Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Gulf Coast CESU

Post Date

July 17th 2013

Application Due Date

July 29th 2013

Funding Opportunity Number

G13AS00103

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 Gulf Coast CESU Program.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $79500

• Award Range:

  $0 - $0

Grant Description

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Wetlands Research Center (NWRC) is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research to support refinement of modeling of population dynamics. Understanding population and dispersal dynamics is critical for understanding a large number of conservation management issues including disease, invasive species, and dispersal under climate change scenarios. For example, we would like one or more of the following questions addressed: (1) The interactions of between amphibian disease, dispersal and co-infection; (2) nutria (Myocastor coypus) impacts on marsh loss and management; (3) dispersal and management of giant apple snails (Pomacea maculata). The model should be spatially explicit, with structured or individual based population approaches whereby management scenarios are addressed.

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/