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Dr.
Luise Hermanutz, Biology, was awarded $13,500 for her study of
population dynamics of balsam fir in TNNP and adjacent managed
forest (District 2); Canadian Heritage - Parks Canada.
The following is a list of some members of the university community who have received research contracts. The Office of Research has supplied information about the contract recipient, funding source, contract value, and the research topic. This list is not meant to reflect all of the research going on at Memorial now, but rather who received funding for the months of May, June, July and August, 2000.
BASS,
Donald,
Engineering; Anti-roll tank for MFV Atlantic Prize; TriNav Consultants
Inc.; $3,806.
BASS, Donald, Engineering; Anti-roll tank for MFV Carl
Venture; George Petten; $3,806.
BASS, Donald, Engineering; Anti-roll tank for MFV SeaFaring
Legend; Alan Starkes; $3,806.
BARRETT, Brendan and HARNETT, John, Medicine; Prograf
(tacrolimus) as secondary intervention vs. continuation of cyclosporine
in patients at risk for chronic renal allograft failure; Fujisawa
Canada Inc.; $72,000.
BECKETT, George and WALSH, Greg, Library — HSC; Oral
history project in support of the founder’s archive; Canadian
Council of Archives; $5,494.28.
BROWN, Joseph, Ocean Sciences Centre; Rearing and maintenance
of juvenile fish; Fisheries and Oceans Canada; $4,800.
BURSEY, Ford and FARDY, John, Medicine; Clinical trial
research: HIC Nos. 00.14 and 00.15; Canadian Business; $9,400.
FITZPATRICK, Janet; OLIVER, Ellen; COOPER, Bruce; RYAN, Michelle,
Social Work; Enhancing therapeutic services to individuals and
families in child, youth and family services: monitoring best
practices outcomes; Health and Community Services; $94,500.
GREEN, John, Biology; Habitat assessment of a potential
marine protected area using underwater video camera; Fisheries
and Oceans Canada; $1,250.
GREEN, John, Biology; Research on cod in Gilbert Bay,
Labrador; Fisheries and Oceans Canada; $2,000.
HAEDRICH, Richard, Biology; Environment and social change
in the North Atlantic arc (NAArc); National Science Foundation
(through the University of New Hampshire); $26,460.
HERMANUTZ, Luise, Biology; Population dynamics of balsam
fir in TNNP and adjacent managed forest (District 2); Canadian
Heritage - Parks Canada; $13,500.
JACOBS, John and BANFIELD, Colin, Geography; Climate/Snowbed
research project; Canadian Heritage — Parks Canada; $5,000.
JACOBS, John, Geography; Research and monitoring for change
in the big pond drainage basin, Terra Nova National Park (Phase
I); Canadian Heritage — Parks Canada; $5,000.
JORDAAN, Ian, Engineering; Beam bending and fracture behaviour
of iceberg ice; National Research Council; $22,000.
JORDAAN, Ian, Engineering; Compressive behaviour of highly
confined polycrystalline ice; National Research Council; $22,000.
KOVACS, Christopher and JOYCE, Carol, Medicine; Clinical
trial research: HIC No. 00.17; Canadian Business; $175,968.
MACCALLUM, Calvin and ROSE, Barry, Medicine; Clinical
study agreement; Proctor and Gamble Pharmaceuticals Canada Inc.
through Kendle Canada Inc.; $84,825.
MONTEVECCHI, William, Psychology; Seabird and marine mammal
surveys on Husky Oil supply vessels; Husky Oil; $7,000.
MONTEVECCHI,
William,
Psychology; Songbird data analysis project; Forest Resources
and Agrifoods; $18,500.
MONTEVECCHI, William, Psychology; Squirrel predation on
birds; Canadian Heritage — Parks Canada; $5,000.
MONTEVECCHI, William, Psychology; The feeding ecology
of red squirrels in different boreal forest habitats and their
interactions with songbirds; Canadian Heritage — Parks Canada;
$10,000.
MURRIN, Faye, Biology; Diversity of ectomycorrhizal basidiomycetes
in balsam fir sites in TNNP and adjacent managed forest (District
2); Canadian Heritage — Parks Canada; $5,000.
PARRISH, Christopher, Ocean Sciences Centre; Determination
of lipid class composition of fiddler crabs; Lockheed Martin
Technology Services Group; $8,360.
PATEL, Thakor, Biology; Biodegradation of PCBs; Public
Works and Government Services Canada; $21,500.
PRYSE-PHILLIPS, William, Medicine; Clinical trial research:
HIC No. 99.89; Foreign Business; $10,576.
RENOUF, Priscilla and BELL, Trevor, Anthropology/Geography;
Archaeological Research — Port au Choix; Canadian Heritage
— Parks Canada; $25,006.50.
RIGGS, Bert, Centre for Newfoundland Studies; Arrangement
and description of archival fonds; Canadian Council of Archives;
$4,605.03.
RIGGS, Bert, Centre for Newfoundland Studies; Conservation
treatment of the George DesBarats papers; Canadian Council of
Archives; $3,542.84.
ROSE, Barry and MACCALLUM, Calvin, Medicine; OAT Study;
National Institutes of Health (through St. Luke’s-Roosevelt
Institute for Health Sciences); $26,640.
RUTHERFORD, Michael, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College —
Environmental Science; Carbon and nitrogen dynamics in disturbed
boreal forest soils; Natural Resources Canada — Canadian
Forest Service; $6,000.
SUSSEX, Bruce, Medicine; Clinical trial research: HIC
No. 00.51; Foreign Business; $68,150.
SUSSEX, Bruce, Medicine; EFC3307: Clopidogrel in unstable
angina to prevent recurrent ischemic events; Sanofi-Synthelabo
Canada Inc.; $160,000.
TUCK, James and MATHIAS, Cathy, Anthropology; Corrosion
analysis of seventeenth-century soils with specific reference
to micro-biological impact; Atomic Energy of Canada Limited;
$5,000.
TUCK, James and MATHIAS, Cathy, Anthropology; Conserving
seventeenth-century material culture for Ferryland, Newfoundland;
Canadian Heritage through Canadian Museums Association; $9,660.
VEITCH, Brian, Engineering; Wave accelerated erosion;
National Research Council; $22,000.
WILLIAMS, Mary, Engineering; Iceberg evolution model —
field observation; National Research Council; $22,000.
WOLINETZ, Steven, Political Science; Youth International Internships; Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT); increase $75,000; Revised value: $225,000.