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The Great Basin is geographically well defined, bounded on the west by the Sierra Nevada range, on the north by the northern edge of southern plains of Idaho, on the east by the Wasatch range of Utah, and on the south by the Mojave desert in southern Utah and Nevada.

The objectives of the Great Basin Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) are to:

Provide research, technical assistance and education to federal land management, environmental and research agencies and their potential partners;
Develop a program of research, technical assistance and education that involves the biological, physical, social, and cultural sciences needed to address resources issues and interdisciplinary problem-solving at multiple scales and in an ecosystem context at the local, regional, and national level; and
Place special emphasis on the working collaboration among federal agencies and universities and their related partner institutions

HOST	University of Nevada, Reno
ESTABLISHED	2001
WEBSITE	http://environment.unr.edu/gbcesu/
DIRECTOR	Michael Collopy Assistant Vice President for Research Office of Undergraduate and Interdisciplinary Research 202 Ross Hall/MS 436 University of Nevada, Reno Reno, NV, 89557 PHONE: (775) 784-8262 FAX: (775) 784-8261 EMAIL: mcollopy@unr.edu
ADMINISTRATIVE DOCUMENTS
Cooperative and Joint Venture Agreement (2001) Amendment 1 adding Natural Resources Conservation Service Amendment 2 adding California State University, Fresno Amendment 3 adding Boise State University Amendment 4 adding Agricultural Research Service Amendment 5 adding Brigham Young University and University of Idaho Amendment 6 adding the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Amendment 7 adding the Bureau of Reclamation Cooperative and Joint Venture Agreement (2006) Amendment 1 changing the name to University of San Diego/White Mountain Research Station Amendment 2 adding Texas A&M University, Kingsville Cooperative and Joint Venture Agreement (2011) Amendment 1 adding Ball State University
UNIT PARTNERS
	TECHNICAL REPRESENTATIVE	COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS REPRESENTATIVE
FEDERAL PARTNERS
Agricultural Research Service	Mark Weltz Research Rangeland Management Specialist mark.weltz@ars.usda.gov	Raymond Carruthers Research Leader ray.carruthers@ars.usda.gov
Bureau of Land Management	Kim Dow Natural Resource Specialist Western Region/Nevada State Office kim_dow@blm.gov	Kenda Tucker Chief of Contracting kenda_tucker@nv.blm.gov
Bureau of Reclamation	Mark McKinstry Biological Scientist, Adaptive Management mmckinstry@usbr.gov	Melynda Roberts Grant Specialist mroberts@usbr.gov
Fish and Wildlife Service	Laurie Averill-Murray annalaura_averillmurray@fws.gov	Sue Lackey sue_lackey@fws.gov
Forest Service	Jeanne Chambers Research Ecologist Rocky Mountain Research Station jchambers@fs.fed.us
National Park Service	Chris Lauver Acting NPS Coordinator for the GRBA CESU chris_lauver@nps.gov	Jamie Sherrill Contracting Officer Pacific West Regional Office Jamie_Sherrill@nps.gov
Natural Resources Conservation Service	Doris Washington National CESU/COE Coordinator doris.washington@ar.usda.gov
United States Geological Survey	Sue Phillips Arid Lands Research Manager Biological Resources Division Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center sue_phillips@usgs.gov
UNIVERSITY PARTNERS
Ball State University	Melody Bernot Assistant Professor of Biology Director mjbernot@bsu.edu	Anne C. ("Kristi") Koriath Department of Biology Sponsored Programs Office kkoriath@bsu.edu
Boise State University	Steve Novak Professor snovak@boisestate.edu	Kimberly Page Assistant Director, Office of Sponsored Programs kimberlypage@boisestate.edu
Brigham Young University	Bruce Roundy Professor bruce_roundy@byu.edu	Gary Reynolds gary_reynolds@byu.edu
California State University, Fresno	Bruce Roberts J. G. Boswell Chair of Agronomy baroberts@csufresno.edu	Cynthia Teniente-Matson Vice President for Administration and Chief Financial Officer cmatson@csufresno.edu
Great Basin College	Tracy Shane Professor of Agriculture and BAIS Natural Resources Program Supervisor tracy@gwmail.gbcnv.edu	Sonja Sibert Fiscal Office sonjas@gwmail.gbcnv.edu
Idaho State University	Colden Baxter Associate Professor of Biological Science baxtcold@isu.edu	Dianne Horrocks Office of Sponsored Programs horrdian@isu.edu
Oregon State University	Paul Doescher Director, Natural Resources Program paul.doescher@oregonstate.edu	Patricia Hawk Director, Sponsored Programs patricia.hawk@oregonstate.edu
University of Idaho	Kurt Pregitzer Dean, College of Natural Resources kpregitzer@uidaho.edu	Polly Knutson Director, Office of Sponsored Programs osp@uidaho.edu
University of Nevada, Las Vegas	Stanley D. Smith Associate VP for Research stan.smith@unlv.edu	R. David Paul Executive Director, Office of Sponsored Programs osp@unlv.edu
University of Nevada, Reno	Michael Collopy Assistant Vice President for Research Office of Undergraduate and Interdisciplinary Research mcollopy@unr.edu
Texas A&M University, Kingsville	Allen Rasmussen Dean, College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Human Sciences allen.rasmussen@tamuk.edu
University of Utah	Andrea Brunelle Professor of Geography andrea.brunelle@geog.utah.edu	William Ernest Sponsored Projects Officer william.ernest@osp.utah.edu
Utah State University (Senior Partner)	Eugene Schupp Department of Wildland Resources schupp@cc.usu.edu	Jeff Coleman Director Sponsored Programs Office jeff.coleman@usu.edu
OTHER PARTNERS
Desert Research Institute	Paul S. J. Verburg Associate Research Professor, Interim Executive Director paul.verburg@dri.edu	Jenny Frayer Interim Director of Sponsored Projects and Compliance jenny.frayer@dri.edu
White Mountain Research Station	Frank Powell Director fpowell@ucsd.edu