Project Grant P21AP11420

The National Park Service (NPS) awarded a Cooperative Agreement (CFDA 15.945 - Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System) to the University of California, Davis in the amount of $757,007.00 on August 16, 2024. The award supports the development and application of enhanced quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) procedures to improve data analyses of long-term datasets, the refinement of monitoring and sampling analysis methods, and the creation of...

This one-year Cooperative Agreement award for $266,138.45, provided by the National Park Service (NPS) under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931), supports a project to rapidly publish long-term natural resource monitoring data collected by eight NPS Inventory and Monitoring networks. The award will fund three 52-week internships for individuals to gain experience in natural resource management through activities such as data evaluation, report...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Justice (CFDA 16.560 - National Institute of Justice Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants) provides $119,881 to Florida International University to advance high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) techniques for the detection of new psychoactive substances (NPS). The research aims to systematically evaluate and compare three HRMS platforms - liquid chromatography-quadrupole time of flight-mass spectrometry (LC-QTOF-MS),...

The U.S. National Park Service awarded a $181,992 Cooperative Agreement to Child And Family Services Of Northwestern Michigan, Inc. on April 17, 2024 under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931). Through this funding, the non-profit organization will engage youth members to serve on various conservation projects in the Midwest region over the summer of 2024, with a final completion date of December 31, 2024. The project activities are expected to...

This $210,577.98 Cooperative Agreement award, granted by the U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service on May 17, 2024, supports the delivery of conservation, education, and volunteer service projects on Department of the Interior lands through the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities (CFDA 15.931) program. The primary awardee, The Great Basin Institute's Nevada Conservation Corps division, will provide internship opportunities in natural resource science...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859), provides $524,400.00 to the Scripps Research Institute to develop novel chemical transformations and catalysts to enable more efficient organic synthesis. The funded research aims to address limitations in the current synthetic toolkit by expanding the capabilities for rapid and selective functionalization of carbon-carbon...

This $666,665 cooperative agreement award from the National Park Service (CFDA 15.931 - Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program) will engage Indigenous youth and young adults in meaningful conservation projects at National Park Service sites across the country. The project is operated by Conservation Legacy and its Southwest Conservation Corps program, which specializes in delivering workforce development, training, and hands-on conservation experience on public lands....

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, 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 $757,000.00 award to Colorado State University will continue to support the research and...

The Department of the Interior's National Park Service (NPS) awarded a $156,500 Cooperative Agreement under the Cultural Resources Management (CFDA 15.946) program to the Santa Monica Mountains Fund, a non-profit organization, to perform cultural resource management activities within the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. Under this 5-year award, the Santa Monica Mountains Fund will inventory, monitor, and assess unevaluated and partially evaluated archaeological sites; collaborate...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service (NPS) under the Cultural Resources Management program (CFDA 15.946) provides $132,884 to the Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park to support a broad range of research, operational, and educational activities related to cultural resource stewardship. The project encompasses inventory, monitoring, research, rehabilitation, restoration, preservation, documentation, data recovery, education, and climate change mitigation...