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More Past Funding Opportunities

  • Inventory smelt at Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site to Inform Consultation Prior to Dredging

    Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site (SAIR) needs an inventory of smelt and other fish species of interest to document current fish population status in the Saugus River within the park and evaluate use of known rainbow smelt spawning habitat. Comparison of current populations and habitat use to a previous study in the Turning Basin (2007) is desired. This inventory is a requirement for consultation with the Massachusetts Division of Fish and Wildlife and for NEPA compliance as the park prepares to dredge contaminated sediment from the Turning Basin.

    Funding Source: National Park Service

    Funding Amount: $50,000

    Deadline: September 6, 2024

    For more information see the RSOI

  • Model Intercomparison and Improvement for Carbon Sequestration and Greenhouse Gas Emission Estimation from Agriculture

    The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is announcing this funding opportunity for a cooperative agreement to support the coordination, implementation, and management of model intercomparison studies in agricultural systems. The model intercomparison study supports the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Quantification efforts. The IRA GHG Quantification work for agriculture is a collaboration among several USDA agencies.

    Funding Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture – Natural Resources Conservation Service
    Deadline: Oct 04, 2024 Applications must be received by 11:59 pm Eastern Time

    For more information see the listing on Grants.gov

  • Ecological Society of America Science Communication in the Parks Fellowships

    The Ecological Society of America (ESA) is pleased to announce the Call for Applications for the inaugural Science Communication in the Parks (SCIP) Fellowships.  SCIP will support six (6) ESA SciComm Fellows each year in cooperation with the National Park Service to implement the strategic communications goals of the Northeastern National Parks.  This project is made possible with a grant from the National Park Service through the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESU) program. 

    Applications are due August 12, 2024

    Benefits

    • Receive a $3000 stipend
    • Collaborative product design experience
    • Professional development in SciComm
    • Support from a SciComm professional
    • Access to NPS personnel for in-depth perspective of science in the national parks

    We welcome applications from students and early career professionals who are ESA members. To be responsive to the CESU DEIA principles, the membership requirement is waived for people who are affiliated with Minority-Serving Institutions within the CESU national network. For full details and criteria, please visit www.esa.org/scip or contact scip@esa.org.   

  • Collecting Fisheries Ecological Knowledge (FEK) for Use in Gulf of Maine Offshore Wind

    Project: Fisher’s Ecological Knowledge (FEK) provides a rich and untapped source of information that can be used to inform BOEM’s decisions regarding offshore wind; however, FEK has been vastly underutilized. The objective of this study is to collect FEK to improve BOEM’s understanding of the use of the Gulf of Maine for fishing and the importance of fishing to the regional economy. BOEM will partner with the Responsible Offshore Science Alliance, and potentially with other interested organizations, to conduct this study.This study will identify local fishing communities willing to provide FEK and conduct interviews and workshops to collect the information. Importantly, the study will establish and execute clear methods for documenting, validating, and analyzing FEK. Collected data will be synthesized in an acceptable format (i.e., GIS and report documentation) to ensure the information can be incorporated into planning and resource management decisions.Additional planned tasks to be completed as part of the study include participatory mapping of fishing grounds, providing user guidance on spatial data tools like Marine Cadastre and the regional ocean portals, and providing regular updates to fishers regarding the spatial planning process and data needs in the Gulf of Maine. This effort must consider data confidentiality to ensure that fishing community information collected for this study are not misused. Such measures will be very important to instill confidence among fishers to accurately collect FEK.

    Funding Source: Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

    Funding Amount: $350,000 – $400,000

    Deadline for Response: August 10, 2024

    Additional Information: Eligible institutions are limited to state academic institutions and nonprofit organizations adjacent to current project areas along the U.S. Atlantic coast from Maine to Massachusetts. For complete information, see posting on Grants.gov: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/354844.

  • Marine Species Density Data Gap Assessments and Update for the AFTT Study Area

    Responses to this Request for Statements of Interest will be used to identify potential investigators for a project to be funded by the United States (U.S.) Department of the Navy (DoN) Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Atlantic (NAVFAC LANT). NAVFAC LANT seeks to develop updated spatially explicit, density data layers1 for marine mammals that occur throughout the Navy’s Atlantic Fleet Training and Testing (AFTT) Study Sea. The authority for this Cooperative Agreement is 16 USC §670c-1 (Sikes Act).

    Funding Source: U.S. Department of Defense
    Deadline: July 11, 2024
    For more information see the RSOI and the Project Description

    Additional information provided on July 1:
    We’ve been asked to provide you with the following responses regarding some questions about this RSOI. Please distribute it to the people you circulated this RSOI to. Note in particular the increased page limit.

    Question: Would you please clarify the page limit for us? Does the 7-page limit include the cover page, the statement of credentials, and the cost estimate (budget justification), or does it only apply to the statement of work?

    Answer: A cover page is not required. The submission should include the 5 items listed under “Materials Requested for Statement of Interest/Qualifications.” We have re-evaluated the page limit and have increased the maximum page limit to 25.

    Question: I could also use your guidance on the request for a statement of safety practices/procedures. Our proposal is a desktop data analysis project, and involves no field work.

    Answer: Please provide a statement of the safety practices/procedures used – if there are no safety practices/procedures, please briefly explain why the project didn’t have safety practices/procedures.

    The potential base and option year funding ranges are:

    • Base year = range: $295,705 – $361,417
    • Option Year 1 = range: $291,420 – $356,180
    • Option Year 2 = range: $367,799 – $449,533
    • Option Year 3 = range: $362,546 – $443,112
    • Option Year 4 = range: $555,531 – $678,983