Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Colorado Plateau CESU

Post Date

June 19th 2013

Application Due Date

July 1st 2013

Funding Opportunity Number

G13AS00069

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 Colorado Plateau Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $41126

• Award Range:

  $0 - $0

Grant Description

The USGS Canyonlands Research Station (CRS) of the Southwest Biological Science Center (SBSC) is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research that continues monitoring the effects of climate manipulations in place for seven years that are just beginning to manifest, especially in biocrust organisms. By continuing these treatments there is more time for the organisms to respond and therefore greater insight into observed changes. Also, further research can elucidate the mechanisms behind biocrust mortality observed in the climate manipulation plots and results from these plots could assist improving global climate models.

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/