Closed · USGS-FA-19-0355 · CFDA 15.808 · Discretionary

Notice of Intent: Using ground based LIDAR to monitor accretion rates and biomass in coastal wetlands

Federal grant opportunity posted by Geological Survey, cataloged on Grants.gov.

$30K-$60K
Award range
Closed
Status
August 26, 2019
Close date
1
Expected awards

The verdict

Notice of Intent: Using ground based LIDAR to monitor accretion rates and biomass in coastal wetlands is a closed discretionary listing from Geological Survey that offered $30,000 -- $60,000 across 1 expected award. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 2,522 other opportunities from Geological Survey.

$30K-$60K
award range
Closed
application status
1
expected award
15.808
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

Notice of Intent: Using ground based LIDAR to… is closed (last close August 26, 2019). Check the agency catalog for replacement NOFOs. Geological Survey still indexes 2,522 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 August 26, 2019

Posted Aug 12 Closes Aug 26

Expected Awards

1

Instrument

Cooperative Agreement

Description

Notice of Intent to award a cooperative agreement to the Rochester Institute of Technology in support of the project entitled "Using Ground Based Lidar to Monitor Accretion Rate and Biomass in Coastal Wetlands". The main objective of this project is to test a new approach to collecting field data in mangrove forest. Rochester Institute of Technology is a world leader in developing innovative measurement technologies that are required to produce the most accurate data products about land surface elevation change and vegetation structure in relation to sea level rise. The terrestrial LIDAR instrument to be used in the collaboration is the most cost-effective and most accurate instrument for the measurements. USGS has maintained a long-term collaborative relationship with RIT to benefit from their international-leading expertise in field instrumentation and measurements.

Campus applicant desk · Natural Resources

Grants.gov prints only higher-education applicant doors for Notice of Intent: Using ground based LIDAR to… (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 code maps to Natural Resources (NR). Only 28 other Geological Survey listings share this exact eligibility-code string (1% of 2,523).

Code 20
Private institutions of higher education

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