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Research Projects Subjects of Investigation at this Location

Each ARS research project has related subjects of investigation.  Listed below are the subjects of investigation currently conducted at this location.

Clicking on a subject of investigation will list the research projects within that  subject of investigation.
Subjects of Investigation
Air
Alfalfa
Almond
Animal research, general
Apple
Atmosphere, general/other
Bacteria
Barley
Beans (dry)
Beans (fresh, fresh-processed)
Beef cattle, general/other
Beef cattle, live animal
Bees, honey, and other pollinators, general
Canola
Citrus, general/other
Climate
Coffee
Cool season perennial grasses (includes bluegrass, bromegrass, fescue)
Corn (for sweetcorn use 1480)
Cotton, other
Cottonseed (for meal, oil, etc.)
Cross-commodity research--multiple animal species
Cross-commodity research--multiple crops
Dairy cattle, live animal
Desert and semidesert shrub land and shinnery
Durum wheat
Economy, general/other
Egg-type chicken, live animal
Fertilizers
Finfish
Food (not readily associated with specific plant and animal products)
Forage legumes, other
Freshwater shrimp
General Commodity
Goats, meat and mohair
Grain crops, general/other (includes buckwheat, millet, triticale)
Grain sorghum
Greens and leafy vegetables (includes endive, lettuce, spinach)
Hard red spring wheat
Hard red winter wheat
Hard white wheat
Honey bees
Horses, ponies, and mules
Individuals (as workers, consumers, members of society)
Insects
Laboratory animals
Land
Leguminous vegetables, other
Lentil
Long fiber cotton
Machinery and equipment
Marine shrimp
Meat, beef cattle
Meat, dairy cattle
Meat, sheep
Meat, swine
Meat-type chicken, live animal
Microorganisms, general/other
Miscellaneous and new crops, general/other
Noncrop plant research
Oats
Oilseed and oil crops, general/other
Other animals, general
Other bees (non-Apis bees)
Other non-bee pollinators, general
Other swine products
Pasture
Pasture and forage crops, general/other
Peanut
Peas (dry)
Pecan
People and communities, general/other
Perennial grasses, other
Pesticides (includes herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, etc.)
Plant research, general
Potato
Rangelands and grasslands, general
Rangelands, other
Remote sensing equipment and technology
Rice
River basins
Sheep, live animal
Soft red wheat
Soft white wheat (includes club, western)
Soil
Soil and land, general
Solar radiation
Soybean
Spiders, mites, ticks, and other arthropods
Sugar beet
Summer annual grasses (includes forage sorghums, sudangrass, sorghum)
Sunflower
Swine, general/other
Swine, live animal
The family and its members
The farm as an enterprise
Turkey, live animal
Upland cotton
Vegetables, general/other
Viruses
Warm season perennial grasses (includes dallisgrass, bluestems)
Water resources
Watersheds
Watersheds and river basins, general
Weather
Weeds
Wheat, other
Wild animals
Wildlife and natural fisheries, general/other
Wildlife habitats
Winter annual legumes (includes subterranean clover, arrowleaf clover)
Research Projects within Goats, meat and mohair
item A Genetic Approach to Assess the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Disease Vectors
item African Swine Fever Collaborative Agreement
item Assessing the Risk of Arthropod-Borne Disease in the Caribbean and the Americas (RACE Risk of Arthropod-borne diseases in the Caribbean)
item Assessment of CCHV in Ugandan Cattle Corridor and Kenyan Arid North Tick Populations
item BSL4ZNet Secretariat Support and Maintenance
item BSL4ZNet Support and Maintenance
item Center for Tick Surveillance
item Characterization of Arbovirus-mosquito-vertebrate Host Interactions
item Characterization of Risk for Emerging High-consequence Zoonoses in Liberia
item Collection of Sheep Germplasm in the Mid-Atlantic Region
item Communications Best Practices for High-containment Laboratories
item Detection and Characterization of Arboviruses and Environmental Influences on Transmission at the U.S. Wildlife and Livestock Interface
item Detection and Characterization of Potential Emerging Arboviruses in Brazil
item Developing Collaborative Research Partnerships with the BSL4 Zoonotic network (BSL4Znet): Responding to Emerging Zoonotic Diseases
item Development and U.S. Based Production of a Rugged Fully Encapsulating Suit for the ABSL-4 Ag and other BSL-4 Environments (Phase 3)
item Development of Short-term Experiential Opportunities to Enhance the Veterinary Workforce
item Effects of Environmental Temperature on Arbovirus Vector Competence of Various Mosquito Species
item Epidemiological Fitness Assessment of Segmented RNA Viruses
item Evaluation of Transboundary Disease Mitigation Strategies in Kenya
item Host and Vector Transcriptional Responses for Transboundary Arboviral Disease of Livestock
item Integrating Vesicular Stomatitis Surveillance, Phylogenetic Analysis and Remote Sensing Toward an Early Warning System for Vector-borne Diseases
item Intervention Strategies to Prevent and Control Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF)
item Investigating Risk Factors of Rift Valley Fever Virus Direct Transmission in Kenya
item Maintaining and Refining Animal GRIN
item Molecular Characterization and Epidemiological Surveillance of Arboviruses in Kenya’s Livestock
item Molecular Characterization of Arbovirus-Mosquito-Vertebrate Host Interactions
item Mosquito Cis-regulatory Elements Associated with Arbovirus Infection
item National Animal Germplasm Program
item Novel Partnerships for an Early-career Pipeline to Enhance the Biodefense Veterinary Workforce
item Predicting Insect Contact and Transmission Using Historical Epidemiological Data
item Quantitative Analysis of the Fomite Transport Risk Reduction Provided by Shower Out Practices in Various Containment Settings
item Rational Development of Recombinant Vaccines for African Swine Virus and Classical Swine Fever
item RAV3N Phase II: Network of University and Federal BSL-3/4 Large Animal and Laboratory Agricultural Research Facilities
item Southwestern USA Arbovirus Landscape
item Strategic Safety Climate Management Initiatives for National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF)
item Support Research Collaboration Efforts Between USDA/ARS and International Scientists Working on Priority Research Projects of Mutual Interest
item Support Research Collaborations, Scientific Trainings, and Conferences for the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF)
item The Agrosecurity Partnerships for Innovative Research (ASPIRE) Project for the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF)
item Transmission Dynamics of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus