OpportunityTitle: Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Pacific Northwest 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 participating partners of Pacific Northwest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit Program.
Description: The US Geological Survey, John Wesley Powell Center for Analysis and Synthesis, is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research to develop a multi-scale synthesis of nitrogen fixation rates across the terrestrial biosphere. This analysis is expected to synthesize biological nitrogen fixation rates for the major N&#226;&#191;&#144;fixing niches (trees, shrubs, herbs, lichens, cyanobacteria, mosses, liverworts, and free&#226;&#191;&#144;living heterotrophic bacteria) across all terrestrial biomes globally, including agricultural systems; scale the quantity of symbiotic biological nitrogen fixation inputs associated with plants and lichens up to produce spatially&#226;&#191;&#144;resolved nitrogen fixation maps for the U.S. and North America; and develop prognostic tools for evaluating environmental controls of niche&#226;&#191;&#144;specific terrestrial nitrogen fixation rates across biomes and the globe for mapping, management, and modeling.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: Contract Specialist
GrantorContactText: Faith Graves 703-648-7356&lt;br/&gt;fgraves@usgs.gov