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Opportunity Summary:

This grant opportunity, titled "Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Rocky Mountain CESU" (Funding Opportunity Number 10HQPA0086), was offered by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership (PNAMP). It is a discretionary science and technology/research and development award issued as a cooperative agreement, meaning the USGS/PNAMP expected to stay actively involved in the work rather than simply issuing funds and stepping back. The core purpose was to partner with an eligible Rocky Mountain CESU member organization to improve how biological and natural resources monitoring information is delivered on the web, organized for easy discovery, and made broadly accessible to practitioners and the public.

The work focus centered on "web delivery" of biological and natural resource information across different themes, places, and scales. In practical terms, the selected CESU partner would be expected to help identify relevant monitoring data and related information products, translate that content into useful online formats, and ensure it is accessible through PNAMP's primary website (http://www.pnamp.org) and the PNAMP Monitoring Methods site (http://www.monitoringmethods.org). The emphasis was not just on posting information online, but on presenting it in ways that make it easy to find, navigate, understand, and reuse by natural resource researchers, managers, partner organizations, other stakeholders, educators, and ultimately the general public.

PNAMP described a strong interest in collaborative approaches that expand both the availability and the practical usefulness of monitoring information housed or linked through PNAMP web platforms. The announcement lists example topic areas that could fall within scope, including aquatic resource monitoring, threatened and endangered species, invasive species, climate change, and data management. The framing suggests the project could involve content curation and synthesis, improved metadata and discovery tools, enhancements to method documentation and monitoring protocols, and web-based systems or workflows that help users locate the right datasets, methods, or guidance for their needs.

A notable part of the opportunity was the desire to connect PNAMP's web resources with other established information portals to create a broader network of monitoring-related content. The announcement specifically points to external sites such as Salmon Monitoring Advisor (https://salmonmonitoringadvisor.org/), Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Recovery Tracker (http://odfwrecoverytracker.org/), and TAP Source (http://www.tapsource.org/). This implies the funded work could include developing linkages, shared standards, cross-site search or navigation concepts, interoperable data or metadata approaches, and coordination practices that reduce duplication and make distributed information feel more integrated for end users.

Because the instrument was a cooperative agreement, PNAMP made it clear it intended to be a full participant alongside the CESU partner. PNAMP and the funded partner were expected to work closely to identify priority biological data and information to feature, review draft products and web-based systems, and ensure the final outputs actually reach the PNAMP partner network and other professionals across federal and state agencies. The collaborative nature also implies iterative review cycles, shared decision-making on design and content priorities, and ongoing coordination to keep the information relevant and current.

In terms of basic award details, the opportunity anticipated a single award (Expected Awards: 1) with an estimated total funding amount of $99,000. There was no cost sharing or matching requirement. The award ceiling and floor were listed as $0, which typically indicates the funding level is determined through the proposal and negotiation process rather than a fixed per-award range being published in the notice. The CFDA program number cited was 15.808 (U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection).

Eligibility was limited to organizations that were already participating partners in the Rocky Mountain Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program. CESUs are structured partnerships intended to support research, technical assistance, and education, so applicants needed to be within that existing network to qualify. The original posting date was June 28, 2010, with an original and current closing date of July 8, 2010, and an archive date of August 7, 2010, indicating a short application window and that the opportunity is now historical rather than active.

For applicants or interested parties who had trouble accessing the full announcement, the listed contact was Faith Graves, Contract Specialist, reachable by phone at 703-648-7356.

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