Assessment of Population, Reproductive, and Health Impairments in Colonial Waterbirds Breeding in Michigan's Areas of Concern and Associated Screening Water and Sediment for Contaminants of Emerging Concern — Fish and Wildlife Service funding opportunity
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Assessment of Population, Reproductive, and Health Impairments in Colonial Waterbirds Breeding in Michigan's Areas of Concern and Associated Screening Water and Sediment for Contaminants of Emerging Concern

This program will provide assistance to an institution to investigate and monitor of the effects of environmental contaminants on the breeding population immunological health of fish eating birds found in the Saginaw Bay...

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Award $150k–$250k Deadline 4376 days ago Location Alabama Type grant Level Federal Closed posted Aug 18, 2014
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  • Who can apply: Federal-level applicants (see eligibility for details).
  • Funding amount: $150,000 – $250,000, total pool ~$250,000.
  • Next deadline: August 25, 2014.
  • Issued by: Fish and Wildlife Service.
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  • Eligible applicants: see the Eligibility tab for the criteria from the official announcement.
  • Where: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, District of Columbia.
  • Award: $150k–$250k. Total program pool: $250,000.
  • Matching funds: not required.
  • Deadline type: Fixed.

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Award amount
$150k–$250k
Deadline
4376 days ago
Aug 25, 2014
Total pool
$250k

About this opportunity

This program will provide assistance to an institution to investigate and monitor of the effects of environmental contaminants on the breeding population immunological health of fish eating birds found in the Saginaw Bay, Raisin River and other Great Lakes Areas of Concern (AOCs), building on previous investigations in past years. To accomplish this goal, the recipient institution will collect new data to evaluate the status of fish eating bird population health relative to reference (non AOC) areas and to these same areas as measured in the past. The recipient institution must have a proven record of experience in working with these types of bird colonies in the Great Lakes and measuring specific immunological endpoints in order to maintain scientific integrity and comparability of data. In addition to the continuing work on colonial waterbird immune function, the recipient institution will measure the same endpoints at an additional site (Bellow Island), evaluate potential influence of contaminants of emerging concern to those endpoints, and screen water and sediments samples for these contaminants in the studied watersheds. This is a notice of intent to award a single source grant without competition to Calvin College with Dr. Keith Grasman working on the project under justification 505DM 2.14B (2) & (4). The Service intends to award to this recipient without competition because Dr. Grasman is uniquely qualified to perform this study. He is the researcher that has demonstrated the associations between PCBs and suppression of T-cell-mediated immunity in herring gull and Caspian tern chicks at highly contaminated sites in the Great Lakes as well as associations with altered antibody-mediated immunity (Grasman et al. 1996. Grasman and Fox 2001, Grasman et al. 2012). Because Dr. Grasman has developed and used these immunological methods at these study sites over the past 20 years, data that he generates under this grant can be directly compared with past data to determine trends and restoration of Beneficial Use Impairments.

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Source systemgrants.gov
Source ID262188
PostedAug 18, 2014

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