Closed · G20AS00033 · CFDA 15.808 · Discretionary
Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Colorado Plateau CESU
Federal grant opportunity posted by Geological Survey, cataloged on Grants.gov.
- up to $45K
- Award range
- Closed
- Status
- February 7, 2020
- Close date
- 1
- Expected awards
The verdict
Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Colorado Plateau CESU is a closed discretionary listing from Geological Survey that offered Up to $45,000 across 1 expected award. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 2,522 other opportunities from Geological Survey.
- up to $45K
- award range
- Closed
- application status
- 1
- expected award
- 15.808
- CFDA program
Archived opportunity record
Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit is closed (last close February 7, 2020). Check the agency catalog for replacement NOFOs. Geological Survey still indexes 2,522 other opportunities here.
According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.
Deadline tracker
Application window closed
Closed February 7, 2020
Est. Total Funding
$45,000
Expected Awards
1
Instrument
Cooperative Agreement
Description
The USGS is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research and analysis into questions of major interest to the conservation of amphibians in Rocky Mountain National Park (ROMO) and north-eastern Colorado. This project will provide: 1) a 32-year view of occupancy of three species of amphibians in ROMO (Pseudacris maculata, Lithobates sylvaticus, Ambystoma tigrinum) using three points in time (USGS has data for the first two time points, the third would be acquired through field work over two years [this project]). These data will be used to evaluate long term trends with respect to environmental and visitation-related variables; and 2) demographic (e.g., survival) and abundance estimates, detailing change over time, for three populations of boreal toads (Anaxyrus boreas) in ROMO. USGS has detailed and continuous annual capture-mark-recapture data for these populations in the park over the same 32-year time frame. These data will be analyzed with respect to environmental covariates identified as important in earlier work (e.g., water quality, Battaglin et al. 2018) and the presence of the amphibian chytrid fungus (Batrachochtrium dendrobatidis, Bd). This project will build on earlier park-wide occupancy surveys (Corn et al. 1997) to give ROMO a long-term picture of amphibian presence in the park and of persistence in boreal toads despite the challenge of disease. This information will have broader application as an example of how to survey and analyze amphibian data in National Parks and provide insights into what is necessary over the long-term to generate data that are relevant to management decisions. Insights generated from this effort will assist ROMO in developing management strategies to encourage persistence of amphibians in the park and more specifically in developing actions to bolster boreal toad persistence (e.g., preserving habitat characteristics where amphibians still occur).
Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · G20AS00033
Grants.gov marks Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit with a catch-all / unrestricted eligibility code (Others (see official listing text)). Read the official announcement text for the real applicant filter — the code alone is not a door list. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Cooperative Agreement. Funding-activity code maps to Science and Technology / R&D (ST). This eligibility-code string dominates the Geological Survey book (1,895 peers, 75% of 2,523).
- Code 25
- Others (see official listing text)
Codes are Grants.gov eligibility category values from the extract vintage 2026-08-10. Confirm the full eligibility statement on the official listing or the Grants.gov eligibility reference.
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Agency Contact
Faith Graves 703-648-7356 fgraves@usgs.gov
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