Awards
Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc.
S. Maritorena
154444UCSB 8/12/15-8/11/18 $144,592
CORAL: COral Reef Airborne Laboratory
Boise State University
B. Hacker
6800-G 6/1/16-5/31/17 $59,982
PIRE: ExTerra Field Institute and Research Endeavor (E-FIRE)
California Department of Fish and Wildlife
J. Michaelsen, L. Stratton, J. King
P1496006 6/30/15-3/1/20 $999,989
North Campus Open Space Wetlands Restoration
Centro De Investigacion Cientifica De Ensenada CICESE
L. Romero, J. C. Ohlmann
9/18/15-9/17/16 $798,220
Inner-Shelf Near-Surface Horizontal Dispersion
City of Los Angeles
J. Ohlmann
4500318931 9/1/15-8/31/16 $87,692
9/1/15-8/31/16 $14,945
Monitoring the Fate and Transport of the Diversion Effluent Plume from the Hyperion Treatment Plant (City of Los Angeles, Bureau of Sanitation)
City of Los Angeles Subtotal $102,637
Conservation International
C. Costello
1000487 9/1/14-8/31/16 $12,351
Maintaining productivity and incomes in the Tonle Sap fishery in the face of climate change
Donors Trust
M. Portnykh, G. Libecap
73346928 8/1/14-1/31/17 $95,741
Essays on Adaptation to Climate Change
Land Trust for Santa Barbara County
J. Michaelsen, L. Stratton
SB160090 12/21/15-6/30/18 $923,718
North Campus Open Space Devereux Creek Flood Plain Restoration Project
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
T. DeVries
NNX16AI22G 7/1/16-6/30/19 $82,972
Quantifying the ocean's biological carbon pump with remotely sensed and in-situ observations
J. C. Dozier
NNX12AJ87G 6/1/12-9/30/16 $70,568
6/1/12-9/30/17 $172,048
Assessing Water Resources in Remote, Sparsely Gauged, Snow-Dominated Mountain Basins.
J. Dozier
9/1/15-8/31/16 $239,066
CAS-NASA Workshops on Snow and Glacier Change and Related Natural Disasters in High Mountain Asia
S. Maritorena, D. Siegel
NNX13AK22A 5/15/13-5/14/17 $247,759
Creating Unified Ocean Color Data Records with Uncertainties.
S. Maritorena, D. Siegel
NNX15AC65G 11/25/14-11/24/17 $98,335
How useful will the PACE UV bands be for IOP retrievals and atmospheric correction?
N. Nelson, D. A. Siegel
NNX14AG24G 3/26/14-3/25/17 $165,000
Ocean Color Observations on CLIVAR: Opportunities in 2014 and 2015
N. Nelson, D. Siegel
NNX14AM83G 7/2/14-7/1/17 $190,000
7/2/14-7/1/17 $115,610
Bermuda Bio-Optics Project: Continuation of Time-series and Retrospective Data Analysis
D. Siegel, J. Allen
NNX15AN87H 9/1/15-8/31/16 $30,000
Retrieval of Phytoplankton Size Distribution from Satellite Imagery
D. Siegel, N. Nelson, S. Maritorena
NNX15AE72G 3/1/15-2/28/20 $264,992
North Atlantic Aerosol and Marine Ecosystem Study (NAAMES)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Subtotal $1,676,350
National Park Service
D. Booth, T. Dunne
P15AC01121 7/1/15-8/31/16 $220,000
7/1/15-12/31/17 $107,000
Yosemite Valley Merced River Restoration
National Park Service Subtotal $327,000
National Science Foundation
J. Cottle
1443296 9/1/15-8/31/18 $257,128
Petrologic Constraints on Subduction Termination from Lamprophyres, Ross Orogen, Antarctica
F. Davis
1550653 10/1/15-9/30/17 $63,513
Collaborative Research: EAGER-NEON: How do microscale biophysical processes mediate ecosystem shifts during climate change-driven drought?
B. Hacker, J. Cottle
1551054 2/15/16-1/31/19 $332,772
Collaborative Research: Characterizing and Modeling Crustal Recycling
M. Jackson
EAR-1347377 8/1/14-7/31/17 $6,146
Collaborative Research: The role of oxygen fugacity in calc-alkaline differentiation and the creation of continental crust at the Aleutian arc
A. Keller
1554142 9/15/15-2/29/16 $2,479
International travel to participate as reviewer for the third joint transnational call of the ERA-NET SIINN
A. Keller, P. Holden, H. Lenihan, G. Stucky, J. Schimel, R. Nisbet, S. Suh, R. Miller, B. Harthorn
SB140059 9/1/15-8/31/16 $1,092,288
CEIN (2013-2018) Predictive Toxicological Assessment and Safe Implementation of Nanotechnology in the Environment
R. Matoza
1446543 8/1/15-7/31/17 $109,245
8/1/15-7/31/17 $110,755
Characterizing fault zones at Kilauea & Mauna Loa volcanoes by large-scale mapping of earthquake stress drops and focal mechanisms
R. Matoza
1614855 6/1/16-5/31/19 $261,778
Collaborative Research: Quantifying explosive volcanism in Alaska using seismo-acoustic wavefields recorded by USArray
J. M. Melack
DEB-1242594 9/1/12-8/31/17 $7,920
LTREB Renewal-Collaborative Research: Responses of High Elevation, Acquatic Ecosystems to Interannual Climate Variability
S. Pulver, M. Collins
1534976 1/1/16-8/31/18 $83,967
1/1/16-8/31/18 $13,338
Egregious Polluters: A socially-structured explanation of disproportionality in the production of pollution
M. Rioux
EAR - 1250522 2/1/13-1/31/16 $23,029
Timescales of development of sub-ophiolite subduction: High precision U-Pb dating and geochemical characterization of late magmatism and metamorphism in the Oman-U.A.E. ophiolite
C. Sorlien
1537719 10/1/15-9/30/17 $87,059
Collaborative Research: The North Anatolian Fault system in the Marmara Sea, Turkey - Insights from the Plio-Quaternary evolution of a multi-stranded transform
F. Spera
1551056 2/15/16-1/31/19 $96,342
Collaborative Research: Thermodynamics of magma mixing
N. Tague, S. Anderson, A. Plantinga
1520847 9/1/15-8/31/19 $1,724,821
Hazards SEES: Land Management Strategies for Confronting Risks and Consequences of Wildfire
T. Tanimoto
1547523 3/1/16-2/28/18 $102,163
Extreme Interaction Between Atmosphere and Solid Earth: Understanding the Forcing Mechanism by Hurricanes and its Application for Monitoring
National Science Foundation Subtotal $4,374,743
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
J. Steidl
NRC-HQ-60-15-C-0001 5/1/15-4/28/17 $80,000
5/1/15-4/28/17 $160,000
5/1/15-4/28/17 $50,333
5/1/15-4/30/17 $50,000
Observations and Analysis of Geotechnical Array Data
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Subtotal $340,333
Oregon State University
D. A. Siegel
NS257A-A 6/30/14-6/29/16 $70,366
MODIS-based phytoplankton carbon and photoacclimation: responses to climate variability
Pennsylvania State University
J. Melack
4916-USB-DOE-0620 9/1/13-8/31/17 $133,086
Scale-aware, Improved Hydrological and Biogeochemical Simulations of the Amazon Under a Changing Climate
Rutgers University
L. Carvalho
5898 4/1/16-3/31/18 $70,784
The precipitation response to ENSO over Tropical South America: spatial and temporal heterogeneity and the role of the land surface
Santa Barbara Foundation
L. Stratton
SB160074 3/1/16-6/30/17 $18,000
Restoration of the eastern mesa top at Campus Point along the CA Coastal Trail
State Coastal Conservancy
J. Michaelsen, L. Stratton
13-115 5/27/15-6/30/17 $650,000
North Campus Open Space Restoration (previously named Upper Devereux Slough) Project Planning Phase, UCSB
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
L. Stratton
F12AC00683 10/1/12-9/30/17 $10,000
Recovery Activities for Nipomo Lupine
UC Center for Water Resources/UC Riverside
J. Blankinship, J. Schimel
SA11-885-NIWR-BLANKINSHIP 6/1/15-2/29/16 $9,255
Using soil exopolysaccharides (EPS) to make California grapes more drought-adapted
J. Blankinship, J. Schimel
SA15-2997-CA358B 3/1/16-2/28/17 $12,396
2016CA358B: Using soil exopolysaccharides (EPS) to make California grapes more drought-adapted
UC Center for Water Resources/UC Riverside $21,651
UC Sea Grant College Program
E. Keller
R/HCME-31PD-F 1/19/16-12/30/16 $9,264
The Impact of Sea-Level Rise on Coastal Erosion: Using the Coming 2015-2016 El Niño as a Surrogate for 50-100 years of Expected Sea-Level Rise in Central California
University of California, UC Mexus
T. Tanimoto
SB160023 7/1/15-12/31/16 $15,037
Monitoring Hurricanes by the US and Mexican Seismic Networks
University of California, Merced
N. Tague
EAR-1331939 10/1/15-9/30/16 $79,702
Southern Sierra Critical Zone Observatory
University of Maryland
N. Tague, A. Plantinga
Z3708011 7/1/15-3/31/16 $62,980
7/1/15-7/31/16 $11,386
Wildfire Management, Ecosystem Dynamics, and Climate: The Role of Risk Salience in Driving Ecological Outcomes
University of Maryland Subtotal $74,366
University of Southern California
R. Archuleta, J. Crempien
10436016 2/1/16-1/31/17 $30,000
SCEC4 Participation, Project V: Simulation of Kinematic Rupture for Multi-Segment Faults Based on Dynamic Rupture
J. Carlson, R. Archuleta
Y86552-J 2/1/12-1/31/17 $22,000
SCEC4 Participation, Project J: Compactivity, Comminution, Heating, and Disorder - The Physics of Granular Fault Gouge
C. Ji, R. Archuleta
Y86552-S 2/1/12-1/31/17 $11,000
SCEC4 Participation, Project S: M 7.x SIV-Benchmark Simulations for greater L.A. Region
A. Simms, R. Archuleta
Y86552-L 2/1/12-1/31/17 $16,000
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
A. Simms, R. Archuleta
Y86552-T 2/1/12-1/31/17 $12,000
SCEC4 Participation, Project T: Testing Model Predictions of Large Tsunamis Associated with Great Earthquakes on the Pitas Point Thrust using Ground-Penetrating Radar
C. Sorlien, R. Archuleta
15098 2/1/15-1/31/16 $21,000
SCEC4 Participation, Project N: Offshore South-Central California for the Community Fault Model
J. Steidl, R. Archuleta
Y86552-A 2/1/12-1/31/17 $28,000
SCEC4 Participation, Project A: SCEC Borehole Instrumentation Center
J. H. Steidl, R. J. Archuleta
10358789-A 2/1/15-1/31/16 $30,000
SCEC4 Participation, Project P: SCEC Borehole Instrumentation Program
J. Steidl, R. Archuleta
10358789-B 2/1/15-1/31/16 $18,000
SCEC4 Participation, Project Q: The SCEC Portable Broadband Instrument Center
University of Southern California Subtotal $188,000
US Geological Survey
P. Gans
G16AC00157 6/1/16-5/31/17 $42,715
Geologic Mapping of the Snake Range Metamorphic Core Complex, Eastern Nevada: Unraveling the Creatceous-Paleocene History of Burial and Partial Exhumation of Footwall Rocks
N. Tague
G15AC00359 8/1/15-7/31/16 $70,000
The Western Mountain Initiative: Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change in Western Mountain Ecosystems
US Geological Survey Subtotal $112,715
USGS Powell Center
J. Schimel, J. Blankinship
G16AC000053 3/1/16-2/28/17 $50,000
What lies below? Improving quantification and prediction of soil carbon storage, stability, and susceptibility to disturbance
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
L. Hess, J. Melack, T. Silva
426670-19B03 12/3/15-1/13/17 $183,851
Impacts of floods and droughts on aquatic macrophytes, forests, and fisheries of central Amazonian river floodplains
Washington State University (Pullman, WA)
N. Tague
115320 G002931 4/1/11-3/31/17 $7,500
Collaborative Research: Type 2: Understanding Biogeochemical Cycling in the Context of Climate Variability Using a Regional Earth System Modeling Framework.
TOTAL $11,549,978