Research opens new pathways to interpret and understand our world. Coastal Carolina University nurtures a richly textured environment of creativity and discovery for our faculty, staff and students.
CURRENTLY FUNDED FEDERAL GRANT AWARDS:
|
Researcher |
Sponsor |
Project Title |
Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Zhixiong Shen |
Tulane University-National Science Foundation |
Continuous vs. Episodic Fluviodeltaic Sedimentation: Implications for Carbon Sequestration and Coastal Restoration |
$61,983 |
|
Paul Gayes |
SC Sea Grant Consortium |
Atlantic Offshore Wind Energy Development: Geo Mapping and Identification of Paleolandscapes and Historic Shipwrecks Offshore SC |
$316,237 |
|
Angela Dembiczak |
SC Humanities Council |
South Carolina History Day |
$10,000 |
|
Robert Young |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
The South Carolina Marine Mammal Stranding Network: Restoring Stranding Response Capacity |
$77,737 |
|
Paul Gayes |
Synoptic |
National Mesonet Program |
$266,666 |
|
Roi Gurka |
Binational Science Foundation (US-Irael) |
Male Moth Preference in Relation to Female Quality and Cost of Flight |
$66,158 |
|
Jenna Hill |
National Science Foundation |
Age Constraints on Subtropical Iceberg Scour Events |
$79,404 |
|
Charles Sessions |
South Carolina Attorney General |
Law Enforcement Victims' Advocate |
$73,242 |
|
Till Hanebuth Joshua Long |
Department of the Interior thru SC Department of Natural Resources |
South Carolina BOEM Core Description and Integration Project |
$9,841 |
|
Erin Hackett |
Office of Naval Research |
Inversely Determining Atmospheric Refractivity Structure Using Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Models and Measurements |
$263,847 |
|
Eric Crawford |
National Park Service |
Preservation of the Sandy Island School |
$104,798 |
|
Pamela Martin |
National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NOAA) |
From NECAP to GCAP: Transferring Climate Adaptation Knowledge and Tools from New England to Georgetown, SC |
$21,127 |
|
Louis Rubbo |
College of Charleston (NASA) |
Assessing & Improving the Support for SC FIRST LEGO League Coaches |
$8,000 |
|
Craig Gilman |
College of Charleston |
Space Grant Campus Director |
$3,500 |
|
Sharon Richter |
SC Department of Education |
Project CREATE |
$119,199 |
|
Michelle Barthet |
South Carolina IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence |
Protein-protein Interactions of a Chloroplast Maturase and the Link to Nuclear Spliceosome Evolution |
$9,957 |
|
Michael Pierce |
South Carolina IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence |
SC IDeA Network for Biomedical Research Excellence |
$137,432 |
|
Bryan Wakefield |
South Carolina IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence |
Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Phidianidine Analogues |
$71,968 |
|
Douglas Van Hoewyk |
National Science Foundation |
Reprogramming Cellular Processes in Proteasome-inhibited Plants |
$184,601 |
|
Richard Peterson |
National Science Foundation |
Validation of a New Geochemical Approach to Constraining Deep Sea Porewater Residence Times and Advection Rates: Applications to Biogeochemical Cycling at Guaymas Basin |
$82,579 |
|
Lisa Swanger |
National Marine Sanctuary Foundation (NOAA) |
Grand Strand Cigarette Litter Reduction Project |
$5,500 |
|
Ryan Yoder |
National Institutes of Health |
Otolith-dependent Brain Functions in Mice |
$110,701 |
|
Sathish Kumar |
National Science Foundation |
Computing and Geoscience in the Coastal Region |
$324,783 |
|
Rob Young |
NOAA (Prescott Stranding Grant) |
SC Marine Mammal Stranding Network: Stranding Response & Enhanced Diagnostic Testing |
$96,650 |
|
Varavut Limpasuvan |
National Science Foundation |
Acquisition of a Computing Cluster for Atmospheric and Geophysical Research |
$108,524 |
|
William Jones |
Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Los Alamos National Security Lab Agreement for Research |
$127,602 |
|
Carissa Medeiros |
FEMA |
Hazard Mitigation Grant Program- Outdoor Warning/Mass Notification System |
$559,667 |
|
Varavut Limpasuvan |
National Science Foundation |
Traveling Planetary-Scale Waves during Major Stratospheric Sudden Warming |
$354,895 |
|
Vladislav Gulis |
National Science Foundation |
Headwater Stream Networks in a Warming World: Predicting Heterotrophic Ecosystem Function Using Theory, Multi-scale Temperature Manipulations and Modeling |
$311,780 |
|
Shaowu Bao Paul Gayes Len Pietrafesa |
National Science Foundation |
RAPID: Sensing and Modeling Infrastructure for Storm Surge Monitoring and Forecasting in Coastal Zones |
$99,395 |
|
Carissa Medeiros |
FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant Program |
CCU Emergency Facility Signage and Education Campaign |
$235,327 |
|
Richard Peterson |
National Science Foundation |
Impact of the Amazon River Plume on Nitrogen Availability and Planktonic Food Web Dynamics in the Western Tropical North Atlantic |
$189,860 |
|
Zhixiong Shen |
National Science Foundation |
P2C2: Extreme Floods on the Lower Mississipi River |
$49,704 |
|
Zhixiong Shen |
National Science Foundation |
Interactions between Incipient Continental Rifting, Fluvial Systems, and Regional Climate in Southern Africa: The Okavango-Makgadikgadi Complex, Botswana |
$93,625 |
|
Paul Gayes |
US Geological Survey |
Cooperative and Collocated Science between the Coastal Carolina University and the United States Geological Survey |
$6,540 |
CURRENTLY FUNDED STATE GRANT AWARDS:
|
Researcher |
Sponsor |
Project Title |
Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Prashant Sansgiry |
SC Department of Education |
2018 AP Summer Institute for Teachers |
$12,317 |
|
Till Hanebuth |
SC Department of Natural Resources |
Geophysical Survey of the Santee Point Quadrangle, Georgetown County, SC |
$40,000 |
|
Till Hanebuth |
SC Department of Natural Resources |
Georgetown Deep Project |
$20,000 |
CURRENTLY FUNDED LOCAL GRANT AWARDS:
|
Researcher |
Sponsor |
Project Title |
Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Daniel Ennis |
Horry County Higher Education Commission |
Center for Anthropology and Archaeology |
$30,000 |
|
Eldred Prince |
Horry County Higher Education Commission |
Waccamaw Center for Cultural & Historical Studies |
$16,000 |
|
Gary Loftus |
Horry County Higher Education Commission |
Center for Economic & Community Development |
$16,000 |
|
Paul Gayes |
Horry County Higher Education Commission |
Burroughs & Chapin Center for Marine & Wetland Studies |
$32,000 |
|
Susan Libes |
Surfside Beach, Conway, Georgetown County & Horry County |
Waccamaw Watershed Academy Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Program |
$157,584 |
|
Susan Libes |
Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach, Horry County & Georgetown County |
Environmental Quality Lab Water Quality Monitoring |
$79,501 |
|
Susan Libes |
City of Conway, Georgetown County and Horry County |
Environmental Quality Laboratory USGS Waccamaw River Gaging Station Monitoring |
$87,866 |
|
Lisa Swanger |
Myrtle Beach, Conway, North Myrtle Beach, Briarcliffe Acres, Horry County, Surfside Beach, Atlantic Beach & Georgetown County |
Coastal Waccamaw Stormwater Education Consortium |
$57,200 |
|
John Burroughs |
Horry County Higher Education Commission |
Horry County Archives Center |
$80,000 |
|
Jeanne Cobb |
Horry County Higher Education Commission |
Horry County Literacy Center |
$105,000 |
|
James Wiggins |
Horry County Higher Education Commission |
Center for Education and Community |
$22,000 |
|
James Wiggins |
Horry County Higher Education Commission |
Mentoring & Civic Engagement |
$62,000 |
|
Erin Burge |
City of Conway & Horry County |
Crabtree Canal- Microbial Source Tracking Study |
$20,437 |
|
Richard Peterson |
Horry County |
Water Level and Salinity Variability Drivers in Singleton Swash, Horry County, South Carolina |
$51,634 |
|
Keith Walters |
North Myrtle Beach |
Oyster Mitigation Monitoring Plan for Cherry Grove Canal Dredging Project |
$76,428 |
|
Susan Libes |
City of Myrtle Beach |
4th Avenue North Ocean Outfall Assessment |
$370,378 |
|
Susan Libes |
Horry County |
Long Bay Hypoxia Monitoring Consortium: Apache Pier |
$402,718 |
|
Susan Libes |
North Myrtle Beach |
Long Bay Hypoxia Monitoring Consortium: Cherry Grove Pier |
$449,115 |
CURRENTLY FUNDED FOUNDATION/PRIVATE GRANT AWARDS:
|
Researcher |
Sponsor |
Project Title |
Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Michael Ruse |
Wal-Mart Foundation |
University Honors Student Senior Projects and Travel Mini Grants |
$7,500 |
|
Douglas Van Hoewyk |
Toomey Foundation for the Natural Sciences |
Toomey Foundation Funding Travel to Turkey for Research |
$5,500 |
|
Angela Dembiczak |
Carolina Panthers Charities |
South Carolina History Day |
$5,000 |
|
Michael Cruise |
Wal-Mart Foundation |
LiveWell@CCU: A Campus Community Wellness Initiative |
$10,500 |
|
Susan Libes |
Winyah Rivers Foundation |
CCU-Winyah Rivers Foundation Joint Position Contract 2017-2018 |
$16,300 |
|
Juliana Harding |
Frances P. Bunnelle Foundation |
Student STEM Skill Development Using Oyster Reefs |
$7,256 |
|
Cathryn Wheaton |
Savannah Presbytery M. K. Pentecost Ecology Fund |
The use of Geophysical, Geological, and Geochemical Methods to Investigate the Formation of Marine Hardbottoms off the Grand Strand, South Carolina |
$1,000 |
|
Kimberly Hale Drew Kurlowski |
Institute for Humane Studies at George Masn University |
The Scottish Enlightenment (Reading Group & Public Lecture-Fall Semester 2018) |
$4,800 |
|
Amanda Brian |
Reacting Consortium - Barnard College |
Game Play for Student Engagement |
$7,500 |
|
James Luken |
Ecovest Capital |
Establishment of Venus Fly Trap Populations on Ecovest Lands in Horry County, SC |
$5,850 |
|
Robert Young |
The Institute for Greatly Endangered Rare Species - Rare Species Fund |
CCU Dolphin Research Program |
$26,091 |
|
Pamela Martin |
Frances P. Bunnelle Foundation |
UN Youth Corps Summer Experience |
$33,210 |
|
Mike Cruise |
Walmart Foundation |
LiveWell@CCU: A Campus Community Wellness Initiative |
$2,000 |
|
Kathryn Greiner-Ferris |
Savannah Presbytery M.K. Pentecost Ecology Fund |
Population Structure of Common Bottlenose Dolphins in SC Estuarine System Stocks |
$2,000 |
|
Reece Aponte |
Savannah Presbytery M.K. Pentecost Ecology Fund |
Use of a Multibeam Echosounder to Observe Subsurface Foraging Behaviors |
$2,000 |
|
Richard Peterson |
Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (Gulf of Mexico Alliance) |
Radium Isotope Release from Oil Degradation: Development of an “Oil Clock” |
$671,806 |
CURRENTLY FUNDED INTERNAL GRANT AWARDS:
|
Researcher |
Sponsor |
Project Title |
Amount |
|
Anne Ho |
CCU Professional Enhancement Grants |
Coastal Carolina University Math Teachers' Circle |
$5,850 |
|
Jeffrey Jones |
CCU Professional Enhancement Grants |
Recording Project for: Songs of Travel - Vaughan Williams & Fowler |
$1,451 |
|
Bomi Kang |
CCU Professional Enhancement Grants |
CAP and NetMiner trainings for Revenue Management Class |
$6,000 |
|
Cheng-Yuan Lee |
CCU Professional Enhancement Grants |
eLearnReady 2.0: Faculty Readiness Assessment for Online Teaching |
$3,420 |
|
Jason Ockert |
CCU Professional Enhancement Grants |
Completion of Short Stories for Publication |
$3,999 |
|
Leslie Wallace |
CCU Professional Enhancement Grants |
Representations of Raptors and Falconry in Early and Medieval China |
$4,098 |
|
Ronald Green |
CCU Professional Enhancement Grants |
Japan travel for "Key Issues in Asian Studies" booklet |
$6,000 |
|
Sarah Arnold |
CCU Professional Enhancement Grants |
Proposal to Attend a Children's Literature Workshop at Shenandoah University and Complete a Teaching-Related Project |
$1,986 |
|
Philip Whalen |
CCU Professional Enhancement Grants |
French Vineyard Geography, Burgundian Terroir, and Cultural Heritage |
$2,536 |
|
Daniel Abel |
CCU Professional Enhancement Grants |
Apex Predators of South Africa: A Request for Funds to Conduct Research, Observe Wildlife, Meet with Colleagues, and Gather Additional Resources for Two Proposed Books |
$4,873 |
|
James Arendt |
CCU Professional Enhancement Grants |
Social Practice: Art & Direct Engagement for Social Change |
$4,558 |
|
George Boneillo |
CCU Professional Enhancement Grants |
Curriculum Development of Two Marine Science courses: Sea Turtle Biology & Marine Plankton |
$5,903 |
|
Drew Budner |
CCU Professional Enhancement Grants |
Development of Prussian Blue Modified Glucose Oxidase Impregnated Xerogel Glucose Biosensor |
$6,000 |
|
Andrew Busch |
CCU Professional Enhancement Grants |
Reconsidering Neoliberalism: Entrepreneurial Government, Globalization, and the Rise of the Business Right, 1960-2000 |
$3,415 |
|
Megan Cevasco John Hutchens |
CCU Professional Enhancement Grants |
Investigating the Genetic Structure of South Carolina Venus Flytrap Populations Using a RADseq approach |
$4,047 |
|
Subhajit Chakraborty Cara Scheuer |
CCU Professional Enhancement Grants |
Framework for Institutional Differences in Patient Care Quality |
$6,000 |
|
Diane Fribance |
CCU Professional Enhancement Grants |
Increasing Interactivity in Physical Oceanography |
$2,390 |
|
John Goodwin |
CCU Professional Enhancement Grants |
Study of the Reactions of Peroxynitro Cobalt Compounds as They Oxidize Sulfur-Containing Molecules: Preparing to Extend Our Research with Model Compounds to the Biochemistry of Vitamin B12 |
$3,000 |
|
George Hitt Scott Carr |
CCU Professional Enhancement Grants |
A Schlieren Imaging System for Optical Visualization of Gas Flows |
$4,500 |
|
Suzanne Horn Kristal Curry |
CCU Professional Enhancement Grants |
Creating Productive Socratic Seminars |
$1,672 |
|
Andrew Incognito |
CCU Professional Enhancement Grants |
Interactive Online Textbook for Math 161 (Calculus II) |
$6,000 |
|
Jakob Lauver |
CCU Professional Enhancement Grants |
Physiological and Perceptional Responses to Interval Endurance Exercise during Various Exercise Intensities and Durations of Blood Flow Restriction |
$5,417 |
|
Richard Matthews |
CCU Professional Enhancement Grants |
Take Two Computer Networking Courses |
$2,665 |
|
Kevin McWilliams |
CCU Professional Enhancement Grants |
3D Printing of Molecular Models as Teaching Aids in the Chemistry Curriculum |
$3,500 |
|
Matthew Murphy |
CCU Professional Enhancement Grants |
Comparative Animal Cognition Research in Leopard Geckos and Pigeons |
$6,000 |
|
Scott Parker |
CCU Professional Enhancement Grants |
Immunohistochemical Detection of Tissue Hypoxia in Leopard Geckos Embryos |
$6,000 |
|
Jeffrey Ranta |
CCU Professional Enhancement Grants |
Teal Nation Communications: Curriculum Development and Teaching Support of a Student-run Strategic Communications Agency- An Integrative Learning Opportunity |
$4,000 |
|
Jeff Rich |
CCU Professional Enhancement Grants |
The Watershed Project: The Mississippi River |
$4,521 |
|
Bryan Wakefield |
CCU Professional Enhancement Grants |
Synthesis of Phidianidine Analogues for Biological Evaluation |
$6,000 |
|
Fang Ju Lin |
CCU Professional Enhancement Grants |
Molecular Characterization of Genes Promoting Survival: Effect of Exercise on Alzheimer's Disease in the Fruit Fly Drosophila Model |
$6,000 |
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