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164A Seaton Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506-2904
Email: gissal@k-state.edu
As a university GIScience resource, GISSAL works extensively with faculty and students from a wide spectrum of disciplines, and has completed projects with several national and international partners.
Since 2000, GISSAL has collaborated with over 40 academic departments, research units, or state/federal agencies across the nation and world. Key work includes the SSURGO soils digitizing effort (USDA), Kansas GAP Project (USGS), and collaborative research with the:
Universite de Toulouse, Institute National Polytechnique de Toulouse, Ecole d'Ingenieurs de Purpan
Strategic Environmental Science and Technology Certification Program (SERDP)
National Agricultural Biosecurity Center (NABC)
USDA APHIS Center for Plant Health Science and Technology (CPHST)
U.S. National Park Service
Kansas Forest Service
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Laboratory
A total of five major funded projects totaling nearly $2 million are currently underway in the laboratory with GISSAL research staff serving as principal or co-principal investigator.
Mapping and Spatial Analysis Support for USAid/Ghana METTS Program
Funding: $15,000 from KSU Department of Agricultural Economics
Collaborators: Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Cape Coast (Ghana)
Validating the Kinematic Wave Approach for Rapid Soil Erosion Assessment and Improved BMP Site Selection to Enhance Training Land Sustainability
Funding: $676,431 from the DoD Environmental Science & Technology Certification Program (ESTCP)
Collaborators: Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering
Fort Riley Range and Training Land Assessment
Funding: $1,200,000 from the Fort Riley Integrated Training Area Management Program and USACE CERL
Applying Landscape Connectivity to Model the Spread of Plant Pathogens
Funding: $84,176 from USDA-APHIS-PPQ-CPHST
Collaborators: USDA-APHIS-PPQ-CPHST, Department of Plant Pathology, Department of Computer Engineering
GIS and Database Technical Services
Funding: $67,500
Collaborators: Kansas Forest Service
Mapping Grain Harvest Quality Factors in Near-Real Time
Collaborators: Department of Grain Science and Industry