Todd Lookingbill receives funding from National Park Service
July 26, 2011
Dr. Todd Lookingbill, Assistant Professor of Geography and the Environment and Assistant Professor of Biology, has been awarded a cooperative agreement in the amount of $84,962 by the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service.
The agreement awards funds to conduct scientific research, monitoring, and inventory activities related to the identification, understanding, protection, and management of natural resources of certain units in the National Park System. Specifically, Dr. Lookingbill and a post-doctoral associate will prepare natural resource condition assessments for Petersburg National Battlefield (PETE) and Booker T. Washington National Monument (BOWA). These evaluations include conditions of natural resources, identification of human-induced or natural threats that influence the conditions, and identification of important data gaps and research needs relevant to evaluating natural resource conditions. Included are water quality, habitat, and species reports, and recommendations of strategies for future management.
PETE is the locale of the last major confrontation of the Civil War and is a 2,650-acre park that spreads into four localities: cities of Petersburg and Hopewell and Prince George and Dinwiddie counties. BOWA is the birthplace of the most influential African-American of the last 19th and early 20th centuries, and maintains the feel of an 1850’s middle-class tobacco farm. This 239-acre park is located in Franklin County, Virginia. Both locations have wide varieties of landscape, fauna and flora, and each welcomes thousands of visitors each year.
The agreement awards funds to conduct scientific research, monitoring, and inventory activities related to the identification, understanding, protection, and management of natural resources of certain units in the National Park System. Specifically, Dr. Lookingbill and a post-doctoral associate will prepare natural resource condition assessments for Petersburg National Battlefield (PETE) and Booker T. Washington National Monument (BOWA). These evaluations include conditions of natural resources, identification of human-induced or natural threats that influence the conditions, and identification of important data gaps and research needs relevant to evaluating natural resource conditions. Included are water quality, habitat, and species reports, and recommendations of strategies for future management.
PETE is the locale of the last major confrontation of the Civil War and is a 2,650-acre park that spreads into four localities: cities of Petersburg and Hopewell and Prince George and Dinwiddie counties. BOWA is the birthplace of the most influential African-American of the last 19th and early 20th centuries, and maintains the feel of an 1850’s middle-class tobacco farm. This 239-acre park is located in Franklin County, Virginia. Both locations have wide varieties of landscape, fauna and flora, and each welcomes thousands of visitors each year.