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Opportunity Summary:

The Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Californian CESU grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number G15AS00067) is a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) discretionary funding announcement for a single cooperative agreement award to support science and technology research and development. The project is tied to USGS work on the Pacific Ocean Climate Variability Terrestrial Records project and is designed to be carried out in conjunction with the Berkeley Initiative in Global Change Biology's Clear Lake project. In practical terms, the funding is meant to help researchers improve how terrestrial climate records and ecological indicators in northern California are used to evaluate and strengthen regional climate model outputs, with particular attention to whether those models reliably reflect conditions that can be inferred from real-world biological and paleoecological evidence.

The technical focus of the proposed study centers on integrating different kinds of evidence and modeling approaches. A major component is data-model integration using a climate envelope model, which generally refers to methods that connect species or vegetation distributions with climate variables to estimate the climatic conditions that support particular ecosystems. Alongside this modeling work, the study calls for analysis of modern pollen and vegetation relationships, meaning it will examine how present-day pollen assemblages correspond to current vegetation patterns. That modern calibration is then linked to paleoecological data, such as sediment or fossil pollen records, to reconstruct past environmental and climate conditions. By combining these elements, the project aims to assess the reliability of regional climate model output for northern California, using ecological and paleoecological records as an independent line of evidence to test or ground-truth modeled climate patterns and variability.

From an administrative standpoint, this is a CESU-based opportunity. CESUs are partnership networks intended to streamline collaboration between federal agencies and participating institutions by supporting research, technical assistance, and education. Eligibility is limited: applicants must already be participating partners in the California Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit Program, as indicated in the announcement's eligibility language. The opportunity lists no cost sharing or matching requirement, so applicants are not expected to provide non-federal funds as a condition of award under the posted terms.

The announcement anticipated one award with an estimated total funding amount of $16,500. The listing shows an award ceiling and floor of $0, which typically indicates the specific award amount is handled through the cooperative agreement arrangement and the posted estimate rather than a fixed range in the public listing. The CFDA program number associated with the opportunity is 15.808 (USGS Research and Data Collection). The notice was posted April 28, 2015, created May 19, 2015, with an original closing date of May 15, 2015, later extended to a current closing date of May 29, 2015, and an archive date of October 28, 2015. The additional information link provided in the notice points to Grants.gov, and the contact listed for access issues is Faith Graves at USGS (703-648-7356, fgraves@usgs.gov).

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