Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Great Lakes Northern Forests (CESU) | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

This grant opportunity, titled "Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Great Lakes Northern Forests (CESU)" (Funding Opportunity Number G16AS00044), is a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) funding call issued through the Department of the Interior. It supports science and technology research and development under CFDA 15.808 and is structured as a cooperative agreement, which typically means the USGS expects substantial involvement in the work as it is carried out (for example, technical coordination, shared planning, or iterative collaboration during the research).

The opportunity is being offered by the USGS Center of Excellence for Geospatial Information Science (CEGIS). The focus is on funding a partner within the Great Lakes-Northern Forests CESU network that can conduct research in geographic information science (GIScience), with a particular emphasis on terrain ontologies and related geospatial semantics. In practical terms, the project is meant to advance how terrain and geographic features are formally described, categorized, and made machine-readable so they can be more reliably integrated, analyzed, and shared across systems and datasets.

The research is positioned to support two major USGS priorities: The National Map and the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). The National Map is the USGS effort to provide consistent, trusted national geospatial data products, while NSDI is the broader framework for organizing and sharing geospatial data standards and infrastructure across government and partners. CEGIS describes its mission as conducting foundational and applied research that improves geospatial data handling, meaning the work can span from conceptual modeling and information science to practical tooling and workflows that make mapping data more usable.

Within that scope, the opportunity highlights several active and relevant CEGIS research areas that a proposed project could align with. These include designing electronic topographic maps, automating data integration and generalization (methods for combining datasets and simplifying representations appropriately for different map scales), creating geospatial semantics for The National Map (clear, standardized meaning for features and attributes), representing geospatial data and real-world phenomena in more rigorous ways, using high-performance computing for geospatial processing, and applying gazetteers and ontologies to hydrologic and terrain data and lidar. The mention of lidar signals interest in modern elevation and surface modeling workflows, where consistent terrain concepts and semantics can improve feature extraction, classification, and downstream interpretation.

Eligibility is limited to CESU partners, described in the listing as "Others" with clarification referenced in the eligibility text field, but the narrative makes clear the intended applicants are partner universities within the Great Lakes-Northern Forests CESU. A key expectation is that the university has complementary research strengths and can address the stated topics and other related needs that may emerge. In other words, the award is not just for a standalone study; it is meant to plug into CEGIS priorities and evolve in coordination with USGS researchers.

The award parameters are modest and targeted: one expected award, with an award ceiling of $60,000. The posting and creation dates are March 16, 2016, and the closing date is April 1, 2016, indicating a short application window at the time of release. Overall, the opportunity is best understood as a small, collaborative research award intended to advance GIScience and ontology-driven approaches for terrain and hydrology data, directly supporting national-scale mapping and geospatial data infrastructure goals led by USGS CEGIS.

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