FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED:

1975-1979

Natural Environmental Research Council Doctorate Fellowship.

1980-1982

Natural Environmental Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship.

1983-1984

Medical Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship.

1983-84

MRC Post Doctoral Research Associate. School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex. United Kingdom.
1980-82 NERC Post Doctoral Research Associate. Department of Pure and Applied Zoology, University of Reading. United Kingdom.
TEACHING AWARDS AND HONORS:

1994-1995

Merryfield Award. Outstanding Faculty Member in College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. CSULB.

1996-1997

Associated Student Outstanding Instructor of the Year CSULB.
STUDENT AWARDS:
  • GULLY, J. (1991). First Place CSU Student Research Competition, CSU Hayward.
  • SUGAR, M. (1991). First Prize ($10,000 award) National High School Science Fair. Awarded by President G. Bush.
  • LAYNE, J. (1994). Best Student Oral Presentation and Paper. 3rd CSU EM Colloquium.
  • BORJA, M. (1996). First Prize in Marine Biology ($10,000 award) California High School Science Fair.
  • VALENCIA, R. (1998) Southern California Academy of Sciences ARCO Environmental Science Award for best student Paper. 
  • MERAZ, R. (1998). Plenary presentation at the National Minority Student Symposium, New York, Nov. 1998. 
  • MERAZ, R. (1999). An ICP-MS Study of Copper Metabolism in the Marine Prosobranch Littorina littorea. (CSU Research Competition. Placed 1st , Science and Engineering). 
  • FRANCIS, S. (1999). Kinetics of Copper Metabolism in Littorina littorea: A Study using Stable Isotopic Ratio Analysis (CSU Research Competition. Placed 2nd, Science and Engineering). 
  • JARVIS, E. (2000). Mercury bioaccumulation with age in kelp bass, Paralabrax clathratus, caught near the isthmus at Santa Catalina Island, CA. Second Place, CSU 14th Annual Student Research Competition, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, May 5th 2000. 
  • BORJA, M. April 29th 2000. Best Student presentation 25th Annual WCBSUR (West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research) Conference April 29, 2000. Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, CA. 
  • HUYNH, H. McNair Scholarship 1999-2000. 
EXTERNAL GRANTS AND CONTRACTS:
1) Antibacterial coatings for endoprosthetic implants. Johnson Matthey Research/Scientific Engineering Research Council/National Research and Development Agency; to Institute of Orthopaedics, Univ. London. June 1983-June 1985. ($120,000)

2) An in vivo study of a novel bactericidal coating in man. Johnson Matthey Research/National Research and Development Agency; to Institute of Orthopaedics. Univ. London. July 1985-Feb. 1986. ($35,000)

3) SEM and energy dispersive X-ray microanalysis of fractured orthopaedic components. H. Stangers; to Institute of Orthopaedics. Univ. London. Feb. 1984-Oct. 1985 ($30,000).

4) Metal metabolism and adaptation in the polychaete, Neanthes arenaceodentata. Department of Energy; to Molecular Ecology Institute. California State University Long Beach. July 1986-June 1987 ($510,310).

5) Bioavailability, metabolism and toxicity of barium and related metals. Environmental Protection Agency; to Molecular Ecology Institute. California State University Long Beach. May 1987-May 1989 ($281,885).

6) Determination of metal levels in sediments by inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopy. CBM Bioventures; to Molecular Ecology Institute. California State University Long Beach. March 1988 $75,000.

7) Processes of metal selection and rejection by metal accumulating cells. National Institute of Health; to Department of Biological Sciences. California State University Long Beach. May 1988-May 1990 $65,000.

8) Instrumentation grant for the purchase of a transmission electron microscope; to National Science Foundation Biological Instrumentation program; to School of Natural Sciences, California State University Long Beach. Awarded April 89. $183,572.

9) Mechanisms of metal accumulation by cells. MBRS Program, NIEHS; to School of Natural Sciences, California State University Long Beach. 1989-1998. $35,000.per annum

10) ICPMS study of Cd induced alterations in Cu metabolism. National Institute of Health; to Department of Biological Sciences. California State University Long Beach. June 1993-June 1997. $101,407.

11) Food web structure and heavy metal accumulation in a recently established guild of Breeding Seabirds in Southern California; to Department of Biological Sciences. California State University Fullerton. 1996-1999. $134,000

12) Evaluation of the toxicity of ingested Cu and W/Bi/Sn pellets by the California Condor. U.S. Fish and Wiidlife. $30,000

13) NSF (MRI). Acquisition of an ICP-MS 1999-2000. $238,886. 

14) NSF (CRUI) Quantification of metal transfer from metallothionein to apo-metalloproteins using voltammetyon-line with HPLC/ICP-MS. 1999-2003 $1,036,219 

15) CSUPERB Initiative Grant. Software and hardware for a direct Injection Nebulization System for an ICP-MS. $14,000. 

16) MARC Supplement Program for Communications Technology. Co-PI with Bauer, R and Lopez, M. $234,350 

17) Howard Hughes Medical Institute Proposal for the Development of Honors in the Biological Sciences Programat CSULB. May 2000.  Co-PI with Drs Merryfield, Archie, Kingsford, Lopez, McAbee and Wijte. $1,600,000. 

18) NIH MBRS Score Proposal. Subproject: Tributyl Tin Induced Perturbations in Steroid Hormone Metabolism. $671,719 (Pending). 

 
INTERNAL GRANTS AND CONTRACTS: 
i) A technique for studying the kinetics of copper metabolism in cells using stable isotopic ratio analysis by inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopy. Scholarly and Creative Activity Committee 1989-1990. Awarded $3000. 

ii) Directly coupled ion chromatography inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopy for the simultaneous separation and quantification of cationic species in natural waters. Minigrant Program; Awarded Dec. 1989 $5,000. 

iii) ICPMS study of stable 63/65 Cu fluxes through cells using isotope ratio analysis. Scholarly and Creative Activity Committee Spring 1990. Submitted 2nd Feb 1990; Funded May 10 1990; 3WTU, $1400. 

iv) Generation of an Invertebrate Genomic DNA Library for gene isolation and identification. Summer Stipend. 3WTU, October 1990. 

v) Isolation and sequencing of the metallothionein gene. Scholarly and Creative Activity Committee. Submitted 2nd Feb 1991; Awarded August 19 1991; 3WTU. 

vi) The Development of Sequentially Coupled Size Exclusion-ion exchange HPLC-ICP/MS for studying Metal Toxicity. $5,000. Minigrant. Awarded Spring 1999. 

vii) SCAC proposal The Development of technologies for Coupling Reverse Phase Chromatography Systems to an ICP-MS for Studying Metal Homeostasis and Toxicity. Class A Summer Stipend. Awarded December 10th 1999.