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Full Title: ISLAND: Integrating sediment, landscape, and environmental dynamics to manage natural resources on barrier islands of the Florida panhandle This project will evaluate how barrier islands along the Florida panhandle are changing and inform natural resource management that balances long-term island resilience, species conservation, and human use. Lead Investigator: Sara Zeigler, U.S. Geological Survey … Continue reading
Trapped inside on a cool, sunny day in Santa Barbara, California, a group of scientists are deep in discussion. It’s November 2023, and the group is at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), a synthesis center in the U.S. that has supported hundreds of scientific synthesis working groups like this one. This … Continue reading
Full Title: Long-term Assessments of Rice’s Whales for Endangered Species Recovery Planning This project will use passive acoustic monitoring, physical oceanographic data, and acoustic tracking arrays to quantify relationships between trends in relative Rice’s whale density, oceanographic factors, and ambient noise to enhance understanding of the whale’s ecology and reduce uncertainty, improve management outcomes, and … Continue reading
Full Title: Restoration of Gulf of Mexico Islands and Beaches for Wildlife: Reducing the Uncertainty Stakeholder engagement informed the development of a conceptual model to help environmental managers forecast how Gulf habitats and wildlife may respond to various island and beach restoration management actions. Lead Investigator: James Nelson, University of Louisiana Lafayette, nelson@louisiana.edu Natural Resource … Continue reading