Assessing abundance and migratory connectivity of boreal birds

The US Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 7 intends to award a single source financial assistance agreement as authorized by 505 DM 2.14 (B) to University of Alaska, Anchorage under the Alaska Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit agreement # FWS-ALSK-CESU-2018. This notice is not a request for proposals and the Government does not intend to accept proposals. This financial assistance opportunity is being issued under the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Network: (http://www.cesu.psu.edu/materials/partners.htm). The CESU network provides research, technical assistance, and education to federal land management, environmental, and research agencies and their partners. The partners serve the biological, physical, social, cultural, and engineering disciplines needed to address natural and cultural resource management issues at multiple scales and in an ecosystem context. Funds are available to participate in a study of breeding landbirds and shorebirds of conservation concern on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER), Anchorage, Alaska. Applicants must be able to: 1) recruit and supervise individuals qualified to conduct surveys of breeding shorebirds and landbirds; 2) supervise students to compile environmental and avian survey data to develop spatial models of habitat use. 3) Must have access to and be familiar with the military lands with which this study is being conducted on.