Campus: UW-Madison
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Upgrading the shared campus use Small Animal Metabolic Phenotyping Facility
Pierre’s project aims to acquire a shared use autoclave and biological safety cabinet for the newly established UW–Madison Small Animal Metabolic Phenotyping Facility. This equipment will help control potentially disruptive…
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Dairy Water Quality Research Station: A campus-wide long-term lysimeter network in Wisconsin
Zhu-Barker’s project aims to build a campus-wide Dairy Water Quality Research Station for long-term nutrient transport monitoring, modeling, and management for sustainable dairy production in Wisconsin. The station will use…
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Purchase of a no-till drill to enhance dairy conservation cropping system research at Peninsular Agriculture Research Station
Wiepz’s project will use a new, 10-foot no-till drill to expand Peninsular Agriculture Research Station’s capacity to collaborate on dairy-focused conservation cropping system research. Innovative crop rotation alterations and/or enhancements…
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Expanding calf housing options into underutilized UW animal research facilities
Cederquist’s project will utilize 72 new Calf-Tel Individual Calf Pens to establish a calf rearing facility in underutilized space at Arlington Ag Research Station. The addition of these Calf-Tel Pens…
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Cold season hydrology and frozen soils laboratory capacity building
Thompson’s project aims to improve existing facilities at UW–Madison to conduct research related to frozen soils and wintertime nutrient loss. The new equipment will enhance the capacity to create controlled…
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A greenhouse gas measurement system for dairy agroecosystems
Stoy’s project aims to improve existing greenhouse gas measurement capabilities across the UW System by acquiring a GasMet GT5000 Terra, a portable gas analyzer. It will be a shared resource…
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Acquisition of high parameter flow cytometer to disentangle complex microbe-host interactions that drive neonatal development in dairy cows
Rostoll Cangiano’s project will utilize a new ThermoFisher Attune NxT flow cytometer, a benchtop cell analyzer that can measure multiple parameters of cell function in realtime, to better understand the…
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Increasing research capacity in enteric methane emissions and sustainable dairy farming: acquisition of a GreenFeed unit
Peñagaricano’s project utilizes a C-Lock GreenFeed unit, an automated, head-chamber type system, to monitor methane and carbon dioxide mass fluxes from the breath of ruminant animals. This delivers reliable estimates…
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Multi-barn high-resolution camera system for behavioral monitoring of dairy heifers
Van Os’s project will use a high-resolution camera system to monitor young dairy heifers throughout three barns at the Marshfield Agricultural Research Station. Cameras will provide a top-down view of…
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Tracking longitudinal bovine mammary gland development via ultrasound technology
Laporta’s project will utilize a new ultrasound unit for research studies primarily involving dairy cattle mammary gland biology. The new ultrasound unit will expand capabilities of high-quality research in lactation…
