May 17, 2016

USGS Funding Opportunity: Host Climate Science Centers

The U.S. Geological Survey has released a Program Announcement via Grants.gov to request applications to host Climate Science Centers (CSCs) in four regions.

Access the announcement here: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/search-grants.html?keywords=g16as00049

Closing Date for Applications: July 19, 2016

Three of the regions – Alaska, Northwest and Southeast – are re-competitions of the hosting arrangements currently in place in those regions. The fourth is a planned new CSC that would be created by splitting the Northeast CSC region, which presently encompasses all or part of 22 states. This new region would be comprised of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, and Kentucky (see a map of the proposed region here). This proposal was announced in the President’s FY2017 budget, and establishment of the CSC is contingent upon Congressional action on that proposal.

The program announcement invites proposals to host each CSC (including identification of consortium partners), and to determine if their proposed science, partnership, and program support activities and strategies are appropriate to serve in these roles.

To facilitate the financial assistance application process, a conference call or webinar will be conducted by the NCCWSC to accommodate inquiries from Applicants about this program and the proposal review, evaluation, and selection process on May 18, 2016 at 1:00 P.M. EDT, Eastern Daylight Time
Interested applicants should email Kristen Donahue, kdonahue@usgs.gov, to obtain call-in/web address information.

More information and related documents can be found here: https://nccwsc.usgs.gov/csc-recompetition