Opportunity Information: Apply for NPS 17 NERO 0125
The New Jersey Pinelands Long-Term Environmental Monitoring Program funding notice (Funding Opportunity Number NPS 17 NERO 0125) is a National Park Service announcement issued by the U.S. Department of the Interior to publicly document the agency's intent to support a specific set of project activities through a cooperative agreement. It is not a request for applications and it is not a competitive grant solicitation. Instead, it serves as a formal notice that the National Park Service plans to make a single award (expected awards: 1) without full and open competition, with an anticipated award ceiling of $298,500. The notice was created on August 8, 2017, with an original closing date of August 17, 2017, reflecting the timeline for public posting rather than an open application window.
The project scope covers two related tracks of work for 2017/2018: long-term economic monitoring and long-term environmental monitoring in the New Jersey Pinelands. On the economic side, the work centers on producing the annual long-term economic monitoring report, specifically the 2016-2017 report and a summary scheduled for release in 2018. This includes evaluating whether additional supplemental datasets are needed and whether they are appropriate for inclusion, which is meant to strengthen the annual reporting and improve the usefulness of the conclusions drawn from it. Another major economic task is support for plan review tied to a Pinelands Development Credit supply and demand study, providing on-demand analysis to inform anticipated rulemaking intended to improve the Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) program. The economic work also includes several targeted special studies: addressing "split towns" where municipal boundaries span both inside and outside the Pinelands and existing datasets cannot easily be separated; updating and revisiting earlier fiscal stress comparisons between Pinelands municipalities and non-Pinelands municipalities because the underlying data and methods have become outdated; and testing whether the current comparison groups used for benchmarking (for example, South Jersey or statewide New Jersey comparisons) are still the best choice or whether alternative groupings would yield more meaningful, fair, or actionable results. In addition to these studies, the program calls for continued review of the economic monitoring program itself and a website roll-out, suggesting an emphasis on improving transparency, accessibility, and communication of findings to stakeholders and the public.
The environmental monitoring component is framed as continued, systematic, long-term field monitoring combined with data analysis and synthesis across water quality, hydrology, wetlands, and aquatic and amphibian communities. A key deliverable is continued water-quality monitoring across a network of 47 Pinelands-wide sites, with pH and specific conductance measured every two months. The program also calls for initiating new rounds of nutrient and ion sampling at each site and completing both nutrient analyses and trend analyses for pH and conductance, indicating a focus on detecting changes over time and identifying potential stressors or shifts in baseline conditions. Hydrologic monitoring is another core element, continuing water-level measurements at 35 forest plots and 37 ponds, paired with new analyses to describe the hydrologic regimes associated with these locations and to examine how water-level fluctuations relate across the full monitoring network. That kind of network-level analysis is typically aimed at understanding regional patterns, climate influences, groundwater-surface water relationships, and how hydrology may be affecting habitats.
Biological monitoring in 2017 includes continued annual anuran (frog and toad) surveys at 20 ponds. The work involves monthly monitoring of calling anurans from March through June, followed by analysis of vocalization datasets to assess trends in species presence and changes in calling abundance over time, which can serve as indicators of wetland health and broader ecological conditions. The program also includes analytical work tied to two large pond-focused studies. For the Pond Vulnerability Study, the recipient is expected to analyze land use, surrounding forest conditions, wetland structure, hydrology, water quality, vegetation, anuran, fish, and related datasets for 99 natural ponds. For the Created Wetland Study, a similar analysis is required for 98 excavated ponds and stormwater basins, which helps compare ecological function, sensitivity, and habitat value between natural systems and human-made waterbodies. Finally, the environmental tasks include ongoing coordination and outreach with government agencies, academic institutions, and the general public, along with hosting the Pinelands Research Series as new research becomes available, reinforcing that the program is designed not only to collect data but also to translate it into usable knowledge and share it broadly.
Overall, this notice describes a bundled set of monitoring, analysis, reporting, and outreach activities intended to support long-term decision-making in the Pinelands. The economic tasks emphasize municipal and regional comparisons, TDR-related policy support, and improvements to reporting and public-facing communication. The environmental tasks emphasize consistent field monitoring across multiple site networks, rigorous trend and comparative analyses, and the integration of land-use and ecological datasets to understand vulnerability and performance of both natural and created pond systems.Apply for NPS 17 NERO 0125
- The Department of the Interior, National Park Service in the other (see text field entitled explanation of other category of funding activity for clarification) sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "New Jersey Pinelands Long-Term Environmental Monitoring Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.944.
- This funding opportunity was created on Aug 08, 2017.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Aug 17, 2017 This Funding Announcement is not a request for applications. This announcement is to provide public notice of the National Park Services intention to fund the following project activities without full and open competition.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $298,500.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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