Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Great Rivers CESU

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	Federal Grant Title:	Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Great Rivers CESU
	CFDA Number:	15.808
	CFDA Description:	U.S. Geological Survey_ Research and Data Collection
	Federal Agency Name:	Geological Survey
	Category of Funding Activity:	Science and Technology
	Category Explanation:	Information not provided
	Opportunity Category:	Discretionary
	Funding Opportunity Number:	10HQPA0077
	Document Type:	Grants Notice
	Funding Instrument Type:	Cooperative Agreement
	Posted Date:	Jun 16, 2010
	Creation Date:	Jun 16, 2010
	Original Closing Date for Applications:	Jun 28, 2010
	Current Closing Date for Applications:	Jun 28, 2010
	Archive Date:	Jul 28, 2010
	Expected Number of Awards:	1
	Estimated Total Program Funding:	$113,000
	Federal Grant Award Ceiling:	$0
	Federal Grant Award Floor:	$0
	Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:	No

Applicants Eligible for this Grant: Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility: This financial assistance opportunity is being issued under a CESU Program. CESU's are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education. Eligible recipients must be a participating partner of the Great Rivers CESU Program
Grant Description: The USGS Mercury in Stream Ecosystems study team of the National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program seeks to provide assistance for the research in the development of computerized contaminant transport models for stream ecosystems. The models will specifically target the complex biogeochemistry of mercury, but certain facets of these models also will be applicable to transport of other contaminants in streams and rivers. This project involves interacting with a team of Federal researchers who develop process-based computer models of watershed hydrology and contaminant transport. The emphasis of this project is to objectively evaluate these models to ascertain which processes, among a large suite of dynamically interdependent processes, govern the transport and chemical speciation of mercury in stream ecosystems. Processes that are coded into complex watershed contaminant transport models such as WASP (Water-quality Analysis and Simulation Program) are broken down into simpler, reduced-form models, and those simpler models are then evaluated to ascertain important model parameters for study watersheds. This process will provide an important tool for selecting parameter values for the more complex contaminant models. Results from this project will improve the capability to model the complex behavior of mercury in stream ecosystems, and may allow better prediction of how ecosystems will respond to changes in mercury inputs, and other ecosystem disturbances that affect watershed hydrology and biogeochemistry. The study will collaborate with current studies of mercury cycling in stream ecosystems in South Carolina and New York. It is anticipated that the modeling tools developed in collaboration with the USGS will be more broadly applicable to ecosystems in other locations.
Link to Full Grant Announcement: Information not provided
Grant Announcement Contact: FAITH GRAVES Contract Specialist Phone 703-648-7356

Contract Specialist [fgraves@usgs.gov]
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