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Opportunity Summary:

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) announced a discretionary funding opportunity under the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) program titled "Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Hawaii Pacific Islands CESU" (Funding Opportunity Number G15AS00107). The award is intended to support ecohydrological field research in Hawaii, with an emphasis on understanding how climate and ecosystem changes interact to influence water and carbon dynamics across Hawaiian landscapes. The funding is offered as a cooperative agreement, which generally indicates substantial involvement by the federal agency during the project, such as collaboration on study design, field methods, data management, interpretation, or reporting.

The scientific purpose centers on three closely related needs. First, the work aims to improve understanding of how global warming may affect Hawaii's climate. Second, it seeks to estimate how plausible future climate conditions could change key hydrological and ecological processes, specifically highlighting evapotranspiration, streamflow, groundwater recharge, and carbon exchange. Third, it targets the role of invasive plant species in altering hydrological and ecological functioning in Hawaii's forests, recognizing that invasive vegetation can shift water use, canopy interception, soil moisture patterns, runoff behavior, and ecosystem carbon balances. Taken together, the opportunity is framed around producing field-based evidence that can support better forecasting and management of Hawaii's water resources and forest ecosystem health under combined pressures from warming and biological invasion.

The opportunity anticipated a single award with an estimated total funding amount of $150,000. The notice lists no required cost sharing or matching requirement. While the award ceiling and floor are both shown as $0 in the source listing, the estimated total funding indicates the practical scale of support expected for the selected project. The funding activity category is classified as Science and Technology and other Research and Development, and the associated CFDA number is 15.808 (U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection), reflecting its alignment with USGS research and data collection missions.

Eligibility is restricted to organizations that are already participating partners in the Hawaii Pacific Islands CESU Program. CESUs are collaborative partnerships designed to connect federal agencies with universities, nonprofits, tribes, and other partners to provide research, technical assistance, and education. In this case, only a Hawaii Pacific Islands CESU partner could apply, and the listing indicates "Others" with further clarification provided in the eligibility text to reinforce that CESU partnership status is required.

Key dates in the posting show it was made available on June 29, 2015, with an original and current closing date of July 17, 2015, and an archive date of September 29, 2015. For applicants or interested parties needing access to the full announcement or experiencing issues retrieving it electronically, the notice provides a point of contact: Faith Graves at USGS (phone 703-648-7356, email fgraves@usgs.gov). Additional details were made available through Grants.gov, referenced by the link included in the announcement.

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