The National Park Service (NPS) is offering this grant for the comprehensive analysis and interpretation of coastal assessment data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National Coastal Assessment for the Great Lakes. This grant is for synthesizing extensive datasets, specifically supplemented by an NPS Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Project, to provide crucial information on coastal conditions within Great Lakes national park boundaries and their broader regional context. The project aims to summarize park-specific coastal conditions, identify differences between park waters and surrounding Great Lakes areas, and perform additional exploratory data analysis. The careful evaluation of this data will yield significant insights for Great Lakes parks regarding coastal management, restoration initiatives, and research needs, also informing EPA on valuable reference conditions.
Opportunity ID: 102113
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | E11AC60558 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Synthesis of National Coastal Assessment data for Great Lakes national parks |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Natural Resources |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 1 |
| Assistance Listings: | 15.945 — Cooperative Research and Training Programs – Resources of the National Park System |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | Jun 28, 2011 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Jul 05, 2011 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Jul 05, 2011 |
| Archive Date: | Aug 04, 2011 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $37,000 |
| Award Ceiling: | $37,000 |
| Award Floor: | $0 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | This is a "Notice of Intent" of a single source task agreement award to the Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Croix Watershed Research Station under the Great Lakes Northern Forest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU). A noncompetitive award to the Science Museum of Minnesota-St. Croix Watershed Research Station (SCWRS) is justified based on the criteria of (2) continuation and (4) unique qualifications. First, the proposed activity continues a long standing and productive pattern of research by the SCWRS in national parks of the Great Lakes region, including recent and emerging projects focused on Great Lakes nearshore (and shoreline) water quality and ecology at Isle Royale National Park and Apostle Islands, Pictured Rocks, and Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshores. In all cases the cooperators have delivered high quality products which have proved extremely useful for managing park resources. Through these and other studies, SCWRS scientists have acquired unique insights into regional ecosystems as well as NPS management needs and interests. The planned work addressing coastal waters in Great Lakes national parks is a logical continuation and extension of their previous and ongoing studies. Secondly, the SCWRS and the principal investigators are uniquely qualified to conduct the statistical and ecological work this project entails. PI has worked with large contemporary and paleo-limnological datasets over a large geographical range of lakes. PI has worked with aquatic systems ranging from large oligotrophic lakes in British Columbia to small pristine alpine lakes throughout North America. PI research has focused on the various pathways in which nutrients are delivered to aquatic ecosystems, studying the impacts of multiple diffuse sources (agricultural, marine-derived, and atmospheric). PI has studied multivariate statistical techniques under a leading biometrist and published large data compilations in top-tier international journals. PI is adept at using the open source software R for statistical purposes. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | National Park Service |
| Description: | The purpose of this agreement is to analyze and interpret (fully and statistically) a large coastal dataset generated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)�s National Coastal Assessment for the Great Lakes. This Assessment effort was supplemented and made more park-specific through funds from an NPS Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Project (GLRI #89 �Comprehensive Marine Assessments�). The proposed analysis of these data will provide unprecedented information on coastal conditions within NPS boundaries, but will also place those conditions into a larger Great Lakes context. Specifically, the project aims to 1) summarize coastal conditions on a park-specific basis, 2) determine whether or not coastal conditions in national park units differ from those of surrounding Great Lakes waters, and 3) conduct additional exploratory analysis of coastal datasets, as time permits. The careful analysis of this dataset will provide important insights for Great Lakes parks to consider in addressing coastal management issues, restoration projects, and research needs. It will also provide insights to EPA about Great Lakes reference conditions, as coastal waters near NPS units are likely among those least impacted by upland pollutants and other stressors. |
| Link to Additional Information: | – |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
Tonya Bradley
Contract Specialist Phone 402-661-1656 Email:tonya_bradley@nps.gov |
Version History
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Packages
| Agency Contact Information: | Tonya Bradley Contract Specialist Phone 402-661-1656 Email: tonya_bradley@nps.gov |
| Who Can Apply: | Organization Applicants |
| Assistance Listing Number | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15.945 | PKG00061610 | Jun 28, 2011 | Jul 05, 2011 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
102113 SF424-2.0.pdf
102113 GG_LobbyingForm-1.1.pdf
102113 SF424A-1.0.pdf
102113 SF424B-1.1.pdf
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