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Opportunity Summary:

The Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Colorado Plateau CESU grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number G13AS00014) is a discretionary, science and technology focused cooperative agreement offered by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). It is being led by the USGS Southwest Biological Science Center (SBSC) in coordination with other USGS offices across the southwestern United States. The core purpose of the award is to support research and technical assistance that strengthens large-scale, ecoregional decision-making by improving how data are gathered, evaluated, synthesized, and applied to priority land management questions.

This opportunity is specifically tied to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Rapid Ecoregional Assessment (REA) program, which is designed to take a broad, landscape-level look at ecological conditions, trends, and stressors across major ecoregions. The work funded under this announcement is geared toward providing practical analytical support for the REA effort, including large-scale assessment support, data synthesis across multiple sources, identification of data gaps and future data needs, and preliminary analyses that help answer the most important management questions identified for the region. In other words, the project is not just about collecting new information, but also about organizing and interpreting existing information at a scale that is useful for regional planning and management.

The announcement notes that USGS has already been involved in several key support functions for the REA process, such as helping managers and partners define and clearly articulate the most important questions, locating and evaluating the best available datasets for addressing those questions at an ecoregional scale, and conducting periodic plus final reviews of REA products. The funded work under this opportunity aligns with and extends those contributions, emphasizing the kind of collaborative, applied science support that helps ensure REA products are credible, consistent, and usable by land management agencies.

Geographically, this funding opportunity is focused on the Colorado Plateau ecoregion. The scope covers parts of Utah, eastern Colorado, northern New Mexico, and northern Arizona. The emphasis on an ecoregional footprint signals that the work is intended to inform management across jurisdictional boundaries, supporting agencies that need to understand ecological patterns and pressures that do not stop at state or administrative lines.

Administratively, the opportunity was posted on December 11, 2012, with a closing date of December 18, 2012, and it was later archived on March 11, 2013. USGS anticipated making one award, with an estimated total funding amount of $21,757. The award ceiling and floor were both listed as $0, which typically indicates the agency did not specify formal minimum or maximum thresholds in the public listing and instead relied on the stated estimated total or the detailed announcement for final budgeting expectations. The CFDA number associated with the program is 15.808, USGS Research and Data Collection. No cost sharing or matching requirement was indicated.

Eligibility is limited to organizations that are partners in the Colorado Plateau Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program. CESUs are partnership networks intended to link federal agencies with universities, nonprofits, and other research and technical organizations to provide research, technical assistance, and education. Because this is issued under the CESU framework, applicants must already be a participating CESU partner for the Colorado Plateau unit to be eligible.

For access to the full announcement and application details, the listing directs applicants to Grants.gov via the provided link. The contact for assistance, particularly if there are issues accessing the announcement electronically, is Faith Graves at the USGS (phone 703-648-7356, email fgraves@usgs.gov).

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