Awards

American Samoa Power Authority

Matthew Jackson

SB150139                     7/1/15-12/31/15                                  $15,143

A preliminary geochemical characterization of lavas from a 600 meter drill core in Tutuila, American Samoa      

Cal EPA Toxic Substances Control, Department of

Arturo Keller, Roland Geyer

14-T3952                    4/23/15-6/30/16                                  $93,500

Pilot Study on Alternatives Assessment                                                      

California Department of Water Resources

Patricia Holden

14-476-550                 1/1/15-11/30/18                             $1,987,869

Microbial Source Tracking in the Santa Barbara Region                               

California Natural Resources Agency

Joel Michaelsen, Lisa Stratton

U59316-0                    5/1/15-5/1/17                                 $1,000,000

North Campus Open Space Restoration                                                     

City of Santa Barbara

Patricia Holden

21400222                    9/9/14-1/31/15                                    $24,991

Verification Monitoring in Santa Barbara                                                     

City University of New York (CUNY)

Sangwon Suh

40E48-A                       7/15/14-6/30/18                                $466,517

WSC-Category 3: A National Energy-Water System Assessment Framework (NEWS): Stage I Development   

Conservation International

Christopher Costello

1000487                      9/1/14-8/31/16                                    $25,164

Maintaining productivity and incomes in the Tonle Sap fishery in the face of climate change    

Consortium for Ocean Leadership

Cathy Busby

T350A44                      3/30/14-2/28/15                                  $13,429

U.S. Science Support Program                                                                   

DA Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

Jeffrey C. Dozier, Ned Bair

W913E5-15-C-0003     1/20/15-1/19/16                                $150,215

Methods to Estimate and Validate the Spatial Distribution of Snow Water Equivalent (SWE)      

Donors Trust

Margarita Portnykh, Gary Libecap

73346928                    8/1/14-7/31/15                                    $96,951

Essays on Adaptation to Climate Change                                                   

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Jeffrey Dozier

NNX12AJ87G                6/1/12-9/30/16                                    $94,090

                                    6/1/12-9/30/16                                    $70,568

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

Laura Hess

NNX12AD27G               1/6/12-1/5/16                                    $100,000

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

Stéphane Maritorena, David Siegel

NNX13AK22A                5/15/13-5/14/17                                $237,832

Creating Unified Ocean Color Data Records with Uncertainties.                    

Stéphane Maritorena, David Siegel

NNX15AC65G               11/25/14-11/24/17                            $158,793

How useful will the PACE UV bands be for IOP retrievals and atmospheric correction?   

Norman Nelson, David Siegel

NNX14AG24G               3/26/14-3/25/16                                $104,579

Ocean Color Observations on CLIVAR: Opportunities in 2014 and 2015       

Norman Nelson, David Siegel

NNX14AM83G               7/2/14-7/1/17                                    $357,499

                                    7/1/14-7/1/17                                    $180,620

Bermuda Bio-Optics Project: Continuation of Time-series and Retrospective Data Analysis     

David Siegel, Norman Nelson, Stéphane Maritorena

                                    3/1/15-2/28/20                                  $202,535

North Atlantic Aerosol and Marine Ecosystem Study (NAAMES)                     

David Siegel

NNX14AL94G                7/7/14-7/6/17                                    $364,001

                                    7/7/14-7/6/17                                    $238,000

Plumes and Blooms: A Multi-Decadal Coastal Bio-Optical Time-series and Retrospective Data Analysis     

National Aeronautics and Space Administration Subtotal             $2,108,517

National Science Foundation

Ralph Archuleta

1449275                      1/1/15-12/31/15                                  $38,006

Numerical Modeling of Earthquake Motions: Waves and Ruptures                

Cathy Busby

EAR-1347901               3/1/14-2/28/18                                    $91,537

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

Joan Florsheim, Edward Keller

EAR-1359734               9/15/13-2/29/16                                    $6,102

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

Bradley Hacker

EAR-1419751               9/1/14-8/31/16                                    $95,066

                                    9/1/14-8/31/16                                    $78,699

Collaborative Research: Did the Pamir gneiss domes and salient form by northward underthrusting of India or southward subduction and rollback of Asia?                                                               

Matthew Jackson

EAR-1347377               8/1/14-7/31/17                                    $22,773

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

Matthew Jackson, John Cottle, Bradley Hacker, Matt Rioux, Syee Weldeab

EAR-1429648               9/1/14-8/31/17                                  $524,244

MRI: Acquisition of a Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer (TIMS) for high-precision research of the Earth's mantle, crust and oceans                         

Arturo Keller, Patricia Holden, Hunter Lenihan, Galen Stucky, Josh Schimel, Roger Nisbet, Sangwon Suh, Robert Miller, Barbara Herr-Harthorn

SB140059                     9/1/13-5/31/15                                  $134,532

                                    9/1/14-8/31/15                               $1,098,224

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

Robin Matoza

1546139                      5/11/15-7/31/16                                  $63,493

Collaborative Research: Constraining Volcanic Jet Dynamics with Infrasound Using Numerical and Empirical Models      

John M. Melack

DEB-1242594               9/1/12-8/31/17                                      $7,500

LTREB Renewal-Collaborative Research: Responses of High Elevation, Acquatic Ecosystems to Interannual Climate Variability

Susannah Porter

EAR-1411594               9/1/14-8/31/17                                  $280,343

Collaborative Research: Toward a global timeline of biological and ocean geochemical change during the early Cambrian     

Josh Schimel

PLR-1417758               7/1/14-6/30/17                                  $704,320

Does E. vaginatum take up organic N?                                                       

National Science Foundation Subtotal                                        $3,144,839

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Jamison Steidl

NRC-HQ-60-15-C-0001                                                                       5/1/15-1/15/16 $186,000

Observations and Analysis of Geotechnical Array Data                                

Oregon State University

David Siegel

NS257A-A                     6/30/14-6/30/16                                  $80,286

MODIS-based phytoplankton carbon and photoacclimation: responses to climate variability   

Outhwaite Foundation

Lisa Stratton

SB150075                     2/1/15-11/30/15                                    $6,500

Ellwood-Devereux Connecting the Community with Nature                          

Pennsylvania State University

John Melack

4916-USB-DOE-0620   9/1/13-8/31/15                                  $145,099

Scale-aware, Improved Hydrological and Biogeochemical Simulations of the Amazon Under a Changing Climate  

Total S.A. (France)

Chen Ji

SB150037                     8/15/14-1/31/15                                  $54,630

Collaborative Project Between Total and University of California, Santa Barbara: Developing and testing a method to simultaneously inverting moment tensor solutions and locations for micro-seismic events near a high velocity interface 

UC Office of the President

Gary Libecap, Christopher Costello, Andrew Plantinga, Oliver Deschenes, Paulina Oliva Vallejo, Kyle Meng

MR-15-328650            1/1/15-12/31/16                                $283,780

Legal Economic Data and Analysis of Environmental Markets                       

UC Sea Grant College Program

Erin Bray, Tom Dunne

                                    12/1/14-11/30/15                                $64,785

How Hydrologic Processes, Geomorphological Processes, and their Interactions in Gravel Rivers Sustain the Extent and Quality of Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) Spawning Habitat During Managed Flow Regimes        

University Corp for Atmospheric Research

Leonel Romero

Z15-13065                   6/17/15-10/31/15                                $26,856

Numerical Modeling of Non-Equilibrium Wind-Waves in the Southern Ocean 

University Industry Research Corporation

James Frew

SB130034                     10/1/14-9/30/15                                $124,000

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

University of California - Merced

Naomi Tague

1331939                      10/1/13-9/30/15                                  $86,035

Southern Sierra Critical Zone Observatory                                                  

University of California – Santa Cruz

Roger Nisbet

UCSCMCA-11-008         10/1/10-9/30/15                                  $56,944

Investigations in Fisheries Ecology.                                                            

University of Southern California

Ralph Archuleta

10202846                    2/1/14-1/31/15                                    $30,000

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

Ralph Archuleta

57443669                    1/1/15-3/31/15                                      $8,500

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

Jean Carlson, Ralph Archuleta

Y86552-J                      2/1/15-1/31/16                                    $10,000

                                    2/1/12-1/31/16                                    $20,000

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

Chen Ji, Ralph Archuleta

Y86552-R                     2/1/12-1/31/16                                    $30,000

SCEC4 Participation, Project R: Characterization of induced micro-seismicity associated with one hydraulic fracturing experiment near the San Andreas Fault, Central California                                            

Alexander Simms, Ralph Archuleta

Y86552-L                     2/1/12-1/31/16                                    $23,200

                                    2/1/12-1/31/16                                    $17,500

SCEC4 Participation, Project L: Collaborative Research: Documentation of Tsunami Deposits in the Carpinteria and Goleta Slough Estuaries: A signal of Great Earthquakes on the Pitas Point Thrust               

Jamison Steidl, Ralph Archuleta

Y86552-B                     2/1/12-1/31/16                                    $30,000

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

Jamison Steidl, Ralph Archuleta

Y86552-A                     2/1/12-1/31/16                                    $30,000

SCEC4 Participation, Project A: SCEC Borehole Instrumentation Center         

University of Southern California Subtotal                                     $199,200

US Geological Survey

Alexander Simms

G14AC00277                8/1/14-7/31/15                                    $19,508

Geologic Controls on Karst in western Oklahoma                                        

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Laura Hess, John Melack, Thiago Silva

426670-19B03             1/14/14-1/13/17                                $174,978

Impacts of floods and droughts on aquatic macrophytes, forests, and fisheries of central Amazonian river floodplains  

Grand Total                                                                         $10,635,736