Funding Year: 2023
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Heavy metal assessment of soil, manure, feed, and dairy products using energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (EDXRF)
Hartemink’s project will utilize a a benchtop energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence EDXRF spectrometer to develop a campus-wide facility for routine analysis of heavy metals of soil, manure, feed, and dairy products…
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Soil Science Discrete Analyzer for water and soil and plant extract ion analysis
Siemering’s project will use a Bluesun/Systea Analytical Easychem 200 discrete analyzer to increase research capacity for analyzing soil and plant extracts and surface and groundwater samples. This machine is automated…
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High temperature rapid viscoanalyzer to analyze dairy beverages, cheese, and competing products
Girard’s project will use a new, high temperature rheometer to assess viscosity of heated dairy systems and to use as a small batch reactor in an effort to improve dairy…
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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…
