Cooperative Agreement 97350001

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) San Francisco Bay Water Quality Improvement Fund (CFDA 66.126) provides $24,833,333 in funding to the San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI) to implement the Nutrient Management Strategy (NMS) and San Francisco Bay Regional Monitoring Program (RMP). Key activities include expanded water quality monitoring, targeted field and lab studies, data analysis and synthesis, and development of numerical models. The funding...

The Environmental Protection Agency Region 3 awarded a $10 million Project Grant under the Geographic Programs - Chesapeake Bay Program (CFDA #66.466) to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation on September 1, 2022. The grant will fund implementation of the Innovative Nutrient and Sediment Reduction Program through August 31, 2027 to support efforts that accelerate sub-watershed and regional-scale nutrient and sediment reductions in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. NFWF will administer a...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $750,000 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Congressionally Identified Awards and Projects program (CFDA 11.469) will support a 3-year research project conducted by Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) to understand the contribution of groundwater to surface water quality in the Estero Bay watershed in Southwest Florida. The key objectives of the project are to: 1) measure baseflow and estimate groundwater discharge into the...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award of $337,987, granted by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the USGS Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808), will support the development of a national-scale dataset of dissolved organic matter (DOM) concentrations in U.S. inland waters from 1984-2024. The project aims to provide remote sensing-derived estimates of DOM, which plays a critical role in water quality, by building predictive models based on in-situ DOM observations paired with...

This Project Grant award of $1,642,106 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 3 under the Geographic Programs - Chesapeake Bay Program (CFDA 66.466) supports the Chesapeake Conservancy, Inc. in providing the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) partnership with updated land use/land cover data, enhanced river corridor data, and landscape metrics products. The key project activities include: 1) developing high-resolution land cover datasets for the Chesapeake Bay region; 2) creating a...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 9 awarded a $2,997,596 Project Grant to the San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI) under the San Francisco Bay Water Quality Improvement Fund (CFDA 66.126) program. The grant will fund SFEI's "BayINSIGHT" project, which aims to enhance nutrient monitoring to guide water quality improvements affecting San Francisco Bay. Key project activities include: 1) Convening a multi-agency workgroup to target high priority monitoring needs related...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the Cooperative Research Units (CFDA 15.812) program provides $206,946 to The Pennsylvania State University from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2029. The project aims to assess the current status of stream conditions, fish habitat, and stream health in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, and increase understanding of stressor impacts on aquatic habitat quality and quantity. Key activities include identifying factors...

The Environmental Protection Agency Region 3 awarded the Maryland Department of the Environment a $2.3 million formula grant under the Nonpoint Source Implementation Grants program (CFDA 66.460) on July 1, 2022 to implement nonpoint source pollution control projects through June 30, 2027. The grant will support watershed restoration and protection efforts focused on improving water quality impaired by polluted runoff in watersheds covered by EPA-approved plans. The Maryland Department of the...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 9 awarded a $5,826,000 Project Grant to the San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI) under the Geographic Programs - San Francisco Bay Water Quality Improvement Fund (CFDA 66.126). The 4-year project aims to: (1) develop strategies to increase beneficial reuse of up to 45,000 tons of flood control channel sediment for habitat restoration; (2) implement pilot projects to restore several acres of tidal marsh and creek habitat; (3) develop visions...

This $1.8 million Environmental Protection Agency Region 3 Project Grant will support the Center for Inland Bays' implementation of the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan through September 2027. Funded through the National Estuary Program, the award aims to improve water quality and restore ecological integrity in the Delaware Inland Bays estuary through habitat restoration, water quality monitoring, public education, climate resiliency efforts,...