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Fiscal Year(s)

View earmark details View Earmarks by Bill Section: Department of Commerce

Fiscal Year(s) 2008-2010 No. Total Amount
Earmarks No. 512 Total Amount $1,276,541,038
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Earmark Details Year Description

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Amount Sponsors Locations Receiving Organization
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description University of Alabama for an interdisciplinary science and engineering teaching and research corridor Amount $30,000,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) Locations Tuscaloosa, Alabama Recipients University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa)
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description University of Alabama at Huntsville for weather research in the Gulf of Mexico Amount $800,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Bud Cramer (D-AL)
Former Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL)
Locations Huntsville, Alabama Recipients University of Alabama at Huntsville
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description University of Alabama at Huntsville for cooperative institute Amount $800,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) Locations Huntsville, Alabama Recipients University of Alabama at Huntsville
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description University at Albany College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering for a nanoscale fabrication and measurement project Amount $1,000,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Mike McNulty (D-NY)
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
Locations Albany, New York Recipients University at Albany College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Understanding Abrupt Global Change, for researchers to address relevant issues related to the range, magnitude, forcing, and predictability of abrupt climate change events, University of Maine Amount $376,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Tom Allen (D-ME)
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME)
Former Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME)
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Locations Orono, Maine Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Turtle Protection Funding/Gulf of Mexico Grouper Fishery Amount $250,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) Locations Miami, Florida Recipients National Marine Fisheries Service Southeast Fisheries Science Center
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Trawl Survey-Chesapeake Bay, to establish population assessments of juvenile marine and estuarine fish and invertebrates Amount $446,500 Sponsors Former Sen. John Warner (R-VA)
Former Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA)
Former Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA)
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Locations Chesapeake Bay, Virginia Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Training the Next Generation Weather Forecasters Amount $180,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Mike Honda (D-CA) Locations San Jose, California Recipients San Jose State University
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description To work with the University of Massachusetts and the National Science Foundation, under the umbrella of the Collaborative Adapting Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA) program, to conduct a study to determine the applicability to northeastern Wyoming and other regions the feasibility of integrating a number of small-scale Doppler radar technologies into future National Weather Service observing systems Amount $94,000 Sponsors No sponsor indicated Locations Massachusetts Recipients University of Massachusetts Amherst; National Science Foundation
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Tornado and Hurricane Operations and Research, to improve detection, tracking, and forecasting of tornadic thunderstorms and land-falling hurricanes in the Southeast United States, University of Alabama at Huntsville Amount $846,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) Locations Huntsville, Alabama Recipients

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