Educational Modules to Broaden Academic Research Cultures (EMBARC)

Educational Modules to Broaden Academic Research Cultures (EMBARC) innovatively leverages Cultural Mismatch Theory to create high-impact mentoring activities and educational modules powerfully linked to eliminating educational disparities and driving transformation at the individual and institutional level toward inclusion, recruitment, and retention of URM community college (CC) students to the biobehavioral research career field...

Developing Case Studies for Undergraduates: Valorization of Fruit and Vegetable By products for New Product Development

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) estimated that one-third of the edible food produced for human consumption is wasted each year, equating to almost 1.3 billion metric tons. In developing and industrialized countries, food losses and waste cost $310 billion and roughly $680 billion each year, respectively. Fruit and vegetable processing industries...

Strengthening Equitable Culturally Responsive Environments" (SECURE) for Student Success": Using a Servingness Model to Support Hispanic and Underrepresented Students

"Strengthening Equitable Culturally Responsive Environments? (SECURE) for Student Success?: Using a Servingness Model to Support Hispanic and Underrepresented Students? is designed to expand the number of Hispanic and underrepresented (URM) students in Art, Health Sciences, Engineering, Computer Science and the STEM disciplines and...

Improving the Safety of Operations in the Offshore Energy Industry by Reducing its Systemic Risk

Offshore drilling is a substantial source of the world?s oil supply. According to the International Energy Agency, about 30% of the world?s oil production comes from offshore projects, and the global fossil fuel industry will continue to rely on offshore resources and deepwater drilling. In addition to the growing deepwater (and ultra-deepwater) drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and possibly the Atlantic...

Sinop Kale Excavations

The Sinop Regional Archaeological Project (SRAP), led by Prof. Dr. Owen Doonan of California State University Northridge, has been establishing a new standard for regionally- organized archaeological research in the Black Sea region of Turkey over the past 15 years. We plan to partner with the T.C. Ministry of Culture and Tourism and with local governmental, cultural and business organizations to conduct a ten-year program of excavations at Sinop kale. We have two main go...

Understanding production and attraction on artificial reefs to improve the science of mitigation

THIS IS DRAFT TEXT TAKEN FROM AN LOI When artificial reefs are implemented for mitigation, ideally they are monitored and assessed to see if they achieve mitigation targets, such as a certain amount of fish biomass or production. It is well documented that artificial reefs attract fish, however, it is less clear how much they boost production of fish biomass (i.e., is there a net increase in fish p...

Effectiveness of an autonomous vehicle using solar energy for a custom battery

The process of designing and testing a custom lithium battery pack with supplemental solar charging is examined. The design process includes: meeting power consumption requirements, determining the appropriate assembly and wiring method, incorporating a Battery Management System (BMS), Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis, experimental testing, determining the appropriate Battery Thermal Management System (BTMS)...

Tank Bottom Corrosion Control Monitoring for Materials Technology & Energy Section

SRNL has an ongoing a project funded by Pipeline Research Council International, Inc. The project involves understanding role of various monitoring methods in integrity management of Aboveground Storage Tank (AST). ASTs are widely used in the oil and gas transmission industry for storing crude oil and related products. The tanks are constructed using A36 grade carbon steel, and tank foundation are made of sand pads...

SFVSP From Phenomena to Model (Ph2M)

The California State University Northridge Science Learning Collaboratory (CSLC), the team managing the California Science Project?s San Fernando Valley Science Project (SFVSP), proposes ?From Phenomenon to Model? (Ph2M), a project designed to support secondary school science teachers on the integration of computer science principles into the science curriculum. We will partner with Los Angeles Unified School District Local District North (LAUSD North) to bri...