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Cooperative Agreement for affiliated Partner with the Desert Southwest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit

Award ceiling
up to $499,550
Closes
Jun 14, 2026
Last verified
2026-09-24

Awards up to $499,550 per recipient for others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), closing Jun 14, 2026.

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Cooperative Agreement for affiliated Partner with the Desert Southwest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit awards up to $499,550 per recipient, open to others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), closing Jun 14, 2026.

Record fields
Program pool (total)
$499,550
Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Award ceiling (per project)
$499,550
Award floor
$1
Typical award
Not confirmed
Deadline
Jun 14, 2026
Deadline type
Fixed date
Opens
May 14, 2026
Status
Closed
Eligible entities
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Geography
Not stated
Matching funds
No
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Application effort
Not confirmed
Use of funds
remote sensing platforms for southwestern U.S. ecosystems · biological soil crust communities research · artificial intelligence and machine learning for data analysis · dryland ecosystem assessment tools
Currency
USD

How much money is available?

Two different figures govern a programme and they are not interchangeable. The programme pool is what the funder has allocated across every award it will make this cycle. The award ceiling is the most one applicant can be granted.

Program pool (total)Across all awards this cycle
$499,550
Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive
$499,550

Who can apply?

level
federal
Derived from the source that published this record
entity
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Source field: entity types
industry
use
artificial intelligence and machine learning for data analysis, biological soil crust communities research, dryland ecosystem assessment tools, remote sensing platforms for southwestern U.S. ecosystems
Source field: use of funds
size limit

Not confirmed

Source field: applicant size limit
clause text

This financial assistance opportunity is being issued under a Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESU) Program. CESU"s are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education. Eligible recipients must be a…

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When does it close?

Jun 14, 2026ClosedDeadline type Fixed date

What can the money be used for?

4 categorysThe source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
remote sensing platforms for southwestern U.S. ecosystemsbiological soil crust communities researchartificial intelligence and machine learning for data analysisdryland ecosystem assessment tools

These categories come from the source's own classification. A line-item cost table, where the programme publishes one, lives in the guidelines and is not parsed for this record.

How hard is the application?

1 fieldEffort, match requirement and reimbursement, as the source stated them.
Application effort
Not confirmed
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Matching funds
No

What comparable notices state

105 recordsStated ceilings on open records in the same industry.

Among open records stored under Science, Technology, Research & Development, 105 of 333 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:

  • 25th percentile$600,000
  • Median$1,925,000
  • 75th percentile$7,500,000

A statistical estimate, not a prediction. It describes what a set of notices has published in this catalogue on the day you read it, and says nothing about what this programme will award. Records stating no ceiling are excluded rather than counted as zero, and the programme pool — what a funder has across every applicant — is a different column and is never mixed in.

Common questions

6 questionsEvery answer is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.
How much can one applicant receive?
Up to $499,550 per recipient.
How much funding is available in total?
$499,550 across the whole programme. This is the total the funder has allocated, not an amount any single applicant can receive.
When is the application deadline?
Jun 14, 2026.
Who is eligible to apply?
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification).
What can the funding be used for?
remote sensing platforms for southwestern U.S. ecosystems, biological soil crust communities research, artificial intelligence and machine learning for data analysis, dryland ecosystem assessment tools, as classified by the source.
Is matching funding required?
No. The source states that no matching funds are required.

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Provenance
Source pagegrants.gov
Retrieved2026-09-24
MethodAutomated check
First seen2026-09-24

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