Pacific Islands Climate Change Cooperative

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) is soliciting proposals for applied scientific work that addresses the projected effects of climate change and on how these effects may impact native terrestrial and marine plants and animal in the Pacific Islands Geographic Area. This work is in support of the Pacific Islands Climate Change Cooperative (PICCC), which is an applied conservation science partnership located in Honolulu, Hawaii and formed to addresses climate change and other landscape scale change events throughout U.S. territories in the Pacific; see http://www.fws.gov/pacific/Climatechange/lcc.html for a map of the Pacific Islands Geographic Area and a description of the PICCC and its research and management goals.Scientific projects of interest to the PICCC will ultimately help inform resource management decisions that address landscape-scale stressors to fish, wildlife, and plants of the Pacific Islands Geographic Area, with a particular focus on climate change. Funds for scientific work for the PICCC were appropriated to the Service in the FY 2010 budget allocation. Performance measures oblige the Service to quickly and astutely commit the funds to priority scientific projects. This request for proposals is required in order to ensure work begins as quickly as possible on FY 2010 projects. The Service will obligate funds to scientific projects for the PICCC under its Climate Change Planning and Adaptive Science Capacity Programs. Each project can range up to $250,000 in cost and can be new and novel with a multi-year time line or can utilizing data already collected, performing a synthesis of work from previous studies such that the project can be completed without additional field work, or other creative strategies.

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