Demographic Studies of Sea Turtles

Post Date

August 30th 2011

Application Due Date

September 1st 2011

Funding Opportunity Number

FWS-R6-DEMOGRAPHICSTUDIESOFSEATURTLES

CFDA Number(s)

15.657

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Environment
Natural Resources

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Other

This is a notice of intent to award this agreement to Colorado State University - USGS Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit under the Rocky Mountains Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $60000

• Award Range:

  $1000 - $60000

Grant Description

This synopsis is the full annopuncement. The tasks to be performed under this agreement are as follows: (1) Extend or adapt current statistical methodology, design concepts, and software to sea turtle problems, to be able to estimate stage specific survival, fidelity, and movement probabilities, conditional probability of nesting (equivalent to remigration interval), recruitment rate to the breeding life history state, abundance of turtles in the study area (e.g., nesting population), total adult female abundance (those nesting and those that are skipping nesting), proportion of nesters that are neophytes versus remigrants, and /number of nests laid within a season; (2) Use these tools and simulation to evaluate minimum sample sizes needed to achieve desired precision levels for a variety of scenarios pertinent to various sea turtle species, based on published papers and experience with hawksbills and leatherbacks in the Caribbean; and (3) Articulate the results to the sea turtle community, in a report and other publications.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of the Interior

• Office:

  Fish and Wildlife Service

• Agency Contact:

  Andrea Meyer
  Contracting Officer
  

• Agency Mailing Address:

  email

• Agency Email Address:

  andrea_meyer@fws.gov