As a university resource, GISSAL works extensively with faculty and students from a wide spectrum of disciplines, and has recently initiated projects with national and international researchers. Since 2000, GISSAL has officially collaborated with over 35 academic departments, research units, or state/federal agencies across the nation and world. Key work includes the SSURGO soils digitizing effort (USDA), Kansas GAP Project (USGS), and collaborative work with the National Agricultural Biosecurity Center (NABC), USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) Center for Plant Health Science and Technology (CPHST), U.S. National Park Service, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, American Geographical Society, and the Kansas Forest Service.
A total of six major funded projects are currently underway in the laboratory with GISSAL research staff serving as principal or co-principal investigator. These projects represent over $2.5 million in extramural funding:
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Validating the Kinematic Wave Approach for Rapid Soil
Erosion Assessment and Improved BMP Site Selection to
Enhance Training Land Sustainability |
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Fort Riley Range and
Training Land Assessment Program Funding: $1,200,000 from the Fort Riley Integrated Training Area Management Program and USGS Duration: 2005-2010 Collaborators: Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering |
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Applying Landscape Connectivity to Model the Spread of
Plant Pathogens |
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Kansas Statewide Assessment Program |
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Conserving,
Renovating, and Establishing Working Field Windbreaks |
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GIScience Infrastructure Enhancement
Program – Phase II |
Several major funded projects have been recently completed where GISSAL research staff served as principal or co-principal investigator. These projects represented over $3.6 million in extramural funding:
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GIScience Infrastructure Enhancement
Program |
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Vegetation Mapping of Parks in the
Southwestern United States |
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Kansas Forest Stewardship Assessment
(SAP) Program |
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Bowman Expedition: Global GIS Place-Based Field
Research in the Antilles Funding: $76,716 from the American Geographical Society and Radiance Technologies Duration: 2006-2008 |
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Impact of Rapid Anthropogenic Landcover
Change on Hantavirus Ecology |
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Impact of Military Training on Nonpoint
Source Pollution/Water Quality |