BLM-New Mexico Rio Puerco Field Office, Breeding Bird Studies (CESU)

Post Date

April 14th 2016

Application Due Date

June 16th 2016

Funding Opportunity Number

L16AS00079

CFDA Number(s)

15.231

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Environment

Number of Awards

3

Eligibility Categories

Unrestricted

This Financial Assistance Agreement will be awarded under a Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit (CESU). . CESUs are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $100000

• Award Range:

  $35000 - $100000

Grant Description

The proposed action is to undertake the first comprehensive community level screening of avian malaria in New Mexico. The BLM Rio Puerco Field Office lands would be ideal for carrying out this work because of the diverse bird communities of the pinyon-juniper and ponderosa pine forests in the areas adjacent to Cuba, Mt. Taylor, and El Malpais. We will sample as many species of birds as possible on these BLM properties in order to (1) describe the avian communities on the basis of our systematic netting effort; (2) draw blood samples with which we will describe the avian malaria community and host-parasite relationships. We will target resident breeding species because most malaria transmission occurs on the breeding grounds. The planned work would be conducted jointly with a partnering institution within the Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit Network.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of the Interior

• Office:

  Bureau of Land Management

• Agency Contact:

  Grants Management Specialist Charise Saiz (505) 761-8725
  csaiz@blm.gov
  

• Agency Mailing Address:

  csaiz@blm.gov

• Agency Email Address:

  csaiz@blm.gov

• More Information:

  Click on APPLICATION tab above to download full announcement instructions and application package