Funded Grant Projects: 1980s (1980-1989)

1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988

Ruth Bowman, Trees for Life, Springfield, Illinois
"Trees for Life: A Hands-On International Project for Elementary School Students"

Leslie R. Cooperband, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
"Balancing Forests and Grazing Lands: An Approach to Alleviate Deforestation in the Tropics"

Dr. Richard A. Cornell, University of Central Florida, Casselberry, Florida
"Reducing Air Crew Fatigue on Transoceanic Night Flights"

Douglas C. Daly, The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York, and
Sidney Strickland, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York
"Studying an Anti-Coagulating Agent Found in an Amazon Caterpillar: Advancing Medicine While Protecting Natural Resources"

Gordon W. Hempton, The Sound Tracker, Seattle, Washington
"Preservation of Nature Sounds as a Natural Resource of the Pacific Northwest" Learn more. Also, learn about One Square Inch.

Kay E. Holekamp, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California
"Creating Balance Between Increased Tourism and the Welfare of Wildlife in the National Parks of Kenya, East Africa"

Dr. Frank E. Poirier, Ohio State University, Worthington, Ohio
"Criteria for Establishment of Nature Reserves in China: An International Project"

Karlene H. Roberts, University of California, Berkeley, California
"Minimizing the Risk of Environmental Catastrophe in Advanced Technological Naval Aviation Systems"

Fredric A. Waldstein, Ph.D., Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa
"Solid Waste Management in Massachusetts: Utilizing Composting and Mixed Plastics Recycling Programs to Reduce the Landfill Capacity Crisis"

1988

Michael S. Alvard, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
"Indigenous Human Predation on the Animal Communities of Manu National Park, Peru: Balancing Human Needs, Changing Technology and the Goals of Wildlife Preservation"

Kasse Andrews-Weller, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC
"The Fragile Earth"

Chandra S. Balachandran, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, and
Peter F. Fisher, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio
"The Application of Expert Systems Technology to Selected Environmental Problems in Rural Development in India"

Danetta A. Bronnimann, University Medical Center, Tucson, Arizona
"Measurement of Respiratory Susceptiblity to Air Pollution to Permit Establishment of Air Quality Standards That Will Balance Technological Advancement with Preservation of the Human Environment"

John William Gergacz, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
"A Re-Evaluation of the Property Rights in Land to Better Accomodate Its Use and Its Aesthetic Qualities"

James Guillet, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
"Development of Photodegrable Plastics for Beverage Containers"

Paula G. Kullberg, Marine Analysis Sector, Warwick, Rhode Island
"Saving Salt Water Ponds: Volunteer Citizen Management of Water Quality Monitoring"

Dr. Lyle G. McNeal, Utah State University, Logan, Utah
"To Provide Small Flock Growers on the Navajo Reservation with Appropriate Management Technology in Shearing, Packaging, and Marketing Sheep and Wool"

David M. Smith, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, and
Laura K. Snook, Ph.D.
"How Can Silviculture Balance Timber Harvesting with Regeneration and Growth? A Study of Tropical Forest Development in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico" Learn more.

1987

Henrik Balslev, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
"Conservation of Attalea colenda, a Threatened, High-Yielding, Oil Palm From Western Ecuador"

Kathleen Crane, Ph.D., Hunter College, New York, New York
"Seafloor Mineral and Geothermal Resources Video Tape Production to Promote the Education of High School Students"

Dr. Holly T. Dublin, World Wide Fund for Nature, Nairobi, Kenya
"Ecological Monitoring in the Mara Reserve: Balancing Local Needs, Agricultural Advances and the Preservation of a Natural Ecosystem"

Paul Gepts, University of California, Davis, California
"Biogeography of Genetic Diversity in Wild Common Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)"

Thomas J. Goreau, Global Coral Reef Alliance, Chappaqua, New York
"Deciphering Environmental Records From Caribbean Corals"

Dr. Mark Hay, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Morehead City, North Carolina
"Marine Natural Products as Ecologically-Sound Agrochemicals and Oncologic Drugs"

J. Donald Hughes, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado
"Human Ecology in History: The Search of Mankind for a Sustainable Balance Between Technology and Environment"

Virginia Knowlden, Ed.D., R.N., St. Joseph College, West Hartford, Connecticut
"Caring in Nursing: Is It Surviving in High Technology Health Care Settings?"

Mariella Leo, Peruvian Association for Conservation of Nature, Lima, Peru
"Natural Resources Conservation and Management Workshop for Key Persons and Teachers of the State of Amazonas-Peru"

Daniele Magda, Campus Universitaire, Pau, France
"Colonization of Disturbed Habitats by the Plant Species, Lathynus sylvestris, In Aid of Stabilization of Soil"

Daniel L. Pardieck, Ph.D., CIBA-GEIGY, Greensboro, North Carolina
"Restoration of Waters Contaminated wth Persistent Organic Compounds by Stimulating Natural Microbial Populations"

Allyn MacLean Stearman, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
"A Long-Term Study of Adaptation and Social Change in Two Lowland Bolivian Foraging Societies: Strategies for Technological Innovation and Rational Land Use"

1986

Dr. Peter J. Disimile, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
"Utilizing Impinging Jet Flows to Increase Blade Cooling in Gas Turbine Engines: A New Technique to Reduce Consumption and By-Products in Industry"

Carl Robert Feldmeth, Deceased
"Development of a Fish Culture Using Brackish Agricultural Drainage Water"

Dr. Larry L. Irwin, National Council of Air and Stream Improvement, Corvallis, Oregon
"Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep Preservation and Oil/Gas Development: Conflict Resolution Through Wildlife Habitat Improvement"

Dr. Robert S. Kennedy, Cincinnati Museum of Natural History, Cincinnati, Ohio
"Conservation Education and Productive Forest Farming in the Tropics: A Challenge in Intercultural Communication"

Dr. Christine C. Maguire, Western Washington University, Woodinville, Washington
"Development of Interconnecting Travel and Refuge Forest Corridors for Wildlife After Clearcut Logging Within Managed Landscapes"

Lisa Pfefferle, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
"Catalytic Combustion of Chlorinated Hydrocarbon Liquid Toxic Wastes: Economic Motivation for Proper Disposal Techniques"

Dr. Jonathan A. Sandor, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
"Comparison of Soils in Ancient and Modern Peruvian Agricultural Terraces"

Dr. Hans A. Schuessler, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
"Utilizing Laser Spectroscopy to Determine Plutonium Levels in Radioactive Waste Management"

Robert L. Staehle, World Space Foundation, South Pasadena, California
"Solar Sail Project Engineering Development Mission"

Nicholas & Susana Yensen, NyPa Inc., Tucson, Arizona
"Utilization of a Rare Halophyte Grain and Forage for Returning Salt-Ruined Farmland to Productivity"

1985

Dr. Louis H. Aung, Horticultural Crops Research Laboratory, Fresno, California
"Utilization of Seafood Wastes as a Source of Nutrients for Agricultural Crop Production"

Richard J. Bing, M.D., Huntington Memorial Hospital, Pasadena, California
"The Use of a Newly Developed Perfusion System in the Study of the Reaction of Coronary Blood Vessels"

Brian M. Boom, The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York
"The Panare Indians and Their Forest: An Ethnoecological Inventory in Venezuelan Guayana"

John C. Emerick, Ph.D., Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado
"Development of an Environmental Ethic in Engineering Undergraduates"

Ann M. Fallon, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota
"Genetic Basis for Insecticide Resistance"

Dr. Scott Farrow, Council on Environmental Quality, Washington, DC
"Recycling Scrap Titanium: Economic, Environmental and National Security Impacts"

David A. Fernandez
"Acequia Water-Use Traditions of Native Taos People as Model for Preserving Agricultural Land Base and the Environment in Harmony with Expanding Urbanization and in Migration in the Arid Southwest (US)"

Fred S. Guthery, Texas A&I University, Kingsville, Texas
"Effects of Short Duration Grazing on Ground Feeding Birds"

Rhonda R. Janke, Ph.D., Rodale Institute Research Center, Kutztown, Pennsylvania
"Cultural Control of Weeds of Alfalfa"

Arun P. Kulkarni, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
"Human Placental ATPases: A Potential Screen for Testing Transplacental Toxicity of Chemicals"

Dr. Douglas R. MacAyeal, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
"Antarctic Ice Mass Stability: An Investigation of the Consequences of Increasing Atmospheric CO2"

J. R. Senft, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, River Falls, Wisconsin
"Investigation of the Potential of a Direct Solar Stirling Engine"

Mitchell J. Small, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
"Relationship Between Historical Air Pollution and Tree Growth in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania"

Kevin L. Sullivan, American Flight Instruction; and In Home Personal Care, Inc., St. Louis Park, Minnesota
First Recipient of the Jonathan Lindbergh Brown Grant

Stephen J. Winter, Ph.D., Appropriate Technology Enterprises, Chuuk, FM
"Demonstration of Household Water and Energy Systems for Use on Remote Tropical Islands"

1984

Dr. Robert F. Anderson, Lamont Doherty Geological Observatory, Palisades, New York
"Neutralization of Acid Rain by Natural Processes in Lake Sediments"

Richard J. Bing, M.D., Huntington Memorial Hospital, Pasadena, California
"A New Perfusion System for the Study of a Failing Heart Preparation and of TA-064, a New Inotropic Drug"

Dr. Robert P. Brooks, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
"Restoration and Creation of Wetland and Aquatic Habitats for Wildlife on Strip-Mined Lands in Pennsylvania"

Andrew G. Carey, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon
"Ice Biota - An Important Polar Food Web Sensitive to Petroleum Development in the SW Beaufort Sea (Alaska): Meiofauna"

Richard S. Hanson, Gray Freshwater Biological Institute, Navarre, Minnesota
"Engineering Bacteria to Solve Problems of Environmental Importance"

Dr. Charles P. Mason, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota
"The Use of Cyanobacterin as an Herbicide"

Paul F. McDonagh, Ph.D., University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
"Development of an Optimal Perfusate to Preserve Transplantable Organs: Evaluation of Organ Function and Viability with Non-Hazardous Tracers"

Robert Pearlman, Hadassah, New York, New York
"Learning How the Maasai See"

C.M. Pleass, Deceased
"The Use of Differential Laser Doppler in Pollution Ecology: A Statistical Study of the Behavior of Microscopic Marine Organisms"

Walter B. Sikora, Ph.D., Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
"Assessing the Feasibility of Using Air Cushion Vehicles (Hovercraft) for Oil and Gas Exploration and Drilling in Louisiana's Coastal Wetlands"

Elliot J. Tramer, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio
"Dredge Spoil Enclosures: Design and Pumping Strategies to Optimize Benefits for Aquatic Birdlife"

1983

Drs. Jane & Carl Bock, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
"Re-Vegetation of Southeastern Arizona Grasslands Using Native Grasses"

Aleksandar Brancic, Springfield, Massachusetts, and
J. Edward Sunderland, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
"Seasonal Earth Thermal Storage System"

Dr. Nicholas V.L. Brokaw, Manomet Bird Observatory, Manomet, Massachusetts
"Experimental Manipulation of Tree Population Dynamics in a Tropical Forest: Toward Sustained Yield Management"

Tim W. Clark, Ph.D., Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative, Jackson, Wyoming
"The Meeteetse Black-Footed Ferret Conservation Studies"

Cindy Stupp Cook, Glaxo Inc., Chapel Hill, North Carolina
"Removal of True Color From Paper Mill Effluent by a Biological Process"

Dr. Ricardo B. Jacquez, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico
"Combining Nutrient Removal with Protein Synthesis Using a Water Hyacinth-Freshwater Prawn Polyculture Wastewater Treatment Process"

Dr. Aaron A. Jennings, The University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio
"Regional Hazardous Waste Management Planning to Minimize Risk"

David MacInnes, Coquitlam, British Colombia, Canada
"Lightweight Plastic Batteries"

Dr. Robert E. Ricklefs, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
"Growth Performance of Sooty Tern Chicks: A Bio-Indicator for Tropical Marine Fisheries"

Gilberto Silva-Lopez, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
"Rainforests Exploitation in Mexico and Efforts to Protect the Endangered Spider and Howler Monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi and Alouatta villosa)"

1982

John M. Fryxell, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
"Remote Sensing and the Analysis of an African Savanna Ecosystem in Southern Sudan"

Dr. James L. Luteyn, The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York
"The Establishment of Permanent Study Plots in Two Ecuadorean National Parks"

Roderick Nash, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, California
"Air Travel and Wilderness Preservation in Alaska"

Dr. Pamela Parker, Chicago Zoological Society, Brookfield, Illinois
"Local Extinction and Sustained Co-Existence of Domestic and Native Fauna (Brookfield Conservation Park, South Australia)"

Dr. Larry Parsons, University of Florida, Lake Alfred, Florida, and
Dr. J. P. Syvertsen, University of Florida, Lake Alfred, Florida
"Low Volume Irrigation: A Way to Preserve the Balance Between Agriculture and Florida's Unique Ecology"

Bruce E. White
"Establishment of Socio-Economic Links Between Traditional Upland Mangyan People and Efforts to Protect the Endangered Tamaraw (Bubalus mindorensis) in the Philippines"

Albert Mukasa Wilson, Wiltec, Pasadena, California
"Development of an Efficient African Charcoal Stove"

1981

Richard C. Brusca, Ph.D., San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, California
"A Preliminary Study of Community Structure and Food Web Complexity in a Rocky Intertidal Habitat in Costa Rica"

Dr. Robert S.O. Harding, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
"Outamba-Kilimi: The Impact of a New National Park in Sierra Leone on Shifting Agriculturists"

Graham Hawkes, Deep Ocean Technologies Inc., Oakland, California
"Development of a Lightweight Hull for Maximum Ocean Depths (Project Deep Rover)"

Dr. C. Wayne Martin, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
"Nitrogen Fixation with Wind Energy"

Marluce Fernandes Matlock, Anchorage, Alaska
"Utilization of Slum Wastes for Production of Biogas for Community Use"

Mario A. Rueda
"Development of a Permanent Refuge for the California Gray Whale in Baja, California"

George G. Soares, Institut National de la Recherche, LaMiniere, Guayancourt, France
"Tolypocladium cylindrosprum, A Naturally Occurring Pathogen of Mosquito Larvae with Potential for Use in Integrated Pest Management (IPM) of Human Diseases Vectors"

1980

Dr. Michael J. Balick, The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York
"Babassu: An Economically Important Native Amazonian Palm and Its Role in the Rational Exploitation of Tropical Forest Lands"

Dr. Apisit Eiumnoh, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand
"Effects of Leucaena (Leucaena leucocephala) Planting on Soil Environments and Its Economics"

Karl T. Weber, M.D., University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
"The Influence of Pulsatile and Nonpulsatile Blood Flow on Autoregulatory Behavior of the Coronary Circulation"

David Western, Wildlife Conservation International, Nairobi, Kenya
"The Significance of Herbivore Migrations in the African Savannahs to Their Conservation and to Livestock Development"

Jerome L. Wright, World Space Foundation, Titusville, Florida
"Development of a Prototype Solar Sail and Spar System"