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July 1 to July 31, 2005

1. Highlights of GCMRC activities:

Panel Convened to Review Recreation Research and Monitoring Program. Between June 2-17, 2005, the USGS Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center Sociocultural Program, working in cooperation with staff from Grand Canyon National Park Science Center, sponsored an in-depth review of recreation-related research and monitoring for the Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program. The review panel consisted of specialists in recreation research and management from the University of Vermont (Dr. Robert Manning), University of Montana (Dr. Neil Moisey), Colorado State University (Dr. John Loomis), Northern Arizona University (Dr. Pamela Foti), Bureau of Land Management (Mr. Robert Ratcliffe) and US Forest Service (Dr. David Cole). The panel attended a series of presentations by recreation researchers, federal program managers, and park stakeholders, and reviewed numerous reports on past and current monitoring and research activities related to ascertaining the effects of Glen Canyon Dam on the Glen Canyon sport fishery, Glen Canyon day use, and white water rafting and camping in Grand Canyon National Park A report summarizing the review findings will be forthcoming at the end of the fiscal year. For more information, please contact Helen Fairley, GCMRC Sociocultural Program Manager; Flagstaff, AZ; hfairley@usgs.gov; (928) 556-7285.

2. GCMRC in the news:

Nothing to report.

3. New publications received by the GCMRC library:

  1. Pederson, J.L., P.A. Petersen, W. W. Macfarlane, M.F. Gonzales, and K. Kohl. 2003. Mitigation, Monitoring and Geomorphology related to Gully Erosion of Cultural Sites in Grand Canyon. Report in fulfillment of cooperative agreement 01WRAG0074 and modifications between Utah State University and the U.S. Geological Survey, Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center. 250 p. Electronic Access: http://www.gcmrc.gov/library/reports/cultural/Archaeology/Pederson2003.pdf
  2. Stone, Dennis M. 2005. Effect of Baiting on Hoop Net Catch Rates of Endangered Humpback Chub. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 25: 640-645.
  3. Topping, D.J., T.S. Melis, D.M. Rubin, and S.A. Wright. 2004. High-Resolution Monitoring of Suspended-Sediment Concentration and Grain Size in the Colorado River in Grand Canyon using a Laser-Acoustic System, in Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on River Sedimentation, October 18-21, 2004, Yichang, China, pp.2507-2514.
  4. Wilcock, P.R. and B.T. DeTemple. 2005. Persistence of armor layers in gravel-bed streams, Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L08402, doi: 10.1029/2004GL021772.

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