# Presentation: 042011

## Greater Yellowstone Science Learning Center

- Ann Rodman, Yellowstone National Park

## NPS Learning Centers

## NPS Learning Center Goals

**Facilitate mission-critical science in parks;**
**Establish solid relationships with scientists from a broad range of specialties; and **
**Communicate the results of science to park managers, park partners, and other audiences.**

## Website relationships

**Park**
**websites**

**GRY**
**Network**

**GYS**
**Learning**
**Center**

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**Others**

## Relationships

**Park**
**websites**

**GRY**
**Network**

**GYS**
**Learning**
**Center**

**Parks**

**Researchers**

**Others**

## GYRLC Future Development

**40 vital signs with 60 reportable resources**

**Archeology, **
**Historic structures, Cultural landscapes, Collections**

**Park specific, core resource topics**

**2006**
**10 YELL topics**
**2 GRTE**
**2 BICA**
**2 I&M**

**Ethnography**

**30 new topics in 2007**

## GYRLC Yellowstone Topics

**Yellowstone Cutthroat trout,**
**Fire ecology, **
**Ethnography, **
**Grizzly bears,**
**Bison, **
**Elk, **
**Grey wolves**

**Lake trout, **
**Yellowstone Volcano,**
**Geothermal features**

## GYRLC 2007 Topics

- air quality,
- winter air quality,
- wildlife disease,
- Arctic grayling,
- pronghorn,
- moose,
- trumpeter swans,
- bald eagles,
- visitor use,
- natural sound,
- Yellowstone sand verbena,
- Ross’ bentgrass,
- microbes,

- aquatic nuisance species,
- lake trout,
- whirling disease,
- lynx,
- beaver,
- mountain goats,
- mountain lions,
- historic structures,
- archeology,
- museum collections,
- and archives collections

- amphibians,
- climate,
- water quality,
- invasive plants,
- land use change,
- landbirds,
- bats,
- whitebark pine

## GYSLC Web Site

**Sponsored by Canon, USA**
**Link management decisions more closely with research results**
**Build knowledge sharing relationships with educational institutions and the public**

- _[www.greateryellowstonescience.org](http://153.90.240.227/index.html)_

## GYSLC – Yellowstone page

- www.greateryellowstonescience.org

## GYSLC – Yellowstone CT page

**Atlas pages**
**Almanac**
**Overview essay**
**Project descriptions**
**References & Links**
**Yellowstone Science**
**Partner Scientists**
**Data**

- www.greateryellowstonescience.org

## YCT Atlas

- www.greateryellowstonescience.org

## YCT Almanac

**One page synopsis**
**Importance**
**Status and trend**
**Critical issues**
**Stressors**
**Management actions**

- www.greateryellowstonescience.org

## YCT Overview

**In-depth essay**
**8 to 10 pages**
**Natural history**
**Ecological function**
**Management & monitoring**
**Top 10 references**

- www.greateryellowstonescience.org

## YCT Projects

**List of all relevant projects**
**One page write-up for a few**
**Links to progress and final reports**
**Links to data**

- www.greateryellowstonescience.org

## YCT References – management documents

**All of the official documents that guide our management actions for this resource**

- www.greateryellowstonescience.org

## All the related Yellowstone Science articles available as *.pdf documents 

- www.greateryellowstonescience.org

- YCT References – Yellowstone Science

## YCT References & Links

**List of the most important references **
**linked to *.pdf documents **
**List of important URL links**

- www.greateryellowstonescience.org

## YCT Researchers

**List of our partner scientists and their areas of interest**
**Links to the researcher’s web page**

- www.greateryellowstonescience.org

## GYRLC Products

**www.greateryellowstonescience.org**