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Opportunity Summary:

This grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number G14AS00069) is a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) cooperative agreement offered through the Rocky Mountain Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU). It is administered by the USGS Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center (GECSC) in Denver, Colorado, and it supports science and technology research focused on how climate and other environmental drivers shape plant species and ecosystem distributions across arid and semiarid regions of the western United States. The central purpose is to strengthen both methods and evidence used to understand long-term ecological change, especially as it relates to atmospheric CO2, climate variability, and potential warming trends that can affect ecosystem sustainability and management decisions.

The work is framed around three core research questions that USGS considers especially important over the coming decade. First, the project aims to identify which plants and ecosystems are most vulnerable to future changes in climate and atmospheric chemistry, essentially pinpointing where and what is at greatest risk as conditions shift. Second, it seeks to characterize the long-term responses of plant species to a range of climatic and atmospheric scenarios, emphasizing sustained ecological responses rather than short-term fluctuations. Third, it emphasizes learning from the past by determining what combinations of climate conditions could explain historical distributions of species and ecosystems during earlier climate episodes, including periods that were cooler than today as well as warmer than today, and then using that insight to inform expectations about future changes.

A key theme of the announcement is that the research should combine developing new techniques with applying established approaches to improve understanding of plant-climate relationships. The opportunity explicitly anticipates generating usable datasets, including evidence from plant fossils and related paleoecological records, alongside modern plant and climate relationship data. In practical terms, that points toward research that integrates present-day observations and models with historical and prehistorical records to better constrain how vegetation shifts under different climate and atmospheric chemistry regimes. The overall intent is to produce information that supports broader CO2 and global change science and helps translate that science into decision-relevant understanding for sustaining ecosystems in the West.

Because it is offered under the CESU mechanism, eligibility is limited to organizations that are already participating partners in the Rocky Mountain CESU Program. CESUs are structured partnerships designed to streamline collaboration between federal agencies and university or other partners, enabling joint research, technical assistance, and education. In this case, USGS highlights that the value of the agreement is the combined expertise that comes from a federal science center working closely with a CESU partner, with the expectation of a fully cooperative relationship in developing and carrying out the research program rather than a hands-off grant arrangement.

In terms of award details, the opportunity is a discretionary cooperative agreement in the Science and Technology/Research and Development activity category, associated with CFDA number 15.808 (U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection). USGS anticipated making one award, with an estimated total funding amount of $494,000. The notice indicates no cost sharing or matching requirement. The opportunity was posted on May 19, 2014, with a closing date of May 30, 2014, and it was later archived on August 19, 2014. For access to the full announcement, the listing points applicants to Grants.gov, and the contact provided for assistance is Faith Graves at 703-648-7356 or fgraves@usgs.gov.

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