Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative; FY14

Unit (CESUs) Network but is not limited to applicants using the CESU Network. The CESUs 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. Applicants who are not partners within the CESU Network may apply for cooperative assistance funding through this announcement. The USFWS is seeking proposals on behalf of the Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative hereafter shown as WALCC. The Mission of the WALCC is to promote coordination, dissemination, and development of applied science to inform landscape level conservation, including terrestrial marine linkages, in the face of landscape scale stressors, focusing on climate change. This Notice of Funding Availability has three Topics. Topic 1: Invasive Plant Identification and Record input Smartphone App. Topic 2: Develop an outreach/science product overviewing current coastal change studies and related priority information needs in western Alaska. Topic 3: Improve Western Alaska LCCs utilization of social media by identifying Facebook partners and providing advice to LCC staff.