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Opportunity Summary:

The Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Rocky Mountain CESU funding opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number G13AS00037) is a discretionary U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) award administered through the USGS Fort Collins Science Center. It supports continued work on the Wyoming Basin Rapid Ecoregional Assessment (REA), an ongoing effort focused on understanding ecological conditions and pressures across the Wyoming Basin at a broad, landscape scale. The award is issued as a cooperative agreement, meaning the USGS expects to be actively involved with the recipient during the project rather than simply providing a pass-through grant with minimal federal participation.

The core purpose of the opportunity is to have a Rocky Mountain CESU partner carry out work that advances and supports the Wyoming Basin REA. Rapid Ecoregional Assessments are designed to pull together existing science and data, apply consistent analytical approaches across large regions, and produce decision-relevant information about ecosystems, species, and key stressors. In practical terms, this kind of project often involves synthesizing datasets from multiple sources, modeling and mapping ecological patterns, and assessing how human activities and other change drivers may affect habitats and species across the region. The announcement emphasizes that the work requires people who can operate across multiple scientific disciplines and connect them into an integrated assessment, rather than treating topics like wildlife, vegetation, and human impacts as separate, isolated studies.

The technical expertise highlighted in the notice points to the kinds of tasks the project team would be expected to handle. The USGS specifically calls out wildlife population ecology and management, conservation biology, and evaluating patterns of species richness, which suggests an emphasis on understanding where species occur, how populations may be distributed or changing, and what habitats or environmental factors correlate with higher biodiversity. It also stresses predicting species distributions across the landscape, indicating the use of spatial modeling approaches (for example, habitat suitability or species distribution models) and GIS-based analyses to produce maps and metrics that can be compared across the ecoregion. Finally, the opportunity explicitly mentions assessing impacts of human activities on ecosystems, which commonly includes analyzing the footprint and intensity of land use and development (such as energy development, roads, grazing, or other disturbances), then translating those pressures into implications for habitats and species of concern.

From an administrative standpoint, this opportunity was posted on March 26, 2013, with an original and final closing date of April 5, 2013, and it was later archived on June 26, 2013. The program lists one expected award with an estimated total funding amount of $61,121. No cost sharing or matching is required. The award ceiling and floor are both listed as $0, which typically indicates that a specific, fixed amount is anticipated or that the funding range was not expressed in the standard ceiling/floor fields even though the estimated total funding is provided.

Eligibility is limited and specific. Applicants must already be participating partners of the Rocky Mountain Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program. CESUs are established partnerships that connect federal agencies with universities, nonprofits, and other research organizations to provide research, technical assistance, and education services. Because this notice is issued under the CESU framework, it is not open competition in the usual sense; it is directed to organizations that are formally part of the Rocky Mountain CESU network and can carry out the assessment work in collaboration with USGS.

The funding activity category is listed as Science and Technology and other Research and Development, and the CFDA number associated with the program is 15.808 (U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection). Anyone needing the full announcement was directed to Grants.gov, and the contact person listed for access issues was Faith Graves at the USGS (703-648-7356, fgraves@usgs.gov).

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