Grants and Contracts

2008

• Cotton, Inc., $16,000.  "Multiple control options for the Larger Black Flour Beetle, Cynaeus angustus (LeConte) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), in cotton gin trash piles" (C. Nansen, P. Porter, N.E. McIntyre, M.N. Parajulee, and B.A. Baugh). 

2007

• Cotton, Inc., $16,000.  "Control of the Larger Black Flour Beetle in extended storage of cotton gin trash" (M. Parajulee, P. Porter, N. McIntyre, and B. Baugh).

2006

• Departmental F&A Mini-grant, Texas Tech University, $2500.  Graduate student travel. 

2005

• Research Enhancement Fund, Texas Tech University, $4670.  “Zoonoses in urban environments: a metapopulation perspective” (S.B. Cox and N.E. McIntyre).
• HHMI Research Grant, $5000.  "Radio-telemetry of female tarantulas (Aphonopelma hollyi)" (D.E. Hamilton, C. Craig, and N. McIntyre).

2002-2004

• Advanced Research Program, $249,520. "Landscape epidemiology of a Texas hantavirus: effect of habitat structure and potential role of ectoparasites on transmission dynamics" (M.A. Houck and N.E. McIntyre).

2002

• Research Enhancement Fund, Texas Tech University, $2668. "Pest control of the Larger Black Flour Beetle, an emerging threat to the cotton ginning industry on the Southern High Plains of Texas."

2001

• Texas Department of Agriculture, $13,255. "Monitoring and control of the Larger Black Flour Beetle, an evolving threat to the cotton ginning industry on the Southern High Plains" (N.E. McIntyre and P. Porter).
• Research Enhancement Fund, Texas Tech University, $3000. "Population dynamics in heterogeneous environments: linking landscape ecology with metapopulation biology."

1998

• NASA-Michigan State University Professional Enhancement Award, $400.
• Research travel award, Colorado State University Department of Biology, $200. "Interactions between habitat patch availability and configuration: Implications for animal movement."

1997

• Dissertation Fellowship, Colorado State University, $11,000.
• Research travel award, Colorado State University Department of Biology, $225. "An empirical determination of the effects of landscape structure and the scale of patchiness on animal movements."
• Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research, $700. "Consequences of landscape heterogeneity on animal movements: an empirical determination of the effects of hard and soft patch boundaries on percolation."

1996

• Colorado Graduate Fellowship, Colorado State University, $3491.
• Research travel award, Colorado State University Department of Biology, $300. "Effects of internal and external motivational factors on animal movements in an experimental landscape."

1995

• Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research, $400. "Effects of vegetational architecture on movements of three beetle species occupying different trophic levels."
• Research travel award, Colorado State University Department of Biology, $300. "Effects of vegetational architecture on the movements of insects on the shortgrass steppe."