FACULTY OF SCIENCE
Name & Department	Title	Supporting Agency	Amount Awarded
Dean's Office
Law, A., Piper, T. & Smith, F.	Pilot in-service by the faculties of science and education	HRDA CAN HRDA NF (contract)	$1 583 678
Smith, F. & Smith, J.	Needs assessment of primary and elementary science teachers	HRDA CAN HRDA NF (contract)	15 079 6 462
	Science resource books for primary/elementary teachers	HRDA CAN HRDA NF (contract)	5 170 1 723
Biochemistry
Banoub, J.	Structural elucidation and synthesis of complex glycoconjugates	NSERC	12 000
Brosnan, J.	Liver zonation and amino acid metabolism	CDN LIVER (studentship)	3 680
	Amino acid metabolism	MRC	121 227
Brosnan, J. & Brosnan, M.	Hepatic amino acid metabolism in diabetes	CDN DIABETES	63 500
Brosnan, M.	Metabolism and function of amino acids and polyamines	MRC	76 584
Chandra, R.	See Faculty of Medicine
Davidson, W.	Evolutionary relationships of sea ducks	HRDC (STDNT EMP)	1 389
	Evolution of mitochondrial DNA in fish	NSERC	34 500
	Gene mapping of the genus Salmo	NSERC F & O (partnership)	7 500 7 500
	See also Carr, S. (Department of Biology)
Davis, P.	Job Bridges Program - J. Evans	NF E & LR	3 925
Davis, P. & Keough, K.	Cholesterol-phospholipid interactions in cholesterol rich lamellar bodies from atherosclerotic lesions	HSFC	40 000
Davis, P., Nakhla, A. & Keough, K.	Seal oil products	CCFI (contract)	36 018
Friel, J.	Assessment of levels of heavy metals in salmonid species	F & O (PWGSC contract)	15 000
	Assessment of levels of heavy metals and other elements in tissues of marine biota using ICP-MS	F & O (PWGSC contract)	12 600
	Assessment of a new formula for premature infants	ROSS LAB (in-kind)	16 000
	Meeting the iron requirements of very low birthweight infants	MRC	56 712
Ghazala, S.	Pet food - male capelin	CAFID CAN CAFID NF (contract) DORSET FISH (contract)	22 396 9 598 3 600
	Evaluation of cat food digestibility	HRDC (STDNT EMP)	1 389
	Establishing pasteurized rock crab meat processing in Atlantic Canada	CCFI (contract)	16 263
	Job Bridges Program - S. Trenholm	NF E & LR	7 385
	Establishing optimum quality and safety of selected minimally-processed foods	NSERC	16 000
Heeley, D.	Examination of the properties of slow muscle forms of whole troponin and troponin-T	MRC	47 150
Hoover, R.	The influence of lipids, sugars, arabinoxylan, hydrocolloids and salt on the rheology and retrogradation properties of starches (novel, non-conventional, modified) and their isolated components	NSERC	14 579
Idler, D.	See Ocean Sciences Centre
Keough, K.	Molecular organization and function in lung surfactant	MRC	91 978
Martin, A.	Formation and biodegradation characteristics of biofilms in peat biofilters	NSERC	20 000
Mookerjea, S.	Control of glycoprotein metabolism: physiological regulation of soluble and membrane-bound glycosyltransferases	MRC	74 180
Mulligan, M.	Transcription, transport and RNA-binding proteins in cyanobacteria	NSERC	25 550
Patel, T.	See Department of Biology
Rahimtula, A.	Stress proteins in aquatic organisms exposed to pollutants	F & O (PWGSC contract)	30 898
	Analysis of samples from winter flounder	LGL LTD (contract)	11 715
Robinson, J.	Matrix metalloproteinases of the sea urchin embryo	HRDC (STDNT EMP)	1 358
	Regulation of cell surface-extracellular matrix interactions by proteases	NSERC	17 000
Roebothan, B., Swanson, E. & Donovan, C.	Nutrition Newfoundland and Labrador	COMMUNITY HEALTH	38 724
Shahidi, F.	Extraction of tissue samples	F & O (contract)	7 920
	Meat processing: lipid-derived flavor deterioration of muscle foods and its prevention	NSERC	25 610
	To conduct a literature search on seal products and properties	CCFI (contract)	2 990
	Isolation of an aromatic compound(s) from shrimp	F & O (PWGSC contract)	10 000
	Research collaboration planning on functional foods/neutraceuticals with emphasis on antioxidants; visit to scientific institutions in Japan	NSERC (travel)	2 036
	See also Brown, J. (Ocean Sciences Centre)
Shahidi, F. & Bal, A.	Evaluation of beach pea (lathyrus maritimus) for food and feed utilization	NSERC (strategic)	34 000
Biology
Bal, A.	Cell biology of symbiotic nitrogen fixation	NSERC	19 300
	See also Shahidi, F. (Department of Biochemistry)
Brown, J.	See Ocean Sciences Centre
Burton, D.	Teleost integumentary physiology, with particular reference to chromatophore regulation	NSERC	15 000
Burton, M.	The relationship between nutrition and reproduction in fish	NSERC	12 000
Carr, S.	Molecular population biology of new world deer (odocoileinae)	NSERC	13 322
	Cod genetics and physiology	SIID CAN SIID NF (contract)	7 000 3 000
Carr, S. & Davidson, W.	Feasibility of combined nuclear and cytoplasmic molecular genetic analysis of northern shrimp populations	CCFI (contract)	38 906
Colbo, M., Scott, P. & Threlfall, W.	Evaluation of enhancement techniques for wetlands management on the Swift Current barrens	NF NR (contract)	15 000
Cowan, G.	Riparian buffer zone study - Copper Lake, year 2	NF NR (contract)	5 000
	Effects of forest harvesting practices (use of varying buffer widths) on the use of riparian zones by wildlife	NF NR (contract)	12 000
Crim, L.	See Ocean Sciences Centre
Deibel, D.	See Ocean Sciences Centre
Dickinson, A.	See CCIFTD
Dunbrack, R.	Studies of fish behavioral ecology and life history evolution	NSERC	11 100
Egger, K.	Armillaria virulence, genetic probes and phylogeny	NR CAN-FOR (contract)	25 000
	Effects of burning on the rates and composition of mycorrhizal infection of roots of planted black spruce seedlings	NR CAN-FOR (PWGSC contract)	13 000
	Molecular analysis of mycorrhizal ascomycetes	NSERC	20 537
Fletcher, G.	See Ocean Sciences Centre
Gordon, R.	Entomopathogenic nematodes and juvenile hormone analogs for insect control	NSERC	20 500
	Nematode pathogens of pest insects	HRDC (STDNT EMP)	646
	Bacterial associates in entomopathogenic nematodes	HRDC (STDNT EMP)	1 427
Gow, J.	Systematics and physiology of cold-ocean bacteria	NSERC	10 000
Green, J.	Model forest buffer zone research project	F & O (contract)	11 000
	Biology and behavior of northern marine fishes	NSERC	13 800
	See also Younghusband, B (Faculty of Medicine)
Haedrich, R.	To conduct a trout creel survey	CASEC CAN CASEC NF (contract)	6 983 2 992
	Assessment and management for quality trout angling in Indian Bay watershed	CAPE FREELS - IBEDC (contract)	15 000
	Development of a trout planning model	CASEC CAN CASEC NF (contract)	7 875 3 375
Haedrich, R.	Towards an oceanic biogeography	NSERC	44 724
	National youth internship program, S. White	NEIA (studentship)	3 634
Innes, D.	Sex allocation variation in daphnia publex	HRDC (STDNT EMP)	1 359
	Evolutionary genetics of reproduction	NSERC	21 480
Jones, I.	See Ocean Sciences Centre
Khan, R.A.	Analysis of gill and spleen samples	LGL LTD (contract)	15 620
	To analyze approximately 70 gill and spleen samples	LGL LTD (contract)	3 850
	Pathology in fish from Humber Arm	F & O (PWGSC contract)	30 980
	Effects of contaminants including crude oil on pearl dace inhabiting a Goose Bay pond	DND (contract)	5 000
	Parasitic protozoa of marine fish	NSERC	26 000
Knoechel, R.	Plankton ecology and energy flow in aquatic ecosystems	NSERC	14 274
Larson, D.	Infrance of predation of water beetles based on cuticular damage	HRDC (STDNT EMP)	1 544
	The soil arthropod community of some forest types in Newfoundland and use of forest ecological classification as a predictor of forest arthropod communities	NR CAN-FOR (contract)	10 000
	Systematics and ecology of Dytiscidae (insecta: Coleoptera)	NSERC	15 225
Miller, E.	Seal feeding and energies	HRDC (STDNT EMP)	1 389
Miller, T. & Stenson, G.	Harp seal feeding and its impact on northwest Atlantic cod	CCFI (contract)	99 250
Montevecchi, W.	See Department of Psychology
Murrin, F.	The cytoskeleton of entomopathogenic fungi	NSERC	16 922
	Biocontrol of insects using fungi; electron microscopy of fungal development	HRDC (STDNT EMP)	1 389
Patel, T.	A carotenoid yeast for pigmenting farmed fish - chemistry profile of yeast extract	CCFI (contract)	11 475
	Isolation of bacteria that biodegrades aromatic heterocycles	F & O (PWGSC contract)	10 000
	Analysis of petroleum contaminated sediment for microbes	F & O (PWGSC contract)	10 115
Rivkin, R.	See Ocean Sciences Centre
Schneider, D.	See Ocean Sciences Centre
Sheath, R.	Stream macroalgal biogeography, ecology and systematics	NSERC	11 881
Thompson, R.	See Ocean Sciences Centre
Whittick, A.	Reproductive strategies in some members of the phaeophyceae	NSERC	11 100
Wroblewski, J.	See Ocean Sciences Centre
Centre for Earth Resources Research (CERR)
Lines, L.	Industrial research chair in applied seismology	PETROCAN NSERC (chair)	70 000 60 000
	Memorial University seismic imaging consortium (MUSIC)	NSERC HUSKY CDN HUNTER PANCANADIAN (partnership - IOR) HAMPSON-RUSSELL (in-kind)	27 000 9 000 9 000 9 000 111 000
Lines, L.	Memorial University seismic imaging consortium (MUSIC)	SHELL CAN MERCURY INT'L TECH (in-kind) CONOCO CAN AMOCO (in-kind)	9 000 28 000 9 415 13 000
	Industrial postgraduate scholarship - I. Kelly	NSERC HMDC (scholarship)	12 500 10 000
Wilton, D.	Further development of a new technology for mineral exploration and environmental monitoring	SIID CAN SIID NF (contract)	5 306 2 274
	Compilation and digitalization of a metallogenic map of the Labrador Central Mineral Belt	HRDC (STDNT EMP)	1 389
	The nature and formation of nickel sulphide mineralization in anorthosite massifs, Labrador	CASTLE ROCK	25 000
	See also Department of Earth Sciences and LINS
Wright, J.	Extension of technical assistance and training to the Department of Geological Survey, Botswana	CIDA (contract)	187 920
	Seismic structure of sedimentary packages in western Newfoundland	VINLAND PETRO	15 000
	See also Department of Earth Sciences
Chemistry
Bodwell, G.	Synthesis of novel hydrocarbons	HRDC (STDNT EMP)	1 389
	Novel organic systems: synthesis, structure, methodology and applications	NSERC	27 729
Bodwell, G.	Tethered (2.2) metacyclophane-1, 9-dienes as reversible photochromic materials	NSERC XEROX (partnership - CRD)	28 000 14 000
Brooker, M.	Spectroscopic studies of electrolytes	NSERC	21 500
Burnell, D.	Synthetic and mechanistic organic chemistry	NSERC	54 056
Georghiou, P.	Syntheses of new calixnaphthalene derivatives for anti-HIV and other biological activity	HRDC (STDNT EMP)	2 015
Gregory, B.	Dihydropyridine cation-radical chemistry	HRDC (STDNT EMP)	1 081
Helleur, R.	Analysis of aromatic hydrocarbons in marine sediment	HRDC (STDNT EMP)	1 389
	Instrumental advances in pyrolysis-gas chromatography	NSERC	16 000
Jablonski, C.	Diastereoselective transition metal mediated heteroatom chemistry	NSERC	27 839
Longerich, H.	See Department of Earth Sciences
Lucas, C.	Complexes of macrocyclic sulfur-donor ligands	NSERC	16 810
Machin, W.	Adsorption in porous materials and the properties of capillary fluids	NSERC	20 500
Parrish, C.	See Ocean Sciences Centre
Pickup, P.	Characterization of conducting polymers	HRDC (STDNT EMP)	1 389
	Catalysed proton/electron conducting materials for high performance fuel cell electrodes	NSERC (strategic)	48 150
	Electrochemistry of electronically conducting polymers and metallopolymers	NSERC	32 000
Dr. Peter Pickup adjusts the equipment used to test small squares of carbon fibre paper. His research will enhance the efficiency of proton exchange membrane fuel cells.
Poirier, R.	Developments and applications of quantum mechanical calculations of large molecules	NSERC	14 314
Schriver, M.	BIS (nitrileoxides)	HRDC (STDNT EMP)	1 389
	BIS (phosphaalkynes): generation and preparation	FMC CORP (contract)	24 695
	Pnictogen and chalcogen PI systems: generation, isolation and utilisation	NSERC	23 000
Shahidi, F.	See Department of Biochemistry
Thompson, L.	Coordination complexes of diaminomaleonitrile based ligands	HRDC (STDNT EMP)	1 389
	Coordination complexes with extended magnetic properties	NSERC	38 352
Tremaine, P.	Heat capacities and volumes of M3+(AG) ions	IAPWS	12 880
	Standard partial molar heat capacities and volumes of chelating agents	OLI SYSTEMS INC OLI SYSTEMS INC (in-kind)	13 250 5 000
	Aqueous solutes under hydrothermal conditions	NSERC	22 000
Tremaine, P.	Anion/metal-oxide interactions under steam generator conditions	NSERC ON HYDRO (partnership - IOR)	25 000 25 000
Computer Science
Bartha, M.	An algebraic approach to the study of synchronous systems and solution automata	NSERC	20 000
Brown, E.	Multimedia teaching strategies	HRDA CAN HRDA NF (contract) HRDC (STDNT EMP)	17 427 7 469 741
Day, W.	Consensus methods for molecular sequences	NSERC	8 000
Fiech, A.	Interaction between ML's type inference algorithm and imperative features	NSERC	11 400
Gillard, P.	Equipment loan	CMC (in-kind)	7 215
Lu, S.	Computer vision system for neural networks for natural scene analysis	NSERC	15 000
Miminis, G.	Numerically efficient algorithms in linear and nonlinear dynamic systems in control theory	NSERC	22 000
Ramaswamy, G.	Improving the performance of multithreaded architectures	NSERC	15 462
Shieh, J.	The map understanding and object recognition systems for mobile robots	NSERC	13 000
Tang, J.	Supporting efficient and reliable data sharing for contemporary database applications	NSERC	12 000
Vidyasankar, K.	Wait-free construction of shared variables and transaction processing in distributed heterogeneous database systems	NSERC	17 000
Wang, C.	Computational geometry and its applications to robotics and pattern recognitions	NSERC	10 000
Yuan, X.	Image rendering with high-speed ray-tracing	HRDC (STDNT EMP)	2 871
	Towards the application of expert visual systems in industrial automation	NSERC	13 000
Zuberek, W.	Hierarchical timed petri net models - implementation and applications	NSERC	15 000
Earth Sciences
Abrajano, T.	Source apportionment of PAHS in atmospheric samples from the lower Great Lakes	NSERC ENVIR-AES (partnership)	5 500 5 500
	Biogeochemical and environmental applications of compound-specific isotope analysis	NSERC	22 300
Aksu, A.	Oxygen and carbon isotope analysis of foraminifera from cores in the Atlantic Ocean west of Newfoundland	F & O (PWGSC contract)	13 968
	Stable isotopic analyses in very long cores collected from the Canadian continental margin (administered through the University of New Brunswick)	NSERC (partnership - CSP)	8 000
	Quaternary marine geological studies	NSERC NSERC (ship time)	30 000 60 000
(L-R) Dr. Ali Aksu, Earth Sciences, and third-year earth sciences students Lucy Perry and Brian Dalton examine a seismological image. A marine field school launched by the Department of Earth Sciences gives students a first-hand look at how such data is collected at sea.
Burden, E. & Williams, H.	Winterhouse formation in western Newfoundland - graduate thesis research project of H. Gillespie	PANCANADIAN	10 500
Dunning, G.	University research fellowship	NSERC (fellowship)	10 420
	U/Pb geochronology to constrain events in orogenic belts	NSERC	38 600
Dunning, G., Jenner, G. & Wilson, M.	Atlantic universities radiogenic isotope facility and U/Pb geochronology laboratory	NSERC (infrastructure)	25 000
Gale, J.	Single and two phase flow in fractures as a function of roughness and stress	NSERC	23 875
	Job bridges program - K. Pardy-Power	NF E & LR	2 077
Haedrich, R.	See Department of Biology
Hall, J.	Lithoprobe eastern Canadian shield onshore-offshore transect coordination (with Dr. R. Wardle, Geological Survey Branch, Provincial Department of Natural Resources)	NSERC (lithoprobe)	20 000
Hall, J.	Exploration of the earth's crust by seismological imaging	NSERC	42 000
Harper, J.	Attendance at shortcourse: Arid coastline depositional environments	NF ED (career)	7 410
Harper, J., Dunning, G. & Mason, R.	Study of the geochemical geochronological and petrologic aspects of subsurface Libya	MEDITERRANEAN	7 500
Hay, A.	See Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography
Helleur, R.	See Department of Chemistry
Hiscott, R.	Sediment and pyroclastic gravity-flows and their deposits	NSERC	25 000
Hodych, J.	Request for a magnetic susceptibility anisotropy meter	NSERC (equipment)	8 600
	Mechanisms of remanence acquisition and retention and the reliability of the paleomagnetic record	NSERC	22 000
Horn, I.	Laser ablation microprobe inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry - postdoctoral fellowship	FOREIGN AFF (fellowship)	7 200
Hurich, C.	Origin and interpretation of deep seismic reflections	NSERC	19 000
Indares, A.	Metamorphic evolution of high-pressure metagabbros from the sobrado antiform, Iberian massif	NATO	6 455