Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Rocky Mountain CESU

Post Date

April 2nd 2009

Application Due Date

April 13th 2009

Funding Opportunity Number

09HQPA0029

CFDA Number(s)

15.808

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Science and Technology and other Research and Development

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Other

This financial assistance opportunity is being issued under a Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program. CESU's are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education. Eligible recipients must be a participating partner of the Rocky Mountain Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $100000

• Award Range:

  $0 - $0

Grant Description

The USGS Alaska Science Center seeks to provide financial assistance for research in the development and application of methods to define and quantify decadal-scale changes in the type, abundance, and spatial distribution of marine mammal sea ice habitats in the Arctic. The research will strive to pioneer new approaches to characterize sea ice habitats using integrated spatial and temporal assessments of geophysical data (such as ice concentration, motion, age, etc.), across a variety of geospatial scales. While the methodological developments of the research should have robust qualities for circumpolar application, analytical emphasis .should be placed on the western Arctic, i.e." the Beaufort and Chukchi seas. Arctic sea ice is diminishing al an unprecedented and alarming rate. Nations worldwide have made significant investments in research to monitor and model the geophysical changes. Associated ecological changes, however, are more complex and less well studied. The research solicited here will help bridge the rapidly expanding body of geophysical knowledge with fundamental information needed to better understand the accompanying ecological consequences.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of the Interior

• Office:

  Geological Survey

• Agency Contact:

  FAITH GRAVES
  Contract Specialist
  Phone 703-648-7356

• Agency Mailing Address:

  Contract Specialist

• Agency Email Address:

  fgraves@usgs.gov