University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
Grant principal investigator, Dr. Michael Eggleton, professor of fisheries science, (right), discusses wetlands restoration with co-principal investigators Dr. Yingkai Fang, assistant professor/natural resources economics (far left), and Dr. Uttam Deb, assistant professor/aquaculture economics at a wetland adjacent to the UAPB campus. University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff s Aquaculture/Fisheries Department will receive $3 million grant from NRCS.
Debbie Archer, UAPB School of Agriculture, Fisheries and Human Sciences | Apr 27, 2021
A $3 million grant has been awarded to the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff’s Aquaculture/Fisheries Department by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), according to Dr. Laurence B. Alexander, UAPB chancellor.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service has awarded a five-year, $3 million grant to the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff s Aquaculture/Fisheries Department for wetlands conservation research.
Michael Eggleton, a professor of fisheries science in that UAPB department, is the principal investigator. Co-principal investigators include Uttam Deb, assistant professor of aquaculture economics; Yingkai Fang, assistant professor of natural resources economics; and Jonathan Spurgeon, assistant unit leader at the U.S. Geological Survey-Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit.
The purpose of the grant is to provide a formal evaluation of the NRCS s Agricultural Conservation Easement Program-Wetland Reserve Easements (ACEP-WRE) program. That program allows landowners to cost-share with NRCS in converting their marginal or retired farmlands back to native wetland and associated habitats.
Send Yingkai Fang has been appointed as an assistant professor of fisheries and natural resource economics at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.
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