OpportunityTitle: Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Rocky Mountain CESU
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: This financial assistance opportunity is being issued under a Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program.  CESUs 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.
Description: The U.S. Geological Surveys Fort Collins Science Center is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partners that has the ability to conduct research on relations between streamflow riparian vegetation, and channel geomorphology. The objectives are to verify previously indirectly estimates responses of cottonwood and channel form to infrequent high flows by resampling previously established, permanent, long-term cross sections. The work shall include field measurements of riparian vegetation and topography at multiple sites in late summer 2011, with possible data analysis and follow-up field studies in 2012-2013.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: fgraves@usgs.gov
GrantorContactText: Faith Graves, 703-648-7356&lt;br/&gt;fgraves@usgs.gov&lt;br/&gt;