Research Archives

New Funding – Busov, Gailing and Yordanov

Published December 14, 2011

Associate Professor Victor Busov, Assistant Professor Oliver Gailing and Post Doc Yordan Yordanov received the following news that their recent proposal has been funded: The review panel of the AFRI Biology of Agricultural Plants Program has announced that that your proposal entitled “Role of Lateral Organ Boundary Transcription Factors in Regulation of Wood Formation in Poplar, has been recommended for funding by the review panel. We will be able to fund the proposal at 100% of your request at $499,916 for three years.

It was selected in one of the toughest nation-wide competitions ever in the history of the program with over 400 submitted proposals.

Congratulations Victor, Oliver and Yordan!

New Funding – Resh and Kane

Published November 1, 2011

Research Assistant Professor Sigrid Resh

Adjunct Assistant Professor Sigrid Resh and co-PI Research Assistant Professor Evan Kane have received $149,397 from the US Department of Energy for a two-year project, Interactive Effects of Climate Change and Decomposer Communities on the Stabilization of Wood-Derived Carbon Pools: Catalyst for a New Study.

New Funding – Burton and Eikenberry

Published October 18, 2011

Assistant Research Scientist Jennifer Eikenberry

Assistant Professor Andrew Burton and co-PI Jennifer Eikenberry have received $491 from the US Geological Survey for a three-month project, 13C Analysis of Marine Sediments.

New Funding – Froese and Nagel

Published October 4, 2011

Assistant Professor Robert Froese and co-PI Associate Professor Linda Nagel have received $30,000 from the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement Inc. for a project, Evaluating the Long Term Effect of Logging Residue Harvest in Great Lakes Aspen Stands.

New Funding – Jurgensen

Published September 7, 2011

Professor Martin Jurgensen has received $36,000 from the US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, for a 15-month project, Reburns: Their Impact on Woody Debris, Carbon Storage, Soil Properties and Vegetative Response.

New Funding – Jurgensen

Published August 26, 2011

Professor Martin Jurgensen has received $64,191 from the US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, for Below-ground Impacts of Pile Burning in the Inland Northwestern US.

New Funding – Froese

Published August 25, 2011

Associate Professor Robert Froese has received $48,078 from the US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, for a 29-month project, Carbon Implications of Poplar Energy Crops Throughout the Energy Supply Chain.

Scholarship Awarded to Auriel Van Der Laar

Published August 17, 2011

The Copper Country Audubon Club has awarded the Dr. Laurence Binford Youth Scholarship fund to Auriel Van Der Larr, a senior majoring in Wildlife Ecology and Management. This award will help support her travel to the Wildlife Society Conference this fall on the big island of Hawaii where she will present her work on determining the gender of Virginia Rails through statistical modeling.

Auriel is pictured on the left with other Bird Bum members Michelle Kroll and Kevin King.

New Funding – Storer

Published August 16, 2011

Professor Andrew Storer has received $56,000 from the USDA, Forest Service, for a two-year project, Evaluation and Monitoring of Ash Trees Tolerant to Long-Term Exposure to Emerald Ash Borer: Year 1.

New Funding – Bump

Published August 16, 2011

Assistant Professor Joseph Bump has received $55,500 from the Michigan DEQ for a project, Offshore Bat Activity Over Lake Michigan Wind Resource Areas.

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