George Happ
University of Alaska Fairbanks & University of Vermont
Photo by Christy Yuncker Happ
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- Christy Yuncker Photo Journal - AlaskaSandhillCrane.com
- Alaska Sandhill Crane Blog
- Is crane dance innate or learned?
- Sandhill crane books
- Do cranes usde pheromones?
- Twin colts in 2010
- Local ecology and novelty
- Crane brains 3 - Mental maps of local ecology
- Crane Brains 2 - wiring plan
- Crane Brains 1- Evolutionary origins
- Death, visitations, and dance of "solidarity"
- Alaska Crane Kindergarten
- Return to nestsite and hatch of twin coltss
- Crane parents compensate for colt's injury
- Origins of the blog
- How birds think
Research and Program Funding
- NIH - National Center for Research Resources "Alaska INBRE-2: Environmental Agents and Infectious Disease", 2009-2014 $17.8M
- NIH - National Center for Research Resources SEPA "Biomedical Partnership for Research Education Pipeline (Alaska BioPREP)", 2008-2012 $1.345M
- NIH-NIAID - CRISAR (Center for Rapid Influenza Surveillance and Research), 2007-2009 ~$650K/year; J. Runsdtadler is UAF Co-PI
- USDA-CSREES - AICAP (Avian Influenza Coordinated Agricultural Project), 2006-2007 ~$725K, Co-PI
- NIH - NIAID - WWAMI-Biodefense Research Center for Excellence; Sam Miller, Univ Washington School of Medicine, PI; Seed grant subaward $75K
- NIH - National Center for Research Resources "Alaska INBRE: Toxicogenomics and Infectious Agents", 2004-2009 $17.4M
- NSF "Alaska EPSCoR Infrastructure Improvement Program", 2004-2007 $9M federal, $4.5M State of Alaska
- NIH-National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, "The Ecology of Francisella tularensis in Alaska" 2004-2006 ($100K), pilot research proposal through the University of Washington School of Medicine
- The Canine Health Foundation of the American Kennel Club, "Genetic Deteriminants of Susceptibility to Hypothyroid Disease in Dogs", 2003-2005, $62K (with Dr. W.E.R. Ollier and Lorna Kenndy of the University of Manchester, UK)
- DOD "A Planning Proposal for Alaska EPSCoR", 2003-2004 $30K
- NIH-National Center for Research Resources "Alaska BRIN: Toxicogenomics and Native Subsistence Species", 2001-2004 $6M; Supplement, 2002-2004 $2.5M; Administrative Supplement, 2003-2004 $300K
- The University of Alaska Natural Resource Fund - "Histocompatibility Loci of Alaskan Mammals", 1999-2001, $25K
- NSF "Alaska EPSCoR Infrastructure Improvement Program", 2001-2003 $9M federal, $4M State of Alaska, $500K Alaska Science and Technology Foundation; Supplement, $300K, 2002-2003
- DOD "A Planning Proposal for Alaska EPSCoR", 2000-2001 $33K
- NSF "A Planning Proposal for Alaska EPSCoR", 1999-2001 $263K
- Doberman Foundation of North America - " Genetics of Autoimmune Thyroiditis in Doberman Pinschers", 1997-2001, $20K (with Drs. Leslie Fox and Janet Wojciechowski of the University of Florida)
- Ralston Purina Company - "A Clinical Trial of Glutamine Supplementation in Working Sled Dogs", 1997-99, $55K
- Morris Animal Foundation - "Genetics of Autoimmune Thyroiditis in Doberman Pinschers", 1997-2001, $72K (with Drs. Leslie Fox and Janet Wojciechowski of the University of Florida)
- The University of Alaska President's Special Projects Fund - "Genetics of Autoimmune Thyroiditis in Dogs", 1996-97, $2K
- The Iams Company - "Genetics of Canine Hypothyroidism", 1993-95, $20K
- DOD "VT-EPSCoR Planning Grant", 1993-94 $75K
- DOE "VT-EPSCoR DOE Planning Grant Proposal: Vermont Energy R&D; Infrastructure Improvement Plan" 1991-1992 $100K
- EPA "VT-EPSCoR Plan for Improvement of Environmental Research" 1991-92, $100K
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute - "The HELiX Undergraduate Program", 1989-1994, $1M
- NSF "Vermont Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research" $2.5M (1987-1991), $25K (1991-92), $4.45M (1993-1997). Instate resources matched the federal contribution
- NIH-National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R01-AI 15662), "Control of Reproductive Maturation: An Insect Model", 1977-1993 ca. $150K/year
- USDA Competitive Grant, "Control of Reproduction in Male Insects", 1987-1990, $150K
- USDA Competitive Grant, "Control of Reproduction of Gypsy Moths", 1987-1988, $50K.
- NIH-National Institute of General Medical Science (R01-GM 26140 & R01-GM 21711), "Exocrine Glands: Models of Differentiative Transitions," 1975-1986, ca. $75K/year
- NSF (GB 36284)- "Symbioses of bark beetle and fungus", 1971-73, ca. $50K/year
- U.S. Public Health Service (CC-00343), "Chemical Communication in Arthropods," 1967-68 $47K/year