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G21AS00281: Cooperative Agreement for CESU-affiliated Partner with Californian Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit

Closed Closed February 12, 2021 Opportunity G21AS00281 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is open now: Cooperative Agreement for affiliated Partner with Alaska Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (G27AS00066). Status: Closes December 7, 2026 (30 days left). It is in our archive of Geological Survey notices from 2021.

• Award ceiling$400,000
• Award floor$25,000
• Total funding$400,000
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

This financial assistance opportunity is being issued under a Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program. CESU’s are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education. Eligible recipients must be a participating partner of the Californian Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection awards averaged $557,251; this notice allows up to $400,000 per award.
• Most of the program's money (84% over five years) went to colleges and universities.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

The USGS is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research topics in the potential and actual effects of environment stressors. This CESU will encompass science activities representing a wide variety of topics dealing with the potential and actual effects of environment stressors on species of concern. It will represent collaborative studies between USGS and the recipient for a series of individual projects that represent discreet entities which have unique objectives and anticipated products. Three projects will represent the initiation of the agreement. Future projects will be added by modification to the agreement. This funding opportunity is to establish a mechanism for cooperative scientific research, educational development, and technological collaboration to maximize contributions to scientific research and practical applications for solving environmental problems, benefiting local communities, school systems, governmental agencies and the general public in California and the western United States. Current university academic programs and facilities, under a cooperative agreement, will provide for joint research and consultation in scientific matters and participation by interested students and faculty involved in the following subjects:Fisheries and wildlife ecologyPlant ecologyUrban ecologyVertebrate taxonomyToxicologyPhysiology and biochemistryMethodologies for environmental chemistryEnvironmental educationResearch Objectives: PROJECT 1 Title:Wild Immunology: Polar Bears, Climate Change, and Oil ExplorationProject Goals: The overall goal of this project is to assess and monitor polar bear (Ursus maritimus) and arctic ecosystem health in the backdrop of climate change and increased oil exploration. Specific Objectives: Continue to develop diagnostic gene transcript panels using cutting edge molecular tools (i.e. tanscriptomics). Continue collection of polar bear blood (free-ranging and captive) for analysis. Apply gene transcript panels, as well as transcriptome technology, to specific questions relating to polar bear and arctic ecosystem health (e.g. nutritional state, contaminant effects on immune function). This project should continue for approximately 5 years.

Category: Science and Technology and other Research and Development.

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Apply under the newer notice, G27AS00066, which is open now.

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