NJAES MCINTIRE-STENNIS ADMINISTRATION AND COORDINATION

• Sponsoring Institution: National Institute of Food and Agriculture
• Project Status: COMPLETE
• Funding Source: MCINTIRE-STENNIS
• Reporting Frequency: Annual
• Accession No.: 1020035
• Project Start Date: Jul 1, 2019
• Project End Date: Jun 30, 2024
• Program Code: [(N/A)]- (N/A)

Recipient Organization
RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY
3 RUTGERS PLZA
NEW BRUNSWICK,NJ 08901-8559

Performing Department
NJAES Office of Research

Non Technical Summary
The history of forestry research is long at Rutgers University, formally predating the McIntire Stennis Act of 1962 by a minimum of two decades. The first notable mention of forestry as a select research category of its own was in the 1941-1942 New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Annual Report titled "Farm Science Goes to War."Forestry education at Rutgers goes back even further, with references in the 1920s of horticulture students looking forward to studying forestry at the college. With this history, Rutgers easily qualified for the USDA requirements to receive McIntire-Stennis funding from the beginning. "Evaluation of the multiple uses of New Jersey's public forest land resources" by Richard F. West and Benjamin B. Stout was approved as the first five-year NJAES McIntire Stennis project on May 25, 1964.This is an administrative project to cover some of the costs of managing USDA-NIFA Capacity-funded forestry research conducted by faculty researchers at the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. Expenditures of McIntire-Stennis administrative funds will cover expenses related to such activities as program management and reporting on McIntire-Stennis-funded research (including consultations with forestry stakeholders), preparation of required fiscal reports, and general fiscal oversight of McIntire-Stennis funding

Animal Health Component

25%

Research Effort Categories

Basic

50%

Applied

25%

Developmental

25%

Classification

Knowledge Area (KA)	Subject of Investigation (SOI)	Field of Science (FOS)	Percent
902	0699	3100	100%

Knowledge Area
902 - Administration of Projects and Programs;

Subject Of Investigation
0699 - Trees, forests, and forest products, general;

Field Of Science
3100 - Management;

Keywords

administration

forestry research

research coordination

research management

fiscal management

research support

Goals / Objectives
The objectives of this administrative project to support McIntire Stennis research at NJAES are to ensure that McIntire-Stennis funds are used productively and in compliance with federal regulations to provide support for our research scientists and staff to develop new research projects that solve emerging forestry-related issues.

Project Methods
NJAES will use administrative McIntire-Stennis funds to ensure that policies governing research program administration and expenditure of McIntire-Stennis formula funds are met. We will continue and expand upon our grant program supported with McIntire Stennis funds, using this program to develop enhanced training opportunities for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows interested in careers in forestry.General administrative support may include partial salary funding for the NJAES Director of Research and accounting or research support positions relating directly to the administration of the McIntire-Stennis program, and for other administrative costs necessary to plan, coordinate and direct the NJAES McIntire-Stennis program. These administrative costs may include supplies, travel to attend meetings, and other related program administrative costs. Total funding for administrative support will not exceed 10% of the McIntire-Stennis allocation to NJAES in any fiscal year.

Progress 10/01/19 to 09/30/20

Outputs
Target Audience:USDA NIFA representatives and Rutgers University faculty involved in forestry-related research, additionally, collaborating State of NJ forestry departments Changes/Problems:COVID-19 closures have affected some of the programs in our portfolio but work is resuming. Also, the NJAES Office of Research has had a change in directorship and new initiatives are being discussed as a result What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?NJAES provides financial support not just to research faculty but also to undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral students assisting the project directors with forestry research. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Our projects reach a wide audience of state, industry and federal sources through collaborative meetings and publications. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Further development of new projects are planned

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? This administrative project has been used to plan, coordinate, and direct the McIntire Stennis forestry research program at the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. The primary objective of this project is to simplify accounting and disbursement of McIntire Stennis funds and provide support to development of McIntire-Stennis projects and general administration of the program. Our current portfolio of projects includes six active research projects on a wide range of forest-related issues. More new projects are to come, including a research support for a recently approved project located at the Hutcheson Memorial Forest, 500-acre natural preserve and a project in development with new leadership at the Pinelands Field Station, a live-in biological research station providing easy access to a wide range of ecosystems in the New Jersey Pine Barrens.

Publications

Progress 07/01/19 to 09/30/19

Outputs
Target Audience:USDA NIFA representatives and Rutgers University faculty involved in forestry-related research, State of NJ forestry departments Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?NJAES provides financial support to undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral students in the area of forestry research. One project has enabled support to a postdoctoral student who has been accepted as a new faculty member. Future iterations of the McIntire-Stennis supported research will include this person as a project director. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Our projects reach a wide audience of state, industry and federal sources through collaborative meetings and publications. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Further development of new areas of environmental protection and economic planning in the area of forestry are planned for the upcoming renewals.

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? This administrative project has been used to plan, coordinate, and direct the McIntire Stennis forestry research program at the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. The primary objective of this project is to simplify accounting and disbursement of McIntire Stennis funds and provide support to development of McIntire-Stennis projects and general administration of the program. Our current portfolio of projects includes eight active research projects on a wide range of forest-related issues including innovative tools to aid in land use planning, forest management to aid in environmentally friendly methods for managing the bee population, environmental DNA methods and even the study of the role of bats for early detection of insect pests that can help reduce destruction of forests.

Publications