Closed · P20AS00053 · CFDA 15.945 · Discretionary

Monitoring Glacier Change in Alaska¿s National Parks

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

$125K-$130K
Award range
Closed
Status
April 12, 2020
Close date
1
Expected awards

The verdict

Monitoring Glacier Change in Alaska¿s National Parks is a closed discretionary listing from National Park Service that offered $125,000 -- $130,000 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.

$125K-$130K
award range
Closed
application status
1
expected award
15.945
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

Monitoring Glacier Change in Alaska¿s Nationa… is closed (last close April 12, 2020). 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 12, 2020

Posted Apr 6 Closes Apr 12

Est. Total Funding

$130,000

Expected Awards

1

Instrument

Cooperative Agreement

Description

A.Project Goals: To inventory the status (surface elevations, areas, and other metrics) and trends (rates of shrinkage or growth) of glaciers in the Alaskan National Parks, with potential additional focus on glaciers of high interest. B.Project Objectives: a.Update an existing time series of glacier surface elevations, using aircraft-based laser altimetry measurements, to assess modern rates of change of a subset of park glaciers. b.Develop, document, and implement a methodology for incorporating satellite-based glacier surface elevation measurements into ongoing monitoring efforts, with particular focus on use of ICESat-2 data c.Report the results of these efforts with delivery of electronically archived data (with complete metadata), a technical report that summarizes and discusses methods and results, and an internal whitepaper summarizing best practices for future monitoring efforts.

Campus applicant desk · Environment

Grants.gov prints only higher-education applicant doors for Monitoring Glacier Change in Alaska¿s Nationa… (Public / state-controlled 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 Environment · Income Security and Social Services · Natural Resources (ENV;IS;NR). 1,235 other National Park Service listings share this eligibility-code string (15% of 8,507).

Code 06
Public / state-controlled 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

Grants Management Specialist Erica Cordeiro 907-644-3315 Erica_Cordeiro@nps.gov

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