Ecological Health Assessment for Reclamation Managed Reservoirs

Post Date

March 25th 2013

Application Due Date

April 8th 2013

Funding Opportunity Number

R13SS10003

CFDA Number(s)

15.517

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Natural Resources

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Public and State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education

This Funding Announcement is not a request for applications. This announcement is to provide public notice of the Bureau of Reclamationуs intention to fund the following project activities without full and open competition.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $14000

• Award Range:

  $1 - $14000

Grant Description

The proposed research, developing and applying an ecological health assessment (EHA) for reservoirs, will play an important role in identifying a balance between water management, habitat requirements for fishes and environmental health. This research is also matched with a priority area of the Science and Technology Program emphasizing climate impacts because of the potential to recognize fluctuation of hydrologic and thermal regimes that could be due to climate change. The development of a web-based database that could apply an EHA for a reservoir could be a valuable tool for general characterization of the aquatic ecosystem and making comparisons between Reclamation reservoirs. Also, such a database could be used to describe baseline conditions for future reporting and coupled with literature reviews to design more specific studies when necessary. Furthermore, these data would be very important sources for long-term trends because individual parameters would be varied widely due to an ecological complexity. If made available on the web (intranet) the potential for use (and improvement) would be increased over time.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of the Interior

• Office:

  Bureau of Reclamation

• Agency Contact:

  Melinda Ritacco
  Financial Assistance Specialist
  Phone 208-378-5103

• Agency Mailing Address:

  mritacco@usbr.gov

• Agency Email Address:

  mritacco@usbr.gov

• Location:

  Bureau of Reclamation - Pacific Northwest Region

• More Information:

  www.grants.gov