The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Wetland and Aquatic Research Center (WARC) is offering a cooperative agreement to a CESU-affiliated partner. This grant is for research focused on determining avifauna densities, distributions, and diversity using remote sensing technologies like doppler radar, automated radio telemetry, and audio recording units. The project specifically investigates the impact of border barrier infrastructure along the US-Mexico border in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. This opportunity will facilitate data processing, analysis, and the development of spatially explicit decision support tools. These tools will assist USGS management partners with border wall mitigation, habitat acquisition, restoration, and conservation efforts targeting flying animals.
Opportunity ID: 346020
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | G23AS00260 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Cooperative Agreement for CESU-affiliated Partner with Chesapeake Watershed Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Science and Technology and other Research and Development |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | – |
| Assistance Listings: | 15.808 — U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | Feb 13, 2023 |
| Last Updated Date: | Feb 13, 2023 |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Feb 27, 2023 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 5:00 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date. |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Feb 27, 2023 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 5:00 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date. |
| Archive Date: | – |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | – |
| Award Ceiling: | $300,000 |
| Award Floor: | $0 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | 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 Chesapeake Watershed CESU Program. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | Geological Survey |
| Description: | The Wetland and Aquatic Research Center (WARC) of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research in a project using the following remote sensing technologies: doppler radar, automated radio telemetry, and audio recording units. Specifically, there is a need to determine avifauna densities, distributions, and diversity using remote sensing technologies mentioned above in relation to border barrier infrastructure along the US-Mexico border within the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. This opportunity will provide an avenue for assisting with the data processing and analysis as well as development of spatially explicit decision support tools that can address fundamental needs of USGS management partners for border wall mitigation, current and future habitat acquisition, restoration, and conservations efforts targeted at flying animals.Research Objectives:Recent research conducted by USGS-WARC scientists and their partners has demonstrated the capacity of remote sensing tools to support management and conservation needs at multiple spatiotemporal scales. These demonstrations imply that remote sensing tools, especially when supplemented with field methods, can play a much larger role in providing science-based decision support tools for management partners, thereby creating a need to further develop the application and conservation value of USGS-WARC’s Avian Ecology and Conservation Research Group. Collaboration with University scientists is intended to provide a more fundamental perspective on the decisions that need to be addressed. In particular, more effort is needed to determine the densities, distributions, and identities of flying animals in relation to human development and associated artificial lighting at night. Remote sensing tools, such as doppler radar, radio telemetry, and audio recording units, have the ability to determine animal response to human development before and after construction or in areas with and without infrastructure, which provides an ideal study design to understand how animals may respond over time and space. For management partners, this would inform long-term management and conservation actions in relation to a border barrier infrastructure. These are the types of problems wish to study in a collaborative partnership. |
| Link to Additional Information: | – |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
FAITH GRAVES
fgraves@usgs.gov Email:fgraves@usgs.gov |
Version History
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Related Documents
Folder 346020 Full Announcement-Full Announcement -> CESU Funding Opportunity.pdf
Packages
| Agency Contact Information: | FAITH GRAVES fgraves@usgs.gov Email: fgraves@usgs.gov |
| Who Can Apply: | Organization Applicants |
| Assistance Listing Number | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15.808 | G23AS00260 | Cooperative Agreement for CESU-affiliated Partner with Chesapeake Watershed Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit | PKG00279859 | Feb 13, 2023 | Feb 27, 2023 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
346020 SF424_4_0-4.0.pdf
346020 ProjectNarrativeAttachments_1_2-1.2.pdf
346020 SF424A-1.0.pdf
346020 SF424B-1.1.pdf
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