Research Project Archive
EMRRP Program Reviews. Access is on the USACE network only.
Ecosystem Goods and Services (EGS) Framework, Tool Development and Methods Refinement
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
EFM and GeoEFM (Ecological Function Models) Development
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
Tools to Assess Offsite and Cumulative Benefits in Watershed Assessments
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
Data Assessment of Species and Habitat Migration Due to Changing Conditions
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
Assessing and Improving the Resilience of Bay and Coastal Marshes and Islands
Fiscal Year Start: 2017; Fiscal Year Ending: 2020.
POC: Bobby McComas
SON: 2016-ER-5
Managing Movement of Threatened, Endangered, and Invasive Species Using Corps Water Resources Infrastructure
Fiscal Year Start: 2013; Fiscal Year Ending: 2019.
POC: David Smith
SON: 2015-ER-12
Developing community-based models for freshwater mussels
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
Watershed Level Effects of Multiple Ecosystem Restoration Projects
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
Multi-dimensional Modeling of Interactions between Nutrients and Riparian Vegetation for Improved Riverine Ecosystem Management
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
Ecosystem Restoration in Variable Environments
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
Integrating Environmental Considerations with Water Resource Simulations
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
Ambient Noise Level Measurement in the Aquatic Environment
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
Classifying Benthic Habitats in the Great Lakes and Coastal Environments
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
Hydrologic Water Quality Modeling in Support of Watershed Based Planning Decision Support
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)
Watershed Planning and Evaluation Tools
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
Growth Enhancing Bio-Polymer Use in Ecosystem Restoration
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
Techniques and Methods for Salt Marsh Restoration to Account for Sea Level Rise
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
Assessing Barrier Island Ecosystem Vulnerability to Changing Conditions and Sea Level Rise
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
Ecological Effects of Sediment Erosion and Transport Associated With Dam Removal
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
Improving Ecological Modeling Practices for the USACE Planning Community of Practice
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
Standard Monitoring Protocols for Herbaceous Vegetation
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
Salt Marsh Protection by Soil Bacteria
Fiscal Year Start: 2016; Fiscal Year Ending: 2016.
POC: Dmitri Mavrodi (USM)
SON: N/A
Ecosystem Function and Restoration Success in Restored Marshes – Evaluating Trajectories through Retrospective and Current Case Studies
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
Using Unmanned Aircraft System Imagery to Map Aquatic and Terrestrial Vegetation
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
Incorporation of Natural and Nature-based Features into Feasibility Studies: Identification, Analysis, Benefits, and Costs
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
Impact of Habitat Management on Bats
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
Framework of Optimum Selection of Source Material and Geomorphological Characteristics for Desired Vegetation and SAV in Restoration Projects
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
Living Shoreline Implementation across USACE Districts
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
Compilation and Assessment of USACE BMP’s used during Coastal Engineering to Benefit Coastal Shoreline-dependent Species along the Atlantic Coast
Fiscal Year Start: 2018; Fiscal Year Ending: 2021.
POC: Michael Guilfoyle (ERDC)
SON: 2016-ER-21; 2017-ER-8
Quantifying Inundation Effects on Marsh Vegetation
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
Certified Habitat Models to Evaluate Ecosystem Restoration Projects
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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