Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Great Basin

Post Date

June 3rd 2014

Application Due Date

June 13th 2014

Funding Opportunity Number

G14AS00076

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 Great Basin (CESU) Program.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $325000

• Award Range:

  $0 - $0

Grant Description

The US Geological Survey is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for a project entitled, кResearch and data development of a protected areas geodatabase inventory, focused on the federal lands data management system and review protocols, for the United States and North America to facilitate spatial analyses that inform land management policyк. This project has both policy research and data development components. The general purpose is to participate in a cooperative research, data development, and review effort. The recipients will work with federal land managers, USGS, and non-governmental organization (NGO) colleagues to refine the PAD-US data management system, website, and review strategy. This work utilizes available technology to automate the aggregation of authoritative protected areas data from agencies and communicate available products to specified audiences. The process should inform landscape conservation planning through targeted spatial analyses. Data development will support revisions to protected area descriptions (e.g. Name, Owner), major boundary overlaps, and conservation measures in the PAD-US geodatabase, in an updated version of the Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) geodatabase, a cooperative project sponsored by the USGS.

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://www.grants.gov/