Pacific Islands Climate Change Cooperative

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Climate change is the greatest environmental and conservation challenge of the 21st century. The impacts of climate change exacerbate many other existing threats and stressors on fish and wildlife resources. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) is soliciting proposals to support the establishment and operation of the Pacific Islands Climate Change Cooperative (PICCC) in Honolulu, HI. The PICCC is a cooperative project between the Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) and the Hawaii‘i Conservation Alliance (HCA) whose mission is to assist with increased long-term effectiveness of conservation in Hawaii‘i and other Pacific Islands. The PICCC will provide spatially-explicit, scientific analyses and tools that link biological planning, conservation design, conservation delivery, monitoring and research in an iterative, adaptive cycle. These combined efforts will help address climate change and other limiting factors at a landscape level. Applicants must have the capacity to provide a suitable work environment for 14 staff, recruit and hire some technical staff, and provide administrative services. Work guidance and oversight of the PICCC staff will be provided by a Steering Committee which will include Service representatives. The Service will provide funds in support of the PICCC, and other agencies and organizations will have the ability to contribute staff, funds, and in-kind services towards the PICCC effort. Acting as a unified collaborative group, the PICCC will create science and management products that will enable partners to conserve natural and cultural resources and disseminate climate change impact and vulnerability information to the scientific community, decision makers, and the general public. http://www.fws.gov/pacific/Climatechange/changepi.htmlhttp://www.fws.gov/pacific/Climatechange/lcc.html

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