Project Grant 2015AJBX0003

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) was awarded a $1,750,000 Project Grant by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) under the Cooperating Technical Partners (CTP) Program (CFDA 97.045). The grant, awarded on September 23, 2024, supports technical services to enhance the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and strengthen national preparedness against flooding hazards. The funded activities include flood hazard mapping, risk assessments, data modeling, community...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (CFDA 15.073) provides $294,726 to the University of Wisconsin System to conduct geological mapping and mineral resource assessments in southwestern Wisconsin. The project will collect geologic data, including mapping bedrock units and sampling 200 rock specimens for chemical analysis, to better understand the occurrence of critical minerals in an area previously mined for lead...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) awarded a $199,283 Cooperative Agreement to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) under the federal Water Use and Data Research program (CFDA 15.981). The 2-year project aims to: 1) Improve the quality control of existing water use data in WDNR's database by automating data validation checks; 2) Implement new quality control processes to validate water use data as it is entered into the state database annually; 3) Add historical water withdrawal...

This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Regional Wetland Program Development Grants (CFDA 66.461) program, provides $119,258 in funding to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) to develop a long-term wetland monitoring program. The key activities include identifying sites for repeated sampling, conducting pilot monitoring projects, developing field methods and data collection schedules, and analyzing changes in wetland...

The Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 awarded the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources $160,985 under the Regional Wetland Program Development Grants program (CFDA 66.461) for a cooperative agreement running from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024. The purpose of this assistance is to fund the development of additional tools and resources that can be extracted from existing wetland monitoring and assessment data, and to grow the capacity of Wisconsin's Wetland Monitoring and...

The Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene (WSLH) received a $496,478 project grant award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Paul Coverdell Forensic Sciences Improvement Grant Program (CFDA 16.742). The WSLH analyzes approximately 20,000 specimens annually for law enforcement agencies in Wisconsin and an additional 3,000 specimens to aid death investigations. The award will fund the acquisition, validation, and implementation of...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) awarded a $851,250 Cooperative Agreement to the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission (SEWRPC) under the National Geospatial Program: Building The National Map (CFDA 15.817) for a high-density Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data capture project covering 7 counties in southeast Wisconsin. The key deliverables for this 3-year project include: a tiled LiDAR point cloud dataset; hydro-flattened bare earth digital elevation models; enhanced...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program (CFDA 15.810) provides $1,149,439 in funding to the University of Wisconsin System to complete geologic mapping projects in priority areas across Wisconsin. The key deliverables include unpublished, preliminary geologic maps and accompanying technical reports for the following areas: two quadrangles in Dunn County, and the entirety of Jackson, Green, and Trempealeau...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, with a total funding of $208,347, was provided by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) under the State Justice Statistics Program for Statistical Analysis Centers (CFDA 16.550). The award supports two key projects for the Wisconsin Department of Justice (WI DOJ): A core capacity project to enhance WI DOJ's research infrastructure, including migrating their data collection tool to the cloud and incorporating additional criminal justice data sources,...

The Wisconsin Department of Justice (WI DOJ) was awarded a $783,955 Cooperative Agreement under the National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP) by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (CFDA 16.554). The funding will support a 2-year project to enhance the utility and completeness of Wisconsin's Computerized Criminal History (CCH) system. Key activities include: Creating technical documentation on the flow of prosecution data into the CCH and expanding tools to identify unsubmitted arrest...