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W81EWF-21-SOI-0011: Understanding and Predicting the Multi-Scale Eco-Geomorphic Evolution and Ecosystem Service Benefits of Coastal Engineering With Nature® (EWN) Solutions

Closed Closed May 14, 2021 Opportunity W81EWF-21-SOI-0011 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is open now: ERDC Broad Agency Announcement (W912HZ26S0001). Status: Closes January 1, 2027 (55 days left). It is in our archive of Engineer Research and Development Center notices from 2021.

• Award ceiling$1.0 million
• Total funding$3.0 million
• Expected awards1
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

This opportunity is restricted to non-federal partners of the Gulf Coast Region Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit (CESU).

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering awards averaged $1.1 million; this notice allows up to $1.0 million per award.
• Most of the program's money (69% over five years) went to colleges and universities.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

The following objectives are required for this CESU-funded project, which is to understand and predict the multi-scale eco-geomorphic evolution and ecosystem services benefits of coastal EWN solutions. Year one (1) will establish the initial structure of the project and includes tasks that support the following objectives. If funded, year two (2) and year (3) would continue to expand major elements of the project and build a diverse portfolio of collaborative EWN projects and engagements. Objective 1: Establish Collaborative EWN R&D Enterprise for understanding coastal systems. This objective prioritizes and subsequently builds a suite of diverse, collaborate R&D projects that expands current research efforts within EWN portfolio. Specifically, these projects will offer insight with respect to: (1) developing a better understanding of how coastal systems evolve before, during, and after an EWN solution is deployed; and how this knowledge informs sustainable and high performing design solutions; (2) Integrating the effects and interactions of microbes, plants, and animals into the monitoring and modeling of EWN solutions; (3) assessing and predicting the resiliency of EWN solutions to changing biological, chemical, and physical conditions; and (4) evaluating and quantifying scale- and context-dependencies of EWN solutions. The breadth of projects is strengthened by the caliber of multi-disciplinary researchers that integrate capabilities, resources and expertise to target very deliberative endpoints that advance EWN research. During the first year, it is anticipated that researchers associated with USACE and the selected team will initiate 3-5 R&D EWN projects, which ultimately lead to expanded technology transfer opportunities. Objective 2: Identify and Pursue EWN Field-Demonstration Projects. Demonstrations are applied research projects critical to the overall success of an EWN solution. As such, this objective seeks to establish field-demonstration projects that integrate research projects with a diverse number of collaborators, in addition to the core participants (i.e., members of the successful team and USACE’s EWN researchers). Demonstration projects could include field testing the EWN monitoring-modeling system at a site where EWN solutions are under consideration and use this to project the eco-geomorphic evolution of alternative EWN solutions proposed for the site.

Category: Science and Technology and other Research and Development.

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Apply under the newer notice, W912HZ26S0001, which is open now.

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