OpportunityTitle: Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Great Lakes Northern Forests (CESU)
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: This financial assistance opportunity is being issued under a Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program.  CESU&#226;&#191;&#191;s are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education.  Eligible recipients must be a participating partner of the Great Lakes &#226;&#191;&#191; Northern Forest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit.
Description: The US Geological Survey&#226;&#191;&#191;s National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center (NCCWSC), is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research to support the project entitled &#226;&#191;&#191;Global assessment of inland fisheries production and projected response to climate change.The funding opportunity is being offered to develop a research program to identify novel ways to estimate river fish production on a global scale. The CESU partner will be responsible for developing data-limited production models for river fisheries using non-traditional approaches, projecting fish production estimates with climate change, and managing a global river fisheries database.In support of this project, CESU partner will focus on the data-limited fisheries production models with climate change projections, management of a global inland fisheries database, and dissemination of findings.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: Contract Specailist
GrantorContactText: Faith Graves 703-648-7356 &lt;br/&gt;fgraves@usgs.gov &lt;br/&gt;