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King County, Wash., funds by National Science Foundation

Listing $108,126,782.57 in stimulus funds from National Science Foundation for King

Note: For some programs where states do not report where money will be distributed across the state, we do not have the allocation for individual counties. Those programs include: Medicaid, unemployment benefits and food stamps. Those amounts are included in the totals for where the state agency receiving that money is located.

Amount refers to both the amount of stimulus funding going toward the project and the face value of the loan.

Recipient Amount Description Federal Dept./Agency Date
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $63,317,436 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Program Management Office staffing in support of managing the Ocean Observing Initiative Construction Project for the National Science Foundation. Coastal and global scale nodes development and build.
This spending item is part of a $105,930,000 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 9/14/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $2,710,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This award provides continuing support for a program of research for the High Energy Physics group at the University of Washington. This group is a member of National Science Foundation 7/23/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $2,070,940 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This RTG grant at the University of Washington (UW) supports an array of activities that will enhance the education and training of undergraduate students, g National Science Foundation 5/27/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $2,000,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program supports graduate student fellowships in NSF disciplines. Awardees receive three years of full funding (stipend, tuition waiver, health benefits) to be used within a five year period.Students apply for these a National Science Foundation 8/12/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $1,499,988 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Intellectual Merit. Surface waves are believed to play a key role in the upper ocean boundary layer, yet do not appear explicitly in any of the major boundar National Science Foundation 8/10/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $1,264,424 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009(Public Law 111-5). This project will investigate people's social and moral relationships with personified robots. These robots, in various ways and to varying degrees, embody as National Science Foundation 7/15/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $1,224,449 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009(Public Law 111-5).Recent measurements of the Bering Strait throughflow fluxes find strong seasonal and interannual variability, so far unpredictable ? the heat flux increase fro National Science Foundation 7/06/2009
PACIFIC NORTHWEST GIGAPOP $1,157,498 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The project, proposed by the regional optical network, Pacific Northwest Gigapop, will replace an ad hoc system of connections to a tier of states in the northwestern United States with a fiber-based network capable of supporting multiple gigabit connecti National Science Foundation 9/15/2010
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $1,000,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The International Arctic Buoy Program (IABP) is one of the oldest continuously-operating environmental monitoring networks in the high Arctic. This proposal National Science Foundation 8/13/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $886,355 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This proposal will be awarded using funds made available by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The proposal requests numerous Shipboard Scientific Support (SSSE) items for the vessels operated by the University of Washi National Science Foundation 8/07/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $875,222 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Ice-based buoys exist that can measure temperature profiles, but these are not optimized for observing the open sea. Thus the objective of this proposal is to National Science Foundation 5/21/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $860,396 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Significant progress has been made on technical solutions for implementing security while preserving varying degrees of privacy for mobile electronic devices.
This spending item is part of a $875,000 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 8/12/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $850,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).When we open our eyes we instantly -- without any apparent effort -- have a detailed three-dimensional (3D) representation of our environment. However, the su National Science Foundation 6/15/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $845,385 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The research objectives of this project are to elucidate the mechanisms and importance of nocturnal nitrogen oxide chemistry in the polluted marine boundary l National Science Foundation 6/16/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $740,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This CAREER award supports an experimental research program to produce polar molecular gases with the goal of investigating quantum matter with strong and lon National Science Foundation 6/04/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $713,199 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Dr, Miguel Morales (University of Washington) will work towards removing the astrophysical and instrumental foregrounds from HI (neutral hydrogen) observation National Science Foundation 8/08/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $710,819 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). In this CAREER project supported by the Theoretical & Computational Chemistry Program of the Chemistry Division, Xiasong Li of the University of Washington w National Science Foundation 7/02/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $681,071 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Buggy software costs the U.S. up to $60 billion annually, so preventing bugs is important to society. It is possible to prevent certain bugs by running a typ National Science Foundation 7/27/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $668,324 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The proposal seeks funding to continue investigations of the dynamical coupling between the stratosphere and the upper regions of the atmosphere, such as the National Science Foundation 5/21/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $658,460 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This CAREER award, funded by the Experimental Physical Chemistry Program of the Chemistry Division, supports an experimental research program by Professor Kh National Science Foundation 8/05/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $656,204 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).A request is made to fund additional and back-up instrumentation on the R/V Thomas Thompson, a 274? general purpose Global research vessel operated by the Uni National Science Foundation 8/16/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $645,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) is a partnership of 14 institutions (Cornell University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Howard University, , Pennsylvania State University, Stanford University, University of
This spending item is part of a $10,000,000 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 9/17/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $628,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 930411Ratner'This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).'Silicon photonics has revealed its potential to revolutionize label-free real-time biosensing. Through chemistries that can selectively function National Science Foundation 8/14/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $607,660 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support AbstractToroThis award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The theme of this proposal is the strong relationship that exists between the questions of how the geometry of a domain can be recovered from the National Science Foundation 5/29/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $600,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Despite years of effort, the underlying structure of the Internet is still largely opaque to networking researchers. This opaque structure is also a barrier to ISP administrators trying to diagnose connectivity problems - when a problem occurs, it can be National Science Foundation 8/01/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $592,116 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Organic matter diagenesis, including protein diagenesis, is an important area for understanding the fate of sinking marine materials as well as the global oce National Science Foundation 8/12/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $591,345 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Stone/0838818This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This award supports a project to study the former thickness and retreat history of Shackleton and Beardmore Glaciers which flow through the Trans National Science Foundation 8/10/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $552,114 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This award supports a project to reconstruct the past physical and chemical climate of Antarctica, with an emphasis on the region surrounding the Ross Sea Em National Science Foundation 5/22/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $542,845 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).'The cycles of organic carbon and oxygen are linked by the stoichiometry of photosynthesis and respiration, the mass balance of oxygen in the upper ocean is National Science Foundation 6/05/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $540,154 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Single carbon (C1) compounds commonly found in the environment include methane, methanol, methylated amines, halogenated methanes, and methylsulfonates. These National Science Foundation 6/18/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $518,993 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This award will support a study that addresses the hypothesis that the expanding extent and duration of seasonal open water in the Arctic has the potential t National Science Foundation 7/15/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $514,084 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This project is an experimental investigation of oceanic circulation and mixing, particularly focused on the deep ocean at high latitude. Using several new te National Science Foundation 8/07/2009
IONOGRAPHICS, INC. $500,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Microfabrication of small quantities of micro-scale metal parts is expensive and time consuming. A computer-aided manufacturing technology (CAM) tool would National Science Foundation 7/27/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $500,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The scientific data management landscape is changing. Improvements in instrumentation and simulation software are giving scientists access to data at an unpre National Science Foundation 6/19/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $500,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The development of animals begins with fertilization, the interaction between two specialized cells, the sperm and egg. The process requires exquisite coordin National Science Foundation 6/17/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $450,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).How living systems integrate information in complex and changing environments is a central unsolved puzzle of biology. Plant form is continuously modified in National Science Foundation 6/25/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $413,118 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The PIs propose to improve an existing seasonal ensemble forecasting system that they developed and use the system to predict sea ice conditions in the arctic National Science Foundation 7/22/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $408,325 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The purpose of this project is threefold: development and analysis of fast, randomized, easily parallelizable algorithms, study of average behavior and limiti National Science Foundation 6/17/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $400,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support TPROPOSAL 0845120This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The objective of this research is to investigate a new system-on-brain paradigm, one of the next great challenges of the integrated circuit c National Science Foundation 7/01/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $400,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support PROJECT SUMMARYCAREER: Nano Tip Sensor for Rapid Detection of Dissolved DNA for Environmental Monitoring'This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).'One of the critical challenges in environmental moni National Science Foundation 6/23/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $399,959 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Proposal Title: Collaborative Research: Three-Dimensional Microstructural andChemical Mapping of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Electrodes: Processing,Structure, Stability, and ElectrochemistryInstitution: Northwestern UniversityAbstract Date: 06/11/09This award i National Science Foundation 8/05/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $394,950 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).While much has been learned about hurricane structure and intensity change from observational analyses and mesoscale model simulations, much less is known abo National Science Foundation 6/05/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $393,778 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support ABSTRACTThis award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Understanding the barriers to reproduction between species is central to evolutionary biology. The evolution of reproductive barriers is a key step i National Science Foundation 8/17/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $391,639 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Zhang 0901987University of WashingtonSignificant seasonal changes in arctic sea ice have been observed in recent years, characterized by unprecedented summer National Science Foundation 8/12/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $385,118 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).In this project, researchers at the University of Washington will address two of the overriding goals of the GEOTRACES program: advancing our understanding of National Science Foundation 8/16/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $378,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Proposal Title: RI: Medium: Collaborative Research: Explicit Articulatory Models of Spoken Language, with Application to Automatic Speech Recognition Institution: Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago Abstract Date: 05/22/09This award is funded under National Science Foundation 6/26/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $376,672 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Steig/0837990This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This award supports a project to obtain a ~100,000-year record of 17O-excess from the WAIS Divide ice core, currently being drilled in West Antar National Science Foundation 5/22/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $361,861 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) is a novel suite of infrastructure now being designed to support experimental research in network science and engineering. The majority of this award is to fund 38 subcontractors, consisting of collabo
This spending item is part of a $11,546,106 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 9/02/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $356,185 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The goal of this proposal is to explore the microbiology of frost flowers -- delicate ice crystal structures with high brine content that form on the surface National Science Foundation 8/03/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $350,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).930909DotyMicroorganisms that live within plants (endophytes) can dramatically enhance plant growth by increasing resistance to pathogens and stress, providin National Science Foundation 8/07/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $343,332 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support AbstractThrough modeling and data assimilation studies, University of Washington researchers seek to reconcile information on Antarctic sea ice and its interaction with the upper ocean and the atmosphere, throughout the modern era of satellite observation National Science Foundation 5/22/2009
REMOTE MEDICINE INC. $338,680 Raytheon provides operational and logistics support to the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Polar Programs in support of the United States Antarctic Program USAP. Our contract requires systems-type operations and project management skills and
This spending item is part of a $18,520,393 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 7/01/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $335,765 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Recent progress in ultrafast laser technology has enabled new spectroscopies for probing matter in fundamentally new optical regimes with regard to frequency
This spending item is part of a $679,482 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 7/09/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $331,115 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).0930927MatsuokaAbout 700,000 Americans suffer from new or recurrent strokes each year, with some 500,000 being fortunate enough to survive (1). Over half of a National Science Foundation 8/26/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $316,355 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This study will test hypotheses about the responses of marine birds to spatial and temporal variability in ocean processes in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Isla
This spending item is part of a $340,310 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 6/29/2009
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL $311,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The long-term goal of this project is to understand the functional circuitry of the cerebellum of mormyrid electric fish and to use this understanding to gain insight into cerebellar function in general. This proposal focuses on the posterior caudal lobe National Science Foundation 12/02/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $308,016 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The PI's overarching goal is to investigate short-term Arctic climate predictability and to improve understanding of the mechanisms that give rise to short-te National Science Foundation 8/10/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $306,405 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Project AbstractThis award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Mountain snowmelt is an essential resource to 40% of the world?s population but is threatened by warming associated with climate change. Accu National Science Foundation 6/01/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $301,599 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). With this award from the Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities Multiuser Program (CRIF:MU), Professor Paul B. Hopkins and colleagues Karen Goldbe National Science Foundation 7/26/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $300,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 0854298Jiang'This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).'Cell membranes and membrane-based organelles actively mediate several intracellular signaling and trafficking decisions. A growing number of app National Science Foundation 7/20/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $300,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This funding enables three types of network infrastructure to handle large-scale experiments. One type uses the OpenFlow protocol developed by Stanford University to allow deep programming of Ethernet switches. Another type of GENI-enabled infrastructure
This spending item is part of a $10,453,855 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 9/09/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $286,997 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5)This engineering education research award to the University of Washington will employ researchers to develop a number of assessment techniques for use by both National Science Foundation 8/20/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $279,719 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This award supports a project to find and date geologic evidence of past ice-marginal positions in the Pensacola Mountains, which border the Foundation Ice S National Science Foundation 8/04/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $271,917 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Funds are provided to deploy a single, strategically placed mooring in the core of the western Arctic boundary current east of Barrow Canyon, which will colle National Science Foundation 8/04/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $269,318 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This project will develop probability models and inferential methods for the analysis of data collected using Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS). RDS is an inno National Science Foundation 8/24/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $244,801 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The investigator will carry out several research projects studying various aspects of conformal geometry and asymptotically hyperbolic metrics. These include National Science Foundation 7/23/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $238,615 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The objective of this research is the development of new generalized integrated imaging and communication technologies making use of recent studies on several National Science Foundation 8/19/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $237,072 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This award is an outcome of the NSF 09-524 program solicitation ''George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Research (NEESR)''
This spending item is part of a $638,327 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 7/17/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $223,196 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Ross Sea is a highly productive area within the Southern Ocean, but it experiences substantial variability in both physical (temperature, ice concentrations, salinity, winds, and current velocities) and biogeochemical (chlorophyll, productivity, micro
This spending item is part of a $831,131 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 8/05/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $217,297 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Funding is provided to obtain new ice core accumulation records from Combatant Col, Mt. Waddington, in southwestern British Columbia (BC), Canada. Combatant Col is located significantly farther south than other existing ice core sites along the west coast National Science Foundation 6/04/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $204,142 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support COLLABORATIVE RESEARCHPOPULATION RESPONSE TO QUATERNARY ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: GREAT BASIN LAGOMORPHS AS A CASE STUDYElizabeth A. Hadly, Department of Biology, Stanford UniversityDonald Grayson, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington_________ National Science Foundation 8/19/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $192,833 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Changes in the magnitude and seasonality of Arctic summer vegetation production over the past several decades have been documented. These changes will likely National Science Foundation 8/20/2009
NORTHWEST RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, INC. $192,558 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Collaborative Research: Mode Water Formation in the Lofoten Basin: A Key Element in Meridional Overturning Circulation. The project seeks to increase our understanding of a key process in the Earth's climate system, the Nordic Seas transformation pathw
This spending item is part of a $245,912 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 6/17/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $185,341 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestement Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Luminescence dating has become an increasingly useful chronological tool over the last couple of decades in archaeological and geological sciences. This is d National Science Foundation 7/19/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $172,618 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The Sound Citizen Apprenticeship Program is a pilot partnership between the University of Washington's School of Oceanography, the UW Institute for Science an National Science Foundation 8/07/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $160,879 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).0854399/0854445Mankoff/LandayThis research will leverage mobile technologies and sensors to empower individuals with personal feedback about their carbon emis National Science Foundation 8/12/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $153,862 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Spatial and temporal integration of carbon and mineral fluxes: a whole watershed approach to quantifying anthropogenic modification of critical zone carbon sequestration. To quantify the impacts on the global carbon cycle of humans as geological agents, a
This spending item is part of a $4,315,607 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 9/18/2009
SEATTLE UNIVERSITY $148,676 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support In this project we study two topics in theoretical nuclear physics related to the structure of hadrons (e.g. protons, neutrons and their antiparticles) and to their interactions. The first topic is the fundamental question of how the properties of a hadr National Science Foundation 7/31/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $141,001 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This proposal is awarded using funds made available by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The research objective is the development of new discretization methods for complex models driven by partial differential equatio National Science Foundation 9/14/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $140,743 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).A request is made to fund additional and back-up instrumentation on the R/V Thomas Thompson, a 274? general purpose Global research vessel and the R/V Cliffor National Science Foundation 9/08/2009
O F M RESEARCH INC $136,277 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Volcanoes are places where molten rock erupts on the surface of the Earth; they are both major natural hazards and fascinating targets for scientific study because they are messengers from the interior of our planet, where melting of rocks takes place. T National Science Foundation 6/04/2009
O F M RESEARCH INC $136,277 Collaborative Research - Solution Thermodynamics of Igneous Pyroxenes and Garnets National Science Foundation 6/04/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $131,868 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5) Recently, a new mode of coupled deformation and weak seismic radiation has been discovered in numerous subduction zones globally. Slow slip and weak tremor o National Science Foundation 8/02/2009
SEATTLE UNIVERSITY $129,628 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) award funds the acquisition of a fast protein liquid chromatography (FPLC) biomolecule purification system to support an interdisciplinary consortium of Seattle University faculty, their programs in undergraduate National Science Foundation 8/13/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $129,213 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This project will investigate the influence of weather and sea ice noise on polar climates using a modeling technique that has been applied extensively to st National Science Foundation 8/24/2009
SEATTLE UNIVERSITY $127,114 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Seattle University (SU) has received an award from the NSF MRI-R2 program to purchase a large-volume preparative ultracentrifuge to support programs in undergraduate research and education. The large-volume preparative ultracentrifuge is initially being u National Science Foundation 12/10/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $124,997 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Mitchell's project is an investigation of affine flag varieties from the point of view of topology, combinatorics, Lie theory and algebraic geometry. The foc National Science Foundation 8/11/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $121,567 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Voluntary Virtual Organization (VVOs) have harnessed the collective problem solving abilities of diverse groups. This project will study voluntary teaming in Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs), specifically collective story telling in the service
This spending item is part of a $269,976 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 9/01/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $120,665 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This project continues research on Triassic and Jurassic faunas from the Beardmore Glacier region of Antarctica. Research will be supported for one field sea National Science Foundation 8/17/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $85,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). 0853817/0853396Hermanson/TryggvasonThis preliminary experimental and computational research program will study the physical mechanisms of disruption and vapo National Science Foundation 8/17/2009
SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY $74,998 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Development of Discipline Centered National Model for STEM Teacher Preparation National Science Foundation 6/23/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $53,956 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The objective of this research project is to advance the vision of a universal bio-signal acquisition system-on-chip (SoC). Such a system would have the abili National Science Foundation 8/07/2009
EARTH AND SPACE RESEARCH $53,354 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Collaborative Research: Mode Water Formation in the Lofoten Basin: A Key Element in Meridional Overturning Circulation. The project seeks to increase our understanding of a key process in the Earth's climate system, the Nordic Seas transformation pathw
This spending item is part of a $245,912 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 6/17/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $42,613 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). A request is made to fund additional and back-up instrumentation on the R/V Thomas Thompson, a 274? general purpose Global research vessel and the R/V Cliff National Science Foundation 8/02/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $35,170 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support MRI-M2 Consortium: Development of the US ATLAS Physics Analysis Instrument (APAI) for the Analysis of Data from the ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider
This spending item is part of a $620,000 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 3/03/2010
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $31,860 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Dr. Jason De Leon (University of Washington) will undertake research on the relationship between shifts in recent United States Border Patrol security measure National Science Foundation 6/23/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $25,531 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This research examines the history of emergent complexity in Northwest Alaska over the past 2000 years through a focused study of archaeological pottery from National Science Foundation 8/27/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $16,153 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The research is using remote sensing, geotechnical investigations, and traditional reconnaissance information to collect, process, interpret, and digitally archive ground failure events (landslides and a massive, several km2 lateral spread) from an approx
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National Science Foundation 7/17/2009
SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY $14,604 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Significant progress has been made on technical solutions for implementing security while preserving varying degrees of privacy for mobile electronic devices.
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National Science Foundation 8/12/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $0 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).When a smooth complex surface degenerates to a singular surface with an ordinary double point there is a so called vanishing cycle: a two dimensional sphere w National Science Foundation 9/01/2009