Cooperative Agreement for affiliated Partner with Alaska Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU)
This funding opportunity is designed for research organizations and academic institutions to study the effects of climate change on the Porcupine caribou herd, benefiting Indigenous communities and informing land-use planning through predictive modeling and analysis.
Description
The US Geological Survey (USGS) Alaska Science Center is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research that uses existing field data to identify the influence of climatic variation on the summer forage and insect conditions for barren-ground caribou, determine how these conditions influence caribou behavior and distributions, and project future shifts in caribou distributions given changing habitat conditions.