Monitoring Dynamics of the Oregon Inlet Terminal Groin and Shoreline Erosion Along the Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge Beach | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

The grant opportunity titled "Monitoring Dynamics of the Oregon Inlet Terminal Groin and Shoreline Erosion Along the Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge Beach" is a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) notice of intent to make a single-source award, meaning it is not an open competition and there is no full solicitation for outside applicants to respond to. The purpose of the cooperative agreement is to support participation in an objective, independent-style evaluation of the Oregon Inlet Terminal Groin Monitoring Team's work, specifically looking at the procedures and methods the team uses, the techniques applied in the field and in analysis, how data are handled and interpreted, and how results are reported. The overall focus is to ensure credible tracking and understanding of how the Oregon Inlet Terminal Groin is affecting shoreline behavior and erosion patterns at the north end of the Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge beach, an area where changes in sediment movement and shoreline position can have significant ecological and management consequences.

From an activity standpoint, the opportunity sits at the intersection of environmental science, research and development, and education-oriented applied monitoring. The award instrument is a cooperative agreement rather than a standard grant, which typically signals that USFWS expects to have substantial involvement in the work as it proceeds, such as coordinating objectives, aligning evaluation criteria with agency needs, and ensuring that findings are usable for refuge management and broader coastal decision-making. The evaluation component suggests the funded work is meant to add rigor and transparency to the monitoring effort by reviewing whether the monitoring team is using appropriate approaches, whether the collected information is adequate to detect and explain shoreline impacts, and whether the analysis and reporting practices provide a reliable basis for interpreting the groin's effects over time.

Administratively, this opportunity is listed under Funding Opportunity Number F15AS00348 and is categorized as discretionary funding through CFDA 15.650 (Research Grants - Generic). USFWS anticipated making one award, with an estimated total funding amount of $100,000, and no cost sharing or matching requirement. The posting and creation date were July 15, 2015, and the listing was archived on July 24, 2015. Although the eligible applicant field is shown as unrestricted in the abstract data, the agency explicitly states that this is not a request for applications. The decision not to compete the award is attributed to Departmental policy (505 DM 2.14, B.(2)) and is described as being within agency discretion, which is consistent with the "notice of intent to award to a single source" format used when an agency plans to fund a specific entity for a defined reason rather than running an open solicitation.

For anyone trying to interpret what the opportunity would have funded in practice, the key deliverable is not construction or direct shoreline intervention, but rather technical participation in evaluating the monitoring program itself. That includes examining monitoring protocols, assessing data quality and suitability, reviewing analytical methods used to detect shoreline change and groin-related impacts, and supporting clear reporting that allows managers and stakeholders to understand trends at the refuge shoreline. Questions about accessing information tied to the notice were directed to the listed USFWS grant management contact, Kerri Heywood, with phone and email provided in the notice, and the general reference link pointed to Grant.gov for the source listing.

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