# Cooperative Agreement for CESU-affiliated Partner with North Atlantic Coast Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit

Source: https://welltoldgrants.com/grants/g24as00258-cooperative-agreement-for-cesu-affiliated-partner-with-north/  
Official notice: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/352541

> Geological Survey offered grants of up to $130,000 to the applicants described in the notice. Applications closed on March 21, 2024.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Opportunity number | G24AS00258 |
| Agency | Geological Survey |
| Status | Forecast |
| Deadline | March 21, 2024 |
| Award ceiling | $130,000 |
| 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 a participating partner of the North Atlantic Coast Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program.

## What the grant funds

U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center (NOROCK) is offering a funding opportunity to relationships with climate and avalanches as well as assist with remote sensing of snowpack properties. Understanding future changes in snowpack properties and avalanche frequency and magnitude serves to contextualize current and future avalanche behavior including a shift in avalanche regime from cold and dry to warm and wet. Additionally, it informs water resource managers on how best to adapt to declining snowpacks and become more resilient communities. Under a warming climate, destructive wet snow avalanches are an increasingly more frequent threat to humans yet are poorly understood. Are well positioned to further the understanding of changing snowpack properties and avalanche frequency given previous research experience. This proposed project will utilize recent regional avalanche-dendrochronology and snowpack modeling work (from USGS PI - E. Peitzsch) to project snowpack property and avalanche frequency changes and associated spatial landscape changes associated with large magnitude (extreme) avalanche events. The goal is to answer the following overarching question: How will snowpack properties and avalanche frequency and character change across space and time in the future and what are the primary drivers of this variability?

## Questions people ask

### Is G24AS00258 still open?

No. It closed on March 21, 2024. A newer notice is open: G27AS00066, closes December 7, 2026 (30 days left).

### Who can apply for Cooperative Agreement for CESU-affiliated Partner with North Atlantic Coast Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit?

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 North Atlantic Coast Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit?

Closed March 21, 2024. 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 $130,000 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.