National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program
Natural Resources and the Environment
Watershed Processes and Water Resources

Projects funded for FY 2007

Note: Each proposal number is linked directly to its respective
CSREES Current Research Information System (CRIS) record.
Principal Investigator: T. Harter
Proposal Number: 2007-02855
Performing Institution: University of California Davis
Amount of Award: $399,953
Title of Award: Human health risks from animal agriculture: Comparative analysis of the transmission of multiple zoonotic pathogens in mixed-use agriculture

Principal Investigator: A. Boehm
Proposal Number: 2007-02850
Performing Institution: Stanford University
Amount of Award: $392,527
Title of Award: Salmonella and shiga-toxin encoding genes in coastal streams in central California: Relation to land use

Principal Investigator: J.E. Hill
Proposal Number: 2007-02857
Performing Institution: Yale University
Amount of Award: $399,405
Title of Award: Fate of motile bacterial pathogens in the subsurface: Determining the extent and influence of motility and counter-current movement on cell

Principal Investigator: G. Chen
Proposal Number: 2007-02842
Performing Institution: Florida A&M University
Amount of Award: $269,950
Title of Award: S. typhimurium and E. coli O157:H7 transport modeling for agricultural practices

Principal Investigator: J.R. Russell
Proposal Number: 2007-02847
Performing Institution: Iowa State University
Amount of Award: $399,770
Title of Award: Grazing management effects on pathogen loading of midwestern pasture streams

Principal Investigator: B. Golden
Proposal Number: 2007-02858
Performing Institution: Kansas State University
Amount of Award: $145,131
Title of Award: Impact analysis of the Wet Walnut Creek intensive groundwater use control area

Principal Investigator: S.D. Shultz
Proposal Number: 2007-02859
Performing Institution: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Amount of Award: $99,089
Title of Award: Payment incentives required for irrigation retirement programs

Principal Investigator: C.O. Obropta
Proposal Number: 2007-02840
Performing Institution: Rutgers University
Amount of Award: $399,863
Title of Award: Investigation of the fate and transport of fecal contamination using microbial source tracking

Principal Investigator: S. Angadi
Proposal Number: 2007-02882
Performing Institution: New Mexico State University
Amount of Award: $398,110
Title of Award: Water conservation in forage production systems by sorghum-legume intercropping in the southern high plains

Principal Investigator: R.L. Schneider
Proposal Number: 2007-02852
Performing Institution: Cornell University
Amount of Award: $341,558
Title of Award: Road ditch networks: Rapid conduits for transporting pathogens and nutrients in agricultural runoff to drinking water supply systems

Principal Investigator: W.A. Dick
Proposal Number: 2007-02844
Performing Institution: Ohio State University
Amount of Award: $399,953
Title of Award: Upper Sugar Creek Watershed, Ohio: A model watershed for study of pathogen origin, fate and transport

Principal Investigator: soon to be determined
Proposal Number: 2007-02864
Performing Institution: US-EPA
Amount of Award: $391,598
Title of Award: Fate and transportof pathogenic microorganisms orginating from livestock manures applied to agricultural lands

Principal Investigator: G. Fox
Proposal Number: 2007-02846
Performing Institution: Oklahoma State University
Amount of Award: $397,749
Title of Award: Role of directly connected macropores in pathogen transport to subsurface drainage

Principal Investigator: Z. Dou
Proposal Number: 2007-02854
Performing Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Amount of Award: $398,033
Title of Award: Survival and transport of E. coli O157:H7 and Salmonella Newport in manure and manured soils

Principal Investigator: S.L. Bryant
Proposal Number: 2007-02860
Performing Institution: The University of Texas at Austin
Amount of Award: $383,067
Title of Award: Quantifying the mechanisms of pathogen retention in unsaturated soils