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Contracts and grants awarded to Jackson School researchers from May 1, 2006 to September 1, 2006. To add grants to this listing, suggest grants for future listings, or correct errors, contact J.B. Bird or Marc Airhart in the Dean's Office.

Funding Period PI(s) Unit Title of Project Funding Agency Total Funds
09-01-06 to
09-01-11		 Arbic, Brian UTIG Embedding a Forward Model of Barotropic and Baroclinic Tides into a High-Resolution General Circulation Model Naval Research Laboratory $553,115
10-01-2006 to 09-30-2009 Arbic, Brian UTIG Collaborative Research: Understanding Tidal Resonances In The Present Day And Ice Age Oceans National Science Foundation $210,475
05-14-06 to
05-14-11		 Banner, Jay DGS USGS Student Employment U.S. Geological Survey $10,531
08-15-06 to
07-31-09		 Bennett, Philip DGS Kinetics of Microbial Sulfuric Acid Speleogenesis National Science Foundation $65,821
09-15-06 to
08-31-08		 Bennett,  Philip
Milliken, Kitty		 DGS Collaborative Research: Biogeochemical Controls on Antimony and Arsenic Mobility in a Siliceous Hydrothermal Systems National Science Foundation $119,956
06-01-06 to
05-31-09		 Catania, Ginny UTIG Collaborative Research: Grounding Line Forensics: The History of Grounding Line Retreat in the Kamb Ice Stream National Science Foundation $213,500
06-01-06 to
05-31-07		 Dooley, Tim BEG Evolution of Releasing Stepover Arrays along the Eastern Boundary of the Sierra Nevada MicroPlate to
Implications for Geothermal Exploration and Prediction		 U.S. Department of Defense, Naval Air Warfare Center $115,532
06-01-06 to
12-30-06		 Ellins, Kathy UTIG Texas Regional Collaboratives for Excellence in Science Teaching Texas Regional Collaboratives (Texas Education Agency subcontract) $12,500
04-06-06 to
10-06-06		 Foss, Michelle BEG Safe Harbor Energy Lng Project: Estimate of Stakeholder Financial Benefits from New Natural Gas Supplies Atlantic Sea Island Group $63,000
05-01-06 to
12-31-06		 Foss, Michelle BEG Alaska Gas Project: Pipeline Economics, Fiscal Terms, and the Underlying Project Risks ConocoPhillips Alaska $78,000
09-01-06 to
08-31-07		 Goff, John UTIG ACH-800 (Active Heave Compensation to 800M) Drilling on the New Jersey Shelf Norsk Hydro $60,000
07-14-2006 to 09-30-2007 Kipper, Jay BEG Geologic and Geophysical Data Preservation Booklets U.S. Geological Survey $50,000
08-31-2006 to 12-31-2007 Kipper, Jay BEG Interagency Agreement Texas Railroad Commission $2,784,500
08-01-06 to
07-31-10		 Lavier, Luc UTIG Collaborative Research: Uplift and Faulting at the Transition from Subduction to Collision to A Field and Modeling Study of the Calabrian Arc. National Science Foundation $291,182
12-15-06 to
01-31-08		 Milliken, Kitty DGS Design, Construction and Evaluation of a Multi-Author Interactive Tutorial for Carbonate Petrology National Science Foundation $121,376
06-25-06 to
08-31-07		 Nicot, Jean P. BEG Update of Northern Trinity and Woodbine Aquifer R.W. Harden & Associates $11,373
09-01-2006 to 08-31-2007 Nicot, Jean P. BEG Service Order under Framework Agreement Texas Commission on Environmental Quality $350,000
05-01-06 to
04-30-07		 Raney, Jay
Collins, Edward		 BEG Geologic Mapping to Support Improved Database Development and Understanding of Critical Aquifers, Urban Corridors and Special Areas of Environmental Concerns in Texas U.S. Geological Survey $108,134
06-01-06 to
12-31-06		 Ruppel, Stephen BEG Stratigraphy and Petrophysics of the Yates and Seven Rivers Formation in Andrews and Gaines County, Texas Lynx Production Company $158,303
06-15-06 to
07-31-08		 Scanlon, Bridget BEG West Texas Ground Water Availability Model (GAM) Intera, Inc. $7,572
09-01-2006 to 08-31-2007 Scanlon, Bridget BEG Fate and Transport of Contaminants Training Texas Commission on Environmental Quality $25,000
06-01-06 to
12-31-07		 Sharp, Jack DGS Statistical characterization of water chemistry in heterogeneous reclaimed spoil at Monticello Mine. Texas Utilities Electric $33,293
06-01-06 to
05-31-07		 Stoffa, Paul UTIG Coupled Seismic and Reservoir Simulation and Inversion ConocoPhillips $150,000
08-01-06 to
07-31-07		 Taylor, Fred UTIG Collaborative Research: A Rapid Geophysical Response to the Great 2006 Tonga EQ National Science Foundation $19,667
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