| Overall Rating | Silver |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 47.04 |
| Liaison | Debbie Liddick |
| Submission Date | April 21, 2023 |
Black Hills State University
AC-9: Research and Scholarship
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
7.78 / 12.00 |
Maggie
Torness Sustainability Coordinator Facilities Services |
Total number of employees that conduct research:
Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:
Percentage of employees that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
Total number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts research:
Number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts sustainability research:
Percentage of departments that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
A copy of the inventory of the institution’s sustainability research (upload):
Inventory of the institution’s sustainability research:
1. Trenton Ellis (Sociology) & Michael Hollingsworth (Human Services); The BHSU Food Insecurity Study
2. Brian Smith (Biology); School of Natural Sciences; Surveys of the Black Hills redbelly snake, Storeria occipitomaculata pahasapae, in the Northern Black Hills of South Dakota; Road ecology and microhabitat assessment of Black Hills red-bellied snakes (Storeria occipitomaculata pahasapae) and smooth greensnakes (Opheodrys vernalis) in an isolated mountain range
3. Katrina Jensen (Chemistry); School of Natural Sciences; Sustainable Catalysts for Photoredox Reactions
4. Mark Gable (Biology/Curator for the Herbarium) Flora of South Dakota; Database for Plant Species from the Missouri Plateau
5. Justin Ramsey & Tara Ramsey (Biology); Black Hills & Great Plains plant communities: taxonomic composition, phylogenetic diversity, and associations with climate factors — multifaceted study of grassland, meadow and forest communities in western South Dakota, based on vascular plant inventories, species percent cover estimates, chloroplast DNA phylogenies, site physiography, and climate factors (temperature and rainfull). 2020-present. Participants: Darlene Coppe (Genomics/grad student), Ben Shreves (Genomics/grad student), Tara Ramsey, Justin Ramsey, and many undergrads (BRIN/EPSCoR fellow); Climatic adaptation of wild yarrow in the Black Hills & Great Plains — analysis of ecological adaptation (population differentiation for growth, size, phenology, and physiological traits to climate and soil features) for a widespread plant species, based on field surveys and garden experiments. 2015-present. Participants: Justin Ramsey, Tara Ramsey, and many undergraduates (BRIN/EPSCoR fellows)
6. Andrew Buks (Business Administration); Divestment or Engagement: Paths to Net Zero from the US Perspective
7. Cynthia Anderson (Genomics), Oxana Gorbatenko (Genomics), Shane Sharver (Biology); Discovering Biodiversity in Deep Sub-Terrestrial Ecosystems
A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory:
This information was gathered through Chief Research Officer for BHSU, Charles Lamb, who reached out to faculty members, asked for research projects and their names related to Sustainability, and compiled the data.
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