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Opportunity Summary:

This grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number 09HQPA0062), offered by the U.S. Geological Survey under the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program, supports a single cooperative agreement focused on wildfire science and climate impacts. Led through the Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center (NOROCK), the project is designed to improve understanding of how climate variability, long-term climate trends, and large-scale climate teleconnections shape the patchiness, or landscape heterogeneity, of burn severity across three representative forest ecosystems in the western United States. A specific emphasis within this opportunity is work connected to Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve in Alaska, making that landscape a key study area within the broader multi-ecoregion comparison.

A central motivation of the project is that the historic range of variability in burn severity, especially as it relates to climate, remains a major gap in current fire-climate knowledge. Many earlier studies relied on coarse fire perimeter datasets that indicate where fires occurred but do not capture the ecological intensity of fire across the burned area. This opportunity pushes beyond that limitation by focusing on burn severity itself, meaning the magnitude of ecological effects on vegetation and soils, and by examining how severity varies within and among large fires and across landscapes where fire is the dominant disturbance process.

Methodologically, the work is expected to build on prior and ongoing efforts within USGS and partner agencies such as other Department of the Interior bureaus and the U.S. Forest Service. The study will spatially quantify burn severity using Landsat remote sensing products, paired with available climate datasets, to address three core research questions. First, it will evaluate how climate variability, including seasonality and key drivers like temperature and precipitation, shows up over space and time in broad patterns of burn severity. Second, it will analyze how climate teleconnections (large-scale climate patterns that influence regional weather and fuels) manifest spatially and temporally in burn-severity patterns. Third, it will test how generalizable observed burn-severity impacts and trends are across the three target western U.S. ecoregions, identifying where patterns are similar and where they differ, which is essential for transferring insights across landscapes and improving regional fire-effect understanding.

The expected outcome is a clearer, more spatially explicit understanding of how climate controls burn severity heterogeneity and the resulting ecological effects of fire in western forest ecosystems. In practical terms, this kind of information can strengthen the scientific basis for interpreting past fire regimes, anticipating future fire effects under changing climate conditions, and improving monitoring approaches that rely on satellite-based assessments rather than perimeter-only fire records.

Administratively, the opportunity is categorized as discretionary funding and will be awarded as a cooperative agreement, indicating substantial federal involvement or collaboration is anticipated during the project. The funding activity falls under Science and Technology and other Research and Development, with an estimated total funding amount of $38,527 and an expected number of awards of one. There is no stated cost sharing or matching requirement. Eligibility is limited to organizations that are participating partners of the Great Basin CESU Program, consistent with CESU rules that channel research and technical assistance through established partnership networks.

The original posting date was July 29, 2009, with an application deadline of August 7, 2009, and an archive date of September 6, 2009. The CFDA listing associated with this funding is 15.808 (U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection). For access issues or administrative questions, the listed contact is Faith Graves, Contract Specialist, at 703-648-7356.

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