Closed · NPS-NOIP15AC00262 · CFDA 15.945 · Discretionary

Dragonfly-Mercury Monitoring- GLKN

Federal grant opportunity posted by National Park Service, cataloged on Grants.gov.

up to $39K
Award range
Closed
Status
April 6, 2018
Close date
1
Expected awards

The verdict

Dragonfly-Mercury Monitoring- GLKN is a closed discretionary listing from National Park Service that offered Up to $38,732 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.

up to $39K
award range
Closed
application status
1
expected award
15.945
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

Dragonfly-Mercury Monitoring- GLKN is closed (last close April 6, 2018). 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 April 6, 2018

Posted Mar 23 Closes Apr 6

Est. Total Funding

$38,732

Expected Awards

1

Instrument

Cooperative Agreement

Description

The objective of this Task Agreement is for GLKN and Northland College to cooperate in the field collection, data analysis, data management, and reporting of results on concentrations of mercury in larval dragonfly from up to nine NPS units in the upper Midwest. The project will provide place-based education for Northland College students and quality data for the NPS to assess spatial patterns and trends in mercury. The NPS Great Lakes Inventory & Monitoring Network (GLKN) is developing a long-term program to monitor mercury as an environmental contaminant. The NPS is required to provide park visitors with information about the dangers of mercury and advice on limiting the consumption of fish from waters with high levels of mercury. Recent studies have found that concentrations of mercury in larval dragonfly are well correlated with levels of mercury in game fish. Since larval dragonfly are more easily sampled and processed than fish, GLKN hopes to use larval dragonfly as sentinel organisms to monitor spatial patterns and trends in mercury across several parks. GLKN has collaborated with the NPS Air Resources Division, the US Geological Survey, and the University of Maine since 2012 to engage “citizen scientists” to collect larval dragonfly in several parks. Under the citizen science program, Professor Randy Lehr from Northland College involved students to collect larval dragonfly at the St. Croix National Scenic Riverway (SACN). He and his students have been involved in the study since inception in 2012. In this Cooperative Agreement, GLKN and Northland College will expand the role of Northland College by employing student interns to collect larval dragonfly at other NPS units in the upper Midwest. This project has great potential to grow in to a collaborative education and resource monitoring program whereby students get hands-on experience in fieldwork and data analysis while the park service gets data on an important ecological indicator.

Campus applicant desk · Education

Grants.gov prints only higher-education applicant doors for Dragonfly-Mercury Monitoring- GLKN (Private institutions of higher education). This reads as a campus competition desk, not a civic or commercial open call. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Cooperative Agreement. Funding-activity codes span Education · Employment, Labor and Training · Environment · Natural Resources (ED;ELT;ENV;NR). Only 106 other National Park Service listings share this exact eligibility-code string (1% of 8,507).

Code 20
Private institutions of higher education

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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Agency Contact

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