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Opportunity Summary:

The funding opportunity titled "Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Great Lakes Northern Forests" (Funding Opportunity Number G13AS00043) was issued by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) as a discretionary cooperative agreement under the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program. CESUs are formal partnerships designed to support applied research, technical assistance, and education that federal agencies can draw on to address resource and science needs. In this case, the opportunity is tied specifically to the Great Lakes Northern Forests CESU, meaning the award is intended to be carried out within that established partnership framework and with the collaboration typical of a cooperative agreement.

The core purpose of the project is to develop hydrodynamic models for the nearshore Great Lakes that can describe and predict how bacteria are transported. The announcement emphasizes not just modeling water movement, but explicitly linking bacterial transport to water chemistry and human health. In practical terms, this type of work commonly supports improved understanding of nearshore water quality dynamics, including the factors that influence when and where bacterial concentrations may increase in ways that could affect recreation, drinking water sources, or beach management decisions. The focus on the nearshore zone is important because this is the area most directly influenced by shoreline processes, stormwater inputs, wave-driven circulation, and human use, and it is also where public health concerns related to bacterial exposure most often arise.

The project period is described as providing support for two years, indicating the work is expected to be carried out over a multi-year timeframe rather than as a short, one-time analysis. The estimated total funding listed for the opportunity is $165,000, and the agency anticipated making one award. The listing shows no award ceiling or floor, which typically means the formal notice did not specify a strict maximum or minimum per award in the summary fields, even though the total funding estimate provides a realistic sense of the expected scale.

Eligibility is limited to partners of the Great Lakes Northern Forests CESU Program. The eligible applicant category is summarized as "Others," but the detailed eligibility statement clarifies that an applicant must be an official participating partner within that CESU network. There is no cost sharing or matching requirement, so applicants were not required to provide non-federal matching funds as a condition of receiving the award.

Key administrative details include that the opportunity was posted and created on May 14, 2013, with an original and current closing date of May 24, 2013, and an archive date of August 14, 2013. The CFDA number associated with the opportunity is 15.808, which corresponds to U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection, and the activity category is listed as Science and Technology and other Research and Development. The funding instrument is a cooperative agreement, which generally signals that USGS expected to have substantial involvement in the project beyond typical grant oversight, such as collaboration on technical direction, data integration, or project coordination.

For applicants or interested parties who had trouble accessing the full announcement, the contact listed was Faith Graves at USGS, reachable by phone at 703-648-7356 or by email at fgraves@usgs.gov. Additional details and the full announcement were made available through Grants.gov via the link provided in the notice.

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