Programming supports a comprehensive network of cooperative study units to facilitate cooperative research, technical assistance, education, and training to inform science based management of the…

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of the Interior National Park Service provides $1,299,101.84 to Colorado State University's Sponsored Programs division to facilitate cooperative research, technical assistance, education, and training to inform science-based management of the National Park System. The funding, which runs from July 1, 2023 to July 1, 2025, supports a comprehensive network of Cooperative Study Units across the National Park System. The key products and services delivered through this award from the CFDA 15.945 Cooperative Research and Training Programs – Resources of the National Park System program include geologic resources inventory products for over 270 National Park Service areas as part of the Inventory and Monitoring program. This supports multi-disciplinary science and integrated information products across the National Park System.

Programming supports a comprehensive network of cooperative study units to facilitate cooperative research, technical assistance, education, and training to inform science based management of the national park system. The study units facilitate multi disciplinary science and integrated information products across multiple geographic regions of the national park system. The purpose of this agreement is to continue progress toward providing geologic resources inventory products to more than 270 national park service (NPS) areas that are part of the national park service inventory and monitoring (iand m) program. The geologic resources inventory is one of 12 inventories considered essential by the NPS inventory and monitoring program. Beneficiaries include state and local governments, federally recognized indian tribal governments, public private nonprofit organizations, nonprofit institutions of higher education, and the general public).