Opportunity Information: Apply for G17AS00047
The Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU), Great Lakes Northern Forests CESU funding opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number G17AS00047) is a discretionary research award offered by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) within the Department of the Interior. It is being issued as a cooperative agreement, meaning the USGS expects to be substantially involved in the work rather than simply providing funds and receiving a final report. The opportunity falls under the Science and Technology and other Research and Development category (CFDA 15.808) and is structured as a single expected award with a maximum funding level (award ceiling) of $59,380.
The project focus is Lake Huron ecosystem science, specifically improving understanding of how nearshore and offshore areas are connected through food-web linkages, with a strong emphasis on larval fish. In practical terms, the work is intended to shed light on the ecological pathways and conditions that influence larval fish survival and growth, which are critical early-life stages that can strongly affect future fish population size and dynamics. The effort sits under the broader framework of the 2017 Coordinated Science and Monitoring Initiative, a coordinated program designed to standardize and strengthen ecosystem monitoring and research for Lake Huron.
The research design described by USGS centers on field sampling across nine transects that run from nearshore to offshore areas. Along each transect, multiple components of the ecosystem are to be sampled, including water, plankton communities, Mysis (a key zooplankton-like prey item in Great Lakes food webs), larval fish, and fish more generally. Sampling is stratified by depth zones that represent nearshore, intermediate, and offshore conditions, with target bottom depths of approximately 18 meters (nearshore), 45 meters (intermediate), and 80 meters (offshore) at each transect. This depth-based structure is meant to capture how biological communities and feeding relationships shift across the nearshore-offshore gradient, which is often where important changes occur in temperature, light, prey availability, and predator distributions.
Another key feature of the study is that transects are positioned along a gradient related to tributary phosphorus inputs. By placing sampling locations at varying distances or levels of influence from phosphorus delivered by tributaries, the design aims to help evaluate whether nutrient loading and associated productivity changes are linked to differences in prey fields, larval fish condition, and overall food-web connections between nearshore and offshore habitats. Field sampling is scheduled to occur in May, June, and July, targeting the period when larval fish are present and when seasonal ecological changes can strongly shape growth and survival.
Eligibility is limited to CESU partners associated with the Great Lakes Northern Forests CESU, with the eligible applicant category listed generally as "Others" and clarified in the full announcement under the eligibility details. The original posting date for the opportunity was March 6, 2017, with an original closing date of March 22, 2017, indicating a short application window consistent with time-sensitive fieldwork planning for late spring and summer sampling.Apply for G17AS00047
- The Department of the Interior, Geological Survey in the science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU), Great Lakes Northern Forests CESU" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.808.
- This funding opportunity was created on Mar 06, 2017.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Mar 22, 2017. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $59,380.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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