Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve Social Science Park Break Program: The George Wright Society and National Park Service Social Science Program announce an exciting opportunity for graduate students. Applications are being accepted through May 15 for participation in a social science focused Park Break Program at Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve (GRSA).
The objective of this program is for students to understand a variety applied social science methods to collect information about visitor activities, attitudes, and travel patterns in GRSA and how these results integrate into planning across a diverse landscape of grasslands, wetlands, conifer and aspen forests, alpine lakes, and tundra. The park unit is ramping up efforts to conduct a backcountry management plan in the coming years and has initiated collections of visitor use and social science information in the summer and fall of 2015. As part of this program, students will understand protected area management issues and questions that exist in relation to resource protection and visitor enjoyment and how social science information can benefit the generation of this planning effort to prescribe backcountry management direction into the future.
Dates of session: October 11-16, 2015
Deadline to apply: May 15, 2015
The objective of this program is for students to understand a variety applied social science methods to collect information about visitor activities, attitudes, and travel patterns in GRSA and how these results integrate into planning across a diverse landscape of grasslands, wetlands, conifer and aspen forests, alpine lakes, and tundra. The park unit is ramping up efforts to conduct a backcountry management plan in the coming years and has initiated collections of visitor use and social science information in the summer and fall of 2015. As part of this program, students will understand protected area management issues and questions that exist in relation to resource protection and visitor enjoyment and how social science information can benefit the generation of this planning effort to prescribe backcountry management direction into the future.
Dates of session: October 11-16, 2015
Deadline to apply: May 15, 2015
For more information, visit: http://www.georgewright.org/parkbreak
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