Aleutian and Bering Sea Islands Landscape Conservation Cooperative FY15 | Apply Online

Opportunity Information: Apply for F15AS00090

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is inviting proposals for research under the Aleutian and Bering Sea Islands Landscape Conservation Cooperative (ABSI LCC) for fiscal year 2015. The ABSI LCC's mission focuses on enhancing coordination and applied science to support the conservation of natural and cultural resources amid climate change and other large-scale environmental pressures.

This funding opportunity includes four key research topics identified as critical for managers and communities in the ABSI region concerning climate change:

1. **Trophic Function Disruption**: Proposals should evaluate how climate change could impact the trophic dynamics that are essential for key prey species benefitting marine mammals. This includes examining changes in timing and spatial distribution of primary and secondary production in critical areas for these species.

2. **Pathogens in Marine Species**: The goal here is to understand how climate change may enable the spread of parasites and diseases that affect marine species crucial to local human communities. Researchers are encouraged to identify climatic thresholds—such as ocean temperatures and sea ice levels—that could influence the distribution of these pathogens.

3. **Body Condition of Fish**: This topic focuses on assessing the potential adverse effects of climate change on the body condition of young fish crucial for commercial and subsistence fishing. Proposals should synthesize existing bioenergetics data and analyze the implications of climate projections on fish recruitment.

4. **Seabird Vulnerability**: Research should explore which seabird species may be most at risk due to changes in prey availability stemming from climate-induced shifts in trophic functions. This involves creating a sensitivity index that evaluates individual seabird species based on various factors such as foraging costs and patterns.

Overall, while syntheses and modeling based on existing data are preferred, there is an openness to proposals that include field research, provided they effectively build on previous work in the specified areas.

• The Fish and Wildlife Service in the environment natural resources regional development science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Aleutian and Bering Sea Islands Landscape Conservation Cooperative FY15" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.669 Cooperative Landscape Conservation.
• This funding opportunity was created on Feb 4, 2015 and posted on Feb 4, 2015.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Apr 6, 2015. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2025.)
• The funding agency has allocated a total of $100,000.00 to eligible and selected applicants.
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $100,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 2 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.
• All potential applicants, including Federal agencies and Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Network (http://www.cesu.psu.edu/materials/partners.htm), are eligible. Non federal applicants must follow the requirements shown in sections A through C. Federal Agencies (only) please see Attachment A for the checklist of required submission documents. U.S. non profit, non governmental organizations must provide a copy of their Section 501(c)(3) or (4) status determination letter received from the Internal Revenue Service.

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