Research

2012 Call for Proposals

Welcome to the Sierra Foothill Research and Extension Center. Project leaders will be provided the opportunity to extend information developed from their research at Center Field Days and other meetings.

Resources are available to approved projects:

2300 hours of labor
160 acres of irrigated pasture
Herd of 300 beef cow/pairs, 40 yearling heifers and 10 bulls
270 acres of ungrazed oak
Watersheds/riparian areas
4 miles of access to the Yuba River
Protected Plots
GIS and other databases
200-400 acres of control burned rangeland
Facilities

Soils At SFREC

Research Advisory Committee

2011/2012 Program Year Research Rate

The full cost rate for field research conducted at UC Sierra Foothill Research and Extension Center (SFREC) for the July 2011 – June 2012 program year is $92.84/hour. Non-UC affiliated researchers will be charged the full cost rate plus NUD which is 28.5%

ANR and SFREC use funds from different sources to subsidize the research rate by $86.51/hour for all University of California researchers. Therefore, the subsidized research rate for UC researchers is $6.33/hour.

New Projects

Continuing Projects

3 Year Review

Completed/Terminating Project

Please submit your proposals using the simple grant system via the UC/ANR Portal.

For further information regarding research opportunities, please contact:

Dustin Flavell, Interim Director
Sierra Foothill Research & Extension Center
(530) 639-8812 or E-mail: dkflavell@ucdavis.edu

January 2012