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...

We consider the problem of testing a basic property of collections of distributions: having similar means. Namely, the algorithm should accept collections of distributions in which all distributions have means that do not differ by more than some given parameter, and should reject collections that are relatively far from having this property. By ‘far’ we mean that it is necessary to modify the ...

The directionality of millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications creates a significant challenge in serving fast-moving mobile terminals on, e.g., high-speed vehicles, trains, and UAVs. This challenge is exacerbated in mmWave systems using analog antenna arrays, because of the inherent non-convexity in the control of the phase shifters. In this paper, we develop a recursive beam tracking algorithm...

The abstract and specific aims (described below) sections, two of the most important components of any grant application, must provide a cohesive framework for the application. The abstract provides an outline of the proposed research for the funding agency and the reviewers. Despite the fact that the abstract comes before the research plan in the physical document and is probably read before t...

Science Aims: • To achieve a major advance in the fidelity of simulations of the Global Environment by developing an Earth System Model with unprecedented resolution • To perform a ‘Grand Challenge’ multi-century simulation with the new Earth System Model, thus providing the NERC and wider UK science community with a unique resource for studying mechanisms of climate variability and change on t...

I can’t believe this is happening to me again. I find myself working on a grant when I wasn’t really planning on doing that this month, frantically re-writing and analyzing preliminary data in order to make the best case possible, to convince the NIH to give me funds for a new series of experiments. Why is it always like this? Why, every time I write a grant proposal, does the writing project g...

Co-oxidation is a little understood means of microbial degradation of petroleum hydrocarbons. In co-oxidation, microbes growing on one compound, the growth substrate, are able to oxidize a second · compound, the cosubstrate. This project examines the role of co-oxidation in the degradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAR's), one of the most recalcitrant petroleum compounds now found in...

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...

Professor Grant Jordan died on Friday 23 June at his home in Hatton, UK, aged 68. Most people know him as an esteemed international scholar in the field of public administration, the policymaking process and interest group politics. We remember him as a valued colleague, mentor and friend. After graduating from Aberdeen University (the class of 1971), Grant worked in market research for 18 mont...

The UCD Department of Agronomy and Range Science recently announced a one-time internal competitive "seed grant" program, to support UCD faculty doing research at LTRAS. Proposals to measure those "parameters and processes [most] likely to change significantly during the early years of the 100-year experiment" will be favored. The emphasis at LTRAS on long-term trends makes it particularly impo...