OpportunityTitle: Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Rock Mountain CESU
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: This financial assistance opportunity is being issued under a   Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program.  CESU&#191;s are   partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and   education.  Eligible recipients must be a participating partner of a   western US Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) program,   including the Rocky Mountain CESU program.
Description: The USGS is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner to support a collaborative research effort with USGS scientists to the past and the present to understand fire ecology in sagebrush habitats of the Gunnison sage- grouse. The researchers will work with USGS FORT scientists to collect, prepare, and analyze tree-ring fire-scar samples from in the upper Gunnison Basin, as well as collect and analyze vegetation data on fire effects in sagebrush ecosystems, which are habitat for Gunnison sage-grouse. This work will increase our understanding of multi-century climate-fire-vegetation dynamics in sagebrush/forest ecotones in the upper Gunnison Basin, which has direct relevance for sagebrush ecosystem dynamics and sagebrush-dependent biota, including the threatened Gunnison sage-grouse.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: Contract Specialist
GrantorContactText: Faith Graves 703-648-7356&lt;br/&gt;fgraves@usgs.gov