{"id":585,"date":"2016-03-13T00:29:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T00:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/?page_id=585"},"modified":"2026-05-12T16:59:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T23:59:01","slug":"nps","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/partnership\/federal-agencies\/nps\/","title":{"rendered":"National Park Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-table\">\n<table class=\"has-fixed-layout\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Technical Representative<\/th>\n<th>Administrative Representative<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Ben&nbsp;Becker, Ph.D.<\/strong><br \/>Co-Lead Pacific Northwest CESU<br \/>National Park Service&nbsp;Ecologist for the Californian, Hawai&#8217;i Pacific Islands, and Great Basin CESUs<br \/><a href=\"mailto:Ben_Becker@nps.gov\">Ben_Becker@nps.gov<\/a><\/td>\n<td><strong>Pending<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Education, Research, and Technical Assistance Needs<\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Research<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Strengthen\u00a0partnerships with the academic and scientific communities to promote research that enhances the management of protected natural areas and heritage sites<\/li>\n<li>Develop more collaborations with agency and university partners (projects, expert workshops, etc.) to define science and planning needs in response to climate change<\/li>\n<li>Develop adaptation strategies for coping with climate change<\/li>\n<li>Research and training in conservation of global species and environmental pollution<\/li>\n<li>Develop interagency interdisciplinary research, technical assistance, and education programs that integrate cultural and natural resource concerns and that provide avenues of communication between disciplines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Technical Assistance<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Develop efficient ways to monitor the vital signs of natural systems<\/li>\n<li>Develop effective ways of sharing natural system monitoring information so that these data are useful to the surrounding agencies and communities outside the parks<\/li>\n<li>Training in restoration ecology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/index.htm\">National Park Service website<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technical Representative Administrative Representative Ben&nbsp;Becker, Ph.D.Co-Lead Pacific Northwest CESUNational Park Service&nbsp;Ecologist for the Californian, Hawai&#8217;i Pacific Islands, and Great Basin CESUsBen_Becker@nps.gov Pending Key Education, Research, and Technical Assistance Needs Research Technical Assistance National Park Service website<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/partnership\/federal-agencies\/nps\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2002,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-585","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 05:39:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19522,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/585\/revisions\/19522"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}