Project Recommendation Process
Over 70 initial project concepts were submitted. A set of the Interim Steering Committee(ISC) formed a project review team and requested 5 page proposals from 18 submitted concepts. The project review team reviewed the 18 proposals and ranked them high, medium or low. The group then met and discussed each proposal and came to consensus on whether to fund the proposal or not and provided a justification for the selection. The recommendations were provided to the ISC and the ISC agreed upon the recommendations on July 22, 2010.)
2010 Project Summaries
2010 Project Summary Table (PDF) (file unavailable)Project Leader: Josh Ackerman, US Geological Survey(USGS), Western Ecological Research Center
Funding: $99,925
This project will provide natural resource managers with a web‐based tool to easily access information on the expected variation in avian demographic responses to environmental change across a gradient of species and landscapes from the San Francisco Bay to the Central Valley of California.
Within 6 months, the project will launch a web-based application that utilizes numerous existing long-term avian breeding demography datasets from areas throughout the CA LCC. The data and analyses will be publicly available through the California Avian Data Center.
Title: Assessing species vulnerability to climate change and mapping occurrences and distribution of those believed to be most vulnerable in California (file unavailable)
Project Leader: Tom Lupo, Chief, Biogeographic Data Branch, California Department of Fish and Game (CDFG) et al.
Funding: $103,099
This project will assess species vulnerability; conduct initial species ranking using NatureServe assessment methodology, process data for species determined to be most vulnerable, and revise data and range maps for vulnerable species. This information will be available to inform the Wildlife Action Plan update and will be displayed on BIOS through a public viewer.
Title: Tracking landscape change in the Central Valley: Developing critical capability, strategies, and data to guide conservation and management of birds and their habitats (file unavailable)
Project Leader: Dr. Joseph P. Fleskes, USGS-Western Ecological Research and Daniel Fehringer, Ducks Unlimited-Western Regional Office
Funding: $72,200
This project will help the Central Valley Joint Venture (CVJV) track gains and losses of key bird and waterfowl habitats at a landscape scale. This will allow the CVJV to effectively monitor and evaluate habitats essential to conservation planning for wildlife species. This work is important for identifying, assembling, and analyzing data for key habitats of concern and will provide a foundation for future monitoring.
Project Leader: Dr. Joseph P. Fleskes, USGS-Western Ecological Research
Funding: $99,450
This project will develop landscape change scenarios based upon water availability and precipitation and temperature patterns projected from downscaled models and investigate impacts of these changes on habitats and ecology of waterfowl, shorebirds, and other waterbirds in the Central Valley. This project will provide critical information and support to understand and incorporate likely impacts of climatic change in conservation planning.
Website: http://www.werc.usgs.gov/Project.aspx?ProjectID=204
Title: Climate-Driven Geomorphic Alteration of Intertidal Foraging Habitats for Migratory Birds in the San Francisco Bay Estuary (file unavailable)
Project Leader: Bruce Jaffe, USGS Pacific Science Center,John Takekawa, USGS Western Ecological Research Center
Funding: $82,425
This project will evaluate the effects of global climate change and sea level rise on estuarine intertidal habitats in the San Francisco Bay estuary and the Pacific Flyway migratory waterbirds that rely on this critically important habitat. This work will provide valuable information through downscaling global climate modeling and conducting geomorphic modeling.
Title: Incorporating the geography of climate change into conservation planning for theCalifornia Landscape Conservation Cooperative (file unavailable)
Project Leader: Jason Kreitler, USGS Western Geographic Science Center
Funding: $67,332
This project will analyze downscaled climate model data to assess the geography of climate change at scales relevant to actual conservation actions. This work will analyze the California Essential Habitat Connectivity products to determine which protected lands are most vulnerable and which of the proposed corridors would partially mitigate climate change threats.
Title: San Francisco Bay Area Upland Habitat Goals (file unavailable)
Project Leader: Bettina Ring, Bay Area Open Space Council
Funding: $98,500
The Upland Habitat Goals project, now nearing completion, is a science-based process using existing data supplemented by expert opinion to identify a Conservation Lands Network for biodiversity preservation to inform conservation investments. The final report will recommend the types, amounts and distribution of habitats, linkages, compatible uses and the ecological processes needed to sustain diversity. Other products include an online decision support tool and access to a GIS database.
Website: http://www.bayarealands.org/
Project Leader: Nadav Nur, PRBO Conservation Science
Funding: $40,995
This project will design a monitoring program and protocol to detect the effects of climate change on tidal marsh bird population abundance and distribution. It is a companion to “Tidal Marsh Bird Population and Habitat Assessment for San Francisco Bay under Future Climate Change Conditions” and will build on its products, enabling evaluation of the long-term viability of four tidal-marsh bird species threatened by impacts of climate change: Clapper Rail, Black Rail, Common Yellowthroat, and Song Sparrow (three endemic subspecies: San Pablo, Suisun, and Alameda). Information will be available through the California Avian Data Center.
Title: A Broad-Scale, Multi-Species Monitoring Protocol to Assess Wintering Shorebird Population Trends in Response to Future Land Use and Climate Change (file unavailable)
Project Leader: Matthew E. Reiter, PRBO Conservation Science
Funding: $50,000
This project will develop a sampling design and monitoring protocol for wintering shorebirds in the Central Valley and in the San Francisco Bay Estuary and develop an online shorebird monitoring portal at the California Avian Data Center. The project will document baseline conditions which is important for effectively tracking change. The work is part of a larger project to develop a statewide shorebird monitoring program in California.
Website: http://data.prbo.org/apps/pfss/index.php?page=reports
Title: How do we monitor the ecological consequences of climate change? Developing an Environmental Change Network in the California LCC: Year 1 Landbird Focus (file unavailable)
Project Leader: Grant Ballard, PRBO Conservation Science
Funding: $86,065
This project will develop a foundation for monitoring environmental change by identifying where and what to monitor in order to evaluate climate-change impacts and will develop a California LCC-specific landbird monitoring web portal. The initial focus will be on landbirds, however a framework will be developed that recommends standardized monitoring for other taxa and environmental attributes.
Website: http://data.prbo.org/apps/ecn/
Title: Tidal Marsh Bird Population and Habitat Assessment for SF Bay Under Future Climate Change Conditions (file unavailable)
Project Leader: Grant Ballard, PRBO Conservation Science
Funding: $100,241
This project will assess the potential effects of climate change on tidal marsh habitats and bird populations; identify priority sites for tidal marsh conservation and restoration; and develop a web-based mapping tool for managers to interactively display and query results.
Website: http://data.prbo.org/apps/sfbslr/
Project Summaries
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