National Ground‐Water Monitoring Network (DOI)

• Published date: 22 October 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31351
• Date: 22 October 2020

Federal Grants & Contracts ■ October 22, 2020 Page 5

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Grants alert (cont.)

National Ground-Water Monitoring Network

(DOI)

Scope: The Interior Department’s U.S. Geological Sur vey

seeks applications for the FY2021 National Ground-

Water Monitoring Network (NGWMN) announcement to

support data providers for the network and to address

the Department of the Interior’s secretarial priorities.

Deadline: Jan. 21, 2021.

Funds: Up to $1.8 million total for FY2021. Awards are

$150,000 for a one-year project and $300,000 for a two-

year project.

Eligibility: State and local resource agencies.

Areas: DOI said the network is designed to be a

compilation of selected wells and springs from existing

monitoring efforts to create a network to assess long-

term water-level and water-quality trends at a national

scale. The focus will be on long-term data collected at a

sufficient frequency to determine seasonal and long-term

effects. Water-level and water-quality data from both wells

and springs are included in the NGWMN. The NGWMN

program also supports the Department of the Interior’s

secretarial priorities by allowing water managers, primarily

state water resource agencies, to share their water-level

and water-quality monitoring data to help monitor current

conditions and avoid future water conicts that may

result from changes in the environment.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# G21AS00008

3D Elevation Program (DOI)

Scope: The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has

released a Broad Agency Announcement for the 3D

Elevation Program (3DEP) to complete nationwide data

acquisition by 2023 to provide the rst-ever national

baseline of consistent high-resolution 3D elevation data,

including bare earth elevations and 3D point clouds,

collected in a timeframe of less than a decade.

Deadline: Nov. 13, 2020, and June 30, 2021.

Funds: $800,000 total.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities; for-prot

organizations, including small businesses; nonprot

organizations; and state, local, special district and Native

American tribal governments; among others.

Areas: DOI said funding will support applicants who

wish to propose a partnership with 3DEP to fund

lidar data acquisition and the creation of lidar-derived

elevation products. Applicants may fund an acquisition

project through the USGS Geospatial Products and

Services Contract or they may request 3DEP funds to

apply toward a lidar data acquisition project where the

requesting partner uses their own contracting vehicle.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# G20AS00104

Ecosystem research program: Understanding

species’ habitat usage and connectivity (DOC)

Scope: The Commerce Department’s National Oceanic

and Atmospheric Administration seeks applications

for the FY21 Regional Ecosystem Research Program:

Understanding Species’ Habitat Usage and Connectivity

announcement to understand species’ habitat usage and

connectivity in and around marine protected areas (MPAs).

Deadline: Jan. 14, 2021.

Funds: $1 million total for up to two awards ranging

from $500,000 to $1 million.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities; for-prot

organizations; nonprot organizations; and state, local

and Native American tribal governments; among others.

Areas: DOC said research will be used to improve

the ability of resource managers to address habitat

connectivity, species’ habitat affinities, and spatial and

temporal usage of habitats in MPA management plans.

Connectivity may be broadly dened as the exchange of

materials (e.g., nutrients and pollutants), organisms and

genes and can be divided into three categories: (1)genetic

connectivity that concerns the exchange of genetic

material; (2)demographic or ecological connectivity,

which is the exchange of individual propagules, juveniles

and adults; and (3)oceanographic connectivity, which

includes ow of materials and circulation patterns and

variability that underpins many of these exchanges.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# NOAA-NOS-

NCCOS-2021-2006622

Reconstructive Transplant, Clinical Network

Award (DOD)

Scope: The Defense Department’s U.S. Army Medical

Research Acquisition Activity seeks applications

for the Reconstructive Transplant, Clinical Network

Award announcement for vascularized composite

allotransplantation–focused research, also known as

composite tissue allotransplantation.

Deadline: The pre-application submission deadline is

Nov. 17, 2020; proposals are due Dec. 3, 2020.

Funds: $12 million for one award.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: DOD said applicants must address the

standardization, assessment and validation of protocols and/

or standard operating procedures for all of the following

focus areas for both face and hand transplantation: patient

inclusion/exclusion criteria, patient education, surgical

procedures, immunosuppression and/or immunoregulation,

outcome metrics, quality-of-life measures, rehabilitation

and patient reporting, among many others.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# W81XWH-20-RTRP-CNA

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