Dr. Paul A. Funk
USDA Agricultural Research Service
Southwestern Cotton Ginning Research Lab
PO Box 578
Mesilla Park, NM 88047
(575) 526-6381
Ginning Lab Mission Statement With Objectives
Environmental Protection (Objective IV)
Thermal Defoliation
Preparing for Harvest without Chemicals
Emissions Control
Modeling and Testing Dust Cyclones
Instrumentation (Objective II)
Detecting Contamination
with Ion Mobility Spectrometry
Sensing Mass Flow
of Seed Cotton with Air
Renewable Energy (Objective III)
Distributed Energy
from Cotton Gin and Dairy Wastes
Liquid Fuel
and Quality Feed from Cotton Seed
Saw and Roller Ginning (Objective II)
Ginning Naturally Colored Cottons
Treating Sticky Cotton
Mechanization (Objective I)
Harvesting Green Chile
Implanting Driptube in Turfgrass
Solar Cooking (Graduate Studies)
International Test Standard
USDA-ARS photo by Peggy Greb.
Last Updated 05 February 2009.
Paul.Funk@ars.usda.gov