Opportunity ID: 278727
General Information
Document Type: | Grants Notice |
Funding Opportunity Number: | NPS-DOIP15AC01065 |
Funding Opportunity Title: | High-resolution hydrologic modeling of Glacier Bay National Park |
Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement |
Category of Funding Activity: | Environment |
Category Explanation: | – |
Expected Number of Awards: | 1 |
Assistance Listings: | [] |
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
Version: | Synopsis 1 |
Posted Date: | Aug 28, 2015 |
Last Updated Date: | – |
Original Closing Date for Applications: | Sep 30, 2015 |
Current Closing Date for Applications: | Sep 30, 2015 |
Archive Date: | Oct 30, 2015 |
Estimated Total Program Funding: | $41,702 |
Award Ceiling: | $100,000 |
Award Floor: | $0 |
Eligibility
Eligible Applicants: | Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
Additional Information on Eligibility: | This award is for the CESU H8W07110001 recipient Oregon State University. |
Additional Information
Agency Name: | National Park Service |
Description: | OVERVIEW
Include a paragraph that explain the overview of the project to be awarded. Freshwater runoff plays a first order role in controlling the spatial and temporal distribution of water column properties (salinity, temperature, density) in the waters of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve (GBNPP). Runoff also strongly controls circulation patterns and residence times. These physical oceanographic processes are linked in many ways to ecological processes, demonstrating the broad impact of freshwater runoff on Glacier Bay. Streamflow is undersampled in Alaska in general and in GBNPP in particular. As a result, the hydrologic budget of Glacier Bay can not be determined through monitoring alone, and a modeling campaign is needed. Glacier Bay and Oregon State University will jointly develop a physical process-based hydrologic model for GBNPP that models snow and ice melt, and that routes runoff through the landscape to the coastline. The model will be highly resolved in space (100-500 m) and in time (daily step) allowing for estimates among and within seasons and years, and can accommodate individual rainfall events. The model will ultimately be validated using physical oceanographic data collected by park staff. Since runoff is strongly controlled by the precipitation and weather data, we will make model runs using three different weather products (NARR [North American Regional Reanalysis], MERRA [Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications], and PRISM [Parameter-elevation Relationships on Independent Slopes Model]). The ensemble of data sets will help to quantify the uncertainty in runoff associated with uncertainty in forcing weather data. Outcomes of this project will include a dataset in netcdf format covering the entire GBNPP watershed that specifies runoff on a daily time step for a 30-year hindcast period. ’Derived’ products will also include files describing the runoff extracted only at coastline grid cells to allow for the specification of the runoff into Glacier Bay. These data files will be suitable for immediate inclusion into an oceanographic model of the bay by other interested parties. Finally, a number of visual materials will also be generated based on input from park management and interpretation staff, including images (at a given time step, for example) and movies (covering a year, or the entire model period) that demonstrate the rich behavior of snowfall, icemelt, and runoff. STATEMENT OF JOINT OBJECTIVES/PROJECT MANAGEMENT PLAN NPS and Oregon State University will jointly develop a hydrologic model for GBNPP that models snow and ice melt, and that routes runoff through the landscape to the coastline. This collaborative project will improve our understanding of the present levels and distribution of runoff and how levels and distribution can change in response to changing precipitation, temperature and land cover. The variety of products produced by this project will contribute to greater public understanding of the hydrology of the system and how changing climate conditions can influence this critical component of the ecosystem. Explain the mutual and cooperative participation of the project to be awarded. 1. Generate a 30-year dataset on streamflow for the entire GBNPP watershed. This dataset will have a daily time step and will have a spatial resolution of 100-500 m. RECIPIENT INVOLVEMENT Recipient Involvement: This should provide a summary of the recipient’s activities to be funded by the award. It must be detailed enough for the public to understand, yet CANNOT include any proprietary information. 1. Collaboratively undertake a project titled “High-resolution hydrologic modeling of Glacier Bay National Park” as described throughout this Task Agreement. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE INVOLVEMENT Within this paragraph use the following language to address NPS Substantial involvement: Substantial involvement on the part of the National Park Service is anticipated for the successful completion of the objectives to be funded by this award. In particular, the National Park Service will be responsible for the following: 1. Provide financial assistance to the OSU as provided in Article VI. The budget, included as Attachment B, is incorporated in this Task Agreement. The activities / responsibilities that constitute substantial involvement on the part of the NPS must be stated here. This statement should reproduce the language to be incorporated within the Cooperative Agreement. |
Link to Additional Information: | – |
Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
James Cato
Contract Specialist Phone 907-644-3302 Email:james_cato@nps.gov |
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