Climate Investigations - Climatic Drivers of Wildland Fire Events and Burn Severity

Post Date

July 28th 2011

Application Due Date

August 18th 2011

Funding Opportunity Number

L11AS00201

CFDA Number(s)

15.236

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Natural Resources

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Unrestricted

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.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $175000

• Award Range:

  $35000 - $35000

Grant Description

This financial Assistance Opportunity is being issued under a Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit program. CESUs are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education. This is a continuing project that provides learning opportunities to students in the principles of climate modeling, prediction of fire risks and public land management. The goal is to find linkages between climatic patterns in precipitation and temperature and fire frequency and severity in key vegetation communities within the Central Great Basin and Colorado Plateau Ecoregions, specifically identifying key climatic drivers in fire events. For example similar research in southern California chaparral communities found that the timing of large fire events is strongly linked with the amount of precipitation in April, the end of the wet season in that ecoregion. Additionally the information gained may be used by federal and state agencies in refining larger scale regional climate and fire modeling based on Landfire data providing more detailed or community specific prediction capabilities.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of the Interior

• Office:

  Bureau of Land Management

• Agency Contact:

  Maria Gochis, Grants Management Officer, 801-539-4178
  maria_gochis@blm.gov
  

• Agency Mailing Address:

  maria_gochis@blm.gov

• Agency Email Address:

  maria_gochis@blm.gov

• More Information:

  http://www.grants.gov