2016 AAUP-LPC Cross Pollination Grant Recipient Report

ERC Advanced Grant 2016

Oregon Sea Grant Report

In Spain, gooseneck barnacles, “percebes,” are an overfished delicacy fetching a high market price ($50/lb). Oregon fishing communities show interest in developing a percebes market utilizing Pollicipes polymerus. We aim to inform resource managers to avoid over harvesting Oregon goosenecks. In summer 2016, we investigated the current status of P. polymerus populations with three primary object...

Final Report for Grant

INTRODUCTION Low-level radioactive waste is the primary component of the toxic waste stream generated from biomedical research and patient care activities. Historically, this radioactive waste has been shipped to Richland, Washington for landfill disposal. Several years ago, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission "deregulated" liquid scintillation vials containing tritium and carbon 14. More recentl...

Final Report for DOE Grant

The Clostridia are a diverse group of gram-positive, rod-shaped anaerobes that include several toxin-producing pathogens (notably C. difSiciZe, C. botulinum, C. tetuni, and C. perfringens) and a large number of terrestrial species that produce acetone, butanol, ethanol, isopropanol, and organic acids through fermentation of a variety of carbon ~ o u r c e s ~ ~ . Isolates of C. ucetobutylicum w...

Final Performance Report Grant FA

The researchers made significant progress in all of the proposed research areas. The first major task in the proposal involved simulation-based and sampling methods for global optimization. In support of this task, we have discovered two new innovative approaches to simulation-based global optimization; the first involves connections between stochastic approximation and our model reference appr...