The US Geological Survey, Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center, is offering a grant focused on deploying Uninhabited Aerial Systems (UAS) with radiation sensors to study snow albedo in undisturbed and post-fire montane regions. This project will address data gaps by providing high-resolution measurements at a larger scale using UAS technology. The study areas include private land in Montana and Glacier National Park. The goal is to develop tools for real-time water resource monitoring and forecasting, benefiting resource managers. Anticipated outcomes include spatial datasets of digital surface models and albedo values, and a peer-reviewed article on scaling issues in snowpack albedo validation. Closing date: Aug 23, 2019
Opportunity ID: 318235
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | G19AS00106 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Pacific Northwest CESU |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Science and Technology and other Research and Development |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 1 |
| Assistance Listings: | 15.808 — U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 5 |
| Posted Date: | Jul 10, 2019 |
| Last Updated Date: | Aug 13, 2019 |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Jul 26, 2019 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Aug 23, 2019 |
| Archive Date: | Oct 09, 2019 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $150,000 |
| Award Ceiling: | $150,000 |
| Award Floor: | $0 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | This financial assistance opportunity is being issued under a Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program. CESU¿s are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education. Eligible recipients must be a participating partner of the Pacific Northwest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | Geological Survey |
| Description: | The US Geological Survey, Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center (NOROCK), is offering a funding opportunity to deploy an Uninhabited Aerial System (UAS) equipped with radiation sensors to quantify scale-dependent controls on snow albedo in areas with no disturbance and in post-fire, montane regions and compare these data to MODIS and Landsat albedo products. Data collection will occur in January through May 2020 and 2021. This project will have field campaigns in three headwater areas. The first, Namaste, is on private land within the Yellowstone Club (YC) in southwest Montana. The second and third study areas are located in Glacier National Park, along the Going-to-the-Sun-Road (GTSR) and Reynolds Creek. The Reynolds Creek site experienced severe wildfire during the summer of 2015. These efforts will address the spatial data gap and scaling issues associated with current in-situ measurements of snow albedo validation data by using UASs to provide high resolution measurements on a larger spatial scale than point measurements at weather monitoring stations. This unique opportunity will allow for the development of tools and techniques to efficiently capture albedo over the snowpack. These data will be used to develop protocols for operational use by managers and decision makers for real time water resource monitoring and forecasting. The methods developed will serve as a guide for resource managers to implement as a workflow in their measurements of mountain snowpack. Anticipated products will be a spatial product dataset of digital surface models and gridded dataset of albedo values for the study sites. Other products include a peer-reviewed article that focuses on the albedo of mountain snowpack as it varies spatially and temporally, and on the scaling issues associated with using the fixed position in situ data to validate remote sensing data. |
| Link to Additional Information: | https://www.grants.gov/ |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
Faith Graves 703-648-7356
fgraves@usgs.gov Email:fgraves@usgs.gov |
Version History
| Version | Modification Description | Updated Date |
|---|---|---|
| to revise description and amount | Aug 13, 2019 | |
| to revise description and amounts | Jul 10, 2019 | |
| TO EXTEND DUE DATE | Jul 10, 2019 | |
| to extend due date | Jul 10, 2019 | |
| Jul 10, 2019 |
DISPLAYING: Synopsis 5
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | G19AS00106 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Pacific Northwest CESU |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Science and Technology and other Research and Development |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 1 |
| Assistance Listings: | 15.808 — U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 5 |
| Posted Date: | Jul 10, 2019 |
| Last Updated Date: | Aug 13, 2019 |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Jul 26, 2019 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Aug 23, 2019 |
| Archive Date: | Oct 09, 2019 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $150,000 |
| Award Ceiling: | $150,000 |
| Award Floor: | $0 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | This financial assistance opportunity is being issued under a Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program. CESU¿s are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education. Eligible recipients must be a participating partner of the Pacific Northwest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | Geological Survey |
| Description: | The US Geological Survey, Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center (NOROCK), is offering a funding opportunity to deploy an Uninhabited Aerial System (UAS) equipped with radiation sensors to quantify scale-dependent controls on snow albedo in areas with no disturbance and in post-fire, montane regions and compare these data to MODIS and Landsat albedo products. Data collection will occur in January through May 2020 and 2021. This project will have field campaigns in three headwater areas. The first, Namaste, is on private land within the Yellowstone Club (YC) in southwest Montana. The second and third study areas are located in Glacier National Park, along the Going-to-the-Sun-Road (GTSR) and Reynolds Creek. The Reynolds Creek site experienced severe wildfire during the summer of 2015. These efforts will address the spatial data gap and scaling issues associated with current in-situ measurements of snow albedo validation data by using UASs to provide high resolution measurements on a larger spatial scale than point measurements at weather monitoring stations. This unique opportunity will allow for the development of tools and techniques to efficiently capture albedo over the snowpack. These data will be used to develop protocols for operational use by managers and decision makers for real time water resource monitoring and forecasting. The methods developed will serve as a guide for resource managers to implement as a workflow in their measurements of mountain snowpack. Anticipated products will be a spatial product dataset of digital surface models and gridded dataset of albedo values for the study sites. Other products include a peer-reviewed article that focuses on the albedo of mountain snowpack as it varies spatially and temporally, and on the scaling issues associated with using the fixed position in situ data to validate remote sensing data. |
| Link to Additional Information: | https://www.grants.gov/ |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
Faith Graves 703-648-7356
fgraves@usgs.gov Email:fgraves@usgs.gov |
DISPLAYING: Synopsis 4
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | G19AS00106 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Pacific Northwest CESU |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Science and Technology and other Research and Development |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 1 |
| Assistance Listings: | 15.808 — U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 4 |
| Posted Date: | Jul 10, 2019 |
| Last Updated Date: | Aug 13, 2019 |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | – |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Aug 23, 2019 |
| Archive Date: | Oct 09, 2019 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $50,000 |
| Award Ceiling: | $50,000 |
| Award Floor: | $0 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | This financial assistance opportunity is being issued under a Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program. CESU¿s are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education. Eligible recipients must be a participating partner of the Colorado Plateau Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | Geological Survey |
| Description: | The US Geological Survey, Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center (NOROCK), is offering a funding opportunity to deploy an Uninhabited Aerial System (UAS) equipped with radiation sensors to quantify scale-dependent controls on snow albedo in areas with no disturbance and in post-fire, montane regions and compare these data to MODIS and Landsat albedo products. Data collection will occur in January through May 2020 and 2021. This project will have field campaigns in three headwater areas. The first, Namaste, is on private land within the Yellowstone Club (YC) in southwest Montana. The second and third study areas are located in Glacier National Park, along the Going-to-the-Sun-Road (GTSR) and Reynolds Creek. The Reynolds Creek site experienced severe wildfire during the summer of 2015. These efforts will address the spatial data gap and scaling issues associated with current in-situ measurements of snow albedo validation data by using UASs to provide high resolution measurements on a larger spatial scale than point measurements at weather monitoring stations. This unique opportunity will allow for the development of tools and techniques to efficiently capture albedo over the snowpack. These data will be used to develop protocols for operational use by managers and decision makers for real time water resource monitoring and forecasting. The methods developed will serve as a guide for resource managers to implement as a workflow in their measurements of mountain snowpack. Anticipated products will be a spatial product dataset of digital surface models and gridded dataset of albedo values for the study sites. Other products include a peer-reviewed article that focuses on the albedo of mountain snowpack as it varies spatially and temporally, and on the scaling issues associated with using the fixed position in situ data to validate remote sensing data. |
| Link to Additional Information: | https://www.grants.gov/ |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
Faith Graves 703-648-7356
fgraves@usgs.gov Email:fgraves@usgs.gov |
DISPLAYING: Synopsis 3
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | G19AS00106 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Colorado Plateau CESU |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Science and Technology and other Research and Development |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 1 |
| Assistance Listings: | 15.808 — U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 3 |
| Posted Date: | Jul 10, 2019 |
| Last Updated Date: | Aug 12, 2019 |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | – |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Aug 23, 2019 |
| Archive Date: | Oct 09, 2019 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $50,000 |
| Award Ceiling: | $50,000 |
| Award Floor: | $0 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | This financial assistance opportunity is being issued under a Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program. CESU¿s are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education. Eligible recipients must be a participating partner of the Colorado Plateau Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | Geological Survey |
| Description: | The US Geological Survey, Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center (NOROCK), is offering a funding opportunity to deploy an Uninhabited Aerial System (UAS) equipped with radiation sensors to quantify scale-dependent controls on snow albedo in areas with no disturbance and in post-fire, montane regions and compare these data to MODIS and Landsat albedo products. Data collection will occur in January through May 2020 and 2021. This project will have field campaigns in three headwater areas. The first, Namaste, is on private land within the Yellowstone Club (YC) in southwest Montana. The second and third study areas are located in Glacier National Park, along the Going-to-the-Sun-Road (GTSR) and Reynolds Creek. The Reynolds Creek site experienced severe wildfire during the summer of 2015. These efforts will address the spatial data gap and scaling issues associated with current in-situ measurements of snow albedo validation data by using UASs to provide high resolution measurements on a larger spatial scale than point measurements at weather monitoring stations. This unique opportunity will allow for the development of tools and techniques to efficiently capture albedo over the snowpack. These data will be used to develop protocols for operational use by managers and decision makers for real time water resource monitoring and forecasting. The methods developed will serve as a guide for resource managers to implement as a workflow in their measurements of mountain snowpack. Anticipated products will be a spatial product dataset of digital surface models and gridded dataset of albedo values for the study sites. Other products include a peer-reviewed article that focuses on the albedo of mountain snowpack as it varies spatially and temporally, and on the scaling issues associated with using the fixed position in situ data to validate remote sensing data. |
| Link to Additional Information: | https://www.grants.gov/ |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
Faith Graves 703-648-7356
fgraves@usgs.gov Email:fgraves@usgs.gov |
DISPLAYING: Synopsis 2
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | G19AS00106 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Colorado Plateau CESU |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Science and Technology and other Research and Development |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 1 |
| Assistance Listings: | 15.808 — U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 2 |
| Posted Date: | Jul 10, 2019 |
| Last Updated Date: | Jul 29, 2019 |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | – |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Aug 09, 2019 |
| Archive Date: | Oct 09, 2019 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $50,000 |
| Award Ceiling: | $50,000 |
| Award Floor: | $0 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | This financial assistance opportunity is being issued under a Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program. CESU¿s are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education. Eligible recipients must be a participating partner of the Colorado Plateau Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | Geological Survey |
| Description: | The US Geological Survey, Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center (NOROCK), is offering a funding opportunity to deploy an Uninhabited Aerial System (UAS) equipped with radiation sensors to quantify scale-dependent controls on snow albedo in areas with no disturbance and in post-fire, montane regions and compare these data to MODIS and Landsat albedo products. Data collection will occur in January through May 2020 and 2021. This project will have field campaigns in three headwater areas. The first, Namaste, is on private land within the Yellowstone Club (YC) in southwest Montana. The second and third study areas are located in Glacier National Park, along the Going-to-the-Sun-Road (GTSR) and Reynolds Creek. The Reynolds Creek site experienced severe wildfire during the summer of 2015. These efforts will address the spatial data gap and scaling issues associated with current in-situ measurements of snow albedo validation data by using UASs to provide high resolution measurements on a larger spatial scale than point measurements at weather monitoring stations. This unique opportunity will allow for the development of tools and techniques to efficiently capture albedo over the snowpack. These data will be used to develop protocols for operational use by managers and decision makers for real time water resource monitoring and forecasting. The methods developed will serve as a guide for resource managers to implement as a workflow in their measurements of mountain snowpack. Anticipated products will be a spatial product dataset of digital surface models and gridded dataset of albedo values for the study sites. Other products include a peer-reviewed article that focuses on the albedo of mountain snowpack as it varies spatially and temporally, and on the scaling issues associated with using the fixed position in situ data to validate remote sensing data. |
| Link to Additional Information: | https://www.grants.gov/ |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
Faith Graves 703-648-7356
fgraves@usgs.gov Email:fgraves@usgs.gov |
DISPLAYING: Synopsis 1
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | G19AS00106 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Colorado Plateau CESU |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Science and Technology and other Research and Development |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 1 |
| Assistance Listings: | 15.808 — U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | Jul 10, 2019 |
| Last Updated Date: | Jul 10, 2019 |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | – |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Jul 26, 2019 |
| Archive Date: | Oct 09, 2019 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $50,000 |
| Award Ceiling: | $50,000 |
| Award Floor: | $0 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | This financial assistance opportunity is being issued under a Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program. CESU¿s are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education. Eligible recipients must be a participating partner of the Colorado Plateau Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | Geological Survey |
| Description: | The US Geological Survey, Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center (NOROCK), is offering a funding opportunity to deploy an Uninhabited Aerial System (UAS) equipped with radiation sensors to quantify scale-dependent controls on snow albedo in areas with no disturbance and in post-fire, montane regions and compare these data to MODIS and Landsat albedo products. Data collection will occur in January through May 2020 and 2021. This project will have field campaigns in three headwater areas. The first, Namaste, is on private land within the Yellowstone Club (YC) in southwest Montana. The second and third study areas are located in Glacier National Park, along the Going-to-the-Sun-Road (GTSR) and Reynolds Creek. The Reynolds Creek site experienced severe wildfire during the summer of 2015. These efforts will address the spatial data gap and scaling issues associated with current in-situ measurements of snow albedo validation data by using UASs to provide high resolution measurements on a larger spatial scale than point measurements at weather monitoring stations. This unique opportunity will allow for the development of tools and techniques to efficiently capture albedo over the snowpack. These data will be used to develop protocols for operational use by managers and decision makers for real time water resource monitoring and forecasting. The methods developed will serve as a guide for resource managers to implement as a workflow in their measurements of mountain snowpack. Anticipated products will be a spatial product dataset of digital surface models and gridded dataset of albedo values for the study sites. Other products include a peer-reviewed article that focuses on the albedo of mountain snowpack as it varies spatially and temporally, and on the scaling issues associated with using the fixed position in situ data to validate remote sensing data. |
| Link to Additional Information: | https://www.grants.gov/ |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
Faith Graves 703-648-7356
fgraves@usgs.gov Email:fgraves@usgs.gov |
Related Documents
Folder 318235 Full Announcement-FULL ANNOUNCEMENT -> FUNDING OPPORTUNITY.pdf
Packages
| Agency Contact Information: | Faith Graves 703-648-7356 fgraves@usgs.gov Email: fgraves@usgs.gov |
| Who Can Apply: | Organization Applicants |
| Assistance Listing Number | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15.808 | G19AS00106 | Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Colorado Plateau CESU | PKG00252821 | Jul 10, 2019 | Aug 23, 2019 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
318235 SF424_2_1-2.1.pdf
318235 ProjectNarrativeAttachments_1_2-1.2.pdf
318235 SF424A-1.0.pdf
318235 SF424B-1.1.pdf
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