August 30, 2021
Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve Harvest Surveys
Project ID: P16AC01044 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $120,812 Total Funding: $319,462 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Project Description: This project is a joint effort between the NPS and the ADF&G that will generate information about community subsistence economies and collect data to estimate subsistence harvest by local community residents associated with Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve. Community-based harvest reporting has…
Extending Alaska Region National Hydrography Dataset Editing Protocols and Data Production to Accommodate Wetlands and other Value Added Attributes
Project ID: P15AC00448 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $126,337 Total Funding: $605,374 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: This project will be conducted in two phases. This Task Agreement funds Phase 1, but may be modified to add future phases, subject to the availability of funding and satisfactory progress of project work. Investigators from SMUMN and NPS staff will collaborate to…
Oligohaline Tidal Wetland Plant Community Restoration and Response to Changes in Tidal Flooding and Salinity
Project ID: P15AC00582 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $7,697 Total Funding: $7,697 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: This is a collaborative project between the Portland State University (PSU) and the National Park Service (NPS) to examine the composition of seed banks and seed bank emergence among common native and non-native dominant plant communities from tidally reconnected oligohaline wetlands in Lewis…
Nutritional Ecology of Brown Bears on the Coast of Katmai National Park
Project ID: P15AC00632 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $32,000 Total Funding: $32,000 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Nutritional resources drive brown bear survival, productivity, and population density. Abundance, availability, quality, and seasonality are all factors influencing energetic and protein economies of bears. While bears gain significant weight in fall to support costs of hibernation and cub production, spring is also…
Modeling the Effects of Heavy Metals on Vegetation in Cape Krusenstern National Monument and Noatak National Preserve
Project ID: P15AC00958 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $20,000 Total Funding: $20,000 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: The Red Dog Mine haul road runs through the northern section of Cape Krusenstern National Monument and is used by trucks hauling lead and zinc concentrates to the Red Dog Port. As part of this transportation, fugitive dusts contaminated with lead, cadmium and…
Long-term Monitoring of Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides) in the Upper Columbia Basin Network
Project ID: P15AC00967 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $14,048 Total Funding: $66,126 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: This is a collaboration between the Upper Columbia Basin Network of the National Park Service and the University of Idaho to continue monitoring aspen stands in Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve (CRMO). The aspen monitoring protocol was finalized in 2009…
Plant-Pollinator Interactions in Montane Meadows at Mount Rainier National Park: Assessing Butterfly Distributions, Phenological Relationships, and Climatic Responses
Project ID: P15AC00987 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $10,000 Total Funding: $10,000 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Climate change is expected to result in changes in plant-pollinator interactions, but the severity of these changes is not yet clearly understood. This project will address both spatial and temporal effects of climate change on plant-pollinator interactions by studying butterfly and plant phenology…
Using Satellite Data to Detect Changes in Glaciers in the Washington Cascades
Project ID: P15AC00989 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $12,000 Total Funding: $55,000 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: This is a collaborative project between the National Park Service (NPS) and the University of Washington to use new satellite data to assess changes in several glaciers in North Cascades National Park (NOCA). Recent investigations have shown that the glaciers in the Washington…
Olympic National Park Vegetation Inventory Map Product Development
Project ID: P15AC00990 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $29,767 Total Funding: $265,448 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: As part of a national effort to develop baseline information about the status of existing natural resources, the National Park Service (NPS) is developing vegetation maps for all the national park units in the North Coast and Cascades Network (NCCN). This project continues…
Population Dynamics of Forest Carnivores in Denali
Project ID: P15AC01013 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $34,732 Total Funding: $86,534 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: The objective of this agreement is to support a graduate student program of study through the University of Washington School of Environmental and Forest Sciences. The project will use methods developed previously by the Principal Investigator to track the distribution, abundance, and habitat…
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