This USGS cooperative agreement is for research aimed at understanding the relationship between river flow regimes and fish population dynamics. It supports a CESU partner to empirically evaluate hypothesized connections using multiple, long-term datasets. The primary goal is to advance flow-ecology science and its application in water resource management by clarifying mechanisms linking river flows to changes in fish populations and communities. The selected recipient will provide doctoral students or technical expertise to collaborate with USGS principal investigators. This collaboration involves assembling and formatting extensive fish count data, coding and executing regression analyses, and packaging datasets and analytical code for public release. The project aims to publish findings, making valuable data and tools accessible for future ecological research.
Opportunity ID: 333758
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | G21AS00529 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Cooperative Agreement for CESU-affiliated Partner with Piedmont-South Atlantic Coast 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: | May 24, 2021 |
| Last Updated Date: | May 24, 2021 |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Jun 24, 2021 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: | Jun 24, 2021 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: | $29,300 |
| Award Ceiling: | $29,300 |
| 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 Piedmont-South Atlantic Coast Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | Geological Survey |
| Description: | The USGS is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for collaborative research to evaluate empirical support for hypothesized relations between river flow regimes and fish population dynamics using multiple, long-term datasets, and to prepare analytical code together with the assembled datasets for public release. The overall objective is to advance flow-ecology science and applications in water resource management by elucidating mechanisms linking river flows to changes in fish populations and communities. The funding recipient will provide at least one doctoral student, or equivalent technical expertise, to collaborate with the USGS principal investigator in: assembling and formatting data for analyses; coding and executing regression analyses to address the study objectives (below); and packaging datasets and code for public release (e.g., as R Markdown files, Jupyter Notebooks, or a similar format agreed to by USGS principal investigator and the project team). It is anticipated that the student(s) funded through this opportunity will collaborate with the USGS principal investigator and the project team (a diverse group of academic and agency scientists) to summarize and publish results of hypothesis testing in a journal-article format.
Research Objectives: Complete compilation and standardization of 20+ time-series of annual fish count data, to allow joint analyses of population dynamics in relation to alternative flow metrics, and annotate each data-set with values for species-specific traits and river system characteristics. These compiled data sets will be used in analyses (Objective 2) and form a product for future work (Objective 3). |
| 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
| Version | Modification Description | Updated Date |
|---|---|---|
Related Documents
Folder 333758 Full Announcement-Full Announcement -> 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 | G21AS00529 | Cooperative Agreement for CESU-affiliated Partner with Piedmont-South Atlantic Coast Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit | PKG00267338 | May 24, 2021 | Jun 24, 2021 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
333758 SF424_4_0-4.0.pdf
333758 ProjectNarrativeAttachments_1_2-1.2.pdf
333758 SF424A-1.0.pdf
333758 SF424B-1.1.pdf
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