In FY 2003, NSF provided 319 awards totaling approximately $57 million to 26 institutions in the state of Oregon as well as $200,000 in fellowships.
Institutions in Oregon that received NSF support in FY 2003 include Pacific University, Eastern Oregon University, Lewis and Clark College, the Decision Science Research Institute, Portland State University, Portland Community College, Reed College, Willamette University, and Eduworks.
H.J.Andrews Experimental Forest — The
central question guiding the H.J. Andrews Long-Term
Ecological Research (LTER) project at Oregon
State University is: How do land use, natural
disturbances, and climate change affect three
key ecosystem properties, ie carbon dynamics,
biodiversity, and hydrology? These three ecosystem
properties are of high scientific and social interest
and represent three rather different categories
of ecological response to landscape patterns.
The principle spatial scale for synthesizing results
of these studies if the Andrews Forest and the
adjacent upper Blue River watershed. The time
scale spans the past 500 years and extends several
centuries into the future. The Andrews Forest
LTER consists of long-term experiments, measurement
programs, short-term studies, and modeling analysis.
Northwest Center for Sustainable Resources — Major challenges face the Northwest and the nation both in sustaining environments and economies and in developing educational programs to meet present and emerging needs. Natural resources and resource-based economies are severely threatened. Supported by an Advanced Technological Education award, the Northwest Center for Sustainable Resources at Chemeketa Community College is transforming two-year programs to meet the needs of the technological, high performance workplace in natural resource management. The Center will market and distribute curriculum projects and clearinghouse materials, offer faculty development institutes for high school teachers and community college instructors, develop and deliver new curricula, and disseminate the Center's partnership approach emphasizing employer connections and infusion of industry and professional standards into technician education programs.
Small Business Innovation Research — An NSF SBIR award to CleverSet, Inc. will advance relational Bayesian modeling (RBM) technology with specific focus on information-based technology applications in electronic commerce, especially customer and application system behavior modeling. Relational Bayesian modeling combines recent advances in graphical statistical modeling with modern relational and object-oriented data models. Work will focus on an open problem in RBMs: the representation and discovery of, and computation with, probabilistic dependencies in many-to-one relations.
MONEY — MONEY is a traveling exhibition
developed by the Oregon
Museum of Science and Industry that uses the
familiar and fascinating subject of money to build
math skills and promote economic literacy. The
exhibit addresses the needs of children and their
families for economic literacy through a mix of
hands-on interactives, audio and video components,
computer-based activities, graphics, text, and
artifacts. Areas in the exhibit address the history
money, how it is made, prices and markets, and
world trade.