2024 Catalyst Award Teams

Advancing Development of Assessments, Practices and Tools (ADAPT) to Produce Climate Smart Beef in Grazing Systems

Galen Erickson (PI), animal science, Beef Innovation Lab

Co-PIs and Team Leads

  • Craig Allen, School of Natural Resources; Center for Resilience in Agricultural Working Landscapes
  • Effie Athanassopoulos, anthropology
  • Mary Drewnoski, animal science
  • John Gamon, School of Natural Resources
  • Makki Khorchani, School of Natural Resources 
  • Mitch Stephenson, agronomy and horticulture; Panhandle Research, Extension and Education Center
  • Andy Suyker, School of Natural Resources

Project Team

  • Jim MacDonald, animal science
  • Gwendwr Meredith, Center for Resilience in Agricultural Working Landscapes, School of Natural Resources
  • Yu Pan, biological systems engineering
  • Yeyin Shi, biological systems engineering
  • Daniel Uden, School of Natural Resources; Center for Resilience in Agricultural Working Landscapes
  • Jerry Volesky, agronomy and horticulture; Center for Grassland Studies
  • Ming (Bryan) Wang, advertising and public relations
  • Ran Wang, School of Natural Resources
  • Brian Wardlow, School of Natural Resources; Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies
  • Susan Weller, University of Nebraska State Museum
  • Yijie Xiong, animal science

Advisers and Collaborators

  • Tala Awada, School of Natural Resources; Agricultural Research Division
  • Beef Innovation external advisers (25 members representing all aspects of beef production systems)
  • Virginia Jin, U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service
  • Marty Schmer, U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service

Project Management and Communication Support

  • Sandra Christofferson, Agricultural Research Division
  • Maria Tibbetts, Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources

Project Evaluation

  • Jenn Rutt, Methodology and Evaluation Research Core
  • Mario Scalora, University of Nebraska Public Policy Center

Transforming Environments: Promoting Children’s Health, Development and Learning Indoors, Outdoors and Beyond
  • Anne Schutte (co-PI), psychology; Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior
  • Sarah Karle (co-PI), landscape architecture; Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
  • Holly Hatton, child, youth and family studies
  • Nicholas Hubbard, psychology; Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior
  • Katie Krause, Nebraska Extension
  • Salvador Lindquist, landscape architecture
  • Jennifer Leeper Miller, child, youth and family studies; Ruth Staples Child Development Lab
  • Julia Torquati, child, youth and family studies; Buffett Early Childhood Institute