USFWS Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative FY14 Grant

The USFWS is offering a grant through the Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative to support projects focusing on developing water temperature data collection standards, coordinating a monitoring network, and assessing impacts of temperature changes on resources in Western Alaska. Applicants outside the CESU Network can apply, aiming to promote applied science for landscape-level conservation, especially concerning climate change. The grant targets collaborative processes to address ecosystem challenges in specific geographies like the Kotzebue Sound Lowlands and Kodiak Islands. Proposals should aim to enhance regional-scale analyses and develop implementation strategies by utilizing existing data and vulnerability assessments. Closing date for applications is November 4, 2013.

Opportunity ID: 241373

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General Information

Document Type::	Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number::	F13AS00342
Funding Opportunity Title::	Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative FY14
Opportunity Category::	Discretionary
Opportunity Category Explanation::
Funding Instrument Type::
Category of Funding Activity::	Environment
Category Explanation::
Expected Number of Awards::	9
Assistance Listings Number(s)::	15.669 — Cooperative Landscape Conservation
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement::	No
Version::	Synopsis 3
Posted Date::	Aug 29, 2013
Last Updated Date::	Oct 24, 2013
Original Closing Date for Applications::	Oct 14, 2013
Current Closing Date for Applications::	Nov 04, 2013
Archive Date::	Nov 15, 2013
Estimated Total Program Funding::	$ 600,000
Award Ceiling::	$250,000
Award Floor::	$20,000

Eligibility

Eligible Applicants::	Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility”
Additional Information on Eligibility::

Additional Information

Agency Name::	Fish and Wildlife Service
Description::	This financial assistance opportunity is being issued under the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit CESUs Network but is not limited to applicants using the CESU Network. The CESUs network provides research, technical assistance, and education to federal land management, environmental, and research agencies and their partners. The partners serve the biological, physical, social, cultural, and engineering disciplines needed to address natural and cultural resource management issues at multiple scales and in an ecosystem context. Applicants who are not partners within the CESU Network may apply for cooperative assistance funding The USFWS is seeking proposals on behalf of the Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative hereafter shown as WALCC. The Mission of the WALCC is to promote coordination, dissemination, and development of applied science to inform landscape level conservation, including terrestrial marine linkages, in the face of landscape scale stressors, focusing on climate change. This Notice of Funding Availability has three Topics. Topic 1: Utilize a collaborative process to develop the base standards for water temperature data collection in Alaska suitable for use in regional-scale analyses of ecosystem status and trends. Topic 2: Develop an Implementation Strategy for how the awardee (and awardees entity) could coordinate and assist a voluntary participation water temperature monitoring network within their geographic area of the Western Alaska LC. There are five geographies roughly defined by these ecosystem boundaries: 1. Kotzebue Sound Lowlands, Seward Peninsula and Nulato Hills; 2. Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta; 3. Ahklun Mountains and Bristol Bay Lowlands; 4. Alaska Peninsula; 5. Kodiak and Afognak Islands. Topic 3: Describe current or existing impacts of changes in water temperature on important resources in western Alaska by utilizing the synthesis integration of existing data; integrative research; and or creation of vulnerability assessments with climate change predictions.
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Version History

Version	Modification Description	Updated Date
Synopsis 3		Oct 24, 2013
Synopsis 2
Synopsis 1

Package Status

Below are CLOSED Opportunity Package(s) no longer available for this Funding Opportunity:

Package No: 1

Assistance Listings:	15.669
Competition ID:
Competition Title:
Opportunity Package ID:	PKG00184390
Opening Date:	Aug 29, 2013
Closing Date:	Nov 04, 2013
Agency Contact Information::	Karen A. Murphy
Who Can Apply::	Organization and Individual Applicants
mendatory_forms	Application for Federal Assistance (SF-424) [V2.0] Budget Information for Non-Construction Programs (SF-424A) [V1.0] Assurances for Non-Construction Programs (SF-424B) [V1.1] Project Narrative Attachment Form [V1.1]
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Packages

Assistance Listings	Competition ID	Competition Title	Opportunity Package ID	Opening Date	Closing Date	Actions	Who Can Apply:
15.669			PKG00184390	Aug 29, 2013	Nov 04, 2013	View	Karen A. Murphy	Organization and Individual Applicants

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