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Opportunity Summary:

This grant opportunity, titled "Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, North and West Alaska CESU" (Funding Opportunity Number G13AS00061), was issued by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) through its Alaska Science Center (ASC). It offers support for a single cooperative agreement focused on improving how glacier mass balance is calculated and interpreted for several glaciers in Alaska. The total estimated funding available is $360,000, and the opportunity does not require cost sharing or matching funds from the recipient.

The core purpose of the project is to strengthen and standardize methods for resolving glacier mass balance and to better constrain how those mass balance changes relate to glacier ice dynamics, particularly surface motion. USGS already conducts seasonal fieldwork on four benchmark glaciers to measure ongoing mass balance changes, and it has developed an algorithm to process those field measurements. However, that processing approach has not yet been fully extended across all glaciers in the benchmark set, and it also has not been expanded to include other important Alaskan glaciers outside the immediate USGS benchmark program that have compatible measurement records, such as Eklutna and Taku glaciers. A major emphasis of the work is creating a common, consistent processing methodology that can be applied across multiple long-term datasets, enabling clearer comparisons and more defensible regional conclusions.

A key scientific motivation behind the opportunity is improving assessments of sea level change driven by land-based ice loss. Better mass balance estimates contribute directly to understanding how much water is being added to the oceans from glacier melt. Just as importantly, robust ground-based mass balance records are used to validate remote sensing products, which are increasingly relied on to scale observations across Alaska and other glacierized regions. By tightening the relationship between field-based mass balance measurements and glacier dynamics (including surface motion measured at the same time), the project aims to reduce uncertainty in how observed thinning or thickening connects to glacier flow behavior and overall ice loss.

Eligibility is limited to organizations that are active, participating partners in the North and West Alaska Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program. CESUs are partnership networks designed to support research, technical assistance, and education, typically linking federal agencies with universities, nonprofit organizations, and other research institutions. Because the award instrument is a cooperative agreement, applicants should expect substantial federal involvement during the project, such as coordination with USGS scientists, shared technical decision-making, or collaboration on methods and deliverables.

Administratively, the opportunity falls under the "Science and Technology and other Research and Development" activity category and is associated with CFDA number 15.808 (U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection). The posting date and creation date were June 17, 2013, with an original and current closing date of June 27, 2013, and an archive date of September 17, 2013. Further details were made available via Grants.gov, and the listed contact for access issues or questions was Faith Graves (703-648-7356, fgraves@usgs.gov).

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