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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Sierra Nevada Research Center, Davis and Fresno

Activity: host research agency

  • Dr. Michael Arbaugh, expertise is air quality effects, Riverside
  • Dr. Andrzej Bytnerowicz, expertise is air quality, Riverside
  • Dr. Mark Fenn, ecological effects of nitrogen deposition, Riverside
    The chemistry laboratory at the Riverside Fire Laboratory performs much of the chemical analyses for KREW samples.
  • David Hamilton, supervisory chemist
USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region, R5

Activity: funding for soil erosion work in 2003-2005, design of study, implementation of treatment

  • Brian Staab, regional hydrologist
  • Brent Roath, regional soil scientist
  • Jospeh Furnish, regional aquatic ecologist
  • Trent Procter, regional air quality program
USDA Forest Service, Sierra National Forest, Clovis, and High Sierra Ranger District, Prather, CA

Activity: host management agency, treatment implementation

  • Ross Peckinpah, Kings River Project coordinator
Southern California Edison, Shaver Lake, CA

Activity: land owner and treatment implementation

  • John R. Mount, Forest Resource Manager
U.S. Geological Survey, Water Division, Sacramento, CA

Activity: stream algae research

  • Dr. Larry Brown, research biologist
California Bay-Delta Watershed Program, Sacramento, CA

Activity: funding source 2005

State Agreement No. 04-186-555-0, “Kings River Experimental Watershed: Monitoring and Restoration of Forest Ecosystems”

  • Dennis Bowker
California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Region, Fresno, CA

Activity: Funding source 2005 to present and grant administrator

  • Anthony Toto, grant manager
National Fire Program

Activity: funding source 2001 to present

Project number 01.PSW.C.1, Effects of fuel reductions on stream ecosystems

Joint Fire Sciences Program

Activity: funding source 2001 to 2004

Project number 00-2-05, Kings River and Lake Tahoe Basin demonstration sites for fuel treatments

Central Sierra Historical Society, Shaver Lake, CA

Activity: public outreach and educational activities

University of California, Santa Barbara

Expertise: ecology and physiology of aquatic insects and algae

  • Dr. David B. Herbst, Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory, Mammoth Lakes, CA
  • Dr. Scott D. Cooper, Department of Evolution, Ecology and Marine Biology, Santa Barbara, CA
University of California, Berkeley

Expertise: ???dissolved organic matter, biogeochemistry

  • Dr. Elizabeth Boyer, ???
  • Student(s): Madeline Solomon, research topic is characterization of dissolved organic matter
University of California, Merced

Activity: development of Sierra Nevada Hydrologic Observatory proposal for National Science Foundation’s Consortium of University …

  • Dr. Roger Bales
  • Dr. Martha Conklin
California State University, Fresno
  • Dr. Ruth Ann Kern, Biology Department, expertise is forest ecology
  • Student(s): Dana Nagy, research topic is riparian vegetation and microclimate
  • Dr. Steven Blumenshine, Biology Department, expertise is aquatic ecology
  • Student(s): Nicholas Basile, research topic is factors affecting brook trout distribution, growth, and energy sources
  • Dr. Fraka Harmsen, Geology Department, expertise is sedimentary and basin analysis

    http://www.csufresno.edu/geology/Faculty&Staff/Harmsen/Dr_Fraka.html

  • Dr. Roland Brady, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences , expertise is geomorphology

    http://www.csufresno.edu/geology/Faculty&Staff/Brady/Dr_Brady.html

California Water Institute

Activity: funding source 2002 to 2004

Project number 20055 (Harmsen and Kern) and number 20051 (Blumenshine)

University of Nevada, Reno

Expertise: soils

  • Dr. Dale Johnson, Dept. of Environmental and Resource Sciences
  • Student(s): Dallas Glass, prescribed fire effects on soil chemistry
Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO

Expertise: soil erosion

  • Dr. Lee McDonald, Dept. of Soil Rangeland and Watershed Stewardship
  • Student(s): Abby Korte, research topic is road sediment production and delivery
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