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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