Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Great Basin CESU

Post Date

July 2nd 2013

Application Due Date

July 12th 2013

Funding Opportunity Number

G13AS00072

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 the Rocky Mountain Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $10445

• Award Range:

  $0 - $0

Grant Description

The US Geological Survey, Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center (NOROCK), is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner to collect data from over 200 temperature sensors nested within 28 sites across ~100 million acres within the hydrographic Great Basin. The sites span all major aspects and occur up to 700 m of elevation within numerous management jurisdictions spanning 18 mountains ranges. This effort is aimed at helping quantify the variability of climate at micro-, meso-, and macroscales across the Basin, and across diel, seasonal and interannual periods; at informing management and conservation efforts in terms of calibrating and refining the climate кstageк upon which biological кactorsк and efforts hinge; and at feeding into other bioclimatic and wildlife studies seeking to describe climate and biotic responses to it. After data collection, field data must be compared to remotely sensed observations of surface and ambient temperatures. If possible, project data should be integrated into efforts to model and spatially downscale remote sensing data. Finally, project efforts should analyze project data to improve models and answer ecological and environmental questions. These efforts may include evaluation and visualization of variability of temperatures across space and time, investigation of variability in temperature environmental lapse rates, gridded temperature dataset evaluation and downscaling, and remote sensing dataset corroboration.

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/