Find below the list of research projects and sites participating in the 2019 ESA/USGS Cooperative Summer Field Training Program
Arizona
Aquatic Invertebrate Monitoring and Research in the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park
Intern: Theresa Benton
Project Supervisor: Kennedy, Theodore
Field Center: Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center
Duty Location: Flagstaff, AZ
Description: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/sbsc/gcmrc
Detailed Job Description
RestoreNet: Developing Suitable Ecological Restoration Practices Across Environmental Gradients
Project Supervisor: Munson, Seth
Field Center: Southwest Biological Science Center
Duty Location: Flagstaff, AZ
Description: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/sbsc
Detailed Job Description
Biological data collection in support of restoration across the Colorado Plateau
Project Supervisor: Massatti, Rob
Field Center: Southwest Biological Science Center
Duty Location: Flagstaff, AZ
Description: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/sbsc
Detailed Job Description
Aquatic Phosphorus Bio-availability
Project Supervisor: Deemer, Bridget
Field Center: Southwest Biological Science Center
Duty Location: Flagstaff AZ and Moab UT
Description: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/sbsc
Detailed Job Description
Florida
Deep SEARCH: Deep sea exploration to advance research on coral, canyon, and cold-seep habitats
Project Supervisor: Demopoulos, Amanda
Field Center: Wetland and Aquatic Research Center
Duty Location: Gainesville, FL
Description: https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/17deepsearch/welcome.html
Detailed Job Description
Sea turtle movements and habitat-use, and American crocodile nest monitoring
Project Supervisor: Hart, Kristen
Field Center: Wetland and Aquatic Research Center
Duty Location: Davie, FL
Description: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/wetland-and-aquatic-research-center-warc
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Idaho
Monitoring and research of plant recovery on the 2015 Soda Wildfire
Project Supervisor: Germino, Matt
Field Center: Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center
Duty Location: Boise ID
Description: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/fresc
Detailed Job Description
Maryland
Population Study of Box Turtles on the Patuxent Refuge using Digital Image Processing and Machine Learning Concepts
Project Supervisor: Royle, Andy
Field Center: Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
Duty Location: Laurel, MD
Description: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/pwrc
Detailed Job Description
Waterbird Research on a Restoration Island in the Chesapeake Bay
Project Supervisor: Prosser, Diann
Field Center: Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
Duty Location: Laurel, MD
Description: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/pwrc
Detailed Job Description
Michigan
Variation in zooplankton productivity in Lake Huron
Project Supervisor: Bunnell, David
Field Center: Great Lakes Science Center
Duty Location: Ann Arbor, MI
Description: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/glsc
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Developing new, sustainable control strategies for invasive Phragmites australis
Project Supervisor: Kowalski, Kurt
Field Center: Great Lakes Science Center
Duty Location: Ann Arbor, MI
Description: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/glsc
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A test of sterile male release to control invasive sea lamprey in the Great Lakes
Project Supervisor: Johnson, Nicholas
Field Center: Great Lakes Science Center
Duty Location: Millersburg, MI
Description: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/glsc
Detailed Job Description
Great Lakes’ Cladophora growth study
Project Supervisor: Evans, Mary Anne
Field Center: Great Lakes Science Center
Duty Location: Ann Arbor, MI
Description: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/glsc
Detailed Job Description
Montana
Experimental suppression of invasive lake trout: Implications for conservation of imperiled bull trout in Glacier National Park; Measuring Streamflow and Understanding Spatial and Temporal Streamflow Variability in the North Fork Flathead River Basin
Project Supervisor: D’Angelo Vincent, and Muhlfeld, Clint
Field Center: USGS Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center
Duty Location: West Glacier MT
Description: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/norock
Detailed Job Description
Wildlife and habitat in Glacier National Park – Evaluation of huckleberry phenology response to drought
Project Supervisor: Graves, Tabitha
Field Center: USGS NOROCK
Duty Location: West Glacier MT
Description: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/norock
Detailed Job Description
North Carolina
Understanding the impacts of climate and global change on habitat dynamics and linking with species responses from a management perspective
Project Supervisor: Eaton, Mitchell
Field Center: Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center
Duty Location: Raleigh, NC
Description: https://globalchange.ncsu.edu/secsc/
Detailed Job Description
North Dakota
Pollinator Health and Habitat
Project Supervisor: Otto, Clint
Field Center: Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, (GGEMNN0000)
Duty Location: Jamestown, ND
Description: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/npwrc
Detailed Job Description
Oregon
Purple Martin use of BLM Regeneration Harvests and National Forest Restoration Sites
Project Supervisor: Hagar, Joan
Field Center: Forest & Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center
Duty Location: Corvallis, OR
Description: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/fresc
Detailed Job Description
South Dakota
Occurrence and Status of Sensitive Amphibian Species in Oregon
Project Supervisor: Symstad, Amy
Field Center: Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
Duty Location: Hot Springs, SD
Description: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/npwrc
Detailed Job Description
Utah
Evaluation of huckleberry phenology response to drought
Project Supervisor: Duniway, Mike, and Belnap, Jayne
Field Center: Southwest Biological Science Center, GGCMZD0000
Duty Location: Moab, UT
Description: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/sbsc
Detailed Job Description
Virginia
Estimating Global River Fisheries Harvest Potential
Project Supervisor: Lynch, Abigail
Field Center: National Climate Adaptation Science Center
Duty Location: Reston, VA
Description: https://www.usgs.gov/land-resources/climate-adaptation-science-centers
Detailed Job Description
National Synthesis of Species Responses to Climate Change
Project Supervisor: Rubenstein, Madeleine
Field Center: National Climate Adaptation Science Center
Duty Location: Reston, VA
Description: https://www.usgs.gov/land-resources/climate-adaptation-science-centers
Detailed Job Description
Washington
Wind River Watershed Cooperative Fish Population and Restoration Assessment; Klickitat River and Rock Creek: Technical Assistance with Juvenile Salmonid Monitoring; White Salmon River Salmonid Recolonization Assessment
Project Supervisor: Hardiman, Jill, and Jezorek, Ian
Field Center: Western Fisheries Research Center, Columbia River Research Lab
Duty Location: Cook, WA
Description: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/wfrc
Detailed Job Description
Coastal Habitats in Puget Sound
Project Supervisor: Conn, Kathleen
Field Center: Washington Water Science Center
Duty Location: Tacoma, WA
Description: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/wa-water
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West Virginia
Brook trout vulnerability to drought: eastern component of USGS national integrated ecohydrological research and monitoring plan
Project Supervisor: Snyder, Craig
Field Center: Leetown Science Center
Duty Location: Kearneysville, WV
Description: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/lsc
Detailed Job Description