Funded Research Projects

Projects involving students*

Rare Plant Surveys, Habitat Mapping, and Documentation on Alligator Creek WMA. Carter. R. (PI). Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Letter of Agreement 05/01–08/31/2019; $2,400.

Rare Plant Surveys and Documentation on Alligator Creek WMA. Carter. R. (PI). Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Letter of Agreement 06/15–11/15/2018; $2,400.

*CSBR: Natural History: Advances in Wiregrass Georgia: Infrastructural Improvements to Sustain another Half Century of Herbarium-Based Research and Teaching. R. Carter (PI). National Science Foundation, Award DBI-1458264, $176,917; 2015–2019.  PDF

*Digitization TCN: Collaborative Research: The Key to the Cabinets: Building and sustaining a research database for a global biodiversity hotspot. W.B. Zomlefer (PI), R. Carter, A. Harvey (Co-I). National Science Foundation, Award DBI-1410081, $7,130 [collaborative total, $74,385]; 2014–2019.

Status Survey and Search Efforts for American Chaffseed (Schwalbea americana) in Georgia. Carter, R. (PI).  Georgia Department of Natural Resources, $20,000; 2013–2014.

A Valdosta State University Virtual Herbarium, M. Holt (PI), R. Carter (Co-I). Valdosta State University Faculty Research Seed Grant (FRSG), $6,834; 2012–2013.

*Collaborative Research: The GA-VSC Herbaria Collaborative: Phase I of a Statewide Consortium. R. Carter (PI). National Science Foundation, Award DBI-1054366, $199,336 [collaborative total with W.B. Zomlefer (PI), D.E. Giannasi (Co-I), Univ. of Georgia, $395,315]; 2011–2014.  

*Floristic Inventory and Vegetation Survey of the Banks Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Lanier County, Georgia. R. Carter. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, $4,000; 2009–2011. 

Survey of known and potential populations of pondberry (Lindera melissifolia) and pondspice (Litsea aestivalis) in Georgia. R. Carter (PI). Georgia Department of Natural Resources, $20,000; 2008–2009.

*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. R. Carter, R. (PI), J. Pascarella (Co-I). U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA), $87,000; 2007–2012.

Status Survey and Search Efforts for American Chaffseed (Schwalbea americana) in Georgia. R. Carter (PI).  Georgia Department of Natural Resources, $18,800; 2007–2008.

*Flora of Camden County, Georgia, with emphasis on Crooked River State Park. R. Carter (PI). Georgia Botanical Society Marie Mellinger Field Botany Research Grant, $1,500; 2006. 

*Acquisition of a variable pressure scanning electron microscope for interdisciplinary research and teaching, R. Goddard (PI), J. Nienow, R. Carter, M. Smith, T. Manning, L. Wood, M. Groszos, M. Leake (Co-I). National Science Foundation, DBI-0420454, $245,505; 2005–2007.

*Federal noxious weed survey: Orobanche minor. R. Carter (PI). USDA-APHIS through University of Georgia (Tifton), $3,000; 2004.

*Federal noxious weed survey: Orobanche minor. R. Carter (PI). USDA-APHIS through University of Georgia (Tifton), $2,500; 2003.

*Vegetation survey: Grand Bay Wildlife Management Area. R. Carter (PI). Georgia Department of Natural Resources, $4,000; 2003.

Rare plant and plant community survey of Kings Bay Submarine Base, Kings Bay, Georgia. R. Carter (PI). Department of Defense through Georgia Department of Natural Resources, $19,500; 1996–1997.

Status survey of Lilium iridollae (Liliaceae) in Georgia. R. Carter (PI). U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, $2,500; 1994.

*Floristic inventory of Moody Air Force Base and Grassy Pond Recreational Area, Lowndes and Lanier counties, Georgia. R. Carter (PI). U.S. Air Force through The Nature Conservancy, $7,500; 1993–1994.

Status survey of Cyperus louisianensis (Cyperaceae). R. Carter (PI). U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, $2,500; 1993.

Status survey of Cyperus cephalanthus (Cyperaceae). R. Carter (PI). U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service through Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, $5,000; 1992–1993.

*Floristic inventory of Fort Stewart, Georgia. R. Carter (PI). U.S. Army through The Nature Conservancy, $9,800; 1992.

Floristic inventory of Lindera melissifolia (Lauraceae) site in Wheeler County, Georgia. R. Carter (PI). The Nature Conservancy, $500; 1987.

Thesis-parts appointment to use scanning electron microscope. R. Carter (PI). Argonne National Laboratory; 1981.

Floristic inventory of Taylor Hollow, Sumner County, Tennessee. R. Carter (PI). The Nature Conservancy, $1,500; 1980.