The National Park Service is offering a grant to assess threats to Denali National Park & Preserve’s Class I airshed through comprehensive analysis of long-term data.

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: P11AT30894-R9836110044

Project Title: Asses threats to Denali National Park & Preserve�s class I air shed through comprehensive analysis of long term data.

Recipient: University of Alaska Fairbanks

Principle
Investigator: Dr. Catherine F.Cahill
Total Anticipated
Award Amount: $81,587.

Cost Share: N/A

New Award
Or Continuation: New

Anticipated
Length of
Agreement: 5 Years

Anticipated
Period of
Performance: August 01, 2011 � July 30, 2016

Award
Instrument: Cooperative Agreement

Statutory
Authority: 16 U.S.C. �1(g): 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#: 15.945

Substantial Involvement:

The analytical team will be comprised of a University of Alaska atmospheric chemist and two National Park Service employees: a statistician from the Central Alaska Vital Signs Monitoring Network, and an environmental specialist from Denali National Park & Preserve. The environmental specialist manages the Denali NP&P air quality monitoring program, and will provide overall project management to ensure that analytical strategies are relevant to NPS goals and objectives. The NPS statistician will design and conduct all statistical analyses, with programmatic guidance from the other two team members. The UAF atmospheric chemist is the principal investigator of the project, and will interpret the results and place them into a local and regional air quality context. The team will work together through all stages of the analytical process, and will work cooperatively to produce the final report. The principal investigator will be the lead author of the final report.