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The USGS is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for marine mineral formation and oceanic setting. The primary Research Objectives covered by this agreement include (1) improve understanding of marine mineral formation, including processes of element enrichment and growth timescales and (2) improve understanding of the environmental context around marine minerals, including the potential for geochemical perturbations as a result of disturbance.

The USGS is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research on coral reef . The primary Research Objective of this project is to test hypotheses about long-term changes in coral calcification in response to environmental variability using the emerging technology of computed tomography (CT) and coral cores collected from Ofu Island in American Samoa and from inshore locations throughout south Florida. In doing so, this project aims to 1) reconstruct decadal to millennial-scale changes in calcification during the Holocene to determine how longer-term environmental changes, including ocean warming and ecosystem degradation, influence coral growth and 2) develop decades- to centuries-long records of coral growth and bioerosion preserved within individual cores and to provide important historical context for modern day studies of coral calcification, reef erosion, and the impacts of these processes on reef health.

The USGS is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research on tectonically active continental margins. Specifically, we seek to understand linkages between subaqueous tectonic geomorphology, tsunami generations and fault damage zones through a cross-disciplinary collaboration. The USGS is interested in developing observational frameworks that tie earthquake physics and the constitutive properties of active fault zones, to 3D structure and geomorphology. The extent of distributed damage surrounding faults affects an earthquake’s propagation, its associated strong motion, and perhaps even the distribution of slip, aftershocks, and slope failure around the fault. The goals of this study are part of the Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Programs (CMHRP) mission to identify and characterize marine geohazards (earthquakes, tsunamis, and submarine landslides) and to develop probabilistic hazard assessments for the nation. In addition, results from this study will provide information and data valuable to the offshore energy industry (both conventional and renewables), offshore municipal wastewater infrastructure, and maritime commerce associated with major ports.

The Western Ecological Research Center of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is offering a funding opportunity to a partner of the Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit (CESU) Program for project titled “Evaluation of Occupancy Dynamics of Western Spadefoots (Spea hammondii) using eDNA.”

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Western Ecological Research Center, is offering a Cooperative Agreement to one Member of the Californian Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit (CESU) Program. The project is titled “Distribution of Herpetofauna of Conservation Concern and Interacting Species in California Foothill Streams.”

The Western Ecological Research Center of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is offering a funding opportunity to one Member of the Californian Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit (CESU) Program. The project is titled “Prevalence and Diversity of Viruses in Western Bats, with an Emphasis on Coronaviruses.”

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Western Ecological Research Center, is offering a funding opportunity to be issued under the Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit (CESU) Cooperative Agreement for research project to evaluate native fish presence, prey resources, and habitat at restoration sites to inform beneficial reuse of dredged material.

The US Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU Partner for research to characterize burn severity and potential vegetation recovery at high spatial and temporal resolutions 2020 and 2021 Presidentially Declared wildfires in California. This information will be used to inform water and landslide hazard objectives and to develop a set of tools that aid strategies by land managers (e.g., DOI and US Forest Service) in efforts to recover desirable vegetation, decrease the impact of invasive species, and stabilize soils and other resource management to reduce risk to communities.

The US Geological Survey is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research in 1) long-lead crop yield forecasting and crop condition outlooks, and 2) methods to provide crop yield forecasts and crop condition outlooks in FEWS NET countries where sub-national crop yield data are either non-existent or severely limited.

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.