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Opportunity Summary:

This grant opportunity, titled "Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Gulf Coast CESU" (Funding Opportunity Number G13AS00103), was issued by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), specifically through the National Wetlands Research Center (NWRC). It is a discretionary science and technology research funding opportunity offered as a cooperative agreement, meaning the project would be carried out with substantial involvement from the federal agency rather than functioning like a simple pass-through grant. The core purpose is to support research that improves and refines modeling of population dynamics, with a strong emphasis on understanding how populations move, spread, and change over time across landscapes. This is framed as a practical conservation management need because population and dispersal processes directly affect outcomes tied to wildlife disease, invasive species, and shifting habitats under climate change.

The research focus is explicitly on spatially explicit population modeling, meaning models should incorporate geography and space in a meaningful way rather than treating populations as if they were all mixed together in one place. USGS is looking for models that can represent structured populations (for example, stage-based models that separate juveniles and adults, or models stratified by habitat types) or individual-based approaches (also known as agent-based models) that simulate the behavior and fate of individual organisms. A key expectation is that the modeling work will be designed to test management scenarios, so the resulting product is not just descriptive science but also something that can be used to compare likely outcomes of different intervention strategies, control efforts, or policy choices.

USGS suggests several example problem areas and indicates that applicants could address one or more of them. The first example involves amphibian disease dynamics, specifically the interactions among disease presence, dispersal, and co-infection. In practical terms, this points toward models that connect how amphibians move among wetlands or habitat patches with how pathogens spread, persist, and interact when multiple infections occur at the same time. The second example centers on nutria (Myocastor coypus), an invasive semi-aquatic rodent known for damaging marsh vegetation and contributing to wetland loss; the agency is interested in modeling nutria impacts on marsh loss and evaluating management responses, which could include removal strategies, targeted control, or habitat restoration actions. The third example concerns the dispersal and management of giant apple snails (Pomacea maculata), another invasive species, with an emphasis on understanding how populations spread and how different management approaches might slow or contain that spread.

In terms of funding and administrative details, the opportunity anticipated a single award, with an estimated total funding amount of $79,500. There was no cost sharing or matching requirement. The CFDA listing provided was 15.808, U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection. The opportunity was posted on July 17, 2013, with an original and final closing date of July 29, 2013, and it was archived on October 17, 2013. While the award ceiling and floor are listed as $0 in the notice, the stated estimated total funding amount indicates the approximate scale of support intended for the project.

Eligibility was limited to partners within the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) network, specifically participating partners of the Gulf Coast CESU Program. CESUs are structured partnerships designed to link federal agencies with universities, research institutions, and other partner organizations to deliver applied research, technical assistance, and education in support of natural resource management. In other words, an applicant would need to already be a recognized Gulf Coast CESU partner to be eligible for this specific funding opportunity.

For additional details, the announcement pointed applicants to Grants.gov, and provided a contact for access issues: Faith Graves at 703-648-7356 and fgraves@usgs.gov.

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