Closed · M20AS00173 · CFDA 15.423 · Discretionary

GM-20-02-Data Gap: Characterizing the Seafloor in the Mesophotic Zone

Federal grant opportunity posted by Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, cataloged on Grants.gov.

$500K-$600K
Award range
Closed
Status
July 21, 2020
Close date
-
Expected awards

The verdict

GM-20-02-Data Gap: Characterizing the Seafloor in the Mesophotic Zone is a closed discretionary listing from Bureau of Ocean Energy Management that offered $500,000 -- $600,000. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 108 other opportunities from Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.

$500K-$600K
award range
Closed
application status
15.423
CFDA program
108
other opportunities from Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

Archived opportunity record

GM-20-02-Data Gap: Characterizing the Seafloo… is closed (last close July 21, 2020). Check the agency catalog for replacement NOFOs. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management still indexes 108 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 July 21, 2020

Posted Jul 17 Closes Jul 21

Instrument

Cooperative Agreement

Description

The seafloor in the mesophotic zone (40–150 m) represents an area where BOEM lacks sufficient scientific information to confidently render management decisions that are not overly burdensome. The Bureau has a clear need to characterize seafloor features, including shipwrecks, hard-bottom habitat, and pinnacles, and their ecological role to develop proper management and avoidance strategies based upon their ecological community structures. Shipwrecks provide a hard, artificial substrate for colonizing organisms and provide shelter from predation for a diverse array of marine life. The aim of this study is to document each selected shipwreck site and compare recruitment and community structure between these unique artificial reefs (shipwrecks) and natural reefs in order to provide insight into the colonization and role of shipwrecks as habitat. This study will strategically target shipwreck locations (artificial reefs) with known nearby naturally-occurring hard-bottom benthic communities.

Multi-door applicant board · 2 Grants.gov types

Grants.gov prints 2 distinct applicant types for GM-20-02-Data Gap: Characterizing the Seafloo… (State governments; Others (see official listing text)). Filter fit against the official announcement before drafting. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Cooperative Agreement. Funding-activity code maps to Environment (ENV). Only 3 other Bureau of Ocean Energy Management listings share this exact eligibility-code string (3% of 109).

Code 00
State governments
Code 25
Others (see official listing text)

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Agency Contact

Paula Barksdale Paula.Barksdale@bsee.gov

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