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

Source: https://welltoldgrants.com/grants/g22as00119-cooperative-agreement-for-cesu-affiliated-partner-with-great/  
Official notice: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/336945

> Geological Survey offered grants of up to $80,000 (at least $30,000) to the applicants described in the notice. Applications closed on January 13, 2022.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Opportunity number | G22AS00119 |
| Agency | Geological Survey |
| Status | Forecast |
| Deadline | January 13, 2022 |
| Award ceiling | $80,000 |
| Award floor | $30,000 |
| 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 Rivers Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program.

## What the grant funds

The USGS is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research in “Water quality conditions protective of freshwater mussel viability and reproduction.” Research Objectives: The objectives of this funding opportunity are to provide science to assess the sensitivity of mussels to long-term chemical exposure. Currently, the ASTM standard methods recommend a test duration of 28 days for conducting chronic toxicity test with juvenile mussels, and the test endpoints are survival, growth (individual length and dry weight), and biomass (total dry weight of surviving organisms per replicate) – unlike test methods for fishes, there are no accepted test methods for mussel reproduction at present. There is considerable uncertainty that the survival and growth responses from chronic 28-day exposures can be used to adequately assess reproductive impacts. The main goal of this project is to develop methods to determine reproductive effects on freshwater mussels, and using the newly developed methods to evaluate the toxicity of a CERCLA hazardous chemicals. Specific studies include: Develop methods using a short-term brooding mussel to evaluate the effects of a model chemical in a partial life cycle test. Refine and validate a partial life cycle test method using a chemical of interest to mussel resource managers. Methods will be used by federal, regional, and state risk assessors to screen, regulate, and mitigate chemicals that occur or have the potential to occur in listed mussel habitat and used to update ASTM International standard methods for toxicity testing with mussels.

## Questions people ask

### Is G22AS00119 still open?

No. It closed on January 13, 2022. 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 Rivers 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 Rivers Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit?

Closed January 13, 2022. 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 $80,000 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.