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Selected Research Awards – Total = ~$15 million received (since 2000)
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2025-2026<\/td>\nPrincipal Investigator (William E. Rogers). Brazos Valley Solid Waste Management Agency \u201cDeveloping proactive conservation strategies for a federally endangered terrestrial orchid: monitoring the distribution and abundance of extant populations of Spiranthes parksii<\/em> and its sympatric congener, Spiranthes cernua<\/em> to assess potential augmentation and translocation enhancements.\u201d $55,485 (with agreement for ongoing annual renewals).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019-2025<\/td>\nCo-Investigator (w\/ B.P. Wilcox PI). United States Department of Agriculture \u2013 NIFA-Sustainable Agricultural Systems Panel \u201cEnhancing Livestock Production from Rangelands in the Great Plains.\u201d $9,994,340.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021-2024<\/td>\nPrincipal Investigator (William E. Rogers). Brazos Valley Solid Waste Management Agency \u201cConservation Strategies for the Protection and Propagation of the Federally Endangered Orchid, Navasota Ladies Tresses (Spiranthes parksii<\/em>) continuation.\u201d $105,000.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017-2021<\/td>\nPrincipal Investigator (w\/ co-PIs Matthew Dickenson, Kathleen Kavanagh, Sascha Lodge, Morgan Treadwell, Dirac Twidwell & Carissa Wonkka). USDA-Joint Fire Science Program. \u201cPyrogenic controls on grass-shrub persistence in the Great Plains.\u201d $366,511 requested funding (and $189,124 contributed funding).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017-2022<\/td>\nPrincipal Investigator Texas A&M University<\/em>\/Sid-Kyle Endowment<\/em> \u201cInteractive effects of fire,\u00a0 fertility, and precipitation variability in a formerly woody-encroached, arid savanna ecosystem: mechanistic insights utilizing small-scale experiments\u201d $179,904<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019-2020<\/td>\nPrincipal Investigator (w\/ co-PI Fred Smeins), Brazos Valley Solid Waste Management Agency \u201cConservation Strategies for the Protection and Propagation of the Federally Endangered Orchid, Navasota Ladies Tresses (Spiranthes parksii<\/em>).\u201d $70,000.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2013-2014<\/td>\nCo-Investigator (w\/ Jason B. West and Bob Lyons). Wintergarden Groundwater Conservation District, \u201cEffects of Brush Removal on Distributed Recharge of the Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer: Continuing Treatment Response Investigation.\u201d $101,485.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2012-2015<\/td>\nPrincipal Investigator (w\/ Fred Smeins) LBJWFC Endangered Species Grant Program<\/em> \u201cAssessing Potential Conservation Corridors for the Endangered Orchid, Spiranthes parksii <\/em>(Navasota Ladies\u2019\u2013Tresses): Using Predictive Habitat Models and Genetic Analyses to Develop a Strategic Management Plan.\u201d $287,427.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2012<\/td>\nCo-PI (w\/ Richard Teague and Urs Kreuter) Howard G. Buffett Foundation-Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture \/Texas AgriLife Research<\/em> \u201cRestoring Ecosystem Services and Enhancing Livelihoods on Degraded Rangelands in Southern Africa Through the Development of Appropriate Livestock Grazing Systems\u201d $74,122.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011-2014<\/td>\nCo-Investigator (w\/ Fred Smeins), Brazos Valley Solid Waste Management Agency <\/em>\u201cContinuation of Interlocal Agreement Regarding Conservation Strategies for the Protection and Propagation of the Federally Endangered Orchid, Navasota Ladies Tresses (Spiranthes parksii<\/em>).\u201d $104,139.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2010-2012<\/td>\nCo-Investigator (w\/ Jason B. West and Bob Lyons). Wintergarden Groundwater Conservation District<\/em>, \u201cEffects of Mechanical Brush Removal and Fire on Plant Community Dynamics and Distributed Recharge of the Carizzo-Wilcox aquifer.\u201d $209,407.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2010\u20112013<\/td>\nCo\u2011PI (w\/ PI-Kostya Krutovsky and 10 other TAMU faculty) United States Department of Agriculture\u2011National Needs Initiative<\/em>. “A Graduate Program in Forest Resources: Developing Integrated Expertise in Forest Resource, Management, Conservation, and Restoration.” $234,000 (plus $78,000 in internal matching funds to support additional student fellowships).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2007-2010<\/td>\nPrincipal Investigator (w\/ Urs Kreuter) United States Department of Agriculture-National Resources Conservation Service, Conservation Innovation Grant<\/em>, \u201cUsing Hot Summer Fire to Control Opuntia<\/em> Cacti: An Innovative Approach to Resolving a Pressing Environmental Issue.\u201d $73,697.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2006-2011<\/td>\nPrincipal Investigator (w\/ Fred Smeins), BVSWMA & USFWS <\/em>\u201cConservation Strategies for the Protection and Propagation of the Federally Endangered Orchid, Navasota Ladies Tresses (Spiranthes parksii<\/em>).\u201d $384,262<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005-2009<\/td>\nCo-PI (w\/ Urs Kreuter, Richard Teague, Richard Conner, Lynn Drawe, Allen Rasmussen & Butch Taylor), United States Department of Agriculture-National\u00a0 Resources Conservation Service, EQIP <\/em>\u201cEcological, Economic and Social Dimensions of Using Summer Fire to Restore Ecosystems in the Southern Plains of the USA.\u201d $376,534.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2004-2005<\/td>\nPrincipal Investigator (w\/ Evan Siemann & Dale Sawyer), Shell Center for Sustainability <\/em>\u201cInvasive Species Control in Floodplain Forests: Seeking a Economically Viable Means of Conserving Native Biodiversity.\u201d $35,000.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2003-2005<\/td>\nCo-PI (w\/ Evan Siemann), National Science Foundation<\/em> DEB-0315796, \u201cDo Genetic Differences in Growth and Defense Contribute to the Success of an Invasive Plant Species?\u201d\u00a0 $390,000.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2003-2005<\/td>\nCo-PI (w\/ Evan Siemann), United States Department of Agriculture <\/em>– NRI \/ Biology of Weedy and Invasive Plants \u201cDoes Herbivory on an Invasive Tree Species along a Biogeographic Gradient Depend on Time Since Introduction?\u201d $195,001.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2002<\/td>\nCo-PI (w\/ Evan Siemann), National Park Service <\/em>award \u201cFloodplain Forest Regeneration Dynamics following Removal of an Invasive Tree Species.\u00a0 $10,000.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2001-2005<\/td>\nCo-PI (w\/Evan Siemann & Jim Grace), Environmental Protection Agency<\/em>, NCER-STAR \u201cChinese Tallow Invasions into the Endangered Coastal Prairie.\u201d\u00a0 $381,687.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2000-2004<\/td>\nCo-PI (w\/ Paul Harcombe & Evan Siemann), National Park Service <\/em>\u201cVascular Plant Inventory of the Big Thicket National Preserve.\u201d\u00a0 $117,000.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2000-2001<\/td>\nCo-PI (w\/ Evan Siemann), National Park Service <\/em>\u201cAssessing the Impacts of Feral Hogs on Forest Regeneration Dynamics.\u201d $2,500.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2000-2001<\/td>\nCo-PI (w\/ Evan Siemann),\u00a0National Park Service <\/em>\u201cRemoving Chinese Tallow Trees: Methods of Control in Floodplain Forests.\u201d $40,000.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2000-2004<\/td>\nCo-PI (w\/ Evan Siemann), National Science Foundation <\/em>DEB-9981654, \u201cDoes Lack of Herbivory and Disease Explain the Success of an Alien Plant Species?\u201d\u00a0$290,788.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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