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April 1 to April 30, 2005

1. Highlights of GCMRC activities:

Improving integration of Native American cultural perspectives with western scientific monitoring and research - On April 18-19, USGS, Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center collaborated with Dr. Gary Nabhan and associates from Northern Arizona University's Center for Sustainable Environments to host a workshop with Native American tribal representatives from the Glen Canyon Adaptive Management Program. The purpose of the workshop was to identify obstacles to improving integration of Native American cultural perspectives with western scientific monitoring and research approaches and to discuss possible solutions. Representatives and cooperators from four of the six tribes who are stakeholders in the Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program attended the workshop: Hopi, Hualapai, Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians, and the Shivwits Band of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah. The workshop identified several programmatic issues that were limiting the integration of tribal values within the Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program, and an action plan to initiate a systematic approach for addressing these issues was drafted. For more information, please contact: Helen Fairley, Sociocultural Program Manager, Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center, Flagstaff, AZ, hfairley@usgs.gov, 928-556-7285.

Core Monitoring Ad-Hoc Meeting Attended: Mike Liszewski, Helen Fairley, Barb Ralston, and Ted Melis attended a core monitoring ad-hoc meeting in Phoenix, AZ on April 11 - 12, 2005. The meeting was attended by members of the Core Monitoring Ad-Hoc committee chaired by Helen Fairley of the GCMRC. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss and receive comment on the latest revision of the core monitoring work plan. Contact: Helen fairley, USGS Southwest Biological Science Center, Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center, Flagstaff, AZ; telephone: 928-556-7285; email: hfairley@usgs.gov.

2. GCMRC in the news:

Nothing to report.

3. New publications received by the GCMRC library:

  1. Fugro Pelagos, Inc. 2005. SHOALS-1000T LIDAR and Image Data Acquisition for Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Program: Lees Ferry and San Juan Study Areas, AZ. Survey Report. Contract No. DACW01-02-D-0008/035. Electronic Access: http://www.gcmrc.gov/library/reports/GIS/Fugro_Pelagos2004.pdf
  2. Gray, J.R., ed. 2005. Proceedings of the Federal Interagency Sediment Monitoring Instrument and Analysis Research Workshop, September 9-11, 2003, Flagstaff, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1276. Electronic Access: http://www.gcmrc.gov/library/reports/physical/Fine_Sed/Gray2005.pdf
  3. Griffiths, P.G., R.H. Webb, T.S. Melis. 2004. Frequency and initiation of debris flows in Grand Canyon, Arizona. Journal of Geophysical Research 109: (F04002). 14 p.
  4. Perkins, Sid. 2005. Straight Flush: Researchers' latest effort to shape the Grand Canyon. Science News 167 (10): 152-153.
  5. Persio, Andrew Franklin. 2004. Assessment of Changes in the Water-Surface Profile of the Lower Canyon of the Little Colorado River, Arizona. Masters Thesis. University of Arizona. Electronic Access: http://www.gcmrc.gov/library/reports/physical/hydrology/Persio2004.pdf
  6. Whitacre, Jennifer. 2005. Grand Canyon Final Project Report for Contract DACW43-03-D-0509. Electronic Access: http://www.gcmrc.gov/library/reports/GIS/Whitacre2005.pdf
  7. Yard, M.D., G.E. Bennett, S.N. Mietz, L.G. Coggins, Jr., L.E. Stevens, S. Hueftle, D.W. Blinn. 2005. Influence of topographic complexity on solar insolation estimates for the Colorado River, Grand Canyon, AZ. Ecological Modelling 183: 157-172.

Contact Stephanie Wyse at the GCMRC library (928-556-7373) to obtain reprints of publications not available electronically.