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The USGS National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program (NGGDPP) issues this annual Program Announcement for assistance to support preservation, cataloging of and access to geological and geophysical data and materials for research and education use and address the Department of Interior’s Secretarial priorities. This activity is authorized by Section 351 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-58, Sec. 351) which was amended by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (Public Law 117-58).

Authority: Public Law 99-591 (43 U.S.C. § 36(c)), the USGS Organic Act of March 3, 1879, as amended (43 U.S.C. § 31 et seq.), 16 U.S.C. § 1(a)(2)(j), 16 U.S.C. § 1(g), 16 U.S.C. § 5933, and 16 U.S.C. § 753(a) Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number 15.808

The USGS Earthquake Hazards Program (EHP) issues this annual Announcement for assistance to support research in earthquake hazards, the physics of earthquakes, earthquake occurrence, and earthquake safety policy and address the Department of Interior’s Secretarial priorities. This activity is authorized by the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 (Public Law 95-124, 42 U.S.C. 7701 et. seq.), and as amended by the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-307).

The USGS is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research in lichen mercury geochemistry to evaluate gaseous mercury transport at contaminated mine sites.

The Western Ecological Research Center of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is offering a funding opportunity to one Partner of the Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit (CESU) Program. The project is titled “Assessing the efficacies of passive versus active restoration on heavily disturbed cattle-grazing sites in the Mojave National Preserve”.

The US Geological Survey is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research on improving discharge and water velocity monitoring of stratified flows through an engineered channel in a railroad causeway at Great Salt Lake (GSL) and to improve understanding of water column mixing. Essential components of the funding opportunity are student, faculty, and computational support to 1) conduct computational fluid dynamic (CFD) model simulations of conditions specific to the day and time USGS conducts field discharge measurements at the railroad causeway channel using a mechanical current meter and an acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP); 2) assist USGS in analyzing velocity and discharge data measured via multiple instruments and model simulations to help reduce uncertainty associated with field discharge measurements and a potential index-velocity rating for reporting discharge on a near continuous basis; and 3) conduct CFD model simulations to evaluate water column mixing south of the causeway and work with USGS in determining deployment locations of one or more up-looking ADCPs to validate model simulations of mixing.

The USGS is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research in design of management experiments, site selection information, management guidance, and field data collection protocols for the recovery of threatened Eastern Black Rail populations. The species is listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act and effective and efficient management strategies are largely unknown. Management experiments are needed to determine best management practices for the recovery of Eastern Black Rails.

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research on multi-scale remote sensing of spectral and structural traits of biological soil crusts. The Western Geographic Science Center (WGSC) has a CESU requirement for work to be performed by a remote sensing specialist to contribute research to a USGS project titled “Biological soil crust ecology and function from space” This project is made up of a multi-disciplinary biocrust remote sensing research team that leverages USGS expertise in biocrusts, remote sensing, dryland ecology, and biogeochemistry to significantly advance dryland and remote sensing science. The objective of the project is to explore the use of multiple cutting-edge remote sensing data sets and techniques in order to assess plant, biological soil crust, and mineral soil under varied conditions. Will integrate measurements from field-based and aerial sensors (terrestrial lidar, hand-held and aerial thermal and hyperspectral) with hyperspectral and multispectral satellite data to map functional and structural traits and life history strategies across the landscape, enabling first-time insights into novel aspects of dryland ecosystem functioning. The team is looking for a CESU partner to help complete tasks essential to the success of the project.

The US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center (SBSC), is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for field data collection of plant species composition, vegetation structure, and soil conditions in big sagebrush ecosystems. Big sagebrush ecosystems provide habitat for a range of wildlife species and support livestock grazing, which is an important contributor to the sustainability of rural western economies and is nearly ubiquitous within the sagebrush biome. However, big sagebrush plant communities are in decline and being transformed by multiple threats including invasive annual grasses and changing climate. The goal of this opportunity is to enable scientists of CESU Partner to sample vegetation and soils in big sagebrush ecosystems. The objective of this opportunity is data characterizing the species composition, vegetation structure and soil conditions at selected big sagebrush shrubland sites.

The US Geological Survey is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for applying radiocarbon (14C) techniques to detect old carbon assimilation in nearshore marine ecosystems given the possibility that permafrost degradation and erosion may allow for old carbon delivery via freshwater discharge to Arctic marine environment. Climate warming is accelerating erosion and thawing of frozen ground (i.e., permafrost), leading to a myriad of changes in physical and chemical conditions throughout the Arctic with the potential to modify food webs.