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US Geological Survey is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU Partner for research and development assistance in text and data mining to support critical minerals assessment. Objectives include: Participate in a partnership with the USGS, including other partners that may be engaged, in an initial pilot effort that will build on established methods and techniques for processing literature in text and data mining applications to technical and government reports. Data Mining from NI 43-101 Technical Reports and other Government Reporting Artifacts Develop process for ingesting publicly available and proprietary technical reports from a USGS repository location into appropriate technical frameworks within the university research and development environment. Apply standard algorithms and processes for data extraction from texts to include methods for tables, figures, equations, and other elements. Apply and test efficacy of existing algorithms for identifying key signals in texts having to do with identifying geospatial extent, geographic features of interest, geologic setting, and other details. Research and development enhancements to existing geoscience-specific data mining algorithms. Research and develop new geoscience-specific algorithms needed to identify key properties and variables used in minerals assessment and related practices. Enhance existing methods and develop new practices as necessary to ensure a clear provenance trace from extracted, analysis-ready data to underlying source material and all processing in between. Provide software, data, and knowledge products from pilot work focused on specific classes of documents sufficient to leverage the techniques for additional cases and different types of materials.
Funding Opportunity Number: G21AS00590. Assistance Listing: 15.808. Funding Instrument: CA. Category: ST. Award Amount: $100K – $300K per award.
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Or 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 Unit (CESU) Program. CENSUs are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education. Eligible recipients must be a participating partner of the Great Lakes – Northern Forests (CESU) Program. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
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Yes — Cooperative Agreement for CESU-affiliated Partner Great Lakes – Northern Forest 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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Agency Information Collection Activities; Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI) Competitive Cooperative Agreement Program With State Geological Surveys is sponsored by Interior Department; Geological Survey. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), is proposing to renew an information collection. Action: Notice of information collection; request for comment. Published in the Federal Register on 2026-07-02. Federal Register document number: 2026-13405.
Cooperative Agreement for Affiliated Partner with the Great Lakes Northern Forest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) is sponsored by Geological Survey. The U. S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Fort Collins Science Center is offering a cooperative-agreement funding opportunity to a CESU partner having capability to conduct research and studies related to the long-term demography of bumble bees, with a focus on imperiled species.
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