Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Great Lakes Northern Forests CESU | G18AS00091

Opportunity Information: Apply for G18AS00091

The Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Great Lakes Northern Forests CESU grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number G18AS00091) is a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) discretionary funding announcement under the Department of the Interior. It is offered as a cooperative agreement, meaning the USGS expects to be actively involved with the selected recipient during the project rather than simply issuing a pass-through award. The funding falls under the Science and Technology and other Research and Development activity category (CFDA 15.808).

The purpose of the award is to provide technical assistance and applied research support to improve how the USGS turns information locked inside scientific papers into structured, usable database records. The USGS frequently depends on details embedded in published literature, and the traditional process for capturing those details is often manual: staff read articles, identify relevant passages, and then type or copy data into databases. That approach is slow, costly, and prone to human error, and it can produce results that are hard to reproduce because different people may interpret text differently or document their extraction steps inconsistently.

This opportunity is centered on exploring and testing newer, more programmatic approaches for knowledge extraction from digital documents. In practical terms, the work would focus on researching and developing methods and workflows that can identify relevant information in articles and extract it in a consistent way into databases. The announcement emphasizes assessing the viability of creating a systematic method for literature-based knowledge extraction, suggesting the project is intended as a proof-of-concept or pilot effort that evaluates what works, what does not, and what kind of repeatable workflow the USGS could scale or refine for broader use.

Eligibility is limited to partners within the Great Lakes-Northern Forest CESU network (the announcement lists eligible applicants as "Others" with clarification in an additional eligibility field, and the description specifies a CESU partner). The award information indicates an expected single award, with a maximum funding amount (award ceiling) of $150,000. The opportunity was originally posted July 31, 2018, with an original closing date of August 14, 2018, indicating it was a time-limited competition aimed at selecting one partner to carry out this targeted technical and research effort.

• The Department of the Interior, U. S. Geological Survey in the science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Great Lakes Northern Forests CESU" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.808.
• This funding opportunity was created on Jul 31, 2018.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Aug 14, 2018. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $150,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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