Info: Assessing the Condition of Great Rivers Using Benthic and Planktonic Algal Indicators

Assessing the Condition of Great Rivers Using Benthic and Planktonic Algal Indicators

Published on AidPage by IDILOGIC on Jun 24, 2005

Data sources: Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA), Grants.gov

Administered by:

Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Grants and Debarment, Grants Administration Division
(see all US Federal Agencies)

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Original Grant - Nov 10, 2004

Applications Due:

Jan 7, 2005
Submission Date, Time, and Location: To be considered timely, proposals must be received by 4:00 pm local time on January 7, 2005. from the U.S. Postal Service or other commercial delivery service provided to the contact below.

total funding:	$168,000
max award:	none
min award:	none
cost sharing, matching:	No
number of awards:	1
type of funding:	Cooperative Agreement

Description:

The Grant Program does provide support for activities that involve goespatial information. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is issuing a request for applications (RFA) in support of its Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) surveys of the Great Rivers of the United States. Under this program, the EPA?s National Health and Environmental Effects Laboratory (NHEERL), Mid-Continent Ecology Division (MED) has initiated a survey of the biological condition of the Great Rivers (e.g., the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio Rivers) and environmental factors that might be associated with good or poor condition in these rivers. EPA is soliciting research to: (1) develop the monitoring tools (biological indicators, stream survey design, estimates of reference condition) necessary to produce unbiased estimates of the ecological condition of the Great Rivers of the central United States; (2) demonstrate those tools in a large-scale assessment; and (3) determine the relative risk to these rivers from a comprehensive list of potential stressors.