Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Great Lakes Northern Forests CESU

Post Date

June 29th 2015

Application Due Date

July 17th 2015

Funding Opportunity Number

G15AS00099

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 Lakes Northern Forest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $60000

• Award Range:

  $0 - $0

Grant Description

The US Geological Survey is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for project titled: ___Tidal marsh elevation response to long-term fertilization and impacts for resilience to sea level rise___. Many coastal areas are vulnerable to the direct effects of global warming, depending on the ability of coastal wetlands to maintain elevation relative to rising sea level. The preservation and accumulation of organic carbon in sediments is recognized to be an important mechanism by which many coastal wetlands keep pace with rising sea level. Low nutrient loadings are a characteristic of many coastal wetlands and this suggests that nutrient availability may be a determinant of organic carbon preservation and maintenance of coastal wetland elevation in the face of sea level rise. The carbon balance of soils is the product of a complex set of parallel processes with both positive and negative effects. Increased nutrient loading decreases the proportion of production allocated to roots and may increase the mineralization of organic carbon, but it also stimulates total primary production. There is a need to understand the effects of increased nutrient loadings at a broad geographical scale on the carbon balance of sediments and wetland elevation dynamics. The evaluation of wetland response to nutrient addition should also be used to provide insights about the ability of increased production to offset the effects of rising sea level. Products should include statistical and modeling evaluations of long-term fertilization experiments at broad latitudinal scales and a better understanding of the simultaneous effects of fertilization on different wetland processes.

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/