Cross Bar Management Area Archaeological Field School

Funding Opportunity Number: L15AS00104 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: Cooperative AgreementCategory of Funding Activity: Natural ResourcesCFDA Number: 15.224Eligible Applicants Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"Agency Name: DOI-BLMClosing Date: Jul 20, 2015Award Ceiling: $100,000Expected Number of Awards: 1Creation Date: May 18, 2015Funding Opportunity Description: This financial assistance opportunity is being issued under a Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) program. CESU's are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance and education. The recipient will carry out field work to collect data, through excavation and survey and conduct analysis and evaluation. Work may include field visits, site recording and excavation, soil sample collection, mapping, laboratory analysis and data interpretation. Objectives shared by the BLM and the recipient are to connect minority school and college students to careers in natural resources, science and archaeology using BLM field sites and partner facilities to conduct archaeological studies. The program will engage students in projects to understand the cultural resources of the Texas Panhandle in the Amarillo and Oklahoma Field Offices. Modules would be created to teach core concepts in archaeology in the field and laboratory to addr...
Source: Grants.gov - Category: Research Tags: Natural Resources Source Type: funding