Visual Impairments:

Research and Development of an Integrated Platform."

$570,000 - UC Biotechnology Research and Education

"Investigating Bacterial-Host Interactions at Mucosal Surfaces:

A Comparative Analysis of Bordetella pertussis,

Salmonella typhimurium, and uropathogenic Escherichia coli."

$485,555 - U.S. Navy

"Data Hiding in Images and Video."

Robinson, T.H. - Marine Science Institute

$50,000 - UC Office of the President

"Understanding Nutrient Loading to the Coastal

Zone from Urban Watersheds."

$258,900 - NASA

Planetary System Physics.

Developmental Biology) - Chemistry

$1,048,752 - National Institutes of Health

"Stereochemical Basis for Transcriptional

Control of the E. coli Pap Operon."

$450,000 - National Science Foundation

"CAREER: New Applications for Ortho-Quinone

Methides in Organic Synthesis."

Marine Science Institute

$600,000 - National Science Foundation

"Gender-Specific Fitness and Intersexual

Developmental Conflict in a Drosophila Model System."

$37,478 - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Hardware Synthesis and Program Analysis.

$72,114 - UC MESA

Continuing MESA Engineering Program (MEP).

$94,000 - UC Los Alamos National Laboratory

"Characterization of Biologically Inspired

Nano-Structured Materials."

$86,300 - Santa Barbara Foundation

"Potassium Channels in Blood Vessels:

Role of Associated Proteins in Distribution,

Targeting and Function."

$605,000 - National Science Foundation

"CAREER: Bridging "In Vitro"

and "In Vivo" Protein Folding: an Integrated

Interdisciplinary Research and Teaching Plan."

$232,330 - NASA

"Multi-scale Convergence of Cold Land Process

Representation in Land Surface Models, Microwave

Remote Sensing, and Field Observations."

Environmental Science & Management) - Institute

for Computational Earth System Science

$489,972 - University Corp. for Atmospheric Research

"Collaborative Project: Core Integration of

the National SMETE Digital Library."

$289,445 - U.S. Air Force

"Improved Performance for MEMS-based Filters."

Behavioral, and Economic Research

$10,000 - R&W PALEO

Internment DNA and Radiocarbon Study.

$30,000 - Karl Storz Imaging

"Enhancing Image Interpretation and Visual

Feedback in Video-Endoscopy."