Current Research Activities

Total Active Projects: 141

A Synthesis of Avian Projects in Semidesert Grasslands and Pine-Oak Woodlands

Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative (ARMI)

Analysis of Population Connectivity in Wyoming Greater Sage-grouse

Arapaho National Wildlife Refuge Habitat Monitoring

Assessing Socioeconomic Planning Needs (ASPN): A Decision-Support System for Choosing Appropriate Social and Economic Analyses for Federal Land Management Planning

Assessment of Desert Bighorn Sheep Habitat Suitability in Mesa Verde National Park

Assistance to USDA Farm Service Agency on the Conservation Reserve Program and Conservation Policies in Agriculturally Dominated Landscapes

Avian Conservation in the Prairie Pothole Region, Northern Great Plains: Understanding the Links between Climate, Ecosystem Processes, Wetland Management, and Bird Communities

Bat Population Database

Bat Species of Concern: An Ecological Synthesis for Resource Managers

Behavioral Ecology of Wild Horses Treated with GnRH

Biogeochemistry: Stable Isotope Applications

Biogeography: Stable Isotope Applications

Bird Migration Patterns in the Arid Southwest Using Doppler Radar

Bison Grazing Ecology at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, Colorado

Boreal Toad and Wood Frog Demographics

Causes and Consequences of Bat Fatalities at Wind Turbines

Channel Islands Loggerhead Shrike Population Size and Territory Locations

Colorado River Basin Riparian Ecology

Computer Support/Operations

Conservation of the Asiatic Wild Ass

Conservation Studies of Long-Nosed Bats in New Mexico

Consolidation and Integration of the USGS and University of New Mexico Vertebrate Collections

Contaminant Biology: Stable Isotope Applications

Control and Containment of the Brown Treesnake and Other Invasive Reptiles

Degradation Rates of DNA Extracted from Fecal Samples for Use with Molecular Markers

Developing a Grazing Monitoring Program for Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado

Developing a Non-Invasive Technique for Bighorn Sheep Population Estimation Using Fecal DNA, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Developing Ecological Forecasting Models

Development and Publication of Vegetation and Soil Monitoring Protocols for Rocky Mountain Inventory and Monitoring Network of Parks

Development of a Reference Handbook on Plague for the National Park Service

Development of a White-nose Syndrome (WNS) Tissue Tracking System

Development of Mineral Environmental Assessment Methodologies: Prototype Regional Mineral Environmental Assessment

Development of Mineral Environmental Assessment Methodologies: Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative

Development of Riparian Monitoring Protocols

Diatoms: Taxonomic and Ecological Tools for Assessment

Disturbance and Reclamation Data Management Systems (DARDMS)

Documenting, Mapping, and Predicting Invasive Species Using the Fort Collins Science Center's RAM (Resource for Advanced Modeling)

DOI on the Landscape, Sagebrush Ecosystems: Landscape-Scale Modeling to Address Management Priorities for Sagebrush Habitats and Sagebrush-Obligate Wildlife Species

Ecological Effects of Fire and Fire Management

Ecological Impacts of Roads and Road Use on Wildlife Populations

Ecological Investigations of White-Nose Syndrome in Bats

Economic Analysis of Natural Resource Management Issues

Effects of Climate Change on White-tailed Ptarmigan Using Genetics, Stable Isotopes, and Population Demographic Methodologies

Effects of Energy Development in the Rocky Mountain Area (EERMA)

Effects of Soil and Colony Age on Flea Densities

Elk and Bison Grazing Ecology in the San Luis Valley, Colorado

Engineered Wetland Evaluation

Erosional Consequence of Tamarisk Removal

Estimating Effects of Limiting Habitat Relationships with Regression Quantiles

Estimating Gunnison Sage-grouse Demographic Parameters Using DNA as an Individual Marker for Mark-Recapture Analysis

Evaluating Species Models for the Ecoregional Analysis of Sagebrush Ecosystems within the Wyoming Basins

Evaluation of Genetic, Behavioral, and Morphological Distinctness of Greater Sage-Grouse in the Bi-State Planning Area

Examination of the Biology of Summer-Roosting Indiana Bats Using Genetic Tools

Forecasting the Effects of Agricultural Practices on Prairie Wetlands: Implications for the Conservation of Migratory Shorebirds

FORT Communications and Outreach

FORT Metadata Services

FORT Support to Federal Lands Highway Division: Visitor Experience and Resource Protection Data Development

FORT Support to the Great Plains LCC

FORT Web Services

FORT/USGS Web Applications

Functional Characteristics of Streams among Ecoregions

Genetic Characterization of Introduced Lynx in Colorado

Geospatial Data Development for Central Federal Lands Highway Division

GIS and Remote Sensing

Grassland Ecology and Conservation

Habitat Prioritization for Selected Raptor Species in Wyoming

Host-Pathogen Dynamics and Demographics in Boreal Toads

Human Dimensions of Climate Change

Implications of Climate Change for Avian Conservation in Great Plains Landscapes

Interactions between Native and Non-native Aquatic Species in the Southwestern United States

Invasive Species of Riparian Ecosystems: Ecology, Restoration Implications, Effects of Climate Change, and Interactions with Streamflow and Fluvial Processes

Investigation of Family Relationships in Broad-tailed Hummingbirds Using Molecular Methods

Investigation of White-tailed Kite Population Bottleneck Using Museum Specimens

John Wesley Powell Center for Analysis and Synthesis

Landscape Phenology Program of the National Phenology Network

Long-term Ecological Monitoring and Research at Bandelier National Monument

Long-Term Ecological Research and Monitoring in the Loch Vale Watershed, Rocky Mountain National Park

Long-term Ecosystem Biogeochemistry

Managed Streamflow and the Ecology of the Bill Williams River

Mapping Surface Disturbance of Energy-Related Infrastructure in Southwest Wyoming: An Assessment of Methods

Measuring the Effects of West Nile Virus on Wild American Kestrel Populations in Colorado

Missouri River Cottonwood Demography

Modeling the Importance of Native vs. Invasive Vegetation Dominance for Neotropical Migratory Bird Use of Western Riparian Habitats

Molecular Ecology Laboratory

Museum Curation

myUSGS/ScienceBase Development

Native Fish Sanctuary Evaluation

Natural Resource Preservation Program: Gunnison Sage-Grouse Chick Survival and Landscape Population Modeling

Natural Resource Preservation Program: Gunnison Sage-Grouse Habitat Selection: Developing a Landscape-Level Habitat Map Predicting Sagebrush, Herbaceous, and Bare Ground Cover

Natural Resource Preservation Program: Impacts of Mountain Pine Beetle Infestation on Forested Ecosystem and Social Values in the Front Range, Colorado

Natural Resource Preservation Program: Population Survey Methods and Spatial and Temporal Use of Park Winter Range by Elk for Adaptive Management to Enhance Wildlife Viewing

NatWeb Support

NBII Metadata Services

Negotiation Training

Nutritional Ecology: Stable Isotope Applications

Partners in Flight Coordinator for USGS

Pinedale Anticline Data Management System

Population Genetics of Wood Frogs in Rocky Mountain National Park

Predicting and Managing Climate Change Impacts on Semi-Arid Land Wetlands, Migratory Birds, and Their Prey: An Integration of Remote Sensing, Molecular Genetics, Hydrology, and Environmental Modeling

Quantifying Biologically Mediated Fluxes of Stream Metals to Riparian Food Webs

Quantifying Sagebrush-Steppe Habitat Structure Using Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) data: An Evaluation in Southwestern Wyoming

Quantitative and Statistical Research Collaboration

Raven (A) small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS) Test Flights

Research on Introduced Florida Snakes

Riparian Ecosystems of Central Asia

Riparian Vegetation and Floodplain Sediment Responses to Dam Removal

River Ecosystem Forecasting Framework

Sagebrush Ecosystems Coordinated Research: Determining the Effects of Energy Development on Sagebrush Ecosystems--Invasive Plants

Sagebrush Ecosystems: Landscape-Scale Modeling to Address Management Priorities for Sagebrush Habitats and Sagebrush-Obligate Wildlife Species

Sampling Variability and Its Effects on Biological Indicators

San Clemente Island Fox

Socioeconomic Considerations for Public Lands Management and Planning

Socioeconomics, Including Perception, Values, and Knowledge of Landscape-Scale Change

Software Support Services for the National Invasive Species Council

Spawning-related Movements of Flathead Chub in a Prairie Stream

SpayVac^® Immunocontraception in Feral Horses

Status and Breeding Ecology of the Arizona Grasshopper Sparrow

Streamflow-Vegetation Relations to Evaluate Flow Regimes

Surveillance for the Presence of White-Nose Syndrome in the Bat Community at El Malpais National Monument, New Mexico

Technical Consultation and Preliminary Assessment of Bats at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, Arizona

The Users, Uses, and Value of Landsat Imagery

Tracking Clark's Nutcracker Movements and Population Structure Using Intrinsic Markers: Combining Genetic and Stable Isotope Signatures

U.S. Geological Survey-NEON Science Liaison

Use of Science in Decision Making and Conflict Resolution

USGS Information Technology Security

USGS/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Joint Development Project

USGS-National Park Service Vegetation Mapping Program

Vaccination and Flea Control to Assess Invasion of Plague into the Conata Basin, South Dakota

Water Management Studies

Web Tool Development for Central Federal Lands Highway Division

Western Mountain Initiative — New Mexico

Western Mountain Initiative: Response of Western Mountain Ecosystems to Climatic Variability and Change: Colorado

Western Riparian Ecosystems: Global Change

Wild Horse and Burro Research

Wintering Habitat Use by Priority Grassland Birds

Wyoming Conservation Landscape Initiative: Inventory and Long-Term Monitoring

Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative: Baseline Synthesis

Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative: Decision-Making and Evaluation

Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative: Effectiveness Monitoring

Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative: Mechanistic Studies of Wildlife