To provide financial support to Water Resources Research Institutes located at designated State universities in each of the 50 States, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, Guam, the Virgin Islands, ...more
Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program U.s. Geological Survey To support earthquake hazards research in order to develop information, knowledge, and methods relevant to the major Earthquake Hazards Program elements: national and regional earthquake hazards asses...more
To support research complementary to USGS program efforts in classification of the public lands and examination of the geological structure, water, mineral, and biological resources, and products of t...more
National Spatial Data Infrastructure Cooperative Agreements Program U.s. Geological Survey To improve the efficient discovery, access, transfer and use of geospatial data among organizations among and between Federal, state, and local government; academia; and profit and nonprofit organizat...more
National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program U.s. Geological Survey To produce geologic maps of areas in which knowledge of geology is important to the economic, social, or scientific welfare of individual States. STATEMAP supports: (1) projects which produce new geol...more
Studies where native animal species and natural plant communities occur and identifies "gaps" in their representation to support conservation of biodiversity....more
To work in partnership with States and universities to address the information needs of local, State, and Federal fish, wildlife, and natural resource agencies through research, technical assistance, ...more
Cooperative Research Units Training Program U.s. Geological Survey To provide financial support to Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) to introduce a culturally diverse group of students, primarily undergraduates, to the fields of freshwater fisheries and aquatic sc...more
National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program U.s. Geological Survey To preserve and provide access to geological, geophysical, and engineering samples (and any related data) that have been extracted from the Earth to improve the breadth of information available, to in...more
National Land Remote Sensing_Education Outreach and Research U.s. Geological Survey To promote the uses of space-based land remote sensing data and technologies through education and outreach at the State and local level and through university based and collaborative research project...more
For 2014, the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship has recognized 37 individuals for their outstanding work in the field of social enterprise.