Project Database

Cave Ice Data Recovery and Analysis at Lava Beds National Monument

Project ID: P20AC00742 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $10,000 Total Funding: $10,000 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Investigators from OSU and NPS staff will collaborate to accomplish the following specific objectives. 1. Collect ice cores and organic material found melting out of the ice column from five previously unsurveyed LABE caves. 2. Describe physical appearance of ice cores and document…

August 30, 2021

CCS Cultural Rimrock Draw Rockshelter

Project ID: L16AC00203 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $35,000 Total Funding: $55,000 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: To continue with archaeological studies at the Rimrock Draw Rockshelter which may ultimately lead to re-evaluation of the chronology and theories about first Americans in the Great Basin and on the continent, and their interaction with other, later arriving pre-historic people. Further, the…

CCS-CESU Foskett Speckled Dace Investigation

Project ID: L12AC20623 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $20,000 Total Funding: $20,000 [project-data-part-2]

CCSP Western Lily Studies

Project ID: L15AC00046 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $15,983 Total Funding: $51,983 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: To 1) learn more about the habitat requirements and reintroduction techniques for Western lily (W. Lily, Lilium occindetale), a federal endangered plant species, 2) provide the BLM, Portland State University, and plant conservationists more information on using reintroduction as a conservation tool, and…

CE-QUAL-W2-Modeling: Illinois River

Project ID: G23AC00074 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $33,800 Total Funding: $63,800 [project-data-part-2] Abstract:  The goal of this research project is the development of a water quality and hydrodynamic model for a 16-mile stretch of the Illinois River. This model, CE-QUAL-W2 (Wells, 2022) is a 2-dimensional model of both hydrodynamics and water quality.  The objective of this…

January 22, 2024

CEAP assessment of the effects of the NRCS Lesser Prairie-Chicken Inititive

Project ID: 68-7482-14-521 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $173,953 Total Funding: $173,953 [project-data-part-2]

August 30, 2021

Central Oregon Live Fules Moisture Monitoring Project

Project ID: L16AC00166 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $7,553 Total Funding: $20,908 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Track moisture patterns of live fuel from the wet season through the dry eason in order to provide information to land managers for mulitiple jurisidictions.

Central Oregon Live-Fuel Moisture Monitoring

Project ID: HAA087204 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $7,153 Total Funding: $46,100 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: This monitoring project will alert fire management personnel to current and potential fire behavior conditions, as well as indicate fire season severity. The project will promote awareness of the role that live-fuel moisture conditions play in determining intensity and severity of burning conditions…

Central Umpqua Oak Habitat Analysis, Roseburg District

Project ID: L11AC20024 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $12,541 Total Funding: $12,541 [project-data-part-2]

CESU Collaborative Ethnographic Research of Tribal Ancestral Homelands Situated within Red Rock and Sloan Canyon National Conservation Areas, Nevada

Project ID: L24AC00528 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $209,690 Total Funding: $209,690 [project-data-part-2] Abstract:  The objective for this project is to conduct collaborative ethnographic research related to ancestral homelands situated within Bureau of Land Management (BLM) administered Red Rock National Conservation Area (NCA) and Sloan Canyon NCA, Nevada. The Portland State University team will organize a Tribal…

December 5, 2025

CESU Drought and Sage Brush: Management Implications

Project ID: L16AC00292 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $21,000 Total Funding: $45,000 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Investigate the impacts of intense, long-term drought on the western Great Basin sagebrush ecosystem by implementing a drought experiment in the Klamath Falls Resource Area in native sagebrush vegetation. This drought experiment will be part of a large network of concurrent drought experiments…

August 30, 2021

CESU From Forest to Ocean: How Will Hydrologic Regime Shifts of Forest Streams Influence Delivery of Nutrients, Organic Matter, and Organisms to Southeast

Project ID: 21-JV-11261933-008 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $149,860 Total Funding: $149,860 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: 

January 22, 2024

CESU Native Geno-Types – Comparative Yields in Commerical Field Production

Project ID: L14AC00339 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $22,300 Total Funding: $22,300 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: 1. This project will evaluate the reliability and predictability (risks) of native grass species yields over a 5 to 10 year timeframe from wild-land collected sources and compare yields by species, genotypes, and environmental factors of source locations where available. The project will…

August 30, 2021

CESU PANO FSEN Northwest Fire Science Consortium

Project ID: L25AC00231 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $524,000 Total Funding: $524,000 [project-data-part-2] Abstract:

March 31, 2026

CESU Using Advanced Remote Sensing to Estimating Woody Shrub Biomass: A Pilot Study in the Susitna-Cooper Inventory Unit of Interior Alaska

Project ID: 19-JV-11261989-112 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $ Total Funding: $ [project-data-part-2] Abstract: 

January 22, 2024

CESU Using Citizen Science to Understand the Non-Market (Use) Values of Environmental Goods: An Ebird and Wildfire Example

Project ID: 21-JV-11261975-052 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $6,000 Total Funding: $10,725 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: 

CESU Youth Initiative – Environmental Education Opportunities, Latino 4-H Camp, Salem District

Project ID: L10AC20444 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $10,000 Total Funding: $65,000 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: ATR: Claire Hibler

August 30, 2021

CESU-CCS Western Lily Recovery

Project ID: L12AC20640 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $6,000 Total Funding: $6,000 [project-data-part-2]

CESU-CCS Yaquina Seabird Study

Project ID: L12AC20629 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $15,000 Total Funding: $48,000 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Purpose: Providing Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area (YHONA) and USFW staff with real-time information in order to make informed management decisions to better protect the seabird populations.

CESU-Environmental DNA for Inventory and Monitoring Aquatic Species

Project ID: L14AC00303 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $110,000 Total Funding: $126,500 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: 1. The overall objective of this work is to sample and analyze eDNA to provide for the conservation of rare aquatic species and to provide educational opportunities for university students. 2. The initial project will focus on Columbia spotted frog (CSF GB; Rana…