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Marsden Fund awards 2020

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The definitions of the 10 Marsden Fund panels can be found here

You can download an Excel spreadsheet of these results, including abstracts of all projects, here: 2020-Marsden-Fund-announcement-supplement.xlsx

 

Project ID Panel Funding (ex GST) Project Investigator Role Institution
20-AUT-023 SOC $870,000 Re-imagining anti-racism theory in the health sector Associate Professor JD Kidd PI Auckland University of Technology
        Dr HA Came PI Auckland University of Technology
        Dr BJ Rodgers AI Auckland University of Technology
20-AUT-037 PCB $300,000 Light-Responsive Drug Delivery Systems to Probe Dynamic Biological Functions Dr CL Fleming PI Auckland University of Technology
        Associate Professor EJ New AI The University of Sydney
20-GNS-001 ESA $960,000 Tipping the balance: what makes slow earthquakes episodic? Dr LM Wallace PI GNS Science
        Associate Professor P Audet AI University of Ottawa
        Dr KM Jacobs AI GNS Science
        Associate Professor K Mochizuki AI University of Tokyo
        Professor DM Saffer AI University of Texas at Austin
        Professor MK Savage AI Victoria University of Wellington
        Dr EJ Warren-Smith AI GNS Science
        Professor SC Webb AI Columbia University
20-GNS-006 ESA $960,000 Geological fingerprinting of earthquake rupture directions: Can it be done? Mr RJ van Dissen PI GNS Science
        Dr Y Kaneko PI GNS Science
        Dr NC Barth AI University of California, Riverside
        Dr JD Howarth AI Victoria University of Wellington
        Mr JR Kearse AI Victoria University of Wellington
        Professor TA Little AI Victoria University of Wellington
        Dr CHR Orchiston AI University of Otago
20-LCR-002 ESA $960,000 Australia burning, NZ melting: impacts of bushfires on NZ glacial environments Dr PM Novis PI Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research
        Dr LM Petherick PI Victoria University of Wellington
        Dr R Dadic AI Victoria University of Wellington
        Dr JE Hunt AI Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research
        Dr BH Jolly AI Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research
        Dr HL Purdie AI University of Canterbury
20-LCR-008 CMP $300,000 Pausing pregnancy: The convergent evolution of, and mechanisms underpinning embryonic diapause observed across mammals. Dr AJ Veale PI Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research
        Dr JA Duckworth AI Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research
        Dr JC Fenelon AI University of Melbourne
        Distinguished Professor NJ Gemmell AI University of Otago
        Distinguished Professor MB Renfree AI University of Melbourne
20-LCR-010 EEB $300,000 Does home-field advantage confer resilience against competitive exclusion under warming? Dr MK Dhami PI Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research
        Professor DA Petrov AI Stanford University
20-LIU-002 EHB $798,000 Nursery Crimes: Does the popularity and pricing of alien plant species traded in New Zealand ornamental horticulture markets determine the risk of introducing environmental weeds? Professor PE Hulme PI Lincoln University
        Professor C Perrings PI Arizona State University
20-MAU-005 ESA $944,000 Unlocking centuries worth of surface UV-B radiation history hidden in pollen Dr KA Holt PI Massey University
        Dr PE Jardine AI University of Münster
        Mr JB Liley AI National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd
        Dr BH Lomax AI University of Nottingham
        Dr MJ Vandergoes AI GNS Science
20-MAU-017 EEB $960,000 Unraveling the 3D structure of archaic hominin DNA in the human genome Professor MP Cox PI Massey University
        Dr N Brucato AI University of Toulouse 3
        Dr I Gallego Romero AI University of Melbourne
20-MAU-021 SOC $870,000 Our game by our rules: Bringing an Indigenous perspective to the Sport-for-Development (SFD) field Dr RR Stewart-Withers PI Massey University
        Dr FR Palmer PI Massey University
        Dr JW Hapeta AI Massey University
20-MAU-028 PCB $939,000 Three atoms in a tight spot Professor J Brand PI Massey University
        Associate Professor MF Andersen AI University of Otago
20-MAU-050 MIS $491,000 The dynamics of interacting infections Professor MG Roberts PI Massey University
        Professor JAP Heesterbeek AI University of Utrecht
        Dr RI Hickson AI James Cook University
        Professor JM McCaw AI The University of Melbourne
20-MAU-054 EEB $300,000 Predicting evolution: Quantifying the emergence of antibiotic resistance in diverse environmental strains of E. coli Dr NE Freed PI Massey University
        Dr OK Silander AI Massey University
        Professor O Tenaillon AI Inserm - University Paris Diderot
20-MAU-071 MFC $3,000,000 Biodiversity, microbiota, and childhood allergies and asthma: variation across space and time. Professor J Douwes PI Massey University
        Dr CR Brooks PI Massey University
        Dr MA Corbin PI Massey University
        Professor J Crane PI University of Otago
        Professor JD Potter PI Massey University
        Dr CL Shorter PI University of Otago
        Associate Professor AM 't Mannetje PI Massey University
        Professor CW Cunningham AI Massey University
        Professor R Knight AI University of California San Diego
        Professor NE Pearce AI London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
        Dr LJ Pembrey AI London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
        Professor GB Rogers AI South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute
20-MAU-090 SOC $870,000 Navigating Pacific Indigenous knowledge and practices in relation to contemporary dietary patterns: investigating 'ai ia e ola' - eat to live well Dr RT Firestone PI Massey University
        Associate Professor N Aitaoto AI University of Utah
        Professor BD Brown AI University of Montana
        Ms EJ Hughes AI The Fono
        Dr LA Te Morenga AI Victoria University of Wellington
        Ms HS Tuisano AI Massey University
20-MAU-093 EEB $300,000 Understanding the evolution of complex female song in songbirds Dr WH Webb PI Massey University
        Professor J Dale AI Massey University
20-MAU-101 EEB $300,000 Plant communication in times of rapid environmental change Dr AL Clavijo-McCormick PI Massey University
        Dr SV Fowler AI Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research
        Professor RJ Pakeman AI The James Hutton Institute
        Dr QE Paynter AI Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research
20-PAF-002 CMP $300,000 How do new pathogen incursions evolve during host infection? Dr J Jayaraman PI Plant & Food Research
20-PAF-008 CMP $954,000 From the road less travelled: How hornworts can help decipher the evolution of a fundamental stress tolerance adaptation of land plants Dr KM Davies PI Plant & Food Research
        Dr JW van Klink PI Plant & Food Research
        Professor JL Bowman AI Monash University
        Dr D Chagné AI Plant & Food Research
        Dr M Landi AI University of Pisa
20-UOA-002 CMP $300,000 3D genome dysregulation: Systematic interpretation of noncoding regulatory mutations driving cancer Dr WS Schierding PI University of Auckland
        Dr JK Perry AI University of Auckland
        Professor CG Print AI University of Auckland
20-UOA-004 BMS $958,000 Reprogrammed dopamine cells in three-dimensional microspheres to treat Parkinson's Disease. Professor BJ Connor PI University of Auckland
        Associate Professor DM Svirskis PI University of Auckland
        Dr AJ McCaughey-Chapman AI University of Auckland
20-UOA-008 HUM $638,000 Cultivating Musical Arrangements in Early Nineteenth-Century Vienna: Uncovering Women’s Agency in the Domestic Sphere Associate Professor NR November PI University of Auckland
20-UOA-027 BMS $959,000 Releasing the brake on lymphatic regeneration. Developing new paradigms for the treatment of secondary lymphoedema. Dr JW Astin PI University of Auckland
        Professor ARJ Phillips AI University of Auckland
        Associate Professor J Torres Vázquez AI New York University
20-UOA-034 EEB $300,000 Unravelling the causes of ecological hysteresis in recovery following mass mortality Dr RV Gladstone-Gallagher PI University of Auckland
        Professor JE Hewitt AI National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd
        Professor DS Wethey AI University of South Carolina
20-UOA-035 EIS $300,000 Using light and ultrasound for quantification of hemodynamics in bone Dr JL Shepherd PI University of Auckland
        Dr G Renaud AI Sorbonne Université
20-UOA-036 SOC $300,000 Psychology of Pacific Peoples or Pacific Psychologies? How Pacific psychologists are changing the discipline Dr S Manuela PI University of Auckland
20-UOA-041 MIS $300,000 Methods for the analysis of complex routinely collected data Dr CL Rivera-Rodriguez PI University of Auckland
        Dr SJ Cullum AI University of Auckland
        Associate Professor SJPA Haneuse AI University of Harvard
        Professor TS Lumley AI University of Auckland
20-UOA-045 EHB $869,000 A large-scale multimodal mapping approach to investigate age-related changes in the asymmetry of the human brain Dr F Kurth PI University of Auckland
        Professor MC Corballis AI University of Auckland
        Associate Professor E Lueders AI University of Auckland
20-UOA-056 SOC $300,000 Digital breadcrumbs feeding urban decision-making Dr K Sila-Nowicka PI University of Auckland
        Associate Professor U Demšar AI University of St Andrews
        Dr M Tomko AI The University of Melbourne
20-UOA-074 MIS $717,000 Modelling calcium dynamics in living animals: multiple time and space scales in theory and practice. Associate Professor VJ Kirk PI University of Auckland
        Professor JR Sneyd PI University of Auckland
        Dr M Graff AI University of Auckland
        Professor M Wechselberger AI The University of Sydney
20-UOA-099 ESA $959,000 Does climate influence the frequency of volcanic activity and earthquakes? Dr LJ Strachan PI University of Auckland
        Dr PM Barnes AI National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd
        Associate Professor HC Bostock AI The University of Queensland
        Dr MP Crundwell AI GNS Science
        Dr JL Hopkins AI Victoria University of Wellington
        Dr S Kutterolf AI GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
        Professor KM Marsaglia AI California State University
        Dr AD McArthur AI University of Leeds
        Mr AD Woodhouse AI University of Leeds
20-UOA-107 MIS $618,000 Group structure, actions, representations and algorithms Distinguished Professor MDE Conder PI University of Auckland
        Associate Professor J An PI University of Auckland
        Professor EA O'Brien PI University of Auckland
20-UOA-111 PCB $941,000 Lighting the Dark: Understanding the Early Universe Professor RJM Easther PI University of Auckland
20-UOA-123 EHB $869,000 Deep cultural ancestry and the fortunes of nation states Professor QD Atkinson PI University of Auckland
        Professor JA Bulbulia AI University of Auckland
        Professor RD Gray AI Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
20-UOA-126 EEB $869,000 Can animals plan for different possible futures? Associate Professor AH Taylor PI University of Auckland
        Professor NS Clayton AI University of Cambridge
        Professor RD Gray AI Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
        Professor T Suddendorf AI The University of Queensland
20-UOA-138 EIS $891,000 New Computational Imaging Methods for Structural Biology Dr RL Kingston PI University of Auckland
        RP Millane PI University of Canterbury
20-UOA-146 EIS $899,000 The vaping puzzle: In silico modelling to piece together the health effects of e-cigarettes Dr KS Burrowes PI University of Auckland
        Professor CR Bullen AI University of Auckland
        Professor GK Prisk AI University of California, San Diego
        Dr VA Suresh AI University of Auckland
        Professor MH Tawhai AI University of Auckland
20-UOA-155 EIS $300,000 Inter-organ communication in the gut: elucidating the bioelectrical basis of the gastro-intestinal junction Dr TR Angeli PI University of Auckland
        Professor LK Cheng AI University of Auckland
        Associate Professor G O'Grady AI University of Auckland
20-UOA-165 MIS $300,000 Towards Automatic Updates of Software Dependencies Dr KC Blincoe PI University of Auckland
20-UOA-167 PCB $940,000 Normal in nothing but the name: a new regime of temporal cavity solitons Dr MJ Erkintalo PI University of Auckland
        Associate Professor SX Coen AI University of Auckland
        Associate Professor SG Murdoch AI University of Auckland
20-UOA-168 HUM $638,000 Reconstitutionalising the Public Service in Westminster systems Professor JM McLean PI University of Auckland
20-UOA-169 EIS $893,000 Exploiting the ancient microbial response to reactive oxygen species to degrade persistent emerging contaminants Associate Professor N Singhal PI University of Auckland
        Associate Professor R Bettinetti AI University of Insubria
        Dr JM Kingsbury AI Institute of Environmental Science and Research
        Associate Professor EP Kolodziej AI University of Washington
        Associate Professor G Lear AI University of Auckland
        Dr IKH Leung AI University of Auckland
        Dr L Yang AI Queen's University
20-UOA-178 EIS $300,000 Sub-wavelength ultra-high quality Terahertz resonators for next-generation sensing technologies Dr DW Vogt PI University of Auckland
        Dr HGL Schwefel AI University of Otago
20-UOA-180 EIS $300,000 Visible frequency comb generation with fibre-based microresonators Dr YQ Xu PI University of Auckland
        Dr MJ Erkintalo AI University of Auckland
20-UOA-183 BMS $960,000 Fighting infections around the clock: understanding how neutrophils use an endogenous molecular timer to anticipate and fight bacterial infections Associate Professor CJ Hall PI University of Auckland
        Professor SK Bohlander AI University of Auckland
        Associate Professor GR Warman AI University of Auckland
20-UOA-189 CMP $300,000 Investigating the Immune Responses to Group A Streptococcus Pili Dr CJY Tsai PI University of Auckland
        Dr JMS Loh AI University of Auckland
20-UOA-197 EHB $869,000 Will upzoning deliver housing affordability for everyone? Evidence from Auckland, New Zealand Dr RT Greenaway-McGrevy PI University of Auckland
        Distinguished Professor PCB Phillips PI University of Auckland
        Dr J Schuetz PI Brookings Institution
        Mr GC Cooper AI PricewaterhouseCoopers
20-UOA-213 HUM $300,000 Obesity in Aotearoa New Zealand: Unravelling the history of an epidemic Dr JM Parr PI University of Auckland
20-UOA-225 PCB $941,000 Skyrmion systems: New Opportunities for Information Technologies Associate Professor T Söhnel PI University of Auckland
        Associate Professor C Ulrich PI The University of New South Wales
        Professor MA Ruebhausen AI University of Hamburg
20-UOA-255 SOC $300,000 Repression or Rangatiratanga? Investigating why Maori choose the General or Maori Electoral Roll Dr LM Greaves PI University of Auckland
20-UOA-260 SOC $870,000 Let the River Speak: Working across 'worlds' for socio-ecological transformation Professor Dame A Salmond PI University of Auckland
        Dr DCH Hikuroa PI University of Auckland
        Professor GJ Brierley AI University of Auckland
        Dr BJ Lythberg AI University of Auckland
        Mr WH Walker AI Gisborne District Council
20-UOA-269 EIS $300,000 Acoustic Imaging of Movement (AIM): from human tissue to underwater sensing Dr LA Cobus PI University of Auckland
        Dr A Aubry AI Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
        Professor S Rotter AI Vienna University of Technology (TU Wein)
20-UOA-270 CMP $959,000 Mitochondria break the hot heart, but what breaks hot mitochondria? Associate Professor AJR Hickey PI University of Auckland
        Dr DJ Crossman PI University of Auckland
        Professor PU Blier AI Université du Québec à Rimouski
        Associate Professor GM Renshaw AI Griffith University
20-UOA-290 BMS $959,000 Better than a hole in the head? Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of brain motion as an indicator of raised intracranial pressure. Dr SJ Holdsworth PI University of Auckland
        Dr S Guild PI University of Auckland
        Professor HV Danesh-Meyer AI University of Auckland
        Dr GD Maso Talou AI University of Auckland
        Dr S Safaei AI University of Auckland
        Associate Professor M Scadeng AI University of Auckland
20-UOA-314 PCB $941,000 A New Approach to Transient Organic Electronics Professor J Travas-Sejdic PI University of Auckland
        Dr EWC Chan AI University of Auckland
20-UOA-318 BMS $300,000 A "self-bridging" approach to antimicrobial peptides: disulfide replacement and peptide stapling Dr AJ Cameron PI University of Auckland
        Professor DA Williamson AI University of Melbourne
20-UOA-333 EIS $899,000 Controlling the passage: an integrated experimental and modelling approach to understand gut sphincters. Associate Professor P Du PI University of Auckland
        Professor LK Cheng AI University of Auckland
        Professor Y Imai AI Kobe University
20-UOA-344 HUM $300,000 Dimensions of life: integrating scientific and philosophical perspectives on the living world Dr EC Parke PI University of Auckland
        Dr DCH Hikuroa AI University of Auckland
20-UOC-011 MIS $710,000 Diversity indices and extinction cascades: New mathematical techniques to capture the disappearing 'Tree of Life'. Professor MA Steel PI University of Canterbury
        Professor CA Semple PI University of Canterbury
        Professor A Mooers AI Simon Fraser University
        Professor T Stadler AI ETH Zürich
20-UOC-061 EIS $774,000 Are interface transitions the key to controlling ferroelectric aging and fatigue? Associate Professor CM Bishop PI University of Canterbury
        Professor JE Blendell AI Purdue University
        Professor RE Garcia AI Purdue University
20-UOC-063 EIS $889,000 Correlations and randomness: Brain-like computation using nanoparticle networks. Professor SA Brown PI University of Canterbury
20-UOC-064 HUM $614,000 Understanding the onset of vernacular reorganisation Dr L Clark PI University of Canterbury
        Professor GT Gillon AI University of Canterbury
        Dr BC McNeill AI University of Canterbury
        Dr AF Scott AI University of Canterbury
20-UOC-112 EHB $868,000 Maori-ecosystem interactions and adaptations on the offshore islands of Aotearoa/New Zealand: agricultural niche construction during the initial settlement of southern Polynesia Dr MJ Prebble PI University of Canterbury
        Professor SJ Holdaway PI University of Auckland
        Professor TN Ladefoged PI University of Auckland
        Associate Professor PC Augustinus AI University of Auckland
        Professor N Dubois AI ETH Zürich
        Dr G O'Regan AI University of Auckland
        Dr RS Phillipps AI University of Auckland
        Dr N Porch AI Deakin University
        Professor JP Shulmeister AI University of Canterbury
20-UOO-004 BMS $300,000 Messengers in the microenvironment: the role of extracellular vesicles in fat graft retention Dr KM Danielson PI University of Otago
        Associate Professor MJ Currie AI University of Otago
        Dr I Meredith AI University of Otago
        Dr NR Tucker AI Masonic Medical Research Institute
20-UOO-007 SOC $300,000 Clean Teens: Understanding declines in smoking, drinking and drug use in young people's lives. Dr JM Ball PI University of Otago
20-UOO-024 BMS $300,000 Real time imaging of neuropeptide release in the maternal brain using Biosensor cells Dr SH Yip PI University of Otago
20-UOO-025 BMS $300,000 The role of calsequestrin modification in diabetes and heart failure Dr ML Munro PI University of Otago
20-UOO-037 BMS $960,000 Control of stress at the terminal. Dr KJ Iremonger PI University of Otago
        Dr W Inoue AI University of Western Ontario
20-UOO-052 CMP $960,000 How do bacterial CRISPR-Cas defences protect against nucleus-forming phages? Professor PC Fineran PI University of Otago
        Dr C Garcia-Doval AI University of Zürich
        Dr LF Gumy AI University of Otago
        Dr SA Jackson AI University of Otago
20-UOO-056 MIS $300,000 Combinatorial aspects of polynomials Dr DN Searles PI University of Otago
20-UOO-063 CMP $958,000 Male germline fate in flowering plants Dr LR Brownfield PI University of Otago
        Professor D Twell AI University of Leicester
20-UOO-068 BMS $959,000 The genetic contribution of histone H4 to brain development and disease Dr LS Bicknell PI University of Otago
        Dr JE Huffman AI VA Boston Healthcare System
        Associate Professor G van Haaften AI University Medical Center Utrecht
20-UOO-071 CMP $960,000 The circle of life: connecting cell division with cell fate during embryo development Professor JA Horsfield PI University of Otago
        Mr G Gimenez AI University of Otago
        Dr BL Martin AI Stony Brook University
20-UOO-075 CMP $300,000 Interconnecting mitochondrial structure, function and oocyte quality Dr KL Reader PI University of Otago
        Professor RL Robker AI University of Adelaide
20-UOO-079 MIS $706,000 Inference for statistical linear inverse problems: theory and practice Professor ML Hazelton PI University of Otago
        Professor RM Fewster PI University of Auckland
        Dr JA Goodman AI University of Auckland
        Professor AP Robinson AI The University of Melbourne
20-UOO-080 EIS $899,000 Dual-comb spectroscopy - resolving optical precision electronically Dr HGL Schwefel PI University of Otago
        Professor G Leuchs AI Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
20-UOO-105 EEB $300,000 Revealing the extent and pattern of viral host-jumping in fish on ecological timescales Dr JL Geoghegan PI University of Otago
20-UOO-110 BMS $300,000 The Pathway to Paternity: The role of mating, prolactin, and neurogenesis Dr KO Smiley PI University of Otago
20-UOO-117 BMS $956,000 Exploring the pervasive role of the GBA gene in development of Parkinson's disease Professor MA Kennedy PI University of Otago
        Professor TJ Anderson AI University of Otago
        Associate Professor AA Cooper AI Garvan Institute of Medical Research
        Associate Professor J Gratten AI University of Queensland
        Ms YC Liau AI University of Otago
        Associate Professor JM O'Sullivan AI University of Auckland
        Dr TL Pitcher AI University of Otago
20-UOO-129 EEB $300,000 Has deforestation reshaped our endemic insect fauna? Testing the evolutionary impacts of lowered treelines Dr GA McCulloch PI University of Otago
20-UOO-130 EEB $300,000 Exceptions to the rule: why were females much larger than males among New Zealand’s extinct moa? Dr KJ Mitchell PI University of Adelaide
20-UOO-133 EHB $869,000 Should I stay or should I go? Climate-change risks to property values across space and time, and the related implications for financial stability Associate Professor I Diaz-Rainey PI University of Otago
        Associate Professor AB Moore PI University of Otago
        Dr GE Bodeker AI Bodeker Scientific
        Dr SC Cox AI GNS Science
        Dr P Thorsnes AI University of Otago
20-UOO-147 SOC $729,000 Negotiating Childhood around the Pacific-Rim: A multi-generational analysis. Professor C Freeman PI University of Otago
        Professor S Turner PI McGill University
        Dr HE Woolley PI University of Sheffield
20-UOO-160 BMS $960,000 Harnessing oxygen to fight infections Professor AJ Kettle PI University of Otago
        Professor RF Anderson AI University of Auckland
        Dr LV Ashby AI University of Otago
        Dr N Dickerhof AI University of Otago
20-UOO-173 EEB $960,000 How vulnerable are Antarctica's coasts to colonisation? Associate Professor CI Fraser PI University of Otago
        Professor AM Hogg AI Australian National University
        Professor MD Lamare AI University of Otago
        Dr F Montiel AI University of Otago
        Dr AK Morrison AI Australian National University
        Professor JM Waters AI University of Otago
20-UOO-182 BMS $960,000 Dodging bullets: how the Beijing TB strain evades and subverts BCG-mediated trained innate immunity Associate Professor JR Kirman PI University of Otago
        Associate Professor MI Henao-Tamayo AI Colorado State University
        Professor PC Hill AI University of Otago
20-UOO-202 HUM $300,000 Journey Home: Descendants of Maori adoptees search for their turangawaewae Dr EM Newman PI University of Otago
20-UOO-223 SOC $300,000 Can a leopard change its spots? Exploring Big Tobacco as a proponent of smokefree goals. Dr LA Robertson PI University of Bath
        Professor JA Hoek AI University of Otago
20-UOO-227 BMS $300,000 Decoding the genetic determinants of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain endemic to Maori Dr HL Aung PI University of Otago
20-UOO-230 EHB $300,000 Pigs, dogs and chickens and the quest for status and prestige in the Pacific past. Dr KL Greig PI University of Otago
        Dr KA Douka AI Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
        Dr P Roberts AI Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
20-UOO-243 SOC $300,000 Heating up, cooling off: Managing summer heat flows in New Zealand homes Dr KC O'Sullivan PI University of Otago
20-UOO-279 PCB $300,000 The role of electron turbulence in heating the solar corona Dr R Meyrand PI University of Otago
        Professor WD Dorland AI University of Maryland
20-UOO-280 SOC $870,000 Producing ‘facts’: how is Big Data created? Professor PT Norris PI University of Otago
        Dr DM Cormack PI University of Otago
        Associate Professor E Keddell PI University of Otago
        Dr EJ Willing PI University of Otago
20-UOW-004 EIS $300,000 Exploring the utility of stable state theory in real-world environmental problems Dr SL Gallop PI University of Waikato
        Professor KR Bryan AI University of Waikato
        Professor DP Hamilton AI Griffith University
        Professor JL Largier AI University of California, Davis
20-UOW-022 EHB $819,000 The development of the human visual system in utero: an experimental and computational modelling approach Professor VM Reid PI University of Waikato
        Associate Professor T Donovan AI University of Cumbria
        Dr J Dunn AI Lancaster University
        Dr J Heerikhuisen AI University of Waikato
        Mr M Necas AI Waikato District Health Board
20-UOW-030 EIS $899,000 Bridging the laboratory-field divide to accurately predict the evolution of coastlines Dr JC Mullarney PI University of Waikato
        Dr W Nardin AI University of Maryland
        Dr RO Tinoco AI University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
20-UOW-033 HUM $631,000 Modern Immunity: Modernism, Threat and Immune Poetics Dr M Long PI University of Waikato
20-UOW-040 EEB $960,000 Global productivity over the Holocene: Leaf hydraulic design to constrain the Dole effect Professor MM Barbour PI University of Waikato
        Professor TJ Brodribb AI University of Tasmania
        Dr M Cuntz AI Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture
20-UOW-041 EEB $960,000 Mycorrhizas, alternative stable states, and landscape partitioning in south-temperate forests Associate Professor CH Lusk PI University of Waikato
        Professor IA Dickie AI University of Canterbury
        Dr FI Piper AI Patagonian Ecosystems Investigation Research Center (CIEP)
        Associate Professor J Read AI Monash University
20-UOW-056 BMS $300,000 What is the alternative? Sulphur acquisition in the human pathogen Neisseria gonorrhoeae Dr JL Hicks PI University of Waikato
        Dr M Berney AI Albert Einstein College of Medicine
        Professor MY So AI University of Arizona
20-UOW-062 CMP $300,000 Metal incorporation into honeybee brains and cells: at what cost to the hive? Dr MNC Grainger PI University of Waikato
        Dr MJ Goblirsch AI USDA-Agricultural Research Service
20-UOW-074 EHB $300,000 Thinking backwards and forwards: Characteristics and consequences of age-related memory decline Dr A Devitt PI University of Waikato
20-UOW-077 ESA $300,000 Global environmental monitors: do penguins concentrate and record diffuse contaminants from global-scale anthropogenic events in pristine Antarctic environments? Dr TA O'Neill PI University of Waikato
        Associate Professor SK Gaw AI University of Canterbury
20-UOW-083 HUM $300,000 Urban island: Histories of dispossession and belonging in Suva Dr KJ Stevens PI University of Waikato
        Dr N Halter AI The University of the South Pacific
20-UOW-093 ESA $300,000 Exploring the limits of climate regulation: Could a decline in marine biological silica uptake exacerbate global climate change? Dr TT Isson PI University of Waikato
        Dr LG Tarhan AI Yale University
        Associate Professor NJ Tosca AI University of Oxford
20-UOW-104 SOC $300,000 Retracing the Storylines of Pacific Women Voyagers and Navigators Dr KLN Wilson-Hokowhitu PI University of Waikato
20-VUW-010 SOC $870,000 The development of the bystander: A socialisation oversight? Professor VA Green PI Victoria University of Wellington
        Professor C Salmivalli AI University of Turku
        Professor MS Wilson AI Victoria University of Wellington
20-VUW-020 SOC $778,000 Signs of development: Sociolinguistic variation and change in New Zealand Sign Language in times of status change and globalisation Dr RL McKee PI Victoria University of Wellington
        Dr G Major AI Auckland University of Technology
        Professor M Meyerhoff AI Victoria University of Wellington
        Mrs SF Pivac Alexander AI Victoria University of Wellington
20-VUW-021 HUM $300,000 Mountain or coast? Solving the Austronesian homeland puzzle Dr V Chen PI Victoria University of Wellington
20-VUW-026 EHB $300,000 Neural mechanisms underlying the interaction of consciousness and spatial attention: a brain stimulation approach to assess the effects of alertness on attention Dr CA Bareham PI Victoria University of Wellington
        Dr TA Bekinschtein AI University of Cambridge
        Dr D Carmel AI Victoria University of Wellington
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20-VUW-063 PCB $300,000 3D Covalent Organic Frameworks: Potential Materials to Break The Porosity Record? Dr L Liu PI Victoria University of Wellington
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