The Research Foundation announces the following grants and contracts for January and February. Award amounts are totals expected for the entire funding period. The list does not include supplements, modifications or other changes to existing grants or contracts.

The Research Foundation announces the following grants and contracts for March. Award amounts are totals expected for the entire funding period. The list does not include supplements, modifications or other changes to existing grants or contracts.

THOMAS ALBERTS, professor of aerospace engineering, "Power Harvesting"; Oceana Sensors Technologies Inc., $51,000.

JAY AUSTIN, research assistant professor, Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, "Collaborative Research: Dye Tracer and Modeling Investigations of Cross-shelf Circulation During Coastal Upswelling"; National Science Foundation, $106,634.

MARK J. BUTLER, professor, and ROBERT E. RATZLAFF, associate professor, biological sciences, "The Behavioral and Ecological Effects of Disease in Caribbean Spiny Lobster"; National Science Foundation, $270,064.

GREGORY A. CUTTER, professor, and MARGARET R. MULHOLLAND, assistant professor, ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, "Factors Influencing the Rates and Mechanisms of Phytoplankton-mediated Hydrogen Sulfide Production in Contrasting Oceanic Regimes"; National Science Foundation, $400,742.

DENNIS A. DARBY, professor, and JENS F. BISCHOFF, research assistant professor, ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, "Collaborative Research: Establishing the Stratigraphy of Glacigenic Bedforms on the Chukchi Borderland, Arctic Ocean, to Reconstruct the History of Pleistocene Arctic Ice Shelves"; National Science Foundation, $65,000.

JOHN R. DONAT, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, "Collaborative Research: Interactive Influences of Atmospheric Deposition and Phytoplankton Bloom on Trace Metal Speciation"; National Science Foundation, $209,322.

JOHN L. ECHTERNACH, eminent scholar of physical therapy, "Center for the Study of the Community-dwelling Elderly"; Foundation for Physical Therapy, $5,000.

JEFFREY HARLOW, director, and TANCY VANDECAR-BURDIN, associate director, Social Science Research Center, "ABC Tobacco Vendor Verification"; Virginia Department of Mental Health/Mental Retardation, $12,100.

JEN-KUANG HUANG, professor of mechanical engineering, "Modeling, Simulation and Analysis for Ship Roll Simulation Automatic Control Algorithm"; Craft Engineering Associates, $15,000.

RAVINDRA P. JOSHI, professor of electrical and computer engineering, "Numerical Analysis for Predicting AIGaAsSb-InGaAsSb Avalanche Photodetector Performance at 2-Micron Wavelengths"; NASA Langley Research Center, $20,000.

CYNTHIA M. JONES, professor of biological sciences, "Bomb-dated Growth Dynamics of Arctic Fishes"; National Science Foundation, $180,378.

SUEANNE MCKINNEY, lecturer of educational curriculum and instruction, WENDY M. FRAZIER, assistant professor of ECI, and JOHN A. ADAM, University Professor of Mathematics, "Preparing Middle School Mathematics and Science Teachers: An Opportunity for Virginia"; Virginia Commonwealth University, $9,963.

ROLAND R. MIELKE, professor of electrical and computer engineering, "Cryogenics Training Course Enhancement"; Naval Fleet Training Center - Norfolk, $88,623.

KEITH PARKINSON, manufacturing specialist, Technology Applications Center, "Business Opportunity Development Project"; Richard Hall, $3,967.

MIKEL D. PETTY, research professor, Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center, "A. Tolk, IABG Conference Support"; 3WD Company, $8,704.

MARK W. SCERBO, associate professor of psychology, "Adaptive Technology as a Counter Measure for Complacency"; NASA Langley Research Center, $91,000.

ANDRES SOUZA-POZA and CHARLES B. KEATING, assistant professors of engineering management, "ISO-9000 Price Fighter"; Resource Consultants Inc., $11,199.

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