Past and Current Idaho NERP Research

The following sections describe current ecological research activities on the Idaho NERP.

2004 Research:

• Fine-scale Movement Patterns of Coyotes (Canis latrans) on the INEEL in Idaho.
   
• Monitoring Amphibian and Reptile Populations on the INL
   
• The Effect of Landscape Change on the Life History of Western Rattlesnakes
   
• Phylogenetic Analysis of the Abronia ammophila Green (Nyctaginaceae) Species Complex
   
• Factors that Influence the Road Mortality of Snakes on the Eastern Snake River Plain
   
• Ecological Impacts of Irrigating Native Vegetation with Treated Sewage Wastewater
   
• Natural and Assisted Recovery of Sagebrush in Idaho's Big Desert
   
• The Protective Cap/Biobarrier Experiment
   

Past Research:

• Monitoring Amphibian and Reptile Populations on the INL
   
• Alternative Container Design for Large Acreage Revegetation
   
• Use of Genetic Markers as a Screening Tool for Ecological Risk Assessment at the INL: Microsatellite Mutation Rate of Burrowing Mammals
   
• Crested Wheatgrass Rates of Spread into Native Sagebrush Steppe in Eastern Idaho
   
• Experimental Remote Sensing of Vegetation on the INL
   
• Sagebrush Demography on the INL
   
• Development of an Integrated Watershed Information Management Tool for Long-term Facilities Stewardship at the INL
   
• Assessing the Effects of Soil-forming Processes on Surface Caps
   
• Coupled Effects of Biointrusion and Precipitation on Soil Caps

Contact:  Roger Blew, PhD, Coordinator
Idaho National Environmental Research Park
rblew@stoller.com