Summary of FY 2010 National Park Service Californian CESU Projects
Project Title
NEW PROJECT STARTS
Stand age structure and growth
responses to disturbance and climate
variability in forest monitoring plots,
Southwest Alaska Network
Marine Benthic Habitat Mapping of
Point Reyes National Seashore
Alien Invasion: Effects of Atmospheric
Nitrogen Deposition on Sagebrush
Steppe Vegetation Dynamics at Upper
Columbia Basin Network Parks
Assessment of current-year stock
grazing effects on meadow
invertebrates
Collection and Coordination of World
War II Home Front Oral Histories
Assessment of avifauna within the
Sierra Nevada Network Parks
Scratching the Surface at Joshua Tree
National Park: Introducing Nonvascular Plants to the Public : Lichen
Component
Developing an Air Contaminants
Reserch and Monitoring Strategy for
the Sierra Nevada-Southern Cascades
Region - Geospatial Analysis
Component
Analysis and publication of long-term
kelp forest monitoring data inside and
adjacent to the Channel Islands Marine
Protected Areas
Assessing climate refugia and
connectivity for desert bighorn sheep in
California and Southern Nevada
Development of Statistical Models for
Humpback Whale Capture-Recapture
Data from Glacier Bay National Park
and Preserve and Evaluation of
Monitoring Methodology
Aquatic Habitat Criteria Development
in Support of Minimum Flows
Determination on the South Fork of the
Merced River
Yosemite Valley Groundwater
Assessment and Conservation Planning
Facilitation of a phenology network to
assess climate change response in
California National Parks
Project
Cost
NPS Unit
Cooperator
PI
Southwest Alaska I&M
Network
HSU
Rosemary
Sherriff
104,810
Water Resources Division
CSU-Fresno
Fraka
Harmsen
$33,539
Craters of the Moon
UCR
Edith B. Allen
Sequoia and King’s Canyon
National Parks
UCSDWMRS
UCB
$39,518
Rosie the Riveter NHS
Sierra Nevada I&M
Network
Jeff Holmquist
Carolyn
Finney
IBP
Rodney Siegel
$44,638
Joshua Tree National Park
UCR
Giles Waines
$12,887
Yosemite National Park
SFSU
Leora Nanus
$15,821
Channel Islands National
Park
UCSB
Jennifer
Caselle
$11,116
Mojave Preserve and Death
Valley National Park
UCSDWMRS
John
Wehausen
$15,700
Glacier Bay National Park
IBP
James F.
Saracco
$48,000
Yosemite National Park
UCSDWMRS
Jeff Holmquist
$72,000
Yosemite National Park
UCD
Graham Fogg
Pacific West Region
UCSB
Susan Mazer
33,288
$169,000
$84,000
$286,000
Project Title
Senior Capstone Research Project
Focusing on the Santa Monica
Mountains National Recreation Area
Captive propagation of tidewater gobies
(Eucyclogobius newberryi)
Assessment Tools for Park-Based
Youth Education and Employment
Experience Programs
Predicting Impacts of Sea Level Rise
for Cultural and Natural Resources in
Five Hawaii Parks
Development, testing and evaluation of
best practices for education and
research programs in phenology
Developing an “Anza Trail
Certification Toolkit” for the Juan
Bautista de Anza National Historic
Trail
Employing Smart Phones for Citizen
Science in the Santa Monica Mountains
National Recreation Area
Investigate Effective Strategies to
Protect Archeological Sites from
Destructive Alien Plant Species and
Improve Wetland Habitat
Determining Optimal Planting
Densities for Halstead Meadow
Restoration Invertebrate Recovery
Ecoregional Fire Management Exercise
Based on Modeling Plausible Future
Scenarios
Region-wide Planning for Resurvey of
Vertebrate Diversity Over Last 100
Years in the Great Basin and Mojave
Desert
COST MODIFICATIONS TO
EXISTING AGREEMENTS
Sierra Nevada Network Lake
Monitoring – Water Chemistry
Analyses
Assessment of the MEDN Water
Quality Monitoring Protocol as
implemented in the Santa Monica
Mountains
Updating Overnight Wilderness
Trailhead Travel Pattern Data
Lead Poisoning in California Condors
at Pinnacles National Monument:
Biomarkers of Toxicity
Project
Cost
$4,700
$13,000
$24,993
$100,000
NPS Unit
Santa Monica Mountains
National Recreation Area
Golden Gate National
Recreation Area
Santa Monica Mountains
National Recreation Area
Ala Kahakai National
Historical Trail & Hawaii
NPS
Cooperator
PI
CSU-CI
HSU
Sean Anderson
Eric J.
Loudenslager
UCD
Theresa
Westover
UCB
Patrick O'
Grady
$17,995
Pacific West Region
UCB
Carolyn
Finney
$20,000
Juan Bautista de Anza
National Historic Trail
CSU Chico
Emilyn
Sheffield
$23,964
Santa Monica Mountains
National Recreation Area
UCLA
Deborah Estrin
$98,000
Kaloko-Honokohau
National Historical Park
UCD
Andrew
Engilis
$121,237
Sequoia and King’s Canyon
National Parks
UCSDWMRS
Jeff Holmquist
$66,363
Sequoia and King’s Canyon
National Parks
UCD
Mark
Schwartz
Mojave and Great Basin
NPS Units
UCB
Craig Moritz
$19,527
Sierra Nevada I&M
Network
UCR
James
Sickman
$18,129
Mediterranean I&M
Network
CSU-LA
Barry Hibbs
$58,846
Yosemite National Park
HSU
Steve Martin
$49,556
Pinnacles National
Monument
UCSC
Donald Smith
$100,000
Project Title
Develop a site vegetation management
plan for Aimakapa Fishpond to guide
endangered waterbird habitat
restoration and protect
cultural/archeological resources at
Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical
Park
Intertidal Community Structure
Monitoring at Redwood National and
State Parks
Developing a Web-based Application
for Visualizing Marine Protected Area
Monitoring Data from Channel Islands
National Park’s Kelp Forest Monitoring
Program
Vegetation Sampling and Classification
for Lassen Volcanic National Park
Natural Resources Condition
Assessment for Sequoia and Kings
Canyon National Parks
Support for National Park Service
Californian CESU
Stand age structure and growth
responses to disturbance and climate
variability in forest monitoring plots,
Southwest Alaska Network
Total FY2010 Project Funding
NPS Californian CESU
Project
Cost
NPS Unit
Cooperator
PI
$82,000
Kaloko-Honokohau
National Historical Park
UCD
Andrew
Engilis
$30,000
Klamath I&M Network
UCSC
Pete Raimondi
Channel Islands National
Park
UCSB
$50,050
Klamath I&M Network
UCD
$92,319
Sequoia and King’s Canyon
National Parks
UCB
$31,700
Pacific West Region
UCB
John Battles
Bob
Buchannan
$35,050
Southwest Alaska I&M
Network
HSU
Rosemary
Sherriff
$5,669
$ 2,033,415
25 New Starts = $1,560,569
11 Cost Modifications to Existing Task Agreements = $472,846
10 No-cost Modifications
Will
McClintock
Michael
Barbour