www.obamasucks.tv

"And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people

who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment

as a way to explain their frustrations."

-- Barack Obama, April 2, 2008

► ► StimUwaste

A noun invented by me, John Brown. It means money BORROWED (from China) and then spent on things that did nothing to CREATE jobs for Americans, or spent on frivolous things and pork marks.

Another name for Democrats, how about Spend-O-Crats?

This list is so you have many good reasons to fire everyone

from both/all parties that voted for the StimUwaste pork package.

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#61-#70 - Total amount wasted =$9,826,584

Jobs reported: 10.82

Cost per job = $908,187

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Congressman NOT linked to this waste:

http://broun.house.gov/

(r) GA-10

Actually, Broun looks like one of the good guys, unlike the (R) Rep. Porkatello or (Rino) Cao with 428 million in earmarks.

04.26.10 BROUN: Reviving the balanced-budget amendment

04.21.10 Broun Receives Taxpayers’ Friend Award

U.S. Representative Paul Broun, M.D. (GA-10) yesterday received the “Taxpayers’ Friend

04.14.10 Broun Calls for Earmark Moratorium

Instead blame Hank Johnson GA-4

that voted for the StimUwaste and Obama Care.

#61

Amount: $394,076

Jobs Created: 0

Cost per job: $394,076

"Understanding Lithospheric Suturing and Passive Margin Development Beneath the Southeastern U.S."

Translation: You are going to pay students to study fossils and rocks millions of years old buried under the state of Georgia. That sure is job creation!

"We are developing educational materials that use this research project to build understanding of concepts such as continental collision, mountain building, and continental break-up."

Think we can export this to China? When I was a kid, we called this a hobby.

Link: recovery.gov (click here)

UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). At the culmination of the lithospheric accretion that built the Appalachian Mountains (250-320 million years ago) the lithosphere of another continent (Gondwana) collided with proto-North America. The suture between these two lithospheres is delineated in the crust beneath southern Georgia by variations in fossils, rock types and ages, and a zone of southward dipping reflectors imaged by seismic reflection data. However, the location and geometry of the suture in the mantle is unknown. The goal of this project is to determine the position and shape of the lithospheric suture in the mantle, and to measure any contrasts in crust and mantle physical and chemical properties across the suture. 85 EarthScope USArray Flexible Array broadband stations are being deployed in two N-S linear arrays that straddle the suture. One line stretches from North Carolina to the coast of the Florida panhandle. The other extends from South Carolina into central Florida. These stations, together with the stations of the EarthScope USArray Transportable Array, will record seismic waves from around the globe. These data will be analyzed to measure three-dimensional variations in isotropic and anisotropic wave velocities, and the velocity models will be interpreted in terms of temperature, rock composition (including volatile content), and rock deformation fabrics. This research will address a series of fundamental questions. How does the crustal suture connect to mantle structures? Did mantle accretion occur on shallow dipping shear zones, or did it occur at least in part on more vertical contacts that imply horizontal shortening over a broad depth range? If dipping mantle interfaces exist, do they represent relict subducted lithosphere, or are they shear zones unrelated to prior subduction? What does anisotropy in seismic velocities imply about the distribution of deformation during accretion? What was the direction of subduction associated with the collision of Gondwana and Laurentia? Continental break-up followed the lithospheric collision, leading to the opening of the Atlantic Ocean. How was the continental lithosphere affected by this episode of extension, rifting and magmatism? Is there evidence for delamination of the lithosphere? What are the present-day patterns of flow in the weak mantle asthenosphere that underlies the lithosphere? This project is directly supporting the education and training of graduate and undergraduate students. We are developing educational materials that use this research project to build understanding of concepts such as continental collision, mountain building, and continental break-up. Experiment results will be used in our undergraduate and graduate classes, and in outreach to schools in the vicinity of our home institutions in Georgia, North Carolina, and Rhode Island.

Award Number 0844154 Funding Agency National Science Foundation

Total Award Amount $394,076 Project Location - City Athens

Award Date 08/14/2009 Project Location - State GA

Project Status Not Started Project Location - Zip 306020000

Jobs Reported 0.00 Congressional District 10

Place of Performance Country USA

Recipient Name UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.

Recipient DUNS Number 004315578

Recipient Address 617-621 BOYD GRADUATE STUDIES BLDG

Recipient City ATHENS

Recipient State Georgia

Recipient Zip 306021234

Congressional District 10

Project Title Collaborative Research: Understanding Lithospheric Suturing and Passive Margin Development Beneath the Southeastern U.S.

Quarterly Activities/Project Description See award description. Does not start until January 2010.

Jobs Created 0.00

Description of Jobs Created Not started

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Congressman linked to this waste:

http://www.house.gov/capuano/

(D) MA-08

His guy's face keeps making the list! Maybe he smiles so much because he enjoys knowing he has helped sell out your grand children's future.

#62

Amount: $1,048,994

Jobs Created: 4.92 (I am calling it zero - reason below)

Cost per job: $213,210

"The primary objective of this research is to construct a new generation of instrumentation capable of establishing simultaneous measurement of the primary isotopes ... which will come to rely even more on scientists whose training and philosophy is centered on the physical sciences in the service of key societal objectives."

Translation: You are paying students to develop toys to measure dirt at the north pole. In school we use to call this a science project, like a baking soda volcano. Now everyone is Phineas & Ferb and lies calling this job creation. Ask that rep. how we can export this to India?

Link: recovery.gov (click here)

HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF

Title: MRI: Development of a New Instrument to Observe Isotopic Fluxes of CH4 and CO2 from Arctic Melt Regions, to Link Carbon Fluxes, Climate Feedbacks and Sea Level Rise. New developments in the physical sciences are poised to make critically important contributions to pressing needs of society—particularly in the arena linking global energy options with constraints imposed by irreversible changes to Earth’s climate. The irreversible nature of carbon release from melt zones in the Arctic constitutes one of the most formidable feedbacks in the climate system. While global industry adds some 8 gigatons (Gt) of carbon from fossil fuel combustion to the atmosphere each year, these northern hemisphere (NH) permafrost structures contain upwards of 1000 Gt of available methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2). Clearly, the release of just a very small fraction of the permafrost reservoir or the even more immense oceanic reservoir would constitute a powerful climate forcing, the magnitude of which could systematically exceed the amount of carbon released to date by the burning of fossil fuels. The primary objective of this research is to construct a new generation of instrumentation capable of establishing simultaneous measurement of the primary isotopes of methane and carbon dioxide emitted from the carbon reservoirs in the high latitude permafrost regions of the NH as these systems melt with the advance of increasing temperatures. The determination of the flux of these carbon isotopes from the carbon reservoirs of the soil, permafrost, and clathrate structures of the Arctic is a critically important set of observations that is needed for the prediction of both the rate and irreversibility of the climate forcing resulting from the flow of heat into these systems. This instrumentation program reflects highly interdisciplinary nature of climate research at Harvard that directly links faculty, postdoctoral scientists, professional staff, graduate and undergraduate students across the Departments of Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS), Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB), and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), and engages the Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE). These new observations will involve highly collaborative activities with colleagues studying the fusion of in situ data with regional models, with colleagues studying the biogeochemistry of carbon dioxide and methane release from reservoirs at mid and high latitudes, with colleagues studying the paleorecord, with colleagues involved in developing computer modeling strategies for climate forecasting, and with the large community of undergraduates and graduate students at Harvard and at other universities across the country. Student-level engagement from concept to completion is crucial, not only to the successful construction and deployment of the proposed carbon isotope instrument, but to the broader scientific future of this Nation, which will come to rely even more on scientists whose training and philosophy is centered on the physical sciences in the service of key societal objectives. Because of the scale of the carbon flux problem, the design of the instrument will be made freely available to the broader climate research community.

AWARD OVERVIEW

Award Number 0922596 Funding Agency National Science Foundation

Total Award Amount $1,048,994 Project Location - City Cambridge

Award Date 08/03/2009 Project Location - State MA

Project Status Less Than 50% Completed Project Location - Zip 021383846

Jobs Reported 4.92 Congressional District 08

Place of Performance Country USA

Recipient Name HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF

Recipient DUNS Number 082359691

Recipient Address 1350 MASS AVE STE 600

Recipient City CAMBRIDGE

Recipient State Massachusetts

Recipient Zip 021383846

Congressional District 08

Place of Performance Country US

Required to Report Top 5 Highly Compensated Officials No

Projects and Jobs Information

Project Title MRI: Development of a New Instrument to Observe Isotopic Fluxes of CH4 and CO2 from Arctic Melt Regions, to Link Carbon Fluxes, Climate Feedbacks and Sea Level Rise

Project Status Less Than 50% Completed

Final Project Report Submitted No

Project Activities Description Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

Quarterly Activities/Project Description This grant was awarded in early August with a start date of 8/1/09. During this short period preliminary work was begun in the laboratory with construction of a breadboard methane measurement instrument. The preliminary data is very encouraging. In parallel, discussions have begun with the two vendors capable of producing quantum cascade lasers having the appropriate characteristics as light sources for the detection and measurement of both methane and carbon dioxide and their isotopes. An effort to miniaturize the onboard data system required by this program was also started.

Jobs Created 4.92

Description of Jobs Created Mechanical Engineer, Senior Electrical Engineer, Electrical Engineer, Software Engineer, Senior Electrical Technician, Post Doctoral Fellow, Research Assistant. This research brings together scientists and engineers in a very unique way to develop and support the cutting edge instrumentation needed to address the most critical problems in climate science. As with other instruments built in the Anderson group, this project will merge a scientific team consisting of an undergraduate student, a graduate student, and two postdoctoral research associates with a staff of computer, mechanical, and electrical engineers in order to produce the fully integrated carbon flux instrument. Students and postdoctoral researchers will be involved in the initial development of the laboratory instrument prototype as well as the design of the field instrument. While our engineering staff builds the circuit boards, students are involved in the testing, refining, and integration of the electronics with the hardware system. They also are involved with the testing of the hardware and software components and integrating them with the opto-mechanical design. This is important, as it will be the postdoctoral scientists and especially the graduate students who will be responsible for the deployment and operation of the instrument. As this instrument will be collecting data over many years, ensuring the training of graduate students is paramount for ensuring the traceability of the dataset. These same graduate students will also be responsible for analyzing the raw data and using the derived fluxes to better understand the role of arctic carbon release in the global climate system. Additionally, they will archive the data for other researchers to use thereby allowing the dataset from this instrument to be integrated with other datasets from other universities and research institutions.

Award Information

Award Date 08/03/2009

Award Number 0922596

Awarding Agency Name National Science Foundation

Amount of Award $1,048,994

Funds Invoiced/Received $81,656

Expenditure Amount $174,138

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Congressman linked to this waste:

http://connolly.house.gov/

(D) VA-11

#63

Amount: $1,295,655

Jobs Created: 9.00

Cost per job: $143,961

Translation: This is one sweet deal, our Federal government which are basically highly paid consultants, hire more paid consultants. A sweet deal for "YOUR RECRUITING COMPANY, Inc." The question is how are they tied to the above Rep.? No jobs created, but, I am sure 9.00 porkers were retained.

Link: recovery.gov (click here)

YOUR RECRUITING COMPANY, INC.

The contractor shall provide all personnel and supervision necessary to perform acquisition, contract management and project management support services. Services to be provided include, but are not limited to support for: --Acquisition planning --Analyses of Independent Government Cost Estimates (IGGE) --Audit support --Contract administration --Contract Close-out support --Cost/Pricing analysis --Development of evaluation plans --Development of quality assurance surveillance plans --Development of solicitation packages --Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request support --Invoice processing --Network transition planning and cut-over activities --Post-award conference support --Preparation and assembly of contract files --Preparation and submission of correspondence --Preparation and submission of pre/post negotiation position and Contract Award—documentation --Preparation and submission of updates to contract status report --Preparation of and analysis of Statements of Work (SOW), Statements of Objectives (SOO), and Performance Work Statements (PWS) --Protest support --Record and File management --Task order management --Technical, business, and price proposal evaluation support Contractors may be required to utilize various government systems during performance of work under this contract. Inherently governmental services as identified in FAR Subpart 7.503 are prohibited. It is the responsibility of the task order Contracting Officer placing the order to make this determination. Financial management services are not within the scope of this procurement.

Clarification of Codes

Award Number GS10F0143U Funding Agency Department of the Interior

Total Award Amount $1,295,655 Project Location - City Albuquerque

Award Date 07/24/2009 Project Location - State NM

Project Status Less Than 50% Completed Project Location - Zip 871042303

Jobs Reported 9.00 Congressional District 01

Place of Performance Country USA

Recipient Name YOUR RECRUITING COMPANY, INC.

Recipient DUNS Number 031777167

Recipient Address 3877 FAIRFAX RIDGE RD STE 300C

Recipient City FAIRFAX

Recipient State Virginia

Recipient Zip 220307425

Congressional District 11

Jobs Created 9.00

Description of Jobs Created Sr. Contract Specialist III Provide expertise in advising agency directors and senior staff members on contract administration which may include acquisition planning, RFP/IFB preparation, market research/analysis, selection and administration of terms & conditions, cost and price analysis, negotiations, preparation of contract modifications, evaluation of performance, contract termination, and contract closeout. Individuals as required will have experience with Cost Reimbursable, Time and Materials, Commercial and or GSA Federal Supply Schedule contracting. Individuals will also possess working knowledge of the FAR and DFAR and agency supplements as required.

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Congressman linked to this waste:

http://matheson.house.gov/

(D) UT-02

#64

Amount: $427,267

Jobs Created: 0

Cost per job: $427,267

Translation: None needed, just read it, and then ask the congressman why we borrowed money from China for this. If the Zebra Fish get lucky maybe they can be made deaf using classical music instead of rap.

"ANALYSIS OF HAIR CELL REGENERATION IN ZEBRAFISH"

Link: recovery.gov (click here)

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE

Agency Name: Department of Health and Human Services Project Location: SALT LAKE CITY

Award Number: RC1DC010631 Project Location - State: UT

Funding Amount: $427,267 Project Location - Zip Code:

Ending Date: 08/31/2011 Congressional District:

Recipient Name: UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE

Recipient Address: 201 PRESIDENTS CIR RM 408

Recipient City: SALT LAKE CITY

Recipient State: UT

Recipient Zip Code: 841129023

Congressional District: UT-02

DESCRIPTION OF WORK/SERVICE PERFORMED

ANALYSIS OF HAIR CELL REGENERATION IN ZEBRAFISH

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Congressman linked to this waste:

http://matheson.house.gov/

UT-02

#65

Amount: $1,302,194

Jobs Created: 0

Cost per job: $1,302,194

Translation: Besides being wasteful and not "shovel ready" unless you count this as horse poop, there is something creepy about this and the next one put together. Ask your congressman to explain these two together. Maybe you can call him "Big Brother"?

"DEVELOPMENT OF A STATEWIDE MASTER PERSON INDEX"

and

"TOOL FOR ANNOTATION AND ANALYSES OF HUMAN WHOLE-GENOME SEQUENCE VARIATION DATA"

Link: recovery.gov (click here)

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE

Agency Name: Department of Health and Human Services Project Location: SALT LAKE CITY

Award Number: RC2LM010798 Project Location - State: UT

Funding Amount: $1,302,194 Project Location - Zip Code:

Ending Date: 09/29/2011 Congressional District:

RECIPIENT INFORMATION (AWARD)

Recipient Name: UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE

Recipient Address: 201 PRESIDENTS CIR RM 408

Recipient City: SALT LAKE CITY

Recipient State: UT

Recipient Zip Code: 841129023

Congressional District: UT-02

DESCRIPTION OF WORK/SERVICE PERFORMED

DEVELOPMENT OF A STATEWIDE MASTER PERSON INDEX

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Congressman linked to this waste:

http://matheson.house.gov/

UT-02

#66

Amount: $400,000

Jobs Created: 0

Cost per job: $400,000

Translation: Besides being wasteful and not "shovel ready" unless you count this as horse poop, there is something creepy about this and the previous one put together. Ask your congressman to explain these two together. Maybe you can call him "Big Brother"?

"DEVELOPMENT OF A STATEWIDE MASTER PERSON INDEX"

and

"TOOL FOR ANNOTATION AND ANALYSES OF HUMAN WHOLE-GENOME SEQUENCE VARIATION DATA"

Link: recovery.gov (click here)

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE

Agency Name: Department of Health and Human Services Project Location: SALT LAKE CITY

Award Number: RC2HG005619 Project Location - State: UT

Funding Amount: $400,000 Project Location - Zip Code:

Ending Date: 08/31/2011 Congressional District:

RECIPIENT INFORMATION (AWARD)

Recipient Name: UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE

Recipient Address: 201 PRESIDENTS CIR RM 408

Recipient City: SALT LAKE CITY

Recipient State: UT

Recipient Zip Code: 841129023

Congressional District: UT-02

DESCRIPTION OF WORK/SERVICE PERFORMED

TOOL FOR ANNOTATION AND ANALYSES OF HUMAN WHOLE-GENOME SEQUENCE VARIATION DATA

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Congressman linked to this waste:

http://matheson.house.gov/

UT-02

#67

Amount: $2,590,177

Jobs Created: .40

Cost per job: $6,475,442

Translation: total scam, you have to read this to get the full idea of how the tax payer was scammed out of $2 million to benefit CVR and the corrupt links to Al Gore.

http://www.obamasucks.tv/docs/tp39.html

Link: recovery.gov (click here)

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE

The industrial source of the CO@ is from the CVR Energy?s (NYSE: CVI) Coffeyville Resources Nitrogen Fertilizer facility. The marketer of the CO2 supply, Blue Source, LLC, will provide a consistent, compressed, injection-ready, high-purity CO2 stream via pipeline to the Golden Lane oil fields. Approximately 40 million cubic feet per day (average) of high purity (~98%) CO2 will be utilized to flood the oil fields. CVR Energy?s nitrogen fertilizer business includes two petroleum coke gasification facilities?using one as a hot back-up to lime disruptions. Coffeyville Resources Nitrogen Fertilizers is located adjacent to the 115,000 barrel per day refinery in Coffeyville, Kansas. The plant, operational since 2001, is the only large-scale commercial ammonia facility in North America that uses low-cost petroleum coke?as opposed to natural gas?to produce nitrogen fertilizers. At current natural gas prices, the nitrogen fertilizer business is also the lowest cost producer of ammonia and urea ammonium nitrate (UAN) in North America. As a result, the facility is not subject to the kind of periodic economic closures that often occur at domestic, natural gas-based ammonia plants during periods of high natural gas prices.

Award Number DE-FE0001942 Funding Agency Department of Energy

Total Award Amount $2,590,177 Project Location - City SALT LAKE CITY

Award Date 11/16/2009 Project Location - State UT

Project Status Less Than 50% Completed Project Location - Zip 841128930

Jobs Reported 0.40 Congressional District 02

Recipient Name UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE

Recipient DUNS Number 009095365

Recipient Address 201 PRESIDENTS CIR RM 408

Recipient City SALT LAKE CITY

Recipient State Utah

Recipient Zip 841129023

Congressional District 02

Place of Performance Country US

Project Title INTEGRATED MID-CONTINENT CARBON CAPTURE, SEQUESTRATION AND ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY

Project Status Less Than 50% Completed

Final Project Report Submitted No

Project Activities Description Research & Public Policy Analysis

Quarterly Activities/Project Description SEE AWARD DESCRIPTION

Jobs Created 0.40

Description of Jobs Created Job Titles: Instructional/Research Staff;Project Administrator;Research Assistant Professor;Research Scientist; Vice President Business Development Vice President External Affairs Vice President General Counsel Accounting Manager

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Congressman linked to this waste:

http://matheson.house.gov/

UT-02

#68

Amount: $957,467

Jobs Created: 0.42

Cost per job: $2,279,683

Translation: You are going to pay an egghead like me to design software, even though this exists on the shelf already, while you work at a real job. Or worse, lose your house because you are part of the 10+% unemployed. We borrowed money from China for this? Think with their 1 billion people they couldn't produce this for $5,000 with their slave labor and still make a profit? Think we can sell this to India?

Just search the Internet for "workflow software Unix" for the free stuff and "workflow software Microsoft" for the commercial stuff. Absolute waste of tax payer money!

Link: recovery.gov (click here)

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE

"This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5)."This proposal will address the provenance of computational processes and the data they manipulate. These are of fundamental importance in maintaining scientific process. Provenance (also referred to as audit trail, lineage, and pedigree) captures information about the steps used to generate a given data product. Such information provides documentation that is key to preserving the data and determining the data's quality and authorship as well as interpreting, reproducing, sharing and publishing results. It also seeks to produce algorithms and techniques for extracting and reusing useful knowledge embedded in workflow specifications. Workflows and workflow-based systems have proven to be successful in capturing computational tasks at various levels of detail and automatically record provenance information. They have recently emerged as an alternative to ad-hoc approaches to assembling computational tasks that are widely used in the scientific community. In order to effectively use provenance information and to deal with a potential information overload, we need novel tools and techniques that help users. The ability to explore the knowledge available in the provenance of computational tasks has the potential to foster large-scale collaborations, expedite scientific training in disciplinary and inter-disciplinary settings, as well as to reduce the lag time between data acquisition and scientific insight.

Award Number 0905385 Funding Agency National Science Foundation

Total Award Amount $957,467 Project Location - City SALT LAKE CITY

Award Date 06/26/2009 Project Location - State UT

Project Status Less Than 50% Completed Project Location - Zip 841128930

Jobs Reported 0.42 Congressional District 02

Place of Performance Country USA

Recipient Name UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE

Recipient DUNS Number 009095365

Recipient Address 201 PRESIDENTS CIR RM 408

Recipient City SALT LAKE CITY

Recipient State Utah

Recipient Zip 841129023

Congressional District 02

Place of Performance Country US

Required to Report Top 5 Highly Compensated Officials No

Project Title III:MEDIUM: PROVENANCE ANALYTICS: EXPLORING COMPUTATIONAL TASKS AND THEIR HISTORY

Project Status Less Than 50% Completed

Final Project Report Submitted No

Project Activities Description Research & Public Policy Analysis

Quarterly Activities/Project Description SEE AWARD DESCRIPTION

Jobs Created 0.42

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Congressman linked to this waste:

http://www.davis.house.gov/

(D) IL-07

#69

Amount: $411,608

Jobs Created: 1.0

Cost per job: $411,608

Translation: I am glad Chicago is not considered a cesspool of corruption, otherwise I might think paying someone $411,000 at a planetarium to gaze at stars was a complete waste of money, borrowed from China, and that it is not doing any stimulating job creation.

One thing good about Chicago ... it gave us gov. blago -AND- obama.

Link: recovery.gov (click here)

ADLER PLANETARIUM, THE

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS), located at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory basecamp of Mt. Hopkins, AZ, became fully operational in the Spring of 2007. VERITAS probes the extreme physics of sources such as the jets of Active Galactic Nuclei, Supernovae Remnants and microquasars. The discovery of three new blazars and the detection of several other sources during the 2007-2008 season proves the potential of the VERITAS array. In the following years, VERITAS is expected to further expand the catalog of Very High Energy (VHE) gamma-ray sources in the Northern Hemisphere and also to contribute significantly in multiwavelength (from radio through optical, UV and X-rays to VHE gamma rays) observing campaigns. It will also be a very important complement to the Fermi Large Area Telescope launched by NASA in June 2008. This award will provide the Adler Planetarium base support for the staff's VERITAS science and service efforts over the next three years. The Adler group's service efforts are focused on further development and maintenance of the VERITAS optical pointing monitor and related systems in order to improve the effective resolution and sensitivity of the VERITAS telescopes. The analysis efforts will be in studies of Active Galactic Nuclei and Starburst Galaxies. The group will continue to support multiwavelength and multi-messenger (neutrino) studies complementing the TeV data obtained with VERITAS. For the broader impacts of the program, the PI is the project leader for the VERITAS Education and Public Outreach (EPO) program. The Adler group will be involved in creating content for a general audience website, as well as materials for on site demonstrations and exhibit kiosks. The Adler Planetarium's Space Visualization Laboratory (SVL) coordinates production of the VERITAS interactives, but most of the work is contributed by students or post doctorals from individual VERITAS groups. Through these efforts, the VERITAS post-doctoral associates will have the opportunity to learn best-practices in EPO techniques.

AWARD OVERVIEW

Award Number 0900928 Funding Agency National Science Foundation

Total Award Amount $411,608 Project Location - City Chicago

Award Date 09/02/2009 Project Location - State IL

Project Status Less Than 50% Completed Project Location - Zip 606052403

Jobs Reported 1.00 Congressional District 07

Place of Performance Country USA

Recipient Name ADLER PLANETARIUM, THE

Recipient DUNS Number 083081802

Recipient Address 1300 S LAKE SHORE DR

Recipient City CHICAGO

Recipient State Illinois

Recipient Zip 606052403

Congressional District 07

Place of Performance Country US

Required to Report Top 5 Highly Compensated Officials No

Project Title TeV Studies of Active Galactic Nuclei and Starburst Galaxies with the VERITAS Gamma-ray Observatory

Project Status Less Than 50% Completed

Final Project Report Submitted No

Project Activities Description Astronomy & Astrophysics

Quarterly Activities/Project Description The following papers were published during the fourth quarter of 2009 by the VERITAS collaboration, of which the Adler Planetarium is a member: Radio Imaging of the Very-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emission Region in the Central Engine of a Radio Galaxy The VERITAS Collaboration, the VLBA 43 GHz M 87 Monitoring Team, the H.E.S.S. Collaboration, the MAGIC Collaboration, 2009, Science, 325, 444 Multiwavelength observations of a TeV-Flare from W Comae Acciari, V.A. et al., 2009. ApJ, 707, 612 VERITAS Upper Limit on the VHE Emission from the Radio Galaxy NGC 1275 Acciari, V.A. et al., 2009, ApJL, 706, L275 A connection between star formation activity and cosmic rays in the starburst galaxy M82 Acciari, V.A. et al., 2009, Nature, 462 Discovery of very high energy gamma rays from PKS 1424+240 and multiwavelength constraints on its redshift Acciari, V.A. et al., 2009, ApJL, 708, 100

Jobs Created 1.00

Description of Jobs Created Postdoctoral fellow: The VERITAS postdoctoral fellow participates in analysis relating to the Blazar Science Working Group including relevant modeling and simulations. Additionally, this position spends a significant portion of time at the VERITAS site taking data and assisting with image quality systems maintenance and measurements. The postdoctoral research fellow also spends some of their time in education and outreach activities related to VERITAS.

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Congressman linked to this waste:

http://matheson.house.gov/

UT-02

#60

Amount: $999,146

Jobs Created: 5.41 (I am calling it zero jobs - see below)

Cost per job: $999,146

Translation: Some more star gazing called job creation, while paying students to finish their doctorate degree in star gazing. Think we can sell this to China? Maybe if there is an invasion force from Andromeda, that we do not know about, that was mentioned on the Sci-Fi channel.

Or maybe you can ask your congressman if this was a buy-the-vote program for college students for Obama, or job creation for you, while you lose your home or languish on unemployment. Ask!

Link: recovery.gov (click here)

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). It will provide continued support to perform operations and to analyze data from the VERITAS Observatory. It will also support the group's role in the ongoing maintenance and upgrades of the VERITAS telescopes located at the F.L. Whipple Observatory in Amado, AZ. The Observatory uses an array of four 12-meter diameter Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) to record faint flashes of Cherenkov light generated by Very High Energy (VHE) gamma-rays interacting with the Earth's atmosphere. These gamma-rays provide a direct probe of relativistic, non-thermal process in jets associated with Active Galactic Nuclei. The group will use VERITAS observations to probe astrophysical phenomena such as starburst galaxies, low surface brightness companions to the Milky Way/Andromeda, and diffuse emission from the Galactic plane, a tracer of cosmic ray origin in our Galaxy. They will also pursue multi-wavelength observations and analysis of VERITAS data in conjunction with other surveys. The broader impacts of the program will include Education and Public Outreach programs. The group has been the driving force behind the creation of the state of Utah's first graduate Astronomy degree program and has created a regional/national consortium to develop and operate a new high altitude optical/IR observatory in Southern Utah.

Award Number 0856411 Funding Agency National Science Foundation

Total Award Amount $999,146 Project Location - City SALT LAKE CITY

Award Date 06/09/2009 Project Location - State UT

Project Status Less Than 50% Completed Project Location - Zip 841128930

Jobs Reported 5.41 Congressional District 02

Recipient Name UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE

Recipient DUNS Number 009095365

Recipient Address 201 PRESIDENTS CIR RM 408

Recipient City SALT LAKE CITY

Recipient State Utah

Recipient Zip 841129023

Congressional District 02