Projects and activities
We are proud of our partnerships with public and non-profit organizations in their research activities and support all levels of study.
Past projects include research on reestablishing native species after a wildfire, threatened alpine plants, riparian restoration, and more. Current research projects include monarch butterfly oviposition, mine remediation, and Colorado River flooding.
Current research
- Regeneration windows for dryland restoration
- Invasive Colorado River vegetation study
- Germination and Horticulture of Understudied Native Species in the Flagstaff area
- Region 3 (AZ & NM) Ponderosa Pine Cone Collection
- Adaptations of riparian plants to streamflow variability
- Wind Erosion Mitigation and Dryland Restoration
- Ponderosa pine climate change
- Monarch oviposition study
- Mine remediation
- Colorado River flooding study
- Native forbs drought study
- Native grassland seedbank
- Tamarisk and fungi
- Uranium phytoremediation
- Mimulus genetics
- Southwestern white pine
- Riparian restoration
Current restoration and contract growing
Current community and public service
Past projects Accordion Closed
- A seed bank emergence study to determine the effectiveness of different treatments to reestablish native species in the wake of the Kolob Fire at Zion National Park, and to reduce the spread of invasive species
- A study of the effects on nurse plants on the establishment and growth of Pinyon Pine in Northern Arizona
- A soil-types study of on the germination ability of Abronia alpina, a threatened alpine plant of the Sierra Nevada
- Identifying introgressing loci that affect host plant (Populus) susceptibility to a keystone herbivore, Pemphigus betae; the goal of this project is to identify potential genetic mechanisms that contribute to community organization
- A study to determine how offspring Populus plants resemble their parents, especially the insect communities that live on the plants; the study specifically explores if offspring plants support similar insect communities to their parents
- A study that isotopically labels leaves of Populus genotypes to track how carbon and nitrogen move through the aquatic food web, from leaves to insects to fish; results from the work could provide important information to assist in riparian restoration throughout the Southwest