Published by the MU College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, Vol. 6, No. 4, July/August 07

Grants Awarded June and July 2007

There were a total of 58 grants awarded for the two months of June and July. Note: Some of the dollar amounts listed below represent awards that span more than one reporting period.

PI Project Title Agency Amount
Wayne Bailey Fall Army Worm (FAW) efficacy on field corn Syngenta Crop Protection Inc
$8,820
Chris Barnett Soil Map Digitization Project - Phase XIII Missouri Department of Natural Resources
$154,988
Chris Barnett Floodplain mapping for Laclede County, Missouri AMEC Earth and Environmental, Inc
$62,667
Kevin Bradley Dicamba Tolerant Soybean Trial Collaboration with University Researchers Monsanto Corporation
$2,000
Bruce Burdick Hundley-Whaley Service Center Department of Agriculture
$65,500
Seonghee Cho Improving Food Safety Through Systematic Need-Based Training: A Focus on the Hispanic Workforce in Restaurants Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service
$598,914
David Diamond Missouri Resource Assessment Partnership (MoRAP) - Missouri Department of Conservation - Aquatic Project Missouri Department of Conservation
$48,000
David Diamond Missouri Department of Conservation: Developing Ecological Landtypes and Ecological Site Descriptions in Concert with the Missouri Soil Survey. Missouri Department of Conservation
$78,473
Jeffre Firman Investigation on the effect of yeast culture on broiler and turkey performance under a coccidial challenge Diamond V Mills, Inc.
$59,915
Neil Fox Tall Tower Wind Study for Columbia City of Columbia, Mo.
$11,626
David Galat Fish use of passage facility and seasonal wetland pools at Eagle Bluffs Conservation Area Missouri Department of Conservation
$36,507
David Galat Movement and habitat use of paddlefish in and near the lower Osage River Missouri Department of Conservation
$95,525
David Galat Science Panel support for Upper Mississippi River system (UMRS) navigation and ecosystem sustainability program Geological Survey
$20,535
Gene Garrett Missouri Department of Economic Development, Community Development Block Grant (New Franklin/Hickman House Project) City of New Franklin
$250,000
Keith Goyne Changes in Soil Nutrient Cycling and Availability due to Different Forest Management Methods Missouri Department of Conservation
$45,734
Patrick Guinan Paper birch decline in the Niobrara Valley: Interactions of weather, microclimate and genetics Geological Survey
$14,381
Richard Guyette Interactions between management disturbances and forest fuels Forest Service
$97,000
Richard Guyette Multi millennia climate variability from ancient oak wood in the Midwest agricutltural ecosystem NSF DIRC GEOSCI
$98,349
Hong He Urban Sprawl and Its Ecological Impacts on Missouri Natural Landscapes - Spatial Dynamics and Temporal Trends Missouri Department of Conservation
$32,369
Jack Jones National Lakes Survey Field Sampling Support Tetra Tech, Inc
$108,039
Jack Jones Jones MDC Missouri Streams Missouri Department of Conservation
$3,675
Peter Klein Entrepreneurial and Organizational Responses to Biotechnology Innovation Illinois-Missouri Biotech Alliance
$65,000
Matthew Lucy An integrated approach for solving seasonal anestrus in swine. Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service
$448,288
Patrick Market

Career: Research on Convective Snow in the Central U.S.

NSF DIRC GEOSCI
$62,810
Seth Meyer Impact of Catastrophic Lock Failures on Mississippi and Illinois Rivers Illinois Chamber of Commerce Foundation
$66,290
Joshua Millspaugh Survival and Movements of Resident Adult and Released Captive-Raised Ozark and Eastern Hellbenders Missouri Department of Conservation
$82,172
Joshua Millspaugh Development of a Site Occupancy Model for Monitoring Ruffed Grouse in the Black Hills, South Dakota South Dakota Dept of Game Fish and Parks
$32,000
Joshua Millspaugh Understanding the Relationship Between Prairie Dog Ecology and Black-Footed Ferret Resource Selection South Dakota Department of Game Fish and Parks
$58,859
Nadia Navarrete-Tindall Evaluating poverty grass for use in tees, fairways, or rough areas on golf courses in the Midwest U.S. Golf Association
$10,000
Kelly Nelson Academic Yield Trial with Roundup Ready2Yield Soybeans Service Order #25 Monsanto Corporation
$6,000
Henry Nguyen Development and Deployment of Biotechnology Tools for Soybean Improvement Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council (MSMC)
$270,000
Henry Nguyen Translational Genomics for Drought Tolerance in Soybean Mid-America Research and Development Foundation
$51,400
Henry Nguyen Metabolic Profiling of Soybean: Identificaton of Novel Compounds for Human Health Mid-America Research and Development Foundation
$74,890
Michael Nolan Special Training-58-3148-7-098-Restaurant Training Foreign Ag Service
$19,954
David Patterson An integrated approach to expand marketing opportunities Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service
$496,986
Randall Prather Production of Transgenic pigs by nuclear transplantation National Institutes of Health
$333,365
Randall Prather

Gene Therapy for Cystic Fibrosis Lung Disease

University of Iowa
$72,028
Charles Rabeni Landscape influences on smallmouth bass populations Missouri Department of Conservation
$27,500
Charles Rabeni Evaluating new sampling methods for the biological monitoring protocols in Prairie Cluster Long-term Monitoring Program Geological Survey
$8,396
Charles Rabeni Cooperative Agreement, Missouri Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Missouri Department of Conservation
$40,000
Charles Rabeni An Ecological Study of Brush Creek Missouri Department of Conservation
$10,000
Charles Rabeni Amphibian conservation in agricultural landscapes. Geological Survey
$20,320
Sandy Rikoon North Central Region SARE Professional Development Program: 2007 Missouri Sustainable Agriculture Plan of Work University of Nebraska Lincoln
$50,000
Sandy Rikoon North Central Region SARE Professional Development Program: 2007 Missouri Sustainable Agriculture Plan of Work University of Minnesota
$50,000
Grover Shannon Evaluation of Soybean Germplasm for Tolerance to Soil Waterlogging. Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council (MSMC)
$34,088
Robert Sharp Screening and Characterization of Soybean Germplasm for Drought Tolerance Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council (MSMC)
$55,543
Robert Sites Insects of Natural Springs of State Parks in Missouri Missouri Department of Natural Resources
$26,050
David Sleper Development of modified fatty acid varieties with superior agronomic performance Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council (MSMC)
$53,095
Reid Smeda Dicamba Tolerant Soybean Trial Collaboration with University Researchers Service Order #28 Monsanto Corporation
$2,000
Peter Sutovsky Ubiquitin Dependent Proteolysis in Farm Animal Spermatogenesis and Fertilization Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service
$330,000
Laura Sweets MO Component, IPM PIPE 2007 North Carolina State University
$35,062
Laura Sweets Uniform Trial To Evaluate Efficatcy of Fungicides and Biologicals Against Fusarium Head Blight Agricultural Research Service
$14,634
Michael Sykuta Contracting Resources for Angel Investment and Entrepreneurial Success Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
$45,668
Jerry Taylor Evolutionary genetics of bovid genomes over 60,000 years University of Adelaide
$37,485
Judy Wall Characteristics of H2 Producing Biological Systems Operating at 1 nM H2 Concentration University of Oklahoma
$69,635
Judy Wall Geochemical, Genetic, and Community Controls on Mercury Department of Energy
$134,583
William Wiebold Academic Yield Trial with Roundup Ready2Yield Soybeans Service Order #24 Monsanto Corporation
$6,000
Zhanyuan Zhang Development of a high throughput Agrobacterium-mediated transformation system for soybean (Glycine max) Mid-America Research and Development Foundation
$57,337