Research Projects
Recent and Current Research Projects that are using the shared facilities associated with the Environmental Chemistry Laboratory and support facilities managed by David Murray and his staff:
Reuse in Rhode Island: A State-Based Approach to Complex Exposures, NIH, P42 ES013660-01 (PI’s: K. Boekelheide, A. Zhitkovich, E. Suuburg, A. Kane, M. Hixon, J. Calo, D. Murray, S. Sharma, R. Hurt, and P. Brown; Users: students, post-docs, and researchers)
Modeling Tools to Predict Hypoxia/Anoxia in Upper Narragansett Bay, NOAA/URI, URI-020606/0000848 (PI’s W. Prell and D. Murray; Users: D. Murray and students)
NIRT: Micropatterned Nanotopography Chips for Probing the Cellular Basis of Biocompatibility and Toxicity, NSF, CMMI-0506661 (PI’s: R. Hurt, A. Cane, P. Brown, G. Crawford, J. Morgan; Users: Graduate Students)
Surface modification of magnetic dumbbell nanoparticles for highly sensitive tumor cell detection, Brown/Salomon Award (PI: Shouheng Sun, Users: C. Xu, Z. Xu, Y. Hou, J. Xie)
Dumbbell Nanocomposites: Controlled Chemical Synthesis and Catalytic Applications, NSF, DMR-0606264 (PI: Shouheng Sun, Users: C. Xu, Z. Xu, Y. Hou, J. Xie)
Collaborative Research into the Indo-Asian Monsoon Variability: Data and Model Assessment of Northern- and Southern-Hemisphere mechanisms, NSF, OCE-0352215 (PI’s: S. Clemens and W. Prell; User: S. Clemens and student workers)
Understanding Eutrophication and Hypoxia in Narragansett Bay: An Initiative to Strengthen Brown’ Estuarine Research Efforts, Brown/Dean of Research Seed Funds (PI: W. Prell; User: C. Rincon)
A Polar Signal Dominating the Tropical Oceans, 1.2-1.8 Ma?, NSF, OCE-0351599 (PI: T. Herbert; User: K. Lawrence)
SGER: The Deuterium-Hydrogen Ratio in Alkenones as a Proxy for the Paleo-hydrological Cycle, NSF, OCE-0545525 (PI;s: T. Herbert, Y. Huang; User: Z. Liu)
Collaborative Research: Decadal to Orbital Links Between Climate, Productivity, and Denitrification on the Peru Margin: Do Models of Persistent El Nino or La Nina conditions Apply?, NSF OCE-0318081 (PI’s T. Herbert, M. Altabet; Users: J. Tierney, M. Higginson, R. Agnihotri)
Abrupt Climate Change during Marine Isotope Stage 3 in Southern Tropical Africa: Multiproxy reconstructions from Lake Tanganyika, NSF, EAR (PI: J. Russell; Users: J. Russell, J. Tierney, and student workers)
High-frequency Climate Changes and Environmental Dynamics in the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda-Congo, Brown/Salomon Award (PI: J. Russell; Users: J. Russell and student workers)
Laminated West Greenland Lake Sediments as Unique Climatic and Biogeochemical Archives, NSF, ARC-0520718 (PI: Y. Huang; User: W. D’Andrea)
Centennial-Scale Climate Variability in New England During the Holocene: New Insights from Compound-Specific Hydrogen Isotope Analysis, NSF, ATM-0318050 (PI: Y. Huang; User: J. Hou)
Collaborative Research: Multiproxy Archives of Late Holocene Climate Variability from Ombrotrophic Peatlands in Eastern North America, NSF, ATM-0402383 (PI: Y. Huang, User: J. Nichols)
Landscape Dynamics and Land-Use Land-Cover Change in the Great Basin-Mojave Desert Region, NASA, NAG5-11145 (PI’s: J. Mustard and S. Hamburg, User: B. Bradley)
Integrating Bacterial Diversity into Environmental Change Research, NSF-Career, MCB-0347324 (PI: J. Hughes; Users: H. Reed, J. Lennon)
Disaster, Resilience and the Built Environment on the Gulf Coast. NSF (PI’s: S. Hamburg, J. Mustard; Users: Students and technicians)
Biotic Control of Calcium Supply: Distinguishing Sources to Regrowing Forests, NSF/Syracuse, DEB- 0235650 (PI: S. Hamburg; Users: M. Vadeboncoeur, M. Skeldon)
Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest (HBR-LTER), NSF/Cornell, DEB- 0423259 (PI: S. Hamburg; Users: M. Vadeboncoeur and students)
Plant diversity effects on nutrient and carbon cycling, START (global change System for Analysis, Research, and Training) Fellowship. Visiting Young Scientist Program at Brown University (L. Vivanco)
Human Impacts in New England Salt Marshes: Past, Present, Future, EPA Fellowship (K. Bromberg)
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (J. Tienery)
Brown University Grant (R. Jacob/J. Hermance; User: R. Jacob)