2018 - Projects

UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA

Brodie, Jedediah, Examine Alpine Wildlife Distribution and Connectivity in Denali (Report)

Catton, Ted, Cultural Landscape Reports and Cultural Landscape Inventory Swiftcurrent and Rising Sun Auto Camp Historic Districts (Report) 

Dixon, Kelly, Online Cultural Resources of Glacier National Park (Report)

MacDonald, Douglas, Archeology Program Student Internship (Report)

MacDonald, Douglas, NRHP Testing of Archaeological Sites in Support of FHWA Norris to Golden Gate Phase III and Northeast Entrance Corridor Projects (Report)

Patterson, Mike & Gerloff, Lisa, CESU ROMO – Leadership, Coordination, and Administrative Oversight for the Rocky Mountains Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit  (Report)

Rice, Peter, Gardiner Basin Restoration Trials Using Indaziflam (Esplanade) Herbicide (Report)

Sexton, Erin, Crown Managers Partnership, Transboundary Conservation Initiative: Implementing a Landscape Conservation Design for Landscape-Scale Conservation Priorities and Landscape Stressors Across the Crown of the Continent (Report)

BLACKFEET COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Johnson, Lester, High Elevation Sites (Report)

BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY

Yu, Pei-lin, Integrated Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment Coordination for Cultural Resources (Report)

COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY

Abatzaglou, John, Analogs of Environmental Change for National Park Service Units (Report)

Bailey, Larissa, Understanding the factors that influence boreal toad survival and response to population invasion by the amphibian chytrid fungus (Report)

Berger, Joel, Developing Predictive Capacity to Support Adaptive Management Strategies for Mountain Goats (Report)

Champ, Joseph, Science Communication through Mass Media (Report)

Cooper, David, Analysis of 10 years of vegetation monitoring data for elk management in Rocky Mountain National Park (Report)

Cooper, David, Assessing baseline riparian conditions prior to any future work aimed at facilitating willow growth and beaver habitat restoration in Rocky Mountain National Park (Report)

Cooper, David, Identification and assessment of degraded wetland areas at select National Park Service (NPS) units within the NPS Servicewide (Phase I: Southeast Region) (Report)

Finchum, Ryan, Rocky Mountain National Park–Colorado State University Undergraduate Student Internship Program (Report)

Finchum, Ryan, Support of Colorado State University 2018 Protected Area Management Course (Report)

Hand, Jenny, Assistance for Visibility Data Analysis and Image Display Techniques (Report)

Hannah, Judith, Geologic Resources Inventory: Inventorying and Monitoring Natural Resource Status and Trends in the National Park System to Support Departmental Priorities (Report)

Hobbs, N. Thompson, Models and Data for Predicting the Abundance of Moose and Elk on the Summer Range in Rocky Mountain National Park (Report)

Hooten Mevin, Woody Plants on the Move  (Report)

Jones, David, Vegetation Inventory and Mapping at Big Thicket National Preserve and Gulf Islands National Seashore in support of the NPS Vegetation Inventory Program the National Park Service Inventory and Monitoring Division  (Report)

Kampf, Stephanie, Vegetation Inventory and Mapping at Big Thicket National Preserve and Gulf Islands National Seashore in support of the NPS Vegetation Inventory Program the National Park Service Inventory and Monitoring Division  (Report)

Kampf, Stephanie, Watershed Assessment Framework for National Park Service Wild And Scenic Rivers (Report)

Laituri, Melinda, Make Federal Water Data Available to States and the Public (Report)

Meiman, Paul, Rangeland Health Condition Assessments for Livestock Allotments at Dinosaur National Monument (Report)

Newman, Gregory, Cooperative Research and GIS Support for Visitor Use Management, Long Range Transportation Planning and Incident Management Training (Report)

Payne, Sarah, Mission 66 Era Resources of Yellowstone, Phase 4 (Report)

Sanford, William, Evaluate NPS geohydrology and sustainable groundwater management, including a focus on the Cottonwood / Smoke Tree sub-basin in Joshua Tree National Park (Report)

Ray, Chris, Establishing capacity for long-term monitoring of the American Pika, a sentinel species, by citizen scientists in Rocky Mountain National Park (Report)

Sanford, William, Evaluate NPS geohydrology and sustainable groundwater management, including a focus on the Cottonwood / Smoke Tree sub-basin in Joshua Tree National Park (Report)

Schook, Derek, Maximizing the hydrogeomorphic effectiveness of riparian vegetation management on the Rio Grande, Big Bend National Park (Report)

Shaw, Jeremy, Ecohydrological Impacts of Roads in Arid Environments: Interruption of Sheetflow Pathways (Report)

Siemers, Jeremy, Identify bat species presence, distribution, maternity colony abundance and white-nose syndrome occurrence in Rocky Mountain National Park (Report)

Spraker, Terry, Scientific Investigation of Wildlife Disease Outbreaks (Report)

Spraker, Terry, Technical Assistance to the National Park Service Wildlife Health Team (Report)

Spraker, Terry, Technical Assistance for Veterinary Pathology and Diagnostic Services for NPS Wildlife Species (Report)

Stevens, Joe, Applying Sound Science to Identify, Inform, Implement, and Track Climate Change Adaptation in the National Park Service with the NPS Climate Change Response Program (Report)

Stevens, Joe, Enhancing Visitor Experience through Noxious Weed Management, Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument (Report)

Wittemyer, George, Quantifying the effects of noise and stray light on wildlife and ecosystems in units of the national park system (Report)

Wohl, Ellen, Evaluate wood loads in Yosemite National Park watersheds to support resources protection, Merced River restoration activities and provide surface and groundwater support for in-park stewardship (Report) 

Zimmerman, Donald, Web and Social Media Guidance and Support for Natural Resource Topics (Report)

METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER

Schliemann, Sarah, Soil Characteristics, Carbon Storage, and Tundra Persistence in Rocky Mountain National Park (Report)

MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY

Aig, Dennis, Experiencing NPS Commercial Film Process at Yellowstone (Report)

Amende, Kevin, Sustainable Operations and Facility Adaption  (Report)

Bakker, Victoria, Population Management analysis for Condor Program Efficiencies (Report)

Maxwell, Bruce, Provide Technical and Professional Assistance to the Greater Yellowstone Network, National Park Service (Report)

Olson, Bret, Promote Preservation of Resources through Monitoring at Grant-Kohrs Ranch NHS (Report)

Rew, Lisa, Determining approaches to manage desert alyssum and improve sagebrush steppe communities (Report)

Whitlock, Cathy, Conserve Native Fish and Examine Utility of Environmental DNA in the Upper Gibbon River, Yellowstone National Park (Report) 

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER

Ray, Chris, Establishing capacity for long-term monitoring of the American Pika, a sentinel species, by citizen scientists in Rocky Mountain National Park (Report)

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER

Moreno, Rafael, Cooperative GIS Internship with the NPS Intermountain Region (Report)

Ruppert, David, Conduct Documentation and Evaluation of the Significance of and Resources Related to the Hole-in-the-Rock Trail (HITR) within Glen Canyon National Recreation Area; to include Oral History Interviews (Report)

Stone, Tammy, Train Student Intern in Fulfilling Cultural Resource Preservation Laws and Conducting Needs Assessments that Support American Indian and other Traditionally Associated Peoples Relationship with National Park Lands (Report)

Thomas, Deborah, Assist with Air Resources Management Activities and Contribute to Projects that Present NPS Air Resources Information to Park Units and the Public (Report)

Vlahos, Kat, CAVE HABS Documentation of the Mission 66 Six-Plex (Report)

UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO

Abatzaglou, John, Analogs of Environmental Change for National Park Service Units (Report)

Waits, Lisette, Implementing a fecal DNA sampling method for obtaining demographic and genetic monitoring data for the endangered Sonoran pronghorn and bighorn sheep in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Mexico, and surrounding areas (Report)

UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY

Conner, Mary, Migrations and potential disease transmission pathways of Grand Teton mule deer (Report)

Gaeta, Jereme, Cutthroat Trout Population Modeling for Yellowstone Lake (Report)

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

Bricker, Kelly, Youth Development and Urban Outreach: Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance Program (Report) 

UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING

Dillon, Michael, UWNPS Research Center Support, 2018-19 (Report)

Gerrow, Ken, Biostatistics Support for NPS Fire Ecology Program (Report)

Kauffman, Matt, Identifying Structure of the Yellowstone Bison Population (Report)

Tronstad, Lusha, Yellowstone Lake Plankton 30 Years After Invasion by Lake Trout (Report)

WESTERN COLORADO UNIVERSITY

Armstrong, Melanie, Digital Junior Ranger Research and Experiential Development (Report)