Assessing the response of the Great South Bay plankton community to Hurricane Sandy.

Post Date

June 11th 2013

Application Due Date

June 16th 2013

This is not an opportunity for submissions; this is an announcement that Stony Brook University has already been awarded this cooperative agreement due to their work in the areas of: Natural Resources and the Environment.

Funding Opportunity Number

NPS-13-NERO-0041

CFDA Number(s)

15.945

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Other

This is not an opportunity for submissions; this is an announcement that Stony Brook University has already been awarded this cooperative agreement due to their work in the areas of: Natural Resources and the Environment.

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Public and State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education

This is not an opportunity for submissions; this is an announcement that Stony Brook University has already been awarded this cooperative agreement due to their work in the areas of: Natural Resources and the Environment.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $395000

• Award Range:

  $395000 - $395000

Grant Description

This is not an opportunity for submissions; this is an announcement that Stony Brook University has already been awarded this cooperative agreement due to their work in the areas of: Natural Resources and the Environment. In addition to the draft reports and final submission, the Cooperator will: ╔ Provide a detailed description of the changes in GSB and Moriches Bay plankton communities caused by the new inlet and the spatial and temporal extent of those changes. ╔ Employ a new horizontal mapping approach to rapidly assess the condition of GSB and Moriches Bay with regard to multiple key parameters (temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, pH, multiple phytoplankton pigments). ╔ Employ methods used over the past three decades to monitor phytoplankton, zooplankton, and ichthyoplankton communities in GSB, facilitating comparisons to prior data sets. ╔ Coordinate sampling efforts with Suffolk Countyуs Department of Health Services to assure comparability of our sampling efforts and access their historical data to determine how the breach may be impacting the water quality parameters they have been routinely measuring since 1976. ╔ If the breach closes (naturally or artificially) during the period of this study, the cooperator will document whether, and at what rate, the plankton community returns to their pre-breach state.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of the Interior

• Office:

  National Park Service

• Agency Contact:

  Keith Zotti
  Partnership Program Specialist
  Phone 2155979153

• Agency Mailing Address:

  StonyBrook:Plankton

• Agency Email Address:

  keith_zotti@nps.gov