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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Using IT to Compress Perceived Time and Space in How People Think About Global Change: A Step Towards Behavioral Change | Bill Tomlinson (Informatics), Brett Sanders (Civil & Environmental Engineering), and Robin Keller (Merage School) |
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Use Of Analytical Chemistry To Examine Controls Over Decomposition of Plant Material | Kathleen Treseder (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) & James Nowick (Chemistry) |
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A Bayesian Analysis of Coastal Water Quality | Sunny Jiang (Civil & Environmental Eng.) & Ivan Jeliazkov (Economics) |
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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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Co-benefits from mitigation of emissions and aerosol toxicity from small-scale industries in Mexico | Rufus Edwards (Epidemiology) and Michael Kleinman (Medicine) |
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Fluid Mechanics of Environmentally Significant Hydrate Slurries | Derek Dunn-Rankin (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) and Peter Taborek (Physics) |
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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 |