Source: CORNELL UNIVERSITY submitted to NRP
ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT FOR PLANT GROWTH FACILITIES, ENVIRONMENTAL GROWTH CHAMBER AND NON-GROWTH CHAMBERS AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Sponsoring Institution
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Project Status
ACTIVE
Funding Source
HATCH
Reporting Frequency
Annual
Accession No.
0184740
Grant No.
(N/A)
Cumulative Award Amt.
(N/A)
Proposal No.
(N/A)
Multistate No.
(N/A)
Project Start Date
Oct 2, 2009
Project End Date
Sep 30, 2029
Grant Year
(N/A)
Program Code
[(N/A)]- (N/A)
Recipient Organization
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
(N/A)
ITHACA,NY 14853
Performing Department
Station Administration
Non Technical Summary
The plant growth, environmental growth chambers and non-growth chambers at Cornell University support a number of diverse agricultural research projects. This project will provide funds for administrative operational and technical support for the station's research farms, greenhouses, plant growth, growth chambers and non-growth chambers.
Animal Health Component
100%
Research Effort Categories
Basic
(N/A)
Applied
100%
Developmental
(N/A)
Classification

Knowledge Area (KA)Subject of Investigation (SOI)Field of Science (FOS)Percent
00100010001100%
Knowledge Area
001 - Administration;

Subject Of Investigation
0001 - Administration;

Field Of Science
0001 - Administration;
Goals / Objectives
To provide administrative and technical and operational support for research conducted in the stations plant growth, environmental growth chambers and non-growth chamberts, including research farms and greenhouses. These facilities are used in support of many CSREES projects at Cornell Univeristy.
Project Methods
Expenditures for payment of salaries and other items related to the upgrading maintenance and coordination of the station's plant growth, environmental growth, and non-growth chambers facilities, related to ecology and evolutionary biology, entomology, horticulture, plant biology, plant breeding,plant pathology, crop and soil sciences, and earth and atmospheric sciences, that support agricultural research programs conducted by a numuber of departments throughout the colleges. Research will encompass existing and future CSREES projects in these fields.