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G22AS00119: Cooperative Agreement for CESU-affiliated Partner with Great Rivers Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit

Closed Closed January 13, 2022 Opportunity G22AS00119 ☆ 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$80,000
• Award floor$30,000
• 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 Great Rivers 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 $80,000 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 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.

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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