Center for the Environment

Seeded Projects

Projects seeded by C4E

Title Investigators
Affirmative and Negative Motivations for Compliance in Emissions Trading Programs Cason (Management) & Raymond (Political Science)

Carbon Exchanges Over the Organic Soils of the Kankakee Floodplain: Can Water Management Manage the Carbon Exchange?

R. Grant, L. Bowling, J. Frankenberger, C. Johnston, D. Niyogi, S. Weller.

Conducting Proof of Concept Studies to Support Ecological Acoustics Research (EAR) at Purdue Bryan C. Pijanowski, Kai Ming Li, Ness Shroff

Development of Multifunctional Nanoflow Microlaboratory Sensors for Bioanalytical and Environmental Sensors Devices (jointly supported with Bindley Biosciences)

M. Poterfield, J. Rickus

Development of a Peptide Nucleic Acid Actinometer Ernest R. Blatchley III, Donald E. Bergstrom, J. Paul Robinson
Efficacy of oral delivery of the anthelmintic pyrantel pamoate for eradication of Raccoon Roundworm (Baylisascaris procyonis) Rhodes (Forestry), Miller (Forestry/Extension)

Engaging Communities to Sustain Green Infrastructure that is Needed to Support Economic Development .  

B. Miller, R. Farnsworth, L. DeBoer, C. Nolan, B. McCormick, M. Einstein, A. Archer, A. Zhalnin

Evaluating Functional Diversity of Microbial Communities using Confocal Raman Microscopy and Spectroscopy Irudayaraj (Ag & biological Engineering) & Konopka (Biology)

From Genomics to Physiomics: Development of Tools for Environmental Assessment and Real-Time Sensing of Contaminants  

M. Sepulveda, M. Kane, J. Adamec, M. Porterfield, H. Ochoa-Acu&ntildea

Graduate Student Residency: Indiana State Department of Agriculture

 Thomas Seager
In-situ Nitrogen and Phosphorous Sensing Using Diode Laser Raman Spectroscopy Sinfield (Civil Eng), Brouder & Schwab (Agronomy)

Instrumentation for Trace Air Contaminants

A. Heber, Rich Grant

Living Laboratories on the Wabash Kim Wilson, Linda Prokopy, Laura Bowling
Low Birth Weight and Drinking Water Quality: A Spatial Epidemiology Investigation Ochoa-Acuña, (Comparative Pathobiology and Civil Engineering), Frankenberger (Ag & Bio Eng), Hahn (State Chemist Office)
Nanoparticles in the Environment: Examining Exposure Pathways and Toxicological Effects Nies (Civil Eng), Turco (Agronomy), & Sepulveda (Forestry)

Nanoporous Silicon Based Sensors and Sensor Arrays for Detection of Volatile Organic Compounds in Air  

C. Lu, A. Heber, A. Tao

Preliminary Analysis for In-Situ and Satellite based Particulate Matter (PM) mapping Capabilities for Environmental Air Quality Modeling and Impact Studies Niyogi (Agronomy & Earth & Atmospheric Science), Larry Biehl (PTO), Gilbert Rochon (PTO/LARS/ITaP/RCAC). Harshvardhan (EAS), Melba Crawford (LARS/AGRY)
Positioning the Indiana Watershed Leadership Academy for National Recognition Through Innovative e-Learning Tools Frankenberger (Ag & Biological Engineering), Broussard (Forestry), & Ladd (Ag & Bio Eng)
Quantifying Carbon Sequestrations across Indiana's Forest Landscapes Shao (Forestry), Pope (Forestry), Michler (Forestry), Zhuang (Earth and Atmospheric Sci./ Agronomy) & Melba Crawford ( Agronomy, Civil, Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing)
Research, Outreach, Recruitment of Native American students: Kaibab Paiute Indian Reservation, Northern Arizona

Kerry Rabenold, Tim Filley, Ken Ridgway, Kevin Gibson, Steve Hallett, George Parker
Support for ECO-Hub (jointly supported with Cyber Center ) M. Huber, D. Niyogi

Wireless Sensor Network for Spatial Observations of Environmental Properties

J. Evans, K. A. Cherkauer, M. Porterfield

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