Response of Benthic Infauna to Marsh Restoration in Jamaica Bay

Post Date

July 15th 2013

Application Due Date

July 19th 2013

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.

Funding Opportunity Number

NPS-13-NERO-0075

CFDA Number(s)

15.945

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Other

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.

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Public and State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education

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.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $32428

• Award Range:

  $32428 - $32428

Grant 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 Serviceуs 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 500аC; and, above and below ground biomass using NPS protocols. 4. Collect the benthic core samples and the other field parameters using the above NPS protocols and methods. Species richness, total abundance and composition of the benthic infauna communities will be calculated from all core samples (the archieved 2005-2012 cores and 2013-2014 cores). 5. Compare post-restoration infauna communities at two restored marshes (Elders East, Elders West), with an unrestored healthy reference marsh (JoCo), and a degraded marsh (Big Egg). 6. Compare pre- and post-restoration communinties at Elders East and Elders West. Cooperator will also use univariate and multivariate statistical methods (Moseman et al. 2004) to test for temporal and spatial differences in infaunal communities as a function of time since restoration and the abiotic parameters previously listed.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of the Interior

• Office:

  National Park Service

• Agency Contact:

  Keith Zotti
  Partnership Program Specialist
  Phone 2155979153

• Agency Mailing Address:

  CUNY for Brooklyn

• Agency Email Address:

  keith_zotti@nps.gov