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Opportunity Summary:

This grant opportunity, titled "Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Great Lakes Northern Forest" (Funding Opportunity Number G14AS00041), was issued by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), specifically the USGS Eastern Geographic Science Center. It was offered as a discretionary cooperative agreement under CFDA 15.808 (U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection). The core purpose of the project is research and development focused on "Mapping Fluvial Landforms in Floodplains Related to Ecosystem Functions," with an emphasis on improving how floodplain-related landscape features are represented in watershed-scale modeling for the Chesapeake Bay.

The scientific motivation behind the project is tied to ongoing efforts by Chesapeake Bay Program partners to strengthen the proposed Phase 6 watershed model by adding new land-use categories that are often missing or simplified in traditional watershed modeling. The opportunity highlights several specific landscape elements as candidate land uses: riparian areas, wetlands, floodplains, and urban stream corridors. These settings can function as both sources and sinks for nutrients and sediments, meaning they can generate, store, transform, and transport materials depending on hydrology, geomorphic context, land management, and restoration actions. Because they also respond to land-use change and management practices, representing them more explicitly in the Phase 6 model is expected to improve how the model captures real-world watershed behavior and the outcomes of restoration investments.

The project is framed around producing analyses and mapping products that connect floodplain fluvial landforms to ecosystem functions in ways that are useful to the Chesapeake Bay modeling framework. In practical terms, the work is intended to better represent the impacts of Best Management Practices (BMPs) and other restoration actions on nutrient and sediment loads delivered to the Chesapeake Bay. The description notes that results will help inform two particularly important modeling components: (1) transport/routing factors estimated for each river segment, which influence how nutrients and sediments move through the river network, and (2) land-use sediment delivery ratios estimated within each land-river segment, which affect how much sediment generated on the landscape is expected to reach streams and rivers. By improving these factors using floodplain and corridor landform information, the Phase 6 model can more realistically account for retention, remobilization, and downstream delivery processes.

From an administrative standpoint, the opportunity anticipated a single award with an estimated total funding amount of $40,000. No cost sharing or matching was required. The award ceiling and floor were both listed as $0, which commonly indicates the exact award amount is determined through the proposal and selection process rather than being constrained by fixed minimum or maximum thresholds in the listing. The posting date was February 25, 2014, with an application deadline of March 7, 2014, and the opportunity was archived on May 25, 2014.

Eligibility was limited to partners within the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) network, specifically those participating in the Great Lakes Northern Forest CESU Program. CESUs are partnership-based frameworks designed to streamline collaborative research, technical assistance, and education among federal agencies, universities, and other organizations, and this opportunity used that structure to limit applicants to recognized CESU partners. For access and assistance, the notice provided a Grants.gov link for the full announcement and listed a USGS contact, Faith Graves (703-648-7356, fgraves@usgs.gov), for applicants who had difficulty accessing the materials electronically.

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