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Capability: Climate Change

Project Timeline: 6/1/2007-5/31/2011

The flies contain many species that impact significantly on humans; numerous species are important pests of food production as well as veterinary and medical importance. Resolving the phylogenetic relationships of flies as a means of understanding how these insects evolved and diversified is one of the significant tasks in discovering the tree-of-life. One such group of flies, the Window flies (family Scenopinidae) have a tremendous wealth of unexplored biological and taxonomic diversity that remains to be documented world-wide. This project will comprise a multifaceted study of window fly evolutionary relationships using both molecular and morphological data. This will be combined with the development of databases and interactive identification aids for dissemination via the internet.

This study has a range of broader impacts, including professional career building, public outreach and presentations, conference seminars, and training and mentoring for undergraduates and summer interns. In addition the project will result in traditional and online publications and will enhance direct collaborations between institutions and existing NSF projects on dipteran phylogenetics. The development of online resources such as taxonfocused websites is a significant product of this proposal. The WINDOW FLY website will consolidate for the scientific community and general public research products such as an online catalog, systematics pages, bibliography, family, genus and species web pages, image galleries and cross-platform interactive keys.

Projects

  1. Digitization TCN: Collaborative Research Plants, Herbivores, and Parasitoids
  2. Reproductive Effects of Disinfection By-products in Drinking Water
  3. Perchlorate and Thyroid Hormones in Pregnancy and Infants in Southern California
  4. HIA Program Development
  5. Placer County Biomass Energy Facility
  6. San Francisco Bay Seafood Consumption Study
  7. Develop Mid-trimester Screening Algorithms for Early Onset Preeclampsia
  8. Phytoestrogen and Time to Pregnancy
  9. Tobacco Exposure in Pregnant Women in Minority Populations
  10. Reduce Exposure to Unhealthy Air in the Imperial Valley, California near the U.S.-Mexico Border
  11. Neuro-Developmental Disabilities Screening and Assessment in Uganda
  12. Genome-Wide Association Study of Childhood Leukemia by Hispanic Status
  13. Characterization of CFTR Mutations Among Non-White CF Patients
  14. Building Capacity for Health Impact Assessment at State and Territorial Health Agencies
  15. Perinatal Exposure to Airborne Pollutants and Associations with Autism Phenotype
  16. Designing a Next Generation Science Standards Ready Air Quality Science High School Curriculum (Phase I and II)
  17. Social and Climate Change Migration Policy: Government of Tuvalu (South Pacific)
  18. Tobacco and cannabis exposure during pregnancy in six race/ethnic subgroups in California
  19. Studying Mothers and their Children at Risk from In Utero Exposure to Grandmaternal Smoking
  20. Public Health Effects of Increased Prescribe Burns for Wildlife Management
  21. East Bay Diesel Exposures Project (EBDEP)
  22. Expanding California Biomonitoring Database through Statewide Surveillance and Targeted Population Studies
  23. California Region Exposure Study 3 (CARE-3)
  24. California Region Exposure Study 2 (CARE-2)
  25. California Region Exposure Study I (CARE-LA)
  26. California's Strategic Plan Implementation Grants for Asthma
  27. Environmental Health Symposium for Promotores and Community Health Workers
  28. Palos Verdes Shelf Fish Contamination Project
  29. San Francisco Bay Fish Project
  30. Improve Low Rates of Childhood Lead Screening Amongst Health Care Providers
  31. Effectiveness of a Large Prenatal Tobacco Reduction Program
  32. California's Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
  33. Collection of Dried Blood Spots from Children for the Examination of CMV
  34. PBDE/Breast Milk Monitoring
  35. Early Childhood Mortality Study
  36. Preterm Markers Study-2006/07
  37. Maternal and Infant Genetic Contributions to Preterm Birth: the Inflammatory Response
  38. Preterm Markers Study-2009/10
  39. Development of a Research-Ready Pregnancy and Newborn Biobank in California
  40. National Newborn Screening and Genetics Resource Center
  41. Newborn Blood Spots, Collaborative Project with UCD Public Health Sciences Department
  42. Environmental and Molecular Epidemiology of Childhood Leukemia
  43. Evaluation of the Partnership for Smoke-Free Families Program
  44. Genetic Contributions to Preterm Birth Study
  45. Outcome Prediction in Children with Positive California Cystic Fibrosis Newborn Screening
  46. Prenatal and Neonatal Biologic Markers for Autism
  47. Ascertain Environmental Exposure During Pregnancy
  48. Enhancing the California Environmental Contaminant Biomonitoring Program
  49. CA Title 17 Analysis: Training/Certifying Renovation, Remodeling, and Painting Activities
  50. Children's Health Initiative - Impacts of Childhood Asthma in California

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