The Research Funding Service: a model for expanded library services

Traditionally, libraries have provided a modest amount of information about grants and funding opportunities to researchers in need of research funding. Ten years ago, the University of Washington (UW) Health Sciences Libraries and Information Center joined in a cooperative effort with the School of Medicine to develop a complete, library-based grant and funding service for health sciences researchers called the Research Funding Service. The library provided space, access to the library collection, equipment, and electronic resources, and the School of Medicine funded staff and operations. The range of services now includes individual consultation appointments, an extensive Web site, classes on funding database searching and writing grant applications, a discussion series that frequently hosts guest speakers, a monthly newsletter with funding opportunities of interest to the six health sciences schools, extensive files on funding sources, and referral services.

Standardized reporting using CODES (Crash Outcome Data Evaluation System).

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Floating breakwater field experience, West Coast /

Mode of access: Internet.

Mathematical modeling of shoreline evolution /

"October 1977."

Sand resources on the Inner Continental Shelf of the Cape Fear region, North Carolina /

"November 1977."

Beach erosion and accretion at Virginia Beach, Virginia, and vicinity /

"December 1977."

Shoreline plant establishment and use of a wave-stilling device /

"January 1978."

An annotated bibliography of CERC coastal ecology research /

Includes indexes.

Ecological effects of an artificial island, Rincon Island, Punta Gorda, California /

This study documents marine ecological conditions at Rincon Island, located approximately 0.8 kilometer offshore between Ventura and Santa Barbara, California, in a depth of 14 meters. The island, which was constructed between 1957 and 1958 to serve as a permanent platform for oil and gas production, is particularly suitable for ecological study. Habitat features associated with the armor rock and concrete tetrapods surrounding the island support a 'microecosystem' which differs in biotic composition from surrounding natural bottom areas. A major part of the study was devoted to analysis of seasonal dynamics in biotic composition. Permanent transects extending from the high intertidal to natural bottom were established normal to each of the four cardinal sides of the island. All macrobiota were censused in duplicate 1-square meter quadrats along each transect during each of the four seasons. Data analysis indicated that many species exhibit significant variability in abundance from one season to the next. In general, the findings indicate a rich and varied fauna and flora associated with the high-relief solid substrate of Rincon Island which differs substantially from the more depauperate natural bottom habitats in the area.

Effects of beach replenishment on the nearshore sand fauna at Imperial Beach, California /

Contract no.: DACW72-76-C-0007.

An annotated bibliography on detached breakwaters and artificial headlands /

Includes indexes.

Sand resources of southeastern Lake Michigan /

"July 1979."

Sediment distribution, sand resources, and geologic character of the inner continental shelf off Galveston County, Texas /

"July 1979."

Beach changes at Westhampton Beach, New York, 1962-73 /

"August 1979."