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Opportunity Summary:

This grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number 09HQPA0047) was issued by the U.S. Geological Survey under the North Atlantic Coast Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (NAC CESU) program and is structured as a cooperative agreement to support science and technology research. It focuses on coastal storm damage reduction practices at Fire Island National Seashore, specifically the widespread use of "beach scraping" and, in several communities, recurring beach nourishment. Beach scraping is described as moving sand from the foreshore of the dry, subaerial beach and placing it farther landward on the back beach to build an artificial dune or to reinforce an existing primary dune. While these practices are commonly used at Fire Island, the announcement emphasizes that there has been little research testing how well they actually work for reducing storm damage, and essentially no research on their long-term consequences for dune development and overall sand storage along the beach-dune system.

The project’s purpose is to fill those gaps by evaluating beach scraping as an erosion mitigation tool and by examining how both scraping and nourishment alter the broader dune-beach environment over time. A key element of the work is an analysis of historical changes, implying the use of existing records such as prior surveys, shoreline position data, aerial imagery, and other long-term datasets to detect trends in dune evolution and sand movement or retention. In addition to the long-term geomorphic perspective, the project explicitly calls for assessing how beach scraping affects nearshore processes, which can include changes to wave and current interactions with the shoreline, sediment transport pathways, and the way sand is exchanged between the beach, nearshore bars, and dune system. Taken together, the expected outcome is a clearer, evidence-based understanding of whether scraping and nourishment meaningfully reduce storm risk and what tradeoffs they may create for the natural behavior and resilience of Fire Island’s dunes and beaches.

The opportunity was categorized as discretionary funding, with an expected single award and an estimated total funding amount of $67,264. No cost sharing or matching requirement was listed. The award ceiling and floor were shown as $0, which typically indicates that the specific budget parameters are handled within the detailed announcement or negotiated scope rather than set as hard limits in the summary fields. The CFDA number attached to the opportunity is 15.808 (U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection), aligning it with federal support for research, monitoring, and data analysis activities.

Eligibility was limited to members of the NAC CESU, and the notice further specifies that applicants should have particular experience and data relevant to coastal and barrier island environments, including vegetation and nekton of salt marshes in North and mid-Atlantic coastal and barrier island salt marshes within national park units and national wildlife refuges. Although that expertise note reads broader than the specific Fire Island beach scraping topic, it signals that the program expects applicants to be established CESU partners with relevant coastal ecosystem research capacity and existing datasets, and that the award is meant to be executed within the CESU collaborative framework.

The posting date and creation date were July 1, 2009, with an original and current closing date of July 15, 2009, and the opportunity was archived on August 14, 2009. For assistance accessing the full announcement, the listed contact was Faith Graves, Contract Specialist, at 703-648-7356.

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