OpportunityTitle: Identifying Factors Responsible for Ranaviral Disease Outbreaks in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: The United States Department of the Interior, The National Park Service (NPS), and the Great Smoky Mountain National Park is announcing a notice of intent to award; this is not a request for applications. This funding opportunity is to provide public notice of NPS&apos;s intention to fund the following project activities without full and open competition, under Cooperative Agreement P14AC00882 with the University of Tennessee, a partner under the Southern Appalachian Mountains Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, for a project titled; Identifying Factors Responsible for Ranaviral Disease Outbreaks in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Description: There is urgent need to 1) identify the factors responsible for ranavirus emergence at Gourley Pond, 2) quantify the effects of ranavirus outbreaks on the Gourley Pond amphibian community, and 3) quantify the translocation risk of ranavirus from Gourley Pond to other Great Smoky Mountains National Park sites. We will accomplish these objectives through a combination of mark-recapture sampling, pathogen surveillance, and estimating public visitation at Gourley Pond.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: Brian_Straka@nps.gov
GrantorContactText: Brian Straka, 865-436-1217&lt;br/&gt;Brian_Straka@nps.gov&lt;br/&gt;