National Park Service Grant for Quantifying Cruise Ship and Humpback Whale Interactions in Glacier Bay

This Funding Announcement is not a request for applications. This announcement is to provide public notice of the National Park Service (NPS), intention to fund the following project activities.

ABSTRACT

Funding Announcement:J9815100613

Project Title: CESU – Quantify the Frequency and Severity of Interactions between Cruise Ships and Humpback Whales in Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve

Recipient:University of Alaska Southeast

Principle
Investigator:Dr. Sanjay Pyare

Total Anticipated
Award Amount:$100,000 annually

Cost Share:N/A

New Award
Or Continuation:New CESU award

Anticipated
Length of
Agreement:5 Years

Anticipated
Period of
Performance:May 15, 2010 – April 15, 2015

Award
Instrument:Cooperative Agreement/CESU

Statutory
Authority: 16 U.S.C. Section 1g: The National Park Service may in fiscal year 1997 and thereafter enter into cooperative agreements that involve the transfer of National Park Service appropriated funds to State, local and tribal governments, other public entities, educational institutions, and private nonprofit organizations for the public purpose of carrying out National Park Service programs pursuant to section 6305 of title 31 to carry out public purposes of National Park Service programs.

CFDA# and 0.00 Not Elsewhere Classified – CESU
Title:

Single Source
Justification
Criteria Sited: Continuation

This is a continuation of a project initiated in 2008 in which the partnership between UAS and NPS has been highly successful. Existing funds are in place for further employment by a spatial analyst at UAS from funds in a grant awarded to the UAS and the NPS. Initiation by any other entity would require significant delays in terms of understanding and developing logistical protocols and data analysis, and would have significant impacts on the effectiveness and efficiency for implementation of this ongoing project.

National
Park Service
Point of Contact: Erica_Cordeiro@nps.gov