Cooperative Agreement F16AC00574

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CFDA 15.820) program will fund a $414,271 assessment of climate-mediated range shifts to evaluate the refugial capacity of protected areas for birds in the Upper Great Lakes region. The University of Minnesota, as the prime awardee, will subaward to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to execute the research objectives. The key expected outcomes include...

This Cooperative Agreement award, totaling $140,383, was provided by the U.S. Geological Survey under the National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CFDA 15.820) program. The award supports a project led by the Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife to map ecohydrological refugia and linkage areas for headwater ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest. Key activities include conducting field surveys to validate landscape attributes and amphibian populations, developing an...

This $189,938.24 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CFDA 15.820) program aims to develop strategies for assessing and mitigating social-ecological vulnerability in communities surrounding large protected areas in the Southeast U.S. The project, led by North Carolina State University with sub-awards to the University of South Carolina and University of Tennessee Knoxville, has three main...

This is a 2-year, $369,330 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CFDA 15.820) program. The project aims to develop a geospatial land change model that can accurately simulate future urbanization patterns in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, despite population decline driven by economic and climate stressors in these regions. The key activities and deliverables under this award include: (1)...

This $258,400 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Geological Survey under the National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CFDA 15.820) program aims to quantify climate-induced range shifts in native and non-native species to inform effective management. The key activities include: Identifying high-priority areas for range shift research and management by combining biogeographical patterns with spatial connectivity analysis. Utilizing advanced methodologies to integrate...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $399,846 from the U.S. Geological Survey's National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CFDA 15.820) program supports a two-year project to develop landscape-scale climate change adaptation planning for the National Wildlife Refuge System in the Crown of the Continent region. The project aims to inform the creation of a Comprehensive Conservation Plan for the Western Montana NWR Complex by synthesizing climate futures, assessing vulnerabilities,...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through its National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685), awarded a $200,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Conservation Resource Alliance (CRA) to restore a road-stream crossing on Deer Creek. The project will replace a 7-foot diameter culvert with a 33-foot span timber bridge, reconnecting 5 miles of upstream channel to over 4 miles downstream. This will halt the annual input of up to 15 tons of sediment from road runoff entering Deer Creek, improving stream...

This Project Grant award of $528,090 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research on housing infrastructure adaptation in coastal communities exposed to natural hazards in a changing climate. The project, titled "CLIMA/COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: RIDERS ON THE STORM: CLIMATE ADAPTATION OF HOUSING INFRASTRUCTURE FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES IN COASTAL CITIES," aims to develop a mathematical framework to analyze the interactions between...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5 awarded a $450,000 Project Grant to the Maine Inland Fisheries & Wildlife Department under the National Wildlife Refuge System Enhancements program (CFDA 15.654). This grant will increase the resilience of the Frye Mountain Wildlife Management Area (WMA) to climate change impacts, including extreme precipitation and flooding, and will improve aquatic connectivity within the WMA for multiple climate vulnerable species...

This $1.2 million Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5 will fund the restoration of aquatic connectivity in the North Branch Potomac River (NBPR) watershed in Maryland. The project, under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685), will remove eight barriers to improve connectivity along 30 miles of stream habitat that supports Eastern Brook Trout populations. Key activities include replacing two culverts, removing a dam,...