OpportunityTitle: Vegetation and Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Monitoring
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: The United States Department of the Interior, The National Park Service (NPS), Great Smoky Mountain National Park, is announcing a notice of intent to award to award a cooperative agreement; 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 P15AC00024 with Conservation Legacy, for a project titled; Vegetation and Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Monitoring.
Description: The project will require six interns to conduct field work, collect data, and help manage data related to several ongoing natural resource management projects in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Projects that four of the interns will be working on include long-term forest plot monitoring, vegetation mapping accuracy assessment, wetlands inventory, and inventory of at-risk/collectible plant populations. Two interns will work on aquatic macroinvertebrate monitoring. Data collected will assist GRSM management efforts to protect important natural resources throughout GRSM. These data will also be informative to the scientific community, park partners, educators, and the general public.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: Office E-mail
GrantorContactText: Brian Straka 8654361217&lt;br/&gt;Brian_Straka@nps.gov&lt;br/&gt;