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Opportunity Summary:

The Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Colorado Plateau CESU opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number G13AS00063) was a US Geological Survey (USGS) discretionary funding announcement issued through the USGS Southwest Biological Science Center (SBSC). It supported science and technology research focused on understanding how forest stand structure influences ecosystem water balance in Ponderosa Pine ecosystems. In practical terms, the project focus centers on how characteristics like tree density, canopy arrangement, age/size distribution, and overall stand configuration affect key water cycle components such as interception, evapotranspiration, soil moisture storage, infiltration, and runoff. This kind of work is especially relevant in the Southwest where water availability, drought, wildfire risk, and forest management decisions are tightly linked, and where changes in stand structure (from thinning, fire, or insect impacts) can significantly shift how water moves through a watershed.

The award instrument for this opportunity was a cooperative agreement rather than a standard grant, which typically signals substantial involvement by the federal agency during the project. While the announcement summary does not spell out the exact nature of that involvement, cooperative agreements commonly include agency participation in study design refinement, data coordination, field logistics, interpretation, or integration with ongoing USGS monitoring and research efforts. The activity category was listed as “Science and Technology and other Research and Development,” and the associated CFDA number was 15.808 (U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection), indicating the programmatic home for this kind of USGS research funding.

The opportunity anticipated a single award (Expected Awards: 1) with an estimated total funding level of $62,000. No cost sharing or matching funds were required, which means applicants were not obligated to provide non-federal funds or in-kind contributions as a condition of eligibility. The posting date was June 19, 2013, with an application closing date of July 1, 2013, making it a short-turnaround competition. The announcement was later archived on September 19, 2013. The notice lists award ceiling and floor as $0, which often appears in older Grants.gov records when a specific cap or minimum was not configured in the summary fields, even though an estimated total amount is provided elsewhere in the listing.

Eligibility was limited by the CESU framework. This funding assistance was issued under the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program, a national network of partnerships that connect federal agencies with universities, nonprofits, and other organizations to deliver research, technical assistance, and education. For this specific call, eligible applicants had to be an existing participating partner of the Colorado Plateau CESU. The listing’s “Eligible Applicants” field is summarized as “Others,” but the controlling requirement is CESU partnership status with the Colorado Plateau unit, meaning organizations outside that membership would not qualify unless they were already formal partners at the time of application (or otherwise met the specific eligibility language in the full announcement).

For applicants seeking the original full details, the announcement pointed to Grants.gov for the complete package and provided a USGS point of contact for access issues: Faith Graves (phone 703-648-7356, email fgraves@usgs.gov). Overall, this was a targeted, single-project research opportunity meant to generate applied scientific insight into how Ponderosa Pine stand conditions influence water balance, information that can feed directly into land and forest management decisions across the Colorado Plateau and broader Southwest.

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