Cooperative Agreement for affiliated Partner with Hawai-Pacific Islands (HPI) Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit
Funding supports a CESU partner project to study how wind affects mosquito incursion into Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge in Hawaiʻi.
⚑ Applicants must be a participating partner of the Hawai-Pacific Islands Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU). · Cooperative agreement with a modest ceiling of $49,844. · Research focused on wind-driven mosquito movement and related ecological disease-vector dynamics.
This is a biological/ecological field study on mosquito incursion and habitat conditions in a Hawaiian wildlife refuge, which is outside IPPRA’s social-behavioral risk, policy, warning, energy, and education research lines. The team would not plausibly pursue this as PI-level work beyond perhaps peripheral communication or stakeholder components.
JUDGED AGAINST THE ROSTER'S PUBLICATION DOSSIER · GPT-5.4-MINI · 2026-11-06
Unit fits — one characterization, each unit's own rules
| Physical Sciences & Engineering (demo) | 70 strong | technical depth: substantial; funds applied research |
| IPPRA | 45 partial | portfolio topics: environment, public_health (primary); social/behavioral work is none; funds applied research; capped at 45 (limited social-science role) |
| Tom Love Innovation Hub | 25 weak | funds applied research; deep-tech content |
Description
The USGS is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research in identifying how wind influences the incursion of mosquitoes into Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge (hereafter, Hakalau). Hakalau provides habitat for the most intact community of native Hawaiian birds remaining in Hawaiʻi, at least partly due to the lack of disease-carrying Culex mosquitoes in the higher elevation portions of the refuge.
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 Hawai-Pacific Islands Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit.
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