Pacific Northwest CESU - Announcements

PNW CESU Project Completion Update. Western Airborne Contanimants Project (WACAP) Numerous airborne contaminants, including heavy metals and both current-use and historic-use pesticides, have been detected in 20 western U.S. and Alaska national parks from the Arctic to the Mexican border. While concentrations of most of these contaminants were below levels of concern, others appear to be accumulating in sensitive resources such as fish. These and other results were recently finalized from the Western Airborne Contaminants Assessment Project (WACAP), a six-year, multi-agency study funded primarily by the National Park Service to evaluate the potential threats to park ecosystems and likely sources of these contaminants. Click here to visit the NPS Air Quality website for more information.

George Wright Society Conference 2009, heads back to the Northwest and will be in Portland, Oregon. The conference title, “Rethinking Protected Areas in a Changing World,” draws attention to the large-scale changes taking place in the world today—changes that are transforming the meaning and objectives of parks, protected areas, and cultural sites. GWS2009 will have four themes. Click Here for more info.

"Climate, Ecosystems, and Resources of Eastern California" Conference (CEREC) will be held in Bishop, CA, Nov 5-8, 2008 as the 5th White Mountain Research Station Symposium. Focused on the eastern Sierra Nevada, White Mountains and adjacent regions, this meeting will feature invited talks on climate variability, and physical, ecological, and management responses to climate. Concurrent sessions with invited and contributed talks and posters will address specific topics within these broad themes. Evening lectures, banquet dinner, and field trips are planned.

Early registration and abstract submission deadline is August 19. The draft program, information about registration, and instructions for contributing abstracts can be found on the conference website:http://www.wmrs.edu/projects/CEREC/
2008 Acadia National Park Research Grants Awarded! L.L. Bean Acadia Research Fellowships and Schoodic Research Fellowships. Click Here to view recipients for 2008. Congratulations!!

The Summer 2007 PNW CESU Newsletter is now available! Summer 2007 Newsletter (pdf file)

PNW CESU Task Agreement FY 2008 template is now available. NPS Task Agreement Template (MS word)

PNW CESU Steps in writing a Task Agreement is now available. Click Here for document (MS word)

CESU Partners Matrix, has been updated. This matrix communicates which partners are members of each of the respective CESU's. Click here to view the updated matrix as an excel file.
CESU Map, the map of the CESU network has been revised based on the updated CESU partners matrix-click here to view a pdf of the new map.

PNW CESU Announcements

Eastern Washington University (EWU) was officially admitted to the PNW CESU in 2007. The fully executed amendment can be viewed online- Current Agreement Amendment Three . (pdf file)

St. Mary's University of Minnesota (SMUMN) was officially admitted to the PNW CESU. The fully executed amendment can be viewed online- Current Agreement Amendment Two. (pdf file) SMUMN has officially completed their first NPS Task Agreement!! Congratulations to SMUMN.

Employment Opportunities

The Bureau of Land Management is also recruiting for seasonal employees in our Ely, Nevada field office. All jobs are posted on the government's jobs website,
www.usajobs.opm.gov. Please click here for more information.

Resources & Funding Announcement [See our Funding & Resources page for additional resources]

Online Herbarium. The newly redesigned web pages summarizing the National Park Service's botanical efforts in the Pacific Northwest are now available online. This website is the result of a cooperature project between the UW Burke Museum, North Cascades National Park, and Mount Rainier National Park.

Parks for Science Newsletter now available online. "Parks for Science" is distributed by the Pacific Coast Science and Learning Center at Point Reyes National Seashore to showcase creative and collaborative science, science education, research, and natural resource management supporting science-informed decision making within the National Park System and associated academic institutions and partners.

Web site for Research in Northwest National Parks is online, including descriptions of scientific disciplines and summaries of relevant case studies conducted within the parks.

Heritage News - a monthly e-newsletter published by the National Park Service to deliver timely information on topics including grant opportunities, new laws or policies, events, and activities of interest to the national heritage community.

Last modified June 29, 2008