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- Walking Box Ranch: In partnership with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Las Vegas Field Office , UNLV through the Public Lands Institute is to conceptually plan, design, and engage in program and construction management for the Walking Box Ranch, a historic ranch near Searchlight, Nevada. The 40-acre headquarters parcel of the ranch may serve as a field research and training center focusing on arid lands and the Mojave Desert ecosystem. This project will also preserve part of the culture and history of Southern Nevada for the benefit of future generations.
- Limnological Assistance to Lake Mead National Recreation Area: Providing technical assistance with the development, implementation and review of lake monitoring and research programs related to the Boulder Basin Adaptive Management Program, other on-going Lake Mead limnology projects, and quagga mussel introduction. The project also includes strategic data mining to make historic data more available, organizing and conducting a “state of the science” symposium to share current research related to the ecological health of Lakes Mead and Mohave, and preparation of a ecological monitoring plan for these lakes.
- Science and Research Strategy for Southern Nevada: Developing a science strategy with four federal land management agencies to articulate interagency research priorities in the areas of natural resources, human interaction with their environment, and strategy operations.This strategy is intended to create a consistent, integrated, interagency science and research program to meet shared resource management goals for Southern Nevada public lands.
- National Park Service Monitoring Program: Conducts a variety of research projects in wildlife, vegetation, and archaeology at Lake Mead National Recreation Area and Parashant National Monument, with responsibilities ranging from inventory, monitoring, and research, to database management, report writing, and public presentations.
- Archaeology: Conducting archaeological inventories, monitoring, site assessments, testing, and data management throughout Lake Mead National Recreation Area and Parashant National Monument to examine how the data relate to other environmental factors on a broader regional scale.
- Lost City: Cataloging information and artifacts originally discovered by prior researchers at the Pueblo Grande de Nevada archaeological complex and completing field investigations to further map, survey, and conduct test excavations at the site.
- Anti-Litter Strategy for Southern Nevada: Researching the distribution and types of trash and other illegally dumped materials on public lands using advanced technology.
- Judicial Analysis of Littering Fines: Conducting legal research on current litter and desert dumping regulations and enforcement practices and providing recommendations to the land management agencies.
- Alternative Workforce Study: Surveying availability of alternative workforce suppliers and developing a relational database on the potential workforce available to meet temporary staffing needs of land management agencies.
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