REGIONAL CESU NETWORKS

• CALIFORNIAN
• CHESAPEAKE WATERSHED
• COLORADO PLATEAU
• DESERT SOUTHWEST
• GREAT BASIN
• GREAT LAKES-NORTHERN FOREST
• GREAT PLAINS
• GREAT RIVERS
• GULF COAST
• HAWAII-PACIFIC ISLANDS
• NORTH AND WEST ALASKA
• NORTH ATLANTIC COAST
• PACIFIC NORTHWEST
• PIEDMONT-SOUTH ATLANTIC COAST
• ROCKY MOUNTAINS
• SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS
• SOUTH FLORIDA-CARIBBEAN

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The Great Lakes-Northern Forest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (GLNF-CESU) is a network of faculty and staff from 24 leading academic programs, specialists from 8 organizations, and resource managers from 7 federal land management and natural resource research organizations.

The GLNF-CESU biogeographic region includes all or parts of 12 states, over 30 percent of the nation's total population, several of the nation's largest metropolitan areas, and some of the nations most significant water resources and forest lands. All units transcend political and institutional boundaries and strive to improve the scientific base for managing public lands by providing resource managers with high-quality scientific research, technical assistance, and education. The GLNF-CESU seeks to resolve resource problems at multiple scales using interdisciplinary ecosystem studies involving the biological, physical, social, and cultural sciences.

HOST	University of Minnesota
ESTABLISHED	2002
WEBSITE	http://www.cesu.umn.edu/index.htm
DIRECTOR	Alan Ek 115 Green Hall 1530 Cleveland Avenue N St. Paul, MN, 55108 PHONE: (612) 624-3098 EMAIL: aek@umn.edu
ADMINISTRATIVE DOCUMENTS
AGREEMENTS	AMENDMENTS
Cooperative and Joint Venture Agreement (2002) Amendment 1 adding Cleveland State University and University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point Amendment 2 adding Northern Michigan University, Stephen F. Austin State University, and University of Wisconsin, La Crosse Amendment 3 adding the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Civil Works Cooperative and Joint Venture Agreement (2007) Amendment 1 adding Antioch University New England, Cornell University, Indiana State University, Purdue University, and University of Notre Dame Amendment 2 adding the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Office of the Under Secretary of Defense - Installations and Environment Amendment 3 adding Ball State University, Grand Valley State University, Hamline University, Midwest Art Conservation Center, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, and Winona State University
UNIT PARTNERS
	TECHNICAL REPRESENTATIVE	COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS REPRESENTATIVE
FEDERAL PARTNERS
Army Corps of Engineers - Civil Works	Alfred F. Cofrancesco Technical Director Civil Works, Environmental Engineering  & Science Al.F.Cofrancesco@usace.army.mil	Deannda Sontag deannda.s.sontag@us.army.mil
Bureau of Land Management	Derek Strohl Natural Resources Specialist derek_strohl@blm.gov	John Lyon john_lyon@blm.gov Lisa Clayton lisa_clayton@blm.gov
Department of Defense	Alan Anderson alan.b.anderson@erdc.usace.army.mil	Joyce Roberts Joyce.I.Roberts@erdc.usace.army.mil
Forest Service	Thomas L. Schmidt Station Assistant Director Northern Research Station tschmidt@fs.fed.us	David Garrison davidgarrison@fs.fed.us
Fish and Wildlife Service	Craig Czarnecki craig_czarnecki@fws.gov	Cathy Vanatta Cathy_Vanatta@fws.gov
National Aeronautics and Space Administration	Daniel D. White Daniel.D.White@nasa.gov
National Park Service	Jerrilyn L. Thompson CESU Coordinator Jerrilyn_Thompson@nps.gov	Theora McVay Theora_McVay@nps.gov
Natural Resources Conservation Service	Doris Washington National CESU/COE Coordinator Doris.Washington@ar.usda.gov	Eloris Speight eloris.speight@wdc.usda.gov
United States Geological Survey	Kirk Lohman Supervisory Research Biologist klohman@usgs.gov	Sherri Ly Bredesen sbredesen@usgs.gov
UNIVERSITY PARTNERS
Antioch University, New England	James Jordan jjordan@antioch.edu	David Caruso dcaruso1@antioch.edu
Ball State University	Melody Bernot mjbernot@bsu.edu	Contact your college's grants and sponsored programs office
Cleveland State University	Mike Walton b.walton@csuohio.edu	Leo Jeffres l.jeffres@csuohio.edu
Cornell University	Daniel Decker djd6@cornell.edu	Christine Ashdown cma20@cornell.edu
Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College	Jay Sandal jsandal@fdltcc.edu	Larry Anderson larrya@fdltcc.edu
Grand Valley State University	Alan Steinman steinmaa@gvsu.edu	Chris Chamberlain chambech@gvsu.edu
Hamline University	Tracy Fredin tfredin@hamline.edu	David Stern dstern02@hamline.edu
Indiana State University	Liz Metzger emetzger@indstate.edu	Contact your college's grants and sponsored programs office
Indiana University	Stephen Wolter sawolter@indiana.edu	Theresa Ann Miller teremill@indiana.edu
Michigan State University	Daniel Keathley Keathley@msu.edu	David Evon evon@cga.msu.edu
Michigan Technological University	David Reed ddreed@mtu.edu	Contact your college's grants and sponsored programs office
Minnesota State University, Mankato	Ronald Nickerson ronald.nickerson@mnsu.edu	Richard Straka richard.straka@mnsu.edu
Northern Michigan University	John Anderton janderto@nmu.edu	Terrance Seethof tseethof@nmu.edu
Purdue University	Robert Swihart rswihart@purdue.edu	Mark Pearson mwpearson@purdue.edu
Saint Mary's University of Minnesota	Barry Drazkowski bdrazkow@smumn.edu	Contact your college's grants and sponsored programs office
Southern University and A&M College	Kamran Abdollahi kamrana664@cs.com	James Llorens james_llorens@subr.edu
State University of New York	Mark Lomolino island@esf.edu	Cornelius Murphy, Jr. cbmurphy@esf.edu
Stephen F. Austin State University	Steven Bullard bullardsh@sfasu.edu	Baker Pattillo bpattillo@sfasu.edu
University of Iowa	Keri Hornbuckle keri-hornbuckle@uiowa.edu	Twila Fisher Reighley twila-reighley@uiowa.edu
University of Massachusetts, Amherst	Matthew Kelty kelty@nrc.umass.edu	Jennifer Donias jadonais@research.umass.edu
University of Minnesota	Alan Ek aek@umn.edu	Kevin Koskey kevin@umn.edu
University of Notre Dame	Gary Lamberti glambert@nd.edu	Liz Rulli lrulli@nd.edu
University of Toledo	Jiquan Chen jiquan.chen@utoledo.edu	James Trempe james.trempe@utoledo.edu
University of Vermont	Allan Strong Allan.Strong@uvm.edu	Ruth Farrell ruth.farrell@uvm.edu
University of Wisconsin, La Crosse	James Wiener wiener.jame@uwlax.edu	Robert H. Hoar rhoar@uwlax.edu
University of Wisconsin, Madison	Richard Lindroth lindroth@wisc.edu	Kim Moreland kmorelan@rsp.wisc.edu
University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point	Christine Thomas cthomas@uwsp.edu	Katherine Jore kjore@uwsp.edu
West Virginia University	Chad Pierskalla cpierska@wvu.edu	Curt Peterson curt.peterson@mail.wvu.edu
Winona State University	W. Harold Ornes wornes@winona.edu	Contact your college's grants and sponsored programs office
OTHER PARTNERS
American Indian Science and Engineering Society	Dwight Gourneau dwight@aises.org
Great Lakes Commission	Tom Crane tcrane@glc.org
Great Lakes Forest Alliance	Mike Prouty mike@greatlakesforestalliance.org	Stephanie Bergmann stefan@greatforests.org
International Association for Great Lakes Research	Rob Letcher president@iaglr.org or robert.letcher@ec.gc.ca
Midwest Art Conservation Center	Colin Turner cturner@preserveart.org
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	Keith Wendt keith.wendt@dnr.state.mn.us
National Council for Air and Stream Improvement	John Beebe jbeebe@ncasi.org	Ronald Yeske ryeske@ncasi.org
Science Museum of Minnesota	Paul Martin pmartin@smm.org Dan Engstrom dengstrom@smm.org	Eric Jolly ejolly@smm.org
The Nature Conservancy	Christine Hall chall@tnc.org	Rob McKim rmckim@tnc.org