Inventory and Monitoring of Northern Red-bellied Cooter (NRBC), UMASS

Post Date

July 21st 2014

Application Due Date

July 28th 2014

Funding Opportunity Number

F14AS00322

CFDA Number(s)

15.650

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Science and Technology and other Research and Development

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Unrestricted

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $58000

• Award Range:

  $58000 - $58000

Grant Description

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 5, intends to make a sole source award of a cooperative agreement to UMass, who will work closely with MDFW to implement this work. This award is for the amount of $58,000. UMass has been working closely with MDFW, Eastern Massachusetts NWR Complex, and the New England Field Office for several years to secure funding through the CRI to reevaluate the NRBC population and range to determine if down listing of this species is warranted. MDFW and the USFWS have also been working together on a NRBC headstarting program for decades, and evaluation of this program will be incorporated into this work. The Cooperator is uniquely qualified to implement the proposed inventory and monitoring recovery actions because they are based on protocols which they developed for another rare aquatic turtle, Blandingкs turtle.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of the Interior

• Office:

  Fish and Wildlife Service

• Agency Contact:

  Dean Rhine, Refuges, Reg 5, 413 253 8559
  Dean_Rhine@fws.gov
  

• Agency Mailing Address:

  Dean_Rhine@fws.gov

• Agency Email Address:

  Dean_Rhine@fws.gov

• More Information:

  http://www.grants.gov