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Opportunity Summary:

The Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Great Basin CESU opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number G13AS00072) is a US Geological Survey (USGS) funding announcement issued by the Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center (NOROCK) to support a focused climate data collection and analysis effort across the hydrographic Great Basin. The award mechanism is a cooperative agreement, meaning the work is expected to be conducted in close coordination with USGS, and it sits within the Science and Technology/Research and Development category under CFDA 15.808 (USGS Research and Data Collection). USGS anticipated making a single award, with an estimated total funding amount of $10,445, and the announcement specified no cost sharing or matching requirement.

The core purpose of the project is to capture how temperature varies across the Great Basin at multiple spatial and temporal scales, using an existing network of more than 200 temperature sensors distributed across 28 monitoring sites. Collectively, the sites represent an enormous and diverse landscape, covering roughly 100 million acres and spanning 18 mountain ranges. The network is designed to represent a wide range of terrain and exposure conditions (major aspects) and to capture temperature change across elevation gradients of up to about 700 meters within sites. Because the monitoring locations fall under many different management jurisdictions, the resulting dataset is intended to be broadly useful for land and wildlife managers, conservation planners, and researchers working across agency boundaries.

From a management and science perspective, the project is framed around improving understanding of climate variability from micro- to meso- to macro-scales, and from daily (diel) patterns through seasonal cycles and year-to-year (interannual) differences. The intent is to better characterize the "climate stage" that influences biological processes and ecological outcomes, and to provide stronger inputs for related bioclimatic and wildlife studies that try to link climate conditions to species responses. In practical terms, the temperature records are meant to help refine how local conditions differ from broad-scale climate layers, which is a common source of uncertainty in habitat modeling, vulnerability assessments, and conservation prioritization.

The work described in the announcement goes beyond simply downloading sensor files. After the field-based temperature data are collected, the recipient is expected to compare those observations with remotely sensed products that estimate surface and near-surface (ambient) temperatures. This comparison is aimed at checking how well satellite-based or other remote sensing datasets represent conditions on the ground, especially in complex terrain where local shading, cold-air pooling, slope position, and vegetation can cause sharp departures from regional averages. If feasible, the project is also encouraged to integrate the sensor dataset into efforts that model and spatially downscale remote sensing temperature information, essentially using the field network to help translate coarser remote observations into more locally accurate temperature surfaces.

The final set of expectations emphasizes analysis and applied outputs rather than data collection alone. Proposed analyses may include evaluating and visualizing how temperatures vary across both space and time, examining how temperature lapse rates (the rate of temperature change with elevation) vary across environmental contexts, and testing or improving gridded temperature datasets through evaluation and downscaling methods. Another explicit goal is corroboration of remote sensing datasets, which can involve assessing bias, error patterns, and the conditions under which remote products perform well or poorly. Overall, the project is positioned as a relatively small, targeted investment to strengthen climate characterization across the Great Basin and to feed directly into modeling and ecological decision-making where fine-scale temperature conditions matter.

Eligibility is restricted to organizations that are participating partners in the Rocky Mountain Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program, reflecting the CESU model of leveraging established research partnerships to deliver actionable science and technical assistance. The opportunity was posted July 2, 2013, with a closing date of July 12, 2013, and it was archived September 2, 2013. The public listing referenced Grants.gov for full announcement access and provided a USGS contact for assistance.

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