Current Research Projects
Natural Resource
Management Research Grants
Greetings,
Geauga Park District is pleased to solicit applications for the 2010 Research Grants Program. This program is designed to enable interested scientists to expand their research efforts while directing their projects towards problems of pressing conservation concern in Geauga Park District.
Geauga Park District is allocating a sum of money towards research efforts that will provide scientific information that will help us to better manage the natural resources of Geauga County and our park system. Our high quality natural areas present excellent opportunities for fieldwork associated with both undergraduate and graduate course work or for special studies in advanced classes at the secondary school level. Outstanding individuals are encouraged to submit proposals within any research area in conservation biology or associated discipline that is applicable to the mission of Geauga Park District. Proposals must be received by Geauga Park District on or before December 31, 2009.
Please look over all the enclosed information thoroughly before submitting your proposal. If you have questions, or need additional information, please contact Tami Gingrich, Field Naturalist, at 440-286-9516, extension 1128.
I look forward to potentially collaborating with you and/or your students on this exciting work to protect the lands and waters needed to ensure survival of the plants, animals, and natural communities representing the diversity of life.
Sincerely,
Keith McClintock
Deputy Director
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Natural Resource Management Research Past Research Grants
2007 Preferred Habitats of Marbled Salamander
2007 Effects of Metals and High Water Hardness at Higher pHs on Rana sylvatica and Ambystomg jeffersonianum
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Research Summaries
Bio Blitz
What is a BioBlitz?
A Bioblitz is an attempted inventory of all living organisms in a given area during a given amount of time (usually 24 hours).
The number of different organisms discovered helps to document the amount of biodiversity within an area.
Bioblitzs’ also raise public awareness about the large variety of life that can exist in a small area, as well as excite volunteers in collecting the data.
Geauga Park District invites local academia and scientists to participate in the collection of biological data. Geauga Park District uses the data collected during a Bioblitz to help shape our management plans for that park, so that the integrity of sensitive areas and species are not compromised in the future.
Suffice to say, a Bioblitz is a valuable tool! The Geauga Park District conducted its first Bioblitz in 2003 and has held one every year since then.
Along with The Ohio Division of Wildlife and the Ohio EPA, Geauga Park District’s Department of Natural Resource Management is currently involved in a brook trout research effort that’s goal is to develop a regional (Ohio) Habitat Suitability Index (HSI). HSI’s are basically an assortment of criteria related to a species and its habitat requirements that allow fisheries biologists to better predict the probability of success or failure of that species in a given habitat. 
