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CESU Cooperative Agreement to Test Low-Cost Underwater Vehicle for Real-Time Water Quality Event Mapping

USGS is partnering with a CESU (Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit) partner to evaluate whether a low-cost autonomous underwater vehicle, the JaiaBot BIO, can rapidly map and measure episodic water quality problems. The work will focus on river plume impacts and cyanobacteria bloom events on Lake Champlain, with the goal of quantifying event distribution and severity near real time. The projec…

The USGS is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for the research outlined below.Timely characterization of the spatial distribution and severity of water quality degradation in response to episodic events is a challenge for the water quality monitoring community given their episodic…

Funding Source

Agency: Geological Survey

Awards & funding

Total Funding: $299,971
Award Ceiling: $299,971
Award Floor: $1

Eligibility

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 participating partner of the Great Lakes-Northern Forest Cooperativ…

Dates

Open Date: May 29, 2026
Close Date: June 29, 2026

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