The University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (UGA Research Foundation) was awarded a $900,000 federal Project Grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program. The goal of this 4-year project is to improve sustainable forest management through enhanced harvest planning, data-driven decision-making, and reduced timber harvest site impacts. Key objectives include characterizing machinery travel patterns...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service under the Inflation Reduction Act Landscape Scale Restoration program (CFDA 10.731) will provide $347,678.00 in funding to the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. to deliver technical assistance and develop tax and estate planning resources for non-industrial private forest landowners. The goal is to help these landowners maximize economic opportunities and improve forest management, enabling...
The Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded Oregon State University $649,333 under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program (CFDA 10.310) from June 2023 through May 2026. The Project Grant funding will support research to develop robust and computationally efficient methods for calibrating process-based, individual tree growth models using high resolution remote sensing data. Specifically, the university will establish...
This $2,281,740 McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Research Formula Grant, awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.202) to the University of Georgia, supports applied research and training focused on sustainable forest management in Georgia. Key research areas include evaluating genetically improved timber plantations, advancing operations research for efficient and sustainable forest plans, assessing the impacts of silvicultural...
This federal Project Grant award, issued under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program of the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.310), provides $800,000 to Michigan State University to comprehensively assess the impacts of emerging carbon programs and financial incentives on the wood product supply chain. The primary focus is on understanding how these carbon initiatives could affect the wood products industries and carbon sequestration efforts. The...
This $836,711 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research to advance understanding of soil processes that control carbon storage and water quality. The key objectives are to: (1) quantify the impacts of burn severity, soil type, erosion, and time since fire on dissolved organic matter and pyrogenic carbon in soils and outflow water through simulated leaching experiments and sediment fence studies; and (2) establish a tree...
This $253,526 Formula Grant award under the U.S. Department of Agriculture's McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Research Program (CFDA 10.202) is aimed at increasing the adoption of innovative technology to advance forest monitoring and management for underserved forestry landowners in Georgia. The funding will be used by Fort Valley State University, a historically black land-grant university, to: Identify and survey small, medium, and underserved forestry landowners in Georgia to understand...
This $749,846 Project Grant was awarded on August 1, 2023 by the Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310). The goal of this project is to quantify the effects of carbon allocation to different plant tissues, symbionts and exudates on its turnaround and resilience in the ecosystem. The key products and services to be delivered include: (1) validating estimates of carbon...
This federal Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service's Forest Health Protection program (CFDA 10.680) provides $133,333.00 to the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. to assess the interactions between prescribed fire regimes and southern pine beetle activity on forests in Georgia. The project will be executed over a 5-year period from September 10, 2024 to September 9, 2029. The goal is to develop improved forest health monitoring...
University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (UGA Research Foundation) received a $750,000 Project Grant from the Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (AFRI program, CFDA 10.310) to conduct research on how prescribed fire affects soil carbon and soil microbes in Eastern U.S. forests. The goal is to understand if prescribed fire increases the stability of soil carbon, which could offset the carbon dioxide released during burning. UGA Research Foundation will...