This department is offering a grant to a CESU partner for research on nutrient supply factors in Oregon forests. The study aims to investigate nitrogen input rates from red alder trees and how nitrogen in soils affects mineral weathering for essential nutrient release. Understanding these processes is crucial in setting forest nutrition guidelines and sustaining soil fertility and tree growth. The research will provide data on how red alder trees stimulate mineral weathering, aiding in parameterizing forest growth and watershed nutrient flux models. This grant has economic, ecological, and societal significance for forested watersheds in the Oregon Coast Range. Closing date: Jul 22, 2019.
Opportunity ID: 318139
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | G19AS00076 |
| 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 1 |
| Posted Date: | Jul 08, 2019 |
| Last Updated Date: | Jul 08, 2019 |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Jul 22, 2019 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Jul 22, 2019 |
| Archive Date: | Oct 08, 2019 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $48,929 |
| Award Ceiling: | $48,929 |
| 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 USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center (FRESC) is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research to develop new information on factors that influence nutrient supply to forests of the Oregon Coast Range. Two key questions that shape the sustainability of forest nutrition in this region are: (1) what are current rates of nitrogen input from biological nitrogen fixation by red alder trees? and (2) how does nitrogen in soils influence mineral weathering to release of other essential nutrients? Both nitrogen fixation and mineral weathering provide nutrient inputs to soils that are essential for sustaining soil fertility and tree growth, but current rates of nutrient input and their relative amounts are poorly described, making it difficult to set forest nutrition guidelines. Perakis and Pett-Ridge (2019) recently demonstrated that nitrogen-fixing red alder trees can preferentially access nutrients directly from mineral weathering, thus providing a potential link of inputs of nitrogen from fixation and other nutrients from mineral weathering. These combined processes could sustain supplies of multiple nutrients required for forest growth. What is needed to apply this finding is data on how nitrogen fixing red alder trees stimulate mineral weathering, and how this scales across landscapes. This missing information can be used to parameterize forest growth and watershed nutrient flux models that have direct economic, ecological, and societal importance in forested watersheds of the Oregon Coast Range. |
| Link to Additional Information: | https://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 318139 Full Announcement-FUNDING OPPORTUNITY -> 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 | G19AS00076 | Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Pacific Northwest CESU | PKG00252699 | Jul 08, 2019 | Jul 22, 2019 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
318139 SF424_2_1-2.1.pdf
318139 ProjectNarrativeAttachments_1_2-1.2.pdf
318139 SF424A-1.0.pdf
318139 SF424B-1.1.pdf
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