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Newsletter: October - November 2009
September 2009; August 2009; July 2009; June 2009; May 2009; April 2009; March 2009; Februay 2009; December 2008-January 2009; November 2008; October 2008
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RM-CESU
Project:
“Ranching
Through Time”
The “Ranching Through
Time”
exhibit ready for visitor enjoyment.
NPS
and Montana State University
create a new exhibit at Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic
Site
Read
more
Professor Bill Rea and
students install the exhibit.
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2010 Jerry O'Neal Student Fellowship RM-CESU, the University of Montana, and the Crown of the Continent Research Learning Center announce the 2010 Jerry O'Neal student fellowship program to support natural resource management, cultural resource management and social science research in Glacier NP, Grant-Kohrs Ranch NHS and Little Bighorn Battlefield NM. This fellowship program funds graduate or undergraduate research for students attending RM-CESU universities. Applications must be postmarked by February 16, 2010. Click here for full announcement.
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Rocky Mountains CESU to host meeting of Rocky Mountain I&M Network, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, November 17-18, 2009. The annual meeting of the technical committee of the Rocky Mountain Inventory and Monitoring Network (ROMN) will be held on the University of Montana campus, hosted by the RM-CESU. Park resource managers from the sic ROMN parks (Glacier, Grant-Kohrs Ranch, Little Bighorn Battlefield, Florissant Fossil Beds, Great Sand Dunes, and Rocky Mountain) will discuss the results of summer 2009 field work. They will welcome representatives from the Greater Yellowstone I&M Network and from the University of Montana to discuss joint monitoring of vital signs that are climate change indicators.
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Katie Driver, Colorado State University graduate student, is the recipient of the 2009 RM-CESU Student Award. Katie Driver was nominated for this award by Mike Britten and Billy Schweiger, NPS Rocky Mountain I&M Network, and the nomination was supported by Dr. David Cooper, Colorado State University. The award is based on Katie’s contributions to the RM-CESU project: “Wetland Protocol Development – Pilot Work in Rocky Mountain National Park.” The RM-CESU Student Award was established in 2007 as a way for RM-CSU partners to recognize outstanding accomplishments by students involved in RM-CESU projects.
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workshops, meetings, courses, etc.
October 27 & 28, 2009: Restoring the West Conference 2009, Utah State University, Logan UT. The theme of this year's Restoring the West Conference is sustainability of Great Basin landscapes from peaks to valleys, with an emphasis on forest, sagebrush steppe, and riparian ecosystems. Unifying themes include the causes and consequences of historic changes in community composition and structure, the effects of ongoing climate change, the importance of the water cycle or ecohydrology, and wildlife considerations.
November 5 - 6, 2009: Montana Chapter of the Society for Conservation Biology: 2nd Annual Research Symposium, University of Montana, Missoula, MT. The meeting is organized around the theme of applying science to real world conservation problems, policy decisions, and educational outreach. This will be a great opportunity to share your research and learn about cutting edge conservation science in Montana and the U.S. Northern Rockies / Transboundary region.
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CESU
Network News & Events |
Thomas E. Fish, Ph.D., National Coordinator
Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESU) Network
Main Interior Building
1849 C Street NW, Room #2723
Washington, DC 20240
Office: 202.208.5972
Fax: 202.208.3060
Email: Tom_Fish@nps.gov
June 18-19, 2008: 2008 Biennial Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESU) Network National Meeting, Washington, DC. Please see the CESU Network’s conference page for information. Kathy Tonnessen and Lisa Gerloff are organizing a working session entitled, "CESU Host University Operations and Support".
Relevant
Events with other regional CESUs:
Great Basin CESU Partners Receive Joint Fire Science Planning Grant for Great Basin Science Delivery. An interagency and university team led by Dr. Nora Devoe, BLM Western Region Science Coordinator, is launching a project entitled 'Learning Together: Great Basin Science Delivery'. During the next few months the team will focus on the following: 1) conduct a series of facilitated workshops with agency managers and regional scientists to define and prioritize fire and fuels science needs across the Great Basin, 2) enhance web-based science information, and 3) convene a distributed graduate seminar at multiple CESU universities. A full proposal for the Great Basin Science Delivery project will be completed by February 2010.
South Florida- Caribbean CESU to co-sponsor meeting on Predicting the climate of the coming decades, to be held at University of Miami, January 11-15, 2010: The goal of this workshop is to bring together people from different communities who have shared interests in predicting the climate of the coming decades. This will include researchers involved in developing prediction systems, understanding mechanisms of decadal and forced climate variability, and assessing the needs of potential users. Discussions will focus on bridging the gap between what is feasible from a technical and scientific perspective and the realities of what kind of information users need. Leigh Welling, the NPS program manager for the Climate Change Response Program will give a keynote talk on Thursday of this meeting.
The Desert Southwest CESU (DSCESU) and The University of Arizona (UA) will host US State Department/Afghani Cultural Delegation in Spring 2010: The NPS-WASO Archeology Program, the DSCESU and Brooks Jeffery, Director of the UA's Drachman Institute in the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, are coordinating the visit by Afghani Cultural Delegation members. Delegation members will spend a number of weeks in the US participating in cultural resource preservation seminars, training sessions and events. UA has worked with NPS-WASO through the DSCESU for the last three years in providing logistics and training for similar international efforts. It is hoped additional international collaboration through the CESUs will be organized in the future through the US State Department as a result of these successful visits.
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