The Department of Biological Sciences

Current Grant Funding

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Funding Source Project Title
Anderson Northern Arizona University Neuromechanical control of elastic energy storage and recovery during ballistic movements
Baxter Univ. of Idaho NSF EPSCoR NSF EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement
Baxter Devlieg Foundation Aquatic-terrestrial connectivity in a wilderness watershed: do emerging stream insects fuel riparian food webs following wildfire?
Baxter National Science Foundation Study of the indirect food web effects of introduced brook trout in watersheds of the Rocky Mountains
Baxter Shoshone-Bannock Tribes What are the effects of dredge mining on river-floodplain processes in the Yankee Fork Salmon River and what is to be gained by restoring such connections?
Baxter Devlieg Foundation The Ecological Significance of Mountain Whitefish (Prosopium williamsoni) in a Central Idaho Wilderness Stream
Baxter US Forest Service Synthesis of the Biology of Japanese White-Spotted Charr and North American Bull Trout with implications for Conservation and Research Needs
Bearden American Heart Association Effects of aging and exercise training on skeletal muscle microvasculature
Bowyer California Dept. of Fish and Game Determine habitat use and selection in mule deer using GPS collars in California
Delehanty Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game Use of threetip sagebrush by sage grouse
Delehanty Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game Restoring mountain quail to public lands in Idaho
Delehanty Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game Deer Parks Monitoring 2006
Delehanty Utah State University Effect of Raven Removal on Sage Grouse Nest Success
Delehanty Nevada Dept. of Wildlife Effects of Raven Removal on the Greater Sage-grouse Population in the Snake Mountain Range, Elko County, Nevada
Delehanty National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Bennet Hill Mountain Quail Reintroduction
DeVeaux Dept. of Defense, ONR Transcriptome Analysis of Microbial stress responses
Germino Andrew Mellon Foundation Role of carbon balance in tree seedling establishment at alpine tree line
Germino USDA NRI CSREES Land use effects on persistence of exotic forbs: Are loss of foundation species and disruption of soil resource partitioning the causal links?
Germino Stoller, DOE
Groome National Science Foundation Mechanisms of deactivation in sodium channels
Huntly NPS - Great Basin CESU
Huntly National Park Service Sagebrush-steppe vegetation monitoring protocol development for the Upper Columbia Basin network
Huntly National Science Foundation Complex Ecosystem Interactions over Multiple Spatial and
Temporal Scales: the Biocomplexity of Sanak Island
Huntly Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game The impacts of fragmentation and insecticide application on sage grouse, sagebush passerines
Inouye Three Rivers RC&D Council
Inouye National Science Foundation Undergraduate Training in Ecological and Evolutionary Analyses of Micro and Macro Systems
Inouye National Science Foundation Undergraduate Training in Ecological and Evolutionary Analyses of Micro and Macro Systems
Inouye Northwind, Inc. Support students working on research projects with Northwind
Inouye Idaho DEQ: Mink Creek Research related to water quality, erosion, and other aspects of the environment
Inouye Idaho DEQ: Nutrient Study Nutrient Limitation in Local Rivers
Inouye Univ. of Idaho NSF EPSCoR NSF EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement V-Science
Inouye Inland Northwest Research Alliance Water Resources Program Planning Committee
Keeley National Science Foundation Ecological Correlates of Introgressive Hybridization Between Native and Introduced Populations of Salmonid Fishes
Keeley Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game
Keeley National Science Foundation Research Dissertation: Morphology and swimming ability of native and introduced trout: Does body shape and swimming stamina mediate the invasion of native cutthroat populations?
Keeley USDA Forest Service Developing a bioenergetic assessment of fish habitat in the Panther Creek Watershed
Keeley Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game Seasonal movements and habitat selection of Bonneville cutthroat trout in the Bear River, Idaho
Kelchner National Science Foundation Collaborative Research: Phylogeny and Generic Classification of the Woody Bamboos (Poaceae: Bambusoideae: Bambuseae)
Kie Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game Interactions between Elk and Mule Deer at Tex Creek Wildlife Management Area
Magnuson Inland Northwest Research Alliance Selective attachment of dissimilatory metal reducing bacteria to metal oxide substrata
Magnuson NASA - ISGC Isolation and Identification of Bacteria that Produce Novel Biogenic 'Life-Signature' Minerals, NASA-ISGC Graduate Fellowship
Magnuson U.S. Dept. of Energy Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology of Iron-Respiring Bacteria From Acidic and Neutral pH Environments
Magnuson National Science Foundation Collaborative Research: Redox metallo-proteins and conformational gating in electron transfer to ferric materials
Magnuson NASA - ISGC In situ measurement of microbial enzyme activities
Magnuson NASA-EPSCoR Idaho In situ measurement of microbial enzyme activities
Magnuson Dept. of Energy Redox Interaction of Cytochromes and Bacteria with Oxide Surfaces: Probing Redox-Linked Conformation Change
Matocq National Science Foundation Dissertation Research: Molecular and Morphological Perspectives on the Dynamics of a Post-Glacial Contact Zone
Matocq Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game Use of radio telemetry to locate bat maternity colonies
Matocq CA Dept. of Fish and Game Local-scale population dynamics and connectivity in Spermophilus mohavenesis, the Mojave Ground Squirrel
Matocq National Science Foundation Acquisition of DNA Sequencing and Bioinformatics Resources for the Molecular Core Facility of Idaho State University
Matocq The Community Foundation Dynamics of a newly discovered desert woodrat (Neotoma lepida) hybrid zone in Southern California
Matocq National Science Foundation Dissertation Research: Behavioral and genetic dynamics in a woodrat (Neotoma lepida) hybrid zone in southern California
Matocq Burea of Land Management Ecological Correlates of genetic structure of Townsend's big-eared bats in southeast Idaho
Matocq Univ. of Idaho NSF EPSCoR NSF EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement
Meldrum FRC The role of the hallucal metatarsal in the evolution of the longitudinal arch of the human foot
Meldrum Fidelity Investments Field investigation of sasquatch in the Central Rockies
Meldrum Green & Stepp Virtualization & archiving of footprints
Minshall USDA Forest Service Effects of Wildfire on Wilderness Stream Ecosystems
Peterson National Park Service Development and testing of an amphibian monitoring protocol within the greater Yellowstone network
Peterson Potlatch Corporation Factors Influencing Rocky Mountain Tailed Frog (Ascaphus montanus) distribution and abundance
Peterson Montan Fish, Wildlife, & Parks Factors Influencing Rocky Mountain Tailed Frog (Ascaphus montanus) distribution and abundance
Peterson USGS - Biological Resources Disc. Amphibian Monitoring on the Great Divide Transect: Greater Yellowstone Network
Peterson Stoller Corporation Surveying and Monitoring Amphibian and Reptile Populations on the INL: Indicators of Environmental Health and Change
Rodnick Western Ecology Division of EPA Biochemical, Physiological, and Health Characteristics of Coho Salmon in the Lower Fork Smith River
Rodnick Univ. of Idaho NSF EPSCoR NSF EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement V-Fish
Rodnick National Science Foundation Explaining sex-specific effects of sex steroids on cardiac function in rainbow trout
Rodnick, St-Hilarie US EPA Biochemical, Physiological, and Health Characteristics of Coho Salmon in the Lower Fork Smith River
Scalarone Global Food Technologies Pathogen Reduction Studies Grant
Shields Univ. of Id./NASA Id. Space Grant Con. Remote detection of living organisms through their released soluble DNA
Smith, R. National Science Foundation A methods course to prepare pre-service biology teachers to use inquiry: adapting the focal ecosystem model
Smith, R. National Science Foundation Track GK-12: Enhancing science literacy in southeast Idaho with community-based projects and University/K-12 Partnerships
St-Hilaire UW-NPS Research Center Investigation of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in three boreal toad (Bufo Boreas boreas) population in Wyoming
St-Hilaire United States Geological Survey Why is Chytrid not affecting boreal toad populations in Grant Teton National Park? How widespread is Chytrid in GTNP?
St-Hilaire Utah State University/USDA Will black soldier fly prepupae be a suitable feed ingredient for Rainbow Trout? Will it be possible to grow BSF in Idaho on dairy manure?
Thomas PhRMA Foundation Informatics research starter grant: Detection and Analysis of Natural Selection in the Human Genome