Management and Restoration
Management and Restoration
USGS WARC conducts research in areas experiencing restoration, including coastal Louisiana and the Florida Everglades. This work focuses on providing our partners the information needed to ensure restoration efforts are effective.
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Surface Elevation and Accretion Monitoring for the Maurepas Swamp Alternative-2 Mitigation Project
USGS will install and maintain up to six rod surface-elevation table (RSET) and paired accretion monitoring stations at the location of the Maurepas Swamp Alternative-2 Mitigation Project.
Carbon Storage and Fluxes on Department of Defense Installations
USGS is studying the effects of land-use and land-cover changes, and the effects of ecosystem disturbance and changing environmental conditions on carbon dynamics on Department of Defense lands.
Decision Support Tool to Assess the Carbon Sequestration Potential of Restoring Wetlands within National Park Service Lands
USGS is developing a modeling tool that will let National Park Service assess the carbon sequestration potential of future wetland restoration projects.
Developing a Decision Support Tool to Assess Carbon Sequestration on Natural Resource Conservation Service’s Wetland Reserve Easements in Kentucky and Tennessee
USGS is developing a decision support tool to help managers quantify the impact of wetland restoration on carbon sequestration in wetland reserve easements in Kentucky and Tennessee.
Monitoring and Adaptive Management Plan for Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) Project: Large-scale Marsh Creation – Upper Barataria Component
USGS will provide support to the Large-scale Marsh Creation – Upper Barataria Component Project by monitoring change in the area of land and water, and recovery of vegetation and elevation over time.
Identifying and Projecting Water Quality Outcomes of Canal Backfilling Restoration at Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve
USGS researchers and their partners will develop a coupled hydrodynamic and water quality modeling system; calibrate and validate the models; assess and predict outcomes of a canal backfilling restoration project on key water quality attributes; and run the modeling system under a suite of scenarios reflecting changing environmental conditions.
Non-breeding Habitat Use of Flooded Agricultural Fields by Shorebirds within the Mississippi Delta
Researchers are capturing and banding birds within flooded agricultural sites to understand habitat use of these artificial wetland habitats.
Demographic Analysis of the Endangered Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow
USGS researchers will examine how hydrology and landscape vegetation changes impact Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow survival and population growth.
Comparing EverForecast to the South Florida Water Management District’s Position Analysis
USGS will compare the EverForecast hydrologic forecast, the South Florida Water Management District's Position Analysis, and observed water level recordings from gages located across the Everglades landscape to examine which forecast performs better during the wet and dry seasons; wet, dry, or average years; or in different areas of the Everglades.
Data Analyses for St. Vincent National Wildlife Refuge Predator Control Project
USGS researchers will conduct analysis to determine how shorebird abundance, diversity, and nesting success changed following predator removal.
Geospatially Enabled, Web-based Groundwater Information Tool for Utah
The USGS Utah Water Science Center and the State of Utah collaborated with WARC's Advanced Applications Team to build a data driven, interactive web application to provide groundwater conditions for Utah.
Mark-Recapture Estimation of Razor-backed Musk Turtle Abundance in Louisiana
USGS scientists are working to determine the baseline population numbers of the Razor-backed Musk Turtle.