Clik here to view.
New CSP Report Highlights High Ecological Value Areas in the Grand Mesa,...
New CSP research identifies locations in the GMUG National Forests that represent landscapes with the highest ecological value, serving as a guide for management planning by the U.S. Forest Service....
View ArticleClik here to view.
First-of-Its-Kind Online Mapping Tool Shows Best Opportunities to Meet U.S....
To stem the global impacts of climate change and biodiversity loss, leading scientists are calling for swift, substantial increases to the amount of land currently conserved. To stem the global impacts...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Changing Landscape Lab scientists and partners convene a team of experts to...
Wildlife crossing structures (overpasses, culverts) are key tools for reducing the impacts of roads on animal movement and therefore critical to maintaining connectivity between populations. If...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Achieving conservation targets by jointly addressing climate change and...
Unprecedented rates of climate change and biodiversity loss have galvanized efforts to expand protected areas (PAs) globally. However, limited spatial overlap between the most important landscapes for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Modeling range-wide occupancy trends for the Mojave desert tortoise (Gopherus...
Data from long-term monitoring programs, such as the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) line distance sampling (LDS) program for Mojave desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii), are increasingly being...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tortoise Lab staff convene a workshop to help streamline recovery efforts for...
As part of a multi-year collaboration with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), CSP hosted a three-day workshop in Las Vegas, Nevada, to discuss strategic plans to improve and streamline recovery...
View ArticleClik here to view.
IUCN Turtle Assessment
Tortoise Lab scientist participates in workshop to evaluate extinction risk for Central American freshwater turtle species The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) aims to perform...
View ArticleYou can’t manage (or conserve) what you don’t measure.
Monitoring biodiversity is critical to understanding impacts, informing conservation actions, and tracking progress towards conservation goals. Recently, guidelines have been provided by the Task Force...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Dolores River Canyon Country is one of the most biodiverse, unprotected...
The protection of biologically valuable or vulnerable lands and waters is a key strategy for reducing the impacts of climate change and biodiversity loss and has gained significant public momentum in...
View ArticleCSP IS HIRING!
CSP IS HIRING! Open and Pending Positions The post CSP IS HIRING! first appeared on Conservation Science Partners.
View ArticleClik here to view.
CSP welcomes Priya Nanjappa as its new Director of Operations!
We are pleased to announce the newest addition to the core team at CSP, Priya Nanjappa. As the inaugural Director of Operations for CSP, she will be helping to facilitate the day-to-day activities of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New paper by CSP and NAU staff offers a review of management options in arid...
Authors Aslan, Samberg, and Dickson, and Gray review the ecological and social science literature to examine drivers of altered fire dynamics in arid and semi-arid systems worldwide and the conditions...
View ArticleClik here to view.
CSP staff publish new, near ‘real time’ methods to map fire risk in the...
CSP’s Miranda Gray, Luke Zachmann, and Brett Dickson use new, cutting edge technologies to estimate and map risk of large fire in forested and woodland ecosystems of the West. There is broad consensus...
View ArticleCSP’s Brett Dickson invited to speak at Global Climate Action Summit.
CSP President and Chief Scientist, Brett Dickson, served as an invited panelist at the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco on Sept 12. His panel discussed the frontiers of climate data and...
View ArticleCSP part of a new consortium selected to lead the North Central Climate...
The U.S. Geological Survey has selected a University of Colorado Boulder-led team that includes Conservation Science Partners to host the North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center (NC-CASC) for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
CSP’s Dave Theobald co-authors new paper describing an innovative approach to...
Climate change has made urgent the need to better understand how landscapes allow for adaptation of species and ecological processes, but the key role of riparian areas has not been fully explored....
View ArticleCSP Is Hiring A Lead Scientist!
CSP seeks a Lead Scientist who will provide analytical and project management leadership and support as part of a team of ecologists for landscape and conservation planning projects. CSP seeks a Lead...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Study predicts warmer, drier mountains pose a double whammy for cold-adapted...
A new study published in Ecological Applications by Amanda Kissel and Maureen Ryan of CSP, and collaborators Wendy Palen (Simon Fraser University) and Michael Adams (USGS) demonstrates that for a...
View ArticleCSP welcomes Carrie Levine, PhD, as our new lead scientist focused on fire...
Carrie is an ecologist whose work addresses how forest ecosystems respond to a changing environment. Her research has addressed a range of topics, including consumer effects on forest biodiversity,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
CSP staff publish new paper on a novel forest structure model in special...
Tony Chang lead a new paper, published in the journal Remote Sensing, that used a convolutional neural network approach to estimate forest structure in California. [The paper is available here.] More...
View Article