Awards

Cal EPA Toxic Substances Control, Department of

A. Keller, S. Suh

13-T3804         6/16/14-8/31/15         $109,921

Chemical Life Cycle Database and Visualization Tool        

 

 

Cal EPA Water Control Board

J. Florsheim, E. Keller

13-068-120         3/6/14-6/30/15         $100,000

San Gregorio Creek Watershed Sediment Budget        

 

 

California Coastal Conservancy

J. Michaelsen, L. Stratton

13-115         5/27/14-6/30/16         $869,300

North Campus Open Space Restoration (previously named Upper Deveroux Slough) Project Planning Phase, UCSB        

 

J. Thorsch

13-078         6/10/14-9/30/15         $25,000

Kids in Nature Explore the Coast        

 

     California Coastal Conservancy Subtotal          $894,300

 

Columbia University

D. Siegel

3 (GG006565-09)         1/1/13-12/31/14         $30,424

Atmospheric Correction Over Coastal Oceans using Hyperspectral Imaging and Scanning Polarimetry (ACOCO-HISP)         (NASA Flow-through)

 

Consortium for Ocean Leadership

C. Busby

T350A44         3/30/14-2/28/15         $86,349

U.S. Science Support Program        

 

DA Army Engineers/Vicksburg District, Corps of

D. Booth

W912HZ-12-2-0016         9/21/12-9/30/14         $54,036

Web-Based Conceptual Model for Urban Stream Systems        

 

 

East Carolina University

N. Nelson

A13-0184         8/9/13-8/8/14         $7,662

A workshop on the laboratory measurement of the spectral absorption of color dissolved organic matter        

 

Electric Power Research Institute

A. Keller

EP-P42069/C18398         11/1/11-11/30/14         $20,000

Modeling Nutrient Credit Calculations in Ohio River Basin        

 

A. Keller

00-10001423         10/1/13-7/31/14         $9,995

Publication on "Use of InvEST to evaluate ecosystem services"        

 

     Electric Power Research Institute Subtotal          $29,995

 

Great Lakes Exploration

P. Gans

SB140046         7/1/13-6/30/14         $31,915

Exploration of the Rochford Area, Black Hills, South Dakota: An Integrated Geologic Mapping and Framework Study        

 

International Potato Center (CIP)

L. Carvalho, C. Jones

SB120184         1/1/12-12/31/15         $150,000

Regional Climate Variability and Changes in the Central Andes        

 

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

J. Dozier

NNX12AJ87G         9/1/13-9/30/16         $87,440

         6/1/12-9/30/16         $156,529

Assessing Water Resources in Remote, Sparsely Gauged, Snow-Dominated Mountain Basins.        

 

J. Dozier, J. Frew

NNX11AK35A         6/24/14-6/23/15         $349,687

         6/24/11-6/23/15         $170,000

         6/24/14-6/24/15         $21,881

Error Analysis of MODIS Fractional Snow-Covered Area and Snow Albedo in Mountain Regions.        

 

L. Hess

NNX12AD27G         1/6/12-1/5/15         $283,277

         1/6/12-1/5/15         $100,000

         1/6/12-1/5/15         $241,299

Land and Resource Use on the Amazon Floodplain Under Evolving Management Systems and Environmental Change: Fish, Forests, Cattle, and Settlements.        

 

S. Maritorena, D. Siegel

NNX11AE87G         2/8/14-2/7/15         $92,730

From UV to Fluorescence, a Semi-analytical Ocean Color Model for MODIS and Beyond.        

 

S. Maritorena, D. Siegel

NNX13AK22A         5/15/13-5/14/17         $232,556

Creating Unified Ocean Color Data Records with Uncertainties.        

 

N. Nelson, D. Siegel

NNX14AG24G         3/26/14-3/25/16         $170,000

Ocean Color Observations on CLIVAR: Opportunities in 2014 and 2015        

 

D. Siegel

NNX11AL94G         7/7/13-7/6/14         $275,000

         7/7/13-7/6/15         $114,583

Evaluating NPP Ocean Color Data Products in a Complex Coastal Environment: The Plumes and Blooms Program.        

 

D. Siegel

NNX13AC35G         11/13/12-11/12/14         $9,287

Controls on Open Ocean Productivity and Export eXperiment - COOPEX

        

 

D. Siegel, T. Bell

NNX12AO05H         9/1/12-8/31/14         $30,000

         9/1/12-8/31/15         $30,000

Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Kelp Condition in the Santa Barbara Channel.        

 

D. Siegel, F. Henderikx-Freit

NNX11AQ26H         9/1/13-8/31/14         $30,000

Bio-optical Variability of Plumes, Blooms and Relaxations in the Santa Barbara Channel: How Biased are our Current Assessments?        

 

     National Aeronautics and Space Administration Subtotal          $2,394,269

 

National Science Foundation

C. Busby

EAR-1347901         3/1/14-2/28/18         $45,505

Collaborative Research: The Rosario Segment of the Cretaceous Alisitos Oceanic Arc (Baja California, Mexico): An Outstanding Field Analog to the Izu Bonin Arc        

 

C. Busby

EAR-1358130  8/1/14-7/31/17         $116,048

REU Site: Collaborative Research: Field-Based Research on the Gulf of California Rift Margin Basins, Baja California Sur (Mexico)

 

J. Clark

OCE-1260353         6/1/13-5/31/15         $76,243

Collaborative Research: Completing single- and cross-hole hydrogeologic and microbial experiments: Juan de Fuca Flank.        

 

B. Clarke

EAR-1324627         9/1/13-8/31/15         $25,549

Collaborative Research: Differentiating Between Lithologic and Baselevel Controls on River Profiles: Canyons of the Colorado Plateau        

 

F. Davis

EF-1065864         6/1/13-5/31/16         $40,000

Collaborative Research: Do Micro-environments Govern Macro-ecology?        

 

J. Florsheim, E. Keller

EAR-1359734         9/15/13-8/31/15         $16,764

Collaborative Research: RAPID: Short-and Long-term Sediment Dynamics Following Wildfire in Chaparral Environments        

 

J. Frew

1302236         8/1/13-7/31/16         $250,364

III: Medium: Collaborative Research: Citing Structured and Evolving Data        

 

B. Hacker

EAR-1008760         6/1/14-5/31/15         $5,114

Collaborative Research: The Suturing Process: Insight from the India-Asia Collision Zone.        

 

B. Hacker, A. Kylander-Clark

EAR-1348003         3/1/14-2/28/17         $304,644

What Causes UHT Metamorphism: Lengthscales and Timescales        

 

M. Jackson

OCE-1153894         7/1/13-9/30/15         $184,293

Collaborative Research: Using the Rurutu hotspot to evaluate mantle motion and absolute plate motion models        

 

M. Jackson

EAR-1430610         9/2/13-1/31/15         $99,395

Isotopic diversity in Mangaia melt inclusions: Mantle source or crustal assimilation?        

 

M. Jackson

OCE-1419915         9/2/13-3/31/14         $392

Constraining mantle flow between Samoa and the northern Lau and N. Fiji Basins with geochemistry and geodynamics        

 

M. Jackson

EAR-1348082         6/1/14-5/31/15         $111,566

Collaborative Research: Using sulfur isotopes to identify subducted Archean crust in modern oceanic hotspot lavas        

 

M. Jackson

EAR-1347377           8/1/14-7/31/17         $8,783

Collaborative Research: The role of oxygen fugacity in calc-alkaline differentiation and the creation of continental crust at the Aleutian arc

 

A. Keller

CBET-1343638         8/1/13-7/31/14         $45,000

Second Sustainable Nanotechnology Conference (2013)        

 

A. Keller, P. Holden, H. Lenihan, G. Stucky, J. Schimel, R. Nisbet, S. Suh, R. Miller

SB140059         9/1/13-8/31/18         $1,129,052

         9/1/13-8/31/14         $11,639

CEIN (2013-2018) Predictive Toxicological Assessment and Safe Implementation of Nanotechnology in the Environment        

 

B. Kendall

DEB-1120865         8/1/11-7/31/15         $12,325

Collaborative Research: Demographic heterogeneity in landscapes and communities        

 

J. Schimel, P. Holden

DEB-1145875         5/1/12-4/30/15         $199,407

Collaborative Research: Controls over C Sequestration: Physiology vs. Physics        

 

C. Sorlien, B. Luyendyk

PLR-1341585         1/1/14-12/31/16         $155,539

Subsidence, Tilting, Sedimentation, and Oligocene-middle Miocene paleo-depth of Ross Sea        

 

J. Thorsch

DBI-0956281         9/1/13-8/31/15         $35,696

         9/1/14-8/31/15         $29,240

Collaborative Proposal: Harnessing the Power of Herbarium Specimens to Understand the Changing Flora of a Biodiversity        

 

     National Science Foundation Subtotal                   $2,902,558

 

Northeastern University

J. Steidl

501947-78052         10/1/13-9/30/15         $31,519

Induced-Partial Saturation Through Transport and Reactivity for Liquefaction Mitigation.        

         (NSF Flow-through)        

 

Oregon State University

J. Ohlmann

S1364A-A         3/1/12-2/28/15         $53,355

DYNAmics of the Madden-Julian Oscillation / DYNAMO Subsurface Fluxes.

         (NSF Flow-through)        

 

Outhwaite Foundation

L. Stratton

SB140075         1/1/14-1/31/15         $10,000

Ellwood-Devereux Connecting the Community & Nature        

 

Pennsylvania State University

J. Melack

4916-USB-DOE-0620         9/1/13-8/31/14         $133,031

Scale-aware, Improved Hydrological and Biogeochemical Simulations of the Amazon Under a Changing Climate         (DOE Flow-through)

 

Purdue University

J. Steidl

NEES-4101-31902         10/1/09-9/30/13         $37,636

         10/1/09-9/30/14         $44,803

         10/1/09-9/30/14         $45,897

         10/1/09-9/30/14         $372,633

         10/1/09-9/30/14         $83,768

NEES Consortium Operations: 2004-2014.        

 

     Purdue University Subtotal                   $584,737

 

Southern California Coastal Water Research Project (SCCWRP)

P. Holden

9406         1/1/14-1/31/16         $194,209

Determination of DNA-based Fecal Marker Aging Characteristics for Use in Quantitative Microbial Source Tracking        

 

The Institute of Museum and Library Services IMLS

J. Thorsch

MA-30-13-0466-33         10/1/13-9/30/14         $99,374

Digitization of the UCSB Vascular Plant Collection        

 

University Industry Research Corporation

J. Frew

SB130034         10/1/13-9/30/14         $62,000

         10/1/13-9/30/14         $62,000

Intel Science and Technology Center for Big Data - ISTC-BD        

 

     University Industry Research Corporation Subtotal          $124,000

 

University of California - Merced

N. Tague

20130866         10/1/13-9/30/14         $24,566

Southern Sierra Critical Zone Observatory          (NSF Flow-through)

 

University of California – Santa Cruz

R. Nisbet

UCSCMCA 13-008         8/8/12-8/7/14         $116,505

From the Watershed to the Ocean: Using NASA Data and Models to Understand and Predict Variations in Central California Salmon.         (NASA Flow-through)

 

University of Southern California

R. Archuleta

10113445         9/1/13-8/31/14         $47,000

SCEC4 Participation, Project F: Broadband Modeling of Earthquake Ground Motions        

 

J. Carlson, R. Archuleta

Y86552-J         2/1/12-1/31/15         $24,000

SCEC4 Participation, Project J: Compactivity, Comminution, Heating, and Disorder - The Physics of Granular Fault Gouge        

 

D. DeVecchio, D. Rood, R. Archuleta

Y86552-K         2/1/12-1/31/16         $6,500

SCEC4 Participation, Project K: Precise Fault Slip Rates on the Oak Ridge Fault: New age constraints on the Saugus Formation using 36Cl/10Be isochron burial dating         

 

J. Steidl, R. Archuleta

Y86552-B         2/1/12-1/31/15         $14,000

SCEC4 Participation, Project B: The SCEC Portable Broadband Instrument Center        

 

J. Steidl, R. Archuleta

Y86552-A         2/1/12-1/31/15         $10,000

SCEC4 Participation, Project A: SCEC Borehole Instrumentation Center        

 

     University of Southern California Subtotal          $101,500

 

University of Washington

J. Shi

727195         6/20/13-6/19/14         $7,000

Forward Physical Radiative Transfer Models and Retrieval Algorithms for Radar Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Snow at X Band and Ku Band.           (NASA Flow-through)

 

US Geological Survey

P. Gans

G14AC00080         4/1/14-3/31/15         $25,677

Geological Mapping of the Southwestern Whipple Mountains and Eastern Mopah Range, Southeastern California: Unraveling the Eruptive and Structural History of a Synextensional Miocene Volcanic Center        

 

D. Rood

G14AP00055TDD         6/1/14-5/31/15         $27,406

Differential Uplift and Incision of the Yakima River Terraces: Collaborative Research with WWU, UVM & State Agricultural College, and UCSB        

 

C. Sorlien

G14AP00012         1/1/14-6/30/15         $55,713

Post-1 Ma Deformation History of the Pitas Point-North Channel-Red Mountain Fault System and Associated Folds in Santa Barbara Channel, California        

 

N. Tague

G10AC00309         7/1/13-6/30/14         $69,439

         7/1/14-6/30/15         $66,871

The Western Mountain Initiative: Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change in Western Mountain Ecosystems.        

 

     US Geological Survey Subtotal                   $245,106

 

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

L. Hess, J. Melack, T. Silva

426670-19B03         1/14/14-1/13/15         $171,137

Impacts of floods and droughts on aquatic macrophytes, forests, and fisheries of central Amazonian river floodplains         (NASA Flow-through)

 

 

     Grand Total                  $8,687,468