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Parker Mountain Adaptive Resource Management Group 2007 Annual Report, Michael Guttery, David Dahlgren, Michael Monsen, Terry Messmer

All Current Publications

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Executive Committee Agenda, November 19, 2007, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• Brown Bag Lunch with President Canceled on December 5
• Faculty Code Review Committee
• Commencement
• Cultural Activities Council Annual Report
• Libraries Advisory Council Report
• Honors Program Annual Report
• EPC Annual Report
• Committee on Committee Report
• PRPC Items
• Representation of Extension and RCDE on Faculty Senate (2nd reading)
• Reasons of Non-Renewal (1st reading)
• Old Versions of Code

Biofuel Feedstocks: The Risk Of Future Invasions, Joseph M. Ditomaso, Jacob N. Barney, Allison M. Fox

All U.S. Government Documents (Utah Regional Depository)

In an effort to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, expand domestic energy production, and maintain economic growth, public and private investments are being used to pursue dedicated feedstock crops for biofuel production. Unlike food crops grown for grain-based ethanol (e.g., corn), which require high inputs of fertilizers and pesticides and typically are grown on prime agricultural land, proposed lignocellulose-based energy crops (e.g., switchgrass) typically have a neutral or negative carbon budget, require relatively few economic or environmental inputs, and can be cultivated on marginal, lower-productivity land. Thus, a rapidly growing industry related to crop selection, cultivar improvement, and conversion technilogies is …

Beneficial Insects: Beetles, Erin W. Hodgson, Ron Patterson

All Current Publications

No abstract provided.

Beneficial Insects: Mantids, Erin W. Hodgson, Ron Patterson

All Current Publications

No abstract provided.

Beneficial Insects: Beetles, Erin W. Hodgson, Ron Patterson

All Current Publications

There are many beneficial beetles in Utah besides lady beetles or ladybugs. Beetles can significantly reduce common insect and weed problems and in some cases eliminate the need for chemical control. Examples of beneficial beetles include: ground beetles, rove beetles, tiger beetles and tortoise beetles. Many of these beetles are native to Utah, while others have been purposely introduced to help control damage from exotic insect and weed pests.

Beneficial Insects: Mantids, Erin W. Hodgson, Ron Patterson

All Current Publications

Mantids refer to an entire predatory group of insects in the order Mantodea. The term “mantis” or “praying mantis” actually refers to a particular genus of mantids. Therefore, only some mantids belong to the genus Mantis. There are about 2,000 species of mantids worldwide and at least 20 species in the U.S. Two mantid species dominate Utah gardens: European mantid and Chinese mantid.

Beneficial Insects: True Bugs, Erin W. Hodgson, Ron Patterson

All Current Publications

True bugs have piercing-sucking mouthparts and belong to the order Hemiptera and suborder Heteroptera. There are more than 38,000 species of true bugs, and are most closely related to aphids, cicadas, and leaf hoppers. Although some true bugs are considered pests, about one-third are predaceous. True bugs have forewings, or hemelytra, that cross over the back at rest, but sometimes the wings are reduced.

Eutrophication In Farmington Bay And Its Potential Impacts On Wildlife, Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh

Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Curriculum Subcommittee Minutes, October 4, 2007, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences

• New Course
• Delete Course

Department of Plants, Soils, and Climate

• Credit Hour Change

College of Business

• New Course

Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education

• New Course
• Course Description Change
• Title Change, Course Description Change
• Title Change, Credit Hour Change, Course Description Change
• Title Change, Credit Hour Change, Course Description Change, Add Repeatable for Credit

Department of Family, Consumer, and Human Development

• Title Change, Course Description Change

Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation

• New Course
• Title Change, Prerequisite Change
• Prerequisite Change
• Delete Course

Department of Instructional Technology

• New Course

Department of Secondary Education …

Curriculum Subcommittee Minutes, September 6, 2007, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Overview of Curriculum Subcommittee

Completing the Semester Course Approval Form

Agricultural Systems Technology and Education

• Title Change, Course Description Change
• Title Change
• Delete Course

Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences

• New Course

College of Business

• New Course

School of Accountancy

• New Course

Management Information Systems

• Title Change, Course Description Change
• Prerequisite Change

Department of Special Education and Rehabilitation

• Credit Hour Change

Department of Biological and Irrigation Engineering

• New Course
• Credit Hour Change

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Prerequisite Change

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Prerequisite Change

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

• New Course
• Title Change, Prerequisite Change …

Urban Particulate Matter Casues Er Stress And The Unfolded Protein Response In Human Lung Cells, T. L. Watterson, B. Hamilton, Randy S. Martin, R. A. Coulombe Jr.

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications

Because of its presumed adverse health effects, particulate air pollution (PM) has received growing attention, but the cellular mechanisms by which PM exerts toxicity are not well elucidated. PM has been associated with early mortality from illnesses that share endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress as a mechanism of pathogenesis. In this study, we examined whether PM would induce the unfolded protein response (UPR) which is a cellular response to ER stress. Coarse (PM10) and fine (PM2.5) PM was collected from a single location in Northern Utah's Cache Valley during atmospheric inversions occurring in January 2002 and January 2003. Extracts of PM …

Asparagus Beetle And Spotted Asparagus Beetle, Erin W. Hodgson, Dan Drost

All Current Publications

Asparagus beetle, Crioceris asparagi, and spotted asparagus beetle, C. duodecimpunctata are leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. These beetles feed exclusively on asparagus and are native to Europe. Asparagus beetle is the more economically injurious of the two species.

Model-Based Anomaly Management For Small Spacecraft Missions, Christopher Kitts, Richard Rasay

Small Satellite Conference

Space missions produce value through the production of mission data products and services. In doing so, however, significant resources are expended in order to maintain system health and to manage anomalies as they occur. These tasks are costly in terms of the expertise, personnel, and time required to detect, diagnose and resolve problems. Our recent work in model-based reasoning (MBR) techniques has demonstrated the applicability of this technology to the small satellite domain. MBR uses fundamental design knowledge of a system in order to compute reasoning conjectures relating to the existence of symptoms, diagnosis estimates, and resolution control actions. In …

A Flight-Proven 2.4ghz Ism Band Cots Communications System For Small Satellites, Ignacio Mas, Christopher Kitts

Small Satellite Conference

A communications system operating in the 2.4GHz ISM unlicensed band was developed for GeneSat-1, an innovative technology demonstration mission intended to validate the use of research quality instrumentation for in situ biological research and processing. As a key underlying mission-enabling technology, and responding to a lowcost, quick turn-around philosophy, this communications system is based on commercial-of-the-shelf components not originally intended for space flight. The system utilizes a frequency hopping spread spectrum technique widely used in wireless phones, Internet hubs and other devices. This approach provided exceptional benefits relevant to small satellite missions: low cost, highly integrated hardware resulting in small …

Billikensat-Ii: The First Bio-Fuel Cell Test Platform For Space , Sanjay Jayaram, Darren Pais, Sonia Hernez, Paul Lemon, Nathaniel Clark, Benjamin Corrado, Brian Vitale, Justin Kerber, Elena Nogales, Jorge Moya, Robert Arechaderra

Small Satellite Conference

Saint Louis University’s Space Systems Research Laboratory has designed and built an earth orbiting student project called BillikenSat-II that will carry a payload to test a Bio-Fuel Cell experiment. This satellite conforms to the CubeSat standard and is a pico-class satellite weighing a maximum of 1 kg and having dimensions of 10 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm. The satellite is to be launched on a converted Russian ICBM via the DNEPR program, in coordination with California Polytechnic and State University (CalPoly, San Luis Obispo, CA) at a launch date to be determined. This paper will describe BillikenSat II’s …

Beyond The Beep: Student-Built Satellites With Educational And 'Real' Missions, Michael Swartwout

Small Satellite Conference

Fifty student-built satellites have been launched in the past four years – as many as had been launched in the twenty years before. But this explosive growth has come at a cost: mission. About half of the satellites launched since 2003 carry no mission other than student education. But does that matter? For independent schools (those without long-term government sponsorship), the answer is a qualified yes. In this paper, we will analyze the launch history of student-built spacecraft to find recommendations for how independent schools can build sustained studentfocused satellite projects.

Flight Results From The Genesat-1 Biological Microsatellite Mission, Christopher Kitts, Karolyn Ronzano, Richard Rasay, Ignacio Mas, Phelps Williams, Paul Mahacek, Giovanni Minelli, John Hines, Elwood Agasid, Charlie Friedericks, Matthew Piccini, Macarena Parra, Linda Timucin, C. Beasley, Mike Henschke, Ed Luzzi, Nghia Mai, Mike Mcintyre, Robert Ricks, David Squires, Chris Storment, John Tucker, Bruce Yost, Greg Defouw, Antonio Ricco

Small Satellite Conference

The mission of the GeneSat-1 technology demonstration spacecraft is to validate the use of research-quality instrumentation for in situ biological research and processing. To execute this mission, the GeneSat-1 satellite was launched on December 16, 2006 from Wallops Flight Facility as a secondary payload off of a Minotaur launch vehicle. During the first week of operation, the core biological growth test was successfully executed, and by the end of the first month of operation all primary science and engineering test objectives had been successfully performed. In its current phase of operation, a variety of secondary technology characterizations tests are being …

A Simple Time Synchronization Scheme For Satellite Clusters In Formation Flying, N. Nagarajan, Dao Thi Hong Diep

Small Satellite Conference

Future communications may use many small satellites flying as a cluster. Such a cluster helps to synthesize very large antennae in space, wherein each satellite becomes the node or element of the antenna structure. A key factor in such a cluster, is the positioning of satellites in absolute as well as relative terms and the time synchronization between them. Ultra Wide Band (UWB) techniques have promising applications for small satellites, because they require only a very small power and support both navigation and communication. In this paper a simple technique i.e ‘transmit and listen’ method is used to demonstrate the …

Five Years Orbit Experience Of A Small Satellite Hyperspectral Imaging Mission, Mike Cutter, Martin Sweeting

Small Satellite Conference

This paper will summarise the results of a hyperspectral imaging mission that has now completed more than five years in orbit and is providing a wealth of data to Users across the world. The mission has demonstrated, fairly conclusively, that such sophisticated payloads can be implemented successfully on a small satellite platform. The instrument being flown is the Compact High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (CHRIS) developed within the Optical Payload Group (OPG) of Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. The instrument is flying on PROBA, a small agile satellite, which was launched in October 2001. The platform provides pointing in both across-track and …

The Nasa Arc Small Spacecraft Division, Peter Klupar, John Hines, B. Yost

Small Satellite Conference

As the utility and usefulness of small spacecraft are being demonstrated in orbit by NASA and other organizations and academia, it is becoming clear that small spacecraft can and should have a large roll in the exploration of the solar system. The various benefits associated with small platforms include low cost, frequent missions, and by virtue of those features, repeatable and evolutionary missions. This paper describes the motivation for establishing a dedicated function within the NASA Ames Research Center to pursue and implement multiple missions with small, inexpensive spacecraft, and outlines some future trends and directions of the Small Spacecraft …

Small Spacecraft Mission Concepts To Achieve Lunar Science And Exploration Goals, Jennifer Heldmann, Tony Ricco, Carol Stoker, Tomas Svitek, Lori Fenton, Sylvia Cox, Lyn O’Leary, John Hines, Peter Klupar

Small Satellite Conference

NASA’s Vision for Space Exploration calls for a return to the Moon with both robotic spacecraft and human explorers in the coming decades. Both scientific and exploration-related goals can be achieved using a small spacecraft platform with relatively low cost and rapid development time. We report on mission concepts within five investigation themes and provide traceability to proposed instrumentation and measurement objectives. Specific themes addressed here include 1) Water, 2) Radiation Shielding, 3) Biologic Effects of the Lunar Environment, 4) Dust and Regolith Characterization, and 5) Enabling Lunar Astrophysics.

Application Of The Themis Bus To New Missions, Michael Cully, Warren Chen, Kevin Brenneman, Gregory Delory

Small Satellite Conference

It is recognized that small satellites can complement the services provided by existing larger satellites, providing cost effective solutions to military missions, communications systems, remote sensing applications, satellite rapidresponse, science and technology demonstrator missions. However, today’s small satellites are largely confined to low Earth orbit where they perform remote sensing missions, conduct science operations, and serve as technology test beds. Future small satellite missions will include interplanetary missions, space-weather mapping as well as space exploration and robotic probes.

The Food Chain Of The Small Satellites Ecosystem , Luca Maresi

Small Satellite Conference

…In a food chain of a biological system, plants (or producers) fix energy from the Sun and use inorganic material to manufacture complex organic substances; consumers (e.g. birds, mammals) use the energy fixed by plants as their nutrients; finally decomposers (e.g. bacteria), break down dead organisms and release nutrients back to the environment for use by the producers… The Space Business can be seen as a class of ecosystems, where the producers (equipment suppliers) transform raw materials by using the energy (funds). Consumers (the users) use data and services provided by the satellites to release back the nutrients in form …

Insights, Summer, 2007, Utah State University

Discovery Magazine

Bi-annual alumni newsletter for the College of Science of Utah State University in Logan.

2007 Exhibitors, Deja J. Waymer

Small Satellite Conference

Listings and Descriptions of 2007 Small Satellite Conference Exhibitors

Pear Psylla (Cacopsylla Pyricola), Diane Alston, Marion Murray

All Current Publications

Pear psylla (Cacopsylla pyricola), a western Europe native, is a very small sap-feeding insect and is considered the most serious insect pest of pear in the United States. Serious infestations can stunt, defoliate, and even kill trees. Psylla feeding produces copious amounts of sticky honeydew that can cause fruit russetting.

Cereal Leaf Beetle, Erin W. Hodgson, Edward W. Evans

All Current Publications

Cereal leaf beetle, Oulema melanopus, is a leaf beetle in the family Chrysomelidae. These beetles are native to Europe and have been considered pests of small grains since 1737. In 1962, cereal leaf beetle was first detected in the United States in a Michigan grain field. Since the 1960s, this insect has spread throughout much of the United States and Canada; now at least 30 states have confirmed cereal leaf beetle populations.

Flower Pests, Larry A. Sagers

All Archived Publications

No abstract provided.

Welcome To Weber County 4-H, New 4-H Club Member Welcome Packet, Donna Carter

All Current Publications

This packet serves as Weber County's welcome packet for new 4-H members.