Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Rocky Mountain CESU

Post Date

July 14th 2009

Application Due Date

July 24th 2009

Funding Opportunity Number

09HQPA0053

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:

  $32000

• Award Range:

  $0 - $0

Grant Description

The purpose of the Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center (NOROCK) funding opportunity is to develop techniques and tools suited to tailored collection and dissemination of Web pages related to climate modeling. Little prior research has focused on either persistent information needs or Web information needs for a specific targeted user community. These two characteristics afford significant opportunities for exploitation in the methods developed. Another objective is to support understanding of climate change models by potential users. The results of tool application (harvested and organized Web pages) should help the user base figure out which models to use and how to use them. Long term, seek to develop technologies to support decision making using climate models. Ultimately, the decision could be very diverse from natural resource managers making species management decisions to climatologists determining future directions. In addition, the most likely technologies are expected to include personalized Web retrieval, tailored and possibly dynamic Web page organization to serve browsing, machine learning of capabilities of climate models, and representations of models that guide users in parameterization and interpretation of results. Overall, through this particular funding opportunity, goals are: 1) to develop a system for constructing search queries, submitting them to one or more search engines and disseminating the results to interested users who will offer relevance feedback; 2) to design a repository for persistent storage and sharing of the Web pages collected using the relevance feedback driven system; and 3) identify the machine learning and information retrieval techniques that are most effective for tailored search for this user community.

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