Faculty Seed Grants
From 2008-2012, the Environment Institute awarded numerous seed grants to interdisciplinary teams of UCI faculty to support innovative sustainability- and environment-related research. At present, there is no open call for proposals.
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Project Title |
Principal Investigator |
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Modeling Population Exposure to Air Pollutants near the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach | Donald Dabdub (Mechanical & Aerospace Eng.) & Jun Wu (Health Sciences) |
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Fueling the future: Investigation of hydrocarbon formation from CO by vanadium nitrogenase | Markus W. Ribbe (Molecular Biology & Biochemistry), Molecular Biology & Biochemistry (Chemistry) |
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Fluid Mechanics of Environmentally Significant Hydrate Slurries | Derek Dunn-Rankin (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) and Peter Taborek (Physics) |
| Experimental Assessment of Technologies for Use in Restoring the Salton Sea | Timothy J. Bradley (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology), William J. Cooper (Civil and Environmental Engineering) | |
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Environmental Changes and Microbial Ecology of African Malaria Vectors | Guiyun Yan (Public Health) and Jennifer B. H. Martiny (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) |
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Emissions of ultravolatile fluorinated greenhouse gases during semiconductor manufacturing | Murat Aydin (Earth System Science), Eric S. Saltzman (Earth System Science), G. P. L (Calit2) |
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Discussion of Socioscientific Issues in Classrooms to Develop Youth's Scientific Literacy about Climate Change | Joshua Lawrence (Education) and Raul Perez Lejano (Planning, Policy & Design) |