Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Colorado Plateau CESU

Post Date

April 14th 2014

Application Due Date

April 25th 2014

Funding Opportunity Number

G14AS00062

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) Programк.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $36056

• 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 on rehabilitation techniques that can increase the stability and fertility of Bandelier National Monument soils that were previously deemed too problematic to manage. Dryland ecosystems are experiencing significant changes, including dramatic plant mortality events caused by interactions between increasing temperature, drought, and insect outbreaks. In particular, drought and increased temperatures across the western U.S. in the last decade have led to extensive tree mortality in many forest types and, in the southwestern U.S., substantial die-off of Pinus edulis on over a million hectares was specifically linked to ``global-change-type droughtкк. The semi-arid ecosystems found in Bandelier National Monument, and many other dryland parks, have already experienced extreme changes in recent years due to environmental perturbation. For example, sustained drought, massive tree mortality, and altered fire regimes have all greatly affected Bandelier National Monumentкs communities and the functioning of its ecosystems. The threats to the unique cultural and natural resources of Bandelier and other southwestern semi-arid and arid (dryland) parks are substantial: if rapid action is not taken the negative consequences are likely to be irrevocable.

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:

  https://grants.gov/