[Pollinator] Documenting crop pollination research efforts in the U.S.

[Mace Vaughan]

Hello,

In Xerces' continuing effort to increase support for research, I am 
assembling a simple spreadsheet of ongoing or planned research into 
crop pollination in the U.S.  Specifically, I would like to document 
projects across the country that are studying managed honey or native 
bees, or the role/management of adjacent habitat to support this 
service in field.

My goal is to demonstrate that a wide variety of crops, bees, and 
landscapes are currently being studied and that it is important to 
increase funding to support this work.

If you are interested in helping, you can contact me and I will send 
you a copy of the spreadsheet for data entry.  Or, you can send me 
the following information:  affiliation (and/or primary 
investigator), states where work is being conducted, crops, type of 
bees studied (e.g. specific native bee, honey bee, various), and very 
brief (one sentence) summaries of the projects.

If you want to include more details, such as papers published from 
the work or even a paragraph-long abstract, I would appreciate it, 
but it is not required.

The spreadsheet already contains a handful of examples to make it as 
easy as possible.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Cheers
Mace

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Mace Vaughan
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