Gateway's Long-Term Ecosystem Management Options under Changing Climate Conditions

Professor Tanya Heikkila, Associate Director of The Earth Institute's Water Center and SIPA professor who was recently awarded a three-year grant by the National Science Foundation to study interstate river basin compacts in the Western United States, is working with her team to report environmental policy implications for Gateway National Recreation area using conceptual models. The group split into the science team, which compiled existing information and developed an ecosystem catalog, and the policy team, which reported on existing legislation and global adaptation policy at Gateway. Together, they have the research which is necessary to make policy recommendations and provide conceptual models.