Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Rocky Mountain CESU

Post Date

June 5th 2014

Application Due Date

June 17th 2014

Funding Opportunity Number

G14AS00082

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:

  $35307

• Award Range:

  $0 - $0

Grant Description

The USGS Fort Collins Science Center is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research to make progress in connecting climate drivers to biological responses through species distribution modeling. The cooperators will work to improve the USGSs Resource for Advanced Modeling, which serves the Department of Interior (DOI) habitat modeling needs by bringing Colorado State University (CSU), USGS, and NASA resources together in a distributed modeling system that maximizes the complementary strengths of cooperating partners, with the overall goal of providing decision support tools for species distribution modeling and improved management of native and non-native species. To demonstrate the utility of this capacity, the project will focus on both invasive species and threatened and endangered species; two critical land management issues. The proposal is a hybrid; combining improved technical capacity in the initial phase, and integrating relevant data examples with a natural resource applications focus.

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/