2020-2024 Projects - USGS

COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY

Chen, Anping, Using DOI Long-Term Monitoring Data to Build Scalable Fuel Layers for Wildfire Risk Assessment and Fuel Treatment Prioritization 2022

Funk, Chris, Standardizing, Aggregating, Analyzing and Disseminating Global Wildlife Genetic and Genomic Data for Improved Management and Advancement of Community Best Practices 2022

Golas, Benhamin and Web, Colleen, Forecasting Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Dispersal in Migrating Waterfowl and Spillover Risk for Domestic Poultry 2022

Hooten, Mevin, Early Warning Vital Signs in Arctic Network Parklands - Developing Baseline Moss Tissue Concentrations in Bering Land Bridge National Preserve 2020

Hufbauer, Ruth, Understanding Food-Web Connections to Support Ecosystem Resilience and Recovery from Brown TreeSnakes (BTS) Invasion 2020

Kendall, William, Modeling and Decision Analysis for Plague in Prairie Dog Colonies 2020

Kendall, William, Modeling the Effect of White-nose Syndrome Mitigation Decisions on Cave Hibernating Myotis Species 2020

King, Sarah, Ecology of Wild Horses and Burros in the Rocky Mountain Region and Western USA 2020

McGrath, Daniel, Resolving Spatial and Temporal Variability of Snow Accumulation in Mountain and Glacier Environments 2020

Ode, Paul, The Control of Whitetop Mustard and Russian Knapweed by Insect Herbivores: Large-Scale Studies of Herbivory and Distribution 2020

Ode, Paul, Predicting success of biological control of weeds by geographic mapping of release sites 2022

Poff, Leroy, Assessing Avian Responses to Riparian Restoration in the Colorado River Delta 2020

Poff, Leroy, Assessing the Functional Responses of Riparian Vegetation to Tamarix Biocontrol 2020

Redmond, Miranda, Vegetation recovery following wildfire across dryland National Parks 2022

Vogeler, Jody, Advanced Computational Methods in Invasion Ecology 2022

MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY

Banner, Katharine, Ecological Statistics to Improve Whitebark Pine Monitoring in the Western U.S. 2020

Haggerty, Julia, Assistance with data assimilation, science synthesis and document writing to support a Species Status Assessment for Virgin Spinedace and similar work for other priority species 2021

Litt, Andrea, Enhancing visitor safety & conservation of grizzly bears: evaluating & identifying grizzly bear management areas 2021

Whitlock, Cathy, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Assessment: Focus on Climate and Water 2021

UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY

Stoner, David, Investigating Mountain Lion and Wild Horse Ecology Across the West 2020

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER

Amante, Christopher, Coastal Elevation Models for Use in Forecasting Hurricane Impacts 2022

Barger, Nichole, Biological Soil Crust Inoculum Survival and Growth under Field Conditions 2020

Guiterman, Christopher, Synthesis of the new North American tree-ring fire-scar network: using past and present fire-climate relationships to improve projections of future wildfire 2022

Lombardozzi, Danica, Using a Multi-Scale Approach to Synthesize Measurements and Models of C4 Photosynthesis 2020 

Yocum, Heather, Advancing climate adaptation science thru building partnerships with Tribal Colleges and Universities 2022

UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA

Eby, Lisa, Amphibian Disease Dynamics in the West 2021

Hall, Robert, Quantifying the phosphorus budget for the Colorado River, Grand Canyon 2021

UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO

Fedy, Brad, Modeling Greater Sage-grouse Population Dynamics in a Multiple-Use Landscape of the Eastern Range 2020

UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING

Schumaker, Brant, Environmental Pathways of Chronic Wasting Disease Transmission 2020