Opportunity Information: Apply for M20AS00173
GM-20-02, titled "Data Gap: Characterizing the Seafloor in the Mesophotic Zone," is a Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) grant opportunity focused on improving the scientific foundation for offshore management decisions in the mesophotic zone, roughly 40 to 150 meters deep. BOEM describes this depth range as an area where it currently lacks enough information to make confident decisions without risk of creating unnecessarily burdensome requirements. The central goal is to better characterize key seafloor features in this zone, including shipwrecks, hard-bottom habitats, and pinnacles, and to understand how these features function ecologically so BOEM can develop appropriate management, mitigation, and avoidance strategies based on the actual community structures present.
A major emphasis of the work is on shipwrecks as artificial reefs. The opportunity highlights that shipwrecks provide hard substrate that many organisms can colonize and can also offer shelter from predators, supporting a diverse set of marine life. The proposed study is designed to document selected shipwreck sites and then compare biological recruitment and overall community structure on those artificial reef sites versus nearby naturally occurring hard-bottom reefs. By pairing shipwrecks with adjacent natural reefs, the project aims to clarify how colonization differs between artificial and natural structures and what role shipwrecks may play as habitat in mesophotic environments. In practical terms, the study is expected to strategically target wreck locations where natural hard-bottom benthic communities are known to occur nearby, allowing for more meaningful comparisons that can inform BOEMs future planning and protective measures.
The award is offered as a discretionary cooperative agreement under the environment funding activity category (CFDA 15.423). The opportunity number is M20AS00173. BOEM lists an award ceiling of $600,000, with the original application closing date of July 21, 2020, and a creation date of July 17, 2020. The notice also indicates expected awards, though the specific count is not clearly provided in the supplied text.
Eligibility is limited to coastal state governments and public, state-controlled institutions of higher education within specific Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESUs): Gulf Coast, Piedmont-South Atlantic Coast, Chesapeake Watershed, or North Atlantic Coast (as referenced through the CESU network at http://www.cesu.psu.edu). While the project is intended for those eligible applicants, BOEM encourages cooperative research teams. Applicants may include subcontracts to non-profit organizations, private institutions of higher education, private companies, or other public/state-controlled universities as part of their proposals. The opportunity requires that the Principal Investigator be a staff member of the applying organization, reinforcing that an eligible lead institution must directly oversee the work rather than serving only as a pass-through. Federal entities are allowed to participate as partners, but any tasks and budget associated with a federal partner must be presented separately by that federal partner. For other non-federal partners, tasks and budgets are expected to be included within the main applicants proposal materials.Apply for M20AS00173
- The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management in the environment sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "GM-20-02-Data Gap: Characterizing the Seafloor in the Mesophotic Zone" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.423.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2020-07-17.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2020-07-21. (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 $600,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, Others.
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