Adaptive Management of Untreated Urban Runoff: An Initial Regional Assessment of Potential Restoration Priority Areas

Post Date

July 29th 2015

Application Due Date

August 12th 2015

Funding Opportunity Number

USGS-15-FA-0341

CFDA Number(s)

15.808

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Science and Technology and other Research and Development

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Public and State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $84968

• Award Range:

  $84968 - $84968

Grant Description

The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) Action Plan calls for strategic ecosystem restoration that addresses the biggest threats to the Great Lakes and accelerated progress toward long-term lake management goals. The Action Plan lays out a six-step science-based adaptive management cycle to prioritize ecosystem problems, select projects to address those problems, and assess the effectiveness of the projects that are funded to help improve subsequent decision making. The prioritization of ecosystem problems should enable GLRI decision makers to select a suite of projects that will make the greatest gains toward annualized measures of progress and ecosystem health by targeting activities toward strategic geographies. However, an explicit rationale for selection of strategic geographies has yet to be articulated or demonstrated. The current project proposes to develop, justify, and demonstrate a rationale for spatial decision making relative to non-point-source pollution under GLRI Focus Area 3.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of the Interior

• Office:

  Geological Survey

• Agency Contact:

  Tangee Brookie
  Contract Specialist
  Phone 303-236-9322

• Agency Mailing Address:

  tbrookie@usgs.gov

• Agency Email Address:

  tbrookie@usgs.gov