Headquarters' Perspective

Natural resources management research needs are addressed under the Ecosystem Management and Restoration Research Program (EMRRP). This research program falls under the broader Environmental Technologies Research Area.

Generally, the EMRRP objectives are to: address Corps business program environmental needs at an ecosystem/watershed level; provide state-of-the-science methods and procedures to predict and analyze environmental impact and opportunities of Corps projects and activities; combine engineering and environmental solutions for ecosystem management and restoration; design effective/efficient, user-oriented methods to restore and manage natural/physical resources; and provide tools to assist field activities in meeting environmental mandates and performance measures. Denise Y. White (CECW-ON), is one of three HQ EMRRP Program Monitors. The EMRRP Field Review Group (see Table 13), which assists the Research Program Monitors in identifying new research needs and evaluating ongoing research efforts, has members which represent three stovepipes of the Corps: Engineering, Operations-Natural Resources Management and Planning.

Your recommendations on the research needed to accomplish Natural Resources Business program functions are valued at any time. You may submit your documented research work unit proposals through your locally established process. Your proposal should document a field, need which can be satisfied only through research within the scope of EMRRP. The research effort and its results must have benefits on at least a regional level...i.e., site specific research efforts will usually not be considered under this program. All future research conducted under the EMRRP, must have a proponent - a person(s) assigned to closely follow the research through its completion to assist in assuring the research remains targeted for anticipated results and products. Research work units that are within the Corps priorities, that have national benefit and that support more than one Corps business function have the competitive advantage as proposed new work efforts under the EMRRP. General Investigation account funding supports this research program.