Limnological Assistance for the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Meeting the Challenge of the Water 2025 Initiative: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending: December 31, 2007

Authors

Margaret N. Rees, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow

Document Type

Report

Publication Date

12-31-2007

Publisher

Public Lands Institute

Publisher Location

Las Vegas (Nev.)

First page number:

1

Last page number:

14

Abstract

• The limnologist position has been announced.
• Project 1: Review of the draft Boulder Basin Adaptive Management Plan is underway.
• Project 2: Development of a white paper expressing the joint needs of the entities involved in Water 2025 projects is being coordinated.
• Project 3: A bibliographic reference spreadsheet organizing literature citations related to quagga and zebra mussel research has been completed.
• Project 4: A comprehensive literature search of Lake Mead limnology is well underway; an Access database has been designed to organize reference citations; and a special collections library at UNLV is being established to house original rare documents and other pertinent materials uncovered during the data-mining effort.
• Project 5: The dates January 13-15, 2009 have been agreed upon for the Lake Mead Science Symposium; the UNLV Moyer Student Union has been secured as the event venue; and three of six session summaries have been drafted.
• Project 6: Topics to be covered in the Ecological Monitoring Plan for Lakes Mead and Mohave have been preliminarily established; review and summarization of existing Water 2025-related projects at Lake Mead NRA is underway; a project summary sheet is under development.

Controlled Subject

Dreissena; Freshwater ecology; Introduced aquatic organisms; Limnology; Quagga mussel; United States – Lake Mead National Recreation Area; Zebra mussel

Disciplines

Earth Sciences | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | Environmental Sciences | Fresh Water Studies | Life Sciences | Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology | Physical Sciences and Mathematics | Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology

File Format

pdf

File Size

293 KB

Language

English

Comments

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Repository Citation

Rees, M. N. (2007). Limnological Assistance for the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Meeting the Challenge of the Water 2025 Initiative: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending: December 31, 2007. 1-14.
Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/pli_lake_mead_limnology/2