Pacific Northwest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU)

National Park Service

TECHNICAL REPRESENTATIVE


Ben Becker, Ph.D.
Co-Lead Pacific Northwest CESU
National Park Service Ecologist for the Californian, Hawai’i Pacific Islands, and Great Basin CESUs
Ben_Becker@nps.gov

 ADMINISTRATIVE REPRESENTATIVE

Kelly Adams
Grants Management Officer
National Park Service
Federal Center Bldg 50
Lakewood, CO 80228
wk phone:  303-919-7073
Kelly_Adams@nps.gov

NPS Forms and Instructions are available here:

Key Education, Research, and Technical Assistance Needs

Research

  • Strengthen  partnerships with the academic and scientific communities to promote research that enhances the management of protected natural areas and heritage sites
  • Develop more collaborations with agency and university partners (projects, expert workshops, etc.) to define science and planning needs in response to climate change
  • Develop adaptation strategies for coping with climate change
  • Research and training in conservation of global species and environmental pollution
  • Develop interagency interdisciplinary research, technical assistance, and education programs that integrate cultural and natural resource concerns and that provide avenues of communication between disciplines.

Technical Assistance

  • Develop efficient ways to monitor the vital signs of natural systems
  • Develop effective ways of sharing natural system monitoring information so that these data are useful to the surrounding agencies and communities outside the parks
  • Training in restoration ecology