April 2021 Grants and Contracts
We are pleased to share the success of 91ÁÔÆæ's principal investigators who were awarded grants and contracts during April 2021:
Monthly Awards at a Glance:
22 Awards Received: Valued at $4,681,657
Lucas College and Graduate School of Business
Dan Moshavi, Business Dean's Office
Mineta Consortium for Transportation Mobility (MCTM) Task Order 18
Sponsor: CA State, Department of Transportation – $129,270
Dan Moshavi and Karen E. Philbrick, Business Dean's Office
Mineta Consortium for Transportation Mobility (MCTM) Task Order 17
Sponsor: CA State, Department of Transportation – $108,000
Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering
Ronald Mak, Computer Engineering
Intelligent Systems Research and Development Support-3 (ISRDS-3)
Sponsor: KBR Wyle services, LLC – $35,265
College of Science
Ross P. Clark, Moss Landing Marine Lab
A Collaborative Approach to Groundwater Sustainability in Southern Monterey Bay Watersheds
Sponsor: CA State, Department of Conservation – $300,000
Craig B. Clements, Meteorology & Climate Science
Vertical Wind Profiling for Real-Time Fire Weather and PSPS Assessment
Sponsor: Southern California Edison – $76,870
Maya Devries, Scott L. Hamilton, and Michael Graham, Biological Sciences
Strengthening Sustainability in an Acidified Ocean: Does the Co-Culture of Seaweeds
and Shellfish Improve Shell Integrity in Farmed Red Abalone?
Sponsor: CA State University System – $30,000
Michael E. Feinholz and Mark Yarbrough, Moss Landing Marine Lab
Marine Optical Buoy (MOBY) Operations and Technology Refresh
Sponsor: University of Miami – $2,440,900
Jonathan B. Geller, Moss Landing Marine Lab
Marine Invasive Species Molecular Analysis
Sponsor: CA State, Dept of Fish & Wildlife – $83,937
Maxime Grand, Luke Gardner, Moss Landing Marine Lab
Evaluating the Contribution of Seaweed Aquaculture to Regional and Global Bromoform
Production Rates
Sponsor: CSU, Monterey Bay – $29,723
Scott L. Hamilton, Moss Landing Marine Lab
CA Sea Grant Fellowship (Katherine Neylan): Eat Your Greens: Evaluating Microalgae
Supplemented Feeds for Sablefish Nutrition and Growth
Sponsor: UC, San Diego – $39,975
Validating Age and Growth of Captive Fishes from Mexican Waters at the Monterey Bay
Aquarium
Sponsor: Monterey Bay Aquarium – $7,500
Scott L. Hamilton and Michael Graham, Moss Landing Marine Lab
Creating New Products and Markets – Development of Techniques for the Cultivation
of Monkeyface Pricklebacks as a Sustainable Alternative to Unagi
Sponsor: UC, San Diego – $48,949
James Harvey, Moss Landing Marine Lab
Estuarine Wetland and Nearshore Ecology Studies along the Pacific Flyway
Sponsor: Department of Interior – $24,667
Michael J. Kaufman, Physics & Astronomy
Using the Astronomical Infrared Bands as Calibrated Probes of Astrophysical Conditions
with the NASA Ames PAH IR
Sponsor: NASA – $45,000
Karen Singmaster, Cleber C. Ouverney, and Alberto A. Rascon Jr., Chemistry
San José State University Rise Program
Sponsor: Department of Health & Human Services – $263,807
Katherine Wilkinson, Biological Sciences
Control of Muscle Proprioceptor Sensitivity
Sponsor: Department of Health & Human Services – $108,375
College of Social Sciences
Frances Edwards and Kaikai Liu, Political Science
Best Practices in Disaster Public Communications
Sponsor: John S. and James L. Knight Foundation – $112,728
Sean P. Laraway, Psychology
Test Subject Recruitment Office – Task 1
Sponsor: ASRC Federal – $21,064
David Schuster, Psychology
CAREER: Understanding the Cognitive Processes of Computer Network Defense
Sponsor: Defense National Science Foundation – $16,000
Susan M. Snycerski, Psychology
Future Vertical Lift: Collaborative Research on Flight Control, Autonomous Rotorcraft,
and Human-Systems Interface Design
Sponsor: NASA – $630,200 and $52,184
Amanda Stasiewicz, Environmental Studies
Wildfire Evacuation & Management during the 2020 Lightning Complex Wildfires: Exploring
Influences on Resident Action during SCU & CZU Wildfire Events
Sponsor: John S. and James L. Knight Foundation – $77,243
