Climate Investigations - Climatic Drivers of Wildland Fire Events and Burn Severity

The summary for the Climate Investigations - Climatic Drivers of Wildland Fire Events and Burn Severity grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the Bureau of Land Management, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

Climate Investigations - Climatic Drivers of Wildland Fire Events and Burn Severity: This financial Assistance Opportunity is being issued under a Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit program. CESUs are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education. This is a continuing project that provides learning opportunities to students in the principles of climate modeling, prediction of fire risks and public land management. The goal is to find linkages between climatic patterns in precipitation and temperature and fire frequency and severity in key vegetation communities within the Central Great Basin and Colorado Plateau Ecoregions, specifically identifying key climatic drivers in fire events. For example similar research in southern California chaparral communities found that the timing of large fire events is strongly linked with the amount of precipitation in April, the end of the wet season in that ecoregion. Additionally the information gained may be used by federal and state agencies in refining larger scale regional climate and fire modeling based on Landfire data providing more detailed or community specific prediction capabilities.