Knowledge Neighborhoods

Connects federal agency oversight, environmental review, and community documentation around land use, water development, and resource management across the Gunnison Basin and surrounding public lands.

Connects federal environmental review processes, land management planning, and wildlife habitat concerns across the wildland-urban interface of the Colorado Plateau and surrounding public lands.

Connects hydrological modeling of reservoir storage and sediment transport with water resource management decisions in the Upper Colorado River Basin, including transmountain diversions and the Aspinall Unit.

Connects behavioral and ecological research on North American beaver with riparian habitat management, tracing how beaver activity drives floodplain hydrology, ecological succession, and multi-use natural resource planning across Colorado watersheds.

Examines how livestock grazing practices affect soil conditions, native grass communities, and broader rangeland ecology across Colorado ranch landscapes, connecting field monitoring protocols with sustainable land management guidance.

Maps the intersection of oil shale, oil and gas, and coal development across western Colorado towns and counties, drawing on federal resource assessments and news coverage of extraction impacts.

Connects federal and state environmental review processes with mineral and energy resource development across western landscapes, drawing on mining protocols, regulatory documents, and agency oversight.

Explores the use of constructed wetlands and phytoremediation to treat wastewater, reduce fecal coliform and heavy-metal contamination, and enhance wildlife habitat in aquatic and riparian systems.

Connects fluvial geomorphology research with federal agency technical guidance on stream channel measurement, substrate sampling, and reference site methodology for monitoring and restoring altered river systems.

Combines airborne hyperspectral and lidar data with convolutional neural networks to map and classify shrub and tree species across riparian corridors and alpine treeline zones in western mountain landscapes.

Connects historic mining activity, battlefield archaeology, and cultural resource documentation across Colorado landscapes with ties to Ute history and abandoned mine hazards.

Connects economic and policy frameworks for evaluating environmental harm — including soil erosion, non-native species, and long-term ecological legacies — across international regulatory and energy policy contexts.

Connects pipeline and energy infrastructure planning with wildlife habitat concerns across the Gunnison and Yampa watersheds, drawing on scoping comments, local media, and land-use allocation methods.

Examines how fire disturbance and plant structural traits like stem density shape vegetation community composition across grassland ecosystems, with particular relevance to browse species in semiarid landscapes.

Maps and characterizes native cottonwood forest coverage along riparian corridors using GIS analysis and field documentation of Fremont and narrowleaf cottonwood populations.

Connects aeolian sediment monitoring and plot-based field sampling with conservation concerns about biodiversity loss and habitat restoration in western grassland and rangeland ecosystems.

Connects hydrologic classification frameworks for hillslope behavior with watershed-scale land and water management across major western river systems, bridging physical hydrology with land use planning and remedial treatment strategies.

Connects groundwater hydrology and potentiometric monitoring protocols with environmental assessments of hydraulic fracturing impacts on water resources in the Gunnison Basin.

Combines UAV remote sensing methods with population-level infection prevalence and visual ecology concepts to investigate pathogen dynamics and biodiversity patterns in shrubland ecosystems.