Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Great Lakes к Northern Forest CESU.

Post Date

July 28th 2014

Application Due Date

August 8th 2014

Funding Opportunity Number

G14AS00130

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 Lakes к Northern Forest CESU.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $115000

• Award Range:

  $0 - $0

Grant Description

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research, technical assistance, and education in wildlife pathology. In addition to investigating wildlife diseases and their pathogeneses, veterinary wildlife pathologists also investigate zoonotic wildlife diseases of concern to human health and help to provide key information on the links between wildlife, domestic animal and human disease. There are limited opportunities where wildlife pathology training is integrated into a national wildlife disease program. Given the dearth of information on existing wildlife diseases and the need to identify emerging diseases, it is important to attract and train future wildlife pathologists to understand and identify these disease processes. The USGS National Wildlife Health Center investigates wildlife morbidity and mortality events, in part to uncover their etiology. On-going research studies to further elucidate the pathology of White-Nose Syndrome, Snake Fungal Disease and emerging diseases of amphibians, among others, are supported by wildlife pathologists.

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/