Response of Benthic Infauna to Marsh Restoration in Jamaica Bay

Funding Opportunity Number: NPS-13-NERO-0075 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: Cooperative AgreementCategory of Funding Activity: Other (see text field entitled "Explanation of Other Category of Funding Activity" for clarification)CFDA Number: 15.945Eligible Applicants Public and State controlled institutions of higher educationAgency Name: DOI-NPSClosing Date: Jul 19, 2013Award Ceiling: $32,428Expected Number of Awards: 1Creation Date: Jul 15, 2013Funding Opportunity Description: This is not a request for application - this is just an anouncement that The Research Foundation of CUNY on behalf of Brooklyn College has received an award for their work in response of Benthic Infauna to Marsh Restoration in Jamaica Bay. Specificaly, The Cooperator will:
1. Address research questions using existing data collected during the National Park Service's marsh monitoring program from 2005 to 2012 and new data collected during the National Park Service’s ongoing marsh monitoring program in 2013 and 2014.
2. Adopt existing NPS protocols for data collection whenever possible to facilitate comparisons.
3. Collect information on sediment grain size, determined as percentage of sand, silt and clay using either the pipette or hydrometer method (Pansu 2006); marsh surface elevation at the sampling locations using a Trimble RTK; percent organic matter determined by loss on ignition at 500°C; and, above and below ground biomas...

Source: Grants.gov - July 31, 2013 Category: Research Tags: Other (see text field entitled Explanation of Other Category of Funding Activity for clarification) Source Type: funding