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.
Project Image | Project Title | Principal Investigator |
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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) | |
Fluid Mechanics of Environmentally Significant Hydrate Slurries | Derek Dunn-Rankin (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) and Peter Taborek (Physics) | |
Fueling the future: Investigation of hydrocarbon formation from CO by vanadium nitrogenase | Markus W. Ribbe (Molecular Biology & Biochemistry), Molecular Biology & Biochemistry (Chemistry) | |
Modeling Population Exposure to Air Pollutants near the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach | Donald Dabdub (Mechanical & Aerospace Eng.) & Jun Wu (Health Sciences) | |
Optimizing At-Home Feedback to Increase Residential Energy Conservation | David Kirkby (Physics & Astronomy) and Daniel Stokols (Planning, Policy & Design) | |
Self-Assembly of Quantum Dot Superlattices for Solar Cells | Zhibin Guan (Chemistry & BME & ChemE & MSE), Matt Law ( Chemistry) | |
Solar Light Harvesting by Energy Transfer: Learning from Nature | Sergei P. Balashov (Physiology and Biophysics); Filipp U. Furche (Chemistry); Janos K. Lanyi (Physiology & Biophysics); Hartmut Luecke (Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, Computer Science, and Physiolo |