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Opportunity Summary:

This grant opportunity, titled "Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Gulf Coast CESU" (Funding Opportunity Number G15AS00070), was a USGS National Wetlands Research Center (NWRC) funding call that used Disaster Relief Act funds under the Hurricane Sandy program (CFDA 15.979). It was issued as a discretionary cooperative agreement in the science and technology/research and development category, with the intent of supporting applied research that improves how remote sensing can be used to map and monitor vegetated ecosystems, especially when those ecosystems are affected by major disturbances and emergencies.

The core purpose of the award was to advance radar and optical remote sensing techniques and, importantly, to improve how those two data streams can be integrated. The work emphasized practical mapping and monitoring needs tied to disaster response and environmental change, including detecting and mapping flood inundation, identifying impacts from toxic spills, and measuring or tracking changes in canopy structure. In other words, the funded research was meant to strengthen the technical tools and workflows that help agencies quickly understand where water is on the landscape, where contamination may be affecting vegetation, and how vegetation structure is changing over time, using a combination of radar (often useful through clouds and in wet conditions) and optical imagery (often strong for vegetation condition and surface characteristics).

Although the immediate geographic focus was described as northern coastal resources, the opportunity explicitly framed the expected outputs as broadly transferable. The USGS noted that the technology and methodological advances from this work would have direct implications for remote sensing of terrestrial ecosystems globally, suggesting the project was expected to produce approaches, algorithms, processing techniques, or validated methods that could be applied well beyond the Gulf Coast context.

Administratively, the opportunity anticipated a single award (Expected Awards: 1) with an estimated total funding amount of $65,009. No cost sharing or matching was required. The notice listed no formal award ceiling or floor (both shown as $0), which typically indicates that the funding amount is governed by the project scope and available funds rather than a fixed published range. The instrument type was a cooperative agreement, meaning USGS expected to have substantial involvement during the project (for example, coordination on technical direction, data, study design, or deliverables), as opposed to a more hands-off grant.

Eligibility was limited to organizations that were active partners in the Gulf Coast Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program. CESUs are partnership networks designed to support research, technical assistance, and education, and this particular call restricted applicants to participating Gulf Coast CESU partners rather than opening competition broadly to all universities or nonprofits.

The announcement was posted on April 29, 2015, created on May 4, 2015, and had a very short application window, with an original closing date of May 4, 2015 and a current closing date of May 8, 2015. It was later archived on July 29, 2015. Additional details and the full announcement were hosted through Grants.gov, and the listed point of contact for assistance was Faith Graves at USGS (703-648-7356, fgraves@usgs.gov).

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