Santa Barbara County, Calif., funds by National Science Foundation
Listing $20,644,824.00 in stimulus funds from National Science Foundation for Santa Barbara
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 |
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| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $1,590,272 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Recent advances in imaging have enabled multimodal/multiscale observations of complex natural systems. Annotating, harvesting, extracting, and correlating t
This spending item is part of a $1,950,000 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| FRANK SCHIPPER CONSTRUCTION CO. | $1,401,334 |
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
This spending item is part of a $1,725,740 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 9/18/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $1,197,306 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Recent years have witnessed a dramatic change in the goals and modus operandi of malicious hackers. In particular, hackers have realized the potential monet | National Science Foundation | 9/03/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $1,000,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Graduate Research Fellowship Program that readies GRFP fellows for teaching and science research in the work force. | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $900,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The University of California, Santa Barbara's (UCSB) Division of Mathematical, Life, and Physical Sciences, UCSB's Gevirtz Graduate School of Education (GGS | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $848,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Proposal Title: RI: Medium Collaborative Research: Minimalist Mapping and Monitoring Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Abstract Date: 05/05/09 'This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $730,000 | 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 award funded by the Experimental Physical Chemistry Program of the Division of Chemistry, Professor Michael Bowers of University of California, Santa | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $705,703 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The pH of the ocean is predicted to decrease by 0.2-0.5 pH units in the next 50 to100 years as a result of increasing atmospheric CO2. To date almost all th | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $700,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Accurate wireless measurements are critical to the sustained growth of deployed wireless networks, as well as the successful development of wireless innova | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $685,000 |
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.
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National Science Foundation | 9/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $665,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).' Proposal #: 09-60316 PI(s): Brown, Frank, L.; Fredrickson, Glenn, H.; Garcia-Cervera, Carlos; Gilbert, John, R.; Van de Walle, Christian, G. Institution: | National Science Foundation | 4/23/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $499,945 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Humans are increasingly living in urban ecosystems. Cities cover only one to two percent of Earth's surface, but they are important hotspots of biogeochemi | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $498,363 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).' A Resource-Scalable Unifying Framework for Aural Signal Coding The objective of this project is to achieve a comprehensive, unifying framework and corres | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $464,703 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support TECHNICAL ABSTRACT: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). A rapidly expanding field of research concerns the development of new techniques for optical imaging of nanometer to micron scale struc | National Science Foundation | 3/04/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $450,000 |
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
This spending item is part of a $9,999,997 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $405,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Malicious software is one of the most pressing security problems on the Internet. The main reason for the apparent failure of current defense approaches is | National Science Foundation | 8/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $403,254 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support An Integrated Multiscale Platform for Fundamental Studies of Peptide Self Assembly Peptides are exceptionally versatile platforms for tunable molecular self assembly, forming an impressive variety of nanoscale morphologies in response to cues spanning tem | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $399,914 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).' Objective: The objective of the proposed research is to develop solid-state devices for achieving controlled and efficient coupling between single photon | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $391,382 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The margins of continents have been subducted to profound depths (more than 100 km) deep within Earth?s interior many times throughout the last 500 million | National Science Foundation | 7/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $390,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This Award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). TECHNICAL SUMMARY: The recent discovery of the existence of a stable L12 phase field in the ternary Co-Al-W system suggests a path for development of a new | National Science Foundation | 1/20/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $368,488 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This proposal seeks to address a wide range of research challenges involving OLAP (OnLine Analytical Processing). This collaborative project is concerned wit | National Science Foundation | 7/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $361,394 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5) The 12 May 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan, China earthquake is the largest intraplate earthquake recorded by modern geophysical observations. It ruptured unilaterally | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $360,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5) This Materials World Network Award by the Solid State Materials Chemistry program and the Office of Special Programs in the Division of Materials Research to | National Science Foundation | 8/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $341,828 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Continent collisions can form large plateaus, like Tibet, producing thick crust and high topography that affects climate change. How plateaus grow to become | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $333,705 | 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), Alec M. Wodtke from the University of California Sa | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $330,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This Materials World Network project is supported by DMR-CER and DMR-OSP. This Materials World Network research program between Prof. Roberto Fornari from t | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $317,113 | 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 the PI will test four hypotheses about what drives changes in the Atlantic overturning circulation on orbital timescales over the last 3 Ma. | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $316,755 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). TECHNICAL SUMMARY: This collaborative project aims to study the detailed interfacial structure of semiconducting and dielectric polymers. The influence of | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $314,469 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The interfacial activity of copolymers and polymer functionalized nanoparticles in multiphase polymer systems holds deep scientific interest and enormous industrial importance. In addition to the variety of basic science questions they raise, these synthe | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $313,386 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Abstract Arctic soils have large stores of carbon (C) and may act as a significant CO2 source with warming. However, the key to understanding tundra soil | National Science Foundation | 7/09/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $301,642 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The Arctic is undergoing structural and functional changes that appear to be the result of climate change, including shifts in vegetation distribution, inc | National Science Foundation | 7/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $282,370 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Both the mechanisms of growth of orogenic plateaus and the processes that control or limit their growth remain controversial. Within currently active orogen | National Science Foundation | 6/18/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $278,770 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The performance of wireless networks critically depends upon the careful design of networking protocols. Networking protocols are traditionally designed bas | National Science Foundation | 8/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $278,144 | 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 project is the documentation of spontaneous connected speech, with a focus on conversation in natural settings, in two languages indigen | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $269,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Historical static spectrum assignment has led to a critical spectrum shortage. While new prominent wireless technologies starve for spectrum, large chunks | National Science Foundation | 8/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $214,813 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Collaborative Research: Ocean Oxidation and the Biosphere during Neoproterozoic Glaciation Susannah Porter (Lead Principal Investigator); EAR-0922305 University of California Santa Barbara Matthew Hurtgen; EAR-0921913 Northwestern University ARRA State | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $200,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Everyday spatial behaviors in geographic space are essential activities in a person's life. Researchers have not yet developed instruments that sufficiently examine and evaluate these spatial behaviors, which include, among others, wayfinding, following d | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $200,000 | 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 initiate work on the development of methods for two unprecedented reactions: (1) in situ Grignard formation and use in cross-coupling react | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $180,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The research objective of this Grant Opportunity for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) Collaborative Research award is to develop capabilities for engi | National Science Foundation | 7/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $155,455 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support ANDRILL (ANtarctic geological DRILLing) is an international, multidisciplinary program designed to investigate Antarctica's role in Cenozoic global environmental change. After two successful drilling projects, ANDRILL proposes to move northeastward and ou
This spending item is part of a $2,684,370 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $123,084 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Pulic Law 111-5). Recent hurricanes such as Katrina and Ike have reminded policy makers and planners of the susceptibility of coastal communities to natural forces such as stor
This spending item is part of a $237,537 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| WESTMONT COLLEGE | $114,834 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support MRI-Consortium: Development of a Neutron Detector Array by Undergraduate Research Students for Studies of Exotic Nuclei. Studies of exotic nuclei (those with a large excess of neutrons) are a top priority to address a number of outstanding nuclear physics | National Science Foundation | 9/17/2009 |
| GRT, INC | $99,971 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project is an innovative route to produce liquid fuels from biomass. The process will convert biomass, including lignocellulosic biomass, to liquid fuels, with three key steps. First, a synthetic natural gas | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| LAUNCHPOINT TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | $99,710 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The objectives of this grant were: 1. A formulation of the Virtual Zero Power magnetic bearing controller within the framework of robust controls. 2. A further generalization of the Robust VZP concept to include the ability to reject persistent disturbanc | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $91,087 |
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 proposal is to acquire Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dates from whole cobbles within raised beach ridges and boulder pavements
This spending item is part of a $199,978 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $73,630 |
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
This spending item is part of a $1,725,740 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 9/18/2010 |