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Opportunity Summary:

The Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Pacific Northwest CESU grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number G14AS00104) is a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) discretionary funding announcement intended to support a single cooperative agreement award for a partner within the Pacific Northwest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) network. CESUs are formal partnerships designed to connect federal agencies with universities and other qualified organizations to deliver applied research, technical assistance, and education that supports resource management and science needs. In this case, the USGS is looking for a CESU partner to provide technical assistance and research focused on improving how advanced tools and information are integrated, stored, and served to evaluate climate change vulnerability for species that are considered at risk.

The core purpose of the opportunity is to strengthen the technical and scientific capacity needed to assess how climate change will affect sensitive species and their habitats, particularly in coastal ecosystems along the U.S. Pacific Coast. The announcement highlights a range of climate-driven pressures that can reshape these environments, including sea level rise and inundation, rising air and ocean temperatures, shifting precipitation patterns, increases in nonnative species populations, added pressure associated with commercial fishing industries, and broader destabilization of marine community structure. By emphasizing the need for integrating and serving "new technologically advanced tools," the opportunity points toward work that is not just traditional field research, but also the data and technology backbone that makes vulnerability assessments more accurate, accessible, and usable for decision-making. In practical terms, that can include improving workflows for incorporating new datasets, building or enhancing data management systems, and creating ways for scientists and managers to access and apply analytical tools for risk and vulnerability evaluation.

Administratively, this is a science and technology and other research and development funding activity under CFDA 15.808 (U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection). The total estimated funding amount listed is $10,000, with an expected number of awards of one. The announcement specifies no cost sharing or matching requirement. While the award ceiling and floor are both shown as $0 in the listing, that typically indicates that a specific ceiling/floor was not provided in that particular summary field rather than implying no funding; the estimated total funding figure is the key indicator of the anticipated award amount.

Eligibility is restricted to organizations that are already participating partners in the Pacific Northwest CESU Program. The listing labels eligible applicants broadly as "Others," but the clarifying eligibility statement makes it clear that applicants must be within the CESU partnership. This structure reflects the CESU model, where funding is often directed to established partner institutions to quickly mobilize expertise and collaborative capacity aligned with federal science needs.

The timeline for this opportunity is also clearly defined. The posting date and creation date are June 26, 2014, with an original and current closing date of July 8, 2014, indicating a relatively short application window of roughly two weeks. The archive date is September 26, 2014, meaning it is no longer active and is retained for recordkeeping and reference. For applicants or interested parties who needed help accessing the full announcement when it was active, the contact provided is Faith Graves at USGS (703-648-7356, fgraves@usgs.gov), and the general listing points to Grants.gov for the official announcement materials.

Overall, this opportunity is best understood as a small, targeted cooperative agreement meant to support CESU-partner work at the intersection of climate change vulnerability science and modern data/tool infrastructure. The emphasis is on enabling better assessments for at-risk species by improving how advanced tools and information are brought together, managed over time, and delivered in usable forms to the people doing the assessments and the managers relying on the results.

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