Source: UNIV OF SOUTH FLORIDA submitted to
BUILDING CAPACITY TO TRAIN THE NEXT GENERATION OF UNDER-REPRESENTED AND CROSS-DISCIPLINARY SCHOLARS OF AGRICULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY
Sponsoring Institution
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Project Status
COMPLETE
Funding Source
OTHER GRANTS
Reporting Frequency
Annual
Accession No.
1000913
Grant No.
2013-70001-21267
Cumulative Award Amt.
$734,346.00
Proposal No.
2013-04712
Multistate No.
(N/A)
Project Start Date
Sep 1, 2013
Project End Date
Aug 31, 2018
Grant Year
2013
Program Code
[NLGCA]- Capacity Building Grants for Non Land Grant Colleges of Agriculture
Recipient Organization
UNIV OF SOUTH FLORIDA
(N/A)
TAMPA,FL 33620
Performing Department
Integrative Biology
Non Technical Summary
Purpose: The purpose of this grant is to increase the number and diversity of students entering agricultural-related science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines and to address the USDA-documented expertise shortage in "Integrative Biosciences for Sustainable Food and Agricultural Systems" and "Sciences for Agricultural Biosecurity and Climate Change". To address this need, we propose to enhance our newly established graduate training Program in Agricultural Sustainability and Biosecurity (PASB) at the University of South Florida (USF) and to establish a undergraduate analog. Our graduate and undergraduate PASBs will uniquely integrate the strengths of the USF Department of Integrative Biology and School of Global Sustainability with the University of Florida's (UF) Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. Students will experience a curriculum that entails coursework, lab rotations, research projects, teaching, required internships with agricultural organizations, extension and outreach, and international travel and that has substantial support from USF and UF. We will recruit minority under-represented students in the sciences, have partnered with Hillsborough Community College to establish a 2+2 program, and will establish a 3+2 BS/MS program as well. Additionally, funds are requested for faculty and advisor professional development to further build USF's capacity to train students in the agricultural sciences. A continuation plan is provided to ensure that the PASBs will persist post-funding. The proposed PASBs not only cross disciplinary boundaries and departments, they cross universities to cost-effectively ensure that the students receive the best training that is logistically possible. Audience: There are several beneficiaries of the proposed PASBs: 1) prospective students with an interest in applied science with an agricultural bent; 2) agricultural organizations looking to hire well-trained graduates; and 3) the USDA because we will address the national need for a more competitive, highly-trained, multicultural agricultural workforce that is eminently prepared for interdisciplinary professional practice in an ever-changing, integrated global environment. Products: The products of this proposal will be undergraduate and graduate training PASBs that produce agricultural work-force-ready graduates with the following core competencies: knowledge of major concepts related to agricultural sustainability and biosecurity; attainment of sophisticated quantitative skills and higher-order research skills; evidence of interdisciplinary collaborations and leadership, communication, and problem solving skills; and ability to work in a team. Outcome/Impact: The most important measurable outcomes of the proposed PASBs will be 1) an increase in the number of graduates in the food, agriculture, and natural resource sciences and 2) their successful employment in the agricultural workforce.
Animal Health Component
34%
Research Effort Categories
Basic
33%
Applied
34%
Developmental
33%
Classification

Knowledge Area (KA)Subject of Investigation (SOI)Field of Science (FOS)Percent
1110210107016%
1320210107017%
3140210106017%
1360210107016%
3110210106017%
7220210106017%
Knowledge Area
136 - Conservation of Biological Diversity; 311 - Animal Diseases; 111 - Conservation and Efficient Use of Water; 314 - Toxic Chemicals, Poisonous Plants, Naturally Occurring Toxins, and Other Hazards Affecting Animals; 132 - Weather and Climate; 722 - Zoonotic Diseases and Parasites Affecting Humans;

Subject Of Investigation
0210 - Water resources;

Field Of Science
1060 - Biology (whole systems); 1070 - Ecology;
Goals / Objectives
The purpose of this grant is to increase the number and diversity of students entering agricultural-related science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines and to address the USDA-documented expertise shortage in "Integrative Biosciences for Sustainable Food and Agricultural Systems" and "Sciences for Agricultural Biosecurity and Climate Change". To address this need, we propose to enhance our newly established graduate training Program in Agricultural Sustainability and Biosecurity (PASB) at the University of South Florida (USF) and to establish a undergraduate analog. The Guiding Principles and Specific Objectives of the PASB are to: 1) Recruit 30 top-notch students, at least a third of which are from under-represented groups, to meet the challenges of agricultural sustainability and biosecurity in the 21st century. 2) Implement an innovative, interdisciplinary, interdepartmental, and interinstitutional research and academic program that offers significant elective flexibility to meet the career needs of students. 3) Enhance the knowledge and pedagogical skills of USF faculty and advisors to better carry out teaching, research and outreach activities in the agricultural sciences. 4) Provide students with the analytical, problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills necessary to be successful in a globally-interconnected, technologically-advanced, and rapidly diversifying and changing work environment. 5) Provide a scholarly atmosphere in which students address interdisciplinary questions and work in teams toward the development of sustainable and safe agroecosystem practices. 6) Provide students with internship, research, teaching, and outreach opportunities that will enhance their leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills. 7) Provide an increased number of workforce-ready and globally-competitive graduates in the food and agricultural sciences, which is the measurable impact of this proposal.
Project Methods
To address the USDA-documented expertise shortage in "Integrative Biosciences for Sustainable Food and Agricultural Systems" and "Sciences for Agricultural Biosecurity and Climate Change", we propose to enhance our newly established graduate training Program in Agricultural Sustainability and Biosecurity (PASB) at the University of South Florida (USF) and to establish a undergraduate analog. Our graduate and undergraduate PASBs will uniquely integrate the strengths of the USF Department of Integrative Biology and School of Global Sustainability with the University of Florida's (UF) Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. Students will experience a curriculum that entails coursework, lab rotations, research projects, teaching, required internships with agricultural organizations, extension and outreach, and international travel and that has substantial support from USF and UF. We will recruit minority under-represented students in the sciences, have partnered with Hillsborough Community College to establish a 2+2 program, and will establish a 3+2 BS/MS program as well. Additionally, funds are requested for faculty and advisor professional development to further build USF's capacity to train students in the agricultural sciences. A continuation plan is provided to ensure that the PASBs will persist post-funding. The proposed PASBs not only cross disciplinary boundaries and departments, they cross universities to cost-effectively ensure that the students receive the best training that is logistically possible.

Progress 09/01/13 to 08/31/18

Outputs
Target Audience:Audience: There are several beneficiaries of the proposed PASBs: 1) prospective students with an interest in applied science with an agricultural bent; 2) agricultural organizations looking to hire well-trained graduates; and 3) the USDA because we will address the national need for a more competitive, highly-trained, multicultural agricultural workforce that is eminently prepared for interdisciplinary professional practice in an ever-changing, integrated global environment. Products: The products of this proposal will be undergraduate and graduate training PASBs that produce agricultural workforce-ready graduates with the following core competencies: knowledge of major concepts related to agricultural sustainability and biosecurity; attainment of sophisticated quantitative skills and higher-order research skills; evidence of interdisciplinary collaborations and leadership, communication, and problem solving skills; and ability to work in a team. Outcome/Impact: The most important measurable outcomes of the proposed PASBs will be 1) an increase in the number ofgraduates in the food, agriculture, and natural resource sciences and 2) their successful employment in the agricultural workforce. Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Postdocs Trained During Grant: 9 Dr. Fletcher Halliday: 3/2018-Present (PhD University of North Carolina) Dr. Devin Jones: 8/2017-Present (PhD Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute) Dr. Chris Haggerty: 4/2017-Present (PhD University of South Florida) Dr. Jeremy Cohen: 1/2017-Present (PhD University of South Florida) Dr. Samantha Rumschlag: 8/2016-Present (PhD University of Miami Ohio) Dr. Sally Koerner: 7/2016-7/2017 (PhD New Mexico University, faculty member at the University of North Carolina Greensboro) Dr. Sarah Knutie: 6/2014-8/2017 (PhD from University of Utah, faculty member at the University of Connecticut) Dr. Elizabeth (Betsy) Roznik: 9/2014-5/2017 (PhD James Cook University; Postdoc at Memphis Zoo) Dr. David Civitello: 2013-2016 (PhD from University of Indiana; faculty member at Emory University) Graduate Students Trained: 13 Brittany Sears, Aja-Nikiya Estro,Alicia Buchanan, Neal Halstead, Jeremy Cohen,Suzanne Young,Christina (Nicole) Ortega, Erin Sauer,Bryan Delius, Karena Nguyen, Chloe Ramsay, Caitlin Wolfe, Leah Joyce,Kerri Surbaugh Thepaper below was a product of a graduate student project developed in a seminar course I taught with my postdoc. The first author is a graduate student and it has 6 graduate student co-authors total. It was awarded the Best Graduate Student Paper by the Disease Ecology Section of the Ecological Society of America in 2016. Cohen, J., Civitello, D.J., Brace, A.J., Feichtinger, E, Ortega, N., Richardson, J.C., Sauer, E.L., Liu, X., Rohr, J.R. 2016. Spatial scale modulates the strength of ecological processes driving disease distributions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113: E3359-E3364 doi:10.1073/pnas.1521657113 Graduate Students that Graduated: 7 Brittany Sears, PhD received in 12/2013, University of South Florida Presidential Fellow, Awarded Runner-up for Best Graduate Student Paper by the Disease Ecology Section ofthe Ecological Society of America in 2016 (works for the University of South Florida St. Pete) Aja-Nikiya Estro, MA received 12/2014 (advisor through Patel College of Global Sustainability) Alicia Buchanan, MA received 12/2014 (advisor through Patel College of Global Sustainability) Neal Halstead, PhD received 5/2015 (Senior Ecologist at Wildlands Conservation, Tampa, FL; National Runner-up for the prestigious Marshall-Sherfield Postdoctoral Fellowship in the United Kingdom) Jeremy Cohen PhD received 12/2016 (currently a postdoc at University of South Florida; USF Dissertation Completion Fellowship) Suzanne Young, PhD received 12/2017; co-advised with Dr. Valerie Harwood (postdoc in Switzerland; EPA STAR Fellow, USF Dissertation Completion Fellowship) Christina (Nicole) Ortega (PhD successfully defended in 12/2017) Latino; NSF Pre-doctoral Fellow 2013; USF Dissertation Completion Fellowship (Hispanic Single Mother) Undergraduate Students Trained: 55 Select Undergraduates Advisor to Qiu Chang Wu from Colorado College through the Leadership Alliance Summer Research Early Identification Program for underrepresented students in science Undergraduate Honors Theses: 13 Ana-Maria Diaz (2017, attended veterinary school) Latino Hans Schroeder (2017, attended graduate school) Jake Pristupa (2017) David Bichai (2016) Kirsti Medina (2016) Christopher Hagen (2016, attendinggenetic counseling graduate programs) Natalia Cano (2016, in veterinary school at Cornell University) Latino Nadia Tenouri (2015, PhD program Otago University) Middle Eastern Garrett Lentz (2015, PhD program Otago University) Mackenzie Ehrsam (2015, working toward PhD in Veterinary Sciences) Kaitlin Deutsch (2015, Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship recipient 2014; the most prestigious undergraduate award given in the sciences-- is awarded to about 300 college sophomores and juniors nationwide; received a Frost Scholarship to complete a MS at Oxford University, now on a NSF GRFP at Cornell University) Danielle Vermilyea (2014, PhD program at Univ. of Florida) Kaitlyn Nemecek (2013) Awards PI Rohr Received for His Training and Research Efforts on this Grant University of South Florida Outstanding Research Achievement Award (2013, 2016) University of South Florida's Jerome Krivanek's Distinguished Teacher Award (2016), nominated by two students Accomplishments Toward Specific Objectives 1) Recruit 30 top-notch students, at least a third of which are from under-represented groups, to meet the challenges of agricultural sustainability and biosecurity in the 21st century. We trained 55 undergraduate students in total. 2) Implement an innovative, interdisciplinary, interdepartmental, and interinstitutional research and academic program that offers significant elective flexibility to meet the career needs of students. We finalized a new certificate in Agricultural Sustainability and Biosecurity that requires agriculture-related internships that is now in the new course copy. We are advertising this certificate program and students have enrolled. 3) Enhance the knowledge and pedagogical skills of USF faculty and advisors to better carry out teaching, research and outreach activities in the agricultural sciences. We are developing new courses for the certificate program and have ramped up efforts on a 2+2 program with Hillsborough Community College (HCC) that will facilitate students transferring from HCC to the University of South Florida (USF) and to eventually receive a degree in Biology with a certificate in Agriculture. We continue to work with the University of Florida to ensure that agriculturally related on-line courses there remain available to USF students to supplement their education at USF. 4) Provide students with the analytical, problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills necessary to be successful in a globally-interconnected, technologically-advanced, and rapidly diversifying and changing work environment. This is a major component of our certificate program and course in our department. 5) Provide a scholarly atmosphere in which students address interdisciplinary questions and work in teams toward the development of sustainable and safe agroecosystem practices. We have begun implementing these techniques in our courses in my department and will continue to do so. 6) Provide students with internship, research, teaching, and outreach opportunities that will enhance their leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills. Internships are required to complete the certificate and we have established numerous internship opportunities for our students. 7) Provide an increased number of workforce-ready and globally-competitive graduates in the food and agricultural sciences,which is the measurable impact of this proposal. We now can say confidently that we have increased the number of workforce-ready and globally-competitive graduates in the food and agricultural sciences. We have trained 55 undergraduates, 13of which were honors students, 13graduate students, and 9 postdocs(see above). How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Our training has resulted in numerouos publications and presentations that have disseminated our findings. The publications are provided in the previous section. Presentations are provided here. We have given 31 invited presentations and >50 non-invited presentations when all the trainees are included. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? Nothing Reported

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? Since the last reporting period, wehave 19peer-reviewed manuscripts in print or press and 15 submitted or fully drafted. Over the life of the grant, we have published 75 peer-reviewed scientific papers, 49 times with postdocs, 80 times with graduate students, and 21 timeswith undergraduate students. Threeundergraduates co-authored a paper that appeared in Nature and one undergraduate was the first author on a published paper. Over the life of the grant, we published one paper in Science, one in Nature, two in Nature Climate Change, two in Nature Communications, five in PNAS, one in Trends in Ecology and Evolution,five in Ecology Letters, two inEnvironmental Science and Technology, four inProceedings of the Royal Society of London B, two in Critical Reviews in Toxicology, twoin Bioscience, one in Ecology, two in Ecological Applications, and five in Journal of Animal Ecology. Perhaps most importantly, we established a 2+2 agriculturaltraining program with Hillsborough Community College to facility transition to University of South Florida (USF). We also established aCertificate in Agricultural Sustainability and Biosecurity at USF. This certificate require coursework that we have developed and capstoneinternshipor research experience, whichwe have established. We developed new courses for this certificate and worked with the University of Florida to ensure online course offerings to round out this established certificate.

Publications

  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Knutie, S.A., Wilkinson, C.L., Kohl, K.D., Rohr, J.R. 2017. Early-life disruption of amphibian microbiota decreases later-life resistance to parasites. Nature Communications 8: 86. doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00119-0
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Jayawardena, U.A., Rohr, J.R., Amerasinghe, P.H., Navaratne, A.N., Rajakaruna, R.S. 2017. Effects of agrochemicals on disease severity of Acanthostomum burminis infections (Digenea: Trematoda) in the Asian common toad, Duttaphrynus melanostictus. BMC Zoology 2: 13. doi: 10.1186/s40850-017-0022-1
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Spaak, J.W., Baert, J.M., Baird, D.J., Eisenhauer, N., Maltby, L., Pomati, F., Radchuk, V., Rohr, J.R., Van den Brink, P.J., De Laender, F. 2017. Shifts of community composition and population density substantially affect ecosystem function despite invariant richness. Ecology Letters 20: 1315-1324
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Rohr, J.R., Brown J., Battaglin, W.A., McMahon, T.A., Relyea, R.A. 2017. A pesticide paradox: Fungicides indirectly increase fungal infections. Ecological Applications 27: 2290-2302
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Knutie, S.A., Shea, L.A., Kupselaitis, M., Wilkinson, C.L., Kohl, K.D., Rohr, J.R. 2017. Early-life diet affects host microbiota and later-life defenses against parasites in frogs. Integrative and Comparative Biology 57: 732-742
  • Type: Book Chapters Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Rohr, J.R. 2018. Atrazine and amphibians: A story of profits, controversy and animus. In: Dominick A. DellaSala, and Michael I. Goldstein (eds.) The Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene 5: 141-148
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Gabor, C.R., Roznik, E.A., Knutie, S.A., Rohr, J.R. 2018. Are the adverse effects of stressors on amphibians mediated by their effects on stress hormones? Oecologia 186: 393-404
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Knutie, S.A., Gabor, C., Kohl, K.D., Rohr, J.R. 2018. Do host-associated gut microbiota mediate the effect of an herbicide on disease risk in frogs? Journal of Animal Ecology 87: 489-499
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Cohen, J.M., Lajuenesse, M.J., Rohr, J.R. 2018. A global synthesis of animal phenological responses to climate change. Nature Climate Change 8: 224-228
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Johnson, L.R., Gramacy, R.B., Cohen, J.M., Mordecai, E.A., Murdock, C.C., Rohr, J.R., Ryan, S.J., Stewart-Ibarra, A., Weikel, D. 2018. Phenomenological forecasting of disease incidence using heteroskedastic Gaussian processes: a dengue case study. Annals of Applied Statistics 12: 27-66
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Halstead, N.T., Arakala, A., Civitello, D.J., Deleo, G., Gambhir, M., Hoover, C., Johnson, S.A., Jouanard, N., McMahon, T.A., Parker, K., Raffel, T.R., Remais, J., Riveau, G., Sokolow, S., Rohr, J.R. 2018. Agrochemicals increase risk of human schistosomiasis by supporting higher densities of intermediate hosts. Nature Communications 9: 837 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03189-w
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Civitello, D.J., Allman, B.E., Morozumi, C., Rohr, J.R. 2018. Assessing the direct and indirect effects of food provisioning and nutrient enrichment on wildlife infectious disease dynamics. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 373: 20170101
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Tornabene, B.J., Blaustein, A.R., Briggs, C.J., Rohr, J.R., Johnson, P.T.J., Hoverman, J.T. 2018. Assessing the influence of spatial and environmental factors on ranavirus epidemiology in a California amphibian assemblage. Freshwater Biology 63: 639651
  • Type: Book Chapters Status: Accepted Year Published: 2018 Citation: Kernbach, M., Ramsay, C, Rohr, J.R., Martin, L.B. 2018. Eco-immunology: past, present and future. Encyclopedia of Ecology
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Accepted Year Published: 2018 Citation: Rumschlag, S.L., Rohr, J.R. 2018. The influence of pesticide use on amphibian chytrid fungal infections varies with host life stage. Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Accepted Year Published: 2018 Citation: Rohr, J.R., Civitello, D.J., Cohen, J.M., Roznik, E.A., Sinervo, B., Dell, A.I. 2018. Thermal acclimation and breadth of ectotherms are determined by body size, latitude, thermal safety margin, and experimental methodology. Ecology Letters
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Submitted Year Published: 2018 Citation: Rohr, J.R., Civitello, D.J., Delius, B., Craft, M., de Leo, G., Hudson, P.J., Ostfeld, R., Remais, J.V., Sokolow, S., Tilman D. Feeding 11 billion people and infectious diseases of humans. Science
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2018 Citation: Cohen, J.M., Civitello, D.J., Venesky, M.D., McMahon, T.A., Rohr, J.R. Thermal mismatches explain how climate change and infectious disease drove widespread amphibian extinctions. Global Change Biology
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2018 Citation: Simonin, M., Di Giulio, R.T., Le Roux, X., Richmond, E.K., Rohr, J.R., Rosi, E.J., van Straalen, N.M., Bernhardt, E.S. Stress ecology: Transcending disciplinary boundaries to study the ecology of the Anthropocene. Ecology Letters
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2018 Citation: Sinervo, B., Lara Res�ndiz, R.A., Miles, D.B., Lovich, J.E., Rosen, P.C., Gadsden, H., Caste�ada Gayt�n, G., Galina Tessaro, P., Luja, V.H., Huey, R.B, Whipple, A., S�nchez Cordero, V., Rohr, J.R., Caetano, G., Santos, J., Sites, J.W., M�ndez de la Cruz, F.R. Climate change and collapsing thermal niches of desert reptiles and amphibians: how assisted migration and acclimation may provide a rescue from extirpation. Biological Conservation
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2018 Citation: Cano, N., Roznik, E.A., Surbaugh, K.L., Rohr, J.R. Effects of temperature and parasites on the jumping performance of native and invasive frogs. Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2018 Citation: Liu, X., Deng, T., Li, X., Cheng, C., Kraus, F., Wang, S., Li, W., Kemp, M., Rohr, J.R., Li, Y. Global drivers of invasion-caused biotic homogenization. Global Environmental Change
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2018 Citation: Liu, X., Li, X., Rohr, J.R., Li, Y. Climate extremes, variability and trade shape biogeographical patterns in the Anthropocene. PNAS
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2018 Citation: Harjoe, C.C., Buck, J.C., Rohr, J.R., Olson, D.H., Blaustein, A.R. Pathogenic fungus causes density- and trait-mediated trophic cascades in an aquatic community. Ecology
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Stutz, W.E., Blaustein, A.R., Briggs, C.J., Hoverman, J.T., Rohr, J.R., Johnson, P.T.J. 2018. Using multi-response models to investigate pathogen coinfections across scales: insights from emerging diseases of amphibians. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 9: 11091120
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Rohr, J.R., Bernhardt, E.S., Cadotte, M.W., Clements, W.H. 2018. The ecology and economics of restoration: When, what, where, and how to restore ecosystems damaged by global change. Ecology and Society 23 (2):15 https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09876-230215
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Civitello, D.J., Fatima, H., Johnson, L.R., Nisbet, R.M., Rohr, J.R. 2018. Bioenergetic theory for host-parasite interactions: A case study with human schistosomes. Ecology Letters 21: 692701
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2018 Citation: Rose, K.C., Bierwagen, B., Bridgham, S.D., Carlisle, D.M., Hawkins, C.P., Poff, N.L., Read, J.S., Rohr, J.R., Saros, J.E., Williamson, C.E. Indicators of the effects of climate change on freshwater ecosystems. Climatic Change
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2018 Citation: Arakala, A. Hoover, C.M.*, Marshall, J., Sokolow, S., de Leo, G., Rohr, J.R., Remais, J.V., Gambhir, M. Estimating the elimination feasibility of macroparasitic diseases subjected to regular mass drug administration. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2018 Citation: Young, S., Rohr, J.R. Harwood, V.J. Vancomycin resistance plasmids affect persistence of Enterococcus faecium in water at ambient nutrient levels. Water Research
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2018 Citation: Sauer, E.L., Fuller, R.C., Richards-Zawacki, C.L., Sonn, J., Sperry, J.H., Rohr, J.R. Variation in individual temperature preferences, not behavioral fever, affects susceptibility to chytridiomycosis in amphibians. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Submitted Year Published: 2018 Citation: Bradley, P.W., Brawner, M.D., Raffel, T.R., Rohr, J.R., Olson, D.H., Blaustein, A.R. Shifts in temperature influence how an emerging infectious fungus infects amphibian larvae.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Awaiting Publication Year Published: 2018 Citation: Rohr, J.R., Civitello, D.J., Hudson, P.J., Mordecai, E.A. Toward common ground in the biodiversitydisease debate
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Awaiting Publication Year Published: 2018 Citation: Taylor, R. A., Ryan, S.J., Lippi, C.A., Hall, D.G., Narouei-Khandan, H.A., Rohr, J.R., Johnson, L.R. Bayesian quantification of the fundamental thermal niche of Huanglongbing, a vector-borne pathogen of citrus trees


Progress 09/01/16 to 08/31/17

Outputs
Target Audience:This is a grant to train undergraduates and graduate students in agriculture-related disciplines. Hence our target audiences are undergraduates and graduate students, as well as the professions that will employ them. Although no FTE are claimed for the undergraduates because they sign up for credit, we have had 15 undergraduates conduct agriculturally related work in our laboratories during this period and trained three graduate students. Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?We have trained numerous undergraduates and graduate students (see previous sections). How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Our training has resulted in numerouos publications and presentations that have disseminated our findings. The publications are provided in the previous section. Presentations are provided here. Invited Presentations in 2017 Savannah River Ecology Lab, University of Georgia, Aiken, SC University of Central Florida, Department of Biology, Orlando, FL University of Georgia, Odum School of Ecology, Athens, GA University of Notre Dame, Department of Biological Sciences, One of four invitees for their Eminent Scholars in Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Change Series, South Bend, IN University of South Florida, Department of Civil Engineering, Tampa, FL Non Invited Presentation in 2017 Ecological Society of America Meeting, Portland, OR (5 talks/posters given by my graduate students/postdocs in Aug.) Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases Meeting Santa Barbara, CA (3 posters given by my graduate students/postdocs) Gordon Research Conference on Tropical Infectious Diseases, Galveston, TX (1 poster given by my PhD student) What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?We plan to put the finishing touches on the 2+2 prorgram and finish with program evaluation.

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? >50 publications 19 cases of publishing with an undergraduate student 3 undergraduates co-authored a paper that appeared in Nature and one undergraduate was the first author on a published paper 60 cases of publishing with graduate student Number of Graduate Students Trained: 7 Cohen, J.*, Civitello, D.J.†, Brace, A.J.*, Feichtinger, E*, Ortega, N.*, Richardson, J.C.*, Sauer, E.L.*, Liu, X., Rohr, J.R. 2016. Spatial scale modulates the strength of ecological processes driving disease distributions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113: E3359-E3364 doi:10.1073/pnas.1521657113 This paper was a product of a graduate student project developed in a seminar course I taught with my postdoc. The first author is a graduate student and it has 6 graduate student co-authors total. It was awarded the Best Graduate Student Paper by the Disease Ecology Section of the Ecological Society of America in 2016. Graduate Students that have Graduated Aja-Nikiya Estro, MA received 12/2014 (advisor through Patel College of Global Sustainability) Alicia Buchanan, MA received 12/2014 (advisor through Patel College of Global Sustainability) Neal Halstead, PhD received 5/2015 (Senior Ecologist at Wildlands Conservation, Tampa, FL; National Runner-up for the prestigious Marshall-Sherfield Postdoctoral Fellowship in the United Kingdom) Jeremy Cohen PhD received 12/2016 (currently a postdoc at University of South Florida; USF Dissertation Completion Fellowship) Christina Ortega received 8/2017 (USF Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Hispanic Single Mother) Number of Undergraduate Students Trained: 45 Select Undergraduates Advisor to Qiu Chang Wu from Colorado College through the Leadership Alliance Summer Research Early Identification Program for underrepresented students in science Undergraduate Honors Students that Graduated from our Training Program and Completed Theses Ana-Maria Diaz (2017, attended veterinary school) Latino Hans Schroeder (2017, attended graduate school) Jake Pristupa (2017) David Bichai (2016) Kirsti Medina (2016) Christopher Hagen (2016, applying to genetic counseling graduate programs) Natalia Cano (2016, in vet. school at Cornell University) Latino Nadia Tenouri (2015, PhD program Otago University) Middle Eastern Garrett Lentz (2015, PhD program Otago University) Mackenzie Ehrsam (2015, working toward PhD in Veterinary Sciences) Kaitlin Deutsch (2015, Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship recipient 2014; the most prestigious undergraduate award given in the sciences-- is awarded to about 300 college sophomores and juniors nationwide; received a Frost Scholarship to complete a MS at Oxford University, now on a NSF PhD research fellowship at Cornell University) Danielle Vermilyea (2014, PhD program at Univ. of Florida) Awards PI Rohr has Received for His Training and Research Efforts on this Grant University of South Florida Outstanding Research Achievement Award (2013, 2016) University of South Florida's Jerome Krivanek's Distinguished Teacher Award (2016), nominated by two students Accomplishments Toward Specific Objectives 1) Recruit 30 top-notch students, at least a third of which are from under-represented groups, to meet the challenges of agricultural sustainability and biosecurity in the 21st century. We trained 15 undergraduate students in this period. 2) Implement an innovative, interdisciplinary, interdepartmental, and interinstitutional research and academic program that offers significant elective flexibility to meet the career needs of students. We finalized a new certificate in Agricultural Sustainability and Biosecurity last year that requires agriculture-related internships that is now in the new course copy. We are advertising this certificate program and students are beginning to enroll. 3) Enhance the knowledge and pedagogical skills of USF faculty and advisors to better carry out teaching, research and outreach activities in the agricultural sciences. We are developing new courses for the certificate program and have ramped up efforts on a 2+2 program with Hillsborough Community College (HCC) that will facilitate students transferring from HCC to the University of South Florida (USF) and to eventually receive a degree in Biology with a certificate in Agriculture. We continue to work with the University of Florida to ensure that agriculturally related on-line courses there remain available to USF students to supplement their education at USF. 4) Provide students with the analytical, problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills necessary to be successful in a globally-interconnected, technologically-advanced, and rapidly diversifying and changing work environment. This is a major component of our certificate program and course in our department. 5) Provide a scholarly atmosphere in which students address interdisciplinary questions and work in teams toward the development of sustainable and safe agroecosystem practices. We have begun implementing these techniques in our courses and will continue to do so. 6) Provide students with internship, research, teaching, and outreach opportunities that will enhance their leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills. Internships are required to complete the certificate and we have established numerous internship opportunities for our students. 7) Provide an increased number of workforce-ready and globally-competitive graduates in the food and agricultural sciences, which is the measurable impact of this proposal. We now can say confidently that we have increased the number of workforce-ready and globally-competitive graduates in the food and agricultural sciences. We have trained 45 undergraduates, 12 of which were honors students, and 7 graduate students (see above).

Publications

  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Burton, G.A., Di Giulio, R., Costello, D., Rohr, J.R. 2017. Slipping through the cracks: Why is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency not funding extramural research on chemicals in our environment? Environmental Science and Technology 51: 755-756 Featured in Science Magazine
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Cohen, J.M., Venesky, M.D., Sauer, E.L., Civitello, D.J., McMahon, T.A., Roznik, E.A., Rohr, J.R. 2017. The thermal mismatch hypothesis explains outbreaks of an emerging infectious disease. Ecology Letters 20: 184193 Cover Article, Featured in Nature: Sohn Hothouse of disease 543: S44S46
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Knutie, S.A., Wilkinson, C.L., Ortega, N., Rohr, J.R. 2017. Host resistance and tolerance of parasitic gut worms depend on resource availability. Oecologia 183: 1031-1040
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Mordecai, E.A., Cohen, J.M.* Evans, M., Gudapati, P., Johnson, L.R., Miazgowicz, K., Murdock, C.C., Rohr, J.R., Ryan, S.J., Savage, V., Shocket, M. , Stewart-Ibarra, A., Matthew, M.B., Weikel, D.P. 2017. Temperature characterizes Zika, dengue and chikungunya transmission potential in the Americas. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 11(4): e0005568. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0005568
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Rohr, J.R., Salice, C.J., Nisbet, R.M. 2017. Chemical safety must extend to ecosystems. Science 356: 917.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: McMahon, T.A., Boughton, R.K., Martin, L.B., Rohr. J.R. 2017. Exposure to an herbicide non-linearly affected corticosterone production in tadpoles. Journal of Herpetology 51: 270-273.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: McMahon, T.A., Rohr, J.R., Bernal, X. 2017. Light and noise pollution interact to disrupt interspecific interactions. Ecology 98: 12901299
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Voyles, J., Johnson, L.R., Rochelle, K., Barron, C., Miller, D., Minster, J., Rohr. J.R., Rosenblum, E.B. 2017. Diversity in growth patterns among strains of the lethal fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis across extended thermal optima. Oecologia 184: 363-373.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Accepted Year Published: 2017 Citation: Knutie, S.A., Shea, L.A., Kupselaitis, M., Wilkinson, C.L., Kohl, K.D., Rohr, J.R. in press. Early-life diet affects host microbiota and later-life defenses against parasites in frogs. Integrative and Comparative Biology https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icx028
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Accepted Year Published: 2017 Citation: Rohr, J.R. in press. Atrazine and amphibians: A story of profits, controversy and animus. Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Accepted Year Published: 2017 Citation: Knutie, S.A., Wilkinson, C.L., Kohl, K.D., Rohr, J.R. in press. Early-life disruption of amphibian microbiota decreases later-life resistance to parasites. Nature Communications
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Accepted Year Published: 2017 Citation: Johnson, L.R., Gramacy, R.B., Cohen, J.M., Mordecai, E.A., Murdock, C.C., Rohr, J.R., Ryan, S.J., Stewart-Ibarra, A., Weikel, D. in press. Phenomenological forecasting of disease incidence using heteroskedastic Gaussian processes: a dengue case study. Annals of Applied Statistics


Progress 09/01/15 to 08/31/16

Outputs
Target Audience:This is a grant to train undergraduates and graduate students in agriculture-related disciplines. Hence our target audiences are undergraduates and graduate students, as well as the professions that will employ them. Although no FTE are claimed for the undergraduates because they sign up for credit, we have had 15undergraduates conduct agriculturallyrelated work in our laboratories during this period and trained three graduate students. Changes/Problems:The graduate training program that was proposed in the original grant has been implemented without any major hiccups. However, the undergraduate training program is where we have encountered major hurdles that have been out of our control. The original grant proposed to develop a new major in Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences at USF. New majors have been developed commonly in the past at USF. Once the grant was funded, we inquired about developing the new major and the administration encouraged us to develop a certificate program first to, using their words, "grease the skids". This process took 1.5 years for approval and, in the meantime, we were developing the curriculum for the major. The certificate was approved and is now available to current Integrative Biology majors. We then proceeded to complete all the paperwork for the major. The major had no troubles getting through USF committees, but was rejected by the Board of Governors. We have subsequently found out, that in the last five years, the Board of Governors and the State Legislature have not approved any new degree programs or majors. We had numerous meeting with administrators to attempt to find a work around and none seemed possible. So, we have shifted our efforts to ramping up the certificate program by adding in numerous internship opportunities to enhance job prospects and have had no choice but to invest our efforts into the2+2 program. These insurmountable hurdles have unfortunately delayedour progress a bit, as well as some staff turnover (change of PIs at Hillsborough Community College, loss of staff at USF). We wrote into the original grant that, towards the end of funding, we would begin developing a 2+2 program with Hillsborough Community College (HCC) to facilitate students transitioning into the newly established major. Although the new major has been blocked, we shifted our efforts to the 2+2 program because we knew it could be fruitful and students could still receive agriculturally related training in the Department of Integrative Biology. We are workingextensively with HCC to develop an agriculture Associates degree track that will allow students at HCC to seamlessly transition to USF for the last two years of their program. This curriculum is being developed in consultation with the USF and HCC academic advisors and the undergraduate biology curriculum directors of the Department of Integrative Biology and HCC. We hope this new Associates degree track will allow students to transfer into the Integrative Animal Biology or Environmental Biology majors in the Department of Integrative Biology at USF and to subsequently complete the certificate we established in Agricultural Sustainability and Biosecurity. We just wanted to make you aware that the new major will not be allowed but that the training programs have been established despite this and that we have shifted efforts to the 2+2 program as a way to continue progress towards enhancing training in agriculturally related fields. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?We have trained numerous undergraduates and graduate students (see previous sections). How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Our training has resulted in numerouos publications and presentations that have disseminated our findings. The publications are provided in the previous section. Presentations are provided here. Invited Presentations by PI 2016 University of Texas, Austin, Texas (graduate student selection as invited speaker) Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA Stanford University, Department of Biology, Stanford, CA University of Florida, Environmental and Global Health Seminar series, Gainesville, FL Gordon Research Conference: "New Frontiers in Understanding Predator-Prey Interactions in a Human-Altered World", Ventura, CA Presentations that were not invited 8th World Congress of Herpetology, Hangzhou, China (2 talks given by Rohr'sPhD students) Ecological Society of America Meeting, Fort Lauderdale, CA (3 talks, 1 given by Rohr, 2 by Rohr'spostdocs, and 1 poster by Rohr's postdoc) Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Portland, OR (3 talks, 2 by Rohr's graduate students and one by Rohr's colleague) What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?We plan to put the finishing touches on the 2+2 prorgram and finish with program evaluation.

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? Summary of Accomplishments on the Grant so Far >40 publications 17 cases of publishing with an undergraduate student 3 undergraduates co-authored a paper that appeared in Nature andone undergraduate was the first author on a published paper 54 cases of publishing with graduate student Number of Graduate Students Trained: 6 Cohen, J.*, Civitello, D.J.†, Brace, A.J.*, Feichtinger, E*, Ortega, N.*, Richardson, J.C.*, Sauer, E.L.*, Liu, X., Rohr, J.R. 2016. Spatial scale modulates the strength of ecological processes driving disease distributions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113: E3359-E3364 doi:10.1073/pnas.1521657113 This paper was a product of a graduate student project developed in a seminar course I taught with my postdoc. The first author is a graduate student and it has 6 graduate student co-authors total. It was awarded the Best Graduate Student Paper by the Disease Ecology Section of the Ecological Society of America in 2016. Graduate Students that have Graduated Aja-Nikiya Estro, MA received 12/2014 (advisor through Patel College of Global Sustainability) Alicia Buchanan, MA received 12/2014 (advisor through Patel College of Global Sustainability) Neal Halstead, PhD received 5/2015 (Senior Ecologist at Wildlands Conservation, Tampa, FL; National Runner-up for the prestigious Marshall-Sherfield Postdoctoral Fellowship in theUnited Kingdom) Jeremy Cohen PhD received 12/2016(currently a postdoc at University of South Florida;USF Dissertation Completion Fellowship) Number of Undergraduate Students Trained: 38 Select Undergraduates Advisor to Qiu Chang Wu from Colorado College through the Leadership Alliance Summer Research Early Identification Program for underrepresented students in science Undergraduate Honors Students that Graduated from our Training Program and Completed Theses David Bichai (2016) Kirsti Medina (2016) Christopher Hagen (2016, applying to genetic counseling graduate programs) Natalia Cano (2016, in vet. school at Cornell University) Latino Nadia Tenouri (2015, PhD program Otago University) Middle Eastern Garrett Lentz (2015, PhD program Otago University) Mackenzie Ehrsam (2015, working toward PhD in Veterinary Sciences) Kaitlin Deutsch (2015, Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship recipient 2014; the most prestigious undergraduate award given in the sciences-- is awarded to about 300 college sophomores and juniors nationwide; received a Frost Scholarship to complete a MS at Oxford University, now on a NSF PhD research fellowshipat Cornell University) Danielle Vermilyea (2014, PhD program at Univ. of Florida) Awards PI Rohr has Received for His Training and Research Efforts on this Grant University of South Florida Outstanding Research Achievement Award (2013, 2016) University of South Florida's Jerome Krivanek's Distinguished Teacher Award (2016), nominated by two students 1) Recruit 30 top-notch students, at least a third of which are from under-represented groups, to meet the challenges of agricultural sustainability and biosecurity in the 21stcentury. We trained 15 undergraduate students in this period. 2) Implement an innovative, interdisciplinary, interdepartmental, and interinstitutional research and academic program that offers significant elective flexibility to meet the career needs of students. We finalized a new certificate in Agricultural Sustainability and Biosecurity last year that requires agriculture-related internships that is now in the new course copy. We are advertising this certificat program and students are beginning to enroll. 3) Enhance the knowledge and pedagogical skills of USF faculty and advisors to better carry out teaching, research and outreach activities in the agricultural sciences. We are developing new courses for the certificate program and have ramped up efforts on a 2+2 program with Hillsborough Community College (HCC) that will facilitate students transferring from HCC to the University of South Florida (USF) and to eventually receive a degree in Biology with a certificate in Agriculture. We continue to work with the University of Florida to ensure that agriculturally related on-line courses there remain available to USF students to supplement there education at USF. 4) Provide students with the analytical, problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills necessary to be successful in a globally-interconnected, technologically-advanced, and rapidly diversifying and changing work environment. This is a major component of our certificate program and course in our department. 5) Provide a scholarly atmosphere in which students address interdisciplinary questions and work in teams toward the development of sustainable and safe agroecosystem practices. We have begun implementing these techniques in our courses and will continue to do so. 6) Provide students with internship, research, teaching, and outreach opportunities that will enhance their leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills. Internships are required to complete the certificate and we have established numerous internship opportunities for our students. 7) Provide an increased number of workforce-ready and globally-competitive graduates in the food and agricultural sciences, which is themeasurable impactof this proposal. We now can say confidentally that we have increased the number ofworkforce-ready and globally-competitive graduates in the food and agricultural sciences. We have trained 38 undergraduates, 9 of which were honors students, and 6 graduate students (see above).

Publications

  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Civitello, D.J., Cohen, J., Fatima, H., Halstead, N.T., Liriano, J., McMahon, T.A., Ortega, C.N., Sauer, E., Sehgal, T., Young, S., Rohr, J.R. 2015. Biodiversity inhibits parasites: broad evidence for the dilution effect. Proceedings of the National Academy of the United States of America 112:86678671
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Civitello, D.J., Cohen, J., Fatima, H., Halstead, N.T., McMahon, T.A., Ortega, C.N., Sauer, E., Rohr, J.R. 2015. Reply to Salkeld et al.: Diversity-disease patterns are robust to study design, selection criteria, and publication bias. Proceedings of the National Academy of the United States of America 112: E6262
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Staley, Z.R., Harwood, V.J., Rohr, J.R. 2015. A synthesis of the effects of pesticides on microbial persistence in aquatic ecosystems. Critical Reviews in Toxicology 45:813-836
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Madliger, C.L., Cooke, S.J., Crespi, E.J., Funk, J.L., Hultine, K.R., Hunt, K.E., Rohr, J.R., Sinclair, B.J., Suski, C.D., Willis, C.K.R., Love, O.P. 2016. Success stories and emerging themes in Conservation Physiology. Conservation Physiology 4: cov057 doi:10.1093/conphys/cov057
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Buck, J.C., Rohr, J.R., Blaustein, A.R. 2016. Effects of nutrient supplementation on host-pathogen dynamics of the amphibian chytrid fungus: a community approach. Freshwater Biology 61:110-120
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Jayawardena, U.A., Rohr, J.R., Navaratne, A.N., Amerasinghe, P.H., Rajakaruna, R.S. 2016. Combined effects of pesticides and trematode infections on the hourglass tree frog Polypedates cruciger. EcoHealth 13: 111-122
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Cohen, J., Civitello, D.J., Brace, A.J., Feichtinger, E, Ortega, N., Richardson, J.C., Sauer, E.L., Liu, X., Rohr, J.R. 2016. Spatial scale modulates the strength of ecological processes driving disease distributions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113: E3359E3364 doi:10.1073/pnas.1521657113
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Jennings, D.E., Krupa, J.J., Rohr, J.R. 2016. Foraging modality determines the strength of competitive interactions among carnivorous plants, spiders, and toads. Journal of Animal Ecology 85: 973-981
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Ehrsam, M., Knutie, S.A., Rohr, J.R. 2016. The herbicide atrazine induces hyperactivity and compromises tadpole detection of predator chemical cues. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 35: 2239-2244
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Young, S., Nayak, B., Sun, S., Badgely, B., Rohr, J.R., Harwood, V.J. 2016. Vancomycin resistant enterococci and changes in bacterial community structure associated with a residential sewage spill. Applied & Environmental Microbiology 82: 5653-5660
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Sauer, E.L., Sperry, J.H., Rohr, J.R. 2016. An efficient and inexpensive method for measuring long-term behavioral thermoregulation. Journal of Thermal Biology 60: 231-236
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Rohr, J.R., Salice, C.J., Nisbet, R.M. 2016. The pros and cons of ecological risk assessment based on data from different levels of biological organization. Critical Reviews in Toxicology 46: 756-784
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: De Laender, F., Rohr, J.R., Ashauer, R., Baird, D.J., Berger, U., Eisenhauer, N., Grimm, V., Hommen, U., Maltby, L., Meli�n, C.J., Pomati, F., Roessink, I., Radchuk, V., Van den Brink, P.J. 2016. Re-introducing environmental change drivers in biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 31: 905-915
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Taylor, R.A., Mordecai, E., Rohr, J.R., Johnson, L.R. 2016. Mathematical models are a powerful method to understand and control the spread of Huanglongbing. PeerJ 4: e2642


Progress 09/01/14 to 08/31/15

Outputs
Target Audience:This is a grant to train undergraduates and graduate students in agriculture-related disciplines. Hence our target audiences are undergraduates and graduate students, as well as the professions that will employ them. Although no FTE are claimedfor the undergraduates because they sign up for credit, we have had 13undergraduates conduct agriculturally related work in our laboratories during this period and trained three graduate students. Changes/Problems:We are getting resistance from the Board of Governors regarding a new major. We'll have more to report next period. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?We have trained numerous undergraduates and graduate students (see previous sections). How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Our training has resulted in numerouos publications and presentations that have disseminated our findings. The publications are provided in the previous section. Presentations are provided here. Invited Presentations 2015 Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY Indiana University, Department of Biology, Bloomington, IN (graduate student selection as invited speaker) Pandemic Prediction and Forecasting Science and Technology Working Group,Washington D.C. "A pragmatic approach to forecasting dengue incidence", Johnson, L. (presenter), Gramacy, R., Rohr, J., Cohen, J., Mordecai, E., Murdoch, C., Ryan, S., Stewart, A., Weikel, D. Ecological Society of America National Meeting, Baltimore, MA (two invited talks) Ecological Society of America National Meeting, Baltimore, MA (two invited talks) University of South Florida, Trail Blazers Lecture Series, Tampa, FL Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Meeting, West Palm Beach, FL, Special Symposium "Physiology in changing landscapes: an integrative perspective for conservation biologists" Presentations that were not invited Ecological Society of America Meeting, Baltimore, CA (4 talks, 2 given by me, 2 by PhD students, and 1 poster by my colleague) What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?We plan to work on developing the major and begin working on the 2+2 program with the community college.

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? 1) Recruit 30 top-notch students, at least a third of which are from under-represented groups, to meet the challenges of agricultural sustainability and biosecurity in the 21stcentury. We trained 13 of the 30 students in this period. 2) Implement an innovative, interdisciplinary, interdepartmental, and interinstitutional research and academic program that offers significant elective flexibility to meet the career needs of students. We made finalized a new certificate in Agricultural Sustainability and Biosecurity that requiresagriculture-relatedinternships that will be available to students next year when the new course copy is released. 3) Enhance the knowledge and pedagogical skills of USF faculty and advisors to better carry out teaching, research and outreach activities in the agricultural sciences. We worked with faculty and advisors on this certificate and hand-outs to provide students on careers in the agriculture-related fields. We also established numerous internship opportunities for the students. 4) Provide students with the analytical, problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills necessary to be successful in a globally-interconnected, technologically-advanced, and rapidly diversifying and changing work environment. This is a major component of our certificate program and course in our department. 5) Provide a scholarly atmosphere in which students address interdisciplinary questions and work in teams toward the development of sustainable and safe agroecosystem practices. We have begun implementing these techniques in our courses and will continue to do so. 6) Provide students with internship, research, teaching, and outreach opportunities that will enhance their leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills. Internships are required to complete the certificate and we have established numerous internship opportunities for our students. 7) Provide an increased number of workforce-ready and globally-competitive graduates in the food and agricultural sciences, which is themeasurable impactof this proposal. Although we can't say that we have reached this goal yet in year two, we are well on our way.

Publications

  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2014 Citation: Boone, M.D., Bishop, C.A., Boswell, L.A., Brodman, R., Burger, J., Davidson, C., Gochfeld, M., Hoverman, J.T., Neuman-Lee, L., Propper, C.R., Relyea, R.A., Rohr, J.R., Rowe, C.L., Salice, C., Semlitsch, R.D., Sparling, D., Weir, S. 2014. The influence of industry: how conflicts of interest compromise pesticide regulation. Bioscience 64:917-922
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2014 Citation: Staley, Z.R., Senkbeil, J.K., Rohr, J.R., Harwood, V.J. 2014. Agrochemicals indirectly increase survival of E. coli O157:H7 and indicator bacteria in freshwater by reducing ecosystem services. Ecological Applications 24:1945-1953
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Douglas, M.R., Rohr, J.R., Tooker, J.F. 2015. Neonicotinoid insecticide travels through a soil food chain, disrupting biocontrol of non-target pests and decreasing soybean yield. Journal of Applied Ecology 52:250-260
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Raffel, T.R., Halstead, N.T., McMahon, T.A., Davis, A.K., Rohr, J.R. 2015. Temperature variability and moisture synergistically interact to exacerbate an epizootic disease. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 282:20142039
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Rohr, J.R., Civitello, D.J., Crumrine, P.W., Halstead, N.T., Miller, A.D, Schotthoefer, A.M., Stenoien, C., Johnson, L.B., Beasley, V.R. 2015. Predator diversity, intraguild predation, and indirect effects drive parasite transmission. Proceedings of the National Academy of the United States of America 112:3008-3013
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Boone, M.D., Rohr, J.R. 2015. The trouble with risk assessment lies at the foundation. BioScience 65:227-228
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Sears, B.F., Snyder, P.W., Rohr, J.R. 2015. Host life-history and host-parasite syntopy predict behavioral resistance and tolerance to trematode parasites. Journal of Animal Ecology 84:625-636
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Buck, J.C., Scholz, K.I. Rohr, J.R., Blaustein, A.R. 2015. Trophic dynamics in an aquatic community: Interactions among primary producers, grazers, and a pathogenic fungus. Oecologia 178:239248
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Halstead, N.T., Civitello, D.J., Rohr, J.R. 2015. Comparative toxicities of organophosphate and pyrethroid insecticides to aquatic macroarthropods. Chemosphere 135:265-271


Progress 09/01/13 to 08/31/14

Outputs
Target Audience:This is a grant to train undergraduates and graduate students in agriculture-related disciplines. Hence our target audiences are undergraduates and graduate students, as well as the professions that will employ them. Although no FTE are claimed for the undergraduates because they sign up for credit, we have had 10 undergraduates conduct agriculturally related work in our laboratories during this period and trained three graduate students. Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?We have trained nukerous undergraduates and graduate students (see previous sections). How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Our training has resulted in numerouos publications and presentations that have disseminated our findings. The publications are provided in the previous section. Presentations are provided here. Invited Presentations 2014 German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig University, Germany Lund University, Sweden, Biology Department, (graduate student selection as invited speaker) Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Meeting, Vancouver, CA, Special Symposium "Ecological Models for Assessing the Risks of Chemicals and Other Stressors - Part 2: From Individuals to Populations" Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Meeting, Vancouver, CA, Platform Session "Restoration of Impaired Ecosystems: An Ounce of Prevention or a Pound of Cure" US. Fish and Wildlife Service Conservation Science Webinar Series University of Tennessee, Center for Wildlife Health Clearwater Christian College, Department of Biology 2013 Joint scientific meeting of the Society of Wetland Scientists South Atlantic Chapter, Florida Association of Environmental Soil Scientists, and Southwest Chapter ofthe Florida Association of Environmental Professionals EPA STAR Research Forum: Extreme Event Impacts on Air Quality and Water Quality with a Changing Global Climate, Arlington, VA University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Animal Biology Department University of Florida, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Department What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?We plan to finalise our certificate program and begin working on the major.

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? 1) Recruit 30 top-notch students, at least a third of which are from under-represented groups, to meet the challenges of agricultural sustainability and biosecurity in the 21stcentury. We trained one third of the 30 students in this period. 2) Implement an innovative, interdisciplinary, interdepartmental, and interinstitutional research and academic program that offers significant elective flexibility to meet the career needs of students. We mad substantial progress towards developing a new certificate in Agricultural Sustainability and Biosecurity that requires agriculture-relatedinternships. 3) Enhance the knowledge and pedagogical skills of USF faculty and advisors to better carry out teaching, research and outreach activities in the agricultural sciences. We worked with faculty and advisors on this certificate and hand-outs to provide students on careers in the agriculture-related fields. 4) Provide students with the analytical, problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills necessary to be successful in a globally-interconnected, technologically-advanced, and rapidly diversifying and changing work environment. This is a major component of our certificate program. 5) Provide a scholarly atmosphere in which students address interdisciplinary questions and work in teams toward the development of sustainable and safe agroecosystem practices. We have begun implementing these techniques in our courses and will continue to do so. 6) Provide students with internship, research, teaching, and outreach opportunities that will enhance their leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills. Internships are required to complete the certificate and we are working to establish them. 7) Provide an increased number of workforce-ready and globally-competitive graduates in the food and agricultural sciences, which is themeasurable impactof this proposal. Although we can't say that we have reached this goal yet in year one, we are well on our way.

Publications

  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2013 Citation: Rohr, J.R., Johnson, P., Hickey, C.W., Helm, R., Fritz, A., Brasfield, S. 2013. Implications of global climate change for natural resource damage assessment, restoration, and rehabilitation. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 32: 93-101
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2013 Citation: Liu, X., Rohr, J.R., Li, Y. 2013. Climate, vegetation, introduced hosts and trade shape a global wildlife pandemic. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 280: 20122506
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2013 Citation: Raffel, T.R., Romansic, J.M., Halstead, N.T., McMahon, T.A., Venesky, M.D., Rohr, J.R. 2013. Disease and thermal acclimation in a more variable and unpredictable climate. Nature Climate Change 3: 146-151
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2013 Citation: Venesky, M.D., Hanlon, S.M., Lynch, K., Parris, M.J., Rohr, J.R. 2013. Optimal digestion theory does not predict the effect of pathogens on intestinal plasticity. Biology Letters 9: 20130038
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2013 Citation: Rohr, J.R., Raffel, T.R., Blaustein, A.R., Johnson, P.T.J., Paull, S.H., Young, S. 2013. Using physiology to understand climate-driven changes in disease and their implications for conservation. Conservation Physiology 1:cot022-cot022
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2013 Citation: Rohr, J.R., Raffel, T.R., Halstead, N.T.*, McMahon, T.A.*, Johnson, S.A., Boughton, R.K., Martin, L.B. 2013. Early-life exposure to an herbicide has enduring effects on pathogen-induced mortality. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 280:20131502
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2014 Citation: Leslie, T.W., Biddinger, D.J., Rohr, J.R., Hulting, A.J., Mortensen, D.A., Fleischer, S.J. 2014. Examining shifts in Carabidae assemblages across a forest-agriculture ecotone. Environmental Entomology 43:18-28
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2014 Citation: Venesky, M.D., Liu, X., Sauer, E., Rohr, J.R. 2014. Linking manipulative experiments to field data to test the dilution effect. Journal of Animal Ecology 83:557-565
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2014 Citation: Halstead, N.T., McMahon, T.A., Johnson, S., Raffel, T.R., Romansic, J.M., Crumrine, P.W., Rohr, J.R. 2014. Community ecology theory predicts the effects of agrochemical mixtures on aquatic biodiversity and ecosystem properties. Ecology Letters 17:932-941
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2014 Citation: McMahon, T.A., Sears, B.F., Venesky, M.D., Brown, J.M., Deutsch, K., Halstead, N.T., Lentz, G., Tenouri, N., Young, S., Civitello, D.J., Ortega, N., Fites, J.S., Reinert, L.K., Rollins-Smith, L.A., Raffel, T.R., Rohr, J.R. 2014. Amphibians acquire resistance to live and dead fungus overcoming fungal immunosuppression. Nature 511:224-227
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2014 Citation: Landis, W.G., Rohr, J.R., Moe, S.J., Balbus, J.M., Clements, W., Fritz, A., Helm, R., Hickey, C., Hooper, M., Stahl, R. 2014. Global climate change and contaminants, a call to arms not yet heard? Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management 10:483-484