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Opportunity Summary:

The Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, North West Alaska CESU grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number 10HQPA0027) is a USGS Alaska Science Center request for a cooperative agreement focused on improving Alaska-specific climate projections. The main goal is to support research that takes existing global climate model outputs and downscales them to produce much finer, decision-ready projections of future temperature and precipitation across Alaska. The project is intended to generate high-resolution (about 2 km), monthly datasets covering 21st century conditions, with an emphasis on making those outputs useful for understanding and planning around climate impacts on habitats, fish, wildlife, and related natural-resource concerns.

A central requirement of the work is not just producing higher-resolution projections, but also rigorously quantifying uncertainty. The announcement highlights the need to identify the sources and magnitudes of uncertainty associated with downscaling methods as well as uncertainty tied to natural climate variability. In practice, this means the effort is expected to document how different methodological choices, input datasets, model assumptions, and inherent variability influence projected temperature and precipitation patterns. The end product should therefore combine detailed spatial climate information with a clear accounting of confidence levels and limitations so resource managers can interpret projections appropriately rather than treating them as single, exact predictions.

The opportunity is framed around a practical problem: while substantial investments have been made in climate prediction, many projections are produced at global or coarse regional scales that are too low-resolution to guide on-the-ground management decisions in a place as geographically complex as Alaska. The USGS is seeking to bridge that gap by funding research that produces finer-scale climate information capable of supporting regional assessments of climate change impacts. The anticipated benefit is improved capacity for agencies and partners to evaluate how changing temperature and precipitation could alter ecological conditions, habitats, and species distributions, and to plan management actions using climate information that better matches the scale at which real-world decisions are made.

Administratively, this is a discretionary funding opportunity issued under the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program, which is designed to support research, technical assistance, and education through partnerships. Only organizations that are formal partners within the North West Alaska CESU are eligible to receive an award. The funding mechanism is a cooperative agreement, which typically implies more substantial involvement and collaboration with the federal agency than a standard grant. The CFDA number listed is 15.808 (U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection). The posting date was January 6, 2010, with a current closing date of January 31, 2010, and an archive date of February 18, 2010.

In terms of funding, the opportunity anticipated one award with an estimated total funding amount of $30,000. The announcement lists no cost sharing or matching requirement. While an award ceiling and floor are shown as $0 (often a formatting artifact in older postings), the total estimated funding indicates the approximate scale of the expected project budget. For access issues or administrative questions about the full announcement, the listed contact is Faith Graves, Contract Specialist, at 703-648-7356.

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