This $309,979.66 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service (CFDA 15.945 - Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System) aims to model salt marsh migration in 9 National Park Service coastal areas in the Northeast U.S. using high-resolution elevation data, land cover mapping, and analysis of anthropogenic constraints. The project will validate the migration models using field survey data and high-resolution imagery. The University of Rhode...
This $590,563 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service (NPS) under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) program will support a comprehensive network of cooperative study units to facilitate research, technical assistance, education, and training on the impacts of climate change on coastal infrastructure within the National Park System. The project will apply established protocols to assess the vulnerability of...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service (NPS) under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) program provides $129,999 in funding to the Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology to facilitate a comprehensive network of cooperative study units. The goal is to enable cooperative research, technical assistance, education, and training to inform science-based management of the National Park System across...
This $350,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Park Service Northeast Region under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) will support a comprehensive network of Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESUs) to facilitate collaborative research, technical assistance, education, and training to inform science-based management of the National Park System. Schoodic Institute of Acadia National Park will partner with the...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service (CFDA 15.945 - Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System) provides $215,763 to the Center for Coastal Studies, Inc. to engage park partners and leverage professional expertise to answer ecological questions, address management needs, and provide information to park visitors and the general public. The project will further the understanding of water resource health and easily...
The U.S. National Park Service awarded a $199,999 Cooperative Agreement to the Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) federal grant program. The purpose of this project is to develop a process model to help understand the historical changes and inform potential management actions to improve the long-term health of the salt marsh ecosystem at Horseshoe Cove in the Sandy Hook unit of...
The National Park Service (NPS) awarded a $194,615 Cooperative Agreement (CFDA 15.945 - Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System) to the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) on September 11, 2024. The purpose of this award is to characterize the rocky intertidal community at study sites over time, identify relationships between the intertidal community structure and environmental parameters, and conduct trend analyses to evaluate changes. The...
The federal Cooperative Agreement award of $200,000 from the National Park Service (NPS) under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) program 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 project, which will be implemented by the Chesapeake Conservancy, Inc. non-profit...
This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the National Park Service (NPS) under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) program, will provide guidance to parks and land managers on science-based coastal marsh conservation, restoration, and migration planning in the face of climate change. The $1,233,888.71 award to the University of Rhode Island (URI) will synthesize existing ecological, restoration, and climate data, and incorporate...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service (CFDA 15.945 - Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System) provides $500,000 to NatureServe to support a comprehensive network of cooperative study units. The project will facilitate research, technical assistance, education, and training to enable science-based management of the National Park System. Key outcomes will include maps depicting the severity of climate change impacts on ecosystems...