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Public Lands

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

National Parks

• Interactions among geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology in public lands of the Southwest
• Monitoring climate and wind erosion, Canyonlands National Park and Mojave National Preserve
• Studies of soil habitats of Coccidioides immitis
• Organ Pipe National Monument
• Dinosaur National Monument

• Modeling methods to forecast 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

• Studies of erosion and alluviation in the Paria River, Utah and Arizona
• Studies of erosion, Las Vegas Wash
• Dale Lake sand ramps, California
• Monitoring climate 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

Bureau of Reclamation

• Studies of erosion, Las Vegas Wash

Fish & Wildlife Service

• Coachella Valley sand dunes

Wind erosion and dust storm issues