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Opportunity Summary:

The Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Colorado Plateau CESU grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number G15AS00012) is a US Geological Survey (USGS) Western Geographic Science Center (WGSC) solicitation for a single cooperative agreement to support applied research on climate and vegetation monitoring in the Sierra Nevada and Great Basin ecoregions. The project focus is on refining multi-temporal monitoring techniques that track how vegetation changes within seasons and between seasons, and then linking those vegetation signals to climate patterns. The broader intent is to improve understanding of the climatic drivers shaping vegetation condition and dynamics, especially in sensitive land cover types where management decisions depend on credible, long-term indicators.

Technically, the opportunity builds on existing USGS and partner monitoring work using remotely sensed vegetation data from MODIS and Landsat, which provide repeated observations useful for detecting changes in vegetation greenness, productivity, and phenology over time. On the climate side, the work draws from widely used gridded climate datasets such as PRISM, DAYMET, and NLDAS that support daily-to-monthly characterization of variables like temperature and precipitation across complex terrain. A core expectation is to strengthen the analytical linkage between these two monitoring streams so investigators can quantify and interpret climate-vegetation relationships across space and time, rather than treating climate and vegetation products as separate reporting layers.

A notable emphasis of the announcement is on leveraging modern raster processing and cloud-based geospatial analysis, specifically referencing Google Earth Engine as an example of an environment that can expand both the geographic coverage and the time span of analyses. The rationale is practical: as satellite archives grow and climate grids become more temporally detailed, traditional desktop workflows can become a bottleneck. By shifting toward scalable processing, the funded effort is expected to make it easier to evaluate vegetation responses to climate variability across larger extents and longer periods, and to do so more efficiently and consistently.

Administratively, this is a discretionary funding opportunity issued as a cooperative agreement under the CESU framework, meaning the award is intended for a partner organization within the relevant CESU network and typically involves substantial collaboration with the federal agency during the project. Eligibility is limited to participating partners of the Great Basin Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit Program (the announcement notes "Others" in the general field but clarifies eligibility in the text). The opportunity anticipated one award, with an estimated total funding amount of $20,000, and it did not require cost sharing or matching.

The opportunity was posted and created on November 5, 2014, with an original and current closing date of November 17, 2014, and an archive date of February 5, 2015. The CFDA number associated with the program is 15.808 (US Geological Survey Research and Data Collection). For access issues or questions tied to the full announcement, the listed point of contact was Faith Graves at 703-648-7356 or fgraves@usgs.gov, and the general source for the posting was Grants.gov.

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