Identifying Factors Responsible for Ranaviral Disease Outbreaks in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Post Date

September 3rd 2015

Application Due Date

September 11th 2015

Funding Opportunity Number

P15AS00287

CFDA Number(s)

15.945

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Environment

Eligibility Categories

Public and State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education
Private Institutions of Higher Education
Other

The United States Department of the Interior, The National Park Service (NPS), and the Great Smoky Mountain National Park is announcing a notice of intent to award; this is not a request for applications. This funding opportunity is to provide public notice of NPS's intention to fund the following project activities without full and open competition, under Cooperative Agreement P14AC00882 with the University of Tennessee, a partner under the Southern Appalachian Mountains Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, for a project titled; Identifying Factors Responsible for Ranaviral Disease Outbreaks in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $0

• Award Range:

  $0 - $0

Grant Description

There is urgent need to 1) identify the factors responsible for ranavirus emergence at Gourley Pond, 2) quantify the effects of ranavirus outbreaks on the Gourley Pond amphibian community, and 3) quantify the translocation risk of ranavirus from Gourley Pond to other Great Smoky Mountains National Park sites. We will accomplish these objectives through a combination of mark-recapture sampling, pathogen surveillance, and estimating public visitation at Gourley Pond.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of the Interior

• Office:

  National Park Service

• Agency Contact:

  Brian Straka, 865-436-1217
  Brian_Straka@nps.gov
  

• Agency Mailing Address:

  Brian_Straka@nps.gov

• Agency Email Address:

  Brian_Straka@nps.gov

• More Information:

  Grants.Gov