Recent Awards, November 2016

September 2016

College of Agricultural and Life Sciences

Erin Brooks, Jodi Johnson-Maynard and Daniel Strawn, $93,500 from the USDA Agricultural Research Service for “Effects of long term no-tillage management on soil structure and soil phosphorus distribution.”

Erin Brooks, $32,000 from the USDA Agricultural Research Service for “Quantifying Post-fire Erosion on Rangelands.”

Richard Allen, $482,367 from the California State Water Resources Control Board for “Expert Services in Applications of Metric, in the Public Interest of Managing Groundwater.”

Robert Heinse, $300 from NASA for “Mapping soils through the trees: a small low island case study.”

Juliet Marshall, $4,896 from Syngenta Seeds for “Syngenta Entries for Extension Variety Trials 2016-17 Winter.”

Juliet Marshall, $890 from Monsanto Company for “Snowmold testing for Monsanto.”

Jack Brown, $270,990 from the U.S. Department of Energy for “Developing Non-food Grade Brassica Biofuel Feedstock Cultivars with High Yield, Oil Content, and Oil Quality that are Suitable for Low Input Production Dryland Systems.”

Kurtis Schroeder, $42,005 from the U.S. Department of Energy for “Developing Non-food Grade Brassica Biofuel Feedstock Cultivars with High Yield, Oil Content, and Oil Quality that are Suitable for Low Input Production Dryland Systems.”

Fangming Xiao, $80,167 from the U.S. Department of Energy for “Developing Non-food Grade Brassica Biofuel Feedstock Cultivars with High Yield, Oil Content, and Oil Quality that are Suitable for Low Input Production Dryland Systems.”

Jeffrey Stark, $39,797 for “Breeding Evaluation of Advanced Potato Genotypes for Agronomic, Storage and Processing Quality Characteristics.”

Erik Wenninger, $160,490 from Washington State University for “Mapping and Predicting Psyllid Sources, Immigration, and Locality-Specific Disease Spread in the PNW.”

Arash Rashed, $12,000 from Washington State University for “Mapping and Predicting Psyllid Sources, Immigration, and Locality-Specific Disease Spread in the PNW.”

Christopher Schnepf and Randall Brooks, $12,000 from the Idaho Department of Lands for “Idaho Forest Stewardship Program 2016-2017.”

James Ekins, $4,356 from the USDA Forest Service for “Informational Resource Development for Rural Forest Riparian Zone Residents.”

Louise-Marie Dandurand, Pamela Hutchinson, Michael Thronton and Matthew Morra received grants totaling $360,138 for “Farm Bill PCN eradication 2016.”

Multiple CALS faculty received a total of $91,349 from the Idaho Barley Commission. Projects include $12,264 to Christopher Rogers for “Evaluation of Soil Test Methods for Determining Nitrogen Fertilizer Recommendations in Barley Producing Soils” and $9,460 to Arash Rashed for “A Survey of Central and Eastern Idaho Wireworm Species and Evaluating Combinations of Ecological and Chemical Approaches.”           

Arash Rashed, $7,000 from the Idaho Wheat Commission for “Request for Research Vehicle-Wheat Commission.”

Joan Campbell, $31,672 from the Idaho Wheat Commission for “Weed Control Systems for Wheat Production.”

College of Art and Architecture

Leyla Sanati, $4,000 from the Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education, Inc., for “Lesley Wheel Introductory Lighting Program Grant.”

Lilian Alessa and David Griffith, $99,576 from the Nation Science Foundation for “Eyes North - A Research Coordination Network for Arctic Community-based Observing.”

College of Business and Economics

Scott Metlen, $500 from Bennett Lumber Products, Inc., for “Small Log Mill Feasibility.”

College of Education

Gayle Otto, $342,720 from the U.S. Office of Education for “Talent Search Post Falls.”

Margaret Stephenson and Scott Clyde, $236,900 from the U.S. Office of Education for “Educational Opportunity Center.”

College of Engineering

Michael Maughan, $10,000 from Battelle Energy Alliance LLC for “Non-contact Dimensional Inspection of Irradiated Nuclear Fuels and Materials.”

Dev Shrestha, $54,302 from USDA/OCE/ORACBA for “Assessment of model predictions accuracy about Indirect Land Use Change and food prices from US Biodiesel Industry.”

Ralph Budwig, $6,600 from the U.S. Geological Survey for “Testing Citizen Science Methods to Measure Stream Velocity.”

College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences

Leonard Garrison, $2,250 from the Western States Arts Federation for “WESTAF 2016-17 Grant (Chiara Quartet).”

Leonard Garrison, $2,125 from the Western States Arts Federation for “WESTAF 2016-17 Grant (Prima Trio).”

Aaron Mayhugh, $4,903 from the Idaho Commission on the Arts for “Idaho Commission on the Arts - Arts Education Project.”

College of Natural Resources

Mark Kimsey, Terry Shaw and Mark Coleman, $19,996 from Potlatch Corporation for “Calibration of FVS Inland Empire (IE) Variant for Potlatch's Idaho Forest.”

Eva Strand and Penelope Morgan, $373,710 from USDA Forest Service for “Technology Transfer Support and Curricula Development for Wildland Fire Management Training, Fuels Planning, Vegetation Management and Risk-Based Wildland Fire Decision Making.”

Eva Strand, $105,905 from USDA Forest Service for “Technology Transfer Support and Curricula Development for Wildland Fire Management Training, Fuels Planning, Vegetation Management and Risk-Based Wildland Fire Decision Making.”

Mark Kimsey, $65,390 from USDI National Park Service for “Camas Propagation Research for Restoration of Weippe Prairie, Nez Perce National Historical Park.”

Robert Keefe, Randall Brooks and colleagues, $274,960 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for “Renewal application: Reducing logging fatality and non-fatal trauma incidence rates with new real-time operational GPS-VHF communications, recommended safety procedures, and education.”

Dennis Becker, $30,000 from the Idaho Department of Lands for “Idaho Family Forest Landowner Survey.”

Teresa Cohn, $350,006 from the National Science Foundation for “Tribal Water Quality Governance: Decolonizing Space and Time.”

Luigi Boschetti, $30,000 from NASA for “Satellite constellation requirements for  30 m global burned area mapping.”

Arjan Meddens and Crystal Kolden, $256,829 from the USDI Bureau of Land Management for “Determining the ecological importance of wildfire refugia for post-fire management in the northwestern United States.”

Kerri Vierling, $61,567 from USDI National Park Service for “Evaluating bird communities on the Weippe prairie for planned restoration activities.”

Gerald Wright, $41,416 from USDI National Park Service for “Technical Assistance in Developing Vegetation Monitoring Protocols for the Upper Columbia Basin Network.”

College of Science

Deborah Stenkamp, $175,250 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for “Ocular Vasculature and Retinal Neurogenesis.”

Linh Nguyen, $101,881 from the National Science Foundation for “Mathematics of Tomography.”

Larry Forney, $63,731 from the University of Maryland for “Elucidating causes of vaginal symptoms using a multi-omics approach.”

Deborah Stenkamp, $409,998 from the National Science Foundation for “Diversification of sensory systems in novel habitat: enhanced vision or compensation in other modalities?”

Interdisciplinary/Other

Lilian Alessa and Andrew Kliskey, $2.6 million from the National Science Foundation for “INFEWS/T3: Social-ecological-technological solutions to waste reuse in food, energy, and water systems (ReFEWS).”

Bingjun He and Matthew Morra, $59,525 from M.J. Murdock Foundation for “Murdock Commercialization Initiation Grant.”

David Yopp, Robert Ely and Anne Adams, $1,4 million from the National Science Foundation for “Longitudinal Learning of Viable Argument in Mathematics for Adolescents (LLAMA).”

Jeremy Kenyon, $94,901 from the U.S. Geological Survey for “RMCESU: NCCWSC Data Steward Activities.”

William Phillips, $70,098 from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for “FEMA Big Wood River Landslide Susceptibility Mapping.”

Mark D. Solomon, $50,188 from the Idaho Department of Water Resources for “TV Hydrologic Modeling.”