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Opportunity Summary:

The Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Great Basin CESU funding opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number G16AS00019) is a US Geological Survey (USGS) discretionary research solicitation issued under the Department of the Interior (Agency: DOI-USGS1). It is structured as a cooperative agreement, which typically means the USGS expects to have substantial involvement during the project (for example, collaboration on methods, data access, review of deliverables, or coordination with ongoing USGS efforts), rather than simply providing a pass-through grant with minimal agency participation. The activity category is Science and Technology and other Research and Development, and it is associated with CFDA 15.808.

The purpose of the opportunity is to support research focused on advanced interpretation of avian biotelemetry data. In practical terms, the project is aimed at making better sense of high-resolution bird movement data now being collected through modern tracking technologies. The description emphasizes that animal biotelemetry has advanced quickly, especially with tools such as GPS tags that communicate via GSM (cellular) networks, making it possible to collect very detailed movement paths at large scales. While the volume and quality of these data have improved dramatically, the ability to analyze them has not kept pace. Many available analytical tools are limited, hard to find, or difficult for practitioners to use, creating a bottleneck between data collection and useful ecological or management insight.

A central feature of this project is the use of a large, existing GPS-GSM telemetry dataset already collected by the USGS and its collaborators. Rather than funding a new tagging effort, the opportunity is oriented toward extracting more value from the substantial data resources that already exist. The work is intended to either apply cutting-edge analytical approaches or develop new methods and tools that improve interpretation of animal movement patterns. The solicitation frames this as a clear need in the field: novel data streams require novel or more accessible analytics, and the project is meant to directly address that gap.

The expected outcomes are strongly research-facing but also tied to real-world wildlife and conservation decision-making. The opportunity explicitly notes that resulting analyses could be publishable in wildlife management, conservation biology, or applied ecology journals, signaling that the USGS is looking for work that is rigorous enough for peer review and also relevant to applied conservation or management contexts. The focus on “advanced interpretation” suggests deliverables could include improved workflows, more discoverable and user-friendly tools, or methodological contributions that help convert raw movement tracks into ecological inference (for example, insights about migration, habitat selection, behavioral states, or responses to environmental conditions), although the specific analytical direction is left open to the proposed research plan.

Eligibility is limited to a CESU partner within the Great Basin Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit network (the listing shows “Others” with clarification in the additional eligibility text field). This reflects the CESU program model, where federal agencies collaborate with a network of partner institutions to conduct research and provide technical assistance tied to resource management needs. The opportunity anticipates making a single award (Expected Awards: 1). The posting and creation dates are December 28, 2015, with an original and current closing date of January 8, 2016, indicating a short application window at the time it was released. The award ceiling is listed as 0, which commonly indicates the amount was not specified in the synopsis and would be defined through the full announcement, negotiation, or project scope rather than capped publicly in the summary.

Overall, this opportunity is best understood as targeted support for a CESU partner to collaborate with USGS scientists on modern movement-ecology analytics, leveraging an existing large avian GPS-GSM telemetry dataset to develop or apply better tools for interpreting animal movement in ways that can inform conservation and management and produce publishable scientific outputs.

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