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CARES HEERF CERTIFICATION AND AGREEMENT (INSTITUTIONAL PORTION) - UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND

CARES HEEFR CERTIFICATION AND AGREEMENT - UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND

RUI: COMPARATIVE TRANSCRIPTOMIC AND PROTEOMIC ANALYSIS OF PHYTOCHROME RESPONSES IN TOMATO

RUI: GENOMIC AND INTEGRATIVE ANALYSIS OF PHYTOCHROMES E AND F IN TOMATO

RUI: ANTIFUNGAL PROTECTION OF EGGS BY MATERNAL CLOACAL MICROBIOTA

CAREER: MODULATION OF A NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM BY ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS - BPA EFFECTS ON GNRH NEURON DEVELOPMENT, PHYSIOLOGY AND REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR

MRI: ACQUISITION OF A TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPE FOR RESEARCH AND STEM EDUCATION ACROSS THE SOUTH PUGET SOUND

RUI: REGULATION OF THE PLANT ENDOCYCLE BY F-BOX STRESS INDUCED 1

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: NSF OCE-BSF: COUPLING ORGANIC NUTRIENT CYCLING TO METHANE PRODUCTION IN THE OLIGOTROPHIC NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN -OPEN OCEAN SURFACE WATERS ARE NATURAL SOURCES OF METHANE TO THE ATMOSPHERE. AS RECENTLY AS A DECADE AGO THE SOURCE OF THIS METHANE WAS A MYSTERY, BECAUSE METHANE PRODUCTION WAS ONLY KNOWN TO OCCUR IN CERTAIN ENVIRONMENTS WITHOUT OXYGEN. RECENTLY, THE DISCOVERY OF SEVERAL METABOLIC PATHWAYS THAT ENABLE MICROBES TO TRANSFORM ORGANIC MATTER INTO METHANE IN THE PRESENCE OF OXYGEN HAS LED TO A SHIFT AWAY FROM THE IDEA THAT METHANE CAN ONLY BE PRODUCED IN ANAEROBIC (OXYGEN-FREE) ENVIRONMENTS. THE INVESTIGATORS PROPOSE THAT THE PATHWAY MICROBES USE TO MAKE METHANE DEPENDS ON THE NUTRIENT CONDITIONS THAT PREVAIL IN OPEN OCEAN SURFACE WATERS. IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN, PHOSPHORUS LIMITS MICROBIAL PRODUCTION, AND MICROBES PRODUCE METHANE AS A BY-PRODUCT OF GETTING THE PHOSPHORUS THEY NEED FROM ORGANIC COMPOUNDS THAT CONTAIN PHOSPHORUS. IN CONTRAST, NITROGEN LIMITS MICROBIAL PRODUCTION IN THE NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN. THE TEAM PROPOSES THAT IN THE NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN MICROBES PRODUCE METHANE AS A BY-PRODUCT OF ORGANIC NITROGEN DEGRADATION. TO TEST THIS HYPOTHESIS, THEY PROPOSE TO COMPARE THE RESULTS OF GEOCHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS PREVIOUSLY MADE IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC WITH A PARALLEL SET OF GEOCHEMICAL MEASUREMENTS THEY PROPOSE TO MAKE IN THE NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN. THE AWARD WILL SUPPORT COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN AN EARLY CAREER PROFESSOR AT A PRIMARILY UNDERGRADUATE INSTITUTION (PUI) AND A SENIOR SCIENTIST, AND BETWEEN US AND ISRAELI SCIENTISTS. UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS WILL PARTICIPATE IN INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH SPANNING OCEANOGRAPHY, ISOTOPE BIOGEOCHEMISTRY, AND GENOME SCIENCE AND WILL CONDUCT RESEARCH AT SEA. THE MICROBIOLOGY AND GENOMIC RESEARCH WILL BE INTEGRATED INTO COURSE-BASED UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXPERIENCES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND ENABLING DIVERSE STUDENTS TO PARTICIPATE DIRECTLY IN AUTHENTIC RESEARCH. RESULTS WILL ALSO BE INTEGRATED INTO A GRADUATE LEVEL COURSE IN MARINE ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY AVAILABLE ON-LINE THROUGH THE MIT OPEN COURSEWARE WEBSITE. THIS IS A PROJECT JOINTLY FUNDED BY THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION?S DIRECTORATE OF GEOSCIENCES (NSF-GEO) AND THE ISRAEL BINATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (BSF) IN ACCORD WITH THE LANGUAGE IN THE MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE NSF AND THE BSF. THIS AGREEMENT ALLOWS A SINGLE COLLABORATIVE PROPOSAL, INVOLVING US AND ISRAELI INVESTIGATORS, TO BE SUBMITTED AND PEER-REVIEWED BY NSF. UPON SUCCESSFUL RESULTS OF THE NSF MERIT REVIEW AND RECOMMENDATION BY THE COGNIZANT NSF PROGRAM OF AN AWARD, EACH AGENCY FUNDS THE PROPORTION OF THE BUDGET AND THE INVESTIGATORS ASSOCIATED WITH ITS OWN COUNTRY. THE GUIDING HYPOTHESIS OF THIS STUDY IS THAT ALTHOUGH SURFACE SEAWATER IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC AND NORTH PACIFIC SUBTROPICAL GYRES ARE BOTH SOURCES OF METHANE TO THE ATMOSPHERE, THE UNDERLYING MICROBIAL PROCESSES THAT PRODUCE METHANE IN THE TWO BASINS ARE FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT. MICROBIAL PRODUCTION IN THE SARGASSO SEA IS CHRONICALLY PHOSPHORUS-LIMITED. TO MITIGATE THIS LIMITATION, SOME MICROBES DEGRADE METHYLPHOSPHONATE THAT IS INCORPORATED INTO THE HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT FRACTION OF DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER (HMWDOM) INTO METHANE AND PHOSPHAOTE. BACTERIA EXPRESSING THE CARBON-PHOSPHORUS (C-P) LYASE ENZYME PATHWAY FOR PHOSPHONATE CATABOLISM DOMINATE THE SARGASSO SEA MICROBIAL COMMUNITY AND MEDIATE THIS FORM OF METHANE PRODUCTION MAKING IT THE PRINCIPAL ROUTE THROUGH WHICH EXCESS METHANE IS PRODUCED IN THE SARGASSO SEA. IN CONTRAST, MICROBIAL PRODUCTION IN THE NORTH PACIFIC SUBTROPICAL GYRE (NPSG) IS CHRONICALLY NITROGEN LIMITED AND THE PROPOSAL POSTULATES THAT NITROGEN ACQUISITION THROUGH THE DEGRADATION OF METHYLAMINES IN HMWDOM IS A MAJOR ROUTE THROUGH WHICH EXCESS METHANE IS PRODUCED. METHYLAMINES ARE TWENTY-FOLD MORE ABUNDANT THAN METHYLPHOSPHONATE IN MARINE HMWDOM AND THE AMINOTRANSFERASE GENE LINKED TO THE CONVERSION OF METHYLAMINE INTO METHANE IN FRESHWATER LAKES HAS CLOSELY RELATED SEQUENCES IN MARINE BACTERIAL GENOMES. THESE SEQUENCES ARE ABUNDANT AND WIDESPREAD IN MARINE METAGENOMES. ALTHOUGH THE CYCLING OF METHYLPHOSPHONATE AND METHYLAMINE IN OLIGOTROPHIC SURFACE WATERS BOTH PRODUCE METHANE, THE STUDY POSTULATES THAT THE TWO PROCESSES WILL YIELD METHANE WITH DISTINCT AND CHARACTERISTIC CARBON ISOTOPIC VALUES. TO TEST THIS HYPOTHESIS, THE TEAM WILL MEASURE THE STABLE CARBON ISOTOPE VALUE OF THE METHANE PRODUCED FROM HMWDOM METHYLAMINE AND METHYLPHOSPHONATE. THE TEAM WILL ALSO CONDUCT LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS THAT TEST THE CAPACITY OF DIVERSE OLIGOTROPHIC AND COPIOTROPHIC MARINE BACTERIAL ISOLATES TO CONVERT HMWDOM METHYLAMINES TO METHANE. THIS OBJECTIVE IS COMPLEMENTED BY A FIELD STUDY IN THE NPSG NORTHWARDS FROM HAWAII ALONG 158?W, THE LONGITUDE OF STATION ALOHA, TO 25-28?N TO CONDUCT GEOCHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH EACH METHANE PRODUCTION PATHWAY. THE TEAM WILL OBTAIN WATER COLUMN PROFILES OF METHANE AND ETHYLENE CONCENTRATION (TWO PRODUCTS OF C-P LYASE), METHANE CARBON ISOTOPES, AND CONCENTRATIONS AND CARBON ISOTOPE VALUES OF HMWDOM METHYLAMINE AND METHYLPHOSPHONATE. THE INVESTIGATORS WILL QUANTIFY THE RATES OF METHANE PRODUCTION FROM METHYLAMINE AND METHYLPHOSPHONATE USING STABLE CARBON ISOTOPE TRACERS, C-P LYASE ACTIVITY, AND THE RATIO OF C-P LYASE TO AMINOTRANSFERASE GENE ABUNDANCE AND EXPRESSION IN THE NPSG. LASTLY, THE TEAM WILL COMPARE THE BIOAVAILABILITY OF HMWDOM METHYLAMINE AND METHYLPHOSPHONATE TO NATURAL MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES IN THE NPSG USING A METATRANSCRIPTOMICS APPROACH TO EXAMINE CHANGES IN MICROBIAL METABOLIC FUNCTIONS IN RESPONSE TO HMWDOM ADDITIONS. TOGETHER, THESE DATA WILL RESOLVE THE RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION OF THE METHYLAMINE AND METHYLPHOSPHONATE PATHWAYS TO AEROBIC METHANE PRODUCTION IN THE NPSG AND THE MICROBIAL GROUPS AND ECOSYSTEM PROPERTIES UNDERLYING METHANE PRODUCTION. THROUGH THIS INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH, THE STUDY WILL ENHANCE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF PROCESSES CONTROLLING AEROBIC METHANE PRODUCTION IN THE ENVIRONMENT. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.

RUI: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DO NEARBY SURFACES LIMIT THE FOOD UPTAKE OF MICROSCOPIC SESSILE SUSPENSION FEEDERS- 3D FEEDING FLOW MEASUREMENTS?

MRI: TRACK 1 ACQUISITION OF A 400 MHZ NMR SPECTROMETER TO ADVANCE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION AT MULTIPLE UNDERGRADUATE-SERVING INSTITUTIONS IN TACOMA, WASHINGTON -THIS AWARD IS JOINTLY SUPPORTED BY THE MAJOR RESEARCH INSTRUMENTATION AND THE CHEMISTRY RESEARCH INSTRUMENTATION PROGRAMS. THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND IS ACQUIRING A 400 MHZ NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE (NMR) SPECTROMETER EQUIPPED WITH A BROADBAND PROBE TO SUPPORT THE RESEARCH OF PROFESSOR ERIC SCHARRER ALONG WITH COLLEAGUES EMILY TOLLEFSON, OSCAR SOSA, LUC BOISVERT, AND THAT OF PROFESSOR KELLY KIM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON - TACOMA (UWT). THIS NMR SPECTROMETER FACILITATES RESEARCH IN A VARIETY OF FIELDS, SUCH AS MATERIALS SCIENCE, MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY, CATALYSIS, AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, AND ORGANIC, INORGANIC, AND ORGANOMETALLIC SYNTHESIS. IN GENERAL, NMR SPECTROSCOPY IS ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL TOOLS AVAILABLE TO CHEMISTS FOR THE ELUCIDATION OF THE STRUCTURE OF MOLECULES. IT IS USED TO IDENTIFY UNKNOWN SUBSTANCES, TO CHARACTERIZE SPECIFIC ARRANGEMENTS OF ATOMS WITHIN MOLECULES, AND TO STUDY THE DYNAMICS OF INTERACTIONS BETWEEN MOLECULES IN SOLUTION OR IN THE SOLID STATE. ACCESS TO STATE-OF-THE-ART NMR SPECTROMETERS IS ESSENTIAL TO CHEMISTS WHO ARE CARRYING OUT FRONTIER RESEARCH. IN ADDITION TO ENHANCING THE TRAINING OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHERS WORKING WITH THESE FACULTY MEMBERS, THE INSTRUMENT IS USED EXTENSIVELY AS PART OF A WIDE RANGE OF TEACHING AND LABORATORY COURSES IN BOTH CHEMISTRY AND BIOLOGY AT PUGET SOUND, UWT, AND TACOMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE (TCC). THE INSTRUMENT IS ALSO AVAILABLE TO THE GREATER TACOMA SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY. THE AWARD OF THE NMR SPECTROMETER IS AIMED AT ENHANCING RESEARCH AND EDUCATION AT ALL LEVELS. RESEARCH ENABLED BY THE INSTRUMENT IS FOCUSED ON THE STUDY, PREPARATION, AND CHARACTERIZATION OF NEW LIQUID CRYSTALLINE COMPOUNDS AND ORGANO- AND METALLO-GELATORS. IT ALLOWS THE STUDY AND STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION OF BISMUTH NANOPARTICLES, AND OF MEDICINALLY AND BIOLOGICALLY RELEVANT COMPOUNDS. IT ENABLES THE STUDY AND DEVELOPMENT OF NEW CATALYTIC SYSTEMS FOR MORE SUSTAINABLE SYNTHESIS AND HELPS IN UNDERSTANDING THE SOURCES AND FATES OF PHOSPHONATES IN AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS. IN RESPONSE TO GLOBAL HELIUM SUPPLY CHALLENGES, THE ACQUISITION OF THIS INSTRUMENT INCLUDES A SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNET WITH A LOW LOSS CRYOSTAT REDUCING THE INSTITUTION?S CONSUMPTION OF HELIUM. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

MRI: ACQUISITION OF HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY AND MASS SPECTROMETRY INSTRUMENTATION TO SUPPORT RESEARCH AND TRAINING AT THE UNIVERSITY O

DRUG CONSUMPTION TRENDS AND TAKE BACK PROGRAM INDICATORS: A WASTEWATER-BASED APPROACH IN WASHINGTON STATE

RUI: TOWARD A COMPREHENSIVE THEORY OF MESOSCOPIC MORPHOLOGY OF ICE

RECORDS OF EARLY ENGLISH DRAMA: EDITORIAL SUPPORT

CONG. SETASIDES, MUSEUMS

RUI: SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY AND MULTISCALE MODELING OF MESOSCOPICALLY ROUGH FACETED ICE

RUI: MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF FLOWER REVERSION IN ARABIDOPSIS SUECICA

RUI: INFLUENCE OF SURFACE INTERACTIONS OF ORGANIC LIGAND-IRON OXIDE/WATER INTERFACES ON CARBON AND IRON CYCLING STUDIED BY SECOND HARMONIC AND SUM FREQUENCY GENERATION SPECTROSCOPY

POLAR (DCL- 16-119): COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: COMPUTATIONAL GUIDED INQUIRY FOR INCORPORATING POLAR RESEARCH INTO UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULA

DELINEATING THE FUNCTION OF PRL-1 IN DROSOPHILA.

RECORDS OF EARLY ENGLISH DRAMA: EDITORIAL SUPPORT

RUI: NEW OXADIAZOLE CONTAINING LIQUID CRYSTALS: EFFECTS OF STRUCTURAL CHANGES ON THE BIAXIAL NEMATIC PHASE

ROBOT EXISTENTIALISM: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE LIMITS OF RATIONALITY [OUR PROPOSED PROJECT IS TO COMPLETE A MONOGRAPH ON PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES CONNECTED TO EXISTENTIALISM AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TITLED, ROBOT EXISTENTIALISM: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE LIMITS OF RATIONALITY. WE ARGUE THAT A FULL UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN AGENCY REQUIRES A RECOGNITION OF THE LIMITS OF RATIONALITY, TOGETHER WITH AN EMPHASIS ON THE VALUE OF CREATION, INCLUDING ESPECIALLY SELF-CREATION. THE BOOK ENGAGES WITH PHILOSOPHICAL WORK ON PERSONAL IDENTITY, THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND, PRACTICAL REASON, AND ETHICS, AS WELL AS WORK IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ALIGNED EMPIRICAL FIELDS TO DEVELOP A UNIFIED VIEW OF A DISTINCTIVE ASPECT OF AGENCY THAT IS CURRENTLY LACKING IN ARTIFICIAL BEINGS. THE EXPECTED FINAL OUTCOME OF THIS COLLABORATIVE TEAM PROJECT WILL BE THE COMPLETE, PUBLICATION-READY MANUSCRIPT OF THE BOOK, IN ADDITION TO TWO PIECES OF PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY AND PRESENTATIONS DRAWING ON IDEAS IN THE BOOK.]

IMPROVING THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND SLATER MUSEUM'S VERTEBRATE COLLECTIONS

RUI: INVESTIGATIONS OF THE CYBOTACTIC NEMATIC PHASE IN BENT-CORE LIQUID CRYSTALS

USING SEWERS TO UNDERSTAND THE LEGALIZED RETAIL SALES EFFECTS ON MARIJUANA CONSUMPTION

ELT COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: EVOLUTIONARY AND ECOLOGICAL RESPONSES OF SMALL MAMMAL COMMUNITIES TO HABITAT AND CLIMATE CHANGE OVER THE LAST 5 MILLION

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: RESOLVING THE PRODUCTION AND FATE OF NITROGENOUS METABOLITES IN THE SURFACE OCEAN

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: POLAR (NSF 19-601): RUI: COMPUTATIONAL POLAR ENGAGEMENT THROUGH GUIDED INQUIRY (COMPUTATIONAL PENGUIN)

STAFFING TO SUPPORT DIGITAL TEACHING COLLECTIONS IN THE HUMANITIES

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: EVALUATING THE INFLUENCE OF EOCENE RIDGE SUBDUCTION ON MAGMATISM, DEFORMATION, AND BASIN EVOLUTION, PACIFIC NW

LIFE-MAKER-SPACE: CREATING A HANDS-ON ENVIRONMENT FOR UNDERGRADUATE BIOLOGY EDUCATION & NEXT-GEN STEM TRAINING THROUGH INNOVATIVE DESIGN AND COMMUN

RECORDS OF EARLY ENGLISH DRAMA: EDITORIAL SUPPORT

AWARD GRANT TO UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND FOR U.S. STUDY ABROAD GRANTS ENGAGEMENT TO SUPPORT LITERACY IN EASTERN INDONESIA

CONFERENCE: HISTORICAL MEMORY: A PUGET SOUND SYMPOSIUM ON AMERICAN MOVEMENTS THAT ADVOCATED APPLYING SELECTIVE BREEDING SCIENCE TO HUMANS

PRIMER DEVELOPMENT AND QUANTITATIVE PCR (QPCR) OF TROUT TISSUES FROM THE STILLAGUAMISH WATERSHED, WA