USFWS Natural Resource Program Center (NRPC) WRIA Program 2017

Post Date

April 28th 2016

Application Due Date

June 1st 2016

Funding Opportunity Number

F16AS00190

CFDA Number(s)

15.678

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Environment
Information and Statistics
Natural Resources
Regional Development
Science and Technology and other Research and Development

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Public and State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $500000

• Award Range:

  $30000 - $500000

Grant Description

The US Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 7 intends to award a single source cooperative financial assistance agreement as authorized by 505 DM 2.14 (B) to University of Alaska Anchorage, Alaska Natural Heritage Program (AKNHP). This notice is not a request for proposals and the Government does not intend to accept proposals. This financial assistance opportunity is being issued under the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Network: (http://www.cesu.psu.edu/materials/partners.htm). The CESU network provides research, technical assistance, and education to federal land management, environmental, and research agencies and their partners. The partners serve the biological, physical, social, cultural, and engineering disciplines needed to address natural and cultural resource management issues at multiple scales and in an ecosystem context. The Water Resources Branch of the National Wildlife Refuge System in Alaska announces the availability of approximately $40,000/annually to assist in data analysis, geospatial data collection, the continued construction of a Geospatial Information System (GIS) geodatabase and geospatial data mapping needs of Water Resource Inventory and Assessments over a six year period. This opportunity is a continuation of an existing cooperative agreement with the University of Alaska under the North and West Alaska CESU. The opportunity presents UAA and the USFWS a funding to jointly conduct technical water resource related analysis, geospatial data construction, and geospatial products for the continued management of water related habitats on the National Wildlife Refuge System in Alaska.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of the Interior

• Office:

  Fish and Wildlife Service

• Agency Contact:

  Hydrologist/Water Rights Coordinator Cathy Flanagan 907-786-3903
  cathleen_flanagan@fws.gov
  

• Agency Mailing Address:

  Government POC

• Agency Email Address:

  cathleen_flanagan@fws.gov

• More Information:

  Full Announcement