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February 2026 Grants and Contracts

We are pleased to share the success of 91´«Ã½³§'s principal investigators who were awarded grants and contracts during February 2026:

Monthly Awards at a Glance
20 Awards Received: Valued at $3,802,775.

Note: Some industry-sponsored awards are not listed due to their respective non-disclosure terms. The sort below is by College, then department, followed by PI.

College of Science

Cargill, Shelley, College of Science, Dean's Office
MESA College Prep Program AY 2025-2026
Sponsor: University of California, Office of the President — $272,000.

Carroll, Dustin, Moss Landing Marine Lab
Amendment 2: Application for a renewal of the ARC-CREST Cooperative Agreement
Sponsor: Bay Area Environmental Research Institute — $30,000.

Carroll, Dustin, Moss Landing Marine Lab
Amendment 1: Quantifying Arctic Marine Ecosystem Tipping Points
Sponsor: Jet Propulsion Laboratory — $43,901.

Carroll, Dustin, Moss Landing Marine Lab
Building a Model for Regenerative Kelp Cultivation in Coastal Oceans
Sponsor: Jet Propulsion Laboratory — $90,000.

Carroll, Dustin, Moss Landing Marine Lab
Integrating EXPORTS, PACE, and ECCO-Darwin: Constraining ecosystem complexity and its effect on the global-ocean biological pump
Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space Administration — $57,550.

Connolly, Thomas, Moss Landing Marine Lab
Amendment 1: Synchro: Co-Design Lab for Synchronizing Technology Evolution for Industry, Ocean Science and Conservation
Sponsor: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute — $18,281.

Hamilton, Scott, Moss Landing Marine Lab
Amendment 2: Evaluating the performance of California’s MPA network through the lens of sandy beach and surf zone ecosystems
Sponsor: UC, Santa Barbara — $80,156.

Heim, Wesley, Moss Landing Marine Lab
Amendment no. 2 for PI Wes Heim 23-1509-6950
Sponsor: Central Coast Water Quality Preserve — $331,558.

Huitzilopochtli, Salvador, Mathematics and Statistics
Constructing Arguments Together: Redefining Participation in Mathematical Argument
Sponsor: National Academy of Education — $113,118.

O'Connor, Kevin, Moss Landing Marine Lab
Moss Landing Power Plant Tidewater Goby Mitigation Monitoring Program
Sponsor: Vistra Corp — $40,990.

Romanowsky, Aaron, Physics & Astronomy
A Comprehensive Study of Dwarf Galaxies in the Era of Euclid
Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space Administration — $13,673.

Smith, Sarah, Moss Landing Marine Lab
Quantifying Arctic Marine Ecosystem Tipping Points
Sponsor: Jet Propulsion Laboratory — $40,071.

Tshukudu, Ethel, Computer Science
Advancing Interdisciplinary STEM Education Through Computer Science Curriculum Advisement and Mentorship
Sponsor: Planet Bee Foundation — $11,400.

Wilkinson, Katherine, Biological Sciences
Support for Research Excellence (SuRE) Award (R16 Clinical Trial NotAllowed)
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health — $146,500.

Zhang, Yan, Fryer, Dashiell, Mathematics and Statistics
Explorations in Programmable Cryptography
Sponsor: 0xPARC — $93,366.

College of Social Sciences

Carr, Valerie, Psychology
Future Vertical Lift: Collaborative Research on Flight Control, Autonomous Rotorcraft, and Human-Systems Interface Design: Phase 2
Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space Administration — $82,643., $656,636.

Deyo, Darwyyn, Economics
Regulatory Frontiers Research Project
Sponsor: Center for the Study of Occupational Regulation — $33,766.

Mulvaney, Dustin, Environmental Studies
Environmental Justice Impacts Across the Life Cycle of Lithium
Sponsor: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona — $55,071.

Schuster, David, Psychology
Collaborative Human Factors Research to Improve the Safety, Efficiency, and Reliability of NASA’s Aeronautics and Space Missions: Phase 2
Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space Administration — $1,592,095.