• Non-native grasses (Old World bluestems) and their effect on plant and animal communities.
• Assessing the effects of patch burning on mixed-grass prairie plant species community composition and production.
• Altered precipitation regimes in Texas Blackland Prairie: effects on plant community composition. Collaboration with Justin Derner, USDA/ARS.

Submitted Grant Proposals: 

• Heterogeneity and Stability on Rangelands:  Is Complexity Fundamental to Sustainability?  United States Department of Agriculture:  CSREES.  Samuel D. Fuhlendorf (PI), David M. Engle and Karen R. Hickman (Co-PI’s).  2004.  Amount requested:  $468,178.

Current and Recent Research Funding:

• 2003-2004 USDA-Risk Management Agency.  Sub-contract:  $75,344.50 (two years).
• 2003-2004 Comanche Pool Prairie Resource Foundation.  Effects of patch burning on mixed-grass prairie plant species community composition and production.  $4500.
• 2003  Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks.  Assessing effects of rotational grazing on nesting success of  grassland birds.  $21,000.
• 2003 FHSU Graduate Council Research Award.  $2,197.
• 2003 Kansas State University.  CIPM Grant: $6,000.  Collaboration with Keith Harmoney,  Kansas State Agricultural Research Center, Hays, Kansas.
• 2002 Western Governor’s Association.  Applied Remote Sensing Project: $24,700.  Collaboration with Kevin Price, University of Kansas, Kansas Applied Remote Sensing.
• 2002 Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks: $3,000.  Collaboration with Greg Farley and Elmer Finck, FHSU Department of Biological Sciences.
• 2002 FHSU Action Plan Funding.  Microscopes for the 21st Century: $90,000.
• 2001-03 Eisenhower Professional Development Grant.  Project IRIS: two years: $118,794.  Collaboration with Paul Adams, FHSU Department of Physics.
• 2001 Education Opportunity Funds, FHSU Student Government Association: $3,000.
• 2000-02 Comanche Pool Prairie Resource Foundation.  Vegetation monitoring on the Z-Bar Ranch: $21,000.
• 2000 FHSU Graduate Council Research Award: $1,515

 Teacher Training Funding:

 2004-05                     Kansas State Board of Regents Improving Teacher Quality Grant Program. Southwest Kansas: Science in          Context.  Collaboration with Kathleen Sanders (FHSU Teacher Education Department), Paul Adams (FHSU Teacher Education Department and Physics Department), John Heinrichs (FHSU Geosciences Department), James Hohman (FHSU Chemistry Department).  Two years:  $180,000.

2002-04                      National Science Foundation.  Integrating Math and Science in Middle School Instruction.  Collaboration with        Germaine Taggart (FHSU Teacher Education Department), Paul Adams (FHSU Teacher Education Department and Physics Department), John Heinrichs (FHSU Geosciences Department), James Hohman (FHSU Chemistry Department).  Two years:  $200,000 (external funding) and $200,000 (internal funding).

 2001-03         Eisenhower Professional Development Grant award.  Project IRIS:  Inquiry, Research and Integrated Science. Improving Middle School Instruction through Integration of Physical and Plant Sciences.  Funded with Paul Adams, FHSU Physics Dept.  two years: $118,794.

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