WASHINGTON, April 13 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service announced that it expects to award up to two discretionary grants for the development and adoption of innovative conservation approaches and technologies in Rhode Island. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $125,000 with a ceiling of $75,000 for each award in the program. The agency said the grant was associated with a) agriculture, b) environment, c) natural resources and  more ST

WASHINGTON, April 13 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs announced that it expects to award up to 50 discretionary grants for tribal resilience and ocean and coastal management and planning. The award ceiling for this funding opportunity is $150,000. The agency said the grant was associated with environment. The funding is open to Native American tribal governments. The agency description of the grant states: "This program supports tribes preparing for extreme ev more ST

WASHINGTON, April 13 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs announced that it expects to award up to 50 discretionary grants for tribal resilience and ocean and coastal management and planning. The award ceiling for this funding opportunity is $150,000. The agency said the grant was associated with environment. The funding is open to not-for-profit; non-governmental tribal organizations and associations; and tribally-controlled colleges and universities. The agency  more ST

WASHINGTON, April 13 -- The Environmental Protection Agency announced that it expects to award up to 10 cooperative agreements for wetland programs development in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $2,228,000 with a ceiling of $550,000 for each award in the program. The agency said the grant was associated with environment. The funding is open to states, tribes; local government agencies; interstate agencies; and inte more ST

WASHINGTON, April 11 -- The Environmental Protection Agency announced that it expects to award up to 20 discretionary grants for the development of wetland programs. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $2,666,000 with a ceiling of $250,000 for each award in the program. The agency said the grant was associated with environment. The funding opportunity number is EPA-REG1-WPDG-19-01 (CFDA 66.461). It was posted on April 10 with an application closing date of May 24. For m more ST

WASHINGTON, April 13 -- The Environmental Protection Agency announced that it expects to award up to 20 discretionary grants for wetland programs development in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $2.8 million with a ceiling of $300,000 for each award in the program. The agency said the grant was associated with environment. The funding is open to states, tribes, local government agencies, interstate agencies, a more ST

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service announced that it expects to award up to three discretionary grants for the development and adoption of innovative conservation approaches and technologies in conjunction with agricultural production in Idaho. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $225,000 with a ceiling of $75,000 for each award in the program. The agency said the grant was associated with a) agriculture, b)  more ST

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- The Environmental Protection Agency announced that it expects to award up to 10 cooperative agreements for the reduction of environmental risks, protection and improvement of human health in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $250,000 with a ceiling of $25,000 for each award in the program. The agency said the grant was associated with environment. The agency description  more ST

WASHINGTON, April 13 -- The Environmental Protection Agency announced that it expects to award up to 16 cooperative agreements for wetland programs development in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $3.5 million with a ceiling of $500,000 for each award in the program. The agency said the grant was associated with environment. The funding is open to states; tribes; local gover more ST

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service announced that it expects to award up to five discretionary grants for the development and adoption of innovative conservation approaches and technologies in Kansas. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $400,000 with a ceiling of $75,000 for each award in the program. The agency said the grant was associated with a) agriculture, b) environment, c) natural resources and d) sci more ST

WASHINGTON, April 13 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service announced that it expects to award up to six discretionary grants for the development and adoption of innovative conservation approaches and technologies in California. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $500,000 with a ceiling of $75,000 for each award in the program. The agency said the grant was associated with a) agriculture, b) environment, c) natural resources and d) more ST

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- The Environmental Protection Agency announced that it expects to award a cooperative agreement for supporting Great Lakes Integrated Atmospheric Deposition Network. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $6 million. The agency said the grant was associated with environment. The funding opportunity number is EPA-R5-GL2019-IAD (CFDA 66.469). It was posted on April 9 with an application closing date of May 28. For more information, contact Meonii Brist more ST

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health announced that it expects to award a discretionary grant for career development of junior faculty members in women's health research. This funding opportunity uses the Physician Scientist Award Program mechanism. The award ceiling for this funding opportunity is $600,000. The agency said the grant was associated with a) education, b) environment and c) health. The funding is open to state, c more ST

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced that it intends to award a $120,000 cooperative agreement to the California State University, Northridge, Center for Geospatial Science and Technology for the improvement of Pacific Region Geological and Geophysical dataset. The agency description of the grant states: "The dataset consists of a wide ranging mix of paper and electronic data from a variety of sources with disparate formats. T more ST

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it intends to award a $120,000 cooperative agreement to the Ducks Unlimited of Memphis, Tennessee, for the restoration of wetland and upland habitat at the Rosendale Waterfowl Production Area in Wisconsin. The funding opportunity number is F19AS00176 (CFDA 15.658). For more information, contact Bruce Luebke, 608/742-7100, bruce_luebke@fws.gov. more ST

WASHINGTON, April 13 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it intends to award $7,622,342 cooperative agreements to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission and Ohio Department of Natural Resources for the implementation of the Asian Carp Action Plan. The agency description of the grant states: "These efforts contribute to the protection and restorati more ST

WASHINGTON, April 11 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it expects to award a cooperative agreement for natural resource damage assessment and restoration. No award amount was specified for this program. The agency said the grant was associated with environment. The funding is open to state, county, city, township and special district governments; independent school districts; private, public and state controlled institutions of higher educat more ST

WASHINGTON, April 11 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it intends to award a $250,000 grant to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources for the implementation and evaluation of response actions for red swamp crayfish. The agency description of the grant states: "Using appropriations to the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) intends to enter into a single source Grant Agreement to support  more ST

WASHINGTON, April 13 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it intends to award a $74,000 cooperative agreement to the Southern Illinois University for understanding relationship between body size of Asian carp and hydroacoustic target strength. The agency description of the grant states: "Population density estimates of Asian carp in the Illinois Waterway have been quantified using hydroacoustic technology since 2011. These hydroacoustic data ser more ST

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced that it intends to award a $1.7 million cooperative agreement to the University of Alaska Fairbanks for the study of landfast ice climatology in Arctic Outer Continental Shelf. The agency description of the grant states: "This study will examine the changes in landfast ice extent and stability over time and the physical forces driving these changes. This study will also investigate how the  more ST

WASHINGTON, April 13 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced that it intends to award a $1,798,000 cooperative agreement to the University of California, Santa Cruz,for a continued long-term monitoring of rocky intertidal habitats and species adjacent to Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas operations in the Pacific Region. The agency description of the grant states: "The purpose of this study is to provide the basis for evaluating cumulative impacts  more ST

WASHINGTON, April 13 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service announced that it intends to award a $105,452 cooperative agreement to the University of Delaware for the analysis of Great Lakes Network songbird data. The agency description of the grant states: "The Great Lakes Network (GLKN) seeks a statistician with previous experience analyzing breeding songbird monitoring data to conduct trend analyses for species and guilds in each of the nine parks, power analyses of th more ST

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service announced that it intends to award a $41,857 cooperative agreement to the University of Washington for the tracking seabird mortality in Alaska. The agency description of the grant states: "High latitude, high elevation, and coastal areas of Alaska's parks have been identified by scientists as vulnerable to the effects of climate change. As part of the Climate Change Response Strategy developed by the National P more ST

WASHINGTON, April 11 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service announced that it intends to award a $90,000 cooperative agreement to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for deer survey at the North Manitou Islands in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan. The agency description of the grant states: "The project goals are to monitor and estimate the relative abundance of deer and other co-occurring mammals on the Manitou Islands and to estimate vegetation understo more ST