The U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) Powell Center is offering this grant to synthesize the new North American tree-ring fire-scar network and improve future wildfire projections. This grant is for researchers to combine past and present fire-climate relationships to understand how climate change will drive future fire potential across the continent. Awardees will synthesize North American fire-scar data with modern records to create a multi-century fire history. Specific approaches include analyzing multi-century spatio-temporal fire-climate dynamics, identifying climate drivers of wildfire synchrony, exploring cyclical properties linked to ocean-atmosphere oscillations, and integrating historical and modern data to project future wildfire potential at regional to continental scales.
Opportunity ID: 337771
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | G22AS00194 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Cooperative Agreement for CESU-affiliated Partner with Rocky Mountain Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (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: | – |
| Assistance Listings: | 15.808 — U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | Feb 02, 2022 |
| Last Updated Date: | Feb 02, 2022 |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Mar 02, 2022 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 5:00 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date. |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Mar 02, 2022 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 5:00 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date. |
| Archive Date: | – |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | – |
| Award Ceiling: | $100,000 |
| 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 participating partners of the Rocky Mountain Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit Program.
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Additional Information
| Agency Name: | Geological Survey |
| Description: | U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) Powell Center is offering a funding opportunity for research on “Synthesis of the new North American tree-ring fire-scar network: using past and present fire-climate relationships to improve projections of future wildfire.” The project will address how climate change will drive future fire potential on the continent. Researchers are expected to synthesize the North American fire scar network and combine it with modern fire records to create a multi-century record of fire across North America. Recent advances in paleoclimate methods and the continental-scale network of tree-ring chronologies are expected to be used to reconstruct seasonal climate variables tailored to better understand variability in climate drivers of fire. Specific approaches are expected to include: 1) multi-century spatio-temporal dynamics of fire-climate relationships across North America; 2) climate drivers of changing synchrony of wildfire (e.g., widespread fire years); 3) cyclical properties of fire occurrence that can provide predictive capacity, including relationships with ocean-atmosphere oscillations (e.g., El Nino/Southern Oscillation and Arctic Oscillation); and 4) combining historical and modern fire-climate relationships to project future wildfire potential at regional to continental scales. |
| Link to Additional Information: | – |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
FAITH GRAVES
fgraves@usgs.gov Email:fgraves@usgs.gov |
Version History
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Related Documents
Folder 337771 Full Announcement-Full Announcement -> FUNDING OPPORTUNITY.pdf
Packages
| Agency Contact Information: | FAITH GRAVES 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 |
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| 15.808 | G22AS00194 | Cooperative Agreement for CESU-affiliated Partner with Rocky Mountain Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) | PKG00271890 | Feb 02, 2022 | Mar 02, 2022 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
337771 SF424_3_0-3.0.pdf
337771 ProjectNarrativeAttachments_1_2-1.2.pdf
337771 SF424A-1.0.pdf
337771 SF424B-1.1.pdf