Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Rocky Mountain CESU

Post Date

May 19th 2014

Application Due Date

May 30th 2014

Funding Opportunity Number

G14AS00069

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:

  $494000

• Award Range:

  $0 - $0

Grant Description

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center (GECSC, Denver, CO) is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research in developing new techniques and using existing techniques to enhance understanding of the longterm effects of changes in climate and other environmental factors on the distributions of plant species and ecosystems in arid and semiarid portions of the western United States. Three questions of major interest over the next decade are (1) What plants and ecosystems are vulnerable to potential future changes in climate and atmospheric chemistry, (2) What are the long term responses of plant species to a range of changes in climate and atmospheric chemistry, and (3) What combinations of climatic conditions that could have been associated with distributions of species/ecosystems during past climatic episodes (including episodes of cooler than present and warmer than present climate) and how it might relate to the future. This research and information will advance our understanding of atmospheric CO2 and possible global warming that will contribute to decision-making that protects the sustainability of the earthsк ecosystems. Through this CESU agreement, the federal and state university partners will cooperate fully in development of a research program that will produce data of plant/climate realationships and plant fossils to be used in support of CO2 and other global change research. The cooperation of the USGS and its CESU partner brings a combination of expertise to address this objective that is greater than that possessed by either partner on its own.

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/