Newly Funded Research Proposals - January 9, 2009
| EESI Associate PI/Co-PI | Title of Proposal | Date | Agency |
| Richard Alley | ARRA: Development of a Viscoelastic Ice-flow Model for Process-based Prediction of Ice-sheet Evolution | Awarded 8/19/09 9/1/09 - 8/31/12 |
NSF |
| Sridhar Anandakrishnan | IPY: Flow Dynamics of Two Amundsen Sea Glaciers: Thwaites and Pine Island | Awarded 7/28/09 6/15/07 - 5/31/11 |
NSF |
| REU Supplement to Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) | Awarded 8/18/09 6/1/05 - 5/31/10 |
University of Kansas |
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| Collaborative Research: IPY: Ocean-ice Interaction in the Amundsen Sea Sector of West Antarctica | Awarded 8/26/09 10/1/07 - 9/30/10 |
NSF | |
| Todd Bacastow | Augmentation and Technical Support to PA DMVA for Wildlife and Conservation Monitoring and Management - INRMP | Awarded 6/3/09 7/1/09 - 6/30/10 |
DMVA |
| Augmentation and Technical Support to PA DMVA Range and Training Land Assessments - Seasonal (RTLA Seasonal) | Awarded 6/3/09 7/1/09 - 6/30/10 |
DMVA | |
| Augmentation and Technical Support to PA DMVA for the Integrated Training Area Management Program (ITAM) | Awarded 7/16/09 7/1/09 - 6/30/10 |
DMVA | |
| Augmentation and Technical Support to PA DMVA for the Range Training Assessment (RTLA) Coordinator | Awarded 6/3/09 7/1/09 - 6/30/10 |
DMVA | |
| Technical Support to PA DMVA for the Army Geographic Information System (GIS) Activities | Awarded 6/3/09 7/1/09 - 6/30/10 |
DMVA | |
| Augmentation and Technical Support to PA DMVA for GIS and Engineering Services (ENG) | Awarded 6/3/09 7/1/09 - 6/30/10 |
DMVA | |
| Augmentation and Technical Support to PA DMVA for Forestry and Conservation Monitoring and Management (FORESTRY) | Awarded 6/3/09 7/1/09 - 6/30/10 |
DMVA | |
| Susan Brantley | An Investigation of Roughness and Weathering at the Bedrock-Regolith Interface | Awarded 8/19/09 6/1/05 - 8/31/10 |
DOE |
| Ken Davis | Northeastern Regional Center of the National Institute for Climatic Change Research (Supplement) | Awarded 6/10/09 12/01/05 - 11/30/10 |
DOE |
| Matthew Fantle | Signatures of Life from Earth and Beyond |
3/1/09 - 1/31/14 |
NASA |
| Steve Feldstein | ARRA: Collaborative Research: Study of the Relationship Between Regionally Localized and Zonally Symmetric Anomalously Persistent Weather | Awarded 6/24/09 7/1/09 - 6/30/12 |
NSF |
| Kevin Furlong | Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) Agreement for K. Furlong |
1/2/09 - 9/30/09 | US Dept of the Interior |
| Amy Glasmeier | Local Development Districts of Pennsylvania Energy Partnership Program - Year Two | Awarded 3/20/09 10/1/08 - 9/30/09 | Northwest PA RPDC |
| Christopher House | Signatures of Life from Earth and Beyond | 3/1/09 - 1/31/14 | NASA |
| Signatures of Life from Earth and Beyond (Supplemental Funds) | 3/1/09 - 1/31/14 | NASA | |
| The Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium - Programs Plan Budget - Year 5 | Awarded 8/19/09 3/15/05 - 3/14/10 | NASA | |
| James Kasting | The Virtual Planetary Laboratory: Exploring the Habitability and Biosignatures of Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets Continued | Awarded 3/26/09 11/12/07 - 10/31/09 |
University of Washington |
| Signatures of Life from Earth and Beyond | 3/1/09 - 1/31/14 | NASA | |
| Klaus Keller | Probabilistic Carbon Flux Upscaling Across a Northern Forest Ecoregion | Awarded 5/19/09 4/1/08 - 3/31/11 |
NASA |
| Data Fusion to Determine North American Sources and Sinks of Carbon Dioxide at High Spatial and Temporal Resolution from 2004 to 2008 | Awarded 4/3/09 6/1/08 - 5/31/11 |
US Depart of Commerce |
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| Eric Kirby | CZO: Susquehanna/Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory | Awarded 2/12/09 11/15/07 - 10/31/09 |
NSF |
| Andrew Kleit | Assessing and Mitigating Rising Electricity Prices in Rural Pennsylvania | Awarded 1/2009 - 12/2009 |
Center for Rural Pennsylvania |
| Assessing and Mitigating Rising Electricity Prices in Rural Pennsylvania | Awarded 3/10/09 2/2/09 - 4/1/10 |
DOE | |
| Examination of Current and Future Costs and Revenues from Forest Products, Oil and Gas Extraction on Pennsylvania Game Commission Lands | Awarded 4/2009 - 10/2009 |
The PA Legislative Budget and Finance Committee | |
| James Kubicki | Macroscopic Research | 3/9/09 - 9/30/09 | Battelle w/DOE |
| Collaborative Research: New Characterization Approaches for Developing Structure-Sorption Relationships in Dis-Ordered Iron-oxyhydroxides | Awarded 7/13/09 9/1/07 - 8/31/10 |
NSF | |
| Lee Kump | Signatures of Life from Earth and Beyond | 3/1/09 - 1/31/14 | NASA |
| Signatures of Life from Earth and Beyond (Supplemental Funds) | 3/1/09 - 1/31/14 | NASA | |
| The Virtual Planetary Laboratory: Exploring the Habitability and Biosignatures of Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets Continued | Awarded 3/26/09 11/12/07 - 10/31/09 |
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| Collaborative Research: The Siberian Traps and the End-Permian Extinction: Coincidence and Casuality | Awarded 2/11/09 8/15/08 - 7/31//10 |
NSF | |
| Doug Miller | A Web Map-Based Management Interface for Least Tern Management in the Southern Great Plains | Awarded 6/9/09 5/1/09 - 9/30/09 |
American Bird Conser |
| PAMAP Project 2008-2009 | Awarded 5/19/09 7/1/08 - 6/30/09 |
DCNR | |
| Richard Parizek | Collaborative Research: Synthesis of Thwaites Glacier Dynamics: Diagnostic and Prognostic Sensitivity Studies of a West Antarctic Outlet System | Awarded 3/25/09 8/1/07 - 3/31/10 |
NSF |
| Dave Pollard | Collaborative ANDRILL Numerical Modeling | Awarded 8/12/09 6/1/09 - 5/31/10 |
University of Nebraska |
| Collaborative Research: ANDRILL - Investigating Antarctica's Role in Cenozoic Global Environmental Change | Awarded 3/16/09 6/1/05 - 12/31/09 |
University of Nebraska | |
| Kamini Singha | REU Supplement to CAREER: Mass Transport in Groundwater: an Integration of Research and Experiential Education (Supplement Funds) | Awarded 4/22/09 8/1/08 - 7/31/10 |
NSF |
| CZO: Susquehanna/Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory | Awarded 2/12/09 11/15/07- 10/31/09 |
NSF | |
| Rudy Slingerland | CZO: Susquehanna/Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory | Awarded 2/12/09 11/15/07- 10/31/09 |
NSF |
| Collaborative Research: Quantifying and Modeling Temporal and Spatial Variations in Sediment Accumulation in the Gulf of Papua | Awarded 5/01/09 - 4/30/12 |
NSF | |
| Eric Smithwick | Characterization of Elevational Landscapes along the Appalachian Trail Mega-Transect Agency | Awarded 4/1/09 |
Applalachian Trail Conservancy |
| Todd Sowers |
Biogeochemistry and Geomicrobiology of Taylor Glacier Basal Ice | Awarded |
Montana University |
| Collaborative Research: Constructing an Ultra-high Resolution Atmospheric Methane Record for the Last 140,000 Years fromn WAIS Divide Core | Awarded 7/8/09 9/1/06 - 8/31/10 |
NSF | |
| Collaborative Research: The NEEM Deep Ice Core | Awarded 7/14/09 9/1/08 - 8/31/10 |
NSF |