Project Grant P20AP00244

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) awarded a $600,303.83 grant to the Arkansas Office of the State Geologist through the National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program (CFDA 15.814). The grant will fund three main priorities: Re-boxing approximately 250 damaged core and cuttings boxes from the Norman F. Williams Well Sample Library to preserve existing geological samples. Hiring a contractor to replace the roof, gutter system, and exterior portions of the collections warehouse that...

The Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism was awarded a $1,796,591 grant from the National Park Service's Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) Outdoor Recreation Acquisition, Development and Planning program. The grant will be used to subgrant funds to the City of Fort Smith, Arkansas to develop a pedestrian trail that will connect the Martin Luther King, Jr. Park to the greater levee trails system along the Arkansas River. The project aims to benefit the community and visitors...

The Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration (EDA) awarded a $1.25 million Project Grant to Saline County, Arkansas under the Economic Adjustment Assistance (EAA) program on July 19, 2022. The funding will support preserving and repurposing the Old River Bridge, the second oldest bridge in the state of Arkansas, located over the Saline River between Haskell and Benton. The restored bridge will be incorporated into the proposed Southwest Trail, a multi-use trail connecting...

The Geological Survey of Alabama (GSA) received a $210,092 project grant award from the U.S. Geological Survey under the National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation program. Through this award, GSA will preserve 1,600 fossil specimens by improving labeling, packaging, and digitizing specimens. Specimens will be relocated to a new storage facility with additional cabinets and trays purchased through the funding. Additionally, GSA will digitize six historic geologic and mineral...

The National Science Foundation awarded $129,114 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) to Texas A&M University-San Antonio for a collaborative research project grant titled "Collaborative Research: Joint Paleontological and Archaeological Investigations of Modern Human Origins." The award period is from November 1, 2021 to May 31, 2024. Through this funding, the awardee will support an international team conducting field research at...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $215,679 Formula Grant under the State Wildlife Grants (CFDA 15.634) program to the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission. The purpose of this 3-year grant, with a performance period from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027, is to collect data on four species of burrowing crayfish in Jefferson County, Arkansas. The grant will evaluate habitat suitability and identify potential translocation sites to inform future...

The U.S. National Park Service awarded a $100,000 Project Grant under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) program to San Francisco State University (SFSU) to support the respectful repatriation of Native American ancestral remains and culturally affiliated items to tribes in Northern California. The SFSU NAGPRA program will use the grant funding to conduct meaningful consultations with tribes in Mendocino, Sonoma, Humboldt, Shasta, and Lake counties, and to...

This $185,724.14 Project Grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.615) program supports several conservation objectives in Arkansas: Assessing the status and distribution of the Rocky Shiner fish species through occupancy sampling and habitat/diet analysis to inform the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Species Status Assessment. Improving habitat quality and stability for four federally listed mussel species along the...

This three-year project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program will provide $347,959 to Mississippi State University to develop a decolonial field school focused on community-engaged methods of collection and preservation at Brush Arbor Cemetery in Starkville, Mississippi. Through pairing oral histories, public archaeology, participatory GIS story mapping and black digital archives with traditional archival,...

The University of Arkansas was awarded a $495,513 federal Project Grant from the National Park Service's Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites (CFDA 15.933) program, with a project period from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026. Under this grant, the university will develop educational curricula and lesson plans for grades 7-12, as well as three professional development workshops for Arkansas teachers, focused on the Rohwer and Jerome incarceration sites in Arkansas. The...