Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit,, North and West Alaska CESU

Post Date

June 17th 2013

Application Due Date

June 27th 2013

Funding Opportunity Number

G13AS00061

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. CESUкs are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education. Eligible recipients must be a participating partner of North and West Alaska (CESU) Program.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $360000

• Award Range:

  $0 - $0

Grant Description

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Alaska Science Center (ASC) is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research to enhance methods in resolving glacier mass balance and constrain their relationship with ice dynamics for several Alaskan glaciers. This work will provide a common processing methodology between the long-term mass balance records collected at three USGS benchmark glaciers and among other glaciers (e.g., Eklutna and Taku glaciers) with appropriate data records. The research serves an important purpose in assessing rates of sea level change from terrestrial ice loss both directly and through validation of remote sensing products. On a seasonal basis USGS conducts fieldwork on 4 benchmark glaciers to resolve ongoing changes in mass balance. USGS has developed an algorithm to process this data, but it has not been expanded to include all glaciers in the benchmark group, nor glaciers outside USGS domain that are measured using similar protocol. Additionally, no effort exists to link these balance records to simultaneously acquired records of surface motion.

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/