Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, North Atlantic Coast CESU

Post Date

July 16th 2008

Application Due Date

July 25th 2008

Funding Opportunity Number

08HQPA0041

CFDA Number(s)

15.808

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Science and Technology and other Research and Development

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Other

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. Eligible recipients must be a participating partner of the North Atlantic Coast Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $34996

• Award Range:

  $34996 - $34996

Grant Description

The USGS Coastal Groundwater Systems Project is a multi-year effort that includes components focused on quantifying nutrient delivery to western Long Island Sound and to Great South Bay (Long Island) via submarine groundwater discharge. By improving our understanding of nutrient delivery to coastal waters, this project will help to manage estuarine eutrophication in both Long Island Sound and at Fire Island National Seashore, New York. Assistance is sought to quantify discharge in three Long Island locations (Northport Harbor, Manhasset Bay and Great South Bay) from direct observations using seepage meter and piezometer measurements and to compare such observations to available discharge estimates made using radiochemical approaches. For northern Long Island, assistance is also sought to extrapolate the results of these site specific studies to the region. This will be done by developing a typology for the shoreline according to its potential for ground-water seepage. Coastal typologies, in general, attempt to classify environments into groups based on physical, structural and functional similarities in order to assess behavior in the coastal zone where direct observations are lacking (LOICZ 1997). By systematic categorization of the coastal zone, a typology will provide a framework for scaling local investigations to a regional scale (Bokuniewicz, 2001). The typology would be based on available data such as land use, climatic parameters and state variables, like the hydraulic conductivity and coastal hydraulic head. A suitable typology will be developed to relate the proposed study areas to the regional coastline.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of the Interior

• Office:

  Geological Survey

• Agency Contact:

  FAITH GRAVES
  CONTRACT SPECIALIST
  Phone 703-648-7356

• Agency Mailing Address:

  Contract Specialist

• Agency Email Address:

  fgraves@usgs.gov