Supporting Coastal Resiliency in South Central Alaska | P19AS00197

Opportunity Information: Apply for P19AS00197

Supporting Coastal Resiliency in South Central Alaska (Funding Opportunity Number P19AS00197) is a Department of the Interior, National Park Service discretionary funding opportunity offered as a cooperative agreement under an education activity category (CFDA 15.945). The notice was created on May 23, 2019, with an original closing date of May 28, 2019. It is explicitly a notice of intent to award and is restricted to a single recipient: the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Because of that restriction, no other applications are accepted, and the opportunity is not open competition. The anticipated award structure reflects this, with one expected award and a maximum (ceiling) amount of $140,033.

The purpose of the agreement is centered on practical, community-informed coastal resilience work in South Central Alaska, focusing on the Kodiak Islands Archipelago and nearby coastal areas, including Katmai National Park. A core goal is to bring coastal communities together through direct engagement to surface and clarify the resilience issues they are experiencing or anticipating. This can include concerns tied to coastal hazards and change, such as erosion, flooding, storm impacts, changing marine conditions, infrastructure vulnerability, or impacts to subsistence and local economies, with the exact topics intended to come from the communities themselves rather than being predefined from the outside.

Beyond identifying concerns, the project is meant to document those issues in a way that is useful for action. That includes capturing not only the resilience challenges raised during engagement activities, but also mapping out potential partners and solutions. In practice, this implies convening or facilitating a meeting (or similar engagement process), then producing a clear record of what was heard, who is positioned to help, and what pathways or strategies could be pursued. The emphasis on partners suggests coordination across local and tribal entities, community organizations, and agencies, with particular relevance to National Park Service needs and responsibilities in the region.

A major deliverable is the creation of outreach materials based on the community engagement process. Those materials are intended to help communicate what was learned and to support broader awareness and collaboration. The opportunity also ties these products to a specific dissemination channel: the Adapt Alaska website, hosted by Alaska Sea Grant. The project is expected to add the newly developed outreach products to that site, making them accessible and usable beyond the immediate meeting participants.

In addition to adding content, the agreement includes improving the Adapt Alaska website itself. While the notice does not spell out technical requirements, the intent is to strengthen the platform so it better supports resilience information-sharing and coordination. Website improvements could reasonably involve updating organization, navigation, usability, or content structure to make resilience resources easier to find, understand, and apply for rural coastal contexts.

Finally, the opportunity has an explicit partnership-expansion component. It aims to broaden and deepen relationships with rural coastal communities across Alaska so that these partnerships better serve the National Park Service, the Fish and Wildlife Service, and the State of Alaska. The underlying idea is that stronger, sustained connections and better information flow can improve how agencies and communities coordinate on resilience planning and response, ensuring that agency actions and resources align more closely with local priorities and on-the-ground realities in coastal Alaska.

• The Department of the Interior, National Park Service in the education sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Supporting Coastal Resiliency in South Central Alaska" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.945.
• This funding opportunity was created on May 23, 2019.
• Applicants must submit their applications by May 28, 2019 This is a notice of intent to award to the University of Alaska Fairbanks. No applications will be accepted from any entity other than the University of Alaska Fairbanks.. (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 $140,033.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education.

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