Cooperative Agreement for affiliated Partner with Great Rivers Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit
Geological Survey · Other Federal · G27AS00059
Source: Grants.gov · View original posting ↗
- AwardWhat a single award can be worth — the funder's published per-award amount or floor–ceiling range.
- $1 – $300K
- DeadlineFinal application due date.
- Dec 7, 2026
- Letter of intentDue date for the letter of intent (a short pre-application some funders require or request before the full proposal).
- —
- MechanismNIH activity code — the grant type (R01 research project, R21 exploratory, K series career development, F series fellowship, …).
- —
- DurationMaximum project period for a single award.
- —
- Expected awardsHow many awards the funder anticipates making under this opportunity.
- 1
- Funding cycleHow often the program accepts applications (annual, multiple cycles per year, rolling, or one-time).
- Unknown
- Open dateWhen applications open (or opened).
- Nov 5, 2026
- Total fundingThe overall pool the funder expects to commit across ALL awards under this opportunity — not what one project receives.
- $300K total
- Clinical trialWhether proposed projects must, may, or must not include a clinical trial.
- Unspecified
Research areas
Auto-classified from the title and description (keyword-based) — may be imperfect.
Description
The USGS is offering a funding opportunity to a Great Rivers CESU partner for research to assess the efficacy of using in-situ fluorometry for detection of milt (seminal fluid) from invasive carp in rivers downstream from spawning sites. Invasive carp–bighead ( Hypophthalmichthys nobilis ) silver ( H. molitrix ), grass( Ctenopharyngodon idella ), and black ( Mylopharyngodon piceus ) carp–are native to Southeast Asia and have spread throughout much of the Mississippi River Basin since their escape from private, wastewater, and aquaculture ponds in the 1980s. Technologies allowing for early detection of these species, especially evidence of natural reproduction, are needed by state and federal agencies throughout the Great Lakes and Mississippi River Basins to control the spread of invasive carp and assess risk to uninvaded waters. Natural resource managers have generally relied upon labor-intensive ichthyoplankton sampling by boat crews to determine if invasive carp are spawning in a river. While these samples can provide direct evidence of spawning, they require crews to be on the water sampling in the right place and right time during a spawning event. The discrete samples collected using traditional sampling methods are generally spatiotemporally sparse due to limited resources. Recent deployments of streamside environmental DNA (eDNA) autosamplers have shown promise in detection of spawning activity ( project webpage ). However, the equipment and analyses are costly, the system has limited sampling capability, results are not available in real-time, and eDNA methods used cannot currently discern the presence of milt or eggs from that of adult fish.