TRIF-WEES Funding History
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 AIRES 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) |
| 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) |
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 AIRES 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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- $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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- $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 |
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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 |