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 Back to Chapter 4: Marine and Coastal Resource Protection Articles A new era for marine resource protection at Dry Tortugas and the Florida Keys By Brien Culhane, AICP Coral reefs in American Samoa: A practical approach to monitoring By Peter Craig Evolution of coral reef monitoring at Virgin Islands By Jeff Miller USGS science for coastal national parks By Rebecca L. Beavers Shifting sands: The challenges of managing NPS coastal resources By Julia Brunner and Rebecca Beavers Other Developments Damage assessment process bears fruit |
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 Award-winner Profile Dr. Charles Roman honored In October 2001, Dr. Charles Roman received the Director’s Award for Natural Resource Research. A research scientist in the Biological Resources Division of the USGS, Dr. Roman has been studying the ecology of coastal ecosystems on behalf of the NPS Northeast Region’s coastal parks for more than 15 years. His research has been essential to the protection of coastal barrier national seashores in four major areas: evaluating effects of hydrology on freshwater wetland ecosystems; restoring salt marshes and small estuaries; quantifying changes in coastal ecosystem structure, function, and process; and evaluating relationships between sea-level rise and salt marsh habitat structure. “His innovative approaches to predicting and quantifying ecological restoration responses have benefited park resources,” according to Mary Foley, chief scientist for the NPS Northeast Region. “In addition, he has been instrumental in uniting the strengths of the academic community with the strengths of the resource management professionals.” “Our coastal national parks are very special places,” said Roman, “and I am fortunate to have the opportunity to study these areas. It is especially rewarding to know that the National Park Service applies much of my research toward understanding, protecting, and restoring their coastal habitats.” In early 2002, Roman transferred to the National Park Service as research coordinator of the North Atlantic Coast Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, hosted by the University of Rhode Island at Narragansett. |
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This material is from Natural Resource Year in Review--2001, published by the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, in May 2001 (publication D-2255) /YearInReview/yir/yir2001/04_marine/04_od1_roman.html Last Updated: |