Research

Carol Johnston has brought Federal grants totaling $586,000 into South Dakota to support her research on wetlands. The money has been used to create four new jobs, funding two Graduate Research Assistants, a Postdoctoral Research Associate, and a Research Associate. The grants are from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program and NASA, and support three different projects.

EROS. "Quantitative Modeling of Carbon Dynamics Project – Northern Great Plains." $108,753
Click here to learn more about remote sensing and modeling carbon fluxes.

U.S. EPA. "Interactive Effects of Climate Change, Wetlands, and Dissolved Organic Matter on UV Damage to Aquatic Foodwebs." $214,738
Click here to see the 2003 Progress Report for this project.

U.S. EPA. "Vegetative indicators of condition, integrity, and sustainability of Great Lakes coastal wetlands." $212,717
Click here to see the 2004 Progress Report for this project.

NASA. "Development of environmental indicators for the U.S. Great Lakes Basin using remote sensing technology." $49,949
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National Science Foundation Grants

National Science Foundation. 2000-2003 (DBI-9986839). "A GPS-linked model helicopter system for stream imaging." $174,910. Principal Investigator.

National Science Foundation (DEB-9973357). 2000-2002. "Dispersion and ecological interactions of clonal and sexual fish in a successional landscape." $220,000. Co-Principal Investigator.

National Science Foundation (DEB-9615326). 1997-2002. "Control of productivity and plant species segregation by nitrogen fluxes to wetland beaver meadows." $600,000. P.I.

National Science Foundation (DEB-9119614). 1992-1996. "Beaver, succession, and ecosystem dynamics across the boreal landscape." $660,000. Principal Investigator.

National Science Foundation (DBI-9208616). 1993-1995. "Development of a GPS-linked airborne video system for the construction of georeferenced GIS databases." $240,000. P.I.

National Science Foundation (DEB-8817665). 1989-92. "Animal influences on the aquatic landscape: Vegetative patterns, successional transitions and nutrient dynamics." $820,000. Principal Investigator. on $387,909 subcontract from the Univ. of Washington.

National Science Foundation (DBI-8805437). 1988-91. "A cooperative facility for research on the ecology of spatial heterogeneity." $354,342. Principal Investigator.

National Science Foundation (DEB-8516284). 1986-88. "Hydrological control of nutrient cycling processes: animal influences on the aquatic landscape." $325,000. Co-Principal Investigator.

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