Project Database

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…

August 30, 2021

Identifying trophic level and isotopic signatures of Kittlitz’s murrelets and their prey in Icy Bay, Wrangell St-Elias National Park and Preserve

Project ID: J8W07080016 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $24,205 Total Funding: $24,205 [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. Icy Bay, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, may support up to 14% of the world’s population of KIMU, with the highest density found in…

Identity of Historical Lichen Specimens

Project ID: 23-JV-11261978-071 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $5,288 Total Funding: $6,369 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: While selecting material in the PSU Herbarium for the PNW Research Station’s lead isotope research, it became apparent that a set of 160 historical lichen specimens have not been examined for over 100 years. Mostly collected between 1881 and 1915, the specimens are potentially…

January 22, 2024

Illegal Dumping on Public Lands Database Project

Project ID: HAF043F13 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $20,275 Total Funding: $61,100 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: This project will analyze illegal trash dumping on public lands. Implementation of this agreement will provide and educational component to the illegal household trash clean-up project currently underway on Eugene District lands located in the Mohawk area of the district. The end product…

August 30, 2021

Image interpretation and Classification of Land Cover Change in Lake Clark and Kenai Fjords National Parks between 1954 and 2009

Project ID: P12AC15013 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $49,318 Total Funding: $49,318 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: A variety of environmental drivers (e.g., climate change, human activities, successional processes) have the potential to visibly alter land cover in parks of the Southwest Alaska Network (SWAN). In Lake Clark (LACL) and Kenai Fjords (KEFJ), changes due to shallow lake drying, modification…

Impact of Soil Erosion on the Declining Sockeye Salmon Population in Lake Ozette, WA

Project ID: WWU-01-3 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $12,281 Total Funding: $12,281 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: The objective of this research is to evaluate the impacts of land-use changes on the near-shore environment of the Lake Ozette watershed over the last 50 to 100 years. The population of sockeye salmon has declined substantially over the last four decades and…

Impacts of Climate Change to National Parks: Reaching New Audiences with the Message

Project ID: J8W07090031 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $11,748 Total Funding: $35,092 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: The purpose of this project is to engage the University of Washington Climate Impacts Group and the North Coast & Cascades Network (NCCN) parks in a series of public events where university researchers will interact one-on-one with National Park Service managers and the…

Impacts of Fire Management on Carbon Stock Stability in Yosemite and Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks

Project ID: J8W07100026 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $11,190 Total Funding: $115,163 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Forest biomass on Sierra Nevada landscapes constitutes one of the largest carbon stocks in the state of California, and the stability of that carbon stock is tightly linked to fire and the ecological factors that drive fire regime. Recent research suggests that over…

Impacts of Intertidal Trampling on Intertidal Communities in Olympic NP

Project ID: UW-01-25 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $12,691 Total Funding: $43,691 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: The goal of this research is to determine the impact of human trampling on intertidal invertebrate and algal communities in Olympic National Park. The Park’s 65-mile wilderness coastline has few access points and contains few trails, requiring visitors to hike directly on intertidal…

Impacts of Large-Scale Herbicide Use on an Endangered Butterfly

Project ID: F13AC00641 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $6,462 Total Funding: $6,462 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: To determine the impacts of the large-scale application of the grass-specific herbicide fluazifop-p-butyl with the surfactant Nufilm on Fenders’ blue butterfly.

Impacts of Tour Boat Shore Excursions on Terrestrial Wildlife in Glacier Bay National Park

Project ID: P16AC01158 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $5,758 Total Funding: $167,208 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Expansion of human recreational activities increases the potential for disturbance of wildlife species. Human disturbance can cause displacement of animals and changes in species composition and diversity. Human presence may provoke anti-predator responses such as increased energetic costs of fleeing and/or increased vigilance;…

Implement Human-Bear Management Plan

Project ID: UW-01-02 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $43,300 Total Funding: $69,100 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: The objective is to obtain definitive documentation of grizzly bears in the North Cascades ecosystem (US), and to learn as much as we can about each one from any grizzly bear samples. This project will at the same time be an opportunity to…

Implementation of monitoring protocol for quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) within City of Rocks National Reserve and Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve

Project ID: J8W07080001 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $19,895 Total Funding: $84,871 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: The work conducted under this Task Agreement will provide for the implementation of a long-term monitoring protocol at City of Rocks National Reserve and Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve 2008-2012. The monitoring protocol includes sampling of aspen and conifer stem…

Implementation of the Alien Invasion: Plants on the Move curriculum

Project ID: L10AC20296 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $17,692 Total Funding: $62,692 [project-data-part-2]

Implementation planning for vegetation mapping at Lava Beds, Crater Lake, and Oregon Caves National Park units

Project ID: J8W07070023 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $86,800 Total Funding: $513,587 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: The Klamath Network comprises six National Park Service units in Southern Oregon and Northern California, including Crater Lake National Park, Lava Beds National Monument, Lassen Volcanic National Park, Oregon Caves National Monument, Redwood National and State Parks, and Whiskeytown National Recreation Area. The…

IMPLEMENTING THE CASPIAN TERN MONITORING STRATEGY FOR THE PACIFIC COAST REGION – 2024″

Project ID: F24AC00134 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $129,907 Total Funding: $129,907 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: THE GOAL OF THIS PROJECT IS TO IMPLEMENT THE U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE (FWS) CASPIAN TERN MONITORING STRATEGY FOR THE PACIFIC COAST REGION (USFWS 2015) DURING THE 2024 BREEDING SEASON AND ROBUSTLY ESTIMATE POPULATION SIZE IN THE PACIFIC FLYWAY. IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS MONITORING…

January 31, 2025

Improved Harmful Algal Blooms Prediction with Hybrid Models

Project ID: W912HZ-24-2-0069 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $142,321 Total Funding: $142,321 [project-data-part-2] Abstract:

November 15, 2024

IMPROVING CANADA LYNX POPULATION REDUNDANCY IN WASHINGTON: ASSESSING THE STATUS OF A LYNX AUGMENTATION IN COLVILLE NATIONAL FOREST

Project ID: F24AC01481 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $76,115 Total Funding: $76,115 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: THE COLVILLE NATIONAL FOREST IS A POTENTIALLY SUITABLE AREA FOR LYNX IN WASHINGTON AND HAS THE POTENTIAL TOCONTRIBUTE TO LYNX PERSISTENCE IN THE STATE. IN 2021, A LYNX AUGMENTATION PROJECT WAS INITIATED BY COLVILLECONFEDERATED TRIBES, AND THIS PROJECT SEEKS TO UNDERSTAND HOW THAT EFFORT…

February 3, 2025

Improving conservation assessments of insect pollinators in Alaska. Targeted biodiversity assessments and robust abundance estimates in Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge

Project ID: F24AC01946 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $92,000 Total Funding: $92,000 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: AN INCREASING NUMBER OF INSECT POLLINATOR SPECIES ARE IN DECLINE IN NORTH AMERICA. THIS DECLINE IS PROMPTING NUMEROUS PETITIONS FOR ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT LISTING THAT ARE INCREASINGLY PULLING ON ALASKA USFWS ECOLOGICAL SERVICES STAFF TIME. KNOWLEDGE OF ALASKAN POLLINATORS IS EXCEEDINGLY POOR RELATIVE…

January 7, 2025

Improving Streamflow forecasts in the Klamath Basin through the use of hydrologic simulation models

Project ID: 68-3A75-4-101-03 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $10,000 Total Funding: $10,000 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: University of Washington will assist in the application of their spatially distributed hydraulic simulation model, DHVSM, to the Klamath River basin in the southcentral Oregon. This activity will be in cooperation with the USDA Agricultural Research Services and the Natural Resources Conversation Service….

August 30, 2021