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2016 Faculty Achievements and Activities

College of Science Awards and Honors

Anderson, Ian M

Valedictorian Escort, College of Science, 2016 (May 2016).

Baker, Michelle A

Governor's Medal for Science and Technology, Utah Governor's Office, (January 13, 2016).

Berreau, Lisa M

AAAS Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, (2016).

Cortez, Michael Henry

2016 USU DC Fellow, Office of Research and Graduate Studies, USU, (September 2016). Ecological Society of America Early Career Fellow, Ecological Society of America, (August 11,

2016).

Fairbourn, Camille A Teacher of the Year, College of Science, (April 15, 2016). Teacher of the Year, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, (April 15, 2016).

Fu, Guifang

NSF review Panelist, national science foundation (NSF), (January 27, 2016).

Hanifin, Charles Taylor

Utah State University Uintah Basin Research of the Year 2016, USU Uintah Basin, (April 2016).

Lewis, Randy

USU College of Science Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year, College of Science, (January

2016). Lucas, Lauren K

Successful completion of the teaching portfolio workshop and commitment to teaching excellence,

Utah State University, (May 13, 2016). Rittenour, Tammy M

Invited Speaker, American Water Resources Association, (January 2016).

Shervais, John W

Fulbright Fellow, 2017, US Fulbright Commission, (May 1, 2016). Stevens, John R

Researcher of the Year, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, (April 2016).

Sullivan, Kimberly A

Teacher of the Year nominee, Biology Department, (December 2016). Scientific Teaching Fellow, Summer Institute on Scientific Teaching, (May 2016).

Weber, John M

Faculty Escort, (May 2016).

Publications/Intellectual Contributions

Performances in Publications

Ramirez, Ricardo A Insecticide Application Strategies to Manage Pesticide Resistance, (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2016), Pesticide Safety Education Program: Improvement and Modernization Initiative, 1 to 98.

Abstract Burger, Benjamin J

Hyrachyus eximius from the Middle Eocene lower Washakie Formation Abode Town Member of Wyoming and its bearing on the origin and early diversification of rhinoceroses., (October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2016), Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Evans, James P

Hydrological analysis o nonconformities: Implications for injection-induced seismicity in the midcontinent United States, (September 2016), Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 48, 171-2.

Structural Diagenesis and micro- to macro-scale structural architecture of basal nonconformities, (September 2016), Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 48, 171-6.

Lachmar, Thomas E

Secrets of the subsurface: Surface water recharge from the upper Logan River to ground water in Cache Valley, Utah, (September 2016), Geological Society of America.

Ramirez, Ricardo A

Silage Corn Hybrid Response to Row Spacing and Plant Density in the Intermountain West, (November 2016), American Society of Agronomy.

Silage corn hybrid response to row spacing and plant density, (June 2016), Western Society of Crop Science.

Rittenour, Tammy M

Geological dating of indigenous reservoirs and adjudication of water rights, Laguna, New Mexico, (2016), GSA Annual Meeting.

Taylor, Michael John

Horizontal structure and propagation characteristics of mesospheric gravity waves observed by Antarctic Gravity Wave Imaging/Instrument Network (ANGWIN), using a 3-D spectral analysis technique, (July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2016), 41st COSPAR Scientific Assembly, abstracts from the meeting that was to be held 30 July-7 August at the Istanbul Congress Center (ICC), Turkey, but was cancelled. See http://cospar2016. tubitak. gov. tr/en/, Abstract C2. 2-19-16., 41.

Book Review

Kapheim, Karen Marie

Genomics, Physiology, and Behaviour of Social Insects, (2016), Quarterly Review of Biology, 91, 511.

Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book

Baker, Michelle A

Stream-lake interactions: influence on stream ecosystem functioning, (July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 31, 2016), Elsevier.

Burger, Benjamin J

Course delivery methods for effective distance science education: A case study of taking an introductory geology class online., (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 1, 2016), Routledge/ Taylor & Francis Group, 104-117.

Janecke, Susanne U

The Bear River’s history and diversion—constraints, unsolved problems, and implications for the Lake Bonneville record, (July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2016), Elsevier.

Lucas, Lauren K

Mountains of detail: on the trail with Nabokov’s blues, (March 2016), Yale University Press, 251-259.

Pederson, Joel L

Sandstones and Utah’s Canyon Country: Deposition, Diagenesis, Exhumation and Landscape Evolution, (October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2016), Geological Society of America, 44, 41-72.

The Bear River’s history and diversion—constraints, unsolved problems, and implications for the Lake Bonneville record, (July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2016), Elsevier.

Scheiner, Stephen I

Dissection of the Factors Affecting Formation of a CH∙∙∙O H-bond. A Case Study, (2016), MDPI Press, 134-155.

Sweeten, Thayne Lyle

Immunological Aspects of Autism Spectrum Disorder, (February 19, 2016), Oxford University Press.

Symanzik, Juergen

Heatmap and Hierarchical Clustering Analysis to Highlight Changes in Young Children's Learning Using Virtual Manipulative Mathematics Apps, (2016), Under Revision.

Micromaps, (2016), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Forthcoming.


High-Resolution Temperature Mapping of Mesospheric Gravity Waves and Breaking Events, (April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2016), EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, 18.

Yuan, Tao

High-Resolution Temperature Mapping of Mesospheric Gravity Waves and Breaking Events, (April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2016), EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, 18.

Book, Scholarly-New

Riffe, David Mark

Dielectric Response of Solids, (2016).

Book, Textbook-New Riffe, David Mark

Newton, Lagrange, and Hamilton: A Course in Particle Mechanics, (2016). Sojka, Jan Josef

Heliophysics: Active Stars, Their Astrospheres, and Impacts on Planetary Environments, (April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2016), Cambridge University Press, 406.

Torre, Charles Gregory

Introduction to Classical Field Theory, (August 10, 2016).

Conference Proceeding Alston, Diane G

Influence of Adjacent Weed Species on Thrips and Iris Yellow Spot Virus in Onion, (July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2016), Proceedings of the Western Society of Weed Science, 69, 55-56.

Campbell, Theodore Jones

Understanding student participation in a first-year calculus online support forum., (April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2016), NSF/AAAS NSF/AAAS Envisioning the Future of Undergraduate STEM Education: Research and Practice Symposium.

Dennison, John Robert

Voltage Ramp-rate Dependence of DC Breakdown in Polymeric Insulators: Physical Models versus Data, (October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2016), IEEE Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena, 494-496.

Evaluation of Instrumentation Enhancements for Electron Yield Measurements of Extremely Low-Conductivity High-Yield Dielectrics, (May 2016), Proceedings of the Utah NASA Space Grant Consortium Research Symposium, 4 pp.

Absolute Electron Emission Calibration: Round Robin Tests of Au and Polyimide, (April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2016), Proceedings of the 14th Spacecraft Charging Technology Conference.

Dependence of Electrostatic Field Strength on Voltage Ramp Rate for Spacecraft Materials, (April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2016), Proceedings of the 14th Spacecraft Charging Technology Conference.

Extremely low secondary electron emission from metal/dielectric particulate coatings, (April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2016), Proceedings of the 14th Spacecraft Charging Technology Conference.

Measurements of Intrinsic Electron Emission Yields of High Resistivity Ceramic Materials, (April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2016), Proceedings of the 14th Spacecraft Charging Technology Conference.

Perspectives on the Distributions of ESD Breakdowns for Spacecraft Charging Applications, (April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2016), Proceedings of the 14th Spacecraft Charging Technology Conference.

Predictive Formula for Electron Penetration Depth of Diverse Materials over Large Energy Ranges, (April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2016), Proceedings of the 14th Spacecraft Charging Technology Conference.

Pulsed Electroacoustic System Development for Volume Charge Distribution Measurement in Thin Dielectric Films, (April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2016), Proceedings of the 14th Spacecraft Charging Technology Conference.

Synergistic Models of Electron Emission and Transport Measurements of Disordered SiO2, (April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2016), Proceedings of the 14th Spacecraft Charging Technology Conference.

Temporal and Spatial Correlations in Electron-induced Arcs of Adjacent Dielectric Islands, (April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2016), Proceedings of the 14th Spacecraft Charging Technology Conference.

Evans, James P

Geothermal Play Fairway Analysis of the Snake River Plain Volcanic Province, (February 2016), Stanford University.

Nischwitz, Claudia

Influence of Adjacent Weed Species on Thrips and Iris Yellow Spot Virus in Onion, (July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2016), Proceedings of the Western Society of Weed Science, 69, 55-56.

Pederson, Joel L

A reconstruction of Holocene arroyo dynamics in Kanab Creek, southern Utah, using single-grain OSL dating, (2016), New World Luminescence Dating Workshop, Lincoln, NE.

Rittenour, Tammy M

A reconstruction of Holocene arroyo dynamics in Kanab Creek, southern Utah, using single-grain OSL dating, (2016), New World Luminescence Dating Workshop, Lincoln, NE.

Active folding of fluvial terraces across a ‘blind’ Himalayan deformation front in the Kashmir Himalaya, northwest India, (2016), AGU Annual meeting.

An out of-phase Late Pleistocene marine transgression along the Beaufort Sea Coast?, (2016), Geological Assoc of Canada.

Arroyo cut-fill dynamics in southern Utah, Chronology and Causal Linkages, (2016), GSA Annual Meeting.

Arroyo cut-fill dynamics in southern Utah, Chronology and Causal Linkages., (2016), Am Quaternary Association meeting, Santa Fe, NM.

Landscape evolution of the Virginia Piedmont: A new soil chronosequence, luminescence (OSL and IRSL) and cosmogenic (TCN) dating, and intraplate seismicity-driven river incision, (2016), GSA Annual Meeting.

Luminescence properties and mineralogic composition of sediments from South Anna River terraces in the Central Virginia Seismic Zone, (2016), New World Luminescence Dating Workshop, Lincoln, NE.

Maximum depositional age constraints and provenance of Cenozoic deposits of the central High Plains in western Kansas, USA, (2016), GSA Annual Meeting.

Monthly paleostreamflow reconstruction from tree-ring chronologies for water system analysis, (2016), AGU Annual meeting.

Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) geochronology of an active blind thrust faul, Wheeler Ridge, California, (2016), GSA Annual Meeting.

OSL dating dunes and mega-podzols, Rainbow Beach Australia, (2016), New World Luminescence Dating Workshop, Lincoln, NE.

Sedimentology, stratigraphy, geomorphology and paleoclimate in mid-late Pleistocene ghost dune hollows, eastern Snake River plain, Idaho, (2016), Rocky Mountain GSA Meeting.

Single-grain dating of Intermountain Ware ceramics from four archaeological sites in northwestern Wyoming, (2016),. New World Luminescence Dating Workshop, Lincoln, NE.

The age and implications of Brownware ceramics in the central Rocky Mountains, (2016), Great Basin Archaeological Conference.

The Role of Fire in the Earth System: Understanding Drivers, Feedbacks, and Interactions with the Land, Atmosphere and Society, (2016), AGU Annual meeting.

Using cosmogenic nuclides to understand the connection between erosion rates, environmental factors, and landscape response (Invited Presentation)., (2016), GSA Annual Meeting.

What do McMurdo Dry Valleys paleolake deltas really tell us about grounding line position? New Insights from Garwood Valley, (2016), Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research.

Shervais, John W

Geothermal Play Fairway Analysis of the Snake River Plain Volcanic Province, (February 2016), Stanford University.

GIS Methodology for Geothermal Play Fairway Analysis: Example from the Snake River Plain Volcanic Province, (February 2016), Stanford University, GGP-TR-209.

Thermal modeling of the Mountain Home Geothermal Area, (February 2016), Stanford Geothermal Workshop, SGP-TR-209.


Spatial ability instrument ceiling effect and implications, (June 29, 2016), American Society for Engineering Education.

Preliminary analysis of spatial ability improvement within an engineering mechanics course: statics, (June 27, 2016), American Society for Engineering Education.

Symanzik, Juergen

Observations on the Type and Quality of Graphs Used in the ASA/NCTM Annual Poster Competition during the Years 2013 to 2016, (2016), 2016 JSM Proceedings.

Quantitative Genetic and Environmental Mapping and Visual Exploration for Leaf Shape Variation, (2016), Under Revision.

The Linked Microposter Plot as a New Means for the Visualization of Eye Tracking Data, (2016), 2016 JSM Proceedings.

Recent Advancements in Geovisualization, with a Case Study on Chinese Religions, (2016), Springer, 151-166.

Wickwar, Vincent B

Early Observations with the Extremely Sensitive Rayleigh Lidar at Utah State University, (June 7, 2016), EPJ Web of Conferences, 119.

Temperature Deviations in the Midlatitude Mesosphere During Sudden Stratospheric Warmings as Measured with Rayleigh-Scatter Lidar, (June 7, 2016), EPJ Web of Conferences, 119.

The Online System for Lidar Data Handling and Real Time Monitoring of Lidar Operations at ALO-USU, (June 7, 2016), EPJ Web of Conferences, 119.

Variations in Mesospheric Neutral Densities Derived from Rayleigh Lidar Observations at Utah State University, (June 7, 2016), EPJ Web of Conferences, 119.

Fact Sheet-Extension

Alston, Diane G

Improving organic peach orchard fertility with nitrogen-fixing ground covers in Capitol Reef National Park: a case study, (September 2016), Utah State University Extension, Horticulture/Fruit, 1-9.

Nischwitz, Claudia

Barley yellow dwarf virus, (July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 1, 2016), Utah State University Extension. Ramirez, Ricardo A

Billbug monitoring using pitfall traps, (August 8, 2016), USU Extension-YouTube.

Aphid predators and parasitoids, (March 2016), Utah State University Extension.

Guide/Manual-Extension Alston, Diane G

First Detector Guide to Invasive Insects: Biology, Identification, and Monitoring, (July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2016), 53 pp.

Utah Vegetable Production and Pest Management Guide 2016, (June 3, 2016), Utah State University Extension, 206 pp.

Invasive Fruit Pest Guide for Utah: Insect and Disease Identification, Monitoring, and Management, (June 3, 2016), Utah State University Extension and Utah Plant Pest Diagnostic Laboratory, 102 pp.

Nischwitz, Claudia

Utah Vegetable Production and Pest Management Guide 2016, (June 3, 2016), Utah State University Extension, 206 pp.


Ramirez, Ricardo A


Rittenour, Tammy M

Geomorphology of the Grand Staircase Region of the Colorado Plateau, (2016), Rocky Mountain Friends of the Pleistocene.

Spears, Lori Rena



Journal Article, Academic Journal

Alston, Diane G

Sucrose mixed with spinosad enhances kill and reduces oviposition of Rhagoletis indifferens (Diptera: Tephritidae) under low-food availability, (April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2016), Journal of Entomological Science, 51, 101-112.

Anderson, Anne J

Sublethal doses of Zn nanoparticles remodel production of cell signaling metabolites in the root colonizer Pseudomonas chlororaphis O6, (2016), Environ. Sci. Nano, 3, 1103-1113.

A root-colonizing pseudomonad lessens stress responses in wheat imposed by CuO nanoparticles, (November 10, 2016), PLOS ONE, 11, e0164935.

Ag nanoparticles generated using bio-reduction and -coating cause microbial killing without cell lysis, (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 20, 2016), Biometals, 29, 211-223.

Antony, Edwin

Negative cooperativity in the nitrogenase Fe protein electron delivery cycle, (October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2016), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113, E5783–E5791.

Evidence that the Pi release event is the rate-limiting step in the nitrogenase catalytic cycle, (June 2016), Biochemistry, 55, 3625–3635.

Ault, Alexis

Record of paleofluid circulation in faults revealed by hematite (U-Th)/He and apatite fission-track dating: an example from Gower Peninsula fissures, Wales, (2016), Lithosphere, 8, 379-385.

Baker, Michelle A

Convergence in nitrogen deposition and cryptic isotopic variation across urban and agricultural valleys in northern Utah, (September 14, 2016), Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, 121, 2340-2355.

Translational training for tomorrow's environmental scientists, (June 2016), Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 6, 295-299.

Contrasting soil nitrogen dynamics across a montane meadow and urban lawn in a semi-arid watershed, (February 2016), Urban Ecosystems.

Stream nitrogen inputs reflect groundwater across a snowmelt-dominated montane to urban watershed, (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2016), Environmental Science and Technology, 50, 1137-1146.

Bernhardt, Scott A

Comparison of in vivo and in vitro methods for blood feeding of Phlebotomus papatasi (Diptera: Psychodidae) in the Laboratory, (July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2016), Journal of Medical Entomology.

Diagnostic doses and times for Phlebotomus papatasi and Lutzomyia longipalpis sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) using CDC bottle bioassay to assess insecticide resistance., (May 2016), Parasites and Vectors.

Berreau, Lisa M

Anion Effects in Oxidative Aliphatic Carbon-carbon Bond Cleavage Reactions of Cu(II) Chlorodiketonate Complexes, (2016), Inorg. Chem., 55, 6916-6928.

Solution or Solid - It Doesn't Matter: Dioxygenase-type Visible Light-induced CO Release Chemistry of Zinc Flavonolato Complexes, (2016), Dalton Trans., 45, 14570-14580.

Bialkowski, Stephen E

Analysis of the Thermo-Reflectivity Coefficient Influence Using Photothermal Pump–Probe Techniques, (November 2016), Applied Spectroscopy, 70.

Generation and detection of thermoelastic waves in metals by a photothermal mirror method, (November 9, 2016), Applied Physics Letters, 109, 191908.

Boldyrev, Alexander I

B26−: The Smallest Planar Boron Cluster with a Hexagonal Vacancy and a Complicated Potential Landscape, (December 30, 2016), Chemical Physics Letters.

Peculiar All-Metal σ-Aromaticity of the [Au2Sb16]4− Anion in the Solid State, (November 9, 2016), 55, 15344-15346.

Manganese-Centered Tubular Boron Cluster - MnB16-: A New Class of Transition-Metal Molecules, (April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2016), The Journal of Chemical Physics, 144, 154310.

All-Metal Antiaromaticity in Sb4-Type Lanthanocene Anions, (April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 25, 2016), 55, 5531-5535.

Two-dimensional magnetic boron, (February 2, 2016), Physical Review B, 93, 085406 (number of the article).

Beyond Organic Chemistry: Aromaticity in Atomic Clusters, (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 28, 2016), Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.

Nanoscale Stabilization of Zintl Compounds: 1D Ionic Li-P Double Helix Confined Inside a Carbon Nanotube, (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 11, 2016), Nanoscale, 8, 3454-3460.

Antiferromagnetic Stabilization in the Ti8O12 Cluster, (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 26, 2016), Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 55, 1699-1703.

d-AO Spherical Aromaticity in Ce6O8, (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 5, 2016), Journal Computational Chemistry, 37, 103-109.

Brodie, Edmund D

Detrimental effect of zinc oxide nanoparticles on amphibian life stages., (2016), Journal of Experimental Zoology A.

Escalated antipredator mechanisms of two Neotropical marsupial treefrogs, (2016), Herpetological Journal, 26, 237-244.

Mutations to the cardiotonic steroid binding site of Na+/K+-ATPase are associated with high level of resistance to gamabufotalin in a natricine snake, (2016), Toxicon, 114, 13-15.

Physiological Responses to Salinity Vary with Proximity to the Ocean in a Coastal Amphibian, (June 2016), Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 89, 322-330.

Toad parotoid pores shelter tick larvae, (2016), South American J. Herpetology, 11, 81-84.

Toxicity and population structure of the Rough-Skinned Newt Taricha granulosa outside the range of an arms race with resistant predators, (2016), Ecology and Evolution/John Wiley and Sons.

Historical Contingency in a Multigene Family Facilitates Adaptive Evolution of Toxin Resistance, (June 20, 2016), Current Biology.

Mutations to the cardiotonic steroid binding site of Na+/K+-ATPase are associated with high level of resistance to gamabufotalin in a natricine snake, (May 2016), Toxicon, 114, 13-15.

Comparing the natural and anthropogenic sodium channel blockers tetrodotoxin and indoxacarb in gartersnakes, (April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2016), Journal of Experimental Zoology A, 325, 255-264.

Christiansen, Michael A

In-Class Versus At-Home Quizzes: Which is Better? A Flipped Learning Study in a Two-Site Synchronously-Broadcast Organic Chemistry Course, (December 13, 2016), Journal of Chemical Education, 93, 157-163.


Hydra effects in discrete-time models of stable communities, (2016), Journal of Theoretical Biology, 422, 59-67.

Population density, not host competence, drives patterns of disease in an invaded community, (November 2016), American Naturalist, 188, 554-566.

How the magnitude of prey genetic variation alters predator-prey eco-evolutionary dynamics, (September 2016), American Naturalist, 188, 229-341.

Hydra effects in stable communities and their implications for system dynamics, (April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2016), Ecology, 97, 1135-1145.

Cutler, Adele

Text Skew Detection in Printed Text Images Relying on 2D Haar Wavelets, (May 2016), Journal of Graphics, Vision and Image Processing (GVIP), 16, 41-50.

Dickenson, Nicholas E

Structural and Biochemical Characterization of Spa47 Provides Mechanistic Insight into Type III Secretion System ATPase Activation and Shigella Virulence Regulation, (October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 21, 2016), Journal of Biological Chemistry, 291, 25837-25852.

Detergent isolation stabilizes and activates the Shigella type III secretion system translocator protein IpaC., (May 2016), Journal of Pharmaceutical Science, 105.

Spa47 is an oligomerization-activated type three secretion system (T3SS) ATPase from Shigella flexneri., (May 2016), Protein Science, 25, 1037-1048.

Dupree, Kami M

In-Class Versus At-Home Quizzes: Which is Better? A Flipped Learning Study in a Two-Site Synchronously-Broadcast Organic Chemistry Course, (December 13, 2016), Journal of Chemical Education, 93, 157-163.

Questioning Order of Operations, (October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2016), Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 22, 152-159.

Are They Using the Data? Teacher Perceptions of, Practices with, and Preparation to Use Assessment Data, (September 1, 2016), International Journal of Education, 8.

Evans, James P

Modeling strain across mechanical sedimentary lithologic interfaces - geomechanical models derived from outcrop analysis, (December 2016), Bulletin of the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geology, 64, 477-494.

Potential seal bypass and caprock storage produced by deformation‐band‐to‐opening‐mode‐fracture transition at the reservoir/caprock interface, (October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2016), Geofluids, 16, 752-768.

Observational evidence confirms modelling of the long-term integrity of CO2-reservoir caprocks, (July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 28, 2016), Nature Communications, 7.

Farrelly, David

Lieb-Liniger model of microscopic superfluidity in CO- doped helium-4 clusters, (May 23, 2016), Journal of Chemical Physics, 144, 204301-1 -- 204301-12.

Fejer, Bela Gyula

Post-storm middle and low-latitude ionospheric electric field effects, (December 5, 2016), Space Science Reviews/Springer.

Equatorial vertical drift modulation by the solar and lunar semidiurnal tides during the 2013 Sudden Stratospheric Warming tides, (February 19, 2016), Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 121, 1658-1668.

Fels, Mark Eric

On the Construction of Simply Connected Solvable Lie Groups, (July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2016), Journal of Lie Theory, 27, 193–215.

French, Susannah

Considerations of context and scale when using fecal glucocorticoids to indicate stress in large mammals: a study of wild American plains bison, (2016), Peer J Preprints.

Detrimental effect of zinc oxide nanoparticles on amphibian life stages., (2016), Journal of Experimental Zoology A.

Effects of Diet Restriction and Diet Complexity on Life History Strategies in Side-Blotched Lizards (Uta stansburiana), (2016), Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological Genetics and Physiology, 325, 626–637.

Physiological Responses to Salinity Vary with Proximity to the Ocean in a Coastal Amphibian, (June 2016), Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 89, 322-330.

Timing of Maternal Immunization Affects Immunological and Behavioral Outcomes of Adult Offspring in Siberian Hamster (Phodopus sungorus), (August 2016), Journal of Experimental Zoology A.

Comparing the natural and anthropogenic sodium channel blockers tetrodotoxin and indoxacarb in gartersnakes, (April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2016), Journal of Experimental Zoology A, 325, 255-264.

Fu, Guifang

A proof-of-concept study of function-based statistical analysis of fNIRS data: Syntax comprehension in children with Specific Language Impairment compared to typically-developing controls., (June 7, 2016), Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 10, 1-15.

Geer, Nathan C

Non semi-simple TQFTs from unrolled quantum sl (2), (2016), Proceedings of the Gokova Geometry-Topology Conference 2015, 218--231.

Non semi-simple TQFTs, Reidemeister torsion and Kashaev’s invariants, (2016), Advances in Mathematics, 301, 1-78.

Relative modular categories from modified traces on the Lie superalgebra sl (2|1), (2016).

The trace on projective representations of quantum groups, (2016).

Geffeney, Shana Lynn

Convergent evolution of tetrodotoxin-resistant sodium channels in predators and prey, (August 9, 2016), Elsevier, 78, Submitted.


Gompert, Zachariah

Bayesian inference of selection in a heterogeneous environment from genetic time-series data, (2016), Molecular ecology, 25, 121–134.

Pervasive gene flow across critical habitat for four narrowly endemic, sympatric taxa, (2016), Freshwater Biology, 61, 933-946.

Toxin-resistant isoforms of Na+/K+-ATPase in snakes do not closely track dietary specialization on toads, (November 16, 2016), Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 283, 20162111.

Multilocus approaches for the measurement of selection on correlated genetic loci, (October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 27, 2016), Molecular Ecology.

Genomic evidence that resource-based trade-offs limit host-range expansion in a seed beetle, (May 22, 2016), Evolution, 70, 1249–1264.

What, if anything, are hybrids: enduring truths and challenges associated with population structure and gene flow, (April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 26, 2016), Evolutionary Applications, 9, 909-923.

A continuous correlated beta process model for genetic ancestry in admixed populations, (March 11, 2016), PLOS ONE, 11, e0151047.

The many dimensions of diet breadth: chemical, genetic, behavioral, and physiological perspectives on the interaction between a native herbivore and an exotic host, (February 2, 2016), PLOS ONE, 11, e0147971.

Gordillo, Luis Fernando

Approximating optimal release in a deterministic model for the sterile insect technique, (February 2016), International Journal of Agronomy, 2016.

Managing the spread of alfalfa stem nematode: the relationship between crop rotation periods and pest re-emergence, (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2016), Natural Resource Modeling.

Grilley, Michelle Marie

Production and Application of Syringomycin E as an Organic Fungicide Seed Protectant against Pythium Damping-off, (October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2016), Journal of Phytopathology, 164, 801–810.

Hagan, Maura E

Scientific Challenges in Thermosphere-Ionosphere Forecasting - Conclusions from the October 2014 NASA JPL Community Workshop, (2016), J. Space Weather Space Clim. 6.

Solar cycle variability in mean thermospheric composition and temperature induced by atmospheric tides, (2016), J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 121, 5837–5855.

Hanifin, Charles Taylor

Toxicity and population structure of the Rough-Skinned Newt Taricha granulosa outside the range of an arms race with resistant predators, (2016), Ecology and Evolution/John Wiley and Sons.

Convergent evolution of tetrodotoxin-resistant sodium channels in predators and prey, (August 9, 2016), Elsevier, 78, Submitted.


Heavilin, Justin Ewing

Using plant-soil feedbacks to predict plant biomass in diverse communities, (August 1, 2016), Ecology, 97, 2064-2073.

Isolating parameter sensitivity in reach scale transient storage modeling, (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2016), Advances in Water Resources, 89, 24-31.

Hengge, Alvan C

Mechanistic Aspects of Phosphate Diester Cleavage Assisted by Imidazole.A Template Reaction for Obtaining Aryl Phosphoimidazoles, (October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2016), Journal of Organic Chemistry, 81, 8663-8672.

Structural and Kinetic Properties of the Aldehyde Dehydrogenase NahF, aBroad Substrate Specificity Enzyme for Aldehyde Oxidation, (September 2016), Biochemistry, 55, 5453-5463.

Hevel, Joan M

Understanding protein arginine methyltransferase 1 (PRMT1) product specificity from molecular dynamics, (2016), Bioorg Med Chem, 24, 4949-4960.

Biochemistry and regulation of the protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs)., (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 15, 2016), Archives of biochemistry and biophysics, 590, 138-52.

Huntly, Nancy J

The roles and impacts of human hunter-gatherers in North Pacific marine food webs, (February 17, 2016), Scientific Reports, 6, 1-9.

Jackson, Ryan Neal

The CRISPR RNA-guided surveillance complex in Escherichia coli accommodates extended RNA spacers., (September 6, 2016), Nucleic acids research, 44, 7385-94.

Johnson, Sean J

Structural and Biochemical Characterization of Spa47 Provides Mechanistic Insight into Type III Secretion System ATPase Activation and Shigella Virulence Regulation, (October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 21, 2016), Journal of Biological Chemistry, 291, 25837-25852.

Jones, Justin A

Secondary Structure Adopted by the Gly-Gly-X Repetitive Regions of Dragline Spider Silk, (December 2, 2016).

A Sticky Situation: An Investigation of Robust Aqueous-Based Recombinant Spider Silk Protein Coatings and Adhesives, (October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2016), Biomacromolecules.



Genomic sources of phenotypic novelty in the evolution of eusociality in insects, (2016), Current Opinion in Insect Science, 13, 24-32.

Brain regions and molecular pathways responding to food rewards in the honey bee, (2016), Genes, Brain, & Behavior, 15, 305-317.

Ontogeny of division of labor in a facultatively eusocial sweat bee Megalopta genalis, (2016), Insectes Sociaux, 63, 185-191.

Kar, Tapas

Segmentation and additive approach: A reliable technique to study noncovalent interactions of large molecules at the surface of single-wall carbon nanotubes, (2016), Journal of Computational Chemistry, 37, 1953–1961.

Kelchner, Scot Anthony

Evolutionary relationships in Panicoid grasses based on plastome phylogenomics (Panicoideae; Poaceae), (2016), BMC Plant Biology, 16, 140.

Phylogenomics and plastome evolution of the chloridoid grasses (Chloridoideae: Poaceae), (2016), International Journal of Plant Sciences, 177, 235–246.

Lewis, Randy

Secondary Structure Adopted by the Gly-Gly-X Repetitive Regions of Dragline Spider Silk, (December 2, 2016).

A Sticky Situation: An Investigation of Robust Aqueous-Based Recombinant Spider Silk Protein Coatings and Adhesives, (October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2016), Biomacromolecules.

Lowry, Anthony

Continental smokers couple mantle degassing and unique microbiology within continents, (2016), Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 435, 22-30.

Geotherms from the Temperature-Depth Constrained Solutions of 1-D Steady-state Heat Flow Equation, (2016), Geosphere, 12, 1187-1197.

Lucas, Lauren K

Pervasive gene flow across critical habitat for four narrowly endemic, sympatric taxa, (2016), Freshwater Biology, 61, 933-946.

Lyman, Seth

Automated Calibration of Atmospheric Oxidized Mercury Measurements, (2016), Environmental Science & Technology, 50, 12921–12927.

Detection and quantification of gas-phase oxidized mercury compounds by GC/MS, (2016), Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 9.

Modeling the global atmospheric transport and deposition of mercury to the Great Lakes, (2016), Elementa, 4.

The magnitude of the snow-sourced reactive nitrogen flux to the boundary layer in the Uintah Basin, Utah, USA, (2016), Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 16, 13837–13851.

Mansfield, Marc L

Numerical tools for obtaining power-law representations of heavy-tailed datasets, (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 20, 2016), The European Physical Journal B, 89, 16.

Messina, Frank J

Genomic evidence that resource-based trade-offs favor host specialization in a seed beetle, (July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2016), Evolution, 70, 1249-1264.

Genomic evidence that resource-based trade-offs limit host-range expansion in a seed beetle, (May 22, 2016), Evolution, 70, 1249–1264.

Miller, Shawn Michael

Nanomole-Scale Assignment and One-Use Kits for Determining the Absolute Configuration of Secondary Alcohols, (2016), Journal of Organic Chemistry, 81, 6253–6265.

Nguyen, Nghiem Vinh

Infinitely many sign-changing solutions for the nonlinear Schrödinger-Poisson system, (2016).

Orbital stability of spatially synchronized solitary waves of an m-coupled nonlinear Schrodinger system, (2016), Journal of Mathematical Physics.

Existence and stability of a two-parameter family of solitary waves for a 2-coupled nonlinear Schrodinger system, (2016), Discrete and Continuous Dynamical System A., 36, 1005-1021.

Existence and stability of solitary waves of an m-coupled nonlinear Schrodinger system, (June 2016), Journal of Mathematical Study, 49, 132-148.

Nie, Zhaohu

On the Liouville integrability of the periodic Kostant-Toda flow on matrix loops of level $k$, (2016), Communications in Mathematical Physics, 51 pages.

Classification of solutions to Toda systems of types $C$ and $B$ with singular sources, (2016), Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations, 55, 55:53.

Nischwitz, Claudia



Pearse, William David

Animating and exploring phylogenies with fibre plots, (2016), F1000 Research, 5, 2790.

Commercial Plant Production and Consumption Still Follow the Latitudinal Gradient in Species Diversity despite Economic Globalization, (2016), PloS one, 11, e0163002.

Convergence of microclimate in residential landscapes across diverse cities in the United States, (2016), Landscape Ecology, 31, 101–117.

Taking the long view: integrating recorded, archeological, paleoecological, and evolutionary data into ecological restoration, (2016), International Journal of Plant Sciences, 177, 90–102.

The influence of life history traits on the phenological response of British butterflies to climate variability since the late-19th century, (2016), Ecography.

Pitts, James P

A new bee species that excavates sandstone nests., (October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2016), Current Biology, 26.

An extraordinary new genus and species of spider wasps (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) from Southeast Asia., (October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2016), Journal of Natural History.

Association of the female of Perdita (Xeromacrotera) cephalotes (Cresson), and a replacement name for Perdita bohartorum Parker (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae), (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2016), Zootaxa, 4097.

Eocene and not Cretaceous origin of spider wasps (Pompilidae): fossil evidence from amber, (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2016), Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 61, 89-96.

Molecular phylogeny of Pompilinae (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae): Evidence for rapid diversification and host shifts in spider wasps, (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2016), Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 94, 55–64.

Podgorski, Gregory J

Modular Genetic Regulatory Networks Increase Organization During Pattern Formation, (May 2016), BioSystems, Elsevier.

Powell, James A

Simple adaptive control for positive linear systems with applications to pest management, (2016), SIAM J. Applied Math, 76, 238-275.

Modeling zombie outbreaks: A problem-based approach to improving mathematics one brain at a time, (June 2016), PRIMUS, 26, 705-726.

Vulnerability assessment of mountain pine beetle population growth in a changing climate: A case study in the US Northern Rocky Mountains, (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2016), Forestry.

Ramirez, Ricardo A

Herbivore density mediates the indirect effect of herbivores on plants via induced defenses and apparent competition, (February 29, 2016), Ecosphere.


Rittenour, Tammy M

Controls on erosion patterns and sediment transport in a monsoonal, tectonically quiescent drainage, Song Gianh, central Vietnam, (2016), Basin Research.

Environmental impacts of ancient copper mining and metallurgy: Multi-proxy investigation of human-landscape dynamics in the Faynan valley, southern Jordan, (2016), Journal of Archaeological Science, 74, 85–101.

Identification and dating of indigenous water storage reservoirs along the Rio San José at Laguna Pueblo, western New Mexico, USA, (2016), Journal of Arid Environments, 127, 171–186.

Shortening rate and Holocene surface rupture on the Riasi fault system in the Kashmir Himalaya: Active thrusting within the Northwest Himalayan orogenic wedge, (2016), Geological Society of America Bulletin, 128, 1070–1094.

Stratigraphy, morphology, and geochemistry of late Quaternary buried soils on the High Plains of southwestern Kansas, USA, (2016), Catena, 144, 45–55.

Temporal constraints for the Late Wisconsinan deglaciation of western Canada using eolian dune luminescence chronologies from Alberta, (2016), Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.

Topographic constraints on magma accumulation below the actively uplifting Uturuncu and Lazufre volcanic centers in the Central Andes, (2016), Geosphere, 12, 1078–1096.

Roberts, Donald W

Effects of heat stress and oil formulaton on conidial germination of Metarhizium anisopliae on tick cuticle, (June 16, 2016), Veterinary parasitology, 138, 94 - 103.

Savitzky, Alan H

Diet and Foraging Behaviors of Timber Rattlesnakes, Crotalus horridus, in Eastern Virginia, (December 2016), Journal of Herpetology, 50, 520-526.

Toxin-resistant isoforms of Na+/K+-ATPase in snakes do not closely track dietary specialization on toads, (November 16, 2016), Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 283, 20162111.

Mutations to the cardiotonic steroid binding site of Na+/K+-ATPase are associated with high level of resistance to gamabufotalin in a natricine snake, (May 2016), Toxicon, 114, 13-15.

Scheiner, Stephen I

Assessment of the Presence and Strength of H-Bonds by Means of Corrected NMR, (2016), Molecules, 21, 1426.

Effects of Angular Deformation on the Energetics of the SN2 Reaction, (2016), European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2016, 3964–3968.

Highly Selective Halide Receptors Based on Chalcogen, Pnicogen, and Tetrel Bonds, (2016), Chemistry – A European Journal, 22, 18850–18858.

Hydrogen bonded and stacked geometries of the temozolomide dimer, (2016), Journal of Molecular Modeling, 22, 1–9.

Interactions between temozolomide and quercetin, (2016), Structural Chemistry, 27, 1577–1588.

Interactions of Nucleic Acid Bases with Temozolomide. Stacked, Perpendicular, and Coplanar Heterodimers, (2016), The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 120, 9347-9361.

Interpretation of Spectroscopic Markers of Hydrogen Bonds, (2016), ChemPhysChem, 17, 2263–2271.

Segmentation and additive approach: A reliable technique to study noncovalent interactions of large molecules at the surface of single-wall carbon nanotubes, (2016), Journal of Computational Chemistry, 37, 1953–1961.

Torsional and Electronic Factors Control the C−H⋅⋅⋅O Interaction, (2016), Chemistry – A European Journal, 22, 16513–16521.

Scherliess, Ludger

Modeling and analysis of ionospheric evening anomalies with a physics-based data assimilation model, (February 10, 2016), Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 140, 65–78.

Schunk, Robert Walter

Modeling and analysis of ionospheric evening anomalies with a physics-based data assimilation model, (February 10, 2016), Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 140, 65–78.

Seefeldt, Lance C

Exploring electron/proton transfer and conformational changes in the nitrogenase MoFe protein and FeMo-cofactor through cryoreduction/EPR measurements, (2016), Israel Journal of Chemistry, 56, 841–851.

Infrared spectroscopy of the nitrogenase MoFe protein under electrochemical control: potential-triggered CO binding, (2016), Chem. Sci., (in press).

Negative cooperativity in the nitrogenase Fe protein electron delivery cycle, (October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2016), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113, E5783–E5791.

CO2 reduction catalyzed by nitrogenase: pathways to formate, carbon monoxide, and methane, (September 2016), Inorganic Chemistry, 55, 8321–8330.

Light-driven carbon dioxide reduction to methane by nitrogenase in a photosynthetic bacterium, (September 2016), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113, 10163–10167.

Nitrogenase bioelectrocatalysis: heterogeneous ammonia and hydrogen production by MoFe protein, (August 2016), Energy & Environmental Science, 9, 2550–2554.

Reductive elimination of H2 activates nitrogenase to reduce the N≡N triple bond: characterization of the E4(4H) Janus intermediate in wild-type enzyme, (August 2016), Journal of the American Chemical Society, 138, 10674–10683.

Evidence that the Pi release event is the rate-limiting step in the nitrogenase catalytic cycle, (June 2016), Biochemistry, 55, 3625–3635.

Light-driven dinitrogen reduction catalyzed by a CdS:nitrogenase MoFe protein biohybrid, (April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2016), Science, 352, 448–450.

Reversible photoinduced reductive elimination of H2 from the nitrogenase dihydride state, the E4(4H) Janus intermediate, (February 2016), Journal of the American Chemical Society, 138, 1320–1327.

Stark, John M

Contrasting soil nitrogen dynamics across a montane meadow and urban lawn in a semi-arid watershed, (February 2016), Urban Ecosystems.

Ammonia-oxidizing bacteria are more responsive than archaea to nitrogen source in an agricultural soil., (February 3, 2016), Soil Biology and Biochemistry/Elsevier, 96, 4-15.

The invasive annual cheatgrass releases more nitrogen than crested wheatgrass through root exudation and senescence, (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2016), Oecologia.

Stevens, John R

Increased Susceptibility to Atrial Fibrillation Secondary to Myocardial Fibrosis in Transgenic Goats Expressing Transforming Growth Factor-β1 in the Heart, (October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2016), Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, 27, 1220-1229.

Increased Susceptibility to Atrial Fibrillation Secondary to Atrial Fibrosis in Transgenic Goats Expressing Transforming Growth Factor-β1, (October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 16, 2016), Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology., 27, 1220-1229.

Expression profiles of miRNA subsets distinguish human colorectal carcinoma and normal colonic mucosa, (March 2016), Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology, 7.

MicroRNA profiles in colorectal carcinomas, adenomas, and normal colonic mucosa: variations in miRNA expression and disease progression, (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2016), Carcinogenesis, 37, 245-261.

Sun, Yan

Statistical treatment for the wet bias in tree-ring chronologies - a case study from the Interior West, USA, (2016), Environmental and Ecological Statistics.

Order statistics of uncertain random variables with application to k-out-of-n system, (2016), Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making.

Linear regression with interval-valued data, (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2016), WIREs Computational Statistics, 8, 54-60.

Sun, Yujie

A General Strategy for Decoupled Hydrogen Production from Water Splitting by Integrating Oxidative Biomass Valorization, (2016), Journal of the American Chemical Society, 138, 13639-13646.

Bifunctionality and Mechanism of Electrodeposited Nickel–Phosphorous Films for Efficient Overall Water Splitting, (2016), ChemCatChem, 8, 106-112.

Chalcogenide and Phosphide Solid-State Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen Generation, (2016), ChemPlusChem, 81, 1045-1055.

Competent overall water-splitting electrocatalysts derived from ZIF-67 grown on carbon cloth, (2016), RSC Advances, 6, 73336-73342.

Electrochemical oxidation to construct a nickel sulfide/oxide heterostructure with improvement of capacitance, (2016), Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 4, 11611-11615.

Hierarchically Porous Nickel Sulfide Multifunctional Superstructures, (2016), Advanced Energy Materials, n/a-n/a.

Integrating Electrocatalytic 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural Oxidation and Hydrogen Production via Co–P-Derived Electrocatalysts, (2016), ACS Energy Letters, 386-390.

Morphology-activity correlation in hydrogen evolution catalyzed by cobalt sulfides, (2016), Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers.

Nickel sulfides for electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution under alkaline conditions: a case study of crystalline NiS, NiS2, and Ni3S2 nanoparticles, (2016), Catalysis Science & Technology, 6, 1077-1084.

Simultaneous H2 Generation and Biomass Upgrading in Water by an Efficient Noble-Metal-Free Bifunctional Electrocatalyst, (2016), Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 55, 9913-9917.


Common Genetic Variants Found in HLA and KIR Genes in Autism Spectrum Disorder, (October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 20, 2016), Frontiers in Neuroscience, 10, Article 463.

Prenatal and newborn immunoglobulin levels from mother-child pairs and risk of autism spectrum disorders., (May 18, 2016), Frontiers in Neuroscience, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 18, 213.

Symanzik, Juergen

The Anscombe Data Sets: Explained and Expanded, (2016), In Preparation.

Visual Data Mining Techniques for Functional Actigraphy Data, (2016), Under Revision. Takemoto, Jon Y

Divergent Synthesis of Three Classes of Antifungal Amphiphilic Kanamycin Derivatives, (2016), The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 81, 10651-10663.



Dynamics of Orographic Gravity Waves Observed in the Mesosphere over the Auckland Islands during the Deep Propagating Gravity Wave Experiment (DEEPWAVE), (September 16, 2016), Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 73.

Stratospheric Gravity Wave Fluxes and Scales during DEEPWAVE, (July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 1, 2016), Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.

The Deep Propagating Gravity Wave Experiment (DEEPWAVE): An airborne and ground-based exploration of gravity wave propagation and effects from their sources throughout the lower and middle atmosphere, (April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 8, 2016), Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 97, 425-453.

Large Amplitude Mesospheric Response to an Orographic Wave Generated Over the Southern Ocean Auckland Islands (50.7° S) During the DEEPWAVE Project, (February 18, 2016), Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

Twin mesospheric bores observed over Brazilian equatorial region, (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2016), Ann. Geophys., 34, 91-96.

Wang, Zhi Qiang

Infinitely many sign-changing solutions for the nonlinear Schrödinger-Poisson system, (2016).

On elliptic systems with Sobolev critical growth, (2016).

Pattern formation via mixed attractive and repulsive interactions for nonlinear Schrödinger systems, (2016).

Sign-changing solutions for coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations with critical growth, (2016).

Standing waves for discrete Schrödinger equations in infinite lattices with saturable nonlinearities, (2016).

Orbital stability of spatially synchronized solitary waves of an m-coupled nonlinear Schrodinger system, (2016), Journal of Mathematical Physics.

Existence and stability of a two-parameter family of solitary waves for a 2-coupled nonlinear Schrodinger system, (2016), Discrete and Continuous Dynamical System A., 36, 1005-1021.

Existence and stability of solitary waves of an m-coupled nonlinear Schrodinger system, (June 2016), Journal of Mathematical Study, 49, 132-148.

Waring, Bonnie Grace

Forest composition modifies litter dynamics and decomposition in regenerating tropical dry forest, (2016), Oecologia.

Historical precipitation predictably alters the shape and magnitude of microbial functional response to soil moisture, (2016), Global change biology.

Perspectives on the Global disparity in ecological science, (2016), BioScience, 66, 147–155.

Plant–microbe interactions along a gradient of soil fertility in tropical dry forest, (2016), Journal of Tropical Ecology, 32, 314–323.

Stoichiometry of microbial carbon use efficiency in soils, (2016), Ecological Monographs, 86, 172–189.

Unraveling the mechanisms underlying pulse dynamics of soil respiration in tropical dry forests, (2016), Environmental Research Letters, 11, 105005.

Wilson, Joseph Scott

Are diurnal iguanian lizards the evolutionary drivers of New World female velvet ant (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) Mullerian mimicry rings?, (2016), Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.

Caterpillars on acid: intraspecific phytochemical variation drives population and community structure for specialist caterpillars., (2016), New Phytologist, 212, 208-219.

Human observers differ in ability to perceive insect diversity, (2016), Environmental Conservation, 43, 376-380.

Sampling bee communities using pan traps: alternative methods increase sample size. Insect Conservation and Diversity, (October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2016), Journal of Insect Conservation, 20, 919-922.

Wolf, Paul G

PPG I. 2016. A community-derived classification for extant lycophytes and ferns, (December 2016), Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 54, 563–603.

von Dohlen, Carol D

Eocene and not Cretaceous origin of spider wasps (Pompilidae): fossil evidence from amber, (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2016), Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 61, 89-96.

Molecular phylogeny of Pompilinae (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae): Evidence for rapid diversification and host shifts in spider wasps, (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2016), Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 94, 55–64.

Journal Article, Professional Journal

Bialkowski, Stephen E

Quantitative assessment of radiation force effect at the dielectric air-liquid interface, (February 2016), Scientific Reports, 6, 20515.

Chang, Cheng Wei Tom

Characterization of three tailoring enzymes in dutomycin biosynthesis and generation of a potent antibacterial analogue, (2016), ACS Chemical Biology, 11, 1992.

Divergent Synthesis of Three Classes of Antifungal Amphiphilic Kanamycin Derivatives, (2016), JOC, 81, 10651.

Corcoran, Christopher D

Nutritional status is associated with faster cognitive decline and worse functional impairment in the progression of dementia: The Cache County Dementia Progression Study, (2016), Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.

Closer caregiver and care-recipient relationships predict lower informal costs of dementia care: The Cache County Dementia Progression Study., (August 2016), Alzheimer's & Dementia, 12, 917-924.

Presenilin E318G variant and Alzheimer’s disease risk: The Cache County Study., (June 29, 2016), BMC Genomics, 17, 438.

Coster, Daniel C

Multi-year professional development grounded in educative curriculum focused on integrating technology with reformed science teaching principles, (December 2016), School Science and Mathematics, 116, 430-441.

Dennison, John Robert

Electrical Properties Study under Electron Beam of Annealed and Coated Boron Nitride, (October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2016), Journal of Spacecrafts and Rockets.

Evans, Edward W

Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and classical biological control, (2016), Applied Entomology and Zoology, 51, 173-184.

Phenology of the sagebrush defoliating moth Aroga websteri (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), with application to population irruptions, (2016), Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 109, 424-431.

The harlequin ladybird, Harmonia axyridis: global perspectives on invasion history and ecology, (2016), Biological Invasions, 18, 997-1044.

Evans, James P

Constraints on paleofluid sources using the clumped-isotope thermometry of carbonate veins from the SAFOD (San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth) borehole, (October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2016), Tectonophysics, 690, 174-189.

Fejer, Bela Gyula

Scale analysis of equatorial plasma irregularities derived from Swarm constellation, (July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 15, 2016), Earth Planet Space, Japan Geoscience Union, 68.

Positive and negative GPS-TEC ionospheric storm effects during the extreme space weather event of March 2015 over the Brazilian sector, (June 2016), Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 121.

The response of equatorial electrojet, vertical plasma drift and thermospheric zonal wind to enhanced solar wind input, (May 27, 2016), Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 121.

Coherent and incoherent scatter radar study of the climatology and day-to-day variability of mean F-region vertical drifts and equatorial spread F, (February 3, 2016), Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 121, 1466-1482.

Held, Eric D

Electron heat flow due to magnetic field fluctuations, (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 28, 2016), Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 58.

Ji, Jeong-Young

Electron heat flow due to magnetic field fluctuations, (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 28, 2016), Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 58.

Kropp, Bradley R

Russulaceae in American Samoa: new species and further support for an Australasian origin for Samoan ectomycorrhizal fungi., (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2016), Mycologia, 108, 405-413.

Ramirez, Ricardo A

Pheromone lure and trap color affects bycatch in agricultural landscapes of Utah, (July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 12, 2016), Environmental Entomology, 45, 1009-1016.

Biology and management of billbugs (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in turfgrass, (April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 1, 2016), Journal of Integrated Pest Management, 7, 1-10.

Scheiner, Stephen I

Building a Better Halide Receptor. Optimum Choice of Spacer, Binding Unit, and Halosubstitution, (2016), ChemPhysChem, 17, 836-844.

Catalysis of the Aza-Diels-Alder Reaction by Hydrogen and Halogen Bonds, (2016), J. Org. Chem., 81, 2589-2597.

Comparison of π-Hole Tetrel Bonding with σ-Hole Halogen Bonds in Complexes of XCN (X = F, Cl, Br, I) and NH3, (2016), Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 18, 3581-3590.

Enhancing the Reduction Potential of Quinones via Complex Formation, (2016), J. Org. Chem., 81, 4316-4324.

H-bonding and Stacking Interactions between Chloroquine and Temozolomide, (2016), Int. J. Quantum. Chem., 116, 1196-1204.

Interaction Between Temozolomide and HCl: Preferred Binding Sites, (2016), Comp. Theor. Chem., 1075, 82-86.

NX∙∙Y Halogen Bonds. Comparison with NH∙∙Y H-bonds and CX∙∙Y Halogen Bonds, (2016), Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 18, 18015-18023.

Sulfur - Oxygen Chalcogen Bonding Mediates AdoMet Recognition in the Lysine Methyltransferase SET7/9, (2016), ACS Chem. Biol., 11, 748-754.


Polar cap patches and the tongue of ionization: A survey of GPS TEC maps from 2009 to 2015, (March 17, 2016), Geophysical Research Letters, 43.

Sojka, Jan Josef

Polar cap patches and the tongue of ionization: A survey of GPS TEC maps from 2009 to 2015, (March 17, 2016), Geophysical Research Letters, 43.

Spears, Lori Rena

Pheromone lure and trap color affects bycatch in agricultural landscapes of Utah, (July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 12, 2016), Environmental Entomology, 45, 1009-1016.

Stevens, John R

Association of cigarette smoking and microRNA expression in rectal cancer: Insight into tumor phenotype, (December 2016), Cancer Epidemiology, 45, 98-107.

Diet and lifestyle factors associated with miRNA expression in colorectal tissue., (December 2016), Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine, 10, 1-16.

Comment on 'Climate and agricultural land use change impacts on streamflow in the upper midwestern United States' by Satish C. Gupta et al., (September 2016), Water Resources Research, 52, 7523-7528.

Colorectal tumor molecular phenotype and miRNA: expression profiles and prognosis, (August 2016), Modern Pathology, 29, 915-927.

Site-specific associations between miRNA expression and survival in colorectal cancer cases, (August 2016), Oncotarget, 7, 60193-60205.

Symanzik, Juergen

Identifying Geographical Clusters of High-Utilizers in Health Care with Traditional and Weighted Hot Spot Mapping, (2016), In Preparation.

Kindergarten Children's Interactions with Touchscreen Mathematics Virtual Manipulatives: An Innovative Mixed Methods Analysis, (2016), International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, Under Revision.

Quantitative Gene-gene and Gene-environment Mapping for Leaf Shape Variation using Tree-based Models, (2016), New Phytologist, Forthcoming.

A Graphical Assessment and Spatial Clustering of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Impact on Laughing Gulls, (2016), Environmental and Ecological Statistics, Forthcoming.

Trends in Obesity at the National and Local Level among South Korean Adolescents, (2016), Geospatial Health, 11:381, 130-136.

Soul of the Community: An Attempt to Assess Attachment to a Community, (2016), Computational Statistics, Forthcoming.


Evidence of Dispersion and Refraction of a Spectrally Broad Gravity Wave Packet in the Mesopause Region Observed by the Na Lidar and Mesospheric Temperature Mapper Above Logan, Utah, (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2016), Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 121, 579-594.

Wheeler, James Thomas

Dynamical spacetime symmetry, (April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 15, 2016), Physical Review D, 93. Wickwar, Vincent B

Connection Between the Midlatitude Mesosphere and Sudden Stratospheric Warmings as Measured by Rayleigh-scatter Lidar, (May 11, 2016), Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, 121, 4627–4636.


Williams, Becky Lynn

Genomics of an environmentally-transmitted symbiosis: newly sequenced Vibrio fischeri genomes from different host squids and geographic locations., (2016), Vie et Milieu, 65, 187-200.

A pufferfish (Tetradon nigroviridis) available in the common pet-trade harbors lethal concentrations of tetrodotoxin: a case study of TTX poisoning in a Cuvier’s Dwarf Caiman (Paleosuchus palpebrosus)., (2016), Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine.

Wolf, Paul G

Multi-year professional development grounded in educative curriculum focused on integrating technology with reformed science teaching principles, (December 2016), School Science and Mathematics, 116, 430-441.

Yuan, Tao


Magazine/Trade Publication

Ramirez, Ricardo A

Cutting Edge: Improving a predictive model for billbug management, (July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2016), Golf Course Management (GCM) Magazine, 85.

Managing with and against alfalfa stem nematode, (March 2016), Hay and Forage Grower.

Manuscript

Nguyen, Nghiem Vinh

The interaction of long and short waves in dispersive media, (September 2016), Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 49.

Riffe, David Mark

Canonical Models of Dielectric Response, (2016).

Newsletter Alston, Diane G

The mystery of the hummingbirds and 'chigger' bites, (October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2016), Utah State University Extension and Utah Plant Pest Diagnostic Laboratory, 10, 7-8.

Utah orchard leafroller survey, (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2016), Utah Pests News, Utah State University Extension, 10, 1-2.

Nischwitz, Claudia

High Plains virus and wheat streak mosaic virus in small grainstha, (October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2016), Utah Plant Pest Diagnostic lab, 3.

Leaf mold of tomato common in spring 2016, (July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2016), Utah Plant Pest Diagnostic lab, 3.

Discarded store-bought produce could be path of new plant disease introductions, (April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2016), 3.

Ramirez, Ricardo A

Lygus, a disrupter of alfalfa seed production, (July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2016), Utah Pests Newsletter.

Thrips and aphids in alfalfa, one is a major concern, (April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2016), Utah Pests Newsletter.

An alfalfa weevil from the underground, (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2016), Utah Pests Newsletter.

Spears, Lori Rena

Identifying mechanisms of resistance to emerald ash borer, (October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2016).

New honey bee pest detected in Utah, (July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2016).

Velvet longhorned beetle, (April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2016).

New invasive fruit pest detected in Utah, (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2016).

Two new invasive agricultural pests in the United States, (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2016).

Other Adams, Brett

Adams B: F1000Prime Recommendation of [Hebert-Chatelain E et al., Nature 2016, 539(7630):555-559]. In F1000Prime, 06 Jan 2017; DOI: 10.3410/f.726948574.793526730. F1000Prime.com/726948574#eval793526730, (December 2016).

Stevens, John R

Accounting for Missing Data in Clinical Research, (February 2, 2016), Journal of the American Medical Association, 315, 517-518.

Takemoto, Jon Y

Meso-biliverdin compositions and methods, (2016), Utah State University, US 9,242,932 B2.

Research Report Gompert, Zachariah

Spatio-temporal ecological and evolutionary dynamics in natural butterfly populations (2015 field season), (2016), University of Wyoming National Park Service Research Center, 38.

Lucas, Lauren K

Spatio-temporal ecological and evolutionary dynamics in natural butterfly populations (2015 field season), (2016), University of Wyoming National Park Service Research Center, 38.

Software

Anderson, Ian M

DifferentialGeometry - third USU release (beta), (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 24, 2016). Gompert, Zachariah

gbs2ploidy: Inference of Ploidy from (Genotyping-by-Sequencing) GBS Data, (December 1, 2016), The Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN).

Torre, Charles Gregory

DifferentialGeometry - third USU release (beta), (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 24, 2016).

Technical Report-Other

Evans, James P

Impact of Micro-to Meso-scale Fractures on Sealing Behavior of Argillaceous Cap Rocks For CO2 Sequestration, (July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2016), US Dept. of Energy, 107p.

Seefeldt, Lance C

Feeding the world in the 21st century: Grand challenges in the nitrogen cycle, (August 2016), National Science Foundation.

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Alston, Diane G

Management of brown marmorated stink bug in U.S. specialty crops, Funded, $10,000,000.00,

(September 1, 2016 - August 31, 2021). Improving codling moth management by getting a better biofix, Funded, $25,425.00, (January 1, 2016

- June 30, 2018). Brown Marmorated Stink Bug: Plant Host Utilization in Diverse Urban-Agricultural Landscapes and

Promoting Biological Control, Funded, $55,000.00, (May 2, 2016 - May 1, 2018). Utah Fruit School: Enabling Beginner and Established Growers to Maintain Sustainable Orchards,

Funded, $25,120.00, (December 2016 - December 2017). Understanding the role of alternative host plants used by two invasive insects, spotted wing drosophila

and brown marmorated sting bug in Utah, Funded, $19,958.00, (2014 - 2017). Coordinating IPM Successes in Utah’s Specialty Crops, Communities, and Schools, Funded,

$315,000.00, (September 1, 2014 - August 30, 2017). Biochar Amendment to Enhance Tomato and Melon Productivity and Protect Against Phytophthora

Root Rot Disease, Funded, $49,994.00, (March 2014 - March 2017). Utah Vegetable Production and Pest Management Guide: 2nd Ed, Funded, $20,073.00, (January 1,

2016 - December 31, 2016). Survey for vegetable viruses and zebra chip disease, Funded, $29,671.00, (May 1, 2014 - April 30,

2016). Onion systems management strategies for crop nutrition, weeds, thrips, and iris yellow spot virus,

Funded, $169,299.00, (May 2013 - April 2016). Developing reduced input conventional orchard floor management options for soil quality, pests, and

efficient water use., Funded, $9,500.00, (March 1, 2014 - March 1, 2016). Wildland fruit as winter refugia for spotted wing drosophila in the Intermountain West, Funded,

$30,000.00, (March 1, 2015 - February 28, 2016). Anderson, Ian M

SI2-SSE: Symbolic Toolboxes For Differential Geometry and Mathematical Physics, Funded, $314,161.00, (October 1, 2016 - September 30, 2019).

SI2-SSE: Interdisciplinary Software Infrastructure for Differential Geometry, Lie Theory and their

Applications, Funded, $360,845.00, (June 1, 2012 - May 31, 2016). Antony, Edwin

Acquisition of a Beckman ProteomeLab XLI to Enhance Research and Training, Funded,

$388,206.00, (October 1, 2015 - September 30, 2018). MRI:Acquisition of a Beckman ProteomeLab-XLI Analytical Ultracentrifuge to Enhance Research and

Training, Funded, $271,706.00, (September 1, 2015 - August 31, 2018). Ault, Alexis

Development of Hematite (U-Th)/He Chronology to Directly Date Fault Slip and Ancient Seismicity,

Funded, $187,524.00, (September 1, 2014 - August 31, 2017). New approaches to deciphering billion-year tectonic histories from zircon (U-Th)/He

thermochronology, Funded, $20,000.00, (July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2017). Baker, Michelle A

NRT: Graduate Climate Adaptation Research that Enhances Education and Responsiveness of science

at the management-policy interface (Grad-CAREER), Funded, $2,698,878.00, (September 15, 2016 - September 14, 2021).

WPDG: Measuring Nutrient Dynamics to Inform Development of Site-Specific Criteria for Wetlands,

Funded, $215,447.00, (October 1, 2016 - March 30, 2019). SF6 Analyses, Funded, $64,591.00, (October 2014 - October 2017). iUTAH-innovative Urban Transitions and Aridregion Hydro-sustainability, Funded, $20,000,000.00,

(August 1, 2012 - July 31, 2017). Utah EPSCoR RII Track-1: Interactions Among Water, Energy, and the, Funded, $20,000,000.00,

(August 1, 2012 - July 30, 2017). Bernhardt, Scott A

Adaptive Responses of Uinta Ground Squirrels to Climate Change, Funded, $19,995.00, (November

13, 2013 - 2019). Molecular characterization of insecticide resistance of sand flies, Funded, $1,000.00, (April 2016 -

March 2017). Fitness costs to methoprene resistance in Culex pipien mosquitoes, Funded, $2,000.00, (April 2016 -

December 2016). Estimating methoprene insecticide resistance in Culex pipiens mosquito populations in the western

United States, Funded, $19,987.00, (January 2016 - December 2016). Berreau, Lisa M

MRI: Acquisition of a 500 MHz NMR to Enhance Research and Training, Funded, $385,000.00, (August 1, 2014 - July 31, 2017).

Carbon Monoxide on Demand for Industry and Medicine, Funded, $66,157.00, (December 1, 2015 -

June 30, 2017). Polymer Encapsulated Flavonoids and Zinc Flavonolate Complexes as Antiviral Antioxidants to CMV

Infectivity and Associated Oxidative Damage, Funded, $20,000.00, (August 2015 - December 2016).

RC Grant: CO Release at the Mitochondria, Funded, $20,000.00, (July 1, 2015 - June 30, 2016). New Strategies for Photoinduced Carbon Monoxide Releasing Molecules, Funded, $415,000.00, (April

1, 2013 - March 31, 2016). Boldyrev, Alexander I

Assessing the Potentials of the Adaptive Natural Density Partitioning Methods for Rationalizing

Chemical Bonding in Novel Clusters, Solids, Interfaces, and Clusters on Surfaces, Funded, $330,000.00, (August 1, 2014 - August 31, 2017).

Bradbury, Kelly Keighley

Evidence for Dynamic Weakening Mechanisms in the San Andreas Fault: Microgeochemistry and

Microthermometry of Fault-related Rocks from SAFOD core and Exhumed Faults, Funded, $186,607.00, (June 2016 - June 2018).

1.Textural, Geochemical, and Thermal Signatures within the Southern San Andreas Fault: Evidence

for Thermally Activated Dynamic Weakening, Funded, $25,000.00, (March 1, 2016 - January 31, 2017).

Fluid-rock Reactions Related to Deformation within Organic-and Vanadium-rich Upper Meade Peak

Member of the Phosphoria Formation, Southeast Idaho., Funded, $4,000.00, (December 2014 - December 2016).

Brown, David E

Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics Minigrant, Funded, $25,000.00, (May 2016 - May

2017).

Campbell, Theodore Jones Online Learning Forums for Improved Engineering Student Outcomes in Calculus, Funded,

$199,979.00, (February 1, 2013 - January 31, 2017). Cangelosi, James S

Improving mathematics preparation of elementary school & special education teachers, Funded,

$40,000.00, (September 13, 2016 - January 15, 2018). Chang, Cheng Wei Tom

MRI: Acquisition of a 500 MHz NMR to Enhance Research and Training, Funded, $385,000.00,

(August 1, 2014 - July 31, 2017).

New Synergistic Biofungicides: Novel Aminoglycoside and Azole/Strobulin Combinations, Funded, $217,246.00, (July 1, 2015 - September 30, 2016).

USTAR mini-grant: Green Treatment of Iron Chlorosis and Natural Nutrition for Plants, Funded,

$73,765.00, (December 1, 2015 - June 30, 2016). Green treatment of iron chlorosis and natural nutrition for plants, Funded, $84,678.00, (September

2015 - June 2016). Christiansen, Michael A


(August 1, 2014 - July 31, 2017). Corcoran, Christopher D

Epidemiology of Alzheimer’s Disease resilience and risk pedigrees, Funded, $1,067,869.00,

(September 1, 2016 - August 31, 2021). miRNA and colorectal cancer: Associations with tumor phenotype and survival, Funded,

$1,250,000.00, (July 2012 - June 2017). Pleiotropic and interaction effects on Alzheimer’s disease risk and progression, Funded,

$1,250,000.00, (July 2012 - June 2017). Coster, Daniel C

Cyber-enabled learning: Digital Natives in Integrated Scientific Inquiry Classrooms. National Science

Foundation Discovery Research K-12., Funded, $2,500,000.00, (June 1, 2010 - August 31, 2016). Culbertson, M. Jean

Improving mathematics preparation of elementary school & special education teachers, Funded,

$40,000.00, (September 13, 2016 - January 15, 2018). Cutler, David Richard

Increasing Student Access to Concurrent Enrollment STAT 1040 (QL) through Training of High

School Mathematics Teachers, Funded, $524,820.00, (July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2019). Dehler, Carol Merritt

Mid-Neoproterozoic record of eukaryotes and environmental change: Exploring the Visingsö Group of

southern Sweden, Funded, $17,908.00, (January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2016). Structural setting, source rocks, and petroleum potential of mid-Neoproterozoic extensional basins,

Utah and Arizona, Funded, $52,942.00, (May 2014 - May 2016). Dennison, John Robert

Pulsed Electroacoustic Measurements of Internal Charge Distributions in Dielectric Materials, Funded,

$66,000.00, (September 2016 - August 2020). Education Partnership Agreement Between the Department of The Air Force (AFRL/RVBXR Space

Vehicles Directorate, Battle Space Environments Division, Space Particles Section) and Utah State University, Funded, $0.00, (November 2014 - November 2019).

MRI:Acquisition of a sputtering deposition system to expand science and engineering research at Utah

State University, Funded, $207,026.00, (September 1, 2016 - August 31, 2019). Enhanced Predictions of Time to Critical Dielectric Breakdown of Materials under Prolonged

Exposure to Space Plasma Environments, Funded, $264,604.00, (August 2014 - July 2018). Multilayer Models of Electron Emission and CHarge Transport with Spacecraft Charging

Applications, Funded, $30,000.00, (July 2016 - June 2018). Volume Charge Distribution Measurement in Thin Dielectrics: Phase IIB, Funded, $420,000.00,

(December 2015 - December 2017). Degradation Effects of Ionizing Radiation on Commercially Available Spacecraft Components,

Funded, $2,350.00, (June 2016 - May 2017). Electron Sources for Space Survivability Test Facility, Funded, $20,931.00, (June 2016 - May 2017). Deep charging effects of GEOS environment on coaxial cable, Funded, $35,593.00, (March 2016 -

April 2017). Electron Emission Studies of Backshell Materials, Funded, $24,000.00, (February 2016 - April 2017). Simulated Space Radiation Effects on Spacecraft Components: Phase I and II, Funded, $114,594.00,

(October 2016 - February 2017). Dependence of Electrostatic Field Strength on Voltage Ramp Rates for Spacecraft Materials, Funded,

$2,000.00, (January 2016 - August 2016). Acquisition of a Field-Emission Scanning Electron Microscope to Catalyze Campus-wide Research in

Bio/Nano and Advanced Energy Material, Funded, $756,267.00, (September 1, 2013 - August 31, 2016).

Electron Yield Measurements of High-Yield Low Conductivity Dielectric Materials, Funded,

$15,000.00, (July 2015 - June 2016). Evaluation of Space Radiation Environment Degradation of Solar Array Panels, Funded, $2,000.00,

(July 2015 - June 2016). Charge Storage and Transfer in Thin Film Ceramic Materials: Phase I, Funded, $72,000.00,

(September 2015 - February 2016). Hall Thruster Secondary Electron Emission Tests, Funded, $34,992.00, (October 2014 - January 2016).


Mechanisms of Type III Secretion System ATPase Activation and Regulation, Funded, $411,381.00,

(December 23, 2016 - November 30, 2019). Acquisition of a Beckman ProteomeLab XLI to Enhance Research and Training, Funded,

$388,206.00, (October 1, 2015 - September 30, 2018). MRI:Acquisition of a Beckman ProteomeLab-XLI Analytical Ultracentrifuge to Enhance Research and

Training, Funded, $271,706.00, (September 1, 2015 - August 31, 2018).

Lipid raft effects on Shigella type III secretion system-based interactions, Funded, $268,400.00, (August 1, 2013 - July 31, 2016).

Edwards, Boyd Farrell

Modeling Support for Traveling Wave Electrophoresis, Funded, $7,157.00, (October 2015 - March

2016). Ensign, Scott A

Acquisition of a Beckman ProteomeLab XLI to Enhance Research and Training, Funded,

$388,206.00, (October 1, 2015 - September 30, 2018).

Etchberger, Lianna Hatfield VFO Youth Internship Wildlife Management Project, Funded, $260,000.00, (September 1, 2014 -

December 31, 2017). Pariette Wetlands Internship; Prairie Dog Monitoring; and Prairie Dog Population Genetics Projects,

Funded, $82,000.00, (July 1, 2014 - June 30, 2017). Pariette Wetlands Internship; Prairie Dog Monitoring; and Prairie Dog Population Genetics Projects,

Funded, $50,000.00, (July 1, 2013 - June 30, 2017). Evans, Edward W

Assessing success of weed biocontrol in Utah, Funded, $14,523.00, (May 2016 - April 2017). Cereal leaf beetle biological control, Funded, $6,488.00, (May 2016 - April 2017). Biological Control of Noxious Weeds in Utah, Funded, $70,000.00, (August 2011 - January 2017). Assessing success of weed biocontrol in Utah, Funded, $14,828.00, (May 1, 2015 - April 30, 2016). Cereal Leaf Beetle Biocontrol, Funded, $6,671.00, (May 1, 2015 - April 30, 2016).

Evans, James P

Evidence for Dynamic Weakening Mechanisms in the San Andreas Fault: Microgeochemistry and

Microthermometry of Fault-related Rocks from SAFOD core and Exhumed Faults, Funded, $186,607.00, (June 2016 - June 2018).

Development of Hematite (U-Th)/He Chronology to Directly Date Fault Slip and Ancient Seismicity,

Funded, $187,524.00, (September 1, 2014 - August 31, 2017). CO2 Seal Bypass, Funded, $20,000.00, (July 1, 2015 - June 30, 2017). 1.Textural, Geochemical, and Thermal Signatures within the Southern San Andreas Fault: Evidence

for Thermally Activated Dynamic Weakening, Funded, $25,000.00, (March 1, 2016 - January 31, 2017).

The Hydrologic Connection Between Basal Reservoir Injection, Micro/Mesoscale Crystalline

Basement Fault Zones, and Induced Seismicity, Funded, $78,467.00, (June 1, 2015 - May 31, 2016).

Hot and fast, cold and slow: Surface element thermometry of seismic slip, Funded, $8,000.00, (June 1, 2015 - March 30, 2016).

Farrelly, David

Quantum Monte Carlo studies of rovibrational dynamics and quantum solvation in ultracold bosonic

clusters, Funded, $368,066.00, (May 1, 2013 - April 30, 2016). Fejer, Bela Gyula

Radar Studies of Short-Term Variability in the Electrodynamics of the Low Latitude Ionosphere,

Funded, $552,002.00, (September 15, 2011 - February 29, 2016). French, Susannah

Adaptive Responses of Uinta Ground Squirrels to Climate Change, Funded, $19,995.00, (November

13, 2013 - 2019). CAREER: Physiological Trade-offs in Ecoimmunology: Costs for Individuals and Populations,

Funded, $849,170.00, (February 15, 2014 - February 14, 2019). Psychoneuroendocrine Mechanisms of Adolescents’ Health-Related Decision-Making, Funded,

$80,000.00, (August 2014 - July 2018). The effects of tourism and feeding on an endangered iguana: An integrative investigation of stress

across a variable landscape, Funded, $19,970.00, (January 1, 2016 - January 20, 2017). Fu, Guifang

Statistical Models for Mapping Genetic and Environment Eects Regulating Shape Variation, Funded,

$279,543.00, (August 1, 2014 - July 30, 2017). An Integrated Statistical Approach to Detect PCOS Susceptibility Loci, Funded, $10,000.00, (July 1,

2015 - June 30, 2016). Geer, Nathan C

CAREER: The geometry and physics of non-semi-simple quantum topology., Funded, $450,193.00,

(October 2015 - October 2020). Collaboration Grants for Mathematicians Project Title: Non-Semi Simple Quantum Topology, Funded,

$35,000.00, (September 2013 - September 2018). Quantum topology, via re-normalized invariants, Funded, $148,404.00, (June 15, 2013 - June 15,

2016). Gilbertson, Timothy A

Fatty Acid Receptors in Gustation, Funded, $1,468,570.00, (June 1, 2014 - May 31, 2019). The effect of osmotic environment on sweet taste, Funded, $44,631.40, (October 1, 2014 - December

31, 2016). The role of chemosensory pathways in food intake, Funded, $487,750.00, (January 1, 2014 - December

31, 2016).

Non-ENaC mediated salt taste, Funded, $106,489.00, (2012 - 2016). A combined TERS and functional cellular imaging approach to explore receptor function, Funded,

$300,000.00, (July 1, 2013 - June 30, 2016). A combined TERS and functional cellular imaging approach to explore receptor function, Funded,

$300,000.00, (July 1, 2013 - June 30, 2016). Gompert, Zachariah

Collaborative Proposal: Dimensions: The evolution of novel interactions within a network of plant,

insect and microbial biodiversity, Funded, $1,940,881.00, (September 1, 2016 - August 31, 2021). UAES Seed Grant: Long-term aspen common garden enclosures along an elevational gradient,

Funded, $70,000.00, (May 2, 2016 - May 1, 2018). The genomic basis of adaptation and its role in the evolutionary process, Funded, $19,994.00, (January

15, 2015 - January 15, 2016). Gordillo, Luis Fernando



Habashi, Jessica

Development of a hominin evolution laboratory for BIOL 1610, Funded, $5,585.00, (August 2016 -

May 2017). Brigham City Suicide Prevention Training Workshop, Funded, $1,977.50, (April 4, 2016 - June 30,

2016). Hanifin, Charles Taylor

VFO Youth Internship Wildlife Management Project, Funded, $260,000.00, (September 1, 2014 -

December 31, 2017). Travel and support award to attend the 2nd Avida-ED Active LENS Workshop for faculty, Funded,

$1,000.00, (June 9, 2016 - June 11, 2016). Held, Eric D

Enhancing Understanding of High Energy Density Plasmas for Wire Array and Solid Liner Implosions

Using Fluid Modeling with Kinetic Closures, Funded, $190,000.00, (August 1, 2016 - July 31, 2019).

Advanced Closures for Numerical Simulations of Neoclassical Tearing Modes, Funded,

$1,135,057.00, (December 15, 2003 - December 14, 2018). Center for Extended Magnetohydrodynamics II, Funded, $744,001.00, (February 15, 2008 - February

14, 2017). Plasma Center for Computational Predictability, Funded, $634,000.00, (March 1, 2005 - February 29,

2016).

CEMM-Wisconsin, Funded, $30,000.00, (February 15, 2014 - February 14, 2016). Hengge, Alvan C

Mechanism of Catalytic Regulation and Active Site Loop Motions in Related Protein Tyrosine

Phosphatases, Funded, (January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2018). MRI: Acquisition of a 500 MHz NMR to Enhance Research and Training, Funded, $385,000.00,

(August 1, 2014 - July 31, 2017). Hevel, Joan M

Acquisition of a Beckman ProteomeLab XLI to Enhance Research and Training, Funded, $388,206.00,

(October 1, 2015 - September 30, 2018). MRI:Acquisition of a Beckman ProteomeLab-XLI Analytical Ultracentrifuge to Enhance Research and

Training, Funded, $271,706.00, (September 1, 2015 - August 31, 2018). Huntly, Nancy J



Artist + Scientist = An Amalgamative Approach to Ecological Public Art, Funded, $91,200.00,

(January 1, 2015 - October 2016). EPSCoR Track 1 - iUTAH: Innovative urban transitions and arid-region hydrosustainability, Funded,

$20,000,000.00, (August 1, 2012 - July 31, 2016). Janecke, Susanne U

Hot and fast, cold and slow: Surface element thermometry of seismic slip, Funded, $8,000.00, (June 1,

2015 - March 30, 2016). Johnson, Sean J

Structural and Functional Studies of Mtr4 and Mtr4-mediated complexes, Funded, $1,356,837.00,

(September 30, 2015 - July 31, 2020). Mechanism of Catalytic Regulation and Active Site Loop Motions in Related Protein Tyrosine

Phosphatases, Funded, (January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2018). Acquisition of a Beckman ProteomeLab XLI to Enhance Research and Training, Funded, $388,206.00,


Training, Funded, $271,706.00, (September 1, 2015 - August 31, 2018). RGS Capital Equipment Grant, Funded, $37,000.00, (May 2016 - October 2016). CAREER:Structural Studies of Ski2-like RNA Helicases, Funded, $1,063,224.00, (April 1, 2010 -

March 31, 2016). Jones, Justin A

Adhesive Spider Silks for Naval Applications, Funded, $488,004.00, (2015 - 2019). Novel Bioprocess for Spider Silk Fiber Production - SBIR Phase II, Funded, $1,000,000.00,

(November 1, 2015 - October 31, 2017). NSF I-Corps Araknitek-Spider Silk Ashesives, Funded, $50,000.00, (February 2016 - June 2017).


Intraspecific Evolution in Complex Landscapes: Melding Genomics, Morphology, and Experimental

Physiology across Latitude and Altitude, Funded, $53,401.00, (January 2016 - May 2018). Characterizing microbial associates of alkali bees, Funded, $18,122.00, (September 2016 - September

2017). The effects of tourism and feeding on an endangered iguana: An integrative investigation of stress

across a variable landscape, Funded, $19,970.00, (January 1, 2016 - January 20, 2017). The genomic basis of adaptation and its role in the evolutionary process, Funded, $19,994.00, (January

15, 2015 - January 15, 2016). Kelchner, Scot Anthony

Collaborative Research: Ecological diversification and molecular evolution of grasses (Poaceae).,

Funded, $636,284.00, (November 1, 2016 - June 30, 2017). Kohler, Brynja R

MfA Utah Commitments to Current Fellows and Mentors, Funded, $113,252.00, (June 2015 - May

2016). Kropp, Bradley R

Characterization of populations of endophytic fungi in imported plant products, Funded, $20,000.00,

(July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2021). Lichen survey for Great Basin National Park, Funded, $2,500.00, (June 1, 2015 - May 30, 2017). Phylogenetic relationships and species concepts for selected mycorrhizal root symbionts., Funded,

(July 1, 2011 - July 1, 2016). Lewis, Randy

Adhesive Spider Silks for Naval Applications, Funded, $488,004.00, (2015 - 2019). Adhesive Spider Silks for Naval Applications, Funded, $488,000.00, (July 1, 2015 - June 30, 2018). Electrospinning Spider Silk Proteins for Neuron Growth, Funded, $375,000.00, (April 1, 2015 - March

31, 2018). Novel Bioprocess for Spider Silk Fiber Production - SBIR Phase II, Funded, $1,000,000.00,

(November 1, 2015 - October 31, 2017). SBIR Phase II w/Technology Holdings, Funded, $999,965.00, (November 1, 2015 - October 31, 2017). Spider Silk Proteins, Funded, $150,000.00, (November 2014 - September 2017).

Novel Biomimetic Nanostructured Materials Based on Synthetic Spider, Funded, $382,000.00, (July

2014 - June 2017). Spider Web Glue Proteins, Funded, $388,706.00, (June 2014 - May 2017). Spider silk MaSp1 and MaSp2 proteins a carbon fiber precursor, Funded, $1,988,042.00, (October

2014 - September 2016). Electrospinning spider silk proteins, Funded, $299,999.00, (June 2013 - July 2016).

Liu, Tianbiao

Low Cost and Benign Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries (ARFBs) for Electrochemical Energy Storage

(EES), Funded, $99,850.00, (December 1, 2015 - June 30, 2016). Lowry, Anthony

Collaborative Research: The Effects of Water and Lithology on North American Lithosphere, Funded,

$58,020.00, (August 1, 2014 - July 31, 2016). CAREER: Earth Rheology and Deformation Processes, Funded, $500,047.00, (May 15, 2010 - April

30, 2016). Lucas, Lauren K

Collaborative Proposal: Dimensions: The evolution of novel interactions within a network of plant,

insect and microbial biodiversity, Funded, $1,940,881.00, (September 1, 2016 - August 31, 2021). USU Curriculum Innovation and Reform Grant, Funded, $30,000.00, (September 2016 - September

2017). Malmendier, Andreas

URCO Grant, Funded, $2,000.00, (December 2015 - May 2016).

Messina, Frank J

The genomic basis of adaptation and its role in the evolutionary process, Funded, $19,994.00, (January

15, 2015 - January 15, 2016). Mott, Keith A

Integrated Stomatal Responses to Environmental Input, Funded, $524,502.00, (September 1, 2011 -

August 31, 2016). Newell, Dennis Lowell

Collaborative Research - Mantle to crust fluid transfer in an active flat-slab subduction - insights from

Peruvian thermal springs, Funded, $438,390.00, (September 2016 - August 2019). Geothermal Play Fairway Analysis Snake River Plain: Phase 2, Funded, $800,000.00, (February 17,

2016 - September 30, 2017). Nie, Zhaohu

Elliptic Toda systems and periodic Toda flows, Funded, $35,000.00, (September 2016 - August 2021). Nischwitz, Claudia

Efficacy of chemical and biological control products for fire blight management during the growing

season, Funded, $6,571.07, (April 1, 2016 - December 31, 2018). Management and education for Tobacco mosaic virus in vegetables and ornamentals, Funded,

$14,016.37, (January 1, 2016 - December 31, 2018). Orchard Commodity Survey, Funded, $14,848.00, (July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2017). Promoting integrated pest management by developing and disseminating pocket identification guides

to Utah's common turf and ornamental pests, diseases, weeds and abiotic disorders., Funded, $10,000.00, (July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2017).

Screening walnut genotypes for disease resistance, cold hardiness, and for horticultural and forestry

traits, Funded, $20,000.00, (July 2015 - June 2017). Drones in Agriculture: Early disease detection, yield estimates and other applications, Funded,

$6,079.00, (June 1, 2016 - May 30, 2017). Distribution of Monilinia species causal agent of brown rot in Utah, and determination of resistance

levels to fungicidesof, Funded, $22,513.00, (April 1, 2015 - April 30, 2017). Development of management strategies for Watermelon mosaic virus in cucurbits, Funded,

$19,663.00, (May 1, 2015 - March 30, 2017). Utah Vegetable Production and Pest Management Guide: 2nd Ed, Funded, $20,073.00, (January 1,

2016 - December 31, 2016). Effect of potassium in the soil on Iris yellow spot virus incidence in onion, Funded, $7,319.00, (March

1, 2015 - September 30, 2016). Evaluation of new products for management of fire blight in apple and pear orchards in Utah, Funded,

$6,005.00, (April 1, 2014 - September 29, 2016). Survey for vegetable viruses and zebra chip disease, Funded, $29,671.00, (May 1, 2014 - April 30,

2016). Onion systems management strategies for crop nutrition, weeds, thrips, and iris yellow spot virus,

Funded, $169,299.00, (May 2013 - April 2016). Peak, David

Integrated Stomatal Responses to Environmental Input, Funded, $524,502.00, (September 1, 2011 -

August 31, 2016). Pederson, Joel L

Surficial geologic mapping of Spanish Valley, Utah, Funded, $17,500.00, (July 2016 - June 2017). Development of spatially-referenced, mobile-device software applications for geoscience education

using the Colorado Plateau as a virtual classroom, Funded, $240,737.00, (September 2013 - September 2016).

Pitts, James P Systematics of Aculeate Hymenoptera, Funded, $890,000.00, (February 2016 - January 2019). Imported Fire Ant Survey, Funded, $10,000.00, (January 1, 2016 - December 31, 2016).

Powell, James A



Predicting mountain pine beetle phenology and forest susceptibility in the southwestern United States,

Funded, $24,024.00, (August 2015 - August 2020). Collaborative Research: Unifying Mathematical and Statistical Ap-, Funded, $415,000.00, (August

2016 - 2019). Ramirez, Ricardo A

Alfalfa and Forage Research Program/ Increasing preventive and curative options for CRC

management in western alfalfa, Funded, $250,000.00, (September 1, 2016 - August 31, 2019). Alfalfa and Forage Research Program/ Overhauling alfalfa weevil management in irrigated southwest

desert alfalfa, Funded, $246,000.00, (September 1, 2016 - August 31, 2019). Genomics of resistance in cereals to mite herbivores associated with plant drought stress, Funded,

$1,069,975.00, (August 15, 2015 - July 2019). Alfalfa and Forage Research Program, Funded, $206,000.00, (September 1, 2015 - August 31, 2018). Cooperative Agricultural Pests Survey (CAPS) Core Project, Funded, $69,284.00, (July 1, 2016 -

2017). The interaction of pesticides with pollinator health and behavior in fruit production systems in the US,

Funded, $136,373.00, (2014 - 2017). Understanding the role of alternative host plants used by two invasive insects, spotted wing drosophila

and brown marmorated sting bug in Utah, Funded, $19,958.00, (2014 - 2017). Guide to Introduced and Potentially Invasive Bees in the U.S., Funded, $140,847.00, (September 28,

2016 - September 27, 2017). Developing a first detector network for Utah, Funded, $33,278.00, (July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2017). Promoting integrated pest management by developing and disseminating pocket identification guides

to Utah's common turf and ornamental pests, diseases, weeds and abiotic disorders., Funded, $10,000.00, (July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2017).

Utah plant pest survey and detection project, Funded, $69,284.00, (July 2016 - June 2017). Contribution of predators toward billbug suppression in turf, Funded, $10,000.00, (June 2016 - May

2017). Alfalfa and Corn Survey, Funded, $16,701.00, (May 1, 2016 - April 30, 2017).

Alfalfa Corn Commodity survey, Funded, $16,701.00, (April 2016 - December 2016). Cooperative Agricultural Pests Survey (CAPS) Core Project, Funded, $69,284.00, (July 1, 2015 -

2016). Support for a local chapter of SACNAS, Funded, $15,000.00, (2013 - 2016). Invasive species outreach, Funded, $21,243.00, (July 2015 - June 2016). Utah plant pest survey and detection project, Funded, $69,284.00, (July 2015 - June 2016). Alfalfa and Corn Commodity Survey, Funded, $16,701.00, (May 2015 - April 2016). Wildland fruit as winter refugia for spotted wing drosophila in the Intermountain West, Funded,

$30,000.00, (March 1, 2015 - February 28, 2016). Western States Proposal to Develop Online Training Modules for Pesticide Applicator Recertification,

Funded, $48,000.00, (April 28, 2014 - February 15, 2016). Rittenour, Tammy M

Climate and environmental history of SE Queensland dunefields, Funded, $364,900.00, (2015 - 2017). Doctoral Dissertation Research: Using Cosmogenic Nuclides to Understand the Interrelationship

between Erosion Rates, Environmental Factors, and Landscape Response, Funded, $16,000.00, (2015 - 2016).

Geochronology infrastructure for Southern California Earthquake Center, Funded, $8,000.00, (2015 -

2016). Collaborative Research: EarthScope Geochronology: A Student Research and Training Program and

EarthScope Institute, Funded, $363,000.00, (2014 - 2016). CAREER: Understanding Processes related to Arroyo systems, southern Utah, Funded, $497,932.00,

(2011 - 2016). Roberts, Donald W

Prepare an overall report and publications on APHIS/USU collaborative research on fungal pathogens

of grasshoppers and Mormon crickets, and characterize biological traits of fungal isolates from USA soil, manipulate promising isolates to increase their value as insect control agents (supplement), Funded, $6,000.00, (September 1, 2014 - August 31, 2017).

Rowley, Eric R

Utah Mathematics Endorsement Project (UMEP), Funded, $70,000.00, (July 1, 2015 - June 30, 2016).

Scherliess, Ludger

Physical Processes Governing Energy and Momentum Flows on Multiple Scales in Near-Earth Space

Using a First-principles-based Data Assimilation System (DAS) for the Global Ionosphere, Funded, $1,300,000.00, (May 1, 2013 - April 30, 2018).

OPAL: Optical Profiling of the Atmospheric Limb, Funded, $900,000.00, (October 2013 - October

2016).

GAIM Tasks for Utah State University - SEMSIII/USU 7500055856, Funded, $459,001.00, (September 1, 2015 - October 28, 2016).

Winds in the Earth’s Upper Atmoshpere, Funded, $19,431.60, (July 1, 2015 - June 30, 2016).

Schneiter, Kady

K-6 Mathematics Professional Development Partnership, Funded, $145,981.00, (January 2016 -

December 2019). Schunk, Robert Walter

Physical Processes Governing Energy and Momentum Flows on Multiple Scales in Near-Earth Space

Using a First-principles-based Data Assimilation System (DAS) for the Global Ionosphere, Funded, $1,300,000.00, (May 1, 2013 - April 30, 2018).

GAIM Tasks for Utah State University - SEMSIII/USU 7500055856, Funded, $459,001.00,

(September 1, 2015 - October 28, 2016). Seefeldt, Lance C

Acquisition of a Beckman ProteomeLab XLI to Enhance Research and Training, Funded, $388,206.00,


Training, Funded, $271,706.00, (September 1, 2015 - August 31, 2018). Biological Electron Transfer and Catalysis (BETSy), Funded, $10,000,000.00, (September 1, 2014 -

August 31, 2018). Role of P clusters and FeMo-cofactor in nitrogenase catalysis, Funded, $450,000.00, (September 1,

2013 - August 31, 2016). Nitrogenase Reduction of CO2 to hydrocarbons, Funded, $760,000.00, (August 15, 2013 - August 14,

2016). Shen, Tsung-Cheng

MRI:Acquisition of a sputtering deposition system to expand science and engineering research at Utah

State University, Funded, $207,026.00, (September 1, 2016 - August 31, 2019). Acquisition of a backside alignment system for the mask aligner, Funded, $5,040.00, (May 14, 2016 -

June 30, 2017). Acquisition of an e-beam/thermal evaporator, Funded, $200,000.00, (May 13, 2016 - June 30, 2017). MRI: Acquisition of a Field-Emission Scanning Electron Microscope to Catalyze Campus-Wide

Research in Bio/Nano and Advanced Energy Materials, Funded, $756,267.00, (September 1, 2013 - August 31, 2016).

Acquisition of a Field-Emission Scanning Electron Microscope to Catalyze Campus-wide Research in


USU RGS Assistantships, Funded, $54,000.00, (August 26, 2014 - August 25, 2016).

A Nomarski microscope for NDL, Funded, $16,500.00, (May 21, 2015 - June 30, 2016). Shervais, John W

Post-Expedition Research - Expedition 352 IBM Arc Origins, Funded, $404,990.00, (June 1, 2016 -

May 30, 2018). Salary Support for John Shervais - Exp 366, Funded, $52,164.92, (December 1, 2016 - February 28,

2018). Geothermal Play Fairway Analysis Snake River Plain: Phase 2, Funded, $800,000.00, (February 17,

2016 - September 30, 2017). MRI: Acquisition of a Field-Emission Scanning Electron Microscope to Catalyze Campus-Wide

Research in Bio/Nano and Advanced Energy Materials, Funded, $756,267.00, (September 1, 2013 - August 31, 2016).

Acquisition of a Field-Emission Scanning Electron Microscope to Catalyze Campus-wide Research in


Spears, Lori Rena

Management of brown marmorated stink bug in U.S. specialty crops, Funded, $10,000,000.00,

(September 1, 2016 - August 31, 2021). Brown Marmorated Stink Bug: Plant Host Utilization in Diverse Urban-Agricultural Landscapes and

Promoting Biological Control, Funded, $55,000.00, (May 2, 2016 - May 1, 2018). Understanding the role of alternative host plants used by two invasive insects, spotted wing drosophila

and brown marmorated sting bug in Utah, Funded, $19,958.00, (2014 - 2017). Guide to Introduced and Potentially Invasive Bees in the U.S., Funded, $140,847.00, (September 28,

2016 - September 27, 2017). Comparing capture rates of hot melt and traditional sticky inserts under field and laboratory conditions,

Funded, $35,618.00, (July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2017). Developing a first detector network for Utah, Funded, $33,278.00, (July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2017). Orchard Commodity Survey, Funded, $14,848.00, (July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2017). Utah plant pest survey and detection project, Funded, $69,284.00, (July 2016 - June 2017). Alfalfa and Corn Survey, Funded, $16,701.00, (May 1, 2016 - April 30, 2017). Small Grains Survey, Funded, $11,420.00, (May 1, 2016 - April 30, 2017). Utah IPIPE Fruit Pest Program, Funded, $80,000.00, (April 2015 - February 2017). Invasive species outreach, Funded, $21,243.00, (July 2015 - June 2016). Orchard Commodity Survey, Funded, $22,793.00, (July 2015 - June 2016). Utah plant pest survey and detection project, Funded, $69,284.00, (July 2015 - June 2016).

Alfalfa and Corn Commodity Survey, Funded, $16,701.00, (May 2015 - April 2016). Small Grains Commodity Survey, Funded, $11,420.00, (May 2015 - April 2016). Wildland fruit as winter refugia for spotted wing drosophila in the Intermountain West, Funded,

$30,000.00, (March 1, 2015 - February 28, 2016). Stark, John M

Microbial carbon-use efficiency in agroecosystems: The effect of drought and N availability on soil

microbial production and respiration, Funded, $714,080.00, (January 1, 2016 - December 31, 2018).

Regulation of microbial growth efficiency in rangeland soils, Funded, $85,000.00, (July 1, 2013 - June

30, 2018). Linking nitrification to microbial community in agroecosystems under changing climate, Funded,

$150,000.00, (January 1, 2016 - December 31, 2017). Functional And Molecular Diversity In Nitrogen Cycle Enzymes Under Contrasting Agricultural

Management Systems, Funded, $498,000.00, (January 15, 2011 - June 30, 2016). Stevens, John R

Reproductive Performance in Domestic Ruminants, Funded, $92,500.00, (July 1, 2016 - September 30,

2020). miRNA and colorectal cancer: Associations with tumor phenotype and survival, Funded,

$1,250,000.00, (July 2012 - June 2017). miRNA and Colorectal Cancer: Associations with Tumor Phenotype and Survival, Funded,

$6,649,396.00, (September 8, 2012 - June 30, 2017). Impact of typical Western diet on cancer prevention by green tea using a multi-generation model of

colorectal cancer, Funded, $500,000.00, (January 2014 - December 2016). Reproductive Performance in Domestic Ruminants, Funded, $92,500.00, (July 1, 2011 - September 30,

2016). Genome programming and embryo survivability in porcine somatic cell nuclear transfer embryos,

Funded, $499,290.00, (September 1, 2013 - August 31, 2016). Genome reprogramming and embryo survivability in porcine somatic cell nuclear transfer embryos,

Funded, $499,290.00, (September 2013 - August 2016). Sullivan, Kimberly A

15-JV-11261992-059, Funded, $23,890.00, (June 2015 - December 2017).

Sun, Yan

Ground Snow Load Prediction for Utah, Funded, $21,000.00, (May 2016 - August 2016).

Sun, Yujie

MRI:Acquisition of a sputtering deposition system to expand science and engineering research at Utah State University, Funded, $207,026.00, (September 1, 2016 - August 31, 2019).


(August 1, 2014 - July 31, 2017). Bifunctional electrocatalysts for overall water splitting and biomass conversion, Funded, $15,000.00,

(September 1, 2015 - August 31, 2016). Low Cost and Benign Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries (ARFBs) for Electrochemical Energy Storage

(EES), Funded, $99,850.00, (December 1, 2015 - June 30, 2016). Earth-abundant metal sulfides and phosphides as Janus water splitting catalysts, Funded, $10,000.00,

(June 1, 2015 - May 31, 2016). Takemoto, Jon Y

Biliverdin and mesobiliverdin cytoprotection of retinal pigmented epithelial cells against oxidative

stress, Funded, $100,000.00, (July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2019). Novel Therapeutics, Funded, $171,000.00, (July 1, 2015 - June 30, 2017). New Synergistic Biofungicides: Novel Aminoglycoside and Azole/Strobulin Combinations, Funded,

$217,246.00, (July 1, 2015 - September 30, 2016). Evaluation of new products for management of fire blight in apple and pear orchards in Utah, Funded,

$6,005.00, (April 1, 2014 - September 29, 2016). Green treatment of iron chlorosis and natural nutrition for plants, Funded, $84,678.00, (September

2015 - June 2016). STTR Phase I: New Synergistic Biofungicides: Novel Aminoglycoside and Azole/Strobulin

Combinations, Funded, $217,246.00, (July 1, 2015 - June 30, 2016). Anti-inflammatory mechanism of mesobiliverdin, Funded, $105,000.00, (July 1, 2013 - June 30,

2016). Taylor, Michael John

Continental-Scale Studies of Mesospheric Dynamics Using the ANtarctic Gravity Wave Instrument

Network (ANGWIN), Funded, $750,000.00, (2015 - 2020). Collaborative Research: Deep Propagating Gravity Wave (DEEPWAVE) Mission, Funded,

$425,001.00, (February 1, 2014 - January 31, 2018). Collaborative Research: Quantification of Gravity Wave Momentum Fluxes and Instability Events in

the MLT Region at High and Mid-Latitudes, Funded, $196,103.00, (September 1, 2015 - 2017). Collaborative proposal: Quantification of gravity wave momentum fluxes and instability events in the

MLT region at high- and mid- latitudes, Funded, $196,104.00, (2015 - 2017). Consortium of Resonance and Rayleigh Lidars, Funded, $1,335,019.00, (April 30, 2012 - April 30,

2017). Collaborative proposal: Dynamics in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere over the Andes Lidar

Observatory, Funded, $200,000.00, (April 1, 2012 - March 31, 2017).

OPAL: Optical Profiling of the Atmospheric Limb, Funded, $900,000.00, (October 2013 - October

2016). Torre, Charles Gregory

SI2-SSE: Symbolic Toolboxes for Differential Geometry and Mathematical Physics, Funded,

$314,161.00, (October 1, 2016 - September 30, 2019). SI2-SSE: Interdisciplinary Software Infrastructure for Differential Geometry, Lie Theory and their

Applications, Funded, $360,845.00, (June 1, 2012 - May 31, 2016). Wang, Zhi Qiang

Topics in nonlinear analysis and applications to nonlinear elliptic PDEs, Funded, $35,000.00,

(September 2015 - August 2020). Welker, Dennis L

Development of Chalkbrood Resistance in Bees, Funded, $316,591.00, (August 1, 2011 - July 31,

2016). Enhancing the value of biofuels derived from algae and perennial grass feedstocks through integration

of a lactic acid fermentation., Funded, $999,875.00, (January 2011 - January 2016). Williams, Becky Lynn

Greater Sage-grouse Habitat Assessment, Funded, $111,161.00, (August 25, 2016 - December 31,

2021). Bureau of Land Management VFO Youth Internship Wildlife Management Project Augmentation,

Funded, $150,000.00, (September 2016 - December 2017). Bureau of Land Management VFO Youth Internship Wildlife Management Project, Funded,

$202,000.00, (July 2015 - December 2017). Wilson, Joseph Scott

Red Butte Gardens Native Bee Survey, Funded, $12,600.00, (April 2015 - May 2016).

Wolf, Paul G

Proposal to determine if Eriogonum soredium is a genetically distinct species from E. shockleyi,

Funded, $13,985.00, (December 13, 2016 - December 21, 2018). Cost Effective Determination of Wetland Versus Upland Ecotypes Using Next Generation Genome

Sequencing Technologies, Funded, $78,671.00, (November 30, 2015 - November 30, 2018). Estimation of Eriogonum corymbosum var. nilesii. Range, Funded, $80,000.00, (August 2012 - July

2017). Range Estimation Of Eriogonum Corymbosum Var. Nilesii, Funded, $80,000.00, (August 2, 2012 -

July 1, 2017). Phylogenetic Analysis of Lepidium Nuclear and Chloroplast genes, Funded, $23,934.00, (June 28,

2016 - March 31, 2017).

Origins of Galapagos Pteridium, Funded, $12,000.00, (April 2013 - 2016). Cyber-enabled learning: Digital Natives in Integrated Scientific Inquiry Classrooms. National Science

Foundation Discovery Research K-12., Funded, $2,500,000.00, (June 1, 2010 - August 31, 2016). Yuan, Tao

Consortium of Resonance and Rayleigh Lidars, Funded, $1,335,019.00, (April 30, 2012 - April 30,

2017). von Dohlen, Carol D

Dissertation Research: Determining the impact of symbiont metabolic role in symbiont genome decay

in Adelgidae (Hemiptera), Funded, $18,604.00, (June 1, 2016 - May 31, 2018). Insect-Symbiont Cooperation in Phytohomone Synthesis Involved in Plant Gall Formation, Funded,

$10,000.00, (2015 - 2017). Phylogeny, Historical Biogeography, and Systematics of Host-alternating Aphids (Insecta: Hemiptera:

Aphididae), Funded, $28,000.00, (2012 - 2017). Presentations and Posters

Alston, Diane G

Do Crop Rotations and Nitrogen Levels Impact Thrips, IYSV and Onion Productivity?, December 2,

2016. Onions - Utah Update 2016, December 2, 2016. Potassium and IYSV on onion (Allium cepa), December 1, 2016. IPM, Primary and Secondary insect and Mite Pests of Fruit Trees, November 3, 2016. How to rid your plants of pests?, August 31, 2016. Onion system management effects on thrips populations: crop rotation and nitrogen rate, August 9,

2016. Fruit Track, June 28, 2016. Codling moth, western cherry fruit fly, and onion thrips research updates, June 28, 2016. Insect Identification and IPM, June 2, 2016. Seasonal phenology of spotted wing drosophila (Drosophila suzukii) in the intermountain west, April

3, 2016. System drivers of IPM for thrips and Iris yellow spot virus in onoin, April 3, 2016. Ten common garden pests and how to control them organically, March 12, 2016. Influence of Adjacent Weed Species on Thrips and Iris Yellow Spot Virus in Onion, March 8, 2016.

Vegetable and caneberry pests of concern, March 1, 2016. Integrated pest management for the garden and landscape: insect and mite pests, February 23, 2016. Berry-eating insects and invasive pest update, February 17, 2016. IPM strategies for tree fruit insects and mites, February 17, 2016. Influence of border weed species on thrips and IYSV in onions, February 9, 2016. Update: the effect of potassium fertilizer on IYSV and onion thrips, February 9, 2016. Tree fruit aphid biology and management, January 28, 2016. IPM for common fruit tree insect problems, January 25, 2016. Insect research updates: western cherry fruit fly, leafrollers and codling moth degree-day model,

January 20, 2016. Soils and cover crops: A six-year comparison study in peach production., January 20, 2016. Use of cover crops in orchards, vineyards and vegetables, January 20, 2016. Survey of leafroller species in Utah orchards, January 13, 2016. Insect traps and monitoring techniques in the landscape and garden, January 11, 2016.

Anderson, Ian M

What is Darboux Integrability, July 24, 2016.

Ault, Alexis

A hematite (U-Th)/He minimum age for Cryogenian Tava sandstone, Colorado, and variations in

detrital zircon provenance that illuminate the paleogeography of the region, September 25, 2016. Asperity flash heating and dynamic weakening of hematite-coated fault surfaces from microtextural

analysis, (U0TH)/HE thermochronology, and thermomechanical modeling, September 25, 2016. Spatiotemporal evolution of San Andreas Fault-related deformation in the Mecca Hills, Southern

California, from integrated fault zone characterization and low-temperature thermochronology, September 25, 2016.

Thermochronologic constraints on secondary Fe-oxide mineralization in southwestern New Mexico,

September 25, 2016. “Mirrored” hematite and silica fault surfaces reveal textural evidence of coseismic(?) elevated

temperatures in fault damage zones, September 25, 2016. Constraining time and temperature from 4He/3He thermochronometry of polycrystalline Fe- and Mn-

oxides, June 15, 2016. Baker, Michelle A

Beyond the Ivory Tower: University-Stakeholder Partnerships for Utah's Water Future, November 16, 2016.

Core competencies for translational ecology: A doctoral education strategy to cultivate actionable

science, August 8, 2016. Bernhardt, Scott A

Burrowing owl fleas during a ground squirrel plague epizootic in Idaho, October 2016. Estimating methoprene resistance in laboratory and field populations of Culex pipiens, October 2016. Worldwide collections of sand flies to assess insecticide resistance, September 2016. Molecular and biochemical characterization of insecticide resistance in Phlebotomus and Lutzomyia

sand flies, June 2016. Berreau, Lisa M

Cytotoxicity and mitochondrial delivery of flavonol-based CO-releasing molecules, September 21,

2016. Cytotoxicity and mitochondrial delivery of flavonol-based CO-releasing molecules, September 17,

2016. Anion Effects in Oxidative Aliphatic Carbon-carbon Bond Cleavage Reactions of Cu(II)

Chlorodiketonate Complexes, August 22, 2016. Solution or Solid – it Doesn’t Matter: Visible light-induced CO Release Reactivity of Zinc Flavonolato

Compounds, August 22, 2016. Toxicity and mitochondrial delivery of flavonol-based CO-releasing molecules, August 10, 2016.

Boldyrev, Alexander I

Deciphering Multi-Center Bonding in Boron Chemistry, October 23, 2016. Aromaticity and Delocalized Bonding, July 14, 2016. Electronic Transmutation, May 27, 2016. Multicenter Bonding in Chemistry, April 4, 2016.

Brewer, David Shane

One-Cut Is All It Takes, April 8, 2016.

Burger, Benjamin J

Hyrachyus eximius from the Middle Eocene lower Washakie Formation Abode Town Member of

Wyoming and its bearing on the origin and early diversification of rhinoceroses., May 2016. Chang, Cheng Wei Tom

Synthesis and Study of Bioactive Compounds, October 4, 2016.

K20, Novel Antifungal Development and Perspective, October 4, 2016. Bioactive Heterocyclic Compounds: Synthesis and Mode of Action Investigation, June 19, 2016.

Christiansen, Michael A

Flipped Learning in the Broadcast Chemistry Class, August 21, 2016. Flipped Learning in the Broadcast Chemistry Class, August 21, 2016. Flipping General Chemistry in a Class that is Synchronously Taught at Multiple Geographic Sites,

August 3, 2016. Flipping Organic Chemistry in a Class that is Synchronously Taught at Multiple Geographic Sites,

August 3, 2016. How to Make Chemistry YouTube Videos That Aren’t Boring, June 28, 2016. STEM Education in the United States: Are We Really Doing that Badly?, April 9, 2016.


Counter-intuitive ecological dynamics: Subsystem instability as a driving mechanism, December 2016. How does interspecific host competition alter the amplification and dilution of disease?, November

2016. The eco-evolutionary dynamics of predator-prey systems: How does (co)evolution alter community

level population dynamics?, February 10, 2016. Eco-evolutionary predator-prey dynamics: How do (co)evolution and genetic variation alter

population-level dynamics?, January 28, 2016. Eco-evolutionary predator-prey dynamics: How do (co)evolution and genetic variation alter

population-level dynamics?, January 22, 2016. Coster, Daniel C

Impacts of educative multi-year science teacher professional development., October 2016. Multi-year professional development for integrating technology with reformed science classrooms.,

January 2016. Cutler, David Richard

Using PROC HPSPLIT for Prediction with Classification and Regression, April 20, 2016.

Dehler, Carol Merritt

Capturing Changes in the Mesoproterozoic Earth System: δ13Ccarb and 87Sr/86Sr Stratigraphy of the

~1254 Ma Bass Formation, Grand Canyon Supergroup, AZ., USA., September 2016. Getting Younger With Age: New Id-Tims U-Pb Detrital Zircon Age Constraints On Neoproterozoic

Sedimentary Successions, Southwestern U.S.,, September 2016.

Petroleum Source Rock Potential and Structural Setting of Neoproterozoic Basins, Utah And Arizona., September 2016.

Testing a Marine Signature for the Neoproterozoic Chuar Group of Grand Canyon Using Sr Isotopic

Data., September 2016. U-Pb Detrital Zircon Geochronology and Petrography of the Middle Neoproterozoic Visingsö Group,

Southern Sweden, September 2016. The Steilrandberg of Namibia: relict or reentrant?, August 2016. ID-TIMS U-Pb Detrital Zircon Geochronology of Neoproterozoic Sedimentary Successions in the

Southwestern United States, May 2016. Revised Age Constraints for Cryogenian Glacial Deposits in the Pocatello Formation, Southeastern

Idaho, May 2016. New Re-Os organic-rich shale and sulphide geochronology data from the Pre-Sturtian Chuar Group,

Grand Canyon, April 2016. Dennison, John Robert

High Altitude Dependence of Ionizing Radiation from Cosmic Rays, October 2016. Relaxation of Radiation Effects on the Optical Transmission of Polymers, October 2016. Space Environment Effects of Ionizing Radiation on Seed Germination and GrowthSpace Environment

Effects of Ionizing Radiation on Seed Germination and Growth, October 2016. Temperature Dependency of Electrostatic Breakdown in LDPE and PEEK, October 2016. Voltage Ramp-rate Dependence of DC Breakdown in Polymeric Insulators: Physical Models versus

Data, October 2016. CubeSat Space Environments Effects Studied in the Space Survivability Test Chamber, September

2016. Dependence of Electrostatic Field Strength on Voltage Ramp Rate for Spacecraft Materials, September

2016. Predictive Formula for Electron Penetration Depth of Diverse Materials over Large Energy Ranges,

September 2016. CubeSat Space Environments Effects Studied in the Space Survivability Test Chamber, August 2016. LAM Phase I Review: Charge Storage and Transfer in Thin Film Ceramic Materials, August 2016. Evaluation of Instrumentation Enhancements for Electron Yield Measurements of Extremely Low-

Conductivity High-Yield Dielectric, May 2016. Absolute Electron Emission Calibration: Round Robin Tests of Au and Polyimide, April 2016. Dependence of Electrostatic Field Strength on Voltage Ramp Rate for Spacecraft Materials, April

2016. Extremely low secondary electron emission from metal/dielectric particulate coatings, April 2016.

Measurements of Intrinsic Electron Emission Yields of High Resistivity Ceramic Materials, April

2016. Perspectives on the Distributions of ESD Breakdowns for Spacecraft Charging Applications, April

2016. Predictive Formula for Electron Penetration Depth of Diverse Materials over Large Energy Ranges,

April 2016. Pulsed Electroacoustic System Modeling and Signal Processing for Volume Charge Distribution

Measurement in Thin Dielectric Films, April 2016. Synergistic Models of Electron Emission and Transport Measurements of Disordered SiO2, April

2016. Temporal and Spatial Correlations in Elec tron-induced Arcs of Adjacent Dielectric Islands, April

2016. Dependence of Electrostatic Field Strength on Voltage Ramp Rate for Spacecraft Materials, April

2016. Developing a Safe Test System for High-energy Electron Flux Environments Testing, March 2016.


Effects of Membrane Properties on Localization of Shigella Type Three Secretion System Translocon

Proteins in Artificial Membranes, September 17, 2016. Investigating the roles of Shigella of the Shigella Type III Secretion System Tip Proteins IpaD and

IpaC, September 17, 2016. Structural and Functional Characterization of the Shigella flexneri Type Three Secretion System

ATPase Spa47, September 17, 2016. Detergent-Based Purification of Shigella Invasion Plasmid Antigen C Provides Superior Stability and

Facilitates Direct Characterization of Membrane Interaction, June 16, 2016. Trimeric Spa47 is an Active Type Three Secretion System ATPase from Shigella flexneri, June 16,

2016. Fueling the Shigella Type III Secretion System, April 26, 2016. Trimeric Spa47 is an Active Type Three Secretion System ATPase from Shigella flexneri, April 3,

2016. Evans, Edward W

Biological control of squarrose knapweed in Utah, October 6, 2016. Phenology of the biological control agent of Dalmation Toadflax, Mecinus janthiniformis (Coleoptera:

Curculionidae) in Utah, September 26, 2016. Dispersal and biological control of insect pests: do natural enemies lag behind in colonizing new

habitat?, April 4, 2016.

Phenology of the biological control agent of Dalmation Toadflax, Mecinus janthiniformis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Utah, March 8, 2016.

Evans, James P

Asperity flash heating nad dynamic weakening of hematite-coated fault surfaces from microtextural

analysis, (U-TH)/HE thermochronology, and thermomechanical modeling, September 25, 2016. Exploring the potential linkages between oil-field brine reinjection, crystalline basement permeability,

and triggered seismicity for the Dagger Draw Oil Field, Southeastern New Mexico, USA using hydrologic modeling, September 25, 2016.

Fault zone architecture and structural diagenesis at thrust faults: along strike variation in distribution of

deformation and fault-zone fluid migration, September 25, 2016. Fluid-rock reactions related to deformation within organic-and vanadium-rich units of the phosphoria

formation, Southeast Idaho, September 25, 2016. Geochemical and petrological comparisons of bleached cap rocks from the Green River CO2

acculumation, September 25, 2016. Hydrological Analysis of nonconformities: implications for injection-induced seismicity in the

midcontinent United States, September 25, 2016. Migration of natural CO2 up a fault system at Green River, Utah, September 25, 2016. Spatiotemporal evolution of San Andreas fault-related deformation in the Mecca Hills, Southern


Structural and geomechanical analysis of a potential geothermal resource in basalts, Western Snake

River Plain, Idaho, September 25, 2016. Structural diagenesis and micro- to macro-scale structural architecture of basal nonconformities,

September 25, 2016. The hydrologic connection between basal reservoir injection, crystalline basement fault zones, and

induced seismicity, September 25, 2016. The strange geometries of strike-slip faults: Insights from Southern California’s active faults ,

September 25, 2016. “Mirrored” hematite and silica fault textures reveal textural evidence of coseismic (?) elevated

temperatures in fault damage zones, September 25, 2016. Farrelly, David

Chaos assisted capture in the restricted four-body problem, June 6, 2016. Microscopic Superfluidity in small bosonic clusters, May 9, 2016. Microscopic Superfluidity in doped helium-4 clusters, January 2016.

Fejer, Bela Gyula

How to recognize and distinguish the ionospheric disturbances produced by TIDS or PPEFs during geomagentic storms, December 14, 2016.

Multi-probe studies of the equatorial nighttime ionosphere during sudden stratospheric warmings,

December 12, 2016. New AMISR-14 observations of equatorial F-region irregularities, December 12, 2016. Equatorial electrodynamics, September 28, 2016. Scale analysis of equatorial plasma irregularities derived from Swarm constellation, May 10, 2016.

Fels, Mark Eric

The Generalized Inverse Problem in the Calculus of Variations and Bi-Hamiltonian Systems., October

28, 2016. Geer, Nathan C

Re-normalized TQFTs, June 20, 2016. Re-normalized TQFTs, May 3, 2016. Re-normalized TQFTs, January 25, 2016.

Gilbertson, Timothy A

The Taste of Fat and Its Role in Dietary Fat Intake, May 1, 2016. Fatty acid signaling pathways play a role in weight gain and weight loss on high fat diets, April 20,

2016. Taste cell responses to medium chain fatty acids are mediated by GPR84, April 20, 2016. ß-estradiol modulates responses to fatty acids and saccharin in a clonal taste cell line, April 20, 2016. Use of Raman SERS to detect fatty acid receptor activity in a microfluidic device, April 7, 2016. Water as a taste, February 2016.

Gompert, Zachariah

Mountains of details: The legacy of Vladimir Nabokov's Scientific Art, November 9, 2016. Estimating methoprene resistance in laboratory and field populations of Culex pipiens, October 2016. Worldwide collections of sand flies to assess insecticide resistance, September 2016. Genomic analyses uncover parallel and idiosyncratic evolutionary changes following the colonization

of a novel host plant, June 2016. Idiosyncratic and repeatable aspects of hybrid speciation in alpine butterflies, June 2016. Origin and dynamics of adaptation in Schizosaccharomyces pombe : Standing genetic variation vs. de

novo mutation, June 2016.

Molecular and biochemical characterization of insecticide resistance in Phlebotomus and Lutzomyia sand flies, June 2016.

Gordillo, Luis Fernando

Mass action in two-sex population models: encounters, mating encounters and the associated

numerical correction, October 2016.

Habashi, Jessica No lab, no money . . . no problem! Making an ETLG work for Lecturers and their students in the

sciences, August 17, 2016. Girls and STEM: Where are we now?, April 16, 2016.

Hansen, Dane R

ß-estradiol modulates responses to fatty acids and saccharin in a clonal taste cell line, April 20, 2016.

Heavilin, Justin Ewing

Modeling Plant Biomass Using Plant-Soil Feedbacks, April 2016. A Collaborative Effort for Improving Calculus Through Better Assessment Practices, February 26,

2016. Hengge, Alvan C

A chimera of the protein tyrosine phosphatases YopH and PTP1B investigates the connection between

loop dynamics and catalysis, June 26, 2016. Hevel, Joan M

Redox Regulation of Protein Arginine Methylation, 2016. Regulation of protein arginine methylation, October 6, 2016. Redox Regulation of PRMT1, March 1, 2016.

Huntly, Nancy J

Integrating Art and Science to Enable Students, Engage Communities, and Understand Biodiversity,

September 9, 2016. Modeling human population and human-resource dynamics of Sanak Island Alaska, March 4, 2016.

Janecke, Susanne U

Spatiotemporal evaluation of the San Andreas Fault-related deformation in the Mecca Hills, southern

California, from integrated fault zone characterization and low-temperature thermo-chronology, September 2016.

Spatiotemporal evolution of San Andreas Fault-related deformation in the Mecca Hills, Southern


The strange geometries of strike-slip faults: insights from Southern California’s active faults, September 25, 2016.

Johnson, Sean J

Structural and Biochemical Characterization of the Frequency-interacting RNA Helicase from

Neurospora crassa, July 23, 2016. Structural and Biochemical Characterization of the Frequency-interacting RNA Helicase from

Neurospora crassa, July 10, 2016. A chimera of the protein tyrosine phosphatases YopH and PTP1B investigates the connection between

loop dynamics and catalysis, June 26, 2016. What role does the arch domain of Mtr4 play in unwinding RNA?, April 7, 2016. What role does the arch domain of Mtr4 play in unwinding RNA?, February 26, 2016.

Jones, Justin A

The Scale of Spider Silk, November 29, 2016. Aqueous Based Processing of Recombinant Spider Silks, March 31, 2016.


Support for the reproductive ground plan hypothesis in a solitary bee: links between sucrose response

and reproductive status, November 30, 2016. Causes and consequences of social evolution in bees, November 17, 2016. Origins of social plasticity in bees, September 30, 2016. Assessing ultraviolet reflection and aspect effects on establishing wild bumble bees (Bombus sp.) in

arboreal nest boxes, September 26, 2016. Bee collections and genomic resource development, September 25, 2016. Maternal and environmental effects on diapause in Megachile rotundata, July 18, 2016. Understanding variation in alkali bee reproduction, June 21, 2016. Causes and consequences of social evolution in bees, May 9, 2016. Social environment relationship to ovary development of Bombus impatiens, April 28, 2016. Understanding variation in alkali bee reproduction, January 25, 2016.

Kohler, Brynja R

Collaborations: What Makes Them Successful & How To Promote Them, November 4, 2016. Diffusion Lessons via Sea Monkeys, April 8, 2016. Leaky Bucket Lab: Challenging Torricelli's Law, April 8, 2016.

A Collaborative Effort for Improving Calculus Through Better Assessment Practices, February 26, 2016.

A Complete Circle of Cognitively Based Assessment, February 19, 2016.

Lachmar, Thomas E

Secrets of the subsurface: Surface water recharge from the upper Logan River to ground water in

Cache Valley, Utah, September 25, 2016. Lewis, Randy

The Scale of Spider Silk, November 29, 2016. Optimizing The Growth and Characterization of Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells, October 2016.

Lowry, Anthony

Moho Temperature and Compositional Controls on Lithospheric Bending Strength in the Western

United States, December 13, 2016. Moho Temperature and Mobile Lower Crust in the Western United States, April 20, 2016. Moho Temperature and Mobile Lower Crust in the Western United States, March 11, 2016. Thermo- & hydration dynamics of the lithosphere from combined seismic, potential field and

petrophysical constraints, February 11, 2016. Lucas, Lauren K

Mountains of details: The legacy of Vladimir Nabokov's Scientific Art, November 9, 2016. Genomic analyses uncover parallel and idiosyncratic evolutionary changes following the colonization

of a novel host plant, June 2016. Malmendier, Andreas

Duality in string theory and Calabi-Yau geometry, November 2016. Two-isogeny on Kummer surfaces, November 10, 2016. Modular Families of Calabi-Yau manifolds, September 25, 2016. Multi-parameter Families of Calabi-Yau manifolds, June 20, 2016. Kummer surfaces and two-isogeny, May 28, 2016. Calabi-Yau manifolds realizing symplectically rigid monodromy tuples, May 2, 2016. Kummer surfaces from rational elliptic surfaces, April 2016. Kummer surfaces and special function identities, March 6, 2016. Elliptic Fibrations on Kummer surfaces, February 2016. Calabi-Yau manifolds realizing symplectically rigid monodromy tuples, February 22, 2016.

Kummer surfaces and special function identities, February 4, 2016. Special function identities from superelliptic curves and their Kummer varieties, January 7, 2016.

Nie, Zhaohu

Toda field theory and integral curves of standard differential systems, October 2016. Classification of solutions to general Toda systems with singular sources, July 27, 2016. Classification of solutions to general Toda systems with singular sources, June 2016. Classification of solutions to general Toda systems with singular sources, May 30, 2016. Classification of solutions to general Toda systems with singular sources, May 28, 2016. Classification of solutions to Toda systems of types C and B, April 9, 2016.

Nischwitz, Claudia

Do Crop Rotations and Nitrogen Levels Impact Thrips, IYSV and Onion Productivity?, December 2,

2016. Onions - Utah Update 2016, December 2, 2016. Potassium and IYSV on onion (Allium cepa), December 1, 2016. Tree fruit pathology, October 27, 2016. Powdery mildew on native plants in Utah, July 30, 2016. Fruit Track, June 28, 2016. System drivers of IPM for thrips and Iris yellow spot virus in onoin, April 3, 2016. Influence of Adjacent Weed Species on Thrips and Iris Yellow Spot Virus in Onion, March 8, 2016. Influence of border weed species on thrips and IYSV in onions, February 9, 2016. Update: the effect of potassium fertilizer on IYSV and onion thrips, February 9, 2016.

Peak, David

Fish Switching Schools: Emergence of Consensus in a Boolean Belief Network, October 21, 2016.

Pearse, William David

Evolutionary ecology and conservation: the power of models, August 2016. Linking phylogeny and ecology: beyond summary statistics, January 2016.

Pitts, James P Around the world in ten million years: historical biogeography of the widespread genus Ceropales

(Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), 2016.

A wasp’s tale: Understanding the present by revealing the past (Hymenoptera: Chyphotidae,

Mutillidae, and Tiphiidae)., September 2016. Phylogenomic resolution and evolutionary implications of rapid radiation episodes within aculeate

Hymenoptera (bees, ants, stinging wasps)., September 2016. Understanding phenology through big data: Case Studies in native bees?, September 2016. What can inventories tell us about bee phenology?, September 2016. What can inventories tell us about bee phenology?, September 2016. Biology of a new bee species that nests in sandstone, Anthophora pueblo (Hymenoptera: Apidae),

April 2016. Powell, James A

Invasion Speeds in Highly Variable Landscapes: Multiple Scales, Homogenization and the Migration

of Trees, September 19, 2016. Invasion Speeds in Highly Variable Landscapes: Multiple Scales, Homogenization and the Migration

of Trees, July 4, 2016. Ramirez, Ricardo A

Silage corn hybrid response to row spacing and plant density, 2016. Silage corn hybrid response to row spacing and plant density in the Intermountain West, 2016. Direct effects of insecticides on plants: Soybean transcriptome responses to neonicotinoids and spider

mites, September 25, 2016. Drought-stress exacerbates the interactions between spider mites and neonicotinoid-treated corn,

September 25, 2016. Mason bees and mud: does nesting material provide an alternative mode of pesticide exposure in

Osmia lignaria?, September 25, 2016. Pollen foraging comparison of Bombus huntii and Apis mellifera, September 25, 2016. Shared and species-specific transcriptional responses of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) to generalist and

specialist spider mite herbivores, July 13, 2016. Dynamic yet correlated responses of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) to generalist and specialist spider

mite herbivores, July 9, 2016. Diversity improves productivity: Ways to encourage complementarity in science, April 3, 2016. Got moths? Bycatch associated with common targets in CAPS and Farmbill surveys, April 3, 2016. Seasonal phenology of spotted wing drosophila (Drosophila suzukii) in the intermountain west, April

3, 2016. Rittenour, Tammy M

The Age and Implications of Brownware Ceramics in the Central Rocky Mountains, October 5, 2016. Savitzky, Alan H

Harry Greene’s Greatest Hits: An Ophidiologist’s Playlis, October 8, 2016. Nuchal gland system: a novel defensive mechanism evolved in Asian natricine snakes, August 2016. ASIH and the Prospects for Taxon-focused Professional Organizations, July 6, 2016.

Scheiner, Stephen I

If it Walks and Talks like a Hydrogen Bond, June 2016. N---S versus p---S interactions. A computational study, March 2016. substitutuent effects on the binding of halides by neutral and dicationic bis-triazolium receptors, March

2016. Scherliess, Ludger

Multi-Model Ensemble Prediction System (MEPS): science studies, May 24, 2016. Atmospheric modeling for OPAL CubeSat experiment, April 14, 2016. OPAL cube satellite flight and line of sight integration modeling, April 14, 2016. Temperature recognition algorithm for the OPAL mission, April 14, 2016. Advances in modeling, specifying, and predicting space weather, January 10, 2016.


Advances in modeling, specifying, and predicting space weather, January 10, 2016.

Shen, Tsung-Cheng

Devices in the Post-Moore’s Law Era, April 26, 2016.

Shervais, John W

Structural and geomechanical analysis of a potential geothermal resource in basalts, Western Snake

River Plain, Idaho, September 25, 2016. Sojka, Jan Josef


Spears, Lori Rena

Got moths? Bycatch associated with common targets in CAPS and Farmbill surveys, April 3, 2016. Seasonal phenology of spotted wing drosophila (Drosophila suzukii) in the intermountain west, April

3, 2016. Stark, John M

Agricultural nitrogen management affects microbial communities, enzyme activities and functional

genes for nitrogen cycle processes, November 8, 2016. Effect of organic nitrogen management on soil enzyme activities and functional capacity, November 8,

2016. Functional and Molecular Diversity in Nitrogen Cycle Enzymes under Contrasting Agricultural

Management Systems, October 12, 2016. Ecosystem impacts of invasive annual brome grasses, August 2016. Agricultural nitrogen management affects microbial communities, enzyme activities and functional

genes for nitrogen cycle processes, August 22, 2016. Agricultural nitrogen management affects microbial communities, enzyme activities and functional

genes for nitrogen cycle processes, March 22, 2016. Stevens, John R

Annotation Tools for Multivariate Gene Set Testing in Non-Model Organisms, October 10, 2016. Assessing Individual Oocyte Viability through Gene Expression Profiles, May 2, 2016. Doing More with Less (and More) -- Statistical Adventures in Biomedical Big Data, January 21, 2016.

Sullivan, Kimberly A

Environmental Effects on Guppy Mate Choice, December 2016. Female Guppy Mate Choice as Determined by Tail Coloration, December 2016. Guppy Girls Speed Dating, December 2016. Murder She Wrote: Death and Drama in Nesting Woodpeckers, December 2016. Tail Size Effects Female Guppy Mate Choice, December 2016. The Influence of Female Size in Mate Choice in Guppies, December 2016. The Mating Game: Guppy Edition, December 2016. Blue Flying Animals and Wood Hitters, August 2016. Careers in NGOs, August 2016. Tag-team takeover: usurpation of woodpecker nests by Western Bluebirds, August 2016. Why are there so many women graduate students and so few women professionals in ornithology?,

August 2016. Women Rocking Science, August 2016. Tag-team takeover: usurpation of woodpecker nests by Western Bluebirds, May 2016.

Sun, Yujie

Bimetal–Organic Framework Self-Adjusted Synthesis of Support-Free Nonprecious Electrocatalysts

for Efficient Oxygen Reduction, August 21, 2016. Metal-Organic Framework-Derived Electrocatalysts for Water Splitting and Oxygen Reduction,

January 10, 2016.

Sweeten, Thayne Lyle Spatial-ability and STEM courses: why mental manipulation matters, April 1, 2016. Vaccine Research, February 3, 2016

Symanzik, Juergen

Spatial Analysis of Malaria in Benin: The Difference of RDT's and Bloodsmear Tests, December 5,

2016. Panel Session: Awareness and Quality Improvements for the Joint ASA/NCTM Poster Competition,

August 1, 2016. The Linked Microposter Plot as a New Means for the Visualization of Eye Tracking Data, August 1,

2016. (1) Stereoscopic Displays and Virtual Reality for Statistical Graphics; and (2) Visual Data Mining in

Education, Social Sciences, and Environmental Sciences, July 20, 2016. Linked Micromap Plots, July 11, 2016. Deceptive Statistical Graphics in the News and in Science, July 9, 2016.

Takemoto, Jon Y

In Vitro Modeling of Microgravity-Induced Muscle Atrophy and Spaceflight Radiation, October 2016.


Deep orographic gravity wave dynamics over Subantarctic Islands as observed and modeled during the

Deep Propagating Gravity Wave Experiment (DEEPWAVE), December 12, 2016. Gravity waves in the presence of shear during DEEPWAVE, December 12, 2016. Need to find it, December 12, 2016. DEEPWAVE: Investigating Mesospheric Mountain Wave Activity and Properties Over Lauder, NZ.,

December 9, 2016. Spectacular Imaging Studies of Atmospheric Gravity Waves, November 2, 2016. Mesospheric Temperature Measurements of Mountain Waves, August 15, 2016. DEEPWAVE: Ground-based investigation of mesospheric gravity wave signatures, June 20, 2016. Investigating a Large Amplitude Mesospheric Mountain Wave Breaking Event and Regional Wave

Activity During DEEPWAVE, June 20, 2016.

Investigating large amplitude mesospheric mountain wave breaking events and oceanic gravity wave signatures during DEEPWAVE, May 16, 2016.

Investigating Seasonal Mesospheric Gravity Wave Propagation and Variability, May 16, 2016. High-resolution temperature mapping of mesospheric gravity waves and breaking events, Oral

presentation, April 17, 2016. A New Imaging Era for Upper Atmospheric Research: Development of and Advanced Mesospheric

Temperature Mapper (AMTM), February 2016. Torre, Charles Gregory

Universal Spacetimes, October 31, 2016. Tilt Classifications in Perfect Fluid Cosmology, October 21, 2016. Geometrization conditions for perfect fluids, scalar fields, and electromagnetic fields, April 17, 2016. Rainich geometrization extended to electromagnetic fields in (2 + 1)-dimensional gravity, April 17,

2016. 100 Years of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, February 23, 2016. 100 Years of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, February 4, 2016. The importance of being Ernst (part 2), February 1, 2016. The importance of being Ernst, January 25, 2016.

Wang, Zhi Qiang

Asymptotics in coupled nonlinear Schrodinger equations with large mixed couplings, December 5,

2016. Localized nodal solutions of higher topological type for semiclassical nonlinear Schrödinger equations,

September 25, 2016. A class of quasilinear elliptic equations via a regularization approach, June 20, 2016. A class of quasilinear elliptic equations via a regularization approach, June 16, 2016. Asymptotics in coupled nonlinear Schrodinger equations with large mixed couplings, January 7, 2016.

Welker, Dennis L

An adaptive evolution approach utilizing reversible mutS inactivation for development of

Lactobacillus casei strains with enhanced lactic acid tolerance at low pH, July 24, 2016. Wheeler, James Thomas

Biconformal compactification, April 16, 2016.

Wilson, Joseph Scott

A wasp’s tale: Understanding the present by revealing the past (Hymenoptera: Chyphotidae, Mutillidae, and Tiphiidae)., September 2016.

Bees of Red Butte Gardens, September 29, 2016. Analysis of Rocky Mountian snail (Oreohelix sp.) dietary preference., May 2016. Getting to know the bees in your backyard., May 30, 2016. Getting to know the bees in your backyard., May 22, 2016. Getting to know the bees in your backyard, May 17, 2016. Getting to know the bees in your backyard, May 12, 2016. Getting to know the bees in your backyard, March 24, 2016. Velvet ants and other Hymenoptera: the evolution of mimicry and diversity, January 2016. Evolution of the world's largest Mullerian mimicry complex in North American velvet ants., January

2016. Wolf, Paul G

Professional learning impact: Outcomes of PD grounded in reformed science teaching practices and

educative curriculum., October 2016. Impacts of educative multi-year science teacher professional development., October 2016. What does strawberry DNA look like?, February 5, 2016.

Yuan, Tao

Need to find it, December 12, 2016. High-resolution temperature mapping of mesospheric gravity waves and breaking events, Oral

presentation, April 17, 2016. Zhu, Lie


von Dohlen, Carol D

Around the world in ten million years: historical biogeography of the widespread genus Ceropales

(Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), 2016. Easy come, easy go? Unusual diversity and role reversals in the dual symbionts of adelgids

(Aphidoidea: Adelgidae), December 5, 2016. Testing for an association between Wolbachia bacterial symbionts and insecticide resistance in sand

fly populations (Diptera: Psychodidae), November 2016. The Identification and Characterization of Bacterial Endosymbionts in the Planthopper family,

Caliscelidae (Sternorrhyncha: Fulgoroidea), November 2016.

The Identification and Characterization of Bacterial Endosymbionts in the Planthopper family, Issidae (Sternorrhyncha: Fulgoroidea), November 2016.

Presence of Wolbachia in sandfly populations and correlation with pesticide resistance, April 2016. The Identification and Characterization of Bacterial Endosymbionts in the Planthopper family,

Caliscelidae( Sternorrhyncha: Fulgoroidea), April 2016. The Identification and Characterization of Bacterial Endosymbionts in the Planthopper family, Issidae

(Sternorrhyncha: Fulgoroidea), April 2016. Wolbachia and sex, April 2016.

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