# Cooperative Agreement for CESU-affiliated Partner with Great Lakes Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit

Source: https://welltoldgrants.com/grants/g21as00564-cooperative-agreement-for-cesu-affiliated-partner-with-great/  
Official notice: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/334291

> Geological Survey offered grants of up to $180,000 to the applicants described in the notice. Applications closed on July 23, 2021.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Opportunity number | G21AS00564 |
| Agency | Geological Survey |
| Status | Forecast |
| Deadline | July 23, 2021 |
| Award ceiling | $180,000 |
| Award floor | not stated |
| Expected awards | not stated |
| Total funding | not stated |
| Cost sharing | not required |
| Assistance Listings | 15.808 |

## Who can apply

- 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 Great Lakes Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program.

## What the grant funds

The USGS is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research in stream and reservoir water quality modeling, with a focus on temperature. Water temperature is a “master variable” for many important aquatic outcomes, including the suitability of habitat, evaporation rates, greenhouse gas exchange, and efficiency of thermoelectric energy production. Stream temperature is one of the most widely measured water characteristics by the USGS, though monitoring gaps in time and space requires modeling efforts to understand broad-scale temperature dynamics and supply decision-ready data to our stakeholders. Currently, stream and lake temperature are modeled separately, despite our knowledge that water flowing into a reservoir affects its temperature, and that reservoirs greatly impact the temperature of downstream river reaches. Further, in some places, water managers can affect downstream temperatures via reservoir releases, and understanding when to release, how much to release, and the expected water temperature changes from the release can support better decision making. The USGS and collaborators are developing process-guided machine learning models for streams and lakes that leverage the benefits of both process and machine learning models; the models are grounded in physical realism and perform well in data sparse and data rich conditions (e.g., Read et al., 2019). But key processes related to stream temperature remain unexplored or not accurately predicted or represented in the process-guided deep learning framework. These include but are not limited to: the impact of reservoir releases on downstream temperature, sub-daily prediction to accurately predict extremes, inclusion of different data types that may have lower accuracy (e.g., satellite estimated surface temperature), translation to finer resolution stream segments, prediction beneath reservoirs with varying amounts of data, and representation of certain processes that might be critical to evaluate long term change like groundwater contribution to stream temperature dynamics.

## Questions people ask

### Is G21AS00564 still open?

No. It closed on July 23, 2021. A newer notice is open: G27AS00066, closes December 7, 2026 (30 days left).

### Who can apply for Cooperative Agreement for CESU-affiliated Partner with Great Lakes Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit?

Geological Survey accepted applications from the applicants described in the notice. The notice adds further conditions, so read its eligibility section.

### What is the deadline for Cooperative Agreement for CESU-affiliated Partner with Great Lakes Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit?

Closed July 23, 2021. Applications are no longer accepted; the program's newer notices are on this page when there are any.

### How much funding is available?

Awards of up to $180,000 each.

### Who has won U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection grants before?

The largest recipients over five fiscal years were Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines, University of Alaska Fairbanks, California Institute of Technology. The program made 1,128 awards worth $629 million in that time.