Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Chesapeake Watershed CESU

Post Date

May 19th 2014

Application Due Date

May 30th 2014

Funding Opportunity Number

G14AS00072

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 Chesapeake Watershed Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $75000

• Award Range:

  $0 - $0

Grant Description

The USGS is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research in a joint research program in the field of global climate and sea-level change under the auspices of The Global Change Research Act of 1990, which established the United States Global Change Research Program. The proposed Cooperative Agreement has as its major goal to analyze the impacts of Holocene sea level rise and extreme storm events on tidal marsh wetlands in the greater Chesapeake Bay region with emphasis on the Potomac and Rappahannock River estuaries. The threat of accelerated sea level rise has raised awareness of the potential inundation to critical tidal marsh wetland habitats in Chesapeake Bay. For example in 2009, Presidential Executive order 13508 кStrategy for Protecting and Restoring the Chesapeake Bay Watershedк outlined the need to protect this treasured landscape from climate and sea level change. In 2014, the new draft of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement was published and its revision will include recommendations for additional research on wetlands and sea level rise. These policy-related documents outline stakeholder needs that are entirely consistent with the broader goals of the USGS Climate and land Use Mission and its R&D Program and the Ecosystem Mission and its Chesapeake Bay Program.

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/