OpportunityTitle: Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Great Lakes-Northern Forests CESU
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Eligibility: This financial assistance opportunity is being issued under a Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program.  CESU&#146;s are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education.  Eligible recipients must be a participating partner of the Great Lakes-Northern Forests Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program&#148;.  As no funding will provided for assessing the nation&#146;s fish habitat, successful applicants must have access to or provide matching capabilities to perform a national assessment of fish habitat for the lower 48 states.  Further, successful applicants must provide expertise in fish habitat assessment and modeling, GIS capabilities and provide the necessary expertise to manage the project.
Description: USGS has initiated a large project to downscale the Atmospheric-Ocean General Circulation Models (AOGCM) to identify how climate and land-use change will impact the vulnerability of fish habitat at national, regional, and local scales. Results from this project will be used to determine the biological responses of fishes to these changes. This project relies on the on-going work of the partnership-driven National Fish Habitat Action Plan&#146;s (NFHAP) national assessment of fish habitat, to incorporate global climate change models and predicted land-use change to the Nation&#146;s aquatic systems. Funding provided under this project will be used to develop the national scale integration of on-going fish habitat assessment and climate change and land-use predictions.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: Contract Specialist
GrantorContactText: FAITH GRAVES &lt;br/&gt;Contract Specialist &lt;br/&gt;Phone 703-648-7356