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Agricultural Management Assistance (AMA)
Grant Program Website:
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/main/national/programs/financial/amaSupport Agency:
Program Contact:
Maryland Association of Soil Conservation Districts
MASCD
123 Clay Drive
Queenstown, MD 21658
123 Clay Drive
Queenstown, MD 21658
Is this a rolling date? :
YesDates Link:
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/main/national/programs/financial/amaPurpose:
The USDA's Agricultural Management Assistance (AMA) program provides cost-share assistance to agricultural producers who voluntarily address issues such as water management, water quality, and erosion control by incorporating conservation into their farming operations.Support Type:
BothAvailable Funding:
VariesFunding Range:
VariesRestoration Activity:
Producers may construct or improve water management structures or irrigation structures; plant trees for windbreaks or to improve water quality; and mitigate risk through production diversification or resource conservation practices, including soil erosion control, integrated pest management, or transition to organic farming.Eligibility:
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Featured Fellow
Nina Santos
Nina Santos is a Ph.D. student at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. For her dissertation, she is focused on small shrimp-like crustaceans called mysids – an understudied yet important part of many estuarine and coastal food webs.
Featured Research Project
Developing a habitat model for mysids, an important link in Chesapeake Bay food webs
Mysids are important mesozooplankton prey for many species of fish in Chesapeake Bay and are an important link in transferring energy from lower to upper trophic levels. Mysids also serve as biological vectors for benthic-pelagic coupling due to their diel vertical migration and omnivorous prey-switching behavior, which makes mysids important regulators of food web architecture. Despite their central role in coastal food webs, surprisingly little is known about mysid ecology and dynamics in Chesapeake Bay.
