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The US Geological Survey is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for hydrologic research in the Dakotas and Missouri River basin. This funding opportunity is to participate in a variety of hydrologic issues including the water availability and quality of groundwater and surface water and the effects on associated aquifers, watersheds, and reservoirs. A range of challenges face water resource managers in the Dakotas including energy development, drought, floods, climate variability, land-use and climatic changes, water contamination, and surface water dynamics. The Dakota Water Science Center (DWSC) engages in basin-wide (Missouri), regional, and national-scale research related to water chemistry, surface water and groundwater hydrology, as well as the variables that influence the hydrology of our nation including climate variability and land use changes. Climate variability has prompted changes in agricultural practices, such as tile drainage of fields and has been shown to change the river dynamics, resulting in increased runoff, which in turn changes some water-quality characteristic like sediment load as well as streamflow statistics (both base flow and peak discharges). Tribal Nations have experienced losses of valuable lands along reservoirs due to extreme erosion. In response to these hydrologic events, a range of research projects in association with Federal, State, local, and Tribal partners will characterize the physical effects of external stresses on groundwater and surface water systems and associated ecosystems. Lastly, this research will advance understanding of how to apply scientific understanding to decision making processes under conditions of great uncertainty.

The US Geological Survey is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research in spatio-temporal dynamics of the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS). Previous studies suggest that several water quality attributes are related to the distributing of different aquatic habitats, and that aquatic vegetation, mussel, and fish communities are related to spatial variability in aquatic habitats and water quality attributes in different ways and over different spatial scales. However, these studies have almost universally taken a species or community centric view of the river, asking questions such as what factors influence the distribution and abundance of a given community? Seek a collaborator who can take fundamentally different approach to the study of physical-biological relationships and to understand the landscape mosaic of a large river and address the question of what are the physical properties of the riverscape that can model and map that are most important in structuring biological communities? This perspective acknowledges that biological communities vary over space and time, responding to both physical and biological factors, many of which are impossible to map over large spatial scales. Hence, the purpose of the study is not to understand the controls on various biotic communities, but rather to identify and quantify aspects of the riverscape that play important roles in structuring biotic communities. Management agencies continue to manipulate physical variables to manage and restore various biotic communities. Furthermore, anticipate changes in the abundance and distribution of mappable aquatic areas under future climate changes. What are the likely consequences of such changes to the biotic communities?

The U.S. Geological Surveys MD-DE-DC Water Science Center is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research to provide chemical analysis of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and wastewater constituents in environmental/experimental samples and collaborate to understanding the occurrence, fate, and transport of these contaminants in diverse hydrogeologic environments and infrastructure, including coastal watersheds, shallow soils and sediments, groundwater, and wastewater treatment facilities.

The U.S. Geological Surveys Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center (NOROCK) is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU Partner for research to assess distribution and threats to at-risk amphibians in the western USA. This research will focus specifically on how threats such as drought, non-native predators, habitat loss or transformation, environmental degradation, and pathogens are affecting the distribution and abundance of amphibians in the West. Field work will occur in the Northwest, Southwest, Rocky Mountains, and Great Plains, will occur primarily on BLM, NPS, USFWS, and USFS lands, and will focus on many species that are priorities to the Department of Interior and other partner agencies or stakeholders.

The US Geological Survey is offering a funding opportunity for research to study overwinter hydrodynamics on Lake Erie coldwater fish spawning reefs. Loss of winter presents a challenge for management of coldwater fishes. Ice cover has declined in recent decades in the Great Lakes, which is expected to continue based on existing climate projections. Ice cover has been linked to reproductive success for coldwater fishes, such as fishes from the genus Coregonus. Several factors have been proposed as potential mechanisms for ice cover-recruitment linkages, including wind-driven currents displacing early life stages from nursery habitats and causing burying of early life stages with fine sediments. The hypothesis is that ice cover protects the water’s surface from wind and creates a more stable hydrodynamic environment. However, the hydrodynamics on spawning reefs have not been measured under conditions of ice cover to estimate the conditions experienced by coldwater fish early life stages.

The US Geological Survey is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU Partner for a 2-year research project to study overwinter hydrodynamics on Lake Erie cold-water fish spawning reefs. Loss of winter presents a challenge for management of cold-water fishes. Ice cover has declined in recent decades in the Great Lakes, which is expected to continue based on existing climate projections. Ice cover has been linked to reproductive success for cold-water fishes, such as fishes from the genus Coregonus. Several factors have been proposed as potential mechanisms for ice cover-recruitment linkages, including wind-driven currents displacing early life stages from nursery habitats and causing burying of early life stages with fine sediments. The hypothesis is that ice cover protects the water’s surface from wind and creates a more stable hydrodynamic environment. However, the hydrodynamics on spawning reefs have not been measured under conditions of ice cover to estimate the conditions experienced by cold-water fish early life stages.

The US Geological Survey is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research in co-production of knowledge about Pacific salmon populations and habitats in the Koyukuk, Nowitna Innoko National Wildlife Refuges and Gana-AYoo managed freshwaters.

1) Note: A full study proposal and proposed budget are NOT requested at this time.2) Project Title: Natural Resources Support Travis AFB, CA3) Brief Description of Anticipated Work: The NFE will provide on-site support for a large field project at Travis AFB, CA to implement the Integrated Natural Resources Management Plan (INRMP) goals. The work will involve species, habitat, wetlands, and floodplains support.4) Period of Performance: Base period: 18-months from date of award (3 months administrative period to complete onboarding of employees and subcontractors, 12-month technical period for conducting field work, 3 months administrative for completion of reports only with no new work). Follow-on (FO) periods: Four (4) 18-month Follow-On (FO) periods. Any overlap between base and follow-on periods is to accommodate on-boarding of personnel, subcontracting activities, and reporting activities as field work is required during all 12 months of the technical period of performance.5) Please send responses or direct questions to:Nicholas ApreaGrants SpecialistUSACE, Fort Worth DistrictEmail: [email protected] LeptienProject ManagerUSACE, Fort Worth DistrictEmail: [email protected]) Timeline for Review of Statements of Interest: 30 calendar days from date posted.

NOTICE: Amended March 26, 2024. New Horizons datasets are now in scope for this program element, see Section 1.1. New text is in bold. The due dates remain unchanged: Step-1 proposals are due May 23, 2024, and Step-2 proposals are due August 1, 2024. Proposers must retrieve the instructions document (zip file) associated with the application package for this opportunity as there is at least one required form that must be attached to the submitted proposal package. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (SMD) released its annual omnibus Research Announcement (NRA), Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) 2024 (OMB Approval Number 2700-0092, CFDA Number 43.001) on February 14, 2024. In this case "omnibus" means that this NRA has many individual program elements, each with its own due dates and topics. All together these cover the wide range of basic and applied supporting research and technology in space and Earth sciences supported by SMD. Awards will be made as grants, cooperative agreements, contracts, and inter- or intra-agency transfers, depending on the nature of the work proposed, the proposing organization, and/or program requirements. However, most extramural research awards deriving from ROSES will be grants, and many program elements of ROSES specifically exclude contracts, because contracts would not be appropriate for the nature of the work solicited. The typical period of performance for an award is three years, but some programs may allow up to five years and others specify shorter periods. In most cases, organizations of every type, Government and private, for profit and not-for-profit, domestic and foreign (with some caveats), may submit proposals without restriction on teaming arrangements. Tables listing the program elements and due dates (Tables 2 and 3), a table that provides a very top level summary of proposal contents (Table 1), and the full text of the ROSES-2024 "Summary of Solicitation", may all be found NSPIRES at http://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2024. This synopsis is associated with one of the individual program elements within ROSES, but this is a generic summary that is posted for all ROSES elements. For specific information on this particular program element download and read the PDF of the text of this program element by going to Tables 2 or 3 of this NRA at http://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2024table2 and http://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2024table3, respectively, click the title of the program element of interest, a hypertext link will take you to a page for that particular program element. On that page, on the right side under "Announcement Documents" the link on the bottom will be to the PDF of the text of the call for proposals. For example, if one were interested in The Lunar Data Analysis Program (NNH24ZDA001N-LDAP) one would follow the link to the NSPIRES page for that program element and then to read the text of the call one would click on C.8 Lunar Data Analysis Program (.pdf) to download the text of the call. If one wanted to set it into the context of the goals, objectives and know the default rules for all elements within Appendix C, the planetary science division, one might download and read C.1 Planetary Science Research Program Overview (.pdf) from that same page. While the letters and numbers are different for each element within ROSES (A.12, B.7, etc.) the basic configuration is always the same, e.g., the letter indicates the Science Division (A is Earth Science, B is Heliophysics etc.) and whatever the letter, #1 is always the division overview. Frequently asked questions for ROSES are posted at http://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/faqs. Questions concerning general ROSES-2024 policies and procedures may be directed to Max Bernstein, Lead for Research, Science Mission Directorate, at [email protected], but technical questions concerning specific program elements should be directed to the point(s) of contact for that particular element, who may be found either at the end of the individual program element in the summary table of key information or on the web list of topics and points of contact at: http://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/program-officers-list. Not all program elements are known at the time of the release of ROSES. To be informed of new program elements or amendments to this NRA, proposers may subscribe to: (1) The SMD mailing lists (by logging in at http://nspires.nasaprs.com and checking the appropriate boxes under "Account Management" and "Email Subscriptions"), (2) The ROSES-2024 blog feed for amendments, clarifications, and corrections to at https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/solicitations/roses-2024/, and (3) The ROSES-2024 due date Google calendars (one for each science division). Instructions are at https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/library-and-useful-links (link from the words due date calendar).

Notice of Intent to Issue Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) number DE-FOA-0003383 entitled Fiscal Year 2024 Vehicle Technologies Office Batteries Electrification Funding Opportunity Announcement.The Notice of Intent to Issue is for informational purposes only; the Department of Energy is not seeking comments on the information in this notice and applications are not being accepted at this time. Any information contained in this notice is subject to change.This anticipated FOA will support the government-wide approach to the climate crisis by driving the innovation that can lead to the deployment of clean energy technologies, which are critical for climate protection. Specifically, this FOA will advance research, development, demonstration, and deployment (RDD) in several areas critical to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050, including: demonstration of smart charge management of electric vehicles (EVs), development of innovative battery chemistries and component materials, reduction of cascading battery fires, and battery electrode, cell, and pack manufacturing cost reduction.

The Greenwall Foundation is requesting proposals for the Fall 2024 cycle of its bioethics grants program, Making a Difference in Real-World Bioethics Dilemmas. Donor Name: The Greenwall Foundation State: All States County: All Counties Type of Grant: Grant Deadline: 06/17/2024 Size of the Grant: Not Available Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned Details: The Making a Difference program supports research to help resolve important emerging or unanswered bioethics problems in clinical, biomedical, or public health decision-making, policy, or practice. The Greenwall Foundation only makes awards to affiliated individuals at institutions with tax-exempt status with the United States Internal Revenue Service. The Foundation’s vision is to make bioethics integral to decisions in health care, policy, and research. The mission is to expand bioethics knowledge to improve clinical, biomedical, and public health decision-making, policy, and practice. Projects funded under the Making a Difference program should promote the Foundation’s vision and mission through innovative bioethics research that will have a real-world, practical impact. Priority Topics While foundation welcomes all innovative proposals that will have a real-world impact, they are particularly interested in proposals that address the ethical and policy issues raised by the following priority topics: Trust in science, medicine, and public health; Bias and discrimination in health care, which may be based on a broad range of characteristics; Public health crises (related to, for example, emerging infectious diseases, climate change, and the opioid epidemic), including their impact on mental health; Healthcare access, costs, and resource allocation. Proposals for projects that address other real-world, practical bioethics problems are also welcome. Guidance for Proposal Projects may be empirical, conceptual, or normative. All proposals should explain how they will help address a real-world bioethics dilemma. Projects to analyze the normative implications of already-completed empirical research are encouraged. The Foundation will support mentored projects in which a postdoctoral fellow or early-career faculty member works closely with an experienced bioethics scholar. The Foundation will also consider pilot or feasibility projects to evaluate an innovative intervention to resolve a bioethics dilemma, with the goal of obtaining funding from other sources for a larger evaluation or demonstration project. In evaluating proposals, the Foundation will consider: The ways in which the project promotes the Foundation’s vision and mission and supports the Foundation’s strategic priorities. Importantly, projects that aim to impact public policy must not constitute advocacy projects with predetermined conclusions. The project’s approach, including its innovative nature, and how it relates to (and builds on) current scholarship. The appropriateness and rigor of the methods, analysis plan, and strategy. The likelihood that the project will impact policy or practice. The appropriateness and inclusiveness of the project’s planned approach to dissemination and implementation, including to stakeholder audiences beyond academia and key individuals who can change practice or policy. The professional backgrounds of the research team, including the team’s expertise in relevant disciplines and their familiarity and experience with the bioethics problems to be addressed, and their success in carrying out similar projects. Early-career investigators are advised to apply with a mentor who actively collaborates in all phases of the project. The success of the research team in publishing practical bioethics articles and disseminating the results of their research to relevant stakeholders outside of academia. The reasonableness of the budget and project timeline. Projects with smaller budgets and shorter timelines will receive priority. For more information, visit The Greenwall Foundation.

The US Geological Surveys National Climate Adaptation Science Center (NCASC), is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research to support the project entitled Social Network Analysis of the Environmental Justice and Climate Justice Community Active in Climate Adaptation and Conservation.

The City of Wauchula is seeking applications for its Revitalization Grant Program to restore and improve commercial buildings within the Wauchula Community Redevelopment Agency District in an effort to improve the area in ways that contribute to the physical, economic, social and aesthetic well-being of the City of Wauchula. Donor Name: City of Wauchula State: Florida City: Wauchula Type of Grant: Grant Deadline:  07/19/2024 Size of the Grant: Not Available Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned Details: Moreover, it is the intent of this program to encourage improvements to private properties that go well beyond what is required under the City of Wauchula’s Land Development Regulations to enhance the form, function and design quality of this redevelopment district. Project Requirements Applications will only be accepted during an advertised grant cycle. Applications will be reviewed and scored. Award amount is based on scoring but subject to funding and WCRA Board final approval. The WCRA Board shall have final approval of all applications. Awards shall not exceed WCRA funds available at time of approval. Applicants must be the property owner or the property owner’s registered agent. No more than 1 open grant award shall be allowed per property owner or the property owner’s registered agent. The WCRA reserves the right to modify or cancel parts of or the entire Commercial Revitalization Program at any time without notice. If the program is modified or eliminated, the Agency will ensure that any previously approved grantees undergoing renovation will be completed per contract as long as the owner(s) abide by the contract. Projects on properties that do not/will not collect property tax and contribute to the CRA Tax Increment Financing Fund (TIFF), and projects to improve property used or designed primarily for residential use (including, but not limited to apartments, condominiums, townhomes, duplexes, single family homes, and other residential housing) are not eligible to apply for the grant. Work shall not begin prior to receipt of a fully executed grant agreement. All applications shall be reviewed on a case by case basis by the WCRA Board to determine if an application meets the intended program goals. Grants are paid as reimbursement. No funds shall be paid to the Applicant until the WCRA staff have received the official Certificate of Occupancy or Certificate of Completion and any other documentation required by the grant agreement with the WCRA. Only project construction costs are eligible for the grant program. Design and permitting costs are not eligible for the grant program. All incentivized development shall conform to the current edition of the City of Wauchula Land Development Code. When agreed upon, redeveloped parking located on private property will be owned by the private property owner but be designated for public use for the life of the WCRA. Applicants must supply the WRCA 3 quotes for the project elements funded by the grant application. Applicants will not be approved for more than 1 grant extension. Approved applicants are not eligible to submit another application for the same property address for a period of 5 years. Project elements must remain unchanged for a period of 5 years. Applicants are required to provide updates to the WCRA Board as requested by staff. For more information, visit City of Wauchula.

Are you aged 15 to 24 years old? Want to make a difference in the La Crosse community? Are you ready to act on climate change and help the environment? If yes, then apply for the Youth Climate Action Fund (YCAF) Micro-Grant Program. Donor Name: City of La Crosse State: County: All Counties Type of Grant: Grant Deadline: (mm/dd/yyyy) 07/24/2024 Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000 Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned Details: The goal of the YCAF is to activate youth-led initiatives and address urgent climate challenges in La Crosse. All projects must fit within the strategies of the City’s Climate Action Plan. These ideas may include Youth-led awareness, education, research, and development initiatives, including youth-led climate education programs, youth climate hackathons; youth-developed climate surveys and research youth-informed clubs or curriculum; and youth-designed public art and awareness campaigns. Youth-driven climate mitigation and adaptation projects, including youth-led community gardening, tree planting, reforestation, and urban farming campaigns; youth-managed recycling and waste reduction programs; and youth-produced climate resilience workshops and disaster preparedness programs. Co-governed youth climate action plans, including partnerships between city leaders and youth groups to inform climate-related policy ideas, decisions, actions, or the formation of youth climate ambassadors or advisory boards. This program can fund any youth-led (15-24 years of age) project that is focused on sustainability and climate change that directly benefits La Crosse. Example projects can include school community gardens, waste collection programs, road/waterway cleanups, renewable energy projects, tree plantings, energy efficiency projects, sustainable transportation projects, murals, etc. Additionally, projects could also include hosting events or organizing online or in-person activities Funding Information Grants ranging from $1,000 – $5,000. Eligibility Criteria Open to applicants between the ages of 15-24 years old who reside in, or whose initiatives directly benefit, the city of La Crosse. If youth-led groups are not incorporated entities, they may partner with one that serves as the micro-grant recipient and fund administrator.  Entities must have a formal incorporation or status of some kind (not necessarily an NGO or charity), a bank account in its name, and an ability to manage the funds. For more information, visit City of La Crosse.

The Office of Grants and Research (OGR) is seeking grant applications to support traditional enforcement activities and develop new strategies to reduce roadway crashes, injuries, fatalities, and associated economic losses in Massachusetts. Donor Name: Office of Grants and Research (OGR) State: Massachusetts County: All Counties Type of Grant: Grant Deadline: 07/01/2024 Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000 Grant Duration: Less than 1 Year Details: This grant program makes federal funds available to provide police departments substantial flexibility in addressing local traffic safety issues, allowing funding beyond enforcement to include equipment options and developing novel traffic-safety programs. Funding Information OGR is pleased to make between $5 – $5.5 million in grant funds through this AGF process. 2025 Funding Levels Population Greater than 40,000 Tier 1: Max Award – $60,000.00 Population 20,000 – 39,999 Tier 2: Max Award – $40,000.00 Population 12,000 -19,999 Tier 3: Max Award – $30,000.00 Less than 12,000 Tier 4: Max Award – $20,000.00. Grant Period The grant award period will be approximately twelve months. The award period will start on or about October 1, 2024, and end on September 15, 2025. Program Elements  Applicants may propose projects that fall within one or more of the Program Elements. Each Element is optional and independent from each other. A department may apply for any combination of the following activities that best address their specific needs. The full budget, inclusive of all proposed elements, must be within the department’s appropriate funding tier. Note: For the elements being requested, a department must provide at least three (3) measurable target objectives that should be clearly related to a particular element. It’s important that these objectives are measurable (meaning that an indicator of progress can be quantifiable) and reasonable (able to be attainable via the proposed programming). Please see the following examples that may assist when developing your objectives: Traffic Enforcement: Deploy 8 overtime patrols to enforce speeding violations at the intersection of A and B Streets during June 2025 to reduce the number of speeding vehicles by 10%. A department should provide the monthly average of speeding vehicles identified in this intersection for June 2024 (e.g., 30 vehicles were cited for speeding in ’24) and track progress made during their 2025 enforcement campaign with the goal of reducing this number to 27. Pedestrian & Bicyclist Enforcement: Conduct 18 crosswalk decoy patrols over the course of the 6 enforcement campaigns at the intersection of C and D Streets to reduce the number of pedestrian crashes by 50% from 2024. A department should provide the number of pedestrian crashes at this intersection for 2024 (e.g., 4 pedestrian crashes in ’24) and track progress made during their 2025 enforcement campaign with the goal of reducing this number to 2. Non-Enforcement Traffic Safety Activities: Ten Officers to complete ARIDE training. Officers targeted pedestrian outreach activities (e.g., distributed 1,000 pedestrian safety flyers) on Main St. to address this high problem area as five crashes involving pedestrians occurred at this location in the past three years. Distribute 1,000 pieces of educational materials to pedestrians on Main St. since five crashes involving pedestrians occurred at this location in the past three years. Distribute 25 bicycle helmets during a Bike Rodeo event Officers provided 4 presentations at elementary schools on the topic of pedestrian safety. Eligibility Criteria  Only Massachusetts municipal police departments are eligible to apply. For more information, visit OGR.

The objective of this program is to develop replicable, customizable processes, along with methods and tools to measure resilience and conduct resilience assessments across communities in a watershed scalable to the application across the Nation. Reconciling community needs and methodological gaps should result in methodological advancement. An understanding of the interdependencies of individual projects to achieve critical functions in support of watershed objectives is of paramount importance. This work will address specific threat scenarios acting on individual vulnerabilities of specific communities and multiple compounding threats acting at watershed-wide scale. This work will interface with and possibly be combined with efforts being developed by ERDC as a part of technology transfer to others to customize and use. This project will include the delivery of products in a form that may be included in a playbook for watershed jurisdictions to customize and replicate. Objective 1: Develop methodological toolbox for resilience quantification and decision support for watershed-level mitigation efforts. For this objective, ERDC will conduct field-campaigns to collect data on critical functions that are applicable to watershed-level mitigation efforts. The recipient/awardee will use the supplied data in analyses to identify interdependencies and vulnerabilities for development of a methodological toolbox for resilience quantification and decision support for water-shed level mitigation efforts. For consistency, the assessment should coincide with existing ERDC published work in resilience and, as such, should focus on the Resilience Matrix, an organizing framework on three phases of resilience (absorb, recover, adapt) against three domains of resilience (physical, information, social). Activities associated with Objective 1 will include the following: (i) process to identify and prioritize the critical infrastructure in local community and watershed levels; (ii) an analysis of the most vulnerable critical infrastructure to all forms of threats (primary focus in the Savannah River Basin); (iii) an assessment of the supply and demand of critical functions supported by the highest priority infrastructure in the watershed; (iv) replicable process to conduct an analysis of interdependencies across primary functions and infrastructure in the basin; (v) methods and tools to conduct a consequence assessment of critical functions at the local and watershed level; (vi) a screening tool to visualize vulnerabilities on potential failures of critical infrastructure; (vii) process to apply screening tool applications in a collaborative setting between public and private stakeholders. Objective 2: Support the development of collaborative approaches to build a shared vision of resilience, scalable to all levels of a watershed. This objective will advance research activities focused on the development of decision support tools to connect local priorities with challenges across the watershed for scalable watershed resilience. Similar to Objective 1, ERDC will collect data and provide the data to the recipient/awardee use in complex analyses. The analyses will result in a deliverable that describes the methods and tools needed to prioritize decisions in the watershed in a way that will enhance resilience. Activities associated with Objective 2 will include the following: (i) methods for identification of objectives and priorities in the watershed; (ii) assessment of priorities across the watershed to identify potential areas of conflict and synergy in the basin; (iii) methods to help communities identify and leverage government resources; (iv) process to generate and articulate scenarios for collaborative decision-making decision support tools; (v) development of serious gaming sim city like applications to run scenarios against potential resilience strategy alternatives. .

Synopsis of Program: In response to the CHIPS Act of 2022 (Pub.L. 117-167), NSF is establishing the National STEM Teacher Corps Pilot Program.The purpose of this program is to elevate the profession of STEM teaching by establishing a National STEM Teacher Corps Pilot Program to recognize outstanding STEM teachers in our Nations classrooms, reward them for their accomplishments, elevate their public profile, and create rewarding career paths to which all STEM teachers can aspire, both to prepare future STEM researchers and to create a scientifically literate public. With this solicitation, NSF is inviting proposals to establish an initial set of Regional Alliances responsible for (a) recruiting eligible applicants to become members of the National STEM Teacher Corps (see definitions in section II.A.); (b) screening, interviewing, and selecting members; and (c) supporting other activities detailed in the Program Description and the law (136 STAT. 1515). Each Alliance will be awarded as a cooperative agreement that represents the breadth of activities important to National STEM Teacher Corps Pilot Program and serves to elevate the public profile of STEM teachers within the region. Collectively these Alliances are expected to have a national impact. The National STEM Teacher Corpsalso welcomes planning proposals submitted at any time during the year. See Section II.E for additional information about the preparation and submission of planning proposals.

The City of Cumberland’s Community Development Department is pleased to introduce a new Home Rehabilitation Grant program in support of the Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative to reduce blight. Donor Name: City of Cumberland State: County: All Counties Type of Grant: Grant Deadline: All Time Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000 Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned Details: This grant program will provide 50% matching funds, up to $25,000, for the improvement of a property in the city limits of Cumberland that is uninhabitable in its current condition. Application Process Interested parties must obtain an application packet from the Community Development Department and submit the application, along with the following documentation: A portfolio of previous projects, if any A printed page from the MD State Department of Assessment and Taxation website showing the assessed value of the property is under $100,000 Interior photos documenting the property is vacant A list of all items to be updated/remodeled An estimated cost of the project  A statement shoring the scope of projected renovations and a timeline to completion. Proof of available funds for the project. For more information, visit City of Cumberland.

The City of Greenbelt is awarding a one-time, reimbursable grant to go directly towards the purchase of trees to assist homeowners and community organizations with the planting or replacement of trees caused by storm damage, disease or invasive insects. Donor Name: City of Greenbelt State: Maryland City: Greenbelt Type of Grant: Grant | Reimbursement Deadline: 08/30/2024 Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000 Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned Details: The purpose of the Tree Canopy grant is to assist homeowners and community organizations with the planting or replacement of trees caused by storm damage, disease or invasive insects; and to increase the density and resiliency of the City’s iconic tree canopy. Funding for this grant will be provided through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), and can be used to purchase, install, stake and mulch the area the tree or trees will be planted. Who may apply? Civic, neighborhood, community and homeowner organizations – eligible to receive up to $7,0000 Apartment complexes – eligible to receive up to $5,000 Greenbelt residential homeowners – eligible to receive up to $750 Note: Residential homeowners reimbursement will be provided through the Greenbelt Community Development Corporation. Applicants will be required to provide: Summary of the project Statement of need Project Timeline A map/site plan of the proposed planting site with proposed trees. Brief explanation of what you plan on doing and how you will do it Describe who will carry out the plan A written cost estimate for the trees (signed by an authorized representative of a landscape nursery) and should include a one (1) year guarantee be furnished by the supplier, on all trees Maintenance and survivability Plan Who will carry out the plan Project budget If an HOA, Civic or Neighborhood association – The applicant will need to provide written authorization by the property owner and/or authorized agent authorizing the project For more information, visit City of Greenbelt.

U.S. Geological Surveys (USGS), Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center (NOROCK), is offering a funding opportunity to improve Bayesian model-based inferences for bat surveys. Field methods for monitoring bat populations in the western United States consist of stationary acoustic surveys, mobile transects, and summertime colony counts. The North American Bat monitoring program (NABat) relies on these core data streams to inform species status and trends assessments at range-wide extents, periodically (Loeb et al. 2015). NOROCKs research statistician was involved in conceptualizing the NABat program, developed the probabilistic master sample design underpinning the collaborative monitoring effort, continues to identify emerging statistical research and development needs for the Bats Stats Team, and provides sustained programmatic guidance and direction for the NABat program.