Cooperative Agreement M20AC10018

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council a Cooperative Agreement totaling $146,839 under the Regional Fishery Management Councils program (CFDA 11.441) for the period of October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026. The Council will consolidate previously collected coral reef ecosystem data into an online geospatial platform and update analytical models to improve understanding of coral...

This federal Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), under the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (CFDA #45.313), provides $142,419 to the University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus to develop and deliver capacity-building workshops on digital collections management for memory workers (e.g., staff at galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) across Puerto Rico. The key objectives are to strengthen a community of practice in the region and...

The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $480,000 project grant to Northeastern University for a collaborative research effort titled "From Open Data to Open Data Curation" from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2025. The grant supports research under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), which aims to advance the development and use of research cyberinfrastructure to enable and accelerate...

The U.S. Geological Survey awarded a $411,387.56 Project Grant under the National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program (CFDA 15.814) to the University of Rhode Island (URI) for the "Preservation and Accessibility for Rhode Island Sediment Core Samples and Data" project. The 4/15/2025 - 4/14/2027 project aims to properly document, preserve, and make accessible sediment cores from Rhode Island waterways currently housed at URI's Marine Geological Samples Laboratory. Key...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences Project Grant award of $262,393 to Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) from July 15, 2023 to June 30, 2026 will support research to extend the hurricane record along the Southwest Florida coast by thousands of years. The project will analyze sediment cores from coastal "blue holes" to reconstruct the history of tropical cyclones in the region, resulting in a more robust understanding of the tropical cyclone frequency...

This Project Grant award of $374,288 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (CFDA 45.313) will support Dr. Alexandra Chassanoff's research into the current needs, challenges, and professionalization pathways for born-digital stewardship. The key activities and deliverables include conducting an environmental scan, studying several communities of practice, interviewing stakeholders, and producing a synthesis of...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) provides $417,746 to Texas A&M University to develop the SANDPIPER community toolchain. The key products and services delivered under this 4-year project include: Designing and implementing an affordable, open-source hardware and firmware system for geomorphology data acquisition in laboratories worldwide. Establishing a community-backed data standard...

This Project Grant award of $398,313 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support research by Oakland University to reconstruct the history of hurricanes along the Pacific coast of western Mexico. The project aims to fill a critical data gap by extracting sediment cores to identify evidence of past hurricane and tsunami events going back hundreds to thousands of years. This research will improve understanding of the frequency and climate drivers of...

This Project Grant award of $213,705 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070) is supporting the development of an interoperable toolchain called "SANDPIPER" to enable collaborative research in geomorphology, sedimentology, and stratigraphy. The key products and services being delivered through this 4-year award, which runs from August 2024 to July 2028, include: Designing and implementing an affordable...

The National Hispanic Cultural Center Foundation, University of Minnesota, and University of Texas Rio Grande Valley will collaborate on a three-year, $700,000 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize and provide open access to Mexican American art and archival materials. Funded under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program, which supports preserving and providing intellectual access to humanities resources, approximately...