Additional Research Projects:

Quantifying the Impact of Prescribed Rangeland Burning on Regional Air Quality in the Kansas Flint Hills: A Case Study.

Jay Ham, Patrick Coyne, Walter Fick, Douglas Goodin, John Harrington, William Hargrove, and Clenton Owensby,

Watershed Level Water Balance with an Earthen Pond of Grazed Tallgrass Prairie.

Jamie Duesterhaus, Jay Ham, and Clenton Owensby

Integration of Carbon Flux Measurements in the Great Plains Region

Tagir G. Gilmanov , Bruce K. Wylie, Richard L. Coulter, William A. Dugas, Larry B. Flanagan, Albert B. Frank, Marshall R. Haferkamp, Tilden P. Meyers, Patricia C. Mielnick, Jack A. Morgan, Zoltan Nagy, Clenton E. Owensby, Michael S. Pekour, Larry L. Tieszen, Zoltan Tuba, Shashi B. Verma.

Partitioning nighttime respiration in a tallgrass prairie: evaluating a new approach using oxygen isotope composition of atmospheric CO2

C. Lai (Utah), J.M. Ehleringer, C.E. Owensby, J.M. Ham, and L.M. Auen

Behavioral Studies and Testosterone Manipulation of Greater Prairie Chicken

J. Nooker (Biology-KSU), Brett Sandercock, and C.E. Owensby

Evaluation of Different Herbicides on Control Woody and Herbaceous Weeds.

W.H. Fick

Future grazing research will focus on variations of the current research with stocker cattle to further increase gain per acre without reducing individual animal gains and to continue research on carbon, water vapor, and energy fluxes of tallgrass prairie. We also plan to develop techniques to remotely sense carbon fluxes, leaf area and biomass. Our plan is to also remotely sense fuel loads for range burning to be used as an input into models that determine amount and distribution of potential pollutants from range burning.