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Opportunity Summary:

The North Americas Boreal Avifauna opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number 70181AR058) is a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Region 7 notice describing an intended, single-source Cooperative Agreement with the University of Alberta (specifically its Biological Sciences and Renewable Resources departments). It is not an open call for proposals and the government states it does not intend to accept applications from other parties; instead, the award was planned to be made shortly after the notice (about 10 days). The work falls under CFDA 15.655, Migratory Bird Monitoring, Assessment and Conservation, and is categorized as Science and Technology and other Research and Development.

The core purpose is to strengthen continent-wide understanding of bird populations in the boreal forest by bringing boreal Alaska survey information into the University of Alberta's Boreal Avian Modelling Project (BAM). The boreal forest is described as one of the worlds largest intact forest systems and a major breeding and nursery region supporting roughly 1.7 billion birds, but it is also experiencing growing pressures from resource development and climate warming. Despite its global importance and accelerating change, the notice emphasizes that boreal avifauna remains comparatively poorly studied at broad spatial scales, making comprehensive, standardized data integration a priority for conservation planning.

The agreement focuses on incorporating historic and contemporary avian point-count survey data collected across boreal Alaska into BAMs existing databases and analyses. The stated objectives cover a 2010 to 2012 effort to integrate Alaska data collected from 1985 through 2010. In practical terms, that means cleaning, standardizing, and loading Alaska survey datasets into BAMs continental data system so they can be analyzed alongside the extensive Canadian boreal dataset BAM has already compiled. The overall intent is to enable landscape-level modeling of bird distribution, abundance, and habitat relationships across the full boreal region rather than leaving Alaska as a major geographic gap.

Background in the notice highlights that BAM has already assembled a very large point-count database from across boreal Canada and has been collaborating with the FWS since 2007. The project also develops and applies analytical methods designed to handle common inconsistencies across surveys, such as differences in survey timing and duration, which can otherwise bias comparisons among datasets. By adding Alaska, the project would expand its reach to a more complete boreal, continent-scale picture. The notice indicates the Alaska contribution is on the order of about 15,000 survey points to be added to an existing database that already contains well over 100,000 survey points from prior work.

Funding for the effort is listed as a total of $50,000, with an award floor and ceiling both set at $50,000, and no cost sharing or matching requirement. The budget is intended to support items directly tied to the integration and analysis effort, including salary support, data management, analytical work, and travel. Only one award was expected.

The justification for using a single-source (non-competitive) approach is twofold. First, it is framed as a continuation action: introducing competition would disrupt an ongoing multi-year effort that the Service and University of Alberta had already been building together since 2007, potentially harming continuity and delaying completion. Second, the University of Alberta is presented as uniquely qualified because BAM already houses the core database infrastructure and has specialized expertise and established methods for integrating large, heterogeneous point-count datasets quickly and consistently, including statistical approaches that adjust for differences in survey protocols.

Administrative details in the notice show it was posted September 2, 2010, with an original and current closing date of September 17, 2010, and an archive date of October 17, 2010. Although the listing includes standard eligibility categories (public and private institutions of higher education), the text makes clear this particular action was intended for a specific partner rather than open competition. A contact person is provided for access issues or questions about the announcement: Greg Balogh, Arctic LCC Coordinator, at 907-786-3605.

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