Scope | Faculty and Staff Notes

Grants of $50,000 or more awarded to faculty in the past six months

Paul A. Baker, professor of geochemistry, National Science Foundation, $279,980, “Reconstructing Past Climates of the Amazon Basin from the Isotopic Analysis of Tropical Trees”; NSF, $142,446, Collaborative Research: “Holocene Drought in the North American Interior.”

Celia J. Bonaventura, professor of cell biology, National Institutes of Health, $151,690, “Functional Analysis of Engineered Hemoglobins.”

Richard T. Di Giulio, professor of environmental toxicology, NIH, $183,015, “Toxicogenomics Core A”; NIH, $186,659, “Integrated Toxicology Program Training Grant.”

David J. Erickson III, adjunct professor of computational biogeochemistry, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, $142,998, “Evaluating the Role of Global Snow Cover on Seasonal to Interannual Predictability of Temperature and Precipitation.”

Patrick N. Halpin, Gabel Associate Professor of the Practice of Geospatial Analysis, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, $1,241,594, “Marine Ecosystem-based Management Tool Innovation Fund.”

Gabriele C. Hegerl, associate research professor, NSF, $410,819, “Detection and Attribution of Anthropogenic Changes in Climate Extremes and Variability”; Department of Energy, $429,262, “Reducing Uncertainties in Future Climate Projections by Quantifying Human Contributions to 20th Century Climate Change.”

Robert B. Jackson, professor of environmental sciences and biology, Department of Energy, $1,791,082, “Southeastern Regional Center of the National Institute for Climate Change Research.”

Gabriel Katul, professor of hydrology and micrometeorology, U.S.-Israel Binational Agricultural R&D Fund, $153,000, “Application of Turbulent Transport Techniques for Quantifying Whole Canopy Evapotranspiration in Large Agricultural Structures: Measurement and Theory”; NSF, $445,475, “De-Convolving the Effects of Rising Atmospheric CO2, Solar Dimming, and Afforestation on Usable Water and Carbon Sequestration Potential in the Southeastern U.S.”

Emily M. Klein, Lee Hill Snowdon Professor Geology, NSF, $276,088, Collaborative Proposal: “Anatomy of an Overlapping Spreading Center: Geochemical and Geological Study of the EPR 903N OSC.”

Peter E. Malin, professor of seismology and civil and environmental engineering, U.S. Geological Survey, $59,532, “SAFOD-site Crustal Property, Fault Guided Wave, and Tremor Studies Using Existing Surface Array and Borehole Seismic Data”; NSF, $319,027, Collaborative Proposal: “CALIPSO Project: Imaging the Magma Chamber on Montserrat.”

Marie Lynn Miranda, associate research professor, Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program Directors, $950,000, “Building Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Capacity in Two State Health Departments to Address Heart Disease and Stroke”; National Center for Environmental Health; $266,890, “Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention.”

A. Brad Murray, associate professor of geomorphology and coastal processes, NSF, $120,685, “Productivity, Stability, and Geomorphological Evolution of New England Salt Marshes: Plum Island Case Study.”

Brian C. Murray, director for economic analysis, Nicholas Institute, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency/Stratus Consulting Inc., $101,768, “Development of Offset Methodology for Afforestation and Reforestation Sequestration Projects”; USDA Forest Service, $108,525, “Economic Valuation of Payments for Ecosystem Services from Wetlands in the Lower Mississippi Valley, USA” (w/ R.A. Kramer)

Stuart L. Pimm, Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology, NASA, $72,000, “Remote Sensing of White Sand Ecosystems in the Brazilian Amazon: Implications for Plant and Avian Diversity”; U.S. Fish and Wildlife, $245,567, “Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow Modeling Project.”

Andrew J. Read, Rachel Carson Associate Professor of Marine Conservation, Geo-Marine Inc., $949,103, “Long- Term Monitoring of Protected Species in USWTR”; MCAS Cherry Point Environmental Affairs, $121,284, “Real-time Acoustic Monitoring of Bottlenose Dolphins in and Around the Brant Island Shoal Bombing Target (BT-9) and the Piney Island Bombing Range (BT-11)”; New England Aquarium, $94,010, “Reducing Conflicts Between Fisheries and Protected Species in North Carolina —Year 2.”

Daniel D. Richter, professor of soils and forest ecology, NSF, $425,000, “RCN: Global Soil Change Community Networking Chronosequence Studies and Long-term Soil Experiments.”

Daniel Rittschof, associate professor of zoology, NC State University, $84,760, “Enhancing Artificial Reef Fish Populations by Providing a Nursery Refuge for Invertebrate Prey.”

John W. Terborgh, James B. Duke Professor of Environmental Science, Blue Moon Fund, $115,000, “E-tools to Strengthen Protected Area Management in Latin America.”

Avner Vengosh, associate professor, U.S. Department of Agriculture, $570,000, “An Integrative Investigation of the Sources and Effects of Groundwater Contamination for Local Communities.”

--Compiled by Donna Sell, Nicholas School communications assistant