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The Desert Southwest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (DSCESU) is a cooperative network of 8 federal, 8 university, and 7 nongovernmental agencies studying and managing natural and cultural resources across the states of California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. Formed in 2000, and encompassing the Mojave, Sonoran, and Chihuahuan deserts, the DSCESU has been involved in more than 400 projects, with funding totalling over $20 million. The DSCESU is hosted by the School of Natural Resources and the Environment at The University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona.
Members of the Desert Southwest CESU benefit from a collaborative partnership in research, education, and technical assistance. Collaboration is facilitated by a streamlined task agreement process, and a 17.5% indirect cost rate (with the exception of the indirect cost rate of the U.S. Forest Service (0%) and Natural Resources Conservation Service (10%)).
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University of Arizona |
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ESTABLISHED |
2000 |
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DIRECTOR |
Charles Hutchinson
BioSciences East, Rm 325 PO Box 210043 Tucson, AZ, 85721 PHONE: 5206217255 EMAIL: chuck@ag.arizona.edu |
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ADMINISTRATIVE DOCUMENTS |
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Cooperative and Joint Venture Agreement (2000) Cooperative and Joint Venture Agreement (2005) Cooperative and Joint Venture Agreement (2010) |
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TECHNICAL REPRESENTATIVE |
COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS REPRESENTATIVE |
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| FEDERAL PARTNERS | ||
| Army Corps of Engineers - Civil Works | Alfred F. Cofrancesco Technical Director Civil Works, Environmental Engineering & Science Al.F.Cofrancesco@usace.army.mil |
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| Bureau of Land Management | Elroy Masters Program Head, Fish and Wildlife Arizona State Office AZ932 elroy_masters@blm.gov |
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| Bureau of Reclamation | Mark McKinstry mmckinstry@uc.usbr.gov |
Sheridan Stone Wildlife Biologist Sheridan.Stone@us.army.mil |
| Department of Defense | Sheridan Stone Wildlife Biologist Sheridan.Stone@us.army.mil |
L. Peter Boice Director, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Installations and Environment) ODUSD (CO) peter.boice@osd.mil |
| Fish and Wildlife Service | Dana Roth, DVM Assistant Regional Director, Science Applications, Southwest Region dana_roth@fws.gov |
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| Forest Service | Gerald J. Gottfried Rocky Mountain Research Station Tonto National Forest ggottfried@fs.fed.us |
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| National Park Service | Larry L. Norris CESU Coordinator lnorris@ag.arizona.edu Pat O' Brien CESU Coordinator pat_o'brien@nps.gov |
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| Natural Resources Conservation Service | Doris Washington National CESU/COE Coordinator Doris.Washington@ar.usda.gov |
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| United States Geological Survey | Brent Sigafus Biologist Southwest Biological Science Center Sonoran Desert Research Station bsigafus@usgs.gov |
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| UNIVERSITY PARTNERS | ||
| Howard University | George Middendorf Professor, Department of Biology gmiddendorf@howard.edu |
Contact your college's grants and sponsored programs office |
| New Mexico State University | Steve Loring Associate Director, Agricultural Experiment Station sloring@nmsu.edu |
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| Texas State University | Nathan Currit Professor, Department of Geography currit@txstate.edu |
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| Universidad de Sonora | Jose Eduardo Valdez Holguin Professor DICTUS jvaldez@guayacan.uson.mx |
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| University of Arizona | Charles Hutchinson Director, SNRE chuck@ag.arizona.edu |
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| University of California, Riverside | Micahel F. Allen Director, Center for Conservation Biology michael.allen@ucr.edu |
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| University of Texas, Arlington | Ronald Elsenbaumer Vice President for Research elsenbaumer@uta.edu |
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| University of Texas, El Paso | Carl Lieb Professor Department of Biological Sciences clieb@utep.edu |
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| OTHER PARTNERS | ||
| Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum | Rodrigo Medellin Interim Director rmedellin@desertmuseum.org |
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| Cornerstones Community Partnerships | Robin Jones Executive Director rjones@cstones.org |
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| Organization of American Historians | Aiden Smith Interim Public History Manager aidsmith@oah.org |
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| Pima County and Pima County Regional Flood Control District | Brian Powell Program Manager brian.powell@pima.gov |
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| Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory | Arvind Panjabi Director arvind.panjabi@rmbo.org |
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| Sonoran Institute | Joe Marlow jmarlow@sonoraninstitute.org |
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| The Nature Conservancy | Gita Bodner gbodner@tnc.org |
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