DEES International Research Projects

DEES International Projects: Activities in the world scientific community

	Ken Adams (IPA funding)
	Studies are being conducted in the Minchin basin of the Bolivian Altiplano.
	Jay Arnone
	Dr. Arnone received second year funding on the International Arid Lands Consortium project titled "Ecosystem Fluxes in Great Basin Sagebrush and Post-Fire communities." The objective is to quantify the ecosystem-level consequence of cheatgrass invasion, and remediation practices, on land-area-based energy fluxes and evapotranspiration. In collaboration with Dr. Evan DeLucia, University of Illinois, and Dr. Yakir, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
	Colleen Beck and Harold Drollinger
	Dr. Beck and Mr. Drollinger have collaborated with a British colleague, John Scoffield, on an investigation of the 'Peace Camp' at the Nevada Test Site.
	Glenn Berger
	In 2002, Dr. Berger investigated loess-paleosol sites in west-central China in collaboration with Lanzhou University and presented two lectures. In 2001-2002, he was lead PI of cruise NBP01-07 to the Antarctic Peninsula with collaborator E. Domack (Hamilton College), and in 2003 was Chief Scientist on cruise LMG03-03 to the Antarctic Peninsula, sponsored by the US-NSF Office of Polar Programs. Dr. Berger is collaborating with B. Hall (University of Maine) on a project to determine the history of changes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys (Antarctica); completing a project to provide the first numeric chronologies for key deposits at the important paleoanthropological site (containing fossils of the 'oldest Europeans') at Atapuerca in Spain in collaboration with colleagues from Madrid and Tarregona; collaborating with US, Canadian and Swedish colleagues in analyses of sediment cores from across the Arctic Ocean, collected during the 2005 two-ship HOTRAX05 expeditions; participating with colleagues from Italy, Germany, New Zealand and the US in the study of sediments from marine cores related to the ANDRILL McMurdo Ice Shelf project; completing a project determining chronologies for lake-sediment cores from eastern Siberia in collaboration with Russian colleagues from Magadan and US colleagues from Seattle; collaborating with colleagues from India, China and Denmark on other (smaller) projects.
	Chris Fritsen
	Dr. Fritsen is participating in the Southern Ocean GLOBEC program - a multi-institutional program (30 to 35 investigators at 20 institutions) designed to understand how Euphasia superba overwinters in the region of Marguarite Bay, Antarctica.
	Nick Lancaster
	Dr. Lancaster's Visualization of Desert Sand Dune Development project will produce two main products: (1) Visualization of sand dune development using GPR (ground penetrating radar) data for Namibian dunes; and (2) visualization of sand sea development over time using satellite image data (ASTER, LANDSAT) from the Gran Desierto, Mexico and the Agneteir sand sea, Mauritania. The work is being funded by the DOD/Amry STTC: 2006-2007.
	Nicholas Lancaster and Michael Ramsey's (University of Pittsburgh) Eolian Processes in Arid Regions: Tracking Land Surface Change Using Orbital Data project will advance the understanding of the dynamics of eolian (wind) processes in drylands using orbital data from the Terra spacecraft instruments. The project is being funded by NASA Grant #NAG5-13730; 2003-2007.
	Nicholas Lancaster and Christopher Kratt's Sand Seas and Dune Fields of the World: A Digital Quaternary Atas project has the primary objective to design and produce a demonstration of a global map database of desert and other inland dunefields and sand seas using a GIS approach. This project is supported by funding from DRI EPA and INQUA: 2007.
	Nick Lancaster's American Chemical Society, Petroleum Research Fund project involves studying the internal sedimentary structure and age of linear sand dunes in the northern part of the Namib Sand Sea in southwestern Africa. The work is being performed in collaboration with Charles Bristow, Birkbeck College, University of London.
	Eric McDonald
	NSF funded collaborative research titled "Processes driving rock uplift and flexural deformation following convergent tectonics: The fluvial terrace record, Ebro Basin, Spain," is a field-based investigation addressing how mountainous topography evolves following active crustal shortening. Collaborators include John Gosse,University of Kansas, Claudia Lewis, LANL, Frank Pazzaglia, University of New Mexico,Carlos Sancho and Juan Luis Pena, University of Zaragoza, Spain.
	Ken McGwire
	Dr. McGwire participated in the Argentina EO-1 southern hemisphere validation activity, in collaboration with the University of Buenos Aires.
	Dave Mouat
	Dr. Mouat's travels to China have resulted in a study with Beijing Green Angel Company (also referred to as the "BGA Activator") to assess the effect of a soil conditioner on water and nutrient availability as evidenced by plant growth. Soils similar to those found in North Central China (specifically, Inner Mongolia, south of Baotou) will be used.
	Alison Murray
	Dr. Murray participated in the US Antarctic Program, spending a field season at Palmer Station, Antarctic Peninsula, Sept - Nov, 2001. Dr. Murray has also participated in collaborative research with Dr. Bruce Fouke, University of Illinois, investigating coral-microbe associations, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, Jan, 2002. She also participated in the Joint Mesocosm Project (DM, UK, US). Microbial succession through phytoplankton blooms, with Dr. Uta Passow, AWI Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany, March-April, 2002.
	Mark Potosnak
	SGER: Coupling of Arctic Atmospheric Chemistry and Tundra Ecophysiology by Biogenic Volatile Organic Compound Fluxes. Funded by NSF Small Grant for Exploratory Research. This project will conduct the first comprehensive biogenic volatile organic compound (BVOC) emission measurements for an Arctic tundra ecosystem.
	David Rhode
	Dr. Rhode traveled to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, August 2002, in collaboration with the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology and the Qinghai Institute of Salt Lakes, both affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences. This NSF sponsored 3-year project aims to determine what evolutionary and ecological processes led hunter-gatherer populations to occupy the extreme environments of the Tibetan Plateau.
	Saxon Sharpe
	Intel International Science and Engineering Fair Co-chair of the judging committee for the world's largest pre-college celebration of science. This event brings together approximately 1,500 high school students from all 50 States and 50 countries, regions, and territories to compete for more than $3 million in scholarships, tuition grants, internships, scientific field trips, and three grand prizes of $50,000 college scholarships. Major universities, government agencies, military branches, and businesses come to recruit from the best pool of future scientists in the world. Science Service founded the science and engineering fair in 1950 and is proud to have Intel as the title sponsor of this prestigious international competition.