Closed · G26AS00116 · CFDA 15.808 · Discretionary
Cooperative Agreement for affiliated Partner with the Desert Southwest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit
Federal grant opportunity posted by Geological Survey, cataloged on Grants.gov.
- $1-$500K
- Award range
- Closed
- Status
- June 14, 2026
- Close date
- 1
- Expected awards
The verdict
Cooperative Agreement for affiliated Partner with the Desert Southwest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit is a closed discretionary listing from Geological Survey that offered $1 -- $499,550 across 1 expected award. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number.
- $1-$500K
- award range
- Closed
- application status
- 1
- expected award
- 15.808
- CFDA program
Opportunity snapshot. This Grants.gov announcement - Cooperative Agreement for affiliated Partner with the Desert Southwest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit - is cataloged under number G26AS00116 and tied to CFDA assistance listing 15.808, posted by Geological Survey. Grants.gov currently shows the opportunity as closed, first posted on May 14, 2026. The funding category is Discretionary, delivered as a cooperative agreement.
Award economics. The award range on file is $1 -- $499,550. The agency has projected $500,000 in total estimated funding for this announcement. It expects to issue 1 award. If the agency funds the expected 1 award from the $500,000 estimated pool, the average award works out to roughly $500,000. Cost sharing is not required, so applicants do not need to commit matching funds to be competitive on this opportunity. Federal award ranges are often upper bounds; actual allocations reflect program appropriations, the strength of the applicant pool, and the evaluation committee's scoring.
Deadline and action path. This opportunity closed on June 14, 2026. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number, so monitoring the parent program page is the most reliable way to catch re-announcements. Every Grants.gov submission requires an active SAM.gov registration and a Unique Entity ID. Review the Eligibility section below carefully, federal eligibility categories (nonprofit, state or local government, tribal, individual, educational institution, small business) have distinct registration and reporting requirements. Pre-application outreach to the listed agency contact is permitted and often welcomed, it helps clarify scope and scoring priorities. Before acting on the deadline or award figures above, verify them directly on the official Grants.gov listing, amendments can change dates and amounts after this page was last refreshed.
Award Range
$1 -- $499,550
Close Date
June 14, 2026
Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 PM, ET, on the listed application due date
Posted
May 14, 2026
Est. Total Funding
$499,550
Expected Awards
1
Instrument
Cooperative Agreement
Description
The U.S. Geological Survey Southwest Biological Science Center (SBSC) seeks to provide financial assistance for a research project to help build a program to use new remote sensing platforms to improve understanding of how southwestern U.S. ecosystems work and for management options that can best provide ecosystem services in these challenging ecosystems. This program will focus on remote sensing tools that are best for dryland ecosystems, on biological soil crust communities, and on using remote sensing to inform land management options. The work will also focus on using artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and other cutting edge data analysis tools to analyze a range and scale of data that was previously not possible.Nearly 40% of the United States are arid and semiarid ecosystems, thus these drylands are both vast and important. At the same time, remote sensing challenges unique to drylands have made landscape-scale assessments of drylands challenging and thus the power of remote sensing tools has lagged behind their use in more mesic ecosystems. Nevertheless, the utility of improving our ability to use remote sensing for assessing and understanding drylands has myriad uses, including those that directly inform resource managers and decision makers. This would include the creation of innovative remote sensing options for mapping, assessing, and managing for biological soil crusts. Biocrusts are a soil surface community that represent the dominant cover type in many U.S. drylands. It has been proposed to blend emerging remote sensing technology from drones, satellites, and on-the-ground with ground-based ecology and novel dryland experiments to improve the tools and options dryland land managers have to manage for essential ecosystem services. New remote sensing technologies could vastly improve ability to predict biocrust abundance, rangeland productivity, and exotic grass invasion, which would be of significant use for resource managers, ranchers, hunters and anyone needing to consider forage quality for livestock and wildlife, fire regimes for the upcoming year, dust production, and restoration prioritization options.
Eligibility
Grants.gov lists this opportunity under eligibility category code 25. These codes correspond to applicant types (state/local government, tribal organization, nonprofit, educational institution, individual, small business, etc.) defined in Grants.gov's own eligibility reference. See the current Grants.gov eligibility categories or check the official listing below for this opportunity's exact eligibility statement.
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Agency Contact
RACHEL MILLER rachelmiller@usgs.gov
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