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James L Best
University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign
$955,040
Attributed
$2,348,084
Total exposure
13
Grants
8
Lead (contact PI)
Attributed= this PI's even-split share of every grant they're on (the fair, additive number). Exposure = full size of all those grants.
Funding over time
peak $661.3K · FY2008–25$1M$750K$500K$250K$0
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Funding mix
By agency
NSF$2,348,084 · 13
By mechanism
—$2,348,084 · 13
Top collaborators
- Marcelo H Garcia6 shared
- Bruce L Rhoads5 shared
- Kenneth T Christensen3 shared
- Gary Parker2 shared
- Bruce W Fouke1 shared
- Gregory S Elliott1 shared
- Joanna M Austin1 shared
- Leonardo P Chamorro1 shared
Grant awards (13)
Quantifying unsteady shear effects on clay-loaded media: stability and surface roughness implications$349,943
· FY2025 · ENG
Collaborative Research: NSFGEO-NERC: The Origin of Aeolian Dunes (TOAD)$29,913
· FY2018 · GEO · contact PI
Collaborative Research: Coordinated Experiments and Simulations of Near-Surface Turbulent Flow over Barchan Dunes: Informing Models of Dune Migration and Interaction$29,063
· FY2016 · ENG · contact PI
Collaborative Research: Modifications of turbulent boundary layer structure by wall permeability and surface-subsurface interactions: an innovative experimental approach$313,862
· FY2012 · ENG · contact PI
Collaborative Research: Role of Interfacial Turbulence in Hyporheic Exchange and Fine Particle Dynamics$247,464
· FY2012 · GEO · contact PI
EAGER: Large-Scale Refractive-Index-Matched Flow Facility Support$100,000
· FY2012 · ENG
Fluvial Dynamics of Cutoffs and Abandoned Channel Development on Meandering Rivers$250,100
· FY2011 · SBE
RAPID: Mississippi Flood of 2011 - Investigation of Initial Impact on the Landscape$59,238
· FY2011 · GEO
Conference Support: 'Coherent Flow Structures in Geophysical Flows at the Earths Surface'$5,000
· FY2011 · GEO · contact PI
Morphodynamics of Complex Meander Bends on Large Rivers$306,271
· FY2010 · GEO · contact PI
Acquisition of a state-of-the-art, shallow water multibeam echo-sounding system at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC MBES)$456,706
· FY2009 · GEO · contact PI
SGER: Fluvial Dynamics of a Large-River Meander Cutoff$64,992
· FY2009 · SBE
Collaborative Research: A Field and Numerical Study of the Morphology, Flow, Sedimentary Processes, and Stability of Sand-Bed Fluvial Bifurcations$135,532
· FY2008 · GEO · contact PI