Closed · G20AS00057 · CFDA 15.808 · Discretionary
Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Great Basin CESU
Federal grant opportunity posted by Geological Survey, cataloged on Grants.gov.
- up to $150K
- Award range
- Closed
- Status
- May 22, 2020
- Close date
- 1
- Expected awards
The verdict
Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Great Basin CESU is a closed discretionary listing from Geological Survey that offered Up to $150,000 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 $150K
- award range
- Closed
- application status
- 1
- expected award
- 15.808
- CFDA program
Archived opportunity record
Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit is closed (last close May 22, 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 May 22, 2020
Est. Total Funding
$150,000
Expected Awards
1
Instrument
Cooperative Agreement
Description
The USGS Water Mission Area (WMA) is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner to assist with research into the use of cloud computing capabilities that provide operational access to, and computed summaries of, satellite-based remote sensing data representing actual evapotranspiration (ETa), which are available through OpenET, to be integrated into a national operational hydrologic model. The USGS Water Use Program, within WMA, is supporting National Water Census (NWC) by developing an operational modeling framework to estimate water use for irrigation in the CONUS, and ETa data are used as the fundamental basis for estimating irrigation water use. The Program¿s national irrigation model consists of 3 important design features, including (1) automated data retrieval for model input, (2) simulation of daily water use, and (3) periodic updating of model simulations to provide current and forecasted model results. The OpenET Water Management Tool, which provides ETa estimates at the field scale for several different satellite-based algorithms, can provide area-weighted and time-averaged monthly ETa estimates for the CONUS on a 6-week cycle using the computational resources of Google-Earth Engine (GEE). The ETa estimates are the foundation of irrigation water use model results.
Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · G20AS00057
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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