Coastal Flood Modeling, Hazards, Risk and Impact Assessment Across the Pacific Northwest U.S. Coast | USGS 17 FA 0240

Opportunity Information: Apply for USGS 17 FA 0240

This funding opportunity is a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) discretionary grant offered as a non-competitive cooperative agreement focused on coastal flood modeling and related hazards, risk, and impact assessment along the U.S. Pacific Northwest coast. The title indicates that the work is intended to improve understanding and prediction of coastal flooding, translate those modeling results into hazard and risk information, and assess potential impacts to people, infrastructure, ecosystems, and coastal communities across the Pacific Northwest. Because it is framed around modeling and assessment, the project scope typically implies technical activities such as developing or refining numerical models for coastal flooding processes, analyzing hazard scenarios (for example, storm-driven coastal inundation and other coastal water-level extremes), and producing decision-relevant outputs that can support planning, mitigation, and emergency management.

Administratively, the opportunity is identified as Funding Opportunity Number USGS 17 FA 0240, created on 2017-06-15, with an original closing date of 2017-06-25. The instrument type is a cooperative agreement rather than a standard grant, which generally means USGS expected substantial involvement in the project, such as collaboration on technical direction, data standards, review of deliverables, coordination with other federal or regional efforts, or integration of results into USGS products. The listing explicitly states it is non-competitive, which usually indicates that the award was intended for a specific partner organization or a limited set of partners identified in advance rather than an open solicitation where multiple applicants compete.

The funding category is listed as "Other" under the funding activity classification, and the assistance listing (CFDA) number is 15.808, which corresponds to USGS activities and supports projects aligned with USGS science and mission needs. The eligible applicant type is shown as "Others," a broad label that can encompass entities outside the more common categories like state governments or universities, depending on the particular program context and the pre-identified recipient typical of non-competitive cooperative agreements. The award ceiling is $300,000, meaning the maximum federal funding amount contemplated under this opportunity was up to that level. The number of expected awards is not specified in the source data provided, which is consistent with a non-competitive posting where a single award is often anticipated but not always explicitly stated in the summary fields.

In practical terms, the opportunity is centered on producing actionable coastal flood science for the Pacific Northwest, tying together three connected pieces: modeling (building the quantitative tools to simulate flooding), hazard characterization (defining where, how often, and how severely flooding can occur), and risk and impact assessment (connecting the physical hazard to exposure and vulnerability to estimate consequences). The cooperative agreement structure suggests the outputs were likely meant to be usable beyond academic research, such as datasets, maps, model configurations, reports, or methods that USGS could incorporate into its broader coastal hazards work and make available to stakeholders working on resilience and hazard preparedness along the Pacific Northwest coastline.

• The Geological Survey in the other sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Coastal Flood Modeling, Hazards, Risk and Impact Assessment Across the Pacific Northwest U.S. Coast" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.808.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2017-06-15.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2017-06-25. (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 $300,000.00 in funding.
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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