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Opportunity Summary:

The Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Colorado Plateau CESU grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number 08HQPA0016) was a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) discretionary funding announcement focused on improving how fire fuels are estimated in arid and semi-arid landscapes. The core problem the project aimed to address is that winter annual vegetation in arid ecosystems is often short lived and highly variable from year to year and even week to week. Because these plants can appear quickly after seasonal moisture and then dry out just as quickly, they can temporarily increase fine fuels and change fire behavior in ways that are hard to capture with traditional field-based monitoring alone. The opportunity emphasized that better monitoring and mapping of winter annuals would directly benefit the public by reducing uncertainty in fire danger evaluations for arid ecosystems, supporting more informed planning and potentially improving preparedness and response decisions.

The work anticipated under this award centered on a remote sensing and GIS-based approach, specifically calling for the use of high temporal resolution satellite data to provide ongoing monitoring information. In practical terms, this means leveraging satellite imagery collected frequently enough to track the rapid green-up and senescence cycles of winter annuals, then integrating those observations into geographic information systems for analysis, mapping, and repeated updates over time. The announcement highlights that a remote sensing strategy is not just helpful but required for this purpose because it offers the consistent, broad-area, repeat coverage needed to detect transient vegetation changes across large arid regions where on-the-ground measurement would be costly, slow, and spatially limited. The overall intent was to produce more reliable, timely estimates of fuels conditions tied to winter annual dynamics, ultimately improving assessments of fire danger in these environments.

Administratively, the opportunity was offered as a cooperative agreement, indicating that USGS expected to have substantial involvement during the project rather than simply issuing a standard grant with minimal agency engagement. It fell under the Science and Technology and other Research and Development activity category, and it was tied to CFDA number 15.808 (U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection). The award structure was straightforward: one expected award with a total estimated funding amount of $87,000, and both the award ceiling and floor set at $87,000, implying a single fixed-size project budget rather than a range of possible funding levels. There was no cost sharing or matching requirement stated, so applicants were not required to contribute non-federal funds as a condition of receiving the award.

Eligibility was restricted to partners within the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit framework, specifically those that were participating members of the Colorado Plateau CESU Program. CESUs are partnership networks designed to provide research, technical assistance, and education through collaboration among federal agencies and partner institutions, so the intent here was to channel the work through that established cooperative structure. Key dates show this was a time-limited announcement: it was posted and created on January 29, 2008, with an original and current closing date of February 8, 2008, and it was later archived on March 9, 2008. For access issues or administrative questions, the listed contact was Faith Peters, Contract Specialist, reachable by phone at 703-648-7356.

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