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Active Projects

Grants Years 2000 - 2008

FUNDED GRANTS and CONTRACTS

(CSUF total to date through October 2008:  $ 2,430,000)

2007

·         Mojave Water Agency ($280,000); Grant Extension for work on Water Resource Evaluation and Mapping – Mojave Desert Region. (Alto and Centro Hydrologic Sub- area)

2006

·         Mojave Water Agency ($384,000); Grant Extension for work on Water Resource Evaluation and Mapping – Mojave Desert Region. (Oeste Hydrologic Sub- area)

2005

·         Mojave Water Agency ($655,000); Grant Extension for work on Water Resource Evaluation and Mapping – Mojave Desert Region. (Specifically the El Mirage, Harper Lake and Joshua Tree areas)

2004

·         Mojave Water Agency ($470,000); Grant Extension for work on Water Resource Evaluation and Mapping – Mojave Desert Region. (Specifically the Lucerne Valley Area)

2003

·         Mojave Water Agency ($217,000); Water Resource Research within the Mojave Desert.  Part of this project is to development a GIS/Database inventory of all wells, groundwater elevations and hydrogeochemistry of each basin within the boundaries of MWA.  Specific portions of the grant have been set aside to collect and analyze data from a 2,500 foot deep multiport monitoring well in the vicinity of Oro Grande Wash.

·         Friend of the San Gabriel River ($32,000); Citizens Monitoring Program Development and Implication. This was funded through a State of California Grant (Prop 50).

2002

·         Mojave Water Agency ($57,405); Groundwater Investigations to look at potential recharge areas throughout the Southern Mojave Desert Area.  Establishment of digital well log inventory and bibliographic search of all documents pertaining to MWA water agency.  CSUF was also charged with developing a key well program for Lucerne Valley based on groundwater basin recharge.

·         CSUF Service-Learning Mini-Grant ($1,500); The integration of Service Learning into Advanced Environmental Geology.

·         Earth Consultants International, Inc. ($3,000); Geologic Interpretation of borehole geophysics.  Involves the gamma-ray logging and interpretation of subsurface geology.

2001

• CSUF Service-Learning Mini-Grant ($3,000); The integration of Service Learning into Advanced Hydrogeology Sampling.
• San Elijo Lagoon Conservancy ($35,000); Sediment Quality and Depositional Environment Of San Elijo Lagoon.
• Los Angles Regional Quality Control Board ($31,000); The Santa Clara River Watershed; GPS and Observational Report on the Santa Clara River
• Grant to develop a web based model on Distance Calibration of Earth Images ($800).  This was part of Advanced Technology in Science Learning Environments Grant through the Department of Biology.
• CSUF Summer Support Assistance for Summer ($5,000); This was summer support money to provide assistance in the sampling of water and soil throughout Orange County, California.

2000

• Los Angles Regional Quality Control Board ($25,000); The San Gabriel River Watershed; GPS and Observational Report on the San Gabriel River from the Whittier Narrows region to Seal Beach.

 GRANTS and CONTRACTS IN-REVIEW

• Long Valley Hydrologic Committee – Mammoth Pacific Corporation ($75,000), Hydrologic Monitoring In Long Valley Caldera (Co-PI: Laton W.R. and Foster J.)

In-Kind Gifts Associated with Research

Years 2000 – 2008

Copyright © 2008 W. Richard Laton, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Hydrogeology

California State University, Fullerton

Department of Geological Sciences

714-278-7514

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