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This project is aimed at helping protect crop productivity by providing a means of rapidly assessing the health of bee colonies used for pollination. We propose research leading to the design of a hand-held device that could scan a honey bee colony, and quickly indicate the condition of that colony. The increase in efficiency of examining colonies for pollination, for honey production, for queen r ...

"This project addresses the USDA request for innovative application of information technology to convey important nutritional information and awareness of health issues and provide community based interventions to advance healthy lifestyles at work, at school, at home, and at play or leisure. We will create a real video game that 1) will increase children's awareness of the relationship of healthy ...

HyPerspectives proposes to address a serious obstacle to wildfire management by providing a software solution roadmap for the creation of crown fuel layers for the FARSITE fire simulator. By doing so we will connect recent advances in LiDAR technology with an end-user community who is in need of LiDAR-derived fuel data products. HyPerspectives will draw upon its successful experience in LiDAR soft ...

"This renewable energy project will complete the first phase of developing an innovative approach to a commercial ethanol plant in Buhl Idaho. The plant will use barley as a feedstock, supplemented by available sources of low value starch. Barley is the best crop for ethanol production in local agronomic systems and the use of low value and waste materials will significantly reduce feedstock cost. ...

There is a need for native plants tolerant of low soil pH and elevated heavy metal concentrations to revegetate acid mine land in the Rocky Mountain west. Acid/ heavy metal tolerant (AHMT) plants are necessary because of the immense area of acid mine land that needs reclamation. Mining wastes have contaminated 3,346 miles of rivers in six Western states, including 1,118 in Montana. It will cost bi ...

REMOVAL OF TOXIC METALS FROM WASTEWATER STREAMS HAS BECOME A PROBLEM OF INCREASING NATIONAL IMPORTANCE, AS A RESULT OF INCREASING CONCERN FOR OUR ENVIRONMENT, AND INCREASINGLY STRINGENT WASTE DISPOSAL REGULATIONS. CHROMATOCHEM, INC., HAS DEVELOPED AN ECONOMICAL AND EFFECTIVE NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR THE REMOVAL OF LOW LEVELS OF TOXIC METAL IONS FROM WASTEWATER STREAMS, USING SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION (SPE) ...

WE PROPOSE TO TEST THREE SPECIES OF MILKWEED AND THEIR ECOTYPES IN THE GREEHOUSE FOR RESISTANCE, TOLERANCE OR BOTH TO BLACK SPOT AND BACTERIAL BLIGHT CAUSED BY THE FUNGAL PATHOGEN, CERCOSPORA SP. AND XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS PV ASCLEPIADIS. THESE TWO DISEASES ARE THE PRINCIPAL OBSTACLES TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMERCIAL MILKWEED INDUSTRY. THEY CAM REDUCE THE YIELD OF FLOSS BY 75%. RESULTS FROM SO ...