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Biocomplexity in the Environment

FY 2002 Awards

Biocomplexity in the Environment (BE) – Untargeted BE Grants

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  Principal
 Investigator

Title

Institution

Total Awarded

INTEGRATED RESEARCH AND EDUCATION AWARDS

Azmy Ackleh

Collaborative Research: Nonlinear Nonlocal First Order Hyperbolic Problems in Population Models

Texas Tech University

$ 118,157

Michael Aitken

BE/GEN-EN: Who's Doing What in a Complex Bioreactor? Stable Isotope Probing of Specific Degraders in Engineered Biological Treatment Processes

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

$ 563,999

Debashish Bhattacharya

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

University of Iowa

$ 789,987

C. Lee Black

Ship Operations

Bermuda Biological Station Research

$ 1,455,981

Edward Boyle

BIOCOMPLEXITY: Collaborative Research: Oceanic N2 Fixation and Global Climate

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

$ 300,000

Jason Bradford

BE/CNH: An Integrated Strategy to Understand and Model Biodiversity and Climate on the Eastern Slopes of the Andes in Peru and Bolivia

Missouri Botanical Gardens

$ 80,000

Douglas Capone

BIOCOMPLEXITY: Collaborative Research: Factors Affecting, and Impact of, Diazotrophic Microorganisms in the Western Equatorial Atlantic Ocean

University of Southern California

$ 1,344,320

Edward Carpenter

BIOCOMPLEXITY: Collaborative Research: Oceanic N2 fixation and Global climate

San Francisco State University

$ 199,981

Edward Carpenter

BIOCOMPLEXITY: Collaborative Research: Factors Affecting, and Impact of, Diazotrophic Microorganisms in the Western Equatorial Atlantic Ocean

San Francisco State University

$ 794,857

Jackie Collier

Collaborative Research: Biocomplexity of Aquatic Microbial Systems: Relating Diversity of Microorganisms to Ecosystem Function

State University of New York at Stony Brook

$ 365,965

George Cosner

Ecological Modeling: From Individual Utilization of Space to Community Structure

University of Miami

$ 213,000

J. Theodore Cox

Stochastic Spatial Processes

Syracuse University

$ 123,032

Eric Davidson

Collaborative Research: Climate controls over ecosystem respiration: Using isotopes to determine the sources and age of respired carbon

Woods Hole Research Center

$ 124,485

Edward DeLong

Microbial Genome Sequencing: The Cenarchaeum Symbiosum Genome Project: Genome Sequence from a Psychrophilic Archaeon, the Ocean's Single-most Abundant Microbes

Monterey Bay Aquarium

$ 759,642

Keng Deng

Collaborative Research: Nonlinear Nonlocal First Order Hyperbolic Problems in Population Models

University of Louisiana at Layfayette

$ 86,864

A. Scott Denning

ICCR: Forward and Inverse Modeling of Carbon Dioxide and Carbon Isotopes

Colorado State University

$ 380,666

Michael Donoghue

ATOL: Collaborative Research: Deep Green Plant Phylogenetics: Novel Analytical Methods for Scaling Data from Genomics to Morphology

Yale University

$ 183,000

Richard Durrett

Problems in Probability Arising from Ecology and Genetics

Cornell University

$ 312,168

Jeremy 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

Ilka Feller

BIOCOMPLEXITY: Collaborative Research: Microbial and Nutrient Controls in Mangrove Ecosystems

Smithsonian Institution

$ 1,742,268

Phillip Gschwend

Black Carbon (BC) and the Global Carbon Cycle: Assessing BC Inventories in Coastal Seawater and Burial in Margin Sediments off the Northeastern USA

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

$ 479,900

Shannon Hackett

ATOL: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH Early Bird: A Collaborative Project to Resolve the Deep Nodes of Avian Phylogeny

Field Museum of Natural History

$ 900,695

Matthew Hawkins

Ship Operations

University of Delaware

$ 823,484

David Hibbert

ATOL: Collaborative Research: Assembling the Fungal Tree of Life

Clark University

$ 550,606

Raleigh Hood

BIOCOMPLEXITY: Collaborative Research: Factors Affecting, and Impact of, Diazotrophic Microorganisms in the Western Equatorial Atlantic Ocean

University of Maryland

$ 608,024

Timothy Hoover

Microbial Genome Sequencing: Genome Sequencing of the Budding Bacterium Hyphomonas Neptunium

University of Georgia

$ 325,000

Alfred Hubler

Experimental Study of Adaptation to the Edge of Chaos and Critical Scaling in the Self-adjusting Peroxidase-Oxidase Reaction

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

$ 167,908

Robert Jackson

Continental drying and carbon sequestration along a subambient to elevated CO2 gradient

Duke University

$ 388,089

George Jackson

Collaborative Research: Biocomplexity of Aquatic Microbial Systems: Relating Diversity of Microorganisms to Ecosystem Function

Texas A&M; University

$ 519,983

Charles Keeling

ICCR: Long-term Quality Assured Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Measurements

Scipps Institute of Oceanography

$ 663,000

Martin Kennedy

The TMSA hypothesis: Do clay-mineral interlayer surfaces provide an unrecognized sink for organic carbon in the geological record?

University of California at Riverside

$ 169,999

Thomas Kepler

A Broad Research Program in the Sciences of Complexity

Sante Fe Institute

$ 3,176,000

Timothy Killeen

Support of the National Center for Atmospheric Research

National Center for Atmospheric Research

$ 127,501,407

Rebecca Kimball

ATOL: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH Early Bird: A Collaborative Project to Resolve the Deep Nodes of Avian Phylogeny

University of Florida

$ 454,697

Elana Leithold

Age Distribution of the Particulate Organic Carbon (POC) Discharged from Small Mountainous Rivers-- the Influence of Sediment Yield and Soil Residence Time

North Carolina State University

$ 480,000

Hao Sheng Lin

Near-Infrared Study of Solar Magnetism

University of Hawaii

$ 222,055

Jun Liu

Statistical Problems in Hidden Markov Modeling for Biology and Chemistry

Harvard University

$ 325,771

Jianguo Liu

BE/CNH: Complex Interactions Among Policies, People, and Panda Habitat in the Wolong Nature Reserve Landscape

Michigan State University

$ 1,099,999

Yunfeng Lu

Multifunctional Nanostructured Catalysts for Aqueous Medium Organic Synthesis (TSE01-B)

Tulane University

$ 357,266

Francois Lutzoni

ATOL: Collaborative Research: Assembling the Fungal Tree of Life

Duke University

$ 1,052,713

Fred MacKenzie

Coastal Zone Control of Interacting C-N-P Cycles Under Global Change

University of Hawaii

$ 220,000

Dina Mandoli

ATOL: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Deep Green Plant Phylogenetics: Novel Analytical Methods for Scaling Data from Genomics to Morphology

University of Washington

$ 642,000

John McCarthy

The Physical and Chemical Mechanisms Responsible for Carbon Sequestration in Soil Microaggregates

University of Tennessee at Knoxville

$ 150,000

David McLaughlin

ATOL: Collaborative Research: Assembling the Fungal Tree of Life

University of Minnesota at Twin Cities

$ 510,830

Brent Mishler

ATOL: Collaborative Research: Deep Green Plant Phylogenetics: Novel Analytical Methods for Scaling Data from Genomics to Morphology

University of California at Berkeley

$ 683,000

William Moore

ATOL: Collaborative Research: Early Bird: A Collaborative Project to Resolve the Deep Nodes of Avian Phylogeny

Wayne State University

$ 395,083

Francois More

Center for Environmental BioInorganic Chemistry

Princeton University

$ 5,450,000

Claudia Neuhaser

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

University of Minnesota at Twin Cities

$ 2,965,346

William Nierman

Microbial Genome Sequencing: Sequencing of the Genome of Myxococcus Xanthus

Institute for Genomic Research

$ 1,150,000

Steven Oberbauer

ICCR: Understanding Interannual Net Ecosystem Carbon Exchange Variability in a Tropical Rain Forest

Florida International University

$ 707,160

Jose Onuchic

Center for Theoretical Biological Physics

University of California at San Diego

$ 5,500,000

Alice Pell

BE/CNH: Homeostasis and Degradation in Fragile Tropical Agroecosystems

Cornell University

$ 1,668,132

Bruce Peterson

Biogeochemical Tracers in Arctic Rivers: Linking the Pan-Arctic Watershed to the Arctic Ocean

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

$ 1,648,366

James Randerson

Collaborative Research: Climate controls over ecosystem respiration: Using isotopes to determine the sources and age of respired carbon

California Institute of Technology

$ 105,512

Timothy Read

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

Richard 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

Karen Renzaglia

ATOL: Collaborative Research: Deep Green Plant Phylogenetics: Novel Analytical Methods for Scaling Data from Genomics to Morphology

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

$ 375,000

Anna-Louise Reysenbach

Microbial Genome Sequencing: Genome Sequencing and Comparative Analysis of the Chemolithoautotrophic Thermophile, Persephonella Marina and it's Terrestrial Relative, AZ-Fu1

Portland State University

$ 500,000

Jeffrey Richey

Dynamics of Carbon Export to the Atmosphere and Oceans from Fluvial Systems of the Humid Tropics: Southeast Asia

University of Washington

$ 800,000

Scott Schmidler

Fully Nonlinear Elliptic and Parabolic Equations in Differential Geometry

University of Tennessee at Knoxville

$ 104,000

Klaus Schmidt-Rohr

New Solid-State NMR Techniques for Analyzing Insoluble Organic Matter

Iowa State University

$ 281,400

Edward Schuur

Collaborative Research: Climate controls over ecosystem respiration: Using isotopes to determine the sources and age of respired carbon

University of Florida

$ 138,731

Douglas Seigle

Collaborative Research: Oceanic N2 Fixation and Global Climate

University of California at Santa Barbara

$ 560,000

Carol Shearer

BIOCOMPLEXITY: Collaborative Research: Microbial and Nutrient Controls in Mangrove Ecosystems

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

$ 640,000

Frederick Sheldon

ATOL: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Early bird: A Collaborative Project to Resolve the Deep Nodes of Avian Phylogeny

Louisiana State University and A&M; College

$ 269,481

Joseph Spatafora

ATOL: Collaborative Research: Assembling the Fungal Tree of Life

Oregon State University

$ 545,136

Michael Steele

Collaborative Research: Circulation in the Freshwater Switchyard of the Arctic Ocean

University of Washington

$ 825,028

Brett Taylor

Microbial Genome Sequencing: Genome Sequence of Phytophthora Sojae

Virginia Polytechnic Institute

$ 1,000,000

William Thomas

ATOL: Phylum Nematoda: Integrating Multidisciplinary Expertise and Infrastructure for Resolving Relationships in a Major Branch of the Tree of Life

University of New Hampshire

$ 2,440,000

Susan Trumbore

Collaborative Research: Climate Controls Over Ecosystem Respiration: Using Isotopes to Determine the Sources and Age of Respired Carbon

University of California at Irvine

$ 461,010

Marek Urban

Response-Driven Polymeric Films Center

University of Southern Mississippi

$ 7,800,000

Naomi Ward

Microbial Genome Sequencing: Genome Sequencing and Comparative Analysis of Acidobacterium Capsulatum and Verrucomicrobium Spinosum

Institute for Genomic Research

$ 1,100,000

Naomi Ward

ATOL: Phylogenomics:A Genome Level Approach to Assembling the Bacterial Branches of the Tree of Life

Institute for Genomic Research

$ 2,480,000

Geoffrey West

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

Sante Fe Institute

$ 431,103

R. Kelman Wieder

RUI: Carbon Accumulation in the Fens of Boreal, Western Canada

Villanova University

$ 440,000

Tony Wilkinson

BE/CNH: Settlement Systems Within a Dynamic Environment and Economy: Contrasting Northern and Southern Mesopotamian City Regions

University of Chicago

$ 1,197,340

Paul Wolf

ATOL: Collaborative Research: Deep Green Plant Phylogenetics: Novel Analytical Methods for Scaling Data from Genomics to Morphology

Utah State University

$ 306,000

Thomas Yelvington

Science, Operations, and Maintenance Support for the United States Antarctic Program (USAP)

Raytheon Polar Services Company

$ 10,000,000

AWARDS FOR EXPLORATORY AND DEVELOPMENTAL ACTIVITIES

Yaneer Bar-Yam

International Conference on Complex Systems, June 9-14,2002.

New England Complex System

$ 30,000

Lisa Dilling

Support for Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group Activities

NOAA Office of Global Programs

$ 63,000

Christopher Field

Toward CO2 Stabilization: Issues, Strategies, and Consequences: A SCOPE/GCP Rapid Assessment Project, February 3-7, 2003, in Ubatuba, Brazil

Carnegie Institution of Washington

$ 10,000

Adam Heller

SGER: Reducing the Rates of Oxidation of Essential Domains of Genomes

University of Texas at Austin

$ 99,999

Kathy Hibbard

WORKSHOP: Model-Data Integration and Network Design for Biogeochemical Research: An NCAR-CSU Summer School

University of New Hampshire

$ 24,988

Michael Roberts

Real Time Monitoring of Rivers and Estuaries: Planning Workshops

Pace University

$ 92,310

Stephen Rock

Workshop to Define a Technology Roadmap for the Exploration and Sampling of Lake Vostok

Stanford University

$ 50,404

Richard Smith

CAREER: Chiral Ceramic Sensors

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

$ 400,000

Susan Trumbore

CaRTE Workshop: Carbon Respiration from Terrestrial Ecosystems - Reducing Uncertainties in the role played by respiration in the global carbon cycle

University of California at Irvine

$ 72,777

Slawek Tulaczyk

Workshop on Interdisciplinary Polar Research Based on Fast Ice-Sheet Drilling - FASTDRILL; Santa Cruz, CA, October, 2002

University of California at Santa Cruz

$ 33,583


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Last Updated: 06/17/2004