BLM-AK, CESU, Paleo Environmental Studies

Funding Opportunity Number: L15AS00084 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: Cooperative AgreementCategory of Funding Activity: Natural ResourcesCFDA Number: 15.224Eligible Applicants Public and State controlled institutions of higher educationAgency Name: DOI-BLMClosing Date: Jun 16, 2015Award Ceiling: $75,000Expected Number of Awards: 1Creation Date: Apr 13, 2015Funding Opportunity Description: The BLM manages several million acres of land statewide as well as several thousand cultural and paleontological locations. Presently, the BLM Alaska Cultural and Paleontological staff has a limited ability to conduct specialized and detailed paleo-environmental analyses of these localities to obtain this kind of information as part of its management decision making. Therefore, the BLM needs to rely on an experienced partner institution in the CESU program to conduct detailed paleo-environmental analyses of cultural and non-cultural locations. These analyses would gather information about the timing of geological and ecological events that could have had a significant effect on prehistoric cultural or paleontological resources managed by the BLM in Alaska. The principal purpose/objective of this project is to collect, analyses, and curate paleo-environmental data obtained from environmental sampling through a variety of means. These means may include sediment coring, shovel testing, excavation or any other scientifi...
Source: Grants.gov - Category: Research Tags: Natural Resources Source Type: funding