OpportunityTitle: Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Piedmont South Atlantic Coast CESU
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: This financial assistance opportunity is being issued under a Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program.  CESU&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;s are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education.  Eligible recipients must be a participating partner of the Piedmont-South Atlantic Coast Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program.
Description: The U.S. Geological Survey&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;s Core Science Analytics, Synthesis and Libraries (CSAS&amp;L) Program is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner within the Piedmont-South Atlantic Coast Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit that has the ability to support joint activities focused on increasing the availability of and access to high quality, species level plant location data from sampled plots in the US and US Territories for inclusion in the USGS Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON - http://bison.usgs.ornl.gov/) application, documentation in the USGS BISON Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT - http://bison.ornl.gov/ipt/), and for harvesting by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) via the USGS BISON IPT installation.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: fgraves@usgs.gov
GrantorContactText: Faith Graves, 703-648-7356&lt;br/&gt;fgraves@usgs.gov&lt;br/&gt;