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A
Principal Investigator	Project Title	Home Department
Allen, KG	N-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Human Health and Disease	Food Science and Human Nutrition
Archibeque, S	Enhancing Efficiency in Cow-Calf Production	Animal Science
Auld, GW	Parent and Household Influences on Calcium Intake Among Preadolescents	Food Science and Human Nutrition
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B
Principal Investigator	Project Title	Home Department
Barbarick, KA	Chemistry, Bioavailability, and Toxicity of Constituents in Residuals and Residual-Treated Soils	Soil and Crop Sciences
Bartolo, ME	Vegetable Crop Management in the Arkansas Valley	Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
Beck, KG	Ecology, Biology, and Management of Invasive Weeds in Colorado	Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Mgmt.
Belk, KE	Enhancing the Competitiveness and Value of U.S. Beef	Animal Science
Berrada, A	Enhancing Field Crop Production in the Arkansas River Valley	Soil and Crop Sciences
Berrada, A	Reducing Barriers to Adoption of Microirrigation	Soil and Crop Sciences
Binkley, DE	*Forest Conditions in The Rockies: Leopold, Fire, and Aspen	-home/index.php Forest, Rangeland, & Watershed Sciences
Bjostad, LB	Insect Pest Management with Infochemicals	Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Mgmt.
Borch, T	Evaluating the Physical and Biological Availability of Pesticides and Pharmaceuticals in Agricultural Contexts	Soil and Crop Sciences
Brick, MA	Exotic Germplasm Conversion and Breeding Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) for Resistance to Abiotic and Biotic Stresses and to Enhance Nutritional Value	Soil and Crop Sciences
Brick, MA	Plant Genetic Resource Conservation and Utilization	Soil and Crop Sciences
Brouillette, J	Water Banking in the Arkansas Valley	Sociology
Brown, CS	*The Ecology of Invasive Plants	Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Mgmt.
Bruemmer, JE	Identification of Factors and Development of Technologies to Improve Efficiency of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Horse	Animal Science
Brummer, JE	Economic, Environmental, Genetic, and Nutritional Aspects of Grass-Fed Beef	Soil and Crop Sciences
Brummer, JE	Management of Forages in Colorado for Improved Yield and Quality	Soil and Crop Sciences
Bunning, M	An Integrated Approach to Promoting the Production, Safe Handling, and Marketing of Specialty Leafy Green Vegetables in Colorado	Food Science and Human Nutrition
Burke, IC	Long-term carbon and greenhouse gas consequences of fire in montane forests and woodlands of the Colorado Front Range	-home/index.php Forest, Rangeland, & Watershed Sciences
Butters, G	Characterizing Mass and Energy Transport at Different Scales	Soil and Crop Sciences
Byrne, PF	Molecular-Marker-Assisted Analysis of Quantitative Traits for Breeding Wheat and Dry Beans	Soil and Crop Sciences
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C
Principal Investigator	Project Title	Home Department
Carlson, KH	Minimizing the Release of Animal Antibiotics from Aerobic and Anaerobic Lagoons	Civil and Environmental Engineering
Caspari, HW	Multi-state Evaluation of Winegrape Cultivars and Clones	Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
Child, RD	Vegetation Change and Risk in Management of Rangeland Plants	-home/index.php Forest, Rangeland, & Watershed Sciences
Collett, JL	Development and Application of Continuous Measurement Methods for Assessing Air Quality Impacts of Confined Animal Feeding Operations	Atmospheric Science
Cranshaw, WS	Improving Management of Arthropod Pests of Vegetable Crops, Nursery Crops and Landscape	Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Mgmt.
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D
Principal Investigator	Project Title	Home Department
Davidson, RD	*Improve Potato Yield and Quality through Suppression of Disease	Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
Davidson, RD	Improved potato yield and quality through disease suppression and optimum certified seed potato production techniques	Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
Davies, SP	*Market and Policy Analyses of Colordo Products Using Time Series and Panel Data Models	Agricultural and Resource Economics
Davis, JG	Improving the Sustainability of Livestock and Poultry Production in the United States	Soil and Crop Sciences
Davis, JG	Improving Water and Nitrogen Use Efficiency with Manure and Compost	Soil and Crop Sciences
Doesken, NJ	Monitoring Colorado's Climate for Applications in Agriculture and Natural Resources	Atmospheric Science
Durnford, DS	The Critical Groundwater Link between Irrigated Agricultural Water Use and Fish Habitat on the	Civil and Environmental Engineering
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E
Principal Investigator	Project Title	Home Department
Engle, TE	Nutrition and Management of Feedyard Cattle to Enhance Performance, Carcass Value and Environmental Sustainability	Animal Science
Engle, TE	Stress Factors of Farm Animals and Their Effects on Performance	Animal Science
Enns, RM	Livestock Management Systems	Animal Science
Enns, RM	National Beef Cattle Genetic Evaluation	Animal Science
Essah, SY	Development of cultivar specific management profiles for new and existing potato cultivars.	Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
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F
Principal Investigator	Project Title	Home Department
Fernandez-Gimenez, ME	Understanding, Evaluating and Enhancing Community-based Collaboratives and Participatory Research Processes on Colorado Rangelands	-home/index.php Forest, Rangeland, & Watershed Sciences
Frasier, WM	*Water Management and Western Irrigated Agriculture: Opportunities and Consequences	Agricultural and Resource Economics
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G
Principal Investigator	Project Title	Home Department
Gao, W	UV-B Monitoring and Research Program	Natural Resource Ecology Lab
Garcia, LA	Augmentation Accounting in the South Platte Using South Platte Mapping and Analysis Program	Civil and Environmental Engineering
Gates, TK	Defining and Engineering Solutions for Agroecological Threats from Salinity and Selenium in an Irrigated River Valley	Civil and Environmental Engineering
Godin, RE	Organic Cropping Management Systems	Soil and Crop Sciences
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H
Principal Investigator	Project Title	Home Department
Haley, SD	Improvement of Quality and Performance of Colorado Wheat	Soil and Crop Sciences
Hamilton, KL	Influence of Vitamins C and E on the Thermic Effect of Feeding in Overweight and Obese Adult	Health & Exercise Science
Hamilton, KL	Soy Derived Phytoestrogens and Protection of Cardiomyocytes	Food Science and Human Nutrition
Han, HL	*Regulation of Animal Growth by Hormones and Growth Factors	Animal Science
Hansen, NC	Crop and Soil Management Systems in Water Limited Agroecosystems	Soil and Crop Sciences
Harris, M	Effect of Fish Oil Supplementation in Chronic Renal Failure (CRF) in a Feline Model of Human	Food Science and Human Nutrition
Holm, DG	Development of New Potato Cultivars for Colorado Via Germplasm Enhancement and Evaluation	Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
Hufbauer, RA	*Genetics of invasive Centaurea species in Colorado	Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Mgmt.
Hufbauer, RA	*The Ecology and Genetics of Invasions and Biological control	Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Mgmt.
Hufbauer, RA	Biological Control in Pest Management Systems of Plants	Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Mgmt.
Hufbauer, RA	The Ecology and Genetics of Invasions and Biological Control	Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Mgmt.
Hughes, H	Environmental and Genetic Determinants of Seed Quality and Performance	Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
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J
Principal Investigator	Project Title	Home Department
Jacobi, WR	Interactions among Bark Beetles, Pathogens, and Conifers in North American Forests	Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Mgmt.
Jacobi, WR	Interactions of Environmental Conditions with Forest and Shade Tree Diseases	Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Mgmt.
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K
Principal Investigator	Project Title	Home Department
Kelly, EF	Assessing the Primary Controls on Soil Biogeochemistry in Grass Dominated Ecosystems	Soil and Crop Sciences
Khosla, R	Precision Management on Site-Specific Management Zones for Farm Profitability and Environment	Soil and Crop Sciences
Klett, JE	Introduction, Adaptability, Production and Survival of Landscape Plants in Colorado	Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
Knudson, DL	Genomics of Pest Insects, Plant Pathogens, and Plants	Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Mgmt.
Kondratieff, BC	Support and Enhancement of the C. P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity	Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Mgmt.
Koski, AJ	Development and Evaluation of Turf Species and Management Strategies for Sustainable Turf	Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
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L
Principal Investigator	Project Title	Home Department
Lapitan, NL	Genomics of Economically Important Traits in Wheat and Barley	Soil and Crop Sciences
Larsen, H	Improving Economic and Environmental Sustainability in Tree-Fruit Production Through Changes in Rootstock Use	Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
Larson, KJ	Crop Management and Sorghum Improvement	Soil and Crop Sciences
Lauenroth, WK	Understanding Plant Invasion on Colorado Rangelands	-home/index.php Forest, Rangeland, & Watershed Sciences
Leach, JE	Molecular Basis of Broad Spectrum, Durable Disease Resistance in Crop Plants	Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Mgmt.
Loftis, J	*Estimating Nutrient Loads for Water Quality Management	Civil and Environmental Engineering
Loomis, J	Benefits and Costs of Natural Resources Policies Affecting Public and Private Lands	Agricultural and Resource Economics
Loomis, JB	Interfacing Technological, Economic, and Institutional Principles for Managing Inter-sector Mobilization of Water	Agricultural and Resource Economics
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M
Principal Investigator	Project Title	Home Department
McKay, JK	The Functional and Evolutionary Genomics of Drought Adaptation Networks in Arabidopsis thaliana	Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Mgmt.
Melby, CL	Interaction of Diet and Exercise on Chronic Disease Risk	Food Science and Human Nutrition
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N
Principal Investigator	Project Title	Home Department
Nelson, TL	Effect of dietary fat type on emerging cardiovascular risk factors in individuals with impaired glucose tolerance or type 2 diabetes	Health & Exercise Science
Nett, T	Reproductive Performance in Domestic Ruminants	Biomedical Sciences
Niemann, JD	Estimation of Soil Moisture in Intensively-Irrigated Areas Using Remote-Sensing	Civil and Environmental Engineering
Nissen, SJ	Integrated Weed Management Strategies in Crop and Non-Crop Systems	Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Mgmt.
Niswender, GD	Integrated Resource Management - Beef Cattle and Sheep	Biomedical Sciences
Norton, AP	*Integrating multiple biological control agents for Dalmatian toadflax and diffuse knapweed	Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Mgmt.
Norton, AP	Ecology of Pests and Pest Management Systems	Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Mgmt.
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O
Principal Investigator	Project Title	Home Department
Oad, R	*Improving Drainage of Agricultural Lands for Salinity Problem in the Lower Arkansas Valley	Civil and Environmental Engineering
Oad, R	Effects of Irrigated Agriculture and Riparian Vegetation on Fish Habitats in the Arikaree River Basin of Colorado	Civil and Environmental Engineering
Omi, PN	*Sustainability of Thinning and Prescribed Fire Programs to Improve Forest Condition Along the Front Range, Colorado	-home/index.php Forest, Rangeland, & Watershed Sciences
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P
Principal Investigator	Project Title	Home Department
Pagliassotti, MJ	Plants as a Source of Bioactive Molecules for the Treatment of Obesity and Diabetes	Food Science and Human Nutrition
Paschke, MW	Metal Toxicity Thresholds for Important Colorado Reclamation Plant Species	-home/index.php Forest, Rangeland, & Watershed Sciences
Paustian, KH	Agricultural Soils Mitigation of Greenhouse Gases in Colorado and the US	Soil and Crop Sciences
Paustian, KH	Benchmark Soilscapes to Predict Effects of Climatic Change in the Western USA	Soil and Crop Sciences
Peairs, FB	Biology and Management of the Russian Wheat Aphid, Diuraphis Noxia (Mordvilko), in Colorado	Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Mgmt.
Peairs, FB	Management of spider mite pests in Colorado field corn.	Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Mgmt.
Pearson, CH	Crops and Cropping Systems in Western Colorado for Traditional/Alternative and	Soil and Crop Sciences
Pruden, A	Best Management Practices for Antibiotic Resistance Gene (ARG) Treatment in Livestock	Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Q
Principal Investigator	Project Title	Home Department
Qian, YL	Wastewater Reuse In Turfgrass Systems	Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
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R
Principal Investigator	Project Title	Home Department
Reich, RM	Spatial analysis and modeling the indirect effects of climate change on forest insects and diseases across North America	-home/index.php Forest, Rangeland, & Watershed Sciences
Rocca, ME	Imagining landscapes of the future: predicting the impacts of climate change, insect outbreaks, and fire on Colorado forests	-home/index.php Forest, Rangeland, & Watershed Sciences
Rogoyski, MK	*Production Systems of Ornamental Landscape Plants in the Intermountain West of the United	Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
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S
Principal Investigator	Project Title	Home Department
Salas, JD	*Predicting the Severity of Low Flows and Droughts for Agricultural Systems in Colorado	Civil and Environmental Engineering
Sampson, DA	Nutrient Bioavailability--Phytonutrients and Beyond	Food Science and Human Nutrition
Sarkar, AK	*Mediating Exposure To Environmental Hazards Through Textile Systems	Design and Merchandising
Sarkar, AK	Textile Materials and Technologies Addressing Energy, Health and Other National Security Issues	Design and Merchandising
Schwartz, HF	Biology and Management of Iris yellow spot virus (IYSV) and Thrips in Onions	Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Mgmt.
Schwartz, HF	Colorado Row and Vegetable Crop Foliar Disease Management	Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Mgmt.
Seidel, Jr., GE	Germ Cell and Embryo Development and Manipulation for the Improvement of Livestock	Biomedical Sciences
Smith, FW	*Aspen Persistence in Multi-Aged Forest Communities on the Western Slope of Colorado	-home/index.php Forest, Rangeland, & Watershed Sciences
Sofos, JN	Control of Food-Borne Pathogens in Pre- and Post-Harvest Environments	Animal Science
Sofos, JN	Enhancing the Safety of Meat Products and Other Foods	Animal Science
Stromberger, ME	Impact of Land Use Management on Soil Microbial Structural and Functional Diversity	Soil and Crop Sciences
Stushnoff, C	*Plant Antioxidants as Free Radical Scavengers:Implications for Human Health and Plant Survival	Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
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T
Principal Investigator	Project Title	Home Department
Thilmany, DD	Fruit and Vegetable Marketing Innovations and Demand Assessment	Agricultural and Resource Economics
Thilmany, DD	Rural Change: Markets, Governance and Quality of Life	Agricultural and Resource Economics
Tisserat, NA	Management of Turf and Ornamental Diseases in Colorado	Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Mgmt.
Trlica, MJ	Disturbance, Invasion, Restoration, and Rangeland Health	-home/index.php Forest, Rangeland, & Watershed Sciences
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V
Principal Investigator	Project Title	Home Department
Vivanco, JM	*Towards an ecofriendly herbicide: (-)-catechin, a natural flavonol secreted by spotted knapweed roots, is a potent inhibitor of plant growth	Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
Vivanco, JM	Beneficial and Adverse Effects of Natural, Bioactive Dietary Chemicals on Human Health and	Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
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W
Principal Investigator	Project Title	Home Department
Ward, SM	Invasive potential of hybrid toadflax populations	Soil and Crop Sciences
Wei, Y	Strategic management of unwanted wildland large fire events by integrating the fuels program with the direct management of suppression: a systematic approach to cost control	-home/index.php Forest, Rangeland, & Watershed Sciences
Westfall, DG	*Sustainable Nutrient Management of Soils to Enhance Productivity and Environmental Quality.	Soil and Crop Sciences
Westra, P	Characterize Weed Population Dynamics for Improved Long-Term Weed Management Decision	Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Mgmt.
Westra, P	The Biology, Ecology, and Molecular Genetics of Key Weeds of Colorado Row Crops and Non-	Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Mgmt.
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Z
Principal Investigator	Project Title	Home Department
Zalesky, DD	Comparison of Traditional and Alternative Methods to Control Noxious Weeds near Cropland, Rangeland and Waterways	Animal Science
Zalesky, DD	Sustainability of Matching Cow Nutrient Requirements With Nutrient Content of Grazed Forages	AES Director's Office
Zimmerman, RJ	Development and Integration of Pest Management Stategies for High Value Cropping Systems: Fruit and Vegetables	Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Mgmt.
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