The Great Lakes Northern Forest (GLNF) Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) is a regional network of faculty, specialists, managers, and staff from leading academic institutions, conservation organizations, and federal agencies. All units transcend political and institutional boundaries to improve the scientific base for managing public lands. They provide resource managers with high quality scientific research, technical assistance, and education. The GLNF CESU seeks to resolve resource problems at multiple scales using interdisciplinary ecosystem studies involving the biological, physical, social, and cultural sciences. The GLNF CESU has been hosted by the University of Minnesota’s Department of Forest Resources since 2002.
Natural Resource Management Support for Natural Resource Branch, Fort Drum, New York
Fort Worth District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has issued a Request for Statement to conduct rare, invasive and noxious plant management for the Fort Drum Natural Resources Branch/Environmental Division located at Fort Drum, NY. The scope of this agreement includes supporting the program manager (PM) through various program management duties such as floral and faunal identification; developing and implementing survey and monitoring protocols for species and communities; vegetation and insect classification; compiling installation and regional occurrences of species of management concern; analysis and reporting of findings through technical documentation partnered with GIS interpretation; and developing, testing and analyzing management treatments.
Understanding Reservoir Sedimentation Sources and Economics in the Kansas River Basin
The US Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City District, seeks RSOIs for long-term sediment management of Kansas River Basin reservoirs.
Sediment accumulation in reservoirs is a national problem. In USACE reservoirs in the Kansas River Basin, sediment accumulation is projected to shrink available multipurpose pool storage by an additional 407,000 ac-ft over the next 100 years. Over 40% of the population of Kansas depend on the flood control and water supply benefits of Tuttle Creek Reservoir and many more utilize the recreational and environmental benefits.
Kansas City District efforts are underway to pilot innovative dredging technologies to remove sediment from Tuttle Creek Lake. However, prior to making decisions on long-term sediment management, it needs to be able to quantify sediment sources and to sensibly compare the economic consequences of sediment load reduction, sediment removal, and the damages and lost benefits of doing nothing.
2023 SPSD Collaborative Soil Science Research
The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), an agency under the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), is announcing the potential availability of funding for agreements for the purposes of supporting cooperative research in soil science and soil survey. The purpose of the 2023 Soil Survey Cooperative Research Proposals is to promote research that informs and improves soil survey. As such, each proposal must include significant collaboration with soil survey personnel (such as National Soil Survey Center Research staff, Major Land Resource Area (MLRA) Soil Survey or Regional offices). The proposal’s deliverables and their connection to soil survey must be clearly explained.
This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NFO) is being released prior to appropriation and/or apportionment of funds for fiscal year 2023. Enactment of additional continuing resolutions or an appropriations act may affect the availability or level of funding for this program.
Genetic characterization of introduced European frogbit and water soldier to support management and biological control development
The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) announces an opportunity to enter into a cooperative agreement for genetic characterization of populations of European frogbit and water soldier (Hydrocharis morsus-ranae and Stratiotes aloides), two invasive aquatic weeds in North America, from populations in their invasive and native ranges. This information will be used to direct future foreign exploration by identifying areas likely to have agents pre-adapted to the genotype of invasive North American populations.
Phase I Deadline: July 03, 2023, at 12:00 noon Central Time (CT).
Investigation of water quality trigger points for Didymo Blooms in the Saint Marys Rapids, Lake Superior
US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) seeks applications for a cooperative agreement to develop a collaborative water quality monitoring program for the purpose of identifying the physiochemical parameters that may cause the onset of Didymo blooms in the St. Marys River Rapids adjacent to the Soo Lock and Dam. Initial data from the program will be used by ERDC and the CESU institution to design and conduct laboratory and field tests aimed to control and/or manipulate Didymo growth.
Deadline: 26 June, 2023, at 13:00 Central Time (CT)