Cooperative Ecosystem Studes Unit, Colorado Plateau CESU

Post Date

November 5th 2014

Application Due Date

November 17th 2014

Funding Opportunity Number

G15AS00012

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. CESU's are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education. Eligible recipients must be a participating partner of the Great Basin Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit Program.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $20000

• Award Range:

  $0 - $0

Grant Description

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Western Geographic Science Center (WGSC) is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research to support refinement of multi-temporal climate and vegetation monitoring techniques in the Sierra Nevada and Great Basin ecoregions. Long-term monitoring of intra-and-inter season vegetation is being conducted with MODIS and Landsat imagery by the U.S. Geological Survey, and project partners are focused on daily-to-monthly climate monitoring using PRISM, DAYMET, and NLDAS data. Linking monitoring efforts to establish relationships between vegetation and climate helps develop a better understanding of climatic forces and impacts, which may in turn, facilitate management of sensitive land cover types. Recent advances in raster processing, such as those provided in the Google Earth Engine environment, have the potential to increase the spatial and temporal extent of the study, enabling PIs to more efficiently evaluate climate-vegetation interrelationships across a greater geographic extent and over a longer period of time.

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/web/grants/home.html