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Published
by the MU College of Agriculture,
Food and Natural Resources, Vol. 5, No. 2, March/April 06
    
February Awards
March Awards
Grants
Awarded February 2006
There
were a total of 38 grants awarded for February 2006.
Note: Some
of the dollar amounts listed below represent awards that span more
than one reporting period.
| PI |
Project Title |
Agency |
Amount |
| Chris Barnett |
Maintenance of the Public Drinking Water Branch Source Water Inventory/ Vulnerability Assessment Website |
Missouri Department of Natural Resources |
$9,386 |
| Chris Barnett |
UMMV CESU (18) Digitize and Provide Access to Lincoln Home National Historic Site Photo Archives |
National Park Service |
$88,000 |
| Shu Cole |
Designing and Conducting a Toursim Development Survey for the City of Columbia, Missouri |
City of Columbia, Mo. |
$24,658 |
| Ronald Drobney |
Reducing sampling bias for acoustic monitoring of bats using Anabat detectors |
Missouri Department of Conservation |
$31,150 |
| Neil Fox |
Tall Tower Investigations of Southwest Missouri Winds |
Empire District Electricity Co |
$80,006 |
| Leigh Fredrickson |
Population ecology of wood ducks and hooded mergansers in southern forested habitats |
Missouri Department of Conservation |
$10,000 |
| David Galat |
Movement and habitat use of paddlefish in and near the lower Osage River |
Missouri Department of Conservation |
$66,985 |
| David Galat |
Missouri River post-flood evaluation synthesis |
Missouri Department of Conservation |
$27,500 |
| David Galat |
Use of lower Missouri River sandbars by small-bodied fishes |
Missouri Department of Conservation |
$31,115 |
| Gene Garrett |
Tree Improvement Specialist Position |
Missouri Department of Conservation |
$97,044 |
| Gene Garrett |
Agroforestry Technology Transfer Specialist Position |
Missouri Department of Conservation |
$61,500 |
| Gene Garrett |
Developing and transferring science in support of agroforestry practices |
Agricultural Research Service |
$280,622 |
| Matthew Gompper |
A comparative study of survey methodologies for the plains spotted skunk in Missouri |
Missouri Department of Conservation |
$56,383 |
| Hong He |
Developing a Computer Support System to Assist Forest Management in Decision-Making |
Forest Service |
$125,000 |
| Mickey Heitmeyer |
MDC GAYLORD LAB Big River/Wetland Field Station |
Missouri Department of Conservation |
$83,000 |
| Thomas Johnson |
Toward a Policy of Multfunctional Agriculture and Rural Development |
University of Highlands and Islands |
$26,596 |
| Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes |
AgBioForum: Informing the Public Debate on Agrifood Biotechnology |
Illinois-Missouri Biotech Alliance |
$50,000 |
| Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes |
Unitized Agreements- EMAC |
Mid-America Research and Development Foundation |
$79,000 |
| Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes |
Maximizing the Value of Corn Biotechnologies in Ethanol Production |
Illinois-Missouri Biotech Alliance |
$102,894 |
| Andy Kendig |
Improving Cotton Yields on Sandy Soils of Southeast Missouri |
Cotton Incorporated |
$70,000 |
| Marc Linit |
Plant Diagnostic Center Laboratory |
Michigan State University |
$205,414 |
| William Meyers |
Cooperative Elasticity Database |
Department of Agriculture |
$5,000 |
| Joshua Millspaugh |
Scholarship: Resource Selection by Black-Footed Ferrets |
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation |
$5,000 |
| Joshua Millspaugh |
Develop, monitor and evaluate mourning dove harvest management opportunities in an agroforestry complex |
Missouri Department of Conservation |
$76,000 |
| Mark Morgan |
Visitor Use Study:Ozark National Scenic Riverways |
National Park Service |
$40,386 |
| Douglas B. Noltie |
Development of laboratory methods for propagating the endangered Topeka shiner (Notropis topeka) |
Geological Survey |
$44,300 |
| Anthony Prato |
SWP Tool - Development of a Watershed Comparison and Evaluation Tool |
Missouri Department of Natural Resources |
$133,335 |
| Charles Rabeni |
Movement and habitat use by flathead and blue catfish in Missouri River and selected tributaries |
Mo. Department of Conservation |
$78,706 |
| Charles Rabeni |
Rapid response to changes in Missouri Water Quality Regulations by assessing tributary status |
National Park Service |
$58,212 |
| Charles Rabeni |
Effects of sediment on benthic invertebrates and fishes |
Missouri Department of Conservation |
$47,000 |
| Charles Rabeni |
Freshwater mussels at Marais des Cygnes NWR: Sediment load, microhabitat, minimum in-stream flows. |
Geological Survey |
$20,900 |
| Charles Rabeni |
A methodological framework for ecoregional scale landbird conservation planning in forested avifaunal biomes |
Geological Survey |
$121,108 |
| Timothy Reinbott |
Improve Propagation Techniques, Conduct Research and Increase Landowner Outreach and Agricultural Applications of Select Native Plant Species |
Missouri Department of Conservation |
$50,000 |
| Mark Ryan |
Baltimore Ecosystems Study: Bird Species Composition and Abundance |
Institute of Ecosystem Studies |
$13,657 |
| Corinne Valdivia |
Adapting to change in the Andean Highlands-Practices and strategies to address climate and market risks in vulnerable agro-ecosystems |
Virginia Polytech Inst and State University |
$44,742 |
| Charles Vessell |
2005-2007 State Park Agenda Professional Development |
Unlisted Sponsor |
$25,119 |
| William Wiebold |
Application of Advanced Genetics to Enhance Soybean Production |
Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council (MSMC) |
$40,208 |
| Zhanyuan Zhang |
Systematically assigning gene functions in soybean employing RNAi technology |
Illinois-Missouri Biotech Alliance |
$58,914 |
Grants Awarded March 2006
There were a total of 26 grants awarded for March 2006. Note: Some of the dollar amounts listed below represent awards that span more than one reporting period.
| PI |
Project Title |
Agency |
Amount |
| Wayne Bailey |
Western corn rootworm, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte, beetle production on commercialized or soon-to-be commercialized transgenic corn rootworm events in Missouri |
Monsanto Corporation |
$25,000 |
| Georgia Davis |
Improving Maize Genome Resources for Cereal Crop Improvement |
Agricultural Research Service |
$20,000 |
| Neil Fox |
KC Power and Light Wind Studies |
Kansas City Power and Light |
$65,324 |
| David Galat |
Science Panel support for Upper Mississippi River system (UMRS) navigation and ecosystem sustainability program |
Geological Survey |
$20,211 |
| David Galat |
River restoration in the upper Mississippi basin: a scientific synthesis to inform policy and grass-roots actions |
Unlisted Sponsor |
$21,000 |
| Gene Garrett |
Shade effects on Ozark big bluestem accessions with temperate agroforestry potential. |
Department of Agriculture |
$12,000 |
| Michael Gold |
Meeting Green Infrastructure Needs in Metro Kansas City through Agroforestry |
Mid America Regional Council (MARC) |
$29,400 |
| Thomas Guilfoyle |
Auxin Response Factors and Auxin-Regulated Gene Expression |
National Science Foundation |
$153,359 |
| Richard Guyette |
Fire Regimes Assessment, Arnold AFB |
CH2M HILL |
$176,693 |
| Richard Guyette |
Fire history of the national parks, monuments, and historic sites in the Great Plains |
Geological Survey |
$82,000 |
| Jack Jones |
Statewide Lake Assessment Project |
Missouri Department of Natural Resources |
$310,738 |
| Carol Lorenzen |
National Beef Tenderness Survey 2005 |
Texas A&M University |
$13,500 |
| Carol Lorenzen |
National Beef Market Basket Survey - 2005 |
National Cattlemen's Beef Association |
$3,000 |
| Azlin Mustapha |
Probiotic soymilk - inhibitory effects against Helicobacter pylori |
Mid-America Research and Development Foundation |
$47,107 |
| Azlin Mustapha |
Real-time Monitoring of Cross-contamination of Listeria monocytogenes Between Equipment/Environment
and Ready-to-eat Meat Products via a GFP Reporter |
Missouri Beef Industry Council |
$30,583 |
| Azlin Mustapha |
Rapid Quantification of Culturable and Viable-But-Nonculturable Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Beef Products Using EMA-Real Time PCR |
Missouri Beef Industry Council |
$30,383 |
| Henry Nguyen |
Metabolic Profiling of Soybean: Identificaton of Novel Compounds for Human Health |
Mid-America Research and Development Foundation |
$79,304 |
| Henry Nguyen |
Functional Genomics of Root Growth and Root Signals Under Drought |
National Science Foundation |
$1,157,057 |
| Henry Nguyen |
National Center for Soybean Biotechnology at the University of Missouri-Columbia |
Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service |
$1,503,604 |
| Charles Rabeni |
Effects of suspended and deposited sediment on benthic invertebrates and fishes |
Missouri Department of Conservation |
$3,024 |
| Mark Ryan |
Effect of incidental takings on the population viability of Great Plains piping plovers |
Geological Survey |
$22,725 |
| Robert Schnabel |
Identification of QTN influencing milk production and female fertility in Holsteins |
Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service |
$456,737 |
| Ken Schneeberger |
Illinois-Missouri Biotechnology Alliance |
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
$78,994 |
| Jerry Taylor |
Characterization of 50,000 SNPs and development of high-throughput assays for linkage and linkage disequilibrium mapping in cattle and sheep |
Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service |
$900,999 |
| Corinne Valdivia |
Adapting to change in the Andean Highlands-Practices and strategies to address climate and market risks in vulnerable agro-ecosystems |
Virginia Polytech Institute and State University |
$221,781 |
| Zhanyuan Zhang |
Development of transgenic soybean (Glycine max) for expression analysis of candidate promoters and genes |
Dow AgroSciences LLC |
$75,000 |
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