Opportunity Information: Apply for F17AS00374
The Chukchi Sea Polar Bear Harvest Risk Assessment opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number F17AS00374) is a discretionary Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) award intended to support a focused scientific assessment of harvest-related risk for the Chukchi Sea (CS) polar bear subpopulation. It is structured as a cooperative agreement under CFDA 15.608 and sits within the broader USFWS polar bear program mission of keeping Alaska's polar bear populations healthy and functioning as part of the Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort seas ecosystems.
This notice is explicitly not a competitive solicitation. USFWS Region 7 states it intends to make a single-source financial assistance award, authorized under 505 DM 2.14(B), to the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) at the University of Washington. Because it is issued through the CESU Network, the work is framed as collaborative research and technical support that federal resource agencies commonly use when they need specialized scientific capacity from academic partners. The eligible applicant category listed is public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, but the agency makes clear it does not intend to accept proposals from other entities.
The project has two main deliverables. First, the recipient must produce a harvest risk assessment for the Chukchi Sea polar bear subpopulation. Second, the resulting assessment must be prepared and submitted to a peer-reviewed scientific journal, indicating the agency expects the work to meet publication-grade standards and contribute to the broader scientific record, not just internal decision-making.
Methodologically, the assessment is required to integrate several key inputs so it can inform real management choices. It must incorporate the best available, current demographic parameters for Chukchi Sea polar bears (for example, survival and reproduction patterns as reflected in the latest data), use the most up-to-date population and harvest modeling framework available at the time of the study, and include projected habitat conditions. The habitat projection requirement signals that the analysis is expected to account for changing environmental conditions that affect polar bear ecology and population dynamics, rather than assuming a static environment.
The end purpose is to support evaluation of the biological effects of a range of harvest management options. In practice, that means comparing potential outcomes under different harvest levels or regulatory approaches and quantifying risk to the population under each scenario. The notice also emphasizes that the analysis must be consistent with national and international laws and agreements governing polar bear management and conservation, reflecting that polar bear harvest policy is shaped by multiple legal and cooperative frameworks and that the assessment needs to be directly usable in that context.
Administratively, the opportunity was created August 17, 2017, with an original closing date of August 31, 2017, and it anticipates a single award with an award ceiling of $63,000. The single-award structure and the explicit single-source intent indicate the funding is designed to support a specific, predefined piece of work with a designated partner, rather than to fund multiple competing research teams.Apply for F17AS00374
- The Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service in the environment, natural resources, science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Chukchi Sea Polar Bear Harvest Risk Assessment" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.608.
- This funding opportunity was created on Aug 17, 2017.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Aug 31, 2017. (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 $63,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education.
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