Closed · P18AS00529 · CFDA 15.945 · Discretionary

Research and Development to Support the Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE) - Enhancing the Quality and Scope of Aerosol Data Collection

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

$1-$813K
Award range
Closed
Status
-
Close date
1
Expected awards

The verdict

Research and Development to Support the Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE) - Enhancing the Quality and Scope of Aerosol Data Collection is a closed discretionary listing from National Park Service that offered $1 -- $812,958 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.

$1-$813K
award range
Closed
application status
1
expected award
15.945
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

Research and Development to Support the Inter… is closed. 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.

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Posted Aug 15 Closed

Est. Total Funding

$812,958

Expected Awards

1

Instrument

Cooperative Agreement

Description

Enhanced Data Quality Assurance. An essential purpose of the collected data is to assess long-term trends. Identifying underlying causes of trends, especially where they may reflect changes in data quality and planned or inadvertent changes to methods or procedures, helps to ensure that management decisions are based on measurable changes in the atmosphere. The focus of these research tasks is therefore on visualizing, characterizing the quality of, and interpreting network data for trends. Specific tasks include understanding and quantifying uncertainty and detection limits; exploring relationships among data; developing improved tools for monitoring data quality; and promptly identifying measurement issues. Analytical method development. Improving or developing new chemical speciation methods is needed for maintaining and enhancing data quality as technology or scientific understanding changes, can expand the range of data extracted from each sample, and reduce costs. Sampling method improvements. As technology evolves and insights are gained from IMPROVE and CSN network operations, new or modified sampling methodologies are considered for inclusion in one or both networks. Assessments and evaluation of these methods would be conducted at research facilities at UCD and at IMPROVE and/or CSN sites as applicable. Outreach and Communication. Participation by NPS and other units and the site operators is a critical component of network operations, and it is important to keep these key participants informed about the monitoring programs. This will be done through various activities, including sharing of results from the analyses of collected samples with the site operators and other participants and development of training material for site operators and data validators. In addition, results from this work will be shared with the scientific community through workshops, scientific meetings, and peer-reviewed publications.

Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · P18AS00529

Grants.gov marks Research and Development to Support the Inter… 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)

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Agency Contact

JOHN BECHTOLD John_Bechtold@nps.gov

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