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Margaret Swift
…Veterinary fencing crisscrosses much of southern Africa, protecting livestock from disease transfer but preventing wild mammals from migrating seasonally to access grazing and water resources. This project will use advanced…
Design & Testing of Wave Energy Converter Farms to Meet Grid-scale Electricity Demands
Energy derived from water waves is a potential new form of clean energy, but it requires the development of wave energy converters (WECs) in order to apply it for grid-scale…
Monitoring Protocols for the Marcellus Shale
…agriculture and tourism. Cornell researchers are developing procedures and protocols as the groundwork for programs to monitor air and water quality in the Marcellus Shale region. The project promises to…
Erika Styger
…same time regenerate soils, reduce agro-chemical use, and save water by 50% leading to reduced methane emissions. She is technical lead for the RICOWAS project, to scale-up SRI in 13…
Ellie Goud (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
…plant metabolism and its role in structuring ecological communities. SBF funding will allow Ellie to test whether variation in water availability sustains plant metabolic diversity in a successional old field…
James Knighton (Biological and Environmental Engineering)
…reframing riverine flooding risk from an atmospheric perspective, determining how changes in plant composition can influence flooding risk, and describing unsaturated zone dynamics through simulation of stable water isotopes. James…
Algal Bioreactors for Biofuel Production
Aquatic microalgae offer several features that make them an attractive prospect for biofuel production, including rapid growth and the ability to thrive on marginal land and in brackish water. Despite…
Research
…policies, practices and products that allow people in rural communities to benefit from producing food, energy and water for urban areas and cities to reduce resource consumption. “Food, energy, climate,…