The Pooled Monitoring Initiative pools resources to support scientists who answer key restoration questions posed by the regulatory and practitioner communities through this Restoration Research Request for Proposals (RFP).
Donor Name: Chesapeake Bay Trust
State: Maryland
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Awards and Prizes
Deadline: 01/23/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The research teams then provide the answers back to those who asked the questions for direct application. The goal of the Restoration Research award program is to answer these key restoration questions that serve as a barrier to watershed restoration project implementation. Funding partners hope that answering these questions will ultimately lead to increased confidence in proposed restoration project outcomes, clarification of the optimal site conditions in which to apply particular restoration techniques, information useful to regulatory agencies in project permitting, and information that will help guide monitoring programs.
Funding Information
Funding partners have allocated an estimated just over $1,800,000 for this research program. Of the available funding, the funding partners have at least: 1) $617,750 to support Question 1, BMP Effectiveness Monitoring; 2) $373,947, Watershed Restoration Assessment/Q3, Biological Community Restoration; and 3) $38,262, bacteria and chloride as priority areas of research from Maryland MS4 permittee funders. There is also at least $300,000 available funding to support the social science research.
Eligible Project Types
Members of the regulatory and restoration communities have worked together to identify several key restoration questions that are challenging watershed restoration work in the Chesapeake. Investigators may request funds to undertake the following activities pertaining to any of these questions:
- Conduct a literature review/synthesis, if the case can be made that enough is already known about a question ($50,000 maximum request);
- Answer a component of the question with a research project in which specific hypotheses are tested. Research projects may include:
- experimental or descriptive work in the field;
- experimental work in the laboratory;
- modeling studies; and/or
- use of existing data, if deemed appropriately suited (properly collected with appropriate metadata); or
- Develop a regulatory or practitioner tool related to one or more of the questions that advances the pace or efficacy of the field in question, if the case can be made the tool is needed and you have ample information to support tool development.
Eligibility Criteria
Both not-for-profit entities (academic institutions, non-profit organizations) and for-profit entities are permitted to apply. The strongest proposals will show committed partnerships with various types of organizations. Organizations need not be based in Maryland, but the work must be relevant to Maryland’s restoration, regulatory, and/or practitioner communities since many funders are based in this state.
For more information, visit Chesapeake Bay Trust.
