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Facilitating Widespread Implementation of Teaching Strategies Known to Promote Student Success throughout a State System of Colleges
$299,753Michelle D Withers · Suny At Binghamton · · FY2021 · EDU
Experimental Investigations of Peridotite-H2O-CO2 Interactions under Hydrothermal Conditions: A Study of Carbon Sequestration and Abiotic Synthesis of Organic Compounds
$299,740Frieder Klein · Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution · · FY2014 · GEO
RATIONALE, GOAL AND OBJECTIVES. COMPETITION BETWEEN LIVESTOCK AND PRAIRIE DOGS IS A WIDELY DISCUSSED, BUT POORLY UNDERSTOOD BARRIER TO LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION IN WESTERN NORTH AMERICAN RANGELANDS. WILDLIFE CONSERVATION EFFORTS HAVE LED TO INCREASES IN PRAIRIE DOG POPULATIONS ACROSS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE RANGELANDS IN WESTERN RANGELANDS OVER THE PAST TWO DECADES. FOR LAND MANAGERS STRIVING TO BALANCE DUAL OBJECTIVES OF LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION AND CONSERVATION, THERE IS AN URGENT NEED FOR QUANTITATIVE MEASURES OF PRAIRIE DOG IMPACTS ON LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION. ONE OF THE ONLY QUANTITATIVE STUDIES ON THIS SUBJECT FOUND THAT PRAIRIE DOGS CAN REDUCE LIVESTOCK VALUE BY UP TO $38 PER STEER AND $5.58 PER HECTARE FOR THE SUMMER GRAZING SEASON (DERNER ET AL. 2006, FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT). YET, OTHER ANALYSES INDICATE PRAIRIE DOGS CAN ENHANCE LIVESTOCK PERFORMANCE UNDER CERTAIN WEATHER AND VEGETATION CONDITIONS. A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF THE SUBJECT CONCLUDED: LARGE-SCALE FIELD STUDIES - INVOLVING NUMEROUS PASTURES, WITH AND WITHOUT PRAIRIE DOGS, ARE NECESSARY TO CLARIFY THE EFFECTS OF PRAIRIE DOGS ON DOMESTIC LIVESTOCK. WITH SO MUCH CONTROVERSY AND SO MANY ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS, THE PAUCITY OF SUCH STUDIES IS DISAPPOINTING (DETLING 2006, IN BOOK:CONSERVATION OF THE BLACK-TAILED PRAIRIE DOG). WE PROPOSE AN INTEGRATED, PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH APPROACH TO QUANTIFY PRAIRIE DOG EFFECTS ON LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION, AND DEVELOP TRUSTED DECISION-SUPPORT TOOLS FOR MANAGERS AND STAKEHOLDERS THAT OPTIMIZE BOTH LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION AND GRASSLAND ECOSYSTEM CONSERVATION. OUR SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES ARE TO: 1) INTEGRATE LIVESTOCK PRODUCERS IN THE DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION, AND EXECUTION OF RESEARCH ON THE CRITICAL STAKEHOLDER-IDENTIFIED ISSUE OF PRAIRIE DOG-LIVESTOCK COMPETITION; 2) QUANTIFY RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CATTLE WEIGHT GAINS AND PRAIRIE DOG ABUNDANCE AT PASTURE SCALES, ACROSS MULTIPLE YEARS; 3) EVALUATE WHETHER THE SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERN OF LIVESTOCK GRAZING CAN MECHANISTICALLY EXPLAIN HOW PRAIRIE DOG ABUNDANCE AND DISTRIBUTION AFFECT LIVESTOCK WEIGHT GAINS; 4) DETERMINE IF STAKEHOLDER PARTICIPATION IN OUR RESEARCH DESIGN AND EXECUTION ALTERS THEIR TRUST IN, AND PERCEPTIONS OF, THE SCIENTIFIC RESULTS FROM THIS RESEARCH; AND 5) CO-CREATE WITH STAKEHOLDERS DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS.GENERAL APPROACH. BETWEEN 2013 AND 2016, AREA OCCUPIED BY BLACK-TAILED PRAIRIE DOGS INCREASED BY 230% ON THE THUNDER BASIN NATIONAL GRASSLAND AND SURROUNDING PRIVATE RANCHES IN NORTHEAST WYOMING. THE CURRENT DISTRIBUTION OF PRAIRIE DOGS PROVIDES AN IDEAL OPPORTUNITY TO QUANTIFY PRAIRIE DOG EFFECTS ON LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION AT SPATIAL SCALES RELEVANT TO RANCHING ENTERPRISES IN A REGION WHERE SOLUTIONS TO PRAIRIE DOG-LIVESTOCK CONFLICT ARE URGENTLY NEEDED. WE WILL WORK WITH 10 PRODUCERS ON AT LEAST 20 PASTURES (2 PER PRODUCER) STRATIFIED ALONG GRADIENTS OF PRAIRIE DOG OCCUPANCY, COLONY AGE, AND TOPOEDAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS. WE WILL USE GPS COLLARS TO MEASURE CATTLE FORAGING BEHAVIOR IN RELATION TO THE,QUANTITY, QUALITY, AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF FORAGE. LIVESTOCK WEIGHT GAINS WILL BE ASSESSED BY WEIGHING CATTLE BEFORE AND AFTER PASTURE USE. HALF OF THE PRODUCERS WILL BE ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING RESEARCH, WHILE THE OTHERS WILL ALLOW ACCESS AND BE PROVIDED WITH RESEARCH RESULTS. PRODUCERS WILL BE INTERVIEWED BEFORE/AFTER THE PROJECT TO ASSESS LEVELS OF TRUST IN THE FINDINGS.IMPACTS AND OUTCOMES. OUR ANALYSES WILL GENERATE A PREDICTIVE STATISTICAL MODEL THAT ESTIMATES COSTS OF PRAIRIE DOGS ON A GIVEN LANDSCAPE FOR LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION, THEREBY HELPING PRODUCERS AND MANAGERS DETERMINE WHERE, WHEN, AND HOW TO BEST MANAGE PRAIRIE DOGS. THIS WORK WILL PROMOTE LIVESTOCK NUTRITION, ECONOMIC VIABILITY OF RANCHING, RURAL COMMUNITY SUSTAINABILITY, GRASSLAND ECOSYSTEM HEALTH, AND ENHANCE TRUST IN SCIENCE AND FEDERAL PARTNERS, WITH BROAD IMPLICATIONS FOR ADDRESSING COMPLEX CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT ISSUES THROUGH PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH, NOT ONLY REGIONALLY, BUT ALSO NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY.
$299,713Colorado State University · · FY2018 · National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Elementary Science Simulations to Advance Undergraduate Elementary Teacher Preparation
$299,697Benjamin Dotger · Syracuse University · · FY2016 · EDU
Making Connections Thru Music: A Group Music Therapy-Based Intervention for Persons with Dementia
$299,693Gregg Gorzelle · Hopeful Aging Llc · R42 · FY2022 · AG
THIS PROPOSAL IS FOCUSED ON MAINTENANCE OF THE DAILY MODIS ALBEDO NADIR REFLECTANCE AND SURFACE ANISOTROPY PRODUCTS (MCD43) PRODUCTS THROUGH TO THE END OF THE AQUA AND TERRA RECORDS. THESE MODIS PRODUCTS WERE BEGUN IN 2000 WITH TERRA OBSERVATIONS AND WERE REFINED WITH THE ADDITION OF AQUA OBSERVATIONS IN 2002 (LUCHT ET AL. 2000; SCHAAF ET AL. 2002; 2011; CESCATTI ET AL. 2012; WANG ET AL. 2014). AS THIS PRODUCT USES BOTH TERRA AND AQUA MODIS VALUES THIS PROPOSAL IS BEING SENT TO BOTH THE TERRA AND AQUA PROJECT SCIENTISTS AND CONTINUED MEMBERSHIP IN BOTH THE TERRA AND AQUA SCIENCE TEAMS IS REQUESTED. ALBEDO (THE REFLECTIVITY OF THE EARTH'S SURFACE WHICH GOVERNS THE SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET) IS AN ESSENTIAL CLIMATE VARIABLE (ECV) WHILE VIEW-ANGLE-CORRECTED NADIR REFLECTANCES ARE IN HIGH DEMAND FOR MONITORING VEGETATION PHENOLOGY SNOW-MELT REGIMES DISTURBANCE AND LAND COVER CHANGE (ZHANG ET AL. 2006; ZHANG ET AL. 2016; LIANG ET AL. 2014; SHUAI ET AL. 2013; FRIEDL ET AL. 2010; GANGULY ET AL 2010; GRAY ET AL. 2014; HUFKINS ET AL. 2012; SULLA-MENASHE ET AL. 2013; GRAY ET AL. 2014; STROEVE ET AL 2013). THEREFORE THESE HIGH-QUALITY MODIS GLOBAL PRODUCTS HAVE BEEN ENTHUSIASTICALLY EMBRACED BY THE MODELING AND MONITORING COMMUNITIES OVER THE PAST 16 YEARS. HIGH QUALITY MODIS ALBEDOS ARE USED IN THE COUPLED MODEL LNTERCOMPARISON PROJECT (CMIP) TO IMPROVE THE UNDERSTANDING OF BIAS AND UNCERTAINTY BETWEEN MODELS (PARTICULARLY IN AREAS OF SNOW-COVERED VEGETATION) AND FURTHER USED TO REFINE THE SIMULATION OF ALBEDO IN LAND SURFACE MODELS (THACKERAY ET AL. 2015; WANG ET AL. 2016; KALA ET AL. 2014; MORCRETTE ET AL. 2008; LAWRENCE AND CHASE 2009; HOULDCROFT ET AL. 2009; WANG ET AL. 2014) . THE TERRA+AQUA MCD43 PRODUCT RELIES ON MULTI-DAY CLOUD-FREE ATMOSPHERICALLY-CORRECTED SURFACE REFLECTANCES TO ESTABLISH A DAILY 500M GRIDDED REPRESENTATION OF THE SURFACE ANISOTROPY OF THE GLOBAL LAND SURFACE. THIS ANISOTROPY RETRIEVAL (AS DESCRIBED BY A SEMI-EMPIRICAL KERNEL-DRIVEN BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION (BRDF) MODEL) IS OPTIMIZED FOR SURFACE CONDITIONS ON A SINGLE DAY (THUS THE PRODUCT PROVIDES EITHER A SNOW RETRIEVAL OR A SNOW FREE RETRIEVAL DEPENDING ON THE CONDITIONS ON THE DAY OF INTEREST (WANG ET AL. 2014)). THIS ANISOTROPY MODEL IS THEN USED TO PROVIDE INTRINSIC DAILY MEASURES OF SURFACE ALBEDO AND VIEW-ANGLE CORRECTED NADIR SURFACE REFLECTANCES (NADIR BRDF-ADJUSTED SURFACE REFLECTANCE - NBAR). THE COLLECTION V006 OF THE MODIS MCD43 PRODUCT (AVAILABLE FROM THE LPDAAC AT EDC) OFFERS DAILY RETRIEVALS OF THE BRDF MODEL PARAMETERS FROM WHICH THE NBAR FOR THE FIRST SEVEN MODIS LAND BANDS THE BLACK-SKY ALBEDO (DIRECTIONAL HEMISPHERICAL ALBEDO AT LOCAL SOLAR NOON) AND THE FULLY DIFFUSE WHITE-SKY ALBEDO (BIHEMISPHERICAL ALBEDO UNDER ISOTROPIC ILLUMINATION) FOR THE FIRST SEVEN MODIS BANDS AND THREE DERIVED BROADBANDS (0.3-0.7 M 0.7-5.0 M AND 0 .3-5.0 M AND WHITE-SKY ALBEDO) ARE GENERATED. USERS CAN MAKE USE OF THE BRDF PARAMETERS THEMSELVES TO PRODUCE NBAR AND BLACK-SKY ALBEDO VALUES AT OTHER DESIRED SOLAR ZENITH ANGLES AND FURTHERMORE CAN COUPLE THE BLACK-SKY ALBEDO AND WHITE-SKY ALBEDO AS A FUNCTION OF AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH TO PRODUCE AN ACTUAL INSTANTANEOUS ALBEDO AS WOULD BE MEASURED BY TOWER MOUNTED SURFACE ALBEDOMETERS (ROMAN ET AL. 2010). THE BRDF PARAMETERS ARE ALSO IN DEMAND BY OTHER INSTRUMENT TEAMS AS A PRIORI AND EVALUATION INFORMATION ABOUT GLOBAL SURFACE REFLECTIVITY (E.G. MERIS GLOBALBEDO (MUELLER ET AL. 2007) AATSR AEROSOLS (SAYER ET AL. 2012) MSG/SEVIRI ALBEDO (CARRER ET AL. 2010) AVHRR ALBEDO (SILTTERLIN ET AL. 2015) LANDSAT ALBEDO (SHUAI ET AL. 2011; WANG ET AL. 2016; ROY ET AL. 2016)). THE AVAILABILITY .OF DAILY RETRIEVALS HAS GREATLY EXPANDED THEIR USE FOR STUDIES ON PHENOLOGY SNOW-MELT AND RAPIDLY OCCURRING DISTURBANCES AND LAND COVER CHANGE (NOTE THAT ONLY 8-DAY RETRIEVALS WERE AVAILABLE PRIOR TO V006 REPROCESSING). ALTHOUGH THE OVERALL NUMBER OF GLOBAL HIGH QUALITY RETRIEVAL
$299,654University Of Mass At Boston · · FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Quantitative Expression and Inter-Individual Variability of Skin Proteins Involved in Drug and Excipient Metabolism and Transporters Using Targeted and Label Free LC MS/MS Proteomics
$299,568Jill Barber · University Of Manchester · U01 · FY2022 · FD
RFA-TS-24-010: Ambient Air Pollution as a Potential Risk Factor for ALS - Using a Multiomics Approach in a High-Quality Epidemiologic Study
$299,567Fang Fang · Karolinska Institute · R01 · FY2024 · TS
Aging, Calorie Restriction and Insulin Signaling
$299,546Gregory D. Cartee · University Of Michigan At Ann Arbor · R01 · FY2010 · AG
Studies of Motoneuorn Death-Insight into SMAs and ALS
$299,523Carol Milligan · Wake Forest University Health Sciences · R01 · FY2006 · NS
Histopathology Core
$299,518Jeremy Bruce Foote · University Of Alabama At Birmingham · U19 · FY2020 · AI
Antibiotic discovery from a new genus of uncultured bacteria.
$299,505Amy Lynn Spoering · Novobiotic Pharmaceuticals, Llc · R43 · FY2020 · AI
A Genotype-Phenotype Archiving and Communication System
$299,505Michael M Segal · Phenosolve, Llc · R43 · FY2018 · HG
Increasing NF1 Expression as a Treatment for NF1 Haploinsufficiency
$299,503Herb Sarnoff · Infixion Bioscience, Inc. · R43 · FY2020 · NS
Biophotonics for Detection of West Nile Virus
$299,447Platypus Technologies, Llc · R43 · FY2001 · AI
Dissemination and Implementation Science Travel Award and Conference Event (DISTAnCE)
$299,430Margaret A. Rogers · American Speech-Language-Hearing Assn · U13 · FY2025 · DC
A Model of Inhalant Abuse Using Inhalant Responders
$299,430University Of Chicago · R01 · FY2003 · DA
Research Testbed 2
$299,397David J Odde · University Of Minnesota · U54 · FY2025 · CA
Identification of an inhibitor of microRNA-122 in liver
$299,390Susan M. Freier · Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · R43 · FY2007 · AI
EAGER: Development of a portable air-water flux system for methane
$299,357Shari A Yvon-Lewis · Texas A&M Research Foundation · · FY2011 · GEO
Biobehavioral intervention training for supportive care professionals
$299,326Barbara L. Andersen · Ohio State University · R25 · FY2015 · CA
SCH: Wearables for Health and Disease Knowledge (W4H)
$299,322Cyrus Shahabi · University Of Southern California · R01 · FY2024 · LM
TARGETING THE ER STRESS SENSOR IRE1 TO TREAT ALS
$299,318Instituto De Neurociencia Biomedica · · FY2016 · Department of the Army
Project 2: In vivo Studies: Characterize absorption, distribution, metabolism, el
$299,312Terrance J Kavanagh · University Of Washington · U19 · FY2011 · ES
tRNase Z reaction is central to tRNA maturation
$299,305Louis F Levinger · York College · R15 · FY2012 · GM