Los Angeles County, Calif., funds by National Science Foundation
Listing $109,065,860.36 in stimulus funds from National Science Foundation for Los Angeles
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.
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| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $8,139,998 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Our proposed research on domain-specific computing will develop a methodology and customizable heterogeneous platform that includes: 1) a wide range of customizable computing elements, from heterogeneous fixed cores, to coarse-grain customizable c
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National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $7,500,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science (HSSEAS) proposes to renovate existing research space within Boelter Hall (BH) to support the existing and planned research in sustainability that demand modern experimental facilities, spec | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2010 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $7,067,027 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The goal of this project is to reduce the risk associated with the production of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) airborne imaging spectrometer. The mitigation approach is to develop and testing a Design Verification Unit (DVU) to retire
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National Science Foundation | 9/29/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $3,585,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'This project covers a program of research in ''Fundamental Studies in Nuclear Physics'' at the Kellogg Radiation Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology. It includes primarily experimental research addressing key issues in nuclear physics a | National Science Foundation | 9/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $2,995,563 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Award Description: The Clean Energy for Green Industry (Clean-Green) IGERT at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is designed to train U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers for leadership roles in the clean energy sector - university-industry- | National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $2,475,347 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Research and Training Grant 'Analysis and Applications' has as its aim the increase of the numbers of US students interested in mathematics and, more specifically, in fields related to mathematical analysis. The grant provides training funds to under | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $2,469,746 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Title: Research Training in Algebra and related fields. This RTG project aims to enhance graduate, post-doctoral, and undergraduate training in Algebra, Number Theory, Algebraic Geometry and Combinatorics at UCLA. | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $2,257,731 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support TITLE: 'Student Training Through Research on Plasma-Based Accelerators.' This project seeks to provide a coordinated learning and research experience for Ph.D. students from seven universities that have developed different experimental and theoretical | National Science Foundation | 9/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $2,166,251 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Teachers are Key addresses a central aspect of the crisis in computer science (CS) education: the need for quality high school CS teachers and how to build effective supports and professional development system at a local and national level for these teac
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National Science Foundation | 8/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $1,782,780 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Acquisition of a GPU-based cluster for plasma, high-energy density, and computational science at UCLA | National Science Foundation | 7/13/2010 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY AUXILIARY SERVICES, INC | $1,735,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This grant will create a core facility for research in energy and sustainability. The renovations are in the context of the grant to the CREST program to create a Center for Energy and Sustainability. Our College has identified Energy and Sustainability | National Science Foundation | 9/09/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $1,600,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The goal of this project is to take physics-based seismic hazard analysis (SHA) to a new level using petascale computational resources. Building on the scientific and technical successes under their current PetaApps award the PIs will incorporate better t | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| MOUNT WILSON INSTITUTE | $1,486,837 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'Revitalizing Mount Wilson Observatory' - Funds are to enhance the research related infrastructure of the Mount Wilson Observatory. This support is being utilized to repair and paint telescope domes and solar telescope towers, repair/upgrade potable and f | National Science Foundation | 8/27/2010 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $1,200,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'This NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI-R2) Award will enable a three-year grant to purchase an upgrade for a single piece of equipment for imaging the human brain at the California Institute of Technology. The upgrade, a 32-channel Total Imaging M | National Science Foundation | 2/26/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $1,124,844 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Math for America Los Angeles (MfA LA), a non-profit organization formed by the University of Southern California (USC), Claremont Graduate University (CGU) and Harvey Mudd College (HMC), seeks to raise student achievement in the greater Los Angeles area b
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National Science Foundation | 6/10/2009 |
| CAL POLY POMONA FOUNDATION INC | $1,056,293 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The mission of the California-Arizona Minority Partnership for Astronomy Research and Education (CAMPARE) program is to advance Astronomy research and education among Hispanic and other minority students by creating a partnership between California State
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National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $1,050,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'The award enables the acquisition of a computer cluster to allow the simulation of groundbreaking models of astronomical systems to yield high-fidelity, robust, quantitative predictions for multi-messenger astronomy in the form of gravitational waveform | National Science Foundation | 3/16/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $1,019,944 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The STCI: Middleware for Monitoring and Troubleshooting of Large-Scale Applications on National Cyberinfrastructure project aims to provide robust and scalable workflow monitoring services that can be used to track the progress of workflow-based applicati
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National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $1,000,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Graduate research fellowship program. | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $987,032 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'The investigators, with their students and postdocs, pursue an interdisciplinary project with three primary aims. The first aim is the development, optimization, and dissemination of novel computational methods based on arbitrary-order Hermite approxima | National Science Foundation | 9/09/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY AUXILIARY SERVICES, INC | $899,966 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support To achieve the three-fold goal of rigor, relevance, and retention (Three R?s) for the forty highly qualified teachers we hope to send in high-need secondary schools with the help of Noyce scholarships. Integration of research, education and diversity serv | National Science Foundation | 5/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE | $899,746 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The La Verne Noyce Teacher Scholars (LVNTS) program is a collaborative effort between the University of La Verne's College of Arts & Sciences, the College of Education & Organizational Leadership, and local high-need school districts in Southern Californi | National Science Foundation | 5/28/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $889,157 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'Dr. Djorgovski and his team will use the data stream from the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) to search for transient astronomical objects including flare stars, gamma-ray bursts, and strong microlensing events. That survey uses two wide-field tel | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $850,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'A three year old infant can recognize visual objects better than any machine. Despite decades of work on the problem of complex object recognition, the principles used by the brain to solve this problem are still unknown. One major experimental difficul | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $808,556 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project takes on two problems: (1) deciphering ancient texts using computers, and (2) training automated language translation systems without using parallel texts. Statistical language processing software has played little role to date in the analysi
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National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $790,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Obtaining physiological/behavioral data from human subjects in natural environments is essential to the effectiveness and accuracy of social and behavioral research, such as ecologically valid studies of psychosocial stress, addictive cravings, and enviro | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $770,500 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The goal of the project ?STCI: Integrated Resource Provisioning Across the National Cyberinfrastructure in Support of Scientific Workloads? is to develop a resource provisioning system that will provide a common job interface to the two national cyberinfr
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National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $740,999 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Collaborative Proposal: Continuation of the XENON Dark Matter Project: Construction and Underground Operation of an Upgraded XENON100 Detector A continuation fund to support the operation of XENON100 dark matter detection project and to support the constr | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH FOUNDATION | $721,589 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The late endosome and vacuole of yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae are functionally equivalent to the mammalian late endosome and lysosome. Yeast offers the advantage of both conventional and molecular genetic tools and large majority of yeast genes identifi | National Science Foundation | 6/18/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $684,683 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Investigation of nonlinear wave-particle interactions The proposed project is aimed at studying the fundamental wave-particle interactions between energetic electrons and whistler-mode waves. It consists of a theoretical/ modeling component, and an expe | National Science Foundation | 6/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $681,108 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The purpose of this research is to test a set of interrelated hypotheses about the psychosocial benefits of racial/ethnic diversity in urban middle schools. It is hypothesized that greater diversity can benefit students' mental health, intergroup attitud | National Science Foundation | 9/01/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $671,995 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'Firms, governments, and scientists are constantly striving to figure out what goods and services people want most and quantify their worth. The main technique used to do this in economics is to statistically analyze data on what people have bought befor | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $639,694 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Award Description | National Science Foundation | 7/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY CORPORATION, THE | $626,658 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Tropical coral reefs face a suite of environmental assaults ranging from anchor damage to the effects of global climate change (GCC). The consequences are evident throughout the tropics, where many coral reefs have lost a substantial fraction of their cor | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $623,063 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project is focused on implementing novel methods for uncertainty quantification in the context of modeling carbon sequestration. Significant advances in both the basic methodology and computational implementation are proposed. Advances in numerical m | National Science Foundation | 6/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $600,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project focuses on understanding the principles and methods for the design of green networks at the edge of the Internet. The total power consumption of edge networks is estimated to be quite significant, so even moderate improvements in energy-usage | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $600,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project focuses on understanding the principles and methods for the design of green networks at the edge of the Internet. The total power consumption of edge networks is estimated to be quite significant, so even moderate improvements in energy-usage | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $598,814 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Ultra high-throughput holographic on-chip cytometry using inertial micro-fluidics Flow cytometry is a workhorse of modern cell biology and clinical diagnostics, but suffers from three significant downsides: (i) limited throughput; (ii) high cost; and (ii | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| CAL POLY POMONA FOUNDATION INC | $597,520 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The goal of the California Polytechnic University, Pomona Phase II Noyce project is to increase the number of highly qualified elementary, middle, and secondary mathematics and science teachers in two partner districts (Pomona Unified School District and | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $595,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Analytical and Surface Chemistry (ASC) Program of the Division of Chemistry will support the research project of Prof. Nathan Lewis of California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Prof. Lewis and his students will develop a detailed understanding of | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $590,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The present project is focused on reactions of electrophilic metal-carbon bonds with substrates featuring strong C-N bonds in order to understand the mechanism of intimate reaction steps. The breaking of C-N bonds in heterocycles is a significant reaction | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| RANCHO SANTA ANA BOTANIC GARDEN | $586,039 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Collaberative research: Branching in chloridoid grasses: phylogeny and inflorescence diversification | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $585,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'Spin Transport and Dynamics in Nanostructures' Electron spin in nanoscale and low-dimensional systems provides prototypical quantum degrees of freedom, which garnered tremendous attention in recent years. Spins play a central role as building blocks for | National Science Foundation | 6/08/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $576,782 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'Telescopes on the ground must observe objects in deep space through the interference of the earth's atmosphere. As light passes through the atmosphere it gets spread out by turbulence due to wind shear and changes in temperature and pressure within the | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $564,855 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'Mechanical Coupling Between Hair Cells of the Inner Ear' The sense of hearing plays a crucial role in our lives, as it helps us orient ourselves in space and communicate with each other; nevertheless, it remains one of the least understood of the senses, | National Science Foundation | 5/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $562,953 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support New revolutionary technologies have been developed enabling scientists with the ability to rapidly determine the sequence of large amounts of DNA. This will allow scientists in nearly all biological disciplines to rapidly move forward on projects that see | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $557,067 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'Dr Steidel will make a detailed study of the galaxies and gas within a few million light years of bright quasars that we observe as they were 10 billion years ago. Using the Keck telescopes, he will take high-resolution optical and near-infrared spectra | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $556,647 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The goal of this project, 'A Computational Investigation Into Biological Motion Perception,' is to develop a computational theory of biological motion perception by integrating modeling with psychophysical experiments. The theory addresses the underlying | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $555,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'Professor Michael R. Hoffmann of California Institute of Technology is supported by the Analytical and Surface Chemistry Program in the Division of Chemistry to conduct research in an international collaboration with Professor John T. Irvine of St. Andr | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| RANCHO SANTA ANA BOTANIC GARDEN | $540,505 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Broad to fine scale phylogenetic pattern and character evolution in ruellieae (Acanthaceae) | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $533,999 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The productivity of many aquatic ecosystems is often limited by the availability of a key nutrient. In the oceans and in some lakes nitrogen is often that key limiting nutrient. Nitrogen, which is critical for life, occurs in diverse chemical forms includ | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $529,538 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support A four-pixel prototype heterodyne focal plane array based on Monolithic Millimeter Integrated Circuit technology will be built. The purpose is to demonstrate the feasibility of a scalable focal plane array technology based largely on technology developed
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National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $527,244 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Self-control problems are at the core of many of the public policy challenges facing the United States. Examples include obesity, addiction, and low levels of savings. Not surprisingly, given its importance, the problem of self-control has been the subje | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| POMONA COLLEGE | $519,925 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support To build a nervous system, neurons establish functional synaptic connections with specific post-synaptic partners. Many of the proteins involved in axon guidance and synaptogenesis have been identified, yet, our understanding of the interactions between | National Science Foundation | 7/13/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $508,094 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'Many of the future applications of systems and control that will pertain to cyber-physical systems are those related to problems of (possibly) distributed estimation and control of multiple agents (both sensors and actuators) over networks. Examples inc | National Science Foundation | 9/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $500,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'A New Method For Producing Ultra-Cold Molecular Ions' This award is for support of a project working to demonstrate a novel method for producing and trapping ultracold molecular ions. The impact of this method for producing ground-state, ultracold molecu | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $500,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Project is to design, implement and evaluate the personal wellness platform called Health Guardian (HG). The Health Guardian concept introduces a paradigm shift in wellness monitoring - from traditional client to server model to location/environment awa | National Science Foundation | 8/22/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $489,006 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Explanations for why CO2 varies on glacial timescales and why the ice core records are out of sync on millennial-centennial timescales most likely reside in the deep ocean. To learn how we must first know how this reservoir changes under different climat | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE | $483,521 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support MRI:Acquisition of a 500 MHz NMR to Support Teaching and Research with Undergraduates | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $483,056 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'This project is to investigate the role of convection on dynamic stability of the three-dimensional incompressible Euler and Navier-Stokes equations. The main objective is to show that convection together with incompressibility plays an essential role i | National Science Foundation | 5/21/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $479,100 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'Intellectual Merit: We propose to build an event-driven network, a continuation of the NSF VOEventNet, applying the event-driven technology to Astronomy. There are many large surveys coming online (CRTS, PTF, LOFAR, LIGO, LSST, SKA etc) that are scanni | National Science Foundation | 9/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $478,830 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Investigation of current and future urban-climate interactions in metropolitan regions of the southwest U.S. . | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $469,164 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support With support from the Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities: Multiuser program (CRIF:MU), the Departments of Chemistry at the University of Southern California (USC) and California State University - Fullerton (CSUF) will collaborate on the ac | National Science Foundation | 9/21/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $462,458 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Collaborative Research with Carnegie Mellon University, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the University of Pittsburgh. The goal of the proposed Expedition is to develop the next generation of model-checking and abstract-interpreation technology so that for
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National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $450,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project establishes a dedicated computing platform for microsecond simulations to study DNA self-assembly and translocation through solid-state nanopores. The project uses a predictive hierarchical petascale simulation framework to study: Translocati | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $450,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Award title: Analysis of the Cell Biological Mechanisms of Learning and Memory in the Zebrafish. Award description: The purpose of the proposed project will be to develop the zebrafish (Danio rerio) into a useful model system for cellular and molecular s | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $449,571 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support There has been an abundance of research in recent years on polymeric amphiphiles as drug carriers. These materials, formulated as micelles, vesicles and emulsion droplets, can exhibit greater stability and improved control over release compared to convent | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY AUXILIARY SERVICES, INC | $429,449 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The collaboration between JPL and Los Angeles urban colleges enables the CURE REU site to recruit approximately 18 mostly minority and women students per year for research experiences in cutting-edge projects in astronomy, astrophysics, and planetary scie | National Science Foundation | 6/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $428,461 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Over the past two decades, the fundamental importance of iron and other bioactive trace metals in structuring marine food webs and biogeochemical cycles has been realized. Even more recently, over the past several years, the international ocean science co | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $405,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'The thrust of this research effort will focus on the advancement of a unique experimental capability for generating earthquake-like ruptures under controlled laboratory conditions. The experiment features a model specimen with an interface that simulate | National Science Foundation | 6/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $400,633 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Description: The semiconductor industry is likely to see several radical changes in the fabrication and device technologies in the next decade. Conventional after-the-fact changes to design methodologies and tools to technology leads to wasted effort and | National Science Foundation | 6/10/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $400,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'Scheduling policies are at the heart of all computer systems and are a key determinant of system performance. The goal of this project is to provide a rigorous foundation for modern scheduling design issues. The project includes two main directions that | National Science Foundation | 7/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $400,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This proposal is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Prof. Stephen Cronin at the University of Southern California is supported by the Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Syst | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $397,358 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support GEOTRACES is a newly initiated international oceanographic program to identify processes and quantify fluxes that control the distributions of key trace elements and isotopes in the oceans and to establish an understanding of the sensitivity of these dist | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY CORPORATION, THE | $389,811 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Extensive research has demonstrated that early linguistic experience is critical for achieving native-like proficiency in a language. However, what remains unclear is whether early linguistic experience that is limited only to the very early years can sti
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National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $388,215 | 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. Th | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $385,463 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The design on networked control systems for chemical processes and demonstrate their application and effectiveness in the context of process systems of industrial importances. | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $385,197 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This is a collaborative project involving a consortium of six premier U.S universities and one national laboratory to train graduate students in an area of anticipated manpower need: advanced acceleration techniques. Students will be trained in experiment | National Science Foundation | 9/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $381,880 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Seminal insights towards establishing contributions of sensory biology to community ecology. | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY | $375,156 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Math for America Los Angeles (MfA LA), a non-profit organization formed by the University of Southern California (USC), Claremont Graduate University (CGU) and Harvey Mudd College (HMC), seeks to raise student achievement in the greater Los Angeles area b
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National Science Foundation | 6/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $375,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Number theory has seen many significant advances recently. Results from arithmetic geometry and the theories of modular forms and Galois representations have produced a proof Fermat's Last Theorem, solved Serre's modularity conjecture and made fundamenta | National Science Foundation | 6/18/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $372,655 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This is one of 50 Physics REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates)programs in the country. The money is aimed at supporting students coming from institutions around the country to be mentored by faculty in the Physics & Astronomy Department for a per | National Science Foundation | 5/27/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $367,415 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The goals of this research are to (1) develop new proton conducting materials for fuel cell applications and (2) understand fuel cell reaction pathways so as to ultimately eliminate precious metals from fuel cell designs. The significance of successful d | National Science Foundation | 9/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $361,900 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Title: Altered Nociception and Neuronal Migration. Reelin binds to neurons that express the lipoprotein receptors Vldlr and Apoer2, and induces tyrosine phosphorylation of the adaptor protein Disabled1 (Dab1) by Src-family kinases. Mice with mutations in | National Science Foundation | 7/16/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $356,524 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) observations hold a remarkable wealth of information about the early Universe and they recently transformed cosmology i
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National Science Foundation | 3/17/2010 |
| RAND CORPORATION, THE | $349,994 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Information Technology's growing power offers a potential revolution in new tools and methods to support and improve human decision-making. Scneario discovery is one promising new method that supports decisions under conditions of deep uncertainty by iden | National Science Foundation | 8/30/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $349,547 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'Most of the rivers in hilly and mountainous landscapes have small, steep channels, which are typically mantled by boulders that rarely move. In these channels, boulders moderate the rate of river incision, roughen the flow creating local patches of grav | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $345,001 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The goal of this research program is to develop rational synthetic methods for the low temperature, solution phase synthesis of functional inorganic nanocrystals for energy applications. Lower temperature reactions are energy efficient and offer the added | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| POMONA COLLEGE | $343,794 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support We have proposed to develop and deploy a low-cost, remote-access, natural guide star adaptive optics system for the Pomona College Table Mountain Observatory (TMO) 1-m telescope. The system, which we are calling CCAO-CAM, will offer simultaneous dual-band
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| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $338,226 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Central American Magmatic Volatile Histories as Recorded by Apatite Phenocrysts | National Science Foundation | 7/04/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $337,007 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'This project is studying the early history of the geological boundary zone between the Pacific and North America plates in northwestern Mexico. The peninsula of Baja California lies on the Pacific plate, and the rest of Mexico belongs to the North Ameri | National Science Foundation | 7/04/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $333,308 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project will develop and deploy the Dynamic Network System (DYNES), a nationwide cyber-instrument spanning 39 US universities and 16 regional networks. DYNES will support large, long-distance scientific data flows in the LHC, other leading programs i
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| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $330,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'The project proposes to investigate a new type of amplifying coupled-resonator optical waveguide (CROW). The CROW is to be realized in a waveguide geometry with individual resonators formed by grating ''defects''. The waveguide will be fabricated on a h | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, DOMINGUEZ HILLS | $330,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Neutrino Physics, Baryon Number Non-Conservation, and Astrophysics at Super-Kamiolande and the T2K Long Baseline Experiment | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| MOUNT ST MARY'S COLLEGE | $327,337 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support RUI:Genetic Control of Sensory Hair Cell Membrane Channels in Zebrafish | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $321,923 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'Geodetic deformation across the Himalaya reflects primarily locking of the Main Himalayan Thrust (MHT) fault from the surface to a depth of about 15-20km. Local seismic monitoring has revealed clustered seismicity that is probably driven by stress accum | National Science Foundation | 9/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $317,291 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project will provide the necessary photo-excitation and emission data required to understand the important molecular physics and role in planetary atmospheres of molecular nitrogen (N2) by investigating the strong interactions among the Rydberg and v | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| THE AEROSPACE CORPORATION | $315,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This project will determine how short-term dynamics influences the long-term behavior of Earth's inner radiation belt (Van Allen belt). An existing physics | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $311,706 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The proposal seeks funding to continue astronomical site-testing investigations at the South Pole Station using the Gattini-UV camera that will provide data on sky brightness in the Astronomical U and B bands for the very first time. The objectives of th | National Science Foundation | 5/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $311,063 |
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| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH FOUNDATION | $310,092 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Of all the possible measurements that one can make in the archaeological record, recording attributes that allow one to relate a set of attributes for an object in time is perhaps the most important. Given that the archaeological record is a contemporary | National Science Foundation | 3/23/2010 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $306,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award supports theoretical and computational research that will develop new computational algorithms and tools for determining the relationship between the structure of a specific, possibly candidate, material and its properties. The PI will extend | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| CORPORATION FOR EDUCATION NETWORK INITIATIVES IN CALIFORNIA | $305,000 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Research has become progressively more data-intensive, highlighting a need for higher bandwidth network connections between Hawaii and the mainland to support the transfer of input and output datasets of increasing size, as well as the use of interactive
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| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $303,500 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The objective of the research will be to advance the science and technology of visible LEDs fabricated from columnar nanostructures that emit at visible wavelengths and with high efficiencies. Intellectual Merit of the Program A program of research is p | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $300,001 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support In this project we propose the study of SiC membranes which show the potential to overcome some of the difficulties other membranes face, which have proven unstable in the presence of O2 and steam at temperatures higher than 300C; these are the conditions | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $299,995 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Title: SUBREGIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE HUMAN MEDIAL TEMPORAL LOBE IN EPISODIC MEMORY. This project will use high-resolution neuroimaging to investigate how different parts of the human medial temporal lobe contribute to different memory functions. We will id | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $299,012 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: EXPLORING THE CHEMICAL REACH OF THE MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION: SATELLITE/IN-SITU DATA ANALYSIS AND CHEMISTRY/TRANSPORT MODELING | National Science Foundation | 5/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $295,577 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The current filamentation instability (CFI, akin to the Weibel instability) may play an important role in astrophysical phenomena, such as gamma ray burst (GRBs) and magnetic field generation, as well as in inertial confinement fusion (ICF), where fluxes | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH FOUNDATION | $295,226 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support A team of archaeologists and geologists at the Institute for Integrated Research in Materials, Environments, and Societies (IIRMES), California State UniversityG??Long Beach will use NSF funding to support research on ancient technology, economic interact | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| HELIO RESEARCH | $294,969 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support SHINE: How New Active Regions Trigger Erupting Filaments and Associated Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $294,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Synthetic Approaches to Endohedral Complexes and Highly Functional Derivatives of Fullerene C60 | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $285,147 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'In this project, Dr. Ben Oppenheimer of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) and Dr. Lynne Hillenbrand of the California Institute of Technology will conduct a survey of nearby stars to detect planetary companions. They have previously develope | National Science Foundation | 7/13/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY AUXILIARY SERVICES, INC | $284,002 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support will develop a close partnership between the lead institution California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA) and a core partner, the Montebello Unified School District (MUSD). Through mutual engagement in Professional Learning Communities, development o | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $280,961 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Model-based simulation is a computational approach that enables manufacturing firms to perform virtual prototyping instead of relying exclusively on physical prototyping. Research by the Council on Competitiveness indicates that leveraging cyberinfrastruc | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $277,346 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support While the factors that determine the distribution of species in natural ecosystems are relatively well understood, we are lacking a strong conceptual framework for the spatial distribution, diversity, and function of urban plants. This study of the bioge
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| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $275,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'The recently released Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast by the Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities concludes that there is a high probability that an earthquake of magnitude 6 or larger will occur on the southern section of | National Science Foundation | 7/09/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $273,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project, acquiring a networked instrument composed of two complementary Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), supports an extensive program of research in robotics, underwater acoustic communication and networking, marine biology, oceanography, and | National Science Foundation | 5/05/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $270,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support As novel applications for nanocrystalline materials continue to emerge, there is an increasing need for new approaches to manufacture these materials efficiently, at high yield, and with minimal damage to the environment. In this project, two green chemis | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $262,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'Vortices and Bubbles in Cryogenic Liquids' Superfluid helium at very low temperatures is known to flow without friction, but it is known that this superfluid state can be destroyed when the temperature of the liquid is raised above a critical value. It i | National Science Foundation | 9/07/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY CORPORATION, THE | $258,767 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support CSUN (California State University-Northridge) operates the San Fernando Observatory (SFO), which has produced an extensive data set of photometric full-disk solar images covering more than twenty-two years. These images allow precise measurement of the re | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $253,324 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Title: G?Collaborative Research: A 3D Seismic Study of the Pacific-North American Plate Boundary in Southern CaliforniaG? Description: G?We will use data from 34 long-duration, broadband Ocean Bottom Seismometers (OBS) in a passive seismic experiment off | National Science Foundation | 9/10/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $250,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'This project determines the fundamental limits of network secrecy from a network coding perspective, and then applies this theory to improve security guarantees in peer-to-peer and wireless networks. As network coding gains prominence as an important st | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| MAXWELL SENSORS INC. | $250,000 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The goal of the project is to develop a smart sensor network integrated with Zero-Power Radio Frequency Identification-Sensing Tags (FRID-ST) that combines the technology of a digital MEMS sensor and a reconfigurable RF antenna for blood bag application.
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| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $250,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in a class of oxide materials known as cuprates in 1986 had simulated intense worldwide research efforts because of high expectations for potentially a wide range of applications. Although much progress | National Science Foundation | 8/27/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $231,815 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This proposal is the main source of support of the Owens Valley Solar Array (OVSA), a university-based solar-dedicated radio imaging array. This proposal provides the funds to keep the instrument operating, partial support for the personnel on the site at
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| UNIVERSITY CORPORATION, THE | $222,618 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Intellectual Merit: The Pacific-North America plate boundary in southern California is one of the only examples of recorded subduction of an oceanic spreading center in geological history, but this process is likely to be a common component of Earth histo | National Science Foundation | 9/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY CORPORATION, THE | $216,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Technical Summary: This proposal requests support for expanding and strengthening the computational facilities of the W.M. Keck Computational Materials Theory Center (CMTC) at California State University Northridge, a minority-serving institution. The pr | National Science Foundation | 2/24/2010 |
| POMONA COLLEGE | $211,397 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Fusion genes are important markers of evolution and can also be used to aid in identifying protein function and protein interactions. This project will search for and analyze fused genes in eukaryotic genomes. In order to achieve this goal, two software p | National Science Foundation | 7/03/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $200,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Division of Chemistry supports Sean T. Roberts of the University of Southern California (USC) as an American Competitiveness in Chemistry Fellow. Dr. Roberts will study the dynamics of energy migration in organic photovoltaic materials using sophistic | National Science Foundation | 9/18/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $200,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Division of Chemistry supports Michael Walter of California Institute of Technology (CalTech) as an American Competitiveness in Chemistry Fellow. Dr. Walter will investigate the preparation and characterization of metal treated aminophenylporphyrin fi | National Science Foundation | 9/18/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $200,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This proposal describes a research plan to develop methods that use earth-abundant materials and sunlight to enable the reduction of carbon dioxide to chemical fuels that are thermodynamically active but kinetically stable. The development of efficient m | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $200,000 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support STTR:Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal (FLC) Gels for Facile Processing and High Yield Manufacture of Hardened FLC Displays. This goal of this project is to develop a new class of polymer materials that dramatically improve the properties of the liquidf cryst
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| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY AUXILIARY SERVICES, INC | $199,999 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Oxygen (O), carbon (C), phosphorus (P), nitrogen (N), and sulfur (S) are the key elements of life. The scientific community has generated a comprehensive understanding of the oxidation-reduction (redox) chemistry and biogeochemical cycling of all but one | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $185,310 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Understanding the role of environmental change of the long-term population dynamics of one surviving and two extinct arctic mammals. | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| POMONA COLLEGE | $182,226 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This is an RUI project focused on the study of graphs embedded in 3-space. This area of topology was developed in the early 1980's in order to study DNA recombination as well as to aid in the analysis of molecular symmetries. Since then it has continued | National Science Foundation | 7/14/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH FOUNDATION | $179,982 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award comes from NSF and is designed to investigate climate change in the Near East (principally Iran). The award funds geologic and geochemical investigations of lake sediments as a means of reconstructing droughts and monsoon variations through st | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $175,374 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Intellectual merit: Zircon is a widespread component of siliceous igneous rocks and hosts a wide range of trace elements (e.g., REE) and isotopic species (e.g., O, Hf, Pb and U) that are useful for geochronologic, petrogenetic and geochemical studies of t | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $170,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project will combine experiments and computations in the design of flexible propulsors, i.e., to reverse engineer a jellyfish. To successfully replicate the observed swimming performance of jellyfish, it is important to first understand the dynamical | National Science Foundation | 9/29/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $167,924 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This proposal seeks instrument development and infrastructure improvements of an existing radio array, the Owens Valley Solar Array (OVSA), to create a major university-based facility serving a broad scientific community, to keep the U.S. competitive in t
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| LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY INC | $164,293 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project has two goals, both concerning graphs embedded in 3-space. The topological symmetry group of a graph embedded in 3-space is defined as the group of automorphisms of the graph which are induced by homeomorphisms of 3-space. Our first goal is t | National Science Foundation | 7/14/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY AUXILIARY SERVICES, INC | $163,513 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Chromium in its hexavalent form, Cr(VI), is mobile and toxic in the environment. Reduction of Cr(VI) to the trivalent form, Cr(III), is a very important process as it renders Cr immobile and less toxic. Reduction induces stable isotope fractionation, and | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $163,173 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'The ability of an animal to maneuver can determine its success at avoiding predators, catching food, and other fundamental behaviors that define the margin between life and death. Most research on the biomechanics of animal motion has concerned the init | National Science Foundation | 7/03/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $160,094 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support During the Cenozoic, southwestern North America underwent a shift from Farallon subduction to the present Pacific - North American strike-slip plate boundary, the San Andreas fault system (SAF). As a result, much of the southwestern U.S. experienced exten | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY LLC | $160,020 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support An important component of the proposed work is development of an ?Online Community Center.? This new feature will document how COSEE and its Network-level partners bring scientists and educators together to participate in high-quality interactions. This
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| HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE | $157,489 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Nucleotide substitution is an important mechanism by which genomes change over evolutionary time. This project seeks to improve our understanding of nucleotide substitution by focusing on an aspect that is currently poorly characterized: how the context o | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $154,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Global well-posedness for dispersive partial differential equations at critical regularity | National Science Foundation | 10/29/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, DOMINGUEZ HILLS | $150,677 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Collaborative Research: US - Costa Rica International Research Experiences for Students: Tropical Ecology Mentorship Program of Southern California | National Science Foundation | 5/20/2009 |
| OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE | $150,200 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This is an RUI proposal focused on the study of graphs embedded in 3-space. This area of topology was developed in the early 1980?s in order to study DNA recombination as well as to aid in the analysis of molecular symmetries. Since then it has continued | National Science Foundation | 7/14/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY AUXILIARY SERVICES, INC | $150,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The broad goal of this award is to establish an International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) program focusing on Applications in the Chemical Separations Sciences between the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at California State Universi | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY INC | $149,603 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This engineering education research award to Loyola Marymount University will employ researchers to create and assess an on-line interactive learning environment called the Virtual Engineering Sciences Learning Lab (VESLL). The resources of the popular Se | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| BAKER-CALLING, INC. | $149,265 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project seeks to develop to develop a commercially viable, self-calibrating, piezoelectric micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) microphone. The acoustical specifications of these microphones (measured by | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $148,787 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The title of the project is 'Investigating the mechanics of conjugate strike-slip faults and its implications for continental deformation'. The work consists of three components: (1) field investigations mapping the geometry and kinematics of active conju | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $146,143 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This study will investigate aspects of aerial respiration and amphibious capacity in mudskipper fishes (Family Gobiidae), which are renowned for their capacity to live out of water. The research will probe the genetic bases for the evolutionary progressio | National Science Foundation | 7/18/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $145,543 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Although earthquakes are commonly modeled as frictional instabilities on planar fault surfaces, most natural faults have a more complex structure. Most displacement appears to be concentrated in one or more relatively narrow (mm to cm scale) ?cores? of hi | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $142,017 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Granted funds will support acquisition of an electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD) camera and an energy dispersive spectrometer (EDS) for a recently acqu | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| J PAUL GETTY TRUST, THE | $137,300 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The scientific study of works of art and other cultural heritage materials offers insight into past cultures, provides a means to rediscover historic technologies, and improves our ability to preserve precious objects for future generations. Funds from th | National Science Foundation | 3/15/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $134,107 |
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
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| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $132,552 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Principal Investigator will work on problems relating arithmetic properties of classical objects of study in algebraic geometry, i.e., so-called rational and nearly rational varieties, to their geometry by means of extremely refined invariants rooted | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| PITZER COLLEGE | $132,392 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Motivated by analogies with geometrically minimal surfaces, the PI recently introduced the notion of a topologically minimal surface in a 3-manifold. Such a surface has an associated disk complex that is either empty, or is non-contractible. Topologically | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $130,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The investigator will develop designs for statistical experiments that adapt over time to incoming data -- so-called 'adaptive designs' -- and plans for analyzing data coming out of such experiments for two general classes of problems: (I) optimal paramet | National Science Foundation | 7/04/2009 |
| OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE | $128,834 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Symbiont separation and investigation of the novel heterotrophic Osedax symbiosis using comparative genomics: The diversity and pervasiveness of bacterial partnerships with animals is only now being fully appreciated. In many marine environments these sy | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $120,421 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Investigation of the evolution of leaf form in Viburnum (Adoxaceae), a clade of c. 168 shrubs and trees that display a striking diversity of many key leaf traits. | National Science Foundation | 6/06/2009 |
| PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY | $108,587 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Pepperdine University has acquired a Cell Lab Quanta SC Flow Cytometer system. The flow cytometer instrument will be utilized in our summer undergraduate research programs and Honor's research program in original, student generated research projects. This | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $108,558 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Longmen-Shan Fault (LSF) located at the east margin of the Tibetan Plateau in western China is featured by active tectonics. It was broken in total length of 300 km with the maximum slip larger than 9 m in the devastating M8 Wenchuan earthquake on May | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE | $107,504 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The goal of this proposal is to train talented students from underrepresented groups to become field ecologists engaging in international collaboration. To accomplish this goal, the PIs will provide a comprehensive year-round research experience, includi | National Science Foundation | 5/29/2009 |
| OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE | $106,205 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Within the last decade, technology in the biological sciences, allowing for the measure of gene expression, enzyme activity, and compound synthesis in response to the environment, has advanced a great deal. These biological parameters play a central | National Science Foundation | 12/09/2009 |
| FIBRON TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | $100,000 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project seeks to develop polyaniline nanofibers into a biologically responsive multi-functional material for use as a tool for the rapid and inexpensive diagnosis of urinary tract infections (UTIs) th
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| SYNTOUCH | $100,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This grant is to support development of a tactile sensor that is robust and suitable for advanced robotic systems. | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $100,000 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support We have proposed to develop and deploy a low-cost, remote-access, natural guide star adaptive optics system for the Pomona College Table Mountain Observatory (TMO) 1-m telescope. The system, which we are calling CCAO-CAM, will offer simultaneous dual-band
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| SHEETA GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY CORP | $99,969 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This NSF Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project aims at developing a novel diamondoid/promoter/carbonaceous nanostructure with enhanced hydrogen storage capability, through simultaneously increasing their porous sizes and hydrogen binding abil | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| TELESCENT, INC. | $99,805 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will develop a new type of optical power monitor based on microwires and nanowires patterned | National Science Foundation | 5/29/2009 |
| METROZET LLC | $99,077 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This NSF Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project entitled Seismic Inertial Data Fusion provides the foundational work for a novel data fusion method that corrects rotational effects in seismic data. | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| BIOTIC LABORATORIES, INC. | $98,328 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project focuses on enhancing combinatorial and timed release of drugs for the localized treatment of cancer. Currently there are few solutions for localized elimination of tumor cells following surgic | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $96,333 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The proposed project concerns perturbation theory of almost periodic Jacobi and CMV matrices with finite or infinite gap spectrum as well as asymptotic analysis of the associated orthogonal polynomials on the real line and the unit circle, respectively. T | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $96,073 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project partners researchers at Drexel, Carnegie-Mellon, MIT, Ohio State, Penn, Purdue, USC, and Virginia Tech to develop a new platform for humanoid robotics research, enabling roboticists in the US to work for the first time with a common instrumen
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National Science Foundation | 7/08/2010 |
| ADVANTAGEOUS SYSTEMS LLC | $90,000 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Title: STTR Phase I: Desalination Using Functionalized Magnetic Nanoparticles: This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project proposes the research and development of a functionalized magnetic nanoparticle to be used in a new water desalination
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National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $88,885 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The goal of the proposed work is to understand the dynamics of the Earth?s interior and the long-term evolution of our planet. The motion of tectonic plates and the attendant earthquakes are surface expressions of a large-scale flow in the interior, which | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $88,785 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Diversity Climate Network (D-ClimNet) is a national partnership among the University of Vermont (UVM), the University of California - Los Angles (UCLA) and the University of Georgia (UGA) to create a pipeline of under-represented students from the hig
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National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $87,833 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Extensive research has demonstrated that early linguistic experience is critical for achieving native-like proficiency in a language. However, what remains unclear is whether early linguistic experience that is limited only to the very early years can sti
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National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $85,270 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'Dr. Andrew F. Boden of the California Institute of Technology will undertake a study of the properties of binary stars at various stages of their lives. Binary stars are fundamental calibrators of stellar evolution, since the masses of the stars and the | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE | $80,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project is a small component of a large 5-year NSF grant that began in July 2009. During the 2010-11 academic year, two students at Harvey Mudd College is investigating the minimum reliable operating point for sequential elements. The hypothesis is | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| CAL POLY POMONA FOUNDATION INC | $79,246 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The 12 PIs of this collaborative project will use lacustrine sediments to produce 13 new high-resolution climate records of the past 8000 years. The study sites form two focus regions (eastern Beringia and the NW Atlantic) that generally coincide with the
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National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE | $74,999 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support We have proposed to develop and deploy a low-cost, remote-access, natural guide star adaptive optics system for the Pomona College Table Mountain Observatory (TMO) 1-m telescope. The system, which we are calling CCAO-CAM, will offer simultaneous dual-band
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National Science Foundation | 3/02/2010 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH FOUNDATION | $74,913 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project is a planning grant with the ultimate goal of submitting a full proposal in spring 2010. The project involves science and mathematics educators, Los Angeles County Office of Education and an external evaluator. We will be determining the stru | National Science Foundation | 5/21/2009 |
| POMONA COLLEGE | $74,400 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project is conducted by the United States affiliates of World Wide Views on Global Warming, in collaboration with the global project organizer, the Danish Board of Technology, and approximately 10 additional partners at sites where WWViews deliberati
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National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| PLASMA TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATED | $70,000 |
National Clean Diesel Funding Assistance Program The Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) Phase I project will develop a functionally graded nanostructured thermal barrier/environmental barrier coating (TBC/EBC) system for aerospace and power generation gas turbines. Introducing ceramicic co... Show more
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National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE | $69,574 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Project Title: Reactions and Fate of Amines in the Atmosphere Emitted from Animal Feeding Operations. The project is an ambient study of amine incorporation into particulate matter using the Particle-Into-Liquid-Sampler (PILS) Ion Chromatography system i | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $65,500 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award provides funds to conduct workshops aimed at improving the broader impacts efforts of scientists. Through professional development workshops, scientist-graduate student teams will produce interactive materials based on the ?Ocean Literacy? and | National Science Foundation | 9/10/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $60,618 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The project supports the design and development of a sensitive, broadband antenna and receiver to observe the evolution with redshift of highly redshifted neutral hydrogen, throughout the epoch of reionization. The system, operating in the 45 - 200 MHz r
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National Science Foundation | 9/03/2009 |
| Urban Semillas | $60,000 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support While the factors that determine the distribution of species in natural ecosystems are relatively well understood, we are lacking a strong conceptual framework for the spatial distribution, diversity, and function of urban plants. This study of the bioge
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National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY CORPORATION, THE | $57,825 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The project will develop a validated probabilistic, performance-based seismic design procedure for buildings with passive damping systems. In this procedure, the design of the damping system is integrated with the design of the associated seismic load res
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National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $55,284 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The Community Infrastructure for General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics (CIGR) collaboration will create a modern, scalable, and open, community toolkit a
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National Science Foundation | 9/18/2009 |
| Mil Tech International Inc | $52,011 |
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
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National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $50,000 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project seeks to develop polyaniline nanofibers into a biologically responsive multi-functional material for use as a tool for the rapid and inexpensive diagnosis of urinary tract infections (UTIs) th
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National Science Foundation | 6/18/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $49,953 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support For two decades now, virtually all systematic analysis of the contemporary Supreme Court and its members has relied on Harold J. Spaeth's U.S. Supreme Court Judicial Database. This holds for research conducted by social scientists and, increasingly, by le
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National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| GEOSPACE RESEARCH INC | $48,253 | 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 utilize satellite altimetry data to identify the specific ocean source responsible for thermospheric Acoustic Gravity Wave observation | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $47,240 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Collaborative Research: Identification and estimation of semiparametric panel data models | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| BIOQUIP PRODUCTS, INC. | $41,360 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Renovation of ANSP Entomology Department Research Collection & Associated Lab
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National Science Foundation | 10/01/2010 |
| ARGUS CONTRACTING LP | $40,750 |
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 to replace a cluster of greenhouse bays on the UCSB campus. The current greenhouse has four bays, is old and decrepit, and is scheduled for
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National Science Foundation | 9/18/2010 |
| QUINSTAR TECHNOLOGY, INCORPORATED | $35,500 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support NSF/NCAR C-130 Modernization:To ensure that the NSF/NCAR C-130 remains a premier research platform, able to operate safely for the next 20 years, very important modernization efforts are planned: 1) Replace avionics to be compatible with the next generat
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National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $26,971 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) is the dominant form of atmospheric intraseasonal variability in the climate system. It interacts with and influences a wide range of physical weather and climate phenomena (e.g., monsoon onsets and breaks, El Nino-Sou | National Science Foundation | 5/28/2009 |
| H2w Technologies, Inc. | $23,115 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Infrastructure improvements at the National Solar Observatory (NSO). NSO is a Federally Funded Research Center that operates telescopes and research facilities on Kitt Peak on property leased from the Tohono O'odham Nation in the Quinlan Mountains in Ariz
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National Science Foundation | 9/03/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $22,175 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Investigation of the temporal and spatial evolution of volcanism related to giant calderas in the Central Andes through detailed dating and chemical analysis of zircon crystals. | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $20,865 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'GEOTRACES is a newly initiated international oceanographic program to identify processes and quantify fluxes that control the distributions of key trace elements and isotopes in the oceans and to establish an understanding of the sensitivity of these di | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |