• October 8-10, 2012: 11th Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, WY. Theme: Greater Yellowstone in Transition: Linking Science and Decision Making. The conference will bring together scientists, managers, and other decision makers to examine resource challenges in Greater Yellowstone from a variety of perspectives. The goals are to exchange science-based information relevant to management and to identify resource challenges that demand new research. Call for Abstracts: March 1- May 15, 2012 Early Bird Registration (discounted): June 1-September 14, 2012 Regular Registration: September 14, 2012 conference. Proceedings from the 10th Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, “Questioning Greater Yellowstone’s Future: Climate, Land Use, and Invasive Species,” are available here.

• June 12-13, 2012: 2012 CESU Network National Meeting, Howard University School of Law, Washington, D.C. Every two years, the CESU Network National Meeting brings together partners from across the country to share outstanding examples of science, stewardship, and education in the spirit of collaborative conservation. The program includes plenary sessions, discussion sessions, a poster reception, new member orientation, CESU Directors' meeting, federal managers' meeting, and external activities, with opportunities to exchange information with conservation leaders from across government, academia, and the nongovernmental conservation community.

• May 21-25, 2012: Strategic Management of Invasive Species in the Northwest United States The primary goal of this week-long workshop is to provide a comprehensive overview of invasive species issues and management strategies for natural resource personnel at Department of Defense installations across the Northwest United States. The workshop will provide participants with knowledge and resources that will enable them to improve land and water stewardship by building partnerships and effectively addressing invasive species problems in their particular sites and situations. Presented by MSU's Center for Invasive Plant Management. Sponsored by the Department of Defense Legacy Resource Management Program through the RM-CESU.

• February 27-29, 2012: Wilderness Stewardship in the Rockies, University of Montana’s Lubrect Experimental Forest and Conference Center, MT. Topics for this year’s workshop include: Wilderness character monitoring and integration, Wilderness and ecosystem services, backcountry social science surveys, and more.  Discussion/problem solving sessions will be based on participants providing best practices/lessons learned from their experiences. Agenda; Participant List; Presentations

• October 27-30, 2011: RMSSN Fall Workshop on broader impacts and governance structure, Grand Teton National Park, WY. Agenda

• October 6-9, 2011: The Fall RM-CESU Executive Meeting will take place at the University of Montana in Missoula in conjunction with the10th Biennial Rocky Mountain Anthropology Conference.

October 6, 2011: Fall RM-CESU Executive Meeting (Agenda; Preliminary Report; Bear Aware; Tom Fish- CESU Overview)


October 6-9, 2011: 10th Biennial Rocky Mountain Anthropology Conference, University of Montana, Missoula, MT. Hosted by the Department of Anthropology at the University of Montana. Sponsors include NPS and RM-CESU. (Draft Schedule)

PAST RM-CESU ACTIVITIES

RM-CESU Project:

Culturally Scarred Trees in
Glacier National Park

Recent studies demonstrate culturally
scarred trees are indicators of prehistoric and historic travel corridors and campsites – providing information on many aspects of Indian society, including subsistence patterns, technological innovations, population movements, epidemics,
acculturation, and cultural continuity.
Read more.

• May 22-24, 2012: 17th Wildland Shrub Symposium, Las Cruces, NM.  The Wildland Shrub Symposium series was developed by The Shrub Research Consortium (SRC), which was formed in 1983 and now has 27 institutional members. The program includes plenary sessions, oral and poster sessions, and mid-conference field tours. Contributed oral and poster presentations on all aspects of shrublands are encouraged.  Contributed papers will be peer-reviewed after the symposium and published as a proceedings.  The registration fee is $75 ($85 after 4/20/2012) and will include a conference dinner (5/23) and choice of field tour.

• June 6-8, 2012: Natural Resource Law Center's Martz Annual Summer Conference: A Low-Carbon Energy Blueprint for the American West, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO. The future of the planet may depend upon on our ability to increase energy supplies even as we reduce carbon emissions. This conference addresses how a low-carbon energy program might evolve with a particular focus on the American West.

• September 24-27, 2012: Pathways to Success Conference & Training: Integrating Human Dimensions into Fish and Wildlife Management, Breckenridge, CO. The intent of this conference is to provide a forum where scientists and practitioners can address a wide variety of topics that are critical to the state of the human dimensions of fish and wildlife profession.

• October 1-2, 2012: Pacific Northwest Climate Science Conference, Boise, ID. .  This conference provides an annual forum to exchange scientific results and policy and management options related to climate change and climate impacts research focused on the Pacific Northwest.  The conference attracts a wide range of interested participants, including policymakers, resource managers, public agency staff, NGO personnel, and agency and university scientists. The deadline for proposals is 15 May 2012.
  
  

UM Flathead Lake Biological Station (FLBS)Summer Session 2012 Registration Available FLBS offers outstanding summer courses in ecology for advance undergraduates and graduate students. A generous number of scholarships are available from $500 up to $4000. See link for course information and application deadlines.

May 7-9, 2012: Geomorphic Change Detection - Restoration Monitoring Workshop, Logan, UT. Cost: $1000. This intensive 3 day workshop is intended for resource managers, restoration practitioners, researchers and others involved in the monitoring of rivers and/or streams. Participants will come away with a) an understanding of the theory and tools behind geomoprhic change detection from repeat topographic surveying using a variety of ground-based and remotely-sensed surveying technologies; as well as b) a working knowledge of how to apply the Geomorphic Change Detection software (provided) to their own monitoring data. Examples will be used from both baseline monitoring and post-project monitoring of restoration projects.

August 6-10, 2012: Sediment Transport in Stream Assessment and Design, Logan, UT. Cost: $1850 ($1600 Early Bird Special if Registered Before June 1st). This course is intended for those who wish to understand and apply the principles of sediment transport to alluvial channel assessment and design. Principles of open channel flow and sediment transport are combined with watershed-scale, hydrologic and sediment source analysis to place channel assessment and design in the appropriate context. Threshold and alluvial channel design methods are presented along with guidelines for assessing and incorporating uncertainty. The course balances advance reading, lecture, field work, and hands-on exercises for estimating sediment supply, calculating sediment transport rates, and forecasting channel response to water and sediment supply. This course is intended for participants who are familiar with basic principles of river geomorphology.

October 23-25, 2012: Partnering with Beaver in Restoration Design Workshop, Logan, UT. Cost: $1,000. This 3-day workshop is intended for resource managers, restoration practitioners, researchers and others interested in the use of beaver for restoring rivers and/or streams. Participants will come away with a) an appreciation of beaver ecology and the complex feedbacks between beaver activity, hydrogeomorphic responses, riparian vegetation and fish ecology; b) knowledge of past and ongoing restoration projects using beaver; c) a working understanding of considerations in restoration designs using beaver; d) an introduction of how to develop dynamic designs utilizing beaver; and e) how to manage public expectations regarding potential restoration responses involving beaver. The workshop will include field trips to a number of active local beaver colonies, hands-on design exercises, and some interactive lectures and discussions.

Wetland Restoration Course: Planning for Success The Montana Water Center will offer a three day course, Wetland Restoration and Management with a Focus on Monitoring for Success, at MSU Bozeman on September 18-20, 2012. Visit the Montana Water Center website for more information about this course and registration options as it becomes available.

Trainings for Water Resource Managers The US Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) will host three technical trainings for water engineers and managers in Denver this year. In March the topics will be Corrosion and Protective Coatings for Water Resource Structures and Concrete and Concrete Repair for Water Resource Structures. In May, there will be a seminar and study tour on Roller-Compacted Concrete Dams and Spillways. Full event descriptions and registration forms can be found on the BOR International website.

• RM-CESU Request for Statement of Interest: Natural Resources/Threatened and Endangered Species project assistance in the execution of natural resource projects in specific threatened and endangered species work on Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia. Approximately $92,000.00 is expected to be available to support this project for one (1) year.  Additional funding may be available for follow on work in subsequent fiscal years to the successful Recipient/Awardee. Posted 5/15.2012 - Review of Statements of Interest will begin after the SOI has been posted on the CESU website for 10 working days.

• Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions Offered by the National Endowment for the Humanities, this grant helps small and mid-sized institutions such as libraries, museums, historical societies, archival repositories, cultural organizations, town and county records offices, and colleges and universities improve their ability to preserve and care for their significant humanities collections. Application Deadline: May 1.
  
  

• Fitch Mid-Career Grant: The James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation will award research grants of up to $25,000 to mid-career professionals who have an academic background, professional experience and an established identity in one or more of the following fields: historic preservation, architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, environmental planning, architectural history and the decorative arts. TheFoundation will consider proposals for the research and/or execution of the preservation-related projects in any of these fields. The grants are not visualized as prizes for past accomplishments, but rather to support innovative original research and creative design. The grants are intended to promote the practice of historic preservation; the project must demonstrate usefulness to practitioners and the results must be in publishable form.

• Directory of Federal Grant-Making Programs for Environmentally- Related Education The directory is designed to help meet the needs of the environmental education community for easily accessible and reasonably comprehensive information about federal funding programs. 

• Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant The program contributes to the Foundation's overall mission to support basic research in anthropology and to ensure that the discipline continues to be a source of vibrant and significant work that furthers our understanding of humanity's cultural and biological origins, development, and variation. The Foundation supports research that demonstrates a clear link to anthropological theory and debates, and promises to make a solid contribution to advancing these ideas. There is no preference for any methodology, research location, or subfield. The Foundation particularly welcomes proposals that employ a comparative perspective, can generate innovative approaches or ideas, and/or integrate two or more subfields. Maximum funding available $15,000. Application deadlines are May 1and November 1. Final decisions are made six months later. 

• Research Fellowship at Rocky Mountain National Park
  Each year the Rocky Mountain Nature Association and Rocky Mountain National Park co-sponsor a research fellowship opportunity for one graduate level student to spend three to four months conducting research in Rocky Mountain National Park. Housing , $5,000 stipend and $3,000 for expenses related to research in the Park. (annual deadline: February 1)

• Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service Listing of competitive grants and cooperative projects.

• Western National Parks Association Grants Grants awarded to institutions and individuals for research in National Parks. (September 1st deadline). Grant funding is limited to $7500 per project.

• GRANTS.GOV The Federal government now requires all requests for proposals be listed on-line at http://www.grants.gov. There are instructions on line of how to search for specific topic areas (environment, natural resources, energy) and for specific agencies, e.g. National Science Foundation, Department of the Interior, etc.