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2023 NGGDPP Federal Grants

By National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program

This is a list of 2023 federal projects that were funded by the National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program with an indication (*) for projects that received Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) funding. Details on other years are listed on the NGGDPP Grants Program Page. 

2023 NGGDPP Federal Grants

Center Title Amount BIL
Geosciences and Environmental Change

Science Center and Geology, Minerals, Energy,

and Geophysics Science Center		 Recovery and Modernization of Legacy Soils Data in Support

of Long Term Archiving		 $49,580.12 *
New York Water Science Center Paper to Digital Conversion of Well Logs of the

Long Island Aquifer System		 $60,288.00 *
USGS Denver Library Digitizing Selected USGS Historical Photographic

Collections at the USGS Library		 $64,539.49 *
Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center Preservation of Archived and Donated Well and

Geophysical Logs, Austin, Texas 		 $165,500.00 *
Fort Collins Science Center Loch Vale Watershed, Rocky Mountain National Park

Long-term Ecological Research and Monitoring

Program Samples and Records, 1983-2023		 $30,472.00 *
Upper Midwest Water Science Center Upper Midwest Water Science Center

Well Log Archiving Project		 $362,235.00 *
New Mexico Water Science Center New Mexico Historical Well Log Preservation $68,666.45 *
Florence Bascom Geoscience Center Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain benthic foraminifera:

digitizing and updating the taxonomy of

Tom Gibson’s census data		 $44,988.72 *
Woods Hole Coastal and

Marine Science Center		 Safeguarding the Woods Hole Coastal and

Marine Science Center’s Data Library from

Future Mold Outbreaks		 $60,657.86 *
Geology, Minerals, Energy, and

Geophysics Science Center		 Magmatic ores collection preservation $57,398.77 *
Geology, Minerals, Energy, and

Geophysics Science Center		 Critical Mineral Commodity Specialist Collections Preservation $55,391.41 *
New York Water Science Center Digital Preservation of Organic Matter Spectroscopic Data to

Support National Water Quality and Carbon Assessments 		 $67,183.00 *
Florence Bascom Geoscience Center Preserving Lithologic Descriptions and Photographs of

USGS Drilled Cores, Atlantic Coastal Plain		 $38,114.82 *
Geology, Minerals, Energy, and

Geophysics Science Center		 Historical Unpublished Mine, Geologic, and

Mineral Resource Maps by the USGS		 $68,170.00 *
Geology, Minerals, Energy, and

Geophysics Science Center		 Late Miocene through Holocene Micropaleontologic

collections along the lower Colorado River corridor,

Imperial Valley, and Gulf of California		 $62,273.00 *
Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center Preserving Tree-Ring Datasets for Climate and

Hazard Research and Understanding Societal Impacts		 $105,603.00 *
Astrogeology Science Center Digitization of the Eugene Shoemaker Collection $28,140.26 *
Woods Hole Coastal and

Marine Science Center		 Cataloging, Modernizing and Preserving Legacy Imagery from

the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center		 $98,384.42 *
Lower Mississippi-Gulf

Water Science Center		 Data Preservation of USGS Geophysical Log Archive for the

West Gulf Coastal Plain Region of Arkansas and

Northern Louisiana		 $65,000.00 *
Lower Mississippi-Gulf

Water Science Center		 Digitization and Archival of 1:24,000 scale geologic maps

for the State of Tennessee		 $137,500.00 *
Lower Mississippi-Gulf

Water Science Center		 Digitization of Structural Maps and Historic Water Well

Maps in Tennessee		 $95,000.00 *
New England Water

Science Center		 Rescue and preservation of historic data from

Sleepers River Research Watershed		 $85,744.00 *
Florence Bascom

Geoscience Center		 Documenting and securing legacy collections of the

Florence Bascom Geoscience Center		 $8,838.22 *
Pacific Coastal Marine

Science Center		 A redirected funding approach to the Spacesaver

shelving design at Moffett Field for the Southwest

Region Sediment Core Repository		 $237,754.00 *

 

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