Project Database

Assessment of Conservation Management Practices in Klamath River Basin

Project ID: 68-3A75-4-101-01 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $52,000 Total Funding: $52,000 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: The NRCS land management questions under study by the UW include the quantification of hydrologic and water quality changes arising from application of conservation practices in irrigation method (primarily, switching from flood to sprinkler-based methods, forest management (e.g., thinning, juniper removal) and riparian…

August 30, 2021

Assessment of fuel break performance – fire risk, ecology, and economy

Project ID: L20AC00417 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $409,298 Total Funding: $409,298 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Objective: Quantify how fuel breaks and fuel break systems affect short- and long-term risk from wildfire to firefighters, human communities, and cultural and natural resources.

January 22, 2024

Assessment of Pacific marten status in Olympic National Park: Are they headed to extirpation?

Project ID: P21AC12349 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $86,475 Total Funding: $86,475 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: This project will generate a better understanding of the status of Pacific martens in the coastal region of Washington State, a species native to the Pacific Northwest and believed to be in risk of extirpation. The project results will aid federal, state, and…

May 16, 2023

Assessment of Persistent Organic Pollutant Concentrations in Select Freshwater Fish Species, Southwest Alaska Network Parks

Project ID: J8W07100027 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $46,530 Total Funding: $46,530 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: The health and condition of freshwater fish in the Southwest Alaska Network (SWAN) parks is of vital importance for a variety of ecological, cultural, and economic reasons. Resident lake fish are a vital component of freshwater systems in southwest Alaska due to their…

August 30, 2021

Assessment of Potential for Improving ESA-listed Fish habitat Associated with Operations and Maintenance of the Corps Willamette Project

Project ID: W912HZ-11-2-0045 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $70,000 Total Funding: $70,000 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: This analysis draws upon prior research, readily available data, and new research and data to develop and apply an approach to assess the potential effects and benefits for ESA listed fish and other native fish from modifying the Corps Willamette Project (WP) revetments,…

Assessment of Reindeer Impacts to Lichen Ecosystems in Bering Land Bridge National Preserve

Project ID: J9088020047 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $11,000 Total Funding: $52,000 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Provide the data enabling a comprehensive reindeer management plan focusing on vegetation health, recovery and grazing practice reform. Lichen communities will be assessed along regional gradients of grazing, succession and landscape variables, allowing for landscape modeling of condition classes. Deliverables: Defining a Successional…

Assessment of Semi-Volatile Organic Compounds in Fish from a High Elevation Lake in Yosemite National Park

Project ID: P13AC01175 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $21,000 Total Funding: $21,000 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Yosemite National Park (YOSE) was one of many parks, including Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks (SEKI), sampled as part of the Western Airborne Contaminants Assessment Project (WACAP). Two SEKI lakes (Emerald and Pear), similar in elevation and exposure to westerly winds to…

Assessment of Semi-Volatile Organic Compounds in Fish from High Elevation Lakes in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks

Project ID: J8W07110031 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $38,070 Total Funding: $38,070 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks (SEKI) was one of the eight primary parks intensively sampled as part of the Western Airborne Contaminants Assessment Project (WACAP). Two SEKI lakes (Emerald and Pear) were sampled for a suite of semi-volatile organic compounds (SOC) resulting…

Assessment of Social Science

Project ID: HAF063F26 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $120,000 Total Funding: $134,770 [project-data-part-2]

Assessment of Water Quality Conditions in and around Four Pacific Northwest Coastal Parks

Project ID: P14AC01693 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $41,118 Total Funding: $41,118 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: This is a collaborative project to address several research questions concerning estuarine and marine water quality in and adjacent to four Pacific Northwest coastal parks, including San Juan Island National Historical Park, Ebey’s Landing National Historical Reserve, Olympic National Park, and Lewis and…

Assistance in completion of Phase III Monitoring Report and Vital Signs Protocol Development

Project ID: J9W88050016 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $40,000 Total Funding: $347,305 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: The work accomplished under this task agreement will assist in completion of the Upper Columbia Basin Network monitoring plan. The goal of this project is to provide technical assistance in all phases of the development of the Phase III report and vital signs…

Assistance to Landmarks Program

Project ID: UW-01-04 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $10,850 Total Funding: $18,350 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: The National Park Service, Columbia Cascade Support Office, Seattle, Washington, has a number of ongoing projects in their Landmarks Program Division that would benefit from the assistance of a qualified summer intern. The purpose of this project is to involve the intern in…

Assisting Recovery of Wenatchee Mountain Endemics

Project ID: F19AC00354 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $96,000 Total Funding: $96,000 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Funds under this award are to be used to: (1) Identify and conduct drone surveys of potential habitat for Showy Stickseed (Hackelia venusta) and (2) Evaluate techniques for and impacts of woody species removal on Wenatchee Mountains Checkermallow (Sidalcea oregana var. calva). The…

Association Between Plant and Bacterial Diversity in Urban Gardens

Project ID: 21-JV-11261975-015 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $39,834 Total Funding: $39,834 [project-data-part-2] Abstract:

July 15, 2023

Atmospheric Modeling to Refine Lichen-based Critical Loads for the North American Marine West Coast Forests Ecological Region

Project ID: J8W07090010 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $8,140 Total Funding: $8,140 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: This project is part of a larger effort (with National Park Service (NPS) and Forest Service (FS) cooperators) to produce refined, scientifically credible critical loads for nitrogen deposition in the Oregon and Washington portion of the North American Marine west coast forest ecological…

August 30, 2021

Atmospheric Transport Component

Project ID: J9088020006 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $54,287 Total Funding: $275,798 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Design and implement a network of western national parks to provide spatially extensive, site specific, and temporally resolved data on exposure, accumulation, and impacts of airborne contaminants in these ecosystems. Deliverables: Historic Transportation Resources in Skagway and Dyea (Final Report)

Avian Inventory and Habitat Analysis of the Weippe Prairie, Nez Perce National Historical Park

Project ID: P16AC01416 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $61,567 Total Funding: $99,737 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Investigators from UI and NPS staff will collaborate to accomplish the following specific objectives. The overall focus of this project is to investigate and evaluate relationships between bird species composition and their habitats on Weippe Prairie to guide future restoration activities and to…

Avifauna Inventory of the Alagnak Wild River

Project ID: J8W07100002 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $46,316 Total Funding: $46,316 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: The Southwest Alaska Network of the National Park Service is assessing status and monitoring long-term trends of key natural resources or “vital signs” in its five national park units, including Alagnak Wild River, Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve, Katmai National Park and Preserve,…

BANBURY SPRINGS LIMPET CAPTIVE HOLDING & REARING PROJECT

Project ID: F22AC02206 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $99,300 Total Funding: $99,300 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: THE PURPOSE OF THIS AWARD IS TO FUND RESEARCH BY UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO (UI) ON THE BANBURYSPRINGS LIMPET, AN IDAHO ENDEMIC SNAIL KNOWN FROM ONLY FOUR SMALL SPRINGS. THE SPECIES IS EXPERIENCING A GENERAL DECLINE IN ALL POPULATIONS, AND ONE HAS EXPERIENCED DRASTIC…

July 15, 2023

Baseline Ecological Metrics and a Focused Condition Assessment of Mountain Lakes in the Pacific Northwest

Project ID: P18AC01330 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $30,000 Total Funding: $60,000 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: This is a collaborative project to conduct a Focused Condition Assessment (FCA) to use physical, chemical, and biological data previously collected from 2008-2017 by the NCCN Inventory & Monitoring (I&M) Program from 20 NCCN mountain lakes and an additional 135 non-I&M NCCN mountain…

August 30, 2021