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Opportunity Summary:

The Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Chesapeake Watershed CESU opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number G14AS00072) was a US Geological Survey (USGS) discretionary funding announcement for a single cooperative agreement award to support science and technology research and development. The core purpose of the award was to fund a CESU partner to participate in a joint research program focused on global climate and sea level change, carried out under the broader federal framework established by the Global Change Research Act of 1990 and the United States Global Change Research Program. In practical terms, the project was designed to generate applied, decision-relevant science about how changing sea levels and severe coastal storms affect ecologically important tidal marsh systems in the Chesapeake Bay region.

The main research goal described in the announcement was to analyze the impacts of Holocene sea level rise and extreme storm events on tidal marsh wetlands in the greater Chesapeake Bay area, with particular emphasis on the Potomac and Rappahannock River estuaries. By highlighting the Holocene (the current geologic epoch spanning roughly the last 11,700 years), the opportunity points to reconstructing longer-term environmental and sea level patterns as a way to better understand marsh response over time, including sediment accumulation, marsh stability or migration, and vulnerability thresholds. The focus on extreme storm events signals an interest not only in gradual sea level trends, but also in episodic disturbances that can rapidly reshape marsh landscapes through erosion, overwash, sediment redistribution, salinity shifts, vegetation change, and altered hydrology.

The opportunity was explicitly motivated by growing concern that accelerated sea level rise could inundate and degrade critical tidal marsh habitats across Chesapeake Bay. Tidal marshes are often treated as high-value ecosystems because they provide nursery habitat for fish and shellfish, support migratory birds, filter nutrients and sediments, store carbon, and buffer shorelines from waves and storm surge. The announcement frames the work as responsive to real management needs, referencing key policy and planning drivers. It cites Executive Order 13508 (2009), which set a strategy for protecting and restoring the Chesapeake Bay watershed and elevated the importance of addressing climate and sea level change. It also points to the 2014 draft Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement and its anticipated revisions, noting that the evolving agreement would include recommendations for additional research on wetlands and sea level rise. In other words, the grant was positioned to produce science that could feed directly into regional restoration and climate adaptation planning.

Administratively, the award was to be made as a cooperative agreement rather than a standard grant, which generally indicates substantial involvement and collaboration with the federal agency during the project (for example, coordination on study design, data products, and integration with ongoing USGS programs). The funding activity category was listed as "Science and Technology and other Research and Development," and the CFDA number provided was 15.808 (U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection). The estimated total funding available was $75,000, with one expected award. The notice stated no cost sharing or matching requirement. The award ceiling and floor were both listed as $0 in the summary fields, which commonly reflects that the specific funding limit was handled in the narrative announcement or that the system fields were not used to define a strict cap beyond the estimated total.

Eligibility was limited to partners within the Chesapeake Watershed 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, often with an emphasis on applied science supporting resource management. Under this announcement, applicants had to be participating partners of the Chesapeake Watershed CESU, meaning the opportunity was not open to the general public or organizations outside that established partnership network.

Key dates show that the opportunity was posted and created on May 19, 2014, with an original and current closing date of May 30, 2014, indicating a short application window typical of some CESU-focused announcements. The archive date was August 19, 2014. The public information directed interested parties to Grants.gov for the full announcement details, and provided a USGS contact for assistance: Faith Graves (703-648-7356, fgraves@usgs.gov).

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