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The overarching objective of this program is to develop the core features of adaptive and resilient risk management frameworks that can maximize the environmental benefits and minimize the environmental harms of novel biotechnologies in the context of environmental stewardship- shared responsibility for ensuring environmental quality. Within that context, the following are objectives for this research: Objective 1: Comparative analysis of the core elements of existing and emerging risk management frameworks and stewardship practices regulating environmental biotechnology This objective builds on existing ERDC research into the risk management of novel environmental biotechnology that identifies key principles for best practice and knowledge gaps. In collaboration with scientific and social scientific experts in the USA and NATO partner countries, ERDC has taken the first steps to identify key requirements for the effective risk management of environmental biotechnology. The next step in this process must be to assess the fit of these requirements with existing practice. Objective 1 will include the following: i) identification of existing risk management and stewardship practices relevant to the regulation of rapidly-emerging environmental biotechnology applications, ii) comparative analysis identifying the common and distinct properties of these systems, iii) development of application-specific scenarios that can inform the identification of key metrics in objective 2. Objective 2: Identification and assessment of key metrics impacting the resilience of existing and emerging risk management methodologies and community partnerships ERDC research predicts that AI-accelerated research and development of environmental biotechnology is likely to outmatch the capacity of existing risk management and stewardship practices to ensure its safe and responsible use, necessitating the adoption of alternative approaches that are more flexible and resilient. At present, there are few to no objective metrics to comparatively evaluate biotechnology research and development, which limits ability to understand and adopt aligned or diverging approaches to managing pathogenic, environmental, and biodiversity risks. Building on the work in Objective 1, this objective includes the following: i) identification of key capacity metrics related to existing risk management and stewardship practices, ii) collection of data for those metrics across the systems identified in Objective 1, iii) quality assessment of the collected data. Objective 3: Comparative biotechnology modernization forecasting- characterizing future relationships in environmental stewardship Building on Objectives 1 and 2, this objective uses the identified metrics to build test scenarios underlying our understanding of risk management and stewardship practice among these systems. This objective includes the following: i) network analysis of the inter-relationships between risk management components, ii) development of scenarios that examine the impact of specific technology development on risk management and stewardship practices under the presence or absence of key components, iii) use of the capacity metrics identified in Objective 2 to examine how stewardship will fare under these different scenarios and the likely outcomes for environmental and human health. D. Public Benefit This work will improve understanding of how biotechnology activities must be regulated to generate public value and protect the public interest. It will improve our capabilities in promoting widespread access to the benefits of novel environmental biotechnology and preventing and mitigating against related potential harms and threats to human health and the environment.
Funding Opportunity Number: W81EWF-24-SOI-0033. Assistance Listing: 12.630. Funding Instrument: CA. Category: ST. Award Amount: Up to $100K per award.
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The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) intends to award a cooperative agreement to provide training and educational opportunities to local county offenders. These education and training opportunities exist through the need for natural resource and recreation maintenance services on US Army Corps of Engineers project lands at the Bonneville project. The goals and objectives of this cooperative agreement are to facilitate a mutually beneficial partnership for implementation of best management practices with regards to environmental stewardship, high and low density recreation areas, and operations/facilities maintenance, natural resource and recreation maintenance services include but are not limited to: a.Vegetation Management (control of invasive plant species, plantings of native species, and /or removal of species for dam safety or security purposes) b.Trail Maintenance c.Litter Control This cooperative agreement will be awarded pursuant to 33 USC 2339(a) Conservation and Recreation Management. The goal of this funding opportunity is to provide training and education opportunities to offenders at the local county correction facility. Funding Opportunity Number: NWP-14-0009. Funding Instrument: CA. Category: NR. Award Amount: $8K total program funding.
The USACE Huntington District (USACE) intends to enter into a sole source cooperative agreement with the Student Conservation Association (SCA) for assistance in the interpretation and promotion of water safety and/or historical heritage at six lakes within the Huntington District. The SCA will place Natural Resource Assistants with USACE at the following locations: one each at Paint Creek Lake, Dillon Lake, Alum Creek Lake, Delaware Lake, and Burnsville Lake, and two at Deer Creek Lake. Requirements include providing interpretative assistance in the implementation of the Corps Water Safety Program and/or Corps Historic Area Program, presenting programs at schools, parks, and/or special events; providing guided tours of Corps Dams and assisting the Corps Rangers with patrols. This agreement is an opportunity to provide training and educational opportunities for SCA interns and interpretative, parks and recreation, historical, conservation, and/or biology backgrounds. Funding Opportunity Number: LRH-15-0001. Funding Instrument: CA. Category: NR. Award Amount: Up to $65K per award.
The Paul S. Sarbanes Ecosystem Restoration Project at Poplar Island, Talbot County, MD, presents a unique opportunity to understand how large scale ecological restoration projects affect terrapin populations. The most effective way to accomplish this task is to monitor the activity and use of Poplar Island by terrapins.The objective of the monitoring will be to evaluate the current terrapin population in the Poplar Island archipelago and to establish how the population responds as the project progresses and available habitat increases. By monitoring the terrapin population on Poplar Island as habitat is developed, the USACE can learn how to optimize the benefits provided to this species at Poplar Island and other dredged material placement sites. One concern about the nesting activity occurring on Poplar Island is that some of the nests are being placed in areas where the emerging hatchlings may end up in cells under construction. Funding Opportunity Number: W912DR-16-2-RFP-0001. Assistance Listing: 12.010. Funding Instrument: CA. Category: NR. Award Amount: $115K total program funding.