RCN Awards

Research Coordination Networks in Biological Sciences

FY 2006
Principal Investigator	Institution	Title	Total Award	Total Duration (years)
Dawson, Todd 0541849	University of California Berkeley	Biogeosphere-Atmosphere Stable Isotopes Network (BASIN) Park	$482,929	5
Hufbauer, Ruth 0541673	Colorado State University	Integrating the ecology and evolution of invasions: a predictive framework and collaborative approach	$500,000	5
Kelly, Jeffrey 0541740	University of Oklahoma	RCN: Migration Interest Group: Research Applied Toward Education (MIGRATE)	$496,820	5
Murrel, Zack 0542320	Appalachian State University	RCN: SERNEC: SouthEast Network of Expertise and Collections	$498,887	5
Smith, Felisa 0541625	University of New Mexico	RCN: Integrating Macroecological Pattern and Processes across Scales (IMPPS)	$490,000	5

FY 2005
Principal Investigator	Institution	Title	Total Award	Total Duration (years)
Andelman, Sandy J. 0443453	University of California-Santa Barbara	RCN: Biodiversity Conservation in Dynamic Landscapes (BCDL) Network	$496,549	5
Cobb, Neil S. 0443526	Northern Arizona University	RCN: Drought Impacts on Regional Ecosystems Network (DIREnet): Coordinating Studies on Southwest Forests & Woodlands	$497,766	5
Flessa, Karl W. 0443481	University of Arizona	RCN: The Colorado River Delta Research Coordination Network	$499,955	5
Leontis, Neocles B. 0443508	Bowling Green State University	RCN: RNA Ontology Consortium (ROC)	$500,000	5
Orti, Guillermo 0443470	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	RCN: DeepFin will Advance The Phylogeny of "Fishes"	$500,000	5
Seitzinger, Sybil P. 0443439	Rutgers University New Brunswick	RCN: Denitrification - Integration Across Landscapes and Waterscapes	$499,393	5
Smith, Bradley F. 0443527	Western Washington University	RCN: Elwha Research Consortium	$500,000	5
Spector, Sacha 0443443	American Museum Natural History	RCN - The Scarabaeinae Research Network: Coordinating the Development of an Invertebrate Biodiversity Focal Taxon	$499,916	5
Staudigel, Hubertus 0443337	University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography	RCN Establishing a Seamount Biogeoscience Network (SBN)	$495,214	5
Vitt, Dale 0443447	Southern Illinois University at Carbondale	RCN: PEATNET-Globalization of Northern Peatland Ecosystem Research	$498,905	5

FY 2004
Principal Investigator	Institution	Title	Total Award	Total Duration (years)
Inskeep, William 0342269	Montana State University	RCN: Geothermal Biology and Geochemistry in Yellowstone National Park	$499,993	5
Lovett, Gary 0342198	Institute for Ecosystem Studies	RCN: An Ecosystem Research Cooperative for Northeastern North America	$498,784	5
Roderick, George 0342279	University of California Berkeley	RCN: Invasion Biology of Insects – Collections and Approaches	$500,241	5
Wingfield, John 0342242	University of Washington	Research Coordination Network: Integrating Ecology and Endocrinology in Avian Reproduction	$299,942	4

FY 2003
Principal Investigator	Institution	Title	Total Award	Total Duration (years)
Friedman, William 0234008	University of Colorado Boulder	RCN: MORPH: Molecular and Organismic Research in Plant History	$498,128	5
McLachlan, John 0234143	Tulane University	RCN: Environmental Signaling Networks	$499,843	5
Reynolds, James 0234186	Duke University	RCN: ARIDnet for the Americas: A Research Network for Testing New Paradigms of Global Desertification	$499,843	5
Stark, Ruth 0233854	CUNY Staten Island	RCN: Networking Tools for NMR Research on Biological Solids	$458,947	5
Stein, Lincoln 0234147	Cold Spring Harbor Lab	RCN: The Gramene Community Curation Network	$271,097	3
Stubbs, Gerald 0234001	Vanderbilt University	RCN: Fiber Diffraction from Biological Polymers and Assemblies	$506,045	5

FY 2002
Principal Investigator	Institution	Title	Total Award	Total Duration (years)
Cohen, Avis 0129928	University of Maryland College Park	Institute for Neuromorphic Engineering (INE)	$500,000	5
Cunningham, Clifford 0130275	Duke University	RCN: The North Atlantic Project: Historical Ecology of the Trans-Atlantic Biota	$499,803	5
Davis, Kenneth 0130380	Pennsylvania State University	RCN: Chequamegon Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (ChEAS)	$428,680	5
Michener, William 0129792	University of New Mexico	RCN: Resource Discovery Initiative for Field Stations	$500,000	5
Naeem, Shahid 0130289	University of Washington	RCN: Biodiversity Mechanisms of Ecosystem Regulation in the Global Environment (BioMERGE)	$498,579	5
Tyler, Brett 0130263	Virginia Tech	RCN: Communication, Training, and Resources for the Phytophthora Molecular Genetics Community	$497,467	5
Young, Bruce 0130273	NaturServe	RCN: Coordinated Research on Amphibian Population Declines in the Neotropics	$498,525	5

FY 2001
Principal Investigator	Institution	Title	Total Award	Total Duration (years)
Allison, David 0090286	University of Alabama Birmingham	RCN: Development, Evaluation, & Dissemination of Methods for the Analysis of Gene Expression by Microarrays "Biotechnology Infrastructure"	$490,108	5
Blackwell, Meredith 0090301	Louisiana State University & A&M College	Research Coordination Networks in Biological Sciences: A Phylogeny for Kingdom Fungi	$499,180	5
Cowin, Stephen 0090234	CUNY City College	RCN: Communications Media for Mineralized Tissue Research	$473,670	5
Dobson, Stephen 0090122	Yale University	Wolbachia Research Coordination Network	$479,989	5
Ehleringer, James 0090135	University of Utah	RCN: Biosphere-Atmosphere Stable Isotope Network (BASIN)	$325,899	5
Hooper, Scott 0090250	Ohio University	RCN: The Pyloric Model Group: Functional Analysis of a Complex, Distributed Biological Neural Network	$436,095	5
Keegstra, Kenneth 0090281	Michigan State University	RCN: Plant Cell Wall Biosynthesis Research Network	$559,866	5
Condit, Richard 0090311	Smithsonian Institution	Research Coordination Networks in Biological Sciences (RCNBS): Comparative Demographic Analyses Using a Global Network of Large Plots	$510,648	5
Mishler, Brent 0090227	University of California Berkeley	RCN: Beyond “Deep Green”: Toward an Integration of Plant Phylogenetics and Plant Genomics	$496,431	5
Rustad, Lindsey 0090238	University of Maine	RCN: Terrestrial Ecosystem Response to Atmospheric and Climatic Change	$499,916	5
Soltis, Douglas 0090283	University of Florida	RCN: “Deep Time”: A Comprehensive Phylogenetic Tree of Living and Fossil Angiosperms	$499,351	5