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EMRRP Program Reviews. Access is on the USACE network only.

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Guidance that Incorporates Ecosystem Goods and Services in Corps Planning and Environmental Benefits Evaluation.

Fiscal Year Start: 2013 Fiscal Year Ending: 2019

POC: Elizabeth Murray

SON: Strategic Research HQ Initiative

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Enhanced technologies that link H&H tools and ecosystem assessments.

Fiscal Year Start: 2015; Fiscal Year Ending: 2018.

POC: John Hickey

SON: Strategic Discretionary Effort: Ecosystem Modeling – HEC Ecosystem Functions Model

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Protocols and guidelines for prioritization of sites for stream stabilization based on greatest anticipated downstream sediment reduction benefits to navigation, flood risk management and ecosystem restoration.

Fiscal Year Start: 2015; Fiscal Year Ending: 2019.

POC: Chris Haring

SON: 2015-ER-3

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Model framework and web visualization tool that allows USACE Districts to best manage for ecosystem restoration projects with ongoing changes as a result of weather-related hazards.

Fiscal Year Start: 2016; Fiscal Year Ending: 2020.

POC: Jacob Jung

SON: 2015-ER-14

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Fiscal Year Start: 2017; Fiscal Year Ending: 2020.

POC: Bobby McComas

SON: 2016-ER-5

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Fiscal Year Start: 2013; Fiscal Year Ending: 2019.

POC: David Smith

SON: 2015-ER-12

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Ecological model development applicable to future ecosystem restoration and planning projects for mussel communities.

Fiscal Year Start: 2015; Fiscal Year Ending: 2018.

POC: Todd Swannack

SON: Multiple freshwater mussel SONs submitted in FY15

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Develop a proof of concept approach for assessing the cumulative value of multiple projects in a single watershed. The capability developed will be used for demonstrating the value of completing multiple local projects over time at a watershed scale.

Fiscal Year Start: 2015; Fiscal Year Ending: 2017.

POC: Burton Suedel

SON: 2014-ER-24

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2D nutrient transport and vegetation interaction module for HEC-RAS.

Fiscal Year Start: 2013; Fiscal Year Ending: 2019.

POC: Billy Johnson

SON: 2015-ER-1

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Provide a suite of techniques and methods for conceptualizing, quantifying, and managing variable ecosystems using restoration alternatives that design for or manage variability.

Fiscal Year Start: 2013; Fiscal Year Ending: 2017.

POC: Kyle McKay

SON: Strategic initiative

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An enhanced HEC-ResSim software package with an integrated water quality modeling system capable of one-dimensional and two-dimensional water quality simulations.

Fiscal Year Start: 2015; Fiscal Year Ending: 2020.

POC: Todd Steissberg

SON: 2015-ER-5

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Ambient and anthropogenic aquatic sound database, equipment, guidance and software enabling field ambient sound capture capability.

Fiscal Year Start: 2015; Fiscal Year Ending: 2019.

POC: Alan Katzenmeyer

SON: 2014-ER-6

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A repeatable, streamlined approach for classifying bottom types in shallow, aquatic and marine habitats, using existing/new geospatial technologies (e.g. lidar, sonar, high resolution imagery).

Fiscal Year Start: 2015; Fiscal Year Ending: 2019.

POC: Molly Reif

SON: 2015-ER-8

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Embedded watershed runoff water-quality modeling capabilities within HEC-HMS (Hydrologic Modeling System), for multiple parameters (temperature, DO, nutrients, salts, sediment, etc.)

Fiscal Year Start: 2017; Fiscal Year Ending: 2021.

POC: Todd Steissberg POC: Billy Johnson

SON: 2016-ER-20 (2015-ER-12)

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Toolkit facilitating: 1) Stakeholder collaboration - serious games and other communication and visualization tools, including - time series satellite data historical and predictive graphics 2) Systems-based understanding and multipurpose prioritization/planning and 3) Vulnerability and uncertainty assessments.

Fiscal Year Start: 2016; Fiscal Year Ending: 2020.

POC: Billy Johnson POC: John Kucharski

SON: 2016-ER-23

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Development of a soil amendment to increase plant soil-holding capability in saline environments for improved wetland restoration and other applications.

Fiscal Year Start: 2016; Fiscal Year Ending: 2017.

POC: Steve Larson

SON: Strategic R&D

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Comprehensive guidance for restoration and maintenance of salt marshes affected by sea level rise.

Fiscal Year Start: 2015; Fiscal Year Ending: 2018.

POC: Elizabeth Murray POC: Damarys Acevedo-Mackey

SON: 2015-ER-20

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Spatially-explicit screening-level tool to assess ecosystem vulnerability with minimal pre-existing data and/or existing storm data to a suite of storm events of specific magnitude.

Fiscal Year Start: 2013; Fiscal Year Ending: 2017.

POC: Candice Piercy

SON: Strategic Research Initiative, FY13 RFP

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Framework for assessment of sediment impacts associated with dam removal projects.

Fiscal Year Start: 2017; Fiscal Year Ending: 2020.

POC: Susan Bailey

SON: 2008 ER-37

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Standardized platform for index-based model execution, guidelines and training for ecological model development and application, and searchable model, modeling capability inventory.

Fiscal Year Start: 2016; Fiscal Year Ending: 2020.

POC: Todd Swannack POC: S. Kyle McKay

SON: 2016-ER-22

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Standard monitoring and reporting protocols for ecosystem restoration projects aimed at restoring native herbaceous vegetation.

Fiscal Year Start: 2016; Fiscal Year Ending: 2019.

POC: Brook Herman

SON: 2015-ER-13

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Fiscal Year Start: 2016; Fiscal Year Ending: 2016.

POC: Dmitri Mavrodi (USM)

SON: N/A

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Fiscal Year Start: 2017; Fiscal Year Ending: 2021.

POC: Elizabeth Murray & Safra Altman (ERDC)

SON: 2017-ER-11 Evaluating ecosystem function and restoration success in restored marshes

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Fiscal Year Start: 2017; Fiscal Year Ending: 2020.

POC: Sean Griffin, Kristofer Lasko & Michael Campbell

SON: 2017-ER-17 Evaluation and Optimization of Unmanned Aircraft Systems to Sense, Identify, and Map in Aquatic Systems

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Fiscal Year Start: 2017; Fiscal Year Ending: 2019.

POC: Candice Piercy (ERDC)

SON: 2017-ER-18: Quantifying Coastal Storm (and Flood) Risk Management Benefits for Natural and Nature-based Features; 2017-F-8: Biophysical System Performance of Natural and Nature Based Features (NNBFs) for Coastal Storm Risk Management (CSRM) SMART Planning Studies

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Fiscal Year Start: 2018; Fiscal Year Ending: 2022.

POC: Eric Britzke (ERDC)

SON: 2015-ER-7 Federally listed bat species response to invasive vegetation control in forest stands

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Fiscal Year Start: 2017; Fiscal Year Ending: 2021.

POC: Damarys Acevedo-Mackey, Eve Eisemann & Amy Yarnell (ERDC)

SON: 2016 ER 12 -Correlation of Vegetative Density with Particle Size Distribution of Historically Placed Dredged Sediments for Substrate Nourishment to Enhance Ecosystem Function, 2017 ER 16 - Quantifying the relationship between SAV habitat and geomorphological features to inform SAV restoration efforts

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Fiscal Year Start: 2018; Fiscal Year Ending: 2019.

POC: Tosin Sekoni (ERDC)

SON: 2017-F-25 Implementation of Living Shoreline Techniques and Guidance in USACE Projects

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Fiscal Year Start: 2018; Fiscal Year Ending: 2021.

POC: Michael Guilfoyle (ERDC)

SON: 2016-ER-21; 2017-ER-8

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Fiscal Year Start: 2017; Fiscal Year Ending: 2021.

POC: Glenn Suir (ERDC)

SON: 2016-ER-3 Use of Remote Sensing and Field Data Collection to Quantify Inundation Effects on Marsh Vegetation

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Fiscal Year Start: 2018; Fiscal Year Ending: 2020.

POC: Catherine Murphy (ERDC)

SON: 2017-ER-12 Certified Habitat Models for Ecosystem Restoration

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