Assistant Professor Joseph Bump has received $90,188 from the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians for a 20-month project, Assessment of Suitable Elk Habitat in the Manistee Watershed, Michigan.
| Professor Andrew Storer has received $150,000 total from the Michigan Department of Agriculture for three one-year projects: EAB SLAM/ARRA Project Coordinator Position Support, $70,000; 2010-2011 EAB SLAM/APHIS Purple Traps Deployment, $40,000; EAB SLAM/ARRA Forest Health Monitoring Plots, $40,000. |
Assistant Professor Michael Falkowski has received $40,000 from The Nature Conservancy for a project, Remote Sensing of Conifer Encroachment in Historical Sage Habitats.
Professor Martin Jurgensen has received $50,000 from the US Department of Agriculture for a one-year project, “Below Ground Processes Associated with Fire Management and Naturally Occurring Charcoal of Application of Biochar.”
Assistant Professor Oliver Gailing has received $10,870 from Hanes Trust for a one-year project, “Hybridization and Local Adaptation in Quercus Rubra L. and Q. Ellipsoidalis E.J. Hill in Michigan.”
Assistant Professor Catherine Tarasoff has received $21,053 from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department for a 17-month project, “Restoration of Sage-Grouse Habitat on Mined Sites.”
Assistant Professor Audrey Mayer has received $5,000 from Oak Ridge Associated Universities for a one-year project, “Regional-Scale Impacts of Bioenergy and Carbon Sequestration Policies for Nonindustrial Private Forests in Michigan and Tennessee.”
Associate Professor Robert Froese has received $10,000 from the Western Upper Peninsula Planning and Development Region for a one-year project, “Optimal Energy Crop Production in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.“
Assistant Professor Thomas Pypker, Co-PI Andrew Storer and Co-PI Catherine Tarasoff have received $166,752 from the USDA, Forest Service, Eastern Region, for a one-year project, “Future of Black Ash Wetlands in the Northern Great Lakes Region.”
Assistant Professor Oliver Gailing has received $61,200 from the Pennsylvania State University for the first year of a five-year $215,077 project, “TRPGR: Comparative Genomics of Environmental Stress Responses in North American Hardwoods.”