Dr. Julie Whitbeck

1996 US Department of Agriculture - SANRUE program: "Development of biological indicators of soil and plant health," subcontract from Pennsylvania State University to Tulane University ($4,150; 6/95 – 6/97)

1996 US Department of Energy: "Hazardous Materials in Aquatic Environments of the Mississippi River Basin: Identification of metal accumulators among the flora of contaminated wetlands and exploration of their uptake mechanisms," (research initiation grant) Tulane University ($26,220; 2/96 – 1/97)

1997 US Department of Energy: "Hazardous Materials in Aquatic Environments of the Mississippi River Basin, Field Core: Assessment of plant metal uptake -- population and productivity impacts," (with H. Bart & G. Flowers -- funds listed support only my portion of the research) Tulane University ($43,399; 2/97 – 1/98)

1997 Louisiana Board of Regents: "Recruitment of superior students to the field of ecosystem ecology," (PI with T. Bianchi and H. Bart) Tulane University ($64,000; 7/97 – 6/02)

1999 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: "Linking root functional ecology to whole plant water relations in tropical dry forest — from species to community," Tulane University/UNO ($345,000; 7/99 – 6/02)

2000 National Institute for Global Environmental Change: " Effects of seasonal flooding and sea level rise on the relative contributions of plant roots and microbial respiration to soil CO2 emission in a bottomland hardwood forest in southeast Louisiana," Univ. of New Orleans ($348,715; 7/00 – 6/03)

RESEARCH SUPPORT FROM NON-UNIVERSITY SOURCES 1996 US Department of Agriculture - SANRUE program: "Development of biological indicators of soil and plant health," subcontract from Pennsylvania State University to Tulane University ($4,150; 6/95 – 6/97) 1996 US Department of Energy: "Hazardous Materials in Aquatic Environments of the Mississippi River Basin: Identification of metal accumulators among the flora of contaminated wetlands and exploration of their uptake mechanisms," (research initiation grant) Tulane University ($26,220; 2/96 – 1/97) 1997 US Department of Energy: "Hazardous Materials in Aquatic Environments of the Mississippi River Basin, Field Core: Assessment of plant metal uptake -- population and productivity impacts," (with H. Bart & G. Flowers -- funds listed support only my portion of the research) Tulane University ($43,399; 2/97 – 1/98) 1997 Louisiana Board of Regents: "Recruitment of superior students to the field of ecosystem ecology," (PI with T. Bianchi and H. Bart) Tulane University ($64,000; 7/97 – 6/02) 1999 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: "Linking root functional ecology to whole plant water relations in tropical dry forest — from species to community," Tulane University/UNO ($345,000; 7/99 – 6/02) 2000 National Institute for Global Environmental Change: " Effects of seasonal flooding and sea level rise on the relative contributions of plant roots and microbial respiration to soil CO2 emission in a bottomland hardwood forest in southeast Louisiana," Univ. of New Orleans ($348,715; 7/00 – 6/03)