This Cooperative Agreement award under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) program, funded by the National Park Service (NPS), 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. Specifically, Bat Conservation International, Inc. (BCI), a non-profit organization, will...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service (CFDA 15.945 - Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System) provides $423,665 to the University of Tennessee to inventory all bat species across 12 national parks in the Southeast region. The project will determine which bat species are currently present in these parks, which is critical information as bat populations have severely declined across the eastern U.S. due to factors like white-nose...
The National Park Service awarded a $190,000 cooperative agreement to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University from June 2022 through June 2027 under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs – Resources of the National Park System program (CFDA 15.945). The university will characterize bat population ecology within three national parks by using acoustic detectors and mist netting to capture, process, and radio track bats to day roosts and foraging areas from June through...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) program provides $114,828 to Northern Arizona University to support a project focused on bat populations in Bandelier National Monument and Valles Caldera National Preserve in New Mexico. The key objectives are to: 1) Describe the bat assemblage in the two park units, including identifying winter...
The National Park Service awarded Colorado State University a $138,460 cooperative agreement under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs – Resources of the National Park System program (CFDA 15.945) for the period of June 1, 2022 through December 31, 2024. The project will monitor a maternity colony of up to several thousand little brown bats at Fort Laramie National Historic Site that are susceptible to white-nose syndrome. Specifically, Colorado State University will conduct...
This Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $164,297.00, was provided by the National Park Service under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) federal grant program. The award will fund field research by Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to document bat species presence and activity in select national parks on the Colorado Plateau, a bat diversity hotspot. The research will also collect samples...
This $188,679 cooperative agreement from the U.S. Geological Survey will fund research at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University examining appropriate survey standards for bat species impacted by white-nose syndrome. The research will determine optimal acoustic sampling and mist netting levels of effort, duration, and sites to conclusively assess presence or absence of the endangered Indiana bat, threatened northern long-eared bat, and at-risk little brown and tricolored bats....
This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931), will fund a $148,714.20 project at Mammoth Cave National Park to monitor bat populations impacted by White-Nose Syndrome. The project will engage four interns from the non-profit organization American Conservation Experience to assist National Park Service staff in conducting field assessments,...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $152,845.62 and issued on September 20, 2023, supports a project through the Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) managed by the National Park Service. Under this award, Bat Conservation International, Inc. (BCI), a non-profit organization, is partnering with the National Park Service to map and survey bat populations in a series of mine complexes located within Death Valley National...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award of $178,000.00, provided by the National Park Service under the CFDA 15.945 "Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System" program, supports a project by Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to survey 11 National Capital Region parks and assess changes in the distributions of federally endangered bat species following the White-Nose Syndrome outbreak. The project will develop...