ATTRACTING FEDERAL GRANTS TO SOUTH DAKOTA - $586 K
Center for Biocomplexity Studies Director 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
Click here for
additional information on this project.
