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Grants and Awards

Active Grants

30 Awards
$14,889,321 in active funding

Large-scale CoPe: Megalopolitan Coastal Transformation Hub (MACH): Improving the Understanding and Governance of Co-Evolving Hazards, Development, and Coastal Processes

Department: Earth & Environmental Studies
Primary Investigator: Lorenzo Trueba, Jorge
Duration: 8/1/2021 – 7/31/2026
Amount: $998,770
Sponsor: NSF
Co-Sponsor: Rutgers University

Process Intensification-enabled Activated Ferrate(VI) Treatment (AFT) Systems for Resilient Agricultural Water Reuse

Department: Earth & Environmental Studies
Primary Investigator: Deng, Yang
Duration: 1/1/2022 – 12/31/2025
Amount: $750,000
Sponsor: US Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Increasing Access to Graduate Degrees, Professional Development, and Research Experiences: Pathways to Achievement in Chemical Industries

Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry
Primary Investigator: Nina Goodey
Duration: 1/1/2021 – 12/31/2025
Amount: $1,000,000
Sponsor: NSF
Co-Pi: Siekierka, J.; O’Neil, G.; Rotella, D., Schneemeyer L.

RI: Small: DaRE: Detection and Recognition of Euphemisms

Department: School of Computing
Primary Investigator: Feldman, Anna
Duration: 1/1/2023 – 12/31/2025
Amount: $564,126
Sponsor: NSF
Co-Pi: Peng, J.

Catalytic Reactions with Rongalite – Sustainable Approaches to Diverse Sulfonyl Derivatives

Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry
Primary Investigator: Bebbington, Magnus
Duration: 1/1/2022 – 8/31/2025
Amount: $70,000
Sponsor: ACS

Partnered Internships: Including Families, Faculty, and Industry in STEM Education to Improve Success in STEM Career Pathways

Department: Earth & Environmental Studies
Primary Investigator: Tuininga, Amy
Duration: 6/1/2020 – 5/31/2025
Amount: $1,238,389
Sponsor: NSF
Co-Pi: Billings L.; Besen-Cassino Y.; Goodey N.

Pharmacologic Inhibition of PDE11A for treatment of memory disorders

Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry
Primary Investigator: Rotella, David
Duration: 9/15/2020 – 4/30/2025
Amount: $3,550,000
Sponsor: NIH
Co-Pi: Kelly M., University of South Carolina; Hoffman C., Boston College

CAREER: Engineering Light Addressable Electrochemical Sensors for Imaging Chemical Neurotransmission

Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry
Primary Investigator: O’Neil, Glen
Duration: 3/1/2020 – 2/28/2025
Amount: $401,491
Sponsor: NSF

Collaborative Research: Leveraging Fluid-Structure Interactions for Efficient Control in Geophysical Flows

Department: School of Computing
Primary Investigator: Forgoston, Eric
Duration: 11/1/2021 – 10/31/2024
Amount: $199,934
Sponsor: NSF

MRI: Acquisition of a Multimodal Collaborative Robot System (MCROS) to Support Cross-Disciplinary Human-Centered Research and Education at Montclair State University

Department: School of Computing
Primary Investigator: Wang, Weitian
Duration: 10/1/2021 – 9/30/2024
Amount: $289,737
Sponsor: NSF
Co-Pi: Zhu, M.; Tuininga, A.

CRII: SaTC: Towards Secure and Privacy-preserving Input on Augmented Reality Systems

Department: School of Computing
Primary Investigator: Shang, Jiacheng
Duration: 10/1/2022 – 9/30/2024
Amount: $171,879
Sponsor: NSF

Collaborative Research: Probing Causal Links Among Volcanism, Dust, and Carbon Burial in the Permian – a Harbinger of the Future?

Department: Earth & Environmental Studies
Primary Investigator: Cui, Ying
Duration: 9/1/2021 – 8/31/2024
Amount: $62,230
Sponsor: NSF

Collaborative Research: Linking Marine and Terrestrial Sedimentary Evidence for Plio-pleistocene Variability of Weddell Embayment and Antarctic Peninsula Glaciation

Department: Earth & Environmental Studies
Primary Investigator: Brachfeld, Stefanie
Duration: 9/1/2021 – 8/31/2024
Amount: $191,890
Sponsor: NSF

MCA: A Meta-analytic approach to resolving mechanisms of plant-soil-herbivore interactions

Department: Biology
Primary Investigator: Krumins, Jennifer
Duration: 8/15/2021 – 7/31/2024
Amount: $241,421
Sponsor: NSF

MRI: Acquisition of a High-Resolution Accurate-Mass Orbitrap LC-MS System at Montclair State University

Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry
Primary Investigator: Gao, Jinshan
Duration: 8/1/2021 – 7/31/2024
Amount: $449,969
Sponsor: NSF
Co-Pi: Goodey, N.; Wu, M.; Deng, Y.; Rotella, D.

Pathfinder: Low-loss 2 UM Faraday Isolators for 3G Detectors

Department: Physics
Primary Investigator: Martin, Rodica
Duration: 8/1/2021 – 7/31/2024
Amount: $180,000
Sponsor: NSF

West Antarctic Ice-sheet Change and Paleoceanography in the Amundsen Sea Across the Pliocene Climatic Optimum

Department: Earth & Environmental Studies
Primary Investigator: Passchier, Sandra
Duration: 8/15/2021 – 7/31/2024
Amount: $410,572
Sponsor: NSF

RUI: Development of Fluorescent Free-Radical Tags for N-Glycan Quantitation and Characterization using UPLC-MS/MS

Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry
Primary Investigator: Gao, Jinshan
Duration: 6/1/2021 – 5/31/2024
Amount: $315,000
Sponsor: NSF

RUI: WoU-MMA: Multi-Messenger Astronomy and Astrophysics with Gravitational-Wave Data

Department: Physics
Primary Investigator: Ghosh, Shaon
Duration: 6/15/2021 – 5/31/2024
Amount: $150,000
Sponsor: NSF

REU SITE: Enhancing Undergraduate Research Experiences in Cybersecurity and Privacy-Enhanced Technologies

Department: School of Computing
Primary Investigator: Bharath Samanthula
Duration: 3/15/2021 – 2/29/2024
Amount: $395,470
Sponsor: NSF
Co-Pi: Dong, B.

ERI: High-performance Human-robot Collaborative Manufacturing Enabled by Integrated Multimodal Teaching, Learning, Prediction and Interaction

Department: School of Computing
Primary Investigator: Wang, Weitian
Duration: 2/1/2022 – 1/31/2024
Amount: $200,000
Sponsor: NSF

ERI: High-performance Human-robot Collaborative Manufacturing Enabled by Integrated Multimodal Teaching, Learning, Prediction and Interaction

Department: School of Computing
Primary Investigator: Wang, Weitian
Duration: 2/1/2022 – 1/31/2024
Amount: $200,000
Sponsor: NSF

MRI: Acquisition of a High-Performance GPU Cluster for Research and Education

Department: School of Computing
Primary Investigator: Wang, Jaiyin
Duration: 10/1/2020 – 9/30/2023
Amount: $300,079
Sponsor: NSF
Co-Pi: Du, C.; Trubatch, A.D.

Developing STEM Literacy and Career Paths through Inclusive Team Internships

Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry
Primary Investigator: Goodey, Nina
Duration: 9/1/2020 – 8/31/2023
Amount: $600,000
Sponsor: NSF
Co-Pi: Tuininga, A.; Emery E.

IRES Track 1: US-Japan study of novel genetic elements regulating seasonal behavior of medaka fish.

Department: Biology
Primary Investigator: Molina, Carlos
Duration: 9/1/2020 – 8/31/2023
Amount: $300,000
Sponsor: NSF
Co-Pi: Munakata, M.

Studying the Retention of Novice Science Teachers by Learning from School District Induction and Mentoring Programs

Department: Biology
Primary Investigator: Larkin, Douglas
Duration: 8/15/2018 – 7/31/2023
Amount: $431,398
Sponsor: NSF
Co-Pi: Adams, S.D.

Collaborative Research: Quantifying the carbon emission and sequestration rate after a large CO2 pulse from the Siberian Traps volcanism

Department: Earth & Environmental Studies
Primary Investigator: Cui, Ying
Duration: 8/15/2020 – 7/31/2023
Amount: $321,205
Sponsor: NSF

CRII: CPS: A Bi-Trust Framework for Collaboration-Quality Improvement in Human-Robot Collaborative Contexts

Department: School of Computing
Primary Investigator: Wang, Weitian
Duration: 7/15/2021 – 6/30/2023
Amount: $173,490
Sponsor: NSF

A new high-resolution stratigraphic record of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in the Eastern Tethys

Department: Earth & Environmental Studies
Primary Investigator: Cui, Ying
Duration: 7/15/2020 – 6/30/2023
Amount: $120,807
Sponsor: NSF

Building a Teacher Knowledge Base for the Implementation of High-quality Instructional Resources Through the Collaborative Investigation of Video Cases

Department: Mathematics
Primary Investigator: Murray, Eileen
Duration: 7/1/2019 – 6/30/2023
Amount: $532,225
Sponsor: NSF
Co-Pi: DiNapoli, J.

Acquisition of a Triple Quadrupole LC/MS System for Enabling Education and Research Training in Safe Water for Food Production at MSU

Department: Earth & Environmental Studies
Primary Investigator: Deng, Yang
Duration: 6/15/2020 – 6/14/2023
Amount: $149,239
Sponsor: USDA/NIFA

Past Awards (Last Five Years)

60 Awards
$22,346,360 in funding

JPL Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) Project: Forest and Shrub Mapping with MISR, January – December 2022

Department: Earth & Environmental Studies
Primary Investigator: Chopping, Mark
Duration: 1/1/2022 – 12/31/2022
Amount: $40,590
Sponsor: NASA

Downstream Fate and Transport of Cyanobacteria and Cyanotoxins in the Raritan River Basin, New Jersey

Department: Biology
Primary Investigator: Wu, Meiyin
Duration: 8/1/2020 – 9/30/2022
Amount: $145,000
Sponsor: NJ Water Supply Authority (WSA)

Optimizing Green Infrastructure and Low Impact Developments to Mitigate Runoff and Pollution Impacts on Freshwater Systems

Department: Earth & Environmental Studies
Primary Investigator: Deng, Yang
Duration: 9/1/2021 – 8/31/2022
Amount: $51,856
Sponsor: NOAA
Co-Sponsor: NJ Sea Grant Consortium

Problems related to the enumeration of independent sets in graphs

Department: Mathematics
Primary Investigator: Cutler, Jonathan
Duration: 9/1/2017 – 8/31/2022
Amount: $42,000
Sponsor: The Simons Foundation

Connecting Habitat Across New Jersey (CHANJ) Assessments

Department: Biology
Primary Investigator: Wu, Meiyin
Duration: 9/1/2017 – 8/31/2022
Amount: $30,000
Sponsor: NJDEP, Dept. of Interior

National Research Experience for Undergraduates Program (NREUP)

Department: Mathematics
Primary Investigator: Li, Aihua
Duration: 6/1/2022 – 8/31/2022
Amount: $30,030
Sponsor: NSF
Co-Sponsor: Mathematical Association of America (MAA)

RUI: Stochastic Interactions: Understanding Invasion and Extinction in Ecological Systems

Department: School of Computing
Primary Investigator: Forgoston, Eric
Duration: 7/1/2019 – 6/30/2022
Amount: $166,039
Sponsor: NSF
Co-Pi: Billings, L.

U.S. Science Support Program Office associated with the International Ocean Discovery Program (USSSP-IODP)

Department: Earth & Environmental Studies
Primary Investigator: Cui, Ying
Duration: 6/1/2021 – 5/31/2022
Amount: $20,786
Prime Sponsor: NSF
Sponsor: Columbia University

Post-translational Regulation of Inducible cAMP Early Repressor and its Implications in Cancer

Department: Biology
Primary Investigator: Molina, Carlos
Duration: 5/1/2018 – 4/30/2022
Amount: $1,284,876
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health/National Institute Of General Medical Sciences

Post-translational Regulation of Inducible cAMP Early Repressor and its Implications in Cancer

Department: Biology
Primary Investigator: Molina, Carlos
Duration: 5/1/2018 – 4/30/2022
Amount: $321,219
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health/National Institute Of General Medical Sciences

Collaborative Research: Elucidating the Role of Titanomagnetite in Vesiculation of Silicic Magmas

Department: Earth & Environmental Studies
Primary Investigator: Brachfeld, Stefanie
Duration: 4/1/2019 – 3/31/2022
Amount: $113,225
Sponsor: NSF

Collaborative Research: Elucidating the Role of Titanomagnetite in Vesiculation of Silicic Magmas

Department: Earth & Environmental Studies
Primary Investigator: Brachfeld, Stefanie
Duration: 4/1/2019 – 3/31/2022
Amount: $113,225
Sponsor: NSF

Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Internet Freedom

Department: School of Computing
Primary Investigator: Feldman, Anna
Duration: 4/1/2018 – 3/31/2022
Amount: $15,760
Sponsor: NSF

DNA repair under extreme conditions

Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry
Primary Investigator: Gindt, Yvonne
Duration: 9/1/2017 – 8/31/2021
Amount: $33,139
Sponsor: NASA
Co-Sponsor: Temple University

RUI: Survey of Magneto-Optical Materials for Faraday Isolators in Future Gravitational-wave Detectors

Department: Physics
Primary Investigator: Martin, Rodica
Duration: 8/1/2018 – 7/31/2021
Amount: $90,000
Sponsor: NSF

Collaborative Research: Dynamics of surfactant – amyloid-beta protein interactions during self-assembly

Department: Mathematics
Primary Investigator: Vaidya, Ashuwin
Duration: 8/1/2018 – 7/31/2021
Amount: $117,404
Sponsor: NSF

Collaborative Research: From Surface Dynamics to Strata: Quantifying the Signals of Surface Processes in Space and Time

Department: Earth & Environmental Studies
Primary Investigator: Lorenzo Trueba, Jorge
Duration: 7/15/2019 – 6/30/2021
Amount: $63,927
Sponsor: NSF

Timing and Spatial Distribution of Antarctic Ice Sheet Growth and Sea-ice Formation across the Eocene-Oligocene Transition

Department: Earth & Environmental Studies
Primary Investigator: Passchier, Sandra
Duration: 6/15/2018 – 5/31/2021
Amount: $323,113
Sponsor: NSF

Green Teams: Creating a Process for Sustainable Technology Product Development

Department: PSEG
Primary Investigator: Tuininga, Amy
Duration: 7/1/2018 – 12/31/2020
Amount: $31,000
Sponsor: VentureWell

Coalition for Growing a Diverse Workforce to Develop and Commercialize the Next Generation of Space-Based Technologies

Department: Earth & Environmental Studies
Primary Investigator: Tuininga, Amy
Duration: 8/25/2020 – 12/24/2020
Amount: $7,500
Sponsor: NASA
Co-Sponsor: New Mexico State University

Investigation of Substrate Specificity, Mechanism, and Inhibition of IGPS

Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry
Primary Investigator: Goodey, Nina
Duration: 9/1/2018 – 8/31/2020
Amount: $301,781
Sponsor: NIH

Prospective Elementary Teachers Making for Mathematical Learning

Department: Mathematics
Primary Investigator: Greenstein, Steven
Duration: 9/1/2018 – 8/31/2020
Amount: $422,195
Sponsor: NSF
Co-Pi: Fernandez, E.

Exploring the role of organic sediment dynamics on channel clustering and alluvial architecture

Department: Earth & Environmental Studies
Primary Investigator: Lorenzo Trueba, Jorge
Duration: 1/1/2018 – 8/31/2020
Amount: $110,000
Sponsor: American Chemical Society

R15 Grant: Characterization and enrichment of glycoprotein/glycan via multi-functional free radical reagents

Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry
Primary Investigator: Gao, Jinshan
Duration: 9/15/2017 – 8/31/2020
Amount: $356,609
Sponsor: NIH

Revisiting the Musconetcong River after Ten Years

Department: Biology
Primary Investigator: Wu, Meiyin
Duration: 9/15/2017 – 8/31/2020
Amount: $340,000
Sponsor: Delaware Watershed Research Fund
Co-Sponsor: William Penn Foundation

Assimilating Computational and Mathematical Thinking into Earth and Environmental Science

Department: School of Computing
Primary Investigator: Zhu, Michelle
Duration: 9/15/2017 – 8/31/2020
Amount: $1,147,085
Sponsor: NSF
Co-Pi: Panorkou, N.; Samanthula, B.; Lal, P.

MRI: Acquisition of a Shared Use Integrated Next-Generation Sequencing Platform

Department: Biology
Primary Investigator: Meredith, Robert
Duration: 9/1/2017 – 8/31/2020
Amount: $202,125
Sponsor: NSF
Co-Pi: Du, C.; Gaynor, J.; Monsen, K.; Adams, S.

Adjunct Mathematics Instructor Resources and Support: Improving Undergraduate Precalculus Teaching and Learning Experience

Department: Mathematics
Primary Investigator: Golnabi, Amir
Duration: 8/1/2017 – 8/1/2020
Amount: $300,000
Sponsor: NSF
Co-Pi: Murray, E.

MRI: Acquisition of a Dynamic Imaging Particle Analyzer for Characterization of Particulate Matters in Engineered and Natural Water Systems at Montclair State University

Department: Earth & Environmental Studies
Primary Investigator: Deng, Yang
Duration: 8/1/2018 – 7/31/2020
Amount: $192,212
Sponsor: NSF

SaTC: CORE: Medium: Collaborative: A Linguistically-Informed Approach for Measuring and Circumventing Internet Censorship

Department: School of Computing
Primary Investigator: Leberknight, Chris
Duration: 10/15/2017 – 7/31/2020
Amount: $500,849
Sponsor: NSF
Co-Pi: Feldman, A.

Development of Inhibitors of P. falciparum cGMP dependent (PfPKG) protein kinase inhibitors for malaria chemoprevention

Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry
Primary Investigator: Rotella, David
Duration: 8/1/2017 – 7/31/2020
Amount: $721,174
Sponsor: NIH
Co-Pi: Siekierka, J.
Co-Sponsor: Rutgers

Statistical analysis of QTVI data during sleep

Department: Mathematics
Primary Investigator: Ivanescu, Andrada
Duration: 7/1/2019 – 6/30/2020
Amount: $30,000
Sponsor: Johns Hopkins University

Promoting the Health and Resiliency of Florida’s Coral Reef Ecosystem: Enhancing Herbivory by Restoring Long-Spined Urchin (Diadema antillarum) Habitat

Department: Biology
Primary Investigator: Feehan, Colette
Duration: 7/1/2017 – 6/30/2020
Amount: $182,522
Sponsor: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
Co-Pi: Sharp, W. C.

U.S. Science Support Program Office associated with the International Ocean Discovery Program (USSSP-IODP)

Department: Earth & Environmental Studies
Primary Investigator: Brachfeld, Stefanie
Duration: 4/1/2019 – 5/30/2020
Amount: $61,746
Prime Sponsor: NSF
Sponsor: Columbia University

Toward Sustainable Urban Stormwater Management with New, Green, Low-Cost Sorbent-Coated Wood Mulch

Department: Earth & Environmental Studies
Primary Investigator: Deng, Yang
Duration: 3/1/2018 – 2/29/2020
Amount: $75,000
Sponsor: EPA

Stopping Trash Where It Starts

Department: Biology
Primary Investigator: Wu, Meiyin
Duration: 7/1/2018 – 12/31/2019
Amount: $9,000
Sponsor: EPA
Co-Sponsor: Hudson River Foundation

NSF INCLUDES: Sustainability Teams Empower and Amplify Membership in STEM (S-TEAMS)

Department: PSEG
Primary Investigator: Tuininga, Amy
Duration: 11/1/2017 – 10/31/2019
Amount: $300,000
Sponsor: NSF
Co-Pi: Lal, P.

Jean Dreyfus Lectureship: A two day biophysical seminar with a leading Biochemist

Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry
Primary Investigator: Catalano, Jaclyn
Duration: 9/1/2018 – 8/31/2019
Amount: $18,500
Sponsor: Dreyfus Foundation
Co-Pi: Goodey, N.

Developing Middle-School Students’ Understandings of Coordinate Systems (Mid-CoS)

Department: Mathematics
Primary Investigator: Paoletti, Teo
Duration: 7/1/2018 – 8/31/2019
Amount: $50,000
Sponsor: Spencer Foundation

SBIR Phase II: Meaningful Sketching and Meaningful Struggle in STEM Education

Department: Mathematics
Primary Investigator: DiNapoli, Joseph
Duration: 9/1/2018 – 8/31/2019
Amount: $36,526
Sponsor: NSF
Co-Sponsor: eGrove Education, Inc

Child growth curve dynamic modeling

Department: Mathematics
Primary Investigator: Ivanescu, Andrada
Duration: 7/1/2019 – 7/31/2019
Amount: $10,108
Sponsor: GATES Foundation
Co-Sponsor: John’s Hopkins University

Study on the Concentrations and Sources of the Cyanotoxins BMAA, DAB and AEG in the Raw and Finished Water in New Jersey, US and Taiwan

Department: Biology
Primary Investigator: Wu, Meiyin
Duration: 1/1/2019 – 7/31/2019
Amount: $4,302
Sponsor: Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Co-Sponsor: National Cheng Kung University

Gravitational-wave science for 3rd-generation detectors

Department: Physics
Primary Investigator: Favata, Marc
Duration: 8/1/2018 – 7/31/2019
Amount: $107,814
Sponsor: The Simons Foundation

The Clean Energy and Sustainability Analytics Center (CESAC): To Advance Research on the Sustainable Clean-Energy Economy

Department: Earth & Environmental Studies
Primary Investigator: Lal, Pankaj
Duration: 8/1/2018 – 7/31/2019
Amount: $199,965
Sponsor: NJ Board of Public Utilities
Co-Pi: Birur, D.

Development of new high-resolution pCO2 records for quantifying Earth system climate sensitivity

Department: Earth & Environmental Studies
Primary Investigator: Cui, Ying
Duration: 3/15/2019 – 6/30/2019
Amount: $40,533
Sponsor: NSF
Co-Sponsor: University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Enhancement of Cytoskeletal Dynamics and Motor Transport By Manipulation of Post-Translational Microtubule Glutamylation to Maximize Neuroregeneration.

Department: Biology
Primary Investigator: O’Hagan, Robert
Duration: 9/1/2018 – 6/30/2019
Amount: $14,460
Sponsor: NJ Department of Health
Co-Sponsor: Rutgers University

Garden State LSAMP Phase II – Year 5

Department: Dean
Primary Investigator: Billings, Lora
Duration: 7/1/2018 – 6/30/2019
Amount: $71,343
Sponsor: NSF
Co-Pi: Li, A.
Co-Sponsor: Rutgers University

Jersey City Greenhouse Gas Inventory

Department: PSEG
Primary Investigator: Tuininga, Amy
Duration: 5/10/2018 – 6/30/2019
Amount: $26,736
Sponsor: Gardinier Environmental Fund
Co-Sponsor: City of Jersey City

Development of An Innovative and Resilient Emergency Water Treatment (EWT) for Natural Disasters

Department: Earth & Environmental Studies
Primary Investigator: Deng, Yang
Duration: 6/18/2018 – 6/17/2019
Amount: $5,000
Sponsor: USGS National Grants Branch
Co-Sponsor: Rutgers

Rapid, DNA-based test for ranavirus detection

Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry
Primary Investigator: Goodey, Nina
Duration: 5/1/2018 – 4/30/2019
Amount: $5,000
Sponsor: NJWRRI
Co-Pi: Angel, A.; Hazard, L.; Monsen, K.

Development of a field-usable rapid detection test for Ranavirus

Department: Biology
Primary Investigator: Monsen, Kristen
Duration: 4/9/2018 – 4/9/2019
Amount: $3,000
Sponsor: Kevin Wright Memorial Grant from the Association of Reptilian and Amphibian Veterinarians
Co-Pi: Goodey, N.; Hazard, L.

U.S. Science Support Program Office associated with the International Ocean Discovery Program (USSSP-IODP)

Department: Earth & Environmental Studies
Primary Investigator: Passchier, Sandra
Duration: 1/1/2019 – 3/31/2019
Amount: $55,327
Prime Sponsor: NSF
Sponsor: Columbia University

Assessment of the impacts of OCNGS on gelatinous zooplankton and planktonic community structure

Department: Biology
Primary Investigator: Bologna, Paul
Duration: 4/1/2018 – 3/31/2019
Amount: $62,942
Sponsor: NJDEP
Co-Pi: Gaynor, J.; Meredith, R.W.

Mitigating the Impacts of Hurricane Irma on Research Towards Recovery of a Keystone Herbivore

Department: Biology
Primary Investigator: Feehan, Colette
Duration: 4/1/2018 – 3/31/2019
Amount: $18,362
Sponsor: National Academies of Sciences (NAS)

Assessing the water quality of the Musconetcong River

Department: Biology
Primary Investigator: Wu, Meiyin
Duration: 1/1/2018 – 2/28/2019
Amount: $16,915
Sponsor: NJ Department of Environmental Protection
Co-Sponsor: North Jersey RC & D

Ecosystem service tradeoffs, landowner incentives, and optimal policy design to promote sustainable Longleaf Pine agroecosystems

Department: Earth & Environmental Studies
Primary Investigator: Lal, Pankaj
Duration: 11/1/2017 – 10/31/2018
Amount: $96,441
Sponsor: USDA
Co-Sponsor: University of Florida

Upward Bound – Year 6 (Continuation)

Department: Health Careers
Primary Investigator: Lorenzo, Donna
Duration: 9/1/2017 – 8/31/2018
Amount: $257,500
Sponsor: US Department of Education

Geodatabase Proposal

Department: Biology
Primary Investigator: Wu, Meiyin
Duration: 9/1/2017 – 8/31/2018
Amount: $2,169
Sponsor: Essex County

Actionable Decision-Making for Flooding Events utilizing a small UAV Platform with LiDAR and Hyperspectral Instruments

Department: Earth & Environmental Studies
Primary Investigator: Taylor, Robert
Duration: 8/15/2017 – 8/14/2018
Amount: $195,953
Sponsor: US Department of Defense

Garden State LSAMP Phase II – Year 4

Department: Dean
Primary Investigator: Billings, Lora
Duration: 7/1/2017 – 6/30/2018
Amount: $71,802
Sponsor: NSF
Co-Pi: Li, A.
Co-Sponsor: Rutgers University