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Biocomplexity in the Environment

FY 2000 Awards

Biocomplexity Phase II: Integrated Research to Understand and Model Complexity Among Biological, Physical, and Social Systems –

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  Principal
 Investigator

Title

Institution

Total Awarded

INTEGRATED RESEARCH AND EDUCATION AWARDS

Mark B. Bain

Physical, Biological, and Human Interactions Shaping the Ecosystems of Freshwater Bays and Lagoons

Cornell University

$ 3,000,000

James H. Brown

Scaling Biodiversity: Physical and Biological Foundations of Ecological Principles

University of New Mexico

$ 2,500,000

Stephen R. Carpenter

Divergent Dynamics: Complex Interactions of Riparian Land, People, and Lakes

University of Wisconsin at Madison

$ 2,998,607

David C. Duffy

Biocomplexity of Introduced Avian Diseases in Hawaii: Threats to Biodiversity of Native Forest Systems

University of Hawaii at Manoa

$ 4,188,575

Paul G. Falkowski

The Evolution and Radiation of Eucaryotic Phytoplankton Taxa (EREUPT)

Rutgers University New Brunswick

$ 3,999,995

James A. Glazier

Multiscale Simulation of Avian Limb Development

University of Notre Dame

$ 2,999,320

Alan M. Hastings

Dynamics of an Invasive Non-Native Species and its Biological, Physical, and Human Impacts: Spartina Alterniflora on the Pacific Coast

University of California at Davis

$ 3,799,621

Pablo A. Iglesias

Mathematical and Biological Modeling of Cell Polarization

Johns Hopkins University

$ 1,041,073

J. Stephen Lansing

Emergence of Cooperation from Human-Environmental Interactions

University of Arizona

$ 1,000,000

Simon A. Levin

The Emergence of Ecosystem Pattern

Princeton University

$ 2,999,766

Herbert Levine

From Gene Expression to Morphology and Multicellular Organization and Dictyostelium

University of California at San Diego

$ 2,999,982

Charles R. Marshall

The Co-Evolution of Biodiversity and the Environment Through Geologic time

Harvard University

$ 2,836,565

Claudia M. Neuhauser

Evolution and Ecology of Perturned Interactions: Modeling Disequilibria in Time and Space

University of Minnesota at Twin Cities

$ 2,965,346

Elinor Ostrom

Agent-Based Models of Land Use Decisions and Emergent Land Use Patterns

Indiana University at Bloomington

$ 2,749,232

Jesus G. Pineda

Marine Benthic Population Dynamics

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

$ 3,012,432

Peter G. Verity

Bio-Feedback Basis of Self Organization in Planktonic Ecosystems Using Phaeocystis as a Model Complex Adaptive System

Skidaway Institute of Oceanography

$ 2,600,000

AWARDS FOR EXPLORATORY AND DEVELOPMENTAL ACTIVITIES

Stephen P. Borgatti

Collaborative Research: Networking the "Invisible Colleges": Application of Network Theory to Biocomplexity

Boston College

$ 4,422

Scott D. Bridgham

Biocomplexity in the Peatlands

University of Notre Dame

$ 99,540

Daniel G. Brown

Exploring Biocomplexity at the Interface of Social and Ecological Systems

University of Michigan

$ 99,973

S. Craig Cary

Origins of Biocomplexity: Colonization and Succession of Microbial Communities in a Dynamic Geochemical Environment

University of Delaware

$ 86,954

Patricia J. S. Colberg

Developing Conceptual and Mathematical Approaches to Model Transport and Transformation of Elements through a Geothermal Landscape

University of Wyoming

$ 99,984

Robert DeSalle

Development of an Integrated Research Plan for Analyzing the Viability of a Marine Reserve Netword

American Museum of Natural History

$ 99,966

David B. Eggleston

Interactions Between Life and Environment in the Coastal Zone, North Carolina

North Carolina State University

$ 71,164

Mahmoud M. El-Halwagi

Impact of Industrial Products and Processes on Biocomplexity -- A Multidisciplinary Approach with Applications to Fiber Products and Processes

Auburn University

$ 99,992

Martin E. Feder

Evolutionary and Ecological Functional Genomics: Jumpstarting a Multidisciplinary Field

University of Chicago

$ 99,958

Roseanne M. Ford

Quantitative Description of the Response of a Complex System to Disturbance: Subsurface Microbial Communities and Chemical Contaminants

University of Virginia

$ 61,291

Jefferson M. Fox

Human Actions and Land-Use/Land-Cover Change

Center for Cultural and Technological Interchange

$ 100,000

Catherine A. Gehring

The Effects of Global Change on Community Structure, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem-Level Processes in Pinyon-Juniper Woodlands

Northern Arizona University

$ 99,181

William J. George

Exploration of Feedback Mechanisms Influencing Contaminant Flux and the Ecology of the Lower Mississippi River System

Tulane University

$ 98,517

Richard Gomilkiewicz

Integrated Approaches to Studies of Infinite-Dimensional Trait Evolution in Natural Populations

Washington State University

$ 99,999

Morris Goodman

Development of the Human Species and Its Adaptation to the Environment

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

$ 99,493

Mark E. Harmon

Examining Emergent Behaviors of Landscapes Using an Integrated Process-Based Perspective

Oregon State University

$ 94,935

Robert Harriss

Understanding the Role of Urbanization as a Driving Force of Global Atmospheric Change (This award is under a Cooperative Agreement with UCAR. Contact UCAR for more information.)

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

$ 61,896

Gretchen E. Hofmann

Linking Ecology, Physiology, and Climate Change: Influence of Environmental Stress on Community Structure in the Rocky Intertidal

Arizona State University

$ 61,896

Karen D. Holl

Linking Large-Scale Hydrological and Biological Processes in Restoring Riparian Forest Ecosystems

University of California at Santa Cruz

$ 92,803

Jeffrey C. Johnson

Collaborative Research: Networking the "Invisible Colleges:" Application of Network Theory to Biocomplexity

East Carolina University

$ 49,215

W. Charles Kerfoot

Biocomplexity and Aquatic Food Webs: Algal and Zooplankton Diversity Against a Backdrop of Human Stochiometric Disturbances

Michigan Technological University

$ 98,890

Gary S. Kleppel

Consequences of Urban Encroachment on Natural Ecosystems

State University of New York at Albany

$ 93,409

Gus Koehler

Visualizing Dynamics Resulting from the Political Regulation of Time-Ecologies

California State Library Foundation

$ 99,940

Reinhard C. Laubenbacher

The Mathematics of Network Dynamics in Biological, Social and Economic Systems

New Mexico State University

$ 98,904

Paulo Lima-Filho

Application of Mathematical Methods and Scientific Computation to Complex Ecological Problems

Texas A&M; University

$ 96,918

David M. Lodge

Risk Assessment of Nonindigenous Species

University of Notre Dame

$ 99,934

Roberta L. Marinelli

Multiscale Models of Ecological and Geochemical Interactions in Marine Sedimentary Environments

University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences

$ 104,093

Neo D. Martinez

Scaling of Network Complexity with Diversity in Food Webs

San Francisco State University

$ 100,000

Patricia A. Matrai

Earth System Regulation Through Biogenic Sulfure-Molecular to Global Interactions and Feedbacks

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences

$ 46,302

Thomas E. Miller

A Synthetic Approach of Phytotelmata Communities

Florida State University

$ 92,034

Emilio F. Moran

Integration of Spatial, Ecological, and Environmental Social Sciecne Methods for the Study of Biodiversity and Biocomplexity

Indiana University at Bloomington

$ 99,497

James H. Morison

Workshops on Prediction of the Ecological and Societal Impacts of Environmental Arctic Change

University of Washington

$ 99,972

Joel L. Morrison

Biocomplexity Incubation Proposal for Lake Erie

Ohio State University

$ 100,000

William D. Newmark

Large Mammal Movement Through Complex Landscapes in East Africa

University of Utah

$ 79,214

Philip J. Nyhus

Models and Meta-Networks for Interdisciplinary Research in Biodiversity Risk Assessment

Colby College

$ 96,036

Ingrid M. Parker

Addressing the Synergy Between Abiotic and Biotic Agents of Environmental Change

University of California at Santa Cruz

$ 100,000

Charles L. Redman

Integrating Social Science Into Long-Term Ecological Research

Arizona State University

$ 99,251

Richard C. Rockwell

Complex Systems: Cities in Their Environments

University of Connecticut

$ 99,694

Larry Roesner

Modeling Urban Aquatic Ecology/Hydrologic/Geomorphologic Relationships on Urbanizing Streams in the West

Colorado State University

$ 99,663

V. Kerry Smith

Integrated Modeling of the Complementarities and Conflicts Between Ecological Systems and Economic Activities in North Carolina

North Carolina State University

$ 99,999

Pamela S. Soltis

Genome Evolution and Macroevolutionary Diversification in Green Plants

Washington State University

$ 100,000

Jack A. Stanford

Dynamic Controls on Emergent Properties of River Flood Plains

University of Montana

$ 100,000

James A. Teeri

A New Biocomplexity Research Program for the Analysis of Forest Ecosystem Dynamics

University of Michigan

$ 100,000

Gail S. Tonnesen

Designing a Sustainable Southern California: Exploring Interdisciplinary Studies of Complexity in Natural and Human Systems

University of California at Riverside

$ 99,501

John J. Tyson

A Collaborative Problem Solving Environment for Computational Modelin of Eukaryotic Cell Cycle Controls

Virginia Polytechnic Institute

$ 99,965

Pedro Verdugo

The Colloid Gap: Interfacial Phenomena Among Marine Biological, Chemical, and Physical Environmental Systems in Carbon Cycling

University of Washington

$ 108,008

Amelia K. Ward

Drought in Mesic and Arid Environments: Climatology, Biotic Responses, and Feedbacks

University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa

$ 99,996

Michael S. Webster

Connectivity of Migratory Populations and its Consequences for Population Dynamics and Microevolutionary Processes

Washington State University

$ 32,976

David A. Wedin

Spatiotemporal Coupling of Ecological and Geological Dynamics in Nebraska Sand Hills

University of Nebraska at Lincoln

$ 100,000


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Last Updated: 06/17/2004