Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Great Plains CESU

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The USGS is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research on refining our understanding of how different types of energy use and development impact coupled human natural systems. While energy plays a critical and beneficial role for humans, how it is extracted from the physical world and used impacts other resources, such as water and air quality, biodiversity, and even human health. USGS performs research on the issues described above but requires expertise on gathering, synthesizing and analyzing wildlife fatality data at energy facilities, including biomass and ethanol agriculture, and from both direct interactions with energy infrastructure (e.g., collision and entrapment) and indirect habitat-related mechanisms (e.g., nest loss from land clearing). This opportunity is to seek expertise related to developing methods to make comparisons across energy types for a standard unit of energy produced.

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