Implementing the Avian Monitoring Protocol for NPS Units of the NCRt | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

This funding notice (Funding Opportunity Number P14AS00073) is a National Park Service (NPS) discretionary cooperative agreement centered on natural resource monitoring in the National Capital Region. The project is titled "Implementing the Avian Monitoring Protocol for NPS Units of the NCRt" and is tied to CFDA 15.945, Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System. In practical terms, the effort is meant to put an existing, standardized bird monitoring protocol into action across NPS units in the National Capital Region so that land managers have consistent, comparable data on bird populations over time.

The core purpose of the work is to implement the National Capital Region Inventory and Monitoring Network bird monitoring protocol, with a particular emphasis on sensitive forest breeding bird populations. By applying the same protocol across parks and time periods, the resulting data can be used by federal, state, and local resource managers to track population trends and, importantly, to predict how land use changes may affect these birds. This points to a management-focused monitoring approach: not just collecting observations, but generating information that supports decisions about development pressure, habitat fragmentation, forest condition, and other landscape changes that influence breeding success and long-term viability of forest bird communities.

The award mechanism is a cooperative agreement, which typically signals substantial involvement by the NPS in shaping the work, coordinating with park units, and ensuring the monitoring aligns with agency standards and inventory and monitoring objectives. The opportunity lists one expected award and indicates no cost sharing or matching requirement. Although the posting appears on Grants.gov, it is explicitly not a request for applications. Instead, it serves as a public notice of the NPS intention to fund the project activities without full and open competition, meaning the agency already anticipates selecting a specific partner rather than running a standard competitive solicitation.

Eligibility is limited to public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, reflecting the research and monitoring nature of the project and the common practice of partnering with universities for field survey capacity, data management, analysis support, and training components. Key administrative details include a posted and created date of April 14, 2014, with an original and current closing date of April 24, 2014, reflecting the short notice window that often accompanies noncompetitive intent-to-award announcements. The funding fields in the notice list an estimated total funding amount of 0 and award ceiling/floor of 0, which often indicates that the specific dollar amount was not entered in the public-facing summary rather than implying the work has no cost.

For additional details, the notice points to Grants.gov as the primary source, and provides an NPS contact for access issues: RITA MIHALIK, Financial Assistance Officer, at 301-663-1481 x225 and ritamihalik@nps.gov.

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