Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce funding decisions for the 2017 UC ANR Competitive Grants Program/High Risk, High Rewards Program. As in past years, the number of requests received exceeds funding available. With 45 competitive grant proposals requesting over $7 million and six high-risk high-reward proposals requesting over another $500,000, we are pleased to be able to support around 25 percent overall.
I want to thank the Strategic Initiative Panels for their work in screening Letters of Intent and the Technical Review Panels for their efforts reviewing proposals for technical merit, feasibility and Extension prior to the review by Program Council. Program Council then reviewed proposals against all the criteria and had the difficult task of making recommendations to me how best to distribute the finite resources available. I commend the principal investigators and their teams for their submissions. While each submission represented important work, not all proposals could be funded.
I am particularly pleased to see that funded proposals represent each of the Strategic Initiatives and have as principal investigators advisors, specialists, academic administrators and Agricultural Experiment Station
(AES) faculty from each of the AES campuses, our county academics, and our UC ANR statewide programs. The partnering in each of the proposals illustrates one of the principles of our ANR Promise.
The Strategic Initiative Leaders will be sending review comments out to all applicants over the next few weeks.
Congratulations to all of the awardees. The list of funded proposals is below and also posted on the 2017 funding opportunities web page.
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Title |
PI |
Award amount |
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Pathways to Your Future: Destination UC
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$200,000 |
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Massive tree mortality in the Sierra Nevada: Consequences for forest health |
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$200,000 |
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Reducing nitrate leaching to the groundwater by accounting for the soils' capacity to supply N through mineralization |
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$199,978 |
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Advancing urban irrigation management to enhance water use efficiency |
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$199,975
|
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The California Master Beekeeper Program: Development of a continuous train-the-trainer education effort for CA beekeepers |
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$199,949 |
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Silent straws: understanding water demands from woody encroachment in California's oak woodlands |
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$199,937 |
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Impact of a warmer and drier future on rangeland ecosystems and ecosystem services |
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$199,831 |
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Closing the adaptive management loop for sustainable working rangelands |
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$199,502 |
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Developing a culturally relevant civic science approach to improving scientific literacy for Latino youth |
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$194,768 |
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Creating cyst nematode suppressive soils by managing indigenous populations of the hyperparasitic fungus Dactylella oviparasitica* |
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$100,000 |
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Smart Farming: Monitoring the health of chickens* |
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$81,293 |
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Recruiting the next generation of extension professionals |
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$11,030 |
*High-risk/High-reward
Glenda Humiston
Vice President
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