Cooperative Ecoystem Studies Unit, Great Lakes Northern Forest CESU | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

The Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Great Lakes Northern Forest CESU funding opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number G14AS00012) was a discretionary U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) cooperative agreement administered through the USGS Fort Collins Science Center. It supported science and technology research and development aimed at a focused climate-change question: improving our ability to understand, evaluate, compare, and ultimately forecast how tropical forests respond to increased temperatures. The work was expected to combine modeling with empirical (data-driven, observational, or experimental) approaches so that forecasts could be tested against real-world evidence and refined for greater accuracy across different time horizons and spatial scales.

The research objectives were framed around three practical outcomes. First, the project was intended to strengthen the broader scientific communitys capacity to predict how biogeochemical cycles in tropical forests will shift under warming. In plain terms, this means improving predictions about how warming affects key processes like carbon storage and release, nutrient cycling, decomposition, soil respiration, and related feedbacks that influence both forest health and climate dynamics. A notable emphasis was placed on differences among tropical forest types, implying that the project should help distinguish which responses are general versus which are ecosystem-specific, and how those differences can be represented in models used for forecasting.

Second, the opportunity explicitly prioritized cross-disciplinary communication and integration. Tropical forest warming touches ecology, biogeochemistry, climatology, soil science, plant physiology, remote sensing, and modeling, and the announcement highlighted the need to improve understanding across these areas. The intent was not only to produce research outputs, but also to create shared frameworks, language, and collaborative pathways that could spark new ideas and lead to stronger future proposals. In effect, this opportunity treated coordination and synthesis as part of the scientific product, recognizing that better forecasts often come from connecting methods and insights that typically sit in separate research communities.

Third, the project was designed to inform the hypotheses and measurement strategy for a forthcoming field warming experiment in Puerto Rico. This suggests the award was meant to have near-term operational value: helping decide what variables should be measured, what responses are most plausible or most uncertain, and what experimental design choices would best test competing hypotheses about warming effects in tropical systems. By linking the funded work to an upcoming on-the-ground experiment, the USGS signaled that the results should be directly actionable for experimental planning, not just academically interesting.

From an administrative standpoint, the award mechanism was a cooperative agreement, meaning the USGS likely anticipated substantial involvement or collaboration during the project rather than a hands-off grant relationship. Only one award was expected, and the estimated total funding was $30,239. The notice listed no award ceiling or floor, and it stated there was no cost-sharing or matching requirement. The program fell under CFDA 15.808 (U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection). The opportunity was posted on November 25, 2013, with an original and final closing date of December 6, 2013, and it was later archived on February 25, 2014.

Eligibility was restricted to organizations that were already participating partners in the Great Lakes Northern Forest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program. CESUs are structured partnerships that support research, technical assistance, and education, and this restriction means applicants needed to be within that established network rather than applying as an open, general applicant pool. For access issues or questions about the full announcement, the contact listed was Faith Graves (703-648-7356, fgraves@usgs.gov), and the general reference point for the posting was Grants.gov.

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