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Opportunity Summary:

The Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit (CESU) Colorado Plateau CESU opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number 09HQPA0024) is a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) discretionary funding announcement for a cooperative agreement focused on applied research and tool development at the intersection of science and public policy. The core aim is to improve how earth, environmental, and biological sciences information is brought together and translated into a practical policy and decision-making framework. In plain terms, the grant is meant to help researchers and agency partners build better ways to combine complex scientific data with policy-relevant analysis so decision makers can more effectively address real-world resource challenges, especially in the western United States.

A central theme of the opportunity is the need to respond to high-stakes land and water issues that are difficult to solve with any single discipline. The announcement points to pressures for balanced land management for ecosystem services and growing concerns about water availability as examples of critical public policy problems in the West. These problems are described as evolving over both space and time, meaning that any serious analysis has to account for geography (where impacts occur) and dynamics (how conditions change). To do that well, the opportunity emphasizes integrating natural and social science information and models, including behavioral economic models, to better understand regional land use development and growth patterns. The intent is not just academic synthesis, but actionable insight into how people, economies, and ecosystems interact under different management choices.

Stakeholder involvement is highlighted as essential rather than optional. The opportunity reflects an understanding that interdisciplinary integration only works if the relevant users and affected groups are part of the process, both to ensure the right questions are being asked and to make the resulting tools and findings credible and usable. It also underscores that interdisciplinary work requires more than simply compiling datasets. Applicants are expected to be able to adapt and translate specialized natural science information into decision-oriented formats that can directly support policy analysis and management decisions. In other words, success is measured by whether the science can be operationalized for planning, evaluation, and tradeoff analysis, not only by whether it is technically sophisticated.

The required work is organized around two main activity areas. First, the project should develop new methods, tools, processes, and products for integrating, using, and analyzing USGS science and other information within a GIS environment. This signals a strong geospatial emphasis, likely involving workflows for data integration, spatial analysis, visualization, and potentially decision-support mapping products that make complex datasets usable together. Second, the project should develop methods that link space/time natural science data with economic data at a regional scale to evaluate natural resource and environmental policy issues. This second piece explicitly calls for bridging biophysical and economic information so that policy questions can be evaluated in a way that reflects both environmental conditions and human behavior, costs, benefits, and incentives across a landscape and through time.

From an administrative standpoint, the opportunity is issued as a cooperative agreement, which typically implies substantial involvement or collaboration with the federal agency during the period of performance compared with a more hands-off grant. Only one award is expected. The estimated total funding is $50,000, and there is no cost-sharing or matching requirement stated. The CFDA listing provided is 15.808 (U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection). The posting date is March 11, 2009, with an original and current closing date of March 23, 2009, and an archive date of April 22, 2009, indicating this was a time-limited solicitation that has since closed.

Eligibility is restricted to partners within the Colorado Plateau Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program. CESUs are described as partnership networks that provide research, technical assistance, and education, so the applicant pool is limited to institutions that are already participating members of that CESU. The listed point of contact for access issues is Faith Graves, Contract Specialist, at 703-648-7356.

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