This grant is for the purpose of collecting and analyzing extensive temperature data across the ~100 million-acre hydrographic Great Basin. The US Geological Survey, Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center (NOROCK) seeks a CESU partner to deploy and retrieve data from over 200 sensors across 28 sites within 18 mountain ranges. The primary aim is to quantify climate variability at micro-, meso-, and macroscales, informing critical management and conservation efforts by refining the climatic context for biological responses. This effort will also support various bioclimatic and wildlife studies. Additionally, collected field data must be compared with remotely sensed observations, integrated into spatial downscaling models, and analyzed to answer key ecological and environmental questions, improving gridded temperature datasets and understanding environmental lapse rates.
Opportunity ID: 237131
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | G13AS00072 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Great Basin 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 02, 2013 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Jul 12, 2013 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Jul 12, 2013 |
| Archive Date: | Sep 02, 2013 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $10,445 |
| Award Ceiling: | $0 |
| 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 Rocky Mountain 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 a CESU partner to collect data from over 200 temperature sensors nested within 28 sites across ~100 million acres within the hydrographic Great Basin. The sites span all major aspects and occur up to 700 m of elevation within numerous management jurisdictions spanning 18 mountains ranges. This effort is aimed at helping quantify the variability of climate at micro-, meso-, and macroscales across the Basin, and across diel, seasonal and interannual periods; at informing management and conservation efforts in terms of calibrating and refining the climate ¿stage¿ upon which biological ¿actors¿ and efforts hinge; and at feeding into other bioclimatic and wildlife studies seeking to describe climate and biotic responses to it. After data collection, field data must be compared to remotely sensed observations of surface and ambient temperatures. If possible, project data should be integrated into efforts to model and spatially downscale remote sensing data. Finally, project efforts should analyze project data to improve models and answer ecological and environmental questions. These efforts may include evaluation and visualization of variability of temperatures across space and time, investigation of variability in temperature environmental lapse rates, gridded temperature dataset evaluation and downscaling, and remote sensing dataset corroboration. |
| Link to Additional Information: | http://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
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Related Documents
Folder 237131 Full Announcement-1 -> 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 | G13AS00072 | Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Great Basin CESU | PKG00180229 | Jul 02, 2013 | Jul 12, 2013 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
237131 SF424_2_1-2.1.pdf
237131 Project-1.1.pdf
237131 SF424A-1.0.pdf
237131 SF424B-1.1.pdf
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