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Biocomplexity in the Environment

FY 2003 Awards

Biocomplexity in the Environment (BE) – Untargeted BE Grants

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  Principal
 Investigator

Title

Institution

Total Awarded

INTEGRATED RESEARCH AND EDUCATION AWARDS

Vladimir Aizen

WCR: Effect of Changes in Climate, Snow Pack, Glaciers, and Permafrost on River Runoff in Tien Shan, Central Asia

University of Idaho

$ 380,000

Emmanouil Anagnostou

WCR: Continuous and High-Resolution Thunderstorm Monitoring in Africa and Beyond to Support Water Cycle Research

University of Connecticut

$ 331,234

Suzanne P. Anderson

Linkages Between soil Water and Stream Water: Hydrology and Hydrochemistry in a Eissected Terraced Landscape

University of Colorado Boulder

$ 148,306

Michael F. Antolin

EID: Plague As a Model for Low Prevalence/epizootic Disease Dynamics

Colorado State University

$ 1,245,000

Subir K. Banerjee

Collaborative Research: Sediment Nanomagnetism and Environmental Change: The Microbial Mineral Link

University of Minnesota at Twin Cities

$ 299,270

Mathew Barlow

Collaborative Research: WCR: Hydrology of Central and Southwest Asia: Connections Between Regional Atmospheric Circulation and Large-scale Climate Variability

Atmospheric and Environmental Research Inc.

$ 229,147

Robin Bell

Understanding the Boundary Conditions of the Lake Vostok Environment: A Site Survey for Future Work

Columbia University

$ 475,000

David R. Benson

Microbial Genome Sequencing: Sequencing of the Frankia CcI3 Genome, a Nitrogen-Fixing Plant Symbiotic Actinomycete

University of Connecticut

$ 914,922

Francine D. Berman

Information Technology Research (ITR): Building the Tree of Life--A National Resource for Phyloinformatics and Computational Phylogenetics

University of California at San Diego

$ 4,154,000

Debashish Bhattacharya

Microbial Genome Sequencing: An EST Approach to Understanding Endosymbiotic Gene Transfer

University of Iowa

$ 789,987

Bruce W. Birren

Microbial Genome Sequencing: Finishing the Draft Genome of Magnaportha grisea

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

$ 1,300,000

Fred Boadu

Hydrological Characterization and Petrophysical Analysis of Saturated and Unsaturated Soils from Electrical Response Measurements

Duke University

$ 144,713

Penelope Boston

Collaborative Research: Identification of Microbial Signatures in Biogenic Cave Ferromanganese Deposits

New Mexico Institute of Mines

$ 170,340

James D. Bowen

Collaborative Research: Impacts of Anthropogenic Change on the Ecology of Human Pathogens in a Eutrophying Estuary: The Neuse River Estuary, NC

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

$ 196,000

Richard Bowen

Ecology of Virus Transmission in Commensal Bat Colonies

Colorado State University

$ 2,163,479

Susan Brantley

Collaborative Research: Sediment Nanomagnetism and Environmental Change: The Microbial Mineral Link

Pennsylvania State University

$ 100,866

Mary B. Brown

URTD & Environmentally-Threatened Gopher Tortoises

University of Florida

$ 2,206,705

Kaye L. Brubaker

Collaborative Research: Characterizing Land Surface Memory to Advance Climate Prediction

University of Maryland

$ 150,011

John F. Bruno

Collaborative Research: Origins and Spread of the Aspergillus-Gorgonian Coral Epizootic: Role of Climate and Environmental Facilitators

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

$ 259,540

Suzanne Carbotte

Establishing an Integrated Multibeam and Geophysical Database for the Antarctic

Columbia University

$ 334,349

S. Craig Cary

Microbial Genome Sequencing: Genomic Sequencing of Two Globally Ubiquitous Members of the Epsilon Proteobacteria Found in Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Environments

University of Delaware

$ 374,524

Theodore Clark

Microbial Genome Sequencing: Gene Discovery and Mapping Tools for Ichthyophthirius: A Complementary DNA Resource

Cornell University

$ 499,755

Keith Clay

EID: Microbial Community Ecology of Tick-Borne Human Pathogens

Indiana University

$ 1,884,001

Andrew S. Cohen

REU Site: The Nyanza Project--Interdisciplinary Tropical Lake Studies Associated with the International Decade of East African Lakes (IDEAL)

University of Arizona

$ 1,006,482

Sharon K. Collinge

Landscape Effects on Disease Dynamics in Prairie Dogs

University of Colorado Boulder

$ 1,776,000

Douglas J. Crawford-Brown

Collaborative Research: Impacts of Anthropogenic Change on the Ecology of Human Pathogens in a Eutrophying Estuary: The Neuse River Estuary, NC

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

$ 1,599,055

Heidi M. Cullen

Collaborative Research: WCR: Hydrology of Central and Southwest Asia: Connections Between Regional Atmospheric Circulation and Large-scale Climate Variability

Georgia Institute of Technology

$ 115,985

Aiguo Dai

WCR: Quantifying Fresh Water Fluxes, Runoff and Precipitation in the Global Water Cycle and Applying Them to Evaluate the Community Climate System Model (CCSM)

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

$ 386,064

Andre A. Dhondt

Dynamics of An Emerging Pathogen in an Introduced Host

Cornell University

$ 2,396,233

Paul A. Dirmeyer

Collaborative Research: Characterizing Land Surface Memory to Advance Climate Prediction

Institute of Global Environmental Society

$ 252,997

Tosha Dupras

Acquisition of an Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer for Applications in Anthropology, Ecology and Conservation Biology

University of Central Florida

$ 162,855

Jonathan A. Eisen

Microbial Genome Sequencing: Complete Genome Sequencing of the Extremely Halophilic Archaea Haloferax Volcanii

Institute for Genomic Research

$ 247,185

Jonathan A. Eisen

Microbial Genome Sequencing: Shotgun Sequencing of Tetrahymena thermophila

Institute for Genomic Research

$ 2,567,000

Dara Entekhabi

Collaborative Research: WCR: Incorporation of Model Bias and Uncertainty in Land Surface Hydrologic Flux Prediction Using a Data Assimilation Network

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

$ 103,070

Jeremy B. Fein

Environmental Molecular Science Institute: Actinides and Heavy Metals in the Environment - The Formation, Stability, and Impact of Nano- and Micro-Particles

University of Notre Dame

$ 5,500,000

Ernest Fontes

Development of a Small Angle X-ray Scattering Station for Dynamical Materials Studies and Education

Cornell University

$ 300,000

Malcolm J. Gardner

Microbial Genome Sequencing: Genome Sequencing of the Protistan Parasite Perkinsus Marinus

Institute for Genomic Research

$ 1,656,540

Wayne Marcus Getz

Metapopulation Models and Control of Tuberculosis in African Buffalo

University of California at Berkeley

$ 1,812,146

Steven Gill

Microbial Genome Sequencing: Sequencing of Plasmids from the Bacillus Cereus Group-Mapping the Evolution of B. Anthracis Virulence Plasmids px01 and px02

Institute for Genomic Research

$ 998,715

Jeffrey I. Gordon

Microbial Genome Sequencing: Comparative Microbial Genome Analysis of the Human-Bacteroides Symbiosis

Washington University School of Medicine

$ 1,993,732

Michael Graves

Microbial Genome Sequencing: Algal Virus Genomics

University of Massachusetts at Lowell

$ 309,227

Robert P. Gunsalus

Microbial Genome Sequencing: Sequencing and Analysis of the Syntrophus Aciditrophicus Genome

University of California at Los Angeles

$ 449,779

Vijay Gupta

WCR: Designing a Pilot Study for Floods in the Walnut River Basin, KS, Using a Scaling Framework

University of Colorado Boulder

$ 515,564

Richard Han

SENSORS: Collaborative Research: Self-configuring In Situ Wireless Sensor Networks For Prescribed Fire Management

University of Colorado Boulder

$ 306,812

C. Drew Harvell

Collaborative Research: Origins and Spread of the Aspergillus-Gorgonian Coral Epizootic: Role of Climate and Environmental Facilitators

Cornell University

$ 1,088,508

Patrick G. Hatcher

EMSI: Role of Environmental Molecular Interfaces on the Chemical and Biological Reactivity of Pollutants

Ohio State University Research Foundation

$ 5,800,135

John J. Helly

Workshop to Advance Long-Term Data and Metadata Interoperability in the Environmental and Earth Sciences

University of California at San Diego

$ 113,631

Roger W. Hendrix

Microbial Genome Sequencing: Sequences of Exceptionally Large Bacteriophage Genomes

University of Pittsburgh

$ 642,764

N. Thompson Hobbs

Spatial & Temporal Dynamics of Prion Disease in Wildlife: Responses to Changing Land Use

Colorado State University

$ 91,961

Scott M. Husson

Acquisition of an Atomic Force Microscope for Materials Research and Education

Clemson University

$ 100,000

David W. Hyndman

WCR: Quantifying the Impact of Land Use and Climate Change on Groundwater/Surfacewater Interactions in Regional Great Lakes Watersheds

Michigan State University

$ 490,000

John J. Iandolo

Microbial Genome Sequencing: Sequencing and Annotation of the Bdellovibrio Strain W Genome

University of Oklahoma

$ 281,000

Aleksey Kaplan

Collaborative Research: WCR: Hydrology of Central and Southwest Asia: Connections Between Regional Atmospheric Circulation and Large-scale Climate Variability

Columbia University

$ 56,199

Jim D. Karam

Microbial Genome Sequencing: Sequencing Genomes of the T4-like Myoviridae

Tulane University

$ 285,000

C. Kent Keller

Chemical Hydrology of Vascular Plant Growth: Role of Root-Fungus Associations

Washington State University

$ 249,722

Thomas H. Kunz

ITR: Advanced Imaging and Information Technology for Assessing the Ecological and Economic Impact of Brazilian Free-Tailed Bats on Agroecosystems

Boston University

$ 2,400,000

Armand Kuris

Anthropogenic Effects on Host-Trematode Dynamics

University of California at Santa Barbara

$ 2,202,000

Herbert Levine

ITR: Center for Computational Biophysics

University of California at San Diego

$ 5,000,000

Leonard Lion

Microbial Mediation of Manganese Cycling: Formation of Biogenic Mn Oxides, Oxide Scavenging of Toxic Metals, and Coupled Fates Subject to Predation by Protozoan Grazers

Cornell University

$ 653,513

Jennifer Macalady

Microbial Community Controls on Sulfide Oxidation Rates and Cave Formation in a Subsurface Biogeochemical System

Carleton College

$ 179,935

Steven A. Margulis

Collaborative Research: WCR: Incorporation of Model Bias and Uncertainty in Land Surface Hydrologic Flux Prediction Using a Data Assimilation Network

University of California at Los Angeles

$ 212,829

Amy Martin-Carnahan

Microbial Genome Sequencing: Aeromonas Hydrophila Under the Auspices of the Microbial Genome Sequencing Program

University of Maryland at Baltimore

$ 499,999

Carmen Martinez

Microbial Processes and Populations as Related to Zinc, Cadmium and Sulfur Speciation in Natural Metalliferous Soil Environments

Pennsylvania State University

$ 378,032

Margaret Martonosi

ITR: ZebraNet: Position-aware Power-aware Wireless Computing for Wildlife Tracking

Princeton University

$ 1,299,999

William K. Michener

Environmental Cyber-infrastructure Needs for Distributed Sensor Networks Workshop; San Diego, CA; August 2003

University of New Mexico

$ 109,821

Nicole Molders

WCR: Impact of Land-use Changes and/or Radiative Forcing on Water Availability and the Pathways and Interactions of the Global and Regional Water Cycles

University of Alaska at Fairbanks

$ 333,244

Mitchell W. Moncrieff

WCR: Organized Convective Precipitation Over the U.S. Continent

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

$ 379,202

Willard S. Moore

Collaborative Research: Chemistry of Groundwater Transport Pathways Associated with a Coastal Lagoon System

University of South Carolina

$ 154,273

Nancy A. Moran

Discovery and Characterization of Bacterial Endosymbiont Diversity in Drosophila

University of Arizona

$ 510,000

Francois M. Morel

Center for Environmental BioInorganic Chemistry

Princeton University

$ 5,450,000

Bernard M. Moret

Information Technology Research (ITR): Building the Tree of Life -- A National Resource for Phyloinformatics and Computational Phylogenetics

University of New Mexico

$ 3,540,907

Krista A. Morgansen

Information Flow in a Heterogeneous Distributed System: Biomimetic Approaches to Embedded Coordinated Control

University of Washington

$ 399,868

Karen E. Nelson

Microbial Genome Sequencing: Salinibacter ruber: A Bacterium that Behaves Like a Haloarchaean

Institute for Genomic Research

$ 349,973

Eugene W. Nester

Microbial Genome Sequencing: Genome Sequencing of Agrobacterium biovar Type Strains

University of Washington

$ 1,039,782

Claudia Neuhauser

BIOCOMPLEXITY-Evolution and Ecology of Perturbed Interactions: Modeling Disequilibria in Time and Space

University of Minnesota at Twin Cities

$ 2,965,346

Diana E. Northup

Collaborative Research: Identification of Microbial Signatures in Biogenic Cave Ferromanganese Deposits

University of New Mexico

$ 291,644

Harris C. Nusbaum

Microbial Genome Sequencing: Phytophthora

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

$ 457,000

Craig Packer

Viral Transmission Dynamics in the Serengeti

University of Minnesota at Twin Cities

$ 1,482,000

Brian P. Palenik

Microbial Genome Sequencing: Life at the Land/Ocean Margin: Genomic Analysis of a Coastal Cyanobacterium

University of California at San Diego

$ 475,000

Marc B. Parlange

WCR: Evaporation and the Atmospheric Boundary Layer Over Hilly Terrain: Instrumentation, Experimentation and Simulation

Johns Hopkins University

$ 389,893

Ann Pearson

A New Interdisciplinary Frontier: Merging Molecular Biology with Isotopic Geochemistry

Harvard University

$ 488,478

Nathan G. Phillips

WCR: Vegetation Control of Ecohydrologic Processes

Boston University

$ 338,412

Satish B. Rao

Information Technology Research (ITR): Building the Tree of Life -- A National Resource for Phyloinformatics and Computational Phylogenetics

University of California at Berkeley

$ 1,229,749

Richard J. Reeder

EMSI: Stony Brook-BNL Collaboration to Establish a Center for Environmental Molecular Science (CEMS)

State University of New York at Stony Brook

$ 5,700,000

Forest Rohwer

Biodiversity of Aquatic Phage

San Diego State University Foundation

$ 363,880

Michael J. Sadowsky

Microbial Genome Sequencing: Complete Genomic Sequencing of Arthrobacter aurescens strain TC1

University of Minnesota at Twin Cities

$ 699,245

Adam Schlosser

Collaborative Research: Characterizing Land Surface Memory to Advance Climate Prediction

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

$ 98,928

Alex Sessions

Collaborative Research: Hydrogen Isotope Biogeochemistry of Anoxic Environments - Field and Laboratory Studies

California Institute of Technology

$ 299,743

David Siegel

BE/CNH: Disparate Scales of Process and Nearshore Fishery Management

University of California at Santa Barbara

$ 1,995,951

Garriet W. Smith

Collaborative Research: Origins and Spread of the Aspergillus-Gorgonian Coral Epizootic: Role of Climate and Environmental Facilitators

University of South Carolina

$ 162,083

James A. Smith

WCR: The Hydrology of Extreme Floods in Mountain Watersheds

Princeton University

$ 215,000

Brian H. Smith

EID: How Social Organization Influences an Infectious Process: The Honey Bee Colony As a Model

Ohio State University Research Foundation

$ 272,000

Kerry Smith

Microbial Genome Sequencing: The Genome Sequence of Methanosaeta concilii - An Educational Tool

Clemson University

$ 276,247

Jay R. Stauffer

Schistosomiasis: Ecological Interactions Among Schistosomes Snail Hosts, Human Hosts, and Fish Predators

Pennsylvania State University

$ 1,631,000

Libby A. Stern

Collaborative Research: WCR: Ecohydrology of semiarid woodlands: Role of woody plants in the water cycle

University of Texas at Austin

$ 166,335

Donald L. Taylor

Microbial Genome Sequencing: Coupling Diversity with Function: Metagenomics of Boreal Forest Fungi

University of Alaska at Fairbanks

$ 800,000

Stanley Tyler

15N Isotopomeric Site Preferences and Enrichment Factors for Nitrification and Denitrification: A New Constraint to the N2O Global Budget

University of California at Irvine

$ 162,155

David L. Valentine

Collaborative Research: Hydrogen Isotope Biogeochemistry of Anoxic Environments - Field and Laboratory Studies

University of California at Santa Barbara

$ 299,670

Gerardo R. Vasta

Collaborative Research: Origins and Spread of the Aspergillus- Gorgonian Coral Epizootic: Role of Climate and Environmental Facilitators

University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute

$ 217,862

Pieter Visscher

Mechanisms of Calcium Carbonate Precipitation and Dissolution: Microbial Populations, Metabolic Processes and Mineral Products

University of Connecticut

$ 332,106

Tandy J. Warnow

Information Technology Research (ITR): Building the Tree of Life -- A National Resource for Phyloinformatics and Computational Phylogenetics

University of Texas at Austin

$ 839,243

Andreas P. Weber

Microbial Genome Sequencing: Genome Analysis of Galdieria sulphuraria - A Unique Unicellular Thermo-Acidophilic Photosynthetic Microorganism

Michigan State University

$ 1,200,000

Mark Wells

Collaborative Research: What Limits Denitrification and Bacterial Growth in Lake Bonney, Taylor Valley, Antarctica?

University of Maine

$ 392,598

Geoffrey B. West

Universal Scaling Laws in Biology: Origins, Applications, and Ramifications

Sante Fe Institute

$ 431,103

Brad Wilcox

Collaborative Research: WCR: Ecohydrology of semiarid woodlands: Role of woody plants in the water cycle

Texas A&M; University

$ 331,360

Herbert L. Windom

Collaborative Research: Chemistry of Groundwater Transport Pathways Associated with a Coastal Lagoon System

Skidaway Institute of Oceanography

$ 306,852

Terry L. Yates

EID: Ecological Drivers of Rodent-borne Disease Outbreaks: Trophic Cascades and Dispersal Waves

University of New Mexico

$ 1,675,000

John Yin

QSB: Integrated Dynamics of Cell-cell Communication

University of Wisconsin at Madison

$ 499,899

AWARDS FOR EXPLORATORY AND DEVELOPMENTAL ACTIVITIES

Domy Adriano

SGER: Regulation of Metal Bioavailability in Floodplain Continuum by Carbon and Sulfur Cycling

University of Georgia Research Fdn Inc.

$ 99,906

Ronald Benner

Evolution of Hydrogen-Based Microbial Communities in Deep Hydrothermal Aquifers

University of Southern California

$ 100,000

Karl W. Flessa

Americas Program Dissertation Enhancement: The Importance of Colorado River Flow to Endemic Fish of the Northern Gulf of California: Evidence from Stable Isotopes in Fish Otoliths

University of Arizona

$ 9,155

Eric Gaidos

Microcosm Investigations of Carbonate Reef Microbial Biogeochemistry

University of Hawaii

$ 79,948

Stephen J. Giovannoni

SGER (small grant for exploratory research): Sequencing a Pelagibacter (SAR11) Genome

Oregon State University

$ 99,598

Robyn Hannigan

WCR: Linkages Between the Chemical Weathering of Black Shales and Metal Contamination in Aquatic Systems

Arkansas State University

$ 80,991

Max A. Moritz

SGER: EID: Fire and the Sudden Oak Death Epidemic

Wildlife Conservation Society

$ 54,728

Kenneth Nealson

Collaborative Research: Sediment Nanomagnetism and Environmental Change: The Microbial Mineral Link

University of Southern California

$ 104,095

Steven Osofsky

Animal Health for the Environment And Development (AHEAD) Planning Forum - World Parks Congress, Durban, South Africa, September 2003

Wildlife Conservation Society

$ 17,970

Robert R. Parmenter

SGER: Invasion and Establishment Dynamics of West Nile Virus in the Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico, Colorado and Texas

University of New Mexico

$ 49,999

Carlyle Storm

Conference: 2003 Summer Gordon Conferences, to be held June-August of 2003

Gordon Research Conferences

$ 99,160

Jozsef Szilagyi

WCR: A New Technique for Mapping Recharge Fluxes to Groundwater at a Regional Scale

University of Nebraska at Lincoln

$ 15,120


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Last Updated: 06/17/2004