Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Desert Southwest CESU

Post Date

June 26th 2014

Application Due Date

July 8th 2014

Funding Opportunity Number

G14AS00111

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 Desert Southwest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $5875

• Award Range:

  $0 - $0

Grant Description

The USGS Alaska Science Center seeks to provide financial assistance for research to quantify the hydrologic function - including collection, storage, and discharge of water- in different wetlands areas of the Mat-Su Valley. The proposed work would accomplish this primary objective through the use of detailed hydrologic modeling. Modeling work in this project would quantify storage and fluxes of water in different wetlands zones. Additional data collection may be necessary to improve model performance. The needs for additional data will be identified in the first phase of the project, conducted in federal fiscal year 2014. The U.S. Geological Survey developed a groundwater model for the Matanuska-Susitna Borough with funding from the State of Alaska, Department of Natural Resources and the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. Further refinement of that model is needed to identify important wetlands that contribute to base flows in area streams. Base flow is a critical component to ensuring sufficient stream habitat is present and adequate for salmon populations, other aquatic species as well as terrestrial species that depend on both salmon and riparian environments. Wetlands are thought to play a critical role in contributing to base flows based on work in other parts of Southcentral Alaska, particularly the Kenai Peninsula, where preliminary studies have shown that peatland-type wetlands can contribute as much as 50% of the base flow to streams.

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/