Buz Kloot

Buz Kloot

Dec 07, 2016

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Not Exactly a Lab Note, but Worth Noting

So excited to see Experiment.com 's Cindy, and Christina visit the University of South Carolina  campus yesterday. These remarkable young people have opened another door for researchers to acquire research funding through a crowd funding mechanism. In our two projects on experiment.com ("How much fertilizer do we really need?" and "No but seriously now, how much fertilizer do we really need?") we raised $5,022 and $20,199 to do farm-based fertilizer trials. Many of our supporters are farmers and it's doubtful that we would have found any of this funding through the regular channels. Ours is but a tiny part of their story and I believe they have done very well in challenging some of the established research paradigms. One of the more exciting ideas is to make research more real-time and transparent. So please to have met them! Pic is with Cindy and Christina with my guys Stacie and Gabe in the lab.

Stacie, Christina, Cindy, Buz and Gabe in Buz's lab.


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  • Denny Luan
    Denny Luan
    Woohoo! Sorry I couldn't be there Buz, but I heard it was a great trip :)
    Dec 07, 2016
  • Buz Kloot
    Buz KlootResearcher
    Look forward to meeting with you now you are on the east coast. Glad that you guys are so busy. Press on!
    Dec 07, 2016
  • Cindy Wu
    Cindy WuBacker
    It was so lovely meeting you, Stacie and Gabe! Thanks for hosting us and treating us to tea at Immac. We'll certainly be back!
    Dec 07, 2016
  • Buz Kloot
    Buz KlootResearcher
    Any time, Cindy!
    Dec 07, 2016
  • Carl Coleman
    Carl ColemanResearcher
    Awesome platform to fund research.
    Dec 07, 2016

About This Project

This is a follow-up project to our first experiment.com project "How much fertilizer do we really need?" where it was difficult to find any response to phosphorus (P) or potash (K) fertilizer inputs, suggesting that, in a healthy, cover cropped soil, legacy P and K may be untapped resources, while economic nitrogen rates seemed to be lower than initially thought. Soil test P in our 40 plots is in the "High" range, so we will concentrate on the effect of nitrogen and potassium in this research.

Blast off!

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