Grants and Contracts Awarded in December, 2011

Listed by College, Department and PI


Agriculture, Food & Env Sciences
Architecture & Env Design
Business
Engineering
Liberal Arts
Science & Mathematics
Student Affairs
Other


College of Agriculture, Food & Env Sciences

Agricultural Education

PI
Project Title
Sponsor
GDO #
Amount Awarded
Project Dates
Kellogg, Bill
San Luis Obispo Office Space and Services for CDE Agricultural Education Consultant (2012-14)
U.S. Dept of Education via CA Dept of Education
12-014
$27,018
01/12/12 - 01/11/14

Horticulture & Crop Science

PI
Project Title
Sponsor
GDO #
Amount Awarded
Project Dates
Brown, J Wyatt
Packaging Consortium Task #11: Heavy metal content and potential for migration from biopolymers and continued evaluation of green market claims for flexible and rigid film
Various Sponsors (Packaging Consortium)
12-151
$39,925
11/01/11 - 11/30/12
Brown, J Wyatt
Packaging Consortium Task #13: Effects of heat, microwaving and off-gassing of volatiles and migrants from virgin and recycled plastics into food
Various Sponsors (Packaging Consortium)
12-153
$37,692
11/01/11 - 11/30/12
Brown, J Wyatt
Packaging Consortium Task #14: Travel and Administrative Support
Various Sponsors (Packaging Consortium)
12-154
$35,531
11/01/11 - 11/30/12

Natural Resources Management & Environmental Sciences

PI
Project Title
Sponsor
GDO #
Amount Awarded
Project Dates
Dicus, Christopher A.
McIntire-Stennis - Prediction of Post-fire Mortality and Response Following Mixed-Severity Fires in a Coastal Redwood/Douglas-fir Forest
U.S. Dept of Agriculture (NIFA)
11-106
$15,000
10/01/11 - 09/30/12
Dietterick, Brian
McIntire-Stennis - Calibration Analysis and Post-treatment Phasing of a Paired and Nested Watershed Study to Evaluate Event-Based Suspended Sediment Export
U.S. Dept of Agriculture (CSREES)
08-203
$24,765
10/01/11 - 08/31/12
Dietterick, Brian
McIntire-Stennis - Use of LiDAR and Multispectral Imagery for Post-fire Evaluation of the Lockheed Fire
U.S. Dept of Agriculture (NIFA)
11-122
$10,292
10/01/11 - 09/30/12
Piirto, Douglas
McIntire-Stennis Forestry Research Program (2011-2012)
U.S. Dept of Agriculture (NIFA)
12-182
$90,051
10/01/11 - 09/30/12
Sink, Scott
McIntire-Stennis - An Evaluation of Stand Structural Changes in Uneven-aged Managed Coast Redwood Stands at Cal Poly's Swanton Pacific School Forest Affected by the 2009 Lockheed Fire
U.S. Dept of Agriculture (NIFA)
11-107
$14,998
10/01/11 - 09/30/12

College of Architecture & Env Design

Architecture

PI
Project Title
Sponsor
GDO #
Amount Awarded
Project Dates
Pohl, Jens
ICODES development and software maintenance support – stage 23
U.S. Dept of Defense via CDM Technologies, Inc.
11-154
$239,953
11/27/10 - 03/18/11

City & Regional Planning

PI
Project Title
Sponsor
GDO #
Amount Awarded
Project Dates
Main, Kelly
City of Santa Paula Downtown Plan Update (CRP 410/411)
City of Santa Paula
12-107
$5,000
09/19/11 - 05/31/12

College of Business

Economics

PI
Project Title
Sponsor
GDO #
Amount Awarded
Project Dates
Hamilton, Stephen
Retail food price inflation and consumer search: theory and experimental evidence
U.S. Dept of Agriculture (NIFA) - AFRI via Arizona State University
11-270
$86,004
09/01/11 - 08/31/13

Industrial Technology

PI
Project Title
Sponsor
GDO #
Amount Awarded
Project Dates
Singh, Jagjit
Packaging Consortium Task #9: Analysis of retail ready produce packaging for club stores
Various Sponsors (Packaging Consortium)
12-149
$39,925
11/01/11 - 11/30/12
Singh, Jagjit
Packaging Consortium Task #10: Innovative corrugated (fiberboard and plastic) cut-back designs for standardized fresh-produce shippers
Various Sponsors (Packaging Consortium)
12-150
$37,557
11/01/11 - 11/30/12
Vorst, Keith
Packaging Consortium Task #12: Validation of reliability claims for OpCheck oxygen tester
Various Sponsors (Packaging Consortium)
12-152
$34,790
11/01/11 - 11/30/12

College of Engineering

Aerospace Engineering

PI
Project Title
Sponsor
GDO #
Amount Awarded
Project Dates
Puig-Suari, Jordi
IPEX
NASA via Jet Propulsion Laboratory
11-102
$190,122
11/16/11 - 06/30/12

Civil & Environmental Engineering

PI
Project Title
Sponsor
GDO #
Amount Awarded
Project Dates
Moss, Robb
Risk of Levee Failures in the Western U.S.
U.S. Dept of Homeland Security via University of North Carolina
09-003
$12,000
07/01/11 - 06/30/12
Yesiller, Nazli
Exploring emerging waste streams created by advances in technology: Bringing real world issues into the undergraduate STEM curriculum at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
W. M. Keck Foundation
11-314
$50,000
01/01/12 - 12/31/14

Electrical Engineering

PI
Project Title
Sponsor
GDO #
Amount Awarded
Project Dates
Slivovsky, Lynne
Northrop Grumman Corporation AY 11-12 student project
Northrop Grumman Corporation
12-148
$10,000
11/19/11 - 06/18/12

Mechanical Engineering

PI
Project Title
Sponsor
GDO #
Amount Awarded
Project Dates
Westphal, Russell
Wing Boundary Layer Measurement System
NASA Dryden Research Center
10-283
$-77,328
07/26/10 - 07/28/11

College of Liberal Arts

Graphic Communication

PI
Project Title
Sponsor
GDO #
Amount Awarded
Project Dates
Levenson, Harvey
Heidelberg Lean Training Seminar, Cancun
Print Media Academy
12-127
$14,905
11/01/11 - 01/31/12

Social Sciences

PI
Project Title
Sponsor
GDO #
Amount Awarded
Project Dates
Neill, Dawn
RUI: Urbanization and Parental Investment among Fijians
National Science Foundation (RUI)
09-024
$21,025
12/20/11 - 12/31/12

College of Science & Mathematics

Biological Sciences

PI
Project Title
Sponsor
GDO #
Amount Awarded
Project Dates
Tomanek, Lars
Meeting: Symposium on Comparative Proteomics of Environmental and Pollution Stress
National Science Foundation (Conference)
12-059
$14,990
12/15/11 - 11/30/12
Wendt, Dean
Barnacle attachment testing
Teledyne Scientific
11-025
$13,126
08/31/10 - 12/31/12

Chemistry and Biochemistry

PI
Project Title
Sponsor
GDO #
Amount Awarded
Project Dates
Lehr, Corinne
Determination of Cyanuric Acid (CYA) Purity – Part 1
Pool and Spa Magazine
11-195
$1,028
09/02/11 - 05/01/12
Marlier, John
RUI: Thioester hydrolysis: A mechanistic study of one of nature's most reactive acyl groups
National Science Foundation (RUI)
10-306
$61,974
12/17/11 - 02/28/14

Other

Research & Graduate Programs

PI
Project Title
Sponsor
GDO #
Amount Awarded
Project Dates
Opava, Susan
Cal Poly SBDC for Innovation (2011)
U.S. Small Business Administration via UC Merced
11-243
$1,000
04/01/11 - 12/31/11

Totals for December, 2011: 27 Projects, $1,051,343