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The USGS is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research to characterize tidal creek water chemistry in fresh and salt marshes in Barataria Basin, Louisiana, supporting development of a decision support tool that will assess wetland recovery in response to oil spill damage and subsequent restoration. This activity is intended to support evaluation of restoration actions within the Louisiana Restoration Area; perform data collection, aggregation and analyses; and inform critical information gaps. This work is carried out pursuant to the 33 U.S.C. 2701, 2761Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA) statute and regulations. Consistent with the Consent Decree for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Trustees carry out their obligations according to Final Programmatic Damage Assessment Restoration Plan and Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PDARP/PEIS), and the Trustee Council Standard Operating Procedures for Implementation of the Natural Resource Restoration for the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) Oil Spill. Trustees, including Department of the Interior, have a responsibility to use allocated funds to restore natural resources and services injured or lost as a result of the DWH oil spill. The Louisiana Trustee Implementation Group (LA TIG) MAM Strategy (LA TIG, 2021) has approved activities to "Contribute to maintaining and restoring ecosystem-scale condition and resilience at coastwide, basin, and subbasin scales" as a high-level objective under the Cross-Restoration Type. Under this high-level objective is the fundamental objective to "maximize the combined benefits of the various Restoration Types and approaches across the overall restoration portfolio (PDARP Section 5.5.1) (Cross-Restoration #1)". To develop a Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, appropriate Timeline (SMART) objective, the LA TIG has approved U.S. Geological Survey to "Quantify wetland net ecosystem carbon balance at pre-spill/post-spill time scales and basin/sub-basin spatial scales, including export to nearshore Gulf of Mexico" (Cross-Restoration #1b).This work supports the restoration goals identified in the Final PDARP/PEIS and the Record of Decision that provides and explains the Trustees" selection of the Preferred Alternative (Alternative A) for the Programmatic Restoration Plan in the Final PDARP/PEIS. This wetland restoration research is supported by multiple federal authorities that collectively empower agencies to assess environmental injury, reduce pollution, restore damaged ecosystems, and invest in the science needed to guide recovery. The RESTORE Act directs Gulf spill‐related funds to ecosystem restoration, research, monitoring, and long‐term coastal recovery. Its mandate supports wetland‐focused science that guides restoration design, evaluates ecosystem health, and strengthens resilience across the Gulf. Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) authority under 54 U.S.C. §100721 empowers Federal trustees to assess injuries to natural resources, quantify damages, and develop science‐based restoration plans. This authority explicitly requires research to determine baseline conditions, evaluate injury, and design effective restoration for wetlands and other coastal systems. CERCLA (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.) authorizes Federal action to respond to hazardous releases and provides for technical assistance and research to interpret environmental hazards, inform remedial actions, and guide ecological restoration. This research directly supports CERCLA"s intent by improving understanding of contaminant impacts and restoring injured resources. The Federal Water Pollution Control Act (Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.) establishes the national policy to protect and restore land and water resources and expressly supports research to prevent, reduce, and eliminate pollution. This authority enables wetland restoration research to improve water quality, ecological function, and longterm resilience as described in this agreement.
Funding Opportunity Number: G26AS00114. Assistance Listing: 15.808. Funding Instrument: CA. Category: ST. Award Amount: $1 – $400K per award.
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Search similar grants →According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Eligible applicants: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification). This financial assistance opportunity is being issued under a Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESU) Program. CESU"s are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education. Eligible recipients must be a participating partner of the Gulf Coast Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows $1 – $400K per award. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
The published deadline was June 12, 2026, which has passed. Check the official notice for any future application windows before investing time in a proposal.
Yes — Cooperative Agreement for affiliated Partner with the Gulf Coast Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit is offered by Geological Survey and this listing comes from Grants.gov, an official U.S. federal source. Federal applications generally require registrations (for example SAM.gov or an agency submission portal), so allow extra lead time.
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STATEMAP Program is a grant from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) that funds state geological mapping activities as part of the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program. The program supports systematic geologic mapping of states to produce new or updated geologic maps that address earth science issues including environmental hazards, land use, mineral resources, and water resources. Cost sharing is required from applicants. Eligibility is limited to State Geological Surveys; universities may submit proposals on behalf of a state geological survey if that survey is organized within a state university system. Applications are submitted through Grants.gov, with a deadline of May 27, 2026.
The USGS is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research work intended to evaluate the economic impact of brown treesnake caused power outages in Guam. The work will also evaluate potential economic tradeoffs between different control approaches based on the number and type of outages they prevent. Funding Opportunity Number: G26AS00117. Assistance Listing: 15.808. Funding Instrument: CA. Category: ST. Award Amount: $1 – $86K per award.
The U.S. Geological Survey Southwest Biological Science Center (SBSC) seeks to provide financial assistance for a research project to help build a program to use new remote sensing platforms to improve understanding of how southwestern U.S. ecosystems work and for management options that can best provide ecosystem services in these challenging ecosystems. This program will focus on remote sensing tools that are best for dryland ecosystems, on biological soil crust communities, and on using remote sensing to inform land management options. The work will also focus on using artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and other cutting edge data analysis tools to analyze a range and scale of data that was previously not possible.Nearly 40% of the United States are arid and semiarid ecosystems, thus these drylands are both vast and important. At the same time, remote sensing challenges unique to drylands have made landscape-scale assessments of drylands challenging and thus the power of remote sensing tools has lagged behind their use in more mesic ecosystems. Nevertheless, the utility of improving our ability to use remote sensing for assessing and understanding drylands has myriad uses, including those that directly inform resource managers and decision makers. This would include the creation of innovative remote sensing options for mapping, assessing, and managing for biological soil crusts. Biocrusts are a soil surface community that represent the dominant cover type in many U.S. drylands. It has been proposed to blend emerging remote sensing technology from drones, satellites, and on-the-ground with ground-based ecology and novel dryland experiments to improve the tools and options dryland land managers have to manage for essential ecosystem services. New remote sensing technologies could vastly improve ability to predict biocrust abundance, rangeland productivity, and exotic grass invasion, which would be of significant use for resource managers, ranchers, hunters and anyone needing to consider forage quality for livestock and wildlife, fire regimes for the upcoming year, dust production, and restoration prioritization options. Funding Opportunity Number: G26AS00116. Assistance Listing: 15.808. Funding Instrument: CA. Category: ST. Award Amount: $1 – $500K per award.