Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Great Lake Northern Forest

Post Date

June 3rd 2013

Application Due Date

June 14th 2013

Funding Opportunity Number

G13AS00054

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. CESUs are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education. Eligible recipients must be a participating partner of the Great Lakes Northern Forest CESU Program.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $30000

• Award Range:

  $0 - $0

Grant Description

The USGS Great Lakes Science Centerкs Lake Ontario Biological Station is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research quantifying energy dynamics in the Lake Ontario food. Invasive species have substantially altered energy transfer among and within Great Lake food webs. Understanding the magnitude and implications of such requires an ecosystem-level approach to data collection and food-web modeling. In 2013 a multi-national, multi-agency field effort will quantify the status and energy connections within the Lake Ontario food web and will focus on parameterizing a whole-lake food web mass balance model from primary production and bacteria to piscivores, quantifying ecosystem and community effects of the deep chlorophyll layer, and describing nearshore-offshore organism distribution and energy transfer.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of the Interior

• Office:

  Geological Survey

• Agency Contact:

  Faith Graves, 703-648-7356
  fgraves@usgs.gov
  

• Agency Mailing Address:

  fgraves@usgs.gov

• Agency Email Address:

  fgraves@usgs.gov

• More Information:

  http://www.grants.gov/