Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Great Lakes Northern Forests CESU

Post Date

June 29th 2015

Application Due Date

July 17th 2015

Funding Opportunity Number

G15AS00100

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:

  $70000

• Award Range:

  $0 - $0

Grant Description

The US Geological Survey is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU for the project titled: ___Coastal marsh transgression and the fate of soil organic carbon under rising sea level___. As sea level rises, organic high marsh will encroach on the terrestrial forest by migrating overland. Preliminary work suggests that rates of wetland expansion into the adjacent upland may accelerate with future sea level rise. To answer the question of what controls marsh transgression will require integrating studies of wetland processes in the vertical dimension with research on the factors that control the lateral position of the wetland/upland boundary. For instance, will wetlands transgress landward at a rate that exceeds seaward displacement? There has been a paucity of research directed to understanding what factors control the lateral position of wetland boundaries and especially the position of the marsh upland ecotone. Process level research in the marsh upland ecotone is needed to better understand what critical environmental and ecological effects occur. Additionally, it is not well known how carbon stores are affected as marshes move upslope. The USGS has initiated an experimental study to better understand what controls marsh transgression and how soil carbon dynamics change across the manipulative treatments. Products should take advantage of this experiment and include an evaluation of how fast marshes transgress upslope, an identification of the source of organic soil carbon along an elevation gradient in a transgressing marsh, and the stability of soil organic pools across the experimental treatments.

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/