Project Description: The NRCA Program has a core mission to provide synthesis and assessment of natural resource condition and trends in national park units. That work can be on a single resource or on more comprehensive sets of resources in a park resulting in an NRCA report product. The Recipient may collaborate with NPS on both types or projects: single resource or semi-comprehensive sets
of resources.
Single-resource evaluation are completed when a park-unit has data and information on park natural resources but lacks the capability or capacity to perform the synthesis and analyses of those data. In collaboration with NPS, the Recipient may assist NPS with these resource-specific evaluations of condition as needed.
For NRCA park reports, an efficient, collaborative approach is used to conduct the project work and develop final products for public distribution, consistent with the requirements and guidance posted at the NRCA program website (see: NRCA Development Guidance). In accordance with the NRCA Development Guidance, the Recipient completes, or facilitates completion of, the following principal tasks and activities with substantial involvement by NPS personnel in all aspects of the work effort
Lead Principal Investigator: Steven Keitzer, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Partner Institution: University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Federal Agency: National Park Service
Federal Agency Technical Contact: Tammy Cook
Start Year: 2024
End Year: 2026
Initial Funding Amount: $75,000.00
Federal Grant Number: P24AC00640
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