Cooperative Agreement for affiliated Partner with the Californian Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (United States, f0e5c407)

The USGS is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research in carbon cycling in seabed mineral environments. Seabed minerals may contain economically significant concentrations of valuable metals and rare earth elements which are essential to transportation, technological products, and defense and national security applications (i.e., critical minerals; Energy Act, 2020; U.S. Geological Survey, 2025; Hein et al., 2013, 2020). Of particular interest are manganese nodule fields...