Closed · G20AS00133 · CFDA 15.808 · Discretionary

Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Great Basin CESU

Federal grant opportunity posted by Geological Survey, cataloged on Grants.gov.

up to $20K
Award range
Closed
Status
August 21, 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 $20,000 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 $20K
award range
Closed
application status
1
expected award
15.808
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit is closed (last close August 21, 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 August 21, 2020

Posted Aug 3 Closes Aug 21

Est. Total Funding

$20,000

Expected Awards

1

Instrument

Cooperative Agreement

Description

The Western Ecological Research Center of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is offering a funding opportunity to one CESU Partner of the Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit (CESU) Program. The project is titled ¿Refining Core Herd Home Range and Dispersal Kernel Estimates to inform Pathogen Spillover Risk for Desert Bighorn Sheep¿. The aim of this project is to improve effectiveness of the U.S. Forest Services¿ Risk of Contact Tool for use on desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni). Bighorn sheep (O. canadensis) have faced recurrent spillover of the bacterial respiratory pathogen Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae, which is carried asymptomatically by domestic sheep and goats. The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) make resource decisions (such as allocation of grazing allotments) based in part on risk of disease transmission from domestic sheep and goats to bighorn. Transmission risk is often assessed using the USFS¿ Risk of Contact Tool (Tool). Although the Tool is based on data from the Rocky Mountain bighorn (O. canadensis canadensis), it is also used to inform resource decisions for desert bighorn, which due to contrasting environmental conditions in their ranges, differ ecologically from Rocky Mountain bighorn. The goal of this project is to fill empirical gaps about desert bighorn ecology and to use this information to adapt the Risk Contact Tool for more effective use within the range of desert bighorn.

Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · G20AS00133

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)

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Agency Contact

Faith Graves 703-648-7356 fgraves@usgs.gov

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