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Opportunity Summary:

The grant opportunity titled "Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unt, Colorado Plateau" (Funding Opportunity Number G14AS00103) is a USGS Fort Collins Science Center (FORT) funding call issued as a discretionary cooperative agreement under the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program. The central purpose is to support a CESU partner in carrying out a focused research and data improvement project: georeferencing USGS museum specimens housed at the Museum of Southwestern Biology (MSB) at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. In practical terms, the project is about adding or improving location information for specimen records so they can be reliably used in mapping, analysis, and modern biodiversity and conservation research.

The collection targeted by this project is significant in both scale and scientific value. USGS specimens at MSB span more than a century of collecting history, representing long-term biological documentation that can be used to study changes in species distributions over time. Taxonomically, the holdings are broad, covering roughly 800 taxa. The material is heavily oriented toward the fauna of federal lands in the western United States, making it especially relevant to public-land management questions and federal resource stewardship. The inventory described in the announcement includes approximately 5,000 lots of fishes, 12,500 amphibians and reptiles, 3,100 birds, and more than 26,000 mammal specimens, along with over 3,000 frozen mammal tissue samples. Geographically, the specimens are primarily from federal lands across the western Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the Intermountain West, which positions the dataset to support regional-scale ecological assessments and decision-making.

From an administrative standpoint, the opportunity is tied specifically to the Colorado Plateau CESU network, meaning applicants must be formal participating partners in that CESU program to be eligible. The notice lists the eligible applicant category broadly as "Others," but the eligibility clarification makes clear that only Colorado Plateau CESU partners can receive the award. The agency anticipates making a single award (Expected Awards: 1) with an estimated total funding amount of $49,467. No cost sharing or matching requirement is stated, so applicants are not required to provide matching funds as a condition of receiving the cooperative agreement. The award ceiling and floor are both listed as $0 in the posting, which typically signals that the program is not using those fields to define a range in this particular listing and that applicants should rely on the stated estimated total funding level and the full announcement details for budgeting expectations.

The timeline in the posting indicates the opportunity was posted and created on June 26, 2014, with an original and current closing date of July 8, 2014, and an archive date of September 26, 2014. The activity category is classified under "Science and Technology and other Research and Development," and the CFDA number provided is 15.808 (U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection), which aligns with the data-centric, research-support nature of the work. Additional details and the full announcement were made available through Grants.gov via the link included in the notice.

For applicants or parties trying to access the full announcement, the contact listed is Faith Graves at the USGS, reachable by phone at 703-648-7356 or by email at fgraves@usgs.gov.

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