Funded Research Projects

“Worms working for change: How vermifiltration of dairy nutrients relates to carbon trading.” BUILD Dairy National Research Program (PI: , PI: Kris Johnson, Co-PI: C.M. Gardner). $69,701, 2022-2024.

 “Characterization of Stormwater Runoff and its Impact on Soil Quality in Periurban Agricultural Areas: Puget Sound, WA.” Emerging Research Issues Program, WSU CAHNRS Office of Research (PI: Joan Wu, Co-PIs: C.M. Gardner, Ani Jayakaran, Jordan Jobe), $80,000, 2022-2024.

“Building soil health resiliency through vermicompost tea application.” WSU CANHRS BioAg program. (PI: C.M. Gardner, Co-PI: Jan Boll), $36,300, 2022-2023.

“Worms working for change: How vermifiltration of dairy nutrients relates to carbon trading,” Washington State Applied Bioenergy Appendix A program (PI: Kris Johnson, Co-PIs: C.M. Gardner, Shannon Neibergs, Tom Jobson), $59,960, 2022-2023.

“Evaluation of GE crop transgene adsorption to microplastics and downstream fate in the environment,” NSF (PI: C.M. Gardner, Co-PI: Nicholas Engdahl), $329,408, 2022-2024.

“Review and Analysis of Water Regulations for the City of Spokane” City of Spokane (PI: Nigel Pickering; Co-PIs: C.M. Gardner, John Stark; $60,781; 2020-2021.

“Assessing Risks of Transport and Uptake of Antibiotic Resistance and RNA Silencing Transgenes in Soils via Experiments and Modeling”, USDA (PI: C.M. Gardner; Co-PIs: Tim Ginn (WSU), Rishi Parashar (Desert Research Institute), and Nicole Sund (Desert Research Institute), $499,513, 2019-2022.

“Fecal Coliform Source Tracking”, City of Pullman (PI: C.M. Gardner; $918, 2019-2021.