CA LCC request for science projects to fund draws interest

The California Landscape Conservation Cooperative received nearly 100 responses to its call for pre-proposals for science projects to help natural resource managers enhance their management of native fish, marine and wildlife populations.

The CA LCC has between $500,000 and $800,000 this year to support science that meets the goals and priorities of the partnership, says Rebecca Fris, CA LCC science coordinator. Five to eight projects will receive funding.

“We’ve received a lot of great collaborative proposals from throughout the LCC, and it’s great to see new partnerships develop,” says Fris. “We’re excited to support existing science as well as fund development of new tools and information to support conservation efforts throughout the state.”

The call for pre-proposals closed March 26th, and awards will be announced in late May.

Projects were required to address at least one of two priority issues—decision support tools for managers, and environmental responses and predicted changes that inform managers in their daily activities.

This is the third consecutive year the CA LCC has provided funding. Since 2010, the partnership has funded more than 25 science-based projects totaling almost $2 million. With partner contributions, more than $5 million has been invested in creating science-based tools and products.

Previously funded projects have included studies to measure the effects of sea-level rise on California’s coast, development of tools to track bird response to climate change and creating an online database to provide natural resource managers easy access to climate change data, maps and scientific modeling.

For more information on previous projects, see our project summaries.