Opportunity Information: Apply for G23AS00445

This funding opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number G23AS00445) is a discretionary cooperative agreement offered by the US Geological Survey (USGS) under CFDA 15.808. It is aimed at supporting science and technology research and development that improves how stream health is characterized and monitored across the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The award ceiling listed is $130,000, and the opportunity was created on June 28, 2023, with an original closing date of July 28, 2023. Because it is issued through the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program, only organizations that are official, participating partners in the Chesapeake Watershed CESU are eligible to apply. The CESU structure is intended to strengthen collaboration between federal agencies and partner institutions by providing a streamlined way to conduct research, technical assistance, and education activities tied to real management needs.

The central purpose of the project is to expand technical capacity and speed up delivery of information that decision-makers and the public rely on when evaluating watershed conditions. USGS highlights its ongoing responsibility for developing and applying advanced tools for mapping land use and land cover, improving hydrography datasets, and monitoring stream and watershed health throughout the Chesapeake region. Through this cooperative agreement, USGS is specifically looking to collaborate with the Chesapeake Watershed CESU partner network to push forward methods and recommendations that can be used broadly by stakeholders working in the watershed, including those involved in restoration, regulatory planning, and long-term monitoring.

The work is framed around two connected goals that are expected to advance in parallel. The first goal focuses on convening expertise and aligning monitoring practices by organizing and facilitating a stream health monitoring workshop. The intent is not just to host a meeting, but to bring together relevant practitioners and researchers, capture what is working and what is missing in current monitoring approaches, and then produce a clear summary of results along with actionable recommendations. In practical terms, this implies planning the workshop, facilitating discussion in a way that leads to concrete outcomes, documenting consensus points and areas of disagreement, and translating those discussions into guidance that USGS and regional partners can use to improve stream health characterization.

The second goal is technical and methods-oriented: developing and demonstrating approaches to assess and extrapolate streamflow metrics. Streamflow is a foundational driver of stream condition and habitat, and it influences how biological, chemical, and physical indicators are interpreted. This part of the project is aimed at improving the ability to estimate or extend streamflow-related measures beyond locations where measurements are directly available, supporting broader-scale assessments across the watershed. The description emphasizes demonstration of methods, suggesting that the selected partner should not only develop analytical techniques but also show how they work in practice, likely by applying them to Chesapeake watershed settings and producing outputs that can be used or tested by USGS and stakeholders.

Overall, the opportunity is designed to produce both (1) stakeholder-informed recommendations emerging from a structured workshop process and (2) practical, demonstrated methods for streamflow metric assessment and extrapolation. Together, these deliverables are meant to strengthen monitoring strategies and improve the information base used for decision-making across the Chesapeake Bay watershed, while leveraging the CESU partnership model to connect federal science capacity with external expertise.

  • The Geological Survey in the science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Cooperative Agreement for CESU-affiliated Partner with Chesapeake Watershed Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit" and is now available to receive applicants.
  • Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.808.
  • This funding opportunity was created on 2023-06-28.
  • Applicants must submit their applications by 2023-07-28. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
  • Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $130,000.00 in funding.
  • Eligible applicants include: Others.
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