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Opportunity Summary:

The Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, North Atlantic Coast CESU grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number G13AS00084) is a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) funding announcement issued through the agency's Core Science Analytics and Synthesis (CSAS) Program. It was posted on August 12, 2013, and closed on August 23, 2013, with an archive date of November 12, 2013. The award is structured as a cooperative agreement, meaning the project is expected to involve substantial involvement and coordination between USGS staff and the recipient rather than operating as a hands-off grant. The activity falls under the Science and Technology and other Research and Development category, and the relevant CFDA listing is 15.808 (USGS Research and Data Collection). The estimated total funding available for this opportunity is $200,000, and USGS anticipated making one award. No cost sharing or matching funds were required.

The central purpose of the project is to provide technical assistance and specialized expertise that strengthens USGS internal coordination and collaboration, specifically around institutional and project-level coordination, results reporting, and cross-program cooperation. In practice, this means supporting how USGS programs and projects work together, how they communicate progress and outcomes, and how they align efforts across organizational boundaries to improve consistency and efficiency. The funding is aimed at work that helps USGS better connect the dots between science projects, the data those projects generate, and how that information is ultimately reported and shared.

A key technical focus of the opportunity is research into potential methodologies for "end-to-end data facility provision" for Earth science. This is essentially about improving the full lifecycle of data stewardship: from the early stages of a science project (planning and data management design), through data creation and quality assurance, to long-term preservation and access. USGS emphasizes its role as a federal data agency responsible for providing high-quality, timely, and long-term data describing the nation's natural resources. The opportunity explicitly recognizes that USGS data holdings span both digital assets (datasets, databases, services) and physical assets (such as samples or other tangible collections), along with the metadata needed to describe these holdings so they can be discovered, accessed, and used by others.

In terms of why the project matters, the announcement highlights that USGS is keenly interested in improving how these resources are managed from project inception through completion and final archival of data products. That framing signals priorities such as standardizing workflows, improving documentation and metadata practices, enabling better discovery and reuse, and ensuring that data generated by USGS science projects remains accessible and useful over long time horizons. The project is positioned as a coordination-and-methods effort rather than a narrowly defined single research study, with emphasis on practical approaches to managing and delivering Earth science data in a comprehensive, lifecycle-oriented way.

Eligibility was limited to organizations that are already participating partners in the North Atlantic Coast Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU). CESUs are partnership networks designed to facilitate research, technical assistance, and education, and this opportunity was not open broadly to all applicant types outside that partnership. The notice indicates "Others" as eligible applicants in a general sense, but the controlling requirement is CESU partner status within the North Atlantic Coast CESU.

For access to the full announcement details, the listing points to Grants.gov. The contact person provided for assistance, including help obtaining the announcement electronically, is Faith Graves at 703-648-7356 or fgraves@usgs.gov.

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