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Accession Number | Type | Director | Grantee Name | Title | Keywords | Most Recent Progress | Most Recent Impact | Most Recent Publications |
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OTHER GRANTS | Ulery, A. | SAES - NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY | Raising the Gates: Addressing Gaps in Students` Understanding of Math and Chemistry in the Animal and Plant Sciences | Show applied math skills~computer animation~interactive learning tools | Show 01-SEP-15 to 31-AUG-16
Target Audience:Students, teachers and academic instructors who need tools and products to help understand chemistry needed for agricultural science. The student audience includes all levels of undergraduates in agricultural majors. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?We have supported 2 graduate students part time on this project to help design and develop the learning tools. Close association with chemistry faculty and students has allowed us to improve our understanding of the challenges facing our agriculture students.One graduate student is evaluating data collected from earlier HSI projects and writing them up to help us show the impact of our products and learning tools. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?We have presented posters at national professional meetings attended by educators in agricultural sciences (NACTA), Agronomy Society of America, etc. At these meetings we have distributed bookmarks and flyers containing the internet address of our active website where all of our previous learning tools are posted and new products are continuously being added. See "ScienceOfAgriculture.org"for more information. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Incorporating the products developed on this project will begin this fall in several classes. We will use pre- and post-testing (IRB approval pending) to evaluate the efficacy of our learning tools in Chemistry 100, Animal Science 100, and Horticulture/Agronomy 100 courses. We will continue to add newly developed learning products to our website: "ScienceOfAgriculture.org" (formerly "ScienceOfSoil.org")...which now directs users to the new site. | Show 01-SEP-15 to 31-AUG-16
What was accomplished under these goals?
We have developed and edited three digital animations that will be freely distributed to be used as teaching tools in agriculture classes. These learning tools help connect new agricultural science students to some of the commonly misunderstood chemistry concepts they will need to master to be successful in their fields of study. | Show 01-SEP-15 to 31-AUG-16
Type = Conference Papers and Presentations / Status = Accepted / Year Published = 2016 / Citation = Ulery, April, Laura White, Barbara Chamberlin, Jeanne Gleason, Nicholas Beltran. 2016. Digital Tools to Teach Chemistry in Agriculture. Poster 2016-0296 presented at the 2016 NACTA Conference, June 21-24 at the University of Hawaii - Manoa. | |
HATCH | Ulery, A. | SAES - NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY | Management Impacts on Arid Zone Soil Properties | Show soil quality~waste management~environmental quality | Show 01-APR-12 to 30-SEP-16
Target Audience:The target audience for this project includes researchers and growers in arid and semi-arid regions such as the Southwestern US or areas with irrigated agriculture. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?One MS graduate student (female, Hispanic) completed her degree with partial support from this project and one PhD student is continuing his research on soil quality. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Yes, we have published our findings in peer-reviewed journal articles and presented data at professional meetings including the Soil Science Society of America. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?This project represents part of a larger effort to improve the quality of soils and natural resources in New Mexico and other arid regions. We will continue those efforts through the support of USDA-NIFA, NMSU, Western SARE and other granting agencies. | Show 01-APR-12 to 30-SEP-16
What was accomplished under these goals?
Interdisciplinary research sponsored in part by this project has helped measure the effects of alternative irrigation water sources on plants grown in arid regions (Flores et al., 2016; Gangegunte et al., 2017). In particular, soil changes and plant growth have been studied under irrigation with reverse osmosis concentrate and with municiple wastewater. Throughout the course of this study, we discovered and reported that organic amendments did not improve soil quality and plant growth on mine tailings in northern New Mexico (Hawthorne et al., 2015). However, work conducted in the greenhouse using certified organic farm soil to grow cotton under saline conditions indicates that organic matter may lessen the impact of salinity on plant growth. There was less salt damage to cotton seedlings grown in organic-rich soils compared to conventionally farmed soils with less organic matter (Barrick et al., 2015). A soil quality project has been underway since 2015 to determine the minimum data set required to characterize soil quality in arid and semi-arid regions as well as to determine the seasonal impacts on soil quality indicators (Omer, Idowu, Gulden and Ulery). | Show 01-APR-12 to 30-SEP-16
Type = Journal Articles / Status = Accepted / Year Published = 2016 / Citation = Flores, A. M., Shukla, M. K., Daniel, D., Ulery, A. L., Schutte, B. J., Picchioni, G., Fernald, A. (2016). Evapotranspiration changes with irrigation using saline groundwater and RO concentrate. Journal of Arid Environment. 131:33-45.
Type = Journal Articles / Status = Accepted / Year Published = 2017 / Citation = Ganjegunte, G., A. Ulery, G. Niu, Y. Wu. 2017. Effects of Treated Municipal Wastewater Irrigation on Soil properties, Switchgrass Biomass Production and Quality under Arid Climate. Industrial Crops and Products. In revision. | |
HATCH | Ulery, A. | SAES - NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY | Improving the Soil Quality of New Mexico and Arid Land Soils | Show soil quality ~ waste management ~ environmental quality | Show 01-APR-06 to 30-SEP-10
OUTPUTS: Chile pepper germination and growth response to salinity was measured and reported at the annual Chile Pepper Conference in Las Cruces, NM. A paper was published (Niu et al., 2010) that reported chile pepper responses to salinity under field conditions. We are currently revising a manuscript describing greenhouse experiments that evaluated the response of several chile pepper varieties to salinity during germination, emergence and stand establishment. Arsenic sorption by NM soils and calcium carbonate in the presence of wastewater effluent was evaluated in the lab and reported in a PhD dissertation and MS thesis. When wastewater effluent is present as in a municipal land application area, arsenic will tend to be more mobile through the soil than previously thought. Except for our ongoing collaboration with the Navajo Nation and Dine College, our lab and greenhouse research on uranium uptake by plants has been completed and presented in a paper by Sevostianova et al. (2010). Our testing of several plant species for their ability to accumulate uranium indicated that soluble uranium forms (e.g., uranyl nitrate) were more likely to be extracted from soil than schoepite or less soluble, weathered forms of uranium. Potential candidates for uranium extraction and phytoaccumulation that bear closer scrutiny include Desert marigold (Baileya multiradiata), Sacred Datura (Datura metaloides) and Coyote or Buffalo Gourd (Cucurbita palmate). PARTICIPANTS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period. TARGET AUDIENCES: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period. | Show 01-APR-06 to 30-SEP-10
Our work on soil quality continues to impact local and regional agricultural practices and potential remediation of contaminated soils. Selection of potential chile pepper varieties will impact local economies and agricultural practices. Our findings on arsenic sorption on waste water treatment sites should cause a modification in land application practices dealing with reverse osmosis concentrate disposal. | Show 01-APR-06 to 30-SEP-10
Niu, G., D.S. Rodriguez, M. Wang, E. Call, P. Bosland, A. Ulery, and E. Acosta. 2010. Responses of eight chile peppers to saline water irrigation. Scientia Horticulturae. 126:215-222.
Sevostianova, E., W.C. Lindemann, A.L. Ulery, and M.D. Remmenga. 2010. Plant uptake of depleted uranium from manure-amended and citrate treated soil. International Journal of Phytoremediation. 12:550-561.
Sylvia Jean Nemmers. 2010. Sorption and Mobility of Arsenic in Desert Soils When Applied With Municipal Wastewater Effluent. PhD Dissertation, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM.
Sandra I. Campos-Diaz. 2010. Arsensic Sorption on Calcareous Soils. MS Thesis, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM. |
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