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This project consists of four surveys. \n\nThe NSF funding is primarily for the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). This survey will measure redshifts of 1.5 million luminous red galaxies and Lyman-alpha absorption towards 160,000 high redshift quasars. These measurements will permit the absolute cosmic distance scale to be determined to a higher precision (1.0-1.5%) than previously achieved and will provide constraints on the equation of state of dark energy. Some of the NSF funds will also be used to support the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE). This survey will use high-resolution and high signal-to-noise infrared spectroscopy to penetrate the dust that obscures the inner Galaxy from our view, measuring radial velocities, spectral types, and detailed elemental abundances of 100,000 red giant stars to an H magnitude limit of approximately 13.5 across the full range of the Galactic bulge, bar, and disk.\n\nThe first of the non-NSF funded surveys is SEGUE-2 which will measure radial velocities, spectral types, and elemental abundances of 350,000 stars in numerous target categories to a g magnitude limit of approximately 19, which will probe the kinematics and chemical evolution of the outer Milky Way. The final survey, also non-NSF funded, is the Multi-Object APO Radial Velocity Exoplanet Large-area Survey (MARVELS). This will monitor the radial velocities of 11,000 bright stars, with the precision and cadence needed to detect gas giant planets with orbital periods ranging from several hours to two years. These observations will provide a critical statistical data set for testing theories of the formation and dynamical evolution of planetary systems.\n\nThese surveys will produce large, well calibrated, easily accessible public databases supporting astronomical research and educational activities at many levels. The project also includes an active program of education and outreach promoting the data and tools to K-12 and university educators and to the broader public.", "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. One outcome will be a report, prepared by the workshop organizers, on the opportunities for developing geophysical observing systems linked to capacity building.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5288", "attributes": { "award_id": "0758544", "title": "CUORE/CUORICINO and Majorana: Next Generation Double-Beta Decay Experiments", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "Particle Astrophysics/Cosmic P" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2008-05-01", "end_date": "2010-04-30", "award_amount": 310000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18617, "first_name": "Frank", "last_name": "Avignone", "orcid": null, "emails": "[email protected]", "private_emails": null, "keywords": "[]", "approved": true, "websites": "[]", "desired_collaboration": "", "comments": "", "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 18616, "first_name": "Richard J", "last_name": "Creswick", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 1346, "ror": "", "name": "University South Carolina Research Foundation", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "SC", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "PROPOSAL NUMBER: 0758544\nINSTITUTION: University of South Carolina Research Foundation\nNSF PROGRAM: PHY - PARTICLE ASTROPHYSICS\nPRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Avignone, Frank T.\n\nTITLE: CUORE/CUORICINO and Majorana: Next Generation Double-Beta Decay Experiments\n \n\nABSTRACT\n\nThe time for a comprehensive program in neutrino-less double-beta (NLDB) decay is now. 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": "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": "5321", "attributes": { "award_id": "0753146", "title": "Project SHARKS, directing student support strategies to increase participation and retention of economically disadvantaged scholars in the Aquarium Science Program", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "S-STEM-Schlr Sci Tech Eng&Math" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2008-09-01", "end_date": "2013-08-31", "award_amount": 443900, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18688, "first_name": "Bruce", "last_name": "Koike", "orcid": null, "emails": "[email protected]", "private_emails": null, "keywords": "[]", "approved": true, "websites": "[]", "desired_collaboration": "", "comments": "", "affiliations": [ { "id": 1394, "ror": "https://ror.org/00tcvgn28", "name": "Oregon Coast Community College", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "OR", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 18686, "first_name": "Marion", "last_name": "Mann", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 18687, "first_name": "Jane", "last_name": "Hodgkins", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 1394, "ror": "https://ror.org/00tcvgn28", "name": "Oregon Coast Community College", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "OR", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This project fosters the entry of financially disadvantaged, but academically talented students into the aquatic animal care profession, and ancillary science and technology fields. Access is through the highly successful Aquarium Science Program. S-STEM funds support 19 two-year, financial need scholarships. The project is making a special effort to recruit traditionally under-represented students from urbanized areas and Title 1 schools to receive this strong scientific and technical training. Recruiting utilizes digital technology through granted access to post scholarship information on the websites of national organizations and their chapters, including the NAACP, SCANAS, and MESA. Student support strategies promote academic success and retention through individual academic advising, team building activities, and direct interaction with industry professionals.", "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": "5289", "attributes": { "award_id": "0750523", "title": "Chemical Synthesis of Water-Soluble Nanoscale Structures", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "BIMOLECULAR PROCESSES" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2008-05-15", "end_date": "2012-04-30", "award_amount": 383000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18623, "first_name": "James", "last_name": "Nowick", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 177, "ror": "", "name": "University of California-Irvine", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 177, "ror": "", "name": "University of California-Irvine", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "With support from the Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry Program at the National Science Foundation for this new award, Professor James Nowick, of the Department of Chemistry at University of California- Irvine, will provide a facile bottom-up approach to the creation of water-soluble nanometer scale three-dimensional structures that are based on peptides. Targets include a \"sphere\", 1.9 nm in diameter, a \"tetrahedron\", 2.0 nm on edge, and a \"cube\", 2.3 nm on edge. The structures are based on a family of nanometer-scale amino acids, Abc2K, developed by the principal investigator. These amino acids have already been used to create water-soluble molecular rods up to 10 nanometers in length and water-soluble rings, triangles, and parallelograms up to 3 nanometers in size. These amino acids will be combined with triphenylmethane bridgehead groups to generate bi-, tetra- and hexacyclic three-dimensional structures with well-defined architectures. The principal investigator will also develop a novel kinetic resolution strategy to solve stereochemical problems associated with the syntheses of these structures. NMR spectroscopy in conjunction with molecular modeling and possibly X-ray crystallography will be used to elucidate structural features of these nanometer-scale three-dimensional molecules.\n\n\nWith this award, Professor Nowick will demonstrate that peptides are exceptionally easy to synthesize and handle, making them accessible to a wide range of researchers with only access to some simple synthesis equipment, an HPLC, and perhaps an ESI mass spectrometer. Water-soluble structures are especially well suited to biological applications, which certainly represents an important future direction of nanotechnology. The development of these structures will fill an area that is largely missing among nanoscale structures with well-defined geometries, for example, water-soluble peptide structures on a nanometer scale in all three dimensions. Undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral students working on this project will be trained to perform cutting-edge research in the laboratory and will also learn to effectively communicate their results to others by presenting their work in seminars, at meetings, and through publication. Students trained on the project will go on to careers in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry, or academia, and will thus contribute to the US scientific endeavor and the economy. The nanometer-scale structures that are developed will likely be of widespread interest among scientists and engineers involved in nanotechnology. Information will be disseminated on these structures through publication and seminars and materials will be shared with other researchers where appropriate. Professor Nowick will continue to run the UCI Chemistry Outreach Program, which he created in 1992 to bring the excitement of science to K-12 students and to help reach students in underrepresented groups. The program sends undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral students to K-12 schools to make presentations that include lively demonstrations and engaging discussion. Descriptions of the nanometer-scale scale structures, and the associated role of chemistry in nanotechnology, will be incorporated into the discussion.", "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": "5400", "attributes": { "award_id": "0748453", "title": "Workshop on Frontiers in Electronics to be held on December 15-19, 2007 in Royal Park Hotel, Cozumel, Mexico", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "EPMD-ElectrnPhoton&MagnDevices" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 18890, "first_name": "Usha", "last_name": "Varshney", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2007-09-01", "end_date": "2008-12-31", "award_amount": 10000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18891, "first_name": "Michael", "last_name": "Shur", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 148, "ror": "https://ror.org/01rtyzb94", "name": "Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 148, "ror": "https://ror.org/01rtyzb94", "name": "Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Objective:\nThe objective of this proposal is to request funds from NSF to enable students and junior faculty to participate in the ?Workshop on Frontiers in Electronics? to be held 0n December 15-19, 2007 in Royal park Hotel, Cozumel, Mexico. This conference is held every three years to review the rapid pace of electronic technology evolution that compels a merger of many technical areas. Examples of some of the areas that will be explored are bioelectronics, MEMS/NEMS, Silicon nanoelectronics and Beyond, High Speed Communications, etc.\n\nIntellectual Merit:\nThe main purpose of this workshop is to gather experts and to encourage cross fertilization of people with different technical backgrounds. The experts will be gathered from academia, industry, and government to review the recent breakthroughs and their underlying physical mechanisms. The workshop will also explore nature of the future challenges in this ?electronic Planet?. The workshop also plans to prepare archival proceedings of peer reviewed article for broad distribution. The proceedings will be published in the Special Issue of the ?International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems?. \n\nBroader Impact:\nWe plan to invite senior scientists and engineers as well as young faculty and students to this conference. The conference will provide a Forum for open discussion, brain storming sessions and cross ?fertilization. Some of the junior faculty will be invited to make presentations at the conference. The outcome of the workshop, in the form of formal proceedings can be used as a teaching tool and for guiding future research areas", "keywords": [], "approved": true } } ], "meta": { "pagination": { "page": 1419, "pages": 1424, "count": 14236 } } }