Project Database

Enhancing the National Hydrography Dataset for Wrangell-St. Elias National Park

Project ID: J8W07090023 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $20,060 Total Funding: $20,060 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: NPS staff at Wrangell St. Elias National Park and Preserve (WRST) and St. Mary’s University of Minnesota (SMUMN) will collaborate on this technical assistance project to modify and enhance the US Geological Survey (USGS) National Hydrography Dataset (NHD). WRST is in the midst…

August 30, 2021

Enhancing Visitor Experience and Appreciation of Mount Rainier Archaeology through Excavations at Sunrise

Project ID: J8W07100001 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $115,000 Total Funding: $115,000 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: The Department of Anthropology at Central Washington University (CWU) will collaborate with National Park Service (NPS) staff from Mount Rainier National Park (MORA) in a field-school based program of archaeological data recovery research, public interpretation, and site stabilization at a site on the…

Enhancing Water Supply Forecasting Methods at USDA-NRCS: Development of Post-Processing Methods

Project ID: 68-3A75-11-8 01 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $136,246 Total Funding: $136,246 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Numbering seems to have changed. Is the same project title and funding amount.

Ensuring Consistency in Plant Nomenclature in the North Coast and
Cascades Network National Park Units

Project ID: P18AC00503 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $11,749 Total Funding: $11,749 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: The goal for this project is to review plant nomenclature for the seven NCCN parks and ensure that names used in NCCN databases are up to date on the current accepted nomenclature. Consistency in plant nomenclature, across the seven NCCN parks, will facilitate…

Environmental Education Program – Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument

Project ID: L11AC20282 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $5,000 Total Funding: $42,654 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: ATR: Doug Kendig

Environmental History of Point Reyes National Seashore

Project ID: UW-01-20 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $16,100 Total Funding: $16,100 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: An environmental history of Point Reyes National Seashore will explore the historical as well as natural forces that have shapes the park’s landscape. The study will provide park managers with a better understanding of the relationship between the park’s historical and natural scenes….

Environmental History of San Juan Island National Historical Park

Project ID: UW-01-15 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $11,500 Total Funding: $21,500 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: An environmental history of San Juan Island National Historical Park will explore the historical as well as natural forces that have shaped the park’s landscape. The study will provide park managers with a better understanding of the relationship between the park’s historical and…

Environmental History of the Hudson’s Bay Company

Project ID: UW-01-21 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $15,000 Total Funding: $20,000 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: An environmental history of the Hudson’s Bay Company will explore the ways that the fur trade in general and the Bay Company in particular modified the natural systems and influenced the native cultures of the Pacific Northwest and Hawaiian Islands in the 18th…

Environmental History Research and Interpretation: Agricultural Land Use at Ebey’s Landing National Historic Reserve

Project ID: J9W88040023 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $29,500 Total Funding: $29,500 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: The purpose of this project is to conduct historical research, analyze information, and provide a descriptive narrative and illustrative maps depicting late 19th and early 20th Century agricultural land use practices on the three main prairies of the Reserve–Ebey’s, Smith, and Crockett prairies….

Environmental Justice, Use and Access

Project ID: 19-JV-11261955-157 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $50,000 Total Funding: $52,000 [project-data-part-2]

Envisioning Future Changes in the Climate and Hydrology in Northwest Estuaries

Project ID: G10AC00156 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $85,010 Total Funding: $85,010 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: The objective of this project is to develop the baseline climatic and biological data, models, and tools to predict the cumulative impact of climate change on habitats and ecosystem services in coastal estuaries of the Pacific Northwest.

ES group protocol dev and test

Project ID: NR233A750023C044 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $ Total Funding: $600,173 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Use workshops to develop and test ES groups across soil survey regions of the contiguous U.S. and Alaska.

January 19, 2024

Establishing Baseline Moss Tissue and Snowpack Elemental Concentrations at Bering Land Bridge National Preserve (BELA), and Validation of Coastal and Interior Moss Tissue Concentration-Atmospheric Deposition Models for use in Critical Loads/Early Warning

Project ID: G20AC00076 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $12,908 Total Funding: $12,908 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: The goal of this research is to determine an empirical critical load for N, S, and heavy metals based on lichen communities and known deposition levels. The proposed objectives are as follows: 1. Collect mosses at random locations within four log-based coastal buffer…

August 30, 2021

Establishing Baseline Moss Tissue and Snowpack Elemental Isotopic Ratios at Bering Land Bridge National Preserve in Northwestern Alaska Using Pb Isotopes

Project ID: G20AC00426 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $25,475 Total Funding: $25,475 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: The goal of this project is to continue and enhance efforts to develop baseline elemental concentrations and deposition models currently in-progress for Bering Land Bridge National Preserve (BELA) and Cape Krusenstern National Monument (CAKR). The objective of this is to develop an elemental…

Establishing Usefulness of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDar) for Silvicultural Modeling

Project ID: HAA077102 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $25,000 Total Funding: $50,000 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: (Re-numbered by BLM to L08AC13452.)

Establishment of the Upper Columbia Basin Network Inventory and Monitoring Program Support Office

Project ID: J9W88040002 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $10,000 Total Funding: $59,500 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: This Task Agreement defines a specific affiliation between the NPS and the UI for administrative support in directing a cooperative program of research, inventory, and monitoring in the parks that constitute the Upper Columbia Basin Network Inventory and Monitoring Network. Specific research and…

Estimating Distribution Changes of At-risk Ranid Frogs in Western North America

Project ID: G23AC00137 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $68,244 Total Funding: $68,244 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: The goal of this research project is to assist in accurate detection of threatened and invasive aquatic species and their pathogens. This work will inform management efforts and contribute to the understanding of changes in species assemblages from eradication efforts.

January 22, 2024

Estimating Forest Biomass with LiDAR

Project ID: NR190436XXXXC003 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $ Total Funding: $55,457 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Estimating forest biomass and stand structure via UAV mounted LiDAR and RGB/NIR. This amendment is a Net zero change to OTHER and 3 Net Zero

January 18, 2024

Estimating population size of humpback whales in southeast Alaska using modified mark-recapture models from a long-term sighting database of individually identified whales.

Project ID: J8W07070001 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $8,676 Total Funding: $8,676 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Utilize photos from surveys of humpback whales in northern southeastern Alaska (primarily, Sitka Sound, Fredrick Sound, and Glacier Bay/Icy Strait) collected since 1993 to create a long term sighting history database of individually identified whales. The database will then be utilized to estimate…

August 30, 2021

Estimating risk to humpback whales from shipping: a comparative approach from Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska, and Francisco Coloane Marine Protected Area, Chile

Project ID: P17AC01307 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $25,280 Total Funding: $25,280 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: The overall objective of this effort is to improve the ability of each park to meet its management goals and best balance conflicting objectives by better understanding the risk of shipping to humpback whales. Specifically, the goal is to build quantitative modeling tools…