Building Historical Databases for Butterfly Monitoring to Support Research on Monarch Population Trends and Other Butterfly Pollinators

Post Date

August 17th 2015

Application Due Date

August 31st 2015

Funding Opportunity Number

USGS-15-FA-0478

CFDA Number(s)

15.808

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Natural Resources

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Private Institutions of Higher Education

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $79501

• Award Range:

  $79501 - $79501

Grant Description

The purpose of this project is to to leverage various efforts to bring together historical data on butterflies, with an emphasis on monarchs, and monarch hostplants, host those data within a small number of central portals, and then create export procedures to regularly upload data (with permission of individual data owners) to BISON.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of the Interior

• Office:

  Geological Survey

• Agency Contact:

  Desiree Santa
  Grant Specialist
  Phone 703-648-7382

• Agency Mailing Address:

  Grant Specialist

• Agency Email Address:

  dsanta@usgs.gov