Funding for the current NSFS Program is supported by the CRUI program (Collaborative Research in Undergraduate Institutions).  Participating students must work on the funded research project with one of the following three faculty investigators from the Departments of Biological Sciences and Chemistry/Biochemistry at CSULB and the Department of Chemistry at CSULA.  Andrew Z. Mason,  Director NSFSP, Ph.D. Professor.  Department of Biological Sciences  California State University, Long Beach  1250 Bellflower Boulevard,  Long Beach, CA 90840, USA.  Office: (562) 985-5266  Email: zedmason@csulb.edu http://www.csulb.edu/~zedmason/index.html B.Sc., Zoology and Marine Zoology with Oceanography, University of Wales, UK. 1975  Ph.D., Cell Biology and Marine Biology, University of Wales, UK., 1979  Research Interests: Elucidating the cellular and molecular basis for the bioaccumulation, bioamplification and detoxification of anthropogenic xenobiotics and pollutants in marine invertebrates. Special emphasis on metal metabolism, detoxification and homeostasis in cells and determining the physiological and biochemical mechanism involved in inducing tolerance to pollutants in marine invertebrates Roger A. Acey,  Ph.D. Professor, Biochemistry  California State University, Long Beach  1250 Bellflower Boulevard,  Long Beach, CA 90840, USA.  Office: (562) 985-4945  Email: racey@csulb.edu http://www.chemistry.natsci.csulb.edu/racey.htm B.S., Chemistry, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 1969  Ph.D., Biochemistry, Wayne State University School of Medicine,Detroit, MI, 1977  Research Interests: Biochemical and genetic factors that control early embryonic development, in particular the effects of trace metal metabolism on gene transcription.  Feiming Zhou,  Ph.D. Assistant Professor  Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry  California State University, Los Angeles  5151 State University Dr.  Los Angeles CA 90032, USA.  Office: (323) 343-2300  Email: fzhou@calstatela.edu http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/fzhou/fzhou.htm Postdoctoral Research Associate: Oak Ridge National Lab. 1993-1995  Ph. D. University of Texas at Austin, 1993  B. S. Wuhan University, China, 1984  Research Interests: Characterization of chemically- and biologically-modified electrode surfaces utilizing voltammetry, quartz crystal nanobalance, and scanning-probe microscopy (atomic force microscope, scanning tunneling microscope, and scanning electrochemical microscopy). Trace metal analysis using atomic spectroscopic techniques (ICP-atomic emission spectroscopy and ICP-mass spectrometry) and separation techniques (ion chromatography and flow injection analysis).