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OCTOBER 31, 2016

A regional interdisciplinary team led by Montana State University has received $6 million from the National Science Foundation to address questions about whether biofuels and carbon capture technologies can be sustainably introduced into the Upper Missouri River Basin.

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JANUARY 8, 2010

The US Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded more than $123 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grants to support the construction of new scientific research facilities at 11 universities and one non-profit research organization. Fort Lauderdale-Davis, Fla.)

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln will lead a $13.5-million, Funded by the US Department of Energy, this five-year grant takes a comprehensive approach to better understand how plants and microbes interact, and to learn which sorghum germplasm grows better with less water and nitrogen. —Daniel Schachtman.

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JULY 23, 2009

These grants will be awarded under a joint DOE-USDA program begun in 2006 that is committed to fundamental research in biomass genomics, providing the scientific foundation to facilitate use of lignocellulosic materials for bioenergy and biofuels. University of Georgia, Athens, $1,200,000. University of Florida, $643,000.

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OCTOBER 30, 2014

The study led by University of Nebraska-Lincoln assistant professor Adam Liska, funded through a three-year, $500,000-grant from the US Department of Energy, used carbon dioxide measurements taken from 2001 to 2010 to validate a soil carbon model that was built using data from 36 field studies across North America.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

The awarded grants will go to projects with lead researchers in 17 states. Water (1 project). DOE grant: $7,200,000). DOE grant: $6,949,624). DOE grant:$5,349,932). Arizona State University, in partnership with Fluidic Energy Inc., DOE Grant: $4,000,000). DOE grant: $1,999,447). Earlier post.)

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APRIL 21, 2014

Using corn crop residue to make ethanol and other biofuels reduces soil carbon and under some conditions can generate more greenhouse gases than gasoline, according to a major, multi-year study by a University of Nebraska-Lincoln team of researchers published in the journal Nature Climate Change. Changes in SOC.

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