FY2003 Awards for the Defense Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR) PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR INSTITUTION William D. Armstrong University of Wyoming DEPARTMENT STATE PROPOSAL TITLE SPONSOR WY Active Flutter Suppression Using Cooperative, High Frequency, Dynamic-Resonant Aero-Effectors Programmed Cell Death in Bacillus Anthracis AFOSR ARO MT Quantifying Erosion and Sedimentation in Extreme Environments: refining and applying the cosmogenic method for Army-relevant l Semiconductor Spin-Selective Persistence in Spectroscopic Optical Mem. Exploring Non-Thermal Radiofrequency Bioeffects for Novel Military Applications Compression of Large Data Sets with Geometry WV Intelligent Agents for Reliable Operation of Electric Warship Power Systems ONR WV Electromagnetic Control of High Heat-Flux Spray Impingement Boiling under Microgravity Conditions Identification of Genes and Proteins that Regulate Stress Resistance Enhancing Coordination and Collaboration in Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) Crews In Situ Infrared Studies of Catalytic Partial Oxidation at Millisecond Contact Times Towards Fieldable Rapid Bioagent Detection: Advanced Resonant Optical Waveguide and Biolayer Structures for Integrated Biosens Adaptation and Learning at All Levels in Intelligent Robots Teams for Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Battlefield Assessment New Materials and Structures for Spin-Transport Electronic Applications Intelligent Control for Future Deployable Autonomous Distributed Sensor Systems AFOSR Kenneth W. Bayles University of Idaho Paul R. Bierman University of Vermont Department of Mechanical Engineering Department of Microbiology, Molecular Biology Department of Geology Alan Craig Montana State University Department of Physics Gale L. Craviso ID VT University of Nevada, Department of Reno Pharmacology/School Ronald A. DeVore University of South Department of Mathematics, Carolina IMI Ali Feliachi University of West Virginia Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Donald D. Gray University of West Virginia Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Lawrence G. Harshman University of NebraskaSchool of Biological Sciences Lincoln Verlin B. Hinsz North Dakota State College of Science & University Mathematics Keith L. Hohn Kansas State University Department of Chemical Engineering Lawrence A. Hornak University of West Virginia Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Dean Hougen University of Oklahoma Department of Computer Science NV Yves U. Idzerda Montana State University Department of Physics MT Thomas C. Jannett University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Electrical and Computer AL SC NE ND KS WV OK ARO AFOSR AFOSR ONR ARO AFOSR ARO ONR ARO ONR ONR FY2003 Awards for the Defense Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR) PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR INSTITUTION DEPARTMENT STATE PROPOSAL TITLE SPONSOR Peter A. Jumars University of Maine School of Marine Sciences ME ONR Oklahoma State University School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Christopher C. Landry University of Vermont Department of Chemistry OK Christopher M. Lawson University of Alabama & Birmingham Randolph V. Lewis University of Wyoming Department of Physics AL Department of Molecular Biology Department of Meteorology WY Ranga Komanduri VT Tim Li University of Hawaii at Manoa Jingyu Lin Kansas State University Department of Physics KS Vis Madhavan Wichita State University KS Ramkumar N. Parthasarathy Mauricio Pereira da Cunha Anthony P. Reynolds University of Oklahoma Department of Industrial and Manufacturing School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department of Electrical and Computer Department of Mechanical Engineering Department of Mathematical Sciences Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Maine HI OK ME Lisa G. Stanley University of South Carolina Montana State University Karan S. Surana University of Kansas Terry M. Tritt Clemson University Department of Physics and Astronomy SC Richard A. Wirtz University of Nevada, Reno University of Wyoming Department of Mechanical Engineering Department of Chemistry NV Jeffrey L. Yarger SC MT KS WY Vertical and Horizontal Migrations Affect Local and Integrated Water-Column Scattering Strengths Multiscale Modeling and Simulation of Material Processing Detection and Decontamination of Chemical Warfare Agents Using Porous Inorganic Supports Theoretical and Experimental Studies of Excited State Absorbers for Optical Power Limiting Designing Spider Silk Genes for Materials Applications AFOSR ARO ARO AFOSR Toward the Development of Tropical Cyclone Ensemble ONR Forecast and Cyclogenesis Modeling and Forecast for the DoD's Joint Typhoon III-Nitride Micro-photonics and Electronics Materials MDA and Devices Research Machining as a High Strain Rate Test ARO Drag Reduction Using Surface-Attached Polymer Chains in Nanotubes Characterization of the LGX Family of Crystals for Military Electronic Systems Applications Understanding the Dynamic Fracture Response of Heterogeneous Materials for Defense Applications Sensitivity Analysis for the Optimal Design and Control of Advanced Guidance Systems k-Version of Finite Element Method: A New Mathematical and Computational Framework for BVP and IVP Investigation of the Thermoelectric Properties of Novel Materials for Potential Thermoelectric Power Generation Applications Structurally Efficient Anisotropic Organized Reticulated Structures for Cooling Sensors and Electronics Structural and Mechanical Behavior of Nanocomposites and Amorphous Materials ONR ARO ONR AFOSR AFOSR ONR MDA ARO