The Research Foundation announces the following grants and contracts for July and August. 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. For awards that have more than one investigator, the first faculty member listed is the principal investigator.

VINOD AGARWAL and GILBERT YOCHUM, professors of economics, “Summer 2007 Virginia Beach Overnight Visitor Profile and 2007 Virginia Beach Tourism Economic Impact Study”; Barker, Campbell & Farley, $47,570.

JULIAN ASHFORD, research assistant professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, “Resolving Trade-off Between Implementation, Statistical Rigor and Cost of Potential Licensing Systems for Recreational Fisheries in Maryland”; Maryland Department of Natural Resources, $95,460.

HAN BAO, professor of mechanical engineering, “Production Planning for a Wheelchair Accessible Examination Table”; Martin Manufacturing, $12,522.

SEBASTIAN BAWAB, associate professor of mechanical engineering, “Modeling and Validation of an Orthotic Knee Brace System for Impact Analysis in High Speed Boats”; Old Dominion University, $95,000.

OKTAY BAYSAL, dean of the Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology, “Turkish Air Force Student Support”; General Command of Gendarme, $143,470.

MARK BUTLER, professor of biological sciences, “Ecological Determinants of Hematodinium Epidemics in the American Blue Crab”; National Science Foundation, $294,151. Also, “State Wildlife Grant – Sessile Faunal Surveys – Second 2007 Budget Period”; Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission, $7,500.

MARGARET CAMARENA, director of the Social Science Research Center, “ECU’s IT Literacy and Skills in Rural Schools”; East Carolina University, $33,305. Also, “Portsmouth Hope VI”; city of Portsmouth, $198,254. Also, “Tidewater Community College’s Maritime Transportation Center Planning”; Tidewater Community College, $10,046.

GREGORY CUTTER, professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, “Sediment Geochemistry”; State University of New York, $53,741.

DENNIS DARBY and GREGORY CUTTER, professors of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, “Collaborative Research: Investigating Holocene Paleoclimate in the Western Arctic Ocean Using Very High-resolution Marine Records Off Alaska”; National Science Foundation, $114,903 and $60,286.

GAIL DODGE, chair of physics, “Fellowship 2007-08 (J. Zhang)”; Southeast University Research Association, $12,063. Also, “Jefferson Lab: Postdoc Henry Juengst”; Jefferson Lab, $23,886.

ABDELMAG ELMUSTAFA, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, “Graduate Student Researchers Program - Continuation for Justin Rice”; NASA Langley Research Center, $30,000.

HANI ELSAYED-ALI, eminent scholar of electrical and computer engineering, “NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program - Student Chris Garcia”; NASA Langley Research Center, $30,000. Also, “Testing of an Existing Ozone LIDAR System for Potential Deployment in an Aircraft or Unpiloted Atmospheric Vehicle”; NASA Langley Research Center, $7,131.

LAUREL GARZON, associate professor of nursing, “Nurse Anesthetist Traineeships” and “Advanced Education Nursing Traineeship”; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, $14,838 and $58,970.

PATRICK HATCHER, Batten Endowed Chair in Physical Sciences, and MARGARET MULHOLLAND,
associate professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, “Collaborative Research: Resistance of Peptide Degradation Products in Seawater”; National Science Foundation, $276,338.

WALT HOOKS, operations manager, physics, “Southeastern Universities Research Association – Jefferson Lab Support”; Jefferson Lab, $12,607 and $16,380.

CYNTHIA JONES, eminent scholar of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, “Characterization of the Sub-population Contribution of Age-0 Atlantic Menhaden to Chesapeake Bay”; Virginia Graduate Marine Science Consortium, $76,277. Also, with ROBERT DIAS, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, “Evaluation of Nursery Habitats: Effects of Carbon and Nitrogen Sources on Juvenile Fish Growth in Chesapeake Bay”; Virginia Graduate Marine Science Consortium, $79,223.

ANDREY KASPAROV, associate professor of music, and FRED BAYERSDORFER, assistant dean for the arts, College of Arts and Letters, “The Synergy of Dance, Visual Arts and Music”; Virginia Commission of the Arts, $2,500.

ASAD KHATTAK, professor of civil and environmental engineering, “Innovative Large Truck Speed Enforcement on Interstate Highways”; University of Tennessee, $19,480.

ROBIN LEWIS, professor of psychology, “Assistantship for Student in Virginia Consortium Program – Hampton-Newport News Community Services Board”; Hampton-Newport News Community Services Board, $7,000.

KURT MALY, eminent scholar of computer science, “NPAS Design and Development Project”; Welligent Inc., $13,035.

MICHAEL MCGINNIS, executive director of VMASC, “Educating the Acquisition Workforce in Modeling Simulation”; Navy Postgraduate School, $140,781.

MICHAEL NELSON, assistant professor of computer science, “Tools for a Presentation-ready Web”; CACI Inc., $149,952.

STEPHAN OLARIU, professor of computer science, “Collaborative Research - NeTS - NOSS: Autonomous Networked Sensor Systems (Answer)“; National Science Foundation, $134,840.

RICHARD OVERBAUGH, associate professor of educational curriculum and instruction, “No Child Left Behind Evaluation”; Four Rivers Technology Consortium, $44,820.

JANET PEERY, associate professor of English, “30th Annual Literary Festival”; city of Norfolk, $1,000.

SHANA PRIBESH, assistant professor, and GAIL DICKINSON, associate professor, educational curriculum and instruction, “Academic Achievement and School Libraries”; Institute of Museum and Library Services, $291,244.

ANATOLY RADYUSHKIN, eminent scholar of physics, “Topics in Theoretical Nuclear Physics”; U.S. Department of Energy, $80,000 and $96,000. Co-PIs from physics are IAN BALITSKY, professor; JAY VAN ORDEN, eminent scholar; and ROCCO SCHIAVILLA, professor.

BILLIE REED, executive director of the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority, “Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority Operations, 2007-08”; Virginia General Assembly, $100,000.

MARY SANDY, director of the Virginia Space Grant Consortium, “Faculty and Student Support to NASA Langley Research Center Geographic Information Systems Team”; NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, $30,000. Also, “Runway Safety and Airport Operations University Design Competition”; Federal Aviation Administration, $163,901. Also, “NASA Support”; National Institute of Aerospace Associates, $9,000. Also, “Undergraduate Student Researchers Program, Non-NASA”; National Space Grant Foundations, $25,700.

ALAN SAVITZKY, professor of biological sciences, “Defensive Sequestration of Toad Toxins in the Asian Snake Rhabdphis Tigrinus”; National Science Foundation, $85,004.

JOHN SOKOLOWSKI, director of research, Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center, “United States Special Operations Command Technical Support”; Coherent Systems International Inc., $137,541. Also, “Asymmetric Adversaries for Synthetic Training Environments”; Mymic LLC, $26,998. Also, “TCAOA ALT 4 Prototype”; Navy Fleet Industrial Supply Center, $110,500. Also, with CESAR PINTO, assistant professor of engineering management, “Risk Definition for Range Safety”; U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command, $296,658. Also, with ASAD KHATTAK, professor of civil and environmental engineering, “Hampton Roads Hurricane Evacuation Study”; Virginia Department of Emergency Management, $300,000.

ANDRES SOUSA-POZA, associate professor, and CHARLES KEATING, professor, engineering management, “System of Systems Engineered Change for Border Security”; Naval Research Laboratory, $576,000.

ARON STUBBINS, assistant research professor of chemistry and biochemistry, “Collaborative Research: Comprehensive Chemical Characterization of Marine Dissolved Organic Matter Using Efficient Isolation Coupled to Advanced Analytical Techniques”; National Science Foundation, $465,320. Co-PIs, from chemistry and biochemistry, are: KENNETH MOPPER, professor; JINGDONG MAO, assistant professor; and PATRICK HATCHER, Batten Endowed Chair in Physical Sciences.

LINDA VAHALA, associate dean of engineering and technology, and ROLAND LAWRENCE, assistant professor of engineering technology, “Airborne Bi-static Radar for Wind Hazard Detection and Avoidance”; NASA, $108,170.

LEPOSAVA VUSKOVIC, professor of physics, “Kinetic and Experimental Studies of a Double Electric Layer in the Stationary Shock Wave Structures of a Supersonic Flow”; NASA Stennis Space Center, $30,000. Also, “Support for Continuing Research on the Effect of Microwave-generated Plasmas on Aerodynamic Flow”; National Institute of Aerospace Associates, $30,825.

MICHELE WEIGLE, assistant professor of computer science, “Collaborative Research: CRI:CRD Synthetic Traffic Generation Tools and Resources: A Community Resource for Experimental Networking Research”; National Science Foundation, $201,794. Also, “NeTS-WN: An Architecture for the Notification of Traffic Incidents and Congestion (Notice)”; National Science Foundation, $135,000. Co-PIs are: ASAD KHATTAK, professor of civil and environmental engineering; MICHAEL FONTAINE, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering; and STEPHAN OLARIU, professor of computer science.

HARRIS WU, assistant professor of MIS/decision sciences, “Supporting Case-based Design for Packaged Software Implementations”; National Science Foundation, $299,942.

NANCY XU, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, “NIRT: Design of Biocompatible Nano-particles for Probing Living Cellular Functions and Their Potential Environmental Impacts”; National Science Foundation, $34,176.

RICHARD ZIMMERMAN, chair of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, “Remote Assessment of Giant Kelp Dynamics, the Engineer of California Nearshore Ecosystem: Collaborative Research with Dr. David Siegal”; University of California, $60,000.