Pacific Northwest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU)

Natural Resource Condition Assessment for Glacier Bay National Park

Project ID: P13AC01093

Federal Agency: National Park Service

Partner Institution: Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota

Fiscal Year: 2013

Initial Funding: $120,885

Total Funding: $170,785

Project Type: Research

Project Disciplines: Biological

National Park: Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve

Principal Investigator: Drazkowski, Barry

Agreement Technical Representative: Wesser, Sara

Abstract: The project provides an assessment of natural resource conditions for Glacier Bay National Park (GLBA). This project is intended to assist GLBA resource management staff to assess specific park-based resource priorities and needs. Through compilation and synthesis of existing scientific information from multiple sources, and expert judgment from an interdisciplinary team of specialists, the project will assist NPS in defining specific park priorities. The project objectives include: characterize park biological and physical resource conditions at appropriate scales; define threat and stress factors and their relationship to identified resources; identify critical data gaps; and suggest data collection or resource investigations to address those gaps. The project will define resource conditions, threats, and stressors for GLBA. These factors are evaluated and depicted spatially (to the extent possible) to facilitate use of project findings in a wide variety of park decision and planning processes, and for use in park reporting to the Department of Interior’s Strategic Plan land health goals. A project report will be publicly available to provide information useful for understanding the current natural resource conditions at GLBA and for related partnership and educational efforts.

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