Archived Research
A Community-Driven Scientific Observations Network to achieve Interoperability of Environmental and Ecological Data »
The Scientific Observations Network (SONet) will initiate a multi-disciplinary, community-driven effort to define and develop the necessary specifications and technologies to facilitate semantic interpretation and integration of observational data.
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End date: August 2009
A Logic-Based Dynamic Policy Model for Adaptive Workflow Management »
This proposal presents a research program for developing and evaluating dynamic policy models, adaptive composition approaches, and risk management strategies.
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End date: February 2012
A Longitudinal Analysis of the Social Dynamics of Environmental Equity in Baltimore »
Through an interdisciplinary case study of Baltimore, the research will identify the spatiotemporal dynamics of environmental-equity patterns and processes in a large, postindustrial city that has undergone profound socioeconomic change.
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End date: August 2011
A Surface Stress Paradigm for Studying and Developing Catalyst and Storage Materials Relevant to the Hydrogen Economy »
The overarching scientific objective of this program is to enhance the understanding of hydrogen economy critical phenomena through a surface stress paradigm.
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End date: November 2011
Accelerating Innovation in Agent-Based Simulations: Application to Complex Socio-Behavioral Phenomena »
This project will expand the capabilities of agent-based modeling in supporting the design, engineering, and testing of complex systems.
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End date: January 2012
Advancing Conservation in a Social Context: Working in a World of Trade-Offs (ACSC) »
This project investigates the tradeoffs between human well-being and biodiversity-conservation goals, and between conservation and other economic, political, and social agendas at local, national, and international scales.
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End date: December 2010
Affective Learning Companions: Modeling and Supporting Emotion During Learning »
Emotion and motivation are fundamental to learning; students with high intrinsic motivation often outperform students with low motivation. Yet affect and emotion are often ignored or marginalized with respect to classroom practice. This project will help redress the emotion versus cognition imbalance.
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End date: September 2011
Agrarian Landscapes in Transition: A Cross-Scale Approach (AgTrans) »
This interdisciplinary project traced the effects of the introduction, spread, and abandonment of agriculture at six U.S. long-term ecological research (LTER) sites, with cross comparisons in Mexico and France, using a variety of monitoring strategies, quantitative modeling, and comparative data. Agrarian transformations represent the most pervasive alteration of the Earth's terrestrial environment during the past 10,000 years.
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End date: July 2008
Agriculture, Water, and Institutions: Investigation of Water Management, Policy and Its Effect on Sustainable Water Use by Agriculture in Arizona »
This project seeks to interview farmers and water policy professionals, as well as review available literature and public records to fill a gap that exists pertaining to how the Groundwater Management Act of 1980 has affected farmers' use of groundwater in irrigated agriculture in the Phoenix Active Management Area.
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End date: August 2011
An Assessment of the Effects of Crab Rationalization on Fleet Behavior, Input Usage, and Costs »
The rationalization of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands crab fisheries has created a substantial need for economic analysis of the impacts of the program along many dimensions of the fishery.
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End date: August 2011
Analysis and Modeling of Traffic Instabilities in Congested Traffic »
The primary objectives of this collaborative research study are to 1) better understand the interactive roles played by lane-changing and car-following, 2) quantify their effects on oscillations, and 3) develop a mathematical simulation model that accurately predicts the evolution of oscillations. Traffic oscillations are stop-and-go driving motions that arise in congested traffic.
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End date: July 2011
Archaeological Data Integration for the Study of Long-Term Human and Social Dynamics »
This integrative project will address the challenge of enabling scientifically meaningful integration and use of the expanding body of archaeological data.
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End date: October 2010
Arizona Hydrological Information System (AHIS) »
This project is developing the information infrastructure needed to access data on water-related research, technology, planning, education, and outreach from multiple sources in the Southwest.
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End date: December 2009
Arizona Initiative for Renewable Energy (AIRE) »
The Arizona Initiative for Renewable Energy researches and develops reliable, affordable, renewable energy sources and storage, paying special attention to technologies suitable for commercialization in the southwestern United States. This in now part of Arizona State University's LightWorks.
End date: December 2009
Arizona Water Institute (AWI) »
The Arizona Water Institute built economic opportunities in Arizona by improving access to water information, assisting communities and local governments with technology transfer, and helping water-related industries.
End date: July 2009
Assessing and Managing the Sustainability of Global Reverse Supply Chains: The Case of Personal Computers »
The main goal for this work is to develop the intellectual framework necessary for engineering and managing an international reverse supply chain from a sustainability perspective.
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End date: August 2011
Assessing Prohibited Species Bycatch Avoidance Behaviors and Outcomes in the Amendment 80 Fisheries of the North Pacific »
The is an econometric (application of statistics to economic data) study on the behaviors and decision making of Bering Sea-Aleutian Islands fishermen before and after Amendment 80 to the Bering Sea-Aleutian Islands fishery management plan.
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End date: June 2011
Biocomplexity Research: Life Cycle Management Programs of Consumer Products »
The National Center of Excellence for SMART Innovations for Urban Climate and Energy in partnership with the Industrial Design program of the College of Design at Arizona State University undertook a Life Cycle Management research project supporting the Dial Corporation's Laundry Care Division.
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End date: December 2011
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Training Network (BESTNet) »
The Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Training Network (BESTNet) brings the benefits of research stimulated by Diversitas, a global-change research initiative, to students in US universities.
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End date: May 2011
Building Evidence for Legal Decision-Making in Real Time: Legal Triage during Declared Emergencies »
With input from legal and public health practitioners, this project will explore how legal decisions are made in real-time during declared emergencies.
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End date: May 2011
Chemical Characterization of Ambient Coarse Particulate Matter in Rural Areas of Arizona Impacted by Significant Population Growth »
This project characterizes the chemical composition of coarse and fine particulate matter (PM) to support source attribution and to quantify local sources and regional transport contributing to elevated PM levels in Pinal County, AZ.
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End date: July 2011
CISE RI: An Interdisciplinary Research Environment for Motion Analysis »
During this five-year project, the PIs hope to achieve major advances in motion analysis and core computer science areas: computer vision, human-computer interaction, information and data management, geometric computation, knowledge systems and robotics.
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End date: August 2011
City of Avondale: City County Visioning Workshop and Decision Alignment »
The goal of the visioning workshop is to establish alignment of the Avondale City Council and staff decisions for managed growth planning for several identified areas of study that are of considerable interest to Avondale, Arizona with the use of Decision Theater visualization tools.
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End date: July 2010
Composition of the Plankton Community and its Contribution to Particle Flux in the Sargasso Sea »
The overall objective of this proposal is to investigate linkages between the presence of different key groups of phytoplankton in the euphotic zone and their contribution to particle flux at the subtropical North Atlantic time-series station BATS (Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study) by applying a range of traditional and novel molecular techniques
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End date: April 2012
Deeper Modeling via Affective Meta-tutoring »
This study addresses, through investigation of students in Arizona High School summer programs, how students learn, understand and manipulate scientific models of the carbon cycle and the water cycle.
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End date: August 2011
Design of Dense RFID Systems for Indexing in the Physical World Across Space, Time, and Human Experience »
This research pursues a multidisciplinary, integrative approach to investigate fundamental technical challenges in radio frequency identificatin (RFID), both at the physical and data management layers, to realize innovative data-centric applications such as attribute-based object search.
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End date: August 2011
Development of New Prototype Tools, and Adaptation and Implementation of Current Resources for a Course in Numerical Methods »
The project, a collaboration among University of South Florida, Old Dominion University and Arizona State University, is developing state-of-the-art prototype web-based learning tools for open courseware in undergraduate numerical methods courses.
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End date: July 2011
DSP Algorithms for Silicon Ion-Channel Sensors »
The objective of this research is to develop signal processing algorithms for processing data from silicon ion-channel sensors to identify the presence of particular chemicals.
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End date: March 2012
Electrochemical Control of Electron Transport in Single Redox Molecules »
Professor Tao and his students will develop new methods to measure and control electron transport properties at the single molecule level.
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End date: March 2012
Enabling the Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge (SEEK) »
The Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge (SEEK) is an initiative designed to create cyberinfrastructure for ecological, environmental, and biodiversity research and to educate the ecological community about ecoinformatics.
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End date: September 2008
Enabling the Study of Long-Term Human and Social Dynamics: A Cyberinfrastructure for Archaeology »
A team of archaeologists, computer scientists, ecologists, and modelers designed and prototyped a knowledge-based archaeological data-integration system (KADIS) encompassing both new and legacy datasets.
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End date: August 2006
Environmental Justice in Baltimore »
This interdisciplinary case study is investigating the spatial and temporal dynamics of environmental-equity patterns and processes in Baltimore, a large, postindustrial city that has undergone profound socioeconomic change.
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End date: August 2011
Ethnic and Religious Influences on Forgiveness for Mass Atrocities »
This project represents an initial effort to study the cultural, emotional and social factors that contribute to forgiveness for mass atrocities.
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End date: January 2012
Evaluation of a Suite of Interactive Modeling, Controls, Rapid Prototyping, and Embedded System E-Book Modules »
An evaluation of the materials that have been prepared for an e-book for use in teaching control system engineering is being conducted.
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End date: December 2011
Fort Mohave Indian Tribe Mass Vaccination Simulation »
This project is to develop training materials for the Fort Mohave Indian Tribe to train public health volunteers to setup and operate a Point of Dispensing site to distribute vaccinations.
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End date: July 2010
Fundamental Study of Defects and Their Reduction in Type-II Superlattice Materials »
This program has proposed a systematic and comprehensive approach to address defect issues ranging from fundamental theory up to advanced device structures to mitigate the adverse impacts of defects.
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End date: December 2011
Grasshopper Migration in the Asian Steppe: Investigating Diet as a Cue for Polyphenism »
This Doctoral Dissertation Enhancement award will support field research on grasshopper migration in China by Ph.D. student Arianne Cease of Arizona State University.
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End date: April 2012
Greater Phoenix 2100 (GP2100) »
Greater Phoenix 2100 (GP2100) is a network of Arizona State University and community researchers dedicated to using knowledge to create better lives for future generations.
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End date: December 2008
Hazardous Materials and Waste Management Certification Program »
The Hazardous Waste Management Certification Program taught classes required by federal regulation for the health and safety of hazardous waste workers. Classes continue today at the Arizona State University Polytechnic campus.
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End date: April 1999
Heat Island Effect of Pavements »
This study by the National Center for Excellence on Sustainable Materials and Renewable Technologies quantifies several values and the effect of color and texture over time and its impact on the urban heat island of different pavements including Arizona Department of Transportation's Asphalt Rubber – Asphaltic Concrete Friction Course.
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End date: January 2010
History and Philosophy of Ecology »
This proposal is for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Biology and Society in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University. The purpose of the fellowship is to expand the Co-PI's dissertation research, which is on the ecologist, environmentalist, and public figure L. C. Birch.
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End date: December 2011
In Search of Early Oxygen: Investigation of Redox Sensitive Metal Abundances and Isotopes in Neoarchean Drill Cores »
This proposal will characterize element abundances and isotopes in two Neoarchean drill cores to investigate the oxidation state of the environment ~ 2.5 billion years ago.
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End date: September 2011
Influence of Urbanization on Weather in the Arid Phoenix Metropolitan Area »
This work will improve the understanding of the development of summer monsoonal thunderstorms in central Arizona and how they are affected by their interaction with urban and terrain induced thermal circulations.
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End date: August 2011
Innovation of Institutional Rules in the Governance of Common Resources »
This project aims to develop a next-generation understanding: what makes groups successful in changing the institutional rules that govern behavior related to common resources.
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End date: February 2012
Integrated Analysis of Robustness in Dynamic Social Ecological Systems »
This project asks: Why are some socioecological systems more successful in navigating environmental disturbances and change than others?
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End date: February 2011
Interdisciplinary Training for Undergraduates in Biological and Mathematical Sciences at ASU »
An interdisciplinary team of investigators carry out an undergraduate training initiative at Arizona State University.
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End date: August 2011
International Project Office for Urbanization: A Partnership with the International Human Dimension Programme »
The Scientific Steering Committee of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change has selected Arizona State University and its Global Institute of Sustainability as the International Project Office (IPO) for their Urbanization Core Project. The Urbanization IPO will assist the Committee in developing and administering the project with the aim, not of conducting research, but building an expanded international network of scholars and policymakers that better understand the urbanization process.
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End date: August 2011
Learning through Engineering Design and Practice: Using our Human Capital for an Equitable Future »
Arizona State University (ASU) in collaboration with Arizona Science Center, Boeing, Intel, Microchip, Motorola, Salt River Project, AZ Foundation for Resource Education, AZ Game & Fish Department, US Partnership for the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, Mesa Public Schools, and Boys & Girls Clubs of the East Valley, offer a three-year extracurricular project resulting in IT/STEM-related learning outcomes for 96 participants in grades 7, 8, and 9.
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End date: August 2011
Long-Term Coupled Socioecological Change in the American Southwest and Northern Mexico »
In this project, archaeologists, mathematical modelers, ecologists, and environmental scientists are applying archaeological and ecological analyses, resilience theory, and formal dynamical modeling to identify variables that foster stability and promote transformation in coupled socioecological systems.
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End date: August 2009
Market Integration and Climate as Drivers of Change in the Mexican Maize System: Multi-Scale Interactions in Livelihood »
This project will document spatial and temporal patterns of economic and climatic risk at diverse scales through an analysis of the drivers and evolving social outcomes one of the world's most important food systems: the Mexican maize system.
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End date: February 2012
Mediterranean Landscape Dynamics Project (MedLand) »
This project examines long-term socioecological processes that shaped Mediterranean landscapes from the beginning of farming to the beginning of complex civilization.
End date: September 2011
Micro-Power Multi-Phase MEMS Hearing Aid »
he proposal addresses integration and application of multi-phase/multi-microphone directional hearing aids with on-chip MEMS microphones.
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End date: August 2011
Monolithic Integrated Ultrahigh Efficiency Multijunction Solar Cells for Space Applications »
The majority of satellites in space are powered by solar panels and improving their efficiencies means more power for the spacecraft.This project investigates a novel multi-junction solar cell design that uses lattice-matched II/VI (ZnCdMg)(SeTe) and III/V AlGaAsSb direct bandgap materials grown on GaSb substrates.
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End date: March 2012
Neighborhood Ecosystems: Human-Climate Interactions in a Desert Metropolis »
This research explored human-ecosystem-climate interactions at the neighborhood scale in metropolitan Phoenix, and drew upon social and ecological theories of spatial heterogeneity in cities to understand how urban development leads to economic, social, and physical inequalities among neighborhoods, which in turn produce neighborhood differences in microclimate conditions.
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End date: February 2005
Ocean Crust Alteration and the Deep Biosphere »
This research provides the theoretical framework and tools needed to model and interpret the increasing evidence for the presence and actions of microbes in the deep biosphere in oceanic crust.
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End date: February 2012
Partnership, Pathway, and Pipeline for Engineering Education: Engaging Middle School Students when Curricular Integration and Social Relevance »
This exploratory project will provide effective mechanisms to motivate and engage middle school students in the practice of engineering through hands-on community-based service learning projects by establishing sustainable linkages between higher education, K-12, and community partners, developing professional learning communities (PLCs) comprised of engineering faculty and K-12 educators, and creating appropriately aligned educational pathways that integrates STEM with social studies and language arts.
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End date: December 2011
Pervious and Thin Whitetopping PCC Pavements: Urban Heat Island Study »
The project included implementing a new concrete mix design that utilizes recycled plastic fibers for added strength and durability and studying the mechanical, thermal and storm water performance of pervious concrete located in a hot arid climate.
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End date: January 2009
Photosynthetic Bacteria Biofuels »
This project is developing genetically optimized versions of photosynthetic bacteria, called cyanobacteria, that will use sunlight, water and carbon dioxide to over-produce and secrete fatty acids as a raw material for the production of biofuel.
End date: December 2011
Point of Dispensing Simulation for Large-Scale Mass Dispensing Operations During a Public Health Emergency »
The purpose of this study is to develop for the Arizona Department of Health Services a computer-based, interactive multiple Point of Dispening area throughput model.
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End date: September 2011
Prehistoric Agricultural Productivity in the Perry Mesa Region, Central Arizona »
This project integrates archaeological investigations of the prehistoric settlements and farming systems with ecological methods of soil nutrient analysis and soil moisture measurements.
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End date: April 2012
Protein Control of Electron Transfer Pathways in Photosynthesis »
The initial solar energy conserving event in photosynthesis is the transfer of an electron between an excited donor and a neighboring acceptor molecule in the reaction center, an intrinsic membrane protein-pigment complex. In this project Woodbury will continue his studies of the purple nonsulfur bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides, investigating the driving force and temperature dependence of the initial electron transfer reactions.
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End date: March 2012
Public Value Mapping: Developing a Non-Economic Model of the Social Value of Science and Innovation Policy »
The purpose of this study is to further develop a public-values-based model for science and innovation policies (SIPs). At the core of this work are two fundamental questions: What are the public values that justify particular SIPs, and what is the capacity of a given SIP to yield outcomes that support and advance those values?
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End date: September 2011
RAPID: Responses of Herbaceous Annual Plants to Material Deposition from the Urban Atmosphere under Contrasting Conditions of Antecedent Drought and Winter Rainfall »
This research studies the combined effects of high rainfall and urban pollution on the abundance, kinds, and chemical makeup of annual herbaceous plants which will help advance theory and understanding of how multiple factors affect plant growth singly and in combination.
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End date: August 2010
Retrofitting Suburbs: Re-visioning the Cul-de-Sac »
The countless environmental and social problems endogenous to the suburban model, as well as exogenous forces resulting from pending demographic changes, renders uncertain the future of the now conventional suburban development type. Besides developing new design paradigms, there is a pressing need to rethink the use of existing suburban areas. Here, we explore the possibilities for re-use of a typical suburban cul-de-sac
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End date: May 2012
Risk Communication Analysis for Pandemic Influenza Preparedness »
An exercise series that will facilitate sharing information with community stakeholders (e.g., parents, schools, business leaders, government officials, emergency management) on some of the potential impacts of a serious influenza pandemic and increase awareness of the need to develop plans to support community mitigation strategies.
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End date: September 2010
Self Assembly at Photonic and Electronic Scales »
This grant addresses ywo issues critical to manufacturing at the nano- and meso-scales.
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End date: August 2011
Southern Yucatan Peninsular Region (SYPR) »
The SYPR project seeks to explain the dynamics of land-use/land-cover change in the Southern Yucatan Peninsular Region over the past 25 years and explores ways to wed remote sensing- and social science-based models of this change.
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End date: January 2008
Spatial Analytical Framework for Examining Community Risk Issues over Space and Time »
This project will develop a spatial analytical framework and toolbox for addressing convicted offender residency issues. This will facilitate access to a combination of new and existing exploratory and confirmatory statistical methods and to new and existing spatial optimization models that can be used for analyzing impacts as well as developing and evaluating public policy associated with the management of convicted offenders.
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End date: August 2011
STIR: Socio-Technical Integration Research »
This project co-funded by Science, Technology & Society; Biology and Society; Mathematical and Physical Sciences and Society; Science of Science and Innovation Policy; and Office of International Science and Engineering involves a coordinated set of twenty laboratory engagement studies to assess and compare the varying pressures on and capacities for laboratories to integrate broader societal considerations into their work.
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End date: March 2012
Strategic Investment in ARENA — the Arizona Environmental Array »
The goal of this project was to use development of informatics infrastructure to strategically position one or more of Arizona's candidate sites to become official nodes in NEON (National Ecological Observatory Network).
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End date: October 2008
Stress and Structure Evolution in Ultra-Thin Heteroepitaxial Metallic Films »
The objective of this research is to significantly expand the understanding of stress-structure relationships in ultra-thin heteroepitaxial metallic films.
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End date: February 2012
Sustainability Science Applications, Center for (CSSA) »
The Center for Sustainability Science Applications (CSSA) promotes research that reconciles the needs of society and nature through projects involving urban systems, climate change, and sustainable technologies.
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End date: July 2011
Sustainable High-Energy Density, Low-Cost Electrochemical Energy Storage »
The strategic vision of the Metal-Air Ionic Liquid (MAIL) battery program is to create a measurably safe, earth-abundant and geo-politically sustainable, ultra-high energy density, and low cost battery technology.
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End date: December 2011
Sustainable Science for Sustainable Schools »
The goal is to equip graduate fellows with the skills to bring their sustainability-science research into K-12 settings to benefit K-12 teachers, students, and families, as well as enhance their own professional development.
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End date: April 2012
The Archaeology of Local Human Response to a Global Environmental Transformation »
This project is a case study designed to identify the dynamics of local subsistence adaptations to the climate-induced environmental transformation of the Pleistocene-Holocene transition.
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End date: August 2011
The Dynamics of Religion and Conflict: A Multidisciplinary, Empirical Approach »
Building upon insights from a wide range of disciplines (e.g., social psychology, political science, religious studies, anthropology, sociology) and existing findings about the processes that contribute to group conflict (e.g., perceived competition over scarce resources, incompatible values), this project tests hypotheses about where, how, under what circumstances, and for whom religion-influenced conflict could emerge.
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End date: December 2011
The Economics of Environmental Vulnerability: Epidemiology, Household Status, and Air Pollution »
Analyses of U.S. air quality regulations identify subpopulations that are particularly sensitive to the adverse health effects associated with air pollution on the basis of epidemiological studies of the physiological effects of pollution. The observed susceptibility of children and older adults to environmental degradation stems from not one but two important factors: physiological sensitivity and economic vulnerability.
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End date: September 2011
The Persistence of Biodiversity in Southern California under Future Land-Use Scenarios »
This project will identify the life history traits of plants that are predictive of extinction risk in the face of the top three threats to plant species in the United States - habitat loss, altered fire regimes and competition with invasive species.
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End date: January 2012
The Role of Resource Legacy on Contemporary Linkages Between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Processes in a Cold Desert Ecosystem: The McMurdo Dry Valley LTER Program »
The McMurdo Dry Valleys (MCM) LTER project focuses on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems in a cold desert region of Antarctica. The overall objectives of MCM are to understand 1) the influence of physical and biological constraints on the structure and function of Dry Valleys ecosystems and 2) the modifying effects of material transport on these ecosystems.
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End date: August 2011
Understanding Agents of Scientific Change: The Case of Embyro Research »
This project explores agents of scientific change in a dynamic, interactive, integrative, interdisciplinary, international research environment.
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End date: December 2011
Urban Vulnerability to Climate Change: A System Dynamics Analysis »
This project will identify community and demographic markers of high-risk environments that decision-makers can use to develop spatially informed early warning systems and heat-illness prevention programs
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End date: February 2012
Using Carbohydrates as Molecular Markers to Determine the Contribution of Agricultural Soil to Ambient Fine and Course PM »
The overall goal of the project is to fully develop, employ and verify a technique to quantify the contribution of agricultural soils entrained in the atmosphere to ambient fine and coarse particulate matter (PM).
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End date: November 2010
VOCALS — Interaction of Aerosols with Marine Boundary Layer Clouds »
This project will lead to insight into how aerosol production due to human activity influences precipitation and the radiative impact of clouds on Earth's climate.
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End date: April 2012