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Approximately 750-800 scientists and students from around the world will attend. The conference focuses on the molecular biology, genetics, genomics, biochemistry and cell biology of filamentous fungi.\n\nThis biennial conference promotes interaction between researchers interested in plant pathogens, medical pathogens, saprophytic fungi, and symbiotic fungi. All participants stay on the conference grounds, a fact that facilitates informal discussions among them and in the past has led to the development of new collaborations and research directions. The formal meeting will consist of four plenary sessions, four sets of concurrent sessions devoted to specialized areas, and three poster sessions. Topics to be covered in the plenary sessions include the following: 1) Genome structures and dynamics, 2) Host-pathogen and symbiotic interactions, 3) Development and metabolism, and 4) Sex, time, and evolution. Topics for the concurrent sessions will cover the following areas: 1)Whole genome comparative analysis, 2) Fungal-plant interactions, 3) Zygomycete and Chytrid genomics, biotechnology and evolutionary biology, 4)Teaching fungal biology and genetics, 5) Evolutionary genetics and genomics, 6) Associations between fungi and humans, 7)Regulation of primary and secondary metabolism, 8) Epigenetics and genome dynamics, 9) Population genetics, 10) Biological applications of genomic sequence data, 11) Biofilms, quorum sensing, and thigmotropism, 12) Dimorphic transitions, 13) Symbiotic and parasitic (viruses, nematodes, other fungi and insects) interactions, 14) Mating and sexual development, 15) RNA functions, 16) Circadian rhythms and photobiology, 17) Industrial mycology in the post-genomics era, 18) Proteome and postgenomic approaches to protein secretion, 19) Small molecules and signaling, 20) Apoptosis and vegetative incompatibility, 21) Evolution of gene clusters, 22) Cellular morphogenesis and development, 23) Signal transduction and cell surface receptors, 24) Cool tools for fungal biology: gene disruption and imaging, and 25) Advances in oomycete research and Basidiomycete biology.\n\nBeginning in the 1940s with the work of Beadle and Tatum, who first demonstrated the relationship between genetics and biochemistry, fungi have served as model eukaryotes, aiding in understanding of basic biological processes. This meeting places a strong emphasis on the participation of young scientists and students, particularly those from underrepresented groups. It provides many with their first opportunity to attend a major international conference and present their research findings, an important part of their training and professional development. Funds will be distributed on the basis of need and will be used to defray the travel and participation expenses of students, postdoctoral researchers, and some young scientists who would otherwise be unable to attend the meeting.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5397", "attributes": { "award_id": "0646308", "title": "Managing the 19 Million Specimen Resource of the NMNH/NSF Antarctic Marine Invertebrate Collection to Meet the Needs of 21st Century Research, Resource Management and Education", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Geosciences (GEO)", "Major Research Instrumentation" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 18883, "first_name": "Roberta", "last_name": "Marinelli", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2007-08-01", "end_date": "2010-08-31", "award_amount": 497318, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18885, "first_name": "Rafael", "last_name": "Lemaitre", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 711, "ror": "https://ror.org/01pp8nd67", "name": "Smithsonian Institution", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "DC", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 18884, "first_name": "Myroslaw G", "last_name": "Harasewych", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 711, "ror": "https://ror.org/01pp8nd67", "name": "Smithsonian Institution", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "DC", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The USAP collection with its nearly 19 million specimens is the basis of current taxonomic knowledge of Antarctic marine invertebrates, and is part of the U.S. Polar research infrastructure. Support is needed to modernize collection management of the USAP holdings, enhance associated data, and expedite data entry to develop the tremendous potential of this valuable resource. Since 1963 the Smithsonian Institution has served as the national archiving and distribution center for invertebrate specimens and associated data collected during the United States Antarctic Program (USAP). The increased demand for modern information on Antarctic marine invertebrates requires professional management, curation, and maintenance of the collection. Support is requested to transform the USAP collection and associated data into a modern resource, primarily web-based, easily available to a vast and diverse audience (e.g., general public, policy makers, conservation groups) as well as making it a useful tool for scholars. This project will be part of the upcoming International Polar Year (IPY) pan-institutional activities of the Smithsonian. The web site will facilitate and accelerate the sharing of information for educational purposes, a variety of scientific analyses, mapping of taxa distributions, biogeographical studies, and provide policy makers with key information useful for biological conservation. The site will be linked to NMNH education programs, and the Ocean Web Portal currently part of the ongoing $72-million Ocean Initiative (http://www.mnh.si.edu/ocean/). The site will also be linked to NSF OPP resources and activities; and the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) (http://www.iobis.org), the data component of the Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML) (http://www.caml.aq/). The scientific community at large will be encouraged to use the USAP collection through a proposed Antarctic Curator-in-Residence program. These experts will provide specialized information to the NMNH-IZ database, while simultaneously populating the Antarctic Invertebrate Web Site. A work study program will be implemented to train undergraduate and graduate students, including underrepresented groups, in modern collection management practices and collections-based research. All USAP specimens will continue to be accessible to qualified researchers on- or off-site under formal loan agreements. Acquisition of scientifically valuable specimens from new Antarctic research initiatives, types, vouchers, including CAML bar-coding vouchers and the Palmer LTER samples, will continue to be a priority. Specimens from several large and valuable Antarctic collections (echinoderms, crustaceans and nemerteans) from 30+ years overdue loans to now inactive or deceased taxonomists, will be retrieved.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5383", "attributes": { "award_id": "0703213", "title": "Research in Classical Minimal Surface Theory", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)", "GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 18855, "first_name": "Christopher", "last_name": "Stark", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2007-07-01", "end_date": "2010-06-30", "award_amount": 153165, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18856, "first_name": "William", "last_name": "Meeks", "orcid": null, "emails": "[email protected]", "private_emails": null, "keywords": "[]", "approved": true, "websites": "[]", "desired_collaboration": "", "comments": "", "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 200, "ror": "https://ror.org/0072zz521", "name": "University of Massachusetts Amherst", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Minimal surfaces play an important role as a tool in the study of three-dimensional topology and Riemannian geometry. The research in this proposal concerns global properties of embedded minimal surfaces and possible applications of these results to basic research in three-dimensional topology and geometry. The researcher will study the geometry, asymptotic behavior, conformal structure and topology of properly embedded minimal surfaces in three-dimensional Euclidean space. One of the main goals of the proposal is to classify all of the properly embedded minimal surfaces which can be parametrized by domains in the Euclidean plane and to describe the asymptotic geometry of all finite genus examples. Related theoretical techniques concerning compactness, regularity and convergence of minimal surfaces of locally bounded genus will be investigated as well. As an outgrowth of his recent joint manuscript with Charles Froman on the topological classification for minimal surfaces, the researcher proposes to prove that Bryant surfaces in hyperbolic three-space are unknotted.\n\nClassical minimal surface theory has its roots in 18-th and 19-th century mathematics. Minimal surfaces are the first important examples of what is called the calculus of variations, first described by Euler around 1735. Physically minimal surfaces can be modeled locally as soap films on wires or by surfaces of least-area relative to their boundaries. Minimal surfaces represent stationary fluid interfaces, and so their shapes arise in many physical problems. The work in this proposal will help classify the possible physical shapes which might occur as such interfaces. Many of the known examples of minimal surfaces are observed physically, and so it is of interest to have a rigorous theorem which predicts the shapes which can occur. In part because of important connections with other areas of mathematics and because it is possible to make beautiful computer graphics pictures of classical examples, minimal surfaces continue to be one of the principal topics for popular science articles and public science exhibits. Thus, indirerctly, the exciting research problems outlined in this proposal help bring many young scientists and mathematicians to the froniters of research.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5410", "attributes": { "award_id": "0709500", "title": "Discovery, Follow-up, and Calibration of Near-Earth Objects", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "PLANETARY ASTRONOMY" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2007-09-01", "end_date": "2011-08-31", "award_amount": 300000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18915, "first_name": "David", "last_name": "Tholen", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 684, "ror": "", "name": "University of Hawaii", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "HI", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 684, "ror": "", "name": "University of Hawaii", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "HI", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "AST 0709500\nTholen\n\nDr. Tholen will use this award to address three tasks related to near-Earth objects (NEOs). The first task is a continuation of efforts to find new NEOs at solar elongations of less than 90 deg, where objects in certain types of orbits can spend the majority, if not the entirety, of their time. The second\ntask is for follow-up astrometry of NEOs, concentrating on objects in the 20 to 24 apparent magnitude range, where little follow-up capability currently exists. The third task involves the acquisition of calibrated photometry of NEOs in the 17 to 19 absolute magnitude range to do a\nbetter job of determining the true number of objects brighter than absolute magnitude 18. \n \nThe Earth orbits the Sun in a swarm of asteroidal debris ranging in size from roughly 10 km down to tiny dust particles. The size-frequency distribution of this debris is such that only a few objects exist at the large end of the distribution, while billions of dust particles pervade the inner Solar System. The rate of collision between these objects and the Earth is proportional to their number. While collisions with dust particles are essentially continuous, the visible manifestation being known as meteors, collisions with larger objects are correspondingly rarer. A 50 m object hits the Earth every few hundred years, the most recent example being the Tunguska event of 1908. The effects of even larger objects colliding with the Earth are potentially devastating, the demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago being attributed to the impact of a 10 km object. To inventory potentially hazardous asteroids, several groups are surveying the Solar System beyond the orbit of the Earth, but little attention has been given to the region of the Solar System interior to the Earth's orbit. Previous survey work at small solar elongations has resulted in perhaps the most significant NEO discovery to date, that of (99942) Apophis, a 300 m object that will pass within 6 Earth radii on 2029 April 13. During a 20-year span centered on the date of discovery, this object spends 95 percent of its time at solar elongations of less than 90 deg. How many other similar objects are there? This program is designed to answer that important question.\n \nAstrometric follow-up of the brighter NEOs found by the professional surveys is an activity that involves hundreds of amateur astronomers throughout the world, with no gender, ethnic, or geographic boundaries. This survey will be no different in this regard. The project will directly involve a postdoctoral fellow and/or a graduate student, thus providing both education and training in the subjects of astrometry, photometry, and celestial mechanics. Because of the apparent connection between asteroid impacts and the extinction of the dinosaurs, the subject of near-Earth asteroids has become nearly as popular with younger students as has the subject of dinosaurs. It provides the opportunity to educate the public about the structure of the Solar System beyond the eight major planets traditionally memorized in grade school. And although the probability of finding an object of significant size on a collision course with Earth in the near future is quite small, the broader impact of such a discovery would be enormous, including the topics of disaster preparation, impact prediction, and threat mitigation. So popular has the subject become in recent years that it has spawned two major theatrical motion pictures, a television mini-series, and numerous documentaries.\n***", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5352", "attributes": { "award_id": "0710685", "title": "2007 Electrochemistry GRC - GOALI: Gordon Research Conference Activities to Stimulate University-Industry-Government Laboratory Partnerships and Increase Diversity in Science", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "OFFICE OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY AC" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2007-01-15", "end_date": "2007-12-31", "award_amount": 20000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18780, "first_name": "Carol", "last_name": "Korzeniewski", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 226, "ror": "https://ror.org/05rad4t93", "name": "Gordon Research Conferences", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "RI", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 18779, "first_name": "Peter T", "last_name": "Kissinger", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 226, "ror": "https://ror.org/05rad4t93", "name": "Gordon Research Conferences", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "RI", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This GOALI award enables participation by a significant number of female and underrepresented minority scientists in the 2007 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Electrochemistry that will be held in Ventura, CA, January 14 - 19, 2007. Additionally, this award provides support for two half-day 'mini-workshops', embedded within the GRC program structure, that focus on two important facets of the American Competitiveness Initiative (ACI), namely (1) partnerships among academia, industry, and national laboratories and (2) development of a diverse, well prepared workforce, and do so within the critical technology of fundamental and applied electrochemistry.\n\nBroader impacts of this activity include seeding the development of (1) a diverse workforce in the electrochemical sciences and (2) new partnerships that capture sector synergy in multidisciplinary electrochemical sciences in pursuit of ACI goals.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5369", "attributes": { "award_id": "0710910", "title": "Oxygen and Multiple S Isotope Investigation of Magma-Country Rock Interaction During Early Stages of Magmatism in the Midcontinent Rift System: Constraints From the Eagle Deposit", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "Petrology and Geochemistry" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2007-07-01", "end_date": "2011-06-30", "award_amount": 153553, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18821, "first_name": "Chusi", "last_name": "Li", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 221, "ror": "https://ror.org/01kg8sb98", "name": "Indiana University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "IN", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 18820, "first_name": "Edward M", "last_name": "Ripley", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 221, "ror": "https://ror.org/01kg8sb98", "name": "Indiana University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "IN", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Intellectual merit: The Eagle deposit, located in the Baraga Basin of northern Michigan, consists of semi-massive and massive Fe-Ni-Cu sulfides found within a dike-like peridotite body. The rocks are associated with the Proterozoic Midcontinent Rift System (MRS), and are thought to represent feeders to early-stage, rift-related volcanics. Country rocks include Proterozoic metasedimentary rocks that are locally graphitic and sulfidic; these rocks appeared to be likely sources for S contained in the igneous rocks, However, sulfides in the igneous rocks are characterized by d34S values less than 4 per mil, whereas sulfides in the Proterozoic rocks show a d34S range from ~10 to 40 per mil. Preliminary S isotopic analyses indicate a range of d33S values from 0.02 to -0.7 per mil, indicating significant mass independent fractionation of S isotopes that to date has only been documented in Archean rocks. Thus, most of the S contained in the Eagle deposit must be derived from Archean rocks, rather than from the sulfide-rich Proterozoic rocks. To verify and understand this surprising result, a detailed investigation of d33S variations is proposed for the Eagle deposit, as well as both Proterozoic and Archean country rocks. Multiple S isotope studies have proven to be important to the continuing evaluation of Earth's early atmosphere. However, recent studies have shown that mass independently fractionated S isotopes (MIF-S) may not be restricted to rocks greater that ~2 Ga in age. The proposed stratigraphically controlled study at Eagle will provide information on the distribution of d33S values in the igneous rocks and related sulfide mineralization, in the Proterozoic (two sequences, one of ~ 2.2-2.4 Ga and the other of ~1.8-1.9 Ga, which will cover important intervals in Earth history with respect to MIF-S), and in the Archean rocks. We also plan to analyze gabbroic rocks with associated Cu-Ni sulfide mineralization found in the Duluth Complex of Minnesota, located on the north side of the rift. In these samples d34S values of the sulfide accumulations are similar to the values of iron sulfides in carbonaceous, 1.8 to 1.9 Ga country rocks. This association is much different from that at Eagle, and presents an opportunity to contrast multiple S isotope systematics in mineralized systems that formed at different times in the development of the MRS. Oxygen isotope analyses of olivine and plagioclase in the rocks at Eagle will also be undertaken to investigate the relative importance of devolatilization and partial melting of country rocks in transferring MIF-S to the magmatic system. Results of the proposed study will increase our understanding of magmatic sulfide ore formation in the MRS, will shed light on the nature of interaction between mantle-derived magmas and crustal rocks at various times in the developing rift, and provide insight into S mass independent fractionation on Earth.\n\nBroader impacts. The proposed research represents a collaboration between academia and the minerals industry. Kennecott will fund a graduate student fellowship as part of the project, as well as limited geochronologic, mineralogical and geochemical studies. In addition, reserves of Ni and platinum-group elements in the United States are low and studies of this type are needed to evaluate known resources and to develop exploration models. Both graduate and undergraduate students will benefit from the collaboration with mining industry, and will receive training in the utilization of state-of-the-art analytical instrumentation and in methods of scientific investigation.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5418", "attributes": { "award_id": "0717608", "title": "Poverty, Social Change, and Shifting Expectations: The Makings of Mental Health Disorders Among Ethiopian Adolescents", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)", "Cultural Anthropology" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2007-09-01", "end_date": "2010-08-31", "award_amount": 99944, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18940, "first_name": "Craig", "last_name": "Hadley", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 265, "ror": "https://ror.org/03czfpz43", "name": "Emory University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "GA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 18939, "first_name": "Daniel C", "last_name": "Mains", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 265, "ror": "https://ror.org/03czfpz43", "name": "Emory University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "GA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Poverty, social change, and shifting expectations: The makings of mental health disorders among Ethiopian adolescents \n\nDue to the impacts of economic and cultural globalization, young people throughout the world are experiencing an unprecedented exposure to new possibilities for living. For many youth this exposure may lead to new expectations and aspirations for their future. However, for low-income youth in developing countries, economic realities may prevent them from attaining their aspirations. These same aspirations may also create inter-generational conflict as the values of young people differ from established social norms. Researchers, Dr. Craig Haldey and Dr. Daniel Mains, will study the impact that these \"mismatches\" have on youth's lives and pyschosocial health, and how this relationship is modified by social, cultural, and economic factors. They will carry out the research in Ethiopia where the majority of the population is young and high levels of poverty act as barriers to the fulfillment aspirations.\n \nThe investigators will rely on qualitative ethnographic data collection methods and social survey techniques. The non-survey methods will include unstructured interviews, free listing, and group discussions and will be used to elicit locally and culturally appropriate conceptions of a successful life and important milestones from youth and adults. Youth and adults will then be asked to rank the relative importance of elements of a successful life. The most important elements and those that are collectively shared will be integrated into a survey that will be administered to a population-based sample of nearly 2000 youth (15-19 y). For each element, youth will respond how important they think the item is to a successful life, whether they have achieved that item, and their perceived likelihood of every achieving it. The mental health, economic status, and social support networks of youth will also be measured through the survey. Through this survey the investigators can assess the mental health impact of failure or inability to achieve culturally agreed upon milestones. \n\nThe research is important because it integrates a range of methodologies. The researchers use social science to address several emerging issues: globalization, mental health, and current demographic realities in many developing countries.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5415", "attributes": { "award_id": "0719943", "title": "Collaborative Research: Integrated Study of an Exceptional Avifauna from the Eocene Green River Formation: New Data on Avian Evolution and Taphonomy", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2007-09-01", "end_date": "2011-08-31", "award_amount": 49994, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18922, "first_name": "Lance", "last_name": "Grande", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 1285, "ror": "https://ror.org/00mh9zx15", "name": "Field Museum of Natural History", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "IL", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 1285, "ror": "https://ror.org/00mh9zx15", "name": "Field Museum of Natural History", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "IL", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The pattern and timing of the emergence of all living birds remain some of the most contentious questions in vertebrate systematics. Avian fossils are increasingly sought as calibration points for molecular divergence dating and used to test macroevolutionary hypotheses. This project will investigate the best-preserved early Paleogene avian assemblage from North America to forward rapidly our understanding of Cenozoic avian evolution and taphonomy. The assemblage comprises a rich sample of exceptionally preserved, but largely uncharacterized, fossils deposited in less than ~2000 years in distinct, mapped, and sedimentologically characterized sub-environments of a single lake. The deposits are tightly dated to 50.2+-1.9 Mya and occur in the Fossil Butte Member in Wyoming. \n\nThe project is the first to integrate systematic analyses and an investigation of preservational biases that impact fossil evidence from key lake assemblages. The results are essential to gaining: 1) a global perspective on early Paleogene avian biodiversity; 2) an understanding of the timing and paleobiogeographic patterns of the avian radiation; and 3) answers to fundamental questions of how birds and their feathers are preserved in key lacustrine environments. \n\nThe results will have wider significance in providing a basis for comparison and indication of likely biases in other assemblages of fossil birds preserved in similar settings such as the Early Cretaceous Jehol Group that yields feathered dinosaurs. The only way to discover what categories of taxa may be systematically missing in such deposits is through the approach proposed here: phylogenetic and taphonomic study of one of the most complete 'snap shots' of avian diversity under the best conditions possible. The broader impacts of the project include novel integration of specimen-based teaching of anatomy, systematic methodologies, and taphonomic approaches; postdoctoral, doctoral and undergraduate training; and the promotion of public understanding of evolution and biodiversity via museum exhibits, linked outreach materials, and lectures.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5367", "attributes": { "award_id": "0724719", "title": "NeXtworking 2007 Workshop on Future Internet Architecture", "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": 18816, "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": "2007-04-15", "end_date": "2008-03-31", "award_amount": 30000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18817, "first_name": "Jennifer", "last_name": "Rexford", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 191, "ror": "https://ror.org/00hx57361", "name": "Princeton University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NJ", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 191, "ror": "https://ror.org/00hx57361", "name": "Princeton University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NJ", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award funds a joint COST-IST (EU) and NSF (USA) NeXtworking 2007 Workshop on Future Internet Architecture held on April 19-20, 2007, in Berlin, Germany. There are three main objectives for the workshop:\n.\tIdentifying networking research challenges: The workshop focuses on identifying the main research challenges that must be addressed to lead to a future Internet architecture that addresses the many challenges of today's networks and the promising capabilities of tomorrow's technologies.\n.\tIdentifying requirements for experimental facilities: A closely related goal is to investigate the role of experimental facilities in supporting the research and the capabilities these facilities should have, as well as documenting the strengths and limitations of existing research testbeds.\n.\tFacilitating collaboration between EU and US researchers: By bringing together researchers from the EU and US, the workshop will build stronger ties for joint research including organizing joint efforts on the design, and particularly the federation, of future experimental facilities. \nThe workshop targets key research areas in networking represented by premier researchers from the EU and USA, with an emphasis on the needs of future network architectures rather than summaries of mature research results. The workshop organizers are Christophe Diot (Thomson), Serge Fdida (U. Paris), Anja Feldmann (TU-Berlin), Jennifer Rexford (Princeton University), and Ioannis Stavrakakis (University of Athens), Jennifer Rexford will handle the NSF funding and Scott Kirkpatrick is handling the 30,000 Euros that COST is providing for the workshop. After the conclusion of the workshop, the organizing committee will furnish a report to the COST-IST (EU) and NSF (USA) and will make it publicly available to participants and others via the workshop Web site and any relevant funding-agency Web sites.\n\nIntellectual Merit\nThe workshop focuses on the intellectual challenges of designing a future Internet architecture that is worthy of society's trust (in terms of important metrics such as scalability, reliability, security, manageability, usability, and other so-called X-ities) and expands the capabilities available to end users (including support for mobility and large numbers of wireless and sensor devices). At the NSF, these research challenges lie at the heart of the FIND (Future INternet Design) initiative. In addition, the workshop will include discussion of tools and techniques for evaluating new architectural ideas, including modeling, simulation and experimental tools and techniques for connecting multiple experimental facilities to enable larger-scale evaluation. \n\nBroader Impact: The importance of the Internet for the economic, political, and social well-being of the nation, and the world, cannot be overstated. The workshop will play an important role in outlining a larger research agenda for the design of a future Internet. In addition, the workshop will enable a strong collaboration between EU and US researchers in networking research and the design and operation of global experimental facilities for evaluating new network architectures.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5364", "attributes": { "award_id": "0725489", "title": "Workshop-Physiological Research, Integration, Synthesis, and Modeling Center, to be held in Santa Barbara, CA, March 17 - 19, 2007.", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "Physiolgcl Mechnsms&Biomechnsm" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2007-03-15", "end_date": "2008-02-29", "award_amount": 15000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18811, "first_name": "Martin", "last_name": "Frank", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 1401, "ror": "https://ror.org/01y68k842", "name": "American Physiological Society", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MD", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 18808, "first_name": "Hannah V", "last_name": "Carey", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 18809, "first_name": "Terrie M", "last_name": "Williams", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 18810, "first_name": "James W", "last_name": "Hicks", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 1401, "ror": "https://ror.org/01y68k842", "name": "American Physiological Society", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MD", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This small grant will support a workshop to evaluate and initiate a National Center Network focusing on a Physiological Research, Integration, Synthesis and Modeling (PRISM) program. The concept will be explored during a two-day workshop on March 17-19, 2007 at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) facility (Santa Barbara, CA). \n\n \n\nThe specific aims of this workshop are to develop a document that \n\n1) refines the key elements of the NCN-PRISM program to reflect the broad interests of the organismal biological community, \n\n2) identifies current and potential partners for this endeavor, and \n\n3) outlines a development scheme for supporting the program. \n\n \n\nFifteen scientists representing the areas of physiological research, conservation, biomedicine, and zoological park communities have been identified to participate in this initial workshop. Each has expressed an interest in the development of an integrated program for comparative and ecological physiology. Through a series of presentations, discussions and writing assignments this group will evaluate the need, logistics and costs of creating a national center network for integrative physiology. The NCEAS was selected as the location for the workshop to encourage discussions with its director concerning the successful steps towards developing a national synthesis center (using NCEAS as an example) and the potential for future collaboration with the proposed PRISM Center.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } } ], "meta": { "pagination": { "page": 3, "pages": 1392, "count": 13920 } } }