Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Great Basin CESU

Post Date

April 28th 2015

Application Due Date

May 15th 2015

Funding Opportunity Number

G15AS00069

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 support education by involving active students enrolled at universities in the research projects. Eligible recipients must be a participating partner of the Great Basin Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $35000

• Award Range:

  $0 - $0

Grant Description

The Western Ecological Research Center of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is offering a funding opportunity to a Member of the Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit (CESU) Program. The project is titled кGeospatial Analyses of Western Landscapesк. This project is aimed at gaining a better understanding of population connectivity and habitat availability for western wildlife and plants by identifying existing corridors and core habitat areas that have the potential to promote gene flow and population viability across a landscape encumbered by a variety of renewable energy development areas in addition to utility and transportation corridors, military training, recreation activities, urbanization, and climate change. Present, past, and future species distributions will be analyzed by incorporating various climate scenarios. Data from a variety of projects and different research designs will be spatially analyzed using a library of environmental covariates that is maintained by USGS and will continue to be developed as part of this collaboration. By identifying these corridors and habitat areas, we can explore opportunities to maintain viable populations and genetic connectivity by providing data that can inform adaptive management decisions. The experiments may include, but are not limited to a variety of wildlife species such as Mojave and Sonoran desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii and G. morafkai, respectively), golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos), Colorado Desert fringe-toed lizards (Uma notata), and up to 25 other species that will be considered as the work proceeds.

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/