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One principal conclusion of the APS Multidivisional Study stated: ?We recommend, as a high priority, a phased program of sensitive searches for neutrinoless nuclear double-beta decay.? NLDB decay is the only practical way to determine if neutrinos are their own antiparticles and it is the most sensitive test of lepton-number conservation, an important symmetry in elementary-particle physics. In addition, if neutrinos are Majorana particles, an accurate measurement of the NLDB-decay half-life might well be possible; it would yield the effective Majorana mass of the electron neutrino which, when combined with the results of neutrino oscillation experiments, would determine all three neutrino-mass eigenvalues. \n\nThis award will provide funds to support the USC group to continue their involvement in the Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE), an array of 988 TeO2 bolometers, at Gran Sasso (LNGS), Italy. CUORE is the successor to CUORICINO, currently the most sensitive NLDB decay experiment in operation. The USC team is responsible for the procurement and production of the complete CUORE electronic system starting at the detector and ending at the input of data acquisition system. The PI is the U.S. Task Coordinator for the construction of CUORE-0, the first of the 19 towers of CUORE. It will serve as a test of the specific construction procedures of CUORE, and will operate in the CUORICINO cryostat. This will yield physics results beyond those of CUORICINO. \n\nFor Broader Impacts, these proposed tasks provide excellent Ph.D. research topics. The PI?s low-background experiments in NLDB decay and Cold Dark Matter have provided dissertation topics for many students, with more research students currently at various stages of their programs.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5275", "attributes": { "award_id": "0755730", "title": "Fundamental Molecular-Level Studies of Polyglutamine Folding and Early-Stage Aggregation", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "INTERFAC PROCESSES & THERMODYN" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2008-04-15", "end_date": "2012-03-31", "award_amount": 300000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18588, "first_name": "Juan", "last_name": "De Pablo", "orcid": null, "emails": "[email protected]", "private_emails": null, "keywords": "[]", "approved": true, "websites": "[]", "desired_collaboration": "", "comments": "", "affiliations": [ { "id": 263, "ror": "", "name": "University of Wisconsin-Madison", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "WI", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 263, "ror": "", "name": "University of Wisconsin-Madison", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "WI", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "CBET-0755730\nDe Pablo\n\nPolyglutamine, a polymer consisting of glutamine monomers, has been implicated in a number of neurodegenerative diseases, including Huntington's Disease. In non-HD individuals, the Huntingtin protein typically exhibits a 19-residue long polyglutamine (PolyQ) sequence. Individuals whose Huntingtin protein exhibits a sequence longer than 36 residues develop Huntington's Disease. In aqueous solution, PolyQ molecules form multiple hydrogen bonds with water and adopt a random coil conformation. Under certain circumstances, however, a long PolyQ chain can hydrogen bond with itself and form a metastable folded structure that is believed to act as a nucleus for subsequent aggregation or polymerization of additional PolyQ molecules, thereby leading to the formation of aggregates whose characteristics are reminiscent of amyloid fibrils. It has also been suggested that, once formed, the folded nucleus facilitates the folding of additional chains, leading to a rapid elongation of the aggregates. The precise nature of that folded metastable state and the mechanism behind its formation remain unknown. Literature studies, however, concur in that elucidating the structure of the folded PolyQ nucleus is essential for understanding PolyQ aggregation and the onset of Huntington's Disease. The project seeks to determine the structure of that nucleus and, more importantly, the path through which it appears. The project also proposes to investigate if and how a folded nucleus might mediate or induce the folding of additional chains, and the early stages of chain aggregation. A carefully conceived molecular modeling approach is proposed, in which detailed atomistic models of polyglutamine and advanced simulation techniques will be used towards such ends. The PIs anticipate that a relatively complete, molecular-level mechanistic explanation of PolyQ folding and early-stage aggregation will emerge from our studies. Preliminary results already reveal exciting and unprecedented insights into the pathways through which PolyQ folds.\n\nIntellectual Merit: Theoretical and computational studies of PolyQ folding and aggregation have been scarce. Studies of that nature offer the distinct possibility of providing important insights into the structure of folded PolyQ molecules, their aggregates, and the respective folding processes. The research outlined in this project will examine at an unprecedented level of molecular detail the ensemble of trajectories or protein conformations that constitute the transition state ensemble for the folding and aggregation of PolyQ. The knowledge gained through this effort will not only provide insights into the onset of Huntington's Disease, but it might also provide important clues about the process of amyloid fibril formation in general. The computational challenges associated with our proposed research are staggering. A promising array of novel molecular modeling methods will be developed to meet those challenges. Such methods will advance the state of the art in molecular modeling and scientific computing, and will find wide ranging applications in a wide variety of systems, ranging from biomolecules to complex fluids.\n\nBroader Impacts: Huntington's disease currently afflicts 1 in 10,000 individuals. Highly toxic PolyQ oligomers are believed to be responsible for the onset of the disease. Understanding the molecular origins of PolyQ folding and oligomer formation will provide important insights that may help in the development of therapeutic strategies. Beyond the inherent impact to society that would arise from discovering the mechanism of PolyQ folding, the research proposed here offers a particularly relevant forum in which to disseminate the benefits of fundamental molecular-level research to society. The PIs propose to capitalize on that opportunity by developing a workshop on protein aggregation and neurodegenerative disorders aimed at high school students from under-represented minority backgrounds.\n1", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5269", "attributes": { "award_id": "0827298", "title": "Student Travel Support for IEEE INFOCOM 2008 Conference", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "Networking Technology and Syst" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 18571, "first_name": "Darleen", "last_name": "Fisher", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2008-04-01", "end_date": "2009-03-31", "award_amount": 20000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18572, "first_name": "Vinod", "last_name": "Vokkarane", "orcid": null, "emails": "[email protected]", "private_emails": null, "keywords": "[]", "approved": true, "websites": "[]", "desired_collaboration": "", "comments": "", "affiliations": [ { "id": 1363, "ror": "", "name": "Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc.", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NJ", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 1363, "ror": "", "name": "Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc.", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NJ", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The 2008 IEEE INFOCOM Conference on Computer Communications will be held in Phoenix, Arizona, USA from April 13 to April 19, 2008. This preeminent technical conference is the primary venue for presenting new research results in the area of computer communications, and is widely attended by researchers and practitioners in the field. Attending conferences such as INFOCOM is of great importance for the development of graduate students. Participants have the opportunity to present their work, attend panel and keynote sessions, and interact with hundreds of others performing leading-edge research in the field. This award provides funds to support approximately twenty graduate students in the United States to attend this premiere conference. The travel awards will target graduate students, in particular, women and under-represented minority students, since attending conferences is an important part of their educational experience, and they often have limited travel funds.\n\nThe intellectual merit of the proposal resides in encouraging and supporting graduate student attendance to INFOCOM 2008, which will continue the tradition of the previous INFOCOM conferences as a premier venue for bringing together academia, industry, and government to share newest developments in communications. Besides technical paper presentations, the conference offers a wide range of technical activities including workshops and tutorials.\n\nIn terms of its broader impact, this proposal aims at providing graduate students conducting research in the field of communications with the opportunity to attend the INFOCOM 2008, one of the main technical conferences in the field. Attending such high-caliber technical venues is extremely valuable for future researchers. Not only they will be exposed to the state-of-the-art in the field, but also they will have the opportunity to interact with peers from institutions worldwide, meet with leading researchers, and take part in discussions that are likely to shape the future of the field (e.g., in terms of technology, standards, etc).", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5270", "attributes": { "award_id": "0749404", "title": "Collaborative Research: Processes, Feedbacks and Air-Sea Carbon Dioxide Exchange in the Land-Coastal Ocean System", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "Chemical Oceanography" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2008-04-01", "end_date": "2012-07-31", "award_amount": 189232, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18575, "first_name": "Abraham", "last_name": "Lerman", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 317, "ror": "https://ror.org/000e0be47", "name": "Northwestern University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "IL", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 317, "ror": "https://ror.org/000e0be47", "name": "Northwestern University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "IL", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The shallow coastal ocean, representing approximately 8% of the modern global surface ocean area and 19% of the land area, is a domain that exercises poorly understood controls of the global carbon cycle and the air-sea CO2 exchange that are of unquestionable importance to climate change since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and into the future. At present, 10 to 30% of total oceanic biological production occurs in the coastal ocean, near 80% of the terrigenous material mass reaching the ocean is deposited there, and as much as 50% of total calcium carbonate and 80% of total organic carbon accumulation in the ocean occur in this region. At the end of pre-industrial time, nearly 200 years ago, biological calcification and remineralization of organic carbon produced in situ and imported from land might have been responsible for 30% to 50% of the CO2 emission from the surface ocean to the atmosphere. At the millennial to centurial time scale since the LGM near 18,000 years before present and into the next two centuries of the Anthropocene, the coastal ocean, because of its relatively small size, is particularly susceptible to environmental changes in its bigger neighboring reservoirs of atmosphere, land, open ocean, and sediments. For the same reason, it transmits and modulates rapidly the external and internal forcings of the past and the near future. \n\nIn this project, researchers at the University of Hawaii - Manoa and Northwestern University will address four important, but not well understood, issues of the role of the coastal ocean in the global carbon cycle and air-sea CO2 exchange in the time period since near the LGM to the end of pre-industrial time and into the future two centuries of the Industrial Age. The role of the coastal ocean is a global role and the research accordingly focuses on obtaining global or world-average answers. These will be handled by model analysis developed from the investogators? dynamic process models that have been successfully applied to the shorter time periods of the Industrial Age and the future two to three centuries. Success of the models? application is in their agreement with the results of others? estimates for the industrial past and future. The model analysis will produce estimates of the major processes that interact with the CO2 transfer: the removal of carbon and other nutrients from land, sedimentary storage of organic and inorganic carbon as affected by seawater chemistry and surface water acidification, biological production on land and in the coastal zone, the CO2 and temperature role in mineral weathering, and the CO2 air-sea exchange of the coastal ocean. \n\nThe broader impacts of this proposal are its relevance to the societal issues and policy decisions involved in the understanding of the biogeochemical fundamentals of global change and, particularly, of the role of the heavily human-impacted coastal ocean in the global carbon cycle in the past and on into the future. Additional impacts involve undergraduate and graduate education, and dissemination of information by means of a web site allowing the community access to the models and results, and presentations at professional meetings. Finally, the behavior of the coastal ocean domain in the past and future is critical to any analysis of the Earth system undergoing both natural and human-induced environmental change.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5271", "attributes": { "award_id": "0751761", "title": "The LDEO Deep-Sea Sample Repository and the Curating and Maintenance of the Sediment Library and Dredge Collection", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Geosciences (GEO)", "Marine Geology and Geophysics" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 18576, "first_name": "Barbara", "last_name": "Ransom", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2008-04-01", "end_date": "2011-03-31", "award_amount": 515019, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18581, "first_name": "G. Michael", "last_name": "Purdy", "orcid": null, "emails": "[email protected]", "private_emails": null, "keywords": "[]", "approved": true, "websites": "[]", "desired_collaboration": "", "comments": "", "affiliations": [ { "id": 196, "ror": "https://ror.org/00hj8s172", "name": "Columbia University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 18577, "first_name": "William B", "last_name": "Ryan", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 18578, "first_name": "Jerry F", "last_name": "McManus", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 18579, "first_name": "Ramona", "last_name": "Lotti", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 18580, "first_name": "Kerstin A", "last_name": "Lehnert", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 196, "ror": "https://ror.org/00hj8s172", "name": "Columbia University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) archives a large collection of deep-sea samples, both in actual number of sites and in spatial coverage. The collection provides a service to national and international researchers who study ocean floor sediments. Total size of the collection is ~19,000 cores and 3,750 dredges and grab samples. During the past three-years over 20,000 samples from the collection were distributed to 75 scientists and 85 teachers. During the last five years there have been 109 publications based upon samples from this repository that cover topics related to our present and past climate, other environmental studies, and studies of cosmic impacts. It is anticipated that during the period of this award, the repository will distribute some 7000 samples to the global research community, describe and archive 500 dredge/grab samples, and describe and store, in refrigerated containers, over 100 piston cores. Continuing goals are to upgrade digital accessibility to the collection for long-term reliable service, administration, a public interface to carry out searching and browsing of the sample catalog and assured interoperability with external systems such as NOAA-NGDC and to enhance data mining by parsing core and dredge descriptions into the database and subsequently visualizing the information using tools developed at LDEO. A one year pilot project will conduct calcium carbonate measurements on un-sampled and sparsely-sampled cores to promote their near-term use for investigations of past and rapid climate change. The LDEO core repository is a resource for research and teaching in every field of marine science. This award will also support weekend workshops.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5273", "attributes": { "award_id": "0739006", "title": "Studies on the Partitioning of Elements Between the Core, Mantle and Crust", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Geosciences (GEO)", "Petrology and Geochemistry" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 18584, "first_name": "Jennifer", "last_name": "Wade", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2008-04-01", "end_date": "2013-03-31", "award_amount": 316611, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18585, "first_name": "William", "last_name": "McDonough", "orcid": null, "emails": "[email protected]", "private_emails": null, "keywords": "[]", "approved": true, "websites": "[]", "desired_collaboration": "", "comments": "", "affiliations": [ { "id": 297, "ror": "https://ror.org/047s2c258", "name": "University of Maryland, College Park", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MD", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 297, "ror": "https://ror.org/047s2c258", "name": "University of Maryland, College Park", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MD", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Intellectual merit. Improved knowledge of the pressure, temperature and gas fugacity conditions prevalent during the formation of the Earth and subsequent core formation would substantially enhance to our understanding of the composition of the Earth's core and surrounding silicate shell, particularly with respect to the abundance and distribution of the heat-producing elements U, Th and K. Such insights are essential for understanding the energy sources that drive the geodynamo, mantle convection and plate tectonics, as well as understanding the volatile element inventory of the planet and constraining the nature and degree of core-mantle exchange. This proposal requests funds to analyze the compositions of natural and synthetic samples, with emphasis on precise and accurate determinations of trace abundances of siderophile, chalcophile and key lithophile elements in order to establish solid-liquid, solid-solid and liquid-liquid distribution coefficients for metallic (and to a lesser extent sulfidic) and silicate systems. These data will be used to develop improved estimates of bulk compositional of the core, mantle, crust and bulk silicate Earth, and to provide quantitative insights into the partitioning of elements during core formation, crust-mantle evolution, and core-mantle exchange.\n\nThe main goals of the proposed study include determining: (1) the concentration and behavior of siderophile and some chalcophile elements in Earth reservoirs (core-mantle-crust) and magmas, (2) the abundance and behavior of nominally lithophile elements (e.g., Nb, Ta, K, Th, and U) during core formation, and (3) the budget of volatile elements in the mantle and core. Results from these interrelated projects will (a) improve our understanding of the abundance and distribution of these elements in the Earth, (b) yield distribution coefficients for these elements during core-mantle and mantle-crust differentiation, (c) constrain the conditions under which core separation and core-mantle exchange has occurred and/or is occurring, and (d) better define the planetary Urey number (ratio of radiogenic heat production to total heat loss). The most important findings of my group's previous investigations (described in this proposal) include: (1) Modern basalts from ocean ridges, islands and arcs have a weighted average K/U of 20,600+/-3600 (2sd,n = 50). Our K/U value for MORB (19,800 +/- 3400, n=43) differs significantly from that reported by Jochum et al. (1983), reflecting differences in sampling and treatment of the population variance. The modern mantle is estimated to have a K/U value higher than the continental crust and likely contains <50% of the K and U budget of the silicate Earth, indicating a larger radioactive contribution of 40K. (2) Modern basalts have relatively constant W/Ba (0.00136 +/- 86, 2sd), which is comparable to the continental crust and by inference represents the silicate Earth. From this, we can establish the W concentration of the silicate Earth (9.0 +/- 5.8 ppb W). Using this revised value we tested the hypothesis of core-mantle exchange proposed for Hawaiian picrites based on Os isotopes and found that the incorporation of a core component is consistent with W-isotope data, if these lavas are derived from a reservoir with 3x silicate Earth W content (~27 ppb) and a core containing 516 ppb W (i.e., ~96% of the Earth's W budget). (3) New experimental partitioning data (Corgne et al) between molten metal and silicate melt are consistent with core formation under increasing oxygen fugacity (initially near IW-3 and finishing near IW-2). Our results are consistent with a core containing a fraction of the planetary budget of Zn, Ga, K, Cu, Mn, Cr, Nb and Ta. A superchondritic Nb/Ta ratio has been proposed for the core, but our data place the upper limit at < ~15 ppb Ta. Our model predicts a core with at least 10 ppm Ti. Moreover, the core is predicted to contain <10% of the planetary budget of K, but this estimate is likely closer to 1% or less. \n\nBroader impacts. Student participation (at the graduate, undergraduate and high school levels) is a fundamental aspect of my research program at UMD. Students participate in hands-on research, which provides important educational and training opportunities that the students can translate to future work in academia, industry or government. This project will support one PhD student and two undergraduate researchers. My record in education, service and outreach extends well beyond the scientific community and into the public realm (K-12 lectures, Maryland Day open house lab tours and analyses, high school interns on year-long research programs in my mass spectrometry laboratory) and is described, in full, in the body of this proposal.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5256", "attributes": { "award_id": "0754198", "title": "Travel grants for World Congress in Probability and Statistics July 14-19, 2008, Singapore", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "PROBABILITY" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 18549, "first_name": "Tomek", "last_name": "Bartoszynski", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2008-02-01", "end_date": "2009-01-31", "award_amount": 20000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18550, "first_name": "Richard", "last_name": "Durrett", "orcid": null, "emails": "[email protected]", "private_emails": null, "keywords": "[]", "approved": true, "websites": "[]", "desired_collaboration": "", "comments": "", "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 279, "ror": "https://ror.org/05bnh6r87", "name": "Cornell University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Travel support is requested for 20 U.S. participants (young researchers, women, and members of underrepresented minority groups) to attend the World Congress in Probability and Statistics, an international meeting to be held July 14-19, 2008, in Singapore. The conferences on Stochastic Processes and their Applications have become the principal annual international forum for researchers studying applied and theoretical problems in stochastic processes. Every four years that sequence of meetings is interrupted by a World Congress in Probability and Statistics, a much larger conference that bring together distinguished scholars from all over the world and provides a broad overview of current research in probability and statistics, and their applications.\n\nAn important part of the intellectual development of young researchers is to attend international conferences where they have an opportunity to listen to stimulating lectures and interact with probabilists and statisticians who work on a wide variety of topics. The World Congress in Probability and Statistics, which meets every four years, and will be held in Singapore in 2008 will feature one hour talks by about a dozen internationally known researchers and special sessions on 33 topics. Travel support is requested for 20 U.S. participants (young researchers, women, and members of underrepresented minority groups) to attend this important meeting.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5259", "attributes": { "award_id": "0802867", "title": "Out of Africa: Geophysical Monitoring and Capacity Building around the World, Boston Massachusetts Workshop, February 18-19, 2008", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Geosciences (GEO)", "IRIS" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 18554, "first_name": "David", "last_name": "Lambert", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2008-01-01", "end_date": "2008-12-31", "award_amount": 56326, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18555, "first_name": "David", "last_name": "Simpson", "orcid": null, "emails": "[email protected]", "private_emails": null, "keywords": "[]", "approved": true, "websites": "[]", "desired_collaboration": "", "comments": "", "affiliations": [ { "id": 466, "ror": "https://ror.org/05xkn9s74", "name": "Incorporated Research Institutions For Seismology", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "DC", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 466, "ror": "https://ror.org/05xkn9s74", "name": "Incorporated Research Institutions For Seismology", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "DC", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "0802867\nSimpson\n\nThis award, co-funded with the NSF Office of International Science and Engineering, will support a workshop in Boston, MA on February 18-19, 2008 that will bring together key members of the IRIS community with seismologists from several countries in Central America, South America and Southeast Asia. We intend to build strategies for transitioning networks of earthquake monitoring stations in developing countries into fully sustainable networks of advanced seismic observatories. Modern observatory networks can support international research and educational collaborations through standards-driven data acquisition, management and open access. \n\nThe US seismology community is poised to take advantage of a recent increase in resources from development and disaster recovery agencies for building networks in low- and middle-income countries to foster seismographic networks outside the US for several reasons. First, an NSF/OISE PIRE award to Pennsylvania State University helped to establish AfricaArray, which has strengthened many international scientific collaborations, deployed a set of seismographs in SubSaharan Africa, and demonstrated that developing a permanent seismic network can provide critical new data for imaging Earth structure while also strengthening scientific capacity building and supporting hazard monitoring. Second, IRIS's initial investment in several regional networks through its long-term loan program of refurbished RefTek data loggers has provided another successful model on which to build.\n\nThe specific goals for the workshop are to (1) enumerate leading regional science objectives that require long time series of high-fidelity seismological waveform records, (2) identify broader regional social benefits from improved seismological capacity and sophisticated data products, (3) suggest mechanisms for assessing the technical capacities and performance of new and existing regional and national networks, and (4) introduce development experts and aid providers to the need for integrated network solutions. 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These measurements arc crucial for an accurate dete", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5431", "attributes": { "award_id": "0739830", "title": "Conference: 2007 Rustbelt RNA Meeting being held October 19-20, 2007 in Mt. 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Sterling, OH. The intellectual objective of the meeting is to provide an inexpensive, high caliber, interdisciplinary meeting for RNA researchers in the Midwest. The field of RNA structure, function, and processing is growing at a rapid pace and RNA has been shown to be intimately involved in many important biological phenomena beyond its obvious prominent role in transcription and translation. At the same time the methods used to study RNA are becoming more and more diverse ranging from synthetic and physical chemistry over biochemistry, genetics, and biophysical approaches all the way to computational methods. Consequently, research groups need a forum where they can hear and discuss new results and techniques in all areas of RNA research that can result in furthering an individual lab's aims. The size and organization of the meeting has proven to be an excellent environment for active discussions between research groups, including those between PIs, between PIs and trainees as well as between trainees themselves. Such interactions are more difficult at larger national meetings. The Rustbelt RNA meeting was established in 1999 and is the major Midwest regional meeting of RNA researchers, attended by participants including principal investigators (PIs), postdoctoral fellows, graduate, and undergraduate students from both research intensive and primarily undergraduate institutions in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania, as well as farther away (Delaware). Based on attendance in previous years, approximately 170 participants are expected in 2007.\n\nBroader Impact. The main broader impact of the rustbelt RNA meeting is in trainee and junior faculty development. The conference traditionally emphasizes trainee participation and features graduate and undergraduate student participation, from institutions ranging from large research intensive universities to small, primarily undergraduate colleges. In addition to offering opportunities for interactions with PIs and other trainees, the RRM provides invaluable experience presenting research in an educational and supportive atmosphere. Importantly, trainees account for the vast majority (about 90%) of both poster and oral presentations. Such presentations instill confidence in the trainees and inspire trainees in the audience to present their results orally in the future. To encourage the speakers further, prizes are awarded for outstanding trainee presentations. Finally, the meeting is an excellent forum for junior PIs to showcase their emerging research programs.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } } ], "meta": { "pagination": { "page": 1392, "pages": 1424, "count": 14236 } } }