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 John A. Bissonette         Thomas C. Edwards, Jr.        Phaedra E. Budy

John A. Bissonette

1998-2001 Evaluating aircraft bird strikes at El Centro Air Base: a CD-Rom approach
-U.S. Department of the Navy, Naval Facilities Engineering Command
1997-2001 Patch dynamics and biodiversity values in an agricultural landscape
-J.C. Quinney Presidential Scholarship
-Utah Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
1997-2000 Impact of predation on juvenile desert tortoises
-U.S. Department of the Navy, Naval Facilities Engineering Command
1997-2000 Effectiveness of return ramps in reducing ungulate mortality on Utah roads
-Utah Department of Transportation
-Utah Division of Wildlife Resources
1993-1999 An energetics-based habitat model for marten
-Western Newfoundland Model Forest, Inc.
-Newfoundland Wildlife Division
1993-1999 A hierarchical approach for studying deer behavior and habitat relationships: suburbanization as an unplanned experiment
-Utah Division of Wildlife Resources
-Boone and Crockett Club
1993-1999 The effect of climate, landform, surface geology, and contemporary indigenous resource use on vegetation distribution and pattern in Omo National Park, Ethiopia
-Wildlife Conservation Society
-Zoological Society of London
-International Livestock Research Institute
1996-1998 Ecological determinants of Canada goose declines at Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge, Utah
-US Fish and Wildlife Service

Thomas C. Edwards, Jr.

2007-2011 ECOCHANGE: Challenges in assessing and forecasting biodiversity and ecosystem changes in Europe (Co-PI)
European Union (funded through Swiss Federal Research Lab WSL,Birmensdorf Switzerland
2007-2009 Upper Colorado River Ecosystem: the identification and modeling of anthropogenic stressor effects on an ecosystem (PI)
-U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
2006-2008 The Las Vegas Valley boundary disposal area:evaluating alternative land-use planning scenarios and potential relationships with measures of disturbance and area ecological integrity (Co-PI)
-Bureau of Land Management,Nevada State Office
2005-2007 Predicting invasive plant species occurrences in National Parks: a spatially explicit process for prioritizing prevention (PI)
-National Park Service and U.S. Geological Survey
2004-2009 Integrated resource assessment, inventory and monitoring of wildlife responses to manipulation of the shrubsteppe enviroment (PI)
-Utah Division of Wildlife Resources and Federal Partners
-Natural Resources Conservation Service<
-S. E. J. Quinney Foundation
2004-2006 Habitat modelling of management indicator species on forest lands in the Intermountain West: a role for the Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis data (PI)
-USDA Forest Service<
2001-2004 Development of training opportunities in the design and analysis of research for use in the management of State of Utah wildlife resources (PI)
-Utah Division of Wildlife Resources
2000-2004 Design and analysis protocols for survey and manage species under the Pacific Northwest Forest Plant (PI)
-USDA Forest Service
-Bureau of Land Management,Oregon State
2001-2004 Landscape potential for animal species survival, colonization and dispersal in Switzerland: a spatial simulation study
-Switzerland National Science Foundation
2000-2004 Effects of prescribed burning on terrestrial salamanders in coniferous and mixed-coniferous forests of the Klamath/Siskiyou Region
-USGS Biological Resources Division
-Oregon State Office, Bureau of Land Management
2000-2002 Nest-site selection by cavity-nesting birds: connecting patterns of habitat-use among spatial scales
-USDA Forest Service
2000-2002 Alternative future scenarios for Utah's Wasatch Front (PI)-USGS Biological Resources Division
-Utah Division of Wildlife Resources
2000-2002 Design and analysis protocols for survey and manage species under the Pacific Northwest Forest Plan
-USGS Biological Resources Division
-Oregon State Office, Bureau of Land Management
-USDA Forest Service
1999-2003 Development of a modelling, analysis and display environment for USDA Forest Service, Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) information
-USDA Forest Service
-USGS Biological Resources Division
1998-2000 Assessing biological value of lands: a spatial analysis of multiple indices with implications for conservation management
-Department of Defense, SERDP
1998-2000 Alternative futures scenarios for the Califonia Mojave Desert
-Department of Defense, SERDP
1997-1999 The umbrella species concept and regional conservation planning: a comparitive study
-USGS Biological Resources Division
1996-2000 Modern regression methods for meeting multiple forest inventory objectives: a comparative study
-USDA Forest Service
1996-1999 Hierarchical nest site selection by cavity nesting birds in the Uinta Mountains, Utah
-USGS Biological Resources Division
1995-1998 Modelling spatially explicit forest structural attributes using generalized additive mixed models
-National Biological Service
-U.S. Forest Service
1995-1998 Methods for assessing accuracy of large-scale data structures
-National Biological Service
-U.S. Forest Service
1995-1997 An evaluation of spatially explicit modelling strategies for designing conservation reserves
-National Biological Service
-U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Phaedra E. Budy

2000-2002 Snake River spring/summer chinook habitat improvement feasibility and validation, Idaho and eastern Oregon
-U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
-USGS Biological Resources Division
2000-2002 Logan River, Utah, native trout population dynamics and distribution
-Utah Division of Wildlife Resources
-USGS Biological Resources Division
2000-2002 Rainbow trout growth and survival study in Flaming Gorge, UT-WY
-Utah Division of Wildlife Resources
2000-2001 Differences in post out-migration growth of chinook salmon from different areas in the Columbia Basin based on scale patterns
-Pacific States Marine Fisheries Council
2000-2001 State of the Science paper for management decisions about Snake River chinook and steelhead
-U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service