Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Desert Southwest CESU

Post Date

June 29th 2015

Application Due Date

July 17th 2015

Funding Opportunity Number

G15AS00116

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. CESUs are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education. Eligible recipients must be a participating partner of the Desert Southwest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $39774

• Award Range:

  $0 - $0

Grant Description

The USGS Southwest Biological Science Center (SBSC) is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research investigating the cascading effects of climate change on riparian and stream-dependent organisms. Climate change is expected to add drought stress to riparian and aquatic ecosystems of the Upper Rio Grande. As snowfall in the headwaters decreases and snowmelt occurs earlier, early summer river flows are predicted to decrease, resulting in lower flows, aquatic habitat fragmentation, and deeper groundwater through diminished recharge of aquifers. This can be expected to have cascading effects on riparian and stream-dependent organisms, and potentially lead to increases in exotic plants.

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/