Closed · NOIP17AC00128 · CFDA 15.945 · Other
Monitoring the Relative Abundance of Bats at National Parks of the Upper Midwest - GLKN
Federal grant opportunity posted by National Park Service, cataloged on Grants.gov.
- $50K-$100K
- Award range
- Closed
- Status
- February 1, 2017
- Close date
- 1
- Expected awards
The verdict
Monitoring the Relative Abundance of Bats at National Parks of the Upper Midwest - GLKN is a closed other listing from National Park Service that offered $50,000 -- $100,000 across 1 expected award. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 8,506 other opportunities from National Park Service.
- $50K-$100K
- award range
- Closed
- application status
- 1
- expected award
- 15.945
- CFDA program
Archived opportunity record
Monitoring the Relative Abundance of Bats at… is closed (last close February 1, 2017). Check the agency catalog for replacement NOFOs. National Park Service still indexes 8,506 other opportunities here.
According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.
Deadline tracker
Application window closed
Closed February 1, 2017
Est. Total Funding
$100,000
Expected Awards
1
Instrument
Cooperative Agreement
Description
OVERVIEW, RECIPIENT AND NPS SUBSTANTIAL INVOLVEMENT In this Cooperative Agreement, North Dakota State University (NDSU) will engage a Masters of Science student for academic years 2017 and 2018 to assist the National Park Service, Great Lakes Inventory and Monitoring Network (GLKN) with coordination, development, and validation of bat monitoring at ten (10) NPS units in the upper Midwest. The field methods are well defined and documented in a draft protocol with detailed standard operating procedures. The NDSU student will coordinate efforts by biological technicians based in parks that will deploy acoustic recording devices and electronically transfer data to GLKN. The science question that GLKN would like the NDSU student to address is: Given the current knowledge of bat species ranges in the upper Midwest, how does proprietary software packages and expert manual identification of bat echolocation calls differ? The student will be expected to design a scientifically rigorous experiment to measure differences in species identification among at least two software packages and at least two observers who will do manual vetting of at least 1% of all calls recorded each year (450,000 in 2016). The NPS-GLKN will have substantial involvement in project design, implementation, data management, analysis, and writing of resulting reports and publications. The NPS principal investigator will be on the student’s thesis committee. The Recipient is a member of the Northern Great Plains Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit (CESU) who was awarded a Master Cooperative Agreement (P12AC31164) allowing North Dakota State University to participate in specific tasks, and can provide the necessary activities involved in this particular task while providing an effective outcome for NPS and the objectives of this research/educational project. The advising professor at NDSU, Erin Gillam, has expertise in bat echolocation calls, how to identify them, and the behaviors and ecology of bats that we need to identify.
Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · NOIP17AC00128
Grants.gov marks Monitoring the Relative Abundance of Bats at… with a catch-all / unrestricted eligibility code (Others (see official listing text)). Read the official announcement text for the real applicant filter — the code alone is not a door list. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Cooperative Agreement. Funding-activity code maps to Natural Resources (NR). This eligibility-code string dominates the National Park Service book (3,314 peers, 39% of 8,507).
- Code 25
- Others (see official listing text)
Codes are Grants.gov eligibility category values from the extract vintage 2026-08-10. Confirm the full eligibility statement on the official listing or the Grants.gov eligibility reference.
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