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Opportunity Summary:

This grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number 10HQPA0081), titled "Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Southern Appalachian CESU," was offered by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), specifically the Tennessee Water Science Center (TNWSC). It supports a collaborative research effort focused on analyzing water availability across the southeastern United States. The broader water-availability analysis is meant to bring together multiple perspectives, including hydrologic, biological, geographic, and socioeconomic factors that influence both the supply of water and the human-driven demand for it. While the overall project is interdisciplinary, this particular award is clearly aimed at strengthening and delivering the socioeconomic portion of the work, ensuring that human and economic drivers are treated as core elements of the integrated water-availability framework rather than as secondary considerations.

The award mechanism is a cooperative agreement, which signals that the recipient would be expected to work closely with USGS scientists throughout the project rather than operating independently. The opportunity anticipated a single award with an estimated total funding amount of $35,000, with no cost sharing or matching requirement. It fell under CFDA 15.808 (U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection) and was categorized under science and technology and other research and development. Eligibility was limited: applicants needed to be participants in the Southern Appalachian Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) program, meaning only organizations already within that CESU partnership network could apply.

The purpose for the CESU partner is twofold. First, the partner provides specialized socioeconomic expertise that complements USGS technical strengths in hydrology and related natural sciences. Second, the project is structured to benefit the partner organization directly by supporting staff professional development and advancing the recipient's mission around understanding human interactions with the environment. In practice, the recipient is expected to be an active member of a collaborative research team assembling an integrated conceptual model of water demand and water availability for the southeastern U.S., using a synthesis of existing information and, where appropriate, new approaches to combining disparate data types.

The stated objectives reflect that emphasis on integration and application. One objective is to contribute socioeconomic expertise to an analysis that blends hydrologic, biological, geographic, and economic approaches and datasets. The second objective is hands-on participation in applying that analysis specifically to the southeastern United States alongside USGS scientists and other collaborators. The successful CESU partner would take primary responsibility for the socioeconomic dimensions within the larger team effort. That includes both evaluating what is already known and available and making the information usable within an analytical framework that can support USGS interpretation and later publication.

The work tasks are practical and deliverable-driven. The recipient would prepare a review or annotated bibliography of relevant literature, helping to establish what prior research says about socioeconomic drivers of water demand, water use patterns, vulnerability, and related themes in the region. The recipient would also identify existing socioeconomic datasets, with an emphasis on spatially distributed GIS layers that can be mapped and integrated alongside hydrologic and ecological layers. In addition to finding what already exists, the project asks the recipient to identify key socioeconomic data gaps that are not currently met but could be addressed with reasonable cost and effort, which is a way of shaping future data collection priorities for improved water-availability assessment.

A central expected output is the integration of suitable socioeconomic information into one or more GIS layers that fit the existing analytical framework used for the water-availability analysis. This implies not only collecting datasets but also cleaning, aligning, and formatting them so they can function within a broader multi-factor model, likely requiring attention to geographic coverage, scale, metadata quality, and compatibility with other USGS data products. The recipient must also report results to USGS in a form that can be readily incorporated into subsequent publications, suggesting that clear documentation, reproducible methods, and publication-ready summaries are important. Finally, the recipient is expected to present findings at an interagency workshop organized by USGS, reinforcing that this work is intended to inform and be shared across agencies and stakeholders, not just sit as an internal technical exercise.

Administratively, the opportunity was posted June 16, 2010, with an original and final closing date of June 28, 2010, and it was archived July 28, 2010. The listed agency contact for access issues was Faith Graves, Contract Specialist, at 703-648-7356. Overall, the opportunity is best understood as a targeted, collaborative research support award to bring robust socioeconomic data and analysis into a multi-disciplinary regional assessment of water demand and availability in the southeastern United States, with GIS-ready deliverables and strong coordination with USGS scientists built into the project structure.

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