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About Dr. Ingham

Research Grants

• Growing Solutions
  1999-2000: Factors Influencing Production of Compost Tea Quality.
• Helena Chemical Corporation
  1998 - 1999: Effects of biological control products on the soil foodweb.
• Natural Resource Conservation Service
  1995-1997: Database development for soil organisms
  1995-1997: Primer development for soil organisms
• EPA/Agriculture in concert with the Environment Program
  1994-1997: Influence of Cover Crop and Non-Crop Vegetation on Symphylan (Scutigerella immaculata) Density in Vegetable Production Systems in the Pacific Northwest
• EPA/Intergovernmental Personnel Agreement
  1991-1993: Agreement between OSU and ERL-Corvallis for interaction between Ecotoxicology Branch and E.R. Ingham.
• EPA/Co-operative Agreements/Research Grants/Contracts/Training Grants
  1993-1996: Ozone Program: Assessment of Impacts of Ozone on Soil Organisms
  1994-1996: Terracosm Assessment of Soil Foodweb Organisms
  1992-1995: Two training grants with (1) Ozone and (2) GPEP groups
  1991-1993:Ecological test protocols for the assessment of impact at terrestrial superfund sites, E.R. Ingham, P.I.
  1991-1993: Effects of genetically engineered organisms on the soil foodweb
  1989-1990: Development of ecosystem specific scenarios for the terrestrial ecosystem exposure assessment models; E.R. Ingham and M.V. Wilson, P.I.'s
• U.S. Forest Service
  1995-1996: Impacts of thinning treatments on soil foodweb structure in coastal Douglas-fir forests.
  1994: Eastside Assessment Program: Assessment of state of knowledge of soil bacteria, fungi, protozoa, nematodes and rotifers in the Columbia River Basin.
  1994: Contract, Assessment of Distance from Downed Logs/Thinning, Burn Intensity and Grazing on Soil Foodweb Organisms
  1994: Contract, Effects of Compaction on Soil Foodweb Organisms in the Deschutes Forest.
  1994-1996: Competition between flying squirrels and nematodes for fungal biomass in thinned forests in the PNW.
  1993-1995: Assessment of soil foodweb responses to chloropicrin.
  1991-1992: Impact of chloropicrin on live tree rhizosphere foodwebs.
  1990-1991: Assessment of bacterial and fungal biomass in soil.
• National Agricultural Pesticide Impact Assessment Program
  1989-1993: Evaluation of the ecological impacts resulting from the use of chloropicrin to control laminated root rot in Northwest conifer forests.
• NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (each year for three years)
  1989-1992: Awarded to Oregon State University, Joseph J. Beatty, Principal Investigator, 16 interdisciplinary co-operators (Presented seminars to students all 3 years. Advised 3 students in 1989; Co-advised 1 student in 1990; Advised Christine Ramirez in 1991; Advised Nicole Petty in 1992).
• National Science Foundation
  1988-1991: Microbial ecology of ectomycorrhizal mats in a Douglas-fir ecosystem; awarded to Oregon State University, K Cromack, R. Griffiths, B. Caldwell, M. Castellano, E. Ingham, and R. Morita
  1986: International Synthesis Workshop on C, N, P and S Interactions in Terrestrial Ecosystems; awarded to the University of Georgia; held at Sapelo Island, Georgia, 13-18 April 1986; D.C. Coleman, E.R. Ingham, C.P.P. Reid, and H.W. Hunt, P.I.'s
  1984-1985: A cross-ecosystem analysis of decomposition, nutrient cycling and primary production in semiarid environments; awarded to Colorado State University, D.C. Coleman, P.I. (post-doctoral fellowship) National Science Foundation - SOS
  1974: Effects of fire on Red Pine forests in northern Minnesota; awarded to St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN.