Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative FY14

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This financial assistance opportunity is being issued under the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit CESUs Network but is not limited to applicants using the CESU Network. The CESUs network provides research, technical assistance, and education to federal land management, environmental, and research agencies and their partners. The partners serve the biological, physical, social, cultural, and engineering disciplines needed to address natural and cultural resource management issues at multiple scales and in an ecosystem context. Applicants who are not partners within the CESU Network may apply for cooperative assistance funding The USFWS is seeking proposals on behalf of the Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative hereafter shown as WALCC. The Mission of the WALCC is to promote coordination, dissemination, and development of applied science to inform landscape level conservation, including terrestrial marine linkages, in the face of landscape scale stressors, focusing on climate change. This Notice of Funding Availability has three Topics. Topic 1: Utilize a collaborative process to develop the base standards for water temperature data collection in Alaska suitable for use in regional-scale analyses of ecosystem status and trends. Topic 2: Develop an Implementation Strategy for how the awardee (and awardees entity) could coordinate and assist a voluntary participation water temperature monitoring network within their geographic area of the Western Alaska LC. There are five geographies roughly defined by these ecosystem boundaries: 1. Kotzebue Sound Lowlands, Seward Peninsula and Nulato Hills; 2. Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta; 3. Ahklun Mountains and Bristol Bay Lowlands; 4. Alaska Peninsula; 5. Kodiak and Afognak Islands. Topic 3: Describe current or existing impacts of changes in water temperature on important resources in western Alaska by utilizing the synthesis integration of existing data; integrative research; and or creation of vulnerability assessments with climate change predictions.

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