# Cooperative Agreement for CESU-affiliated Partner with Rocky Mountain Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU)

Source: https://welltoldgrants.com/grants/g22as00194-cooperative-agreement-for-cesu-affiliated-partner-with-rocky/  
Official notice: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/337771

> Geological Survey offered grants of up to $100,000 to the applicants described in the notice. Applications closed on March 2, 2022.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Opportunity number | G22AS00194 |
| Agency | Geological Survey |
| Status | Forecast |
| Deadline | March 2, 2022 |
| Award ceiling | $100,000 |
| Award floor | not stated |
| Expected awards | not stated |
| Total funding | not stated |
| Cost sharing | not required |
| Assistance Listings | 15.808 |

## Who can apply

- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

This financial assistance opportunity is being issued under a Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program. CESU’s are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education. Eligible recipients must be participating partners of the Rocky Mountain Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit Program.

## What the grant funds

U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) Powell Center is offering a funding opportunity for research on “Synthesis of the new North American tree-ring fire-scar network: using past and present fire-climate relationships to improve projections of future wildfire.” The project will address how climate change will drive future fire potential on the continent. Researchers are expected to synthesize the North American fire scar network and combine it with modern fire records to create a multi-century record of fire across North America. Recent advances in paleoclimate methods and the continental-scale network of tree-ring chronologies are expected to be used to reconstruct seasonal climate variables tailored to better understand variability in climate drivers of fire. Specific approaches are expected to include: 1) multi-century spatio-temporal dynamics of fire-climate relationships across North America; 2) climate drivers of changing synchrony of wildfire (e.g., widespread fire years); 3) cyclical properties of fire occurrence that can provide predictive capacity, including relationships with ocean-atmosphere oscillations (e.g., El Nino/Southern Oscillation and Arctic Oscillation); and 4) combining historical and modern fire-climate relationships to project future wildfire potential at regional to continental scales.

## Questions people ask

### Is G22AS00194 still open?

No. It closed on March 2, 2022. A newer notice is open: G27AS00066, closes December 7, 2026 (30 days left).

### Who can apply for Cooperative Agreement for CESU-affiliated Partner with Rocky Mountain Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU)?

Geological Survey accepted applications from the applicants described in the notice. The notice adds further conditions, so read its eligibility section.

### What is the deadline for Cooperative Agreement for CESU-affiliated Partner with Rocky Mountain Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU)?

Closed March 2, 2022. Applications are no longer accepted; the program's newer notices are on this page when there are any.

### How much funding is available?

Awards of up to $100,000 each.

### Who has won U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection grants before?

The largest recipients over five fiscal years were Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines, University of Alaska Fairbanks, California Institute of Technology. The program made 1,128 awards worth $629 million in that time.