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Project members provide public-land managers with results and interpretations from studies that measure geologic change from natural and human disturbances on ecologically sensitive landscapes.

National Parks

• Interactions among soil fertility, grazing history, and climatic variability in semi-arid grasslands
• Spatial patterns of exotic plant invasions - controls by parent-material geochemistry
• Early-season invasive plants - measuring their temporal and spatial dynamics
• Regional Climate Modeling
• Interactions among geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology in public lands of the Southwest
• Measuring climatic variability and wind erosion, Canyonlands National Park and Mojave National Preserve
• Studies of soil habitats of Coccidioides immitis
• Organ Pipe National Monument
• Dinosaur National Monument

• Conceptual models to inform long-term ecological monitoring: Forecasts of ecologic responses to environmental change on public lands
• Soil hydrology and drought in arid ecosystems
• Plant and soil biogeochemistry
• Geologic development of arid landscapes in the Canyonlands area (Utah) - the last 50,000 years
• Dust and substrate geochemistry - links to ecosystem development
• Canyonlands National Park News (2002) From Dust to Crust (PDF)
• Land-use effects on ecosystems
• Vital Signs Monitoring for National Parks of the Colorado Plateau
• Great Sand Dunes National Park - studies of origin and evolution of the dunes
• Quaternary evolution of the Grand Canyon

Bureau of Land Management

• Habitat Relations and Effects Of Invasive Exotic Plants On The Federally Endangered Shivwits Milk-Vetch (Astragalus Ampullarioides), Utah
• Early-season invasive plants - measuring their temporal and spatial dynamics
• Regional Climate Modeling
• Interactions among soil fertility, grazing history, and climatic variability in semi-arid grasslands
• Conceptual models to inform long-term ecological monitoring: Forecasts of ecologic responses to environmental change on public lands
• Post-Fire Measurement of Dust Emission on the Milford Flat Fire, West-Central Utah
• Wind Erosion and Post-Fire Rehabilitation Strategies - Lessons from the Milford Flat Fire
• Dust emission from Franklin Lake playa, Mojave Desert
• Accelerated deflation on Mesquite Lake playa, Mojave Desert
• Grass-sagebrush Ecotone—linking vegetation, soils, and Quaternary geology
• Studies of erosion and alluviation in the Paria River, Utah and Arizona
• Studies of erosion, Las Vegas Wash
• Dale Lake sand ramps, California
• Measuring climatic variability and wind erosion near Canyonlands National Park, UT
• Studies of soil habitats of Coccidioides immitis, southern Arizona
• Rio Puerco (New Mexico) erosion and alluviation
• San Miguel River valley (Colorado)-Hazards and flood history

Fish & Wildlife Service

• Habitats of Endangered Plants, Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge
• Coachella Valley sand dunes

Bureau of Reclamation

• Effects of dust on mountain snow pack
• Studies of erosion, Las Vegas Wash

Wind erosion and dust storm issues from and across Public Lands