August 30, 2021
Water Quality Monitoring at English Camp and American Camp
Project ID: J8W07100005 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $8,318 Total Funding: $11,549 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: The University of Washington’s Friday Harbor Labs and the National Park Service are cooperating on a project to obtain reliable scientific data on local coastal water quality that can be used to inform a variety of resource management activities. The 2006 Coastal Watershed…
Yakutat Tlingit Ethnographic Overview and Assessment
Project ID: J8W07100006 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $63,608 Total Funding: $105,594 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: The Yakutat Tlingit Ethnographic Overview and Assessment will provide a broad synthesis of Yakutat Tlingit and Eyak cultural history, traditional territory, socio-political organization and cultural change over the last 100 years in the northern Gulf of Alaska. An area of emphasis will be…
Lichen Monitoring in Gates of the Arctic National Park
Project ID: J8W07100007 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $85,992 Total Funding: $120,720 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Lichen abundance and community composition are important components of vegetation monitoring in the Arctic Inventory and Monitoring Network (ARCN). Comprehensive lichen inventories that comprise the baseline data for long-term monitoring have been completed for 4 of the 5 National Park Service units in…
Pecos National Historical Park Trading Post Restoration Program
Project ID: J8W07100008 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $88,662 Total Funding: $88,662 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: This project is a 6-week field school where the National Park Service (NPS), University of Vermont (UVM), and partner personnel will conduct a program of research, training, and implementation in the conservation and repair of historic exterior doors and windows at the Trading…
Research on Freshwater Invertebrate Fossils from the Florissant Formation as Evidence for Eocene-Oligocene Climate Change
Project ID: J8W07100009 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $10,000 Total Funding: $10,000 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Fossil clams, snails, and ostracods from the late Eocene Florissant Formation at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument will be examined morphologically to evaluate their taxonomy. Shell microsamples will be analyzed for stable oxygen and carbon isotopes to obtain geochemical proxies of environmental conditions…
Assessing Use of Marine Derived Salmon in Wolf Diets Across Alaskan Parks
Project ID: J8W07100010 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $31,391 Total Funding: $94,625 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: This project is a collaborative effort to collect and analyze wolf guard hair samples (and selected prey samples) from recent and ongoing tracking or trapping programs across Alaska and from museum collections. Samples will be analyzed for the stable isotopes 13C and 15N….
Application of LandTrendr Results to North Coast and Cascade Network Landscape Dynamics Monitoring
Project ID: J8W07100011 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $7,847 Total Funding: $13,077 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Oregon State University and the National Park Service will collaborate on a project of mutual assistance, the public purpose of which is to support landscape dynamics monitoring in the North Coast and Cascade Network parks. Oregon State University proposes to use a recently…
Vegetation Mapping at Olympic National Park
Project ID: J8W07100012 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $59,500 Total Funding: $377,275 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Staff at Portland State University will collaboratively develop a vegetation map of Olympic National Park with the North Coast and Cascades Network. They will use automated image segmentation and classification techniques in combination with traditional vegetation mapping techniques to develop the map. They…
Integrating Muldrow Glacier Topographic Maps into GIS for Glacier Monitoring at Denali National Park
Project ID: J8W07100013 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $9,512 Total Funding: $9,512 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: National Park Service staff at Denali National Park and Preserve is currently working with cooperators from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute (UAF-GI) on a project to analyze glacier change on the Muldrow Glacier. The goal is to investigate changes in overall…
Updating the Alaska Humpback Whale Collaborative Database
Project ID: J8W07100014 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $26,139 Total Funding: $137,330 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: National Park Service (NPS) staff at Glacier Bay National Park (GLBA) and the University of Alaska Southeast (UAS) will work together to update and maintain the collaborative “AK_Database” of humpback whale sightings and photographs, comprising data since the 1970s in southeastern Alaska. Under…
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