A nationwide consortium of Federal agencies, universities, (conservation organizations, and other partners)working together to support agency missions and informed public trust resource stewardship. Anthropology to Zoology coordinated, collaborative, applied natural and cultural resource issues multiple scales ecosystem context
to provide timely, high quality scientific research, technical assistance and education services; to create and maintain effective collaborative partnerships among federal agencies, universities, and others to share resources and expertise; to encourage professional development of federal scientist, technical staff, and managers through substantial involvement in projects; to help prepare future conservation professionals through direct involvement with real-life conservation issues and problem solving.
1999 Four pilot CESUs established 7 Federal Agencies 30 universities 2012 17 CESUs 13 Federal Agencies 227universities (including 47 minority institutions) 62 state, tribal and non-government partners Since 1999, >7,000 projects involving over $500M (est.)
University Partners University of Montana (Host)1999 Montana State University1999 University of Idaho1999 Utah State University1999 Washington State University1999 Salish Kootenai College1999 University of Wyoming 2002 University of Colorado 2002 University of Colorado Denver 2002 Colorado State University 2004 University of Northern Colorado 2006 University of Calgary 2007 Metropolitan State University of Denver 2011 Federal Partners National Park Service 1999 Bureau of Land Management 1999 US Geological Survey 1999 US Forest Service 1999 Bureau of Reclamation 2004 Natural Resource Conservation Service 2004 US Army core of Engineers-Civil Works 2008 Office of Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Installations and Environment) 2009 US Fish and Wildlife Service 2009 Little Big Horn College 2012
Agency has need that is filled by university expert University researcher has an idea finds agency partner RM-CESU Executive Committee initiates a project and works on it together Competition has taken place; therefore paperwork simple and fast Cooperative Agreement- involvement of all parties Negotiated indirect rate: 17.5%
Success cannot be measured in project #s alone: Learning about each other through our Executive Committee/Managers Meetings and outreach visits to campuses and workstations. Participation in partner workshops and training opportunities. Projects between CESU partners, but using other mechanism to transfer funds.
RM-CESU Student Awards Kristen Kaczynski, CSU, Willow Decline in Rocky Mountain National Park: Examining the Interactions of Drought, Ungulate Browsing, Sapsuckers, and Cytospora Fungal Infection Nichelle Frank, CSU, Oral History Project for Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument RM-CESU Project Team Award North Park Cultural Landscape Project Dr. Robert Brunswig, UNC, collaborated with Dr. Fred Sellet at the University of Kansas on this BLM project, which included consultation with Ute tribal members, to design a archeology field school in Colorado.
Cameron Naficy, Ph.D. Candidate Geography at the University of Colorado Boulder: Cross-scale assessment of spatiotemporal patterns and drivers of fire effects in mixed-severity fire regime forests of Larix occidentalis, Glacier National Park Dulce Kersting, M.A. Candidate History at Washington State University: The Interpretive Powers of Grant-Kohrs Ranch NHS in Determining the Roles of Race, Class, and Gender Among Cowboys on the Northern Plains During the Open Range Era Warren Hansen, M.Sc. Candidate Wildlife Biology at the University of Montana: Integration of habitat modeling, stress physiology and stream flow to explain breeding success in the harlequin duck (Histrionicus histrionicus)
Lisa Gerloff RM-CESU Executive Coordinator 406-243-5346 lisa.gerloff@umontana.edu Pei-Lin Yu NPS Cultural Resource Specialist, RM-CESU 406-243-2660 peilin_yu@nps.gov Kathy Tonnessen NPS Research Coordinator, RM-CESU 406-243-4449 kathy_tonnessen@nps.gov http://www.cfc.umt/cesu