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ACTIVE IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2007-2008

 

Florida Native Plant Society

Faculty: John Pascarella
Title: Population structure and dynamics of restored and natural population of the Federally endangered endemic Jacquemontia reclinata (Convolvulaceae).
Award: $943 (2007)

Georgia Department of Education

Faculty: Leslie Jones (Co-PI), Brian Gerber (PI)
Title: Mathematics and Science Partnership Program
Award: $403,871 (2007-2008)

Georgia Department of Human Resources

Faculty: Mark Blackmore
Title: West Nile Virus Mosquito Surveillance
Award: $150,000 (2001-2006)

Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Natural Heritage Program

Faculty: Richard Carter
Title: Status Survey and Search Efforts for American Chaffseed (Schwalbea americana) in Georgia
Award: $18,800 (2007-2008)

Georgia’s Innovative Capital Partnership Program (ICAPP)

Faculty: Emily Cantonwine and John Pascarella
Title: Development of a course in Organic Agriculture
Award: $9,544 (2008)

Georgia Native Plant Society

Faculty: John B. Pascarella, J. Richard Carter, John Elder, Russell H. Goddard
Title: Verification of a putative hybrid between the federally endangered Georgia endemic Baptisia arachnifera and the native Baptisia lecontei at the Lake Louise Field Station, Lowndes County, Geogia.
Award: $1,000

H. Branch Howe Research Grant

Faculty: Dallas Ingram
Title: Effects of Commercial Poultry Operations.
Award: $2,500

National Science Foundation (NSF)

Faculty: Russ Goddard, James Nienow, Richard Carter, Mike Smith, Tom Manning and Lynn Wood (Chemistry), Mark Groszos and Martha Leake (PAG).
Title: Acquisition of a variable pressure scanning electron microscope for interdisciplinary research and teaching
Award: $245,505

Faculty: Robert Gannon
Title: Role of the intergeniculate leaflet in circadian rhythms
Award: $189,912

Faculty: Brad J.Bergstrom
Title: Effects of Spatial Scale and Heterogeneity of Prescribed Fire on Small Mammalian Herbivores in the Presence and Absence of Large 
Herbivores in an East African Savanna.

Award: $25,555  (2006-08)

Title II Part A Higher Education Improving Teacher Quality, Georgia Dept. of Education.

Faculty: Leslie Jones (PI), Marguerite McCartney (Co-PI
Title: “Strengthening the Teaching of Evolution in South Georgia Middle and Secondary Schools”
Award: March 2008 – June 2009, $47,717.

U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Agency (USAMRAA)

Faculty: Mitch Lockhart
Title: Gopher tortoise demography study at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia
Award: $14,500

Faculty: Richard Carter (PI), John Pascarella (Co-I) 
Title: Effects of Prescribed Burning on Representative Forest Communities at Moody Air Force Base and Grand Bay Wildlife Management Area, Lowndes and Lanier counties, Georgia; cooperative agreement with Moody Air Force Base
Award: $157,000 (2007-2111)

U.S. Department of Agriculture - Southern Region Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education Program (SARE)

Faculty: Emily Cantonwine (Cooperator)
Title: Exploiting the organic peanut market: refining production systems for the Southeast
Award: $175,000 (2008-2010)

United States Fish and Wildlife Service

Faculty: J. Maschinski, J.F. Fisher and John Pascarella
Title: Restoration of the endangered Jacquemontia reclinata and South Florida coastal Dune. Habitat.
In collaboration with Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden (Miami, Florida).
Award: $282,541