Water Resources Tools and Database Development

Post Date

September 14th 2015

Application Due Date

November 30th -0001

Notification of intent to award. No applications will be accepted.

Funding Opportunity Number

P15AS00413

CFDA Number(s)

15.945

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Environment

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Public and State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $184706

• Award Range:

  $1 - $184706

Grant Description

CSU staff will continue to work with the NPS Water Resources Division (WRD) to research and develop new tools, techniques, and databases to quality assure and archive NPS-collected water quality data in the EPA___s STORET Data Warehouse and the National Water Quality Monitoring Council___s Water Quality Portal to make them available to EPA, states, and the public. This includes continued research and ongoing development of NPSTORET and the various electronic data deliverable format specifications that will be made available for public use. EarthSoft___s EQuIS and Aquatic Informatics___ Aquarius will be integrated into the process for providing NPS data to the EPA and the public. NPS continuous and discrete water resources data will be archived and made available for Clean Water Act assessments. Other legacy, non-database records and documents will be organized, archived, and made available for dissemination unless prevented by other mandates. A system for providing the public with the impairment status of NPS waters will be updated.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of the Interior

• Office:

  National Park Service

• Agency Contact:

  JOHN BECHTOLD, 303-969-2492
  John_Bechtold@nps.gov
  

• Agency Mailing Address:

  No applications will be accepted.

• Agency Email Address:

  John_Bechtold@nps.gov

• More Information:

  http://www.grants.gov