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Opportunity Summary:

The Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, North West Alaska CESU grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number G13AS00093) is a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Alaska Science Center (ASC) solicitation for a single cooperative agreement award to support applied research in the nearshore eastern Chukchi Sea. The core purpose of the project is to quantify macrobenthic fauna, meaning bottom-dwelling invertebrate communities, in a way that produces usable scientific metrics for the region. The work is specifically framed around measuring and reporting abundance and biomass by sampled taxa, so the expected outcome is a dataset and associated analyses that break down how many organisms are present and how much living mass they represent, organized by the taxonomic groups collected during sampling.

This opportunity sits within the CESU framework, which is designed to connect federal agencies with a network of approved partners that can provide research, technical assistance, and education. Because it is issued under the North West Alaska CESU Program, eligibility is restricted to organizations that are already participating partners in that specific CESU. In other words, it is not an open competition to all institutions; the applicant must be an official member entity within the North West Alaska CESU partnership structure, consistent with how CESU agreements are typically competed and awarded.

Administratively, the award mechanism is a cooperative agreement rather than a standard grant, which generally implies that USGS anticipates substantial involvement in the work, such as collaboration on study design, data standards, field coordination, analytical approaches, or interpretation and reporting. The funding category is listed as Science and Technology and other Research and Development, and the relevant CFDA number is 15.808 (U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection). The opportunity was posted on July 2, 2013, with an original closing date of July 12, 2013, later extended to a current closing date of July 19, 2013. The total estimated funding amount is $43,000, and the listing indicates one expected award. No cost sharing or matching is required. The announcement was archived on September 2, 2013.

From a technical standpoint, the project focus is straightforward and deliverable-driven: quantify nearshore macrobenthic communities in the eastern Chukchi Sea and report the results in terms of abundance and biomass by taxa. That typically means taking field-collected benthic samples (for example, grabs or cores, depending on the sampling design), sorting and identifying organisms to appropriate taxonomic resolution, and then translating counts into abundance metrics and specimen weights into biomass metrics. Because the opportunity emphasizes quantification by sampled taxa, a successful project would be expected to produce clear tabulations and possibly summaries that make it easy to compare taxa across samples, stations, or time periods, depending on the sampling plan used.

The sponsoring agency is the USGS (listed as Geological Survey), and the announcement points applicants to Grants.gov for the full posting and instructions. For access issues or questions about the announcement, the contact listed is Faith Graves at 703-648-7356 and fgraves@usgs.gov. The additional information link provided in the notice is http://www.grants.gov/.

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