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Coachella Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District
Board of Trustees Meeting
July 8,
2008
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Agenda Item: Informational Item
Annual research reports from University of California
Riverside, Davis
and The Texas A&M University System, for FY 2007/2008. - Branka Lothrop, PhD., Scientific Operations Manager
Background:
The District provides research
grants to the University
of California Riverside
and UC Davis. UC Riverside research projects include a study on the possibility
to use different bio-control agents such as tadpole shrimps for mosquito
control, seasonality and abundance of eye gnats in agricultural and urban
habitats and the influence of the water quality and wetland management on
mosquito and other nuisance insects’ production in treatment wetlands. UC Davis research projects include
monitoring of mosquito-borne viruses and evaluation and optimizing of mosquito
vector species control.
Fiscal Impact:
The research grants are approved
for FY 2007/2008, and posted in the budget as account #8510.1.600 in an amount
of $217,569 and the ending payment (total - $98, 784.50) will be distributed
as:
- UC
Riverside – Dr. M. Mulla - $19,000
- UC Davis – Dr. Reisen
- $41,866.50
- UC
Riverside – Dr. Walton - $27,918
- UC
Riverside – Dr. Platzer - $10,000.00
- Texas
AgriLife Extension Services – Dr. Drees -$20,000.00 (paid in full in
02/08)
The annual payment is 100% of the approved FY 2007/2008
research budget- #8510.01.600.