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Opportunity Information: Apply for E11AC60558

• The National Park Service in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Synthesis of National Coastal Assessment data for Great Lakes national parks" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.945 Cooperative Research and Training Programs Resources of the National Park System.
• This funding opportunity was created on Jun 28, 2011 and posted on Jun 28, 2011.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 5, 2011. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2024.)
• The funding agency has allocated a total of $37,000.00 to eligible and selected applicants.
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $37,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
• This is a Notice of Intent of a single source task agreement award to the Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Croix Watershed Research Station under the Great Lakes Northern Forest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU). A noncompetitive award to the Science Museum of Minnesota St. Croix Watershed Research Station (SCWRS) is justified based on the criteria of (2) continuation and (4) unique qualifications. First, the proposed activity continues a long standing and productive pattern of research by the SCWRS in national parks of the Great Lakes region, including recent and emerging projects focused on Great Lakes nearshore (and shoreline) water quality and ecology at Isle Royale National Park and Apostle Islands, Pictured Rocks, and Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshores. In all cases the cooperators have delivered high quality products which have proved extremely useful for managing park resources. Through these and other studies, SCWRS scientists have acquired unique insights into regional ecosystems as well as NPS management needs and interests. The planned work addressing coastal waters in Great Lakes national parks is a logical continuation and extension of their previous and ongoing studies. Secondly, the SCWRS and the principal investigators are uniquely qualified to conduct the statistical and ecological work this project entails. PI has worked with large contemporary and paleo limnological datasets over a large geographical range of lakes. PI has worked with aquatic systems ranging from large oligotrophic lakes in British Columbia to small pristine alpine lakes throughout North America. PI research has focused on the various pathways in which nutrients are delivered to aquatic ecosystems, studying the impacts of multiple diffuse sources (agricultural, marine derived, and atmospheric). PI has studied multivariate statistical techniques under a leading biometrist and published large data compilations in top tier international journals. PI is adept at using the open source software R for statistical purposes.

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