Funding History

TRIF-WEES Funding History

 

In FY25, the Arizona Institute for Resilience (AIR) awarded one AIR Annual Resilience Theme Grant to a collaborative team focused on building community through music, art, and watershed science ($100,000); four Accelerate for Success grants ($163,000); one Faculty Seed Grant ($15,000); and two Production Grants ($40,000). 

These grants are funded by the Technology and Research Initiative Fund (TRIF), administered by the Office of Research, Innovation & Impact and AIR and supported through Arizona sales tax revenues.

Congratulations to the funded projects! 

Project Lead PI Co-PIs and/or Collaborators
Building Hydro-local Community Through Music, Art, and Watershed Science Sara Fraker (School of Music, College of Fine Arts) Carissa DiCindio (School of Art), Neha Gupta (AIR, HAS), Jackie Glazer (School of Music), Yuanyuan Kay He (School of Music)

The winners of the FY25 AIR Annual Resilience Theme hope to inspire greater interest in watershed stewardship and the conservation of water and land through musical compositions and performances, workshops, and art. Read more about this project, including dates of events, here.

 

Project Lead PI Co-PIs and/or Collaborators

Seasonal Dynamics of Contaminants and Microbial Responses in the Santa Cruz River

Solange Duhamel (Molecular and Cellular Biology) Christopher Frost (BIO5 Institute)

Harnessing Microbial Adaptation as an Innovative Solution to H2 Leak Mitigation for the Clean Hydrogen Economy

Laura Meredith (School of Natural Resources and the Environment, SNRE) Juliana Gil Loaiza (SNRE)

Augmenting Arizona Research Sites through Soil Characterization: Controls on Carbon and Water Cycling

David Moore (SNRE) Craig Rasmussen (Environmental Sciences), Sara Chavarria (STEM Learning Center)

Enhancing Community Sustainability and Resilience Through Integrated Monitoring, Modeling and Mitigation (M3) of Land Subsidence and Earth Fissures in Southern Arizona

Lianyang Zhang (Civil and Architectural Engineering & Mechanics) Jian Lu (Systems and Industrial Engineering), Kristina Currins (Urban Planning, School of Landscape Architecture and Planning)

Project PI

Exploring the Use of Silicon for Herbivory Protection in Aridland Restoration Plants

Elise Gornish (College of Agriculture, Life and Environmental Sciences)

Project Lead PI Co-PIs and/or Collaborators

The Arizona Reading Outreach Program

Johanna Skibsrud (English)  John Paul Hurh (English), Aaron Bugaj (Biosphere 2), Jonathon Keats (Fine Arts)

Climate-Change Vulnerability in the Marshall Islands: Learning From the Past and Inspiring a New Future

Diane Thompson (Geosciences) Aaron Bugaj (Biosphere 2)

 


 

In FY24, the Arizona Institute for Resilience (AIR) awarded one AIR Annual Resilience Theme Grant to a collaborative team focused on soil health ($100,000); eight AIR Resilience Grants ($714,000); and three Faculty Seed Grants ($45,000). These awards cumulatively represent 19 schools and departments collaborating with seven community and industry partners.

These grants are funded by the Technology and Research Initiative Fund (TRIF), administered by the Office of Research, Innovation & Impact and AIR and supported through Arizona sales tax revenues.

Congratulations to the funded projects! 

Project Lead PI Co-PIs and/or Collaborators
The art and science of drought resilience through soil health initiatives Elise Gornish (School of Natural Resources and the Environment, SNRE) Claire Taylor (Fine Arts), Ana Santos (Artist), Philippa Johnstone (SNRE), Albert Barberán (Department of Environmental Science), Aaron M. Lien (SNRE)

 

The winners of the AIR Annual Resilience Theme Grant will spend the next 12 months exploring the theme of soil science through community-centered research, outreach, and education. Read more about this project here.

Project Lead PI Co-PIs and/or Collaborators
Plant-Metal Interactions as the Basis for Remediation of Metal-Contaminated Mine Sites in Drylands Alicja Babst-Kostecka (Department of Environmental Science, ENVS) Raina M. Maier (ENVS), Flurin Babst (School of Natural Resources and the Environment, SNRE), Willem van Leeuwen (SNRE), Center for Environmentally Sustainable Mining, BHP Copper Legacy Assess Team
Modeling Vector-Borne Infectious Disease Risk in the Face of Climate Change in Arizona Leigh Combrink (School of Natural Resources and the Environment) Kacey Ernst (College of Public Health), Michael Riehle (Department of Entomology), Jacob Hojnacki (Coconino County Health and Human Services), Nathan H. Schumaker (US Environmental Protection Agency)
Developing Hydroclimate-Adaptive Management Paradigms in Energy and Mining Christopher Castro (Hydrology & Atmopsheric Sciences, HAS, and Center for Applied Hydroclimate Sciences, CAHS) Hsin-I Chang (HAS and CAHS), Derek Lemoine (Department of Economics), Zack Guido (Arizona Institute for Resilience), Beth Tellman (School of Geography, Development, and Environment)
Transdisciplinary Bi-national Collaboration for Environmental Sustainability and Cultural Resilience   Caitlyn Hall (Honors College) Kenneth J. Kokroko (School of Landscape Architecture and Planning), Nicole Antebi (School of Art)
Resilience Informatics for Public Health Sriram Iyengar (College of Medicine–Phoenix) Mona Arora (Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health), Stephen A. Rains (Department of Communication), Enrique Noriega-Atala (Computer Science), Kacey Ernst (College of Public Health), Maiya G. Block Ngaybe (Department of Communication)
Critical Minerals, Earth’s Critical Zone, and Mission Critical Sustainability: Co-leveraging Fundamental Science of Element Mobility in Natural Settings and Mineral Resource Extraction Peter Reiners (Department of Geosciences) Jon Chorover (Department of Environmental Science), HydroGeoSense Inc.
Complete Recycling of Concrete Waste to Sequester CO2 and Produce High-Performance Geopolymer Concrete Lianyang Zhang (Civil and Architectural Engineering and Mechanics)  
Increasing Representation of Minority Students in STEM Fields: The Role of an Intergenerational Youth Mentoring Model  Adriana Zuniga-Teran (School of Geography, Development, and Environment, SGDE) Jennifer Mason (SGDE), Arin Haverland (Department of Environmental Science), Jackie Nichols (Sunnyside Unified School District), Josh Schachter (Community Share)

 

Project PI
Effects of the Bioherbicide Radicinin on Buffelgrass Allelopathy Elise Gornish (School of Natural Resources and the Environment)
Understanding the Water Behavior at the Nanoscale Qing Hao (Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering)
Bioaugmentation of Hyperthermophilic Sludge Composting for Microplastics Removal Kuok Ho Daniel Tang (Department of Environmental Science)

 

The fall 2023 Roots for Resilience cohort students and program staff. Students are holding certificates indicating their completion of the program.

Student's Name Research Focus
Sanja Dmitrovic Data Science, Optical Science
Laura Werthmann Dozal Information, Statistics and Data Science
Julie Edwards Geography, Global Change
Mohammad Farmani Hydrology
Varinia Felix Environmental Engineering
Ankit Pal iSchool, Data Science
Pramesh Pudasaini Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Statistics and Data Science
Tomasz Wlodarczyk Environmental Science, Natural Resources
Yun-Ting Yeh Economics
Asif Zeshan Architecture

 


 

On June 23, 2022, the Arizona Institute for Resilience (AIR) awarded Resilience Grants totaling approximately $610,000 to seven teams representing nine UArizona colleges and 14 departments or units, approximately $95,000 in Accelerate for Success grants, and $45,000 in Faculty Seed Grants. In December of 2022, TRIF-WEES awarded approximately $340,000 to support four Equipment Enhancement Fund projects.

These grants are funded by the Technology and Research Initiative Fund (TRIF), administered by the Office of Research, Innovation & Impact and AIR and supported through Arizona sales tax revenues.

Congratulations to the funded projects! 

Project Lead PI Co-PIs and/or Collaborators
Assessing Tropical Forest Climate Resilience Within Biosphere 2 Rainforest: The Hottest Rainforest on Earth Joost van Haren (Biosphere 2)  Chris Doughty (School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University), Brian Enquist (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), Scott Saleska (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), Kevin Hultine (Desert Botanical Gardens, Arizona State University), Burc Maruflu (School of Geography and Savaya Coffee Roasters), and Jesse Woodson (Plant Sciences) 
Building Water Resource Resilience Through an Academic-Water Utility Partnership  Luisa Ikner (Department of Environmental Science)  Amanda Wilson (Department of Community, Environment & Policy, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health) 
Developing and Evaluating Decision-Support Tools for Managing and Mitigating PFAS Contamination at Treated Wastewater Aquifer Recharge Sites  Bo Guo (Department of Hydrology & Atmospheric Sciences)  Mark Brusseau (Department of Environmental Science), Jennifer McIntosh (Department of Hydrology & Atmospheric Sciences), and Jon Chorover (Department of Environmental Science) 
Electric Vehicle Public Charging Stations: Spatial Planning and Site Design in Tucson Metropolitan Area  Shujuan Li (School of Landscape Architecture and Planning)  Tucson Planning and Development Services Department and Tucson Transportation and Mobility Department 
Leveraging Tree-Ring Records to Quantify Causes, Effects, and Recurrence for Arizona's Megadrought  Ellie Broadman (Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research)  Valérie Trouet (Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research), Laura Condon (Department of Hydrology & Atmospheric Sciences), Diana Zamora-Reyes (Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research), and Jessie Pearl (The Nature Conservancy, Arizona Chapter) 
Measuring the Hidden PFAS in Arizona's Drinking Water  Reyes Sierra-Alvarez (Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering)  Jon Chorover (Department of Environmental Science), Leif Abrell (Department of Environmental Science, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry), James Hatton (JACOBS), and Matthew Narter (Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, Southern Regional Office) 
Mitigating Climate Change Impacts through Park Planning and Design: Summer Visits and Use of Parks in Tucson  Bo Yang (School of Landscape Architecture and Planning)  Shujuan Li (School of Landscape Architecture and Planning), Kirk Dimond (School of Landscape Architecture and Planning), Hauquan Li (Department of Biosystems Engineering, Statistics and Data Science GIDP, and Cancer Center), Gregory Jackson (Tucson Parks and Recreation Department), Nicole Gillett (Urban Foresty Program Manager, City of Tucson), Sierra Boyer (Community Promotions and Marketing Manager, City of Tucson), and Jennifer Psillas (GIS Project Manager, City of Tucson) 

 

Project Lead PI Co-PIs and/or Collaborators
Assessing Fusarium Wilt of Lettuce-Suppressive Soils Using Metagenomics Elise Gornish (School of Natural Resources and the Environment) Albert Barberán and Robert Masson (Yuma County Cooperative Extension)
Using a Trait-Based Approach to Understand Desert Plant Resilience to Aridity and Future Climate Change Brian Enquist (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) Charlotte Brown, Deborah Goldberg, and Jocelyn Navarro (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)

 


Project PI
Cluster Expansion for the University of Arizona Patrick Bunn
Acquisition of a High-Throughput Tandem Mass Spectrometer for High Demand PFAS Analyses Jonathan Chorover
Improvements to Passive Solar Dryer to Repurpose Food Waste Goggy Davidowitz 
Depth Profiling for Chemical Analyses of Buried Interfaces and Stratified Samples for Defense, Health, and Energy Services Oliver Monti Masel

 

Project PI
Beating the Planck's Blackbody Radiation Law: Pursing Record-High Thermal Radiation between Nanostructured Surfaces Qing Hao (Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering)
Evolution of Extreme Chromosome Number Reduction in Xanthisma gracile (Asteraceae) in Southern Arizona Michael Barker (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
Quantifying Intra- and Inter-annual Patterns of Carbon Accumulation in Semi-Arid Forests During the 21st Century Megadrought Jia Hu (School of Natural Resources and the Environment)

 

 


 

On October 28, 2021, the Arizona Institutes for Resilience (AIR) awarded Resilience Grants totaling nearly $400,000 to seven teams representing six UArizona colleges and 10 departments or units. The grants are funded by the Technology and Research Initiative Fund (TRIF), administered by the Office of Research, Innovation & Impact and AIR and supported through Arizona sales tax revenues.

TRIF-WEES funds supported and facilitated:

  • $56.4 M in new, sponsored projects funding.
  • 27 postdocs and 177 graduate students in conducting research.
  • 180 peer-reviewed publications.

Project Lead PI Co-PIs and/or Collaborators
Assessing the Climate Change Mitigation Potential of Diverse Vegetation Types in the Pinaleño Mountains, Arizona Flurin Babst (School of Natural Resources and the Environment, SNRE) Donald Falk (SNRE), Willem van Leeuwen (SNRE), Jose Iniguez (US Forest Service), Jack Tribke (US Forest Service), Benjamin Poulter (NASA), Tyson Swetnam (CyVerse), Jeffrey Gillan (SNRE), William Smith (SNRE)
A Dynamic Approach to Explain Flood Risk Exposure and Household Location Choice Laura Bakkensen (School of Government and Public Policy) Lala Ma (University of Kentucky), Lucija Muehlenbachs (University of Calgary)
A Rapid Climate Change Vulnerability/Resiliency Assessment and Site-Specific Climate Adaptation Plan for San Xavier District of the Tohono O'odham Nation Gregg Garfin (SNRE) Cie'na Schlaefli, Sally Pablo (both San Xavier District of the Tohono O’odham Nation)
Testing Media Lunas - a Cheap Technologically Simple Approach to Enhancing Soil Health and Resilience on Arizona Rangelands Elise Gornish (SNRE) Trace Martyn, Albert Barberan (Department of Environmental Science), Joseph Blankinship (Department of Environmental Science), and Julia Sittig (Altar Valley Conservation Alliance)
Climate-Health Resilience through Physician Education Julia Jernberg (Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health) Heidi Brown (Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health), Vjollca Berisha (Maricopa County Department of Public Health)
Mesquite Artisan Training for Climate-Resilient Management of Mesquite Savannas and Woodlands in Southern Arizona: Creating Jobs for a Restoration Economy Gary Nabhan (Southwest Center) Aaron Lien (Natural Resources and Environment), Denisse Ortega Lorona (Borderlands Restoration Network), Juliet Jivanti (Borderlands Restoration Network), Kurt Vaughn (Borderlands Restoration Network), Zach Farley (Borderlands Restoration Network)
Community Engagement for a River Restoration Project to Enhance Resilience in Nogales, Arizona Adriana Zuniga-Teran (School of Landscape Architecture and Planning) Sandra Bernal (School of Landscape Architecture and Planning), Tony Colella (School of Geography, Development, and the Environment), Robert Varady (Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy), Bo Yang (School of Landscape Architecture and Planning), Joaquin Murrieta (Watershed Management Group), Angie Donelson (Donelson Consulting LLC)

 

Project PI
Using GPS to Infer Impacts on Weather Extremes, Water Mobility, and Carbon Cycling in Semi-Arid to Arid Environments Christopher Castro (Department of Hydrology & Atmospheric Sciences)
Multimodal Mapping of Opto-Electronic and Biological Materials for Energy and Defense at the Micron Scale Erin Ratcliff (Chemical & Environmental Engineering)

 

Project PI
Testing the Effects of Seed Pellets to Improve Soil Health in Rangelands Albert Barberán (Department of Environmental Science)
Assessing the Direct Effects of Extended Periods of Drought on Soil Microbial Diversity and Community Composition Laura Meredith (School of Natural Resources and the Environment, SNRE)
Addressing Substantial Unknowns in Our Understanding of Hot-Drought Extremes and Their Impact on Ecosystem Function William Smith (SNRE)

 

Project PI
Science in Motion: Scaling Broader Impacts of UArizona Resilience Science Through Student-Engaged Filmmaking, Animation, Data Visualization, and Motion Arts-Science Pedagogy Kevin Bonine (School of Natural Resources and the Environment)

 

 


 

On February 1, 2021, the Arizona Institute for Resilience (AIR) awarded Resilience Grants totaling $823,101 to 13 teams representing six UArizona colleges and 14 departments or units. The grants are funded by the Technology and Research Initiative Fund (TRIF), administered by the Office of Research, Innovation & Impact and AIR and supported by a small portion of Arizona sales tax revenues.

Project Lead PI Co-PIs and/or Collaborators
Co-Locating Agriculture and Renewable Energy Production to Create Resilient Food, Energy, and Water Systems in Arizona Greg Barron-Gafford Andrea Gerlak, William Holmgren
Building Resilience in Southern Arizona’s Local Food System Laurel Bellante Gigi Owen
Developing Biological Solutions for Arizona Dust Hazards Joseph Blankinship Alicja Babst-Kostecka, Albert Barberan, Jason Field,  Elise Gornish, Craig Rasmussen, A. Eduardo Saez, Malak Tfaily
Southwest Field Studies in Writing Susan Briante Francisco Cantu, Caleb Weaver
Indigenous Resilience: Co-designing and Deploying Off-Grid Household Solar Nanofiltration Water Systems for Remote Navajo Communities Karletta Chief Vasiliki Karanikola, Andrew Curley, Robert Arnold, Torran Anderson, Kern Collymore, Janene Yazzie, Tommy Rock
Development of Injectable High-Affinity Polymers as a Green Technology for In-Situ Removal of PFAS from Contaminated Arizona Groundwaters Jon Chorover Leif Abrel, Reyes Sierra-Alvarez, Jim Field, James Hatton, Matt Narter
Refining Short-Term Forecasts to Effectively Manage Buffelgrass in Arizona Theresa Crimmins Ben McMahan, Erin Posthumus, Alyss Rosemartin, Michael Crimmins
Building Resilience: A University-Community Partnership to Develop a Green Stormwater Infrastructure Maintenance Protocol for Tucson, Arizona Andrea K. Gerlak Blue Baldwin, Greg Barron-Gafford, Parker Filer, Neha Gupta, Karen Hanshaw, James Macadam, Season Martin, Grant McCormick, Amy McCoy, Thomas Meixner, Tanya Quist, Bo Yang, Adrianna Zuniga-Teran
Facilitating Community Workshops to Identify Priorities for an Equitable Climate Action and Adaptation Plan for the City of Tucson Katharine Jacobs Neha Gupta, Fatima Luna, Amelia Marsh
Impacts of Successive Wildfires on the Ecologic, Hydrologic and Geomorphic Resiliency of the Sky Islands Luke McGuire Don Falk, Craig Rasmussen, Ann Youberg
Proof of Concept: Using DNA Barcodes to Identify Arizona's Insects of Importance to Agriculture, Natural Areas, and Human Health Wendy Moore Peter Ellsworth (APMC), Martha Hunter, John Palumbo, Bruce Tabashnik, Jason Botz, M. Kathryn Busby
Planting a Resilient Food Future Gary Nabhan Erin Riordan, Parker Filer
Assessing Resilience of Arizona Grassland to Changes in the North American Monsoon:  Fewer, Larger Rainfall Events with Longer-Duration Drought Intervals Yang Song Joel Beiderman (SW Watershed Research Center), William Smith

 

Salary and Startup

FACULTY DEPARTMENT
Andrea Achilli CHEE
Alicja Babst-Kostecka SWES
Albert Barberan SWES
Bryan Black LTRR
Paul Carini SWES
Laura Lotter Condon HAS
Riley Duran AZ Space
Thomas Evans SGD
Bo Guo HAS
Jia Hu SNRE
Jin Hongyue SIE
Vasiliki Karanikola CHEE
Adam Printz CHEE
Kaustubh Thirumalai GEOS
Jesse Woodson PLANT

 


 

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  • UArizona has been ranked No. 1 in the U.S. and No. 2 globally in the area of water resources in the 2020 Academic Ranking of World Universities by academic subjects
  • 159 graduate students, 140 undergraduate students, and 35 post-docs enabled through assistantships, wages, scholarships, grants and research experiences
  • TRIF funds supported three startups: Auxilium Technology Group, SaiOx, Inc. and Throohealth.

GRANT DEPARTMENT
NSF Critical Zone Observatory Proposal:  Support for Workshop and Proposal Development HAS
Internet of Things Based Pipeline Structural Health Monitoring SIE
Preliminary Subsurface Investigations of the Bouse Formation, Western AZ: A unique paleoenvironmental archive of Colorado River history and opportunity for Native American STEM training GEOS
High Efficiency IR Emitter Thin Films for Integrated Spectroscopic Sensing MSE
Viromic analysis of reverse osmosis concentrates treated through ozone-biofiltration for safe reuse in irrigation: A novel approach for zero liquid discharge SWES

GRANT DEPARTMENT
New Horizons in Chemical and Electronic Surface Analysis CBC
Acquire Sontek IQ Plus Flowmeter CAEM
Fluorescence Spectrophotometer for ALEC ENVS
Ellipsometer Instrumentation to Develop Energy Efficient Water Purification Membranes and Other Thin Film Materials and Devices CHEE
Ensuring Water, Food Safety, and Public Health Using the Compact Illumina iSeq100 System ENVS
Advanced Tensiometer System for Characterizing the Environmental Fate of Emerging Contaminants and Surfactant-Enhanced Remediation Processes ENVS
Passive Solar Dryer to Repurpose Food Waste ENTO
Acquisition of a Thermogravimetric Analyzer for High Throughput Materials Characterization CBC
CEREUS: Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental Research & Education with Unoccupied Systems BIO5

FACULTY DEPARTMENT
Andrea Achilli

CHEE, COE

Albert Barberan SWES
Bryan Black LTRR
Paul Carini SWES
Laura Condon HAS
Thomas Evans SGD
Bo Guo HAS
John Holt LPL
Jia Hu SNRE
Jin Hongyue SIE
Vasiliki Karanikola CHEE
Kaustubh Thirumalai GEOS
Adam Printz CHEE
Jesse Woodson PLANT

 


 

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FY19

  • $39.7 M in new grants, gifts and other sources to the UA from WEES investments in faculty and research.
  • 182 graduate students, 123 undergraduate students, and 55 post-docs enabled through assistantships, wages, scholarships, grants and research experiences.
  • 12 new invention disclosures and 4 licenses and options.
  • Three Accelerate for Success Research Advancement grants were awarded to enhance cloud-based data storage sustainability, performance, energy efficiency and materials reuse; evaluate arid soil microbiome productivity and carbon uptake; and understand wildfire-induced changes to soils and vegetation.

GRANT DEPARTMENT
Sustainable Growth of the Cloud OPTIC, CAPLA, CHEE
Polymer/Ionic Liquid Interfaces for Energy Storage SWES, ALEC
From source to sink: identifying hot spots for debris flow hazards and soil carbon sequestration following wildfire GEOS
The Arid Soil Microbiome: Connecting Functional Health to Phylogenetic Diversity SWES
Detection of waterborne adenoviruses by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry-based magnetic immunoassay with gold nanoparticles labeling SNRE
New Technologies for safe, effective, and informative wildlife surveys MSE

GRANT DEPARTMENT
B2 Coral Reef Biome GEOS
Ambient Air VOC Analyzer HAS, CEP, CHEE
System for simulating air quality levels OPTIC, CEP, BME
Meteorological Network and Paleo Research Infrastructure DL, EEB, LTRR
ESRAC laboratory enhancements CEP
UAS-based Integrated LiDAR-Hyperspectral Infrastructure SNRE, GEOS, PLANT
Environmental Monitoring "Maker Space" CAPLA, SGD, CAPLA
Time-resolved/step-scan FTIR CBC, MSE, CHEE
Lyophilization and Refrigeration Equipment CAPLA, MSE
Total Stations and Global Positioning Stations BARA, ANTHRO
Ultra-High Performance Liquid Chromatography System HAS, CEP, CHEE
Meteorological Network and Paleo Research Infrastructure LTRR, EEB, DL
Ion Chromatography and Solid Phase Extraction CHEE, ALEC, SWES
Drone-mounted LiDAR Sensor YAC, YCEDA
Sterilization Capacity Biosystem PLANT
Fluorescent measurments, global carbon/water IE
WW Chromotography CEP
Isoprime precisION Stable Isotope Mass Spectrometer LTRR, PHYS

FACULTY DEPARTMENT
Paul Carini SWES
Hongyue Jin COE
Albert Barberan SWES
Andrea Achilli CHEE
Jesse Woodson PLANT
Tom Evans SGD
Bo Guo HAS
Adam Printz CHEE
Laura Condon HAS
Bryan Black LTRR
Jia Hu SNRE

 


 

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  • $66M in new grants, gifts and other sources to the UA from WEES investments in faculty and research
  • 175 graduate students, 109 undergraduate students, and 29 post-docs enabled through assistantships, wages, scholarships, grants, and research experiences
  • 16 new invention disclosures, 9 patent applications filed, 1 new patent issued, and 2 licenses and option
  • Nine Research Advancement and 16 Equipment grants, including:
    • Interdisciplinary Link and Industry Engagement awards that advance research on conductive plastics, membrane technology and enhanced organic solar cells.
    • Accelerate for Success awards that explore alternatives to chemical pesticides and fund research on agrivoltaics, mycoculture and soil ecosystem genomics
    • Equipment grants that supported research on global water and carbon cycles, emerging contaminants, environmental monitoring, air quality and more

GRANT DEPARTMENT
Enhanced Performance of Organic Solar Cells: Singlet Fission PHYS
Revisioning landscape evolution: The role of pore-scale microbial life in landscape-scale hydro-bio-geochemical processes. HAS
Advancing mycoculture for enhanced nutritional and nutraceutical resources PLANT
Creating High-Conductivity Plastic Electrodes for Ultralight-Weight Electronics MSE, ECE
Ceramic Membrane and Ozone for Water Reuse: Synergy for Fouling Control and
Organic Contaminant Oxidation
CHEE
Holographic Switch for Data Center OPTIC
Soil ecosystem genomics: novel methods to link microbial genes, communities, and function in the face of soil system complexity SNRE, EEB, B2
Dryland Agrivoltaics: A Novel Ecosystems Approach to the Food-Water-Energy Nexus SGD, AREC, ALEC
Bioprospecting of secondary metabolites from Photorhabdus bacteria and their application in pest management SNRE, ENT

GRANT DEPARTMENT
WW Chromotography CEP
Fluorescent measurments, global carbon/water IE
Sterilization Capacity Biosystem PLANT
B2 Coral Reef Biome GEOS
Drone-mounted LiDAR Sensor YCEDA, YAC
Ion Chromatography and Solid Phase Extraction SWES, ALEC, CHEE
Environmental Monitoring "Maker Space" CAPLA, SGD, CAPLA
Ultra-High Performance Liquid Chromatography System EEB, ANTHRO
Isoprime precisION Stable Isotope Mass Spectrometer PHYS, LTRR
Total Stations and Global Positioning Stations ANTHRO, BARA
Lyophilization and Refrigeration Equipment CAPLA, MSE
Time-resolved/step-scan FTIR CBC, MSE, CHEE
UAS-based Integrated LiDAR-Hyperspectral Instrument SNRE, GEOS, PLANT
ESRAC laboratory enhancements CEP, 
Meteorological Network and Paleo Research Infrastructure DL, EEB, LTRR
System for simulating air quality levels - verified that this does not duplicate Sorooshian's wide-array aerosol generator. OPTIC, CEP, BME
Ambient Air VOC Analyzer.  Completing the analysis using PDEQ’s existing ozone and NOx monitors. HAS, CEP, CHEE

FACULTY DEPARTMENT
Albert Barberan SWES
Paul Carini SWES
Adrian Achilli CHEE
Jesse Woodson

SBS

Jia Hu SNRE
Tom Evans SGD

 


 

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FY17

  • $35M in new grants and gifts to the UA from WEES investments in faculty and research
  • 152 graduate students, 74 undergraduate students, and 16 post-docs enabled through assistantships, wages, scholarships, grants, and research experiences
  • 18 new invention disclosures, 22 patent applications filed, 3 new patent issued, and 4 license and option
  • 12 pilot/seed grants that supported catalytic early-stage research, including:
    • Food-energy-water nexus research to design and scale-up Agrivoltaic ecosystems that integrate solar, water harvesting, and warm season fool and herb crops.
    • Collaborative teams, involving hydrologists, microbiologists, and chemists, to evaluate the fundamental earth processes of geobiological weathering, carbon cycling dynamics, and landscape stability. 
    • Advancements in solar technology by researching and developing bi-facial solar cells to capture and convert sunlight on both front and back surfaces; offering new mounting and application possibilities.
    • Development of superporous electroactive hydrogels, needed for self-cooling building materials that reduce energy consumption and water use in hot, arid environments.

GRANT DEPARTMENT
Desert Agrivoltaics: A Novel Ecosystems Approach to the Food-Water-Energy Nexus SGD, PHYS

Accelerate for Success: Biosphere 2

B2
Influence of Jet Stream Variability on North American Plant Phenology LTRR, SNRE
Building Integrated Hydrogels for Self-Cooling and Closed-Loop Water Processes MSE, CAPLA
Light Management for High Energy Yield Vertically Mounted Bi-Facial ECE, OPTIC

GRANTS DEPARTMENT
Purchase of an Agilent 8900 inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer SWES, B2, CHEE
Augmentation of Advanced Measurement Equipment for Arid Lands Water Management YCE, CE, SWES
Enhancing the Biosphere2 Ground-based Remote Sensing System B2, HAS, CHEE
Quantitative Materials Imaging and Characterization by Cathodoluminescence Spectroscopy GEOS, MGE
Constraining Carbon Cycling at the Landscape Evolution Observatory using a Novel Tracer for Plant and Microbial Activity SNRE, B2, EEB
Acquisition of a Dual Tube Furnace for Growth of 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides CBC
Water Treatment Equipment for the Biosphere 2 Ocean: Revitalizing the "Desert Sea" Research Platform GEOS, B2

FACULTY DEPARTMENT
Albert Barberan SWES
Paul Carini SWES
Xiquan Dong HAS
Luke Mcguire GEOS
Joshua Levine COMP
William Smith SNRE
Lynn Carter PLANET
Christopher Harig GEOS

 


 

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  • $44M in new grants and gifts to the UA from WEES investments in faculty and research
  • 212 graduate students, 104 undergraduate students, and 23 post-docs enabled through assistantships, wages, scholarships, grants, and research experiences
  • 19 new invention disclosures, 19 patent applications filed, 1 new patent issued, 1 new startup company, 3 licenses and options
  • 76 hosted workshops, conferences, and other events

GRANT DEPARTMENTS
The Economic Consequences of Uncertainty about Environmental Policy ECON
Optimization of Storage System and Demand Response for Renewable Energy Integration SIE
Enhanced Algae Growth Though Solar Spectral Management OPTIC, CBC, CHEE
Enhanced Power Conversion Efficiency in Heterojunctions of Low-Bandgap Polymers for Organic Photovoltaics PHYS
Electrically Conductive Sulfur Copolymers for High Energy Density Li-S Batteries CBC
Organic Thermoelectrics: Breaking the Barrier for Conversion of Heat to Electricity MSE, CBC
Intelligent Building Envelope Technology Framework for (SWAMP) Solar, Water, and Metabolic Processes CAPLA, MSE, INFO
Efficient CO2 utilization for increased biomass productivity CHEE
Consortium for Adaptive Algae Products PLANT, CHEE
In Situ water treatment nitroaromatic pollutants CHEE, SWES
High Efficiency inland water desalination AME
Framework for More Effective and Efficient Global Sensitivity Analysis HWRS
Determining the role of hydraulic redistribution regimes in the critical zone - an experimental and modeling synthesis SGD, B2
Coupled Hydrological and Geochemical Process Evolution at the Landscape Evolution Observatory HWRS, B2
Concept Proposal to General Services Administration to Assess Impact of Green Building Design on Human Health and Wellbeing - a Study at the GSA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. CIM
IRAP: Integrating Climate Information and Decision Processes for Regional Climate Resilience IE
Desert Southwest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit

GRANTS DEPARTMENTS
Pika Benchtop Hyperspectral Imaging System SWES
DTC-300 Thermal Conductivity Meter CEEM
Portable Surface Energy Balance System SNRE
Urban Agriculture Vertical Farming System for CAE ABE
Digital PCRTM SWES, ACBS
Coupled above- and below-ground instrumentation arrays SGD
No Description "AZ Resch Labs - Interdisciplinary" SWES
Eddy covariance system for quantifying Pistachio water us SNRE
HydroSphere sensor for WQ monitoring device CEP
ProDSS meter, cable and sensors for HydroSphere CEP
Pipettes for PCR Droplet SWES
Disk storage HAS

FACULTY DEPARTMENTS
Adam Henry SGPP
Kevin Anchukaitus SGD
Jessica Tierny GEOS
Michael Bogan SNRE
Thomas Galarneau HAS
Monica Ramirez SWES
Laura Bakkensen SGPP
Ben Champion SUST

 


 

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