Research Initiation grants are awarded competitively through internal and external review of proposals. These are intended as "seed money", are for one year of funding only, and are not renewable through the Consortium. Awardees are required to submit a follow-on proposal to NASA for regular research funding during the year of the grant. The majority of this funding has gone to graduate student support, providing both research and education enhancement simultaneously.
2009:
The
Development of Fluorescence-based Molecular Tools for Studying Extremophiles2008:
All
Research Grants for this year were awarded under
EPSCoR.Next Generation LADAR for Long-range, High-precision NASA ApplicationsDeveloping Tree-scale Biomass for Fire Modeling, Carbon Measurement and Habitat AssessmentAlgorithm Development and Validation of Liquid Water Content Mapping for Mixed Terrain of Snow and Soil
in Montana Using Space-borne Active Microwave Data
Identification of Atomic Defects Due to Radiation in Non-linear Optical Crystals Used for Space-based Laser SystemsCharacterization of Insoluble Organic Matter from Meteorites Using Advanced Solid-State
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Geomicrobiology of the Mount St. Helens Glacier and Hot Springs. Interactions Between Fire and IceAirborne Lidar Measurements of Cutthroat Trout Habitat at Yellowstone Lake
Distal Effects of the Manson Impact in the Cretaceous Terrestrial Record of Montana
Tunable Micro-Elements for Millimeter-Wave and Submillimeter-Wave Systems
The Ecology of Plant-Fungal Symbioses in Extreme Environments: Arbuscular Mycorrhizae in Yellowstone's Thermal Areas2001:
Biofilms in Space: Biofilm Control using Nanoparticulate Photocatalytic Thin Films
Experimental Study of Brine Evaporation on Mars
Resistance Training and Atrophy: A New Model to Study the Arm2000:
Genotoxic Effects of Hypo and Hypergravity in
Allium Cepa L.
Future Directions in Gravitational Wave Astronomy
Effects of Microgravity on Bacterial Physiology and Virulence
Assessment of Secondary Mortality in Lodgepole Pine Stands in Yellowstone Park Using Landsat Data
Distributed Object-Oriented Computing for Advance Rocket Engine Design1998:
Wetland Restoration: Reintroduction of a Native Species to the Volga-Kama National Nature Preserve, Kazan, Russia
The Stability of a Supersonic Free Shear Layer
Studies Leading to a Microgravity Cell-Adhesion Experiment
Digital Elevation Model of Surficial Sedimentary
Deposits
Countering Antigravity Musculature During Simulated Microgravity
Neural Networks & Digital Image Analysis
Modeling Spectroscopy of Biomass Combustion1996:
Development and Characterization of a Novel O-Atom Source for Material
Processing
Image Restoration of Multi-date Landsat TM Imagery1995:
Design Study of Electromechanical Actuation Systems
Electrostatic Effects in Wind Blown Sand1994:
Rapid Bacterial Testing for U.S. Space Station Water1993:
A Deep CCD Search for Ring Nebulae around Northern Milky Way
Wolf-Rayet Stars
Bearing Capacity of Highly Frictional Lunar Regolith1992:
Optical Studies of Solid State Laser Materials
Thermal Springs Deposits: Prospects for Locating Ancient
Fossils on Mars1991:
Some Problems in High Energy Astrophysics
Growth and Characterization of Thin-film Ti-Al Compounds[1991,
1992, 1993]
Possible Higher-Order Tests of Gravitation Theory in the Solar
System
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