Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Great Rivers CESU

Post Date

June 26th 2014

Application Due Date

July 8th 2014

Funding Opportunity Number

G14AS00110

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 Rivers Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $65625

• Award Range:

  $0 - $0

Grant Description

US Geological Survey is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner to provide through the FGDC GeoCloud Platform the capability to query any given geospatial polygon in the United States and its possessions and territories, for both documented taxon occurrence checklists and model derived checklists. The model derived checklists will provide a list of taxa that are not currently documented in Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON) к bison.usgs.ornl.gov, for the given area but that would be expected to persist there if present based on environmental conditions. Options will be available to retrieve potential taxa for the area under both current and future predicted climate conditions as affected by global climate change. Occurrence data for models will be from or equivalent to the current data set in BISON. The Open Modeler platform will be employed with configurations consistent with the current Lifemapper and Lifemapper+ projects at University of Kansas.

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/