VT-NASA EPSCoR AWARDS

 

 The Biomedical Research Group–Core Research

RESEARCHER/

TITLE

PROJECT

TITLE

PERIOD

RESEARCH

STUDENTS ASSISTANTS, FELLOWS, COLLABORATORS

LEVEL

 

PERIOD

STUDENTS/

ASSISTANTSHIP

LAKIN, BILL

Math and Stats, UVM

Principal Investigator

 

 

Addit. Personnel:

Bruce Tranmer, Neurosurgury, UVM

The effects of Fluid Shifts in Micorgravity on Intercranial Pressure Modeling and the development of  Space Adaptation Syndrome

11/01/01-

Jin Sumei

Igor Najfeld

Igor Najfeld

Scott Stevens

Graduate

Collaborator

Collaborator

Collaborator

08/27/03–08/26/04

07/15/01–10/31/01

11/02/01–10/31/02

07/01/02–06/30/04

KELLER, TONY

Mech. Engineer, UVM

Principal Investigator

 

James Jordan, M.D. Rutland, VT Additional Personnel

Muscoskeletal Counter-measures to Space Flight.

http://www.cems.uvm.edu/~keller/mrl/index.html

Dr. Keller's Research Archive 

Tony S. Keller, PhD
Florida Otho Institute

Adjunct in Mechanical Engineering
The University of Vermont

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Skeletal Adaptation, Damage and Repair:  A synthetic vertebral bone model.

05/01/02–04/30/05

 

 

 2005-2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tyler Patton

Catherine Barnes

Prabhu Rachakonda

 

Michael Fortney

 

Michael Fortney

David Ryan

Jeffrey Keller

Jeffrey Keller

Justin McCabe

 

 

 

Amy Johnson

High School

Graduate

Asst. Prof.

 

Graduate

 

Graduate

Undergrad

Undergrad

Undergrad

Summer Research Project

 

Graduate

07/01/02-08/31/02

09/01/02-05/31/02

07/01/03-12/31/03

09/01/05-01/15/06

06/01/03-08/15/04

 

 01/15/04-05-31/04

 05/24/04-07/07/04

06/23/03-08/30/03

06/11/04-07/30/04

 

 

 

 

VSGC 9/01/04-05/31/05

NASA/EPSCOR: 06/01/05-08/31/05

09/01/05-05/31/06

09/01/06-5/31/07

5% NE C/S 50% Provost CS

PLAUT, KAREN

 

 

 

Is Gravity a Continuum? How are metabolic processes affected by the Gravitational Environment

11/01/01-

Elzbieta Zakrzweska

 

Post-Doc

 

07/01/03–06/30/04

 

HITT, DARREN

Mech. Engineer, UVM

Numerical Simulation of Bleeding in Microgravity

11/01/01-

Sarah Bunker

Adis Zilic

Francesco Fedele

Matthew  McGarry

Undergrad

Undergrad

Graduate

Graduate

06/03/02, -08/03/02

06/ 23/02 -08/23/02

08/1/04,-08/31/04

06/01/041–07/31/04

 

NASA EPSCoR

 ADVANCED REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGIES –CORE RESEARCH

RESEARCHER/

TITLE

PROJECT

TITLE

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RESEARCH

STUDENTS ASSISTANTS, FELLOWS, COLLABORATORS

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STUDENTS/

ASSISTANTSHIP

MORRISSEY, LESLIE

Principal Investigator–Advanced Remote Sensing Techonologies Research Group

School of Natural Resources, UVM

The Contribution of Northern Wetlands to the Global Methane Budget Using Remotely Sensed Data

 

 

11/01/01-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deborah Sergeant

Graduate

09/01/99–12/30/99

Gerald Livingston:
School of Natural Resources
University of Vermont

Lead Investigator: School of Natural Resources UVM

glivings@zoo.uvm.edu
http://www.uvm.edu/snr/faculty/
faculty-cv/livingston.htm

Surface Atmosphere CO2 Exchange in a Northern Hardwood Forest: Evaluation of an Open Path Eddy Covariance Instrument

11/01/01-

 

 

 

YU, JUN

Math and Stats, UVM

Principal Investigator

Variations in Global  SST’s on inter-decadal and decadal scales

11/01/01-

Yi Yang

Guang-hui Wang

Xiangye Li

Richard Spindler

Post Doc.

 

Graduate

Graduate

 

08/01/02–08/19/03

 

08/01/03–04/14/04

08/27/04–08/26/05

 

 

  

NASA EPSCoR

 CORE RESEARCH  INFRASTRUCTURE–FACULTY MINIGRANTS, SMALL GRANTS

RESEARCHER/

TITLE

PROJECT

TITLE

PERIOD

 

 

RESEARCH

STUDENT ASSISTANT, FELLOW, COLLABORATOR

LEVEL

 

PERIOD

STUDENTS/

ASSISTANTSHIP

GENTER, ROBERT

Biology, Johnson State College

Investigator

 

 

Statistical Methods for Studying Microbial Communities in Advanced Life Support Systems

08/01/01

 

 

 

GARY PARKER, Physics, Norwich University.

Principal Investigator

Observational Investigations of Solar Coronal Variations.

(also listed in SBIR file)

01/01/03–

12/31/03

 

Charity Combs

Radolph Watkins

Undergrad

Undergrad

 

PINDER, GEORGE

Civil, Environ.. Engineering, UVM

Investigator

Assessment of Opportunities for the Utilization of Satellite Data in the Study of Groundwater Hydrology.

 

Earmarked for Asst.

Graduate

09/01/001–05/31/02

Jianke Yang

New Ultrafast Optical Switching Devices Using Directional Couplers

08/15/02–

08/01/03

Igor Makasyuk

Post Doc

 

Wu, Xindong

Computer Science

Principal Investigator

 

Interactive Programming (for academic and Industrial applications)

01/01/03-12/31/04

Quijun Chen

Graduate

Summer 2003

HITT, DARREN

Mech. Engineer, UVM

Numerical Simulations of 3-D Supersonic Flow in Realistic MEMS Nozzle Geometries with Heat Loss

05/15/03–05/14/04 [Yr. 2]

Jeffrey Kuzawa

 

August, 2003

  

NASA EPSCoR

                CORE RESEARCH  INFRASTRUCTURE–FACULTY MINIGRANTS, SMALL GRANTS

RESEARCHER/

TITLE

PROJECT

TITLE

PERIOD

RESEARCH

STUDENT ASSISTANT, FELLOW, COLLABORATOR

LEVEL

 

PERIOD

STUDENTS/

ASSISTANTSHIP

JOSE DAVILA

Spatial Phase Resonance in a laminar boundary layer.

06/01/04-12/31/04

Sarah Perry

Undergrad

Summer 2004

DRYVER HUSTON- ADVANCE \d 5

Prof., Mech. Eng. UVM

 

 

Self Healing Structures

 2005

Ezra Kahn

Undergrad

06/01/05-08/31/05

TARAS LAKOBA–

Asst. Prof. Math/Stats, UVM

Mathematical modeling of microsturctured optical fibers for applications to sensors and beam delivery.

2005

 

 

 

 GAGAN MIRCHANDANI-

 

 

Analytical Functions, Hilbert Transforms and Phase Retrieval

2005

Mohamed Elfataoui

 

06/01/05-07/31/05

YUICHI MOTAI

Asst. Prof

Elec. and Comp. Engineering.

 

 

Advanced Visual Interaction for Human Robotic Collaborative Systems.

2005

 

 

 

GUISEPPE

PETRUCCI

Chemical Reactivity

of Fatty Acids in Atmospheric Particles

2006

James Zahardis

Graduate

Summer 2007

  

                                                                                        INDUSTRIAL PARTNERS INITIATIVE-IPI

INDUSTRIAL PARNER/NAME TITLE

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ASSISTANTSHIP

INTERPHASE TECHNOLOGIES

Thomas Ference

Co-Investigator

Characterization of a Simulated Rocket Plume Using a Common Path Phase Shifting Interferometer

01/01/03–

12/31/04

Darren Hitt

Tim Harris

Professor

Graduate

 

NEW PARADIGM AUTOMATION

Michael Werner,

Co-Investigator

Hieracrchical Actuators

12/01/02–

05-31/03

Dryver Huston

Professor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NASA EPSCoR

   SBIR

INDUSTRIAL PARNER/NAME TITLE

PROJECT

TITLE

PERIOD

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STUDENTS ASSISTANTS, FELLOWS, COLLABORATORS

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ASSISTANTSHIP

CAMPO, ANTONIO

Mech. Engin.

Principal Investigator

 Search for High Performance Coolants for Aviation and Space Applications that are constrained by the weight of air.

 

Manchu, Sreehar

 

Carreno-Chavez, Rolando

 

01/01/06-08/31/06

 

09/01/05-08/31/06

INTEGRATED BIOMEDICAL SYSTEMS

Shuwan Xue, Principal Investigator

Integrated Kinematical sensor system for human balance assessment

 

Ge Wu

Academic Collaborator, UVM

 

 

NASA EPSCoR

SBIR (cont)

INDUSTRIAL PARNER/NAME TITLE

PROJECT

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PERIOD

RESEARCH

STUDENTS ASSISTANTS, FELLOWS, COLLABORATORS

LEVEL

 

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ASSISTANTSHIP

FROLIK, JEFFREY

Elec./Mech. Engin.,UVM

Principal Investigator

 Collaborative Signal and Information Processing to Improve the Robustness of Wireless Sensor Networks

 

 

 

 

MOTAI,  YUICHI, Elec.Mech. Engin. ,UVM

 

Principal Investigator

Embedded Visual Interfaces for Human-Robotic Interaction

 

Bhaskar Shrestha

Graduate

02/01/04–04-30/04

 

 

 

 

 

 

GARY PARKER, Physics, Norwich University.

Principal Investigator

Observational Investigations of Solar Coronal Variations.

 

Charity Combs

Radolph Watkins

 

Undergrad

Undergrad