Phenology Monitoring - Nature's Notebook Citizen Science for Management and Engagement: Technical Assistance

Post Date

April 22nd 2016

Application Due Date

April 29th 2016

This is a Notice of Intent to award a Single Source Cooperative Agreement to the Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona, USA National Phenology Network (NPN), School of Natural Resources, University of Arizona.

Funding Opportunity Number

F16AS00181

CFDA Number(s)

15.678

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Information and Statistics
Natural Resources

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Other

This is a Notice of Intent to award a Single Source Cooperative Agreement to the Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona, USA National Phenology Network (NPN), School of Natural Resources, University of Arizona for the purpose of using NatureДккs Notebook to help integrate phenology citizen science activities on refuges in order to better understand how climate change may affect conservation actions, and to engage the public in that understanding.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $332559

• Award Range:

  $332559 - $332559

Grant Description

1. Expand and / or adapt existing regional projects generally focusing in three Service priority areas of interest: Middle Rio Grande (Bosque) ecosystem, Mississippi River corridor for Mayflies, and Monarch Butterfly central flyway. These areas provide the FWS an opportunity to combine Service data with off-station data to better understand climate change impacts across large-scale areas, ecosystems, and FWS units rather than in isolation. 2. Communication and revision of the FWS-NPN portal content and organization. The site will be modified to improve data access and analysis and provide clear examples of how currently established phenology monitoring on stations has led to enhanced baseline information needed for decision making and conservation planning. 3. Assessment of biological response to climate change across Refuges. Following the model developed for the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) (Monahan et al., Ecosphere, in prep), we will calculate the historical range of variability and trends in the onset of spring for each NWRS unit.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of the Interior

• Office:

  Fish and Wildlife Service

• Agency Contact:

  Project Officer Jana Newman 970-266-2922
  jana_newman@fws.gov
  

• Agency Mailing Address:

  PO Email

• Agency Email Address:

  jana_newman@fws.gov

• More Information:

  http://www.grants.gov