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G23AS00320: Cooperative Agreement for CESU-affiliated Partner with Great Lakes-Northern Forest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit

Closed Closed April 21, 2023 Opportunity G23AS00320 ☆ 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 2023.

• Award ceiling$3.5 million
• Award floor$634,546
• 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 CESU Program. CESU’s are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education. Eligible recipients must be a participating partner of the Great Lakes Northern Forests 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 $3.5 million 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 US Geological Survey (USGS) is offering a funding opportunity to a Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) partner for research to support the restoration of native coregonine fishes in the Great Lakes. Similar to many freshwater ecosystems, the Great Lakes of North America have undergone numerous anthropogenic stressors resulting in considerable loss of biodiversity and simplification or loss of habitat. The coregonine sub-family has endured the most extensive declines, including extinction for several species and multiple instances of local extirpations of other species. In 2018, a science-based, basin-wide approach to restore coregonines called the Coregonine Restoration Framework (herein, “Framework”) was universally endorsed by fishery managers throughout the basin. The Framework seeks to develop a restoration plan that includes several components of science support, including experimental and genetic approaches to improve our understanding of threats to existing stocks of conservation concern or impediments to reintroducing native fishes that were locally extirpated. Likewise, reintroduction will undoubtedly be required and is already being used, yet the ability to experimentally evaluate the best techniques for translocating or rearing and stocking hatchery fish is limited within the Great Lakes basin. Many of the species extirpated from Lake Ontario, for example, persist in Lake Superior yet the techniques to rear these rare deepwater fish could be further evaluated to ensure that hatchery products are genetically, morphologically, and behaviorally similar to their wild counterparts. This funding opportunity seeks a CESU partnership to provide experimental support to USGS stations located in Cortland, NY and Oswego, NY, such that science support to restoration and conservation of native coregonines can be enhanced.

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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