August 30, 2021
Digital Conversion of Denali Research Files
Project ID: J8W07100045 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $52,490 Total Funding: $111,840 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: The Denali National Park and Preserve (DENA) research administration archive has an extensive amount of historic research information including data, field reports, and project summaries from the early 1900’s through the late 1980’s. In many cases, these data include maps of study locations…
Understanding the Extent and Severity of Disturbance by Motorized Vessels to Kittlitz’s Murrelets in Glacier Bay National Park
Project ID: J8W07100046 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $66,014 Total Funding: $211,139 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: The Kittlitz’s Murrelet (Brachyramphus brevirostrus; KIMU) is a small, poorly understood seabird endemic to the Alaskan coast and eastern Russia. Population surveys of KIMU across their range have demonstrated precipitous declines by up to 75%, including within Glacier Bay National Park (GLBA) which…
Analyzing Front-Country Social Trails Data from Lava Beds National Monument
Project ID: J8W07100047 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $26,783 Total Funding: $26,783 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Through recent surveys and reports, Lava Beds National Monument (LABE) has identified informal or “social” trails as significant threats to resource preservation at the monument. The negative impacts of social trails and similarly, poorly maintained trails, have been well documented regarding resources of…
Designing Curriculum to Honor Tribal Legacies in the Studies of Lewis and Clark: An Epic Journey of Healing
Project ID: J8W07100048 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $48,426 Total Funding: $187,446 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: This project is collaboration to initiate curriculum development planning for the Lewis and Clark Tribal Legacy Project. It will create a framework for a curriculum to share through teacher workshops that integrates the legacy of tribes present for thousands of years in the…
Analysis of Persistent Cave Ice Resources for Lava Beds National Monument
Project ID: J8W07100050 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $5,020 Total Funding: $5,020 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Lava Beds National Monument (LABE) has perhaps the most celebrated caves containing ice in the United States. Previously 33 caves in the monument were known to contain persistent ice resources. Now, many are losing or have completely lost their ice resources. This is…
The Evaluation of Natural Areas in the Pacific West Region as Potential National Natural Landmarks
Project ID: J8W07100051 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $7,050 Total Funding: $32,238 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: The National Natural Landmarks (NNL) Program was established in 1962 by the Secretary of the Interior to encourage the preservation of the best remaining examples of the biological and geological features composing the Nation’s natural landscape. Currently, there are 586 NNL Program sites…
Quantitative Forecasting of Above and Belowground Climate Change Impacts at Wind Cave National Park
Project ID: J8W07100052 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $38,618 Total Funding: $164,181 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Climate change impacts and the interactions between management decisions and natural resource responses present a strong need for tools that managers can use to guide future management strategies. In 2009, Wind Cave National Park (WICA) was used as a case study in a…
Administration of the 2011 George Melendez Wright Climate Change Fellowship Program
Project ID: J8W07110001 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $56,305 Total Funding: $294,906 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: The National Park Service (NPS), the Department of Interior, and the President of the United States have sought to increase science-based resource management in NPS units to improve the understanding of park resources and incorporation of such information by park managers in making…
Orthorectification of Historic Imagery for the Southwest Alaska Network
Project ID: J8W07110002 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $99,787 Total Funding: $177,272 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: This project is a collaborative effort between the Southwest Alaska Network (SWAN) of the National Park Service (NPS) and Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota (SMUMN) to build a geographic information system dataset from historic black and white, and color infrared photography acquired for…
Identifying the Causes of Landscape Change in the North Coast and Cascades Network Parks
Project ID: J8W07110003 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $5,520 Total Funding: $5,520 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: This project provides internship opportunities for students from Western Washington University (WWU) on a project to validate methods for monitoring landscape change in the parks of the North Coast and Cascades Network (NCCN). NCCN is using remote sensing methods to develop maps of…
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