2001/02 NSERC RESEARCH GRANT RESULTS

Name

DEPT

Application Title

CMTEE

Instal.

Awarded $$

Certificates

(Yr. _of the

(for 2001/02)

Required

total grant)

Nelson, DE

ARCH

Archaeometric research

21

4/4

49088

 

Beckenbach, AT

BISC

Molecular evolution and the molecular phylogenetics of animals

18

2/4

35000

 

Bendell-Young, LI

BISC

Coupling seston geochemistry with feeding behaviour to predict metal accumulaion in marine bivalves

18

1/4

30000

AEI

Borden, JH

BISC

Chemical ecology of forest insects

18

1/3

50000

AEI

Brandhorst, BP

BISC

Cellular interactions and differentiation in embryos

33

1/2

58000

ANI AEI

Breden, F

BISC

Testing theories of natural and sexual selection using a molecular phylogeny of the trinidad guppy and closely related species

18

4/4

25410

 

Burr, AHJ

BISC

Biomechanical properties and function of nematode hydrostatic skeleton

30

2/2

13969

 

Cooke, F

BISC

Demography and population structure of birds

18

2/4

90000

 

Crespi, BJ

BISC

Phylogenetic and behavioural-ecological analysis of insect reproductive strategies

18

3/5

59840

 

Delaney, KR

BISC

Presynaptic calcium and transmitter release

32

2/4

40500

 

Dill, LM

BISC

Habitat selection: population and community consequences of animal behavioural decisions

18

1/4

66000

ANI AEI

Druehl, LD

BISC

Kelp evolution

18

2/4

21000

 

Elle, E

BISC

Evolutionary ecology of plant mating systems

18

1/4

25000

AEI

Farrell, AP

BISC

Comparative cardiovascular physiology

31

1/4

83000

ANI

Gries, GJ

BISC

Mechanisms of insect communication: new research opportunities

18

1/4

32000

AEI

Haunerland, NH

BISC

Lipid transport proteins in animals

31

2/4

42800

 

Kennedy, CJ

BISC

Energetic costs of detoxification in fish

31

2/4

27400

 

Kermode, AR

BISC

Programmed cell death in the megagametophyte of white spruce (picea glauca) seeds following germination

3

3/4

31500

 

Lank, DB

BISC

Sexual selection: male-mate cooperation and benefits of females' choices

18

1/2

21000

ANI AEI

Mathewes, RW

BISC

Late-quaternary vegetation dynamics and paleoclimate in coastal British Columbia

9

4/4

39270

 

McKeown, BA

BISC

Fish growth hormone physiology

31

4/4

32340

 

Mooers, AO

BISC

Creation and maintenance of biological diversity

18

1/4

45495

 

Moore, MM

BISC

Mechanisms of adhesion and invasion of human lung cells by pathogenic aspergilli

32

4/4

28875

 

Nicholson, RA

BISC

Insecticide and neuromodulator action

30

2/4

34895

 

Novales Flamarique, I

BISC

Visual pathways that mediate ultraviolet and polarization sensitivity in fishes: coding mechanisms and plasticity

30

1/4

35000

ANI

Plant, AL

BISC

Characterization of the molecular responses elicited in roots by osmotic stress

3

3/4

36225

 

Punja, ZK

BISC

Plant-fungal pathogen interactions - roles of specific proteins and dsRNAs in disease development

3

1/4

39000

BIO

Quarmby, LM

BISC

Calcium signalling in chlamydomonas

32

2/4

25000

 

Roitberg, BD

BISC

Behavior-disease interface

18

2/4

65000

 

Verheyen, EM

BISC

Genetic analysis of notch signal transduction

33

4/4

34650

 

Walker, I

BISC

Chironomid palaeoecology and late quaternary climatic change

9

5/7

25410

 

Webster, JM

BISC

Host-parasite relationships of plant parasitic and insect parasitic nematodes

3

4/4

60060

 

Williams, TD

BISC

Intraspecific variability, physiological trade-offs and reproductive effort

18

4/4

40541

 

Winston, ML

BISC

Behavioural and pheromonal factors influencing the organization and evolution of highly social insect colonies

18

2/4

56000

 

Ydenberg, RC

BISC

Predation danger and the evolutionary ecology of migrants and provisioners

18

1/4

51000

ANI AEI

Brydon, MJ

BUS

Solving resource allocation problems using markets and rational agents

20

2/4

13785

 

Choo, EU

BUS

Issues in preference calibration under multiple criteria

20

2/4

11736

 

Gemino, C

BUS

Empirical comparison of requirements engineering techniques

20

1/4

21000

HUM

Love, CE

BUS

Estimation and control of imperfectly repaired systems

20

5/5

18480

 

Wedley, WC

BUS

Validation of AHP ratios

20

2/4

13692

 

Agnes, GR

CHEM

Aerosol chemistry

26

1/2

26000

 

Bennet, AJ

CHEM

Mechanisms and exploitation of glycosyl transfer reactions

24

4/4

49434

 

Clyburne, JAC

CHEM

Synthesis and coordination behaviour of low coordinate main group element containing compounds to arenes possessing electronegative substituents

24

1/2

36000

 

Hill, RH

CHEM

Photochemical preparation of nanostructured materials

24

4/4

55209

 

Holdcroft, S

CHEM

Morphological contorl of electroactive polymers

26

1/4

75000

 

Leach, GW

CHEM

Structure and dynamics at surfaces and interfaces

26

1/4

45000

 

Leznoff, DB

CHEM

Open-shell polynuclear metal complexes

24

1/4

35000

 

Li, PCH

CHEM

Acoustic wave sensor for microfluidic biochip and capillary electrophoresis research

26

1/2

38000

BIO

Pinto, BM

CHEM

The nature and origin of carbohydrate mimicry

24

2/4

91000

 

Plettner, E

CHEM

Cytochrome P450 in synthesis and novel pesticide design

24

3/3

36750

 

Pomeroy, RK

CHEM

Cluster chemistry of osmium

24

2/4

56000

 

Slessor, KN

CHEM

Semiochemical studies

21

5/5

57750

 

Tracey, AS

CHEM

Chemical and biochemical studies of vanadate and vanadio enzymes

32

4/4

28875

 

Weinberg, N

CHEM

Nonequilibrium solvation in high pressure reaction kinetics

26

1/4

20000

 

Wilkie, JJA

CHEM

Theoretical methods for quantum chemical dynamics

26

2/2

30000

 

Williams, VE

CHEM

The design and synthesis of organic materials

24

1/2

30000

 

Wilson, PD

CHEM

Studies in synthetic organic chemistry

24

1/2

36750

 

Wolfe, S

CHEM

Structure-activity and structure-reactivity relationships

24

4/4

57750

 

Ye, ZG

CHEM

Innovative ferroic materials, from crystal chemistry to structure-property relations

24

2/2

51000

 

Atkins, MS

CMPT

Visualisation and image processing in medicine

330

1/4

34000

HUM

Bhattacharya, BK

CMPT

Application of computational geometry in facility location optimization

331

1/4

31000

 

Burton, FW

CMPT

Time and space efficient parallel computing with dynamic task creation and heap memory allocation

7

4/4

30030

 

Cameron, RD

CMPT

The internet electronic library project

7

3/4

12600

 

Dahl, V

CMPT

Natural language processing for knowledge based and internet systems

7

3/5

33600

 

Delgrande, JP

CMPT

Fundamental issues in knowledge representation and common sense reasoning

7

4/4

24255

 

Drew, MS

CMPT

Physics-based colour models in computer vision, graphics and multimedia

7

3/4

22050

 

Fracchia, FD

CMPT

Visualization and modelling of natural phenomena

331

2/4

16000

 

Funt, BV

CMPT

Digital colour vision and imaging

331

2/4

38000

 

Gupta, A

CMPT

Algorithmic and constructivity issues in graph algorithms

7

4/4

32340

 

Hadley, RF

CMPT

Language learning and cognitive architecture with neural networks

331

2/4

32000

 

Han, J

CMPT

Data mining in data warehouses, advanced database systems, and word-wide web

7

3/4

38850

 

Havens, WS

CMPT

Resolving hard constraint satisfaction problems

331

1/4

28000

 

Hell, PT

CMPT

Complexity of combinatorial problems

7

4/5

61215

 

Hobson, RF

CMPT

Microelectronic systems design for ATM user-network interfaces

334

4/4

15039

 

Inkpen, KM

CMPT

Single display groupware: supporting face-to-face and remote collaboration

330

2/4

22000

 

Kameda, T

CMPT

Distributed systems, practical algorithm design

7

4/4

45045

 

Krishnamurti, R

CMPT

Approximation algorithms for combinatorial optimization

331

1/4

18480

 

Li, ZN

CMPT

Object-based video processing and retrieval

331

1/4

24000

 

Liestman, AL

CMPT

Network communications and network topologies

7

4/4

36960

 

Luk, W

CMPT

Capturing multidimensional data from a 2-dimensional table for OLAP applications

7

4/4

13860

 

Mitchell, DG

CMPT

Proof complexity and constraint satisfaction

331

1/4

21000

 

Moeller, T

CMPT

Volume Rendering of irregular grids

331

2/4

13000

 

Peters, JG

CMPT

Modelling and analysis of communication networks

331

2/4

18000

 

Popowich, FP

CMPT

Efficient use of resources of natural language processing applications

7

4/4

17325

 

Shermer, TC

CMPT

Visibility and continuous-domain facility location

7

3/4

24150

 

Ternovskaia, EA

CMPT

Computational aspects of reasoning about dynamic systems

331

1/4

23000

 

Wang, K

CMPT

A system approach to data mining

330

2/4

25000

 

Yang, Q

CMPT

An investigation into information guided planning agents

7

3/4

37800

 

Allen, DM

EARTH

Fluid flow and solute transport in shallow-subsurface fault zones

9

2/3

17000

 

Calvert, A

EARTH

Lithology prediction from seismic reflection data

8

3/4

35700

 

Clague, J

EARTH

Late holocene environmental and climate change southern coast mountains British Columbia

9

1/4

30560

AEI

Godin, L

EARTH

Structural evolution of Himalayan crystalline domes and their role during continental orogenesis

8

1/4

35000

AEI

MacEachern, JA

EARTH

Integrated Ichnological-Sedimentological Clastic Facies Models in a Sequence Stratigraphic Framework

8

2/2

19300

 

Marshall, D

EARTH

Pressure, temperature, time and fluid compositional constraints for ore deposition at Sudbury, Cobalt and Separation Rapids, Ontario

8

3/4

23100

 

Moore, JM

EARTH

Was the Nicola group deposited on the ancient margin of North America

8

2/3

11500

 

Mustard, PS

EARTH

Sedimentology, stratigraphy and tectonic significance of selected western cordilllera sedimentary basins

8

2/3

26300

 

Stead, D

EARTH

Kinematics, comminution and energy considerations in surface and underground rock failure

6

1/4

26000

AEI

Thorkelson, DJ

EARTH

Tectonic signifigance of cordilleran magmatism

8

1/4

27500

AEI

Ward, BC

EARTH

Marine cave sedimentation: new method for glacial stratigraphic studies in British Columbia

9

2/4

23600

 

Bird, JS

ENSC

Acoustic imaging with small aperture arrays

335

4/4

31185

 

Cavers, JK

ENSC

Adaptive transceivers and antenna arrays

334

3/4

34650

 

Chapman, GH

ENSC

Breaking the barriers to wafer scale EC's FPGA's and custom computers with laser micromachining

334

4/4

20409

 

Dill, JC

ENSC

Aids to navigating and organizing knowledge spaces

330

2/4

14000

 

Gruver, WA

ENSC

Holonic design and integration of intelligent robotic systems

335

2/4

29000

 

Gupta, KK

ENSC

Robot motion planning: issues for the next generation systems

335

4/4

28875

 

Leung, AM

ENSC

Micromachined pressure sensor based on heat conduction in gases

334

2/2

12648

 

Parameswaran, M

ENSC

Micro-instrumentation systems for health care

21

4/4

36960

 

Payandeh, S

ENSC

Analysis and control of contact discontinuities in application of multiple robotic agents

13

3/4

22050

 

Saif, M

ENSC

Techniques in diagnostic observer design for fault detection and isolation

335

4/4

28875

 

Stapleton, SP

ENSC

Multichannel power amplifiers

335

1/2

23425

 

Syrzycki, MJ

ENSC

Custom VLSI analog and mixed-mode circuit techniques for high performance and low-power applications

334

2/4

23918

 

Trajkovic, L

ENSC

Network traffic: analysis, modeling, and characterization

334

3/4

16800

 

Vaisey, JD

ENSC

Fundamental aspects of signal compression with applications to multimedia signals

334

1/4

24000

 

Brennand, T A

GEOG

Reconstructing past ice sheet dynamics and hydrology from glacial landforms and sediments

9

1/4

29840

AEI

Hickin, EJ

GEOG

Studies of river hydraulics, sediment transport and floodplain sedimentology

9

4/4

24255

 

Lesack, LFW

GEOG

Biogeochemistry of lakes in the Mackenzie Delta

18

4/4

34304

 

Quinton, WL

GEOG

Modelling runoff from peat-covered hillslopes in permafrost environments

9

1/4

24560

AEI

Schmidt, MG

GEOG

Effects of deciduous trees and shrubs on soils and nutrient dynamics in conifer forests

9

1/4

17280

AEI

Bawa, PNS

KINE

Input-output properties of human spinal cord

30

2/4

21285

 

Goodman, D

KINE

The role of muscle dynamics and cognition in bimanual coordination

30

3/4

21000

 

Krieger, C

KINE

Control of repetitive firing of sensory neurons

30

1/4

27500

ANI

MacKenzie, CL

KINE

Manipulation and remote manipulation in humans

30

4/4

25410

 

Marteniuk, RG

KINE

Acquistion and control of human movement coordination

30

4/4

36960

 

Milner, TE

KINE

Adaptive control of limb mechanics

13

1/4

31000

HUM

Rosin, MP

KINE

Involvement of oxyradicals in chromosomal instability and tumour progression

32

4/4

42735

 

Tibbits, GF

KINE

Regulation of contractility in the salmonid heart

31

6/6

38115

 

Weeks, DJ

KINE

Relative organizational mapping in stimulus-response translation

12

4/4

17325

 

Balshaw, RF

MATH

Quasi-likelihood methods for the analysis of multi-state models

14

3/4

8400

 

Borwein, JM

MATH

Topics in applied analysis and computation

336

4/5

41580

 

Borwein, PB

MATH

Small norm problems of Erdos-Littlewood type

336

2/4

33000

 

Brewster, R

MATH

Computational complexity of combinatorial problems

331

2/4

13000

 

Brown, TC

MATH

Ramsey theory

337

1/4

10000

 

Chen, I

MATH

Galois representations and congruence primes

336

2/4

12000

 

Choi, KS

MATH

Some problems in diophantine number theory

336

1/4

14000

 

Choksi, R

MATH

Interaction between nonlinear analysis and materials science

337

4/4

15015

 

Dean, CB

MATH

New methodology for handling overdispersion as arises in recurrent event data and disease mapping

14

3/5

21000

 

Goddyn, LA

MATH

Studies in graph and matroid theory

337

4/4

17325

 

Graham, GAC

MATH

Viscoelastic solid mechanics

337

3/4

6300

 

Graham, J

MATH

Statistical genetics

14

3/3

14700

 

Kropinski, MCA

MATH

Integral equation methods for fluid dynamics

337

4/4

17325

 

Lisonek, P

MATH

Algorithms for generation of discrete structures

337

1/4

10000

 

Lockhart, RA

MATH

Uniform asymptotic approximations in model assessment

14

3/4

21000

 

McNeney, B

MATH

Statistical aspects of epidemiologic study design

14

2/4

14000

 

Monagan, MB

MATH

System design and algorithms for algebraic simplication

331

2/4

23000

 

Muraki, DJ

MATH

Dynamics of the midlatitude atmosphere

337

1/4

18000

 

Promislow, KS

MATH

Modeling and analysis of physical systems

337

2/4

20000

 

Reilly, NR

MATH

Varieties and pseudovarieties

336

5/5

16170

 

Routledge, RD

MATH

Statistical methodology for use in population biology and resource management

14

2/4

23000

 

Russell, RD

MATH

Numerical solutions of differential equations

7

4/4

66990

 

Ruuth, SJ

MATH

Algorithms, analysis and applications of numerical partial differential equations

331

2/4

22000

 

Schwarz, CJ

MATH

Modelling of animal population dynamics

18

4/4

19635

 

Sitter, R

MATH

Analysis of survey data/experimental design in industry

14

2/4

33000

 

Spinelli, JJ

MATH

Goodness-of-fit for discrete distributions and statistical models; biostatistical methods

14

1/4

10000

 

Stephens, MA

MATH

Goodness-of-fit for distributions and statistical models; directional data analysis

14

2/4

16000

 

Swartz, TB

MATH

Integration problems in applied statistics

14

2/4

17000

 

Thomson, BS

MATH

Real function theory

336

4/4

9240

 

Trummer, MR

MATH

Adaptivity in numerical methods

331

2/4

30000

 

Wirch, JL

MATH

Statistical modelling of risk for capital requirements

14

2/4

10000

 

Yu, Q

MATH

The sructure and properties of extremal factor-critical graphs

337

2/4

7000

 

Baillie, DL

MBB

Fundamental characterization of a defined region of the C. elegans genome

33

3/4

83160

 

Borgford, TJ

MBB

Protein engineering a toxin molecule

32

1/2

30000

BIO

Cushley, RJ

MBB

Structure of apolipoprotein a-i by nmr

32

4/4

41580

 

Davidson, WS

MBB

Comparative gene mapping in Salmo

33

3/4

24150

 

Harden, N

MBB

Analysis of the roles of the Rho subfamily of the Ras-related small GTPases in Drosophila development.

33

3/4

25200

 

Honda, BM

MBB

Chromatin structure and gene expression in eukaryotes

33

2/4

47700

 

Kafer, E

MBB

Genetic and molecular analysis of recombination and DNA repair in aspergillus nidulans

33

1/2

28000

 

Leroux, MR

MBB

Structure-function studies on a novel molecular chaperone

32

1/4

25000

BIO AEI

Pio, FF

MBB

Structural studies on a minimal ternary complex involving PU.1, IRF-4, and DNA

33

2/4

28000

 

Price, JV

MBB

Analysis of genetic interactions between the Egfr and Notch signaling pathways in Drosophila

33

4/4

13449

 

Richards, WR

MBB

Structure and function of the PufQ protein

32

3/5

22050

 

Scott, JK

MBB

Coiled-coil peptide scaffolds for the next generation of phage-display libraries

32

3/4

26250

 

Sen, D

MBB

What structural and functional attributes does a ribozyme need

33

4/4

57750

 

Smith, MJ

MBB

Organellar genomics and mitochondrial gene rearrangements in early deuterostomes

33

1/4

52000

ANI BIO

Unrau, PJ

MBB

Ribozyme Chemistry and the RNA world

33

1/4

40000

BIO

Ballentine, LE

PHYS

Quantum chaos and the quantum-classical interface

29

3/4

17850

 

Bechhoefer, JL

PHYS

Equilibrium and nonequilibrium studies of interfaces in soft-condensed matter

28

4/4

46085

 

Boal, DH

PHYS

Mechanical evolution of the cell

28

1/5

35000

 

Bolognesi, CR

PHYS

New heterostructure materials for telecommunications

28

3/4

36750

 

Colbow, K

PHYS

Solid state sensors for hydrogen and other gases and vapors, hydrogen storage

28

4/4

17556

 

Crozier, ED

PHYS

X-ray absorption fine structure (xafs) spectroscopy and structural determinations of ordered and disordered systems

28

4/4

40656

 

Dodge, JS

PHYS

Time-resolved spectroscopy of correlated electron systems

28

1/4

38000

 

Frindt, RF

PHYS

Formation and properties of novel layered systems

28

4/4

34073

 

Frisken, BJ

PHYS

Structure and dynamics of soft condensed matter

28

3/4

29400

 

Hayden, ME

PHYS

Hyperpolarized noble gases: production and applications

28

3/4

36750

 

Heinrich, BV

PHYS

Magnetic and magnetoresistance studies of ultrathin films and nanostructures

28

3/4

73500

 

Herbut, I

PHYS

Quantum phase transitions in disordered systems

28

3/4

22050

 

Huntley, DJ

PHYS

Optical dating

8

1/4

35000

AEI

Irwin, JC

PHYS

Raman scattering studies in high temperature superconductors and related materials

28

3/4

36750

 

Kavanagh, KL

PHYS

Defects and strain in semiconductors heterostructures and magnetic metal multilayers

28

3/3

39375

 

Kirczenow, G

PHYS

Nanoscale Physics

28

2/5

65000

 

Plischke, M

PHYS

Equilibrium and nonequilibrium statistical physics

28

5/5

44699

 

Sonier, JE

PHYS

Magnetic resonance spectroscopy

28

1/4

35000

 

Thewalt, JL

PHYS

Lipid phase behavior: membrane domains & membrane protein structure determination

32

2/4

29000

 

Thewalt, MLW

PHYS

Optical properties and characterization of semiconductors

28

3/4

84000

 

Trottier, HD

PHYS

Perturbation theory for improved actions in lattice QCD

19

2/4

36000

 

Viswanathan, KS

PHYS

Topics in theoretical high energy physics and superstrings

19

3/4

21000

 

Watkins, SP

PHYS

Nanostructures and interfaces in compound semiconductor epitaxy

28

3/4

33600

 

Kimura, D

PSYC

Physical markers of early influence on cognitive pattern

12

1/3

30000

HUM

McDonald, J

PSYC

Neurological foundations of human selective attention and multisensory intregration

12

1/4

20000

HUM

Mistlberger, R

PSYC

Neural mechanisms of non-photic entrainment of circadian rhythms in rodents

12

4/5

32340

 

Watson, NV

PSYC

Regulation of reproductive behaviours and neural sexual dimorphism

12

1/4

30500

HUM ANI

Whittlesea, BWA

PSYC

Memory:production and evaluation in remembering and performance tasks

12

4/5

39270

 

Wright, RD

PSYC

Visual attention, eye movements, and spatial localization

12

4/4

17903

 

Fortin, MJ

REM

Spatial dynamics of boreal forest regeneration at landscape scale

18

2/4

27000

 

Gobas, FAP

REM

Bioavailability of super-hydrophobic organic chemicals: measurement, mechanism and models

9

2/4

35000

 

Pellatt, MG

REM

Paleoecology of Coastal British Columbia: Land/Sea Interactions

9

1/4

12500

AEI

Peterman, RM

REM

Improved models for managing low-abundance Pacific salmon stocks

18

2/4

57000