BE FY 2003 Awards

UNTARGETED BE GRANTS

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Principal Investigator	Title	Institution	Total Awarded
INTEGRATED RESEARCH AND EDUCATION AWARDS
Vladimir Aizen	WCR: Effect of Changes in Climate, Snow Pack, Glaciers, and Permafrost on River Runoff in Tien Shan, Central Asia	University of Idaho	$380,000.00
Emmanouil Anagnostou	WCR: Continuous and High-Resolution Thunderstorm Monitoring in Africa and Beyond to Support Water Cycle Research	University of Connecticut	$331,234.00
Suzanne P. Anderson	Linkages Between soil Water and Stream Water: Hydrology and Hydrochemistry in a Eissected Terraced Landscape	University of Colorado Boulder	$148,306.00
Michael F. Antolin	EID: Plague As a Model for Low Prevalence/epizootic Disease Dynamics	Colorado State University	$1,245,000.00
Subir K. Banerjee	Collaborative Research: Sediment Nanomagnetism and Environmental Change: The Microbial Mineral Link	University of Minnesota at Twin Cities	$299,270.00
Mathew Barlow	Collaborative Research: WCR: Hydrology of Central and Southwest Asia: Connections Between Regional Atmospheric Circulation and Large-scale Climate Variability	Atmospheric and Environmental Research Inc.	$229,147.00
Robin Bell	Understanding the Boundary Conditions of the Lake Vostok Environment: A Site Survey for Future Work	Columbia University	$475,000.00
David R. Benson	Microbial Genome Sequencing: Sequencing of the Frankia CcI3 Genome, a Nitrogen-Fixing Plant Symbiotic Actinomycete	University of Connecticut	$914,922.00
Francine D. Berman	Information Technology Research (ITR): Building the Tree of Life--A National Resource for Phyloinformatics and Computational Phylogenetics	University of California at San Diego	$4,154,000.00
Debashish Bhattacharya	Microbial Genome Sequencing: An EST Approach to Understanding Endosymbiotic Gene Transfer	University of Iowa	$789,987.00
Bruce W. Birren	Microbial Genome Sequencing: Finishing the Draft Genome of Magnaportha grisea	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	$1,300,000.00
Fred Boadu	Hydrological Characterization and Petrophysical Analysis of Saturated and Unsaturated Soils from Electrical Response Measurements	Duke University	$144,713.00
Penelope Boston	Collaborative Research: Identification of Microbial Signatures in Biogenic Cave Ferromanganese Deposits	New Mexico Institute of Mines	$170,340.00
James D. Bowen	Collaborative Research: Impacts of Anthropogenic Change on the Ecology of Human Pathogens in a Eutrophying Estuary: The Neuse River Estuary, NC	University of North Carolina at Charlotte	$196,000.00
Richard Bowen	Ecology of Virus Transmission in Commensal Bat Colonies	Colorado State University	$2,163,479.00
Susan Brantley	Collaborative Research: Sediment Nanomagnetism and Environmental Change: The Microbial Mineral Link	Pennsylvania State University	$100,866.00
Mary B. Brown	URTD & Environmentally-Threatened Gopher Tortoises	University of Florida	$2,206,705.00
Kaye L. Brubaker	Collaborative Research: Characterizing Land Surface Memory to Advance Climate Prediction	University of Maryland	$150,011.00
John F. Bruno	Collaborative Research: Origins and Spread of the Aspergillus-Gorgonian Coral Epizootic: Role of Climate and Environmental Facilitators	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	$259,540.00
Suzanne Carbotte	Establishing an Integrated Multibeam and Geophysical Database for the Antarctic	Columbia University	$334,349.00
S. Craig Cary	Microbial Genome Sequencing: Genomic Sequencing of Two Globally Ubiquitous Members of the Epsilon Proteobacteria Found in Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Environments	University of Delaware	$374,524.00
Theodore Clark	Microbial Genome Sequencing: Gene Discovery and Mapping Tools for Ichthyophthirius: A Complementary DNA Resource	Cornell University	$499,755.00
Keith Clay	EID: Microbial Community Ecology of Tick-Borne Human Pathogens	Indiana University	$1,884,001.00
Andrew S. Cohen	REU Site: The Nyanza Project--Interdisciplinary Tropical Lake Studies Associated with the International Decade of East African Lakes (IDEAL)	University of Arizona	$1,006,482.00
Sharon K. Collinge	Landscape Effects on Disease Dynamics in Prairie Dogs	University of Colorado Boulder	$1,776,000.00
Douglas J. Crawford-Brown	Collaborative Research: Impacts of Anthropogenic Change on the Ecology of Human Pathogens in a Eutrophying Estuary: The Neuse River Estuary, NC	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	$1,599,055.00
Heidi M. Cullen	Collaborative Research: WCR: Hydrology of Central and Southwest Asia: Connections Between Regional Atmospheric Circulation and Large-scale Climate Variability	Georgia Institute of Technology	$115,985.00
Aiguo Dai	WCR: Quantifying Fresh Water Fluxes, Runoff and Precipitation in the Global Water Cycle and Applying Them to Evaluate the Community Climate System Model (CCSM)	University Corporation for Atmospheric Research	$386,064.00
Andre A. Dhondt	Dynamics of An Emerging Pathogen in an Introduced Host	Cornell University	$2,396,233.00
Paul A. Dirmeyer	Collaborative Research: Characterizing Land Surface Memory to Advance Climate Prediction	Institute of Global Environmental Society	$252,997.00
Tosha Dupras	Acquisition of an Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer for Applications in Anthropology, Ecology and Conservation Biology	University of Central Florida	$162,855.00
Jonathan A. Eisen	Microbial Genome Sequencing: Complete Genome Sequencing of the Extremely Halophilic Archaea Haloferax Volcanii	Institute for Genomic Research	$247,185.00
Jonathan A. Eisen	Microbial Genome Sequencing: Shotgun Sequencing of Tetrahymena thermophila	Institute for Genomic Research	$2,567,000.00
Dara Entekhabi	Collaborative Research: WCR: Incorporation of Model Bias and Uncertainty in Land Surface Hydrologic Flux Prediction Using a Data Assimilation Network	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	$103,070.00
Jeremy B. Fein	Environmental Molecular Science Institute: Actinides and Heavy Metals in the Environment - The Formation, Stability, and Impact of Nano- and Micro-Particles	University of Notre Dame	$5,500,000.00
Ernest Fontes	Development of a Small Angle X-ray Scattering Station for Dynamical Materials Studies and Education	Cornell University	$300,000.00
Malcolm J. Gardner	Microbial Genome Sequencing: Genome Sequencing of the Protistan Parasite Perkinsus Marinus	Institute for Genomic Research	$1,656,540.00
Wayne Marcus Getz	Metapopulation Models and Control of Tuberculosis in African Buffalo	University of California at Berkeley	$1,812,146.00
Steven Gill	Microbial Genome Sequencing: Sequencing of Plasmids from the Bacillus Cereus Group-Mapping the Evolution of B. Anthracis Virulence Plasmids px01 and px02	Institute for Genomic Research	$998,715.00
Jeffrey I. Gordon	Microbial Genome Sequencing: Comparative Microbial Genome Analysis of the Human-Bacteroides Symbiosis	Washington University School of Medicine	$1,993,732.00
Michael Graves	Microbial Genome Sequencing: Algal Virus Genomics	University of Massachusetts at Lowell	$309,227.00
Robert P. Gunsalus	Microbial Genome Sequencing: Sequencing and Analysis of the Syntrophus Aciditrophicus Genome	University of California at Los Angeles	$449,779.00
Vijay Gupta	WCR: Designing a Pilot Study for Floods in the Walnut River Basin, KS, Using a Scaling Framework	University of Colorado Boulder	$515,564.00
Richard Han	SENSORS: Collaborative Research: Self-configuring In Situ Wireless Sensor Networks For Prescribed Fire Management	University of Colorado Boulder	$306,812.00
C. Drew Harvell	Collaborative Research: Origins and Spread of the Aspergillus-Gorgonian Coral Epizootic: Role of Climate and Environmental Facilitators	Cornell University	$1,088,508.00
Patrick G. Hatcher	EMSI: Role of Environmental Molecular Interfaces on the Chemical and Biological Reactivity of Pollutants	Ohio State University Research Foundation	$5,800,135.00
John J. Helly	Workshop to Advance Long-Term Data and Metadata Interoperability in the Environmental and Earth Sciences	University of California at San Diego	$113,631.00
Roger W. Hendrix	Microbial Genome Sequencing: Sequences of Exceptionally Large Bacteriophage Genomes	University of Pittsburgh	$642,764.00
N. Thompson Hobbs	Spatial & Temporal Dynamics of Prion Disease in Wildlife: Responses to Changing Land Use	Colorado State University	$91,961.00
Scott M. Husson	Acquisition of an Atomic Force Microscope for Materials Research and Education	Clemson University	$100,000.00
David W. Hyndman	WCR: Quantifying the Impact of Land Use and Climate Change on Groundwater/Surfacewater Interactions in Regional Great Lakes Watersheds	Michigan State University	$490,000.00
John J. Iandolo	Microbial Genome Sequencing: Sequencing and Annotation of the Bdellovibrio Strain W Genome	University of Oklahoma	$281,000.00
Aleksey Kaplan	Collaborative Research: WCR: Hydrology of Central and Southwest Asia: Connections Between Regional Atmospheric Circulation and Large-scale Climate Variability	Columbia University	$56,199.00
Jim D. Karam	Microbial Genome Sequencing: Sequencing Genomes of the T4-like Myoviridae	Tulane University	$285,000.00
C. Kent Keller	Chemical Hydrology of Vascular Plant Growth: Role of Root-Fungus Associations	Washington State University	$249,722.00
Thomas H. Kunz	ITR: Advanced Imaging and Information Technology for Assessing the Ecological and Economic Impact of Brazilian Free-Tailed Bats on Agroecosystems	Boston University	$2,400,000.00
Armand Kuris	Anthropogenic Effects on Host-Trematode Dynamics	University of California at Santa Barbara	$2,202,000.00
Herbert Levine	ITR: Center for Computational Biophysics	University of California at San Diego	$5,000,000.00
Leonard Lion	Microbial Mediation of Manganese Cycling: Formation of Biogenic Mn Oxides, Oxide Scavenging of Toxic Metals, and Coupled Fates Subject to Predation by Protozoan Grazers	Cornell University	$653,513.00
Jennifer Macalady	Microbial Community Controls on Sulfide Oxidation Rates and Cave Formation in a Subsurface Biogeochemical System	Carleton College	$179,935.00
Steven A. Margulis	Collaborative Research: WCR: Incorporation of Model Bias and Uncertainty in Land Surface Hydrologic Flux Prediction Using a Data Assimilation Network	University of California at Los Angeles	$212,829.00
Amy Martin-Carnahan	Microbial Genome Sequencing: Aeromonas Hydrophila Under the Auspices of the Microbial Genome Sequencing Program	University of Maryland at Baltimore	$499,999.00
Carmen Martinez	Microbial Processes and Populations as Related to Zinc, Cadmium and Sulfur Speciation in Natural Metalliferous Soil Environments	Pennsylvania State University	$378,032.00
Margaret Martonosi	ITR: ZebraNet: Position-aware Power-aware Wireless Computing for Wildlife Tracking	Princeton University	$1,299,999.00
William K. Michener	Environmental Cyber-infrastructure Needs for Distributed Sensor Networks Workshop; San Diego, CA; August 2003	University of New Mexico	$109,821.00
Nicole Molders	WCR: Impact of Land-use Changes and/or Radiative Forcing on Water Availability and the Pathways and Interactions of the Global and Regional Water Cycles	University of Alaska at Fairbanks	$333,244.00
Mitchell W. Moncrieff	WCR: Organized Convective Precipitation Over the U.S. Continent	University Corporation for Atmospheric Research	$379,202.00
Willard S. Moore	Collaborative Research: Chemistry of Groundwater Transport Pathways Associated with a Coastal Lagoon System	University of South Carolina	$154,273.00
Nancy A. Moran	Discovery and Characterization of Bacterial Endosymbiont Diversity in Drosophila	University of Arizona	$510,000.00
Francois M. Morel	Center for Environmental BioInorganic Chemistry	Princeton University	$5,450,000.00
Bernard M. Moret	Information Technology Research (ITR): Building the Tree of Life -- A National Resource for Phyloinformatics and Computational Phylogenetics	University of New Mexico	$3,540,907.00
Krista A. Morgansen	Information Flow in a Heterogeneous Distributed System: Biomimetic Approaches to Embedded Coordinated Control	University of Washington	$399,868.00
Karen E. Nelson	Microbial Genome Sequencing: Salinibacter ruber: A Bacterium that Behaves Like a Haloarchaean	Institute for Genomic Research	$349,973.00
Eugene W. Nester	Microbial Genome Sequencing: Genome Sequencing of Agrobacterium biovar Type Strains	University of Washington	$1,039,782.00
Claudia Neuhauser	BIOCOMPLEXITY-Evolution and Ecology of Perturbed Interactions: Modeling Disequilibria in Time and Space	University of Minnesota at Twin Cities	$2,965,346.00
Diana E. Northup	Collaborative Research: Identification of Microbial Signatures in Biogenic Cave Ferromanganese Deposits	University of New Mexico	$291,644.00
Harris C. Nusbaum	Microbial Genome Sequencing: Phytophthora	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	$457,000.00
Craig Packer	Viral Transmission Dynamics in the Serengeti	University of Minnesota at Twin Cities	$1,482,000.00
Brian P. Palenik	Microbial Genome Sequencing: Life at the Land/Ocean Margin: Genomic Analysis of a Coastal Cyanobacterium	University of California at San Diego	$475,000.00
Marc B. Parlange	WCR: Evaporation and the Atmospheric Boundary Layer Over Hilly Terrain: Instrumentation, Experimentation and Simulation	Johns Hopkins University	$389,893.00
Ann Pearson	A New Interdisciplinary Frontier: Merging Molecular Biology with Isotopic Geochemistry	Harvard University	$488,478.00
Nathan G. Phillips	WCR: Vegetation Control of Ecohydrologic Processes	Boston University	$338,412.00
Satish B. Rao	Information Technology Research (ITR): Building the Tree of Life -- A National Resource for Phyloinformatics and Computational Phylogenetics	University of California at Berkeley	$1,229,749.00
Richard J. Reeder	EMSI: Stony Brook-BNL Collaboration to Establish a Center for Environmental Molecular Science (CEMS)	State University of New York at Stony Brook	$5,700,000.00
Forest Rohwer	Biodiversity of Aquatic Phage	San Diego State University Foundation	$363,880.00
Michael J. Sadowsky	Microbial Genome Sequencing: Complete Genomic Sequencing of Arthrobacter aurescens strain TC1	University of Minnesota at Twin Cities	$699,245.00
Adam Schlosser	Collaborative Research: Characterizing Land Surface Memory to Advance Climate Prediction	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	$98,928.00
Alex Sessions	Collaborative Research: Hydrogen Isotope Biogeochemistry of Anoxic Environments - Field and Laboratory Studies	California Institute of Technology	$299,743.00
David Siegel	BE/CNH: Disparate Scales of Process and Nearshore Fishery Management	University of California at Santa Barbara	$1,995,951.00
Garriet W. Smith	Collaborative Research: Origins and Spread of the Aspergillus-Gorgonian Coral Epizootic: Role of Climate and Environmental Facilitators	University of South Carolina	$162,083.00
James A. Smith	WCR: The Hydrology of Extreme Floods in Mountain Watersheds	Princeton University	$215,000.00
Brian H. Smith	EID: How Social Organization Influences an Infectious Process: The Honey Bee Colony As a Model	Ohio State University Research Foundation	$272,000.00
Kerry Smith	Microbial Genome Sequencing: The Genome Sequence of Methanosaeta concilii - An Educational Tool	Clemson University	$276,247.00
Jay R. Stauffer	Schistosomiasis: Ecological Interactions Among Schistosomes Snail Hosts, Human Hosts, and Fish Predators	Pennsylvania State University	$1,631,000.00
Libby A. Stern	Collaborative Research: WCR: Ecohydrology of semiarid woodlands: Role of woody plants in the water cycle	University of Texas at Austin	$166,335.00
Donald L. Taylor	Microbial Genome Sequencing: Coupling Diversity with Function: Metagenomics of Boreal Forest Fungi	University of Alaska at Fairbanks	$800,000.00
Stanley Tyler	15N Isotopomeric Site Preferences and Enrichment Factors for Nitrification and Denitrification: A New Constraint to the N2O Global Budget	University of California at Irvine	$162,155.00
David L. Valentine	Collaborative Research: Hydrogen Isotope Biogeochemistry of Anoxic Environments - Field and Laboratory Studies	University of California at Santa Barbara	$299,670.00
Gerardo R. Vasta	Collaborative Research: Origins and Spread of the Aspergillus- Gorgonian Coral Epizootic: Role of Climate and Environmental Facilitators	University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute	$217,862.00
Pieter Visscher	Mechanisms of Calcium Carbonate Precipitation and Dissolution: Microbial Populations, Metabolic Processes and Mineral Products	University of Connecticut	$332,106.00
Tandy J. Warnow	Information Technology Research (ITR): Building the Tree of Life -- A National Resource for Phyloinformatics and Computational Phylogenetics	University of Texas at Austin	$839,243.00
Andreas P. Weber	Microbial Genome Sequencing: Genome Analysis of Galdieria sulphuraria - A Unique Unicellular Thermo-Acidophilic Photosynthetic Microorganism	Michigan State University	$1,200,000.00
Mark Wells	Collaborative Research: What Limits Denitrification and Bacterial Growth in Lake Bonney, Taylor Valley, Antarctica?	University of Maine	$392,598.00
Geoffrey B. West	Universal Scaling Laws in Biology: Origins, Applications, and Ramifications	Sante Fe Institute	$431,103.00
Brad Wilcox	Collaborative Research: WCR: Ecohydrology of semiarid woodlands: Role of woody plants in the water cycle	Texas A&M University	$331,360.00
Herbert L. Windom	Collaborative Research: Chemistry of Groundwater Transport Pathways Associated with a Coastal Lagoon System	Skidaway Institute of Oceanography	$306,852.00
Terry L. Yates	EID: Ecological Drivers of Rodent-borne Disease Outbreaks: Trophic Cascades and Dispersal Waves	University of New Mexico	$1,675,000.00
John Yin	QSB: Integrated Dynamics of Cell-cell Communication	University of Wisconsin at Madison	$499,899.00
AWARDS FOR EXPLORATORY AND DEVELOPMENTAL ACTIVITIES
Domy Adriano	SGER: Regulation of Metal Bioavailability in Floodplain Continuum by Carbon and Sulfur Cycling	University of Georgia Research Fdn Inc.	$99,906.00
Ronald Benner	Evolution of Hydrogen-Based Microbial Communities in Deep Hydrothermal Aquifers	University of Southern California	$100,000.00
Karl W. Flessa	Americas Program Dissertation Enhancement: The Importance of Colorado River Flow to Endemic Fish of the Northern Gulf of California: Evidence from Stable Isotopes in Fish Otoliths	University of Arizona	$9,155.00
Eric Gaidos	Microcosm Investigations of Carbonate Reef Microbial Biogeochemistry	University of Hawaii	$79,948.00
Stephen J. Giovannoni	SGER (small grant for exploratory research): Sequencing a Pelagibacter (SAR11) Genome	Oregon State University	$99,598.00
Robyn Hannigan	WCR: Linkages Between the Chemical Weathering of Black Shales and Metal Contamination in Aquatic Systems	Arkansas State University	$80,991.00
Max A. Moritz	SGER: EID: Fire and the Sudden Oak Death Epidemic	Wildlife Conservation Society	$54,728.00
Kenneth Nealson	Collaborative Research: Sediment Nanomagnetism and Environmental Change: The Microbial Mineral Link	University of Southern California	$104,095.00
Steven Osofsky	Animal Health for the Environment And Development (AHEAD) Planning Forum - World Parks Congress, Durban, South Africa, September 2003	Wildlife Conservation Society	$17,970.00
Robert R. Parmenter	SGER: Invasion and Establishment Dynamics of West Nile Virus in the Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico, Colorado and Texas	University of New Mexico	$49,999.00
Carlyle Storm	Conference: 2003 Summer Gordon Conferences, to be held June-August of 2003	Gordon Research Conferences	$99,160.00
Jozsef Szilagyi	WCR: A New Technique for Mapping Recharge Fluxes to Groundwater at a Regional Scale	University of Nebraska at Lincoln	$15,120.00